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There's so much to talk about.

I think we're going to start with the assault weapons ban that they're now talking about.

Well, it goes into mental health, too, which is another topic I know we were going to get into a little bit today.

Yeah.

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We're so glad that you have tuned in today

because

we needed to have a talk about what's really happening, what's really happening

and what we're facing and what choices we have in front of us.

Would you turn in your gun?

Would you turn your gun in

if the federal government decided,

yeah,

we got to confiscate guns?

Peter King now

is

sponsoring a new assault weapons ban because it worked so well the first time.

So we have an assault weapons ban.

Why?

Well because people are panicking and Republicans are falling in line.

Now Donald Trump seemed to take a step in the opposite direction yesterday, but we need to talk about that and I'd like to know from you.

You willing to turn in your guns?

Let's open up the phone line, 888-727-BECK, 888-727-BEC.

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The assault weapons ban that Democratic leaders have been reluctant to advance despite strong support among their rank and file members in the House just got its first Republican backer.

Yay, it's Pete King.

Peter King said, these are weapons of mass slaughter.

Huh.

I don't see any need for them in everyday society.

Huh.

I mean, if Pete doesn't see it, then it's, I think the Constitution says there's a Pete clause in the Constitution that anyone named Pete shall not be infringed except by a guy named Pete, right?

So that's why Mayor Pete is such a big candidate on the left.

Right.

Because he can step in and ban anything due to the Pete clause.

Right.

There is no Pete clause.

You know what's really amazing to me.

Let me explain the Constitution.

Right now, people are saying we have to change the Constitution and take that right away.

Now, what does it say in our Declaration of Independence?

What is our mission statement?

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.

There is no Pete clause.

That all men are created equal and are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable, unchangeable

rights.

Among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

So let me take it out of the political realm.

What was the story yesterday, Stu?

Oh, the story yesterday that talked about how

45, was it 45 children or 35 children?

35 children have been killed in a hot car

this year alone.

Last year, it was like 56 people were killed in a hot car.

52, and it was children, 52 people.

Children.

Children.

What happens is the parents are so dumb, they leave their kid in a hot car.

Now, your kid can die within 15 minutes.

Left in a hot car,

a car can go up in temperature within 10 minutes, and a child can die in 15.

Now,

we all seem to know not to do that to dogs,

but our children, well, they're sleeping.

Yeah, and it's 100 degrees outside, or it's 90 degrees outside, and that car is

an oven.

So, what are you going to do about it?

There are more kids that die in hot cars

than there were kids that were killed by guns this year.

Well, you're talking about mass shootings.

So,

it might be misunderstanding.

Because, I mean, we talked about this a little bit yesterday.

The Washington Post made up this big profile, and they said 54 years, 165 mass shootings, 1,196 victims, and they listed them all in very tiny print to kind of give you this overwhelming feeling that, like, how the big of a problem is.

Well, that winds up to be 22 people per year, which is a problem.

It is not nothing.

It's a big deal.

35 children just this year in a hot car.

Last year, it was 52 children.

That's a lot.

That's a lot.

That's way too many.

No kid should die in a hot car.

That's crazy.

But we don't ban cars.

Now, here's the other thing we don't ban.

We also don't tell people you have to have a license and a background check to have a child.

Why?

Now, to adopt, sure.

But to have a child, no, that is your

inalienable right.

That power to have a child was bestowed on you with God.

So if your body is working the way God intended it,

well,

you can have a child.

And no one, no one in this country would say, oh, well, let's infringe on those rights.

You know, I want to see before you have a child, I want to make sure that you're a good parent.

I want to make sure that you're the right kind of people.

You know, the only people who ever infringed on that?

Progressives.

Progressives.

It's the reason we have a blood test.

Now, why do we we have a blood test today?

Why do we have it?

I mean, do they do anything with it?

What the hell is the blood test for?

The blood test was to make sure that you weren't marrying any cousins.

You weren't marrying any undesirables.

You're not going to marry one of them useless people.

It was the beginning steps of eugenics to make sure that we only allow the right people to breed.

We don't want a country of imbeciles and idiots and, quote, coloreds.

That's why we have the blood test and the marriage license.

It was an evil reason to start it.

So now, what the hell are we doing?

Do they have a right to do that?

Do you think they have a right to tell you, hey, by the way, you can only have one child?

No,

because it's a God-given right.

That's what the Bill of Rights means.

That's what our Declaration of Independence means.

That's what's different about us than any other country.

We say that man is born with certain rights, and one of those rights is to defend yourself.

Well, how are you going to defend yourself?

What?

You're going to defend yourself against the United States military?

Well, yeah, it seems to me that ISIS and Al-Qaeda and everybody else was doing a pretty good job.

Seems like the rebels in the Middle East are doing a pretty good job.

What is it that, why are they holding up flags, American flags, and signs that say we need a Second Amendment in Hong Kong today?

Because, yes, if that's your only, if that's the last resort, if your government has become so tyrannical,

yes, I will defend myself against fighter jets and tanks.

I will.

We all will.

They come and they round people up in countries

because they can't defend themselves.

You have a right to self-defense.

You have an inalienable right.

Now, of course, these guns are

mass destruction weapons.

Okay,

let's not equate any gun

to what Russia just blew up accidentally in

one of their towns.

Oops, there goes a nuclear weapon.

That's a weapon of mass destruction.

A weapon of war?

Any gun, any knife, any pair of hands is a weapon of war.

What's happening right now is Peter King and others on the Democrat or Republican side, they don't understand the First Amendment, the Second Amendment, any of the amendments.

They don't understand them.

Shall not be afringed.

Infringed.

Shall not be.

You can't change this right.

It's the only one that has that clause in it.

You know, it doesn't say, hey, freedom of speech, freedom of religion.

It just says shall not.

Congress shall not do these things.

This one is, no, no, no.

Not only say you shall not take these guns, you shall not even infringe on them.

You can't even come close to this one.

Well, you know, you're what?

You're not going to ban somebody crying fire from a crowded movie theater.

Well, that one doesn't say shall not be infringed, does it?

This one does.

And it's not that I love guns, it's that I love freedom.

I love

freedom.

What is the real cause of what's happening to us?

I'll get to it here in 60 seconds.

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I want to talk to you about the real problem in our society that no one seems to want to address.

But it is everywhere.

We are in a society right now that is fundamentally changing.

We are changing on many, many levels.

We're changing jobs.

We know that things are not going to be the same.

Massive companies are trying to find their way through this

change.

Our towns are changing.

There's no jobs in many of our small towns in America.

Farming is seemingly dying in this nation.

We are a nation of farmers.

When you lose that, you begin to lose real meaning.

Our city skylines are so bright we can't even see the stars and ask ourselves, wow,

who are we?

Let alone who am I?

We are being filled with meaningless junk.

We're a nation of shoppers

We're all trying to fill some empty hole

There doesn't seem to be any answers not from the ages no d look backward look backward and see if you can find any answers No, nobody at any time had any good answers No, it's all new answers That doesn't make sense.

Our children aren't talking to each other.

We're just texting one another.

We're becoming animals online.

There's a real problem with depression.

Suicides are through the roof.

What is the cause of mass shooters?

Most times it's loneliness.

They've been ostracized.

They feel alone.

They don't have any meaning in their life.

They're looking just for something to make them feel, or worse, looking for something to make them famous because that's how empty we are.

Do you know that scientists now say they're on the verge of creating a pill to make loneliness loneliness go away.

What the hell does that pill do to you?

It makes you not feel lonely?

Should we not be working on a pill and be maybe perhaps working on ourselves to be able to see people for who they are and where they're going and what's happening in their life?

Depression is something that hits, and you think

it's logical.

It starts someplace logical.

And then it's like a snowball.

And if you're prone to clinical depression at all, and we all go through periods of time in our life

where this happens to us.

There's a chemical reaction.

You're not getting the endorphins in your brain that you need.

And so, what happens is it starts out logical and then it becomes clinical, then it becomes chemical, and you go further and further and further down until you start thinking, you know, the answer is the world's better without me, but I'm not going alone.

Who's having a serious conversation

about

the mental health of our society.

Who's having that conversation?

Why do you think drugs, opioids are so out of whack right now?

We're having an epidemic.

It's worse than anything I think we've ever had before.

And I've lived a few years.

I remember how bad crack was.

I remember the heroin plague.

I remember all of this.

This is worse because it's coming in pills

and it's going everywhere.

It's in the inner city.

It's in the heartland.

It's happening with old people, business people, homeless people.

It's happening with everybody.

And it's rotting us from the inside.

It's an opioid crisis.

It's not an an opioid crisis.

It's a gun crisis.

It's not a gun crisis.

It's a human crisis.

It's a soul crisis.

It's a loneliness crisis.

It's a lack of meaning crisis.

It's a depression crisis.

People only shoot other people when they feel there's no meaning attached to anything.

I finished a book today

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And I mean, the things that happened to him, just horrible.

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that he wrote just before he was killed by the Russians.

It.

It is our answer.

It's not more gun control, drug control, or anything else.

The answer when we come back.

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Peter King is the first Republican to sign on on the gun control and the assault weapon ban because it worked so well the last time.

The problem is not guns.

And I know people will roll their eyes at that.

It's not guns.

Just like the problem is not drugs.

The problem is not the internet.

The internet just is.

It's what you do with it.

The problem is not video games.

It's just what you do with it.

The problem is not the gun.

The problem is that while the gun is fully loaded, too many of us are empty inside.

I told you I was reading this book.

It's called The Volunteer.

It's about a guy who I'd never heard of.

His story is just being told for the first time because it was lost under the Soviet era.

And it came out in about 1975 and then wasn't really told.

And this is the first book.

It just came out a couple of months ago.

First book about this guy.

He's an amazing guy.

He was a regular guy in Poland, not Jewish, and

was seeing what was happening and he was in the underground and heard that these people were being sent to Auschwitz.

This is before anybody knew about gassing or anything else.

And he said, somebody's somebody's got to get into that prison and find out what's going on and let the rest of the world know.

And so he volunteers to go in.

And he goes in and he's in this prison camp.

And it's, you know, it's Auschwitz.

And he goes through all of it.

All of it.

He's there for two solid years.

And he's writing and smuggling things out to the West.

And the West isn't paying attention.

He can't get even Warsaw to pay attention.

They just blow it off and say it can't be true, blah, blah, blah.

He's there as they're building bigger crematoriums and gas chambers.

He sees it all.

He sees that they're doing 5,000 people a day.

He finally says, I've got to escape.

I've got to get out of here.

And I've got to tell the world myself.

So he does.

Nobody listens to him again.

He spent his whole life getting people trying just to listen.

Then the Soviets are coming in.

He's trying to get people to listen, and England and America won't listen to what the Russians are doing to people.

He's eventually rounded up by the Russians and he's killed after five years of this just heroic struggle of just this ordinary guy.

Before he's rounded up, he just writes, you know, his

memories of Auschwitz and everything.

And it said that his orientation had shifted.

No longer did he he need his readers to understand an evil that defied comprehension.

Instead, he only asked them to look within themselves for that which they could share with those who suffer.

Quote, I have listened to many confessions of my friends before their deaths.

They all reacted in the same unexpected way.

They regretted they hadn't given enough to other people.

They hadn't given enough of their hearts, of their truth, Sorry, of the truth.

The only thing that remained after them on earth, the only thing that was positive and had a lasting value, was that they could give of themselves to others.

That

is the core of our sickness.

We don't have any institution or anything else that is really training us to do those things,

to be that person,

to be accountable to something higher, not because you're forced to,

but because it's right

and it's the only meaning in life.

That's the illness.

We have a hole inside of us, and nothing of the world will be able to fill that up.

Service, seeing the pain of others.

not gun control.

What a typical

politician and

I don't know, well, Western answer to just give you drugs, to have you no longer have loneliness, to take away your options so you no longer are violent.

What are you talking about?

I mean, Pat Gray is here with us, who's

obviously an expert on the Constitution, and he is very familiar with the Pete Clause.

Now, this is a clause, of course, that allows all of your unalienable rights to be overwhelmed if someone named Pete says that they should be.

And it's a big reason why Pete Buttigieg is in the race right now because he could really overwhelm anything.

He doesn't need any laws passed.

He just can just...

This is Pete.

I'm Pete.

Wow.

Do you think the Pete clause is...

I think that's very clear, though, in the Good and Plenty clause.

Within it,

the subclause is the Pete Clause.

The Good and Plenty clause, of course, was actually quoted by who was it, Wrangel?

Yeah.

to

it was that he didn't say it was a case.

To verify

John Conyers, yeah, it was John Conyers.

I don't think he actually said the good and plenty clause.

I think that's what it morphed into.

I think he said something.

I think it was a good and welfare clause.

This is like the idea that they can justify anything and these hidden, like, you know, the words might be there.

They just mean new things to them every day.

Right.

Yeah.

And they always make this argument that it's a living document.

It's like, well, in a way, it is a living document, right?

You can change it.

Like, you can make it, it can always change, but you can't just make it mean new things without amending it.

That's deconstruction.

That's different.

That's progressivism.

That is postmodernism.

So,

Pat,

they come to your door.

This passes.

Now, last time this passed, you didn't have to give up your gun.

It just

couldn't quote unquote.

And that was it.

But I don't know if that's going to be enough for these people.

They ban the guns so you can't buy anymore.

Then they go and say, you know what?

We need to round these guns up.

They're just too dangerous.

And they'll start with a buyback.

Yeah.

And

I'm not selling it back.

Not interested in selling it back.

Not interested.

Yeah, not interested.

First of all, mandatory buyback.

Yeah.

I know.

Yeah.

Well, I lost mine.

I lost my weapons

while how many of them?

I just only had, I only had two, and I took them with me to a range, and then I you know, I just absentmindedly left them there.

Holy cow.

Yeah, that's not

irresponsible.

I did.

I called the authorities to let them know that, hey, I forgot my guns at the range and I don't know where they are now.

I went back and they were gone and my cell phone died.

I have to tell you, you know me.

I'm a great sportsman.

I'm a great sportsman.

Yeah, I took all of my guns

and I had them in my fishing boat.

Because you know, I always wanted to fish, but I don't like to fish.

I can't get

fishing line gets all tangled and stuff.

So I brought my guns and I was going to fish with guns.

You're going to shoot the fish in the water.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And they'll just float to the top.

Well, little did I know,

I was in a lake with flying fish.

Oh, no.

And they flew down and they, like eagles in their claws, they swooped down and grabbed the guns.

Usually what they do, though.

Took them to the bottom of the sea.

So I don't have it.

Did you report that?

I, you know, I didn't have a video camera of the flying fish right and i was afraid that people were gonna say oh you were you were you know hurting their claws and their ankles and stuff and then pita would get up

because i had a water accident with my guns as well did you yeah i i uh i also took them out on a boat um to do some fishing and but and i used flex seal tape to to flex to seal the entire

it should have worked because

you saw the boat in half first yeah i saw

i I thought that was the way you're supposed to boat.

I'm not a boatsman.

So I thought the way you boated was to take a boat,

saw it in half, then put it back together with flex seal tape.

And so I tried that, and I went out in the middle of the water, and I know the product works very well, but I may have made a mistake.

And the way I applied it,

both sinks lose all the guns.

Craig says the same thing.

He says he has lost his guns.

How did you lose your guns, Craig?

Hey, how's it going?

He was boating.

Oh, no.

You had a boating accident as well.

What happened?

Yes.

What happened?

Well, I just forgot to put the plug in.

The whole thing just sank to the bottom.

Good thing you were a good swimmer.

Well, it was, you know, it was only six feet deep, but

you can't get to the bottom.

It seems like it's dangerous.

It's dangerous.

It would burst your eardrum.

Oh, the current

carried them away.

See, it seems to me at this point we shouldn't be banning guns.

We should be banning boats.

They seem very unsafe.

It does.

Listen to how many accidents we've heard about in the last five minutes.

Okay, so wait a minute.

Wait a minute.

I want to ask a serious question.

I'm going to start with you, Craig.

Greg, you tell me, if they ask you to turn in your guns, mandatory buyback, you're a law-abiding citizen.

Do you do it?

Okay, first thing, how is it a buyback if they never owned them?

Right?

Very good point.

The question is, we can play this game all day.

The question is, it doesn't matter.

So you're a law-abiding citizen until you don't sell your guns back to the government.

Do you sell your guns to the government?

Answer quickly.

We have a lock on you now.

Same answer I have for when they tell me what religion I can go to.

All right.

Thank you, Greg.

You know what?

That is, to me, that's the right answer.

To the government, that's the wrong answer.

To me, that's the right answer.

But how many of we talk a big game now?

Yeah, it's a lot harder when they're going to show up.

But when

they show up your door and they're like, as they've already done in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, and nobody gave up their guns, nobody did them.

They gave them up, and they never got them back in many, many cases.

Now, you would hope before it got to that point, the Supreme Court intervenes and declares it unconstitutional, so we never have to worry about it because hopefully it's still America.

But if it's not, you do have to make a choice.

Yeah, and if it's not,

isn't the choice already made if you believe in the Declaration of Independence?

Well, I mean, look,

I mean, it is your right, it is your duty.

Yeah.

You got to believe, though, 90% of people, even the people who would call in today and say that they would keep their guns and no matter what, would, in the face of a

raid, are giving them up.

However, 10, 20% of gun owners decide to keep them.

You have a civil war in your hands.

That's still 30 million people.

I think if they ever, ever come for guns, you have a civil war.

I think there's enough people

and they will just start shooting.

There's enough people that will start a civil war, and you will then be, then the average person will then be in the position of,

whoo, I don't necessarily agree with everything those guys are doing or saying, but I don't agree with those guys.

Who's more on my side?

And I think, as always,

it will come down to personal decision on

I don't know how to feed my family.

I don't know what to do.

For almost everybody.

I mean, look, we're all law-abiding citizens, number one.

So when even I freaking pay my income tax, and you know what, I don't feel like I want to, there's a lot of things that I think the government does that are wrong that violate my rights.

Now, that particular one is in the Constitution, unfortunately, thanks to the 16th Amendment.

But when it comes down to things like the Fourth Amendment, how many times is that violated on a daily basis?

We're not all the time.

It gets all the time.

So, you know, it is.

I'd like to make the point real quick again.

So is the third.

So is the third.

We're the only ones saying it.

And so is the third.

They're quartering soldiers with the NSA in our homes right now doing the same thing.

They're listening to our conversations and they are recording what our papers and personal papers are.

That is the Third Amendment.

It's just

a dynamic.

Yeah.

It's dynamite.

But the point is, though, like, we know our constitutional rights are being violated on a regular basis.

And most people, while they'll, you'll fight against them, will do shows, will try to elect politicians, we'll do everything that we can within the system to try to make sure those constitutional rights get respected.

When it comes down to it, 90% of the people are going to say, you know, look, this is the law, and I'm just going to keep fighting for my rights.

But there is a group of people out there that are not going to go that way.

No.

And this is something, this is one of the reasons why the Second Amendment exists.

Because let's just say this is just common sense reform, blah, blah, blah.

It's not always common sense reform.

It could be someone who's tyrannical.

And the reason why this amendment exists in the first place is that if it is tyranny, then there is a way for people to fight.

You just have to ask yourself: both sides, both Republicans and Democrats, think the other is either a communist or a fascist.

Both sides think we are so close to being a totalitarian state.

We just don't see our side being the side that does it.

Why, at that time, when the one thing we agree on is the state is growing too much power, why

would we give our guns up to that state and make ourselves more defenseless?

It's insanity.

It's absolute insanity.

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Bridget Fetesey.

She is a comedian.

She is a writer.

She's really screwed up.

And that's why I think I like like her so much because I can relate to her so much.

She joins us now.

She's just written an article for the spectator called The Battle Cry of the Politically Homeless.

Hello, fellow traveler.

How are you?

That's quite an intro.

She's really screwed up.

Well, I mean, you are.

Let's be honest, yes.

So, Bridget,

just for anybody who doesn't know you, you were a writer for Playboy.

You've always considered yourself a progressive, but you're not somebody who really even thought about it.

You just did your life, right?

Yeah, I kind of always refer to it as my factory settings.

It was me more,

you know, it was like I was in a Google self-driving car, and I just

was born and raised a liberal Democrat and worked really hard and was chasing, you know, paycheck after paycheck and never really paid attention, was told that people like yourself are evil and um

just kept moving until i came out of my coma and

you came out of your 2013 you came out of your coma because you started saying things that all of a sudden were not politically correct and you're like wait a minute yeah

the culture i i mean i think that the culture has shifted to the extremes in both directions.

So perhaps a lot of people haven't moved.

The culture moved around us.

And

so I was not aware of this.

It wasn't like I was online participating in the culture wars all of these years and I just stumbled into them.

And I think this is true for a lot of Americans.

And so now you write this for the spectator because nobody is, I mean, you've been erased from Playboy.

I mean, that's sanitizing.

They don't erase anything.

But

all of your articles that you wrote for them for a long time, they're all gone, very popular.

Gone.

Very popular.

And you've kind of been, as the Chinese would say, disappeared.

I have a bet, yeah.

Right.

It's interesting times.

Right.

And so the people that are talking to you are people like me, which you don't necessarily are, you're not necessarily thrilled about.

You're not like, oh.

What?

I'm thrilled to be talking to you, Glenn.

How dare you?

No, but I mean, you know, you never saw yourself two years ago going, you know what?

I'm going to be friends with Glenn Beck.

No, I wouldn't.

I always say this because I got sober in 2013.

And I say, if you had told me in 2013 that I would have been friends with Glenn Beck, I would have been like, what drugs are you on?

And give me more of them.

So

in this article, you talk about how

you're just

you're somebody with a brain.

You have your own ideas.

You might disagree with people, but you're not in a tribe, and this has got to stop.

I think, you know, I get a lot of fair criticism on this, obviously,

from the tribes.

And

I'm not so naive to think we live in a two-party system, essentially, when people might feel this way, but then when the going gets tougher, it comes to voting day, they have to pick something.

Somebody, they have to make a choice.

But what, you know, I set up

an email for people to tell me how they felt about this.

And

some people say nobody's shifted politically.

They just are

they just think they might be more conservative, but the culture has shifted, which in a lot of cases is probably true.

And obviously,

what I'm hearing is self-selected because I represent these people who don't feel represented.

So these are the people who are writing me.

Now,

what is interesting are the people who have shifted politically and are in swing states.

Those are the ones who are fascinating to me.

Like a woman wrote to me from Florida and she came center from the right because of Trump's often demonizing rhetoric and she just doesn't like the way that he speaks.

And as

she mentioned that she just doesn't know if she can stomach voting for him, but she certainly can't get on board with the left either.

And I said, you know, I asked her what she would do, and she doesn't know.

My biggest fear is that people like that woman will sit the election out completely.

That won't be good.

No,

but there's a lot of people who are just saying, I'm,

it's disgusting to me on both sides.

And not to be, you know, I think ultimately too, the other refrain that I hear over and over and over again are people who have been alienated by their the left.

And essentially they say,

Trump is a limited problem that we have to deal with.

What they're seeing on the left, socialism

and

free speech erosion in a social way,

that kind of approved message that everybody needs to get on board with or be canceled, that that is more insidious and dangerous in the long term than whatever is going on in the right.

So it's interesting.

It's interesting.

My in my inbox, and if people want to email me, they can.

I am politically homeless at gmail.

Feel free.

I'd love to hear from anyone.

So the c criticism I get from the right the most is that I'm um of moral relativism and on the left it's that I'm

like a Martin Luther King kind of white moderate.

What?

What is the left saying to you?

White?

I don't even understand that.

What?

That I'm like the equivalent of a good German.

And, you know, like, or as they, I heard like

a thousand times that Martin Luther King had a lot to say about white moderates, which is ridiculous because not everybody writing me me is white.

So

bad argument.

We live in a bizarre time.

Listen to this.

I'd love to get your thoughts on this.

We all, both sides, have worried that our rights would be trampled by stormtroopers in the government, right?

We all thought, you know, the government's going to go fascist or communist or whatever, and, you know, a bill of rights, and they're all going to be taken by the government.

But really, it is insidious the way this is happening.

The government is really becoming Google, Amazon, you know, these giant corporations, and the stormtroopers are just the mob.

Neither one of those are covered by the Constitution.

So

the

Google can isolate anyone they want.

The government couldn't because of the First Amendment, but Google can.

And the enforcers are not coming from the government.

They're coming from the people.

Yeah,

this is what's deeply concerning to me is when

on my good days, I feel like that kind of cancel culture, in particular where I'm seeing it on the left and

progressives.

Nobody's pure.

Nobody can pass these purity tests constantly.

Eventually, this snake will eat its own.

It's like a snake eating its own tail.

Eventually, it has to eat itself and maybe fizzle out.

But then I see something like what happened with Sarah Silverman, for instance, last week, where she went on a podcast and she was talking about how she got, she lost a movie role because of her, um, because of

the sketch she did in 2007 in which she was in blackface.

And

and

apologized for in like 2010 on her own show and apologizing.

Yeah.

And and it was a I believe it was it was a criticism.

You know, she was making fun of racism.

And

so

this is the stuff that is deeply worrisome to me because

we have to offer people paths to redemption.

And when you're canceling people for things that they've apologized for, that they maybe have learned from,

I don't know,

from the the perspective of somebody who was a Democrat and looking at perhaps what the Democrats are doing going into 2020 I don't actually see how that's helpful to them now you know people on your show are like good they're walking right into a brick wall again which I I understand but from the perspective of somebody who's

I often hear that you know, if you're in the center, all of these YouTube is creating this path to the right and there's only a path to the right.

Well, that's because the far left has eroded the center left, and

there is no path to the left, essentially.

If you're a moderate, even at all, you're essentially, you know, I don't even know if you're right, if you're right of Bernie, you're essentially a conservative now.

You're as bad as me.

Yeah, you're as bad as me, and I'm bad as Hitler.

Yeah.

Hang on.

We're going to continue our conversation with Bridget Fettesey.

You can find her and follow her at Twitter at Bridget Fettesey and BridgetFetesey.com.

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Bridget, you're new to the gun world.

Are you not?

I'm new.

Sorry, I didn't.

You're new to the gun world, right?

Yes.

Right, right.

And were you just your factory default settings against guns?

You know, I think that when you, when people ask me what

when I started really opening my eyes to

the culture wars, it was around

probably 2014, 2015.

And there was I was writing for Playboy.

There was yet another mass shooting and I was emotionally reacting as is completely understandable in those situations online.

And I was like, i don't know anything about guns i don't know how to i don't know anything about them i don't know any i don't know anything about the laws i don't even know how to

hold one or load one and and so i realized you know i understandably why i would react emotionally but perhaps i should maybe get some information before i was spouting my mouth off and i go on can i tell you something bridget that is something that no one in the media does the majority of them have zero idea.

I could, I'm not a gun expert.

I could trap them in two questions.

They have no idea what they're talking about, and yet they're coming off and pontificating.

And look, I'll have a reasonable gun conversation with anybody if you know what you're talking about.

Right.

But if you're just, if you're just making stuff up, well, an assault weapon, what's an assault weapon?

What is it?

Can you define it?

Well, they look spooky.

I mean, you know, that's, you can't have a conversation.

That's like trying to

talk about if we should go back to the moon or not with a kindergartner.

It's interesting because I put out a call to my listener or to my, at that time, following it on Twitter, and I said, you know, I don't know anything about this.

I'd really like to hear what you have to think about it.

And I got such thoughtful, intelligent, long,

written answers about people's feelings, primarily independents and conservatives about the

responsible gun owners in most cases.

And then I started just doing my own research and

being that,

and now I'm

starting to shoot and I

mean, according to the left, I already am.

Yeah, I know, I know.

I know.

It's just crazy.

It's crazy because I was told that the people that I wrote

in the battle cry of the politically homeless, I was told we don't exist.

You know, they're by both sides.

Everyone's like, and people like you don't exist.

Oh,

I think you're the majority.

Yeah.

But again, the question is, okay, so we're confused, which and maybe feeling morally conflicted about what to do in the upcoming election or politically conflicted, or there's one,

you know, there's one thing that we believe in that will have us vote one way or another or are strongly against.

And so

I understand when people say they don't exist.

I know what they're saying, that at the end of the day, people have to pull the lever and vote.

Yeah.

Bridget, it's a lot easier to just throw people in categories, though.

We only have about one minute left, but I wanted to get your take on this Joe Rogan article that came out from the Atlantic.

Do you have an hour?

Yes, we do, actually.

What's the problem with it?

I just think it's an insidious attempt to undermine the very real need for men like Joe Rogan and masculinity, what his fans represent.

And I know what they're doing and also comedy.

I know what pieces like this are doing because they've been kind of implying that Joe is this person who's, you know, a gateway drug to the alt-right and pieces like this lay the groundwork very insidiously for that and this is where I'm I rage the alt-right is very specific and very small

it's very small there's nothing about Joe Rogan that the alt-right would go I like that guy I think he, I mean, they might like him to watch him, but that's not, he is not alt-right.

Oh, these people.

I know.

It makes it, I get frustrated because I feel like it's hard to put your finger on, but I'm like, I know what you're doing.

I know what you're doing with this piece.

It's ridiculous.

And it's undermining.

It's like, oh, why is this guy who's representative of millions of men popular?

What are you talking about?

Why is that even a question?

Yeah,

it's a weird piece.

I mean, it kind of makes it appear as if what they're saying is like, look, we're, you know, he's really problematic.

He's giving voices to these people in the fringes that don't deserve voices.

And like, that's a, who are they?

Who are they?

Who are they?

Who decided that they could have a voice in whatever magazine or whatever they, who, who gave them

the right to speak for everyone?

It's so past regressive, too, just the way that it says things.

I think at the end, his conclusion is, you know, I tried on Joe Rogan's masculinity.

It's not for me, but that kind of insidious throwing under the bus of masculinity is,

this is not good.

Okay, we'll come back.

I want to talk to you a little bit more about that.

And the underlying problem is,

I think, that no one is willing to talk about, and you are in a unique position to talk about it.

Bridget Fetesy.

We continue our conversation with her coming up any one minute.

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You know, there's a lot of people that are really starting to wake up.

Some of them have been neutral and just kind of asleep at the Switch politically.

And that's one of the people we're talking to who I think is incredibly brave is Bridget Fedese.

She's a writer, a host of the podcast

Walk-In's Welcome.

But we've had Jamie Kilstein.

I just had a podcast with Jamie Kilstein, what, last week?

Now, this is a guy who, I mean, he was nasty to me.

Had me on his resume as not liking him.

And wore as a badge of honor.

And we had a great conversation, Bridget.

Just great.

Yep.

I love Jamie.

And it's people who are saying, wait a minute.

Let me examine what I've done.

Let me examine what I really believe, you know?

And those people are going to change the world.

They're just because I think that's the majority.

They just need the majority just needs to see people willing to take the hits.

And it's scary.

It is scary.

And it's easier for me because I don't have kids in a school system.

I don't have a job that's corporate where I'm dealing with HR.

When people ask me what they should do, depending on their situation,

especially coming from the left in particular, I'm usually understanding of why they have to keep their head down and be quiet.

I'm less so.

I used to be more so.

I'm less so now because it's not my country.

It's not your country.

It's all of our country.

And you're risking just as much.

I mean, you are.

I'm risking.

I'm not risking my livelihood because this is my livelihood.

So

I am understanding when, you know,

people have mouths to feed.

That's not true.

I've talked to you times when you were like,

I don't know what I'm going to do.

I don't know who I'm going to work for.

Oh, yeah, that is true.

Right.

And

I've risked my livelihood.

You know, I put my livelihood and my life in some regards, my family's

on the line.

That's true.

So let me change subjects because I brought up guns with you a minute ago because we're now talking about banning assault weapons, which we've already done that.

It didn't work.

And so it was lifted.

There is no statistics that show that's effective at all, period zero.

But I don't think that we should be having the gun debate, quite honestly.

I think this is because we're a society that is run by politicians that want to divide us, and nobody wants to actually talk about the truth.

The truth is, we're having more shootings and mass shootings and shootings in Chicago because there's a hole in us.

We are a sick nation and a sick culture.

And all of us,

the drug epidemic is because there's a hole in us.

It's so complex, you know, when you really look at all of these situations, and there are many different ones that you just mentioned.

It is

incredibly...

I'm fascinated about the psychology and the social psychology that's happening.

And I do feel like there's a certain amount of,

I always joke on Twitter.

I say, are you okay, America?

You know, it feels like collectively the entire country is careening towards some kind of rock bottom.

Like

we are.

So I'm more concerned, Bridget, maybe you're saying this.

I'm more concerned that

so many people feel lonely, empty inside.

They have deep depression.

Nobody's talking about the mental health of our kids or of our society.

Nobody's talking about this, and it's insidious.

Or they do, and it's in a way that

isn't helpful.

So if you're talking about mental health, it's in a way that's kind of still making it seem, I feel like I don't know anybody who doesn't have mental health issues.

I have mental health issues.

It's so rare to meet somebody who's just balanced and doesn't struggle with some form of anxiety or depression.

Well, you live in Los Angeles or California, so.

In Texas, we're pretty stable.

We're pretty stable.

I do think so.

Yeah, yes, yes and no.

I think that a lot of it's hidden because people feel like they have to hide it.

What I learned learned

in writing for Playboy all those years was that men in particular, there's a lot of resources for women to kind of talk about their feelings.

And it's when I would reach out and say, hey guys, how you doing?

Or ask them a question, I would get these long essays because they didn't really feel like they could open up to somebody or they didn't feel like it was socially acceptable to admit that they were struggling.

So there's a lot of secretiveness

around

struggle, feeling like you're struggling.

I think people feel isolated by their own struggles because they feel like they don't want to admit that publicly because it will make them seem weak.

Yeah,

they don't believe or know yet that everybody is going through something that they're hiding.

Everybody is going through something that they're ashamed of or they think they're alone on, and they're not.

They're just not alone.

I'm a huge fan of therapy.

Yeah, you are somebody who went through an awful lot.

Your story, your life story is amazing.

And if you missed it, you listened to my podcast.

Just go to wherever you find podcasts and look for the one with Bridget.

You can find it on YouTube, I think, as well.

But you have a fascinating life history, but you got to a place to where you thought

you had no value.

You

were worthless.

And I feel like I hear this a lot from people all across the board.

And I think what you're talking about, this hold that we're feeling,

a lot of people are relating to that.

There's this sense of meaninglessness, hopelessness, and worthlessness.

And I am a huge advocate.

I had to build my core.

and my self-esteem basically from the ground up.

And this is where I am an advocate for reaching out, asking for help, and personal responsibility because no one can give that to us.

We have to go outward for help and inward to look, hold that mirror up to ourselves, and truthfully look at where our weaknesses are, where we are, you know, a lot of people will be struggling, and I'll be talking to them.

And my email is always filled with people telling me their stories.

And then you find out perhaps that they're drinking too much or et cetera.

So there are certain things that people can do to change their life and they it they're hard choices and changes to make.

But the easy thing to do is sit around and whine and blame everybody.

The hard thing to do is to look at ourself and say, you know, it truly is changing yourself and then um

then change the world kind of changes around you just by by the very act of you taking control over what you can't control, which is

essentially yourself.

Bridget, do you feel

you still battle with days where you're like,

I'm more.

Worth it all for?

Yeah.

More so

less worthlessness because I have deeply gone into

I found God, essentially.

And not to turn off all the non-believers, but hang on just a second.

Our apologies then to Fred.

Okay, go ahead.

So, I did find, I do,

I think I struggle the most with nihilism.

And in our culture today, I feel everything's so connected.

We're living in this 24-hour news cycle that just wears you down, as you and Stu know probably better than anyone.

And it starts to, you start to feel

my biggest struggle is the nihilism and I've written about this before when I'm in that place of what's it all for that is a dangerous place for me so you know it's amazing if you look at the millennials you see that all of they just want to be a part of something that of meaning and then the other side of the millennials is

life has no meaning.

It's either, I mean, it is, there is this, this, that generation is yearning for something of meaning, and yet everyone, you know, in their life, generally speaking, in culture, is taking away everything that has meaning, you know?

And so, if you're not meaning, go ahead, right?

I see what you're saying.

No, I just, I think that meaning, and what I really had to learn, particularly getting sober, is that meaning doesn't happen to you.

You, you make meaning.

You have me.

I volunteer with elderly people.

I go, I volunte, I work with people who are addicts.

I feel like being of service is a way to find meaning.

Instead of hashtag resisting online all day and expecting the meaning to come find you, and this is, I mean, I think the biggest problem in America, honestly,

is a two-pronged sense of entitlement and victim culture.

And this is all across the board, left, right, and center.

I see it everywhere.

And when I read my grandfather's letters from World War II, the tone in which he writes is so inspiring and not whiny.

And I see it even in myself.

We live in just a whiny culture in general.

It's the air that we breathe and live in.

And I have to, you know, he's writing about being underway and getting bombed every day for two months and then calls himself out for self-pity.

I'm like, grandpa,

you can feel sorry for yourself.

You're getting bombed.

And he's like, I know that nobody would want to feel, you know, nobody wants me to feel sorry for myself.

And I'm just having a moment.

And

we're out here like, man, you know, that's why when you call me brave, which thank you, I appreciate it.

I think it is some of the speaking out is an act of bravery.

But I mean, I read my grandpa's letters every day to keep me in check because that was a brave man who was fighting for something that he believed in and

with no self-pity or victimhood at all.

Will you do me a favor?

Would you come back?

Would you come back,

go through your grandpa's letters and

give us examples of his writing

and then come back?

Yeah.

Okay.

I will, definitely.

Good, because I'm tired of listening to you.

Maybe we'll listen to your grandfather.

Maybe he had something.

Yeah, I'm tired of listening to you.

Okay.

Bridget, it's always great to talk to you and have you on.

Uh, and

let me know when you when you can

compile some of your grandfather's uh words because I think I think that'd be great to listen to.

Okay, yeah, I would love to.

All my best.

Thank you for having me.

Thank you.

Bye-bye.

God bless.

I love

love

people who are open to discovering new things and people who who are taking charge of

themselves.

Her story is, I mean, she was a heroin addict.

She was, you know,

raped when she was, you know, in her teens.

And just, I mean, she has had one bad thing after another.

So, yeah, she screwed up.

But boy, she's more sane than most people I know, I think.

Imagine for a minute that you're sitting at your computer.

Maybe you're checking your email, looking up recipes for the week, whatever it is.

You're trying to change the hearts and minds by posting your latest philosophical epiphany on Twitter so you can find your meaning.

Whatever it is, there's someone standing behind you, watching over your shoulder.

The kind of thing that bothers you and you can feel it.

You can feel somebody is sitting next to you or behind you and you can just feel them.

You're like, dude, what is wrong?

This is what I'm describing.

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They're standing there.

If you don't have a virtual private network or a VPN installed, somebody is watching you.

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And this is not a commercial.

And we were talking about ransomware that is going on.

Right now, there's a backdoor through Microsoft, and the government had it and exploited it.

And then everybody else started to exploit it.

And they're like, hey, you should fix this.

Oh, thank you, Uncle Sam.

I appreciate that.

But now it's being used against state and local governments.

Baltimore was one of them that was hit, where they're just shutting down all of their systems.

And you got to pay X number of dollars

in ransom.

How much?

money has been paid in the last year.

Yeah, they said last year the ransomware attacks, like

I think it was $5 billion

they brought in for criminals.

Um and that's across you know all sorts of platforms, a lot of it a lot of it through cryptocurrencies.

Um and now there's I think 12 different uh government agencies in Texas that have been hit, city governments, by this same type of thing.

And what's happening

Paxton or the governor on about this?

I'd love to hear it.

That's fascinating.

Because I mean they're basically they're just shutting down the system and saying, well, you can have all your data back if you pay us, you know, whatever, a couple hundred thousand dollars of Bitcoin.

It would take a lot more than that for them to fix the system.

So there's actually like city governments who are paying criminals.

Where is the federal government on this?

I mean, I think they're doing what they can to stop it, but I'm- I mean, you mess, well, you've done 12 cities in Texas all at once.

You might be messing with the wrong state.

And is it legal for a government source to pay a criminal ransom?

Like, is that a thing that you can do?

Like, I guess if I'm an individual or I'm a company, maybe you do that.

And I don't even know if it's legal in that case, but I'm surprised that a government agency would be able to pay some criminal in Bitcoin to get their information back.

But I think they're saying, Look, it's a lot better than trying to do it some other way.

We just got to go to this one.

I mean, you know, you think about it, it could go to a criminal.

Yeah, it also could go to ISIS.

ISIS, right?

They think some of these payments have gone to places like ISIS and North Korea.

Right.

I mean, hey, there's a good idea.

Let's pay those guys.

Yeah.

It's very scary.

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I want to take a look at the Bill of Rights and the Second Amendment.

Stu pull that up, and I want to compare the Second Amendment, what it says, to what

presidential hopeful Elizabeth Warren says she's going to do and has a right to do with guns and ammunition

you want to talk it about you want to talk about an assault i don't know what an assault rifle really is

uh

but i know an assault on our constitution when i see it

we go there yes even for you peter king who thinks as a Republican that you can ban assault weapons, weapons of war,

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The same thing could happen with just an EMP.

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You know that you are the creditor of

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So in other words,

if there is a crash, if you have money in the bank, you're the last person that gets paid.

Yeah.

Check your bank statements.

It says that in it now.

They changed it after the collapse of 08.

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is proposing.

She's not alone.

you also have Peter King, the Republican out of New York, now signing up for the assault weapons ban.

But Elizabeth Warren is now proposing additional unconstitutional actions against the Second Amendment.

And her idea is to tax Americans out of their guns.

Here's what's going to happen.

The federal government is going to

squeeze the banking and financial community to stop people like MasterCard and Visa and big banks from doing business with gun manufacturers, giving them loans,

even offering financial services to not only the gun makers, but also the gun sellers.

So if you go in to buy a gun,

eventually they'll say, I'm sorry,

I can't take Visa or MasterCard American Express.

They don't do business with gun sellers.

So then what do you do?

You got to go to the bank.

Okay, so you go to the bank or you write a check.

Will the bank cash that check?

Is the bank willing to give a loan to either the guy that wants to open up his gun store or the people who are making the guns?

And then, if after all of that is done, imagine the price of guns, after all of that is done, then she wants to tax you an additional 50%

for the guns and the ammunition.

Okay, now listen, I just want to read what she wrote for an op-ed in medium.

I want to give you one paragraph, and I want you to see if anything sticks out here because something stuck out to me that

bothered me.

Increasing taxes on gun manufacturers.

Since 1919, the federal government has imposed an excise tax on manufacturers and importers of guns and ammunition.

Now, I know if you're a long-time listener, you heard 1919, you're like, he's going to go for Woodrow Wilson.

Yes, that's a grand.

No matter if it said 1919 or not, yes, that's going to happen.

Handguns, but that's not what I was talking about.

Handguns are taxed at 10%,

and other guns and ammunition are taxed at 11%.

These taxes raise less in revenue than the federal excise tax on cigarettes, domestic wine, or even airline tickets.

It's time for Congress to raise those taxes to 30% on guns and 50% on ammunition, both to reduce new gun and ammunition sales overall and to bring in new federal revenue that we can use for gun violence prevention and enforcement of existing gun laws.

Oh my gosh, what a pile of crap.

Now, what sticks out to you?

There's a lot there, right?

For the prevention and enforcement of existing gun laws, please.

You can use that revenue to stop gun violence.

How?

Throw more money at it?

Yeah, it's working so well with education.

It doesn't work.

Maybe it stuck out 30 and 50% on ammunition?

Nobody's going to go to the range.

Good.

So now if you do own a gun, you can't afford to go to a range, and so you're sloppy with a gun.

Oh, that's brilliant.

No, here's what stuck out and it was the stumbling block of 1919.

Since 1919, I immediately thought, Woodrow Wilson, I hate that guy.

And then I continue to read.

The federal government has imposed an excise tax on manufacturers and importers of guns and ammunition.

Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute.

What's an excise tax?

Now, I know what an excise tax is, but I wanted to know what is the definition of an excise tax.

What is that?

The excise tax is a tax that the government can levy on companies, products,

and privileges.

Hmm.

Privileges.

Yeah, things like you need a license for.

So in other words, if you live anywhere near a beach, a city with a beach, you might have to pay an excise tax so you can get the beach sticker so you can go down and park by the beach or you can use the beach, right?

That's an excise tax.

That's all good because we all have to work together and the beach is a privilege.

The beach is a privilege.

The government says the beach is a privilege.

Now think about,

think about how screwed up that one is.

So what are they saying?

Guns are a privilege?

No, we know this is 1919.

We know that people in 1919 took the Constitution seriously.

This was at the beginning of the progressive movement, and so they were a little, by 1919, they were a little back

on their heels and they're like, whoa, whoa, wait, wait, what's going on here?

By 1919, Americans were paying attention.

So you couldn't have a direct assault on weapons.

So you couldn't say, hey, I'm going to tax this because, like that beach, it's a privilege.

You're going to say instead, to guns is a privilege.

To sell guns is a privilege.

Yes, all men are created equal, and yes, I know these rights shall not be infringed.

You have a right to a gun.

But it's a privilege to make and sell a gun.

And that's how they got around it.

And now, now that we just accept this excise tax as a privilege to make a gun, because I can't make a gun.

Can you make a gun?

Can you make and sell a gun still?

I cannot.

No, you can't.

You'd go to prison, right?

You have to have a license to make and sell a gun.

No, it's a privilege.

It's the privilege.

They're just selling you a license.

That's all they're doing.

And they're just going to put a little tax on here just for the privilege of everybody to do this business.

That's infringement.

That's infringement.

But we let it slide because we could still buy and sell guns.

And it was only 10%, 11%.

We're used to taxes, right?

Okay.

Now

here's where I want to take this.

And I just want you to just fix reason firmly in her seat.

It is a privilege to make a gun,

but it's a right to own a gun.

So Wilson went around and said, yes, but it's a privilege to make or sell or buy.

but you have that right to carry it around.

So now, the government made this a privilege instead of a right.

And yet with health care, which is a privilege, God did not give you a Blue Cross, Blue Shield card when you were born.

It didn't come and ah, quick, we have to spank the baby.

So he coughs up his health care card that comes with him.

That's not an inalienable right.

It is a privilege.

And it is a privilege we want to voluntarily share with one another.

And it's a privilege to be able to buy into it or to live in a place where it is offered.

Okay.

But it's not a right.

But access, access, my right to try to find

health care remedies is my right.

If I have cancer, I have a right to try whatever I have to try to stop my cancer.

Is that accurate, Stu?

I should have a natural right to defend myself, whether that is somebody with a gun or with somebody, or with

a virus or

a disease like cancer.

Right to try is a law we shouldn't have to pass.

Correct.

It's a natural right.

It's a natural right.

I believe if I eat these berries and pray to this elephant, which is me,

you know, I have a right to do that.

It's a strange religion, but yes.

Praying to Glenn Beck the elephant.

However, that's not the right here in America.

You have a right to health care.

And so what did the government do?

The government is making things so onerous on private individuals, private companies, that we're helping people gain access to that health care privilege.

They made it so onerous that they're now cornering the market.

And now they're starting to say, we should make all pharmaceuticals.

You know, we should have a single-payer system.

We should have a national government-run health care system

because it's a right to health care.

Yet, they're violating the right.

Because if you have a sick baby and somebody over in the Vatican says, we'll take care of him, we'll pay for it, we'll pay for the flight, we'll pay for everything.

You don't have a right to say, I'm taking my baby out of the hospital.

You don't have a right to do that.

They're cloaking

health care right,

but they're making it a privilege.

They're giving you an excise tax for the privilege of accessing the health care they want you to have.

So they've taken a privilege, health,

and made that a right, while stripping away all your actual rights there.

And then they've taken a right,

defending yourself with a gun that shall not be infringed, and they're making that a privilege.

That's what's happening.

And if you notice, both of these things really can only be explained in one way:

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over

two of the most important

things in your life:

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You know, I never,

I thought about this last night when I was going through that monologue, and

I thought,

I never realized.

We keep saying healthcare is not a right.

It's a privilege.

But

we've never tied it together with, wait a minute, they're saying it's a right while taking away our fundamental right.

They're jamming us into this thing while saying, oh, by the way, you can't do that.

No, no, you can't do that.

You can't do that.

You can't have that medicine.

You can't go see that doctor.

You have to do it our way.

If it's a right,

then I should be able to do it any way I want.

I have a right to breathe.

Well, no, no, no, no.

You have a right to breathe four times an hour.

No,

I could breathe 100.

I could breathe 1,000.

It's a right.

It's in me.

That's what I am.

They're taking all of our rights and making them privileges.

And they're taking our privileges and making them rights because we don't even understand what a right is anymore.

And it seems like there's this temptation to say, well, that's just an annoying process argument, right?

Like these things are good, and therefore,

whether the Constitution says, whatever it says, we need to get these things done because they're positive right they're good things you know that you hear that a lot with guns right it's like well yeah sure it's not supposed to be infringed but come on bump stocks come on that's crazy it's like well there's a reason this process exists and there's a reason why the united states has had a consistent constitution for several or a couple hundred years here and everyone else running in the world in the world and that's not a co that's not there's not like that's not a coincidence that we have the longest constitution in the world plus are the most successful country in the world right like there's not a there's not a that's not those things aren't disconnected at all they're completely connected and because we've stayed somewhat close to the constitution unlike other countries who have either violated or rewritten it completely when it seems convenient it's given us given us the the ability to prosper the way that we have it's given us the ability to create all the medicines that save lives around the world with very few exceptions.

All the medical innovations that are around the world with very few exceptions.

All the things that this country has been able to accomplish, which includes lifting billions of people who don't live in this country out of extreme poverty,

all of those things are consistent with the concept of having not only a very well-written and well-thought-out constitution, but also one that we've actually followed and stuck with.

That consistency is not just something you toss away when it feels like a good idea.

I mean, like, you think about, go back to like things like interracial interracial marriage, right?

Like, there were times when progressives came to the people and said, Look, yeah, I know, sure, you should be able to, you know, do what you want to do.

And, you know, we really don't have anything that's going to restrict race in there.

But look, it's obvious black people and white people shouldn't be getting married.

I mean, can you imagine the consequences if black people and white people get married?

And so they came in and said, well, you know what?

You don't, you shouldn't be able to do that.

You have to remember that we're not always right in the moment you think you're right.

And science never is right forever.

No, and they're the only ones that can tell you that they were wrong,

which of course then means that they're always right in the moment, which is a fantastic trick to play.

But it's one of these things where, like, with guns, you know, you might think that right now,

you know, the priority is mass shootings, and we need to pass laws that are going to stop mass shootings.

We all want mass shootings to stop.

But, I mean, again, We had more than double the amount of people that die every year in mass shootings die, children in cars because it's too hot.

You know how many people die because of cows in this country?

The same amount of people that die because of mass shootings.

Cows.

Cows.

Cows kill 22 people per year.

Cows are slow.

Mass shootings kill 22 people per year.

Cows and mass shootings have the same death count per year.

And this is not a country that I don't think we're banning cows unless it's for global warming.

It's not for attachments.

It could be a city.

Cows that are all black, they're much scarier than the ones that are black and white.

When they have the attachments at the bottom, did you see all those those attachments where they pulled the milk out of them?

Those attachments,

they're very scary.

The truth is,

we are not capable of keeping these things in perspective, which is why you have a foundational document that makes you do it.

You can't rush into these things.

You can't violate these principles when it feels good.

That's why these documents exist, and they exist for really good reasons.

So, Joe Rogan, I watch his comedy special, his recent comedy special, and I'm not, I'm a fan of Joe Rogan, what he does.

I'm not necessarily a big fan of his comedy.

Not that he's bad or anything.

I just, it hasn't been

a lot of it.

Yeah, I haven't seen a lot of it.

It's not like my top two comedians.

He is, he has, I mean, watch his new special.

I think it's on Netflix.

It's brilliant.

It's brilliant.

He's wrong in a couple of places, but he's talking about the Constitution.

He said, if Jefferson came back, he said, I think the first thing he'd say was,

you didn't write any new words?

I wrote this this with a feather.

But it does, that's true.

It's not that you don't write new words.

You have to amend it.

You have to amend it.

We're not amending the Constitution.

That is the way it was laid out.

You should change it, but you have to go through the amendment process.

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Ilana Marr.

Yeah, Ilana Mar unleashed a series of false statements about Israel yesterday in response to the nation blocking her from entering

after she planned on meeting with organizations that she said,

this is what she said.

And that's what she said.

She said, I was just going to take this trip to Palestine, which doesn't exist on the map.

And I had

plans to meet with Israeli officials.

Okay, she was lying about that.

She didn't have

any plans to meet.

What she did have was meetings with groups that praised suicide bombers who killed Jews, promoted neo-Nazi Screeds, and had connections to designated terrorist organizations.

So she had that going for her.

And maybe a stop at Rashid Talib's

grandma's house.

I'm not sure.

Yeah, I'm sure.

She might be a wolf.

I don't know.

It could be like the Little Red Riding Hood.

It's possible.

Grandma might be a wolf.

It is possible at this point.

I know Rashida came out and said that she would, look, I'll visit when I'm going to visit as a

free citizen.

And it's like, well, if your grandma's really 92, 93 years old and in failing health, like, do you not step up and just make the trip?

I think if you're the grandmother at this point, you just have to realize Rashida doesn't want to see you.

She was lying about it.

She was using this as a thing to vilify Israel.

She doesn't want to see Grammy.

She doesn't care about Grammy.

She's not interested.

Whatever you're like, you know, your home cooked apple pie or whatever the thing is that you make that you think she loves, she doesn't.

She doesn't like it.

Imagine if one of your kids said, oh, I haven't been home for so long and mom and dad are sick.

This might be the last Christmas we have with them.

Right.

And, you know,

I also am going to, you know,

rekindle the love with my one boyfriend that I had.

He's back in town.

Oh, he's not, he's not back in town?

Yeah, well, I'm, you know, I'm going to spend another Christmas at some point,

you know, when I'm really free to go there and really love the people that I love.

Yeah, we got it.

A lot of Mar.

Okay, so let me go to

go to

well since we're at the Holy Land, could we just talk about

the Holy Land for a minute?

The meaning of Christmas.

The meaning of Christmas is cookies and food and family.

Yeah, yeah, you get down to the Jesus thing eventually.

But after about oh, 45 minutes of hard laughs of how ridiculous we become at Christmas time.

I'm talking about the Christmas show.

We haven't done this in years.

We used to travel like 40 cities every Christmas, and we would do Christmas stories with Glenn Beck.

I haven't done it in probably 10 years.

I really want to get back on the road.

We're going to just start this Christmas with just one city, one show.

It's Christmas Stories with Glenn Beck, and the city is Salt Lake City.

So I will be in Salt Lake, and that that is December 7th.

Tickets are on sale right now.

Do you remember?

I mean, these, I'm like really excited.

I wish we were doing more than one show, but I'm really excited because

this was our Christmas tradition for a long time.

Yeah, we used to do it all the time and wound up being, I mean, we used to do weeks of these tours, weeks, but it's wound up being, you know, expense.

And now with TV and all these other things, it's been impossible to be able to pull down the road for that long.

Yeah.

But I know it's one of the funniest shows you I've ever done.

I mean, that is, it's probably my favorite story.

Yeah, because it's not your family.

Right.

I like laughing at your sorrow.

So

if your family is crazy, wait till you meet mine at Christmas.

It's nuts.

Yes, I can verify this.

You've told many stories about this.

And how many of these stories did you not believe until you met my family?

Oh, all of them.

I don't know that any of them actually.

They seem like funny

juiced up stories.

Yes, juiced up stories that you're doing for stand-up comedy, right?

And that's that's how a lot of these things are not.

Not in this case.

Not in this case.

These are

there is, you know, it's amazing is this is the only show that we do that we never have to write.

We don't have to write it.

No.

Because Stu will be in a meeting and Stu will say, and Glenn will tell the nuts story.

And we don't need a punchline.

We don't need work on it because that's what happened.

You just tell it in chronological order and it's just that ridiculous.

It's crazy.

Yeah.

It's crazy.

So if you you think your family is nuts, come meet mine.

Do we get the

couch story?

I think I have to do the couch story.

I think I have to.

It is utterly amazing.

Yeah.

You must do the couch story.

And word for God is my witness, too.

God is my witness.

100% true.

I actually confirmed it with other family members back in the day because I did not believe it.

There are things in our family that are so crazy.

I've asked, I've called up my, I've called up my aunt.

She's like 80 now.

And I call her up and I'll be like, hey, I just want to make sure that I'm remembering this right.

Is this what happened?

She'd be like, oh, yeah, crazy as a moon.

I mean, it's, yep.

And then she says, are you going to come visit me soon?

You're like, I got banned.

I'm sorry.

I just can't.

I got to go to Israel.

I'm visiting Rashid Talib's grandma.

You know, that's what we should do.

We're We're going to be in Israel in about eight months.

Let's go visit her.

Oh my gosh, we should go say hi.

We have.

She needs the visitors.

We won't hopefully get banned.

Maybe she would like, maybe we can ask Rashida Tlaib if there's anything that she would like us to bring to her grandmother.

Since we're going to be in Israel anyway.

Fall into the category.

Has someone that you don't really know given you anything before you boarded this flight?

It may be.

It might fly into that.

Yeah.

That might be a way for us.

Yeah, but it's only from Rashid Talib.

It should be fine.

It should be fine.

Okay.

I did not think that one out fully.

In retrospect, bad idea.

We will not be doing that, Israel.

No, I just, yeah, but Rasheed Delib gave me some.

You'll be having a cavity search before you can finish her name.

Yeah.

All right.

So anyway, you can get your tickets now.

One show only, December 7th, a night which will live in infamy.

It's in Salt Lake Lake City.

I would love, love, love to see you.

Join us there.

You can get your tickets now

wherever tickets are sold or glenbeck.com.

It'll take you right to the site.

Just go look for the Christmas thing on glenbeck.com.

All right.

I got to get this off my desk.

Steve King, would there be any population of the world left if it wasn't for the rape and incest?

Come on.

What?

This is drunk news.

That's what this is.

What if we went back through all the family trees and just pull out anyone who is a product of rape or incest?

Would there be any population left in the world if we did that?

Oh, boy.

Steve, what are you doing?

I don't know why he feels the need to chime in on so many things.

To speak.

Just to

inside voice.

Doesn't make a lot of of sense to me.

I don't know exactly where he's going with that stuff.

But

this is typical of, I think,

of our world because we look at

there's so many strange things that come out from public figures in the media as well.

Can I give you this story?

This is a very random story, but I'd like to give you this story.

It's more random than Steve King.

Yeah, I think so.

This is CNN, and they have a story about how salmon are dying.

Now, it's very sad.

Usually in a grill.

Well, that's a fair point.

Yeah.

Listen to CNN's report about why salmon are dying in Alaska.

Nearly about a thousand of these Alaskan salmon have gone through this, what they call a die-off.

And again, we'll never know the exact number of exactly how many die, but they're attributing this to the hot temperatures.

Not necessarily just from this week, although it was very hot in Alaska this week.

But they're thinking that most of the damage was actually done about a month ago when they were first coming up that main stem of the Yukon River.

Temperatures in the river would have been about 70 degrees.

Now, that may not sound all that bad to us, but they're used to temperatures closer to 60 degrees, and that much of a difference is too much for the fish.

So maybe a day or two, they can handle it, but for that long-term journey that they make, that becomes too much.

Stress takes over and they end up dying from that.

And yes, and unfortunately, that's a thing, but it's the economic impact.

In the short term, yes, people, this is a big tourist thing.

People fly to Alaska just to be able to go salmon fishing.

But the thing is, you're talking about a thousand out of the migration that they expect is about two million.

So in the short term, it's not going to cause too many issues.

But here's the main concern.

Okay, wait.

Those fish are no longer now going to spawn eggs.

Four to five years from now, when they would have made that migration trip themselves, now they have to start worrying about are those numbers going to be there?

So it's more of a long-term concern rather than a short-term what's happening now.

So let's think about this one a little bit.

All right.

Okay.

So there's two million.

So of course not.

I don't want fish to die before I get there with my hook.

Right.

Which is where you're going to, when you would normally get it.

Well, see, it's hurting the fishing industry up there because people fly up to Alaska, so many people, and they're not flying up now because the fish are dying.

And so, I mean, so the fish are dying, and so no fishermen are coming up to kill the fish.

So, what happens when those fish who died of natural causes, as opposed to my hook, don't spawn in a few years?

It's a long-term problem, but anyway, go ahead.

It is a long-term problem.

You really have to use your thinking cap to get through it.

So, there's two million fish making this journey, and 850 of them.

850 out of 2 million, apparently have passed away tragically in this heat-related incident.

We really don't know the numbers.

It could be 5 million.

It could be more than even make the journey.

I think the interesting thing, though, is the concern for these eggs.

I mean,

it's not life.

We know that this isn't life, right?

Like, we're not worried about a salmon's eggs.

No, we're talking about the salmon that have eggs that choose to go upstream.

Choose to go upstream

in a few years.

And they were going to lose their eggs.

So we're concerned about future generations of salmon.

Yeah, but these are wanted salmon.

These are wanted by people who eat salmon and very nice little plates

around New York City.

Exactly.

Now, 850 salmon doesn't sound like

a ton, especially when you know that bears eat

about 40 salmon a day.

So that would get you to about 1,200 a month, which is more

than would die in this entire incident.

Of course, in addition, what we're talking about is them going to a place in which the object of them getting there is to die.

Like, the whole point is they want people to be able to fish because it's going to hurt tourism

beyond.

Why do you just kill one bear?

For a month.

You kill one bear for a month and you save more.

Which would be

fleet for a month.

And it kind of had me thinking, too, of like, we toss this number around all the time, which is devastating when you think about it, of what 60 million abortions that have gone on in this country.

But we never price in the generations lost.

It's not just the person who's aborted.

It's all of the people that would be born from those people that were aborted.

I mean, what would happen to our overpopulation problem if that is...

That's exactly what they'd say.

And it's fascinating, but think about that because there was like, well, what if we lost an Albert Einstein?

What if if we lost, you know.

We have.

We've probably lost hundreds of them.

Hundreds of them.

I would also say that a human life is valuable, whether you're good at science or not.

So really, a lot of crappy people we lost too, but those are also valuable people.

But we've also lost generations, entire family lines.

We're over a billion abortions worldwide now.

Over a billion.

We only have 7 billion people here.

Think of just a billion, and then bring it down the lines.

One-eighth of everyone alive today

potentially could have been alive.

And then more than that, right?

An abortion that happened in 1975, right?

That person would have had a baby because I was born in 1976, right?

So abortion that would have happened, if they would have aborted me, I know a lot of people rooting for that.

If they would have aborted me in 1976, I have also had another child, right?

So my mom had a child, that child had a child.

Hang on just a second.

Two.

Would you remind me after we get off the air, Marissa,

go back to work on the time machine?

Okay, go ahead.

You were saying?

That's all I had to say.

Okay, good.

Let me know if you get it.

I've got some dates I'd like to go back to myself.

Me too.

Don't do that.

1998 was a year in which I started on this program.

I'd like to get back to it.

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So I just saw that Google employees are marching around.

This is an honest question.

I don't have the answer.

They're marching around Google protesting their employer because they want Google to stop working with ICE.

Now,

my thought first was, oh yeah, but China's totally cool.

And then I thought to myself, well, wait a minute, I know what they're doing with China.

What exactly is Google doing with ICE?

Now, if it's, hey, they use our cloud service, okay, well, I mean, it's your right as a company to do that, but are you really going to sort through every single company?

It's just you're not working with them.

If you're working with ICE,

what are you providing?

Do you have information that you're

do you have surveillance?

Do you have some sort of way to tell who's who?

And are you providing that?

I think that's an interesting question.

What?

What is Google doing with ICE?

I mean, I'm a supporter of ICE, but

gosh, are they providing information for the government on things?

Is that

seems like something all of us should be concerned about?

No?

More on that tomorrow.

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