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Speaker 1: with my two brothers and we had a great time together.
Speaker 1: I will tell you that Miami is not a place
Speaker 1: that you, at least South Beach is not a place
Speaker 1: you really want to be over Memorial Day weekend. There's
Speaker 1: so much traffic and they shut down roads. It's like
Speaker 1: they intentionally make the traffic worse. I even asked a
Speaker 1: cop about it. I said, why are you guys closing
Speaker 1: the cause the only real way in and out of
Speaker 1: South Beach to one lane. They said, We're just trying
Speaker 1: to manage the flow. I was like, well, that doesn't
Speaker 1: seem like a good idea if you're trying to go someplace.
Speaker 1: But I had a great weekend with the brothers. We
Speaker 1: had a range day, went shooting on all day Saturday,
Speaker 1: tackle shooting stuff, and we had such a great time.
Speaker 1: I've got fantastic brothers. Names are Keats and Mason. We
Speaker 1: only like strange names in my family anyway. So we
Speaker 1: had a great day. But then I got word about
Speaker 1: what happened in a part of Miami. There's there's a
Speaker 1: mass shooting. Three guys got it's all on video. Three
Speaker 1: guys got out of a got out of an suv
Speaker 1: and just started They had semi automatic rifles and they
Speaker 1: were at a rap concert and they just started shooting
Speaker 1: into a crowd. Two people dead, twenty people hit by bullets,
Speaker 1: twenty people wounded. And this is just one of many
Speaker 1: incidents across the country that's getting attention right now in
Speaker 1: major cities. On a more day weekend, there is there's
Speaker 1: there's a lot of violence out there, and we're seeing
Speaker 1: these these viral videos of it. We're seeing what's happening
Speaker 1: in place after place, whether it's the recent homicide numbers
Speaker 1: in Portland, or the punching in the face for absolutely
Speaker 1: no reason of an Asian American woman in Chinatown in
Speaker 1: New York City, all of these different incidents where you
Speaker 1: can see these videos of people who are being attacked,
Speaker 1: people who are being shot, people who are suffering violence
Speaker 1: in our society when they should. You would think we
Speaker 1: would be safer than we've been in a long time,
Speaker 1: considering that there's been so little human contact for about
Speaker 1: a year because of COVID relatively speaking, so little contact,
Speaker 1: but no what we have is mass increases across the
Speaker 1: country in shootings and violence on the streets, and you
Speaker 1: have to wonder what is it going to take for
Speaker 1: Democrats to understand that we have to do something about this,
Speaker 1: that this isn't just going to go away. There has
Speaker 1: been a change in perception among those who are willing
Speaker 1: to or prone to do violence that now is a
Speaker 1: time when they are less likely to be caught, less
Speaker 1: likely to be severely punished. The criminal element in our
Speaker 1: society thinks that they can act with a more free
Speaker 1: hand against innocence than they have in a long time,
Speaker 1: and it comes directly from the undermining of police. We
Speaker 1: see this. It comes from the narrative that cops are
Speaker 1: the problem when really cops are the solution. And when
Speaker 1: does it finally dawn upon demokrats that if they don't
Speaker 1: change course here, this is just going to continue to
Speaker 1: get worse and they will pay a price in the midterms. Finally,
Speaker 1: the corporate media is having to wake up to this reality.
Speaker 1: They've tried so very hard to hide this, to act
Speaker 1: like it's not really something that's as bad as we're
Speaker 1: saying it is. They've done everything in their power to
Speaker 1: downplay this, but now we are finally at a place
Speaker 1: where they're seeing that the violence is not something that
Speaker 1: can be discarded anymore, not something that can be completely
Speaker 1: covered up or not covered at all really by the media.
Speaker 1: And you know what part of this is, there's there's
Speaker 1: a deep incompetence from the top down of our government. Now.
Speaker 1: I know that law enforcement is primarily a state and
Speaker 1: local issue, but there is a tone that is set
Speaker 1: from the very top, a national conversation, a national perception,
Speaker 1: and when you have people like Joe Biden and Kamala
Speaker 1: Harris in charge, there is a growing sense among people
Speaker 1: that are having to deal with all of this of lawlessness.
Speaker 1: It creates a cycle. It creates a perception that things
Speaker 1: are deteriorating, they're getting worse. And what makes that even
Speaker 1: more challenging to deal with is that they when they
Speaker 1: finally have to look at what's happening, When Harris and
Speaker 1: Biden and this White House and this Democrat Party at
Speaker 1: the national level has to look at the situation, can't
Speaker 1: just avert their eyes anymore. They take the wrong lessons
Speaker 1: from it. We have violence escalating in this country, and
Speaker 1: what do Democrats focus on? What are we hearing about
Speaker 1: from them. Oh, that's right, A January six commission, that's
Speaker 1: what that's what we really need to be hearing about.
Speaker 1: We need to be hearing about the January six commission,
Speaker 1: as if that's going to make anyone truly safer, as
Speaker 1: if the real problem out there is that we haven't
Speaker 1: had enough of a focus on one riot that involved
Speaker 1: right wingers, one riot that did not result in a
Speaker 1: single fatality of law enforcement or a bystander, but did
Speaker 1: result in the death of Ashley Babbitt, an unarmed female
Speaker 1: protester shot in the neck. But the narrative that you
Speaker 1: hear from Biden is very similar to what you'd hear
Speaker 1: from say, lunatic leftist Keith Olberman, who if you follow
Speaker 1: his stuff on Twitterman, this guy, I think he's in
Speaker 1: the process of a long sustained mental breakdown, and maybe
Speaker 1: he's been in the midst of some kind of an
Speaker 1: emotional meltdown for many, many years now. But this is
Speaker 1: what you hear from democrats. Cities are are deteriorating. I mean,
Speaker 1: for Miami, which is a great city with great people,
Speaker 1: on some Memorial Day, we can have a mass shooting
Speaker 1: people just pulling up to a crowded a crowded venue
Speaker 1: and shooting into the crowd three people. This is this
Speaker 1: is third world lawlessness kind of stuff. And you would
Speaker 1: think that there would be a sense of urgency to
Speaker 1: tackle this, to deal with it right away. It's Miami,
Speaker 1: it's Portland, it's la It's New York, it's Philadelphia, it's Washington,
Speaker 1: d C. It's Detroit, it's New Orleans, it's Saint Louis.
Speaker 1: You'd think that there would be some willingness to see
Speaker 1: what's really going on, to take some kind of action.
Speaker 1: But no, they'd rather talk about the January sixth insurrection.
Speaker 1: Play three. This is the attitude those of us who
Speaker 1: want democracy and not dictatorship must take. Republican dominated states
Speaker 1: attempting to rewrite federal law or Supreme Court verdicts or
Speaker 1: the basic right of every American to vote, must suffer
Speaker 1: twice as much as they try to make the rest
Speaker 1: of the country suffer. The Republicans are lost. They are
Speaker 1: committed to Trumpism. They are committed to refusing all election
Speaker 1: outcomes they do not like. They are committed to violence
Speaker 1: faced with the existential issue that the demographics of the
Speaker 1: nation will make them into a permanent minority. They are
Speaker 1: willing to sacrifice everything, including you and me and this
Speaker 1: nation's future, to retain their power. It is like invasion
Speaker 1: of the body snatchers. They are gone. Stop trying to
Speaker 1: negotiate with them. The Republican's naked attempt to overthrow the
Speaker 1: government last January was just practice. These are bullies, and
Speaker 1: bullies stop only when they are hurt more than they
Speaker 1: can hurt. And the Anti Democracy Party must be hurt
Speaker 1: so badly that it can never recover. Bye Bye bar
Speaker 1: gard A Party. This guy is out of his mind.
Speaker 1: He's great. Just remember MSNBC used to pay this guy
Speaker 1: millions of dollars to be their biggest host at eight o'clock.
Speaker 1: You remember that this got this lunatic. They're trying to
Speaker 1: overthrow the government lost January? Yes, how exactly, how are
Speaker 1: a bunch of unarmed, unarmed rioters going to overthrow the government?
Speaker 1: How was that? I just want one of these leftist lunatics.
Speaker 1: I just want one of them to explain to me
Speaker 1: how this plan was supposed to come to fruition. I mean,
Speaker 1: what are they going to do? A sit in? Well,
Speaker 1: democrats do that in state capitals and other places. In
Speaker 1: Congress they do that whenever they want. That's not going
Speaker 1: to overthrow the government. What were they gonna do? What
Speaker 1: was Qann Shaman really going to withstand? And an assault
Speaker 1: from from Metro swat, from the National Guard, from you know,
Speaker 1: FBI tactical teams, what was he gonna do? He's gonna
Speaker 1: throw his spear at them. This is this is very
Speaker 1: damaging though, because they use the exaggeration of January six,
Speaker 1: They exaggerate what happened on that day. They use this
Speaker 1: to bludgeon the other side, to bludgeon conservatives into silence,
Speaker 1: while the true authoritarians continue to be the Democrats. The
Speaker 1: true authoritarians in this country vote for Biden and Harris
Speaker 1: and our leftists and our Marxists and our communists. That's
Speaker 1: what's really happening in our society. But they have this
Speaker 1: narrative that they think excuses or erases the reality of
Speaker 1: you and I can so plainly see the only violence
Speaker 1: they want to talk about is a day that the
Speaker 1: violence was against a protester, a rioter, and not actually
Speaker 1: lethal against the state. Meanwhile, day in and day out,
Speaker 1: people who live in our cities, our fellow Americans, our neighbors,
Speaker 1: people are being shot in ever increasing number month to month,
Speaker 1: year to year because of the undermining of law enforcement
Speaker 1: and the abandonment of rule of law and individual responsibility
Speaker 1: in society as a foundational principle by the Democrat Party,
Speaker 1: because what do they offer us up instead? Oh, we'll
Speaker 1: just spend more money and teach more critical race theory,
Speaker 1: and that's really going to solve the problems. That's really
Speaker 1: going to make everything seem so much better. I eat
Speaker 1: no for breakfast. So have I been told many times
Speaker 1: during my career things from oh, you're too young, it's
Speaker 1: not your turn, they're not ready for you. You know
Speaker 1: onelike you has done it before. I've heard all of
Speaker 1: those things many times over the course of my career,
Speaker 1: but I didn't listen. And I would encourage anyone who's
Speaker 1: been told at whatever their gender, to not listen, because again,
Speaker 1: don't be encumbered by the inability of others to see
Speaker 1: the potential of who you are. Why would I make
Speaker 1: you listen to some Kamala Harris stuff there? Why would
Speaker 1: I make you do that? You might be asking that question.
Speaker 1: I understand that's a fair question for you to ask.
Speaker 1: It's because I want you to really understand this is
Speaker 1: the vice president of the United States, and everything she
Speaker 1: says sounds like a nightmarishly boring um just boiler plate
Speaker 1: hr seminar. I mean, this is the person. She reminds
Speaker 1: me every time in my life when I've worked for
Speaker 1: a company or you know, back in college or something,
Speaker 1: and I had to sit through some you know, you know,
Speaker 1: wop bomp, Charlie Brown mom kind of like what am I?
Speaker 1: Why am I being talked to this way? Kamala Harris
Speaker 1: gives a speech and it's as inspiring as listening to
Speaker 1: an airline attendant tell you you about how to put
Speaker 1: on the seatbelt. Right, that's what That's what it reminds me.
Speaker 1: If you're just sitting here, you go, why why do
Speaker 1: I have to listen to this? This person is really
Speaker 1: the second in command and a sense of the United
Speaker 1: States government. Oh, she's already backing away from the border,
Speaker 1: you know that. They they're already saying, well, that's not
Speaker 1: really that's not really hers. We'll get into that in
Speaker 1: a little bit. But she was at the Naval Academy
Speaker 1: giving a graduation speech over the weekend, and she got
Speaker 1: a lot of heat because it was a more of
Speaker 1: a weekend, and she put out a tweet that was basically,
Speaker 1: you know, have a great weekend everybody, and people were like, Okay,
Speaker 1: do you know what the weekend's about? Did you know
Speaker 1: what people are thinking about for this weekend? What it
Speaker 1: brings to mind? No? No, she did not, did not
Speaker 1: give that much thought at all. And yet Kamala was
Speaker 1: at the Naval Academy giving her speech and let's just
Speaker 1: say that she sunk her battleship, so to speak, did
Speaker 1: not make it through the Naval Academy speech. It was
Speaker 1: not a good speech. And this is the kind of
Speaker 1: stuff that the in his sense deputy command or a chief.
Speaker 1: I know that's not really a title, but here's the
Speaker 1: kind of stuff that she was saying at the Naval Academy.
Speaker 1: One country's carbon emissions can threaten the sustainability of the
Speaker 1: whole earth. One country's carbon emissions can threaten the sustainability
Speaker 1: of the whole earth. Oh gosh, we should well what
Speaker 1: do we do? Yeah? What are we going to do?
Speaker 1: If that's true? Shouldn't the climate change movement just be
Speaker 1: lobbying China every day to change what it's doing? Why
Speaker 1: does the climate change movement in this country even bother
Speaker 1: with what America's doing. When at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: if China doesn't change its ways, we're not going to
Speaker 1: be able to avoid the catastrophic warming they say is
Speaker 1: going to happen. Well, you all know the answers to this,
Speaker 1: but you know I'm showing you this stuff. I'm telling
Speaker 1: you about this stuff, whether it's about Kamala Harris, Joe Biden,
Speaker 1: because the fact that these are the people who are
Speaker 1: in charge explain so much of what you see going on. Yeah,
Speaker 1: a lot of things are still functioning. Well, we're still America.
Speaker 1: We still a great country with incredible people who are
Speaker 1: doing amazing things every day. But when it comes to governance,
Speaker 1: when it comes to those who are given power to
Speaker 1: make decisions for the benefit of this nation and to
Speaker 1: defend the constitution, we have people in charge. You say,
Speaker 1: I can't believe they're in charge of anything. I mean,
Speaker 1: Joe biden't have to ask you. Would you hire another
Speaker 1: A lot of business owners who listened to this show,
Speaker 1: would you hire Joe Biden to do anything for you,
Speaker 1: customer relations, work, in the package room, whatever, I think?
Speaker 1: The answer is no, No, you would not. And withal
Speaker 1: with Kamala Harris, I mean Democrat voters and essence already
Speaker 1: really passed their judgment on her at the national level
Speaker 1: when she could barely get any attention, any support when
Speaker 1: she ran for president. But now we got Kamala Harris
Speaker 1: lectures happening all the time. This Midshipman is the era
Speaker 1: we are in, and it is unlike any era that
Speaker 1: came before. So the challenge now, the challenge before us
Speaker 1: now is how to mount a modern defense to these
Speaker 1: modern threats. So let me share with you, for example,
Speaker 1: a personal experience. A few years ago, when I was
Speaker 1: in the United States Senate, I visited the USS Scranton.
Speaker 1: It was outside of San Diego, California. I know it's
Speaker 1: so it's so boring and so uninspiring that I again,
Speaker 1: I don't want to take up your time. I never
Speaker 1: want to waste even a minute of your time. But
Speaker 1: you did hear this is the vice president. Really, this
Speaker 1: is this is what what we're hearing from you. Though
Speaker 1: she she had a particularly rough time in this speech,
Speaker 1: I think everybody really understood that it was it was
Speaker 1: it was bad. Um, there's actually a here you go.
Speaker 1: There was a line she made a joke Um, she said,
Speaker 1: just ask any marine today would she rather carry twenty
Speaker 1: pounds of batteries or a rolled up solar panel? And
Speaker 1: I am positive she will tell you a solar panel,
Speaker 1: and so would he. Okay, so yeah, female marines with
Speaker 1: solar panels. That's that's really that's the future of the
Speaker 1: United States military now, according to Kamala Harris friends, Um,
Speaker 1: it really is like the third tier professors somehow gathered
Speaker 1: together in the faculty lounge and came up with how
Speaker 1: they're going to run the United States federal government. That's
Speaker 1: what your go that's what you see happening right now. Fortunately,
Speaker 1: there are still checks and balances in the system. Their
Speaker 1: places like Florida with Governor Ron de Santis and even
Speaker 1: Governor Abbott and Texas is doing some good stuff to
Speaker 1: fill in the gaps here, the gaps and governance, but
Speaker 1: it's not going to get any better with Biden or comlike.
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Speaker 1: made it a point to call, for example, friends of
Speaker 1: mine not only when they're successful in something, but also
Speaker 1: when they've had a big downturn in some regard if
Speaker 1: friends of mine have ever lost their jobs, because you
Speaker 1: remember that, you remember when people reach out to you
Speaker 1: when things are tough, and you remember when people reach
Speaker 1: out to you and congratulate you. These are things that
Speaker 1: I will tell you. You learn a lot about individuals
Speaker 1: in those moments. And I was honestly so thankful for
Speaker 1: people in my life but also in conservative media who
Speaker 1: had really nice things to say when the announcement was
Speaker 1: formally made last Thursday that I will be and I
Speaker 1: try to be very specific about how I say this,
Speaker 1: and I've been thinking of reflecting on this a lot
Speaker 1: of the weekend. I will be taking over a poor
Speaker 1: of the radio time slot formerly held by the great
Speaker 1: Rush Limbaugh. That's I'm not replacing. I'm not taking over
Speaker 1: all of it. I'm taking over a portion of the
Speaker 1: time slot. I will be Premier's show with Clay Travis,
Speaker 1: the two of us together in that time slot, Clay
Speaker 1: Travis and Buck Sexton show. That's it. There's no replacing Rush.
Speaker 1: And you know, I'm I'm very clear on that Rush
Speaker 1: is the giant of our industry. Right. You know, if
Speaker 1: you if you come after Henry Ford, you know who's
Speaker 1: the who's the CEO of Ford Motors? You know, after
Speaker 1: Henry Ford? Can any of you think now it might
Speaker 1: have been a great CEO? But you know there's Henry Ford.
Speaker 1: There's everybody else, right, who's the I'm just trying to
Speaker 1: you know, Steve Jobs, Well that's recent enough, maybe you'd
Speaker 1: know that it's, uh, the other guy whose name is
Speaker 1: Tim Cook. But Tim Cook is great and Apple's the
Speaker 1: most profitable it's or you know, the most valuable it's
Speaker 1: ever been. But he's not Steve Jobs. So I get
Speaker 1: and I want to I really want to establish that
Speaker 1: level of respect here. It's important. I also want to
Speaker 1: say that the people who are in my business who
Speaker 1: went out of their way to say nice things. Especially. Look,
Speaker 1: when they reach out to me privately, that's great, but
Speaker 1: also when they say something publicly about it, it's really meaningful.
Speaker 1: Because I'm a guy who, I will tell you, in
Speaker 1: this business, I've been I've just been grinding it out
Speaker 1: for a decade now, and there have been some some
Speaker 1: things that should have gone my way. I think that
Speaker 1: didn't hear in there. There have been some TV opportunities
Speaker 1: that I was very close to getting and did not
Speaker 1: get for whatever reason. And you know, and that's, by
Speaker 1: the way, that's a part of being in media, and
Speaker 1: I understand that. But you know, I've had some some
Speaker 1: close calls where things would have been very different in
Speaker 1: a very good way. But I had to just keep
Speaker 1: on doing what I do. I had to keep on
Speaker 1: showing up, doing the best possible show that I could
Speaker 1: and having and focusing on the work. That's always been
Speaker 1: my thing. I've focus on the work. You'll note I
Speaker 1: don't I don't get into petty things with people. I
Speaker 1: don't spend my time. I certainly don't spend time on
Speaker 1: this show criticizing or attacking other conservatives. If anything, I
Speaker 1: want to I want to uplift them. I want to
Speaker 1: have great guests on my show, and I want to
Speaker 1: praise people on the right who were doing good work
Speaker 1: in media. So they're the people that were very nice
Speaker 1: to me and they're recently or you know, said very
Speaker 1: nice things that I want to take a moment to
Speaker 1: say thank you to them. And then there are also
Speaker 1: the people that I owe my career too at some level.
Speaker 1: Rush is one of them. My feeling on this has
Speaker 1: always been that Rush Limbaugh gave me and he had to,
Speaker 1: he had to approve it and bless it. So he
Speaker 1: really was the one who gave me my big break.
Speaker 1: Filling in for Rush Limball many times, but even just
Speaker 1: that first time, I think I was the youngest person
Speaker 1: to ever do it, and that was really meaningful. That
Speaker 1: was a big break in my career. But Rush gave
Speaker 1: me my big break. Glenn Beck, who is a premier
Speaker 1: radio host and honestly a giant in conservative media, he
Speaker 1: gave me my start. I wouldn't be here, I wouldn't
Speaker 1: be doing what I do right now without Glenn Beck.
Speaker 1: And I really want to say that toll, and that's
Speaker 1: not you know, I wouldn't be successful and have had,
Speaker 1: have had some of the opportunities, especially this most recent
Speaker 1: opportunity of going in twelve to three starting June twenty first,
Speaker 1: hundreds and hundreds of stations across the country with my
Speaker 1: co host Clay Travis. I wouldn't have that without Rush,
Speaker 1: So clearly I'll a huge debt to Rush, but I
Speaker 1: wouldn't have even been in the game without Glenn. I
Speaker 1: wouldn't have even started this. And Glenn actually told this story.
Speaker 1: You've heard me tell it before. He told it on
Speaker 1: his show last week, and just you know, his team
Speaker 1: reached out to me and Stu Bridgear who is I think,
Speaker 1: I said Burgear pardon me, but Stu. I just know
Speaker 1: if it's Stu. Stu is a great guy, and he
Speaker 1: reached out to me and said congratulations, and it was
Speaker 1: so kind. That would have been more than enough for me.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's just nice to hear from people in
Speaker 1: the industry who have good things to say. But Glenn
Speaker 1: really really went the extra mile for me. And you know,
Speaker 1: Glenn's a guy who I don't talk to him a
Speaker 1: lot these days, but he knows that I respect him,
Speaker 1: I appreciate him, and if I ever saw him, you know,
Speaker 1: and I mean if I bump into him somewhere at
Speaker 1: a venue or something, I mean, I give Glenn a hug.
Speaker 1: We hug. That's how I feel about Glenn Beck. Here's
Speaker 1: what he had to say about the announcement last week.
Speaker 1: They have just announced a replacement for Rush Limbaugh, and
Speaker 1: I couldn't be more excited and thrilled. It's two people.
Speaker 1: One of them is Clay Travis. Clay Travis, I don't know,
Speaker 1: you know more because he's mainly came from sports, but
Speaker 1: I'm a big fan of what he's done. And I
Speaker 1: am so excited that a friend of mine and a
Speaker 1: former co worker, Buck Sexton, is going to be the
Speaker 1: second half of the partnership, the duel that will replace
Speaker 1: Rush Limbaugh. How awesome is that for her? He was
Speaker 1: a Blaze contributor. He worked here for a long time.
Speaker 1: He was going security, Yeah, he was National Security. He
Speaker 1: sat there in my office I don't even know, fifteen
Speaker 1: years ago and I said you need to work here,
Speaker 1: and he said, I'm going to work on Wall Street.
Speaker 1: And I said, ah, you need to work here. And
Speaker 1: I don't remember how it happened, but that's what he did.
Speaker 1: He came to work for us and was very very popular,
Speaker 1: very fast, started his own radio show with Premiere, and
Speaker 1: now is going to be part of the team that
Speaker 1: is replacing Rush Limbaugh. And nobody replaces Rush Limbaugh. But
Speaker 1: and I know these guys both have a healthy respect
Speaker 1: for that, but they can you know, they're really powerful,
Speaker 1: interesting smart guys, really really smart art. I think this
Speaker 1: is going to be a powerful duo. Clay, Welcome to
Speaker 1: the family. Buck. I couldn't be more proud. And congratulations, congratulations.
Speaker 1: I honestly gotta, I gotta. I got a frog in
Speaker 1: my throat when I heard that when Glenn said that,
Speaker 1: So that was really meaningful. And what Glenn said there
Speaker 1: the only thing that he did. It was ten years ago,
Speaker 1: not fifteen years ago. But I mean it feels like
Speaker 1: it feels like twenty years ago. But it was ten
Speaker 1: years ago, almost to the almost to the day. Now,
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, I just realized this year. It was
Speaker 1: I think it was June fifth of twenty eleven that
Speaker 1: I sat in Glenn's office right around there. I'd have
Speaker 1: to go back and look at a calendar, but it
Speaker 1: was like the Wednesday of the first week of June.
Speaker 1: I sat in Glenn's office in Mintown, Manhattan, and it's
Speaker 1: just like he said. He said, you know, I told
Speaker 1: him my plans were. Why did I have that meeting
Speaker 1: Because one of his people heard about me and they
Speaker 1: just wanted me to maybe contribute some articles for their
Speaker 1: new website. That was the story at the time. And
Speaker 1: I knew a lot about national security and counter terrorism,
Speaker 1: so I was going to write articles for their website.
Speaker 1: And Glenn, to his to my everlasting gratitude and to
Speaker 1: his tremendous credit, talk to me for an hour, just
Speaker 1: the two of us, just sitting there, just talking about
Speaker 1: everything conservative meeting. He says, no, no, no, you're coming
Speaker 1: to work for me. You're going to work here. And
Speaker 1: I love that. He said co worker. I was his employee.
Speaker 1: He's being very kind. I was his employee, but he's
Speaker 1: being nice. You know. I was working for Glenn when
Speaker 1: I came on board, and it changed my life. Glenn
Speaker 1: Beck changed my life. And I've said this before, and
Speaker 1: I think people really need to know this because if
Speaker 1: you if you listen to the show, if you consume
Speaker 1: conservative content. The Blade, which I know, is doing really
Speaker 1: well now as a website, and there's a whole bunch
Speaker 1: of other talents that are doing great over there and everything.
Speaker 1: But when the Blaze got started, when it got going,
Speaker 1: that place was ninja school for young conservative pundits, writers, authors,
Speaker 1: radio host TV show hosts. It was incredible the people
Speaker 1: that came through there. If you think back to it
Speaker 1: in the early days, when I was doing a show
Speaker 1: called The Real News, it was Will Kine now at Fox.
Speaker 1: He was my co host there. Pete heg Sath he's
Speaker 1: a Fox. He was on our show all the time.
Speaker 1: We had so many folks come through. Lawrence Jones comes
Speaker 1: from He got his start at the Blaze. Comes from
Speaker 1: the Blaze. Honest. I can't even think Katie Pavlich, Guy
Speaker 1: Benson used to be doing The Blaze all the time
Speaker 1: before they got picked up at Fox. I think back
Speaker 1: to all the people that went through there. You know,
Speaker 1: Tommy Laren got her start really mean, she was at
Speaker 1: One American News, but she really blew up at the
Speaker 1: Blaze and it gave so many of us a start
Speaker 1: in a business where it's really hard to get that.
Speaker 1: And Glenn deserves a tremendous amount of credit. You have
Speaker 1: a better, more robust, more talented conservative media period because
Speaker 1: of Glenbeck's vision to start GBTV in the blaze, and
Speaker 1: he is the reason I'm even in this industry. So
Speaker 1: you know, I get a little choked up when I
Speaker 1: hear the guy that gave me my start, the guy
Speaker 1: that changed my life. Let me pursue my passion and
Speaker 1: let me make a real difference in this country in
Speaker 1: whatever way that I have been able to, and hopefully
Speaker 1: we'll be able to do a bigger one in the future.
Speaker 1: To have Glenn, I mean, it's it's like getting a
Speaker 1: hug and ana, I'm proud of you from my obi
Speaker 1: wan kenobi here. That's what it feels like. There's somebody else.
Speaker 1: There's somebody else out there who had very kind things
Speaker 1: to say and is a great guy. And I really
Speaker 1: appreciate not only what he said about me, but what
Speaker 1: he does for conservative conservatism day in and day out.
Speaker 1: And I'll get to that in just a second. Some
Speaker 1: people in this business are really generous and really supportive,
Speaker 1: and I appreciate them. There aren't very many of them
Speaker 1: who are like that, but there are some out there
Speaker 1: who are willing to give a high five and congratulations
Speaker 1: to other people in the field. They're not just thinking
Speaker 1: about themselves, just talking before about what Glenn Beck had
Speaker 1: done for me and how he changed my life, and
Speaker 1: so I'm forever grateful to the guy. And also I
Speaker 1: do really just respect him. He's a great storyteller, he's
Speaker 1: a great talent. He's done a lot for conservative media,
Speaker 1: not just with his work but also bringing into the
Speaker 1: business people like me. There are a lot of folks
Speaker 1: who do this, you know, if you like Laurence Stones,
Speaker 1: if you like Will Kine, if you like you know,
Speaker 1: I can't even think of them off the top of
Speaker 1: my head. So many different talents got started with Glenn
Speaker 1: at the Blaze. So he's done a lot for conservatism.
Speaker 1: Another person who is doing a lot for conservatism and
Speaker 1: the conservative media and for this country is Dan Bongino.
Speaker 1: Dan Bongino has been a friend to me and he's
Speaker 1: advised me on things. He's spoken to me at detail,
Speaker 1: at length about conservative media strategy and how we get
Speaker 1: our messaging out there. And as you know, he's involved
Speaker 1: in Rumble, he's involved in Parlor, and I've been a
Speaker 1: huge supporter of his efforts to make those platforms happen
Speaker 1: because that allows conservatives. We're creating those spaces we're creating
Speaker 1: those platforms to be able to have our message heard.
Speaker 1: It's just essential. We're not gonna win unless we have
Speaker 1: these things. But also, Dan's just a good guy. He's
Speaker 1: always been an honorable guy, and I appreciate him in
Speaker 1: this business. And he had some very kind words to
Speaker 1: say about my announcement last week, and I want to
Speaker 1: let you hear him. And then I want to say
Speaker 1: a few words about Dan. So yesterday a friend of mine,
Speaker 1: Buck Sexton, and Clay Travis. Well, I don't know, but
Speaker 1: i've heard as a good guy. Don't know him, never
Speaker 1: met him before in my life, but I do know
Speaker 1: Buck very well. First off, I want to sincerely congratulate
Speaker 1: both Buck Sexton and Clay Travis. I don't Again, I
Speaker 1: don't know Clay, so I don't want to be disengagious,
Speaker 1: but I heard he's a great guy. I do know Buck.
Speaker 1: Buck is a great guy, and I know they're both
Speaker 1: very talented and have built very very good quality audiences
Speaker 1: by producing great product. So I congratulate them on their success.
Speaker 1: Very kind words from Dan, and deeply appreciated what he said.
Speaker 1: There is true. Dan and I have known each other
Speaker 1: for years. We have both filled in for Sean Hannity
Speaker 1: in the past on radio, and Dan has earned and
Speaker 1: this is really, this is something that I think you
Speaker 1: need to know. There are some people who are in
Speaker 1: this business who you know, they got a family member,
Speaker 1: or they they have a leg up or something, or
Speaker 1: they got a famous last name. Dan Bongino has earned
Speaker 1: every every pair of eyes, every pair of ears. He's
Speaker 1: got himself through talent, hard work, determination, and he's been
Speaker 1: willing to tell people like me some of the things
Speaker 1: that he's picked up, some of the things that have
Speaker 1: worked for him along the way to help other Conservatives
Speaker 1: because he wants our side to win. He's a warrior
Speaker 1: for our team. He believes that what's what's best for
Speaker 1: the country is what's important first and foremost. And anybody
Speaker 1: who's with him, anybody who wants to do their part
Speaker 1: in trying to fight for the values that we all share,
Speaker 1: he'll actually give a hand up. That is rare in
Speaker 1: this business. There are a lot of people and I'm
Speaker 1: not going to name the people who aren't generous this way.
Speaker 1: I mean, last week there were there were a couple
Speaker 1: of folks who maybe made an announcement or something on
Speaker 1: the day of my announcement. You know, there are a
Speaker 1: couple of people out there, but I don't want to
Speaker 1: focus on anything negative. I don't want to do that
Speaker 1: because that's not that's not what I'm about. I was.
Speaker 1: You know, there are a couple of folks I was
Speaker 1: a little disappointed in last week. UM So instead of
Speaker 1: talking about them, I'd rather just say thank you to
Speaker 1: Dan Bongino, a great warrior for conservatism. He is going
Speaker 1: to be the Cumulus Westwood one host, as you know,
Speaker 1: from twelve to three. And Dan does a great show
Speaker 1: and he's a great guy and he's has always been.
Speaker 1: So if you're ever wondering, it's like, what does what
Speaker 1: does Buck think of Dan Bongino? This here on the
Speaker 1: record for all of you. I like Dan Bongino a lot,
Speaker 1: and he's earned every bit of his success and he's
Speaker 1: obviously been phenomenally successful, particular the last few years in
Speaker 1: conservative media. He's earned it a lot of respect for that.
Speaker 1: And then there's of course Glenn Beck too, And you
Speaker 1: know what, can I tell you? Glenn changed my life? Right,
Speaker 1: So Glenn and Dan, thank you to both of you
Speaker 1: so much. And to say the things you said, I
Speaker 1: know they both meant it. I know they both meant it,
Speaker 1: and they didn't have to say it, and they did
Speaker 1: it anyway. They're good guys, they're quality individuals, and I'm
Speaker 1: honored to have worked with them and been a part
Speaker 1: of the movement that we're all fighting for alongside them,
Speaker 1: shields high, as we say, it's almost like the corporate
Speaker 1: Democrat aligned media is suddenly discovering that there's violence in
Speaker 1: a lot of American cities that's getting worse and worse
Speaker 1: month after month. Places like Portland almost seem out of control.
Speaker 1: Is this really sudden? Is this really something they've just
Speaker 1: figured out? Let's get our friend David Harsani in the mix.
Speaker 1: He's a senior writer at National Review dot com. Go
Speaker 1: check out his latest pieces there. David, great to have you.
Speaker 1: Always a pleasure. Thank you. What do you think about this?
Speaker 1: I mean, how could they not know that this is
Speaker 1: what's going on? Well, I mean they knew obviously, right,
Speaker 1: I know they knew, but you know what I mean, right, Like,
Speaker 1: it's like, oh, I guess we have to cover this now, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know. I mean last summer, you know, it was
Speaker 1: a president presidential election going on, so it was inconvenient
Speaker 1: for them to discuss, you know, widespread leftist of violence.
Speaker 1: Now I'm not saying these people are members of the
Speaker 1: Democratic Party, but they're leftists. They share some of the
Speaker 1: common goals of some Democrats. And you know, they were
Speaker 1: involved in the most expensive riots in American history, you know,
Speaker 1: over billion dollars. I think it was insurance companies had
Speaker 1: to pay out. And you wouldn't have you would have
Speaker 1: thought that, you know, there were just some you know,
Speaker 1: mini uprisings here and there, and that had nothing to
Speaker 1: do with leftism. And then now you know, in Portland
Speaker 1: where there's a huge spiking crime, some of a dude
Speaker 1: to de policing and you know, defunding the police. You know,
Speaker 1: they have to cover it and they try to frame
Speaker 1: it as you know, some wild extremists have hijacked the movement.
Speaker 1: But that's not what it really looked like to me,
Speaker 1: at least when it was happening. And I have to say,
Speaker 1: I want your analysis of what's really going on in
Speaker 1: the minds of people who say public and I'm talking
Speaker 1: with those who have platforms who have influenced who say
Speaker 1: that defund the police is a good idea or something
Speaker 1: to be pursued. I have a hard time believing that
Speaker 1: anybody is that stupid. But it's also surprising to me
Speaker 1: because it seems that they don't care that they're being
Speaker 1: shown to be that stupid every time they say it.
Speaker 1: You know what I mean, This is something that it's
Speaker 1: such a foolish idea. It's so counterintuitive to any rational
Speaker 1: person that it should be embarrassing to say out loud.
Speaker 1: I think there are people who know better who say it, David,
Speaker 1: but they're not embarrassed to say it. Yeah, because they
Speaker 1: can join this movement and they you know, and they
Speaker 1: will be praised by the right people, and no one's
Speaker 1: going to call them out on the TV shows they
Speaker 1: appear on and so on. So, you know, first it
Speaker 1: was to fund the police, and then you know, when
Speaker 1: it started to maybe hurt Biden and other Democrats, and
Speaker 1: all of a sudden it was, well, we don't you know,
Speaker 1: it just means redirecting funds and stuff like that. Well
Speaker 1: why didn't just say that originally? But even then BLM
Speaker 1: activists would be like, no, we don't want cops. You know,
Speaker 1: we wanted to fund the police departments. And you know,
Speaker 1: I'm not sure people know this but we are not
Speaker 1: a heavily policed place. In many countries in Europe, for instance,
Speaker 1: there are more cops per capita than they are in
Speaker 1: the United States. It's not as if, you know, police
Speaker 1: forces are huge in this country and involved in our
Speaker 1: lives in the way they are in many other countries.
Speaker 1: And to defund the cops who are protecting quite often,
Speaker 1: you know, the most vulnerable populations in this country is insanity.
Speaker 1: You're not helping the people you're supposed to be, you know,
Speaker 1: supposed to be fighting for. And it's not to say
Speaker 1: there aren't bad cops here and there, but the idea
Speaker 1: that you know, you you you sort of make every
Speaker 1: cop look like a villain, and you want to fund
Speaker 1: those departments. It's just it's it's counterproductive and insane, and
Speaker 1: I just can't believe any responsible person would sign up
Speaker 1: for something like that. David, we're speaking to David Harsani
Speaker 1: everyone from National Review dot com. Do you think that
Speaker 1: that that already the numbers because they look so bad.
Speaker 1: I mean, you had last year the as a top
Speaker 1: fifty cities I think had an average of forty percent
Speaker 1: increase in shootings or might even been in homicide but
Speaker 1: it's definitely in shootings over the last the previous year.
Speaker 1: Are the midterms just already starting to crop up in
Speaker 1: the mind of Democrats? Is that already what's pushing a
Speaker 1: because you can tell there's there's the defund the police
Speaker 1: chorus is getting less loud and prominent in the Democrat
Speaker 1: Party and it seems like they're they're not they're not
Speaker 1: pivoting toward law and order, but they realize that this
Speaker 1: is starting to become a liability or do they? Um?
Speaker 1: I think most do. I mean, it depends where you are.
Speaker 1: You have you know, if you're someone who's in a
Speaker 1: completely progressive district sometimes you know a completely you know
Speaker 1: well to do prosperous, you know, dominantly what you know,
Speaker 1: white neighborhood, then you get to say things like that
Speaker 1: because it doesn't affect you. Um. You know, if you're
Speaker 1: in in a in a in a suburb somewhere of
Speaker 1: a you know, a major city where crime is starting
Speaker 1: to creep creep out towards you and things like that,
Speaker 1: you're probably worried about it now. And if you're an
Speaker 1: African American maybe in an area where where crime is
Speaker 1: on the uptick, you might you might be worried about it.
Speaker 1: I don't think defund the police is as popular with
Speaker 1: black Americans as it is with you know, the activist
Speaker 1: classed white Americans. So um, I think it's troubling. But
Speaker 1: I think there are kind of politicians in the Democratic
Speaker 1: Party now that don't really care, you know about that
Speaker 1: district in Pennsylvania that has to be held. That's a
Speaker 1: purple district, you know. So I think for Joe Biden
Speaker 1: and for leaders of the party, it's going to be problematic.
Speaker 1: And that's why you're seeing a lot of the stories
Speaker 1: you're seeing in a lot of the you know, backing away,
Speaker 1: as you say, speaking to David Harsani, senior writer at
Speaker 1: National Review, David, how are you feeling about the return
Speaker 1: to normalcy in this country? You know? I saw you
Speaker 1: had Pete Buddha Judge over the weekend saying that wearing
Speaker 1: because because you know, I flew, I was down in
Speaker 1: Miami and came back, you know, after being down with
Speaker 1: my brothers who lived down there for a few days,
Speaker 1: and all they just goad me now with you know,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, our governor's descentist, who's yours again? I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's Cuomo. It's Cuomo, I know. But the masks on planes,
Speaker 1: for example, you know, masks on planes. They say that
Speaker 1: we should do this. Pete Buddha judge says, says we
Speaker 1: should do this because it's about being respectful. This is
Speaker 1: really what I've turned it on now. This is like
Speaker 1: a cultural signifier for people. Yeah. I thought it was
Speaker 1: about science, right, and then now it's about respect you know.
Speaker 1: I went to a supermarket the other day and basically
Speaker 1: I was the only person without a mask on. And
Speaker 1: just I don't understand why we all got vaccinated. I
Speaker 1: think there were twenty cases. Maybe maybe I'm wrong about this.
Speaker 1: With something like twenty cases in my county. Today, you
Speaker 1: have to you literally have to go and try to
Speaker 1: get sick, and you probably couldn't right now, and yet
Speaker 1: everyone's wearing masks. So I don't really understand it. I don't.
Speaker 1: It's become sort of a religious right, you know, our
Speaker 1: ie to wear a mask and show that you care more.
Speaker 1: I don't even know what it's about. I care about
Speaker 1: the science, you know, and legitimately care about my you know,
Speaker 1: not getting sick and my family and we're all, you know,
Speaker 1: we're done with this we're over it, and people constantly
Speaker 1: still want to maybe relive it. I don't know what
Speaker 1: it is, but I'll tell you something. It is scary,
Speaker 1: how how easily to me, at least an unexpected in
Speaker 1: a way, at least where I live. Maybe it's not
Speaker 1: this way everywhere. How easily people were cowed and listen
Speaker 1: to authorities and allowed the state to dictate what they
Speaker 1: were wearing and what they were doing for an entire year,
Speaker 1: and some people still can't get over it. I think
Speaker 1: that's pretty scary. It's a scary thing that I didn't
Speaker 1: you know, were's chilling in a sense how easily that
Speaker 1: can happen, And you wonder next emergencies are going to
Speaker 1: happen again, or are people going to rebel? But when
Speaker 1: you see them all walking around with mass still, you know,
Speaker 1: you wonder well. I also feel like they were able
Speaker 1: to very quickly weaponize public fear for political purposes, not
Speaker 1: only against Donald Trump, but also the way that dissenting voices.
Speaker 1: I mean, we're a country, David, that I think likes
Speaker 1: to believe that free speech is more than just a
Speaker 1: legal issue in legal legal protection, but also as a
Speaker 1: principle like that there we have this concept of we
Speaker 1: should be able to share ideas with each other without restriction,
Speaker 1: without without reprisal um certainly from the government, but also
Speaker 1: from corporations or you know, we should allow for the
Speaker 1: expression of ideas that we disagree with so we can
Speaker 1: at least hear each other out. That was absolutely not
Speaker 1: what happened during the pandemic. You know what my position
Speaker 1: we've had, We've been having you on, you know, regularly
Speaker 1: during the pandemic, and I would say that whether it
Speaker 1: was on lockdowns or masks or any number of major
Speaker 1: issues of school closures, of public policy, when it came
Speaker 1: to COVID, there was a real embrace of top down
Speaker 1: authoritarianism from from both the government which shut down churches
Speaker 1: and did violate the Constitution, and also just across our
Speaker 1: culture and across corporate America and big tech. And I
Speaker 1: find I don't think that this is something that we
Speaker 1: can ignore. I think that this is something we have
Speaker 1: to actually dive into more and really get an understanding
Speaker 1: for how deep this went, it how problematic it is. Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: you make two important points there. One is that the
Speaker 1: ideals that we live by, the freedoms that we live by,
Speaker 1: are not just freedoms because they're written the fact that
Speaker 1: has nothing to do with them being written down by
Speaker 1: the state. It has to do with something that we're
Speaker 1: born with. I mean, that's what the Constitution and Declaration
Speaker 1: of Independence tell us. So if you believe in free speech,
Speaker 1: it's not just simply because it's written down, you believe
Speaker 1: in it as a value. I mean, tons of constitutions
Speaker 1: in Europe and Asia have free speech rights written down
Speaker 1: in their constitutions, but of course they're not followed, right,
Speaker 1: So you know that's important. And the second thing is
Speaker 1: that you know, people are or people in mainstream media
Speaker 1: now are obsessed or talking about January six all the time. Listen.
Speaker 1: I think it was a bad thing and all of that,
Speaker 1: but the authoritarianism we saw over the last year was
Speaker 1: far more dangerous than anything a bunch of bozos did
Speaker 1: over there at the Capitol, in my opinion. I mean,
Speaker 1: you have governors acting without any you know, just top
Speaker 1: down unilaterally, closing churches, closing your business, telling you what
Speaker 1: to wear, telling you where you can go, telling you
Speaker 1: can walk on the street without a mask in certain counties.
Speaker 1: I've never seen something like that in the United States,
Speaker 1: not in my lifetime. I think it's the most authoritarian
Speaker 1: thing we've seen, and they did it because we were
Speaker 1: all scared. Most people were scared, and that's exactly when
Speaker 1: we need those laws to work. No one really needs
Speaker 1: protections when nothing's going on. You need those protections when
Speaker 1: someone's trying to take them away. And most people just
Speaker 1: completely acquiesced to what these authorities wanted, and they're still
Speaker 1: doing it to some extent. That is scary stuff because
Speaker 1: we might have even a bigger emergency happen, and then
Speaker 1: I just don't know if the people will be able
Speaker 1: to resist or want to resist. Speaking to David Harsani,
Speaker 1: senior writer at National Review, David, you know, Kamal and
Speaker 1: Joe both gave speeches of the weekend. The media. They're trying,
Speaker 1: but they're clearly they recognize that there was an enthusiasm
Speaker 1: gap with this administration. Do you think that that's gonna
Speaker 1: Do you think that that's gonna cost them politically? Do
Speaker 1: you think that this is going to matter? Yeah? I mean, listen,
Speaker 1: I just don't believe her. Second, anyone was excited about
Speaker 1: Joe Biden becoming president. He's been around forever. He's not
Speaker 1: He's not a talented politician in the way many other
Speaker 1: presidents have been. And he's not as charismatic. Frankly, it's
Speaker 1: not to say you can't do a good job whatever.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying just as a person that's not that charismatic.
Speaker 1: And Kamala no one likes her. No one has liked
Speaker 1: what she get four percent. I think when she ran, um,
Speaker 1: did she make it to Iowa? You know, it's you know,
Speaker 1: I mean, she made it to Iowa, that was it, right,
Speaker 1: I think one state? So, Um, she's never been popular. Um,
Speaker 1: I think her. I think her popularity polling is like
Speaker 1: under you know, is underwater by a decent amount. Um.
Speaker 1: So I think that that matters. I mean, I let's
Speaker 1: send vice presidents not that important. But in the long run,
Speaker 1: I think finds a little different situation simply because he's
Speaker 1: much older and I think people think about the vice
Speaker 1: president a little more. And that's just the fact. So
Speaker 1: it matters. So when it comes to the midterms coming up,
Speaker 1: I just don't see him saving the House. I mean,
Speaker 1: I hate to make predictions, but I just don't see
Speaker 1: him saving the House, at least for Democrats. Not you know,
Speaker 1: I don't think there's anything he's going to be able
Speaker 1: to do that's going to excite people not to vote
Speaker 1: for Republicans in certain districts. David Harsani National Review dot
Speaker 1: Com for his latest David. Always good to have you, sir,
Speaker 1: Always a pleasure. Thank you,