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00:00:07.540 A couple of updates on Charlie Gard, the 11-month-old that has been doomed to death by the English

00:00:18.000 health care system.

00:00:19.540 A New York hospital has agreed now to admit the patient if they allow him to leave.

00:00:26.940 Mom said yesterday that he is not in pain, he is not suffering.

00:00:33.180 Pope Francis wants to issue Charlie and the parents a passport from the Vatican so they

00:00:39.860 can overcome the rulings banning the child from traveling.

00:00:47.940 It's good to see that the Pope is seemingly on the front lines of this.

00:00:53.880 Donald Trump was in Poland yesterday, gave an outrageously great speech.

00:00:59.200 It was so refreshing to hear somebody stand up for the West, not apologize for the United

00:01:07.560 States or the West, and declare that our Western way of life is in trouble and somebody needs

00:01:15.920 to stand up and be the beacon of hope.

00:01:20.260 I thought it was a great speech.

00:01:22.000 We'll get into that.

00:01:23.220 But there's also another story that I read that I don't think everybody else is going

00:01:28.120 to be talking about today, but I think affects you right where you live.

00:01:33.080 It does me.

00:01:34.600 We begin there right now.

00:01:36.380 The fusion of entertainment and enlightenment.

00:01:58.120 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:02:04.980 Boy, oh boy, oh boy.

00:02:08.420 Did you know that Kellogg's cereal is in trouble?

00:02:12.900 That Kellogg's cereal is in trouble.

00:02:16.260 Not at my house.

00:02:17.340 Yeah, not in my house either.

00:02:18.940 Yeah, we eat a lot of it.

00:02:20.580 Yeah.

00:02:21.100 But Kellogg's.

00:02:22.900 Kellogg's is having a hard time selling the usual breakfast cereals now.

00:02:28.620 Campbell's soup and Aunt Jemima.

00:02:31.640 Aunt Jemima pancake mix, not the syrup, the mix, having a hard time. 0.97

00:02:39.320 They are now looking at taking Hamburger Helper off the shelves.

00:02:49.800 Even though Hamburger Helper helped her hamburger make a great meal?

00:02:55.860 It took you a minute to remember that.

00:02:58.880 Hamburger Helper was a staple in my family.

00:03:01.100 In fact, we just had it like two weeks ago.

00:03:03.720 Oh, really?

00:03:04.540 Yeah.

00:03:05.240 Tanya went and she's like, oh, wow.

00:03:07.500 You know, it's Hamburger Helper Day.

00:03:08.800 Oh, yeah.

00:03:09.080 And I was like, yeah.

00:03:10.360 My kids are like, what?

00:03:11.800 Yeah.

00:03:12.380 Oh, really?

00:03:12.860 Yeah.

00:03:13.160 Rafe looked at it and was like, what is that?

00:03:15.260 I'm like, you're going to love it.

00:03:16.800 Tanya Helper.

00:03:17.220 Yeah.

00:03:17.540 My mom had some class when I was a kid and my dad had to take care of me every Tuesday

00:03:21.520 night.

00:03:21.920 Every Tuesday night, baby.

00:03:23.260 Hamburger Helper.

00:03:24.340 Oh, yeah.

00:03:24.680 That was the way you went.

00:03:25.700 And Tuna Helper.

00:03:26.620 It's just that things are changing too much.

00:03:29.780 Just changing.

00:03:30.280 So, listen to this.

00:03:32.920 First of all, grocery stores used to have, and this is like 15 years ago, so think of

00:03:41.160 September 11th, used to have 4,000 products on the shelves that you could grab up to 4,000

00:03:51.340 products in, you know, an average supermarket.

00:03:54.640 That number now is 40,000.

00:03:59.260 Wow.

00:04:00.280 Wow, really?

00:04:01.620 Yeah.

00:04:02.220 And you go to, especially some of the nicer grocery stores, you will go to the condiment

00:04:08.300 aisle, and it used to be like A1, Heinz, French's, and maybe one something that you're like, what

00:04:17.200 is that?

00:04:18.560 That's exotic.

00:04:20.220 Now, you go and you look at steak sauces and ketchup, and it's almost the full aisle in

00:04:26.420 some places.

00:04:26.980 I'm on a different ketchup every time I go to the store pattern.

00:04:30.300 Like, I just, I can't buy the same one anymore.

00:04:32.240 Now, it's like, there's like the jalapeno ketchups.

00:04:35.260 No.

00:04:35.620 Those are really good.

00:04:36.820 No.

00:04:37.080 They have hot sauce ketchups.

00:04:38.740 Heinz, regular ketchup.

00:04:39.880 Heinz.

00:04:40.080 See, this is the only way to go.

00:04:41.240 It's the only way to go.

00:04:41.820 The world is changing, guys.

00:04:43.200 I hate to tell you.

00:04:45.360 Okay.

00:04:45.840 So, listen to this.

00:04:47.220 Giants are struggling with competition that is roading business from both ends.

00:04:50.680 High-end consumers are shifting towards fresher items with fewer processed ingredients, while

00:04:55.940 cost-conscious shoppers are buying inexpensive store brands.

00:04:59.160 The makers of staples, including Chef Boyardee.

00:05:04.420 Chef Boyardee?

00:05:06.120 I can't.

00:05:06.860 Come on.

00:05:08.020 Well, have you had...

00:05:08.580 I lived on Chef Boyardee.

00:05:09.860 So did ravioli.

00:05:10.780 Have you had their ravioli?

00:05:13.280 Yeah, I love it.

00:05:14.120 Lately?

00:05:14.820 No.

00:05:15.460 Yeah.

00:05:16.140 You're trying.

00:05:16.920 But I used to live...

00:05:17.860 I used to live it.

00:05:19.240 I lived on it.

00:05:19.860 Franco-American.

00:05:21.080 Do they still make SpaghettiOs?

00:05:23.040 SpaghettiOs and the regular spaghetti.

00:05:24.800 We were forced to eat that forever.

00:05:26.800 Forced?

00:05:27.180 Forced?

00:05:28.400 SpaghettiOs, that was like a treat.

00:05:29.700 I celebrated every time that can opened up.

00:05:32.040 Yes.

00:05:32.820 Every time.

00:05:33.320 We never got SpaghettiOs.

00:05:34.900 That was not...

00:05:36.180 That's a delicacy.

00:05:36.820 Just to cut hot dogs up in them?

00:05:38.420 Yes!

00:05:38.780 Yes!

00:05:39.140 Yes!

00:05:40.020 Oh, my gosh, yes.

00:05:41.500 Delicious.

00:05:41.660 I feel like a lot of these foods age like...

00:05:44.100 Like, movies from old era's age.

00:05:47.400 I remember.

00:05:48.140 I love that movie.

00:05:48.980 And then you turn it on.

00:05:49.640 You're like, this is terrible.

00:05:50.720 How did I like this?

00:05:51.860 That's probably what it would be.

00:05:53.180 That was my experience with Chef Boyardee ravioli.

00:05:56.920 Really?

00:05:57.600 I opened it up.

00:05:58.800 Oh, somebody run to get some Pat ravioli. 0.99

00:06:02.320 Oh, my gosh.

00:06:03.460 Yeah.

00:06:03.700 Pat, you will...

00:06:04.320 I used to eat that stuff cold in the can.

00:06:06.880 Yeah, it was...

00:06:07.460 Right?

00:06:08.060 Oh, it's awful.

00:06:09.940 Because the meat, it was very soft.

00:06:12.720 Wasn't it?

00:06:13.120 The meat was really...

00:06:14.360 It was soft.

00:06:14.780 I remember the texture of it.

00:06:15.980 I mean, this is a long time, but it was a texture.

00:06:17.640 It was like...

00:06:18.020 Yeah.

00:06:18.540 I don't know, soft.

00:06:19.620 It was almost cheese meat.

00:06:21.680 Yeah.

00:06:21.860 It was kind of a cheesy texture of meat.

00:06:25.580 Yes.

00:06:26.340 Yes.

00:06:27.080 We're not sure if it was cheese or meat.

00:06:29.100 I loved it.

00:06:30.320 Loved it, too.

00:06:31.780 SpaghettiOs, the best.

00:06:33.500 Okay.

00:06:34.360 So Chef Boyardee, canned pasta, hamburger helper, failed to spot the threat and didn't innovate in time.

00:06:41.500 Now, listen to this.

00:06:46.220 Craft macaroni and cheese is in trouble.

00:06:49.680 No.

00:06:50.080 I won't hear that.

00:06:51.280 Craft macaroni and cheese is not in trouble.

00:06:51.680 I buy enough to keep the whole company and business...

00:06:53.620 I guarantee I do.

00:06:54.920 All we have on one shelf in our pantry is just blue and yellow boxes.

00:06:59.620 Yes.

00:07:00.000 Because we get the single serving ones because we're too lazy to actually make it in the...

00:07:04.240 Yeah, but I mean, by the case...

00:07:07.060 I know.

00:07:07.640 We do, too.

00:07:08.720 I don't have the single servings.

00:07:10.060 Oh, they're great.

00:07:10.780 Do they still have the craft macaroni and cheese?

00:07:13.720 There was the deluxe that had the cheese that you squeezed out of the little silver foil pouch.

00:07:19.420 Velvita does that, too, but the craft deluxe has that.

00:07:21.580 Oh, I love that.

00:07:22.740 Yeah.

00:07:22.920 My wife always chintz on macaroni and cheese. 1.00

00:07:28.060 She just buys the regular box, which I love.

00:07:31.440 I still love.

00:07:32.700 There's nothing better, though, than the Velvita macaroni and cheese.

00:07:35.760 Oh, that's good.

00:07:36.360 That...

00:07:36.880 That is good.

00:07:37.540 Only time you ever want Velvita is... 0.78

00:07:38.960 I say that as if my wife pulls the big tray of macaroni and cheese that's made from hand 0.54

00:07:43.620 by hand out of the oven, and I go, no, that's not macaroni and cheese.

00:07:47.320 Yes, you can't compare.

00:07:49.560 The pressure has set off a bout of soul-searching in the industry, as well as some dramatic restructuring.

00:07:55.200 Some companies are shedding underperformed brands.

00:07:59.440 Others have contemplated mergers.

00:08:01.980 Nestle, which said last month it is looking to sell its U.S. confectionery business.

00:08:09.900 Wow.

00:08:10.520 What?

00:08:11.620 Wow.

00:08:12.300 Look up what Nestle owns.

00:08:15.060 When I was a kid, Nestle had the chocolate bar and Quick, and that was it.

00:08:20.840 Oh, way past that.

00:08:21.720 Oh, I know that.

00:08:22.740 Way.

00:08:23.780 You know that Hershey's is in trouble?

00:08:26.400 No.

00:08:27.260 Yes.

00:08:29.200 Chocolate is...

00:08:30.320 M&M's are in trouble.

00:08:32.580 All of these...

00:08:33.420 What are you talking about?

00:08:34.260 What does this mean?

00:08:35.020 Because a lot of times you get these...

00:08:36.160 It's like radio is going to die, and then radio just seems to go on and generate billions

00:08:40.080 of dollars for decades.

00:08:42.020 Have you noticed that M&M's now has M&M's pretzels?

00:08:45.420 Yes.

00:08:45.720 Yes.

00:08:46.260 Yes.

00:08:46.420 That's because they're trying to innovate, because the candy that we all grew up with

00:08:52.900 is not performing anymore, except for old people like us.

00:08:57.100 This is going to ruin it.

00:08:57.960 It's going to be M&M's with kale, pretty soon.

00:09:01.540 Quinoa, M&M's!

00:09:02.920 Well, I've done the green tea candies lately, because we do a segment called Spoons on Pat

00:09:10.100 and Stew, in which we try a different product.

00:09:12.080 We just tried strawberry nut M&M's the other day.

00:09:16.020 They were bad.

00:09:16.620 They were pretty freaking good.

00:09:17.920 We had a strawberry nut.

00:09:19.580 I don't even know what strawberry nut is.

00:09:21.240 Well, it's not a...

00:09:21.900 It's a nut, and it's strawberry flavored.

00:09:25.760 How do you make a nut?

00:09:27.080 It's a nut M&M's, but it's got a strawberry taste.

00:09:28.880 Don't read too much.

00:09:29.780 That's basically what it was.

00:09:30.880 But they were good.

00:09:32.920 Reese's, we did white chocolate Reese's, peanut butter cups, and big peanut butter cups, crunchy

00:09:39.560 this week.

00:09:41.140 Freaking good.

00:09:41.880 I mean, this is the golden age of these foods.

00:09:44.820 Yeah, they better not go under now.

00:09:46.340 And that's what I wonder.

00:09:47.480 I would like to see the analysis on this, because I wonder if it's people going from,

00:09:51.940 I used to just, you know, have M&M's, to now, I'm spreading that out to a hundred different

00:09:57.540 products, but, you know, if the same company is owning all the varieties...

00:10:02.100 Well, but it is the difference between, like, they're saying that in 20 years, Coke is going

00:10:07.040 to be, like, as available as Mr. Pibb, you know.

00:10:11.000 I will say...

00:10:11.440 But Coke products, worldwide, Coke products represent, I think, 6% of every liquid that

00:10:18.780 people are drinking.

00:10:19.780 Should be higher.

00:10:20.360 Yeah, I think so, too.

00:10:22.200 And it should be Coke, regular Coke.

00:10:24.280 None of those any kind of funny Coke.

00:10:26.560 Regular Coke.

00:10:27.200 I'm not with you on that, but I will say, like, you go into, they have these palaces of convenience

00:10:33.840 stores in Texas, and they're all over the place now, but some of them here have, it used

00:10:39.180 to be, like, there would be four freezer, you know, refrigerator aisles, and you'd open

00:10:44.420 them up, and there'd be, like, three of them would be soda, and then one would be, like,

00:10:48.280 iced tea, and bottled water.

00:10:50.760 Now, they have 16 doors in some of these places.

00:10:54.800 Oh, please.

00:10:55.360 But it's only two that are soda, and then there's, like, four that are energy drinks,

00:10:59.860 and then waters, and weird...

00:11:01.940 This is rookie.

00:11:02.960 This is rookie.

00:11:04.220 Have you been to a Buc-ee's? 0.99

00:11:06.120 I have, yes.

00:11:07.400 All right, so people who are not from the South, you've got to move down here. 1.00

00:11:13.260 They're like Walmart-sized convenience stores.

00:11:14.180 I don't even know what you're thinking by staying up there with the snow and the...

00:11:18.280 and the movie theaters that don't bring you gourmet meals in the middle of the movie.

00:11:24.220 What the hell are you thinking?

00:11:25.260 In a Barco lounger planer?

00:11:26.800 We have gas stations here.

00:11:31.000 I'm not kidding you.

00:11:32.960 The size of a frickin' Walmart.

00:11:36.040 You can go to the convenience store, which is surrounded by, like, 3,000 gas pumps.

00:11:42.880 I believe they have regular unleaded diesel and strawberry nut-flavored gas.

00:11:50.140 And the inside of Buc-ee's, I'm not kidding you, we have stopped there not for gas, not for anything.

00:11:59.660 Just to look, it's like you could buy patio furniture.

00:12:03.580 They have fresh foods.

00:12:08.320 They have chefs making stuff.

00:12:12.060 Walls of fountain drinks.

00:12:13.860 Walls of fountain drinks.

00:12:15.580 Walls of fountain drinks.

00:12:16.340 Walls of every candy you can possibly imagine.

00:12:21.020 I live about 20 minutes away from one, and I just bought an apartment closer,

00:12:23.780 because I didn't feel comfortable being that far.

00:12:28.140 It's incredible.

00:12:29.080 But, I mean, if this thing is you take Hamburger Helper,

00:12:32.460 which used to be a dominant food for every dad whose wife was out at a class that night,

00:12:37.860 and they cooked the only thing they knew how to cook,

00:12:40.100 and you go from that to you're spreading that out to a bunch of different varieties,

00:12:44.380 Hamburger Helper still has a place there.

00:12:46.160 Yeah, the problem is that these companies like Nestle, Kellogg,

00:12:52.040 they were all built on a model that, you know, cash was rolling in through the doors,

00:12:59.020 so they don't have the money to keep those plants and run the business. 0.68

00:13:03.640 They can become a specialty brand, but that's not what they were.

00:13:07.500 Built at a time when people just cared about taste.

00:13:09.920 Just give me good food.

00:13:11.480 It's gone so far beyond that now.

00:13:13.220 No, no, no.

00:13:13.840 The chef's pretty healthy.

00:13:14.720 They're actually saying that the problem is that processed foods got such a bad name and their tastes.

00:13:22.340 They want healthier foods.

00:13:23.440 Yeah, people want healthier food, they want fresh, and they want better taste.

00:13:28.060 But can we take a moment here?

00:13:29.580 And they want organic, even though they don't know what that means.

00:13:32.300 I don't know what that means.

00:13:33.620 It's all just as much a branding thing as Chef Boyardee was back in the day.

00:13:38.120 But they're saying also that people like Costco and Kroger and everybody else,

00:13:43.420 they can make their own label brand.

00:13:46.540 So you're getting the pressure from both sides.

00:13:49.200 You're getting these, I mean, you go to, what is it, Central Market here?

00:13:52.840 Yeah.

00:13:53.340 You go to Central Market.

00:13:54.980 I mean, it's like a, it's a paradise of grocery store.

00:14:00.320 I walk in, every single time I walk into Central Market and go grocery shopping,

00:14:05.880 I look at it and think, this is a monument to the Western way of life and American life.

00:14:13.800 It is a monument to it.

00:14:15.480 Amazing.

00:14:15.820 I walked in three weeks ago and off on the patio where people were drinking, you know,

00:14:23.580 wine and having meals, the patio of the grocery store, they had a big band concert.

00:14:31.060 And I walked, I'm walking towards the front of the grocery store and I'm realizing that

00:14:37.320 this is the grocery store.

00:14:39.000 And I thought, nobody would have done this.

00:14:42.020 Nobody would have gone and said, hey, let's go listen to the band and go sit out in the

00:14:45.800 sun and the patio at the grocery store.

00:14:49.660 And then you go in and it's got everything you could possibly imagine.

00:14:54.460 And there's been cultural relevance to this conversation, although it doesn't feel news-based.

00:14:59.680 But what this is, is a vindication of everything we argue for every day.

00:15:05.200 Yes, of capitalism itself.

00:15:06.700 The capitalism has made this possible.

00:15:09.520 And even to serve hardcore liberals who think you have to have organic and raw and whatever

00:15:15.280 the heck they want to eat, that even their lives have been incredibly improved by the

00:15:21.020 system they fight against every single day.

00:15:23.260 This is a, I walk into these stores and you're right.

00:15:26.240 It is a monument.

00:15:27.100 It's as if you're walking into a church sometimes, I feel that way.

00:15:30.440 Look at what has been accomplished here.

00:15:32.820 And this is in every town.

00:15:34.320 It is the greatest thing, I think, that America has done or capitalism has done.

00:15:42.840 The free market is responsible for going from 4,000 products, which was a miracle in itself

00:15:50.200 of the day, to 40,000 products.

00:15:54.760 And everybody's like, wow, yeah, but the rest of the world.

00:15:58.040 You know what?

00:15:58.960 The rest of the world has the grocery stores that we grew up in, has the grocery stores

00:16:04.460 of the, of the, maybe even the 1990s in the rest of the world, which when we had those

00:16:12.480 grocery stores in the 1990s, they had the 70s.

00:16:14.820 And when we had it in the 70s, they had it in the 50s.

00:16:17.700 We're moving forward and food.

00:16:21.140 The reason why Kraft and everybody else is having trouble is because you're able to make

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00:18:22.580 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:18:26.640 Mercury.

00:18:30.000 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:18:33.340 We're just talking about how much the world is changing.

00:18:36.040 We're talking about how Nestle is looking to sell its candy division.

00:18:41.420 And how is candy not profitable?

00:18:43.560 It is.

00:18:44.440 It's just not the way they designed it, the system to work.

00:18:48.080 It's like NBC.

00:18:49.400 You know, if NBC goes out of business, which it's not, but it is actually dying a slow death.

00:18:56.300 It's not because people aren't watching TV anymore.

00:18:58.760 They're watching it in a different way.

00:19:00.540 And they want it delivered in a different way.

00:19:03.040 So it's an old model.

00:19:08.040 And that model of NBC just doesn't work like the new model does.

00:19:14.100 I'm reading a book called The Content Trap right now that is fascinating to me because it is...

00:19:20.040 It just shows how rapid things are changing.

00:19:30.820 And the idea that you're going to have a job or you're going to be in business, you know, you could start a small business and then it'll just, you know, just pass it on to your kids.

00:19:45.380 Because that's going to become more and more rare that you're going to start a small business and have it forever or you're going to, you know, you're on top right now.

00:19:57.060 Look behind you because there's somebody reinventing right now.

00:20:01.100 And if you're not constantly reinventing, it's just not going to work.

00:20:06.620 And that's a different kind of thinking altogether.

00:20:09.660 You're listening to The Glenn Beck Program.

00:20:18.260 Mercury.

00:20:21.980 The Glenn Beck Program.

00:20:25.240 Welcome to the program.

00:20:26.400 We've got a couple of things coming up.

00:20:27.920 Way for you to get involved and do something really quite amazing.

00:20:32.420 Also, Bill O'Reilly is coming up in a few minutes.

00:20:37.080 Some news on Chip and Joanna Gaines, which is something that really has puzzled us for the last few weeks.

00:20:45.160 And we actually have one of the best First Amendment and media attorneys going to be joining us at the top of our three to talk about this amazing scam that is going on in advertising that we just don't understand how people are getting away with.

00:21:07.720 We'll get to that here in a second.

00:21:09.760 Did you see the president and his speech in Poland yesterday?

00:21:13.120 It was so nice and refreshing to hear him actually speak about the Western way of life in a positive way.

00:21:23.000 Listen.

00:21:23.640 The same is true in Warsaw, where street signs carry the name of George Washington and a monument stands to one of the world's greatest heroes, Ronald Reagan.

00:21:34.700 And so I am here today, not just to visit an old ally, but to hold it up as an example for others who seek freedom and who wish to summon the courage and the will to defend our civilization.

00:21:55.120 Never would you have heard that kind of thing from Barack Obama?

00:22:00.540 No.

00:22:01.140 Never.

00:22:01.640 And it was, I listened to the speech yesterday and I thought it was an exceptional speech.

00:22:06.980 It was just, and the reason why it was so exceptional is we haven't heard this for so long.

00:22:16.780 Yeah.

00:22:17.420 We haven't heard that, you know, hey, we are worth standing up for.

00:22:21.440 This is a, you know, this is a, you know, this is a, a, a choice that people made and sacrificed to be able to have freedom.

00:22:29.900 And here's Poland that has, you know, been crushed by the, the boots of thugs and under the, the gears of tanks for so long.

00:22:41.140 Now they're free and you're an example to the world of what people will do to shirk off those chains.

00:22:50.980 It was really refreshing, really refreshing.

00:22:54.680 So the protest at the G20.

00:22:57.640 They get, they get a little carried away.

00:22:59.820 They do.

00:23:00.380 Yeah.

00:23:01.000 In Europe, don't they?

00:23:02.440 A hundred thousand protesters carried away poured into the city for their welcome to hell protest.

00:23:07.980 Now, this is, these are anti-capitalists.

00:23:13.140 This is.

00:23:13.700 Oh yeah.

00:23:14.220 Uber left wing. 0.80

00:23:15.400 Yeah.

00:23:15.900 These are mostly communists.

00:23:17.480 By the way, a lot of the stuff they're protesting there is the, are the things that led to last half hour's conversation about your grocery store being incredible.

00:23:28.340 And all the things that they're protesting there are very similar to, you know, this particular with, to the trade.

00:23:36.160 I mean, you know, the fact that you're able to get these things so cheaply, uh, is a large, a large portion of, uh.

00:23:42.500 You can bet that most of the protesters were drinking Nestle water when they got thirsty.

00:23:48.380 Yeah.

00:23:48.720 Um, let me switch gears kind of, um, but still on the topic of the things that brought the, you know, the reason why you have things on the grocery store shelves, the free market system.

00:23:59.600 Did you read that now Mitch McConnell and the Republicans have given up on their health care bill?

00:24:06.380 This is unbelievable to me.

00:24:07.880 That Republicans would join them.

00:24:09.880 So now they've reached out to the Democrats and said, Democrats help us make this more, you know, uh, uh, palatable for you.

00:24:20.340 So you will join us on this health care reform.

00:24:24.520 Yeah.

00:24:24.640 They started to vilify Ted Cruz as well.

00:24:26.800 And now, uh, cause Cruz proposed something that was kind of interesting, which was states, uh, can, uh, insurance companies can propose any and sell any health care plan that they want.

00:24:39.920 As long as they have one plan that is, uh, that is okay with Obamacare that falls through those Obamacare lines.

00:24:46.900 So here you'd have the chance people would have the opportunity to choose the Obamacare plan still.

00:24:52.140 I mean, think of what a, what a, what a reach across the aisle that is, right?

00:24:56.420 I mean, you're, you're, they're saying, Hey, you guys can still have that.

00:24:59.600 Cruz is just betting that nobody's going to choose, uh, those plans, uh, but he's giving people the option.

00:25:05.880 And of course, even Republicans don't like that plan.

00:25:08.400 They, they think it's, uh, well, it takes away their power.

00:25:12.080 Yeah.

00:25:13.160 Yeah.

00:25:13.460 I mean, and that's, that's, don't they understand how rapidly the world is changing?

00:25:19.100 They think that they, I mean, look at the models that they are jamming us into.

00:25:25.320 They're jamming us into models that were the models of the 1920s, the models of the 1950s, the models of the former Soviet union, where it's just,

00:25:38.040 while everything is being personalized, well, I can go to the store now and get my name on a Coke.

00:25:46.960 Everything is personalized.

00:25:49.060 What are they doing?

00:25:50.880 They're saying, no, not individuals.

00:25:53.080 No, we don't care about the individuals.

00:25:54.600 Mass, mass, mass, mass, mass.

00:25:56.140 Yeah.

00:25:56.240 I mean, the left is now talking very outwardly about single payer again.

00:26:00.660 The thing that you were a hater, if you, if you accuse them of wanting.

00:26:04.400 No, I was not a hater.

00:26:04.760 No, I was not a hater.

00:26:05.620 I was a racist.

00:26:06.220 A racist.

00:26:06.800 A racist for saying what they wanted was a single payer healthcare plan.

00:26:10.800 Even after they admitted it, but on behind closed doors.

00:26:13.440 Now they're admitting it in public.

00:26:15.000 Yeah.

00:26:15.180 And still, you're right.

00:26:17.800 Like they go into this one size fits all in this world is, it's an insane idea.

00:26:23.300 It's the hamburger helper of healthcare.

00:26:24.940 It is.

00:26:25.460 They're giving us hamburger helper, which, you know what?

00:26:28.460 I would be, I was going to say, I would be fine if it was as good as hamburger helper.

00:26:33.560 It's not as good as hamburger helper.

00:26:35.720 And I certainly wouldn't say put everybody else out of business that has, you know, fresh ingredients and you can buy it and tailor make it to the way you want.

00:26:45.600 I certainly wouldn't do that.

00:26:47.120 The days of hamburger helper being the box that is one size fits all is over.

00:26:53.060 And same with, with healthcare.

00:26:55.340 And yet they don't know why so many people voted for Brexit.

00:27:01.960 They don't know why the people all around Europe are rebelling because they're only, that people want either Marxism, socialism, communism, fascism, or they want freedom.

00:27:19.340 One of the two, at least in the West, give me one of those two, give me the freedom of the individual or go ahead and just let's get it over with.

00:27:28.100 Let's fascists, Marxists, let's start racking up the numbers of deaths.

00:27:32.480 Let's just start killing millions of people.

00:27:35.180 Let's get to it.

00:27:36.600 I prefer we go the other direction.

00:27:39.420 It's an interesting proposal.

00:27:41.140 Let's get to it.

00:27:42.900 But I mean, aren't you kind of tired of it?

00:27:44.560 You're like, come on, let's go.

00:27:45.820 You guys are going to turn into Stalin. 0.76

00:27:48.240 Let's go.

00:27:49.340 Nah, let's delay it.

00:27:50.480 I'm going to go with let's delay it.

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00:30:18.480 This is the Glenn Beck program.

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00:30:25.740 The Glenn Beck program.

00:30:27.620 Labor of Love is this this unbelievable organization of new friends that got together and just started serving and volunteering.

00:30:41.960 And they won't take any they won't take any funding from anybody because they want to be able to put the money together themselves.

00:30:53.020 And it's about the whole sacrifice of time and and finances that mean something.

00:31:00.800 And I have watched them grow over the last few years.

00:31:05.280 And it is so unbelievable.

00:31:08.660 Susan is here from Labor of Love and a good friend.

00:31:12.000 And we were up in.

00:31:15.140 It was Utah when it was Idaho up in the northern part of Utah about a month ago.

00:31:21.460 How many people showed up to help these people?

00:31:23.900 We had about 70 people, about a third of them children under the age of 10.

00:31:27.540 It was so great.

00:31:28.760 A lot of people and people came and serving just an older couple of guy who had been in the Korean War.

00:31:40.500 Sweet old couple.

00:31:41.740 Their their garage was falling apart.

00:31:44.000 Their barn was falling apart.

00:31:45.800 Their trees were overgrown and people came out and they just served.

00:31:51.980 And then there was another woman that another house, a group of volunteers.

00:31:57.120 She was in a wheelchair and she had this horrible wheelchair ramp that was just falling apart that some neighbors had helped her make.

00:32:03.980 She was poor, but they made it out of, you know, press wood and one winter and it wasn't faring well.

00:32:12.320 Two winters and it was almost gone.

00:32:14.000 And you guys just went to the Home Depot and bought all of the supplies and and went and served.

00:32:19.840 I joined you.

00:32:20.660 Um, and it was, it's an amazing thing that you guys are doing.

00:32:25.760 It is an amazing thing when people decide not to wait for somebody else to solve problems, but just to get out and do it themselves.

00:32:33.180 So you're not doing that.

00:32:34.460 What you're trying to do is encourage people to do just that.

00:32:37.760 You don't have to go through labor of love.

00:32:39.380 You can just join online and see like minded people.

00:32:42.800 But it, the encouragement is to do it yourself in your own community.

00:32:47.340 That's right.

00:32:48.040 And you have a couple of functions.

00:32:50.200 We'll talk about the one you're doing this weekend here in Texas, but, um, in August, tell me what's going on.

00:32:56.140 We have two things in August.

00:32:57.100 We have a labor of love in the Lansing, Michigan area where we'll do something very similar to what you saw up in Utah.

00:33:02.860 But this is for a, a woman whose son died about five years ago in Afghanistan and, uh, and she's felt alone.

00:33:09.640 She needs to have that infusion of, of love and service that weekend.

00:33:13.460 But one thing we're really excited about in August is a local service challenge.

00:33:17.920 And you can go to labor of love USA on Facebook or to our website.

00:33:21.940 And what we're hoping people will do is decide to do something themselves, whether they're involved today with labor of love or not.

00:33:27.840 We want to hear about during a two week period, people deciding to find something in their own community that they would not normally do, whether it's volunteering, whether it's just seeing someone who needs help with their yard or their house and just do it.

00:33:42.880 And if they'll tell us about it, we'll help get the word out.

00:33:45.720 So other people in their community can join.

00:33:48.760 And then hopefully those people will hit it off and we can maybe see this thing grow beyond what labor of love has been able to do.

00:33:55.200 It's amazing how many people feel really alone, uh, like nobody cares.

00:34:02.480 Um, and, um, they just kind of crawl inside and, um, and then when you call or somebody calls and says, Hey, we, we want to do this for you.

00:34:13.760 How skeptical they are.

00:34:16.420 They're really appreciative, but they don't think you're actually going to show up.

00:34:19.800 That's right.

00:34:20.100 Or they think there's a catch or they have to qualify or they, they, people have, um, gotten to the point where they're skeptical about people loving and caring about them.

00:34:30.560 Um, I, uh, the person that we're working with this week in Tyler, Texas, you heard about it, this on your program, Joel Eng from King of Life Academy.

00:34:39.420 Yeah.

00:34:39.640 So he said that he was seeing these young people in middle school and coming up into high school age, drop out in their hearts.

00:34:46.960 They would kind of tune out and hasn't most of America done that, right?

00:34:52.080 They're tired of not seeing solutions in politics or in institutions or even in churches sometimes.

00:34:59.580 And they drop out in their hearts and kind of retreat into their own space.

00:35:03.600 And that is exactly the opposite, I think, of what we need to do as individuals to really see a substantial change.

00:35:11.860 So this guy, this guy started his own school.

00:35:14.800 I mean, it's, it's, it's, and it's amazing.

00:35:17.300 Everybody, it's, it's very much, uh, like Booker T. Washington's, uh, original schools, um, that he built.

00:35:25.180 You had to grow your own food.

00:35:27.180 Right.

00:35:27.520 Um, you know, the kids go grocery shopping for their own lunches.

00:35:31.620 They, um, they grow their own food and that's, aren't you working on the garden this week?

00:35:36.820 No, we, we, in the spring we helped plant a 6,000 square foot garden and they, they use that for the school.

00:35:41.700 But this summer, while school's out of session, two days a week, they're giving away all the produce from the garden.

00:35:47.620 We came back to help build a wood workshop to put up a building in a couple of days.

00:35:52.100 Uh, and we're near, nearly there.

00:35:53.980 A bunch of people who didn't know what we were doing with a couple people to help us have put up the building these last two days.

00:35:59.600 And that'll be a wood workshop to help teach those skills and expand what they're doing. 0.91

00:36:03.380 They, um, they capture monarch butterfly, you know, caterpillars, and they've been releasing those and having events for children and their families.

00:36:11.100 And they're trying to rebuild the sense of community in an economically disadvantaged area and empowering these people to know that they can have a better and brighter future and that they can solve those problems themselves.

00:36:24.160 So we want to encourage people like Joel.

00:36:28.240 Um, okay.

00:36:28.880 So here's what, here's what we're asking.

00:36:32.100 August 7th through the 21st, find somebody in your area that needs some sort of help.

00:36:39.060 And it really can be really, really small.

00:36:41.880 It can be like the gold star mother.

00:36:43.660 She just has a problem with a roof, right?

00:36:46.020 That's right.

00:36:46.400 Um, you know, all the way to roof or raising a, raising a building like they're doing this weekend.

00:36:52.420 If you want to get involved, go to labor of love.

00:36:56.780 Um, what is it?

00:36:58.060 What's the Facebook labor?

00:36:59.080 Love USA on Facebook.

00:37:01.180 Labor of love USA on Facebook.

00:37:03.520 Check it out.

00:37:04.280 Get involved in your own community and come join the labor of love.

00:37:08.860 It's an amazing program.

00:37:10.580 Susan, thank you very much.

00:37:11.560 Back in a minute with Bill O'Reilly.

00:37:12.980 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

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00:37:37.520 Wow, there is so much to talk about.

00:37:42.920 So much has happened this week.

00:37:44.540 And the good thing is, we have the guy who is going to give it to us with no spin.

00:37:51.200 Bill O'Reilly's look at the week's news begins right now.

00:37:55.760 The fusion of entertainment and enlightenment.

00:38:18.160 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:38:22.040 Mr. Bill O'Reilly, who now is making his home at BillOReilly.com, where you can listen

00:38:30.120 to his daily podcast, which is always riveting because he's always exciting and up-tempo

00:38:36.980 and upbeat and positive.

00:38:39.540 Bill, how are you?

00:38:41.140 Are you reading that back or is that from the heart?

00:38:43.660 No, that is.

00:38:44.460 Well, it's not from the heart.

00:38:45.460 It's more from the lower regions, the heart of my bottom.

00:38:53.240 Ah, man, Beck, come on.

00:38:55.800 So how are you, Bill?

00:38:56.780 So what's on your mind today?

00:38:58.400 Well, I've got a lot of things.

00:39:00.240 I'd like to hear your comments on the president's speech in Poland yesterday, which I thought was

00:39:05.080 so refreshing to hear.

00:39:07.460 Well, I agree that the message was worthy and needed to be said to the Europeans on their 0.59

00:39:16.280 own soil.

00:39:17.720 But I thought it was a standard, I said this to my audience, I thought it was a standard

00:39:23.060 political speech in the sense that if I were writing that speech, I would have singled

00:39:30.720 out a few examples of where Europe is in trouble.

00:39:35.380 For example, in Sweden, that country has accepted way too many refugees and migrants. 1.00

00:39:46.940 They can't assimilate them.

00:39:48.960 They are causing all kinds of trouble.

00:39:51.500 A big rock music festival had to be canceled because they're afraid that it would get out

00:39:57.160 of control in Sweden.

00:39:58.240 And these kinds of things would have made the speech more vivid.

00:40:04.240 But I agree with you that the message needed to be said.

00:40:08.680 It was refreshing.

00:40:09.340 Honestly, it was refreshing to hear somebody stand up for the Western way of life.

00:40:13.860 We haven't heard that.

00:40:14.880 You say it's standard, but I haven't heard that in eight years.

00:40:18.060 Yeah.

00:40:18.380 Yeah.

00:40:18.920 And the secular progressives hate it.

00:40:21.260 That's what all these demonstrators are about.

00:40:23.380 They hate capitalism, competition, free markets, freedom in general.

00:40:29.800 These people loathe that, and they all gather together to cause trouble.

00:40:34.740 It's not an anti-Trump movement.

00:40:36.320 It's an anti-capitalist movement.

00:40:37.960 I got a note from a friend of mine, Michael Opelka, who does a show on the Blaze Radio.

00:40:45.020 And he said, in the early 90s, we debuted a play in the former Soviet Union.

00:40:51.240 He and his brother wrote this play.

00:40:53.340 He said, my brother came home from Russia with a woman he eventually married.

00:40:56.500 My mother took Tatiana to a grocery store to show her where the local market was located. 0.76

00:41:02.700 Within seconds, Tatiana was standing stunned, began crying.

00:41:07.040 She could not believe what was in front of her, the products, the variety, just the vast

00:41:11.160 array of food that was available to everyday citizens.

00:41:15.100 We were talking last hour about Poland and about how there were, just a few years ago,

00:41:21.520 4,000 items on grocery store shelves.

00:41:24.540 There are now as many as 40,000 different items on grocery store shelves.

00:41:30.360 And how the West and the free market system, probably the best testament or monument to it

00:41:38.040 is the grocery store.

00:41:40.280 And people don't get it.

00:41:42.300 You know, when I was in Berlin, when the wall came down, we were covering that story, and

00:41:47.540 I was there.

00:41:48.980 And when the people from East Berlin poured across into West Berlin, 0.76

00:41:53.820 the first place they went to was the grocery store.

00:41:58.640 And they poured into the grocery stores.

00:42:01.980 And what they wanted most of all, take a guess, what food did the communist prisoners want most of all?

00:42:11.260 Hamburger helper.

00:42:12.640 Kale.

00:42:13.320 I'd say candy.

00:42:15.540 Bananas.

00:42:16.460 Hmm.

00:42:17.540 Huh.

00:42:18.000 Bananas.

00:42:18.700 They swarmed.

00:42:19.920 That's really uninteresting.

00:42:21.080 I mean, let's just be honest here, Bill.

00:42:28.080 I mean, if you wait a minute, hang on.

00:42:29.900 If you're a prisoner behind the Iron Curtain, the highest thing you're dreaming of is a banana.

00:42:35.740 That's pretty sad.

00:42:37.000 I just want to put this into perspective for Beck listeners.

00:42:40.320 Tatiana going to the grocery store and crying is more interesting than an island's report from Berlin.

00:42:48.080 And the answer to that is yes.

00:42:50.400 I think.

00:42:51.580 Is that what you're telling me?

00:42:53.100 I think so, Bill.

00:42:54.460 I think mainly because of the way the story was told.

00:42:58.540 Oh, I see.

00:42:59.860 I got it.

00:43:01.720 Next time, Bill, you need to read an email from your friend.

00:43:04.560 Maybe then it'll be interesting to everybody.

00:43:07.080 My friend Kurt.

00:43:08.880 I want a banana.

00:43:10.860 A bubble.

00:43:11.540 All right.

00:43:15.400 That was a great story, Bill.

00:43:16.840 And I am so glad that I really appreciate it.

00:43:19.900 I will take that banana story with me to my grave as one of the greatest moments of airtime.

00:43:26.920 All right.

00:43:27.700 So let's shift gears a bit.

00:43:31.780 Um, we haven't heard your take yet on, uh, on the CNN, you know, Donald Trump tweet clown show thing.

00:43:42.640 Um, I think it is a fact now that CNN, MSNBC, the network news broadcasts, along with the progressive newspapers,

00:43:59.380 have basically stopped covering the news in a fair way and have put together a program to try to destroy Donald Trump.

00:44:12.100 Would everybody agree with that?

00:44:13.540 Yeah.

00:44:13.760 But don't they don't.

00:44:14.720 When will they understand that doing that is only going to strengthen Donald Trump?

00:44:20.600 They're not going to, they're not going to release something like, because every time they come out with something, it's always like, well, this is, ha ha, here's a constitutional crisis for you.

00:44:31.820 And everybody, America's like, okay, no, it's not.

00:44:34.900 And, uh, we get it.

00:44:36.160 I mean, it's coming with the package.

00:44:38.240 We got it.

00:44:38.820 He tweets crazy things.

00:44:40.200 Whoa, whoa.

00:44:41.020 What an idea.

00:44:42.640 Well, it's all about money though.

00:44:44.320 Um, so the two liberal cable networks have increased their audience by doing, uh, we hate Trump all the time.

00:44:54.140 And there's a, there's an audience for that, that comes in just to see that.

00:44:58.580 So if they stop doing that, their audience goes down.

00:45:02.460 So for example, Greta Van Susteren on MSNBC did not do that. 0.99

00:45:06.540 And therefore her ratings were not very good.

00:45:09.760 And she, um, got replaced. 1.00

00:45:12.480 So it's about money, ideology, of course, but it's also about money.

00:45:18.680 So the New York times understands that it's readership is 90% liberal.

00:45:24.560 And we're going to give that readership what they want rather than giving the folks the truth.

00:45:30.520 And that's where it's really shifted.

00:45:33.060 So it's a combination of ideology and money.

00:45:36.020 And, um, therefore, and you're right.

00:45:39.040 Trump's base basically doesn't even listen to it anymore.

00:45:41.920 And, and they dig in to support their guy against this assault.

00:45:47.760 Um, one last topic on the G20, uh, with the meeting from Putin, uh, or with Putin and, uh, with everything that's happening in the United Nations, uh, with the, with North Korea, where, where, where, where are we headed towards here, Bill?

00:46:04.280 Well, I think that the catering will be heavy on bananas.

00:46:10.120 Well, he is in Germany.

00:46:13.160 So, uh, I mean, I've heard they love their, a lot, a lot of fresh fruit, right?

00:46:19.100 Um, all of this stuff basically is schmoozing.

00:46:22.320 All right.

00:46:23.000 So the G20, nobody knows what that means.

00:46:25.660 It's supposed to be fostering, uh, everybody's economy and, and doing deals to help everybody else.

00:46:32.440 But it's a real, it's really a schmooze fest.

00:46:34.880 The real interesting part is the Putin Trump meeting.

00:46:38.560 And, um, Putin's got to give Trump something today.

00:46:43.080 And I, I have predicted on BillOReilly.com that he'll come out, Putin will, and say, you know what, we're going to, we're going to scorn North Korea too.

00:46:52.960 We're, we're, we're going to, we don't like that.

00:46:55.380 He's got to give Trump something because if he doesn't, he's going to make an enemy out of Trump.

00:47:00.540 And then he'll be the subject of tweets and all of that.

00:47:03.980 I mean, you know, you don't want to be, if you're Putin and your economy is terrible in Russia, which it is, you don't want to be Trump's enemy, you know?

00:47:13.580 So I expect Putin to give him at least verbally something today, but the, the conference itself is just a schmooze fest.

00:47:21.800 And, um, you know, they all have agendas, all countries have agendas and they try to get a little here and a little there kind of deals and stuff like that.

00:47:29.880 So that's what it's all about.

00:47:30.940 Back with Bill O'Reilly.com.

00:47:33.440 Do you have to say it that way?

00:47:34.560 Bill O'Reilly.com.

00:47:36.420 Or can you just say it?

00:47:37.480 Bill O'Reilly.com.

00:47:38.460 Like all normal human beings.

00:47:40.220 It doesn't matter really.

00:47:41.860 Um, it's how you're feeling it back.

00:47:44.440 Really?

00:47:44.680 And right now, I don't believe you are feeling it at all.

00:47:48.400 I am thinking, I am thinking of bananas right now.

00:47:52.420 As I think of bananas, Bill O'Reilly.com.

00:47:55.120 I get it.

00:47:55.540 Okay, so Bill O'Reilly.com, uh, where you can, uh, see his gear and his books and everything else and also get, uh, his take on the news every single day.

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00:49:33.920 Pat, Stu, uh, Bill O'Reilly's with us.

00:49:36.560 Uh, Glenn just had a family issue he's got, he's got to resolve, uh, for a few minutes.

00:49:40.780 So he'll, he should be back any minute now.

00:49:43.040 Okay, sure.

00:49:43.620 Uh, so Bill, um, what, uh, what are your thoughts on, uh, the GOP seemingly caving in now and just almost admitting that they, they're going to bring the Democrats in on this.

00:49:56.740 And we're going to go from, uh, a Democrat light bill, which it was with the Republicans anyway, to a, uh, full on Democrat inspired healthcare bill.

00:50:06.740 They're just going to fix Obamacare. 1.00

00:50:08.520 Well, I think that's a message to the, uh, Republicans who are being, um, very obstinate about compromising.

00:50:17.740 And McConnell does what he always does.

00:50:21.640 He's a Senate majority leader, of course.

00:50:23.920 He says, okay, look, if you're not going to compromise with us to get at least the semblance of, uh, free market back into the healthcare system, then you're going to have to deal with Chuck Schumer and these guys who are going to socialize it up.

00:50:37.180 And we're going to have something really a lot worse.

00:50:39.780 So that's, that's the play, um, you know, look, it's a very complicated thing, obviously a lot of people, uh, are confused about it.

00:50:51.160 And, um, I think the big thing is that the Republicans have got to get something on the board.

00:50:57.480 And if they don't, they risk losing the Senate in, uh, 2018.

00:51:05.840 Um, because they have, the people are waiting for some kind of accomplishment.

00:51:11.480 We need a tax cut.

00:51:12.500 We need new healthcare.

00:51:14.060 We got jobs report today, you know, very good jobs report.

00:51:17.100 Trump should be running around screaming about that.

00:51:19.660 The economy is getting better.

00:51:21.440 Um, I think psychologically big business likes Trump's, uh, free marketplace philosophy, but, you know, we got to get, uh, we as a country have to get stuff passed.

00:51:32.740 Then right now it's not happening.

00:51:34.000 As a general philosophy, Bill, do you think it's okay to take these baby steps?

00:51:40.460 Maybe you get a little bit out of this healthcare bill, or do you think you have to?

00:51:44.020 Because the constituencies are so varied, you know, that you have to do that.

00:51:49.280 And with the danger of, uh, Obamacare and the, you have the insurance companies just saying, we're not going to issue any policies to Americans.

00:51:57.680 Well, what's going to happen is that there are going to be a lot of people not going to be able to buy health insurance.

00:52:02.960 And, um, then you're really in trouble.

00:52:05.840 So you have to basically stabilize first and then build on that.

00:52:09.680 Why, why is it though?

00:52:11.540 And maybe, maybe it's just the way it feels to me, but it seems like it's always when we have the, we have the executive branch or Republicans have the executive.

00:52:20.740 They have the Senate.

00:52:21.800 They have the house.

00:52:23.520 When Democrats are in that position, they never take baby steps.

00:52:26.820 They get Obamacare done.

00:52:28.220 Uh, when the Republicans are in the majority and have the white house, uh, we have to do baby steps.

00:52:34.760 Why, why is that question?

00:52:36.780 Um, the democratic party is run now by the progressive left, which has intimidated moderate Democrats.

00:52:46.900 All but one Joe Manchin, the Senator from West Virginia.

00:52:50.280 He seems to be the only one who will look at things and, and come up with a, uh, problem solving idea.

00:52:57.780 So whatever it is inside the democratic hierarchy, the Democrats are afraid of their leadership.

00:53:05.220 The Republicans are not, they're not afraid of, uh, Ryan or, of, uh, McConnell.

00:53:12.100 And so very conservative Republicans say, look, we're just not going to go along with it because we want X, Y, and Z.

00:53:20.000 There isn't the fear, uh, that there is in the democratic side.

00:53:24.140 Democrats vote block.

00:53:25.560 I mean, can you believe the case law might go down in the Senate, a law that is, is, is so badly needed and, and would protect all Americans and even, uh, immigrants and illegal aliens, everybody would be protected.

00:53:40.300 And the democratic party is going to vote and block against it in the Senate.

00:53:45.180 It's insane, but they are fearful because if they go against the hierarchy, they'll cut their money off.

00:53:52.160 All right.

00:53:53.180 Uh, the PACs control all of the money going to people running for reelection in the Senate and the house.

00:53:59.740 And, and then they'll launch a primary, you know, if you're a moderate Democrat, the, the progressive leadership will put somebody up against you, a far left person up against you and fund them.

00:54:11.440 And these people are scared to death of that.

00:54:13.580 So that's why the democratic party votes and block, whereas the Republicans don't.

00:54:19.060 I mean, the border is a good example of this too, because it seems like a constant letdown by Republicans when they get into power, healthcare sort of feels this way as well.

00:54:26.520 And I think what's frustrating to a lot of people, Bill, is that a lot of the people now who are saying we can't get a full repeal, we can't, uh, have a much more aggressive free market healthcare plan.

00:54:37.920 We have to settle for this because we have a bunch of varying constituencies, which I understand that's, that's a very valid point.

00:54:43.640 However, these same people, when they knew Barack Obama would veto it, did vote for stronger things.

00:54:49.440 They acted as if they wanted those things when they knew it wouldn't pass.

00:54:53.540 And that I think is what makes people so cynical about politics.

00:54:57.140 Well, people are furious on both in both parties or angry that, you know, we have a, a dynamic country that our leadership in Washington is basically blunting.

00:55:07.260 You know, and that's, you know, whether you like Trump or not, Trump basically, um, rises above that and says, look, we're going to do X, Y, and Z on immigration.

00:55:18.760 So what happens?

00:55:20.180 Well, people don't come here now.

00:55:22.440 I mean, there's a series of articles, even in the liberal press, where the, uh, Central Americans and Mexico, Mexicans are saying, I'm not even going to bother. 0.90

00:55:31.260 It's too expensive to do it, too dangerous to do it.

00:55:34.080 And then if I get caught, I'm going to get shipped right back so that the, the crossings on the Southern border, way down, way down, not because of any legislation, not because of a wall, because that wall hasn't been built yet.

00:55:47.860 Um, it's because of the perception that Trump is going to send us back.

00:55:52.260 So that's the kind of leadership that, that is appealing to many Americans and why Trump won.

00:55:58.640 But the gridlock in Washington, my God, they don't get anything done.

00:56:02.260 You can't get Kate's law done.

00:56:03.920 You can't get that.

00:56:04.900 That, yeah, it is, it's, it's, it's infuriating money and the money dictates what these people do.

00:56:14.080 Um, how do you expect the G20, uh, negotiations to, to affect the global banana trade?

00:56:18.820 I think the banana trade after this show, the Glenn Beck show, even though he was, he was insincere about the man.

00:56:30.120 He was kind of insincere.

00:56:32.260 I rock it.

00:56:33.260 There's a lot of potassium involved and we know that.

00:56:36.180 All right.

00:56:37.180 Now, uh, are the global warming people don't like potassium because it, it can impact, you know, and make things a little warmer.

00:56:45.640 But I still think that the banana trade is going to go through the roof, uh, as this program spans the globe.

00:56:52.720 You really can do a monologue about anything.

00:56:55.120 That's impressive.

00:56:56.440 I can do five on it.

00:56:57.920 No matter what you want.

00:56:59.180 We should come back on the other side, Bill.

00:57:00.680 I would love to get your take on Chris Christie this week.

00:57:03.480 What his future could possibly be.

00:57:06.000 And his one driver.

00:57:07.060 Yeah.

00:57:07.660 It's about as, as aggressive as it should be a triple eight, seven 27 back.

00:57:11.220 Bill O'Reilly is with us.

00:57:12.200 Uh, Glenn is going to be back here in just a couple of minutes, uh, to talk about.

00:57:15.720 Chris Christie, who, who may be the least popular governor in American history, according to polling.

00:57:23.100 At least who hasn't committed a major felony, right?

00:57:25.940 At least.

00:57:26.300 Yeah.

00:57:26.520 That's the way it's going to turn out.

00:57:28.340 Pretty amazing.

00:57:29.240 Back with Bill here in just a second.

00:57:30.680 Triple eight, seven 27 back is our phone number.

00:57:32.840 The Glenn Beck program.

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00:57:56.020 Back with the one and only, the, uh, legend in his own mind, uh, Bill O'Reilly.

00:58:04.980 The what?

00:58:05.760 Bill.

00:58:06.100 What?

00:58:06.520 I didn't hear.

00:58:08.000 I said a legend.

00:58:09.080 Yes.

00:58:09.540 In his own mind.

00:58:10.440 Uh, Bill O'Reilly from Bill O'Reilly.com who I, I don't appreciate the fact that he was

00:58:16.980 on my program just a few minutes ago saying that I didn't take the, the seizure of bananas

00:58:22.520 by the oppressed, uh, as a riveting, riveting story.

00:58:26.800 And somehow I was belittling bananas, the banana industry and, uh, and the need, desire, and

00:58:34.000 just craven want of bananas by the oppressed.

00:58:37.840 You did take umbrage?

00:58:38.660 I took, I took a little umbrage to that.

00:58:40.880 Uh, Bill O'Reilly, uh, welcome back to the program.

00:58:43.300 A couple of things.

00:58:44.100 First of all, I heard you talk about the border wall here just a second ago.

00:58:47.500 Do you think that a border wall is still going to happen?

00:58:53.500 Somewhat.

00:58:54.040 It's not going to be a full border wall, but they will put in, uh, you know, a high tech

00:58:59.420 situation in, in various sectors that, uh, they believe, um, without any movement on

00:59:06.600 this now with the trouble that he is having, does this happen as a, as something that he

00:59:13.440 can run on and say, see, I told you I was building a wall and I, I have broken ground

00:59:20.440 on a lot of the wall or is this, I need, uh, you know, I need these guys, uh, you know,

00:59:28.820 in the Senate to help me to get started.

00:59:32.420 No, I don't think so.

00:59:33.340 So just today over in, uh, Europe, he said that the, uh, once again, that Mexico is going

00:59:38.380 to pay for the wall.

00:59:40.080 Um, you know, he, he's going to do something.

00:59:43.420 He can do it by executive order.

00:59:45.480 Okay.

00:59:45.640 All right.

00:59:45.900 But there won't be a big, beautiful 40 foot wall with a beautiful door in it.

00:59:50.540 There's going to be a big, you know, like for example, in, in Texas, where you live in

00:59:55.000 the big bend national park, you're not going to have a wall there.

00:59:58.040 It's very hard to get through and all of that.

01:00:00.600 You don't need it, but you know, in places like, uh, Bisbee, Arizona, where, you know,

01:00:06.140 there's a lot of trouble, then you'll see, you know, the thing go up.

01:00:09.980 So it's more of a symbolic thing, um, than anything else.

01:00:14.460 It's quite an admission though.

01:00:15.400 I mean, we're nine, six months into this thing and this is his signature issue.

01:00:20.040 And it doesn't seem like anyone actually believes he's going to build this thing at

01:00:23.300 this point.

01:00:23.720 And not even Ann Coulter.

01:00:25.380 Yeah.

01:00:25.560 But the signature issue is really the economy.

01:00:28.120 I mean, that's really what it's all about.

01:00:30.480 So if the economy gets better and people are making more money and they feel more secure,

01:00:35.140 they're going to give him a pass on some of the other things as long as the intent is

01:00:39.480 there.

01:00:39.800 And that, that's what's going on.

01:00:40.880 Okay.

01:00:41.220 Um, let me, let me, uh, switch, uh, gears and, and talk about a couple of other things.

01:00:47.040 First of all, uh, the, the, the beached whale, uh, story that happened over the weekend.

01:00:53.820 Oh no, I, I confuse that with, um, the other story, uh, uh, uh, Chris Christie, um, in New

01:01:02.820 Jersey.

01:01:03.460 Why do you confuse that with the Chris Christie story?

01:01:06.380 It's weird.

01:01:06.760 It's a beach related.

01:01:07.580 He, he is the most unpopular governor in, uh, in America now.

01:01:14.800 Um, and that's saying something, there's only three people there.

01:01:18.740 Is he number three at the bottom?

01:01:19.820 He's number four right now.

01:01:21.100 Number four.

01:01:21.500 Least popular governor poll, as far as polling has ever shown.

01:01:24.600 Um, and that is ahead of him.

01:01:27.220 First of all, he's at 15%.

01:01:28.540 That was taken before the beach incident.

01:01:31.160 So I would, I would assume that's going to drop.

01:01:34.020 Uh, the only, the one only governors ahead of him, 2006, Frank Murkowski and in Alaska at

01:01:39.040 14%.

01:01:39.720 He named his daughter to be Senator.

01:01:42.020 So that was not a popular move.

01:01:43.820 Uh, 2008, Rob Blagojevich went to 8%.

01:01:47.640 Obviously he's in prison and 2005, also a criminal charges against Bob Taft, uh, in Ohio.

01:01:54.660 He came in at 7%.

01:01:56.100 So what, what happened with Chris Christie?

01:02:00.600 Well, Christie's play is this.

01:02:02.960 He, he knows that he's not going to do public service ever again.

01:02:08.020 This is what I believe.

01:02:09.960 All right.

01:02:10.380 So he's out of the public service business.

01:02:13.200 So what do you, what business does he want to get into beside importing bananas?

01:02:18.020 Um, he wants to get into the media business, right?

01:02:23.040 That's what he wants to do.

01:02:24.660 Now there's been all kinds of rumors in the New York area that he wants to do sports radio,

01:02:29.200 radio talk, that kind of thing.

01:02:31.540 So what better way to get his name out there as a controversial guy than to go to his lavish

01:02:40.740 beach home as the state of New Jersey provides their governors when they, uh, all the other

01:02:45.940 beaches are closed because the state couldn't pass a budget.

01:02:49.600 So he's the only one on the beach.

01:02:51.880 And then he allows himself to be photographed in a lounge chair with a screen on his face.

01:02:57.040 He knows what he's doing.

01:02:58.620 He's engendering controversy to get his name out there.

01:03:02.660 So he'll get some kind of media play.

01:03:04.420 But that's not a guy that, I mean, I don't, I'm not excited to tune in the guy who just

01:03:10.520 gave his state the shaft.

01:03:13.860 I mean, it's not like, oh man, I can't wait to hear what he has to say.

01:03:17.140 He goes to sports and he could go to, he could go to, uh, news too on the radio.

01:03:22.200 I don't think he could do TV.

01:03:24.140 Um, he'll get, he'll get a sampling back.

01:03:27.580 He will.

01:03:28.140 I mean, people around here will, will, uh, tune him in.

01:03:31.720 I think, uh, I think you're right on politics, you know, radio is so heavily right.

01:03:36.780 And Chris Christie has almost zero credibility, uh, with the right, um, which is amazing because

01:03:45.000 he went from, he, he, he'll, he'll go in and he'll, and he'll shake it, you know?

01:03:50.380 Um, so he's got, that's what he's angling for.

01:03:55.260 And I think he's going to get some kind of media contract.

01:03:57.940 I do.

01:03:58.360 That's amazing.

01:03:58.940 I mean, cause he doesn't really align with us policy wise, but,

01:04:01.720 for fat TV hosts that are male, this is a place for them at the place. 1.00

01:04:05.880 I mean, there really is.

01:04:06.900 Yeah.

01:04:06.920 We're all fat here.

01:04:08.000 Maybe you want to use the word Zofftig instead of, you know, fat's a little blunt.

01:04:13.340 Are we getting a word of the day?

01:04:14.500 I think we are.

01:04:15.660 Zofftig?

01:04:16.180 I've never heard of Zofftig.

01:04:18.080 Use it in a sentence.

01:04:19.000 It's a German based word back.

01:04:20.680 I picked it up when I was in Berlin.

01:04:22.800 With the bananas.

01:04:24.660 Or maybe rotund.

01:04:26.480 Yeah.

01:04:26.960 Rotund.

01:04:27.500 I know.

01:04:28.900 Rubenesque is another one.

01:04:30.280 But Zofftig is not a pretty word.

01:04:34.400 Let's switch gears to the baby in England, 11 months old, national health care.

01:04:44.180 They want to pull the plug.

01:04:45.860 We're waiting for the, you know, English version of the Supreme Court to give the final ruling

01:04:51.400 on whether they pull the plug on this baby.

01:04:54.460 The baby has already been accepted to a hospital here in America, in New York.

01:04:58.780 The Vatican has offered to take the baby at their Bambino hospital.

01:05:05.560 In fact, the Pope yesterday said they will issue the family a Vatican passport so the

01:05:11.620 baby can be taken out of the hospital and make them Vatican citizens. 0.83

01:05:15.760 What do you think is about this story?

01:05:19.000 Well, I think the British authorities would be insane not to allow the Vatican to take the

01:05:26.060 baby and treat the baby. 0.95

01:05:27.740 And, you know, Trump has weighed in and said, we'll take the baby here in the USA.

01:05:32.420 And there'll be enough people, of course, to donate money to pay the bills and stuff like

01:05:37.460 that.

01:05:37.680 So if the British government, you know, says, no, we're going to allow the baby to die, that's

01:05:43.840 going to be an enormously big story that's going to be really bad for the UK.

01:05:53.120 So I don't believe they'll do it.

01:05:54.540 But I'd like to see them cooperate with the Vatican on that, on a life issue like that.

01:05:58.840 So what's amazing, if you haven't followed the story, go to charliesfight.org, charliesfight.org.

01:06:04.700 Um, I think this is a battle for, um, more than just the Western way of life.

01:06:11.740 This, this is a battle bill that is a, um, is a bellwether on, on our humanity as the West.

01:06:22.580 Well, it certainly, uh, goes right into the, uh, euthanasia and abortion debate.

01:06:29.800 And, um, but, you know, clear thinking human beings will say, look, if the baby, um, is

01:06:37.740 going to be treated, let the process play out.

01:06:41.680 You know, why would you want to abort the process?

01:06:45.640 So, yeah, you're right.

01:06:48.080 I mean, these crazy, insane, uh, choice people, um, not everybody is at that level who just say,

01:06:57.160 you know, euthanasia, fine, whatever you want to do, fine, uh, the state of Oregon, totally

01:07:02.260 out of control, no limits on abortion.

01:07:04.960 You can do whatever you want for whatever reason.

01:07:07.480 There's nothing, uh, stopping, um, or protecting the fetus, the unborn.

01:07:13.280 Um, we, we reach a point in, uh, in a moral conversation where you can't defend these kinds

01:07:21.060 of actions and the UK could not defend, not allowing that baby every opportunity and there

01:07:26.600 and it's family.

01:07:28.040 So Bill, where do you, this is the slate magazine, uh, came out immediately and said, the right's 0.97

01:07:33.680 going to make this into death panels. 0.80

01:07:35.760 And that's what this is.

01:07:38.080 This is a death panel.

01:07:40.220 Sure.

01:07:40.500 It would be the state ruling that this baby doesn't have the right to treatment. 0.99

01:07:47.440 Yeah.

01:07:47.920 To eat up more resources.

01:07:49.820 Yeah.

01:07:50.000 To treatment.

01:07:50.660 Right.

01:07:50.880 I mean, it's as simple as that, even though, um, the baby is now has an opportunity to go

01:07:57.600 away from the UK so that they don't have to deal with the situation any longer.

01:08:02.320 So that's why I'm saying that the British aren't stupid.

01:08:05.420 They're not going to do that.

01:08:06.680 So if you have, can, can we just noodle this out for a second?

01:08:09.680 If you have socialized medicine, um, and you know, you're going to have to ration, uh,

01:08:17.320 medicine, which they are, they're, they're so far in debt with their nationalized medicine

01:08:21.560 over in Great Britain, it's killing them.

01:08:23.880 Um, and they have to ration the care. 0.85

01:08:27.420 So if you're rationing the care, you have to make those decisions that says this is not

01:08:35.480 worth the investment because the odds of survival are so low.

01:08:41.680 Um, what makes that argue from the, the, uh, a logical point of view to a liberal that says,

01:08:50.900 well, yeah, but why should this baby have a chance, um, because they have wealth or access

01:09:00.040 to money, but nobody else's baby has, uh, that chance.

01:09:03.860 We have to even the playing field and everybody has to have a fair shake.

01:09:10.120 Well, when you're talking about life and death, there isn't a matter of a comparative matter.

01:09:16.040 It's a matter of if you can save the baby or you can elongate the baby's life,

01:09:20.560 if you do it, um, and economics shouldn't enter into it.

01:09:25.420 Um, I don't believe in socialized medicine.

01:09:27.180 I lived in England for a year.

01:09:28.540 I know that there's a backup.

01:09:30.260 I know that in Canada, for example, you have to wait, um, for complicated surgery,

01:09:36.280 which is why thousands of Canadians come to the United States for it.

01:09:40.100 So that, that kind of the government makes calls to shots on life and death.

01:09:45.400 That is not, um, compatible with my view of life.

01:09:52.140 And I think most people in America would say the same thing.

01:09:55.580 We, we just don't want that.

01:09:57.100 We don't want the government saying who lives and who dies because of money.

01:10:00.280 Did you read the Pope's actual statement?

01:10:05.680 I did not read it.

01:10:07.100 You should, Bill, as a Catholic, I'd be interested in hearing what you have to say.

01:10:10.960 Um, because he didn't say, um, he said, you know, this is a very complicated matter,

01:10:15.940 which it's really not.

01:10:17.760 It's not complex.

01:10:18.640 The money is there.

01:10:20.020 The baby has been offered treatment elsewhere.

01:10:23.660 It's not complex at all.

01:10:25.160 Um, but he, he was not John Paul, uh, who would have come out and had come out and said,

01:10:33.280 you know, that big state making decisions for families is, is not right.

01:10:38.520 And the family needs to be empowered and, and all life is sacred.

01:10:42.380 He didn't use any of that language.

01:10:44.160 He said it was a complicated matter.

01:10:46.180 He understood and, um, we shouldn't reject, um, the state being involved, uh, basically

01:10:53.720 saying, you know, we, we, we need to understand that parents sometimes have a hard time with

01:10:59.100 these decisions and shouldn't be left alone.

01:11:01.360 It was a really, um, treading the line, um, kind of statement.

01:11:08.460 All right.

01:11:09.100 But he made the offer.

01:11:10.440 Um, so that's number one.

01:11:12.140 And he is a different guy.

01:11:14.160 Uh, he's not doctrinaire.

01:11:15.720 He tries to get as many people as possible into his, um, outlook or his point of view.

01:11:24.480 And he doesn't like to make judgments about certain things because then he, he believes

01:11:30.020 that alienates people and cuts off the conversation.

01:11:33.340 So I'm, I'm a big action speak louder than words guy.

01:11:37.060 And I applaud what the Vatican is doing.

01:11:39.400 I hope the UK takes their, um, offer and sends the family to Rome.

01:11:45.720 And, and let the life process play out there.

01:11:49.360 And that would be a huge win for, um, not only the family and the baby, but for the cause of

01:11:56.560 life.

01:11:56.960 And so that's what I hope happens.

01:12:00.220 Bill O'Reilly.com.

01:12:01.340 Bill O'Reilly.com is the website where you can hear Bill every single day.

01:12:05.520 You launched maybe this fall with a new TV show.

01:12:08.480 We're not sure yet what we're going to do with the TV thing.

01:12:11.560 Um, it's, uh, complicated, but, um, we're certainly going to upgrade the, the, uh, Bill O'Reilly.com.

01:12:20.040 And I, I loved how you said it this time, as opposed to the beginning of the interview,

01:12:24.900 when I didn't feel the sincerity.

01:12:28.600 No, I didn't.

01:12:30.300 When I say Bill O'Reilly.com, I mean it.

01:12:32.420 When I say Bill O'Reilly.com, I don't feel it.

01:12:35.680 It's not the same.

01:12:36.880 I want you to read, uh, Legends of the Lives of Civil War because you need some relaxation.

01:12:42.640 You need to get away.

01:12:43.520 And there's nothing like a good Civil War book that will do that.

01:12:46.140 That's right.

01:12:46.880 I know you're a history buff.

01:12:48.220 I know you like to learn and accumulate knowledge.

01:12:51.140 Yes.

01:12:51.660 Uh, Bill O'Reilly's got, really, I was in a bookstore and it's shameful how many books he has.

01:12:56.580 Uh, but they're all great.

01:12:58.020 And great for your kids as well.

01:13:00.160 Uh, history at Bill O'Reilly.com.

01:13:01.980 Thanks, Bill.

01:13:02.420 Talk to you next week.

01:13:03.040 All right, Beck.

01:13:03.340 We'll talk soon.

01:13:03.960 Thank you.

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01:14:11.880 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

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01:14:22.860 Okay, so we had a call from Chip and Joanna Gaines' attorney a couple of weeks ago and we

01:14:29.940 thought, uh-oh, did we do something wrong?

01:14:32.220 No.

01:14:32.620 There's a lot of celebrities that are being really, really wronged by something.

01:14:38.360 We want to tell you this story.

01:14:39.500 Just flat out lies.

01:14:40.760 Yeah.

01:14:41.100 We want to tell you this story coming up in just a second.

01:14:43.360 We're back.

01:14:50.360 Mercury.

01:15:02.620 Hello, America, and welcome to Friday.

01:15:16.200 We are so glad that you have tuned in today.

01:15:18.640 There was a commercial that, uh, or an ad that was running on the blaze and I saw it and it

01:15:29.020 wasn't a direct advertiser.

01:15:32.340 It's one of these things, it's complicated to say, but basically an ad agency represents,

01:15:38.440 you know, all of these different people.

01:15:41.160 And so you sign on with the ad agency and then the ad agency just runs whatever ad.

01:15:46.540 Well, there's this ad that was running and it was about a new face cream.

01:15:49.920 And the headline on the ad was, uh, Joanna Gaines leaves, uh, the show and Chip didn't

01:15:58.900 even know why.

01:16:00.160 And I'm like, what the hell is Chip and Joanna Gaines?

01:16:03.900 What, what is this?

01:16:05.140 The lies in this are so amazing.

01:16:08.460 I immediately called our sales manager and said, cancel this.

01:16:13.720 What, what is this?

01:16:15.460 How can they possibly get away with a lie?

01:16:18.360 And actually I said, I don't mind if they sell face cream, but not with lies.

01:16:25.220 Well, when they said, uh, wait a minute, you're telling us we, you're telling us that we have

01:16:30.220 to change our ad copy.

01:16:32.420 Yes, it can't be a lie.

01:16:34.780 They canceled.

01:16:35.860 That's a quarter of a million dollar account a month, right?

01:16:39.920 Yeah.

01:16:40.120 A month.

01:16:41.040 Uh, and you see this ad everywhere because people don't care.

01:16:45.880 Yep.

01:16:46.260 I happen to care.

01:16:48.280 Um, but it's really hard, especially for conservatives who have been blocked out of almost everything

01:16:54.740 to walk away from $250,000 a month.

01:16:58.760 That's a lot of money, obviously.

01:16:59.920 So we've been talking, how does this company get away with this?

01:17:07.060 Well, when I told this story on the air the first day, Chip and Joanna Gaines' attorney

01:17:12.660 called and said, uh, we want to talk to you about that ad.

01:17:18.220 And we immediately said, we had nothing to do with it.

01:17:21.300 We didn't even know that's what the ad was until it popped up and we canceled it.

01:17:24.940 And they said, yeah, we, we, uh, we, we really would like this ad to stop.

01:17:31.620 Yeah.

01:17:32.220 Can, can you help us at all?

01:17:34.340 And so I hope that we are, you know, assisting them in every possible way.

01:17:38.840 Cause I love these two.

01:17:40.040 And I think what's happening to people, cause it's not just happening to Chip and Joanna

01:17:44.520 Gaines.

01:17:44.860 This is happening to a ton of celebrities.

01:17:46.420 I want to know what the legal recourse is.

01:17:49.800 How, how can you, how can that ad run?

01:17:54.400 We have one of the best attorneys, uh, on the phone with us to answer this question.

01:18:01.140 And we begin right now.

01:18:03.000 The fusion of entertainment and enlightenment.

01:18:25.340 This is the Glenn Beck program.

01:18:29.140 Okay.

01:18:32.920 Let's just read the first paragraph of this ad.

01:18:37.440 Here it is.

01:18:38.060 It's a, and, and like you said, this, this is everywhere.

01:18:41.060 It's all over the internet.

01:18:42.680 Uh, but it starts out by saying, uh, it all started last November when Joanna Gaines, host

01:18:47.780 of the popular HGTV show, Fixer Upper signed a deal with Shark Tank's Lori Greiner.

01:18:53.060 It didn't happen.

01:18:54.440 The deal states.

01:18:55.260 There's line number one.

01:18:55.980 That Joanna's new cosmetics line, there isn't one.

01:18:59.700 Line number two.

01:19:00.240 Will be picked up and promoted by the shopping channel QVC.

01:19:03.640 Not true.

01:19:04.820 Joanna is very proud of her line.

01:19:07.140 Line number four.

01:19:08.520 She has been quoted as saying, they're attributing quotes here.

01:19:12.680 This is more than just a beauty line.

01:19:14.320 This is what every woman has been dreaming of for most of her adult life.

01:19:18.100 Line number five.

01:19:19.360 The problem is HGTV and QVC are rival competitors.

01:19:23.160 That's actually now currently a lie as of today.

01:19:26.900 Yeah.

01:19:27.200 It just sold.

01:19:27.940 Was it a QVC?

01:19:28.800 What was the?

01:19:29.200 QVC just bought HSN, the home shopping network.

01:19:31.540 For $2.1 billion.

01:19:33.280 Yeah.

01:19:33.680 A couple dollars.

01:19:34.160 There is a clause in Joanna's HGTV contract that clearly says she's forbidden from promoting

01:19:39.320 or doing business with any other channel or media company.

01:19:42.080 Now, that's probably true.

01:19:43.280 It was later discovered not even her husband, Chip, knew what she was constructing in the

01:19:50.420 background.

01:19:50.780 Now, you're starting to get into their relationship.

01:19:53.280 Into their relationship.

01:19:54.400 And when I read that, I was like, no way.

01:19:58.500 No way.

01:19:59.020 They go so far as to say when her hidden secrets surfaced, it caused a rift in their marriage.

01:20:03.700 Okay.

01:20:04.100 So, that does damage.

01:20:05.960 Wow.

01:20:06.260 That does damage to their image.

01:20:09.740 Right.

01:20:10.020 I mean, I like them because they're such a great family and such a great couple.

01:20:14.820 You're talking libel now.

01:20:15.920 Oh, my gosh.

01:20:16.480 This is horrible.

01:20:17.460 So, now we're up to lie seven.

01:20:19.920 Because of this, HGTV has decided to let him carry on the show by himself without her.

01:20:25.180 Lie number eight.

01:20:26.100 In one paragraph.

01:20:26.860 Okay.

01:20:27.080 That's one paragraph.

01:20:28.240 There are more lies to follow.

01:20:30.200 Mm-hmm.

01:20:31.040 We cannot figure out, because this is not just happening to them.

01:20:34.060 This is happening to, I saw Stephen Hawking and Anderson Cooper are taking a new brain

01:20:39.820 drug that makes them super smart.

01:20:42.020 Really?

01:20:42.240 Yeah.

01:20:42.460 Oh, that's been around.

01:20:44.220 There's another one involving Michael Jordan and LeBron James.

01:20:48.200 Okay.

01:20:48.480 And they're having some kind of feud, and they're selling a product with this.

01:20:50.800 My free bottles haven't arrived yet.

01:20:52.260 So, yeah.

01:20:54.540 Mike Ragle is truly, he has a national practice on media law, emphasis on defending news and entertainment

01:21:02.080 organizations, from news gathering to public-related claims, including defamation, copyright infringement,

01:21:08.520 invasion of privacy matters.

01:21:10.260 He is one of the best attorneys in America.

01:21:13.780 When companies see him coming and his firm coming, they realize, holy crap, we have the

01:21:21.500 big dogs coming after us.

01:21:23.320 He is my attorney, and just, I can't speak highly enough about him.

01:21:28.060 So, we called him up, and we asked him, how do they get away with this?

01:21:32.860 Mike, welcome to the program.

01:21:34.540 Yeah.

01:21:34.780 Good morning, Glenn, and thank you very much for your kind words.

01:21:38.020 They're much appreciated.

01:21:39.400 Well, the answer to the examples you've raised on the air is that they really are unlawful,

01:21:48.320 and the law has long recognized what's known as the right of publicity.

01:21:53.400 And really what that boils down to is each individual person has a legally protectable

01:22:01.400 interest in their name, their image, their likeness, and their voice.

01:22:07.560 So, for example, if I'm selling cars or a product or a service in the Dallas-Fort Worth

01:22:15.440 metro area, I could not take a picture of Glenn Beck and put it up on a billboard for passing

01:22:24.720 motorists to see where you're touting the product or the service, unless I had your express

01:22:33.260 written authorization to do that.

01:22:36.080 And the reason is obvious, is that you have a recognizable brand value, an identity that

01:22:44.020 has commercial value in the marketplace, and you and you alone should be able to control

01:22:51.360 the dissemination of your image for commercial marketing purposes, and you should be able

01:22:58.720 to collect and monetize that.

01:23:01.580 You know, typically, of course, this occurs with celebrities and people whose identities

01:23:08.040 have recognized market value, although in most jurisdictions, no one could do that to say

01:23:16.080 me either, although I obviously do not have a recognized marketability factor or quotient

01:23:22.820 in my own persona.

01:23:25.340 Okay, so hang on, Mike.

01:23:26.420 So here's the thing.

01:23:28.300 I have seen these everywhere, and when I first saw the one about the brain drug, I wrote to

01:23:35.540 Anderson, and I'm like, oh, so that's what it is, huh?

01:23:39.200 And he was like, these are so obnoxious.

01:23:43.640 Joanna and Chip, they called our office and said, we're trying to track these people down

01:23:49.900 because they keep just shuttering their business, and I guess they'll shutter it and then open

01:23:55.260 it up, and somehow or another, they're getting away with it, and I don't know why, and on

01:24:01.000 top of it, institutions like me, like glenbeck.com or The Blaze, we took this ad unbeknownst to

01:24:09.540 us because it was just in a service that you buy the service and then they fill the ads with

01:24:15.180 what they're selling.

01:24:15.960 When I saw it, we took it down.

01:24:19.700 It cost us a fortune to lose that, and everyone else is taking it.

01:24:27.180 So there's money being made by the people that are doing the face cream.

01:24:32.100 There's money being made by all the media outlets that are taking this.

01:24:36.120 There's money being made by the agencies that are representing this, and they know that there's

01:24:42.240 somehow or another a game being played, and all the celebrities that are involved don't

01:24:47.980 want to spend the money trying to track these guys down because there's obviously not deep

01:24:53.140 pockets, or the pockets are so well protected in shell companies that there's nothing to

01:24:59.480 go and get.

01:25:01.180 How do you stop it?

01:25:02.920 Well, that's really a difficult question, and I think you're putting your finger on the

01:25:08.680 real problem, Glenn, today for most celebrities who do have recognized commercial value and

01:25:15.160 appeal in their persona.

01:25:17.400 With the proliferation of these examples on the Internet, it's very difficult to monitor

01:25:24.420 for first thing, and then if you are able to discover these types of things, it's an expensive

01:25:31.260 proposition sometimes because they're all over the place.

01:25:34.720 Most of the time, if you're able to identify a truly unauthorized ad where somebody is using

01:25:44.640 your image and your likeness for a commercial purpose that you have not consented to or authorized,

01:25:49.720 you can go to court, get an injunction whereby the court would order the person who is displaying

01:25:57.200 this, a URL site or a website or something, to cease and desist from continuing to publish

01:26:03.280 the ad. As you correctly point out, however, that can be a not expensive and sometimes

01:26:09.960 inconvenient proposition, and it doesn't fully answer the whack-a-mole problem.

01:26:14.920 Once you get one of them down, it pops up again someplace else.

01:26:18.420 So that's what I want to, I want to concentrate on that for a second.

01:26:21.540 What they do, I'm sure, and I don't know the case of this company, but what it appears

01:26:27.980 to be is, you know, they'll just make a quick 501c3 or whatever, is that the right thing?

01:26:34.320 Yeah, a corporation, an S-corp, and they'll just make a quick S-corp and a shell corporation

01:26:41.100 of some sort.

01:26:42.240 They'll put limited resources in it, they'll buy it, but they won't keep any money in it,

01:26:47.620 and then if you sue that company, there's nothing really to win, and the people just leave to

01:26:52.800 go do it again under some other company name in some other way. How do you get to the people

01:26:58.920 when you know their intent is bad? You know, you want that protection from a corporation

01:27:07.040 in some cases, but when you have really bad guys using the system, is there anything to

01:27:12.240 get to the actual perpetrators?

01:27:13.760 Well, it can be really difficult, and I had a case a few years ago for a very prominent

01:27:19.780 professional athlete, a tennis player, and his name and image was being used to promote

01:27:29.580 a rather unsavory product, and he in no way authorized this. He did not want the association

01:27:36.740 with his identity in the market because he felt that it devalued his own sponsorship abilities,

01:27:45.160 and we ended up tracking this down, and it was some company offshore, you know, down in

01:27:53.320 the Cayman Islands, and thankfully we were able to get the ad shut down on the website because

01:28:00.480 we went back, we got a court order and went to internet service providers like Google and

01:28:05.180 said you can't display this anymore, but being able to recover actual financial damages from

01:28:12.500 the perpetrators is extraordinarily impractical and very unlikely.

01:28:18.260 So Mike, let me just ask you an off-the-wall question, and you know me, I don't need another

01:28:22.860 project, and I just don't need more hassles in my life, but this is something that really

01:28:30.160 bothers me, because when I saw it on The Blaze, if we don't have a way to say to agencies,

01:28:37.840 you cannot lie. These things are just going to keep coming through and slipping through

01:28:43.860 the cracks, and it hurts my credibility as a news organization. Most people don't care.

01:28:49.480 And it also bothers me that people like Chip and Joanna, if people don't say anything and

01:28:54.740 try to help these guys and the, you know, the Tom Brady's and LeBron James and Michael

01:29:00.160 Jordan and Anderson Cooper and even Stephen Hawking, the next people will be us. And is

01:29:07.660 there a way, would you be interested in seeing if we reached out to all these people? I would

01:29:13.860 like to, as a media company, just be a part of something that is trying to enforce truth

01:29:21.360 in advertising. Is it possible? Would it help if everybody got together and tried to stop it?

01:29:28.280 Well, I think there's always strength in numbers. I think there is a threshold obligation here to

01:29:34.380 Glenn on the part of the advertising agency. They should have some upfront ability to determine

01:29:44.500 before placing an ad that it's authentic and it's real. Because otherwise, once the, you know,

01:29:53.820 the genie's out of the bottle, so to speak, it's just very, very difficult to prevent this type of

01:29:59.180 thing from spiraling out of control on the internet. And then once it's out there on all

01:30:05.040 these websites, it's difficult to get it back in.

01:30:07.280 Michael, if you would do me a favor, just noodle this for a second, and maybe I'll call you or we

01:30:11.100 can touch base in the next week or so. I would like to reach out to these people and see if there's

01:30:15.940 any interest in working together. And again, I don't want to lead it or anything else, but you are

01:30:20.540 so good. And if it's not you, maybe you know who is that somebody can make a dent. Because if it is

01:30:28.040 the advertiser, we have to go after the ad agencies. Somebody needs to protect the truth.

01:30:35.100 Yeah, there should be accountability here. And in substantial measure, as often happens with

01:30:41.280 technology, sometimes things outstrip or outpace the ability of the legal system to provide an

01:30:50.260 effective remedy. And here, I think it's probably a situation that merits consideration from those

01:30:58.120 are involved. Because for someone who has really worked hard, achieved success, to be associated

01:31:07.980 with an unauthorized product or service that may actually be disreputable can obviously cause damage

01:31:16.440 to that person's market value and reputation. And the legal system should be able to find a way to 0.56

01:31:23.880 stop that sort of thing from happening.

01:31:25.440 Mike Greigel, thank you so much. I appreciate it, Mike.

01:31:27.720 Yeah, thank you, Glenn. Appreciate it. Take care.

01:31:29.740 You bet. My attorney on First Amendment and speech and investigative issues, Mike Greigel,

01:31:38.700 is just fantastic. Now this, by the way, Chip and Joanna, we love you and want to help you any way we

01:31:47.000 possibly can. Now this, staggering casualties. That's what we risk with the most limited strike on

01:31:54.880 North Korea. Jim Mattis said, probably be the worst kind of fighting in most people's lifetimes. We're

01:32:00.120 talking about possibly millions of dead. I spoke to somebody yesterday about it and I said, you know,

01:32:08.040 what do we do? And they said, even if we do a limited strike and just try to take out the head of state

01:32:14.620 there, he can launch, his first strike could kill 200,000 people. Wow. And that's without, that's with

01:32:24.040 conventional weapons. I've heard that if he gets a one tube of facial cream, he will withdraw all of

01:32:30.900 his threats against the United States. That may be, that may be. Anyway. Yeah. Pretty big. I want you to know

01:32:36.540 that the world is on the edge and nothing is secure. There is no one who will say, I promise you a year

01:32:44.120 from now, you'll at least have the same amount of money. The only investment that will make that claim

01:32:49.880 is gold from gold line, gold line only. And for as little as $2,500, you will get three months of

01:32:56.940 price protection. So if gold goes down over the next three months, they will make up the difference

01:33:03.660 at the end of three months. Who does that? Nobody does that. Imagine doing that with a stock. I want

01:33:07.840 to guarantee that a stock, if it's not the same price, you make it up with more stock. Nobody does

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01:34:04.040 You're listening to the Glenn Beck program. There's, there's, you know, talking about this

01:34:13.240 thing with Chip and Joanna Gaines and, you know, uh, this face cream thing, which is absolute nonsense.

01:34:18.980 And you should tell everybody, you know, don't fall into the trap of that face cream stuff. Um,

01:34:25.340 this stuff has been going on for a long time. You heard the latest about Thomas Jefferson and

01:34:30.140 Sally Hemings. They found the Sally Hemings, uh, house, uh, supposedly on the premises of,

01:34:36.260 uh, Monticello. And every time that comes up, they perpetrate the lie. Okay. Every time they were

01:34:42.140 quoting the newspaper that said, you know, Joe Blow said back then that, uh, you know, uh, in the

01:34:49.000 newspaper that he had several, uh, children with Sally Hemings. Okay. That was known as a lie,

01:34:55.560 a political lie during a campaign at the time. It's every bit as legitimate as John Adams is a

01:35:06.100 hermaphrodite. Right. And the face cream thing. Yes. They're all bogus. Right. That was a lie about

01:35:12.160 John Adams and he was a hermaphrodite. He wasn't, it was a political lie at the time. Was it in the 0.79

01:35:17.960 paper? Yes. But so is the Garth Brooks juice diet. That didn't work either in the paper.

01:35:25.060 Is the Glenn Beck program. Mercury.

01:35:31.660 The Glenn Beck program. Yeah. It is the final weekend for the stew thing. The wonderful.

01:35:43.820 This is the last show. The last of the season. Last of the season. Season finale tonight.

01:35:50.180 I'm, I have binged on all of these. They're great to binge on. They are caught up to them

01:35:55.840 now and I've, I've seen. Oh, you've, so you've seen every, you could describe it pretty great

01:36:04.420 detail then. Yeah. What I don't know is how, uh, the, the guy who's the head butler in this

01:36:12.480 show is going to, we don't have a save his marriage. There's even though they think that

01:36:18.080 maybe he killed a man. You're going to be on another show actually. Really? Yeah. Wonderful

01:36:22.760 with the stew. Uh, there's no provides insightful, entertaining commentary about important issues

01:36:27.960 that matter to you. So what are you covering tonight? Let's do a little episode. First of

01:36:31.000 all, we're going to, uh, amend the constitution briefly. Uh, we're going to get that done.

01:36:35.080 I fully support this. Pat is a supporter of this. I want to get, we're going to get some

01:36:39.360 people to sign onto this. I want actual politicians. I think I can send letters out to every senator

01:36:43.240 and congressman to support my one person, one bathroom constitutional amendment. Um, it 0.55

01:36:49.000 is important. Uh, we always talk about, Hey, who, what, what person should go into what

01:36:54.120 bathroom? Um, how about, I don't know, you're just in the bathroom by yourself. How about that

01:36:58.740 for an option? We're 2017. We don't need to have shared bathrooms. So the problem would

01:37:04.060 be that the most of, you know, almost every office would have to have a whole floor of

01:37:10.820 just bathrooms. It's not true that the amount of bathrooms would not need to change. Um,

01:37:14.960 because the amount of toilets is walling off the toilets. That's all you have to do. And

01:37:19.740 not by the way, these little walls they put in between stalls now that are like, for some

01:37:25.240 reason, thigh level to stomach level. I makes them go to the ceiling and the floor. That's 0.99

01:37:31.220 what walls are supposed to do. Regulations cost and business money. Could I get a drink

01:37:34.800 cup though for the bathroom stall? You want a drink like a cup holder? Yeah. Did I tell

01:37:40.320 you this story? No. Okay. So I was in Vegas and, uh, we're in this shady, uh, old part

01:37:47.400 of Vegas and we're at this, I don't want to say which one it was, but one of the, one of

01:37:51.460 the older, you know, Frank Sinatra kind of places. Uh, and it's kind of gone downhill

01:37:57.860 a little bit. Okay. And, uh, so all of us, we went and we had lunch there and, um, and

01:38:03.800 so we're, we're, uh, getting ready to leave and everybody has to go to the bathroom, but

01:38:09.100 everybody's like, I don't know if I want to go to the bathroom here. And I'm like, guys,

01:38:12.280 we just ate here. You don't want to go to the bathroom here. That's a problem. So we go

01:38:18.760 in and I'm, I'm standing there and, uh, you know, taking care of some business and I'm

01:38:23.880 looking at the side of the stall and there's this little thing and I can't figure out what

01:38:28.420 it is. And then I noticed that it has an indentation, the size of a cup. And I realized

01:38:33.960 it's an actual cup holder. So if you're coming in with your beer, all right, you just stand

01:38:40.780 there and put the cup holder right next to the toilet, which is very appealing. I will

01:38:47.320 say as a, probably the only one in this room who has been in the scenario where they're

01:38:50.540 stumbling around a casino and have with a drink, uh, you are very, you are very thankful

01:38:54.660 for the place. Yes. Uh, where I just thought it should be up higher. Yes. I would agree

01:38:59.960 on the other side of the wall. That's why I go to the classy casinos. Yeah, right. You

01:39:04.040 know what I mean? The classy casinos have the drink holder in the toilet a little bit higher. 0.71

01:39:09.540 So, you know, you're in a good place. It was just like, whew. Okay. Good. I will say

01:39:13.360 that there might not be any Vegas trips for you in the future. Uh, considering what else

01:39:17.140 is happening on the wonderful world of stew this weekend, uh, liberal radio TV hike icon

01:39:22.200 Garth Bunk, uh, has an expose on you and me and, and your little transition that people

01:39:28.600 just suddenly are believing that you've gone from Mr. Hater to Mr. Lovable. Oh, you're

01:39:35.060 the nicest guy in the world getting along with everybody these days. Well, Garth Bunk has

01:39:39.300 some material that would show the true Glenn Beck. And that's on tonight. Garth Bunk. If

01:39:45.260 you haven't seen, uh, the Garth Bunk show, uh, you have really missed out. That's tonight

01:39:50.020 on the wonderful world of stew. All right. Can we go to the sports desk now where we, we

01:39:56.600 had, we've got music. Nice. Yeah. That's really intense. We're going to talk about a little

01:40:03.180 of everything all the way down to badminton because we like the birds over the net and

01:40:09.080 the birds that are in the stands. You know what I'm saying? And since we're coming off bathroom

01:40:12.400 talk, maybe we should start with, uh, with the 30 for 30 documentary on the decathlon,

01:40:17.820 uh, that just came out. ESPN has a great series of documentaries called 30 for 30. They just

01:40:23.960 launched a podcast, uh, for documentaries on that topic by the same people that are producing

01:40:28.160 them. And they tell great stories from sports history. They're really well done. Uh, Pat

01:40:32.080 and I both really love them. They're great. Um, but I, I listened to the first one, which

01:40:35.900 was about Dan and Dave. Do you remember Dan and Dave in the nineties? It was a huge

01:40:41.740 ad campaign. They were, they were, they're expected to win the gold and silver, maybe

01:40:45.620 even in for, for the United States in the Olympics in 1992 in Barcelona. So Reebok, which at the

01:40:51.260 time was not a big shoe brand. They were just kind of like not really even competitors with

01:40:54.580 Nike. Um, we're trying to raise their, uh, profile, dumped $25 million into this ad campaign

01:41:00.520 for these two guys that no one had ever heard of and kind of build a rival rivalry leading

01:41:05.880 up to the Olympics. Well, the whole story is, I mean, it's a great story because they dumped

01:41:10.800 all this money in and it really didn't work out. Um, although it may be, there are parts

01:41:16.060 of it that did in the, in the documentary really covers all the ins and outs of it, but

01:41:19.580 this, so when you're talking decathlon, you're talking Olympics, you're talking Bruce Jenner

01:41:24.460 though, right? Bruce Jenner is the guy when you're talking about this event in American

01:41:28.740 history. Uh, he is 1976, you know, he's the guy. He was on weenies boxes. Yeah. I mean,

01:41:35.480 he was, he was a household name. He was a, uh, a major brand in and of himself. Uh, I mean,

01:41:41.840 he was an American hero and I don't care. Notice the way we're even talking about this. We are

01:41:47.480 discussing Bruce Jenner as if he's dead. It was, he was a household name. Yeah. Yeah. So

01:41:53.740 the Bruce Jenner that we grew up with is dead. He is, he has been reborn as Caitlin to be able

01:42:04.840 to talk about him as a man. It has to be past tense. Right? So, but when you're talking about

01:42:12.400 him in that past tense, even if you are a person who says I'm calling them, I'm calling her Caitlin

01:42:18.700 now and you're fully on board with that, you still refer to him as Bruce when you're talking

01:42:24.980 about 1976, right? Yes, you have to. And that's what they did. Here's, uh, this is either Dan or

01:42:29.880 Dave. I'm not sure. Do you know which one? I remember eating lunch with Bruce Jenner and Bruce

01:42:34.580 kept telling me, Bruce, only thing people are going to remember is the Olympic games. And I thought to

01:42:39.760 myself, man, this guy's crazy. This guy called him Bruce, this man. Wait a minute. Are we saying

01:42:47.060 that he's in trouble for this? Well, listen, listen, so there's another clip. This is, I think

01:42:50.760 we have Dave as well, uh, talking about this, Pat. Well, it's interesting. Jackie Joyner

01:42:55.460 Kersey made the comment that I could be the next Bruce Jenner. And that was what I was striving

01:43:00.940 to do. You know, most of my career, he, he was the hero that we all needed in 1976. And he

01:43:07.940 was the golden boy. This is all accurate. Golden boy, hero. This is all accurate. That's how you

01:43:12.980 would do it, right? Yes. When you're talking, even if you're completely on board. Now here

01:43:16.520 comes ESPN. Here comes ESPN. This is how they started the podcast.

01:43:21.300 It's the story of a 1992 Reebok ad campaign. 25 years ago, this summer, unlike anything

01:43:28.080 anyone had seen before. Reebok spent some $25 million on the campaign featuring two top

01:43:35.040 decathletes, a sum equal to their entire previous year's marketing budget. Those who remember the

01:43:41.840 story, remember it as a bust, but there are many more twists and turns along the way for

01:43:46.460 Reebok, the two athletes and the sport of track and field. All right, I'm ready. One note, this

01:43:51.420 episode features references to legendary decathlete, Caitlyn Jenner. Jenner. Wait, wait, wait, what?

01:43:57.900 Legendary, there is no legendary decathlete, Caitlyn Jenner. Look it up.

01:44:03.180 Can you see? You're not going to see the name. You're not going to see it. No. First to be referred

01:44:07.100 to as Bruce in regards to her decathlon career. Okay, wait, wait, wait. In regards to her decathlon

01:44:14.140 career. She prefers to be referred to as Bruce. So they put a disclaimer at the beginning of this

01:44:22.340 podcast to tell you that they're calling him Bruce when he was Bruce. However, even when Bruce or Caitlyn

01:44:31.060 now says he wants to be referred to as Bruce, they still feel the need to tell you that it's

01:44:36.020 Caitlyn and Caitlyn was the famous decathlete from the 1970s. Unbelievable. First of all, we're

01:44:43.160 rewriting history. We're rewriting history. Caitlyn is not in the record books in U.S.

01:44:46.740 history. You're not going to find it. There is no legendary decathlete named Caitlyn Jenner.

01:44:50.560 Secondarily, if Caitlyn Jenner, if Bruce Jenner was a woman in 1976, which is what we're supposed

01:44:58.940 to believe, we should strip the medals away from Bruce Jenner because Caitlyn was performing 0.99

01:45:04.960 in the wrong division. This is absolutely false advertising by her, right? If Caitlyn Jenner 0.91

01:45:14.060 was actually Bruce at the time and was a woman, that would be against Olympic rules to compete 1.00

01:45:20.240 in that division. The truth is it was a man, of course. ESPN is ludicrous. ESPN has gone and

01:45:27.980 it's the Disney mentality. It's just gone nuts. They've just gone nuts. I mean, I can understand

01:45:34.580 like if you want to be on board and say, hey, it's Caitlyn now and I'm going to call her her

01:45:38.460 and I'm whatever, whatever she wants, we're going to do. But to treat, to change history and say

01:45:44.820 there was a legendary decathlete named Caitlyn Jenner is just ridiculous. I don't have a problem

01:45:50.140 with the disclaimer just because of all the people who take it upon themselves to say, I'm going to be

01:45:57.120 the sentinel and the guardian, you know, for Caitlyn. Yeah, I have no problem with the deal. It says,

01:46:02.660 hey, this story involves now Caitlyn Jenner who prefers to be called Bruce for this time period of

01:46:12.480 his life and then leave it at that. But what they did is they're being the guardians and basically

01:46:20.680 saying, hey, we all have to accept him as her now because that's what he prefers. But he also

01:46:28.700 prefers he she also prefers to be called him for this time period. But we're not going to listen to

01:46:34.820 that because we know better. Yeah, that's crazy. I would say they're actually saying Bruce is wrong.

01:46:39.340 Yes, they are. They are. That's how it comes off. Their bigotry is showing here. Yeah, because they're

01:46:46.060 bigotry. They are not about, oh, let's celebrate our diversity and let's celebrate how how each of us

01:46:54.400 can pay. It can make our own way and decide who we are. No, she just asked for you to call her him for

01:47:06.480 this time period. Yeah. Now, it's complex, but it's not that complex. Yeah, you're saying

01:47:13.440 she is wrong. She was always a she and never a him, no matter what he says. And Caitlyn was a 0.58

01:47:23.240 legendary athlete. Don't you ever call him him when it's a her because of his choice to be her?

01:47:32.420 Because I think you can take it as a they put the disclaimer in to push aside liberal

01:47:37.900 complaints. Yes, I agree about it. You can say that. However, the way you're right, the way

01:47:41.600 they phrase it is they're actually being critical of Bruce. But he starts with this includes

01:47:48.580 Caitlyn, you know, legendary decathlon Caitlyn Jenner. That's in violation of what he just

01:47:55.900 asked you to do. Right. Right. So what I think they're covering their butts for other

01:48:02.240 transgendered persons who don't feel the way Caitlyn Jenner does. Yeah. Aren't we supposed 1.00

01:48:07.260 to celebrate diversity? No, no, absolutely not. Not in this circumstance.

01:48:11.760 What you want to do as an individual. It exposes that as an absolute lie and exposes ESPN as

01:48:21.020 nothing but cowards, just cowards. This is not the only one, though. Have you seen the ad?

01:48:29.720 I don't even know who is running it. The end. NCAA is running it. The one. Are we talking

01:48:35.520 about the same ad where they're saying the gender thing? Yeah. The gender doesn't play 1.00

01:48:41.180 sports. Yeah. Listen to this. By the way, these are a whole bunch of different women playing 1.00

01:48:47.020 sports here. Enough. Oh, yeah, I'm over it. We shouldn't need commercials to tell you we're

01:48:58.980 powerful. No, thanks. Genders don't play sports. Athletes do. Stop. Why do we have title nine? 1.00

01:49:06.660 Right. We don't need it anymore. If there's no genders in sports. Why? Why do we have the WNBA? 1.00

01:49:12.860 Women's basketball. I mean, I would really like to suggest to the NBA that they start

01:49:24.680 to draft women. Yes. And let's just see how that goes. The NBA controls the WNBA. They 1.00

01:49:31.400 subsidize it. Close it. Close the doors. Or you know what? Start letting men being drafted 1.00

01:49:38.480 into the WNBA. Into the WNBA. There'd be no W's in the WNBA if that was the case. 1.00

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01:51:54.260 There's a lot to cover on Monday when we come back. I want to get to the Derek Carr story because

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01:52:07.060 they're leaving Oakland to go to Vegas, it's going to save him eight and a half million dollars in

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The Glenn Beck Program - July 07, 2017

7⧸7⧸17 - Days of the 'one-size-fits-all' are over (Bill O'Reilly and Mike Grygiel Join Glenn)

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