The Glenn Beck Program - 12⧸29⧸17 - The Concepts of Freedom Are Lost

00:00:00.000 The Blaze Radio Network, on demand, love, courage, truth, Glenn Beck.

00:00:13.240 This is the final Glenn Beck radio broadcast of 2017.

00:00:17.720 Glenn, of course, is off for the holidays, and I am pinch hitting for him today.

00:00:23.080 It's Doc Thompson from the Blaze Radio Network.

00:00:25.140 2017 will be remembered by many people, certainly by me, as the year of all of the sexual harassment allegations,

00:00:38.560 the sexual assault allegations, and the year the pendulum swung too far the other way.

00:00:45.500 The year that everybody went crazy, saying we must believe any allegation.

00:00:51.720 It just went bonkers.

00:00:57.280 I'm hopeful that at some point the pendulum will swing back and level off and we can get to a point where people will say,

00:01:04.040 yes, if somebody makes an allegation, we investigate it.

00:01:07.300 If there is substance, we will continue to investigate.

00:01:10.320 And if there's evidence of wrongdoing, we will prosecute when applicable.

00:01:15.240 And if not, in the court of public opinion, we will all say, ah, that was obviously just an allegation and there was no merit,

00:01:23.200 and I will hold or harbor no grudge or bias to the person who was accused.

00:01:30.320 I'm hopeful that's what will happen.

00:01:34.540 2018, we're going to see more of this, a lot more, far from over.

00:01:39.120 And something else is coming in 2018 that is going to be huge.

00:01:46.080 A landmark decision is coming down in 2018 by the Supreme Court that is going to affect life in America for decades to come.

00:01:57.720 It will touch all kinds of issues.

00:02:03.560 And we are going to decide, and by we I mean the Supreme Court is going to decide for us,

00:02:10.760 whether or not we are a country that truly values freedom,

00:02:16.100 or whether we're a country who is going to social engineer. 0.55

00:02:22.620 The case I'm talking about is the gay wedding cake case. 0.99

00:02:31.100 The Colorado baker in 2012 refused to bake a cake for a same-sex couple.

00:02:37.960 And he cited his religious values that say he did not want to take part in a religious ceremony.

00:02:43.980 I'm sure you remember the story, and you remember similar stories that have happened since then.

00:02:48.460 It has now reached the Supreme Court.

00:02:52.280 A couple of weeks ago, oral arguments were heard.

00:02:56.020 The court seems fairly split on this.

00:02:59.200 And the ruling will come down next year.

00:03:01.580 I speculate this will be one of the last cases that they actually hand us the verdict.

00:03:08.700 Usually, I think it's the end of June, the final cases come down before they recess.

00:03:13.380 And usually, the big ones come down then, so they can kind of get out of town before we find out how they ruled.

00:03:23.480 This is truly a landmark case.

00:03:25.860 And this has very little to do with same-sex marriage, with gay couples,

00:03:31.660 with the rights of people to live their life and be served at restaurants or bakeries,

00:03:36.900 and has everything to do with the First Amendment.

00:03:41.380 Which is being completely lost on this.

00:03:46.560 The First Amendment guarantees us five rights under the Constitution.

00:03:51.480 If you don't know those five rights, you probably should.

00:03:55.800 Remember, though, that the Bill of Rights were added later as amendments

00:04:00.000 because there was a different attitude about the Constitution.

00:04:04.640 A smart, nuanced, wonderful attitude that also had some potential flaws.

00:04:16.480 And the attitude was, and this became a debate,

00:04:20.640 why do we have to spell out what a person's rights are

00:04:24.820 when the whole point of the Constitution is your rights are unlimited

00:04:30.400 except when they infringed somebody else's.

00:04:34.420 So we don't have to put in the Constitution that, yes,

00:04:37.640 you have a right to freedom of speech and freedom of religion

00:04:42.080 and freedom of the press and peacefully assemble

00:04:45.740 and redress of grievances.

00:04:47.700 We don't have to put those things in.

00:04:52.800 It's assumed.

00:04:54.660 Unless it specifically says elsewhere in law you cannot do this,

00:04:59.040 you don't have to put it in there.

00:05:00.900 Because America is about freedom.

00:05:04.340 It doesn't say in the Constitution you have the right to jump up and down.

00:05:08.960 Well, of course you have the right to do that.

00:05:11.400 And that was the attitude.

00:05:12.540 You have the right to free speech.

00:05:14.860 Of course you do.

00:05:16.020 And some people said, hey, that's very nuanced.

00:05:20.260 You're right.

00:05:20.740 You're right about it.

00:05:21.760 But I'm telling you, I know government.

00:05:24.820 I know people like that King George.

00:05:26.800 I know history.

00:05:29.540 And unless we lay out some specific rights,

00:05:33.100 then we're not going to have rights.

00:05:37.060 They said, man, as soon as you head down that road

00:05:39.600 and lay out those specific rights,

00:05:42.440 they're going to say those are your only rights.

00:05:46.020 And this became the debate.

00:05:47.820 Back and forth.

00:05:50.440 Well, they came up with a pretty solid compromise.

00:05:55.860 And the compromise was, yeah, let's put the Bill of Rights.

00:06:01.860 Let's go ahead and add the Bill of Rights

00:06:04.560 so we have some specifics laid out

00:06:06.560 just to make it that much more difficult.

00:06:11.020 That much more difficult to say

00:06:13.380 you cannot infringe these certain rights.

00:06:17.720 But they also added something else.

00:06:23.700 They added the Ninth and Tenth Amendments,

00:06:29.120 specifically the Ninth Amendment,

00:06:32.060 which is beautiful.

00:06:34.160 The enumeration in the Constitution of certain rights

00:06:36.740 shall not be construed to deny or disparage others

00:06:40.520 retained by the people.

00:06:43.280 Now, of course, Tenth Amendment specifically powers to the states.

00:06:46.480 But the Ninth Amendment was the compromise 0.86

00:06:49.360 that just because we're putting the First Amendment in there

00:06:52.220 doesn't mean that you don't have all those other rights.

00:06:57.900 We just wanted to highlight those ones.

00:07:02.440 Unfortunately, we now live in an age

00:07:05.300 where the concept of rights and freedom are lost.

00:07:09.920 And by many, and certainly the culture

00:07:15.040 and the media and entertainment

00:07:17.340 value social justice,

00:07:21.880 whatever the hell that is,

00:07:24.460 over rights and freedom.

00:07:27.560 In fact, many can say,

00:07:29.300 no, social justice is a right.

00:07:34.480 No, you've misunderstood.

00:07:36.880 Social justice is nothing.

00:07:42.200 It doesn't exist.

00:07:43.600 It's made up.

00:07:44.800 It's manufactured.

00:07:45.880 It's a buzz phrase

00:07:46.940 that is used to confuse people,

00:07:50.660 to try to push a different agenda.

00:07:53.840 Rights are rights and freedoms are freedoms. 0.89

00:07:57.420 In the case of the gay wedding cake 1.00

00:08:00.140 that the Supreme Court is going to rule on

00:08:02.060 sometime early next year,

00:08:04.700 they have said that

00:08:07.500 the right for you

00:08:08.920 to go into a place of business

00:08:11.720 and demand

00:08:13.380 that they serve you

00:08:15.680 even if they say it is against their religion,

00:08:19.200 regardless of why they say

00:08:20.620 it's against their religion, 0.85

00:08:22.420 whether it's because you're gay

00:08:24.020 or you're a different faith 1.00

00:08:25.600 or you're a Satan worshiper 0.99

00:08:28.980 with devil horns on, 0.99

00:08:30.940 that that right,

00:08:34.620 which isn't a right,

00:08:37.040 trumps First Amendment rights.

00:08:41.500 How backwards and wrong is that?

00:08:46.100 It's not just wrong.

00:08:48.060 It's a 180 from the Constitution.

00:08:50.120 It's a 180 from common sense.

00:08:56.260 You have a social justice right

00:08:59.980 to demand

00:09:01.280 somebody takes part in commerce with you?

00:09:06.620 Demand

00:09:07.260 that they do business with you?

00:09:12.140 That's no right.

00:09:14.260 What if you only had one item for sale,

00:09:16.460 like a house?

00:09:17.040 Obviously,

00:09:19.040 federal fair housing law

00:09:20.060 says you can't discriminate

00:09:20.920 based on certain things.

00:09:25.100 Well,

00:09:25.620 what if you have

00:09:26.400 two people that are interested

00:09:28.780 and everything is equal?

00:09:34.980 Everything's

00:09:35.460 absolutely equal.

00:09:37.900 Can people claim

00:09:38.940 that you discriminated against them

00:09:40.320 because of something?

00:09:42.000 Don't you have a right

00:09:42.920 to just say,

00:09:43.640 I want to sell to Cal?

00:09:45.000 He's got a nice looking face.

00:09:46.840 Looks like a good guy.

00:09:49.160 Shouldn't you get to decide?

00:09:50.860 But in business,

00:09:52.660 you don't have the right

00:09:53.640 to decide

00:09:54.120 who you want to be

00:09:54.880 in business with?

00:09:56.580 That makes no sense.

00:09:58.460 I understand

00:09:59.040 the history of discrimination

00:10:00.260 and the lunch counter

00:10:01.920 and we're not going

00:10:03.320 to serve you

00:10:04.180 and we're going to have

00:10:05.560 separate but equal.

00:10:06.680 I know the history

00:10:07.300 of all that.

00:10:08.200 It's reprehensible.

00:10:09.560 I wouldn't support

00:10:10.340 a restaurant like that

00:10:11.480 or a business like that.

00:10:12.920 I don't support discrimination.

00:10:16.080 But to say

00:10:18.480 you must do business

00:10:19.720 with somebody?

00:10:22.060 I'm going to stand

00:10:22.880 next to the person

00:10:24.180 who is absolutely wrong

00:10:26.020 and racist

00:10:26.980 and says,

00:10:27.640 I don't want to do business

00:10:28.500 with those people.

00:10:30.200 I'm going to stand

00:10:30.880 next to them

00:10:31.260 for their right

00:10:31.900 to discriminate.

00:10:33.540 But I'm not going

00:10:34.280 to use their business

00:10:35.020 because I hope

00:10:35.520 eventually it'll go away.

00:10:37.140 They would have you believe

00:10:40.660 that the right

00:10:41.280 to force somebody

00:10:42.020 to make you 0.99

00:10:42.500 a gay wedding cake 1.00

00:10:43.500 or perform 0.98

00:10:44.520 at a gay wedding

00:10:45.160 if you're a band 0.63

00:10:46.060 or perform 0.82

00:10:47.000 a gay ceremony

00:10:48.040 is about equality

00:10:49.920 and access.

00:10:53.720 No.

00:10:55.420 It's about a person's

00:10:57.220 constitutional right

00:10:58.860 to say

00:11:01.880 that doesn't fall

00:11:03.560 within the scope

00:11:04.300 of my religion.

00:11:05.140 one First Amendment.

00:11:08.280 But it also has

00:11:10.000 another First Amendment 0.95

00:11:11.480 application.

00:11:13.220 Your right

00:11:14.380 to promote

00:11:15.840 and speak

00:11:17.140 that you don't want

00:11:19.840 to be a part of it.

00:11:21.220 To make the statement,

00:11:23.140 I don't want

00:11:24.200 to do business

00:11:24.920 with that person

00:11:25.980 because

00:11:26.600 you're talking

00:11:30.660 about multiple

00:11:31.640 constitutional rights

00:11:33.300 that are being

00:11:34.400 stepped on

00:11:35.080 in the name

00:11:36.140 of social justice

00:11:37.240 and social engineering

00:11:38.820 because some people

00:11:40.260 believe

00:11:40.760 they should be able

00:11:42.040 to force people

00:11:42.900 to do business.

00:11:45.240 And that's wrong.

00:11:49.400 Here's how you know.

00:11:50.480 Even if you're

00:11:52.640 a social justice

00:11:53.440 warrior

00:11:53.820 and even if you

00:11:55.040 believe that

00:11:55.640 those people

00:11:56.240 who make cakes

00:11:56.840 should absolutely

00:11:57.540 have to make 1.00

00:11:58.080 gay wedding cakes. 0.99

00:12:00.240 Even if you 0.99

00:12:01.000 believe that

00:12:01.720 don't you support

00:12:04.340 freedom of speech?

00:12:06.280 Freedom of religion?

00:12:07.500 Freedom of the press?

00:12:08.080 The First Amendment.

00:12:08.620 You don't support that?

00:12:10.200 I'll bet many

00:12:10.720 would say absolutely.

00:12:13.380 Well then

00:12:14.220 shouldn't these

00:12:16.120 at least

00:12:16.880 in your world

00:12:17.900 be the same?

00:12:21.880 Shouldn't they

00:12:22.340 at least have

00:12:22.900 the same power?

00:12:24.640 The same concern?

00:12:26.140 Shouldn't this

00:12:26.740 at least be

00:12:27.460 a standoff

00:12:28.260 in your world?

00:12:29.340 You give

00:12:30.120 social justice

00:12:31.820 rights status

00:12:33.120 although they don't

00:12:33.720 exist in the

00:12:34.260 Constitution

00:12:34.880 to somebody

00:12:37.380 being denied

00:12:38.240 access to a

00:12:39.140 wedding cake.

00:12:39.820 You give it

00:12:40.460 that much power.

00:12:41.300 Fine.

00:12:42.240 You're saying

00:12:42.920 that trumps

00:12:43.860 the First Amendment?

00:12:45.280 That that's

00:12:45.800 more powerful

00:12:46.760 than a person's

00:12:48.620 right

00:12:49.000 to religion

00:12:50.720 and speech?

00:12:54.600 Shouldn't they

00:12:55.280 at least offset

00:12:56.280 in which case

00:12:57.420 you go to your

00:12:57.960 corner I'll go

00:12:58.520 to mine

00:12:58.900 and we'll

00:12:59.400 go about

00:13:00.000 our business?

00:13:01.560 They've given

00:13:02.300 it more power.

00:13:04.420 This isn't

00:13:05.240 about equality

00:13:06.100 or love.

00:13:08.300 It's not about

00:13:09.300 fairness as they

00:13:10.180 claim.

00:13:11.240 It's not about

00:13:12.100 freedom as they

00:13:13.160 say.

00:13:13.480 this is

00:13:15.900 about one

00:13:16.660 thing

00:13:16.980 as it always

00:13:18.640 is with

00:13:19.420 progressives.

00:13:20.720 It's not

00:13:21.540 about the

00:13:21.980 values they

00:13:22.700 claim.

00:13:24.480 It's about

00:13:25.380 one

00:13:25.980 thing.

00:13:29.040 Control.

00:13:31.680 This is the

00:13:32.480 Glenn Beck

00:13:32.820 program.

00:13:35.800 Glenn

00:13:36.400 Beck.

00:13:37.060 By the

00:13:45.860 way,

00:13:46.060 it's not

00:13:46.360 just the

00:13:46.800 Supreme Court

00:13:47.460 case that

00:13:48.120 is coming,

00:13:48.800 the ruling

00:13:49.200 on the

00:13:49.680 gay wedding

00:13:50.120 cake story 0.92

00:13:50.680 in 2018.

00:13:52.060 The Oregon

00:13:52.640 Court of

00:13:53.060 Appeals

00:13:53.580 just this

00:13:54.280 week upheld

00:13:54.820 a ruling

00:13:55.160 against two

00:13:55.760 bakeries,

00:13:56.460 baker owners

00:13:57.260 who refused

00:13:58.160 to bake a

00:13:58.600 wedding cake 0.96

00:13:59.040 for lesbians

00:13:59.880 in 2013.

00:14:02.160 They upheld

00:14:02.980 it.

00:14:03.220 I mean,

00:14:03.400 this is

00:14:03.640 Oregon.

00:14:04.100 I mean,

00:14:04.260 this is,

00:14:04.840 you know,

00:14:05.260 liberal central.

00:14:06.040 But they

00:14:07.220 upheld it.

00:14:07.960 The court

00:14:08.300 reversed one

00:14:09.240 part of the

00:14:09.700 decision that

00:14:10.700 said the

00:14:11.040 bakers violated

00:14:12.280 state law by

00:14:13.160 communicating their

00:14:14.060 intent to

00:14:14.500 discriminate against

00:14:15.280 the gay couple

00:14:15.920 in the future

00:14:16.580 as well.

00:14:17.620 So they threw

00:14:18.100 that part out.

00:14:18.820 But this goes

00:14:19.160 back to 2013

00:14:20.020 when Aaron

00:14:21.740 and Melissa

00:14:22.180 Klein were 1.00

00:14:22.820 ordered by the

00:14:23.580 Oregon Bureau

00:14:24.460 of Labor

00:14:25.180 and Industry

00:14:25.900 to pay the

00:14:27.700 lesbians $135,000

00:14:29.920 as a judgment.

00:14:32.440 But they

00:14:33.080 appealed.

00:14:34.420 And then this

00:14:34.820 was the

00:14:35.260 appeals.

00:14:35.900 They said,

00:14:36.640 yep,

00:14:37.580 $135,000

00:14:38.760 still got to

00:14:39.320 pay them

00:14:39.700 because you

00:14:40.660 wronged them.

00:14:42.020 And then

00:14:42.660 what?

00:14:43.140 Well,

00:14:43.440 it could go

00:14:43.960 to the

00:14:44.180 Oregon Supreme

00:14:44.900 Court.

00:14:47.400 Wait a minute.

00:14:48.760 Can we

00:14:49.160 side note

00:14:49.680 here?

00:14:51.860 $135,000

00:14:52.940 in damages?

00:14:55.480 You were

00:14:55.960 wounded to

00:14:57.280 the tune

00:14:57.560 of $135,000

00:14:59.140 for not

00:14:59.780 getting your 0.91

00:15:00.100 gay wedding 0.99

00:15:00.560 cake? 0.98

00:15:00.900 Because they

00:15:01.100 didn't make

00:15:01.460 your cake.

00:15:03.480 $135,000?

00:15:06.200 There's

00:15:06.800 people that

00:15:07.420 murder people.

00:15:09.260 Well,

00:15:09.380 look at

00:15:09.620 Kate

00:15:09.980 Klein's

00:15:10.540 killer.

00:15:12.000 Kate Steinle's

00:15:13.200 killer.

00:15:14.320 Right? 0.99

00:15:15.000 That guy

00:15:15.300 didn't even

00:15:15.620 go to jail.

00:15:17.000 This couple

00:15:17.900 got $135,000

00:15:20.000 fine for

00:15:20.840 saying,

00:15:21.260 yeah,

00:15:22.040 that's against

00:15:22.840 our religion,

00:15:23.460 so we're not

00:15:24.040 going to make

00:15:24.380 the cake

00:15:25.000 for you.

00:15:25.520 Cool?

00:15:26.660 That's worth

00:15:27.240 $135,000. 0.97

00:15:28.480 The lesbians 1.00

00:15:29.420 were, 0.95

00:15:29.820 make the

00:15:30.840 cake.

00:15:31.560 There's only

00:15:32.100 one thing

00:15:32.760 that can

00:15:33.060 make it.

00:15:34.000 $135,000.

00:15:35.280 We're cool.

00:15:35.680 We're good,

00:15:36.080 right?

00:15:36.480 That makes

00:15:37.100 everything so

00:15:37.660 much better.

00:15:38.440 I mean,

00:15:38.740 granted,

00:15:39.060 I like money, 0.99

00:15:39.780 but damn, 0.99

00:15:40.720 a $70,000 0.99

00:15:41.620 wouldn't have

00:15:42.080 made the

00:15:42.400 point?

00:15:44.000 $15,000?

00:15:45.760 You know,

00:15:46.060 eggs and

00:15:46.580 butter are

00:15:47.160 expensive

00:15:47.500 nowadays.

00:15:48.100 Obviously,

00:15:48.640 judges make 0.53

00:15:49.200 more money

00:15:49.680 than I do

00:15:50.280 because,

00:15:50.640 I mean,

00:15:51.980 a $1,000

00:15:52.580 judgment against

00:15:53.520 me,

00:15:53.800 and I'm like,

00:15:54.360 oh,

00:15:55.080 snap.

00:15:55.740 That's,

00:15:56.580 wow,

00:15:57.180 that's rough.

00:15:58.760 That's going

00:15:59.400 to hurt

00:15:59.740 quite a bit

00:16:00.380 there.

00:16:00.920 Kids,

00:16:01.500 we're not

00:16:01.720 going to

00:16:01.860 be eating

00:16:02.140 this month.

00:16:02.940 $135,000

00:16:05.800 because you

00:16:07.400 were wounded

00:16:07.900 for not

00:16:09.900 getting a

00:16:10.380 wedding cake.

00:16:11.260 Okay.

00:16:11.920 Rachel and

00:16:12.900 Laurel

00:16:13.560 Bowman-Cryer, 0.96

00:16:15.600 the lesbians 0.91

00:16:16.360 who were

00:16:16.820 wronged,

00:16:18.160 made the

00:16:18.520 statement

00:16:18.860 when the

00:16:19.680 first verdict

00:16:20.520 came down,

00:16:22.200 all Oregonians

00:16:23.500 can go into

00:16:24.440 any store

00:16:25.040 and expect

00:16:25.460 to be

00:16:25.800 treated

00:16:26.100 just like

00:16:26.700 any other

00:16:27.200 person.

00:16:27.620 It doesn't

00:16:28.480 matter how

00:16:29.180 you were

00:16:29.600 born or

00:16:30.120 who you

00:16:30.620 love.

00:16:31.360 All of us

00:16:31.960 are equal

00:16:32.960 under the

00:16:33.380 law and

00:16:34.360 should be

00:16:34.780 treated

00:16:35.100 equally or

00:16:36.460 will not

00:16:37.480 allow a

00:16:38.360 straight 0.70

00:16:38.860 couple's

00:16:39.560 only sign

00:16:40.280 to be

00:16:40.580 hung in 0.96

00:16:41.000 bakeries

00:16:41.560 or other

00:16:42.040 stores.

00:16:47.440 Equal 0.98

00:16:48.080 under the

00:16:48.840 law?

00:16:50.880 Equal 0.98

00:16:51.520 under the

00:16:51.840 law.

00:16:52.080 You're

00:16:52.400 misunderstanding

00:16:53.320 that term.

00:16:55.120 Equal 0.98

00:16:55.480 under the

00:16:55.900 law

00:16:56.320 primarily

00:16:57.960 and should

00:16:58.940 mean where

00:16:59.660 the law

00:17:00.080 is concerned.

00:17:02.300 It's a law

00:17:03.260 about making

00:17:04.380 wedding cakes.

00:17:06.400 By the way,

00:17:07.220 I know that

00:17:07.960 service,

00:17:08.860 when it comes

00:17:09.400 to minorities,

00:17:10.080 has been ruled

00:17:10.820 by the Supreme

00:17:11.360 Court in the

00:17:11.860 past,

00:17:12.320 that you

00:17:12.800 cannot deny

00:17:13.460 people the

00:17:14.040 protected

00:17:14.400 classes

00:17:14.860 service,

00:17:15.600 and I've

00:17:16.220 never understood

00:17:16.780 that.

00:17:17.080 I understand

00:17:17.520 how we

00:17:17.920 got there,

00:17:18.440 I understand

00:17:18.740 why they

00:17:19.200 said it,

00:17:19.620 why they

00:17:19.940 did it,

00:17:20.320 but I

00:17:20.900 absolutely

00:17:21.320 do not

00:17:21.800 agree,

00:17:22.460 and here's

00:17:22.920 why.

00:17:24.620 I believe

00:17:25.280 you should

00:17:25.740 be able to

00:17:26.620 quote-unquote

00:17:27.180 discriminate

00:17:27.740 against people

00:17:28.480 based on

00:17:29.200 what you

00:17:29.820 like,

00:17:30.200 what you

00:17:30.520 don't like,

00:17:31.400 who you

00:17:31.760 like,

00:17:32.140 what you

00:17:32.420 don't want.

00:17:33.800 Why

00:17:34.080 shouldn't

00:17:34.620 you be

00:17:34.940 able to?

00:17:36.520 And I

00:17:36.940 pose this

00:17:37.460 to you

00:17:37.780 social justice

00:17:38.520 warriors out

00:17:39.260 there.

00:17:40.180 You people

00:17:40.640 leading with

00:17:41.140 the hashtag

00:17:41.840 me too.

00:17:43.180 Women are 1.00

00:17:43.820 discriminated

00:17:44.580 against all

00:17:45.100 the time.

00:17:45.980 I didn't get

00:17:46.400 a cake.

00:17:46.860 me too.

00:17:48.740 Here's how

00:17:49.400 I know,

00:17:50.140 or why I

00:17:50.860 believe that

00:17:51.500 you should

00:17:52.080 be able to

00:17:52.480 discriminate.

00:17:53.660 Because I

00:17:54.220 believe you

00:17:55.100 would like to

00:17:55.920 discriminate as

00:17:56.680 well.

00:17:57.360 And I

00:17:57.800 believe there

00:17:58.240 are scenarios

00:17:58.860 when you,

00:17:59.540 the hashtag

00:18:00.160 me too

00:18:00.600 people and

00:18:02.080 minorities,

00:18:02.800 that you

00:18:03.740 would like to

00:18:04.300 discriminate.

00:18:06.700 Let's say

00:18:07.320 you're one of

00:18:07.720 the me

00:18:08.000 too-ers. 0.88

00:18:09.060 Let's say

00:18:09.680 somebody you

00:18:10.140 were really

00:18:10.580 wronged.

00:18:11.040 I don't

00:18:11.280 mean you

00:18:11.820 overheard a

00:18:12.620 dirty joke.

00:18:13.680 I mean,

00:18:14.300 you had

00:18:15.460 horrible,

00:18:16.160 horrible things

00:18:16.740 happened to

00:18:17.220 you and

00:18:17.420 done to

00:18:17.740 you by

00:18:18.460 men.

00:18:19.420 A group

00:18:19.960 of men

00:18:20.300 when you

00:18:20.540 were growing

00:18:20.920 up.

00:18:21.680 And to

00:18:21.880 this day,

00:18:22.360 you still

00:18:22.780 suffer.

00:18:23.620 You're

00:18:23.840 afraid of

00:18:24.340 men.

00:18:24.540 I hear

00:18:24.740 these stories

00:18:25.180 all the

00:18:25.500 time.

00:18:25.740 You don't

00:18:25.940 understand.

00:18:26.540 I was

00:18:27.000 sexually 0.87

00:18:27.300 assaulted.

00:18:27.860 Now

00:18:27.980 everywhere I

00:18:28.460 go,

00:18:28.740 I'm

00:18:28.920 fearful.

00:18:30.260 Okay.

00:18:30.620 I think

00:18:31.380 it's too

00:18:31.660 extreme,

00:18:32.080 but I

00:18:32.260 don't

00:18:32.380 live your

00:18:32.680 life.

00:18:32.980 I

00:18:33.020 didn't

00:18:33.200 go through

00:18:34.160 what you've

00:18:34.560 gone through.

00:18:35.480 Great.

00:18:35.900 Okay.

00:18:36.980 Well,

00:18:37.380 if that's

00:18:37.760 true,

00:18:38.580 and they

00:18:38.940 lead with

00:18:39.300 this all

00:18:39.620 the time,

00:18:40.320 you don't

00:18:40.540 know what

00:18:40.740 a struggle

00:18:41.140 it is.

00:18:41.480 I live

00:18:41.760 in fear

00:18:42.280 because of

00:18:42.780 men and

00:18:43.100 what men

00:18:43.540 have done

00:18:43.880 to them.

00:18:44.640 Okay.

00:18:45.000 What if I

00:18:46.960 forced you

00:18:47.720 as a business

00:18:48.460 owner then

00:18:49.080 to do

00:18:50.200 business

00:18:50.660 with men?

00:18:52.880 Certain

00:18:53.320 men,

00:18:54.100 men similar

00:18:54.700 to those

00:18:55.380 that wronged

00:18:56.160 you,

00:18:56.680 men that you

00:18:57.180 live in fear

00:18:57.760 of all

00:18:58.120 the time.

00:18:59.400 Shouldn't

00:18:59.860 you have a

00:19:00.400 right to

00:19:00.800 say,

00:19:01.340 I've got a

00:19:02.540 problem with

00:19:03.140 that,

00:19:03.720 was based on

00:19:04.340 something that

00:19:04.760 happened to

00:19:05.240 me.

00:19:06.060 I'd just

00:19:06.580 rather not

00:19:07.180 do business

00:19:07.740 with those

00:19:08.160 people.

00:19:09.620 Of course

00:19:10.340 you should,

00:19:11.200 and I

00:19:11.560 support that.

00:19:12.820 There are

00:19:13.260 many reasons

00:19:13.840 why you

00:19:14.260 wouldn't want

00:19:14.700 to,

00:19:14.920 but certainly

00:19:15.600 religion

00:19:16.720 should be

00:19:17.720 acceptable.

00:19:21.180 Glenn

00:19:21.700 back.

00:19:27.760 You're

00:19:30.580 listening to

00:19:31.000 the Glenn

00:19:31.340 Beck

00:19:31.560 program.

00:19:32.900 Doc

00:19:33.280 Thompson

00:19:33.560 in for

00:19:33.900 Glenn

00:19:34.120 today.

00:19:34.480 I'm

00:19:34.620 regularly

00:19:34.920 heard on

00:19:35.260 the

00:19:35.340 blaze

00:19:35.580 radio

00:19:35.900 network.

00:19:36.440 You can

00:19:36.660 find out

00:19:37.020 more about

00:19:37.420 me by

00:19:37.740 going to

00:19:38.020 the

00:19:38.120 blaze

00:19:38.360 radio.com.

00:19:39.340 It's

00:19:39.460 the

00:19:39.560 blaze

00:19:39.800 radio.com.

00:19:40.760 We'll

00:19:41.060 get some

00:19:41.360 calls

00:19:41.660 coming up.

00:19:42.500 888-727-BECK

00:19:44.100 888-727-BECK

00:19:45.700 can also tweet

00:19:46.600 the program.

00:19:47.220 I'll share

00:19:47.480 some of your

00:19:47.900 tweets and we

00:19:48.440 can engage

00:19:48.920 there.

00:19:49.640 It's best

00:19:50.140 if you just

00:19:50.480 follow me

00:19:51.000 at

00:19:51.400 Doc Thompson

00:19:52.300 show

00:19:52.780 throughout

00:19:54.420 my morning

00:19:54.980 radio broadcast.

00:19:55.640 We use the

00:19:56.100 hashtag

00:19:56.500 what I

00:19:56.820 learned

00:19:57.060 today.

00:19:58.000 If you want

00:19:58.380 to use

00:19:58.560 that as

00:19:58.860 well,

00:19:59.040 that's

00:19:59.300 pretty

00:19:59.500 cool.

00:20:00.020 Some

00:20:00.140 calls

00:20:00.340 coming up

00:20:00.680 first.

00:20:00.920 Some

00:20:01.000 tweets

00:20:01.280 though.

00:20:01.560 Bob

00:20:01.740 blah

00:20:01.920 blah

00:20:02.080 tweeting.

00:20:03.180 Love

00:20:03.400 the

00:20:03.520 blah

00:20:03.700 blah

00:20:03.900 blah.

00:20:04.340 Love

00:20:04.560 him.

00:20:05.280 Great

00:20:05.640 opening

00:20:05.880 monologue

00:20:06.300 doc.

00:20:06.720 Non-TMB

00:20:07.380 listeners

00:20:07.720 didn't

00:20:07.940 realize

00:20:08.200 you

00:20:08.340 just

00:20:08.460 did

00:20:08.560 a

00:20:08.640 three

00:20:08.820 hour

00:20:09.020 show

00:20:09.260 only

00:20:09.480 to

00:20:09.640 turn

00:20:09.780 around

00:20:09.980 and

00:20:10.100 do

00:20:10.200 another

00:20:10.480 three

00:20:10.780 hours.

00:20:11.840 Yep.

00:20:13.500 Absolutely.

00:20:13.980 We do

00:20:14.100 that quite

00:20:14.380 a bit.

00:20:15.080 We've been

00:20:15.640 a lot

00:20:15.880 hours.

00:20:16.300 man.

00:20:17.280 I mean,

00:20:17.480 I do

00:20:17.920 Cal

00:20:18.360 does

00:20:18.600 and he's

00:20:18.860 with me

00:20:19.100 in the

00:20:19.260 morning,

00:20:19.520 but he

00:20:19.760 slacks off 1.00

00:20:20.380 a lot.

00:20:20.800 But you

00:20:21.060 know,

00:20:21.340 I'm not

00:20:21.840 even there

00:20:22.280 in the

00:20:22.480 morning

00:20:22.680 when I'm

00:20:22.960 there.

00:20:23.360 I know.

00:20:23.920 Trust me.

00:20:24.300 The listeners

00:20:24.640 know as well.

00:20:25.560 Listeners are

00:20:26.080 well aware of

00:20:26.680 that.

00:20:27.180 Donna

00:20:27.340 tweeting

00:20:27.680 rights

00:20:28.060 provide

00:20:28.580 opportunity,

00:20:29.440 not a

00:20:30.100 guaranteed

00:20:30.500 result.

00:20:31.860 My rights

00:20:32.460 and where

00:20:33.120 yours

00:20:33.480 begin.

00:20:34.300 I cannot

00:20:34.660 rule you.

00:20:35.580 You cannot

00:20:35.940 rule me.

00:20:37.600 Donna,

00:20:37.880 there's

00:20:38.340 the key.

00:20:39.460 I think a

00:20:39.900 lot of

00:20:40.240 people,

00:20:40.860 even the

00:20:41.620 progressives

00:20:42.340 understand within

00:20:43.540 their twisted 0.99

00:20:44.220 little mind. 0.96

00:20:45.760 My rights

00:20:46.320 and where

00:20:46.660 yours

00:20:46.960 begin.

00:20:47.380 They get

00:20:47.720 some of

00:20:48.220 that.

00:20:48.680 It's

00:20:48.980 twisted.

00:20:49.520 It's

00:20:49.640 off.

00:20:50.240 They don't

00:20:51.340 utilize it

00:20:52.100 the right

00:20:52.460 way.

00:20:52.880 They're

00:20:53.020 emotional,

00:20:53.620 but they

00:20:53.800 get some

00:20:54.220 of that.

00:20:55.640 But what

00:20:56.220 they don't

00:20:56.660 get is the

00:20:57.060 first part

00:20:57.520 of your

00:20:57.720 tweet.

00:20:59.140 Rights

00:20:59.400 provide

00:20:59.860 opportunity,

00:21:00.900 not a

00:21:01.500 guaranteed

00:21:02.060 results.

00:21:04.720 Rights

00:21:05.080 are

00:21:06.840 protections,

00:21:07.940 things that

00:21:08.760 are protected

00:21:09.460 where you

00:21:10.420 are protected.

00:21:11.440 Protected

00:21:11.780 from who?

00:21:12.900 Protected

00:21:13.340 from the

00:21:13.680 government

00:21:14.020 infringing

00:21:14.700 them and

00:21:15.320 in some

00:21:15.720 cases,

00:21:16.680 the

00:21:16.920 government

00:21:17.420 establishing

00:21:18.680 a set

00:21:20.000 of rules

00:21:20.660 and punishments

00:21:22.140 for violation

00:21:22.760 of those

00:21:23.160 rules when

00:21:23.620 somebody

00:21:24.020 violates

00:21:24.700 your rights.

00:21:25.600 The

00:21:25.720 criminal

00:21:25.960 justice

00:21:26.340 system,

00:21:26.840 for example.

00:21:30.000 It's

00:21:30.280 equal

00:21:30.620 opportunity,

00:21:32.640 life,

00:21:33.980 liberty,

00:21:34.280 and the

00:21:34.460 pursuit of

00:21:34.920 happiness.

00:21:37.180 Is it

00:21:37.900 an outcome?

00:21:39.180 All men 0.98

00:21:39.680 are created

00:21:40.160 equal,

00:21:40.880 not an

00:21:41.360 outcome.

00:21:41.840 all men

00:21:43.220 are created

00:21:43.680 equal.

00:21:44.820 If you

00:21:45.380 think that

00:21:45.980 means

00:21:46.420 abilities

00:21:47.160 and outcome,

00:21:48.280 then how

00:21:49.680 come I

00:21:50.060 don't have

00:21:50.480 $14 million

00:21:51.260 for not

00:21:52.700 being able

00:21:53.080 to throw

00:21:53.360 a football

00:21:53.840 50 yards?

00:21:55.740 Where's

00:21:56.300 my Nobel

00:21:56.840 Peace Prize

00:21:57.500 and million

00:21:57.900 bucks that

00:21:58.340 goes with

00:21:58.800 it?

00:21:59.300 How come

00:21:59.660 I haven't

00:22:00.060 written 16

00:22:00.860 books like

00:22:01.560 Glenn Beck?

00:22:02.760 How come

00:22:03.120 I haven't

00:22:03.500 built a

00:22:04.240 media empire

00:22:05.140 like Glenn

00:22:05.680 Beck?

00:22:06.840 Because Glenn's

00:22:07.700 better than

00:22:08.200 me.

00:22:09.200 He's

00:22:09.520 smarter than

00:22:10.700 me.

00:22:11.180 You need

00:22:11.380 some actual

00:22:11.800 talent.

00:22:12.500 Right.

00:22:13.100 Glenn and

00:22:13.580 I had the

00:22:14.160 same

00:22:14.400 opportunities.

00:22:16.020 He can

00:22:16.380 speak.

00:22:17.020 He got a

00:22:17.520 job.

00:22:18.040 I can

00:22:18.440 speak.

00:22:18.840 I got a

00:22:19.280 job.

00:22:19.800 Right.

00:22:20.940 It doesn't

00:22:21.820 mean we're

00:22:22.660 all going to

00:22:23.340 have the

00:22:23.700 same talents

00:22:24.400 and abilities

00:22:24.960 or we'll

00:22:25.500 have the

00:22:25.840 same outcome.

00:22:27.240 It means

00:22:28.360 where God

00:22:29.340 is concerned,

00:22:30.400 we have

00:22:31.740 the same

00:22:32.460 basis,

00:22:33.660 the same

00:22:34.280 DNA.

00:22:35.960 We all

00:22:36.400 have DNA.

00:22:37.600 We're all

00:22:38.340 born.

00:22:38.920 Beyond

00:22:39.580 that,

00:22:40.260 you make

00:22:40.620 choices.

00:22:42.380 That's

00:22:42.640 it.

00:22:43.640 Life,

00:22:44.200 liberty,

00:22:44.540 and the

00:22:44.760 pursuit of

00:22:45.240 happiness

00:22:45.620 and those

00:22:45.960 things are

00:22:46.300 protected.

00:22:47.860 Libertarian

00:22:48.420 gave a

00:22:49.340 pretty good

00:22:49.760 tweet and

00:22:50.220 an example.

00:22:51.400 Wedding

00:22:51.600 cake

00:22:51.820 debate

00:22:52.200 remix 0.91

00:22:52.760 at

00:22:52.980 Doc Thompson

00:22:53.380 show.

00:22:53.700 A liberal

00:22:53.940 musician

00:22:54.380 owns a

00:22:54.860 record store.

00:22:55.900 He's also

00:22:56.300 a songwriter

00:22:57.060 for hire.

00:22:58.220 An NRA

00:22:58.560 member comes

00:22:59.240 to his

00:22:59.540 store,

00:23:00.340 buys

00:23:00.680 records.

00:23:01.640 Store

00:23:01.860 owner gladly

00:23:02.460 sells him

00:23:02.940 anything in

00:23:03.380 the store,

00:23:03.840 but refuses

00:23:05.040 to compose a

00:23:05.880 custom pro

00:23:06.520 gun song for

00:23:07.360 his upcoming

00:23:07.840 NRA event.

00:23:09.680 He has

00:23:10.340 the right.

00:23:11.500 That is

00:23:12.200 the right

00:23:12.700 that must

00:23:13.280 be protected.

00:23:17.380 You're

00:23:17.840 right.

00:23:18.380 He should

00:23:18.760 be able

00:23:19.080 to refuse.

00:23:20.440 But how

00:23:20.980 would you

00:23:21.200 feel if

00:23:21.660 you were

00:23:22.240 the liberal

00:23:22.680 that is

00:23:23.000 so

00:23:23.260 rabidly

00:23:24.100 anti-gun?

00:23:25.340 I mean,

00:23:25.500 you're a

00:23:25.760 hoplophobe. 0.98

00:23:26.640 You're a 0.98

00:23:27.040 gunaphobe. 0.94

00:23:27.820 You're paranoid

00:23:28.760 when it

00:23:29.220 comes to

00:23:29.580 guns.

00:23:29.920 You're 0.99

00:23:30.040 crazed.

00:23:31.440 You can't 0.59

00:23:31.800 even hear

00:23:32.060 the term

00:23:32.560 gun.

00:23:34.300 Okay,

00:23:34.560 I think

00:23:34.900 you're 0.99

00:23:35.120 nutty. 1.00

00:23:35.840 You may

00:23:36.240 have some

00:23:36.660 sort of

00:23:36.980 psychosis.

00:23:37.640 But if

00:23:39.400 you do,

00:23:40.220 I'm going

00:23:40.940 to force

00:23:41.380 you to

00:23:41.640 do business

00:23:42.140 with the

00:23:42.460 NRA.

00:23:43.600 I'm going

00:23:44.060 to force

00:23:44.440 you to

00:23:44.680 come to

00:23:44.960 do business

00:23:45.380 at my

00:23:45.660 gun range.

00:23:46.320 Of course

00:23:46.880 not.

00:23:48.000 And I

00:23:48.260 stand by

00:23:48.820 your right

00:23:49.200 to tell

00:23:49.480 the NRA

00:23:50.220 hell no,

00:23:51.280 even though

00:23:51.600 I support

00:23:52.020 I support

00:23:52.040 the NRA.

00:23:53.600 If you're

00:23:54.260 not careful,

00:23:55.220 you're going

00:23:56.240 to get

00:23:56.680 what you're

00:23:57.100 wishing for.

00:23:59.220 You social

00:23:59.980 justice

00:24:00.360 warriors out

00:24:01.060 there,

00:24:01.940 right now

00:24:02.420 your fingers

00:24:02.960 crossed,

00:24:04.140 you're hoping,

00:24:04.880 you're not

00:24:05.220 praying because

00:24:05.820 you're all

00:24:06.240 heathens, 0.98

00:24:06.780 but you're

00:24:07.560 hoping the

00:24:08.800 Supreme

00:24:09.380 Court rules

00:24:10.420 your way

00:24:11.040 about this 0.98

00:24:12.440 gay wedding 0.99

00:24:12.880 cake. 0.99

00:24:14.060 It's just

00:24:14.760 what has to

00:24:15.320 be,

00:24:15.640 doc. 0.99

00:24:16.220 Gays 0.98

00:24:16.460 should be 0.94

00:24:16.700 able to

00:24:16.880 buy wedding

00:24:17.300 cakes and

00:24:17.940 those Christians

00:24:18.540 should have

00:24:18.900 to make it

00:24:19.340 for them.

00:24:20.240 You're all

00:24:20.940 hopped up

00:24:21.440 about it

00:24:21.960 and you

00:24:22.820 have a shot

00:24:23.320 at this

00:24:23.620 thing.

00:24:24.960 You may

00:24:25.680 get what

00:24:26.180 you want

00:24:26.720 and it

00:24:28.260 is going

00:24:28.580 to bite

00:24:29.180 you in 1.00

00:24:29.740 the ass. 1.00

00:24:30.940 It is 1.00

00:24:31.540 going to

00:24:31.940 punish you

00:24:32.640 far more

00:24:33.640 than it's

00:24:33.980 going to

00:24:34.180 punish me

00:24:34.660 because here's

00:24:35.160 the thing.

00:24:36.120 I stand

00:24:36.900 on principle

00:24:37.520 and I'll

00:24:38.780 shut the

00:24:39.180 thing down

00:24:39.660 before I

00:24:40.160 go against

00:24:40.580 my values

00:24:41.340 like some

00:24:42.240 of these

00:24:42.540 wedding

00:24:43.160 service

00:24:44.960 providers.

00:24:46.120 I know a

00:24:46.380 couple that

00:24:46.740 was,

00:24:47.220 I think it

00:24:47.440 was Missouri

00:24:47.980 told me the

00:24:48.460 story.

00:24:48.920 They had this

00:24:49.600 beautiful

00:24:49.940 little

00:24:50.200 chapel.

00:24:52.480 They had

00:24:53.060 wanted to

00:24:54.460 do this

00:24:54.880 for a long

00:24:55.340 time and

00:24:55.720 they built

00:24:55.960 a piece

00:24:56.200 of property

00:24:56.620 and have

00:24:56.960 this beautiful

00:24:57.560 little wedding

00:24:58.120 chapel.

00:24:58.560 Very small

00:24:59.100 specifically because

00:24:59.880 they wanted to

00:25:00.380 cater to 0.70

00:25:00.700 weddings.

00:25:01.200 They're very

00:25:01.680 strong about

00:25:02.260 their faith.

00:25:02.700 They think

00:25:02.900 it's a

00:25:03.340 joyous

00:25:04.300 occasion and

00:25:05.820 they would

00:25:06.000 rent the

00:25:06.300 chapel out.

00:25:08.680 And a

00:25:09.180 gay couple

00:25:09.560 came in

00:25:09.980 and they

00:25:10.180 said we're

00:25:11.640 sorry we

00:25:12.100 have to

00:25:12.420 respectfully

00:25:12.920 decline

00:25:13.540 letting you

00:25:14.860 rent this

00:25:15.240 out for

00:25:16.100 your wedding

00:25:16.480 because it's

00:25:18.480 against our

00:25:18.960 faith.

00:25:19.300 We hope

00:25:19.540 you can

00:25:19.780 understand

00:25:20.140 that.

00:25:20.560 And the

00:25:20.700 couple's

00:25:20.960 very nice.

00:25:23.060 They said

00:25:23.340 we're not

00:25:24.020 trying to

00:25:25.320 offend you.

00:25:25.880 We're not

00:25:26.080 trying to

00:25:26.420 be mean.

00:25:28.100 But we

00:25:28.680 hope you

00:25:28.980 understand and

00:25:30.880 respect our

00:25:31.640 values.

00:25:32.900 See the 0.98

00:25:33.380 gays are

00:25:33.700 saying respect

00:25:34.260 us and we

00:25:34.700 have equal

00:25:34.980 access but

00:25:35.440 you're not

00:25:35.880 willing to

00:25:36.160 respect others.

00:25:37.900 And they

00:25:38.400 sued.

00:25:40.120 And the

00:25:40.480 couple said

00:25:41.020 fine then

00:25:42.760 we'll shut

00:25:43.120 it down.

00:25:43.560 And they

00:25:45.280 shut the

00:25:45.640 business

00:25:45.920 down.

00:25:47.460 Their

00:25:47.940 dream sits

00:25:48.780 there empty.

00:25:51.680 So I

00:25:52.560 stand on

00:25:53.000 principle and

00:25:53.920 I'll shut

00:25:54.260 the thing

00:25:54.540 down.

00:25:55.220 But here's

00:25:55.620 what's

00:25:55.820 coming.

00:25:56.780 There are

00:25:57.120 going to be

00:25:57.540 people who

00:25:58.020 force you

00:25:58.620 into business

00:25:59.200 and to do

00:25:59.640 things that

00:26:00.500 you don't

00:26:00.900 want to

00:26:01.280 do.

00:26:02.240 And you're

00:26:02.920 going to be

00:26:03.460 outraged

00:26:04.140 because of

00:26:04.660 it.

00:26:05.660 Well guess

00:26:06.040 what?

00:26:06.820 You brought

00:26:07.480 this upon

00:26:07.900 yourself.

00:26:09.080 There's a

00:26:09.740 lot of

00:26:10.140 bad that can

00:26:10.720 come with

00:26:11.120 this.

00:26:11.400 If they

00:26:12.840 rule in

00:26:13.240 favors of 0.78

00:26:13.840 the gays 0.98

00:26:15.360 who claim 0.97

00:26:15.720 that they

00:26:15.960 were injured

00:26:16.480 why wouldn't

00:26:18.020 this eventually

00:26:18.880 be used to

00:26:21.240 question most

00:26:21.960 religious

00:26:22.400 ceremonies?

00:26:24.720 My faith,

00:26:26.240 my Bible

00:26:26.780 tells me

00:26:27.320 homosexuality 0.88

00:26:28.260 is wrong.

00:26:29.680 I think a

00:26:30.440 lot of

00:26:30.660 Christians get 1.00

00:26:31.180 it wrong.

00:26:31.660 It's not a

00:26:32.040 greater sin.

00:26:33.040 It's not the

00:26:33.460 worst thing you

00:26:34.000 can do.

00:26:34.840 Churches out

00:26:35.400 there want to

00:26:35.920 say those

00:26:36.460 homo-time 0.95

00:26:36.920 sexuals and 0.63

00:26:38.140 they lead with

00:26:38.680 all these

00:26:39.060 sermons that

00:26:39.660 it's the

00:26:39.940 greatest sin

00:26:40.480 out there.

00:26:40.820 It is not.

00:26:41.660 It's a

00:26:41.960 sin.

00:26:42.440 It's wrong.

00:26:43.420 I don't

00:26:43.680 want to

00:26:43.880 discriminate

00:26:44.200 against 0.95

00:26:44.620 gays. 0.92

00:26:45.880 Live your 0.98

00:26:46.180 life.

00:26:46.600 You answer

00:26:47.000 for it just

00:26:47.460 like I have

00:26:47.940 to answer

00:26:48.260 for my

00:26:48.760 sins.

00:26:49.800 And that's

00:26:50.120 how I

00:26:50.400 live.

00:26:51.760 Cal, 0.80

00:26:52.460 is homosexuality 0.96

00:26:54.300 widely promoted

00:26:55.400 and accepted

00:26:55.980 in Islam?

00:26:57.260 No.

00:26:57.820 Is it

00:26:58.260 determined to

00:26:58.800 be wrong?

00:26:59.720 Yes.

00:27:00.200 Okay.

00:27:00.720 So there's a

00:27:01.540 lot of

00:27:01.820 religions out 1.00

00:27:02.480 there where

00:27:02.800 homosexuality is 0.98

00:27:03.820 wrong.

00:27:04.620 If it's

00:27:05.380 determined that

00:27:06.060 you must take

00:27:06.840 part in a

00:27:08.000 wedding ceremony

00:27:09.320 that is a

00:27:10.260 religious

00:27:10.720 ceremony by

00:27:12.140 baking a

00:27:12.620 cake or

00:27:13.460 whatever else,

00:27:14.600 why wouldn't

00:27:15.120 this be used

00:27:15.800 for your

00:27:17.040 sermon?

00:27:17.720 You go to

00:27:18.160 church, I

00:27:18.500 go to

00:27:18.780 church, why

00:27:19.160 wouldn't they

00:27:19.460 say, whoa,

00:27:20.100 you cannot

00:27:21.900 preach that

00:27:22.620 that's wrong.

00:27:24.060 You cannot

00:27:24.860 quote scripture

00:27:25.680 where it says

00:27:26.200 it's wrong.

00:27:26.640 That will be the

00:27:27.060 next step,

00:27:27.540 yeah.

00:27:28.660 If they're

00:27:29.080 saying you

00:27:29.520 have to

00:27:30.060 bake a

00:27:30.580 cake no

00:27:31.040 matter what

00:27:31.400 your beliefs

00:27:31.760 are, next

00:27:33.180 time will

00:27:33.400 be like,

00:27:33.620 well, now

00:27:33.880 you can't

00:27:34.420 say anything

00:27:35.020 negative, you

00:27:35.840 know, at

00:27:36.360 your sermons.

00:27:37.100 It'll be the

00:27:37.800 slower road.

00:27:38.780 There's how it'll

00:27:39.300 start.

00:27:39.540 They're not just

00:27:39.940 going to start

00:27:40.360 that way.

00:27:41.080 It'll start

00:27:41.540 with, well,

00:27:42.160 not just in

00:27:43.060 wedding cakes

00:27:44.400 for the reception,

00:27:47.240 but for the

00:27:47.820 ceremony.

00:27:48.420 You got to sell

00:27:48.840 them those

00:27:49.140 candles.

00:27:49.940 Well, yeah,

00:27:50.220 but I make

00:27:50.560 candles for,

00:27:51.260 I'm sorry,

00:27:51.800 got to sell

00:27:52.240 them.

00:27:52.380 It's for the

00:27:52.660 sermon.

00:27:52.860 It'll be,

00:27:53.700 and that'll

00:27:53.940 be in church

00:27:54.620 regardless of

00:27:55.300 weddings.

00:27:56.380 And it'll be,

00:27:57.720 well, you can't

00:27:58.560 say that because

00:27:59.080 what if there's a 0.99

00:27:59.720 gay in your 0.99

00:28:00.140 congregation and 0.99

00:28:00.900 they want to

00:28:01.280 join this or

00:28:01.820 whatever?

00:28:02.040 And you're

00:28:02.200 like, well,

00:28:02.500 sorry, we're

00:28:03.000 a church,

00:28:03.420 we're a

00:28:03.680 private and

00:28:04.140 we preach a

00:28:04.900 certain,

00:28:05.240 sorry, it

00:28:05.660 doesn't matter.

00:28:06.040 You can't

00:28:06.280 discriminate

00:28:06.600 against them

00:28:07.220 and you

00:28:08.300 must, and

00:28:08.800 you must,

00:28:10.600 why wouldn't

00:28:11.460 that?

00:28:11.740 And then the

00:28:12.060 government

00:28:12.420 monitoring prayers

00:28:14.080 and services.

00:28:16.280 Well, it's a

00:28:17.020 first amendment

00:28:17.560 separation.

00:28:18.420 It's a first

00:28:19.040 amendment separation

00:28:19.920 when it comes to

00:28:20.740 the reception as

00:28:22.560 well.

00:28:23.860 I mean, this

00:28:24.800 might be to

00:28:25.680 1984, but what

00:28:27.420 if all of a

00:28:28.100 sudden scripture

00:28:29.220 is banned because

00:28:30.640 it's got a hate

00:28:31.760 speech in it?

00:28:33.240 Exactly.

00:28:34.100 And that's where

00:28:34.840 they're going with

00:28:35.440 this.

00:28:35.860 And you know

00:28:36.300 what?

00:28:36.620 A lot of the

00:28:37.260 younger people

00:28:37.800 won't stand up

00:28:38.440 and defend it

00:28:39.000 even if they

00:28:39.540 think this gay 0.97

00:28:40.120 wedding cake 0.95

00:28:40.620 thing, well,

00:28:41.060 it's gotten out

00:28:41.560 of hand and I

00:28:42.260 kind of side with

00:28:43.040 this or whatever.

00:28:43.860 They won't defend

00:28:44.800 it because so few

00:28:45.760 of them have a

00:28:47.640 faith, the

00:28:48.720 foundation in faith.

00:28:49.740 So few of them

00:28:50.600 have been raised

00:28:51.180 in the church.

00:28:51.740 So few of

00:28:52.720 them have, you

00:28:54.920 know, even

00:28:55.540 thought about

00:28:56.320 their, their

00:28:57.380 salvation, whatever

00:28:58.960 their religion.

00:29:00.360 They're too busy

00:29:01.360 worried about

00:29:01.800 multiculturalism and

00:29:03.100 social justice and

00:29:03.940 all this stuff.

00:29:04.680 So they're not going

00:29:05.520 to defend that.

00:29:06.280 And the ironic part

00:29:07.400 is they believe in

00:29:08.760 diversity or so

00:29:10.060 they say, and

00:29:11.040 multiculturalism as

00:29:12.760 long as it's not

00:29:14.020 certain cultures,

00:29:16.420 certain people,

00:29:17.600 certain races,

00:29:18.640 certain religions.

00:29:19.540 And that's the

00:29:20.360 truth about it.

00:29:21.100 To the phones we go

00:29:22.180 888-727-BECK,

00:29:23.820 888-727-BECK,

00:29:25.160 Sunshine State.

00:29:26.280 David, how are you?

00:29:27.280 Welcome to the

00:29:27.660 program.

00:29:28.700 Oh, thank you very

00:29:29.460 much.

00:29:29.840 I've really enjoyed

00:29:30.660 your monologue and

00:29:31.420 program.

00:29:31.940 Thank you, sir.

00:29:32.460 Thank you very much.

00:29:33.160 The only thing I

00:29:34.620 think you overlooked

00:29:35.280 was the point that

00:29:36.400 our rights are

00:29:37.000 natural.

00:29:37.820 We're born with

00:29:38.560 them.

00:29:38.900 And the rights are

00:29:39.900 not constitutional.

00:29:41.220 They don't, they're

00:29:41.580 not granted.

00:29:42.200 You alluded to this,

00:29:43.380 but just to be

00:29:44.240 crystal clear, it

00:29:45.560 doesn't matter what

00:29:46.300 the Supreme Court

00:29:47.040 does because we

00:29:47.820 still have our

00:29:48.480 rights.

00:29:49.120 If the Supreme Court

00:29:49.940 decides that these

00:29:51.080 people must do what

00:29:51.940 they're told by

00:29:52.520 someone, then what

00:29:53.700 they've done is they've

00:29:54.400 declared that the

00:29:55.200 government is no

00:29:56.320 longer supporting the

00:29:57.340 rights of the people

00:29:58.120 that created the

00:29:59.100 government and no

00:29:59.920 longer has a moral

00:30:00.820 right to exist or

00:30:01.880 operate as our

00:30:02.560 government.

00:30:03.560 Powerful.

00:30:04.160 You're absolutely

00:30:04.860 right, David.

00:30:05.660 That's the point of

00:30:06.660 it.

00:30:07.100 And they want to

00:30:08.180 conflate human rights

00:30:10.180 for constitutional.

00:30:11.020 Constitutional rights

00:30:11.820 are the constitutional

00:30:13.660 protected rights.

00:30:15.460 They're God-granted

00:30:16.080 rights.

00:30:16.840 But when you start

00:30:17.460 saying human rights,

00:30:18.500 David, who determines

00:30:20.140 what a human right is?

00:30:22.120 Well, our natural

00:30:23.160 rights exist when we

00:30:24.360 breathe.

00:30:24.780 They have the right

00:30:25.320 to live, the right to

00:30:27.000 own property, the right

00:30:28.300 to happiness, whatever

00:30:29.420 that means, and our

00:30:31.080 liberty.

00:30:31.960 And I've

00:30:32.420 memorialized all

00:30:34.580 these on some big

00:30:35.420 monuments at

00:30:36.080 founderscorner.us if

00:30:37.700 people want to see

00:30:38.420 them.

00:30:38.560 What's that again?

00:30:39.180 What's that website

00:30:39.580 again?

00:30:40.920 founderscorner.us.

00:30:42.160 It's granite

00:30:42.620 monuments I roll

00:30:43.420 around to various

00:30:44.080 events to help

00:30:44.720 memorialize our

00:30:45.840 rights.

00:30:46.080 I'll tweet it out

00:30:46.700 there, founderscorner.com.

00:30:48.260 Gotcha.

00:30:49.160 Founderscorner.us.

00:30:50.040 Oh, excuse me, .us.

00:30:51.080 Gotcha.

00:30:51.460 But thank you for

00:30:52.080 pointing out that

00:30:52.800 these are rights that

00:30:54.000 we live with that the

00:30:56.040 government does not

00:30:56.740 grant, and they are

00:30:57.580 natural rights.

00:30:58.640 Don't let anyone try

00:30:59.660 to claim that you no

00:31:00.680 longer have your

00:31:01.420 rights.

00:31:01.660 They are inalienable.

00:31:02.620 They can't be taken

00:31:03.380 away.

00:31:03.760 Even if you want to

00:31:04.440 give them away, you

00:31:05.560 still have them.

00:31:06.900 Excellent point, David.

00:31:07.800 Really appreciate the

00:31:08.480 call.

00:31:08.700 Thanks so much.

00:31:09.180 Let's go to Arkansas

00:31:09.920 now.

00:31:10.540 Kendall, how are you?

00:31:11.440 Welcome to the

00:31:11.940 program.

00:31:12.420 Good morning, guys.

00:31:13.340 How are you doing?

00:31:13.920 Hey, good morning, guys.

00:31:15.540 Morning.

00:31:16.100 Hey, the analogy of

00:31:17.880 the record store and

00:31:18.980 the NRA members spot on

00:31:20.460 because a couple of

00:31:21.200 weeks ago when they

00:31:21.800 were arguing this in

00:31:22.820 front of the Supreme

00:31:23.540 Court, it's not that

00:31:25.620 the baker was denying

00:31:26.780 the gay couple's

00:31:27.800 service or a wedding

00:31:28.980 cake.

00:31:29.580 He was going to sell

00:31:30.560 them any wedding cake

00:31:31.500 that he had ready-made.

00:31:33.380 He just didn't want to

00:31:34.740 use his natural given

00:31:37.120 artistic talent to

00:31:39.040 design them a custom

00:31:41.240 wedding cake, therefore

00:31:42.540 involving himself in

00:31:44.360 their ceremony.

00:31:46.540 Yeah, exactly.

00:31:47.520 And can you imagine in

00:31:48.840 the future if they

00:31:51.780 don't, if they get

00:31:52.960 their way and this is

00:31:55.860 upheld that you have to

00:31:57.780 make wedding cakes, can

00:31:59.120 you imagine where this

00:32:00.060 is going in the

00:32:01.140 artistic community when

00:32:03.020 other people, when

00:32:04.200 other protected classes,

00:32:05.820 because in many cases

00:32:06.720 homosexuality is not a 0.86

00:32:07.880 protected class, can you 0.95

00:32:09.220 imagine when Christians 0.98

00:32:10.120 start applying this and

00:32:11.260 saying, sorry, you must

00:32:12.760 portray us this way or

00:32:13.980 make this movie or this

00:32:15.360 record or whatever, they'll

00:32:17.460 lose their mind.

00:32:20.100 Well, it's just like you

00:32:23.220 said, it only applies if

00:32:25.060 it helps the progressive

00:32:27.740 side.

00:32:28.840 So absolutely.

00:32:29.760 Thanks so much for the

00:32:30.480 call.

00:32:30.720 Appreciate it.

00:32:31.140 You as well, sir.

00:32:32.940 Yeah.

00:32:33.460 And that's the point.

00:32:34.240 If you look at if you

00:32:35.980 look at progressive ideas

00:32:37.100 and thoughts or what they

00:32:38.100 promote today, they end

00:32:39.840 up coming in conflict with

00:32:41.320 one another.

00:32:42.000 The progressives of the

00:32:44.120 19 teens era, the

00:32:46.220 Teddy Roosevelt, the

00:32:47.160 Woodrow Wilsons.

00:32:48.200 Do you think if you

00:32:49.560 transported them to

00:32:51.100 today's day and age and

00:32:52.560 said you are one of the

00:32:53.760 founders of American

00:32:54.680 progressivism?

00:32:55.900 Look at all the

00:32:56.500 progressives today.

00:32:57.260 Would Woodrow Wilson's

00:32:58.960 opinions side up, be

00:33:01.820 very close to the

00:33:02.740 progressives today?

00:33:04.340 These specific issues.

00:33:06.380 Absolutely not.

00:33:07.180 Woodrow Wilson was a 0.99

00:33:08.020 rabid racist. 0.97

00:33:09.580 They've led with race 1.00

00:33:10.420 because those are people

00:33:11.260 they can co-opt for their

00:33:12.880 ultimate goal of

00:33:15.600 control.

00:33:16.260 control.

00:33:20.080 Glenn Beck.

00:33:26.460 Glenn Beck.

00:33:29.600 I'll give you another

00:33:30.600 example of the failures

00:33:31.980 here.

00:33:33.300 Ben Shapiro, who filled in

00:33:35.440 for Glenn a couple days

00:33:36.500 last week, I think, set to

00:33:38.240 visit the campus of

00:33:39.700 University of California

00:33:41.000 Merced in February.

00:33:43.340 And there's been a little

00:33:44.300 controversy because a

00:33:45.340 professor there went off

00:33:46.380 on him during one of his

00:33:47.720 lectures that it was

00:33:48.980 posted to social media

00:33:50.560 and he said he wouldn't

00:33:53.200 debate Ben Shapiro because

00:33:54.780 it would discredit his own

00:33:56.640 degree.

00:33:57.300 He's above it.

00:33:58.080 Blah, blah.

00:33:58.520 It would give credence to

00:33:59.460 the blah, blah, all of

00:34:00.880 that.

00:34:01.180 And the bottom line is he

00:34:03.260 can't.

00:34:04.560 He knows he can't perform

00:34:05.900 otherwise.

00:34:06.920 Exactly.

00:34:07.720 But then in the middle of

00:34:08.740 it said, but he'd meet him

00:34:09.600 in like an MMA style fight

00:34:11.060 because he would love to

00:34:12.020 pull his shoulder out of

00:34:13.020 the socket.

00:34:13.540 This caring progressive

00:34:15.000 said that.

00:34:16.500 So the students started

00:34:17.800 rallying around him for the

00:34:19.560 criticism he got and they

00:34:21.140 started a petition that

00:34:22.120 actually wants him

00:34:23.920 promoted and denounced

00:34:26.220 hate speech as they said

00:34:27.420 it.

00:34:28.880 And as part of the

00:34:29.800 petition they have, it

00:34:33.420 said, even though the

00:34:34.440 invited speaker has not yet

00:34:35.900 arrived on the campus,

00:34:37.560 faculty and students are

00:34:38.740 already suffering the real

00:34:40.380 life consequences of

00:34:42.520 hateful, of the hateful

00:34:44.520 speaker's rhetoric.

00:34:47.560 You're already suffering

00:34:50.260 because of hate speech.

00:34:53.560 You're already suffering.

00:34:55.220 If that is the case, if you

00:34:56.500 are already suffering, then

00:34:58.980 the school has failed you.

00:35:00.220 The professor has failed

00:35:01.440 you.

00:35:01.700 Your parents has failed

00:35:02.660 you.

00:35:03.340 And society has failed

00:35:05.220 you.

00:35:05.540 If you're that sensitive, if

00:35:08.660 that's what's a problem in

00:35:10.000 your life, if that makes

00:35:12.440 you suffer, then we have

00:35:15.080 failed you because suffering

00:35:17.140 used to be hunger and

00:35:19.240 poverty and homelessness or

00:35:21.320 people who are killed in

00:35:22.500 service to America.

00:35:23.480 Glenn Beck.

00:35:33.680 Love.

00:35:35.240 Courage.

00:35:36.680 Truth.

00:35:37.980 Glenn Beck.

00:35:38.760 There are all kinds of new

00:35:39.680 laws going to be taking

00:35:41.060 effect on Monday, January

00:35:42.860 1st, 2018.

00:35:44.460 Obviously, when new laws are

00:35:45.780 passed throughout the year,

00:35:47.020 they will often have them

00:35:49.200 start either midway through

00:35:50.980 the year, July 1st.

00:35:52.460 But more often than not,

00:35:54.120 they start January 1st.

00:35:55.600 So every January 1st, there's

00:35:56.780 a whole plethora of new

00:35:58.000 laws across the country.

00:35:59.920 New federal laws, rules,

00:36:01.420 regulations, and then state

00:36:03.660 laws and rules and

00:36:04.720 regulations.

00:36:06.040 Then county laws and rules

00:36:08.260 and regulations.

00:36:09.920 And new city laws and

00:36:11.660 rules and regulations.

00:36:15.060 The year is 2017, soon to be

00:36:17.780 2018.

00:36:19.320 America has been around for

00:36:20.520 240 years.

00:36:23.660 Lots of states have been

00:36:24.720 around for over 200 years.

00:36:26.520 Many communities.

00:36:27.980 Hundreds of years have we

00:36:29.200 existed.

00:36:30.240 And still, every year, we

00:36:33.340 need hundreds and thousands

00:36:37.400 of new laws.

00:36:40.360 Why in the heck do we need

00:36:42.660 this many new laws?

00:36:44.860 Well, the truth is we don't.

00:36:46.500 The reason we have these

00:36:48.100 many new laws that happen

00:36:49.800 all the time is because

00:36:52.560 politicians are looking for

00:36:54.040 something to do.

00:36:57.100 Reasons to justify that they

00:37:00.560 need to be reelected.

00:37:02.180 Well, you know, I made corn the

00:37:05.280 official state grain of Illinois

00:37:06.880 this year.

00:37:08.480 I got that done.

00:37:10.040 It was, we worked on it in my

00:37:12.440 office for many years.

00:37:13.900 People said we couldn't get it

00:37:15.020 done.

00:37:15.320 We had a lot of opposition

00:37:16.200 from the wheat people, but

00:37:17.760 the quinoa crowd wasn't as

00:37:21.600 big, you know, but they had

00:37:23.780 the power in the youth, the

00:37:25.060 youth vote supporting quinoa.

00:37:26.960 But in the end, we determined

00:37:28.040 it was more of a seed, not a

00:37:29.480 grain and one out with the

00:37:31.940 corn.

00:37:32.440 So official corn of Illinois in

00:37:35.100 2018.

00:37:36.120 You know, we got it done and

00:37:37.120 therefore reelect me, Doc

00:37:38.480 Thompson, to the state

00:37:39.760 legislature.

00:37:40.400 It's stuff like that, that they

00:37:44.100 do.

00:37:45.700 We don't need all these new

00:37:47.040 laws and rules and regulations.

00:37:48.920 We need fewer ones.

00:37:50.740 Allow the free market to run.

00:37:52.680 Allow common sense.

00:37:53.700 We already have a framework in

00:37:56.660 every state, every different

00:37:58.760 level.

00:38:00.020 Criminal justice.

00:38:01.580 You can sue people civilly if

00:38:03.900 you've been wrong.

00:38:04.600 All of that exists.

00:38:07.660 We don't need all the rules and

00:38:08.760 regulations.

00:38:10.500 Quite often, all it does is

00:38:12.580 cause more problems.

00:38:14.240 It gums up the works.

00:38:16.220 Often they have to have

00:38:17.220 exceptions to those rules.

00:38:19.040 Well, we found out there was a

00:38:20.300 problem when we passed that.

00:38:21.300 You see those stories virtually

00:38:23.200 weekly where people, well,

00:38:26.340 there's a loophole that allows

00:38:28.480 murderers to get off in such and

00:38:30.120 such a state because when they

00:38:31.340 passed the new law, they forgot

00:38:32.500 to add the period at the end of

00:38:33.860 one sentence and therefore if

00:38:35.580 you murdered somebody, you 0.94

00:38:36.980 know, between the hours of 3

00:38:38.140 a.m. and 9 a.m., they walk

00:38:39.920 free.

00:38:41.460 So there's an emergency session

00:38:42.980 of the legislature that's going

00:38:44.020 to try to patch that.

00:38:45.860 Constantly with this nonsense.

00:38:49.660 Let's say 15, 20 years ago.

00:38:54.160 There was a state legislature in,

00:38:56.200 I believe, Illinois.

00:38:58.680 Who went to her fellow 0.83

00:39:01.260 legislatures and said, I'm

00:39:02.860 sponsoring a bill.

00:39:04.620 This was back in the pager

00:39:06.080 day, Cal.

00:39:07.460 Remember the pager day?

00:39:09.020 You mean the actual pagers?

00:39:10.580 Yeah, when we had pagers and not

00:39:11.940 cell phones and then we got the

00:39:13.480 cell phones, you know, had the

00:39:14.900 pager.

00:39:15.560 Yeah.

00:39:16.100 Those were my Vegas days.

00:39:18.000 And we had the guy who, you

00:39:20.540 know, every local community had

00:39:21.880 their local pay phone or cell phone

00:39:23.880 and pager guy, you know, that had

00:39:25.560 a goofy little commercials.

00:39:27.100 And in Vegas, it was, I am JJ,

00:39:28.700 king of beepers.

00:39:29.980 I'm JJ, king of beepers.

00:39:31.340 Come down and get a beeper.

00:39:32.360 JJ, king of beepers.

00:39:33.460 Well, those were down in the early

00:39:37.260 cell phone and pager days.

00:39:39.240 She went to her fellow

00:39:40.160 legislatures and she said, 0.99

00:39:41.440 legislators and said, listen,

00:39:42.700 we need to ban cell phones in the

00:39:45.300 classroom.

00:39:46.100 Got to ban them. 0.53

00:39:47.280 Got to get rid of those things.

00:39:49.440 Do you know what a distraction they

00:39:50.680 are in class?

00:39:51.900 Of course.

00:39:52.620 You got to get rid of them.

00:39:53.360 You can't have kids with cell phones

00:39:54.500 and you know what?

00:39:55.160 They're going to use them to cheat on 0.99

00:39:56.360 tests.

00:39:57.500 Absolutely.

00:39:58.060 They'll do that.

00:39:58.700 It's a distraction and they're

00:40:00.100 bringing them to class and they're

00:40:01.260 ringing and all of these problems.

00:40:02.800 Got to ban them. 0.53

00:40:04.340 And she got co-sponsors and they

00:40:06.900 took it to the floor and they voted

00:40:07.940 and it was passed and they banned

00:40:10.740 them in the classroom.

00:40:13.240 Successful.

00:40:13.860 Ta-da.

00:40:14.800 And I'd be willing to bet she went

00:40:16.360 back to her district and said, 0.77

00:40:18.120 got those things passed.

00:40:20.500 Can't have those in the classroom.

00:40:21.800 And that's why you send me back to

00:40:23.380 Springfield.

00:40:24.160 Pretty sure this was Illinois.

00:40:27.460 But five, six, seven, eight years

00:40:29.480 later, the same legislator went to her

00:40:33.300 cohorts and said, we got to, we got to

00:40:35.980 rescind that.

00:40:36.600 We got, we need cell phones in the

00:40:38.000 classroom.

00:40:40.020 We're like, what?

00:40:43.360 We need them in the classroom.

00:40:45.300 You've seen all these school shootings.

00:40:47.720 My kid's in class.

00:40:49.340 I have a teenager and I want them to

00:40:52.180 be able to call me if something

00:40:54.120 happens or be able to call the popo.

00:40:56.020 They got to be able to, it's an

00:40:57.220 emergency service.

00:40:59.520 They were like, wow, you're right.

00:41:03.000 They wrote it up and they passed it

00:41:05.720 and got rid of that.

00:41:07.980 So for a short while, this woman had it 0.95

00:41:11.860 banned and then said, no, we, I was

00:41:13.400 terribly wrong.

00:41:14.020 We can't do this.

00:41:16.160 And I'd be willing to bet she went

00:41:17.580 back to her district and said, 0.77

00:41:18.820 I got that cell phone ban in

00:41:21.360 classroom rescinded.

00:41:22.560 Why?

00:41:23.440 Because it was a danger to our, our

00:41:25.560 children.

00:41:28.160 And they're not held accountable for 0.68

00:41:29.680 this nonsense.

00:41:30.840 You didn't have to do anything.

00:41:32.640 You could simply leave it up to a

00:41:34.240 teacher to go, Hey, shut that phone 0.98

00:41:37.240 off.

00:41:37.620 I was going to say when they ban them,

00:41:39.120 I mean, they can still put them in

00:41:41.480 their bag or in their pocket.

00:41:42.700 They just don't take them out.

00:41:43.880 Well, they could still take a law for

00:41:45.440 that.

00:41:45.660 Well, exactly.

00:41:46.380 Well, they could, first of all,

00:41:47.460 even if it's banned doesn't mean

00:41:48.600 they're not taking them to class.

00:41:50.160 Yeah.

00:41:50.520 They're not.

00:41:51.340 And you could even have a local

00:41:52.440 teacher go, yeah, I don't care what

00:41:53.700 you bring.

00:41:53.940 I'm not going to, not going to call

00:41:55.000 the state on you, you know,

00:41:56.580 whatever.

00:41:57.300 Not going to tell the superintendent

00:41:58.540 on you or anything like that.

00:41:59.780 And you could have left it up to

00:42:01.600 individual teachers or school

00:42:02.660 districts to go, Hey, turn those off

00:42:04.100 or I don't want you bringing those

00:42:04.920 to class or whatever.

00:42:05.900 And now here we are 15, 20 years

00:42:07.700 later when they're everywhere.

00:42:09.500 Kids take the phones everywhere.

00:42:10.660 It's in the classrooms.

00:42:11.320 I'm sure.

00:42:11.740 And I'm sure there's all kinds of

00:42:12.840 rules and regulations, but that was

00:42:14.500 one example of this person giving a

00:42:18.900 passionate speech and passing

00:42:21.800 legislation.

00:42:22.440 And what was used safety and

00:42:24.980 security in both cases and taxpayer

00:42:27.040 money.

00:42:27.480 Oh yeah.

00:42:28.080 I mean, but I mean, they sold it on

00:42:29.460 the idea of it, but yeah, wasted

00:42:30.800 taxpayer money on this stuff.

00:42:32.360 There was a state legislature later in

00:42:35.580 Virginia.

00:42:37.620 Trying to remember which one, I don't

00:42:38.900 want to say the wrong name, but

00:42:40.380 anyway, who passed years ago, a no

00:42:47.020 texting and driving, pretty sure it was

00:42:50.200 no texting and driving rule.

00:42:52.440 Got that thing passed and was busted

00:42:55.840 within the year, texting and driving.

00:42:58.340 The guy who sponsored it.

00:43:01.500 That is ironic.

00:43:02.940 His argument, if I remember right,

00:43:04.800 when got busted was, and this shows

00:43:06.960 you why it was needed.

00:43:08.580 Because even I do.

00:43:09.620 See, I'm, you just proved my point

00:43:12.140 officer.

00:43:12.980 I do it.

00:43:14.060 So we have to stop me.

00:43:15.520 I was testing you.

00:43:16.280 I was testing you.

00:43:17.180 Now, thank you very much.

00:43:18.460 I'll be on my way.

00:43:19.580 Thank you for doing your job.

00:43:21.020 I have proven why I was right to ban

00:43:24.080 this stuff because I can't be trusted

00:43:25.820 on the road.

00:43:27.320 How about if you really believe it that

00:43:29.280 much, you just don't do it.

00:43:31.880 You can proceed that way.

00:43:34.740 But unfortunately, they don't.

00:43:36.800 It's nonsense.

00:43:38.000 We don't need it.

00:43:38.780 I mean, a little common sense

00:43:40.960 and some personal freedom goes a long

00:43:42.540 way.

00:43:43.300 Starting Monday, there are a few new

00:43:45.600 laws that will go into effect in the

00:43:47.260 state of Oregon.

00:43:48.760 Can't wait to hear these.

00:43:51.000 Take a stab, Cal, at the number of laws,

00:43:55.760 new laws that go into effect in Oregon

00:43:58.500 starting Monday.

00:44:00.840 At least a hundred.

00:44:03.360 A little bit more.

00:44:06.020 Two hundred?

00:44:07.160 A little more.

00:44:07.660 A little more.

00:44:08.000 Five hundred?

00:44:08.840 No, a few more.

00:44:10.380 A thousand?

00:44:12.380 Seven hundred and fifty.

00:44:13.460 Seven hundred and fifty new laws.

00:44:15.660 In just Oregon.

00:44:16.800 What could possibly be?

00:44:17.740 By the way, when I say in Oregon, I

00:44:19.520 mean at the state level.

00:44:21.540 That's not including what Ben decided

00:44:23.360 to pass or Portland thought was

00:44:25.520 necessary or Salem, you know, the city

00:44:28.020 or any county thought.

00:44:28.860 Wow.

00:44:29.480 That's just what they did.

00:44:30.580 That's not federal laws either.

00:44:32.000 At the state level, 750 new ones.

00:44:35.780 Yes.

00:44:36.040 By the way.

00:44:38.420 I can't even think of 750 new ones.

00:44:40.220 I know.

00:44:41.260 Right.

00:44:42.040 Right.

00:44:42.460 Exactly.

00:44:43.640 I couldn't come up with 14 new ones if you knew them.

00:44:46.760 Other than don't kill people.

00:44:48.320 Yeah, we got that one.

00:44:49.700 What else?

00:44:50.520 Don't kill people this way.

00:44:52.860 Okay.

00:44:53.760 Really don't kill people.

00:44:55.380 Okay.

00:44:55.940 There's that.

00:44:57.220 By the way, it's not like for the last 14 years,

00:45:00.600 Oregon has not passed any laws.

00:45:02.260 It's not like, you know, we haven't passed the law

00:45:04.500 in a while.

00:45:05.060 There's a lot of them.

00:45:05.720 We've been waiting.

00:45:06.140 Let's do them all this year.

00:45:07.520 And it's not like they'll stop this year.

00:45:10.140 I bet you they're proud of that number too.

00:45:12.420 All the progressives in Oregon.

00:45:14.260 We passed 750 new laws.

00:45:17.280 I bet it's in their commercials.

00:45:18.300 Oh, yeah.

00:45:19.540 Would you like to know about some of them?

00:45:21.300 Oh, I am waiting with bated breath.

00:45:23.480 They are the fifth state to now raise the minimum age 0.80

00:45:26.180 for tobacco products from 18 to 21.

00:45:28.720 Okay, because that'll stop, you know,

00:45:33.540 people from using tobacco at 18.

00:45:36.120 Obviously, it is the most 18 year olds will not be smoking.

00:45:39.080 Yeah, one of the most addictive substances.

00:45:40.840 They'll tell you it's more addictive than alcohol.

00:45:43.080 Many actual drugs that are illegal.

00:45:46.300 Yeah, it's more addictive than that.

00:45:47.920 But you're 19.

00:45:49.420 We're bumping it up to 21. 0.97

00:45:50.500 And you're going to be like, darn, I guess I'm a I'm 0.86

00:45:53.260 an on smoker for a couple of years. 0.98

00:45:54.920 Sorry.

00:45:55.320 No, sorry.

00:45:58.120 Doesn't happen that way.

00:45:59.980 California, Hawaii, Maine, and New Jersey.

00:46:02.480 All 21.

00:46:05.140 Just smoke a cigarette.

00:46:06.680 Yeah, by the way, New Jersey, it's not like you're far away

00:46:09.620 from every other state.

00:46:11.120 Yeah.

00:46:12.320 Because you can easily just go over in New York and Pennsylvania.

00:46:16.740 Pennsylvania.

00:46:17.440 You're right there.

00:46:17.960 Actually a lot cheaper there too.

00:46:19.460 The purchase of nitrous oxide containers.

00:46:23.320 You have to be 18 now as of Monday in Oregon.

00:46:26.700 You want to buy nitrous oxide containers?

00:46:28.620 Got to be 18 now.

00:46:30.600 So like a can of Cool Whip?

00:46:33.120 I don't know if Whippets are part of that. 1.00

00:46:35.420 Isn't that nitrous oxide?

00:46:36.600 It does have it.

00:46:37.400 But I think they mean just nitrous oxide.

00:46:39.860 Just alone?

00:46:40.760 Yeah.

00:46:40.980 If it comes with the Whip, I think you're cool.

00:46:44.500 So.

00:46:45.180 Because kids don't use that to get high.

00:46:46.600 No, they don't.

00:46:47.000 No.

00:46:47.500 They never did that at the Ashtabula Country Club when I worked there

00:46:49.940 many years ago either.

00:46:50.940 Yeah, that never happened.

00:46:54.120 They have a new expanded motor voter law in Oregon.

00:46:57.820 Motor voter where when you get your license,

00:47:01.640 you automatically register to vote and so on and so forth.

00:47:04.280 Here's how it works now.

00:47:05.560 When you get your license, even at 16,

00:47:08.960 you can be registered to vote at that time.

00:47:13.380 16, you can be registered to vote.

00:47:16.000 Isn't the national law 18?

00:47:18.240 Yeah, you can't vote until you're 18.

00:47:19.460 They'll sign you up at 16.

00:47:21.020 Why would they want this?

00:47:22.160 Because in the past it was 18.

00:47:23.860 Why?

00:47:24.080 Because of the numbers.

00:47:24.980 Because of the numbers.

00:47:25.880 They'll sign you up for it.

00:47:27.380 And then they'll say there's more voters than actually are there.

00:47:30.640 Could be.

00:47:31.280 But the other thing is, younger people vote more progressive, more Democrat.

00:47:36.100 So you get them all.

00:47:37.460 You're already.

00:47:38.420 When do you get your license?

00:47:39.680 At 16?

00:47:40.280 Hey, you're already registered.

00:47:41.580 The upcoming election, you're already registered.

00:47:43.060 You're good to go.

00:47:44.340 So you're on.

00:47:45.060 They don't have to say, oh, go back to the DMV.

00:47:47.080 Or you're going to get your driver's license when you're 18 or 17?

00:47:50.440 No.

00:47:51.460 You're already registered.

00:47:52.700 Yep.

00:47:53.140 That's the plan for it.

00:47:55.540 A couple of other interesting laws in Oregon I want to tell you about.

00:47:58.600 And a bunch of other states and interesting laws all across the country

00:48:01.440 that go into effect as of Monday.

00:48:03.360 I'll share those coming up next on the Glenn Beck Program.

00:48:08.240 Glenn Beck.

00:48:15.860 Glenn Beck.

00:48:19.000 All right.

00:48:19.500 We're sharing some of the crazy new laws that are going into effect as of January 1st.

00:48:23.600 And by crazy, that might be redundant.

00:48:26.500 Crazy new laws.

00:48:27.500 It's just new laws.

00:48:28.300 Because most of them are going to be crazy.

00:48:29.920 If you've been around for hundreds of years and you still need this many laws,

00:48:32.520 yeah, this is more about you than actually creating a society where we can all live

00:48:38.420 and just go about our business and try to excel.

00:48:42.000 Also in Oregon, family members or law enforcement will be able, as of Monday,

00:48:48.400 to go to a judge and ask them to remove the firearm from somebody

00:48:53.860 who is deemed a danger to themselves or others.

00:48:58.200 Who is able to deem them a danger?

00:49:02.520 I don't know.

00:49:03.740 Is it family members?

00:49:05.660 Yeah.

00:49:06.040 Family members or law enforcement can go to the judge.

00:49:08.540 But I don't know if it's the family member, if it's their standard.

00:49:12.320 He didn't eat his broccoli today.

00:49:13.740 He's the danger.

00:49:14.720 I don't know if it's...

00:49:16.060 Or it has to have some sort...

00:49:17.780 Do you have to go talk to a professional?

00:49:19.420 And then even that professional, what type of professional?

00:49:21.760 And who decides?

00:49:22.420 And do they investigate?

00:49:24.000 And what are the standards?

00:49:25.540 I guess it's like getting a subpoena from a judge.

00:49:27.900 You can be like, bleh, yeah, sure.

00:49:29.680 Can't you kind of do that already?

00:49:31.460 If I go to the police and I say, hey, my Uncle Bob's a bit of a kook and we think he's a danger to himself, 1.00

00:49:36.300 plus he's got guns, I'd like you to check it out.

00:49:39.180 You can do that already.

00:49:40.060 They can't remove the gun.

00:49:41.560 It's more of they can put him in an asylum or for a certain amount of time.

00:49:46.080 Put him on the radar.

00:49:47.000 Right, and put him on the radar.

00:49:48.200 So they could...

00:49:48.880 And there are standards of how long they can be in and all this stuff.

00:49:52.460 But this specifically targets the firearm.

00:49:54.480 And the judge then can say, you can't possess a firearm for a year.

00:49:59.420 Now, here's the thing.

00:50:00.000 They say you can't, but of course, you could still just go get one.

00:50:03.460 Remember, Adam Lanza, who shot up the kids at Newtown at Sandy Hook.

00:50:09.480 Guess what?

00:50:10.040 He didn't own the gun.

00:50:11.080 And he stole his mom's.

00:50:12.280 This happens quite often.

00:50:13.700 So this will do no good for what they hope it will do.

00:50:18.580 Also in Oregon, they're expanding free reproductive health treatments for women.

00:50:28.120 Including abortions. 0.97

00:50:30.600 Even for women who are in the country illegally. 0.51

00:50:36.280 Now, they don't do so much for men's reproductive health. 1.00

00:50:41.520 Not a lot of free stuff for men.

00:50:43.400 But a whole lot for the ladies. 1.00

00:50:46.580 And illegal.

00:50:47.760 And illegals. 0.71

00:50:48.800 Right.

00:50:49.500 So if you are...

00:50:50.480 Because they obviously should get everything else, you know.

00:50:51.660 Right. 0.67

00:50:51.920 If you're an illegal woman, wow. 1.00

00:50:54.040 Oregon's the place to be. 0.66

00:50:55.320 Really?

00:50:55.580 Wouldn't that just be a beacon for you then?

00:50:59.480 Some interesting new laws in Indiana.

00:51:02.140 Starting Monday.

00:51:02.920 Using a drone to interfere with law enforcement, harass someone, or peep inside of a home is now a class A misdemeanor on Monday.

00:51:10.380 It's punishable up to a year in jail and $5,000 fine.

00:51:14.200 This is one of the few areas where I make exceptions and say we need some new laws and some adjustments or tweaks to old laws.

00:51:22.440 Technology.

00:51:23.820 Budgets change every year.

00:51:25.140 So you need to get together for the budget as a legislature.

00:51:27.320 But new technologies.

00:51:29.940 Well, we never foresaw drones.

00:51:31.500 And now these things are being a problem.

00:51:32.920 So how do we fit those into current law?

00:51:35.980 Yeah.

00:51:36.220 It's a technology that's advancing and changing.

00:51:38.520 It definitely needs something.

00:51:40.460 As of Monday in Indiana, anyone who uses force to rescue a pet from a locked vehicle is immune from criminal penalties.

00:51:49.640 For example, if you go up to the car and it's really hot and you see the dog suffering and you break the window, no criminal charges for breaking the car window of the car you don't own.

00:51:59.440 Provided you have called the cops and you remain at the scene while the cops are getting there.

00:52:03.540 So you call the cops and go, come quick.

00:52:06.260 Fido's in the back of the car and it's really hot.

00:52:08.160 And they go, we're on our way.

00:52:09.740 And you stand there and you go, you break the glass.

00:52:12.320 You cannot be criminally charged.

00:52:14.360 However, you are still liable for half the cost of any damage of the vehicle.

00:52:19.320 I'm okay with that one.

00:52:20.680 Just half of it?

00:52:22.820 Okay.

00:52:23.580 If you're someone who's, I guess it also comes down to what is, you know, suffering or not.

00:52:28.600 But if someone leaves their pet in the vehicle, it could be die or be harmed.

00:52:34.380 What about the stories where somebody says,

00:52:37.040 I thought it was a suffering pet and it was a stuffed animal.

00:52:40.460 Oh, yeah.

00:52:40.960 I thought it was a baby and it was a doll.

00:52:43.320 So now they're only responsible for the half the window and it's my car.

00:52:48.620 Do I have to pay the other half my insurance?

00:52:51.000 Sorry. 0.99

00:52:51.600 It should include if you get it wrong, you pay the whole damn thing.

00:52:55.480 Plus my time and effort to get on there and get it fixed.

00:52:58.100 I don't want to even have to make the call and I don't want to be without a car.

00:53:01.680 None of that stuff.

00:53:02.440 But they didn't include that.

00:53:05.340 Also in Indiana.

00:53:06.140 That's for next year.

00:53:06.740 Yeah, that's it.

00:53:07.560 Well, we need to leave something for next year.

00:53:09.040 751.

00:53:11.780 Protection orders in Indiana on Monday can be issued by a judge and they can now include

00:53:17.600 an explicit prohibition against harming a family pet.

00:53:21.420 These are protection orders for like domestic disputes.

00:53:24.020 Taking custody of a pet away from the abuser with police assistance.

00:53:30.360 And this is a new trend.

00:53:31.880 New laws to protect pets.

00:53:34.260 In fact, one of the ones that they're continuing to push and you're going to see this have a

00:53:38.380 big spread in the next year or so.

00:53:42.400 They are going to push this idea of domestic abuse against pets.

00:53:46.980 So, you know, you go home.

00:53:48.500 Isn't there any animal rights?

00:53:50.500 There's animal abuse in some in some areas and they vary.

00:53:54.400 But what they're going to do is put this under the umbrella of domestic.

00:53:57.860 See, domestic disputes are different.

00:54:00.260 Cops can press charges even if a spouse says they don't want to in many areas.

00:54:04.560 So if you punch me and the cop goes, all right, Doc, he punched you.

00:54:07.820 I don't. 0.79

00:54:08.660 It's Cal.

00:54:09.280 He was just drunked up.

00:54:10.400 I get it.

00:54:11.180 No harm, no foul.

00:54:12.220 I'm good.

00:54:12.720 And they don't have to press charges.

00:54:14.400 If a spouse does that, the officers have the right to press charges because so often people

00:54:19.460 were afraid and they said, no, no, we're going to go ahead and push this thing through.

00:54:23.440 They want that to include pets now because they want people to conflate humans, human

00:54:28.920 life with pets.

00:54:30.100 You may love your pets, but they're different.

00:54:32.540 So this is going to expand in the future where you see domestic disputes can include, well,

00:54:38.200 he slapped the dog or whatever.

00:54:40.320 And you're going to be locked up for that stuff.

00:54:42.420 Glenn Beck.

00:54:58.300 This is the Glenn Beck program.

00:55:00.220 We're going through a list of, of new laws by state that take effect Monday, January

00:55:07.100 1st, 2018. 0.97

00:55:08.420 Every year, there's a bunch of new laws that go into effect stupidly. 0.74

00:55:11.640 There, there are, they're just mainly unneeded. 0.91

00:55:15.120 And a lot of times there's some pretty bizarre and interesting ones.

00:55:19.220 We'll get some of your tweets coming up.

00:55:21.720 Please follow at doc Thompson show at doc Thompson show.

00:55:25.100 And we'll share some of them.

00:55:26.860 We just, um, in fact, I just retweeted, uh, the link to Brian Bresnahan, the former Marine.

00:55:35.200 I hate to say former Marine.

00:55:37.840 He's not active duty, but Marines, a Marine.

00:55:40.660 You're always retired.

00:55:42.640 I guess that that makes sound like you retired after 20.

00:55:45.260 I never know what to say there, but formerly active Marine who was also a police officer

00:55:50.980 from St.

00:55:51.560 Peter's, Missouri.

00:55:52.540 We told you his story yesterday and, um, it's a tragic story of him suffering with mouth

00:55:57.980 cancer.

00:55:59.460 Doesn't smoke, doesn't drink, doesn't use tobacco, anything like that.

00:56:02.900 He has a brand new baby that, uh, just came home a couple of days ago and he's in the

00:56:06.960 hospital all throughout the holidays, having at least part of his tongue removed and possibly

00:56:11.100 all of it to, to a tragic story.

00:56:13.460 And they started to go fund me page.

00:56:15.760 Um, we told you about it yesterday and thank you so much for donating.

00:56:19.180 It's just shy of $20,000.

00:56:22.060 That's awesome.

00:56:23.240 Awesome.

00:56:23.960 Gonna come.

00:56:24.500 No, I know the goal was like, I think 10.

00:56:26.400 Yeah, I think so.

00:56:27.080 Yeah.

00:56:27.320 They've surpassed that.

00:56:28.420 And nowhere near what this family is going to need, probably even just for their bills.

00:56:31.940 Yeah.

00:56:32.600 But every little bit helps.

00:56:34.180 So even five bucks here or there, I'd love to see it, you know, get to 50, $60,000 because

00:56:39.580 then that'll take care of some bills and, and maybe help, you know, cause he's, the guy's

00:56:43.120 going to be off work for a while.

00:56:44.280 He's a, he's a police officer in St.

00:56:45.880 Peter's, Missouri.

00:56:46.900 If anything, if he doesn't have the ability to speak, if they've removed a good portion

00:56:51.440 of his tongue, he can't, how can you be a police officer and do, I mean, maybe like

00:56:54.740 desk work, but you know, it's, and even if, even if he has some sort of disability, which

00:56:59.160 some of us have short-term disabilities, not all of us do short-term disability doesn't

00:57:03.000 pay a hundred percent of your salary or anything like that, unless you've been paying

00:57:05.620 gobs into it, um, I would think that's not the case.

00:57:08.860 So every little bit, this is an opportunity for, for people who don't want the government

00:57:12.720 to do the work to, you know, stop taking our money and redistributing it.

00:57:15.780 This is an opportunity to say, this guy, I know needs help.

00:57:19.580 They just take the money and they're like, well, a bunch of people need help.

00:57:21.840 You don't know if they do or not.

00:57:23.120 This guy actually needs it.

00:57:24.740 So it's, um, gofundme.com slash Bresnahan dash family, B-R-E-S-N-A-H-A-N dash family.

00:57:32.460 And I just tweeted a link to it again, but just say, $20,000, thank you so much for donating.

00:57:37.140 Even if it's only a, you know, $5 or so, every little bit helps back to some of the new laws.

00:57:42.780 One more to tell you about in Indiana, in the Hoosier state, as of Monday, public and private

00:57:48.700 colleges and universities are prohibited from designating themselves sanctuary campuses

00:57:55.500 and must comply with federal immigration officials to the extent required by law.

00:58:01.320 Thank you, Indiana.

00:58:04.920 Thank you for somebody standing up and saying, not only are we not going to be a sanctuary

00:58:10.940 state or city, we're going to fight against this nonsense.

00:58:15.180 The hypocrisy of people on the left to constantly tell me when I mentioned states rights and states

00:58:21.540 are the laboratories of democracy and there should be differences by state where you are 0.99

00:58:27.700 with like-minded people, even if you're the bat crap, crazy people in Massachusetts right 0.99

00:58:32.660 now. 0.99

00:58:33.100 The majority of you are the over emotional hand rigging progressives that want more control.

00:58:41.380 You should be able to have that.

00:58:43.080 Good for you.

00:58:43.880 You should be able to do that.

00:58:46.840 And I should be able to get the hell away from you and find a state with people who think 0.85

00:58:51.840 like I do.

00:58:53.280 You don't have to leave the state.

00:58:55.020 You can be with the nuts.

00:58:57.360 But I like having that opportunity.

00:58:59.560 And I don't want the people of Massachusetts saying, we got to pass this federal law to

00:59:04.000 stop people from those flyover states from dot, dot, dot.

00:59:07.420 But you do what you want in Massachusetts, you do what you want in Oregon and let the people

00:59:13.140 that live in Kansas decide for them.

00:59:16.240 When I say, when I say those things racist, no, you want to break up families is what you

00:59:24.220 want to do.

00:59:25.480 This, this is not the battle over slavery in the 1860s.

00:59:30.860 That's not what this is.

00:59:32.160 This isn't the battle for, for, uh, for civil rights and justice of the 1960s.

00:59:38.160 That's not what this is.

00:59:40.180 This is me saying I support all people having the same freedom and I will not support with

00:59:47.280 my tax dollars, organizations, businesses, or peoples.

00:59:50.120 I do not agree with, but I ought to have the right to open carry in my state.

00:59:57.080 If people said that state say it's okay in as a majority.

01:00:01.380 Yes, we want open carry.

01:00:03.180 And if you don't want that in Massachusetts, I support your right to say, no, you don't

01:00:07.360 want open carry fine.

01:00:10.600 And I'm not going to Massachusetts then that's how it should be.

01:00:13.980 But when I bring these things up, they say you're a racist and that's all that mean.

01:00:18.460 It's code.

01:00:19.020 It's a dog whistle doc.

01:00:20.420 You're playing to the racists out there.

01:00:23.560 But when it comes to immigration, you're like, well, we got to, we do this at the state

01:00:27.760 level, a sanctuary city, sanctuary States.

01:00:30.040 Then they're all about local community and local law and local control.

01:00:34.900 Then it's not racist.

01:00:36.300 Of course, then it's not a problem. 0.93

01:00:37.900 We'll stop with the hypocrisy.

01:00:40.320 Do you remember when president Obama said, no, we can't have a patchwork of immigration 1.00

01:00:48.320 laws in response to Arizona 1070, six, whatever years ago, Arizona 1070 did certain things

01:00:56.000 where they were going to get tough on immigration because they're on the front line.

01:01:00.060 You can't have a patchwork of laws.

01:01:01.820 It's got to be the federal law.

01:01:03.120 Okay, great.

01:01:04.240 If you really agree that why the hell do you support sanctuary cities and states?

01:01:09.180 Because I'm a immigrant.

01:01:11.500 Well, that's right.

01:01:12.620 You're absolutely right.

01:01:13.420 By the way, California is now officially a sanctuary state as of Monday.

01:01:23.120 It forbids the new law state and local police, because this also covers local jurisdictions

01:01:28.200 from cooperating with immigration customs enforcement.

01:01:32.940 ICE law enforcement, local law enforcement will not have to comply with ICE.

01:01:37.540 And local law enforcement will not be able to ask immigration status, period.

01:01:45.860 And it prohibits, same law, they blanketed this in too, it prohibits landlords from reporting

01:01:51.040 renters who are illegal.

01:01:54.620 So if you're a landlord and you know somebody is illegal, you are forbidden from reporting

01:01:59.960 them to ICE.

01:02:00.640 What if you have some sort of issue or they don't pay their rent or they're, you know,

01:02:07.940 squatting?

01:02:08.920 I'd be bet that I'll, I would bet that they would claim racism somehow and try to use this

01:02:13.460 against it.

01:02:14.300 I don't think it, it mentions that specifically in the law, but I bet you they could use it.

01:02:19.520 The reason they put that in there about landlords, it seems kind of disconnected, even

01:02:23.460 though it's about illegals, is the claim by illegals that over the years, landlords have

01:02:29.640 not, uh, provided the service in their apartments that they needed, save homes, save home, fix

01:02:36.560 things, repairs, uh, uh, constantly charge them more or whatever, because all they have

01:02:41.140 to do is threaten them.

01:02:42.220 I'll report you. 0.86

01:02:43.080 And then they shut up.

01:02:44.060 Right.

01:02:45.100 Okay.

01:02:45.500 That's wrong.

01:02:46.240 That's morally wrong.

01:02:47.780 But if you don't want them to have that power over illegals, there's another much simpler 0.98

01:02:53.240 solution.

01:02:53.960 Uh, I don't, uh, don't be here as an illegal.

01:02:57.080 Oh, no, you're just talking.

01:02:59.100 I know it's nutty.

01:03:00.000 Also in California, as of Monday, ammunition purchases must be made in person through an

01:03:05.100 authorized firearms or ammunition vendor.

01:03:08.000 So no more online purchases.

01:03:09.740 You can purchase online still, but you gotta go pick it up.

01:03:13.380 They must be shipped to a vendor, an authorized firearms and ammunition vendor.

01:03:18.500 So will this stop anybody from being killed?

01:03:26.260 Will people still be killed with firearms in California?

01:03:29.240 Yes.

01:03:29.460 Will they still rob?

01:03:30.420 Will they still mass shooting all this?

01:03:31.780 Yes, absolutely.

01:03:32.600 All this does is say, Hey, gun owners, it's just going to be worse for you.

01:03:37.840 Now you're just going to have to do a lot more.

01:03:40.340 Oh, by the way, it's going to cost you more too, because of your shipping to that licensed

01:03:44.360 dealer.

01:03:44.720 They're going to have to take a handling charge, right?

01:03:47.000 Yep.

01:03:48.620 Great.

01:03:49.260 Great.

01:03:50.040 People are no longer required to choose either male or female on their identification documents

01:03:55.120 in California as of Monday.

01:03:56.900 What's, what's the head shaking Cal?

01:03:58.740 What's that about?

01:03:59.880 What's, what's, what's that?

01:04:03.240 What are you doing?

01:04:04.540 You're just giving me the, I don't even know.

01:04:07.560 Look anymore.

01:04:08.160 What?

01:04:11.380 I'm, I'm speechless.

01:04:12.540 I really am.

01:04:13.120 Yeah, there you, uh, you're no longer required.

01:04:16.240 Transgender people will have a third option, non-binary, if you don't identify as a male 0.97

01:04:23.160 or female.

01:04:23.860 Now, based on what other claims about gender and how we identify and 182 supposed gender

01:04:33.460 identities and probably even more on the way, do you think there will be any tweaks to this

01:04:39.780 law in the future?

01:04:40.840 Yes.

01:04:41.440 Of course.

01:04:42.000 Most definitely.

01:04:43.120 So the way I understand it, you're not required to choose male or female, so you may not have

01:04:48.180 to check the box at all, but it also said there's a third option in non-binary, meaning

01:04:54.680 other.

01:04:56.020 What's coming immediately is people going non-binary. 1.00

01:05:00.100 So what?

01:05:00.500 I'm the other.

01:05:01.500 You're discounting mine.

01:05:02.860 Mine should be represented the same as male and female.

01:05:05.140 You have 183 boxes to check.

01:05:06.720 Right. 0.71

01:05:07.200 The fact that I'm a double cis, lesbian, non-trans fat, uh, toaster oven, latte toaster oven should 0.68

01:05:14.580 be represented on there as well.

01:05:16.160 What?

01:05:16.360 I'm a second class citizen.

01:05:17.560 It says male and female.

01:05:18.540 Well, so what's going to happen is there's going to have to be a whole bunch of other boxes

01:05:25.160 added or, you know, why don't you just write what your gender is?

01:05:29.220 And then that opens up Pandora's box because then people are going to put all kinds of crazy

01:05:34.140 stuff down there.

01:05:35.040 And your driver's license is going to have to be like extended onto the back.

01:05:39.900 You know, there's going to be 400 words.

01:05:43.180 So congratulations, California.

01:05:45.860 You think you're doing something nice and it's only going to get worse.

01:05:49.120 They are.

01:05:49.620 They're really trying hard.

01:05:51.760 They just want to be a whole other.

01:05:54.000 Wait till AI comes and hits big.

01:05:55.960 Then you're going to have to add all that category.

01:05:57.460 No, I'm also AI.

01:05:58.980 And then, uh, I'm a robot.

01:06:01.240 What about the, uh, the aliens when they come?

01:06:03.380 And then you're going to have the aliens and which alien are you?

01:06:06.180 Are you the one from Alpha Centauri?

01:06:07.520 Where are you from?

01:06:08.260 I don't know.

01:06:09.620 Uh, also got a new law, California.

01:06:12.160 And by the way, there's a bunch more.

01:06:13.300 I'm only spotlighting a few of these by state.

01:06:15.820 Not all of them.

01:06:16.760 Uh, even like the Indiana ones I have, that's not all of them.

01:06:19.620 Uh, diaper changing stations will be required in both men's and women's public restrooms 1.00

01:06:24.500 as of Monday.

01:06:26.360 I kind of like that one.

01:06:28.040 Can I be honest?

01:06:28.940 No, no, I do too.

01:06:29.720 I like the idea, but I don't like the mandate.

01:06:32.960 Yeah.

01:06:33.240 I don't like the mandate either.

01:06:34.760 Just being a, uh, a father with, uh, you know, two kids, uh, with a five month old.

01:06:40.740 I can't tell you how many times I'm in a bad, I'm in, I'm in an establishment with my, my

01:06:44.280 kid and there's nowhere to change her. 1.00

01:06:46.120 And I got to go do it like in my car.

01:06:48.160 And it's like, right. 0.98

01:06:49.140 That sucks. 0.78

01:06:49.760 But the, the, the flip down changing stations, aren't you always kind of grossed out by them? 0.91

01:06:54.880 Well, I bring my own mats.

01:06:55.980 I bring every, like I cover like a hazmat before I put the baby down.

01:06:59.240 I, which we do as well, but then as you roll that back up, I'm rolling up all that funky

01:07:03.520 stuff.

01:07:04.080 Then you throw it in the wash when you get home.

01:07:06.120 How else are you going to cheat with the kids?

01:07:07.460 Not going to float.

01:07:08.060 How are you going to do it?

01:07:08.700 There's not.

01:07:09.460 Uh, I just feel like we still have not, technology is not caught up to our needs.

01:07:15.080 I feel like there's a better, okay.

01:07:17.240 Necessity is the mother of invention.

01:07:18.860 Maybe we need a new product.

01:07:20.240 Somehow you care with you and it's disposable and you drape it over that or something.

01:07:24.180 I don't know.

01:07:25.320 Yeah.

01:07:25.520 They call those blankets, towels, they're called bring towels, bring them with you.

01:07:30.760 I feel like there's still some other option that we have not come up with yet.

01:07:34.200 That's a technology I'm looking for, by the way, on our morning broadcast, the blaze radio.com.

01:07:39.080 We always, uh, feature businesses and we give people free commercials because we're all about

01:07:43.100 helping people.

01:07:44.460 And, uh, you go to, uh, send us an email building America at the blaze.com building America.com.

01:07:50.260 We'll feature you as well.

01:07:51.140 We've got some really cool stuff coming up in 2018.

01:07:54.040 We are going even bigger to help you find some other streams of income.

01:07:58.700 It may not be, you know, a traditional business, but with the gig economy, you're likely going

01:08:04.400 to need multiple streams of income in the next five, 10, 15, whatever years.

01:08:08.320 It's just going to change and we need to be ready to change.

01:08:11.500 We're willing to help you.

01:08:12.800 We've got some exciting things come up, some other ways that you can make money.

01:08:17.640 We're doing this selflessly because we want to help you.

01:08:20.040 And we're also being selfish about it because we want to make money, but we offer ideas

01:08:25.380 all the time.

01:08:26.060 This might be one of those ideas, some sort of better device or thing that doesn't skeeve 1.00

01:08:31.220 you out so much when it comes to changing kids in restaurants or other public establishments.

01:08:36.060 But anyway, send us that email.

01:08:37.480 It's building America at the blaze.com more laws that take effect all across the country

01:08:42.240 starting Monday, coming up next on the Glenn Beck program.

01:08:47.340 Glenn Beck.

01:08:50.040 Glenn Beck.

01:09:02.040 It's actually Doc Thompson in for Glenn today.

01:09:03.940 Appreciate you joining me.

01:09:04.760 New law is going into effect as of Monday, January 1st, 2018.

01:09:07.800 Connecticut has a law for ride share services like Uber and Lyft.

01:09:12.480 They must now.

01:09:13.760 Are you ready?

01:09:14.320 Ride share services like Uber and Lyft, not the individual drivers, but the service must

01:09:19.700 register annually with the Connecticut Department of Transportation and pay licensing fees, a

01:09:27.040 non-refundable $50,000 in initial fee and then annual review fees of $5,000.

01:09:37.320 Wow.

01:09:37.880 Do you think it's going to stay, the annual renewal fee at $5,000?

01:09:42.240 Do you think the initial is going to stay at $50,000 very long?

01:09:44.300 No.

01:09:44.940 It's just a money grab and secondarily to try to protect the local cabbies.

01:09:49.960 Get out of the way of technology.

01:09:51.500 Let the free market run and stay out of my wallet.

01:09:54.700 Also in Connecticut, a new law as of Monday requires individuals and group insurance policies

01:09:59.140 to cover medically necessary inpatient detoxification services for people diagnosed with substance

01:10:06.780 abuse disorders.

01:10:08.360 Your insurance company must pay for your detox or my insurance company must pay for your

01:10:15.180 detox if I'm in Connecticut.

01:10:18.020 So you got to pay for all the, uh, the drunk people.

01:10:20.600 Yeah.

01:10:21.100 The people that are, listen, I understand addiction and it's horrible and I know it's not as easy

01:10:26.020 as just, Hey, stop doing it.

01:10:27.180 I get that it's serious and it's difficult, but it doesn't mean everybody else should be

01:10:31.420 paying for it.

01:10:32.140 Exactly.

01:10:32.780 And it's, it's like you, you got to pay for my, uh, my leg transplant or whatever it is.

01:10:37.100 No.

01:10:37.460 And number two, at least on that one, it started with you making a bad choice.

01:10:41.960 At some point you made a bad choice to initially pick up that bong or drink that beer.

01:10:48.000 Sorry.

01:10:48.860 That's on you, buddy.

01:10:53.240 Glenn back.

01:10:57.180 Love, courage, true.

01:11:03.920 Glenn back.

01:11:04.920 Hi, it's Doc Thompson pinch hitting for Glenn on this, the last of the Glenn Beck radio programs

01:11:09.720 in 2017.

01:11:11.240 Glenn will be back, uh, next week.

01:11:13.660 Is it a week from Monday?

01:11:14.560 I think I believe another week, a little bit, something like that.

01:11:17.740 It's kind of a weird week since the holiday falls on Monday, New Year's day on Monday.

01:11:22.180 A lot of people are saying, okay, I'll take Tuesday off too.

01:11:25.600 Some people, Hey, I already got one day off.

01:11:27.500 I'll take four, get a full week plus two weekends.

01:11:30.040 So it's always weird.

01:11:31.120 Some people, you mean you?

01:11:32.240 And by saying, I mean, me, yes, exactly.

01:11:34.660 Thank you.

01:11:35.160 You know what, Cal?

01:11:36.060 Thank you for keeping me honest.

01:11:37.640 Thank you.

01:11:38.480 You know, calling it out like it is.

01:11:39.680 And by thank you, I mean, how dare you?

01:11:41.460 I'll be here.

01:11:42.420 You will be here.

01:11:43.600 So yeah, I'll be off my regular radio broadcast a couple of days next week.

01:11:46.720 Then I'll be back for Thursday and Friday.

01:11:48.760 Find out more about me at theblazeradio.com.

01:11:50.780 And we're talking about new laws that go into effect with the new year.

01:11:53.220 As of Monday, and we're just going through a handful of laws in various states.

01:11:57.680 Michigan has a couple of interesting new laws.

01:11:59.800 Parents who allow female genital mutilation to be done to their children, their daughters,

01:12:05.960 will risk losing their parental rights.

01:12:07.880 You can actually lose your parental rights.

01:12:11.020 FGM is a horribly unnecessary torture to children.

01:12:18.200 It just is.

01:12:19.080 I agree 100%.

01:12:20.080 But on the other hand of that, many people say that circumcision is the same thing.

01:12:25.400 True.

01:12:25.780 Exactly.

01:12:26.660 And there's no hub hub about that.

01:12:28.600 And I think there should be.

01:12:30.680 I mean, you're born that way.

01:12:32.200 If it's your religion, I get it. 0.98

01:12:34.720 It's your culture.

01:12:37.280 It's your religious ritual.

01:12:40.000 Fine.

01:12:40.480 Got it.

01:12:40.860 But what about the people who claim that's their ritual when it comes to females then?

01:12:45.700 Yeah.

01:12:46.060 You see what I'm saying?

01:12:46.740 So I'm consistent with it.

01:12:48.480 I'm saying, I don't think you should necessarily do it to men.

01:12:52.020 You know?

01:12:52.560 I mean, there's arguments back and forth, the benefits and the disadvantages.

01:12:56.560 And I don't think any of it's conclusive at this point.

01:13:00.220 So there does seem to be a disparity between the two.

01:13:02.840 Also in Michigan, high school coaches will have to undergo special training every three years.

01:13:09.040 Sensitivity training.

01:13:09.980 Concussion awareness training.

01:13:12.020 Oh, I thought you were going to say like gender awareness training. 0.85

01:13:14.500 That's probably part of it.

01:13:16.020 That's coming as well.

01:13:18.120 Concussion awareness training.

01:13:19.760 What do you think about all of the concussion awareness with the NFL and we need, you can't hit certain ways and you got helmets and different protection.

01:13:29.920 What do you think about all that?

01:13:31.980 It's definitely an important subject because, yes, a lot of people suffer.

01:13:37.520 The damage that is done is significant and the science proves that now.

01:13:41.860 So I definitely think that it's the education should be out there about it.

01:13:47.500 And on the high school level, because a lot of kids play high school football and they want to make it to college and things like that.

01:13:53.540 I think it's a good thing.

01:13:55.560 Somebody brought up a friend of mine a couple months ago when one of these stories came up.

01:14:00.700 And specifically about the NFL changing rules and equipment and said, you want to fix this.

01:14:06.680 It's not stronger equipment, more padding and helmets.

01:14:12.020 It's, you know, none of that stuff.

01:14:13.280 All that has done is give people the ability to hit and not have to worry about their head.

01:14:22.660 Seemingly, they don't realize the damage is done inside, but it doesn't hurt because I got padding or whatever.

01:14:27.820 He goes, you go back to leather helmets and you'll see it go away.

01:14:32.360 And I was like, oh, my gosh, you're right.

01:14:35.060 I know that sounds nutty.

01:14:37.060 You'll see the concussions go away.

01:14:38.680 Right, because who's going to who's going to hit somebody when your head is exposed that way other than so the leather is keeping the, you know, a contusion from you, you know, getting it hit on somebody's cleat or something like that.

01:14:51.520 But you're not going to go head to head because it hurts.

01:14:56.040 I wonder what the rugby statistics are for the concussion.

01:14:59.080 A hell of a lot less.

01:15:00.240 I was going to say, because they wear they wear like no protection at all.

01:15:03.480 Right.

01:15:03.860 And they it's a rough sport, too.

01:15:05.760 Right.

01:15:06.080 But you don't get concussions because concussions are when your brain keeps traveling, when your head stops.

01:15:11.660 Right.

01:15:11.960 So, OK, my head doesn't hurt when I hit it because I got padding because of the helmet.

01:15:17.180 But inside your brain still goes like that.

01:15:20.180 And that becomes the problem.

01:15:21.700 So I was like, maybe that would work in New York City.

01:15:26.020 Cal's former home.

01:15:27.700 So he claims.

01:15:28.320 But it was really New Jersey, New York.

01:15:31.120 Nobody.

01:15:31.740 Nobody really wants to claim New Jersey.

01:15:33.660 If you're in.

01:15:33.980 I'm all proud.

01:15:34.680 I lived in New Jersey.

01:15:35.420 I did.

01:15:35.760 But I did live in New York as well.

01:15:37.200 When I got married and had kids, I had to go to the suburbs or anything like that.

01:15:42.680 In New York, employees are going to be eligible to take up to eight weeks off of paid family leave.

01:15:48.860 As of Monday, new law goes into effect.

01:15:51.540 You can take it off for birth of a child to take care of a close relative, a loved one, serious health condition to help a spouse, domestic partner.

01:15:58.320 You'll be able to take eight weeks off paid leave as mandated by the state.

01:16:03.640 OK, that's nice.

01:16:04.760 Mandated gets into some dicey areas.

01:16:09.220 What do you mean mandate?

01:16:10.300 And what are the regulations?

01:16:11.520 And are you going to be strict about it?

01:16:13.680 Shouldn't I just be able to take it off?

01:16:15.680 You know, are you going to say, well, we got to prove that you really have a sick loved one?

01:16:19.840 Maybe it's a mental health eight weeks off, right?

01:16:22.620 You see what I'm saying?

01:16:23.400 When you get into all...

01:16:24.180 Right, you're forcing employers that now they have to pay their employees.

01:16:27.140 Right.

01:16:27.800 On this time.

01:16:29.100 Workers to pay for this are required to pay into the state's paid family leave program.

01:16:34.900 Oh, boy.

01:16:37.740 Uh-huh.

01:16:38.960 In 2018, the payments will be 0.126.

01:16:44.420 A little over 12.5%.

01:16:46.220 Is that right?

01:16:47.080 0.126?

01:16:48.160 Yeah.

01:16:49.080 Of their weekly pay.

01:16:52.480 By 2021, it'll be 12 weeks you get to take off.

01:16:57.180 This is another Social Security scam.

01:16:59.220 Exactly.

01:16:59.940 A bit of a Ponzi scheme.

01:17:01.580 So imagine this.

01:17:02.740 You pay into this, but you're not taking the time off.

01:17:06.760 You know what?

01:17:07.220 I don't have kids.

01:17:08.540 I don't got a sick spouse. 0.81

01:17:09.700 Everything's fine in my life.

01:17:10.780 No six relatives.

01:17:11.660 Great.

01:17:12.500 Do you get that money back?

01:17:14.460 I don't think so.

01:17:15.660 So how long before you, as the worker who's paying in this every week, goes, wait a minute.

01:17:21.320 Steve has three kids.

01:17:22.480 Good for him.

01:17:23.440 He's taking eight weeks off.

01:17:24.940 Oh, it's now 12 because it's past 2021.

01:17:27.720 He takes 12 weeks off every time he has a kid.

01:17:30.880 I'm paying to do it, but I don't get the benefit.

01:17:33.600 12 weeks.

01:17:34.400 That's three months.

01:17:35.440 Right.

01:17:36.200 I'm not saying it's not needed when you have a kid.

01:17:37.960 Listen, you have two daughters.

01:17:38.940 One of them's young, and that's nice to be able to do.

01:17:41.240 But what that means is people are going to start saying, I want that benefit that I pay into.

01:17:47.200 And then what?

01:17:48.260 Are you going to be strict about it?

01:17:49.600 Hey, you don't have kids.

01:17:50.320 Yeah, but I got a sick relative.

01:17:51.680 Prove it.

01:17:52.700 Yeah.

01:17:53.120 So then you're making stuff up.

01:17:54.600 I'm sorry.

01:17:55.440 If you're going to have this nonsensical plan, then you ought to just say you're free to

01:18:00.180 take 12 weeks a year, however you want.

01:18:03.140 And then what?

01:18:04.920 You become friends.

01:18:07.160 And then this is this is a mandate.

01:18:09.380 So you don't have a choice.

01:18:10.120 You have to do this.

01:18:10.960 Right.

01:18:11.320 You know, this you have to pay into it.

01:18:13.440 And I don't have a choice to opt out.

01:18:16.000 I don't think so.

01:18:17.220 No, no, that's not.

01:18:18.600 That's not cool.

01:18:19.280 Dude, that's bad because I'm going to be ticked.

01:18:21.440 I'm like, you know what?

01:18:22.040 I'm going to find a way.

01:18:23.720 I'm going to find a way to make sure I get why.

01:18:26.440 How come if I pay into it?

01:18:27.780 I don't get the benefit.

01:18:29.180 And this is not including your normal vacation time.

01:18:31.200 So you get 12 weeks of time off or whatever for a personal time paid family leave, paid

01:18:36.820 family leave.

01:18:37.380 And then you've got, you know, most companies will give you two weeks on top of that.

01:18:41.120 Right.

01:18:42.000 So I'm going to be really ticked off if I don't fit one of these conditions.

01:18:47.220 And meanwhile, Joan chose to have seven kids over the last 12 years.

01:18:51.440 She's gotten to take 12 weeks every time she has a kid. 1.00

01:18:54.440 Granted, she needs it.

01:18:56.060 It's not fun to have a new baby, but I'm paying into it as well.

01:18:59.300 And I don't have kids or whatever.

01:19:00.660 So then I'm going to start looking for a way.

01:19:02.900 Oh, I got a sick domestic spouse and my dog's sick. 0.99

01:19:06.060 Right.

01:19:06.880 Which is, I think it's fair if you're paying for it.

01:19:09.700 Yes.

01:19:10.100 Or let me opt out and I'll keep the cash.

01:19:12.800 New York, you have failed. 0.96

01:19:14.100 You have screwed the pooch on this one, man. 0.98

01:19:15.680 This is going to be bad for you. 0.98

01:19:17.260 They think it's wonderful.

01:19:18.640 This is for residents of New York City?

01:19:20.760 New York State.

01:19:21.740 New York State.

01:19:22.280 Well, yeah.

01:19:22.780 Yep.

01:19:23.480 And if you, because some people work in New Jersey and then commute into New York to

01:19:28.860 work, sorry, live in New Jersey and commute into New York to work.

01:19:31.800 Ah, good point.

01:19:32.820 So do you still have to pay it if you do?

01:19:34.020 Because you have to pay, if you live outside of New York City, but work in New York City,

01:19:37.860 you got to pay not your own, not only your state local tax, you also got to pay New York

01:19:41.460 City tax.

01:19:42.080 I'm pretty sure this is work in New York State.

01:19:45.880 They wouldn't, if you're a resident and you're working somewhere else, it wouldn't apply.

01:19:49.620 If you're, if you live in New York, but work in New Jersey, first of all, what's wrong with 0.91

01:19:52.900 you?

01:19:53.280 Number two, um, I don't think it would apply.

01:19:55.640 I think it's if you work in New York.

01:19:57.180 So everybody who works, who lives outside of New York, which is probably majority of

01:20:01.980 people that commute into New York City are basically having to opt into this.

01:20:06.120 Yep.

01:20:07.060 Outrageous.

01:20:07.520 Sorry guys.

01:20:08.180 That's a fail.

01:20:09.040 Illinois.

01:20:09.560 Lots of new laws going to affect as of Monday.

01:20:12.040 Murder defendants can no longer use the gay panic defense.

01:20:15.520 Gay panic defense? 0.98

01:20:16.540 I didn't realize this was the thing. 0.82

01:20:17.740 I wasn't aware of the gay panic.

01:20:18.640 Apparently murder defendants have used, and I don't know if it was one of them that spurred

01:20:24.140 this and people were outraged or it became common in Illinois or elsewhere, but people

01:20:28.920 claimed, well, I murdered him because I was triggered, triggered. 0.95

01:20:32.200 The violence was triggered when I found out he was gay. 1.00

01:20:37.000 So I killed him. 1.00

01:20:38.260 So I killed him or he was coming out to me. 1.00

01:20:40.560 I guess. 0.93

01:20:41.120 Well, they say you can't use it anymore and sexual orientation can't be considered

01:20:44.980 for a provocation for any second degree murder.

01:20:48.640 No sex, sexual orientation, even if it's not gay. 1.00

01:20:52.720 If you've committed crimes committed at places of worship can be tried as hate crimes in Illinois.

01:20:58.720 At first glance, at least this is consistent with hate crimes.

01:21:03.060 So finally, crimes against Christians, like the guy who shot up the church in Texas or against

01:21:09.000 Muslims or Sikh when they go in and, okay, at least you're being consistent. 0.82

01:21:13.460 It's a hate crime because in the past they've excluded certain religions.

01:21:17.760 But the bottom line is hate crimes are still that term, that idea, the concept is still

01:21:22.580 a fail.

01:21:23.660 It's a crime.

01:21:25.340 Motivation only matters when determining if you're guilty or potentially on some level

01:21:32.560 how we stop these crimes in the future.

01:21:34.500 But for punishment, if I were to attack your wife or children, does my motivation for doing

01:21:45.300 it make the attack less serious to you or more serious to you?

01:21:49.940 No.

01:21:50.120 Your concern is my wife was just attacked.

01:21:53.980 My daughters were injured.

01:21:55.960 Yeah, yeah, I did it because you make really good guacamole and I don't like guacamole, Cal.

01:22:01.160 Does that matter to you?

01:22:03.200 You're like, no, not at all.

01:22:04.380 You're not job either way.

01:22:05.400 Exactly.

01:22:05.980 Other than.

01:22:07.080 All right.

01:22:07.740 So this guacamole is kind of a trigger.

01:22:09.380 Should we put a warning label?

01:22:10.480 Other than let's try to avoid those things in the future.

01:22:12.960 It doesn't matter.

01:22:13.600 It's bogus. 0.66

01:22:14.860 Transgenders in the state of Illinois can more easily change their gender on birth certificates.

01:22:18.560 It's now used to be if you were trans just trans transitioning and you wanted to change 0.67

01:22:27.780 it officially on all state records, you'd have to have a doctor submit.

01:22:31.380 Yep.

01:22:31.660 I gave him, gave me the old snip job.

01:22:34.060 Yep.

01:22:34.520 I made the, I made the cuts and now they are this different gender. 1.00

01:22:38.280 Now, according to the new law, you can change if a medical or mental health professional

01:22:44.800 confirms that of the person in question, the transgender has received, quote, clinically

01:22:50.980 appropriate treatment.

01:22:54.840 So it's up to them.

01:22:57.160 This is the identify Cal and I, although we have strong opinions about transgender and people

01:23:02.800 of transition, I feel horrible for you.

01:23:05.500 I'm, I don't want you discriminated against.

01:23:08.400 It's got to be awful to feel that way.

01:23:10.940 So I get it.

01:23:11.940 I stand with you on that.

01:23:13.460 And if you think trans transitioning is right, I'm not going to stand in your way.

01:23:18.040 You have to answer for your life.

01:23:19.720 Just like I have to answer for mine.

01:23:21.820 Having said that we have strong opinions on what makes a man and what makes a woman.

01:23:26.260 Can you as a man suddenly say, I feel like a woman and therefore you're a woman.

01:23:30.340 And Cal has reluctantly said, once you have the operations, you're willing to concede

01:23:35.440 that that person has trained, has changed genders, right? 0.84

01:23:38.120 Yes.

01:23:38.700 What this law says is you can officially change it on state documents in Illinois.

01:23:43.620 Once a professional said you got clinically appropriate treatment.

01:23:48.220 That's the quote.

01:23:49.020 Clinically appropriate.

01:23:50.520 What does that mean?

01:23:51.160 So no operation.

01:23:52.320 Not necessarily.

01:23:53.200 Clinically appropriate treatment.

01:23:54.840 Treatment.

01:23:55.680 Is that hormone treatment?

01:23:57.240 Is that counseling?

01:23:59.580 So there are going to be people walking around with male appendages legally identified as a

01:24:07.020 female in Illinois and vice versa. 0.99

01:24:10.380 Now, we have reciprocity in America when it comes to and I've always had things like marriage.

01:24:16.200 That's what started some of the gay marriage dominoes to fall. 1.00

01:24:19.520 Once it's legal in one state, all states recognize you're married.

01:24:22.720 Does that all things like that also apply to gender?

01:24:27.500 I mean, so it says on my driver's license that I'm a male.

01:24:31.520 I go to another state.

01:24:32.920 Driver's license are accepted by other states, right?

01:24:35.380 For identification and to drive and whatever.

01:24:38.160 Okay.

01:24:39.640 Well, that means on your driver's license, you are physically still a male, but you had quote

01:24:43.760 clinically appropriate treatment.

01:24:46.720 Um, and you're still a female. 1.00

01:24:48.820 Those other states will, will this force other states to recognize that?

01:24:52.720 I think so.

01:24:56.420 If, I mean, if they have go, if they go by your ideas as, you know, factual.

01:25:01.300 Wow.

01:25:01.780 This is crazy.

01:25:02.540 Health insurance companies are barred in Illinois as of Monday from denying coverage for people

01:25:08.280 with preexisting conditions.

01:25:09.900 This is a, an attempt to sure up some of the parts of Obamacare, at least on the state level.

01:25:16.560 Harrison Cal, what is the problem with health insurance?

01:25:19.120 Last week on our radio broadcast in the morning, I went off on one of the biggest problems.

01:25:23.160 Being, you don't know what it costs.

01:25:25.820 Yeah.

01:25:26.240 You can't tell what your procedure is going to cost before you go in.

01:25:29.780 My son was born just weeks ago.

01:25:31.900 I don't know what it costs.

01:25:33.400 I won't know until they bill me and what my insurance paid.

01:25:36.140 And even then I won't know the final price.

01:25:38.680 It's not easily displayed.

01:25:41.000 Shouldn't that be something we should fight for?

01:25:43.400 Yes.

01:25:44.200 Illinois is not.

01:25:45.220 What they are fighting for is prices to be displayed when it comes to hair salons, barbers,

01:25:50.280 dry cleaners, and tailors.

01:25:51.400 They have to provide it.

01:25:53.060 But not help.

01:25:53.640 They do.

01:25:53.960 I know how much a haircut is going to cost.

01:25:57.160 Really?

01:25:58.080 I know how much.

01:25:58.780 Have you ever had your hair cut in Illinois?

01:26:00.900 No.

01:26:01.340 Stop the lies, Cal.

01:26:02.200 Just stop the lies.

01:26:02.960 Quick break back with more on this.

01:26:04.200 The Glenn Beck program.

01:26:05.020 Glenn Beck.

01:26:16.800 So the idea, Illinois has said, hair salons, barbers, dry cleaners, and tailors as of May,

01:26:23.520 or May, as of Monday, will be required to provide customers with a price list for services

01:26:28.740 upon request.

01:26:32.020 Don't they do that already?

01:26:35.020 How many people go into a barber, dry cleaner, or whatever, and go, all right, I want all

01:26:39.480 this services done.

01:26:40.580 Wait.

01:26:41.200 No, just bill me.

01:26:43.340 Let me know.

01:26:44.180 Whatever the price is.

01:26:45.180 How much for a haircut?

01:26:46.000 I'm not sure.

01:26:46.620 We'll see after we're done.

01:26:48.060 After we're done, I'll turn it over to your insurance.

01:26:51.440 They'll send you a bill, let you know whatever else you owe, what they don't cover.

01:26:55.900 No, I think it's pretty bright.

01:26:57.260 But do you know why this is an issue?

01:26:59.880 They're trying to combat what they call the pink tax. 0.73

01:27:03.120 No, not the singer, not that bad progressive singer.

01:27:08.080 The pink tax is when women are charged more for services. 1.00

01:27:12.620 So they want it all laid out.

01:27:14.640 So you can see if women are charged more. 1.00

01:27:17.000 More work, though.

01:27:18.120 Yeah, first of all, to listen to their blah, blah, blah, while they're dropping off the

01:27:22.040 dry cleaning or whatever is a whole lot more.

01:27:24.800 But ladies, you know this. 1.00

01:27:27.120 Which is easier?

01:27:28.420 To cut my now almost non-existent hair?

01:27:33.080 I mean, it's like clippers.

01:27:35.200 Done, sir.

01:27:35.960 That'll be $4, sir.

01:27:39.520 I mean, really.

01:27:41.500 Or yours, where it's big, thick, full, lusterous hair that you're getting dyed and a permanent

01:27:48.260 and all of this stuff, right?

01:27:50.460 Mm-hmm.

01:27:51.840 Come on.

01:27:53.080 You know, it's going to be more.

01:27:54.860 And it should be.

01:27:55.520 But they claim that's discrimination.

01:27:57.220 But it's ironic that they combated that.

01:27:59.500 They even have new laws governing health insurance and the health industry in Illinois as of

01:28:05.700 Monday.

01:28:06.200 But they didn't think to say, let's try to promote the idea of health insurance or medical

01:28:13.660 providers providing a price list.

01:28:16.740 How about that?

01:28:17.300 Might be a good idea.

01:28:19.080 They're going to recognize Barack Obama Day starting Monday.

01:28:22.920 They'll be August 4th.

01:28:24.220 His birthday is going to be Barack Obama Day in the state of Illinois.

01:28:27.500 They don't get the day off or anything.

01:28:28.780 They just, Barack Obama Day.

01:28:32.080 Yay.

01:28:33.340 The Department of Natural Resources in Illinois will allow, as of Monday, legally, via the

01:28:37.900 state, designated areas in state parks for a specific purpose.

01:28:44.380 What specific purpose will they set aside an area in state parks for?

01:28:50.060 For what purpose?

01:28:52.180 A place for your dog to go do his business?

01:28:54.440 That's a good guess.

01:28:55.440 No.

01:28:56.700 A place to protest?

01:28:57.540 That'd be a good guess, too.

01:28:59.800 A space where people can spread cremated remains.

01:29:04.080 Really?

01:29:04.840 Fly, Bill.

01:29:05.800 He loved this park.

01:29:07.160 Here you go.

01:29:07.840 Be one.

01:29:09.520 Now, are you...

01:29:10.400 After a while, isn't that section of the park going to get a little dirty?

01:29:12.860 That's a little dusty, right?

01:29:14.920 Dusty.

01:29:15.320 You know, kids, we were going to picnic over here, but I think maybe we go upwind.

01:29:19.360 That's the dead zone.

01:29:20.380 Let's go up that.

01:29:21.200 We're downwind of the cremated remains area.

01:29:24.620 That's going to be bad when you cut into that key lime pie.

01:29:28.340 That's going to be trouble for you.

01:29:30.140 I got something in my mouth.

01:29:32.820 What is in the ketchup?

01:29:33.960 It's very dusty here.

01:29:35.200 What is...

01:29:35.960 This is horrible.

01:29:38.360 And second of all, do you really want to dump your...

01:29:39.940 You got someone's Uncle Bob in your tuna salad.

01:29:43.900 He would have wanted it this way.

01:29:45.440 He loved tuna salad.

01:29:47.240 Would you want to, if you're that driven, to spread the remains in an outdoor place,

01:29:51.780 do you really want it to be in a place where everybody else is spreading their remains?

01:29:56.100 And you think you're really going to be able to enforce that?

01:29:58.000 You know, just my luck.

01:29:59.720 My wife would spread them with some progressive that's already been spread there.

01:30:03.800 I'd be like, oh, great!

01:30:07.700 Glenn, back.

01:30:08.680 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

01:30:29.100 New laws going into effect across the country as of Monday.

01:30:32.040 Lots of states have new minimum wage laws going into effect.

01:30:35.400 Federal minimum wage, $7.25 right now.

01:30:37.620 A bunch of states have said, we want a higher minimum wage.

01:30:41.900 Minimum wages are a scam.

01:30:43.520 It's a bad idea.

01:30:44.440 They do not have their intended effect.

01:30:48.320 But to the extent that we are going to have minimum wages, of course, states should be able

01:30:53.280 to pass a minimum wage.

01:30:55.120 In fact, the federal government should leave it on states.

01:30:58.520 Make it whatever you want, states.

01:30:59.800 The federal government doesn't need involved in this.

01:31:01.780 Eighteen states are going to have a new minimum wage beginning Monday.

01:31:07.760 Eight states are inflation-adjusted, where they're going up because of previous laws that tie it to inflation.

01:31:14.880 New Jersey, Ohio, Florida, Alaska, Montana, South Dakota, Minnesota, and Missouri, all inflation-adjusted.

01:31:21.640 Other states are seeing an increase because of specific legislation.

01:31:27.260 Colorado and Hawaii, New York and Vermont, all had higher or will have higher minimum wages because of the legislature.

01:31:37.140 Rhode Island, Arizona, California, Washington, and Michigan, all going up.

01:31:41.640 Minimum wages are a bad idea.

01:31:46.000 The idea is a minimum wage to what?

01:31:50.560 What's the point of a minimum wage?

01:31:52.980 You're not taken advantage of?

01:31:54.560 Well, here's the thing.

01:31:56.080 If you feel like you're being taken advantage of, don't work for the company.

01:31:59.960 But, Doc, without it, they could pay nothing.

01:32:02.000 Great.

01:32:02.820 Then don't work for them.

01:32:04.760 If enough people said, I'm not going to work for them because it's too low,

01:32:08.820 they would be forced to, if they wanted to hire people, raise the salary.

01:32:13.840 Raise the hourly wage.

01:32:15.720 That's how it works.

01:32:17.440 History has proven that.

01:32:19.040 As evident by the fact that does everybody on the planet,

01:32:23.600 now let's just go to America, does everybody in America only make the minimum wage?

01:32:28.780 Obviously not.

01:32:29.760 No, they make more than that.

01:32:31.620 So if companies were just out to screw people,

01:32:34.780 wouldn't they only pay them the minimum?

01:32:36.660 They pay them more.

01:32:38.120 For example, after they passed the new tax bill,

01:32:42.460 multiple companies came out.

01:32:43.840 Wells Fargo, AT&T, somebody else, I think Fifth Third Bank,

01:32:49.160 multiple companies came out and said,

01:32:51.520 we are raising our in-house minimum wage to, I think, $15 an hour,

01:32:57.480 significantly higher than whatever their state or federal minimum wage is.

01:33:03.100 Why would they do that?

01:33:04.260 We're talking for hourly employees at the lower end who would be the ones most likely to have

01:33:09.080 a minimum wage type salary, income.

01:33:13.220 They're willing to do that.

01:33:14.900 Walmart, who gets a bum rap for, you know, such low wages and so on and so forth.

01:33:21.180 Walmart, for years, has had less than 1% or 2% of all of their employees making minimum wage.

01:33:28.780 And they made a commitment a year or two ago that by right about now, probably,

01:33:35.460 that no employee would make minimum wage.

01:33:37.500 They would all be over minimum wage.

01:33:40.560 That's pretty good.

01:33:41.500 Why don't they just pay a minimum wage? 1.00

01:33:42.740 You know how much they would save?

01:33:44.740 Illegally, they don't have to.

01:33:46.420 Exactly.

01:33:47.320 So there's the fallacy number one that it wouldn't happen without the law.

01:33:50.640 But again, minimum wage for what?

01:33:52.500 So people make more.

01:33:54.260 Is that a livable wage?

01:33:56.200 Because the fight for 15 people say,

01:33:58.380 we need a livable wage, $15 an hour, minimum wage, $15.

01:34:03.360 So $15 an hour is a livable wage.

01:34:07.440 No.

01:34:09.340 I don't know where you're living.

01:34:11.100 Lots of these people that say that are living in places like New York City.

01:34:14.720 $15 an hour?

01:34:16.640 Even if you're working 40 hours a week, that's $600 a week.

01:34:21.920 That's before taxes.

01:34:23.440 Right.

01:34:23.640 That's before taxes.

01:34:24.840 You're making $31,000 a year?

01:34:27.680 That's what that would be?

01:34:29.680 $15 an hour times 40 hours a week times 52 weeks out of the year.

01:34:35.060 $31,000.

01:34:36.000 That's a livable wage?

01:34:37.100 The average rent in New York is $2,000, maybe $2,500 a month.

01:34:43.100 Right.

01:34:43.600 Really, really high.

01:34:45.160 So obviously, and remember, $15,000 they were saying was the livable wage.

01:34:51.020 At the minimum wage at the federal level, it's, what is that, $14,000 a year if you work 40 hours a week.

01:34:58.720 So it's obviously not a livable wage.

01:35:00.780 What is a minimum wage then?

01:35:04.920 It's not livable.

01:35:06.840 It's not needed.

01:35:08.640 What is it?

01:35:10.440 It's just a way for progressives to say you've got to pay more.

01:35:13.640 And then every day, they constantly say it's not enough.

01:35:17.540 We've got to amp that up, amp that up, make it higher, make it higher, make it higher.

01:35:22.120 And if minimum wage was such a good idea where it finally helps people because they cannot live making less of this, it's an insult,

01:35:29.540 then why don't we just make the minimum wage $1,000 an hour? 0.99

01:35:34.120 Because now you're just being unrealistic, Doc.

01:35:36.380 Ah, that's what I've heard from others when I suggest this.

01:35:39.020 And then they, okay, how about $100 an hour?

01:35:41.220 That's still just unrealistic.

01:35:44.280 Well, why?

01:35:45.960 Who's going to pay $100 an hour for a burger flipper? 0.97

01:35:49.460 So you realize at some point the company can't afford that.

01:35:52.980 But you think randomly, you can just mandate $15,000 without knowing any of these individual companies' profit margins, what the books are.

01:36:00.420 You can just go in and say, you must pay $15,000 because you think they're making enough to cover that?

01:36:05.300 What if they're not?

01:36:06.360 So they go out of business and you don't care?

01:36:08.520 Here's what happens.

01:36:09.360 Companies don't pay more and then just say, well, we're going to make less.

01:36:14.400 They have bills they have to pay and stockholders to answer to and profit margins and all kinds of things.

01:36:21.040 So they have to try to maintain that same profit margin.

01:36:24.000 They simply say, you, the employees, are going to work fewer hours.

01:36:29.880 And the work that we need done that won't get done because you're working fewer hours, we're now going to say, Cal must do double the work.

01:36:38.880 We expect more from you in the same amount of time.

01:36:41.520 They cut hours, they cut full-time employees, they cut other benefits.

01:36:44.980 Or they'll find automation solutions.

01:36:46.660 Or they find automation they've got to cut.

01:36:49.020 So this is a failure across the board.

01:36:51.620 If it is a good idea at $7.25 an hour based on their logic, then why not pay everybody a million dollars an hour?

01:36:58.900 And guess what?

01:36:59.460 Just after a few weeks, everybody's rich and all of our problems are solved.

01:37:05.800 They know it won't work that way, but somehow they believe they can do a little bit of it at the other end.

01:37:10.900 I have an example from an obvious progressive how this is a failure.

01:37:17.680 Over the week, last week, a bunch of people reporting on the new minimum wage.

01:37:21.120 And somebody sent me a story from Yahoo Finance.

01:37:26.760 Ah, the great financial brain trust that is Yahoo.

01:37:32.820 Okay.

01:37:33.920 So they have their little reporters there.

01:37:35.920 And the story is reported and then they're all talking about it.

01:37:38.480 And they have a couple of chicks there and some dude and they're talking about this.

01:37:41.420 And the main reporter, the woman, she's given a bunch of the facts and figures.

01:37:45.400 And this is like a 30-40 second clip I want you to hear.

01:37:47.800 Then they go to Rick Newman.

01:37:51.800 He is also a reporter, writer there, whatever, Yahoo Finance.

01:37:56.020 And he starts defending the idea of a minimum wage and challenges the woman on her suggestion that AT&T and these other companies said they're going to pay more and give bonuses now because of the new tax law.

01:38:10.720 But I think you'll realize that he talks squarely out of his backside and contradicts himself multiple times.

01:38:20.280 Listen to his arguments based on minimum wage and then you'll realize, but wait a minute, then your other argument doesn't necessarily make sense or mean anything.

01:38:28.600 This is Rick Newman from Yahoo Finance.

01:38:30.000 The states are taking control of this issue, which used to be kind of a federal issue.

01:38:34.440 I mean, there is still a federal minimum wage, but it's so low.

01:38:37.720 I mean, it's $7.25, right?

01:38:39.980 And that hasn't gone up in years.

01:38:42.140 Since 2009.

01:38:43.260 President Obama wanted to raise it up to $9.00 or $9.50.

01:38:46.180 He couldn't get that.

01:38:47.460 And the Republicans don't seem likely to raise it at all.

01:38:50.720 So states and cities are kind of saying.

01:38:52.140 So pause right there a second.

01:38:53.480 So to the states' rights points, he sounds like he's glad states are going to, local communities,

01:38:57.740 because cities, some cities have higher minimum wages, too, that he's happy they're doing this.

01:39:02.500 Hey, they didn't get it done at the federal level.

01:39:04.360 Republicans aren't going to do it. 0.97

01:39:05.380 Obama wanted it.

01:39:06.240 They wouldn't let him.

01:39:07.220 So good, they're taking it on their own.

01:39:09.900 Do you say the same thing about states' rights when it comes to other issues?

01:39:13.700 Probably not.

01:39:14.560 No.

01:39:14.820 But okay, he's happy they're doing it.

01:39:16.880 Kind of saying, well, we're just going to take care of it in our own states.

01:39:20.000 And that's what's happening.

01:39:21.920 And do you think that's right?

01:39:23.160 Do you think it should be a state issue?

01:39:24.500 I mean, we know that depending on where you live, the cost of living could be astronomically higher

01:39:28.620 if you're in the Northeast compared to, say, somewhere in the Midwest.

01:39:31.600 I mean, I think the shift here is that the federal government is becoming a backstop.

01:39:35.900 And if there's enough political motivation in the states to do it, and in cities, cities can do this, too,

01:39:41.780 let's keep in mind, then they're doing it.

01:39:43.900 Of course, the way you want people to get ahead is not by earning minimum wage.

01:39:48.300 The way you want people to get ahead is to have more skills so they can actually demand

01:39:51.980 Get out of the minimum wage.

01:39:53.000 Hold it right there.

01:39:54.520 So you want people, minimum wage is not going to get them ahead.

01:39:59.400 So why are you advocating this?

01:40:02.440 You want them to have more than that.

01:40:04.820 Okay, gotcha.

01:40:05.760 All right.

01:40:06.600 By earning minimum wage, the way you want people to get ahead is to have more skills so they

01:40:10.820 can actually demand to be paid.

01:40:13.040 Get out of the minimum wage.

01:40:14.000 And that's kind of an ongoing problem, which is a different problem.

01:40:18.060 But this is a backstop.

01:40:19.860 Yeah.

01:40:20.100 And it's interesting to see the corporations that are now taking a stand as well.

01:40:24.060 So it's getting more and more micro.

01:40:25.680 Wells Fargo just announced that it will be raising its minimum wage to $15 for its employees.

01:40:30.180 So companies are taking it into their own hands, and many of them are crediting the tax

01:40:34.160 bill, saying that because we are saving money, we're going to be giving it back to their employees,

01:40:38.000 which is a big question that we are wondering.

01:40:39.780 Yeah, I don't buy that.

01:40:40.680 Hold on.

01:40:41.240 Hold on.

01:40:41.800 So the companies have announced that, right?

01:40:43.800 Back that up about 10 seconds.

01:40:45.820 The companies have announced that's why they're doing it.

01:40:49.280 And he questions, no, they're not.

01:40:52.100 Okay, they've told you this is what they're doing, but you don't believe it still.

01:40:54.980 Okay, listen.

01:40:56.020 That are now taking a stand as well.

01:40:57.660 So it's getting more and more micro.

01:40:59.280 Wells Fargo just announced that it will be raising its minimum wage to $15 for its employees.

01:41:03.780 So companies are taking it into their own hands, and many of them are crediting the tax

01:41:07.760 bill, saying that because we are saving money, we're going to be giving it back to their

01:41:11.240 employees, which is a big question that we are wondering.

01:41:13.220 Yeah, I don't buy that.

01:41:14.340 I'm not sure if it'll translate.

01:41:16.680 The reason they're doing it is for the right reason economically, which is they have to

01:41:20.820 raise pay to get the workers they need.

01:41:22.640 That's what you want to happen.

01:41:24.100 Wait, wait.

01:41:24.320 We're basically...

01:41:25.120 Wait, what?

01:41:25.580 Wait.

01:41:26.740 They're doing it to get better workers.

01:41:29.020 They're raising it.

01:41:29.720 He won't give any credit to the Republicans and the tax bill.

01:41:33.560 They didn't do it for that.

01:41:34.720 No, it's not that.

01:41:36.460 No.

01:41:36.860 No, they're doing it because that's how you get better workers.

01:41:43.320 So they're doing it to get better.

01:41:46.080 They're just taking it on their own to get better workers.

01:41:48.840 Doesn't that then show you that you don't need a minimum wage?

01:41:53.760 Kind of proves a point.

01:41:55.360 Hey, he just talked himself around and goes exactly against why we need a minimum wage from

01:42:03.040 his perspective, I mean.

01:42:04.700 Okay, a little more.

01:42:05.760 I'm not sure if it'll translate.

01:42:07.300 The reason they're doing it is for the right reason economically, which is they have to

01:42:11.660 raise pay to get the workers they need.

01:42:13.480 That's what you want to happen.

01:42:14.480 And we're basically getting into a labor shortage in some parts of the country and some parts

01:42:19.180 of the economy.

01:42:20.040 That's great news because then workers get raises for the right reason because the economy

01:42:24.160 is really humming.

01:42:25.500 But there will still be some people left out.

01:42:27.880 Ah, did you catch it at the end?

01:42:30.000 There will still be people left out. 0.99

01:42:31.040 Talked himself into a corner and realized he was being an outright hypocrite and was 0.97

01:42:37.260 going to be called because of his business like, oh, but there's still be some people 0.98

01:42:41.100 left behind.

01:42:42.160 Why would they be left behind?

01:42:43.880 You just said, you know, we got a humming.

01:42:46.120 It's humming.

01:42:46.840 We got a labor shortage and this is going to get it done.

01:42:49.020 They're doing it for the right reasons.

01:42:50.740 Some people will still be left behind.

01:42:52.600 And then what?

01:42:53.320 You believe that 725 is enough for them, right?

01:42:57.860 Oh, it's not.

01:42:58.680 Is 15 enough?

01:42:59.760 Okay, well, if 15 is good, isn't a million better?

01:43:03.200 Dude, it doesn't work.

01:43:04.880 It absolutely doesn't work.

01:43:07.120 You're just an over-emotional, illogical, hand-wringing progressive that will not let

01:43:15.000 free markets go because you're ultimately about control.

01:43:18.860 Glenn Beck.

01:43:31.100 As of Monday, California will officially be a recreational use marijuana state.

01:43:42.200 It'll be the eighth state to have legalized marijuana for recreational purposes as of

01:43:47.980 Monday.

01:43:49.660 And the dominoes are starting to fall.

01:43:51.600 Within five, ten years, the federal government's going to be forced to do something.

01:43:55.080 It's still a Schedule I drug.

01:43:57.200 Meanwhile, cocaine and others are a Schedule II drug.

01:44:00.540 Cocaine, I mean, Schedule I is the most significant.

01:44:02.700 Yeah, it's just bizarre.

01:44:04.400 And it's because of the alcohol industry and these others that say they don't want to make

01:44:09.400 it legal because it's going to cut into their sales or so they think.

01:44:12.640 And that's what's behind it.

01:44:13.600 But the dominoes are falling.

01:44:15.520 And you have Bob Marley's family have licensed his name and likeness for a strain of marijuana

01:44:22.380 and some other products.

01:44:23.980 Snoop Dogg has something, Snoop Leaf or something.

01:44:27.640 And now Whoopi Goldberg is.

01:44:31.280 Whoopi Goldberg is lending her name and financial backing to a new line of medical marijuana products

01:44:36.620 designed specifically for women.

01:44:41.440 I thought you were going to say lesbians. 0.82

01:44:47.300 So it's marijuana for women. 1.00

01:44:51.720 It's specifically engineered.

01:44:54.220 Special strain.

01:44:54.920 No, it's it's that's like saying I'm going to start a pizza franchise.

01:44:59.480 It's pizza for men. 0.91

01:45:01.700 Wait, what?

01:45:02.760 What does that have to?

01:45:04.160 No, you don't understand.

01:45:05.440 It's cars for men, women.

01:45:08.400 What does that have to do with?

01:45:10.400 There's no difference.

01:45:12.200 Maybe this one, you know, makes you feel really emotional and.

01:45:18.420 Hmm.

01:45:19.100 Maybe it stops.

01:45:20.040 No, you're already emotional.

01:45:21.960 When you smoke marijuana.

01:45:22.860 No, you're a woman. 1.00

01:45:23.820 You're already.

01:45:24.040 What are you talking about?

01:45:25.240 Okay.

01:45:25.600 Maybe if maybe it stops with the blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

01:45:28.840 Maybe it'll be for men. 0.99

01:45:30.060 Oh, then it would be specifically designed for.

01:45:32.400 I see what it is.

01:45:33.480 Okay.

01:45:34.120 Maybe it helps them tolerate.

01:45:37.540 I don't know.

01:45:38.680 Men's problems. 0.99

01:45:39.960 And although men don't do very many things wrong.

01:45:42.460 So I don't know what that would do.

01:45:44.040 My wife would disagree with you.

01:45:45.400 What a great way to end 2017.

01:45:47.960 Hey, thanks so much for joining us.

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01:45:50.360 It's at Doc Thompson show.

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01:46:05.780 Have yourself a happy and safe New Year's and we'll see you in 2018.

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The Glenn Beck Program - December 29, 2017

12⧸29⧸17 - The Concepts of Freedom Are Lost

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