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Hello, America, and welcome to the program.

There is a lot going on.

GameStop.

Who would have ever thought GameStop could be a linchpin in our system?

What is going on with GameStop and the stock market and these big hedge funds?

I personally think it's the Bubba effect.

I'll explain and we'll explain this whole situation and what it might mean coming up in just a second.

Also, the DHS has just activated the domestic terror alert.

First time that they have done this since we killed the, what's his name over in Iran?

Remember?

Yeah, Soleimani.

When we killed him, we alerted the DHS alerted this domestic terror alert.

We knew why then.

We don't know why now.

Nobody seems to tell us.

I want to actually read that report because something is very, very wrong

and you need to know about it.

Also, Dave Rubin is going to be on the show.

Who else?

We got a long list of really, really important guests.

Oh,

the dad who his video has gone viral he stood in front of the city council and said enough is enough open up the damn schools he's on with us as well huge show don't miss a second we begin in 60 seconds

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Dave Rubin joins us in about an hour from now, Pat Gray, in 30 minutes.

We still don't have a definitive answer for why the equivalent of two military divisions occupied Washington, D.C.

for the inauguration, and why 5,000 troops still remain.

Can we get an answer on this?

Will somebody tell us why we do not want to normalize American troops in our cities?

FBI Director Ray said they're monitoring threats online that showed armed riots would descend on DC and state capitals all over the country.

Well, we didn't see a single riot on Inauguration Day.

Not one.

Well, I mean, besides the riots in Oregon from Antifa,

so and Seattle, why are we still seeing the troops patrolling Washington?

Are they

waiting for ghost riders?

Ghost rioters?

Is that what it is?

We were talking about this after the show yesterday, and in the middle of this production meeting with my producers, an email came through from the Department of Homeland Security.

It is their first national terrorism advisory under the Biden administration, and

it is the first national terrorism advisory

since our action with Iraq.

I'm sorry, Iran.

It went into effect yesterday at 11 a.m.

Here it is.

I'm going to read it verbatim.

The Acting Secretary of Homeland Security has issued a National Terrorism Advisory System bulletin due to a heightened threat environment across the United States, which DHS believes will persist in the weeks following the successful presidential inauguration.

Information suggesting that some ideologically motivated violent extremists with objections to the exercise of governmental authority and the presidential transition, as well as other perceived grievances,

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fueled by false narratives, could continue to mobilize to incite or commit violence.

Do you see where this is going?

Extremists,

extremists,

and false narratives.

All right, extremists are going to be identified

on broad terms.

This is why we said Patriot Act, really bad idea.

Because all they have to do is relabel you terrorists.

And everybody mocked that.

I'm not going to be labeled a terrorist.

I said, you don't know.

Remember, the Constitution protects you for the future.

It's not the guys that are necessarily in office today.

You hold these truths to be self-evident and then you stand as a guardian and a sentinel around those truths, even if you have a great guy or a great group of people in Washington, because you don't know when conditions change

who people will vote for.

And it is only the Constitution that stops those people from becoming dictators and becoming a destructive force for freedom.

Well, we're here now.

Extremists being identified now in a broad and vague way, and the false narratives, whether from social media, news networks, podcasts, or anywhere else they'll find them, will be shut down.

Now, reading through their examples of domestic violent extremists, see if you can think of who they might be looking at.

Here are a few that were mentioned.

Domestic violent extremists that have an opposition to immigration policy, have anger over COVID-19 restrictions, are angry over the 2020 election results.

If you fall into any of those categories, you are now

a person of interest

for the federal government.

Is that right?

Is that what we're doing now?

This advisory lasts until April 30th.

I bet it gets extended, but they say it's going to last until April 30th.

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and decided that they had domestic terrorists,

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Now, I am not saying that that's what's happening with DHS.

I'm saying that's what can happen.

We have to learn from the mistakes of the past.

And we have to all be very, very careful.

I mean, you don't want to you don't want to exercise this power because if you're not in power, you've set the precedent and the next side will do it to you.

We are not a country that does this to each other.

I mean, it's amazing.

The two biggest things that have happened this year are

things that have split our nation apart.

And yet, I believe we are almost unanimous in our condemnation of it.

What are the two big events this year, Stu, that have split us apart that we were unanimous on?

George Floyd.

Uh-huh.

George Floyd.

Everybody said the same thing.

Really bad.

Horrible.

Horrible.

Okay.

What happened?

It was used politically and it split us apart, right?

All of a sudden, and

I remember it wasn't that long ago, even though it seems like 100 years, it wasn't that long ago this summer that we were all saying, we agree.

We agree.

Why are you looting cities?

We agree.

Stop the violence.

Stop the violence with bad cops.

Stop the violence of destroying property.

Quick thought.

Maybe even if we disagree, you shouldn't loot cities.

Yeah, just a quick quick random thought.

I agree.

I agree.

So

what was the next event?

What was the other event?

There's a couple that popped to mind.

I mean, obviously the January 6th thing, potentially.

You could also, I think, argue with coronavirus, right?

I mean,

you know,

people agreed that we all want that to go away.

Right.

And then it used to divide us.

And then it became political, which is clear now because all of a sudden, when Biden gets in, he's doing exactly the same plan as Donald Trump Trump was doing.

They're touting the same exact

cure, if you will.

They're not moving any faster.

In fact, now there's just a bunch of red tape and it looks like it's slowing down.

And

all of the cities and the states that were so draconian are now saying, oh, you know what?

We need to open up.

This whole thing we agreed on.

We just, it became political and then it went into a nightmare.

And the last one, the one I was thinking, was January 6th.

What happened in the Capitol, we all disagree with.

All of us.

99%,

I will bet.

All of us disagree.

We think it was horrible.

Shouldn't have happened.

I don't want it to happen again.

And I'm fine with those people being arrested and going to jail.

And yet,

all of those who voted differently are now being lumped in with those people on the Capitol.

No,

that's not who we are.

And it is time for reasonable people

to have reasonable conversations.

It's interesting.

I'm doing an interview today with the guy who wrote the book Extraterrestrial.

He is one of the top scientists in the world.

And if you read his book, he says we've had our first visitation from extraterrestrials, and he says he has evidence.

Now, he is saying, I can't prove it.

He said, but I think we should look into this because what happened here last year defies all physics.

So either we're wrong about physics or we were just visited by something extraterrestrial.

And what's interesting is the book is, I think, less about the visit and more about how science is no longer science.

That if you have an unpopular position, you're shouted down.

And all he's asking for is a reasonable conversation.

He's like, why can't we have a conversation?

He said, we talk about the multiverse in science as if it's fact.

We don't even have any evidence of the multiverse.

What What we have is a bunch of theories about it because we can't explain something.

The multiverse, that's cool.

But in space,

we say

there's something else out there and we can't talk about it.

We're entering a very dangerous place, and reasonable people need to start coming together.

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Peter, what was his last name?

Peter Vonham?

Peter Vonham.

He actually tweeted again yesterday.

I want to have this guy on the show.

I vehemently disagree with him.

I think what they're doing in Davos is extraordinarily dangerous.

But here's what he tweeted.

Glenn Beck just responded to this thread in his radio show.

Glenn, thank you.

Thank you for the dialogue, each via his own channel, for letting your listeners hear the other other argument and for being respectful and funny.

Great pronunciation of my name.

Well, Peter Vonham.

This is the kind of conversation that we need to have.

Now, I don't know anything about you,

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And if you are a really, truly reasonable person and we just disagree, and you're an honest person that will ask and answer honest questions, because I know I will,

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what's happening over in Davos is the Great Reset.

And even Bether Wanham,

you know, maybe he's a real believer in what they're doing, but he has faith that

if I take him at his word, he has faith that this isn't going to turn into an oligarchy.

I think it already is.

What's happening in America right now, forget about the Great Reset.

This is an oligarchy.

If you don't think that the people in Silicon Valley are oligarchs, you're sadly mistaken.

They have power.

They have connections.

They have oodles of money.

They will destroy anybody, any business that gets into their way.

And now they're extra-constitutional.

Doesn't matter.

They deem what free speech is.

They deem what's true and what's not.

They They deem what you can read, listen to, or watch.

That's an oligarch.

Well,

the oligarchs around the world that are meeting in Davos and talking about the great reset

are talking yesterday about a $100 billion market in trading carbon offsets.

This is incredibly stupid.

Companies like Amazon are funding $100 $100 million a year toward planting of trees to offset their carbon footprint of shipping.

Okay, that's good.

Good for them.

Good for them.

And I think that's really, truly an honorable goal.

But

should you be forced to do that?

No.

China, listen to this.

China is funding ocean cleaning organizations that remove 2 million tons of plastic from the oceans.

Oh,

well, China is so great.

We are now being told that we have to undo the 20th century damage.

And this is our last chance to reverse the gross mistakes of the past century while we make the same mistakes in this century.

The biggest mistake, the biggest threat to all humankind last century were fascists, communists, oligarchs.

That's the biggest threat.

And what are we doing to solve this threat?

Creating that system again.

More on Davos because

John Kerry spoke there yesterday.

He spoke to the crowd about what's going to happen in America.

He said, things are happening right now in the Biden administration that no man will be able to undo.

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Right now, we're joined by Mr.

Pat Gray from Pat Gray Unleashed, also on Blaze TV and one of the Blaze podcasts.

Hello, Pat.

Hello, Glenn.

So, geez,

where do we even start today?

American airlines, meaning the airlines of America, are now banning people flying with locked firearms

into the Baltimore, Washington area.

I know that American airlines, I flew Delta just recently, and, you know, I took my gun apart, you know, told them that it was in the luggage, it was locked, it was in a case, there were no,

ammunition.

It's what the

Department of Homeland Security insists on.

So, fine, I follow the rules.

Put it in.

Usually, you just get a tag, and then the Department of Homeland Security

goes through it, and you get a little note.

Okay, great, I got it.

That's the usual process.

That's the process I got on Delta.

When I flew back, I flew on American Airlines.

Oh,

well, this is a different process.

Now, American, and this was new,

at least to me, now American has

a new thing because they just want to make sure that your gun's not lost.

Well, whose fault would that be?

I've handed it to you.

It'd be your fault.

So it has to go through all the way

through the screening process downstairs in the bowels of the airport and head on its way to the airline before you can go through security yourself.

So you sit there for, I sat there for 45 minutes waiting before I could even get in line for security.

And

why?

I personally believe.

What good does that do?

It makes it such a hassle

that you're not going to do it.

That's exactly right.

That's what's coming our way, is they're just going to keep making things more expensive, more difficult, a bigger hassle.

It's choice structure.

It's Cass Sunstein and his choice structure.

You've got a choice.

You can carry it, but you're not going to want to.

Right.

You're not going to want to.

I'm going to nudge you a little bit.

Just you don't.

Yeah, just a little bit.

Just a little bit.

Pat,

what is the thing that

you saw today that you thought I have got to get this point across?

Wow, well, there were several.

I love the Department of Homeland Security's new situation with the domestic terror threat that only involves people on the right, of course.

Oh, no, no, they didn't say that.

No, no, they didn't say that.

Problems with immigration.

Problems with the election.

Right.

Problems with the system.

Maybe problems with the COVID

reporters.

Yes.

And

this is all based on the fact that they have no specific actionable information.

None.

None.

None.

Otherwise, what would happen?

They would raise the threat level.

So they've got no actual actionable threat involved here, yet they just want to throw out that, hey, everybody on the right is a problem now and a potential domestic terrorist.

I think it's absolutely despicable what they're doing.

Did you hear about the guy in Florida that the Justice Department

had Homeland Security

arrest yesterday.

Man in Florida was arrested for, quote, depriving individuals of their constitutional right to vote.

Yeah.

Now, he showed up at a polling place with an AR and a chainsaw.

So, I mean, I think the dude should be arrested.

That's not what happened.

That's not what happened.

No, that's he didn't.

Just an AR?

He did nothing like either of those things.

Oh, that's right.

He had a suitcase nuke.

No.

Oh, what did he?

Oh, he probably went with like the white panthers and just intimidated people.

No, he didn't do that at all.

There's a story that's similar to that.

I should tell you sometime.

Yeah.

No, that's not what I did.

What did he do?

I made some memes.

He what?

He made some memes.

You mean little picture jokes?

Like little picture jokes on the internet.

Yeah.

On the internet.

Well, that's where I see memes.

What were the memes?

I don't know all the memes.

I know that the guy, you know, wasn't exactly someone you'd maybe want to invite over for a wonderful dinner with your family.

Can I say out of the 350 million Americans, there's about 349 million I'm pretty sure I probably wouldn't want to invite over to my house.

That's about right.

Maybe a little higher.

Yeah, maybe a little higher than that.

But I'm just, I'm being generous.

Right, yeah.

But the idea that he committed a crime by making memes

seems like that's there's a free speech issue there.

No, no.

Because there's a law that says you can't

stop people from voting.

Those memes

told people to vote by text message,

which you can't do.

And so a lot of people believed that, apparently.

No.

No, no, no, no.

Nobody believed it.

No, they've been investigating this for four

years.

This isn't something that happened in the last election.

Which is 2016.

2016.

Why did they suddenly just, did they suddenly have a case?

Why did they...

I'm going to guess it has something to do with the new administration.

I'm just going to throw that out there as a possibility.

You know, these files are kind of sticking around, and everyone was like, this is dumb.

Should we really do anything with this?

No.

Is this a warning shot?

This coupled with a TSA yesterday, or not TSA, but the DHS memos describing domestic terrorists.

And then this guy for a meme getting arrested?

What message are we supposed to take from that?

Don't do memes.

Dude, never memes.

I've told my son, don't you?

He sent me a meme that he made the other day, and I'm like, don't, don't, don't.

And he dad, it's harmless.

No, it's not.

Nothing is harmless anymore.

Don't.

No memes.

Nothing.

I'm going to cut all of your fingers off because then you can't type anything.

Stop it.

I might create a minor legal issue for you if you were to do something like that.

It was a lawnmower accident, you're on.

I swear to you.

And they'll say, no way this kid was ever mowing your lawn.

But no memes, no tweets.

Nothing.

No social media.

It would be a really, really good safety tip for all kids.

For all people.

For all people.

All people.

Everybody.

Well, you know what it would be?

It would be a nation of Pat Grays.

And that would be a good nation.

That would be a good nation.

It would be a good freaking nation.

We'd have no social media and lots of great cookies.

Thank you.

That's a good freaking nation right there.

Yes.

Yes, it is.

I can't live without it.

I can't live without it.

Without the memes and the tweets.

I can't.

I can't.

Yes, you can.

You can.

You can.

You can.

And it's really easy, actually.

Yeah.

Really easy.

Because you, I would say my excuse is, you know, I got to do it for work.

You somehow don't do it for doing it.

No.

And you still survive, which is amazing.

Right.

Yep.

I envy you.

Yep.

I just, I don't, I mean, it's, it's, it's not what people make it out to be.

Can we, can we, it's not that important.

Can we talk about another freedom of speech issue that I think is freedom of speech?

and that is the GameStop thing.

Oh, yeah.

Wow.

Okay.

That's pretty amazing.

So

GameStop is a company.

It's a brick-and-mortar gaming store.

Okay.

You got to go most of them.

Most of the video games.

Right.

And most of them are in the mall.

Okay.

Yeah.

I know.

I've gone to some of them with my son.

All right.

So.

Oh, I have a nine-year-old, so I'm there 14 times a week.

Right.

Okay.

So there is a business there, but a brick and mortar business?

I don't know.

Well, the market, the hedge funds, decided that there's no business there.

And so they started shorting, betting against GameStop, if you will.

That's what shorting means on in Wall Street, betting against it, saying that the stock is going to go lower and lower.

Well, somebody on Reddit realized

the hedge funds have just sold 136% of the stock.

There's no way,

there's no way these guys can win.

Yeah, how do you sell more than all of the stock?

Correct.

You can't.

You can't.

So they decided, somebody said, I'm going to buy it.

I'm buying $50,000 of it.

And everybody else, and it's on Reddit.

It was an open forum.

Everybody else should buy it too.

Oh, I think he decided to buy a couple hundred thousand dollars worth of it.

Oh, was it?

It started, I think, with 50.

Okay, but he may have bought a lot more.

He was buying it.

He kept buying it.

He bought a ton of it.

It's not Chamoth, is it?

Yes.

Is that who did this?

He was not the originator of this.

He might not be the originator, but he wound up buying hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of.

He's given it away to charity now, which I think is kind of a

$500,000.

Yeah.

I can't tell you the name of the actual originator because the word F, the F word is in the middle of the

day.

All right.

So all these guys were doing really is what hedge fund managers do over lunch.

Right.

Okay.

Right.

And in secret meetings.

That's what they do.

Yeah.

And call them idea dinners.

Right.

So you

ran a GameStop up, which is costing these hedge funds,

what, billions or a billion dollars?

Is it over $1 billion?

Yeah, I mean, yeah, I think

it is more than that.

It's going to take down a couple of these hedge funds.

I'm telling you right now, I think this is the Bubba effect.

It is.

Yeah.

This is people who said, you know, these guys who are on Reddit, they're probably in their 20s.

They probably grew up at 2008.

They saw their parents get screwed.

And then what happened?

Then what happened?

They didn't get a bailout.

Then the Wall Street guys get rich, even though they were the ones that over-leveraged everything.

Main Street gets screwed.

Then what happens?

Now they're in their 20s.

Maybe their parents survived last time, but if they have a small business, Now they're getting screwed by the government again, and the government's going to bail them out.

Yeah.

I think this is just the chickens coming home to roost.

I think these guys saw a legal way

to make some money and screw the hedge funds at the same time.

And what's happening?

They're silencing them.

They're going to come out.

You don't lose a billion dollars and be that connected and don't have your friends in Washington come after, which is going to make the situation worse.

Meanwhile, GameStop stock went from about 15 bucks to over 300.

I have to tell you, I hope that they have a way.

I hope that they've had a way to pull some of that money off of the table because they've been struggling.

But if they can reinvent themselves using this money, that's a blessing for them.

It's a good Texas company and good Texas people.

And they're located very close to our studios.

And they're armed, so please help us.

They're not armed.

Oh, they're not?

No.

I thought they were some of those.

They're in Texas.

They must be.

Yeah, they're extremists if they're a Texas company.

Yeah.

By the way, it's up now to 385.

385.

$385.

I mean, it was $4 a share last year.

And the reason why these guys in the hedge funds can't get out is they can't, well, you have 140%.

They have to keep buying the spread.

They said it was going to go down to $2.

They have to keep buying

every single

stock, if you will.

And now they're borrowing all of this money to do it.

And I can't even imagine.

I mean, they certainly think

in the

forum, the subreddit, Wall Street Bets, they think it's going to at least 2,000.

I don't know.

Oh, my gosh.

No way.

I have no idea.

I'm not getting involved in it.

No.

Wow.

No.

But they can't even do anything with it now.

They're saying that

sites like Robin Hood and several of the other trading apps,

they're not even letting you trade the stock anymore.

You can sell it, but you can't buy it.

Jeez.

Now, I think people are really pissed off, and they're saying, wait a minute.

How do these lawmakers who are doing this, these lawmakers go in with insider trading and become millionaires?

And

you're not going to let Main Street do legal stuff and out in the open say, hey, I think we should all buy this.

I mean, I just think that is really wrong.

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All right, so

Mike Lindell,

I mean, I don't think we're ever going to hear from that guy again.

I mean,

I'll bet you...

Don't say that.

No, no, no.

I mean, publicly in forums.

I don't know if they're ever going to let him back.

Have you seen a

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Because I wonder if they've gone after him and said, we're not letting him advertise here.

I mean, they're going to put this guy out of business if they can.

they're trying to i don't think they're going to be able to do it people like the product you're not yeah it's a great great product um and he came up with it and you don't you don't have because you disagree with his opinion you're going to put him out of business that's crazy talk

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Then they just reopened on Monday.

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What happens to you before 18

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If you have kids in high school, imagine sophomore and senior year gone.

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Are we in week two of Biden?

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Eight days.

He has had 36-plus executive orders.

There's more coming out.

He is moving at

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They learned their lesson from Obama.

You've got to get it done quickly.

So you know, they said that Barack Obama was a, I'm sorry, that Donald Trump was a dictator, you know, with executive orders.

He did six in his first week.

And he was, that was a lot for a president.

Biden has done 36, and there's more coming even today.

And it's radically changing America.

And now the DHS is looking at people as domestic terrorists who disagreed with the outcome of the last election,

maybe have a problem with climate change or the lockdown for COVID.

Well, that's just about everybody I know.

And as they they shut more and more people down, shut more and more people up, it's only making things worse.

Where do we go from here?

Well, a view from California, who's back into the free state of Texas, Dave Rubin, joins us in 60 seconds.

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And welcome to the program, Dave.

How are you?

Glad, it's good to be with you.

You know, in your promo there for me a minute minute ago, I realized that coming to a free state, when you leave California,

the way you talk about me, the way you look at me, is as if I've escaped some sort of zombie apocalypse.

And it's actually not that far from the truth.

I pretty much escaped

the gates of hell.

I said that because the last time you were here, we went out to dinner.

And you were, you like walked into.

I couldn't believe it.

Yeah, you walked into the restaurant like,

I think, are we getting away with this?

Are the police coming?

You said

all these people are having, and I didn't even think anything of that.

Yeah, you were there before me.

You were sitting at the table already.

You were doing a little reading, looked very happy.

Yeah.

You know, had your water.

You were good.

I got in there.

I mean, I couldn't believe it.

Because that's how quickly they can change the world on you.

That's what I'm really focused on right now, how quickly they can change the world.

In that one year ago, right now, we had, you know, there were a few people talking a little bit about, oh, there's this thing in China, this COVID thing in China, something's going on.

But basically,

10 months ago is when this all started.

And think how drastically different the world is

in 10 months, the entire world, everything from our entire economic system to the way we literally leave our house or don't leave our house, the way we communicate with each other, the way that big tech, which was already

remarkably powerful, the way that it's become more powerful because it's becoming basically the only way we can communicate with each other.

That rapid thing that has happened to us in less than a year, I'm completely fascinated by it because it's like, man, if you think, you know, a lot of people were like, oh, 2020 is over.

We're resetting now.

It's not the great reset, although that's coming too.

But a lot of people are like, oh, 2021, it'll settle in now.

We got Biden, everything will be back to normal.

And it's like, man.

So I want to ask you about two things.

I want to ask you about what your liberal friends are saying about Biden now in California.

But first, let's, before we leave COVID,

Gavin Newsom, all of a sudden, he found Jesus and he was like, we've all been healed and

is opened outdoor dining.

Yeah.

And next week, maybe some additional openings.

What was the religion he found?

It's an abject load of BS.

This guy is the worst.

When you think about what the worst sort of elitist politician who wants to live one way and have their minions live another way, it is, he is the poster boy.

You know what I mean?

He's the, you know, you know the whole French laundry story.

I mean, 22 people went out to dinner, not social distancing, no masks, $15,000 in alcohol.

I know you don't drink, Glenn.

Holy cow, that's a lot of alcohol.

And listen, you know I like wine, but that's $15,000 for 22 people.

Okay, so that's about 750 bucks in alcohol per person, not even the meal.

Okay.

Wow.

Look, look, it's just obvious what this guy has done, which is that this thing was political.

These lockdowns were political.

They wanted to take out Trump.

If the lockdowns made any sense, then the numbers in Florida and Texas would be exponentially higher than in places like New York and California.

And the simple truth is not only are they not, in many cases, they're actually less.

It's just that simple.

Like if you told me lockdowns work, all right, well, let's look at it.

We got a lockdown place.

We got an open place.

It's as simple as that.

And I've been to, I'm here in Texas and I've been to Florida.

And guess what?

A lot of happy people.

You can see people smiling and going out and business as usual.

Well, it's not business as usual.

To us,

what's happening in Texas is draconian.

I mean, we don't like what's happening in the world.

Right, so not

business as usual in that sense.

I'm at the hotel now, and I still have to wear a mask and that sort of thing.

But relative.

Relative to you and where you're living.

So

is this because the election is over or is this because the recall Gavin movement is actually

probably going to happen?

I think it's both.

It's one is they got the result they wanted.

So the people that are all about unity now and everything else, it's like, well, we got what we want, so it's time to heal and unify, which, of course, we know if they didn't get what they want, you think they'd be talking about unity and healing.

And if we suddenly were like, okay, unity and healing, they'd be saying, wait a minute, the white supremacists are in charge of everything.

So that's one level of it.

I think the other level is that he's really worried.

I mean, I think from what I understand, they have about 1.3 of the 1.5 million signatures.

They want 1.8.

They want 1.8 because they know there'll be all sorts of games played.

And as I was telling you during the break, you know, you have to sign its hand signatures, so you can't do it online.

So they also keep you locked in your house, so it's harder to even find a place where you can go and sign the thing.

It's amazing they've got that this far in the middle of the shutdown.

I mean, it's incredible that there's this close with all of the rules to

everybody could vote, they just send ballots out.

That's fine.

But to recall one of these creed names.

Right, you can't do that.

It's strange they don't do the recalls by

another ballot.

I do think he will get recalled.

And what I would pray for is that somebody sane, maybe a Rick Rinnell who

is from SoCal and was in the Trump administration and was our ambassador to Germany and he's a great guy.

He's a really great guy.

And a fighter because you're going to need, it's not just that you need someone to come in and be a little saner than Newsom.

The machine, when people talk about the swamp and the D.C.

machine and all that, the California machine is like, I mean, this is a one-party state of the extreme level.

So it's not just you recall him and then suddenly things get better.

So what do your liberal friends, I mean, because they've got kids too, they've got to be seeing the deterioration of their kids over a year.

Is anybody talking about like these labor unions for schools?

What the hell are you doing?

They don't want to go back to school.

Right.

And now Biden's telling them not to go back to school.

I mean, it's actually crazy.

Again, it was 10 months ago, almost a year ago, two weeks to flatten the curve.

Yesterday, Biden's telling us about a 100-day federal mask mandate.

But this is what I mean.

Things are changing so quickly that we're forgetting what last week was like the internet has done something to our brains and Twitter and the endless news feed and the whole thing that we talk about all the time is doing something so that things happen so fast that you know when George Orwell wrote about the you know things getting put into the memory hole Trump will be memory hold oh yeah all of the all of the things that have happened over the years that don't fit the narrative will be memory hold we forget so suddenly you're like oh well why not just a hundred more days of masks and a hundred more days of this and okay and then guess what in a 100 days, they'll say, oh, you know, we just, now the UK strain actually morphed with the Brazilian strain.

Right.

And I'm sorry, but you're going to have to live underground for three years.

And people will go, okay.

I mean, I had it.

I was.

I don't think so.

You know, the people in where is it?

We're not going underground.

That would be nice.

Oh, yeah.

No, they're revolting.

Yeah, they're revolting.

Sweden?

The Swedes?

I know.

I mean,

they don't do that.

No.

And if the Swedes are starting to stand up against their government,

you've got something going on in the world.

Something big going on.

You know, I was in Sweden a couple of years ago and I was on a tour with Jordan Peterson.

And one of the things in, have you been to Sweden?

Yeah, I love it.

Yeah.

I mean, one of the things that's remarkable about Sweden is, especially here in the Stockholm area, it's so clean.

Everyone looks perfect.

They all look like they walked out of a magazine.

Everyone looks like they just bought their clothes that morning.

So these are people, to your point, that are kind of satisfied with life.

So the idea that you've got the people of Sweden now, and we're seeing this through a couple of the Nordic countries, I think it's happening in Denmark too,

that you have these people now revolting.

How far can you push people?

And it's, and we're being pushed in every way.

I heard you guys talking about the GameStop thing.

Everyone, so the average person that's now getting in the game is now being told they can't get in the game and you're locked in your house and big tech might take you out.

The great reset yesterday, we were talking about

how

they say that you're going to have skin in the game because it's stakeholder capitalism.

Okay.

And when you dig into it and you're like, okay, they say you're going to be a part of it.

You're going to to get the benefits of it.

And finally, you'll get the benefits.

How do you get the benefits?

I'm not at the table.

I'm not even in Davos.

You won't even really show me everything that's going on.

And you're certainly not asking me for my opinion.

Well, they say, because your representative government is

in place of you.

Glenn, you know,

when somebody tells you how good of a friend they are all the time,

that pretty much means they're not a good friend.

That's pretty much what these people are doing.

When they're always, we're looking out for you.

I know.

You're not going to own anything, but you'll be taken care of.

We're going to give you universal basic income.

We're going to make your life better.

No, it's so fundamentally the opposite of what anyone liberty-minded should think, which is just that just give me a chance to live and get out of my way.

That's all I ask for.

That is all I ask for.

I think that's what most of your listeners want in life is just the opportunity.

It's the American dream.

Give me a chance to play in the game.

And now the system is saying no.

Back in

FDR's day, they perverted the American dream and they made it a chicken in every pot and a car in every garage.

That's not the American dream.

The American dream was just leave me alone so I can make my own way.

This was the only place in the world you could do it.

And now we are worse than some countries over in Europe.

It is harder to do things here in America.

We've lost a lot of our liberty.

I want to take a quick break and then we'll come back.

I want to talk to you about, you know, you said your friends.

I want to talk to you about your liberal friends who said Biden's not going to do all this stuff.

Well, he has

in seven days.

And it's at a frightening pace because he's not done.

And I want to hear what they're saying to you now about Joe Biden.

Have they changed their tune at all?

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So,

Dave,

I know that you have a lot of liberal friends that don't necessarily want to be outed.

Not as many as I used to be.

Yeah, but granted, granted.

But you have more liberal friends than most of us have now at this point.

That's true.

And I used to have a lot of liberal friends.

Yeah.

But

they were telling you, Dave, calm down, calm down, calm down.

Biden is middle of the road.

What are they saying now?

Well, they're getting it.

They're getting it, but not publicly.

You know what I mean?

So if you were to look, I'll name a couple names here, and I'm not throwing any of these these people under the bus, but it's important, I think, for us to know some of the types of people that we're talking about.

So like the Steven Pinkers, who I have nothing but respect for, the cognitive scientist at Harvard, Sam Harris, the Weinstein brothers, all of these guys who are, what I would say are basically old school liberals.

They care about free thought.

They care about free speech.

They care about the scientific method and open inquiry and all of these things

that are the right pieces of liberalism.

Yes.

So I don't, I can't say who they all voted for, but they obviously all didn't vote for Trump.

So either they voted for Biden or they didn't vote or they wrote somebody in, whatever it might be.

But over the last couple of years in my show, when I would interview all these people, the driving force, I mean, really what put me on the map was I was one of the first people talking about fighting identity politics, fighting critical race theory, which we didn't even know exactly what it was at the time and how it was going to infect everything, fighting what was happening at all of our universities and all of our institutions.

Trump was fighting that stuff.

Was he the imperfect tool for it?

Absolutely.

But was he fighting it?

Yes.

And it was very obvious to me.

It was just incredibly obvious to me.

And that was my calculation with Trump that if Trump lost, this stuff would come crashing in.

And I think the good liberal, you know, the quote unquote good liberals thought, no, no, they didn't go the crazy route.

They didn't go Bernie.

They didn't go Elizabeth Warren.

That Biden somehow will represent some old vestige of a democratic thing long gone.

And he will stop it.

And I think what we're seeing in these eight days is the rapid escalation of the craziness because the simple truth is there is no reason to think that Biden is in charge of this operation.

I think they put him out there.

They sit him down.

He doesn't know where his pen is, but they can get that pen in his hand at some point.

He signs something.

It's very obvious.

He's mumbling and fumbling through it.

And who...

Do you think Biden is in charge of the operation?

That's the question.

I don't know.

I really don't know.

Like that these decisions based on equity constantly

equity, equity.

It's like it was with Barack Obama when they did the uh the tarp bailout with him yeah i remember it sitting i mean he was in office for a very short period of time maybe a few weeks and it was three or five thousand pages and we printed them out and it was a stack of about you know two feet two and a half three feet yeah uh and it sat there on my kitchen table and i looked at that and i thought there's no way you put that together there's no way you put that together overnight that has been years in the process i think the same thing is happening here these things have all been well thought out on their agenda and they're just putting the pieces together.

So whether he understands all the pieces or not or he's part of that, I don't know.

It doesn't matter.

It doesn't matter.

So I think that the few remaining good liberals have just made a really dangerous miscalculation.

Their calculation was Biden could somehow stop it.

And what I said all along was Biden was the host.

Biden was Sigourney Weaver and the woke thing is gestating inside him and it's going to burst out of his belly and Biden will be done, and congratulations.

We'll have the squad and Kamala and the crew.

It is just what, I mean, is there anything that he's done that has been non-woke?

Is there anything that he's done that has been not a massive expansion of government?

No, and I think I'm really concerned about the troops that are still in Washington and they want them now until April and the DHS yesterday coming out.

How about our troops that are going back into Syria?

Isn't that exciting?

Yeah, that's really exciting.

We're going to start doing some more work there.

Last night I did an episode on the oligarchs or the coming oligarchs that are already inside of the Biden administration.

When you look at just the war machine that he has put together, the people that are in there, they're all from the defense

business.

And there's no way these guys...

I mean, that's how they make their money.

Yeah.

And I just, I think we're going, we're going to start doing all those crazy wars.

He brought John Kerry back.

I know.

John Kerry has never done anything.

He was a marginal senator who was a failed presidential candidate, who was a horrible Secretary of State.

That incredible video that I'm sure you've seen of him talking about the Middle East, where he literally gets everything wrong.

It's like bizarro backwards land.

And now John Kerry is going to fix the environment.

He's going to fix the environment.

Isn't that incredible?

Biden forgot to do it.

Along with Grandholm.

Oh, yeah, yeah.

Grandholm and the rest of them.

But these people who've never accomplished anything, who've been in government forever.

And for some odd reason, Biden chose not to do any of this for 47 years.

And the other thing that's so bizarre is he forgot to tell Obama to do any of it.

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Seriously.

No,

we want to talk to you about GameStop and what's been happening.

This, to me, seems like some people who did their homework and then a lot of people piled on, but it was out in the open.

It doesn't seem to me to be any different than what happens at the secret meetings, you know, the whispered meetings that people have at hedge funds.

And now these people are going to be demonized and they're being shut down.

And I think that's just I think these guys were, you know, they grew up, mom and dad were, you know, 2008, they weren't bailed out.

Then, you know, with this, with COVID, they're still not getting the bailouts, but these big rich companies are.

And I think these guys, part of it is just screw them.

It's a travesty.

Yeah.

And we see the regulators moving in now and even the trading platforms themselves halting trading.

It's a failure of the free market.

We can't call this really

a democracy anymore or capitalism.

This is something else and it's sickening actually.

So Manny, can you explain what's happening and why you would say those things to the average person that doesn't necessarily invest in stock?

Sure.

So what happened, if you look at a chart of GameStop, it's really incredible.

What you see is a straight line up.

The previous all-time high for the share was less than $70, and it's trading now near $500 a share.

Basically, what happened is there was a few hedge funds that went short on the stock, and they don't really care about the companies they're trading on.

They're seen as parasites by the community of Wall Street Bets and on Reddit and stuff like that.

And basically, what happens is that they were in a short position, meaning that

when you're in the market, you always want to buy low and sell high.

So a short position is when you make money when the market is going down.

So the way it works is you borrow the shares in a sell position and then you buy back later at a lower price in order to cover your short position.

So you're not actually putting money down on the table.

You're just going to collect.

But if it goes the other way, then you have to start paying the difference between what you came in at and what it's at today.

Right.

So

they were selling at a very low price, around $4, and they were expecting

to bring it back around, to buy it back around three dollars and now once their options expire they're going to have to actually buy all those shares back at around four hundred dollars so um they're going to be losing uh billions of dollars on this billions

billions yeah okay so is there anything depending on how high it goes between now and the time that the options expire is there anything illegal about what happened on on reddit

absolutely not i mean this is this is free market activity and what that what people are claiming, and especially in the financial media a lot of the time, they say, well,

show me the analysis that

says that GameStop should be worth this much.

I mean, GameStop, of course, they've been losing money for years.

They are retail apocalypse game for them.

COVID came to knock them out.

Oh, did we lose him?

Call him real quick.

Call him real quick, see if we can get him back.

We've been losing him off and on.

And he's just such an important voice today.

You know, he's,

I think he's going to the point of, you know, who can say what GameStop is worth, but I don't think anybody believes that it's worth $400 a share.

Yeah, not on fundamentals, but

then again, I think there are people.

But on Elon Musk, I mean, for a long time.

Yeah, Tesla's the same thing.

You could argue.

I mean, some of that, like with Tesla, there's a big upside coming.

That's what people are betting on if, if,

at least in theory, right?

In theory.

There are some people in, you know, in, I've been reading the Wall Street Bets stuff for a while, on on and off, but recently a lot more just to see what's going on with this.

And there are people in there who actually believe it is undervalued.

And I think there's a case to be made.

It's undervalued at $4 and $6 a share.

Whether it's undervalued at $300 a share, I don't know how many people believe that.

It's $400 now.

It actually hit $450 or something a little while ago.

It's come back down a little bit off of that.

Maddie, are you there?

Yeah, I'm back.

Okay, sorry.

We keep losing you.

All right.

So you were saying that I think you were going towards who can say what the value of this stock is.

Exactly.

In the free market, anybody can buy a share for any price they want.

And people can, if their reason for buying is simply they want to support a company who's supporting tens of thousands of employees through a pandemic,

that's their right.

And nobody can tell them what to do and what not to do.

Correct.

Because a lot of people, we were just talking about Elon Musk and Tesla.

I think there's a lot of people that buy Tesla stock just to support Elon Musk.

Correct.

Correct.

And that's within their right to do so.

And another area of this, I mean, that people aren't really looking at is, you know, sure, you know, there's some hedge funds who are caught with their pants down and they're taking it on the nose right now.

But the funny thing to me is that actually

the main shareholders of HameStop are hedge funds themselves or the bigger hedge funds of BlackRock and Vanguard.

Some dude named Donald Swash, who's a billionaire, owns about 5%.

So they're helping, in essence, pump his bags as well.

But I guess what they're getting at is the predatory ones, the ones who are short-selling,

they don't care.

They're helping to burn the company in order to make a buck.

And that's what hedge funds do.

So hang on just a second.

Did you say BlackRock is involved in this?

Yeah,

I believe the biggest shareholder in GameStop.

In the shorting?

Or the gaining?

No, no, on long.

Yeah, they're holding Blackstock.

They're holding a stop.

They're holding.

I mean,

wow.

I mean, you know, who owns these stocks are, generally speaking, they're going to be the hedge fund.

So the Wall Street Dets is helping to pump their bags as well.

So there is an element of, and then, you know, obviously you can think about conspiracy theories.

Are they, you know, inciting the Reddit community or anything like that?

And I think the regulators are also looking at that as well.

Well, BlackRock is now in our Treasury Department.

Now

they have more people in the

in the White House administration than Goldman Sachs ever did.

Yeah, I mean,

I think it's an extraordinarily shady thing that's going on.

It's interesting that they're involved

in benefiting on this.

When it comes to these hedge funds that are losing on GameStop right now, people keep talking about these billionaires, but it's more than that, right?

Are there pension funds involved in this?

Who else is investing in these hedge funds?

It would be difficult to say without the research.

I'm not entirely certain.

The main ones, I believe, are Melvin Capital.

That's the one that

Wall Street Bets really hates because they've shown their predatory behavior and then they really got caught with their parents' companies.

Good.

I mean, who are the investors in Melvin Capital?

I'm wondering who's getting, you know, other than there's obviously rich billionaires that are doing things that we don't like that might be getting hit with this.

I wonder who else is, though.

I don't know.

I I just saw this in Casino Royale, and it did not work out well.

You don't short the stock and then turn it around on those people.

Exactly.

Maddie, let me ask you quickly about Bitcoin.

Bitcoin had an amazing run

up to, what, 30 or 40, 40, 41, I think it's now.

And it's what, now, in the 30s, 35?

Yes.

Somewhere around there, yeah.

We had an exponent today, I think.

And

this was not Main Street getting in.

This was real money getting in.

Correct.

Yes, yes.

What do you see for Bitcoin going forward?

Right.

So

Bitcoin went from $10,000 to about

$42,000 in the blink of an eye, really.

And one of the main narratives that's been driving it is that

the Wall Street hedge funds and the billionaires of the world's institutions, BitMoney,

have suddenly turned their side from Bitcoin and are realizing what the retail community has known since 2017, that Bitcoin is an excellent store of value and has excellent properties

that can protect your wealth,

particularly against inflation,

of which many are expecting due to all of the money that's being pumped into the system lately.

So they're looking at all that money going in.

They're looking at the Fed printing.

They're looking at the U.S.

Treasury printing.

And they're going, well, how are we going to, you know, how are you?

So obviously, financial assets in general are a good way to get where inflation is coming, but particularly Bitcoin, because of the nature and the origins of Bitcoin as a store of wealth and a payment system that is outside of governments and banking systems.

So you saw after 2008, you saw those storages of wealth

start to go down because people were so over leveraged they had to sell those things.

If the stock market takes a crash, are you going to see Bitcoin go up or do you think it'll go down because of the number of

people who are so over leveraged they need to sell it?

So generally speaking, Bitcoin does not have a huge amount of leverage on it.

No, no, no, I'm saying that those I'm saying those people that have those reserves in Bitcoin would sell the money off of the stock market and put it into Bitcoin.

I think that that is entirely possible.

But we've also seen a correlation between the stock market, a long-term correlation between the stock market and Bitcoin, because both of them, as financial assets, are benefiting from all of the money printing.

They're both going up together over time.

So that is a good question.

If the stock markets crash, will Bitcoin go up?

Will Bitcoin go down?

I can't tell you the answer.

I'm not going to sell any of mine.

You're going to sell yours or you're not?

I'm not going to sell any of mine.

No, I'm holding on to it.

And do you believe that?

I mean, where are you going to put it?

In dollars?

No, thanks.

Yeah, right.

I know.

So let me ask you,

do you agree with

the banks that are saying now that it could be $150,000

of value?

Yeah, we've been saying that from the beginning.

Of course, I agree with them.

They're copying our lines.

Maddie Greenspan, seriously, how much you pulling down a year?

Because it's got to be enormous.

Matty Greenspan.

We'll talk about it sometime over a beer.

Thank you so much.

CEO and founder of Quantum Economics.

And you can follow him at quantumeconomics.io or Maddie Greenspan on Twitter.

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the users of Reddit

have,

as MSNBC says, led a chaotic revolt against Wall Street.

I don't think that's accurate.

And now they are being banned.

You can't buy on certain apps.

You can't buy GameStop.

One of those is

interestingly named Robin Hood.

Well,

what's happening with GameStop is exactly what Robin Hood did

and took from not the rich, took from the government and the cronies around the king.

And they've turned into the sheriff of Nottingham because they're not letting anybody trade.

And I think they're doing it because all of these other businesses that they do these trades with are really upset about it.

And so they're thinking, I'm going to lose my business if I don't block these people from trading on GameStop.

I think everyone is going to hit their own hill in their own business and everything here in short periods of time.

And

too many people are saying, this is not the hill to die on.

And it may not be, I don't know.

But if we don't start standing, and I think a critical hill that we're all on is our children in school, if we don't say that our children is a hill to die on,

we got nothing.

We got nothing.

We can't sell our children out because we're afraid of backlash.

We've got to stand up.

There was a viral video that went over the internet yesterday, day before, a guy who stood up to his school board, local school board, and just wigged out on him, and he was right.

He's joining us right after the top of the hour here.

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I want to play this audio from a parent in Virginia who has been going to his school board over and over and over again, calmly saying, stop it.

We have to have a plan to open the schools.

Here's what happened this week and it just went viral.

You should all be fired from your day jobs because if your employers knew that you were more inefficient than the DMV, you would be replacing a heartbeat.

I literally just finished a conference call because I'm having a multitask to be here to address you guys.

You're a bunch of cowards hiding behind our children as an excuse for keeping schools closed.

You think you're some sort of martyrs because of the decisions you're making when the statistics do not lie that the vast majority of the population is not at risk from this virus.

The garbage workers who pick up my freaking trash risk their lives every day more than anyone in this school system.

Figure it out.

Or get off the podium.

Because you know what?

There are people like me and a lot of of other people out there who will gladly take your seat and figure it out.

It's not a high bar.

Raise the freaking bar.

Now, as he was walking out, one of the school board members, and I want to quote this, one of the school board members

said, please wipe this down, the podium, wipe it down ahead of time.

We don't want anything to infect us.

Oh my gosh.

Oh my gosh.

These people are out of control.

We have that dad on the phone now.

His name is Brandon Amishon.

He is originally from New York.

They just moved out of New York to come down to Virginia and he finds himself in this situation.

Brandon, welcome to the program.

Thanks for having me.

I actually grew up in Loudoun County and, you know, spent a lot of my professional career in New York before coming back because of COVID.

So I am

a local here in heart.

So Brandon, I noticed that you were calm and then you got to the

garbage people that are picking up your trash and

you just exploded.

Did something happen that you saw like they weren't listening to you or not watching you or

did you just was this just all pent up because of the number of times you've said this to them?

Yeah, I I think it's a few things, right?

I don't really think this is a political party issue, right?

I don't really care if you're red, blue, green, or orange.

It's about the children.

And I have to give a shout out to my wife and mother and the many others who've actually been involved with getting schools open longer than I have.

I think, as you said early on,

we've went numerous times and tried many different tactics, jingles, rhymes,

pleading to open schools.

But after, and you didn't see it in my video, but my five-year-old daughter and eight-year-old son spoke before us and

you know i just had had enough and and you know what i decided was i'd try to more stern tactic which you know is obviously resonating but i just wanted them to pay attention because i didn't feel like they were paying attention um i i

mean i saw the video i don't know if they were looking at you but i i've i've seen this kind of video over and over again these people sit behind the dais and

they just are disconnected from it.

You speak and they're like, your time is up and then you have to leave.

And

there seems to be, and I know this isn't true, but it seems to be that there's really no compassion

and no science involved in this.

Did you feel that way?

Do you feel that way?

Well, yeah, I mean, I think what got me fired up was my son, my eight-year-old son, you know, who's never really spoken publicly, you know, he spoke on the virtual stuff before, but this first time in person,

he, you know, he was, you know, he was shaking a little bit.

He was upset after he left because he said, I felt like I was being judged.

And, you know, it's hard because these are our educators and our mentors and the people who are supposed to be examples for our kids.

And I've been numerous times and not once have I heard the school board say thank you to these children who are, look, there's adults who can't even stand up in front of people with confidence and these children and just say hey, thank you for your time, sir, or thank you, ma'am, and let them know that you don't have to agree with them, but let them know that you're doing something that it is, you know, it is intimidating and scary.

And after months of doing this, I just, you know, it kind of just triggered something.

It's interesting because the, I don't know if you remember the Norman Rockwell paintings of the four freedoms, but one is a guy standing up and it's the freedom of speech.

And are you familiar with this painting by Norman Rockwell?

Yes, yes, I believe so.

He's standing up to a school board, and in his pocket, it has the school board agenda in his pocket.

So it's clearly him standing up and saying, look, we need some changes in our school.

There's nothing more American, and yet

I don't know what's happening here.

Because as we were talking before you came on, the science is really clear.

There aren't any scientists that are saying keep the kids home.

There's no science that shows that the kids or anybody is in real danger at school.

And the science also is on the side by keeping our kids out of school, we're doing significant damage to our kids.

Why are they not doing anything?

Look,

first and foremost, I think the vast majority of teachers, you know, want to be back in school.

I mean, they're they're in just as tough a situation my daughter's kindergarten teacher like they're not supposed to be college online professors so I think they're frustrated as well I think the CDC came out with guidelines recently that are that have shown or and this is the people who are the professionals within you know disease control saying that there are mitigating factors that you can do and and the spread of this virus albeit it's a horrible thing I don't discount that the spread of this virus can be mitigated through certain you know certain steps.

And I think it's like a 12 or maybe it's more than that 12 steps that have shown to be effective and I just think all throughout the country there are parents and I say this because you know I've been given a little bit of a voice as a conduit if you want to call it but I'm just a dad who cares about my kids and there's fathers and mothers and caretakers all throughout the U.S.

and world who care about that and I think you know parents are speaking out and and they just want to they want to see solutions and if anything they just want to see a plan.

And they want to see that plan attempted to be executed and not the goalpost moved.

So

you said, you know, there's a line of people out there.

A, why were they not in the committee room?

And was it a line of parents that had the same kind of viewpoint that you did?

And has there been any movement?

Well, yeah, well, because of the guidelines, they only have the podium and, you know, it's, I don't 30 feet away.

It's a massive room.

I think in a normal environment, that room's filled with chairs and people can go in and speak.

They have you waiting out in the hall, socially distanced.

And I'm out there with my two-year-old, my five-year-old, my eight-year-old, and my wife.

And there's other families with kids that's not getting attention as much, but there was a father with a special needs son who

spoke a minute or two before us, and he signed up for both of them, and he wasn't given the time to speak for his son, who is a non-audible, you know, special needs student.

Well, you know, look, if you're not willing to listen to your constituents, that was my point, right?

Like, I personally am not running for office.

This is just a father who cares, and there's other people who are out there who care as well.

But if you're running for office, do something.

And if you don't want to do something, there are people who will step up and do it.

Leadership is hard.

It's not easy.

It's not fun sometimes, but

leadership is what built built this great nation.

And I think that, you know, if you don't want to if you're not up for the task, then let someone else do it because people always forget there is someone who will step up.

Let me play that other father that you were just talking about.

Here's the audio.

He has trouble standing still for 30 seconds for speaking in front of you.

How can you expect him to sit in front of a computer every day, every hour, focus and get an education?

That's impossible.

Impossible for him and impossible for over 11,000 more kids who are special education with special needs in LCPS.

But instead, you decide to sweep his problems under the rug and focus on giving raises, new mascots, renaming athletic fields, and a whole lot of PowerPoints

across equity.

I'm the next speaker as well.

Sir, only one you can only sign up for one spot, and I'm sorry.

Is your name Yupen?

Yes.

So we'll count that, and we appreciate you bringing your child.

So you're saying he cannot speak for himself, so I can't speak for him on his behalf.

You,

sir, you're the one who said he cannot speak on his behalf.

Exactly.

So I spoke for his behalf till now, and I'm not speaking for myself.

If I could.

Sir, I can only allow one speaker one minute, so I'm sorry, you have to.

Well, I just have to say then, if you guys don't really vote for him, you're letting him down.

And a lot of others.

Brandon,

one minute.

How do you even make a point in one minute?

It's hard.

I mean, he was a couple people before me, right?

And so I could hear him, and they buzz you.

Like, there's a buzzer.

It's a loud thing.

You know, they really, they want to

make it known that you're out.

But look, I lived in New York for the last 10 years up until six months ago.

And, you know, it's a fast-talking city.

I can talk pretty quick, but.

trying to get your point articulate, you know, articulate your point in 60 seconds is hard.

I even stumbled, you know, you have a mask on, kids standing around, like, it's not easy.

And

it's, we as a society need to have some compassion.

And if we can't show as educators, and again, educators, mentors, and, you know, school boards who are supposed to be the examples of that, if we can't have compassion, then

who are we?

And again, I just care about the children, right?

This is about, I'm, it isn't about me.

This is about the children and getting them back.

And you mentioned earlier, the mental health side of this is so much worse than anyone sees.

My

that was a handicapped father, right?

I don't even know what he's going through.

My five-year-old daughter barely wants to sit in front of a screen.

Adults don't want to sit in front of screens for that long.

My eight-year-old's defeated, right?

They just want to make friends.

They're kids.

There's valuable, you know, seniors who didn't have graduations, third graders who didn't have kickball or field day.

Like there are valuable life life experiences that we are missing.

And there's just people who are not saying, here's a plan and let's execute it.

And if you don't want to go, don't go.

But for those who do, let them and let the teachers who want to go back go back as well.

Amen.

Amen.

Brandon, thank you very much, Brandon Mishon from Virginia, the parent that stood up at his school board and I think spoke for a lot of us who are parents.

And I hope there are more of you

standing up.

And I hope you've inspired people to stand in their own community.

Thank you, Brandon.

Thank you so much.

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there's a lot of things that have been difficult to figure out through COVID.

We can all go back and find comments from Anthony Fauci or anybody on Twitter that were saying things that were incorrect in February and March and April, right?

However, However, even going back to that period, scientists were saying schools should not close.

And even, and I can understand, I remember when they first, the first interview I heard about COVID, really lengthy interview, I remember thinking to myself, you know what?

Kids, right?

Like, you can't send kids back to school, right?

There's no way the government's going to send kids back to school in the middle of this before we knew anything about the virus, right?

And as it was clear, the science showed over and over again that

you don't care at all.

No, no, no.

I I mean, Mr.

Rock Hardy,

Mr.

Rock Hardy, you apparently have not seen the interpretive dance

done by the Chicago Teachers Union.

Well, no, I haven't.

So

player, it is.

Of course it will.

Watch.

This is interpretive dance that the Teachers Union in Chicago did.

to make sure people understand

that they can't go back to teach.

This This is just them dancing to weird generic synth music.

Make it make sense.

Make it make sense.

See what I mean?

That's what they're saying.

Safety

is essential.

This is.

Keep our students

and our teachers

safe.

They're just dancing in their living rooms, though.

And one's outside, but they're not together.

And it's because it's not safe to go back to school.

I have a major change of opinion.

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You are

exactly right.

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Full flip-flop.

Keep the schools closed.

Wow.

Holy shit.

This is what they're doing.

Look, those two teachers are doing it in the same room without a mask.

Oh, my God.

And they're next to each other.

I mean,

this is what the teachers union releases in Chicago.

Can you imagine being a parent?

How pissed you'd be.

Oh my gosh.

Because there was this kind of thing that happened during the heat of the pandemic where first responders would do these kind of fun little TikTok dances to, you know, to blow off some steam or whatever.

And there's a certain percentage of people who just got pissed off.

It's like, wait a minute, we're in the middle of this crisis.

You're not letting us out of our houses.

And you guys are doing funny TikTok dances together.

I mean, you know, maybe it's a little bit of an overreaction as they worked a lot of long hours and I don't know.

But like, this is a totally, they're just home dancing while your kids are suffering.

I know.

And they're telling you that they have to be kept safe when, when, of course, every other first, every other frontline worker is out there doing their thing.

Well, here's the thing.

Yeah, frontline workers,

cowards.

The teachers union,

they're making themselves into cowards.

First of all, their demand was, not until we get a vaccine.

Okay, well, we have one now.

Now they're saying, not until the children are vaccinated.

A, the children are not at risk.

The risk is way below 1%.

They're not at risk.

And you want to do a vaccine on children that hasn't been tested on children?

Are you out of your mind?

Stop telling me to follow science.

You need to follow science and stop with the interpretive dance.

Teachers,

unless you're part of this, you've got to stand with a parent and get back to work.

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I want to talk to Jeff in Pennsylvania.

You're on a local school board.

Hello, Jeff.

Hi, Glenn.

Thanks for taking my call.

I was listening with interest to the gentleman from Loudoun County, Virginia, and I serve on a local school board.

And we are in session, but we are under rather draconian

limitations imposed upon us by the state of Pennsylvania.

They have these just these raw number

parameters that if you have an extra COVID case and it exceeds a certain rolling average, then you got to shut down.

Right.

And it's just so let me ask you.

So let me ask you this, Jeff, because I know the situation that some people are in on school boards like that, like you're describing.

But I think there's a problem in America where everybody is sick of hearing the buck passed.

And so when you bring up a very valid point, we can't do anything.

Is there anybody on the school board or of you

organized people to say, look, I agree with you, but we have to take this and kick this up to the state.

So let's go do that.

I think if school boards that were trapped went with parents and they were a united school board and said, this has got to stop, I think you'd be heroes.

Well, I believe we have done that in certain cases, especially when dealing with athletics.

We have gone to those people above us.

We have talked to our local legislatures.

In fact, where I live, both the Senate and the House majority leaders are my personal representatives.

I elected them.

They listen, and they're trying.

But it's at the administrative level.

It's the, you know, it's the government, governor's level.

And that's where it's that deep state.

Even in Pennsylvania, I've got a Democrat

governor here who just thinks

he's God Almighty.

And I've not agreed with him from the get-go on this.

We are trying.

And we have an administration that runs our schools that knows how important it is to get school kids in school.

They're on the phone to the Department of Education almost daily talking to the various health people there and saying, listen, you know, we got one more, but we can do this.

So we're trying.

Not all school boards are like that, but I think most of the school boards in our area, they know the value and they're trying to keep the kids in school as a paramount.

Jeff, thank you very much for your call and God bless you.

Good luck.

Sincerely, good luck.

People have got to control their anger as much as,

you know, I mean, we've just been pushed and pushed and pushed and pushed on so many fronts.

But I will tell you,

one event, one event,

and your freedom is gone.

One event.

That's how close we are.

Pray as hard as you've ever prayed for sanity and for protection and that

those who wish to do harm are thwarted.

Let me go to Tom in Oklahoma.

Hello, Tom.

Hello, sir.

How are things?

Well, actually, I'm doing quite well.

I'm one of those people who is teleworking right now.

I'm a retired military officer,

and once upon a time, I actually taught at one of the senior military colleges in the command and control arena.

And what does that mean?

For those who don't know, what's command and control?

Well, command is the authority you have to order troops to do things.

Control is the method by which you actually get them to do things.

Okay.

And

the situation at D.C.

has got me actually very confused.

I've talked to my senator, I've talked to my governor, and I'm not getting a whole lot of response.

I want to know by whose authority are they out there?

Did they deploy under Title 32, which is state control, or did the federal government call them up to federal service on the other?

So here's the thing.

Washington, D.C.

is not a state, so the mayor actually made the request.

So they're on the request of the mayor, who is really kind of a stand-in governor.

Yeah, and that's where I go down two different roads in the command and control situation.

Are they organized as a task force?

If so, there has to be a designated commander.

And besides holding them to account for the logistical support that our troops apparently aren't getting,

under the joint operational planning and execution system, the commander has to publish a commander's intent.

What's the purpose of him being there?

What's the method that they're going to employ?

And what's the end state?

When do they accomplish the mission?

I haven't seen anything like that.

Where would you find that I'll have my researchers look where would we look

yeah that would be in the operational orders issued to subordinate commanders out there so you've got apparently 50 different state

commanders that are deployed out there with their troops that would have received that

it

you know it may end up being classified but it shouldn't be because they're there

under title 32 it's got to filter back to the states.

If they're not organized as a task force and there's no designated commander, then I have a very disturbing thought that the Pentagon or the National Guard Bureau are actually functioning as a general staff.

And what I mean by that is the,

as an example, the German general staff function to both plan and execute operations.

That's actually against the law here in the United States for the Pentagon or the National Guard Bureau to act that way.

So

I am utterly confused by what authority they are operating and what mission they're accomplishing.

So, you know,

I'll see if I can get some governors on the phone and get an answer to that question.

You're in Oklahoma?

Yes, I am.

What's your governor's name?

Kevin Stitt.

Okay, I don't know Kevin.

Is he Republican or Democrat?

He is Republican.

Okay.

I'll see if I can reach out and get some information.

Sarah, could you just ask the staff to do that?

We'll see if we can get some information because I'm interested as well.

What are they doing there?

What is the intel?

Why can't we hear any of the intel?

And they're saying that they have no intel that says that there's going to be domestic unrest, and yet

that's why they're there.

So which is it?

What is going on?

I think this is really important.

And quite honestly,

if we don't start getting satisfactory answers, our governors should say, I'm not putting the National Guard, I'm not giving you my troops, calling them home.

I think Greg Gabbitt just did that.

We're not playing this game

because it's really important.

And I'll tell you one thing:

by

stationing

military in Washington, D.C.,

you

normalize that.

Americans have not seen that since 9-11, nor should we see that.

That is not who we are.

So we don't want to normalize it.

The other thing is, I have a real problem, especially in Washington, D.C., because Congress oversees Washington, D.C.

It's the mayor and then Congress.

And I don't want Congress telling the National Guard what to do.

It's going to, it will disenfranchise a lot of people.

We cannot lose faith in our military.

It's one of the only things that is left.

And if they begin to look like they're puppets and they are doing things that they should not be doing here in the United States, that is a very, very bad thing.

Very bad thing.

And we should all be concerned about about that.

Thanks so much for your phone call.

I'll try to get back with some information on that for you tomorrow.

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But, you know, most people, when they do interviews with people like this, they're like, so tell me about the green men.

Okay, well, I mean, like, I mean, hypothetically, are they lizards?

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So I want to talk to you about what's happening in Israel.

Israel is way ahead of the rest of the world on vaccinations.

Yes.

And they are, today they will hit 50% of the population vaccinated.

So we should be able to see quickly whether or not this vaccine works or not.

And the first news has come out.

How many people were vaccinated at the time or how big is this test?

So the group is over 320,000 people.

So two groups of 163,000, so I guess 326,000.

163,000 in each group.

So 163,000 vaccinated, 103,000 not vaccinated.

In the vaccinated group, 317 people have tested positive.

In the non-vaccinated group, 6,437.

20 times as many people.

So, this is very similar to the results of the trial with a group 10 times the size.

So, it's holding.

It's holding just like the trials so far, which is really encouraging.

And again, you know, we could talk about all, we can blab on about masks all we want.

The bottom line is, life gets back to normal when this virus is gone.

The economy gets back to normal.

Everything's open.

All these things that we want happen if this thing goes away.

Wow.

And this is really promising.

No, no, no, no, no.

No, no, no, no, not at normal.

You're not going to let me have one minute of the time.

Not with the teachers' unions.

No, I'm not.

I'm not.

Not with the teachers' unions.

No, that's true.

Again, if your teachers' union will not open up the schools at this point with the amount of science, you probably don't want to send your kids back to that school.

You really, I mean, seriously, check the science, teach.

You want those teachers teaching your kids?

Again, we keep

this.

This one thing I think that we will look back at on this era as conservatives as one of the biggest missed opportunities of our lifetime because we keep begging people to open up schools.

We've been telling everyone our entire lives, these schools don't work.

Here's an opportunity to get to your kids in a place that is not the public school.

And there are a lot of people who are doing, and I understand like private school is not for everybody.

Homeschooling might not be for everybody, but there's pods that have popped up all around the country.

I will tell you.

Small groups.

I'm looking for a pod because if my school,

which is

a public-private partnership.

Oh, nice.

If my school keeps closing because somebody in their family had COVID and they got to close the school for two weeks,

I just can't do it.

It's a good school, but sorry, I'll find a pod.

Again, it's hard to find options for everybody.

I understand that, but this is the time to investigate whether they exist for you.

This is it.

I mean, we've been saying these

people are indoctrinating the kids the whole time.

They won't even open them up.

They are begging you to find another option, begging you.

And we've been trying to convince you that the teachers' unions aren't really about the kids.

Well, check out the interpretive dance by the Chicago Teachers' Union telling you differently.

I mean, what, what is, what are we thinking?

What are we thinking?

Stand up.

Get your kids back into school.

This is the Glenn Beck program.