Send Thoughts and Prayers to Christchurch? | 3/15/19
Hour 1:
A horrific mass shooting at two mosques in New Zealand has left dozens dead …The profile of the murderer is difficult to comprehend, the degree of his depravity is not …Gun-manufacturer Remington is now liable to be sued over its marketing of the AR-15, which was used in the Sandy Hook massacre …Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-TX) has joined the presidential race as well as the discussion on global warming …Does anyone around the world really refer to the U.S. as the “indispensable nation”? …Gambino family crime boss gunned down in front of his house – The guys have a theory about who might be responsible.
Hour 2:
Hallmark Channel has dropped actress Lori Loughlin, who stands accused of mail fraud, from all of its projects …Don’t the alleged perpetrators of the college admissions scandal deserve their day in court? …Pat is not at all pleased that the State of Utah intends to build a $1.5 million shrine to Sen. Orrin Hatch …A caller illustrates another angle to the college admissions scandal that no one is talking about …The State of California has halted all executions of criminals, but the abortions will continue unabated …An Alabama father has won the right to sue the abortion clinic that allowed his girlfriend to abort their child …Another caller explains how the memory of an abortion can linger with a person for decades.
Hour 3:
Students around the world are walking out of class to protest climate change …Pat channels his inner Al Gore, and Jeffy claims to have actually seen a fish in the street on a sunny day …What the true purpose of Stonehenge? A new theory suggests that it was the greatest barbecue pit in the ancient world …Which schools could Lori Loughlin’s daughter have applied to that wouldn’t have required a $500,000 bribe to get into? …Liberal activist shuts down a conservative gathering by incessantly ringing a cowbell, and the police in attendance did nothing …Does giving someone “the finger” constitute free speech?
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With Pat Gray of Pat Gray Unleashed, which immediately precedes this show.
Also here this morning, Jeffy from Chewing the Fat, that podcast, which is available wherever podcasts are sold for free, as is mine.
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Yes.
And again, now, chewing the fat, does that have anything to do with physique of the host?
Or
yeah, you're chewing the fat.
It's like a conversation.
Let's just go somewhere and chew the fat.
Right.
Yeah, yeah.
All right.
I just wanted to clear that up.
Never mind that the logo has my face on a side of beef.
Again, that's just coincidence, right?
That's just coincidence.
There was nowhere else to put your logo, and they just had a side of beef handy.
So they superimposed it there, which is interesting.
All right, triple eight seven two seven B E C K.
Glenn is, I think he's like he's having a weekend with Tony Robbins or something.
This is not going to end well.
I wouldn't think so.
This is not going to end well.
Last week
I spent the weekend with Stephen Covey.
He was, he visited me from beyond the grave.
Really?
Yeah.
Yeah.
We spent the weekend together.
So it's interesting now that Glenn's doing the same thing with Tony Robbins.
Huh.
Fascinating.
A really horrific shooting in New Zealand.
At least 49 people were killed in mass shootings at two mosques full of worshipers attending Friday prayers on what the Prime Minister called one of New Zealand's darkest days.
One man was arrested and charged with murder in what appeared to be a carefully planned racist attack.
He
apparently freely and openly admits he's a racist and hates immigrants.
And
he said this was revenge
for their invasion.
We'll get into that and much more coming up on the Glenn Beck program.
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Pat Gray of Pat Gray Unleashed and Jeffy this morning for Glenn, triple 8727-BECK, the phone number to call, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern
said the events in Christchurch, New Zealand represented an extraordinary and unprecedented act of violence.
And many of the victims apparently
might be migrants or refugees.
She said it's clear that this can now only be described as a terrorist attack.
In addition to those who died, a health official said 48 people were being treated for gunshot wounds.
So 48 injured.
Last I heard, it was 20.
Injuries ranged from minor to critical.
The guy talked about doing this.
He bragged that he was going to do it.
And then he live streamed it.
Apparently, he rigged up a camera
on a helmet and filmed the whole thing.
It's really, really horrific.
And don't forget about his great 87-page manifesto.
Was it 87 pages?
He's just nuts.
Yeah, he's just crazy.
CNN is hard at work, even as we speak, trying to blame Donald Trump for the shooting.
In a place where this doesn't happen, right?
America is the only place we're told by the left all the time.
This is the only place this ever happens.
And then, when it doesn't happen here, it's still the fault of the president because they can't blame the gun, not in New Zealand, where guns are virtually banned, not in Australia, he's from Australia, this murderer,
where guns were banned and confiscated.
So, you can't blame the gun because they've already done everything they could possibly do to rid their society of guns.
So, they've taken to blaming the president because everything's his fault.
No matter what.
Right.
No matter where it happens and no matter what it is that happens.
Read between the lines.
It's a dog whistle.
It's all his fault.
And by the way, again, I love it.
Dog whistles are whistles that only dogs can hear.
That's why they call them dog whistles because they're at a frequency so high humans can't hear it.
So
if you're using dog whistles, no human is hearing you.
If it's a dog whistle code, that's fine because nobody heard it.
It's kind of what we want.
Except dogs, and they're not going to do anything about it.
You hope.
We hope, yeah.
I feel pretty confident that the dogs aren't going to do anything about it.
So when the dogs hear the dog whistle racism, so what?
If your dog is racist, oh well,
what are you going to do about it?
You keep him on a leash is what you got to do.
Right.
That's right.
So just a crazy world.
And it's amazing how every single time it's Donald Trump.
Every single time it's white people.
I mean, it's so bad with that right now.
We were actually blamed for white air pollution this week.
Whites are polluting, I guess, minority neighborhoods and then sneaking back really carefully to their beautiful suburban life where it's clean, fresh air, country air that you breathe.
And so you're not breathing the stuff you went and polluted in another neighborhood where the minorities live.
I mean, I don't even know how that works.
How does that work?
I'm not quite sure I understand it myself.
It's always white's fault.
You know, the white privilege thing.
So if you've accomplished something, so what?
You had white privilege and
you were given all that stuff.
No matter whether you worked for it or not, it was given to you.
And there's white income inequality, and there's white pollution.
And white people are just bad.
So deal with that.
Okay.
Deal with it.
It's just a crazy, crazy, crazy time.
Deadliest attack occurred at the Al-Nur
Mosque in Central Christchurch at 1.45 in the afternoon.
1.45.
So in broad daylight, this guy went out and conducted this killing spree.
So, 41 people were apparently killed there.
And then he drove across town and killed people
at another mosque.
And
he was taken into custody.
So, the guy is still alive.
Unlike most of these psychos, he didn't kill himself at the end.
And police didn't kill him either.
So, he's in custody now.
And no doubt we're going to have to hear a bunch of of his rantings and ravings.
I hope not.
And his lunacy.
I mean, I'm sure you're right, but I sure hope.
He also
went after
they're trying to present this as, okay, this guy is a right-wing guy,
but he attacked conservatives in his manifesto.
Said,
your time is gone.
Conservatism is dead.
So he's got no love for conservatives.
And he also said he considers himself an environmentalist, eco-fascist.
Huh.
Fascist
the word?
Yeah.
And fascist, by the way, fascism is not a product of the right either.
Fascism is on the left.
Fascism comes from big government, which people on the right don't want.
So if he's a fascist and an environmentalist, that's not a product of the right either.
But that's how it will be spun, is that this guy is right wing he got all of his ideas from donald trump and then he went and killed people in new zealand
uh christ church is the largest city on new zealand's south island
um
and the city's been rebuilding since an earthquake in 2011 killed 185 people and destroyed many downtown buildings so they've had their share of problems in in New Zealand over this time period too.
Really sad.
And our thoughts and prayers go out to the people of New Zealand, which will be mocked, of course, by the left because thoughts and prayers do nothing.
And apparently neither do gun bans.
Right?
We've said it all along.
You know,
when you have the gun bans,
it's the law-abiding citizens who are without the guns.
Yeah, exactly.
And see, the criminals and the psychos always find a way, don't they?
They always find a way.
In fact, in Great Britain, where they also banned guns and confiscated guns, and that happened in 96 or 97.
And in the immediate aftermath of that, the gun violence actually went up 300%.
300% up.
And then it leveled off for a while.
Then it went back up.
Then it went down.
Then it went back up.
And right now, in the last couple of years, it's been about the same as it was before the gun ban.
So it did nothing.
It didn't help the situation.
In fact, what it did was encourage people to get knives and stab other people.
So the bad people are still finding a way to do bad things in Great Britain.
And it's gotten so bad with the knife attacks that one of the MPs in England, one of the members of parliament, is now proposing that they put GPS trackers into knife handles.
Genius.
It's brilliant, right?
Genius.
First of all, there should also be a three-day waiting period if you want to buy silverware at a store.
Yeah, I'd like a butter knife.
Okay, just sign here and we'll do the background check.
You come back in three days.
We'll see if you can get that butter knife.
We'll send it to the back for you.
It'll be waiting for you.
I mean, look,
if you are just using knives to butter your bread or your baked potato, you don't got nothing to worry about.
You got nothing to worry about.
You're fine.
Right.
So if the tracker's in the handle of the butter knife, so what?
You're not doing anything wrong.
You're not doing anything wrong.
I wish, you know, I told the story before when my daughter, my youngest daughter, she's 18 now, but when she was three,
she actually took a butter knife and buttered our dog.
Was she planning on baking?
I'm not sure.
We fortunately got to the dog and the butter before that happened.
And it could have been sooner.
It could have been sooner if we had a tracking device and the butter knife.
Right.
It could have prevented a lot of hassle and
a really nasty dog bath.
And then when we took the butter away from her, she found another way to cause trouble by yogurting the dog in a full.
She had an entire container of yogurt that she dumped on the dog and then she didn't use a knife on that, though.
No, she used her hands that time.
She got smart.
See, that's what's going to happen.
You put a tracking device in her hands and then make it.
People are going to realize they can't use a knife.
They're going to have to use something else.
It's crazy.
I mean, the whole thing is just
nuts.
There's no way to prevent every bad thing from happening in life.
You just can't do it.
We can't safety-proof the entire planet.
It's not possible.
We could do our best.
We're trying.
Yeah, you do what you can, and then, you know,
things are just going to happen.
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You know, you were talking about people going against faith and prayers and thoughts and prayers.
For sure, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has already already done that.
She tweeted out at the end, what good are your thoughts and prayers when they don't even keep the pews safe?
That was just the end of her tweet.
She is just despicable.
Now,
man.
You know,
this was, I believe that she was walking around with
ash on her forehead from Ash Wednesday.
A week ago.
A week ago.
A Wednesday, yeah.
You know, she's.
It's a little bit of hypocrisy, isn't it?
Tad?
A tad?
Huh.
So you're going to belittle people of faith, even though supposedly you're a person of faith?
Unbelievable.
I mean,
she is really something, isn't she?
Yes, she is.
Yes, she is.
And I think that she's becoming more really something to many other members of Congress.
So I don't know how, I mean, she might be a one-term.
That's the one good thing, is she's rankled so many feathers in Washington, including Nancy Pelosi's, that I think the Democrats will primary her.
It feels like they will.
I'm hoping that they've had enough of her nonsense already, and they've got another year and a half of it.
So there's going to be a lot more from her that they just can't stomach, and they're going to want to get rid of her.
I don't know how they, I don't know, you know, with the way the press loves her, though,
it's going to be a tough fight.
Yeah.
Glenn brought something up yesterday that I
don't know if I should reference it, but it is.
I don't know.
I watched it.
You're talking about it.
Fascinating.
The choice thing?
Yes.
Yeah, I watched it.
There's a guy.
It turns out that I believe that.
There's a guy named Mr.
Reagan.
You can look this up and check out all the details.
But he goes into an interesting theory
about AOC
and where she came from and who is behind her campaign.
I mean, I'll leave it at that, I guess.
But it's interesting.
It is interesting.
I'm not sure I don't believe it.
I know.
You want to believe it.
I did.
I did.
I want to, but I think I do.
I mean, he's got some compelling video evidence of it.
And I'd like to see more of it, but last I checked, there were 1.4 million people who had watched that video.
You can go to YouTube and just type in Mr.
Reagan if you're interested.
It's fascinating.
It's at least worth a look.
Oh, yes.
You know?
Oh, yes, it is.
And, you know, don't take it to the bank because...
You know, who knows?
There's a lot of stuff in there that may be completely inaccurate.
But he makes a really good case.
Yes, he does.
Yes, he does.
So
you wound up not believing it.
No, I wound up wanting to believe it.
You know, like I felt like, man, that's right.
But then every time I see
things of that nature, it turns up being false.
True.
That's very true.
Yes.
So I don't want to be held.
It felt like if you buy into this, you know, you would have to buy into a bunch of other conspiracies and stuff and all of that.
Then I don't.
Two months from now, we're going to get called out saying, ha ha.
Right.
This is all fake.
Yeah, faked it.
And
I mean, you could take the things, the video clips that he showed out of context, but I was trying to think, okay, in what context would that have been said
that makes it okay?
And I think that's why we really haven't seen it everywhere, right?
I mean, a million people have seen it on YouTube.
So people have, some people have seen it, no question.
But it's not everywhere.
It's not prevalent.
And I think that's maybe why, right?
Everybody's just kind of
taking a step back with it.
Proceed with caution.
But it's interesting.
It's interesting.
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Also,
Gunmaker Remington, it's been ruled by the Connecticut Supreme Court, can be sued over how it marketed the AR-15
used to kill 20 children and six educators at Sandy Hook in 2012.
That is incredible.
That is an incredible, frightening,
terrible ruling.
Gun control advocates touted the ruling as providing a possible roadmap for victims of other mass shootings to circumvent a long-criticized federal law that shields gun manufacturers from liability in most cases when their products are used in crimes.
Gun rights supporters obviously bashed the decision as judicial activism and overreach.
It was a 4-3 decision, and they reinstated a wrongful death lawsuit against Remington and overturned the ruling of a lower court judge who said the entire lawsuit was prohibited by the 2005 law.
Obviously, this is going to go to the U.S.
Supreme Court.
It has to.
It has to.
It has to.
Because this can't stand.
No.
What a great way around the Second Amendment
to go after the gun manufacturers.
And you know, they're going to do this.
This is the plan.
You know, okay, we're all about the Second Amendment.
Of course, we, of course.
I just think these gun manufacturers have to be held accountable.
Well, if you drive out the gun manufacturers, we're not saying you can't have guns.
No, they can't.
But is that what you're trying to say?
Because I'm saying they can't be manufactured.
That's all.
Well, look, they could be manufactured at great cost.
Sure.
Yeah, if you want to pay $150,000 for an AR-15, go ahead.
That's your right.
It's essentially what they did.
That's the Second Amendment.
That's what they did with the machine gun, plus put some other restrictions on it.
But
they're incredibly expensive.
Incredibly.
And they could do the same thing with the AR-15.
Absolutely could.
And they want to.
You know they want to.
They'll go after the bullets, and they'll go after the guns themselves.
That's a weapon of fashion.
And then they'll say, no, but I'm all about the Constitution.
I love the Second Amendment.
What?
No, I've never said the Second Amendment.
It's just that these weapons are not
weapons that people, everyday people, should be using.
Well, they're obviously for one purpose and one purpose only, and that's to kill people.
That's true.
We don't need that.
No, we do not.
We don't need that.
No one wants that.
No one wants that.
I'm telling you.
They've been trying this kind of stuff, and to get that support from the Connecticut Supreme Court, that's exactly what they're looking for.
It sure is.
No one is a bigger Second Amendment supporter than me.
Please.
But
love.
But.
But something has to be done.
Thank you.
And if it saves one life, isn't it worth it?
Yes, yes.
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If you'd like to get in touch with us, during the course of the show, we've got Betto O'Rourke, who announced this week that he is running for president.
And you knew he would.
Even though he said he wasn't going to, you knew that the
unequivocally said he wasn't going to.
Absolutely said he wasn't going to.
But look, he and his wife heard what the American people said and wanted, and he had to run.
Well, when the American people are clamoring for you to run,
what are you going to do?
Yeah, you can't say no to that.
You could, but.
No, you could.
you could.
No, you actually could.
You could.
You don't have to run.
You have to go against what you said earlier.
You have to.
You have to go.
Sure, people are going to think you lied.
Yeah.
Sure.
But it doesn't matter.
But it doesn't matter because the job is too important and you're too important in it.
But the country is too important.
Plus, if I could quote him for a second, man,
I was just born to do this.
Is that a full quote?
A full quote.
Man,
I was just born to do this.
Okay.
Okay.
So, yesterday,
this is mandatory.
He had to start talking climate change and the important fight on climate change.
And here's Betto in that regard.
The current president says he doesn't believe in climate change.
I don't know how many countries are on the face of the planet.
192 muscle metals.
How many of us
used to be be the indispensable nation, be the only country that has removed itself from any obligation to work with anyone on perhaps the most pressing problem?
If you think of our leadership, those who preceded us,
those who were on the beaches in Normandy, those who faced an existential threat to Western democracy and our way of life, they showed us the way.
We can all come together, we can unite, we can marshal the resources, and we can come together being the countries of the world around otherwise unsolvable problems.
That's who we are.
That's why they call us the indispensable nation.
Well, that moment is now for us on this issue.
So if there's a time to reassert global leadership and make friends instead of enemies, it's today because the challenges are too great to do otherwise.
Okay.
So there's a lot there.
But the comparison
to storming the beaches at Normandy.
I mean, you can well see how you get there.
No.
Actually, I can't.
Can you help me with that?
Because
we're the indispensable nation.
Right.
And people,
other countries are just waiting for us
to fix it.
I mean,
we all saw in the documentary Independence Day
where the world was going to be taken over by aliens.
The other countries were just waiting for us to save them, and we finally did.
And we did.
We're the indispensable nation.
Do other countries actually call us the indispensable nation, as he asserts?
They may call us something nation.
Yeah.
I don't know that the word is indispensable.
I don't think it is, actually.
I would be so insulted if I were a World War II veteran for his comparison to Norman
for the climate change fight.
It's just pathetic.
And we need to come together.
We need to bring the world together on this non-existent problem.
And we also need to bring the world together to find the tooth fairy.
I want to do both of these things.
Really?
Yes.
Yes.
I want to bring the world together and finally, finally find the tooth fairy because I'm a little hacked off at him.
I'm finding that he is giving my grandkids like 10 bucks a tooth.
Whoa.
I got 25 cents.
Don't have your grandkids talk to my kids.
Really?
Yeah, because he's ripping my kids off.
That's why we need to come together
and find the tooth fairy.
Him or her.
I think the gender is fluid on the tooth fairy.
I don't know.
But we need to come together and
find that non-existent being just like we need to fix this non-existent problem.
Now, is it a problem that the world has
warmed 0.9 degrees in 100 years?
It doesn't scare me that much.
What?
Especially since we've had an 18-year pause here in the meantime.
Because warmer weather does what?
Helps food grow.
So I'm not seeing the real major shape.
Do you know that even NASA came out this week?
Even NASA came out and said
the increase in ice has offset any melting there's been.
Huh.
So you're saying it's melted in some places, yes, but it's also increased in other places.
So really what's happening is the Earth
and Mother Nature
are just kind of taking care of itself.
Yeah, and sort of doing what it's always done, which is fascinating.
You mean the weather has changed before on this planet?
When did what?
No.
Until man, it's always been static, right?
It's always been the exact same.
If the oceans didn't do what the oceans do, we'd have melted by now.
You kidding me?
I mean,
those are reports that have actually happened.
Yes.
Carbon emissions also trap heat.
Today's report shows oceans have absorbed 90% of that heat, raising ocean temperatures by half a degree.
Had all that heat gone into the atmosphere,
air temperatures could have risen by more than 200 degrees.
Right.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Think of that.
If the Earth didn't function the way it's supposed to, the way it does, it'd be dead.
Yeah, it'd be 260 degrees today in Dallas.
260 degrees.
Now, that's a tad uncomfortable.
Just a tad.
Yes.
You're running your AC a little extra then.
I don't think we could afford the bill.
I really don't.
No.
Not if it's 260 outside.
It's bad enough when it's 105.
If it's 260,
yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That wouldn't be good.
No, it would not.
So, I mean, it's so ridiculous.
I love that clip.
That's one of my favorite things to make.
Me too.
It's just
amazing to me.
Because it's like, wait, you didn't know that the Earth did this?
You didn't know the ocean absorbed heat.
Seriously?
If every car ran a red light, there'd be accidents at every corner.
Amazing.
Right.
Who knew?
It's just amazing.
It's just fascinating.
Well, it's asinine.
And that's why
the problem is just they look at us like we're science deniers.
They can deny all kinds of science, like actual gender.
Oh, my gosh.
Like whether a fetus is a human being before it's born, all of that kind of science they ignore.
But if we are skeptical that there's catastrophic climate change already, we are the crazy ones.
We're crazy.
We're out of our minds.
You're not doing anything.
Why do you hate the planet?
Yeah.
Why do you hate people?
Well, no, you're the ones who say the world is overcrowded.
I don't hate people.
And I love we've got plenty of room, actually.
Plenty of room.
You don't like it here.
Move someplace else.
Every single person, every living person, I think we've given this fact before.
Every living person on this planet could fit on the island of Maui.
Every person on Earth.
Now, it'd be a tad crowded,
but you could.
You could fit every, all seven and a half billion of us
on Maui.
The world's not overcrowded.
Wow.
That's a
amazing statistic.
That sure is.
That sure is.
And, you know, right.
Obviously, we don't want to do that.
No, we don't.
No.
We don't want to do that.
It wouldn't be advisable.
No.
Because I'm afraid that the island might tip over and
capsize.
Yeah, maybe that's what Hank was concerned about.
Yeah, maybe
he was thinking of that fact
when he talked to the the uh the naval
I think it was it was it a general or was it a uh it was the admiral
in the Marine Corps, a guy in the Marines, I think.
My fear
was that uh the whole island will uh become so
overly crowded
it will tip over and uh
and capsize.
I love the response.
We don't anticipate that.
What a classy and kind response.
Yeah, well, and he was an admiral, and it was just
an admiral.
And he's like, we don't anticipate that, sir.
We don't anticipate that.
And as he's walking out, though, I think he could be heard saying that was the dumbest thing I've ever heard.
You know, he had a good time when he got back to the barracks, sir.
Well, my gosh.
All right.
Triple A,
727, BECK.
And look, something's got to be done, right?
I mean, even Rick Perry is saying that he's open to talking to AOC about the new Green Deal.
This is amazing.
What is the matter with Rick Perry?
So Rick Perry wants to sit down and talk climate change.
The Green New Deal with AOC?
Look, she shouldn't be just
rebuked for pushing the New Green Deal.
Did he actually say that?
Yeah.
She should not be rebuked.
But now he said that
she shouldn't be castigated or pushed aside just on the face of her comments.
I mean, she wants to live in a place with clean air and water.
So do I.
That is unreal.
Now, he later went on to say, you know, suggested a blanket rejection of the new Green Deal would be counterproductive.
There you go.
You can't just completely reject it.
A blanket rejection of spending $60 to $100 trillion
on this non-existent catastrophic.
But I think you can understand, like Rick, that you'd rather be agreeable.
No.
No.
No, I can't.
And this is the problem with Rick Perry.
You know, for a while,
you go along and you think, man, he's really good.
No, I like what he says and does.
No, he's been a great governor.
And then all of a sudden, out of the blue, that'll come out of his mouth.
And you're like, wait, what?
I'll just shoot her down.
We just told her no.
I mean,
that's ridiculous.
And when you hear a ridiculous proposal, that's how you should treat it.
No, I'm sorry.
That's ridiculous.
Now, because she's 29 years old, we're supposed to treat her like she's a child, according to some.
Who was it that was just talking about her youthful enthusiasm?
Oh,
it was Geraldo Rivera on Fox.
He was saying that she shouldn't be dismissed and she shouldn't be mocked and she shouldn't be laughed at.
She's only 29 years old.
Come on.
Yeah.
29?
It's not four.
She's not four years old.
Well, I mean, Pelosi was a grown woman.
That Omar was, you know, not responsible for her.
Didn't know the weight of her words, right?
She's 37.
You know the weight of your words.
Yeah.
Oh, of course.
You know the weight of your words.
Absolutely.
You do.
Yep.
All right.
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There was a mob hit this week in New York for the first time in a while.
Yeah, since like 85, right?
Since Castellano got killed in front of the steakhouse.
And I don't know that it's a mob war.
It's more of just a takeover.
Francisco Frankie Boy Callie, 53.
Multiple gunshots.
Mob-ish, I would say.
Yes.
Frankie Boy Callie.
In front of his home.
Oh.
I know.
He got shot six times.
There were 12 shots.
He took six of them.
Oof.
And it's amazing how he came out because he, you know, the guy.
Didn't they run him over, too?
No, they did not run him over.
I know a lot of people said he run over because he was under the car.
He was crawling away trying to save his life
from the shooter.
Wow.
So that's what made people think he was run over because he was under the car, but no.
Oof.
Because the hitman backs into Callie's card
and crashes into it and backs his truck into it, which is, by the way, we're looking for a blue pickup truck.
And there's none of those in the state of New York today.
No.
And so Callie comes out of the house and to see what's going on.
Without his wife.
I know.
He felt comfortable.
The wife and kids are in the house.
I mean, as a mom boss, you should know.
He's better than smarter than that.
I know.
Wow.
So he goes out to see what's going on and then walks out and the guy gets out of the truck and his license plate is on the ground.
He picks up the license plates and hands it to Frankie Boy.
And the Frankie boy turns around to throw it in the car, and that's when he starts shooting him.
And
gets him from that.
And look,
there's footage, there's home security footage of the blue truck, and there's of the shooting, you know, but nobody could make out the guy's face, the shooter's face, or any of it.
So,
you know, they got nothing.
However,
you know, he's family, you know, he's a nephew-in-law to John Gambino.
Okay, but so the wife is.
Oh, yeah, this guy's the head of the Gambino family.
Yes.
Yes, he is.
But somebody just got out of jail.
Was it Gotti's brother that got out of jail?
No, he was a jailer.
And they spend over after that.
And John Gotti died.
Right.
John Gotti was the guy that killed Castellano in front of the steakhouse, you know, so to take over.
But Gotti's brother, Gene, was just let out of the prison a few months ago.
I'm sure that's just coincidence.
Well, yeah, no, it's just part of the story.
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Oh, my gosh.
No, you aren't thinking that he was responsible.
No, no.
Okay.
No.
All right.
So, I mean,
he was in prison for a long time over, you know, selling heroin and doing heroin trafficking.
I'm sure it was a setup.
He probably didn't do any of those things.
Right.
And he's only been in prison for, you know, I say a while.
29 years.
29 years.
Yeah.
So, I mean, he's a little happy to be out.
And then, coincidentally,
the head of the Gambino family is murdered.
Yeah.
And so, I don't know.
Fascinating.
I don't know if Gene's going to take over.
It's possible.
I mean, there's an opening.
What's he going to do?
Say no?
No.
You wouldn't.
You wouldn't.
I mean, it's tough living to be in the mob these days.
It's tough living.
It's not like it used to be.
It's not the good old days.
It's not the good old mafia days.
You can't just go back to Sicily for a while and hang out and hide away.
You just don't do that.
Yeah, you can't do it anymore.
That's tough.
Yeah, you know, you got the cartels.
You got the government breathing down your neck.
You got the Russians.
I mean, it's tough.
It's a tough.
You got to downsize a little bit.
Your crew's got to be a little bit smaller.
Yeah, I know.
No, they're not living as high on the hog as they once were.
Not quite.
Oh, I know.
Don't say that.
Well, I know it's frustrating for me, too.
Oh, man.
So are the cops not really trying to solve this?
I don't.
I mean, of course they're trying to solve it, right?
They're shooting up a neighborhood.
I love they quoted some of the neighbors in the neighborhood, and the one comment was, there weren't a lot of neighborhood barbecues going on.
No kidding.
Really?
With the mock boss of the game.
I think they're trying to solve it, but I don't know how much information they're getting.
Yeah, I'd
like you to come over to my house for a barbecue, oh, buddy.
I'd like to make you an offer you can't refuse, oh, buddy.
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All right, so the latest on
Operation Varsity Blues.
I mean, it's amazing.
It's absolutely amazing what's happening, right?
So Laughlin is
out on bail.
I mean, I don't know that I feel as safe as I did when she was taken in custody.
But, you know, it's a good thing.
No, because she's back out on the street, isn't she?
They did finally come up with bail.
Yeah, they did.
And now Lori Laughlin is wandering around free somewhere.
I'm scared.
And look, she could travel, right?
She could travel.
She's been working in British Columbia, and the judge said, okay, you can go there.
That's it, though.
She doesn't need to, though, because she's been fired by the Hallmark judge.
Right.
Again, it is.
No due process.
Can she have her day in court first?
No.
No.
No, they cannot.
No.
It just doesn't matter anymore, the due process in this country.
You're just fired instantly based on the accusation.
Now, she's probably guilty, I guess, but you don't know that for a fact yet.
No, and look, Hallmark has, I mean, completely pulled the plug, right?
They were saddened by the recent allegations.
Yeah.
But we'll no longer be working with Laughlin.
We've stopped development of all productions involving her.
Wow.
And so the big thing for them.
Yeah.
Did they shut down the show then?
I guess.
Doesn't everybody have to pay because she paid to get her daughter into school?
I guess, yeah.
Wow.
What?
Aren't we presumed innocent?
Because she's my wife and I, well, I used to watch this a few times.
When Calls the Heart, I think is the show, right?
And
that was the Hallmark show.
So
if they've stopped production of it, there's a lot of actors and actresses that are affected by that.
Yeah.
I mean, maybe the search.
I don't know.
Unless they just wipe out her character.
Right.
Which is possible.
We're just not dealing with her anymore.
She's gone.
What happened to mom?
She's gone.
Mom?
Who?
Right.
Just dawn.
Wow.
So, I mean, I don't know.
It just seems strange.
I mean, they keep for the Jussie
Smollett case, I mean, they came out.
He's stamming it into our face that he's presumed innocent and he's claiming not guilty.
And
we have to let justice take its course.
And so he's still on that show.
Yeah.
Which they had the first new episode of Empire, I guess, on when was it Wednesday night?
I missed it.
I was on the television, and I apologize for missing it.
Yeah, I missed it as well.
And so did a lot of other people because it was way down in the ratings.
So maybe people are just disgusted by it.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't know.
It's interesting what they have.
They're waiting for that to play out.
Right.
I think that's a good thing.
Even though
what he did is reprehensible.
Now, Hallmark can absolutely do this.
And look, Hallmark, you know, I guess prides themselves in their squeaky, clean Hallmark world.
So
any kind of stain on that, they don't want.
So, you know, I get it.
They can't have Operation Varsity Blue.
No, you're going to keep Ruining their
tonight's episode, Inside Home.
A Quinn Martin production.
I love it.
Then, on a very special Jake and the Fat Man.
Love Jake and the Fat Man.
It's interesting, too, to
get this inside look at the Hollywood elites that think they're above everything, including their kids not getting into schools.
They don't deserve to be able to do it.
She wanted the best for her kids, right?
Yes.
Yes.
I can understand the children.
I don't understand the cheating aspect of it.
Right?
I don't understand the bribery, you know, the coaches that are taking money to do this.
You know, I mean, think of the guy that's doing this for them.
I mean, he's the, what's his name, Singer, whatever?
Yeah.
He's the guy.
I mean, he's out there bribing these coaches.
Right.
You know, think of the job he's doing.
I mean, he's working hard for you.
And he admitted.
He said, yeah, I've done it all and more.
How do you do that?
And more.
Think of that.
You walk around campus going, hey,
how's the rowing team coming?
What are you pulling down here?
I'm just like, what if I throw you an extra million?
You'll let this kid in?
Yeah.
Okay.
Yeah.
It would be hard to get it.
I figured out they're working for you.
Well,
the USC athletic official, the athletic director official, somebody in the athletic department that helped get
Lori Laughlin's child in, got $500,000.
That's
fine just from this one event.
Right.
$500,000?
So I see going after these guys.
I really do.
Because
that's
complete mistrust and fraud.
But the parents just want the best for their kids.
You're going after the parents.
Come on.
Yes, you're going after the parents.
They just want the best for their kids.
They're just scamming the system.
And the problem is, really, it plays into that.
The rich just think they can get away with murder.
Okay, well, but so what if what if what if Laughlin built the Laughlin Hallmark building acting class then nobody would have a problem nobody would have a problem would they yeah so I mean I that's why I'm kind of nobody would have a problem with that
and it's that is true uh that is true uh as far as her daughter uh olive olivia i think is her name olivia jade jade yeah olivia jade uh
she apparently makes thirty to fifty thousand dollars per episode of uh her instagram posts that she does good luck she's got a bunch of sponsors and they pay her a fortune for that stuff good luck that's good luck keeping that though no she's not going to no good luck right they'll all drop her.
It's too bad.
I mean, it's too bad they had to do this.
Yes.
You should have followed the rules.
And because she had a great life.
Right.
She didn't want to do it anyway.
And your daughter's doing fine, and she said she didn't want to be in school anyway.
She didn't want to do it anyway.
You're forced her to do this, and you went about it the wrong way, right?
You're forcing her to do it, and you went about it the wrong way to make her do it.
Right.
So, I mean.
Right.
And then, you know.
Having the FBI arrest you and going through all this seems a bit much for this to me.
Yes.
Well,
especially the way they arrested Felicity Huffman this week.
Well, I mean, she busted into her house, guns drawn.
You can't look.
Felicity Huffman.
Felicity Huffman and William H.
Macy were going to have a shootout with police
at 5 o'clock in the morning.
They're going to get up and have a big shootout.
Really?
If you would have called them or their attorney, I'm sure she would have turned herself in the same way Lori Laughlin did.
Yes.
A little bit of a message.
I guess there's some people.
There's still a few people on the list as part of Operation Varsity Blues that
have not been apprehended.
So some are turning themselves in.
They're waiting to be turned in.
And some are on the run.
Some they're out looking for still.
But
for the,
and again, I get that it goes back to, are you treating the rich different?
They have to turn themselves in.
Well,
yeah.
You know what?
Yeah.
That's what I'm doing.
That's what I'm doing.
It's okay.
It's okay.
I think if it's a violent crime, you treat them somewhat differently.
Yes, absolutely.
Yes.
But thinking.
This is pretty white-called.
I don't think that they're going to be armed and dangerous, which is what you're assuming if you're arresting them with guns drawn.
Yeah, well,
they say that's standard procedure, and I'm sure it is.
Do you need to bring them in that way?
It's kind of overkill.
But listen,
I don't know.
It is way overkill as far as I'm concerned.
But they're criminals, and that's what happens, right?
Especially when you're involved in varsity blues.
I mean, it's crazy.
And again, let's go back to what a great point that you made about
the whole due process and presuming them to be innocent because they're already guilty.
Yeah, that's completely gone.
We've already put them out in jail.
Presumption of innocence is just not a thing anymore in America
as it applies to your job and public public opinion.
You're just done.
You're accused of anything like this or
saying something stupid to a woman or doing something stupid with a woman in the workplace.
You're just done.
You're just over.
Have a nice day.
Yeah.
It doesn't matter whether you're guilty or not, you've been accused.
And that's enough now.
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All right, let's talk to John in Utah.
John, you're on the Glen Back program.
Hi.
Hey, Pat.
Hey, Jeffy, how's it going?
Good.
Doing well.
You really concerned, or are you just making small talk?
Absolutely not.
I couldn't get it.
Yeah, okay.
That's what I was feeling some of that.
Yeah.
All right, go ahead.
So, the 2019 legislative session just wrapped up here in Utah.
And
apparently, in the budget, they've set aside $1.5 million
for a shrine for Oren Hatch.
What?
Nice.
What?
The shrine to Oren Hatch,
$1.5 million.
Yeah, and
the thing is, is that
Oren
lobbied for this.
He wanted $2 million for it.
Seriously?
That's embarrassing.
He should be ashamed of himself.
Oren Hatch lobbied the Utah legislature to provide $2 million for a statue or a shrine to him.
Well, yeah, well, part of it is that they're going to do a replica of his office in the Senate.
That is crazy.
Good.
Look, it's $1.5 million.
$1.5.
Right.
Out of the whole budget of Utah, I'm sure that's just a drop in the bucket.
So go ahead and do it.
Is anybody but you hacked off about this in Utah, John?
So
I'm hearing a lot of people that are annoyed.
Especially
here.
That isn't hacked off.
That is crazy.
I know.
Annoyed isn't hacked off, though, because people get annoyed, and then up goes the shrine.
You're right.
They get annoyed, and then they just provide a million and a half dollars for a shrine.
Maybe it doesn't go up.
Thanks, John.
I mean, do people not remember who Oren Hatch is?
What he did while he was in office?
He was a fear senator is what
a good one too.
Okay.
That sided with Ted Kennedy on every issue.
I remember
a while ago, this is maybe last year when Ted Kennedy's son was
about Kennedy and Hatch's relationship.
Because you're working with them.
Because that's how he did.
He forged these personal bonds.
Him and Orin Hatch.
You know, Orin Hatch, I think, got elected, probably bashing your dad.
He says it.
He came to Washington to counteract my dad's vote.
Orrin Hatch did.
Right.
And then what happened?
Cutting every deal in the world because he knew it was going to pass.
If Ted Kennedy signed off on it and he was sponsor of it, then boom.
Everyone else would say, oh, well, geez, if Oren and Ted are for it, then bang.
Right.
What an abolition of the concept.
Hello, Utah.
Did you maybe not hear that little?
Did you maybe not follow his exploits during those 40 years in office?
Oren Hatch was terrible.
He was a terrible senator.
I wouldn't give one penny to a shrine to Oren Hatch.
Now, this article from
Salt Lake Tribune said we could spend the money in more responsible ways.
Oh, you think?
What?
You think?
What?
Is this sort of quack writing this article?
Look at the byline.
Who's responsible for that?
For that article.
That is just unconscionable.
Oh, this is Michelle Quista.
She believes the hat shrine is one more sign of Utah's GOP's bro club.
Yes, it is.
You're 100% correct, Michelle.
You're exactly right.
Yeah, no kidding.
I don't agree with the Salt Lake Tribune on much, but
we're together on that.
Yeah, no kidding.
That's despicable.
Mike in Florida, you're on the Glenn Pack program.
Pat Jeffy.
Hi.
Hey, Pat, how are you doing today?
Doing good.
Just wanted to talk about why people get pushed into doing some of these things with the varsity blues.
For instance, my child was a valedictorian, 5.0, had over 50, 150, 200 community service hours, but couldn't get into a Florida school because we had Florida prepaid and our tuition is like
10% of what the out-of-state people pay.
So here we're stuck having to send our child somewhere else because of money issues with the school.
And I don't think that's fair.
And I think that's part of the thing that pushes these people.
Wow.
So with a 5.0,
which
out of a 4.0
possibility they have the thing now.
Yeah, I know.
I know, and that's amazing.
We're not on the SATs.
Did you say she
would pay for that?
What's going on?
I mean, that's the kids that are taking in that career, and it's all because of money.
I'm not aware of the issue with the schools, though, on that, because I had Florida prepaid, too,
at one time.
And,
you know, it was ⁇ I don't know that there was ever a problem with that.
I mean, my son ended up going to a school outside of Florida, so it never mattered.
It's the tuition.
They get four times the tuition.
Out-of-state people pay $25,000 where we only pay $3,000 a semester.
Right.
So they try to get more people from out-of-state at the Florida schools.
Is that what you're saying?
So they get higher tuition.
Exactly.
And it's not only in Florida schools, it's in other states too.
It's in Illinois.
It's in New York.
And it's all about money driven.
But now they can sit there on their high horse and somebody tried to help get their child.
And they're the ones that should be a little bit investigated too.
And I don't mean to sound like a.
No, I understand that.
You got a cue.
You got a legitimate beef.
People pay money.
Yeah.
I know that.
They want the best for their kids.
I understand that.
And that's why it's so strange that they're
taking such a hard line with them.
But, you know, I got it.
It's a crime and nobody wants to.
Look at it this way, though, Mike.
at least you're not building a shrine to Oren Hatch.
I didn't have 1.5 sitting around in the backyard.
Yeah.
Anyway, because he's such a great, great guy.
Oh, he's fantastic.
Thank you, guys.
Yeah, he's a legend.
All right, thank you.
Appreciate it.
Triple eight, 727 BEC Code.
Oren gave
years.
Years of service.
To the state of Utah and to the country of the United States.
He sure did.
And dedicated service to all kinds of
not-so-conservative causes.
And in some cases, very liberal causes.
But when he went into office.
Yeah,
he went into office campaigning virtually
as the opposite of Ted Kennedy.
And then he got to office with Ted Kennedy, and they became the best of friends.
And they agreed on everything.
It's great.
I know we've kind of chatted about this before, but how many times has that happened the other way?
How many times does that happen the other way?
Let's see.
Orin Hatch would get voted in, and he would go into Washington to meet Ted Kennedy, and Ted would go, you know what?
You know what?
I'm going to vote with Orin Hatch.
No, Orin and I are together on this.
Let me see, carry the one.
Zero.
It happened no time.
Isn't that fascinating?
Yeah, it is.
Yeah, it never happens.
I don't know.
For some reason, it's always the conservatives who go the other way
in the Supreme Court, in the Senate, everywhere.
We just wanted to try to get along.
Yeah.
You want everybody to get along.
Well, the hip kids, I guess, are on the left for some reason.
And so you want to be one of the hip kids.
And so you go along with their agenda.
And Hatch did it from just about the time he got into office all the way through.
And now you're going to build a shrine to the guy in Utah?
Ridiculous.
Wow.
But only a million dollars.
Only a one and a half.
One and a half million.
If the Hatch family wants a shrine.
You can get a trailer.
You can get a trailer for $1.5, don't you?
Yes.
But, you know, if the Hatch Foundation wants a shrine, build it yourself.
Let the Foundation build it.
Yeah, let the the foundation pay for the whole thing.
The people of Utah don't have to build that.
They don't have to pay for it.
That's unbelievable.
Don't get me started.
Well, it's too late.
I guess you already did get me started.
It's just madness, though.
It isn't.
And look, that's just greedy.
It's just greedy.
It's just, look, we've got the money or we could raise the money through our foundation, but why?
But we don't want to.
Exactly.
And what do the taxpayers get out of that?
They get to go and pay to go see it.
Yeah, right.
Oh, look, there's some papers he signed with Ted Kennedy.
At least when,
you know, owners of sports teams convince a city or a state to chip in funds to build their stadiums for them, for these billionaires,
the taxpayers to build their stadium.
At least you get to go to the stadium and enjoy the team that
you love.
You still have to pay for that, too, though.
Yeah, you do.
You do have to pay to get into the stadium.
I was always for that, but I'm kind of against it.
Me too.
While I want new stadiums.
I know, me too.
They shouldn't be built by tax dollars.
I know.
Agreed.
Agreed.
They should not.
I mean, how many poor people own
the sports franchise?
Yeah, no.
It's your team.
No.
And by the way, if we don't have the stadium built, we're going to take it somewhere else.
And go ahead.
Right.
See ya.
Will I still be able to pay and see that team in the other city?
Yes.
Like I could pay and see the team here?
Yes.
Same thing.
Same arrangement.
I'm okay with that.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Plus, you don't pay to build the stadium because it's already in the airport.
So it said it'd be cheaper.
Right.
Is what you're saying.
That's what I'm saying.
See you later.
Right.
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In California,
they have stopped the death penalty.
They stopped executions.
That's good, right?
Yeah, that's great.
That's great.
So they're not going to execute criminals anymore who have, you know, potentially murdered one or more people.
I mean, like 737 people.
737, yes.
That are waiting for their execution.
Now they got a reprieve.
They will only execute babies
as they have been continually for the past
46 years, roughly.
Really?
Yeah.
So
those executions will continue
unabated.
But the executions of prisoners will not.
Fascinating.
Yeah, isn't it?
It's fascinating.
Now, the people of California have voted,
they've rejected prisoners
to end the death penalty.
Yeah, they have.
I mean, the people of California want to kill things.
Yep.
Yes, it is.
It doesn't matter.
Babies or inmates.
It doesn't matter.
Yes.
Yes.
But Gavin Newsom has decided, no, the intentional killing of another person is wrong.
Huh.
But it doesn't seem to apply to babies, though.
Again, it's interesting.
It's not wrong when you're killing innocent children.
It's just wrong when you're killing somebody convicted of doing something that deserves the death penalty.
Then it's wrong.
And as governor, I will not oversee the execution of any individual.
He called the death penalty a failure that has discriminated against defendants who are mentally ill, black and brown, or can't afford expensive legal representation.
Now,
you know, I know that there are a number of people that do believe that, actually, but, you know, Texas is not one.
But there are plenty of times, like the last person that we executed here in Texas last week, he was in prison since 1989.
I mean, he's gone through how many appeals for that?
Wow.
That's 30 years.
So
if we haven't figured it out in 30 years, I'm guessing you were guilty.
I'm sorry.
That's just the way it is.
California hasn't executed anyone since 2006 when Schwarzenegger was governor.
And
voters, as you mentioned,
narrowly approved a ballot measure to speed up the punishment.
That's right.
Not stop it.
Still, no condemned inmate face.
It doesn't matter what the people want.
It doesn't matter in California.
No, they've overturned the people's will how many times now?
How many times?
Over and over again.
They did it with Prop 8 years ago.
They're doing it again.
Look,
we know best.
Well, we know you voted for it, but
you don't know what you're talking about.
So never mind.
That's amazing.
It sure is.
The unmitigated gall of Gavin Newsom,
the giblets he has to just deny the will of the people.
That's just, it's, it's despicable.
Yes, it is.
Yes, it is.
And again,
it does not apply to the unborn, sadly.
You know, if you want to stop those executions, I'm not sure.
We can start there.
Yeah, I'm ready to go.
Let's work our way to the convicted criminals.
Yeah.
And
start with
the innocent unborn children.
We start there.
But they won't.
No, they will not.
No, they won't.
An Alabama judge, by the way,
has ruled that a 19-year-old in Alabama will be permitted to sue the abortion clinic that terminated the life of his unborn child.
Now, he had the.
Wow, the man.
He had an abortion.
Did he have an abortion?
No, but his girlfriend did.
And it's her body.
What does he have to do with it?
Zero?
Exactly.
Zero.
That shows you what right-wing kooks they are in Alabama.
Ryan Magers, 19, Madison County in Alabama, alleged that his girlfriend attained
a medication abortion in 2017 despite his repeated protest
that she please let the child live.
Wow.
Madison County probate court judge Frank Barger ruled that the murdered child, baby Roe,
must be recognized as a plaintiff in the case filed against Alabama Women's Center for Reproductive Alternatives in Huntsville.
Wow.
Wow.
The unprecedented move comes after the passing of an amendment that granted certain legal rights to unborn babies.
Alabama's personhood law, or Amendment 2, was passed during last year's midterms, and it requires the state to recognize the rights of unborn children.
Hmm.
That is interesting.
If you could get that going in every state, we'd have a foothold to stop abortion.
A little bit.
I mean, that'd be definitely
okay.
We can start there.
I'm all right with that.
You know, I don't know that.
How do you win that case, though?
I don't know.
Were you in the face of the abortionists, of the medical givers
that caused this?
Because, I I mean, they're going by what she says, right?
Yeah, they're going with the rights of the woman.
Yeah, I mean, I don't know.
It's her body.
She can do what she wants with it.
It's that mentality.
He said, I just tried to plead with her and plead with her and just talk to her about it and see what I could do.
But in the end, there was nothing I could do to change her mind.
But he didn't go before the abortion clinic people.
I don't know.
It doesn't really say.
I doubt he did.
I doubt that he did.
But the judge gave him grounds to sue them.
The case filing that
between the discovery of the pregnancy and the date of the appointment, the plaintiff repeatedly pled with the mother not to kill baby Roe.
Tragically, the girlfriend still went ahead with the procedure, terminating the baby at around six weeks' gestation.
Wow.
So.
Now he's determined to fight for his rights as the father of the baby and take a stand on behalf of all men who are desperate to see their own child live.
His attorney added that the legal victory was the first one of its kind ever.
I believe that.
I guess you should believe that.
Winning that would mean that at least
it would be a huge precedent.
Yeah, I mean, to get
a part of them.
Yeah, you'd have to consider the father's wishes here.
And,
oh my, the left will not appreciate that.
That will not be.
They will not be.
How dare you
tell her what she can do with her body?
Right.
Well, no, it's the body inside her body that I'm kind of worried about here.
No, actually.
No.
No, my friend.
No.
It's her body.
With the separate DNA, you know, that body that's in her that isn't her.
It's not a separate DNA until we let it live, and we're not doing that right now.
I know.
Okay.
And that's what you get in this argument.
And it's ludicrous.
Of course it is.
Again, they deny science.
They deny reality.
They deny there's a human being there.
I mean, to the point where,
what's her face?
Debbie Wasserman Schultz.
Do you remember when she was asked about it?
And she was asked if her babies
were they human when you were pregnant with your babies.
Were they human?
You have three children, correct?
I do.
What are their ages?
I have twin 16-year-olds and a 12-year-old.
Okay.
And in your opinion, were they human beings before they were born?
I love this.
You know, I believe that every woman has the right to make their own reproductive choices.
Sure, they should.
What did you believe about your children, though?
That I had the right to make my own reproductive choices, which I was glad to have, a right which I was proud to have.
So were they human beings or just yes or no?
They're human beings today, and I'm glad that I had an opportunity to make my own reproductive choices as every right that every woman has and should maintain.
Oh, that's unreal.
To be clear, that reporter was run out of Washington.
Oh, yeah.
On a rail.
Oh, yeah.
To be clear, though, that's a great holding her feet to the fire.
Yeah, but were they human?
You sure is human.
Okay, but were they human?
You don't get that very often.
Yeah.
All right.
I'm not buying your reproductive right bull crap.
Were your children human in the womb?
Thank you.
They're human now.
No, they're human.
No, and I was definitely glad that I had the choice to make.
If they're human now,
okay, so after birth, they are human.
But did you support the New York law that you could abort them, that you can still kill them after they've been born alive?
Yeah, that interview was a while ago.
Yeah, it was.
So, you know, I'm sure that she did.
I'm sure.
It does.
Oh, I'm sure she did.
It does.
Absolutely.
Is there any doubt in your mind Debbie Wasserman Schultz would say, yeah, it's a great law.
No, not one.
It's still belonging.
It's still choice.
Yeah.
Which is, that is really hard to understand, too.
Because once the baby is outside of the mother's body, then it's not your body anymore.
Then there's an actual human being there to consider.
Why would you...
Why wouldn't you give that baby up for adoption at that point?
Why wouldn't you say, yeah,
let the state come in, take custody of it, and adopt it out?
Why wouldn't you do that?
Why would you allow the baby to die at that point?
There's absolutely no reason for that.
Well, then
if the child is healthy.
Yeah.
Right.
If the child is healthy,
there are many opportunities, many chances when that child that is born isn't
viable.
And I know that sounds horrible, but
they're born without some organs, without brains, without things that are, it's a big problem.
I mean, but they're talking about children.
But they're talking about
any child who survives an abortion.
Correct.
Even
who surviving an abortion are being born, let alone surviving an abortion, just being born.
And who have all their organs intact and everything's fine?
Doesn't matter.
It doesn't matter.
It doesn't matter.
Right.
Oh, well, no.
No, you survived that?
Oh, you weren't supposed to.
Yeah.
So.
Sorry.
Sorry.
I didn't mean that.
Man.
Again, we're not going to kill serial killers in this state, but
you
got no value.
Sorry.
Sorry.
No, no, no.
It's over for you.
You are not supposed to survive that.
It's a crazy world we live in.
It's a madhouse.
It's a manhood.
A manhood.
I know.
That's what I just said.
But I got backed up there by Charlton Heston, so you know it must be true, right?
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Hey, Mike,
you're on the Glenn Backburg.
Yeah.
Well, thank you very much, gentlemen.
Forgive me at the outset because I'm a man recounting two women's stories.
Oh, no.
So,
yeah,
I encountered two women in my life,
both loved them dearly.
And at one point in time,
in a confidence,
they told me that they had had abortions.
One had an abortion because
it was a burden upon the family, family going through trouble,
marital relationships.
Did they struggle with it?
Yeah, well, that's what I'm going to say.
And the other was a date rape in college.
Yeah, the first one
was nine years after her abortion, and every year she remembers the day.
And I held her as she cried all night long,
wondering what her son would have been and
what she would have had.
She has nightmares.
I wonder why she'd stay away from me on one particular day.
And one day she didn't.
And this is what happened.
She cried all night long in my arms about the son's face you'll never see.
The second woman who had a date rape
was
the very same thing.
And you would think that, you know, they bring up this thing of rape and incest and all that, whatever this case may be.
This one particular woman, a good woman,
was date raped in college, and she feels such shame that even though societal pressures and they can't walk around not married and pregnant and parents, you know, all that other pressure.
She still regrets not standing up for her child.
So, both of these stories are the only two encounters I've had.
But they always talk about this at the moment, and I know human beings can wash stuff away, but when death occurs, it's the only thing you can't fix as humans.
And I would just say,
I'm on the edge of the death penalty.
I understand that.
You know,
as a Christian, a wasted life is a wasted life.
I know I won't get into the deterrent factor or whatever, how many innocent people have been executed.
But what I know is
there's only one thing we can't solve as human beings, and that's mortality.
So
I have relatives that have adopted children when they couldn't have their own.
They kept the mother, the birth mother involved.
Both children know they got two mommies.
And this is the mommy I live with, and this is the mommy, and she was a professional
who couldn't have the children.
But as
you can work it out, I don't understand
with our ability to know ultrasound, our ability to.
We're doing vitro surgeries now to save children.
There's really
the excuse of back alley abortions doesn't hold anymore.
We know it doesn't exactly what's going on.
It's so disingenuous.
Third month,
they're doing ultrasounds.
They can probably tell you what color the kid's eyes are.
And it's a common theme between
a number of stories that we've heard is that struggling after the abortion.
Yeah.
Trying to live with yourself and live with what happened after that.
It's a struggle all around.
And I'm torn between the rape as well.
It's a hard one.
It is a really hard one.
The rape is really hard
because
her choice was taken away in the beginning there.
Right.
So, as far as back alley abortions, that's always been
a thing that is disingenuous because it didn't happen very often to begin with.
And they inflated those numbers from the very beginning and admitted it
later.
Admitted it.
So, this thing has been a lie from start to finish.
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I don't know that's going to turn out well.
Tony is full of...
It's pretty intense.
It's pretty intense and easy, full of energy and always moving around.
And Glenn is
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And so.
And Glenn is
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It's a big day today for the kids all over America walking out of class.
Yay!
In protest to climate change.
Inspired by Greta Thunberg, the 16-year-old Swedish climate activist.
Oh, that's wonderful.
Who was just nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize?
Oh, she deserves it.
She deserves it.
Now, more than 100 countries.
More than 100 countries are participating in this.
Good.
Amazing.
Good.
Amazing.
The kids are going to
affect change here.
Right?
They're the ones to do it because they're inheriting this problem, Jeffy.
They're the ones who are going to be punished and pay for this.
It's fascinating.
Hundreds of thousands of children are expected to walk out of their classrooms today for a global climate strike.
Amid growing angry
amid growing anger at the failure of politicians to tackle the escalating ecological crisis.
Oh, no.
If these kids don't go to school, what will we do?
Or if they walk out and stand outside their school for a while, what will we do?
What do you think that's going to do to us?
I don't know.
You're going on strike.
You're going to walk out of your class on a Friday.
So?
Well,
look,
it's going to bring light to the climate emergency facing the planet.
Okay.
And again, what is the emergency we face?
What's going on?
Because of the government inaction.
What's happening?
Because of the government inaction.
Because there's a climate crisis is what's happening.
I don't know what your deal is.
I don't know why you're not going to be able to do that.
Exactly.
What part of the climate is in crisis right now?
Government leadership on climate change is the crisis.
Yeah.
Okay, but I'm just trying to get to the heart of the problem.
What exactly is happening in this crisis that makes it a crisis?
Those in power are betraying us, taking away our future.
In what way have they taken away your future?
Because they're responsible for the climate crisis that's unfolding in horrendous ways around the world.
Those ways are what?
What are the horrendous ways?
That's what I'm looking to get.
That's what I'm fighting about.
No, I'm just trying to find out what the horrendous ways are.
Every country is going to be part of this, except Antarctica.
No children are walking out of school in Antarctica.
Yeah, because no children live there.
So I'm just saying they're not part of it.
So what you want to do with that?
Little brats.
Little brats in Antarctic.
Well, you're too good.
Right?
Thank you.
Thank you.
So
it's the duty of these children to act.
To act, yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
For our futures.
Because the temperature's gone up 0.9 degrees.
That's what climate's just.
More food is growing.
Climate's justice means this.
More food is growing as a result of the warmer climate.
So
why is that bad?
Okay, so there is a problem.
Why is it a problem?
That is what you're saying.
Right.
That's what I'm saying.
Oh, whatever.
No problem.
Whatever.
I'm okay with it so far.
What's happened?
I mean, other than what's always happened, you know, so
sometimes it's warmer, sometimes it's colder.
And by the way, each of those extremes mean the same thing:
global warming.
Oh, yes.
Yeah.
So if it's hotter than normal, why, that, of course, is global warming.
If it's colder than normal, that also is global warming.
And if it's about the same as ever, it's global warming.
Well, I mean, look, it's all escalating ecological crisis.
Yeah.
Okay.
Okay, so let's walk out of school today.
And
take a stand.
And by the way, you know, none of these kids are just looking for a day out of school.
Well, Greta isn't.
No.
Greta's not.
No.
Greta's getting a Nobel Prize, or at least she's been nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize.
So good for her.
Yeah, that's great.
I hope she wins it because what a great cause getting kids to walk out of class every Friday.
And I guess it is every Friday.
Yes, well, it's not.
In Sweden,
it's starting to be every Friday around the world until somebody recognizes the crisis at hand.
There you go.
If somebody doesn't get hysterical over the fact that it's 0.9 degrees warmer in the last 100 years,
then they haven't done their job.
You can make fun of this crisis all you want.
No, I think
I'm scared of it.
I'm really frightened over it.
I'm tired of everyone just poo-pooing this because the earth is in an ecological crisis.
No, you keep saying that.
I'm just not getting the specifics on it.
That's all.
I'm just looking for the specifics.
It's funny that they don't have specifics.
No, none.
It's weird.
Never do.
They never do.
Al Gore is.
Well, look at
the drought and the fires
and
the
flooding where you see fish
swimming down the strait on a sunny day.
I love that one.
That's my favorite one.
The swimming, fish swimming down the street on a sunny day.
That's the type of ecological crisis crisis we're in right now.
It is.
Don't you mock that because that's scary.
Have you ever seen a fish swim down the street on a sunny day?
Actually, I have.
Have you really?
I have.
Huh?
Yeah.
Okay.
Actually, I have.
I lived in Florida where the ecological crisis is worse than ever.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And nobody's doing anything about it, Pat.
Right.
Even though Al warned us about it.
Hey, I went down to Miami and saw fish from the ocean swimming in the streets on a sunny day.
The same thing was true in Honolulu just two days ago, just from high tides, because of the sea level rise now.
We are at the high tides because of some of these consequences, but we can limit and avoid the most catastrophic consequences if we accelerate the pace of change that's now beginning.
There you go.
What's good is there was never any high tide before.
No.
Before the oceans rose up even more than they already are.
Right.
I mean, there wasn't low tide and high tide and
any of that.
No, there was none of that.
It's because of our Matthew Voice
that this has happened.
And so otherwise, you wouldn't be seeing fish.
I'm surprised
every day.
We haven't seen AOC and Al together, have we?
With this new Green Deal and Al.
No, you would think they'd be a...
Yeah, you would.
I'm a little
natural.
Yeah.
I'm surprised Al hasn't backed her up.
I don't know what the deal is.
I haven't even heard him mention the Green New Deal.
Yeah, that's fascinating.
Why?
I don't know.
I don't know.
Maybe she's trying to horn in on his money.
Is he jealous of because he didn't propose something that bold?
Very possible.
I wonder.
I wonder if this little upstart isn't stealing his thunder.
She is.
Yeah.
Right?
That is possible.
Oh, yeah.
It's likely, is what it is.
It's likely.
You know, same with Nancy Pelosi.
She doesn't like her either because she's stealing her thunder as well.
Oh, big time.
And she's causing problems for her.
And so
they don't like it.
I mean, the headline, you know, who's in charge?
And is Nancy who's the boss?
All that kind of thing.
That could not sit well.
AOC's the boss.
Yeah.
She said so.
The young upstarts are.
That's for sure.
Right.
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Did we finally figure out that the aliens came down and arranged these gigantic rocks in this particular way because, what, it was a landing site?
Or what is the deal on Stonehenge?
I think we've finally gotten the answer.
Well, look, you're right.
I mean, there used to be, you know, it was a place for,
we thought it was a place for burial, we thought it was a place for healing, we thought it was, you know, the observatory.
We thought aliens were landing.
Right.
We thought it was a landing thing.
But now they've discovered
about 8,500 bones.
And those bones were mostly pigs and cow bones.
So they think it was just a barbecue pit.
They just have big barbecue pits.
They used to have just big barbecue parties at Stonehenge.
They would barbecue pigs and cows, and all the cities and towns and peoples would all meet there, and that's where they had their big barbecue party.
And how did they arrange the gigantic stones like this?
We still do.
Yeah, just for the party.
Just for the party.
Absolutely amazing.
Just amazing how many things
for facts, but they're not facts.
You know, we know those aliens built that.
Yes.
Stonehenge is a barbecue pit?
Is that a plate for barbecue?
It was just pig roast going on.
That's fantastic.
I mean, come on.
That's fantastic.
They found mostly pig bones, so it was mostly pork, but there were some few cows there.
They did roast a few cows.
So, you know, it wasn't Texans because we don't know.
We don't do barbecue pork.
We did barbecue beef.
There might have been a pig, maybe one or two pigs thrown in there, but it would have been mostly cows.
So clearly, you know, Stonehenge didn't happen in Texas.
No, it did not.
But it's just a community barbecue now.
God.
That is fantastic.
So it was just a place for the convergence of
all the municipalities to get together and forge alliances between all the neighboring groups and just have fun.
So it's a neighborhood barbecue area.
It's just a neighborhood barbecue.
Nice.
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Operation Varsity Blues.
Just, I mean, it didn't have to happen.
Lori Laughlin, Felicity Huffman could have gotten their kids into, you know, really nice universities without having to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes.
Yes,
it's possible that could have happened.
The other day, a list of colleges came out, and these are the toughest colleges to get into in every state.
Okay.
And even at the toughest university in some states, it's just not that tough to get into some of them.
You know, but I guess these
just won't do.
These just won't do for the Hollywood elite.
I spit at Johns Hopkins University.
It's in Baltimore.
I mean,
okay,
but, you know, some of these are great universities.
And by the way, it doesn't have to be an Ivy League, it doesn't have to be an Ivy League school to be a decent, to give you a good education.
You can get that and go to a community college and take tough courses.
But the case with these cases are just they want the school, right?
They want the school by line is all they want.
Yes.
It's not about getting the good education.
They know that the kid is possibly adult anyway, or not, not adult, not adult, because they're already, they're using what advantages they have for making money, right?
I mean, she didn't, she did.
One kid, Jay, didn't want to go to school.
She's using Instagram.
She wants to party.
She wants to be this influential social marketer, but she didn't care about the school.
So what's the point?
The point is just having the school as the byline, right?
And we have to have that.
You have to go to that school.
That's the point.
I guess so.
I guess so.
Right.
And so if,
and again, you know, we need to reiterate, if.
They're guilty, you know, because nothing has been set in stone yet.
Nothing they've been charged.
Nothing's
the money.
You know, then, you know, I,
you know, do we lock them away and throw away the key for wanting the best for their kids?
I don't know.
No, I don't know.
You lock them away and throw away the key because they committed crimes.
That's why.
Not because they wanted the best for their kids.
Thus, Operation Varsity Blues.
Operation Varsity Blues.
I love that name.
The first time I saw the name written, all I could think of was the Quentin Martin production shows of 100 years ago.
I thought of everything.
Barnaby Jones and Cannon.
Tonight's episode, Varsity Blues.
I love those shows so much.
You loved Cannon?
Oh, my gosh.
William Conrad?
Best.
The big fat guy.
I mean, he made it known that we could win by we.
I mean,
the fat person.
If people unite.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Well,
a fat person can get on a nationally televised television show and be a detective.
That's right.
Or a police officer or whatever he was.
What was
Frank Cannon was a private detective?
Private detective.
He's not working for the police.
So he started on Cannon, right?
But he was also on Barnaby Jones.
Is that right?
He was on both of those, I think.
And, well, those were all Quinn Martin shows, right?
So they're all cross-party.
They're
in the production.
They're all cross-pollinating each other.
It's the same, you know, the same layout.
And he was still active, William Conrad.
I'm fascinated by his career now because
ever since it came up in the
then Barnaby Jones, a very special episode.
He was still active in 1987 with Jacob the Fat Man.
Yeah, Jacob the Fat Man.
And he was, you know, look,
he was starting to struggle with his health then.
Oh, I bet.
Because he was, let's see, in 87, he would have been 67, and it went to 92, so he would have been 72.
By the end of that, I can remember seeing some of those episodes where he would be in court and, you know,
it would
flash through the table and you'd see he'd had his slippers on.
He's wearing slippers.
I'm not putting real shoes on.
That's too much work.
Yeah, I'll put the pants and stuff on, but I'm not.
We lost him.
We lost him.
I know.
Back in 1994.
Sad.
I know.
William's gone.
He's gone.
I loved him, though.
He was great.
Look, he was one of the voices of the iconic voices of this country for years.
He narrated everything, commercials, TV shows, movies.
He started out in radio, right?
He was gun smoke forever, and then moved on to TV, and that's the way it was done, right?
So
that's why no way in today's world is a guy like William Conrad becoming the star that he became.
A guy who weighs three or four bills?
No, probably not.
I don't necessarily like to have you say that.
You're probably not going to see him on TV.
Right?
I mean, big fat guy like that.
67-year-old fat guy who weighed weighed 350, 400 pounds.
As the star.
As the star.
As the star.
Right.
As the star.
You're not going to see that.
It's amazing you saw it in 1987.
Right.
So.
But he had a great career and he was willing to.
You know, look, that's the same with
Perry Mason, too, right?
There's another guy that, you know, spent the last few years on TV as a star.
that you know probably wasn't totally healthy he wasn't he was Raymond Burt was not totally healthy No, he was not.
And there were times, you know, his last shows, I mean, maybe he wasn't even moving.
Yeah.
You know, those guys did, they would, you'd go into a room and he's standing in the room.
Was that when he was on Perry Mason or Ironside's?
No, well,
Ironside was after the original TV show of Perry Mason, but then they brought back the two-hour specials of Perry Mason, which he did for a number of years that were great.
But those were like the weekly two-hour specials.
I'm sure they were.
They were fantastic.
I love every one of them.
I'm sure.
But at the end.
He would be like, you know, he'd be in a room and he'd be holding onto a chair talking to him.
The next scene, he's in the car.
And then he's
in the car.
Yeah, no, raising the business.
He was
not doing any
mobile shots.
Yeah.
Well, that's why he played a guy in a wheelchair in Ironside.
Before Ironside, yeah, that's a good gig, actually.
You think about it.
That's not bad.
No, it is not.
That's what I look for when I go to the grocery store now.
I'm not walking around that place.
No.
Where's the little cart that I
can drive around?
Get the cart.
A they don't check.
You don't have to actually have it.
Right.
They don't check.
Those things are available to all human beings.
Yes, they are.
And so if you feel that you need it, you use it.
But if you don't need it and you're using it, like the college entrance exam thing, you're taking it from somebody who does need it.
Maybe
deserves it.
Maybe.
Maybe.
Maybe.
I mean, they've got plenty.
Not like that's the only one.
And that has really, that aspect of this, I think, is what people are so mad at.
And I think so too.
Yes.
It's because these rich, spoiled kids who don't deserve to be at USC or Yale or Harvard or wherever they bought their way into, they've taken the spot from somebody who deserves it.
And they went about it, you know, like we, I guess we were okay.
I joked around about the parents, you know, building a building or, you know, the ultra-rich would build a building, right?
You build a, and there's Joe's, Joe's law school and
law school building.
And so your kid's getting into that school.
There's no argument there.
They're letting them in.
I would think so, yeah.
You just donated a million-dollar building, you're getting in.
So, you know, I guess it's a little bit different than now.
You're not cheating anyone, though, right?
I guess it's more like you're cheating people this way.
Yeah.
It's really a strange way to get
around the entrance.
Breaking Bad star, Dean Norris.
You familiar with him?
I don't watch Breaking Bad, so I don't.
I guess he plays Hank Schrader on Breaking Bad.
I know the character.
He's really hacked off about it.
Oh, no.
He called them rich F-Wads
who cheated for their already privileged kids in a bunch of tweets yesterday.
Share that with
you in a minute.
Yeah, he's not happy about it.
And
so a little
problem in Hollywood
with some of these rich Hollywood elites.
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We were talking about some of the alternatives to
these Hollywood stars that they could have gotten their kids into
a lot of different schools that are still pretty good schools.
And maybe you wouldn't have had to pay $500,000
for entry.
It does seem a little steep.
It seems a tad, yeah, a tad steep.
And is it worth it?
I mean,
her daughter, in the case of Lori Laughlin, her daughter didn't even apparently appreciate it because she said she didn't care about school.
And maybe she's just saying that for, you know,
her podcast or her beauty blog or whatever she does.
Her Instagram posts.
Yeah.
Where she apparently makes $30,000 to $50,000 per post.
That's pretty good.
Yeah, that's not bad.
But
some of these schools,
you know, like, for instance,
University of Michigan, pretty good school.
Yeah.
27% acceptance rate.
Wow.
So maybe you could get in there.
Maybe.
Or maybe not, because 27%.
That did not sound that good.
I thought it was going to be higher than that.
Yeah.
Bellehaven University in Mississippi, the hardest school in Mississippi to get into.
Oh, I mean, Bell Haven.
59%.
Bellehaven.
That's like the Ivy League of Mississippi.
Yes, it apparently is.
Let's see if you could go up to Montana and get into Rocky Mountain College.
64% of students are in Mississauga.
64.
That's pretty much it.
64.
That's a lie.
It's like 80.
80 or 90.
But anyway, you go to Montana, they're like the end.
Yes.
Okay, University of Nevada at Reno.
88% of the kids get into that.
That campus is actually beautiful.
It's a nice campus.
Yeah, it is.
You could go up to Laramie, Wyoming.
And who doesn't want to go to Laramie, Wyoming?
And go to the fine University of Wyoming.
Yeah, the Cowboys who don't want to be the Cowboys anymore because 97%
acceptance rate.
In fact,
so,
you know.
The 3% they didn't accept are the ones that said, you know what, we're not coming there.
So they've checked off, saying, well, we're not taking them.
But I'm looking at the Ivy League school acceptance rates.
Columbia, 7%.
Wow.
That's pretty stiff.
Princeton, 6%.
Wow.
Harvard, 5%.
So, yeah, you know.
Yeah.
Okay.
You are bribing officials to get your kid in there.
They don't have a 4.0 plus.
Or plus.
Or it might not even be good enough.
You know, $1,520 on your ACT or SAT or whatever that is.
I guess it'd be SAT.
And hours donated to help the poor and everything else, man.
I mean,
you're going to be working hard to get that.
Yeah.
That's hard work.
So it's not just the grades.
It's not just your test scores.
You've got to have some other incentives to get you in there, too.
You've got to be kind of, you know, you do some special things.
And good.
And that's what it's supposed to be.
It should be.
Yeah.
That's what it's supposed to be.
Yeah.
Otherwise, you know, just bribe one of the coaches for $500,000.
Why not?
Why not?
Why not?
That's what they thought.
Why not?
Well, I don't know.
Jail?
That might be
one good reason not to do it.
Maybe.
Jail for wanting the best for your kids.
It'd be interesting to see what happens to it if they do wind up in jail for what I do.
It will be.
It'll be interesting.
I mean, really, what do you think?
Maybe probation.
Yeah, that's what I think.
I mean, probation, they pay a fine.
Pay a fine, maybe?
Pay a fine, probation,
community service.
Say you're sorry.
Something like that.
Right.
Say you're sorry.
She's already been fired from her job.
Right.
Which is pretty, you know, that's serious when you haven't even been convicted of anything.
Right.
So,
yeah, I would guess no jail time.
Same with Jesse Smollett, by the way.
Jesse Smollett, or however you pronounce his name.
I don't think he's going to do jail time.
Don't you?
I don't think he'll do jail time.
How about that one?
You think he will?
I think he has to.
You think Jesse Smollett will do jail time?
I mean,
how long?
That long.
Because he faces, what, 40
years or something?
Well, that's going to be silly, of course.
But, you know, he goes in for at least a year, right?
Got to do a year.
I don't think so.
I don't think he will.
We'll see.
Maybe.
But, I mean, he maintains his innocence.
And maybe that will hack him off to the point where they will insist on jail time.
I don't know.
We'll see.
I mean, we'll see.
Look, right.
As of now, he's innocent, right?
We're just going by what we know.
We haven't seen anything in court.
There's nothing, you know, the trial's happening next month.
And in the case of Empire, they've done the right thing.
They're waiting until this is adjudicated.
They're waiting to see if the guy is convicted of anything.
Unlike the goody two-shoes over there at Hallmark,
pulling the plug on it.
Already pulled the plug on poor Lori Laughlin.
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Also, we've got this leftist protester that
went into a college Republicans event at Portland State University.
Campus police were there at the meeting.
And it's fascinating because this guy comes in and disrupts the meeting for over an hour.
This story and clip is just so frustrating.
This makes me angry.
It's so frustrating.
Watch this guy do his thing at a college Republicans event.
For those who are listening on radio, he's just sitting there now ringing a cowbell.
A cowbell
while the guy's trying to present
whatever he is.
He asks him to leave, and he won't leave.
He stands up, and now he's walking toward the front of the room.
I mean, they ask him to leave.
They say, Okay, okay, okay, you made your point.
Get out.
Nope.
Walking up to the front of the room, and I'm going to walk in front of the screen.
So that's what he does.
Watch this.
He gets into a little altercation with
one of the members of the College Republicans Club.
I point out
in front of the presentation.
how can you not want to engage this guy?
Well, you'd want to punch him square in the face, is what you'd want to do,
whether you did it or not.
By engage, I mean punch in the face.
Yes.
I do.
I want to, and I wasn't there.
Right.
It's very, it's very frustrating.
And you know,
that's what he wants.
Right?
I mean,
he wants that engagement.
I know that.
I know that.
And so
in your heart, you don't want to do it.
But
on the other side of your heart, you want to just punch him right in the face and get him out of there.
And that went on for over an hour.
The police were there.
The cop comes up.
The security was there.
Does nothing.
Stands there.
I don't understand
how they make that happen.
At one point, the guy doing the presentation gets up in the guy's face, in the protester's face.
Doesn't do anything.
He's got his hands behind his back.
Right, but there you go.
He just walks up to him.
Yeah.
They're kind of pushing chests together.
And the cop comes up and moves the guy who's doing the presentation.
No.
How about you get him out of here?
You don't have the right to ruin this event.
Don't the people in the room that are there for the event
have the right to enjoy, to experience the event?
I would think so.
I mean, that's what they were there for.
They weren't there for you ringing your stupid cowbell for a while.
The cops should have gotten him out of there.
I think so, too.
It's unbelievable that they didn't.
I'm not even talking about arresting him or anything.
I'm just saying, look, you made your point.
Get out.
Yeah, get out.
You're disrupting this event.
You're not allowed to do that.
He starts bragging about it on social media.
I've shut this entire S down all by myself, he bragged afterwards.
And so, you know, he got exactly what he wanted.
He got the publicity.
Oh, no kidding.
No joke about that.
And he got the satisfaction knowing that he shut the event down.
So the Republicans didn't have their event because of him and his cowbell.
And good for you.
Good for you.
Yeah, nice job.
Good for you.
Congratulations.
Have you ever seen, I can't think of a time when I've seen a person on the right go into an event on the left and do something similar.
No, but it sounds fun.
It does, doesn't it?
It sounds fun.
It makes me want to go buy a cowback
and go to one of these socialist meetings at some egghead college and start ringing a bell.
You'd be arrested.
You would.
You'd be arrested.
Immediately.
You'd be arrested.
And it would be your fault.
And if there was any violence at all, it's all your fault.
Yeah, or they 100% five people would jump you and beat you senseless, and it'd be your fault.
Nothing would happen.
I mean, you'd report it, and then people would go, yeah, right.
Well, you deserved it.
You shouldn't have been there doing it.
What are you doing?
Why do you hate them?
You racist?
Exactly.
It's amazing.
Amazing.
It's agonizing, is what it is.
But, you know, this is what we have to deal with.
This is the,
it's, it's the environment right now.
It's not an environment conducive to being conservative.
And it's an.
The middle of that.
I mean, that's just civil society.
Right?
I mean, it's just.
I mean, okay, so you disagree with this group that's presenting something in this room at a college.
Okay.
Fine.
Tough.
Move on.
Yeah.
Move on with your life.
It just doesn't, I don't, it doesn't, I don't comprehend that, how, how you, you need to then,
they can't have their say.
And I think that's how people on the right look at things.
And so that's why they don't disrupt events like this.
You know, let them do their thing.
I don't care.
But they want to shut down anybody on the right speaking out or doing a presentation or trying to educate other people
because they can't win the argument on ideas and they know it.
And some of those beliefs are working, by the way, because you can't say anything bad.
Right.
You can't say anything bad.
You can't even tweet anything bad.
You can't tweet bad.
You can't think bad.
Because we're not going to show it.
You will be shut down.
You will be shut down.
Yeah.
You'll be squashed.
Yes.
And yeah, I know you believe that.
I know that.
But we're not.
So.
That's right.
Because we don't.
And we're going to shut shut you off.
Yeah, it's amazing.
It is.
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Are you?
Yep.
I'm going to go out driving around, giving the finger to the cops.
You know, you might not want to.
I can't.
It's maybe not the best idea.
The Michigan court said I can, baby.
Yeah, that Michigan court said you could.
I just wouldn't necessarily do it.
Good for this lady, though, to fight it back a little bit because she was angry at getting a ticket.
Yeah.
So a federal appeals court said her constitutional rights were violated when she was handed a ticket, a speeding ticket, after giving the finger to a suburban Detroit officer in 2017.
She got pulled over.
She got pulled over.
She got a small ticket or something.
He
apparently was being nice as you could be as a police officer, and every one of them is super nice, especially the ones here in the DFW area.
Yes.
And she flipped him off.
And she got mad, right?
She got mad with the ticket.
So that's done, right?
He's giving her the ticket.
So she's driving away, but as she's driving away, she gives him the finger.
And so he gave her a.
So he pulls her over again.
Yeah.
He pulls her over right then and gives her another ticket and gives her a speedy, harsher ticket
because she gave him the finger.
That was the only reason.
She went to court with it.
And the court ruled that that's a First Amendment thing.
Giving the finger is part of your First Amendment.
But you give him the right to pull her over.
No.
And give her another ticket.
Still not a good idea.
I know.
But yeah, I guess you do have the right to do it.
So that's kind of interesting.
It is.
I mean, look,
you're going to have to prove,
are you willing to spend the time like this lady to prove that that's the reason the police officer pulled you over?
No.
I'm not doing that either.
I'm going to just pay the fine.
I barely have time to prove that the ticket I'm angry at to begin with.
Oh, and we've been very angry at tickets we've received and have not taken them this far.
Yes.
Like she did.
Because it's just at the end, it's
not worth it.
It's just not worth it.
Just pay it.
It's just not worth it.
We just comply.
They make the tickets just expensive enough to hurt, but not too expensive for you to want to fight it.
That's right.
So it's like, oh, I don't want to pay that $184.50.
That's ridiculous.
That's way too much money.
But if you fight it, you know, it's going to cost you a lot.
It's going to be that.
Yeah, you're spending thousands.
Right?
So $180, all right.
That's what they do with those camera tickets that you get, that they send to you in the mail.
If you run a red light, for instance, and a red light camera photographs you know like you're in the middle of the intersection and you see your license plate they make the ticket
just large enough to where it benefits the city you know 75 bucks or whatever but it's not worth it to fight it nope even though you probably should because I think constitutionally you'd probably win that you'd win that I think and most people I think they have before right I think they have shut down a bunch of them except for the one closest to my house that I go by frequently yeah there's uh and by the way the caution is a lot faster on that light too i'd like to fight that too
i'd like to fight that i believe i believe the caution is faster on that one as well i believe it goes from green caution red
really i think so i think they're they're supposed to have so much time between the between green and yellow yellow red right and so what they do is they set you up with the longer yellow to red on a couple of them before that one And then when that one comes, it's shorter.
Yeah, that's right.
Really?
Yes.
So they've really planned this thing out.
To give me a ticket that's to get you.
Yes, that's correct.
And has it worked?
It has.
It's worked.
Okay, good.
Well, good.
And I'm right there with,
I can't fight it.
Just pay it.
Yeah, well, you're not going to because it's too much hassle and it's too much money.
And it's just easier.
Just comply.
And they know that.
There's the video as well.
I'm running the light.
Just go.
Exactly right.
It's exactly right.
That's what I've said on each of my 15.
Which, by the way, I haven't received a ticket in quite a while.
It's been a couple years, I think.
It's been great.
Yeah.
Good for you.
Put that limiter on your car now.
Yeah, the limiter is taking my foot off the gas.
That's the limiter now.
All right.
It's been great.
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