The Glenn Beck Program - 10⧸4⧸17 - Is Puerto Rico An Island？

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00:00:09.160 Love. Courage. Truth. Glenn Beck.

00:00:14.920 I owe you an apology. It's not easy for most of us to admit when we're wrong.

00:00:22.200 It's certainly not easy for me. It's not easy on this stage, a stage this big,

00:00:27.260 but I was wrong yesterday. Hi there, it's Doc Thompson in for Glenn Beck again today.

00:00:34.040 Yesterday on this program, I missed my mark a little bit.

00:00:37.300 I failed by not effectively expressing my compassion for all of those suffering

00:00:44.580 because of the mass murder in Las Vegas. And for that, I'm sorry.

00:00:51.220 I felt pretty good about yesterday's program, some of the stuff we did and some of the ways we approached it.

00:00:56.340 We updated some facts. We offered some speculation on the motives of the shooter

00:01:00.980 and then mocked some of the celebrities, which that's always good. That's good stuff.

00:01:06.760 Mocking them specifically for their now concern in the middle of the tragedy over gun control again

00:01:13.560 and that becoming an issue.

00:01:14.780 But I didn't realize until I got off the air that some people felt I came across a little insensitive.

00:01:21.700 And I started thinking about that. Obviously, it was not my intention.

00:01:29.980 But how I was able to miss the mark and how people misunderstood that.

00:01:33.720 And then I realized it's a bit of a symptom of where we live and where we're at now in our lives.

00:01:46.780 How it's changed from now to 50 years ago, 20 years ago.

00:01:53.120 See, if you don't know me and you've never listened to this program,

00:01:55.520 then anything you hear, if this is your first moment listening to this program,

00:02:01.640 this is all you know of me.

00:02:03.820 It's true of any program.

00:02:05.120 If you go into a restaurant and you eat there,

00:02:09.360 that's 100% of your experience is at that restaurant.

00:02:13.580 If it's a movie, a television series,

00:02:16.560 if you meet a new person,

00:02:18.080 that experience is 100% of your experience with whatever it is.

00:02:24.560 So if you tune into a radio program

00:02:26.480 and you hear five minutes of material,

00:02:28.980 that's all you have to judge it by.

00:02:31.820 If it's out of context,

00:02:33.920 you don't realize that there may be a slightly different meaning.

00:02:38.940 For most people that's listened to me over the years,

00:02:40.920 if you listen to me on The Morning Blaze,

00:02:42.760 if you listen to this program on Monday,

00:02:44.620 I think you recognize how seriously we value life.

00:02:49.740 I'm pro-life.

00:02:52.320 I'm anti-abortion.

00:02:54.280 I fight rabidly for veterans and veterans' causes

00:02:58.640 and veterans' issues.

00:03:00.320 We give time and money and service

00:03:04.080 to all kinds of charities.

00:03:07.820 We give of ourselves on our program,

00:03:10.780 even within this company, regularly.

00:03:13.240 So when we laid out some of the facts yesterday,

00:03:17.200 we didn't necessarily do some of our due diligence

00:03:20.020 to take a moment and recognize

00:03:21.460 some of the people that are suffering.

00:03:23.580 And for that, I was wrong.

00:03:25.600 I just assume, mistakenly at times,

00:03:28.520 that people recognize,

00:03:29.820 hey, I know that doc.

00:03:31.400 I know what he's about.

00:03:32.220 I get it.

00:03:34.160 But that was a failure on my part.

00:03:37.300 And this became evident during the election.

00:03:40.380 Glenn struggled with this as well.

00:03:44.200 For people that listen to this program for years,

00:03:46.940 they said, I know what that Glenn Beck's about.

00:03:49.860 And then they're like, well, wait a minute.

00:03:51.160 I'm supporting Trump.

00:03:52.120 And here's this Glenn Beck guy not supporting Trump.

00:03:54.720 Why did he change so much?

00:03:56.980 Maybe he didn't.

00:03:57.840 Maybe you didn't.

00:04:00.260 Maybe it's just you have some differences,

00:04:02.400 and those differences became highlighted

00:04:05.500 and became out of control,

00:04:09.700 our opinions of them,

00:04:11.520 because of the world we live in.

00:04:15.300 That's unfortunately a failure of today's society,

00:04:19.920 that we can no longer trust some people

00:04:24.020 that we've trusted because of a difference or two,

00:04:27.640 even though we may have marched with them.

00:04:31.040 We may have fought for certain issues.

00:04:34.880 But unfortunately, politics has become

00:04:37.840 our highest ideas, our highest values.

00:04:41.860 I'm not talking issues.

00:04:44.280 I'm not talking about concerns or historical precedents,

00:04:49.180 historical facts or the Constitution.

00:04:51.700 I'm talking politics.

00:04:53.320 I'm talking the process of governing,

00:04:55.600 not the ideas or the solutions that affect us all,

00:04:59.900 but the process, the system.

00:05:02.020 It's become a spectator sport.

00:05:05.200 Sticking it to the other side is job one now.

00:05:11.440 It's what we look to do.

00:05:13.000 We're trying to win an argument.

00:05:15.720 We're trying to prove we're right,

00:05:17.540 even when we're quite often wrong.

00:05:22.080 That's who we are now.

00:05:24.220 How did we get there from even just 10 years ago?

00:05:29.340 I'll bet you started your journey to right here,

00:05:33.860 to be informed about issues of the day,

00:05:38.340 where we're heading,

00:05:39.560 what we struggle with from a very good place.

00:05:43.100 You informed yourself.

00:05:45.000 You said, this is knowledge I need.

00:05:46.960 You learned about history.

00:05:48.280 You learned about other cultures.

00:05:49.760 You learned about the law.

00:05:51.340 You learned about all these things.

00:05:53.020 You learned about people and you study them.

00:05:55.060 Then you look around and you go,

00:05:56.340 why am I so alone?

00:05:57.820 And how come on social media,

00:05:59.580 I've got people that I thought I knew

00:06:01.220 I can't trust anymore?

00:06:02.360 Because unfortunately,

00:06:05.120 we're being divided and we divide ourselves.

00:06:08.520 By number one,

00:06:10.000 not leading first with our values.

00:06:13.620 And that doesn't mean blah, blah,

00:06:16.240 blahing about them on the radio.

00:06:18.200 It doesn't mean talking about them on social media.

00:06:21.940 It's not a better than thou,

00:06:23.820 holier than thou attitude.

00:06:26.220 It's not telling people how they're wrong.

00:06:28.860 It's living them.

00:06:31.840 Being them.

00:06:34.000 Treating people well.

00:06:35.640 That when you have those differences on social media,

00:06:38.080 it's good to discuss them.

00:06:39.360 It's good discussion,

00:06:41.680 debate,

00:06:42.420 ideas,

00:06:43.220 values,

00:06:43.780 even those that differ from you are good.

00:06:46.720 It's knowledge,

00:06:47.540 it's information,

00:06:48.360 it's challenging you.

00:06:49.420 And in some cases,

00:06:51.080 it's making you realize exactly how right your values and ideas are.

00:06:57.080 But that's unfortunately not how most of us see it now.

00:07:00.880 If something is different,

00:07:02.140 it's got to be shut down.

00:07:04.320 We've got it.

00:07:05.160 We've got to come out against it rabidly.

00:07:07.120 And then,

00:07:08.780 much like judging a radio show or a restaurant or something,

00:07:13.040 with one little bit of information,

00:07:15.540 we automatically assume we know about them.

00:07:18.160 We assume we know everything about them.

00:07:21.960 Give me an example.

00:07:24.200 I have,

00:07:25.580 sadly,

00:07:26.300 over the past

00:07:27.260 six,

00:07:29.340 eight months,

00:07:30.060 had to,

00:07:31.200 whenever I talk about the president,

00:07:33.320 give a disclaimer

00:07:35.240 about all my political views.

00:07:38.660 I have to,

00:07:39.200 if I say something critical of President Trump,

00:07:41.440 I have to go,

00:07:42.140 but I support President Trump when it comes to this,

00:07:45.400 this,

00:07:45.600 this,

00:07:45.820 this,

00:07:46.020 and this,

00:07:46.380 because if you're a supporter of President Trump,

00:07:48.720 and you hear me say one thing critical,

00:07:50.720 the anti-Trump guy,

00:07:51.920 anti-Trump,

00:07:52.480 and you're on that Glenn Beck program,

00:07:53.680 and of course,

00:07:53.960 he didn't support Trump,

00:07:54.940 tired of this or whatever,

00:07:55.820 and I support Trump,

00:07:56.340 why are you out to get him?

00:07:58.040 No,

00:07:58.540 that's not accurate.

00:08:00.000 Or if I say something positive about President Trump,

00:08:02.960 I have to go down the disclaimer

00:08:05.060 that I did not vote for President Trump.

00:08:06.740 Of course,

00:08:07.040 I didn't vote for Hillary Clinton

00:08:08.000 because she's off a rocker,

00:08:09.100 crazy,

00:08:09.440 and possibly evil,

00:08:10.400 and I don't support anything she's done.

00:08:11.900 However,

00:08:12.260 I vote on track record.

00:08:13.520 Thereby,

00:08:14.000 Trump not having a track record,

00:08:15.320 I could not support him

00:08:16.520 because some of the things I do know about him,

00:08:18.660 I didn't like and could not support him as president.

00:08:20.600 I'm looking for something else,

00:08:21.600 somebody who's consistent in their values,

00:08:22.780 much like,

00:08:23.380 and I have to go down this nutty ass disclaimer

00:08:26.540 whenever I discuss it

00:08:27.600 because otherwise,

00:08:28.540 I will be seen by the people

00:08:30.480 that are not Trump supporters,

00:08:31.780 the ones that are out there

00:08:32.800 rabidly out to get him

00:08:33.980 because they're crazy

00:08:34.960 and on a witch hunt

00:08:35.800 as one of those Trump supporters.

00:08:40.120 You obviously wanted people

00:08:41.640 to be murdered in Las Vegas.

00:08:43.460 You obviously want people to die in Puerto Rico

00:08:46.000 and so on and so forth.

00:08:48.700 At some point,

00:08:51.600 haven't you gotten tired of this game,

00:08:55.460 the futility in this?

00:08:58.580 Aren't you tired of that?

00:09:01.780 I admitted yesterday

00:09:04.460 I did not pause enough

00:09:06.580 and give that

00:09:07.600 what I would expect

00:09:09.920 most people to recognize

00:09:11.360 sympathy and compassion

00:09:13.460 for people in Las Vegas

00:09:15.760 and other people around the globe

00:09:17.660 who had loved ones

00:09:18.600 who suffered or hurt

00:09:21.240 or injured

00:09:22.280 because of what happened.

00:09:23.540 I would expect

00:09:25.680 that you would just know

00:09:28.840 that most of your fellow human beings

00:09:30.840 of course have compassion

00:09:32.660 for somebody who was shot.

00:09:36.120 Somebody who had a loved one shot

00:09:37.620 and possibly killed in Las Vegas.

00:09:39.800 Don't you think most human beings,

00:09:42.460 I mean,

00:09:43.040 80, 90%

00:09:44.320 outside of some really crazy people

00:09:46.120 or evil people,

00:09:47.660 wouldn't you expect

00:09:48.680 that of course they have compassion?

00:09:50.360 that they're sensitive?

00:09:52.780 That they're not wishing death upon people?

00:09:57.440 I did not do my due diligence yesterday

00:10:00.240 to express that.

00:10:02.080 That was a failure.

00:10:03.020 But why aren't we giving people

00:10:06.560 the benefit of the doubt with that?

00:10:09.220 I don't think the CBS executive

00:10:11.260 who said she wouldn't be sympathetic

00:10:13.340 because they were likely Republicans,

00:10:16.600 supporters or gun-toters

00:10:17.740 that were shot,

00:10:18.640 I don't think she's really hateful.

00:10:21.400 I don't think she really wants

00:10:22.920 to see people shot.

00:10:25.080 I just think she crossed the line

00:10:26.860 in expressing that

00:10:27.820 because the more

00:10:28.820 we share craziness like that,

00:10:31.060 the worse it gets.

00:10:32.080 There's no compassion.

00:10:34.320 There's no humanity left.

00:10:38.920 That's the real crisis.

00:10:42.320 The lack of humanity

00:10:44.120 and the fact that we do not

00:10:46.260 give the benefit of the doubt

00:10:47.500 to each other.

00:10:49.220 Over the years,

00:10:50.220 I have been uber-critical,

00:10:51.720 as I should be,

00:10:53.160 of people that are progressive

00:10:54.940 and liberals

00:10:56.080 because your ideas

00:10:57.100 are quite often

00:10:58.040 mainly wrong.

00:11:00.380 They're wrong for humanity.

00:11:03.100 They're wrong for my fellow humans.

00:11:05.480 They're wrong systems of government.

00:11:06.980 They oppress.

00:11:07.680 They hurt.

00:11:09.480 But I don't think

00:11:10.560 most of those liberals

00:11:11.760 want bad.

00:11:14.320 I don't think they're evil.

00:11:16.140 They're not wanting

00:11:16.780 to bring the system down

00:11:17.880 or to hurt people.

00:11:19.220 On the contrary,

00:11:20.720 I think they actually want to help.

00:11:22.760 I think they're actually

00:11:24.420 probably very caring people.

00:11:27.680 I just think they haven't been able

00:11:28.880 to process the information.

00:11:30.720 They're not being logical.

00:11:32.320 How things need to roll out

00:11:33.600 to help the most number of people.

00:11:34.920 They don't get the slippery slope

00:11:36.020 when you start infringing rights.

00:11:38.120 But I give them the benefit

00:11:39.080 of the doubt

00:11:39.620 about actually

00:11:40.580 mainly being caring people.

00:11:42.580 I don't get that same respect

00:11:45.560 from people on the left.

00:11:47.040 They believe

00:11:47.640 if you're conservative,

00:11:48.540 you're evil,

00:11:49.060 you're a racist, 0.72

00:11:49.680 all of these things.

00:11:51.780 But see,

00:11:52.500 conservatives are that way as well.

00:11:55.360 If you're a Trump supporter

00:11:56.680 and I say something negative

00:11:57.840 about President Trump,

00:11:59.020 even if it's accurate,

00:12:00.500 even if it's based in fact,

00:12:02.980 quite often you leap to

00:12:04.440 Trump hater,

00:12:05.600 I know who you are.

00:12:06.700 And if I say something positive

00:12:11.140 of President Trump

00:12:12.160 and you do not support him,

00:12:13.380 then you automatically,

00:12:14.220 oh, you're just in the tank

00:12:15.080 for Trump.

00:12:16.180 No.

00:12:18.140 I look at each issue

00:12:19.640 based on my values

00:12:22.140 and my support

00:12:24.100 of my fellow man

00:12:25.500 and decide what's right.

00:12:27.620 I'm consistent that way.

00:12:29.740 Even though I have suffered

00:12:31.140 the slings and arrows

00:12:32.620 to my program

00:12:34.140 and my career

00:12:35.080 because people challenge

00:12:36.620 me on that thinking,

00:12:38.220 they wrongly

00:12:39.300 know something about me.

00:12:41.860 And why?

00:12:43.040 Because they can't admit

00:12:44.160 their own failures,

00:12:46.440 that some of the things

00:12:47.460 and ideas they've supported

00:12:48.720 are wrong.

00:12:50.820 Secretary of Human Health

00:12:52.860 and Human Services

00:12:53.540 Tom Price resigned

00:12:54.700 last Friday

00:12:55.460 over scandal

00:12:56.380 that he spent $400,000

00:12:57.660 on chartered flights.

00:12:59.300 Outrageous that he would do so.

00:13:01.140 It's a waste of money.

00:13:02.740 It's something that I've screamed

00:13:04.000 about for decades.

00:13:05.480 The waste of money.

00:13:06.880 We're $20 trillion

00:13:07.580 in debt.

00:13:08.820 And I called Tom Price out.

00:13:10.520 That was wrong.

00:13:12.680 You also got the

00:13:13.380 Secretary of the VA

00:13:14.400 spending wasting money

00:13:15.680 on trips for him

00:13:16.340 and his wife

00:13:16.780 to go to Europe.

00:13:17.900 You've got the guy

00:13:19.040 from the EPA

00:13:19.760 wasting money

00:13:20.660 on these trips.

00:13:21.480 They're chartering flights.

00:13:22.500 It is a waste of money

00:13:23.460 and we don't have it.

00:13:25.340 Yes, I called out

00:13:26.340 Republicans

00:13:26.840 and the Trump administration

00:13:28.440 just as I called out

00:13:29.400 Obama's as well.

00:13:30.640 But for you people

00:13:31.700 on the left

00:13:33.180 that now

00:13:34.300 are suddenly offended

00:13:35.380 that the Trump administration

00:13:36.880 is wasting money,

00:13:38.620 where were you

00:13:39.360 for the last eight years?

00:13:41.800 And for you conservatives

00:13:43.140 who were so concerned

00:13:44.680 about President Obama

00:13:45.820 wasting money,

00:13:47.260 how come you're not

00:13:47.980 calling out Trump

00:13:48.760 on these things?

00:13:50.080 This is the consistency

00:13:51.440 I'm talking about.

00:13:54.020 Give your fellow man

00:13:55.280 the benefit of the doubt.

00:13:56.880 Go back to your core values

00:13:59.660 of your faith

00:14:00.440 and humanity

00:14:01.400 and treating people well

00:14:02.680 and call out people

00:14:06.440 who are not being consistent

00:14:09.720 even if that means

00:14:11.880 the people that you covet

00:14:15.700 because they matter

00:14:18.120 so much to you.

00:14:19.700 This includes your children,

00:14:21.920 your clergy,

00:14:23.680 your spouse,

00:14:25.140 and the people

00:14:25.640 that you have sent

00:14:26.640 to D.C.

00:14:27.900 to represent you.

00:14:31.080 That's the way forward.

00:14:32.560 You want solutions?

00:14:33.520 You're frustrated every day?

00:14:35.200 That's it.

00:14:36.680 Right there.

00:14:38.020 You start there.

00:14:39.420 We all get 5% better

00:14:41.140 at that today.

00:14:42.660 And our world

00:14:43.600 will dramatically change

00:14:45.320 for the better.

00:14:47.040 Doc Thompson

00:14:47.620 in for Glenn Beck.

00:14:51.380 Glenn Beck.

00:14:55.640 I don't know

00:15:01.380 if that actually made sense

00:15:03.700 or not.

00:15:04.560 It's some of my frustrations

00:15:06.680 just kind of oozing out.

00:15:09.420 I don't like to lead

00:15:10.920 with serious and heavy.

00:15:12.580 That's not who I am.

00:15:14.080 I'm not a catastrophist

00:15:15.320 like Glenn Beck is.

00:15:16.960 I prefer humor.

00:15:19.380 I get frustrated

00:15:20.240 like the average.

00:15:20.960 I am so average

00:15:22.460 or below average.

00:15:23.500 I was giving myself credit

00:15:24.920 by saying average.

00:15:25.760 Way too much credit.

00:15:26.960 I am the average

00:15:28.060 just guy

00:15:28.820 who just wants

00:15:29.620 to go home

00:15:30.280 and be left alone.

00:15:31.320 That's the reason

00:15:31.840 I am a primary libertarian

00:15:33.880 valued person.

00:15:35.200 I just want to get

00:15:36.220 through my little life,

00:15:37.140 enjoy it,

00:15:37.640 see my kids,

00:15:38.380 that type of thing.

00:15:39.640 And I have

00:15:41.300 a couple of forms

00:15:42.320 of escape.

00:15:43.060 It's anger,

00:15:44.360 frustration,

00:15:45.420 or laughter.

00:15:46.280 That's it.

00:15:46.880 Those are my forms

00:15:47.480 of expression.

00:15:47.880 Do you feel that you

00:15:48.280 connected to the audience?

00:15:49.800 I don't know.

00:15:50.940 I hope I did.

00:15:52.520 I'm just so tired

00:15:54.040 of the lies

00:15:55.300 from people

00:15:55.960 because they're

00:15:56.580 automatically in a camp.

00:15:58.380 We read that book,

00:15:59.820 Mistakes Were Made

00:16:00.540 But Not By Me

00:16:01.260 about cognitive dissonance

00:16:02.780 where we come up

00:16:04.280 with the excuse.

00:16:04.860 Let me give you

00:16:05.160 a good example

00:16:05.700 and I've used this before.

00:16:07.540 Let's say you're a smoker

00:16:10.980 and you're a smoker

00:16:12.920 and you love smoking

00:16:13.780 but you know

00:16:14.620 smoking is bad for you.

00:16:15.880 There's studies.

00:16:16.660 Right.

00:16:17.000 And you know it.

00:16:17.620 So these two contradictory things

00:16:19.660 cannot exist in our brains.

00:16:21.820 So we've got to find a way

00:16:23.080 to compartmentalize them

00:16:24.180 and deal with one of them.

00:16:25.840 Well, you're not going

00:16:26.400 to give up smoking

00:16:27.100 so what do you do?

00:16:28.160 You got to deal

00:16:28.740 with the studies

00:16:29.360 and what do you say?

00:16:30.760 They're fake.

00:16:31.520 Ah, it's not accurate.

00:16:33.200 Oh, it doesn't happen

00:16:34.140 to everybody.

00:16:34.760 I have a relative

00:16:35.460 who smoked for a thousand years

00:16:37.000 and they're fine.

00:16:37.220 He died of natural causes.

00:16:38.740 He had lung cancer.

00:16:40.020 Or I'm not going

00:16:40.640 to stop now.

00:16:41.680 Whatever it is,

00:16:42.380 whatever excuse

00:16:43.180 you come up with

00:16:44.000 because you got to deal

00:16:44.860 with it.

00:16:45.540 And that's where we're at

00:16:46.200 with parties.

00:16:46.900 Please stop.

00:16:48.060 Call out bad

00:16:49.240 when it's bad.

00:16:50.220 Use all the facts.

00:16:51.940 Stop trying to craft

00:16:53.040 a message.

00:16:53.720 Stop making it

00:16:54.620 a competition

00:16:55.720 to be who's right

00:16:56.580 about politics

00:16:57.260 and start making it

00:16:58.140 a competition

00:16:58.720 about who can be

00:16:59.660 the better person

00:17:00.320 and treat people.

00:17:02.160 Okay, I'm going off again.

00:17:03.120 You got tweets.

00:17:03.620 I do because the reviews

00:17:05.180 are in

00:17:05.740 and it looks like

00:17:06.640 some people

00:17:07.440 are agreeing with you.

00:17:08.320 For example,

00:17:08.840 you got Adorable

00:17:09.600 Deporable tweeting out

00:17:10.940 saying,

00:17:11.440 welcome to my world

00:17:12.800 of disclaimer.

00:17:13.940 On Facebook,

00:17:14.720 I qualify

00:17:15.420 anytime

00:17:16.280 I have

00:17:17.580 against Donald Trump.

00:17:20.960 Or you got

00:17:21.420 Her Divergent

00:17:22.800 also tweeting out

00:17:23.640 what I learned today.

00:17:24.760 Doc Thompson

00:17:25.280 on the Glenn Beck

00:17:25.900 program this morning.

00:17:26.860 Right on.

00:17:27.640 Great monologue.

00:17:28.780 I'm a follower now.

00:17:30.020 Well, thank you so much.

00:17:30.960 I really appreciate that.

00:17:31.960 Sincerely.

00:17:32.620 Yeah, the disclaimers

00:17:33.520 are hilarious.

00:17:34.260 I find myself

00:17:35.000 going into disclaimer mode.

00:17:36.800 I'm there

00:17:37.080 and I'm like

00:17:37.600 and I'm like

00:17:40.020 going through

00:17:40.400 all of the little checklists

00:17:41.540 just so you know.

00:17:42.680 I mean,

00:17:42.860 I've given Trump

00:17:43.460 fairly high marks

00:17:44.440 in his administration

00:17:45.180 so far.

00:17:45.900 And we've been fair.

00:17:46.820 And then one thing

00:17:47.380 that we do different

00:17:48.440 is we look both sides.

00:17:50.220 For example,

00:17:51.480 the Republicans

00:17:52.060 are wasting money.

00:17:54.240 So you have to call it out.

00:17:55.380 Call them out.

00:17:55.960 The Democrats

00:17:56.520 wasted money

00:17:57.480 while President Obama

00:17:58.880 called them out.

00:17:59.620 We have to call them out.

00:18:01.120 The disclaimer though

00:18:01.900 is hilarious.

00:18:02.620 In my mind,

00:18:03.080 I'm going to

00:18:03.400 some assembly required.

00:18:04.840 I didn't vote for Trump

00:18:05.580 but he's far better than Hillary.

00:18:06.680 Does not include

00:18:07.240 title tax and licensing fees.

00:18:08.920 I certainly am not a progressive.

00:18:10.220 I'm a conservative libertarian.

00:18:11.720 May cause chafing.

00:18:12.520 Batteries not included.

00:18:13.680 Right?

00:18:13.940 I mean,

00:18:14.120 just start with

00:18:14.780 all the list of stuff.

00:18:16.640 Did I miss anything?

00:18:17.660 Did I miss anything?

00:18:18.200 No, no.

00:18:18.640 You got it all.

00:18:19.220 You got it all.

00:18:22.300 I'm a white Christian male.

00:18:23.820 Just got to go ahead

00:18:24.240 and lead with that.

00:18:24.820 Lead with your white privilege too,

00:18:26.220 right?

00:18:27.180 All right.

00:18:27.440 If you want to

00:18:28.000 tweet the program,

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00:18:46.880 For now.

00:18:47.400 We'll see.

00:18:47.980 Until they wise up.

00:18:48.840 Until Glenn hears that monologue.

00:18:50.140 We'll see how that works out.

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00:18:57.720 I do have to give you an update

00:18:58.920 on the latest

00:18:59.660 out of Las Vegas.

00:19:01.680 We've got some new information.

00:19:03.220 It's only getting weirder, folks.

00:19:04.920 It is only getting more bizarre.

00:19:06.560 And instead of getting more answers,

00:19:08.440 what answers we are getting

00:19:09.500 just leads to more questions.

00:19:12.400 It is odd.

00:19:14.140 Your call is coming up

00:19:15.240 on this,

00:19:16.000 the Glenn Beck Program.

00:19:16.780 Glenn Beck.

00:19:29.540 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:19:32.240 Everything on the internet

00:19:33.240 is seen as a challenge.

00:19:34.660 God love you,

00:19:35.320 especially our program as well.

00:19:36.680 Now the disclaimers

00:19:37.480 are all coming in.

00:19:38.540 Yeah, you got a lot of

00:19:39.480 disclaimers coming up.

00:19:40.300 For example,

00:19:40.660 you got James saying,

00:19:42.360 Doc Thompson views,

00:19:43.660 not redeemable in Michigan,

00:19:45.440 Alaska, or Hawaii.

00:19:46.880 Tencent refund in Maine.

00:19:49.960 And you got Joshua.

00:19:51.440 You know what, Joshua?

00:19:52.240 I agree with you now.

00:19:53.680 Doc Thompson's monologue.

00:19:55.000 I give it a 5 out of 10

00:19:57.320 so far this morning.

00:19:59.240 Luckily, I'm a TMB fan,

00:20:00.940 so I get you.

00:20:01.960 Wow, I'm really slacking there.

00:20:03.220 5 out of 10.

00:20:03.940 I apologize for that tomorrow.

00:20:06.940 A quick,

00:20:07.500 another disclaimer for you.

00:20:08.640 A little bit later on

00:20:09.300 in the program,

00:20:09.840 we're going to be critical

00:20:10.680 of President Trump.

00:20:12.320 And a little bit later on

00:20:13.500 after that,

00:20:13.860 we're going to be critical

00:20:14.480 of the mayor of San Juan.

00:20:16.160 Just so you know.

00:20:16.960 A lot of criticism

00:20:17.820 to go around this morning.

00:20:19.160 Before we get to other news

00:20:20.480 going on in the world,

00:20:21.200 we do have to give you an update

00:20:22.080 on Las Vegas this morning

00:20:23.520 and the murderer

00:20:24.680 that is Stephen Paddock.

00:20:27.360 Now,

00:20:27.920 the,

00:20:29.120 first of all,

00:20:29.840 we've unfortunately

00:20:30.440 got to run down

00:20:31.020 some of the statistics

00:20:31.780 about those injured.

00:20:33.680 59 dead.

00:20:35.240 19 of those

00:20:36.640 now reported

00:20:37.260 died at the hospital,

00:20:38.420 which what that means,

00:20:38.940 40 people

00:20:41.120 that were shot

00:20:41.860 died on the scene.

00:20:44.820 19 of them

00:20:45.600 were transported

00:20:46.240 to the hospital

00:20:46.900 and succumbed

00:20:48.180 to those injuries.

00:20:49.180 The number of injured,

00:20:50.320 527.

00:20:52.500 138

00:20:52.980 were still hospitalized

00:20:54.200 as of yesterday,

00:20:55.460 50 of them

00:20:56.000 in critical condition.

00:20:57.500 Now,

00:20:57.820 with technology,

00:20:59.000 modern medicine,

00:21:00.000 and the care

00:21:00.880 they're getting,

00:21:02.200 many of those,

00:21:03.040 most of those,

00:21:03.760 likely will still,

00:21:04.720 will survive.

00:21:05.780 They likely will not die.

00:21:07.060 But most of those people

00:21:09.060 are going to continue

00:21:10.060 to suffer the effects

00:21:10.980 of those injuries

00:21:11.700 for many,

00:21:12.520 many years.

00:21:13.960 If you're ever

00:21:14.880 in critical condition

00:21:16.020 for anything,

00:21:17.420 you likely

00:21:18.620 are going to suffer

00:21:19.500 the effects

00:21:19.980 of that moving forward.

00:21:20.960 Well,

00:21:21.080 think about the PTSD,

00:21:22.720 you know,

00:21:23.440 of the shots

00:21:24.280 because these were civilians.

00:21:25.720 Oh,

00:21:25.920 you're right.

00:21:26.380 We're talking all injuries

00:21:27.820 and wounds

00:21:28.640 that are physical,

00:21:29.540 but what about that?

00:21:30.140 But think about the mental.

00:21:30.460 These were civilians.

00:21:31.520 They've never heard

00:21:32.360 a gunshot.

00:21:33.240 They thought it was fireworks.

00:21:35.280 So,

00:21:35.720 once they were clicked on,

00:21:36.800 no,

00:21:37.120 no,

00:21:37.220 no,

00:21:37.300 wait a minute.

00:21:37.600 Those are gunshots.

00:21:38.400 What am I going to do?

00:21:39.340 So,

00:21:39.480 think about the traumatic stress

00:21:40.840 that is because I have PTSD

00:21:42.300 because a bomb went off

00:21:43.660 right behind me.

00:21:44.980 So,

00:21:45.140 and I was used to

00:21:46.180 because of my training.

00:21:47.300 I knew what I was getting to,

00:21:48.360 but these people

00:21:48.900 were just enjoying

00:21:49.720 a normal day in Vegas,

00:21:51.400 enjoying a concert.

00:21:52.600 You know,

00:21:52.920 it's like,

00:21:53.380 oh yeah,

00:21:53.800 I'm going to enjoy my night.

00:21:55.020 But think about the emotional

00:21:56.660 and the stress

00:21:57.780 now that they have that

00:21:58.800 when they survive.

00:22:00.060 Survivor's guilt.

00:22:01.260 Yeah,

00:22:01.360 you're right.

00:22:01.800 Innocence lost

00:22:02.500 in so many different ways.

00:22:03.780 Survivor's guilt.

00:22:04.560 And then they're seeing

00:22:05.280 the graphic

00:22:05.900 nature.

00:22:07.460 I mean,

00:22:07.660 there's carnage.

00:22:08.880 I mean,

00:22:09.020 there's blood all over the place.

00:22:10.640 They,

00:22:10.920 they witnessed this stuff.

00:22:12.620 As of yesterday,

00:22:14.060 239 were treated

00:22:15.500 and released

00:22:16.060 from the hospitals.

00:22:18.240 Think about those numbers.

00:22:19.260 That's how many were released

00:22:20.100 and there's still 138

00:22:21.340 in the hospital.

00:22:22.520 Horrible,

00:22:23.040 horrible situation.

00:22:24.160 And of course,

00:22:24.680 all of their friends

00:22:25.260 and family,

00:22:26.180 co-workers,

00:22:27.360 acquaintances,

00:22:28.480 they're all suffering

00:22:29.300 those effects as well.

00:22:30.760 We've got more information

00:22:31.920 now on this murderer,

00:22:33.360 Steven Paddock.

00:22:34.020 We reported yesterday

00:22:36.220 that he had a camera

00:22:37.120 mounted outside

00:22:38.040 or inside the room

00:22:38.920 to record himself.

00:22:40.180 We now find out

00:22:41.260 that he had multiple cameras

00:22:42.980 staged around,

00:22:43.820 likely so he could determine

00:22:45.340 if law enforcement

00:22:46.460 was going to come

00:22:47.780 to his room.

00:22:48.580 He had one reportedly

00:22:50.100 in the peephole.

00:22:51.760 He had two outside.

00:22:53.100 One of them was on a food cart

00:22:54.360 next to the door,

00:22:56.080 which likely meant

00:22:57.880 that he set that one up

00:22:59.040 right before the shooting

00:23:00.700 or that day

00:23:01.260 because those food carts,

00:23:02.360 they're not staying around

00:23:03.280 outside of your door.

00:23:04.220 You know,

00:23:04.360 you order room service

00:23:05.600 when you're done,

00:23:06.040 you push it out there.

00:23:06.880 Most of the time,

00:23:07.600 those are gone

00:23:08.060 within a few hours.

00:23:09.020 They come up and get them.

00:23:11.000 So if that was still

00:23:12.000 sitting there,

00:23:12.600 likely he had just put it

00:23:14.080 out there and okay,

00:23:14.880 this is going to go.

00:23:16.680 23 guns found in his room,

00:23:19.300 18 in his house in Mesquite

00:23:21.120 and eight or so found

00:23:22.660 in his home in Reno, Nevada.

00:23:24.560 The ones,

00:23:25.440 at least a couple of them

00:23:26.500 in the room

00:23:27.420 and some of those pictures

00:23:28.940 were leaked yesterday.

00:23:29.920 We'll get to that in a minute.

00:23:31.500 Had bump stocks on them.

00:23:33.560 The bump stocks are devices

00:23:35.140 that turn semi-automatic weapons

00:23:38.840 seemingly or pretty close

00:23:40.880 to automatic weapons.

00:23:42.260 What happens is it's a stock,

00:23:43.860 the part of the gun

00:23:44.420 that goes against your shoulder

00:23:45.480 if it's a long gun

00:23:46.300 and it attaches.

00:23:51.760 So that stock also comes down

00:23:53.580 to the trigger

00:23:54.040 and when you fire,

00:23:55.900 the recoil causes the gun

00:23:57.820 to fire the next round.

00:23:59.160 Now, for those of you

00:24:00.860 that know this,

00:24:01.440 I apologize.

00:24:02.200 I'm not a gun expert

00:24:03.020 and this is going to be

00:24:04.360 common sense

00:24:05.260 or you're going to

00:24:05.600 already know this.

00:24:06.320 I apologize.

00:24:06.920 For those that don't,

00:24:08.020 you pull the trigger once

00:24:09.140 and one round comes out

00:24:10.900 and you have to pull it again

00:24:11.720 to get a second round

00:24:12.500 to come out.

00:24:13.260 Semi-automatic.

00:24:14.520 Pull the trigger

00:24:15.080 and hold it down

00:24:15.920 and bullets will spray.

00:24:17.600 Automatic.

00:24:19.200 Well, when the gun recoils

00:24:20.920 with these bump stocks,

00:24:21.840 it automatically fires again

00:24:23.060 and essentially turns it

00:24:24.180 into an automatic weapon.

00:24:25.280 He had several of them

00:24:27.740 in the room

00:24:28.200 and my question yesterday

00:24:30.060 was why 23?

00:24:31.800 Not that you can't own

00:24:33.180 that many guns.

00:24:34.040 Of course,

00:24:34.400 you can own as many as you want.

00:24:35.200 I don't care.

00:24:36.520 But why would he think

00:24:37.800 he needed that many?

00:24:38.660 Well,

00:24:39.320 if he's turning these

00:24:40.060 semi-automatics

00:24:40.760 into automatics,

00:24:42.100 these things are going to

00:24:42.820 heat up

00:24:43.220 and what happens?

00:24:44.060 The barrel.

00:24:45.020 They stop firing.

00:24:45.880 They stop firing.

00:24:46.380 It gets too hot

00:24:47.200 and you can't fire

00:24:48.040 anything through it.

00:24:48.820 Right.

00:24:49.200 And he had magazines.

00:24:51.020 It looked like

00:24:52.300 banana clip magazines.

00:24:53.580 One of the pictures,

00:24:54.700 if you look at it,

00:24:55.640 is one of those weapons

00:24:57.440 on a,

00:24:57.860 not tripod,

00:24:59.640 monopod.

00:25:00.180 No, not monopod.

00:25:01.560 Bipod.

00:25:02.500 And right in the corner

00:25:03.420 of the pillar,

00:25:04.460 you can see

00:25:04.960 magazines stacked up.

00:25:06.880 And they're ones

00:25:07.500 that hold over 30 rounds.

00:25:08.920 I mean,

00:25:09.020 they're 30 to 50.

00:25:10.200 Again,

00:25:10.760 not saying,

00:25:11.360 disclaimer time,

00:25:12.180 disclaimer,

00:25:12.700 do we have a bell

00:25:13.260 or something for a disclaimer?

00:25:15.460 Not saying that

00:25:16.380 you can't have magazines

00:25:17.460 just showing

00:25:18.460 what he was prepared to do.

00:25:19.900 I don't want people

00:25:21.100 thinking,

00:25:21.440 oh,

00:25:21.640 you think we should

00:25:22.080 have to limit him?

00:25:22.700 No,

00:25:22.940 I don't think

00:25:23.220 there should be

00:25:23.400 any limitations.

00:25:24.260 Have at it.

00:25:24.700 Done.

00:25:24.940 I'm just telling you

00:25:26.140 what's there.

00:25:26.980 Now,

00:25:27.360 to the pictures

00:25:27.820 that were released

00:25:28.460 yesterday.

00:25:29.340 And I tweeted out

00:25:30.300 some of them.

00:25:30.820 It's at Doc Thompson

00:25:31.580 show.

00:25:31.920 Please follow me.

00:25:32.800 Did we put them

00:25:33.240 on Facebook as well?

00:25:34.140 We did.

00:25:34.520 We did put them

00:25:34.960 on Facebook.

00:25:35.500 Facebook.com

00:25:36.300 slash Doc Thompson

00:25:37.240 show.

00:25:38.040 Also up there

00:25:38.460 is the video

00:25:38.900 about the Second Amendment,

00:25:39.900 which hopefully

00:25:40.480 you'll see and share.

00:25:41.720 We did not put

00:25:42.520 all of them

00:25:42.900 that we found.

00:25:43.620 Some of them

00:25:43.960 are pretty graphic.

00:25:44.880 Very graphic.

00:25:45.480 One of them

00:25:45.840 shows half of his body,

00:25:47.420 the lower half,

00:25:48.160 the other half.

00:25:49.240 Another picture

00:25:49.880 shows the upper

00:25:50.540 half of his body

00:25:51.260 complete with head wound

00:25:52.200 and blood all over

00:25:53.240 the place.

00:25:54.100 Those were leaked.

00:25:56.140 Not a lot of people

00:25:56.920 are going to have

00:25:57.280 access to those pictures.

00:25:58.060 No,

00:25:58.080 not just that.

00:25:59.120 The sheriff

00:25:59.960 is just a tiny

00:26:01.920 little angry.

00:26:02.940 Absolutely.

00:26:03.240 And by tiny,

00:26:03.640 I mean he is furious

00:26:04.940 that those pictures

00:26:06.140 were leaked.

00:26:06.920 Now,

00:26:07.120 here's why I have

00:26:07.620 an issue with this.

00:26:08.420 Hang on.

00:26:08.660 Somebody's going

00:26:09.100 to lose their job.

00:26:09.860 Yes.

00:26:10.240 Okay.

00:26:10.900 I don't think

00:26:11.940 we should be

00:26:13.460 kind of cuddled

00:26:14.720 like,

00:26:15.520 oh,

00:26:15.640 you can't see this.

00:26:16.820 I say release it all

00:26:18.140 because it's no matter

00:26:18.980 why it's going

00:26:19.380 to end up

00:26:19.700 on the internet.

00:26:20.520 One of these people

00:26:21.340 are just going to

00:26:22.320 That was really fast though.

00:26:23.920 But it was really fast.

00:26:24.780 It was yesterday evening

00:26:25.920 when I got home

00:26:26.540 like around 3 o'clock

00:26:27.380 local time

00:26:27.940 and all of a sudden

00:26:29.460 somebody sent it to me

00:26:30.360 like,

00:26:30.660 hey Chris,

00:26:31.260 this just got posted.

00:26:32.640 I was like,

00:26:32.960 are you sure?

00:26:33.520 Can we confirm

00:26:34.080 that this is it?

00:26:34.940 And I just saw,

00:26:35.780 you know,

00:26:36.080 all the normal

00:26:37.080 news gathering people

00:26:38.380 just posting it out there.

00:26:39.720 But I'm saying

00:26:40.260 that is really interesting.

00:26:42.520 I just,

00:26:43.180 for example,

00:26:43.640 there's cameras.

00:26:44.720 So that has to be footage.

00:26:45.700 I think it should be released

00:26:47.440 just so we know

00:26:48.720 what happened.

00:26:49.740 Because as an American,

00:26:51.460 I feel like

00:26:52.460 we just need to know

00:26:53.180 everything that happened

00:26:54.200 and let me decide

00:26:55.980 what is good for me.

00:26:57.360 Exactly.

00:26:57.980 And hold on.

00:26:58.760 Disclaimer time.

00:26:59.460 We're not being insensitive here.

00:27:03.220 I'm just giving you facts

00:27:04.120 about what happened.

00:27:04.900 We're speculating

00:27:05.500 about some of the other stuff.

00:27:06.980 Of course,

00:27:07.860 I feel horrible

00:27:08.780 for anybody that was involved

00:27:10.040 or any family member

00:27:11.440 or even his siblings

00:27:12.380 that love him.

00:27:13.780 Me being Steven Paddock.

00:27:15.360 Yes.

00:27:15.720 I don't want anybody to suffer.

00:27:16.960 That's not what we're saying.

00:27:17.600 We're just giving facts here.

00:27:18.560 The pictures that were released,

00:27:21.540 as soon as you sent them

00:27:22.440 to me yesterday afternoon,

00:27:23.620 I asked some of my coworkers

00:27:25.280 and said,

00:27:25.820 hey,

00:27:26.740 you guys want to see the pictures?

00:27:28.260 And some of them,

00:27:29.200 all of them said,

00:27:29.880 yeah.

00:27:30.620 Only half of them said,

00:27:31.980 I want to see the picture of him.

00:27:33.540 Yeah.

00:27:34.140 And I left it up to them

00:27:35.220 and I'm like,

00:27:35.660 okay,

00:27:35.840 I'm scrolling down.

00:27:36.580 Look away if you don't want

00:27:37.280 to see this one.

00:27:37.840 Okay,

00:27:38.100 here we go.

00:27:38.960 And they saw

00:27:39.820 and they wanted it.

00:27:40.620 By the way,

00:27:41.080 there is a short video

00:27:43.120 of some of the pictures.

00:27:46.620 The door?

00:27:47.380 Is that what you're talking about?

00:27:48.280 Yeah,

00:27:48.480 the door.

00:27:48.880 Just go to theblaze.com

00:27:50.080 and you can see it.

00:27:50.800 I think the story's still up there.

00:27:51.920 You can see the front.

00:27:52.440 It's a double door

00:27:53.360 because it was a suite

00:27:54.120 and one of the doors,

00:27:54.940 they just smashed half of it down

00:27:56.280 and you can see the police tape

00:27:57.960 and everything.

00:27:58.520 If you're curious about it,

00:27:59.560 it's up there as well.

00:28:01.740 Other info,

00:28:02.400 oh,

00:28:02.580 by the way,

00:28:03.140 a couple of other observations

00:28:04.180 about the pictures

00:28:04.860 before we move on.

00:28:06.440 Number one,

00:28:06.960 the amount of rounds

00:28:08.040 on the floor.

00:28:08.840 Plenty.

00:28:09.340 The spent shells.

00:28:10.420 It's like

00:28:11.700 if you've ever been to a range.

00:28:13.260 Yes.

00:28:13.860 And you forgot to clean up.

00:28:14.800 They didn't sweep their,

00:28:15.700 place their brass.

00:28:16.860 It's all over.

00:28:18.320 Especially the graphic pictures

00:28:19.700 where he shows the body.

00:28:20.700 You can see all those rounds

00:28:22.280 around him

00:28:23.180 and you can see the weapons.

00:28:24.960 Actually,

00:28:25.540 I kept zooming in

00:28:26.560 because I was a cop

00:28:28.460 so I love crime scene photos.

00:28:29.920 Looking at certain things, yeah.

00:28:31.040 And if you look

00:28:31.660 one of the pictures

00:28:32.220 on the top left,

00:28:33.120 you can see the pillows

00:28:34.020 laying on the floor

00:28:34.960 next to the window.

00:28:36.420 Yeah,

00:28:36.640 where he was knelt down

00:28:37.880 using that as a,

00:28:38.680 because you don't want

00:28:39.080 to hurt your knee

00:28:39.660 when you're murdering

00:28:41.320 59 people

00:28:42.700 and injuring 500 more.

00:28:44.320 You don't want to,

00:28:44.900 you know,

00:28:45.100 it's hard on the knees

00:28:45.880 to do that.

00:28:46.880 Hold on,

00:28:47.560 disclaimer.

00:28:49.500 My mocking him

00:28:51.320 and making a joke

00:28:52.300 about that

00:28:52.980 is not to mock

00:28:54.480 what happened

00:28:55.040 to the people.

00:28:55.720 It's satire

00:28:56.540 to point out

00:28:57.200 what a jackass

00:28:58.360 this guy is,

00:28:59.200 how despicable he was.

00:29:00.760 And you can also

00:29:01.420 see the hammer,

00:29:02.300 the hammer,

00:29:03.120 the tactical hammer

00:29:04.060 that you talked about.

00:29:05.120 The bump stock?

00:29:05.720 Yeah.

00:29:06.120 No,

00:29:06.400 no,

00:29:06.460 the hammer.

00:29:07.180 Oh,

00:29:07.260 really?

00:29:07.600 To break the window?

00:29:08.120 To break the window.

00:29:08.960 You can see it.

00:29:09.360 It's one of the pictures

00:29:10.080 where the weapon

00:29:11.420 is on its side

00:29:12.420 and it's right

00:29:13.220 in the corner

00:29:13.940 between the,

00:29:14.920 one thing that I noticed

00:29:15.960 and actually,

00:29:16.580 I just saw MSNBC

00:29:17.640 highlight it

00:29:18.380 was the piece of paper

00:29:21.060 under the tape

00:29:22.340 next to a pen

00:29:23.460 on the little night table.

00:29:26.020 Oh,

00:29:26.340 wait,

00:29:26.960 is there a possibility

00:29:28.020 that I'm going to note?

00:29:28.580 We don't know.

00:29:29.420 I mean,

00:29:29.720 it could have been

00:29:30.520 a jackass checklist. 0.72

00:29:33.000 Yeah.

00:29:33.380 Here's the stupid things

00:29:34.880 I'm going to do today.

00:29:35.780 Yeah.

00:29:36.120 Or it could be,

00:29:37.180 you know,

00:29:37.580 got a laundry list

00:29:39.700 could be a receipt,

00:29:40.500 but there's a pen

00:29:41.800 and maybe it's a note.

00:29:42.620 Yeah,

00:29:42.800 that's what I'm saying.

00:29:43.320 It's right under the tape.

00:29:44.460 And again,

00:29:44.780 if you look at a picture,

00:29:45.860 I,

00:29:46.480 you know,

00:29:46.620 if you want to know,

00:29:47.300 just click on the pictures,

00:29:48.640 don't click on the graphic ones,

00:29:49.960 but just click on the ones

00:29:50.720 that we showed

00:29:51.460 and zoom in,

00:29:52.880 just analyze it.

00:29:53.680 Just think of yourselves like,

00:29:54.800 what is all this stuff about?

00:29:56.800 One other observation.

00:30:00.760 Damn Mandalay Bay.

00:30:01.960 Who decorated your hotel?

00:30:04.800 I mean,

00:30:05.080 I hate to make it.

00:30:06.040 I got to pause a moment.

00:30:07.280 Disclaimer.

00:30:09.160 My attempted levity here

00:30:10.820 and mocking

00:30:11.540 just another observation

00:30:13.240 is not to make light

00:30:14.260 of the people

00:30:14.620 who are killed

00:30:15.100 or injured

00:30:15.600 or anybody else

00:30:16.240 who is suffering.

00:30:17.260 I truly feel bad for it,

00:30:18.640 but we also mock

00:30:19.840 some of the other things

00:30:20.520 because levity can be good

00:30:21.880 and satire also points out

00:30:23.420 what a jackass this guy was. 0.98

00:30:25.440 Having said that,

00:30:26.500 damn Mandalay Bay.

00:30:27.800 I thought this was like

00:30:28.560 a nice resort.

00:30:31.960 What was their theme?

00:30:33.280 Cave?

00:30:35.280 Worst colors of carpeting?

00:30:37.920 When you first sent me

00:30:38.920 the pictures,

00:30:39.400 I was like,

00:30:39.820 is this his home?

00:30:40.800 I thought it was his house

00:30:42.100 until I saw the body

00:30:43.540 and I was like,

00:30:44.080 there's a body?

00:30:44.840 Oh, wait,

00:30:45.760 that's the room?

00:30:46.540 That's what I was

00:30:47.120 a little confused

00:30:47.780 and worried that

00:30:48.580 I sent it to you

00:30:49.520 and then for you to pose.

00:30:50.780 I'm like,

00:30:51.060 well, I don't want to

00:30:51.620 give Doc the wrong information

00:30:53.120 because it's an ugly ass 0.98

00:30:54.800 hotel room.

00:30:55.880 One to ten,

00:30:56.920 ten being the best,

00:30:57.900 how good were the decorations?

00:30:59.120 A one.

00:30:59.540 Okay, Cal,

00:31:00.580 spin of the dials,

00:31:01.280 radio style for us.

00:31:02.460 One to ten,

00:31:03.260 ten being the best,

00:31:04.040 one to ten their decorations.

00:31:05.340 Negative six.

00:31:08.000 I thought it was like

00:31:10.100 a straw floor

00:31:11.340 with the carpeting

00:31:12.140 with the stripes.

00:31:12.780 Oh, yeah, yeah.

00:31:13.800 What's going on there?

00:31:15.040 Yeah.

00:31:15.480 Okay, so

00:31:16.140 hate to bring that up.

00:31:17.920 All right.

00:31:18.660 Also,

00:31:19.180 we have more information

00:31:20.180 on some of the activities

00:31:22.280 of the shooter

00:31:22.900 with regard to money

00:31:24.000 and his girlfriend

00:31:24.620 who now is reportedly

00:31:26.220 back in the country. 0.66

00:31:27.120 The reason this stuff

00:31:28.280 is so important

00:31:28.820 is because we still

00:31:29.540 don't have a motive.

00:31:30.760 Without a motive,

00:31:31.700 we don't know how

00:31:32.360 to stop people like this

00:31:33.500 from doing horrible things

00:31:34.640 in the future.

00:31:36.100 We still don't have a motive

00:31:37.340 and I'm beginning

00:31:38.420 to speculate

00:31:39.200 they may have a motive,

00:31:41.280 they just haven't told us.

00:31:43.260 We'll get some of those

00:31:44.260 facts coming up

00:31:45.180 and also your calls.

00:31:45.980 888-727-BECK.

00:31:47.620 It's 888-727-BECK.

00:31:49.820 Doc Thompson

00:31:50.260 from The Morning Blaze

00:31:50.980 in for Glenn Beck.

00:31:55.120 Glenn Beck.

00:31:57.120 Glenn Beck.

00:32:07.560 A little bit more

00:32:08.640 about Steven Paddock,

00:32:09.940 the Las Vegas murderer.

00:32:11.580 And I say murderer

00:32:12.240 because although

00:32:12.980 shooter is accurate,

00:32:14.240 it doesn't really

00:32:15.400 give him his evil due.

00:32:18.540 Some other information

00:32:19.640 came out about him

00:32:20.500 that he allegedly

00:32:22.020 wired or sent

00:32:24.160 $100,000

00:32:24.960 to the Philippines

00:32:25.980 the week before

00:32:27.000 this happened.

00:32:28.140 Now, his significant other

00:32:29.260 is from the Philippines.

00:32:30.200 She has family there

00:32:30.960 or at least a Filipino descent

00:32:32.240 and she was there

00:32:33.560 during the shooting.

00:32:34.480 Is that illegal?

00:32:35.960 To wire money?

00:32:36.700 To wire money?

00:32:37.240 No, not at all.

00:32:37.800 It's just,

00:32:38.860 why would he send

00:32:39.300 $100,000, right?

00:32:41.180 And that doesn't necessarily

00:32:42.980 mean she was involved,

00:32:44.360 not an indicator

00:32:45.300 of her involvement

00:32:45.980 or it could be an indicator.

00:32:48.040 It could be anything.

00:32:49.100 He could have just said,

00:32:49.700 I want to help your family out.

00:32:51.520 Regardless of the shooting,

00:32:52.400 he could say,

00:32:52.820 hey, I'm going out

00:32:53.380 with a bang

00:32:53.800 and want to give some money

00:32:54.600 to some people I like

00:32:55.460 before I go.

00:32:56.680 He could have said,

00:32:57.460 hey, I'm sending you there

00:32:58.300 and giving you money

00:32:58.940 to help you out

00:32:59.560 and she knew.

00:33:00.440 It's not an indicator

00:33:01.180 of her involvement

00:33:01.840 but she is allegedly

00:33:02.740 back in the country 0.99

00:33:03.460 and they are talking

00:33:04.100 to her now.

00:33:05.660 Yeah, she was met

00:33:06.240 by FBI.

00:33:07.440 I imagine you would be.

00:33:08.680 Now, some other things

00:33:09.440 about him and the money.

00:33:10.780 If he did have

00:33:11.320 $100,000 to send to them

00:33:13.540 and he was allegedly

00:33:14.720 a millionaire,

00:33:15.900 the questions of him

00:33:17.160 having financial troubles,

00:33:18.980 probably not as significant

00:33:20.520 knowing that at least

00:33:21.300 he had that amount

00:33:22.020 that he could just send.

00:33:23.500 Not millions, but still.

00:33:25.320 Also, he was spending

00:33:26.220 $30,000 a day gambling

00:33:28.180 in the days leading

00:33:28.940 up to the shooting.

00:33:29.720 That's fascinating.

00:33:31.840 Right.

00:33:32.140 Now, he was a big gambler anyway.

00:33:33.780 Yeah.

00:33:34.020 Now, we don't know

00:33:34.420 if he was losing $30,000 a day

00:33:36.160 or just gambling it.

00:33:38.600 But $30,000 a day.

00:33:40.840 We found out that

00:33:42.040 in the past three years,

00:33:43.440 he triggered more than 200

00:33:44.860 transaction reports

00:33:46.180 at casinos.

00:33:46.940 Now, what this means is

00:33:47.700 casinos are required

00:33:49.440 to file with the Treasury Department

00:33:51.480 a Financial Crimes

00:33:52.540 Enforcement Network form.

00:33:54.620 And what that means is

00:33:55.580 when a person withdraws

00:33:57.420 or deposits more than

00:33:58.440 $10,000 in cash,

00:33:59.800 they have to fill this out.

00:34:00.800 It's much like

00:34:01.520 when you deposit

00:34:02.160 that much in a bank.

00:34:03.120 They have to, you know,

00:34:04.660 make a note of it.

00:34:05.720 And it keeps crime down,

00:34:07.520 allegedly.

00:34:08.220 And is that illegal?

00:34:09.240 No.

00:34:09.720 Okay.

00:34:10.060 They just,

00:34:10.600 they did their due diligence,

00:34:11.520 but he had a transaction

00:34:13.400 that was over $10,000

00:34:14.820 200 times in the last

00:34:16.360 three years

00:34:16.860 is what that means.

00:34:18.380 So,

00:34:18.940 he was a big gambler,

00:34:20.100 just a little insight

00:34:20.840 to his background

00:34:21.500 and he seemingly

00:34:22.340 had a lot of money.

00:34:23.660 Also,

00:34:24.300 we found out he worked

00:34:25.120 as a letter carrier

00:34:25.960 for the post office

00:34:26.940 from 76 to 78

00:34:28.520 and he was an,

00:34:31.000 worked in the auditing

00:34:31.860 department of the IRS

00:34:32.800 from 78 to 84.

00:34:34.580 Okay.

00:34:35.140 Put him in jail.

00:34:36.300 Motives.

00:34:37.040 This is,

00:34:37.640 that's motives to me,

00:34:39.500 right?

00:34:39.900 That's what that is.

00:34:40.680 Working for the government.

00:34:41.560 Those are the facts

00:34:43.740 as we know them now.

00:34:44.520 We're still looking

00:34:45.000 for a motive.

00:34:46.940 I don't know what it is,

00:34:48.120 but I'm,

00:34:48.480 I'm increasingly believing

00:34:50.380 that he was radicalized

00:34:52.220 somehow either by groups

00:34:53.780 outside the country

00:34:54.580 or just by his political views,

00:34:56.240 his love or hatred

00:34:57.840 of a certain political party

00:34:59.740 or certain political figures.

00:35:01.420 That's what I'm leading with.

00:35:02.480 Hopefully those details

00:35:03.280 will come out soon.

00:35:04.200 Okay.

00:35:04.500 Just a touch more

00:35:05.160 to get to on this

00:35:06.600 and then we're going

00:35:07.020 to move on to Puerto Rico.

00:35:07.820 Open up the phone lines

00:35:08.720 and get some of your calls

00:35:09.460 coming up on the Glenn Beck program.

00:35:11.560 Glenn Beck.

00:35:23.200 Love.

00:35:24.780 Courage.

00:35:26.140 Truth.

00:35:27.440 Glenn Beck.

00:35:28.380 Hi there.

00:35:28.800 It's Doc Thompson

00:35:29.400 from The Morning Blaze

00:35:30.240 along with Chris Cruz

00:35:31.100 and Cal who is

00:35:32.200 spinning the dials radio style

00:35:33.360 for us in for Glenn today.

00:35:34.720 Pat Gray is going to be

00:35:35.600 pinch hitting tomorrow

00:35:36.600 and Friday for Glenn

00:35:37.600 and then Glenn is back

00:35:38.340 on Monday.

00:35:38.840 Appreciate you joining us.

00:35:39.580 Just a touch more

00:35:40.840 on Las Vegas

00:35:41.480 before we move on

00:35:42.160 and get some other news

00:35:42.920 of the day.

00:35:43.360 We'll also get some

00:35:43.900 of your calls.

00:35:44.440 888-727-BECK.

00:35:46.800 There is this big discussion

00:35:48.280 right now,

00:35:49.380 primarily from people

00:35:50.360 on the left,

00:35:51.080 primarily from liberals

00:35:52.000 who are very upset

00:35:52.920 that not only

00:35:54.760 has the media

00:35:56.580 not labeled

00:35:58.120 Stephen Paddock

00:35:59.060 a terrorist

00:35:59.740 or this was a terrorist act,

00:36:02.100 that President Trump

00:36:03.560 did not do that.

00:36:04.480 and they are very upset

00:36:06.160 by this

00:36:06.740 and they have called out

00:36:08.360 this as

00:36:11.300 white privilege

00:36:12.420 that the reason

00:36:13.760 we have not labeled him

00:36:15.300 as a terrorist

00:36:15.780 because Stephen Paddock

00:36:17.000 is or was white

00:36:18.180 and therefore

00:36:19.160 he's just called

00:36:20.160 a lone wolf

00:36:20.860 and not a terrorist.

00:36:22.780 Do you know why

00:36:23.280 they're not calling him

00:36:24.040 a terrorist?

00:36:26.040 Because at this point

00:36:27.260 he is not considered

00:36:28.840 a terrorist

00:36:29.520 and it has nothing

00:36:31.000 to do with his skin color

00:36:32.160 or his

00:36:33.320 religion,

00:36:34.840 lack of religion,

00:36:35.800 political views.

00:36:37.920 This is really important

00:36:39.520 to understand.

00:36:42.760 Terrorism,

00:36:43.840 terrorist

00:36:44.440 is a distinction

00:36:48.900 that has certain criteria

00:36:51.080 that has to be met.

00:36:52.980 We use the term loosely

00:36:54.620 but it has to have

00:36:57.140 a component

00:36:57.760 of agenda

00:36:59.640 or political

00:37:01.460 or religious

00:37:02.520 ideology

00:37:04.000 attached to it.

00:37:05.740 From Wikipedia,

00:37:07.460 this is how

00:37:08.220 terrorism is described.

00:37:10.400 Terrorism

00:37:11.200 is

00:37:12.140 its broadest sense

00:37:13.680 is

00:37:14.320 in its broadest sense

00:37:15.460 describes the use

00:37:17.140 of intentionally

00:37:18.700 indiscriminate violence

00:37:20.340 as a means

00:37:21.120 to create terror

00:37:22.060 or fear

00:37:22.780 to achieve

00:37:24.040 a political,

00:37:25.040 religious,

00:37:25.600 or ideological aim.

00:37:27.760 criminal law

00:37:29.960 professor

00:37:30.440 Frank Bowman

00:37:31.220 said

00:37:32.100 it's impossible

00:37:32.880 to legally label

00:37:33.980 an action

00:37:34.480 terrorism

00:37:35.100 until a motive

00:37:36.280 has been

00:37:37.300 determined.

00:37:39.140 We do not

00:37:40.220 know his motive.

00:37:42.100 Therefore,

00:37:42.580 we can't determine

00:37:43.400 if it was

00:37:44.260 political,

00:37:44.940 religious,

00:37:45.360 or ideological.

00:37:46.860 He could have

00:37:47.560 simply been

00:37:48.160 somebody who said

00:37:49.040 I think it would be

00:37:50.620 fun to murder

00:37:51.960 a lot of people.

00:37:53.520 That would not be

00:37:55.260 classified terrorism.

00:37:57.060 Did he terrorize

00:37:58.780 people?

00:37:59.740 Was it

00:38:00.140 heinous?

00:38:00.760 Was it

00:38:01.020 horrible?

00:38:02.020 Was it

00:38:02.380 terrorist-like?

00:38:03.780 Did it feel

00:38:04.420 similar to

00:38:05.100 terrorist acts?

00:38:06.200 Yes,

00:38:06.620 absolutely.

00:38:07.840 But to say

00:38:08.640 terrorism

00:38:09.260 or terrorist

00:38:10.300 has to have

00:38:11.400 that element

00:38:12.040 to it.

00:38:12.980 In fact,

00:38:13.320 this criminal law

00:38:13.960 professor said

00:38:14.620 the thing that

00:38:15.940 really distinguishes

00:38:16.780 terrorism from

00:38:17.660 any other offense

00:38:18.620 is not so much

00:38:19.660 the nature

00:38:20.260 of the conduct,

00:38:21.680 it is the

00:38:22.740 actual

00:38:23.460 or intended

00:38:24.820 effect.

00:38:25.660 it's not

00:38:27.340 what somebody

00:38:28.440 does,

00:38:29.540 it is instead

00:38:31.140 why they are

00:38:32.960 doing it.

00:38:34.000 And it is not,

00:38:35.460 well,

00:38:36.180 as long as you

00:38:36.720 have a why,

00:38:37.380 it was terrorism.

00:38:38.380 It has to be a

00:38:39.180 specific why.

00:38:42.420 Steven Paddock's

00:38:43.200 motive has not

00:38:44.060 yet been released.

00:38:45.180 Do they know?

00:38:46.160 Possibly.

00:38:47.640 But they have not

00:38:48.500 told us.

00:38:50.000 U.S.

00:38:50.520 code,

00:38:51.800 the official

00:38:52.540 U.S.

00:38:53.040 code on

00:38:54.080 domestic terrorism

00:38:55.320 said it has

00:38:56.800 to have

00:38:57.440 an act

00:38:58.320 appeared

00:38:58.920 to be

00:38:59.960 intended,

00:39:01.040 number one,

00:39:02.160 to intimidate

00:39:02.960 or coerce

00:39:03.680 a civilian

00:39:04.300 population,

00:39:05.800 number two,

00:39:06.440 to influence

00:39:07.080 the policy

00:39:07.740 of a government

00:39:08.380 by intimidation

00:39:09.320 or coercion

00:39:10.240 or to affect

00:39:12.000 the conduct

00:39:12.560 of a government

00:39:13.200 by mass

00:39:13.840 destruction,

00:39:15.000 assassination,

00:39:15.880 or kidnapping.

00:39:19.100 So,

00:39:19.780 when people

00:39:20.340 are saying,

00:39:20.760 how come

00:39:21.120 you're not

00:39:21.480 calling it

00:39:21.980 terrorism,

00:39:22.600 it's because

00:39:23.020 he's a white

00:39:23.540 guy?

00:39:24.680 No.

00:39:25.980 Because we

00:39:26.580 don't know

00:39:26.860 what his

00:39:27.100 motive was.

00:39:28.320 We don't

00:39:28.620 know if his

00:39:29.000 motive was

00:39:29.580 political or

00:39:30.840 religious.

00:39:32.840 Until we do,

00:39:34.040 we can't.

00:39:34.560 We're getting

00:39:34.860 more information

00:39:35.400 now saying

00:39:36.120 law enforcement

00:39:36.780 is reporting

00:39:37.860 that last

00:39:38.960 weekend,

00:39:40.680 Steven tried

00:39:41.700 to get a

00:39:42.340 room overlooking

00:39:43.560 a music

00:39:44.700 festival a few

00:39:45.740 miles away

00:39:47.320 from the

00:39:48.880 Route 91

00:39:49.480 music festival.

00:39:51.240 So,

00:39:51.680 last weekend,

00:39:52.240 he tried

00:39:53.460 to rent

00:39:54.040 a room.

00:39:54.520 Do we

00:39:54.740 know what

00:39:54.980 hotel?

00:39:55.520 No,

00:39:55.880 they're not

00:39:56.460 reporting that,

00:39:57.080 but they're

00:39:57.300 saying that

00:39:57.940 last weekend

00:39:58.900 he tried to

00:39:59.380 get a room

00:39:59.820 overlooking

00:40:00.340 another music

00:40:01.040 festival.

00:40:01.840 I guess he

00:40:02.160 couldn't do

00:40:02.560 it.

00:40:02.820 At the

00:40:03.060 same venue?

00:40:04.080 No,

00:40:04.420 it's a

00:40:05.380 couple miles

00:40:05.840 north,

00:40:06.500 they're saying,

00:40:07.080 out of...

00:40:07.600 I don't think

00:40:07.840 with the

00:40:08.100 other music

00:40:08.560 venues.

00:40:09.320 I don't

00:40:09.520 think those

00:40:09.840 are open.

00:40:10.360 There's other

00:40:10.780 open air ones.

00:40:11.480 There may be

00:40:11.880 one.

00:40:12.320 It's been a

00:40:12.860 while since.

00:40:13.740 We're getting

00:40:14.260 a little bit

00:40:14.820 more information.

00:40:15.820 Also,

00:40:16.160 did they say

00:40:16.600 he rented

00:40:17.040 the same

00:40:17.540 room a

00:40:18.500 year ago

00:40:18.920 or eight

00:40:19.200 months ago

00:40:19.660 or is that

00:40:20.120 conflated

00:40:20.700 with this?

00:40:21.340 Yeah,

00:40:21.540 that was a

00:40:21.960 little confusing.

00:40:22.480 That's confusing.

00:40:23.160 Okay.

00:40:23.560 But the

00:40:24.500 music festival

00:40:25.220 was live.

00:40:25.940 It's a

00:40:26.120 beautiful festival

00:40:26.880 headlined by

00:40:27.560 some rapper.

00:40:29.060 It was supposed

00:40:29.440 to be...

00:40:30.220 It was the

00:40:31.280 22nd to the

00:40:31.980 24th.

00:40:33.120 Interesting.

00:40:33.940 Yeah.

00:40:34.640 So he tried

00:40:34.980 to do it

00:40:35.300 last weekend.

00:40:36.320 If...

00:40:36.760 I mean,

00:40:38.000 he could have

00:40:38.220 been scouting

00:40:38.800 it out or

00:40:39.340 this could have

00:40:39.740 been the plan,

00:40:40.560 but that changes

00:40:41.680 if it was a

00:40:42.720 different type of

00:40:43.280 music for people

00:40:43.960 who have

00:40:44.120 speculated maybe

00:40:44.780 it was political.

00:40:45.980 All right,

00:40:46.160 until we know,

00:40:46.840 until we know

00:40:47.540 we can't

00:40:47.980 determine if

00:40:48.440 it was

00:40:48.640 terrorism.

00:40:49.540 All right,

00:40:49.780 phone calls

00:40:50.180 finally.

00:40:50.620 Sorry to

00:40:51.180 make you

00:40:51.640 wait so much.

00:40:52.360 888-727-BECK.

00:40:53.820 Dave in the

00:40:54.700 Buckeye State.

00:40:55.340 How are you?

00:40:56.520 How you doing,

00:40:57.260 Doc?

00:40:57.480 Good, sir.

00:40:58.740 Yeah,

00:40:59.200 one thing that's

00:40:59.760 kind of ironically

00:41:01.040 just weird,

00:41:01.800 this has been

00:41:02.280 going on with

00:41:03.060 all the media,

00:41:04.100 is that

00:41:04.620 Mandalay Bay

00:41:05.680 and all the

00:41:06.060 casinos there,

00:41:06.840 there's a lot

00:41:07.540 of money there,

00:41:08.280 right?

00:41:08.580 And I'd imagine

00:41:09.100 the security force

00:41:10.200 and the cameras

00:41:10.840 that they have,

00:41:11.420 it's got to be

00:41:11.860 like Fort Knox.

00:41:12.960 You have no idea

00:41:13.880 how many.

00:41:14.580 It's like NASA

00:41:15.780 when you see the

00:41:16.320 video screens.

00:41:17.340 The only thing

00:41:18.320 you're seeing

00:41:18.720 from the media

00:41:19.480 is people's

00:41:20.720 handheld phones

00:41:21.660 at the show,

00:41:23.040 you never see,

00:41:23.840 they say,

00:41:24.340 well,

00:41:24.460 he bring all

00:41:24.940 these weapons

00:41:25.440 in,

00:41:26.060 well,

00:41:26.440 there he is

00:41:27.360 carrying more

00:41:27.880 bags,

00:41:28.380 you know,

00:41:28.920 you never see

00:41:29.900 Mandalay Bay

00:41:30.560 or any other

00:41:31.160 casinos around

00:41:32.040 there seeing

00:41:33.060 this guy

00:41:33.500 or even showing

00:41:34.340 where he's up

00:41:35.040 there firing.

00:41:35.780 You're just

00:41:36.080 seeing handheld

00:41:37.180 phones recording

00:41:38.560 this and you're

00:41:39.400 being told,

00:41:40.000 I'm not,

00:41:40.400 like,

00:41:40.640 conspiracy theory,

00:41:41.740 the guy was

00:41:42.420 a nut job,

00:41:43.600 but by not

00:41:44.620 doing this,

00:41:45.360 you're just

00:41:45.840 leaving that

00:41:46.560 open for

00:41:46.980 people to

00:41:47.400 say,

00:41:47.980 because something

00:41:48.480 does seem

00:41:48.960 wrong.

00:41:49.440 This guy

00:41:49.800 was 64

00:41:50.600 years old,

00:41:51.460 never really

00:41:51.960 had a record

00:41:52.820 and he just

00:41:54.120 Yeah,

00:41:54.540 and Dave,

00:41:54.960 and I think

00:41:55.460 that's part of

00:41:55.900 the reason

00:41:56.160 Chris Cruz

00:41:56.700 said that

00:41:58.000 we should see

00:41:58.780 the pictures

00:41:59.200 or have the

00:41:59.640 option,

00:42:00.060 and I agree,

00:42:01.020 is because you

00:42:01.600 open it up

00:42:02.180 in today's world

00:42:02.980 to crazy

00:42:04.140 Alex Jones

00:42:04.880 type conspiracy

00:42:05.740 theories,

00:42:06.800 and we need,

00:42:07.640 remember,

00:42:08.140 to be involved

00:42:09.880 in our government

00:42:10.440 and have good

00:42:11.060 outcome,

00:42:12.300 we have to have

00:42:12.740 good input,

00:42:13.460 and we need

00:42:13.880 information to make

00:42:14.660 good decisions.

00:42:15.980 Right,

00:42:16.500 that's what I'm

00:42:16.940 saying,

00:42:17.340 it's just with,

00:42:17.980 like I say,

00:42:18.780 it's just some

00:42:19.800 of the stuff

00:42:20.320 where the media,

00:42:21.240 the way they

00:42:21.600 handle stuff,

00:42:22.380 especially where

00:42:23.480 the election

00:42:24.160 with fake news,

00:42:25.580 that's just

00:42:25.980 feeding into

00:42:26.720 people,

00:42:27.120 no I'm serious,

00:42:27.660 that's feeding

00:42:28.320 into people,

00:42:29.380 that, you know,

00:42:29.900 everybody's on the

00:42:30.500 internet coming up

00:42:31.300 with, well this

00:42:31.880 guy, and it's

00:42:32.960 hard, I mean,

00:42:33.580 that's why the

00:42:34.060 police chief,

00:42:34.780 he's like,

00:42:36.040 we don't want to

00:42:37.040 say anything

00:42:37.900 because we're not

00:42:38.960 sure, because they

00:42:39.640 don't want to

00:42:39.960 start just mentioning

00:42:40.720 things, and people

00:42:41.440 be like, well,

00:42:41.900 you said this a

00:42:42.920 week ago, well,

00:42:43.960 you know what I

00:42:44.440 mean, so it's a

00:42:45.160 weird thing, but

00:42:46.680 it's a sick thing

00:42:48.140 that happened, and

00:42:49.400 it's very sickening

00:42:50.600 for basically them

00:42:52.140 to just right off

00:42:52.800 the bat, oh, the

00:42:53.400 guns, the guns,

00:42:54.180 the guns, it's the

00:42:56.320 person, if the guy

00:42:57.640 where there's a

00:42:58.120 festival, he rented

00:42:58.980 a truck and drove

00:42:59.860 right in the

00:43:00.300 festival, what are

00:43:01.080 you going to start

00:43:01.480 taking people's

00:43:02.200 license away?

00:43:03.220 You know, I

00:43:03.560 mean, it's very

00:43:05.500 sickening, and it's

00:43:06.300 a real tragedy that

00:43:07.740 it's just, it's

00:43:08.840 horrible.

00:43:09.240 Dave, thanks, yeah,

00:43:10.500 no, I appreciate the

00:43:11.280 comments, Dave, thank

00:43:12.060 you so much.

00:43:13.080 He's right about

00:43:13.800 that, but it's

00:43:14.260 ironic that the

00:43:15.500 people who keep

00:43:16.180 saying, how come

00:43:17.180 you're not calling

00:43:18.180 it terrorism, are

00:43:20.120 the same people,

00:43:20.960 because of his

00:43:21.820 whiteness, right,

00:43:22.700 the people on the

00:43:23.280 liberals, how come

00:43:24.440 you're not calling

00:43:24.900 it terrorism, are

00:43:26.100 the same people

00:43:26.660 blaming the gun?

00:43:27.820 Yeah.

00:43:28.360 Okay, number one,

00:43:29.620 is it terrorism?

00:43:31.420 Then why are you

00:43:31.780 blaming the gun?

00:43:33.020 Number two, we need

00:43:34.900 to know motive before

00:43:35.800 we can call it

00:43:36.420 terrorism.

00:43:37.080 When it comes down

00:43:37.820 to motive, why

00:43:38.760 are you worried

00:43:39.080 about the gun?

00:43:40.200 See what I'm

00:43:40.520 saying?

00:43:41.100 Now, one thing I

00:43:41.880 will say to Dave's

00:43:42.540 point where he said

00:43:43.060 about all the

00:43:43.500 cameras, and I

00:43:44.860 lived in Vegas in

00:43:45.540 the 90s, and have

00:43:47.360 some friends who

00:43:48.180 had worked security

00:43:49.460 at hotels, some

00:43:50.260 other friends that

00:43:50.780 worked in there.

00:43:51.620 When you go into

00:43:52.260 the secure rooms

00:43:53.280 where they have it,

00:43:54.360 and now I'm sure

00:43:55.080 it's even more

00:43:55.520 high-tech, it's

00:43:56.540 just monitors all

00:43:58.600 over the walls,

00:43:59.860 dozens and dozens

00:44:00.760 of monitors, because

00:44:02.080 they have multiple

00:44:02.940 cameras on every

00:44:04.140 table, multiple

00:44:05.420 cameras all over the

00:44:06.840 casino floor, not

00:44:07.680 directly on tables.

00:44:08.760 They have cameras

00:44:10.100 everywhere, but

00:44:10.940 almost all of the

00:44:12.120 cameras at a

00:44:13.020 casino, at these

00:44:14.200 properties, are

00:44:16.340 inside and

00:44:18.020 surrounding the

00:44:19.560 casino floor, or

00:44:20.640 cage.

00:44:21.420 They do have other

00:44:22.300 cameras on their

00:44:22.960 property outside, they

00:44:24.020 do have other ones in

00:44:24.880 hotel lobbies, they

00:44:29.220 have them in the

00:44:29.660 hallway, stuff like

00:44:30.460 that, but most of

00:44:31.940 them are inside.

00:44:33.000 Remember, he was

00:44:34.000 shooting out of the

00:44:34.900 32nd floor, so there

00:44:36.780 would likely be no

00:44:37.540 cameras aimed at the

00:44:38.660 32nd floor, he

00:44:39.780 would be out on the

00:44:40.480 street, and even

00:44:41.820 those would be more

00:44:42.600 limited.

00:44:43.460 Likely, there are

00:44:44.220 some from out in

00:44:45.040 front of some of the

00:44:45.660 casinos that would

00:44:46.360 have some vantage point

00:44:48.540 with video, but what's

00:44:50.160 more interesting and

00:44:51.080 shocking is that we

00:44:52.840 haven't seen any

00:44:53.460 videos, even what was

00:44:54.560 happening inside on the

00:44:56.380 casino floor, because

00:44:57.240 you know those people

00:44:57.880 start, wait, people

00:44:58.660 getting shot outside,

00:44:59.500 wait, wait.

00:45:00.040 Yeah, people leaving.

00:45:01.040 Leaving, coming and

00:45:01.740 going, or in the hotel

00:45:03.080 hallways, of him

00:45:05.140 walking to and from

00:45:06.700 the room with those

00:45:07.400 bags, and that would

00:45:09.040 be up to the Mandalay

00:45:09.740 Bay to release, likely

00:45:11.180 police have gotten

00:45:11.980 that information from

00:45:12.960 Mandalay, or police are

00:45:15.040 not releasing it because

00:45:15.860 it's evidence.

00:45:16.380 So I was able to do a

00:45:17.400 little bit more research

00:45:18.260 on the hotel that he

00:45:21.080 tried to get last

00:45:22.320 weekend.

00:45:22.680 Yes, do we know

00:45:23.160 which one it was?

00:45:23.700 It was the Ogden, O-G-D-E-N. 1.00

00:45:26.720 Ogden, I'm not sure

00:45:27.420 where that is.

00:45:27.920 So I'm looking at a

00:45:29.520 picture here, and it is

00:45:31.240 right across the street

00:45:32.280 from the concert

00:45:32.940 grounds that took

00:45:34.380 place, the beautiful

00:45:36.020 Life is Beautiful

00:45:36.980 concert.

00:45:37.560 Right.

00:45:37.800 Open air, just like

00:45:39.040 the last one.

00:45:40.260 The Ogden, I don't

00:45:41.620 know where it is, but

00:45:42.960 I'll show you.

00:45:44.280 Yeah, if it's right

00:45:44.800 across.

00:45:45.200 Yeah, so it's really

00:45:46.520 interesting that you

00:45:47.980 could see the same

00:45:49.900 advantage point that he

00:45:52.000 had for the Mandalay

00:45:53.940 Bay.

00:45:54.360 Actually, this one has a

00:45:55.620 better advantage point

00:45:57.840 than the Mandalay

00:45:58.960 Bay, because you're right

00:46:00.020 across the street from

00:46:00.760 it.

00:46:00.940 And it's like two

00:46:02.840 towers.

00:46:03.340 It's actually on the

00:46:03.940 same side of the strip

00:46:05.000 as it looks like.

00:46:06.540 So it's not across the

00:46:07.400 street.

00:46:07.640 It would be across, but

00:46:08.460 behind.

00:46:09.100 So, wow.

00:46:09.640 Yeah.

00:46:10.600 Who knows?

00:46:11.380 Who knows why he was

00:46:12.000 doing that?

00:46:12.480 Interesting.

00:46:13.240 All right, we'll get

00:46:13.900 some more calls coming

00:46:14.640 up here.

00:46:15.020 Let's get to Mick in

00:46:16.760 Ohio.

00:46:17.380 Hey, Mick, how are you?

00:46:19.320 Hey, how's it going?

00:46:20.600 Good, sir.

00:46:21.000 Glad to be on.

00:46:22.940 Hey, I just had a real

00:46:24.940 quick one on the bump

00:46:26.360 stock.

00:46:26.940 Um, if people want to

00:46:28.920 get a good idea, because

00:46:29.780 everybody's trying to

00:46:30.460 explain it, if you know

00:46:31.860 a carpenter that uses a

00:46:33.780 nail gun, if you try to

00:46:35.640 fire a nail gun in

00:46:36.960 between two studs, the

00:46:39.060 recoil of it, it just

00:46:41.060 keeps firing until you

00:46:42.700 can get your finger off

00:46:43.560 the trigger.

00:46:43.940 I mean, it, and I've

00:46:46.280 shot automatic weapons

00:46:48.140 before when I was in

00:46:49.120 the military, so it's

00:46:50.920 very similar to the

00:46:52.080 same kind of, same kind

00:46:54.360 of action that happens.

00:46:56.500 It's funny, and Mick,

00:46:57.620 thanks so much for the

00:46:58.300 clarification.

00:46:58.940 I really appreciate it.

00:46:59.700 Thanks for the call,

00:47:00.300 too.

00:47:00.740 Uh, Jason Buttrell, who

00:47:01.720 is a chief researcher for

00:47:02.960 Glenn Beck in the hallway

00:47:04.400 yesterday, was chatting

00:47:05.240 with me about this.

00:47:06.420 He has a military history.

00:47:08.100 He's been involved in a

00:47:09.280 lot of special ops.

00:47:10.440 He works with Operation

00:47:12.100 Underground Railroad and

00:47:12.960 some other stuff.

00:47:13.960 Really sharp guy.

00:47:15.400 And we talked about this

00:47:16.680 bump stock.

00:47:18.540 Jason and I are like

00:47:19.600 minded in that I don't

00:47:20.720 think there should be

00:47:21.440 restrictions on automatic

00:47:22.520 weapons.

00:47:23.000 A lot of you listening are

00:47:24.020 like, I can't believe you'd

00:47:24.740 say that.

00:47:25.060 I'm a proud Second

00:47:25.660 Amendment supporter,

00:47:26.360 Doc, but I can't, you

00:47:27.640 know, have people run

00:47:28.400 around with automatic

00:47:29.000 weapons.

00:47:29.800 Well, as we know, they're

00:47:30.680 already outlawed anyways,

00:47:31.540 but I know it's all a

00:47:33.840 slippery slope, so it's

00:47:35.500 all or nothing in my mind.

00:47:37.160 Therefore, I would rather

00:47:37.760 have all with no

00:47:38.720 restrictions.

00:47:39.700 So Jason says, yeah, he

00:47:41.380 doesn't believe in

00:47:41.860 there's restrictions, but

00:47:42.780 we also both agreed that

00:47:44.580 if the law says that we

00:47:46.600 cannot have automatic

00:47:47.540 weapons, these bump

00:47:48.840 stocks are circumventing

00:47:49.960 it, they should be

00:47:50.540 illegal.

00:47:51.100 Oh, yeah.

00:47:51.620 Well, that makes sense

00:47:52.560 within the context of I

00:47:54.220 think they should all be

00:47:55.300 legal.

00:47:55.600 But if you have a law and

00:47:57.800 you're circumventing it this

00:47:58.860 other way, that's BS.

00:48:00.280 Yeah.

00:48:00.680 Can't do that.

00:48:01.440 It's like a bandaid.

00:48:02.820 Right.

00:48:03.260 Yeah.

00:48:03.420 It's like you're trying to

00:48:04.660 you found a loop around it

00:48:06.040 and that's not right.

00:48:06.940 So they shouldn't be

00:48:08.420 again.

00:48:09.860 Again, maybe they need a

00:48:10.680 disclaimer here.

00:48:12.080 I, Doc Thompson, do

00:48:13.960 nor do not support

00:48:15.080 restrictions on the Second

00:48:16.780 Amendment.

00:48:18.180 Shall not be infringed.

00:48:19.960 Number of weapons, types of

00:48:21.580 weapons.

00:48:22.100 You want to have a nuclear 0.78

00:48:22.660 device?

00:48:23.140 I'm fine with it.

00:48:23.980 Good to go.

00:48:24.820 Is that good enough?

00:48:25.380 Is that all right?

00:48:25.820 That's good.

00:48:26.420 Yeah.

00:48:26.580 All right.

00:48:26.880 More tweets, probably

00:48:28.020 disclaimers coming up as

00:48:29.120 well.

00:48:29.480 And some of your calls on

00:48:30.460 the Glenn Beck program.

00:48:34.200 Glenn Beck.

00:48:39.400 Glenn Beck.

00:48:42.520 Join the program.

00:48:43.560 Triple eight, seven, two,

00:48:44.380 seven, back or follow at

00:48:45.820 Doc Thompson show and tweet

00:48:47.140 at me.

00:48:47.500 It's at Doc Thompson show.

00:48:49.120 Some tweets coming in right

00:48:50.420 now.

00:48:50.900 You got Eric Miller.

00:48:52.180 What I learned today.

00:48:52.860 I just found out, just

00:48:54.020 found your show, Doc.

00:48:55.420 Subscribe on iTunes and

00:48:56.940 that Chris Cruz is witty

00:48:58.540 and funny.

00:49:01.100 That's the tweet you came

00:49:02.220 up with to read.

00:49:03.200 Oh, no, no.

00:49:03.660 There's more, but I just

00:49:04.760 want to, you know, he

00:49:05.640 says he found you and he

00:49:09.300 subscribed to your channel

00:49:10.540 serving there.

00:49:11.480 And, you know, Chris Cruz

00:49:13.140 is witty and funny.

00:49:14.420 Is that even a real tweet?

00:49:15.020 I know.

00:49:15.380 It's like, oh, when you

00:49:17.640 read those tweets, you

00:49:18.700 also pick the ones that

00:49:19.880 highlight your

00:49:21.100 that tweet was from at

00:49:24.320 Chris Cruz's mom in

00:49:25.640 Florida.

00:49:26.480 That's that's who it is.

00:49:27.420 Real Chris.

00:49:28.160 Chris mom in Florida.

00:49:29.580 Something like that.

00:49:30.780 Yeah.

00:49:31.200 By the way, he didn't

00:49:31.940 mention that Chris's whole.

00:49:34.040 Yeah.

00:49:34.140 He was going to stay at the

00:49:35.020 Ogden information was a

00:49:36.340 little bit off.

00:49:37.640 What do you mean?

00:49:38.260 The Ogden is downtown

00:49:39.520 Vegas.

00:49:39.980 If it's on Fremont Street,

00:49:41.320 it's downtown.

00:49:41.880 OK, I didn't know.

00:49:44.040 Yeah, it's like it was.

00:49:45.100 OK, the report said a

00:49:47.840 couple miles north of the

00:49:50.120 Mandela Bay.

00:49:50.760 Now, in my mind, I'm

00:49:52.080 thinking, OK, it's just up

00:49:54.220 the street.

00:49:54.820 No, no.

00:49:55.080 Two main gambling hubs in

00:49:56.440 Vegas.

00:49:56.840 OK, you got the strip

00:49:57.940 between Sahara and then the

00:49:59.620 south end.

00:50:00.400 OK, and then the strip

00:50:01.140 continues, although the

00:50:02.160 stratosphere is north of

00:50:03.280 Sahara and whatever.

00:50:04.120 Those main gambling up

00:50:05.540 there or Fremont Street

00:50:06.740 with the Fremont Street

00:50:07.760 experience.

00:50:08.300 But I wasn't familiar

00:50:09.840 with the Ogden.

00:50:10.820 Looks like a nice place.

00:50:12.540 Looks very sharp.

00:50:13.240 I like it.

00:50:13.520 It does.

00:50:13.820 It does.

00:50:14.440 You also got Mr. D.

00:50:15.520 Camp Director tweeting

00:50:16.420 out, TMB disclaimer, is

00:50:18.180 Doc Thompson responsible

00:50:19.320 for your own feelings of

00:50:21.120 inadequacy?

00:50:23.420 Inadequacy?

00:50:24.420 Yeah.

00:50:26.220 Inequatacy?

00:50:27.020 You know, I received a lot

00:50:27.940 of emails yesterday about

00:50:29.180 like six of saying that I

00:50:31.660 should quit radio because I

00:50:33.000 can't pronounce words.

00:50:34.540 Wow, that's really harsh.

00:50:36.020 I think it's the name of the

00:50:36.660 submarine you take down

00:50:37.540 below, the inequatacy.

00:50:39.060 Oh, is that what it is?

00:50:40.880 Is that what it is?

00:50:42.220 Thank you, Cal.

00:50:42.860 You know, what can I do?

00:50:44.340 Cal, thank you.

00:50:45.380 No, and what people have

00:50:46.380 to remember, yes, Spanish

00:50:48.240 is your first language,

00:50:49.120 having grown up in Puerto

00:50:50.860 Rico.

00:50:51.460 Yes.

00:50:51.760 But although English is a 0.96

00:50:54.280 challenge, you speak two

00:50:55.740 languages poorly.

00:50:57.940 Oh, what?

00:50:59.480 Really?

00:50:59.880 You speak two languages

00:51:00.820 poorly.

00:51:01.780 Poorly?

00:51:02.260 What?

00:51:02.460 I'm sorry.

00:51:02.900 What?

00:51:04.040 How is your Spanish?

00:51:05.680 OK.

00:51:07.540 So over the weekend, I'm

00:51:10.640 trying to communicate with

00:51:11.600 the San Juan mayor and I

00:51:13.400 realized I was like, oh, my

00:51:14.920 God, I forgot Spanish.

00:51:17.960 I'm in Google

00:51:19.120 translate, trying to translate

00:51:21.300 my own language.

00:51:22.100 I'm like, I can't inform

00:51:23.420 on this.

00:51:24.100 And some of the tweeters that

00:51:25.280 are following from Puerto Rico,

00:51:26.220 they're like, Chris, what is

00:51:27.740 this?

00:51:28.060 You're like a third grader.

00:51:28.980 You're not making any sense.

00:51:30.480 Your sentence structure is

00:51:32.280 completely wrong.

00:51:33.280 Wow.

00:51:33.440 I'm like, oh, my God, I

00:51:35.060 know English or Spanish.

00:51:36.420 So I'm in the middle.

00:51:38.200 How do you say inequality

00:51:39.040 in Spanish?

00:51:40.260 In inequality?

00:51:41.420 I don't even know what it

00:51:42.020 is.

00:51:42.260 What is it?

00:51:42.740 We don't know.

00:51:43.620 Inadequacy.

00:51:44.560 I don't know.

00:51:45.980 He's inadequate.

00:51:46.840 That's ironic.

00:51:48.560 By the way, yesterday, two

00:51:50.960 workers were spotted in Las

00:51:52.380 Vegas outside of, I think,

00:51:53.940 the Wynn Hotel in sports

00:51:57.740 blue jackets, sports coats,

00:52:00.500 black pants working for the

00:52:02.020 hotel, next to them, a table

00:52:03.960 with metal detectors.

00:52:07.820 Going in or out?

00:52:09.180 As people went into the Wynn

00:52:10.960 to check in, they began

00:52:13.820 checking bags with metal

00:52:16.800 detectors.

00:52:17.440 No.

00:52:18.360 This is what's being reported.

00:52:20.700 They said that it was about a

00:52:22.160 10-minute long wait to get

00:52:23.880 into the Wynn.

00:52:26.180 And the Wynn says, yes, they

00:52:28.520 are going to now check bags.

00:52:30.420 What do you feel about that,

00:52:32.760 Chris Cruz?

00:52:33.560 That makes no sense, Doc

00:52:34.800 Thompson.

00:52:35.900 Here's the reason this doesn't

00:52:37.060 make sense.

00:52:37.660 Based on the fact of, where

00:52:39.200 else do we get this level of

00:52:40.300 screening?

00:52:41.540 TSA.

00:52:42.240 How has that worked out for us?

00:52:44.560 Horrible.

00:52:45.440 Okay.

00:52:45.720 Now, this is private, so it

00:52:47.700 would probably be more

00:52:48.580 effective than TSA.

00:52:49.780 It's not government.

00:52:51.060 But here's something you need

00:52:52.160 to remember.

00:52:53.900 The Wynn, do you know how many

00:52:55.800 rooms these hotels have in

00:52:57.020 them?

00:52:57.620 Hundreds.

00:52:59.580 Thousands?

00:52:59.980 The Wynn has 4,750 rooms.

00:53:06.320 Wow.

00:53:07.740 But isn't there like different

00:53:09.400 entrances?

00:53:10.380 Because I remember when I

00:53:11.100 stayed at the Pyramid.

00:53:12.020 Yeah, they have a lot of

00:53:13.260 entrances.

00:53:14.140 But usually these are big

00:53:16.000 resorts.

00:53:16.620 They're huge in Vegas.

00:53:18.000 And they have one main

00:53:19.400 entrance to check in.

00:53:20.880 But you could go in other

00:53:21.760 entrances as well.

00:53:22.700 But yeah, that means you're

00:53:23.600 going to, are they going to

00:53:24.860 segregate where you can only

00:53:26.120 get into the area where you

00:53:28.800 stay if you go through the

00:53:29.900 metal detector?

00:53:30.720 And then what if I head out

00:53:31.520 on the strip and then I come

00:53:32.420 back in?

00:53:32.840 Are the people are going

00:53:33.680 through them or just the

00:53:34.380 bags?

00:53:34.880 And then could I just put a

00:53:35.960 gun on me and get through?

00:53:37.360 And then how about the people

00:53:38.320 that work there?

00:53:39.320 There are countless ways to

00:53:40.820 cheat this.

00:53:42.060 This is, in my opinion, so

00:53:44.060 far, the illusion of

00:53:45.180 security.

00:53:46.900 Now, the Wynn is not the

00:53:49.120 biggest hotel in Vegas.

00:53:50.200 There are others.

00:53:50.900 What if they all follow suit?

00:53:52.760 Yeah.

00:53:53.740 Phoenix is the number 10 most

00:53:55.620 number of hotel rooms by city

00:53:57.660 in the U.S.

00:53:59.080 It has 62,000.

00:54:00.780 Wow.

00:54:01.780 Las Vegas has 170,000.

00:54:04.300 Wow.

00:54:05.020 Just to put it into perspective.

00:54:06.560 Orlando has 120.

00:54:09.400 Six of the top 10 hotels by

00:54:11.580 number of rooms in the world

00:54:12.920 are in Las Vegas.

00:54:14.240 All of them, thousands.

00:54:16.080 I remember when the MGM opened

00:54:18.460 in 1993, I think it was, they

00:54:21.120 had 5,009 rooms.

00:54:23.060 25 of the top 50 hotels by room

00:54:26.100 number are in Las Vegas.

00:54:28.460 Do you know what this is going

00:54:29.440 to do to the lines as you check

00:54:31.520 in?

00:54:34.800 Glenn Beck.

00:54:42.600 This is the Glenn Beck

00:54:43.900 program.

00:54:44.380 Doc Thompson in for Glenn along

00:54:46.920 with Chris Cruz and Cal.

00:54:48.460 Thanks so much for joining us.

00:54:49.940 All right.

00:54:50.180 Moving on now, we got to get

00:54:51.700 some of the other news of the

00:54:52.640 day, including President Trump

00:54:54.760 in Puerto Rico.

00:54:56.620 And before we go any farther,

00:54:58.000 I'm going to need a disclaimer

00:55:00.280 at this point.

00:55:02.160 Hi, Doc Thompson.

00:55:03.680 Support much of what the

00:55:04.780 president has done.

00:55:05.860 I think he has been unfairly at

00:55:07.540 times criticized in the media.

00:55:09.260 I did not vote for him.

00:55:10.240 Of course, I did not vote for

00:55:11.360 that heinous person, Hillary 0.99

00:55:12.400 Clinton, because I vote on track

00:55:13.540 record and she is a

00:55:14.340 progressive.

00:55:15.060 Trump didn't have much of a

00:55:15.980 track record and what he did, I

00:55:17.040 question.

00:55:17.520 That's the reason I did not

00:55:18.400 support him.

00:55:19.180 I do, of course, support him as

00:55:20.240 president.

00:55:20.660 Hope he does good things.

00:55:21.680 And I've given him fairly high

00:55:22.760 marks on things like the Supreme

00:55:24.000 Court nominee that he put forth.

00:55:26.560 Having said all of that, we will

00:55:28.220 now begin to criticize

00:55:29.380 President Trump.

00:55:30.820 Was that all right?

00:55:32.240 Was that all right?

00:55:32.840 That was pretty good off the top of

00:55:33.980 the head there.

00:55:34.400 We just need you to do, you know

00:55:35.360 how they do the disclaimer?

00:55:37.140 We realize you need to do it much

00:55:39.200 faster, speed it up there a little

00:55:40.880 bit.

00:55:41.440 All right.

00:55:41.880 President Trump has been pretty

00:55:43.640 good with the handling of natural

00:55:45.400 disasters.

00:55:46.200 He did what a president does.

00:55:48.180 You open up the purse strings.

00:55:51.600 Hey, there's going to be FEMA money, 0.66

00:55:53.080 natural disaster, all of this.

00:55:55.020 Both the presidents, or excuse me,

00:55:58.120 the governors of Florida and Texas

00:56:00.740 did a good job for the two

00:56:01.920 hurricanes that came through.

00:56:03.380 But President Trump was very good

00:56:05.160 there.

00:56:05.880 They tried to criticize him, they

00:56:07.460 being the media and people on the

00:56:08.580 left.

00:56:09.020 For those two, it didn't happen.

00:56:11.200 He did a pretty good job with

00:56:13.020 Puerto Rico.

00:56:14.020 Early on, did a pretty good job.

00:56:16.080 They were not letting it be.

00:56:17.720 They had to come out and find some

00:56:19.140 ways to criticize him.

00:56:21.160 He has done a pretty good job.

00:56:22.920 I was fine with him criticizing the

00:56:25.320 mayor of San Juan.

00:56:27.140 Yep.

00:56:27.560 Julian Cruz.

00:56:28.440 She is clearly a leftist.

00:56:30.200 She was pretending like, you know,

00:56:34.040 President Trump was leaving them

00:56:35.800 high and dry, even though he had

00:56:37.280 opened up the purse strings.

00:56:38.280 He had sent the military, the 0.84

00:56:39.420 National Guard.

00:56:40.220 He sent the trauma ship.

00:56:41.720 He did all of those things, worked

00:56:43.340 on repealing the Jones Act, even if

00:56:44.940 only temporary.

00:56:45.800 All of these things.

00:56:47.500 Having said all of that, when he

00:56:49.000 went to Puerto Rico, he looked kind

00:56:50.420 of goofy.

00:56:51.060 What are you doing?

00:56:52.120 I like him, though.

00:56:52.900 I really, I really, it's a side

00:56:55.040 that I like from Trump.

00:56:57.340 When he is, you know, visiting

00:56:59.480 people like this, I actually, when

00:57:01.300 I saw him, I was super excited.

00:57:03.540 He did not let me down.

00:57:05.140 Everything that he did, literally

00:57:06.840 checked my boxes of, okay, this

00:57:08.700 guy's pretty cool.

00:57:09.520 Even the throw in the paper towels.

00:57:10.820 Oh, man, he had a good follow-up,

00:57:12.080 man.

00:57:12.280 He's all about the follow-up.

00:57:13.560 You know, he's like, he knows.

00:57:15.360 We do provide good basketball players.

00:57:18.040 I'll give him that.

00:57:19.060 We do provide good basketball players.

00:57:20.520 He was like, all right, Puerto Rico,

00:57:22.000 here's your chance.

00:57:22.680 Sure, he has a good jump shot, but at

00:57:25.660 the full court press, he's horrible.

00:57:27.400 He's not playing good D, Chris.

00:57:29.240 He's not hustling down to the other

00:57:30.740 end of the court.

00:57:31.680 And where's his rebounding?

00:57:33.300 That is true.

00:57:33.840 He has to do more suicides.

00:57:35.060 You know, more suicides.

00:57:36.040 So they're saying you want to apply

00:57:36.840 him as a jump shot specialist or

00:57:38.940 something.

00:57:39.140 Yes.

00:57:39.440 Okay, that's fine.

00:57:40.340 But, you know, you got to play

00:57:41.460 both ends of the court.

00:57:42.300 Okay, I'll give you that.

00:57:43.520 I'll give you that.

00:57:44.360 I'll give you that.

00:57:44.900 So that's the type of sports talk

00:57:46.860 you normally don't get on the

00:57:47.780 Glenn Beck program.

00:57:48.960 And by that, I mean sports talk.

00:57:51.100 Okay, so I was fine with that.

00:57:52.660 It was a little silly.

00:57:53.440 They were criticizing him.

00:57:54.360 But his comments about money and

00:57:57.760 the budget in Puerto Rico, not

00:57:59.740 inaccurate.

00:58:00.540 I know he's a guy who just kind of,

00:58:02.060 you know, throws it out there.

00:58:03.960 You got to know you're going to

00:58:04.880 step in it.

00:58:05.420 I know he's not concerned about

00:58:06.940 the media criticizing him or the

00:58:08.780 left or anything like this, but

00:58:10.660 you're not as effective of a

00:58:12.000 leader when you say things like

00:58:13.320 he said.

00:58:14.560 All right, here's President Trump

00:58:15.680 talking about the budgets.

00:58:18.020 Now, I hate to tell you, Puerto 1.00

00:58:19.820 Rico, but you've thrown our

00:58:20.980 budget a little out of whack

00:58:22.200 because we've spent a lot of

00:58:24.220 money on Puerto Rico and that's 0.73

00:58:25.920 fine.

00:58:26.240 We've saved a lot of lives.

00:58:27.740 If you look at the, every death

00:58:30.520 is a horror.

00:58:32.100 But if you look at a real 0.57

00:58:34.720 catastrophe like Katrina and you

00:58:38.060 look at the tremendous hundreds

00:58:40.240 hundreds and hundreds and hundreds

00:58:41.400 of people that died and you look

00:58:43.940 at what happened here with really

00:58:45.380 a storm that was just totally

00:58:48.300 overpowering.

00:58:49.060 Nobody's ever seen anything like

00:58:50.460 this.

00:58:51.640 This goes to my point when we

00:58:53.240 started the show that we don't

00:58:54.280 give each other the benefit of the

00:58:55.400 doubt anymore.

00:58:56.300 No, we don't.

00:58:56.920 He brought it back a little bit

00:58:58.040 when he said, listen, people have

00:58:59.020 died.

00:58:59.520 That's fine.

00:59:00.380 He was drawing a comparison to

00:59:01.820 Katrina.

00:59:02.240 That's fine.

00:59:03.760 But that's going to get you in

00:59:05.260 trouble every time.

00:59:06.140 And as much as many people did

00:59:10.020 not give him the benefit of the

00:59:11.200 doubt that he did not mean bad

00:59:12.880 things, he also did not realize

00:59:15.940 that there's a lot of people

00:59:18.060 hurting right now.

00:59:19.440 There's a lot of people in Puerto

00:59:20.820 Rico that are struggling.

00:59:22.800 So when you lay out facts that way,

00:59:26.280 they come across insensitive.

00:59:29.700 And in normal circumstances, we'd

00:59:32.740 say, come on, man up, get a little

00:59:33.940 tougher there, and that's fine.

00:59:36.200 But while people are still in this

00:59:39.580 much peril, I mean, there are people

00:59:41.460 that are still facing all kinds of

00:59:43.760 challenges, health challenges, food,

00:59:45.700 shelter in Puerto Rico.

00:59:47.620 Maybe the president drawing what seemed

00:59:49.680 like a callous comparison, not very

00:59:52.520 timely.

00:59:53.480 Worst thing he's done, horrible.

00:59:55.680 No, probably shouldn't have gone

00:59:57.300 there.

00:59:57.900 Do you agree?

00:59:58.820 I agree.

00:59:59.400 But he was right with that first 1.00

01:00:02.020 comment about Puerto Rico.

01:00:03.940 Uh, mishandling their money.

01:00:06.560 It's one of the things, even when I

01:00:08.200 visited Puerto Rico, I think it was

01:00:09.280 last year, um, I looked around and I'm

01:00:11.420 like, wait a minute, what is going on

01:00:12.920 here?

01:00:13.640 You know, to be a beautiful island, you

01:00:16.120 know, touristic San Juan and you have

01:00:19.320 all these wasting money.

01:00:20.880 Where is it going?

01:00:22.180 Well, Puerto Rico just had a default.

01:00:25.580 They just went through billions of

01:00:27.480 dollars.

01:00:28.220 Uh, this has been something they've been

01:00:29.480 struggling with for decades.

01:00:30.720 They keep trying to get out in front

01:00:32.140 of it.

01:00:32.340 Yeah.

01:00:32.520 The poor economy hurt everybody.

01:00:34.020 There was a bond issue, like a lot of

01:00:35.520 different, uh, uh, places in America,

01:00:37.920 state cities, whatever that was an

01:00:39.540 issue.

01:00:40.400 Um, but you're supposed to plan for

01:00:42.880 these things.

01:00:43.820 You, you have to have politicians are

01:00:46.060 supposed to have politicians just like

01:00:47.340 you do in your business or personal

01:00:48.600 life that say during the lean times

01:00:50.680 and we have, or during fatty times

01:00:52.360 and you have stuff coming in, you've

01:00:53.640 got to put some things away and plan for

01:00:55.120 the lean times and they do not do it.

01:00:56.700 Puerto Rico has had some sketchy

01:00:58.500 politicians, some people who have not

01:01:00.120 done what's right.

01:01:01.240 They have not prepared it.

01:01:03.680 And we are going to be on the hook at

01:01:05.620 one point for the, the debt of loss of,

01:01:09.340 um, uh, Puerto Rico, like we would be

01:01:11.960 anywhere else one way or another.

01:01:13.880 That's coming.

01:01:14.560 Trump even suggested that.

01:01:16.280 Yeah.

01:01:16.780 And then, uh, Trump also said that, uh,

01:01:19.540 he's going to wipe, uh, wipe out the

01:01:22.080 debt, Puerto Rico bonds after, uh, do

01:01:25.680 not know, but he says anything that is

01:01:27.040 owed to the government that he has

01:01:28.440 control over.

01:01:29.220 First of all, I don't know if he can

01:01:30.640 unilaterally do that as president, he

01:01:32.960 likely would have some money that would

01:01:34.560 be owed through the executive branch.

01:01:37.020 If it was things like military, where he

01:01:38.540 could wipe it out by paying for it

01:01:41.020 somewhere else or something.

01:01:42.700 Um, but he is not exclusively in

01:01:45.300 control, nor is he to any bond debt

01:01:47.940 that would be owed to people outside of

01:01:49.420 the federal government.

01:01:50.860 So this is a quote that he says, he

01:01:52.560 says, they owe a lot of money to our

01:01:54.620 friends on wall street and we're going

01:01:56.640 to have to wipe that out.

01:01:58.420 You're going to say goodbye to that.

01:02:00.500 I don't know if it's Goldman Sachs, but

01:02:03.300 whoever it is, you can wave goodbye to

01:02:05.900 that.

01:02:06.620 Okay.

01:02:07.100 So he wasn't talking the government or

01:02:08.700 the executive branch.

01:02:09.660 He was talking about people on wall

01:02:11.280 street.

01:02:11.720 Yeah.

01:02:12.560 Um, okay.

01:02:13.700 Here's the problem.

01:02:15.960 Wall street is not some, uh,

01:02:19.420 um, uh, inanimate object that is not

01:02:23.820 connected to people.

01:02:25.240 Wall street means a system, a system

01:02:28.840 of investors and ways to invest

01:02:32.320 companies, organizations that govern

01:02:34.900 and regulate, or you invest through

01:02:36.580 and who invests people.

01:02:39.240 So it's easy to say, you're going to

01:02:41.600 have to say goodbye to that.

01:02:42.860 Just going to have to do that when

01:02:45.240 you're not the one who loses money.

01:02:47.100 It's not just Mr.

01:02:49.360 Goldman Sachs.

01:02:50.640 Hello everybody.

01:02:51.660 I'm Mr.

01:02:52.240 Sachs.

01:02:52.560 You can call me Goldman as show for

01:02:54.500 short, and I have trillions of

01:02:56.400 dollars and I'm able to just forgive a

01:02:59.060 few million dollars here and there

01:03:00.920 because I'm wealthy.

01:03:02.840 Mr.

01:03:03.180 Sachs.

01:03:04.540 No.

01:03:05.760 Goldman Sachs is a company that invests

01:03:08.420 money for who for people.

01:03:10.480 So if they say goodbye to that money,

01:03:13.440 they're saying goodbye to the money

01:03:14.760 from people who invested in Puerto

01:03:16.940 Rico.

01:03:18.560 How about you're the little old lady 1.00

01:03:20.560 in Indiana who invested part of your

01:03:23.640 retirement in something that invested

01:03:26.440 in Puerto Rico?

01:03:28.560 Should she say goodbye to that money?

01:03:30.300 Of course not.

01:03:31.840 Now, there are risks that come with it.

01:03:34.080 And if he simply meant, well, there are

01:03:36.220 risks and that money's gone, they

01:03:37.620 defaulted or whatever, that's fine.

01:03:39.160 But if he means that we should just

01:03:41.360 give that up, that's crazy.

01:03:43.260 Yeah.

01:03:43.800 It's not for him to say.

01:03:45.140 And the market actually responded to

01:03:46.660 that.

01:03:47.060 So it took a.

01:03:49.460 Now, if he's talking about a reset, yes,

01:03:51.840 we have to reset.

01:03:52.960 Of course, there's going to.

01:03:54.400 And by the way, there's eventually

01:03:55.400 going to be a reset in the market.

01:03:56.860 Is it today?

01:03:57.960 I don't know.

01:03:58.780 Is it five years from now?

01:03:59.880 I don't know.

01:04:01.000 Eventually, though, it will reset.

01:04:02.500 That's what markets do. 0.83

01:04:03.740 It is inflated right now.

01:04:06.060 Eventually, it will reset.

01:04:07.140 Whether that reset takes it down 1% or

01:04:09.340 40%.

01:04:10.020 That's what eventually will happen.

01:04:12.860 Stay out of the markets.

01:04:13.860 Leave them alone.

01:04:15.060 Yeah.

01:04:15.180 It took a hit.

01:04:15.700 Actually went dropped to 33 cents on

01:04:17.760 the dollar.

01:04:18.620 Where just last month, it was trading

01:04:20.780 around 56 cents on the dollar.

01:04:23.560 Another clip of your president in

01:04:25.480 Puerto Rico.

01:04:26.080 Here we go.

01:04:26.800 Well, we're going to help the people.

01:04:28.260 You know, look, this had a lot of

01:04:29.520 problems and a lot of debt.

01:04:30.860 They had 72 billion in debt before the

01:04:33.100 hurricanes hit.

01:04:33.820 And they had a power plant that didn't

01:04:35.940 work before the hurricane.

01:04:37.240 So we're going to help them.

01:04:38.300 We're going to do something and we're

01:04:39.480 going to get it back on its feet.

01:04:41.200 But I'm just very, very proud of the

01:04:43.480 fact that, you know, if you look at

01:04:44.580 just one statistic, 16 deaths, that's a

01:04:47.780 lot of deaths, far too many deaths.

01:04:49.380 But 16, if you look at Katrina, they had

01:04:51.760 in the thousands.

01:04:53.600 And this was a storm the likes of which

01:04:55.560 nobody has ever seen.

01:04:57.100 And, you know, we had FEMA here before

01:04:58.560 the storm even came.

01:04:59.540 They were on the island during the storm

01:05:01.340 and they were on the island before the

01:05:02.620 first storm.

01:05:03.120 You got hit by two hurricanes.

01:05:04.800 So we're very proud of the job we've

01:05:07.140 done.

01:05:07.440 Very, very proud.

01:05:08.140 And now we'll have to try and get them

01:05:09.460 back.

01:05:09.880 The power is slowly getting on and the

01:05:12.120 roads are open.

01:05:13.200 The runways are open.

01:05:14.420 So these people that you've met today,

01:05:17.080 all of the different people, first

01:05:18.960 responders, these are incredible

01:05:20.920 people.

01:05:21.500 I totally agree.

01:05:22.720 All right.

01:05:23.260 He's accurate that FEMA was there.

01:05:24.980 He did do a good job.

01:05:26.000 I gave him his props.

01:05:27.280 The 72 billion, you're right.

01:05:28.820 That's how much they were out and

01:05:29.820 they defaulted on and power plant

01:05:32.180 trouble.

01:05:32.680 Sure.

01:05:32.960 The grid has some trouble.

01:05:34.420 What does he mean?

01:05:34.940 We're going to take care of that.

01:05:36.720 Yeah, that's not a thing that kind of

01:05:37.840 scares me again.

01:05:39.420 Puerto Rico is my country with my

01:05:40.820 island.

01:05:41.480 Love them right.

01:05:42.440 But what does that mean?

01:05:43.680 Because if if a president saying,

01:05:45.860 hey, we're going to take care of it.

01:05:47.240 Last time I check.

01:05:48.300 Well, this president has money.

01:05:49.820 But last time I check most of the

01:05:51.520 money that they say they're going to

01:05:52.520 use from the government, the

01:05:54.300 government doesn't own any government

01:05:55.560 doesn't have any money.

01:05:56.260 It's my money.

01:05:56.880 It's my money.

01:05:57.460 It's our money.

01:05:58.020 So that means that I'm going to pay

01:05:59.880 for it.

01:06:00.440 Yes, exactly.

01:06:01.760 Now, so where's that coming from?

01:06:03.520 If he it's fine to lead on this,

01:06:06.020 but if he was saying we're just going

01:06:08.860 to pony up money, I'm happy to help

01:06:11.160 people in in Puerto Rico, even with

01:06:13.000 public funds.

01:06:13.680 But I need assurances just like I do

01:06:15.900 in the rest of America that you are

01:06:19.520 actually doing what you have to do.

01:06:21.560 Balance your budget.

01:06:23.020 Start paying down the national debt.

01:06:24.840 Start finding a way to pay for those

01:06:26.560 unfunded liabilities that are going to

01:06:28.140 come up over the next 10 years.

01:06:29.780 Do all of those things.

01:06:31.380 By the way, get your spending under

01:06:32.680 control.

01:06:33.440 Come up with a new tax plan.

01:06:35.040 Repeal Obamacare.

01:06:36.340 You've got to do all of those things

01:06:37.620 before you promise to build a power

01:06:39.760 plant in Puerto Rico or bail them out

01:06:42.300 of $72 billion.

01:06:44.160 Now, if the president wants to lead on

01:06:46.240 some sort of primarily private slash public

01:06:50.680 partnership, fine.

01:06:52.240 Puerto Rico, there is an opportunity to

01:06:54.920 make money for all of us to make money

01:06:57.900 for Puerto Rico to be kind of a testing

01:07:00.880 ground.

01:07:01.780 It's three and a half, four million

01:07:03.740 people.

01:07:04.700 Yeah, around.

01:07:05.360 Yeah.

01:07:06.680 Not huge.

01:07:08.460 Geographically, but I think broadcast

01:07:12.100 market San Juan is top 20 now, top 15,

01:07:15.640 something like that.

01:07:16.620 And it is American territory.

01:07:18.800 Those are Americans.

01:07:20.440 Well, if you have to rebuild the grid

01:07:21.700 right now and so much was taken down,

01:07:23.300 Chris, let's do it right.

01:07:25.140 Let's use fiber optics.

01:07:26.560 Let's do Wi-Fi throughout the island.

01:07:28.340 Let's do all of this stuff.

01:07:29.780 Now, the government can't pay for it.

01:07:31.140 But if you show people an investment

01:07:32.640 opportunity and we say, hey, people of

01:07:35.760 Puerto Rico, I is a private company and

01:07:38.400 other private companies want to build and

01:07:40.720 this will be a bigger tourist destination.

01:07:42.800 There's opportunities there.

01:07:44.200 Lead that way.

01:07:44.880 That's awesome.

01:07:45.980 No, it is too.

01:07:46.660 And then we learned this morning during

01:07:48.360 our morning headlines that Google is

01:07:51.180 sending Wi-Fi balloons to connect people

01:07:54.160 back to the Internet.

01:07:56.160 They're what?

01:07:57.080 They're sending Wi-Fi balloons, air

01:07:59.260 balloons.

01:07:59.640 Google, one of the largest and most

01:08:02.240 profound technology companies in the

01:08:04.940 world today that has been a trendsetter

01:08:07.760 for a decade or more, that is on the

01:08:10.800 cutting edge of things we don't even

01:08:12.220 understand.

01:08:12.880 And their big technological solution to

01:08:16.200 helping Puerto Rico right now get Wi-Fi

01:08:18.540 established is the balloon.

01:08:21.800 Come on.

01:08:22.900 Wi-Fi balloons.

01:08:24.080 Balloon technology.

01:08:25.100 This is it.

01:08:26.160 Don't worry, folks.

01:08:27.080 We're deploying the most advanced balloon

01:08:30.060 technology available to help.

01:08:32.380 We're here to help.

01:08:33.800 We have balloons.

01:08:35.860 Stand by Puerto Rican.

01:08:39.280 Hang on.

01:08:40.140 We're inflating them now.

01:08:43.900 You'll be up in no time.

01:08:46.220 We've got our IT balloon guys on the

01:08:49.380 ground.

01:08:50.360 They have made landfall.

01:08:53.020 Back Thompson in for Glenn Beck.

01:08:57.600 Glenn Beck.

01:09:04.260 Glenn Beck.

01:09:05.920 Got an idea for Puerto Rico.

01:09:08.580 Ready?

01:09:09.100 I'm ready.

01:09:10.420 Wi-Fi kites.

01:09:11.900 We fly kites.

01:09:13.800 I mean, it's windy.

01:09:14.460 It's an island, right?

01:09:15.220 And you got the Wi-Fi.

01:09:16.500 All right.

01:09:16.720 A little bit more from President Trump

01:09:17.980 now in Puerto Rico.

01:09:19.100 All appropriate departments of our

01:09:21.440 government from Homeland Security to

01:09:23.540 defense are engaged fully in the

01:09:26.160 disaster.

01:09:27.460 And the response and recovery effort

01:09:31.280 probably has never been seen for

01:09:36.320 something like this.

01:09:37.380 This is an island surrounded by water.

01:09:42.580 Big water.

01:09:43.340 Ocean water.

01:09:46.340 Breaking news, guys.

01:09:48.300 Doc, breaking news.

01:09:50.580 President Donald J.

01:09:52.740 Trump has cracked it.

01:09:55.180 An island is surrounded by water, but not just any water.

01:09:59.500 Ocean water.

01:10:00.520 Small ocean water?

01:10:01.980 Big, huge ocean water.

01:10:04.180 Chris, we go to Chris Cruz now,

01:10:05.740 Puerto Rican and correspondent in Puerto Rico.

01:10:08.220 Can you confirm, is it in fact an island?

01:10:10.600 I can confirm it is an island.

01:10:12.320 I want you to look out.

01:10:13.120 Do you see ocean water?

01:10:14.380 I do see ocean.

01:10:15.240 Is it ocean water?

01:10:16.500 It is ocean water.

01:10:17.160 Is it big ocean water?

01:10:18.340 It is big ocean water.

01:10:19.520 Have you walked the entire island surrounded?

01:10:21.800 I have.

01:10:22.340 On all sides?

01:10:23.300 All sides.

01:10:23.920 Not just three sides?

01:10:24.720 Not just three sides.

01:10:25.320 That would be a peninsula.

01:10:26.480 Exactly.

01:10:27.000 So this is in fact an island.

01:10:28.080 This is, yes.

01:10:28.840 Just like Florida.

01:10:29.760 Yes.

01:10:30.060 Oh wait, no.

01:10:30.760 No.

01:10:33.440 Glenn, back.

01:10:34.800 Love.

01:10:43.120 Courage.

01:10:44.500 Truth.

01:10:45.800 Glenn, back.

01:10:47.000 All right.

01:10:47.420 Before the break, we played a clip of President Trump.

01:10:50.640 I want to play this clip again.

01:10:52.600 We did.

01:10:52.920 Again, this is him discussing Puerto Rico and that it's an island.

01:10:57.320 This is an island surrounded by water, big water, ocean water.

01:11:06.340 We have confirmed that it is an island surrounded by water, big water, ocean water.

01:11:11.480 We have in fact.

01:11:12.760 We have confirmed.

01:11:13.960 Chris Cruz has a dry erase board where he's drawn.

01:11:19.000 And it's.

01:11:20.080 This is not to scale, right?

01:11:21.400 It is not.

01:11:22.000 I do not want to scare people out there.

01:11:23.500 This is not to scale.

01:11:25.280 And this is a little rough draft here.

01:11:27.320 As you can see in purple, it's Puerto Rico.

01:11:30.060 And we have water on all four sides.

01:11:32.620 Would make it an island.

01:11:34.660 Yes.

01:11:34.980 By definition.

01:11:35.580 So this is confirmed.

01:11:37.580 And I looked at a map.

01:11:39.120 Can I print it out?

01:11:40.020 So I did my best to draw Puerto Rico.

01:11:41.080 No, I appreciate that.

01:11:42.260 With the limited time you had, that's well done.

01:11:44.860 We'll tweet out a picture of it as well.

01:11:46.380 Yes.

01:11:47.320 Folks, I get what the president was saying.

01:11:50.560 I know he was saying, you know, we've done all this stuff and logistically it's more difficult

01:11:55.620 because it's an island.

01:11:56.980 Right?

01:11:57.680 That's kind of what he was saying.

01:11:58.860 Yeah.

01:11:59.180 Yeah.

01:11:59.560 And I get that he was then trying to stress, it's big water.

01:12:03.800 I mean, it's ocean water between you and you.

01:12:05.360 Just not as articulate.

01:12:06.620 But it's still damn funny.

01:12:07.840 It's funny.

01:12:08.600 And again, it goes back to like.

01:12:10.160 I'm not mocking him.

01:12:11.320 I know what he meant.

01:12:12.500 He's just not as articulate.

01:12:13.760 Got it.

01:12:14.180 But it's still funny.

01:12:15.060 The thing about it too is like, I knew something was going to happen.

01:12:17.760 It's Trump.

01:12:18.480 I love.

01:12:19.020 This is one of the good things I like about Trump.

01:12:21.160 There's something to see.

01:12:22.000 There's something to see.

01:12:22.900 Spectacle.

01:12:23.260 Like something's going to happen where either he's going to say something that is funny

01:12:26.320 or he's going to say something that offends people.

01:12:28.660 And it's still funny for me because I'm like, he just poked you in the eye.

01:12:31.600 Okay.

01:12:31.680 But like when he said that, I was like, okay, so you got him doing layups.

01:12:35.820 You know, he's doing layups over there.

01:12:37.000 With the paper towels.

01:12:37.860 And then now you got him about Puerto Rico has, you know, big water.

01:12:40.960 Okay.

01:12:41.260 Let me hear President Trump one more time.

01:12:43.620 One more time.

01:12:44.260 Just to make sure.

01:12:46.620 This is an island surrounded by water.

01:12:51.600 Yes.

01:12:52.080 Big water.

01:12:53.120 Ocean water.

01:12:54.960 Given that it is an island.

01:12:57.800 Yes.

01:12:58.400 Surrounded by water.

01:12:59.740 Big water.

01:13:00.240 Ocean water.

01:13:00.820 Yes.

01:13:01.500 We have another concern.

01:13:03.320 Oh, wait.

01:13:03.960 What?

01:13:04.640 We go now to Representative Hank Johnson of Georgia.

01:13:07.980 Yeah.

01:13:08.200 My fear is that the whole island will become so overly populated that it will tip over and

01:13:19.540 capsize.

01:13:23.680 We don't anticipate that.

01:13:25.720 The Guam population, I think, currently about 175,000.

01:13:31.140 And again, with 8,000 Marines and their families, it's an addition of about 25,000 more into the

01:13:38.280 population.

01:13:39.600 Good.

01:13:39.760 Good.

01:13:40.120 Okay.

01:13:40.520 So Hank Johnson had some concerns that it could tip over and capsize.

01:13:46.280 But the admiral has set him straight.

01:13:49.400 So we go back to the island.

01:13:51.260 Yes.

01:13:51.540 The picture.

01:13:52.300 Not to scale.

01:13:53.480 Not to scale.

01:13:54.100 Again, I don't want to scare people.

01:13:55.600 Right.

01:13:56.700 If you put all the people, all Puerto Ricans on this side. 0.99

01:13:59.620 That side.

01:14:00.320 On this side.

01:14:00.780 Is it possible it could capsize?

01:14:02.420 It will not capsize.

01:14:03.460 It will not tip over.

01:14:04.500 It will not tip over.

01:14:05.360 Okay.

01:14:05.520 It will not capsize.

01:14:06.360 We are safe to say that all Puerto Ricans can move all 3 million.

01:14:10.480 I think it was what you said.

01:14:11.380 Yes.

01:14:11.400 Three and a half.

01:14:12.200 So, yeah.

01:14:12.380 Can move to this side right here.

01:14:13.660 And you're going to be fine.

01:14:14.880 It will not.

01:14:16.140 It will be fine.

01:14:17.860 It's okay.

01:14:18.420 So do not be scared.

01:14:19.540 Okay.

01:14:19.800 What were those names you just threw out there?

01:14:21.360 Luquillo, Puerto, Rio Grande.

01:14:23.720 Are those cousins of yours?

01:14:24.880 No, no.

01:14:25.240 Those are towns, actually, in Puerto Rico.

01:14:26.640 Oh, those are towns in Puerto Rico.

01:14:27.800 Yeah.

01:14:27.900 Yeah.

01:14:28.020 Okay.

01:14:28.540 I thought you were talking to the people individually that would move.

01:14:31.140 No, no, no.

01:14:31.460 You got Luquillo right here.

01:14:33.600 You know, Rio Piedra.

01:14:34.320 Okay.

01:14:34.900 You know, it's okay to be there.

01:14:36.880 Now, do you know island law?

01:14:38.720 I do know island law.

01:14:39.920 Okay.

01:14:40.020 I'm actually.

01:14:40.680 I know you know more about bird law.

01:14:42.720 Okay.

01:14:43.120 I do know more about bird law.

01:14:46.060 You can say that I graduated from Bird University.

01:14:49.260 Okay.

01:14:49.740 Very good.

01:14:50.200 Very good there.

01:14:50.940 All right.

01:14:51.720 Of course, Hank Johnson there, a representative from Georgia.

01:14:55.360 Yeah.

01:14:56.260 They have voted this guy as a congressman repeatedly, and he's still in office.

01:15:01.380 This guy, that was when he was talking about Guam and could it tip over?

01:15:04.560 Now, they came out afterwards.

01:15:06.020 That was one of my favorite clips ever in the history of the world.

01:15:08.940 Um, and so, no, he meant metaphorically tip over, you know, economically bull bull crap.

01:15:17.540 He thought an island is like a giant raft.

01:15:20.540 They just tip over.

01:15:21.760 You'd enough people.

01:15:22.540 Of course he thought that the guy's a goof.

01:15:24.700 And did you see the people behind the Admiral where they're like, Oh my God, we're on camera.

01:15:29.900 We want to laugh.

01:15:31.240 Oh my gosh.

01:15:32.700 Oh my gosh.

01:15:33.760 I couldn't have done it.

01:15:35.080 I would have been fired that day.

01:15:36.420 If I had been on the Admiral's staff, I would have been fired that day because I would have gone,

01:15:39.480 Oh my gosh.

01:15:42.060 He really thinks it's over.

01:15:43.700 Oh my gosh.

01:15:44.600 Wait, I'm fired?

01:15:45.860 Okay.

01:15:46.400 Sorry.

01:15:46.600 It was worth it.

01:15:47.120 It was worth it.

01:15:47.660 It was worth it.

01:15:48.180 And then the Admiral's like, um, how do I handle this?

01:15:52.200 Okay.

01:15:53.200 We're pretty sure that it will not capsize and tip over.

01:15:58.320 Awesome stuff.

01:15:59.400 I get your tweets in.

01:16:00.360 If you would tweet at doc Thompson, Joe, if you got any comments, we'll get some calls

01:16:03.260 coming up.

01:16:03.840 Triple eight, seven, two, seven back.

01:16:06.020 Got, uh, some tweets coming in now.

01:16:08.320 We get to those.

01:16:09.520 Um, and then also some calls.

01:16:12.980 Let me get to a call here.

01:16:13.920 Let's go to Mississippi on, uh, David, David.

01:16:16.960 Thanks for holding.

01:16:17.620 How are you?

01:16:19.160 Just want to thank Hank Johnson for representing us in the Georgia.

01:16:23.100 Please tell me you don't live in his district.

01:16:25.600 I don't live in his district.

01:16:26.960 No, but, uh, yeah.

01:16:28.560 Anyway.

01:16:28.920 Okay.

01:16:29.500 So you were talking about the Wi-Fi balloons.

01:16:31.400 And when I did my stint with the Marine Corps, they had some air force guys talking about

01:16:34.800 some of this technology because it'd be able to give us better intelligence and more

01:16:38.940 accurate and up-to-date information on the ground.

01:16:42.580 So what it is, they're setting up an infrastructure and that's what Google's trying to do.

01:16:46.540 And with Google being our great overlord that it is, as they set up businesses and they

01:16:51.420 have people come in there to do the things you were talking about, you know, setting up

01:16:54.760 companies or what have you to help rebuild, Google's already going to have all that information

01:16:59.340 for them.

01:16:59.740 So the Wi-Fi balloon is more than just internet.

01:17:03.120 I mean, they're creating a complete communication structure via satellite to be able to go ahead

01:17:07.760 and get everybody where they need to be instead of using landlines like they have been in

01:17:11.580 Puerto Rico for the last day.

01:17:13.500 God knows.

01:17:14.260 Forever.

01:17:14.820 We're still a landline.

01:17:15.620 Yeah, they don't have good coverage, which is sad.

01:17:19.360 I mean, being an island and it is mountainous at times, you put up some good towers up there,

01:17:22.760 you'd cover most of the island.

01:17:23.860 Yeah, you do.

01:17:24.360 Yeah, we were mocking it.

01:17:25.740 It's actually probably a pretty good thing in the short term.

01:17:29.880 I wish somebody, whenever there's these disasters, whether it's in Puerto Rico or you get a tornado

01:17:34.980 that wipes out of town in Oklahoma or something like that, I wish we would pause and take a

01:17:39.800 moment to rebuild better and think about the future.

01:17:42.660 But thanks so much for the call.

01:17:43.640 The ridiculous one, I think, though, is when the military was using dirigibles.

01:17:52.340 What do they call it?

01:17:53.260 Blimps.

01:17:54.560 Oh, for the war?

01:17:55.720 Yeah.

01:17:56.060 Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

01:17:57.460 Yeah, and I'm like, seriously?

01:17:59.420 These things are targets.

01:18:01.820 Yeah, I know.

01:18:02.220 It's like, okay, an hour of this.

01:18:04.820 We've gone 14 feet.

01:18:06.500 We've gone 14 feet.

01:18:08.540 You know how slow blimps are? 1.00

01:18:10.080 When they would have the Goodyear blimp back in the day, leaving from Akron, and they're

01:18:13.280 like, okay, we got the big game.

01:18:15.560 It's going to be in New York this coming up year.

01:18:17.840 We're going to have it on Monday Night Football.

01:18:19.360 They left six months early.

01:18:21.920 Seriously?

01:18:23.100 And we're coming up.

01:18:24.500 Hold on.

01:18:24.920 Wait a minute.

01:18:25.440 We're almost there.

01:18:26.520 Yep.

01:18:26.760 Do not start the game.

01:18:27.560 Wait a minute.

01:18:27.940 There was a big wind.

01:18:28.840 There was a big wind.

01:18:29.820 Hang on.

01:18:30.420 We have to restart this thing.

01:18:31.920 No, it really is.

01:18:32.900 And they had these blimps that they were out there on the battlefield.

01:18:35.340 Now, it's smart because it gives them a vantage point, and they could have cameras, and they

01:18:39.720 could see.

01:18:40.400 I get that.

01:18:41.560 But it also is a big, slow target.

01:18:44.220 I mean, your enemies aren't like, there's a big blimp up there spying on us.

01:18:48.060 We should just probably leave that alone and let them spy on us, right?

01:18:50.620 Well, it's not only big.

01:18:51.820 It's so big, and the actual usage of the blimp is about this tiny.

01:18:57.760 So it's not like you could-

01:18:58.480 Oh, yeah.

01:18:58.920 The blimp is huge in order to get equipment that is about the size of a suitcase.

01:19:03.380 Exactly.

01:19:03.740 Because the equipment's also heavy.

01:19:06.480 So, yeah.

01:19:07.440 It's like a big, slow target.

01:19:11.500 It's probably why Target stores never had a sponsor to blimp, right?

01:19:15.540 Probably be a bad thing for it there.

01:19:17.540 That is.

01:19:18.020 All right.

01:19:18.720 Let's get to some tweets now.

01:19:20.360 It's at Doc Thompson.

01:19:21.140 If you want to tweet at Chris, it's at RealChrisCruz and at Cal79.

01:19:24.500 We're all from the Morning Blaze.

01:19:25.680 More about us, just go to TheBlazeRadio.com.

01:19:27.920 You got Rocky saying, that's a terrible drawing of Puerto Rico.

01:19:33.080 So, terrible.

01:19:34.820 What does she know?

01:19:35.920 Well, she's Puerto Rican, so she knows. 0.92

01:19:37.780 Has she been there, though?

01:19:39.400 Oh, okay.

01:19:40.100 Well, maybe she knows.

01:19:40.960 She's been there.

01:19:41.240 I challenge her to do better, and feel free to tweet it at us.

01:19:43.580 I do.

01:19:44.020 I do.

01:19:44.800 I lost this one.

01:19:46.460 So, oh, here we go.

01:19:47.100 Sarah DeRoma saying, I need that audio for my Friday geography class that I teach.

01:19:52.520 Okay.

01:19:53.040 So, she knows how to make sure. 0.88

01:19:54.440 So, I'm assuming-

01:19:55.320 Please educate your-

01:19:56.220 Okay, good.

01:19:56.780 And I'm assuming she would say, okay, students, today we're going to learn about islands.

01:20:00.140 Yes.

01:20:00.740 And, number one, they are surrounded by water.

01:20:03.740 Yes.

01:20:04.040 And I want her to do a drawing like this.

01:20:06.220 I want her.

01:20:07.220 I actually want her to do this.

01:20:09.140 Actually, you know, this is a Chris Cruz Puerto Rico drawing, patent pending.

01:20:13.380 Patent pending.

01:20:14.080 TM.

01:20:14.640 There's a TM over here.

01:20:15.660 That's trademark.

01:20:16.240 Oh, okay.

01:20:16.860 But, okay.

01:20:17.320 So, you're allowed to use this to show your students-

01:20:20.900 Do they have to give you credit?

01:20:21.920 No, no, no.

01:20:23.000 But, you know what, I'm a man-

01:20:24.000 Do you have a credit at the bottom, the morning blaze, something like that, Chris Cruz production?

01:20:26.860 No, I'm a man of the people.

01:20:27.820 Okay.

01:20:28.000 I want them to learn-

01:20:28.700 You're willing to share your wealth of knowledge.

01:20:30.640 Yes.

01:20:30.740 Okay.

01:20:30.760 Yes.

01:20:31.280 Okay.

01:20:31.540 Very good.

01:20:31.960 I appreciate that.

01:20:33.360 Have you thought about professional mapmaking?

01:20:35.820 I thought about it.

01:20:37.420 Actually-

01:20:38.300 Does it conflict with your bird law?

01:20:39.860 It does because, you know, when I do my-

01:20:42.200 Actually, I'm actually getting to the point where I can combine both of them.

01:20:45.300 Oh, bird law and mapmaking?

01:20:46.380 Yes, because I can talk to the birds.

01:20:47.680 Oh, gotcha.

01:20:48.260 I know a little bit of pigeon.

01:20:49.440 Just a little bit?

01:20:49.940 Just a little bit of pigeon.

01:20:50.720 That sounds like, you know, just a little bit.

01:20:53.800 You know there's four people that get that joke?

01:20:55.620 Yes.

01:20:55.800 There's four people that watch the show and they get that joke.

01:20:58.220 Yes.

01:20:58.840 Mitchell Elementary School in Needham, Massachusetts has, like most schools, have had a traditional

01:21:04.480 Halloween party over the years in which classrooms get together, kids dress up, they share little

01:21:10.780 treaters, right?

01:21:12.060 Sometimes they trick-or-treat here and there.

01:21:13.520 They have a costume parade.

01:21:14.760 But this year, Mitchell Elementary School in Needham, Massachusetts is ending the Halloween

01:21:21.280 party.

01:21:22.020 Oh.

01:21:22.520 They will no longer have Halloween festivities at the school.

01:21:27.080 They're the devil, right?

01:21:27.840 Is that what it is?

01:21:28.600 No.

01:21:29.100 I would respect that more.

01:21:30.460 Okay.

01:21:30.700 I still think that's BS too, but no, no.

01:21:33.520 There's another reason.

01:21:34.740 Two, you know, girls wearing, you know, like-

01:21:38.500 Oh, something inappropriate.

01:21:39.460 Inappropriate.

01:21:40.160 Because everything becomes the slutty whatever costume.

01:21:42.640 No.

01:21:43.080 Okay.

01:21:43.740 I want you to think about this a minute.

01:21:45.040 I'm going to get a break in.

01:21:45.880 I'm going to come back and tell you why they have canceled it.

01:21:48.380 And we'll get your thoughts on it.

01:21:49.300 I think I know.

01:21:49.900 What do you get?

01:21:51.420 Oh, it's the T's.

01:21:53.100 Oh, the T's after the break.

01:21:54.040 After this on the morning.

01:21:55.080 Actually, on the Glenn Beck program.

01:21:58.220 Glenn Beck.

01:22:04.480 Glenn Beck.

01:22:06.000 Mitchell Elementary School, Needham, Massachusetts, canceling their traditional Halloween festivities.

01:22:10.580 The school said not all families celebrate Halloween, and therefore they decided to stop holding the festivities in order to avoid excluding some children.

01:22:21.820 Not all families celebrate Halloween, therefore they would exclude some children.

01:22:27.900 I actually thought about something else.

01:22:30.500 I thought it was about cultural appropriation.

01:22:33.360 Since we've gotten so crazy.

01:22:34.280 From Transylvania?

01:22:35.380 Yeah.

01:22:35.940 You've culturally appropriated the stuff.

01:22:39.240 I thought it was.

01:22:40.360 You know, like people dressing like Indians. 0.99

01:22:42.900 No, we always have that.

01:22:44.120 Yeah.

01:22:44.500 I mean, trust me.

01:22:45.120 In the last.

01:22:45.520 The Mexican hat.

01:22:46.020 In Massachusetts, the last 10 years, nobody's dressing as cowboys and Indians.

01:22:49.900 They're not dressing as, you know, anything like that.

01:22:52.080 They're not dressing with sombreros, anything like that.

01:22:55.320 But now this takes it to a new level.

01:22:57.940 Yes, there's a lot of Christians, even, who don't celebrate Halloween.

01:23:00.880 They think it is anti-Christian.

01:23:02.520 I disagree.

01:23:03.060 At this point, it's a silly, stupid, fun holiday for kids to dress up and get candy.

01:23:08.980 I know the history of it, as long as you know the difference.

01:23:11.640 But, I mean, of course, it's up to you.

01:23:13.020 Raise your kids how you want, and I support that.

01:23:15.520 But why are you shutting it down for everybody?

01:23:19.060 Because some don't celebrate it.

01:23:21.980 It's like the whole thing where I'm going to punish everybody just because of one person.

01:23:26.660 Right.

01:23:26.920 So, in the past, you would shut things down like Christmas parties, which was wrong because not everybody's a Christian. 0.80

01:23:33.820 Or you'd have other, you know, and we're going to shut down Hanukkah because not everybody's Jewish or whatever it is.

01:23:39.400 But those were based on religion.

01:23:41.100 As wrong as it was to shut them down, it was exclusionary based on religion.

01:23:46.060 And if you take part in it, you're saying, okay, we're forcing or allowing kids to take part in some other religious exercise.

01:23:53.520 This is very different.

01:23:54.440 This is simply an event that some kids choose not to be a part of.

01:23:59.880 It's not actually religious.

01:24:01.940 You could say your religion is excluding your children or you don't want them there because of your religion.

01:24:09.040 But it's not a religious holiday.

01:24:11.980 You see the difference?

01:24:13.080 Yeah.

01:24:13.340 So, this would be like saying, I don't want my kids to learn sex ed.

01:24:18.500 Okay.

01:24:18.940 So, therefore, we're not teaching it to anybody.

01:24:21.500 Okay.

01:24:21.960 I don't want my kids to eat sweets.

01:24:25.720 So, we're not going to serve any cookies at lunch any little more.

01:24:28.600 But we've seen that, though.

01:24:29.760 We've seen where, like, one kid is allergic to peanuts.

01:24:32.660 Peanuts or whatever.

01:24:33.460 And the parent, I'm not the parent, the teacher will send a note, say, hey, sorry.

01:24:36.300 Nobody brings peanut butter.

01:24:36.820 Nobody will bring peanut butter or any kind of peanut related item.

01:24:40.440 But it's like saying, you know what?

01:24:41.420 Our child doesn't wear red, so nobody can wear red anymore.

01:24:47.600 Do you see what I'm saying?

01:24:48.960 I mean, it's nutty.

01:24:50.700 So, don't wear red.

01:24:51.700 Don't go to the Halloween show.

01:24:53.220 Don't take part.

01:24:54.620 Stay home.

01:24:56.120 But, no, we can't do that because it's exclusionary then.

01:24:59.760 Maybe I just don't want my kid to go to any party, any event.

01:25:05.880 So, I'm going to keep him home is what I would normally do.

01:25:09.280 But you're going to say, no, you have to stop everybody.

01:25:12.000 The principal wrote a letter to parents and mentioned something like the awkwardness planning

01:25:17.360 a class celebration knowing that not all of her students would be able to participate

01:25:22.260 is troubling.

01:25:23.640 It's awkward.

01:25:25.220 Knowing not everybody's going to participate.

01:25:28.020 Do you see?

01:25:28.960 The awkwardness planning a class celebration knowing not all of the students would be able

01:25:33.540 to participate.

01:25:34.620 This isn't about the students.

01:25:36.520 This is about the principal and the teachers who feel bad that some of the children would

01:25:44.160 not be going.

01:25:45.080 And they hurt.

01:25:45.940 The whole time they planned this, they were hurting.

01:25:49.360 Well, I don't want you to hurt, but get over it.

01:25:52.300 Are you upset that not every kid celebrates Christmas?

01:25:55.800 Cal, did you celebrate Christmas growing up?

01:25:59.200 Nope.

01:26:00.300 You would happen to not be Christian. 0.82

01:26:02.860 That is correct.

01:26:03.800 Yet you went to a Catholic high school in New York or New Jersey.

01:26:07.120 Yes, I did.

01:26:07.660 And college, Catholic college as well.

01:26:09.700 So did everybody have to stop being Christian?

01:26:13.020 Yeah.

01:26:13.680 They pulled us up during mass and forced the sacrament down our throes. 0.65

01:26:17.520 Is that what it is?

01:26:18.260 They made you take part?

01:26:19.000 They made me drink the wine.

01:26:20.580 No, no, it wasn't forced.

01:26:21.940 You had to go through theology classes and you had to experience that.

01:26:27.180 But no, during mass, you just sat on the side and just kind of hung out.

01:26:30.400 So your parents, you guys didn't celebrate Christmas, right?

01:26:33.140 No, not really.

01:26:34.420 Okay.

01:26:35.540 This is okay.

01:26:37.060 You didn't celebrate.

01:26:37.960 Others will.

01:26:38.880 Some people celebrate holidays.

01:26:41.000 I did not cry about it.

01:26:42.520 Okay.

01:26:42.980 And were your parents, everybody devastated about this?

01:26:46.940 No, you get over.

01:26:47.880 It's what it is.

01:26:49.260 Exactly.

01:26:49.740 Yeah.

01:26:49.840 No, my parents sent me to private schools for the education.

01:26:52.780 They didn't care what we did.

01:26:53.880 You know, as long as you got the education, that's what they wanted to pay for.

01:26:56.260 Instead of Halloween, the school on November 9th will celebrate something else.

01:27:01.340 What are they going to do?

01:27:02.220 William Mitchell Day.

01:27:03.740 What is that?

01:27:04.760 I have no idea.

01:27:05.600 William Mitchell is the...

01:27:07.080 Founding father?

01:27:07.960 The namesake of the elementary school.

01:27:10.080 Unless I'm drawing a blank on a founding father, it's probably somebody historic, significance.

01:27:14.740 I don't know off the top of my head.

01:27:16.300 Do you get candy?

01:27:17.360 I don't know.

01:27:18.100 Do you get presents?

01:27:18.600 If I were a parent, I'd send my kid dressed up in something on William Mitchell Day.

01:27:23.900 Something culturally inappropriate?

01:27:25.840 Trick or treat.

01:27:26.660 Oh, sorry.

01:27:29.280 What do we do on William Mitchell Day?

01:27:31.160 What do I do with my hands on William Mitchell Day?

01:27:33.940 I don't know.

01:27:35.000 Yeah, that's pretty horrible.

01:27:37.340 I remember when I was in second, third, fourth grade, right in there.

01:27:41.680 A long time ago, right?

01:27:42.940 A couple years ago.

01:27:44.020 Back in the 1800s.

01:27:46.020 There was a girl, we'll call her Kelly.

01:27:49.380 Because?

01:27:49.940 Her name was Kelly.

01:27:50.560 Okay.

01:27:50.740 In my class.

01:27:52.780 And I remember she wasn't at the Christmas party.

01:27:57.900 Oh.

01:27:58.660 And she wasn't at the Halloween party.

01:28:00.220 Nor was she at the Easter party.

01:28:01.920 Whoa.

01:28:02.900 She wasn't at any of those.

01:28:04.520 And I found out she was part of something they call Jehovah's Witness.

01:28:09.580 Oh.

01:28:10.180 They don't say none of that?

01:28:11.420 At least her sect didn't.

01:28:12.520 Okay.

01:28:13.220 I think pretty certain.

01:28:14.200 And I remember being like, oh, wow.

01:28:16.760 Things get to celebrate those things or whatever.

01:28:18.740 Her parents didn't send her to school those days.

01:28:21.920 Hmm.

01:28:22.780 Done.

01:28:24.200 But she was sad about it, right?

01:28:25.920 I don't know.

01:28:26.560 She wasn't there.

01:28:27.920 Hmm.

01:28:28.600 But you felt like she needed to be there, right?

01:28:31.380 I didn't care I was there.

01:28:33.000 Hmm.

01:28:33.460 No, I mean, I thought about it.

01:28:34.520 I was like, wow, that sucks.

01:28:35.520 But okay.

01:28:36.320 Something I don't understand.

01:28:37.540 How did you feel about that?

01:28:38.320 That's what you don't do.

01:28:40.160 Um.

01:28:41.140 I was glad it wasn't me.

01:28:43.200 You know.

01:28:44.100 But it was funny.

01:28:44.820 She went to the Valentine's Day party.

01:28:46.420 Really?

01:28:47.120 So Valentine's is okay?

01:28:48.660 Apparently it was with their group.

01:28:50.300 Her parents.

01:28:50.840 But you keep saying their group.

01:28:51.860 Is there like different things for different groups?

01:28:53.660 I don't know.

01:28:54.540 Hmm.

01:28:54.900 I'm not an expert on that.

01:28:55.960 I'm just telling you what I know is I was in second, third, fourth grade, whatever, you

01:28:58.600 know.

01:28:59.340 But the point is, don't send your kid to school.

01:29:01.580 Or if you have a problem with this, go somewhere else.

01:29:04.080 Public schools are supposed to be for the masses.

01:29:07.900 That's what it is.

01:29:09.120 If most people do something.

01:29:11.020 Now, by the way, if people in the community say this is absolutely fine and they don't want

01:29:14.080 to take part in this, fine.

01:29:15.280 Do what you want.

01:29:15.840 But if I'm in the community, I would think most people are okay with a Halloween party.

01:29:21.360 I'm going to be pretty ticked if they make this decision without asking the parents.

01:29:24.840 I would think most people still say, yeah, have a Halloween party.

01:29:27.800 Wouldn't you?

01:29:28.300 Yes.

01:29:29.200 Because especially, for me, Halloween, it's just a day to get free candy.

01:29:34.560 Nothing else.

01:29:35.420 Nothing more.

01:29:36.320 Does your son enjoy Halloween celebrations?

01:29:38.760 Oh, he loves.

01:29:39.340 It's coming up in just a couple of weeks.

01:29:40.640 It is.

01:29:41.160 And would you be upset if they canceled it?

01:29:42.780 Would he be upset?

01:29:43.620 He will be really upset.

01:29:44.720 Okay.

01:29:45.080 And this is one of those, if you are and they still do it because the majority of other

01:29:48.140 people don't want it, move schools.

01:29:52.260 Glenn Beck.

01:29:53.280 Some tweets now with the hashtag, what I learned today.

01:30:01.400 It's at Doc Thompson show.

01:30:02.580 If you want to join the program.

01:30:03.940 You got Adam Cessna saying, I get the bird law joke.

01:30:08.420 Good for you.

01:30:09.340 Good for you.

01:30:09.800 I get it.

01:30:10.160 I also got Toby McVoy saying, have I missed the opportunity to describe Chris Cruz attire?

01:30:15.660 Oh, yeah.

01:30:17.640 Somebody in the other room just described you as a prisoner going for a job interview.

01:30:23.060 Yes.

01:30:23.660 Because you've got a prisoner type striped shirt on and a tie.

01:30:27.360 I do.

01:30:27.780 And the tie looks like it was handmade.

01:30:29.940 You know, like a...

01:30:30.820 Looks like it was made in the prisoner bathroom.

01:30:32.460 Thank you.

01:30:32.940 Thank you, Kyle.

01:30:33.840 You know, prison tats.

01:30:35.100 Nothing of prison ties.

01:30:36.320 It's the same quality.

01:30:37.380 Exactly.

01:30:38.060 We'll tweet out a picture of that too so you can check it out.

01:30:40.420 Also, you got Joshua saying, and I agree with Joshua because I liked it.

01:30:44.380 It says, what I learned today, Doc starts the show apologizing for lack of feelings, then

01:30:49.720 tells people complaining, not throwing Halloween party, pray quit whining.

01:30:54.500 Okay.

01:30:54.820 Let me draw the difference there.

01:30:57.040 LOL at the end, by the way.

01:30:58.140 Yes.

01:30:58.520 Got that.

01:31:01.040 I apologize for not understanding that some people may have been a little more upset at

01:31:10.020 that moment that we were talking about the shootings in Las Vegas.

01:31:12.840 Okay.

01:31:13.200 And I didn't express our compassion.

01:31:15.480 Okay.

01:31:15.760 Even though on Monday, that's all we did.

01:31:18.100 We talked about people being inappropriate about it and even about people politicizing

01:31:24.700 it.

01:31:25.100 Mm-hmm.

01:31:26.600 This is a Halloween party.

01:31:28.480 It's not people dying and you can just stay home.

01:31:32.140 Nobody got to stay home from the concert knowing it was coming.

01:31:35.680 You see the difference?

01:31:36.480 I do.

01:31:36.900 You have a concert, people getting shot, people died, family members not knowing where their

01:31:42.720 loved ones are, people injured, and us saying, okay, maybe we could have taken an additional

01:31:47.180 moment and let people know we're not being insensitive.

01:31:50.060 We certainly respect, understand, and feel compassion for the people that are suffering.

01:31:54.640 This is a Halloween party.

01:31:55.720 If you don't want your kids to suffer, don't send them.

01:31:58.640 And if you're suffering knowing that some kids may not be going and you're a teacher, wow, we are really, really soft.

01:32:06.340 Yeah.

01:32:06.860 And we got not a bot, beep, beep, saying, one, start a group for freedom-loving Americans.

01:32:14.500 Two, trade houses with people in Puerto Rico and rebuild.

01:32:19.680 Three, USA 2.0.

01:32:22.580 That's the way to do it?

01:32:23.720 That's the way how to rebuild Puerto Rico.

01:32:25.220 I like it.

01:32:25.800 Mm-hmm.

01:32:26.920 Speaking of Halloween costumes and Halloween parties being inappropriate, there are some

01:32:32.160 additional Halloween costumes that are likely inappropriate.

01:32:34.640 In years past, we knew cultural appropriation had become, for some, a thing.

01:32:40.520 Sorry, you can't wear that Indian outfit. 0.99

01:32:42.500 I'm sorry, that Native American outfit, or for that matter, that Indian outfit.

01:32:47.720 Right?

01:32:48.160 I was like, you can't wear a Native American, so dot nor feather. 1.00

01:32:52.720 Neither one.

01:32:54.160 Right?

01:32:54.500 I mean, you can't do either one of them.

01:32:55.880 Really?

01:32:56.660 I can't wear a dot or a feather.

01:32:58.300 That's what I'm saying.

01:32:58.820 Again, this is why you get in trouble.

01:33:00.340 That is really offensive.

01:33:01.440 That's not offensive.

01:33:02.180 Very offensive.

01:33:02.920 Is a feather a component, if you were to dress up as a Native American?

01:33:09.620 Yes.

01:33:10.700 Is a dot something, if you were trying to dress up as somebody from India?

01:33:15.200 Yes.

01:33:15.660 Okay.

01:33:16.000 And I know you're invoking rule number four, I think it is.

01:33:19.480 If it's not offensive, I'm sorry, it's not offensive if it's true.

01:33:22.840 Okay, but what about rule number one?

01:33:24.680 Don't be a jerk.

01:33:25.800 I don't think I was being jerk-like there.

01:33:27.220 You're very jerky-like.

01:33:27.860 I don't think that was it.

01:33:28.620 Okay.

01:33:28.700 I'd like to invoke rule five.

01:33:30.480 And rule five.

01:33:30.880 Just because you can doesn't mean you should.

01:33:32.420 I'd like to invoke rule number two, though.

01:33:34.540 Okay.

01:33:35.000 Always keep the talent happy.

01:33:36.420 Oh, so now it's about you.

01:33:37.960 It's always about me.

01:33:38.940 What are you talking about?

01:33:39.800 I appreciate that you're recognizing me as the talent, though.

01:33:43.780 So, yes, Dot and Feather both would be inappropriate at this point as a costume.

01:33:49.680 But now, you also cannot dress as cops and robbers.

01:33:53.120 Why not?

01:33:54.540 It's offensive.

01:33:56.660 Let me explain.

01:33:58.260 UVA students, University of Virginia, college started by Thomas Jefferson, one of the greatest

01:34:05.020 founding fathers.

01:34:07.360 It was all about freedoms, personal freedoms, freedom of thought.

01:34:11.180 I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility over all forms of tyranny over the

01:34:16.540 minds of man.

01:34:18.080 That guy.

01:34:20.020 His now school had some students that shut down a cops and robbers themed party because

01:34:25.540 a student group said it, quote, ready?

01:34:30.320 I'm ready.

01:34:31.820 Made a joke of a system that kills and brutalized marginalized communities.

01:34:37.600 Do they say what kind of community?

01:34:41.980 Marginalized communities.

01:34:43.920 Think of a marginalized communities.

01:34:45.720 There it is.

01:34:47.100 So, again, cops and robbers as just a party screwing around.

01:34:51.700 Some people dress like Chris Cruz today, while other people were dressed in police officer

01:34:57.100 uniforms.

01:34:57.920 It said, no, that's inappropriate because it makes a joke of systems that kill and brutalized

01:35:03.660 marginalized communities.

01:35:05.100 Would you like more explanation?

01:35:08.380 I would like to because so far I can't connect the dots.

01:35:11.620 UVA Students United is a group, the social justice group.

01:35:16.220 Is that helping at all?

01:35:17.560 Okay.

01:35:17.980 It shut down the function hosted by a UVA chapter of Delta Phi and it's a.

01:35:25.540 They had male fraternity brothers dressed up in orange jumpsuits and then their female

01:35:30.720 guests wore cop uniforms.

01:35:33.080 Kind of funny, right?

01:35:35.440 Yeah.

01:35:36.140 According to UVA Students United, this is this is the problem.

01:35:39.780 This was their statement.

01:35:41.260 These costumes make a joke of mass incarceration and the prison industrial complex systems that

01:35:47.120 disproportionately brutalize people of color.

01:35:50.900 The predominantly white members of this fraternity got disproportionately or excuse me, fraternity

01:35:56.900 got to take their costumes off at the end of the night.

01:35:59.400 People trapped in the prison system do not during confrontations with people at the party.

01:36:06.840 The majority of party goers asserted that they had no intention of offending or hurting

01:36:12.400 anyone.

01:36:13.000 It's kind of willful ignorance.

01:36:16.220 UVA Students United said willful ignorance that allows white supremacy to continue.

01:36:22.260 There you go.

01:36:23.240 Cops and robbers, white supremacy.

01:36:25.280 It is part of the prison industrial complex.

01:36:28.340 It is about marginalized communities.

01:36:32.180 I just thought it was like dressing up.

01:36:35.560 Yeah.

01:36:36.080 What just happened to just having fun?

01:36:37.920 Yeah.

01:36:38.440 Now, after nearly an hour of interaction at the party, because these UVA Students United

01:36:44.280 will just call them jackasses. 0.80

01:36:46.600 They showed up to the party and they're like, hey, this is wrong.

01:36:51.180 Meanwhile, everybody else is just partying.

01:36:52.720 We could also call them Buzz Killington.

01:36:54.860 Yeah.

01:36:55.180 That's a there.

01:36:56.580 That's the head of UVA Students United, Buzz Killington.

01:37:02.620 Hello there.

01:37:03.380 I'm here to tell you this about marginalized communities.

01:37:06.120 Sorry.

01:37:06.460 After nearly an hour of interaction with the party members, Buzz Killington and company said

01:37:14.820 the frat had to call the police on them for trespassing because they wouldn't leave.

01:37:21.060 So the frat's like, hey, just get out of here.

01:37:23.040 We're just screwing around.

01:37:23.820 Just, you know, it's a party, whatever.

01:37:25.180 And they know.

01:37:25.620 So they had to call him.

01:37:26.420 So then they reacted to it and posted after the fact what happened.

01:37:32.220 So the next day they posted last night a group of about 20 or so students shut down

01:37:37.020 a cops and robbers party themed date function at the Hall of Fraternity on campus.

01:37:43.120 This came out after an hour of confrontation between the students and party goers culminating

01:37:47.180 in the frat calling the police on the students on the grounds of trespassing.

01:37:50.380 Now, the members of the frat wore orange jumpsuits, as I said, with bandanas tied around

01:37:55.220 their heads, chains and tattoos down their arms.

01:37:57.420 These costumes make a joke of mass incarceration and prison industrial complex systems that

01:38:03.200 disproportionately brutalize people of color, as I said.

01:38:07.280 How say you now?

01:38:09.140 Yeah.

01:38:10.280 Can I just have fun?

01:38:12.180 Well, this part may bring it back a little bit.

01:38:14.420 Okay.

01:38:14.680 Okay.

01:38:14.720 Because, you know, you're kind of on the fence.

01:38:17.880 No?

01:38:18.520 No.

01:38:19.060 I'm still waiting.

01:38:20.440 You're still.

01:38:20.560 I'm here with my cup.

01:38:21.700 You're still.

01:38:22.440 You're still ready to go to this party.

01:38:24.280 Yeah.

01:38:24.440 Can I drink?

01:38:25.220 You would ready go to this party.

01:38:26.640 I'm ready.

01:38:26.800 You would still go.

01:38:27.680 Yes.

01:38:28.100 Listen to this part.

01:38:28.940 Okay.

01:38:29.280 And tell me if you're still.

01:38:30.140 I'm going to put my cup down.

01:38:30.640 Now, you've pictured this, right?

01:38:31.980 I have.

01:38:32.420 They've got men in these orange jumpsuits.

01:38:33.940 They do.

01:38:34.360 Part of the prison industrial complex.

01:38:36.120 Yep.

01:38:36.560 Tattoos.

01:38:36.880 Part of their white supremacy.

01:38:38.240 And you're still willing to go.

01:38:39.480 I'm still willing to go.

01:38:40.520 Listen to this part.

01:38:41.180 Okay.

01:38:41.480 I'm ready.

01:38:42.880 The women wore sexy cop outfits. 1.00

01:38:48.460 What was that wince for?

01:38:51.300 You're out now, right?

01:38:52.680 I actually.

01:38:54.040 Now you've signed up.

01:38:55.460 I'm more in.

01:38:56.120 Hold on.

01:38:56.340 Let me fix my tie.

01:38:58.320 What's the address for this UVA area?

01:39:01.100 Because I'm in.

01:39:01.960 Now, hold on.

01:39:02.700 Right.

01:39:03.040 Now, they were wearing sexy outfits.

01:39:05.120 And you were a cop.

01:39:06.540 Yeah.

01:39:07.540 Yeah.

01:39:07.940 I never wore that.

01:39:08.860 But this is more important than if I was a cop.

01:39:11.620 All right.

01:39:12.240 Were the girls hot? 1.00

01:39:13.560 I think they were.

01:39:14.580 Okay.

01:39:14.780 I mean, you invite them to wear sexy cop outfits.

01:39:18.860 You're going to pick the attractive ones, I would think.

01:39:21.160 I mean, maybe one or two, you know, slid under.

01:39:23.940 You know, got in under the, you know, the bar of acceptance.

01:39:27.240 You know, something like that.

01:39:28.200 But I think most of them got over it.

01:39:29.640 You know.

01:39:30.820 The women, they say, wore the sexy cop outfits complete with hats and badges. 0.99

01:39:35.640 Some inexplicably had teardrop tattoos drawn on their face, they said.

01:39:40.600 I don't know what that is.

01:39:41.200 The chicks? 0.96

01:39:42.180 Yeah.

01:39:42.560 When were the cops?

01:39:43.720 You shoot a teardrop.

01:39:45.100 And you killed somebody.

01:39:45.820 You killed somebody.

01:39:46.980 I don't know.

01:39:47.480 Who knows what that was about.

01:39:48.840 Historically, the police have justified, they said, violence against people of color in

01:39:52.320 the name of protecting white women.

01:39:54.780 This is, again, Buzz Killington and UVA Students United.

01:39:58.760 I'm sorry, but I missed that memo because when I was a cop, I was never, I never received

01:40:03.160 them.

01:40:03.340 You justified violence against people of color in the name of protecting white women, 0.93

01:40:06.820 didn't you?

01:40:07.660 I never got that memo, so I can say no.

01:40:10.120 They said, in wearing these costumes, these women made a joke out of that legacy of violence. 1.00

01:40:16.780 I wasn't there.

01:40:18.280 Okay.

01:40:18.640 But based on the way it's described, I think it just made them look hot.

01:40:24.780 Hotter?

01:40:25.300 That's what I'm guessing.

01:40:26.820 Again, wasn't there, didn't see it, but that's what I think my reaction would have been.

01:40:31.260 Now, during confrontations with people at the party, the majority of the party goaders 1.00

01:40:36.780 asserted that they had no intention of offending anyone, but UVA Students United, headed up by

01:40:42.620 Buzz Killington, said it's still a problem.

01:40:45.600 And they said, it's certainly a problem after the summer of terror and violence that they

01:40:52.820 had.

01:40:53.980 Wow.

01:40:54.500 You know, the summer of terror of violence.

01:40:55.840 Yeah.

01:40:56.080 This is Charlottesville.

01:40:56.980 Yeah.

01:40:57.520 You know, the summer of terror and violence.

01:41:00.300 It was just like, what, one day?

01:41:02.400 It was one day.

01:41:02.980 It might have been a day.

01:41:03.320 It was like one hour.

01:41:04.440 Although, sad that, you know, people got killed.

01:41:06.560 That's, was one person killed?

01:41:08.380 I think a couple injured.

01:41:09.400 I think that's what it was.

01:41:10.240 And that's wrong.

01:41:11.040 And obviously, white supremacists are truly there.

01:41:12.840 But do not conflate the fact that there are white supremacists on this planet, in this

01:41:17.320 country, or in Charlottesville, on a day, doing stupid things with people wearing sexy 0.57

01:41:23.240 cop outfits, having a good time at a frat party.

01:41:25.960 And they said that the summer of terror and violence instigated by white supremacist group

01:41:33.640 in Charlottesville, they said, it's at least very disappointing that members of the UVA

01:41:38.060 community would do, would so willingly make fun of a joke of a system that kills and brutalize

01:41:43.860 those marginalized communities.

01:41:46.020 I'm still in.

01:41:47.780 Yeah, I'm standing.

01:41:48.780 I'm standing with the cops and robbers.

01:41:51.660 But just, no, you can't do that now.

01:41:53.340 I feel like we've reached a point where you can make that argument about anything, you

01:42:00.520 know?

01:42:00.900 I mean, just name something.

01:42:03.300 Dress up as a soldier.

01:42:04.740 Oh, you kill those civilians overseas.

01:42:07.460 Murder.

01:42:08.320 It doesn't need to be sold.

01:42:09.120 Name something.

01:42:09.820 Donuts.

01:42:10.620 Right?

01:42:11.020 Oh, what about people who can't afford donuts?

01:42:13.060 And now, of course, you got the sugars.

01:42:14.460 And you know what happened?

01:42:15.340 You know where they grow sugarcane?

01:42:16.620 They grow sugarcane in companies or countries that are marginalized, and we take advantage of

01:42:20.880 them.

01:42:21.120 And of course, we only invaded them at times because we wanted that sugar or whatever it

01:42:25.440 is.

01:42:25.700 Just you can just do that with anything.

01:42:27.800 We want to say just as a hot dog.

01:42:31.220 Oh, OK.

01:42:32.740 Well, first of all, hot dogs quite often are made from pork.

01:42:37.860 Oh, people can't eat pork based on their religion.

01:42:41.860 Really?

01:42:42.120 You want to marginalize those people?

01:42:44.020 Really?

01:42:44.880 And it's a hot dog.

01:42:46.160 Really?

01:42:47.300 You know what PETA thinks of that?

01:42:48.540 Naming a food that you eat after an animal that is also made of animal?

01:42:55.520 Because PETA's biggest problem would be that it's named dog. 1.00

01:42:58.920 Yeah.

01:42:59.200 Not that it's made of animals.

01:43:01.040 It's named after an animal.

01:43:02.880 Quick break.

01:43:03.400 Back with more on the Glenn Beck program.

01:43:07.860 Glenn Beck.

01:43:14.220 Glenn Beck.

01:43:15.100 OK, DC's taking action today.

01:43:19.420 Taking action.

01:43:20.860 On what?

01:43:21.160 A bill has been introduced by Dianne Feinstein in the Senate.

01:43:25.760 OK.

01:43:26.480 To help.

01:43:27.920 People in Vegas?

01:43:29.340 Yes.

01:43:29.940 OK.

01:43:30.380 OK.

01:43:31.100 She's banning bump stocks.

01:43:32.680 You just introduced the bill.

01:43:36.400 Well, in order.

01:43:37.540 Like I said.

01:43:38.040 To keep it consistent.

01:43:39.220 If automatics are going to be illegal.

01:43:41.420 Yes.

01:43:41.660 Then bump stocks ought to.

01:43:42.700 I don't think any of them should be.

01:43:44.760 I'm just.

01:43:45.560 I find it ridiculous that this is what you're rushing to.

01:43:48.120 Let's say she bans bump stocks. 1.00

01:43:49.820 Is that going to stop people from being shot?

01:43:52.220 No.

01:43:52.740 By automatic weapons?

01:43:54.640 No.

01:43:55.060 No.

01:43:55.340 Killed?

01:43:56.060 No.

01:43:56.300 No.

01:43:56.460 No.

01:43:56.920 It is going to help.

01:43:59.000 Nothing.

01:44:00.320 Zero.

01:44:01.020 Zilch.

01:44:01.440 But Dianne Feinstein is once again playing on those fears and going after an inanimate 1.00

01:44:09.000 object.

01:44:10.100 She's going after the the how people were killed as opposed to why you want to stop it.

01:44:15.640 You go after the why stop the need, the necessity, the motivation to do such things.

01:44:21.520 That's how you stop it or at least curtail it.

01:44:23.740 By the way, ABC is reporting.

01:44:25.940 Um, they have a story on the possibility that the Steven Paddock was descending into madness.

01:44:33.800 Okay.

01:44:34.360 They talk about some things that indicate maybe he was going crazy.

01:44:36.940 Uh, the headline portrait emerging of Las Vegas shooter as a man descending into madness.

01:44:42.700 They said, um, looked like he was losing weight.

01:44:46.440 Um, some others say he had been, uh, letting his appearance go.

01:44:50.000 These different things that may show he was descending into madness.

01:44:54.160 Interesting.

01:44:55.000 Could be still looking for that motive today.

01:44:56.840 And it's so important because we need to know how we protect ourselves and our families in

01:45:02.240 the future.

01:45:02.660 It's not from the guns.

01:45:03.760 If it hadn't been that, it would have been something else.

01:45:05.600 It would have been a Tim McVeigh situation or something else.

01:45:07.760 It has to be the why until we find out.

01:45:10.620 And by the way, um, I hope they don't try to get away with not telling us to sidetrack this

01:45:17.580 thing.

01:45:17.840 That would be so wrong.

01:45:18.660 I mean, if they have to wait because of investigations or to make sure there's not a bigger cell or

01:45:23.140 anything else like that, if that was it, um, that's fine.

01:45:26.300 But otherwise you have to tell us, you have to let us know the American people need closure

01:45:30.580 on this number one.

01:45:31.280 And we need to know if we are going to be targets in the future and how we stop this

01:45:35.040 stuff.

01:45:35.440 Thanks so much for listening today.

01:45:36.700 Got Pat Gray coming up next.

01:45:38.240 He'll also be pinch hitting tomorrow right here on this broadcast.

01:45:41.080 Uh, and join us tomorrow morning on the blaze radio network.

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01:45:45.320 Have a great day.

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