The Glenn Beck Program - 8⧸31⧸17 - Life is easy, but people are complex

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00:00:07.240 Hello, America.

00:00:09.080 There's a couple of things that you should know about.

00:00:11.060 If you live anywhere near Texas, you probably should fill up your gas tank today.

00:00:20.580 If you've got a couple of cars, you have a motorcycle, make sure that you get filled today.

00:00:25.600 Here in Texas, on the way in, four gas stations with signs on the pump, out of gas.

00:00:34.180 Talking to the owner of the last gas station, he said 90% of the gas that we have, at least here in Texas,

00:00:42.880 and I'm imagining it's like this around the Gulf states, 90% of it we get from Houston.

00:00:50.380 There's no gas coming out of Houston.

00:00:52.560 It's going to be a very long weekend, and what happened in Houston does not stay in Houston.

00:01:00.280 This is going to affect the entire country and perhaps the world.

00:01:05.380 There's also another story that I want to start with today, and that is a story, yet again, from a misguided media

00:01:14.840 that is saying to us, Houston is not showing us the best of people.

00:01:20.900 This is not what America really is.

00:01:25.480 Really?

00:01:27.740 It is.

00:01:29.460 And it's important that we recognize it and we share it with our children.

00:01:33.980 And I begin there right now.

00:01:35.400 I will make a stand.

00:01:38.820 I will raise my voice.

00:01:41.120 I will hold your hand.

00:01:43.540 Because we are one.

00:01:45.320 I will beat my drum.

00:01:47.580 I have made my choice.

00:01:49.840 We will overcome.

00:01:52.120 Because we are one.

00:01:54.080 The fusion of entertainment and enlightenment.

00:01:58.000 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:02:03.580 I want you to listen to this.

00:02:04.780 I'm not even going to give the publication the service of telling you where you can find this article.

00:02:13.000 But it's not a nobody website.

00:02:19.080 Katie Waldman has just put out a piece called misleading to say Houston showcases America at its best.

00:02:25.380 The flood, the animals, it all felt so mystic.

00:02:29.080 So mythic, she writes.

00:02:31.480 The Washington Times highlighted the many Clark Kent's and Princess Diana's vaulting into action.

00:02:37.960 Hurricane Harvey brings out the best in America.

00:02:40.400 There is an adage that adversity doesn't build character.

00:02:43.780 It reveals it.

00:02:45.180 But does catastrophe illustrate or does it transform?

00:02:50.340 What if America is a less glorious nation of do-gooders waiting for their chance to exercise their altruism

00:02:56.900 than a moral junior varsity team just elevated by circumstance?

00:03:03.400 First of all, do you want to live in that world?

00:03:08.340 What's your name, Katie?

00:03:10.400 Is that the world you live in?

00:03:13.000 Is that the world you want to live in?

00:03:16.120 Because I can't imagine it's a happy place to wake up to every day.

00:03:21.020 We're just, nobody's really good.

00:03:23.360 Nothing's really positive.

00:03:25.280 It's all horrible.

00:03:27.780 And, you know, once in a while, a catastrophe will elevate us.

00:03:32.480 First of all, Katie, do your homework.

00:03:37.940 For thousands of years, men have pondered.

00:03:44.100 Do men really rise to the occasion?

00:03:46.640 Katie, I, you know, I'm a self-educated man.

00:03:55.900 I probably didn't go to a big fancy school like you did.

00:03:59.800 So I apologize for not having the name of this highfalutin Greek.

00:04:04.680 But I read something a couple of months ago that is absolutely true.

00:04:10.860 And it's from ancient Greece.

00:04:14.000 So it's been around for a while.

00:04:16.900 That men don't rise to the occasion.

00:04:20.340 They don't.

00:04:21.100 They rise to the level of their preparedness and knowledge.

00:04:27.640 So if you're not prepared to be a decent person, if you're not, if that's not who you are inside,

00:04:34.780 you won't suddenly become altruistic.

00:04:39.160 It doesn't happen.

00:04:41.760 Generally speaking, when things go horribly, men turn into animals.

00:04:47.460 Why do you think so many people like me are worried about a real economic crash?

00:04:56.340 In 1930, when we went through the Great Depression, and by the way, Katie, while you're there,

00:05:01.560 you should look up and answer this one question.

00:05:04.280 Why is it called the Great Depression in America, but just the depression everywhere else?

00:05:10.840 It would be an interesting sidebar for you.

00:05:12.480 But when you look at what happened to us in the 1930s, there were the Nazis here in America.

00:05:24.200 That's another sidebar you should look up.

00:05:26.600 The German Bund movement of the 1930s in New York.

00:05:33.180 But then also look up the communist movement in the 1930s.

00:05:40.780 See the Antifa movement of the 1930s.

00:05:44.680 See the ports.

00:05:47.660 It would be interesting for you to look into Oakland and San Francisco

00:05:51.780 and see what happened with the riots back then

00:05:54.800 and how people were beaten and beaten with clubs and lumber in the street.

00:06:05.920 Men go bad.

00:06:08.360 Especially when all they're looking for is power and control.

00:06:12.960 Men go bad.

00:06:13.860 There's another book out there about our better angels.

00:06:21.120 I started reading it because I watched Game of Thrones.

00:06:24.980 Holy cow, is that violent.

00:06:27.680 And I couldn't believe that's not the way life was, right?

00:06:30.800 It couldn't have been like that.

00:06:32.520 Oh yeah, that's exactly the way life was.

00:06:35.820 So tell me about the altruistic nature of man.

00:06:39.280 Man, generally, they're cowards.

00:06:45.520 I know I am.

00:06:46.620 I'm not saying I'm not.

00:06:48.280 I know I am.

00:06:50.080 One of my greatest fears in life is

00:06:52.320 I have prepared myself to be able to stand up when times get tough,

00:07:00.460 to be able to stand up.

00:07:03.240 God forbid we'd go through another 1930s.

00:07:06.160 I challenged my own kids at literally the gates of Auschwitz.

00:07:11.380 Kids, you're old enough now to really understand.

00:07:15.420 You're in your 20s.

00:07:17.240 I took you here because I want you to make a decision.

00:07:21.940 Who are you going to be?

00:07:23.940 If the world ever goes insane again, who will you be?

00:07:27.880 My fear is with all the preparation and all the thought and prayer that I have done

00:07:32.180 that I still cave at the last minute.

00:07:36.160 We're animals.

00:07:45.980 And when we're afraid, we're most likely to become that animal.

00:07:53.420 Civilization is a very frail and fragile thing.

00:07:56.960 But there's something in the West, there's something particularly in America

00:08:05.260 that has tamed that wild beast.

00:08:10.020 Not always.

00:08:11.080 Holy cow.

00:08:13.140 I'm sure you know slavery.

00:08:15.460 I'm sure, Katie, though, you also know that the first slave owner,

00:08:20.780 the one who went to court in America under English law,

00:08:26.220 to demand that, no, this isn't indentured servitude.

00:08:29.440 I have a right to own this black man.

00:08:33.320 I'm sure, Katie, you've done enough homework and you know

00:08:36.760 that that man who was the first slave owner in America

00:08:41.300 that fought for that right to own another human being

00:08:43.960 was himself a black man.

00:08:48.580 I know.

00:08:49.700 Things get confusing, don't they?

00:08:51.740 Actually, actually, it's not.

00:08:56.160 Life is easy.

00:09:00.100 It's people that are complex.

00:09:04.120 Because you can never really tell what they're going to do

00:09:09.120 when they're afraid.

00:09:10.980 But in America, we have always,

00:09:17.420 we've, I can't even say always,

00:09:20.020 it may take us decades.

00:09:23.800 But as again, we found out in the Civil War,

00:09:26.900 we found out in World War II,

00:09:30.200 after a decade of playing footsie with the Communists

00:09:33.260 and the Nazis in our own cities,

00:09:36.940 having radio show hosts like Father Coughlin,

00:09:40.060 a progressive, by the way,

00:09:41.580 not a Republican or conservative,

00:09:44.460 but a deep, diehard progressive,

00:09:47.120 having him on the air

00:09:49.120 and having 80 million people listening to him a week

00:09:52.980 talk about how great the Nazis are.

00:09:55.620 Yeah, it took us a while,

00:09:56.840 but as Thomas Jefferson said,

00:09:59.080 trust the people.

00:09:59.820 They may get it wrong first,

00:10:01.100 but they'll eventually figure it out and get it right.

00:10:04.300 And we do.

00:10:07.420 This time,

00:10:08.260 this one time here in Houston,

00:10:10.640 we have been blessed

00:10:12.020 that it didn't take us long to figure it out.

00:10:15.000 We were those people.

00:10:18.240 And I'm sorry,

00:10:19.100 you don't just become those people

00:10:20.580 if you haven't prepared to be those people

00:10:23.420 in some way or another.

00:10:24.440 I wonder if it's this, Katie.

00:10:33.140 And this is only my personal experience.

00:10:37.060 But I grew up in a small town

00:10:38.640 called Mount Vernon, Washington.

00:10:40.620 I don't think you would like it

00:10:41.900 because it's not really diverse.

00:10:44.960 Full of just a bunch of white farmers,

00:10:46.880 most of them from Holland.

00:10:48.620 It's Tulip, capital of the West.

00:10:53.780 Not a lot of exciting things happened there

00:10:55.480 when I was growing up.

00:10:58.640 Well, I was going to say,

00:10:59.740 it's not very diverse,

00:11:00.580 so you might not like it,

00:11:01.620 but it's like unbelievably progressive.

00:11:05.620 So then again,

00:11:06.400 you might love it,

00:11:08.380 but I'm going to let you figure out

00:11:10.160 how you square that.

00:11:12.060 My dad owned the city bakery.

00:11:17.880 It was on Main Street.

00:11:22.040 It was in the hotel lobby

00:11:24.180 of the Roosevelt Hotel.

00:11:29.560 And downtown Mount Vernon,

00:11:31.440 when it was bustling

00:11:33.360 in the late 60s, early 70s,

00:11:36.580 was just this great little town.

00:11:39.900 But then the mall moved in

00:11:40.880 and kind of disrupted that

00:11:42.400 and we became part

00:11:45.900 of this homogenized America

00:11:47.700 where it was all Ann Taylor's

00:11:49.220 and Gap.

00:11:50.260 This was long before those.

00:11:54.060 But we loved our small town.

00:11:57.700 And it's right on the bend

00:11:59.540 of the Skagit River.

00:12:01.500 And once in a while, rarely,

00:12:02.980 but once in a while,

00:12:03.980 the river would flood.

00:12:06.780 And the downtown,

00:12:08.560 there were levees that were built

00:12:10.620 and then the downtown

00:12:11.560 kind of went down a steep hill.

00:12:14.520 And so if the river ever flooded,

00:12:17.080 the downtown flooded quickly.

00:12:23.180 I've been thinking about this

00:12:24.260 a lot this week

00:12:25.060 because I wondered,

00:12:27.280 I wondered if this had anything

00:12:32.020 to do,

00:12:32.520 making me into the man

00:12:33.780 that I am today,

00:12:34.800 one that wants to be

00:12:36.660 on the front lines helping.

00:12:40.960 Because one year,

00:12:42.420 our town flooded

00:12:43.160 and I must have been

00:12:43.940 about eight years old maybe.

00:12:47.480 And we all had to go down

00:12:48.600 and fill sandbags

00:12:49.600 and it was me and my dad.

00:12:51.460 And we went down

00:12:52.700 to the riverbank

00:12:53.700 and we were filling sandbags.

00:12:56.800 I'll never forget it.

00:12:57.940 There's one picture

00:12:58.880 my mom took of everybody.

00:13:01.420 I don't even know

00:13:02.060 if I'm in the picture

00:13:02.760 or my dad's in the picture.

00:13:03.620 It was just everybody

00:13:04.360 helping out,

00:13:05.080 the whole town helping out.

00:13:07.680 And I'll never forget

00:13:08.340 my father about

00:13:09.060 three shovelfuls in of sand.

00:13:11.300 He had a really bad back,

00:13:12.980 threw out his back.

00:13:14.340 And I knew it.

00:13:15.320 I looked up at my dad

00:13:16.120 and he just stopped and froze.

00:13:18.520 And I said,

00:13:19.160 are you okay, dad?

00:13:20.040 And he said,

00:13:20.780 yep, just keep the bag open.

00:13:23.840 And he shoveled sand

00:13:25.320 for hours.

00:13:26.220 That week,

00:13:30.020 my dad couldn't walk

00:13:31.820 and he actually had to sleep

00:13:35.160 in our bakery

00:13:36.060 because we couldn't afford

00:13:37.020 to close it.

00:13:38.080 He had to go to work.

00:13:40.640 And so he slept in the bakery

00:13:42.300 and he would get up

00:13:44.140 on the table

00:13:45.140 and the bakery,

00:13:46.160 they're called a bench

00:13:46.820 and he would get up

00:13:47.520 on the bench

00:13:48.040 and he laid down

00:13:50.800 on one of the benches.

00:13:52.000 And that week,

00:13:55.060 we kept our bakery open

00:13:56.420 because the guy

00:13:57.560 who ran the Magnavox store,

00:14:00.500 I believe the guy

00:14:01.540 who was our postman

00:14:03.140 and another guy

00:14:05.540 who was one of our family's

00:14:06.560 best friends

00:14:06.960 and I don't even remember

00:14:07.680 what he did for a living,

00:14:09.920 they all took turns

00:14:10.920 that week

00:14:11.520 baking for my dad.

00:14:13.680 None of them

00:14:14.100 had any experience.

00:14:15.100 My dad would just say,

00:14:16.440 okay,

00:14:17.640 take a pound of flour

00:14:20.160 and throw it into

00:14:22.120 that mixer over there.

00:14:25.160 And my dad

00:14:26.300 was teaching these men

00:14:27.620 how to bake

00:14:28.220 and that week,

00:14:29.680 the town

00:14:30.240 came and rallied

00:14:32.000 around my father

00:14:33.100 after he had rallied

00:14:35.500 around the town.

00:14:38.780 And I watched that.

00:14:41.840 And this week,

00:14:42.760 I thought of that memory.

00:14:43.900 I haven't thought of it

00:14:44.540 in years

00:14:45.080 and I wondered,

00:14:46.500 I wonder

00:14:47.140 what impact

00:14:50.820 that had

00:14:51.700 on me.

00:14:56.600 Because, Katie,

00:14:57.320 your premise is wrong.

00:14:59.560 Men don't just rise

00:15:00.380 to the occasion.

00:15:03.340 They rise to the level

00:15:04.580 of their preparedness

00:15:05.620 and their knowledge.

00:15:10.040 I think I rise

00:15:11.220 a lot of days

00:15:12.000 in very small,

00:15:14.860 insignificant ways.

00:15:15.740 because my father

00:15:18.020 prepared me to.

00:15:20.400 Because my little,

00:15:21.880 small town,

00:15:24.920 so lacking

00:15:26.680 in diversity,

00:15:28.120 but yet so

00:15:29.040 unbelievably progressive,

00:15:31.300 taught me

00:15:32.880 some important lessons.

00:15:35.960 When push comes

00:15:36.980 to shove,

00:15:38.360 we do all

00:15:40.080 have to stand

00:15:40.900 together

00:15:41.380 and help

00:15:43.660 each other.

00:15:44.100 I didn't mean to make

00:16:05.500 the opening monologue

00:16:06.380 so personal

00:16:07.000 to Katie,

00:16:08.720 but I think

00:16:09.100 she needs to

00:16:10.180 look at things

00:16:12.040 maybe perhaps

00:16:12.660 a little differently.

00:16:13.340 she's a writer

00:16:14.600 that,

00:16:15.320 I'm not even

00:16:16.080 going to give you

00:16:16.380 the name

00:16:17.300 of the place

00:16:18.400 where she wrote

00:16:18.960 this article

00:16:19.460 because I don't

00:16:20.340 want to give her

00:16:20.740 the clicks,

00:16:21.800 but she wrote

00:16:23.340 an article

00:16:23.720 that basically

00:16:24.340 said,

00:16:25.280 Houston's not

00:16:25.920 all that.

00:16:26.760 I mean,

00:16:27.020 really,

00:16:28.060 it's really

00:16:28.480 not all that.

00:16:30.080 People are just,

00:16:31.220 you know,

00:16:31.500 they see something

00:16:32.320 and they're

00:16:33.140 pushed into it.

00:16:34.340 We're not

00:16:34.560 some great country.

00:16:35.780 We just get

00:16:37.280 pushed into

00:16:37.820 these things.

00:16:38.580 Events make us.

00:16:39.520 No.

00:16:41.400 No.

00:16:42.360 It's what we

00:16:43.040 make of events

00:16:44.200 that changes us.

00:16:45.680 It's a progressive

00:16:46.740 flaw in thinking

00:16:48.780 that you don't

00:16:50.140 really have any

00:16:50.700 control over your

00:16:51.480 life.

00:16:52.540 My life is a

00:16:53.720 blank sheet of

00:16:54.600 paper.

00:16:55.580 The only one

00:16:56.460 that can write

00:16:57.140 the story of my

00:16:58.340 life is me.

00:17:01.060 If you allow

00:17:03.060 anyone else

00:17:04.120 to write your

00:17:05.360 story,

00:17:05.980 that's your fault.

00:17:06.660 that is you

00:17:08.160 inviting another

00:17:11.000 author in.

00:17:12.700 But that's the

00:17:13.840 basic point of

00:17:14.560 America.

00:17:15.380 We all can

00:17:16.400 start all over

00:17:17.140 again.

00:17:17.620 We can all

00:17:18.840 change our

00:17:19.900 mind and

00:17:21.500 change our

00:17:21.960 life and

00:17:23.340 start all over

00:17:24.040 again.

00:17:25.340 That's why

00:17:25.680 America likes

00:17:26.900 rags to riches

00:17:28.140 story.

00:17:28.840 Because that's

00:17:30.080 our nature.

00:17:32.120 That's been

00:17:32.900 bred into us.

00:17:34.040 But Katie,

00:17:36.460 I know I

00:17:37.600 said you

00:17:37.880 should do

00:17:38.160 some homework

00:17:38.560 on the

00:17:38.820 Great Depression

00:17:39.220 to find out

00:17:39.720 why it was

00:17:40.540 called great

00:17:41.080 where everyone

00:17:41.560 else, it's

00:17:42.120 not great.

00:17:42.900 Please, will

00:17:43.420 you do me a

00:17:43.840 favor?

00:17:44.780 Get that

00:17:45.460 message to

00:17:46.100 Nancy Pelosi

00:17:47.060 when you

00:17:47.480 figure that

00:17:47.900 out.

00:17:48.200 Chairman

00:17:48.480 Mernanke is

00:17:49.320 probably one

00:17:50.180 of the

00:17:50.600 foremost

00:17:51.020 authorities

00:17:51.820 in America

00:17:53.040 on the

00:17:54.340 subject of

00:17:55.640 the Great

00:17:56.240 Depression.

00:17:57.960 I don't know

00:17:58.840 what was so

00:17:59.320 great about

00:17:59.980 the Depression,

00:18:01.020 but that's

00:18:01.580 the name they

00:18:02.100 give it.

00:18:04.040 It's so

00:18:04.800 good.

00:18:06.300 Really

00:18:06.860 unbelievable.

00:18:08.140 I can't

00:18:08.800 take the

00:18:10.620 level of

00:18:12.020 self-imposed

00:18:13.620 ignorance that

00:18:14.740 we all just

00:18:15.440 accept.

00:18:16.380 You know

00:18:16.580 what I mean?

00:18:17.400 Here's an

00:18:18.140 intelligent woman.

00:18:19.060 Nancy Pelosi

00:18:19.660 is an

00:18:20.040 intelligent woman.

00:18:21.220 Is she?

00:18:22.320 Is she?

00:18:23.240 Come on.

00:18:24.120 It's about as

00:18:25.160 dumb a statement

00:18:25.920 as the Great

00:18:26.480 Depression thing.

00:18:27.920 She is living

00:18:28.920 a life of

00:18:29.800 self-imposed

00:18:30.980 ignorance.

00:18:31.860 She has

00:18:32.260 access to

00:18:33.180 information.

00:18:34.040 She chooses

00:18:34.880 not to

00:18:35.920 spend the

00:18:36.560 time to

00:18:37.880 open her

00:18:38.720 mind and

00:18:39.580 expand.

00:18:41.060 She can

00:18:41.580 do it.

00:18:42.020 She chooses

00:18:43.300 not to.

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00:19:31.040 The Glenn Beck Program.

00:19:31.220 Welcome to the

00:19:33.880 program.

00:19:34.360 So glad that

00:19:34.800 you're here.

00:19:35.200 A couple

00:19:35.380 things you

00:19:35.800 should be

00:19:36.040 aware of.

00:19:37.620 Anybody who

00:19:38.700 you're hearing

00:19:39.540 talk about

00:19:40.320 global warming

00:19:42.520 and climate

00:19:43.640 crisis and

00:19:44.540 how they're

00:19:44.960 glad these

00:19:45.600 oil refineries

00:19:47.720 are shutting

00:19:48.120 down and

00:19:49.020 how these

00:19:50.220 evil oil

00:19:50.900 corporations

00:19:51.480 are getting

00:19:51.920 theirs now.

00:19:53.500 Let me just

00:19:53.900 say this.

00:19:54.300 if you live

00:19:54.760 if you live

00:19:54.780 anywhere in

00:19:56.720 Texas you

00:19:58.140 should know

00:19:58.600 that 90%

00:19:59.900 of all

00:20:01.240 of the

00:20:01.520 gas that

00:20:02.060 is in

00:20:02.440 Texas comes

00:20:03.300 through

00:20:03.740 Houston.

00:20:04.320 Those oil

00:20:04.740 refineries that

00:20:05.460 shut down

00:20:06.120 a few days

00:20:07.220 ago.

00:20:07.960 There's no

00:20:08.600 new gas

00:20:09.840 coming out

00:20:10.940 of those

00:20:11.560 oil refineries.

00:20:13.220 So if you

00:20:14.320 are thinking

00:20:14.800 about going

00:20:16.060 someplace for

00:20:16.800 Labor Day

00:20:17.160 weekend you

00:20:17.700 might want

00:20:18.340 to reconsider

00:20:19.060 because I

00:20:20.880 don't know

00:20:21.500 at least in

00:20:22.400 Texas if you're

00:20:23.160 going to be

00:20:23.700 able to get

00:20:24.180 gas throughout

00:20:25.000 the weekend.

00:20:26.140 Lines are

00:20:26.760 already starting

00:20:27.340 to form here.

00:20:29.020 Four gas

00:20:29.480 stations on

00:20:30.020 the way in

00:20:30.580 had signs on

00:20:31.600 the pump,

00:20:32.320 sorry, out

00:20:32.940 of gas.

00:20:34.040 They don't

00:20:34.700 know when

00:20:35.000 they're going

00:20:35.260 to get gas.

00:20:36.640 I bet this

00:20:37.400 affects more

00:20:38.220 than just

00:20:38.980 Dallas and

00:20:41.580 Texas, I

00:20:43.300 would imagine.

00:20:44.680 I don't know

00:20:45.340 the supply lines

00:20:46.280 but I would

00:20:46.680 imagine a lot

00:20:47.860 of the Gulf

00:20:49.660 and Southwest

00:20:51.380 region is

00:20:53.020 supported by

00:20:53.920 the oil

00:20:54.540 refineries that

00:20:55.440 were shut

00:20:56.740 down now in

00:20:57.820 Houston and

00:20:58.780 we again don't

00:20:59.440 know when

00:20:59.820 they'll open

00:21:00.280 up again.

00:21:01.580 Get gas

00:21:02.320 today, fill

00:21:03.000 your gas

00:21:03.520 tanks and

00:21:05.060 make sure you

00:21:05.560 have some and

00:21:06.820 I would highly

00:21:07.860 recommend that

00:21:08.460 you do it

00:21:09.060 today and

00:21:10.180 then re-evaluate

00:21:11.200 your plans.

00:21:13.020 Also you

00:21:13.600 should know

00:21:14.420 that 42%

00:21:16.280 of all jet

00:21:18.800 fuel comes

00:21:20.500 from the

00:21:21.140 Gulf.

00:21:22.040 So if you

00:21:23.760 haven't purchased

00:21:24.940 a ticket on

00:21:26.480 an airplane,

00:21:28.080 you might want

00:21:29.280 to purchase it

00:21:29.800 right now but

00:21:31.280 I would check

00:21:31.880 in to see if

00:21:32.620 they have a

00:21:33.140 fuel surcharge

00:21:34.040 because if you

00:21:35.440 buy a ticket

00:21:36.100 and in a couple

00:21:37.440 of weeks they

00:21:38.380 have no jet

00:21:40.280 fuel or jet

00:21:42.080 fuel is really,

00:21:43.260 really expensive,

00:21:43.920 if they can

00:21:45.040 add a surcharge

00:21:45.960 they will

00:21:47.020 because there's

00:21:49.620 no more jet

00:21:51.080 fuel coming out

00:21:51.860 of the Houston

00:21:52.700 area at least

00:21:53.900 for a while

00:21:54.460 and again

00:21:54.920 that jet

00:21:57.800 fuel services

00:21:59.140 42% of the

00:22:01.680 airline industry

00:22:02.640 in America.

00:22:04.060 It's going to

00:22:05.180 get very

00:22:05.860 expensive to

00:22:06.940 travel.

00:22:10.260 Next week

00:22:11.300 we're going to

00:22:11.840 give you a

00:22:13.780 look at

00:22:14.980 the

00:22:16.100 dominoes

00:22:18.380 that something

00:22:19.720 like this

00:22:20.420 caused.

00:22:22.700 You know

00:22:22.840 people think

00:22:24.380 that it was

00:22:24.820 the stock

00:22:25.380 market in

00:22:26.040 1929 that

00:22:27.020 caused the

00:22:27.860 crash.

00:22:28.500 It really

00:22:29.160 wasn't.

00:22:30.620 Look it up.

00:22:32.420 It was a

00:22:32.980 hurricane.

00:22:34.920 I don't know

00:22:35.720 how many people

00:22:36.260 really know

00:22:37.520 this history

00:22:38.140 but here's

00:22:40.100 what really

00:22:40.680 happened.

00:22:41.120 everyone

00:22:43.540 was they

00:22:45.220 had gone

00:22:45.740 mad.

00:22:47.280 I read a

00:22:48.320 story about

00:22:48.880 Warren Buffett

00:22:49.680 and he was

00:22:51.520 explaining how

00:22:52.660 bubbles work

00:22:53.460 and he said

00:22:54.900 basically you

00:22:56.340 know with a

00:22:57.020 housing bubble

00:22:57.780 when people

00:22:59.760 understand that

00:23:01.060 because the

00:23:02.060 dollar continues

00:23:02.960 to be devalued

00:23:04.360 right.

00:23:05.340 I mean we

00:23:05.860 know that

00:23:07.080 what we

00:23:07.860 used to

00:23:08.300 buy for

00:23:08.920 two dollars

00:23:09.700 can't be

00:23:10.940 purchased for

00:23:11.480 two dollars

00:23:11.980 now.

00:23:13.860 You look at

00:23:14.760 a gold coin

00:23:15.600 that's a

00:23:15.980 twenty dollar

00:23:16.700 gold piece

00:23:17.480 and they

00:23:17.900 usually say

00:23:18.400 nineteen hundred

00:23:19.340 twenty dollar

00:23:20.380 gold piece

00:23:20.980 meaning in

00:23:21.960 nineteen hundred

00:23:22.660 that twenty

00:23:23.740 dollars that

00:23:25.000 gold piece

00:23:25.880 was worth

00:23:26.720 about twenty

00:23:27.220 dollars.

00:23:27.720 Today it's

00:23:28.140 worth about

00:23:28.620 what fourteen

00:23:29.180 hundred dollars.

00:23:29.920 a twenty

00:23:31.620 dollar gold

00:23:32.200 piece would

00:23:32.740 have gotten

00:23:33.060 you the

00:23:33.600 best suit

00:23:34.860 you could

00:23:35.380 buy.

00:23:36.440 It would

00:23:37.000 have gotten

00:23:37.280 you a

00:23:37.800 great steak

00:23:38.760 dinner,

00:23:40.000 a haircut

00:23:40.920 and probably

00:23:41.860 a night out

00:23:42.980 at a great

00:23:44.760 hotel.

00:23:45.580 Twenty dollar

00:23:46.100 gold piece.

00:23:47.500 That's about

00:23:48.380 what a

00:23:49.500 twenty dollar

00:23:50.400 gold piece

00:23:51.080 actual value

00:23:53.520 of that gold

00:23:54.380 will buy you

00:23:55.260 today.

00:23:56.140 A good suit,

00:23:57.840 a haircut,

00:23:59.000 maybe you can

00:23:59.560 stay at a

00:24:00.260 hotel but

00:24:00.840 you'll go

00:24:01.180 have a

00:24:01.460 great steak

00:24:02.020 dinner and

00:24:02.540 that's about

00:24:03.000 it.

00:24:04.280 Gold hasn't

00:24:05.360 changed value.

00:24:07.460 The dollar

00:24:08.560 has lost

00:24:09.580 value to

00:24:10.760 that one

00:24:11.400 thing that

00:24:11.980 is fixed.

00:24:13.620 So,

00:24:14.640 bubbles happen

00:24:15.400 because people

00:24:16.280 buy their

00:24:17.140 house and

00:24:18.020 they know

00:24:18.780 when it

00:24:20.320 starts,

00:24:21.380 they know,

00:24:22.020 okay,

00:24:22.780 my house

00:24:23.480 is a fixed

00:24:24.320 commodity.

00:24:25.060 It's going to

00:24:25.360 be sitting there

00:24:26.060 forever.

00:24:26.760 It's an

00:24:27.260 asset.

00:24:27.600 and I'll

00:24:29.460 be able

00:24:29.860 to sell

00:24:30.280 my house

00:24:30.940 for more

00:24:31.700 than what

00:24:33.140 I bought

00:24:33.560 it for

00:24:33.980 because the

00:24:34.820 dollar is

00:24:36.040 losing money.

00:24:37.260 So,

00:24:37.460 instead of

00:24:37.780 having money

00:24:38.420 in a dollar,

00:24:39.760 which will

00:24:40.460 continue to

00:24:41.060 lose money

00:24:41.460 in the bank,

00:24:42.020 I'm going to

00:24:42.360 put it in

00:24:42.740 my house.

00:24:43.740 And I know

00:24:44.360 in ten years

00:24:45.460 my house

00:24:46.520 will be worth

00:24:47.760 more than

00:24:49.700 the dollar

00:24:50.260 that I spent

00:24:51.160 on it.

00:24:51.540 but once

00:24:53.560 they lose

00:24:54.280 track of

00:24:55.840 the game

00:24:56.880 and they

00:24:57.220 start to

00:24:57.740 say,

00:24:58.300 whoa,

00:24:58.600 wait a minute,

00:24:59.060 look at how

00:24:59.400 much money

00:24:59.840 I'm making.

00:25:00.640 No.

00:25:02.020 Look how

00:25:02.660 much money

00:25:03.240 the dollar

00:25:03.860 is losing.

00:25:06.540 Once they

00:25:07.200 lose track

00:25:07.840 and they

00:25:08.140 start to

00:25:08.520 say,

00:25:08.900 oh my

00:25:09.140 gosh,

00:25:09.480 look,

00:25:09.660 everybody's

00:25:10.080 getting rich

00:25:10.580 on houses.

00:25:11.400 I've got to

00:25:11.860 have four

00:25:12.300 or five

00:25:12.720 houses and

00:25:13.300 then I'm

00:25:13.540 going to

00:25:13.680 flip them

00:25:14.060 because they're

00:25:14.400 definitely

00:25:14.760 going to be

00:25:15.060 worth more

00:25:15.460 tomorrow.

00:25:16.520 That's when

00:25:17.120 things go

00:25:17.780 insane.

00:25:18.520 And that's

00:25:21.000 what we're

00:25:21.480 going through

00:25:22.120 right now

00:25:22.900 on all

00:25:23.920 fronts.

00:25:26.680 And what

00:25:27.960 happens

00:25:28.320 traditionally is

00:25:29.020 you have to

00:25:29.680 reset back

00:25:30.700 to normal

00:25:31.780 conditions.

00:25:33.180 You have to

00:25:33.900 set back

00:25:34.580 to the

00:25:35.520 truth.

00:25:36.540 And that

00:25:37.060 is the

00:25:37.500 dollar is

00:25:38.100 losing value

00:25:38.940 and

00:25:40.720 some

00:25:43.080 assets

00:25:43.780 are gaining.

00:25:46.760 But they're

00:25:47.680 usually only

00:25:48.280 the ones

00:25:48.700 that

00:25:48.940 historically

00:25:50.120 always are

00:25:51.760 there because

00:25:53.100 everything is

00:25:54.160 in upheaval

00:25:54.760 now.

00:25:56.440 I was talking

00:25:57.020 to a guy

00:25:57.340 yesterday who

00:25:57.900 runs a

00:25:58.300 bank.

00:26:00.880 I said,

00:26:01.680 I am trying

00:26:02.080 to keep up

00:26:02.940 with the

00:26:03.620 pace of

00:26:04.120 change in

00:26:04.840 my industry.

00:26:06.300 I said,

00:26:07.020 everything,

00:26:08.700 everything.

00:26:10.200 I said,

00:26:10.440 I was,

00:26:12.180 four and a

00:26:12.580 half years

00:26:12.920 ago,

00:26:13.240 I won the

00:26:13.920 Disruptor of

00:26:14.660 the Year

00:26:15.060 Award for

00:26:15.900 the Tribeca

00:26:16.460 Film Institute.

00:26:18.280 That had to

00:26:19.380 kill them

00:26:19.840 to give

00:26:20.100 that to

00:26:20.380 me.

00:26:21.580 I don't

00:26:22.180 even think

00:26:22.580 I'm in

00:26:22.800 the top

00:26:23.260 10,000

00:26:24.400 Disruptors

00:26:25.160 today.

00:26:26.220 Four years

00:26:26.840 ago,

00:26:27.680 I won the

00:26:28.400 Hammer.

00:26:30.700 Today,

00:26:31.620 I wouldn't

00:26:32.060 even be

00:26:32.420 considered.

00:26:34.340 He said

00:26:34.740 to me,

00:26:36.260 he said,

00:26:37.180 it's true

00:26:37.700 in our

00:26:38.020 line of

00:26:38.320 business,

00:26:38.620 he said,

00:26:38.880 people don't

00:26:39.240 understand how

00:26:40.020 rapidly the

00:26:40.780 world is

00:26:41.120 changing.

00:26:41.420 He said,

00:26:42.020 in the

00:26:42.720 banking

00:26:42.980 business,

00:26:43.480 he said,

00:26:44.560 we just

00:26:44.960 had to

00:26:45.320 hire a

00:26:45.860 whole

00:26:46.120 division

00:26:46.780 of

00:26:47.360 people,

00:26:47.900 and we

00:26:48.880 have been

00:26:49.260 working on

00:26:49.840 this software

00:26:50.420 system for

00:26:51.460 two solid

00:26:52.680 years.

00:26:54.980 He said,

00:26:55.780 just as we

00:26:56.580 were finishing

00:26:57.200 and putting

00:26:57.740 the final

00:26:58.260 touches on

00:26:59.180 all of

00:26:59.800 this,

00:27:00.680 we've spent

00:27:01.200 two million

00:27:02.180 dollars.

00:27:03.680 He said,

00:27:04.100 guy came into

00:27:04.640 my office

00:27:05.260 and said,

00:27:07.840 here's your

00:27:08.320 solution.

00:27:09.480 He said,

00:27:10.080 what,

00:27:10.300 to what?

00:27:10.700 He said,

00:27:12.340 everything you

00:27:12.860 guys have

00:27:13.100 been working

00:27:13.380 on,

00:27:13.920 it's outdated.

00:27:15.400 This just

00:27:16.160 solved it.

00:27:17.800 He said,

00:27:18.500 we had two

00:27:18.900 million dollars

00:27:19.480 into it,

00:27:20.420 and we

00:27:22.140 weren't even

00:27:22.520 finished,

00:27:23.020 and it's

00:27:23.280 already

00:27:23.600 outdated.

00:27:27.220 That's how

00:27:27.860 fast the

00:27:28.460 world is

00:27:29.120 changing.

00:27:32.760 And things

00:27:33.760 like the

00:27:34.520 hurricane

00:27:35.080 will only

00:27:38.440 add stress

00:27:41.600 to the

00:27:42.120 already

00:27:42.480 stressed

00:27:43.220 system.

00:27:45.680 Back in

00:27:46.260 the 1930s,

00:27:47.820 I'm sorry,

00:27:48.180 back in the

00:27:48.500 1920s,

00:27:49.240 roaring

00:27:49.500 20s,

00:27:50.600 people got

00:27:51.120 into the

00:27:51.580 housing bubble

00:27:52.280 first.

00:27:53.020 Everybody

00:27:53.260 buy a

00:27:53.680 house.

00:27:54.260 Look at

00:27:54.480 how fast,

00:27:55.000 look at

00:27:55.220 the houses

00:27:55.640 are going

00:27:55.980 crazy.

00:27:56.580 Then the

00:27:56.860 stock market,

00:27:57.740 look at

00:27:57.960 the stock

00:27:58.400 market,

00:27:58.740 it's going

00:27:59.020 crazy.

00:27:59.960 I'm going

00:28:00.320 to take

00:28:00.560 out a

00:28:00.860 second

00:28:01.180 mortgage

00:28:01.540 on my

00:28:02.000 house,

00:28:02.620 and I'm

00:28:03.100 going to

00:28:03.220 take that

00:28:03.680 money,

00:28:04.060 and I'm

00:28:04.300 going to

00:28:04.480 put it

00:28:04.780 in the

00:28:05.020 stock market

00:28:05.600 because

00:28:05.820 everybody's

00:28:06.580 making money

00:28:07.080 in the

00:28:07.320 stock market.

00:28:08.440 Then it

00:28:09.920 went too

00:28:10.860 far,

00:28:11.480 as if that

00:28:12.060 wasn't too

00:28:12.600 far.

00:28:13.220 It went

00:28:13.660 too far.

00:28:14.620 People went

00:28:15.280 down to

00:28:15.880 Florida.

00:28:17.280 Florida was

00:28:17.860 a strange

00:28:18.520 and unusual

00:28:19.060 place.

00:28:20.000 It might as

00:28:20.320 well have

00:28:20.660 been Cuba

00:28:22.060 or South

00:28:22.680 America.

00:28:24.320 People didn't

00:28:25.200 go down to

00:28:25.700 Florida.

00:28:26.340 A, no air

00:28:27.440 conditioning.

00:28:28.240 Who wants

00:28:28.640 to live

00:28:29.000 there?

00:28:30.460 But the

00:28:31.040 rich and

00:28:31.420 the famous

00:28:31.960 decided,

00:28:32.640 you know

00:28:32.860 what?

00:28:34.100 We've got to

00:28:34.640 build a

00:28:34.900 place called

00:28:35.320 Mar-a-Lago.

00:28:35.940 And they

00:28:38.220 started to

00:28:38.840 build these

00:28:39.440 gigantic

00:28:40.500 homes.

00:28:41.580 And they

00:28:42.220 did so

00:28:42.780 because the

00:28:43.680 guy who

00:28:44.020 owned the

00:28:44.340 train company

00:28:45.060 built a

00:28:46.060 train to

00:28:47.200 his home

00:28:48.000 there in

00:28:48.640 the ocean

00:28:48.980 in Florida.

00:28:49.480 And so

00:28:50.860 everybody was

00:28:51.820 coming down

00:28:52.380 and the

00:28:53.320 housing market

00:28:54.140 boomed.

00:28:55.560 And now

00:28:56.420 everybody who,

00:28:57.800 even those who

00:28:58.280 weren't going to

00:28:58.900 go down to

00:28:59.520 Florida,

00:29:00.000 were buying

00:29:00.520 houses in

00:29:01.460 Florida.

00:29:01.740 you could

00:29:02.700 buy and

00:29:03.460 sell houses

00:29:04.460 before you

00:29:06.180 even left

00:29:06.860 the train

00:29:07.480 station.

00:29:08.260 They were

00:29:08.560 selling

00:29:09.080 property at

00:29:10.400 the train

00:29:11.020 station.

00:29:13.000 And things

00:29:13.980 went nuts.

00:29:15.460 And then

00:29:15.980 what happened?

00:29:17.780 A hurricane

00:29:19.020 hit.

00:29:20.760 And a

00:29:21.600 hurricane

00:29:22.100 wiped so

00:29:23.860 much of

00:29:24.580 Florida out.

00:29:25.740 And now

00:29:26.340 at the train

00:29:26.820 station,

00:29:27.360 all of a

00:29:27.820 sudden,

00:29:28.740 there was

00:29:29.180 water and

00:29:30.240 alligators.

00:29:31.740 And people

00:29:32.200 were like,

00:29:32.780 wait,

00:29:33.960 wait,

00:29:34.960 what?

00:29:36.560 This is

00:29:37.340 crazy weather.

00:29:38.460 This happens

00:29:39.000 a lot here?

00:29:39.800 And there's

00:29:40.920 an alligator

00:29:41.700 now next

00:29:43.780 to my

00:29:44.100 alligator bag.

00:29:46.120 No thank

00:29:47.400 you.

00:29:48.520 The market

00:29:49.760 panicked.

00:29:51.760 The real

00:29:52.960 estate market

00:29:53.500 in Florida

00:29:54.520 collapsed.

00:29:56.140 Dominoes.

00:29:57.840 Great

00:29:58.060 Depression.

00:29:58.440 You have

00:30:03.020 to understand

00:30:03.680 nothing's

00:30:04.720 going to

00:30:04.900 come at

00:30:05.260 you in

00:30:05.720 a straight

00:30:06.100 line

00:30:06.400 anymore.

00:30:08.280 Somebody's

00:30:08.800 invention

00:30:10.860 on something

00:30:11.580 completely

00:30:12.220 unrelated

00:30:12.940 could change

00:30:14.540 your job

00:30:15.380 in a

00:30:17.040 year.

00:30:19.300 A

00:30:19.820 hurricane

00:30:20.480 can now

00:30:21.960 make you

00:30:22.340 look and

00:30:22.700 go,

00:30:23.260 wait,

00:30:23.540 do I

00:30:23.760 have gas?

00:30:24.660 What are

00:30:24.820 my plans

00:30:25.240 for this

00:30:25.540 weekend?

00:30:25.820 It's

00:30:25.960 Labor Day

00:30:26.240 weekend.

00:30:26.820 Do we

00:30:27.160 have the

00:30:27.500 gas to

00:30:28.900 go?

00:30:30.340 What does

00:30:30.940 that mean

00:30:31.240 for my

00:30:31.600 flight for

00:30:32.200 Christmas and

00:30:33.240 for Thanksgiving?

00:30:36.000 United is

00:30:37.560 maybe going to

00:30:38.340 go under

00:30:38.840 because they

00:30:39.720 are not

00:30:40.000 going to be

00:30:40.300 able to,

00:30:41.360 how are

00:30:41.960 they going

00:30:42.120 to pay

00:30:42.420 the debt?

00:30:43.040 They're

00:30:43.140 never going

00:30:43.460 to be

00:30:43.600 able to

00:30:43.860 make up

00:30:44.820 for all

00:30:45.320 of the

00:30:45.560 lost

00:30:45.840 revenue

00:30:46.500 for the

00:30:47.880 last week

00:30:48.420 for United

00:30:49.320 Airlines.

00:30:50.660 Its hub

00:30:52.020 is George

00:30:52.800 Bush Airport

00:30:53.820 in Houston.

00:30:55.080 They haven't

00:30:55.680 done anything

00:30:57.360 for a

00:30:58.560 week and

00:30:59.820 perhaps they

00:31:00.880 will open

00:31:01.500 today.

00:31:02.880 But all

00:31:03.420 of that

00:31:03.740 money,

00:31:04.660 gone.

00:31:05.720 And then

00:31:06.140 where are you

00:31:06.660 going to

00:31:06.780 get the

00:31:07.040 fuel?

00:31:11.700 Society's

00:31:12.300 more fragile

00:31:12.840 than you

00:31:13.200 think.

00:31:14.420 But the

00:31:14.820 great thing

00:31:15.400 that we've

00:31:15.800 learned this

00:31:16.320 week,

00:31:17.200 Americans

00:31:17.780 are much

00:31:18.880 more resilient

00:31:19.820 than I

00:31:21.940 feared.

00:31:22.300 that's

00:31:25.620 good.

00:31:39.980 The Glenn

00:31:40.900 Beck

00:31:41.240 Program.

00:31:43.180 Hey, there

00:31:43.860 was a really,

00:31:44.640 there was an

00:31:45.560 interesting tweet

00:31:46.300 that just came

00:31:47.360 in from a

00:31:49.100 listener.

00:31:49.640 I said,

00:31:50.020 please go

00:31:51.400 to the

00:31:52.000 gas station

00:31:52.580 and fill

00:31:53.800 up.

00:31:54.040 If you

00:31:54.180 live in

00:31:54.520 the Gulf

00:31:55.040 region,

00:31:56.000 fill up

00:31:56.580 because 90%

00:31:58.920 of the

00:31:59.560 gasoline

00:32:00.080 comes from

00:32:01.280 Houston.

00:32:02.040 This one

00:32:02.520 comes in,

00:32:02.920 it says,

00:32:03.340 filled my

00:32:03.980 car,

00:32:05.900 tank,

00:32:06.580 and car

00:32:07.140 for mower,

00:32:08.160 can for

00:32:08.680 mower at

00:32:09.120 830.

00:32:09.700 It was

00:32:09.920 243.

00:32:11.480 Took my

00:32:11.900 mom's car

00:32:12.340 to fill,

00:32:12.800 same station

00:32:13.440 at 9 o'clock,

00:32:15.020 half hour later,

00:32:16.000 257.

00:32:18.200 Holy cow.

00:32:20.020 And that's

00:32:20.380 not even

00:32:20.580 around here,

00:32:21.120 that's in

00:32:21.360 New York.

00:32:23.500 That's in

00:32:24.000 New York?

00:32:24.400 Yeah.

00:32:24.700 Oh, wow.

00:32:25.420 Yeah, we're

00:32:25.840 in Texas.

00:32:26.960 He's in

00:32:27.380 Buffalo,

00:32:28.120 New York.

00:32:28.480 It's gone

00:32:28.960 up quite a

00:32:29.620 bit here in

00:32:30.080 the last

00:32:30.360 couple of

00:32:30.700 days.

00:32:31.000 I mean,

00:32:31.120 every time

00:32:31.380 I turned

00:32:31.720 around,

00:32:32.080 it was

00:32:32.260 another 15

00:32:33.700 cents.

00:32:34.360 We have

00:32:36.160 Ken Paxton

00:32:36.760 on.

00:32:37.620 He is the

00:32:38.260 Attorney General

00:32:38.780 of the

00:32:39.140 State of

00:32:39.440 Texas.

00:32:39.960 And we

00:32:40.840 just want

00:32:41.840 to find

00:32:42.120 out a

00:32:43.360 couple of

00:32:43.660 things.

00:32:44.060 A, how

00:32:44.540 we can

00:32:44.940 help.

00:32:45.300 I want

00:32:45.520 to talk

00:32:45.780 to him

00:32:46.020 about

00:32:46.480 price

00:32:47.480 gouging.

00:32:47.900 And I

00:32:48.500 want to

00:32:48.680 know the

00:32:48.900 difference

00:32:49.140 between

00:32:49.460 price

00:32:49.780 gouging for

00:32:50.360 water and

00:32:50.880 price

00:32:51.220 gouging here.

00:32:52.020 What's the

00:32:52.280 difference?

00:32:53.520 I mean, I

00:32:53.800 guess you

00:32:54.080 can't do

00:32:54.580 it when

00:32:55.220 you're in

00:32:55.880 a hurricane

00:32:58.880 in town.

00:32:59.960 I guess

00:33:00.160 that's the

00:33:00.480 only difference.

00:33:01.900 It's not

00:33:02.680 price gouging.

00:33:03.520 Hang on

00:33:03.960 just a second.

00:33:04.500 I'm not

00:33:04.980 saying that

00:33:05.820 this is

00:33:06.160 price gouging.

00:33:07.580 But what

00:33:08.240 I'm saying

00:33:08.620 is the

00:33:09.360 reason why

00:33:09.820 it's going

00:33:10.120 up is

00:33:10.640 because there's

00:33:11.100 a limited

00:33:11.580 supply.

00:33:13.020 Well, isn't

00:33:13.460 that the

00:33:13.820 same thing

00:33:14.800 when a

00:33:17.140 motel

00:33:18.480 says, yeah,

00:33:19.640 I know

00:33:20.060 we're, you

00:33:20.760 know, the

00:33:21.020 motel

00:33:21.460 six and

00:33:22.160 that goes

00:33:22.660 with six

00:33:23.200 dollars, but

00:33:24.140 it's now

00:33:24.860 six hundred

00:33:25.760 dollars because

00:33:27.420 there's no

00:33:28.040 rooms available.

00:33:29.620 Why is that

00:33:30.540 price gouging?

00:33:32.400 I don't know.

00:33:32.780 It's funny because

00:33:33.360 the story that

00:33:35.100 caused our

00:33:35.860 conversation the

00:33:36.480 other day about

00:33:36.880 price gouging was

00:33:38.240 it was a store

00:33:39.080 that was selling

00:33:39.640 a case of

00:33:40.680 water.

00:33:41.740 And, you

00:33:41.900 know, we

00:33:42.060 kind of just

00:33:42.440 brushed over it

00:33:43.180 because we got

00:33:43.720 to the more

00:33:44.440 specific, you

00:33:46.140 know, generalized

00:33:46.760 sort of, I

00:33:47.520 guess, conversation

00:33:48.420 on price

00:33:49.160 gouging, but

00:33:50.540 they were

00:33:51.320 charging forty

00:33:52.000 two dollars for

00:33:52.780 a case of

00:33:53.280 water, which

00:33:53.720 worked out to

00:33:54.220 something like

00:33:54.620 a dollar seventy

00:33:55.460 eight per

00:33:55.920 bottle, which

00:33:56.560 like that is

00:33:57.240 not, that's

00:33:58.080 not price

00:33:58.900 gouging at

00:33:59.360 all.

00:33:59.820 What do you

00:34:00.960 think it is?

00:34:01.700 And by the

00:34:02.000 way, they

00:34:02.640 the reason why

00:34:04.940 that was

00:34:06.100 priced that way

00:34:06.880 is normally

00:34:07.660 they don't

00:34:08.820 sell by the

00:34:09.880 case.

00:34:10.580 And so they

00:34:11.460 just added up

00:34:12.280 what we pay

00:34:12.980 for each

00:34:13.460 bottle.

00:34:14.040 And a dollar

00:34:14.580 seventy eight is

00:34:15.100 about what you

00:34:15.620 pay for one

00:34:16.340 bottle of

00:34:16.780 water at

00:34:17.380 an office

00:34:17.980 supply store.

00:34:19.560 That is not

00:34:20.660 even, it wasn't

00:34:21.380 even high.

00:34:22.580 My grandfather

00:34:23.120 would have

00:34:23.440 beat me to

00:34:23.860 death with a

00:34:24.300 shovel if I

00:34:25.240 told him, yeah,

00:34:26.180 in my America,

00:34:26.840 grandpa, we're

00:34:27.420 going to really

00:34:27.760 have it down.

00:34:28.480 You're going to

00:34:28.820 be able to

00:34:29.300 buy a little

00:34:30.420 sixteen ounce

00:34:31.180 bottle of

00:34:31.960 water for a

00:34:34.020 dollar eighty

00:34:34.420 nine.

00:34:35.160 You know, at

00:34:35.760 the office supply

00:34:36.840 store, he would

00:34:37.940 have come at me

00:34:38.500 with a shovel.

00:34:39.020 You know what,

00:34:39.280 grandpa, figure out

00:34:40.120 the internet and

00:34:40.800 then tell us how

00:34:41.480 great your world

00:34:42.200 was.

00:34:42.540 Back in a

00:34:44.740 second with

00:34:45.400 Paxton, our

00:34:47.280 attorney general

00:34:47.960 also coming up

00:34:49.660 Brad Thor

00:34:50.740 always has

00:34:52.620 something to

00:34:53.180 say.

00:34:55.380 This is the

00:34:57.080 Glenn Beck

00:34:57.980 program.

00:34:59.560 Mercury.

00:35:00.160 Lots to talk

00:35:13.060 about today.

00:35:13.600 First, I don't

00:35:15.120 know what it's

00:35:15.540 like in your

00:35:17.280 part of the

00:35:17.660 country, but

00:35:18.340 here in Texas, I

00:35:21.320 think there's

00:35:21.580 going to be a

00:35:21.820 lot of people

00:35:22.160 that are late

00:35:23.580 for work because

00:35:24.540 anybody who got

00:35:26.200 up this morning

00:35:26.700 and was driving

00:35:27.600 in and saw the

00:35:28.420 little red light

00:35:29.160 go on and went,

00:35:29.880 uh-oh, I got to

00:35:30.700 go get gas.

00:35:31.820 You are now

00:35:32.480 sitting in a

00:35:33.000 line and that

00:35:33.760 line is getting

00:35:34.400 longer.

00:35:36.860 We could be out

00:35:37.820 of gas in

00:35:38.580 Texas by the

00:35:40.340 weekend.

00:35:42.580 90% of all of

00:35:44.200 the gasoline

00:35:44.780 that fuels the

00:35:46.340 cars, at least

00:35:47.400 in Texas, and I

00:35:48.320 bet it's the

00:35:48.820 greater southwest

00:35:49.460 region, comes

00:35:51.140 out of Houston.

00:35:52.040 42% of all of

00:35:53.560 the jet fuel

00:35:54.420 comes out of

00:35:55.760 Houston.

00:35:56.340 Those refineries

00:35:57.200 are now gone,

00:35:58.740 or at least

00:36:00.000 shut down.

00:36:01.000 We don't know

00:36:01.740 when they will

00:36:02.740 start refining

00:36:03.480 again and when

00:36:04.720 trucks will be

00:36:05.600 replenishing again.

00:36:07.020 This is going to

00:36:07.940 affect all of us.

00:36:10.100 We just have to

00:36:10.840 keep our heads

00:36:11.540 about us, and we

00:36:12.720 also have to

00:36:13.560 discuss how we

00:36:15.200 are going to get

00:36:15.500 some of the, how

00:36:16.900 is this going to

00:36:17.360 affect the people

00:36:18.080 who are just

00:36:18.500 getting on the

00:36:19.840 road with their

00:36:20.320 trucks and their

00:36:21.240 cars, and they

00:36:22.940 are going to

00:36:23.320 help.

00:36:23.560 can't really

00:36:26.060 drive down to

00:36:27.160 Houston, four

00:36:28.700 hours away, if

00:36:30.640 you can't get

00:36:31.280 gas somewhere

00:36:32.880 along the way

00:36:33.920 to get you

00:36:34.880 back.

00:36:37.360 We've had

00:36:38.180 another wrinkle

00:36:38.880 added now to

00:36:40.680 the hurricane in

00:36:42.680 Houston.

00:36:43.580 We begin there,

00:36:44.960 and also talk a

00:36:45.980 little bit about

00:36:46.420 price gouging with

00:36:47.840 the Attorney

00:36:48.380 General of Texas.

00:36:50.180 Ken Paxton

00:36:50.620 joins us.

00:36:51.780 We begin right

00:36:52.420 now.

00:36:53.560 I will make

00:36:55.060 a stand, I

00:36:56.500 will raise my

00:36:57.580 voice, I will

00:36:58.980 hold your hand,

00:37:00.880 cause we are

00:37:01.960 one, I will

00:37:03.340 beat my drum, I

00:37:05.240 have made my

00:37:06.300 choice, we will

00:37:07.760 overcome, cause we

00:37:10.340 are one.

00:37:11.240 The fusion of

00:37:12.640 entertainment and

00:37:13.940 enlightenment.

00:37:15.360 This is the

00:37:16.480 Glenn Beck

00:37:17.880 program.

00:37:20.560 It's a really

00:37:21.440 weird situation

00:37:22.280 question, because

00:37:23.680 if I warn you

00:37:25.440 about gas, it's

00:37:27.540 going to make

00:37:28.040 people go and

00:37:29.200 sit in lines and

00:37:30.960 everybody starts to

00:37:31.820 hoard gas and I

00:37:32.340 gotta get my

00:37:32.720 lawnmower filled.

00:37:34.040 That's really not

00:37:34.680 the right, it's

00:37:35.280 probably not the

00:37:35.740 right move.

00:37:37.860 But I warn you

00:37:39.720 now because I

00:37:41.060 want you to think

00:37:41.740 about this weekend.

00:37:43.600 This is Labor Day

00:37:44.380 weekend, especially

00:37:45.160 if you're in the

00:37:46.100 Dallas area or the

00:37:48.860 Texas area.

00:37:49.560 we get our gas

00:37:50.580 from those

00:37:51.520 refineries.

00:37:52.820 Yeah, but nobody

00:37:53.180 has to worry until

00:37:53.980 after this program

00:37:55.680 is over.

00:37:57.320 Then it's fine.

00:37:58.560 Once I go get

00:37:59.760 filled up my car,

00:38:00.840 after the show,

00:38:01.840 then they can

00:38:02.760 worry.

00:38:03.100 Well, we got the

00:38:03.560 tweet from a guy in

00:38:04.460 New York just a

00:38:05.260 little while ago

00:38:05.820 that said, what was

00:38:07.660 it, went up 17

00:38:08.800 cents in an hour or

00:38:10.040 half an hour?

00:38:10.660 Yeah, another

00:38:11.040 person writes in

00:38:12.040 gas here in

00:38:12.680 Cincinnati, went up

00:38:13.500 223 to 259.

00:38:15.600 Woo!

00:38:15.920 I mean, you

00:38:19.680 know, it's going

00:38:20.220 to impact all of

00:38:21.560 us.

00:38:22.680 This hurricane

00:38:23.680 is going to

00:38:24.060 impact us hard.

00:38:26.040 But, you know,

00:38:27.200 those oil

00:38:28.220 refineries, it's

00:38:29.980 my understanding

00:38:30.640 these oil

00:38:31.120 refineries were

00:38:32.360 locked down tight.

00:38:33.760 We didn't have a

00:38:34.580 problem with winds

00:38:35.440 just flooding.

00:38:36.860 And it's my

00:38:38.060 understanding that,

00:38:38.760 you know, this

00:38:40.060 can and will come

00:38:41.600 back online as

00:38:42.700 soon as the

00:38:43.100 waters recede.

00:38:43.960 and they're

00:38:45.320 going to start

00:38:45.660 those plants back

00:38:46.460 up.

00:38:46.720 Is that your

00:38:47.020 understanding,

00:38:47.740 Stu?

00:38:50.220 Not really?

00:38:51.100 Yeah, I'm not.

00:38:52.020 Yeah.

00:38:52.320 Can we get, Keith,

00:38:54.320 let's see if we can

00:38:54.980 get somebody on from

00:38:56.020 the oil industry.

00:38:56.960 I know they're

00:38:57.380 probably not busy

00:38:58.460 at all, but to

00:38:59.620 give us some

00:39:00.140 information about

00:39:01.100 these oil refineries

00:39:01.980 and perhaps Ken

00:39:03.740 Paxton knows a

00:39:04.900 little bit about

00:39:05.340 this, even though

00:39:05.840 this is not his

00:39:06.760 area of expertise.

00:39:08.320 He is our

00:39:09.000 attorney general.

00:39:10.600 Ken, how are

00:39:11.260 you, sir?

00:39:12.420 I'm doing well.

00:39:13.080 How are you

00:39:13.300 doing this morning?

00:39:13.740 I'm good.

00:39:14.720 Thank you for all

00:39:15.740 of the hard work

00:39:16.380 and please pass

00:39:16.980 on to the

00:39:17.340 governor how

00:39:18.420 proud we are of

00:39:19.260 him and what a

00:39:20.140 good job he is

00:39:20.960 doing.

00:39:22.640 I mean, I have

00:39:23.140 to totally agree

00:39:23.780 the magnitude of

00:39:25.180 the storm and

00:39:25.740 what they've had

00:39:26.280 to deal with

00:39:26.860 over a long

00:39:27.620 period of time

00:39:28.160 and obviously

00:39:28.520 still continue.

00:39:29.540 I'm amazed at

00:39:30.780 the job that both

00:39:31.760 the federal and

00:39:32.340 state government

00:39:32.780 have done working

00:39:33.360 together.

00:39:34.100 You know, I

00:39:34.760 know that there

00:39:36.240 was a disagreement

00:39:37.140 and I would have

00:39:38.220 been on the wrong

00:39:38.720 side of this

00:39:39.200 disagreement, I

00:39:40.140 think.

00:39:40.500 And I don't

00:39:42.540 know who had

00:39:43.140 what side and

00:39:43.560 it doesn't matter,

00:39:44.220 but there was a

00:39:45.200 disagreement on when

00:39:46.180 to evacuate people

00:39:47.200 and I think the

00:39:48.500 city of Houston

00:39:49.500 said, no, no,

00:39:50.280 we're not going to

00:39:50.740 evacuate, which in

00:39:51.780 New Orleans worked

00:39:52.600 out horribly.

00:39:53.440 the way this is

00:39:55.440 stacking up, it

00:39:57.180 might have been a

00:39:57.900 blessing that we

00:39:59.340 didn't have a

00:39:59.960 whole bunch of

00:40:01.160 people, a million

00:40:01.880 people on the

00:40:02.660 road stuck in

00:40:03.960 traffic on Houston

00:40:04.820 when this thing

00:40:05.300 rolled in.

00:40:06.820 Yeah, it's so

00:40:07.700 hard to know

00:40:08.600 because you get

00:40:09.120 what, seven

00:40:09.800 million people or

00:40:11.000 more down in the

00:40:11.800 Houston area and

00:40:12.400 to try to evacuate

00:40:13.620 it.

00:40:13.820 We're not talking

00:40:14.280 about evacuating,

00:40:15.080 you know, some

00:40:16.060 small town.

00:40:16.700 We're talking about

00:40:17.180 a massive effort.

00:40:18.240 I don't even know

00:40:18.620 how you get that

00:40:19.060 many people out.

00:40:19.720 So I don't know.

00:40:20.400 Maybe some could

00:40:21.140 have evacuated.

00:40:21.860 I don't.

00:40:22.660 We can look at

00:40:23.220 that later.

00:40:23.660 I do think

00:40:24.200 overall, it's

00:40:25.540 been a remarkable

00:40:26.300 effort.

00:40:27.200 And if you look

00:40:27.980 at loss of life,

00:40:28.880 obviously any loss

00:40:29.880 of life is horrible,

00:40:31.300 but it's been

00:40:31.900 amazingly low given

00:40:33.360 the magnitude and

00:40:34.500 the length of the

00:40:35.140 storm and what

00:40:35.620 we're still dealing

00:40:36.220 with.

00:40:36.340 I have to tell

00:40:37.060 you, I can't get

00:40:39.580 my arms around how

00:40:40.540 low those numbers

00:40:41.560 are.

00:40:42.400 Are we concerned

00:40:43.300 that when the

00:40:43.920 waters recede,

00:40:45.420 we're going to

00:40:46.040 just start going

00:40:46.840 through homes and

00:40:47.560 we're just going

00:40:48.000 to find a lot of

00:40:49.220 people?

00:40:49.700 Are we pretty sure

00:40:50.680 that this is

00:40:51.340 relatively stable?

00:40:53.220 I mean, we know

00:40:54.180 we're going to

00:40:54.540 find a lot more

00:40:55.340 people, but that

00:40:57.100 we haven't lost

00:40:58.040 an eye bleed

00:41:00.900 amount of people

00:41:01.580 is astonishing.

00:41:03.880 Yeah.

00:41:04.060 I mean, you just

00:41:04.480 think about the

00:41:05.160 magnitude of the

00:41:05.700 storm coming ashore.

00:41:06.880 We could have

00:41:07.240 lost hundreds,

00:41:08.140 if not thousands

00:41:08.680 of people.

00:41:09.560 And who knows

00:41:10.720 what the future

00:41:11.680 holds and what

00:41:12.200 we're going to

00:41:12.500 find.

00:41:12.880 I can just say,

00:41:13.880 I think they've

00:41:14.760 done an amazing

00:41:15.400 job rescuing people.

00:41:16.600 They've gotten

00:41:16.920 resources in place.

00:41:18.520 The federal

00:41:18.880 government was

00:41:19.280 there early and

00:41:20.040 quick and offered

00:41:21.160 up everything we

00:41:21.800 needed.

00:41:22.560 And Abbott and

00:41:24.340 his team have

00:41:25.140 done an amazing

00:41:26.020 job just keeping

00:41:27.200 this thing going

00:41:27.760 and making sure

00:41:28.500 that we get this

00:41:29.000 done right.

00:41:29.420 I will tell you

00:41:30.360 that this is where

00:41:31.660 having the governor

00:41:33.320 and the president

00:41:34.740 and everybody on

00:41:36.180 board come in

00:41:37.880 handy as now

00:41:39.020 cleanup and real

00:41:40.500 big, huge

00:41:41.200 infrastructure pieces

00:41:42.180 need to be moved.

00:41:42.940 but I have

00:41:44.340 been, it is, it

00:41:46.580 is proof to me

00:41:47.720 why I moved

00:41:49.380 here five or six

00:41:50.420 years ago when I

00:41:51.880 said on the air

00:41:52.600 they're going to

00:41:53.480 be tough times and

00:41:54.540 you just have to

00:41:55.260 know that the

00:41:55.960 people around you

00:41:57.020 have the same

00:41:58.020 kind of attitude

00:41:59.320 that when push

00:42:01.180 comes to shove

00:42:01.760 we're all neighbors.

00:42:03.300 I mean, we've

00:42:03.740 never been, in my

00:42:04.660 lifetime, I don't

00:42:05.820 remember the 1960s,

00:42:07.320 I was, you know,

00:42:08.140 I was like four.

00:42:10.040 Me too.

00:42:10.340 But I, but I, I

00:42:12.060 know those were

00:42:12.900 tough times in our,

00:42:13.960 in our, in my

00:42:14.840 lifetime.

00:42:15.680 This is the toughest

00:42:16.680 time in my lifetime.

00:42:17.720 I've never seen our

00:42:18.380 country more divided

00:42:19.140 and look at what the

00:42:20.660 people of Texas

00:42:21.360 coming from all

00:42:23.380 over the region

00:42:24.700 just to go in and

00:42:25.900 help without the

00:42:26.900 government, without

00:42:27.560 anybody organizing,

00:42:28.560 just I got a boat,

00:42:29.780 I'm going in.

00:42:31.180 Well, not only that,

00:42:32.200 hundreds of people

00:42:32.900 have done that and

00:42:33.580 they've, it wasn't

00:42:34.420 like it was not

00:42:35.380 risky for them.

00:42:36.180 They were risking

00:42:36.660 their lives.

00:42:37.160 You know, there's,

00:42:37.560 there's just so much

00:42:38.900 at stake for them

00:42:39.580 personally.

00:42:39.880 They didn't have

00:42:40.320 to do it.

00:42:40.700 You'd think people

00:42:41.900 would want to get

00:42:42.380 out and save their

00:42:43.700 own families and yet

00:42:44.500 they came back to

00:42:45.400 help.

00:42:45.740 So, I mean, it does

00:42:46.800 say a lot about the

00:42:48.140 type of people that

00:42:48.900 live in Texas and

00:42:49.920 it's, it's really

00:42:51.020 encouraging given

00:42:52.360 what you just talked

00:42:53.180 about, the divisive

00:42:54.240 nature of what's

00:42:54.980 going on in our

00:42:55.460 country and how

00:42:56.200 difficult it is.

00:42:57.580 And yet you see in

00:42:58.340 Texas, we, we, we've

00:43:00.260 had devastating

00:43:01.120 hurricane, devastating

00:43:02.160 storms, devastating

00:43:03.020 flooding, and yet,

00:43:04.260 you know, we'll come

00:43:05.060 back.

00:43:06.600 Ken, I know this is

00:43:07.620 not in your purview

00:43:08.820 and, and I'm sorry

00:43:09.880 to hit you with

00:43:10.540 this and, and even

00:43:11.380 the questions that

00:43:12.000 I'm asking you,

00:43:12.580 because this is not

00:43:13.280 what you do for a

00:43:13.980 living, but have you

00:43:15.000 heard any talk at all

00:43:16.280 about the gasoline

00:43:17.980 situation?

00:43:18.680 We're seeing, I mean,

00:43:20.140 stopping at four

00:43:21.480 different gas stations

00:43:22.400 here in the Dallas

00:43:23.220 area on the way

00:43:24.200 into work.

00:43:26.160 Four of them had

00:43:27.220 signs on the pumps

00:43:28.100 out of gas.

00:43:28.960 Ninety percent of all

00:43:30.600 of, you know, the fuel

00:43:31.580 coming into Texas is

00:43:32.760 coming in from those

00:43:34.600 refineries that have

00:43:35.400 all been shut down.

00:43:37.040 Are we concerned

00:43:39.000 at all about running

00:43:40.540 out of gas temporarily?

00:43:42.580 Do you have any clue

00:43:43.580 as to what's happening

00:43:44.860 with the gas situation?

00:43:47.420 Well, I do think that

00:43:48.440 we're going to start

00:43:49.020 getting supplies from

00:43:50.200 other places.

00:43:51.440 So I, I do think, but

00:43:52.800 I do think gas is going

00:43:53.700 to go up to some

00:43:54.720 degree.

00:43:54.980 Obviously, you know,

00:43:55.940 there's the supply and

00:43:56.920 demand that is going to

00:43:57.540 be affected here.

00:43:58.320 So, but I do think

00:43:59.760 that we're going to

00:44:00.320 have other places that

00:44:01.600 it's going to come

00:44:02.100 from.

00:44:02.360 The supply chain is

00:44:03.800 going to change a

00:44:04.340 little bit until those

00:44:05.600 those refineries in

00:44:06.960 Texas open back up.

00:44:08.820 And the, you know,

00:44:09.980 42 percent of the fuel

00:44:12.100 for jet fuel comes out

00:44:14.120 of Houston.

00:44:14.960 How long before these

00:44:16.120 refineries can open up?

00:44:17.920 Do you know that?

00:44:19.480 That I don't know.

00:44:20.500 I think it's, you know,

00:44:21.380 it's been so dependent

00:44:22.040 on when the rain stopped.

00:44:22.960 I think there's, and

00:44:23.820 the water receded.

00:44:25.300 So, I mean, I believe

00:44:26.720 it'll be, you know,

00:44:27.740 I'm hopeful in the next

00:44:28.780 week they'll open back up.

00:44:30.260 But, you know, that's,

00:44:31.260 it's an issue.

00:44:31.720 But I do think, as I

00:44:32.560 said, I think the supply

00:44:33.500 chain is changing to

00:44:34.580 address that.

00:44:35.500 It's just prices are

00:44:36.340 going to go up some.

00:44:37.260 Okay.

00:44:37.420 So that brings me to

00:44:38.260 what we actually wanted

00:44:39.280 to talk to you about.

00:44:40.160 And that is price

00:44:41.480 gouching.

00:44:41.980 We just had a listener

00:44:44.140 tweet in from New York

00:44:45.480 and said, I went, I

00:44:48.380 brought my car in.

00:44:49.940 It was what, 241 or

00:44:51.900 243.

00:44:53.580 I fill up, I go and I

00:44:55.320 get my mom's car.

00:44:56.660 I come back and it's

00:44:57.740 257, 30 minutes later.

00:44:59.760 And now it's in New

00:45:02.300 York.

00:45:03.580 You know, it's a

00:45:04.520 constantly, that was in

00:45:05.980 New York?

00:45:06.600 Yes.

00:45:07.760 It's going to, I mean,

00:45:08.980 look, it's a natural

00:45:09.780 supply and demand.

00:45:11.520 Prices are going to go

00:45:12.340 up until the refineries

00:45:13.800 are back open.

00:45:14.480 There's just, that's

00:45:15.260 just reality.

00:45:16.020 We're going to see

00:45:16.420 higher gas prices for

00:45:17.840 at least, you know, the

00:45:18.560 next few weeks.

00:45:19.180 So, I, in my head, can

00:45:22.040 make the leap to things

00:45:24.000 like water.

00:45:26.760 I don't want, I mean,

00:45:28.100 water, you have to have

00:45:29.940 water to live.

00:45:32.340 But that stops by not, by

00:45:35.040 saying you can't raise

00:45:36.160 the price, that stops the

00:45:38.320 trucker or the somebody

00:45:39.560 else that might live, you

00:45:41.040 know, in another state who

00:45:42.020 says, you know what, I'm

00:45:43.240 going to go buy a bunch of

00:45:44.080 water because I'll be able

00:45:45.300 to make it up and I'm going

00:45:46.440 to deliver a whole truck

00:45:47.580 load of it and I'm going

00:45:49.060 to sell it.

00:45:50.140 So, it actually, by, by

00:45:52.460 disrupting the capitalist

00:45:54.040 system or the free market

00:45:56.080 system, it actually can end

00:45:58.580 up hurting the, the efforts.

00:46:01.820 How do you balance that?

00:46:03.360 How do you, how do you

00:46:05.080 define price gouging and, and,

00:46:08.000 and know where the line is?

00:46:11.060 Do you remember when the

00:46:12.100 Supreme Court had to deal

00:46:13.520 with, you know, pornography

00:46:15.000 and they basically say, we

00:46:16.200 know it when we see it?

00:46:17.340 Yeah.

00:46:17.700 When I see gas prices at

00:46:19.000 $20 a gallon, I know it's

00:46:20.900 price gouging.

00:46:21.500 When I see water at $100

00:46:22.460 a case, I know it's price

00:46:23.640 gouging.

00:46:24.340 When I see gas at $257, it's

00:46:26.940 probably not price gouging.

00:46:28.060 So, you know, we take a

00:46:29.680 look at it.

00:46:30.100 We try to figure out based

00:46:31.280 on the historic price, based

00:46:32.460 on what's going on in the

00:46:33.360 market, are, are, are, are

00:46:35.300 these people taking advantage

00:46:36.480 of people in crisis?

00:46:37.940 And, you know, it's, it,

00:46:39.200 there's some, there's

00:46:39.980 definitely some discretion

00:46:40.920 here and we're not trying to

00:46:42.620 stop the market from

00:46:43.520 working.

00:46:44.140 We're just trying to stop

00:46:45.720 people from ripping people

00:46:47.000 off.

00:46:47.740 Ken, are you, are you at all

00:46:48.880 uncomfortable with, and I

00:46:50.680 know you're trying to do good

00:46:51.420 work here and help people in

00:46:52.920 need, but are you at all

00:46:53.780 uncomfortable with the

00:46:54.860 government making a standard

00:46:56.320 of, we know it when we see

00:46:57.600 it?

00:46:58.820 Well, so, you know, my job

00:47:00.840 isn't to make laws.

00:47:01.780 I have to deal with the laws

00:47:03.000 I'm given.

00:47:03.440 whether I would have passed a law

00:47:05.160 exactly like this.

00:47:06.240 Yes.

00:47:06.480 As I know from being in the

00:47:07.400 legislature, I never got to

00:47:08.680 pass any law that I exactly

00:47:10.160 liked.

00:47:10.640 I get to, I get to negotiate

00:47:12.380 laws that were partly what I

00:47:14.240 like and partly what I didn't.

00:47:15.860 So, yeah, I mean, I, I'm a

00:47:17.300 free market guy, but I don't

00:47:18.880 think in, in this case, we're

00:47:20.020 not talking about efficient

00:47:20.960 markets.

00:47:21.380 We're, we, we are talking

00:47:22.960 about really inefficient

00:47:24.200 markets and I don't think we

00:47:26.800 necessarily have a free market

00:47:28.640 right now in Houston.

00:47:29.520 We have limited supplies and

00:47:31.460 we've got, we're talking about

00:47:32.740 critical supplies.

00:47:33.760 So we're not, we're not

00:47:34.600 talking about price gouging as

00:47:36.360 it relates to anything other

00:47:37.380 than things that really are

00:47:38.320 critical to people surviving.

00:47:39.860 You know, Ken, there's a, an

00:47:41.120 article and I don't even

00:47:42.300 mention where, um, some, um,

00:47:45.520 you know, some person on the

00:47:46.460 left, uh, said, you know,

00:47:47.620 what we're seeing in Houston

00:47:48.520 is, is not miraculous.

00:47:50.520 People just, you know, this

00:47:51.640 people just rise to the

00:47:52.760 occasion.

00:47:53.100 And I think that's absolutely

00:47:54.220 untrue.

00:47:54.960 Um, we have seen other places

00:47:57.100 and other disasters where people

00:47:59.260 don't necessarily rise to the

00:48:00.500 occasion and, and the bad guys

00:48:02.520 take advantage of the occasion,

00:48:05.040 uh, and, you know, are, are

00:48:08.000 doing some really horrible

00:48:09.220 things.

00:48:09.900 Are we missing the stories, uh,

00:48:13.620 of the violence and the looting

00:48:15.700 and everything else that is

00:48:16.760 happening in Houston?

00:48:17.460 Cause I know some of it is

00:48:18.560 happening, but, uh, but it, or,

00:48:21.520 or are we just not seeing a

00:48:23.620 large level of that taking root

00:48:27.000 in Houston?

00:48:27.560 You know, I don't, I don't

00:48:30.000 think there is a large level.

00:48:31.360 Look, I may, we could be wrong.

00:48:32.820 We find, we may find more than

00:48:34.040 there is, but part of it is it's

00:48:35.260 hard for looters to get in and

00:48:36.460 out there.

00:48:37.620 They're limited by the same

00:48:38.820 things we're limited by.

00:48:39.940 And so it's, it's made it

00:48:41.480 difficult for them to loot.

00:48:42.640 Now as the water recede, and we

00:48:44.380 may have more of a problem, but I

00:48:46.140 know that local law enforcement is,

00:48:47.680 is focused on that.

00:48:48.880 Although they're particularly

00:48:50.060 focused on rescuing lives first,

00:48:51.820 but as the waters recede, we'll

00:48:53.340 see what happens.

00:48:54.060 Hopefully, uh, you know, there

00:48:55.900 won't be a lot of that going on.

00:48:57.060 You know, there was a story that

00:48:58.860 came out that, um, uh, president

00:49:00.960 Bush just allowed all of the

00:49:03.140 sales or the transfer of, you

00:49:05.100 know, some, some serious

00:49:06.520 armaments or, you know, um, you

00:49:08.900 know, armed personnel carriers,

00:49:10.180 et cetera, to our local police.

00:49:11.440 And that bothers me.

00:49:13.360 It bothered me under, um, uh, George

00:49:15.760 Bush and it bothered me under

00:49:17.080 Barack Obama.

00:49:17.900 It bothers me under this

00:49:18.740 president.

00:49:19.740 Um, I don't understand why that's

00:49:22.160 happening.

00:49:22.660 I want our police to be effective

00:49:24.200 and to be safe, but why isn't that

00:49:27.020 equipment just being transferred to

00:49:28.660 our national guard?

00:49:29.540 Because they're the ones who really

00:49:32.440 need it.

00:49:32.740 We don't need it to serve a warrant

00:49:34.280 of rest to somebody.

00:49:35.740 Um, why, why, why is that

00:49:39.200 happening?

00:49:39.560 And what are we doing with that and

00:49:41.880 our police?

00:49:43.180 Do you know?

00:49:44.020 Well, I, I, I don't know.

00:49:45.620 I mean, I, I'm not involved in that

00:49:47.580 transfer.

00:49:48.120 I, I don't know that I disagree with

00:49:50.100 you that the local police shouldn't

00:49:51.900 be armed like they're the U S

00:49:53.300 military, that that would be better

00:49:55.100 served putting in the hands of

00:49:56.080 national guards.

00:49:56.660 So I, I, I tend to agree with your,

00:49:59.180 with your assessment that I have the

00:50:00.540 same concerns you do.

00:50:02.040 And one last question besides prayer,

00:50:04.980 what can we do to help the governor,

00:50:06.360 the governor and, and everybody else,

00:50:09.080 uh, in service the next week or so?

00:50:12.960 Well, that's a great question.

00:50:14.800 I think you can pray.

00:50:15.980 That's obviously really important.

00:50:17.360 Still people that are in harm's way,

00:50:18.860 still people that we're rescuing and

00:50:20.960 that'll continue, but there's also

00:50:22.820 some great organizations on the

00:50:24.140 ground, like Samaritan's Purse.

00:50:25.340 Um, there's a group called Minuteman

00:50:27.080 out of Texas, actually out of

00:50:28.220 McKinney, Texas, that I'm very aware

00:50:29.520 of that, that are on the ground.

00:50:30.800 We have, uh, groups like the Red

00:50:32.540 Cross and there's some really good

00:50:34.060 groups that are, that are down there

00:50:35.960 doing also Texas Baptist men.

00:50:38.060 So those are at least three or four

00:50:39.260 of the groups that I know of that

00:50:40.240 are down there now that know what

00:50:42.080 they're doing, that are, you know,

00:50:43.580 legitimate organizations and that are,

00:50:46.220 are trying to make a difference.

00:50:47.240 So, you know, if you can give money

00:50:48.300 to them, uh, I think they will, they

00:50:50.280 will make a difference down there.

00:50:51.460 Ken, thank you very much.

00:50:52.600 Appreciate it.

00:50:53.460 Thank you.

00:50:53.860 Um, by the way, yesterday I got word

00:50:56.420 that Mercury One, this is about three

00:50:58.280 o'clock in the afternoon, hit a

00:50:59.580 million dollars, um, from this

00:51:01.480 audience and we can't thank you

00:51:03.300 enough and you can donate.

00:51:05.300 We have partners on the ground as

00:51:06.820 well.

00:51:07.280 We also, uh, supply funding to places

00:51:10.400 like Samaritan's Purse, et cetera,

00:51:12.600 et cetera.

00:51:12.900 Um, you can go to mercuryone.org,

00:51:16.020 mercuryone.org.

00:51:18.140 The Glenn Beck Program.

00:51:42.160 Morning.

00:51:42.680 Uh, it's, there's another storm coming

00:51:47.600 in, right?

00:51:49.040 It's forming in the Atlantic right

00:51:50.600 now.

00:51:50.840 I haven't even gotten over this one

00:51:51.880 yet.

00:51:52.160 I know.

00:51:52.640 No.

00:51:53.280 I know.

00:51:53.740 There's a lot to get over.

00:51:54.400 It looks like this might be kind of a

00:51:55.780 tough year after year, after year,

00:51:58.360 after year of saying, okay, and no

00:52:00.120 major hurricane again, right?

00:52:01.780 No hurricane hit landfall again.

00:52:03.580 Uh, this, this isn't going to be like

00:52:06.740 that.

00:52:07.420 Uh, was it, was it Joe Bastardi that

00:52:09.640 told us last week that this was going

00:52:11.920 to form and, and maybe be a

00:52:13.420 potentially, uh, dangerous hurricane

00:52:15.540 again?

00:52:16.060 It's still pretty far out, but the

00:52:17.720 models are showing it hitting the

00:52:19.660 East coast pretty hard.

00:52:20.560 And, uh, you know, I know his pre

00:52:22.820 season sort of, uh, forecast said the

00:52:25.400 drought ends this year.

00:52:26.720 Like we're no, the, we've had a 12

00:52:28.500 year major hurricane drought.

00:52:30.400 Yeah.

00:52:31.000 Um, which has been, you know, great.

00:52:33.080 Really great.

00:52:33.580 Uh, but, and then the second

00:52:34.880 something happens, that's global

00:52:36.480 warming too.

00:52:37.320 Okay.

00:52:37.600 What was the last 12 years?

00:52:39.400 What was the last 12 freaking years

00:52:42.960 then?

00:52:43.120 Global warming with a small case

00:52:44.440 W.

00:52:45.300 I legitimately saw a story the other

00:52:47.480 day that said, uh, you want to know

00:52:49.380 what global warming looks like?

00:52:50.680 Look at Harvey.

00:52:51.880 And it's like, so it looks like the

00:52:53.500 last two days, but not the last 12

00:52:56.020 years, just so we're, we're clear

00:52:58.160 here.

00:52:58.720 It's only the last two days where it

00:53:00.840 showed up, but we've had 12 years

00:53:02.380 where it didn't show up at all and

00:53:03.960 we wouldn't learn anything.

00:53:05.060 Bingo.

00:53:05.440 Got it.

00:53:05.980 I mean, it's, it's ludicrous.

00:53:07.940 It is.

00:53:08.520 I don't know how they do it with a

00:53:09.560 straight face, but they continue to.

00:53:11.960 And, uh, uh, the Pope had some

00:53:13.780 words about global warming too.

00:53:15.160 We'll have to share those coming up

00:53:16.940 on the Glenn Beck Program.

00:53:27.700 The Glenn Beck Program.

00:53:31.400 Mercury.

00:53:46.940 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:54:10.880 We welcome to the program Joe

00:54:12.280 Bastardi.

00:54:12.880 He is, uh, from, uh, weatherbell.com.

00:54:15.340 If you don't know Joe, he's been on

00:54:17.280 with us several times over, you

00:54:18.660 know, the last, uh, seems like a

00:54:20.620 couple of decades, maybe three

00:54:21.820 decades, Joe.

00:54:23.000 Um, but, uh, Joe is one of the best

00:54:24.980 weather guys out there.

00:54:26.560 Meteorologist.

00:54:26.960 He is when it comes to hurricanes,

00:54:28.780 this guy nails it.

00:54:30.580 He has said recently that, uh, the,

00:54:33.960 the drought of hurricanes, if you

00:54:35.940 will, these, these giant storms,

00:54:37.260 this is the year they're going to

00:54:38.440 come to an end.

00:54:39.080 He is also, his tracking of this

00:54:42.360 hurricane was almost 100% correct

00:54:44.760 or close enough for people in my

00:54:46.580 business, at least.

00:54:47.880 Um, and unfortunately he is also

00:54:51.440 calling for another hurricane that

00:54:53.560 is now starting to, uh, form as a

00:54:56.160 tropical storm.

00:54:57.360 And he's here to tell us a little

00:54:59.360 bit about that.

00:55:00.240 But first, uh, Joe, welcome to the

00:55:02.840 program.

00:55:03.180 How are you, sir?

00:55:04.620 Well, I'm pretty good.

00:55:05.480 I just want to call in for a

00:55:07.000 couple of reasons on Irma.

00:55:08.240 Okay.

00:55:08.600 And, uh, it's not a done deal.

00:55:11.280 That's hitting the United States.

00:55:12.400 It's Puerto Rico and the Virgin

00:55:13.500 Islands.

00:55:13.960 I am very, very worried about.

00:55:15.540 In fact, I, uh, in looking at what

00:55:18.180 I'm seeing, it has the classic look

00:55:20.820 for a hurricane that should go to a

00:55:23.320 major hurricane.

00:55:24.400 The, uh, what we look at it, these

00:55:26.080 analogs of past patterns, for

00:55:27.680 instance, Ike and Andrew where the

00:55:30.000 path, you see the path come up and

00:55:31.600 bend.

00:55:32.120 And when it bends off to the left

00:55:33.780 like that, the hurricanes start

00:55:35.500 intensifying because it means that

00:55:36.920 the upper air ridge of high

00:55:38.080 pressure to the north of it is

00:55:40.060 backing west with it to sort of

00:55:41.960 escort it westward like that, by

00:55:44.140 the way.

00:55:44.460 And I just want folks to

00:55:45.720 understand.

00:55:46.340 I learned that methodology in

00:55:47.940 1976 at Penn State University from

00:55:50.620 Dr. John Lee, my tropical

00:55:52.100 professor who would point out

00:55:54.020 countless storms, countless major

00:55:56.420 storms, because we did have major

00:55:57.740 hurricanes back then.

00:55:58.760 In fact, quite a few of them in the

00:56:00.020 thirties, forties, and fifties

00:56:01.140 that when they came up and then

00:56:03.080 bent to the left, there would be

00:56:04.860 rapid intensification that would

00:56:06.540 follow over the next few days.

00:56:08.420 And so what we're dealing with

00:56:09.780 here is a storm that has plenty of

00:56:11.600 time over warm water that appears

00:56:13.500 to me is heading for the Virgin

00:56:15.660 Islands in Puerto Rico.

00:56:16.820 This is very important that it's

00:56:18.480 going to move slow.

00:56:19.760 And if we get a good handle on this

00:56:22.180 by Sunday, if it's me and I'm the

00:56:25.960 administration, I would start looking

00:56:28.400 at this as to try to preemptively

00:56:31.100 airlift supplies and get people

00:56:33.480 ready, because it may not come in

00:56:35.440 until Wednesday or Thursday, but if

00:56:37.060 you're coming in Saturday or Sunday,

00:56:38.920 even if it's a near miss, it's a bad

00:56:40.620 storm.

00:56:41.140 If it's a direct hit with a category

00:56:43.580 four or five hurricane coming through

00:56:45.140 the Virgin Islands to Puerto Rico, look

00:56:46.500 what Hugo did, right?

00:56:47.860 And we just saw a tremendous response

00:56:51.820 in Texas, a reactive response, which was

00:56:54.800 great, but a proactive situation,

00:56:58.820 especially with Puerto Rico and the

00:57:01.100 Virgin Islands, they're both U.S.

00:57:03.260 territories.

00:57:04.040 We have to understand that would really

00:57:06.300 be a way that you can show how good

00:57:09.760 government can work with the right

00:57:12.460 preparation.

00:57:14.240 Joe, what are the odds that that comes

00:57:17.740 a little farther up north?

00:57:20.420 Well, what do you mean?

00:57:21.100 And it hits, you know, it slams into,

00:57:27.000 it misses Puerto Rico, the Virgin

00:57:28.900 Islands, and it slams into the

00:57:31.320 Carolinas.

00:57:32.980 Well, that's certainly in the realm of

00:57:37.080 possibility, but what I do is I make a

00:57:38.520 forecast.

00:57:39.060 I think what this is going to do is come

00:57:41.100 very close to Puerto Rico, just north of

00:57:43.200 Hispaniola, and because I've got, you

00:57:46.580 know, clients all in there, and, you

00:57:48.780 know, we're getting the Bahamas on, you

00:57:51.000 know, sort of war footing, getting them

00:57:52.760 prepared, and then you have the

00:57:54.760 southeast United States.

00:57:56.380 If this thing takes a further south

00:57:57.860 track over Puerto Rico and Hispaniola, it

00:58:00.180 will not be able to rebuild major

00:58:02.260 intensity before Florida.

00:58:04.360 If you look at the tracks of storms into

00:58:06.160 Hispaniola, what happens is this.

00:58:08.320 If they are major hurricanes and they

00:58:10.900 hit, the inside of them get hollowed out,

00:58:13.560 and they can't get their core back

00:58:15.840 together for two, three, four days.

00:58:17.640 You saw that with Ike.

00:58:19.300 When Ike hit in there, it had to get back

00:58:22.380 out over the Gulf for a while.

00:58:24.220 So you have to understand that there is a

00:58:26.600 way out here for the United States, or it

00:58:29.020 recurves to the east of the United States.

00:58:31.640 But what we do is, look, we tell people

00:58:33.800 options, and we say, this is our most likely

00:58:36.420 forecast, and right now the first place I'm

00:58:38.900 worried about, and the reason I called in, was

00:58:41.840 because of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands,

00:58:43.760 and the idea that, you know, if you're

00:58:47.260 seeing something four or five days in

00:58:48.880 advance, you'll be able to get ready for

00:58:52.560 it.

00:58:52.820 What happened with Harvey was, everybody

00:58:54.840 was staring at the eclipse on Monday.

00:58:56.840 I mean, I was amazed at the lack of

00:58:58.820 attention to what was going on.

00:59:00.860 It wasn't named, but it was, you know, we

00:59:03.760 were warning our clients, saying, you know,

00:59:05.340 this is going to be a big deal, and we're

00:59:07.540 warning from quite a, that's not

00:59:09.320 hindsighting, it's what we were doing.

00:59:11.060 And as far as the preseason goes, I'll

00:59:14.260 tell you, I put something on this morning,

00:59:16.440 on Twitter this morning, that showed the

00:59:19.060 pressure patterns when major hurricanes are

00:59:21.760 going to hit the United States and the

00:59:23.640 computer models.

00:59:24.640 And what has happened over the last 12

00:59:26.280 years, and it might be due to the fact that

00:59:28.780 the globe is warmer, okay, my argue over what

00:59:31.360 causes that, but I don't argue that the

00:59:33.460 globe, the globe's a bit warmer, is it

00:59:35.760 distorts the barometric pressure patterns

00:59:37.920 during the hurricane season, which may make

00:59:40.900 it less likely for hurricanes to hit.

00:59:43.020 Now, why do we jump on this year?

00:59:44.540 We knew this year would be different.

00:59:46.120 Look at how cool it is across the eastern

00:59:47.740 and central United States.

00:59:49.380 And when it's cool in the month of

00:59:51.300 August, and the ocean, and you're in a

00:59:53.200 warm cycle, the Atlantic multidecadal

00:59:55.420 oscillation, we are, okay, bang, it

00:59:58.340 lights up the tropics.

00:59:59.400 You saw that happen in 2004.

01:00:01.080 So, Joe, you just brought up global warming

01:00:03.920 and, you know, all of Al Gore's nonsense

01:00:08.120 of, you know, the world is all going to be

01:00:11.860 underwater, you know, by 2016.

01:00:15.900 And he talked about these great buildup of

01:00:18.000 storms.

01:00:18.660 We have just gone through an amazing, quiet

01:00:21.560 period of storms.

01:00:23.240 And I would like to get your view.

01:00:26.040 I don't know where you stand on global warming.

01:00:27.800 I am on record saying, I will look at the

01:00:31.260 temperatures, and if the temperatures are

01:00:33.020 up, that's great.

01:00:34.200 What you do about it is what we need to

01:00:37.780 actually be discussing.

01:00:39.200 But for the people to start coming in and

01:00:42.140 saying, these storms are global warming.

01:00:43.900 See, we told you, no, this is a cycle that

01:00:47.200 has been quiet for a while and might come

01:00:49.780 roaring to life.

01:00:51.460 Well, here's the thing.

01:00:52.640 You know, I believe, first of all, in

01:00:53.880 Ecclesiastes 1.9, there's nothing new

01:00:55.740 under the sun.

01:00:56.420 You know, as man gets smarter, he observes

01:00:58.620 things more and more.

01:01:00.160 The cycles in the ocean, what we call the

01:01:02.480 Mariano overturning circulation, centuries in

01:01:05.300 the making.

01:01:05.900 The way you see the oceans now is a product of

01:01:08.660 back and forth for such a long time.

01:01:11.060 So I believe that the cycle is largely

01:01:14.400 warming.

01:01:15.500 CO2's contribution is minute.

01:01:18.320 It's only 0.04% of the atmosphere.

01:01:21.140 But look, here's what starts happening.

01:01:23.020 Let's say this becomes a big hurricane, but it

01:01:25.040 stays out at sea.

01:01:26.500 Well, that's weather.

01:01:27.560 If it happens to come 100 miles further west

01:01:29.680 and hits the United States, well, there's

01:01:31.540 climate change right there.

01:01:32.920 And that's what you see going on.

01:01:34.640 You take, if I wanted to see, this is the

01:01:36.940 thing about me.

01:01:37.540 I should probably be like a spy for the

01:01:39.300 other side.

01:01:40.780 I can give them examples where they could

01:01:43.400 push their point.

01:01:44.040 For instance, suppose this comes into the

01:01:45.960 Bahamas as a major hurricane.

01:01:47.500 That'll be three major hurricanes in three

01:01:49.700 years, right?

01:01:50.720 Which is almost unprecedented in the Bahamas.

01:01:53.440 Three major hurricanes in three years.

01:01:55.420 My counter then to myself would be, well, look

01:01:57.900 at what happened 63, 64, 65, 66 around there, where

01:02:02.180 you had major hurricanes.

01:02:03.380 You had Inez, Cleo, Betsy, Flora, all coming

01:02:06.920 into the same spot.

01:02:08.480 And where was that?

01:02:09.880 And that's the big thing.

01:02:11.260 Why would, today's the anniversary of Hurricane

01:02:13.420 Carroll, folks, on the northeast coast, 1954.

01:02:15.900 The wind gusted to 135 miles an hour at Block

01:02:20.120 Island, Rhode Island.

01:02:21.300 That happens to be stronger than the wind gusted

01:02:23.580 at Rancis Pass with this past storm, which was

01:02:25.840 132 miles an hour.

01:02:27.900 Now, one could argue, well, there were stronger

01:02:29.580 winds with Harvey.

01:02:31.060 But then again, with Carroll, there may have been

01:02:33.260 stronger winds, too, because they pushed 15 feet

01:02:35.440 of water into Providence, Rhode Island.

01:02:37.060 So, Joe, right.

01:02:38.600 So, my point is this, that you are seeing an agenda,

01:02:42.600 and they come out after the fact.

01:02:45.060 It's Monday morning quarterbacking, and that's

01:02:47.380 what I get all upset about, that, oh, these

01:02:50.220 people didn't even know what was going to happen

01:02:52.300 in the preseason.

01:02:53.520 They didn't get out there and hang their tail

01:02:55.780 out to dry like we did at our company.

01:02:58.620 And then they tell me after the fact that, oh,

01:03:01.280 this is because of CO2?

01:03:02.820 So, Joe, I have to ask you this question, and I

01:03:05.600 know you have to run.

01:03:07.060 You're a very busy man, and I appreciate your

01:03:09.020 time, but...

01:03:09.820 Not really.

01:03:10.480 I can hang out with you.

01:03:11.400 I want to ask you this one question, and that

01:03:15.560 is this.

01:03:17.920 I have such respect for you because you really

01:03:20.180 know your science.

01:03:21.480 You know your craft.

01:03:22.480 You know it.

01:03:25.180 But I'm listening to you, and I'm hearing the

01:03:27.860 memorization of the dates and the storms and

01:03:30.740 everything else.

01:03:32.560 Did you, like, a lot of kids grew up, they

01:03:35.340 memorized the names of the presidents.

01:03:37.800 Did you grow up knowing you wanted to do this

01:03:40.240 and memorizing the names of storms?

01:03:42.340 And when did you decide, my gosh, I'm

01:03:45.720 passionate about this?

01:03:47.520 Well, at the age of three, my mom and dad had to

01:03:49.960 keep an eye on me because I'd lie on my back and

01:03:52.320 stare at the sun, the cumulus clouds going in front

01:03:55.060 of the sun because I like to look at the outline of

01:03:57.020 the clouds.

01:03:57.980 My dad's a meteorologist.

01:03:59.560 He's 88 now.

01:04:00.400 He graduated out of A&M in 65, and he put me to bed, not

01:04:04.100 with the three little bears, but the three big storms of

01:04:06.480 54.

01:04:07.880 No, listen, I've been with my sons like this.

01:04:13.360 My great-grandfather was a town weatherman in

01:04:16.300 Bisignano, which is a town in Sicily.

01:04:18.700 And it's in the blood, and it's in the passion.

01:04:21.980 And you know what?

01:04:24.100 We're probably a lot alike in our spiritual beliefs.

01:04:26.460 When God gives you something, a passion like that, he's

01:04:30.920 doing it for a reason.

01:04:31.880 You know, many people, you know, I see the majesty of the

01:04:36.020 creation in God's hand in the weather every day.

01:04:40.040 I simply marvel at it.

01:04:41.200 I'm looking right now out my window.

01:04:43.620 There's a cloud in one place, no cloud in the other.

01:04:45.880 There has to be something different going on over that

01:04:48.200 short period, that short area.

01:04:50.060 How does that happen?

01:04:51.000 So you've got to understand something, that this is all I've

01:04:54.140 ever wanted to do since I was a little kid.

01:04:56.420 I've been a geek all my life.

01:04:58.380 I'm still a geek now.

01:04:59.480 I can't help it.

01:05:00.640 And I'll tell you what's bad.

01:05:02.360 It's a blessing and a curse, folks, because you will see

01:05:05.300 things quite far away, and then you can't sleep because

01:05:08.520 you keep going over.

01:05:09.440 You keep looking at maps, looking at maps.

01:05:11.440 And then what happens when they don't happen?

01:05:13.440 You learn about being wrong, okay?

01:05:15.780 And that's the problem I think that climatologists have.

01:05:19.100 They should be made to forecast the weather for a year so they

01:05:22.760 can see how the models go wrong and how they can be wrong.

01:05:26.700 Because when you're just looking at stuff from behind and you

01:05:28.960 get to come out and say, well, see, it's what we told you,

01:05:31.980 it's a very, very different situation from being an operational

01:05:34.740 forecast where your life's on the line.

01:05:36.440 Joe Bestardi from weatherbell.com, weatherbell.com, chief meteorologist,

01:05:42.500 and really one of the most accurate guys when it comes to long-range

01:05:47.360 forecasting and a friend of the program for a very long time.

01:05:50.580 Joe, I appreciate it.

01:05:51.860 God bless.

01:05:52.720 Hey, before I go, just remember, calm down.

01:05:55.960 Everyone enjoy the weather because it's the only weather you've got.

01:05:58.360 Most of the weather is nice across most of the world, okay?

01:06:01.580 God bless you.

01:06:02.560 Thanks, Joe.

01:06:03.260 Optimistic take.

01:06:04.120 It's actually, you know, the weird thing is the hurricane in Houston

01:06:08.740 kind of made the weather in Dallas really nice.

01:06:12.140 Oh, yeah.

01:06:12.620 It's been less humid here.

01:06:13.720 It's been cooler.

01:06:14.940 It's been great here while they're getting just inundated with this nightmare.

01:06:20.740 It just shows you how big a state.

01:06:22.040 It's kind of weird.

01:06:22.820 This is, you know, we were talking about this graphic the other day

01:06:26.280 that I think it was December of last year where it was 91 degrees in one part

01:06:32.180 of Texas and 7 degrees in another part of Texas.

01:06:36.120 It was 91 and 7 in the same state.

01:06:39.760 It really is.

01:06:40.400 Like, this is happening here in Texas.

01:06:43.720 It's almost, if you live in the East Coast,

01:06:45.880 it is as if the storm is happening in New York City

01:06:50.420 and you're at Niagara Falls.

01:06:52.700 And we're not even all the way across the state.

01:06:55.580 It's like you're in Seattle and, you know,

01:07:00.180 this storm is happening in Yakima.

01:07:03.340 There's four growing seasons between Dallas and Houston.

01:07:05.700 They're only four hours apart.

01:07:07.440 So that tells you a little bit about why.

01:07:09.840 I mean, it's subtropical in Houston, and we're certainly not.

01:07:14.440 No, not even close.

01:07:15.260 It's interesting times.

01:07:19.400 I saw this comedian.

01:07:21.360 Pat, I told you about him yesterday.

01:07:22.640 What was his name?

01:07:23.820 Oh, shoot.

01:07:25.500 He just did a Netflix special.

01:07:27.680 He's hysterical.

01:07:29.060 We have to see if he can come on the show.

01:07:30.820 He's hysterical.

01:07:33.980 He does, what is it, funny face or something happy face?

01:07:39.020 I can't remember what he is.

01:07:39.760 His name is Ryan Hamilton.

01:07:40.880 Ryan Hamilton.

01:07:41.820 Oh, my gosh, he's funny.

01:07:44.280 Man, I don't know what I was going to tell you about him.

01:07:46.940 There was something.

01:07:49.560 Was it involving his face?

01:07:51.320 No, it was involving something we were just talking about.

01:07:53.860 Now I can't remember.

01:07:55.900 Oh, well.

01:07:56.960 Watch it, because you're going to piece it together.

01:07:58.880 You're going to go.

01:07:59.360 Yeah, that was it.

01:08:00.060 Interesting times.

01:08:00.760 He said, it's been a while.

01:08:02.900 It's been a long time since I've had any kind of conversation with people

01:08:06.760 about politics or anything that hasn't ended.

01:08:09.340 He said, well, it sure is going to be interesting to see how this works out.

01:08:16.980 That's so true.

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01:09:23.200 Bubby Kruzan's dad, Bubby is the kid that has the disease Charlie Gard had.

01:09:28.680 We tried to get him to Boston.

01:09:29.940 You helped out.

01:09:30.920 Just got a quick email.

01:09:31.840 Well, Boston went better than we could have hoped, Glenn.

01:09:34.420 He's been accepted into the drug trial we're shooting for,

01:09:37.060 decided other supplements and meds that we could add.

01:09:40.700 The only thing we know is this wouldn't have happened without you or your audience

01:09:45.220 giving my son a future and giving us hope.

01:09:49.080 We couldn't have done anything without your audience.

01:09:52.220 Thanks.

01:09:55.380 Glenn Beck.

01:09:58.140 Mercury.

01:10:01.840 Brad Thor, who is one of my favorite authors, has a new book out called Use of Force.

01:10:14.360 If you haven't read it yet, you really need to.

01:10:17.020 But I have a question about it all the way through.

01:10:19.980 And if I'm right, he has just saluted one of the greatest men that the world does not know even exists.

01:10:32.760 And I want to talk to him a little bit about that.

01:10:35.820 Also, if you are anywhere in, well, probably in the United States.

01:10:41.120 I mean, it's happening in New York, but it's really bad here in Texas now.

01:10:44.460 If you're trying to get gas today, you might see the gas price has gone up 30, 50 cents a gallon.

01:10:49.320 Again, this in Texas is taking root as gas stations are just closing down.

01:10:55.400 They have no gas.

01:10:57.420 Four gas stations on the way in.

01:10:59.440 My son-in-law just wrote to me and he said,

01:11:01.980 Dad, every gas station I go to, the pumps are all closed.

01:11:08.300 That's because 90% of all gas comes out of the Houston area for this part of the country.

01:11:14.400 We talked to Ken Paxton, our attorney general.

01:11:17.640 He said those lines of supply lines are being rerouted, but it could make for a rough weekend.

01:11:24.780 More importantly, Brad is here and I want to talk to him about what does this mean for Russia and the instability of the world.

01:11:33.040 We go there with Brad Thor right now.

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01:12:01.860 Before we get to Brad Thor, let me just give you an update.

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01:12:16.300 We had some guy in Jerusalem say, I can't make an international donation.

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01:12:43.700 We're working with six disaster-related partners right now.

01:12:47.600 These are the main ones we're working for.

01:12:49.100 I want to give you an update.

01:12:49.940 Operation Barbecue Houston, they serve 12,000 meals to those affected.

01:12:54.900 And first responders just yesterday, 60 volunteers showed up to help them do it.

01:13:00.520 By tomorrow, they're going to be serving 25,000 hot barbecue complete meals.

01:13:06.800 They're supporting the U.S. Coast Guard.

01:13:09.680 We have Team Rubicon out a couple of more updates.

01:13:14.520 The boats are coming in and they're present today in Beaumont or will be tonight, I think.

01:13:20.460 They plan to be part of the search and rescue efforts until they're no longer needed.

01:13:24.540 As the waters go down, Team Rubicon is continuing the operations with the cleanup.

01:13:29.160 Also, City Impact, these are church partners that we have from Corpus Christi, you know, all the way up to Baytown.

01:13:38.020 We have deployed now, I don't even know, 10 tractor-trailer loads full of water and everything else.

01:13:45.240 They are also delivering a huge donation of survival food to victims who have lost their house from My Patriot Supply.

01:13:54.000 They are also delivering 2,500 water filtration systems.

01:14:05.620 This, and I'm not kidding you, we've done it.

01:14:07.700 I haven't done it, but we did it when we were in New York.

01:14:10.320 When they first did this water filtration system, they said it's the best in the world.

01:14:14.360 They said, look, come out with us.

01:14:15.640 We were in New York.

01:14:16.400 Come to this muddy pothole in New York Street, in the streets.

01:14:21.460 Would you ever, I don't even want to touch that water, it'll kill you.

01:14:26.340 Drank water from that pothole.

01:14:28.980 And they're still walking today.

01:14:31.040 After it had been filtered through their system.

01:14:33.480 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

01:14:33.800 Yes, yes, of course.

01:14:34.560 They didn't just do it for fun.

01:14:36.180 It was pure.

01:14:37.260 Yeah, it's amazing.

01:14:38.660 That's the Alexa Pure Pro, right?

01:14:39.540 Yes, and there are 2,500 of those are being delivered.

01:14:43.620 Somebody cares.

01:14:44.560 Also, these are people that are helping in cleanup, the mud outs, putting tarps on the roof, etc., etc.

01:14:52.980 There's Gleaning for the World.

01:14:55.120 They're doing the baby products and the water.

01:14:57.000 Also, Provisions Project.

01:14:58.780 This one is really important.

01:15:01.220 These guys are funding, we're providing the funding so they can provide the fuel for the search and rescue vehicles,

01:15:07.720 the equipment, and the meals.

01:15:10.340 And they are in not only Houston, but they're also up in Louisiana,

01:15:13.520 one of the parishes up there that was hard hit by Katrina.

01:15:17.120 Thank you for donating, mercuryone.org.

01:15:19.400 We go to Brad Thor now, who's written Use of Force.

01:15:24.140 And Brad, I wanted to talk to you a little bit about the hurricane and the unforeseen consequences,

01:15:31.880 at least by the people in the media that, you know, will never look into these things.

01:15:35.860 With the price of gas going up, because 20% of our fuel is not being refined now,

01:15:44.200 the 20% of that means that we're not buying oil, which could make the price of oil globally crash,

01:15:53.000 which, if that happens, that makes Vladimir Putin a caged animal.

01:15:57.340 Are you seeing any ramifications from Harvey that I might be missing?

01:16:04.320 Well, that's probably one of the biggest ones you've got to be careful with there,

01:16:08.340 because that is where Putin does make a good amount of his money, is with that.

01:16:16.080 You know, I have to tell you, I'm concerned, and it is something I'm watching,

01:16:20.380 but part of a larger play, which involves basically no sanctions for him taking the peninsula and Crimea,

01:16:29.480 I'm very concerned for some of those Baltic states, particularly as we go into the winter,

01:16:33.740 and will he cut off fuel supplies and natural gases he's done to Ukraine,

01:16:38.560 but will he make a move on Lithuania or Estonia or something like that,

01:16:44.520 with Trump so wobbly on the Article 5 of the NATO treaty?

01:16:48.660 If Putin is going to try to expand, this fall, this winter, is when he's got to do it,

01:16:54.480 and that's what I'm really concerned about.

01:16:55.840 Am I alone in feeling that we're approaching the most dangerous fall

01:17:03.460 that I think we've approached since possibly 2001?

01:17:08.640 Just something doesn't feel right.

01:17:10.260 This is a dangerous fall.

01:17:11.720 It feels like the season has changed.

01:17:13.600 Do you feel that at all?

01:17:15.200 It's almost like, and we joke around about Star Wars a lot on the show,

01:17:20.080 but it's almost like you sense that disturbance in the force,

01:17:22.680 particularly with the North Koreans kicking things up with launching that missile.

01:17:28.040 And by the way, one of the things the media got wrong about the recent launch that they did over Japan

01:17:33.080 was that the North Koreans were very tactical about this.

01:17:36.720 They sent the missile up so high over that Japanese island

01:17:40.480 that technically they didn't violate their airspace or their sovereignty,

01:17:44.200 and where it came down was nowhere near Guam.

01:17:47.100 So they're being very tactical, but make no mistake, it was a big middle finger held up towards Donald Trump.

01:17:52.360 You know what, they can hold up middle fingers to Donald Trump and to us for all they want.

01:17:57.240 Let's do the right thing and not get our egos involved.

01:18:01.020 This is a dangerous situation.

01:18:02.760 Well, and they're going to keep going and doing it because winter is coming.

01:18:07.640 It's like Game of Thrones.

01:18:08.780 They are going to need heating oil, and they're going to need food.

01:18:12.040 Those are two of the biggest things they are going to be lobbying for.

01:18:14.920 So you're going to see things get more dangerous, but it only takes one mistake in these provocations to lead us to war.

01:18:22.700 And the big thing that I'm looking for, and it'll be a big kind of trigger point for me,

01:18:27.420 is if the United States government gives an order to evacuate military families

01:18:33.180 and non-essential diplomatic personnel from South Korea and Japan.

01:18:36.580 If that happens, we know it's game on, and that's what I'm watching for in that part of the world.

01:18:41.440 Brad, just to let you know for the rest of the interview, we've already done Star Wars and Game of Thrones.

01:18:45.420 I will need a pop culture reference for each point that you make.

01:18:48.920 Now back to the interview.

01:18:52.140 So try to find one here.

01:18:55.380 Afghanistan, two weeks ago, seems like 100 years ago.

01:18:58.980 Rambo.

01:18:59.840 It's like Rambo.

01:19:00.640 It's like Rambo in Rambo 1.

01:19:04.660 It seems like 100 years ago that the president said, hey, by the way, we're ramping up troops.

01:19:08.760 There's something that he was dead set against, which really put a chill down my spine

01:19:13.380 because it reminded me of what George Bush said to me in the Oval, which was,

01:19:16.480 don't worry about whoever gets into the Oval Office when they sit behind this desk.

01:19:20.960 They're going to do exactly what I've done because they'll see that the president really has no more options left.

01:19:26.680 Yeah, that is totally correct.

01:19:28.700 And I know a lot of people have been upset with Eric Prince putting forward this idea

01:19:33.240 that maybe we ought to have a greater private military corporation presence in Afghanistan.

01:19:37.920 I will tell you this.

01:19:38.880 I'm good friends with a guy named Sean Parnell.

01:19:41.300 And Sean Parnell wrote a fabulous book about his experience in Afghanistan called Outlaw Platoon.

01:19:46.360 I highly recommend it.

01:19:47.940 And Parnell had his team.

01:19:50.320 They had one of the longest combat deployments in the war on terror, 485 days in Afghanistan.

01:19:54.960 They actually said that as painful as it was being away from home, that that length of time was excellent

01:20:00.740 because the villagers got to know him.

01:20:02.720 They knew the terrain better than the bad guys.

01:20:04.860 They knew where the bad guys were.

01:20:06.580 So this idea that putting people in for longer stretches who can get to know the villagers,

01:20:12.300 can work on some of that counterinsurgency stuff, may not be a bad thing.

01:20:16.260 I'm a big believer, and I love the Defense Department, but they still buy $600 hammers.

01:20:20.660 I'm always in favor of considering options that allow the private sector, when held accountable,

01:20:26.200 to try to do things better, cheaper, faster, stronger than the United States government.

01:20:29.860 So I think it's worth looking at.

01:20:31.180 Have you read the news?

01:20:32.460 This was not covered by anyone going to Iran.

01:20:37.940 The head of the Supreme Council came out about four weeks ago and said to the people,

01:20:44.720 I just want you to know that the 12th hammam is here.

01:20:49.540 He is among us.

01:20:50.660 And he is walking among us now.

01:20:53.080 And he will come forth soon.

01:20:55.780 Is that disturbing to you at all?

01:20:59.200 It is disturbing when you know as much about this as you do and your audience does.

01:21:05.540 I mean, Ahmadinejad had all of the avenues in Tehran widened so that they could celebrate

01:21:11.700 the coming and do a big parade for the Mahdi when he came.

01:21:15.260 So this is a disturbing thing.

01:21:17.780 If they are ramping up that apocalyptic rhetoric, why else would they be doing it?

01:21:24.360 Why would they be ginning their people up unless they needed a faith-based reason to prepare

01:21:28.420 them to go through some real serious bad stuff?

01:21:30.800 And that's what this sounds like.

01:21:33.540 Last on the world events, we're seeing people ginning things up in North Korea.

01:21:41.600 They're building the giant bridge.

01:21:44.860 I don't know if you saw the bridge that Russia is building now in Crimea.

01:21:47.820 It's like 12 miles long.

01:21:49.860 First land bridge to that area from Russia.

01:21:53.460 People are starting to really lay claim to things.

01:21:58.620 And here in the United States, we have Antifa and the Nazis.

01:22:04.220 And, you know, the right is being told, you've got to stand against the communists and kind

01:22:13.660 of just, you know, look the other way about the Nazis.

01:22:15.920 And the left is saying, you've got to fight against the Nazis.

01:22:19.940 And, you know, many on the left are saying, and you've got to join the communists.

01:22:25.080 What do you make of this?

01:22:27.560 Well, so it's funny.

01:22:28.940 I was actually reading back through some of your old articles on glennbeck.com.

01:22:32.940 And last year...

01:22:34.520 You have no life.

01:22:35.860 You really have no life.

01:22:38.560 You know, it's like Groundhog Day.

01:22:40.240 I read the same thing over and over and over.

01:22:43.640 You actually, Glenn, were saying in the spring of 2016 that you thought that summer was going

01:22:48.680 to be like 68.

01:22:49.940 And I think you were a year too early.

01:22:51.980 I think we are seeing it now.

01:22:54.520 I think the stuff that you thought was coming in 2016 actually hit this summer with Charlottesville.

01:22:59.040 And I think it's only going to get worse.

01:23:01.180 Yeah.

01:23:01.500 But I am heartened by the fact that even the Washington Post, even though they kind of softened

01:23:07.280 in the end of the op-ed, is willing to go after Antifa.

01:23:10.660 If you've got to put a mask on to show up and practice your free speech rights, you're doing

01:23:15.960 it wrong if you've got to wear the mask.

01:23:17.640 So these are bad guys.

01:23:18.760 The Nazis are bad people.

01:23:20.640 I hate the Nazis.

01:23:21.500 I hate the alt-right.

01:23:22.700 But we're in a very dangerous time in our country where we're not supporting free speech.

01:23:27.360 We're telling people you've got to pick sides.

01:23:29.380 And you know what?

01:23:29.880 I stand on the side of liberty.

01:23:31.200 And I want the truth.

01:23:33.220 And I want people to be able to discuss differences of opinions and ideas without worrying about

01:23:37.680 getting their heads caved in.

01:23:38.720 Yeah, this is really, this is, this is where you're, here's where the rubber meets the road.

01:23:43.040 Charlie Hebdo, I don't know if you've seen this, the latest cover of Charlie Hebdo, which,

01:23:47.020 you know, we rallied for and stood with them.

01:23:50.140 You know, I am Charlie, when they were, you know, being told to sit down and shut up in the strongest

01:23:57.440 of terms by the Islamic extremist community, we stood up for them.

01:24:01.820 The world did.

01:24:02.720 We have to do it again today.

01:24:04.060 But here's where it's really hard.

01:24:06.120 The cover of Charlie Hebdo is now a cartoon of Americans giving a Nazi salute with just

01:24:13.400 their arms coming out of the water.

01:24:16.200 And the headline says, what, Pat?

01:24:18.220 Houston or God exists.

01:24:21.760 He drowned all the neo-Nazis in Texas.

01:24:24.400 Right.

01:24:24.680 Something to that effect.

01:24:25.400 I mean, so, you know, the original reaction, the immediate reaction to people is, oh, my gosh,

01:24:31.020 how dare them?

01:24:31.680 That's just wrong.

01:24:32.340 Yeah, it is wrong.

01:24:33.180 I hate that.

01:24:34.700 But they have a right to say it.

01:24:37.160 We just have a right not to buy it and not to spread it.

01:24:40.620 Well, and this is what I've always said when I had the Islamic extremists that didn't like

01:24:45.860 my thrillers.

01:24:46.800 I've got a First Amendment right to write whatever I want, and it's equaled by a right

01:24:50.300 just as powerful, the right not to read it.

01:24:52.820 So, listen, this is bad when America is viewed this way internationally.

01:24:56.580 And I think had Trump handled Charlottesville better, that this wouldn't have happened.

01:25:01.560 But this is where we are now.

01:25:04.080 What you hear from Donald Trump on Twitter and at the rallies is the real Trump.

01:25:07.780 When he's off-prompter, that's the real Trump.

01:25:10.340 He is not very adept.

01:25:11.900 He's not good at handling this stuff, and his instincts are not good.

01:25:14.700 He's a pugnacious reality TV star.

01:25:16.940 That does not lend itself towards effective leadership.

01:25:20.280 And so you end up seeing this craziness.

01:25:22.360 Listen, it's the French, right?

01:25:23.660 I mean, we'll go back to having freedom fries instead of French fries if they want to pull

01:25:27.120 this BS when it comes down to Texas.

01:25:28.880 But anybody who's trying to score political points or to do fundraising like that insane

01:25:35.000 woman, Linda Sarsour, on the backs of the tragedy happening in Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi,

01:25:40.820 you're a bad person.

01:25:41.800 You're a bad person if you cannot put your politics aside and see that there are black,

01:25:47.420 brown, white, yellow, red, blue, polka dot people that are suffering.

01:25:51.420 Politics don't matter right now.

01:25:53.180 This is about human beings, and we need to do all we can to be helping those folks down

01:25:57.600 in Texas instead of trying to score cheap political points.

01:26:00.260 There it is.

01:26:01.420 You let the man talk, and he always hangs himself.

01:26:04.340 Do you hear that?

01:26:04.980 Now he's claiming there are polka dot people.

01:26:07.460 You heard it here.

01:26:08.260 You heard it here from Brad Thorpe.

01:26:09.540 Similar to episode seven, season two of Carolina in the City, which I think we're all thinking

01:26:14.620 about.

01:26:15.080 Back in a second with Brad Thorpe.

01:26:16.340 One more question for him, and it regards a hero in your book that I have been reading

01:26:24.220 your book, and I'm like, I got to ask Brad Thorpe this, and I think I'm right, and if

01:26:31.700 I am, you need to tell the story.

01:26:39.540 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

01:26:54.100 Brad Thorpe.

01:26:55.660 The odds are probably slim, but I have to know.

01:26:58.380 I'm reading your book, One of the Heroes, named Haney.

01:27:02.100 Is that the way you're pronouncing it in the book?

01:27:04.200 Correct.

01:27:04.680 Did you name it after a guy who I don't think anybody in the country really knows who he

01:27:11.100 is, and I believe one of the greatest heroes of our generation, Phil Haney?

01:27:18.640 No.

01:27:19.880 It's not.

01:27:21.080 It's not.

01:27:22.120 There's actually a real-life Mike Haney, and that's who it's named after.

01:27:26.000 The real-life hero in the book, though, is the Harvest boss, Reed Carlton, a dedicated

01:27:32.960 use of force to Dewey Claridge, who is a huge CIA spymaster, fantastic American, and

01:27:39.860 the Reed Carlton character, nobody knew it until this book came out, was always based

01:27:43.420 upon Dewey Claridge, who helped set up the Counterterrorism Center at the CIA.

01:27:48.100 But I know who Phil Haney is.

01:27:50.040 Good guy.

01:27:50.920 Unbelievable man.

01:27:51.840 Unbelievable man.

01:27:52.600 Maybe we'll get into it next week on this program and just explain who Phil Haney is,

01:27:57.380 but he's a guy that I think every American should know.

01:28:00.120 He's remarkable.

01:28:01.560 And that's what I love about your books, and that's why I thought it might be Phil, but

01:28:05.440 I love your books because I learn so much from them.

01:28:09.960 You ever think I called you, you don't write fiction, you write faction, and I love that.

01:28:15.340 Brad, thank you so much.

01:28:16.500 We'll talk to you again, my friend.

01:28:18.000 Thank you, my friend.

01:28:18.740 Yeah, but Brad Thor, the name of the book is Use of Force, you just want to, you just

01:28:26.060 want to escape, that's a great place to escape.

01:28:30.320 Of course, it's not really a happy place.

01:28:32.580 Brad Thor, Use of Force, available online and wherever books are seen.

01:28:36.840 And I say, the Use of Force really tracks the plot arc of season three of Dharma and Greg.

01:28:42.440 Like, if you guys, you guys are probably on that, or was it Veronica's Closet?

01:28:47.100 I think it was Veronica's Closet.

01:28:48.760 Yeah, yeah.

01:28:50.040 When I think of Brad Thor, I do think of Veronica's Closet a lot.

01:28:54.460 Back in a minute.

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01:29:37.820 Two things to talk about here before we get going.

01:29:41.160 And that is, one, Charlie Hebdo, which I can't even...

01:29:47.660 Oh, jeez.

01:29:48.200 Yeah.

01:29:49.840 I'm going to unleash Pat here in a second.

01:29:52.700 I'm going to take him off of the little...

01:29:54.540 I'm not sure you want to do that, but okay.

01:29:56.100 But some things need to be said.

01:29:57.960 But what needs to be said also is we knew these people were not good people.

01:30:02.160 We didn't defend them because they were right or they were good.

01:30:05.060 We defended them because they had a right and they still have a right to do these horrible

01:30:09.100 things that they're doing, but it's hard and ugly.

01:30:13.000 We'll get to that here in a second.

01:30:14.160 And I'm going to unleash.

01:30:15.280 I'm going to take the stake out of the yard.

01:30:17.280 And so he's going to be off the leash in just a second.

01:30:19.880 Also, I have to play this audio for you.

01:30:22.060 This is from Houston.

01:30:22.920 This is a grandfather calling for help.

01:30:28.720 He calls the local Chick-fil-A for help.

01:30:32.060 And he is rescued with a jet ski.

01:30:36.760 It sounds like a joke.

01:30:37.860 Here it is.

01:30:38.360 Monday morning, we realized we had to evacuate.

01:30:41.080 We had to get out of there.

01:30:42.720 And so I called Chick-fil-A.

01:30:44.700 Now, that sounds kind of funny.

01:30:46.220 But I ordered two grilled chicken burritos with extra egg and a boat.

01:30:50.500 Can you believe that the manager, one of the managers of Chick-fil-A, she sent her husband

01:30:57.580 to pick us up.

01:30:59.380 Come on now.

01:30:59.920 And we are so grateful and so thankful.

01:31:03.480 And so Karen jumped on the back of the jet ski and I jumped on the back of another one

01:31:08.340 and they evacuated us to higher ground.

01:31:12.200 And we are ever so grateful.

01:31:14.960 That's really cool.

01:31:16.160 That's great.

01:31:16.700 And also, it makes me want Chick-fil-A.

01:31:18.740 Yeah.

01:31:19.000 There is that element, isn't there?

01:31:22.040 How great are the people at Chick-fil-A?

01:31:23.960 I mean, what a really cool story.

01:31:26.040 And I guess it's not just them.

01:31:27.260 It's everybody right now.

01:31:28.580 Yeah.

01:31:28.880 You really do see that coming together.

01:31:31.480 And it's why it's so hard to take the Charlie Hebdo thing today.

01:31:36.980 Because that's inconceivable to me.

01:31:40.080 And again, I keep using that word.

01:31:41.460 I don't think it means what I think it means.

01:31:43.460 I don't think it does anymore either.

01:31:44.020 It's pretty obvious it doesn't mean anything anymore.

01:31:47.860 Because almost everything from the left is inconceivable now, right?

01:31:52.240 It's just they have depicted the drowning victims, the victims in Houston,

01:31:59.200 who have done nothing to anybody, as Nazis.

01:32:03.900 They put out on their cover people sticking their hands out of water in the Zieg Heil salute.

01:32:11.860 But in the background are Nazi flags, and they're kind of going down in this whirlpool.

01:32:17.080 And then the headline reads, let's see.

01:32:23.380 God does exist.

01:32:24.200 God does exist.

01:32:26.080 He drowned all the neo-Nazis in Texas.

01:32:29.400 It's incredible.

01:32:31.460 What?

01:32:32.060 What?

01:32:33.640 Where are you getting that these are neo-Nazi people?

01:32:36.920 Well, and their point there is people in Texas are neo-Nazis, right?

01:32:41.280 Yes.

01:32:41.660 Which is amazing because here, when they had their incident with Muslim extremists.

01:32:47.740 13 people were killed, if you remember correctly.

01:32:50.920 And that's because they mocked the Prophet Muhammad.

01:32:52.860 And we were totally supportive.

01:32:54.100 We felt bad.

01:32:54.860 We are all Charlie Hebdo today, right?

01:32:56.940 And the idea being, of course, our principle, the American principle,

01:33:01.040 not the French principle, of free speech and expression enshrined in our Constitution.

01:33:05.720 We first said, hey, they should be able to do this, even though it's terrible.

01:33:09.240 And by the way, at the time, we also said, it's not because it was Muhammad.

01:33:13.960 What they did with Muhammad was disgusting.

01:33:16.800 I mean, it was despicable and disgusting.

01:33:19.160 But they didn't deserve to die.

01:33:20.660 But they didn't deserve to die, obviously.

01:33:23.360 And that's what's so crazy about this.

01:33:25.180 It's really the same thing, you know, because you could say, well, they, you know,

01:33:30.000 they mock Muhammad and now they're mocking Christian religion.

01:33:33.960 And you can find some level of consistency there, in theory.

01:33:37.800 The issue being, of course, that if you are an atheist and you're going to mock different religions,

01:33:43.400 mocking Muhammad or mocking Jesus, there's no, that doesn't mean anything to you

01:33:49.300 because you don't believe they're real.

01:33:51.040 Right.

01:33:51.120 The people who are dying in Texas are actually real.

01:33:54.140 Yeah.

01:33:54.460 Aren't you guys supposed to be humanists or something?

01:33:57.860 Aren't you supposed to be?

01:33:59.040 Of course, I mean, this is the left, right?

01:34:01.140 They're not humanists.

01:34:02.080 They're not.

01:34:03.000 They're not diverse.

01:34:04.240 They're not inclusive.

01:34:05.160 I hate these people!

01:34:07.640 And so I just, they're so inconsistent.

01:34:10.900 They're so, they're so vile.

01:34:14.200 They're such hypocrites.

01:34:15.160 They're hypocrites.

01:34:15.800 I gotta say that.

01:34:17.100 How would they like it if during that Charlie Hebdo thing, we would have said,

01:34:21.360 ah, yeah, 13 extra frogs we don't have to deal with now.

01:34:24.600 Yeah, I mean, that's exactly what they're doing here.

01:34:26.420 Yeah, that's exactly what they're doing.

01:34:28.060 It's not what we did.

01:34:29.280 Nope.

01:34:29.480 It's what they're doing.

01:34:31.880 Wow.

01:34:32.280 And I gotta say, the screaming Pat Gray we just had a moment with there is really hard

01:34:39.560 to avoid being today.

01:34:42.140 Because, I mean, it is infuriating what they've done.

01:34:45.480 It is.

01:34:45.940 And, you know, we're trying not to go over the top and to bash people and to be better people.

01:34:52.180 But, come on, just this once, we gotta say, I hate these people!

01:35:00.200 It does feel that way.

01:35:01.960 It feels right today.

01:35:04.240 I mean, it's hard to understand.

01:35:05.700 Can you imagine taking such a position when what you have already gone through as an organization,

01:35:13.440 where the entire world really rallied against your despicable, terrible magazine,

01:35:17.340 and said, hey, you know, like, even though what you do is awful, we still love you as people.

01:35:25.720 Now, what they're saying is, because you could say the same thing about neo-Nazis.

01:35:30.280 You might say, we absolutely despise who you are.

01:35:34.940 But if the reverse had happened and Antifa had rolled over some neo-Nazi protesters, we would say the same thing.

01:35:41.840 The neo-Nazi protesters' point doesn't get any better because they got hit by a car.

01:35:45.000 But what it would do is, we would say, we still, you know, feel for the victims because there's still people, even when they're terrible people.

01:35:53.520 And what unadulterated stupidity to just blanket label all the people of Houston as neo-Nazis.

01:35:59.840 It's one of the most diverse, if not the most diverse, large city in America and probably the world.

01:36:09.040 And it also happens to be, Houston proper is a very Democrat city.

01:36:14.840 And they'd probably find themselves in agreement with a lot of the leadership on the Houston City Council.

01:36:21.540 And yet, they disregard all of that.

01:36:23.460 To give you an example, in 2016, there was a very competitive election between Lori Bartley, the Republican candidate, and someone you might know, Sheila Jackson Lee, the Democratic candidate for the House in District 18.

01:36:37.980 Yeah, that's Houston proper too, right?

01:36:39.940 District 18, that's her.

01:36:41.500 Sheila Jackson Lee, 73 to 23, she won.

01:36:44.740 So, I guess all the neo-Nazis are big Sheila Jackson Lee supporters?

01:36:50.160 Oh, for sure.

01:36:50.480 That is fascinating.

01:36:51.380 You know that's a fact.

01:36:52.620 Well, and how about, I mean, Houston had either the first, I think Salt Lake City had the first openly lesbian mayor.

01:37:00.320 But Houston had an openly lesbian mayor, right?

01:37:03.500 She was the one also that was asking the preachers to turn in their Sunday preaching, right?

01:37:09.080 In one of the Bibles and everything.

01:37:10.620 Yes, I remember that.

01:37:11.480 By the way, let's take a little trip across Houston to District 9 as well.

01:37:16.660 Because this District 9 shows the hardcore right wing that Houston is.

01:37:22.460 It's a bubbling cauldron of Nazism.

01:37:25.020 Jeff Martin, the Republican, really competitive with Al Green, the Democrat.

01:37:30.520 Now, Al did win 81 to 19 in the race.

01:37:34.540 But man, those right wingers in Houston.

01:37:37.700 He also sang that song, I'm So In Love With You.

01:37:40.100 I don't, I'm not sure if that's the name of it, but 1971, 72.

01:37:44.880 The Reverend Al Green.

01:37:45.600 Yeah.

01:37:46.920 Remember, that was the one thing I liked during the Obama presidency.

01:37:51.740 Was his rendition?

01:37:53.140 Was his rendition of the Al Green song.

01:37:56.060 That was a part of the Obama pregnancy that you liked at all?

01:37:58.880 Yes, no, there really wasn't, except for that one moment when he sang.

01:38:03.660 By the way, as we're talking about race issues, there is a new article in Sports Illustrated

01:38:08.820 talking to four different executives in the NFL about why they didn't pick up Colin Kaepernick.

01:38:16.660 Now, this is apparently a big issue because it just shows how much people will not deal with,

01:38:21.160 he stood up for black people, therefore he's not on a roster in this league with 70-odd percent of black people who are playing it.

01:38:27.720 Is it Chicago, Miami, do you know which four?

01:38:30.300 They did not, they're unnamed executives to speak freely.

01:38:33.080 Here are their quotes.

01:38:35.140 Certainly he's good enough to be a backup, but we have a good number two that fits our system we have familiarity with.

01:38:40.060 We know exactly what we're going to get from the guy.

01:38:43.440 Physically, Kaepernick's more talented, but familiarity with a backup of that position,

01:38:47.060 knowing exactly what you're going to get is more important than that wow factor.

01:38:50.320 It's like Robert Griffin III.

01:38:52.160 You had him playing a certain way and he's a hell of a player,

01:38:54.260 but as soon as defenses figured out what they were and a specific way to play him,

01:38:57.820 that's where they had to be able to start to win from the pocket and they can't do that.

01:39:01.160 If they can't do that in this league, it's tough.

01:39:03.000 So R.J. III, like he's in the NFL right now, right?

01:39:05.180 No, and here's a guy, R.J. III, who's been criticized by the left for being potentially the slur of being Republican,

01:39:14.860 and that's unconfirmed.

01:39:16.120 We don't know that he's a Republican, but he's been accused of being a Republican,

01:39:20.440 but he's definitely friendly with the military.

01:39:23.520 He's a big supporter of the police and the military.

01:39:25.580 I mean, all accounts, R.J. III is a huge military supporter and seemingly a good guy.

01:39:31.580 And nobody asked any questions when he got drummed out of the league.

01:39:34.700 And once again, his best season, far better than Colin Kaepernick's best season.

01:39:39.620 Oh my gosh.

01:39:40.120 Not even close.

01:39:41.380 Wasn't he rookie of the year when he came in?

01:39:43.280 Was he?

01:39:43.480 Yeah, I think he was.

01:39:44.060 I think he was.

01:39:45.040 I mean, really, injuries, a lot of that slowed him down.

01:39:48.040 Executive number two.

01:39:48.880 From our end, it never got down to even getting to the level of going to the owner.

01:39:52.480 To me, the protests, all that wasn't even a factor for us.

01:39:55.880 It was the ability to fit within our offense.

01:39:59.100 He doesn't throw the ball great.

01:40:00.340 He's more of an on-the-move, zone-read type of quarterback.

01:40:03.180 He needs to be in a specific system.

01:40:04.900 So here's my question.

01:40:05.720 I understand the Kaepernick deal, why it's news, but nobody's talking about R.J. III.

01:40:09.840 I know it's Kaepernick and it's what sells,

01:40:12.600 but the problem that R.J. III has getting a job is the same for Kaepernick for a lot of teams.

01:40:16.540 Executive III, I don't like the guy as a player.

01:40:19.380 I don't think he can play.

01:40:20.680 I don't think he can play at Reno.

01:40:22.540 I don't think he can play now.

01:40:24.300 You don't think he was a good player?

01:40:25.660 20 teams would be lining up.

01:40:27.120 He's inaccurate, inconsistent, reading defenses.

01:40:29.860 He needs everything to be perfect around him, and he needs that certain offense.

01:40:33.620 When he was rolling, they had an unbelievable defense,

01:40:36.300 a great running game, with an amazing offensive line.

01:40:38.820 Everything was perfect.

01:40:40.320 And you consider that, why isn't there a debate about R.J. III?

01:40:43.360 He wasn't even in consideration, and on and on.

01:40:46.120 And yet we have the Kaepernick isn't on an NFL team because of his protests,

01:40:51.400 and it would be ignorant to think otherwise, Aaron Rodgers.

01:40:55.020 Yeah, which is interesting.

01:40:55.960 The Rodgers story...

01:40:56.900 Very disappointing.

01:40:57.760 I know.

01:40:58.080 It's disappointing for him.

01:40:59.060 You know, there's a couple interesting parts of that Rodgers story.

01:41:01.440 If you haven't seen it, it's in ESPN, the magazine.

01:41:03.600 And it was kind of a weird situation where Rodgers just called up this reporter

01:41:07.500 and was like, hey, I want to talk about stuff.

01:41:09.320 And they just met at her house.

01:41:11.700 The story is very fascinating.

01:41:12.920 I know Pat's a huge Packers fan, so he'd appreciate it.

01:41:15.140 That's kind of weird.

01:41:15.600 But there's two things.

01:41:16.360 Everyone's highlighting the Kaepernick thing,

01:41:17.760 where he basically says, yeah, he'd be on a roster if it wasn't for the protest.

01:41:20.540 But if you read the whole article, there's an interesting part of where his spiritual journey,

01:41:25.640 which is, I think, a scary one for any parent.

01:41:29.360 Basically, he grew up really involved in church and in the faith,

01:41:34.800 and met at some point, he started questioning things,

01:41:37.500 met at some point some progressive pastor.

01:41:39.460 And the way it reads is, basically, the guy kind of talked him out of Christianity.

01:41:45.200 Really?

01:41:45.440 He started, like, not intentionally, I don't think, but, like, start,

01:41:48.700 and he's now come to this point where he's like, I'm not really part of a faith,

01:41:52.240 and I'm not sure what I believe, and, you know, I just want to be accepting of everyone.

01:41:56.540 And it's a kind of an interesting...

01:41:58.520 You're killing me.

01:41:59.100 You're killing me.

01:41:59.820 I got to say, it's an interesting journey.

01:42:01.240 He definitely seems like he's...

01:42:02.760 Stop talking.

01:42:03.400 Oh, geez.

01:42:03.900 Stop talking.

01:42:04.440 Pat's going down.

01:42:05.500 Pat's bummed now.

01:42:06.380 Just trying to suck Pat over to be an Eagles fan.

01:42:08.400 It's probably a long road, but I'm going to try it anyway.

01:42:11.620 There's no road there.

01:42:16.100 Unbelievable.

01:42:16.700 888-727-BECK.

01:42:18.160 888-727-BECK.

01:42:21.260 Glenn Beck.

01:42:22.140 About an hour ago, we talked to chief meteorologist from weatherbell.com, Joe Bastardi.

01:42:36.520 He's a friend of ours that we've known for years and years and years.

01:42:39.440 One of the best meteorologists and climate forecasters in the nation.

01:42:43.920 He just said a few months ago, this is going to be the summer that ends the drought, if you will, of hurricanes.

01:42:53.340 He also was the most accurate on calling Harvey.

01:42:56.500 While everybody was staring at the sun, he was saying, there's trouble coming.

01:43:01.040 And it's Harvey.

01:43:01.840 It wasn't even named yet.

01:43:03.580 He's just announced today.

01:43:05.440 He called into the show and said, there's another one on the way.

01:43:08.240 This one probably going to hit the U.S. Virgin Islands or Puerto Rico.

01:43:12.080 And he says, this is going to be a really, really bad one.

01:43:16.000 We need to be acting on it right now.

01:43:19.360 Please, things change at the drop of a hat.

01:43:23.820 There are ramifications to what happened in Houston.

01:43:27.500 No matter where you are, I got a tweet from somebody in New York that said gas went up 30 cents since last night.

01:43:34.520 One guy said in a half hour, it went up 17 cents.

01:43:42.080 The Glenn Beck Program.

01:43:57.460 So gas shortages?

01:43:59.120 I mean, literally gas stations are out of gas in the Dallas Metroplex.

01:44:04.780 You have to kind of struggle, apparently, to find a station that still has a supply of gas.

01:44:13.000 And by the way, it's not just us.

01:44:15.160 It's not just a Texas problem.

01:44:17.180 So don't be thinking that you're completely off the hook.

01:44:20.120 And for all the lefties who are saying, yeah, this will serve the oil companies right.

01:44:24.480 Will it?

01:44:25.780 It'll serve you right, too, paying nine bucks a gallon for gas.

01:44:28.780 Or not being able to get it.

01:44:30.000 Not being able to get it.

01:44:30.760 It's tough.

01:44:31.680 And already in New York, we heard from somebody whose prices went up, what, 15 cents in half an hour or something like that?

01:44:37.060 Yeah, Ohio.

01:44:37.520 There's another, and we're hearing them from all over the country now.

01:44:41.640 Perfect time for it, too, on the Labor Day weekend.

01:44:44.080 Yeah.

01:44:44.520 That's a perfect time, right?

01:44:45.600 This is going to be a tough one.

01:44:46.920 It's going to be really tough.

01:44:47.840 I got my wife out to hoard some gas for this weekend, and she said there's long lines.

01:44:54.120 Places don't have gas.

01:44:55.820 People are starting to get angry because places don't have gas.

01:44:59.060 She said, decided to go against my rule and went home and didn't fill up the tank.

01:45:03.820 She seems to ignore you a lot, which is interesting.

01:45:07.500 But just remember, and I hope you advised her of this, Jeffy, if she happens to see a price that she believes is too high or higher than she would like to pay, remember to report them immediately to the government so they can decide whether if they've seen it or not.

01:45:26.380 Because you know it when you've seen it.

01:45:27.540 Thank you.

01:45:28.180 Price gouging.

01:45:29.140 And Ken Paxson.

01:45:30.200 I like Ken.

01:45:30.740 He's great.

01:45:31.040 Yeah, he is great.

01:45:33.500 He said the officials know the price gouging when they see it.

01:45:37.160 That's right, they do.

01:45:37.980 Well, is $9 price gouging?

01:45:40.380 Is $100?

01:45:41.420 Yeah.

01:45:41.680 You'd probably say yes.

01:45:42.860 But I mean, no.

01:45:43.700 No.

01:45:43.880 $100 a gallon?

01:45:45.000 There is a price in which you will sell a thing.

01:45:47.280 There is a price in which you will buy a thing.

01:45:49.020 I know, Mr. Purist.

01:45:49.720 I'm just saying.

01:45:50.720 Price gouging does not exist.

01:45:52.180 It's not a thing.

01:45:55.200 Okay.

01:45:57.400 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

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The Glenn Beck Program - August 31, 2017

8⧸31⧸17 - Life is easy, but people are complex

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