The Glenn Beck Program - 6⧸16⧸17 - So Many Miracles (Bill 0'Reilly and Mark Batterson Join Glenn)

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00:00:08.580 Hello America, welcome to Friday. We have some good news for you today.

00:00:13.380 Did you hear about the fire in London?

00:00:16.980 The fire in London, they still have a lot of missing people.

00:00:22.380 This is getting to be just a horrible, horrible story in London.

00:00:28.260 And there's a story coming out now about the baby that was thrown from a ninth floor window and survived.

00:00:39.300 We'll give that to you coming up.

00:00:41.360 Also, some really great examples of why you can trust the future is in good hands.

00:00:50.860 Some great information on millennials coming up in just a second.

00:00:55.460 The collapse of the Seattle gun tax, that's not working out really well.

00:01:01.040 The baseball game that happened yesterday, I can't believe those Democrats.

00:01:06.980 It was, what was it, 11 to 2?

00:01:09.580 11 to 2?

00:01:11.580 Isn't there a mercy rule?

00:01:13.860 I mean, couldn't they have made it a little closer so the Republicans didn't feel so bad?

00:01:18.880 Instead, we have some news on Congressman Scalise.

00:01:24.040 He is improving.

00:01:25.520 He is still in critical condition, but he is improving.

00:01:29.680 I truly believe that was divine providence that came out on that one.

00:01:36.140 Also, the injured Capitol Police officer, David Bailey, he was the guy who threw the first pitch out yesterday.

00:01:41.960 They made a lot of money on that and a story on trade that doesn't sound so sexy, but you need to hear it.

00:01:54.480 Coming up, we begin right now.

00:01:57.420 I will make a stand, I will raise my voice, I will hold your hand, cause we are one.

00:02:07.280 I will beat my drum, I have made my choice, we will overcome, cause we are one.

00:02:16.140 The fusion of entertainment and enlightenment.

00:02:19.960 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:02:23.540 Hello, America.

00:02:26.320 Welcome to the program.

00:02:27.800 It is Father's Day weekend.

00:02:30.680 Have you planned on doing something great for your father?

00:02:33.360 I know that fathers can eat free at Hooters on Sunday.

00:02:37.620 Is that true?

00:02:38.700 Yes, it is.

00:02:39.460 That's awesome.

00:02:39.960 Really?

00:02:40.560 You bring your dad to Hooters and I think they get a free meal or, you know, free breast or whatever it is at Hooters.

00:02:48.080 So, yeah.

00:02:48.920 Yeah, yeah.

00:02:50.040 And I know that's where all my daughters want to take me for Father's Day is to Hooters. 1.00

00:02:55.820 What a place.

00:02:57.080 What a place to celebrate Father's Day.

00:02:59.120 Anyway.

00:03:02.040 You know, you might end up having more children.

00:03:05.220 I'm just saying.

00:03:06.120 That's true.

00:03:06.760 See, you can expand your fatherhood.

00:03:09.060 Exactly right.

00:03:10.580 You know, you go home and you're like, that food put me in the mood.

00:03:15.500 I'm just saying.

00:03:16.200 Nothing like fried chicken wings to get you in the mood.

00:03:19.260 Yes, to get you in the mood.

00:03:19.920 Honey, congratulations for having another kid.

00:03:21.700 It's not yours. 0.78

00:03:22.480 You don't have to go through that whole process.

00:03:23.800 Isn't that amazing?

00:03:24.980 I didn't think of it that way.

00:03:26.100 I was, you are sick.

00:03:28.420 Wow.

00:03:28.700 You are sick.

00:03:30.500 Sick.

00:03:30.880 What?

00:03:31.200 Yeah.

00:03:31.920 Okay, let's start.

00:03:33.560 First of all, anybody watch the game last night?

00:03:35.500 I did watch some of it.

00:03:36.480 Yeah.

00:03:36.680 Just because I, well, first of all, I wanted to see if our congressman can play baseball at all.

00:03:41.060 Apparently not.

00:03:41.720 The answer to that is no.

00:03:42.540 Apparently.

00:03:43.160 Not really.

00:03:43.600 They can't do that either.

00:03:45.040 How do Republicans lose to Democrats in baseball?

00:03:47.880 How is that possible?

00:03:48.660 There was a game.

00:03:49.780 What?

00:03:50.340 How is that possible?

00:03:51.780 What do you look like?

00:03:52.400 It is frustrating.

00:03:52.800 Like the Democrats or some sort of.

00:03:55.140 Well, they're, yeah, they're, you know, they're mamby pamby.

00:03:59.440 They're, they're like, you know, they're, they're participation trophy people.

00:04:04.480 Those are the liberals.

00:04:06.260 Well, I know that.

00:04:06.940 I know the participation trophy thing.

00:04:08.820 Who grew up whining about everything.

00:04:09.600 Hang on just a second.

00:04:10.140 I know the participation trophy thing.

00:04:12.380 That's why I said there should have been a mercy rule last night.

00:04:15.020 11 to 2.

00:04:16.200 Especially after a tragedy that happened.

00:04:20.400 You would think they would have invoked the mercy rule a little bit.

00:04:24.240 But I don't understand that liberals have to have, they're differently abled in sports.

00:04:29.500 Yes, of course.

00:04:30.840 Well, I mean, you'd have been babied their whole lives.

00:04:33.640 See, I understand if, if you want to say that they're not good at baseball because that's

00:04:38.780 the American pastime and it's just too far too American and they should have been good 1.00

00:04:43.780 at, I don't know, that broom sweeping rock thing that Canadians do curling, you know, 1.00

00:04:48.460 maybe.

00:04:49.180 I was thinking, you know, because there used to be the stereotype that all the Republicans

00:04:52.460 were all old white people.

00:04:53.740 But is there a Democrat in Congress less than 107 years old right now?

00:04:57.240 I mean, is that even, is there one that exists?

00:04:59.640 I, I, you'd think the Republicans would be able to win.

00:05:01.940 Oh my gosh, age doesn't matter.

00:05:03.300 Age does.

00:05:03.580 In sports, it sure does.

00:05:05.260 Apparently not last night.

00:05:06.700 Well, I don't.

00:05:07.700 11 to 2.

00:05:08.860 Perhaps my perception is incorrect.

00:05:10.340 Yeah.

00:05:10.480 But, um, but I was reading a story, perhaps almost everything we've said so far in the

00:05:15.060 show has been pretty incorrect except the score of the game.

00:05:18.820 Yeah.

00:05:19.100 Well, I was reading a story about this game, which goes back to 1909, I believe they've

00:05:23.020 been playing it since 1909.

00:05:25.140 Fabulous.

00:05:25.740 Um, but.

00:05:26.280 Story, especially the way you're telling it.

00:05:27.680 Yeah.

00:05:28.040 Okay.

00:05:28.340 Well, I'm going to talk to Pat now because he's actually a person who might be interested.

00:05:32.320 It's Friday.

00:05:33.240 It's been a long week.

00:05:34.340 Tell me though, Pat, uh, Jeffy, is, this is not interesting to you, a man who might 0.97

00:05:41.320 have watched sports in your life.

00:05:42.960 I'm on my way to Hooters.

00:05:44.100 The Republicans actually lost the game to the Democrats that was pitched by Republican

00:05:50.260 Jim Bunning.

00:05:52.080 Oh my gosh.

00:05:53.180 How on earth do you, you have Jim Bunning?

00:05:56.420 Seriously?

00:05:56.940 Jim Bunning was pitching?

00:05:58.100 Yeah.

00:05:58.820 And they lost like 15 to 13.

00:06:01.720 How old is Jim Bunning now?

00:06:03.060 He could be that old.

00:06:03.780 I think he's passed away now.

00:06:05.760 Oh, they were lost.

00:06:06.920 This is in the eighties.

00:06:07.920 In the eighties.

00:06:08.540 But Jim Bunning in the eighties?

00:06:10.180 I was going to say, Jim Bunning must be eighties.

00:06:12.640 Yeah.

00:06:13.000 He's older.

00:06:14.280 In fact, I think he just recently passed away, didn't he?

00:06:17.300 But still, in the eighties?

00:06:19.720 So they lost?

00:06:20.400 Bunning in the eighties and they lost?

00:06:22.460 That's bizarre.

00:06:23.280 That is incredible.

00:06:24.040 Jim Bunning was a professional baseball player.

00:06:26.120 Oh, I got it.

00:06:26.820 I got it.

00:06:27.020 Let's bring Glenn back into the conversation.

00:06:28.680 Jim Bunning, good dude.

00:06:29.860 No.

00:06:30.300 Bunning, good dude.

00:06:31.860 Look, I have.

00:06:33.040 Fourth of July, Bunning on the front of my house all the time.

00:06:38.660 So.

00:06:39.440 What?

00:06:39.840 What?

00:06:40.420 What are you even saying?

00:06:41.900 That's not the guy who's come up with the Bunning stuff that you put on the front of your house, 0.91

00:06:47.640 the red, white.

00:06:48.280 Anyway.

00:06:49.220 What?

00:06:49.600 What?

00:06:50.040 How did you get a job in this industry?

00:06:54.260 I don't.

00:06:54.660 I don't.

00:06:55.560 Because we don't talk sports.

00:06:56.640 Okay.

00:06:56.820 That's good.

00:06:57.300 Yeah.

00:06:57.760 That's a good tip.

00:06:59.080 By the way, Jim Bunning, we lost him very recently, May 26th of this year.

00:07:02.480 Oh, wow.

00:07:03.300 I thought it was recent.

00:07:04.420 I didn't realize it was that recent.

00:07:05.320 When he said, I'm going to include clowns, when he looked for, he's dead, isn't he?

00:07:09.720 He looked at me.

00:07:11.300 He looked at me.

00:07:12.340 He didn't look at you clowns.

00:07:13.640 He looked at me.

00:07:15.580 Okay.

00:07:16.980 Let's see.

00:07:17.580 So, that happened last night, as Russia claims that it killed Abu Bakhtar al-Baghdadi.

00:07:28.200 The chief guy, the Mahdi, that, of course, the Mahdi can't be killed. 0.92

00:07:34.540 Remember that.

00:07:35.460 The Mahdi can't be killed. 0.99

00:07:37.180 Remember what happened in the 1870s or 1880s?

00:07:40.760 Oh, I'll cut you guys out, because you're just a sports fan.

00:07:44.400 I would rather be a sports guy than a 12th and mom guy.

00:07:48.580 I mean, really?

00:07:50.120 How do I keep losing?

00:07:52.600 So, back in the 1870s or 1880s, a guy claimed that he was the 12th and mom.

00:08:00.280 He was the Mahdi. 0.99

00:08:01.760 Well, the Mahdi can't be killed. 1.00

00:08:04.060 And so, if you're the guy to hasten the return of the promised one, you're not going to get killed.

00:08:10.560 And so, what did the foes of the Mahdi do?

00:08:15.640 They sent one guy in.

00:08:17.260 He was sweeping all of Africa. 0.99

00:08:20.300 And he had taken...

00:08:21.300 He started in some place in eastern Africa.

00:08:24.980 And he had swept the entire northern half of Africa. 0.91

00:08:29.780 And was building this gigantic army.

00:08:32.860 And people...

00:08:33.420 And the reason why is because they were like, he is...

00:08:35.720 He's invincible.

00:08:36.780 His foes sent one guy into his camp at night.

00:08:41.660 He snuck into the bedroom.

00:08:42.920 Stabbed him to death.

00:08:44.440 Over.

00:08:45.580 The caliphate was over.

00:08:47.240 I don't think it'll work this time.

00:08:50.700 But al-Baghdadi is apparently, according to the AP, the Russians are claiming that they killed him.

00:08:59.000 And do we need a history lesson on that the Russians don't always tell the truth? 1.00

00:09:03.080 Sure.

00:09:03.720 But before that...

00:09:05.100 I can give you one.

00:09:05.900 Would you like one?

00:09:06.860 No.

00:09:07.100 Let's talk to Pat again.

00:09:09.020 No.

00:09:09.600 This is...

00:09:10.320 It's important to know this report and how reliable it is.

00:09:13.780 As you point out, it's a real report.

00:09:15.440 It's not like one of these things on the internet.

00:09:17.060 It's not a fake news report.

00:09:19.440 It's not info words?

00:09:19.940 Russia is legitimately claiming that they may have killed the guy.

00:09:23.240 But again, Russia is... 0.90

00:09:24.540 It's Russia. 0.81

00:09:25.360 So we're taking their word for it.

00:09:26.540 Please let me tell the Verona paper story, please.

00:09:29.520 Secondly, just one more edition and then we're all Verona papers.

00:09:34.160 They're also saying they may have killed him.

00:09:36.680 So even they are saying they're not sure they've killed him.

00:09:39.520 So there's a lot of uncertainty on this.

00:09:41.680 But if...

00:09:42.460 It's one of those big, if true, type of stories.

00:09:46.540 Because this is the head of ISIS.

00:09:48.800 It could be, you know...

00:09:50.020 I mean, this is the caliphate.

00:09:51.200 This is all of this lining up.

00:09:52.500 And if he actually is dead, it's a very positive development.

00:09:55.820 Now, I was wondering about the Verona paper.

00:09:57.500 No, I am not your toy monkey.

00:10:00.480 I'm not going to perform for you, Mr. Organ Grinder.

00:10:03.440 Could we just spend a second on Skittles?

00:10:07.760 The ADD is in effect today, isn't it?

00:10:10.080 It is.

00:10:10.800 Wow, it has turned up to maximum volume.

00:10:13.340 I'm just saying we have a lot to cover.

00:10:16.640 Skittles is in trouble today.

00:10:18.320 What?

00:10:18.800 Because it is Pride Month. 0.96

00:10:21.980 Pride Month.

00:10:23.640 And so the Skittles marketing department had the idea that we should celebrate Pride Month.

00:10:31.060 Now, why would Skittles, Stu, be perfect for celebrating Pride Month? 0.97

00:10:37.380 Because it is rainbow colored.

00:10:38.980 It is rainbow color.

00:10:41.120 What is it?

00:10:41.720 Taste the rainbow?

00:10:42.980 Yes.

00:10:43.300 Is their slogan?

00:10:43.780 Yes.

00:10:45.620 And so...

00:10:46.240 It's a little more graphic when we start getting into...

00:10:47.880 So for some reason...

00:10:48.620 Now, listen.

00:10:49.840 You're in the marketing meeting.

00:10:51.260 You're working at Skittles.

00:10:52.760 It's Pride Month.

00:10:54.120 And you say, we're the perfect people to represent Pride Month.

00:11:00.040 So far, everybody at the table is like, you know, that's a pretty good idea.

00:11:05.560 When the guy then announces his idea, tell me that you're in that room and you don't say, I don't think you know how this works.

00:11:16.620 His idea for Skittles is, this month, let's make all of our Skittles for the Pride Month, marked Pride Month, let's make them all white. 0.98

00:11:30.800 What?

00:11:33.320 Do you not say, I don't think you understand the whole purpose.

00:11:38.020 Exactly right.

00:11:39.520 Okay.

00:11:40.520 Taste the rainbow.

00:11:41.880 Let's make them all white. 1.00

00:11:43.800 What?

00:11:44.120 Then someone else should have followed that with, are we talking about white pride?

00:11:52.080 That's a good follow.

00:11:54.240 That's a good follow-up.

00:11:55.340 Yeah.

00:11:55.880 All right.

00:11:56.460 Then I believe everyone in the boardroom says, no, we're not doing that.

00:12:03.680 Skittles went ahead and did that.

00:12:08.080 And they made all of them white. 0.69

00:12:09.260 They made an all-white candy, which has now been labeled racist and a symbol of white supremacy.

00:12:19.360 Well, there's Pride Month. 0.95

00:12:20.740 I am alerting the Mercury One Museum to go out and buy a box of white Skittles.

00:12:31.520 Seriously.

00:12:31.800 Because that is...

00:12:32.800 That's cool.

00:12:33.640 That's funny.

00:12:34.220 That's funny.

00:12:35.180 I mean, how stupid can you be?

00:12:37.140 Like you said, if you're sitting around the marketing meeting, how does someone in that

00:12:41.520 meeting not say, it's maybe not the best idea?

00:12:47.380 Maybe this is like a new Coke type of idea?

00:12:49.720 I mean, it might have been the guy who was, he's finally struggled.

00:12:54.220 He's got back on his feet.

00:12:55.560 He was like, I think everybody's forgotten that idea of mine of new Coke.

00:12:59.360 Hey, Skittles, it's so great to be back in the game.

00:13:02.820 I've got this idea.

00:13:04.440 Wait a minute, though.

00:13:05.100 Because like, let's look at some of these other PR disasters from these companies.

00:13:09.100 Kendall Jenner is going, hey, there's a lot of, there's a consternation between the police

00:13:13.420 and protesters.

00:13:14.400 What if Pepsi brings people together, you know, let's put Kendall Jenner in there and 1.00

00:13:19.040 let's make it happen.

00:13:20.260 At least you can follow the thought process of what they're trying to do.

00:13:24.300 Yes.

00:13:24.440 What is the thought process of taking a rainbow colored candy that during gay pride month

00:13:30.480 and then changing it from the symbol of gay pride to white pride?

00:13:36.480 Yes.

00:13:36.680 What is the even...

00:13:37.540 That would be like if the White House was always lit in rainbow colors.

00:13:44.400 Yeah.

00:13:44.940 And then the day the Supreme Court passed the marriage thing, they go, we're going to celebrate 0.99

00:13:51.880 all white lights on the White House.

00:13:55.840 That's such a weird thing.

00:13:57.880 It's bizarre.

00:13:58.380 Do you know what their thought process was?

00:14:00.940 Like, what were they trying to do?

00:14:02.680 I always find this to be interesting.

00:14:04.000 Celebrate white... 0.99

00:14:04.480 Or sell...

00:14:04.960 I'm sorry.

00:14:06.120 Celebrate pride.

00:14:07.940 But that's not...

00:14:08.980 It has nothing to do with...

00:14:10.540 Right?

00:14:10.760 Like, you wouldn't turn them all white. 0.94

00:14:13.000 Yeah, because...

00:14:13.820 Okay.

00:14:14.380 All right.

00:14:15.420 Do you have a rational?

00:14:16.780 I have a...

00:14:17.940 No.

00:14:18.480 Rational?

00:14:19.120 No.

00:14:19.500 Okay.

00:14:19.820 I have a way that maybe those in mental institutions might have arrived at this.

00:14:28.520 Okay.

00:14:28.840 Okay.

00:14:29.260 Okay.

00:14:30.200 What is the absence of all color?

00:14:33.580 Okay.

00:14:34.280 White? 0.92

00:14:34.980 No.

00:14:35.260 Black. 0.93

00:14:35.740 Black. 0.93

00:14:36.080 Yes.

00:14:36.500 Black. 0.93

00:14:36.740 Oh, yeah.

00:14:36.880 Sorry.

00:14:37.100 What is the mixing of all colors?

00:14:40.940 White. 0.81

00:14:41.520 Mm-hmm.

00:14:42.240 Black? 0.74

00:14:43.040 No.

00:14:43.840 White? 0.92

00:14:44.340 So, I mean, it takes...

00:14:45.580 Okay.

00:14:45.820 It takes a...

00:14:46.660 Obviously a really smart mental institution.

00:14:51.760 Or at least one that understands the prism.

00:14:52.700 Or somebody who knows their colors.

00:14:54.060 Right.

00:14:56.000 I do enough coloring books these days.

00:14:58.360 I should really know this.

00:14:59.300 Yes, you should.

00:15:00.080 Or if you've ever looked at a prism, you would know this.

00:15:02.780 But the rainbow comes from white light, and then the rainbow prism breaks that up into

00:15:09.660 the spectrum.

00:15:10.240 So, white is all colors combined.

00:15:15.640 Black is the absence of all color. 0.98

00:15:18.840 Okay?

00:15:19.280 Okay.

00:15:20.020 I don't think anybody at that table thought that, because you have to...

00:15:27.240 That's a justification of cognitive dissonance.

00:15:31.200 That's just like, I made a really bad move.

00:15:33.860 How do we cover this?

00:15:35.100 Right.

00:15:35.700 Oh, white is all colors mixed into white.

00:15:39.660 Nobody thought that.

00:15:40.440 I cannot do the math and get to this decision from Skittles.

00:15:45.860 Let me try one other potential possibility.

00:15:48.740 They said, what if we remove...

00:15:51.500 Like, we're colorblind, right?

00:15:53.520 So, like, everything's the same.

00:15:55.180 We're all the same.

00:15:56.080 And inside, we're all different, right?

00:15:58.840 So, like, a lime Skittle might look the same as a cherry Skittle, or whatever other flavor

00:16:04.000 they have.

00:16:04.940 However, we're all the same.

00:16:06.700 We're all the same.

00:16:07.920 Maybe it was that type of thing?

00:16:08.820 But that's not what pride would be.

00:16:10.900 That's not standing up for...

00:16:12.440 That's not...

00:16:13.600 Equality?

00:16:14.040 Who is saying, hey, let's just all now fold back into each other and be cool?

00:16:18.140 Nobody's saying that.

00:16:19.800 This was...

00:16:20.900 This was one of the worst decisions in marketing I have ever seen.

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00:18:24.180 So, you know what's funny?

00:18:25.940 The Skittles are still on the market.

00:18:28.120 We have an update on what their plan was.

00:18:31.420 And it's on the back of the package.

00:18:33.920 And what's it say?

00:18:34.580 Basically, the reason they got rid of the rainbow is because they wanted to say,

00:18:39.800 the gay pride rainbow is the only rainbow that matters. 0.96

00:18:43.840 That needs to take center stage. 0.94

00:18:45.680 That needs to take center stage, not our stupid rainbow. 0.94

00:18:47.580 So, here's what's crazy is, I'd like to remind everybody, it's a stupid candy that you eat.

00:18:53.220 I disagree calling it stupid.

00:18:55.200 Okay.

00:18:55.960 So, but I mean, and here's, if you are on the left and you're a fan of the gay pride flag

00:19:05.120 and the rainbow, okay, so here's this company trying to do something in support of you.

00:19:12.220 Mm-hmm.

00:19:13.140 They're trying to say, they're taking their own rainbow and saying, our rainbow doesn't count.

00:19:20.380 Yours does.

00:19:20.600 This is the only rainbow that does count.

00:19:23.220 And they're being eaten.

00:19:24.340 Well, this is a bad analogy for a candy.

00:19:27.240 They're being eaten.

00:19:27.860 Um, they're, they're being, um, persecuted.

00:19:32.120 Right.

00:19:32.540 And yelled at and called names and, uh, being called intolerant and racist and bigots because

00:19:40.660 they tried to do something nice.

00:19:43.300 Yeah.

00:19:43.540 It should be really like, guys, that was a little bit of a stupid mistake, but we appreciate

00:19:47.260 the effort.

00:19:47.980 Exactly right.

00:19:48.560 That's the tone that should come back to them.

00:19:50.300 And that, quite honestly, and for everybody else, it should be, this is great.

00:19:54.880 It's a candy.

00:19:56.080 Can it be, I love the fact that they're getting heat for such a stupid gesture.

00:20:00.100 Can it be that one?

00:20:01.040 Because that's the one I want.

00:20:02.180 No, that's the one I want.

00:20:03.080 I think it can be.

00:20:04.280 Okay.

00:20:04.460 I think it can be.

00:20:05.800 Sure.

00:20:06.320 Sure.

00:20:06.720 Because that's where I'm living right now.

00:20:10.300 Back in a minute with something unusual from Ted Nugent.

00:20:13.820 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:20:17.340 Mercury.

00:20:18.560 The Glenn Beck Program.

00:20:24.160 I want to start, I want to start with something that happened yesterday with Ted Nugent.

00:20:30.780 Can we play the audio of Ted Nugent and what he said?

00:20:34.800 Now, remember, Ted has always been a, a very outspoken guy.

00:20:39.900 Listen to this comment.

00:20:41.420 I think we've reached critical mass.

00:20:44.020 I, I tend to agree you and I had a bit of a confrontation because of some of the language

00:20:48.340 I've used and I, I have re-evaluated my approach, even though I'm a street fighter.

00:20:54.440 I'm from Detroit.

00:20:55.340 We use language in the street.

00:20:57.420 We use certain harsh terms.

00:20:59.340 But at the tender age of 69, my wife has convinced me that I just can't use those harsh terms.

00:21:07.500 I cannot and I will not.

00:21:09.960 And I encourage even my friends slash enemy on the left in the Democrat and liberal world that we have got to be civil to each other.

00:21:20.680 That the whole world is watching America where you have the, the God-given right to life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness.

00:21:28.900 And we have got to be more respectful to the other side.

00:21:32.980 But I have to clarify, we really are angry.

00:21:37.920 We don't believe, we cannot believe that people on the left don't want secure borders.

00:21:43.820 We're going to get into this a little later next, at top of next hour.

00:21:50.740 But that is remarkable coming from Ted Nugent because we've had these conversations before.

00:21:58.820 And Ted has a different tactic.

00:22:01.620 And I think that is absolutely remarkable.

00:22:04.160 And you hear it in his voice.

00:22:05.820 That doesn't mean surrender.

00:22:07.660 He's still going to fight.

00:22:09.060 But he's just saying, I've got to find a new tactic because this isn't working.

00:22:15.500 Welcome to David Barton from Wall Builders.

00:22:18.480 Hey, guys.

00:22:19.200 How you doing, David?

00:22:19.960 Good, man.

00:22:20.600 Really good.

00:22:21.340 You've been in every day for the last couple of weeks.

00:22:24.240 You're going to be here all summer because of Mercury One and the leadership program that we're doing.

00:22:30.880 I love the fact that we have changed the name of an internship program because that denotes going to get coffee.

00:22:38.560 And this is more of an leadership training.

00:22:40.920 This is leadership training.

00:22:41.960 That's right.

00:22:42.780 And last night, if you have not watched one of my shows in a while on the Blaze TV, watch last night's episode.

00:22:52.220 We had about, I don't know, 40 or 50 of these leadership groups.

00:22:59.080 The nine or ten of them were from MRA and the Blaze, Mercury Radio Arts and the Blaze.

00:23:04.540 And the rest of them had spent two weeks with you.

00:23:09.360 And our interns had been working around the building and doing, I don't want to say what regular interns do because they don't.

00:23:17.940 We don't send our interns to get coffee. 0.92

00:23:19.660 And they talked about how the difference between this internship and others is we trust them.

00:23:26.700 We give them hands on.

00:23:27.980 We say, take the bull by the horns.

00:23:30.280 Here, here's a camera.

00:23:32.220 Show us what you can do.

00:23:33.620 But that's kind of where that stopped.

00:23:38.980 And I was on the phone with Ashley Roberts today.

00:23:43.980 She's in HR for the Blaze.

00:23:46.200 And she said, we have to talk today because did you see the difference two weeks makes with the leadership training from David Barton and Mercury One?

00:23:57.180 It was remarkable, David.

00:23:59.440 Yeah, it really was.

00:24:00.580 And it's a fun thing for us because, I mean, last night, this is kind of almost pre-graduation.

00:24:05.520 This is two weeks.

00:24:06.340 It's over.

00:24:06.980 Tonight is the day.

00:24:08.300 Today's the day.

00:24:09.080 This is when they get their certificates.

00:24:11.160 And watching them last night was just really, anybody who wants to be optimistic over the future of America, that's the program to watch.

00:24:18.200 Because these are our future leaders coming out.

00:24:20.360 And it's great.

00:24:21.220 I want to do a show.

00:24:22.700 Next week, we have another group coming in?

00:24:24.440 Not next week.

00:24:25.300 We've got a week off.

00:24:25.940 Okay, so the week after next, I want to do a show where the leadership kids are coming in on day one and then do one at the end two weeks later.

00:24:37.820 Because I know what, I didn't meet these kids because I was away, so I didn't meet them on day one.

00:24:44.760 But I heard on day one, they didn't, you know, a lot of them didn't know about the history of the country.

00:24:51.860 They didn't know necessarily all of them about, you know, the influence of God, etc., etc.

00:24:58.140 They were a little, I'm not sure what's true, what's not.

00:25:02.060 But last night on the TV show, you watched these millennials and they were defenders of absolute truth.

00:25:09.920 It was amazing.

00:25:11.060 And that's, excuse me, that's where we started is with absolute truth.

00:25:14.060 Because right now, four out of five millennials believe there is no absolute truth.

00:25:17.680 Listen to that stat again.

00:25:18.940 Pat, listen to this.

00:25:19.840 Four out of five millennials believe there is no absolute truth.

00:25:22.920 Two out of three Americans believe there's no absolute truth.

00:25:25.700 Now, how do you govern a nation?

00:25:26.980 How do you create a culture?

00:25:28.140 How do you do something?

00:25:28.800 Four out of five believe there's no absolute truth.

00:25:31.360 And it's amazing.

00:25:32.860 We quiz them over, and I don't mean we, I mean Barn and others quiz them over specifics.

00:25:36.660 And things that we would think are no, of course, everybody thinks that's wrong.

00:25:40.440 No.

00:25:40.920 No.

00:25:41.400 Four out of five don't.

00:25:42.900 And it really is amazing.

00:25:44.060 The other thing that gets us is.

00:25:45.380 How do you define absolute truth, David?

00:25:47.480 Well, absolute truth is, let me take it to a historical direction.

00:25:52.020 Because a lot of what we do is based on history.

00:25:54.120 We're going to make them defenders of God, faith, morality.

00:25:57.740 We're going to make them defenders of American exceptionalism, of the free market economic system, of American history, what happened.

00:26:05.440 And that's based on absolute facts.

00:26:07.060 There are absolute facts, and there are consequences.

00:26:09.560 Part of the problem with truth is we think there's no consequence.

00:26:11.760 And we can do anything we want, and it's going to work out the way we want.

00:26:14.100 It doesn't work that way.

00:26:15.560 That's why 84% of the kids who voted in the primaries presidentially back in Iowa voted for socialism.

00:26:21.580 They said, we love socialism.

00:26:22.760 It's the best form of government.

00:26:24.080 Show me one place in history it's ever worked.

00:26:26.360 Well, we don't know about history.

00:26:28.360 But we know we want socialism.

00:26:29.460 These kids did not.

00:26:31.180 And some of them, one of them was an English teacher.

00:26:34.540 He's 25 years old.

00:26:36.340 He's going back for, I think, his doctorate or his master's.

00:26:40.100 And he is an English teacher.

00:26:43.920 Yesterday, before he went on the air, we gave all of the leadership kids an eighth grade test to pass.

00:26:56.000 Eighth grade from 1920s.

00:26:57.820 An eighth grade test from 1920.

00:27:03.800 He said, there were three questions in there that I didn't, on English, on his subject, that he's going back for his master's on.

00:27:15.520 He said, there are three questions I didn't even know what it meant.

00:27:20.920 He said, I couldn't pass the eighth grade test from a hundred years ago.

00:27:26.980 Nobody did.

00:27:28.520 Nobody got close to it.

00:27:30.640 And just that opened their eyes.

00:27:33.260 They were talking yesterday about how the things are being taught.

00:27:38.880 Lincoln was gay. 0.61

00:27:41.540 George Washington was a coward.

00:27:44.160 Family fathers are raging alcoholics.

00:27:46.080 Raging alcoholics.

00:27:46.720 America's done more bad than she's ever done good. 1.00

00:27:49.880 The stuff that comes out of the classroom, amazing.

00:27:52.400 And the best response from last night was what Mercury One and Wall Builders have taught us in these two weeks is to know how to think, not what to think.

00:28:04.800 To know how to find the truth.

00:28:08.180 All of them were excited that they now knew original sources exist.

00:28:14.220 Here's how I can access the original sources.

00:28:16.960 I was really impressed with the idea that one of them said, I think our generation wants to know the truth.

00:28:30.240 They just don't know it exists.

00:28:31.960 They just think that everything is this chaotic and everything is, because no one's teaching, wait a minute, wait a minute.

00:28:41.220 Here's the truth.

00:28:42.660 And the way I define truth is, the baseline of absolute truth is, what has been proven over 5,000 years to work?

00:28:55.600 When you deviate from this truth, what happens to your society, what happens to your family, what happens to the individual?

00:29:04.220 To me, I'll never know the truth.

00:29:07.420 I'll have an ever-expanding understanding of the truth.

00:29:11.340 And I don't think until I die I'll ever know the truth as it really is.

00:29:15.940 But there are things that you can look back to and say, look at the pattern.

00:29:23.120 This creates this.

00:29:25.340 That creates that.

00:29:26.880 Now, see, that leads to the second thing, because the first thing we start with is truth.

00:29:30.200 What is it?

00:29:30.680 How do you recognize it?

00:29:31.540 How do you identify it?

00:29:32.420 How do you know it?

00:29:32.980 How do you defend it?

00:29:33.740 And you just said it's 5,000 years accumulated stuff.

00:29:36.760 That's history.

00:29:37.900 Let me give you the other stat that stands out.

00:29:39.640 And this is why we do what we do.

00:29:41.340 This year, the study came out from American Council of Trustees and Alumni.

00:29:45.620 Every year, they take the top elite, what's called the elite universities, U.S. News World Report.

00:29:49.880 They look at something about all those universities.

00:29:52.040 What are we teaching?

00:29:53.000 This year, they said, let's look at history majors in the top 76 universities in America.

00:29:57.680 Listen to this.

00:29:58.340 Top 76 universities in America, only 23 of those universities require history majors to take even one course in American history.

00:30:07.680 And at 12 of those 23 universities, here's the American history course you take.

00:30:12.760 History of sexualities, history of the FBI, you take soccer in history in Latin America, making a beautiful game, modern addiction, cigarette smoking in the 20th century, lawn boy meets valley girl, witchcraft and possession, mad men.

00:30:26.340 That's the American history course you get for a history major.

00:30:29.080 We had a history teacher yesterday talk about this, say, I took history and wasn't required to take, listen to this, wasn't required to take an American history class all the way through college since eighth grade.

00:30:46.940 She came and spent two weeks with us and was like, oh, my gosh, what is wrong?

00:30:56.820 This is a history teacher.

00:30:58.200 What is wrong with our system?

00:31:02.740 What is happening to us?

00:31:04.720 Well, see, even even in your starting hour yesterday, you're talking about how you've learned all about the the Nazi stuff from the journals. 0.66

00:31:10.180 Yeah, that's history.

00:31:11.280 And then this morning talking about, oh, you know, the history of Russia, you're talking about the caliphate, that's history.

00:31:15.740 If you don't know that, you have no basis for knowing what truth is.

00:31:18.900 And truth can be anything you want it to be.

00:31:21.200 And so history is one of the things that establish and defines truth.

00:31:24.080 And we don't get it now.

00:31:25.380 I mean, there's just not history being presented, which is why what we do is we we go through the history of civil rights and history of faith and religion, the history of the civil war and the history of everything.

00:31:35.320 You know, you get exposed to some of that.

00:31:36.680 I thought it was really interesting.

00:31:38.000 One of the kids said on TV last night that and I say kids, they're 18 to 25, so I don't mean to say kids.

00:31:44.060 But these these these these guys were sitting there.

00:31:49.080 One of them said, you know, when you announce this, I immediately went to see, is anybody writing anything about this?

00:31:58.360 What what is what are people saying about this?

00:32:00.200 And they said they found an article that said, you know, you can go to Glenn Beck and David Barton's indoctrination class where they will indoctrinate you on revisionist history.

00:32:12.340 And he said that actually made me want to go more.

00:32:14.800 He said, because I know he said, we're not stupid.

00:32:18.100 We all know that's what's happening in our colleges.

00:32:21.920 We're not being told the truth.

00:32:24.260 We just don't know what it is or how to find it.

00:32:27.160 But once you know, they're good at defending it.

00:32:29.260 Yeah. David, thank you so much for everything that you're doing.

00:32:32.240 And we have another course starting in two weeks.

00:32:35.300 It's all full this summer, right?

00:32:37.560 There's still some slots.

00:32:38.780 We still have some slots of people want to go to Mercury one slash interns, even though it's leadership training.

00:32:43.380 Mercury one slash Mercury one dot org slash interns.

00:32:46.420 We're still taking names.

00:32:47.760 OK, and that'll be for later this summer.

00:32:49.880 And there is a cost of I think it's like three hundred dollars, just three seventy five.

00:32:53.400 And then they have to arrange their own lodging while they're here.

00:32:56.120 We have a lot of hotels around.

00:32:57.340 We do deals with.

00:32:58.320 OK, so but we would love to have you join us.

00:33:02.700 You have to be 18 to 25 years old.

00:33:05.860 And there is a you know, there are standards that that you have to hit to be able to get in.

00:33:10.820 They're remarkable.

00:33:11.920 Please watch it last night.

00:33:13.160 And if you want to make a difference, if you want to help us make a difference in the next generation, these these kids that I spoke to last night on TV and I'm going to go spend the afternoon with today before they leave.

00:33:27.960 If these kids, I have zero doubt in my mind that they are going to help turn things around in a very positive way in their communities.

00:33:40.420 If please help us go to mercury one dot org and donate because all of this runs because of your donations, mercury one dot org and hit the donate and they all need to stay away from Jeffy.

00:33:55.320 So they're smart kids.

00:33:57.540 Really bright.

00:33:59.540 All right.

00:34:00.200 Thank you, David.

00:34:00.760 Appreciate it.

00:34:01.760 David Barton from mercury one dot org and wall builders.

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00:34:10.020 I as much as I love sleep.

00:34:13.640 I mean, I want to talk like a waste of time.

00:34:16.660 It does.

00:34:17.460 When we when we go home and I'm talking to the Lord, I'm going to say, OK, I want to know why everything I like to eat makes me fat.

00:34:25.260 And second, can't we do something about sleep?

00:34:28.700 Let's add an extra eight hours between two and three a.m.

00:34:32.860 or can we not make it a third of our life in bed?

00:34:38.060 Anyway, if they sleep at all is really ridiculous when you think about it.

00:34:43.200 I mean, wouldn't it be robots are better?

00:34:44.860 Robots are better.

00:34:45.600 Robots are better.

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00:37:31.520 Bill O'Reilly is joining us now.

00:37:40.460 Bill O'Reilly, formerly known as the grumpy old man, now we know as Cheerful Bill.

00:37:48.400 If you heard him Tuesday on this program, I don't know what happened to him other than

00:37:57.400 he's got a life and he, uh, he also has a dog, a corgi named Holly, who rudely interrupted

00:38:05.360 this broadcast on Tuesday while we were getting to some important details.

00:38:10.160 Bill has a lot to say since Tuesday.

00:38:14.700 A lot of news has broken.

00:38:17.440 We get to him right now.

00:38:19.340 The fusion of entertainment and enlightenment.

00:38:41.940 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:38:45.420 Bill O'Reilly from BillOReilly.com and his latest book, Legends and Lies, The Civil War.

00:38:55.160 Father's Day is Sunday.

00:38:56.340 I know Bill's going to say, if you order it right at 8-9-9-9, you're going to have a chance

00:38:59.820 to have it there by time for Father's Day on Sunday.

00:39:03.440 But I'll let him say it.

00:39:05.000 It's Legends and Lies, The Civil War.

00:39:07.240 And Bill O'Reilly, welcome to the program, sir.

00:39:09.780 I have to make one correction off the top.

00:39:11.840 The reason the dog interrupted the program was because she was offended by you, Beck.

00:39:17.560 All right?

00:39:18.120 And then she ran around in circles, howling, looking at me. 1.00

00:39:23.220 Can I tell you, we had a dog whisperer call in after, and what Holly was actually saying

00:39:30.100 was, help, help, I'm trapped in this old man's house.

00:39:35.040 He's got the heat up to 95 degrees.

00:39:37.760 And that dog whisperer's name is, please?

00:39:43.480 I'd like to read him.

00:39:44.320 It was Bob Steven.

00:39:45.880 Bob.

00:39:46.140 Bob Stevenson.

00:39:47.240 Bob, yes.

00:39:47.780 Anyway, so Bill, a lot has happened since Tuesday.

00:39:52.360 Where do you want to begin?

00:39:53.340 The shooters?

00:39:54.260 The shooter?

00:39:55.360 There are two big stories running this week.

00:39:59.920 And obviously the shooting, the political shooting in Alexandria is one.

00:40:06.320 And then the Mueller investigation is two.

00:40:10.920 And they don't really have any crossover other than President Trump is commenting on both.

00:40:18.580 That's the only similarity between the two stories.

00:40:22.780 So if you want to start with a nut from Illinois who goes out and wants to kill Republicans, that's 0.67

00:40:31.180 always going to be the case.

00:40:32.360 You're always going to be people like that.

00:40:34.380 I don't believe that it's directly linked to progressive politics.

00:40:42.140 I think it's a guy who's just unhinged, watches too much cable TV.

00:40:47.600 The fuse is lit there, and then he acts out.

00:40:51.060 Bill, how come so many on the right are willing to say that and say, especially on a week where

00:41:05.100 within a two-week period we had Kathy Griffin holding a severed head, we had Shakespeare in

00:41:12.160 the park showing an assassination of Trump, we have politicians from the left celebrating

00:41:20.620 or excusing the Antifa movement.

00:41:25.240 How come we're so willing to admit the truth that there are those who are revolutionaries

00:41:32.480 that are on both sides of the aisle, on the fringes, the very edges, that want a revolution.

00:41:38.820 However, what happened in Central Park was not a cause of this or play any role in this,

00:41:49.860 guys thinking.

00:41:51.500 Yet the left will say Sarah Palin, still the New York Times, Sarah Palin was responsible

00:41:58.880 for the shooting in Arizona five years ago.

00:42:02.300 I don't think there's a cause and effect of this guy in Illinois.

00:42:06.240 I think that he was a person who was mentally ill, doesn't excuse the evil, and if he had 0.88

00:42:17.320 lived he should have been, and in Virginia probably would have been executed.

00:42:21.880 But you have a line that is clear to most Americans, very clear, that's been crossed with Trump.

00:42:31.700 And I've said this to you, you know, way back when you were on TV with me, hard for me to

00:42:38.640 cover the Trump administration because the hatred directed toward him influences almost

00:42:45.760 everything he does.

00:42:47.520 And the hatred is so wrong, morally wrong.

00:42:51.260 I mean, the thing you cite in the New York Times, that's inexcusable.

00:42:55.540 It's inexcusable, but it's just an example of how, not the fringe, Kathy Griffins, Madonna,

00:43:03.260 all of these nuts, all right?

00:43:05.120 But this is an establishment newspaper that's looked up to by the network news in particular

00:43:11.900 that runs this on the editorial page.

00:43:14.700 Do you give them any credit for correcting it by 8 o'clock yesterday?

00:43:19.100 They're under such unbelievable strain.

00:43:22.580 And this isn't the first time these people have done this.

00:43:25.680 I mean, they are not a newspaper anymore.

00:43:30.180 That's not a newspaper.

00:43:32.240 That's a far-left progressive journal that actually coordinates its coverage with far-left groups.

00:43:39.380 They had on the editorial page, right next to that one, they had on the editorial page

00:43:44.760 a great editorial from the conservative point of view saying none of that is true.

00:43:50.000 Brett Stevens, yeah.

00:43:50.900 Yeah.

00:43:51.960 None of what is true?

00:43:53.420 None of the...

00:43:54.260 Basically, my opinion and your opinion on this, that this guy was not politically motivated.

00:44:01.060 He...

00:44:01.700 The rhetoric has nothing to do with it.

00:44:03.940 So they did have the other point of view right next to it.

00:44:08.280 Any credit for that?

00:44:10.120 It's...

00:44:10.640 So what?

00:44:11.200 They hired Stevens from the Wall Street Journal to be a token, but their paper is top to bottom,

00:44:17.200 editorializing, even in the hard news pieces, that Trump is unfit and that Trump is this

00:44:23.360 and that he's a criminal or whatever.

00:44:25.740 But back to the guy in Illinois.

00:44:28.620 I know a lot about this because of killing Kennedy and killing Reagan.

00:44:32.560 We had Oswald and Hinckley involved.

00:44:37.480 And they were not political people at all.

00:44:39.900 Oswald, yeah, he went to Russia and all that, but he was just a ne'er-do-well who was looking 0.91

00:44:45.440 for attention.

00:44:46.200 Hinckley, just a really disturbed individual.

00:44:49.680 All right?

00:44:50.220 This guy in Illinois, he was on that level of being disturbed.

00:44:54.940 But his fuse was lit by the hateful rhetoric on television primarily.

00:45:01.000 We know that.

00:45:01.900 By his Facebook posts and what he had said before.

00:45:05.160 And he was a big fan of Russia Today as well.

00:45:09.020 He Facebooked and tweeted out a lot of Russian propaganda as well that was basically all anti-Hillary.

00:45:17.100 Let me ask you this, Bill.

00:45:19.020 Because you have done so many killing books, I mean, you've killed almost everybody on the planet.

00:45:24.860 You have studied assassinations and these kinds of events.

00:45:32.140 So let me ask you, from what you've seen in history, this guy had a violent streak in him.

00:45:39.240 I mean, his foster daughter set herself on fire to be able, literally, doused herself with gasoline,

00:45:45.340 set herself on fire to be able to get away from this guy.

00:45:48.480 He was a violent man, had gunplay and violence in his criminal history.

00:45:56.040 So he didn't really need very much to light a fuse.

00:46:00.500 However, at the same time, I don't believe that he was a Bernie Sanders, a typical Bernie Sanders follower.

00:46:08.720 He was one of these diehard revolutionary guys.

00:46:11.800 I mean, I would compare him to almost an Antifa kind of mentality to where you are, you want that revolution.

00:46:25.380 You want that dramatic change.

00:46:28.940 Where do we split him on crazy, violent guy and a violent revolutionary?

00:46:39.440 See, I wouldn't even tag him with a revolutionary thing.

00:46:43.320 I just think if you sat down with this guy, you know, a week ago before he did this and you talked to him,

00:46:49.280 you'd leave the table within 15 minutes going, this is a real nut.

00:46:53.420 He'd be all over the place.

00:46:55.340 You know, I mean, he's not like a well-thought-out, shape, or a rock guy.

00:46:59.600 But aren't any, you know, because you've done, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, Bill,

00:47:03.120 but you know because you've done so many books, and I mean this sincerely, on assassination,

00:47:07.260 those guys are usually always nuts.

00:47:11.580 I mean, the revolutionaries are always nuts.

00:47:15.540 Well, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

00:47:17.220 When you have a revolutionary, and the best example is the Cubans, 1.00

00:47:21.480 because that was the last one that was close to us.

00:47:26.160 These guys, you know, Castro and Guevara and all of these guys,

00:47:30.460 I mean, yeah, they were psychopaths.

00:47:32.940 No, no, I mean revolutionary assassins.

00:47:35.860 Okay, but they were revolutionary assassins.

00:47:38.700 They did kill thousands of people in the name of instituting a government there that was going to be communist.

00:47:47.200 But they weren't like this guy, all right?

00:47:50.240 They were, you know, justifying their murder in their mind,

00:47:54.620 because they want to impose communism, and that's what it takes.

00:47:58.020 This guy just wanted to hurt people, and there are literally tens of thousands of this guys running around.

00:48:06.380 So how do you make the difference there?

00:48:10.120 Because he did want to hurt people, but he wanted to hurt Republicans in particular.

00:48:17.160 Yes, and his psychosis I can't analyze, but I can tell you this.

00:48:22.220 The ramp-up in political violence is directly because of the incendiary rhetoric that you see on the Internet

00:48:34.220 and on television, and in some quarters on radio as well, all right?

00:48:40.640 So now these nuts where they used to be isolated, Hinkley and Oswald were isolated individuals, all right?

00:48:47.480 They didn't have a framework.

00:48:48.840 They didn't have many friends.

00:48:49.860 Now you can go on the Internet, and you can find literally hundreds of people as crazy as you are

00:48:57.060 who actually encourage this kind of violence.

00:49:00.860 That never happened before.

00:49:02.960 And so when John Wilkes Booth, another nut, was stalking Lincoln because he wanted slavery reimposed, okay?

00:49:12.360 It was alone.

00:49:13.620 He was alone.

00:49:14.600 Now these people are encouraged to do what they do, and it's easy to find compatriots who are as

00:49:21.800 crazy as they are.

00:49:23.060 Right.

00:49:23.600 That's the difference.

00:49:24.640 Okay, very good point.

00:49:26.020 Back with Bill O'Reilly from BillOReilly.com.

00:49:28.160 It is Father's Day.

00:49:29.320 He's got a crap load of books.

00:49:31.760 He writes them in his sleep.

00:49:33.540 Your dad's going to like one of them.

00:49:35.660 He's got a new one on the Civil War.

00:49:38.120 But really, I mean, he writes them as they're like teardrops from my eyes.

00:49:45.560 There's a never-ending stream of them.

00:49:48.640 And you can get it for Father's Day.

00:49:50.500 If you order now, you'll be able to get it by Sunday.

00:49:54.980 You do have overnight delivery, because I know that's not old school.

00:49:59.260 No, of course we do.

00:50:00.480 And you can just go on Amazon.

00:50:01.580 I'll get it to you.

00:50:02.280 Or in a bookstore.

00:50:03.300 You know what a novel concept.

00:50:04.760 Go to the bookstore.

00:50:05.760 Yeah, that doesn't happen anymore.

00:50:07.920 BillOReilly.com.

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00:52:17.600 Glenn Beck Program.

00:52:19.020 888-727-BECK.

00:52:21.640 Mercury.

00:52:24.940 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:52:28.040 Yesterday, I spoke about the broken windows theory

00:52:31.620 that Rudy Giuliani used to clean up New York.

00:52:34.820 And Bill just made kind of a similar one.

00:52:36.680 Yeah.

00:52:36.940 In that you can sort of directly tie this to the rhetoric

00:52:41.000 because these nuts, who are alone, like in the case of Oswald,

00:52:44.820 didn't know other like-minded people.

00:52:46.640 But now on the Internet, you have the opportunity to find a bunch of like-minded people.

00:52:49.640 And not only the opportunity,

00:52:50.920 you have, like in the broken windows theory,

00:52:53.980 you're walking down a street where there are no broken windows.

00:52:56.220 The average person doesn't pick up a rock and break a window.

00:52:58.380 But you're walking through a neighborhood that's full of broken windows.

00:53:02.440 The average person is much more likely to do it

00:53:04.820 because they feel like everybody's doing it.

00:53:07.240 Definitely.

00:53:07.540 And the rhetoric on both sides is giving permission to some of these nuts

00:53:13.980 of saying it's okay to pick up a rock.

00:53:17.000 It's okay to pick up a gun because the other side is worthless.

00:53:21.520 Bill O'Reilly is with us, breathing heavily on the phone for some reason.

00:53:31.880 I don't know if it's just because he got up from his chair

00:53:34.500 and walked over to the phone, and so now he's out of breath

00:53:38.120 because that's the exercise.

00:53:38.940 Your analysis is so perspicacious.

00:53:42.460 Breathtaking.

00:53:42.900 It just got caught in my throat.

00:53:44.780 Yeah, I think that's a little bit of bull crap getting caught in your throat there.

00:53:52.180 No, but I mean, it is just stunning.

00:53:54.340 I hope you just take that clip and just play it over and over and over again.

00:53:59.240 Perhaps during the gold commercials.

00:54:01.220 So let me, so Bill, let me ask you this.

00:54:05.680 No, I want to make a point off your point.

00:54:07.500 Oh, God, go ahead.

00:54:08.080 I did on the podcast on Tuesday on Bill O'Reilly.com

00:54:12.160 a thing on the resistance.

00:54:14.680 This is important.

00:54:15.920 Yes.

00:54:16.260 Okay?

00:54:17.240 The resistance is, and Hillary Clinton is one of the first persons to sign on to it,

00:54:23.480 is basically a movement that says whatever Trump does, we're going to oppose.

00:54:29.400 So if he gives free food to every poor person for five years,

00:54:34.220 we'll oppose it because it's making them fat or something like that.

00:54:38.600 Okay?

00:54:39.240 The resistance.

00:54:39.920 Now, the resistance is tied into, as you guys know, World War II.

00:54:46.540 In all of the countries that the Germans occupied, there was a resistance.

00:54:52.180 So that word is not an accident.

00:54:55.020 Not an accident.

00:54:56.620 Okay.

00:54:57.160 So they set up, the Trump haters, the resistance.

00:55:01.860 And in the resistance, you can pretty much do and say anything.

00:55:08.480 Anything.

00:55:09.080 And these people communicate with each other on the net.

00:55:11.920 All right?

00:55:12.320 So you can be as hateful as you want, as violent as you want, as irrational as you want,

00:55:17.760 but you're still a member of the resistance.

00:55:19.820 You don't lose your resistance cred.

00:55:21.740 So therefore, it starts to build in people's minds, like the nut who went and tried to kill the Republicans, 0.56

00:55:30.520 that not only are they justified in these kinds of acts, but they're heroes.

00:55:39.340 They're heroes.

00:55:40.040 Kathy Griffin thought she was going to be a hero in her precincts for doing this. 0.57

00:55:47.340 That's what she thought.

00:55:48.320 And then there's the money-making aspect of the resistance.

00:55:52.800 So there's no accident, MSNBC, all they do, that's all they do, is the resistance and we hate Trump

00:56:01.880 and distort whatever day story comes out.

00:56:05.320 Okay?

00:56:05.700 But what's happening?

00:56:07.040 All the resistance people are watching them.

00:56:09.480 So they're making money from it.

00:56:11.760 And Fox News has no answer.

00:56:14.600 You know, they have no answer.

00:56:16.400 So that's why they're declining.

00:56:18.440 And the others are going up.

00:56:20.120 So this is a really, really important part of the political scene in our country that no one's talking about.

00:56:29.460 So what is the answer, Bill, to that?

00:56:34.100 You have to out it.

00:56:35.820 You have to what?

00:56:36.300 Just as I did.

00:56:37.360 And you have to, you know, on shows like yours, you have to discuss it.

00:56:41.460 Right.

00:56:42.700 But how do you discuss it?

00:56:44.400 How do you discuss it?

00:56:45.160 They hear this resistance.

00:56:46.520 They hear, but they don't know what it is.

00:56:47.700 They don't know what the subtlety is and what they're trying to get across, that Trump's a Nazi.

00:56:52.780 Okay?

00:56:53.300 That's what they're trying to do to demonize him to the point where anything is acceptable in opposing him.

00:57:01.320 Any action.

00:57:03.100 You know, look, this guy, and everybody's made this point, but I think it's worth restating.

00:57:07.280 In Illinois, he could have killed 20, 30 people, if not for the protection that Congressman Scalise had.

00:57:15.540 He could have gunned down 20 or 30, and he was perfectly willing to do that.

00:57:20.560 So, you know, this is domestic terrorism at its highest.

00:57:25.080 Yes, I agree with that.

00:57:26.320 I want to start there when we come back and add in the latest from Ted Nugent and get Bill O'Reilly's thoughts on that.

00:57:34.480 BillOReilly.com.

00:57:36.340 Back in a minute.

00:57:37.680 We are much.

00:57:41.120 The Glenn Beck Program.

00:57:44.360 Mercury.

00:57:44.880 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:57:50.640 Welcome back to the program, 888-727-BECK.

00:57:53.640 We're on with Bill O'Reilly, and I want to talk a little bit about what Ted Nugent said yesterday.

00:58:00.720 Listen to this audio from Ted Nugent.

00:58:03.340 I think we've reached critical mass.

00:58:05.840 I tend to agree.

00:58:07.140 You and I had a bit of a confrontation because of some of the language I've used,

00:58:10.960 and I have re-evaluated my approach, even though I'm a street fighter.

00:58:16.260 I'm from Detroit.

00:58:17.140 We use language in the street.

00:58:19.440 We use certain harsh terms.

00:58:21.640 But at the tender age of 69, my wife has convinced me that I just can't use those harsh terms.

00:58:29.340 I cannot, and I will not, and I encourage even my friends-slash-enemy on the left in the Democrat and liberal world

00:58:38.460 that we have got to be civil to each other.

00:58:44.180 Bill O'Reilly, that's the Motor City madman,

00:58:51.300 and a guy who I really like personally.

00:58:54.920 I think he's great, but he has said some crazy things in the last couple of years,

00:59:00.260 and I think that I've heard, I haven't talked to Ted about this,

00:59:07.280 but I have heard that he has had a problem with me because I have taken such a light approach

00:59:12.560 and said we've got to change our language.

00:59:14.680 We have to stop this rhetoric.

00:59:17.920 Now he's saying this.

00:59:19.560 What does that tell you, Bill?

00:59:21.660 Well, I think you've got to give credit to Nugent.

00:59:23.860 I don't know him well.

00:59:24.580 I've met him a couple of times, and he's, you know, in person, very nice to talk to.

00:59:31.540 Yeah.

00:59:32.480 And, you know, the message that he's putting out is a good one,

00:59:35.760 but it's not going to, you know, it's not going to take root on a mass level

00:59:41.220 because you have too much money involved in this.

00:59:44.780 It's just an awful lot of money involved in this hatred.

00:59:47.480 You know, I can't get into it too much, but I will maybe, you know,

00:59:53.520 we can't even give you a time frame on it.

00:59:56.160 But, you know, the attack on me in Fox News that happened in April was not an accident.

01:00:02.420 It was a very well-organized and funded situation.

01:00:06.140 Yes.

01:00:06.560 And when you have this kind of a thing involved, and you know me,

01:00:10.220 I'm not a conspiratorialist or a paranoid guy or anything like that.

01:00:12.940 No, you're not.

01:00:13.660 And I was taken completely by surprise on this.

01:00:19.440 But then, as we've been investigating, we being my attorneys,

01:00:23.180 and uncovering the evidence that's hard and factual,

01:00:29.840 it is stunning about how powerful people, well-funded people,

01:00:36.320 are out to destroy the political opposition.

01:00:39.160 And, you know, Hillary Clinton was a victim of that to some extent as well.

01:00:44.140 So hang on, Bill, because I want to talk about that,

01:00:46.780 and I'm not going to get into any of the details,

01:00:48.400 but I want to talk about that because this is where the rubber meets the road.

01:00:53.520 I believe that Martin Luther King was right.

01:00:57.240 Malcolm X was wrong.

01:00:58.660 And I know you believe that as well.

01:01:00.160 And Martin Luther King was excoriated at the beginning,

01:01:05.800 and mainly by people like Malcolm X, who said,

01:01:09.940 you know, you just want to roll over.

01:01:11.700 And he's like, no, that doesn't mean you don't speak the truth.

01:01:15.040 You do say the hard things.

01:01:17.900 You just say them with faith, hope, and love.

01:01:23.040 And you make that your core.

01:01:26.380 We're not after revenge.

01:01:27.660 So when you, when, if Martin Luther King was right,

01:01:32.700 which, again, I'm assuming you believe he was,

01:01:35.100 and then you say things like what you just said,

01:01:40.660 which I also believe is true,

01:01:43.880 what people will say,

01:01:46.240 and this is, I think, a large core of those on the right and the left,

01:01:52.340 they will say, well, see, it's war.

01:01:55.560 They're out to destroy us.

01:01:57.840 It's war.

01:01:58.720 How do we balance the truth and the Martin Luther King approach?

01:02:06.560 Well, it is war.

01:02:08.000 I mean, that's true.

01:02:09.180 There's no doubt there's a culture war in this country.

01:02:12.080 And now it's extended into presidential politics and electoral politics.

01:02:18.000 So the war is underway, but because we're a country of laws,

01:02:22.520 you can't fight the war with violence and weapons and things like that.

01:02:27.340 So what they're fighting it with is propaganda, number one.

01:02:31.380 And, you know, I always say the same thing to people.

01:02:33.920 And the mandate of a free press given privileges by the founding fathers in our Constitution

01:02:39.080 is to seek the truth, to seek the truth, wherever it is.

01:02:43.840 That's gone.

01:02:45.060 Okay?

01:02:45.600 It's gone in America. 0.83

01:02:46.840 Very few truth seekers.

01:02:49.240 And those who do that are going to be target number one for the propagandists

01:02:53.820 and the people who are engaged in the culture war.

01:02:56.200 But the best fight, the best way to fight the war is by exposure and by accumulating facts.

01:03:06.500 Let me give you a really good example.

01:03:08.580 Okay?

01:03:09.000 CNN.

01:03:10.240 CNN has been very violently anti-Trump.

01:03:14.200 Their ratings are awful.

01:03:17.620 They have not prospered like MSNBC has.

01:03:21.080 Even though they've tried to get the same niche audience,

01:03:26.500 they won't watch CNN because CNN isn't quite as hateful

01:03:30.760 and isn't quite as conspiratorial as the extremists over at MSNBC.

01:03:37.500 So even though they're fighting the war on the wrong side, CNN,

01:03:44.060 they're not prospering.

01:03:45.840 They're not.

01:03:46.780 And they've been neutralized by the truth.

01:03:50.120 Let me give you the biggest fact that I want your audience to take away today.

01:03:55.020 We hear every single day, hour upon hour, about the Mueller investigation

01:04:00.520 and all these leaks coming out.

01:04:02.620 Ooh, Donald Trump's under criminal investigation.

01:04:06.680 Anybody in the United States who gets audited by the IRS is under criminal investigation.

01:04:12.900 Yes.

01:04:13.240 Because if you cheated, you could go to jail.

01:04:16.960 All right?

01:04:17.360 So when I saw that, my head popped up.

01:04:20.720 I went, what?

01:04:21.800 Just by the very nature of a special prosecutor, he's going to investigate.

01:04:26.420 Correct.

01:04:26.860 That's not a big story.

01:04:28.720 Correct.

01:04:29.140 He's going to talk to people about allegations.

01:04:32.860 Correct.

01:04:33.000 That's what his mandate is.

01:04:34.480 Correct.

01:04:34.740 But they make it like every allegation is a fact, is a crime.

01:04:41.360 The way to fight that is to expose them.

01:04:45.800 And that's what I'm trying to do.

01:04:47.600 And I think you're trying to do it as well.

01:04:49.240 Okay.

01:04:49.660 So expose them on what?

01:04:51.880 Other than the truth that you just said, that a criminal investigation, that was a foregone

01:04:57.620 conclusion.

01:04:59.200 And it's a fraud for news organizations to say, breaking news.

01:05:05.240 Well, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

01:05:06.840 Under criminal investigation, that's a fraud.

01:05:09.300 But wait, did you not see the Twitter feed of the president today?

01:05:14.620 Which one?

01:05:15.660 He had a bunch of them.

01:05:16.800 The witch hunt one? 0.93

01:05:17.960 He did say he was under investigation today.

01:05:20.360 Yeah, where he said, he's announcing that I'm under investigation.

01:05:25.120 This is a witch hunt.

01:05:26.340 He's just played into that.

01:05:28.340 Yes, I know.

01:05:29.400 But come on.

01:05:30.260 I mean, this is what he does.

01:05:31.480 And here's the reason he does it.

01:05:33.260 Because he wants to whip up his base to a point of indignation.

01:05:38.400 But what is the difference between that and what MSNBC is doing?

01:05:43.280 Because he's defending himself in his mind.

01:05:47.180 He's defending himself.

01:05:49.540 All right.

01:05:50.280 And that's the difference.

01:05:52.160 But they're in their mind.

01:05:53.420 But wait, wait, wait, wait.

01:05:54.440 But in their mind, they're defending their principles and their country as they see it.

01:06:02.800 But you don't defend by perpetuating a fraud.

01:06:06.480 Wait, but that's what he was.

01:06:08.860 But that's what he did today.

01:06:11.420 No, he didn't.

01:06:13.040 All he said was, in his opinion, it's a witch hunt.

01:06:16.920 Okay.

01:06:17.500 And he's perfectly entitled to do that.

01:06:19.940 I would.

01:06:21.060 All right.

01:06:21.520 And the second thing is, he said that Mueller told him to fire Comey.

01:06:28.740 Now, I don't know whether that's true or not.

01:06:31.220 You would assume it would be if he's going to say it to the world.

01:06:34.900 But he's trying to defend himself and get his allies to defend him as well.

01:06:40.940 So it's not a fait accompli that he's a criminal, because that's what the New York Times and MSNBC are putting out there, that he's a criminal.

01:06:49.000 That's what they're putting out.

01:06:50.580 Billy, and your problem here is that they are essentially treating the investigation as if it's already arrived at a conclusion.

01:06:57.180 Well, the allegation is true. 0.80

01:07:00.820 He's committed a crime.

01:07:02.400 That's the headline on CNN and MSNBC.

01:07:04.880 An indictment, for instance, is not a conviction.

01:07:09.020 But, I mean, it's the president.

01:07:10.260 And here's the thing.

01:07:11.400 Mueller can't even indict him.

01:07:13.640 Mueller can't indict Trump.

01:07:15.620 All right?

01:07:16.120 Under the Constitution, all Mueller can do is refer any kind of activity that he feels is illegal to Congress.

01:07:23.100 And Congress has to take action.

01:07:25.640 Mueller can indict Flynn or anybody else he wants to, but not the president of the United States.

01:07:31.680 The president being under investigation, obviously, is a story.

01:07:35.020 I mean, it was certainly covered when Clinton was under investigation by a special prosecutor before all the facts came to light.

01:07:40.820 I mean, shouldn't it be some story?

01:07:43.960 But just report it as such and contextualize it.

01:07:48.360 Like the IRS thing that I just gave you.

01:07:50.740 Any American audited is under a criminal investigation because they're investigating whether or not you paid your taxes.

01:07:59.960 So you're under criminal investigation.

01:08:02.380 That's how crazy this is.

01:08:04.940 Well, I think perhaps that some of this, and, you know, you and I disagree on the tactics of the White House.

01:08:13.640 No, I'm not.

01:08:15.000 Look, if I were President Trump, I would not be doing what he's doing.

01:08:18.200 Like, I'm explaining why he's doing not.

01:08:21.400 No, I understand what he's doing and why he's doing it.

01:08:25.260 And I do believe that he believes this is nonsense and a witch hunt.

01:08:29.360 And I do believe that he wants his allies to be whipped up so they will defend him.

01:08:35.200 I just don't believe that you the ends justify the means.

01:08:40.820 If it's wrong for one side, it's wrong for me.

01:08:43.360 And I don't think you make your case.

01:08:45.220 But here's where you're going wrong.

01:08:47.500 He's not on the attack.

01:08:50.100 He's not.

01:08:51.360 All he's doing is defending himself, which he has a right to do.

01:08:57.260 It's not like Trump is going out and saying, Mueller committed a crime.

01:09:01.360 No, I understand.

01:09:01.780 Or that and the other thing.

01:09:04.220 He's defending.

01:09:05.260 There's two, but there's two things.

01:09:07.300 Jesus never, never started using the other tactics of the other side.

01:09:12.360 Yeah, and he wound up with nails in his hands and feet.

01:09:15.540 And he actually doesn't want to be put on the cross because they'll put him there.

01:09:20.040 But he also won in the end.

01:09:22.220 The second, the second point on this is that I think Donald Trump has brought a lot of this

01:09:28.740 onto himself because he made such a big deal of, I'm not under investigation.

01:09:33.080 I'm not under investigation.

01:09:34.740 Once he appointed the special counsel, that's what that is, is putting yourself under investigation.

01:09:41.600 He didn't appoint the Justice Department to point it.

01:09:44.300 He didn't even know Mueller was appointed Trump until after Rosenstein did it.

01:09:50.460 So Trump didn't appoint a special counsel.

01:09:53.080 The Justice Department did.

01:09:54.340 But you're right, you're right, that he made a big deal out of trying to get the PR hit

01:09:59.580 that I wasn't under investigation.

01:10:01.920 And as soon as a special counsel came in, of course, the special counsel is going to look

01:10:05.800 at everybody.

01:10:06.440 Everybody's under investigation, including you and me.

01:10:08.640 Right.

01:10:09.140 Okay.

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01:13:02.420 Welcome to the program.

01:13:05.600 We're so glad that you're here.

01:13:07.120 A lot of stuff going on.

01:13:08.940 Father's Day, of course, this weekend.

01:13:11.820 You want to get, if you happen to be in the Dallas area, and I'm not sure, is this happening

01:13:14.640 online too?

01:13:15.480 It should be.

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01:13:29.220 I would get here early.

01:13:30.860 I would get here early.

01:13:31.840 I would get here today, even though it's not open.

01:13:33.940 There are people that are already rolling around out there.

01:13:37.800 Already, yeah.

01:13:39.060 There were yesterday, there were people from the staff.

01:13:44.400 I was one of them, yeah.

01:13:46.320 You're going out today trying to buy it today.

01:13:48.220 Yes.

01:13:48.500 I told them you can't buy it until tomorrow.

01:13:51.460 I know.

01:13:51.920 My wife was here.

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01:14:00.080 What time does it start?

01:14:00.600 What time are we open to do that?

01:14:03.660 We are open for you, Pat.

01:14:06.300 Mm-hmm.

01:14:06.900 Well, right after the show.

01:14:08.440 Tomorrow, noon to 6, Sunday, 2 to 6.

01:14:12.200 Okay, yeah.

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01:14:53.300 The President's going to announce something pretty extensive, I think, today.

01:15:01.500 A revised Cuban policy.

01:15:05.180 And this one was really kind of put together by Marco Rubio.

01:15:10.760 And we'll find out what that is coming up later today.

01:15:15.600 Also, Steve Scalise, the congressman that was shot, is still in critical condition.

01:15:20.620 They're saying he's going to need more surgeries now.

01:15:22.560 But I'm going to start there on this Father's Day weekend.

01:15:25.580 We begin right now.

01:15:26.920 The Fusion of Entertainment and Enlightenment.

01:15:48.860 We have a great, great segment coming up.

01:15:59.380 Play the man.

01:16:00.200 And somewhere along the way, you know, our culture has lost its definition of manhood.

01:16:06.740 We don't know what our roles are.

01:16:08.140 We don't know what we're supposed to do.

01:16:10.720 We don't know, you know, where we fit.

01:16:13.140 It's a no man's land, if you will.

01:16:16.840 The advice, play the man.

01:16:20.300 And we'll explain coming up in just a few minutes on that.

01:16:25.540 Let's talk a little bit about Steve Scalise.

01:16:27.780 You know, we kind of all kind of said, OK, he's in hospital.

01:16:31.440 We were worried about him.

01:16:32.520 Then he had surgery.

01:16:33.740 He came out.

01:16:34.400 He was in critical condition.

01:16:35.820 But it seemed like everything was going to be OK.

01:16:38.620 He's still in critical condition.

01:16:40.280 And they're saying today that he needs more surgeries.

01:16:44.140 He was very badly injured.

01:16:47.880 I don't know where I've heard this.

01:16:51.060 And so maybe this is not true, but I think it is.

01:16:55.580 They say that after you've had, I don't know what it was, three or four full blood transfusions,

01:17:01.620 that your body's just never the same.

01:17:04.240 That, you know, you've gone through all your blood and your body just never feels the same,

01:17:11.600 never works the same.

01:17:12.640 You don't have the same energy that you used to have.

01:17:19.240 He has had how many blood transfusions now?

01:17:22.720 And he is going to be another guy, hopefully not as bad as Gabby Giffords,

01:17:31.080 but he's going to be another guy that is never going to really recover from this.

01:17:35.340 I hope that's not true.

01:17:36.160 I mean, it's weird because they so quickly kind of came out and said,

01:17:40.460 well, look, looks, everyone's going to be OK.

01:17:42.880 You kind of let your guard down a little bit.

01:17:44.700 And I wasn't, you know, kind of expecting this to go on as long as it has.

01:17:48.320 Although, you know, it's still only been a few days and they still are saying he's going to recover fully.

01:17:52.120 Yes, he's just in critical condition.

01:17:53.780 I mean, it was a point I heard a report this morning that talked about the angle of where he was shot

01:17:58.140 and where the bullets went into his body.

01:17:59.780 The way he was standing.

01:18:00.660 It cut so much through his body, bones and organs that it, you know,

01:18:05.780 is going to take a lot of healing and a lot of time to get rid of it.

01:18:08.000 And he lost so much blood, as you pointed out.

01:18:10.180 Yeah.

01:18:10.340 I mean, that's tough.

01:18:11.720 Depending on what kind of bullet was used as well.

01:18:14.480 I mean, you know, the bullets are, especially if it was a hollow point,

01:18:19.640 but I don't think they make hollow points for ARs.

01:18:23.220 But, you know, those things are designed to tear you apart inside.

01:18:28.620 Once they start hitting, it's not like the old balls that just kind of stay as a single ball.

01:18:34.240 They fragment and they're designed to rip your insides apart.

01:18:37.580 And that's because they're typically used for home defense, right?

01:18:40.140 Like that, at least one of the main uses for those types of bullets are home defense.

01:18:43.920 Like a hollow point?

01:18:47.180 Yeah.

01:18:47.600 Yeah.

01:18:47.800 A hollow point is, like in New Jersey, those were the first ones to be outlawed

01:18:52.740 because what they do, the hollow point means instead of having a point,

01:18:58.100 they kind of start to curve down and then there's a convex and they come in.

01:19:03.760 And so when that bullet first hits you, it grabs meat in that hollow point

01:19:08.080 and that splits all that lead apart.

01:19:11.640 Okay?

01:19:12.160 So they use the force of your own body mass with that bullet,

01:19:16.840 capturing that like a cup of meat.

01:19:19.600 And as it pushes through so fast, it breaks that cup up.

01:19:23.360 And so all of those bullets pieces fly in different directions.

01:19:27.740 And it's, I mean, they'll kill you fast.

01:19:30.520 And the point that the gun control people will always say is like, well, that is a bullet designed to kill.

01:19:37.200 All bullets are designed to kill.

01:19:39.080 It is exactly what it's designed for.

01:19:40.840 When you are in your home and someone breaks in at 3 a.m., you're not, it's not a massage bullet.

01:19:47.300 That's not what it's designed for.

01:19:48.980 It is designed to take the person down.

01:19:51.140 Bullets are designed to cure hay fever.

01:19:53.820 That's true.

01:19:54.240 There are some of those.

01:19:55.840 Yes.

01:19:56.920 Right.

01:19:57.200 It's like, it's so real.

01:19:58.360 And when it kills you, you don't have hay fever anymore.

01:20:01.800 Yeah.

01:20:02.300 It works.

01:20:02.800 It really works.

01:20:03.820 This is, that knife is designed to cut.

01:20:06.440 Well, yes.

01:20:07.340 But how are you using the knife?

01:20:08.580 What are you cutting?

01:20:09.440 In what context?

01:20:10.540 Right.

01:20:10.740 That's the important part of it.

01:20:12.020 Right.

01:20:12.780 So, you know, the hollow point thing, I think, sounds scary to a lot of people.

01:20:16.480 But I mean, it wasn't a hollow point.

01:20:17.900 It wasn't a hollow point.

01:20:18.800 Yeah.

01:20:19.240 That he was used.

01:20:20.180 But we don't know what, we don't know what it was.

01:20:21.740 I would assume it was just a regular 2-2-3 round or, or something like that, you know,

01:20:25.660 which is a big.

01:20:26.620 I feel like this is, this is how Glenn must feel when we talk, we're talking about sports.

01:20:30.280 No, no, no.

01:20:31.020 Like, I'm just saying, I'm just looking at you like, oh, yeah, the 2-2-3, obviously.

01:20:34.440 No, no, no.

01:20:34.840 Because there are people right now that are listening to me.

01:20:37.220 They're like, it's not a, that's not what it is.

01:20:40.560 So, no, I'm not an expert on anything.

01:20:42.400 Yeah, you know a lot more than I do on this topic, though.

01:20:44.160 But I mean, from what I understand, that type of, there are just a regular rifle round that

01:20:49.560 we're using in combat.

01:20:50.700 And those things tear you apart.

01:20:53.640 That's a big round.

01:20:55.720 And it's a, it's a lot of lead going into your bullet.

01:20:58.880 And one of the interesting things about this incident is, you know, when you have a mass

01:21:04.440 shooting like this, every congressman we talked to that was there had sort of the same

01:21:09.900 reaction.

01:21:10.760 First bullet, you're like, what's going on?

01:21:13.140 Second shot, you're like, wait a minute, is that guy with a gun?

01:21:16.500 Third shot, it's like, oh my God, why am I just standing here in the middle of the field?

01:21:19.940 I need to run.

01:21:20.920 And then you finally get to a place where you're protected by the fifth or sixth shot, right?

01:21:25.320 I mean, it takes some time.

01:21:27.120 And it's amazing because those first couple shots are almost always successful.

01:21:32.480 Yeah, because it's a free shot.

01:21:34.580 It's a free shot.

01:21:35.200 No one's moving.

01:21:36.360 No one's trying to be evasive.

01:21:37.860 They're all just standing there.

01:21:38.940 You can do anything you want.

01:21:40.120 The fact that nobody killed, was killed instantly in this is a complete miracle.

01:21:43.540 Or the fact that he's just absolutely terrible with a gun, which may very well be also the

01:21:47.600 case.

01:21:47.880 But that also, in this context, is a miracle.

01:21:50.080 Yeah, that's a, that's a miracle.

01:21:51.780 I'm telling you that's a miracle.

01:21:53.320 Look, you have a rifle.

01:21:54.980 It's not a handgun.

01:21:57.240 Using a handgun to shoot somebody on third base from first base is almost an impossible

01:22:03.780 shot.

01:22:04.380 I mean, that's, that's, you're, you're, you're a highly skilled guy to take somebody down

01:22:09.640 with that, with that distance.

01:22:11.660 From third base to, to the third base dugout.

01:22:13.280 From third base to first.

01:22:15.460 Right, okay.

01:22:15.820 That's a pretty long shot.

01:22:17.100 That's a long shot.

01:22:18.140 Yeah.

01:22:18.280 A, a, a good shot, but not an easy shot.

01:22:22.500 A good shot is from, uh, first to the, um, uh, to the pitching mound.

01:22:29.660 That's still a long shot, but a doable shot.

01:22:32.720 Okay.

01:22:33.180 A rifle, a rifle, the longer the barrel, the more accurate the shot, the easier the shot

01:22:40.100 is, especially close.

01:22:41.600 Okay.

01:22:42.060 That's why it's hard to hit it with a handgun because it's such a short barrel, but a long

01:22:48.120 gun at that distance, that's an easy shot.

01:22:51.740 If I'm, if I'm hiding over the, or behind somewhere in the dugout, I mean, I could have,

01:22:59.180 I could have shot, I mean, I don't mean it, let's just pretend these are all targets and

01:23:04.640 not real people.

01:23:05.460 Right, right, right.

01:23:05.920 Um, of course.

01:23:06.680 I could have been in a house with a rifle.

01:23:08.900 I could have easily been in a house across the, across the street and shot the pitcher

01:23:15.560 on the mound as long as there was no obstruction.

01:23:18.860 And I probably could have hit him in the head or definitely in the chest with iron sights,

01:23:25.280 not a scope, with iron sights at that distance.

01:23:27.900 That guy, that was miraculous that that guy had a rifle and couldn't hit people that close.

01:23:34.980 I mean, once you start getting return fire, it becomes a lot more difficult.

01:23:38.520 Yeah, but the first three.

01:23:39.120 But I mean, he had plenty of, that's what I mean, those first three.

01:23:41.360 Probably the first five with him.

01:23:42.920 Yeah, we'd had Bill O'Reilly on last hour.

01:23:44.760 Obviously, uh, he's, the, the assassination, uh, book game has been, uh, something he's focused

01:23:49.460 on for a long time.

01:23:50.820 Well, and we, one of the first things I did when we came to Dallas was went to the, the

01:23:54.160 JFK assassination museum.

01:23:56.080 Um, and you know, it's in the book depository and you go up to that floor and you can go

01:24:01.580 within two windows of where Lee Harvey Oswald shot from.

01:24:05.800 So your two windows, they won't let you right to the window because they still have, you

01:24:08.940 know, it's obviously a protected zone, but you can go within two windows and you can look

01:24:12.360 from that window down to which it used to be there.

01:24:15.080 I know they got rid of it for a while, but there was an X in the street.

01:24:17.800 Yeah.

01:24:18.460 Is it back now?

01:24:19.420 They got rid of it for the anniversary.

01:24:21.000 Right.

01:24:21.300 And I think, I think someone just went out and painted it again on the street.

01:24:24.480 I think the city, I think the city put it back in.

01:24:26.680 They just didn't want people during the, during the anniversary.

01:24:30.160 So many people were here.

01:24:31.320 They just didn't want people, you know, I want to take my picture in the middle of the

01:24:34.100 street by the X.

01:24:35.120 Right.

01:24:35.700 Um, and yeah, and that's understandable.

01:24:37.540 Uh, and it's, but it's, it's still a weird thing to have this X in the middle of the street

01:24:41.440 where a president was shot.

01:24:42.500 I always thought it was strange, but when you're up in that window and you're two windows

01:24:45.700 away from where he shot from, you can look at the X.

01:24:47.440 You can basically see the exact shot this guy took.

01:24:49.460 It's an easy shot.

01:24:50.260 Um, and that's what I find to be amazing about it.

01:24:52.960 As a guy who does not deal, you know, I'm not a gun guy.

01:24:55.620 I own guns for home protection.

01:24:57.300 I go to the range occasionally, but I know nothing about guns.

01:24:59.580 I'm not a gun guy.

01:25:00.440 I grew up in suburban Connecticut.

01:25:02.780 I was not part of the culture of my upbringing at all.

01:25:05.820 Um, even though my dad was in the military, it just wasn't something that we ever did or

01:25:09.100 talked about.

01:25:09.500 We never owned guns at the house for me, looking at that shot, it looked impossible.

01:25:14.440 Like it looked like, I don't know how anyone could do it.

01:25:17.160 It seemed like a moving vehicle, even though it was a slow moving vehicle, it would be very

01:25:20.860 difficult.

01:25:21.960 Um, but for people who actually do this for, you know, constantly in our, and in that culture,

01:25:26.860 it wouldn't be a difficult shot, particularly with the type of weapons we're talking about

01:25:29.860 now.

01:25:30.340 They're so accurate.

01:25:31.280 I was, I was out at the range last week, about 800 yards.

01:25:36.420 I was 12 inches off of center mass, 800 yards, 800 yards, about 12 inches off center mass.

01:25:44.800 Okay.

01:25:45.740 I'm not, I'm, and I'm not really, I mean, I'm good, but I'm not great, you know, and that

01:25:52.340 was on a windy day and I wasn't figuring, I was, I was just compensating for wind, you

01:25:57.860 know, with my stupid brain. 0.68

01:25:59.680 Just like feeling it.

01:26:00.540 Yeah.

01:26:00.680 Just like, okay, it's very windy.

01:26:02.160 Maybe it's going that way.

01:26:03.000 I should compensate a little bit.

01:26:04.180 I know, not knowing how to compensate for wind.

01:26:06.580 I was within, within 12 inches.

01:26:09.700 This shot by this guy, I'm telling you, you have to be a moron to not be able to hit somebody

01:26:19.540 that close with that gun.

01:26:21.560 Thank God, man.

01:26:22.300 Thank God.

01:26:22.940 I mean, you know, we've said this and I have not, have you guys heard this anywhere else?

01:26:26.620 I've said this several times this week.

01:26:29.400 Do you realize what our country, what could have happened this week?

01:26:34.640 Yeah.

01:26:35.100 If there were 30 dead members of Congress, upside down.

01:26:39.120 You would be talking now, possibly about limiting speech on the internet.

01:26:47.440 We would be talking about hate speech on television, political parties.

01:26:52.460 We would, look what happened after 9-11.

01:26:54.420 This is to the ruling class, if you will. 0.79

01:26:58.620 You would be, we would be, homeland security would be all in our face.

01:27:03.140 You'd probably have a lot of Republicans screaming about gun control. 0.83

01:27:06.080 Yeah.

01:27:06.400 Even Republicans would be all bad.

01:27:08.080 You would, it would be a different world.

01:27:10.760 That's just talking about politically.

01:27:13.480 Now imagine the consequences of that, plus the stock market would have crashed like crazy.

01:27:24.540 Plus, what would ISIS have done?

01:27:27.140 What would Russia have done?

01:27:28.980 What are our own people?

01:27:29.700 We know, do you guys know that the day that Kennedy was shot, Russia was on the border of, I can't remember which country, which was it?

01:27:43.820 Oh yeah, sorry, it was Reagan.

01:27:47.040 Yeah, we talked about this.

01:27:48.060 When Reagan was shot, that Russia was going in, and I can't remember which country, was it Poland?

01:27:54.240 I'm hearing this in my ear.

01:27:55.700 When Reagan was shot, they were ready to enter a country and make a hostile movie, and I think it was Poland, 0.99

01:28:02.820 Poland, and shore up the communist state in Poland, but because Reagan was shot, they knew that it would look like possibly Hinckley had been set up by the Russians,

01:28:17.680 and this was, and it could have caused a global war.

01:28:21.140 Imagine 10% of Congress, of the ruling party, killed.

01:28:28.260 Who would have taken advantage of that geopolitically?

01:28:33.800 We are so blessed this week to have this end this way.

01:28:41.980 When you look at how hard it is to miss from that distance with that much time on your first shot,

01:28:50.700 first five shots, three shots, to be able to miss and only seriously injure.

01:28:58.260 One person, with all of those people there, that close, with that much firepower,

01:29:06.020 minutes before real resistance,

01:29:09.620 this is a miracle.

01:29:11.980 This is a miracle.

01:29:14.440 And I think we should do two things.

01:29:17.900 One, thank God for divine providence.

01:29:21.520 Thank you, Lord, for that.

01:29:24.080 Thank you for giving us some protection.

01:29:26.000 Thank you for giving us some more time to come to our senses,

01:29:29.500 especially when you see what people are saying, like Ted Nugent today.

01:29:32.660 Hey, maybe we really do need to change a few things in our own personal lives.

01:29:37.240 That's another miracle that is coming out of this.

01:29:40.240 But we need to thank God, and we also need to take a moment and reflect how unbelievably fragile

01:29:50.240 and how close to the edge we really are into something that could change us fundamentally forever

01:30:01.600 and change the whole world, because this event could have done it.

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01:31:59.160 I will beat my drum.

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01:32:15.380 So, it wasn't a .223 round that he was using.

01:32:18.100 It was a 7.62.

01:32:21.060 And it, again, it is...

01:32:22.580 And that's bigger, right?

01:32:23.880 Yeah, I...

01:32:25.820 Yeah, I mean, I'm...

01:32:27.320 Is it a .308?

01:32:29.400 7.62 is a .308, right?

01:32:31.320 Yes, these...

01:32:32.360 And it does, I mean, looking...

01:32:33.640 I'm not good at the bullets, but I...

01:32:35.800 The gun guys are, like, first of all, they're all...

01:32:38.000 They're all very particular.

01:32:39.640 This is why I try not to talk about details, because I have no idea what I'm talking about.

01:32:42.240 And they correct everything that we say.

01:32:43.660 We get 6,000 tweets about how we said the wrong thing.

01:32:46.500 I know.

01:32:46.740 But also, some people are helpful sending pictures of the differences.

01:32:49.480 So, it looks like a 7.62 is bigger than the .223, by not a huge margin, but a significant one.

01:32:56.140 And also, it's moving so fast.

01:32:57.540 I mean, these guns are powerful weapons.

01:32:59.580 Whatever.

01:33:00.340 I mean, you stand by...

01:33:02.160 I mean, Pat.

01:33:03.040 Pat came up to the range with me.

01:33:04.560 I've shot three times in my life.

01:33:05.980 This was the third time.

01:33:07.160 And he did not want to shoot these guns, because, I mean, just standing by them, they're powerful.

01:33:13.840 When they go off, you're like, holy cow!

01:33:16.000 Yeah, you feel them.

01:33:16.640 Yeah, you do.

01:33:17.820 You feel them standing anywhere around them when they go off.

01:33:21.120 And the one you were shooting from 800 yards, I shot from 200 yards.

01:33:24.640 And hit it three times in a row.

01:33:26.180 And it's my third time out.

01:33:27.860 I mean...

01:33:28.180 Wow.

01:33:28.840 Yeah.

01:33:29.320 Again, this is a good thing to hit targets.

01:33:31.340 Liberals will say, wait a minute, any idiot can pick up a gun and shoot it from a long distance.

01:33:36.600 This is terrible.

01:33:37.400 Actually, you want the gun to be accurate.

01:33:39.200 You don't want the gun spraying all over the place.

01:33:41.280 There are very few gun manufacturers who say, this gun won't hit anything.

01:33:44.520 It won't hit anything you shoot at it.

01:33:45.820 It doesn't matter what you aim at.

01:33:46.840 Well, can I tell you something?

01:33:48.280 That's why I've started training now in handgun.

01:33:50.840 I've started training with moving.

01:33:53.280 Because when you're in a situation, you are not going to be like, hang on, let me get in the right position.

01:34:00.520 You're going to be moving.

01:34:01.440 And when you see how inaccurate you are while moving, it gives you, oh, I'm not, wait, if I'm in a crowded area and I'm trying to defend myself, I'm not pulling my gun because I could hit easily.

01:34:17.020 I could hit the person standing next to them, behind them, I mean, it's, you've got to, you've, and 99% of gun owners are like this.

01:34:28.780 Anybody who carries or anybody who actually takes it out of, like my dad used to have his in the closet.

01:34:33.840 Anybody who actually is thinking ever using it, they know the power of that gun and they don't use it unless they have full control of that gun.

01:34:48.640 They're responsible.

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01:35:09.540 Amazon, amazon.com just bought Whole Foods, which we should have seen coming with their experiment on the grocery store of the future.

01:35:18.580 Uh, that they just did in, um, in Seattle where there is no, there's nothing but a digital transaction.

01:35:26.400 There's, there's no checkout line or anything.

01:35:28.700 You just walk in, it scans who you are going in and it scans everything as you go out the door.

01:35:36.900 You, you don't have to stop at all.

01:35:40.140 Um, they just bought Whole Foods, which is a very big deal.

01:35:43.880 But it's, in the end, we are going to be run by Amazon and Google.

01:35:49.640 And that's about it.

01:35:50.520 And that's the thing about them is they seem to do everything they do better than everyone else.

01:35:55.620 Yes.

01:35:56.100 And it's hard to, you know, it's, they really do.

01:35:58.860 I mean, Amazon, I swear half of my paycheck goes to Amazon.

01:36:01.140 What was the price they paid for Whole Foods?

01:36:02.740 Something like $14.7 billion.

01:36:04.680 Is that right, Jeff?

01:36:05.160 Wow.

01:36:05.640 Something like that.

01:36:06.120 A lot of money.

01:36:07.060 Wow.

01:36:07.660 13.7.

01:36:08.500 Uh, it is Father's Day weekend.

01:36:09.960 And, uh, speaking of Amazon, a book that you can pick up on amazon.com right now is Play

01:36:14.900 the Man.

01:36:16.240 Uh, Mark Batterson is a friend of the program, been on several times.

01:36:19.900 He, um, is the author of 16 different books.

01:36:23.060 This one is a really interesting, uh, book because we have nothing.

01:36:27.880 And I have been looking for books over the last few years of, I want to build a library

01:36:33.780 of how do you build a man?

01:36:36.100 What does it mean to be a man?

01:36:38.600 Because nothing in our culture is supporting that now.

01:36:42.360 Mark, welcome to the program.

01:36:43.540 How are you, sir?

01:36:44.760 Hey, Glenn.

01:36:45.500 It's good to be back.

01:36:46.700 So, Play the Man actually, um, comes from the, the Bible, uh, uh, a guy who, um, the

01:36:54.500 Romans took because he was worshiping Jesus.

01:36:57.460 Can you tell the, can you tell the story?

01:36:59.800 Yeah, incredible true story about Polycarp.

01:37:02.140 He was the Bishop of Smyrna and, uh, he was taken into the Coliseum, told to recant his

01:37:07.860 faith.

01:37:08.400 He wouldn't do it.

01:37:09.760 And part of why he wouldn't do it is because he heard a voice from heaven.

01:37:12.600 It said, be strong, Polycarp.

01:37:14.880 Play the man.

01:37:15.680 And when I first heard that, Glenn, that gave me goosebumps because here's a guy who literally

01:37:21.180 was martyred for his faith.

01:37:24.500 And it's that little saying, play the man that, uh, you know, he died for his faith.

01:37:29.720 The question is, how do we live for our faith?

01:37:32.140 And what does it mean to play the man?

01:37:34.040 Yeah, that's what I was going to ask you, you know, play, play the man, uh, is weird

01:37:39.940 advice.

01:37:40.760 What, what does it mean?

01:37:43.220 Well, you know, it's funny.

01:37:44.480 There's actually a verse in second Samuel that says, play the man for our people.

01:37:49.940 But you know what I do in the book, Glenn, is, is identify seven virtues.

01:37:53.960 And, you know, I know how much you love history.

01:37:56.280 We, we share a love for history.

01:37:57.720 So I tell a lot of stories about everybody from Teddy Roosevelt to John Muir to, uh, a

01:38:03.880 guy named John Wesley Powell.

01:38:05.420 And I, and I weave some of that in, but really it's about seven virtues, um, that I think,

01:38:10.600 uh, are the key to manhood.

01:38:13.420 And that's kind of the first half of the book.

01:38:15.660 And, and so everything from tough love to moral courage and virtues that I think honestly

01:38:21.240 are a little lacking in our culture.

01:38:23.960 So let's go through some of the, um, uh, some of the virtues, uh, give them, uh, just go

01:38:30.300 through all of them, um, uh, quickly first, tough love, childlike wonder, willpower, raw

01:38:37.180 passion, true grit, clear vision, and moral courage.

01:38:42.380 Um, let me start with true grit because, you know, you see that in a, you see that in,

01:38:50.480 you know, the movie true grit and you identify it as, as that, uh, as being that guy, um,

01:38:59.320 a guy who saw something that wasn't right, uh, wasn't necessarily a guy who was living a

01:39:06.600 great life, but followed through and finished what he knew was right.

01:39:12.540 Is that what your grit is?

01:39:14.320 I think it is.

01:39:15.720 And, and let me just say this, you know, I think different cultures at different points

01:39:19.560 in history have defined manhood differently.

01:39:21.780 And what I try to do in the book is, is really point back to, uh, to a person by the name

01:39:27.260 of Jesus.

01:39:27.880 He's not just son of God, son of man.

01:39:30.580 And I think he's true North when it comes to manhood and no one, no one models true grit 0.91

01:39:36.560 better than he does.

01:39:37.620 You know, for the joy set before him, he endured the cross.

01:39:41.640 I mean, that's, that's grit right there.

01:39:44.520 And then you read it in another place in the new Testament where it says, uh, having done

01:39:49.220 all to stand, stand.

01:39:51.740 It's this idea that it's going to take some grit, uh, to do the right thing.

01:39:57.480 And, uh, I think we give up too easily.

01:40:00.700 We give up, uh, too quickly.

01:40:02.780 And I think part of what I advocate for the book is you got to fight for your family.

01:40:07.260 You got to fight for your marriage.

01:40:08.740 Um, it's not going to be easy, but, uh, I think grit is exemplified by, by the person

01:40:14.400 of Jesus.

01:40:14.900 And it's something that we're called to as men.

01:40:17.200 What is the biggest problem in our society that the lie that men are being told or boys

01:40:22.300 are being told?

01:40:24.060 Well, I mean, that's a, that's a, that's a big question.

01:40:26.840 And I'm not sure I can reduce it down to one, but, uh, uh, I'll start here.

01:40:32.000 You know, the first virtue is tough love.

01:40:33.740 Tough love is carrying a 300 pound cross 650 yards down the Via Dolorosa for someone else's

01:40:40.400 sin.

01:40:41.540 I think, um, we've forgotten what it means to, to, uh, exercise tough love.

01:40:48.920 I think it's loving people when, when they least expect it and least deserve it.

01:40:52.740 And, uh, it's not easy, but that's the standard we're called to.

01:40:56.540 And, uh, and something that, uh, I think is in some ways, because in our culture, Glenn,

01:41:03.500 you know, manhood is almost avoided or, or devalued or in some ways redefined.

01:41:09.600 And so I think we've got to get back to some of these, these virtues that we see in the

01:41:15.640 person of Jesus and, uh, and that then we need to live out as men.

01:41:19.620 So what is the difference between these virtues with men, with women and, and why is this play

01:41:26.320 the man?

01:41:27.340 What shouldn't my, shouldn't my wife have clear vision and moral courage and willpower and 1.00

01:41:32.620 childlike wonder?

01:41:34.400 I think absolutely, absolutely.

01:41:37.560 And I make that admission in the book that, uh, uh, listen, I, I think these apply to anybody

01:41:43.420 and everybody, but this is a call to men.

01:41:46.340 Um, let me, let me give you an example, you know, a few months ago, I'm in a, in a room

01:41:51.520 with 500 guys and I asked them, uh, how many of you were intentionally discipled by your dad

01:41:56.140 and three hands go up.

01:41:58.180 So what we have is a culture where men don't really know what it means to be men of God

01:42:03.680 and fathers don't really know what it means to be a spiritual father.

01:42:07.540 And so what I'm trying to do with the book, Glenn, is kind of step into that, that no man's 1.00

01:42:12.420 plan, pun intended, and, uh, and say, Hey, here's, here are seven virtues that I think

01:42:18.680 we can work on as men.

01:42:21.240 And then of course, the second half of the book is, is really the heartbeat of the book.

01:42:25.500 And it's about how to disciple our children.

01:42:29.220 Mark Patterson, name of the book is Play the Man, Becoming the Man God Created You to Be.

01:42:35.340 The New York Times bestselling author, 16 different, um, uh, bestselling books, uh, and, um, a,

01:42:43.440 a message that I think we truly, truly need play the man.

01:42:47.680 Thanks Mark for being on the program with us.

01:42:50.080 Hey, absolute joy and privilege.

01:42:52.000 God bless Glenn.

01:42:52.880 Thank you.

01:42:53.400 God bless.

01:42:53.880 We'll talk to you again.

01:42:54.980 Um, you know, I, I tell you the, I don't think I've ever worked harder on anything in my

01:43:02.040 life, um, with joy.

01:43:05.720 It's not like hard work with joy, um, than being a parent and, um, being a dad.

01:43:16.320 And it wasn't always that way.

01:43:19.660 Um, I was afraid of being a dad and I was especially afraid of being a dad for a son because, uh,

01:43:27.400 of the relationship I had with my dad and, um, my dad said to me once when I was young,

01:43:37.780 he said, I told him I was never going to be like you.

01:43:41.100 And I stormed off and I thought I, I thought I had really hurt him.

01:43:46.060 So I thought I, I showed him and I must've been about 16 years old.

01:43:51.040 Um, and, um, he came down to my room and walked in and said, I couldn't be more proud of you.

01:43:59.260 And I didn't know what this meant at the time because I didn't know my dad's history.

01:44:04.080 He said, I didn't want to be like my dad either.

01:44:08.240 My dad grew up in a very abusive household.

01:44:12.480 And I, I didn't know why I always was uncomfortable and afraid of my grandfather on my dad's side until I was about 30.

01:44:22.920 And my, I flew my dad out and I said, I just want to talk to you as a man.

01:44:28.800 We had had a conversation on the phone and I said, I don't know how to be your son.

01:44:33.180 And he said, I don't know how to be your dad.

01:44:35.700 But I will tell you that if you will sit through the uncomfortable moments of silence and awkwardness, I will promise to do the same and we'll figure it out together.

01:44:49.340 And he flew out to Baltimore and we, we sat there and we talked and he started telling me about his childhood.

01:45:01.200 And I understood then why he never took me fishing when I wanted to go fishing, why he was never really a close dad to me.

01:45:12.900 And he said to me, I didn't want to be like my dad either.

01:45:17.900 And this 16 year old kid looking back at him thinking, what?

01:45:24.480 Yeah, this, I've said something that was supposed to hurt you.

01:45:27.000 And you're now telling me how proud you are of me.

01:45:32.760 And he said then something that I will never forget.

01:45:36.260 He said, however, son, you have better replace what you've learned from me with something else.

01:45:47.980 Because if you don't, you will grow up to be exactly like me.

01:45:54.120 It's taken me to, you know, my 40s to be able to replace enough in me and to make it mine to be able to be a decent dad.

01:46:09.460 Now at 53, I feel like I'm just starting to be a good dad and my kids are all growing up.

01:46:17.860 But if you don't know who you are and you don't know what it means to be a man, you're never going to be able to pass that on in a positive way.

01:46:36.000 And we have a grave responsibility in a abusive family that I grew up in, where abuse now has spread through the generations.

01:46:52.020 Somebody has to be the man to put your hand up to catch the fist and say, that's not the way a man treats a woman or anyone else. 1.00

01:47:12.020 But more importantly, Rafi's 12 years old now.

01:47:28.360 And we were sitting on the couch on vacation.

01:47:31.380 And he was talking about girls.

01:47:38.860 And he said, you know, how do you know, dad?

01:47:42.740 And I said, well, you're not going to know for several years.

01:47:45.580 You're not going to know for several years.

01:47:48.080 At 12, you don't know who you, who the one is.

01:47:51.740 But we joked for a while and I said, you're going to know when you meet a woman who you want to be a better man for.

01:48:08.380 Who makes you a better person and not because they're molding you, but because you want to.

01:48:14.340 And I got choked up as I was saying that about thinking about Tanya.

01:48:21.980 And here's my 12-year-old son who he leaned in and didn't mock me for the tears in my eyes.

01:48:32.560 He hugged me and whispered in my ear, I love how much you love mom.

01:48:39.120 The examples that we have to set for our children are important.

01:48:48.780 And they're authentic, they're real, they're natural.

01:48:52.520 And those are the ones our kids will emulate.

01:48:55.800 Those will be the ones our kids crave.

01:48:58.920 And this Father's Day, they are celebrating you as a dad and as a man.

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01:50:31.280 Welcome to the program.

01:50:33.140 Glad you're here.

01:50:33.920 It is Friday, and I saw, I saw, what's the Amazon woman? 0.91

01:50:44.140 What's that?

01:50:45.340 Wonder Woman.

01:50:45.900 Wonder Woman.

01:50:46.680 Yeah, Wonder Woman. 1.00

01:50:47.880 Wonder Woman.

01:50:48.580 Yeah, I saw Wonder Woman.

01:50:50.740 The one thing I do come away with is, wow, is she beautiful.

01:50:57.560 Good heavens, is she beautiful.

01:51:01.420 And I liked it.

01:51:02.360 I think you guys did the opposite.

01:51:04.040 I think you did what I did to you on Galaxy Quest.

01:51:07.160 Or, not Galaxy Quest.

01:51:08.540 Guardians of the Galaxy 2.

01:51:10.060 I think I'm going to see that this weekend.

01:51:11.140 I haven't even seen it yet.

01:51:11.720 Yeah, I really liked it.

01:51:13.880 And everybody else was like, eh.

01:51:15.920 I was like, wow, I really liked that movie.

01:51:17.840 But I went to Wonder Woman, and everybody I've heard raves about Wonder Woman.

01:51:22.160 And I think so I went in with my expectations to high.

01:51:25.740 And it was just good?

01:51:26.960 It was just good.

01:51:27.640 I couldn't take, I mean, if they would have made me listen to these fakey, 1.00

01:51:32.360 accents of these women on the island for two more minutes, I think I would have killed 1.00

01:51:37.320 myself.

01:51:37.700 But then it kind of evened out with her.

01:51:39.860 It got good.

01:51:40.780 Oh, wow.

01:51:41.640 No, it always was evened out with her.

01:51:43.840 Yeah.

01:51:44.420 Yeah.

01:51:44.740 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

01:51:50.120 Mercury.

The Glenn Beck Program - June 16, 2017

6⧸16⧸17 - So Many Miracles (Bill 0'Reilly and Mark Batterson Join Glenn)

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