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00:00:08.700 Oh boy, oh boy, I think I have a feeling Pat is being sarcastic as he's bringing me up

00:00:13.700 with speed on a new house bill that has passed.

00:00:16.980 Of course, the healthcare thing fell apart because somehow or another we just, we can't

00:00:23.800 figure out a way to help people who have had their deductible go up to $5,000 and their

00:00:31.580 insurance payment going up to $1,500 a month.

00:00:35.500 We can't figure out a way to make the free market free so they would solve that problem.

00:00:41.340 And at the same time, we can't seem to figure out how to help people who just can't afford

00:00:46.280 anything to make sure that they're, you know, nobody's dying on the streets, but they're

00:00:51.420 not using our hospitals as, you know, a doctor's office, that people can actually receive healthcare.

00:00:59.720 Somehow or another, Congress can't get that done.

00:01:02.100 Why?

00:01:02.680 It's all about politics.

00:01:04.180 It's all about the next election.

00:01:06.880 Somebody needs to have a problem so they can ask you for more money and they can ask you

00:01:11.980 for your support.

00:01:13.560 And of course, we can continue to divide each other.

00:01:16.300 Let me give you something good out of Washington, D.C.

00:01:18.720 Charlie Gard, Charlie Gard, the little kid, 11-month-old, who, because of socialized medicine

00:01:25.900 in the United Kingdom, he is being told he has to die.

00:01:32.420 Even though the parents have the money, there is apparently a chance that his life can be

00:01:39.840 changed here in America.

00:01:41.040 So, did anybody in Washington do something good?

00:01:46.300 Yes.

00:01:47.200 Let's start there, right now.

00:01:49.060 The fusion of entertainment and enlightenment.

00:02:10.800 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:02:17.260 There's a couple of things we want to do today.

00:02:19.520 First of all, I want to bring you up to speed on the Donald Trump, the latest allegation,

00:02:23.840 but I want you to know this program, I am sick and tired of, I can't even watch cable news.

00:02:29.260 Are you guys watching cable news?

00:02:30.580 I can't even watch it anymore.

00:02:32.060 This is part of my job.

00:02:33.720 We run a network that is supposedly, you know, bringing you up to speed on everything that

00:02:40.200 everybody's talking about, and I cannot watch a show that is starting with Donald Trump.

00:02:46.100 Because there's no, there's no, what is the use of this?

00:02:49.640 Here's an idea.

00:02:51.500 Why don't we let the investigators do their investigation?

00:02:55.500 We'll just keep you up to speed from time to time on what's happening.

00:02:59.060 We'll keep all the stories as they roll out.

00:03:01.420 And when there is something actual to report, then we'll report on that.

00:03:06.920 Yesterday, there was another disturbing story.

00:03:10.420 There was two.

00:03:11.400 One, Donald Trump Jr. has added yet another name now to this meeting that he had.

00:03:17.820 I mean, why would you do this?

00:03:19.580 Just come out with all the names.

00:03:22.860 So they let another drip come in and named somebody else who was in the room.

00:03:29.300 And then we find out that Donald Trump had an hour-long meeting, one-on-one, with Vladimir Putin.

00:03:37.820 And the disturbing part of this is that he did not bring the American translator, which is against national security protocol.

00:03:46.020 You have to have the American translator so the American president can trust that everything's being translated correctly.

00:03:53.300 That's a rule.

00:03:55.300 That's a rule.

00:03:56.220 That was broken, went in.

00:03:57.980 Donald Trump said it was nothing.

00:03:59.960 But for the love of Pete, can you stop doing things that just make it worse?

00:04:08.400 But do we know anything?

00:04:10.800 No.

00:04:11.220 What we're going to get is a bunch of people on television telling us that Trump is God and the other group telling us that he is Satan.

00:04:18.080 I don't think we have a ruling in either of those.

00:04:23.200 Everybody is just reinforcing their opinion.

00:04:25.740 That's the update on the Trump thing.

00:04:27.760 Let's move on until we have some actual facts to back things up.

00:04:34.180 Now let me take you to Charlie Gard.

00:04:36.300 Charlie Gard is this 11-month-old kid who has a rare genetic disease.

00:04:42.800 He's being kept literally against his will at a children's hospital.

00:04:46.520 The children's hospital in England is the children's hospital that gets all of the royalties for Peter Pan.

00:04:57.000 So every time Peter Pan movie is made, every time Peter Pan books sell, this is the recipient of those monies.

00:05:06.260 They are holding him because the parents say, we don't want him to die in this hospital.

00:05:13.500 We want to take him.

00:05:14.400 The Vatican has said that they would take him.

00:05:17.160 The Vatican gave Vatican citizenship.

00:05:21.380 And in America, there is a doctor who is now over in England examining Charlie that is saying,

00:05:28.320 I think we have some procedures that we can do here that may work, may not.

00:05:33.540 Now, if the family didn't have money, you would have, to me, at least a case that the hospital could say, look, you know, we don't have the money to have experimental stuff going on, etc., etc.

00:05:51.000 But it would at least be a conversation of the value of life.

00:06:00.300 What we're having now is a who is the guardian here?

00:06:05.060 What right does the government have to tell the parents you can't have experimental treatment?

00:06:12.120 It's not like it's not like the people who say I'm going to you know, I'm going to pray cancer away.

00:06:18.960 I'm going to pray AIDS away. 0.92

00:06:21.540 You know, you in my opinion, you have a right to do that.

00:06:25.920 But we always stop that because we say, oh, the children, the children, if we can just save one life, we've got to interfere with these parents.

00:06:34.160 This is the exact opposite.

00:06:35.900 This is the state interfering with the parents who are saying, my child has a chance to live.

00:06:42.440 They have one point seven million dollars.

00:06:45.940 So they can take him out of the hospital, move him and have this experimental procedure done.

00:06:51.060 But the government doesn't want to let go because they're going to have this problem all over the United Kingdom if they do.

00:07:00.720 So they're holding on.

00:07:03.160 The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom has also ruled they are holding off on pulling his feeding tube until this this American doctor finishes his exam.

00:07:15.960 And then they will consider what he has to say.

00:07:19.040 Yesterday, yesterday, Congress granted him citizenship, him and the family, so they could come over from the United Kingdom.

00:07:29.200 They have citizenship, so they have full rights as citizens of the United States to take their baby out of this hospital and bring them over to the United States.

00:07:39.400 My question is, if the United States government was doing this to you and the situation was reversed and you know how you feel about the United States, well, think about the best times of how you feel about the United States.

00:07:52.740 I would relinquish my citizenship so fast from a country that was trying to take my child away and telling me that they have power over all of the decisions, life and death of my child. 0.98

00:08:10.040 Am I alone in that?

00:08:12.440 No.

00:08:13.520 I can't even imagine if this child dies in the hospital, if I am that family, I relinquish my citizenship.

00:08:22.120 I don't want to be a part of that country.

00:08:24.360 And I think I'd be a little less than polite to the hospital administration.

00:08:29.100 Angry letter?

00:08:30.360 Or is that what you would go that far?

00:08:31.680 It might be a strongly worded letter.

00:08:32.780 Oh my gosh.

00:08:33.500 Imagine a Texan in this situation?

00:08:35.360 Oh my gosh.

00:08:36.980 Imagine Marcus Luttrell?

00:08:38.420 I would have been arrested by now.

00:08:39.280 The SEAL team out taking that child out.

00:08:41.720 The parents are behaving really well under the circumstances.

00:08:45.940 I mean, this is like the, do you remember the co-parent thing from Canada?

00:08:51.680 Yes.

00:08:52.080 That people think that they're the parents, but they're only co-parents with the government?

00:08:56.580 Yes.

00:08:57.400 I mean, I don't know that the actual parents are even co-parents.

00:09:00.900 Anymore, not in this.

00:09:01.900 In Charlie, in the guard case.

00:09:02.860 No, once you check, and this happens in American children's hospitals as well,

00:09:06.240 once you check the child in, the child is the responsibility of the hospital, not yours anymore.

00:09:13.800 You can't check them out.

00:09:15.580 I mean, it is Hotel California.

00:09:17.160 We found that out with the, what was her name?

00:09:19.720 The, I want to say LaPierre, but it wasn't.

00:09:23.060 The girl up in.

00:09:23.940 Oh yeah.

00:09:24.500 Pelletier.

00:09:25.120 Pelletier.

00:09:25.560 Pelletier that checked in and, uh, they wouldn't let her go.

00:09:29.640 They wouldn't let her go.

00:09:30.320 And then, what was that?

00:09:30.940 A year?

00:09:31.560 Two years?

00:09:32.120 A year and a half.

00:09:32.800 And she's never really recovered from that.

00:09:34.700 Yeah.

00:09:35.100 She's back at home and never really recovered.

00:09:38.060 Sad.

00:09:39.060 Very.

00:09:39.680 But I mean, you, you said, uh, they don't want to do this because they're going to get

00:09:43.400 this situation all over the country.

00:09:45.060 But what situation?

00:09:46.200 The opportunity for children to live better lives?

00:09:48.780 To live longer lives?

00:09:50.100 Once you, once, once this system, this is my understanding of it, once this system declares

00:09:55.900 that, okay, well, you can leave because maybe there is something, then every child that is

00:10:02.540 having a problem, the doctors are like, well, I want another opinion.

00:10:06.520 I want to try this.

00:10:08.300 And.

00:10:09.060 Well, I mean, again, I think when you're a government healthcare program, first of all,

00:10:12.900 don't have one.

00:10:13.640 But if you do have one, then I think they do get the right to decide what they pay for.

00:10:20.100 I mean, at some point, they can make that decision.

00:10:22.420 They don't have the right to trap you in it.

00:10:25.340 That's the point.

00:10:26.060 If the hospital says, I don't have any money to treat it, you should be able to leave or

00:10:30.540 take that child out of the hospital.

00:10:32.300 We'll go somewhere somebody can.

00:10:33.180 And if I wanted to do Wiccan stuff, you're not doing anything. 1.00

00:10:36.840 If I wanted to just, you know, burn a bunch of, you know, incense and dance around an open

00:10:41.960 fire in the middle of the night, that's what I'm going to do because you're doing nothing.

00:10:47.900 I saw on the internet, incense cures almost everything.

00:10:50.100 Uh, right.

00:10:51.200 Yep.

00:10:51.460 Yep.

00:10:51.720 Right.

00:10:51.980 It's one simple trick with incense.

00:10:53.720 Right.

00:10:54.040 It will cure almost everything.

00:10:55.320 But it's true.

00:10:56.020 Like the, the downside of this for the hospital is I can't see it because yes, you're right.

00:11:02.460 They don't want to have a fight with a parent on, on the way they treat, uh, people.

00:11:07.060 And, and that's understandable.

00:11:08.900 Um, I disagree with the way they do things there, obviously, but the situation where they're

00:11:14.180 saying we will take the kid, we will bring them somewhere else.

00:11:17.340 You will not be treating them.

00:11:18.900 We will pay for it.

00:11:20.140 Right.

00:11:20.220 These things eliminate all of those concerns.

00:11:22.660 All of those concerns.

00:11:23.840 Um, we'll get into what happened in healthcare here in a second, but do you guys know the

00:11:27.340 history of this hospital?

00:11:28.560 Do you know the history of Peter Pan?

00:11:30.320 Do you know what that story is really about?

00:11:32.740 It's really twisted, isn't it?

00:11:34.880 Hmm.

00:11:35.400 It's kind of, it's dark, but it's not necessarily twisted.

00:11:38.360 The original story is pretty dark.

00:11:40.020 Yeah.

00:11:40.040 No, the original story is, is very dark.

00:11:42.420 The original story is about a child.

00:11:45.520 Peter Pan, um, is dying and it's a story about a child that doesn't want to die.

00:11:53.200 And so it goes off to never, never land where all the children, uh, are.

00:11:59.280 And so the, the entire thing is about dying children and, and how they go off someplace and

00:12:09.720 the parents come and rescue Peter Pan.

00:12:14.460 And so the parents get help for Peter Pan.

00:12:18.240 How does this hospital continue to get the money from Peter Pan when they're doing the

00:12:24.980 exact opposite?

00:12:25.960 They're cutting him loose and go, no, stay in never, never land.

00:12:32.000 And that's why the ticking clock of, uh, you know, of the crocodile, the ticking clock

00:12:38.580 is time.

00:12:39.220 And that's why, uh, Captain Hook is afraid of time because time will kill as the time

00:12:46.780 goes by, you're going to die. 0.96

00:12:49.780 And here's this hospital that has that as its legacy and it's doing the exact opposite.

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00:16:06.460 Oh, my gosh.

00:16:08.860 We have some amazing news for you.

00:16:12.820 Some really good news about the wall.

00:16:15.280 Oh, we do.

00:16:15.840 Have you heard the good news yet?

00:16:16.800 No, I have not heard the good news about the wall.

00:16:18.300 Oh, my gosh.

00:16:19.880 We were skeptical at first, but I gotta say.

00:16:24.280 They're getting it done.

00:16:25.380 They came through.

00:16:26.260 They came through.

00:16:26.820 The House voted to fund the wall yesterday.

00:16:32.440 All 28 miles of it.

00:16:34.680 All 28 miles.

00:16:37.460 Hold on just a second.

00:16:38.540 That whole border between the United States and Mexico that stretches clear out there for 28 miles.

00:16:44.280 Right.

00:16:45.100 We're gonna secure that.

00:16:46.720 So where is the border exactly?

00:16:49.580 I may have missed that.

00:16:51.420 Well, it's Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, California.

00:16:55.720 For people who aren't from the Southwest, it's about seven miles in California, seven miles in Arizona, seven miles in New Mexico, and seven miles in Texas.

00:17:04.780 So the map is a little distorted because it looks a little different than that.

00:17:08.720 Really?

00:17:09.020 It looks like it might be as much as 30 miles, but it's not.

00:17:12.460 So what part of the...

00:17:14.420 What are they doing?

00:17:15.200 They included $498 million.

00:17:20.400 Well, when you say that, you mean Mexico?

00:17:22.660 No, I mean Congress.

00:17:24.980 Right.

00:17:25.540 You know, Congress.

00:17:26.080 Mexican Congress?

00:17:26.980 No, the United States Congress.

00:17:28.920 Well, but...

00:17:29.360 $498 million.

00:17:30.780 But Mexico is paying for it.

00:17:32.260 No.

00:17:33.100 There's no mention of that whatsoever.

00:17:35.480 But this will...

00:17:36.340 We're gonna send them a bill.

00:17:37.800 I'm sure we already have it.

00:17:38.600 Oh, we're gonna invoice them.

00:17:39.340 We're sending an invoice.

00:17:40.200 That's it.

00:17:40.600 We are putting up the money first, but we're gonna invoice them.

00:17:42.820 So this will take care of the 28 miles, though, in the Rio Grande Valley for a new levy, and

00:17:50.260 it will amount to about $17.8 million per mile.

00:17:54.440 That sounds appropriate for a fence.

00:17:56.000 They're doing it economically, too, because, you know, if there's one thing Trump is, it's

00:18:00.020 a construction guy.

00:18:01.200 He can build things.

00:18:02.060 Right.

00:18:02.780 So he can do it economically.

00:18:04.500 Yeah.

00:18:05.040 Good.

00:18:05.560 Good.

00:18:05.780 $17 million a mile?

00:18:08.520 How incomprehensible.

00:18:11.860 It is.

00:18:12.820 It is.

00:18:13.600 Are you a construction guy?

00:18:15.820 I'm not.

00:18:16.520 I'm not.

00:18:17.220 Yeah.

00:18:17.580 You're an accountant.

00:18:19.360 He's not that either.

00:18:20.140 No, you're not that either.

00:18:21.220 No, I just...

00:18:21.580 You're not in the construction business.

00:18:22.780 You're not an accountant.

00:18:23.640 So why don't you shut up, Stu?

00:18:24.480 No.

00:18:24.540 You're a map maker?

00:18:25.640 You know I'm not?

00:18:27.240 Huh.

00:18:27.880 Doesn't seem like you're qualified to comment on this at all.

00:18:30.640 Really?

00:18:30.780 Yeah.

00:18:31.020 You know, you're probably right.

00:18:32.260 I have this thing called common sense.

00:18:34.460 Ah.

00:18:35.060 And it indicates to me...

00:18:35.860 Yeah, that's not so common anymore.

00:18:36.980 Not using that.

00:18:37.780 It indicates to me that $17.8 million a mile may be high for a fence.

00:18:42.640 How high is the fence?

00:18:43.600 You don't know that.

00:18:44.160 Maybe it's a million feet high.

00:18:45.740 Maybe.

00:18:46.500 Maybe it is the first mile of the fence.

00:18:50.600 They're just trying it out.

00:18:52.000 And it's 17 miles high.

00:18:54.880 You don't know.

00:18:55.340 It could be a mile by 17 miles.

00:18:59.840 No one would get through that.

00:19:02.020 No one is going to get through.

00:19:03.280 Nobody's going to get through that.

00:19:04.400 How high is it before you hit the envelope of space?

00:19:07.600 That's like a mile or something.

00:19:11.160 So you...

00:19:11.720 No, you don't think so?

00:19:12.640 No, I'm pretty sure.

00:19:13.220 Might be a little higher or lower?

00:19:15.140 Am I high or low?

00:19:16.000 Price is right.

00:19:16.760 You're not...

00:19:17.440 Space is higher or...

00:19:19.120 You're not in the aviation world, are you?

00:19:21.460 No, I'm not a pilot or an astronaut, which...

00:19:24.880 Hard to detect.

00:19:25.240 But I am tall, so I am closer to space than most people.

00:19:29.560 That is true, actually.

00:19:31.660 So, anyway.

00:19:33.440 I guess I really don't care how much Mexico pays for the wall.

00:19:36.460 I mean, like, the bottom line is, if they give a $17 million a wall or $2 million, whatever

00:19:40.840 the price is that they're charged for it, who cares?

00:19:43.320 It's their money.

00:19:44.280 You know?

00:19:44.620 Right.

00:19:44.980 Nothing to do with us.

00:19:46.320 Right.

00:19:47.460 Losers.

00:19:48.620 Right.

00:19:49.980 Right.

00:19:50.520 Okay.

00:19:51.400 We're just going to skip over that story.

00:19:53.520 We're going to come back.

00:19:54.420 We're going to talk to you a little bit about socialism.

00:19:58.000 And, hey, I like Snapchat.

00:20:00.740 You must like Facebook.

00:20:02.580 How bad can socialism be?

00:20:04.660 After all, it gave us social media.

00:20:07.340 Right?

00:20:08.020 I think.

00:20:08.800 Listening to the college students, that's what you might think socialism is.

00:20:13.600 More on that when we come back.

00:20:15.980 You're listening to the Glenn Beck Program.

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00:20:28.600 All right.

00:20:29.620 As we begin our journey today to try to figure out the world, let's take a look at what's

00:20:37.100 happening on college campuses.

00:20:39.480 There's a few stories, but I want to hit this one.

00:20:43.960 And I want you to hear how positive socialism has become on college campus.

00:20:51.980 And yet, how there's really nothing behind that.

00:20:57.740 Here's the latest survey on college campuses on socialism.

00:21:03.120 In your opinion, is socialism a good thing or a bad thing?

00:21:05.820 I mean, I think people kind of throw that word around to try to scare you.

00:21:09.800 But if helping people is socialism, then I'm for it.

00:21:13.700 It could really benefit our country in the future.

00:21:15.600 I think it's a good idea.

00:21:16.340 Socialism as a concept, as a philosophy is good.

00:21:21.540 I think that it's got a bad rip.

00:21:24.140 Trying to spread the wealth is definitely a good thing in America and it's definitely 0.66

00:21:26.960 a thing that's needed.

00:21:27.840 There's a lot of things with social welfare that I think would be good to have.

00:21:31.720 Do you have a positive reaction to socialism or a negative one?

00:21:34.800 I'd say a more positive one.

00:21:36.380 I'm definitely more open to it.

00:21:37.740 But we should have a standard of living for all people.

00:21:42.540 My default, that should just be available.

00:21:45.220 If we did it democratically, then we could really incorporate socialism.

00:21:48.100 It definitely seems like a more feasible option and it could help more people.

00:21:53.160 Just as a broad term, it could help more people.

00:21:56.560 How would you define socialism?

00:21:57.620 I mean, honestly, that definition gets thrown around a lot.

00:22:01.340 Right.

00:22:02.100 I'm not exactly sure.

00:22:03.440 How would you view what socialism is, though?

00:22:12.500 Economically, what is socialism?

00:22:15.220 Economically.

00:22:18.460 So, I'm going to have to think about that for a second.

00:22:23.000 Wow.

00:22:23.780 Jeez.

00:22:25.060 I like that, yeah.

00:22:25.680 I guess, just specifically, just, you know, getting rid of that wealth gap in the United States.

00:22:34.520 How would I describe it as little as possible?

00:22:41.780 How would you define socialism?

00:22:43.680 I mean, it's definitely more of an open form of government.

00:22:48.520 And it feels like a lot more accessible to a lot more people.

00:22:52.700 And that's kind of how I see it.

00:22:54.200 Like, being more accessible and more kind of, like, equal ground.

00:22:59.220 Yeah.

00:22:59.720 Equal. 0.80

00:23:00.400 Yeah.

00:23:00.720 What does that mean, necessarily, though?

00:23:03.120 To be quite honest, I don't know.

00:23:05.620 Nobody was more accessible than Benito Mussolini.

00:23:08.380 Yeah.

00:23:08.840 Nobody.

00:23:09.400 Well, Adolf Hitler. 0.86

00:23:10.540 Adolf Hitler.

00:23:11.600 Stalin. 0.56

00:23:12.640 Yeah.

00:23:12.860 Stalin was pretty good.

00:23:13.860 They were all pretty accessible.

00:23:15.100 You know, it is true that socialism has a bad rap.

00:23:18.620 And, you know, a hundred million dead will do that to you on occasion.

00:23:22.180 Yeah.

00:23:22.660 But, yeah, it's really been unfairly treated.

00:23:24.780 Yeah.

00:23:25.760 What's amazing is, they all said, it was a good idea.

00:23:30.180 No, you're only identifying the word.

00:23:33.300 You're identifying, you don't know what the idea is.

00:23:38.960 You just know the word, socialism.

00:23:41.300 And you associate that with good things.

00:23:44.900 So, all the good things.

00:23:46.180 Well, it's more open.

00:23:47.740 No.

00:23:48.400 How?

00:23:49.180 How is it possible?

00:23:49.920 Ask Charlie Gard's parents if it's more open.

00:23:52.480 Yeah.

00:23:52.700 How is that possible?

00:23:54.680 It's because they're not being taught anything.

00:23:57.400 Nobody is questioning anything.

00:23:59.900 How can you go to college?

00:24:01.780 Well, I know.

00:24:03.020 You have to have a safe zone.

00:24:04.620 College should be the least safe place on earth intellectually. 0.71

00:24:10.160 The university should be the place where you are thrown up against the wall and challenged on everything you believe.

00:24:17.260 Well, it's, I mean, we're focusing on the idea that they're completely wrong in these opinions, which is true.

00:24:23.860 However, how can you have an opinion at all if you don't know what it is?

00:24:26.680 Yes.

00:24:27.180 That's really a bigger problem.

00:24:28.640 No, but wait a minute.

00:24:29.460 And the only thing they know about it is, to them, it's positive because somebody has talked positively about it in the past.

00:24:36.140 Okay, so that's obviously, what, their teachers?

00:24:38.200 Let me ask you this.

00:24:39.680 How many of us are different?

00:24:42.060 How many of us on the conservative side are really that different?

00:24:46.880 Ask people.

00:24:48.680 What are the five freedoms that are guaranteed in the First Amendment?

00:24:53.080 Can't name them.

00:24:53.960 Can't name them.

00:24:54.520 Tell me, tell me, tell me the Bill of Rights.

00:25:00.320 Tell me what it means.

00:25:02.960 Tell me how it works.

00:25:04.800 You can't.

00:25:05.780 It's an idea.

00:25:07.760 The idea of freedom, the idea of America has, you know, has worked for a while.

00:25:14.860 But we're no longer teaching the actual principles behind it.

00:25:19.540 And so we're doing the same thing.

00:25:21.180 The reason why Fox News can say fake news to CNN and CNN people can say fake news to Fox is because we have conflated, we've made news the mixing of opinion and fact.

00:25:37.800 When I was on Fox, I used to say all the time, and tell me, anybody who has ever said this, have you ever heard anybody on these cable shows say this?

00:25:47.200 I want you to understand clearly, I am an opinion guy.

00:25:51.140 I'm not a news guy.

00:25:52.660 I'm an opinion guy.

00:25:54.460 So when you're looking at these things, I will tell you, this is fact.

00:25:58.780 Now, how I connect things together, those things all happen, but these are the conclusions that I'm drawing.

00:26:06.640 I have seen that on both CNN and Fox.

00:26:09.280 Unfortunately, it was you saying it on both of them.

00:26:11.380 Yes, on both networks.

00:26:12.880 So what happens is we've confused opinion with fact.

00:26:17.100 So when they're saying socialism, how do you feel about socialism?

00:26:21.180 It's good.

00:26:22.820 Because they've heard somebody that they respect say that it's good and tied it into some sort of, this wouldn't be happening if we just had socialism.

00:26:33.560 They tied it into equality and fairness.

00:26:35.680 Right.

00:26:35.820 And that's what resonated with these kids.

00:26:38.180 And oppression.

00:26:39.060 Yeah.

00:26:39.400 We wouldn't have oppression if you had socialism.

00:26:44.040 Well, not if you do it democratically.

00:26:45.560 And what exactly does that mean?

00:26:48.660 I mean, you know, Hitler, the Nazis were the national socialists.

00:26:54.520 So it was socializing and having a national attitude toward it.

00:27:00.980 Germany is the best.

00:27:02.700 Communism is workers of the world.

00:27:06.320 So it's socialism with an international bent.

00:27:11.080 That's the only difference between those two.

00:27:14.060 It's the same system.

00:27:16.700 It's just one's national and one is global.

00:27:21.360 How many people in college even know that basic fact?

00:27:24.540 How many in college even know that it works in Sweden because up until recently, and now it's all falling apart, everybody was basically the same. 0.91

00:27:39.080 Everybody had the basic, same background, the basic, same color, lifestyle, everything.

00:27:47.240 They were united.

00:27:49.700 You don't take this as the United States is the most diverse country in the world.

00:27:57.040 And yet for a long time, we worked together pretty well.

00:28:01.580 We have our flare ups of racism.

00:28:03.480 But we generally, everybody kind of melts back into us.

00:28:08.180 Well, we've destroyed all of that.

00:28:10.400 You can't have socialism without an iron fist if you have a whole bunch of different people.

00:28:17.960 When I was in L.A. and I was asking a group of guys from Silicon Valley,

00:28:22.140 so tell me, just play this game out.

00:28:26.460 Let's say in 2020, you get Bernie Sanders and you get a whole bunch of people in Congress and the Senate that also have the same idea.

00:28:39.760 You get all Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warrens and you control that for the next 20 years.

00:28:46.780 You realize there are people like me that will never go along with socialism, that we will fight it every step of the way.

00:28:54.100 At some point, what do you do with the 40 percent of America who says, I'm not going there?

00:29:01.300 Well, we found out from the Weather Underground plan, didn't we?

00:29:03.840 Yes, we did.

00:29:04.700 Be sent to camps to be reeducated. 0.93

00:29:06.780 Even if they still won't comply, 25 million people might have to die.

00:29:10.860 So now let's reverse that.

00:29:13.260 Let's say you get somebody who is a nationalist who is on the other side, the worst of the right.

00:29:22.340 What happens to the 40 percent of the liberals that won't go there?

00:29:29.420 After 20 years, you've got to do something.

00:29:32.680 Do you reeducate them?

00:29:34.460 Do you campify them?

00:29:36.480 What do you do?

00:29:37.440 You're saying we're in the middle of a formula for harmony is what you're describing.

00:29:41.200 Yes.

00:29:41.320 Yes.

00:29:41.640 This is all going to go really well.

00:29:43.460 You're not exactly uplifting here, I would say.

00:29:45.980 Here's the uplifting message.

00:29:48.060 And this is one that I know people don't like to hear, but I want you just to let it wash over you for a while.

00:29:56.040 And it's not one that sounds good, but it actually is.

00:30:01.680 The truth will set you free, but it's going to make you miserable first.

00:30:05.280 Okay.

00:30:06.240 It's really the truth.

00:30:08.460 You've, you know, we've all done this.

00:30:11.120 We all do this in our life.

00:30:12.280 We build ourselves a nice little story that lets us exist and live.

00:30:18.740 And then, unfortunately, if we go too far off the rails, the truth is in front of us.

00:30:24.780 And we can either fight against that truth, which most of us do, fight against that truth until the truth destroys us and you just reset your life depending on where your bottom is.

00:30:35.360 Or you look at the truth and you reevaluate and because it is the truth and you're not living it, you're like, oh, crap.

00:30:44.620 And it will make you miserable because you have to change and do hard things.

00:30:49.580 But then, after a while, it sets you free and you're like, oh, my gosh, how did I not recognize this?

00:30:55.720 The truth is, we as Americans, and I mean both sides, I'm not talking to the conservatives, I'm talking to the conservatives, liberals, independents, everybody.

00:31:03.980 We have to stop trying to win.

00:31:09.040 We have to start trying to reconcile and live next to each other.

00:31:14.680 We have to start understanding each other.

00:31:18.040 Right now, everybody wants the argument that will allow them to win.

00:31:24.440 There's no way to win in this situation because it implies a loser and those losers are not going away.

00:31:30.760 Do you think the losers, if you got everything you wanted on the conservative side, do you think they're just going to go away?

00:31:38.480 They're not going to go away.

00:31:39.760 And if you bash them in the head and continue to just say, you're wrong, you're wrong, you're wrong, it's only going to get stronger.

00:31:48.620 A great example of this, I'm reading the Joshua Green book about Steve Bannon, and it goes through the kind of history of how they, you know, Trump and Bannon, you know, started, they met and how they worked together and goes through the whole thing.

00:32:03.140 And it traces this, the Trump thing back, and this is, you know, somewhat well known, that takes it back to the 2012 or 13 White House Correspondents Dinner, where they invited Trump to that dinner.

00:32:18.340 And he sat there, and he got berated by not only Obama, but by, I think it was Seth Meyers who hosted it, and they destroyed him to the point that he was so angry, he wasn't even hiding it anymore, and walked out of that thing right afterwards.

00:32:32.100 The media after that event just glorified themselves at how they had just destroyed this petty little nothing of a man.

00:32:39.920 And now he runs the free world.

00:32:42.100 Right.

00:32:42.260 And he was motivated by that event.

00:32:45.820 And he was so pissed off he wasn't being taken seriously, that he decided to, that set into effect a series of events that now has that guy as president of the United States.

00:32:57.160 And a guy who says, you punch me, I'll punch back twice as hard.

00:33:00.420 They felt like they won that night.

00:33:02.440 Yeah.

00:33:02.640 Did they win?

00:33:03.600 Right.

00:33:03.840 You don't know, you don't know, no, both sides, both sides,

00:33:08.940 try to humiliate.

00:33:10.860 Look, look what the press did to the, to the right, to the Tea Party.

00:33:16.820 They, they tried to humiliate and name call.

00:33:21.640 They never listened to the Tea Party, never.

00:33:24.280 And look at what those people have done.

00:33:28.160 Now, reverse.

00:33:31.060 We, let me just take it out, me.

00:33:33.800 I was effective at poking them right where they live.

00:33:42.140 You think they have gotten better or worse?

00:33:46.500 Media Matters, in Cheryl Atkinson's new book, Media Matters, took me on and they designed all the stuff to destroy people because of me and used it first on me.

00:33:59.020 What do you say we start listening to it?

00:34:04.660 Forget about politics.

00:34:06.420 And I'm not talking about, I'm not talking about you not paying attention to what's happening in Washington.

00:34:12.220 I'm saying the people in Washington don't matter as much as the people that you interact with every day.

00:34:17.100 Stop trying to win with the people you interact with every day.

00:34:22.120 Start trying to listen to each other.

00:34:24.840 Start trying to realize that we have a different point of view.

00:34:30.560 Now, how are we going to live together?

00:34:33.320 Because that's what we have to do.

00:34:37.660 We have to live with one another or we will kill one another.

00:34:42.480 We're balkanizing our country.

00:34:44.480 That's not a good thing.

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00:36:17.040 All right.

00:36:17.760 So yesterday, boy, it didn't take long for the Congress to shut down the repeal of Obamacare,

00:36:25.520 did it?

00:36:26.580 All you needed was four Republicans.

00:36:28.160 And somehow or another, those four Republicans are heroes when the idea of setting the market free again

00:36:37.700 is just apparently so unpopular with the GOP.

00:36:44.500 Well, I think any honest agenda for improving health care must start with the repeal of the

00:36:49.280 dishonestly named Affordable Care Act.

00:36:52.080 That's, of course, from the ancient 2016 GOP platform.

00:36:56.780 How old were you in 2016?

00:36:59.640 I don't even remember it.

00:37:00.680 It's like, I need a time machine to go back that far.

00:37:03.040 Oh, man.

00:37:04.160 The only one that was an honest Republican was Collins.

00:37:07.560 She's never been for the repeal.

00:37:09.900 She shouldn't get any heat.

00:37:11.520 She was the only honest one.

00:37:12.920 Every other one ran, raised money on the repeal of Obamacare and changed their mind yesterday

00:37:20.560 when it became a reality.

00:37:21.680 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

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00:37:43.960 Tom Scott, the co-founder of Nantucket Nectars, is with us in studio right now.

00:37:53.780 I will make a stand.

00:37:56.440 I will raise my voice.

00:37:58.700 I will hold your hand.

00:38:00.740 Because we are one.

00:38:02.900 I will be my drum.

00:38:05.140 I have made my choice.

00:38:07.400 We will overcome.

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00:38:11.760 The fusion of entertainment and enlightenment.

00:38:15.700 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:38:19.160 Tom Scott, welcome to the program.

00:38:22.480 How are you?

00:38:23.040 I'm great.

00:38:23.700 Thanks for having me.

00:38:24.460 Yeah.

00:38:24.700 So, Tom, you, let's start.

00:38:27.660 Gas crisis, 1970s.

00:38:30.540 Research.

00:38:31.260 Yeah.

00:38:31.700 You did research.

00:38:32.520 Yeah.

00:38:32.760 Gas crisis, 1970s.

00:38:36.140 You become an entrepreneur.

00:38:38.100 How old were you?

00:38:39.580 I think I was 10.

00:38:41.800 When was the gas crisis?

00:38:43.240 76, I think.

00:38:44.120 Yeah, 73 to 76, somewhere in that area.

00:38:48.020 Yeah.

00:38:49.060 So, near my house were the gas lines.

00:38:51.420 Mm-hmm.

00:38:52.380 And I went and I started selling them things.

00:38:54.500 Coffee, muffins, and things.

00:38:57.220 Yeah.

00:38:57.820 People can't relate to gas lines.

00:39:01.640 But this is when we were having an energy crisis.

00:39:05.360 And people, you could only go if you're, I think you were on even days, if your license plate was an even number.

00:39:12.720 And so, people would line up for hours at the gas stations.

00:39:16.400 Which I still don't understand exactly why that was.

00:39:19.400 Maybe they could only turn the machine on at a certain time.

00:39:21.500 I don't know.

00:39:22.100 Yeah.

00:39:22.500 But on Brookville Road, I lived right on the D.C. line, there would be this long line of cars.

00:39:28.660 And I used to sell them food and things.

00:39:32.280 So, is that where you, by the way, I don't think you'd be able to do that now without a license.

00:39:38.960 Is that where you got bitten by the entrepreneurial bug?

00:39:44.100 You know, I don't know the answer to that.

00:39:46.100 And I'm saying that.

00:39:47.180 I'm not trying to be cute.

00:39:48.080 But the concept of an entrepreneur is such a modern phenomenon.

00:39:54.120 You know, it's so celebrated and labeled in a way.

00:39:56.620 And I'm not saying that's a bad thing.

00:39:59.060 But I think more than anything else, it was, I think of it as like the Wild West.

00:40:03.700 You know, there's like this spirit of adventure where you want to go out and be Tom Sawyer for a moment.

00:40:10.140 Isn't that what an entrepreneur is?

00:40:11.820 I guess so.

00:40:12.700 Yeah, I guess so.

00:40:13.660 But my point is only this.

00:40:15.180 I really thought it was just fun.

00:40:17.520 You know, I wasn't thinking, oh, I'm going to go get rich.

00:40:19.480 It was more just, this is going to be fun.

00:40:21.520 But again, isn't that the best entrepreneur?

00:40:24.600 I really believe money is a byproduct.

00:40:27.580 It doesn't, if you focus on money, you're not going to get wealthy.

00:40:30.900 If you focus on doing something that you love, that you enjoy, and you are making somebody else's life easier.

00:40:38.680 You know people are caught in their cars and they want their coffee or they're hungry.

00:40:42.720 They've been waiting.

00:40:43.940 You were going to go have fun serving them something.

00:40:48.300 Money is a byproduct.

00:40:49.460 That's right.

00:40:49.980 I think that's so true.

00:40:51.160 You know, it's funny.

00:40:51.800 So I do this thing at Brown University.

00:40:53.540 I went to Brown University.

00:40:55.100 And I do a class there every year.

00:40:58.420 And, you know, it used to be a business class.

00:41:00.980 It's now turned into an entrepreneurial class.

00:41:02.660 And people talk about their Series A, their Series B kids.

00:41:08.640 And I think to myself, which I didn't know what any of that was because no one knew what any of that was at the time.

00:41:14.640 And I think like, wow, this has gotten so formulaic.

00:41:17.540 That's why I'm kind of like the word kind of bumps me out because the notion of startup or whatever you want to call it has become so formalized.

00:41:26.120 That it's less disruptive.

00:41:30.260 Yeah, and I don't want to be that.

00:41:31.320 Like there's something about that that I just, that's not interesting to me.

00:41:34.500 It's not, that's not the Wild West.

00:41:36.200 It's this other thing.

00:41:38.000 So you and a friend, college?

00:41:41.700 College.

00:41:42.260 You start mixing, was it peach juice and water together?

00:41:46.860 Yeah.

00:41:47.340 Again, very, very good.

00:41:51.160 Similarly, boats in Nantucket Harbor are on hooks.

00:41:54.980 They're on moorings.

00:41:56.320 Yes.

00:41:56.680 So they don't have access to the land.

00:41:57.980 So we started a store where we would go around selling them things on a boat, store on a boat.

00:42:04.360 And one of the things that we sold was juice.

00:42:06.200 And it was a peach juice, the first one.

00:42:08.740 You know, this is in the days, and I know this is ridiculous and somewhat arbitrary, but Tropicana Pure Premium hadn't happened yet.

00:42:16.400 Right?

00:42:16.620 So juice was bad.

00:42:17.820 I mean, just generally speaking, if you wanted a juice, it tasted badly.

00:42:21.780 Upgrade from Tang, but not much.

00:42:23.940 Exactly.

00:42:24.580 I mean, that's where we were.

00:42:26.040 Yeah.

00:42:26.260 So we were making something that was...

00:42:29.020 Fresh.

00:42:30.120 And just way better.

00:42:31.720 Yeah.

00:42:31.920 How did you go from there to the boardroom with PepsiCo, selling for how much?

00:42:38.800 I'm not allowed to tell you.

00:42:43.960 A lot.

00:42:45.080 More or less than $30?

00:42:46.600 More.

00:42:47.040 Okay.

00:42:47.620 Yeah.

00:42:48.160 I'll tell you this.

00:42:48.880 The first time someone tried to buy the business, I was on one of those Motorola flip phones.

00:42:53.740 I remember opening it.

00:42:55.220 You know, you can remember certain things in your life.

00:42:57.720 And the guy said, I want to buy your company.

00:42:59.600 And I said, I don't want to sell it.

00:43:02.020 And he said, and which was always my line, because somebody told me a company is worth four times net.

00:43:08.360 Well, we didn't have much net.

00:43:12.460 And he said, you don't want to hear the number?

00:43:13.940 I said, all right, tell me the number.

00:43:15.900 And he told me the number.

00:43:17.100 And I thought...

00:43:19.120 What was the number?

00:43:19.640 I want to sell my company.

00:43:20.760 I had no idea.

00:43:22.000 What was the number?

00:43:23.140 I had no idea.

00:43:23.800 It was probably more than 100 times what I thought it was worth.

00:43:28.520 Wow.

00:43:29.100 Yeah.

00:43:29.340 No, it was staggering.

00:43:30.260 I had no clue.

00:43:31.320 And again, back to what I was saying before.

00:43:33.900 You weren't doing it for that.

00:43:34.800 Well, people talk about exits.

00:43:36.120 And I'm not trying to sound holier than that.

00:43:37.760 I just didn't know.

00:43:39.040 I was clueless.

00:43:39.960 Yeah.

00:43:41.300 So you sell it.

00:43:42.380 Then what happens to your life?

00:43:43.540 When you are up at the top, you're making Nantucket Nectars. 0.97

00:43:47.960 Everybody in the country knows it.

00:43:50.720 And who were you at that time?

00:43:53.860 Who had you turned into?

00:43:55.080 From the kid that just wanted to go have fun selling muffins to that guy.

00:44:02.040 Who were you?

00:44:03.060 I thought it was silly to the end.

00:44:05.400 It's juice.

00:44:06.660 I mean, really.

00:44:07.160 Like, what are we talking about here?

00:44:08.280 This is silly.

00:44:09.200 It's almost...

00:44:09.620 It's a child's toy in a way, right?

00:44:11.180 Yeah.

00:44:12.820 But I started getting praised like crazy, you know?

00:44:16.160 And this is at the very beginning of dot-com.

00:44:18.240 So entrepreneurs are hot.

00:44:19.440 And I always...

00:44:21.860 I'm just a person who feels slightly less than.

00:44:24.600 It's just how I go through life.

00:44:27.320 Which I'm not alone in that.

00:44:28.880 We all sort of like...

00:44:30.440 We have some degree of self-hatred.

00:44:33.280 And maybe I'm wrong.

00:44:34.800 But I know there are lots of us.

00:44:37.040 Well, if you get praised enough times...

00:44:40.440 I mean, who is the most praised human in modern history?

00:44:43.840 Michael Jackson.

00:44:45.100 I would say Jesus.

00:44:46.000 But I'm being really modern in history.

00:44:49.640 Oh, very modern.

00:44:50.400 Really modern.

00:44:51.020 Okay.

00:44:51.460 All right.

00:44:52.900 And look what happens.

00:44:54.140 Yeah.

00:44:54.860 Now, I'm not...

00:44:56.700 But just looked at the way he looked at the end of his life, you know?

00:44:59.340 Yeah.

00:45:00.500 There's something about praise that's not very healthy.

00:45:02.800 And Michael Jackson's not alone, by the way.

00:45:04.520 And I'm not comparing myself to Michael Jackson.

00:45:06.220 But I became somebody who didn't know where my center was.

00:45:09.400 You know, the normal oppositional forces that we all sort of go through life with are healthy.

00:45:15.920 They're there for a reason.

00:45:16.720 And I think when they come out of whack, they come out of whack.

00:45:18.820 So I was out of whack, is a long story short.

00:45:21.400 And like raising money in the year 2000, when you're 34 years old and you've just sold a business, it's pretty easy.

00:45:28.000 When did you know?

00:45:29.520 Was that phone call on the Motorola Flip Flown the moment you knew you actually had something?

00:45:34.500 Or was the business successful before that?

00:45:38.600 You know, I think the Motorola Flip Phone moment was a moment of, you know, having some sense of value that was dreamlike.

00:45:49.840 You know, almost everything in my life has been so incremental that it's hard for me to always sort of identify moments.

00:45:55.840 And in a way, if you think about it, like the...

00:45:59.500 My recognition of the value of the company was not incremental.

00:46:04.180 It was not.

00:46:04.720 Not in my kind of brain or in my soul.

00:46:06.480 But maybe that's why it was so disruptive in a sense, you know?

00:46:14.380 So I have been rich.

00:46:18.120 I have been poor.

00:46:21.140 The problems of being rich are just bigger.

00:46:24.120 I mean, don't get me wrong.

00:46:24.940 Being rich doesn't suck.

00:46:26.380 But the problems are just the same.

00:46:28.560 They're just bigger.

00:46:29.120 But money can be very corrosive to a soul.

00:46:35.260 Fame is the...

00:46:38.060 I think it's battery acid on people.

00:46:40.120 I wouldn't wish real fame on anybody.

00:46:42.660 At what point did you hit bottom from such a high?

00:46:55.660 You know, for me, it happened more than once.

00:47:02.440 When you get that far out of whack, you're going to have problems in your relationships.

00:47:05.800 You're going to have problems just sort of navigating through life.

00:47:08.100 And if you think about it, you know, if you're off course by 0.1 degree and you're headed to Spain, you could end up in wherever, right?

00:47:18.540 So I think I had points where I recognized I was off course more than once.

00:47:23.120 But, you know, one is I took a company through bankruptcy.

00:47:26.740 I had also struggled with, you know, alcohol, drugs and alcohol probably around 2005 or so.

00:47:38.020 And I took the company into bankruptcy in 2012.

00:47:41.200 What's important is I left the business in 2007, but I went back to take it through bankruptcy.

00:47:46.140 And if you've never been through bankruptcy, it is almost exactly like...

00:47:50.800 And I know I'm being a little dramatic here, but...

00:47:53.840 What are the things called buzzards?

00:47:55.500 You know, they are alive and healthy.

00:48:01.600 And they feed on a carcass.

00:48:03.500 And in that sense, like, if you take the drama out of it, that would make sense.

00:48:07.820 If you're the carcass, it is dramatic, you know?

00:48:11.300 Now, I would say one of the things that I...

00:48:13.880 Let me just say this.

00:48:14.860 So you asked the question.

00:48:17.060 They're laying out the case for the judge.

00:48:19.500 And the judge has to sort of make choices that I think are in the best interest of whatever remains of this thing that's in bankruptcy.

00:48:25.840 You sold to PepsiCo for a lot of money.

00:48:28.660 Oh, yeah, yeah.

00:48:29.120 Did you lose all that money?

00:48:31.920 No.

00:48:32.620 No.

00:48:33.680 A lot of it.

00:48:34.620 A lot of it.

00:48:35.280 And you lost all the investment of anything that you had done in this new company.

00:48:39.740 Yeah, in this new venture, which was called Plum TV.

00:48:41.780 And when you're in the bankruptcy court, they lay out all the facts.

00:48:48.320 Yeah.

00:48:48.540 And if you're hearing these facts laid out, you're thinking, who is this guy?

00:48:51.680 Right.

00:48:52.300 Me.

00:48:53.360 And then so finally, the judge says, and I had suffered a lot through this.

00:48:57.640 This was very painful, personally painful, legally painful, financially painful.

00:49:01.380 And then the judge says, and this is going to sound goofy, but the judge says, who is Thomas W. Scott?

00:49:09.100 Which is me, right?

00:49:10.740 And I thought, that's a really good question, you know?

00:49:14.300 And I'm not, I know that sounds corny, but I'm being literal.

00:49:16.820 Like, I had a moment of clarity where I thought, it's a great question.

00:49:21.640 And all I can do right now.

00:49:23.180 Did you raise your hand or you're like, you know, judge, that's a good question I'm questioning.

00:49:27.640 It might be that guy, because I don't want it to be this guy.

00:49:32.040 But I stood up and I thought, and here's the thing.

00:49:35.360 People have been through a lot worse tragedy than this.

00:49:37.680 And I want to just say, that's of course true, right?

00:49:42.120 But all I could do at that point was go in the direction out, which is just do the next right thing.

00:49:47.180 Keep doing the next right thing.

00:49:49.560 And so I did.

00:49:50.280 I stood up and I started to sort of speak and share the story.

00:49:53.820 And I think there was a moment, probably five or ten minutes after I was on the stand,

00:49:58.480 where I felt that the judge had connected with me.

00:50:00.480 Because the judge's job is essentially preserve whatever value is left here.

00:50:04.720 And I got to say, so MF Global was in bankruptcy when we were there.

00:50:08.520 And Hostess was in bankruptcy when they were there.

00:50:10.920 And those were high profile.

00:50:12.440 And that was the end of the Twinkie.

00:50:14.240 That was the end of the Twinkie.

00:50:15.020 But it's back.

00:50:16.380 They've got cotton candy Twinkies.

00:50:17.600 Well, and it's back because I actually think our bankruptcy system is pretty good.

00:50:22.320 I do too.

00:50:22.940 Yeah.

00:50:24.160 I mean, debtor prison was pretty good.

00:50:26.380 But our bankruptcy system is probably a tad bit better.

00:50:29.740 Right.

00:50:30.020 Yeah.

00:50:30.200 Right.

00:50:30.300 So, you know, it was sort of, for me, that was a major turning point in just sort of understanding

00:50:41.620 like what real, what does value mean, you know?

00:50:44.360 Okay.

00:50:44.580 So let's play a little game.

00:50:49.180 We'll play truth or dare.

00:50:50.500 And my dare is that you will tell us how much you sold Nantucket Nectars for if you don't

00:50:56.700 answer true.

00:50:58.060 I'll start.

00:50:59.000 Truth.

00:50:59.860 I fired a guy for bringing me the wrong kind of pen at the height of my alcoholism and height

00:51:07.480 of my being a really bad guy.

00:51:10.000 Did you say pen or pin?

00:51:11.320 Pen.

00:51:11.900 Pen.

00:51:12.200 P-E-N. 1.00

00:51:13.520 Okay.

00:51:13.800 I'm going to have to say true.

00:51:15.260 Okay.

00:51:15.640 Yeah.

00:51:15.800 That's true.

00:51:16.280 Now, truth or dare for you, what was the worst, describe your worst moment.

00:51:27.180 And I'm leading to some place because you're not this guy now.

00:51:31.800 And you have done some remarkable things since this time.

00:51:38.060 And so I want people to get a sense of, here's a guy who's been at the bottom selling muffins.

00:51:46.300 Went to the top, went back down to the bottom, not just financially, but also spiritually and

00:51:52.580 everything else.

00:51:53.280 And I want to show you the climb out and what he's doing now.

00:51:56.840 Yeah.

00:51:57.380 So you think about that.

00:51:58.700 All right.

00:51:59.280 And you can either give us the truth on that or you can tell me how much you sold the company

00:52:04.360 for.

00:52:05.000 Am I supposed to give the worst or just a story of significance?

00:52:08.080 Just a story of significance that shows how deep.

00:52:11.360 What an ass I was.

00:52:12.060 And just to reset for the audience, just four dudes playing truth or dare on the radio.

00:52:15.920 No big deal.

00:52:16.500 No big deal.

00:52:17.720 Don't think about it.

00:52:18.640 Wow.

00:52:18.900 That's weird.

00:52:19.420 Okay.

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00:54:00.780 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

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00:54:08.160 The Glenn Beck Program.

00:54:10.820 All right.

00:54:11.220 Just four guys sitting around playing Truth or Dare with Tom Scott, co-founder of Nat Tuckett

00:54:17.900 Nectars, and has gone on to do some pretty amazing things.

00:54:21.360 We're just talking about the bottom of his life, because he's doing some really incredible

00:54:24.300 things that I want to talk to.

00:54:25.860 But we've got about three minutes, and then I want to get to the good stuff.

00:54:29.060 Okay.

00:54:29.220 The bottom.

00:54:32.400 The bottom.

00:54:32.800 Where you were saying, man, I'm a horrible human being.

00:54:35.940 You know, I'm going to say something that's going to sound like it's a little unfair, but

00:54:40.980 it's my...

00:54:42.000 But I was never as bad as you guys.

00:54:43.580 No, I might have been worse in many ways.

00:54:46.280 But to me, you know, bipolar and depression is a big issue, right?

00:54:52.800 Yeah, yeah.

00:54:53.200 I'm not making light of it.

00:54:54.140 Yeah, yeah.

00:54:54.380 I was really depressed.

00:54:56.000 I suffered from major depression.

00:54:58.560 And when you were talking about it, I thought, what I found in my depression, which I'm not

00:55:04.500 going to...

00:55:04.880 I'm not diagnosing everyone else, is that I was incredibly...

00:55:09.440 I was so self-centered as to be completely depressed.

00:55:15.500 And I, in my case, am ashamed of that.

00:55:19.760 I'm ashamed of how self-centered I had become.

00:55:22.100 So when I think of my worst, the worst of me, because it's not money and it's...

00:55:26.960 You know, I did embarrassing things.

00:55:28.680 I didn't fire someone for the pen, but I did lots of stupid things.

00:55:32.340 See, for me, that is the same thing as being self-centered.

00:55:35.280 That was how self-centered I was.

00:55:37.180 Right.

00:55:37.900 Nobody else mattered.

00:55:39.080 Well, and that's where, you know, you were talking earlier about the gas lines.

00:55:43.260 Notice he's avoiding.

00:55:44.040 It is service.

00:55:45.600 Notice he's avoiding.

00:55:46.280 Am I avoiding it?

00:55:46.940 Well, to be depressed on the couch is sad and embarrassing, but I wouldn't even want

00:55:54.320 to tell you the lowest.

00:55:57.280 Just you...

00:55:58.100 And I'm not trying to avoid it.

00:55:59.320 I'm telling you, I don't want to tell you because I don't want the problem that comes

00:56:03.040 with that.

00:56:04.440 Okay.

00:56:04.700 So, you're wiped out.

00:56:09.500 What's the first thing you do to turn your life around?

00:56:14.280 You know, it is surrender for me.

00:56:18.440 And so what do I mean by that?

00:56:21.500 At some point, it became clear to me that I am wrong.

00:56:24.880 Yes.

00:56:25.920 Like, I am off track and whatever I think is meaningless.

00:56:29.700 And so people kept, you know, I wanted to take drugs and alcohol out of my life.

00:56:36.580 I wanted to live a happy life.

00:56:37.800 And at some point, someone, and I know who the guy is, got through to me and said, you

00:56:41.200 got to surrender.

00:56:42.260 And I kind of thought, well, what does that mean?

00:56:43.760 My father's a Marine.

00:56:44.740 My brother's a Marine.

00:56:45.720 Yeah.

00:56:46.000 You don't surrender.

00:56:46.900 Right.

00:56:47.140 I am a...

00:56:47.840 Like, my whole life is gutted out.

00:56:49.520 That was my father's line.

00:56:50.520 Always, still is.

00:56:51.400 Gut it out.

00:56:52.880 You know, surrender and gut it out.

00:56:54.600 They're the opposite.

00:56:56.380 But I...

00:56:56.880 Someone said, put this image in your head.

00:56:58.400 Picture the most, the strongest soldier on earth putting his sword down and just saying,

00:57:03.240 I'm fighting for the wrong side.

00:57:05.240 And that image stayed with me.

00:57:06.740 And I thought, like, okay.

00:57:08.100 So now, what is he doing now?

00:57:09.940 You're going to love this when we come back.

00:57:18.800 We are watching the Glenn Beck Program.

00:57:25.380 Work your head.

00:57:28.400 The Glenn Beck Program.

00:57:32.240 We're with Tom Scott, co-founder of Nantucket Nectars.

00:57:36.360 And about five years ago, started something called the Nantucket Project.

00:57:41.280 And has...

00:57:43.280 And has...

00:57:44.240 You've gone back to school.

00:57:46.040 You're going to Yale Divinity School.

00:57:49.740 And you've really changed your life.

00:57:52.840 And you're looking to find the things that change people, heal people.

00:58:02.420 Explain.

00:58:03.220 Because you're meeting all kinds of great people right now.

00:58:06.300 You know, we say we're about what matters most.

00:58:10.060 And on Fridays, we have our company meeting.

00:58:13.540 And we'll, all right, what mattered most?

00:58:16.260 And people share that week.

00:58:19.180 Now, you'll always get to love and family and community.

00:58:21.680 You always get there.

00:58:22.400 But sometimes it's, you know, certain technological things.

00:58:26.320 Or sometimes it's political things.

00:58:28.420 Tends not to be, frankly, that often.

00:58:30.020 But it happens.

00:58:30.860 And if you start going through that exercise, you know, I was listening earlier when you, the college kids and the socialism thing you guys were talking about.

00:58:38.860 And part of my reaction was, what you're dealing with there is, you know, so people say we live in an age of information overload.

00:58:49.240 The truth is, information are those things that inform.

00:58:52.600 They're not informing anymore.

00:58:54.280 No.

00:58:54.520 Right?

00:58:54.720 There's so much of it that it really is disinformation.

00:58:57.880 Right?

00:58:58.040 So it's this, the level of noise is so high that most people in our generation, it's hard for us to identify this world that we live in, certainly vis-a-vis the world that we grew up in.

00:59:09.100 So in the midst of all of that, you know, my own desire to start the Nantucket Project came from this sense of lostness that I think the media really makes worse.

00:59:19.420 I have no, you know, Fox and CNN, and they should do whatever they want to do, which I'm all for.

00:59:25.640 But I also think the net is very unhealthy, and that drama sells, and drama is, in its essence, kind of a lie.

00:59:33.400 Not always, but generally speaking, drama is a lie.

00:59:36.480 So you get so far off course.

00:59:38.920 And so, long story short, from my point of view, the Nantucket Project was an attempt to tell the stories that matter most in a form that's useful most.

00:59:48.060 Like, that's kind of the idea.

00:59:49.200 So you, you've been meeting some really interesting people, and, you know, where I wanted to get you last half hour was to the point of saying, I surrender.

01:00:04.180 Right.

01:00:04.400 Because people don't look at that.

01:00:07.420 They look at it like the way you did.

01:00:09.440 I'm fighting, you know, I'm fighting, I'm fighting, I'm never going to surrender, I'm right.

01:00:13.080 And then they don't understand the power of laying that sword down actually makes you much more powerful.

01:00:19.300 And, and not trying to win, but saying, I surrender, I'm not playing this game anymore, because this game is, is wrong.

01:00:32.820 We talk about oppression a lot in our society, and everybody is oppressed on something.

01:00:40.080 And nobody wants to surrender because they think that you're giving the other side that was wrong a pass.

01:00:46.820 You were spending time in Rwanda with one of the greatest men alive today, and I don't know how many people know about him.

01:00:55.120 The president of Rwanda is remarkable.

01:00:58.900 We know Rwanda for the genocide. 0.93

01:01:01.380 How many was it in a year?

01:01:02.840 A million?

01:01:03.280 Almost a million.

01:01:03.680 Almost a million people killed, just slaughtered in the streets in a year.

01:01:08.200 In 90 days.

01:01:08.760 Yeah.

01:01:09.160 In 90 days.

01:01:10.420 I thought it was a year.

01:01:11.240 Yeah.

01:01:12.320 Imagine what that bloodbath was like.

01:01:15.380 Okay.

01:01:16.200 So now they have a new president, and they're trying to heal from this.

01:01:20.660 Tell me your experience with him.

01:01:22.160 Yeah.

01:01:22.960 You know, we're making a film about them right now, and we had a meeting a few weeks ago where we viewed the film.

01:01:28.760 And it's very hard for us to consider.

01:01:31.820 So basically what happened is you've got Paul Kagame, who brought peace through strength, arms, effectively, in the beginning.

01:01:40.820 And he sort of reluctantly agreed to be the leader, which in my heart I believe to be the case.

01:01:46.500 In other words, he was a reluctant leader.

01:01:48.060 And in the end, part of what he did that was brilliant, I would argue magnanimous, is he set up these trials, and the juries were made up of the families of the victims.

01:02:00.260 You couldn't get a harsher jury.

01:02:02.660 Exactly.

01:02:03.520 So I murdered your sister.

01:02:05.940 You and your family are going to judge me as jury.

01:02:08.820 Now, what I was asked to do is to stand up and say, to be very straightforward, I killed the following people in the following ways.

01:02:19.160 And if you, the jury, the family, believed this person and felt they held true remorse, it's up to you what happens next.

01:02:28.740 90% of the people were let go.

01:02:31.620 Think of this.

01:02:32.740 Right.

01:02:33.620 Think of this.

01:02:34.420 You're standing, you slaughtered, brutally raped and killed somebody.

01:02:40.660 Yeah.

01:02:40.940 You're standing in front of their family.

01:02:42.940 You have to say, I did all of those things.

01:02:46.220 I own up to all of it.

01:02:48.800 I'm really sorry.

01:02:50.380 Here's why I'm sorry.

01:02:51.960 Here's how I'm sorry.

01:02:54.120 And then they have to say, because it's death penalty, isn't it?

01:02:58.000 I don't think it was death penalty.

01:02:59.500 I think it, you know, and it may have been in some cases, and I don't know for sure.

01:03:02.680 All right.

01:03:03.040 But the other is, you're free.

01:03:05.660 Right.

01:03:06.580 90% were set free.

01:03:08.720 How does that happen?

01:03:09.780 Well, and you think about it, which I'm not saying is wrong, but we as Americans, you know, a jury of the victim's family, no way, that would never work.

01:03:18.260 Well, who's to say that?

01:03:20.140 I mean, look at what's going on in Rwanda now.

01:03:22.580 It's growing at 9%.

01:03:23.760 Incredible peace amongst these, you know, these former enemies.

01:03:27.460 You know, they've got a democratically elected government that is a majority women run, in part for practical reasons, by the way. 1.00

01:03:35.860 Yeah, they killed a lot of the men.

01:03:36.980 They killed a lot of the men.

01:03:38.320 But it's amazing.

01:03:39.380 It's a miraculous story.

01:03:40.960 And I think when I tell, the thing about this story is people, it bothers me, because I do it, when people hear it as an African story.

01:03:49.240 This is a human story.

01:03:50.560 These are human beings.

01:03:51.580 And I firmly believe we are all capable of both sides of this equation, and so much depends on the circumstances.

01:04:01.640 But this is a beautiful story.

01:04:04.300 And so, like, what's our role in this?

01:04:06.380 Part of what we try to do is don't make it seem distant.

01:04:11.040 Don't make it seem African.

01:04:12.700 Don't make it—it is African, of course, but this is who we are.

01:04:18.600 I mean, a lot of what you guys were speaking about earlier, it is the nature of the way humans behave.

01:04:24.200 And in the end, you know, forgiveness in Rwanda is so much more important than Snapchat, you know?

01:04:31.360 Like, are we going to—

01:04:32.440 Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

01:04:33.240 What?

01:04:35.240 And that's, you know—and listen, I am very sympathetic.

01:04:38.300 In today's world, to sort out priorities, you know, in our day, there were a thousand of them.

01:04:44.800 Today, there's a million of them.

01:04:47.000 And so, what do you put at the top?

01:04:48.820 Like, how do you sort of populate the top?

01:04:53.160 That's what we're trying to do.

01:04:54.900 And when you really get the sense of Paul Kagame or the sense of Rwanda, it's staggering.

01:05:02.960 Who are the most incredible people that you have met who have shown this kind of turnaround,

01:05:11.540 who have shown this kind of openness, turning point?

01:05:16.420 I don't know what you would call it.

01:05:18.220 So, I was in San Quentin Prison about—not—I was visiting about a year ago, a little less.

01:05:25.560 And I met a guy named Chris Schumacher, and he was in a program in the prison.

01:05:30.060 He was a crystal meth addict who had a sentence of 25 years to life for murder.

01:05:37.220 And he was working in a program—long story short, I won't bore you with the details—

01:05:44.300 but when I met him, I thought, God, this guy has a clarity that is amazing.

01:05:48.400 We had a long conversation, and he, you know, he owns up to the crime.

01:05:53.060 He doesn't remember committing it because he was so tweaked out.

01:05:56.200 But the guy impressed me on such a level.

01:06:00.080 So, at the end of the conversation, I said to him, I said, you're going to go back to your cell now.

01:06:04.200 You seem like one of the happiest people I've ever met.

01:06:06.540 Are you happy in your cell when you go back each night?

01:06:08.860 And he said, absolutely, every night.

01:06:12.420 Now, you think about that.

01:06:13.700 Picture me on the couch, right, with my million-dollar problems, all depressed, and this guy's back in his cell.

01:06:19.560 So, I'm relating—how does that relate to Paul Kagame?

01:06:21.920 He said the most difficult thing he ever had to do in his life was to forgive himself.

01:06:26.940 You know, and that may sound simple, and we may think that's easy.

01:06:30.640 I think that's as hard a thing to do as there is.

01:06:32.360 I think it's hard.

01:06:33.100 I think it's much harder than forgiving others.

01:06:35.500 Yeah.

01:06:36.740 Because you live with yourself.

01:06:37.860 You look at yourself every day.

01:06:39.640 Right, and in his case, we're talking about murder.

01:06:41.800 Yeah.

01:06:42.080 He took a person's life.

01:06:43.800 So, I want to introduce you to somebody today, since you're here in town.

01:06:48.020 I just had dinner with a guy who's remarkable.

01:06:50.780 He is—he's—I talked about him off-air a couple of days ago.

01:06:56.020 We have to have him on the air.

01:06:57.540 He's a guy who lives right around here, was in prison for 37 years, 36 and a half years, something like that.

01:07:04.340 He was wrongly accused for murder, set up by the prosecutors.

01:07:09.620 They said, plead guilty, and we'll get you 10 years.

01:07:14.840 Instead, he pleaded guilty, and he got life in prison, no chance of parole.

01:07:20.020 He's in for 37 years.

01:07:22.920 He got out.

01:07:23.500 He went in in 1977, got out in 2012, and he is the most peaceful, decent guy you've ever met.

01:07:35.600 I mean, remarkable man.

01:07:38.040 Remarkable man.

01:07:40.520 And I don't know how—I mean, I kept looking for some bitterness.

01:07:46.400 How do you—how do you not feel horrible?

01:07:50.540 I mean, how do you not hold feelings?

01:07:51.920 He said, I just didn't.

01:07:54.180 He said, I was—that was my—that was where I was, and I had to deal with it and move on and stay alive and stay positive.

01:08:03.340 And it's an amazing story.

01:08:05.640 You know, I think if it's just the same guy, and you and I talked about this earlier,

01:08:09.920 there was a time—and I hope it's the same person—but where he was plotting to kill the prosecutor,

01:08:19.180 the detectives, like, had to—and then, sort of later, forgave every one of them.

01:08:23.860 So I haven't heard that part of it, so it may be.

01:08:26.100 It may be.

01:08:27.280 But here's the thing.

01:08:28.240 I would argue—

01:08:28.780 That would be your inclination, though, right?

01:08:30.300 Of course.

01:08:31.000 I mean, that would be the tendency for a lot of—a lot of us.

01:08:35.680 Oh, my gosh.

01:08:36.340 It's the exact revenge.

01:08:37.380 It's the exact revenge.

01:08:37.800 He got out.

01:08:38.400 I said to him, I said, so what was the most shocking thing?

01:08:41.500 He said two things.

01:08:44.180 He said, when I got into a car, he said, last time I was in a car was 1977.

01:08:50.100 He said, getting into a car today is like—

01:08:52.420 Had they changed?

01:08:53.300 He said it was like a spaceship to me.

01:08:56.800 Yeah.

01:08:56.980 Internet?

01:08:57.720 What about the Internet?

01:08:58.440 He said the other thing that had really changed was the culture.

01:09:02.180 He said there's no respect anymore, no respect for elders, no respect—he said nobody has

01:09:08.240 ever had to really pay a price for anything.

01:09:11.640 He said, so there's no respect for anything.

01:09:15.320 He said that was shocking to him.

01:09:17.920 Yeah.

01:09:20.000 Tom, it's great to have you here.

01:09:21.760 Thank you so much.

01:09:22.620 Thank you, guys.

01:09:23.060 How can people follow you and—

01:09:24.980 Check out the Nantucket Project, nantucketproject.com, and some of our films are there.

01:09:31.680 When does the film come out about Rwanda?

01:09:34.980 And it's a short, right?

01:09:36.060 Later this year.

01:09:36.480 It'll be a short.

01:09:38.300 So Paul Kagame's coming to our gathering in the fall, in September.

01:09:42.320 We'll keep shooting.

01:09:43.720 What we tend to do is our films are always a work in progress, and to the extent that

01:09:48.140 we can gather others around the topic, the guy I mentioned from San Quentin will be there.

01:09:52.780 There's sort of a number of people we're talking to about forgiveness in a general sense.

01:09:58.360 That'll all end up in the film.

01:09:59.920 There's a guy at Virginia Tech—no, I'm sorry, at Virginia Commonwealth—who has sort of

01:10:04.740 the, you know, there's the five stages of despair of—is it despair?

01:10:10.200 Yeah, five of—

01:10:12.020 Grief.

01:10:12.640 Grief.

01:10:12.920 There's a similar thing for forgiveness that is so powerful.

01:10:18.600 And anyway, we'll be introducing that and incorporating it in the film.

01:10:21.860 Can I ask you a question?

01:10:23.260 Yes.

01:10:24.780 May I say what you asked me?

01:10:27.500 Yeah.

01:10:28.140 I don't remember what it was.

01:10:29.200 That's a terrible answer.

01:10:30.700 You asked me to go.

01:10:32.000 How do I fit in with the guy in Rwanda and the guy from prison?

01:10:37.780 Because I think in the end—look, when I was listening to what you guys were talking

01:10:42.500 about on the show here, I was born in 1966.

01:10:47.740 And I can—as best I know, not that many people at the age of seven or eight see the

01:10:55.580 president leave office, right?

01:10:57.200 Yeah.

01:10:57.480 So you're new in the game and boom, the president's out.

01:11:00.420 Yeah.

01:11:00.560 So you're now—you're born in the cynical generation, right?

01:11:04.100 Yeah.

01:11:04.740 And so let's say it just keeps going and going and going until the last election.

01:11:08.800 I think the most patriotic thing we could do right now, regardless of your political

01:11:13.240 beliefs, is to find a way to become one place again.

01:11:16.720 And I think the fact that you guys are doing that is so interesting.

01:11:20.320 And, you know, you could argue that there's not a good business model around that.

01:11:24.580 I don't care what your argument is.

01:11:26.060 You could make that argument.

01:11:27.200 You could.

01:11:27.900 And in fact, it's been made a thousand times, yeah.

01:11:32.340 Well, that's just not good enough, you know?

01:11:34.040 And it's also what makes that true.

01:11:38.900 You know, the business model after 10 years for Pixar was a disaster.

01:11:42.820 Yeah.

01:11:44.140 Okay.

01:11:45.080 Those are normal things.

01:11:46.080 Yeah.

01:11:46.380 Like, no—the business model working quickly is not necessarily a sign of goodness or success.

01:11:53.320 It's great to be with you and to see you again.

01:11:57.200 Thanks for sharing on the air.

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01:13:18.220 You're listening to the Glenn Beck Program.

01:13:22.100 That's me.

01:13:26.140 You're listening to the Glenn Beck Program.

01:13:28.280 We have a couple of great things coming on tomorrow's program.

01:13:33.120 I remember last week when I played the audio from a caller that called in a radio station in Washington, D.C.

01:13:43.040 And he said, we just have to stop talking about the left and right.

01:13:47.360 And he was a supporter of Donald Trump.

01:13:49.660 And he said, people have to just start listening to us.

01:13:52.100 We're the forgotten men.

01:13:53.300 I think he's going to be joining us tomorrow with a really, truly remarkable story.

01:13:59.280 We've been trying to get a hold of him for now for about a week.

01:14:02.400 Also, we are going to be talking a little bit about the health care solution that is already happening in Ohio.

01:14:09.800 If you're one of the people that have been left out and don't know what to do in Ohio and around the rest of the country,

01:14:17.360 we will give you a solution on tomorrow's program.

01:14:20.940 Don't miss it.

01:14:24.200 Glenn Beck.

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01:14:46.700 On demand.

01:14:50.200 This is an amazing stat.

01:14:51.700 Yesterday, we talked to you about health care.

01:14:55.100 And I said, you know, look, I am not going to tell you, I'm not going to continue to tell you how bad health care is.

01:15:00.740 I'm not going to continue to tell you how bad Obamacare is and what Congress is doing.

01:15:04.600 Because, quite frankly, what difference does it make at this point?

01:15:08.860 Yes.

01:15:09.200 Would you like to see some movement?

01:15:11.040 Yes.

01:15:11.420 Would you like to see them do something?

01:15:12.960 Yes.

01:15:13.280 Are they going to?

01:15:14.420 Probably not.

01:15:15.240 They are, so many of them are in the pocket of, you know, giant pharma or giant insurance companies

01:15:24.320 or just in it for themselves so they can gain more power and control over people like you.

01:15:31.580 Why talk about that anymore?

01:15:33.360 Pay attention to it, yes.

01:15:35.040 But let's talk about some solutions.

01:15:36.640 In the bill that failed as a gift to some states and basically some senators,

01:15:45.540 they tried to sweeten the pot by giving $45 million in opioid treatment to some states.

01:15:54.160 We all keep hearing that opioids is a real problem in America.

01:15:59.260 Let me give you one stat.

01:16:00.580 Drug overdose deaths were above 59,000 in 2016.

01:16:09.940 That is the largest jump ever recorded in American history, a jump of nearly 20%.

01:16:17.920 Plus, 2 million Americans are estimated to be dependent on opioids,

01:16:23.900 and an additional 95 million Americans use prescription painkillers within the past year.

01:16:30.300 That is twice the number of those people who use tobacco.

01:16:37.340 Holy cow. 0.89

01:16:39.320 This is an epidemic.

01:16:41.800 Where do we go from here?

01:16:44.060 How can we help?

01:16:45.940 Stop looking to the government.

01:16:48.160 What can you do?

01:16:49.820 Aaron Brower is here, and we talk to him about this epidemic right now.

01:16:55.720 I will make a stand.

01:16:59.180 I will raise my voice.

01:17:01.440 I will hold your hand.

01:17:03.880 Because we are one.

01:17:05.660 I will beat my drum.

01:17:07.900 I have made my choice.

01:17:10.160 We will overcome.

01:17:12.460 Because we are one.

01:17:14.520 The fusion of entertainment and enlightenment.

01:17:18.420 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

01:17:21.900 I will tell you that at one point in my life,

01:17:30.760 I was addicted to opioids and just through medical use,

01:17:35.680 and it is horrendous.

01:17:39.360 It is, you know, there's something to say about

01:17:44.060 drug users who are going out and scoring drugs and everything else.

01:17:51.200 Another about being addicted to opioids because of pain,

01:17:58.260 and you want to get off them.

01:18:01.540 You can't get off them because of pain,

01:18:03.820 and you can't get off them because you're addicted to them.

01:18:07.040 And it is horrendous.

01:18:09.720 It is horrendous.

01:18:11.040 I have been addicted to alcohol,

01:18:13.720 and I've been addicted to opioids.

01:18:15.780 I think I would take alcohol any day of the week over opioids.

01:18:21.540 Aaron Brower is here.

01:18:22.860 He runs the Southern California Addiction Center

01:18:25.100 and knows a little bit about it.

01:18:28.960 He sounds very much like me growing up.

01:18:32.960 I began using alcohol and marijuana as a coping mechanism

01:18:37.000 to deal with a traumatic event.

01:18:40.640 And then in his mid-20s,

01:18:42.180 he became somebody who was jumping in and out of court.

01:18:46.000 Welcome to the program, Aaron.

01:18:47.100 How are you?

01:18:48.140 I'm doing great, Glenn.

01:18:49.240 Thank you for asking.

01:18:50.060 Thanks for having me on.

01:18:50.920 I really appreciate it.

01:18:51.680 You bet.

01:18:51.980 Can you give us some stats when,

01:18:54.460 because this is something that is going around on TV,

01:18:57.700 but I don't think people know how bad this really is.

01:19:02.080 Yeah, I agree with you, Glenn.

01:19:03.560 I mean, it is absolutely the number one medical issue in America.

01:19:07.700 You know, when looking at just the statistics you rattled off,

01:19:10.780 which is just staggering when you really think about it,

01:19:13.700 is you're looking at, you know, just in opioid overdoses,

01:19:16.700 not counting, you know, all the other alcohol and drugs and cocaine and all that.

01:19:20.640 And in 2015, you know, it was, you know, four people an hour overdosed on opioids alone,

01:19:28.740 you know, overdoses on opioids alone.

01:19:32.800 When you're looking at 2016,

01:19:34.480 when you're looking at the overdose deaths like you talked about,

01:19:36.660 I mean, it jumped almost 20%.

01:19:39.280 I mean, when you go all the way back from 1980 to 2015,

01:19:43.660 in 1980, there was 6,000 total drug overdose deaths,

01:19:48.420 and now you fast forward to 2015 and there was 52,404 deaths.

01:19:53.940 I mean, it's 1.5 times greater than any other killer of Americans. 0.90

01:19:59.020 So here, than any other killer of Americans?

01:20:02.160 Any other killer of Americans. 0.92

01:20:04.960 Heart disease and all that?

01:20:07.440 What's that?

01:20:08.020 That doesn't include heart disease.

01:20:09.900 It includes accidents, cancer, heart disease, everything.

01:20:13.520 Wow.

01:20:13.800 The number one killer of Americans. 0.97

01:20:15.200 Wow.

01:20:15.520 1.5 times greater than the second place killer.

01:20:19.000 Wow.

01:20:20.420 You know, in looking at this,

01:20:23.300 you see in places like Ohio,

01:20:26.880 where heroin has really,

01:20:29.600 the heroin overdoses have gone almost to zero,

01:20:34.800 that fentanyl is now the killer,

01:20:39.640 not heroin, says something.

01:20:43.360 Yes, it does.

01:20:44.060 And the fentanyl is basically just a,

01:20:46.940 it's a synthetic pain, you know, painkiller.

01:20:51.220 And most of the fentanyl is coming in,

01:20:53.280 is produced by Chinese companies.

01:20:55.420 And then the, you know,

01:20:56.720 the Mexican cartels and whatever are mixing it in with,

01:20:59.620 in everything.

01:21:00.160 When you're looking at,

01:21:01.100 in 2016,

01:21:03.580 there have been over 35,000 drug possession chart,

01:21:07.360 you know,

01:21:07.640 where they've actually,

01:21:08.780 you know,

01:21:09.100 seized drugs and then tested it.

01:21:10.640 And,

01:21:11.440 and 35,000 different cases,

01:21:13.640 they're finding fentanyl and cocaine,

01:21:15.420 heroin,

01:21:15.880 everything.

01:21:16.300 But what it is,

01:21:17.340 is they,

01:21:17.740 it takes very little heroin mixed with a little fentanyl.

01:21:20.420 And then you get a drug that's super potent.

01:21:22.580 And the reason why it's killing so many people is it's so hard to gauge.

01:21:26.640 I mean,

01:21:26.880 these guys are mixing it up and,

01:21:28.340 you know,

01:21:29.020 in some,

01:21:29.500 you know,

01:21:30.120 warehouse or some back alley somewhere,

01:21:31.980 and they're mixing it up.

01:21:32.760 It is absolutely not an exact science.

01:21:35.960 That's why you get some doses that are extremely strong and some doses that

01:21:39.100 aren't.

01:21:39.640 I will tell you that fentanyl,

01:21:41.680 I had surgery,

01:21:43.640 this is years ago,

01:21:45.140 and I had never even heard of fentanyl.

01:21:48.100 And I,

01:21:49.040 I mean,

01:21:50.160 I have a system that you,

01:21:51.860 I mean,

01:21:52.180 of a horse,

01:21:52.900 you just can't put me out.

01:21:54.120 I've,

01:21:54.340 I've actually woken up on the operating table.

01:21:56.900 They,

01:21:57.220 I mean,

01:21:57.420 they almost have to kill me to take me out of pain.

01:22:00.280 And I woke up and I was on a cocktail that included the fentanyl patch.

01:22:07.120 And that patch scared the hell out of me.

01:22:11.020 Especially after my wife read that it said for end of life use only,

01:22:15.640 but that is now being prescribed for my,

01:22:19.280 my,

01:22:20.520 my niece who was in her twenties at one point was,

01:22:24.420 was prescribed fentanyl patches.

01:22:26.460 I mean,

01:22:27.080 it's,

01:22:27.440 it's absolutely,

01:22:28.820 it's,

01:22:29.100 it's not something you hand out.

01:22:31.960 Glenn,

01:22:32.420 one of the scariest reasons I think you're seeing this,

01:22:35.200 which is I was,

01:22:35.880 I was in New Jersey at the New Jersey hospital association summit.

01:22:39.720 I was there with my friend,

01:22:40.680 Dr.

01:22:41.340 Drew and,

01:22:41.940 and Bob Forrest.

01:22:43.940 And then governor Christie was there and Patrick Kennedy,

01:22:45.880 all just absolute champions for this cause.

01:22:48.560 And,

01:22:48.840 and what's interesting is Dr.

01:22:50.680 Drew gave a talk and talked about,

01:22:52.320 you know,

01:22:52.620 the,

01:22:52.860 the big lobbying,

01:22:53.920 the big pharma,

01:22:54.700 all that kind of stuff.

01:22:55.580 And one of the biggest things that made the,

01:22:58.000 that made this pandemic grow so rapidly is,

01:23:00.580 is when big pharma was able to lobby and get pain as the fifth vital sign.

01:23:05.920 I mean,

01:23:06.200 think about that,

01:23:07.260 you know?

01:23:07.600 And so what happened is back in the eighties,

01:23:09.520 doctors were,

01:23:10.480 were being sued for under prescribing.

01:23:12.560 Can you imagine ignoring a vital sign,

01:23:14.580 you know?

01:23:14.840 And so they've got,

01:23:15.620 they got the fifth vital sign to be pain.

01:23:18.620 And so with that,

01:23:19.700 you know,

01:23:20.100 doctors that were under prescribing,

01:23:22.460 they were,

01:23:23.060 you know,

01:23:23.300 they were getting sued for under prescribing and that sort of thing.

01:23:26.300 And some of them in California actually lost their licenses.

01:23:29.900 For under prescribing,

01:23:31.840 under prescribing.

01:23:32.600 Now we have,

01:23:33.620 do you believe we have a problem of over prescribing?

01:23:37.560 Oh,

01:23:37.760 absolutely.

01:23:38.820 Absolutely.

01:23:39.720 I mean,

01:23:40.140 it is just staggering when you're looking at some of the communities that are just

01:23:42.940 ripped like Ohio.

01:23:43.840 There's you're looking at in certain cities in Ohio and other places across

01:23:47.720 America,

01:23:48.600 certain counties,

01:23:49.280 there are almost three prescriptions for oxycodone per one citizen or per one

01:23:55.760 resident.

01:23:56.540 You know,

01:23:56.800 it's just absolutely staggering.

01:23:58.580 The over,

01:23:58.920 the over prescribing is,

01:24:00.260 is just absurd.

01:24:01.560 And it reminds me of a,

01:24:02.880 of a kid that,

01:24:04.420 for example,

01:24:05.240 this kid,

01:24:06.040 Riley here in Southern California,

01:24:07.460 he was just a beautiful,

01:24:08.720 beautiful 20 year old boy,

01:24:10.240 you know,

01:24:10.480 went to Aliso Niguel high school.

01:24:12.580 He was a football star,

01:24:14.040 had an injury in high school,

01:24:15.720 was prescribed oxy cotton,

01:24:17.040 and then,

01:24:17.680 you know,

01:24:17.900 came across.

01:24:18.640 And then obviously that turned into an addiction and he was struggling with it

01:24:22.180 and couldn't quite kick it.

01:24:23.160 Like you were talking about in your intro here.

01:24:25.720 And what happened is he,

01:24:27.460 you know,

01:24:27.660 he came across a doctor.

01:24:29.000 Her,

01:24:29.260 her,

01:24:29.580 her name was Dr. 0.98

01:24:30.580 Lisa is what she went by on the streets. 1.00

01:24:32.200 And,

01:24:32.440 and you know,

01:24:33.500 this one doctor prescribed over,

01:24:35.260 over a five year period,

01:24:36.700 prescribed over 27,000 prescriptions for oxycodone and made over $5 million.

01:24:43.060 Killing 12 kids.

01:24:44.740 Wow.

01:24:45.180 And you,

01:24:45.880 you might've read about her or heard about her.

01:24:47.620 She was that,

01:24:48.240 she was the doctor that was,

01:24:49.460 that was sentenced to just recently 30 years to life.

01:24:52.260 So in prison.

01:24:53.160 And,

01:24:53.420 and you know what,

01:24:53.860 we need to see more of this.

01:24:55.440 So Aaron,

01:24:56.180 which,

01:24:58.320 what,

01:24:59.160 what's really happening?

01:25:00.500 Is it people trying to get high?

01:25:03.820 Or is,

01:25:05.220 is the,

01:25:05.980 is the epidemic also include high numbers of people who are in pain,

01:25:12.320 have had problems,

01:25:13.640 maybe still have problems,

01:25:15.080 but they just can't get off of it.

01:25:19.240 Yeah.

01:25:19.740 Well,

01:25:19.980 it,

01:25:20.180 you know,

01:25:20.640 it mainly,

01:25:21.840 the,

01:25:22.320 the more common story that we see in all of our addiction centers and that

01:25:25.440 sort of thing.

01:25:25.840 And also at the national addiction foundation is you see,

01:25:29.120 you know,

01:25:29.380 just the story,

01:25:30.160 like I just said,

01:25:30.980 you know,

01:25:31.300 you see more so the cases of people having surgery,

01:25:34.720 getting,

01:25:35.100 you know,

01:25:35.320 having an injury.

01:25:36.120 And,

01:25:36.520 and what happens is if people have what you and I talk about or what you

01:25:40.140 talk about,

01:25:40.680 as far as like core issues,

01:25:41.880 whether it's a sexual trauma or,

01:25:43.620 or whatever that is,

01:25:44.700 as he,

01:25:45.020 as a young adult,

01:25:45.700 you have the unresolved issues.

01:25:47.500 What happens is they're,

01:25:48.960 they're,

01:25:49.280 you know,

01:25:49.640 it's way more likely to have an addiction issue,

01:25:52.760 you know,

01:25:53.300 let alone just national statistics say one in four,

01:25:56.420 one in four people that are prescribed Oxycontin,

01:25:59.280 for example,

01:26:00.160 one in four will struggle with addiction issues.

01:26:05.300 The,

01:26:06.100 the problem is,

01:26:09.000 is I think the,

01:26:10.540 the stigma that nobody wants to talk about it.

01:26:14.580 Nobody wants to admit that they are addicted to it.

01:26:18.720 And then nobody knows what to do about it.

01:26:23.220 So let me take,

01:26:24.260 and that's why I appreciate you,

01:26:25.900 Glenn.

01:26:26.160 Like you,

01:26:26.680 you wear your,

01:26:27.420 you know,

01:26:27.680 your story of recovery,

01:26:28.740 like a badge on or on your arm.

01:26:30.060 I do the same.

01:26:30.720 I've been sober now,

01:26:31.460 15 years coming up on 16 here,

01:26:33.820 you know,

01:26:34.040 ex,

01:26:34.480 you know,

01:26:34.800 recovering intravenous,

01:26:35.860 you know,

01:26:36.180 heroin addict and that sort of thing.

01:26:37.680 And prescription pills and been there and done that.

01:26:39.900 And we do,

01:26:40.660 it's the stigma,

01:26:41.500 you know,

01:26:41.780 the stigma that comes about,

01:26:42.980 this is a,

01:26:43.540 you know,

01:26:43.780 a moral choice.

01:26:44.800 This is something that,

01:26:46.180 you know,

01:26:46.340 they're just acting bad,

01:26:47.600 you know,

01:26:47.900 and it,

01:26:48.280 no,

01:26:48.460 it's a disease,

01:26:49.480 you know,

01:26:49.760 it's been diagnosed as a disease and is,

01:26:51.660 and it is a disease.

01:26:52.740 And so,

01:26:53.500 you know,

01:26:53.900 crushing that stigma guys like you and I,

01:26:55.900 and that sort of thing,

01:26:56.600 it's,

01:26:56.920 it's one of the most important things we can do.

01:26:59.040 Okay.

01:26:59.300 So Aaron,

01:26:59.760 I'm going to ask you for,

01:27:01.180 you know,

01:27:01.460 if somebody is listening,

01:27:02.480 you know,

01:27:03.860 and,

01:27:04.220 and they are addicted or they have somebody who is addicted,

01:27:08.340 what can they do?

01:27:10.100 You know,

01:27:10.480 yesterday,

01:27:11.440 you know,

01:27:11.720 with the national healthcare garbage,

01:27:15.380 you know,

01:27:16.400 we're not going to find an answer in Washington.

01:27:18.620 We need to find it ourselves.

01:27:19.700 So what can people do?

01:27:21.000 I'll,

01:27:21.240 I'll come back to you with that here in just a second.

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01:29:09.740 This is the Glenn Beck program.

01:29:15.880 Welcome back to the program.

01:29:18.820 I'm so glad that you have tuned in today.

01:29:22.580 All right.

01:29:23.060 So,

01:29:23.640 so Aaron,

01:29:25.080 Aaron Brower from the Southern California Addiction Center.

01:29:28.340 So what does somebody who is listening do if they are addicted?

01:29:34.480 Addicted through a prescription or if they know somebody that is addicted?

01:29:40.980 What do they do?

01:29:42.840 Well,

01:29:43.240 there's a,

01:29:43.660 you know,

01:29:43.920 Glenn,

01:29:44.200 there's,

01:29:44.460 thanks for asking that question there.

01:29:46.480 It is,

01:29:47.280 you know,

01:29:47.720 finding the right kind of care for somebody.

01:29:50.160 If you're addicted and you're trying to find the right kind of care to see

01:29:52.580 what kind of options are out there for you.

01:29:54.280 It's just,

01:29:55.100 it is a web and they,

01:29:57.280 and insurance companies make it very,

01:29:58.820 very difficult,

01:29:59.580 you know,

01:29:59.940 as,

01:30:00.240 you know,

01:30:00.560 as difficult as they can in order to get,

01:30:02.740 you know,

01:30:03.120 to allow people to access their benefits.

01:30:05.440 I founded this National Addiction Foundation,

01:30:07.960 this nationaladdictionfoundation.org.

01:30:09.780 It's a nonprofit.

01:30:10.840 And what's interesting is there,

01:30:12.660 there is,

01:30:13.060 there is help available.

01:30:14.560 It's just that people don't know how to access it or know that it's

01:30:19.280 available to them.

01:30:20.300 And so what happens is,

01:30:21.960 for example,

01:30:22.620 I mean,

01:30:22.860 the number,

01:30:23.260 the most important thing,

01:30:24.260 Glenn,

01:30:24.380 is to get connected to the right care.

01:30:26.160 Okay.

01:30:26.740 You want to make sure if somebody is struggling that,

01:30:29.720 you know,

01:30:30.000 that they,

01:30:30.920 the,

01:30:31.340 that they get connected to the appropriate kind of care.

01:30:33.860 Okay.

01:30:34.300 Like for example,

01:30:35.060 if somebody has a,

01:30:36.240 you know,

01:30:36.540 sexual,

01:30:37.260 you know,

01:30:37.620 trauma from a,

01:30:38.600 from an early age or something,

01:30:39.800 they need to get connected to a place that has trauma therapy.

01:30:43.080 If they,

01:30:43.880 you know,

01:30:44.300 if they are,

01:30:46.440 if they can't,

01:30:47.960 if they have recently had what's called a triggering event,

01:30:51.120 there's lots of different options for them.

01:30:52.860 When I'm,

01:30:53.040 when I met,

01:30:53.500 when I'm talking about that is a lot of people don't know a lot of the

01:30:56.640 things that we know in the industry and learned over the years.

01:30:59.340 Like for example,

01:31:00.680 you know,

01:31:01.060 people don't know that let's say your,

01:31:03.220 your son or your daughter gets arrested.

01:31:05.380 They end up going to jail.

01:31:06.700 Then they're for a drug possession.

01:31:07.980 Then they're released from jail.

01:31:09.360 Well,

01:31:09.480 that's a qualifying event to get insurance year round.

01:31:12.500 Okay.

01:31:12.820 So you don't no longer have to wait for the open enrollment period for

01:31:16.440 insurance.

01:31:16.900 Like for example,

01:31:17.780 other triggering events,

01:31:19.020 a divorce,

01:31:20.160 going to jail, 0.88

01:31:21.680 moving from state to state.

01:31:23.400 Those are all qualifying events to get insurance year round.

01:31:26.380 And most of these kids,

01:31:27.340 what's amazing is you have these families call into the,

01:31:29.860 to our foundation and,

01:31:30.980 and we just guide people through that process.

01:31:33.160 And you see such a high percentage of them.

01:31:35.580 Let's say,

01:31:36.080 you know,

01:31:36.280 little Cindy gets arrested.

01:31:37.640 And then all of a sudden you tell the mom,

01:31:39.200 Hey,

01:31:39.420 with that release paperwork from jail,

01:31:41.320 you,

01:31:41.540 you put it together with an application.

01:31:42.580 Application for an insurance company,

01:31:44.080 you submit it.

01:31:44.960 And then within 30 days,

01:31:46.600 you know,

01:31:47.040 the,

01:31:47.260 your insurance is available to help them.

01:31:49.120 There are also a lot of free resources available to people.

01:31:52.780 Okay.

01:31:53.120 So what we've done is we've created a large database,

01:31:55.640 a nationwide database.

01:31:56.660 If somebody is calling from,

01:31:58.000 you know,

01:31:58.680 San Francisco,

01:31:59.280 you know,

01:31:59.780 we can help guide them through that process and getting connected to the

01:32:03.240 indigent facilities around if they haven't had a qualifying event.

01:32:06.140 I don't think we have any listeners in San Francisco.

01:32:07.940 So don't worry about that one.

01:32:13.000 Yeah.

01:32:13.360 So,

01:32:13.760 you know,

01:32:14.360 there are ways,

01:32:15.060 there are ways to get help.

01:32:16.140 It's just a matter of,

01:32:17.060 of having the knowledge to be able to access it.

01:32:19.840 There are grants,

01:32:20.640 there are all sorts of stuff out there that can help people obtain,

01:32:23.300 uh,

01:32:24.120 coverage in order to get,

01:32:25.700 to get care.

01:32:26.440 you know,

01:32:26.840 this is what killed my mother.

01:32:28.240 She,

01:32:28.720 um,

01:32:29.620 uh,

01:32:29.920 she was addicted to prescription drugs,

01:32:31.520 uh,

01:32:32.440 and she needed to move away from the doctor because she knew the doctor,

01:32:36.100 you know,

01:32:36.900 would continue to prescribe.

01:32:38.540 This is in the,

01:32:39.560 in the seventies.

01:32:41.200 And,

01:32:41.720 um,

01:32:42.260 so we moved away.

01:32:43.820 Then she switched her drug of choice and, 0.54

01:32:46.660 uh,

01:32:47.580 within a year was,

01:32:48.860 was,

01:32:49.500 uh,

01:32:50.120 uh,

01:32:50.400 was dead because,

01:32:51.340 you know,

01:32:52.300 there was,

01:32:52.680 there was no help.

01:32:53.340 She tried to do it by herself and,

01:32:55.080 you know,

01:32:56.000 depending on where you are,

01:32:56.980 you can't do it by yourself.

01:32:58.660 Um,

01:32:59.200 no,

01:32:59.460 you can't.

01:32:59.920 And that's why help is so important and things like the,

01:33:02.940 you know,

01:33:03.120 the national addiction foundation and other great resources out there.

01:33:06.320 I mean,

01:33:06.800 there is help available for people,

01:33:08.500 you know,

01:33:08.780 passionate people like ourselves that will,

01:33:10.680 you know,

01:33:10.980 hold their hand,

01:33:11.900 walk them through the process.

01:33:13.120 And a lot of times what's kind of interesting is a lot of times,

01:33:16.440 you know,

01:33:16.860 the addict is not ready or the alcoholic is not ready.

01:33:19.700 And so one thing that,

01:33:21.280 you know,

01:33:21.620 we love to do through our foundation is we,

01:33:23.920 you know,

01:33:24.140 we'll call them back.

01:33:25.040 If they call in and they're not ready,

01:33:26.000 we'll talk to them for,

01:33:27.180 you know,

01:33:27.780 they're 20,

01:33:28.260 30 minutes.

01:33:28.800 And then we'll just,

01:33:29.880 you know,

01:33:30.040 we'll call them back in three days and just shower love upon them.

01:33:32.740 Because what happens is,

01:33:33.980 you know,

01:33:34.540 the families and,

01:33:35.520 and everybody around them,

01:33:36.840 it's,

01:33:37.100 it's a painful thing.

01:33:38.540 Addiction is okay.

01:33:39.440 They,

01:33:39.800 they steal,

01:33:40.940 they lie.

01:33:41.940 They,

01:33:42.400 you know what,

01:33:42.700 when you're in active addiction,

01:33:43.780 those sort of things happen.

01:33:45.260 Are they thieves?

01:33:46.160 No,

01:33:46.640 they're in active addiction.

01:33:47.800 Are they liars?

01:33:48.880 No,

01:33:49.260 they're in active addiction,

01:33:50.820 you know?

01:33:51.100 And so what happens is the,

01:33:52.420 the,

01:33:52.680 the addictive process just isolates these people,

01:33:55.120 as you know,

01:33:56.100 and I know it just isolates these people and puts them on an island alone,

01:33:59.440 you know?

01:33:59.860 And that's why it is so difficult because,

01:34:02.040 you know,

01:34:02.400 half the time they're,

01:34:03.860 you know,

01:34:04.120 they're on an island alone.

01:34:05.280 All right.

01:34:06.160 National addiction,

01:34:07.340 uh,

01:34:07.920 foundation.org,

01:34:09.320 national addiction,

01:34:10.480 foundation.org.

01:34:11.760 Aaron,

01:34:12.040 thank you so much for your time.

01:34:13.980 We really appreciate it.

01:34:14.540 Thank you so much,

01:34:14.900 Glenn.

01:34:15.080 I really appreciate it.

01:34:15.980 You bet.

01:34:16.360 God bless.

01:34:17.640 Um,

01:34:18.500 as somebody who has gone through addiction,

01:34:22.660 I want you to know,

01:34:24.180 I,

01:34:24.640 I understand how hard it is and I know what you probably feel about yourself today.

01:34:30.860 And I want you to know that there is help.

01:34:34.620 There are ways to stop this.

01:34:38.420 Um,

01:34:38.840 cause I know you want to stop it.

01:34:41.360 Um,

01:34:42.120 you just don't see a way around it.

01:34:44.700 Please reach out and get help because what's waiting for you on the other side is unbelievably great and warm.

01:34:54.940 Back in just a minute.

01:34:59.080 This is the Glenn Beck program.

01:35:02.740 Mercury.

01:35:06.480 This is the Glenn Beck program.

01:35:08.560 Welcome to the program.

01:35:12.240 I'm glad you're here.

01:35:13.080 For those of you who happen to get your news from the BBC,

01:35:16.660 we want to clear up something that they can't seem to figure out right,

01:35:20.840 right yet.

01:35:21.400 And that is the highest number of acid attacks,

01:35:25.920 acid attacks,

01:35:27.220 people throwing acid on people,

01:35:29.900 uh,

01:35:30.300 highest ever recorded in Great Britain,

01:35:32.320 uh,

01:35:33.320 is actually more than doubled in England since 2012.

01:35:37.120 The amount of these attacks.

01:35:38.460 That's interesting.

01:35:39.080 And the BBC cannot figure out acid attacks.

01:35:42.580 Now,

01:35:42.920 I know that I've heard about acid attacks elsewhere.

01:35:48.160 Uh,

01:35:49.060 probably spicy foods.

01:35:50.440 If you have too much spicy food,

01:35:52.000 you're going to get a bubbling.

01:35:53.320 No,

01:35:53.580 it's acid where somebody throws like battery acid onto a woman's face. 1.00

01:35:59.420 Yeah.

01:35:59.660 You're thinking of acid rain.

01:36:00.840 So when the global warming causes rain to turn into acid,

01:36:05.220 it falls from the sky.

01:36:06.340 No,

01:36:06.560 no,

01:36:06.680 no,

01:36:06.780 no,

01:36:07.080 no.

01:36:07.980 Acid attacks.

01:36:08.900 I'm trying to,

01:36:09.520 I remember now Sharia law allows you to punish someone, 0.95

01:36:17.020 uh,

01:36:18.400 like a woman who has maybe wrongly accused you of rape or something like that.

01:36:23.460 She only had two witnesses.

01:36:25.380 My gosh.

01:36:26.120 When will the women learn, 1.00

01:36:27.420 uh,

01:36:28.160 when they've wrongly accused you with rape or something,

01:36:30.600 you can throw battery acid onto their face and scar them horribly for life.

01:36:35.160 That's where I've heard about acid attacks.

01:36:37.860 And the BBC can't figure that out at all.

01:36:41.080 No,

01:36:41.260 there's no mention of radical Islam.

01:36:43.740 You know why?

01:36:44.040 Immigrants,

01:36:44.640 nothing like that.

01:36:45.340 Because they refuse to look there.

01:36:47.580 Right.

01:36:47.880 If they,

01:36:48.300 they've already decided it can't be that.

01:36:51.700 Uh,

01:36:51.940 I would invite them to go to the National Institute of Health and just see either what the victim was,

01:37:00.960 or if maybe there is a,

01:37:05.520 you know,

01:37:06.000 a description of the men and what they looked like.

01:37:10.640 That might be why it's more than doubled in the last year.

01:37:14.620 I'm just saying.

01:37:16.000 Could be.

01:37:17.280 The BBC disagrees.

01:37:19.080 They can't figure that one out.

01:37:22.380 It's,

01:37:22.640 it's really unclear.

01:37:24.040 I,

01:37:24.200 I think Stu's explanation of acid rain.

01:37:26.640 Acid rain.

01:37:27.140 Caused by global warming is probably very,

01:37:29.140 very legitimate.

01:37:30.160 We know the climate's getting worse.

01:37:31.200 We also know the,

01:37:32.200 the,

01:37:32.460 the kind of the new trend of ghost peppers used in certain sauces.

01:37:36.760 It really,

01:37:37.700 you're going to get a,

01:37:38.340 a reflux reaction there.

01:37:41.180 I think you misunderstand what's happening here.

01:37:43.460 Look,

01:37:43.700 I mean,

01:37:43.880 we all know how to solve this.

01:37:45.200 What is this?

01:37:45.900 What is the BBC?

01:37:46.960 What are they,

01:37:47.400 what are they speculating here?

01:37:49.720 They actually didn't.

01:37:50.820 And what did they say?

01:37:51.700 The,

01:37:51.880 who did they say the victims were?

01:37:53.540 Well,

01:37:53.840 the victims are,

01:37:54.760 are generally women under 30.

01:37:57.800 Huh?

01:37:58.320 And,

01:37:58.920 uh,

01:37:59.600 they don't have,

01:38:01.020 they don't have a hypothesis for,

01:38:03.240 for the reason for that either.

01:38:04.420 Hmm.

01:38:04.980 Uh,

01:38:05.240 which is interesting.

01:38:06.100 Now they,

01:38:06.880 do they have the ethnicity of the girls or maybe the ethnicity of the perpetrators?

01:38:13.960 Are you talking about profiling someone?

01:38:17.940 I'm just looking for all the facts.

01:38:19.660 Wow.

01:38:20.020 Are you hearing this hatred?

01:38:21.180 Well,

01:38:21.400 no,

01:38:21.580 I mean,

01:38:21.740 hang on just a second.

01:38:22.760 I,

01:38:22.860 it seemed like hatred.

01:38:23.880 Why the violent rhetoric?

01:38:25.340 Were you an ageist for pointing out that they're mostly under 30?

01:38:28.700 You ageist? 0.50

01:38:30.460 Well,

01:38:30.920 no,

01:38:31.240 I'm just trying to,

01:38:32.120 you're asking me to pin me down on who's being attacked.

01:38:35.180 Right.

01:38:35.520 And you and the hate mongering BBC felt it was important to say they were mostly under 30.

01:38:42.540 I'm asking,

01:38:43.700 are they mostly white?

01:38:47.040 Are they mostly Hispanic?

01:38:50.260 Are they mostly Arabic?

01:38:53.340 Are they,

01:38:54.080 there's just no way to tell on that one.

01:38:55.940 There's just,

01:38:56.620 I think there is.

01:38:58.040 I really think there is.

01:38:59.680 There's no way to tell.

01:39:00.160 Yeah.

01:39:00.480 Okay.

01:39:01.220 I hate the fact that you're trying to stereotype groups of people.

01:39:04.720 And well,

01:39:05.200 I'm just trying to point out that except for Vincent Price in house of wax,

01:39:10.920 I don't remember people using things like acid or in his case wax to disfigure or scar people.

01:39:21.640 When was the last time seriously we heard about this happening in the United States?

01:39:25.400 In,

01:39:25.720 in America?

01:39:26.660 You ever heard of an acid attack on somebody?

01:39:28.460 Yeah.

01:39:28.580 I believe it was.

01:39:29.860 I believe it,

01:39:32.140 the last one I heard,

01:39:32.980 I think was in Florida and it was a Muslim,

01:39:37.600 you know,

01:39:39.640 honor thing.

01:39:41.160 Wow.

01:39:41.260 The last time I,

01:39:43.120 I heard about it more than once is I think Iran where the court gave the jury,

01:39:52.700 the jury came back and said,

01:39:53.980 this guy,

01:39:54.560 this woman is guilty.

01:39:56.440 And I believe she was guilty of accusing a man of rape and he could take his punishment out.

01:40:03.240 And one of the punishments that the court offered was acid.

01:40:06.080 So Sharia law allows you to do that.

01:40:09.220 At least the Sharia law in Iran. 0.99

01:40:11.720 So,

01:40:12.220 and it's the happiest kind of Sharia law.

01:40:15.060 It's the kind in Iran. 0.88

01:40:17.040 Typical global warming denier.

01:40:18.580 Am I right?

01:40:19.100 You're right.

01:40:19.720 Oh no,

01:40:20.160 it's not the climate.

01:40:21.100 It's not the fact that we have SUVs.

01:40:22.820 It's not the most catastrophic danger to our planet that exists.

01:40:26.920 Just saying,

01:40:28.140 by the way,

01:40:28.740 we didn't talk yesterday about,

01:40:30.320 uh,

01:40:30.940 how much of a jerk Kermit,

01:40:34.120 the frog is anybody follow the Kermit,

01:40:37.220 the frog being fired story.

01:40:38.680 Kind of interesting.

01:40:39.740 Yeah.

01:40:40.280 Okay.

01:40:40.540 So apparently he was a foul mouth jerk and,

01:40:44.480 uh,

01:40:44.920 you know,

01:40:45.220 he'd put the sock puppet down and then he'd start cussing people out and,

01:40:49.680 you know,

01:40:50.060 saying horrible things about the director.

01:40:51.640 And I'm not,

01:40:52.960 I'm not who wrote this tripe.

01:40:55.960 You're a frog puppet,

01:40:57.660 man.

01:40:58.900 This isn't Shakespeare.

01:41:00.260 You got your hand running a frog's mouth.

01:41:04.220 And he's like,

01:41:05.040 I am not reading these lines.

01:41:07.020 I demand that we have new writers.

01:41:09.700 And he's been the guy for what?

01:41:11.780 27 years.

01:41:13.600 Disney fired him because at first they just said they fired him for,

01:41:17.900 uh,

01:41:18.760 personnel reasons or,

01:41:20.400 uh,

01:41:21.220 inappropriate behavior.

01:41:23.480 And,

01:41:24.100 um,

01:41:24.320 I thought to myself,

01:41:25.320 wow,

01:41:25.640 what does Disney at this point consider inappropriate behavior?

01:41:29.240 Um,

01:41:30.620 but,

01:41:31.180 uh,

01:41:31.660 it was that he was treating people horribly.

01:41:34.620 He was a,

01:41:36.020 uh,

01:41:36.300 had a huge ego,

01:41:37.940 would not train anybody to,

01:41:40.360 you know,

01:41:41.420 uh,

01:41:41.820 be the understudy.

01:41:43.380 So Kermit couldn't go out and,

01:41:45.700 you know,

01:41:46.040 cut ribbons at,

01:41:47.020 I don't know,

01:41:47.420 grocery stores or wherever Kermit is.

01:41:50.280 Do frogs go to grocery stores to cut ribbons? 0.99

01:41:52.800 Oh my gosh.

01:41:53.860 Why the species?

01:41:55.520 Listen to the species.

01:41:57.180 Uh,

01:41:57.540 the,

01:41:58.840 the,

01:41:59.440 just a question.

01:42:00.580 Huh?

01:42:00.940 I just,

01:42:01.300 I mean,

01:42:01.480 I feel like potentially it would be a difficult relationship with the scissors.

01:42:05.080 Are you saying you've never seen a frog at a ribbon cutting for a grocery store?

01:42:09.380 Yeah,

01:42:09.840 I feel like grocery stores would not want frogs in them.

01:42:12.760 Open your eyes.

01:42:13.600 I don't know what ribbons that Kermit cuts. 1.00

01:42:16.460 I just threw out a grocery store.

01:42:18.140 I don't know if anybody actually cuts ribbons anymore.

01:42:21.740 You know,

01:42:21.980 it's like,

01:42:22.400 Oh,

01:42:23.020 it's another Starbucks.

01:42:24.240 We're going to have a ribbon.

01:42:25.320 No,

01:42:25.500 you're not just open the damn door and give me a cup of coffee. 1.00

01:42:28.880 So Kermit could not do those things with all those joyous,

01:42:33.080 happy people waiting for the ribbon to be cut so they could rush inside.

01:42:36.860 Um,

01:42:37.340 and,

01:42:38.400 uh,

01:42:38.840 they fired it.

01:42:39.600 Disney fired him.

01:42:40.460 And I've heard he's working really hard now to get his job back.

01:42:42.900 I bet he is.

01:42:43.600 Yeah.

01:42:44.000 He started when he was 19.

01:42:45.660 So ABC fires him.

01:42:48.140 He calls the Henson family who still really kind of controls a lot of the stuff.

01:42:54.160 Um,

01:42:54.660 and hoping they'd intervene on his behalf.

01:42:56.880 Yeah.

01:42:57.100 Because he,

01:42:57.680 he was taught by their dad and he's like,

01:43:00.360 look,

01:43:00.800 I'm Kermit the frog.

01:43:02.660 And,

01:43:03.260 uh,

01:43:03.420 you're got you.

01:43:04.460 I mean,

01:43:05.100 hello.

01:43:05.740 I mean,

01:43:06.120 your father taught me,

01:43:07.240 this is not Kermit's voice.

01:43:08.640 This is his actual voice.

01:43:09.980 Okay.

01:43:10.740 And,

01:43:11.020 uh,

01:43:11.320 your father,

01:43:12.380 uh,

01:43:12.800 you know,

01:43:13.200 hired me to do it.

01:43:14.140 He taught me.

01:43:14.940 And they said,

01:43:15.300 yeah,

01:43:15.500 Disney called and we were actually with them.

01:43:17.180 You're a jerk.

01:43:18.700 Wow.

01:43:19.240 And so he was out.

01:43:20.680 He realized how much of a jerk he was.

01:43:24.100 And by that evening,

01:43:25.720 which I don't think is time enough to really reflect by that evening,

01:43:29.580 he was like,

01:43:30.200 if they would just give me another chance,

01:43:31.600 I'd take it.

01:43:32.220 And they're not going to give him another chance.

01:43:34.600 And you know what?

01:43:35.760 Part of me is like,

01:43:36.660 good.

01:43:37.620 Yeah.

01:43:37.800 I believe that he can get another frog voice gig.

01:43:40.600 I mean,

01:43:40.880 there's gotta be a lot of those,

01:43:41.860 right?

01:43:42.940 I was Kermit the frog.

01:43:46.280 No,

01:43:46.520 you actually weren't.

01:43:47.600 You can't be Bob the frog now.

01:43:49.060 No.

01:43:49.600 You're too identified as Kermit.

01:43:51.080 Yeah.

01:43:52.040 Typecast.

01:43:53.480 You'll never break that frog image thing.

01:43:55.800 And how hard really is the Kermit the frog here?

01:43:58.660 I mean,

01:43:59.080 that's not perfect,

01:44:00.340 but you can get,

01:44:00.920 you can get within the realm of it pretty easily.

01:44:03.940 Pretty much everyone can get in the realm of Kermit the frog.

01:44:07.420 Yes.

01:44:07.680 And you just don't think of the guy doing Kermit the frog being like,

01:44:10.740 hi ho,

01:44:11.360 Kermit the frog here.

01:44:12.780 And then,

01:44:13.860 get me a cup of Alka-Seltzer.

01:44:16.060 Man,

01:44:16.940 do I have a hangover.

01:44:18.940 You don't expect that.

01:44:21.100 You know what's interesting about Kermit the frog is he's got the Bill O'Reilly.com thing going on.

01:44:25.680 Yeah,

01:44:25.840 he does.

01:44:26.200 Where he puts the emphasis on the.

01:44:28.700 Kermit the frog here.

01:44:30.160 Kermit the frog here.

01:44:32.460 Yeah.

01:44:32.780 Maybe he could do the voice work for Bill O'Reilly.

01:44:35.000 Bill O'Reilly.com.

01:44:36.380 Bill O'Reilly.com.

01:44:37.440 Yeah.

01:44:38.280 There's always a gig out there.

01:44:39.640 That will.

01:44:39.940 So we'll let him,

01:44:40.460 we have to let him know.

01:44:41.440 We'll have to let him know there is life after Kermit the frog.

01:44:44.640 That guy is going to be sitting in a bar in five years as just a raging alcoholic.

01:44:52.200 And he's going to look up at the bartender and the people around him are going to look at him when he says this.

01:44:57.240 And they're all going to roll their eyes.

01:44:58.660 As he was like,

01:44:59.900 I used to be somebody.

01:45:01.840 I used to be Kermit the frog.

01:45:05.620 I used to say,

01:45:07.280 I will Kermit the frog here.

01:45:10.960 Now,

01:45:11.620 nothing because of the Disney people.

01:45:15.220 That's his life.

01:45:16.700 Yeah.

01:45:17.180 Now,

01:45:17.500 like they don't need me to do.

01:45:20.880 Rizzle the rat?

01:45:22.640 Have you heard of them doing Rizzle the rat?

01:45:25.760 There's a few of those stories that are,

01:45:27.200 they're always torturous.

01:45:28.180 The fifth beetle is,

01:45:30.060 always gets you on that one.

01:45:31.560 Yeah.

01:45:31.740 The two that people,

01:45:34.360 one of them in particular,

01:45:36.120 the girl who did the voice of Meg on Family Guy,

01:45:39.900 I always think of.

01:45:40.860 She did it for one year.

01:45:42.560 And then they switched to,

01:45:43.800 what's her face,

01:45:44.320 who's very famous now?

01:45:45.360 Anyone know their hat?

01:45:46.600 Mila Kunis,

01:45:47.460 who's very famous now.

01:45:48.760 But they had,

01:45:49.300 the other girl doing it for one year.

01:45:51.280 She had one year of that.

01:45:52.320 And the show's run for like 20 years.

01:45:55.100 I mean,

01:45:55.700 how much money would that have been worth

01:45:57.360 if they held on to that?

01:45:58.200 The guy who was on with Ryan Seacrest,

01:46:00.120 that Brian Dunkelman,

01:46:01.580 or whatever his name was.

01:46:02.480 I love Brian Dunkelman.

01:46:04.120 But he was,

01:46:04.900 there were two hosts of American Idol

01:46:06.200 in the first season.

01:46:07.040 I don't remember that.

01:46:08.000 Oh,

01:46:08.260 really?

01:46:08.580 Yeah.

01:46:09.020 No one does.

01:46:09.820 I don't remember that at all.

01:46:10.760 Or Brian Dunkelman,

01:46:11.120 or whatever his name was.

01:46:12.380 Which is coming back,

01:46:13.160 by the way.

01:46:13.520 Did you know American Idol's coming back?

01:46:14.980 Yeah.

01:46:15.620 Ryan Seacrest is bringing that back.

01:46:18.700 Did you hear the Ryan Seacrest brilliance?

01:46:21.960 I love Ryan Seacrest.

01:46:23.340 I really do.

01:46:24.660 He's a machine.

01:46:25.240 Pretty shrewd.

01:46:26.060 He is a shrewd machine.

01:46:28.360 Yeah.

01:46:28.700 I mean,

01:46:29.100 he took over for Casey Kasem.

01:46:31.120 He took over for Rick Dees.

01:46:33.060 He did American Idol.

01:46:36.040 I mean,

01:46:36.360 the guy is a machine.

01:46:38.180 So,

01:46:38.840 they went to him,

01:46:40.380 and they said,

01:46:42.140 how much do you need to come back and do this?

01:46:44.300 And he's like,

01:46:44.800 oh,

01:46:45.100 I'm not doing that again.

01:46:46.680 And they're like,

01:46:47.140 no,

01:46:47.320 really?

01:46:47.620 How much?

01:46:47.960 He's like,

01:46:48.460 $16 million a season.

01:46:51.540 And they're like,

01:46:52.560 whoa,

01:46:53.020 well,

01:46:53.260 we don't have $16 million.

01:46:54.940 And he's like,

01:46:55.500 okay,

01:46:55.760 well,

01:46:55.920 I don't want to do it anyway.

01:46:57.760 So,

01:46:57.980 then they went to,

01:47:00.060 they went to,

01:47:01.980 who'd they hire as one of the,

01:47:03.260 like,

01:47:03.300 Katie Perry.

01:47:04.020 Katie Perry,

01:47:04.920 and offered her,

01:47:06.020 like,

01:47:06.360 $16 million.

01:47:07.220 They offered her $25 million.

01:47:08.740 $25 million.

01:47:10.220 And she took it.

01:47:11.320 Yeah.

01:47:11.880 And she took it.

01:47:12.960 Smart.

01:47:13.140 And,

01:47:13.420 and so they were offering,

01:47:15.440 I think,

01:47:15.900 Ryan seven.

01:47:17.400 And he's like,

01:47:18.060 you just paid her $25.

01:47:20.360 He said,

01:47:20.760 I'm out.

01:47:21.380 I'm out.

01:47:21.880 I don't think so.

01:47:23.380 They,

01:47:23.980 when Disney came back to him and a friend of ours,

01:47:26.140 Ben,

01:47:26.340 Ben Sherwood went and negotiated with him.

01:47:28.540 Yeah.

01:47:29.080 And guess what?

01:47:30.340 He got $16 million.

01:47:33.140 Congratulations,

01:47:33.740 Ryan Seacrest.

01:47:34.520 Yeah.

01:47:34.720 That's amazing.

01:47:35.560 Yeah.

01:47:35.800 Still less than one of the judges,

01:47:37.220 which is weird.

01:47:38.300 Because it's really his baby now.

01:47:39.960 No,

01:47:40.040 Simon's not back.

01:47:40.760 Well,

01:47:40.940 I mean,

01:47:41.360 Simon's doing America's talent or something,

01:47:43.120 right?

01:47:43.460 Simon is the reason why we watched.

01:47:46.180 Well,

01:47:46.720 I mean,

01:47:47.540 it lasted for longer than that.

01:47:49.080 I think Ryan Seacrest might be more of a key than,

01:47:51.660 I'm going to come out of the closet.

01:47:53.100 I'm going to come out of the closet.

01:47:54.360 I'm going to come out of the closet.

01:47:55.480 Should I wait to come out of the closet tomorrow?

01:47:57.420 Should I come out of the closet now?

01:47:58.620 I've got a pretty big confession to make.

01:48:00.800 Really?

01:48:01.200 Yeah.

01:48:01.740 Yeah.

01:48:02.140 Just made me think about it.

01:48:03.560 because we only have a few seconds left here.

01:48:06.460 I don't know if I can last that long.

01:48:07.100 But don't forget,

01:48:07.840 if you're coming out of the closet on something,

01:48:09.360 we're going to want to,

01:48:10.120 we're going to want to spend some time with that.

01:48:12.520 I don't know.

01:48:13.360 I mean,

01:48:13.620 I know I'm not alone.

01:48:15.000 I know I'm not the only one.

01:48:16.520 When I say this,

01:48:18.520 I'm going to get,

01:48:19.300 I'm going to have to hang my head in shame,

01:48:21.260 but I don't believe I'm the only one in America.

01:48:24.340 I don't believe I'm the only man in America that is going to just admit to this.

01:48:29.080 Well,

01:48:29.340 I may be the only man in America who admits to it,

01:48:31.480 but I may not be the only man in America who actually does this.

01:48:36.340 Yeah.

01:48:37.080 I mean,

01:48:37.560 excited to hear what it is.

01:48:38.880 Enough buildup.

01:48:39.660 Are you going to do it?

01:48:41.300 Pat told me yes,

01:48:42.260 but Pat told me tomorrow.

01:48:44.540 He said do it tomorrow.

01:48:45.500 So I'm going to do it tomorrow.

01:48:45.940 Is it going to be anticlimactic now?

01:48:47.540 Yes,

01:48:47.780 probably.

01:48:48.880 I mean,

01:48:49.420 you've really kind of set it up in a big way now.

01:48:52.320 I didn't.

01:48:52.940 You did.

01:48:53.360 You said,

01:48:53.760 wait.

01:48:54.380 Do you want one more missed millions contract story?

01:48:57.040 Yes.

01:48:58.080 Mike Trout,

01:48:59.400 best player,

01:49:00.540 basically,

01:49:01.120 in the major leagues.

01:49:01.980 I should have been one of the best.

01:49:03.120 Who would have?

01:49:03.360 Imagine what a great name to be a fisherman,

01:49:05.400 like a world-class fisherman.

01:49:07.160 I mean,

01:49:07.560 he's been in the,

01:49:08.060 he's been in the league for five years.

01:49:10.000 He's won two MVPs and finished second three times.

01:49:12.820 That's how good he is.

01:49:13.820 Okay.

01:49:13.960 That's his entire career.

01:49:15.960 He is,

01:49:16.420 has the,

01:49:17.160 basically,

01:49:17.560 with all the advanced statistics,

01:49:18.700 the best wins above replacement,

01:49:21.660 if you will,

01:49:22.280 better than Ty Cobb.

01:49:23.540 Is it better than Bryce Harper's right now,

01:49:25.500 though?

01:49:25.680 Yeah.

01:49:26.140 He's the number one of the last five years.

01:49:29.120 Harper's amazing,

01:49:30.020 too.

01:49:30.200 Yeah.

01:49:30.480 Anyway,

01:49:31.420 three years ago,

01:49:32.280 signed a $144.5 million extension.

01:49:37.100 If he didn't sign that,

01:49:38.420 he would be a free agent this year.

01:49:40.160 They went to 69,

01:49:41.600 Yahoo Sports went to 69,

01:49:43.200 executives and everything else

01:49:45.060 to find out what he would be worth

01:49:46.120 on the free agent market.

01:49:47.600 The average was 10 years,

01:49:49.960 400 million.

01:49:51.600 40 million a year?

01:49:52.700 40 million a year.

01:49:53.540 The lowest offer was four years,

01:49:55.780 200.

01:49:56.300 The highest,

01:49:57.060 15 years,

01:49:58.140 600 million.

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01:50:44.620 This is

01:50:45.480 The Glenn Beck Program.

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01:50:57.340 This tweet comes in,

01:50:58.540 I'm also coming out of the closet.

01:51:00.420 I hate being manipulated.

01:51:01.680 I will not be tuning in tomorrow.

01:51:03.680 To find out the big reveal

01:51:05.100 on Glenn coming out of the closet.

01:51:05.940 Oh my gosh,

01:51:06.440 I'm coming out of the closet.

01:51:07.520 I think I should come out right now.

01:51:09.100 Go ahead.

01:51:09.400 Just do it right now.

01:51:10.300 Yeah, do it.

01:51:11.040 Go ahead.

01:51:11.440 Go ahead.

01:51:12.320 I'm changing my sex.

01:51:14.360 To?

01:51:16.100 To a woman. 0.79

01:51:17.220 Oh.

01:51:17.520 Oh, wow.

01:51:18.140 How did you choose that

01:51:19.020 out of all the available options?

01:51:21.240 No,

01:51:21.640 here's the thing.

01:51:22.760 That wouldn't really be a surprise.

01:51:24.260 There would be like,

01:51:24.800 you're already,

01:51:25.260 pretty much are.

01:51:26.280 Finally.

01:51:27.060 You're already there, Glenn.

01:51:30.240 I'm a fan of

01:51:31.220 The Great British Baking Show.

01:51:32.840 That fit in context

01:51:37.160 about 10 minutes ago.

01:51:38.380 It doesn't work as well now.

01:51:39.660 Yeah, right.

01:51:40.440 No.

01:51:40.720 But it's almost,

01:51:41.520 it's almost a reason for me

01:51:43.700 just to take on,

01:51:44.800 just start taking the hormones anyway.

01:51:46.500 The Great British Baking Show.

01:51:47.800 Oh, if you've never seen it.

01:51:49.640 Oh, yeah.

01:51:50.320 Shockingly, I have not.

01:51:51.320 Oh, yeah.

01:51:51.740 Not even once.

01:51:52.640 Oh, yeah.

01:51:53.080 Forget American Idol.

01:51:55.080 Forget American Idol.

01:51:56.340 The Great British Baking Show.

01:51:58.580 Off the charts great.

01:51:59.980 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

01:52:05.600 Mercury.

The Glenn Beck Program - July 19, 2017

7⧸19⧸17 - Acid attacks riding in Britain, but the media doesn't understand why

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