The Glenn Beck Program - 9⧸6⧸17 - Hurricanes = Big Business

00:00:00.000 The Blaze Radio Network, on demand, love, courage, truth.

00:00:11.240 If you study revolution, there are always three things that are present in every single one.

00:00:17.060 Economic instability, war, and civil unrest.

00:00:21.760 We talked about it for a long time, top down, bottom up, and inside out.

00:00:25.500 You are caught in the middle of the turning of everything inside out, and you're standing there in chaos.

00:00:33.100 And pretty soon, the bottom cries out for anybody to listen, anyone, just make it all stop.

00:00:42.340 I don't care what it takes.

00:00:45.960 After getting bogged down in multiple foreign wars, economic meltdown was inevitable.

00:00:52.440 The ineffective and increasingly corrupt government was powerless to stop it.

00:00:58.120 In fact, it actually appeared to many that they wanted it to happen.

00:01:02.560 Spending, then borrowing, then spending, then borrowing.

00:01:05.560 And in three years, the national debt doubled.

00:01:09.880 Was it a surprise that the academics and other members of the middle class began inciting the poor and disenfranchised?

00:01:18.500 And said, we need violence?

00:01:20.420 What I described might sound familiar, might sound like it's today, but it's actually what led to the French storming the Bastille in 1789.

00:01:34.820 How many pressure points can a nation endure?

00:01:37.800 In America, we've been bogged down in foreign wars since the turn of the 21st century.

00:01:43.740 Now North Korea knocking at our door.

00:01:46.680 Our national debt has nearly quadrupled from the year 2000 until today.

00:01:52.140 First Harvey, now Irma.

00:01:55.260 An already weakened economy.

00:01:58.320 And civil unrest in the streets.

00:02:01.440 What people are now preaching for and advocating with DACA.

00:02:07.500 We are approaching difficult times.

00:02:10.460 Times that we haven't seen since perhaps the 1960s.

00:02:14.060 People like Francis Fox Piven were advocating for the same kind of violence in 2004.

00:02:19.720 The Occupy movement just happened a few years after that and didn't quite make it.

00:02:23.880 Fast forward a few years and we have Antifa and the Nazis on the street.

00:02:29.580 All trying to light us on fire.

00:02:32.420 The pressure points are being pushed and we have tough times ahead.

00:02:38.300 Beware of those inciting violence and advocating hate.

00:02:43.100 Chaos is coming.

00:02:45.820 But so is tomorrow.

00:02:46.860 This too shall pass is the promise.

00:02:51.340 Not this too shall stay.

00:02:55.600 Honestly, I got up this morning and I thought the only reason to get out of bed.

00:03:00.580 Is because we have each other.

00:03:05.400 We know what really has meaning.

00:03:08.960 And we have tomorrow.

00:03:10.680 Tomorrow and tomorrow always promises a new and brighter horizon.

00:03:23.680 Wednesday, September 6th.

00:03:26.380 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:03:28.200 Okay, maybe not entirely a new and brighter horizon because we have Joe Bastardi on the phone.

00:03:34.960 And Joe is the chief meteorologist or the chief.

00:03:40.200 What is exactly your title?

00:03:43.100 I'm a chief meteorologist.

00:03:44.540 I have a degree in meteorology.

00:03:46.000 And that degree is hard to get.

00:03:48.580 It was for me.

00:03:49.520 Right.

00:03:49.960 Well, I'm math and physics.

00:03:51.220 So I make sure I'm just.

00:03:52.540 I let people know I'm not just a forecaster.

00:03:54.660 And he is.

00:03:55.400 Even though I play one on the radio.

00:03:56.640 He is with weatherbell.com.

00:03:59.060 And Joe's a friend of the program and been around forever and is probably one of the most accurate voices when it comes to calling hurricanes for sure in the world.

00:04:09.700 And we're thrilled to have him on.

00:04:11.300 Joe, we weren't even seeing Harvey come on shore yet when you started telling us, wait, wait, wait, there's another one coming that might even be more dangerous.

00:04:21.800 Can you tell us the latest is on Irma?

00:04:24.580 Well, Irma is over the northeast of the Virgin Islands right now.

00:04:29.720 And it's going to pass north of Puerto Rico.

00:04:31.660 It would probably spare Puerto Rico a devastating hurricane.

00:04:36.300 In fact, I'm sure it's going to spare him.

00:04:37.880 It's not going to be like you go in 89.

00:04:40.440 So they're going to have a hurricane on the north coast of Puerto Rico.

00:04:43.620 There's no question about that.

00:04:45.100 Probably 80 to 100 mile an hour wind gusts.

00:04:47.180 But they're not getting into that inner core that just had to be just absolutely horrific over those islands last night.

00:04:56.960 Barbuda, St. Martin, where this thing hit directly.

00:05:01.640 The devastation that's going to come out of there is probably something that few people have ever seen in the Western Hemisphere in these islands.

00:05:12.420 Now, I don't say that lightly.

00:05:15.140 If you're getting blasted by 150 to 175 mile an hour winds for two, three hours as this eyewall comes across because it didn't move real quickly,

00:05:25.880 I'm sure that the pictures will bear out my dire warnings here as to what's going on.

00:05:32.160 The storm itself is probably going to be, as far as meteorologists evaluate storms, the most powerful long-lived storm we've ever seen.

00:05:44.480 And it's something we said.

00:05:45.520 I mean, when this thing came off Africa, we had it very quickly growing into a major hurricane because the atmosphere, we're in a pattern for that type of thing.

00:05:53.600 And so what will happen is, by what we measure it, what we call accumulated cyclonic energy, this probably will be the strongest on record because it went for such a long distance.

00:06:04.440 You've got to understand that this thing's been a major hurricane since two, three days ago.

00:06:09.580 The future path, that's what everybody's interested in, of course.

00:06:13.020 And this is going to go north of Puerto Rico, 60 to 100 miles.

00:06:16.640 They have a hurricane on the north coast.

00:06:18.040 It's going to go north of Hispaniola, and the Turks and Caicos Islands in the southeast Bahamas chain are in the direct path of what just happened, St. Martin and Barbuda.

00:06:32.440 And that reaches there in about 36 to 48 hours.

00:06:36.980 After that, I think the track bends back to the west a bit, and that's significant because it's moving west, northwest, west, northwest.

00:06:43.560 If it turns northwest and north, it escapes east of the United States.

00:06:47.660 But I think it bends back west.

00:06:49.320 It's significant for two reasons.

00:06:50.900 One, obviously, it closes the distance on the United States.

00:06:54.140 But two, these bends in the track to the left, and this is something I give credit to my professors at Penn State, Dr. John Lee, back in the 1970s, taught us this, that when you have a hurricane in the Atlantic that bends its path back to the left a bit, and I talked about this a couple times.

00:07:10.540 And what it does is this intensification parameter comes on.

00:07:15.560 So a second place where this thing could become even stronger than now, the next place is right to the southeast of Florida.

00:07:24.020 That area just to the west of the Bahamas, the Florida Straits, that area is where this storm could reach its maximum intensity.

00:07:32.780 And the question then becomes, when does it make the right turn northward?

00:07:36.780 Right now, I think it's near or over the east coast of Florida.

00:07:41.540 Very, very close.

00:07:42.680 Now, yesterday, I thought it might be on the west coast of Florida.

00:07:45.760 So what's going on, Glenn, and I want the audience to understand, because everybody goes and looks at these computer models, the U.S. generated models have a north bias in the three- to five-day period.

00:07:56.820 In other words, they like to, if you watched what this was doing with Irma, it had it too far north initially.

00:08:04.680 So what it's probably doing is, and people are getting out and looking, oh, look at this, it's going out here.

00:08:08.920 It's probably adjusting too much to the north and east.

00:08:12.580 So we have it coming right, almost right on the Florida coast, Sunday into Monday, and then continuing northward.

00:08:20.560 Actually, it gets to Saturday night, Sunday, Monday, continuing northward into the Carolinas after that.

00:08:25.660 Joe, thank you very much.

00:08:33.860 That was Joe Bastardi of weatherville.com.

00:08:36.060 He came on the show with us before Harvey hit and said, by the way, everyone's talking about Harvey.

00:08:42.120 It's going to be bad, but wait until you see Irma.

00:08:44.780 That's just forming now.

00:08:46.160 Although I felt a little bit better talking to him, I mean, somewhat, although, you know, it is coming back to the United States.

00:08:54.600 It hit this morning at 2 a.m. Eastern time as it passed over Antigua and the local radio, the last words that were heard over local radio, may God protect us all.

00:09:09.660 And the radio went dead.

00:09:11.360 They're starting an evacuation of the Keys, I believe.

00:09:17.320 Is that tomorrow morning?

00:09:18.640 Is that today Wednesday?

00:09:19.680 Yeah, today's Wednesday.

00:09:20.500 So I believe the evacuation of the Keys is happening.

00:09:23.820 Did anybody see the story of Tampa Bay and how Tampa Bay is not prepared for a major hurricane?

00:09:31.940 The only reason why I bring this up is because it kind of reminded me of the conversation that we had about a year before Katrina.

00:09:45.460 And the story was that if a major hurricane would hit New Orleans, New Orleans was a death trap and just wasn't prepared.

00:09:56.580 And I see now last week that Tampa Bay is just not prepared.

00:10:03.400 700 miles of shoreline.

00:10:06.820 And if Katrina would hit.

00:10:10.460 They estimate that a a hit of one hundred and seventy five billion dollars to the Tampa Bay area would happen.

00:10:21.100 Hopefully Irma will not roll in to Tampa Bay.

00:10:27.280 One other thing.

00:10:30.320 We've been hearing that this storm is going to be one of the biggest to come on land.

00:10:36.580 In fact, earlier they were saying that we're even thinking about coming up with a category six.

00:10:40.840 They seem eager to do that.

00:10:42.280 Is it just me?

00:10:42.940 They seem eager.

00:10:43.620 As we're looking at the 17 Atlantic Hurricanes with the maximum winds up until what was it yesterday or the day before Irma was what?

00:10:57.120 Sixteenth.

00:10:57.560 Yeah, I mean, it was it hit one seventy five and then I think yesterday hit one eighty five.

00:11:05.200 So it was in 17th place for storms and had the potential of getting worse yesterday.

00:11:12.180 It hit one eighty five, which ties it with the 1935 storm in the Florida Keys before we were naming them.

00:11:22.060 Gilbert in eighty eight.

00:11:23.880 Wilma in 2005 and the highest maximum wind ever recorded for the United States was Hurricane Allen in 1980.

00:11:34.580 All right, let's take a quick break.

00:11:38.280 So today I come in and I turn on the the television monitor array.

00:12:06.480 That is sitting in front of me with the with the time and the four television monitors, et cetera, et cetera.

00:12:13.740 And I have to tell you, I I took a picture because I in 40 years of broadcast, I've never seen anything like this.

00:12:21.880 In one monitor was what was happening in Texas, a major U.S.

00:12:27.600 humanitarian and economic disaster with Irma on the way.

00:12:31.120 That was the topic, I think, on Fox.

00:12:32.880 And then underneath that was CNN, which was the pretty credible threat of nuclear war with with North Korea.

00:12:44.220 And then the bottom one was about DACA and the seeds of political and civil unrest.

00:12:52.320 And I thought to myself, huh, there's I know I've never seen I haven't seen anything like that before.

00:12:57.000 All that. And they've taken Coke Zero off the market.

00:12:59.780 Right. I mean, it's this is we're reading the book of Revelation.

00:13:02.940 I've you know, I've you know, you kind of get to you got to get to the point to where you're like, huh, this is going to be interesting.

00:13:10.960 It's going to be interesting to see how this all works out, isn't it?

00:13:13.800 It's kind of like, you know, I saw Mark Maron, a special that he did.

00:13:18.920 I think it was on Netflix. And the guy is super, super, super, super, I believe liberal.

00:13:24.080 But there is something that is bringing us together.

00:13:26.820 And it is that whole idea of, huh, this is going to be interesting.

00:13:33.540 He was talking about how you're not surprised by anything anymore.

00:13:38.420 I don't know what he's going to do next.

00:13:42.640 And the people that voted for him, they don't know what he's going to do next.

00:13:47.840 And it's just crazy. It's just, you know, the people he's appointing is crazy.

00:13:51.380 If it's gotten to the point where I can say things to you that would never make sense previous.

00:13:57.420 But now you'd be like, all right, like I can walk up to you like, hey, man, do you hear they're they're they're making the Grand Canyon a landfill?

00:14:04.360 What? Yeah. Yeah, they're doing that.

00:14:10.260 Yeah, I guess I make sense, I guess.

00:14:14.140 But what's their logic? Well, you know, how many times you guys see that thing?

00:14:17.140 You know, they're they're just going to do half of it.

00:14:19.960 And the other half you can still see.

00:14:21.940 I bet people go see the garbage, too.

00:14:24.040 That's a lot of garbage.

00:14:26.040 It's going to be a double thing now.

00:14:28.160 Yeah, I mean, I could see why they would do that.

00:14:31.800 It's OK to hunt at zoos now.

00:14:34.360 Yeah, the new EPA guy.

00:14:38.760 I don't know.

00:14:40.140 I guess it's OK.

00:14:41.680 Like, right.

00:14:43.380 I guess that makes sense with their logic, I guess.

00:14:47.540 It's going to be a whole different thing for the kids now, I guess.

00:14:51.280 A lot of those animals are almost extinct anyway.

00:14:54.940 Might as well just get it over with, you know.

00:14:57.420 Extinction is sort of a proactive term with these guys.

00:14:59.860 Some things you never thought you'd say, like, wow, these Nazis are annoying.

00:15:08.180 They've been annoying for a long time, to be fair.

00:15:10.700 It's funny because he obviously applies the sort of liberal anti-Trump thing there.

00:15:14.400 But I mean, it really is, I think, for everybody the exact same way.

00:15:16.980 It is exactly the same.

00:15:18.440 We've been there longer than they have.

00:15:20.560 Yeah.

00:15:20.880 They think they're tired of it.

00:15:22.120 We just went through eight years of feeling that way.

00:15:25.540 You're just there.

00:15:26.620 You are the replacement troops.

00:15:29.780 We're the ones that have been on the beach for a while going, yeah.

00:15:34.400 OK, I guess I can see that now.

00:15:37.260 How many others say they just added a 93rd gender?

00:15:41.680 OK, yeah, I can see that.

00:15:44.400 Yeah, it's true.

00:15:44.920 We just don't.

00:15:46.460 We're at that point now where we just accept it.

00:15:48.980 We've been hit with so many things we never thought we'd see in our entire lives.

00:15:53.660 And you're just like, huh, OK, well, yeah, I got it.

00:15:57.940 Yeah, sure.

00:15:59.300 All right, just throw that one in the back.

00:16:00.880 See, we are becoming more tolerant.

00:16:02.660 We are.

00:16:03.260 It is actually working.

00:16:04.360 We really are.

00:16:05.240 We are being more tolerant.

00:16:06.160 We are.

00:16:06.420 All of us.

00:16:07.300 It's not that we're tolerant.

00:16:08.820 It's just we've just given up.

00:16:10.640 Well, that's kind of the same as tolerance, isn't it?

00:16:12.800 I don't know.

00:16:13.640 Tolerance is just the idea.

00:16:15.080 All right, whatever.

00:16:16.660 That's why I never understood why it was something you'd argue for.

00:16:19.480 Like, hey, this, you know, the high minded goal that we have is everyone kind of just shrugs their shoulders as we walk by.

00:16:25.680 That's kind of the standard.

00:16:27.000 It really is.

00:16:27.840 Kind of like, OK.

00:16:29.360 All right.

00:16:31.180 Yeah, OK.

00:16:32.380 Let's we'll see how that works out.

00:16:34.520 Sure.

00:16:34.900 That sounds great.

00:16:37.060 It's not all horrific news, however.

00:16:39.600 I mean, there are actual good, sane, sensible people doing.

00:16:43.400 They're hard to find sensible things.

00:16:45.060 They're hard to find.

00:16:45.760 Well, that's why they're news stories when you find them.

00:16:47.560 That's right.

00:16:48.020 That's why.

00:16:48.540 That's exactly right.

00:16:49.440 That's why they're in the news now.

00:16:51.420 Right.

00:16:51.720 Nobody says, hey, a man went to go get coffee at McDonald's today.

00:16:54.980 That's common.

00:16:55.860 Right.

00:16:56.160 When people do things that are good, they become news stories.

00:16:58.720 Right.

00:16:59.060 But J.J.

00:16:59.660 Watt is the latest great example.

00:17:01.920 I think J.J.

00:17:03.640 Watt, if you don't know, and I know you don't, Glenn.

00:17:05.860 I do.

00:17:06.400 He is.

00:17:06.840 I know this.

00:17:07.600 He plays for Houston and they're not the Oilers anymore.

00:17:11.040 That's they are not the Oilers anymore.

00:17:12.680 Oil is hateful.

00:17:13.600 So you can't be the Oilers anymore.

00:17:15.100 These are the, of course, a new franchise, the Houston Texans, which I guess it's still

00:17:19.520 OK to be a Texan.

00:17:20.400 See how long that lasts before they change that name.

00:17:22.240 I don't know.

00:17:23.180 No.

00:17:23.680 I mean, you can hear they're banning all Texans.

00:17:25.900 Yeah, they are.

00:17:26.140 OK.

00:17:26.660 Yeah, I could see that.

00:17:27.660 Oh, yeah.

00:17:28.160 Yeah.

00:17:29.520 So Watt is arguably the best player in the NFL.

00:17:33.240 I mean, depending on how you define that, he's a great player.

00:17:37.100 And he, his city gets hit by this hurricane.

00:17:41.620 They're suffering through it.

00:17:43.060 He decides he's going to do something.

00:17:44.360 He texts his PR person.

00:17:46.180 I'm going to start this campaign.

00:17:47.780 Hopefully others will join in on it.

00:17:49.660 This is going to be the page.

00:17:50.600 Links to a YouCaring page.

00:17:53.200 Youcaring.com.

00:17:54.840 Then he is going to donate $100,000 to Hurricane Relief.

00:17:58.300 And he's going back and forth with a PR person like, I don't know whether it should be,

00:18:01.400 I should add my $100,000 first to kind of get it going or wait till it gets to $100,000

00:18:05.980 and then double it to get to my goal of $200,000.

00:18:09.080 He wanted to raise $200,000, which is not nothing.

00:18:12.120 Even if for an NFL player, it's still.

00:18:13.980 Last time I saw this, I think it was at $5 million.

00:18:15.960 Yes.

00:18:16.860 It's gone up a little bit more than that.

00:18:18.520 What's it at now?

00:18:19.300 Yesterday hit $20 million.

00:18:21.320 Holy cow.

00:18:22.100 Oh, $20 million.

00:18:24.720 And again, yes, you could say it's J.J. Watt.

00:18:27.720 He's a big star.

00:18:28.900 He's a celebrity.

00:18:29.860 But he started this with the hopes of a normal person.

00:18:34.380 And linking to a campaign, he's going to throw in a big chunk of money.

00:18:37.260 But he wasn't looking for this.

00:18:39.960 And it's because people came together.

00:18:42.000 They've reacted to it.

00:18:43.820 I think Ellen put a million dollars of her own money into this campaign.

00:18:47.020 I mean, tons of big organizations have come in.

00:18:49.560 But, you know, it's still going to be mainly small donations.

00:18:52.100 Yeah, I think this is a deal where it really shows, we don't really trust people.

00:18:58.920 We don't trust organizations anymore.

00:19:01.560 You know?

00:19:02.080 I see that guy on TV, and, you know, I like him.

00:19:05.740 And I trust him.

00:19:07.280 And, yeah, he's doing something.

00:19:09.060 I'll go with him.

00:19:10.020 I'm not sure.

00:19:10.820 How many people have you heard say, yeah, I want to give, but I just don't know who to give to right now.

00:19:18.800 You know?

00:19:19.620 I think this is testimony of that.

00:19:23.580 And also testimony on how generous this country still is.

00:19:28.820 Mercury.

00:19:29.380 Mercury.

00:19:29.580 Mercury.

00:19:40.820 You're listening to The Glenn Beck Program.

00:19:44.680 We have Cheryl Atkinson on today.

00:19:47.580 She has written an incredibly powerful book about how the media and how the left has manipulated the media to destroy person after person after person.

00:19:58.340 It is a must-read book if you are trying to discover the networks or figure out exactly how all of this has come to be and where we're supposed to go next.

00:20:07.800 She'll be joining us also, I saw the new Mitch Rapp movie last night, American Assassin, the Vince Flynn movie.

00:20:15.500 Vince was a good friend of mine and just loved him.

00:20:20.200 And his wife wrote to me last week.

00:20:22.880 I think she's going to be joining us Thursday.

00:20:25.300 Is that tomorrow?

00:20:26.340 Maybe?

00:20:27.880 I know we have his co-author on tomorrow.

00:20:31.020 Tomorrow.

00:20:31.460 I think she may be joining us, too, as well.

00:20:33.580 I'm not sure.

00:20:34.080 But there's a new movie out, and it's really good.

00:20:36.680 Yeah, if you don't know Vince Flynn's work, he was one of the biggest fiction writers in America.

00:20:43.780 Passed away a few years ago.

00:20:46.080 But a great guy.

00:20:47.640 And these books are fantastic.

00:20:49.220 Finally, they've made a movie out of this.

00:20:51.020 And it looks great.

00:20:52.800 The trailer looks amazing.

00:20:54.260 You'll love it.

00:20:54.720 You'll love it.

00:20:55.220 It's very good.

00:20:55.940 You know, just a quick personal note.

00:21:01.960 You know, we've made a lot of changes, and I'm not going to sit here.

00:21:05.380 And the one thing I'm...

00:21:07.900 I'll be real honest with you.

00:21:11.020 If I could just go away today, I would.

00:21:15.700 I really would.

00:21:16.840 If I could just...

00:21:17.840 There's nobody sick of listening to me more than me.

00:21:20.440 Really.

00:21:21.260 I have to listen to me all the time.

00:21:23.320 I'm willing to enter a competition on that one.

00:21:26.800 And...

00:21:27.200 But I...

00:21:31.860 If you've listened to me for a long time, you know that I'm driven by different things.

00:21:35.540 And so about, I don't know, six months ago, after Tommy left,

00:21:42.420 and I had nothing to do with the hiring or the firing of Tommy.

00:21:46.820 And I just realized, you know what?

00:21:47.900 I'm getting all the blame for everything that Blaze does anyway.

00:21:50.060 I'm just going to...

00:21:50.880 I'm just going to take it.

00:21:53.120 And so...

00:21:54.200 I started looking into not only the Blaze, but where is the future?

00:22:01.720 What is happening to media?

00:22:05.280 The media does not work anymore.

00:22:07.280 And I don't think people understand that it's all going to change.

00:22:13.040 CNN, Fox News, MSNBC.

00:22:17.560 It's not going to be this way.

00:22:19.680 I think if we're not all careful, we'll all be edited and working for Facebook, Amazon, and Google.

00:22:26.540 And when I say all of us, I mean, well, half of the journalists will be working for those guys.

00:22:32.280 The rest of them will be...

00:22:33.460 I don't know where our voices will be.

00:22:37.280 But we have to find a new way.

00:22:41.180 So I've made some changes to this program.

00:22:43.500 This is the first change, and we're just at the very beginning of this.

00:22:47.140 And I haven't told you about the changes that we're making because, quite honestly, I'm sick of hearing me talk about it.

00:22:53.060 And so in the next couple of weeks, you're going to start seeing some changes on the television network.

00:22:59.020 That's why Pat is doing his own radio and television show now.

00:23:04.560 It's a three-hour show, the Pat Gray program, which follows this program on the Blaze Radio Network and also seen on television.

00:23:14.380 Pat is one of the best talk show hosts in the country.

00:23:17.920 And so we have him doing that.

00:23:19.840 Stu is now by my side full-time and the executive producer of everything that we do because he's, quite honestly, the best producer in the country.

00:23:30.520 And quite a brilliant mind.

00:23:33.940 I know you don't usually get that when you're listening, but he is quite a brilliant guy.

00:23:38.580 I try to hold that back for, you know, my side ventures.

00:23:41.240 So I wrote on Facebook, I think this was Monday night, Monday night or Sunday night.

00:23:49.660 We begin tomorrow a new experiment to prove to the media and ourselves that you can be profitable and tell the truth.

00:23:57.500 If those of us on the right don't stop our infighting and figure this out, we're all going to fall one by one to Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Apple, and they will be the portals of all information.

00:24:11.440 Where'd you post this again?

00:24:12.600 I think this is on Facebook.

00:24:14.100 Okay.

00:24:14.920 Yeah, I know.

00:24:15.820 I know.

00:24:16.220 You need the portal?

00:24:17.320 I know.

00:24:17.940 Yes.

00:24:18.560 They're winning this battle, by the way.

00:24:19.940 They already are.

00:24:20.540 I mean, they're changing things now to the point to where if you're not posting things through them, the algorithm actually penalizes you.

00:24:30.960 And so everybody is sitting there.

00:24:33.440 Nobody's talking about this.

00:24:35.360 And last week we issued something on Medium, which was an in-depth look at what is happening with the conservative media.

00:24:44.320 And only media-ite took the time to read it and to say, wow, this is a discussion maybe we should be having.

00:24:51.780 But it's not for the – it is for the entire media, but it's mainly for conservative media.

00:24:57.480 We are at a crossroads.

00:24:59.260 Things are changing.

00:25:01.820 You know, we – all of us in talk radio have done what Rush Limbaugh did.

00:25:06.780 We all have been birthed from Rush Limbaugh.

00:25:09.440 This is the medium that Rush Limbaugh created.

00:25:14.100 And it was a viable option.

00:25:19.120 And it was needed.

00:25:21.720 In 1990, when he came on, nobody had heard the conservative argument.

00:25:25.620 No, because nobody was making it.

00:25:27.900 And so what he did was he would give you the argument so you knew it and you could give it to your friends.

00:25:33.780 But then Rush Limbaugh and the people like me, we all started doing that and all of our friends went, oh, but you're listening to Glenn Beck?

00:25:42.320 I don't want to hear that argument.

00:25:44.080 It's Glenn Beck.

00:25:45.660 And so it became ineffective because no one on the left was listening to our argument.

00:25:53.000 There was nobody to tell that argument to except each other.

00:25:56.380 We have to change now and say, okay, if we want to make progress, we have to have an argument that's not made for us but is made to reach out beyond us and say, guys, this is the way it works.

00:26:12.980 This is how this works.

00:26:14.420 This is why it works.

00:26:15.580 And we have to change everything that we do.

00:26:19.220 That sounds like a big tent argument, but it's actually the reverse of it.

00:26:22.960 The big tent has been let's make the tent bigger.

00:26:26.260 We'll just accept other viewpoints.

00:26:28.440 We'll accept other arguments.

00:26:30.060 We'll accept a bigger government.

00:26:31.200 We'll accept more.

00:26:31.840 It is why we will have the gang of eight deciding our immigration policy.

00:26:39.400 We made the tent bigger and then we got vitriolic about it.

00:26:43.960 And I'm telling you, you're going to have this immigration.

00:26:48.880 The final immigration bill is going to look like everything you fought against.

00:26:52.960 Why?

00:26:56.720 So I wrote on Monday a promise that I want to make you now.

00:27:04.700 And it's a promise that I've made for years.

00:27:07.360 But then, quite honestly, I got tired.

00:27:09.700 And I'm not going to waste your time.

00:27:12.920 And that's one of the things we're trying to do on the radio show.

00:27:15.080 If you've listened yesterday or today, and we don't have it right yet by any stretch.

00:27:18.100 But we're just not going to waste your time.

00:27:19.520 I am trying to cut out all of the crap and get right to the point of the story and tell you the stories that actually impact your life.

00:27:30.520 Because why should I waste a second on doing the things that you can get from a hundred different sites?

00:27:36.820 There are better people that write and that can tell a story of, you know, politics or whatever.

00:27:44.200 They're great experts.

00:27:45.600 I want to point you to those people.

00:27:47.660 And we'll do what we do best.

00:27:53.060 Next week, every writer in this company is going to be joining me for a week.

00:27:59.260 And it's appropriate that we start on September 11th and September 12th.

00:28:03.660 And then on the 18th, there will be an MVP version, if you will, of the blaze that is going to start to try to deliver news in a different way.

00:28:17.500 And you know what?

00:28:19.360 The world can dismiss us and they might be right.

00:28:24.740 They might be right.

00:28:26.020 I don't know.

00:28:26.540 Now, if you have to run clickbait, if you have to run misleading headlines, if you have to say outrageous things to be successful, if those things are true, then I'm going to shut it all down.

00:28:41.320 Because I can't do it.

00:28:43.280 And I don't because I don't think it's a positive thing.

00:28:45.300 I think it actually hurts us deeply in the end.

00:28:48.500 So I'll go find another way, even if it's just teaching it to my children, that's what I'll do.

00:28:58.360 There's a great story in The Resurgent today about this changeover.

00:29:02.580 Kind of going through a lot of the stuff that you wrote and comparing it to the mission statement that Jerry Maguire wrote after he had the revelation that almost everything he had been doing in his business life was wrong.

00:29:12.220 Of course, in the movie, Jerry ended up taking a big hit, much like The Blaze itself, with the layoffs of 20% of its workforce and a lot of people I loved.

00:29:20.680 But in the end, yeah, they're awesome.

00:29:22.940 But in the end, he had to lose in order to win later.

00:29:25.540 I hope this is the case with Glenn's venture.

00:29:27.760 That's nice.

00:29:28.380 Who wrote that?

00:29:29.400 That is The Resurgent and the author, Mark Giller.

00:29:33.200 Thank you, Mark.

00:29:33.780 That is nice.

00:29:34.800 Yeah, really cool.

00:29:35.920 And he got Renee Zellweger, too, which I don't know if that comes along with your...

00:29:38.960 You had me at Renee Zellweger.

00:29:40.620 You did.

00:29:42.220 I'm looking at the headlines today, and I'm trying to find, you know, honestly, I feel like the starfish up against the glass.

00:30:08.780 Find your happy place.

00:30:09.620 Find your happy place.

00:30:10.340 Find your happy place.

00:30:12.220 And yesterday, my wife, I came home, and I said, hey, honey, how are you?

00:30:17.680 And she said, good.

00:30:18.720 Of course, it didn't start out so well.

00:30:20.280 And I said, what do you mean?

00:30:20.900 She said, well, I listened to your show.

00:30:22.940 She said, I, you know, I said, was it bad?

00:30:27.920 She said, oh, it's just, you know, it's just a little depressing.

00:30:30.360 And I'm like, yeah, yeah.

00:30:31.720 And Stu walked in today, and Stu walked in today, and I said, how do we talk about the thing?

00:30:36.840 Because we're in a spell right now, and this, too, shall pass.

00:30:40.900 But we're in this spell right now where this is the windup.

00:30:45.060 This is the windup, and this is where the real tension begins.

00:30:50.180 Remember, I said to you a couple of, a few weeks ago, we're at the end of the beginning.

00:30:55.040 We're now at the beginning of the middle.

00:30:57.260 And the middle, if you think of life as a three-act play, the middle is where you do all the hard work, and it decides the ending.

00:31:05.780 And so we're in this transition period where things are about to hit the fan.

00:31:10.660 And you look at headlines like this.

00:31:12.560 Philippines government will kill women and children if they're fighting for ISIS.

00:31:18.160 Okay.

00:31:19.840 Kentucky employment, sorry, Kentucky public employee retirements.

00:31:24.680 Surge, as fears of pension collapse mounts.

00:31:32.020 Moody's threatens to permanently downgrade the U.S. credit rating.

00:31:39.440 This is my favorite bleak headline of the day.

00:31:43.160 Venezuelans eat dogs and zoo animals.

00:31:47.900 Maybe they did legalize hunting in zoos after all.

00:31:50.860 I mean, when you read that, you're like, okay.

00:31:53.720 I mean, I am expecting, oh, and I was watching TV, and it wasn't a movie.

00:32:02.360 I'm pretty sure it was live.

00:32:03.800 The Statue of Liberty was buried in sand, and there was gorillas on horses.

00:32:09.480 I just feel like it's the planet of the apes all of a sudden.

00:32:12.500 That's as dark as you got?

00:32:16.720 No, no, no, I've got more.

00:32:18.880 Nigerian ministers kidnapped, murdered by unknown gunmen.

00:32:21.980 Because you get to the point with a lot of these stories.

00:32:24.260 You just, you're thankful they're not here yet.

00:32:28.260 That is the only way you can react to them.

00:32:30.540 Oh, well, at least we're not quite eating zoo animals yet and dogs in the streets.

00:32:34.740 That's kind of nice.

00:32:35.960 And you know what?

00:32:36.280 And here's the great thing, is there is great hope that we're not going to, you know, not

00:32:41.780 because hopefully we won't have to get to that point, but you see what's happening in Houston.

00:32:49.980 Yeah.

00:32:50.500 You know, so many of us, at least this happens to me.

00:32:52.920 I don't know if this happens to you.

00:32:53.960 You're probably a much better person than I am.

00:32:55.340 Um, but, uh, fact check true.

00:33:00.820 That's funny.

00:33:01.500 Cause I just gave that four Pinocchios, but, uh, uh, you know, the thing that really helped

00:33:06.620 me was, uh, going to Houston and, and seeing people we're, we're spending too much time

00:33:14.980 thinking about ourselves, way too much time thinking about ourselves and thinking about

00:33:21.520 how bad our problems are.

00:33:23.320 When you get to Houston and you're shoveling the crap out of somebody's house, uh, and

00:33:28.880 you realize, wow, that crap is their life.

00:33:31.680 That's everything they've done in life.

00:33:33.460 That's all the pictures.

00:33:34.420 It's all the memories.

00:33:35.300 It's all the books.

00:33:36.100 It's all the, everything they've ever done is in that house.

00:33:40.020 I'm now taking it and I'm shoveling it out into a muddy pile in the front where a garbage

00:33:46.580 crane is going to come and just, you know, lift it up and put it in the back of a garbage

00:33:52.480 truck and they'll sort through it later.

00:33:54.440 Or they won't.

00:33:55.560 I mean, most likely they won't.

00:33:57.040 Right.

00:33:57.200 I mean, well, the, the, the, the, it's interesting.

00:33:59.820 Um, the reason why you can be arrested, it's called looting.

00:34:04.240 If you go up and you get permission from somebody, Hey, can I take this?

00:34:10.280 Um, you're, um, and you get permission from the owner, you're okay, but nobody wants to

00:34:17.820 do that because especially in Texas, cause you'll be shot for looting.

00:34:20.560 But the only reason why that happens is because the, the federal government has made a deal

00:34:25.040 with these companies that come in and they just take all of the stuff from everybody's

00:34:30.280 lawn and then they sort through it and they go, okay, this is salvageable.

00:34:34.600 This isn't, here's a refrigerator that can be repaired.

00:34:37.580 That can't be, you know, this is all scrap metal.

00:34:40.640 And so somebody else does that.

00:34:42.420 So once you put that out on your lawn, the company that has the deal with the government

00:34:50.820 actually owns all of that stuff.

00:34:53.400 You don't really own it anymore.

00:34:55.720 Not always going to fight you on that, but you don't really own it anymore.

00:35:00.380 It's become a, it's a big business.

00:35:03.220 Hurricanes are a big business in the scrap company world.

00:35:07.540 Mercury.

00:35:14.220 Love.

00:35:15.780 Courage.

00:35:17.200 Truth.

00:35:18.120 It won't survive.

00:35:19.940 That is what the former FEMA director said when he was asked how the Miami area would hold

00:35:24.920 up under a severe water surge from a major hurricane related to the flooding.

00:35:31.060 It won't survive.

00:35:34.180 Hurricane Irma is now in a projected path to make landfall in South Florida and it could

00:35:40.740 hit Miami this Sunday.

00:35:43.180 It's currently a category five with 185 mile an hour winds.

00:35:47.920 It's already the second strongest storm recorded in the Atlantic.

00:35:53.040 Amazingly, Miami hasn't been hit by a major hurricane category four or stronger since 1926.

00:36:00.160 That one killed 400 people.

00:36:03.420 The third deadliest hurricane in U.S.

00:36:06.300 history.

00:36:07.780 But Miami at the time was a squaint little resort compared to what it is today.

00:36:13.040 Yesterday, two firms estimated a repeat of the 1926 Miami hurricane could cause $130 billion

00:36:19.760 in property damage.

00:36:21.480 People are already starting to think about getting out of Miami.

00:36:27.300 So why is it so dangerous?

00:36:29.620 Well, it's flood control system.

00:36:31.500 It was designed in the 1950s and it desperately needs updating.

00:36:35.740 It's kind of like what happened with Hurricane Katrina.

00:36:39.700 What was built in the 60s and the 50s, no longer any good.

00:36:44.260 Our government has blown through hundreds of billions of dollars on wasteful spending that

00:36:50.620 could have been applied to preparation for Miami.

00:36:53.260 Last year, the government found money to study TV binge watching, comedy clubs.

00:37:01.300 Honest to God, we spent money studying monkey drool, fish treadmill endurance testing.

00:37:10.280 I didn't even know they worked on treadmills.

00:37:13.900 They also spent money on hamster fights.

00:37:19.260 Miami has been the home of a radio and TV station attempting to broadcast into Cuba.

00:37:25.700 It was blocked by Fidel Castro.

00:37:27.720 Half a billion dollars flushed down the toilet on a radio station and TV station.

00:37:33.340 Nobody ever watched or heard.

00:37:37.180 What happens when you have a country more concerned with political favors

00:37:42.540 than prioritizing what really matters?

00:37:47.120 Let me quote FEMA.

00:37:49.580 It won't survive.

00:37:57.740 Wednesday, September 6th.

00:38:00.340 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:38:03.340 North Carolina man accused of killing his wife,

00:38:07.880 believe it or not, in a cough syrup induced stupor.

00:38:12.540 Ryan was an aspiring preacher and a Star Wars devotee

00:38:17.800 who had a lightsaber fight at his wedding.

00:38:21.460 His wife sounded like a remarkable woman.

00:38:25.800 They both volunteered at their church all the time.

00:38:28.440 They, you know, worked with kids.

00:38:30.480 They were great.

00:38:31.760 This story broke over the weekend, and I don't know if you heard it,

00:38:34.700 but the story broke over the weekend about Ryan and his wife, Lauren.

00:38:41.300 They're both, I'm sorry, Matthew is his name, and Lauren.

00:38:44.140 They're both 29 years old.

00:38:46.380 He was taking Coruscidin.

00:38:49.820 Coruscidin is a cough syrup.

00:38:52.000 And quite honestly, I listened to the 911 call,

00:38:55.180 and when I first heard it, I thought,

00:38:59.900 I don't believe you.

00:39:02.200 But I listened to the entire thing.

00:39:05.320 By the end of the 911 call,

00:39:08.480 you absolutely believe.

00:39:12.020 He had no idea what he was doing.

00:39:15.160 I want you to listen to the call.

00:39:19.500 Here it is.

00:39:20.060 911, what's the address?

00:39:23.580 Patuxent Drive.

00:39:25.820 Okay, just read that address to make sure we have it right.

00:39:30.360 Patuxent Drive.

00:39:32.380 Raleigh, North Carolina.

00:39:37.700 Okay, and what is your first and last name?

00:39:40.920 Phone number, you're calling for something?

00:39:47.500 Phone number?

00:39:49.040 Yes, sir.

00:39:50.440 Tell me exactly what happened.

00:39:54.620 I think I killed my wife.

00:39:57.960 What do you mean by that?

00:39:59.620 What happened?

00:40:02.360 I had a dream.

00:40:04.920 And then I turn on the lights,

00:40:07.660 and she's dead on the floor.

00:40:10.920 How?

00:40:11.640 How?

00:40:12.260 How?

00:40:14.120 I have blood all over me,

00:40:16.760 and there's a bloody knife on the bed,

00:40:19.500 and I think I did it.

00:40:24.180 Okay.

00:40:25.440 You mean,

00:40:26.040 stay on the phone with me.

00:40:27.360 I'm getting her ambulance, okay?

00:40:30.000 I can't believe this.

00:40:35.240 I can't believe this.

00:40:37.700 When did you wake up to find this?

00:40:40.920 I don't even know what time it is.

00:40:50.640 All right, stay on the phone with me, sir.

00:40:52.160 I just got to ask you a few questions, okay?

00:40:53.780 I'm getting some help to you.

00:40:55.660 Are you with the patient now?

00:40:58.020 Yeah, I can see her.

00:40:59.720 Okay, all right.

00:41:01.100 How old is the patient?

00:41:03.020 How old is your wife?

00:41:03.940 She's 29.

00:41:08.640 Okay.

00:41:09.380 Is she awake at all right now?

00:41:11.360 What makes you think she's dead?

00:41:12.700 Is she awake?

00:41:13.260 She got breathing.

00:41:16.020 Okay.

00:41:18.640 Oh, my God.

00:41:24.540 Okay, do you think she is beyond any help?

00:41:28.040 I don't know.

00:41:29.500 I'm too scared to get too close to her.

00:41:32.720 Okay, just stay on the phone with me, sir.

00:41:34.440 I'm here with you.

00:41:35.600 I'm here with you.

00:41:38.320 I'm so scared.

00:41:43.660 All right, I've already sent the paramedics to help you, okay?

00:41:45.860 I'm sending someone to assist you.

00:41:47.800 Just please leave everything as you found it.

00:41:49.760 Is there anything else we can do for you, sir?

00:41:52.020 Where's the knife right now?

00:41:55.220 I found the bed.

00:41:56.200 I'm not next to it, so I don't have a weapon on me or anything like that.

00:42:08.560 Okay.

00:42:09.140 When did you wake up?

00:42:11.720 I don't know.

00:42:13.140 I don't know.

00:42:18.200 I took more medicine than I should have.

00:42:23.220 What medicine did you take?

00:42:24.480 I took, I took horse eating, cough and cold, horse eating, HPP cough and cold, because I know it can make you feel good.

00:42:37.340 So a lot of times I can't sleep at night.

00:42:41.020 Okay.

00:42:41.600 I took some.

00:42:43.020 All right, so what, is, is, what, are you sure she's not breathing?

00:42:49.380 She's not moving.

00:42:50.900 Oh, my God.

00:42:54.480 Okay, I'm going to stay, I'm going to stay here with you, okay?

00:42:58.040 Just, just, let's, let's at least see if she's breathing, okay?

00:43:04.200 All right.

00:43:05.140 I'm so sorry to survive her.

00:43:06.340 You, just, can you see her from where you're at?

00:43:08.660 Yeah, it's so bad.

00:43:11.180 There's so much blood.

00:43:17.220 Okay.

00:43:17.580 Okay, all right.

00:43:18.740 I'm going to stay here on the phone with you until help gets there, okay?

00:43:21.360 Um, just don't, don't touch anything.

00:43:24.400 Just look at, is she, is she breathing at all?

00:43:26.140 Is her chest moving?

00:43:27.180 Is anything going on with her?

00:43:30.780 No.

00:43:31.820 Okay, well, we're going to, we're going to leave you.

00:43:34.260 The blood is dried on me.

00:43:37.020 It's dried?

00:43:39.040 The blood's not wet on me.

00:43:41.120 The blood is dry.

00:43:42.180 Okay.

00:43:42.580 So, I don't know when, I don't know what that, oh my God.

00:43:51.340 All right, well, at least, look, we're going to at least try to help her, okay?

00:43:54.220 All right, just give me, just, all right, I've already sent the paramedics to help you.

00:43:58.300 Just stand on one, I'm going to tell you exactly what to do next, okay?

00:44:00.560 Are, are you right by her?

00:44:03.100 Oh my God.

00:44:04.520 I mean, I can see her, but, oh my God.

00:44:08.720 Stay with me, sir.

00:44:09.680 I know, I know this is upsetting, but we're going to try to do what, as much for her as you can.

00:44:14.320 If you're not sure that she's gone, we're going to try to help her, okay?

00:44:17.240 So, just listen carefully.

00:44:18.420 I mean, if she, just, listen, okay, sir?

00:44:22.620 First, just look at her right now.

00:44:24.700 Is, is, tell me what you see.

00:44:26.240 Is she, is her chest moving?

00:44:27.460 Is she breathing?

00:44:28.200 Anything at all?

00:44:29.360 No, she's not breathing at all.

00:44:31.820 No.

00:44:35.500 No.

00:44:39.680 I, I, I understand, sir.

00:44:54.880 I understand, but right now, we just want to make sure we're doing as much as possible.

00:44:58.920 Is there anyone else at all in the home with you, or is it just you and her?

00:45:02.280 Where, where, where are you in the house?

00:45:08.720 Where are you in the house, sir?

00:45:11.140 Oh, I'm in the back of the house.

00:45:14.160 There's a light on it.

00:45:20.700 Okay, well.

00:45:25.820 All right, is the door unlocked?

00:45:27.820 I don't know.

00:45:28.960 Can you, can you go do that for me, sir?

00:45:31.080 That way the paramedics can get in?

00:45:32.620 Can, are you able to do that?

00:45:34.420 No.

00:45:35.500 Okay, go ahead, go ahead.

00:45:37.460 Stay on, stay on the phone with me.

00:45:38.900 Go ahead and unlock the door, okay?

00:45:41.740 I'm sorry, my wife.

00:45:45.340 What'd you say, sir?

00:45:48.920 Is this my body?

00:45:52.720 Go ahead and unlock the door.

00:45:53.840 Let me know when she done that, okay?

00:45:55.300 Let me know when the door's unlocked.

00:45:56.480 Okay, you said officers are there?

00:46:08.140 No.

00:46:09.480 Okay, I'm gonna let you go.

00:46:10.980 I'm gonna let you go.

00:46:15.720 Holy cow.

00:46:16.560 Now, that was the 911 audio of something that happened this weekend.

00:46:22.580 A man said he killed his wife.

00:46:25.160 He was in a drug stupor, of course, eating cough medicine, and didn't know it.

00:46:30.820 More in a second.

00:46:31.680 North Carolina man accused of killing his wife in a cough syrup-induced stupor.

00:46:48.980 We just played the 911 phone call, and what amazed me was, at the beginning, I thought,

00:46:57.400 okay, I don't buy this at all.

00:47:00.640 Then I started listening to him, and to me, he said, have you ever been on Benadryl,

00:47:05.140 to where you take so much Benadryl, you could actually be on fire, and you would tell somebody,

00:47:10.940 uh, yeah, I think I'm on fire right now.

00:47:14.700 I'm not really sure.

00:47:16.040 I mean, were you just, there's just, you're not feeling anything.

00:47:19.740 And then you kill your wife?

00:47:21.200 No.

00:47:21.700 Oh, no.

00:47:22.100 That's not the experience?

00:47:22.980 No, that's not the experience.

00:47:24.220 However, however, this guy, I'm not suggesting that he's innocent or shouldn't go to jail or

00:47:28.960 anything else.

00:47:29.480 I believe that he didn't know what he was doing.

00:47:32.940 However, I think where he's going to have trouble is if you listened to this part of

00:47:38.240 the call very early on.

00:47:39.720 Listen to what he says.

00:47:41.940 I took, I took more medicine than I should have.

00:47:47.240 What medicine did you take?

00:47:49.640 I took, I took coarse eating, cough and cold, coarse eating, HPC, cough and cold, because

00:47:59.480 I know it can make you feel good.

00:48:01.200 So, a lot of times I can't sleep at night.

00:48:05.000 Okay.

00:48:05.720 So, I know.

00:48:06.940 Okay, stop.

00:48:07.840 So, he's saying, I know it can make you feel good.

00:48:12.280 Now, just understand that it might be that I was sick, but he said I can't sleep at night.

00:48:19.180 So, he's taking this, and he knows he's taking more than he should.

00:48:23.880 This is why this is a problem for him.

00:48:26.340 I don't even give the website.

00:48:27.600 But one of our researchers found a website where you can go, and they'll tell, drug users

00:48:32.880 are like, oh, this is a great, here's what you do.

00:48:36.220 Looked up coracetan.

00:48:37.820 Now, coracetan is DXM, a cough suppressant.

00:48:42.980 This is what one of the drug users wrote about this.

00:48:46.120 It didn't start to kick in until about two in the morning.

00:48:48.440 I started to lose concentration while on the computer.

00:48:50.860 I couldn't focus on anything for a long period of time.

00:48:53.120 I went up to go get a drink of water, and when I got up, I still felt like I was sitting down.

00:48:58.620 When I walked down the hall, everything around me was one big blur, except for the object I was looking at just ahead of me.

00:49:05.460 So, right now, I'm thinking, oh, yeah, this is pretty cool, end quote.

00:49:08.800 Eventually, the trip was beginning to get more and more intense.

00:49:12.740 Suddenly, my heartbeat jumped twice its rate, and my breathing was so heavy.

00:49:17.520 Right there, I thought I was going to die.

00:49:19.320 I tried to calm down by listening to some light music, but that only helped for a couple of minutes.

00:49:23.600 I needed to go to the bathroom really bad, so I got up.

00:49:25.900 I felt like I was still sitting down.

00:49:27.480 I walked to the bathroom.

00:49:28.620 I almost passed out.

00:49:30.100 Everything got really fuzzy.

00:49:31.740 And then I was standing.

00:49:33.040 I heard this loud pop.

00:49:34.560 I didn't know what it was, but it sounded real.

00:49:37.460 It sounded, um, it also sounded fake.

00:49:40.300 I kept hearing these metallic sounds.

00:49:42.900 Now, I was freaking out.

00:49:44.840 I went back to my computer, and I was telling my friends how freaked out I was by what was going on.

00:49:50.160 By now, I was at the peak of my trip.

00:49:52.160 It was four in the morning.

00:49:53.900 Eventually, I calmed down a bit, and I thought I could sleep.

00:49:56.300 So, I told my friend I was all right.

00:49:57.780 I went to bed.

00:49:58.560 I kept waking up, and then my room started to shake.

00:50:01.320 My mind was going insane.

00:50:03.080 I couldn't handle this.

00:50:05.100 I got back on my computer.

00:50:07.820 My friend was still on.

00:50:09.820 I asked him, how long have I been asleep for?

00:50:13.100 He said, five minutes.

00:50:16.800 What the hell?

00:50:18.280 Now, I couldn't think.

00:50:20.740 I couldn't even move thinking that if I did, I would mess with something in my body, and I would die.

00:50:28.160 I was shaking like crazy.

00:50:29.940 I kept hearing all of this crap in my head.

00:50:32.620 My room was really dark because I put, this is not really helpful either, because I put aluminum foil all over the windows.

00:50:39.840 But he said he did it to keep it cool.

00:50:41.740 Uh-huh.

00:50:42.160 Sure.

00:50:42.560 I saw that movie.

00:50:43.080 You got to have a foil on the windows.

00:50:44.380 Everybody has that.

00:50:45.360 It was 5 a.m.

00:50:46.160 I decided to go out and get some water, even though I thought I would die or I'd pass out and stop breathing.

00:50:49.980 So, when I went out of the room, it was light out, and all of a sudden, that made me calm, like it was just a bad dream.

00:50:56.680 My heart still hurt, and I made it to bed.

00:50:59.260 Three days later, I am still feeling it.

00:51:02.180 My heart still hurts, and it hurts when I take deep breaths.

00:51:05.020 So, this is from a website where people are like, hey, what are the best drugs to get high on?

00:51:11.540 And this guy didn't lose, didn't have that experience, obviously.

00:51:15.580 But there is apparently a lot of data that quercetin, if you take it in high quantities, really messes you up.

00:51:24.760 Yeah, well, there's also a lot of data that says if you drink a lot of alcohol in high quantities, you might crash your car.

00:51:30.600 That doesn't mean that we stop.

00:51:32.400 Yeah, no, no, I'm not saying that we, don't get me wrong.

00:51:34.780 I'm not saying, look, I'm an alcoholic, and no one, you know when you watch the funny comedies, and only alcoholics will understand this.

00:51:42.000 You watch the funny comedies, and they're like, I did what last night?

00:51:46.700 No way.

00:51:48.200 Okay, unless you're an alcoholic, you don't have a blackout.

00:51:52.760 You knew exactly what you were doing.

00:51:54.760 If you have a blackout, that means you had so much alcohol that your brain shut everything down just to keep you breathing.

00:52:06.140 That's what a blackout is.

00:52:07.920 And you don't just have one, you know, the first couple of times, I haven't had a drink in years, and I had so much to drink.

00:52:14.640 No, you pass out or you vomit first.

00:52:17.200 You have to build up to blackouts.

00:52:20.060 And so when people are like, I blacked out, don't believe it, unless they're an alcoholic.

00:52:24.760 If they're having blackouts, that's a sign you're close to death.

00:52:30.080 Okay?

00:52:30.700 That doesn't happen at parties.

00:52:32.240 You knew exactly what you were doing.

00:52:34.660 And I think that is where that problem for him arises in that he's saying he did it to feel good.

00:52:42.980 Yes.

00:52:43.040 If a doctor prescribes you medicine, you take it and you do something crazy, there's at least an argument.

00:52:47.700 Yes.

00:52:48.080 Not here.

00:52:48.460 You take cough syrup because you think it's going to make you feel good, and you know, by your own words, that you took too much of it?

00:52:55.360 Yes.

00:52:55.780 There's very little wiggle room for you there, I think.

00:52:58.280 I mean, it's a weird story, and I guess it's a warning to be careful with this particular medication.

00:53:03.320 But other than that, it's really frightening because we are all, I don't know, there's so many people in the world right now just trying to escape, trying to escape the pain of whatever it is that they're feeling.

00:53:17.520 They're just trying to escape, and we're seeing this with the opioid crisis that is happening in America.

00:53:25.840 And the bad news is there isn't really any escape.

00:53:29.140 That just makes it much, much worse.

00:53:31.880 Just makes it worse.

00:53:33.020 Are you depressing the drug?

00:53:34.680 I think I am.

00:53:35.880 I think I am.

00:53:36.880 Even if you're addicted, it doesn't get any better.

00:53:38.960 It just, no, it actually does.

00:53:41.380 For a very short time, there's a limited.

00:53:43.960 No, for a short time, it gets better by taking drugs and alcohol.

00:53:47.960 Very short.

00:53:48.520 And then it gets much, much worse.

00:53:49.780 And then you think there's no way out.

00:53:50.960 But there is a good way out.

00:53:53.020 And then it gets great.

00:53:54.360 Mercury.

00:54:04.000 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:54:05.720 Vince Flynn was a dear friend and one of the great fiction writers, thriller writers of our age.

00:54:16.780 He died just a few years ago from cancer.

00:54:21.820 And out of all the people that I would have thought was going to beat cancer, it was Vince Flynn.

00:54:26.540 He was just, every time I spoke to him, he was like, this is not beating me.

00:54:31.800 And just an amazing guy, but great writer.

00:54:34.100 They have just made the first Vince Flynn movie for American Assassin.

00:54:39.280 It opens this week.

00:54:41.460 I saw a sneak preview of it last night.

00:54:44.480 And it is really good.

00:54:46.720 A really good action movie that includes a nuclear weapon that the ending is just tremendous to see.

00:54:57.520 And Rapp's character, Mitch Rapp, is the main character of the Vince Flynn books.

00:55:04.120 I think he is Jack Bauer on steroids.

00:55:06.780 A believable Jack Bauer.

00:55:10.380 This is the first real Mitch Rapp movie and story.

00:55:17.020 And so you get the build up and you figure out who Mitch Rapp really is and what created this guy.

00:55:22.700 It's really good.

00:55:23.680 It feels, you know, I was watching it and I thought, you know, the Jason Bourne movies kind of feel dated, kind of feel like they were written in the Cold War era.

00:55:34.660 You know, James Bond, obviously.

00:55:36.480 This is a new generation of thrillers and a new generation of action heroes, I think.

00:55:44.340 Mitch Rapp.

00:55:44.860 I can't wait to see it.

00:55:45.820 It looks great.

00:55:46.360 And I was not aware, completely safe for kids, too, which is a great advantage.

00:55:51.500 No, it's not.

00:55:51.800 It's called American Assassin.

00:55:52.960 And you'd think, wait a minute, you shouldn't bring your children to that.

00:55:55.240 Well, it had Michael Keaton in it, you know, which he's in Mr. Mom.

00:55:59.220 Yeah.

00:56:00.420 Here's what happened.

00:56:01.220 My wife was supposed to come with me yesterday.

00:56:02.720 And then I don't know what happened.

00:56:04.700 But in the middle of the day, she said, I can't I can't go.

00:56:07.080 How about Rafe comes with you?

00:56:08.480 And I'm like, OK, I didn't know that it was rated R.

00:56:11.140 I guess I should have thought it through.

00:56:13.380 But you read the book.

00:56:15.160 I read the book like 20 years ago.

00:56:17.640 American Assassin.

00:56:18.900 Oh, my gosh.

00:56:19.560 Yeah.

00:56:19.840 So it wasn't a great idea, but I blame it on my wife.

00:56:22.180 Anyway, it is a little violent and has a little language that probably not appropriate.

00:56:29.360 Definitely not appropriate for your kids.

00:56:31.640 So you want to leave them at home.

00:56:34.700 But Michael Keaton, I will tell you, when Michael Keaton comes on the screen, the first

00:56:38.760 thing I thought was, I like having him back on the screen.

00:56:42.200 I've missed him.

00:56:43.700 He was he's a great actor.

00:56:45.780 This is a really good movie.

00:56:47.180 There's about five minutes towards the end.

00:56:48.700 I'm not going to spoil anything.

00:56:49.280 About five minutes towards the end, it gets a little cheesy where it's like, you know

00:56:52.160 what?

00:56:52.420 And we saved a lot of children, too.

00:56:54.900 You're like, oh, shut up.

00:56:56.860 But it's American Assassin.

00:56:59.440 Tremendous.

00:56:59.920 It opens this week.

00:57:06.780 And you can give your critique on the script to the co-author of American Assassin.

00:57:12.180 Tomorrow, he joins us at the beginning of this hour on tomorrow's program.

00:57:16.620 But one of the things that I love about movies, and I have a new appreciation of them and can

00:57:21.640 go to much more of them because of it, is this ridiculous company called MoviePass.

00:57:26.220 I don't.

00:57:26.740 There's something wrong.

00:57:28.100 There's something wrong.

00:57:28.660 There's something wrong.

00:57:29.280 It's too good.

00:57:29.960 Yes.

00:57:30.200 When it's too good to be true, it means it's too good.

00:57:32.020 Right.

00:57:32.500 Mitch Lowe is here.

00:57:33.620 He's the CEO of MoviePass.com.

00:57:36.260 And Mitch, I personally may put you out of business because I see too many movies.

00:57:41.880 Hey, that's what we want.

00:57:43.580 We want to reinvigorate the movie theater going.

00:57:48.000 And so we would love to see that.

00:57:50.160 So I honestly, I will I'll bankrupt you.

00:57:55.000 I see almost every movie made.

00:57:57.060 Uh, and I, and I love to go to the movies.

00:58:00.500 It is a pastime with me and my family.

00:58:02.680 Uh, but we see probably a minimum of four movies a month.

00:58:07.720 And under your service, I pay $10 even in New York where the ticket is $16 and I can go

00:58:16.900 see any movie I want and I can see as many movies as I want as long as it's not the same

00:58:21.920 one over and over again.

00:58:22.780 Right.

00:58:23.780 That's right.

00:58:24.580 That's it.

00:58:24.980 It's one a day.

00:58:25.640 It's one a day.

00:58:27.660 Just like your vitamin.

00:58:29.180 So how's that, how's that, how's that working for you?

00:58:31.080 I'm trying to figure out the business model.

00:58:32.740 How's that, how's that work?

00:58:34.440 Yeah.

00:58:34.920 So here, here's the thing.

00:58:36.040 Yes, there are, uh, about 11%, 36 million people in the U S and Canada that go to a lot

00:58:43.840 of films every month.

00:58:44.860 They go to roughly 18 films a year on average, and they buy half of all the movie tickets,

00:58:50.780 but there's 51% of the population go to less than a movie a month.

00:58:56.180 And that's who primarily join our service.

00:58:59.420 So yes, everybody like yourself who goes to lots of movies joins, they get huge value and

00:59:05.240 they tell everybody about it.

00:59:06.780 But the majority of our subscribers are people who go to three to six films a year prior to

00:59:12.800 joining movie pass.

00:59:13.920 When they join, they double the amount of films they go.

00:59:17.440 So now they're going to six to 12 movies a year.

00:59:20.800 So the majority of our subscribers roughly go to one a month.

00:59:24.780 And then there's a small group of people who end up going, you know, five, 10 times a month

00:59:30.120 and it drives up the average a little bit.

00:59:32.620 Okay.

00:59:32.700 So it's nine 95, nine 95 a month.

00:59:35.040 It used to be $50 a month.

00:59:37.940 Yeah.

00:59:38.340 How, what, what, what happened to where you could drop it down that, that low?

00:59:43.720 Well, what we found, what we found is, you know, we were, when we were 30 to $50, we were

00:59:49.180 really just appealing to the people who that 11% who go a lot already.

00:59:54.620 And we got them to go more often, but essentially it was a, it was a price point that only appealed

01:00:00.360 to a small group of the public.

01:00:02.320 And we realized that what we really needed to do is to reinvigorate, especially millennials,

01:00:08.060 you know, over five, over the last five years, millennials have decreased their amount

01:00:12.540 of times of going to the theater by 20%.

01:00:15.000 And the reason why is now they have all these other alternatives.

01:00:18.680 In fact, they talk themselves out of going to the movies.

01:00:22.080 They go, I don't know if it's good enough.

01:00:24.280 You know, I've already got Netflix or Hulu.

01:00:26.660 I'll just wait and see it then.

01:00:28.900 And what we really, what's big, these are people who grew up on subscription and really

01:00:33.900 what subscription, what our subscription services, it's, it's insurance against a bad movie.

01:00:40.080 Okay.

01:00:40.100 So they can go and experiment and, and if they don't like it, they just walk out and

01:00:44.700 trash it the next day to their friends.

01:00:46.460 So when, when you put this together, uh, because AMC doesn't like this, um, but I think, I think

01:00:53.140 the movie theater experience is just totally changing.

01:00:56.340 I think the future is making me, uh, put, putting me into some sort of a cocoon where

01:01:01.560 I would never, ever want to leave.

01:01:03.340 Uh, and that's, what's happening, at least here in Texas, that's, what's happening with

01:01:06.900 movie theaters where they, they're great food.

01:01:10.360 Uh, they'll deliver anything.

01:01:12.500 I mean, I'm, I'm, I'm guessing there's a few that even would deliver lap dances.

01:01:16.200 I'm not sure, but they just never want you to leave.

01:01:19.400 And I'm guessing that that's where they make their money, not on the actual ticket.

01:01:24.320 That's, that's right.

01:01:25.640 Yeah.

01:01:26.160 Concessions are 80% margin.

01:01:28.300 You know, when you buy that popcorn or soda, uh, 80%.

01:01:31.480 And when you buy a ticket, it's roughly 50%.

01:01:34.340 So the theaters really want you in the theater.

01:01:37.380 And, and by the way, when you join movie pass, what happens, because you're not pulling out

01:01:42.220 that $10 bill to pay for a ticket, you spend more money on concessions, which is great for

01:01:48.140 the theaters.

01:01:48.660 And that's why AMC should love it.

01:01:51.240 And why don't they, we had a, well, you know, we had a two year partnership with AMC.

01:01:56.280 Uh, we, you know, we had, we both contributed to a blind data report that showed that we doubled

01:02:03.380 people's frequency of going to the movies, increased their consumption of concessions.

01:02:08.320 And AMC, I believe, you know, came to the point where they said, you know, we should

01:02:12.580 just do this ourselves.

01:02:14.000 And so I believe this is a little bit of sour grapes in seeing that kind of, we beat them

01:02:20.060 to the punch.

01:02:21.320 Uh, and, and, you know, you, you know, I know that they will probably release their own

01:02:25.940 subscription program soon.

01:02:27.820 Mitch, one of the, we're talking to Mitch Lowe of a movie pass.com.

01:02:30.980 Uh, Mitch, one of the criticisms I've seen from AMC and others is that you are preparing

01:02:35.980 people to pay $10 a month for movies.

01:02:39.180 And then when you go out of business in two years, everyone's going to think that the old

01:02:43.080 movie price is too high.

01:02:45.000 Yeah.

01:02:45.440 Well, you know, I was on the founding executive team at Netflix and, and the COO of Redbox.

01:02:52.180 And that's exactly what Blockbuster said to us at Netflix.

01:02:56.060 And they said to consumers, don't look at these little guys over here that are offering

01:03:00.560 a innovative service.

01:03:02.120 Keep paying us the high prices.

01:03:04.540 Are you publicly, are you publicly traded now, Mitch?

01:03:06.640 Is this publicly traded?

01:03:08.460 We're, we're 51% owned.

01:03:11.540 Uh, the deal isn't closed yet, but shortly we'll be a majority owned by a public company.

01:03:17.180 It's H M N Y Helios and Matheson.

01:03:19.980 And they are, the reason we, we, um, uh, sold half of the company to them a little more

01:03:25.660 than half is that they are a big, uh, data and analytics company.

01:03:29.920 And what we want to build is this great experience around going to the movies and we're building

01:03:35.860 upon their foundation, their technology, um, that'll build a whole night at the movies

01:03:41.300 experience.

01:03:41.880 I will, I'll tell you, I think this is why AMC is wrong on this.

01:03:45.960 I, I, I don't, you know, I, AMC should do what AMC does well.

01:03:50.620 And that is give me a good movie experience, but I wouldn't want a subscription with AMC

01:03:55.880 because then I'm locked into just AMC.

01:03:58.100 I mean, if, if you were a public, I mean, I wouldn't, this might be the kiss of death.

01:04:02.660 I would invest in your company because I think what the future is, is companies that say,

01:04:07.260 I just do this one piece and I do it really, really well.

01:04:11.180 And they just start linking pieces together to make everybody's experience super easy.

01:04:17.620 Yeah.

01:04:18.320 Yeah.

01:04:18.520 You have to listen to consumers and what typically happens to the dominant player is they lose

01:04:24.660 touch with their consumers and they try, they spend more time trying to protect an old

01:04:30.060 way of doing things at the cost of offering, you know, new benefits to consumers.

01:04:34.900 I think that's, that's exactly what, you know, startups can do is we're close.

01:04:40.220 You know, I've, I absolutely love movies.

01:04:42.620 I love them in every way.

01:04:44.340 And, and, you know, I started with video stores 30 years ago and I just love movies and I know

01:04:50.240 the artists, the creative community makes movies for the theater, for the big screen, the big

01:04:55.740 sound, you know, laughing with other people around you.

01:04:59.000 They don't make them for the mobile phone.

01:05:01.020 And even though that's fun and, and, and, and a great opportunity, you know, it's really

01:05:06.340 the theater.

01:05:06.840 There's nothing better than the experiences.

01:05:08.600 Yeah.

01:05:08.700 There's nothing better than the theater.

01:05:10.000 And Mitch, there is a, it is a, any theater you want to go to.

01:05:13.120 I think a lot of people would think, oh, well, I have to find one of these theaters.

01:05:16.000 It's literally any theater.

01:05:17.900 You basically have what is a debit card almost.

01:05:21.260 Yeah, it's, it's over 90% of all the theaters.

01:05:25.100 So there are some theaters, you know, some drive-ins and some places that only take cash

01:05:29.980 that you can't use it, but it's a, can you still use it at AMC?

01:05:33.760 Can you still use it at AMC?

01:05:35.960 Absolutely.

01:05:36.640 You can still use it at AMC.

01:05:38.300 And I don't know, Mitch, if you do radio based customer service, but I have not received

01:05:41.900 my card yet.

01:05:42.880 I've just been using the app.

01:05:44.000 And so we're going to need to work that out.

01:05:46.700 Well, we got, we, we absolutely underestimated demand and we were not prepared for the amount

01:05:54.820 of new subscribers we had.

01:05:56.780 We're still catching up, you know, on those first couple of days, we were the third most

01:06:02.360 searched word on Google after Charlottesville and Korea.

01:06:06.560 And we continued to get thousands and thousands of new subscribers every day.

01:06:11.980 And we're catching up fast, but, um, you'll get yours soon.

01:06:15.800 And I apologize.

01:06:16.940 Your first month does not start till you get your card.

01:06:19.860 So even though we charged you, you know, in advance, the month doesn't begin till you

01:06:24.260 get your card.

01:06:24.960 And I'm extremely sorry and apologize.

01:06:27.520 No, no, no, no, no.

01:06:28.620 It's a great experience.

01:06:29.420 We're rooting, we're rooting for you.

01:06:30.540 We are.

01:06:31.000 This is really cool.

01:06:32.080 Mitch, thanks a lot.

01:06:34.980 Mitch Lowe, he's the CEO of moviepass.com.

01:06:38.760 That's moviepass.com.

01:06:41.980 I will be a member by the end of the day.

01:06:45.080 Well, here's something that you haven't thought of for a long time.

01:07:09.340 The MTV Music Awards.

01:07:12.720 I mean, when's the last time you cared?

01:07:15.840 When's the last time you even thought, oh, is MTV still on?

01:07:19.980 The MTV Music Awards, uh, the, the video awards have, uh, are still on the air, surprisingly.

01:07:27.940 And I think it was, was it last weekend or the weekend before?

01:07:32.300 And their ratings, they are hemorrhaging ratings.

01:07:36.180 I think they've lost 60% of their audience in the last couple of years.

01:07:39.820 Uh, and they're losing about a million viewers every single year.

01:07:43.460 And what's amazing is that they become more and more, they try to be more and more outrageous

01:07:48.660 every single year.

01:07:50.840 You know, oh, what can we do?

01:07:53.100 Nothing, nothing that hasn't been done.

01:07:55.140 Right.

01:07:55.720 Really, there's nothing that hasn't been done.

01:07:57.560 Michael Jackson isn't around to, to kiss his fake wife anymore.

01:08:01.920 Like, there's just nothing more.

01:08:03.460 Right.

01:08:03.900 And then Britney and Madonna.

01:08:05.320 That's the last one I think I can remember.

01:08:06.940 No, no, no.

01:08:07.220 You had, uh, twerking with what's her face.

01:08:09.860 Twerking with what's her face sounds memorable, but I don't remember.

01:08:12.420 No, no, no.

01:08:12.760 Yes, you do.

01:08:13.500 You do.

01:08:13.940 What's her name?

01:08:14.560 Miley Cyrus?

01:08:15.120 Miley Cyrus.

01:08:15.840 That was, you know.

01:08:17.120 I don't remember that one.

01:08:18.480 There's no place that Miley Cyrus's tongue hasn't been, so we don't really need to see

01:08:23.340 it anymore.

01:08:25.340 I don't think.

01:08:26.380 I don't want to.

01:08:26.780 I know.

01:08:27.320 I think that's pretty true.

01:08:29.140 So, uh, no ratings.

01:08:30.680 Now, listen, listen.

01:08:31.900 This was somebody who was sitting in an executive meeting and they went, oh my gosh.

01:08:36.120 Oh, I've got something.

01:08:37.600 Oh, no.

01:08:37.940 You think the ratings have been down?

01:08:40.580 They're not this year.

01:08:41.820 Wait until you hear what I've just booked.

01:08:44.120 I have the descendant of Robert E. Lee.

01:08:50.120 He's a pastor of a church and he's going to go all crazy about white supremacists.

01:08:59.360 And you'd think to yourself, wow, that's, that's, that, that, that would be fairly interesting.

01:09:09.440 Right.

01:09:10.340 And that already happened.

01:09:11.760 And nobody's talking about it.

01:09:13.180 Like nobody is talking about it.

01:09:15.220 That's insane.

01:09:16.040 Yeah.

01:09:16.180 You would think in this media environment, that would have been a big story.

01:09:19.940 MSNBC would love that.

01:09:21.000 Maybe they did.

01:09:21.540 Of course.

01:09:21.720 So here is what, here is what they do love.

01:09:24.860 They love that he had to leave his church because his church was like, you know what?

01:09:28.980 We, we don't really, we don't think we, we need our pastor on MTV.

01:09:33.320 Well, it doesn't seem like a, a normal pastoral location.

01:09:37.900 Uh, there are some stories in the Bible that, that, uh, kind of feature people of faith going into,

01:09:44.780 yeah.

01:09:45.360 Uh, well, he said, he upheld black lives matter and the women's March and all of that.

01:09:50.240 And they said, no, thank you.

01:09:51.920 We're going to pass.

01:09:53.060 Mercury.

01:09:59.220 Love.

01:10:00.800 Courage.

01:10:02.220 Truth.

01:10:02.740 Even Congress doesn't trust Congress anymore.

01:10:05.860 However, yesterday, the Trump administration announced that it would end DACA.

01:10:10.660 That is the Obama era, uh, presidential edict that allowed hundreds of thousands of illegal

01:10:16.140 immigrants to avoid deportation.

01:10:19.120 The plan is to give Congress six months to fix the problem.

01:10:23.840 And the reaction from Congress.

01:10:26.900 How dare you?

01:10:28.780 How dare you let us handle this?

01:10:31.660 I mean, what?

01:10:32.420 Hang on.

01:10:32.740 Uh, even Congress doesn't trust Congress anymore.

01:10:37.640 President Obama said this.

01:10:41.380 You know, I'm the president of the United States.

01:10:44.480 I'm not, uh, uh, the emperor of the United States.

01:10:47.500 Yeah.

01:10:48.100 We, we knew that.

01:10:49.340 We all knew that.

01:10:50.720 Uh, I don't think he knew that at the time.

01:10:52.840 Now, Trump has returned the power back to Congress.

01:10:59.680 Uh, and they're complaining about it.

01:11:03.060 Our founders knew that the balance of power would work because each branch would want to

01:11:08.240 protect their own power because they'd all be power hungry freaks.

01:11:11.560 But now, when decisions are tough, they fall all over themselves to give their own power away.

01:11:20.780 Donald Trump said yesterday, I knew some here wish that I could just bypass Congress and change the law myself, but that's not how our democracy works.

01:11:31.140 Oh, wait, no, wait.

01:11:32.000 Oh, hold a second.

01:11:32.660 That wasn't Donald Trump yesterday.

01:11:34.360 That was Barack Obama.

01:11:36.820 He was right.

01:11:38.440 He just never lived those words.

01:11:41.720 And now what do we have?

01:11:44.380 Even Congress doesn't trust Congress anymore.

01:11:48.620 And neither should you.

01:11:56.280 Wednesday, September 6th.

01:11:58.920 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

01:12:04.360 So, somebody who I have a ton of respect for because she has been behind enemy lines for a very, very long time and been taking shots from all sides for a very long time.

01:12:18.360 Cheryl Atkinson, she is the author of a new book called The Smear, How Shady Political Operatives and Fake News Control What You See, What You Think, and How You Vote.

01:12:28.540 She received an investigative Emmy Award in 2009 for her investigations into the TARP bailout, investigative award in 2002 for her reports on the Red Cross and how they were mismanaging funds, all kinds of awards, all kinds of nominations for follow the money, congressional oversight, aid to Haiti, firestone tires, and the dangers of prescription drugs and vaccines, which include the links to autism.

01:12:56.540 Autism, a brave woman who used to work for CBS and PBS and all of the S's until she left and went out on her own where she felt she could actually tell the truth.

01:13:08.960 Cheryl Atkinson, welcome to the program.

01:13:11.280 Thank you so much, Glenn.

01:13:12.680 Thanks for having me.

01:13:13.420 So, I couldn't have been more surprised as I opened up your book a few weeks ago, and there's an opening chapter about how the left really kind of found their voice by destroying me.

01:13:26.760 Yes, it was a fascinating case study that is much discussed in the smear industry, and I spoke to operatives both on left and right for my book who were quite open with me, surprisingly enough.

01:13:38.120 And really, you know, what they did to you laid the groundwork for future successful smears.

01:13:44.760 It was almost a prototype.

01:13:46.680 And as you saw, there was a memo that had been laid out by Media Matters, which is a liberal operative group, a memo proposing a lot of these tactics that were used ultimately against you,

01:13:58.920 including hiring private eyes to probe personal lives of reporters that they wanted to squelch, hiring law firms to come up with legal actions to generate things to try to, you know, bully and intimidate people, all kinds of tactics.

01:14:13.700 And for you in particular, as you know, they launched the move to get you off Fox News, I believe, and the ones who operate in that universe, because your program was highly effective in getting out narratives and information that they didn't want out there.

01:14:29.480 So, it wasn't so much that they wanted to come after you on moral grounds or for moral reasons.

01:14:35.280 And they used that, smear operators, as the facade to take out their enemies.

01:14:40.980 And one way to recognize the hallmarks of a smear is they overlooked the same behavior in people who are their friends.

01:14:47.260 Yes.

01:14:47.600 But when it's a target that they want to get out, they amplify the behavior that they found, even when there's a grain of truth, beyond all proportions.

01:14:55.260 And there was a million-dollar donation, as you know, from George Soros that was publicly announced to Media Matters explicitly to get rid of you as a danger to, you know, all free things in our society.

01:15:07.040 And, you know, Cheryl, what was so crazy is, I mean, I remember coming home in Connecticut before we moved to New York, and we knew people were going through our garbage and everything else.

01:15:19.320 And we just laughed.

01:15:20.220 We sat at the table and just laughed and said, you know, I have an open book.

01:15:23.700 They're not going to find anything in the garbage.

01:15:25.420 They can just come to the front door and I'll tell them everything.

01:15:28.280 But you sound paranoid.

01:15:30.120 And then when George Soros actually announced a million dollars to go to take me off the air and destroy me, no one in the press thought that was a problem.

01:15:43.100 Right.

01:15:43.700 And furthermore, even after that, as those campaigns continued against different people, Media Matters was still largely held out by a lot in the news media as some sort of neutral watchdog group by those who either didn't do their homework enough to scratch beyond the surface or didn't care to report, as they would pass along narratives from Media Matters, that this is a, you know, self-defined liberal operation group that often, again,

01:16:11.980 holds itself out to be sort of a neutral media watchdog organization and has permeated the news media in such a way that it's often quoted as if it's a neutral source.

01:16:22.940 And it and its spring offs and connected LLCs and charities and super PACs like Correct the Record were used during campaign 2016, often again, as if sort of a neutral group.

01:16:34.840 Or even if you knew it was a democratic group, you didn't realize it was for the sole purpose of electing Hillary Clinton.

01:16:40.220 And so it was smearing Bernie Sanders, but without disclosures, as it was presented in the news that its financial paid interests were really Hillary Clinton.

01:16:48.780 So, as you know, as you know, there is a new Media Matters program, if you will, an announcement of what they're going to be doing and what they're working on now.

01:17:01.120 And it was found on the dark web.

01:17:02.420 And it talks about how they are already in Facebook and Google and YouTube advising them on what needs to be edited out, what is hate speech, what isn't.

01:17:17.360 And everybody still is embracing Media Matters, even though it's clear.

01:17:22.040 I mean, they're they're not hiding anything.

01:17:23.540 It's pretty amazing, and that's why it's seen largely as a, you know, a huge success.

01:17:30.600 David Brock, as I say in the book, was described with equal parts, you know, admiration and disgust by others in the smear industry,

01:17:37.880 because he's really been able to do something that maybe conservatives have also tried to do and other liberals.

01:17:44.100 But none has done it so well, which is to utterly permeate the narrative and the news environment in such a way that they're able to get their messages across,

01:17:54.020 often without people disclosing the paid financial interest behind them.

01:17:57.260 And he, by the way, has gotten very rich off this industry of the smear groups,

01:18:02.220 whether it's the super PACs or the charities under different names or the websites or the other nonprofits that he operates.

01:18:09.680 And again, I think in the news media, when they present us with from this group with a set of facts or talking points or ideas for stories with a lot of research,

01:18:21.120 we're not just with them, with many other PR groups that are in this industry.

01:18:25.360 We're not scratching the surface enough and asking our own questions.

01:18:28.060 We're taking what they say and pushing it along.

01:18:31.140 And it's almost like it's unpopular now.

01:18:34.100 Maybe Facebook feels this pressure.

01:18:36.100 They create this appearance that there's overwhelming grassroots support for what they want.

01:18:42.600 And they use fake Twitter accounts and all their organizations to make it look like everybody wants you guys to sort through and curate the news and what we see online.

01:18:50.700 Really, the public's not clamoring for that.

01:18:52.740 That's a manufactured issue.

01:18:54.780 The whole the whole idea that someone needs to sort through for us did not come from grassroots.

01:18:59.500 It came from these organizations, but it was made to look in the eyes of Facebook and Google and so on as if the people want it.

01:19:06.100 So, Cheryl, you're not a newcomer to this.

01:19:08.380 I mean, you have been, you know, winning Emmys and winning awards for investigative journalism.

01:19:14.180 And you've exposed both sides and you've exposed some really nasty stuff.

01:19:18.840 When you got into this, what was the thing as you as you close the book, the smear, that you said,

01:19:28.160 I would have, I could have believed a lot of things, but I would have never believed this had I not just found it myself.

01:19:38.380 Well, a lot of this I learned over time.

01:19:40.460 So it wasn't just in writing the book that I'm not sure there's anything I discovered for the first time as I was researching and writing the book.

01:19:48.120 I wrote it because I had learned some of these things.

01:19:50.100 I think the one thing that gave me chills to hear it said out loud was when one smear operator said to me, well, there were really two comments.

01:19:58.080 But one of them was that everything you see in your daily life, whether it's something put out by a charity, something you see or read on the news,

01:20:05.220 or any other image that crosses your path, he says it's put there for a reason by somebody who often paid a lot of money to put the image before you.

01:20:12.480 So think about that, how much they think they control op-eds in the newspaper, public comments on the Federal Register, the narratives that you see on the news that are repeated over and over.

01:20:22.460 And the second thing that kind of gave me chills was to hear an operative admit what I kind of knew, but he said, you know,

01:20:29.660 an entire movement can be started with a handful of fake Twitter accounts and 140 characters, meaning they know the power of free social media

01:20:39.000 and that the fake accounts that they operate under the names of actors with software that can rotate IP addresses and make it look like original, real, connected people,

01:20:48.320 that can influence a whole movement or spark a whole movement that ultimately does become grassroots because people don't know the origins.

01:20:55.340 So, Cheryl, we're facing a time now where we have political and civil unrest.

01:21:02.100 We have economic troubles headed our way.

01:21:05.260 We have natural disaster.

01:21:06.900 We yesterday were looking at possibly global war or nuclear war and a and a press that is completely out of control.

01:21:18.340 And I believe on both sides and the people don't they don't know how to find the truth.

01:21:26.800 They don't know what the truth is.

01:21:28.080 And many are not even looking for the truth.

01:21:30.680 How does this how does this shake out?

01:21:33.280 How does this how does our story what's the next chapter in the American story?

01:21:39.720 Well, I'd like to be more optimistic and I hope I hope I can be down the road.

01:21:44.000 But from a news standpoint, I don't see an easy way out of this fix that we're in, because as I described, you know, it's taken years for us to get here.

01:21:53.180 And I remember talking to some attorneys at CBS that I have review and approve my stories and maybe 10 years ago, I first said to them when we saw these efforts to shape the news by these large companies that work behind the scenes to do sometimes perfectly legal things, even if objectable, objectionable, but sometimes unethical things to try to stop stories.

01:22:13.580 And I said, you know, this industry is coming up and we're so busy just putting out the news or playing defense when they smear us and try to discredit our stories because we're reporting things they want to try to squelch.

01:22:25.800 We need to have our own plan, our own recognition of this and a way to fight back because they're destroying reputations of news organizations and people doing important coverage.

01:22:35.000 And, you know, there was just no real attention paid to it.

01:22:37.980 And I tried to raise that also and investigate a reporter conferences because this was happening to many reporters who are reporting on, you know, corporations and political interests that wanted to try to discredit and stop them.

01:22:49.640 But as an industry, we haven't done a good job in recognizing it.

01:22:53.040 And furthermore, we've allowed operatives to become part of our newsrooms.

01:22:57.620 You know, we've hired them not only as pundits and commentators, but we've made them reporters and anchors and managers.

01:23:02.880 So it's not an accident that when you turn on the news or read it, so often it comes across as narratives and talking points.

01:23:09.640 We've become part of the industry.

01:23:13.040 Our conversation with Cheryl Atkinson continues in just a minute.

01:23:18.700 The book is The Smear, How Shady Political Operatives and Fake News Control What You See, What You Think and How You Vote.

01:23:25.460 The link is always posted at World of Stew on Twitter and at Glenn Beck.

01:23:28.780 After California, Texas has the second largest economy in the United States.

01:23:36.740 And a huge contributor to that economy is the Houston Woodlands Sugar Land area.

01:23:42.640 It had a GDP of $503 billion in 2015.

01:23:49.200 That is, just so you have some concept, the size of the Swedish economy.

01:23:55.280 The Houston area.

01:24:00.920 Now, estimates of Harvey's cost vary, but some are predicting that the storm is going to be the most expensive in U.S. history

01:24:07.280 at over $190 billion that surpasses Hurricane Katrina.

01:24:13.200 What else is happening?

01:24:14.280 We have Irma roaring up towards Florida.

01:24:17.920 That may hit this weekend.

01:24:19.380 That may be, if we're lucky, it will be a Hurricane Category 3 by the time it hits.

01:24:26.120 But people are already starting to evacuate in Miami and the Keys and elsewhere.

01:24:33.000 Beyond that, we have wildfires in California.

01:24:38.780 We are, we're, we're, we're on, on the edge here.

01:24:43.240 We make it.

01:24:44.280 Our story ends well.

01:24:45.880 But we better button up.

01:24:51.620 Mercury.

01:25:02.420 A conversation with Cheryl Atkinson.

01:25:05.100 She is the author of The Smear, how shady political operatives and fake news control what you see, what you think, and how you vote.

01:25:12.360 Cheryl, you just said that an operative told you something that is, should, everybody's blood should run cold, that everything that you see and, and, and read has been planted for a reason.

01:25:27.020 How do you, how does the American public deal with that kind of knowledge and, and find the happy middle ground between, you know, the conspiratorial Alex Jones, everything is a false flag to the media matters that everything is real.

01:25:45.660 That's a really good question.

01:25:49.100 I mean, I, I think you start by saying like I do.

01:25:52.840 There's pretty much nothing I see on the news that I take at face value and believe immediately.

01:25:57.300 It doesn't mean it's not true.

01:25:58.640 Don't get me wrong.

01:26:00.080 But I know that there may be more to the story.

01:26:02.240 I just learned that in journalism anyway.

01:26:03.720 The most obvious story and conclusions you can draw or the most obvious thing that's being put out by somebody often proves to be totally different than you thought.

01:26:11.780 So it's just, you know, good counsel to question what you see, but also particularly if what you see is the same thing over and over.

01:26:20.960 I mean, think about the thousands of news stories happening around the world every day, and yet you look at the news or watch something on television and it's the same two or three stories over and over, often using the same words, interviewing the same people from the same viewpoint.

01:26:35.320 They're not going to give necessarily two or three sides to the story.

01:26:38.600 That's absolutely when you should suspect there's a paid effort.

01:26:41.760 So I, I ask myself, who wants me to think that and why?

01:26:46.380 And that can just help open your mind up a little more to what you're saying.

01:26:49.680 I call it the Truman Show-esque alternate reality.

01:26:52.840 If you remember that old movie with James Carey where he didn't know he was living basically on a movie set, that's kind of what they're describing.

01:27:00.660 And I think it may sound somewhat conspiratorial, but the people in this universe see it that way.

01:27:06.460 It doesn't hurt to think, you know, to think to some degree.

01:27:09.340 Now, again, maybe going overboard is to think that everything you see isn't true.

01:27:13.740 And I'm not saying that.

01:27:14.940 I'm just saying it may not be the whole truth.

01:27:17.840 And sometimes it may not be true.

01:27:19.380 And sometimes it may be true, but you just have to, I think, look at it more critically.

01:27:23.980 Cheryl, as someone who's worked with Glenn for a long time, I sort of enjoy him being tortured.

01:27:29.080 But you go into, you're welcome.

01:27:31.400 You go into depth in the book quite a bit about the specific things they did to Glenn to try to ruin his career and, and, and have him lose a lack of, kind of lose credibility with the audience.

01:27:43.380 Can you go into some of that?

01:27:44.120 Yeah, I mean, you know, this is effective, primarily because it's effective with management, even more than viewers.

01:27:52.480 They launched a large advertising campaign effort, which, again, is perfectly legal.

01:27:57.080 But they want advertisers to believe or to create the impression that this is a grassroots thing that's happening from the public when it's not.

01:28:05.040 They partnered in the case of Glenn, I believe, with a separate group.

01:28:09.640 Color of change.

01:28:10.240 They called advertisers.

01:28:11.240 Oh, yeah.

01:28:11.580 Yeah, color of change, which would not be then, you know, it looks like, oh, this is a widespread effort by a diverse group of people.

01:28:20.180 Look at how everybody in the world is, you know, so down on Glenn Beck right now.

01:28:23.960 And in fact, it's, again, a relatively small handful of the same donors trying to give the impression because Glenn is dangerous to their interests, trying to give the impression that there's some sort of giant grassroots effort.

01:28:35.020 So, yeah, they and you're seeing that use you're seeing that use now on on Donald Trump, where it's the same group of people.

01:28:44.580 They're just it's the Tides Foundation.

01:28:47.100 They just they stand up as a different group over here.

01:28:49.820 And then, oh, look, it's mothers against whatever over here and fathers for this over here.

01:28:54.880 And it's it's really the same people, same money.

01:28:56.980 Right.

01:28:57.880 So I wrote I'm just reading one short passage.

01:28:59.960 Media Matters also quietly funnels two hundred thousand dollars, which is a lot of money in this world, to a group called Citizen Engagement Laboratory, a political advocacy nonprofit that calls itself a home for social entrepreneurs.

01:29:13.780 The laboratory is funded in part by grants from sources, Open Society Foundation.

01:29:18.820 So he's giving you two ways there.

01:29:20.260 Glenn, the two hundred thousand dollars from Media Matters is for a campaign to expose Glenn Beck's racist rhetoric in an effort to educate advertisers about the practices on his show.

01:29:29.960 You have to read Sheryl Atkinson's new book.

01:29:32.600 It's called The Smear, how shady political operatives are controlling what you see and what you think.

01:29:59.960 This is the Glenn Beck program.

01:30:08.400 You're young, you're healthy, you have your whole life in front of you.

01:30:12.360 And that is what Katie thought.

01:30:14.300 She had no idea that anything was wrong with her until she went in for a routine ultrasound with her second child, Willow.

01:30:22.140 And during the ultrasound, it was discovered that Katie had cervical cancer and the doctor said, you have to abort your child.

01:30:33.060 You're going to die.

01:30:34.620 And the answer was, no, I'm not going to kill my child.

01:30:40.200 For me, that's just it's not in the cards for me.

01:30:42.400 I don't think that I bring myself to do that.

01:30:44.640 And people call me selfish for not aborting.

01:30:48.320 I believe that every life out there has a very divine purpose.

01:30:52.720 Katie carried Willow to term and the doctors were able to remove the cancer.

01:30:57.700 She was cancer free and mom to a beautiful baby girl.

01:31:02.400 And then trouble set in.

01:31:04.120 Willow stopped eating a couple of months in.

01:31:06.760 The little girl was rushed to the hospital, stayed there for most of her first year.

01:31:10.480 All but 12 days was spent between our tiny hospital back in Montana and Seattle Children's Hospital.

01:31:21.220 She dealt with pneumonia and heart failure and respiratory failure as one thing after another.

01:31:26.960 Weeks and weeks of testing.

01:31:29.320 And finally, she was diagnosed with a rare terminal condition called inclusive cell disease,

01:31:35.340 which inhibits growth and breathing and heart function, digestion, everything.

01:31:41.520 There have been a few, very few kiddos with this that have made it shortly past 10.

01:31:46.840 But the average span of these kids is three to five years.

01:31:51.140 There are only 72 confirmed cases in the world.

01:31:54.180 There is no treatment at all whatsoever because there's so little funding like there is for cancer researches.

01:32:01.200 All the research funding comes directly from the few families that have been affected.

01:32:07.400 Willow was finally released from the hospital just in time for her first birthday.

01:32:11.960 While preparing for her birthday, Katie encountered another blow.

01:32:15.420 She became the victim of domestic violence and found herself now a single mother of two young children.

01:32:21.240 Once Willow started getting sick, unfortunately, her father, because of the way he grew up,

01:32:25.780 the only way he knew how to cope was to have alcohol to drown out everything he needed to cope.

01:32:32.140 There is a remarkable person inside mom.

01:32:36.920 Even though every birthday, just like for every family, is a huge milestone and like it's very exciting for us.

01:32:43.760 It's also extremely, extremely bittersweet.

01:32:47.460 And so because we know that we're not going to have very many.

01:32:50.640 Because Katie hasn't lost hope.

01:32:52.060 You know, none of us can say what's going to happen or how we're going to handle a situation like this

01:32:56.380 until, you know, we're on the front line of it.

01:33:00.240 Willow is dependent on 24-7 feeding tubes.

01:33:02.860 She's on heart and oxygen monitors.

01:33:04.720 Medication from 6 to 10 p.m.

01:33:07.940 BiPAP at night.

01:33:09.520 Requires what is called deep suctioning.

01:33:11.500 A threading of suction catheter through her nose and the airwave.

01:33:14.440 This is so, so harsh for you.

01:33:16.860 You can't go to a shelter because you can't bring Willow into the shelter.

01:33:24.480 She gets a cold and she can die.

01:33:27.760 You had a goal of $5,000 and you were, last I checked, you were at $2,900.

01:33:35.720 That doesn't seem like an awful lot of money to be able just to keep the roof over your head.

01:33:44.400 It's not.

01:33:46.280 I don't really set my goals too big because I don't want to be disappointed.

01:33:51.660 I don't want to come off like, you know, I'm asking for a handout.

01:33:55.540 Like, you know, I'm asking the world of people.

01:33:58.180 That's not the person that I am.

01:34:00.360 You're remarkable, Katie.

01:34:02.740 And I applaud you for your strength and, uh, and, uh, expect miracles because they will happen.

01:34:12.640 Yesterday, you were part of that miracle and I just wanted to bring you an update.

01:34:20.120 Yesterday, when I spoke to her 24 hours ago, uh, her goal was $5,000 and she had raised $2,950.

01:34:29.040 Uh, this morning, as I walked into the studio, she had, uh, raised just over $32,000 just from this audience.

01:34:40.920 Listening to her and especially in the last few minutes of the interview where you could hear her voice crack and say,

01:34:49.340 this is not who I am.

01:34:51.460 I am not a person that asks for help.

01:34:54.240 Those are the ones that are the most fun to help.

01:35:01.920 If you want to help out, you want to, uh, join in, uh, you can, uh, go to, uh, my Twitter feed at Glenn Beck.

01:35:09.120 I just put the link there at Glenn Beck on the Twitter feed.

01:35:12.280 Help Katie find a new home.

01:35:14.800 It has been a whirlwind of, uh, 24 hours and, uh, Pat Gray, who, uh, Pat is one of my oldest, dearest friends

01:35:34.080 and, uh, starting his own talk show, uh, on the blaze TV and blaze radio starting next Monday.

01:35:41.900 He joins us now, uh, with, uh, just a few words about DACA.

01:35:46.300 I have a few.

01:35:47.200 Yeah.

01:35:47.220 Well, the word of the day is cruel, Glenn.

01:35:49.580 Cruel.

01:35:50.640 As in, it's just, it's cruel for Trump to end the DACA program.

01:35:56.180 Cruel.

01:35:56.780 From Obama, cruel.

01:35:58.640 Biden, it's so cruel.

01:36:00.680 Bill Clinton, it's cruel.

01:36:03.000 Mark Zuckerberg, it's cruel.

01:36:05.260 Nobody says it's mean or mean spirited.

01:36:08.140 They all got together and decided the word was cruel.

01:36:12.500 And they're all whining about how cruel it is that Trump has rescinded DACA.

01:36:16.900 It's so cruel that they'll have anxiety again.

01:36:20.620 These poor dreamers will have anxiety again.

01:36:24.720 And by the way, you control the language, you control the society.

01:36:27.800 They're called dreamers.

01:36:29.340 They're not the illegal aliens.

01:36:31.240 They're not even undocumented immigrants.

01:36:33.860 They're dreamers.

01:36:35.260 They're just young people who, who dream of a more perfect union.

01:36:40.240 They dream of a more wonderful America.

01:36:44.660 It's as if they're magical creatures or so, like they're unicorns.

01:36:48.460 I mean, dreamers.

01:36:50.740 How do we let this happen?

01:36:53.200 Dreamers can't have any anxiety whatsoever.

01:36:56.140 And I just, I want to know why I've got a buttload of anxiety.

01:37:01.580 Why are dreamers anxiety free and citizens can have all the anxiety thrust upon them that's available in the universe, but not the dreamers, not the unicorns.

01:37:16.580 But the thing that's really driving me out of my mind right now is that Trump, his actual goal here, let's be clear about this.

01:37:27.920 He just tweeted this morning, Congress now has six months to legalize DACA, something the Obama administration wasn't able to do.

01:37:36.340 If they can't, I'll revisit this issues.

01:37:39.120 So what the non-skulled Democrats aren't talking about is he's actually on their side.

01:37:45.480 He wants amnesty for the dreamers, for the unicorns.

01:37:52.260 He wants them to live here in America with us.

01:37:54.700 And he's telling Congress that if they don't pass a law granting them citizenship within six months, he's going to take it into his own hands and, I don't know, direct some kind of executive order that legalizes them.

01:38:08.660 He just, he wants to make the amnesty permanent for them.

01:38:11.220 And I don't remember that campaign promise.

01:38:13.520 No, I remember just the opposite.

01:38:15.500 Yeah.

01:38:15.860 Everyone, everyone who was on stage, if you had all said anything like this, he immediately called you little, lying, stupid, or whatever.

01:38:26.180 Every time.

01:38:26.800 And every time.

01:38:27.660 And now this is, this is going to be the policy.

01:38:31.120 We are going to get that.

01:38:32.560 Yeah, we're going to get an amnesty crammed down.

01:38:35.420 You, all of us, I think, might be old enough to remember when the Dream Act, which is what the dreamers are named after, was like the litmus test of whether you were an amnesty person or not.

01:38:46.800 If you supported the Dream Act, you were an evil amnesty person.

01:38:50.400 Right.

01:38:50.700 And if you opposed it, then you had some credentials on the border.

01:38:53.520 Now, the guy who ran as.

01:38:55.620 No, but that wasn't a, that wasn't a blanket thing just applied to everyone without any kind of thought.

01:39:01.800 I mean, it was, wasn't it?

01:39:03.620 Oh, you're right.

01:39:04.520 It was.

01:39:05.120 Oh, you're right.

01:39:06.240 I forgot.

01:39:07.100 It was.

01:39:08.140 You had, there was no room for any kind of disagreement, any kind of nuance.

01:39:13.360 You were immediately drummed off the stage and out of society if you were like, well, now, wait a minute.

01:39:19.600 What are we going to do?

01:39:21.660 Amnesty, Dream Act guy.

01:39:24.160 You were immediately drummed out.

01:39:26.400 I mean, you.

01:39:26.820 And now it's going to become our reality.

01:39:29.240 You gave like a sandwich to a person on the border one time.

01:39:33.400 Oh, yeah.

01:39:33.460 And Breitbart.

01:39:34.400 Oh, my gosh.

01:39:34.980 That was the worst thing of all time.

01:39:36.340 The worst thing you could ever do.

01:39:37.720 And now I suspect they're supporting him in this, right?

01:39:39.760 I mean, I don't hear any pushback from the right.

01:39:43.100 I don't.

01:39:44.340 I don't.

01:39:44.840 I mean, the left misunderstands completely what he's doing and they just hate him just because he's him.

01:39:49.960 But they're not paying attention to him.

01:39:51.440 He's on your side.

01:39:52.600 He's on your side.

01:39:53.140 He's actually trying to grant them amnesty.

01:39:54.740 And he's trying to make it more permanent, right?

01:39:56.080 Because right now it's just that any president could change DACA.

01:39:59.320 Any president could pull it back.

01:40:00.740 And so if Congress makes a law, that's a big difference.

01:40:03.280 This will be like permanent until, you know, Congress passes another law.

01:40:06.260 And we've seen how difficult that is.

01:40:07.700 The other thing I've noticed from the media is that they keep talking about how Trump is making a mockery out of the promise that's written on the Statue of Liberty.

01:40:17.740 Now, I love the Statue of Liberty, too.

01:40:19.900 But let's keep in mind one thing here.

01:40:22.560 The Statue of Liberty is not the Constitution.

01:40:25.340 Wait.

01:40:25.760 No.

01:40:26.240 Isn't she holding it or something?

01:40:27.940 No.

01:40:28.200 No.

01:40:28.380 She's got a tablet.

01:40:29.480 She's got a tablet.

01:40:30.440 That would be the Ten Commandments.

01:40:31.640 Oh, okay.

01:40:32.780 Darn it.

01:40:33.860 Second, what's written on the statue is a poem.

01:40:39.480 Now, I grant you, it's a really nice poem.

01:40:42.560 And Glenn reads it really well.

01:40:44.040 And I will tell you that it is misinterpreted as a poem.

01:40:47.020 It's a very clear poem.

01:40:49.080 But it is a poem, and poems are not the law.

01:40:53.360 Poems are not policy.

01:40:56.100 Poems are nice words that rhyme.

01:40:59.760 They're nice words that rhyme.

01:41:01.140 Sometimes they don't rhyme that.

01:41:02.420 Sometimes they don't.

01:41:03.200 But in this particular case, I believe they do.

01:41:05.360 So, that is Pat Unleashed.

01:41:08.880 Unchained.

01:41:09.960 Unstaked.

01:41:10.800 You will hear him Monday through Friday, only on the Blaze Radio and Blaze TV, beginning Monday.

01:41:18.380 This show cannot start fast enough.

01:41:21.040 Bring it on.

01:41:22.740 I'm ready.

01:41:27.980 Mercury.

01:41:31.140 So, how many disasters have there been

01:41:55.620 to where you hear about the unsavory characters, the guys who come in and they're looting, they're stealing, they're doing something horrible.

01:42:04.620 Have you noticed, not just the lack, but almost the dearth of any of those stories coming from what's happening in Texas?

01:42:12.080 It could be that Texans are really good people and they're, you know, banding together and helping their neighbor and all of that is true.

01:42:23.820 But it also could be that there is not a jury in Texas that is going to put a gun owner rightfully protecting himself, his house, his family, or his property in jail.

01:42:48.060 Not one.

01:42:50.680 It might be the reason why we haven't seen a lot of looting.

01:42:54.300 There are signs, and I saw one this weekend when I was in Houston.

01:42:57.820 But there are signs now that people are putting up in their neighborhoods, if you loot, we shoot.

01:43:06.500 Another one had an image of bodies, and the sign just said, there's nothing inside worth dying for.

01:43:16.620 Jeez.

01:43:17.320 And these signs are going up.

01:43:18.600 One person I saw on television yesterday, they said, if you come down this street looking for problems, you're going to get shot.

01:43:27.380 And they said, the neighbor said, yeah, we've already stopped one situation.

01:43:31.420 I don't expect we're going to have another one.

01:43:33.400 No.

01:43:34.260 It's pretty convenient.

01:43:35.500 Some of those got a little dark.

01:43:37.020 Luckily, loot and shoot rhyme, which makes the sign work really well.

01:43:40.760 Yeah, it makes me seem like Jesse Jackson could be saying that one.

01:43:44.040 Yeah.

01:43:44.420 No, it's true.

01:43:45.060 By the way, we kind of went over the worst hurricanes as far as wind speed earlier.

01:43:50.980 And something maybe you'll notice here.

01:43:54.120 So this is the top 16 hurricanes with max winds over 175 miles per hour.

01:44:00.880 1961, Carla.

01:44:02.280 2007, Felix.

01:44:03.620 1977, Anita.

01:44:05.240 1979, David.

01:44:06.500 1992, Andrew.

01:44:07.760 1932, Cuba.

01:44:09.460 1955, Janet.

01:44:11.200 2007, Dean.

01:44:12.360 2005, Katrina.

01:44:13.540 1969, Camille.

01:44:15.680 1998, Mitch.

01:44:17.220 2005, Rita.

01:44:18.880 1935, the Florida Keys.

01:44:20.880 1988, Gilbert.

01:44:22.800 2005, Wilma.

01:44:24.500 And 1980, Alan.

01:44:25.780 If you listen to that list, you'll know, and you'll know right away, obviously, there is not one day, one date before 2012.

01:44:34.380 And that's because of global warming.

01:44:36.800 None of those storms occurred.

01:44:39.180 No, but that's not true.

01:44:39.920 All in the last five years, those storms.

01:44:42.100 If you listen to that list, all of them within the last five years.

01:44:45.400 There does seem to be a cycle.

01:44:47.140 It's, you know, 1930s, 1950s, and 60s, 70s, and 80s, and then the 2000s.

01:44:53.600 It does seem that way.

01:44:54.840 Seems like there's a cycle.

01:44:55.640 It does seem, and it's almost like you could explain that if, for example, you had a piece of evidence like 12 consecutive years with no major storms whatsoever hitting the coast.

01:45:07.960 Somebody wrote and said, you guys are so disingenuous because you say there's been no major storms because of global warming.

01:45:14.940 Well, there have been storms all over the world.

01:45:18.840 Well, yes, there have been.

01:45:20.600 But we were specifically talking about Al Gore, speaking about how the, that Florida is going to be gone.

01:45:28.460 And there are going to be these super storms that, that wipe out the East Coast and all of the Gulf.

01:45:36.460 Right.

01:45:36.920 That didn't happen.

01:45:37.780 Yeah.

01:45:38.000 And look, we're going to, we're seeing that it can happen.

01:45:40.660 Yes.

01:45:40.800 I mean, it's a real possibility.

01:45:42.220 And it's true that when a hurricane hits a Category 5 in the middle of the ocean, no one seems to care.

01:45:48.900 But there's no trend in tornadoes.

01:45:50.720 There's no trend in droughts.

01:45:51.840 There's no trend in saturation.

01:45:54.400 These are big deals.

01:45:56.900 Mercury.

The Glenn Beck Program - September 06, 2017

9⧸6⧸17 - Hurricanes = Big Business

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