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All right. So yesterday, the big, beautiful bill happened in the Senate. And here's what happened with J.D. Vance in there. On this vote, the yeas are 50. The nays are 50. The Senate being evenly divided, the vice president votes in the affirmative. The bill as amended is passed. Ta-da! Wow, the excitement is palpable. It's palpable. And the crowd goes wild. Ah!

There's just nothing like a good C-SPAN to get you fired up for the 4th of July. Yeah. You know? And you're welcome. You're welcome. So, we haven't talked much about the Big Beautiful Bill together. That's true. What are your thoughts on this passage of the Big Beautiful Bill in the way the Senate just passed it? Right, because it's not at all passed. It's not the same bill. And it is, there's still a lot of work to do on the Big Beautiful Bill. Yeah.

There is a sort of fakey deadline of July 4th, which is not actually a deadline. I keep talking to people like, I got to get this done. July 4th is right around the corner. It doesn't matter, actually. It's an artificial construct. It is. It is a very good usage of that term.

Basically, Donald Trump said he wanted it done by a holiday. Yeah. And everyone was like, well, Donald Trump said we need to get it done by the holiday, so we better get it done by the holiday. That's essentially all it is, right? There's no legislative reason it needs to be done by July 4th. But, I mean, I think there is a legitimate worry that if they don't get it done by July 4th,

It could, you know, you know how Congress is, right? Like they start getting focused on other things. They come up with new complaints they didn't know about. They might. I mean, this is the worst case scenario. They might read the bill. No. And then figure out what's in it. No, that would be crazy. I mean, I doubt it. That would be crazy. Someone in their office might read a chat. GPT might get all the text in it to tell them what they should oppose in it.

So that happens. I think like it's actually a somewhat complicated picture, I think. And that does tend to happen when you have thousand page bills. There is a lot of hundred pages that they did have. They did have it read. Was it Monday? They did the 16 hour thing. Oh, my gosh.

I only stayed around for 14 of the hours, though. You're kidding me. Why? What did you have something going on? Is everything okay? I had to go to the bathroom. Yeah. Really? I sat there listening and watching intently for 14 hours, and then I'm like, nah, I got to go to the bathroom. See, I had a television that only carries C-SPAN installed in my bathroom. Oh, okay. So now, even when I have to go to the bathroom, I don't miss any bill readings. Oh, that's awesome. Yeah, that's just... That's a great idea. We had it installed when we bought the home. Yeah.

That was the first thing we said. We will buy this home. However, there is a C-SPAN television in the bathroom. That was our big negotiation. Yeah. So we got that. And you got it. Yeah. There is a lot of good in the bill.

Right? The tax cuts being made permanent is big. Yeah, it's huge. There's other things. You know, you get rid of some of the green subsidies. You know, there are... You got some border... Border stuff is important. Yep, that's a big one. I have an entire...

I have an entire list of everything in the bill. It's a lot. Yeah. It's a lot. There's a lot. And some of the cuts are pretty good, I think, as well. There's not enough of them. There are a lot of problems in the bill. They, of course, to get votes. There's two ways to do it, Pat. You either bribe people like they did with Lisa Murkowski to get the 50-50 vote. Right. Just bribed her. Just gave her all sorts of stuff that she wanted for her state.

Or the alternative, which will also occur here, is Donald Trump comes and yells at everyone and they do whatever he says. Those are the two ways you pass bills in today's Congress. Right. You bribe the congressman. Right. Or Donald Trump yells at them. That's what we have here. And threatens him to be primaried or whatever. Yeah. He'll say, you're not MAGA. You're going to get primaried. Tom Tillis was one of these. And there's two ways to react. Yeah.

If you were a Republican, you almost never stand up for what you believe in. Why would you do that? Right. You can't do that. Why would you? With exceptions, Rand Paul being one of them. Right. Like we all knew Rand Paul was going to be no to this bill because it's a giant bill that increases the debt a lot. And he's been consistent on this every single time, basically, since the dawn of man. Mm-hmm.

He opposes these things. You knew he was going to be a no from the beginning. He said, I might be able to get to a yes, but at no point did I believe he was going to get to a yes because he has an ideological opposition to this. And I tend to respect that. A lot of people don't. No. A lot of people are just pissed off at him. Yeah. I'm not one of them. Right. I'm not one of them either. I'm not mad at him. I'm not mad at Thomas Massey. No. They're both really good legislators. They're both good representatives. And they stick to...

as a rule, what they believe. Yep. And I don't have problems with people like that. No. You know, Chip Roy is another one who actually did vote yes initially on this and is now saying this version of it he can't support. He will be very happy to tell you exactly why he's doing that. It's not because he didn't read the bill. It's not because he doesn't have any idea what's in it. It's not because Donald Trump hasn't yelled at him enough yet. Right? It's not because he hasn't been bribed enough yet.

There are a few representatives who think that way. It's just really rare, really rare. So I think a better solution to this, and I'd love to get your thoughts on this, Pat, would be a less big...

Perhaps I would argue more beautiful bill that did much smaller, less attempted to do, didn't have a lot of these giveaways, didn't have all this stuff in there. I just talked about this on my show. Break it up into a whole bunch of different bills. If you have to, let's get the tax cuts done. Do that separately. Let's get the border bill done. Let's do that separately.

And then, you know, we can hash out all the rest of the stuff. There's no reason, I don't think, to put it all into one big, beautiful bill. Because it's not as beautiful as it could have been. Right. The only thing is, of course, the reconciliation process. And it's like, to get that, to get only 50 votes, you have to have, you only get one shot at that here.

And that's fine. And I think you can put, I mean, you can, I think, even put in the tax cuts and the border package and a couple of other things. But like they have, I mean, the list of things that are in here, I mean, if I started reading it right now, just the list, not the whole bill, we would not get through it before the end of the show. I mean, there's just so many different things that are in there.

that are just, you know... Well, it's 1,100 pages, I think they said, when they started reading it. So, I mean, yeah, there's a lot of stuff jammed in that thing. Yeah, a lot. A lot. It's a ton. And nobody can know everything in it, you know? Even though they read it, you know they weren't paying attention. There's...

There's not a single human alive who knows all the things in this bill. Right. It's like one of those Netflix series about 1700s England. Like you might watch the series, but you don't know what's going on. Right. They're just saying these words and they sound like English, but no, they don't mean anything. As you would say, Pat, they're just speaking gibberish. Right. So no one could possibly know. I think so. I mean, at the end of the day,

I would love to have a bill that was less big and more beautiful. You know, I think you need to. You do need to get these tax cuts passed. It has to happen. It's a requirement. I think I think it's sensible. People are like, well, this is what Donald Trump ran on. Some of this is what Donald Trump ran on.

You know, I mean, sure, the border and the tax cuts are on there and things like no tax on tips, which, you know, again, it's fine. It's a very, by the way, it's a very small piece of this. When you look at the overall, you know, what are the costs, Pat, the costs in here? The costs are almost $5 trillion of it are the tax cut extensions.

Okay, so almost all of it. The next highest cost. To me, that's not a cost. To me, it's not a cost either. That's not a cost. First of all, it's the current law. Right. Number two, it's not a cost that the government takes less of our money. Yeah. It is not a cost to the government. Sorry, that wasn't yours to begin with. So that's not a cost to you. I reject this completely. Yeah, that's true.

That pisses me off. It's an infuriating construct, Pat, to call this a cost. But that is what one of that's the by far the biggest cost of this bill. Second biggest is other tax provisions. What's that? It's stuff like, you know, no tax on tips. And the cost on no tax on tips is $32 billion over 10 years.

Okay. It is not even 3.2, 3, 3.2 billion a year. I don't even wake up. I don't even wake up for 3.2 billion a year. No, we don't. And you certainly don't get out of bed for that. No. So absolutely not. You roll over and you go right back to sleep. No, it's like a lot of these programs that people talk about are not even factors in this.

There are also some temporary tax cuts that kind of come on and expire. One of his other, there's kind of those no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, I think is one of those. Oh, right, right. There's no tax on, you know, they wanted to do no tax on Social Security. They didn't actually do that, but they did wind up cutting a decent tax cut for seniors, I think you'll see out of this bill. There is a lot there.

It's just one of those situations where that's basically all it is. When it comes to savings, they keep talking about Medicaid cuts. Have you looked into what the Medicaid cuts are, Pat? The cuts to illegal aliens? You know, that's, you know, there is some of that, like, they keep saying, well, it's waste, fraud, and abuse. And,

First of all, the reason they say that is every single person on earth is against waste, fraud and abuse, right? It's 100% of people, except for the people abusing and wasting. Those are the only people who actually ever say anything about that. But the biggest Medicaid cut, and I'm going to put this in massive air quotes for those listening on radio or podcast,

The cut is... And I was like, I kept looking at this. I'm like, why do they keep saying this? How are they coming up with this being a cut? They keep saying they're cutting it because of work requirements. And I was like, well, it can't be what I'm thinking here, right? They can't be saying a work requirement is a cut...

For the reason I'm thinking. And I was like, I can't be it. So I did a bunch of research on this. You'll be surprised to hear it's exactly what I was thinking. Oh, wow. Which is, what they're saying is, they say, hey, you have to work 20 hours a week to get Medicaid. Okay. And there will be a bunch of people out there who will say, A, I don't want to work 20 hours a week. Or B, I don't mind. I...

don't really feel like doing the paperwork to prove that I tried to work 20 hours a week. So therefore, I'm not going to bother attempting to get Medicaid. And that's a cut. So it will cost less. And they're saying that's a cut to Medicaid. Unreal. Which is insanity. To say that it's a cost...

that our taxes won't be as high. Unbelievable. Is insane. Yes. I think it might be more insane to say it's a cut. No people who are eligible to Medicaid will lose their Medicaid. Only people, they will just say because they're adding some requirements, some extra paperwork. And we all know how these programs work, Pat. Like if you've ever known someone who's been on, you know, who went on unemployment, right?

You go on unemployment at the first... I don't know how long. I'm just estimating this. But I remember I had a relative who went on unemployment and he was like, well, it was like...

The first 13 weeks were basically nothing. He had to do basically nothing other than just apply to the program and get accepted. And then after 13 weeks, they were like, hey, you need to prove that you're doing some interviews. And so he did. He would go and he would do the interviews. But I don't know how interested he was really in getting a job. But he went and did whatever basic requirements they did. And it was not particularly hard to stay on there. Eventually, you do get to a point where it gets kind of difficult to stay on and or it runs out.

Right. Yeah. That is the situation with these Medicaid. We all know that, like, for a while, you're probably going to just get the Medicaid if you say you're trying to get a job. And eventually they might get a little bit harder on this. They passed a program like this in Arkansas where some people did fall off the Medicaid rolls. But again, I keep saying this. Oh, no.

If you will not go through a basic round of requirements to get this program, you probably don't need the program. Now, there could be some exceptions, right? Someone with severe health problems that...

Maybe can't get out. So, you know, you have a heart attack in the middle of this process. You don't file the paperwork. You lose your Medicaid. That shouldn't happen, right? There are certain things that need to be covered. But generally speaking, that is the Medicaid cut they're talking about. They're talking about people who don't fill out the forms. By the way, if you don't get a job, okay, because there are people who maybe can't get jobs and work the 20 hours requirement, right?

Those people can fill out forms saying, I'm trying to get a job. They can volunteer in certain circumstances. There's plenty of other ways to get around this. So it's not just like, oh, because I could see, you know, you want to get a job and you can't get it. That happens to people. So you have to have a way to carve that out. Of course, there are these carve outs for this. They're just saying some people won't go through with it. Now,

Wow. I think there's a good argument to say that at least some of those people probably didn't need Medicaid. They probably have some other way of getting what they need. Some people might be too lazy to do it. Some people might be too stupid to do it. Some people might get caught up in red tape for real reasons, as we were discussing.

But generally speaking, that's what they're saying. That's what they're all worried about. We can't cut Medicaid. Have you heard any Republican explain that to the American people? I don't think I have. I don't think I have either. I don't think I have. I don't understand why they can't do it. Which is why I had to look it up. Because I was like, wait a minute. This can't be what they're saying. How is it possible that you can't explain that to the American people? We'll find out in just 60 seconds or so.

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We were just talking about what is bad in the big beautiful bill. From a conservative standpoint, yeah. What are the things that we would object to? Despite the best efforts of some of the people we talked about, there are some green subsidies in here. There are some Biden spending programs. You know, because we always talk about these big programs. People get used to them, right? They get locked in. We said this with Obamacare at the time. People are going to get used to their free health care, and then they're going to say, well, you can't take away my free health care. Right.

Now, some of that stuff makes sense when the program has been in place for 20 years, right? It doesn't make sense when it was passed by Joe Biden. However, some of that spending, not all, but some of that spending is still in there. Some of the green subsidies are still in there. You know, there's been a big effort by conservatives to say, hey, wait a minute, get rid of these completely. There's no reason we can't get rid of the green stuff passed by Joe Biden in the last term. Right. A lot of that money is not even spent yet, Pat.

Some of the money that's not spent, they got rid of. Some of the money where projects have already been designated, they're like, well, they've already started. And so a lot of that money still gets spent. Right? Like the Senate was worse on that than the House. Yeah. Oh, well. Stop them. Yeah. It's not that hard. So that's in there. I mean, the biggest problem is, again, the scope of it. You're talking about a $5 trillion increase in the debt limit. But like you said, most of that's from the tax cuts, right? Yeah.

Making them permanent? Well, yes. Yes, I think that's true from a cost perspective when they say, quote unquote, cost. Yeah. There's also some defense spending, new defense spending. There's homeland security and immigration spending. And then there's a slice of a bunch of other stuff in there. Most of it is the tax stuff. Now, tax provisions also uses some of that green subsidies and things like that would be included in that.

I don't like that stuff. There are a lot of people in Congress who have these projects might employ a thousand people in their states, in their districts. And so they say, even though they're, quote unquote, conservatives or Republicans, they say, well, I've got to be loyal to my state. These people are working or they're going to have these jobs and I don't want to cut these jobs, which, again, I don't agree with. But that's the reasoning behind it.

And the tax cut extensions, to me, should not be thought of as a cost at all. Nope. But with all that said...

The trillions of dollars are going to pile up because we're not balanced now. So extending current policy now and adding some new spending is still going to increase the deficit. This is the Rand Paul problem with all of this, right? Yeah. We're not in alignment with how we're supposed to be spending. We're not spending what we make.

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Is a provision for all babies born between now and 2028, they all get $1,000? Yeah, you were asking what's bad in the bill? Yeah. This would be an example from my perspective of something bad. Just a flat-out giveaway. Just giving away... Because you got born, you get $1,000. Yes, they're called Trump accounts. Okay. And, you know, again, the president's done many good things, you know, but this one, I would...

I can understand why you'd want your name on it, right? A family has a baby born. They need money. They like money. Yeah.

You know, having a savings account where there's a giveaway to your child, they will appreciate that, right? Someone handing you $1,000 is something appreciated, typically. You're not going to say no to it. You're not going to say no to it. So that is why you want to put Trump... It's why he, when they did the stimulus checks, he put his name on it, right? Right, yeah. That is... He understands that dynamic well.

Trump accounts to me are a terrible idea, and I hope they get stripped out of this bill somehow. I really doubt that they will. Basically, it gives a tax advantage savings account for children when they are born, $1,000 per child if they are born between 2024 and 2028. Now,

You might pop into your head. Number one, this is a government giveaway program. It's an entitlement. I mean, as pure as entitlements can be, the only requirement is birth. Okay? That is as pure as an entitlement can be. Without regard for income at all. Right, without regard to income. So you could be a billionaire, have a child...

And that child will get a $1,000 account. Yeah, someone actually pointed this out. One of the congressmen who was opposed to it, I don't remember who it was, was like, Elon Musk has like 12 kids a week. We're going to keep giving him $1,000 every single time he has a kid? That's enough to bankrupt America right there. I know. I'm terrified by the cost of this. Oh, man. Yeah.

And this is interesting. Listen to this carve out. Late changes to this provision, this is according to the New York Times, late changes to this provision removed a requirement that

that a parent be a U.S. citizen to qualify for the $1,000 contribution. They removed that requirement. They removed that requirement. So you could be an illegal alien who just gave birth to a child. That child gets $1,000? Yeah, or at least not a citizen. They could be maybe a green card holder or you could be a visiting student or whatever. Right.

But if you have the kid, and of course the kid, by the current interpretation of the 14th Amendment, is going to be a citizen no matter what. So they all get the $1,000 as well. So two students that come over, hook up, that's the $1,000. Now, a couple things on this, Pat. Number one, do you believe in 2028, or in the middle of this presidential campaign, that there's going to be either a candidate, either a Democrat, or...

likely J.D. Vance running on a third Trump term, essentially. He's going to say, we need to get rid of these $1,000 giveaways to babies. Absolutely not. It won't happen. Of course. There's one thing that will happen, though. What?

One of the two sides, probably the Democrat, but maybe J.D. Vance, I don't know, will say $1,000 isn't enough. It needs to be $2,000. What can you do with $1,000? Maybe it's $5,000. Maybe it's $10,000 per baby. There's no way this just becomes $0 in 2029. No. It becomes much more than $1,000. Of course it does. This is the start of a massive entitlement program that is in the middle of this bill and should just be stripped out.

It's silly. You don't get a $1,000 lottery ticket scratch off that wins every time when you're born. Come on.

I mean, it's just I can't even believe we have to make this point. I understand why it's in there. I understand why it seems like a wonderful giveaway or why you might promise it during a campaign. But come on. This is the United States of America. We should not be buying children for $1,000. No. That should not be the thing that we do. And certainly not under a Republican administration.

And a Republican majority in the Senate and the House. There's no reason for that. Because we all know that the Republican position will be the most restrictive possibility for this going forward. And when it becomes $5,000 in four years or eight years or whatever that occurs...

There will be some evil Rand Paul character that will come in and say, I think we should cut this to only $2,000 and everyone will call him a fascist. Yeah.

And that he hates children. Yes. And that he is the... They will show every poor mom who wants their kid just to have $10,000 in free money and they don't have it anymore. Or they will show the kid who got the savings account and spent it on college and...

and now has a wonderful family and is a doctor, they will show that sob story and they will say, gosh, why is it only $10,000? It should be a million dollars. You know, I mean, this is the minimum wage argument. It's everything. And they will present it, by the way, as a

Cut. They will. They will say to only $2,000. That's a cut. You're cutting money to poor families. Blah, blah, blah, blah. We've been through this so many freaking times. And the only way to stop this is why we were so hardcore on Obamacare at the time is before it starts.

That's the only time to stop it. Yep. This is the week to stop this program. And the perfect example of that is Social Security and Medicare. Mm-hmm. Those two programs, you can't even speak about cutting or making more difficult to obtain in any way or just pushing back the time that you receive all of that stuff. Yeah.

It's just completely out of the question now. It's untouchable now. We've become so accustomed to it that it's just part of our lives. And we demand it. We don't just expect it. We demand it now. Yeah. I mean, Pat, Donald Trump will call his opponents fat slobs on television. He will say literally anything about anyone. That's one of the things we love about him, right? Yep. Yep.

Even he, he has said over and over and over again, he will not touch any of those programs, which is why it's so dumb. The big attack on him every single campaign is like, oh, he's going to cut all these programs. He has said over and over again from the beginning, he will not touch any of them. He just said the other day, I don't like doing a lot with cuts. He just said it the other day.

I don't like doing a lot with cuts. That's the Republican president, who, by the way, I think has done a lot of really good things. But there's no appetite for this anymore. There used to be at least the appetite to say they wanted cuts. They don't even do that anymore. That's where we are. So you implement a new program that, again, supposedly only cost $15 billion to start for four years.

What's that going to cost in 10 years, 20 years, 30 years? It's a bad idea. Stop it before it starts. I don't think anybody voted for Donald Trump because of the Trump accounts. And there's anybody who's like, gosh, I'm going to vote for him because I want $1,000 in a go-to-savings account that my kid can spend in X amount of years. I don't think that that is...

You know, it's a nice, there's some nice feelings behind it, Pat. Yes. Nice feelings behind it. There's a lot of nice feelings behind literal socialism as well. And we should avoid those things as much as possible. Because, I mean, I don't know. Is there, when you have a giveaway to someone just for being born, and I think there's an argument from some on the right who say, well, this is encouraging families. I don't know.

Pat, you had 91 children. 92 now. 92. I'm sorry. I didn't mean to. Very early this morning and my wife just had a baby. Oh, really? Yeah. I was going to say, you're like Joe Biden with grandkids. I can't even keep track of how many you have. And some of them, I think you acknowledge all of yours, which is great. That's really nice of you. But the point is, would you have had...

fewer children or would you have had more children? Would you have 96 children today if you got promised $1,000 for each one? I would not. No. That's not how people live. No. Especially when you can't access the money right away. Right. Like it's a savings account that's going to be for the child, like throw it towards college or throw it towards a new car when they need it or whatever later on in life. It's not like you just get $1,000 to spend on baby stuff. And if you're having kids based on financial considerations...

It's going to cost a lot more than $1,000 to have the child. It used to be something that we were very critical of back in the day. There was a time where we said, hey, people who are having lots of children to get, if it's like welfare, extra welfare money, that's a bad thing. Very. And I don't...

I don't understand why this would be a concern. I can understand why Democrats would propose something like this. I just don't. But again, we should point out it's a small part of this bill. And there is a lot of good. There's probably more good in the bill than bad. So I think that's why a lot of these congressmen are like, well, I guess. I mean, did you hear the Lisa Murkowski thing? I love the Lisa Murkowski thing. She is the holdout of the Senate.

So, of course, what they do, again, there's two things you can do. You can have Donald Trump yell at her. Murkowski, largely immune to that. She does not seem to care that much about Donald Trump yelling at her. She's one of the few who doesn't care about that part. She is not immune at all to bribery. So she's like, well, I want these things for Alaska. So she gets all these things for Alaska. And then she's like, all right, I'm a yes. And then she says, well, I really hope the House rejects it and sends back something else.

This is a bill she voted for. And she's saying she hopes the House doesn't vote for it and then sends it back to them in another version, which may very well happen. It might. This thing is not going to happen by Friday. It would be surprising, but... Pretty clear that Wednesday...

We got one day to get this done and then signed in both chambers. I don't think it can happen. And Trump, by the way, again, is a negotiator. He knows he says it must be done by July 4th over and over again. Everyone acts as if it needs to be done by July 4th. And then when it comes to July 4th, he'll say, well, July 5th, July 7th. He made it seem like a strong deadline because he wants it done soon. Yeah. And so. Yeah.

I understand that. And it seems to work on a lot of these people in Congress. Like they act as if they all know the rules. There's no reason it needs to be done by June. It needs to be done by the end of the year is when it needs to be done. And, you know, at least for the tax cuts to be put into place so we don't get the rise. It's important. That's a really important deadline. July 4th is not a really important deadline. That's a holiday. So it's an important holiday. Our Independence Day is something we love to celebrate. It's not necessarily...

germane to this bill. So I don't think... You're right, it's probably not going to get done, but again, Donald Trump has a way of just saying, do it. And they do. It's jump and how high. For 95% of Republicans, that's usually enough. I don't think most of them even think of it. Think of the situation beyond that. Does Donald Trump want it? I think you're right. And I...

This is something I've been thinking about a little bit. I was talking to Chris Bedford on my show last night about this. We have this criticism we've made a million times, Pat, of Republican GOP Congress. Oh, well, you know, they never do the right thing. You know, there's the establishment, the Mitch McConnells of the world. And we've said all that stuff a million times. Does that apply to our current situation anymore? Who are these? I guess Tom Tillis is your example.

Who are these people? Lisa Murkowski's on it. I mean, I guess Susan Collins voted no. Rand Paul's a totally different situation we've already discussed. None of these people are going against what Donald Trump is saying to do. There's a few in the House and Congress that you have to deal with. But it's, I mean, Donald Trump is saying he wants this. He is saying this is the bill he wants. Now, we all know it's not perfect. It's not exactly what Trump wants.

And there are things in there that I'm sure Trump would strip out if he could. But he says this deal is good enough. And almost all Republicans are going along with this. This idea that there's this big stress between some establishment figures and Donald Trump. Where is the where's the evidence for this these days? Yeah. Ten years, you know, eight years ago in 2017 or whatever, 2018. I think you did see that. I don't think you really see it anymore.

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Ilhan Omar actually yesterday wished everybody a happy Independence Day.

And you might think, well, that's a little early, but okay, that's really nice. That's nice. I'm glad to see that. You feel like you wouldn't get that normally from an Ilhan Omar character. Yeah. But the reason you're getting it is because she's talking about Somalia. That's the Independence Day she's speaking of. So happy Independence Day, everybody in Somalia. Ilhan Omar is still thinking about you. Okay? Somalia first. Shocking. Isn't it, though? It's shocking.

It's so good. It's unbelievable. Now, will we get a happy Independence Day on July 4th from Ilana Mar? My guess is no. Now, maybe because she did this, she would do it as a throwaway. Maybe, and you would think that, but a lot of times she'll surprise you by, nope, not even then. She doesn't even feel the need to do that. You pathetic losers. She does not care at all. You know, all of these, the...

the Hamas squad, the, you know, Ilhan Omar's and Rashid Tlaib and all of those people, they don't seem to care what Americans actually think of them. They seem to be representing who they believe are their constituents. And for Ilhan Omar, that's people who immigrated here from Somalia. For Tlaib, it's Palestinians. I mean, they don't care what Americans think of them. But they keep getting elected. So I don't know when they're going to

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Today, featuring Pat and Stu for Glenn, we got this Gallup poll. You may have heard some about. We got to get into this, dig into how proud Americans are to be Americans and break it down by political parties, ethnicity and age groups. We'll get into this a little bit coming up in one minute.

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they did a survey that found that 90 percent of republicans were proud to be americans either very proud or extremely proud and 87 percent of democrats were either extremely or very proud to be americans that's changed just a little bit in the last uh 24 years uh in fact it's gone up for republicans it went from 90 to 92 percent for republicans

For Democrats, a little bit different. It went from 87% to 36%. It's noticeable, Pat. It's kind of noticeable. Yeah. A little bit of a drop-off. You might be thinking, well, okay, was that when it was abnormally high right after 9-11? This is the exact question I had for Glenn when he brought this poll up because, you know, if you look back at

Yeah, George W. Bush's approval after 2000, he's in the 90s, right? Like, yeah, there's a lot of weird stuff going on in polling in 2001 after 9-11. Yeah, we were together and everybody was kind of on the same page for about a month. So did it happen then? Is that what is that why there's such a big difference? And it turns out that's not the case, though, right?

No, it was interesting because I had the same question and I was like, gosh, you know, was it just 9-11? Actually, no, the Democrats remained positive on America for quite a long time. Like, I don't have the numbers right in front of me, but it was like, you know, 10 years later, 2000, like, let's say 11.

Still in the... They were like in the 80s. 80s. It wasn't quite as high as 2001, but it was still very high. Almost all the drop-off has happened since about 2016. Now, you fill in the blanks on what happened in 2016 that you think may have occurred in the Democrats' mind to say that they're not all that impressed with America anymore. It did bounce back up, you'll be surprised to hear, for about four years. And now it's dropped off again to the lowest point of all time.

This has something to do with Donald Trump very specifically. Yeah. With people on the left, they don't like him. Now, it had dropped off, though, from the heights of 90% before Trump, but most of the drop has happened since Trump came into office. So I don't know. Is that a good thing or a bad thing? Is it, okay, maybe they just, you know, they're partisans. They don't like this. They have Trump derangement syndrome. Maybe it's not as large anti-American sentiment. I tend to think...

It's long lasting. I think it's going to last longer. I think it is too. Yeah. Yeah. Fascinating that independence, if you're independent, you still have 53% of independence are extremely or very proud of America. It breaks down with 63% of men, 55% of women, white, 66% are proud of the country.

Non-white, 45%, so quite a bit lower. The real problem area, though, is with the youth, 18 to 34-year-olds. The youths today? The youths are down to 36%. 36% are either very or extremely proud of America. And I think you can blame a lot of that on what's going on in education.

They're being taught that America is not something to be proud of. From 35 to 54, the number is 60%, and 55 plus 72% of people are proud of the country. Interesting. It'd be fascinating to see...

How proud, for instance, Somalians are of Somalia? Proud to be a Somalian. I've heard Elon belt that one out on Independence Day the other day. It's wonderful. Yeah, that would be... I think...

It's interesting. I think there is a... Let me give you two scenarios here, Pat. Okay. And you tell me which bad one is true. Okay. Okay. Scenario number one. I think the one we're kind of all thinking here. Democrats, we used to be a more united country. People love the country. Over time, Democrats have turned more negative on it, have faded away. As I pointed out, a lot of this has happened since the Trump era began, and now they hate it. Okay. That's scenario one. Yep. Okay. Scenario two.

Democrats, even in 2000, 2001, didn't really love the country all that much. Maybe they were more negative than they let on, but they knew the right thing to say was they loved America. And now that...

cadence that that the current of the river that is america has stopped pushing people to think they need to say that right now the current is going the opposite direction and it's pushing people to say hey you know what i think it's cooler now on the democratic side to say you hate the country rather than it's a good place but there's like got lots of problems

Yeah, I think that's, yeah, that could be part of it. That could definitely be part of it. Yeah. Maybe it's both of those things. Because I do think that's part of it. Like, there probably were a lot of people. I mean, I don't know. I remember 2000, 2001, 2002. There's a lot of complaints by Democrats about America. They didn't like it all that much. Yeah. Certainly less than Republicans. I have this poll now in front of me, Pat.

In 2001, it was 90% of Republicans, 87% of Democrats, 84% of independents who thought it was great. If you fast forward 10 years, you've got 92% of Republicans...

78% of Democrats. So it had fallen off from 87 to 78 in that period. Okay. Go to 2000. But Republicans were the same or a little bit higher. Yeah, basically the same. And that was during Obama's reign of terror. Let's go to 2013. Yeah. Okay. Democrats, 85%.

Wow. So you think about that, they've gone from 87 to 85 in 12 years now. Okay? And Republicans, by the way, are at 93 in that scenario, and independents at 80%. So, again, in the middle, you think of 2013, this is right after Mitt Romney loses. I mean, this is a moment of real despair for a lot on the right, because a lot of people point at that and say, this is what's changed the Republican Party. A lot of people say...

um that loss for mitt romney in a time where obviously obama was not doing a good job as president and that's not me saying that his approval ratings sucked and he got re-elected and a lot of that was to do with mitt romney's performance frankly uh you know and obviously as we saw after that not really a conservative um but that factor led into such frustration on the right

That they wanted somebody who was going to do something totally different. And that's when Donald Trump stepped into that void and was able to really change the party in a lot of good ways. Some ways you might not like, some ways you might love. But certainly the change is noticeable from that party. 93% Republicans approve of America at the time. 85% of Democrats, 80% of independents. The fall all starts after this. 2015, it's still 80% for Democrats.

2016, 68%. 2017, 67. 2018, 60%. 2019, 51%. 2020, 42%. It bounces back up for the Biden era, but only to 62%. Then drops to 52 in 2022. 2023, 55%. 2024, 62% in an election year. And then they

They lose that election and now it's 36%. So some of this is partisanship. Some of this is Trump. Some of this, I think, is, I think it's fair to say, especially when you look at the Biden bounce back, if you will, only going up to the 60s and 50s. A lot of this is just core in the democratic movement. There is a core element of the left that

That is based on the idea that we are not a great country that has had some problems. We are a horrible country that's done maybe a couple of good things here and there. That is the major separation because throughout this entire period, Republican approval never dropped below 84%.

And what year was it? 84? 2022, which is the peak of inflation during Biden. It actually improves the last two years of the Biden administration, if you believe that, up to 85%.

And now, of course, it just goes to show, though, that it's not affected by who's president. Not really. Republicans are not affected all that much. Yeah, not really. Because it only vacillated from 93 to 84 percent. That's that's amazing. Yes. Given who was president during some of that time, during 12 of those years, you had you had Obama for for eight of them, which we hated. We hated the Obama years. And then.

The Biden years were even worse. So for 12 of those years, we had presidents we really disliked, very strongly disliked. You, Pat? Yeah. Uh-huh. Very strong, but still love the country. Still love the country. Still very proud to be American. Still very much say this is the best place to be. Tells you a lot. I agree with you. I think there is an element that has creeped in a little bit on the right. I think it's quite clearly in the polling. It's very much at the fringes.

saying, you know, we, you notice this a little bit with some of the Israel-Iran stuff, like basically, well, we kill people too. And, you know, we do bad things too. It's not just Iran. How can we be, get on our high horses and say we're better than Iran? And we are. It's pretty easy. Frankly, we can easily say it. Very easily to do. Yeah, I can do it without any problem at all. Can I give you the most concerning thing in this poll for me? Mm-hmm.

I'm not shocked, frankly, that Democrats don't like the country that much. As I said, I think even in 2000, I think that number's inflated for Democrats. They're saying the right thing early on in this polling for the first 10 years of this. It will be, yeah.

The thing that's concerning to me more than anything else are independents. Independents start off at 84%, and this is pretty standard through the first, I don't know, 15 years of this polling, which is they are about at the level of Democrats and oftentimes slightly lower than Democrats saying America is a great place. Okay? Their fall, though, has been pretty consistent since the Trump era began as well.

Started in 2015 at 76%. This is down a little bit from the very early days in 2001 of 84%. So 84 to 76 in 14 years. 2015 at 76 goes down to...

73% in 2017, 70% 2018, 66% 2019, 64% 2020. And you say, okay, well, maybe they didn't like that first Trump presidency. He was certainly a figure that divided people. Maybe it's that. But they don't bounce back for Biden, right? They continue to see this is a crap heap.

It goes down to 63%, down to 60% in 2024. And then how it's dropped now to 53% in 2025. So just barely a majority of independents say America is great. And I think that in some ways backs up the theory number two of how to read this poll. It has now become kind of...

Okay, popular, the cool thing to say that America is a bad place rather than it's generally a good place. And now you're seeing people, independents who aren't necessarily pushed around by partisanship as much agreeing to this. I mean, from 84 to 53% among independents. It's almost like a social contagion. Yeah. Yes.

It's why we have 19 times the amount of trans people in our society every month. Exactly right. I just, I'm concerned about that because I'm not concerned that the left, I'm concerned about it, but I'm not surprised at all that the left would turn against America. It's frankly fundamental to everything they believe in that America is a bad place. If you, if you want something like Zoran Mamdani to,

Yeah, of course you think America sucks, right? It's doing, it stands for everything this person is against. It stands against capitalism. It stands against free speech. It stands against so many of these things that a Mamdani or a Bernie Sanders would be against. If you're on the left, I can kind of get why you might have problems. If you're in the middle though, we shouldn't be seeing fall off like this. Especially, and again, in a period where

Things are better than they are. And again, I know maybe Ilhan Omar would choose Somalia over this. But other than that, I don't think there's many people who would. And speaking of Zoran Mamdami, we'll get into some interesting policies of his coming up in one minute. Do you wake up every morning wondering how pain is going to affect your day?

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They had gone back and forth, and there was five charges. They had four of them set yesterday, and they were still stuck on the fifth one. They said there was no way they were going to get to a resolution. Then this morning, they came and they said, hey, we came to a resolution on the fifth one. So it is a unanimous, they have unanimous around all five. I'm just reading through this. Count one, not guilty.

What was that count? Does it say? My write-up does not have that. Sex trafficking of Ventura, not guilty. Transportation for prostitution, guilty. Oh. Sex trafficking, not guilty for the other woman, Jane, which is known as Jane. Transportation for prostitution for Jane, guilty. So basically, it got him on the prostitution stuff, not on the sex trafficking stuff. So flying from state to state is what he's being...

What he got convicted for, right? Yeah, I guess. I think taking these women across state lines, it sounds like. Yeah. But he wasn't sex trafficking them. That is, you know, again, I think. Interesting. It's an interesting line. I will say when you look at the facts of the case, you know, the sex trafficking thing, you know, I don't know.

Taking it out of the law for a second here, talking as people who have an understanding of the basic English language. When I think of sex trafficking, what I'm thinking of is someone who's got a team of prostitutes that they're forcing in a slavery way to do a bunch of things. I don't know that that describes what he actually did, at least my understanding of it.

Do you agree with that? I do. I don't know. I think of something totally different when I think of sex trafficking. And I really haven't followed it closely because I have never been a P. Diddy fan. What? Yeah, Sean Puff Daddy Combs or whatever he called himself. I've never. You? It's surprising, right? Yeah. I don't have a single. Wow, that's shocking. P. Diddy Puff Daddy fan.

If he has them. You don't even know if he has them? I don't even know if he has them. I'm sure he must. He must. Right? He must have something. Odds are he does. Odds are he does. And I don't own any of them. Nor have I ever listened to him on, let's say, a Spotify where you wouldn't own, but you're just kind of borrowing the song to play it whenever you want. Right. Never done that.

So are you sure? I haven't followed him all of that, all that closely. But it's interesting. I did hear that.

He probably wasn't going to be convicted on the sex trafficking thing. And sure enough, he was not. And he was not guilty on a racketeering conspiracy either. It's tough, too, because there's a lot of texts that would indicate at least for a significant period of time the women were into this. Right? Yeah. There's definitely now, again, if they decide to change their mind on that, they deserve that opportunity. Yeah.

And that wasn't always given to them. And there were seemingly, I mean, the stuff I had read that I was more shocked and horrified about was seemingly physical abuse towards these women. It wasn't necessarily transporting them for prostitution. There was absolute proof of it in video form, right? In that hotel hallway. Yes, that's true. Yeah. It wasn't just the text. Really ugly. It was accused. It was a video of it.

Yeah. But he wasn't being charged with that. Bizarrely, that's not what this is about. Right. Very strange. The law is very complicated, Pat. It is. But it looks like P. Diddy is convicted on two counts, not guilty on three counts. We'll see if we can give you the... The biggest one was the racketeering conspiracy charge, which was not guilty. So that's the biggest one. We'll give you more detail coming up. This is Glenn Beck.

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It's Pat and Stu for Glenn. 888-727-BECK. Let's go to JD in Ohio. Oh, is this JD Vance? Hanging out at his home state? Hey. Welcome, JD. We shouldn't have kept you on hold so long. Sorry about that. Well, luckily I was on a little meeting here in the car, so it's okay. Okay. But, uh...

So I want to talk about this child bank account. Okay. So if you do the math, there's about 3.6 million babies born a year, besides the ones that are killed in abortion, but the ones that are actually born. If you give them an $8,000 bank account the day they're born, they don't touch it the rest of their lives. At age 63, it's worth over a million dollars. That cost annually is about $30 billion. Wow.

So if we could really get rid of Social Security by allocating about $30 billion a year for this program, and that's if they never put another dollar in it. If they put something else in it, if they contribute to it, it's worth millions more. Much more. Now, of course, you have to get rid of Social Security, though, to make that viable, right? I mean, that's what you're proposing? Yeah.

There'd be a transition phase, you know, from people, you know, I'm in my 40s, somewhere in that age, you know, we'd have to transition now. I don't know exactly how to do it. Yeah. Yeah. The cost up front would be, you know, the cost savings would be huge. Yeah. It would. Now, I love this world that you're talking about. I love it. I'd like to live there, right? Let's talk about how it would look here, though, JD, and I think you'll agree with this.

What would happen, number one, is we'd give $8,000 to the baby accounts. Then we'd keep Social Security. It would not go anywhere. That is right. Then there'd be arguments that you have to raise the $8,000 to more. It would have to be $20,000. Why isn't it $20,000? Because AOC would come in and say it should be $20,000 or $30,000. Mm-hmm.

And then, of course, the other thing that would happen is in the interim, the government would spend all those $8,000 accounts and say they were in a lockbox, spend it all another crap, and then people will get to the end of their lives and not have any of the money. Does that sound about right?

That sounds pretty accurate. You know, I'm going to have to do some safeguards put in, but that sounds pretty accurate. Yeah, unfortunately. It would be great, though. Yeah, thanks. Thanks, J.D. Appreciate it. Can I give you a quick basic example of what J.D. is talking about? We had a proposal that was similar, in a way, to what J.D. was talking about. It was made by George W. Bush in 2005. Man, I wanted that to happen.

He came through the 2004 election and he used what he believed was his political capital to try to get through Social Security privatized accounts. And the left beat the crap out of him. Beat the crap out of him. Made it like he was trying to steal your Social Security from you and ruin Social Security when, A, it was optional. It was optional. Yep. You could not enter it if you were really close to retirement. Right. They would not allow it. Right. It was a very small... I think it was...

It was between 4% and 8% of your social security accounts. Yeah. So it was a very, very small amount that you can contribute into these. At the time, though, Pat...

You could see some of the worry of people who were like, well, wait a minute. What happens if the stock market goes down and all these things could go wrong? And we don't know what's going to happen in the future, which is true at that time. It is no longer true, however. We do now know what happened in the future. And what would have happened is people would have had between two and five times the amount of money that they have now.

In Social Security. It would have worked in incredible fashion, as J.D. was essentially hinting to. Yeah. In an accurate way. If you actually had a country that was disciplined, that could do this, you're right. Basically...

All scenarios. And that was the truth with the George W. Bush plan. In all scenarios, everyone from the beginning to the end of the program that would have entered it would have wound up in a better place than, and actually they are today. All of them, 100%. Because there was a drop off, I guess it was a 2004. So that great financial, great recessions period, 2008, 2009, we had a drop off in the markets, but no one,

could have retired in that period would have been affected by that because they weren't eligible. Not to mention, again, it was only 4% to 8%. I think there's two different proposals. I just went over this data a little while ago, but the proposals were like a minimal amount. It wasn't like, hey, you could put all your money into stocks. They didn't even allow that, which again, I would argue that if it's our money...

Maybe we should be able to do what we want with it. But this was just a very small slice. And even that, it would have been much, much, much more than we actually do have for these people. So we basically, this nonsensical argument that everyone in the media made against George W. Bush at the time, he was proved completely correct about.

And costing people who are now retiring tens and sometimes six figures, low six figures in income that they could have had today. So good job, everybody. Good job. Yeah, we did it. We did it, America. We did it once again. We did it to ourselves once again. Unfortunately, this is the real world we live in with a media that does these things. Yeah. You know? It's why I... When the fair tax used to be talked about all the time. Yeah. It's one of the reasons I...

Basically opposed that because... Can you remind people what the fair tax was? The fair tax was a value-added tax. It was a sales tax, essentially. National sales tax. On everything that's new. So if you built a home, you would pay the tax on it. If you bought a new car, you would pay the tax on it. If you bought an existing home or an existing car, you don't pay the sales tax. So it was originally talked about to be around 23%.

So it's a hefty tax. However, they said they would do away with the IRS. So you would have no income tax at all. Your gross is your net. It's the same number. That's appealing. So if you make $100,000 a year, you get $100,000, not $60,000. So you get all your money and they eliminate all of the hidden taxes and all of the FICA stuff and all of that.

And it would be replaced by the sales tax. Well, I just knew that what would happen is they wouldn't get rid of the IRS. They would tell you they're going to try or they're going to do it, but then they wouldn't. And you would wind up with both the sales tax of 23% and the current income tax. Which, by the way, is the situation in Europe. Right. Like they have all of those types of taxes. That's what you get hit with in Europe like crazy. Mm-hmm.

I agree. That's probably what would have happened here. I mean, the argument by some of them at the time was, hey, you know, it has to be essentially part of the same amendment of the Constitution, which would be the only way you could even entertain. Yes, you would have, first of all, get rid of the IRS. When you do that, then, OK, yeah, maybe you can talk about the sales tax, the national sales tax or a flat tax would be great.

And I don't know that you necessarily have to get rid of the IRS if you just do a flat tax. You do 15% or whatever it is we decide on. But everybody pays the same. That's another tough sell because supposedly the rich would be paying less than or the exact same as the poor, which is so ridiculous. I was listening to it. You just realize how this stuff happens. I was listening to a CNN interview, unfortunately, with a congressman about the big, beautiful bill.

And the setup to the question, I wish I could remember the congressman, we could find the audio, but the setup of the question was so offensive to anyone who knows anything about the situation. It's like Donald Trump is going to increase the deficit by $5 trillion with tax cuts that almost exclusively go to the wealthy. And it's like all of this stuff. It drives me out of my mind.

This is not true. It's not true. None of that statement was true. No. And the congressman was like, well, I take issues with the way you framed this, first of all. And he went through the stuff and it was, yeah, I gave what I remember to be a relatively fine answer. But, you know, they're not always there to push back, right? All these stories are written with that tone. Yes. Before...

uh anyone gets a chance to push back and then when you push back you're just seen as this like the medicare medicaid cut thing we talked about earlier if you missed this earlier in the show we went through what they call what they are calling medicaid cuts what they are largely calling medicaid cuts are these what they say are work requirements so they're saying hey you gotta if you're able-bodied so not uh someone who's disabled for example uh i know that's not the right terminology differently abled uh different if you're differently abled

So stupid. If you're disabled or if you're out of the age range, like if you're a senior or whatever and you have Medicaid, you're not affected by this at all. What they're saying is work requirement. If you're a 35-year-old guy, that's totally fine. You got to get a job or at least try to get a job. Okay. You can't just sit at home with no income at all and no work requirements and still get our free or very heavily discounted medical care.

And what they are saying, what they are calling a cut is that they figure that some people in that group will just not bother. They won't file the paperwork, or they won't want to work. They'll choose to not work and not get the insurance. And those people will not go into the Medicaid system. Therefore, the Medicaid system will cost less.

It's not that they won't have access to the program. They will have access to the program. They're not cutting anybody's access to the program at all. They're just saying, if you don't hit these requirements, some people will just not bother to get it. And then the program will cost less. They're calling that a cut to Medicaid. That's what they're calling a cut. And it's insanity. It is insanity, but that is what they're doing. And when, when,

That is so much the conversation that you probably before today haven't even heard. That's what they're doing. You understand how these programs get locked in forever. And I have no, no ability to have any optimism over an $8,000 account that will solve our problems when the babies are born. It's just, frankly, it's just not the way our country operates.

The media will always be there. The Democrats will always be there. And frankly, a lot of Republicans will always be there saying, oh, these are Medicaid cuts. We have Republican senators today saying the reason they won't vote for this bill is because of the Medicaid cuts. When this is the reality of the situation. So, I mean, I think...

you got to deal with the world that we live in, unfortunately. Yeah. And it's not always so positive. Yeah. And it's, it's stacked against any kind of conservatism because you got the mainstream media that you have to navigate against and you have the left. So it's, it's very difficult. 888-727-BECK. You can ignore reality, but you can't ignore the consequences. There's rough terrain ahead.

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has claimed now that shutting down USAID, which happened, I believe yesterday was their last official day at USAID. But it's going to contribute to 14 million deaths

14 million deaths. 14 million. Cut eight. Here's CNN talking about it. Secretary of State Marco Rubio is hailing the end of USAID, the nation's largest foreign aid agency. Get this. Even as a new analysis finds that its closure could contribute to some 14 million deaths in the next five years. Really? 14 million? 14 million. This is the problem I have with conservatives.

conservatism overall, which is, I mean, we were shooting for at least 20 million dead, right? Well, I was hoping for 100 million. Yeah, well, yeah, but I was shooting for the sky. Yeah, you're hardcore. I am hardcore. The majorities aren't large enough to get 100 million dead. We were shooting for at least 20 million, though, 25 million, maybe.

Yeah. And we're only getting 14 million dead. Well short of that. And that's over five years, Stu. So that's not even. Some of those might not even happen. What is that? Three million? A little over three million a year? Some of those people might even escape us. They might. And that's terrible news. So stupid. What are you talking about? Four words?

Where is that coming from? Seriously. It's got to be some UN analysis. I'm sure it is. But I want to hear the breakdown of how all of these people are dying because of the non-existence of it. Well, a lot of it assumes, by the way, and a big chunk of this is they assume nothing ever happens in its place. Yes, that's true. Like we fund a bunch of like, for example, HIV medication for Africa.

And it's in a program that has been largely successful. Yeah. And we pull that money away. They say everybody who now dies. Now, in reality, what will happen, of course, is charities, maybe other nations will chip in for some of this. I don't know. We've been doing it for, you know, for a long time. Maybe they'll step up. Maybe the countries will find it to be a priority. Right? Like it's not all us or nothing, but that's how they assume and come up with these ridiculous numbers. And by the way, here's what Russ Vogt was talking about them yesterday.

spending that money on anyway. Americans have been funding the following. 5.5 million to LGBTQ advocacy in Uganda. 800,000 for transgender people, sex workers, and their clients in Nepal. 3.6 for LGBT activism, free training, pastry cooking, psychosocial counseling, a cyber cafe, and the dance focus groups for male prostitutes in Haiti.

Okay. Female prostitutes should get some of that money too. Come on. And what about the gender non-specific? Where's their money?

Only male prostitutes are getting this dancing cash? That's sad. So, yes, while 14 million people may be dying over the next five years, most of those are going to be male prostitute dancers in outer Mongolia or someplace. One-legged deaf transvestite nuns. I mean, I'm sorry. Do we live in a world where we want our male prostitutes to be bad dancers? No, we do not. Of all things. No, we do not. I don't want that world. It would be a total embarrassment. I want them to be fantastic dancers.

I want the choreography to be brilliant. Whenever I'm hanging around male prostitutes, I want them to just be able to get down at the first note. With their bad selves. Yes. Yeah. And not only that, but when they're tipped...

While they're dancing, these male dancing prostitutes, I want them not to be taxed on those tips. That's true. That's true. I mean, I will say waiters, waitresses, strippers, whenever you get tipped. Right. And I don't know if this is going to help everyone. I mean, I guess it will. It helped me a little bit because, you know, I do it on the weekends. Right. But it's only a part-time job for you. I don't think it's central to your vote. You know what I mean? When you're doing your exotic dancing, that's usually only on Saturday afternoons. Usually. Mm-hmm.

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This is the communist Islamist running for mayor of New York City. He's the lead candidate right now. Can anybody stop him from becoming mayor of New York City? Doesn't look good, really. We'll get into that and talk about some of his policies. The grocery store policy is interesting. We'll talk about that coming up in one minute.

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Democratic nominee for mayoral. I heard him babbling the other day about not moderating your message as a socialist, right? Oh, the one when he's in space?

Yes. Do not moderate that message. Why did you run as a Democrat then? Weird. Why didn't you run as the lead socialist of the Socialist Party or a communist? Why? What are you talking? Of course, he moderated his message so that he could become president.

The Democrat nominee. He's not a Democrat. Yeah, you know, I think that's this clip. This is the one where he's talking about seizing the means of production. I think it's the same clip. Can we have that? Yeah, he's in space. Here's Zoran Mamdani with a weird background of a video where he's actually in space.

what the purpose is about this entire project. It's not simply to raise class consciousness, but to win socialism. And obviously raising class consciousness is a critical part of that. But making sure that we have candidates that both understand that and are willing to put that forward at every which moment that they have and every which opportunity that they're given. We have to continue to elect more socialists and we have to ensure that...

We are unapologetic about our socialists. There are also other issues that we firmly believe in. Whether it's BDS, right? Or whether it's the end goal of seizing the means of production. We do not have the same level of support at this very moment.

And what I want to say is that it is critical that in the way that we organize, in the way that we set up our work and our priorities, that we do not leave any one issue for the other, that we do not meet a moment and only look at what people are ready for, but that we are doing both of these things in tandem.

Marxism with a smile. You love to see it, don't you? That's a big part of this. Huge. I will say, you know, the delivery mechanism of someone like Bernie Sanders with this exact same message, or I will even say AOC, who's often angry and dour and like, you know, again, she's a more attractive package, I guess, than Bernie Sanders. But like...

you know there's very rarely smiling happening with aoc she's angry at everybody this guy is doing it the totally different way he's so nice about his marxism the biggest smile he has in that entire thing and he smiles throughout the entire thing but the biggest smile he has is he said after we seize means of production right right like he right he's saying he knows what he's doing he knows what he's doing and and if you really like listen to what he said there

It's basically like we can't just take the popular parts of socialism, right? Like free healthcare and just push for that. Right. We have to go for all of it. However...

He is doing that with his mayoral election. He's just doing it with a smile. And an example of this is his, when you say seize the means of production, a good step of this is taking over grocery stores and making it so... Which he plans to do. Yeah, this is one of his central policies. This is how it's going to become affordable to live in New York City. You don't have to pay for your food, I guess, or he's going to lower the prices so low because they're government run that...

they can operate at a loss or just a break even spot. I don't know. This is infuriating to me. It kicks me into a rant that I always have.

on this thing because it seems this seems crazy would you say like to the average person living in ohio in a medium-sized town it would be crazy for your town to just open up a grocery store yes right it would be a town owned grocery store and anybody who said they were going to do that

would lose. Yes, I agree. You would think. And you'd think, too, like if they were to say, hey, and one of the big benefits is we'll make it, we'll undercut the cost

of the actual businesses that opened in our town because we don't have a profit motive and of course have no reason to actually make the budget balance as no one seems to have in government. Right. We just always raise taxes more. We have that backing. We'll get it built for free. We won't have to pay that back. We'll take all tax dollars. We won't have to spend a dime of our money to build it. We'll get all tax dollars to build it and then we'll undercut the people who are here actually paying taxes to

To the community. That would be a really bad idea. I will note to almost everybody in a medium-sized town, in the entire listening audience, this is exactly what every town does with rec centers instead of gyms. And it's like everyone seems to think that's okay. Well, we're just going to build a beautiful multi-million dollar rec center in our town and the established gyms

that people pay membership fees to, we'll undercut those membership costs, and then we'll still collect money from our competition to pay for our gym.

This happens all over America. It's not just gyms, but that's just the easiest example. It is amazing what flavors of socialism we'll put up with and which we won't. I'm just I know that no one else cares about that issue except me, but it just is infuriating to me. It's like, wait, why did I have to spend all this money in taxes for you to build this thing when there's three gyms in the area?

Then I don't want to go to any of them, by the way. I should know. I didn't say, hey, I really want to go to a gym. I quite clearly do not. Anyway, but that is what he's proposing here. The exact same thing, except with grocery stores. Exact same thing. He's saying he's going to build grocery stores. He's going to take. Now, how's he going to pay for these, Pat? That's the tough thing. Because you know what? The conservatives will say, how are you going to pay for this? This is his proposal as he describes it with giant money.

Smiles throughout how he's going to take over the grocery store system in New York. Grocery prices are out of control. The cost of eggs and milk has skyrocketed. Some stores are even using dynamic pricing, jacking up the cost over the course of a day, depending on what they can get. Are they? It doesn't need to be this way. I'm Zahran Mandani. And as mayor, I will create a network of city owned grocery stores. It's like a public option.

Now think about how

How unbelievably unfair that would be to other grocery stores. He's going, he's not going to, they're not gonna have to pay rent. They're not gonna have to pay taxes. They're going to get all the buildings built for buy taxes. Right. And so all these places are like, wait a minute, we need to charge $3 for eggs. They can just charge $2 for eggs in theory. Again, this is all in socialist theory.

But there's a bigger problem with this particular proposal. He's smiling throughout that, by the way. It is the exact pitch you got for Obamacare. If you remember the public option. I do remember. Right? Yeah. You're going to pay $2,500 less per family per year. If you want to keep your grocery store, Pat, keep your grocery store. If you like it, you can keep it.

But no, here we are now with grocery stores and we're all like, I mean, and it does sound completely insane, but it's better than that. It is better than that, Pat, because what his plan is to pay for that, that would be the first thing anyone would point out. Like, wait, how are you going to pay for that? You raise taxes? No, no. He's going to redirect money that's going to corporate grocery stores. Yeah.

The big evil big grocery. Big grocery. We all hate so much. Right. So in theory, like depending on what your grocery store is around you, a Kroger or an Albertsons or a Stop and Shop or a Whole Foods, whatever it is, the New York City government is taking millions of dollars and giving it to these grocery stores for some reason. Now, that to me stands out as something odd. Yeah.

It sure does. What do you mean? Why are they giving away money to grocery stores? Why aren't grocery stores just doing what every grocery store? My understanding was they just come in and they open it up if they think they'll be profitable and they stay open as long as they can be. That's my understanding of grocery stores. Now, it's so funny to hear this because, first of all, it's built on a left-wing lie.

First of all, the reason why there would be any reason to give money to grocery stores in New York City is because they complained about food deserts. Okay? Uh-huh. They said, there's no grocery stores here for people to eat. They have to go too far to get their groceries. So,

So, we are going to try to promote a program that forces these places, or incentivizes them, I suppose, with lots of money, to build grocery stores in these areas where there are none. Now, I had a series called Wonderful World of Stew on BlazeTV, which preceded the Stew Does America. And in that, we had a series called Deserted, was a segment we did. And we would go to the government website.

And we would find food deserts and we would travel to the food deserts and I would take people inside the grocery stores that very much did exist inside of these food deserts. Right. There really weren't. They weren't food deserts. These were lies. In fact, some of them were in New York City. Yeah. So.

This was big when we lived in that area. Right. When we lived there. They were talking about food deserts. All the time. All the time. And we're like, where is this food desert? Right. There's food everywhere. There are grocery stores everywhere. Restaurants, foods, bodegas, everywhere. Yep. So this wasn't even true. But the only reason this system exists at all that he's proposing, which is money going to corporate grocery stores, is because the left demanded it happen. Okay? Mm-hmm.

However, there's even more to the story than this. Because what happened with this program is he's saying $140 million goes from New York City government to these grocery stores. However, where this is not true at all.

Where he gets this number is a program, and he describes it, called FRESH. It's called Food Retail Expansion to Support Health. Again, does that sound like a conservative program? It is not. It is a food desert attack program, supposedly. It's called FRESH. If you go to the website, they have a fancy website. It tells you about the program. And let me just show you, Pat, and you can explain this to the audience. But this is the website here. And you see...

That's like promoting the website. Hey, look at all these wonderful things that we did. You saw the, what did you see? The one big yellow box, right? There's one big yellow box on the website. The yellow box says $140 million. The amount of money invested in New York City's economy through Fresh.

That's the program name. Okay. So that's what he's saying. He's saying we're going to take that money and give it to socialist grocery stores instead of the evil Kroger or whatever they have in New York, Whole Foods. Yep. Okay. So in some ways you'd say, all right, I guess that kind of makes sense. I mean, it doesn't make sense to me, but in a socialist mindset, you're a New York City voter. Maybe that makes sense to you. The problem with it is...

The $140 million number that's in the yellow box on this website is actually not the amount of money given from the government to corporate grocery stores. That number is the amount that corporate grocery stores have invested to bring grocery stores into New York.

This money does not come from the government. It comes from the corporate grocery stores who invested their own money to build and open up grocery stores inside of New York City. This website is bragging about, hey, we did this system and we brought in all this corporate money into New York. That's what they're bragging about. It's not money that goes to the grocery stores from the government. Right.

The only thing that happens with this program, in fact, no money, Pat, goes from the government to these stores. Zero dollars. The only thing that happens is they get a couple of tax benefits. That is something like a couple of million dollars, which again is not New York City's money. It is the corporate money of the grocery stores. And they get a slight reduction in their taxes to come into these areas.

So none of this money exists. Now, this is a central program of his mayoral run. It is the thing he's probably promoted more than anything else outside of free, no rent increases, which is a whole other socialist catastrophe waiting to happen. So...

Now let me take it to another level, because this is a fascinating story to me. This story was written by Tim Carney. Tim Carney is a guy, you might know him. He's been on my show, maybe he's been on yours. He's a conservative writer, and he writes for the Washington Examiner. Tim Carney's a good guy, he's a good writer, I'm glad he did this story. Why is it left to Tim Carney, a conservative in a Washington newspaper...

To figure this out, the New York Times has probably written a thousand articles about this race.

And at no point did they bother to look at any detail of one of his central proposals. Wow. That's unbelievable. How on earth did none of the New York media, basically the center of all media in the United States. Not even the Post, though. But not even the Post. Nobody. Nobody bothered to look at anything that actually was going on.

With this story. No one said, hey, wait a minute. Where is this money coming from? Shouldn't we check into that? Are we really giving $140 million away to grocery stores? Why would we do such a thing?

Nobody bothered to check it. And of course, the answer is they're not. They're not giving that money. So where is he going to get that money? Well, he doesn't have it now. And of course, does he come out and say, gosh, holy crap, did I blow it? I'm so sorry. I just saw this yellow box and based my entire campaign on it. No, he doesn't bother to do that. What he instead does is just ignore this. And does anyone pushing him on it? No. Nope.

Nope. Nope. Even after this, no one's pressing him on it. Not been asked at all. No. He hasn't really had to release a statement. Incredible. At least as of several hours ago, maybe he's addressed it. But this has been several days since the story came out. Wow. So the money doesn't exist. Awesome.

The program is based on a lie, a misreading of a giant yellow box on a website. That's the amount of research he did to announce a brand new program. This guy might be mayor of our largest city in our financial center. Not good. Not only is he a socialist and, as we noted a couple minutes ago, has shown support for communism multiple times. Yep. Yeah.

That guy might be mayor of New York and no one's even bothering to fact check that nonsensical socialism he's proposing. 888-727-BECK. More coming up in one minute.

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This comes from government spokesperson Fatema Majerani. He just admitted that after assessing the damage in Iran done after the bombing, it was severe is how he labeled it. Severe damage was done to their nuclear sites.

So the leakers here in America are trying to do their very best to hijack the narrative and hurt the president and the country and the message. But this comes directly from Iran.

Amazing. Amazing. It was another acknowledgement that Fordow, Isfahan, and Etan's, the key sites within the nuclear program, had been seriously or severely damaged by the American strikes. And that's from their state-run news agency. And it's probably more reliable than some of the leaks we've been hearing lately.

You'd think so. I think it would... You know, what would motivate them to lie about that, for instance? To say...

That the damage was more severe than it actually is. I mean, I guess maybe... Maybe just stop the bombings? Yeah, you don't need to bomb anymore. You really knocked us out. I mean, it's possible. That's not usually the way they handle these situations. It's not likely, though, because, yeah, they like to... Actually, they like to do the opposite with their people and try to... I mean, it's like their Ayatollah crawled out from underneath a shelter and claimed victory over...

Yeah. I mean, Israel was about to be wiped off the map. That's the only reason the Americans stopped bombing. That's what they said. They actually claimed that they destroyed one third of Tel Aviv and that millions were fleeing Israel. Hmm. You're seeing different reports than we are. That's for sure. I think we'd notice it. But that is the way that they typically handle those things. So that's a good sign for the efforts. 888-900-727, actually. B-E-C-K.

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of three of the five charges. Including the most serious ones, yes. Including sex trafficking, the racketeering situation. The only thing he got convicted on was two charges of

transporting prostitutes across this is so weird it's always that it's always the problem we seem to be totally fine with people having prostitutes in state like as long as you're doing it in your local community it's totally fine but if you bring those prostitutes from Florida into Georgia outsourcing that's where the problem you're gonna put our foot down now I think it's even okay to travel to Georgia to hook up with Georgian prostitutes it's you just can't bring them from Florida to Georgia

Okay. That apparently is a big line in our society, which is odd. It's a weird line. Right? It seems to always be the thing that is the big issue. Well, they transported them across state lines. Yeah, but like...

Isn't the thing they were doing with them the problem? Like my problem with Diddy has been, I don't know, his tendency to be beating women up in hotels. Like that seems to be really bad to me. Yeah. Yeah. That was not good. And like prostitution, not a good thing. Not a good practice, Pat, despite all the hullabaloo around it. But my issue with it isn't typically the flight issue.

It's more of the prostitution and like the, even more importantly, forced prostitution for some of these people. Wow, you're a stickler. You're really a stickler. It doesn't, like it seems like there was a lot of prostitution going on with Diddy. But much of it, at least supported by a lot of text messages, is

was showing that it was agreed upon between the parties, at least for a large chunk of it. The issue that I think the main problem most people would have with it was when it went beyond the

situation of agreement and you know fists were thrown to enforce it that that kind of seems like the bigger issue and it wasn't even charged with that yeah i i don't understand our legal system sometimes no it's it's very bizarre very bizarre but he could i guess he faces is it 20 years

Yeah, up to 20 years in prison. Now, I don't think there's any indication that's going to be the penalty. Yeah. Like his supporters are very happy with this outcome. It seems like they were celebrating outside the courtroom. He was saying thank you to the jury afterward.

So it does appear that they are happy with this outcome. You would assume a first-time conviction for someone on prostitution charges is probably not 20 years, right? It's a year or two maybe, maybe probation. Probation and a fine of some sort. Yeah, like that's usually... Again, we seem to sometimes give punishment away to people who molest children and it's like...

And like, you know, someone speeds too much in a particular zone and they go to, you know, they go to Gulag for 40 years. Like, I don't understand what's happening sometimes in our system. But that it does seem to be the punishments are strange to me. Very. Yeah. But not a good guy. I think we could say that again. We have this on video where he's beating women up in hotels. And for some reason, that was not the charge. Yeah.

Into some weird things, but, you know, who am I? You know, to decide what is weird and what isn't. He was into some different things, though. And, yeah, and then there's the video of him actually beating his girlfriend in the hotel, which is really horrible, really horrific. All right, we got this climate activist, former friend of Greta Thunberg.

who now says that the climate change movement is a scam. A decade ago, Lucy Biggers was like a lot of people in their 20s. She believed that climate change posed an immediate and catastrophic risk to mankind, that we should rapidly eliminate fossil fuels to address the problem, that renewables are up to that task, and that our wealthy, privileged lives in the West are a mark of shame.

Her fans cheered her on. She interviewed people like Greta, became friends with her. Over time, though, she began to question her leftist ideals. And she started to see the climate movement as anti-human and ultimately harmful. She now calls the climate movement...

A scam. And she's making videos on TikTok and elsewhere in hopes that young people will consider a more positive view of modern life, one they can hopefully be grateful for.

In turn, they can escape the anxiety, she says, the climate movement causes young people to feel. Man, is that not so true? People like, well, Greta Thunberg, who obviously believes the world is about to end. She said years ago that we had, what, 12 years left before catastrophic extinction begins on this planet.

And that's what's being told to these kids. And so they grow up with this fear that the world's about to end. So yeah, there's a lot of anxiety in this movement. I mean, it's legitimately a terror. It terrorizes them, right? Like you think about a horror movie, right? That has some scary villain, some boogeyman that would scare a child. And like their lives get changed. Every time they want to go to bed, they were afraid there's a monster under their bed. That is how a lot of kids act.

Right. Yeah.

You're ruining their lives. It's despicable fear-mongering. Yeah. With no concern for what it does to kids. No. Michael Schellenberger wrote a great book about this, and one of his main motivations was seeing his daughter's friends

by global warming, worried they were going to die. Yeah. Because he too was a believer. He was a believer, but he was, I don't think he was ever that psychotic about it. Like, you know, he would, he was like, you know, I remember the first time I remember seeing him was he was in a documentary about nuclear power and he was talking about, I mean, that was one of the things that was featured. He was an advocate, I think, for nuclear. He was saying, hey, you know, nuclear power would be a great way. We have really serious climate concerns. This is a great way to address them.

And so he was always, you know, he got all sorts of environmental awards from the left, but he was maybe a little bit more sensible than some of the crazy people, the Gretas of the world were. But I mean, think of what the population and the media in general did to this poor girl. I mean, they completely used her to try to get their plans through. They use the emotional... I mean, look...

This is no secret. When you're one of the most, the greatest correlations with youth is stupidity.

Okay. When you're young, you're kind of dumb. You don't know. You start off, you don't even know the language. Right. You don't understand math. You slowly grow out of your stupidity as you grow. That doesn't mean you land in a place where you're smart, but you supposedly learn things as you go on through life. And so when you're 11 years old and you're skipping school because you think the world is going to end from climate change, the appropriate response from adults is, honey, I'm

I understand you're concerned here. We can go through some of the facts on that, but it's not appropriate to do what you're doing. And there's no reason to panic like this. Yeah, sure, we have concerns in our world, but you don't, there's no reason to be like this. Instead, it was, she's right. She's the only one telling the truth. She's so brave. Look at all the wonderful things she's doing for the world. Every piece of this idiocy was awarded and rewarded.

Over and over and over again. Yep. And so she understandably, I think, for her child, took that as everything I'm doing is great. Everyone's approving of it. I'm being lauded by the United Nations for what I'm doing. And therefore, I should continue doing it. Now, she's taken it to another place that is rewarded by the United Nations, hating Jews.

That's where she is now. Amazing, yeah. And again, now there are some people who are like, gosh, I don't know, maybe we shouldn't have just, I don't know, embraced her so hard. Maybe we embraced her so hard we suffocated her and her brain turned off. But I mean, she was, you know, again, like a child who's at some level, at least at one point, was a victim in this. Now she's an adult now. She was actually headed at one point right for Gaza.

She was going to support Hamas at Gaza when the Israelis headed her off and said, yeah, you're not going. And kidnapped her, Pat. They kidnapped her. They kidnapped her. They did. It was frightening. It was a weird kidnapping. It was. They kind of told her about it in advance. Yeah. And they didn't actually take her anywhere and keep her someplace. No. They put her on a nice jet, fed her, put her on a nice jet and flew her back to her home. Yeah.

You know, someone pointed this out and it was a great observation, which was it was the first ever kidnapping where the only qualification to get out of the kidnapping was to leave. The only request was please get out of here. That is a weird kidnapping. It's a weird kidnapping. Usually a kidnapping means you must stay. Right. Their kidnapping was you must go. Oh, wow. Which is...

It sort of defeats the purpose of the kidnap, doesn't it? I mean, maybe the Israelis are just bad at it. They don't, you know. They're bad at that? Yeah. They're bad at genocide? Yes, terrible at genocide. It's really bad. They keep feeding the people they're supposed to be killing. Yeah. Which is strange. And warning them to leave places that they're about to bomb. That's not a good way to commit genocide. Yeah. Yeah. So...

They're really good at killing terrorists, but bad at genocide, bad at kidnapping. Yeah, they need to work on it. They're going to have to work on it. They're going to need to work. Yeah. But it is sort of like, I mean, first of all, it's good to see that some of the kids that were in this movement at the time, friends with Greta, are coming out of it. Yes, it is good to see that. That's good to see. Again, you can look at climate change. Some people do think there are issues with climate change. However...

When you look at it, this is something that we're very capable of handling. Yeah. The biggest problem with climate change right now is that there's more food.

which, man, I hate that because it's making us all fat. That's the problem we're having on this planet right now. We're getting too fat because there's too much food to go around. Yeah. Gosh, that terrible abundance. I actually saw an honest article written a week or two ago, and they were talking about the fact that the warmer temperatures are causing...

more food to grow. Wow. Good for you for at least acknowledging that aspect of it. Now, if we get to the, what is it they're afraid of? Fahrenheit, like five degrees Fahrenheit or four degrees Fahrenheit or whatever. If we get to that point, yeah, that would be a real problem. And then the food becomes

burned up and we've got famine at that point. But I mean, that is A, not happening right now. And the forecast for the temperatures to end up where? Are they trying to keep it under two degrees Celsius? Is that the deal? Two or two point something degrees. Yes. I can't remember the exact number. I mean, they change it all the time. Also,

It's such a ridiculous standard. As if there's this switch that goes off at this particular... As if we can control any of it anyway. Which I guess if you believe that every bit of the increase is brought on by CO2 coming from mankind, I guess you'd think that cutting back on the CO2 is going to fix the problem. But you could remove every car in the planet and it still wouldn't...

it wouldn't be enough to get them where they want to be. No, of course not. You know, and of course we've also had real improvements on this anyway, right? I mean, just the switch from, you know, coal to natural gas has led to a real decline in emissions. We've declined ours quite a bit without all these massive climate initiatives that they said they wanted. Yeah. And let's talk to China about the fact that they burn more coal than not just the United States, but every country on earth combined. Yeah.

So. Yeah. And they are by far the number one emitters of carbon dioxide. So it's a situation that is laughable and is obvious to anyone who's not a child. Right. Like if you're not a 15 year old skipping school, this is probably pretty obvious to you. If you're embracing it, most likely you have another agenda. Yeah.

Right. At least, especially if you're in this world, right? These politicians, I mean, I think there's a lot of people who are just generally left-leaning that are, you know, oh, I like the, you know, I like the planet. Clean air, clean water. Of course, everyone's for clean air, clean water. Everybody likes the planet. It's just this stupid catchphrase. And I can understand a lot of those people just being fooled by this, right? Yeah. I mean, it's a scary thing that's out there somewhere.

This future that could collapse on you at any moment. You can see how it works on some people, but the people that are proposing it, no. 888-727-BECK. They want you silent, obedient, and blind. Well, shoot. Here we are with open eyes and a bit of rebellious nature. Hold the line, my friends. Glenn Beck will be back in a minute.

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just agreed to take back the performances of Leah Thomas and his swimming records at the University of Pennsylvania. Well, he didn't have swimming records. He had female swimming records. Female swimming, yes, right. And medals and awards. Because when she was a he, he was finishing last in the races against men. And then switched...

and started competing against women, it went a little better for him. Well, actually, Pat, there's no scientific evidence that men are better at sports than women. No, none at all. None at all. Like, there's not an under-15-year-old boys team that just beat the women's national Swiss soccer team 7-1. That's not science. That's not science. No, that's just...

Circumstantial evidence. Exactly. All they are is just endless anecdotes. Right. That's all it is. Over and over and over again. Throughout all of human civilization. But other than that. No proof. No proof. This is Glenn Beck.