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Walmart plans on

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We have two directions that we need to take on this

gun grab nonsense.

Actually, more than geez, we had more politicians coming out yesterday with their solutions.

Nobody's talking about mental health, health, really.

Nobody's talking about what is happening with our society.

There's clearly a hole in our society.

Nobody wants to talk about that.

They all want to talk about guns and solutions.

Okay, great.

Well, now let's talk about, let's start with a solution from corporate America.

Walmart has plans to dramatically step back from ammunition sales after what they say were horrific shootings, and they were.

It's going to stop all handgun sales in Alaska.

Now, why in Alaska?

I mean, if you need,

if there's a place you need a gun, it probably is Alaska.

They're going to stop all handgun sales in Alaska, marking its complete exit from the handguns category.

Walmart also and Sam's Club will no longer allow open carry firearms in the stores where open carry is

allowed.

I mean, in Texas, nobody does, but you could wear it on your hip if you wanted to, unless you're an authorized law enforcement officer.

The open carry legislation is currently on the books in more than 26 states.

Walmart also

are not changing their policy yet for those who have permits for concealed carry, but they're adding signage in the stores about this.

They say that an open carry could be misinterpreted by somebody else.

And what?

They're going to pull their gun out and shoot?

Shares of guns and ammunition makers added to the losses early in the day

when it comes to the stock market.

Vista Outdoor stock closed down 6%.

Smith Wesson,

its stock fell 4.5%.

Ruger and Company closed down 0.6%.

And Walmart ended the day up 0.3%.

They said that they are going to now no longer sell the bullets that are used

to kill people.

And so they're not going to sell 223

or

is it 556 or 50?

I can't remember the other one.

223 and 5 something.

I can never remember it.

And 227.

Wasn't that a show in the 80s?

I believe.

That was room 222.

Okay.

I think

what you were talking about.

Yeah, no, the Alaska thing, too, is essentially their point, right?

Like, they only had them in Alaska because it was the one place where

they just, that was like the last place they decided to sell them, and now they're even pulling them out of Alaska.

Huge mass shooting problem in Alaska, apparently.

Yeah.

It's a place you need them.

It's a place you need them.

It's tough.

You know,

I understand the idea here, right?

You get pressure.

You have a tragedy in one of your stores.

You can understand

the idea that you want to do something.

But we all know these things will not be effective.

The idea that because they're not at Walmart, people can't get guns.

Like, I mean, it's just ridiculous.

Bad people are going to get guns.

They're going to get guns.

I mean, are there things that we can do to make sure everybody gets a background check?

Yes, but

they have ramifications everywhere.

Now,

you have

no place to buy bullets if you're at Walmart.

And all these lefties are saying, oh, we're going to shop at Walmart now.

No, you're not.

You hate Walmart.

You hate it.

A, you think it's beneath you to shop at Walmart.

B, you've been against their policies because there's a big, you know, it's a big box store.

And so they're hurting their workers and they won't unionize and all of this crap.

They're not going to shop there.

And I will tell you that if you shop at Walmart after this, you are only going to aid all of the other industries that are going to do the same thing.

Here's the thing the founders never thought of.

The founders never considered that corporations could become bigger than the government.

The

Constitution and the Bill of Rights says what the government cannot ever do, but it doesn't say what a corporation can and cannot do.

And I don't want it to.

I want corporations to be able to do what they want to do.

If Walmart wants to do this, Walmart should be able to do this.

The problem is, there is a guy at the New York Times that is coordinating a lot of this, is openly advocating for all corporations,

anyone in the chain of supply-that's truckers, shippers, gun manufacturers, gun sales, credit card companies, banks, anybody who touches a gun at all in any way to stop providing services.

Well, now, wait a minute.

That's infringing on my right to own a gun.

If I can't buy it anywhere, well,

who needs the Second Amendment?

The government could say, well, we didn't infringe, but all these companies,

yes, but they were coordinated.

They're being coordinated by the left.

But there will be, I think, conservative companies that pop up and coordinate it the other way.

They will push back on this stuff.

I mean, remember, too, you gotta, it's weird with Walmart, right?

It's a statement, and the statement is really annoying.

But of course, Walmart was selling guns and all of their competitors don't.

They were the only Target's not selling guns.

Yeah.

Right.

So the fact that they did it longer is

an I mean an argument that they actually and they're still selling guns, by the way.

Yeah.

They still are selling guns.

They're the only ones doing it in this gr in this retail group.

So it's a tough one because they actually are doing more even now

to get guns to people in America than Target is or any of their other main competitors.

I go up to Idaho, I buy my ammunition

many times at Walmart.

Now I can't.

I mean,

it's a tough one because they're the ones making the statement.

So you want to say, you know what, I want to show them that I don't like that statement.

However, these other companies have already made their statement.

They're currently making a statement by not selling guns at all.

We would have these issues occasionally because there'd be one of these organized boycott groups that would come after us.

And they would, you know, one of these companies would pull their advertising from the show or whatever.

I mean, it was a lot more rare than was reported, but occasionally did happen.

And so one of these companies would pull their

advertising and our listeners, who are awesome, would decide, like, I'm going to essentially punish them and go out and call them like crazy and make a big deal about it online.

And it was all like motivated by really good things.

And it was like, we were cheering it on internally like there's a part of you that's just like yes absolutely however there are multiple thousands of companies that avoid these shows completely because of issues like that because they know if if something happens and they feel like they need to pull their advertising they're going to be the ones singled out even though they were the ones that were actually advertising on the show right and so it's it's like the one who actually takes the risk I mean Walmart did stand up to a lot of pressure over many years about gun sales.

The fact that they're folding now to me is pathetic and it's wrong and they're doing something that's incorrect.

However, we're going to give your business to another company.

I mean, 99% of businesses do not sell guns.

Walmart still does.

So

it's a tough list.

If Walmart isn't hurt by this, it's like Nike.

Look what Nike did.

Nike stock went up.

Their sales went up.

You think they're learning what lesson?

They're learning, go for it.

Okay.

If Walmart doesn't know, Walmart is different because it's right in the heart of America.

It should understand

the heart of America and it's the biggest retailer out there.

So

you have Walmart doing this.

If they don't feel any pain from this, it makes everyone else.

What I'm worried about, and I've been saying this for, what, two years?

The banks,

once the banks get involved and they say they're not going to loan money to gun manufacturers, they're not going to loan money to gun stores.

They're not going to allow credit cards to be used to buy guns or bullets.

Then it's a whole new world.

Then you have, what are you going to do?

I want to buy a $3,000 gun.

Okay, you pull $3,000 out of your bank account.

Are you going to be now on a watch list from the bank because you pulled a whole bunch of money money out?

I have to try writing it with a credit card, right?

It's going to be difficult.

You've seen this happen with marijuana across the country because it's not federally legal, still federally illegal,

but there's obviously every state is moving in this direction, and many states have already legalized it.

So these businesses who are raking in tons and tons of cash have no place to keep it.

They have no place to keep it.

They can't put their money in a bank.

They have to like figure out there's all sorts of stories of people going to go buy homes.

Like, you know, you're a marijuana dealer.

You take your money, you go and you buy a home in cash and then immediately sell it.

And that's how you get your money out because you're essentially laundering money through the system, right?

You can't put it in a bank.

So that sort of thing could actually happen with guns where, you know, look, the marijuana business is still thriving, but it's a parallel economy, right?

It's something, it's completely outside of the main system.

Again,

and is this a good thing, by the way?

If you actually care about gun violence, is it a good thing that all of these transactions are now going going to happen in cash?

Like, is this something you're going to get excited about?

The ramifications of these dumb decisions

are never considered until afterwards.

Much worse.

Much worse.

The guy at the New York Times says, yes, because most killers can't afford the guns.

So they have to put them on credit cards.

Yeah, that's their bigger harm.

Really?

Okay.

So it's only poor people are killing people?

Because I know if I said that, we'd get thrown off the air.

It's only poor people who are the murderers.

That's one that gets conservatives banned from radio.

Okay, so this is the corporate realm.

This is the attack from the corporate realm.

We know the political realm.

But let me share with you what I shared with you yesterday first about something called BCI

and then what the Trump administration has brought back to the table as a possible solution.

It is the beginning of the police state.

In no uncertain terms.

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Hey, it's Glenn, and I want to tell you about something that you should either end your day with or

start your morning with, and that is the news and why it matters.

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I've been telling you for a while that we are entering a brave new world and that we must have these conversations now and discuss right now what we're willing to accept and what we're not willing to accept.

Because as they're rolled out, if you don't really think about it, they're just going to be rolled out and everybody will accept it and then everything will be fine until it's not.

Okay?

We have to decide:

is there a line

and what that line is?

Yesterday, I told you something about BCI, those are brain-computer interfaces.

This is reality.

This is not science fiction.

It's about a year with Elon Musk.

It's about a year away from actual human testing of this.

But

with Zuckerberg,

it's already been tested, and he has the algorithm that can actually read your mind.

It can take the neurons in your head, read them, and attach words to those neurons.

Now, you have to ask yourself, is there any privacy anymore?

Do you have a right to your own thoughts?

Or does the government have a right to those thoughts?

Do the corporations have a right to those thoughts?

By the way, it works two ways.

Not only can it read, it can write.

So, in other words, it can nudge you one way or another without you even knowing it.

Now, Musk is saying that we have to have this because we're not going to be able to handle AI.

We will be destroyed by AI.

He said, We're just going to be too stupid and too slow to understand really anything that is going on, and it's going to become godlike.

So, we must be immersed in the Internet.

But remember, the internet is two ways.

Now,

if you thought that was nuts, that is the next, that is the end game step, I believe.

That's when Stephen Hawking becomes right, when he said by 2050, Homo sapiens will no longer exist.

He didn't mean that all the humans are going to die.

What he meant was you will be so augmented by 2050 that you will no longer be human.

You're going to be a new new hybrid and

a new sort of being.

And there won't be any natural human beings left because everyone will either want this or be required to have it.

Imagine if the guy working next to you was constantly wired to the internet and could see everything and when he meets somebody he knows their name, he knows everything about them

and you are sitting there, you're just a natural person, you're not going to be able to compete.

So is that the world you want?

Now that seems like it's a long way away, but trust me, it is not.

Let me give you this.

The Trump administration is considering a proposal that would use Google, Amazon, and Apple to collect data on users who exhibit characteristics of mental illness that could lead to violent violent behavior.

The proposal is part of an initiative to create a Health Advanced Research Projects Agency or HARPA.

It would be located inside the Health and Human Services Department.

The new agency would have a separate budget and the president would be responsible for ordering its director.

HARPA would take after Defense Advanced Research Project Agency or DARPA, which serves as the research arm for the Pentagon.

Now, this idea was first crafted and presented to the White House in 2017,

but it failed to gather any ground.

However, it has a renewed push.

Susan Wright Foundation approached the President recently and proposed the agency include a project called Stopping Abhorrent

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Who's against Safe home?

The woman's wife is Bob Wright.

He was former executive of NBC.

He was the chair of NBC.

Close relationship with Donald Trump.

They're now looking at your Apple Watch and Amazon Echo and Google Home to listen to see if you have any disturbing patterns that the government should be aware of.

America,

it's time to stop talking about the stupid, silly things and see the writing on the wall and decide who are we and where are we going.

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I want to introduce you to somebody who's a guest of mine in the studio today.

His name is Brett Johnson.

I don't know Brett.

I met him yesterday.

But

Brett was listening to KNRS, what, two days ago?

Yeah.

And I called in because yesterday was my wife's birthday and I'm in Los Angeles.

And she says to me, you know, I say, honey, what, just, it's 20 years.

I've tried.

I've tried.

I've tried.

Everything I get, my wife, she does not like.

Oh, you bought her spectacular presents.

I bought little presents, spectacular presents.

I've done everything.

Every little combination.

Nothing, nothing.

And she's always, I don't need anything.

And

the minute that you would say, Okay, well, I won't get you anything.

That's the worst move.

I know that's a trap.

Okay, I'm never falling for that.

I know that's a trap.

So

we were we were traveling about a week ago and we were in Utah, which has Cafe Rio.

Now for some reason,

my wife,

her, her entire, if, if,

if she could design heaven,

it would be a Cafe Rio.

Okay.

She, we have to have Cafe Rio.

Cafe Rio.

Yeah.

We have to have Cafe Rio the minute we land and the last thing before we take off okay is it a what can you describe it's a yeah it's a mexican restaurant it's like a high-end mexican no it's like a casa what is it casa verte here in oh it's better

costavita yeah

i don't think those are any all over the place either but like the they're up from a taco bell but like how about from a chipotle A little above a Chipotle?

Is it a little about the same?

Yeah, I think it's about the same.

So it's no big deal.

It's just a fast food restaurant.

Okay.

And she loves it.

And so

I thought to myself, that's what I'm going to get her for her birthday.

Because she was having

they're in Los Angeles, too.

Well,

yes, but I didn't have any friends in Los Angeles.

And I was coming home too late.

And so

I was in Los Angeles and I couldn't get, you think I'm going to get through security with a bunch of food and everything else?

Not a chance in hell.

And they didn't have one past the security gate.

Yeah, I don't think they actually are in.

If I understand, they're not even in Los Angeles, I don't think.

Are they?

I don't know.

Maybe.

I think there's like, I think, because

I do know a little bit about this story.

And we looked at it yesterday.

I think there's like, it's like Utah, Arizona.

I think there's one or two other states.

I thought it was in Los Angeles, but it could be wrong.

But so I knew I didn't have a chance.

So I decided to call Rod Arquette, who is at our station at KNRS in Salt Lake.

And Rod is just a super great guy and he's just a normal guy.

And I called him up and I said, Rod, this is, I know this is really stupid.

I said, but I want to get my wife a gift.

And

what she really will want for her birthday is Cafe Rio.

And he just started laughing.

And he's like, no, really?

And I'm like, no, really.

That's what she will want.

That would be the best.

I'll get so many husband points for this.

But I don't know.

I mean, I called the attorney general's office and they're like, Lenn, we can't help you get food through the TSA.

And I'm like, really?

I mean, there's nothing you can do, threaten them with some sort of investigation.

They're like, no.

That's not the way it works.

Well, I mean, it is the way it works, but we're not doing that for you.

So I call Rod and I said, Rod, I need somebody in your audience that can either,

you know, get it to Delta and then somebody at Delta that will put it on a plane.

I'll buy a first-class seat if I have to to put it on the plane.

This is ridiculous.

Then I'll have somebody pick it up.

And, well, we got, we gave out my security guy's private number because he was like, well, what number?

And we hadn't even thought of that.

We're like, oh, geez, we're thinking everything else.

So we give out his number.

It rings all night.

All night.

People are calling.

And not like your security needs an open line to be able to call it.

No, not at all.

Not at all.

So Bret is one of the guys who calls, and he calls, and I'm listening.

They have it on speakerphone, and I'm listening, and he's like, yeah, I used to work for the airline.

I don't anymore, but your system's not going to work.

You actually need somebody to go.

And I'm willing to go.

You know, I just,

I'm self-employed, blah, blah, blah.

What was your thinking here when you said you were willing to go on a trip to

his wife wanted one burrito?

Right.

Okay.

And you're like, oh, that'll be easy.

You'll bring a burrito on a plane.

Yeah.

No, she wanted, she had, it was a party with seven of her friends last night because I was not supposed to be there.

So seven of her friends, and they all wanted the salad.

I think it's something with the dressing or something.

I think we could have just gotten away with the dressing.

But

so they wanted salad.

So I asked him,

can you bring seven

salads

to Dallas?

Yeah.

Well, I knew your plan wasn't going to work.

You can't go and put food on a seat in an airplane and have it end up where it's going to go.

Really?

No.

That should be something that exists, though.

It doesn't.

No.

No.

So I knew you'd need a warm body to haul it out there.

And I've traveled a lot over the years and not uncommon for me to fly to a city for an hour and fly back.

So

what did the people in your life think of this?

Well, obviously that it's insane.

Yeah,

but not surprised.

Right, right.

It sounds like something you'd do.

Right.

That was what my wife said.

So if you put those two statements together for a second it's insane and it sounds like something you would do what is he saying about you glenn uh no i think he was saying it was something that he would do that i would do he's insane oh okay well now the idea so you desired an insane person to to bring mexican food across state lines we did talk about that okay yeah we did talk about that yeah well the idea that his wife wanted cafe rio i mean cafe rio is awesome I mean, huge fan of Cafe Rio.

And I was telling Glenn, I said, I often get that text on my way home from work.

Cafe Rio?

Question mark?

Yeah.

I know what I have to do now, right?

It's cafe Rio.

It's cafe Rio.

So last night, so I met him at the airport because I was coming in.

He got in at what, two o'clock?

Yeah.

And so we had somebody meet him at the airport to take the food

to make sure that it was, you know, not all now all poisoned because it was sitting out all day.

Did you grab a chip at all?

Did you get anything?

Did you eat any of the food on the line?

I did not.

That's what I would say, too.

He delivered it perfectly.

So we got it.

And then I come into the airport about 5.30, and we're just chatting.

And I said, you got to stay the night

and

just come in for the breakfast for the radio show the next day.

And then so he's going home today.

But I want you to know I set it all up about 6.30 last night.

Everybody was coming over at 7.

I'm not even invited to this party.

And I tell my wife, just get out of the kitchen for a while.

And I set it up.

And it's in these, you know, these tins, tins, you know, the regular fast food tins.

And it's in these tins.

And I just set it all up.

And

all the girls come over, and my wife walks in, and she looks and she said,

Is this cafe real?

And I said,

Yes.

She said, How did you get it here?

And I said, It was very complex.

And we're currently paying for a man staying at a hotel.

And

all of her friends said, it's weird.

This Cafe Rio thing is weird, especially with women.

They all said, wait a minute, this isn't Costa Vita.

And I said, no, that's Cafe Rio.

And they all looked at me and then they looked at her and then they looked at me and they went,

you're a good husband.

Brett, thank you for those points.

I appreciate it.

Amazing.

And first of all, you should be getting, Brett, Cafe Rio free for the rest of your life for this.

I hope they're hearing this.

Because

you should be hooked up forever.

Every text that comes in

should be a free meal for you.

That's an amazing job.

Well, thank you for doing that.

Well, this has been a lot of fun.

I mean, when I was telling Glenn, I said, you know,

I'm a stranger to you, but you guys aren't a stranger to me.

I've listened to you guys for a long time.

So when you made the request, it was like a friend needing help.

So

cool.

So cool.

And

that's the way all of these calls were.

All of these calls were like, Glenn, tell Glenn, I'll help him out anyway.

What does he need?

I'll get it from here to there.

I'll do whatever.

I mean, it was really neat.

We are great listeners.

And now you're married for another day, which is always a surprise.

It is.

It is.

It may end tonight because there's no Cafe Rio.

But thank you so much.

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So, Kevin Hart is in trouble with the left again.

You know, if you don't say exactly what these Nazis want,

you're out.

I mean, they're just going to destroy Kevin Hart.

They're going to do their best to destroy Kevin Hart.

Kevin Hart, I think, is funny enough and big enough to survive.

Not in height.

No, not clearly not in height.

In prominence.

Yeah.

So

he was on some sort of a podcast

with some singer that's what?

Do you know who this singer is?

I do not know.

Okay, he's some singer.

Some singer I've never heard of.

You probably haven't either.

And there's those who do know are screaming in their cars right now.

How can you not know what's his face?

All right, whatever.

I get it.

But he just came out as gay.

gay.

And

Kevin Hart

said,

while there to him, you know,

I just don't see this as a big deal.

Why is this such a big deal?

Well, if you grew up in the black community, Kevin, you'd know why it's such a big deal.

Yeah, but it's not.

It's not.

Well, that's not good enough because he didn't recognize homophobia.

And so he was being very, very unfeeling to all gays

because

he he wouldn't recognize the homophobia and the bravery that it takes to come out.

Okay, maybe it takes bravery to come out, and especially in some

communities or some families, and I recognize that, but the rest of us feel like Kevin Hart.

Who cares?

Who cares?

I don't need to know about your sexuality.

You don't want to hear about mine.

You want to hear about,

yeah, you know, when my wife and I start to feel a little rendy, you don't, oh, yeah, shut up, shut up, shut up.

I feel the same way.

I don't want to know about anybody's sex life.

I don't need to know it.

Now, is it little Nas X?

Lil Nas X.

Lil Maz.

There's no T's.

Old Nas X.

Yeah.

Old Town Road would be the song you may have penetrated your world if you do have children.

Nope.

But yes, very popular.

My kids, I swear to you, listen to Dean Martin.

And I mean, they're weirdos.

That is not surprising at all.

They are weirdos.

Not the weirdos part.

I know them, so they're not weird.

But

the fact that they listen to Dean Martin around your house does not surprise me at all.

Yeah.

So

little Nas

may have penetrated their world, but it hasn't penetrated mine.

Maybe Lil Nas X or Lil Nas 10, which it's one of the two.

There may have been nine little Nases before him.

Just so you know that.

Well, it's probably

X, because maybe it's like Malcolm X.

Maybe he's related to Malcolm X.

First of all, it is definitely X.

However, I like the idea that there were nine lil Nases before him, so I'm going with a Lil Nash.

So it's like senior, junior, the third,

and X.

Okay, I got it.

Okay.

You know, this is Dave Chappelle in his comedy special, which again

does not surprise anyone in the country.

Doesn't surprise anyone that all of the critics are giving it on rotten tomatoes giving it a zero rating it's come back a little bit now has it yeah

oh

yeah his because it was initially legitimately zero percent yeah right from the critics what is it now six uh last time i saw it was 33 oh wow 33.

uh it is now 30 33 from critics uh 99 from fans okay this just goes to prove That the elites and people that I never thought of of

Rotten Tomatoes as elites.

Well, I mean, the Rotten Tomatoes is just compiling critics.

I mean, they have no opinion.

Well, no, they selected, they hired an additional, I think, hundred critics here recently.

So they are picking and choosing the critics.

Okay.

I mean, they also definitely, though, carry the reviews of conservative critics.

Whatever.

Yeah.

Whatever.

But it just goes to show you that, I mean, that's why.

Have you ever asked what the critics say on any movie?

I mean,

I do, and we've talked about this before.

It depends on the movie, right?

Like, if you have a movie that's like an action movie or a horror movie,

the critics' reviews usually aren't that important.

Yeah, so if I'm going to a Jane Austen movie, maybe I'll listen to the critics.

Yeah, I think, like, I think a lot of times you find, you know, certain like

dramas and indie films and stuff, you can tell a lot from the critics, I think.

And you could also tell a lot from the politics of it.

I mean, it's very,

if the politics are bad, when I say bad, I mean bad to the left.

If the politics of the movie can be interpreted that way, you can guarantee a negative percentage from critics because that's what they will see in it.

It's almost like if you were to watch a funny show, a funny comedian, this happens all the time with conservatives, a funny movie, but the messaging is constantly berating you over the head with global warming or whatever left-wing cause they're pushing.

100%.

It affects your experience.

And the same thing happens to critics.

They are hardcore leftists generally and they get these they watch these movies and all they see is Ronald Reagan isn't treated like Hitler like I can't I can't watch this and they it's automatic negative review so I definitely do think that that that's a legitimate thing that permeates it's legitimate obviously look at Dave Chappelle yeah Dave Chappelle is taking on the left

and They don't like it.

Yeah, they don't like it.

What's interesting about this one in particular, Glenn, is that Chappelle does this stuff all the time.

Like, all of Chappelle's specials have these types of moments in them where he's being critical of the culture in a way that, you know, your average CNN pundit would not be comfortable with.

You know, it's the same thing with Louis C.K.

and, you know, there's a whole

the people who are the real legends of current comedy, and both of Chappelle and Louis C.K.

would be in that category.

They are all comfortable going into those areas where you're not supposed to go, which is what makes them great, you know, partially.

They're also technicians of what they do, but that's part of it.

Like, that is what is part of comedy.

And so, Chappelle someone has done this.

Like, like,

oh, shoot, what's his name?

A friend of ours, Pale.

Jim Gaffigan.

Jim Gaffigan.

Pale, and I knew him right away.

So Jim Gaffigan, he is political, really.

Yeah, and he is an absolute technician.

I mean, you watch him.

He is brilliant on the technical side of

Amazon special.

His hold your sights, bust a gut fun.

It's almost too many laughs in a row and too fast.

Right, too fast.

And

he's absolutely brilliant, but he's not political at all.

But that's who he is.

And he's not saying anything really controversial, except, yeah, I'm fat and

I don't mind.

Where Chappelle is,

you know,

we're starting to see the beginnings of a Lenny Bruce

where you're getting these guys who are taking the establishment on.

And that has always been that way.

But it wasn't until recently that the left was the establishment.

And they don't want you to take it on.

Culture is the establishment.

And they are sick of it.

I mean, comedians are sick of it.

So listen, here's, we have two clips here of him talking about Kevin Hart.

Here's clip number one, Kevin Hart.

They even got poor Kevin Hart.

Can you imagine such a thing?

Kevin Hart, let me tell you something.

It was Kevin Hart's dream to host the Oscars.

That's what he told me.

Now remember when he told me, because I was thinking to myself, well, this is an awfully strange dream for an African American.

Dreams of hosting the Oscars.

Kevin did, that's who.

And he did it.

Against all the odds, Kevin became the most famous comedian this world has ever seen, and he got the job that only one black man before him had.

He was going to host the 80th Ospers.

And I don't know what you know about Kevin, but I know Kevin Hart is damn near perfect.

As close to perfect as anybody I've ever seen.

In fact, Kevin is precisely four tweets shy of being perfect.

Meaning the four tweets that he tweeted out years ago that everybody was pouncing on.

Here he goes into the gay community.

He follows this with he's not a bigot.

He's not against homosexuals.

And then he starts going on the gay community.

Listen to this.

Ooh, the gay community was furious.

And I don't blame them.

I got a lot of gay friends.

And all of them, 100% of them, all have told me horror stories about the shit they had to go through just to be themselves.

Crazy, crazy stories.

And in all those stories, I got to say, not one of them has ever mentioned anything like

their father

smashing a

dollhouse over their head.

Which is what Kevin said.

Because clearly, Kevin was joking.

And that's the thing.

Jokes are now treated as if they're serious statements when it's convenient.

Like, listen to this review.

This is one of the reviews from Rotten Tomatoes.

It's negative.

Lacking empathy can certainly be amusing.

But Sticks and Stones, the Dave Chappelle special, special, is a tired routine by a man who forgot to layer jokes into his act, too often sounding like a pundit on Fox News.

Unbelievable.

How could you possibly watch this?

This is the first time I have heard someone in a long time do things that was the opposite of fishing for claptor.

Everything we see is all about claptor now.

This guy doesn't care if you clap or laugh or anything.

He's just saying what he thinks is funny.

And it's funny all the way through.

And it takes on both sides.

Here's why

he got in trouble.

Continue on to alphabet people.

But you see, what I didn't realize at the time and what Kevin had to learn the hard way is we were breaking an unwritten and unspoken rule of show business.

And if I say it, you'll know that I'm telling you the truth.

The rule is that no matter what you do in your artistic expression, you are never,

ever allowed to upset

the alphabet people.

You know who I mean.

Those people that took 20% of the alphabet for themselves.

I'd say the letters, but I don't want to conjure their anger.

I mean, it is amazing that that stuff is being said by someone who, by the way, was absolutely revered without exception by the left as of two weeks ago.

One more clip.

He talks about the T's in the alphabet.

He'll be surprised.

I have friends, all kinds of letters.

Everybody loves me, and I love everybody.

I got friends with L's, I got friends with B's, and I got friends with G's.

But the T's hate my guts.

and I don't blame them it's not their fault it's mine I can't stop telling jokes about these

I don't want to write these jokes but I just can't stop

You know, you hear all those letters together all the time, LBGT, LBGT, and you think it's just one big movement.

It's not.

All those letters are their own movement.

They just travel in the same car together.

He talks about them in the car and it is very funny.

Dave Chappelle, Sticks and Stones.

It's a Netflix special.

Critics don't like it.

Audience loves it.

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When you look at the gun thing, by the way, I have to give you this.

Did you see what Marianne Williamson said?

Yeah.

You know, she is

the only person who is doing this, I believe, in the entire Democratic field.

If you're talking about the positive thing that she said.

Yeah.

Okay, so here she said, quote, I know this sounds naive.

I didn't think the left was so mean.

I didn't think the left lied like this.

I thought the right did that.

I thought we were better.

This is why I said,

welcome those people who are waking up.

Welcome them because they don't know.

And they've never seen it themselves.

There are a lot of people on the right.

When things happen, you'll go, I didn't see that coming from my side.

I really thought we meant it.

And you're waking up.

All these people are waking up, and many of them have just truly believed that somehow or another we really wanted children to die.

And once they see it on their side,

they wake up and they're like, okay.

And if we are like, see, and we're never like that.

No.

Many of us are not.

We just have bought into, it's just them.

And I think they're much, much, much, much, much worse.

But we have a few people on our side that are just as bad.

And if you just say, look, I get it.

You know, sometimes people on our side, there's an industry over here trying to shut people up on the left,

but it's about 15%.

Let's be kind, 15% on both sides.

The rest of us are normal.

We just don't know it about the other one because

we've been kept apart.

And that's the key.

Anyone who is trying to shut you up, anyone who is trying to say, Dave Chappelle, shut up or you shouldn't go see it because of,

you should disregard those people.

You know, it was Bridget Fettesy was on yesterday and she said, you know, they live in this bubble.

And now they're trying to make that bubble even more insulated.

By saying, hey, if you even disagree and you're inside the bubble, out of the bubble.

Because we can't have that in this bubble.

That's crazy talk.

Yeah.

I don't know if we have time to get to the rest of her comments, but maybe we could do that after the break because it was actually jarring.

And you realize how far the left has gone when her statements, which are very innocuous,

are jarring to you.

I mean,

from a presidential candidate, it should not be hard to dig up a Democrat out of a 25, 26-person field that will say basically generally nice and encouraging things about faith.

Right?

Like, again, Marion Williamson has all sorts of problems.

and I certainly would not want her to be president of the United States or my doctor or anything else.

But, like, at least she's acknowledging a role for faith in this country that was, you know, founded on the ideas of freedom of religion.

She's the only one that is saying the truth about guns.

While she's talking, I'm sure, about gun control and everything else, she's also saying this, most important.

It's not the gun.

There's a hole inside of Something is missing.

You know, she says it's love, but I think it's, I mean, it may end there, but there's a lot of stuff missing that leads to love that

we are creating in ourselves, we are allowing to grow and be fostered in our children.

And that needs to be addressed far more than the guns do.

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