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You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program. Let me let me take you first to another issue. You know, you get up this morning, scrolling through your phone, checking your news feed, having a cup of coffee. And then there's this headline. U.S. port workers begin nationwide strike. OK, good, good, good.

Now, we could... You could just blow this off because the ports and dock workers sounds distant. It was the worst season of The Wire. Okay. So it's kind of the one you skip, I feel like. Okay, this one is about to reach out right into your home, your wallet, your daily life. So I need to explain what's coming our way. First, in week one, in the first week, you might not notice much. So there's no reason to panic.

You can go and, you know, go to the store and stock up on some things, but there's no reason to run out and do that this week. Your online orders are still arriving. Maybe you hear a blip on the news about some ships stuck offshore for a few industries hinting at some delays. But for most people, life is going to go on as normal in week one. It started last night. Now, behind the scenes...

Things are starting to shake and crack a little bit. Retailers, manufacturers, and businesses that depend on regular shipments are beginning to feel the pinch in week one. The just-in-time supply system that we all learned about in COVID, that's beginning to have a little bit of a strain, and it's starting to wobble a little bit. And while the shelves are still full for now, the stock rooms in the back are running thin. By...

Week two, by the second week, you're going to start feeling things. So next week...

Maybe midweek, if it's still going on, maybe you head for the store and something as simple as bananas or a pair of new shoes, suddenly the shelves aren't as full. Some items just aren't there, fresh avocados or berries that you've gotten used to. They're sitting on ships waiting to dock. And it's not just food, it's electronics, it's clothing, even toys for your kids. They start becoming harder to find.

Prices? By week two, they may start on some items to inch upward. Businesses are now scrambling to get their hands on what's left, and the competition drives up costs. That cheap TV that you were thinking of buying? You may have to add anywhere from 10% to 30% to the price tag by the end of week two.

If you were planning on doing some home repairs or upgrades, good luck. All of the tools and materials are sitting in crates gathering dust at the ports. This is also a problem because of the hurricane. Anything that you get at Home Depot is going to be in short supply because of the hurricane and by week two, the dock workers strike.

Now, by the third week, if it goes on that long, now we're getting into some problems. It's no longer just a shortage of bananas or phone chargers. Entire industries begin to slow down. Factories that rely on parts from overseas just in time can't keep running. So the workers in those factories, people you might know, maybe it is you, are getting furloughed, sent home without pay because there's nothing for you to build, or

grocery stores begin to ration some items and limiting on some items how much you can buy. Now, at this point, the strike is not a nuisance. This is week three. This point in week three, it becomes a crisis. The online orders you placed, delayed weeks out. Businesses are pleading with the government for help by now. But even if the strike ended in week three, it would take weeks to untangle the mess at the ports.

By now, inflation is beginning to rear its ugly head. Everything from groceries to gas to clothes is more expensive than it was just two weeks ago. Week four. This is...

This is when it becomes the full weight of the strike is unavoidable, and I believe it becomes a national security problem. And possibly by this time in week four, it is just one part of what I am looking for, and we'll explain later on the show, a polycrisis. A polycrisis is what will take us out in a knockout blow. And you already have a little bit of a polycrisis with the dock workers and the hurricane.

Small businesses are now closing their doors because they can't get their inventory. Grocery store shelves are sparse with some items missing altogether. Your favorite brands might be out of stock. Maybe you head to the hardware store only to find that the building materials you need are either unavailable or so expensive they're out of reach. Now let's talk long-term.

Timing couldn't be worse because we're heading into fall. And you know what that means. The holiday season. Retailers are counting on the next few months for a huge chunk of their sales. And the Christmas gifts you've been eyeing, there's a good chance they won't make it in time for Christmas.

toys, electronics, clothing. They're sitting in ships or backordered at factories. They can't get the parts. Even if the strike ends after four weeks, the backlog will last for months. Shipping will be slow and prices. You'll be paying a premium for anything you can find. So here's, here's what you need to know. Week one,

Just be aware. If you want to get some fruit and you have some extra fruit in the house, you know, for week two, if it goes on that line, great. I can't imagine that this strike goes on very long because it will create a national emergency. However, I'm not sure if our president is too busy lathering on sunscreen at the beach to

Or if his goals are just not the same as our goals to keep America safe and healthy. So I don't know why. Remember the train negotiation? You know, he kept the trains running. We kept the trains. He got involved immediately and he made sure that strike didn't happen. Well, where is he now?

And the media is saying, well, he can't really do anything, you know, can't really, you know, maybe in a couple of weeks. Really? Maybe in a couple of weeks. He stopped the train thing from going into a strike. Why isn't he involved this time? He's Mr. Labor Union. So I don't know what's happening in a normal America, right?

The president would make sure this strike was settled. But wait until you hear what they're asking for and what they've already turned down. So for if it goes four weeks.

Truckers, rail workers, warehouses will be overwhelmed trying to just move everything. Prices will stay high through the holiday season. Supply chains will struggle to recover. Holiday shopping season is going to be leaner, fewer options on the shelves, less to spend because inflation is going to chip away at your budget again.

the economic hit won't be limited just to higher prices. Jobs will be lost as industry scramble to adapt disruptions. Companies may start shifting operations to avoid reliance on our U.S. ports in the future. That's great, huh? Potentially relocating manufacturing or looking to automate more of their processes to reduce reliance on labor. That will mean fewer jobs for the very workers that are striking today in the long run. So,

When you hear about the port thing, know this is a very serious issue. Not today. But if you want to be prepared, you might don't go crazy at a Costco. Just make sure you have what your family needs in case things get worse. Because I have no idea what will happen.

When you hear what the dock workers are striking for, maybe you think it's reasonable, but let's get into the details. They're striking for two big reasons. One, they want higher pay. Everybody does. They want assurances that their jobs won't be taken over by machines, by automation. Everybody wants that. Got it. So on the surface, it sounds reasonable. Everyone wants better pay. No one wants to lose their job to a robot.

But when you start unpacking what they're asking for and comparing it to the average American worker, and when you consider the long-term effects on our country's economy, especially in competition with China, picture gets a little more complex. Okay, first let's talk about the pay raise. The average longshoreman, the dock workers, already make about $100,000 to $200,000 a year. Six figures.

Some even earn more when you factor in overtime. Now, if you compare that to the average American worker who pulls in around $56,000 a year, that's quite a gap. Now, they're not just asking for more. They are pushing for significant raises, sometimes 10% to 15% a year or even higher depending on the location in the union negotiations.

For someone already making $100,000, that could mean a $10,000 to $15,000 or $20,000 raise every year. Meanwhile, the average American worker, we're lucky to see a 2% or 3% raise. Lucky. In fact, with inflation running hot, many workers are losing purchasing power and wages are not keeping pace with inflation and the cost of living.

But it isn't a small pay raise. Over the term of the next six years, they are asking for a 77% pay raise over the six-year life of the contract. Now, they've been offered a 50% increase and have turned that down.

Now, the dock workers in California and the West Coast, they got a 34% pay raise over the course of their contract. These guys are asking for 77% increase over the next six years, been offered a 50%, and have turned it down, walked away. Okay. I mean, I mean...

That's going to be hard for people to swallow. And understand, I get it. Dock work is tough. It's physically demanding. It is risky. It's not an old man's game. But the pay is already far above the national average, and their demands for even more seem a little out of sync with what most people are experiencing in their lives. And I am for people making as much money as they can.

But we're all connected and everyone has to remember this is a business. All of this stuff has to work for business. Everyone has to win because if it's just the dock workers, nobody wins. Even at a 50% pay increase, that is going to be passed on to you in higher costs. And that's not the real problem. The real problem comes in what their second demand is.

The dock workers want ironclad guarantees that the ports will not replace any of them with a machine. Now think about that for a moment. They're asking for a commitment that even as technology advances, ports won't introduce things like automated cranes or self-driving trucks or robotics to do the work faster, cheaper, more safely and efficiently.

This is a conversation America and the world should have had 20 years ago. And I talked about it 20 years ago. And I talked about it every year since. We're going to come to a time where if you don't know what the meaning of life is,

You're going to be kind of upside down because people are going to start losing their jobs. Maybe we should start looking at the jobs of the future and start training people for those because the average job is going away. Well, now you're in it. This is like AI. Should have had that discussion 20 years ago. But now we're all scrambling.

Why? Because there is no leadership in this country. That's why. There's no real leader. And without vision, without a leader with vision, the people will perish. And that's what's happening. So I can sympathize with the dock workers. No one wants to be told that we got a machine that can do your job faster and without breaks. Good luck. But here's the thing. Automation matters.

is happening. Just like AI now, it's too late to stop it. It's happening. So now we have to figure out how do we retool instead of just saying, you know what, you're out. How do we retool? Because if we don't retool, if we are acting like people who said the horse and buggy have to be kept, we lose.

China, their ports, have you seen the video that's circling the world now? The ports in China are highly automated. It's like one office and the whole port runs in one office. They move goods faster, more efficiently than we do. They have automated cranes, AI-driven systems. The robots work around the clock, minimal human interference. It is safer, faster, cheaper.

This allows China to process millions of more containers than we do at a fraction of the cost and time. Why do you think people buy their products from China? Because they've through slave labor and now through automation, they can make it cheaper. If we don't automate our ports, we are putting ourselves in a disadvantage for a long-term knockout punch.

Global trade is cutthroat. Companies will ship through countries and ports that can move their goods faster and cheaper. And if the U.S. sticks with old labor intensive methods, shipping companies will look elsewhere to countries like China that can get the job done more efficiently. This will mean lost business for U.S. ports, fewer goods flowing through our economy and ultimately fewer jobs for dock workers in the long run.

We I'm sorry, gang, have to automate to be able to compete in today's world. If you're willing to go back and live like the old timey days where, you know, back in the you know, back around the turn of the century, 80 percent live below the poverty line. 80 percent of Americans.

So you want to go back to that, that's fine. But we have a brave new world that we are facing now. And these dock workers are in trouble. I want to talk to you about Jace Medical. Every day we move closer to a potential war with countries like Russia and China, even North Korea. That's not what I'm afraid of in the short term.

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Go to Jace.com. Enter the promo code Beck at checkout for a discount on your order. That's promo code Beck at J-A-S-E.com. Jace.com. Now back to the podcast. This is the best of the Glenn Beck program. And don't forget, rate us on iTunes. Alex Newman, how are you, sir? I'm doing fantastic. Thank you for having me, sir. How many times in your life have you just heard, hello, Newman?

It happens more and more, actually. And I never watched Seinfeld growing up outside of the country, so it's ironic. Oh, my gosh. You have to watch it. It's some of the meanest people you've ever seen. So anyway, Alex, I know you've been covering Pact for the Future, and you were there at the UN, and you've talked to some of the leaders on this.

First, explain what it is to people that don't know and why it's so important. Well, the Pact for the Future, essentially, Glenn, is an effort to radically transform the United Nations. That's how they're portraying it. I think better than the word transform would be to use the word empower. Because when the UN was started, at least the marketing job was, this is just about peace. We're not trying to build a world government. We're not trying to steal your sovereignty. This is just so countries don't fight each other.

As you read the pact for the future, you'll see the UN now believes that it should be involved in education, the environment, law, business, economics, culture, sports, religion, you name it. And they actually marketed this internally and they had the posters everywhere. This is about turning the UN into UN 2.0.

And as Antonio Guterres said, the socialist secretary general, and they actually put it in these big speech bubbles and put stickers and posters all over the place. They said, we can't build a future for our grandchildren with a system built for our grandparents. So it's a big deal, depending on who you talk to. I reached out to a lot of different experts to get their thoughts on this.

what this meant from a legal perspective. And they range from, you know, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Mike McCaul telling me it's a really bad idea, but it's non-binding, to Professor of International Law Francis Boyle at the University of Illinois, one of the top experts in international law in the world, saying, no, this is actually a treaty

even though Biden is pretending like it's not. And it's going to have very serious legal implications for all the nations of the world. So it's a big deal no matter how you slice it, Glenn. They want to assume all these emergency powers. They want power to silence speech that they disagree with. They want power to educate your children in their worldview. It's a really big deal. So I saw the video of you trying to interview the head of the, what is she, communications department?

Yeah. Secretary General for Communications. Yeah. Big, big job. Yeah. UN Comsar. She is you were trying to talk to her because she made a deal with Google, right? A partnership.

And she bragged about this. That's the incredible thing. It's not like I had some secret information. She went to the World Economic Forum side event back in 2022 on sustainable development and bragged to her globalist buddies that, hey, we now have a partnership with Google. And it was a really interesting explanation. She said, when we Googled climate change, we realized there was distorted information. And it's funny she said that because fundamentally,

For many years, my articles covering the UN's climate summits, interviewing a lot of the leading climate experts in the world, were at the top of Google. Same thing with sustainable development, et cetera. And she said, "Well, we can't have that." So she was very proud that they had formed a partnership now with Google to put the UN's information and allied information at the top. And I just wanted to ask her about the formula. How do you guys decide what's good and what's bad? How do you decide what should be at the top when people search? And how do you decide what should be buried?

And as you saw in the video, she was not interested in talking at all. But she loves communications, you know. Weren't you at a freedom of the press kind of event trying to talk to her too?

Wasn't that a press event? One of the most ironic things. She had just finished a panel discussion on the importance of freedom of the press. And she had a couple of people there. One of them was the deputy editor of the BBC. They were moaning about how all these citizen journalists now are undermining the credibility of the establishment media. We need more government subsidies for the press to be free. And I thought, well, this is a free press event. Certainly she's going to want to talk to the press.

But no, not at all. She was interested to talk with other members of the press. I went up to her and asked her, hey, could you tell us about how you guys determine what should be and should not be on the front page of Google? That she didn't want to answer. She said, well, I don't recognize you. And so I can't talk. And then her response.

staff, I guess they were swooped in and called me away. And then other members of the press just went right up to her and she put on a big smile and talked to them, told them anything they wanted to know. So, um, you know, I think there were several deceptions there. First of all, pretending like she didn't recognize who we were, her office had to be involved in accrediting all of us to be surrounded by world leaders. Uh, second of all,

The idea that you can only talk to journalists who you recognize is ludicrous. So she just didn't want to talk about that issue with people who weren't drinking the Kool-Aid. You know, I googled climate change. And let me tell you, these are the sources in order. The United Nations, NASA, NASA.

The effects, the United Nations, you go down, then it's the IPCC, then it's Wikipedia, then it's the United Nations, then it's the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, then the World Bank, then the World Health Organization, and you're on to page two.

- Very difficult. - Yeah. - Very difficult. And it's across everything, Grant. It's not just the climate. You know, we saw this during COVID. We see this on sustainable issues. We see this on education. They are burying those of us who ask critical questions, who aren't necessarily buying into the narrative, and they're promoting their propaganda.

Even in the political realm, right? Donald Trump was just complaining about this the other day. Google seems to have messed with its algorithm in a way where now pro-Kamala Harris stories come up and pro-Trump stories or even neutral stories get buried. It's very, very nefarious. So tell me, how is the disparity so great between the this means nothing to no, it's going to mean an awful lot? Yeah.

Where do you land and why is it that we don't really know? Shouldn't we know?

You would think that they would want this to be clear, Glenn, but I think the reality is they don't want it to be clear because as long as there's this haze of confusion around it, nobody can kind of pin down exactly what's wrong with it. And I think one of their big problems that they have is our Constitution. Our Constitution has a specific method for ratifying treaties. They have to be subject to the advice and the consent of the Senate, and they have to get two-thirds of the senators.

So even all the Democrats combined and the RINOs, it's very difficult to get stuff like that ratified in the US Senate. So I saw this during the Obama administration. I was in Paris for the UN climate negotiations and Barack Obama's running around being treated like some sort of superstar, some celebrity because he promised to slash American CO2 emissions by about a third over the next years.

And they were very strategic about how they referred to this document. It was the Paris Agreement. And so you had people like Senator James Inhofe come in and say, hey, you guys can all go home. The Senate's never going to ratify this stuff. You're not getting any money. This is dumb. Go away. You're not going to extort our taxpayers. But Obama said, no, no, this is an executive agreement. So I looked in my Constitution. Turns out there's no such thing.

as an executive agreement. And yet Barack Obama came back to Washington, D.C., and right away the EPA starts putting out new mandates, shutting down power plants, Department of Transportation. They're putting in new emission standards for the vehicles. So they're treating them as if they were binding documents, but they're not submitting them to the Senate for ratification. And I guarantee you that is a deliberate fraud on the American taxpayers, just like they did with the International Pandemic Accord. Originally, they

called it International Pandemic Treaty, but they knew it wasn't going to get through the U.S. Senate, so it magically morphed into an accord. How many more parts need to be assembled before you think we could truly lose our sovereignty?

Well, we're losing our sovereignty bit by bit. One of the organizations that's been instrumental in bringing this about, and they've had a front row seat to the whole process, and they've been helping it is the Council on Foreign Relations. And they have a magazine, it's called Foreign Affairs. And back in the 1970s, they published a piece by Richard Gardner, who at the time, I believe, was the Assistant Secretary of State for something.

And he explained in there how they're going to build what he described as the house of world order. And he said, we're not going to do the old fashioned parental assault. That's not going to work anymore in today's day and age. I mean, you tell Americans, Hey, you're living in a world government. They're going to be mad. And they've got 400 million guns. That's not going to work.

So he said, we've got to erode sovereignty piece by piece. And that's what we're watching here. They'll take a little bit of our sovereignty on the climate issue. Then UNESCO will come up with some new ideas on education. Then the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights will be used as a bludgeon to get us to change our laws on this. And they'll pass a UN Convention on the Rights of the Child that says we have to change our child welfare laws. And little bit by little bit, more and more policy areas get usurped at the international level.

Well, that's why I asked you how many more pieces need, because they're not, you know, every time I think of the progressives, I think of that old Johnny Cash song. I don't know if you remember it, but one piece at a time. And it's about a guy who built a Cadillac working at GM and stealing, you know, parts one piece at a time. And over 20 years, he had a Cadillac.

And that's and I think that's what they've done for the last hundred years. They've done little piece, little piece, little piece. You know, it's like it's like the recovery. What was it? The the first big bill, you know, seven trillion dollar bill or whatever it was that happened right under Biden at the very beginning had all of the stuff on the border in it. That's that's where all this money is coming from to put people up.

You know, it's all shams. You look at it, you read it, and you're like, I don't even know what that means. Well, they do. They do. Yeah.

Yeah, and one of the things that is most troubling about this pact for the future, Glenn, is it has the seeds in it for exactly the type of power grab that we're discussing here. So let me give you a little background before I get into what's actually in the pact. So in early 2023, I wrote a major article about this. The Secretary General was putting out a series of what they called policy briefs. The series was called Our Common Future.

And it was about all these ideas that the secretary general had for strengthening and improving the United nations. And all of them were troubling, right? One was about censorship. One was about brainwashing children. But the one that really caught my attention, I said, this is huge. I've got to write about it right this moment involved emergencies. They call it emergency protocols. And I want to quote from this document because it says that in the event that the secretary general declares a global emergency, uh,

It says right here, all the stakeholders, all institutions, governments, international institutions, the private sector, development banks, religious organizations, all will have to recognize, and I'm quoting here, the primary role of intergovernmental organs, that would be UN agencies, in decision making. And so they're saying if the Secretary General declares an emergency under this policy brief, then everybody,

In the world, all institutions are going to have to recognize the UN as the main decision maker. And they give some examples of emergencies. It could be climate. It could be environment. It could be economic. It could be war. It could be a black swan event. It could be something in outer space. It doesn't even have to be global. And so here's what they got.

in the pact for the future, which is directly related to that. It's action item number 54. There's 56 actions, so I think they buried it at the end very strategically. It says in very clear language that

We recognize the need for a more coherent, cooperative, coordinated, and multi-dimensional international response to complex global shocks and the central role of the United Nations in this regard. And it calls on the Secretary-General to come up with ways to strengthen the UN system response to complex global shocks.

And so imagine for a moment, Glenn, that we maybe see another pandemic, maybe a war breaks out, maybe there's an economic crisis, a dollar crisis, whatever. And the secretary general says, well, this is a complex global shock. We're all going to have to do X, Y, Z. And people say, wait a minute, we have national sovereignty. And he says, no, no, go look in the pack for the future.

all 193 member states of the United Nations agreed by consensus that the UN needs to play the central role in this regard. So I'm just doing what the member states told me and, you know, if you don't like it, take it up with the member states. So this sets up what the UN calls a mandate. So now Secretary General Guterres can just say, hey, I have a mandate to do this. I'm just obeying my boss as the member states of the UN. So let me do what I'm doing. Respect my authority.

You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck podcast. Hear more of this interview and others with the full show podcast available wherever you get podcasts. Hello, America, and welcome to the Glenn Beck program. We're glad you're here tonight. I went, hello?

Hello? Hello, Glenn? I was, I fought in World War II. This is Tim Walls. I know, Tim. How are you still on the phone? I was talking for seven minutes and you did not answer. Okay, because I thought we had hung up. What are you saying, Minnesota? Mind your own damn business. Okay. All right. Okay.

JD Vance is weird. Yeah, okay. We're going to talk to you about the JD Vance debate. I like poodles. What? Poodles. Poodles? I like poodles. I like to... Okay. Tim Walls, hang up the phone, please. Can you... Glenn? Yes? I love you. Okay. I talked about you on debate night. You on debate night. All right. Will, I...

Mind your own damn business. These guys are weird. Okay, thank you. Thank you for calling Tim. Can you cut him off, please? All right, back. We begin the show here in a minute. Let me tell you about Patriot Bowl. It's so stupid. How do we get paid for this? I have no understanding of it.

That's the best impression I have heard of Tim Warhol. I've been working on it for a while. It's actually been in development for a while. I've been really thinking about it. I think I've nailed it. I think you did.

I mean, if all those phrases came out of his mouth tonight, would you know the difference? Do you have any idea? We may have a very special guest after tonight's debate on TV. Tim Walls may have to stand by and come on the program tonight, so you don't want to miss that. All right. There's not a chance that it goes poorly tonight, is there?

It's hard to believe. Yeah, it is hard to believe. Because Walls doesn't seem to bring anything to the table. As you may be able to tell, he is uniquely grating to me. I can't. Well, I didn't say that. He's so irritating. He really is. When I was doing that impression, I just pull up the Google images of Tim Walls because as soon as I see his face...

And him trying to, like, be this relatable dad character. It's so irritating. I can't take... I feel like people don't, like...

They're not seeing what I'm seeing or something. Why am I the only one who hates him so much? He's so irritating. Like, uniquely irritating. To me, 25 times past Kamala Harris. Kamala Harris is awful and she does a lot of irritating things and she'll be a terrible president. God forbid she wins. He's like...

just so much more irritating and annoying to me. Like, I can't understand how anyone can like him. I think I have found Stu's waterboarding.

Okay, it's just him trapped in a room with Tim Walls and Andrew Cuomo. Oh, yeah. His head would explode. It does, too. It would absolutely explode. But I don't know why people are like, oh, well, he's going to be very relatable. He's a relatable guy, and people just love that Midwestern charm. Do they? Do they? Because if they do, they should all be shot off the planet into the sun. Yeah.

Anyone would fall for this. It's so... Oh, I know. Oh, I can't stand it. I can't stand... That's what bothers me. This would be so fun if the rest of America was like, oh, yeah, no, I see it.

I see it. Yeah, it just seems so obvious to me. I know. And I do think that there is a very low hurdle that has been set for J.D. Vance tonight. Everyone seems to think he's the worst person in the world and he only says strange things.

And he's weird. He's so buttoned up. He's just like, I think he does a pretty good job. He's done a good job in these interviews. Yeah. And I think he can do, like him. He doesn't take any crap without getting angry. Yeah.

You know, he doesn't get angry at all. You lost your voice because of this. This stupid impression is killing my voice. But it is one of those things where luckily I don't have to do 12 hours of live coverage tonight. So this is good. I'm glad I played around with that. But it is interesting because maybe I'll call you. I like guns. You're doing a really good job. I didn't have to work on that. You're doing the impression of the impression. Sometimes that's even easier. Right.

Vance has a real opportunity to overshoot his expectations tonight. I mean, he could say something terrible and blow it, but he also, if he's just normal, which I think he is, I mean, what story is more normal? A guy who comes out and is lying about every aspect of his life since it started? Well, no, except for the T. Enneman Square thing. He was there for that.

In fact, we have him on the phone. Get him back on the phone. I'm not going to be able to talk. I just want to talk to him about Tiananmen Square. Hello, Glenn. Hello. My name is Tim Wells. I know your name is Tim. You were at Tiananmen Square. I've been drooling on the phone a lot. It's very wet.

I was in Tenterman Square. Tianeman Square. Tianeman Square. Okay, close enough. I was in Enterman Square. And I had the banana bread and the soft cookies. I like cookies. I had a cookie at the State Fair. Vote for me. They have corn on the cob. I like corn on the cob. Vote for me.

Oh my gosh. Oh my God. I had a pork chop on a stick. That shows that I can relate to you. I coach football. Okay, okay. I give. I give. I can't stand him, Glenn. I can't. I can't.

I don't think I've laughed this hard in I don't know how long. Don't you? When you see him, isn't that, look at this, my voice is shot. I got put up on a stick.

How did you get the corn on the cob? Well, I could see it happening. Yes. Yes. His entire run as the vice presidential nominee is him doing stuff like that. He is. There's no substance there at all. And I have the answer as to whether you're hosting the coverage. The answer is yes. I can't speak. Oh, my gosh. I...

This is usually when we would just drop the mic and walk off stage. So there are some polls out there. Donald Trump leads Pennsylvania now by just over two points. This is from Trafalgar, isn't it? Yeah, Trafalgar showed Trump leading Harris in Pennsylvania 47.5 to 45.3. Now it's margin of error. So it puts him in a virtual tie, but it's nice to see him on top.

There's a couple of other stories about him. What is this? What is this one? Tim Walls talks to We Rate Dogs with Rescue Dog Scout.

I like dogs. I killed O'Sullivan Rodden. Did you know that? I was in Pakistan. I shot O'Sullivan Rodden. Do you believe me? No, I don't. Do you? No, I don't.

Okay, thank you. So he's on with we rate dogs. He said politics can sometimes bring out the worst in people, but I believe dogs can bring out the best in us. I'm really not going to be able to do this show tonight. So Americans seem that I'm still quoting him.

So Americans seem to be more polarized than ever these days, but loving dogs seems to be pretty universal. Come on. Why do we? This isn't a real article. Why do we love dogs? Quote. Well, they give us unconditional love. I said, I said, I think I do think they bring out the best in us. I think our politics can sometimes bring out the worst. I see it as a dog park.

that rarely will people talk politics. They talk dogs and they talk about the weather. They talk about how lucky we are to be here and think that that's the greatest gift that they have for us is the dog park and the talk of the dog park. What the hell? What is this? Why? We are aliens on this planet now.

Okay.

Okay. Okay. All right. Okay. I step on again. Every day I step on Poopoo. I even have dog and I keep stepping on Poopoo. Who's Poopoo? Is it Glenn? It's weird. Somebody's doing it on my lawn. And I look at the cameras and it was me. I don't even remember it. But I had a lot of food at the fair.

There's so much spittle on this phone, it's not even gonna work. I stab him. It's me. I mean, I... How do you... How...

How is this guy on this ticket? How is this happening? How is this ticket happening? How is it happening? How is it happening? They're both so embarrassing. Is it possible that this is what we have in this country? That we're just throwing up this guy who says he's a football coach and is stepping in poo-poo? Those are his main...

his main qualifications to be vice president of the United States? Well, he also carried a gun in war and he went to Tiananmen Square. Yeah, killed Osama bin Laden. I mean, the guy's got some qualifications. Yeah, I mean, this guy's great. Oh my gosh. I just, I don't even know what to do other than just mock it. It's just a laugh at it. It's so disturbing. We're about, I mean, this debate tonight is a joke. You have one guy who's done what with his life?

None of them have done anything. None of these things are true. I have no idea who he is. Everything he's told us about his life has been a lie. Even the process that created his daughter, they lied about. Even that foundational thing in their family, they lied about. He's lied about everything.

And he's accomplished what? They're like, oh, J.D. Vance is weird. What has he done? He came up from impossible poverty. He served in the military. Didn't lie about it constantly. Became a venture capitalist. Wrote a best-selling book. Had a movie created. Became a U.S. Senator. Is now a vice presidential candidate. That's an American...

story that you'd make a movie out of. It's an incredible story. They did make, I'd like to remind you, they did make a movie. His life, if you haven't seen Hillbilly Elegy, it is, it's unbelievable. It's unbelievable. Everybody should watch that. I mean, you watch that and you think, I wish...

I had a kid like that. I wish I had a grandparent like his grandmother and his family is really screwed up. Have you seen it, Sarah? Oh, you got to watch it. You got to watch it. It's unbelievable. Have you seen it? I actually haven't seen the movie. You got to see it. Have you read the book? I know. I haven't actually read the book. I mean, I've obviously read a lot about it. You should watch that before tonight's debate.

It tells you everything you need to know about him. It is, honestly, you watch it and the childhood this kid had was horrible. No, no, no. You don't even begin to understand. And just horrific, horrific. And then finally his grandmother takes him away from his mother, who's just out of control. And his grandmother isn't that great, right?

She's rough around the edges a little bit. Yeah, a little rough around the edges. But she turns out to be great. And she finally looks at him and just balls him out as, you know, a 10 or 12 year old and says, you have a chance to get out of this. You're smart enough. But I'm beginning to question if you are. You apply yourself and get out of here. And he does.

And he ends up going to Yale. And as he's in Yale, or as he's getting his interview to intern for some law firm, his mom is in the hospital. I think she tried to kill herself. I can't remember exactly. But she's in the hospital, and he's having to juggle this whole thing. His girlfriend, who is now his wife, he didn't tell her about his family. She had no idea. He was so deeply embarrassed by it.

And his wife steps up is now his girlfriend in the movie. They're going to college at the same time. And, and she like, what, why are you just going, what is happening with your family? And he doesn't say anything. And she just shows up and it's amazing. It's amazing. This guy is a true American success story. It is somebody who had every disadvantage that,

Every disadvantage except his color. But he grew up without a dad. He grew up in an abusive household with alcoholism everywhere. No one around him was successful. The only mentor he had was his grandmother. And his grandmother, as you said, a little rough around the edges. He did it himself.

It's incredible. And he's married to the daughter of immigrants as well, right? That's why he knows they're eating those dogs. Can you imagine? They've tried to pin him as an anti-immigrant guy. I know, I know, I know. After all this. Yeah. You've got to watch it. Hillbilly Elegy, if you haven't seen it, it is really worth your time. I thought it would be good, but it's great. It's really great.

Don't forget the debate tonight. Blaze TV. You want to be there? No, no, no, no.

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