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Hey, Stu, it's time for the podcast.

I love podcasts, Glenn.

I listen to this one all of the time.

By the way, we should point out after that intro with the amazing broadcasting abilities you've just shown that you're going into the Radio Hall of Fame today.

Yes.

That's pretty cool.

Yeah, it is.

Thank you.

I don't understand the choice.

I don't either.

Lobbied against it.

It's really cheapened the whole Hall of Fame in my eyes

now that I'm being inducted.

But you can actually listen to your,

you did like a acceptance, you're doing an acceptance speech of some sort.

And so anyway, it's going to be very cool.

And it happens tonight, 7 p.m.

Eastern.

You can listen to it on Blaze Radio

or you can check it out on the iHeart radio app.

Yeah, just look for Radio Hall of Fame or listen to Sirius XM, the Triumph channel.

But check it out if you're interested at all.

Now, on today's program, we talk a little bit about the missing papers that seem to have gone missing with Tucker Carlson.

Shipping problems happen.

Yeah.

I mean, is that really?

Really?

Shipping problems happen.

Huh.

Because that's never happened.

We also have the CEO of the Babylon Bee on.

He has won

his argument with Facebook.

But we talk about how even comedy is being censored by these fact checkers at Facebook and Twitter.

We also have Mike Lee on.

We talk a lot about the censorship.

So much to talk about on today's program.

Here it is.

You're listening to the best of the Blenbeck program.

Welcome to Mr.

Pat Gray, who does Pat Gray Unleashed, a podcast that he records on Blaze Radio Network and TV shortly before this program airs.

And he is also heard wherever you get your podcast.

Welcome, Pat.

Thank you.

It's good to be here.

How does it feel, Pat, to be in the presence of a doctor?

Yes.

I'm a doctor.

You're a doctor.

No, I'm not a doctor.

I'm not a doctor.

And also a brand new inductee into the Radical Hall of Fame.

Well, not yet.

Yeah.

Not yet.

They have until tonight changed their mind.

Right.

And we do think they will.

I really do.

I think they might.

I think they might.

I mean, they should.

Pat and I have been shooting

hard behind the scenes.

We called Craig Kitchen and said, what do you think?

What are you thinking?

I have been thinking, you know, where in the Radio Hall of Fame is my stuff going to be?

And I figured out probably in the broom closet.

If you're lucky.

If I'm lucky.

Broom closet.

Might be in the round receptacle in the broom closet.

There is a physical Radio Hall of Fame, though, right?

Yes, where you can go and visit

in Chicago?

Yeah, in Chicago.

I mean,

people are featured like Bob Hope, and Ronald Reagan, and not to mention every radio legend.

George Burns, Don Imos, Rush Limbaugh,

Rush Limbaugh.

Thank you.

Okay, all right.

You know, I don't know why you'd be

giants.

I know.

And then Glenn.

And me.

Glenn

in the broom closet.

I mean, you're more of a guy.

Longevity, right?

You've been around for a long time.

They're like, we got to put him in.

That's kind of, I think that was the decision-making process.

Is it really?

I mean, how long is it?

42, 45, I don't even know, 40-some years.

A long time.

I think we were in the middle of the year.

42 the same year.

I was just three years older than you.

Yeah.

And that was, was that 1977?

78?

78.

78.

78.

So

we were trying to put together something that would look back at the Glenn Beck career from 1978.

So basically, you go at 42 years,

combined it into 90 seconds.

This has got to be good.

This is the best 90 seconds of Glenn Beck's career.

No, I mean, this is actually, listen to this.

This is going back some of these Glenn issues.

Is there anything from like the really, really early years?

Oh, there's some, yeah, there's some really early stuff in here.

Excited.

Looking back at the career of one Glenn Beck.

WPGC

101-70WFLA.

My name is Glenn Beck.

Chicket.

We started with humble beginnings.

Good morning, too, with us, Glenn and Jim.

Little did I know it would catch on.

I think you are nuts.

Tell you what, if I give you $50, will you go away happy?

There was a time when I first got on that everybody hated me, man.

Mr.

Rush Limbaugh, joining me here, Rudy Giuliani.

How are you, sir?

Evil one.

Carl Rowe.

Hello, Mr.

Vice President.

How are you?

John McCain.

Let's say hello to Don Imos.

It is Tuesday, September 11th, 2001.

We will talk and listen to each other, maybe in a way.

That we haven't done for quite some time.

How can you just sit there?

You know who has the right for free speech?

I do.

Full-fledged took a baller.

That's all about power and manipulation.

Sniper on the list, did we tell you?

Okay, we get it, CNN.

Thank you very much.

I don't think so.

I think this guy is some sick freak.

Get off my phone!

Too much opinion on radio.

That's the problem.

What is a peninsula?

It's an island that's surrounded by land,

right?

I just got back from Iraq.

We have moved or fed 11,455 Christians out of the Middle East.

Hopefully in a couple of years, you'll hear an old show of mine and you'll say, wow, it's just

different.

And you'll mean that in a good way.

And so will I.

Thank you.

Wow.

How long did that take to make?

There's actual people who belong in the Hall of Fame.

Yeah.

Oh, my gosh.

I can't even.

I'm glad you didn't concentrate on anything from WPGC.

I think there there was a KUPY in there, which is like I was 13 years old.

Oh, there were some really old stuff.

We had even more that had to be cut,

that had to be limited to 90 seconds.

But, you know, like it's been pretty amazing and an amazing run.

When you go back through your career, all the different things that have happened, all the huge guests that you've had,

it's amazing.

I think if you was such an underachiever, and in reality, you've overachieved well past your time.

Wow, there you go.

The Hall of Fame is tonight, the induction ceremony, and you can hear it,

the broadcast at 7 p.m.

Just go to the iHeartRadio app and search for Radio Hall of Fame.

Also, it's going to be on Sirius XM, the Triumph channel, tonight at 7 p.m.

Eastern Time.

You want to play that on the Blaze?

I know,

but I don't know.

We are playing it on the Blaze.

Yes, we are playing it on Blaze Radio or Blaze Radio.

So it'll be there.

I don't know.

This is my party.

So I don't.

Don't cry if you want to.

Yeah, and I didn't plan it.

Do you think they canceled it so they didn't have to have a ceremony with you in person?

I do.

It's like screwed COVID.

I don't want him here.

I guess, though, next year,

everybody who's inducted is supposed to go next year to the big dinner.

Oh, okay.

But there won't be a big dinner.

The world will be on fire by then.

I mean, this will all be over, and we'll have a messer with me daddy.

That's happening.

Yeah, well, I thought so.

I thought so.

He's about as optimistic as he's been off the air, too.

So, Pat,

what are your thoughts on, you know, here we are just a,

oh, my gosh, we are five days away

from the fundamental transformation of the United States of America.

It's today.

Yep.

Five days away.

Scary.

It's scary.

I'm trying to inject a little hope, though,

into this madness every day just so we can survive it, just so we can be sane.

And there's actually some things that lead you to believe that maybe there's hope.

Okay, okay.

Let me give you a few headlines.

Yes, yes, yes, yes.

From 2016.

Oh, boy.

U.S.

News and World Report.

Seven reasons why Hillary Clinton's win over Donald Trump is a done deal.

Oh, okay.

Didn't work out very well for him.

Also, this survey finds Hillary Clinton has, quote, more than a 99% chance, unquote, of winning election over Donald Trump.

99%.

Well, they're saying 96% now.

So she lost after a 99% chance.

They were predicting she would have 312 electoral votes.

She came up with 232.

Then there was this from Reuters.

Clinton has a 90% chance of winning,

according to a Reuters Ipsos poll.

And then another chance of winning graph.

Hillary Clinton, this was the, I think this was Real Clear Politics overall average.

Of all the polls together, Hillary Clinton had a 71.4% chance to 28.6 for Donald Trump.

Did you read what Hillary Clinton said this week?

I was born to be the president.

She believes it's her birthright.

She does.

I was born to be the president, and that's what has made this so upsetting to me.

Since when?

Excuse me?

Are we doing royalty now in the United States of America?

I was born to be the greatest television star of all time, and it was taken from me.

Oh, my gosh, what kind of out-of-control egomaniac is that?

One that isn't the president.

That's the kind.

Okay, I like that.

We'll go there.

Did you see one last thing I want to talk to you about?

Did you see the Tucker video last night?

Yeah,

I saw it.

You're talking about the one where they lost the...

Yeah, can we play this real quick?

This is the Tucker, the Hunter documents have vanished.

This is from Tucker Carlson last night.

There's always a lot going on that we don't have time to get to on the air, but there is something specific going on behind the scenes right now that we did feel we should tell you about.

So on Monday of this week, we received from a source a collection of confidential documents related to the Biden family.

We believe those documents are authentic, they're real, and they're damning.

At the time we received them, my executive producer, Justin Wells, and I were in Los Angeles preparing to interview Tony Bobolinski about the Biden's business dealings in China, Ukraine, and other countries.

So we texted a producer in New York and we asked him to send those documents to us in LA and he did that.

So Monday afternoon of this week he shipped those documents overnight to California with a large national carrier, a brand name company that we've used, you've used countless times with never a single problem.

But the Biden documents never arrived in Los Angeles.

Tuesday morning, we received word from the shipping company that our package had been opened and the contents were missing.

The documents had disappeared.

Now to its credit, the company took this very seriously and immediately began a search.

They traced the envelope from the moment our producers dropped it off in Manhattan on Monday all the way to 3.44 a.m.

yesterday morning.

That's when an employee at a sorting facility in another state noticed that our package was open and empty.

Apparently it had been opened.

So the company's security team interviewed every one of its employees who touched the envelope we sent.

They searched the plane and the trucks that carried it.

They went through the office in New York where our producer dropped that package off.

They combed the entire cavernous sorting facility.

They used pictures of what we had sent so that searchers would know what to look for.

They went far and beyond, but they found nothing.

Those documents have vanished.

As of tonight, the company has no idea and no working theory even.

about what happened to this trove of materials, documents that are directly relevant to the presidential campaign just six days from now.

We spoke to executives at that company a few hours ago.

They seemed baffled and deeply bothered by this, and so are we.

I'm going to comment on this in hour number three, but I wanted to get your thoughts.

Did you, because I saw this last night, and then I went online and I saw comments about it.

And it's the stereotypical, you know, leftist stuff saying, because they didn't exist.

You're just making this up, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.

Any first thoughts on this?

I mean, it's incredibly strange, right?

I mean, obviously, some packages do get lost.

They're not usually opened, though, and then the contents removed.

I don't know exactly what would happen.

I mean, I assume they didn't write Tucker Carlson, big hunter documents inside on the outside of the envelope.

So, I mean, unless

I mean, it's hard to know exactly what, if it made it all the way across the country till 3:44 a.m.

the day before,

someone would have had to know maybe the producer's name.

And like, it's just a, it's a weird string of events that would lead to these things disappearing um but i i mean the if this if the documents if the uh company went through all the records and they could find it all the way here and this doesn't happen normally it is very very strange i assume please tell me they took pictures of the documents and still have them right i mean like they didn't send one copy they got copies i hope across the country i assume and you would think there's also video right that would be uh taken in the facility wouldn't you

you would think there'd be video surveillance.

Here's why I think this is absolutely real.

Did you notice he didn't say UPS or Federal Express?

He believes the company.

He believes the company, and the company is upset about it.

Otherwise, he would have named the company.

He would have thrown them under the bus.

He would have thrown them under the bus.

And he believes that there's a chance that they will find out who did this.

And

I have some comments coming up in the third hour because my wife and I talked about it last night.

And she was like, come on.

And I just reminded her of a few things.

And she was like, Oh, yeah.

So I will comment on this on hour number three coming up.

She noticed how Tucker didn't call out the company, but Glenn did call out his wife.

That's right.

And I have her, I put her in a Federal Express bag and just

now she's missing.

Now she's missing.

The bag, I got the bag.

Wow, there are so many jokes in there.

This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.

Seth Dylan, may he live forever, is the CEO of The Babylon Bee, the world's most trusted, factually accurate news source.

We have Seth on the phone with us now.

Hello, Seth.

Hi, Glenn.

Thanks for having me on.

You bet.

So I think one of the funniest things, I mean, you guys are funny every single day, and I love what you do.

Thank you.

But one of the funniest things I have seen in a while, and it was because of the reaction, was

the post where you said, Senator Hirono demands that Amy Coney Barrett be weighed against a duck to see if she's a witch.

And the quotes were all from Monty Python.

I mean, it was really brilliant.

And you had a picture of her in the committee hearing with a duck in a burlap bag next to her.

And

you were banned by Facebook.

We were demonetized.

Demonetized, yeah.

They didn't take down our page, but they threatened us.

Well, they didn't threaten.

They penalized us with demonetization and said that this was an incitement to violence because there was a line in that article that said we must burn her.

And anybody who

has to demonetize.

you can't just say that.

You have to say the entire line.

Do you have the entire line in front of me?

Because I think I have it here someplace.

We do.

You want to read it or do I?

No, go ahead.

Go ahead.

I got to find it.

Hold on one second.

I just love this.

I just love this line.

I'm looking forward to it.

Absolutely, absolutely absurd.

Oh, she's a witch, all right.

Just look at her, said Senator Hirono.

Just look at the way she's dressed and how she's so much prettier and smarter than us.

I just know it.

We must burn her.

I mean, it's just absolutely ridiculous.

And the line about, I know, not only am I a senator, I know a few things about science.

And

wood floats, so do ducks.

And so if she weighs the same weight as a duck,

she can be burned because she's wood.

I mean, it's great stuff.

And

there's no way anyone took that seriously.

No, no.

And this is, is, we've had this happen before where there's just stories that, I mean, if you remember what happened with CNN, the CNN story we did and Snopes fact-checking it,

you know, we did a piece about how CNN had bought an industrial washing machine to spin the news in before they published it.

And it was just like, on the face of it, so absurd.

Obviously, they're not going to spin like that it doesn't even make sense.

It's just silly.

It's just a silly joke about their bias and their agenda, right?

But they fact-checked it and Facebook threatened to penalize us for that because we were putting out misinformation.

So it was a similar situation where, I mean, there are stories that we publish that are close enough to the truth.

Reality, everything is believable today, right?

So I mean,

it's very frequent that we'll become close to the truth and that we'll even

prophesy the truth because these things come true all the time.

But

in these cases, these are two examples where we've had run-ins with Facebook, and these are the most outrageous stories stories you can imagine.

And plus this one, this is a common reference.

I mean, Money Python is a classic, popular film.

So, you know, people who are reading this understand that this is a joke.

So, when you said to Facebook, well, hang on just a second, you allow

leaders of Black Lives Matter to say, if we don't get our way, burn this system down.

That's allowed.

But

this is a violation of your violence portion

of your rules.

Yeah, this is the point that I make.

It's not that we're actually violating their community standards.

You know, they did apologize and reinstate us, whatever, if we made us think about it, but

we're never actually violating their community standards, but they're always reaching to try to treat us as if we did.

And my question is, and the question that they won't answer is, why?

Why are they treating us that way?

You know, there's plenty of other sites out there.

There's movements, there's groups, there's groups that call for violence, promote violence.

They consider violence a justified option instead of discourse.

And we're just simply, we wake up every day, Glenn, in the morning.

We look at the headlines and we think, what would be a funny take on that?

What would be a funny take on that?

And that's what we do.

We go and write a funny, you know, satirical take on the issues, whatever they are.

So that's how, I mean, we have no ill intentions whatsoever.

But it goes beyond the social networks.

You have media coverage of us, too.

I don't know if you saw the piece in the New York Times recently.

It was, you know, one more instance of them questioning our motives and saying,

are they trying to misinform people under the guise of comedy?

And this is how they circumvent Facebook's rules.

Imagine saying that about NBC's Saturday Night Live, which I do believe is biased, but I just, I don't watch it.

If I don't like it, I don't watch it.

Right, right.

But it only, they say those things about us.

But I mean, look, you know, you've got a lot of political statements being made over at The Onion.

The Onion is the most popular satire site that's on the other side of the the aisle from us in terms of political leanings.

And their motives are never questioned.

They're just considered a funny satire site.

And we see that all the time.

The media's treatment, the media is silent on their stuff.

And then the fact checks that are done of The Onion, which are fewer and further between than ours, are so friendly.

They're with kid gloves.

It's, oh, this is a satire site, the best satire site on the internet.

It's funny stuff.

Just laugh at it.

That's the way they handle those fact checks.

So

we are certainly treated differently.

There's double standards all over the place, and I'm not sure how people don't see it.

We're talking to Seth Dylan, the CEO of the Babylon B.

So

you won this.

They remonetized you, but that doesn't help for the lost money and the lost exposure that

you suffered during that time.

My problem is

with this system, you are guilty until you prove yourself innocent.

Right.

This flips American, the thought of American justice and fair play completely on her head.

Well, let me say it's even worse than that.

It's worse than that because we are only out of Facebook jail because we have a platform.

We are able to make a noise.

We have a huge following, a very vocal following that's loyal and devoted to us.

We have reporters, people in the media, people like you that follow us on Twitter and Facebook and will talk about this stuff when we make people aware of of it.

So, we're able to

bring negative attention to Facebook's doorstep when they do this kind of stuff to us.

But what about the little guys?

What about people who don't have a large following?

What about a small business who posts a blog article that was deemed an incitement to violence?

And they get shut down.

They have no recourse whatsoever.

So, they don't even have the opportunity to appeal or

make noise or prove themselves innocent.

So,

you need a platform in order to do that.

We found that we're only successful.

In this case, this is a great example of this.

We went through the formal channels of appealing with Facebook.

They give you that option when this stuff happens.

And the person who manually reviewed this article upheld the original ruling that it was an incitement to violence.

So we got a firm no from Facebook.

They said, no, you're demonetized until you fix this.

You got to edit that article.

And that's when we went public with it and brought attention to it because that's just ridiculous.

But we're fortunate enough to be in a position where we can do that, but not everybody is.

How many people does this happen to?

And they have no recourse.

Well, they did this to me when, you know, when I was on Fox, I, you know, this show started as a comedy show.

A lot of the stuff I do, you know, I've done in the past has been, you know, with a comedic bent to be able to make the point.

They took everything that I did, took it out of context, made it seem like I really, actually meant those things.

And

it was just not worth the hassle anymore which is so damaging because I think they know the power of comedy

yeah

yeah they do it's a threat I mean I look we love this quote from GK Chesterton it's a it's a brilliant he puts it brilliantly and

framing the effectiveness of humor he said humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle and I love that because it's it's true I mean humor is disarming when you wrap a message in a package of humor, it's easier to deliver it.

It's more easily received.

This stuff more easily goes viral, even on really controversial or heated topics.

So, you know, when we're making our points really effectively using it, then yeah, they try to find ways to

denigrate us, to smear us,

to shut us up.

And it's clearly a building of a predicate for censorship, in our view, and

certainly dangerous.

Have you been following at all, the truth and reconciliation trials and committees suggestions that the Democrats are seemingly wanting to pick up?

Have you been following that?

Truth and reconciliation, you're talking about identifying people after this election is over, you know, picking out these people who are problematic.

Yes.

Yes.

Anybody in the media, you know, anybody.

I've heard mentions of that, you know, trying to build lists.

This is not over.

You know, we're going to come after you kind of stuff.

And a a lot of that, I don't know how much of that

is an empty threat, but I certainly wouldn't put it past them to think in those terms and try to do something like that.

I think it's awful.

Seth,

I'll have my research team send you some information on this and their white papers on it.

It's not an empty threat.

The extreme left is really pushing for this.

And

that puts all of us,

especially you.

I don't know if you know who,

oh, shoot, what was his name?

I can't remember now.

He was the famous actor in Germany.

He was probably the number one box office

comedy actor.

And he took on the

Nazis for a long time, finally escaped

because they shut him down.

But he really thought he could get away with it.

In the end,

his story is remarkable.

Those people who

don't appreciate the

fact that they're not infallible,

when they want to shut people up, they become very vindictive and they go after people who can rally or people that can make people laugh.

Yep.

Yeah.

Well, I mean, it's all the more reason for us to be more vocal, right?

It's not that we relish this fight, you know, that we enjoy it, but we certainly won't back down from it.

That's for sure.

Thank you so much.

Thank you.

God bless you.

Yeah.

Thank you, Gwen.

You bet.

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This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.

I wanted to get a person that is kind of responsible for some of these and

her new video

from Stories of Us is now up at Glennbeck.com.

She's a manager to Candace Owens and a presenter for PragerU.

And I wondered

why I didn't hire her at some point.

And it's because she's also a fitness coach.

And we just can't have any of those around here.

Gina Bon Tempo is with us now.

Hi, Gina.

How are you?

I'm doing great.

Thanks.

How are you, Glenn?

Very good.

So tell me about what Stories of Us

are

and why they're important.

Sure.

Frager You did this fantastic series called Stories of Us where they just elevated personal stories of people who have realized the lunacy of the left, who have come face to face with what the radical left is really trying to accomplish in America.

And we have seen the light, so to speak.

So it's a series of people who tell their personal stories of how they were once liberal or leftist or maybe even not necessarily even an Obama voter, but someone who identified as a liberal before.

And the veil was sort of pulled back over the last three to four years with the rise of President Trump.

And,

you know, there's just, there's a shift happening right now.

So the series is such a great representation of certain people, including myself, who have really come around and seen all the ways that the media has been lying to us, all the ways that we have been brainwashed and indoctrinated in higher education.

I tell that as part of my story as well.

As someone who went to college and graduate school, I left school

truly hating America and hating the country that gave me and my family so many opportunities.

So this series is really a testament to how people can change their minds once they see the light.

I mean, you hated it so much, you moved.

I did.

I was on the road for almost three years, Glenn.

I was on the road internationally.

I said to myself at the end of 2000, I believe it was 2014, I said to myself, I said, I'm out of here.

Maybe it was even 2013.

I left.

I went to Australia for a while.

I went to South America for a while.

I jumped around from Peru to Bolivia to Chile.

And, you know, what's funny is that I was in all these different countries and especially developing countries in South America and seeing how they lived.

And

actually down the line, what's funny is that all those experiences really helped me understand that the United States of America is truly the best country to live in.

And it really brought me back to realize what a blessing it is to even be born in this country.

So besides that, what was it that opened your eyes?

What was it that

started really making you say, wait,

I'm wrong about all of this stuff?

I was working as an editor and as a writer for mainstream media publications.

A lot of digital publications that were geared towards women, you know, these lifestyle slash news hybrid publications are actually really the machine that's producing the most information that's being released to millennials and Gen Z.

And I was working in that industry and I realized after

working full-time in the office day to day, seeing how editors and editorial directors will censor content.

and how they will frame all of their content depending on clicks, views, because that's exactly how these companies make money is that the advertisers will

buy ads depending on how many clicks and views they get.

And I watched day by day in the office how it was almost like a cult.

If you were working in this industry, there was just no doubt that you were a leftist, you were liberal.

And I actually had a coworker come up to me, this young lady, who said, she whispered to me, she said, I am terrified that our boss will find out that I'm a registered Republican.

And all these little things bit by bit and seeing how they would censor my own content and

whether it had to do with culture and politics or whether it even had to do with health and fitness.

And that really started to wake me up.

And then early 2017, I watched a full unedited speech of President Trump's.

And in that second, I said to myself, we are being lied to.

And that's when it all started to change for me.

You actually said

or wrote 10 New Year's resolutions for people of color that they have for white people.

That's right.

I did write that.

And it's not.

I did write that.

Right.

But that didn't come from you, right?

No, no.

This is actually a really

interesting point that I like to tell people is that when you're an editor and a writer for these mainstream media publications, what the directors do is they give you a long list of posts and articles that they want you to write, right?

Because they have very specific traffic goals that they need to hit every day and every week, every month.

And so the list would be, you know, just some of the most radical stuff I've ever seen, like, you know, 10 New Year's resolutions that intersectional feminists have for men everywhere,

10 ways that cultural appropriation hurts everyone, especially minorities.

You know, 10 ways that President Trump is causing mental illness in the United States of America.

And these are the kinds of things that we were assigned and we were told to write.

And we really, there was no choice in the matter.

You either wrote this or you didn't have a job.

So give me the chicken and the egg.

If you're writing this because the editor says to, but the editor is only looking at what people are consuming, what they want,

who's leading who?

That's the question.

That's really the question.

And that's something that I found myself asking

too.

And the funny thing is, once you start to ask these questions in media, once you are a person who works in the industry and you start to just raise some questions to your director or your boss, whoever it might be, you're shut down very quickly.

And I remember asking very specifically, there was one year at the last media company I worked for, they had a ton of layoffs.

We weren't hitting traffic goals.

They had to lay off a ton of people.

And they told us specifically,

we're not going to spend any extra money, guys.

We need to tighten up on everything.

And the next thing I knew, they hired an external team to come in and teach you about unconscious bias and diversity.

And I asked the question, I just posed the question.

I thought we were supposed to cut back on unnecessary expenses.

And I asked them, I said,

how does this unconscious bias workshop directly contribute to revenue growth in our company, directly contribute to ensuring that we don't have more layoffs in the company?

And as soon as you start asking these questions,

that's when they either tell you to shut up or leave.

How important is this election?

And can you believe that you are fighting?

for the exact opposite side you ever thought you would?

Sometimes I wake up and I have to pinch myself because I did spend several years in the machine of higher education.

And I know that people say this, I feel like people say it almost every election, but I do truly believe that this election is the most important that we have seen because it really is, we're at a crossroads where we're asking ourselves, do we want to preserve America?

Do we want to preserve American ideals and values?

Or do we want to create destruction and chaos and tear it all down?

And

a lot of women, especially in the suburbs, believe that that's what Donald Trump brings is just nothing but chaos.

They do believe that.

And that's because of the content that they've been consuming and the content that's been shoved down their throats for so many years.

And that's really the sad thing.

That's why I did the series of Prague or You, because I really, I wanted young women especially to understand that we have been lied to so much, especially when it comes to President Trump, who objectively, when you look at his record, when you look at the fact that he was a billionaire who then decided to go into public service and work for free to serve our country, that's when you can really see that President Trump, he is the man who cares about America.

He is the man who cares about law and order, and he's the man who's going to preserve American ideals and values.

And so that's why I say that this election really is the most important.

And

now is not the time to back down or...

or

be scared at these threats of being racist or sexist or misogynist, whatever it might be, because at this point the left is overplaying their hands, right?

They're doubling down on the same thing they did four years ago, and I think people are really starting to wake up to it.

I hope so, Gina, and thank you for helping that.

I watched your video this weekend and I thought it was just tremendous and I retweeted it.

It's Prager You, the new series, Stories of Us, people who have been in the system and have spat themselves out because something's not quite right.

I mean, you'll go down a wormhole or a rabbit hole of just watching one after another after another.

They're very inspiring.

And yours is available now at glenbeck.com.

And I ask that you go down that rabbit hole and share as many of these as you possibly can.

Thanks, Gina.

I appreciate it.

Great.

Thanks so much, Glenn.

Bye-bye.

God bless.

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