RADIOApril 11, 2024

The REAL Reason DC Politicians NEVER Leave Office

Why is it that there are so many ancient politicians in Congress — Nancy Pelosi, Mitch McConnell, Chuck Schumer? Do they just love power, or is there another reason they take forever to retire? Glenn speaks with James Poulos, the host of the newest Blaze Originals documentary, “Bought and Paid For: How Politicians Get Filthy Rich.” In the documentary, James reveals what he believes is keeping the geezers in the Swamp: loads of money. Somehow, these lawmakers have become expert stock traders, and although they claim there’s no insider trading going on, the numbers look just a LITTLE suspicious. James reveals the most shocking thing the documentary exposed and also why he believes almost no one in Congress is interested in stopping these shady practices.

ICYMI: There's still time to watch the limited public release of "Bought & Paid For": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXuzS...

Transcript

Below is a rush transcript that may contain errors

GLENN: James, how are you, sir?

JAMES: Hey, Glenn. How are you?

GLENN: Good. That was a great documentary that you were a part of, last night.

JAMES: Well, I appreciate that.

GLENN: What was the -- what is the -- if you had to tell somebody in one fact, what do you think the fact is that makes people go, whoa!

What?

JAMES: Well, you know, there's so many to choose from. I guess, you know, if -- for most Americans, wars. Pandemics.

These things are not business opportunities.

They're not opportunities to make some quick cash.

But the reality is that in Congress, if you're -- you're sitting up there on the hill, you can take advantage of those opportunities, and people do.

GLENN: You know, Nancy Pelosi always says, insular -- I have nothing to do with the -- you know, the investments in my life.

It's my husband.

He's just a great investor.

He's like a world class, never seen before, kind of investor, to do what they do. What they do with their money, right?

JAMES: Well, yeah. It seems pretty clear what's going on. It's tough, though. Because the evidentiary standards for proving something like, quote, unquote, insider trading is very difficult to me.

GLENN: For them.

JAMES: Yeah. For them. Yeah. The reality is, if you have that kind of information, and you have a sense of what's going to happen before it does, and what stocks will pop before anyone else does, you know, it's fairly clear that you shouldn't start making trades. But you can say a kind word to a family member, to a staff member. To relatives. To the staff member.

And there's really legally to stop them from taking action on them. So it's a system that is ripe for abuse.

GLENN: There's a couple of things here. Let me play cut seven here.

This is George Santos, exposing how the congressional leaders silence opposition. And what would happen to Congress, if people started to actually look into their stock trading. Listen.

VOICE: I'm thinking, I want to sign on to Abigail Spanberger's bill on individual stock trading.

I was told that if I signed a cosponsor to the bill, and made too much voluminous flare over it, I wouldn't be seated.

So I shut up.

VOICE: Who told you that?

VOICE: I had staff from the majority. From -- telling me that. To my face, on the House floor.

Like, the threats that fly around, are just absolutely insane.

VOICE: My very first classified briefing, which I unfortunately can't tell you guys for obvious reasons. Unless you guys want me tried.

Or I would be tried for treason.

So --

VOICE: Maybe both.

VOICE: Both, right?

But it -- it becomes a -- a real issue, because you hear this information.

And instantly, you're like, oh, wow.

I know this better before the country.

VOICE: It's that level of scrutiny that I received in Congress. Was applied to anyone else in that building.

Or the people at the top of both parties. What do you think would have happened to them?

VOICE: You would be running 535 special elections today if they were real.

If they applied the same level of scrutiny to me, you would think the whole building.

GLENN: Why -- why was George Santos selected to be the one who talked to you?

VOICE: Well, Glenn, it's pretty simple really.

We reached out to just about everyone, who is involved or might be involved. Whether in a good way or a bad way, with these kinds of trading practices, and we were stonewalled.

Ro Khanna -- Rep Ro Khanna seems like he might be interested. He plays for us. Ghosted us.

A bunch of other people, including the sponsor. The cosponsor of that bill.

That George Santos mentioned there. Cosponsor with Chip Roy. Who we did talk to.

We got him on the dock.

Everybody else, just a big nope.

It was fascinating.

Maverick Matt Gaetz. George Santos, thee these guys are considered mavericks or worse, by a lot of Republicans.

When those are the only guys willing to speak to you.

It's because there is a code of silence. It's very tough to penetrate. So, you know, we were very grateful to be able to get the inside scoop from those guys. Because they have been through fire. And they are willing to say what others are.

GLENN: Here is Matt Gaetz from the special last night.

VOICE: Congressman gates offered to take us on the tour.

VOICE: So one of the committees that people have a lot of information. Is the appropriations committee. Because they can view almost any vector of government funding.

And so, you know, this is Mr. Rutherford's office. He's on the Ethics Committee and Appropriations Committee. One hundred fifty-two stock trades. Stocks go through the roof.

And, you know, actually brought Raytheon stock, the day that Russia invaded Ukraine.

VOICE: Yeah. That's a big one.

VOICE: Yeah. Imagine if every American can make money off of war.

VOICE: Yeah.

VOICE: Setting aside the whole shame and ethics questions. How many more on our hit list here?

VOICE: There are a few more. I wish there were fewer on the hit list. I wish we could only stop at one or two offices. But as it turns out, so energy is a sector that sees a lot of congressional stock trading. And we have members who are on the energy subcommittee of appropriations, like Michael Guest, chairmen of the Ethics Committee. And he's traded between somewhere between tens and hundreds of thousands of dollars in energy stocks. He's been buying online gaming stocks. And just making a killing on them. You would think that the people on the ethics committee would be your best allies in this fight. But indeed, they are the most prolific traders. And not only trading, but trading in an area, where he has access to energy information. More so than any other American.

VOICE: No indication that he wants to slow down, pump the brakes. There might be some appearance of impropriety here.

VOICE: It seems as though, the pace is only accelerating.

GLENN: So -- so -- so let me -- let me go back to a bigger point, James.

What does this say about why these people are hanging out so long in Congress? Why they just never seem to retire?

JAMES: Well, look, I asked George Santos when he first got an inkling of how much patronage. How much of an insider's club and how much potential for corruption there was when he was in Congress.

And he said, basically, day one. First briefing. You sit down.

They give you information.

You know, he said, it was eye popping.

He realized, suddenly, the intensity of what he was dealing with. I mean, look, you heard Congressman Gaetz pointing out, that you have guys on the Ethics Committee. Chair of the Ethics Committee in Congress. And they're setting standards. You know, it's a domino effect.

You spend a few minutes on the hill, as an elected rep. You come to understand, very quickly.

There is -- there is a choice. Are on the team, or are you off the team? And this goes beyond Republicans and Democrats.

This goes to the heart of, what is it that we really are doing here?

And how do we protect our ability as public officials to avail ourselves of the -- the advantages of being insiders in that system.

It is a system that, you know, really works as designed, in that sense. And it is designed to keep people hanging around, taking advantage of what they can in whatever way they can, for as long as they can.

GLENN: One of my very good friends is Mike Lee. And Mike tells me all the time, what the hell am I doing here?

I am impoverishing myself. I could be out making a good living.

And his times of frustration. He will call me up.

What am I doing?

Why am I here? This is not even good for my family, blah, blah, blah.

When you have that kind of atmosphere. When you're not making money. You're -- it's almost costing you money to work there.

That tends to have people come in. Do it for a reason. And then get out.

We have these people who are hanging out for decades.

Well, why wouldn't you?

If I could get an 80 percent return on my investments, year after year after year?

Why wouldn't I?

You know, other than, it's wrong!

But wait a minute.

I could double my money, if I win two more elections?

I could start with $150,000 in a bank account. And I could be worth $30 million? If I just work here for the next 30 years?

Why wouldn't you?

GLENN: Yeah. And, you know what, Glenn. What you're alluding to here, this is really just the tip of the iceberg. Like, there's a symbiotic relationship, between public officials and major corporations. In some cases, multi-national corporations.

And this is one facet of that relationship. And the longer that people stay around. The longer those networks develop, and reinforce each other. And police themselves.

The more that both sides of the, you know, public sector. Private sector divide. The more that divide melts away.

And it enriches people. And it corrupts people. And it creates very sick patronage networks, that are just very tough to talk people out of participating in. If you do get reelected, then you're back for a second term.

And the pressure on you to play ball, and to be a part of the team. Is just mainstream. And I bet that some of Mike Lee's colleagues look at him. And they go, oh, this guy is -- this guy is a pansy. You know, he thinks he's better than us.

You know, he -- for some strange reason, he doesn't want to enrich himself. There's peer pressure, you know. It is sort of like a weaponized high school in Illinois.

GLENN: Jeez. What a great term.

Weaponized high school.

That is exactly what it is. James, thank you so much.

I appreciate it. God bless.

JAMES: Absolutely, Glenn. God bless.

GLENN: James is TheBlaze media editor-at-large.

He's also the host of Zero Hour. And he is also the host of this original from BlazeTV. If you haven't seen it, I so highly recommend it to you. It premiered last night. Bought and Paid For: How Politicians Get Filthy Rich. It is available to the public for a limited time now.

YouTube.com/BlazeTV.com.

Before the premiere, I laid out, I think one of the most disgusting chalkboards that I've ever done. And it is the dirty trick that Congress, you know, becomes rich on. And you would go to jail if you did the same thing. This is -- this is what the elites really are. When I say the elites, why would they do that? Why would they -- why would they do that? Well, if you know war is coming and you can openly just buy stocks of Raytheon and Boeing and Lockheed Martin, you know exactly the numbers of what we have left, what companies make those things that we're short on.

I showed you last night, it's in this doc. It's amazing! The people who got out of airlines, Carnival Cruise Line, all of these things, before you knew all of the -- what was coming with COVID.

Before you knew, they had already taken their gains, and got out before things went down south.

Because they had already been briefed. They're not representing you. The only way this stops, is if you spread the word.

You really have to get the word out on this.

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The Dark Truth Behind Queer Theory & Gender ‘Affirmation’ For Children | Liz Wheeler & Glenn Beck

In this explosive conversation, Glenn Beck and Liz Wheeler expose the disturbing roots of gender ideology and queer theory — and how these radical ideas are directly targeting children. From the shocking origins of queer theory, where pedophilia and child pornography were openly defended, to Planned Parenthood’s new role as one of the largest distributors of transgender hormone therapy, the truth is undeniable: this movement is not about freedom or equality, but about dismantling families, corrupting innocence, and profiting off of our children’s pain. What we are witnessing is nothing less than a satanic ideology dressed up as compassion — and it’s spreading like wildfire through schools, culture, and medicine. Parents, you need to hear this. The time to protect your children and fight back is NOW.

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Here’s how INTENSE JFK’s Presidential Fitness Test was

President Trump recently signed an executive order to reinstate the Presidential Fitness Test and the media is in a frenzy. But Glenn and Stu look back at the history of these tests, including JFK’s version of the Test that seems IMPOSSIBLE for modern Americans. But Glenn has a secret reason for why he’s confident in his pull-up abilities…

Transcript

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GLENN: What is the -- what is the new physical -- the president's physical fitness, you know, plan?

STU: Well, the thing that RFK Jr and Hegseth were rolling out the other day. I don't know if it was the full test or anything, but they were issuing a challenge to America, to be able to do 100 pushups and 50 pullups within five minutes.

GLENN: That's crazy.

STU: Thank you! That struck you as also crazy.

I don't think there's ever been a time in my life, that I could do that. Let alone now with shoulder problems. And much too much weight.

GLENN: All right. But that was before I needed this walker.

STU: I don't think there was a time in my 20s or my teens, that I could do that. But that -- in five minutes? Fifty pullups?
GLENN: Both of them in 5 minutes.
STU: Yeah, both of them. So it's not like 100 pushups in five minutes. It's both tasks within five minutes.

GLENN: No. No. That's not true.

STU: RFK Jr. is just doing it in jeans.

GLENN: Yeah, well, RFK, he's -- he's a weirdo. I mean, he is. Come on. When it comes to fitness, he's a weirdo.
STU: Yes.
GLENN: I mean, he's done this his whole life. He's like 800 years old. He can still do it.

STU: Yes. Depressive, I will say.

GLENN: I don't know. He's a sex machine.

STU: Oh. That's been a problem for him. Yes, that's been an issue in his life. Yes.

GLENN: Okay. All right. Go ahead.

STU: Separate from the president's physical fitness test.

GLENN: Right.

STU: But, I mean, they don't, they don't really think we're going to do that, right?
Like, I mean, how long would that take you to do?

STU: I think for me, it would take a good month. I think a month, I could probably get two pullups a day. That would get me around, a little over 50. So I could do that. Plus, the pushups. A solid month, I could get that done.

GLENN: You could do more than two a day. You could do more than two a day.

STU: You know, Glenn, I've got to say. I think -- I will throw a number out there. No science behind this, so just as a guestimate.

I would say 40 percent of the population can't do any pullups. Maybe 30 percent. Thirty percent of the population can do exactly zero pullups. Precisely zero, so an infinite amount of time would be a correct answer for a third of the population.

GLENN: I think you're -- I think you're being -- I think you're being a little too optimistic. I think it's closer to 40 or 50. I think it's closer to 40 or 50. Maybe 60 percent.

STU: Right! Pushups are one thing. I mean, I think almost anyone can do a pushup. One --

GLENN: You can do a pushup. Yes. Yes.

STU: Singular pushup. And if you can do one, you can wait long enough, to do a second one.
And at some point, the hundred gets done. That's not the case with pullups. Pullups, you can sit there and think about how much you want to do a pullup for a really long time. But that doesn't make a pullup happen. If you've got a certain amount of weight on you. You're not doing a pullup. It's not occurring.

GLENN: I have no idea, how many pullups I can do.

STU: I have an exact number of pullups, you can do.

GLENN: Do you? You think so?

STU: Yeah. Yeah. I have the exact number. I have to calculate -- AI has been running a report on me. It came up with zero.

GLENN: Right. Right. Really?
I can do. I mean, this is so pathetic. Listen to this. I bet I could do three. You know, you could do three.

STU: In a row? Proper form.

GLENN: What do you mean in a row?

STU: I mean, holding on to the bar, without letting go, you're doing three. There's no way. I don't think so.

GLENN: I think I could do. Well, with proper form, I don't know about that. I don't know about that.

STU: I'm not saying it has to look pretty. You have to get your chin up above the bar. It can't be one of those things, where you're a quarter of the way up there.

GLENN: So I can do one and rest for ten minutes. I could do another one.

I think I can do that.

STU: If you -- I'm not saying, you jump up, and you pull yourself up as you're pulling up. Full hang --

GLENN: See, you may not know this.

But you know what, I've done the DNA test. Have you ever done the DNA test that tells you all about your genes and everything else? Mine came back with something remarkable, and I have to share. You might feel bad, next.
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STU: Coming up next, Glenn attempts live pullups on the air. Stay tuned!
(OUT AT 8:29 AM)

GLENN: You know no idea what who you're dealing with. No. You don't have any idea who you're dealing with here.

I got my DNA test back like 10 years ago. And we all -- we all took it, because we were looking for things. And so we all took it. My DNA test came back, and everybody in the family, their test made total sense. Like, oh, yeah. That makes...

Then we read mine. We have to find -- I have to find. See if Tania has it still. We should have had it framed. I swear to you, they -- they mixed me up with somebody else.

Somebody else is like, wait a minute. I'm this pathetic? Mine came out and said, you have the muscular structure of a -- of a -- something like a -- an elite athlete. You have the abilities and agility and everything else of an elite athlete. And I'm like, there's not a chance. I don't have any of that!

I don't even know if I have muscles. I have to check once in a while, and go, do I have muscles still?

Doctor is like, I don't know. Can I? Ask just press against my hand on the leg. I don't know.

You know, I don't know how to do that exactly. So --

STU: You sure it said elite athlete and not elephant? I mean, if they misspelled it.

GLENN: It was.

I was having eye problems at the time.

STU: No!

GLENN: I mean, we read it. And I was like Tania, I believe that for Tania.

Maybe they switched me and Tania. Because Tania is really strong. She'll kick your butt.

She works out every day. All of that. Me? Never. Never.

And it kind of makes me wonder, when I get to the other side, and the Lord went, okay.

So what did you do with your life again?

Because I gave this incredible body, and you wasted it the whole time.

And I'm like, you should have been more clear, okay?

You should have been more clear. I -- maybe I could have played basketball. But I tried once. And it was embarrassing. It was embarrassing. It was like sixth grade. And I'll never live -- I don't even want to think about my time on a basketball court. Okay? So don't -- don't start with me. You should have made it a little clearer. When I first started to do stuff. And I think that's fair. I think that's a fair argument. In my defense. In my defense, Your Honor, God, you should have made it a little more clear.

STU: Yeah. I mean, if they really wanted us to do this, then the 11th Commandment is 50 pushups, and -- or, 50 pullups and 100 pushups, right?

Like, put it in a commandment if you really want us to do it. You have to be more specific, we're Americans.

GLENN: Okay. So let me give you the top of the list for the JFK Presidential Fitness Test. Okay? This is what you had to do in high school. In high school.

Thirty-four pullups. Bar dips: Fifty-two. What's -- because I believe I did that. A long time. And I don't recommend it.

STU: It's not a barhop.

GLENN: Oh, it's -- oh, bar dips. Okay. Okay. All right.

Bar dips: 52. Handstand pushups: Fifty. What are handstands?

STU: Oh, my God. Handstands.

GLENN: I can't even stand on my hands. Is that I'm doing a handstand and a push up? Because that's not happening. You're not human.

STU: Yeah. You're balancing yourself on your hands. Your feet are above your hands on the wall. Like a wall. And you're doing --

GLENN: Oh, so you're balancing yourself. That makes it a little easier. Still impossible.

But a little easier.

GLENN: Impossible. You could do precisely zero of those.

Aright. So you had to do 50 handstand pushups.

Or one arm -- 30 -- no, sir.

Twenty-six one-arm burpees in 30 seconds. Is that a one-armed push up?

STU: No. Well, you're bracing your yourself like you're about to begin a pushup in a burpee with only one arm, which that's not that difficult.

But then you're doing. Then you're like, you move your feet towards your hands. And then you jump up in the air basically. And then you do it repeatedly.

GLENN: No, no, no. That's ridiculous. No.

STU: There's a law of gravity. You're not supposed to violate it. If it was a recommendation of gravity, then maybe jumping would be appropriate. But it's not. Follow the law.

GLENN: In 48 seconds, you had to do a 3300-yard shuttle. Now, I've been to the airport. I think I've done a 3300-yard shuttle, but it depends on who is driving. You know.

STU: Yeah.

GLENN: Rope climb. Try this. Rope climb. Twenty feet, hands only! Sit start.

STU: That's what I remember from the president's physical fitness test. And I remember looking at that rope, like, no chance I could get up that thing.

GLENN: I remember looking up at that thing. Humiliation. Humiliation is coming my way. I'll never kiss a girl, because that ain't happening. I'll get maybe 10 feet up. Maybe. Maybe.

STU: And you were right for 24 years from that time, approximately.

GLENN: Agility run, 17 seconds. Extension pressups, what? What?

I'm sorry. Why am I so tired reading this?

Extension pressups. What's an extension pressup, 8-inch? You had to do 100 of them.

STU: Let's see. Exercise. An exercise for low-back pain involving lying on your stomach and pressing your upper body up with your arms while keeping your hips relaxed and down on the mat.

GLENN: Oh, I could do that know. 8 inches.

STU: The last part of it, relaxing down on the mat.
GLENN: That's what my doctor says I should be doing. What?

STU: I can do relaxed and down on the mat. That part of it --

GLENN: Yeah. I could do that -- I'm the only guy. I took yoga for a while, like three weeks. My wife is like, yoga. You could do yoga. Let's just do yoga together.

I did. And the yoga instructor said to me. Because we were doing a plank.

STU: Yeah.

GLENN: And she came and all I remember her waking me up. And saying, I think you're the only person I've ever -- ever taught that fell asleep in yoga. And I'm like, it's just so relaxing. Just let me sleep. Let me sleep.

STU: That's interesting, that you did yoga. Is there any footage of that? Any video that we could post? That would be good for --

GLENN: No. There's not. You had to do pegboard. Five trips of pegboard. And I think that's when you have the two pegs.

STU: Yes, it was a board.

GLENN: You have to take it out, and put it up, right?

STU: This is American Ninja Warrior. No way.

GLENN: There's no way. There's no way.

STU: This is amazing.

GLENN: Try this one: You had to do a 45-second handstand. I've never been able to do a handstand. Never!

STU: Never.

GLENN: And I'm an elite athlete. I'm an elite athlete. Try this one: A man carry, 5 miles.

STU: What? What do you mean a --

GLENN: Five-mile man carry.

STU: Is a man carry as obvious as it --

GLENN: I think it is.

STU: You're carrying --

GLENN: If I'm going to carry that man, you have to carry me that man for five miles.

I'm not sure, I can't carry any man for any miles. I mean, if I am -- if I am a firefighter, count on burning in the house. You're going to burn in the house. Because I can't carry you out. I can get in there and go, yeah, I will have to leave you.
I will have to leave you here. I can't help you, sorry.

It's also getting really hot in here. I have to go. You had to do a five-mile jog. An obstacle course.

You had to swim prone for a mile. You had to swim underwater for 50 yards, any strokes, two minutes. Deep waterfront, hang float, with arms. What? What is a deep water hang float with arms. Wait. Wait.

It's a deep waterfront hang float with arms and ankles tied for six minutes.

What kind of al-Qaeda PE class was this?

STU: Who has access to -- who has access -- like, you're in the middle of the country, you may not have a deep water body nearby. This is -- are you sure this is an actual test?

GLENN: This is the actual test. This is the actual -- what is a deep water front hang float with arms and ankles tied for six minutes? Can you look that up?

STU: A deep water hang float is an aquatic hang float done in the deep end of a pool with the aid of flotation device, such as a noodle or belt.

In this position, the flotation twice supports your upper body, while your legs and torso hang freely beneath you.

That can't be what it is.

GLENN: You can do that.

Deep-end of the pool.

STU: Can you bring a margarita?

GLENN: Man, this test is no big deal.

What! No way. No way!

Here's the last thing on the test.

A vertical tread in an 8-foot circle for two hours!

No way.

STU: Vertical tread in an 8-foot circle?

GLENN: So you're in the water and you're treading water in a circle for two hours. Two!

STU: This is not -- what?

This is not the test.

GLENN: It is. Now, I told you, this is the top of the test.

This is the top of the test.

So this is for the ones who could do all the other tests.

This was the top of the test. The bottom of the test is not that much better. Here's the entry, okay? Let's see. Pullups, 2/6/10. I don't know what that means. Pushups, 16, 24, 32. Bar dips, four, eight, and 12. Situps, 30, 45, and 60. Broad jump, 6-foot, 6, 6, 6. And 6, 9.

To jump 6 feet? I don't even know if --

STU: That one is possible, yes. Glenn, I know it sounds incredible. But, yes. That one is possible.

GLENN: Sounds incredible. You know, I think we should have the average person Olympics. I really do. I really do.

STU: Oh, I would watch that.

GLENN: I would watch that every time.

You see them coming. And you're like, hmm. That one -- three feet. I'm giving him 3 feet. 200-yard shuttle. Agility run. Rope climb, 18 feet, hands only. 880 yards in three minutes. A mile in seven minutes. Pegboard, six holes. A 50-yard swim. Forty -- 40, 50-yard swim in 36 seconds. Man carry, 880 yards. No, thank you! No, thank you!

Look at -- look at what we've gone down. That's the bottom of it. And I don't think most Americans could do that.

I couldn't. Well, I could. Because I'm an elite -- I have the body of an elite athlete.

STU: No. You could not. Now, of course -- let's just say, this is supposed to be for a high school kid. Right?

So this is the prime of your athletic life. Could you do some of these things? Probably.
GLENN: Go into high school.
Go into any high school, and ask them to do this. There's no way. And all of the kids would be.

STU: Well, that's kind of what the reaction would be.

GLENN: Don't get me wrong. I would have been there too. And my parents would have said, suck it up. Just do it.

So nothing has really changed.

STU: That's been the reaction to this proposal too, of bringing this back. Right? The media is covering this. Like, it's going to embarrass children.

You know, I mean, I do remember it being like, I can't do that. I'm not going to the top of that rope. That's not happening.

That's sort of life. Right? Sometimes you can do things. Sometimes you can't do other things.

GLENN: That's why you have to learn how to injure yourself.

You know, how many stairs can I throw myself down, to not do serious damage, but enough to get me out of PE.

STU: Yeah, you have to fake an why are. You have to learn from LeBron James. Act like you got hit in the eye. And fall down like you were just stabbed over and over again, like you were in an athletic competition.

GLENN: There's no way. There's no way.

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