The Glenn Beck Program - 6⧸19⧸17 - The end of the valedictorian

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00:00:08.300 Hello, America. Welcome to Monday.

00:00:11.280 A lot going on. There's a suspected terror attack in London.

00:00:17.960 It was kind of the reverse.

00:00:19.860 Somebody took a van and mowed into a lot of Muslims as they came out of mosque. 1.00

00:00:26.440 Things are starting to heat up.

00:00:28.060 We'll tell you about an idea that I had over the weekend that I think we're going to do tomorrow.

00:00:32.740 I wrote to a lot of people, many of whom will remain nameless, but all leaders that you could respect.

00:00:39.800 And then people like, I don't mind exposing this, Brad Thor, who are in the science fact kind of, or fact and fiction sort of world,

00:00:51.760 where they write these fiction books, but they're all really, it's all based in fact.

00:00:56.580 And I asked them, what would we be looking at a week later if a lot of people, if not all of the people,

00:01:08.920 the 30 congressmen and senators were killed last Tuesday?

00:01:13.860 What would America look like a week later?

00:01:18.180 I'll begin to tell you a little bit about that coming up in just a second.

00:01:21.120 Also, a high school has abandoned their valedictorians because competition is bad.

00:01:30.000 Cosby, mistrial.

00:01:32.380 They couldn't come to a decision.

00:01:33.980 And when you read about it and you see what was presented, I don't know if I could have come to a decision on that.

00:01:42.320 And one other trial that really, to me, is a bit confusing.

00:01:48.840 And confusing because people are saying, this person had no liability, no responsibility.

00:01:58.260 It's suicide is the act of the individual.

00:02:01.920 It is.

00:02:04.080 But do we play a role at all in other people's lives?

00:02:09.560 A really dangerous, slippery slope kind of question that we begin with right now.

00:02:17.060 I will make a stand, I will raise my voice, I will hold your hand, cause we are one.

00:02:26.920 I will beat my drum, I have made my choice, we will overcome, cause we are one.

00:02:35.480 The fusion of entertainment and enlightenment.

00:02:39.600 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:02:44.420 Hello America.

00:02:45.620 Welcome to the Glenn Beck Program.

00:02:46.600 I'm so glad that you're here.

00:02:48.400 Let's start with the story of a girlfriend who, in a case that took in thousands of text messages,

00:03:02.960 Michelle Carter was dating a guy named Conrad, Conrad Roy III.

00:03:09.340 He had, he was a friend of hers, and, and I use that in air quotes, and he had said to her for a while, I'm going to kill myself. 0.96

00:03:22.340 I'm going to kill myself. 0.92

00:03:23.640 I'm going, you know what? 1.00

00:03:24.640 I'm going to kill myself this Friday. 0.95

00:03:28.860 She encouraged him through text messages. 1.00

00:03:32.260 You should do it.

00:03:33.500 And initially discouraged him for months and told him not to do it and then eventually started encouraging him to do it.

00:03:41.440 Right.

00:03:42.680 Um, I'm going to tell you a very personal story that I've never told before on the air that relates to this in some way as a story of devil's advocate.

00:03:54.420 But she was just convicted of, what was it, third degree manslaughter?

00:03:59.880 I thought it was involuntary manslaughter.

00:04:00.780 Involuntary manslaughter.

00:04:02.020 Okay.

00:04:02.240 Involuntary manslaughter because he got out of the truck, he put himself in the garage, started his truck up, started breathing in the fumes, he stumbles out of the truck, gets out, texts her.

00:04:16.300 Because he got scared.

00:04:17.460 Right.

00:04:17.700 Right.

00:04:17.900 He didn't want to.

00:04:18.520 He didn't want to die.

00:04:19.240 Mm-hmm.

00:04:19.940 And she said, what is wrong with you?

00:04:22.580 Get back in the truck.

00:04:24.380 Mm-hmm.

00:04:24.500 And then she never called police, never alerted, nothing.

00:04:28.620 No, in fact, she actually created a charity softball game, I think, too, in his memory after his death.

00:04:36.240 And, you know, tried to, she was communicating with friends saying that he was missing before he had actually committed suicide.

00:04:44.320 I mean, she, a very disturbed individual.

00:04:47.200 There's no doubt about that.

00:04:47.380 No, I think she's really disturbed.

00:04:48.760 And she, she actually, he calls her, and he's choking and coughing, and she actually listens to him die over the phone.

00:05:01.720 She does nothing.

00:05:03.700 So now this case goes to court, and there's a lot of people that say she has no responsibility.

00:05:10.780 Suicide is a personal choice.

00:05:12.780 And it was, it was his choice to listen to her.

00:05:17.420 It was his choice to do it.

00:05:19.200 She didn't start the car.

00:05:20.600 She didn't do any of that. 0.78

00:05:22.800 However, you're playing on the mind of somebody who is obviously ill.

00:05:31.320 You are, don't we have a personal responsibility to help one another, to first do no harm?

00:05:39.580 And that was doing harm.

00:05:41.160 And it wasn't just that moment.

00:05:42.640 It was weeks and weeks leading up to it.

00:05:44.480 It was things like, you know, you're, sure, yeah, your parents will be upset at first, but they'll get over it.

00:05:48.880 It's okay.

00:05:49.900 She texted him, you're finally going to be happy in heaven.

00:05:52.740 No more pain.

00:05:53.560 It's okay to be scared and normal.

00:05:55.360 I mean, you're about to die.

00:05:57.680 She, she's so frightening.

00:05:59.500 She did it over and over and over and over again over a period of weeks, if not months, if I'm not mistaken. 0.96

00:06:05.500 So, I mean, she really went at this.

00:06:07.180 Right.

00:06:07.300 And if you're a, if you're a friend and they, they say boyfriend, really boyfriend, girlfriend, there's, at least that was the rumored relationship between them.

00:06:14.620 I mean, that is, that is sick. 0.69

00:06:17.320 That is really sick.

00:06:18.520 This girl has some deep issues. 1.00

00:06:20.880 And we should point out, too, that he had already attempted suicide previously.

00:06:24.640 So, it wasn't one of these things where, I didn't believe he'd even tried it.

00:06:27.800 He'd already tried it a couple times.

00:06:29.940 She couldn't say that because she was listening to him.

00:06:32.960 She listened to him die and did nothing.

00:06:36.600 I didn't, I, that's, I mean, she listened to him die.

00:06:39.680 It was on the phone.

00:06:40.480 He, that, that point where he, he gets out of the truck and she talks him back into the truck.

00:06:45.720 It is pretty frightening.

00:06:46.400 So, so the, the argument, and you might say that's open and shut, right?

00:06:49.760 Yeah.

00:06:50.020 Because, I mean, I think you, my job, my mind jumped to people like Charlie Manson, who never killed anybody.

00:06:56.040 Charles Manson didn't kill people.

00:06:57.560 He encouraged others to kill people.

00:06:59.460 And they did.

00:07:00.560 And he is in prison forever, right?

00:07:03.300 Because of that.

00:07:04.680 So, what about the guy, the blue whale guy?

00:07:07.560 This is, if you don't know this, this is terrifying.

00:07:10.260 Terrifying.

00:07:10.400 This is a guy in Russia who is online and he, he says, I've got the greatest challenge ever. 0.81

00:07:21.400 And anybody who takes me up on this challenge, if you follow it all the way through, you will commit suicide. 0.98

00:07:29.100 You'll gladly commit suicide. 1.00

00:07:32.120 Take up the challenge.

00:07:33.080 And these kids, most of them 15, 17 years old, they get online and they take the challenge.

00:07:42.100 And he offers, I don't know how many challenges per day, maybe 30 or 45 days.

00:07:48.280 And you have to, every day, it starts with something small.

00:07:52.380 You have to do his challenge. 0.65

00:07:54.420 Well, about halfway through, he says that you have to kill a cat or a dog or a defenseless animal.

00:08:04.140 Studies have shown that the people who kill the animal finish it.

00:08:10.520 The ones who don't kill the animal don't kill themselves.

00:08:15.720 Okay?

00:08:16.340 And what he does is, it's a group process.

00:08:19.720 You get into this game, and then others who are playing the game shame you.

00:08:26.380 This all goes really to the Jonathan Haidt book that I've been reading, The Righteous Mind, on how the mind works.

00:08:36.480 Once you set it into a path, as long as you have people around you, if you start to go off the path,

00:08:44.000 as long as your friends are like, no, no, go, do it, you pretty much will.

00:08:49.420 It takes very, very few people will actually break from their friends.

00:08:56.120 And so the peer pressure is great to continue to go and to do these things.

00:09:05.040 Well, at the end, he keeps you up.

00:09:07.920 And so you're tired, you're disoriented.

00:09:09.960 He makes you get up in the middle of the night and do things.

00:09:13.320 And then he's constantly disrupting your sleep pattern towards the end.

00:09:17.500 Well, by the end, you're in a weakened state. 0.99

00:09:20.320 And the last one is kill yourself. 0.99

00:09:22.480 And I don't remember how many. 0.99

00:09:23.960 Is it 10, 15 people that he killed?

00:09:27.260 And he's still doing it by mail, no longer on the Internet because he's in jail in Russia.

00:09:34.480 But they say they can't stop him.

00:09:36.680 Here's the idea.

00:09:37.420 He's in jail.

00:09:38.160 Stop him from writing the letters.

00:09:41.340 You're Russia. 0.91

00:09:43.120 So, I mean, how hard is that?

00:09:46.220 So when he was under investigation and on trial, he said,

00:09:53.040 I'm only thinning the herd.

00:09:55.220 All of these people are too weak to live. 0.88

00:09:58.740 So I'm just thinning the herd and getting rid of the weak ones. 0.92

00:10:02.580 Well, he's in jail.

00:10:04.200 What did he do wrong?

00:10:05.200 If she didn't do wrong, he didn't do wrong.

00:10:10.740 If she didn't do wrong, Manson didn't do wrong because he never killed anyone.

00:10:15.720 He just encouraged others to do it.

00:10:18.800 Yeah, it's weird.

00:10:19.460 And I don't know about you.

00:10:20.300 At this point, particularly in our history, I find stories that are not just based on partisan lines a lot more interesting.

00:10:27.540 Yes.

00:10:27.920 Because you can't tell who really believes the arguments they're making anymore.

00:10:31.220 I know.

00:10:31.400 I mean, it really is the thing.

00:10:32.540 This is from David French, however, who's from the National Review, conservative.

00:10:36.000 This is what he says.

00:10:36.800 I see two problems with this verdict.

00:10:38.880 One moral, the other legal.

00:10:40.060 First, Conrad Roy, the boyfriend, is responsible for his death.

00:10:43.760 To argue that Carter committed manslaughter is to diminish Roy's moral agency.

00:10:47.720 It denies his free will.

00:10:49.420 It's wrong to deny compassion to someone who's troubled that they may commit suicide.

00:10:53.500 But we can't move so far in the other direction that we race to find who's really to blame when a person voluntarily takes their own life.

00:11:00.240 Okay, hang on just a second.

00:11:01.580 It's not that she didn't offer compassion.

00:11:06.920 Right, she encouraged it.

00:11:08.160 She encouraged it.

00:11:10.500 It's still an act of self-murder.

00:11:12.060 And while Carter undoubtedly played a persuasive role, I can't imagine where we will draw the line.

00:11:16.560 Okay, so, hang on.

00:11:18.520 I have a personal story that relates directly to this.

00:11:25.320 And I think it is what David French is talking about.

00:11:28.640 And I think that there is a difference.

00:11:29.920 I'll share that when we come back in just a second.

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00:13:52.520 The Glenn Beck Program.

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00:13:55.680 So, we're talking about this girl who Friday was convicted of involuntary manslaughter because she encouraged her boyfriend to commit suicide.

00:14:16.600 And she was actually on the phone encouraging him while he did it.

00:14:21.860 She listened to him.

00:14:23.300 He got out of a truck in a garage and he had for months said he was going to do it.

00:14:30.160 She was encouraging him for months.

00:14:31.820 And he got out and he said he was afraid, called her.

00:14:36.700 She said, what are you doing out of the truck?

00:14:38.800 You promised you were going to do it.

00:14:40.300 You're going to be fine.

00:14:41.080 Get back in the truck and listen to him while he died. 0.92

00:14:44.580 Horrible. 0.87

00:14:45.560 Horrible.

00:14:47.400 Now, the conservative point of view from David French is two parts.

00:14:57.360 And I want to address the first part before we get to the second. 0.89

00:15:00.320 The first part is we should have compassion and we can't regulate because it is your free choice to kill yourself.

00:15:13.300 Well, yes, it is.

00:15:14.900 Yes, it is.

00:15:17.860 But let me share something about my mother's suicide.

00:15:23.240 I didn't know my mother was suicide.

00:15:25.220 None of us kids knew that she was suicidal.

00:15:28.960 But my grandparents did.

00:15:31.880 My aunt did.

00:15:33.800 And they had encouraged her to get help, etc., etc.

00:15:37.680 And she apparently, in the last year of her life, had threatened this a lot.

00:15:45.780 And the family had done everything that they could.

00:15:49.220 And she wouldn't take any of the advice.

00:15:52.340 And she wasn't doing what she was supposed to do.

00:15:54.480 And one day, she went over to my aunt's house.

00:15:59.020 And my aunt was very frustrated with my mother. 0.98

00:16:03.960 And she said, my mother said, you know, Joanne, I'm just going to do it.

00:16:10.320 And my aunt looked at my mother and said, you know what, Mary?

00:16:14.220 Then just do it.

00:16:15.460 Now, that's not what her advice was.

00:16:20.560 Her advice the whole time was, seek help.

00:16:25.840 Get help.

00:16:26.640 We're here for you.

00:16:27.700 But you have to change your life.

00:16:30.100 She was tired of hearing what she thought was an empty threat just to, what, gain sympathy or whatever.

00:16:37.420 She didn't understand it.

00:16:39.080 My aunt carried that around for decades after my mother died because my mother committed suicide about, I think it was five days later, four or five days later.

00:16:53.580 And my aunt immediately thought, oh my gosh, and I told her to do it. 0.88

00:16:59.120 No, sweetheart, you didn't.

00:17:01.240 You didn't.

00:17:02.640 You said something very human in a moment of frustration with a sister who had been threatening to do it for a long time and you supported for years.

00:17:14.040 And that's a different thing than we're talking about.

00:17:16.160 Totally different.

00:17:17.480 So I understand because partly I am afraid that you have a moment like that and anybody could be blamed for it.

00:17:29.120 And that's not what we're talking about.

00:17:30.640 This is somebody who over months was encouraging.

00:17:34.200 Now, the second part of his argument is where it gets dangerous.

00:17:38.480 And it gets dangerous because we no longer have a right and wrong.

00:17:44.400 We no longer have a moral foundation for our country.

00:17:49.140 And for us as humans, we can't agree on what is right and wrong.

00:17:53.560 So we need the judge to do it.

00:17:56.340 And don't think that there will be people that will use this case to make all kinds of points.

00:18:03.300 And here's where David French makes sense.

00:18:05.520 He says, second, the First Amendment implications are real with this verdict.

00:18:10.540 Carter's actions, the girl's actions, were reprehensible.

00:18:13.200 But she was sharing with him thoughts and opinions that he may have found persuasive but had the capacity to reject.

00:18:19.340 A legal argument that renders otherwise protected speech unlawful because it actually persuades would blast a hole in First Amendment jurisprudence.

00:18:27.400 When a young man dies, especially under these circumstances, the desire to hold someone accountable is entirely understandable.

00:18:31.520 But the law can't and shouldn't try to right every wrong.

00:18:35.980 Michelle Carter should go free. 1.00

00:18:37.840 It's his argument.

00:18:38.920 Now, I mean, because you can think about this in the perspective of what happened last week.

00:18:42.740 You know, let's just say the other way it happened.

00:18:45.580 A crazy right-wing person who was influenced by all sorts of right-wing propaganda.

00:18:50.000 They would be using this case to go after people. 0.65

00:18:55.720 Let's say, instead of Rachel Maddow, he was listening to me.

00:18:59.100 They would use this case to go after me.

00:19:01.760 Your speech, if he had called in and you had talked to him and encouraged him to take action,

00:19:08.880 and even though it wasn't violent action, they would use that.

00:19:11.740 They will take this standard and move it past this.

00:19:14.700 Let's use this as true despicable speech on the so-called right, Alex Jones and ping-pong pizza.

00:19:23.840 Yeah.

00:19:24.300 Or the woman who went up and, what did she do, threatened the life of one of the Newtown parents?

00:19:30.560 Yeah.

00:19:30.820 Oh, yeah, from Florida.

00:19:31.940 Amazing.

00:19:32.440 Yeah.

00:19:32.580 I mean, a woman from Florida who said she was listening to Alex Jones and he had, quote, encouraged her to go up and take care of these lying Newtown parents.

00:19:44.200 Well, doesn't he play some role?

00:19:48.900 In all honesty, yes.

00:19:52.700 But don't we have free choice?

00:19:55.480 Yes.

00:19:57.000 So what is the answer?

00:19:59.860 We go there, next.

00:20:02.580 We go there, next.

00:20:32.560 My husband, Steve Scalise, has had several surgeries and is doing better today.

00:20:37.800 That is really good news.

00:20:40.400 And tomorrow, I'm going to show you, I really believe Divine Providence kicked in last week.

00:20:46.340 A week ago, Tuesday, was the shooting at the ballpark.

00:20:48.900 Was it Tuesday or was it Wednesday?

00:20:50.900 It was Tuesday, wasn't it?

00:20:53.380 But it, no, because Bill O'Reilly was on last Tuesday, wasn't he?

00:20:57.000 So it was Wednesday, I think.

00:20:59.240 And we're going to do a special episode.

00:21:03.100 I've asked some fiction writers, some thriller writers, some politicians, some media experts, all of whom will remain nameless.

00:21:13.600 Tell me what you think could have happened if we were, this last weekend, burying 30 congressmen and senators.

00:21:22.800 What would have, what would be happening in the world right now?

00:21:28.000 It's pretty bleak.

00:21:29.180 And I'm only showing you this because I want to show you how close to the edge we really are.

00:21:34.620 But I may not make it to that show to be able to tell you that.

00:21:40.180 Why?

00:21:41.500 Breaking news this morning.

00:21:43.360 We shot down a Syrian, not airliner, fighter jet.

00:21:48.820 We shot it down.

00:21:50.740 Russia has responded this morning with this news.

00:21:56.980 We will shoot down any American plane. 0.99

00:22:00.540 What is it? 0.95

00:22:01.340 West of the Euphrates.

00:22:03.220 They have also stopped the hotline between our military.

00:22:09.400 There was a hotline between us because this is a very tight airspace.

00:22:14.060 And it's easy to make a mistake.

00:22:16.920 And so we've had a hotline between our flight directors, if you will.

00:22:22.960 Hey, your plane is over here.

00:22:24.780 Sorry, didn't mean to.

00:22:26.380 Please don't shoot it down.

00:22:27.340 Not hostile.

00:22:28.080 Conflict resolution, basically.

00:22:29.420 Correct.

00:22:29.800 A way for us to communicate with each other.

00:22:32.420 Russia has just shut that down and said we will take that as a hostile act to anything west of the Euphrates.

00:22:38.740 Gang, I believe we are either at war or we are really, really close to war.

00:22:47.940 And it is not going to be like it was in Afghanistan or is in Afghanistan.

00:22:55.960 One of these wars that you can just, oh, well, we're at war with another country.

00:22:59.380 And you don't pay attention to, this changes the entire world.

00:23:05.220 We'll get into that here in a second.

00:23:07.540 The reason why I'm bringing up this woman who encouraged her boyfriend or this girl who encouraged her boyfriend to kill himself for months is because you are not in your right mind.

00:23:23.000 When you are suicidal, I'm sorry, but all reason has broken down.

00:23:31.160 And I know this as a guy who has had two suicides in his family and has been suicidal himself.

00:23:38.080 I was suicidal.

00:23:40.520 Pat, have I ever been, I've never been suicidal since we've known each other.

00:23:43.600 I think it was just before.

00:23:44.660 Yeah, just before.

00:23:45.320 It was in the 80s.

00:23:46.160 And I've had depression.

00:23:49.080 I'm prone, my whole family is prone to clinical depression.

00:23:54.760 And in the 80s, before I knew about medication, they were still using things like Elevil, which was a really nasty kind of drug, to help you with depression.

00:24:09.380 I've told you before, I've gone through it.

00:24:11.960 If I wasn't, I always say that cowardice saved my life, but I thank God that I'm a coward. 0.93

00:24:22.340 I couldn't think about putting a gun to my head.

00:24:27.820 I just couldn't have done it.

00:24:29.560 I looked at a pillar of a bridge abutment on 84 in Louisville, Kentucky.

00:24:34.600 I passed it every single day.

00:24:36.400 And every single day, both to and from work, I prayed, Lord, give me the strength to plow my car into that.

00:24:44.200 He never did, thank God.

00:24:49.140 And when you actually go through it, all reason breaks down.

00:24:56.120 You really do believe that if you were gone, everyone around you would be happy.

00:25:02.880 That you are the source of all problems.

00:25:06.380 It's like I would read my own press.

00:25:09.600 And you are the source of all problems.

00:25:12.580 And that is true to you.

00:25:16.980 And no amount of get over it, just be happy.

00:25:19.720 Go see a happy movie.

00:25:21.240 Let's go out and have fun.

00:25:23.460 None of that makes a difference.

00:25:25.000 No reason will penetrate.

00:25:29.420 The second thing that you think is, and this is where it gets, this is where suicide becomes real.

00:25:37.900 You just want the pain to stop.

00:25:40.740 If you've ever, you know what, I hate to minimize it, but as somebody who's gone through it, I think I'm allowed to do this.

00:25:47.800 And it's like the moment right before you vomit.

00:25:52.720 No, I'm sorry.

00:25:53.520 Like two minutes before you vomit.

00:25:55.660 To where you're like, oh, just let me vomit.

00:25:58.020 I just want this to be over.

00:26:00.280 And then that moment as you're getting closer to it, you're like, no, no, no, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, I don't want to vomit.

00:26:06.080 Okay?

00:26:08.840 There is, you just want it to stop.

00:26:12.660 And nothing you've tried will make it stop.

00:26:17.780 So, A, you're not in your right mind.

00:26:20.300 And what she did was incite. 0.99

00:26:22.740 She went and personally incited that person. 1.00

00:26:28.180 That's different.

00:26:30.380 Because she's, you can't say something like that to somebody who's not in their right mind, because they will do it.

00:26:36.240 And you're inciting.

00:26:37.680 And it's literal incitement.

00:26:39.560 So, what is the cure for this?

00:26:47.200 Let me start here.

00:26:49.700 Man's love for man is cold.

00:26:55.980 Men's hearts are failing them.

00:27:01.780 Men's hearts are cold to their fellow man.

00:27:06.440 We don't care as much about each other.

00:27:10.100 We're tired of hearing the arguments.

00:27:13.020 We're tired of hearing the whining.

00:27:15.080 We're tired of all of this stuff.

00:27:18.440 And so, we're just sick of it and we want it to stop.

00:27:23.960 Does that sound familiar?

00:27:25.260 Because that sounds like the mind of a suicidal person.

00:27:28.000 Except we're not suicidal.

00:27:29.180 We just don't mind if other people get out of our way, no matter what it takes. 0.99

00:27:35.860 Just shut up. 1.00

00:27:38.320 That's man's love for man going cold. 0.99

00:27:41.220 And our heart has failed us because, as David French said, we have to have compassion.

00:27:50.760 And it's wrong when compassion isn't offered.

00:27:54.120 But we're not working on compassion at all.

00:28:02.780 I wrote something yesterday.

00:28:06.420 I got out of church and I went home and I wrote something that I want to share with you.

00:28:14.120 That is really known before the Greeks were around in philosophy.

00:28:24.600 But it just hit me clearly yesterday that this is where we are.

00:28:30.260 In life, but especially in times of strife, you will not rise to the level of your expectations or desire.

00:28:40.140 So, think of this.

00:28:43.080 Think this through with me.

00:28:44.820 In life, we all think or expect that when things get tough, we're going to stand up.

00:28:55.220 We're going to be the one.

00:28:57.440 Oh, we'll do that.

00:28:59.120 Oh, I would have stopped slavery.

00:29:02.460 And we all expect to rise to a certain level.

00:29:10.140 But it is true that in life, especially in times of strife, you're not going to rise to the level of your expectations or desire.

00:29:21.120 Instead, you will fall to the level of your preparation.

00:29:29.620 You're not suddenly going to become Hercules.

00:29:33.440 You're going to become the person that you prepared yourself to be.

00:29:41.600 So, what have you prepared for?

00:29:44.960 What have you mentally done the homework on?

00:29:48.500 It goes back to my father and the most important thing I think my father, well, one of the most important things my father taught me.

00:29:56.700 I should make a list of those.

00:29:59.560 One of the things he taught me was, Glenn, you don't want to be like me.

00:30:05.960 I promise you, if you don't replace everything that I have taught you about being a father, you're going to be exactly like me.

00:30:16.320 And that is true.

00:30:17.600 I was very much like my father, a good dad, just not a dad that was very present in any way.

00:30:29.780 Until I started to replace that image of what it means to be a good dad.

00:30:36.480 And actually replaced it with things that I could see, things that I could understand, things that I could follow in good times and bad.

00:30:46.060 I prepared myself to be a better dad than my father was.

00:30:54.660 I had to prepare myself for it.

00:30:57.480 I had to do the things to not say, oh, well, I'm just going to be better than that.

00:31:04.760 No, you're not.

00:31:06.480 I'm just going to be better.

00:31:09.140 No, you're not going to be better than your mom or your dad.

00:31:12.400 You're not.

00:31:13.840 Unless you've done the homework to be better.

00:31:17.780 You're not going to be the person that stands up and saves the world unless you've prepared to be that person.

00:31:25.480 You're not going to be the person that can rally everyone around the cause and lead them away from the cliff unless you've prepared to be that person.

00:31:35.380 Corrie ten boom, Corrie ten boom, Paulina in, in Poland that saved all of the, those Jews that I quote all the time.

00:31:45.420 Glenn, you misunderstand.

00:31:47.380 The righteous didn't suddenly become righteous.

00:31:49.680 They just refused to go over the cliff with everyone else.

00:31:52.960 Well, why is that?

00:31:54.340 If you look at those who saved, those who were really, truly righteous, there was always something.

00:32:01.080 Oscar Schindler, what was his motivation?

00:32:04.300 At first, it was to make money.

00:32:06.820 He had prepared himself to be a great capitalist and to be a great capitalist and prepare himself to succeed no matter what was going on.

00:32:18.020 At first, Oscar Schindler just took advantage of the cheap labor.

00:32:23.860 He, he didn't rise to the expectations.

00:32:26.960 He fell to where he was prepared.

00:32:31.040 He saw an opportunity and he took it.

00:32:33.500 Paulina, Corrie ten boom, their parents prepared them to be those kinds of people because they studied the scriptures,

00:32:43.780 because they prayed all the time, because they used real examples, because they actually went out and helped people

00:32:51.260 and their, their compassion for others was fostered.

00:32:55.920 You just don't have compassion for others in this society.

00:33:00.100 We're swimming in a sea of filth.

00:33:03.820 We're swimming in a sea that shows no compassion.

00:33:08.100 Our video games, it's deadening the compassion

00:33:12.940 because it's not, they're not real.

00:33:16.300 Nothing is real to us anymore.

00:33:19.900 Where does food come from, gang?

00:33:22.860 Food comes from the supermarket.

00:33:25.820 When you go and talk to kids, especially in the, in the cities,

00:33:31.820 and you ask them, where does meat come from?

00:33:34.780 They will tell you from the store.

00:33:37.260 Yes, but where does the store get it?

00:33:39.080 From the meat place.

00:33:41.280 What is meat?

00:33:42.260 They can't tie it to a farm.

00:33:44.560 They can't tie it to an animal.

00:33:47.860 We're not preparing our children for anything.

00:33:55.220 You will fall to the level of your preparation.

00:33:59.380 You will not rise to the level of your expectations.

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00:36:43.180 Welcome to the program.

00:36:51.140 There is another armed and dangerous shooter at a mall in Massachusetts today.

00:36:58.140 They are shutting things down.

00:37:01.100 We'll give you the latest on that.

00:37:02.860 Also, are we now at war with Russia?

00:37:06.200 What does this mean?

00:37:08.140 We go to the experts next.

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00:37:40.280 One more step closer to war.

00:37:43.500 The world is still moving in a very dangerous direction.

00:37:50.040 The Russians have just cut off our communication and coordination between our planes and said

00:37:56.940 this morning that if we cross into Syria airspace, anything west of the Euphrates,

00:38:04.320 they will shoot it down.

00:38:06.380 At the same time, they shut down our coordination.

00:38:10.520 We've always had communication with them saying,

00:38:14.320 okay, we're going here.

00:38:16.320 Wait a minute.

00:38:16.800 I see one of your planes.

00:38:17.920 No, no, no.

00:38:18.260 That's a mistake.

00:38:18.920 Don't shoot at us.

00:38:19.820 They shut that down. 0.81

00:38:21.540 The world is a much more dangerous place than it was while you were sleeping.

00:38:27.280 We'll give you all the details and so much more right now.

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00:38:52.640 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:38:56.400 Hello, America.

00:39:00.540 Welcome to the Glenn Beck Program.

00:39:01.720 I'm so glad that you're here.

00:39:04.020 There is some news that happened over the weekend with the president's new attorney,

00:39:12.540 an actual friend of the program.

00:39:15.740 We'll give you the details on that coming up in just a second.

00:39:19.620 Also, high schools now are starting to abandon their valedictorian because,

00:39:26.340 and I'm quoting, competition is bad.

00:39:31.280 Some really amazing stats that you need to look at on why some very, very smart people say

00:39:39.580 the economy is not what everybody says it is, at least for the stock market.

00:39:46.940 Five predictions from very smart investors on why they say we should be watching

00:39:52.880 and what we should be watching for the stock market to crash.

00:39:56.980 And Elon Musk says he wants to link computers to our brains

00:40:00.980 to prevent a threat to humanity.

00:40:06.020 This is fascinating.

00:40:08.100 He said, everybody else is going for artificial intelligence.

00:40:13.200 Why don't we instead link our brains to computers? 0.52

00:40:18.920 That way, the computer won't see us as a threat.

00:40:24.180 It will see us as part of it.

00:40:28.860 Okay.

00:40:29.760 Okay, that sounds good.

00:40:31.180 Okay.

00:40:32.160 You know, part of that does sound really great.

00:40:34.440 Yes, it does.

00:40:34.820 I mean, boy, wouldn't it be great to be able to process anything that you wanted to process?

00:40:40.200 It would be pretty amazing if we could actually use, you know, our entire brain.

00:40:46.480 If it worked both ways, if the computer could download into you a foreign language

00:40:51.520 or something that you would almost instantly know.

00:40:53.440 Yes.

00:40:53.860 That would be great.

00:40:54.660 It would be amazing.

00:40:55.800 Yeah.

00:40:56.100 It would be amazing.

00:40:56.920 And hard to resist.

00:40:59.100 Yeah.

00:40:59.980 Almost impossible because everybody would be doing it.

00:41:02.840 Just like, what's-his-face from Google says, everybody will be doing it.

00:41:07.420 Yeah.

00:41:07.960 It recurs well.

00:41:08.840 Yeah, it recurs well.

00:41:09.940 You'll be an outdated model.

00:41:13.320 You'll be a Model T.

00:41:14.980 I mean, there's-

00:41:16.080 You'll realize that to succeed in business and in life, you'll have to do it because everybody

00:41:22.060 else is.

00:41:23.240 But wouldn't it be interesting if you wanted to live the life you're living right now that

00:41:31.200 we would be considered the Amish?

00:41:34.920 Yeah.

00:41:35.760 Because that's the way it would be.

00:41:37.060 It would.

00:41:37.360 And any just society would not see the Amish as a threat. 0.97

00:41:42.540 Any just society would say, just leave me alone. 0.99

00:41:45.540 Just leave me alone.

00:41:46.380 I don't want anything to do with you guys and your laws and that crazy stuff that you guys

00:41:52.220 are doing.

00:41:52.680 We're just going to live over here by ourself.

00:41:54.380 I don't think this society would allow that to happen.

00:42:00.400 What was that really awful movie with, what's-her-face, Johansson, Scarlett Johansson was in it. 1.00

00:42:09.200 The Island?

00:42:09.520 And it was-

00:42:10.580 No.

00:42:11.080 No, it was done by the Chinese.

00:42:14.440 It wasn't the best.

00:42:15.360 Ghost in the Machine.

00:42:15.880 Ghost in the Machine.

00:42:16.940 Oh, that was bad.

00:42:17.820 Horrible.

00:42:18.260 But it was along these lines.

00:42:19.600 Yeah.

00:42:19.740 Everybody was part computer.

00:42:21.920 Yeah.

00:42:22.700 And-

00:42:23.440 Got a problem with that?

00:42:24.860 Yeah.

00:42:25.500 It didn't turn out well for them.

00:42:27.400 It didn't turn out well.

00:42:28.780 Well, we don't know because it still has- I mean, there's another chapter or 10 to see.

00:42:33.900 Oh, yes.

00:42:34.640 Right.

00:42:34.860 The thing is we don't know because no one saw it outside of U2.

00:42:38.580 This is a gigantic-

00:42:40.060 I see almost every movie made, so-

00:42:43.960 Mm-hmm.

00:42:44.780 But it was-

00:42:46.140 It was really bad.

00:42:47.500 Really bad.

00:42:47.880 It was really bad.

00:42:48.820 But it wasn't made for us.

00:42:50.120 It was made for the Asian markets, so enough of that. 1.00

00:42:54.260 Now, we have moved to a new place overnight.

00:43:02.400 We shot down a Syrian fighter.

00:43:05.880 This is the first time.

00:43:08.100 We have just been tolerating this kind of action for years.

00:43:13.740 Under Obama, this is just the way it was.

00:43:16.180 You can do anything to us.

00:43:17.460 We're not going to do anything to you.

00:43:19.440 Well, Syrian fighter and an American fighter meet, and we shoot it down.

00:43:25.700 Was it the right thing?

00:43:26.740 Was it the wrong thing?

00:43:28.880 It just, at this point, is.

00:43:30.860 So, when that story broke, the immediate thought, at least from me, was, uh-oh, what does that mean?

00:43:40.660 The game has changed.

00:43:42.380 Now, there's something to be said for being Americans and saying, hey, we have these lines, but I personally would like to know when we're going to change those lines.

00:43:55.340 I'd like, I'd like some discussion to happen that, oh, by the way, we're going to, we're perceiving this as escalating, I'm sorry, they're perceiving this as an escalation of war.

00:44:10.820 I would imagine that we all perceive this as, no, we're just holding our own.

00:44:15.900 That's not the way the Russians and the Syrians see it, and I'm not really concerned about the Syrians. 0.84

00:44:21.560 I am concerned about the Russians. 1.00

00:44:23.980 The Iranians have pretty much swept through Iraq. 1.00

00:44:33.420 We've pretty much lost Iraq, and we've lost Iraq not to ISIS. 0.96

00:44:41.280 ISIS, we are actually fighting back and making some progress.

00:44:45.440 It's the Syrian, oh, sorry, it is the, um, the Iranians who are a horrible terrorist lot that are now all the way across Iraq and now starting to penetrate the Syrian border below us, below the Euphrates River in Iraq and Syria. 1.00

00:45:08.500 So what the Kurds, and not the good Kurds, but the bad Kurds, the Syrian Kurds are bad Kurds. 0.96

00:45:17.180 They don't even speak the same language.

00:45:18.960 They're both Kurds, but their nations or their peoples have been separate since the early 20th century.

00:45:26.520 We separated them, they don't speak the same language. 0.98

00:45:29.640 They are Marxist, Leninist, radicals, and terrorists.

00:45:34.280 Because they're against Turkey and Syria, we love them, and we're arming them, which we shouldn't be doing. 0.99

00:45:45.280 But they're also against the Iranians, so they're our friends. 1.00

00:45:50.700 This is going to come and bite us in the ass. 0.99

00:45:52.800 It's the typical mess that we get into almost every time. 1.00

00:45:56.140 Every time.

00:45:56.900 Every time.

00:45:57.460 We, I mean, that's what Benghazi was about, guys.

00:46:00.120 Make no mistake.

00:46:00.800 We were arming ISIS. 0.98

00:46:04.140 We were taking guns from Libya, running them through Benghazi, putting them on a ship, sending them to Turkey, bringing them across the border, and arming ISIS. 0.93

00:46:16.240 That's what Benghazi is about.

00:46:20.340 This is going to happen again. 0.87

00:46:21.820 And we are now arming these really bad communist, revolutionary killers.

00:46:31.100 And nobody seems to have a problem with it.

00:46:32.980 Is there any explanation as to why we're arming Syrian Kurds?

00:46:36.620 It's because they're fighting against the Syrian regime, right?

00:46:39.280 They're fighting against the Syrian regime, and they're also fighting against ISIS.

00:46:42.980 And so, instead of actually doing our job the way we could do our job, we're having some, we're arming people by proxy.

00:46:53.540 How do you even fight on the right side of this?

00:46:55.580 You can't.

00:46:56.580 There's no right side of the Syrian conflict.

00:46:59.520 None.

00:47:00.120 So, what are we doing there?

00:47:01.840 Right.

00:47:02.280 What are we doing?

00:47:03.060 You want to fight for Turkey? 0.88

00:47:04.420 No.

00:47:04.820 No.

00:47:05.180 Do you want to fight for Syria? 0.52

00:47:06.240 No.

00:47:06.760 Do you want to fight for ISIS?

00:47:07.920 No.

00:47:08.320 Do you want to fight for the Syrian Kurds, who are Marxist, revolutionary terrorists? 0.83

00:47:13.420 No.

00:47:14.660 Who are you fighting for?

00:47:16.580 Who are you fighting with?

00:47:18.240 The only ones I want to fight with are the Christians in Iraq and the Kurds in Iraq. 1.00

00:47:29.360 They are all pro-freedom.

00:47:32.040 They all understand that.

00:47:33.900 They're not running.

00:47:35.680 They don't want to run.

00:47:36.680 They just want to get up north to some safety, to where they can get some arms, and they are fighting.

00:47:45.340 Those guys I want to help, but those aren't the guys we're helping.

00:47:48.620 I don't know why we're not helping them, but the only good guys in the region, we've decided not to help.

00:47:55.660 So, they're on their own.

00:47:56.180 They're the ones we've continually not helped, ever since the first Gulf War. 0.98

00:47:59.360 Yeah, they're the ones, we shoot down a Syrian jet today, but we don't give them a no-fly zone. 1.00

00:48:07.220 We don't help them at all.

00:48:08.920 It's crazy what we've done to the Kurds, and not the Syrian Kurds. 0.97

00:48:13.080 You have to understand, the Syrian Kurds are bad. 1.00

00:48:16.620 The Iraqi Kurds are good.

00:48:18.960 Really good.

00:48:19.720 So, now, there is a no-fly zone for Americans.

00:48:26.580 If we cross the Euphrates River to the west, if we cross the Euphrates River, Russia has said they will shoot down any of our planes.

00:48:39.120 They have also, because this is a tight zone, I mean, it is really easy.

00:48:45.880 You're on one side of the river, boom, you're on the other side of the river that fast.

00:48:49.340 Imagine, you're going 500 miles an hour.

00:48:51.960 You cross a river in lightning speed.

00:48:55.500 So, we've always had a communication center set up between ourselves, because there are too many jets,

00:49:03.260 and there are too many chances for mistakes to be made.

00:49:06.440 And so, we have a communication center.

00:49:09.420 Russia has one, we have one.

00:49:11.460 And it's like a hotline.

00:49:13.420 And if one of the jets crosses a border, crosses some zone, they pick up the phone, or we pick up the phone and say,

00:49:22.280 hey, hey, hey, we're about to shoot down, what are your intents?

00:49:25.920 And then, immediately, the answer is given.

00:49:29.400 Don't shoot it down, or yeah, we're doing nefarious things, or whatever it is.

00:49:34.220 Take this.

00:49:35.340 Because we know when there's a mistake, and we've turned back jets over and over and over again.

00:49:42.080 Because of the firing on the Syrian jet today, Russia has taken that away, and now said,

00:49:49.940 we will shoot down anything that crosses the Euphrates River.

00:49:53.440 So, this is the war, I talked about this last week, this is the war that is coming. 0.53

00:49:59.800 And the war that is coming is on the southern border of Syria, northern border of Iraq, sorry, northwestern,

00:50:08.680 southwestern border of Iraq, just before the Euphrates.

00:50:14.500 So, if you would look at a map, it's a crescent shape, and that's what Iran is after. 0.85

00:50:21.900 They're going for a crescent control of that whole region, from Iran, through Iraq, to Syria, up to Turkey. 0.89

00:50:31.240 They want to control that.

00:50:34.100 Well, Turkey wants to control Turkey, Syria, into Iraq.

00:50:39.780 So, they're both coming down exactly the same way.

00:50:43.020 And we're arming people that, the Kurds, in Syria, that also want their own nation in Syria and Turkey.

00:50:55.200 So, we're arming the people who are against not only Syria, Iran, ISIS, but also against Turkey. 0.98

00:51:03.200 That's why Turkey wants all of them dead. 0.87

00:51:05.220 We are on the wrong side, because, as Pat said, there is no right side here. 0.99

00:51:11.780 There is no right side.

00:51:15.040 And I just want you to know, you are one step closer to total chaos in the Middle East. 0.85

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00:53:01.620 Glenn Beck Program.

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00:53:07.440 Mercury.

00:53:10.920 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:53:13.840 Yeah.

00:53:15.480 It's crazy.

00:53:16.900 It's crazy.

00:53:17.540 Hello and welcome to the program.

00:53:18.780 We are so glad that you have joined us.

00:53:22.920 I have to tell you, last week we had a bunch of students in for a two-week period.

00:53:30.300 We have new students coming in for leadership training in two more weeks.

00:53:35.360 I'm sorry.

00:53:35.880 Next week.

00:53:37.200 And we really urge you to find out about this and help support us in this.

00:53:43.760 You can do that by going to mercuryone.org and making a donation there.

00:53:47.960 This is a leadership training for 18 to 25-year-olds.

00:53:52.160 These guys that came in last week, I spent Friday afternoon with them.

00:53:56.440 They are ready to go home and tear it up.

00:54:03.760 We had one guy who was an agnostic and still left an agnostic, I think.

00:54:11.920 But I asked him, I said, so what was the thing that you really came away with?

00:54:16.160 And he said, how important the Bible was to the foundation of our country.

00:54:23.080 He said, you know, I've always heard it.

00:54:24.600 It was a Christian nation, blah, blah, blah. 1.00

00:54:25.960 And he said, and it's agnostic, you know.

00:54:28.880 But here's how I know now that this was the foundation of the country.

00:54:36.860 And I know how that is meant.

00:54:40.100 The number one thing that I heard was from these kids.

00:54:45.780 And they're all, you know, some of them, I can't call them kids.

00:54:49.080 Two of them, maybe three of them were teachers.

00:54:52.040 Teachers.

00:54:52.400 One of them was a history teacher.

00:54:53.560 One of them was an English teacher.

00:54:54.720 And I don't remember the other one.

00:54:55.580 And I said, what did you get?

00:55:02.320 Have to go back to original sources.

00:55:04.100 You can't read anything that is somebody's opinion on somebody's opinion on somebody's opinion.

00:55:10.440 You have to go back to the original sources.

00:55:12.740 A. Game over once you start teaching that.

00:55:15.640 Once people start to realize, oh, wait a minute, there is truth.

00:55:18.840 Second thing I heard a lot was our generation is looking for truth.

00:55:26.280 Just nobody's telling us where to find it.

00:55:28.980 And third, I heard this from almost everybody.

00:55:33.000 I have completely miscast the Bible.

00:55:37.500 I have to go back and look and actually read the Bible.

00:55:42.620 What a concept.

00:55:43.740 What a concept.

00:55:44.200 Because it's not what they think it is.

00:55:51.220 We invite you to get involved and read more about it.

00:55:54.680 You can watch last Thursday's show on The Blaze to see these 18 to 20, 25-year-olds.

00:56:01.260 You're going to be very impressed.

00:56:03.240 These are just the leadership interns, if you will, the people who are coming in or training to lead the way.

00:56:10.740 Lead the way back to common sense.

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00:56:18.640 And do your own homework.

00:56:20.860 And it's all done by you and your donations at mercuryone.org.

00:56:24.300 And we thank you for that.

00:56:25.140 Now, in the opposite direction, schools now are abandoning the valedictorians.

00:56:31.340 It's so weird.

00:56:33.400 When I was in my hometown, was it the week before last?

00:56:38.300 Yeah.

00:56:38.700 And I went to my high school's website.

00:56:41.680 And I was kind of looking around.

00:56:43.660 And it had the valedictorian list.

00:56:48.480 25 valedictorians.

00:56:51.380 Wait.

00:56:51.640 Isn't valedictorian the...

00:56:54.440 It is the student who has the highest grades in that particular class who gives the graduation address.

00:57:02.300 Right.

00:57:02.980 Not the 25 students.

00:57:06.620 But, you know, I'm sure...

00:57:08.040 Were they all tied?

00:57:09.260 Apparently, they were all tied at the top.

00:57:13.340 And maybe they'll all give the graduation address together.

00:57:16.720 I'm not sure how that works.

00:57:18.220 Well, it's not.

00:57:19.680 So that's actually how this started.

00:57:21.640 It was...

00:57:22.220 Yeah.

00:57:22.560 There was a bleeding of...

00:57:24.060 Well, wait a minute.

00:57:25.180 I should get that, too.

00:57:26.680 My daughter should have... 1.00

00:57:28.080 My son is just as good...

00:57:30.100 You know that's what happened.

00:57:31.120 You know that's what happened.

00:57:32.000 So they all started to bleed into more and more and more valedictorians.

00:57:36.220 Now, schools are starting to say none whatsoever.

00:57:40.260 But not for the reason you might think.

00:57:42.420 Here we are.

00:57:44.720 The Glenn Beck Program.

00:57:48.280 Mercury.

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00:57:59.200 Hello, America.

00:57:59.980 According to the National Association of Secondary School Principals, nearly half of all high schools

00:58:05.960 in the United States no longer report any class rank.

00:58:10.560 Wow.

00:58:11.060 According to the Associated Press, the graduation tradition of naming a senior class valedictorian

00:58:17.680 is slowly fading into history.

00:58:20.700 In areas where the tradition continues, more students are being named at the head of the

00:58:25.200 class.

00:58:26.220 Helena, Montana.

00:58:27.480 How many...

00:58:27.860 Like the 25. 0.62

00:58:28.580 25 valedictorians.

00:58:29.460 How many people are in the Helen, Montana...

00:58:31.900 Well, in the graduating class, in my class, there was 460 or something.

00:58:36.900 So it's probably fairly sizable.

00:58:38.640 So here's...

00:58:39.320 Listen to this.

00:58:40.480 The reason is because administrators are recently concerned about, quote, unhealthy competition. 0.89

00:58:47.440 So ridiculous.

00:58:47.980 And students feeling pressure to perform better than their peers. 0.93

00:58:52.380 I know, because in real life, that never happens.

00:58:54.800 Never happens.

00:58:55.340 You don't have to compete with anybody for anything.

00:58:57.100 No.

00:58:57.520 Uh-uh.

00:58:57.900 Everything is just...

00:58:58.780 You know one of my favorite lines from Ghostbusters, the original Ghostbusters?

00:59:02.340 Do you know what it...

00:59:02.920 Jeffy...

00:59:03.760 Yeah, the Bill Murray line where he talks about they make you work out there, right?

00:59:06.880 Yeah.

00:59:07.060 No, he said...

00:59:07.700 No, it's Dan Aykroyd.

00:59:08.960 Oh, okay.

00:59:09.600 Dan Aykroyd looks at him and says, you don't know what this means.

00:59:12.740 They expect results.

00:59:13.440 Yeah.

00:59:13.780 You don't know what it's like out in the private sector.

00:59:16.220 They expect results.

00:59:19.280 Did you see this?

00:59:20.120 The Tennessee school, a magnet school in Tennessee, awarded 48 valedictorians this

00:59:26.180 year, 25% of the graduating class.

00:59:30.100 High school in Columbia, Maryland, ranked the students but kept the results private to

00:59:34.220 each student.

00:59:35.400 Of course, the students couldn't keep quiet where they landed.

00:59:37.720 Two seniors from Hammond High School said that's what everybody talked about.

00:59:41.960 It makes everything 10 times more competitive.

00:59:45.640 Some parents...

00:59:47.700 Some parents don't like the competition, saying students place too much emphasis on rankings

00:59:55.440 and it can lead to negative perceptions of themselves.

00:59:58.840 Oh, no.

00:59:59.140 You know what?

00:59:59.340 Can I tell you something?

01:00:00.120 Oh, my God.

01:00:00.320 You know what leads to negative perceptions about yourself?

01:00:03.780 Living under a bridge.

01:00:05.020 That one.

01:00:06.180 That...

01:00:06.700 You will be like, I'm a homeless person.

01:00:09.840 No, no, no, you're not.

01:00:11.600 No, you're not.

01:00:13.260 You are a person who has connected with the outdoors.

01:00:19.020 Oh, I feel so much better now.

01:00:21.580 I'm a homeless person.

01:00:24.720 Yes, because mommy and daddy never taught you about competition.

01:00:28.160 Competition is good.

01:00:32.260 Competition, you know, this is why I really like cross-country training, is competition

01:00:39.220 is be the...

01:00:40.940 I know.

01:00:41.480 Well, that's why I'm so fit.

01:00:42.940 Competition is about being better yourself.

01:00:47.080 Can you better what you just did?

01:00:49.540 Better your time?

01:00:52.080 That's...

01:00:52.480 That's...

01:00:53.160 I mean, yes.

01:00:54.340 Is there going to be a winner?

01:00:55.360 Yes.

01:00:55.780 But are you better?

01:00:59.200 Can you beat your own personal time?

01:01:02.180 Can you be better?

01:01:04.100 Yes.

01:01:06.000 This whole idea that I don't have any responsibility to be my best self, that I don't have any responsibility

01:01:15.420 to compete in life, how do you think we got the light bulb?

01:01:20.980 That was a literal competition between people in France, people in the United States, Edison, Tesla.

01:01:32.040 I mean, people were competing to be the first one to bring a light bulb.

01:01:36.640 What do you think Tesla is all about?

01:01:38.680 Being the first to go to Mars.

01:01:41.580 What do you think...

01:01:43.000 You know, what do you think Apple is all about?

01:01:45.740 Competing against Google and Microsoft and everybody else, plus the competition within the company itself, there's going to be a ton of competition.

01:01:56.920 No, there's not.

01:01:58.080 They all get participation trophies.

01:02:00.060 Yes.

01:02:00.980 Right.

01:02:01.340 Everybody lives in a very big house.

01:02:03.960 Nobody drives any other car.

01:02:05.560 Well, in this particular case, it's true.

01:02:07.480 Everybody drives a Prius.

01:02:08.620 But everybody has exactly the same stuff.

01:02:12.840 It's all equal outcomes.

01:02:14.280 Steve Jobs, he didn't have more money than everybody else.

01:02:17.040 Yeah, I think you're going to find that's not the case.

01:02:18.640 No, there was no competition there.

01:02:20.200 Not the case.

01:02:20.680 No, no competition.

01:02:22.340 Even as liberal as Bill Gates is, he's got a 52,000 square foot home.

01:02:27.600 It's a little bit bigger than most of his employees.

01:02:29.960 Really?

01:02:30.300 No, I don't think so.

01:02:31.760 For sure?

01:02:32.800 No, here's the truth.

01:02:34.400 Stop listening to him.

01:02:35.780 Here's the truth.

01:02:36.380 He takes Leonardo da Vinci's codex, and everybody gets it over their fireplace for a month.

01:02:43.120 If you work at Microsoft, everyone gets to hang Leonardo da Vinci's codex over their fireplace for a month.

01:02:50.260 Whether you're the janitor or...

01:02:52.060 And there's no competition for it.

01:02:54.400 It's just alphabetically assigned.

01:02:59.240 Every employee is just guaranteed to receive it.

01:03:02.460 Yes, guaranteed to receive it.

01:03:04.000 You hang it over your...

01:03:05.200 No matter what the deal is.

01:03:06.580 You could be the employee that's on your way out.

01:03:09.220 Doesn't matter.

01:03:09.960 Wow.

01:03:10.260 You could be the employee that's stealing from the company.

01:03:13.080 Doesn't matter.

01:03:13.980 You get it.

01:03:14.740 Now, again, it's alphabetically assigned, but they...

01:03:18.200 Just because that is showing preference, they shuffle the alphabet.

01:03:22.520 Oh, that's good.

01:03:23.080 So, and it always lands on Gates, or Jobs, or whatever.

01:03:29.340 It would be Gates.

01:03:30.580 Gates.

01:03:30.940 Gates.

01:03:31.400 Why the lies?

01:03:32.720 Well, it's interesting, because you are the one that was propagating this idea that stealing

01:03:36.760 is something that's possible, indicating you believe in ownership, private ownership of

01:03:41.560 material.

01:03:42.460 There's no such thing.

01:03:43.360 I'm sorry.

01:03:43.800 That was the old Glenn coming out.

01:03:46.280 Thank you.

01:03:47.000 I'm glad finally you see that.

01:03:48.420 It's funny.

01:03:48.700 They don't see competition as helpful.

01:03:52.020 I mean, how do you not?

01:03:54.060 I mean, look at all the benefits that have come out of it.

01:03:56.340 Well, here's what I think the average person doesn't look and see as helpful.

01:04:02.580 The competition, the way we have it, we used to believe in this country that it is your

01:04:12.000 personal responsibility to be your best, to make your own way, to not be a burden on

01:04:20.160 others, and that you had a blessing of getting an education.

01:04:28.140 Now, it's not that.

01:04:29.860 Now, it is, especially you go to places like New York, the parents will shiv you for a spot

01:04:39.120 in a pre-nursery school, because that pre-nursery school will lead you to the right kindergarten, which

01:04:47.000 will lead you to the primary school and the secondary school, and you'll be able to get

01:04:52.380 into Harvard.

01:04:52.920 But if you drool too much in the pre-nursery school, they will tell you this is a sign

01:05:00.520 that they're not going to make it to Harvard, and they really need to stop drooling so much.

01:05:05.760 They're five months old.

01:05:10.020 I mean, that's the unhealthy competition.

01:05:13.360 I think a lot of these parents, though, can't see beyond just their feelings right now, of

01:05:18.120 feeling like, oh, gosh, I'm not number one in the class, so I'm worthless.

01:05:23.760 Well, they're going to have to deal with that.

01:05:25.360 They're going to have to deal with that in life.

01:05:27.360 And I don't know that they're looking forward.

01:05:29.340 They're so short-sighted.

01:05:31.260 But it is, again, the parents.

01:05:33.440 What happened when the school said, keep this to yourself?

01:05:36.500 All the kids, they know they're competing.

01:05:40.140 It's natural.

01:05:41.380 Who's better at this?

01:05:42.940 You can't play sports unless it's always a tie.

01:05:46.700 And even then, you're going to know, when this guy gets up, he is going to slam this thing

01:05:51.040 out of the park.

01:05:52.880 We all have different skills.

01:05:55.380 And sports, along with, you know, valedictorian races, it's a good, meaningless thing to teach

01:06:03.520 that lesson on, right?

01:06:04.900 Like, losing a sporting event in the grand scheme of your life is not that big of a deal,

01:06:08.600 but it's a great way to learn the lesson of how to react after you lose.

01:06:12.400 It's a great way to learn a lesson of how to work harder in the future.

01:06:15.820 And it's about the parents spinning that the right way for the child to help them understand

01:06:21.520 and deal with that.

01:06:22.260 And it's also important to understand, it's also important to understand this, and I think

01:06:26.820 this is a great stat.

01:06:27.840 Just read this one a couple of weeks ago.

01:06:30.060 Valedictorians are not, generally speaking, the movers and the shakers of the next generation.

01:06:38.660 They generally, they'll get good jobs, but they're generally not the ones who are the big entrepreneurs,

01:06:44.940 they're not the big money makers, et cetera, et cetera.

01:06:47.860 Because of this, they are taught exactly what to think.

01:06:55.940 They live in this box that is structured by college and high school.

01:07:04.200 And really, honestly, what are you learning in high school?

01:07:07.080 You're memorizing dates.

01:07:08.360 You're taught to learn skills that you will never, ever use again.

01:07:13.920 Not the information.

01:07:16.200 The test-taking skills.

01:07:19.160 The memorization of dates and names and places.

01:07:22.520 When does that come in handy?

01:07:25.740 So it makes, I mean, it's not without value, right?

01:07:28.380 Like, a lot of these people are making $100,000 a year at good jobs and discipline and hard

01:07:33.280 work well within the system, and there's a lot there.

01:07:36.140 But I was listening to an interview with a guy who started Five Guys in the burger place.

01:07:40.480 It was a financial services guy.

01:07:42.340 Goes in, decides he wants to start a burger place in New Jersey.

01:07:45.660 I think it was New Jersey.

01:07:47.040 And he, or no, Virginia, Virginia.

01:07:49.200 And he starts it, and he lets his kids pick out all the ingredients.

01:07:53.240 You pick the best-tasting mayonnaise.

01:07:55.400 Won't tell them anything about food cost.

01:07:57.380 Won't tell them which one's more expensive, because he wants them to just pick the best one.

01:08:00.480 They pick the best one. 0.96

01:08:01.640 This is a ridiculous way to run a business. 0.96

01:08:04.220 They go to name the business. 0.97

01:08:05.880 He has four kids.

01:08:06.800 He's like, I don't know.

01:08:07.360 Let's call it Five Guys.

01:08:08.280 We'll change it later.

01:08:09.360 Now there's 1,500 locations.

01:08:11.720 Because he decided he wanted to go, and he believed in the quality of the product.

01:08:17.000 He decided to work hard and do it in a different way.

01:08:21.260 He wasn't.

01:08:21.740 So here's an interesting phrase that I'd like to share that kind of goes into that.

01:08:27.380 Everybody says, think out of the box.

01:08:29.300 You've got to think out of the box.

01:08:30.300 You've got to think out of the box.

01:08:31.220 Yes, if that box is flawed and doesn't provide you anything but the same rubber stamp.

01:08:41.920 But you don't want to think out of the box if you're creating a business.

01:08:46.480 You want to create a new box.

01:08:49.040 You have to have framework.

01:08:53.580 Like, I can't go into Five Guys.

01:08:55.240 I know what it looks like and say, you know what we're going to do?

01:08:58.140 We're going to put up some fake grapes on the side here because it'll look kind of,

01:09:03.120 we'll attract those people who usually go to an Italian restaurant.

01:09:06.640 And we're going to put some of those really cheesy Chinese lamps hanging from the ceiling too

01:09:12.180 because we'll attract those.

01:09:13.520 No, they have a box.

01:09:15.760 They have a box.

01:09:17.140 We're Five Guys.

01:09:18.100 It looks like this.

01:09:19.720 This is what we serve.

01:09:22.020 The secret is, forget the box.

01:09:26.400 Design your own box and stay within your own box.

01:09:31.200 But nobody's teaching that.

01:09:33.040 Everybody teaches, get out of the box, which says there are no rules.

01:09:37.780 There are rules.

01:09:38.900 But in today's day, you have to find the rules that are eternal, like theft shouldn't be part of our business model.

01:09:50.620 Yes, no, it's true.

01:09:52.340 It's true. 0.95

01:09:52.680 And every one of the interviews with one of these crazy CEOs does something different.

01:09:57.240 There are 500 stories of people who tried these things and failed.

01:10:00.680 But that's the difference.

01:10:02.780 That part of it is important.

01:10:04.480 Many of those failures came from the same people who wound up succeeding later.

01:10:09.040 You have to be able to embrace that failure.

01:10:11.100 Did that hurt their self-esteem for a little while?

01:10:12.640 Maybe.

01:10:13.300 It might have.

01:10:13.900 It should.

01:10:15.060 But they overcame it.

01:10:16.240 They overcame it and did things differently.

01:10:17.780 Wow.

01:10:18.100 You mean that's possible?

01:10:19.500 There is.

01:10:20.120 I have learned much more. 0.96

01:10:22.300 That's ridiculous.

01:10:22.920 I've learned much more from my failings than I ever have from my successes. 0.80

01:10:27.380 Because my successes don't make me question anything.

01:10:30.840 My successes go, dig me.

01:10:32.580 Look at this.

01:10:33.960 Huh?

01:10:34.160 How great is that?

01:10:36.120 I don't actually know what caused my success here or there.

01:10:41.680 I can speculate. 0.70

01:10:43.120 But I haven't had to put like, oh crap. 0.77

01:10:46.720 Honey, I don't know why we're successful. 0.85

01:10:50.240 How did we succeed?

01:10:52.000 Where did we go right?

01:10:54.320 I haven't done any of that.

01:10:56.240 Every time I have a failure, I am going, where did we go wrong?

01:11:00.720 Success teaches you very little.

01:11:04.900 Failure teaches you almost everything important if you choose to view it that way.

01:11:11.000 And now this.

01:11:12.000 In the time it takes to complete this sentence, a home burglary has occurred in the United States.

01:11:18.340 Most happen between 10 AM and 3 PM.

01:11:22.940 So we are at the peak stealing times.

01:11:26.000 Don't spend your work day worried about intruders in your home.

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01:11:40.600 Here's what happens.

01:11:41.160 You go to the website, you pick out what you need, you're smart enough to do it, they give you recommendations, they have packages, but you can count the windows and doors and you know where people are coming in.

01:11:51.200 And if you need, do you have glass in your house?

01:11:53.800 Maybe you should have glass break sensors, at least on the first floor.

01:11:57.580 Do you worry about fire?

01:11:58.960 You need a fire sensor.

01:12:00.600 Where should it put?

01:12:01.580 They'll tell you where it should go.

01:12:03.580 Okay?

01:12:04.460 It's that easy.

01:12:05.940 Plus a high definition security camera.

01:12:08.920 Not one of those bad blurry ones.

01:12:10.640 This is high definition.

01:12:11.500 You can see everything.

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01:12:14.760 You install it.

01:12:16.100 There's no drilling, no holes, no wiring, none of it.

01:12:18.820 It's all wireless.

01:12:19.900 You start the base station and it tells you how to put it all together and how to put it for your windows and everything else.

01:12:26.640 In under an hour, I've done this.

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01:13:11.000 So we have a couple of minutes here.

01:13:13.600 Let's talk about the actual, is there something to I'm brokenhearted?

01:13:19.560 Scientists now say yes.

01:13:22.240 Yeah.

01:13:22.580 It's apparently something that you also maybe never heal from.

01:13:27.680 They've actually found physical changes to your heart that take place.

01:13:33.620 The British Heart Foundation just did a study.

01:13:36.660 And they say that a broken heart is provoked when the heart muscle is suddenly stunned,

01:13:42.720 which causes the left ventricle to change shape and is typically prompted by intense emotional stress.

01:13:50.440 So that affects the heart's ability to pump blood and there remains no known medical cure.

01:13:57.980 Unbelievable.

01:13:59.240 They show, they say.

01:14:00.200 I mean, that's amazing that we have always said for forever.

01:14:03.680 I mean, I bet you, I would love to see when me being heartbroken became part of the lexicon.

01:14:11.960 I bet you hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of years ago.

01:14:15.220 And now to find out scientifically that that's actually true.

01:14:18.780 Actually happening.

01:14:19.700 Is amazing.

01:14:20.720 Yeah.

01:14:21.380 Let's do some homework on that in the next seven minutes.

01:14:23.180 All right.

01:14:23.380 Also, we have a few really kind of fun updates for you that I think you'll enjoy coming up after the break.

01:14:31.120 I think you'll enjoy coming up after the break.

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01:15:08.180 Hello, America.

01:15:09.260 Welcome to the Glenn Beck Program.

01:15:11.660 Elon Musk wants to link computers to our brains.

01:15:16.220 And he says that's to protect us.

01:15:18.400 And I actually believe he is correct on that.

01:15:22.280 We'll get to that if we have time this hour.

01:15:24.680 There's a lot going on.

01:15:26.300 It's going to collapse.

01:15:27.900 There are five predictions from some really smart investors that you need to be aware of.

01:15:37.100 Because all of them are saying there's a lot of scenarios that make this whole house cards come tumbling down.

01:15:45.380 One of them is, I don't know, war. 0.92

01:15:47.440 Things have changed since you maybe even got to work or left for work today.

01:15:55.040 And that is, the U.S. shot down a fighter jet from Syria.

01:16:00.440 And Russia has now said, any American jet that crosses the Euphrates, we're taking down.

01:16:07.100 Oh, and by the way, we're getting rid of the hotline between our commanders.

01:16:12.140 The world is a much more dangerous place.

01:16:15.760 But I would say there was a little bit of progress made last night.

01:16:20.960 I begin there right now.

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01:16:44.200 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

01:16:50.760 So glad you've joined us today.

01:16:52.940 Let's start with Megyn Kelly. 0.92

01:16:55.500 Megyn Kelly did her controversial interview last night, which, my gosh, did the press help her out? 0.55

01:17:04.640 You know, everybody trying to tear her down.

01:17:08.020 That was the least controversial segment I think I've ever seen.

01:17:12.760 She handled that so well, I think, on behalf of the families of Sandy Hook.

01:17:16.780 I couldn't have been done any better by her.

01:17:18.980 No, I mean, and still, too, with Alex Jones, are you kidding me?

01:17:24.020 That was a puff piece compared to what she could have done.

01:17:27.140 Oh, my gosh.

01:17:28.160 She didn't bring up the most incendiary weirdness that he brings to the table.

01:17:32.660 The animal-human hybrids.

01:17:34.340 She didn't get into the weird sort of funny stuff.

01:17:36.120 The Sandy Hook stuff probably is the most incendiary thing.

01:17:38.740 Yeah, it probably is.

01:17:39.740 It probably is.

01:17:40.380 But she didn't get into the golden babies being roasted and eaten by the Bilderbergers or the owl people or whatever that is. 0.99

01:17:47.740 That's the owl people.

01:17:48.780 It's the owl people?

01:17:49.680 Yeah.

01:17:50.360 She didn't get into any of that.

01:17:51.400 That's Bohemian Grove.

01:17:52.740 Yeah.

01:17:53.340 Yeah.

01:17:54.540 Like you don't know.

01:17:57.540 I don't even honestly understand, and I didn't understand this last week, the argument as to why she shouldn't do this interview.

01:18:04.640 It's been done, you know, he's been profiled by other sources before that have been high profile.

01:18:10.240 No, just including the New York Times.

01:18:12.060 Everyone says it really is.

01:18:13.040 She's in a lose-lose situation.

01:18:14.420 There are so many people that just don't like Megyn Kelly now because they just thought that she was, you know, making this, you know, that it started with the first Trump question at the first debate. 0.97

01:18:24.700 Well, that's where she lost the right. 0.94

01:18:25.800 But the left didn't like her before that because she was on Fox and they saw her as too conservative, which I don't think, you know, she's not. 0.82

01:18:33.580 She's a journalist here.

01:18:34.940 But, you know, you see that as now she doesn't have the right allies or the left allies.

01:18:39.380 No, she's got nobody. 0.97

01:18:40.140 This is an absurd targeting.

01:18:42.000 The idea that you would say that she was doing something irresponsible by bringing up a guy.

01:18:46.200 First of all, the president went on her show.

01:18:48.200 And people are, you know, on his show.

01:18:51.960 And that was a pretty big deal at the time.

01:18:53.800 Secondarily, the other president, Obama, also called out Jones in the last campaign.

01:19:01.040 So we have two presidents on record talking about this guy.

01:19:05.940 So maybe you might want to know something about the lack of credibility.

01:19:10.860 I will say the way she presented the relationship between the president and Alex Jones with videotape, she didn't allege anything.

01:19:22.220 She asked him and, you know, and then she presented the evidence.

01:19:27.460 And I didn't even know that.

01:19:29.380 I thought that was pretty stunning.

01:19:31.020 Well, I mean, you don't know how much of this is Alex Jones lying because he's constantly.

01:19:35.080 No, no, no.

01:19:35.780 She said because he was he was constantly lying.

01:19:39.080 And did anybody else notice he didn't make eye contact with her when she would ask him a question, a tough question?

01:19:44.440 And he would break eye contact and he would look down and he would look around and then he would finish and he would look up at her.

01:19:50.060 And I mean, it was so shifty, a sweaty mess.

01:19:52.900 Yeah.

01:19:53.240 Well, I think that's the, you know, whatever he's on or and it's also partially Jeffy syndrome.

01:20:01.680 Yeah.

01:20:01.920 Yes.

01:20:02.160 But I mean, the idea that she was going to be like giving him some sort of credibility by this interview.

01:20:07.840 I mean, he looks terrible, look terrible.

01:20:09.740 He looked terrible.

01:20:10.500 Father's Day.

01:20:11.400 Terrible.

01:20:11.900 John Ronson, who we've had on the program before.

01:20:13.700 Yeah.

01:20:13.900 This is a guy who our first ever exposure to Alex Jones.

01:20:17.640 He came on the show when we were in Tampa, I believe.

01:20:20.200 Alex Jones.

01:20:20.700 No, John Ronson.

01:20:21.980 John Ronson.

01:20:22.820 And he wrote a book.

01:20:24.040 Sounds like a made up name.

01:20:25.400 John Ronson.

01:20:25.980 John Ronson.

01:20:26.460 Yeah.

01:20:26.640 Yeah.

01:20:26.820 But he's a great he's a great guy.

01:20:28.440 He's been on the show a few times.

01:20:29.180 He's been on the show a few times.

01:20:30.040 He was just on that's weird.

01:20:31.120 I used to talk to Ron Johnson quite a bit, but yeah, not a natural real name.

01:20:34.940 Yeah.

01:20:36.720 But anyway, he's he was just on our show.

01:20:39.480 He's the guy with the English accent.

01:20:40.940 Yeah.

01:20:41.760 He's really quite brilliant.

01:20:43.360 Yeah.

01:20:43.420 He wrote a book about people who get shamed on the Internet, which is why the most ever

01:20:46.400 the most recent reason we had him on.

01:20:48.460 Yeah.

01:20:48.920 However, he wrote a book and he went with Alex Jones.

01:20:52.640 Yeah.

01:20:53.220 This is back.

01:20:53.800 I don't know who he was.

01:20:54.760 The Bohemian Grove.

01:20:55.460 The Bohemian Grove to see the owl ceremony.

01:20:57.380 That's exactly when he did the bullhorn session.

01:21:00.040 About roasted golden babies being consumed by these guys.

01:21:03.980 Yeah.

01:21:04.280 That's the same.

01:21:04.940 Yeah.

01:21:05.060 The same.

01:21:05.520 Same time.

01:21:06.380 Same time.

01:21:06.660 I don't know the same time.

01:21:07.320 It was the same time.

01:21:07.780 I think it was the same time.

01:21:09.000 Anyway, long story short, this guy has known Alex Jones before anybody, anybody else has

01:21:13.020 in the media.

01:21:13.800 Yeah.

01:21:14.040 And he said that interview was the worst he's ever looked at an interview.

01:21:17.940 I believe that.

01:21:18.920 I mean, this is a guy who's been following him from long before any of us knew who he was.

01:21:23.320 Ron said that Megyn Kelly was.

01:21:24.820 The Megyn Kelly thing was the worst he's ever looked at an interview.

01:21:27.300 Well, we should, I mean, listen to this and you'll be the judge.

01:21:32.360 Here he is on InfoWars in December 2014.

01:21:35.260 But it took me about a year with Sandy Hook to come to grips with the fact that the whole

01:21:39.540 thing was fake.

01:21:40.800 You said the whole thing is a giant hoax.

01:21:43.860 How do you deal with a total hoax?

01:21:46.200 It took me about a year with Sandy Hook to come to grips with the fact that the whole

01:21:50.520 thing was fake.

01:21:52.060 I did deep research and my gosh, it just pretty much didn't happen.

01:21:58.280 At that point, and I do think there's some cover up and some manipulation, that is pretty

01:22:02.620 much what I believe.

01:22:03.400 But then I was also going into Devil's Advocate.

01:22:05.820 But then we know there's mass shootings.

01:22:07.560 Going into Devil's Advocate.

01:22:08.840 Yeah.

01:22:08.900 Okay, that is a weird series of sentences.

01:22:13.740 Okay, so at that time, I really did feel that way.

01:22:16.500 Yeah, but also there's some weird things going on.

01:22:20.100 And then I was also playing Devil's Advocate.

01:22:22.740 And then I also believed it did happen.

01:22:25.160 So I've really taken every position on every single possible.

01:22:28.120 But that's what he does.

01:22:29.120 He says all those things.

01:22:30.520 And then he says, well, at that time, I was only playing Devil's Advocate.

01:22:34.000 Clearly he was not.

01:22:35.280 He did believe it.

01:22:36.320 Oh, no, he did believe it and he was promoting it.

01:22:38.260 He believed it for months and months and months, if not years.

01:22:41.180 And by the way, he never in the interview actually says he doesn't believe it.

01:22:45.540 He's not.

01:22:46.200 That is true.

01:22:47.200 Listen, listen, listen to the bigger part.

01:22:48.920 No, I'm not.

01:22:49.620 If you wrongly went out there and said it was a hoax, that's wrong.

01:22:53.060 But what I already answered your question was, listeners and other people are covering

01:22:58.140 this.

01:22:58.460 I didn't create that story.

01:22:59.820 But Alex.

01:23:00.340 You're blaming listeners?

01:23:02.160 One after the other.

01:23:03.920 This is.

01:23:05.500 Devastated.

01:23:06.320 The dead bodies that the coroner autopsy.

01:23:09.580 And they've blocked all that and they won't release any of it.

01:23:11.700 That's unprecedented.

01:23:12.860 All of the parents decided to come out and lie about their dead children.

01:23:17.500 I didn't say that.

01:23:18.060 What happened to the children?

01:23:19.420 I will sit there on the air and look at every position and play Devil's Advocate.

01:23:24.120 Was that Devil's Advocate?

01:23:25.980 The whole thing is a giant hoax.

01:23:28.020 The whole thing was fake.

01:23:28.940 Yes, because I remember in, even that day, I'll go back from memory, then saying, but

01:23:36.160 then some of it looks like it's real.

01:23:38.320 But then what do you do when they've got the kids going in circles in and out of the building

01:23:41.980 with their hands up and watch the footage?

01:23:44.000 And it looks like a drill.

01:23:45.320 When you say.

01:23:46.380 Because we just looked at this footage.

01:23:48.520 In and out, the kids, he keeps referencing kids going around the building in circles.

01:23:53.040 What is that?

01:23:53.980 I mean, you know, it appears to just be people walking out of one side of a building and

01:24:00.540 walking into the other.

01:24:02.000 But not over and over again, just once.

01:24:04.620 Like, they walk out of one exit and walk into another entrance in a line, which is what

01:24:08.720 you would do if someone said, hey, we need you to walk to the front door.

01:24:11.480 There's another area you need to go to there.

01:24:13.700 Like, that's what it appears to be.

01:24:15.440 I mean, again, I don't know the full con.

01:24:17.520 And it's obviously, you know, manipulated like crazy online.

01:24:20.560 If it was a hoax, though.

01:24:21.440 It's not.

01:24:21.740 But look, why would that?

01:24:22.500 What would that mean?

01:24:23.420 Right.

01:24:23.620 What does it mean that they walked around the building?

01:24:25.360 Nothing.

01:24:25.620 What does that mean?

01:24:26.300 Nothing.

01:24:26.860 That's the point.

01:24:27.660 So weird.

01:24:28.460 And that's why I hate even looking this stuff up, because when you look it up, you're like, oh,

01:24:31.700 well, maybe this is true.

01:24:32.640 First of all, it's not.

01:24:33.420 Second of all, even if it was true, it would mean nothing. 0.99

01:24:36.640 You know, again, the 9-11 towers came down under this idiot's reasoning to throw us into 1.00

01:24:42.700 war with Iraq. 1.00

01:24:44.220 So why the hell didn't we blame Iraq for it? 1.00

01:24:47.500 Why the hell didn't George Bush come out the next day and say, you know what?

01:24:50.700 Who did this?

01:24:51.460 A guy from Iraq.

01:24:53.760 Why the hell didn't we go to war with Iraq right away? 0.99

01:24:57.200 Why did we waste time going to war with Afghanistan?

01:25:00.000 Why did we tell anyone about the Taliban?

01:25:01.900 Why didn't we just go to war with Iraq? 1.00

01:25:04.420 We all would have believed it, right?

01:25:06.600 If the president of the United States came out and said, Saddam Hussein, he tweeted something

01:25:11.820 even before Twitter that said, I'm going to take down the World Trade Center. 0.99

01:25:15.320 We all would have been like, holy crap. 0.98

01:25:17.120 Because Saddam Hussein is an obvious adversary. 0.97

01:25:19.620 He had done.

01:25:20.360 We'd already been to war with him.

01:25:21.920 He had tried to assassinate a former president.

01:25:24.000 We all would have believed that they were responsible.

01:25:27.220 In fact, people believed it even when we didn't say it.

01:25:30.020 Stu and I actually did our homework in 1998-99 on Osama bin Laden.

01:25:37.560 We knew who he was.

01:25:39.280 We knew that he had threatened New York.

01:25:41.680 We knew that he had threatened the financial district.

01:25:43.740 And when the World Trade Centers came down two years later, we said to each other, who

01:25:49.500 the hell would have done something like this?

01:25:51.560 We knew it.

01:25:52.820 We had done our homework.

01:25:54.620 And when they said it's Osama bin Laden, we were like, Osama bin Laden, who's it?

01:26:00.540 Hey, wait a minute.

01:26:01.760 Isn't that guy?

01:26:03.140 If we had done our homework, nobody knew.

01:26:06.740 Nobody knew.

01:26:07.600 Because we had even forgotten about it.

01:26:09.700 Nobody knew.

01:26:10.800 And of course, a lot of this goes on partisan lines.

01:26:14.080 If you remember correctly, which people don't today, about half of Democrats believed George

01:26:20.180 Bush either took down the World Trade Center or allowed it to happen to go to war with 0.97

01:26:25.680 Iraq, based largely on theories propagated by the moron Megyn Kelly is interviewing here. 0.98

01:26:30.940 This is not a right-wing thing. 0.97

01:26:33.660 The left half of Democrats believed this because they didn't like George Bush at the time.

01:26:39.780 Now, because Barack Obama became president, and then he started saying things about he

01:26:43.160 wasn't born here, and that he was doing all these other crazy things to our society, many

01:26:47.560 of which were not true, just like they weren't true against George W. Bush, people on the

01:26:52.580 right started embracing him because they were taking down someone the right didn't like.

01:26:58.640 That's not the way this is supposed to work.

01:27:00.900 You're supposed to actually analyze. 0.97

01:27:01.940 And this guy has done enough crap that you should always start at not believing him. 0.92

01:27:07.220 Always, 100% of the time when he says something, if he says the sky is blue, you should assume 0.98

01:27:13.300 it's green until confirmed otherwise.

01:27:15.820 Always.

01:27:16.840 His record is so lengthy on these things that there is no reason to ever believe anything

01:27:23.600 he says unless you see it from a thousand other sources.

01:27:26.960 You mean he's got an incredible reputation?

01:27:29.000 Oh, see, here's what's interesting.

01:27:30.500 Here's what's interesting is, and I think what we saw happening over the weekend is just

01:27:37.620 playing into this.

01:27:38.380 The GOP has come out last week and said they are going to run against the media in 18.

01:27:45.000 Yeah.

01:27:45.340 So what does that mean?

01:27:46.580 That means that they don't believe they're going to have an actual accomplishment to be

01:27:50.680 able to tout.

01:27:51.480 They just have to go against the media.

01:27:54.700 Yeah.

01:27:54.860 And why would they do that?

01:27:56.280 For a second reason, it's working.

01:27:59.740 People perceive the media as the big, big, bad boogeyman.

01:28:05.440 Okay.

01:28:06.300 Do they have problems?

01:28:07.540 Yes.

01:28:08.120 Do they have credibility?

01:28:09.380 No, in many cases.

01:28:11.020 In some, they do.

01:28:11.980 But because it was Megyn Kelly, who the right wants to hate, and the left already does, 0.97

01:28:21.020 she got pummeled from both sides, and we're not allowing ourselves to see the truth about

01:28:27.700 Alex Jones.

01:28:28.820 If you are on the right, you are giving him a pass because Megyn Kelly is persecuting him.

01:28:36.560 If you are on the left, you don't know which one is worse.

01:28:40.260 Megyn Kelly or Alex Jones.

01:28:44.860 We have to decide what truth is, and there is truth.

01:28:51.260 You can find it.

01:28:53.400 And the best way to do it is just to say, okay, in the last 5,000 years, what has worked and

01:29:04.540 what hasn't?

01:29:06.140 What has worked?

01:29:07.140 Well, a society where people say, I personally am not going to lie.

01:29:12.440 I personally am not going to cheat.

01:29:14.620 I personally am not going to steal.

01:29:16.500 I personally am not going to covet.

01:29:18.760 I personally am not going to mess around with somebody else's wife. 1.00

01:29:22.060 I personally am not going to kill.

01:29:24.140 Now, if you need somebody above you to say, a sky god with his boomstick, to say, don't

01:29:33.080 do those things, then that's good.

01:29:34.960 If it stops you from doing those things.

01:29:38.000 If you need nothing above you, you're just a really good person, and you're not going

01:29:43.600 to do any of those things, that's good.

01:29:46.060 Okay, I'm fine with that.

01:29:48.120 But if you think you need a government to be able to teach you not to lie, not to covet,

01:29:56.480 I guarantee you it will fail.

01:29:59.160 Why?

01:30:00.060 Because of 5,000 years of history.

01:30:03.440 Because the government covets.

01:30:05.660 The government steals.

01:30:08.040 The government lies.

01:30:11.020 The government murders.

01:30:14.340 Over 5,000 years, you have lots of evidence of that.

01:30:18.760 We have to find truth again.

01:30:21.540 And we have to pin ourselves and make ourselves morally responsible for that.

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01:32:02.420 Glenn Beck.

01:32:04.280 The fusion of entertainment and enlightenment.

01:32:09.280 The Glenn Beck Program.

01:32:15.140 Mercury.

01:32:17.860 We have a question from the feed.

01:32:24.540 From the feed, was Charlie Sheen's hernia a hoax, or was he playing devil's advocate,

01:32:30.040 referring to our Alex Jones?

01:32:32.000 Well, you know what?

01:32:32.600 I've seen your hernia.

01:32:36.400 I think that was real.

01:32:37.840 At the time it was real, but now, he's just playing devil's advocate.

01:32:43.880 I want to take your phone calls towards the second half of the hour, coming up in a few

01:32:50.120 minutes, 888-727-BECK.

01:32:51.880 I'd love to hear, if you watched the Megyn Kelly thing, I know a lot of people didn't

01:32:55.060 watch it, because they're still so mad at Megyn Kelly. 1.00

01:32:58.280 I really don't understand that.

01:32:59.600 I don't understand either, but a lot of people are really mad at Megyn Kelly, think she sold 0.96

01:33:04.460 out, went to NBC.

01:33:07.040 I think she did exactly the right thing.

01:33:09.040 By the way, I think Bill O'Reilly is finding out the best thing that ever happened to him

01:33:13.700 was leaving Fox News.

01:33:15.860 He announced over the weekend, he is, surprise, surprise, going to start his own newscast,

01:33:22.280 and it will be available at BillO'Reilly.com.

01:33:26.140 That's BillO'Reilly.com.

01:33:27.460 Man, who ever heard of something like that?

01:33:29.000 I know.

01:33:29.660 I talked to Bill, and I was so afraid he was going to go back into it, and I kept saying

01:33:33.020 to him, and I think this is why he sounds so happy.

01:33:35.860 He sure does.

01:33:36.620 He sounds really happy.

01:33:37.920 I mean, for Bill, he sounds happy.

01:33:39.060 Yes.

01:33:40.120 I think for a lot of Americans right now, he seems really happy. 0.99

01:33:44.220 He's the most miserable man in the world. 0.98

01:33:46.060 Yes, yeah. 1.00

01:33:46.480 He's like the Eeyore of broadcast professionals.

01:33:49.440 And he is, he really is.

01:33:53.000 But he sounds so happy, and I said to him, this is early on, he was like, you know, what

01:33:58.400 am I going to do?

01:33:59.060 I've got lots of options, but what am I going to do?

01:34:00.940 Blah, blah, blah.

01:34:01.360 And I'm like, Bill, do none of them.

01:34:04.440 Do none of them.

01:34:05.440 What?

01:34:06.040 Do none of them.

01:34:08.280 Let me explain the power that you now have.

01:34:13.180 No boss.

01:34:15.260 Zero boss.

01:34:16.720 Accept your audience.

01:34:18.100 Remain true to the audience, and you will never have to worry about it again.

01:34:26.420 Oh, that's...

01:34:28.600 Yeah, that's pretty tempting.

01:34:31.820 Yes, yes.

01:34:33.460 No one will ever tell you what to say, what not to say.

01:34:37.740 You never called into somebody's office saying, well, this person is a friend of this person,

01:34:42.200 and that's a...

01:34:43.000 Nope.

01:34:43.680 You're your own boss.

01:34:45.080 He's doing it, and I'm thrilled for him.

01:34:48.600 Bill O'Reilly.com.

01:34:50.140 The world is changing big, big time, and he's not going to be the last to come out on his own.

01:35:01.920 More in a second with Alex Jones, your phone calls, and so much more.

01:35:06.040 You're listening to the Glenn Beck Program.

01:35:15.740 Mercury.

01:35:19.440 The Glenn Beck Program.

01:35:21.660 I want to take a few phone calls, 888-727-BECK, 888-727-BECK.

01:35:26.560 Let's go to Carrie in South Carolina. 0.99

01:35:28.720 Hello, Carrie.

01:35:29.340 You're on the Glenn Beck Program.

01:35:30.780 Hello, Glenn.

01:35:31.780 Gentlemen, greetings from Southern South Carolina.

01:35:34.760 And I just want to say about education.

01:35:37.020 Like, there is...

01:35:37.760 I've been wondering when America was going to have enough.

01:35:40.220 And I think that there's a homeschooling revolution going on, and there are, you know,

01:35:46.220 parents who are all into their kids and not looking to warehouse their kids have had enough,

01:35:50.580 and they are pulling out.

01:35:51.580 And I will make a prediction that the kids are either going to be pushed out of the country,

01:35:57.800 or they're going to be martyred, or they're going to be running things in 20 years,

01:36:02.280 because they know how to think.

01:36:03.740 There's a generation coming up that knows how to think.

01:36:06.720 They've been raised mostly by two-parent households,

01:36:09.580 because single moms can't stay home and homeschool their kids most of the time. 1.00

01:36:14.100 And there is a revolution.

01:36:15.820 It's here.

01:36:16.640 And it's really exciting.

01:36:18.120 It is, Carrie, and I agree with you.

01:36:19.880 Thank you so much for your phone call.

01:36:21.060 There's an old joke that, Pat, you remember this?

01:36:23.160 I used to say this in the 90s.

01:36:24.860 I completely agree with you, and you want to fight so hard for everybody gets a ribbon and a trophy.

01:36:33.000 You are exactly right, because your kids have a very bright future.

01:36:39.000 And my kids are going to need your kid to be on the other side of the speaker when they say,

01:36:46.480 Yes, and extra fries, please.

01:36:51.060 But it is.

01:36:53.080 It's true.

01:36:53.680 I mean, your kids are being dumbed down, and there is a revolution happening, an education revolution that is happening. 0.88

01:37:00.780 Luke in Texas. 0.57

01:37:01.940 Hello, Luke.

01:37:02.420 You're on the Glenn Beck program.

01:37:04.420 Hey, good morning, gentlemen.

01:37:05.540 If I cough, it's because of the heat and dust in El Paso.

01:37:07.960 Yeah.

01:37:08.280 I'm kicking my tail.

01:37:09.100 So, first off, Jeffy, stay strong.

01:37:11.780 You're my boy.

01:37:13.800 Bless you.

01:37:14.280 Glenn, listen to you for years.

01:37:15.640 Just lost all credibility.

01:37:18.520 They're blabbing about something.

01:37:19.980 Go ahead.

01:37:20.460 Please, I'm trying to listen to Luke.

01:37:22.120 Glenn, you said a lot of stuff today that I'd like to connect.

01:37:25.200 But first off, I'm about to retire in 19 days from the Army.

01:37:28.220 I've done 20 years.

01:37:29.480 And that, paired with what you said this morning, I think a lot of stuff is important, talking about competition.

01:37:34.480 So, the ghostbusters phrase you used about how the private sector expects results, I'm going to tie that into the military.

01:37:40.340 You're talking about the pilots over the Euphrates, talking about losing the communications area.

01:37:44.800 And after reading Dreamers and Deceivers, I think everything kind of ties together.

01:37:48.760 So, in the Army, I want to talk about the Army.

01:37:52.140 When you go from Staff Sergeant Sergeant Sergeant First Class, that's E6, E7, the big Army has a board.

01:37:57.200 And they say, hey, we're going to look at everybody, possibly 30,000 Staff Sergeants who are eligible, and we're going to pick some.

01:38:04.480 So, when you get picked up for that, you may be in the top 6%.

01:38:07.540 Okay, so now you're in E7.

01:38:10.040 Now you're looking for E8.

01:38:11.140 And now you might be in the top 4% to get picked up.

01:38:13.980 So, I got selected at the Sergeant Majors Academy.

01:38:16.040 Weiss and I were going to retire instead, 2%.

01:38:18.960 And so, as this pyramid goes up, the Army is not dumb, and neither will the Marines or Navy and all that.

01:38:25.300 They want the top.

01:38:27.220 And everybody else that settles to mediocrity, they never get promoted.

01:38:30.860 So, now I'm thinking about these pilots over the Euphrates.

01:38:33.460 We want the people that are competitive.

01:38:35.740 We want the people that cared about, you know, leading soldiers and combat missions and all that stuff.

01:38:41.040 We don't want one of the 25 valedictorians from one of those states and schools you're talking about.

01:38:46.840 We all want that.

01:38:48.040 Dreamers and deceivers.

01:38:48.760 I love talking about Epcot Center and Disney.

01:38:51.240 I love talking.

01:38:52.620 Nobody on that Dreamers list was one of the 25 valedictors.

01:38:56.680 Oh, yeah.

01:38:57.220 I know.

01:38:57.620 And the last thing, your last caller there, talking about the homeschooling.

01:39:01.120 So, as I retire, we're taking our family to Indianapolis.

01:39:03.740 Never lived there.

01:39:04.900 It's in between my wife's folks and mine.

01:39:06.200 But I've chosen to teach 6th grade math at a charter school.

01:39:09.540 Never taught before, but I know that's what I want to do.

01:39:12.400 So, my five kids, we've been homeschooling.

01:39:14.680 And we've decided, if this charter school is good enough for me to teach, I'm going to take my three-ingers and go there.

01:39:19.600 And I am excited about the charter school and homeschooling experience.

01:39:22.600 But if I had to wrap it all up, Glenn, I appreciate you letting me get the microphone on this, we want the competition.

01:39:29.300 Those 25 valedictorians, those are 25 people that are going to put that on their resume for either a college or for a job.

01:39:36.700 And they have no clue, absolutely no clue how watered down that is.

01:39:41.200 And they're going to get a job somewhere, and they're going to expect them to perform, and they're going to fail, and then they're going to blame other people.

01:39:48.120 There's my two cents.

01:39:49.380 Thank you very much, Luke.

01:39:50.360 And thank you so much for your service.

01:39:52.600 To our country and to my family and all of our families for the last 20 years.

01:39:58.180 I will tell you that I have more respect for the military, I think, than I ever have.

01:40:05.900 Really knowing so many people now in the military, not that I ever thought that military people were dumb or anything like that, 0.95

01:40:15.720 But the quality, maybe it's because the population is getting so stupid, that the quality of military people, the military people that we know, they are all so much smarter than almost everybody I know. 0.98

01:40:33.600 Would you agree with that, Pat? 0.99

01:40:36.060 Definitely.

01:40:36.700 Definitely, yeah.

01:40:37.180 I mean, it's really remarkable.

01:40:40.040 It is.

01:40:40.480 How, you know...

01:40:41.380 You look at the guys we've had in here.

01:40:42.920 I mean, they're just...

01:40:43.460 Oh my gosh.

01:40:44.620 As articulate as you can get.

01:40:46.220 Marcus and his brother. 0.97

01:40:47.700 Oh yeah, a couple of killers.

01:40:49.360 Yeah, yeah.

01:40:50.380 Yeah, his brother is a doctor now.

01:40:53.680 Just went back.

01:40:54.580 He's a doctor.

01:40:55.360 I mean, these guys are just gigantic brains.

01:41:00.880 And, you know, that's why we have the military that we have.

01:41:04.760 That's why we have the protection that we do.

01:41:06.440 Let me go to James in Tennessee.

01:41:08.320 Hello, James.

01:41:08.780 You're on the Glenn Beck Program.

01:41:10.400 Hey, Glenn.

01:41:11.300 It's a honor to talk to you.

01:41:12.300 I can maybe disprove your little statement.

01:41:14.560 I got out of the military in 2001, not hearing anything about politics.

01:41:18.980 And then September 11th happened, and I started tuning in to you.

01:41:23.000 And it was never sick.

01:41:24.900 So I watched the Megyn Kelly interview yesterday.

01:41:27.860 And I've had conflicting thoughts on...

01:41:34.220 Because I would listen to...

01:41:35.540 In the Knoxville market, I'd listen to Glenn Beck from 9 to 12.

01:41:39.580 And then from 12 to 3, it would be Alex Jones.

01:41:44.120 And I did this throughout the 2016 election.

01:41:47.580 So it was always tough for me to listen.

01:41:50.420 But it was good.

01:41:51.040 I got both perspectives.

01:41:52.420 And I have respect for both of you guys.

01:41:54.480 I know he's a little bit more unhinged than you are.

01:41:57.120 But y'all both have so much in common in that, you know, there's been many a times when you're on Fox News that you were just, according to the mainstream media,

01:42:05.560 you were out there talking about, you know, the Middle East and, you know, the Arab Spring and all these things that were going on that were truthful that the mainstream media didn't want to report on.

01:42:15.040 And, you know, Alex is just a little bit further out there.

01:42:18.140 More than a little bit.

01:42:19.780 Well, when you get down to human-fish hybrids, you're probably a little more than... a little more out there.

01:42:28.560 But go ahead.

01:42:29.140 Well, I mean, you guys have some of the same interest in terms of, like, stopping, you know, child trafficking.

01:42:35.120 He's also involved in that.

01:42:37.340 I did a great job with that pizza restaurant.

01:42:39.580 Yeah.

01:42:39.840 I mean, anyway, go ahead.

01:42:41.300 Go ahead and make your point.

01:42:43.060 Okay.

01:42:43.420 So a lot of that stuff was edited.

01:42:45.520 And if you listen to Megyn Kelly, which she was smart in knowing that it was going to be a hit piece, you know, they taped everything she did so that they could have the other side of the story.

01:42:54.780 I know.

01:42:54.880 Yeah, we heard it.

01:42:55.640 Megyn Kelly totally sold them on it. 0.99

01:42:56.920 I mean, everything that she said that she wasn't going to do, she did exactly what she said she didn't do.

01:43:01.980 I heard the tape, and I heard the tape that Alex says what you're now parroting here.

01:43:10.200 I disagree with you.

01:43:11.880 She said he would get a fair hearing, and the point he was trying to get across would be left in.

01:43:20.900 She didn't say he would have a free reign of it by any stretch of the imagination.

01:43:25.060 He shouldn't expect it.

01:43:26.580 But he made his points.

01:43:29.500 He said, I didn't say that.

01:43:31.520 I was only playing devil's advocate.

01:43:33.200 He made all of his excuses for it.

01:43:37.020 I mean, you think it's okay that he took every side of the Sandy Hook issue?

01:43:40.040 That's a good thing?

01:43:41.100 I mean, it was a hoax, and then he was playing devil's advocate, and now it's actually none of it's true.

01:43:48.400 So, I mean, how do you give any credibility to this guy?

01:43:52.520 Well, I disagree with him on Sandy Hook, but I do know that there were a lot of things out there.

01:43:58.940 I mean, if you looked at some of the tapes, there's a lot on that thing that just had me very conflicted.

01:44:04.560 And actually, one of my military friends was a special investigator in that, and so I've heard firsthand from his side of the story.

01:44:12.920 So, it's a real thing.

01:44:14.660 Are you a 9-11 truther?

01:44:15.960 No, I'm not a 9-11 truther.

01:44:18.480 No, he is.

01:44:19.160 So, there's two things, two pretty damn big things that you disagree with.

01:44:23.460 Wait, wait, what?

01:44:24.360 What?

01:44:25.400 The government knew more?

01:44:26.500 The government had knowledge of what was coming, and perhaps let it happen.

01:44:30.480 Oh, my.

01:44:31.420 If that's the case.

01:44:32.260 Wow.

01:44:32.800 Well, that's a 9-11 truther. 0.91

01:44:34.020 That is a 9-11 truther.

01:44:35.380 I mean, the government knew that something was afoot, perhaps, yes, that they knew that airplanes were going to crash into the...

01:44:45.960 The World Trade Center?

01:44:47.140 No.

01:44:47.700 That's crazy talk.

01:44:49.400 It's not necessarily specifics.

01:44:50.660 I just believe that our government doesn't always tell the truth.

01:44:54.020 Well, again, that's a much higher standard from the 9-11 truther.

01:44:57.140 That's a different standard.

01:44:58.420 That's what we do.

01:44:59.160 We fall down to lower and lower hurdles to clear, and we all can clear that hurdle.

01:45:03.220 Yeah.

01:45:03.400 But the question is not...

01:45:04.720 It's not the hurdle of whether the government always tells the truth.

01:45:07.300 We all know that's true.

01:45:08.360 Do you also believe that virtually every Islamic terror strike is done by our government because they're false flags? 1.00

01:45:14.340 No, not at all.

01:45:16.340 That's great.

01:45:16.700 Well, that's what he pushes.

01:45:17.720 I mean, day after day...

01:45:19.000 Yes, he does.

01:45:20.020 Day after...

01:45:20.520 I've interviewed the guy for two hours at one point.

01:45:23.080 He believes there's virtually no Islamic terror.

01:45:26.200 It's all a false flag by the government so that they can perform whatever other power move they're trying to perform.

01:45:33.260 It's all this governmental stuff.

01:45:35.320 Do you believe that in the Bohemian Grove that the elites, including Bill Clinton, the Bushes, etc., etc., eat golden babies?

01:45:46.200 I don't know about the golden babies, but I know Bohemian Grove, as well as other elite organizations, definitely meet.

01:45:52.620 Well, again, that's another standard.

01:45:55.740 We asked you about golden babies, and you said meetings exist.

01:45:58.940 Yes, we know meetings exist.

01:46:00.620 People at the Elk Sludge meet, too, but they don't eat golden babies.

01:46:04.140 It's not a global conspiracy.

01:46:05.080 I don't mean to beat this guy.

01:46:06.260 James, we appreciate you listening, for sure.

01:46:08.200 And there's a lot of people who...

01:46:09.300 Because now, currently, Alex Jones is talking about a lot of things where he says he's small government.

01:46:16.840 I mean, that was not...

01:46:17.520 When he was hanging out with Cynthia McKinney, who was a socialist and ran for president, essentially, as a socialist in one of these splinter parties,

01:46:25.100 he was not saying these same things.

01:46:29.080 The issue here is...

01:46:30.980 And I'm amazed by the idea that...

01:46:33.220 Because people have said this before.

01:46:34.660 You guys have similar ideas.

01:46:36.460 I mean, Glenn, think about just 9-11 as a great example of this.

01:46:40.460 We took that so seriously to the fact that you've gone to the part of writing a book called It Is About Islam.

01:46:46.180 We've done thousands of hours of coverage about the real threats.

01:46:49.640 You've gone deeper into the Islamic extremist threat than probably any other host on television.

01:46:53.840 And yet, this guy says it didn't happen with Islamic extremists.

01:46:59.460 Now, that's just one incident.

01:47:00.460 But as Pat has pointed out, shooting after shooting after shooting after shooting, he said, was not Islamic extremism.

01:47:07.860 These are constantly false flags.

01:47:09.740 He also said that, I mean, he was the guy who said that I was a CIA plant because no one has ever risen to the heights that I rose out of nowhere.

01:47:25.280 I just appeared right the week of 9-11.

01:47:29.360 I was the coordinator for the CIA to coordinate the coverage of the cover-up of 9-11.

01:47:39.960 And by the way, Popular Mechanics is essentially a division of the CIA.

01:47:43.740 Right.

01:47:44.120 Because they debunked all his nonsense on 9-11.

01:47:45.980 And I was part of that.

01:47:47.280 And this nonsense, he still says that this is an FBI, that the Blaze, that Mercury Studios is an FBI plant or, what does he call it, a front.

01:48:01.260 That there are FBI offices and CIA offices in my studio.

01:48:06.620 That's just a fact.

01:48:07.900 That's just a fact.

01:48:08.680 It's just crazy talk.

01:48:09.500 It's just crazy talk.

01:48:10.620 I can assure you that's not true.

01:48:12.680 I will tell you that there will, I will tell you, and I know this is going to offend James, our last caller, but it is true.

01:48:21.300 You will agree with a lot of things that Satan says as well.

01:48:26.700 Because he will take a little bit of truth, and then he will take you into territories that you never thought, well, I don't agree with everything.

01:48:37.220 He's not going to be completely false on everything.

01:48:41.240 Although, he's starting to become that.

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01:49:55.320 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

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01:50:06.300 So glad that you are here today.

01:50:09.980 Thank you so much, Bill Cosby.

01:50:12.400 His defense lasted a total of six minutes, which is longer than, anyway, six minutes is,

01:50:20.540 it was the whole defense, and then they rested.

01:50:24.820 That's phenomenal.

01:50:26.260 And hung jury.

01:50:28.540 And they're speculating now whether or not he will come back for another trial,

01:50:33.520 whether they'll try it again, whether they'll...

01:50:35.180 He said he would.

01:50:36.300 I mean, the prosecution's already said that they're going to retry it.

01:50:39.320 Yeah.

01:50:40.020 Want to by the end of the summer.

01:50:41.400 He goes in, and he's got another trial.

01:50:44.380 The next judge, the hope that they've got to have is that the next judge will let more

01:50:49.840 accusations in.

01:50:51.520 That was the problem with this.

01:50:52.960 There were only one or two accusers that were let in to say, yeah, he also did this to me.

01:51:02.660 So if they open, the judge opens the door, and there's the flood of women, 1.00

01:51:06.300 then that's a different story.

01:51:08.100 But this case that's being tried is, what, 10 years old, 15 years old.

01:51:14.220 So it's hard when you get that far away from the actual incident.

01:51:20.640 And it makes people say, well, wait a minute.

01:51:22.740 Why didn't they say anything in the first place?

01:51:25.080 Do we really know that this is true?

01:51:28.020 You know, maybe some of those were true in old days, but is this one?

01:51:31.780 We don't really know.

01:51:33.240 And with Cosby, they expected him to make a long defense.

01:51:37.180 And I think that played to the jury.

01:51:41.140 I think the jury was like, look, the guy sat up for six minutes.

01:51:45.140 There was nothing to say here.

01:51:48.100 It's a good move.

01:51:49.160 Yeah, good move.

01:51:50.060 Whether it will go to a jury trial a second time, we'll see.

01:51:54.580 But as the boys pointed out, that's what they're saying.

01:51:57.600 But again, we'll see what happens.

01:51:59.640 Cosby acquitted over the weekend.

01:52:02.400 We'll see you at 5 o'clock with the Think Tank.

01:52:04.540 A lot to discuss, including a step up with a war with Russia.

01:52:11.780 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

01:52:16.320 Mercury.

01:52:26.780 We'll see you at 5 o'clock with the Think Tank.

The Glenn Beck Program - June 19, 2017

6⧸19⧸17 - The end of the valedictorian

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