The Glenn Beck Program - 1⧸29⧸18

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00:00:20.740 Love. Courage. Truth. Glenn Beck.

00:00:27.540 There is one universal progressive truth, and that is crisis creates opportunity.

00:00:34.660 Crisis creates opportunity.

00:00:37.400 And if there isn't a crisis, create one, and there's your opportunity.

00:00:42.460 That's the way every progressive and big government scheme takes flight.

00:00:47.000 Every time. There's a crisis. Got to do it.

00:00:49.000 Have to do something. Can't stand around.

00:00:50.920 These people don't want to do anything.

00:00:52.660 The threat of a crisis is what gave us the federal income tax.

00:00:57.540 The threat of an environmental catastrophe gave us the EPA.

00:01:01.860 The horror of people dying in the streets, even though people weren't dying in the streets, gave us Obamacare.

00:01:07.840 And now it's the fear of China.

00:01:10.000 It is causing our government to consider nationalizing the country's mobile network.

00:01:16.500 Oh, well, wait a minute. Hang on just a second.

00:01:18.500 Wow, is that a good idea.

00:01:20.920 If we could just cut the phone company out as the middleman, then we'd have a network that could be wide open to the NSA 24-7.

00:01:34.380 How great is that?

00:01:35.460 Private companies like AT&T and Verizon built the networks that you use to make cell phone calls and surf the Internet on your iPhone.

00:01:45.060 Call clarity? Internet speeds?

00:01:48.900 I mean, have you noticed how fast we are advancing?

00:01:52.520 From third generation or 3G in 2010 to 4G almost immediately after.

00:02:01.040 But now there's a global race for 5G and the government is scared to death that China is going to beat us.

00:02:08.320 No, no.

00:02:09.800 In a leaked memo, the plan lays out two options.

00:02:14.780 Here's the first one.

00:02:15.760 The U.S. government pays for and builds the network.

00:02:19.540 Builds the network.

00:02:20.820 That's fantastic.

00:02:22.580 Of course, they're, you know, they're going to have access to everything, but they have to.

00:02:26.980 They would then rent the airspace to private carriers.

00:02:31.120 Now, what could go wrong?

00:02:32.880 What could possibly go wrong?

00:02:35.340 First of all, I mean, just the structure itself, government always does it better.

00:02:42.960 Now, the second option is a private company.

00:02:45.980 I mean, you could build the network, but what do private companies do right?

00:02:50.860 How is this a hard decision?

00:02:53.900 The leaked memo actually states that having private companies build the network isn't even a real option because it would take too long.

00:03:02.120 And wait for it.

00:03:03.380 The Chinese, you know.

00:03:05.300 The Chinese, they could hack into it.

00:03:08.020 But the government?

00:03:09.640 Oh, they're not going to hack into anything.

00:03:11.320 We've never had hacks into anything.

00:03:13.660 I mean, you want to really talk about something that's really locked down?

00:03:18.140 Ask Debbie Wasserman Schultz.

00:03:20.120 Boy, I'll tell you, there's security online in the capital.

00:03:24.720 Every time you're forced into one option, it is due to a boogeyman.

00:03:32.600 This time, it's China.

00:03:34.540 We all need to take a step back and take a deep breath and realize we're being manipulated here.

00:03:39.560 This is America.

00:03:40.560 This is America.

00:03:41.020 We don't nationalize private industry.

00:03:43.880 We incentivize and we promote competition because competition is good.

00:03:49.840 The last time we nationalized an industry, we got the TSA.

00:03:56.500 Hey, do I need to stick a finger where a finger shouldn't be to really have you understand?

00:04:01.940 The TSA's not working out.

00:04:05.680 Show me almost anything built by the government and I'll show you a private company building and maintaining it better.

00:04:12.140 The communications industry should be going crazy over this.

00:04:16.300 Not only would this significantly hurt their business, but it is a huge slap in the face.

00:04:21.240 The government is saying, yeah, we don't believe you.

00:04:24.360 The government doesn't believe you?

00:04:26.220 Well, we haven't believed the government in I don't know how long.

00:04:31.280 We don't believe you can get this done.

00:04:33.220 We can get this done.

00:04:34.480 Oh, my gosh.

00:04:35.180 If that is not laughable to every American, we're in more trouble than I thought we were.

00:04:42.240 And we're in trouble.

00:04:43.080 Well, let's not fear what's difficult and challenging.

00:04:51.260 Let's not let anyone else use our fears to have us do things that are positively un-American.

00:05:00.260 If the government does this, you might as well call the new 5G network the People's Network or the Democratic People of the Republic's Network.

00:05:12.100 How's that one?

00:05:14.060 Let's give it a good, you know, people's dictatorship, communist kind of homage.

00:05:22.140 Let's give it some sort of a name where we really understand what it is.

00:05:26.600 Here's a phrase that should be going through everybody's mind.

00:05:29.620 Quote, he who fights with monsters should be very careful lest he thereby become a monster.

00:05:37.060 We're turning into those things that we have always feared.

00:05:42.720 If we do this, we're no better than the Chinese.

00:05:45.580 The government will have greater power to do exactly what the Chinese do to their people.

00:05:52.100 Listen in and calls.

00:05:53.820 Track internet usage.

00:05:55.720 Monitor GPS.

00:05:56.600 Yes, imagine all of the applications 5G when the G stands for government.

00:06:03.360 Imagine all the applications 5G will have on our lives in the next decade.

00:06:11.200 You only need to remember one thing.

00:06:14.280 Who we are.

00:06:16.460 Who are we?

00:06:19.020 We're Americans.

00:06:19.960 We build it, not the government.

00:06:24.920 And, as with all progressive power plays, this isn't about any tangible or real threat.

00:06:31.500 This is about control.

00:06:34.440 Do not give it to them.

00:06:36.560 It's Monday, January 29th.

00:06:49.880 You're listening to the Glenn Beck Program.

00:06:53.400 I'd like to start a Monday just once in a while.

00:07:02.020 Where I'm not like, you have got to be kidding me.

00:07:04.920 This weekend, there were a couple of stories that just jumped off the page where I'm like,

00:07:11.300 you have got to be kidding me.

00:07:13.920 First of all, this whole thing.

00:07:16.220 Hi, Stu.

00:07:16.860 How are you?

00:07:17.360 Good.

00:07:17.560 How are you?

00:07:17.920 Good to have you here.

00:07:19.560 Thank you.

00:07:21.280 First of all, just the fact that the State of the Union is coming tomorrow is just,

00:07:28.860 it's made life for me almost unlivable.

00:07:32.280 You're not a big State of the Union fan.

00:07:33.800 No, I don't care who it is.

00:07:35.040 Reagan, George Washington.

00:07:36.480 You bring George Washington back from the dead and he could give the speech and I really

00:07:40.480 wouldn't.

00:07:40.860 Can you imagine?

00:07:41.780 I think I would hate that even more.

00:07:43.180 Imagine how long the standing ovations would be for him.

00:07:46.820 Ladies and gentlemen, the first president of the United States.

00:07:51.440 And it would go on and on and on.

00:07:53.800 And everything he would say.

00:07:55.320 My teeth really weren't wood.

00:07:57.280 I can't take it.

00:08:00.760 And by the way, there wasn't one like that back then.

00:08:03.300 Oh, no.

00:08:03.640 Really?

00:08:04.000 Yeah.

00:08:04.340 No.

00:08:04.720 That was, this is a new thing.

00:08:06.460 Really?

00:08:06.940 Yeah.

00:08:07.380 Yeah.

00:08:07.800 What was it?

00:08:08.940 It was like a letter.

00:08:10.300 Oh.

00:08:10.460 That's what it, that's not what it says in the Constitution.

00:08:12.960 That's, I mean, that's, it's, we're supposed to have an update is basically what it says

00:08:16.280 in the Constitution.

00:08:16.680 Yeah, just the president just writes a letter and just says, hey, here's what's happening.

00:08:19.900 Yeah.

00:08:20.520 He is required to give us an update.

00:08:23.680 It is not required for us to have all the pomp and circumstance of the speech.

00:08:26.820 This may, if I, if I run and I'm thinking about running.

00:08:30.140 Oh man, am I thinking, am I thinking about running?

00:08:35.500 It may basically to a, you know, some safe zone if I could ever find one.

00:08:38.940 But if I would ever run, this would be maybe my number one campaign promise.

00:08:44.160 We're canceling the State of the Union.

00:08:45.800 You don't have to watch it.

00:08:47.540 Now, I don't know if that's high on everybody's list, but I think it's somewhere on everybody's

00:08:53.540 list.

00:08:54.540 I can't take it.

00:08:55.880 And so this year, what the left has decided to do is they're going to have the people's

00:09:01.340 State of the Union.

00:09:03.320 Oh, well, it's appropriate.

00:09:05.260 I mean, they, I think they mean the people the way Mao made, meant the people, you know,

00:09:09.680 so they're going to have, they're going to speak for the people.

00:09:12.100 Um, Hollywood, I don't know if you've caught wind of this at all, but you really are not

00:09:21.860 a reflection of the average American person.

00:09:24.360 I don't, it could be your Hollywood lifestyle.

00:09:27.320 It could be, you know, it could be the fact that you hate people who make money, except

00:09:35.560 you're one of the richer people that anyone in the country would know.

00:09:40.620 Uh, you know, it could be some of those things.

00:09:42.560 It also could be, you're just wildly out of step on every single subject, including

00:09:49.740 food, including all of their causes.

00:09:52.820 Yeah.

00:09:52.980 I mean, they're, they're the me too movement, right?

00:09:55.760 We do.

00:09:56.340 And then we have the Oscars that are, you know, awarding movies designed to glorify an

00:10:04.660 older man hooking up with a teenage boy, right?

00:10:08.840 Actors, this Kevin Spacey thing, they take out a guy from a movie and, and, and reshoot

00:10:14.320 all of his scenes because he's been touching younger boys.

00:10:17.020 And then they're like, by the way, watch this movie about the same thing, except in a much

00:10:21.240 more positive light.

00:10:22.620 And then last night, the Grammys are on and they're all bringing their white roses to show

00:10:29.160 that they're in solidarity with the me too movement.

00:10:32.160 Yes.

00:10:32.400 When the music lyrics don't at all reflect, what are you talking about?

00:10:36.940 What, what, are you telling me that there's, there's any song out there?

00:10:43.100 I mean, in today's world.

00:10:44.720 Right.

00:10:45.080 That is degrading to women and relationships.

00:10:48.740 Come on.

00:10:49.280 You are going to be stunned to hear this one, but yes, lots.

00:10:52.540 Really?

00:10:52.640 Yeah.

00:10:53.140 And by the way, wait a minute.

00:10:54.160 Because I know, because I heard it all holiday season about, oh my gosh, could, I mean, are

00:11:02.660 you kidding me?

00:11:03.860 Have, have you heard those, the lyrics of baby it's cold outside?

00:11:10.440 That's becoming a whole genre now, which is someone pointed this out on Twitter.

00:11:15.200 I wish I could remember who it was, but some commentator pointed out that one of the, one

00:11:18.820 of their favorite things is now all of the news stories about how millennials watch things

00:11:23.680 that are old and get offended by them because like they watch, like there was a story this

00:11:27.700 weekend about how friends, millennials are watching friends and are shocked at the way

00:11:32.760 that they're talking to each other and, and, and the undertones of these things and shut

00:11:36.860 up.

00:11:37.100 Right.

00:11:37.420 Like, cause there's stuff because of the world they've grown up in, everything's offensive.

00:11:41.600 There's nothing, you can't say anything to anyone, but yet at the same time, the

00:11:46.420 Grammys is not a nonstop parade of half naked women running across your television screen.

00:11:52.020 I saw some, not a lot of half naked men.

00:11:54.460 If I remember, I saw a picture of somebody at the Grammys last night, wearing a rose in

00:12:00.320 something that looks like maybe you would wear an S and M.

00:12:05.460 I mean, okay.

00:12:06.280 She didn't have the red ball in her mouth, but almost everything else.

00:12:10.160 And I'm like, okay, all right.

00:12:11.780 I'm just trying to get my hands around the, you know, we don't want to degrade women.

00:12:17.820 We don't want to sexualize women.

00:12:19.640 We, I'm just trying to, I'm just trying to figure it out.

00:12:22.220 Anyway, we may get back to that because the Grammys is so high on everybody's list.

00:12:28.120 Um, I, I just want to go back to Hollywood is now talking about, and there's, they're not

00:12:35.060 alone.

00:12:35.640 Michael Moore did his own state of the union for the people, for the people.

00:12:43.520 I don't think anybody really even understands the people.

00:12:50.260 Who, who is, is there anyone who is actually speaking for the people?

00:12:56.800 Is there anybody who lives that lifestyle that, that, that takes the time to go and, and

00:13:05.480 at least visit the people?

00:13:09.480 When's the last time any of these Hollywood people ate at an Applebee's?

00:13:13.940 Okay.

00:13:14.460 When's the last time?

00:13:16.440 When they were doing a commercial for Applebee's.

00:13:18.000 When they were doing a commercial and they were like, we don't have to eat this, do we?

00:13:21.100 Okay.

00:13:21.540 I'm going to put it in my mouth and I'll chew, but then cut because I've got to spit this

00:13:25.820 out.

00:13:26.800 I want to wash my mouth out with caviar afterwards.

00:13:30.260 I, you know, you're right, obviously, but I mean, you know, look, I don't need someone

00:13:34.360 to fake me into believing they're one of the people, anyone who's the president of the United

00:13:39.060 States.

00:13:39.400 And this goes for any party at any time, uh, going at least back to very, very early when

00:13:44.040 you're talking about people who would leave the white house and go farm in their off time.

00:13:47.800 This is a much different world that we're in right now.

00:13:50.260 They're not, I don't need someone who's going to understand every struggle of the people.

00:13:54.420 I need someone who's got to come up with good, solid policies, uh, and enforce it, uh, enforce

00:13:58.960 them correctly.

00:13:59.820 And to, uh, I don't know, handle themselves like they're the president of the United States.

00:14:03.080 Here's it.

00:14:03.380 Here's it.

00:14:03.660 Here's it.

00:14:03.820 That's all.

00:14:04.200 Here's the thing.

00:14:04.640 Here's the thing here, here, here, I, I, I, may I do, may I do a, uh, a, uh, a state

00:14:12.500 of the union tomorrow for the people, a Glenn Beck, because I am so right in the pocket

00:14:20.320 with the people.

00:14:21.760 Oh yeah.

00:14:22.260 And I drive by Applebee's.

00:14:25.380 Okay.

00:14:26.220 Yeah.

00:14:26.720 I mean, well, I have somebody drive by Applebee's and they tell me, don't look out the, don't

00:14:32.720 look to the left, uh, you know, I, here's, here's what I really, I, I really think there's

00:14:41.560 so much we agree on.

00:14:43.740 There's so much we agree on, but we have only emphasized our differences.

00:14:49.460 Let's, let's celebrate our difference.

00:14:51.260 How about we start celebrating the things that bring us together?

00:14:57.680 However, for instance, you don't think the government should be able to tell people what

00:15:03.860 to think, what to say, where to live, what to do, what to think.

00:15:10.080 You want the government, those on the left, you want the government, you want the Donald

00:15:14.360 Trump government telling you what you can say and think and do.

00:15:20.800 The answer is no.

00:15:22.000 How do I know that?

00:15:23.320 Because California wanted to break away.

00:15:26.000 California wanted to, to break from the U S now Republicans, conservatives, do you want

00:15:34.220 Barack Obama or, you know, Van Jones and those guys, do you want them telling you what

00:15:40.360 to think, what to say?

00:15:42.200 The answer is no, you don't.

00:15:45.380 How do I know?

00:15:46.220 Because when that was happening, Texas wanted to break away.

00:15:50.120 So why don't we start at this, this, this, a really big one.

00:15:54.540 Neither of us want the government to tell us what to do, what to think.

00:15:59.420 None of us.

00:16:00.720 So why don't we celebrate that?

00:16:03.100 Just, let's just start there.

00:16:04.260 Let's celebrate that.

00:16:06.200 We have that in common.

00:16:08.640 Now you're not going to, you're going to have to kill a bunch of people to have them fall

00:16:14.360 into line with some socialist utopia and conservatives.

00:16:19.740 You would have to kill a lot of people to get them to fall into line with everything that

00:16:24.980 you want.

00:16:25.540 So what do you say?

00:16:26.540 We all just decide what we want in our own house and our own town.

00:16:33.060 What do you think?

00:16:33.960 We just return the power closest to you.

00:16:38.220 And I'm going to even throw a bone in still, still we'll have enough government to make

00:16:45.820 sure that our food is safe and our air is generally clean and our water is generally

00:16:53.260 clean.

00:16:53.900 We'll reduce the size of the, the, the, the, the, the government, but not to the point to

00:16:59.780 where we just don't have any idea what's going on.

00:17:01.820 We'll just reduce it enough.

00:17:03.100 So our own EPA won't poison our rivers.

00:17:08.600 I think we can make real progress here, but we have to stop listening to the politicians.

00:17:23.660 And if only more people could hear that, we should get the government to build a 5G.

00:17:28.080 All right.

00:17:33.260 I'm sure the state could come up with something to make sure that they have a camera in your

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00:17:39.400 If we could get the government to build a security system for everybody's house and that

00:17:45.980 way they would know if the doors opened or closed and windows, they would know who was

00:17:51.080 in the house.

00:17:51.960 You know what I mean?

00:17:52.680 They wouldn't have to call police.

00:17:54.060 They are the police.

00:17:54.980 Wouldn't it be great if we could have the government build a security system?

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00:19:08.160 Glenn Beck Mercury.

00:19:15.880 Glenn Beck.

00:19:16.740 Let's go history in a minute.

00:19:18.940 How long have we been doing the insane ritual of State of the Union?

00:19:25.920 Yeah.

00:19:26.180 So Article 2, Section 3 of the Constitution does not say that you should have a State of

00:19:29.740 the Union every year.

00:19:30.500 It actually just says from time to time, which I love, that the Congress should give information

00:19:35.720 of the State of the Union.

00:19:36.840 So it started out with Washington, who did give it orally, but it was very short, like

00:19:40.980 10 minutes.

00:19:41.740 It was an actual report, an update to Congress, which is not what it is anymore, obviously.

00:19:48.240 Thomas Jefferson decided that the president lecturing Congress was too kingly, reminiscent

00:19:52.900 of the British speech from the throne, and he started doing annual written messages to

00:19:56.980 Congress.

00:19:57.500 Seems to make a lot more sense.

00:20:00.080 The written tradition held until Woodrow Wilson's...

00:20:04.580 I knew it!

00:20:05.240 I knew it!

00:20:06.840 Oh, I rue the day that that man was born!

00:20:11.580 Oh, I knew it!

00:20:13.560 Woodrow Wilson's first report in 1913 was the first time it changed.

00:20:18.080 What a shocker!

00:20:29.740 Glenn Beck.

00:20:31.100 Mercury.

00:20:37.660 You're listening to the Glenn Beck Program.

00:20:39.620 You know, I think my stress may be coming from, oh, I don't know, everything!

00:20:44.000 It could be, it just could be that.

00:20:45.700 I'm not really sure.

00:20:46.960 But I started the weekend, a Friday, going home to find, on our farm, in the corner of the

00:20:58.600 farm, which, you know, we really never, you know, really see.

00:21:02.140 Um, there's a new lake.

00:21:05.420 It was fantastic.

00:21:06.660 I have a new lake.

00:21:07.780 And I'm like, I'm in Texas.

00:21:08.900 I have a new lake that I didn't have three weeks ago.

00:21:13.700 A new lake?

00:21:14.340 I should look in that part of the property more often.

00:21:17.760 How'd that happen?

00:21:19.440 Well, it must have been raining.

00:21:20.640 No, it hasn't really been raining a lot.

00:21:25.300 So.

00:21:26.140 So new waterfront property.

00:21:27.700 Congratulations.

00:21:28.020 I got a new waterfront property.

00:21:29.620 I lived in Seattle.

00:21:31.500 I grew up in Seattle.

00:21:32.980 I've never had this much problem with water in my life.

00:21:36.740 For a long time, if you're a long time listener, you know that my time here in Texas has been

00:21:43.340 spent, A, digging up my yard because my wife accidentally flushed her wedding ring down

00:21:49.780 the, the, down the toilet.

00:21:52.280 I remember that.

00:21:53.020 So we've dug up all the pipes.

00:21:55.640 Okay.

00:21:56.040 We found the wedding ring.

00:21:57.160 It was a happy, joyous day.

00:21:59.660 Don't shake my wife's wedding hand.

00:22:02.060 I'm just saying, I don't think that thing is ever getting clean.

00:22:04.360 Anyway.

00:22:04.840 Anyway, then we had a, a strange water bill show up at our house.

00:22:10.520 It said, uh, we used a million gallons of water, a million, a million.

00:22:14.620 There's no leak.

00:22:15.700 There was nothing.

00:22:16.660 There was, there was no way we used a million gallons of water, but yet, yes, you did.

00:22:21.740 No, no, we didn't.

00:22:23.080 Yes, you did.

00:22:24.740 Mysteriously, the very next billing, we weren't using a million gallons of water, nor have

00:22:30.880 we.

00:22:31.600 So super thirsty that month.

00:22:33.100 So super, super, super thirsty, you know, from like 40,000 gallons to a million.

00:22:38.500 We were very thirsty.

00:22:41.440 Then we had a problem with the crawl space under our house.

00:22:45.960 We just started having three feet of water.

00:22:48.720 Okay.

00:22:49.180 We shouldn't have three feet of water here.

00:22:50.860 Hey, what's the water table here?

00:22:52.860 No, it's definitely not the water table.

00:22:54.760 You know what it is.

00:22:55.900 Your drain pipes are all clogged.

00:22:57.820 My drain pipes are all clogged.

00:22:59.360 You sure it's not the water table?

00:23:00.780 Drain pipes.

00:23:01.400 We dig up all of the drain pipes.

00:23:04.260 Then we put in some French drain.

00:23:06.920 I could have told you the French drain.

00:23:08.740 It's French.

00:23:10.000 Of course, it's not going to work.

00:23:12.460 Spend.

00:23:12.960 I don't even know.

00:23:13.840 I don't even know how much money.

00:23:15.620 I literally asked.

00:23:17.580 Just send it right to the bank.

00:23:20.640 Send the bill to the bank.

00:23:22.080 I don't even want to see it.

00:23:23.700 Just tell them, take what you need.

00:23:26.660 It's a good way of controlling costs, by the way.

00:23:29.600 I just can't tell you.

00:23:31.040 So three months, we were digging things up.

00:23:34.040 Nothing.

00:23:35.160 You know what it was?

00:23:36.440 The water table.

00:23:38.880 Just go to Home Depot.

00:23:40.940 Get yourself some.

00:23:44.380 So Friday, I got a new lake.

00:23:49.480 A new lake.

00:23:50.500 A new lake.

00:23:52.020 And a nice little running stream through the woods.

00:23:56.140 That seems to be bubbling up from nowhere.

00:23:59.680 Now, I remember the Beverly Hillbillies.

00:24:01.920 That bubbling crude.

00:24:03.200 That sent them.

00:24:05.060 Maybe this was a punishment.

00:24:06.600 To Hollywood.

00:24:08.280 Me?

00:24:09.220 This is going to send me to prison.

00:24:12.500 A little bubbling up.

00:24:16.100 I'm about to lose it.

00:24:17.800 I'm about to go postal.

00:24:20.080 Somehow or another, on January 3rd.

00:24:22.500 And I know the exact date.

00:24:23.700 Because I went to the website.

00:24:26.380 To check the water bill.

00:24:29.760 A pipe.

00:24:30.980 I think.

00:24:32.000 I think.

00:24:33.180 Burst on January 3rd.

00:24:34.780 We went from 63,000 gallons a month.

00:24:41.460 To 776,000 gallons in the last three weeks.

00:24:47.020 Over.

00:24:47.400 Each week.

00:24:48.420 For three weeks.

00:24:50.040 770.

00:24:51.840 It's a beautiful, beautiful thing.

00:24:55.600 So, you're at over 2 million gallons.

00:24:59.880 Yeah, I have about 3 weeks.

00:25:00.600 2 and a half million gallons of this.

00:25:03.040 We have like this natural, like, I don't know.

00:25:06.220 It's like, you know, the geese are in there crapping all over everything.

00:25:09.720 And so, there's this natural place that when it does rain, it becomes like this little lake.

00:25:13.440 Usually, it's just a barren mud pit.

00:25:16.240 But it's a little lake.

00:25:17.200 Like, behind that lake now is another 2 and a half million gallon lake.

00:25:24.580 Okay?

00:25:25.000 So, I spent my weekend in a mud hole trying to find where the pipes are buried.

00:25:33.560 Oh, that was fun.

00:25:34.980 That was fun.

00:25:37.100 I have pictures of it.

00:25:38.220 I'll share them.

00:25:39.320 So, we were four feet deep in mud holes this weekend.

00:25:43.460 So, that might have affected my mood just a little bit today.

00:25:52.920 But it also could be that as we're sitting with my daughter over the weekend, my son-in-law looks to me like, dear God help me.

00:26:03.880 And I said, so what's up?

00:26:06.040 And she said, well, it's getting kind of weird at the house.

00:26:09.640 And I said, how do you mean?

00:26:14.700 Well, I've been reading this new book, Dad.

00:26:18.140 Now, my daughter is like me.

00:26:19.660 When you think there's a problem, you got to do everything you can.

00:26:23.280 And we're freaking alcoholics, man.

00:26:26.320 It's all or nothing.

00:26:27.580 Okay?

00:26:27.840 So, she's like, I'm concerned about the amount of trash that we as a family produce and sustainable.

00:26:36.960 And all of her goals are really good.

00:26:38.180 It's none of this global warming bull crap.

00:26:40.120 It's all just like, look, let's do our part to keep the bell.

00:26:42.960 And that's great.

00:26:43.940 That's great.

00:26:45.380 That's great.

00:26:46.880 Until you start making your own deodorant.

00:26:49.620 Until you are making, you're brushing your teeth with like bamboo.

00:26:53.560 I mean, it's like, it's getting weird.

00:26:55.360 It's getting weird.

00:26:56.100 You're brushing your teeth with bamboo.

00:26:58.060 Little bamboo, little bamboo, little toothbrush.

00:27:01.920 I saw the kids, because they're staying over the house, you know, because they live on the farm next door.

00:27:06.740 And so, they're staying over the house because they have no water.

00:27:09.000 So, they got everybody living in the house, which is delightful.

00:27:12.480 And I saw last night, the little bamboo toothbrushes, which are delightful and wonderful and sustainable.

00:27:21.660 They're sustainable.

00:27:22.300 Because, I don't know if you know this, Stu, but every toothbrush you've ever had, it's still around someplace in a landfill.

00:27:27.820 Every single one.

00:27:28.980 It's designed very well, yeah.

00:27:30.200 I would assume it would be.

00:27:30.900 Thank God for that.

00:27:32.080 And it's still there.

00:27:33.960 So, I'm in this weird place where I salute her passion.

00:27:37.540 I salute.

00:27:38.320 But she literally, she showed me the book.

00:27:40.640 I said, oh, I'd like to read that book that you're reading.

00:27:45.260 And she said, oh, yeah.

00:27:46.940 So, she went in and she got it.

00:27:48.600 And at one point, I do have to tip my hat to the author.

00:27:53.920 She did think it was too far that she was growing her own moss to use as toilet paper.

00:28:03.340 Now, I don't know about you, but when you get to the moss part of, you know, sustainability, that's when I shoot myself.

00:28:13.060 It's the moss you're concerned about, not the do-it-yourself toilet paper.

00:28:16.780 No, it's the toilet.

00:28:18.500 She actually says in the book, you know, in some cultures, they use their hands.

00:28:23.160 Okay, well, I'm not in that culture.

00:28:25.800 I don't want to be in that culture.

00:28:27.000 Some cultures are superior to other cultures.

00:28:30.260 How dare you?

00:28:30.820 How dare you?

00:28:32.340 America's number one.

00:28:33.540 How dare you, Stu?

00:28:35.380 How dare you say that?

00:28:36.800 We're number one.

00:28:38.040 Yeah.

00:28:38.500 We don't use our hands, so we're number one.

00:28:41.600 Yes.

00:28:42.360 And we don't have any number one or number two on us.

00:28:46.700 So, that's really good.

00:28:47.900 Well, I mean, I think she might be onto something here.

00:28:50.100 Yeah.

00:28:50.240 Because did you know that we use 500 million straws a year in this country?

00:28:54.600 You know, 500 million straws.

00:28:58.420 Yeah.

00:28:59.280 That's amazing.

00:29:00.420 500 million.

00:29:01.320 That's amazing.

00:29:01.980 That's everyone in the country.

00:29:04.320 Yeah.

00:29:04.500 Even babies.

00:29:05.480 Yep.

00:29:06.200 Using two.

00:29:07.580 Yeah.

00:29:08.160 Almost two straws per person.

00:29:10.040 Per person.

00:29:10.380 Now, I'm the type of guy.

00:29:11.800 Yeah.

00:29:12.160 That might down 12 sodas a day.

00:29:15.980 Yeah.

00:29:16.300 Okay.

00:29:16.620 Yeah.

00:29:17.040 Give or take.

00:29:17.800 It's about 12 sodas a day.

00:29:19.060 And I don't think I use one straw per day.

00:29:23.200 Right.

00:29:23.520 Right.

00:29:23.780 Because, I mean, I guess when you go out to a fast food restaurant, you might use 300 straws a year?

00:29:29.240 Yeah.

00:29:29.400 Maybe 300.

00:29:30.320 Right.

00:29:30.480 But I'm a high user.

00:29:32.420 Right.

00:29:32.740 Of straws.

00:29:33.180 Of soda.

00:29:33.940 Uh-huh.

00:29:34.400 Okay.

00:29:34.700 And you would think of straws.

00:29:36.340 Right.

00:29:36.520 I mean, I guess you go to McDonald's, you might get a straw.

00:29:39.080 You're almost a cereal strawist.

00:29:41.240 Right.

00:29:41.920 Right.

00:29:42.320 But at home, you're not using straws typically.

00:29:45.480 Yeah.

00:29:45.700 You're not always using them when you're at a restaurant.

00:29:48.380 Only, you know, really, it's more of a fast food thing.

00:29:50.720 Sure.

00:29:50.960 Typically.

00:29:51.280 Sure.

00:29:51.420 But sometimes you could use that as well.

00:29:53.360 Yeah.

00:29:53.760 But it seems like a high number to me.

00:29:56.140 Sure.

00:29:56.860 500 million straws.

00:29:57.960 Where did we get the number?

00:29:58.960 I mean, let's look into the number.

00:30:00.740 Before you see what California is doing, let's get to the real root.

00:30:04.480 Because you might say that that's a lot of straws.

00:30:06.920 Right.

00:30:07.080 The evidence is clear because the number came from.

00:30:10.300 Well, it's interesting you'd ask that because no one had ever asked it before.

00:30:15.300 No, at no point.

00:30:16.820 No, I know.

00:30:17.360 Did anyone say, where the hell did we get the idea that we're using 500 million straws?

00:30:23.280 Hold on.

00:30:23.960 Hold your horses.

00:30:24.680 I know I've seen this on CNN.

00:30:26.740 Oh.

00:30:26.980 I've seen this in the Washington Post, New York Times.

00:30:29.320 Yeah, you've seen it.

00:30:29.900 CNN, Washington Post, Reuters, Reuters, People, Time, Al Jazeera, National Geographic, The

00:30:37.300 Guardian, The Independence, Seattle Weekly, San Francisco Chronicle, The Sacramento Bee,

00:30:42.120 The Los Angeles Times, The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

00:30:45.660 Wow.

00:30:45.780 You've also heard it from lovely environmental organizations like the Lonely Whale Foundation.

00:30:51.640 Not the Lonely Whale.

00:30:52.680 Yeah.

00:30:52.960 Did we not say, we only saved one?

00:30:54.900 We should have saved two.

00:30:56.200 We should have saved two so they can reproduce.

00:30:57.420 Save the whales.

00:30:58.620 Not save the whale.

00:30:59.840 We just saved the lonely whale with this particular foundation.

00:31:03.120 We should kill him.

00:31:05.140 Do you want to go around as the only one of your species?

00:31:08.840 Now I'm going to start a new organization.

00:31:11.960 Kill the whale.

00:31:12.580 Kill the lonely whale.

00:31:13.520 Kill the lonely whale.

00:31:14.520 That is sad.

00:31:16.120 Yes.

00:31:16.680 The Plastic Pollution Coalition.

00:31:19.160 Huh.

00:31:19.720 And the Sierra Club.

00:31:21.480 Okay.

00:31:21.740 So, but you didn't answer the question.

00:31:23.220 No.

00:31:23.320 Where did it come from?

00:31:24.500 Well, the National Park Service, of course.

00:31:26.700 The Park Service.

00:31:27.560 Well, that's what it's usually attributed to is the National Park Service.

00:31:31.560 Okay.

00:31:31.940 But it's not the Park Service.

00:31:32.980 Not quite the National Park Service.

00:31:35.500 It's featured by the National Park Service.

00:31:37.840 Okay.

00:31:38.080 All right.

00:31:38.620 Okay.

00:31:38.980 All right.

00:31:39.420 Which is great.

00:31:39.820 We're getting closer.

00:31:40.740 Still, you know, I was saying, you know, we haven't struck water.

00:31:45.740 No, we haven't.

00:31:47.520 We've got a lake, though.

00:31:48.740 We've got a lake.

00:31:49.520 I don't know where it's coming from yet.

00:31:50.840 There's a lake.

00:31:50.860 Where is it coming from?

00:31:52.020 Can you hit that pipe?

00:31:53.840 So, Reason decided to ask, where did this stack actually come from?

00:31:57.840 Yes.

00:31:58.840 The National Park Service got it from, they didn't come up with it, they got it from a

00:32:03.920 recycling company, EcoCycle.

00:32:06.800 EcoCycle.

00:32:07.240 Now, you think, okay, that's credible.

00:32:09.260 EcoCycle.

00:32:09.780 Right?

00:32:10.120 Sure.

00:32:10.360 Right away, you're like, EcoCycle.

00:32:11.300 Do they have a website?

00:32:12.140 Certainly, they have.

00:32:13.040 Yes, they do.

00:32:13.580 Okay.

00:32:14.120 Then there's credible.

00:32:14.920 Certainly, they have no incentive to make it look like we're using more straws than we

00:32:19.140 are.

00:32:19.300 Right.

00:32:19.800 Certainly not.

00:32:20.540 Got it.

00:32:20.980 But if you just came from EcoCycle, you might just dismiss it as a typical left-wing

00:32:26.160 environmentalist claim that's just being mindlessly parroted by all these organizations.

00:32:32.600 So, you're saying that it didn't actually come from EcoCycle.

00:32:35.480 No.

00:32:36.120 It came from the research of Milo Kress.

00:32:39.200 Oh, Milo Kress, who is...

00:32:40.580 You might say Milo Kress.

00:32:41.820 He's, what, the EPA administrator?

00:32:43.720 Who is Milo Kress?

00:32:44.800 I'm trying to remember.

00:32:45.900 There's a lot of people.

00:32:46.780 You might think he's the executive of some company.

00:32:50.080 Of EcoCycle.

00:32:50.820 Of EcoCycle.

00:32:51.460 Right.

00:32:51.820 Maybe.

00:32:52.200 Sure.

00:32:52.420 Sure.

00:32:52.720 No.

00:32:52.960 No.

00:32:53.540 No.

00:32:53.900 He did have a campaign called Be Straw Free.

00:32:59.280 Be Straw Free.

00:33:00.160 That was his campaign.

00:33:01.400 That was his.

00:33:02.500 What a ridiculous life...

00:33:05.320 Like, if that's your life goal, to be straw free, that's...

00:33:08.300 Right.

00:33:08.580 Where did this guy go to college to get a job at Be Straw Free, right?

00:33:12.320 Here's where he went to college.

00:33:13.840 Nowhere.

00:33:14.460 You know why?

00:33:15.180 Because when he started Be Straw Free and did the research...

00:33:18.440 He did the research.

00:33:19.160 He did the research.

00:33:19.840 He did the research.

00:33:20.300 Milo did the research.

00:33:20.820 We have it now.

00:33:21.900 We know it's Milo Kress.

00:33:23.220 It is Milo Kress.

00:33:24.200 Yes.

00:33:24.800 When he did that research...

00:33:26.500 Milo Kress, if you want to talk to him today and ask him that question, he's going to respond

00:33:30.140 to you because he is probably by text or Snapchat.

00:33:33.640 Right.

00:33:34.000 Right.

00:33:34.300 Because Milo Kress is 16 years old.

00:33:37.820 So he did the research as a 16-year-old.

00:33:40.880 As well?

00:33:41.340 No.

00:33:41.840 No.

00:33:42.120 No, he did not.

00:33:43.260 No, he did not.

00:33:43.680 You see, this research is seven years old, meaning when Milo Kress did the research to

00:33:50.220 get this number, he was nine.

00:33:52.480 He was nine.

00:33:53.180 Wow.

00:33:53.580 A nine-year-old called straw manufacturers.

00:33:59.140 I swear this is real.

00:34:00.420 This is a real story.

00:34:02.500 Milo Kress, a nine-year-old, did like a school project.

00:34:06.620 Great.

00:34:06.840 He called straw manufacturers in 2011 and estimated...

00:34:10.740 Power to the people.

00:34:11.760 ...that we use 500 million straws a year.

00:34:14.880 Yes.

00:34:14.980 That is the piece of evidence.

00:34:16.400 Right.

00:34:16.480 Now, all those organizations, again...

00:34:18.480 Are quoting this.

00:34:19.960 ...have CNN, Washington Post, Reuters, People, Time, Al Jazeera, National Geographic, all of

00:34:24.260 these, and it is actually in the text of the Hawaii bill that would ban the distribution

00:34:31.900 of plastic straws.

00:34:32.980 It is in that it has been used by Assemblyman Ian Calderon to use, to craft this bill, which

00:34:39.920 fines $1,000 for waiters offering unsolicited plastic straws.

00:34:43.900 Yeah, but it's in Hawaii, so nobody cares.

00:34:45.900 And California.

00:34:46.460 Oh, and California, too.

00:34:48.160 Now, they say they're going to pull the fines out, which I don't know if they just go right

00:34:52.060 to the death penalty.

00:34:52.820 I don't know how they do it now.

00:34:54.100 Right.

00:34:54.240 But they're getting rid of the fines for the plastic straws.

00:34:55.560 So here's the thing, Stu.

00:34:56.500 I got to cut this short, but I have to tell you, I went out this weekend because I needed

00:35:01.400 something to blow off steam.

00:35:02.440 So I bought as many straws as I possibly could.

00:35:05.660 You did?

00:35:06.040 Yes, plastic, all plastic.

00:35:07.840 And we brought them in because I'd like to see how many straws we can actually use in

00:35:11.660 one cup.

00:35:13.240 And I believe we should make the world's longest straw today.

00:35:18.700 Now, I have an 80,000 square foot studio, and I think we could start here and go all the

00:35:27.200 way down past the three studios into the cantina and put the end of the straw.

00:35:32.420 And I'd like to...

00:35:33.020 That's a goal of mine because we're goal-driven.

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00:37:09.800 Please tell me you have your tickets.

00:37:21.100 I don't even know if you can get tickets now.

00:37:22.940 I honestly, if you didn't get your tickets already, they're probably scalping.

00:37:28.280 I can't even imagine what the...

00:37:29.660 How much are tickets going for now, being scalped?

00:37:33.360 For the Super Bowl?

00:37:34.520 No, not the Super...

00:37:35.860 For the People's State of the Union.

00:37:37.480 Oh, oh.

00:37:39.560 Super Bowl.

00:37:40.300 Who's talking about that?

00:37:41.580 I'm talking...

00:37:41.860 I am talking about the most self-important political rally of our times.

00:37:47.260 The People's State of the Union.

00:37:49.700 Now, first, doesn't sound communist at all.

00:37:52.020 Nothing to fear there.

00:37:53.320 President Trump is scheduled to deliver his State of the Union address tomorrow.

00:37:57.660 So tonight, several brave American patriots.

00:38:01.640 And I mean brave.

00:38:03.380 I mean it, Stu.

00:38:04.640 Brave.

00:38:05.540 There is almost no one in their industry that disagrees with them.

00:38:08.800 Almost no one.

00:38:10.320 So everything they say never gets questioned?

00:38:12.160 Never gets...

00:38:12.880 Right.

00:38:13.120 If they say we're using 500 million straws a year, no one ever says...

00:38:16.340 No one's going to question.

00:38:17.280 No one's going to question.

00:38:18.340 No one's going to push back.

00:38:19.560 No.

00:38:19.800 They are brave.

00:38:21.040 They are going to be standing in a room full of people that all agree with them.

00:38:26.080 And the press will cover them and take them at their word and make them into heroes.

00:38:31.000 That's how brave they are.

00:38:32.160 So these brave Americans, they are concerned about everyday Americans.

00:38:37.860 More than you and I could ever dream of being.

00:38:40.080 And they're banding together for a preemptive rally to protest what the president says in his State of the Union speech.

00:38:46.700 Sure.

00:38:47.340 Sure.

00:38:48.080 You might want to wait until you hear what he says.

00:38:50.340 Why?

00:38:51.040 Why?

00:38:52.120 Why?

00:38:54.640 If you wait, then you have to haggle over the details.

00:39:00.020 Then you have to actually know the facts.

00:39:01.940 Okay?

00:39:02.240 There's no time to listen and critically evaluate what a Republican says when there's so much hashtagging and outraging to be done.

00:39:08.920 Now, you say, Glenn, who are these people that are organizing the people's State of the Union?

00:39:14.680 Because I'm a people.

00:39:16.000 I know.

00:39:16.640 I'm a people, too.

00:39:18.620 Well, there's Sam, you know, from Who's the Boss?

00:39:21.920 He's going to be there.

00:39:25.320 I believe Sam's a she via Alyssa Milano.

00:39:27.680 Okay, she's going to be there, too.

00:39:30.680 That's how important she is.

00:39:32.280 Well, I think it's...

00:39:33.160 And Sam that you don't know about from Who's the Boss.

00:39:36.320 From Who's the Boss.

00:39:37.240 Okay.

00:39:37.680 Because I was going to say...

00:39:38.320 He's on Earth, too.

00:39:39.540 We don't necessarily need to define Alyssa's gender for them.

00:39:45.060 Thank you.

00:39:45.780 That is something that they would decide.

00:39:48.280 Yes.

00:39:48.640 And why are you being so gender specific?

00:39:50.920 Anyway, we also have the Hulk from the Avengers and Michael Moore from Flint.

00:39:56.500 I mean, that's the people, if I've ever seen the people.

00:40:00.640 Tell me you don't walk into, you know, the Applebee's or you're sitting there, you know, in the Cinemark and you turn around and you're like, oh, my gosh.

00:40:12.020 You know, you look, you guys look just like everybody else.

00:40:16.200 And it happens to be Michael Moore and Mark Ruffalo and Sam.

00:40:21.060 I don't know which one.

00:40:23.060 The event is in Manhattan, which is the center of the universe.

00:40:28.400 Wait a minute.

00:40:29.160 Hang on.

00:40:30.780 Yeah, it is the center of the universe.

00:40:32.260 I was just, I just wanted to remember because there was somebody that was locked in a tower for saying that the world does not revolve around Manhattan.

00:40:39.260 Right?

00:40:39.780 He's still in the tower.

00:40:40.640 Anyway, this is, you know, you think Manhattan, you think this, that's, that's the people, the common man.

00:40:47.280 Tickets are $47.

00:40:49.240 Quote, in essence, it's a better reflection of our state of the union based on a more populist point of view.

00:40:55.480 Oh, my gosh.

00:40:56.140 Populism was so great in the 1930s.

00:40:58.220 It's certainly great today.

00:41:00.960 Because populism is based on the people's point of view, said the Hulk.

00:41:04.620 Hulk, we want to celebrate this moment that we're in.

00:41:08.520 And it's probably now one of the most influential and powerful and really beautiful movements to come into play in the U.S. since the civil rights movement.

00:41:17.700 Wow.

00:41:18.280 Hulk, you've said a mouthful.

00:41:21.140 So, may I just point out, the people aren't going to rally to your cause because you're not really reflective of the people.

00:41:32.500 The people are actually smart enough to know that President Trump does dumb things.

00:41:37.760 He says dumb things.

00:41:39.740 He also signs a tax bill.

00:41:42.140 That helps them, you know, go to the grocery store where you have, I don't know, Maria go-to for you?

00:41:49.580 I'm not sure.

00:41:51.380 You're hardly in the same universe and certainly not in the same universe as the injustices of the civil rights era.

00:41:59.820 The real people's state of the union is that they're not going to spend that time this week listening to you or really worrying about Donald Trump's latest tweet or your phony exercise in outrage.

00:42:10.740 No, and it's not because Americans don't care about America or its leadership.

00:42:15.680 It's because they're too busy trying to make a living.

00:42:18.560 They're too busy trying to raise their children.

00:42:21.280 They're trying to figure out how they can watch a TV show on television without you using the F word over and over and over again.

00:42:29.060 I'm just saying.

00:42:30.840 I'm just saying.

00:42:32.160 That's what the real people are really kind of working on right now.

00:42:34.680 So next time, you might want to get to know some of the actual everyday people before you claim to represent them in your anti-Trump rally.

00:42:46.960 Because that's really all this is.

00:42:48.720 Oh, newsflash.

00:42:49.880 Media's got to cover this.

00:42:51.320 Another anti-Trump rally.

00:42:52.780 It's Monday, January 29th.

00:43:10.420 You're listening to the Glenn Beck Program.

00:43:12.740 Stu, I...

00:43:13.780 I'm having one of those days.

00:43:18.180 I noticed that.

00:43:19.100 Yes.

00:43:20.700 It's one of those, I feel bloated, you know.

00:43:23.860 You look bloated too, though, so...

00:43:25.200 Thank you.

00:43:25.680 You shouldn't feel bad about that.

00:43:27.460 Yeah.

00:43:27.860 I wish it was the kind of bloating that happened when you just wash up on a beach and you're dead.

00:43:31.880 I wish it was that kind of bloating.

00:43:33.100 Really?

00:43:33.420 Yeah.

00:43:33.760 Today, I kind of do.

00:43:34.880 You do seem to have that praying for death air of you.

00:43:38.000 Yeah, is it unusual?

00:43:39.500 I mean, you know, people say, oh my gosh, are you suicidal?

00:43:42.160 No.

00:43:42.720 No.

00:43:43.020 I mean, no.

00:43:44.940 I would just like...

00:43:45.820 That's a weird talk.

00:43:46.280 Well, no, I wanted to, you know, I think there's a difference between, are you suicidal?

00:43:49.800 Oh my gosh, I just can't live anymore.

00:43:51.860 No, it's not that.

00:43:53.020 It's just there are times, and they're very short-lived, that, you know, if you shoot me

00:43:58.140 in the head today, I'm not going to be that upset.

00:44:00.460 Not a big complaint day.

00:44:01.920 No.

00:44:02.260 Not a big complaint day.

00:44:03.400 Will I shoot myself in the head?

00:44:05.020 No.

00:44:05.420 No.

00:44:05.740 No, I won't.

00:44:06.480 No, I won't.

00:44:07.400 But, if somebody happens to put a gun to my head and go, boom, we're not going to miss it.

00:44:13.920 We're not going to miss it that much.

00:44:14.960 Right.

00:44:15.180 Not today.

00:44:15.700 If you happen to be crossing a street and an escalade, let's say, rolls over you.

00:44:21.660 Right.

00:44:22.340 What kind of car do you drive again?

00:44:23.720 I don't want to say.

00:44:24.620 I just got to do it.

00:44:25.340 But, no, it's not that that happens to occur.

00:44:29.160 If it happens to occur.

00:44:30.260 It's not the type of thing you're going to complain about, is what you're saying.

00:44:32.740 And it's not even, you know, Christians will say, you know, oh, well, it's because you

00:44:36.720 know where you're going.

00:44:37.560 No, I'm not even really sure on that.

00:44:39.500 I just know it'll be different than this.

00:44:41.380 At this point, I'm willing to take different.

00:44:46.340 I may.

00:44:47.720 You know, there's there are people that believe that, you know, there's a there's a chance

00:44:51.160 we're living in the matrix right now.

00:44:52.580 No, there's a chance we're living in hell.

00:44:55.080 There's a chance that we're living in hell.

00:44:57.180 And we don't realize until we, you know, people say, oh, you know, you know what that is?

00:45:03.560 Reincarnation.

00:45:04.120 No, no, that's hell.

00:45:05.560 That's hell.

00:45:06.140 At the end of this life, you're born again.

00:45:09.820 Same place.

00:45:11.520 Same place.

00:45:12.960 That's hell.

00:45:13.560 That's hell.

00:45:14.160 That's that's what.

00:45:14.820 So there's a chance we're already in hell.

00:45:16.460 Well, I'll give you my official ruling on that until after the Super Bowl.

00:45:19.960 If the Eagles lose, I will agree with you.

00:45:21.900 However, in addition to that, we should review the things putting you in this.

00:45:26.700 I want to be hit by an Escalade mood today.

00:45:28.740 Well, not necessarily until I find the make of your car.

00:45:32.100 Let's let's slow down.

00:45:34.380 OK, on anything.

00:45:36.620 You're not with you.

00:45:37.800 You're not living this.

00:45:38.920 Right.

00:45:39.160 If you were really living this, I want to be hit by a car today type of vibe.

00:45:43.620 Again, that's suicide.

00:45:45.020 I do not want to be.

00:45:46.180 Well, there's a difference.

00:45:47.240 But there's much difference between killing yourself and wishing that you get hit by a car.

00:45:50.980 No, just not.

00:45:51.920 I'm not.

00:45:52.440 No, I'm not even wishing.

00:45:53.460 It's just like you wouldn't mind it so much, you know, I mean, don't you ever get to that

00:45:58.660 point to where you're just like, eh, it wouldn't.

00:46:01.400 It's not so bad.

00:46:02.340 Again, talk to me on Super Bowl Monday.

00:46:03.920 Right.

00:46:04.240 I will most likely be there.

00:46:05.820 OK.

00:46:06.560 All right.

00:46:07.060 OK.

00:46:07.300 So we have the Me Too movement.

00:46:09.380 Yeah.

00:46:09.720 That had the White Roses to the Grammys to hear people being disrespectful to women and

00:46:17.300 women dressed up in no clothing.

00:46:19.400 Yeah.

00:46:19.760 You had that.

00:46:20.720 No, I think the people that, you know, looked like they came right out of the bondage room,

00:46:27.780 you know, to perform and, you know, to show up on the red carpet when they were talking

00:46:32.960 about let's not sexualize women.

00:46:34.740 I was listening, you know, I thought they made a very good point, a very good when

00:46:38.840 they removed the ball from their mouth.

00:46:40.400 I thought they I thought that was a really I thought that was good.

00:46:44.500 That's good.

00:46:45.280 Yeah.

00:46:46.000 You have a new lake.

00:46:47.740 New waterfront property.

00:46:49.140 Yep.

00:46:49.520 A new waterfront property.

00:46:51.280 Now I did.

00:46:52.260 I didn't.

00:46:53.420 I didn't.

00:46:53.940 I mean, it just didn't buy new property.

00:46:56.060 No, it came with a broken city water pipe that I'm pretty sure I'm going to have to pay

00:47:00.820 for the two and a half million gallons of that new lake, which makes me really happy.

00:47:05.880 Again, this is this is your negative outlook.

00:47:07.780 Oh, you know what?

00:47:08.440 You know what?

00:47:08.960 Another one.

00:47:09.600 I love local government.

00:47:10.820 You know, I keep saying let's reduce the size of government.

00:47:12.940 Yeah.

00:47:13.240 Ah, let me tell you about my town.

00:47:15.520 My town has raised my taxes because we don't have income tax here in Texas.

00:47:21.120 We just have property tax.

00:47:22.800 And what could go wrong with that?

00:47:24.460 OK, so my town has a property tax and they raised the tax like like eyeball bleed hundreds

00:47:32.920 of percent, hundreds of percent in 2016.

00:47:36.120 But I missed that crazy deadline.

00:47:38.660 OK, they've got like a three week period in the year where they'll listen to you.

00:47:43.000 OK, so I'm nice of them.

00:47:44.520 I missed it in 2016.

00:47:46.040 So then I wrote them a letter because they did it again in 2017.

00:47:51.420 They're like, you know what?

00:47:52.500 His property has gone through the roof.

00:47:54.140 And in fact, I've got four acres.

00:47:57.520 And they said, you know, on four acres, you could build four houses.

00:48:02.120 You can build even more than four houses.

00:48:03.480 I'm surprised they stopped there.

00:48:04.500 Well, no, not in my neighborhood.

00:48:06.700 I mean, it's not riffraff.

00:48:08.040 And so and so you could build a house on an acre of land.

00:48:12.440 And so they've they've they've they've classified my house as worth four houses this year.

00:48:19.920 It was great.

00:48:20.680 So anyway, I knew the window this time.

00:48:23.020 And so I wrote a little letter to them and I said, hey, I'd like to talk to you about the taxes because you screwed me in 2016.

00:48:29.360 So I'd like to sit down and talk to you about this time.

00:48:33.240 You know what?

00:48:33.940 You know what?

00:48:34.460 This is great.

00:48:35.900 We've we've gone to two meetings now.

00:48:38.140 We've been rejected for them to even hear our plea because they're not sure what I meant in that letter.

00:48:44.900 Because I referenced 2016.

00:48:48.540 And so they said that time is up.

00:48:49.980 And I said, no, look at the window.

00:48:51.240 It's I said it's bad in 2016.

00:48:54.620 You've done it again.

00:48:55.780 I want to talk.

00:48:57.760 No, you just we Mr.

00:48:59.600 Beck, this is a quote.

00:49:02.880 We cannot tell for sure that that was the intent of that letter.

00:49:07.800 I'm the guy who wrote the letter.

00:49:12.320 I'm the guy who wrote the letter.

00:49:15.780 You're you're trusting what a piece of paper more than the guy who's standing in front of you going, ah, really?

00:49:21.740 This is what I meant.

00:49:25.100 This is just a little part of it.

00:49:26.580 This is a sliver of your world right now.

00:49:28.340 This is just this is it.

00:49:29.120 No, it's good.

00:49:29.700 It's all good so far.

00:49:31.320 It's all good so far.

00:49:32.220 And then we get the State of the Union tomorrow.

00:49:34.480 But not only that, we get these Hollywood creeps giving us a people's State of the Union.

00:49:40.820 Oh, my gosh.

00:49:41.580 I want to listen and be lectured by them.

00:49:43.560 Oh, me too.

00:49:44.160 Don't I ever.

00:49:44.540 And they will tell you.

00:49:45.620 Yeah.

00:49:45.980 That you use too many straws.

00:49:49.720 Five hundred million straws we use every day.

00:49:53.620 Hang on just a second.

00:49:54.500 In this country.

00:49:55.320 First of all.

00:49:55.700 Country.

00:49:56.180 First of all, they may tell us that.

00:49:58.020 But I currently live in Texas and for the next 10 minutes, at least, no one is finding

00:50:04.460 you like they are in California and Hawaii.

00:50:07.100 They've come up with a new law based on bogus statistics that we use all these straws.

00:50:12.720 And so California has taken it upon itself to fine, fine the servers a thousand dollars,

00:50:21.640 which, by the way, Debbie Wasserman Schultz says is really nothing.

00:50:25.220 I mean, when you got that in your tax, it's nothing.

00:50:28.760 It's a crumb.

00:50:29.620 It's a crumb.

00:50:30.600 That's a quote from Nancy Pelosi.

00:50:32.200 A crumb.

00:50:33.620 So it shows they really don't care about the environment because they're only going to

00:50:38.760 fine you a crumb.

00:50:40.120 That's a great point.

00:50:40.720 They should go a lot higher with this fine to make it really count.

00:50:43.440 So they are saying now that if you bring in an unasked for straw, they will fine that

00:50:51.320 server a thousand dollars.

00:50:52.720 So I'm going to ask for straws, but I want, I want a real accounting.

00:50:56.880 I'm going to, if next time I go to California, I'm going to ask for a specific number of

00:51:00.480 straws.

00:51:01.320 Now, I don't know how many straws I can put in my mouth, but I do have, because it's

00:51:07.500 environmentally friendly, the Yeti.

00:51:09.980 And if it's not, tough.

00:51:12.900 Right.

00:51:13.340 Okay.

00:51:13.500 Okay.

00:51:14.900 But, you know, usually I don't use a straw, but if I wanted a straw, could I, could I use

00:51:22.520 10?

00:51:23.320 And would that make it easier?

00:51:24.820 Because you get more liquid.

00:51:26.460 Let's see.

00:51:28.060 It's going to be hard because I don't know if you can get the suction with 10.

00:51:32.440 I mean.

00:51:33.160 Hmm.

00:51:34.120 Glenn now trying to drink with 10 straws.

00:51:36.400 Yeah.

00:51:36.920 Yeah.

00:51:37.300 Yeah.

00:51:37.520 That's, that's about 10.

00:51:39.000 How many in this box?

00:51:40.240 A hundred straws in that box.

00:51:41.640 So let's try, let's try, just trying to think that my mouth is a little bigger than

00:51:48.440 that.

00:51:48.600 I mean, this is not all we're going to do, by the way, we're also going to build the

00:51:53.560 world's longest straw and I'm going to send it to California.

00:51:57.500 Imagine the fine on that thing right now.

00:52:00.780 What's the fine up to in your cup right now?

00:52:02.760 Do you have any idea?

00:52:03.680 Cause it's a, if there's a hundred straws in the box, I'm going to ask for these, so

00:52:06.400 they won't be fine.

00:52:07.240 I'm going to ask them.

00:52:07.900 I just need to know the number I need to ask for.

00:52:09.800 Okay.

00:52:11.640 Oh yeah.

00:52:14.700 I can do it, but it honestly, it like sucks the water into your lungs.

00:52:18.860 So it's getting a little dangerous and then it all comes out all over my computer.

00:52:23.340 Like it just did.

00:52:24.080 Yes.

00:52:24.740 So I think this is about, it's about, it's about half of them.

00:52:28.960 So it's a, it's about 40 straws.

00:52:30.960 Well, half of a hundred is 50.

00:52:32.920 Well, no, I know it's not quite half.

00:52:34.560 Okay.

00:52:35.000 So I think it's about 40 straws.

00:52:36.740 40 straws.

00:52:37.500 Yeah.

00:52:37.720 So that fine would be, uh, you're talking $40,000 if they brought you 40 straws without

00:52:43.440 you asking.

00:52:44.180 If I was sitting there and they just dumped 40 straws off, they'd be fine.

00:52:48.300 Right.

00:52:48.640 But I'm going to ask for them next time in California.

00:52:51.280 Now it's not just the number of straws that we can use California.

00:52:55.220 Cause we live in a place, uh, that we like to, uh, refer to as Texas, uh, which has this

00:53:01.120 quaint little idea called freedom.

00:53:04.400 Um, and, uh, we, we, I think that if we could just build a straw that is long enough, this

00:53:14.280 might be a real, uh, winner as well.

00:53:16.740 Cause we could, I mean, sure.

00:53:18.040 If people are curing cancer, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

00:53:20.220 Oh, the God key, whatever.

00:53:21.940 However, we're building straws that could possibly, uh, change our world.

00:53:29.260 Cause this is the thing.

00:53:30.000 If, if California passes this law and they say afterwards, they say, you know what, this

00:53:35.220 has worked.

00:53:35.640 We've cut a straw consumption by 10%.

00:53:38.580 Yeah.

00:53:39.040 Then they'll decide they should pass another law and this will never end.

00:53:42.100 So what we need to do is use enough straws to offset the amount of straws that may be saved

00:53:46.600 in the entire state of California.

00:53:48.180 Um, so we have a box of 3000 straws and I'm going to see if we can get it all the way

00:53:54.820 to the commissary, which is the other side of this 80,000 square foot studio space.

00:53:58.720 I will say this too, Glenn, you might be excited that each of the straws that I have here are

00:54:02.540 individually wrapped.

00:54:03.740 Also, we've killed a tree or two as well.

00:54:05.780 That is great.

00:54:06.900 We've increased the waste on these things.

00:54:08.500 And I, you know what, I'm really not against sustainability or anything like that.

00:54:12.240 I'm just, I'm just really against the government of California.

00:54:15.220 I will, I will just say for the record, before we go to commercial, I am against sustainability.

00:54:20.500 Just wanted to make sure I am against it.

00:54:22.600 You are against it.

00:54:23.520 I'm opposed to sustainability.

00:54:24.920 You, you don't care.

00:54:26.240 No, I really legitimately do not care.

00:54:28.200 All right.

00:54:28.220 See, now this is, now I've got a straw that will almost reach to Stu's water.

00:54:32.480 So if, if let's say they don't come and get, give me water or he's got a Coke or a Jack

00:54:38.760 and Coke and I don't have one, I could reach over and drink his water.

00:54:42.620 This is perfect for a restaurant.

00:54:44.400 Right.

00:54:44.880 Okay.

00:54:45.140 This is the size you need at a restaurant.

00:54:46.860 It's about three feet long.

00:54:49.260 Now, can we get it to the cantina?

00:54:51.240 Oh, you bet we can.

00:54:52.720 I'm working on it.

00:54:53.240 You know why?

00:54:54.120 Because we're Americans.

00:55:02.480 This is like a knitting project during the show.

00:55:08.260 I'll just keep making this thing longer and longer.

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00:56:40.120 Glenn Beck Mercury.

00:56:47.940 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:56:49.660 So, the government is talking about making a 5G network.

00:56:55.080 You know, the government will build it, which will be great.

00:56:57.500 I mean, it's an information superhighway right to the NSA.

00:57:01.320 And I think that's great.

00:57:03.680 Who could want more?

00:57:04.920 Well, you have it, too.

00:57:06.140 They're also talking about a $1.7 trillion stimulus package,

00:57:10.780 which I think is, again, what could go wrong there?

00:57:15.020 Total collapse.

00:57:16.340 I can't imagine.

00:57:17.620 I can't imagine.

00:57:18.220 So, it's all good today.

00:57:21.040 We have, you know, the left protesting the president's State of the Union address today.

00:57:28.680 Even though it happens tomorrow, they're going to protest it today.

00:57:35.100 Or beginning today.

00:57:36.140 I hope it lasts a week.

00:57:37.860 It's fantastic.

00:57:38.660 We have California.

00:57:40.620 A couple of stories in California.

00:57:42.060 One, we've been telling you about the fine for waiters who bring you an unrequested straw.

00:57:50.660 If you haven't requested a straw and they just bring you a straw,

00:57:53.220 they're going to charge that earth hater $1,000.

00:57:59.540 And now they're talking about either reducing the fine or getting rid of the fine.

00:58:03.460 And I don't know if you just go right to prison or the electric chair.

00:58:06.080 Now, could Elon Musk make a green electric chair?

00:58:14.300 Could we get an electric chair?

00:58:16.100 Like a solar-powered electric chair?

00:58:18.040 No, not solar-powered.

00:58:19.520 No, something that we would still plug in to the wall, but we would all think that it was green because we plugged it in.

00:58:26.700 You know, I don't want an electric chair on like a, you know, combustion engine.

00:58:32.860 I want something that we just plug right in.

00:58:34.800 So it's the electric chair, but who knows where that cord goes to?

00:58:38.660 I want to just plug it into the wall because the magic fairies make that and the environment is clean.

00:58:42.920 No, that's not how that works.

00:58:44.220 Let's not think that through.

00:58:45.260 So anyway, we're making it just for California, and it may be our gift to California.

00:58:49.800 California, we're making a straw that can go all the way from the studio, which is at one end of this 80,000-square-foot building,

00:58:58.720 to the cantina or the commissary, which is at the other opposite end.

00:59:04.360 That way, we will never have to go to the commissary to get anything to drink.

00:59:08.400 We can just have it right there.

00:59:10.680 So kind of like you're saying basically we would just have someone go down there, put the straw in a drink,

00:59:17.140 and then just trust to suck whatever liquid they decided to put it in all the way to the studios,

00:59:22.420 and we don't have to move.

00:59:23.540 Seems risky, I will say, especially with the way people feel about you.

00:59:26.680 I mean, like it just does not seem like a good.

00:59:29.640 Hold it just a second.

00:59:30.600 I don't know what that even.

00:59:31.800 It does not seem like a good idea.

00:59:33.200 Really?

00:59:33.660 Okay.

00:59:34.200 At least for you.

00:59:35.600 Okay.

00:59:36.140 I mean, you know.

00:59:37.520 Maybe not for you.

00:59:38.360 I don't think it would be good.

00:59:39.680 Because you already said today that I might get hit by an Escalade as well.

00:59:42.520 Right.

00:59:42.760 And I know you bought a new car, and I know you've.

00:59:44.700 I got a loaner.

00:59:45.220 You're like, huh?

00:59:46.260 I got a loaner.

00:59:47.000 You got a loaner.

00:59:47.680 Yeah, it's an SUV.

00:59:48.940 Did you up the insurance before you got it?

00:59:50.680 You were just like, does this cover everything in case somebody is hit by it?

00:59:55.040 Better safe than sorry, Glenn.

00:59:56.080 Yeah, I know.

00:59:56.700 That's why I always ask that question, at least today.

00:59:58.840 Good, good, good.

00:59:59.600 And then also in California, just because that throbbing in your head won't go away,

01:00:08.360 we could relieve it, but we thought, you know what?

01:00:13.180 Let's kick people in the head and see what happens.

01:00:18.160 So we'll tell you a little bit about the teacher in California

01:00:24.080 who has definite opinions on our military.

01:00:29.320 Saw this one yesterday, and blood started to shoot out of my eyes.

01:00:33.420 We're just going to play the audio.

01:00:35.860 We had to edit a lot because, as you know, high school teachers,

01:00:42.920 their lectures are riddled with profanity, as you would expect,

01:00:47.900 and quite honestly, want and encourage.

01:00:50.620 So here's the edited version.

01:00:52.500 You can find the full thing on The Blaze.

01:00:54.040 Listen to this.

01:00:55.200 Because we've got a bunch of dumb s**t over there.

01:00:57.000 Think about the people who you know are over there.

01:00:58.580 Your freaking stupid Uncle Louie or whatever.

01:01:00.380 They're dumb s**t.

01:01:01.620 They're not, like, high-level thinkers.

01:01:03.360 They're not academic people.

01:01:04.520 They're not intellectual people.

01:01:05.940 They're the freaking lowest of our low, not morally.

01:01:09.060 You know, I'm not saying they make bad moral decisions.

01:01:11.380 Stop, stop, stop.

01:01:12.000 They're not talented people.

01:01:13.120 Stop, stop, stop.

01:01:14.920 He's talking about our military, and he said they're the lowest of the low.

01:01:19.340 Oh, my gosh.

01:01:20.540 Not morally.

01:01:21.900 I don't want to say morally.

01:01:24.480 Right.

01:01:25.060 Okay.

01:01:25.660 He's just calling them stupid.

01:01:27.580 It's your dumb Uncle Louie that's going over there.

01:01:31.220 They're stupid.

01:01:32.220 But you might immediately think,

01:01:34.520 I know a lot of military people who are not exactly stupid,

01:01:38.100 but you haven't heard his reasoning.

01:01:39.500 Listen.

01:01:40.500 Talented people.

01:01:41.840 That's how I get when the President's office says we have the best military,

01:01:44.420 and the President's office says we have Obama, we have anybody.

01:01:47.060 I was like, no, we don't.

01:01:48.000 The data is in.

01:01:49.120 We don't have a good military.

01:01:50.480 The data is in.

01:01:51.620 If you join the military, it's because you have no other options,

01:01:54.400 because you didn't take care of business academically,

01:01:56.340 because your parents didn't love you enough to push you.

01:01:58.220 Stop.

01:01:58.780 We've got to stop for a second here.

01:02:00.080 So his evidence that the science is in,

01:02:03.840 and we have a dumb military, and it's not the best military.

01:02:06.740 Right.

01:02:08.200 Well, the science, the actual stats show exactly the opposite.

01:02:14.340 But let's go with it.

01:02:15.160 And it also seems to show that we've been the dominant superpower of the first century.

01:02:19.620 Yeah.

01:02:20.020 At least.

01:02:20.720 Yeah.

01:02:21.180 So I would think our military isn't the worst military.

01:02:24.780 And when you go to the dumb idea, obviously that's ridiculous,

01:02:27.120 but it's also standard liberal thought, right?

01:02:30.380 I mean, this is a Stephen King made this point.

01:02:32.520 Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

01:02:33.060 That people who go to Iraq.

01:02:35.240 Are the dummies.

01:02:35.800 It's the dummies.

01:02:36.480 If you can't get a good education, if you can't read,

01:02:38.860 you go to the military, because that's where dumb people wind up in the end.

01:02:42.480 You know where those dummies are from, generally speaking?

01:02:46.340 Middle America.

01:02:48.260 Huh.

01:02:48.760 Yeah.

01:02:49.660 Yeah.

01:02:50.820 Crazy.

01:02:51.300 Probably some stupid state where they don't find their waitresses.

01:02:54.900 Right.

01:02:55.260 Or give people straws.

01:02:56.440 Exactly right.

01:02:57.140 Morons like that.

01:02:58.120 It's those kinds of states.

01:02:59.160 People who will allow waitresses or waiters to bring a straw without you asking for it.

01:03:04.720 States that still think math makes a difference when, you know, they're doing their budgets.

01:03:10.600 You know?

01:03:11.120 Oh, gee.

01:03:11.620 It's those kinds of people.

01:03:13.940 I hate those kinds of people.

01:03:14.460 Yeah.

01:03:14.760 So he goes on.

01:03:17.080 And then you didn't love yourself enough to push yourself, which isn't even that hard.

01:03:21.200 It's not even that hard.

01:03:21.840 You just have to focus a little bit.

01:03:23.600 You don't even have to work hard.

01:03:24.780 You just have to focus.

01:03:26.600 And you didn't do it.

01:03:27.620 But someone's going to tell you when to get up, when to go to sleep, what to eat, what to wear, when you can grab.

01:03:33.560 Okay.

01:03:33.720 Hang on just a second.

01:03:34.720 So is he talking about liberal politicians that tell you what to do?

01:03:38.080 Or is he?

01:03:38.800 That's right.

01:03:39.620 Or is he talking about the military?

01:03:41.420 As we've covered, they don't trust you with the amount of straws you want.

01:03:44.200 Yeah, exactly right.

01:03:45.260 But they're going to tell you what to do, where to go, what to eat.

01:03:49.400 Well, yes, you're exactly right.

01:03:51.740 As long as you're talking about a progressive politician, you're exactly right.

01:03:56.460 That's what they do.

01:03:57.880 Unfortunately, what you're talking about is the military.

01:04:01.440 And I got news for you.

01:04:02.980 The military has to do that because it's a group that is going on a mission together and they act as one.

01:04:14.880 So that's kind of part of it.

01:04:17.100 He goes on to say that, you know, the military, we just haven't won anything.

01:04:23.520 In fact, we didn't win World War II.

01:04:25.340 The Russians did.

01:04:27.160 Oh, really?

01:04:27.720 Oh, yeah.

01:04:28.020 Listen.

01:04:28.280 When you can call home, when you can go home for three days, why would anyone ever sign up for that?

01:04:35.200 And then they go, well, they're going to pay for my mail.

01:04:36.540 They're going to pay for my education.

01:04:37.980 Stop.

01:04:38.840 Stop.

01:04:39.260 Listen to this.

01:04:40.620 Why would anybody do that?

01:04:42.060 Why would anybody sign up for that?

01:04:43.480 They're going to tell you when you can go home.

01:04:45.700 They're going to tell you when you can call, what you can do.

01:04:49.320 Who would sign up for that?

01:04:50.440 Well, I'll tell you because they say they're going to give you a free education.

01:04:53.100 Hello, Bernie Sanders voters.

01:04:56.800 Hello, Bernie Sanders voters.

01:04:58.700 This guy is not talking just about the military here.

01:05:02.300 He's really describing progressive policies.

01:05:07.060 So where when you can crap, when you can call home, when you can go home for three days,

01:05:12.420 why would anyone ever sign up for that?

01:05:14.720 And then they go, well, they're going to pay for my mail.

01:05:16.040 They're going to pay for my education.

01:05:17.620 Are you aware you have a GPA of 0.0?

01:05:20.880 You're not a student, dude.

01:05:23.520 What makes you think all of a sudden you're going to get turned on to a freaking education?

01:05:27.140 I don't understand why we let the freaking military guys come over here and recruit you in school.

01:05:30.480 We don't let pimps come into school.

01:05:32.320 Not anyone interested in being a ho.

01:05:34.980 Wow.

01:05:35.560 So he's comparing the military to prostitutes.

01:05:38.780 Prostitution.

01:05:39.480 And that's enlightening.

01:05:40.820 Also, I would say it's pretty insulting to, I mean, how many have we had come through here, Glenn, military people?

01:05:47.340 Yes, there is a benefit to being in the military, sometimes with education and other things.

01:05:51.920 That is not the reason these guys are going.

01:05:54.040 No.

01:05:54.220 When they say, why would you ever do that?

01:05:55.920 Oh, they're going to pay for my education.

01:05:57.140 That's like 97th in line of why these guys do this.

01:05:59.820 That is the reason that people who live in very closed, progressive communities, that's the only reason they can understand.

01:06:08.360 Well, they must be doing it for free education because they don't understand the deep meaning that people get from the military.

01:06:16.080 They mock it.

01:06:17.040 They mock it.

01:06:18.360 And so they don't understand it.

01:06:20.260 And so they come up with, well, it just has to be education.

01:06:22.740 No, and let me tell you something, the many SEALs that I know of that left the military to become doctors, brain surgeons, okay, I mean, there's a lot of them that were in the military, came back, and became something really, really useful.

01:06:45.140 And I would love to put this guy on a jeopardy, a fair jeopardy with members of our military because I bet you he'd get his ass kicked.

01:06:56.600 He has absolutely no idea what he's talking about.

01:07:01.700 His name, by the way, is Greg Salcedo.

01:07:09.460 It's a high school class.

01:07:11.880 He does not salute the flag.

01:07:13.640 He does not participate in prayer during any of the council meetings.

01:07:18.300 He was teaching at El Ranch High School.

01:07:23.600 He's a teacher in Pico Riviera City.

01:07:28.760 He said, our military is not talented.

01:07:32.220 We have night vision goggles, and yet we can't control these people wearing robes.

01:07:37.360 I think, you know what, I think that's beautifully put, too.

01:07:40.100 Very inclusive.

01:07:40.860 So is he in trouble?

01:07:46.780 No, you know what?

01:07:49.100 Not really.

01:07:50.640 Not really.

01:07:51.860 Because he has freedom of speech.

01:07:54.820 When is enough enough?

01:07:57.320 When is enough enough?

01:08:01.380 You know, the real people's State of the Union?

01:08:05.660 You know what the real people are tired of?

01:08:08.780 This stuff.

01:08:10.880 They're tired of trying to raise their kids the best they know how.

01:08:16.660 Then they send them to school.

01:08:22.940 And they're worried that one of their friends is going to take them off the mark and, you know, move them down a path to, you know, whatever it is, name the problem today that you get at school.

01:08:36.060 That they're going to lose the sense of who they are.

01:08:40.220 We work so hard to try to mold our kids.

01:08:44.020 And we're worried about them.

01:08:49.560 We used to be able to trust the school and the teacher.

01:08:52.940 We can't trust the school or the teacher anymore.

01:08:55.040 We can't say anything.

01:08:59.300 Because they're all like that.

01:09:00.560 They look at us like we're crazy.

01:09:04.320 The real people, they would just teach math.

01:09:09.160 Teach reading.

01:09:11.380 Teach arithmetic.

01:09:13.580 What the hell is this all about?

01:09:17.400 Our schools are failing us on everything.

01:09:20.200 Just teach the basics.

01:09:22.640 And shut up on everything else.

01:09:25.040 I don't need somebody to preach that the military is great.

01:09:29.560 And I don't need somebody to preach that the military is horrible.

01:09:33.040 Teach math and reading.

01:09:35.820 How about that one?

01:09:36.960 That's what the average American on both sides of the aisle would really like.

01:09:42.840 Because we as parents are a little tired.

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01:10:27.280 I do read the email.

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01:12:18.200 Glenn Beck Mercury.

01:12:20.500 Glenn Beck.

01:12:27.660 Glad you're here.

01:12:28.660 Let me take Mark in Iowa real quick.

01:12:30.700 Mark, welcome to the Glenn Beck program.

01:12:33.520 Good morning.

01:12:34.540 Hey.

01:12:35.320 First and foremost, I want to thank you for being personally responsible for allowing God back into my life and my wife's life.

01:12:41.500 And it eventually led to the adoption of our two girls.

01:12:43.960 Oh, wow.

01:12:45.360 Congratulations.

01:12:45.760 Congratulations.

01:12:46.860 Oh, it was a huge battle through foster care and stuff.

01:12:49.680 But you, yeah, there was a Fox program you had with David Lappin on about the Tower of Babel, which kind of lit the fire.

01:12:57.700 And from there, it's just been amazing.

01:12:59.300 So thank you so much for that.

01:13:00.620 Thank you.

01:13:00.920 Second of all, it's kind of an insidious thing.

01:13:03.580 You might need the chalkboards for this.

01:13:05.220 And I don't know if it's a blessing or if it's possibly the first start of AI taking over everything.

01:13:10.700 But this fine in California for the straws, it's the first, I think it's the first step in AI taking over.

01:13:19.620 But it's starting in California.

01:13:21.300 And if you track how actors get their starts, usually they are starving servers.

01:13:28.220 Oh, my gosh.

01:13:28.700 So I think AI has recognized.

01:13:31.500 You may be on to something, Mark.

01:13:34.600 You may be on to something.

01:13:36.320 Thanks for your call.

01:13:41.340 Glenn.

01:13:42.220 Back.

01:13:43.320 Mercury.

01:13:51.300 Love.

01:14:00.180 Courage.

01:14:01.880 Truth.

01:14:03.620 Glenn.

01:14:04.580 Back.

01:14:05.820 I just saw a headline on TV.

01:14:07.820 Music's biggest night turns political.

01:14:10.420 No.

01:14:10.900 No.

01:14:18.980 2018.

01:14:19.540 Sexual Assault.

01:14:22.760 What does it even mean?

01:14:24.580 What is sexual assault?

01:14:26.620 I mean, because sexual assault allegations are, you know, happening, what, hourly?

01:14:31.300 I mean, it's at least a daily occurrence.

01:14:33.760 This is our new reality right now.

01:14:37.300 So over the weekend, we learn about allegations against both a Republican and a Democrat.

01:14:44.520 First one.

01:14:45.540 Casino mogul Steve Wynn.

01:14:47.060 He resigned as the national finance chairman of the Republican National Committee because

01:14:51.540 he had dozens of sexual misconduct accusations, and it was published by the Wall Street Journal.

01:14:56.280 The worst of these claims that Wynn pressured a married manicurist into sex and then paid

01:15:02.540 her $7.5 million in a settlement.

01:15:06.220 Wow.

01:15:06.500 That's not good.

01:15:07.580 Now, Wynn has denied the allegations, citing that the allegations are all the result of his ex-wife

01:15:13.820 who is trying to resettle the terms of their divorce.

01:15:17.260 Could be.

01:15:18.400 I don't know.

01:15:20.580 Then there's Burns Strider.

01:15:22.000 He doesn't deny the claims against him.

01:15:26.480 Strider was the Clinton campaign faith advisor.

01:15:30.680 The Clinton campaign faith advisor.

01:15:34.840 Female colleagues have complained about him going back to 2007, and yet he wasn't replaced.

01:15:40.300 He's accused of kissing female peers on the nose or on the forehead.

01:15:48.260 Okay.

01:15:48.940 That doesn't sound like sexual abuse.

01:15:53.000 That just seems weird.

01:15:54.820 Okay.

01:15:55.740 He also tried to plan commuting times with the ladies and sent late night emails that expressed

01:16:03.320 loneliness and poor judgment, but never any X-rated material.

01:16:07.740 I kind of feel bad for this guy in a way.

01:16:12.280 I mean, that sounds like a cry for help.

01:16:15.300 Now, Strider's accusations don't even begin to approach the accusations of Steve Wynn.

01:16:22.040 But nevertheless, same thing, right?

01:16:25.800 Same thing.

01:16:27.600 People are angry that Hillary Clinton didn't immediately fire him and that he continues to

01:16:31.780 work in Democratic politics.

01:16:33.400 Well, maybe he should be fired, but maybe he shouldn't.

01:16:36.160 I don't know.

01:16:37.740 Whether you're Steve Wynn or Burns Strider, in the eye of the new America, you are guilty

01:16:43.740 the very second anyone claims you're guilty.

01:16:47.540 You're immediately a sexual predator, no matter how insignificant or outrageous the accusation

01:16:53.320 may be.

01:16:54.920 Everyone deserves to be believed.

01:16:58.120 No.

01:16:58.720 No, everybody deserves to be heard.

01:17:04.720 Everyone deserves to make their case.

01:17:08.520 And then common sense needs to take hold.

01:17:12.660 Burns Strider, I don't know.

01:17:14.500 He might be a sexual predator.

01:17:16.220 I don't know.

01:17:16.800 Kissing people on the forehead or the nose or trying to arrange a ride for them is not what

01:17:25.580 Steve Wynn did.

01:17:26.560 That is, of course, if the allegations against Steve Wynn are even true.

01:17:32.020 It's Monday, January 29th.

01:17:43.620 You're listening to the Glenn Beck Program.

01:17:46.740 I want to take you to Kentucky and to the shooting that happened in that school last week.

01:17:51.020 An amazing story we'll share with you here in a second.

01:17:53.080 But I have to get an update on the straw situation in case you just joined us.

01:17:57.740 We are building what we believe will be the world's largest straw.

01:18:02.480 How big is the largest straw, the world's biggest straw?

01:18:05.180 11,000 meters, which I think is about 40 feet.

01:18:08.560 Yeah, about 40.

01:18:09.860 So we're going to, we've got where there's from here to the other end of the building,

01:18:14.940 Stu is longer than 40 feet.

01:18:17.080 Exactly right.

01:18:18.120 Exactly right.

01:18:18.960 So we're trying to get a straw to come from our studio chair to the commissary on the other

01:18:26.500 side of the building.

01:18:27.620 Yeah, and we've made a couple interesting choices here.

01:18:29.760 And the reason we're doing this, by the way, is because California has decided they want

01:18:32.840 to fine waiters and waitresses $1,000 if they bring you a straw that you did not request.

01:18:40.020 So we're in the middle of talking about that.

01:18:42.260 And we made a choice here to piss off California in any way possible.

01:18:46.640 No.

01:18:46.980 So we're making the longest straw to just have a drink.

01:18:50.700 There's no reason for this other than I'm just thirsty.

01:18:53.880 Right.

01:18:54.360 So we're making this.

01:18:55.400 And lazy.

01:18:56.280 I'd have to put the lazy part in too.

01:18:58.740 There's a little laziness because now I don't have to get up to get drinks.

01:19:01.360 I can just drink from across the room.

01:19:03.060 We did make an aesthetic choice in getting straws that are all individually wrapped so we can

01:19:09.460 kill as many trees as possible.

01:19:11.320 While wasting plastic.

01:19:12.720 Yes.

01:19:13.160 Yeah.

01:19:13.400 That's turning out to be a bit of a challenge.

01:19:14.820 You know, my daughter is, you know, getting into the sustainable lifestyle thing.

01:19:20.440 And, and, but so far she's fairly rational.

01:19:28.000 Actually, no.

01:19:28.580 You said she, she uses bamboo toothbrushes that she made herself.

01:19:31.820 So no, I'm not going to give you that one.

01:19:32.940 No, she didn't make them herself.

01:19:33.840 You can buy those.

01:19:34.560 Oh, so she bought a bamboo toothbrush.

01:19:36.440 Yeah.

01:19:36.880 Yeah.

01:19:37.140 Yeah.

01:19:37.460 Yeah.

01:19:37.800 Yeah.

01:19:37.840 They're, they're, they're, they're something that will, you know, you can throw in the

01:19:40.420 compost heap eventually.

01:19:41.880 And they, you know, then they, and they break down a thousand years from now.

01:19:46.940 And, uh, and I don't know, grow to new bamboo.

01:19:50.260 I don't know what happens, but they, they, they're, they're gone.

01:19:53.560 They disintegrate.

01:19:54.440 Yeah.

01:19:54.640 That's nice.

01:19:55.160 I don't care.

01:19:56.000 Um, if they disintegrate or not, and not, not a concern of mine.

01:19:59.500 Well, I, I actually, you know, I'm, I'm like for me, you know, I, I have a, uh, uh, probably

01:20:05.580 a more green friendly, uh, uh, home than Al Gore does.

01:20:11.760 I, I, I, I would, it's not exactly difficult.

01:20:13.980 Al Gore is in a mansion with like basically no, I mean, remember at the time they're like,

01:20:18.640 uh, and he's thinking in the future, he's going to retrofit his house with solar panels.

01:20:23.360 Right.

01:20:23.760 So Al's just thinking about this now.

01:20:25.740 Right.

01:20:26.240 I mean, it was crazy.

01:20:27.580 I mean, I do care.

01:20:28.540 I mean, you know, I want to be as, I want to be a good steward of the planet.

01:20:33.200 Well, you know, again, and I, I, I exaggerate slightly when I say I don't care at all.

01:20:37.460 Yeah.

01:20:37.740 It's not that I don't want to be a good steward of the planet.

01:20:39.620 It's just, I've seen what environmentalism does to the planet and I've seen what capitalism

01:20:43.280 does to the planet and I'm choosing the capitalism side.

01:20:45.160 I think it's actually better.

01:20:46.640 Um, you know what?

01:20:47.480 I look at, you see what communism does to the planet because China is way.

01:20:50.880 Oh, that's great.

01:20:51.560 They're way ahead of us.

01:20:52.400 Look at civilization.

01:20:53.300 Look at people's life expectancy.

01:20:54.440 Look, look at, uh, at the way we've been feeding people.

01:20:57.700 If we listen to environmentalists, we'd never be able to feed people like we do now.

01:21:00.800 Well, I think we're, I, you know, this is where we could go off on this.

01:21:04.000 I, I, I, I, I happen to agree and disagree with you.

01:21:09.200 Yes.

01:21:09.600 We're feeding a lot of people, but yes, we're also kind of making some, uh, choices.

01:21:15.060 I hate to say this to you because you know, GMOs, uh, that, you know, you don't, you don't

01:21:20.300 have a problem with, I think, you know, when we're screwing with genetics, you know, let's

01:21:25.640 put it this way, what has the UN ever done that you went, that was a pretty good idea.

01:21:32.720 Give me one, give me one, one.

01:21:34.960 That was a pretty good idea.

01:21:36.100 Hearing smallpox for the world, world health organization.

01:21:39.440 Oh, okay.

01:21:40.940 All right.

01:21:41.220 I'll give you that.

01:21:41.760 Give me two.

01:21:42.920 That's a big one.

01:21:44.000 Yeah.

01:21:44.240 Yeah.

01:21:44.360 That's a big one.

01:21:45.040 I give that to Jonathan Salt.

01:21:47.020 Um, I, uh, you know, I, I agree with you.

01:21:49.180 I'm not a fan of the UN, although, uh, you know, these are not necessarily, they're, they're

01:21:53.700 organizations like in the UN that approve of this technology as do, by the way, every

01:21:58.720 scientific, every scientific study of it.

01:22:00.200 But, but they did say, you know what?

01:22:02.220 Hey, let's take some of the heirloom seeds, let's put them underneath the ice.

01:22:06.680 That's a pretty good idea, you know?

01:22:09.340 Wait, so now you trust them?

01:22:10.840 No, I don't trust them at all.

01:22:12.100 But I do think, I do think that, I think for the world to come together, hang on, the

01:22:17.260 world to come together and say, hey, we should take every seed we could possibly find and

01:22:24.340 we should probably bury it in some sort of a Noah's Ark under the ice where it won't be

01:22:28.260 affected by all this genetic mutation thing that we're going to do because it could go

01:22:32.740 wrong.

01:22:33.680 I mean, I think that's a pretty good safety tip.

01:22:35.940 The reason why I point this out is when has the world ever done anything like that?

01:22:41.100 When is the, when has the world ever said, you know what?

01:22:45.340 We might wipe all life out.

01:22:49.220 Maybe we should save some in a jar.

01:22:51.800 Well, there are things called insurance policies that are smart.

01:22:56.780 Governments never do that.

01:22:58.080 Well, I mean, they've got nuclear shelters.

01:23:00.000 They've got, they've, they're all with doomsday plans.

01:23:03.220 We've covered many of them.

01:23:04.560 I mean, you should always guard against the worst case scenario, but there's no evidence

01:23:07.480 that they're ever going to be needed.

01:23:09.060 I hope not.

01:23:10.740 And of course not, mister.

01:23:12.000 And look, I think as a, as a, as a evil rich person who builds new lakes on his property

01:23:18.520 all the time, because he just loves wasting water.

01:23:21.460 Mr. Green over here, who, by the way, told you in the last three weeks, he's used 2 million

01:23:26.180 gallons of water.

01:23:27.940 No, I didn't.

01:23:28.440 No, no, no.

01:23:28.840 Even better.

01:23:29.420 I didn't use it.

01:23:31.000 It's just sitting on the lawn, sitting on the lawn, sitting on the lawn.

01:23:35.980 No, no, we don't necessarily agree on that, but I think we can agree on the idea that

01:23:41.200 capitalism has made the world a better and by the way, cleaner place.

01:23:44.860 Let me tell you something.

01:23:46.980 Cleaner.

01:23:47.580 The minute that solar panels are reasonable, they work, and they don't kill the environment

01:23:54.860 in China to make, I'll, I'll have them on my, on my home.

01:23:58.980 And that will also be the moment that, that environmentalists virulently oppose them.

01:24:03.320 Yes.

01:24:03.640 Because they will say they're horrible anyway.

01:24:05.440 It's got nothing to do with that.

01:24:06.420 We all know that.

01:24:07.160 Yeah.

01:24:07.300 But I mean, again, like you look at this, this is a, you know, societies that can't feed

01:24:13.260 themselves don't care all that much about the environment.

01:24:16.020 They don't, they don't seem to have many green programs.

01:24:18.860 It's what it's until when you were rich, a wealthy country is when you start caring about

01:24:24.360 those aesthetic needs.

01:24:25.620 When you start caring about the environment.

01:24:27.400 Right.

01:24:27.760 And so it is good later.

01:24:29.420 Here's what I, here's, here's, here's, you know, what I said to my, what I said, and I

01:24:33.780 didn't even have to actually say this to my daughter because she, she, you know, she

01:24:38.020 said, I'm going to use toilet paper.

01:24:39.760 I don't care how many trees we have to cut down.

01:24:41.800 I'm using toilet paper and I support her in that.

01:24:44.360 Right.

01:24:45.740 So, you know, but she was like, I, you know, I'm not going to be crazy.

01:24:48.920 And I do want to point out that, you know, some might say that there's a flare over the

01:24:54.920 crazy area when you start making your own deodorant, but who am I to say?

01:24:59.600 So you're, you're, you're an authority.

01:25:04.320 No.

01:25:04.860 Once they turn, I think about 14, they don't listen to you.

01:25:08.960 So no, no, I'm not saying as a parent, I'm just saying as, as, as a, as a person, as

01:25:12.840 a person, as a person.

01:25:13.920 Yeah.

01:25:14.580 Uh, you know, I mean, like you can say that that's crazy.

01:25:16.640 Well, I did say that's never happening in my house.

01:25:19.960 Okay.

01:25:20.820 Okay.

01:25:21.340 So you can do whatever you want in your house.

01:25:23.860 That's not happening in my house.

01:25:25.880 We're going to use deodorant here.

01:25:28.460 Um, because we like people and we like to visit with people from time to time.

01:25:33.500 They don't, they don't, they stop showing up.

01:25:35.020 They do.

01:25:36.100 And you're like, well, why is nobody?

01:25:37.940 Because you stink.

01:25:39.880 Okay.

01:25:40.400 Because you made, I don't know, you made soap out of grass and, uh, you know, took lavender

01:25:46.740 and put it under your armpits.

01:25:48.260 I don't know how you do it.

01:25:49.380 I don't want to know how you do it.

01:25:50.880 We're just not doing it.

01:25:52.880 Okay.

01:25:53.760 That seems like a good idea.

01:25:55.500 I think so too.

01:25:56.320 It's changing and playing with your deodorant choices is a, is a path to loneliness like

01:26:01.280 the lonely whale that we discussed earlier.

01:26:04.140 That's the lonely whale foundation.

01:26:05.500 The lonely whale foundation.

01:26:06.520 It's all about saving the whales.

01:26:07.560 And if there's, if we really are down to, I mean, I was for saving the whales, but, but

01:26:12.900 more of them, not just one.

01:26:14.260 If it's, we're down to one lonely whale, I think I, I'm for the killing of that whale.

01:26:18.640 Well, the humane, yeah, that's, you know, the humane letting him, let him, letting him

01:26:25.140 choose his end now.

01:26:26.620 It's time.

01:26:27.620 I'm not an expert on the lonely whale foundation, but is it possible that there, that there are

01:26:32.400 lots of whales.

01:26:33.200 There's just one that's lonely and they're focused on, on saving that one lonely whale.

01:26:38.340 That would be a waste of money.

01:26:40.320 Well, you should get out and meet people.

01:26:42.740 There's lots of whales.

01:26:44.180 It's like my mother used to say, and this is literally true for him.

01:26:47.180 There's lots of fish in the sea.

01:26:48.860 I mean, what are you doing?

01:26:52.340 Stop pouting.

01:26:53.280 Isn't a whale a mammal though?

01:26:54.380 Get out and meet somebody or another mammal.

01:27:00.520 I don't like her blowhole.

01:27:02.340 It's, it's weird.

01:27:04.120 I don't care.

01:27:05.240 She's got a great spirit.

01:27:06.400 She's really sweet.

01:27:07.420 It's all about her personality.

01:27:08.740 It is.

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01:28:50.560 So remember last week, this is horrible.

01:28:53.700 I should be able to get on and just say, so the school shooting and we should all say, oh, yeah,

01:29:00.360 last week.

01:29:00.980 I'll bet you there's a good number of people that were like, there's a school shooting last

01:29:04.680 week.

01:29:05.560 There was another deadly school shooting last week.

01:29:08.120 Um, and it happened in Kentucky.

01:29:11.880 Now imagine you're a parent and, uh, you're, you know, you're either a policeman.

01:29:21.000 And so you hear about it or you're a reporter and you hear about it and you rush to the school

01:29:25.380 because you're trying to cover it.

01:29:26.860 But also you're a parent and you've got a kid in that school.

01:29:32.860 So you're trying to do your job and you're freaking out about your kid.

01:29:38.680 And is my kid safe?

01:29:39.880 Is my kid safe?

01:29:40.640 Is my kid safe?

01:29:41.300 This is, this was the problem with, um, the editor of the Marshall County Daily Online.

01:29:46.920 Um, Tuesday morning, shots are fired.

01:29:51.600 First, they think that it was in the shop.

01:29:54.220 I think it was in the shop class or they, they heard the shots and thought it was just some

01:29:57.860 banging on some metal.

01:29:59.040 Then they realized after a few shots that it was actual gunfire.

01:30:04.340 So the word goes out, the police are dispatched.

01:30:07.420 She's a member of the press.

01:30:08.940 She runs out.

01:30:09.900 She's freaking out about her child.

01:30:15.240 And then she finds out that it is her son that is the shooter.

01:30:26.320 This is such a tragic story.

01:30:29.880 I mean, for everybody involved, 15 year old Gabe Parker, he's accused of pulling out a

01:30:36.820 handgun and then fatally shooting two classmates, wounding 14 other people.

01:30:41.740 It was just before the class was supposed to begin.

01:30:45.320 Everybody who said they knew him said he was a really good kid, a nice kid.

01:30:51.620 He was a sophomore, played, played the trombone in the school band.

01:30:55.440 He was shy.

01:30:56.320 He would go fishing with his grandparents.

01:30:59.940 They, they said that, you know, his grandma was his best friend.

01:31:06.280 One of the sophomores with him said I was in the same math class with him.

01:31:11.180 He was a really good kid, but he was quiet, kept to himself.

01:31:13.980 Nobody knew.

01:31:18.720 Even mom standing outside.

01:31:20.640 Nobody knew he had issues in school.

01:31:25.700 He was well liked, everybody thought.

01:31:29.900 One of, or some of his friends started telling one reporter that he was, and they, they said

01:31:38.640 snappy, he was snappy when he came back from Christmas break and, uh, he started talking

01:31:46.540 about violence and how he wanted to join the mafia.

01:31:52.240 We don't know yet what this kid's story is, but he was definitely trying to shoot.

01:32:02.360 He was definitely trying to shoot to kill.

01:32:04.300 He shot two students right in the head.

01:32:12.600 Is that a shooter game?

01:32:15.980 That is desensitized to that, or at least made it so he's really good at that.

01:32:23.520 Not blaming it on the game.

01:32:25.340 I don't know what happened.

01:32:26.760 I do know that mom and dad were divorced.

01:32:29.680 Dad apparently had a short fuse.

01:32:31.820 Had a restraining order at one point, but he's charged now as a juvenile with two counts

01:32:44.140 of murder, 12 counts of, of assault there.

01:32:48.020 He's in jail now.

01:32:50.700 And this week they are going to try to move that he has tried as an adult.

01:33:01.820 Tomorrow I want to talk to you a little bit about, about this a little bit more in depth

01:33:12.100 in a conversation that my son and I had last night.

01:33:15.840 And, you know, I hate to judge what normal is anymore because I don't know what normal

01:33:30.360 is anymore.

01:33:31.660 I know what normal was for me is not normal anymore.

01:33:36.720 Give my kids a normal childhood.

01:33:38.860 How?

01:33:39.420 What is a normal childhood?

01:33:40.540 The one that I was raised in, or the one that my grandparents were raised in, or the

01:33:45.420 one that's happening now?

01:33:47.880 We'll talk a little bit about that on tomorrow's broadcast.

01:33:51.360 Back in a minute.

01:34:00.040 Glenn Beck.

01:34:02.020 Mercury.

01:34:02.420 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

01:34:10.600 Well, let's say hello and welcome to Mr. Pat Gray.

01:34:14.460 Hello, Pat.

01:34:15.540 Hello, Glenn.

01:34:16.420 How are you doing?

01:34:17.240 Oh, I'm flabbergasted with the irresponsibility of you people.

01:34:22.080 No, no, no.

01:34:22.560 We are just trying to show the Californians what freedom is actually like.

01:34:28.160 This is the only planet we have.

01:34:29.940 I don't know if you know that.

01:34:30.840 I know.

01:34:31.000 No, there's several others.

01:34:31.820 There's others, but you just can't survive there.

01:34:34.640 It's the only one we're on right now.

01:34:36.140 If we unleashed capitalism, I bet we could survive there.

01:34:38.820 The problem is all these environmentalists are in the way.

01:34:41.960 Yeah.

01:34:42.320 Mm-hmm.

01:34:42.700 Yeah.

01:34:43.240 So anyway, I mean, you're right.

01:34:46.220 I mean, there are eight others.

01:34:46.980 He is right.

01:34:47.500 Let's go.

01:34:47.980 Just go to another one.

01:34:48.660 Find another one if you need to.

01:34:49.660 All right.

01:34:50.000 If we're wrong in the whole straw thing in the end, we just go to another planet.

01:34:52.880 Right.

01:34:53.200 Okay.

01:34:53.420 This is a little irresponsible for some.

01:34:55.820 For some.

01:34:56.860 For us, this is science.

01:34:58.880 Pat's a big environmentalist, though.

01:35:00.100 You need to.

01:35:00.380 Oh, man.

01:35:01.380 I mean, right?

01:35:02.700 Right?

01:35:03.100 Like, look at him.

01:35:03.700 Look at his passion.

01:35:04.300 So inside, I'm screaming at the top of my lungs.

01:35:07.600 So in California, they are now fining waiters.

01:35:11.380 If they bring you an unsolicited straw, they're fining those waiters $1,000, or they would like to.

01:35:18.400 They're talking about now coming off of that, and maybe it's just, you know, electrocution.

01:35:22.560 We're not sure.

01:35:23.460 Six months in prison.

01:35:25.820 Six months in prison.

01:35:28.040 Yeah.

01:35:28.320 Six months in jail and a $1,000 fine.

01:35:33.420 That's the maximum penalty.

01:35:35.100 That's amazing.

01:35:35.860 For a straw.

01:35:37.540 Six months in jail.

01:35:38.360 Can you imagine that?

01:35:39.040 No.

01:35:39.660 What kind?

01:35:39.940 I mean, what are we turning into?

01:35:41.460 I don't know.

01:35:41.960 Not America.

01:35:42.600 That's for sure.

01:35:43.320 And again, it's based on research done by a nine-year-old.

01:35:47.780 I hadn't heard that story until you mentioned it this morning.

01:35:49.600 That's incredible.

01:35:51.020 Fascinating.

01:35:52.320 He's fantastic.

01:35:54.660 Nine-year-old.

01:35:55.820 Nine-year-old.

01:35:56.320 Just made phone calls.

01:35:57.840 Just made phone calls.

01:35:58.800 Hey, how many straws do you make?

01:36:01.100 How many straws do you use?

01:36:03.520 And then he just estimated.

01:36:05.380 At nine.

01:36:06.920 I think I'm sure it was a thorough sampling of the nation's manufacturers.

01:36:10.900 So the half billion number came from a nine-year-old?

01:36:13.660 From a nine-year-old.

01:36:14.140 Literally came from the nine-year-old.

01:36:15.140 Literally nine-year-old.

01:36:15.780 Well, to be fair, he's 16 now.

01:36:17.540 When he did the research, he was nine.

01:36:18.960 It's been seven years since anyone questioned it.

01:36:20.980 But there's been no update.

01:36:21.300 There's been no update on it.

01:36:22.340 Well, there's no reason to question a nine-year-old's research, is there?

01:36:24.980 No.

01:36:25.220 There's no reason to.

01:36:25.940 Of course not.

01:36:26.660 Do you think of a reason?

01:36:27.620 I can't.

01:36:28.000 Well, I mean, the idea that you're using more than one per person per day, including babies,

01:36:32.500 is the first indication that that seems like a crazy stat.

01:36:36.260 Yeah.

01:36:36.600 So we went out and did the environmentally friendly thing, and we bought thousands of straws ourself.

01:36:43.020 And Stu, did you ask for the paper-wrapped straws?

01:36:47.820 Because that seems gratuitous.

01:36:50.060 It does seem a little gratuitous.

01:36:52.580 It does seem gratuitous.

01:36:53.720 But there's almost enough there to have, like, a really cool confetti parade or something.

01:36:58.280 It's true.

01:36:58.980 Okay.

01:36:59.180 So what we're trying to do is we're trying to make the world's largest straw.

01:37:04.360 The actual world's largest straw in the Guinness World Record Book is, like, 11,000 meters, which we think is about 40 feet.

01:37:10.960 Yeah.

01:37:11.320 Nobody knows.

01:37:12.540 No, it knows for sure.

01:37:13.540 It's metric.

01:37:14.020 Nobody knows.

01:37:14.780 It doesn't matter.

01:37:15.200 Nobody knows.

01:37:15.840 And it's foreign.

01:37:16.840 So who cares?

01:37:18.080 So anyway.

01:37:19.860 So we're...

01:37:20.780 Well, this is longer than 40 feet, then.

01:37:21.840 I think you've got the world's largest straw here.

01:37:24.120 It's definitely longer.

01:37:24.700 I don't know how long it is.

01:37:26.040 Well, this studio is 16,000 square feet.

01:37:28.920 Yeah.

01:37:29.080 And are we at the door yet?

01:37:30.420 Yes.

01:37:30.580 Can you just take that camera, Melissa?

01:37:31.740 Can you just go all the way down and follow the straw?

01:37:33.840 Take Melissa's camera, please, so we can see.

01:37:35.600 Follow the straw.

01:37:36.540 She's going to walk right out of the studio.

01:37:38.400 There it is.

01:37:39.300 There it is.

01:37:39.800 Now on the studio floor.

01:37:41.560 And follow that straw.

01:37:42.760 Can you go all the way down?

01:37:44.140 This has to be the world's longest contiguous straw.

01:37:48.280 Doesn't it?

01:37:48.920 Yeah.

01:37:49.200 It has to be.

01:37:50.600 Yeah, I think.

01:37:51.820 Well, it will be.

01:37:52.780 Now, can you...

01:37:53.800 I don't know how much cable you have.

01:37:55.400 Can you just keep going?

01:37:56.200 Follow it all the way out, if you will.

01:37:58.020 I think she's on my own.

01:37:58.820 Because I want to show you how far we want to go.

01:38:02.040 We're going down the hall.

01:38:03.300 I don't care who you are.

01:38:04.080 This is impressive.

01:38:04.960 Thank you.

01:38:05.340 This is a feat of engineering.

01:38:08.220 I'm impressed.

01:38:09.160 Look, this is our generation's Hoover Dam.

01:38:11.600 When I heard you talking about it, I thought they're not going to...

01:38:13.980 Nah, they'll lose interest after the fourth straw.

01:38:17.160 Well, I did, but Stu didn't.

01:38:18.840 No, I kept doing it.

01:38:20.060 And if you happen to be listening, the entire time...

01:38:23.560 Is that the end of it, Melissa?

01:38:25.160 She's still walking to the end of the straw.

01:38:26.780 Okay, we've lost the light.

01:38:27.960 Now, when it comes up to...

01:38:29.500 It's a giant studio.

01:38:31.960 She's still walking to the end of the straw.

01:38:33.840 Still going.

01:38:34.220 There it is, there it is.

01:38:35.200 Okay.

01:38:35.540 Okay, now we're going...

01:38:36.500 Okay, there we are.

01:38:37.160 We're at the end.

01:38:37.420 Okay, so we are within 10 feet of the front door.

01:38:40.060 Yes.

01:38:40.400 Now, can you just go out the front door and...

01:38:42.940 Uh-oh, there's a kink.

01:38:44.780 No, okay.

01:38:45.460 Now...

01:38:45.560 You can't go to the front door?

01:38:46.820 She can't move anymore.

01:38:47.780 This is as far as we went.

01:38:49.180 No, no, not...

01:38:50.220 No, I mean, Melissa, the camera.

01:38:51.840 Oh, the camera.

01:38:52.600 Can you walk out the front, Melissa, and just show us...

01:38:55.240 Not you, Natasha.

01:38:56.040 Not you.

01:38:56.460 No, not you, Natasha.

01:38:57.460 No, she's taking the straw.

01:38:58.520 Don't take the straw, Natasha.

01:39:00.680 We're talking...

01:39:01.360 Yeah, we're right there at the front door.

01:39:02.200 We're three feet from the front door.

01:39:03.740 Yep, we're almost out of the studio.

01:39:05.120 Okay, now we're going to show you...

01:39:05.720 Okay, so now let's outside.

01:39:07.500 All right.

01:39:08.600 And if you'll point down toward the commissary...

01:39:11.200 Oh, we're losing signal there.

01:39:12.120 Oh, we lost signal.

01:39:12.720 Yeah, we're having issues with that the further we get away.

01:39:15.140 Yeah, so we've only got about...

01:39:18.900 Five more hours of work on the straw to get it down to the commissary where we can actually,

01:39:26.740 you know, then put it into a bottle and then sip on it.

01:39:31.040 The most productive thing we've done today is the straw.

01:39:35.620 Well, it's still early.

01:39:36.560 Yeah.

01:39:36.820 Oh, my gosh, only a half hour left.

01:39:38.140 20 minutes of the show.

01:39:39.100 It's not early.

01:39:40.460 Oh, well.

01:39:41.100 So, Pat, what's on the plate for you this weekend?

01:39:45.980 I had a hard time with all the stuff in the news today.

01:39:50.160 I am proud of our friends to the north.

01:39:54.820 Canada.

01:39:56.600 I was thinking Oklahoma.

01:39:58.000 These are the people who have a socialist in power now.

01:40:01.080 And so, you know, they're all about equality and equalizing and equalization of equal things.

01:40:07.400 Two plus two equal.

01:40:08.520 They're even into that part.

01:40:09.860 They do all of that really well.

01:40:11.200 Really well.

01:40:11.680 Well, worried that anti-immigrant rhetoric and decisions from the Trump administration could drive more people to its border.

01:40:18.860 The Canadian government is trying to nip that in the bud.

01:40:23.060 They just sent a representative, Pablo Rodriguez, who's a member of parliament, down to a huge meeting of dozens of immigration attorneys and immigrants' rights leaders in California.

01:40:34.340 And he told them to get the facts and make a decision based on the right facts before leaving your jobs and taking your children out of school and going up toward Canada, hoping to stay there.

01:40:45.340 Because if you're not legal, you'll be returned and not to the United States.

01:40:51.280 You will have lost your status and you'll be returned to your country of origin.

01:40:54.940 So, the equalness in Canada is so equal that they're telling them, we don't want you here.

01:41:04.820 I mean, it's fine that you sneak across the U.S. border.

01:41:08.300 Don't dare come across Canada's.

01:41:10.320 Again, the hypocrisy of the rest of the world.

01:41:13.760 I hope they just do a giant campaign on that, though.

01:41:15.860 I mean, I hope that we have lots that we can, I mean, to show, I mean, the Canadians, I mean, jeez.

01:41:21.980 Look, I lived, I lived just right across the border for most of my life, you know.

01:41:26.540 I spent, you know, a good many years in a place called Bellingham, which is like 45 minutes in Washington State from the border.

01:41:34.380 And, you know, we don't even have a, there's no gates, there's no, I mean, Canada could put their whole military together on the border and we'd, you know, farmers would be like, oh, huh, come on.

01:41:47.160 I mean, it's like no big deal.

01:41:49.100 I mean, but wouldn't it be nice to see Canada start to actually be what every other country is, but nobody pays attention to?

01:41:59.300 Yes.

01:41:59.580 I mean, we are, you remember the days when they said, we have to be more like Europe?

01:42:05.620 I would celebrate if we could be more like Europe.

01:42:08.800 We are so far beyond Europe now.

01:42:11.480 We are the leaders in the world on almost every progressive nightmare there is.

01:42:16.300 Well, you talked about abortion being a big part of that.

01:42:18.640 I mean, it's almost impossible to get an abortion in certain parts of Europe.

01:42:24.040 And every European country, the most restrictive European countries are still on the right side, the more conservative side than we are of America.

01:42:36.080 And there's no religion over there.

01:42:37.620 Yeah.

01:42:37.840 They make it, here they make it all about, wow, it's just those God people.

01:42:41.680 Tell that to the people over in Europe.

01:42:43.280 They're not about God.

01:42:44.160 Yeah.

01:42:45.180 They're fine.

01:42:45.860 I mean, when, when can we go back to that mantra that they used to chant all the time?

01:42:51.420 We need to be more like Europe.

01:42:53.680 Yeah.

01:42:53.840 Okay.

01:42:54.280 I'll go there.

01:42:55.040 Never hear that anymore.

01:42:56.080 Yeah.

01:42:56.460 It requires us turning around.

01:43:05.020 You have, do you have a straw update of course?

01:43:07.040 Are you ready to go?

01:43:07.900 Should I try?

01:43:08.200 Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

01:43:10.180 You have a drink at the other end of that straw?

01:43:11.940 We have a drink.

01:43:12.200 We have a Diet Hanks root beer on the other end.

01:43:14.000 Oh my gosh.

01:43:14.540 Yes.

01:43:14.780 And so I'm thirsty.

01:43:16.120 Hang on, hang on.

01:43:16.600 Cut the music for a second.

01:43:17.740 Stop.

01:43:17.980 This is a big deal.

01:43:19.680 First time in national broadcast history, we have what soon will be the world's largest

01:43:25.000 straw in feet.

01:43:27.440 Not some stupid metric thing.

01:43:30.080 Go ahead.

01:43:30.860 Hank's Diet Root Beer.

01:43:32.000 Yes.

01:43:32.280 Which is really good, by the way.

01:43:33.720 My favorite Diet Root Beer.

01:43:34.640 Yes, mine too.

01:43:35.440 Okay.

01:43:35.680 I'm going to try.

01:43:36.440 Yes.

01:43:36.960 Hopefully we have a camera down there to see if this is actually working because, all

01:43:40.220 right, it's very long.

01:43:41.160 Okay.

01:43:41.240 It doesn't seem like you're even getting any suction out of anything.

01:43:52.760 We need to prime the pump.

01:43:54.320 Can we call the Fed?

01:43:56.100 Is it coming?

01:43:57.720 Is it moving at all?

01:43:59.120 The other end?

01:44:01.700 Oh boy.

01:44:02.120 This is hard.

01:44:08.140 This is like blowing up a giant raft.

01:44:09.420 This might be the only time in your life when somebody said, you don't suck enough.

01:44:18.640 All right.

01:44:19.160 Well, okay.

01:44:20.240 So, Stu is not an engineer.

01:44:22.680 Okay.

01:44:22.980 Let's just leave it at that.

01:44:23.900 He's not an engineer.

01:44:25.260 But by God, we'll have this thing working by tomorrow's program.

01:44:28.720 We will?

01:44:29.140 I'm going to have lungs left by tomorrow's program.

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01:46:02.200 Glenn Beck Mercury.

01:46:09.140 Glenn Beck.

01:46:10.520 This is great tweets coming in at World of Stew right now.

01:46:16.200 Some questions.

01:46:17.320 You need to raise the height of the cup of root beer to a height higher than where your head is.

01:46:22.620 That way you'll have gravity helping you.

01:46:23.880 However, once it starts, it will not stop.

01:46:25.940 So have a catch bucket ready.

01:46:29.100 Can stew suck more?

01:46:31.280 That question has more than one meaning.

01:46:32.700 Please don't tell him that.

01:46:34.460 Go ahead.

01:46:36.060 If you didn't tape it, you've got air holes.

01:46:37.560 So no suction, even if you're Jenny McCarthy, which I don't know why that's relevant.

01:46:42.640 I have been, you know, I have been, I've been advocate.

01:46:45.400 I've been a big advocate for the tape.

01:46:48.080 But you have.

01:46:48.640 What about this one?

01:46:49.520 Put queso at the other end of that straw and stew will find a way.

01:46:52.720 Yes.

01:46:53.100 That's true.

01:46:53.420 Well, we found out during the break that Natasha, who is now at the front door of the studio.

01:46:58.400 This is an unbelievable controversy.

01:46:59.800 Don't downplay this.

01:47:01.180 Yeah.

01:47:01.380 All the way across the 16,000 square foot studio.

01:47:04.580 She is, she's at the front door of the studio.

01:47:07.660 We are about a third of the way to the, to the actual soft drink dispenser in the commissary

01:47:13.920 or, or, or, or a cantina.

01:47:17.160 And she did not have the straw in the, the, the liquid at all.

01:47:22.760 In the drink.

01:47:23.240 Yeah.

01:47:23.380 So the whole time I was trying to suck through a hundred feet of straw.

01:47:26.620 She just had it, I don't know, on the floor.

01:47:28.780 Okay.

01:47:28.940 So let's go ahead.

01:47:30.240 Okay.

01:47:30.500 By the way, I think this is about a hundred yards, but go ahead.

01:47:34.140 Let's see if we can go ahead.

01:47:36.600 How much does Sue, Stu suck?

01:47:38.560 Show the other side of this.

01:47:39.420 So I could guys see, we can see all the liquid flow.

01:47:41.060 Oh wait, there is some liquid.

01:47:42.180 Does that liquid there, Natasha?

01:47:43.220 I see liquid.

01:47:46.400 No, I don't see any liquid.

01:47:47.680 No, there's no liquid, no liquid, Stu.

01:47:50.940 So you have to go back to the drawing board because this is an epic failure of your part.

01:47:57.420 No, well, first of all, I did not build every part of this.

01:47:59.920 So it just like, uh, Natasha, he is throwing Christmas vacation.

01:48:03.680 You're just like crazy.

01:48:04.820 She's, she's basically the equivalent of not having the plug in the garage.

01:48:08.560 Right.

01:48:08.860 So I'm out there filling with each individual light.

01:48:11.020 So you are, what you're saying is blame it on the woman.

01:48:14.280 Yeah, me too.

01:48:15.180 I've been a victim too, is what I'm saying.

01:48:16.540 I'm saying hashtag me too.

01:48:17.780 That is what I'm saying.

01:48:19.360 Yes.

01:48:19.900 I'm taking that stand here.

01:48:21.140 Really?

01:48:21.580 Okay.

01:48:21.880 Because, uh, I mean, look, I mean, we're all for equality, but if you can't, well,

01:48:26.360 we're not all for equality.

01:48:27.600 Can I, may I, may I change the subject and go to Nancy Pelosi here for a second?

01:48:31.440 Um, I think she, oh, your lungs are going to, your lungs are going to, I can't be healthy.

01:48:36.740 What I just, I've just done, cannot be a good thing.

01:48:38.680 Throw this on top of it.

01:48:39.780 Listen to Nancy Pelosi.

01:48:41.280 That plan is a campaign to make America white again.

01:48:47.880 It's a plan that says over 50% of the current legal immigration will be cut back, that many

01:48:55.500 people will be sent out of the country.

01:48:58.440 If you read through it, you're thinking, do they not understand that immigration has been

01:49:04.500 the constant reinvigoration of America?

01:49:07.280 Mm-hmm.

01:49:08.620 Yeah, I don't think you even understand what that means.

01:49:10.700 Uh, Nancy, I mean, are we getting to a point where anybody actually believes this?

01:49:22.980 I mean, if you're paying attention, I know there's, you know, 99% of Americans are not

01:49:29.320 paying attention, but for those on both sides of the aisle, do you think anyone actually

01:49:34.540 believes what she's saying?

01:49:36.760 You know, she doesn't.

01:49:37.800 She knows it's, it's not a campaign to make America white again.

01:49:41.280 Oh, stop it.

01:49:42.120 Right.

01:49:42.300 Of course she knows that.

01:49:43.540 Right.

01:49:44.100 And because Democrats were all in favor, do we have the Chuck Schumer 1990 clip a handy?

01:49:48.460 Yeah, listen to this.

01:49:49.220 Here he is.

01:49:50.120 Chuck Schumer on immigration.

01:49:51.300 For the first time, we're saying it should not simply be family relationships that determine

01:49:58.260 who comes here.

01:49:59.420 This bill says that if you have a skill that America needs, we're going to accept you.

01:50:05.360 In the past, that was very, very, very difficult.

01:50:09.020 Less than 4% of all immigrants came because, or were admitted to this country because we

01:50:14.060 needed their help in the job market.

01:50:16.240 And now that percentage will increase significantly.

01:50:18.740 And so it's the first time that we've really recognized that economic competition, the need

01:50:26.300 for new skills and new ideas that for whatever reason aren't being supplied by our own workers

01:50:30.820 will happen.

01:50:32.260 So how do we listen to a guy named Chuck Schumer now?

01:50:34.940 Because he was so clearly a racist and held deeply racist views.

01:50:42.100 Yeah.

01:50:42.520 What was he doing there?

01:50:43.200 He was trying to make America white again.

01:50:45.660 Right.

01:50:46.080 Right.

01:50:46.320 By Nancy Pelosi's definition.

01:50:48.020 Right.

01:50:48.320 That's what he was trying to do.

01:50:49.280 I would like to hear the transition from racist then to an understanding, compassionate human

01:50:56.400 being.

01:50:56.760 I want that case made by Chuck Schumer.

01:50:59.500 I want to hear the transition.

01:51:00.700 Glenn Beck.

01:51:02.280 Mercury.

01:51:04.940 Thank you so much.

01:51:30.440 I want that case.

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