The Glenn Beck Program - 8⧸28⧸17 - Politicizing the storm (Joe Bastardi of Weatherbell.com joins the program)

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00:00:08.240 It's Pat and Stu for Glenn on the Glenn Beck Program.

00:00:11.180 Glenn came down with a 24-hour leprosy bug, something, she'll be back tomorrow.

00:00:17.540 Wow, Houston and South Texas just suffering through an incredible catastrophe right now.

00:00:23.580 And apparently, there's a lot more rain on the way.

00:00:27.520 Mercury One is already there, helping to feed people, trying to rescue people.

00:00:33.980 Got boats in the area, got food in the area, fresh water.

00:00:38.260 We'll start with the hurricane and all of its fallout right now.

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00:01:08.060 This is just horrific to look at from afar.

00:01:14.800 Can you imagine what it's like to be in the midst of this?

00:01:18.200 I moved to Houston in 2001.

00:01:24.760 I think it was a week.

00:01:26.500 The week of Tropical Storm Allison, which dumped an unbelievable amount of water.

00:01:33.660 And there was really severe flooding and 24 or 26 people died from it.

00:01:38.120 It flooded the downtown underground system that goes through the tunnel system where there's shops and restaurants and all that, like a lot of major cities have.

00:01:50.040 And many people died in there.

00:01:53.260 Others died at the medical center, drowned in their cars.

00:01:57.620 And already, we've lost five people in this, too, in the Houston flooding from Hurricane Harvey.

00:02:04.640 And it's just, this rain event is apparently much worse already than Allison was.

00:02:11.980 And Allison was horrific for Houston.

00:02:15.380 I remember going, looking for a home.

00:02:18.260 My wife flew into town because I was already there with the job.

00:02:21.460 And we were looking for a house in various areas.

00:02:26.980 And when you walked into the homes in the north part of town, like up near the woodlands, Conroe, Tomball, you could see the water line still on almost every house we looked at in that area.

00:02:41.820 And we're like, OK, I don't think we're going to live in this area because it floods.

00:02:47.380 And the problem with Houston is, you know, it's built on a swamp.

00:02:51.880 It's near the ocean.

00:02:53.720 So if you spit a few times, it floods.

00:02:57.660 It's just, it's, it's unbelievable.

00:03:00.000 So when they're getting 30 inches of water and 50 are expected, that's a bad prognosis for them.

00:03:08.380 And so our thoughts and prayers are with the greater Houston area right now.

00:03:13.600 It becomes so dangerous for the people, too.

00:03:15.720 I mean, let alone just all the, the water flooding the streets and everything.

00:03:19.420 I mean, people are in danger fast.

00:03:21.980 Yeah.

00:03:22.580 Yeah.

00:03:22.940 I really, this is such a strange one because it was, well, there's a storm kind of out there and, oh, you know what?

00:03:28.200 It might pick up.

00:03:29.060 It looks kind of bad.

00:03:30.340 It's horrible.

00:03:31.120 This is the worst ever in like two days.

00:03:33.240 Yeah.

00:03:33.540 That process happened.

00:03:35.660 And, and then, and a lot of times their hysteria, it doesn't pan out.

00:03:40.540 Right.

00:03:40.740 You know, it's, it's, it's much less dramatic and that lulls people into a false sense of security.

00:03:46.220 Yeah.

00:03:46.380 We've heard this before.

00:03:47.800 And we've been down this road before.

00:03:49.740 It's kind of what lulled the people of Galveston in 1900 into a false sense of security.

00:03:55.280 Because they've been through storms before, huge storms.

00:03:58.760 And so by the time people realized, and of course they didn't have the early warning like we do with satellite technology and all of that.

00:04:06.960 But by the time they realized and started getting telegraphs that, hey, this hit our area and it's coming to you.

00:04:12.120 You maybe want to leave town.

00:04:14.480 Only about half of the residents of Galveston did leave town.

00:04:18.120 And so just almost everybody who was there died in that hurricane.

00:04:24.480 So the, you know, the crying wolf every time certainly doesn't help when the wolf actually shows up at your door.

00:04:31.480 And I also kind of seems like they don't actually know.

00:04:34.200 And they don't.

00:04:34.660 Right.

00:04:34.860 Right.

00:04:35.100 I mean, I don't know if it's crying wolf or they have absolutely no idea.

00:04:38.060 If you look at the computer models now, I mean, they know where, they know where it's gone, the storm.

00:04:43.120 And then it gets to where it is now and they show where they think it might go next from all the different models.

00:04:49.980 It's as if legitimately you took a handful of spaghetti and threw it against a wall and it all stuck and it's all different directions.

00:04:55.400 They have absolutely no idea where this thing is going, except for the fact that it's going to sit there and dump dozens of inches of rain on this area that's already ridiculously flooded.

00:05:06.060 And when it first hit, it seemed like their predictions were it was going to hit Corpus Christi and areas.

00:05:12.740 I mean, you know, it was going to do a lot of damage, but it wasn't going to be the huge population center of Houston.

00:05:19.420 And now, I mean, you know, this is they're talking to someone.

00:05:23.360 I heard someone this morning say that it could wind up being the worst natural disaster in our history when it comes to actual money.

00:05:30.060 And God only knows when it comes to loss of life.

00:05:33.580 I mean, it's not going to do 10,000 dead like the Galveston storm you talked about.

00:05:38.360 But I mean, as far as damages monetarily, I mean, this is probably close to that now.

00:05:43.340 You know this stat, but what's I mean, Houston is market.

00:05:45.740 What what's what size of city?

00:05:47.480 Three now.

00:05:48.540 Third largest city.

00:05:49.560 And that's it in terms of overall surrounding area population.

00:05:54.580 That's just Houston itself.

00:05:55.700 Just Houston itself.

00:05:56.240 So the greater Houston area is right behind Dallas at number six.

00:06:01.560 Sixth largest.

00:06:03.120 So it's affecting a lot of people, like almost seven million people.

00:06:09.760 And.

00:06:11.840 But I mean, while they're used to these kinds of scares, you can't get used to this sort of flooding.

00:06:19.660 I mean, this this kind of flooding is just so overwhelming.

00:06:22.700 What do you do?

00:06:23.620 Well, they've got they've got video of people catching fish in their living room.

00:06:28.120 You seen that?

00:06:29.260 Yes.

00:06:30.260 I mean, first of all, how do you have the mindset when your house is flooded so bad that there's fish in your living room?

00:06:39.580 And say, hey, let's let's let's record this.

00:06:42.280 YouTube time.

00:06:42.940 And put it up online.

00:06:45.280 And they're laughing about it.

00:06:46.940 Oh, cheering.

00:06:48.340 I mean, that's an amazing attitude.

00:06:49.660 I don't think I'd be in that mindset.

00:06:51.740 My living room was flooded and fish were swimming in it.

00:06:55.740 No, no, I don't think so.

00:06:58.280 Probably not the the way I would be either.

00:07:00.720 No.

00:07:01.280 What is your you were you lived there for multiple years.

00:07:05.420 They had there's a controversy kind of going on of whether they should have evacuated.

00:07:10.040 Apparently, there was a big disagreement.

00:07:11.700 Yes, there was that Abbott told the people of Houston, you ought to think about getting out of here.

00:07:19.420 Yeah.

00:07:19.720 And the mayor was like, no.

00:07:21.740 And the he the city manager immediately issued a statement saying local authorities know best.

00:07:28.120 Apparently, that's not accurate, because to me, the traditional wisdom is with hurricanes and tropical storms like this is you you hunker down for a wind event unless it's a four or five.

00:07:43.160 And this wasn't for Houston.

00:07:44.380 It was in Arancis.

00:07:45.360 They had one hundred and thirty two mile an hour winds.

00:07:47.440 But you hunker down in a wind event and you flee the water because you're going to drive to.

00:07:52.640 Yeah, you're going to drown.

00:07:53.960 I mean, there's nowhere to go.

00:07:55.860 Like there was a quote from a guy with a family of with five small children.

00:08:00.760 He's like, how am I getting all these kids up on my roof safely?

00:08:04.520 I don't know.

00:08:06.160 I don't know.

00:08:06.700 But they've they've already rescued thousands of people who've been stranded in roofs and on roofs and trees.

00:08:12.600 And it's just a mind boggling event.

00:08:16.800 And, you know, I don't know if you saw the the photograph, but it was everywhere yesterday of the nursing home with the older ladies, you know, in the water.

00:08:25.600 By the time that picture was released, I believe those people had already been rescued.

00:08:29.260 But as horrific as that picture is, I mean, when you're in a house like that and that water starts coming in, it comes in fast.

00:08:35.820 Yeah.

00:08:36.440 Or the building wherever they were in.

00:08:37.940 I mean, it's not like they could.

00:08:39.680 These 80 year old women are going to flee to the roof of this building.

00:08:43.580 Yeah, it does happen fast.

00:08:45.380 I mean, the water goes up.

00:08:46.800 People think you've got hours or something.

00:08:48.700 No way.

00:08:48.960 You don't.

00:08:49.580 Not at all.

00:08:50.700 Because they in fact, they show some footage of when Channel 11 in Houston flooded.

00:08:56.260 And so some of the reporters went down and started filming because the water was just gushing in through the doors.

00:09:03.320 The doors were closed and locked and it's still just gushing in.

00:09:06.860 It must have risen six inches in a few seconds.

00:09:10.460 It was unbelievable.

00:09:12.200 So they wound up broadcasting from their second floor.

00:09:14.880 But, you know, where the TV crews broadcast is probably the least of Houston's problems right now.

00:09:24.620 Yeah, yeah.

00:09:26.080 The problem, though, is you try to evacuate a city of that size when, I mean, up until 24 hours before the thing hit Houston, they still thought it was like, well, this could be bad for another city.

00:09:36.060 And it just, you know, the way that track went, you know, it's very difficult.

00:09:40.800 I was reading some, you know, people speculating on what would have happened.

00:09:44.380 And the way the city is designed, at least according to this report, is that a lot of the flooding is designed, if the city does flood, it's designed to kind of funnel to the roadways.

00:09:54.800 And because it comes up, it goes through that process and then it's gone because it's flooding all the time.

00:10:00.540 So that means if you leave and people get stuck in the middle of it, there's a lot of cars on the road.

00:10:07.100 As we realized with Rita.

00:10:09.120 With Rita.

00:10:09.700 We fled Rita.

00:10:10.800 And a lot of people died.

00:10:11.740 And 3 million people got trapped and a lot of people died in that.

00:10:14.120 Yeah, and not from the storm as much as it was the evacuation.

00:10:17.140 So, I mean, it's not easy to do either way.

00:10:19.860 This is just, these questions are impossible.

00:10:22.140 And it's, you know, you look at this and obviously people are going to judge the government response.

00:10:27.920 I mean, so far, I mean, it seems like they've done a relatively good job.

00:10:32.700 But, I mean, this is just the beginning of this, right?

00:10:34.880 I mean, this is just starting.

00:10:36.860 Well, I think in some of the worst affected places of the metropolitan area, they've got 30 inches of rain already.

00:10:43.520 And 20 plus is really common throughout.

00:10:47.080 And then they expect 20 more inches on top of that.

00:10:50.540 They expect to get to 50 inches of rain.

00:10:53.780 Well, the annual rainfall total in Houston is 49.77 inches.

00:10:58.720 Holy crap.

00:10:59.720 A year!

00:11:01.040 They're getting that in two or three days.

00:11:03.820 Oof.

00:11:04.180 So, if you're in Houston and you want to talk about this and share what you're going through and let us know how we can help,

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00:13:47.820 You know, this situation in Houston is so bad that, you know, just outside of Houston,

00:13:55.860 a ways, in Rockport, officials said, okay, you need to get out.

00:14:00.580 You need to evacuate.

00:14:01.340 And for the people who didn't or wouldn't, they said, okay, well, if you're not going

00:14:06.660 to evacuate, then write your names on your arms so we can identify you.

00:14:11.140 Name and social security number.

00:14:12.480 We want to know who you are.

00:14:13.400 Yeah.

00:14:14.620 So for identification purposes, after they drown.

00:14:18.120 That's how serious this is and continues to be.

00:14:22.260 So you might want to pay attention to that.

00:14:24.920 I know that's hard because they kind of suggested during Rita that we evacuate.

00:14:30.000 And we sort of didn't.

00:14:31.980 I remember that.

00:14:33.340 Yeah.

00:14:33.580 I remember.

00:14:34.260 I remember the on-air thing because we even talked on the air with Glenn when you guys

00:14:39.460 were doing the national show when I was in Houston.

00:14:41.400 And he was chastising me for not fleeing.

00:14:45.000 He was.

00:14:45.640 And it was right after Katrina, right?

00:14:49.240 Yeah.

00:14:49.720 It was only a month or something, I think.

00:14:51.360 And it was everyone, because this is the same thing.

00:14:54.460 And this is why it's so difficult.

00:14:56.120 Katrina, you absolutely must leave.

00:14:58.180 Some people stayed and obviously paid the price for that.

00:15:01.300 Rita, everyone must leave.

00:15:02.560 Well, the people that left were the one that paid the price for that one.

00:15:06.040 It's so unpredictable.

00:15:06.920 I mean, it's so hard to figure out.

00:15:08.800 And that's what I was thinking about when Charlie was coming to Florida.

00:15:13.340 It was bearing down on Tampa Bay.

00:15:15.360 People evacuated Tampa Bay to Orlando.

00:15:17.820 Charlie makes a right turn south of Tampa Bay.

00:15:20.480 All the people in Orlando got affected.

00:15:22.980 I mean, it's so...

00:15:24.600 They could predict close, just not exact.

00:15:28.400 It's really hard to do.

00:15:29.880 I read a book a couple years ago.

00:15:32.480 And one of the things they talked about was the science behind how they predict these things move

00:15:36.260 and where they go.

00:15:38.240 And it's so freaking impossible.

00:15:41.040 What they're attempting to do, it's amazing they can do as much as they are capable of.

00:15:48.420 I mean, it's an incredible process.

00:15:50.860 The science is incredibly complicated.

00:15:53.940 But it's still going to be one of those things that in 100 years, 200 years, we look back and it's like,

00:15:59.920 wait a minute, these guys didn't know this were coming?

00:16:02.280 They let these storms just smash to the coast and they couldn't stop them?

00:16:05.560 Like, at some point, we're going to probably figure this out.

00:16:08.300 And we will look back at it like we look back at what happened in Galveston in 1900.

00:16:12.920 I mean, think about the world where you're just on the nice island

00:16:16.400 and this thing just crashes into you with absolutely no idea that it's coming at all.

00:16:22.600 Imagine that world.

00:16:24.040 There's no preparation.

00:16:25.460 There's no hunkering down.

00:16:26.780 There's no attempt to evacuate.

00:16:29.180 You're just in the middle of it one day and then the entire island's wiped out.

00:16:34.560 I mean, you've seen the pictures.

00:16:35.660 They've been showing them recently.

00:16:37.140 I know, Pat, you've followed this for a long time.

00:16:39.260 The entire city is gone, basically.

00:16:42.280 Yeah.

00:16:42.620 And what did they do afterwards?

00:16:44.040 They lifted the whole city.

00:16:46.480 Yeah, they raised the city 17 feet.

00:16:50.160 Can you imagine?

00:16:51.980 In 19, you know, I mean, they started, I think, they built the seawall

00:16:57.740 and then they decided that's not enough.

00:16:59.860 We're going to raise the city too.

00:17:01.400 So I can't remember when construction began on that.

00:17:04.140 But can you imagine what a Herculean task that is in 1900, 1905, 1906?

00:17:10.320 That's tough.

00:17:12.160 But they did it because they knew they had to.

00:17:15.280 Too bad New Orleans didn't take precautions like that.

00:17:19.080 You know, they're in that same precarious situation.

00:17:22.160 And maybe even worse because of the lake.

00:17:24.220 So Galveston proved it can be done.

00:17:32.320 Just a lot of people ignored that.

00:17:34.840 Just ignored that.

00:17:36.400 Kind of interesting over the weekend, as we have this major catastrophic human tragedy going on.

00:17:43.820 MSNBC host, Stephanie Ruhle, still trying to make it something political.

00:17:50.200 Still trying to get up in people's faces about illegal immigration.

00:17:55.540 Listen to her talking to one of the reporters who's in Houston, in the flooding, talking about what's going on.

00:18:02.220 And where does she take it?

00:18:03.380 So if you're in your car and you're listening to us right now on satellite radio and you're not sure where you're going, you're just evacuating, get out the Airbnb app.

00:18:12.580 They're opening up places for people to stay for free.

00:18:15.820 Can I ask you, you might not know the answer, but Texas, especially southern Texas, has quite a few undocumented immigrants.

00:18:22.200 Are they able to go to any of these centers that you're being directed to by city officials?

00:18:27.660 Not only is it wide open, nobody checks on any of that.

00:18:31.920 Thank you.

00:18:33.120 Thank you.

00:18:34.260 Yeah.

00:18:34.820 They're like, excuse me, you cannot let me drown outside.

00:18:38.220 That is so ridiculous.

00:18:40.520 Let me ask you a question, Stephanie.

00:18:43.020 Are illegal aliens human?

00:18:44.980 Then yes, they get to go to the vol.

00:18:47.440 Actually, you don't have to be human at all.

00:18:49.220 And even the pets can.

00:18:49.840 The pets, that's one of the big things they've been showing on social media are all the pets that are being rescued.

00:18:54.560 I mean, no, we're not monsters.

00:18:56.220 I know this is stunning.

00:18:57.860 People in Texas are not monsters that want everyone else to die.

00:19:01.400 But that wasn't enough for her because she was talking to Governor Greg Abbott just a few minutes later.

00:19:06.840 On a pathway out of the storm.

00:19:08.560 How about risk of deportation for those undocumented immigrants that could be in the way of the storm's path?

00:19:14.260 Okay, so now she's heard they can come to the shelter, but I'm sure you mean, mean Texans are going to deport them once you find out that they're not legal citizens.

00:19:24.020 Are they in the clear to go to some of these evacuation centers?

00:19:27.800 Do they have to show ID?

00:19:29.680 Because my understanding from what I saw from the Border Patrol instructions yesterday, that will not be an issue.

00:19:35.080 What everyone is focused on right now is ensuring that we do all we can to protect life.

00:19:41.240 We all have a high regard for life.

00:19:43.120 We want to ensure the safety of all lives, and we're prepared to take all measures to do so.

00:19:47.880 Greg Abbott's great.

00:19:49.000 I mean, you handled that question a lot better than I would have.

00:19:52.100 Years would have had many swears in the middle of it, I think.

00:19:56.080 Potentially, yes.

00:19:57.300 Throwing something at the camera.

00:19:59.440 There could have been some incidents there.

00:20:00.900 Yeah, it could have been.

00:20:01.740 Understandable in that spot.

00:20:03.520 Oh, man, you know.

00:20:05.100 Can we not take it political when we're right in the middle of the catastrophe?

00:20:09.720 How about that, MSNBC?

00:20:17.080 You're listening to the Glenn Beck Program.

00:20:21.520 Mercury.

00:20:25.240 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:20:28.460 Pat Stu, Jeffy for Glenn on the Glenn Beck Program.

00:20:30.980 He's under the weather today.

00:20:32.660 Should be back tomorrow.

00:20:34.340 Mercury One is working with six disaster partners.

00:20:38.760 They've been preparing to deploy on this since last week, so they've been ready, and they're already there on the scene.

00:20:46.120 Operation Barbecue is there.

00:20:47.920 Now, it's interesting.

00:20:48.720 Obviously, they're at the point now where they haven't fully deployed.

00:20:52.720 They're all staging around the state, all these organizations.

00:20:55.100 I mean, if Operation Barbecue needs a place to stage, we are only a few hours away from the disaster area.

00:21:01.260 Very true.

00:21:01.760 And they can come stage their barbecue facilities right here in the parking lot.

00:21:06.360 You are a genius.

00:21:07.860 I'm just, look, we are all about helping, as everyone knows.

00:21:11.260 And I think that's a good way to help.

00:21:12.860 No question.

00:21:13.360 So, they're scouting locations where they can set up because, obviously, they don't want to be underwater in a few minutes.

00:21:21.000 They'll have the capacity to feed 15,000 to 20,000 meals a day.

00:21:25.960 That is, that's awesome.

00:21:29.560 Team Rubicon is going to be there staging all around Texas to send in recon teams to assess the situation and to deploy search and rescue boats.

00:21:38.180 But, City Impact is staging supplies for deployment.

00:21:44.280 They've already released an initial $100,000 to fund initial field operations and $2 million worth of gifts in kind in anticipation of shipments.

00:21:54.200 Somebody cares.

00:21:56.180 It's a cooking team.

00:21:58.280 They've already arrived on the scene.

00:22:00.580 Gleaning for the world.

00:22:01.940 Dispatched a four-tractor trailer, loads of water, and 16 loads of blankets.

00:22:07.220 So, and the Provisions Project, providing monetary and volunteer support for search and rescue operations.

00:22:14.080 So, if you'd like to help out, if you'd like to donate, 100% of the proceeds go to the Houston Relief Fund.

00:22:23.520 And you can go to mercuryone.org in order to donate.

00:22:28.000 Okay.

00:22:29.200 Because, because we do the operational costs with other events during the course of the year, all of your money goes where you intended it to be.

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00:22:46.620 This is a really catastrophic event.

00:22:51.060 And, as we were just playing a few minutes ago for you, some people already trying to turn it political.

00:22:58.360 I mean, how do you, how do you try to make this about deportation and illegal aliens when you're talking to people who are right in the middle of this flooding and trying to save lives?

00:23:11.020 Not caring whether they're black, white, red, or brown.

00:23:14.780 Nobody cares.

00:23:15.520 Yeah, certainly not.

00:23:17.800 I've seen multiple examples of this already, not just with illegal immigrants.

00:23:21.740 First of all, I saw someone talking about how, well, did you know that Donald Trump's budget cut funding by $10 million or $20 million for the NOAA?

00:23:36.400 Which, of course, deals with hurricanes all the time.

00:23:38.860 And it's like, and now this could cost billions of dollars in damage.

00:23:41.440 So, if they had the extra, you know, $100 million, they would be, they would have, what, pushed the hurricane back out to sea?

00:23:50.040 What would exactly have happened?

00:23:51.620 They all knew the hurricane was coming.

00:23:54.100 It had nothing to do with what they were.

00:23:56.280 They didn't, like, see it.

00:23:57.600 They didn't, I mean, we all know the hurricane was coming.

00:24:01.160 You just don't know how it's going to react.

00:24:03.340 And if they had an extra little bit of cash, which probably hasn't even been implemented, these cuts,

00:24:07.800 I don't think there would have been a difference there.

00:24:10.540 Another one was people saying, like, here's the list of the, whatever, 15, 20 Republicans in Texas who voted against Hurricane Sandy relief.

00:24:20.160 Right, because they wanted people to die.

00:24:21.600 Because they wanted people to die.

00:24:22.780 Yeah.

00:24:23.360 And now we're going to punish those people in Texas because their representatives voted against the funding package,

00:24:29.980 which, of course, there was never a vote against funding the relief.

00:24:33.840 It was a vote.

00:24:34.880 There were votes against the way it was done, how much money was going to different areas.

00:24:38.980 I mean, we are a country that has turned the corner on this.

00:24:44.520 And I don't know that it's necessarily a positive in every circumstance,

00:24:48.540 but there was a time in which we did not have the federal government to come in for local disaster relief.

00:24:53.600 That was not part of their job.

00:24:55.160 Yeah.

00:24:55.460 You know, and it was for, I would say, most of our history.

00:24:58.680 Yeah.

00:24:58.980 And that did change.

00:25:00.080 And now, really, we just assume FEMA's going to cover it every time.

00:25:05.600 So that is kind of where we are now.

00:25:08.560 And even most Republicans don't even fight that.

00:25:12.980 Yeah.

00:25:13.180 They just accept it now.

00:25:14.460 And really, that started under Bush, I think, right, with Katrina.

00:25:18.980 Maybe a little before that.

00:25:21.060 But it didn't used to be that everybody was saying, like you mentioned, where's FEMA?

00:25:26.000 The minute something happened, because that's not what they did.

00:25:28.700 Yeah.

00:25:29.020 That wasn't, they weren't the first responders.

00:25:31.540 There's stories in our history where they turned people away.

00:25:34.000 The federal government would try to show up and help, and they'd be like, get out of here.

00:25:38.440 This is our problem.

00:25:39.620 Get out.

00:25:40.340 And that is not the way we are anymore, obviously.

00:25:42.040 No, it's tough to get those days back.

00:25:43.280 Well, and Bush is, I think, you're right, Pat, in that, you know, there are certainly aspects of it that happened before Bush.

00:25:49.240 But Bush really put the, it made it into a caricature, because it really, arguably, ruined his presidency.

00:25:55.760 When you talk about it, just again, we're doing a break here about the way people are talking about politics of a disaster.

00:26:01.400 So, you know, I recognize that that's kind of a bizarre thing to talk about today.

00:26:04.500 But that was really, when it became politicized, was that.

00:26:06.620 Because the left and the media used Katrina, not as a tragedy where we all come together, but a way to say George Bush was incompetent.

00:26:15.080 It really became that.

00:26:16.700 Instead of a tragedy, a large human tragedy, it was just, this guy we don't like, he's really bad at what he's doing.

00:26:23.740 And so they used that as a bludgeon on him.

00:26:26.060 And it's now become to the point where I think every person who's a politician now seems like, I can't do enough, I can't throw enough money, I can't throw enough resources at everything that happens.

00:26:37.800 Because if one of these things happen, it's going to be my butt.

00:26:41.340 And, of course, this is how politicians think.

00:26:43.560 It's pathetic, but it's how they think, many of them.

00:26:47.360 And so at this point, like, this is a legitimate, it's shaping up to be a Katrina-sized disaster.

00:26:54.520 It's that bad.

00:26:55.520 Oh, it's not worse, yeah.

00:26:56.060 It was Katrina and Puffy Combs, right, or Sean P. Diddy, or whatever he is.

00:27:01.260 Wasn't it him that said George Bush doesn't?

00:27:03.260 No, I believe it was Kanye.

00:27:03.500 It was Kanye West that announced, and it was because of Katrina, George Bush doesn't like black people.

00:27:10.300 And Mike Myers, the poor guy, was standing next to him.

00:27:14.520 What was that event?

00:27:17.120 I think it was the big Katrina fundraiser afterwards where they did, it was one of those where they put it on every network, and they had all the celebrities come out.

00:27:24.280 And then George Bush doesn't care about black people.

00:27:26.740 Yeah, that's not in the prompter, Kanye.

00:27:29.180 And Austin Powers is standing next to him with his face, and like, I don't know what to do.

00:27:34.120 It was such a weird moment.

00:27:36.120 But you know, that's actually where one of the, that was one of the starts for Van Jones in the public eye.

00:27:42.580 Because he was, he operated an organization at the time that started selling Bush hates black people t-shirts.

00:27:52.240 I think it was, it was some phrase that meant that, that Bush doesn't care about black people.

00:27:57.180 And he started selling the t-shirts, and that's what funded a good chunk of the early part of his organization.

00:28:02.560 Later on, obviously, to rise to the heights of the White House, just a few years later.

00:28:07.060 Which is really incredible.

00:28:08.720 I mean, you know, this is going to be ugly.

00:28:11.600 And it's going to be ugly, not only in the fact of it being a natural disaster, but what people will say, what people will do.

00:28:17.860 I mean, the Keith Olbermann thing.

00:28:19.080 Did you guys see the Keith Olbermann thing?

00:28:20.580 No.

00:28:21.760 Who, why would you?

00:28:22.960 It's Keith Olbermann.

00:28:24.100 Right.

00:28:24.340 Which is a really good point.

00:28:25.320 I don't even know where to find Keith anymore.

00:28:27.120 And I don't either.

00:28:27.780 If I wanted to look.

00:28:28.540 He's on Twitter.

00:28:29.480 Okay.

00:28:29.840 And so, Betsy DeVos, the education secretary, tweeted something like, hey, we're in the middle of helping all the local schools and blah, blah.

00:28:38.140 Generic message of like, just so you know, here's what we're doing to help schools.

00:28:42.540 And he tweeted back like, you will do more damage than this hurricane, than the hurricane could ever do to these schools at mother effer.

00:28:52.740 What?

00:28:53.640 What?

00:28:54.000 What has she done?

00:28:56.200 She would be.

00:28:56.920 Wow.

00:28:57.420 She believes that education should be better and more controlled by the individual.

00:29:02.200 And that means in the middle of a hurricane, you start calling her a mother effer publicly.

00:29:07.180 This guy is completely insane at this point.

00:29:09.840 He has given up attempting to appear sane.

00:29:13.000 He's just abandoned the process.

00:29:15.020 Like every day we wake up and we have crazy thoughts.

00:29:17.680 Everybody has a crazy thought on their head every once in a while.

00:29:20.020 You know what?

00:29:20.580 I should order 14 20 piece McNuggets today.

00:29:23.460 And you just stop yourself because we live in a society.

00:29:26.240 We're supposed to all have standards.

00:29:28.680 And Keith Olbermann has given up on the process.

00:29:31.200 He is the mental equivalent of ordering 20 piece McNuggets over and over and over again and going through the drive through.

00:29:39.120 That's where he's landed.

00:29:40.740 I mean, in some ways it's sad.

00:29:42.480 He was never smart before.

00:29:44.200 And man, it has gone downhill.

00:29:46.160 He has given up on society.

00:29:48.220 That makes him the perfect match again, though, for ESPN.

00:29:51.400 He should probably go back.

00:29:52.280 Yes, it does.

00:29:52.940 He should probably go back.

00:29:53.820 They're kind of on the same wavelength now.

00:29:56.200 And they can't put him on TV.

00:29:57.520 I think he'd just show up in an open robe.

00:29:59.960 Like, I don't think anymore he can.

00:30:02.800 Like, I just got to keep him.

00:30:05.120 Find him a nice, quiet place, America.

00:30:08.100 Find Keith Olbermann a nice, quiet place where he can relax.

00:30:11.620 He can live his life.

00:30:13.360 There may be some birds fly by occasionally.

00:30:15.360 He gets a nice tray of cafeteria food.

00:30:17.980 Let's just let, I mean, it's time.

00:30:20.480 The poor man needs a quiet place.

00:30:22.820 And this is what we can't have.

00:30:24.440 We've got to at least be able to come together as Americans and take care of a catastrophe like this, right?

00:30:31.640 Without worrying about who's on the left, who's on the right, what's your political stance.

00:30:35.560 I don't care.

00:30:36.320 Let's save you and try to make life a little bit better for you right now.

00:30:40.180 We are seeing some of that, at least with the people on the ground, right?

00:30:43.340 We are.

00:30:43.700 The everyday people are doing that, are coming together and helping people.

00:30:47.560 We saw footage of people bringing out their boats all day yesterday, rescuing people.

00:30:51.940 They weren't, that wasn't FEMA.

00:30:53.420 No.

00:30:53.900 That wasn't the mayor.

00:30:55.100 That wasn't the governor.

00:30:56.380 That was everyday people saying, these people need help.

00:30:59.300 I'm helping.

00:31:00.320 We still have three or four more days of rain.

00:31:03.540 Right.

00:31:03.940 And we're already jumping to the politics?

00:31:05.780 I mean, that is disturbing.

00:31:07.460 That is not the way this is supposed to work.

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00:32:35.820 Pat and Stu for Glenn on the Glenn Beck Program.

00:32:38.540 Man, I hate seeing this happen to this city that I love so much.

00:32:44.100 I love Houston.

00:32:45.080 I love the people, love the city.

00:32:48.720 It's just, it's so underrated.

00:32:51.800 And it gets such a bad rap from other parts of Texas, like Dallas, for instance.

00:32:57.440 You love Houston.

00:32:58.720 You defend it all the time.

00:33:00.220 I do love Houston.

00:33:00.540 I love it.

00:33:00.940 It gets to the point at times where it's sickening.

00:33:04.080 Because you are potentially, you're almost like the tourism bureau.

00:33:07.820 Yes, I'm one of its biggest defenders.

00:33:10.020 But once you get a tour from Pat Gray, then you're turned.

00:33:12.760 It's true.

00:33:13.440 Happened to Jeffy.

00:33:14.140 Yeah.

00:33:14.660 I mean, we went to downtown Houston.

00:33:16.340 I got the Pat Gray tour.

00:33:17.780 And now, I mean, I love Houston.

00:33:19.300 Yeah, it's pretty awesome.

00:33:20.020 They did a great job with the Super Bowl, too.

00:33:21.320 I mean, they did it, that was last year.

00:33:23.040 Yeah, you actually went.

00:33:23.560 Yeah, and it was, I mean, it was a fun city to do the Super Bowl.

00:33:26.380 I mean, it was a...

00:33:27.360 We were there for the Final Four.

00:33:28.960 Yeah.

00:33:29.440 Yeah.

00:33:29.940 It was a great time.

00:33:30.880 I mean, it is an underrated city.

00:33:33.340 I think people think of it as like, it's just, you're going to go down there and there's

00:33:35.980 those oil rigs every five feet, and that is not what it is.

00:33:40.160 That's because of these people here in Dallas.

00:33:42.960 In part, yes.

00:33:44.500 Dallas has a superiority complex.

00:33:49.360 It's interesting.

00:33:50.020 I will say, being in this state, the hurricane was bearing down on the coast and doing all

00:33:57.040 sorts of damage.

00:33:57.840 And my kids had outdoor swimming lessons in the same state at that time.

00:34:03.260 The outdoor swimming lessons.

00:34:05.680 We felt nothing here.

00:34:07.000 Did you get any panic calls?

00:34:08.180 I mean, you've been in Texas for a long time.

00:34:09.800 But I got the panicked calls from my relatives, like, oh my gosh, I see this is happening.

00:34:12.920 I'm like, do you realize how far that is away from us?

00:34:15.960 Yeah, it's not Florida.

00:34:16.900 It's not even remotely close to us.

00:34:19.360 We posted a map, I tweeted a map last year of a time, a map of Texas, and they show all

00:34:25.260 the temperatures, you know, like, all around the city, in different cities around the state.

00:34:28.580 And at the same time, in the same state, in one place it was 91 degrees, in another

00:34:34.780 place it was 7 degrees.

00:34:37.100 In the same state.

00:34:39.440 That's amazing.

00:34:40.500 That is how big Texas is, man.

00:34:42.880 And, you know, I mean, how long would it take to drive?

00:34:45.620 I mean, Houston is, what, four hours, four and a half hours from here?

00:34:49.560 Corpus Christi, even further, right?

00:34:51.800 I mean, these things are, you know, Dallas, you think of, Houston, I know, growing up in

00:34:57.320 the Northeast, cities are close to each other.

00:34:59.740 Like, you drive, you constantly are going on day trips to other cities because they're

00:35:03.640 an hour and a half away or whatever.

00:35:05.460 That is not the case in Texas.

00:35:07.800 And I remember thinking, you know, as a sports fan, it was really my only, I didn't know

00:35:12.340 anything about Texas.

00:35:13.440 And, like, you'd look at it and you'd be like, why is it, you know, 45 degrees for

00:35:17.960 the Cowboys game, yet, you know, the Oilers, and it's like, you know, 90.

00:35:23.020 Like, how is this happening?

00:35:24.260 It's just, that is the state.

00:35:25.740 Yeah.

00:35:26.040 That is the way it works here.

00:35:27.780 So, I mean, thankfully we're out of the path of this.

00:35:30.420 But, man, you know, there are so many people affected.

00:35:33.240 The state is, the city is so big.

00:35:35.140 Houston, not to mention, take it from the human cost and the cost to the local economy.

00:35:42.340 It's also one of the most, one of the reasons our economy doesn't collapse.

00:35:47.220 Houston and energy in that area is so vital to our national survival.

00:35:52.340 That's for sure.

00:35:52.960 That, you know, this is scary what's going on down there.

00:35:55.720 Refineries are closing.

00:35:56.880 Yeah.

00:35:57.120 And that's going to be a problem for oil prices, probably.

00:35:59.900 For the price of gas, I assume it's probably going to go up, at least some, because of this.

00:36:05.580 They've always, already said it will.

00:36:07.480 Yeah.

00:36:07.840 Yeah.

00:36:08.060 And that usually happens pretty quickly.

00:36:10.100 And then coming back down a little more slowly.

00:36:14.060 But also there's some other things that happened over the weekend.

00:36:17.880 For instance, Donald Trump did pardon Sheriff Arpaio.

00:36:22.840 And because I haven't been following the saga of Sheriff Arpaio, has he even had the trial yet?

00:36:31.580 Has there been, I mean, I'm really unsure.

00:36:35.560 I feel like he has.

00:36:35.580 I feel like he has.

00:36:36.140 Criminal contempt.

00:36:36.840 Yeah.

00:36:37.560 Yeah.

00:36:38.040 But it's interesting because I always look at the presidential pardon as the least constitutional

00:36:45.580 part of the Constitution.

00:36:47.540 It's such a weird thing.

00:36:49.400 It doesn't seem to really fit the rest of the Constitution.

00:36:52.580 But it's in there.

00:36:55.400 So it's constitutional.

00:36:57.720 I mean, he really gets kind of free reign to do whatever the hell he wants with it.

00:37:00.640 Yeah.

00:37:00.760 You may not like it.

00:37:01.700 Yeah.

00:37:01.960 I mean, I get the way about it.

00:37:02.660 And we haven't liked a lot of things presidents have done as far as pardons are concerned.

00:37:06.560 But there's, you know, he's got every right to do it.

00:37:11.280 888-727-BECK.

00:37:13.280 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:37:19.420 Mercury.

00:37:19.780 Mercury.

00:37:22.580 Of course, there's a huge disaster going on right in front of our eyes in South Texas

00:37:38.000 and in Houston and Rockport, Rancis, all along the coast there, Corpus Christi.

00:37:44.720 So we've got that to discuss and want to hear from you on how best we can help.

00:37:50.100 If you're in that area, 888-727-BECK is our phone number.

00:37:54.160 Also, sometime during the course of the day, we want to talk about this little girl in first grade

00:38:00.560 that was sent to the principal's office for a pronoun mishap.

00:38:10.120 She's just unbelievable.

00:38:13.760 It's just an unbelievable story.

00:38:15.260 We'll share that with you and much more to discuss.

00:38:20.100 We'll get to it right now.

00:38:21.400 I will make a stand.

00:38:24.940 I will raise my voice.

00:38:27.220 I will hold your hand.

00:38:29.620 Because we are one.

00:38:31.420 I will be my drum.

00:38:33.680 I have made my choice.

00:38:35.920 We will overcome.

00:38:38.200 Because we are one.

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00:38:48.860 Pat and Stu for Glenn on the Glenn Beck Program.

00:38:50.920 He has resigned his position to go sell facial cream.

00:38:57.480 And I guess he's been plotting this for a long time without even his wife's knowledge.

00:39:04.440 Wow.

00:39:04.840 Even Tanya didn't know.

00:39:07.220 Is this the thing that came out in an interview when the interviewer went off script?

00:39:12.800 Yes.

00:39:13.060 Yes.

00:39:13.440 Okay.

00:39:13.800 I saw that.

00:39:14.480 The interviewer went off script and asked Glenn about what's coming in his life.

00:39:20.400 And he happened to mention that he's going to start selling facial cream.

00:39:23.900 Wow.

00:39:24.160 He didn't want to.

00:39:24.840 Because it went off script, he was intimidated.

00:39:27.560 And people don't realize that most interviews are done with scripts.

00:39:32.000 Yeah, right.

00:39:32.460 There's a scripted amount of questions and answers.

00:39:35.120 And people just reply to them as they go.

00:39:37.540 And when you go off script, usually people are going to panic and just blurt out their

00:39:41.100 details of their facial cream business.

00:39:42.500 And that's what happened here.

00:39:43.400 There's nothing the interviewee can do about it once the interviewer has gone off script.

00:39:48.200 I mean, you've got to tell the truth then.

00:39:49.460 Yeah, that's the time.

00:39:50.260 You've got to tell them.

00:39:51.240 And I guess his facial cream business is incredibly successful.

00:39:55.480 Incredibly successful.

00:39:56.340 Well, it's an incredible product.

00:39:57.500 And it's joining a lot of other big celebrities that have done this as well.

00:40:01.120 Right, the woman from, what's her face, from Sell or Flop or Flip or Fleet.

00:40:07.460 That thing.

00:40:08.160 Whatever it is.

00:40:08.900 And I will say, at any moment, I expect to hear that Donald Trump is leaving the White

00:40:14.120 House to sell facial cream.

00:40:16.500 Is he on this too?

00:40:17.320 I would think so.

00:40:18.420 I would think so.

00:40:19.060 How do you think he looks so young?

00:40:21.040 I hope nobody goes off script.

00:40:23.840 I'll tell you that.

00:40:25.160 It could happen at any moment.

00:40:27.320 I'm very terrified about it.

00:40:28.480 We're going off script now by talking about kind of a weird thing that's happening now

00:40:34.560 in Houston with, there's an indestructible insect in this state.

00:40:39.840 Yes.

00:40:40.820 Cannot be killed.

00:40:42.420 And apparently there are floating mounds of fire ants.

00:40:45.880 I will have the creepy crawlies all day after reading the story.

00:40:49.380 But it's true.

00:40:50.160 There are floating fire ant colonies in Houston.

00:40:55.640 Now, fire ants are, it's like the devil's dandruff.

00:41:00.620 Like, it is, they are the worst things that has ever appeared in the world.

00:41:08.180 They are borderline indestructible.

00:41:10.920 I got bit by one like two weeks ago and still itchy all over because of it.

00:41:17.080 Even thinking about it right now, I'm getting the creepy crawlies.

00:41:19.740 They are awful.

00:41:22.220 They are everywhere.

00:41:23.220 You can't stop them.

00:41:25.620 I spend half of my time out in my backyard with various different crazy poisons that I'm sprinkling all over.

00:41:33.720 It will probably at some time kill my dog or something else.

00:41:36.840 But I just hate these things.

00:41:38.580 I am like genocide level dictator against fire ants.

00:41:42.860 I am, I'm like Idi Amin.

00:41:45.280 I'm in the middle of like, I am the worst humanity has ever produced when it comes to these fire ants.

00:41:51.660 I just hate them.

00:41:52.700 They really are terrible.

00:41:53.840 And they're extremely hard to kill.

00:41:56.300 Right.

00:41:56.660 And so you'd think when the entire city's under a couple feet of water.

00:42:00.880 It would kill them.

00:42:01.440 It would kill them.

00:42:02.300 At least this batch of them.

00:42:04.000 No.

00:42:04.520 They have somehow, and there's pictures of them.

00:42:06.980 Yeah, the floating islands.

00:42:08.860 They've created islands and are floating through the streets.

00:42:13.280 Millions of fire ants on top of each other crawling and, ah!

00:42:18.520 The pictures are horrific.

00:42:20.940 And if you were to feel like, I mean, this happened to my daughter.

00:42:24.000 We were at church, this is a couple years ago.

00:42:26.060 She was like maybe two, maybe even one at this point.

00:42:29.740 And as you walk to the car, there's a strip of grass on the side of where our church is.

00:42:35.240 And, you know, your kid will run away and be silly and, you know, decide to do what they do.

00:42:41.000 So she ran away into the grass.

00:42:42.440 What's the big deal?

00:42:43.140 No big deal, right?

00:42:44.640 And she walked up to this tree and she put her back to the tree.

00:42:47.840 And we said, Ainsley, come here, come back.

00:42:49.840 And she just started laughing.

00:42:52.060 Not listening.

00:42:53.340 And I said, come on, Ainsley, let's go, let's go.

00:42:55.380 And then she just stood there and she just looked at us and stopped and went dead silent for about five seconds.

00:42:59.740 And then just started bawling.

00:43:01.960 And we're like, what is going on?

00:43:03.420 At first it was just like, what is wrong with her?

00:43:05.820 And she's standing in the same place.

00:43:07.380 She's not moving or anything.

00:43:08.640 Yeah, she's frozen.

00:43:08.880 She's just frozen in fear.

00:43:11.880 And she just starts crying like crazy.

00:43:14.280 My wife runs over and I'm coming over and we look at her legs and they are just covered in fire ants.

00:43:22.960 She was standing in a mound of them.

00:43:25.920 The entire field, she walked over and stopped in a mound of fire ants.

00:43:30.940 So she's covered up to her knees.

00:43:33.700 You know, it's dusting these things off.

00:43:35.560 Her legs for the next three weeks were just these red welts everywhere.

00:43:42.320 These things are, they are terrorists.

00:43:46.280 And they hurt.

00:43:47.600 I mean, it hurts.

00:43:48.540 It hurts and then it itches for weeks afterwards.

00:43:51.140 They are horrible.

00:43:52.420 And it's no surprise of all the things that are going to make it through this freaking disaster.

00:43:57.260 It's going to be fire ants.

00:44:00.400 Fire ants and cockroaches are pretty much indestructible.

00:44:04.860 You know, there's an idea.

00:44:06.320 Jeffy had an idea that maybe that's what we drop on North Korea.

00:44:09.860 Thank you.

00:44:10.280 Drop floating mounds of fire ants.

00:44:11.960 Floating mounds of fire ants on North Korea.

00:44:13.800 I'll take care of the problem.

00:44:15.060 Good day.

00:44:16.280 It's actually not a bad idea.

00:44:17.900 They were talking about when North Korea was firing, they were threatening to fire the missiles at Guam.

00:44:23.960 That Guam apparently has had an issue with these snakes.

00:44:27.680 And apparently there's an invasive species of snakes on Guam where it's like to the issue of like there's so many.

00:44:36.040 It's like a hundred times the amount of people there are these crazy snakes.

00:44:40.140 And like thousands of them are everywhere.

00:44:42.320 Apparently that was the picture painted at least.

00:44:44.060 And the only way they've come up with to control the snake population is to airdrop poisoned mouse carcasses all over the island.

00:44:54.520 Can you imagine a plane flying over your island paradise and they're just dropping dead poison mice all over the place?

00:45:01.840 But then the snakes eat them and that's the only way they can control the population.

00:45:06.540 I mean, I think there is a legitimate and I think we could do it pretty.

00:45:10.080 They, I mean, first of all, you drop them from, say, 75,000 feet, you know, you just go all the way up there.

00:45:15.980 They can't be able to detect it.

00:45:17.460 And these fire ants are going to live through that fall.

00:45:19.540 I promise you.

00:45:20.420 They're going to live.

00:45:21.120 No question.

00:45:21.440 They're going to breed half the eight families until they hit the ground.

00:45:25.920 They're going to double in population by the time they hit the ground.

00:45:28.400 It's true.

00:45:29.240 I think this is a good approach to North Korea, who, by the way, fired another missile, I guess.

00:45:33.060 And also they're now threatening nuclear tests in the middle of all this.

00:45:37.120 So Donald Trump has his plate pretty, pretty full right now.

00:45:40.900 No kidding.

00:45:41.340 I mean, this is, you know, as much as people are critical of the president, not only this one, but the last one and every every one of them.

00:45:51.500 You realize this is not an easy job, man.

00:45:55.220 I mean, to deal with a all the regular things you're dealing with on a normal basis with potential nuclear tests going on from an arch enemy at the same time.

00:46:04.000 You've got a hurricane, you know, flooding one of the biggest economic centers in our country.

00:46:10.700 It is not an easy gig.

00:46:12.780 It really is not.

00:46:14.800 No, but fortunately, he's not a politician.

00:46:17.120 There you go.

00:46:17.560 So he's totally equipped to do all this at the same time, totally equipped.

00:46:22.520 And I don't know, to deal with this, they're talking nine trillion gallons.

00:46:27.460 Now, it's been up now, right?

00:46:28.680 Yeah, it's been up to 11.

00:46:30.260 11 trillion gallons of water have been dumped on Houston.

00:46:33.420 I mean, 11 trillion gallons.

00:46:35.840 They did a stat.

00:46:36.700 If it was nine trillion gallons, if it was a two mile square area and you put nine trillion gallons into it, it would be two miles high.

00:46:46.620 Wow.

00:46:47.720 That is a lot of water.

00:46:50.540 And, you know, for a city that's already prone to floods to deal with something like that, it's incomprehensible.

00:46:56.580 It's an incomprehensible scale.

00:46:58.520 There's no way to deal with it.

00:46:59.740 I mean, you could see the looks on the faces of these people.

00:47:02.240 They know it's I mean, it's they say it's a one in a 500 year flood.

00:47:05.140 These things do happen.

00:47:06.540 Hurricanes have wiped out this area before.

00:47:08.860 You know, it's not, you know, completely unprecedented, but the scale of it and the idea that what we have done as a society is chosen to live close to water because it's really nice.

00:47:20.000 So we've built a lot and and also shipping.

00:47:22.540 So you have, you know, people who want to live near the water and also huge shipping ports and businesses that need to be near the water.

00:47:30.840 And because we've built up such huge structures that close to the water, we get punished for that, particularly financially, but also now with my mother nature centers, you know, with a loss of life.

00:47:43.680 Yeah.

00:47:43.840 I mean, this is going to get really ugly, I think, before the end of this.

00:47:48.160 And it's going to be extremely costly, extremely costly.

00:47:51.800 I mean, in 1900, Galveston was one of, if not the biggest city along the Gulf Coast.

00:47:58.540 It's and and it was thriving and it was a seaport and it was there because, you know, it's a port.

00:48:04.280 It was a major Gulf port for for shipping purposes.

00:48:09.680 And afterwards, after this little event that happened in 1900 and they think that was that was a Category 4, not even a five, but it was a Category 4 hurricane.

00:48:21.840 But it brought in a 15 foot storm surge and it completely wiped out the city.

00:48:27.060 And it's never been the same since.

00:48:29.260 And so the port transferred pretty much from Galveston to Houston and Houston turned out to be the thriving, huge metropolis instead of Galveston.

00:48:38.080 But that's what it can do when you build your city on the coast.

00:48:42.800 It can be wiped out pretty much at any time, especially along the Gulf Coast or if you're in Florida or if you're up the eastern seaboard.

00:48:49.820 Usually it doesn't happen on the west coast.

00:48:51.420 Obviously, we don't we don't really get typhoons.

00:48:54.700 I think they call them in the in the Pacific.

00:48:56.820 We don't get them there.

00:48:58.960 But as far as the Gulf Coast, when you build on the water, something eventually is going to happen.

00:49:04.760 It's going to.

00:49:05.340 Right.

00:49:05.620 You know, it's going to.

00:49:06.600 And it's not because of global warming, because it's been 12 years since the last major event hit the United States coastland or mainland.

00:49:21.000 So, you know, and we're still here in the we're still here in the cries of of global warming.

00:49:26.620 It is really incredible.

00:49:28.380 Right.

00:49:28.720 I mean, like Alyssa Milano, who has she's changed quite a bit since I was in love with her when she was on.

00:49:35.640 Who's the boss as a child?

00:49:36.980 Yeah, she is.

00:49:39.240 She's been very she's turned into a very big anti-Trump celebrity.

00:49:42.480 Yes, she is.

00:49:43.360 And it's very strange because I love that she thinks through the points all that much.

00:49:47.980 But this is what she tweeted this once in a 500 year flood.

00:49:52.540 But global warming isn't real.

00:49:54.280 Right.

00:49:54.760 Donald Trump.

00:49:56.240 Well, first of all, once in a fight, like if it's a once in a 500 year flood, you it would indicate that that has nothing to do with global warming.

00:50:02.580 Right.

00:50:02.820 Like it's because it happens every 500 years.

00:50:04.500 So I guess her insinuation is that it's happening more often, which then, of course, you'd have to give the evidence of it happening more often.

00:50:10.720 But let's skip that for a moment.

00:50:13.400 It this does not prove global warming at all.

00:50:17.640 In fact, we've had 12 years without a major hurricane hitting this country.

00:50:23.100 You cannot use hurricanes.

00:50:25.000 You'd have to have about 10 more in the next two years to get back to average.

00:50:31.140 Like, think of what they will use any piece of information, no matter how anecdotal, to say that global warming is real.

00:50:38.920 And and like I understand, like there is there are things you can argue right with global warming and people do all the time.

00:50:47.340 Hurricanes is not your ground.

00:50:48.280 This is not a good place.

00:50:50.120 This is not fertile ground for global warming, arguing at this point.

00:50:53.300 No, 12 years without a major hurricane.

00:50:57.700 Look at the tornado charts.

00:50:59.760 Look at the drought charts.

00:51:01.940 There is no trend in any of these major natural natural disasters that we talk about as being a real threat to humanity and our infrastructure.

00:51:13.140 And for whatever reason, every time something happens, you get the same types of arguments from the same people.

00:51:22.660 And it's just it's it's amazing.

00:51:24.480 You'd think that you'd be embarrassed to make an argument about how bad hurricanes are right now in this country because of the fact that it's been 12 years.

00:51:31.920 Just can you imagine?

00:51:32.920 I mean, remember, Jeffy, Jeffy never hears that in her circle.

00:51:35.740 She never hears that.

00:51:36.660 Right.

00:51:36.860 You know, she doesn't know that probably doesn't know that.

00:51:39.160 I mean, Jeffy, you know, when we started this show back in the day, it was at WFLA in Tampa and Jeffy worked there and had worked there for a long time.

00:51:48.080 He usually was stealing the local storm chasing vehicle from the station so he didn't have to have a car payment.

00:51:54.160 And but I mean, that was it was constant storm coverage on there.

00:51:57.640 And I remember years where it felt like every week there was another threat of a hurricane.

00:52:02.060 I mean, it felt like it was constant all the time.

00:52:04.820 And, you know, there's been there was that summer where Florida got hit like four times in a row.

00:52:09.140 Oh, yeah, it was the summer before Katrina.

00:52:11.120 Oh, four or five.

00:52:11.980 Somewhere in there.

00:52:12.800 Those four, oh five, oh six.

00:52:15.300 And those it was never ending.

00:52:17.140 And you'll remember that was when Al Gore's movie came out.

00:52:20.200 He took advantage of that was the most recent, like memorable weather, natural disaster trend he could take advantage of.

00:52:28.440 So he did.

00:52:29.160 He put a hurricane on the movie poster for an inconvenient truth.

00:52:33.540 Twelve years later, he releases a sequel.

00:52:36.140 And in the entire time between the two movies, there were no major hurricanes that hit the country.

00:52:41.120 I mean, you want to talk about the ultimate failure.

00:52:43.480 Yeah, incredible.

00:52:44.400 But yet still, when one finally does, we get the exact same arguments we got back in 2005.

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00:54:23.440 Huge fight over the weekend between Floyd Mayweather and Conor McGregor.

00:54:27.780 We just got some breaking news coming in about that, as well.

00:54:30.460 Conor McGregor, who lost, he is now going to start selling facial cream.

00:54:35.300 Oh, my gosh.

00:54:36.420 So he's retired from MMA?

00:54:38.900 Yeah.

00:54:39.600 Wow.

00:54:40.060 Yeah.

00:54:40.520 Wow, what a terrible...

00:54:41.960 I guess someone went off script in an interview or something to cause that.

00:54:45.140 Actually, that fight lived up to the hype, man.

00:54:46.860 I gotta say, that was worth it.

00:54:47.660 It was a great fight.

00:54:48.380 It was enjoyable to watch.

00:54:49.660 It was fun.

00:54:50.560 Everything before it sucked was a total bore for, what, five hours?

00:54:55.040 But then when it finally got to the fight, it was good.

00:54:57.840 It paid off.

00:54:58.660 It delivered.

00:54:59.380 It really did.

00:54:59.920 I mean, you know, it seemed to me that McGregor won the first three rounds, really.

00:55:04.660 Oh, he did.

00:55:05.200 I mean, Mayweather didn't do much of anything.

00:55:06.320 He did.

00:55:06.940 But then, you know, Mayweather kicked into gear later.

00:55:09.160 Yeah, I mean, that was his plan, right?

00:55:10.420 Yeah, that's what he said.

00:55:11.840 I think it was.

00:55:12.340 It may be true.

00:55:12.940 I think it was.

00:55:13.400 He didn't seem to even be trying to do anything the first three rounds.

00:55:15.700 He wasn't.

00:55:16.260 He was just kind of sitting back.

00:55:16.900 Barely threw a punch in the first round.

00:55:19.000 I don't know.

00:55:19.560 Maybe one?

00:55:21.100 I don't know.

00:55:21.740 It was kind of interesting, but he came on in the later rounds and pounded him pretty

00:55:27.200 hard.

00:55:27.620 It was really interesting.

00:55:29.280 Boxing is one of those things that when it's good, it is fantastic.

00:55:33.600 I mean, there's so much tension, and I don't really, I've lost interest in boxing over the

00:55:38.000 years, but those huge event matches, you know, back, you know, I grew up in kind of that Tyson

00:55:42.680 era, and like when Mike Tyson would have those fights, it was just like you couldn't, you

00:55:48.060 couldn't escape it.

00:55:48.960 It was everywhere, and they were such massive events, and really with him going away, you

00:55:55.200 know, that whole rape conviction and everything, kind of sullied the sport, you know, it didn't

00:56:00.920 quite, it really had some trouble after that.

00:56:04.140 People weren't quite as interested in cheering him on, but that's been cured in our society.

00:56:08.400 Now that Mike Tyson, who went to prison, had a rape conviction and went to prison, now

00:56:14.120 is like very accepted in our society.

00:56:16.100 And you're a terrible person for even bringing it up.

00:56:18.700 I really am.

00:56:19.540 You really are.

00:56:20.240 He's in funny, hilarious movies all the time.

00:56:22.460 He's on all the TV shows.

00:56:24.160 Right.

00:56:24.480 I mean, like you can't, God forbid a company associate themselves with someone who thinks

00:56:29.360 lower taxes is good for our society.

00:56:31.660 A Republican, a conservative, God forbid a company associate themselves with someone

00:56:36.560 like that.

00:56:37.200 But a convicted rapist?

00:56:38.740 Ah, come on.

00:56:40.300 Yeah, no big deal.

00:56:41.460 He's a good fighter.

00:56:42.500 He was a good fighter, and he's kind of silly.

00:56:44.280 He's got that funny voice.

00:56:45.320 I mean, he can't take them that seriously.

00:56:47.780 So Mayweather said that the gate was the record breaker.

00:56:51.180 80 million.

00:56:52.060 Yeah, because they charged a fortune for every ticket.

00:56:55.500 But they did not sell out.

00:56:57.040 It was only 14,000 some people in a 20,000 seat arena.

00:57:00.400 Which is very strange.

00:57:01.400 It's strange.

00:57:01.960 Because so many people were sitting at home.

00:57:03.500 And the pay-per-view was huge.

00:57:05.080 I mean, I've heard the pay-per-view could get as high as $800 million.

00:57:09.160 And Mayweather won it in the 10th round on a TKO, if you didn't see that over the week.

00:57:13.260 And there were six bets placed in Vegas of a million dollars or more, at least.

00:57:17.760 Wow.

00:57:18.080 So, all on Mayweather, by the way.

00:57:20.140 Oh, were they?

00:57:20.600 Because you spent a million dollars, and it was something like one to five or something

00:57:24.040 in the odds.

00:57:24.680 But that's a 20% investment for a couple of hours.

00:57:27.480 It's not bad.

00:57:28.080 You make it $200,000.

00:57:30.180 Eh, you take it.

00:57:31.140 If you've got the money, maybe not a bad investment.

00:57:33.020 Vegas was very glad Floyd Mayweather won that fight.

00:57:35.940 Because 90% of the betting was on McGregor.

00:57:39.900 We are one.

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00:57:54.500 With Pat and Stu today.

00:57:55.800 Glenn is a little under the weather.

00:57:57.260 Should be back tomorrow.

00:57:58.760 Joe Bastardi from Weatherbell Analytics is with us.

00:58:01.360 He is a meteorologist who, I mean, look, there's a, these things are really hard to predict

00:58:07.680 where these things go, where these storms are going to, what are they going to do?

00:58:12.720 If you happen to watch Joe Bastardi's coverage over the weekend, you know that he was one of

00:58:18.440 the very few that nailed exactly where this thing was going.

00:58:20.700 I mean, pretty much.

00:58:21.480 Joe, are you with us here?

00:58:23.440 Yeah.

00:58:23.880 If I'm not with you, I'm against you.

00:58:24.980 I'm certainly with you.

00:58:26.060 So, there I am.

00:58:26.740 Joe, I mean, is that, is that, is that a good telling of the story?

00:58:29.620 Because you, I watched your coverage and it seemed like you knew exactly where this thing

00:58:33.280 was going.

00:58:34.380 Well, the story begins back on Sunday and Monday.

00:58:37.540 I mean, you know, I know, I don't have the Twitter following you guys do or, you know,

00:58:41.320 but, yeah, tweeted, while everybody's looking at the eclipse, I'm updating my clients on

00:58:45.940 Harvey, which wasn't even renamed yet.

00:58:48.240 Wasn't even a depression yet.

00:58:49.800 You could see this coming and our preseason forecast.

00:58:52.680 Here we go with the pompous oration.

00:58:54.540 But our preseason forecast said a high impact year on the U.S. coast and the major hurricane

00:59:00.600 drought hit will end.

00:59:02.600 And what happens, folks, is this.

00:59:04.720 There's a certain pattern that will set up and you could see it in general terms evolving

00:59:09.940 through the spring and into the summer, which was very different from the past several years

00:59:14.800 as past 10 or 12 years.

00:59:17.080 And it's interesting in that some of the folks that are pushing the global warming issue

00:59:22.260 don't understand that perhaps the global warming is retarding major hurricane hits in the U.S.

00:59:28.320 and I have a reason for that.

00:59:29.940 But the fact is this year was very different looking, very different looking from what

00:59:34.380 I had seen in past years.

00:59:36.560 So we went out with that statement.

00:59:38.660 So the moral of the story is the closer these things get into the coast.

00:59:43.560 And you saw it with Franklin.

00:59:45.100 You saw it with Gert.

00:59:45.880 Even though Gert stayed out to sea, it started approaching the United States intensified.

00:59:49.280 We're going to have Irma probably develop and hit south in North Carolina over the next

00:59:52.900 couple of days, right on top of it, right on top of the coast.

00:59:55.580 And you saw this explode in the Western Gulf.

00:59:57.440 So this story was being written well before the media picked up on it.

01:00:03.520 And, you know, the thing is, I try to get to some of my media outlets and tell them back

01:00:08.500 on Monday, by Friday, this is going to be a huge storm.

01:00:11.560 So the frustrating thing is that, you know, I only get on when everybody else gets on.

01:00:16.860 And then, you know, if you ever saw my face, I can't compete with some of the people that

01:00:20.400 are reporting this storm.

01:00:22.380 But no, listen, here's a secret.

01:00:25.300 Here's, well, it's not so much a secret.

01:00:27.440 But you have to know the past and use these wonderful tools.

01:00:32.880 The models are wonderful tools, folks.

01:00:34.820 There's no question about it.

01:00:35.880 But they are not the answers.

01:00:37.780 They are tools for the human being to use to get to the answer.

01:00:42.080 They don't become the answer.

01:00:43.860 And what happens is you see guys put, here's the models.

01:00:46.860 And, you know, you see 45 different tracks.

01:00:49.900 Well, what's the forecast?

01:00:51.040 And if you go back and look at the past, at past storms, you can see storms like Harvey.

01:00:57.220 They may not be in Texas, but they've occurred out in the Atlantic.

01:01:00.620 Or let's take 1963, Flora.

01:01:03.260 She hit Cuba.

01:01:04.440 Well, Category 4 stalled over eastern Cuba for four days, dumped 100 inches of rain on eastern

01:01:10.860 Cuba, and went out to sea.

01:01:12.780 Actually had Fidel telling people that the United States was blocking the storm to destroy his

01:01:19.100 island in retribution for the Cuban Missile Crisis.

01:01:22.800 So there's all sorts of things that go on.

01:01:25.700 And if you look all over the place, you can get to the root cause.

01:01:30.000 It's just like what you guys do on the show a lot of times.

01:01:32.320 You go and you dig in behind the scenes because there's always a story beyond the story until

01:01:37.480 you find where the story started.

01:01:39.360 It is the same thing in weather and climate.

01:01:40.780 Now, I want to get into the causes of this and the history of what has looked like this

01:01:46.400 in a second.

01:01:47.320 First, before we get there, Joe, talk to us about what is going to happen next.

01:01:52.040 I mean, we're hearing this rain is going to continue to pound these areas for the next

01:01:57.000 several days.

01:01:58.300 Is there any chance it moves out of that area?

01:02:00.340 What are we looking at?

01:02:00.940 Well, listen, for those who have been watching us, since Tuesday, we've had this loop.

01:02:07.100 It's coming back over the Gulf of Mexico and leg number two of the journey starts.

01:02:11.400 The next landfall, I believe, and we've been saying is between Galveston and Beaumont-Port

01:02:16.440 Arthur to the east of Galveston.

01:02:18.260 This offers a unique set of forecast headaches.

01:02:21.460 First of all, the storm's not going to automatically intensify back out over the Gulf of Mexico.

01:02:26.160 What's going to happen is a lot of dry air around it.

01:02:28.480 It's going to have to try to rebuild the inner core, and that's going to take at least 36

01:02:32.360 hours.

01:02:33.500 And the problem you have, though, is it gets out into an area, you know, moved in near

01:02:38.240 Corpus Christi.

01:02:39.000 It gets out into an area where the water is still very, very warm.

01:02:42.280 These hurricanes upwell water, so it could try to make a comeback to perhaps a minimal

01:02:46.540 hurricane by the time it came back inland between Galveston and Beaumont-Port Arthur.

01:02:51.100 Now, this opens up this problem.

01:02:53.320 Not only do we have the extra rain that it's going to cause around the Houston area, which

01:02:57.200 has had a large-scale event with two feet of rain in there, but it also means that all

01:03:02.080 that water is draining into Galveston Bay.

01:03:04.600 There's a continual pushing of water back into Galveston Bay from the Gulf through the

01:03:08.560 inlets.

01:03:09.340 The wind goes to the north in Galveston Bay, strong out of the north, even if it's only

01:03:13.160 30, 40, 50 miles an hour for 12 hours, may drive the bay into Galveston from behind.

01:03:18.720 There's nothing to protect Galveston from Galveston Bay on a north wind if the bay is, you know,

01:03:23.960 up two, three, four feet higher than normal.

01:03:26.280 So that's a problem.

01:03:27.160 The other problem, I'm trying to find out details from my spies in New Orleans, is the

01:03:32.360 pump system over there.

01:03:33.700 Because the further east this goes, the more chance that New Orleans gets into some of

01:03:37.280 the, you know, the outer bands.

01:03:38.760 And I heard that there's some pumping problems in New Orleans, and if you get two to four inches

01:03:42.660 of rain in New Orleans and you can't pump it out of there, that's a problem over there

01:03:46.200 too.

01:03:46.500 So we have the east Texas problem, but there's some other problems that are showing up inherent

01:03:51.820 with the track and the possible intensity increase before landfall on Wednesday.

01:03:56.700 Then by Thursday, it's up in the Arklatex, and then Friday, it's raining itself out, Friday

01:04:01.000 and Saturday in the Tennessee and Ohio Valley.

01:04:02.820 Talk to Joe Bastardi.

01:04:04.100 He's a meteorologist.

01:04:04.860 Weatherbell.com is the site and his company.

01:04:08.780 Joe, what we're hearing from the media a lot is the idea that this is unprecedented and

01:04:15.420 the cause of it is obviously going to be our SUVs.

01:04:18.900 That's, you know, how every weather event is covered these days.

01:04:21.740 How can you blame Donald Trump or climate change for every single event?

01:04:26.660 The history of this, though, you mentioned the incident in Cuba.

01:04:29.620 We had Allison not too long ago in Houston that dumped a lot of water and rain and flooding

01:04:35.900 into these areas.

01:04:37.400 I mean, is this sort of thing common?

01:04:39.360 How is this really a one in 500 year flood event?

01:04:42.880 Can you walk us through some of the history?

01:04:44.220 Well, I think it is in the area that it's occurring, in the Houston area.

01:04:49.860 You know, it looks to be with two feet of rain in the air.

01:04:52.540 It's more widespread than Allison was, you know.

01:04:55.720 So, but the reason it's doing this is because it's stopped dead in its tracks.

01:05:01.960 Hurricanes have done that for years and years.

01:05:04.780 But if they do it out over the middle of the ocean, no one cares, except for weather geeks

01:05:08.700 like me, that sit there and study every single track I could get my hand on back in 1900 and

01:05:13.820 even before that.

01:05:15.140 So, I mean, look, let me explain something.

01:05:18.700 Meteorologically speaking, Hurricane Harvey was one of seven major cap four or greater storms

01:05:26.000 to hit Texas.

01:05:26.660 OK, so it's one in seven as far as the strength of this storm.

01:05:31.360 It also hit in an area just north of Corpus over there that's been hit many, many, many times.

01:05:38.020 So much so, and those of you who live in Texas must know the legend of Indianola because they

01:05:41.920 used to teach it to us when I grew up in Texas, that we had the biggest port on the Gulf

01:05:47.060 Coast was Indianola, Texas, near Port Lavaca.

01:05:49.680 And guess what?

01:05:50.320 It got wiped out by a major hurricane.

01:05:52.220 They rebuilt it, got wiped out again.

01:05:53.760 They said no more.

01:05:54.700 That area between Corpus and Houston gets hit quite often.

01:05:58.800 Houston gets hit a lot more than what it has now.

01:06:01.120 Carla went in there in 61, and Celia went in.

01:06:06.020 And to tell you how strong Celia was, she went from a cap one to a cap four, hit Corpus

01:06:09.860 Christi in 1970.

01:06:11.960 The winds were 161 miles an hour at Rancis Pass.

01:06:15.200 So bigger than Harvey.

01:06:17.060 So we look at it two ways.

01:06:19.140 We look at it meteorologically speaking.

01:06:21.200 Harvey's what is to be expected in the western Gulf of Mexico.

01:06:25.400 You get powerful hurricanes and intensify.

01:06:28.180 The stalling aspect of it, oddly enough, the reason why it's stalling is because the jet

01:06:33.040 stream is buckled into the eastern part of the United States.

01:06:36.140 We are in something, folks.

01:06:37.680 Here comes weather geek talk.

01:06:39.400 Phase two of the Madden-Julian oscillation.

01:06:42.260 So when I look at that...

01:06:42.760 I was just going to say that.

01:06:43.520 I know, listen, if I were to say that, I'd like to have just as much fun as you guys,

01:06:50.660 but I try to get my point across.

01:06:52.060 No, go ahead.

01:06:52.520 Yeah.

01:06:53.100 If you looked at this two weeks ago, you say, look out, because in that particular phase,

01:06:58.540 what we call the phase two of the Madden-Julian oscillation, the eastern and central part of

01:07:02.320 the United States are cold, but the tropics next to the United States light up.

01:07:06.860 And that's what...

01:07:07.860 So right now, every single little thing I see coming off Africa, I'm saying, for instance,

01:07:13.280 this thing is going to probably develop into Irma along the South Carolina coast.

01:07:16.740 For 10 days, I've been saying, wait till that gets close to land.

01:07:20.040 Harvey, the same thing.

01:07:20.960 When Harvey developed, it weakened.

01:07:23.960 And I said, no, it's going to come back.

01:07:25.700 And that's because there is an overall pattern right now that was set up before that favors

01:07:32.600 these storms doing this.

01:07:34.100 So the cool air that's come in, the buckling of the jet stream, the unusual buckling of

01:07:38.120 the jet stream.

01:07:38.640 We saw this happen in 85 with Elena.

01:07:40.720 Remember, Elena was off Florida, stalled and was looping around there.

01:07:44.100 And then finally, it went back to the Northwest.

01:07:46.280 But it was right off Tampa for two, three days before it went back across.

01:07:50.560 You see this happen in these patterns.

01:07:53.300 So you're ready for them.

01:07:54.420 You're actually looking for them.

01:07:56.100 So no, it's not that.

01:07:57.740 And I'll tell you what.

01:07:59.140 Yeah, I even post it.

01:08:00.160 Guys, I started posting that map of Cuba.

01:08:02.500 You're getting that 100 inches of rain four or five days before.

01:08:05.300 Started saying stuff to say.

01:08:07.120 And, you know, like I said, I don't have a big following.

01:08:08.980 But what I was telling people is you watch what happens.

01:08:12.000 Well, everybody is sitting there.

01:08:13.440 And what really gets me mad about these people is I don't hear them make a forecast before.

01:08:17.740 They scurry out as soon as something happens and blame global warming.

01:08:21.740 And it's despicable.

01:08:22.560 And I'm trying to figure out, you know, I'm talking to some of my friends on my side of

01:08:26.080 the issue.

01:08:26.500 I say, do they not know what happened before or do they know and simply lie about it?

01:08:31.700 Because it's either ignorance or deception.

01:08:33.760 Now, I'm not talking to everybody on the AGW side because there are some honest brokers

01:08:38.460 on that side.

01:08:39.300 And I see their arguments and all this is about is finding the truth and everything else.

01:08:45.300 But no matter which way you slice it, you have to deal with the initial conditions.

01:08:49.920 And if you look back at the past, you can find not the same, but very similar conditions.

01:08:55.280 And if you use that as your foundations, like anything, you stand on the past, that's where

01:08:59.220 you stand today to reach for the future.

01:09:00.940 Same thing in forecasting.

01:09:02.180 And that's how you can try to put together a forecast that has a chance of being right.

01:09:08.000 But it's amazing.

01:09:09.020 It's amazing, Joe, though, that the global warmists continue to try to have it both ways.

01:09:15.620 They used to tell us all the time, hey, don't confuse weather with climate.

01:09:19.920 That's ridiculous.

01:09:21.080 You can't pin one weather event on climate change.

01:09:24.360 And for instance, when it used to get really cold and we'd say, hey, it was supposed to be

01:09:28.580 warm and it's still getting cold, well, that's just a weather event.

01:09:32.280 That's not climate.

01:09:33.520 And now every single weather event that happens is proof of global warming.

01:09:40.000 How do you even combat that?

01:09:42.520 Well, you can't.

01:09:43.220 You got to put yourself before a good Lord above.

01:09:45.660 And you have to back off and say, you know, at the end of the day, say, Father, did I do

01:09:51.440 what I needed to do today to try to make use of my talent?

01:09:56.400 I don't do that all the time.

01:09:58.160 And believe me, man, I come out swinging.

01:10:00.140 I mean, my problem is I got Sicilian in me, about 25 percent, you know.

01:10:05.960 But the problem is, I think a lot of people have to wrestle with that all the time because,

01:10:14.740 like I said, you know, you don't want to generalize everyone on the other side.

01:10:19.160 But look, we've seen this before.

01:10:21.200 We've seen it all through history.

01:10:22.940 The same kind of thing, except it's ramped up on steroids because we have social media.

01:10:26.560 You can take a picture of every tornado in everyone's backyard.

01:10:30.180 I mean, I went back and looked at the list last night, the eight greatest floods in U.S.

01:10:33.700 history, just to remind myself of what happened in the Mississippi Valley in 1927, 33, the 36 Ohio Valley flood, 35.

01:10:40.780 Take a look at Houston underwater in 1935, right?

01:10:44.000 And when you think about all the concrete they've put in there now, you know, it takes less rain to cause the same kind of problem.

01:10:50.680 Same kind of stuff.

01:10:51.500 You go through, there's a town called Lambertville, New Jersey.

01:10:54.420 You go through there and you have signs, Governor, save us from global warming, right?

01:10:58.280 And they don't realize that they've dammed up the Delaware River and so they released water down the river.

01:11:03.600 So every rainstorm now is trying to flood things.

01:11:05.920 The point is you're dealing with people that believe their ultimate truth is greater than the way you get there.

01:11:12.920 You see, guys like me and probably you and Glenn, we believe you have to be on the truth at the time.

01:11:18.220 And then you have a chance to get to the real truth.

01:11:20.780 But they're convinced of a certain type of situation and they're just going to, they're zealots.

01:11:27.140 They're not going to stop.

01:11:28.300 Yeah, that's true.

01:11:28.880 Joe Bastardi, meteorologist, weatherbell.com.

01:11:31.140 Thanks for giving us perspective on this and giving us the historical perspective as well.

01:11:35.380 And, you know, Joe mentioned he doesn't have a big following on Twitter.

01:11:38.020 Let's change that.

01:11:39.080 Where should they follow you, Joe?

01:11:41.300 All I was saying that is...

01:11:42.680 No, you don't think so.

01:11:44.120 Just go ahead and give yourself a plug, though.

01:11:45.940 Where's your Twitter?

01:11:46.460 No, no.

01:11:47.780 All I want to say is this.

01:11:48.780 But if someone with a bigger bullhorn starts yelling Friday on something...

01:11:53.720 Yes.

01:11:53.900 And I've got this, you know, I'm like that little...

01:11:56.340 You ever see that cartoon with a little dog?

01:11:58.540 The little dog is bothering the big dog.

01:12:00.260 I'm the little dog there, you know, snapping, snapping.

01:12:02.460 I wasn't trying.

01:12:03.340 I don't really care about that stuff.

01:12:04.520 No, I know, I know.

01:12:05.420 I know.

01:12:05.820 We're just buzzing.

01:12:06.400 Joe, we got to run here, man.

01:12:07.960 We're up against a break.

01:12:08.780 But thanks so much for coming on the program and letting everybody know where this thing is.

01:12:12.040 Hopefully, it's going to be done soon.

01:12:15.240 Joe...

01:12:15.560 Anytime you want me on, I'll be glad to show up.

01:12:18.460 We would love that, Joe.

01:12:19.480 Thank you.

01:12:19.920 Joe, it's already weatherbelt.com.

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01:13:37.420 So, where did he say the hurricane's going to go?

01:13:41.480 It's kind of going to go back out to sea and then come back in again?

01:13:45.240 Yeah.

01:13:45.660 Maybe gain hurricane strength again?

01:13:48.400 And then come back.

01:13:50.420 That'd be really bad.

01:13:52.240 Terrifying.

01:13:53.140 This is a really bad one.

01:13:54.880 This is a really bad one.

01:13:56.420 It's interesting to see.

01:13:57.880 I mean, there's tons of stories and, you know, you can go on the Blazers, a bunch of them,

01:14:01.600 of just great people coming together moments.

01:14:06.780 I mean, people who are, I mean, you know, there's a pastor who was looking through windows

01:14:10.720 of cars that were underwater to make sure there's no people in there.

01:14:13.000 There's people saving dogs.

01:14:14.780 Like, every time you see a news story where people wind up hating each other and all the

01:14:19.820 stuff we've seen in Charlottesville and all the other crap that's been going on,

01:14:22.500 I mean, there are moments like that that at least, you know, rejuvenate a little bit

01:14:26.720 of your hope in humanity.

01:14:28.840 That's for sure.

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01:15:01.340 Just a really tragic weather occurrence happening in Houston and surrounding areas right now.

01:15:10.040 Get into more of that.

01:15:11.840 Also, coming up, a California school has removed some alienating statues.

01:15:17.980 And we'll tell you which ones, and I think you'll be relieved that they've been removed

01:15:23.680 from these school grounds.

01:15:24.840 And we've still got to get into the first grade little girl that was sent to the principal's

01:15:30.320 office for using the wrong pronoun on a classmate.

01:15:34.200 And the peaceful movement that is Antifa.

01:15:39.480 We'll start there right now.

01:15:41.940 I will make a stand.

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01:15:46.680 I will hold your hand.

01:15:49.060 Because we are one.

01:15:50.940 I will be my drum.

01:15:52.900 I have made my choice.

01:15:55.400 We will overcome.

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01:16:03.380 This is the Glenn Beck program.

01:16:07.220 Triple eight, seven, two, seven back in Houston.

01:16:13.240 Mercury one is working with some of our disaster partners.

01:16:17.840 They've been preparing to deploy since last week.

01:16:20.280 The rain, of course, continuing in Houston.

01:16:22.480 They expect it at least through tomorrow.

01:16:24.500 We just talked to Joe Bastardi, who's a meteorologist.

01:16:26.740 And he says he might go back out to sea, strengthen again, and then come back in.

01:16:31.640 Oh, I mean.

01:16:33.860 And it's so bad already that, I mean, you know, people are underwater up to the rooftops in some places.

01:16:42.220 Most of the major roadways are still unpassable.

01:16:47.280 High water rescue vehicles and boats are the only way to get around in Houston right now.

01:16:52.760 Operation Barbecue is there, giving out food.

01:16:55.520 They've got a capacity to feed 15,000 to 20,000 meals a day.

01:17:00.040 So that's fantastic.

01:17:01.820 Team Rubicon staging all around Texas to send in recon teams to assess the situations in multiple cities.

01:17:08.560 One of our other partners, Gleaning for the World, they've already dispatched four tractor-trailer loads of water,

01:17:15.540 16 loads of blankets, and they're preparing to send more.

01:17:18.920 I mean, that's fantastic.

01:17:20.640 Also have the Provisions Project, providing monetary relief, city impact, staging supplies for the deployment.

01:17:29.420 They've already released an initial $100,000 to fund initial operations

01:17:33.820 and $2 million worth of in-kind gifts in anticipation of the shipments of relief.

01:17:40.780 And then somebody cares.

01:17:42.060 Assessment and cooking teams drove in from San Antonio to Corpus Christi on Saturday,

01:17:48.960 and they're based at the Journey Church.

01:17:50.880 So a lot of people doing a lot of really good work.

01:17:53.260 And if you want to contribute to this fund to help the people of Houston, go to mercuryone.org.

01:17:58.960 Yeah, I think up to 10% of your donation goes to actually fund the events.

01:18:02.840 It's actually 100%, Stu.

01:18:04.020 What was the percentage?

01:18:04.760 Actually 100%.

01:18:05.900 Yeah, but they have overhead.

01:18:07.000 That's the thing.

01:18:07.480 They have to take the overhead.

01:18:07.680 Yeah, we pay for the overhead some other way.

01:18:09.700 We do like a fundraiser event that pays for the overhead.

01:18:13.340 Yeah, like a gala.

01:18:14.480 Or a gala.

01:18:15.080 Or a gala.

01:18:15.660 Or a gala.

01:18:16.320 Gala or gala.

01:18:17.460 We're alternative lifestyles, alternative pronunciations.

01:18:20.260 We're fine with both of them.

01:18:21.120 We don't care.

01:18:21.520 Galas or galas.

01:18:22.460 Whatever one is you.

01:18:23.340 We don't care.

01:18:23.820 We're fine with that.

01:18:24.900 We don't care what pronoun you use.

01:18:26.560 No.

01:18:26.840 If any.

01:18:27.400 If any.

01:18:28.000 We don't care.

01:18:28.520 We just don't care.

01:18:29.300 We don't care.

01:18:29.800 Hopefully some of these resources will be redirected from the Houston storms to help

01:18:34.600 the anti-fascist protesters who are doing just God's work around the country right now

01:18:41.320 trying to stop these white supremacists from their evil actions.

01:18:45.860 We saw it again in Berkeley this weekend where these Nazis were out there trying to protest

01:18:56.740 in Berkeley.

01:18:57.300 And of course, Antifa stands for anti-fascist, which is pointed out in every story you will

01:19:03.160 ever hear about them.

01:19:04.180 It stands for anti-fascist.

01:19:06.460 Is it pro-fa?

01:19:08.640 No.

01:19:08.920 No, they're not pro-fascist.

01:19:10.480 No.

01:19:10.800 They're anti-fascist.

01:19:12.080 Anti-fascist.

01:19:12.680 If they were pro-fa, then people might be bad.

01:19:16.820 We wouldn't like them.

01:19:17.480 We wouldn't like them.

01:19:18.120 We would not like them.

01:19:18.360 But since they called themselves Antifa with no evidence that they actually are anti-fascism,

01:19:24.000 because they certainly seem to act a lot like fascists, but we're all going to sit here

01:19:28.680 and just continue to just spout their little tagline of anti-fascist, which is explained

01:19:33.580 in every article you will ever hear about them because they're always being excused for the

01:19:37.900 behavior.

01:19:39.160 And this happened.

01:19:39.760 And it started, obviously, in Charlottesville, at least the media's attention on it, where

01:19:45.060 they obviously were, they did, you know, cause some violence.

01:19:51.720 They caused, they were members of the group that were arrested.

01:19:55.260 This is not just Donald Trump making up something.

01:19:58.300 However, obviously, the white supremacist, you know, led the show with the awfulness in

01:20:02.480 Charlottesville when it comes to, I mean, actually murdering someone and injuring dozens.

01:20:07.880 Uh, but Antifa is not just that one event.

01:20:11.700 They have been all over the country and in essentially every other, uh, example of their

01:20:18.280 behavior, they've been the aggressors.

01:20:20.360 They've been the bad guys.

01:20:21.820 This happened again in Berkeley this weekend.

01:20:23.720 A hundred anarchists and Antifa quote anti-fascist members, um, went to a protest.

01:20:29.420 Wait a minute, they're anarchists?

01:20:31.060 That's what they, that's what they say.

01:20:32.420 Although I, again, I don't like, look at, look at their manifesto and tell me how anarchist

01:20:36.600 it is, it doesn't seem very anarchist.

01:20:39.460 It seems like they want giant government control and massive communism implemented.

01:20:44.560 Yep.

01:20:45.120 Um, they, uh, the, the, the rally against hate, they keep saying, and again, that gets quoted

01:20:51.500 as if it's a real thing that they're doing.

01:20:53.220 It's just ridiculous.

01:20:54.300 It's not a rally against hate.

01:20:55.320 Um, but they, violence began to flare, uh, pepper spray wielding Trump supporter was smacked

01:21:01.140 to the ground with homemade shields.

01:21:02.520 Another was attacked by five black clad Antifa members, each windmilling kicks and punches

01:21:07.180 into a man desperately trying to protect himself.

01:21:10.060 A conservative group leader retreated for safety behind a line of riot police as marchers

01:21:14.780 chucked water bottles, shot off pepper spray and screamed fascist go home.

01:21:19.320 Um, all told, uh, all told Associated Press reported at least five individuals were attacked.

01:21:24.260 Um, uh, the, uh, and of course this is how the, uh, they, they talk about this protest.

01:21:28.540 Again, attacks all over the place of violence, you know, in Boston, we saw the same thing

01:21:33.440 where there wasn't even a white supremacist gathering that they were protesting yet police

01:21:38.120 were getting a hit in the head with bottles of urine.

01:21:40.900 Uh, I applaud the more than 7,000 people who came out today to peacefully oppose bigotry,

01:21:46.580 hatred and racism that we saw on display in Charlottesville.

01:21:50.020 Uh, the Berkeley mayor said in a statement, however, the violence that small group of

01:21:54.140 protesters engaged in and residents in the police throwing smoke bombs is unacceptable.

01:21:59.340 Fighting hate with hate does not work and only makes each side more entrenched in their

01:22:04.080 ideological camps.

01:22:05.740 Um, they actually called the group an anti hate.

01:22:09.440 It was an anti hate protest.

01:22:11.960 Now anti hate, you know, what the more they actually protested?

01:22:15.440 Well, that's what they actually protested.

01:22:18.380 Let's get to the bottom of that.

01:22:19.460 Let's do that research will tell you when you find out that these people wanted to kill

01:22:24.260 all the Jews and they wanted to kill all the black people in the planet, then you're going

01:22:27.860 to be like, okay, thank God.

01:22:28.860 These people are here to protect our society against these groups.

01:22:32.560 And you would, if that's what they were there to do.

01:22:35.040 However, I forgot what they've got right here than that.

01:22:37.720 It's even worse than that.

01:22:39.300 They're protesting Marxism.

01:22:41.080 Listen to this statement by the group before the protest started.

01:22:44.300 Are you ready?

01:22:44.780 I'm ready.

01:22:45.360 Now this is the right wing white supremacy group.

01:22:48.320 The fascists hate that there were people there to protest.

01:22:51.860 Listen to this.

01:22:53.200 Here's the title.

01:22:54.300 They used Patriot prayer, large event.

01:22:57.780 Oh, wow.

01:22:58.640 No extremists will be allowed in.

01:23:00.940 That's the first sentence.

01:23:02.720 No Nazis, communists, KKK, Antifa, white supremacists or white nationalists.

01:23:08.800 Again, no Nazis, communists, KKK, Antifa, white supremacists or white nationalists.

01:23:15.660 This is an opportunity for moderate Americans to come in with opposing views.

01:23:19.500 Wow, are they uninclusive?

01:23:21.680 Oh, my God.

01:23:22.260 This is unbelievable.

01:23:24.640 No tolerance.

01:23:25.980 No inclusion.

01:23:28.020 It's incredible.

01:23:29.260 We will not allow extremists to tear apart this country.

01:23:32.360 Specifically, Richard Spencer and Nathan Domingo will not be welcome.

01:23:37.400 I don't know who Nathan Domingo is, but I do know who Richard Spencer is.

01:23:41.660 He's the guy who coined the term alt-right.

01:23:43.920 Before you accuse Patriot prayer as being hateful, please find specific examples.

01:23:49.600 You will not find any hate speech you are being lied to by corrupt politicians.

01:23:54.080 San Francisco is supposed to be a safe haven for minorities.

01:23:57.140 If this is true, then please be respectful to the speakers we are bringing in.

01:24:01.240 And they go through them and bring them down by demographic.

01:24:04.580 Three black, two Hispanic, one Asian, one Samoan, one Muslim, two women, and one white American.

01:24:10.080 Of course they included a whitey.

01:24:15.500 Oh, man.

01:24:16.640 One white male.

01:24:17.680 They had to include a white male.

01:24:19.220 Had to include a white male.

01:24:20.580 Why?

01:24:21.220 Hate.

01:24:21.780 Here it goes.

01:24:22.320 This is how it finishes.

01:24:23.160 And it gets really hateful to the end here, guys.

01:24:25.120 Oh, man.

01:24:26.120 There will also be an opportunity for an open mic for moderate Americans.

01:24:29.640 Love and peace is the only way to heal this country.

01:24:32.140 So we ask that you do not use hate against us with the intent of fighting hate.

01:24:36.360 We are here to spread a message of love.

01:24:38.100 And these bastards, I mean, can you believe this hateful ideology they are pitching is incredible.

01:24:47.340 Thank God there's a bunch of people in ski masks that beat the hell out of a family to stop this message of love that they're presenting.

01:24:55.460 Well, I mean, they're not calling themselves this, but they could be anti-ma, anti-Marxism.

01:25:03.640 They're the anti-ma, and anti-fa had to beat the crap out of them because they're anti-ma, not anti-fa.

01:25:09.820 If you're anti-fascist, that's great.

01:25:12.500 But you can't be anti-Marxist because he's the hero of the left.

01:25:19.460 He's the hero of the anti-fascist.

01:25:22.200 And by the way, tell me that fascism is any different under the communist regimes of Vladimir Lenin and Joe Stalin.

01:25:33.740 Are you kidding me?

01:25:34.900 And the media has walked itself into a really weird place because they went so hard to absolve anti-fa from their violence in Charlottesville, which, again, they were not as responsible for that.

01:25:48.620 Nobody died from them.

01:25:50.360 And so it was important, I think, to point that out.

01:25:52.380 However, they've been bad actors for a long time, and the media has done such a, they've had such an incredible effort to absolve these people from any blame that these things happen, and now they're in this corner.

01:26:04.020 Look, if, let's just say they were anti-fascist.

01:26:06.560 Not every anti-fascist is good.

01:26:08.820 Joe Stalin was an anti-fascist.

01:26:10.680 Supposedly, yeah.

01:26:11.120 You know, he worked really hard, killed a lot of Nazis.

01:26:14.700 Yeah.

01:26:15.020 They, they, they, but that does not make him a good guy.

01:26:18.300 And you have to call out these tactics for what they are.

01:26:20.640 They are wrong.

01:26:21.420 These people are doing real damage to our society, and they, we need to stop praising them.

01:26:26.680 And they're obviously pro-Marxist, because they were there to, to protest the people who were protesting Marxism in Berkeley.

01:26:32.440 They're tired of it.

01:26:33.440 They want it to stop.

01:26:34.800 They, they, they're preaching love.

01:26:36.820 So they weren't threatening anybody.

01:26:38.640 And then anti-fascist descends on them and, and chases them out of the park, beating some of them pretty brutally.

01:26:45.620 It's amazing.

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01:26:48.160 More of the Glenn Beck program coming up in a minute.

01:26:49.920 When's the last time you said you, uh, that you said, thank you.

01:26:52.760 Maybe you did.

01:26:53.340 I've never said that.

01:26:54.540 I've never said that.

01:26:55.080 I've noticed that from you.

01:26:55.940 You've never actually said thank you to anyone before.

01:26:58.760 Why would I?

01:26:59.520 Well, I mean, there are groups out there that are protesting fascism.

01:27:02.700 And look at what they're doing for you.

01:27:04.060 They're fighting for you.

01:27:05.060 Well, I can thank them.

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01:27:06.360 Thank you, Antifa.

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01:28:28.260 Remember when Donald Trump, the president of the United States, said,

01:28:32.740 Hey, they're going to start coming after Jefferson.

01:28:34.780 They're going to start coming after Washington if you tear down all these statues.

01:28:37.700 It was so ridiculous.

01:28:38.720 I mean, such a fundamental misunderstanding of history.

01:28:42.920 That is the way it was pitched, right?

01:28:44.360 Yes.

01:28:45.640 Shockingly, there was a lot of truth to that.

01:28:47.500 We saw it in the day after.

01:28:50.340 On the Vice documentary, there's a woman saying it's the, what do they call them, the Master of Monticello?

01:28:56.640 Yeah.

01:28:56.800 Who's looking down at us.

01:28:58.300 Like, you know, with Jefferson, they talked about, other people talked about other founders that needed to get their statues taken down.

01:29:04.000 Now, this whole controversy has started a parade of people who want to take down statues.

01:29:10.500 Now, statues, if you're not familiar with them, are inanimate objects.

01:29:17.060 They're just kind of like things that stand there.

01:29:19.240 They don't do anything.

01:29:19.940 They're just kind of, they look like people, but they're not the people that they look like.

01:29:25.680 Are you saying they're not controlling the lives of the people that they look out on?

01:29:29.300 No, they're not.

01:29:29.980 You know why?

01:29:30.400 They're inanimate objects, so they can't really do much of anything.

01:29:34.320 Like, a lot of them are made out of stone or bronze or whatever, and they kind of just stand there, and they just, they represent a person, but they're not the person.

01:29:45.100 Yeah, but they hurl insults at minorities.

01:29:47.860 No, you're going to be surprised to hear that's not true.

01:29:50.500 No?

01:29:50.680 No, they don't actually do that.

01:29:52.840 So now, so, by the way, after that, and the media mocked everybody who thought that that was realistic, that they would start broadening this slippery slope here, and it would all of a sudden be every statue that's at all controversial would be taken down.

01:30:06.280 This is the headline from the New York Times.

01:30:07.940 Far from Dixie, outcry grows over a wider array of monuments.

01:30:13.520 Oh, my God.

01:30:14.140 So predictable.

01:30:15.460 Here's some of the examples.

01:30:16.560 Philadelphia had to put barricades and guards around a statue of Frank Rizzo, their former mayor, who was disliked by many African Americans in the community.

01:30:28.760 They wrote on Twitter, take the Rizzo statue down.

01:30:33.600 So that one might happen.

01:30:34.900 Chicago campaign is underway to remove a monument to Italo Balbo, an Italian air marshal which the fascist dictator Benito Mussolini presented to the city in 1933.

01:30:45.780 Bizarre.

01:30:46.560 But again, now that one's under.

01:30:48.940 In Boston, there are calls for renaming historic Faneuil Hall because Peter Faneuil, who donated the building to the city in 1743, was a slave owner and traitor.

01:31:00.260 Christopher Columbus, you may be familiar with him.

01:31:03.080 This is how the Times writes it.

01:31:03.900 Well, yeah, the genocidal maniac.

01:31:05.380 Thank you.

01:31:06.640 I think that's how most people learn it now, right?

01:31:09.040 He's a really terrible guy who did terrible things.

01:31:12.160 The Times...

01:31:12.560 That's almost all you can...

01:31:13.440 In fact, I just researched this last week when we were talking about it.

01:31:16.460 The statues and almost everything you click on involving Christopher Columbus is negative.

01:31:23.200 Almost every fact about him.

01:31:26.000 Search it.

01:31:26.740 Like, ten facts you don't know about Christopher Columbus.

01:31:29.060 One will be, he started the slave trade.

01:31:31.340 He started it?

01:31:31.980 He started the slave trade.

01:31:33.220 It, like, wasn't around back in the old days?

01:31:35.120 No, no, he started it.

01:31:36.060 Pyramids and none of it?

01:31:37.040 Uh-uh.

01:31:37.760 No, well, he started the Western slave trade.

01:31:41.540 He chopped arms and limbs off of Native people.

01:31:46.800 Why did we like him so much?

01:31:48.320 I don't know, Jeffy, because he was a genocidal maniac.

01:31:50.820 He brought back syphilis for Europe.

01:31:54.240 Did he have?

01:31:54.600 Which he contracted here, apparently.

01:31:56.900 And his day is coming up.

01:31:58.800 We still have his day.

01:31:59.720 It's only in a few weeks, right?

01:32:01.000 Columbus Day is coming up.

01:32:02.760 And how can we have a day for a guy like that?

01:32:04.560 I don't know.

01:32:05.420 An arm, he was an amputator and a disease carrier.

01:32:09.160 Yeah, rapist.

01:32:09.920 That's basically all he ever did.

01:32:11.400 Genocidal maniac.

01:32:12.820 And let's not even get started on the smallpox blankets.

01:32:17.180 Right?

01:32:17.540 Don't even get me started on the smallpox blankets.

01:32:19.460 Thank you.

01:32:19.920 It was all him.

01:32:20.740 All smallpox, all blankets.

01:32:22.660 Columbus, this is how the Times writes it, though.

01:32:24.220 Columbus, who most Americans learn rather innocently,

01:32:27.460 in 1492 he sailed the ocean blue until he discovered the new world,

01:32:31.620 has undergone a revisionist treatment in recent decades

01:32:34.920 because of his impact on native peoples.

01:32:38.060 The Christopher Columbus statue in Columbus Circle in New York City

01:32:40.460 is going under, they're doing a 90-day review of symbols of hate,

01:32:46.260 which is underway thanks to Bill de Blasio there.

01:32:49.020 Now, Columbus Circle is like a...

01:32:51.040 I want that circle gone.

01:32:52.120 It's an institution.

01:32:53.240 I mean, it's in New York.

01:32:53.980 It's right, by the way, right in front of where CNN broadcasts,

01:32:57.600 where we used to do the show when we were on CNN Headline News.

01:32:59.920 That's Columbus Circle.

01:33:01.480 I mean, it's right on the Central Park.

01:33:03.580 It's very famous.

01:33:04.520 I want to call it Disease Carrier Circle, though.

01:33:07.840 Amputator Circle.

01:33:08.900 Genocide Circle.

01:33:10.100 In Baltimore, Columbus Monument, more than 200 years old,

01:33:12.860 was defaced on Monday in an act captured on video

01:33:15.500 as a man stood with a sign reading,

01:33:16.940 Racism, tear it down.

01:33:18.940 Then he took a sledgehammer to it.

01:33:20.520 That's great.

01:33:21.300 Right.

01:33:22.060 In Detroit, protesters gathered on Saturday at a Columbus statue.

01:33:25.900 In New York, de Blasio, responding to the violence in Charlottesville,

01:33:29.000 announced his 90-day review of all symbols of hate on city property,

01:33:32.960 specifically mentioning a sidewalk marker on Lower Broadway

01:33:35.920 to Henri-Philippe Pétain, a French collaborator with the Nazis.

01:33:40.740 90 days isn't going to be as too long.

01:33:43.020 Thank you.

01:33:43.980 90 days is too long.

01:33:46.720 Thank you, Jeff.

01:33:47.240 We need to have somebody take some action right now.

01:33:51.180 You know what?

01:33:51.620 You know who would do this?

01:33:52.360 Who would actually be on board for this?

01:33:54.380 The anti-fascist group.

01:33:56.560 Antifa.

01:33:56.800 Do you think they would help?

01:33:57.580 These wonderful Americans who, you know,

01:34:00.020 sometimes they don't necessarily expose their faces to cameras

01:34:05.880 because, you know, it's so cold in Berkeley this time of year.

01:34:09.560 You know, they need the ski masks, obviously.

01:34:11.540 It can get all the way.

01:34:12.440 When you're helping people, a lot of times,

01:34:13.800 some people don't want to take all the credit.

01:34:15.680 That's right.

01:34:16.100 That's right.

01:34:16.460 But it can get down to 85, 90 degrees in Berkeley this time of year.

01:34:20.980 It can.

01:34:21.740 It's freezing.

01:34:22.540 It's freezing cold.

01:34:23.380 You've got to wear a ski mask.

01:34:24.200 You've got to have a ski mask on.

01:34:27.580 I mean, I think, though, it could also be,

01:34:30.560 Jeffy could be right,

01:34:31.360 that they just don't want the credit for all the wonderful work they're doing.

01:34:34.560 I believe that's it.

01:34:35.200 They're just, you know, they're not out there for the fame.

01:34:38.160 Can I tell you about a couple of other alienating statues that need to go?

01:34:41.220 Yes.

01:34:41.460 And, in fact, are being removed.

01:34:44.840 Well, I'll tell you in a second.

01:34:45.960 But it's a California Catholic school is removing a couple of statues

01:34:51.620 that have been alienating some of their students.

01:34:54.160 Good.

01:34:54.500 And it's about time.

01:34:56.880 Good.

01:34:57.660 We'll tell you about that coming up on the Glenn Beck Program.

01:35:00.780 Pat Stewart-General.

01:35:06.900 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

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01:35:23.420 So today is a date that many in the audience will be familiar with.

01:35:29.140 828.

01:35:30.620 It's been a very important date throughout the history of this show.

01:35:34.140 Now, if you just joined us, Glenn is out sick today.

01:35:37.300 I'll be back hopefully tomorrow.

01:35:38.480 But this is an important date to mention.

01:35:41.620 In fact, two years ago, today, was the launch of the Nazarene Fund.

01:35:48.220 Now, the Nazarene Fund has helped thousands and thousands of people in the Middle East evacuate war-torn areas.

01:35:56.080 Because we've done, you know, and I say we, I mean, you know, other than talking about it, I've done very little.

01:36:02.940 But the Nazarene Fund has done real work to actually save people's lives.

01:36:08.100 All the time you're going to hear people criticize conservatives for how they don't care about people that don't look like them.

01:36:14.820 They don't care about people if they don't live in their little gated community.

01:36:18.300 Well, this audience has donated millions and millions of dollars, something like $12 million to save people in the Middle East from, you know, the wars in Syria and Iraq in particular.

01:36:31.280 Yeah, I think it was even 15, but.

01:36:32.960 It was a 15.

01:36:33.660 Yeah, we'll get all the details from Glenn.

01:36:35.120 I know he wanted to be here to kind of give you a, you know.

01:36:39.560 Every once in a while, I think this is important when you talk about charity work.

01:36:43.040 It's important to kind of get the review of what you've actually accomplished.

01:36:46.340 Because I think a lot of times when you talk about donating money, you feel like you donate it and then it's kind of over.

01:36:52.520 You have a moment there, and I think it's important, where you feel good about trying to help people, but you never really learn what happened.

01:36:58.020 So when Glenn gets back, he'll kind of walk you through some of the incredible things that the Nazarene Fund has accomplished.

01:37:03.140 Awesome.

01:37:03.540 And on that same page, MercuryOne.org is raising money for the hurricane, Hurricane Harvey down in southern Texas, that whole area.

01:37:13.120 I mean, this is going to be.

01:37:14.420 It's turning out to be such an unbelievable catastrophe that.

01:37:16.980 It's Katrina-level stuff right now, it looks like.

01:37:19.440 Yeah.

01:37:19.580 And we don't know where it's going to land, but I mean, we're going to have billions and billions of dollars of damages.

01:37:24.100 People are going, their entire lives are going to be ruined.

01:37:25.180 People are losing their homes.

01:37:27.120 MercuryOne, if you go donate to that fund, you're going to get 100% of that.

01:37:31.360 It's going to go towards relief for this disaster.

01:37:34.160 You can't have 15 feet of water in your house and then just go back into it when it dries up.

01:37:41.260 No, that's not how it works.

01:37:42.420 House is ruined.

01:37:43.180 Yeah.

01:37:43.460 House is ruined.

01:37:44.380 And we're going to see tons of that stuff going on.

01:37:47.440 I mean, MercuryOne was very active during Hurricane Sandy as well, and they've reacted to these things.

01:37:54.240 We already have people on the ground.

01:37:55.760 So go to MercuryOne.org and donate.

01:37:59.560 Stu, Jeffy, let me ask you something.

01:38:01.220 When you go to a Catholic school, what do you expect to find?

01:38:07.400 Maybe a school.

01:38:08.660 A school.

01:38:09.320 Okay.

01:38:09.640 Books.

01:38:10.160 Yes.

01:38:10.480 Priests.

01:38:11.120 Priests, yes.

01:38:12.140 Nuns, perhaps?

01:38:12.920 Oh, yeah.

01:38:13.140 Well, obviously nuns.

01:38:13.900 It's a Catholic school.

01:38:14.860 Catholic teachings.

01:38:15.780 I don't know.

01:38:16.960 Catholic curriculum.

01:38:17.500 That's right.

01:38:17.700 A statue of a Catholic saint, maybe?

01:38:19.860 Yeah.

01:38:20.240 Of course.

01:38:21.080 Almost definite.

01:38:21.900 Jesus?

01:38:22.660 I would think he'd be right.

01:38:23.680 A statue of Mary?

01:38:24.980 Oh, absolutely.

01:38:26.120 Yeah, not so much.

01:38:26.740 No, not so much.

01:38:27.200 What do you mean?

01:38:28.700 Parents at a Catholic school in San Anselmo, California, say that the officials at the school

01:38:37.400 are trying to erase history because they've removed a number of statues in order to be

01:38:42.060 inclusive of other faiths.

01:38:46.520 So ridiculous.

01:38:47.440 Now, if I was going to send my kids to a private school, there aren't a heck of a lot of Mormon

01:38:53.100 private schools.

01:38:53.880 So you would either go to a Christian-type, non-denominational, right?

01:38:57.920 Or the other alternative would usually be a Catholic school.

01:39:02.000 And if I sent my children there, I would know what to expect when they get there and

01:39:07.500 wouldn't expect them to change on my behalf.

01:39:10.880 Correct.

01:39:11.840 I mean, this is insanity.

01:39:13.440 This is lunacy.

01:39:14.540 About 18 of the school's 180 religious icons have remained as part of a plan approved unanimously

01:39:25.960 by the board.

01:39:27.460 18 of 180 are still there.

01:39:31.140 They haven't removed 18.

01:39:32.400 They've left 18.

01:39:33.860 Wow.

01:39:34.140 So, one of the nuns at the school said, if you walk on the campus and the first thing

01:39:42.540 you confront is three or four statues of St. Dominic or St. Francis, it could be alienating

01:39:47.680 for that other religion.

01:39:48.800 Are you serious?

01:39:49.300 And we didn't want to further that feeling.

01:39:51.360 Are you serious?

01:39:52.700 That's a real quote.

01:39:53.740 100%.

01:39:54.120 That is a real quote from a nun.

01:39:55.640 An actual quote.

01:39:56.800 Is that?

01:39:58.080 Okay.

01:39:58.620 No, she's the head of the board of trustees.

01:40:01.820 So, she's not a...

01:40:03.120 Even bigger, though, really, in the scope of the administration.

01:40:07.840 It's really weird.

01:40:08.480 I mean, I would...

01:40:09.240 I'm not Catholic, but I would think if I was, I would be very frustrated by the way so many

01:40:14.380 Catholic schools treat Catholicism.

01:40:16.020 It's like an afterthought or actually an objectionable thing.

01:40:20.200 Like, I mean...

01:40:20.760 It's fairly new, though.

01:40:22.560 It does seem to be new, but it seems to be something that you should fight.

01:40:25.580 Against.

01:40:26.000 I mean, if you're going to have a Catholic school, Catholicism should be part of it.

01:40:31.620 Did I just say that sentence?

01:40:33.140 I don't know.

01:40:33.820 No.

01:40:34.860 It is unbelievable.

01:40:37.140 And we use that word way too much because it doesn't mean what we think it means.

01:40:40.620 Sister Maureen McInerney said, San Domenico is a Catholic school.

01:40:45.240 It also welcomes people of all faith.

01:40:47.960 It is making an effort to be inclusive of all faiths.

01:40:50.700 Now, you're already inclusive of all faiths.

01:40:52.300 Already inclusive.

01:40:53.400 That doesn't mean you change who you are to be inclusive of their faith.

01:40:57.100 This is...

01:40:57.980 I mean, how do we get to this place?

01:41:02.120 They've actually gone so far as not just to remove the Catholic saints.

01:41:06.320 They removed a statue of the baby Jesus and Mary.

01:41:10.940 Well, good.

01:41:11.620 Gone.

01:41:12.320 Good.

01:41:12.500 I mean, that is...

01:41:14.000 That's not inclusive.

01:41:14.820 How, if you are sending your kids there for any part of the religious teaching, how can

01:41:21.500 you continue to send them there?

01:41:22.380 You can't.

01:41:22.560 I can't.

01:41:23.420 You couldn't.

01:41:23.820 You just can't.

01:41:25.320 That's incredible.

01:41:26.220 I mean, if you're going to take the extra step to send your kids to a religious school,

01:41:31.900 I mean, that is why you're doing it, right?

01:41:33.960 Yes, that's exactly right.

01:41:35.500 Because you can send them to any private school, if you want to send them to a private school.

01:41:37.820 You can send them to any public school, but if you're going to go through the steps of

01:41:41.820 actually going to a Catholic school, this is unthinkable.

01:41:47.180 It really is amazing.

01:41:51.280 The statue removals have absolutely no connection to the recent statue removal craze sweeping

01:41:57.500 the country, other than it is a change.

01:41:59.300 And you know what?

01:41:59.980 People have a hard time with change.

01:42:03.260 Oh, that's the only relation?

01:42:04.380 The only relation is a change.

01:42:07.820 And people just don't always react positively to change.

01:42:11.660 You know, like when you rip up the baby Jesus statue out of your Catholic school.

01:42:17.160 People don't like those changes for some reason.

01:42:19.540 It's unbelievable.

01:42:20.180 But it's not because it's Jesus.

01:42:21.140 It sure is.

01:42:21.600 It's because it's change.

01:42:23.360 It's like a steakhouse saying, you know what?

01:42:25.780 Sometimes vegetarians come in here, so we're going to remove the steaks from our establishment.

01:42:30.100 Yeah.

01:42:30.680 Because we want to be inclusive of them.

01:42:32.720 Well, can't you just serve an extra vegetarian plate to the vegetarians?

01:42:36.460 Or maybe like, I don't know, tell them.

01:42:38.580 Or just tell them it's a steakhouse!

01:42:39.860 Right.

01:42:40.320 Don't go there.

01:42:41.360 Yeah!

01:42:42.300 Don't come here!

01:42:43.480 Yeah.

01:42:43.920 I mean, and they have.

01:42:45.280 Amazing.

01:42:45.840 A steakhouse usually has something you can eat, and they'll make something for you.

01:42:49.000 They'll do.

01:42:49.520 They're not going to stop what they're doing.

01:42:50.900 If they're a really good one, they absolutely will.

01:42:52.700 They'll do something for you.

01:42:53.840 Absolutely.

01:42:53.940 But the bottom line is, their religion is steak.

01:42:57.420 Yes.

01:42:57.980 So they're not going to remove the steak out of the steakhouse.

01:43:00.860 They damn well better.

01:43:02.500 I'll tell you that right now.

01:43:03.760 To be inclusive.

01:43:05.200 To be inclusive of others.

01:43:07.300 Had it with these steakhouses everywhere, thinking, oh, we just don't steak.

01:43:10.900 Then we have this little...

01:43:12.060 It literally is unbelievable.

01:43:14.980 Yeah, it is.

01:43:16.060 Except I don't think you know what that word means.

01:43:18.280 I most definitely don't.

01:43:19.760 First grade girl, little girl in first grade at another California school.

01:43:24.940 It's a California charter school.

01:43:26.320 Sent to the principal's office last week after she accidentally misgendered a classmate.

01:43:33.880 Was it an accident?

01:43:35.000 Was it?

01:43:35.760 What they're calling it, Jeffy, is a pronoun mishap.

01:43:39.000 Okay.

01:43:39.740 I don't know if you've ever been involved or seen or been near a pronoun mishap.

01:43:44.940 It's ugly.

01:43:45.300 Ugly is what it is.

01:43:46.260 I saw 14 people die in a pronoun mishap about three weeks ago.

01:43:50.160 It was really sad and really tragic.

01:43:53.300 Some of them were saying him.

01:43:54.760 Some of them were saying her.

01:43:56.400 But they all dropped dead afterwards.

01:43:58.080 All of them.

01:43:58.960 Just a big pile of dead pronoun mishap people.

01:44:02.780 The incident occurred at Rockland Academy after a school already roiled by controversy after a kindergarten teacher led an in-class discussion of transgenderism that included a gender reveal for a little boy who was transitioning to a little girl.

01:44:21.820 So, you've got kindergartners here being subjected to a transgenderism lecture when they're, what are you in kindergarten, five, six?

01:44:33.620 Yeah.

01:44:34.400 Five and six-year-olds.

01:44:36.140 Now, the parents were not notified.

01:44:40.840 They weren't told this is coming.

01:44:42.280 They weren't offered the option of opting out.

01:44:45.240 In fact, they were told, yeah, you don't have any right to have, to opt out of this.

01:44:50.300 Everybody needs to hear this.

01:44:53.660 These kinds of sexual sort of discussions, I don't want done at school.

01:44:59.580 If they're going to be done with my five and six-year-old, I want to do them myself.

01:45:03.820 And you don't want to do them yourself.

01:45:04.840 And you don't want to do them that early.

01:45:06.480 I have a four and a six-year-old.

01:45:07.960 They're nowhere close to needing to hear any of that information.

01:45:11.460 Nowhere close.

01:45:12.300 They have.

01:45:12.660 Oh, my gosh.

01:45:13.440 Have you not told them about gender mishaps yet?

01:45:18.660 They better not participate in any gender mishaps.

01:45:21.220 I'll tell you that.

01:45:21.360 But you've told them about pronoun mishaps, right?

01:45:24.100 I have not told them about pronoun.

01:45:25.440 I want to keep them innocent for as long as possible.

01:45:27.420 Not pronoun or gender mishaps?

01:45:28.880 Holy cow.

01:45:30.420 Holy cow.

01:45:31.200 Whatever.

01:45:32.380 You know, they're like, my son, Zach, is in the phase where his best friend, that's a girl,

01:45:36.920 he's convinced he's marrying.

01:45:38.780 And I'm like, I said to him, I said, how dare you, with your gender normative standards,

01:45:44.240 to assume you're going to marry a girl?

01:45:47.160 Wow.

01:45:47.580 And I locked him in a closet for six weeks.

01:45:50.300 At this young age?

01:45:51.140 You better set that screen.

01:45:51.940 I wanted to make sure he understood the concept.

01:45:54.340 And did you put him in a dress when you locked him in the closet?

01:45:56.320 Yes.

01:45:56.760 I hope so.

01:45:57.240 You have to learn.

01:45:58.100 And here's some dolls.

01:46:00.080 You little creep.

01:46:01.560 Come out when you're gender neutral, okay?

01:46:05.120 Not a moment sooner.

01:46:06.920 First of all, for a kindergartner to be transitioning at that age, they don't know.

01:46:15.660 It's completely ridiculous.

01:46:16.820 You don't know anything.

01:46:17.940 You eat paste when you're five years old.

01:46:19.660 Yes!

01:46:20.340 Like, this is not a time to make life decisions.

01:46:22.680 Paste and dirt, and you think it's delicious.

01:46:25.480 You don't know any better.

01:46:27.740 Really, you're not.

01:46:28.600 I mean, we don't let people do very basic things until they get older.

01:46:34.320 I mean, you know, 18 to vote, right?

01:46:36.300 I mean, there are real limitations on what we do to children and what we allow them to do.

01:46:43.800 And for good reason.

01:46:44.540 For good reason.

01:46:45.060 Because you know what?

01:46:46.100 You don't make the best choices when you're that age.

01:46:47.760 No, you don't.

01:46:48.340 You know what?

01:46:48.680 Your favorite shows are ridiculous.

01:46:52.160 Your favorite movies are ridiculous.

01:46:54.000 You can't even choose good entertainment.

01:46:55.520 You can't even dress yourself appropriately.

01:47:00.180 I mean, you might mismatch colors at that age.

01:47:02.480 Yeah.

01:47:02.780 We can't allow you with these kind of decisions.

01:47:05.020 It's really true.

01:47:06.000 What's good, though, is that for more than an hour, the girl was investigated.

01:47:11.500 Yeah.

01:47:11.900 She was just out on the playground, and she knew the kid from last year, and he was a boy last year.

01:47:16.960 So she called him by, she didn't even use a pronoun, well, she used the pronoun of his name.

01:47:22.560 Name.

01:47:23.160 His stinking name.

01:47:24.180 His name from last year, Pat, from last year.

01:47:27.120 She called him by his boy name.

01:47:28.500 So they had to have an investigation.

01:47:30.780 So the kid, the little boy or little girl now, I've just committed a pronoun mishap myself.

01:47:37.260 Oh, my God.

01:47:38.040 But the little girl went to somebody on the playground, a teacher on the playground, and so the little girl got in trouble on the playground.

01:47:44.040 Then she got called out of class to the principal's office and was lectured for another hour as they investigated the situation.

01:47:51.080 To make sure that she wasn't bullying.

01:47:53.140 If you were a parent of this little girl, I can't even imagine how livid I would be.

01:48:00.900 I just...

01:48:01.940 Yeah, it's amazing.

01:48:03.000 And the idea that you can make those decisions at that point is completely ridiculous.

01:48:07.080 I gave you the quote from one of my favorite quotes from Jonah Goldberg.

01:48:10.840 It is a simple fact of science that nothing correlates more with ignorance and stupidity than youth.

01:48:17.440 We're all born idiots, and we only get over that condition as we get less young.

01:48:23.540 Yes!

01:48:24.440 So true.

01:48:25.080 Now, you might find that out later in life, that that's what you need to do.

01:48:28.500 And, you know, at that point, no one's going to stop you.

01:48:30.620 This is America.

01:48:31.320 You want to make choices.

01:48:32.260 You want to make...

01:48:32.780 You want to live the life that you think you need to live.

01:48:34.900 People are going to be fine with it.

01:48:36.180 But when you're five years old, it's just not appropriate.

01:48:39.580 It's ludicrous.

01:48:40.000 It's ludicrous.

01:48:40.500 It is ludicrous.

01:48:41.540 And listen to the quote of the mother of the little girl who got in trouble.

01:48:45.200 You can tell she's trying to be inclusive.

01:48:47.200 She's trying to be, you know, tolerant and all that.

01:48:50.360 I stressed over and over with the principle that I am all for protecting the rights of the transgender child.

01:48:56.380 But my children have rights as well.

01:48:58.480 It makes me sad that my daughter felt like she was punished for trying to be kind to the kid.

01:49:04.220 I mean, that's a pretty reasonable...

01:49:06.220 That's a lot more reasonable than I would have been from the parent.

01:49:09.700 When your child has been treated like this for a pronoun mishap.

01:49:15.320 Wow.

01:49:16.060 888-727-BECK.

01:49:17.720 More of the Glenn Beck program with Pat and Stu coming up.

01:49:19.900 There's lots of, you know, crazy things going on in the world from potential war in North Korea.

01:49:27.160 Europe's trying more on this quantitative easing thing that they're trying to do.

01:49:30.760 And, of course, pronoun mishaps.

01:49:32.520 A lot of uncertainty in the world.

01:49:33.720 Why did you start with the worst one?

01:49:35.320 How did you bury pronoun mishaps?

01:49:37.460 It's the third thing going on.

01:49:41.040 Wow.

01:49:41.440 Well, a decision on one of those minor things, like Europe's quantitative easing policies, is going to be pushed to next month.

01:49:47.420 That was announced by the president of the European Central Bank this weekend at the Jackson Hole Economic Policy Symposium.

01:49:52.540 Which I know, Pat, I know you had tickets to it.

01:49:54.640 Did you not want to make it?

01:49:55.920 Did you not feel well?

01:49:56.720 No.

01:49:57.440 I got sick that weekend.

01:49:58.940 You did.

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01:51:05.760 Oh, jeez.

01:51:06.460 Jeffy just showed me a photo of the 610 Loop in Houston.

01:51:14.120 It's the inner loop.

01:51:16.100 And I think it was the Market Street exit.

01:51:19.020 Yeah.

01:51:19.260 The freeway sign that tells you, like, what exit is coming up is almost underwater completely.

01:51:26.580 It's like 15 feet high.

01:51:30.060 Oh, my city is just being destroyed.

01:51:33.020 This is just...

01:51:33.420 Devastated.

01:51:34.580 Devastating.

01:51:36.000 Wow.

01:51:37.040 Our thoughts and prayers are with everybody being affected by this.

01:51:41.480 Not just Houston, but the surrounding areas and all the way down to Corpus and Port Aransas.

01:51:46.240 And, I mean, there's just so much devastation.

01:51:50.380 We're going to have to link arms and roll up our sleeves and pitch in to help.

01:51:58.100 Hopefully, Glenn's back tomorrow.

01:52:00.060 We'll see you then.

01:52:06.840 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

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The Glenn Beck Program - August 28, 2017

8⧸28⧸17 - Politicizing the storm (Joe Bastardi of Weatherbell.com joins the program)

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