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Best of the Program | Guests: Brian Fennessy & Mihail Neamtu | 1/14/25
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Glenn Beck
Today is a sad day, quite honestly. Day I return, the day I come back. Stu is mocking old people and a senator, quite frankly, who said in his words, not mine, Jill Rand looks like witchy poo from HR Puff and stuff. And he said only old people will understand that it goes downhill from there. You don't want to miss a second of today's podcast. First, let me tell you about my Patriot Supply. The sad and ugly truth that no one, not even President Trump, but his incoming administration can protect you and your family from ever, you know, for always being safe. You know, there are emergency situations that are going to arise and how many times do we have to learn that lesson, watching other people get hit? If you think the crisis, whatever it is, won't hit you, you're mistaken. And food is almost always the first casualty. Everybody needs it. And soon as things get scary, panic buying sets in. Always be prepared for the worst while hoping for the best. Storing emergency food in your home is the right thing to do. We still live in crazy times and you and your family could need it. The best place to get it is my patriot supply. My Patriotsupply.com with 2,000 calories per day, 100% of your daily value, and 12 essential vitamins and minerals. This kit keeps you going when every meal matters. Right now they're offering $50 off their four week emergency food kit. So go to my Patriotsupply.com grab yours. Don't put it off. The time to prepare right now, my patriotsupply.com get your four week emergency food kit today. My patriotsupply.com you're listening to the Best of the Glenn Beck Program. Let me go into first. What is happening in California? The fires are still burning and, you know, good for them, good for them. Meanwhile, we have Newsom talking about his Marshall plan to rebuild Los Angeles. And let's go cut three there, please.
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Stu Burguiere
Over the course of next several years, Los Angeles will be host to the World cup and then the super bowl and then the Olympics. With this rebuilding effort needing to take place, is L A going to be ready for all of those global events.
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Gavin Newsom
All that opportunity and that pride and spirit that comes from not just hosting those three iconic games and venues, but also the opportunity, I think, to rebuild at the same time. And that's why we're already organizing a Marshall plan. We already have a team looking and reimagining LA 2.0. And we're making sure everyone's included, not just the folks on the coast, people here that were ravaged by this disaster.
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Stu Burguiere
You just Said you're organizing a Marshall plan for the rebuilding of California. What is that Marshall plan?
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Gavin Newsom
Tell us about this market just starting to lay out. I mean, we're still fighting these fires. So we're already talking to city leaders, we're already talking to civic leaders, we're already talking to business leaders and nonprofits. We're talking to labor leaders. We're starting to organize how we can put together a collection of individuals on philanthropy for recovery, how we can organize the region, how we can make sure that we are seeking federal assistance for the Olympics more broadly, but also federal assistance for the recovery efforts and how we can galvanize the community.
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Glenn Beck
Okay, so I'm glad he's talking about the future. This brings us to Mike Johnson, something I haven't talked about, had a chance to talk about yet. He wants to put some restrictions. His aid proposal for California is that he's trying to put conditions on the aid set sent to California. And people are saying, that's insane. You don't do that. Where is your compassion? I want to talk to you about how compassion is sometimes difficult. Compassion, true compassion, is sometimes the hardest thing to muster because you want to give until you can't give anymore. You want to help, you want to be there. But you have an alcoholic in California. California is. The political system is an alcoholic, and it is destroying the entire state. And you don't say, when an alcoholic is suddenly, you know, in the hospital or, you know, really, really down and, you know, out on the streets, you know what? I'm going to give you all the money you need to get back into your house, because the alcoholic will spend that and just end up in the same place, if not worse. Sometimes you have to have tough love, you know, this with your family. Any kind of aid that goes to California, I think it is only responsible to aid the people as quickly as possible. Aid the homeowners as quickly as possible, Help them make sure that they have a place to go. Make sure that they, you know, like they, like the government wasn't doing in North Carolina, making sure that they have hotel rooms for as long as they need them. Within reason now. Within reason. Many of these people are wildly wealthy. Some are very poor. There needs to be some understanding that the wildly wealthy, you know, we're not going to put you up at the Beverly Hills Hotel. That's just the way it is. Sorry, but we're going to help the people. But when it comes to the state, if they cannot admit that this is not climate change, that this happened because of their Policies. If they cannot admit that, they shouldn't get a dime. I'm a taxpayer. I want to help California just like I want to help all the other states when they have a problem that they cannot handle that is too big for their state. But they took all of their resources and honestly, you could make the case I'm not, but you could make the case this was intentional sabotage. Now, I want to tell you about the threefold problem in California. As I see it, there are three things that are happening in California. 1. The Santa Ana winds, low humidity and uncleared brush always causes fires. Always. They are known to cause fires. They have been known throughout history. Do you know why the great redwoods and the sequoias have grown for a thousand years? You know how those trees got so big? They're in California. How is that possible? How have they not been wiped out by fire? We've got to protect the sequoias. Do we? You know that the SAP in sequoias is fire retardant. That's why they can grow for a thousand years. God gave them. God knew there'd be fires in California. Those trees have fire retardant as part of their life's blood. That's why they haven't burned down over and over and over again. Normal trees don't have that. That's why fires burn all the time. And if you don't have regular maintenance on your forests and on your property, you are going to have a brush fire. And a brush fire turns into a forest fire. And if you add 75 to 100 mile an hour winds, you could burn down the entire state. Except it seems, for the sequoias and the redwoods. What this government of California has done has stopped people in the name of the good of the forest and the good of the land is to deny science. They have been denying science for decades. They have been playing God for over a century. They want to tell you that a woman can be a man and a man can be a woman and a man can have a baby. That's not true. That's denying science. To say that we can prevent the forest fires is a lie. That is as arrogant as saying we can change the weather. Now, don't think our government and governments all over the world aren't trying to change the weather. But let me ask you honestly, how do you think that's going to work out in the end? How do you think cloud seeding and putting gases and different things up into the atmosphere or giant shades in space to block the Sun. How do you think that's going to work out in the end? Well, or will it end the same way? Our arrogance will always ends. There are things that we can do to mitigate natural occurrences. For instance, if you were, let's say you got on December 2, can we get that weather warning up from the national weather service? It's January 2nd, next Tuesday through Thursday, January 7th through the 9th. A chance of moderate to strong Santa Ana winds. This is for is from the National Weather Service. Ready, set, go. ReadyForWildfire.org impacts extreme fire growth behavior possible if a fire starts and power outages. Use extra caution with potential fire sources. Now this was added the week before the fires. Now that's the National Weather Service giving a warning to the people of California. You can bet that government agency let other government agencies know at the same time. It just didn't go out to your house. It went out to everybody's house. It went to the firehouses, it went to the governor's house, it went to the mayor's house. They knew in advance. So let me ask you, in a non progressive state, what would somebody like Ron DeSantis do? What do we do for hurricanes? Hurricanes are like fires in California. You know you're going to have them every single year. Am I wrong? Okay, if you have them and you get a warning, one is potentially coming, that could be record setting. What do you do? Well, I'll tell you what, A non progressive state like Florida with a governor who is, is embracing reality. What he does is he pre positions all of the utility trucks. He pre positions all of the life saving trucks. He makes sure that we have plenty of chainsaws. He makes sure that the, the state is ready and literally waiting. So what should Gavin Newsom have done when he got that warning, A hundred year warning of a fire. He should have said make sure all the, the make sure all the reservoirs are full. Make sure that we have all of the fire trucks positioned, put them in the high risk areas, just let them sit there, have the firemen sit there in really dangerous areas. Make sure that if you see a fire or smoke, that thing is out right away. You can't get up these hills with fire equipment quickly. If you've ever been to California, it's honestly like navigating the Appalachian, Croatia. It's, it's like going to North Carolina. Why were so many people trapped? Because it's impossible to navigate those hills and those mountains quickly. The same thing in California. Did they do that? No. Did they make sure that they had Things in advance? No. What is the one given? If you're living in California, what is the one thing that you know is going to happen in California besides political insanity? You know there's a chance of an earthquake. So what do you do? You build your building stronger, right? You know that there's a chance of a mudslide. So what do you do? You make sure that you, you have your foundations deep. But then you also when you buy it. No, I'm gambling here. My house could slide down the side of this mountain. You're charged extra for insurance. But the one thing you know is going to happen every year is fire. Why wouldn't California be the number one fire ready and resistant area in the United States? Let me tell you about Jace Medical. 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Don't wait for the government to do the right thing. You do it. Go to jace.com, enter the promo code Beck. Make sure you have the right meds on hand the moment you need them. That's Jace.com promo code Beck. Now back to the podcast. You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program. As the gods of the have copy book headings limp up to explain once more that fire will certainly be burn us and water will wet us. They could learn that in California. We have Brian Fennessy, he is the Orange County California fire chief to tell us a little about what's going on and how is Orange county doing? Brian, welcome to the program.
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Brian Fennessy
Thank you very much. A little bit about the fires just across a few miles from here in la. They, you know, they're not spreading as they were. I think both are kind of at a stable position. But there's certainly a lot of heat, you know, in those. And on those fires in the new wind event, albeit not, you know, 80 miles an hour, 100 mile an hour gusts are still very concerning. So those fires are going to be wind tested here in Orange County. It's just howling, it's blowing hard. It was last week and I think we here dodged a bullet. But we're expecting that for another couple days. And I'm told there might be another Santa Ana wind event forecasted for next week. So we sure can't, we can't stand much more.
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Glenn Beck
Brian, this is totally predictable. Was it not totally predictable?
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Brian Fennessy
Oh, yeah, absolutely. You know, when I started back in 1978, we'd usually have a few days notice. You know, meteorology is not what it is today. We start to get notified about 10 days out and then confidence builds at seven days. And then when you're about four days out, we're pretty sure you know what's going to expect. So, yes, forecasting and predicting is far better than it's ever been.
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Glenn Beck
So what should have been done in those four days before the Friar broke out?
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Brian Fennessy
Well, I'll tell you what was done. And you know, we have a program called pre positioning that about six years ago, the fire chiefs in the state got the state of California to fund to put money behind this pre positioning, meaning that if we go through a matrix, you know, county by county and we meet certain criteria, I mean, there's a number of things. We are approved for pre position funding, which means I can bring on additional aircraft, additional bulldozers, engines, and the state will pay for them. So that not only are all of my stations filled and ready to go, but I might have two or three more strike teams, strike teams, five engines. I might have additional helicopters, dispatch staff. So all of the Southern California counties were approved for pre positioning. And so we had, you know, definitely extra resources available should they be needed. And certainly they were deployed very, very quickly.
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Glenn Beck
So. But that's Orange County.
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Brian Fennessy
No, no, that's it. That's every county. Every county in the state is eligible for it. But each county has through this matrix and to meet it. And so I, I don't know for sure, but I would expect that Santa Barbara county south were all approved for pre position funding. And quite frankly, here in Orange county and when I was the fire chief in San Diego City, we didn't wait for pre positioning. If this weather was going to surface, we're going to staff up and if we go over budget we go over budget. You know, our job is to protect our communities and the mayor I worked for at the time understood that. So it's nice to be reimbursed for it, but that's not a necessity. We're going to staff up even beyond what the state approves if we believe we need to do that.
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Glenn Beck
Yeah. So as we're watching this from Texas and all around the country, it seems as though it was a known that it was going to happen. This is routine. You expect the Santa Ana winds every year. You expect forest fires and brush fires in California every year. So this was just one of the really bad ones. Then it seems like incompetence of, of cutting the funding for the fire agencies, not really truly being prepared. And then on top of it, it seems incompetence to a level that is almost criminal. And then the third part of this as we see it, as I see it, is there might be some actors after the main fire started that are also, you know, setting fires. What their, what their motives are are yet unknown. But there are also some arsonists involved in that. Do I have that picture right?
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Brian Fennessy
You know, I. Partially, I. Well, and maybe totally, I don't know for sure. But I will tell you this, that, you know, I've lived in, I grew up in Altadena and that's one of the. The towns is pretty well wiped out. And so when you live that close to the foothills, you're used to Santa Ana winds, you know, they're coming and they can be brutal right there in the foothills. And it's not uncommon for a strong, we consider strong Santa ana to be 40, 50 mile an hour winds, steady with gusts maybe to 60, 70. The event that was experienced last week and you know, this was, you know, 60, 70, right. Steady with gust of 9,000, something like that. I mean, we have a hard time dealing with the former. Something like that, you know, we're trying to manage expectations is we can't stop that fire. And I think, you know, many times, you know, the public. Well, let me put it this way. If this were a hurricane or tornado, firefighters aren't stopping those either.
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Glenn Beck
Right.
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Brian Fennessy
And so why.
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Glenn Beck
But they do pre position. You look at Florida, they've got the trucks lined up before that thing even comes ashore.
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Brian Fennessy
Yep, they're the best. And you know, they get disaster declarations in advance and they get things moving.
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Glenn Beck
Right.
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Brian Fennessy
Florida, Florida is an amazing model and Texas is a good model as well. But in terms of, you know, I can't speak for LA city, I don't know what they pre positioned or upstaffed, but I've said it to a number of people. They could have had another, I don't know, thousand engines and we weren't going to stop this fire. Now having said that, once the winds diminished and the fire, you know, this was no longer a wildland fire. This became an urban conflagration. House to house spread. The fuel was the structures. And so, you know, once the wind diminished to a point where, you know, firefighters could get in there and start working on the structures. There were just so many. I mean I drove those fires and it was, and I've been doing this since 1978. I couldn't believe the structures, the businesses that were burning so far from the mountain that it came off of. I mean it was even incredible for me in terms of the water. You know, I think that's being sorted out. I'm probably hearing the same things that you are, that reservoirs, you know, may not have been as filled as they needed to be. Yes, a draw on the system can cause, you know, some decrease in pressure. But I've never heard of anything where there actually wasn't pressure. I do know, and I've shared this with people that in 2003 in San Diego we had the, at the time, the largest fire in California history. We lost pressure, but that was because pump houses, pump stations had been burned and we didn't know they existed. Had we known, we'd have protected those pump houses as much as we protect a house to, you know, to ensure that we had pressure. So I'm confident the city of L. A and I'm hearing that the governor is ordered an investigation that's going to get sorted out, that's going to get public and yes, it could be quite embarrassing and life changing for a few people involved in whatever decision making. Good place.
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Glenn Beck
Good. We have to learn from our lessons, you know, learn lessons from our mistakes. You are being talked about of going into the Department of Interior. Oh, you had not heard that?
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Brian Fennessy
Well, I'm here, I'm, I'm hearing rumblings. People have asked if I was interested in perhaps even, you know, becoming the new U.S. forest Service chief. And I've shared with others that, you know, should I be approached at some point, I would, I would certainly consider because quite frankly that agency is a mess when it comes to firefighting. They, you know, the pay and benefits for their firefighters, their firefighters are leaving in droves. They are so underpaid and under benefited that they're leaving, you know, to go to work for State and local government agencies like mine and like LA County. And this isn't anything new. You know, I used to work for them for 13 years, both the USDA Forest Service and the Department of Interior BLM. And I left as a crew superintendent. I ran crews. And back then, you know, we were significantly underpaid. I left the municipal department in 1990, went to San Diego because of it. And it's gotten worse. And it's not managed or organized like a fire department. If they're going to be in the fire business, they need to be organized and led like a fire department. Yes, they're a resource agency and yes, they have things beyond fire. But if you look at the Forest Service budget, you know, primarily now it's fire that's being funded and they definitely need some help. And their firefighters, quite frankly, Glenn, that they're going to be without a fire department very, very soon.
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Glenn Beck
I have to tell you, it was the National Forest Service that helped save my neighbor's ranch and probably mine. If we would have had high winds, it would have been over. But the local fire came out and immediately the fire, the Forest Service was. Had already positioned. They, they looked at my canyon, went, this is dry. This is just a disaster waiting to happen. And they were ready for it and they saved it. I mean, they did great job there.
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Brian Fennessy
They have amazing firefighters, you know. They do. I spent 13 years in Hotshot crews, so. So I know the business and you know, I know the people that are out there now. Their firefighters are amazing. Their smoke jumpers, their hotshots, their engine cruiser Helitack. Unfortunately, again, they're organized in such a way that national. They don't. It would take too long to speak to, but it's just sad to see. I mean, here in California, I'm told that we're only able to staff their stations at 60%. In my own county, I have three Forest Service stations and they could only staff one of those stations. Two on occasion, eight to 10 hours a day. All summer we had a fire. We had a fire, the airport fire earlier this summer that burned over 100 homes. And the station closest to that fire was not staffed. And so, you know, I made Congress aware and others aware. And right now I don't think the Forest Service is happy with me because I'm being very public good about things that they should be very public about.
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Glenn Beck
So would it be the Forest Service or the Department of Interior that would. Would be responsible for getting underbrush cleared?
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Brian Fennessy
Well, I think it's both. I've worked for both The USDA and usdi, and let's face it, at least out here in the west, firefighters for decades have done such a great job at suppressing fires quickly that it's caused this growth. And we've got an unhealthy landscape out there, and we need to start putting beneficial fire back on the landscape. We need to clear the brush. But here's another thing, Glenn. Those same firefighters that we're losing, those are the people that are going to do the work.
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Glenn Beck
I know.
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Brian Fennessy
And so if you don't have the workforce to do the work that needs to be done, how do you get it done? It doesn't matter how many millions or billions of dollars you throw at the problem if you don't have the people there to do the work. But yes, I mean, we need to do something about this unhealthy forest and people are working hard at it. Certainly Cal Fire is showing amazing incred success with it, but we're years behind, man. Decades of not treating, you know, the fuels and the landscape, and it's gonna be decades to fix it. But we've gotta, we gotta do something and we've gotta have a workforce to be able to do it. And like I say, if asked, and I haven't been asked by anybody officially, but just informal people of suggested and asked, is that something I would consider and absolutely. And you know, certainly pay is less of an issue. It would be a pay cut for me, but it's not about that. Yeah, it's about, it's about, you know, what we as firefighters, you know, have sworn to do, and we need to fix that organization quickly.
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Glenn Beck
Quickly. Can I ask you. I'm up against a network break. Can I just ask you about the safety inspections of the Oregon fire trucks and everything? That was not to make sure of emissions. That was to make sure that they could function. Correct. Which seems insane too, but go ahead.
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Brian Fennessy
I, I'm unaware that. Of. Of what you're talking about, but I know that we do inspect, not we, but the state or the feds will inspect, you know, engines and whatnot when they arrive and then before they leave to make sure they're safe. So I, I'm not familiar at all with the situation you're talking about.
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Glenn Beck
All right, Brian, thank you so much. I hope you're called up because we need to take all of our agencies and especially all of our services that are protecting us seriously again. We haven't for quite a long time. Brian, thank you so much.
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Brian Fennessy
Yep. We need change, so thank you.
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Glenn Beck
You bet. Brian Fennessy. Orange County Fire Chief.
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Sarah
You're listening to the Best of Glenn Beck.
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Glenn Beck
Need a little more? Check out the full show podcasts anywhere you download podcasts. Welcome.
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Sarah
I'm just watching some of this coverage of the Pete Hegseth hearings. I saw Megyn Kelly. She was right behind, like, the second row of the hearing. We saw that earlier. And we're watching this visually. We're not hearing all of it. And then I walked in during the commercial break, and the audio was up, and I was like, that voice is familiar. Who is that? It was one of those irritating voices from the past. And then I looked up and I was like, oh, no, maybe not. I'm not sure who that is. And watched the commentary for a couple minutes and then looked down at the nameplate and realized that was apparently Kirsten.
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Glenn Beck
Gillibrand, which I think that is the nicest telling of that story, Sarah, wouldn't you say? I think that was.
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Sarah
That's exactly what happened.
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Glenn Beck
Original. I mean, that was an original tale there for some.
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Sarah
Precisely what happened in my mind. I don't know what I said.
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Glenn Beck
That is precisely said, who the hell is that hag?
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Sarah
I never said that.
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Glenn Beck
You know, just what I heard. I mean, really. Honestly, Sarah, he didn't say those words, but that's what he was saying. Oh, definitely. Definitely what he was saying.
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Sarah
I don't. First of all, I didn't say those words first of all. I may have implied them, because I will. I mean, Washington takes a toll on you, man. Do you know? Here's a fact of the day.
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Glenn Beck
Yeah.
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Sarah
That person up there, Kirsten Gillibrand, younger than you.
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Glenn Beck
Wow.
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Sarah
Ah.
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Glenn Beck
That was him saying she's a hag.
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Sarah
Did you hear that reaction, Sarah?
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Glenn Beck
Wow. She is. She is holding herself together very well.
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Sarah
No, that is not what you just said with that noise. That noise expressed a lot of emotion and surprise.
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Glenn Beck
Yeah. Wow.
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Sarah
And not in a positive way for. For dear Kirsten, because she was running for president relatively recently. She was always invited on, like Stephen Colbert. She was a New York senator. She was kind of a mini celebrity for a while. Running for president didn't make much of an impact.
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Glenn Beck
No.
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Sarah
In her race, it was never really close, but it feels like the pictures look like they were 25 years ago. I don't know what's going on.
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Glenn Beck
She was questioning Hegseth and it was.
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Sarah
Don't try to move to the actual content. The content of her. Of her remarks.
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Glenn Beck
That's the important part.
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Sarah
No, no. Okay, what happened? We always say this about presidents, and it's okay to say it about guys. Oh, look, you came into office and his hair was black and now it's totally gray. Oh, that's totally fine to say about guys. The same things happen apparently to dear Kirsten here.
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Glenn Beck
No, that's not true. That's not true. She just stopped dyeing her hair. That's what happened. She hasn't like, in four years, it hasn't been like, oh, my gosh, look at her gray hair. All that stress. She stopped putting a box of chemicals in her hair.
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Sarah
I will say that may very well have occurred. Yeah, she's only 58. But that may very well have occurred. What I would add to that, though, is it looks like maybe she stopped doing other things because ladies. And you backed me up on this, Sarah.
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Glenn Beck
Right?
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Sarah
Ladies tend to do things to improve their appearance. Maybe wear makeup. Maybe. Maybe there's some things that are injected into faces.
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Glenn Beck
Like hag cackles from him right now, aren't you?
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Sarah
Maybe. Maybe there's bathing. There's all sorts of things that they do. And she seemed to have stopped all of them.
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Glenn Beck
You think she stopped bathing?
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Sarah
I mean, I'm not there to smell me. We can ask Megan. She's in the second row. Maybe she would know.
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Glenn Beck
Okay. I think you should call Megan.
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Sarah
No, I'm definitely not. I don't want to get her involved.
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Glenn Beck
No, I think Megan would be happy to answer all of these questions.
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Sarah
I'll drag you into the depths of a conversation like this. I don't want to do that to her.
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Glenn Beck
Yeah. Huh.
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Sarah
Yeah.
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Glenn Beck
So you don't want to talk about the policies? I think Kegseth is handling himself extraordinarily well. Oh, my gosh. Oh, my gosh.
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Sarah
Well, I thought that would be typical of me. I would.
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Glenn Beck
You did just do that.
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Sarah
I did. Well, I did just Google something that we don't necessarily have to talk about.
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Glenn Beck
I think we need to. I think we need to stu. Just Google it.
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Sarah
I don't think we need to talk about that. That was not. It was an off the air conversation.
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Glenn Beck
You didn't say that prior.
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Sarah
I said it off.
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Glenn Beck
I think America needs to know what you're googling about. Christian children.
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Sarah
You don't even know her name.
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Glenn Beck
I don't.
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Sarah
I don't care.
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Glenn Beck
I really don't care.
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Sarah
Okay, well, then, you know, let's move on then.
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Glenn Beck
But I care now because of what you. Because I didn't.
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Sarah
It wasn't anything bad. I was. I was.
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Glenn Beck
It wasn't anything bad. It wasn't anything bad.
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Sarah
Oh, well, it was.
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Glenn Beck
Poor Kirsten is crying her little eyeballs out right now.
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Sarah
No, that's not true. First of all, I mean, obviously, to state the very clear and obvious, both of us are hideous. So this is not. That is.
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Glenn Beck
We're not judging. I wasn't the one that said, what the hell happened to you?
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Sarah
Oh, the American people absolutely heard you say that. With that noise you made. When I said she was 58 years old. They heard it. They heard every little bit of it. But what. I just, I googled something because I became concerned about her health. Well, I be. Yes, that is one way of stating what happened.
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Glenn Beck
How did you Google it? How did you Google. What did you Google?
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Sarah
I googled if Kirsten Gillibrand had disclosed a disease or long term illness because I became concerned.
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Glenn Beck
She gets gray hair and you think that she's. Well, yeah.
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Sarah
I will say the real thing that happened there is, after I made jokes about it, I figured, God, she probably has some terrible disease. And now everyone's going to yell at me because I made fun of her.
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Glenn Beck
She looks so bad with gray hair that you think she has some horrible gray hair.
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Sarah
That's not what it's about. You have gray hair. You're.
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Glenn Beck
I don't have gray hair. I have white hair.
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Sarah
Yes.
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Glenn Beck
Well, yeah.
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Sarah
Yes, that. Yes, that's true. You have white hair.
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Glenn Beck
Have you. Did you Google does Glenn Beck have some horrible disease?
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Sarah
Every disease in the book, there's nothing I can Google that you don't have. Every two days, you're like, hey, it's Glenn Beck live from the hospital. They're gonna build you a podcast studio inside of Baylor. But I will say I just. It really, like, it wasn't really concern about her, if I'm being honest. It was concerned about me because I did. Okay, so call her name.
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Glenn Beck
Something terrible that happened about women getting older, and then you thought, oh, dear God, I could be in trouble getting older.
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Sarah
She was like, she looked like a celebrity on Stephen Colbert like, six months ago. She's like having some reverse Benjamin Buttons thing going on. There's something happening.
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Glenn Beck
Reverse Benjamin Buttons, which would be normal. Normal aging. He's got to go to reverse Benjamin Button. Oh, in the movie, it seemed like.
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Sarah
It went really fast at times.
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Glenn Beck
Right. Maybe.
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Sarah
Maybe you're right. Maybe. Yeah, maybe that's a long way to.
- [37:17]
Glenn Beck
Get to normal aging.
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Sarah
But I don't think my point is maybe. Maybe she's spending a lot of time in the sun. Right. Like they say that that's a. That's something you shouldn't do.
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Glenn Beck
Yeah.
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Sarah
You know, not recently because she Looked very pale. But at some point.
- [37:33]
Glenn Beck
Some point she was out in the sun.
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Sarah
Out in the sun too long. I'm just. I'm trying to help.
- [37:38]
Glenn Beck
Right?
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Sarah
What are you doing? What are you judging?
- [37:42]
Glenn Beck
You know what I'm doing? I'm rubbernecking right now. I'm just driving by a car accident. Just slowing down to watch it. That's all I'm doing.
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Sarah
Who is the one person here who cared enough about her health to make sure she's doing okay? Me. I'm the only one. What did you do? You sat here and did. You were just. You didn't care if she had a long term illness or disease she disclosed at all?
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Glenn Beck
I didn't think she had one. I just thought. But she was aging like people do.
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Sarah
No. You are so shameless.
- [38:16]
Glenn Beck
Shameless. Shameless.
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Sarah
Everyone in this audience heard moments ago. Can we pull the audio? Hey, Glenn, she's younger than you. Oh, I don't even want the noise. There was like several different emotions in that noise.
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Glenn Beck
That's not true.
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Sarah
That she expressed.
- [38:31]
Glenn Beck
Not true.
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Sarah
I mean, it was disdain. I'm looking out for her health. What are you doing, sir?
- [38:37]
Glenn Beck
I was just trying to talk, you know, about what's happening to poor Pete. That's all I was doing.
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Sarah
Poor Pete.
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Glenn Beck
That's all I was doing.
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Sarah
You know, and you're right. Let's get back to Pete Hegseth. Pete Hegseth is the nominee. I don't really care for dissents. I don't. I. You know, look, I think we've covered everything we need to cover on Kirsten Gillibret. I just had a moment of legitimate shock. And sometimes human beings are fallible, and I maybe misjudged what could happen in such a short time. The aging process. We should do something. Medicine should fight that. We should go. Longevity. Science should be invested in heavily.
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Glenn Beck
So you didn't have to look at aging women. That's what you're saying?
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Sarah
That's not what I'm saying at all. That's what I heard.
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Glenn Beck
It's a weird segue.
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Sarah
I was shocked. And I think that, you know, can't science do something? Is what I'm. Is what I'm saying.
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Glenn Beck
So you don't have to look at aging women?
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Sarah
No, it has nothing. Why do you keep saying that?
- [39:41]
Glenn Beck
You keep saying a logical place to go.
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Sarah
It is not a logical place to go.
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Glenn Beck
Why would he. Go ahead, sir. I'm not getting involved. Okay.
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Sarah
Wow. You've even scared her away.
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Glenn Beck
Wow. Wow. Well, she knows. She knows what you would say. So she can't take you on because she. She knows exactly what kind of horrible, insensitive comments you would make about her. And I have gray hair. Do you.
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Sarah
Do you want to make that comparison? No, I didn't think so. No, she does it. Nobody does.
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Glenn Beck
Okay.
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Sarah
Nobody does.
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Glenn Beck
So I would like to talk about, you know, because this is a logical segue. Stu, A logical segue is not, oh, wow, she looks horrible. Science should do something about the standard aging process, by the way. It's not a normal.
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Sarah
And she was utilizing it, apparently with hair dye.
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Glenn Beck
Okay, here's a logical one. Biden puts taxpayers on the hook for 15,000 debtor student loans. Here's a guy who. We've been talking about fires all day. Here's a guy who is setting our government on fire just before he leaves. In every way possible, they are sabotaging the presidency of Donald Trump. And I really hope these are the things that come to an end beginning next week.