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Go to rapidradios.com, they ship really fast from their headquarters in Michigan. That's rapidradios.com. Rapid radios. Communication redefined. So what is the latest on Iran? Where do we stand? Are we done? Are we going back in? Maybe. Are we? Maybe it might be over. So maybe it might be over. Maybe. Maybe we're going back in? Maybe. Okay. Yeah. When are we going to know? When will we know for sure? Maybe. Is that not specific enough for you? No, not really. Two days, three days. Maybe. Might be right away. Maybe. Here's what he said. You said yesterday you're about an hour away from making a decision. Where does that stand today? Have you heard anything from them? Very, right on the borderline, believe me. If we don't get the right answers, it goes very quickly. We're all ready to go. We have to get the right answers. It would have to be a complete 100% good answers. And if we do, we save a lot of time, energy, and lives, most importantly. Could go very quickly. Or a few days. Or a few days. But it could go very quickly. Very quickly. Iran is a defeated nation. We're dealing with some people. And we're dealing, actually, I must tell you, we're dealing with some very good people. We're dealing with people that are, I think, far more reasonable than the people that are really no longer with us. We're dealing with some people with talent, with good brain power. And we're pretty impressed by it. So hopefully those people will make a deal that's going to be great for everybody. You're getting tired of the back and forth. I don't know. I don't know. Do I get what? I never get tired of the back and forth. I never get tired. But what I'd like to do, if I could save more by waiting a couple of days, or I could save people being killed by waiting a couple of days, I think it's a great thing to do. OK. I understand that. We have already waited a couple of days. That's the thing, yeah. In fact, it's been a couple of weeks. How long has it been since the ceasefire started? Many would say two long. Three weeks or a month. Anyway. It's been a while. Yeah, it's been a while. And we keep hearing the same thing. The ceasefire, the Strait of Hormuz is still open, but it's closed. Yeah. No. Prices are still getting higher. Times up. Yeah. I thought the clock was ticking, but apparently we've hit the snooze button. It seems like that. Yeah. Yeah, it seems that way. So I don't know. I mean, do I want war with Iran? I really don't. But on the other hand, I, you know, we've threatened them so many times and then not backed it up. I think that they maybe they're not believing that anything's going to happen at this point. I don't think that they do. And they've looked, this is the game that's been played with them for a long, long time. Right. And we, I was reading this morning where they, it was reported that they have started up their drone making factories again since the ceasefire. Yeah, I saw that. So if that's true, which I mean, I believe it, maybe that's because I, I'm an Iran hater maybe, but that's because they're not believing what we're saying. And so they're just keep putting us off. They're not taking it seriously. They just keep putting us off until they feel that they'll have enough weapons to be able to fight back a little bit. Well, no. No, no, no, no, no. That's, that's supposed to be unacceptable. Yeah. And it really is unacceptable. But here's the thing. Their Navy is at the bottom of the ocean. So it's at the bottom of the water. What about the, what about the air force? And their, their air force is completely decimated. It's destroyed. It's eliminated. So it's over. It's over. Except for, you know, a couple of things here and there. I mean, they keep telling us that. Yeah. The problem is they still have some missiles. I don't know how much of their capacity we've eliminated, but they still obviously have some missiles. They still obviously have some because they keep attacking people. Right. And hopefully, you know, they keep attacking people. We know where those were shot from. Yeah. So we can go in and destroy those. Yeah. I mean, I hope. Those mobile launchers are really tough to eliminate because you can fire it and then within five minutes it's back underground or whatever. And it's hard to get to. Right. So that's been the problem up until now. So I don't know how you eliminate all of their capacity. I do wage war. I mean, you, what nuclear weapons? I don't think we want to go that route. I didn't say that. I didn't say that. You did. And I, you know, I don't want to decimate the people. Sure. And I know President Trump doesn't want to either. But that's his deal. He doesn't want to. And that's why he's, he said, we're going to take out your infrastructure, but that's going to hurt the people. And that's why he's really tried to avoid that. I do believe that. Bless his heart for that. I mean, I'm glad that he cares about human life. He cares about human life in the Ukraine and Russia too, which is why he's been trying to end that conflict. And the stubborn mules that are Vladimir Putin and to a certain extent, Vladimir Zelensky, keep that thing going. And they keep the carnage happening. Man, that, I just, we saw the latest from, I think it was the CIA estimates on Russian casualties was over a million people. Wow. Over a million. Could that be? And it was, I think it was 1.2 or 1.3 million, in fact, dead or wounded or missing. And then for the Ukrainians, it was 500,000. So you're talking about one and a half to between one and a half and two million people who've been between Russia and Ukraine. Yeah. Yeah. This is terrible. It's terrible. And it keeps going. And let's say that report is high. Okay. So 800,000 to a million. Yeah. But still, I mean, whatever way you look at it, right? It's really tragic. Yeah. When you think about the fact that we didn't lose one and a half million people between World Wars one and two combined, and they have in the last four years in this conflict, it's pretty sobering. You know, that's, that's quite a conflict. But the president also talked about the next three years yesterday, cut 16. I mean, you're going to see things that are amazing. You're going to see a lot of amazing things over the next three years for our country. And I'd like to talk more about the economy because we have $18 trillion being spent and no country's ever had anything like that. We have car plants pouring in from Mexico, Canada. They don't want to be there. There's no reason to be there because they want to sell to our market. We have car companies and plants coming in from Germany, from South Korea, from Japan, coming in by the billions. And they're being built now. You're going to see things that nobody thought was possible. Okay. Sorry. We're going to end up saying he's the greatest president that ever lived. Goodbye, everybody. Bye, everybody. I'm out of here. You're going to say he's the greatest president that's ever lived. Yeah, he was done with them. He gave me a hand. Goodbye, everybody. I'm out of here. I got to go. I'm going to leave you on the greatest president who's ever lived. See ya. I already told you I've taken over Israel when this job is done. You have to play that clip. He was done with them there. We're done. Goodbye. I'm out of here. Hilarious. Yeah, here's the Israeli thing. He's got a pretty high... I was looking for the story on his approval rating in Israel. I haven't been able to find it yet, but I'm sure it's out there somewhere. He told us what it is. He told us. He told us what it is. Here's what he said about his approval rating there. I'm right now at 99% in Israel. I'm not going to run for prime minister, so maybe after I do this, I'll go to Israel and run for prime minister. I had a poll this morning. I'm 99%. So that's good. But now he's a wartime prime minister, and I just don't think they treat him well. He's going to spend time there. I think they have a president over there that treats him very poorly. You're on the same page with... All right. That's interesting. He was reported also that Netanyahu, and I don't know if it was after this or before because Netanyahu was all wound up that he didn't want to start bombing Iran again. They had a little... Yeah, a little disagreement. It sounds like they had a disagreement over that. I don't know. Maybe it was after that. No, maybe he'd come over there and run. Run your country for you, Benji. Then he also, he endorsed Kent Paxton on Monday, and he was talking about Kent Paxton yesterday as well. He's busy on the tarmac. We have a great candidate, I believe, in Texas, and I believe the Texas candidate who's Kent Paxton, I think he'll win. I think probably he'll win very substantially. I hope you're right. And I think he'll go on to defeat a very defective candidate, a candidate that believes in six genders, he takes hits at Jesus Christ, and he's wearing a mask six months ago. Anybody wearing a mask six months ago doesn't get it. And he's a vegan. He's a vegan in Texas. And you can't get elected as a vegan in Texas. I hope that's true. Let's hope that's true. Yeah. That you can't get elected as a vegan in Texas. Amen. That is not the worst of James Tallarico. That guy is an absolute nightmare and cannot be the US Senator from the state of Texas. That can't happen. Please tell me that's not going to happen. It's not going to happen. Okay, thank you. Appreciate that. No problem. I'm here for you. I just hope it's true. I just hope he can't be elected because you, I mean, you wouldn't think it would be possible, right? It would seem impossible in the state of Texas that this guy... It would seem impossible. Oh, man. But he presents himself as... He sure enough does. As a Christian minister and he's out there citing the Bible or at least his particular, his translation of it. Yeah. And what it means to him, which is pretty much not what it means to most Christians. And I think he's duped a lot of people. And it's a little scary to me. In fact, it's a lot scary. And he has picked and chosen his interviews and they all work to his benefit, which is really interesting. He's done a pretty good job of that. Yeah, he has. Yeah, he wouldn't, for instance, he wouldn't come on this show. Oh, no way. I don't know that he would pull the parking lot of this building. No, I don't think so. Because none of those kinds of, none of those lefties will ever go on a, into a situation that is somewhat unfamiliar and maybe a little unfriendly. Right. Maybe a lot unfriendly. Oh, but... But they'll stick to MSNBC, CNN, NBC, ABC. He went on The View. He went on Now What's Your Face Is, Jamie Lynn's podcast. Yeah. And those aren't going to give him any pushback on anything. Nope. You just get to say what you want. They're going to lap up everything he says. Yep, and they do. So people aren't going to really hear the truth from him. Meanwhile, he's ahead of both Republican candidates in polls in Texas right now. He's, I think he's seven points ahead of Cornyn and eight points ahead of Paxton, supposedly. You got to hope that that's because the, we haven't decided on whether it's going to be Cornyn or Paxton. Yeah, that's what I'm hoping. You got to hope that. I remember when Ted Cruz was running against Beto O'Rourke and everybody was afraid that Beto was going to beat Ted Cruz because he was close in some polls. He was ahead. And then Ted pretty much wiped him out. Absolutely. I don't remember if it was nine points, 11 points. It was, it was a pretty good spread though. Ted pretty well mopped the floor with him. Absolutely. And I'm hoping that's going to be the case. And I will say this, I saw, seen one sign for Tellerico in my neighborhood. And that was when he was, I guess that was the Democratic nomination or whatever. Yeah. Was that one that was? Yeah, during the, when it was up against Jasmine Crawford. Right, right, right, right, right. Okay. So, and I have not seen it since. So, during the Beto run, Beto was everywhere. I mean, I saw signs and bumper stickers and I still see some cars. Yeah, stickers. Yeah. And I think, wow, are you stupid? Accidentally, how do you even drive? Seriously? You shouldn't even own a vehicle. You're not allowed on these roads. I almost called the police when I see them. Like there's a person with a Beto sticker in front of me. Please get him off the road. I need to be removed from the road. Get him off the road! All right. Triple eight, seven, two, seven, B-E-C-K. More in one minute. NMLS 182334, NMLS ConsumerAccess.org. APR for Rits in the Five starts at 6.799% for well-qualified borrowers. 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There's no upfront fees to find out if you qualify. So call 800-906-2440. That's 800-906-2440. Or just go to Americanfinancing.net. 10 seconds, then back to the show. Pat and Jeffy for Glenn today. And all this week, as a matter of fact. I have a, there's a new poll here. I listened to them talking about on the radio earlier show. Might have been Pat Grandleast, I don't recall. It was a national survey though, conducted May 15th through the 18th among 1,002 registered voters. Puts Trump's job approval down at 39. So his record was 61 approval rating. Well, 61% now disapprove of his job. 39% approval. 39, well it's 99% in Israel though. Correct. So maybe a lot of Israelis could come over and vote for him. The Republican net approval has dropped to 60, down 24 points. Okay, yeah, that's the Republican net approval. Wait, the Republican approval is down to 60? Yes. Wow. So only 29%. Because that was in the 90s it seems like. Correct, well, yeah. I mean like the low 90s. Well, this, down 24 is that would mean 84 according to this poll. Wow. So 29% of voters approve of Trump's handling of the economy. 71% disapproving. I hope he cares more than he looks like he cares. Yeah, that's. And that's the problem I think. That's the problem, yeah. It is. So inflation is the president's weakest issue, 24% approval. Well, yeah. Border security wants a strength is now split 49 to 51 disapproval. Border security, what? Oh my gosh, how could that be negative? Because we're against Trump. Geez. Well, yesterday, here's what's affecting him right now. Yesterday a reporter said, Mr. President, you've pushed to suppress the federal gas tax. President says, yeah. Then he says, are there other initiatives that you're thinking of maybe trying to lower costs? And he said, well, there may be. It's very temporary. Yeah, there may be anything to keep it down. Look, as soon as this war is over, gas is going to, you know, I had gasoline down to $1.85 in Iowa. I was in Iowa and the stations there had it at $1.85. But I was down to, in many cases less than $2 a gallon. And then I said to myself, this is great. We just hit a new high in the stock market. Everything's going good, but I'm sorry, but we have to go down and take a little journey down to we have to do something with Iran. We cannot let them have a nuclear weapon. You want to see the world exploded? You want to see a problem? And this is peanuts. And I appreciate everybody putting up with it for a little while. It won't be much longer. You can't call what's going on right now peanuts. And you can't dismiss it by saying, you know, that you weren't even thinking about the economy because the left uses that against him and beats him over the head with it. And look, it kind of deservedly so. I mean, we, this is the thing that we, this is our, yeah. He's been too flippant on this. He's just too flippant on this issue. I'm sorry, but we, we see those prices in our face every day. 419 passed the stations that I pass coming into work in Texas. And it was down to at least 379, 378, something like that. So well, and before the Iranian situation, it was down to what to do. I mean, what Trump was talking about. Something like that. So yeah, I don't know. He's getting bad advice from somebody somewhere because he needs to take this a little more seriously. I think that would be helpful for him. Triple eight, seven, two, seven, PECK more coming up. We've all done it. We tried to save a buck or two buying a knockoff that ends up being more costly to fix or replace. Hopefully we've learned in the end knockoffs are not a good idea. If your gutters need help, don't just spring for any gutter guard. Leaf filter is the trusted name with over 20 years of relentless engineering behind it. Claw gutters are not just annoying. They cause extensive water damage. 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Well, I don't know experts, the industry auto experts are predicting perhaps motor oil shortage that is imminent as prices escalate due to the Iran war. So I would say maybe change your oil this weekend. Oh boy. I don't want to have a run on, you know, changing your oil. You ought to think about it at least. Speaking of predictions, Minnesota became the first state to ban prediction markets. Passing a law that makes it a felony to host or advertise them. What someone better tell stewie Lee better tell stew in response. The Trump administration has sued teeing up a legal battle over the most far reaching crackdown on popular services like a cow sheen poly market. It comes as states confront growing standoff with the Trump administration over how to regulate the industry, which allows people to bet on virtually anything. The new state law makes it a crime to host or advertise a prediction market. Wow. Defines as a system that lets consumers place a wager on a future outcome sports elections live entertainment. Someone's word choice and world affairs. The mission extends to services supporting prediction markets like virtual private networks that would allow consumers to disguise their location and get around the ban. It would force prediction market sites like cows in poly market to leave the state or face possible felony charges. The law takes effect in August. Stu that flashing red light you see behind you right now is the Minnesota police. They're coming for you over. They're pulling you over. Yep. They're coming. Good luck God bless. Tried to tell you. I mean what are the chances that spreads? I don't know. Maybe. Maybe. I mean Trump. Maybe nothing. The administration is going to sue them. It's going to shut it down. I don't know that it's constitutional. Right. Let's see. Yeah. And it may take a while. So I mean it may go into effect. They're going to have to put an injunction on the actual state law. Yeah. Otherwise it goes into effect and then you're still fighting it. And they're going to. They will pull people over. Yeah. They will shut you down to make a point. And then if they get called out on it and be like oh sorry. Yeah. Yeah you were right. They were right. Sorry. I mean holy cow. The vibes at meta headquarters right now aren't very good. Yesterday morning waves of emails started arriving and nearly 8,000 employees forming them at their jobs are terminated. That's an AI bloodbath right. It sure is. Yeah. Workers have been dreading the mass culling since it was first leaked in March. But meta never addressed it. So these layoffs affect about 10% of the 78,000 people that work at meta. Earlier this week the company said in a memo that it would also move 7,000 employees to AI related initiatives and close 6,000 open roles. So those are job openings that you saw that you applied for. Don't worry about it. Those are gone. Apparently a morale is pretty low at the old meta offices. Things have gotten so bad some employers are begging for the virtual pink slip just to get the 16 weeks. 16 weeks minimum severance. Okay. That's not bad. Not bad. Four months. An employee who worked at the company for over a decade told San Francisco, I tend to cry in the shower. Oh no. I mean, I know you're sad. Yeah. Come on. Don't admit that. I know. I know. You're talking to a news person, right? You don't want that. Everything's going on in the meta. I tend to cry in the shower. Okay. All right. Zuckerberg said that way back in 2022, right? I mean, the layoffs were a correction to COVID era over hiring, but really these are rounds are freeing up funds for AI spending. And the tech giant has pledged to spend as much as $145 billion this year on AI. So they rolled out a new program internally that here's, you think you're being followed now. And I want to thank Hulu for being able to put an advertisement up during the shows that I'm watching and letting me know that that product is available at a place just a couple of blocks away from my house. That's incredible. That was nice of them. It's incredible. Nice of them. I appreciate it. I appreciate it. The privacy we've given up as Americans is astounding. Seriously. I remember, you know, 20, 25 years ago in Houston when they, I mean, everybody started getting, I mean, some people had it, but everybody was getting the toll tag. And my producer Keith Melanek was all up in arms of, well, we're going to know where I am. I'm not getting a toll tag. I'm not doing the toll tag. I think he has a toll tag now. Absolutely. I think you've got a permanent toll tag on your phone and your iPad and everything else that's in your car. They know where we are every second of every day now. And we don't even think about it. And I was thinking about that actually yesterday when we were playing the Trump RX speech that they were telling us about Trump RX. Yeah. And he was going through what the website does. And the website is awesome. And the, you know, the drug prices are great. And I love, I love the whole thing. But then he talked about how you just log on and you tell them where you're at. And this is where you live. And this is where your pharmacy is. And I mean, I know I've already resigned myself to believing that they already know that. They already know all of that. Yeah. But you're just making it worse. Yeah. So they already know and we just have that attitude. We're just confirming it. They already know that. So it differences a bit. Yeah, it doesn't matter. And we just give up more and more every day. Because they rolled out a new program internally. This is MetaNow that tracks employees every move on their computers. Oh, good. The company said that it would use the data to train AI models on how people actually complete everyday tasks using computers. A lot of workers didn't like that. They launched a petition urging execs to end the tracking program. The UK workers are attempting to unionize because this damn meta, they're reporting record profits right now. So damn Zuckerberg. Good times over at Meta. Good times. Good times over at Meta. Boy, another place that's having a good time is Starbucks, Korea. They do have a job opening if you're looking for a kid. The CEO was fired after the company launched a marketing campaign called Tank Day on the anniversary of a 1980 massacre of pro-democracy protesters. So the people were all wound up in to see voking, painful memories of a brutal military crackdown on pro-democracy protesters in 1980. So this group that owns all these Starbucks in South Korea said that it sacked their CEO, Song Zhang Han, because of inappropriate marketing. So it was, I don't know what he was thinking. I mean, he put starts a campaign for, called Tank Day and called the tumblers on the tagline were put it on your table with the sound of tack. And so on the day that the whole movement was celebrated, we're really weird. Definitely not a good move. So if you're looking, you know, how many people were killed back in the 1980s? Did it give a number? It was just says, just says a massacre. I don't know how many people were killed. Strange. Probably more than two. Probably. Yeah. I'm just guessing. I don't know. I would guess no number. Massacre would probably be more than two. Yeah. Although the Boston massacre was what? Five. See. See. See. Okay. It might not be that many. Colossal biosciences. The company best known for trying to de-extinct the old woolly mammoth and other creatures has said now it has hatched chicks from an artificial eggshell. The biotech company said that it aims to resurrect lost creatures. They've hatched these live chicks in an artificial environment. A development that was, you know, the met with a little bit of mixed reviews from scientists and critics of the de-extinction fiction. 26 baby chickens ranging from a few days to several months old were born from a 3D printed lattice structure that mimics an eggshell. Colossal previously announced that it had genetically engineered living animals to resemble some extinct species, the mice with long hair, which were supposed to mimic the woolly mammoth and the wolf pups, the dire wolves. So the CEO, Ben Lamb, who's been on this program before in the past, said that if the artificial egg technology could one day be scaled up to genetically tweak living birds to resemble New Zealand's extinct South Island giant Moa, whose eggs are 80 times the size of a chicken and would be difficult for any modern bird to lay. We wanted to build something that nature has done a pretty good job of developing and making better and scalable and even more efficient. Yeah. I mean, I just, I would like to say that I don't know about you Pat, but I've been crying for the return of the South Island giant Moa. Man, oh man, do I want a South Island. It means a lot. It means a lot. Right. It means a whole bunch. Really does. One of the things that we talked about earlier in my fat five, my daily fat five on pet grand least, the show that airs right before this program on Blaze TV and Blaze radio was Jackson Pollock painting that sold this week. Gosh, this is unbelievable. It's Jackson Pye. It's the painting that finally freed Jackson from the shackles of conventional easel painting and produces one of the first truly abstract paintings in the history of art. And I mean, I don't know what I'd pay for it, but it wouldn't be the 181.2 million dollars that was paid for it. It's just amazing. If you can see this on, on video somewhere, um, and you're watching our stream, it's, uh, beautiful is the word. He took paint and he throw it at the canvas. I love it. Actually, all it is a four year old could do a four year old has done this. Not like this, my friend. Differentiates like this from a four year olds painting with Jackson Pollock signature on it. That's about it. That is it. It's just the signature. Yeah. I mean, that's unbelievable. It's unbelievable. It's a, it's a big painting and it's, uh, I was really beautiful and I would like to have it. It is not beautiful. It is. I wouldn't like to have it. That's incorrect. But I would, uh, I'm not paying 181.2 million dollars. No. And as I mentioned earlier today, this fulfills one of the communist goals for America that was entered into the congressional record in 1962. Two of those goals are fulfilled in that. What you see right there. Goal number 22 continued discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American communist cell was told to eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms. Goal number 23 control art critics and directions of art museums. Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art. I, well, I'm not a communist and I love it. I think it's, I love the paint. Well, they, okay. All right. They fulfilled their goal here. Am I, am I a communist and I don't know it? Um, yes. That's your fat five. But now you know it. Your fat five. All right. Triple eight, seven, two, seven back. Oh crap. Turns out when did that get there? Common sense ain't all that common. But around here, it's still standard equipment. Glenn Beck returns in a minute. Let me ask you something. How many different places do you have to go right now just to understand your business insurance? And I don't mean to buy it. 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Go to supershore.com slash back. That's supershore.com slash back paid for by SuperShore Insurance Agency LLC, a licensed insurance agency. It's spet and jubby for Glenn this week. We were just talking about Jackson Pollock. This is amazing because he's selling a painting right now for $181 million. I mean, it's sold. That's sold. Just sold. Sotheby's was it or Christie's. Okay. Um, and it's not the most expensive one that he, that, you know, of a Pollock. It's just was set a record there at Christie's. And the poor guy when he died in 1956 was worth, um, well about $200,000. So that was, I mean, the decent amount of money to, to have in 1956. Well, he wasn't extravagantly. But he rarely sold a painting for more than $8,000 back then. He sold one in 2006 for what today would be $200 million. $200 million. And again, he's throwing stuff at a canvas. Uh, just slopping. But it's the way he does it. It's the way he does it. He takes paint on a paintbrush and then he throws. I know, but if you look at that creation, that creation that sold for a 100 and I'm looking at it right now, 181.2 million. Yeah. What do you, what do you want to tell me about it? It's going to change my mind. How he put the paint on the canvas. Yeah. He, as I said, he threw it at the direction and you can, you can feel all, you can almost feel what he was feeling when he was incredible rage. Was it a blind rage? And he was just pissed in the, in the right part of it. Yes, but he seems happier on the left part of art. I don't, I just don't get it. I don't know how that's happened. I really don't. I mean, I would love to have that painting. I'm not spending 181. I put it first of all, I mean, it's impossible for me to spend something I don't have, but I'm not paying 181.2 million. Yeah. I don't know who would. That's amazing. It's, it's a lot of money. Yeah. I mean, even if you're a billionaire, that's a lot of money. Sure. But you know, the wife wants it. So you get it for her. I guess so. Yeah. I guess. And where do you put that lovely? Wherever she wants. Wherever. Okay. Wherever she wants. And you like it. Yeah. And you like it. Except they don't, except they don't. I guess for that kind of money I could pretend. Look, you've got your estate under construction right now. Yes. And perhaps there's a place where Jackson Pollock wants the, once the remodeling ends. Yeah. There is in my garbage can. It's outside my house. Yeah. No, I got a nice little place for it. I'll even put it in the recycling bin so that they can, you know, take it and grain it up and turn it into something else. I mean, I think that's nice of you. Yeah. I think it is. And environmentally friendly. More coming up. This episode is brought to you by Expedia and Visit Scotland. Start your story in Scotland. Experience the pool of wide untamed landscapes and fresh cuisine that feels rooted in place. 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Anyway, we're going to talk to him about that for the show tomorrow on Pat Gray Unleashed, which is seven to nine live Eastern. And then right immediately preceding this programmer anytime and anywhere you want to see it on, on a podcast, wherever you get your podcast. But we've got to, we've got to get into this Spencer Pratt Los Angeles situation. He's running for mayor of Los Angeles. He has put out some of the most creative ads for a campaign I've ever seen in my life. We'll get into that coming up in 60 seconds. You know, there's a certain kind of person who can't go on vacation without turning it into a full scale logistical operation. Before the car even leaves the driveway, they've checked the weather in three states mapped out gas stations along the route, packed enough snacks to survive a civilization collapse and informed everyone that if anybody has to go to the bathroom, you better speak now or prepare to suffer for the entire journey. 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Now they will disparage him by saying, oh, he's a reality star. That's all he's ever done. Never run anything. Yeah. Uh, the guy has run a brilliant campaign with these creative ads, uh, that have gone viral all over the place. And it seems like there's a new one every day. It's pretty amazing. Pretty, pretty awesome. He's also, you know, shown his trailer on his burned out house lot in Pacific Palisades, his house burned to the ground. So does this. So did his parents house. And friends. The ground and his friends burned to the ground. So he's got this trailer out on an empty lot. And really, I mean, he believes that that all burned down because of the ineptitude of Karen Bass and her, her, you know, administration and he's right. Yep. And so he's alerting Los Angeles that, uh, that there's an alternative there. I mean, Karen Bass, I don't know how she has any support at all. And then, you know, her like-minded, uh, council, city council member who's also running for mayor. I mean, they're all responsible for the ineptitude that caused, uh, those fires. Maybe didn't cause the fires, but certainly allowed them to spread and wipe out so much of Los Angeles. It's just, it's criminal. It's criminal. Nobody will ever be held accountable for it, but you could hold them accountable in this election. Anyway, here's Spencer Pratt's latest AI ad. This is, I mean, this is almost indistinguishable from an actual Legos movie. It's really good. Watch this. Hell. And burning down our street. Dirty needles, human waste. We just named two awful things. A stolen car, a burned down house. You know what's awful? Everything. The locks, a camp of addicts down the block. Lots of tents, a very big mess. Awful sins are not the best. Camps, traps and crap. They're awful. Crack, smack and shacks. They're awful. All done. All done in Legos. Awesome. So good. Karen Bess is awful. Everything is hell when you're part of a scene. Everything is awful. And she's killing our dreams. Mmm. Wait, somebody's fighting back now. Standing up and taking flack now. Okay. Stands the threat, lost everything. Watch the flames take everything. But instead of looking down, he's exposing this whole town. Calling out the corrupt machine. Somebody's gotta clean this scene. Let's go. Truth, proof and receipts. Not awful. Alright, I want to vote for him. And make it big. I know, me too. Not awful. One man a plan and he won't quit. Not awful. Spend some pride is done with all of this. Awful. Spend some pride is fighting. Everything gets better when you fight for the seed. Spend some pride is rising. He's gonna save LA's dreams. Everything gets better when somebody stands up. And refuses to quit. Spend some pride is fighting. And we're done with all of this. Stop. Stop. Brilliant. Oh yeah. So good. Absolutely. I think this guy has changed the way campaigns will run from now on. The way they operate, the way ads happen. Right. And look, they aren't necessarily, some of these are just, they're just releasing online. Yeah, that's true. It's not even. It's true. Really inexpensive and then they go viral. Right. And you're getting all kinds of free advertising. Just post them. It's just phenomenal. Make a post. I really want to vote for them. And here's the great thing in Los Angeles, we can. You may be able to. We don't have to show ID. We don't have to prove citizenship in Los Angeles. According to Karen Bass, we don't have to be citizens at all. That's for sure. I mean, we're here legally. So let's vote. I mean, there's a 60 minute interview with her that I sent in. That's really, I don't even, I could barely make it through with her. Oh wow. Awesome. I mean, she's terrible. Really? But there's other Spencer Pratt ad, this AI ad, this year. I don't know if it's the one I had sent in. The one I sent in is the, maybe it's. This one is a song, right? No. Oh, it's not a song. No, it's three guys outside at the barbecue. Yeah. And they're in LA and they're like, you know, we can't talk about who we're going to vote for. Is that this one? Yeah, I don't know. Let's see. Let's see. Yes. Okay. Yes. This mayor race is really heating up. Who are you guys voting for? Haven't decided. Same. Haven't really been following it. Same. Same. Same. I'm not MAGA or anything. But the city's kind of gone to sh** that, right? Oh yeah. Jessica stepped on a needle at the playground the other day. I'm not MAGA or anything though. I'm not MAGA or anything, but have you been downtown lately? Looks like an episode of The Walking Dead. Not that I'm MAGA or anything though. Spencer Pratt seems like he has some good ideas. Not that I'm MAGA or anything. He does seem really angry all the time though. Well, they did burn his house down. Not that I'm MAGA. Also, apparently he's staying at the Bel Air Hotel, not the trailer on his property. Well, yeah. But they burned his house down. We're all adults here. How about on three we just say who we're voting for? One, two, three. Spencer Pratt. Yeah. Spencer Pratt. Spencer Pratt. You're not alone. Can you imagine if our wives knew? We're all voting for Spencer Pratt, right? Of course. Obviously. I wish I could vote like yesterday. That is so good. Right. So relatable. How many Angelenos are thinking that right now? Not that I'm MAGA or anything. And that was his point in the one interview that I saw of him is that, look, people are telling me they're going to vote for me. Yeah. And they're not telling the pollsters though. Right. Because they're embarrassed by it. You know, they're probably Democrats, but they're. They're not MAGA or anything. Reasonable Democrats. And they know it's embarrassing to be saying that you're voting for a guy who's considered MAGA. And I don't even know that he is, frankly. No, he just wants to change the LA. Although President Trump did endorse him. Said he's behind him 100%. So. There's that. There's that. There's that. That's pretty great though. I mean. In most places, when an endorsement from Donald Trump means quite a bit. Don't know. I don't know if it will in Los Angeles. I feel like it's the opposite in LA. Yeah. Probably. And they're using it against him. Right. They keep talking about him being the MAGA candidate. Which, you know, and then he leads into it. So. Okay. I don't know who he has on his team, but they're brilliant. Absolutely. He's getting great advice. They're running an incredible campaign. I mean, this guy came from nowhere. He was in the, I don't know, 1% range a short time ago. He's battling with Bass for first place. It's pretty impressive. Sure is. It's unbelievable. And I really hope he wins because Los Angeles used to be a beautiful city. Yes. A great place to visit. I'm sure it was a great place to live. Yes. But look at it now. I mean, he pointed out some of the issues with the feces in the street and the homeless encampments and my daughter's not going to need to let the park. Yeah. Not that a mega or anything. It's genius. Meanwhile, Karen Bass was on 60 minutes. Oh yeah. Did you mention this? She's great. I think you'll see. I think you'll make it all the way through this. Cut 21. When you talk to Jake Tapper in 2023, you said that your goal was to end street homelessness in LA by 2026. It's now 2026. And we haven't ended it. We have not ended it and we're not close to ending it. How are you so off? Well, basically when I said that it was at the beginning of my term. I am very committed to achieving that goal. I didn't anticipate some of the bureaucratic barriers that I would experience, but I am prepared to take those on now. And let me just give you an example. Pause it for a sec. What I'm going to say is I've really sucked up until this point, but I'm going to be great. Now I know. In my next term. Now I got it. Now I got it. All right. It took me four years to figure this out. I didn't anticipate these barriers that I had. Who knew? Yeah. Who knew there was anything to go through here? Who knew there was going to be a headwind? I didn't know that. But now. I got it. Now I'm going to be terrific. So ignore my track record and just know that Shangri-La is coming. Nirvana. Absolute Nirvana. Heaven on Earth is on the way. Karen, is that you? Pretty much. But there's more. I was made a decision probably 20, 25 years ago to not address street homelessness, to focus solely on building. And granted, I have fast tracked 42,000 units of affordable housing, but it still takes a couple of years. A couple of years. So basically the policy of LA City and LA County was we could accept street homelessness as long as we were building. We didn't anticipate the problem metastasizing. Oh, come on. Stop there. In my three and a half years, for the first time two years in a row, street homelessness has decreased in our city. There hadn't been a decrease before. That's actually true. That is a quality of life issue that impacts all Angelenos. Whether you are unhoused or whether you run a business and your business can't function because there's tents outside. Whether you're a parent that's trying to navigate through tents to get to school or whether it's residents where it has decreased the quality of life. So this is a problem that all Angelenos experience. And we have got to have a commitment that this has to end. The city and the county never made that commitment before. And I found something that surprised me. I found a lot of people who work internal in this system who were very resistant to ending street homelessness. But you promised that it would go away 100 percent and it's only gone down about 17.6 percent. Right. So why should people trust you that you're going to be able to get to the 100 percent? Because when we just told you for the first time we've had a decrease at all. There was not a decrease before at all. Because there was no commitment to get rid of street encampments. And we had encampments all over the city. So I would ask for people's trust in the sense that we have absolutely made progress. We know what we need to do now to end street homelessness. We need to end the failed policies of the past, which is all we're going to do is focus on building and we are going to ignore street homelessness. That is what the city and the county has done for years. Ignored street homelessness. That's insane. Just unbelievable. If you buy into that, wow, you'll get what you deserve. Seriously. You'll get it. It's like somebody's been punching you in the face 100 percent of the time for the last four years. But here's the thing. In the last one year, they've only hit you in the face 17 points. No, I'm sorry. No, 83. 82.4 percent of the time. That's it though. They're just going to keep hitting you in the face. Now 82 percent of the time, not 100 percent. So don't worry about it. Everything's great when you're part of a team. Thank you. Or as Spencer said, everything is awful when you're part of her team. That is incredible. Seriously. How do you vote for her? You've got to be. I don't know. You've got to be a glutton for punishment to vote for her. She has all the unions backing her. Oh, gosh. I don't know about the rank and file. So that may be an issue for her. I mean, just drive downtown and take a look around. Is it better, worse, or about the same? You tell me. More coming up in one minute. You can learn a lot about a person by just walking through their house. 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That's realestateagentsitrust.com. 10 seconds, then back to the show. It's Patton Jeffy for Glenn. On the other side of the country, you know, you've got the two biggest cities in America that are just battling for their lives right now. Just battling for their very lives. Los Angeles and New York City, where you've got a Islamianist in office. And look, they voted for it. Here you go. That's the battle, one of the battles, and he won. And the tendency is to say, well, you get what you deserve. But the problem is New York City is really important to America. And the world. And the world. Really. I mean, but for sure America. Yeah. So, Zaran Mamdani is trying his best to chase rich people, the wealthy, out of the city, and it out the penthouse of Ken Griffin. And that, as you could possibly imagine, kind of upset Ken Griffin. Really? He was planning to do a six billion dollar project in New York City that would bring jobs and beautify the town. And someone's saying that they were going to tax him more. Because he doesn't live full time in that penthouse right up there in this building. It cost, if you can believe it, $238 million. So obviously it's bad. Right. Right. So here's Mamdani maybe backtracking a little bit. This is a report on the latest in the Zaran Mamdani Ken Griffin situation from Wynn's radio in New York City. Mayor Mamdani confirms a member of his team has reached out to Ken Griffin. And it's part of invitations that I've made to a number of business leaders across the city. And I've appreciated those conversations. He did not link it to the video he made outside Griffin's Pioneer's Row building, promoting the Piede Terre tax, a video Griffin called creepy and weird with consequences like moving jobs and projects out of New York. The mayor would like a sit down. But also I'm there to listen. Oh, yeah. I'm there to have a conversation that goes beyond places of agreement, but perhaps places of disagreement here on us. Reflection critique and not put any precondition on the nature of that conversation. He says there would be no preconditions and adds he did not get the sense that Griffin needed to hear a public apology. Oh, I got that sense. You know, if I'm Ken Griffin, I'm going to tell him, you know, stick that up your rectal cavity. I'm no, I'm not meeting with you. In fact, I'm moving out of this city. So if something, if you're in a meeting and you're going beyond agreement, is it that always disagreement? It seems like it. Yeah. He's just trying to double talk so people understand what's really going on. Unbelievable. Triple eight, seven, two, seven, PECK. Pat and Jeff for Glenn this week. We're coming up. When we talk about Israel, we're not just talking about a place. 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Discover George AI and Glenn AI perspectives on modern events by joining the torch community at GlennBeck.com. Pat and Jeffy for Glenn Today. Triple 8 727 BECK. The Department of Homeland Security announced its identification of more than 10,000 foreign students who allegedly work for dubious employers as part of its crackdown on visa work programs. This is only the tip of the iceberg. Over the past year, we've dramatically expanded our oversight of OPT. According to DHS spokesman, many of these employers include NGOs, non-governmental organizations, engaged in suspicious activities. We've discovered empty buildings and locked doors at addresses where hundreds of foreign students are allegedly employed. So this gives me an incredibly great idea. Let's invite another 600,000 foreign students from China. Wouldn't that be great? Well, here's the thing. Is that an idea? What's the thing? We have to do that. Yeah, we do. You're right. You're right. Universities. They'll go out of business. They will go belly up just like that. I don't necessarily like the way you said that. But it's true. That's true. Yeah. Yes. Essentially, the thought is good. Maybe not the delivery of the thought. But I don't understand that particular agenda item by the president. I don't get it. But he's really committed to it. He is. He has. He's been and has been. And he doesn't seem to, you know. Not backing off it at all. He's kind of doubled down on it. Yeah, he definitely did. And that was one of the excuses, right, that the universities would close. And we find that very hard to believe. Yeah, I just don't buy it. And maybe we need to, and maybe, look, it was pointed out to me that perhaps he's doing that to bring them in and recruit them as spies. Oh, OK. So. Shhh. 4D thinking on his. Yeah. Yeah. He's got a bigger, deeper plan there. And maybe does. I hope he does. I really do hope he does. That would be good. Yes, it would. Because what we've realized so far is that rather than recruiting them for the CIA, they continue to work for the Chinese government, the CCP. It seems to be working the other way. Send all our secrets back to China. You know, look, look, here's the thing, Pat. What's the last time you got your news from a Chinese newspaper? Maybe the same thing is happening there. Maybe? Maybe the same thing is happening there. Maybe they're reporting on all these Americans coming over here to spy on us. And they need to be out of the country. Well, we do have 800 Americans in Chinese universities. So it's possible that if they shipped all those back to the U.S., their universities would collapse. Well, it collapsed. It just go belly up. They can't do it without that American money in their university system. Speaking of big money, Jeff Bezos was on CNBC. And finally, you got a billionaire here. You have a billionaire in Ken Griffin who's pushing back a little bit. And now Jeff Bezos is pushing back on things. And Elon has pushed back, you know, the whole time. The whole time. The whole time. And they need to be. Bezos was talking about education spending in New York City. Listen to this. A good example. The New York City school system. Right. They spent $44,000 per student. Per year. $44,000. That's 30% more per student than other big cities like Chicago, LA, and Boston. It's three times more than Miami and Houston. And by the way, New York City doesn't get better outcomes. So this, listen, let me just say, if we ran Amazon the way New York City runs their school system, your packages would take six weeks to arrive. We'd have to charge you a $100 delivery fee. And then when the package did finally arrive, it'd have the wrong item in it anyway. If they ran it the way New York City runs their school systems, it just would. And like he said, it's not equating to really high test scores or graduation rates. It's not. It hasn't helped at all. Yeah. That whole money argument, well, you're not spending enough per student. Really? Take a look at New York. Take a look at, say, Washington, DC and see what they're getting for their money. Money is not the answer. So I'm glad he pointed that out to them. He also talked about taxes a little bit. So people talk about making the tax system more progressive. How about we start by having the nurse and queens not pay taxes? Okay, I want to be a nurse and queen. Why is a nurse and queen who makes $75,000 a year paying more than $1,000 a month in taxes? That's $1,000 a month that could help with rent or groceries or anything. And so, and by the way, do you know what that all adds up to? The bottom half of income earners in this country pay only 3% of the taxes. It's only 3%. We can find 3%. So we don't have, it's a small amount of money for the government, you know that? And really, the more I thought about it, to me, it's kind of absurd that we're doing it. It is, isn't it? We shouldn't be asking this nurse and queens to send money to Washington. They should be sending her an apology. It really makes no sense. I wish you'd pushed that a little bit for no kidding. By talking about who really does pay the load, because the richest 1% always get pounded when it comes to taxes. Yeah, you're not paying your fair share. Not enough. You're not paying enough. Not enough. You're not paying anything. Not paying any taxes, which he's about to debunk here in a second. But the richest 1% pay 51% of the tax burden. And the wealthiest 10% pay 90% of the tax burden. Huh. Hmm. Okay. What is the fair share here? Let's determine that. What is 100%? I think it is 100%. Maybe more. It's more because it's 100%. And then when you die, we're going to take that, too. Which they do, of course, which they do. But this is great because he starts explaining a little bit our capitalist system. He does. Here he is talking about the fixed pie. Where does this, you know, kind of this anger come from? Right. And I said it's kind of, you know, a tale of two economies. And I think that really is what's going on. But there are also some deep misconceptions that are worth people thinking about. And there are a lot of people who don't understand this kind of zero-sum fallacy. So you know, they think that if there's a bunch of wealth over here, that there's a fixed pie. Right. You know, we've got one pizza and there are seven people and there are eight slices. Who's going to get two slices? That is not how economies work. So it isn't a fixed pie. It grows. So and people get, their mental model is that wealth is like water in a drought or food in a famine. It's, you know, you could hoard food in a famine. You could hoard gasoline in an energy crisis. You could hoard water in a drought. You could hoard toilet paper in a pandemic. Right. And people did. But you can't hoard investment. Right. So if you're like, if you have stock in a company, that's not hoarding. That's investing. And investing is more like farming. And you would definitely want to farm in a famine. Do you see what I'm saying? I do. And so this, the billions of dollars of investment that have come here have come from that Amazon stock. Right. By the way, when I sold that Amazon stock, I paid capital gains on it. Which is a, don't even get me started on that. The double taxation, the triple taxation, because he paid taxes on the money that he then invested. Then when he gets a return on his investment, he pays taxes again on that. And then when he dies, he pays another tax on the estate tax. They'll take 50% of it. Why? How did we get there? And our founders were all pissed off about an excise tax. A penny or a quarter cent or half a cent. Yes. Yeah. Unbelievable. You know, the stamp, the stamp tax, where they paid it on, on not just stamps, but paper goods and things. They were upset about that. Yeah. What would they say to what we've got going on now? It's unbelievable. It's, the fixed pie situation is, you know, you don't, I mean, we're not, well, he explains that too. Here's what he had to say about the fixed pie. Is that what we just played? I think it is. Yeah. We talked about the pizza. Right. Yes. Because it's kind of, I mean, we, you have made this, made this argument forever. That it's not one pie. You make your own pie. Exactly. So if you're, if you have a pie and you cut it into sections, Jeff Bezos isn't taking the biggest part because he's got his own pie. Capitalism. But I want some of what Jeff Bezos has got. Okay. Then make your own pie. I want some of that over there. No, you can't have that because he has it. He baked his pie. Now he's eating it. You can bake your own pie. I don't like what I've baked. Because capitalism is a, is a bakery. I don't like what I've baked. Or it's a pizza shop. Or it's an ocean where you back up in your truck and you put water in the ocean. There's still plenty of water in the ocean. Right. Right. Yeah. It's so frustrating. But what about high prices? He discussed that as well with CNBC. These people sometimes say that, that, you know, I don't pay taxes. That's not true. I pay billions of dollars in taxes. And it's a, again, if people want me to pay more billions, then let's have that debate. But don't pretend, you know, that this, that that's going to solve the problem. You could, you could double the taxes I pay. And it's not going to help that teacher in Queens. I promise you. This is, so you can't connect those two things. Not logically. You know, there, there, there are more examples. Why is rent expensive? Why is rent so expensive? Because I recently saw somebody that did an Airbnb. That's right. Okay. Airbnb is not the cost of an expensive rent. In fact, it's been almost, no, no. It's been, it's been a year, one sec. It's already been outlawed in New York City and rents are still very high. So we know Airbnb is causing high rents. What's really causing high rent is government intervention. Thank you. We subsidize demand with things like tax policy, which is fine. But at the same time, we constrain supply. We constrain supply with things like zoning and permitting. Why does it take so long to get something permitted to build? If you want rents to come down, Econ 101, really simple. You need to, you can't subsidize supply, I mean, sorry, subsidize demand and constrain supply. If you do, prices are going to skyrocket. But this is not anybody's fault other than government policy. And this is fixable. Again, this is a skills issue. Well fix it for us, Jeff. They should put together an advisory council that he's part of. Okay. He and Elon and I don't know, Tim Cook at Apple. I love when he was talking to those. CMBC was cutting and he was, hold on. I was speaking. Yeah, let me finish here. All right. That was great. He's not used to people talking. No, he's not. Usually when Jeff speaks, everyone just lets him go. Pretty much listens. Yeah. Yeah. And you probably should because he knows a couple of things. But he's right. If, you know, if he's paying, I don't know what his tax bill is, but if he's paying four billion a year, you can double that and make it eight billion. It's still going to the government. It's not going to the nurse in Brooklyn. It's not Queens, I'm sorry. Brooklyn chicks not getting anything. No, neither is the one in Queens, frankly, because the government takes it and they squander it. Now, Jeff Bezos on a personal level, I'm sure he gives plenty to, you know, fill in the money. He absolutely does. He absolutely does. And you know, all billionaires do essentially. In fact, some of them have actually vowed that they're going to give away their entire fortune before they die. My kids have to earn it, which is kind of BS. I mean, they've already, they've already set up trust funds. I'm sure. Yeah. But that's their money. They should do what they want. They can do what they want with it. Absolutely they can. Jeff has not said that though. No, he has not. The wife still wants another new yacht or something. He's not giving that. But it's his money. Again, he created, he created a company that has revolutionized the United States of America. Changed the world. Yeah. I mean, we expect things. He did that. Steve Jobs did that. Yes. And it's, and they deserve a big reward for their efforts. Absolutely. And especially Jeff Bezos. I mean, his Amazon has changed the world. Sure has. It's changed the way we expect goods to arrive. It's changed how we get goods. I mean, all of it. I mean, it's incredible. Yeah. And in capitalist societies, there's a reward for that. If you don't like it, you know, you can always move to Venezuela and see what happens there. See if you like that a little bit better. Right. 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This clip from Ted Cruz yesterday going up against Maisie Harono. It really isn't a fair fight to be honest. He decimates her and the whole Democrat party. Yes. You don't want to miss this coming up in 60 seconds. You know, fortune favors the bold. That phrase describes something important about the American spirit. Unfortunately, there's another group of people who live by that same philosophy. Criminals. Because it takes a certain kind of boldness to walk up to somebody else's house and decide you have a right to what's inside of it. And these days there are plenty of people who would love nothing more than to break into your home, steal your property and turn your life upside down. That's why your home needs real protection. And that's why I want you to look at Simply Safe. Simply Safe has built a home security system that helps protect your home 24 hours a day with cameras, sensors, smart locks and professional monitoring. 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In fact, I want to go back to her comment. She began by saying we have a long history of racial discrimination in this country. That's undoubtedly correct. Then she said, quote, we had poll taxes. We had literacy tests. We even had tests of how many jelly beans are in a jar. Mr. Chamberlain, when Senator Hirono says we had poll taxes, I want to ask you who we is. Similar, what party was it that implemented poll taxes in the South? I don't want to necessarily speak in every single case, but I'm pretty confident it was mostly the Democrats. What party was it that put literacy tests in place in the South? Same answer, mostly the Democrats. What party was it that had tests like how many jelly beans are in a bottle? The Democrats. Tell me, what party were the founders of the Ku Klux Klan from? I'm pretty sure that was the Democrats. Indeed, in fact, Nathan Bedford Forrest, the founder of the Klan, was a delegate to the 1860 Democrat National Convention. What party wrote the Jim Crow laws in the South? The Democrats. Democrats. And so on this side of the aisle were members of the Republican Party. Who was the first Republican president? Abraham Lincoln. The Republican Party was literally founded to oppose slavery. We came into existence because slavery was a grotesque evil. And it was President Lincoln, the first Republican president who signed the Emancipation Proclamation, who won the Civil War and that resulted in the freeing of the slaves and the passage of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments. By the way, fast forward to the civil rights era. Let's do that. Bill Connor, one of the most noxiously racist politicians. What party was he from? He was a Democrat. The Democrats for the entire history of their party have been a party based on racial discrimination. They affirmatively embrace it. They support it. Let me ask you, Mr. Grime, is discriminating based on race consistent with the United States Constitution? No. What does the 14th Amendment say about discrimination based on race? It's prohibited. What does the 15th Amendment say about discriminating based on race, and in particular drawing congressional lines and explicitly discriminating based on race? It's prohibited. Now the Democrats are fond of telling this story that is, and I wish I could find a kinder way to say it, a flat out lie, that without discriminating based on race, that no African Americans will be elected and no Hispanics will be elected. Indeed, there was one fellow online who was a vocal left-wing spokesperson who tweeted out, if I'm advising anybody to run for president, they sure as hell better have a solution to how you make sure that it's not another 100 years before another black person can represent South Carolina. That's a typical Democrat statement that we cannot elect a black person in South Carolina without discriminating based on race. I want to ask you, Mr. Chamberlain, who is the junior senator from South Carolina right now? That would be Tim Scott. I'll tell you what I said online. I said, hey, Grock, who is Tim Scott, and why do Democrats think he isn't black? By the way, was Tim Scott elected because of a gerrymandered district drawn only to elect an African American? No, he won statewide. He won statewide. By the way, the Democrat position is you can only elect African Americans with a gerrymandered district. I'm going out, Burgess Owens, an African American has elected the majority white district in the state of Utah. He's a Republican. Byron Donalds, another African American has elected the majority white district in Florida. He is a Republican. John James, another African American has elected the majority white district in Michigan. He is a Republican. And my own congressman, Wesley Hunt, who represents me in the House of Representatives, he has elected the majority white district. He is a Republican. And yet in the Democrats' world, you're not black if you're not a liberal Democrat. There is an arrogance to African American voters. By the way, they also have that same arrogance to Hispanic voters. They say you're not Hispanic if you're not a liberal Democrat. Well, I'll tell you, I am proud to be the first Hispanic ever elected to represent the state of Texas in the United States Senate. Mr. Chamberlain, in my election in Texas, was I elected the gerrymandered district that could only elect an Hispanic? No, you were elected statewide. Statewide. Discrimination based on race is wrong. Final question. The Democrats are now clutching their pearls that seats drawn to elect liberal Democrats in the South are going to go away. You may get black Republicans instead. In Tennessee, they're freaking out that a liberal white guy who's a Democrat is likely going to lose his seat to an African American woman who's a Republican, and they say that's horrible racial oppression. My final question is this. If you look nationwide, which party has egregiously abused gerrymandering for decades? Both parties are guilty of it. But who has been the worst offender, and in particular, take New England, take Massachusetts, take Connecticut, take Rhode Island, take Maine, take Vermont, take New Hampshire? How many Republicans are elected from all of New England and the House of Representatives? I think the answer to that is zero. Zero. They've drawn every district in a naked gerrymander, and yet they're very upset that their illegal pursuit of power has now been stopped by the Supreme Court that is enforcing the Constitution and prohibiting the racial gerrymandering discrimination their party is built on. Mr. Cromit, just to point it out. Mr. Cromit, part of personal privilege. Oh, you should have been fired. I feel personally aggrieved to sit here and to be lectured by my colleague from Texas. Well, you need it. And this reminds me of the time when he was first elected to the Senate, and the shared committee had a hearing on gun safety, and he felt a need to lecture Diane Feinstein, who was a leader on gun safety legislation, and he took that opportunity to lecture Diane Feinstein about gun safety and her legal disability issues. Talk about his sense to him. She said to him, something along the lines of, I did not sit here on this committee for however many years she did only to be lectured by you, and that is how I feel. So why don't you just stop lecturing the rest of us? Just because you think you are the smartest person in the world doesn't mean the rest of us agree to that. Senator Harono? Senator. I knew Diane Feinstein. I served with Diane Feinstein, and you're not Diane Feinstein. All right, Senator Padilla, we're done. She couldn't address any of the substance of that brilliant eight-minute speech. So great. She wouldn't address it at all. No, well, because she can't. She should have just sat there and shut up. Yeah, there's nothing she could say to it. It's all fact. Just take the meeting and leave it alone, but she can't. She can't. She can't. Because slavery, Democrats, civil rights opposition, Democrats, Jim Crow laws, Democrats, the KKK, Democrats, all of it, through the years, the entire existence of this country, somehow, I don't know, somehow miraculously they've turned this around on Republicans, which shows how good they are at deflecting the blame that should be placed directly on their shoulders and they blame others. But what a great eight minutes from Ted Cruz. It was a good beatdown. So good. It was a good beatdown. She deserves it. I don't know that it worked. I don't know that it matters, especially to her. Yeah, it doesn't. I don't know that she understood it. Probably not. She didn't seem to. No, she did not. I won't be lectured. I won't be lectured by you. Well, you just were. Right. That's too bad. Right. Tough. Oh, man. Agenizing. And you are, and I will, I mean, Diane Feinstein was a nightmare, but Macy is no Diane Feinstein. No. That's for sure. Ted Cruz is 100% true. I mean, it's through that entire beatdown. He said was spot on. No question. No question. Then we've got Rand Paul, another really good Republican who is still trying to make justice happen. He won't. He just needs to, man, let it out. Man, why do you? He has a dog with a bone on his Anthony Fauci thing. He's still going after Fauci. Here he is with Matt Kibbe. I think this was yesterday. Watch what he had to say. About Fauci. Cut 11. You know, to us, it was extraordinary that from very the beginning, from the very beginning, the CIA scientists that were hired to look at this said, it looked like it came from the lab. All of the evidence seemed to point towards that this was a lab leak and all likelihood accidental, but that it came from the lab and we're on China. And yet they were being overruled by people. Specifically, the whistleblower said that Anthony Fauci came in 2020 and they had a 90 day period in which all the intel was going through the National Intelligence Center. They were going to come up with a conclusion of what everybody was thinking that Anthony Fauci was brought in and basically they took his opinion over all their scientists. And their scientists were nearly unanimous. It was like six out of seven of the scientists that were experts in this field. All said it came from the lab. Anthony Fauci comes in and says, no. But the one question they never ask, and this is the real sort of conspiracy and people say, what is the conspiracy? Is it people rubbing their hands together and making money where they're all in a cabal? It's not really as sexy as that. It's more that they have the same convergence of interests. George Carlin said you don't need to have a conspiracy to explain something where interests converge. And the interest is basically covering their tracks because they funded this dangerous research. It was a serious mistake in judgment. Maybe one of the worst mistakes in judgment of the last century to fund dangerous gain of function research in Wuhan, they funded, now this virus takes off. So what do they do for the next several years? Even people didn't know each other. They're all doing the same thing. We don't want anything to link us to funding this. And so we'll just deny that it was gain of function. So I think the shocking thing was that how much power Anthony Fauci had even in the CIA. This isn't the NIH. This is the CIA that Anthony Fauci is influencing. Right. Wow. Right. And look, Fauci has said we've seen his testimony. Right. We've heard his testimony that he believes, look, we weren't doing gain of function. Well, because they, you know, through Obama was the one that shut that down. But the point was Dr. Fauci is that you were funding the labs that were doing gain of function. So it was all just a front. So then he tried to deflect away from the labs that he was funding. Which is why he was so adamant about that. Even if some of that timeline, and I don't remember at all, I'm sure Rand Paul does, but some of that timeline also showed that, and this was Fauci's thing is I was giving money to these people. What those people did with the money, I had nothing to do with. So he was, you know, he was funding one of groups of scientists that would then give money to another group of scientists that were doing gain of function. So he was, I got nothing to do with that. Okay, okay. And then we find out that he was, you know, they were all taking his word for it. He was in control of them all. Then somehow they tried to make it a racist situation that anybody would dare even bring China into this discussion. That's where it came from. Right. What are you talking about? Why is that racist? How is that racist? I don't know. But to Democrats, like Ted Cruz pointed out, everything is racist. Oh yeah, absolutely. They practically invented racism. They sure did. Yeah. And look, they, then it was the bat, right? It was a lab leak in the bath and they were pushing out. Somebody was eating bat soup that was tainted with COVID. Yeah. And it was tainted with COVID because- But that wasn't racist to say that Chinese are eating bats. That wasn't racist. Because they were, the bats were being sold out the back door of the Wuhan lab. And because they had bats that had been tested, they were, I heard this is one report, because they were, the bats had been tested. They were already in this scared mode. And when they were in this scared mode, they create this thing in their body that people shouldn't eat. And then it was sold at the market and people were eating. And that's COVID-19. Oh. OK. Sure. You got it. That makes more sense than it came from the lab. Yeah. 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The athletic brewing company. Food and beverage. All right. Great. 81. Alo Yoga. That's an apparel company. Okay. Not familiar with them, but okay. You should come to one of my yoga classes. So you should do it. I should. Then you'd want to get some Alo Yoga merchandise. Let me know when your next one is. I'll be there. Okay. Okay. All right. Honda Motor Company 81.4. Costco number five with 81.4. Nvidia Technology 81.8. Nvidia. Out of 100. That's what I said. Yep. Isn't it? It is. Okay. I'm just reinforcing. It was in the video. Samsung. Samsung. 81.8. Toyota Motor Company number two. Wow. And Chewy, the e-commerce company. Chewy. Don't sound like you don't. Chewy. Chewy is no one. None of these companies got 100. They're all in the 80s. Huh. I guess that's the best score. 82.5 is the best score this year out of 100. And Chewy is. Chewy is number one. What does Chewy do? PJ's saying they do pet things. Pet food. E-commerce. Yeah. Food, okay. Chewy. E-commerce. 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Right now in Texas, there are huge areas of land that are being dedicated to only Muslims, frankly. Just if you're a member of Islam, can you live in that society? There's one near Plano called Epic City that, you know, a mosque is right in the, a giant mosque is in the middle of it. And then there's an Islamic center and everybody in the community is Islamic. Now, is that legal in America? Can you exclude people of other faiths from moving into an area? They're doing it. Well, the answer is no. You can't. But, and they will tell you that, right with the one, the one had Muslim guy that we saw speaking somewhere. Was he a mom or something? Yeah, sure. Are you talking about the podcast they did? Were they bragged about it? Yeah. And he said that they can, we don't, you can move in. You can come and look at the house and you can move in, but all your money goes to the mosque and they're going to make it very difficult. Your life is not going to be one of, hey, there's our friendly neighbors. Yeah, they made it clear. So they, so they only want Muslims. Right. Right. That's the whole thing. And the concern was that they were going to establish Sharia law, which would of course be unconstitutional. And they will. They can't do that. And they will. They will and have. And yes. And so I assume you're getting the call to prayer and all of those things every morning, five times a day, whatever. And so there's another situation now in neighboring Frisco, which is an upscale neighborhood, an upscale town in the Dallas metropolitan area. And so in Frisco, they had a city council meeting and some people showed up to testify about it because they're considering a Hindu tent, two Hindu temples and a giant mosque in Frisco now as well. And so they invited comment and here's one of the people that shows up, Joel Teamy, who apparently doesn't want mosques in Frisco, Texas or necessarily anywhere in America. But check out what he had to say about this. Next is Joel Teamy from Iowa City, Iowa. After that, we'll have Kelly Smith from Aubrey. Love Kelly Smith. Good evening, council members. It's a pleasure to speak before you this evening. Thank you for hearing everybody and giving everybody a chance to speak. You're welcome. Nice. You may be asking yourselves, what is a guy from Iowa doing here in this town? I'm asking myself. Just speaking on this issue. What's a guy from Iowa doing here? Well, actually, I come from Texas royalty. My great grandfather was the first president of the Texas Republic. And for a lot of you, that might sound crazy. Wait a minute. Texas was a republic. But yes, it was. Yes, it was. And my great grandfather was Sam Houston. Oh, wow. Okay. Pretty cool. Also, another great grandfather of mine was Davy Crockett who fought in the Alamo. Wait, what? Think about it. Pause it for a second. Think about it. Okay. Wait. Okay. So his great-grandfathers were Sam Houston and Davy Crockett. I mean, give that guy $200. Do not pass code. Go ahead and collect $200. I mean, you should be ruling Texas right now. And he lives in Iowa. And he lives in Iowa. He lives in Iowa. What are you doing there? Now, I guess he's preaching there or something with his family. But if he's Texas royalty. I think he's going to explain it. But he does. I don't, frankly, I don't want to cast dispersions on him. I'm not calling him a liar. I'm just saying I slightly doubt that he is the great-great grandson of both of these men. Wow. I want to see. Wow. I want to see the ancestor.com family tree. That's what I want to see. I want him to print it out and show it to us. Now, he's not going to do that, but that's what it's going to take for me. I mean, Houston had eight children. All right. With his third wife. What about Davey Crockett? Davey Crockett. And do they share relatives? I mean, do they come down into the tree somewhere? According to, according to Grock, there is no known historical or genealogical link connecting him to T.V. Right. That's what I'm finding out on the AI overview on Google as well. It says the claim that Joel Teemee is a direct descendant of Texas legends, Sam Houston and Davey Crockett. Yeah, it does know to this too. I don't know. Appears to be a personal assertion rather than a widely documented historical fact. I don't know if it's completely out of the realm of possibility, but it seems unlikely. As soon as he said it, I thought, oh my gosh. Me too. There's another great-grandson of Sam Houston and Davey Crockett. Wow. I thought I was the only one. What are the odds? I know. I'm a little embarrassed now to admit this, but I am the great-great-grandson of not just Sam Houston and Davey Crockett, but also George Washington. Yeah, well, my, I mean, a long way. And Abraham Lincoln. I wasn't done yet, if you don't mind. You don't mind. Sorry. And Thomas Jefferson. Okay. Wow. Yeah. So top that if you can. I can't. You can't. Exactly right. No one can. I guarantee you that. Anyway, let's let him continue here. That wasn't exactly the point, but no, it was not. Here he goes. If I go back even further than that, my great-great-great-grandfathers fought under General George Washington in the Continental Army. No, Davey. All right. But he's not a director. I was born on Lake Laodley Airport space. Almost every single one of my family members has served in the U.S. Armed Forces. That's cool. Yeah, I took a different route. I went into ministry, traveled to 58 countries, preaching the gospel. I was kidnapped and held hostage in 2021 by Islamists in the Middle East. These guys lived a life. While on a missions trip to take care of the Coptic widows and fatherless. If you remember the 21 men that were beheaded on that beach in ISIS in Libya, I do. I was taking care of their families. Mm-hmm. My children have lived on the mission field, on the front lines. Even my kids, my oldest, are eight years old. And their friends were killed by Muslims. I don't want to bring any mosque to Texas. Amen. To Israel. Ever. So we shouldn't have one here. It's incompatible with what it means to be an American. The oldest mosque in the United States actually is about 50 minutes from where I live now, where I raised my family. I'm 29 years old. I have six children. I'm one of 17 children, a Catholic family. Most of whom live in this area, by the way. My brother is married to an Indian. She was a Muslim Indian. And when she came to America, she converted to Catholicism, learned English, and married her husband, my brother. And that's what assimilation looks like. When she was looking for a place of worship, she didn't suggest building a mosque. She decided to go to a church, because that's where we worship as Americans in this country. The question is for Texans, what does it mean to be Texan? This question is very important, because as we build temples in this state, we are changing the layout and the structure and the fabric of this beautiful Texas state. So listen, this is not what we want. Crisis King, may God bless America, and stay true to your roots. God bless you guys. Fight for it. All right. Thank you, Joel. Okay. There you go. All right. So there's a lot there. There's a lot there. There's a lot there. The family lineage, the life he's led, and he's just 29. Pretty amazing stuff. Anyway, his point is, all right, can we stop? Can we take a breath here? Can we look at what's happening? Because you couple this with the fact that they have told us what they're trying to do. Many of them have said, look, there's going to be a Muslim in every household. Every household is going to be Muslim. America will be an Islamic state. I mean, they flat out tell us that on a regular basis. So at some point, you have to stop and listen and say, well, no. No. And things like this, the mosque, the Hindu temples, all of that are leading to that. And so it's a little bit alarming. It is. And it's a little alarming, even more alarming in places that are allowing, you know, this immigration to move into their areas. And it's very hard sometimes. It's something we need to pay attention to. It's hard sometimes. Because, you know, I'm taking them at their work. This is their goal. Because many of them have told us that's the goal for everybody to be Islamic. And not by choice, by the way, we're going to force you to be either, either you become Muslim or you can die or you can pay a tax. And we don't have to play the clip, but, you know, Jake Lang was there and he goes around to all the fires around America. And he was there, there in Frisco. And he, you know, called the city council spineless and they should throw out some words that they didn't appreciate. And another Muslim mosque. He, according to this post from Jake, there are 253 mosques in Texas already. Well, we had a figure a few weeks ago. We were talking about the mosque situation around the country. And I think it was 299. Or was it even more than that? I don't know. Let's look it up. That doesn't surprise me, but he, there's a lot. There is a lot. And Jake goes to, you know, into the Dearborn and he goes around the country and, you know, he says things that people, you know, people don't want to hear it. But he's there in the fire. No question. Now, I will say that, you know, he got thrown out. He claimed that he claimed that he got thrown out after his tirade at the city council. But, you know, the mayor of Frisco, he, this was just an administrative vote on a decades old zoning thing. So I'm sure that they're going to end up being okay with it, with the two temples and the new mosque. I'm sure they didn't take either of these guys seriously. Well, no, he, he said even so, even outside agitators attended and disrupted our council meeting. Those agitators don't represent the sentiment of most of our residents. Is that true though? Hey, I feel like that is no. Our community celebrates our diversity and will continue to do so. The actual number apparently according to AI is 330 to 350 in text. Wow. I mean, so that 250 number is way low. Yeah, that's way low. So, I don't know. It's an issue. Do we need 356? How many do we need? I don't know. I don't know. I don't know what the good number is. All right. Triple eight, seven, two, seven, BECK, more coming up. For 250 years, Americans have believed in one powerful idea. We were meant to live free, free to pursue our future, work hard, free to move, free to enjoy life without being held back. But if every day aches and pains are slowing you down, it might be time to declare your independence from pain. 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Todd Blanche, who is the acting attorney general. Justin Diden, Raoul Castro. Check this out. Cut one. Hard to find there though. Nations and their leaders cannot be permitted to target Americans, kill them, and not face accountability. President Trump is committed to restoring a very simple but important principle. If you kill Americans, we will pursue you, no matter who you are, no matter what title you hold, and in this case, no matter how much time has passed. Okay. Does that mean we're going to go get him like we did with the door? Yeah, I don't know. I mean, I don't know. He's the former president. He's 94 now. Is he really 94? Murder and conspiracy to kill U.S. Nationals. You know, the indictment's cute, but are we going to? I mean, we've been saber rattling about Cuba as well. Look, we've got. We've got Venezuela. Venezuela. We want Greenland. No, we have Greenland. According to you, we've already taken Greenland. Yeah, we've got Greenland as ours. Iran. Now Cuba, I guess. I guess we're going to take Cuba as well. Yeah, I mean, we could take Cuba before Iran. I mean, let's just make that happen. Let's just get it done. I mean, it's 90 miles away. Just take it. Yeah, it's ours. It's taken. All we have to do is go there and put a flag down. Kind of interesting. Are we going to do that? Are we going to go in and grab him? Are we still keeping them from getting oil? I mean, are they still going dark in Cuba? Are they are they are they still receiving, you know, under the under the radar tankers of oil to stay alive? I think so. Yeah, I think they are. Aren't they? Yeah. I mean, it's not a good situation. No, it is not. I mean, things were bad enough in Cuba as it was. Right. So yeah, that's. I mean, do we go get Raul? It's a chopper's in to get Raul. And if we're going to do that, we might as well grab Mexico too while we're at it. Let's go ahead and take that. All right. I can guarantee you President Trump probably would be okay with that. I think he would at this point. And if you're in Mexico, I mean, Guatemala is right there. So while we're at it. That whole peninsula there. Yeah, might as well. All the way. I mean, they like to call it Central America. It should be Central United States. It's right. Yeah. We just might change. That way you don't need a passport to go to any of those places. The Gulf of America touches all of them. Makes perfect sense. He does. It does. Perfect sense. And I mean, Canada too. We've already talked about it becoming the 51st state. I don't want it to be a state, but a province wouldn't be bad or a territory wouldn't be bad. Yeah, we're not. No, we're not making it a statehood. No. I want to stay at the even 50 number. I think that's a great number. So don't make it a state, but we'll make it a territory. Yeah. While we're at it. It's cute. You're a cute little territory for us. Thank you. It's adorable. And you play these cute little games, you know, curling adorable. Right in the mountains and everything. So cute. Yeah, it is. All right. We will see you back here tomorrow to kick off the Memorial Day weekend. Have a great day.