The Glenn Beck Program - 9⧸8⧸17 - How dare we assign gender to a hurricanes

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00:00:07.060 Love. Courage. Truth.

00:00:10.560 Let's come together on this.

00:00:11.880 We firmly believe that every person has a right to live, that's a quote.

00:00:17.440 Liberals and conservatives can surely get behind something like that, right?

00:00:22.180 It's unifying, it's inspiring, it's not just American, it is human.

00:00:27.760 And it is rare and nice to hear an organization take a stand like that.

00:00:33.700 And it's great to see organizations getting awards for taking a stand like that.

00:00:39.540 We firmly believe that every person has a right to live.

00:00:43.300 This week, this organization won the Lasker Award, one of the nation's most prestigious prizes in medicine.

00:00:50.200 Fortunately, the Lasker Award includes a $250,000 prize because this year's winner is cash-strapped and can use it.

00:01:00.560 Well, I mean, it's not cash-strapped yet, but it fears it might be soon.

00:01:05.260 And with President Trump and the Republican Congress threatening to block it from receiving Medicaid reimbursements and everything,

00:01:11.780 it's probably going to be cash-strapped.

00:01:13.940 I don't know about you, but I'm sick of all of the politicians that are going to try to withhold funds from an organization that provides health services to millions of people.

00:01:25.000 And in the announcement of the award, it says,

00:01:28.360 although the organization is most famous for aiding women, it helps men as well, end quote.

00:01:35.120 Now, if we're being honest, that part of the award announcement is a little misleading because the organization is actually more famous for disposing of that pesky health issue of having a baby in the womb.

00:01:54.320 Now, I know things have changed, and maybe men can have babies in today's world. 1.00

00:02:00.200 Maybe I'm having one right now, the world is upside down, and I just don't know it or won't admit it because I'm such a bigot.

00:02:08.060 This year's Lasker Award goes to Planned Parenthood.

00:02:15.200 But don't worry, because in the announcement, the Lasker Award people made sure to say that abortions are only 3% of the health services that Planned Parenthood provides.

00:02:28.920 And last year, that 3% only included 328,348 babies that were killed.

00:02:38.400 That's it.

00:02:40.200 This week, Planned Parenthood's president, Cecil Richards, emailed supporters expressing outrage over President Trump's plan to end DACA,

00:02:49.120 which is right in, I mean, right when you think of Planned Parenthood, you think immediately DACA.

00:02:54.560 She writes, apparently without any sense of irony, here at Planned Parenthood, quoting,

00:03:03.000 We believe, we firmly believe that every person has the right to live, to work, and to raise a family freely and without the threat of deportation or separation.

00:03:19.820 And we will never stop fighting for this vision.

00:03:24.520 Cecil, you should know one thing.

00:03:26.900 We believe that every person has a right to live and not be separated from their parent forcefully.

00:03:34.720 We will stand on behalf of the unborn, because at least the dreamers can speak up for themselves.

00:03:46.720 The 328,348 babies that your organization killed last year never had that chance.

00:03:57.620 Friday, September 8th.

00:04:10.000 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:04:11.900 Hurricane Harvey, which killed 60 people, may end up costing $150 billion.

00:04:38.880 But this is the sound of Irma.

00:05:00.020 Hurricane Irma became the most powerful Atlantic hurricane on record.

00:05:05.200 Category 5.

00:05:06.200 It's over 800 miles wide.

00:05:11.920 It is roughly the size of Texas.

00:05:15.440 Let me say that again.

00:05:17.140 It is roughly the size of Texas.

00:05:27.900 Sustained winds of over 185 miles an hour for more than 24 hours.

00:05:32.440 Gusts over 200 miles an hour.

00:05:34.860 It couldn't have.

00:05:37.040 I mean, it really couldn't have been.

00:05:41.280 I mean, if you want to make the case for the weather machine.

00:05:44.220 Stu made a pretty good case this morning before we went on the air.

00:05:47.540 If you look at the way this thing is tracked, it is almost as if the weather machine or what I like to call God.

00:05:55.360 I'm just kind of is snaking it through.

00:05:59.320 Nope.

00:05:59.580 Don't hit them.

00:06:00.280 Nope.

00:06:00.580 Don't hit them.

00:06:01.360 Nope.

00:06:01.980 Miami.

00:06:03.080 Yes.

00:06:03.660 Hit them.

00:06:04.320 Oh, it's not God.

00:06:05.220 This is clearly George Soros.

00:06:07.840 Is that what it is?

00:06:08.400 It has to be Soros.

00:06:10.040 I'm not normally an InfoWars.com guy.

00:06:13.260 Right.

00:06:13.420 But I mean, with this one, I don't see how you do it.

00:06:15.220 It seriously looks like if you were playing a video game designed in your job, which they have these.

00:06:21.660 They have these with the plague video games where you try to spread the plague as fast as possible.

00:06:25.400 If you had a hurricane video game in which you were trying to create the most damaging situation possible, you watch the center of the storm.

00:06:33.360 It navigates between all these tiny islands.

00:06:36.840 Which would slow it down.

00:06:37.680 Which could slow it down if it goes over land.

00:06:40.660 And it stays over water and it navigates through all of these like a maze.

00:06:44.520 And then it comes up from the very bottom of Florida and goes up the entire length of the peninsula.

00:06:50.500 And then curves back into the United States, into the mainland, just to dump a bunch of rain after it is no longer a hurricane.

00:06:57.800 I mean, it's obviously not a weather machine, but it looks like what would happen if you had one.

00:07:04.400 It is truly remarkable.

00:07:06.320 And if you are sitting in traffic, can you imagine being on some of these causeways, some of these bridges that go on for miles and miles and miles and miles over the Everglades?

00:07:18.260 And you are sitting there going, I don't know if I don't know if I have enough gas.

00:07:24.400 I would love to hear from you if you are sitting in that traffic today.

00:07:29.380 Yeah, I love this question from Twitter, sent to at World of Stew from Chris.

00:07:33.680 I would love to hear discussion today.

00:07:36.940 What does a hurricane evacuation look like in a world full of electric cars?

00:07:40.980 I mean, I guess in theory, in this world where there's a lot of them, there's more infrastructure and you can pick up electricity a lot more easily.

00:07:52.360 Yeah, but you don't, but you don't recharge it quickly.

00:07:55.240 I know.

00:07:55.560 I mean, I'm assuming, I think the market eventually addresses that, maybe with switching batteries out and everything.

00:08:00.220 If we got to a world where that was the case, right, where you're talking 70% of cars are electric.

00:08:05.500 What right now, you're in Miami and you're leaving with a Tesla?

00:08:09.620 That is a real problem.

00:08:12.720 I mean, your mileage is, it's not designed for that situation, really.

00:08:17.220 It's not, it's not, not its best use.

00:08:19.940 There's just nothing.

00:08:20.940 It is, what's amazing to me is,

00:08:22.860 Do you remember when I said everything that you thought you could trust, you won't be able to trust?

00:08:30.000 Where everything you thought you could count on?

00:08:32.340 It is absolutely everything right now is upside down.

00:08:37.600 Everything is in chaos.

00:08:40.620 It is remarkable how it is,

00:08:44.400 I don't know if we've even paid attention to this.

00:08:47.880 My apologies to California, to Washington State, and to, is it, Montana?

00:08:58.740 Where's the other disaster?

00:09:00.700 Yeah, Montana and North Dakota.

00:09:03.980 We have another catastrophe going on.

00:09:07.680 We have wildfires in Washington and in California.

00:09:16.380 I didn't read about them in Oregon, but does Oregon have wildfires as well?

00:09:22.340 I saw a, a, uh, time-lapse photography that we're putting up on glennbeck.com

00:09:29.060 of the wildfires in Washington State.

00:09:32.760 It's terrifying.

00:09:34.440 It's just terrifying.

00:09:35.840 And I've never seen anything like it.

00:09:37.340 And we have a drought now happening in North Dakota and Montana that they're saying is going to cripple the farmers.

00:09:50.300 We are, we are a nation that is, uh, uh, is being told,

00:10:01.840 Hey, guys should get back together.

00:10:07.460 We are a nation that has the opportunity right now to come back together and to, and to stop separating ourselves and stop fighting for things that are crazy, just truly crazy.

00:10:28.300 Think of what is important in your life.

00:10:34.420 Think of you being on that bridge today, looking at your gas tank and going, I'm not going to make it off this bridge.

00:10:44.060 And a category four hurricane is coming your way.

00:10:48.540 Imagine being stuck someplace.

00:10:53.260 Everything that you have is in your car and your kids are in the car.

00:10:59.580 Imagine looking outside and going, we're not going to get, I can't get out of here.

00:11:04.480 I can't get out of here.

00:11:07.940 Kids, we're just going to stay in the house.

00:11:13.080 Does anything matter?

00:11:15.400 Does, does, does Donald Trump being a jerk or not a jerk matter?

00:11:21.160 Does the media and it's in its lies, does it matter to you?

00:11:28.480 Does Hillary Clinton's new stupid book matter to you? 1.00

00:11:35.020 None of this matters.

00:11:37.860 What matters is what mattered on nine 12.

00:11:45.400 Isn't it fascinating to you that we are being hit so hard and we will look this year at nine 12 and most of the destruction will be behind us and the cleanup will be headed our way.

00:12:09.020 The choice to come back together and be decent to each other.

00:12:15.680 Our choice is going to happen again on nine 11 and nine 12.

00:12:22.460 Is that, I mean, I know that is, is, I know it's not planned.

00:12:27.660 You know, just like there is no weather machine.

00:12:33.600 It says you and Donald Trump isn't controlling the weather and, uh, and, and neither is George Soros.

00:12:42.340 But it is an interesting coincidence that we are facing the same choice we did almost 20 years ago.

00:12:56.740 Now, how do we behave this time around?

00:13:00.780 My guess is exactly the way we behaved the last time.

00:13:07.820 So if you want to, uh, get involved and support the relief efforts associated with hurricane Harvey and coming soon, hurricane Irma.

00:13:32.160 Um, but for Harvey, uh, text the phrase M one Harvey to five zero one five five M one Harvey to five zero one five five.

00:13:42.220 And then choose the amount that you would like to donate.

00:13:44.120 And you'll be able to choose to donate via e-check or credit card.

00:13:47.120 Again, it's M one Harvey to five zero one five five.

00:13:51.500 And the same will be happening with Irma as well, or you can just donate it to mercury one.org.

00:13:55.840 We already have people stationed, um, all over Florida with food and water and ready to go in once the storm passes.

00:14:07.640 Mercury.

00:14:08.440 Mexico was just hit by a, an earthquake, 8.1 on the Richter scale.

00:14:29.360 Uh, believe it's the, is it the largest one ever to hit Mexico?

00:14:32.920 Uh, at least in modern times.

00:14:34.520 One of the biggest ones ever recorded.

00:14:35.860 Um, 8.1 on the Richter scale.

00:14:38.260 It happened down, uh, by the border of Guatemala.

00:14:40.980 It was, it was felt here in the United States.

00:14:44.660 It just happened in the last couple of hours.

00:14:47.380 Um, our prayers are with Mexico. 0.99

00:14:50.200 I will tell you droughts, fires, floods, hurricanes, earthquakes.

00:14:57.300 It's either George Soros or, you know, it's, it's one of those things where you could easily be convinced, you know what?

00:15:02.640 Put on your Nikes, crawl up to the top bunk and just, uh, we're just waiting for the spaceship to arrive because this is the end.

00:15:08.200 It happened when we arrived at that moment where, isn't it time to kind of just shut this thing down?

00:15:13.100 We've done a lot here.

00:15:14.180 We had a good run.

00:15:15.080 Yeah.

00:15:15.500 I mean, you know, as you, you're talking not as us, but as humans.

00:15:18.320 Right.

00:15:18.520 Yeah.

00:15:18.780 You're kind of at the, uh, it's like you're, you own blockbuster video and you have like three stores left.

00:15:24.840 You know what?

00:15:25.260 Maybe it's just time to shut them down.

00:15:26.820 Maybe this is the time we just move on with our lives and sign up for Netflix.

00:15:30.860 We're kind of there.

00:15:32.040 Or the trip to Mars.

00:15:33.860 Whatever it is.

00:15:34.660 Yeah.

00:15:35.000 I think it's time to abandon at least this planet.

00:15:37.180 Yeah.

00:15:37.440 I think so.

00:15:38.000 If you want to keep humanity going, fine.

00:15:38.380 Let's go do this to another planet.

00:15:39.960 Yeah.

00:15:40.240 Let's start over and do this to another planet.

00:15:43.100 I like that.

00:15:43.820 Yeah.

00:15:43.980 And it's funny with all the horrible things going on.

00:15:47.120 I mean, earthquakes, hurricanes, fires, war.

00:15:51.080 You do see those things that, that give you hope, that, that give you really bright signs.

00:15:58.180 Oh, you do?

00:15:58.800 You do?

00:15:59.420 Yeah.

00:15:59.740 Like, for example, the New England Patriots losing last night.

00:16:03.980 Yes.

00:16:04.740 That is.

00:16:05.180 I, you know, all the tragedy.

00:16:06.980 This week has been a depressing news week.

00:16:10.500 We've done a lot.

00:16:11.540 We, and what do you do?

00:16:12.540 We have to talk about the big stories and people, we've heard people saying, well, that's

00:16:16.080 a little depressing what you guys are talking about.

00:16:17.540 You guys are talking about the nuclear destruction from North Korea and yeah, sure.

00:16:21.520 Thousands of people underwater and more hurricanes are coming and you got earthquakes and you

00:16:25.780 got fires.

00:16:26.480 Why aren't you guys more positive?

00:16:27.840 I don't know.

00:16:28.900 I can't, I can't trace a path to figuring out how that happened.

00:16:33.040 We actually have had calls to the office this week.

00:16:35.940 Glenn, we're a little concerned that the show is a little gloom and doom.

00:16:41.500 It's because there's gloom and there's doom.

00:16:44.460 Hey God, just a second.

00:16:45.260 I don't know if you've opened up your window and looked outside at the world we're in.

00:16:51.120 It's not like I'm predicting these things are coming.

00:16:54.700 They're here.

00:16:56.920 It's like, okay.

00:16:59.360 So tell me about the New England Patriots because I'm about to become a sports fan.

00:17:03.460 Well, the Patriots, we got to see them lose last night.

00:17:06.660 In fact, I think it was USA Today that had predicted them to have a 16-0 undefeated season.

00:17:11.900 Game one, Kansas City hung a nice big L on them and I loved it.

00:17:17.320 I loved every second of it.

00:17:18.760 We have, by the way, we have Bill O'Reilly coming up in about 37 minutes that you don't

00:17:25.240 want to miss.

00:17:26.000 And also later on in the program, the one and the only Mr. Don Imus is going to be joining

00:17:32.700 me.

00:17:32.920 I don't think that's a good idea.

00:17:34.120 I'm not really sure, especially after our email exchange yesterday.

00:17:39.220 Yeah.

00:17:40.140 Interesting word usage by Don in the email you told me about.

00:17:43.800 Well, let me see which part of it I could use on the air.

00:17:49.060 He said, I believe the was in that sentence.

00:17:52.300 Yeah, I remember that one.

00:17:53.080 That was it.

00:17:53.640 And he spelled it right.

00:17:54.460 The rest of it, I don't think I can repeat on air.

00:17:57.300 Well, we think he's coming on.

00:17:58.280 I will say, he never actually agreed to this interview.

00:18:01.480 You offered him to come on the air and he said, and you asked him, what do you want

00:18:06.700 to talk about?

00:18:07.340 And he said, it's none of your effing business what I talk about, was his response.

00:18:12.060 And that was us saying, okay, yeah, he's going to come on.

00:18:14.180 Okay.

00:18:14.520 Right.

00:18:14.940 I guess that's a yes.

00:18:16.340 And I just said, I just said, you know, I really want to talk to Don about this scam

00:18:22.640 that happened with the guys who replaced Don Imus, one of the guys, Boomer Siason isn't

00:18:28.840 involved, but one of the guys who replaced Don Imus on WFAN and, and he was involved in

00:18:35.340 a Ponzi scheme and it's a pretty big, it's a pretty big deal.

00:18:40.780 And $5.6 million allegedly.

00:18:43.340 So I, I wrote to Don and I said, Hey, I want to talk to you about a Ponzi scheme tomorrow.

00:18:47.380 And he said, uh, I don't know what they are and I have no interest.

00:18:51.760 And I, and I, I sent him the article and he said, I'm not talking about, and he went

00:18:57.500 on this tirade for a while.

00:18:59.620 Uh, and I said, well, you know, we're open if you ever want to talk about it.

00:19:03.080 And he said, give me an effing number and a time.

00:19:07.180 So yes, it's not a yes.

00:19:09.200 So we're kind of rolling the dice.

00:19:10.940 He may be on, he may not be on, but if he is on, I'm not suggesting he's going to be in

00:19:17.220 a good mood.

00:19:18.080 Mercury.

00:19:18.400 Mercury.

00:19:47.220 Aaron Watson, Aaron Watson, a fantastic country star who is a friend of the program, friend

00:20:03.580 of, uh, humanity.

00:20:05.000 And of course, a great Texan, uh, is doing a concert next week to help with the hurricane

00:20:10.620 relief.

00:20:11.100 And it's amazing how everybody all around the country from all walks of life, pitching in

00:20:15.880 to help, uh, welcome to the program, Aaron.

00:20:18.580 How are you?

00:20:19.760 I'm good.

00:20:20.400 How are you, sir?

00:20:21.180 Long time.

00:20:21.700 No talk.

00:20:22.360 I know.

00:20:22.840 I know.

00:20:23.260 Well, you know, you're a big star and big Hollywood life.

00:20:28.900 Let me just tell you how big a star I am and how Hollywood my life is right now.

00:20:34.100 Right now I'm in West Texas and, uh, I've got my paint clothes on and I'm fixing to do

00:20:39.840 some painting with the wife.

00:20:41.280 That's how Hollywood I am.

00:20:42.920 Yeah.

00:20:43.140 And not, not like artistic painting.

00:20:45.140 You're like painting a room or a, yeah.

00:20:48.000 Yeah.

00:20:48.220 Yeah.

00:20:48.420 We're painting concrete.

00:20:50.220 It's so much fun.

00:20:51.600 It's, um, yeah, it's beautiful and glamorous.

00:20:54.200 So Aaron, I just wanted to get you on real quick, uh, just to, uh, give you a quick plug

00:20:58.620 on what you're doing, uh, next.

00:21:00.520 I think it's next Saturday.

00:21:02.040 Can you fill us in?

00:21:03.920 Yeah, we're playing at the, we had a show fall through, uh, and down near the Houston

00:21:09.180 area and, uh, because of the hurricane and, um, we're going to, the, the, the folks at

00:21:15.040 the silver saloon there in Terrell, we've been playing there for years and it's just a,

00:21:19.120 it's an incredible venue.

00:21:20.400 It's, it's a big place and they invited us to come out and, and we're going to help raise

00:21:26.000 some money for the hurricane victims.

00:21:28.420 But you know, it's, it's not just about that night.

00:21:30.640 You know, it's, uh, it's like everyone's seen on the news.

00:21:33.560 It's, we need everybody to have this type of passion and fire about rebuilding the, you

00:21:39.260 know, Houston and every little town along the coast for the next two years.

00:21:43.480 I mean, because right now it's, it's, it's, it's, uh, you know, it's in the headlines,

00:21:48.280 but it's going to take a long time to recover from billions and billions of dollars of damage.

00:21:53.140 Yeah.

00:21:53.160 They're saying that it's going to take it, it will, it'll be at least eight years before

00:21:56.480 things are back to normal.

00:21:57.700 And, uh, and we, and we haven't even started on Florida yet.

00:22:01.260 We're expecting that this weekend.

00:22:02.540 Okay.

00:22:02.800 So how do you get tickets and, and where's the money going?

00:22:07.120 Well, we've, we've got a couple of different ideas where we're going to put the money right

00:22:11.020 now that, you know, the state has, um, their big fund that the governor set up.

00:22:16.760 So we've been jumping behind that, but, um, you know, I'm also real fond of this, uh, this

00:22:23.460 thing called Mercury one.

00:22:26.840 And, uh, you know, I'm, I'm, I'm partial to those guys.

00:22:29.900 So, you know, I know some people there, so I'm going to be making some calls there.

00:22:34.620 And actually next week, um, I'm going into the studio and I'm going to make an album,

00:22:41.480 uh, for the, for the good folks at Mercury one to use.

00:22:46.000 And, and they can use that to help out with Houston and Florida and everything else, whatever

00:22:51.520 their hearts desire.

00:22:52.800 But, uh, man, you guys set a great example for all of us.

00:22:56.100 So thank you.

00:22:57.100 Uh, appreciate it.

00:22:57.920 Aaron Watson, um, and Aaron Watson, of course, is, uh, uh, just a great country star that you,

00:23:04.180 you need to know.

00:23:05.040 And so, you know, also we have raised now over $2 million at Mercury one, and we've

00:23:11.780 served 335,000 meals just in Houston over the last nine days, team Rubicon.

00:23:20.780 We have an update on that.

00:23:22.100 We're bringing in, I think, 1100 volunteers and we've purchased all of the plane tickets.

00:23:28.060 So there's those veterans can come in and, and help people in Houston rebuild.

00:23:32.680 And we have semi-trucks on the ground now in Florida, ready to go in as soon as that

00:23:39.220 happens.

00:23:43.140 Aaron Watson, you can catch him coming to your town.

00:23:44.980 He's going to be in Texas.

00:23:45.940 He's in Michigan, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana.

00:23:49.700 And they're even allowing him into Washington DC and Massachusetts this month, which I did

00:23:54.720 not think was allowed.

00:23:55.920 Go to AaronWatson.com slash tour to get the details.

00:23:58.400 All right, Pat Gray, unleashed.

00:24:02.060 Pat is a little, he's been, he's been on a tirade and there's a lot of stuff to be on

00:24:07.000 a holy tear about, uh, this week, but, uh, he's, he's got a low pressure system, uh, moving

00:24:14.520 into, into his area and, uh, welcome back.

00:24:18.980 Ah, thank you.

00:24:19.740 Good to be here.

00:24:20.420 Uh, as Stu was pointing out off the air, I actually have a Twitter page now.

00:24:24.920 Mm-hmm.

00:24:25.520 Shut up. 0.95

00:24:26.040 This is huge.

00:24:26.440 A Twitter page.

00:24:27.120 Shut up. 0.95

00:24:27.720 Yeah.

00:24:28.420 What, what is the Twitter page?

00:24:30.120 At Pat.

00:24:30.400 I don't know.

00:24:32.320 Why am I saying, uh, this is a big thing.

00:24:34.840 I think people, you know, sometimes Pat can get fired up about occasional things.

00:24:38.300 People may have noticed.

00:24:39.420 However, the thing that people are most angry about against Pat is the fact that he's avoided

00:24:44.920 Twitter all this time.

00:24:45.940 Twitterless, completely Twitterless.

00:24:46.760 He's been Twitterless Pat all this time.

00:24:48.540 Now he is at Pat Unleashed.

00:24:51.520 At Pat Unleashed.

00:24:53.000 At Pat Unleashed.

00:24:53.760 Mainly because, mainly because he is the only guy in media that could have had his name

00:25:01.200 Pat Gray, at Pat Gray on Twitter, but now some like homeless person, some realtor or something.

00:25:10.240 Seriously, at Pat Gray, I think tweeted three times in 2015 and that's it.

00:25:15.880 Oh, really?

00:25:16.460 You could have, you could have had it at any of these times and that person doesn't even

00:25:19.920 use the account anymore, but at Pat Unleashed does, uh, I like, I like it.

00:25:22.920 Also thumb up me on Facebook too.

00:25:24.980 Thumb up, thumb up you.

00:25:26.280 Thumb up me on Facebook.

00:25:28.180 That sounds awkward, but okay.

00:25:29.920 All right.

00:25:30.500 So this is going to be another tough weekend, uh, with Irma barreling down and, and to me,

00:25:36.620 we need to, we're, we're naming these storms all wrong because Irma, doesn't that sound

00:25:40.880 like a frightful, big, bad hurricane?

00:25:44.340 Yes.

00:25:44.660 Harvey sounded like a big, bad hurricane.

00:25:47.300 So instead, why don't we start naming them things like Blaine?

00:25:51.960 Hurricane Blaine couldn't possibly develop into anything.

00:25:55.600 Right.

00:25:56.200 Could it?

00:25:56.940 I mean, no self-respecting hurricane on earth could be named Blaine or Ambrose or

00:26:02.640 Aubrey.

00:26:03.700 It turned into something.

00:26:05.720 It just, it can't happen.

00:26:07.200 Right.

00:26:07.600 Right.

00:26:07.780 So we're going about this all wrong, but this has really been deja vu watching the, um,

00:26:12.120 evacuation in South Florida because, uh, we did the same thing with Houston just on,

00:26:17.880 on less notice in 2005 at the very end, they said, okay, evacuate.

00:26:22.760 And so 3.7 million people tried to do that at the same time.

00:26:26.080 That seems like a really bad idea.

00:26:28.600 It was a really bad idea.

00:26:29.880 Can I just, can I just put Jamie on real quick because she's on the road in Florida

00:26:34.200 evacuating right now.

00:26:35.320 Jamie.

00:26:36.580 Hi, Mr. Beck.

00:26:37.660 How long have you been sitting in traffic and what does it look like?

00:26:41.200 Well, I'm not actually sitting in traffic yet.

00:26:43.640 I'm going down to return later and sit in it.

00:26:48.200 I, I, I run a truck and I bring groceries back to the stores that are out of stuff.

00:26:54.100 Wow.

00:26:54.460 Uh, so we've got, you know, all your three main arteries are,

00:26:59.880 so clogged that we're taking rigs down, down back roads and side streets.

00:27:04.380 Holy cow. 0.89

00:27:05.040 Jamie, I got to tell you, we will keep you in our prayers.

00:27:07.940 There is no, you want to talk about a dangerous situation.

00:27:11.080 Hey, be in a big tractor trailer as those winds come.

00:27:15.080 God bless you.

00:27:16.840 We'll park them before, but we're the first line going back in as soon as it clears.

00:27:22.140 Wow.

00:27:22.820 I mean, I can't even go home to, uh, brace and secure.

00:27:27.720 I'm hoping and praying that my kids are taking care of everything because I'm running, you

00:27:32.500 know, on 14 hours a day and 10 hours of sleep and doing it again the next day.

00:27:37.780 We lost everything to the storms 11 years ago.

00:27:42.900 We lost everything, but my little family of four and we can rebuild Florida can rebuild, but

00:27:52.260 we can't replace the people.

00:27:54.240 Jamie in Florida, an attractor trailer going to deliver aid and help.

00:28:12.200 We keep you in our prayers.

00:28:15.580 Pat, you sat in this or you, you actually didn't.

00:28:18.260 Cause I remember I called you and I said, we were talking about it on the air and you

00:28:21.200 were telling me how stupid I was.

00:28:22.680 Yeah.

00:28:22.940 Yeah.

00:28:23.940 It's a nice relationship you guys have.

00:28:25.480 It is.

00:28:26.300 It's, uh, it is.

00:28:27.500 It's based in love.

00:28:27.880 Well, I only said he was stupid because I cared.

00:28:29.740 Right.

00:28:30.160 Yeah.

00:28:30.560 I was like, you gotta get out of there.

00:28:31.940 This was what?

00:28:32.320 Two or three weeks after Katrina.

00:28:33.880 So everybody was afraid that, you know, we were all going to die if we stayed, but we

00:28:38.120 prayed about it pretty earnestly and decided we needed to stay.

00:28:42.240 And so we did.

00:28:42.960 And then I was really glad we did because, you know, everybody was stuck.

00:28:46.940 A hundred people died.

00:28:48.640 Many of them have heat stroke.

00:28:50.100 Uh, you remember that bus with filled with, uh, senior citizens caught on fire, 24 of 1.00

00:28:55.460 them died.

00:28:56.120 Uh, it was horrific.

00:28:57.760 So hopefully this will go a lot better in Florida.

00:28:59.880 I think they've given them a little more leeway and a little more time to get out.

00:29:03.500 You're sitting there after your experience, you're sitting there in Miami, Florida, and

00:29:07.720 you know, you got to get out.

00:29:08.820 I mean, this is going to hit Miami.

00:29:10.040 It's going to be bad.

00:29:10.820 You have to leave.

00:29:12.100 You have to leave.

00:29:12.860 So how do you do that when you know, I'm going to probably be sitting on the highway.

00:29:18.120 Yeah.

00:29:18.240 I, I mean, are they opening the other side?

00:29:22.000 Are they opening the south, uh, bound lanes at all?

00:29:25.520 I would, I would hope so for northbound traffic.

00:29:28.660 Yes.

00:29:29.040 Yeah.

00:29:29.320 Yeah.

00:29:29.840 Take the freeway and open both sides.

00:29:32.300 Eventually.

00:29:32.620 I surely they will.

00:29:33.400 I mean, this is the thing you're at that point now where they're getting pretty good at

00:29:37.120 forecasting these things, at least say four days in advance.

00:29:40.560 You really, once you see you're in, in the, in the path of one of these things, you need

00:29:44.660 to leave not one day early, but four days early or five days early.

00:29:48.100 Yeah.

00:29:48.380 And you know, about half of the time, you're just going to wind up being frustrated because

00:29:51.960 you left for no reason, but these things can get really better than getting stuck in

00:29:55.320 the gridlock.

00:29:55.820 Yeah.

00:29:55.960 Uh, the Houston thing was the greatest gridlock in American history.

00:29:59.720 So hopefully they could avoid that.

00:30:01.440 Holy cow. 0.89

00:30:01.980 Uh, and I've been to New York with the president.

00:30:04.380 Yeah.

00:30:05.180 Yes.

00:30:05.860 Wow.

00:30:06.140 Uh, so, but the other thing was, have you guys heard about the, the flooding in Asia?

00:30:12.340 Have you talked about that at all?

00:30:13.860 No, we just got to the fires of the East coast and the drought of the Midwest.

00:30:17.180 Weirdest thing.

00:30:18.120 Uh, in India, uh, Bangladesh and Nepal, 40 million people have lost their homes and livelihoods.

00:30:27.260 What?

00:30:27.980 1,300 people have died.

00:30:30.540 1,300 people have died up to 40% of them children.

00:30:35.500 I saw nothing about this.

00:30:38.120 We have some friends, uh, staying with us at the house this week.

00:30:41.740 And, uh, and she said, she said to me at the dinner table.

00:30:46.660 So what do you think of, I mean, the Houston thing's bad, but what do you think of the thing

00:30:51.160 in Asia?

00:30:52.040 Like the thing in Asia, what thing in Asia?

00:30:55.280 She said, well, thousands of people have died in flooding at about the same time flooding.

00:31:01.260 Yeah.

00:31:01.820 It's the monsoon rains.

00:31:03.080 Did you hear this morning about Mexico?

00:31:06.320 Yeah.

00:31:06.500 8.1, uh, largest earthquake.

00:31:09.060 Yeah.

00:31:09.240 Maybe the largest ever in a century, at least.

00:31:11.980 Yeah.

00:31:12.020 I mean, that's, I mean, what is it really?

00:31:15.900 I mean, it is, and I don't, I don't believe this, but I'm just telling you, it is, you,

00:31:21.600 you wouldn't be hard pressed to go to a church someplace where like everybody needs to put

00:31:26.260 on our tennis shoes and, uh, come on up and repent and get up in the attic because the

00:31:30.920 spaceship is coming and the Jesus is coming. 0.98

00:31:33.300 You would, you wouldn't be, it's not hard to convince you.

00:31:36.260 No.

00:31:36.580 What's your, what's your call, your take on that?

00:31:38.240 I mean, do we just shut this sort of planet down and figure something else out or?

00:31:42.540 I think we do.

00:31:42.980 I think we stop all, well, certainly all human life.

00:31:45.880 Okay.

00:31:46.260 So that the planet can live.

00:31:47.540 Right.

00:31:48.940 Because the planet is trying to commit suicide right now.

00:31:51.320 It does seem to be.

00:31:52.980 Yeah.

00:31:53.240 So we shut down all human life.

00:31:54.520 Or just trying to get rid of the virus.

00:31:56.760 Right.

00:31:57.320 That is, that is humanity.

00:31:59.520 Thank you.

00:32:00.700 At least the Patriots lost them.

00:32:08.240 You know, it's interesting how Pat missed the point on, uh, you know, he's saying we

00:32:19.420 gotta, you know, we gotta come up with kinder names.

00:32:22.200 Irma sounds like a woman who is a little upset. 0.98

00:32:27.080 Um, and we should come up with not kinder names.

00:32:30.300 I believe, I mean, if we're not talking to Mr. Pat, 1940, he would understand the real

00:32:37.160 problem is how dare us assign gender to these hurricanes. 0.89

00:32:42.260 That is a great point.

00:32:43.220 How do we know Harvey identifies as a male storm and Irma identifies as a female storm?

00:32:49.900 We don't know.

00:32:50.480 We don't know.

00:32:51.560 And how do we know if they're male or female at all?

00:32:53.680 The oppressors once again at work.

00:32:56.200 How dare us?

00:32:57.280 We should listen to each hurricane.

00:33:00.640 Let them say their gender.

00:33:02.440 Let them decide their name.

00:33:04.640 And this is the problem with unleashing Pat.

00:33:07.520 Maybe he should be leashed.

00:33:08.560 Maybe he should.

00:33:09.060 Maybe he should be, uh, leashed on his new show, uh, starting Monday, by the way, uh,

00:33:13.640 on the blaze, uh, Pat Gray unleashed.

00:33:17.300 Very excited for that.

00:33:18.800 Harvey and Irma have been married for over 75 years.

00:33:24.480 Not the hurricanes.

00:33:25.920 It's Harvey and, uh, and Irma Schluter.

00:33:29.860 They've been married for 75 years.

00:33:32.260 He just turned 104 and she will be 93 in November.

00:33:39.800 They both remember vividly the, the major events of the last century.

00:33:48.300 They remember the first time they ever saw an airplane.

00:33:52.500 They remember the great depression.

00:33:55.880 Uh, they remember obviously the wars, Neil Armstrong walking on the moon.

00:34:02.960 Irma just said recently, she remembers that it was a, a cool and cloudy day.

00:34:09.360 The day John F.

00:34:10.780 Kennedy was assassinated.

00:34:12.320 Now, as they celebrate their 75th wedding anniversary, we've named two storms after them.

00:34:24.080 And, uh, they said, well, you know, what are the odds?

00:34:28.580 And as you get to know Harvey and Irma, they are the exact opposite of these two storms.

00:34:35.700 They got married in 1942 and she wanted to, uh, she wanted to wait to get married.

00:34:44.600 And he said, no, no, no, let's get married right now.

00:34:48.460 Uh, he worked as a barber.

00:34:51.320 They found their way to Spokane, Washington.

00:34:54.520 What the interesting thing about these guys, they have taken in over a hundred foster kids.

00:35:01.220 They were foster parents and most of them mentally or physically disabled.

00:35:08.520 Really, truly wonderful healers, Harvey and Irma.

00:35:13.540 Mercury.

00:35:25.640 Love.

00:35:27.200 Courage.

00:35:28.560 Truth.

00:35:29.080 Never let a crisis go to waste.

00:35:31.760 And that was the principle that was in action this week.

00:35:35.540 Only 17 senators voted nay yesterday on the idea of combining hurricane relief and raising

00:35:42.620 the debt ceiling.

00:35:44.640 Only 17 people saw this for what it was, manipulating a crisis.

00:35:51.100 Did the other 80 congressmen take no issue at all with using federal aid for Hurricane Harvey

00:35:57.920 victims as leverage? 0.55

00:35:59.080 This was ransom money bought and paid for to ensure the players on Capitol Hill get to play

00:36:07.720 their little games in the months to come.

00:36:10.760 I have a message for those in Washington.

00:36:13.080 And anybody who is using the threat of hurricane relief money to further their agenda, keep your damn money, every last cent of it.

00:36:25.760 We don't need your help and we'll take care of our own.

00:36:29.120 If there is one thing that Hurricane Harvey has taught us, not even taught us, reminded us through all of the cacophony of lies in the media.

00:36:41.820 We heard this.

00:36:44.240 The American spirit is as strong as it has ever been.

00:36:48.500 And we didn't wait around for you to come and save us.

00:36:51.380 We saved ourselves.

00:36:52.640 We didn't beg for government money and government assistance.

00:36:56.580 We all got into our cars, our trucks.

00:36:59.300 We we we had neighbors that had boats that just took it down themselves and rescued people.

00:37:04.820 While they were in Washington cutting backroom deals, we were opening up our wallets and our lives and our homes in droves.

00:37:16.740 I don't know if this is really hit you yet, but J.J. Watt took to Twitter and raised over 20 million dollars and that number is still climbing.

00:37:26.580 Michael Dale, Michael Dale gave 36 million dollars of his own money.

00:37:32.040 16 million has been given from sports franchises.

00:37:36.060 Hollywood has even stepped up with over 10 million.

00:37:38.660 The U.S. Chamber of Commerce reported that companies such as Bank of America, Verizon, Coca-Cola, Google, IBM, Shell all have donated over one hundred and forty one million.

00:37:49.440 And that number is going up every single day.

00:37:51.740 As of last night, Mercury one and this little audience has raised over two point one million dollars.

00:38:00.020 And that number will be well over five soon.

00:38:03.720 And this money, none of that money is going into some politician's hands so they can take a cut, spread it to their their friends and their families and their special interests that will help them get reelected.

00:38:18.940 This is cash going directly from the people, directly to the people who have lives and families and businesses that actually need it.

00:38:30.860 But there's a ton of work to be done in America.

00:38:37.620 And America.

00:38:39.860 Had become a country that relies on federal help when disasters come.

00:38:47.920 But that doesn't mean you in Washington have to take advantage of those in need.

00:38:53.120 Never let a crisis go to waste.

00:38:55.540 How about we think differently?

00:38:57.640 Let's think like Texans.

00:39:00.860 To those in Washington playing your little games, we dismiss you.

00:39:05.840 Stand aside.

00:39:07.700 We've got this.

00:39:17.740 Friday, September 8th.

00:39:19.980 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:39:21.780 Bill O'Reilly from Bill O'Reilly.com has a new book coming out next week called Killing England.

00:39:29.760 He'll be talking to us about that coming up in the next couple of appearances.

00:39:33.920 But welcome to the program.

00:39:35.020 Lots to discuss with Bill O'Reilly from Bill O'Reilly.com.

00:39:38.620 Bill.

00:39:40.640 Beck.

00:39:42.080 O'Reilly.

00:39:42.880 I'm standing by.

00:39:45.260 What can I do for you?

00:39:46.340 I'm just wondering, were you at all disgusted by the game that was being played in Washington this week?

00:39:55.260 You know, I understand the game and have been at it so long that maybe I'm jaded because I understood exactly what was happening there.

00:40:04.680 What I can't understand, let me ask you this, because you're much more impassioned about government spending than I am.

00:40:12.040 I see the danger as you do, but I'm more of a, you know, let's deal with a problem that we have to deal with today.

00:40:19.040 Why do you think that the Democratic Party, almost 100 percent down the line,

00:40:24.100 and the people who support the Democratic Party, want a government that is heading toward bankruptcy and insolvency?

00:40:31.680 Why do they want that? 0.89

00:40:35.060 Because I think they're looking, A, I think most of them are just so self-centered.

00:40:41.240 They believe, much as many of the banks did in 2007, there's not going to be a collapse.

00:40:46.760 We can play this game forever.

00:40:48.640 We got it.

00:40:49.380 They're bigger minds than us.

00:40:50.760 Look, there's too much to lose.

00:40:52.180 It's not going away.

00:40:53.280 I think the majority of them feel that way.

00:40:55.340 But I do believe there are those that see a reset coming, and get it while you can, and push it over the edge,

00:41:03.280 and the reset will be, we can fix all these things.

00:41:06.500 Okay, but one more question on this.

00:41:08.960 Philosophically, the Democratic Party has now basically said,

00:41:13.160 We will spend as much of the taxpayers' money as we can spend, all right?

00:41:21.480 We're not going to cut back.

00:41:23.060 We're not going to save.

00:41:24.220 We're not going to do anything.

00:41:24.940 We're going to spend as much as we have, and we're going to tax people up to their eyebrows

00:41:30.100 and make it very hard for people to live on a daily basis because so much is being taken out of their paychecks,

00:41:37.500 and every time they turn around buying a gallon of gas, they've got to pay a tax, everything's taxed.

00:41:43.360 So they want to weaken the individual back.

00:41:46.080 Yes.

00:41:46.380 They want to weaken the individual American.

00:41:49.020 They want the individual American to be weaker because money provides security and power.

00:41:55.720 All right, why?

00:41:56.780 Why?

00:41:57.420 I've never gotten that philosophy.

00:41:59.380 I've never figured that out.

00:42:00.560 Well, because they believe, Bill, in this socialist utopia that doesn't exist,

00:42:09.000 and they believe the people are not smart enough,

00:42:13.460 and they believe that if they can take their money,

00:42:17.740 they can redistribute it in a way that is much more fair.

00:42:21.320 I posted something that I had not read from Bill de Blasio.

00:42:26.620 He said it, I think, a couple of years ago,

00:42:28.700 and he was talking about how he wants a very, this is a quote,

00:42:32.460 a very, very large, powerful state,

00:42:35.720 one that takes the land and the money,

00:42:39.140 and they decide the best way to spend it and the best way to use that land.

00:42:46.780 That's crazy.

00:42:48.000 But he believes, yeah, I know, he believes it'll actually work.

00:42:51.800 You know, people, I live here, so I know.

00:42:54.980 He'll never admit that he's a communist, but he is.

00:42:57.440 So that's a fringe, crazy person, de Blasio.

00:43:02.640 But I don't know.

00:43:03.560 I mean, you look at, you look at.

00:43:06.200 Here's the point.

00:43:08.080 I don't believe that rank and file registered Democrats.

00:43:12.680 And we, you know, millions of them, right?

00:43:15.040 Yes.

00:43:15.640 My family was.

00:43:17.160 All right.

00:43:17.800 Rank and file registered Democrats.

00:43:19.840 I don't think that they know or understand that their party,

00:43:25.040 at this point in history, wants them to be weaker,

00:43:30.600 is eroding their personal power by saying,

00:43:36.320 we're going to bankrupt the nation and fund every crazy thing that goes down.

00:43:43.040 If they could back, they'd pour trillions of dollars into global warming,

00:43:48.560 whatever that may be.

00:43:50.540 If the Democrats could do it, they'd do it.

00:43:54.040 And they'd tax people even more to do it.

00:43:57.140 So can I ask you a question?

00:43:58.220 I never understood it.

00:43:59.060 I never understood.

00:43:59.840 And I'm not a Republican, by the way.

00:44:01.380 I'm an independent.

00:44:02.040 Well, can I ask you a question?

00:44:03.500 I don't think there's that much of a difference.

00:44:06.620 I mean, tell me, and there is on degrees, but not on direction.

00:44:13.140 Tell me the people who are actually standing up for responsible spending

00:44:18.060 and getting the debt and deficit under control.

00:44:21.960 Tell me who on the right is doing that,

00:44:24.060 except the ones who are all being deemed.

00:44:26.420 No, but they're all being deemed as those are radical,

00:44:29.240 crazy people that just want everybody to starve.

00:44:31.400 No, then they're not.

00:44:34.680 No, and I think that there are many Republicans who want to cut spending.

00:44:41.500 I mean, I think that's fairly obvious,

00:44:43.000 because that's the battle that they fight every single day.

00:44:46.820 But let's get to this week,

00:44:48.720 and you're agitated about raising the debt limit in the country.

00:44:54.780 The reason that happened was because the Trump administration is in dire trouble.

00:45:05.840 Okay?

00:45:06.280 Dire trouble.

00:45:07.660 And the Trump administration needs to pass tax cuts,

00:45:13.060 which will help individual Americans, obviously.

00:45:16.060 And in order to have those tax cuts passed,

00:45:20.560 or at least a shot of getting them approved,

00:45:23.120 they had to get this debt thing off the table,

00:45:27.180 because these tax cuts have to be approved in the next 45 days.

00:45:32.520 And if you had a brawl over the debt ceiling,

00:45:36.840 that would make the passage of tax cuts less likely.

00:45:41.220 That's why Trump did what he did.

00:45:43.180 Do you really think that the GOP or this administration

00:45:46.840 is prepared to pass legislation on meaningful tax cuts in the next 45 days?

00:45:55.880 They have to.

00:45:56.460 Everyone I've talked to on Capitol Hill say there's no way that that can happen.

00:46:02.100 There's just no way.

00:46:03.180 I know that's the prevailing wisdom.

00:46:04.860 I know it's the prevailing wisdom that it's not going to happen

00:46:08.020 because the mechanics are just too inefficient.

00:46:12.300 All right?

00:46:12.880 However, it's a brawl to assign the blame.

00:46:16.620 So if Trump gets a bill, which he will,

00:46:19.260 if he gets a bill and it says that corporate tax rates are cut to 15%

00:46:25.180 and personal, there's three more, there's just three brackets,

00:46:28.640 and tax filing is simplified,

00:46:31.260 he presents the bill to the American public.

00:46:33.960 And the American public says, yeah, we like that.

00:46:36.060 That's good.

00:46:36.840 We want that.

00:46:38.180 Then the Democratic Party is weakened severely in the short term.

00:46:43.060 Now, whether it gets passed or not, okay,

00:46:45.760 but if the Democrats vote against it,

00:46:48.060 then they're pretty much dooming themselves

00:46:50.460 for next year's midterm elections.

00:46:53.480 That's what's going on now.

00:46:55.180 So it's brinkmanship, bring the tax cut to the American people,

00:47:00.400 and if the Democratic Party doesn't do it,

00:47:03.780 then that party is going to be severely weakened.

00:47:06.900 That's exactly what's happening.

00:47:09.640 It seems like brinksmanship.

00:47:15.500 To me, it looks like flailing.

00:47:18.140 Because you started the conversation with,

00:47:23.360 why do the Democrats in Congress,

00:47:26.440 not the average Democrat,

00:47:27.700 but how come these guys just want to spend us into oblivion,

00:47:30.540 et cetera, et cetera?

00:47:31.360 How are you going to get them, any of them,

00:47:34.080 if that's your point of view of who they are,

00:47:36.360 how do you get any of them to say,

00:47:37.860 okay, we've got to lower the corporate tax rate?

00:47:40.380 There are six Democrats that are running in red states

00:47:45.980 for re-election next year.

00:47:48.600 Trump will be able to peel off probably three or four of them

00:47:52.520 to vote for the tax cuts, okay?

00:47:56.300 Now, I think McCain and a couple of other Republicans

00:48:00.020 are going to sabotage Trump on the Republican side,

00:48:02.820 so he's not going to get all the Republicans

00:48:04.580 to vote for the tax cuts.

00:48:06.060 There'll be some that won't.

00:48:07.100 But I think the calculation is

00:48:09.520 if we can get four Democratic senators to vote for it,

00:48:12.900 then we can pass it.

00:48:14.800 And I think that's what it's coming down to right now.

00:48:19.980 Bill O'Reilly from BillO'Reilly.com.

00:48:22.280 Our conversation continues on Hillary Clinton

00:48:25.100 and so much more in just a few minutes.

00:48:31.520 Mercury.

00:48:37.100 Thank you so much for listening.

00:48:48.520 Our thoughts and prayers are with you

00:48:50.000 if you're in the Florida area or in the path of Irma.

00:48:54.360 This storm is the size of Texas.

00:48:57.220 It dwarfs Hurricane Andrew.

00:49:00.460 It is remarkable.

00:49:02.000 So you know, Team Rubicon is already on this.

00:49:06.000 We're watching Irma as well as the fires in California

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00:49:39.680 That is in Houston and Victoria.

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00:50:11.140 Your thoughts on the hurricane, Bill?

00:50:13.800 Well, first of all, kudos to you, Beck.

00:50:17.540 Not a lot of people doing what you do.

00:50:20.280 And it's very impressive, your organization,

00:50:23.560 and how you're coast-to-coast.

00:50:26.020 The fires are bad.

00:50:27.320 The fires up in Montana, Pacific Northwest, California,

00:50:31.300 they're bad, and they're getting no attention

00:50:33.760 because of the hurricane.

00:50:34.580 So, anyway, kudos to you.

00:50:36.700 You're using your power for good.

00:50:38.880 The natural disaster situation is always going to be the way

00:50:42.440 this always has been with us.

00:50:43.980 And the normal people on earth, you said it pretty eloquently

00:50:47.500 in your monologue at the top of the program,

00:50:49.880 that Americans take care of each other, and they do.

00:50:55.660 But there is a role for the government to play.

00:50:58.300 And, you know, I think that I wrote a column for The Hill

00:51:01.680 on Monday and said that the response to the hurricane

00:51:09.760 in Texas, Harvey, was much better than the response

00:51:15.620 to Katrina and Sandy.

00:51:17.720 And it looks like Irma is organized as well.

00:51:20.760 So why is that?

00:51:22.120 What's the difference now to then?

00:51:25.460 And that's an interesting question.

00:51:27.540 So when people, you know, say, oh, President Trump is this

00:51:31.160 or that, and he blah, blah, blah, blah.

00:51:32.880 Well, look, under him, the federal organization is better,

00:51:36.380 and there's no question about that.

00:51:38.720 So, but you'll never hear that reported,

00:51:41.220 you'll never hear that analyzed, and that just shows you,

00:51:44.060 as you put it, you know, the lies the media tells are endless.

00:51:47.740 But there's also, there's something to be said about,

00:51:49.980 you know, the state of Texas is not the, you know,

00:51:53.180 not the city of New Orleans.

00:51:55.220 The state of Texas is, this is...

00:51:57.320 Totally different mindset in Texas.

00:52:00.340 You said, you know, we'll solve our own problems.

00:52:03.260 No doubt.

00:52:03.760 There's no question about that.

00:52:04.980 And in New Orleans, you've had generations of basic,

00:52:11.640 well, here's your house, here's your food,

00:52:15.280 here's this, here's that,

00:52:17.120 and then all of a sudden something hits,

00:52:20.460 and people are going, well, wait a minute,

00:52:21.940 I have to do it myself now?

00:52:23.880 Yeah.

00:52:24.160 I mean, you know, it's a mindset.

00:52:27.420 So, Bill, one of the real problems, I think,

00:52:33.360 is hurricanes are not getting worse.

00:52:36.120 I mean, hurricanes happen, strong hurricanes, strong earthquakes, everything else.

00:52:39.840 These things happen.

00:52:41.440 But we don't build, generally speaking,

00:52:44.460 we try not to build huge cities on earthquake faults.

00:52:48.620 Forget California.

00:52:49.240 We, you know, we look at things if California was having an earthquake as often as we have hurricanes,

00:52:57.660 we would never build anything around there.

00:53:00.600 Yet we are now building huge cities right on the ocean that are prone to get hit by hurricanes.

00:53:08.180 I'd like you to go into, should we rethink that whole thing of,

00:53:12.880 you know what, you shouldn't be able to get insurance

00:53:15.300 if you're going to build a giant apartment complex right in Miami.

00:53:20.360 I don't know if we have insurance to cover that,

00:53:23.420 at least from the taxpayers.

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00:53:37.600 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:53:44.060 Bill O'Reilly, who has a new book out called Killing England that we'll get to next week.

00:53:48.860 Really, really good book.

00:53:51.040 And you need to read it.

00:53:52.400 I mean, if you're into history at all, Bill O'Reilly is a great teacher.

00:53:55.280 He was a history teacher for a while.

00:53:57.080 And then he decided to inflict himself on all of America and became the legend that is Bill O'Reilly.

00:54:02.640 Now you can see him five days a week on his own No Spin News.

00:54:07.600 At Bill O'Reilly dot com.

00:54:09.400 Bill O'Reilly dot com.

00:54:10.500 Bill, the question is, should the taxpayers have to pay for insurance for buildings that are clearly built in flood zones and hurricane paths when the market says there's no, there's, I'm not going to, I can't keep my doors open if I insure this area.

00:54:35.040 So, no.

00:54:36.280 Why should the American people be on the hook for others, especially the rich who want to build their houses right there in the in the path of hurricane after hurricane after hurricane?

00:54:48.440 Yeah, a lot of it's a state by state situation in New York.

00:54:54.080 You have to have insurance near the ocean and you have to buy FEMA insurance, which is much, much higher.

00:55:03.820 The rates are really high, but you can't just buy and be uninsured.

00:55:08.520 The very reason you're talking about.

00:55:10.260 And a lot of states are like that.

00:55:12.300 And I don't I'm not an expert in this, but there are the national the national flood insurance program is now twenty five billion dollars in debt just from Sandy.

00:55:23.180 So at some point we have to say there's there's no there's no money here for this.

00:55:29.220 Yeah, but you can't because of our freedom, say you can't buy a house on this land or whatever.

00:55:35.680 Right.

00:55:36.060 So I'm not.

00:55:36.860 Hang on just a second.

00:55:38.100 I'm not suggesting that I'm just suggesting that at your own risk and at your own peril.

00:55:42.920 I mean, yeah, I don't oppose that.

00:55:45.080 I mean, I don't want all ridiculous situations.

00:55:48.480 There's zoning in a lot of places that you can't do this.

00:55:50.880 Environmental protection is very stringent.

00:55:54.140 Close to the water.

00:55:56.160 So, look, I don't think that that's a huge issue for the American taxpayer.

00:56:03.380 I think that's probably a minuscule compared to the other leasing that we're taking on a whole bunch of other issues like disability fraud, which is the worst that if you really want to look into how the American taxpayer is being conned and stolen from.

00:56:19.760 Yeah.

00:56:20.160 Take a look at the disability situation.

00:56:22.060 That's a disgrace.

00:56:23.520 Bill O'Reilly.

00:56:24.380 Bill O'Reilly.

00:56:26.080 Let me ask you the switch back to politics here for a second.

00:56:30.520 There are several deep conservative thinkers who say that what happened this weekend was Donald Trump took a hard turn to the left and turn towards Democrats.

00:56:41.640 And one of the things they point to was he went up with Senator Heidi Heitkamp, who he said, you know, is a good woman.

00:56:49.640 They're great people.

00:56:50.480 They work hard.

00:56:51.260 Blah, blah, blah.

00:56:52.280 She has voted with the president 40 percent of the time, while Jeff Flake votes with the president 93 percent of the time.

00:56:59.360 And the president is doing everything he can to get Jeff Flake out of there.

00:57:05.780 And there's a real chance in Trump country up with with Heidi Heitkamp that she's one of those people that's actually on the bubble and could be replaced. 1.00

00:57:16.140 Why is he supporting?

00:57:18.160 But I think the fix is already in and that Heidi has only told Trump that she'll vote for the tax cut.

00:57:24.540 So I think that's what that all about.

00:57:26.680 So he's got one Democrat.

00:57:28.240 He needs four more.

00:57:29.560 That's for Flake.

00:57:30.500 Look, Trump's not ideological.

00:57:32.380 Anybody assigning him a bit of a liberal bent is way out.

00:57:38.540 He doesn't care about that.

00:57:39.880 He's all about the deal.

00:57:41.820 And that's what he says.

00:57:42.660 And that's true.

00:57:43.640 Now, the reason he doesn't like Flake is because Flake came out and wrote a book and went on the shows and said that Trump's incompetent.

00:57:50.920 OK, as soon as you say something like that about Trump, he's going to hate you.

00:57:54.420 And that's what's going on there.

00:57:56.180 I've heard that.

00:57:58.680 Let me switch gears to Hillary Clinton. 1.00

00:58:00.780 Hillary Clinton has her book coming out.

00:58:03.960 The Democrats don't want to hear from Hillary Clinton anymore. 0.98

00:58:07.320 She has.

00:58:08.180 I mean, this is an amazing stat.

00:58:11.000 Her approval rating is lower than Donald Trump's approval rating.

00:58:16.420 I know.

00:58:16.940 I know.

00:58:17.380 I mean, she's at an approval rating of 30.

00:58:20.460 That is almost impossible for she has gone away.

00:58:24.020 Trump is actually saying stuff and her approval rating is still going down.

00:58:28.560 And yet the media would have you believe that Hillary Clinton was such the obvious choice with her being gone.

00:58:35.480 Her approval rating is still going down.

00:58:37.460 Keeps going down.

00:58:38.740 Even look, the thing about Hillary Clinton is that she's not really a real person. 0.98

00:58:45.780 It's this is just like one of these octagons.

00:58:51.820 I've met her a few times and it is I think the word bloodless is my best description of her.

00:58:58.620 Wow.

00:58:59.260 It doesn't seem to be any any real humanity flowing out of that.

00:59:05.160 And people know that's why she lost the election. 0.51

00:59:07.320 They didn't trust her.

00:59:08.160 They didn't like her.

00:59:09.020 It wasn't about Trump.

00:59:09.840 It was about her.

00:59:11.120 But in the book, from what I understand, she blames a lot of her losses on on sexism.

00:59:22.380 And I've had it back.

00:59:24.140 I don't know about you, but I've had I've had it with sexism, racism, homophobia, had it.

00:59:30.340 And as soon as I heard that, I'm not reading the book that that disqualifies me from reading

00:59:34.980 the book that her excuse for losing the election is sexism. 0.96

00:59:38.920 Come on.

00:59:39.760 I mean, she got hammered by the press.

00:59:43.200 I think that's fair to say, but not merely to the extent that Trump did.

00:59:48.380 So, you know, Mrs. Clinton, I wish you a happy life.

00:59:53.720 I'm sorry that it didn't work out for you and your quest for power.

00:59:57.800 I thank God that you're not president of the United States.

01:00:00.820 Every day of my life, I thank the deity, OK, whether the deity is a man or a woman, I don't 0.90

01:00:08.600 know.

01:00:09.020 It doesn't matter.

01:00:09.880 I am on my knees saying thank you.

01:00:13.280 I'm willing to say.

01:00:14.000 And, you know, it's not that I run a charitable foundation, as you do.

01:00:19.040 And I looked into the Clinton Foundation and those people use that charitable foundation

01:00:25.180 for their own benefit.

01:00:27.100 And I don't think there's anything worse that you can do than take charitable concerns and

01:00:33.980 turn it around to benefit yourself.

01:00:36.100 And that's exactly what Hillary Clinton did. 1.00

01:00:39.160 I will say, too, on the sexism charge, the one truly, like, big decision Hillary had to

01:00:45.080 make naming her VP, she picked a dude. 1.00

01:00:48.100 So I don't know what that says, but it kind of seems odd that she'd call sexism.

01:00:52.600 I'm concerned, though, Bill, because your book is coming out, Killing England, and it's

01:00:57.340 going to be competing against Hillary Clinton's book.

01:01:00.860 And you know they buy warehouses of books.

01:01:05.320 Are you intimidated by Hillary?

01:01:08.680 First of all, the reason that she picked a dude for VP is because she was in her surfing

01:01:13.480 mode that week.

01:01:14.400 Oh, OK.

01:01:15.100 So, yeah.

01:01:16.160 I should have known that.

01:01:16.880 Second of all, you know, if you read Killing England and you compare the sacrifices and

01:01:23.700 the bravery of Washington and the other patriots to Hillary Clinton, to Hillary Clinton, who

01:01:33.580 is a step away from being president, you will be shocked, shocked at how George Washington

01:01:41.540 and the other patriots conducted themselves compared to not only Hillary Clinton, but

01:01:48.260 all modern day politicians.

01:01:50.200 What has happened?

01:01:51.360 What has happened?

01:01:52.980 Bill, you know, Hillary Clinton is is advising the Democrats not to give the mantle over to

01:02:01.100 Bernie Sanders.

01:02:02.760 And you have a lot of you have a lot of Democrats.

01:02:06.160 I mean, the Democratic Party is deeply split.

01:02:08.640 But, you know, there's Bernie is coming out.

01:02:12.220 I have to I have to stop.

01:02:13.780 I love Bernie Sanders.

01:02:15.640 I love him.

01:02:16.820 I think he's the greatest.

01:02:18.860 I want him to have his own sitcom.

01:02:21.420 The Bernie Hour.

01:02:22.860 OK, I want Bernie.

01:02:25.300 He does.

01:02:25.640 It's called the Larry David show.

01:02:27.860 We can we can we should all be socialists like he is.

01:02:31.420 And then he can take us to his palatial mansion in Vermont.

01:02:34.420 Right.

01:02:34.740 OK.

01:02:35.140 And then in Jerry can be in the backyard.

01:02:36.980 We can all have a few laughs about the hucksterism from this guy from Brooklyn.

01:02:42.480 I mean, he's about as much socialist as George Clooney.

01:02:47.260 OK.

01:02:47.680 I mean, it's just insane and people are buying it.

01:02:52.240 The billionaires.

01:02:53.740 OK, Bernie, you heard it.

01:02:55.600 It's funny.

01:02:56.380 It's amusing.

01:02:57.440 All right.

01:02:57.900 But you're a loon.

01:02:59.240 All right.

01:02:59.640 You are a loon.

01:03:02.760 You honeymooned in Moscow.

01:03:04.820 Who does that?

01:03:06.420 Putin didn't even honeymoon in Moscow.

01:03:09.940 Putin went to Istanbul.

01:03:11.800 It was a little warmer.

01:03:13.480 No one does that.

01:03:14.680 Right.

01:03:15.000 Stalin refused to honeymoon in Moscow.

01:03:18.300 I like how that's not a joke from Bill.

01:03:19.740 He actually knows the location of Putin's honeymoon.

01:03:22.700 I know.

01:03:23.360 I know.

01:03:23.940 But didn't didn't de Blasio go and do something?

01:03:27.140 He was with the Contras for a while.

01:03:29.000 Didn't he also honeymoon in like Cuba?

01:03:32.020 I think he went to Cuba.

01:03:32.780 Yeah.

01:03:33.080 Cuba.

01:03:33.340 Yeah.

01:03:33.560 De Blasio went to Cuba.

01:03:35.900 He went down there.

01:03:37.700 I guess he couldn't afford the airfare of Moscow as Bernie did.

01:03:41.000 Well, I mean, Cuba is at least at least there's a beach in Cuba.

01:03:45.320 Yeah.

01:03:45.720 Yeah.

01:03:46.000 But but in order to go on the beach, you have to pledge allegiance to Fidel and Raul.

01:03:51.080 Right.

01:03:51.880 So there are there are qualifications for you to dip your toe in the ocean.

01:03:57.280 But these guys just amuse the hell out of me.

01:04:00.100 Anybody, anybody in America who thinks Bernie Sanders should be president of the United States,

01:04:07.200 they should move to Cuba.

01:04:09.200 OK, go there or go to Venezuela.

01:04:12.220 Go there.

01:04:13.100 OK, see how Bernie's system works.

01:04:16.280 See it.

01:04:17.080 Touch it.

01:04:17.880 Feel it.

01:04:19.140 What do you have?

01:04:19.640 I've been to both countries.

01:04:21.300 What do you have coming up next?

01:04:22.420 What do you have coming up next week, Bill, that you want to alert the audience on?

01:04:27.260 Well, we're killing England is tied into this statue controversy where they're trying to,

01:04:31.820 you know, wipe out all the statues of everybody.

01:04:34.640 Yeah.

01:04:35.100 And I want everybody to read the book because then you'll have an argument.

01:04:38.480 You'll have a debate.

01:04:39.540 You'll know who Washington and Jefferson and Franklin were as men, as men.

01:04:45.180 OK, how they conducted themselves as people, not myths, because I'm so fed up with this

01:04:50.480 stuff, this PC madness.

01:04:52.180 I am ripping back.

01:04:53.940 I am ripping.

01:04:54.660 So I'm on a campaign next week to get the word out about killing England, which will

01:04:59.440 be out in the stores on September 19th.

01:05:02.040 And we're going to tie it right into the PC madness in this country.

01:05:06.120 And we're going to stop it.

01:05:07.820 We're stopping it back.

01:05:09.040 We're going to have a telethon to stop it.

01:05:11.440 No more PC telethon.

01:05:13.740 Me, you, and that'll probably be it.

01:05:15.900 Bill O'Reilly from BillOReilly.com.

01:05:18.700 He will be on Tuesday to tell us the story of his book.

01:05:22.960 And it is a tremendous book.

01:05:24.200 You can order it online now at BillOReilly.com or wherever great books are sold.

01:05:29.660 Yes.

01:05:30.440 Where they're selling great books, they're also selling this one from BillOReilly.com.

01:05:34.700 Mercury.

01:05:38.300 The one, the only, the always outspoken, never predictable, have absolutely

01:06:07.940 no idea if we'll even have a license after he's off the air.

01:06:12.780 Don Imus joins us in about 40 minutes from now.

01:06:17.380 A couple of them after that, Kinky Friedman will be joining us.

01:06:22.040 And then Bo Deedle on the eyeballs in the morning program.

01:06:25.560 I don't think Bo is around anymore, is he?

01:06:27.600 I don't know if he still has him on.

01:06:30.020 We'll have to ask him.

01:06:30.860 If he's in a good mood, I'll ask him.

01:06:32.420 Because I think Bo, didn't Bo go to jail or something?

01:06:34.700 I don't think so.

01:06:37.700 I'm not sure.

01:06:38.160 I don't think so.

01:06:38.980 But maybe.

01:06:39.460 I thought I read that someplace.

01:06:41.280 All right.

01:06:42.020 Let me tell you about something that is really concerning and awkward.

01:06:49.640 And the press doesn't seem to really care about this.

01:06:54.240 There was a town hall meeting in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, where a left winger got up and

01:07:00.500 asked Pat Toomey if his daughter had been kidnapped.

01:07:03.560 Now, the only audio that we have, his question has been deleted because they didn't want it

01:07:11.000 going out over the air.

01:07:12.600 I wish they would have because you need to see and hear this.

01:07:16.620 But here's what happened.

01:07:19.440 Question.

01:07:20.120 And it looks like Brittany is ready.

01:07:22.020 Our next question comes from Simon from Northampton.

01:07:25.800 Hello, Senator.

01:07:27.020 Thank you for coming to answer our questions tonight.

01:07:30.020 I know we've been here for a while.

01:07:31.300 So you probably haven't seen the news.

01:07:33.920 He says, can you confirm whether or not your daughter Bridget has been kidnapped?

01:07:40.040 Then it goes in.

01:07:40.960 And Toomey sits there for a minute and says, this goes on for about four minutes.

01:07:49.400 And then he says, the reason why I ask is because this is the reality of families that

01:07:52.980 suffer from deportation.

01:07:54.720 Unreal.

01:07:56.620 Now, listen to that question again.

01:07:58.660 I know we've been here for a while, so you probably haven't seen the news.

01:08:02.360 Can you confirm whether or not your daughter Bridget has been kidnapped?

01:08:08.420 Imagine getting that question.

01:08:10.120 No, you'd obviously think it's real because it's so specific.

01:08:13.380 Yes.

01:08:13.840 You know the name of my daughter.

01:08:15.860 You're saying that we've been here for a while.

01:08:17.800 You're saying that you haven't seen the news, but I have information that you don't.

01:08:22.500 The panic that that would cause.

01:08:25.260 And it was all just to make a silly, ridiculous point, which doesn't make any sense at all

01:08:31.280 about illegal immigration.

01:08:33.620 He says, the only regret I have now is, is that the focus has been on me and not the

01:08:39.460 question that I asked.

01:08:42.840 Well, when you, when you try to basically make a senator feel like their kid has been

01:08:47.860 kidnapped, you know, they don't react well to that.

01:08:50.100 How about anybody?

01:08:51.340 I mean, anybody, but particularly when you're talking government officials, there's usually

01:08:54.900 not a positive reaction.

01:08:55.600 Toomey said, asking questions that are based upon kidnapping a child is not only reprehensible,

01:09:00.020 but it is inherently threatening.

01:09:02.120 People who were there in the room said that it was creepy and terrifying.

01:09:07.700 Mercury.

01:09:20.720 Love.

01:09:22.280 Courage.

01:09:23.640 Truth.

01:09:24.040 You know, perhaps the art of the deal needs a sequel.

01:09:28.360 The chance to make a real positive difference.

01:09:32.220 Turns out the deal Trump cut with Schumer, Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi to increase the

01:09:38.120 debt ceiling for three months wasn't the only deal he was working on.

01:09:42.620 Trump and Schumer also discussed developing a plan that would no longer require Congress

01:09:46.520 to routinely raise the debt ceiling.

01:09:48.380 What it would do is get rid of the federal limit on government borrowing.

01:09:53.600 So they would never, ever have to discuss the debt ever again.

01:09:59.800 First reaction is, wow, that's a little irresponsible, maybe of the highest order.

01:10:04.780 And of course, that's completely true.

01:10:08.060 True.

01:10:08.680 However, the second reaction.

01:10:11.800 Maybe this presents us with a sort of weird, unique opportunity.

01:10:16.280 The debt ceiling has become meaningless.

01:10:20.540 It doesn't mean anything to people anymore.

01:10:22.740 And it's just, oh, what?

01:10:23.960 We're not going to pay our bills?

01:10:25.400 No, that's a complete and total lie.

01:10:27.260 So maybe we do look at this as an opportunity.

01:10:31.460 What if the deal included automatic spending cuts if the budget is upside down?

01:10:37.480 Yeah, I know.

01:10:38.680 Never happened.

01:10:40.800 But call me crazy.

01:10:43.520 Maybe if they had to actually have to have a budget in place in the first place.

01:10:51.740 I know, I know.

01:10:52.900 Having a budget.

01:10:53.540 That's too much to ask, don't you think?

01:10:54.780 Or a two-thirds supermajority to exceed the budgeted spending levels?

01:11:00.700 The principle of this sort of a deal would be to force Congress to prioritize its spending.

01:11:07.200 Because they're spending too much.

01:11:09.020 And I'm sorry, there's no place to cut.

01:11:10.920 Turtle tunnels comes to mind.

01:11:12.960 That's no big deal.

01:11:14.000 Then cut the turtle tunnels.

01:11:17.200 The only thing we take less seriously than our border is our debt ceiling.

01:11:21.720 And both of them will be the death of us.

01:11:24.780 I like the fact that Washington, every so often, has to squirm.

01:11:30.200 They have to feel the weight of their own failure and figure out another debt ceiling increase.

01:11:36.240 I like that.

01:11:37.340 The only way that it should go away is if you can actually pass something meaningful to restrain spending.

01:11:47.420 Not to continue this kabuki theater that is the debt ceiling.

01:11:52.900 If the president can pull that off, I think he'll sell a hell of a lot of copies of The Art of the Deal Part Deux.

01:12:01.040 Friday, September 8th.

01:12:17.140 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

01:12:19.000 This is what Irma sounds like right now. 0.99

01:12:34.940 If you've never been in a hurricane, you just can't relate.

01:12:40.800 Florida has a history of hurricanes, but two in particular that are truly frightening because of the devastation that it not only made to Florida,

01:12:56.000 but also the devastation that it took on the United States.

01:13:00.440 They both happened in the 1920s, and David Petruzza is here.

01:13:04.860 He's an author and historian and a guy who knows this really well.

01:13:08.720 He follows this time period really well.

01:13:12.700 And the second hurricane, the hurricane of 1928, is called the Forgotten Hurricane because the politicians buried it.

01:13:20.220 And they didn't want anybody to know that things were as bad, and they were literally burning bodies in the streets

01:13:26.700 because they knew if people stopped buying land in Florida or stopped going to Florida, that might lead to a depression.

01:13:34.020 And it did.

01:13:35.240 David Petruzza, welcome to the program.

01:13:36.560 How are you?

01:13:37.480 Great to be back.

01:13:38.840 So, David, and I know this is not your area of expertise,

01:13:42.860 but, you know, you were the first guy that came to mind when I started thinking about the 1920s

01:13:49.420 and how we got into the Great Depression, because one of your books, 1920, the Year of the Six Presidents,

01:13:55.900 you look at the way 1920 happened and what kind of spawned, what brought on the Roaring Twenties.

01:14:05.120 Can you outlay a little bit of what was happening in Florida that these hurricanes kind of stopped?

01:14:13.520 Yeah, what's going on is you've got three big areas of speculation in the country in the 1920s.

01:14:21.640 There's a stock market, which everyone knows about.

01:14:24.400 At the beginning of the decade, before anything else, there's a guy named Ponzi,

01:14:29.020 who is sort of like the Bernie Madoff of his time, and that ends very quickly.

01:14:34.040 But right after that, you've got the Florida land boom.

01:14:37.680 And if any of your people have ever seen on TCM, Turner Classic Movies, the Marx Brothers movie, The Coconuts,

01:14:44.780 it's about how people were flipping land in Florida like crazy.

01:14:49.940 And it was crazy.

01:14:52.040 Sometimes a piece of land with a property would never be built on, and it would change hands three times.

01:14:58.860 People wouldn't even go to look at it.

01:15:00.800 It was just, it was going to get bigger and bigger and bigger.

01:15:04.740 And Florida, at the time, is not the Florida of today for a lot of reasons.

01:15:12.160 It's the smallest southern state.

01:15:15.440 It had six electoral votes in 1929.

01:15:18.520 It's got 29 now.

01:15:20.140 It's got fewer people than West Virginia or Arkansas.

01:15:24.200 And when you start piling all that speculation into Florida, the infrastructure is going to crash.

01:15:31.560 It snarled the railway systems.

01:15:34.300 It was a total mess.

01:15:36.500 And then what you had happening, it started to collapse in 1925.

01:15:42.260 But in September of 1926, and September is a really bad month for hurricanes.

01:15:49.140 It's really the peak, and you get a hurricane which blows right through Miami.

01:15:57.140 And the thing about hurricanes then is the loss of life is so much greater.

01:16:04.960 And they can be as large as what we have today.

01:16:08.400 So, like, don't tell me this is all about global warming because it isn't.

01:16:13.620 The great hurricane of 1780 takes 20,000 to 22,000 lives in the Western Caribbean.

01:16:22.620 The Galveston hurricane is from 5,000, 6,000, maybe up to 12,000.

01:16:28.920 The best estimate is 8,000 people dead.

01:16:32.160 There are just no warning systems back then so that people don't know it's coming.

01:16:38.540 This is the great thing about the Weather Channel and everyone else, more or less, getting everyone agitated about this hurricane, Irma,

01:16:47.440 because it's a good thing to be agitated because people will get the hell out of the way.

01:16:53.040 They don't get out of the way in Miami, which is a much smaller city then,

01:16:57.920 and you get 372 people dying, 43,000 left homeless in a city which is probably not even then 100,000.

01:17:09.400 So things are bad there, and that's followed up the next year by a run on local banks.

01:17:18.920 The banks don't start to get bad in the Depression.

01:17:22.980 They are a lot of runs on banks in the 1920s, a large, large amount, but most of them occur in rural areas.

01:17:31.360 They're small banks.

01:17:33.560 And so the economic structure of Florida and the Mississippi Valley,

01:17:39.920 there's really crazy bad weather in the United States in that second Calvin Coolidge term.

01:17:48.000 The hurricane of 1926 in Miami is followed by the Great Mississippi Flood of April 1927,

01:17:57.580 where you've got the Mississippi gets 60 miles wide at one point.

01:18:03.480 There are, again, 250 dead.

01:18:06.520 There are a million people affected.

01:18:08.720 It is a great mess.

01:18:10.000 And all of this is going to soften the economy, as is also the overspending by farmers during World War I

01:18:18.280 because they're producing foodstuffs for Europe and the rest of the world,

01:18:22.620 and they overplant and they overborrow.

01:18:25.440 And so that sector of the economy is weak,

01:18:28.520 and that more than the hurricanes or the natural disasters is going to create conditions leading to the Great Depression in 1929.

01:18:37.880 But then you get into the situation of 1928, which is the killer,

01:18:47.320 the absolute killer that you were alluding to before that.

01:18:51.840 And the storm, like all the others, starts out there in the Atlantic Ocean,

01:18:57.540 pounds an island called Guadalupe.

01:19:00.860 1,200 people die on this small island.

01:19:04.520 The significant thing in terms of warning for this hurricane,

01:19:12.640 and these hurricanes don't have names until 1953,

01:19:16.040 is for the first time a ship at sea spots one of these things

01:19:20.540 and is able to radio to land if something is coming.

01:19:24.560 So that when it hits Puerto Rico,

01:19:27.580 there are only, only 312 people dead because of the warning system.

01:19:32.460 And then people think it's going to hit Miami again,

01:19:36.920 but it hits West Palm Beach.

01:19:40.180 And because it hits to the north,

01:19:43.200 instead of pounding from the ocean with water,

01:19:49.440 it hits Lake Okeechobee,

01:19:51.480 that big freshwater lake in the middle of the Florida Everglades.

01:19:55.700 There are huge amounts of migrant workers all around there.

01:20:02.020 And the winds causes the lake to slosh over.

01:20:09.240 There's like a, called muck dams.

01:20:11.920 It breaks these dams and it floods the south.

01:20:16.620 And then it keeps moving, moving, and it floods the north.

01:20:20.080 And you have thousands of people,

01:20:24.660 absolutely thousands of poor black migrant workers killed.

01:20:29.880 It is such a horrendous situation

01:20:33.100 that there are 1,600 of them buried in one mass grave

01:20:39.940 at Port Mayorca in Martin County.

01:20:42.480 One mass grave.

01:20:44.680 There's fears of typhoid.

01:20:46.380 They have to put people almost at gunpoint

01:20:48.860 to get them back to clear the bodies off the streets.

01:20:53.280 There's another burial ground with 743 in a mass grave,

01:21:00.500 which was unmarked for six decades.

01:21:03.580 What you were talking about before

01:21:05.320 is that people didn't want to talk about this situation.

01:21:09.340 It was horrible.

01:21:10.060 And most of the people who did die there were black,

01:21:14.420 were these poor black migrant workers.

01:21:17.140 They couldn't identify the bodies

01:21:18.780 because whole families and whole communities were wiped out.

01:21:24.220 So, David, I've got about a minute here.

01:21:27.720 Help me out on this.

01:21:29.060 As I'm looking, you started with, you know,

01:21:31.380 in the 1920s, you had the Ponzi schemes,

01:21:33.620 you had Wall Street, you had land speculation,

01:21:35.780 and then you had really bad weather situations.

01:21:41.300 As you're watching the news today,

01:21:46.400 does it feel similar at all,

01:21:49.940 or is it my lack of understanding of history?

01:21:53.760 I think that with the wildfires in the West,

01:21:57.380 the hurricanes hitting again after a merciful hiatus,

01:22:02.140 and the situation in Florida,

01:22:05.840 I mean, we are always at the mercy of Mother Nature

01:22:10.400 or the universe or of God.

01:22:12.600 If we think that we are just going to continue on

01:22:15.520 with our prosperity,

01:22:17.000 we haven't read the Bible with seven years of fat living

01:22:21.440 and seven years of famine,

01:22:23.320 and we are always on the verge of some great disaster.

01:22:27.940 We should not get too full of ourselves.

01:22:30.260 David, thank you very much.

01:22:31.540 Thank you.

01:22:35.960 David Petruzza, his book,

01:22:39.220 1920, The Year of the Six Presidents,

01:22:41.080 one of Glenn's favorites.

01:22:42.460 You can get a link to it at World of Stew on Twitter.

01:22:45.380 Next book is TR's Last War.

01:22:47.100 We'll have him back for this one for sure.

01:22:48.800 Theodore Roosevelt and World War I,

01:22:50.660 his triumph and tragedy.

01:22:52.540 I'd like to see how that goes.

01:22:56.880 Mercury.

01:22:57.200 Mercury.

01:23:01.540 It's a massive storm.

01:23:15.220 It can be devastating.

01:23:17.100 You know, I'm a father.

01:23:18.000 I'm a grandfather.

01:23:18.880 I love my family.

01:23:19.820 I hope every parent in the state and grandparent is thinking,

01:23:23.500 how do I protect my family?

01:23:25.280 If you're in an evacuation zone, you've got to get out.

01:23:28.760 You can't wait.

01:23:30.400 The roads will get worse when it gets out.

01:23:32.740 I've canceled all the schools, K-12, state colleges and universities,

01:23:36.620 to open up more shelters.

01:23:38.740 They're good evacuation or sheltering areas.

01:23:41.280 I just want everybody to listen to the local officials.

01:23:44.040 This is what the people in Florida heard from their governor, Rick Scott.

01:23:48.540 And I think people don't have any clue on what was headed their way.

01:23:55.480 As usual, some people say,

01:23:58.920 oh, Ben, through, I ride them through.

01:24:00.840 You don't want to ride this one through.

01:24:03.440 The thing that makes the difference now,

01:24:06.160 these hurricanes would be devastating much more than they are.

01:24:12.060 Devastating if we didn't have an early warning system.

01:24:15.980 And as David Petruzza was just pointing out,

01:24:17.800 that is what happened in the 1920s.

01:24:20.400 Nobody had any warning.

01:24:21.860 And that's why they were literally burying people in mass graves

01:24:24.460 and burning bodies in the streets.

01:24:26.620 It was horrific.

01:24:30.000 It was so bad.

01:24:31.160 It's called the lost hurricane

01:24:32.760 because people didn't want to remember it

01:24:36.320 and the politicians didn't want it to collapse the economy of Florida

01:24:40.540 and lead to the Great Depression,

01:24:44.160 which in a roundabout way, it did.

01:24:47.260 Here's the other thing about the difference between 1920s

01:24:53.980 and America today.

01:24:57.620 When these hurricanes hit,

01:25:01.960 they were pretty much taken care of by the local people,

01:25:05.380 the state, and churches all around the country.

01:25:09.280 People bound themselves together,

01:25:12.340 like you're seeing here in Houston.

01:25:17.160 When the flood of 1927 happened in Mississippi,

01:25:21.640 Congress wanted to load up an infrastructure bill

01:25:24.620 with all sorts of things.

01:25:26.600 They wanted to send $1.4 billion

01:25:28.900 down for the flood

01:25:33.280 to be able to help things out.

01:25:34.860 Now remember, 1927,

01:25:37.060 $1.4 billion

01:25:38.500 they wanted to bundle up

01:25:40.380 and send down to the people of Mississippi.

01:25:42.080 The president stopped them from doing it.

01:25:47.080 To give you some perspective,

01:25:49.720 the entire federal budget,

01:25:52.420 that year was $3 billion.

01:25:57.800 So they wanted to send almost half of the entire federal budget.

01:26:02.880 The people of Mississippi didn't want it

01:26:07.180 and they didn't want a government that size

01:26:09.280 and the people and the businesses

01:26:11.460 took care of it.

01:26:15.100 Now obviously there is a place

01:26:16.940 for the federal government

01:26:18.660 when it comes to helping rescue people, etc.

01:26:21.100 But I think the people of Texas

01:26:24.980 and the people of Florida

01:26:26.680 are going to amaze

01:26:28.740 those people in Washington

01:26:30.740 who think,

01:26:31.680 oh, they're just going to sit around

01:26:32.600 and wait for us.

01:26:34.520 Remember, I mean,

01:26:34.880 you want to do as much as you can yourself.

01:26:37.380 Remember the tax in Pennsylvania

01:26:38.740 for the flood

01:26:39.540 that happened 100 years ago?

01:26:41.980 Yes.

01:26:42.260 And they're still paying.

01:26:43.200 If you live in Pennsylvania today,

01:26:44.360 you're still paying this tax

01:26:46.100 which is supposed to help rebuild

01:26:48.140 a city from a flood

01:26:49.580 of 100 years ago.

01:26:51.420 Yeah, it was wiped out.

01:26:52.300 This whole city was wiped out.

01:26:54.340 And the state wanted to

01:26:56.860 help pay for rebuilding this city.

01:26:59.500 And so they put a temporary tax in.

01:27:02.340 Temporary.

01:27:02.720 Temporary.

01:27:03.220 It's actually been raised since.

01:27:04.400 Yeah.

01:27:04.660 I know.

01:27:05.820 They actually raise it.

01:27:07.320 It happened 100 years ago.

01:27:09.000 We've paid that.

01:27:10.400 We've rebuilt that town.

01:27:11.640 We could have rebuilt it

01:27:12.460 like 100 times since.

01:27:14.260 And they're still raising

01:27:15.400 the taxes on that.

01:27:17.780 And they will use this.

01:27:19.160 You know,

01:27:19.460 never let a crisis go to waste.

01:27:21.040 They will use this

01:27:22.140 to do all sorts of things.

01:27:24.620 I mean,

01:27:24.780 the left will certainly try

01:27:25.760 for global warming.

01:27:27.480 You'll have people

01:27:28.520 implementing taxes.

01:27:29.660 These costs will go on forever.

01:27:31.640 I mean,

01:27:32.160 it's incredibly tragic.

01:27:33.560 It is definitely a change

01:27:35.540 in philosophy of our nation

01:27:37.540 to decide that the federal government

01:27:39.640 is always responsible for this.

01:27:41.960 We are the first responders.

01:27:43.400 I am so sick of hearing

01:27:44.720 talk about first responders.

01:27:46.340 That's something that

01:27:47.460 was made popular

01:27:49.500 by Jimmy Carter,

01:27:50.960 of all people.

01:27:51.960 We think that's been around forever.

01:27:53.580 It hasn't been.

01:27:55.160 In the 1970s,

01:27:56.440 it's Jimmy Carter

01:27:57.180 who started talking

01:27:57.920 about first responders.

01:27:59.320 We are the first responders.

01:28:01.080 And if you believe in that,

01:28:02.340 if you want the government

01:28:03.420 to do less,

01:28:04.240 then we have to do more.

01:28:06.580 I would love for you

01:28:07.700 to get involved

01:28:08.400 in any charity

01:28:09.900 that you feel

01:28:10.860 is responsible

01:28:12.440 and helping out.

01:28:14.640 We are working hard

01:28:15.940 to make sure

01:28:17.220 that we have resources

01:28:18.320 on the ground now

01:28:19.120 in Texas

01:28:20.160 and in Florida.

01:28:21.240 and you can help us

01:28:23.740 help our neighbors

01:28:24.820 by going to

01:28:25.860 mercuryone.org

01:28:27.400 and donate now.

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01:28:49.020 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

01:28:50.960 Every time

01:28:51.800 I say something

01:28:53.680 like what I'm about

01:28:54.900 to say,

01:28:55.620 in my head,

01:28:57.660 it has always preceded

01:28:58.640 with,

01:28:59.300 good God,

01:28:59.820 the guy's still alive.

01:29:01.960 Don Imus

01:29:02.800 joins us on the program

01:29:04.060 now.

01:29:04.820 Hello, Don.

01:29:05.340 How are you?

01:29:06.040 It's not good.

01:29:06.860 No fight started

01:29:07.960 in here now, Glenn.

01:29:09.800 So, Don.

01:29:11.080 You know,

01:29:11.660 first of all,

01:29:13.780 I'm on hold

01:29:14.500 listening to these commercials.

01:29:16.540 You got one

01:29:17.120 for the IRS

01:29:17.920 if you're a deadbeat,

01:29:19.100 you haven't paid

01:29:19.600 your taxes.

01:29:20.560 Then the next spot

01:29:21.640 is a blood thinner deal.

01:29:23.460 And then the last spot

01:29:24.860 would they give you

01:29:25.920 if you're 85

01:29:26.780 or you get a deal

01:29:28.680 on a funeral.

01:29:30.980 Who's listening

01:29:31.760 to your program?

01:29:32.460 You.

01:29:33.180 Those were fed

01:29:33.960 down the phone line

01:29:34.980 for you.

01:29:37.740 So, Don,

01:29:39.060 first of all,

01:29:40.300 were you affected

01:29:40.960 by the hurricane

01:29:41.560 because you live

01:29:42.700 in Texas?

01:29:43.720 Most people don't know.

01:29:45.020 We live in Brenham,

01:29:46.300 Texas.

01:29:46.620 We have a ranch here

01:29:47.500 in Washington County.

01:29:49.620 We're 85 miles

01:29:50.820 from Houston.

01:29:52.500 We've got 30 inches

01:29:53.740 of rain here

01:29:54.580 at the ranch.

01:29:56.040 My son,

01:29:56.740 Wyatt Imus,

01:29:57.340 goes to Rice University,

01:29:58.840 which is right

01:29:59.760 in the middle

01:30:00.420 of Houston.

01:30:01.980 And my other son

01:30:02.820 flies fighter jets

01:30:05.160 out of Pensacola.

01:30:07.680 So maybe this is God

01:30:08.760 just trying to wipe

01:30:09.560 the Imus family out.

01:30:11.040 Have you thought of that?

01:30:12.400 Yeah, it does sound

01:30:13.460 that way.

01:30:14.140 So we did not,

01:30:15.020 we weren't flooded here

01:30:16.120 because we're at a high point

01:30:18.500 in the county.

01:30:19.940 But, you know,

01:30:20.480 30 inches of rain

01:30:21.440 because the house

01:30:23.500 is a 10 or 11,000

01:30:25.480 square foot house

01:30:26.260 got a brand new

01:30:26.900 copper roof on it

01:30:27.780 and the roof

01:30:28.140 started leaking.

01:30:28.640 So, but nothing

01:30:31.080 like God

01:30:32.060 these people

01:30:32.520 have said,

01:30:32.920 hey, what's this

01:30:33.580 Operation Barbecue

01:30:35.680 thing you're doing?

01:30:37.920 We thought that

01:30:38.440 it would be,

01:30:38.980 you know,

01:30:39.820 helpful to go

01:30:40.520 cook some food.

01:30:41.560 So we're,

01:30:42.180 we are supporting

01:30:43.920 the Operation Barbecue

01:30:46.760 group that goes out

01:30:47.980 and they're actually

01:30:48.940 doing at the

01:30:49.480 convention center.

01:30:50.240 They've provided,

01:30:50.980 I think,

01:30:51.240 335,000 meals

01:30:52.980 since this all began.

01:30:54.840 Is that your deal?

01:30:56.080 Yeah, well,

01:30:56.680 we're the,

01:30:57.380 we're one of their

01:30:58.140 big supporters.

01:30:58.940 Yes.

01:30:59.820 Okay, well,

01:31:00.580 and who handles

01:31:01.620 the money?

01:31:02.800 Not me.

01:31:04.600 Okay, well,

01:31:05.260 that's fine.

01:31:05.820 Yeah.

01:31:06.660 But I mean,

01:31:07.440 is the Red Cross

01:31:08.200 involved or FEMA?

01:31:10.160 I'm not,

01:31:10.720 I'm not sure how,

01:31:11.740 I'm not sure what

01:31:12.500 everybody is doing.

01:31:13.460 I know that we're

01:31:14.560 supporting a couple

01:31:16.380 of them.

01:31:16.720 Operation Barbecue,

01:31:17.700 Team Rubicon.

01:31:18.660 Do you know anything

01:31:19.080 about them?

01:31:19.620 They're an amazing group.

01:31:20.680 I don't.

01:31:21.800 They are a group

01:31:23.220 of veterans

01:31:24.060 all over the country

01:31:24.880 that when there's

01:31:25.480 a need,

01:31:26.000 they just,

01:31:26.440 they just all

01:31:27.060 kind of come in

01:31:27.720 and we've flown,

01:31:28.980 I think,

01:31:29.160 1,100 of them

01:31:30.260 in from all

01:31:31.020 over the country

01:31:31.720 and they're just

01:31:34.280 going in and

01:31:34.720 they're mucking

01:31:35.140 out these houses.

01:31:36.380 Well, did I miss

01:31:37.680 you,

01:31:37.940 my lovely wife,

01:31:39.180 you've met her?

01:31:39.900 Yeah.

01:31:40.640 Well,

01:31:41.160 we call it

01:31:41.660 an old chapel

01:31:42.220 around the ranch

01:31:43.080 here.

01:31:43.880 We wanted to

01:31:44.880 give some money,

01:31:45.820 but there are

01:31:46.160 certain organizations

01:31:47.100 we won't give

01:31:47.780 any money to,

01:31:48.540 so maybe off

01:31:50.000 the air

01:31:50.420 you can text me

01:31:51.520 or tell me

01:31:52.820 who it is

01:31:53.160 and we'll be

01:31:53.460 happy to

01:31:54.240 give some money.

01:31:56.280 I'll give you

01:31:56.600 the...

01:31:57.080 Did you have

01:31:57.700 O'Reilly on?

01:31:59.180 Oh, jeez,

01:31:59.820 here we go.

01:32:00.560 No, we didn't.

01:32:01.220 What do you mean

01:32:01.580 of, oh, jeez,

01:32:02.360 here we go?

01:32:02.800 Oh, because,

01:32:03.340 because, Don,

01:32:04.040 I mean,

01:32:04.880 you know,

01:32:05.280 the world has been,

01:32:07.280 you know,

01:32:08.320 at each other's

01:32:09.260 throats for the 0.95

01:32:09.940 last couple of years

01:32:10.800 and then we've had

01:32:11.420 a nice break

01:32:12.060 where people come

01:32:12.660 together and they

01:32:13.280 love each other

01:32:13.920 and it's nice

01:32:14.520 and I, you know,

01:32:15.780 I did question

01:32:16.660 my wisdom

01:32:17.500 inviting you

01:32:18.360 and I thought,

01:32:18.760 well, you know,

01:32:19.620 all good things

01:32:20.100 have to come to an end.

01:32:20.960 Let's just pile Don Imus

01:32:22.380 into this

01:32:22.880 and reverse the thrusters. 0.99

01:32:25.280 Well, we all know

01:32:25.920 what O'Reilly did

01:32:26.760 and we all know

01:32:27.280 what I did

01:32:27.780 when I got fired

01:32:28.740 for trying to be funny

01:32:30.500 which I shouldn't have been

01:32:31.460 and, well,

01:32:33.980 I wound up okay

01:32:34.800 but, you know,

01:32:35.340 that's a...

01:32:35.940 So when you...

01:32:36.560 The thing I was thinking

01:32:37.100 about this morning

01:32:37.800 is we don't know

01:32:39.460 what you're doing.

01:32:42.920 Wait, wait, wait,

01:32:43.700 what?

01:32:44.540 No, I mean,

01:32:45.220 there's something

01:32:45.820 you're doing

01:32:46.460 that we,

01:32:47.580 the great owner

01:32:48.740 washed out here

01:32:49.600 that we don't know.

01:32:51.860 I mean,

01:32:52.100 you could have

01:32:52.580 a couple of midgets 0.96

01:32:53.500 and I don't know

01:32:53.980 what I can't say

01:32:54.500 midgets, I miss.

01:32:55.440 You could have

01:32:56.180 a couple of little people

01:32:57.320 in your basement

01:32:58.060 with a pony

01:32:58.920 and two hookers 1.00

01:33:00.660 and who,

01:33:01.180 but we wouldn't know that.

01:33:02.220 You wouldn't have

01:33:02.760 any idea.

01:33:04.340 I've hidden it

01:33:05.260 pretty well,

01:33:05.840 haven't I?

01:33:06.700 Yes, you have

01:33:07.360 but here's the thing.

01:33:09.220 You can bet on this.

01:33:11.100 It's gonna come out.

01:33:12.320 Somebody's know

01:33:14.980 it's gonna come out.

01:33:16.720 So here's what

01:33:17.300 I'm saying to you.

01:33:17.940 All right, okay.

01:33:18.740 All right.

01:33:18.940 Tell us now.

01:33:20.740 I, I...

01:33:21.520 Tell us,

01:33:22.000 don't tell me

01:33:22.580 or tell you.

01:33:24.200 I, I, I really,

01:33:25.880 I mean...

01:33:26.520 What you do to the pony,

01:33:27.280 Glenn?

01:33:27.540 No.

01:33:28.840 Glenn, did you try

01:33:29.720 to kiss the pony?

01:33:32.840 Try.

01:33:34.240 Yeah, even ponies

01:33:35.480 won't kiss me.

01:33:37.200 How's your boy

01:33:37.940 Trump doing?

01:33:39.540 My boy Trump?

01:33:40.760 Don't even,

01:33:41.360 don't even start with me

01:33:42.440 on my boy Trump.

01:33:43.880 You're the one

01:33:44.460 who writes to me

01:33:45.280 telling me how much

01:33:46.020 you love him.

01:33:47.440 You know,

01:33:48.040 it's not the same guy

01:33:49.020 I knew.

01:33:49.440 I knew him for 40 years.

01:33:51.640 Not the same guy.

01:33:52.740 God almighty.

01:33:53.600 So did he,

01:33:54.560 you know,

01:33:55.420 there's some people

01:33:55.920 saying that he,

01:33:56.800 he's become the,

01:33:58.860 he,

01:33:59.100 yesterday was his first day

01:34:00.560 as a Democrat

01:34:01.120 in office.

01:34:02.400 Do you,

01:34:02.900 you buy into that?

01:34:03.840 Do you think?

01:34:04.220 No, I don't pay attention

01:34:05.000 and all that.

01:34:05.520 I mean,

01:34:05.980 I'm just waiting for him

01:34:07.600 to say I've had

01:34:08.220 enough and go back

01:34:10.020 to Trump Tower

01:34:10.640 which is,

01:34:11.200 by the way,

01:34:11.500 ruined his name

01:34:12.380 and everything else.

01:34:14.200 No,

01:34:14.660 he's a moron. 0.91

01:34:15.560 Please stop it.

01:34:18.020 Wait a minute,

01:34:18.740 this is,

01:34:19.380 I thought this was

01:34:20.280 your guy.

01:34:21.880 Well,

01:34:22.140 he's not my guy

01:34:22.840 anymore, Glenn,

01:34:23.600 so now what?

01:34:25.180 So,

01:34:25.540 you know,

01:34:26.420 I was done with him

01:34:27.360 when he,

01:34:27.620 when he jumped

01:34:28.160 on McCain.

01:34:29.200 So,

01:34:29.760 not his kind of,

01:34:30.780 you know,

01:34:31.440 his kind of war hero

01:34:32.340 is not one of his

01:34:32.940 captured.

01:34:33.640 Are you kidding me?

01:34:34.200 This,

01:34:34.420 this fat blubber,

01:34:35.820 tittied moron

01:34:36.560 got five deformists

01:34:38.000 to keep him

01:34:38.460 going to Vietnam.

01:34:39.220 All right.

01:34:39.520 You know why

01:34:39.840 he didn't want

01:34:40.200 to go to Vietnam?

01:34:40.920 Because he's a coward.

01:34:41.960 This is,

01:34:42.340 this is what happens

01:34:43.120 when Don,

01:34:43.780 you know who did

01:34:44.320 go to Vietnam, 1.00

01:34:45.080 got shot down

01:34:45.740 over Vietnam,

01:34:46.500 John McCain,

01:34:47.200 that's who.

01:34:48.280 You know that I was

01:34:49.200 in the Marine Corps,

01:34:49.820 I was in the jungles

01:34:50.780 of Vietnam

01:34:51.300 killing the Kong

01:34:52.520 so people like you

01:34:53.540 could have these

01:34:54.420 stupid little radio

01:34:55.340 programs.

01:34:55.900 What are you

01:34:56.180 talking about?

01:34:58.580 Well,

01:34:58.840 actually,

01:34:59.240 I wasn't in the

01:34:59.900 jungles,

01:35:00.800 I played the bugle

01:35:02.140 in the Marine Corps

01:35:02.800 band.

01:35:03.480 Right.

01:35:03.660 But you were there.

01:35:06.600 You were there.

01:35:07.480 You were there.

01:35:08.220 So,

01:35:08.620 Don,

01:35:09.340 what has changed

01:35:10.400 in Donald Trump

01:35:11.740 since,

01:35:12.180 you know,

01:35:12.440 you say you know him

01:35:13.140 for 40 years,

01:35:14.200 this is not the guy

01:35:15.100 you knew.

01:35:15.580 What's different

01:35:16.140 about him?

01:35:16.840 Well,

01:35:17.000 I just thought

01:35:17.440 he was a lot

01:35:17.960 smarter.

01:35:19.520 And,

01:35:19.780 you know,

01:35:20.140 once you're

01:35:20.540 president,

01:35:21.120 you wouldn't think

01:35:21.700 you'd have to

01:35:22.200 defend every slight.

01:35:24.100 You wouldn't think

01:35:24.600 you'd have to

01:35:25.000 validate your presence

01:35:26.240 on the planet

01:35:27.000 with tweets

01:35:28.060 about how big

01:35:29.260 the crowd was

01:35:29.960 or whatever this,

01:35:30.660 I mean,

01:35:32.780 you know,

01:35:33.540 I got in a huge

01:35:34.280 fight with him

01:35:34.960 with the press

01:35:36.040 cover and everything

01:35:36.760 back 25 years ago.

01:35:39.420 He was a bachelor

01:35:41.080 then,

01:35:42.260 and he was posing

01:35:43.120 for some,

01:35:44.600 I forget what it was,

01:35:45.920 and I said he had

01:35:46.980 grandma arms.

01:35:49.320 You know,

01:35:50.040 he had the big old

01:35:50.780 flab on his arms.

01:35:52.880 And he was going

01:35:54.500 bankrupt in his casinos,

01:35:56.480 so I said the boy

01:35:57.420 was going from the

01:35:58.200 back of the limo

01:35:58.980 to the front

01:36:00.000 of the limo.

01:36:01.340 So he took

01:36:02.200 great offense

01:36:02.880 to that and said

01:36:03.620 that now that I

01:36:05.240 stood,

01:36:05.580 I wasn't drinking

01:36:06.660 liquor anymore

01:36:07.360 and doing cocaine.

01:36:08.160 I wasn't funny

01:36:08.880 as I used to be.

01:36:10.180 Howard Stern

01:36:10.700 was a lot better

01:36:11.720 than the kid.

01:36:13.280 I was delighted

01:36:14.160 to see that Stern

01:36:15.100 voted for Hillary Clinton.

01:36:17.000 Is there any

01:36:19.220 difference,

01:36:20.640 though,

01:36:20.940 on,

01:36:21.220 you know,

01:36:22.060 A,

01:36:22.240 how you treated

01:36:23.180 Bill Clinton.

01:36:25.040 I'll never forget

01:36:25.840 the flop sweat

01:36:26.800 on Don Imus.

01:36:27.640 There wasn't any

01:36:28.700 flops.

01:36:29.200 What were you

01:36:29.480 talking about?

01:36:30.060 Oh, my gosh.

01:36:31.420 Oh, my gosh.

01:36:32.360 It was,

01:36:32.960 I felt like I was

01:36:35.280 living,

01:36:36.040 you know,

01:36:36.400 if I would watch

01:36:37.260 it again,

01:36:37.720 there would be

01:36:38.060 no difference

01:36:38.680 between this

01:36:39.200 and the coverage

01:36:39.780 of Hurricane Harvey.

01:36:41.380 There was so much

01:36:42.420 water coming off

01:36:43.220 of you.

01:36:43.760 I had the guts

01:36:44.620 to stand up there

01:36:45.300 and hang on his ass. 0.99

01:36:46.620 And by the way,

01:36:47.220 I played the speech

01:36:48.080 the next day on the air,

01:36:49.480 I killed it.

01:36:50.980 What are you talking

01:36:51.640 about?

01:36:52.320 I agree you did,

01:36:54.240 but I've never

01:36:55.620 seen you squirm

01:36:56.540 like that.

01:36:56.960 Well, I know

01:36:57.560 because he was

01:36:59.200 glaring at me

01:36:59.980 and Hillary, 1.00

01:37:01.880 she was glaring 0.94

01:37:02.800 at me

01:37:03.220 and they were

01:37:03.980 thinking about

01:37:04.480 walking out

01:37:05.100 if they were

01:37:05.360 so torqued off.

01:37:06.820 So what is the

01:37:07.580 difference between

01:37:09.260 what you said

01:37:10.020 there and their

01:37:11.260 reaction and when

01:37:12.460 you talk about

01:37:13.580 Grandma Arms

01:37:14.420 and to quote you

01:37:15.740 blubber titties, 0.93

01:37:18.100 what is the...

01:37:18.880 I don't know.

01:37:20.960 Well, I don't know.

01:37:22.380 I don't know

01:37:23.220 even how to answer

01:37:23.840 that question.

01:37:24.480 Don't ask me

01:37:24.980 a difficult question.

01:37:26.960 That's a real...

01:37:28.140 No, but I don't

01:37:29.380 want to...

01:37:29.920 I like you.

01:37:30.900 I like to call

01:37:31.440 your program.

01:37:32.700 My wife and I

01:37:33.340 wanted to give

01:37:33.820 some money to this

01:37:34.480 deal if it's not

01:37:35.180 some scam.

01:37:36.740 But I didn't call

01:37:38.040 up to take an

01:37:39.000 SAT test.

01:37:39.980 Yeah, all right.

01:37:41.140 All right.

01:37:41.500 How much money

01:37:42.140 are you going to

01:37:42.520 give?

01:37:43.140 I'd give a hundred

01:37:43.820 grand if we would.

01:37:45.200 I'd give a hundred

01:37:45.720 grand if it's

01:37:46.680 legitimate.

01:37:47.040 Wow.

01:37:48.320 Well, what...

01:37:49.460 It is legitimate,

01:37:51.760 Don.

01:37:52.480 There's not a dime

01:37:54.040 goes through.

01:37:55.740 I want to know

01:37:56.340 who handles the

01:37:57.000 money.

01:37:57.400 If the Red Cross...

01:37:58.680 No, the Red Cross

01:37:59.340 has no...

01:38:00.420 FEMA and the Red 0.85

01:38:01.220 Cross have...

01:38:01.900 FEMA and the Red 0.85

01:38:02.520 Cross...

01:38:02.940 This actually...

01:38:03.480 My charity was

01:38:04.020 started because I

01:38:05.080 don't trust FEMA

01:38:05.900 and the Red Cross.

01:38:06.900 And so there's not

01:38:07.900 a dime that comes

01:38:08.880 to us.

01:38:09.800 If you market for

01:38:11.280 Hurricane Harvey

01:38:12.280 or Irma or

01:38:13.280 whatever, 100% of

01:38:14.740 the proceeds go

01:38:15.900 right directly to

01:38:17.020 the things that

01:38:17.720 we have earmarked

01:38:18.700 on the site.

01:38:20.560 And you can even

01:38:21.480 say, you know,

01:38:22.260 I wanted to go to

01:38:22.860 Operation Barbecue

01:38:24.020 or Team Rubicon or...

01:38:25.200 Okay, well, you

01:38:25.600 can...

01:38:26.480 You have my

01:38:27.840 email address.

01:38:28.660 You get these

01:38:29.100 little whiny little

01:38:29.820 emails from me

01:38:30.500 all the time.

01:38:31.840 Send me a note

01:38:34.000 about who handles

01:38:35.800 the money once it

01:38:37.020 leaves Mercury

01:38:37.700 Arts or whatever.

01:38:38.600 Yeah.

01:38:39.140 And then where to

01:38:40.200 send the money

01:38:40.700 and we'll give you

01:38:41.240 $100,000.

01:38:42.060 All right.

01:38:42.740 That's nice of you,

01:38:43.880 Don.

01:38:44.380 It's a little cheap.

01:38:45.900 Now that you've

01:38:46.360 gotten rid of the

01:38:46.940 cancer farm,

01:38:48.280 you know,

01:38:48.600 he thought you'd

01:38:49.360 be a little more

01:38:50.140 generous, but...

01:38:51.640 You really are

01:38:52.680 just the worst.

01:38:54.220 You know,

01:38:55.280 we're going to

01:38:55.760 fight this.

01:38:56.400 You all,

01:38:56.980 we already know

01:38:57.640 you're weird.

01:38:59.460 And, uh...

01:39:00.960 So I just see you

01:39:02.460 sitting in the

01:39:03.520 little fat boys 0.64

01:39:04.300 and they're

01:39:04.620 going to lap

01:39:05.260 dance.

01:39:06.620 All right.

01:39:07.640 All right.

01:39:08.280 All right.

01:39:08.980 All right.

01:39:09.680 You hit it.

01:39:10.100 I got it.

01:39:10.380 I got it.

01:39:11.640 You got it.

01:39:12.900 I got it.

01:39:13.460 All right.

01:39:18.240 Well, that was

01:39:18.840 Imus in the

01:39:20.000 morning.

01:39:21.080 It'd be, uh,

01:39:22.020 imus.com.

01:39:23.220 You get the

01:39:23.600 updates on the, uh,

01:39:25.440 on whatever

01:39:25.840 Glenn's doing with

01:39:26.480 that pony in the

01:39:27.180 basement.

01:39:27.920 We'll have that

01:39:29.440 coming up along

01:39:30.120 with Doris

01:39:30.620 Kearns Goodwin

01:39:31.320 and the other

01:39:32.060 side.

01:39:33.980 Oh, he's

01:39:34.860 awesome.

01:39:35.520 He is great.

01:39:36.160 I have to, I

01:39:37.900 have to ask him

01:39:38.580 for permission,

01:39:39.180 uh, to print, uh,

01:39:41.720 the emails, the

01:39:43.340 email exchanges

01:39:44.020 from us over the

01:39:44.880 years.

01:39:45.160 For like 10 years,

01:39:46.340 we've been going

01:39:47.100 back and forth on

01:39:48.340 emails and they're

01:39:49.100 the most cruel.

01:39:50.220 Oh my God.

01:39:51.160 Politically

01:39:51.700 incorrect.

01:39:53.160 Just brutal

01:39:54.980 beatings of one

01:39:56.620 another.

01:39:56.940 I mean, just

01:39:58.700 beating of one

01:40:00.500 another.

01:40:01.660 Relentless and

01:40:03.360 hysterical.

01:40:04.220 There's not a

01:40:04.920 moment of saying

01:40:06.360 no, but you

01:40:07.060 know, we like

01:40:07.660 you like there's

01:40:08.460 none of that.

01:40:08.980 I said that the

01:40:09.560 first time, the

01:40:10.800 first thing, remember

01:40:11.440 this the first time

01:40:13.080 we went back and

01:40:14.300 forth and I, I, you

01:40:16.000 know, I thought,

01:40:16.480 okay, I'm going to

01:40:16.980 write Donnie gave

01:40:17.880 me his email address.

01:40:19.060 I can't write

01:40:19.400 something nice

01:40:20.140 because that's not

01:40:20.660 who he is.

01:40:21.900 And so I, I gave

01:40:24.000 him a backhanded

01:40:24.940 compliment and he

01:40:26.300 came back even

01:40:27.260 stronger.

01:40:27.720 And so then we

01:40:28.380 just got into this

01:40:29.080 war and about, I

01:40:30.540 don't know, about

01:40:31.020 six emails in, I

01:40:32.720 decided to say, you

01:40:33.580 know, but really,

01:40:34.220 I mean, you're a

01:40:35.000 great guy and

01:40:35.580 everything else.

01:40:36.080 And he just went

01:40:37.020 off on me.

01:40:38.640 Really?

01:40:40.180 Really?

01:40:40.740 This is who you

01:40:41.680 are.

01:40:42.680 You really need to

01:40:44.100 think you need to

01:40:44.960 say that.

01:40:45.620 Don't ever write to

01:40:46.320 me again.

01:40:47.140 He's just brutal in

01:40:48.740 all ways.

01:40:49.440 But what I really

01:40:50.400 like about him is

01:40:52.300 he's a really nice

01:40:53.260 guy and he can

01:40:54.600 take the punch as

01:40:55.940 hard as he can

01:40:56.580 throw it. 0.99

01:40:57.420 Yeah.

01:40:57.600 And also say,

01:40:58.480 we should not

01:40:59.220 brush off the fact

01:41:00.000 that he just

01:41:00.920 offered a hundred

01:41:02.020 thousand dollars for

01:41:03.620 Harvey relief.

01:41:05.360 You know, I

01:41:06.200 mean, it still

01:41:06.660 doesn't change.

01:41:07.040 He spends that in

01:41:07.900 medication every

01:41:08.980 month.

01:41:10.580 That's true.

01:41:11.500 But I mean, I

01:41:12.640 think that's an

01:41:13.080 every week is

01:41:14.200 probably more

01:41:14.780 accurate.

01:41:15.340 Probably every day.

01:41:17.400 But all right.

01:41:18.700 Well, but we

01:41:19.220 accept it and it

01:41:20.500 is really nice.

01:41:21.480 It's very nice of

01:41:22.200 him.

01:41:25.320 Mercury.

01:41:25.760 Mercury.

01:41:25.960 Mercury.

01:41:26.020 Mercury.

01:41:26.040 Mercury.

01:41:26.060 Mercury.

01:41:26.080 Mercury.

01:41:26.100 Mercury.

01:41:26.140 Mercury.

01:41:26.160 Mercury.

01:41:26.200 Mercury.

01:41:26.220 Mercury.

01:41:28.080 Mercury.

01:41:30.020 Mercury.

01:41:30.080 Mercury.

01:41:30.140 Mercury.

01:41:31.140 Mercury.

01:41:31.600 Mercury.

01:41:33.600 So, anybody

01:41:41.800 look at that

01:41:42.320 Equifax thing and

01:41:43.420 go, huh, that

01:41:45.960 sounds like it's

01:41:46.500 important.

01:41:47.380 Sounds like that's

01:41:48.080 important.

01:41:48.460 I should probably

01:41:49.060 figure out what that

01:41:50.140 means to me.

01:41:51.700 Oh, well, what else

01:41:53.000 is going on?

01:41:55.260 Equifax is the

01:41:57.360 credit monitoring

01:41:58.340 service and they

01:42:01.120 have suffered a

01:42:01.780 massive hack and

01:42:04.040 143 million

01:42:05.700 Americans have 0.78

01:42:07.260 been affected as

01:42:09.200 one of the, you

01:42:10.040 know, three major

01:42:10.840 credit reporting

01:42:11.600 agencies and

01:42:13.400 hackers gained

01:42:14.380 access into the

01:42:15.140 system in mid-May

01:42:16.280 and remained in

01:42:17.900 the network until

01:42:19.220 July.

01:42:21.580 Oops.

01:42:22.320 Probably should have.

01:42:23.120 Probably should have

01:42:23.560 had LifeLock.

01:42:25.000 Yeah, that's right.

01:42:25.560 That was their answer

01:42:26.420 to these things.

01:42:26.900 It's like, here's

01:42:27.500 a brand you've

01:42:28.340 never heard of that's

01:42:29.360 somewhat kind of

01:42:30.320 similar to some of

01:42:31.080 the things LifeLock

01:42:31.960 does and you can do

01:42:33.700 that because then if

01:42:34.360 we really screwed up,

01:42:35.300 they'll catch some,

01:42:36.180 maybe some of it.

01:42:37.340 It'd be easier to just

01:42:38.080 have it from the

01:42:38.520 beginning, I suppose.

01:42:39.220 They got the

01:42:39.680 commercial, by the

01:42:40.320 way.

01:42:40.580 They got the social

01:42:41.460 security numbers, the

01:42:42.360 birthdays and the

01:42:43.080 addresses.

01:42:44.020 They also pilfered the

01:42:45.280 credit card numbers of

01:42:46.260 about 209,000 people and

01:42:48.860 documents about credit

01:42:49.780 disputes for 182,000.

01:42:51.600 The CEO says, I

01:42:55.540 deeply regret this

01:42:56.460 incident.

01:42:56.980 Today's a humbling

01:42:57.580 experience for all of

01:42:58.520 us.

01:42:58.860 Equifax will not be

01:42:59.920 defined by this

01:43:02.220 incident.

01:43:02.880 No, I have a feeling

01:43:04.460 that you're going to

01:43:05.180 probably be defined by

01:43:06.660 the fact that a lot of

01:43:07.800 your higher ups there

01:43:10.920 in the company started

01:43:12.320 selling their stock

01:43:13.560 because they knew that

01:43:15.360 this news was coming

01:43:16.320 out and the public

01:43:18.100 didn't know.

01:43:18.840 Three Equifax executives

01:43:20.080 sold shares of the

01:43:21.580 company worth nearly

01:43:22.880 $2,000,000 after the

01:43:25.120 breach was discovered

01:43:26.100 but before it was

01:43:27.480 announced to the

01:43:28.080 public.

01:43:28.760 That's not worth that

01:43:29.560 money.

01:43:29.940 No, that's not going to

01:43:31.140 work out well for you.

01:43:32.180 They actually keep track

01:43:33.000 of who buys and sells

01:43:33.860 stocks.

01:43:35.200 That's really bad.

01:43:36.680 It is not a good idea

01:43:37.740 and not to mention it

01:43:39.300 looks terrible.

01:43:41.280 I mean, you know, who

01:43:41.900 knows?

01:43:42.280 They could have had this

01:43:43.020 planned for months.

01:43:43.820 I'm sure they'll have

01:43:44.360 some argument for it.

01:43:45.660 Whatever.

01:43:46.020 It doesn't look good.

01:43:46.900 It does not look good.

01:43:47.580 Hey, we want to let you

01:43:49.500 know that all this

01:43:50.180 weekend Mercury One,

01:43:51.580 will be working with

01:43:52.880 charities all around

01:43:54.080 Florida and Texas.

01:43:55.480 Please get involved.

01:43:56.440 MercuryOne.org and our

01:43:57.680 prayers are with you.

The Glenn Beck Program - September 08, 2017

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