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Hey, welcome to the Tuesday podcast. We take a look at the Washington Post opinion piece. No, not the one that Bezos is having to defend canceling. This is another one because they can't get their opinion out that actually says most people support Kamala, even though.

They don't really know it. Take our test and we prove it. We took the test. I don't think it proved it. Also, the ballot drop boxes in Washington being set on fire. We'll talk about that. And Ryan Gerduski, he's the guy who has just been banned from CNN for making too many good political points. We'll talk about that and so much more. Ryan joins us as well on today's podcast.

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I like the hope I'm living in right now. Yeah. You know? Yeah. Because I keep thinking to myself, God, I can't wait for this to be over. You know, this is our hellish time of every four years and it's nonstop. And then you think of what happens when it is over. Oh my gosh. How long is it going to take for me to get this

uh, this cancer screening back. I mean, they've tested me for cancer there. They said, it's going to take a week. I, I just wish this week was over. Well, maybe not. Maybe we should enjoy this time. It's a good point. It's a good point. Yeah. Yeah. And plus we probably will have absolutely no idea who won the election on election night anyway. So that'll drag out for a while. And, and then there'll be, you know, if God forbid, if, if,

Trump wins. God forbid we are going to see a real test of democracy. Oh, yeah. I mean, if we just elected Adolf Hitler, why would they allow that to go forward? Yeah. They have to get in the streets. You don't understand. It's not like the January 6th stuff. That was crazy. That was crazy. But this is, I mean, they're electing Adolf Hitler. We have to stop it. This one's justified. Let me tell you that. This one's justified. We can do it.

This is America rising. This is the most American thing. Look back to the Tea Party. Right. That was what happened. And thankfully, the people, American people are rising up and burning down cities all across America to protest this. At least the politicians are safe. It's just our cities that will burn. Oh, yeah. But that's okay. That's all right. There's no crime in that. They should stand up. A lot of these business owners are Republicans anyway. They wanted Hitler in office.

is they should pay the price. You said it. I can't wait for all of that because it's all coming. If Trump wins, it's all coming your way. They're going to make every single argument they've been telling you is the death of democracy for the past four years. Well, not if the Washington Post has its way because you support Kamala Harris. You just don't know it, Stu. I do? Yes. Oh, I didn't know that. Voters prefer Harris' agenda to Trump's. They just don't realize it. Oh.

They're just following Donald Trump because they like him so much. Oh, the guy who's known for firing people his whole entire career? Yeah, right, right. The guy who's Hitler? Yeah, the Hitler guy. Yeah, they're just going blindly with him. They're not thinking this one through. So it says in the article, presidential candidate Kamala Harris and Donald Trump, neck and neck. But if the race were solely about their policies...

Harris would win handily. Yeah. Yeah. This is because voters, whether they know it or not, overwhelming, whether you're too stupid to realize they overwhelmingly prefer vice president Kamala Harris's agenda to the former president. See for yourself. Rate these eight policy proposals. When you're done, we'll show you.

How you align with a candidate. Ah. Okay. So you take this question. Oh, I'd love to. Yeah, you're going to take the quiz. Are you going to? I'm going to do it. Okay. So here it is. Strongly oppose is one. Strongly support is five. Okay. One to five scale. Right. Three is, I don't know. Okay. Banning homeless encampments and arresting people who refuse to leave. Strongly agree. Strongly.

I agree with arresting them, yes. Okay. And breaking up homeless encampments when they refuse to leave, yes. Funding free online classes with money taken from private university endowments through taxes, fines, and lawsuits. This is Trump's proposal. Funding? Funding free online classes with money taken from private university endowments through taxes, fines, and lawsuits.

um i'd have to know more about that have we discussed that one time sure yeah i would put i look i in conceptually do i like punishing universities yes but it needs to be done the right way the right way and they're not explaining it well enough right i haven't heard trump talk about that really once i mean maybe it's it's some policy in the back you know of his you know policy playbook but he has not

discussed it really yeah i'm not necessarily against it but i'm not necessarily for it i need to know more than that right uh allowing public school teachers to carry a concealed weapon

Allowing public school teachers to conceal. I will say. Strongly support, strongly disagree. I'll go a four on that. Four, okay. Yeah, I'm a little concerned. I've seen a lot of public school teachers lately, and I'm not necessarily sure I want them around weapons. Okay, so it's more about the teachers, less about the gun. Yes. I'd say that's a five. No, no, I'm going to give you a four. I'm going to give you a four. Banning transgender people from serving in the military.

banning them from serving in the military. Yes, I'll give that a four or five. I mean, I think I'll go five. Yeah, me too. You could convince me of four, but I think that's a five on that. Allowing undocumented. You're going to be surprised by your score. Allowing undocumented spouses of American citizens to stay in the U.S. while their immigration applications are being processed.

Undocumented Americans, they've been legally married in the United States. No, not necessarily in the United States. They could have been married someplace else and then came here. Okay. And this is an undocumented person. I'm not going to say they need to stay where they are until they go through the legal process. So you strongly oppose that?

I would oppose it. Strongly oppose. What's the other option? How do they word it? Strongly and... Strongly and strongly disagree and then not sure. But what's the two and the four? This is somewhat... The two and the four is somewhat. Yeah, but again, the details aren't there. If it's someone that was... You are going to be spat out. But I'll go with two. Okay, you're going with two. All right, good job. Expanding the access and affordability of birth control. Access? I mean...

birth control is already available it's like four dollars a month at walmart what do you mean we don't need to expand it it's just available already so i don't know continuing military and economic support for ukraine uh so uh strongly opposed would be a five strongly opposed would be a one oh okay and there is no negative scale sorry i wish this is a visual game yeah um so i would say i oppose it i'll go with a two on that two

Providing a $6,000 child tax credit for families with children who are younger than 12 months. Another new tax credit? I mean, I don't know that we need another. Tax credit, by the way, is not a tax break. Tax credit. Tax credit, meaning so if you pay $0 in taxes, the government's just paying you money? Yes. I will strongly oppose that. Okay. All right.

You are going to be so surprised. I can't wait to see what, do I just, do I just, does this count as a vote for me for Kamala Harris? I hope it does. It saves me time. I don't have to go to the polls. Well, that's what they're doing. They just, they want you to know you don't have to vote. Oh, good. Yeah. Especially if you wind up where you are. Oh no. Where did I land up? Uh,

You went... Wait, was it strongly supporting Harris or just somewhat supporting Harris? You went with more aligned with Trump. You're right in the middle, less aligned with Harris. Oh, no. Yeah. I'm more... Oh, no. Yeah. You didn't know that, did you? I didn't. Especially the way they worded all of those things to try to make you agree with Harris. Right. Like, hey, do you want money going to children? No.

Well, we like children. Yes. However, maybe there's a little bit more to that policy. So are you surprised how overwhelmingly you support Harris? You know what? I'm not. You're not? I'm not particularly. Wow. Huh. I guess that story's propaganda. Yeah. Shocking. And by the way, I want you to know that's not an endorsement.

That's not an endorsement of Kamala Harris, that article which leads you to automatically agree with her policies. That's not an endorsement. Or not, but then you feel like the oddball out. Right. And you're like, wow, I'm the only one. I'm the only one who supports Donald Trump. That's a fascinating article because, especially what's going on with the Washington Post, where I know you were out for a lot of this, but... No, I saw it. I know you didn't, but they announced that...

You know, they would not make an endorsement. And we're now seeing this also from the LA Times. USA Today kind of came out in the same vein today. You know what? We're not going to endorse. By the way, I don't know how you feel about this, Glenn, because there is a real...

uh strain of american history that goes back to newspapers actively endorsing candidates that is a real thing that happened at the founding of the country no it but they were called in in later they were called the you know republican yeah and or the democrat right it was really clear about what was happening um i believe it's dumb i don't i don't like

Candidates being endorsed by newspapers. The New York Post endorsed Trump. If I had my way, nobody would endorse anybody. It is, in fact, a way. There's no reason for a newspaper to tell me who to vote for. Give me the news. Let me, as an adult, read the news. And then I will decide for myself.

We're adults here. I don't need to be told who to vote for. It's silly. I don't think it moves anybody. I think it's actually silly to say this isn't the Washington Democrat vote.

Just be honest. The New York Democrat. Yeah, the New York Times should just be the New York Democrat. Just be honest. And I'm fine with that. I'm tired of this, oh, what? We're completely fair and balanced. Right, but that's kind of, I mean, The Blaze, for example, is not doing official endorsements either, but quite clearly comes from a conservative perspective. We're very honest about that. National Review comes from a conservative perspective.

I'm trying to think of some of the schlocky left-wing publications, but they come from a left-wing, a New Republic. It comes from the left-wing perspective. I think that's totally fine. When you are saying that you are a New York Times, like the paper of record type of situation, either be that or be honest about what you are, which is a mouthpiece for the Democratic Party.

You know, just be honest about it. I'd rather have that. Now, it's funny that the left is so angry at the Washington Post for not endorsing because, number one, their standard is quite clear here. Every journalistic organization in America must endorse their chosen candidate or democracy dies in darkness. Yes. That is legitimately what they think. Yeah, well, because they know people are too stupid. They just don't know that they support Kamala Harris and her policies. It's

It's so central to progressivism. It really is. How many times have you talked about this? I know, I know. This is like they have to lead the sheep to the right place. Yes. This is what they're, they're the shepherds. They will lead the sheep to the proper place, the right part in the field they're supposed to be. You're bad, Stu. You are. You are very bad. It's true. And it's like, that's what they're doing. And it's funny that they're all angry at Jeff Bezos. Now, we know a lot about Jeff Bezos. Yes, he's very wealthy. Yes.

He's also very liberal. No. Yes. No. He is not a conservative at all. Wow. Wait a minute. You think about this a little strategically. Wouldn't it make sense if you wanted...

to cover the news and seem objective but tilt it all toward Democrats, what would you do? You wouldn't endorse. You would hide your endorsement. Thank you. Thank you. This is actually a good thing for liberals. Now, I also like it because I don't think it's the place of newspapers. It is absolutely good for liberals for them not to endorse. It's not honest. There is their opinion piece today. What I just gave you was their opinion piece.

They're up in it. They're leading you. It's much more effective to lead the horse to water, if you will, then go the other way, which is like they're overtly saying, hey, all of our coverage is biased. That's an endorsement. When you do an endorsement, you're saying all of our coverage is biased in one direction or another. Right. If you don't do an endorsement, you're at least leaving that up to people to try to figure out. Now, with the Washington Post, it is blatantly obvious that

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Election, we are a week away. Pat Gray is here to, I don't know, ease the pain a little bit. How are you feeling about the election? I feel pretty good about it right now. Do you? At this, what is it? It's like 25 to 9 central time on...

Tuesday, the week before. So should I ask you again in 10 minutes how you feel? Yeah, that's kind of where I am. Right now, I feel pretty good about it. Yeah, I hear things like, we don't need a postmark on the absentee ballots. It comes in, it doesn't have a postmark, it does have a postmark. What? What's the problem? How do you feel about, you know,

ballots being lit on fire inside the drop boxes. Are you cool with that? No, I'm not really cool with that. Oh, really? Although, why are we doing drop boxes? Thank you. Why is that happening? It shouldn't be. Look, if you're doing mail, vote by mail. It's unbelievable. Put it

In the freaking mail. Yes. Put it in the mailbox. Put it in the mailbox instead of the Dropbox. Put it in the mailbox outside your house. Yes. There are a million different ways to mail things in the United States, which, by the way, has a post office. It is Constitution. It's really easy to mail crap here. I got to tell you. See, I think more like the Democrats on things like this because I don't hate...

I don't hate different races like you do Stu. Uh, uh,

The different races just don't know what a mailbox even looks like or where they might be situated. So they have an easy time finding the drop box because we all know where the drop boxes are. It's such a weird argument. It's not like a requiring postage. There's not even a cost associated.

with mailing these ballots. They're coming to you for free. You're mailing them out for free. During a global pandemic, maybe there was a case for it. Wait, what was it? What's the case for it? So you didn't have to gather with other people there? No, you don't have to. You go to the mailbox. In fact, for most people... What if there were germs on the mailbox?

For most people who don't live in a big city, because if you live in a big city, you might not have the typical home mailbox. You just put it out in front of your house. But for most... But I'm talking about the big blue and red one. No, I know. I know. But like, you could argue, right? Yeah.

In the COVID period, that you would have to... If you were in a situation where you didn't have that mailbox out in front of your house, right? Like most homeowners would. You have to go to a central location and drop it off. But that would just be the same. Like there's no improvement over the situation that you would have mailing it. A Dropbox would just be basically the same thing. You'd go and you'd just drop it off in a different box. But what that situation creates...

is a lot of ballots in the same location for someone who wants to damage them. Like if you put your own little envelope in there and it has an incendiary device inside and then lights all the ballots on fire, which just happened in multiple places. Was it Washington and Oregon at least? And would you be surprised at all if it happens in 25 other locations before this election? I wouldn't. What was the motivation? We don't know who did it yet. They do think it's the same person though, right?

They think it's the same person or someone who is driving a Volvo. So if you're driving a Volvo, we're looking at you. And no conservatives driving a Volvo. Let me go to, at least in Washington State, let me go to cut 12, please. No, no, no. I'm sorry. Not cut 12. Yeah, six. There it is. Got the drop box. It's on fire. They're fine. I think they're fine.

They're okay. Just brush them off. In Oregon or Washington. Yeah. Let them on fire. Let them burn. That's the, uh, that's the philosophy, I guess. But it's like, and by the way, you can also track your ballot. Like you can see if it got, if it was received. So if you, if your ballot was lit on fire, you can go online and make sure that it was actually received. And if it's not received, you can just cast it again, again, because if it hasn't been counted, you wouldn't be able to do it after it was counted. Uh,

So, I mean, the whole thing is like kind of a weird risk, right? Like you're trying to affect a couple hundred ballots in Washington or Oregon and you're risking a federal crime, right? Like the motivation here, what do you think it is, Pat? Do you have any theories on why you would do such a thing? No. I don't know what that would accomplish because they've already told them, hey, if you put your ballot in a drop box before this date,

then you need to come and do it again. So everybody knows they've got to come and do it again. So I don't know what you've accomplished there. Well, this is really, really easy, I mean, to figure out. Really. I mean, honestly. Who would be against the Dropboxes? It would be the people that are, you know, clearly...

Donald Trump supporters. Nazis. Right. No, no. No? They would be the ones. I thought they were all Nazis. Yeah. All Donald Trump supporters are Nazis. You know that, right? No, isn't that Kamala that's a Nazi? Oh, wait a minute. No, wait a minute. Wait a minute. You seem like you're usurping our country right now. So I was just thinking, no, I'm sorry. I was just, he wasn't thinking. I was thinking just, I got a little confused and I was thinking, oh no, she's the Nazi because that would motivate people.

To go in and destroy votes, you know, motivate people to be really, really angry, motivate people to maybe, I don't know, engage in a color revolution. I don't know, to stop this vote in any way possible, especially if it looks like Donald Trump's people are winning. Possibly, although I don't consider Washington or Oregon a swing state. No, I don't either. I mean, it would be, it would be...

It'd be weird because there is in Washington state, there's no chance Donald Trump's going to win. I mean, look, it just could be an insane person. This stuff does happen. People just do insane things. It could be an insane person on the right. Could be. It could be just an insane person. It could be an insane person on the left. I don't know who did it. But I mean, the point is...

You don't create situations in which lots of ballots are in the same location and easily accessible to anyone passing by them. That just seems like a really obvious thing that you don't do. Drop boxes are a stupid idea. Now, they can obviously light mailboxes on fire, too.

But the point of that, of course, would be that there's lots of other mail in there. You're going to get maybe a couple of ballots. Like it would be a low impact situation. If this happened in a state like Pennsylvania or Arizona or whatever, some other swing state, you know, a few hundred ballots could really make a difference. I'm sure not everyone's going to recast their ballot there. There probably will be some effect to what we just witnessed.

You know, it probably won't overturn the presidential election, but there's just no reason. Like, we act as if like there's no, everyone knows how to mail things. It's just like the IID. Everyone knows how to get an IID. Everyone knows. Everyone who's going to take the time to understand policies enough to go cast a vote is plenty capable of getting an identification for themselves. That is absolutely.

Absolutely. Not minorities, though. How elitist of you. I am saying, I legitimately believe people with different skin tones are capable of getting identification. But they don't know where the DMV is. No, they do.

Like, they actually know how to use their phones. Wait, you're talking about black people and Hispanics know where their local DMV is? Wait a minute. You realize that we haven't fully engaged in eugenics for a while. I know. So we haven't bred the stupidity out of people of different color yet. It's shocking, but it's a bit of an old wives' tale that black people can't have driver's licenses. You mean they drive? They can drive? No. Pat,

Minorities are capable of doing the same things us whiteys are able to do. No. Where are you getting that? No, I know. I read it online. I read it online. From like the New York Post or some crazy place like that? No. And I've noticed it even in my own life that people with different skin colors, different genders...

tend to be very similar to other people in their wants, needs, desires, motivations. You're not making any sense this morning. Okay. I am drunk, so it could be that. Thank you. Thank you. I am really drunk. The next thing you know, I'll be telling you a true story about standing in line with a minority, and he said, you know what really pisses me off? What?

that the ID thing in other states, because in Texas you need it. In other states, you don't need an ID.

What are they saying about my people? What are they saying? I'm like, I don't know what they're saying. You know what they're saying. It's so insulting. They're saying you can't get an ID. It's just ridiculous. You're too stupid. Too dumb. Poor people, minority. It's insulting. Too dumb to get IDs. Well, let me just ask you, because you said this might be an insane person that did this. Might be a crazy person. Okay, could be, could be, could be. I just want to show you how balanced...

the left really is could you go cut 12 please this is a woman uh at a walmart i didn't touch you man well no one did that is this a prank

I need to leave? I still got, I still got, okay. She threw some of my stuff. Where's your stuff? Hell if I know. I'm so sorry. I'm sorry. She wasn't sorry when she cut in line. I didn't see you! To make it, well, I just asked her if she saw anyone in line. Wow. Like crazies. Like people that need to be on medication.

you know, or see a therapist. Oh, I mean, a mental institution, right? I mean, that is that. I mean, I feel really, really bad that that's the way you feel. And I have sympathy for you, deep sympathy for you've been raped, but you're not a healthy person. And it's, it's really honestly like this seemingly a lot of places where they just are, they got to screw loose. Listen to this guy.

What a great goal. What an incredible goal. What a great goal. I mean, you know, you're setting that bar pretty high. Wow.

I'm going to call myself a woman and expect everybody to call me a woman when I'm a dude. Okay, that's a pretty high bar. But then I want a uterus with eggs and everything. Fallopian tubes. Right, and I want to then be impregnated. And then I want to be the first man...

who claims to be a woman who has a uterus with eggs that have been fertilized, and then abort that baby. That's a beautiful goal. Wow, that's fantastic. Step aside, Neil Armstrong. This is the best of the Glenn Beck podcast. Ryan Gerduski is on with us. He is the founder of the 1776 Project PAC and a political consultant. Welcome, Ryan. How are you?

Good. Thanks for having me. It's been one crazy 12 hours. I bet it was. For people who didn't hear it, let me play what happened on CNN.

If you don't want to be called Nazis, stop doing it. You're called an anti-Semite. You're called an anti-Semite more than anyone else's table. And people will sit there and say, no, by me. I never called you an anti-Semite. I mean, I'm not sitting here saying I don't. I'm a supporter of the Palestinians. I'm used to it. Well, I hope your beeper doesn't go off. The thing is, is that. You should not. No. You just said I should be killed. No, I did not say that. No, I did not say that. Hold on. No, I didn't. Hold on. On live TV. I said I hope you're. Guys, let me.

Let me just stop. So there's this fake outrage of, are you going to say I want to be killed? And Ryan immediately apologizes. Okay, fine. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I didn't mean to say that. I'm sorry it was wrong. But the other guy doesn't apologize to you for calling you and people like you a Nazi. In my book, that's worse than a Hamas member. I mean, they're in the same category, but...

What's worse? Well, the funny thing is I sound much funnier in re-listening to it than I did live because it was going crazy. Well, also the thing was, the crazy thing was, is that he also said like Trump sounded like Goebbels. Now I had never met Mr. Son before. I have heard a lot about him, but he was making accusations. I was calling him an anti-Semite that I was like doing all these things to him. I've never spoken about him before. I had no idea who he was and going on to that and

And going into that show, I decided like, so what happens is if you don't do cable news, the producers text you all the topics a few hours in advance. And they could range from things you know a lot about, things you don't know anything about. So I was, so one of the topics that they just changed, they're going to do two segments on the Trump rally because obviously it's the most important thing in the world. They actually scrubbed something about like war to cover, you know, the show, the comedians still phoning.

So then we were going on to do a segment at the end with Brian Stelter about trust and accuracy in the media. And I like just about lost it. And I was like, here's what I'm going to do. This is what I said to myself going to the show. I'm going to tell him you are fake news. You destroy accuracy in the media. You destroy trust in the media.

And you owe everyone on CNN an apology for Russia, for Russia gave for COVID, for the Stormy Daniels lawyer. I said, this is my last episode because they're never going to have me back after I do what I'm going to do. This was just a throwaway line because what happened was I got on set. The woman sitting next to me, who was also outraged when I wasn't speaking to her, she was making comments that like white man humor the whole run into the show. And I was like, and we're just like,

It just freaking irks me. I'm like, I would never say opposite racial things like that. But if I did, I wouldn't even make it to the show open. But it was just like the double standard. Then I said on the show that people in the media said that everyone who attended the Trump rally was a Nazi. Abby said that wasn't true.

totally true which by the way abby has falsely corrected me on air for things i said it was true like she said i made up the i the word the ferguson effect which i know very clearly even though she wrote about it 10 years ago right so anyway i did the thing was throw a line we go to commercial metis throws his mic on the table storms out of the place i'm not going to be on with him abby is like can you please step aside because

Allison was like, he needs to leave. And I was like, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to embarrass. I hope you don't get in trouble with corporate. I told the producer, I hope you don't get in trouble with corporate. I didn't mean to do anything to harm you because they've always been very lovely to me and I'm a professional. And that was that. And I was like, okay, cool. And then, I mean, you would have thought I, you know, I'm responsible for the Hindenburg disaster, the way that people are responding to it. I'm like,

Calm the freaking hell down. I said to somebody who, by the way, always stands up for terrorists, you know, or sits there and stands up and kowtows with terrorists and terrorist funding countries that they are –

that, you know, that their beepers blow up. It's a joke, whatever. Like, you know, grow a pair. Like, I don't know. I'm a man. If you sit there and make a joke at my expense and you apologize if I'm really offended, whatever, I'm over it in 30 seconds. Right. I'm not going to go storm off and act like, oh, you know, you know what?

So go ahead. I was going to say, Ryan, you know, people probably don't know a lot about this guy, Manny Hassan. You know, is he, I'm sure you've looked into him a little bit more since all of this has gone down. I mean, he does seem to be well known for conveniently taking the side of terrorists over and over and over again. What do we know about, you know, what his beliefs are?

I don't know him. I genuinely, I don't watch cable news. I certainly don't watch MSNBC. I mean, I watch cable news once in a while. I don't watch MSNBC unless it's an election night where they're losing and they're all crying on set. I don't know. So I don't know what he's all about. I genuinely don't. I Googled him a couple, like maybe like 15 years ago. He said that nonbelievers only...

are all cattle and animals and that gays are pedophiles. So that was like, and he said, he apologized since then, but like, that's basically all you need to know is like where they're coming from. And I, I think that he was like doing a show with like the nation of, I think it was Qatar, Qatar. I think, I don't know. I don't want to sit there and say anything, but he was doing a show with a foreign country at one point. He was booted off MSNBC. You know,

Whatever. I don't know. But literally, like, I don't know. I don't want to sit there and say more. I've heard things, but I can't, like, you know, battle them up. It seems like when you're talking about just... It's not great. It's not great. Right. When you're talking about rhetorical flourish of sorts, you know, you could put your comment and him calling you a Nazi in roughly the same category, right? Like, it's an overstatement. Sure, you're making a point. It's a debate. But when someone comes after you and calls you

the worst member of the worst group of people that anyone can ever imagine. Like, it's sort of normal to come back and be a little prickly about the situation. Well, also, the thing is, they will never know what it's like to be a conservative in the media.

They will never, the only person, only Democrat in probably the history of the world who know what it's like to be a Republican is Joe Biden. In the one month that they all sat there and said, you have to get out. And the whole media was against them. They do not know what it's like to do show after show with where the hosts are biased and the guests are biased. And it's three on one screaming at you constantly. And you're like, Hey, I read the statistics somewhere and it doesn't really matter because what is important is the narrative.

That's all they care about. It is the narrative and the narrative and the narrative. And if you sit there and you shoot against the narrative for so long, it is, you know, they have to get rid of you. I don't care. It's not like I'm going to get a show on CNN anyway. I live like a completely normal life. I do school board elections with the 1776 Project. That's what I do. This is just like something I did, you know, for four, well, three and a quarter episode, if you think about it. You were only on three and a quarter episodes?

Of Abby's show and then the other show is on twice. I did maybe like five and a quarter shows in like three weeks. That's amazing. All of them went viral. Yeah, I was going to say, I think every single one of them went viral. I thought you were on all the time because every single time I turn on Twitter, you're going viral for this. No.

I was on the whole network less than a full six episodes. And, you know, whatever. I didn't care. I want to give credit to some person. To the booking person at CNN who originally talked to me, they said, we're looking for a Republican. I said, if you want a Republican who's going to apologize for being a Republican, it ain't me. And they said, that's not what we're looking for, so you can come on. I said, okay, great.

I told them flat out who I was, that I was very open and honest. I'm not going to apologize for being a Republican. I'm not going to attack Donald Trump, not on CNN. My grandmother would kill me. That is not going to be that is not going to be me. And so like whatever, like that's all fine. And they let me on. So I'm lucky to have the opportunity. Probably could have handled it differently. But at the end of the day,

I'm not a Nazi, and the fact that one guest gets to call another guest a Nazi and the other one can't have a flippant joke, that was funny, by the way. It was. Objectively a funny line. Yeah, it is. I mean, it is a little roast comedian. Like, we just had this experience with the MSG situation. It's in that category, which they might not like, but objectively a funny line. So can I ask you, when the producers called, they said you were a little reluctant to come on the air. What?

When they called about what? Coming on the air here. Oh, oh, well, because, like, listen, I mean, I didn't want to, not that I don't care about amplifying the story. I don't think it is a story. Like, no one, in 24 hours, someone's going to find something else to be outraged with.

I went to a party literally like a few days ago, a conservative party, and every four seconds some strange-rated note yelled at me, "The Ferguson Effect." And I was like, "Great." And then I'm like, "Oh great, I'm gonna call Beeper for the rest of my life now." So I was like, "I don't wanna sit there and just be talking about this forever." So I was like, "Okay, I'll do a few shows today and then none after this, and that will be that."

And, you know, because I was like, listen, I have a moment where I could talk about my PAC, talk about the school board elections and mention it while I'm doing it. And that'll be that. I just don't think anyone's really going to care about it. Come, you know, and come in a couple of weeks. And by the way, one other thing, by the way, that other segment that I was on, I want to say this is the most insane story in the world. This is a total like normal CNN segment that I was on.

I was on a segment with the Ferguson effect and the two women next to me, Ashley Allison. I don't remember the other girl's name because we only spoke like five minutes together. We did a segment for 25 minutes, almost a half an hour. And one of them looked at the one I don't remember her. She looked at Ashley Allison on set right when we commercial break pointed at me goes, what's his name? And she goes, I have no idea.

We've been on show for 30 minutes. They had our names were publicly announced and didn't sit there and say like, oh, hi, nice to meet you. Yada, yada, yada. A lot of just mean girl nonsense like that. So anyway, I just wanted to. So the 1776 project, is that the 1776 project that was banned by or stopped immediately after Biden got into office?

No, no, no. This is a hack to flip school board elections. We have done over almost a thousand school board elections in three years. We put money directly into school board races to support conservatives for a myriad of issues, everything from testing standards to enforcement of school rules to CRT to the trans issue. There's one school board in Texas that we literally put every single seat in.

So we have done this. We have races coming up in Maryland and in Arizona next week. We have put hundreds of thousands of dollars into those races, and we are trying to sit there and get conservatives elected across the country to protect kids' public education. How do you feel about the election?

You know, I'm nervous. Listen, I think Trump's doing well in the Sunbelt. I wrote something for my sub stack two days ago. The biggest, the big, craziest thing in the world, and this is going to drive you nuts. In 2020, the census admitted that they got the data wrong and they gave extra seats, congressional seats to Rhode Island, Colorado,

Colorado and Minnesota over Texas was supposed to get one extra and Florida was supposed to get two. If Trump wins the Sunbelt and loses the three Rust Belt states, he will lose the election 270 to 268. Had they not misallocated those three seats, he would have won 271 at 267. So things like that, I'm at this point playing in my head, driving me crazy.

He's got to win one Rust Belt state. We just got to win Michigan, Wisconsin or Pensacola, Pennsylvania, Pensacola, Pennsylvania. Think about Florida, Pennsylvania. I think things look good. Republicans are voting like their life depends on it, which is great. Need to do a little bit more. And we just need to get some independence along the way. And he should win one of those states. Let me ask you, what is your what's your take on the support behind Kamala?

I think that a lot of it is people who want hate Trump and they're just broken to hate Trump. I think that a part of it is also the astroturfed female empowerment nonsense that she's just so great. And I mean, look, she went from being Selena Meyers on Veep.

to being a girl boss in 24 hours in the media. Like, everyone remembers, and this is why they hid her for so long, this is why they're keeping her hidden. She has a billion dollars, it's a lot of money, she has all these unions, it's a lot of effort. What she doesn't have is a lot of support, but she's...

harping on this fascism and Nazism thing because she's got one group, one group that can put her in the White House. And that is suburban moms and dads who are very scared of it. And they don't have to worry about tax cuts because they make a lot of money. They don't live in a high crime neighborhood. Their kids go to good schools. They are insulated, insulated.

in a very comfortable bubble. A lot of them live in places that look like the 1950s. So they don't have this feeling. They all have Ukraine flags 'cause it means nothing to them. But Hispanics, blacks, Muslims, Jews, people who have a lot of stake on the line 'cause they're living in communities that deal with 2020 and afterwards, they're increasingly voting for Trump. And that is why she's harping so heavily

that if you don't do this, if you don't vote for me, you're a bad person. You're a bad white person. You're a bad mom. You're a bad suburban person. You're a bad person. You have to vote for me. And that is her closing message. I don't know how effective it would be, but I mean, these people all vote, they all vote. So,

The non-college educated, white working class, blue collar guy out in Pennsylvania, there were 2.66 million of them in 2016 who were not even registered to vote. A lot have registered since then. 20% of all early votes for Republicans are first time voters. It's got to stay that way and it's got to increase. Yeah, that was the data that was released out yesterday.

Ryan, thank you so much. Really appreciate it. And I hope we talk again. 1776 Project PAC founder, political consultant, and a guy who should wear this as a badge of honor, now banned from CNN for telling the truth and telling a joke.