Glenn Beck talks about Planned Parenthood and Celine Dion's new clothing line, and why you should care about your kids more than you care about other people's kids. Glenn Beck is a conservative radio host and host of the conservative radio show "The Blaze" on the Blaze Radio Network.
00:15:40.260So, let me pick up the rest of it, because this is the most important part that we heard from these college students being interviewed about why Ben Shapiro should not be heard.
00:19:35.860I can't tell you what a relief that is when you actually realize that.
00:19:39.880But we're not talking about you dying or, you know, even fires or earthquakes or hurricanes, although those things seem to be happening an awful lot.
00:20:19.120So we are just a few days away from gathering with our families and thinking, I've got to get into the kitchen before I stab this person with a fork.
00:20:34.280How many times you get up, say, you know, I got to get to say, you don't want anything to drink.
00:21:20.340So yesterday, this this guy, this kid in junior high calls me up and he says, Glenn, I'm having a really hard time educating my friends because they don't really want to hear it.
00:21:32.360And I can I can be I don't remember the word he used exactly, but it was basically I can I can get heated at times belligerent.
00:24:08.460He he was kind of a Willie Loman kind of guy where he just didn't have a lot of friends and he just worked all the time.
00:24:16.840But he his friends, I found out later in life, were people like this Norman Vincent Peale that were just his book friends.
00:24:24.700And and he would take these ideas and he would apply them.
00:24:28.340And he told me, he said, son, he said, I want you to do this.
00:24:31.160He said, I did this when I was like 18.
00:24:32.680I walked down the streets of Seattle and he said, I walked down one side of the sidewalk, one side of the street and I frowned at everybody.
00:24:43.600And I just kind of looked at them and just kind of dismiss them.
00:24:47.260And he said, everybody I met was a grump.
00:24:51.620He said that I crossed the street after a few blocks and I decided to smile.
00:24:56.840And everyone I met on the other side of the street greeted me with happiness.
00:28:32.940You have to understand what these people are feeling is a loss of the country that they grew up in, a loss of the values that they grew up in.
00:28:42.740And those were values that have been here for 5,000 years.
00:34:17.400Because it has all of the answers on how we can move forward and actually make a difference, not just politically, but also at the Thanksgiving table next week.
00:34:31.580One thing you don't want to do is just start calling people morons.
00:34:34.260By the way, Pat, what's the moron trivia score today?
00:34:36.460It was 1310 Indianapolis over Tennessee.
00:34:39.480The morons in Indianapolis beat the morons in Tennessee.
00:36:47.960It's an amazing story we have to share.
00:36:50.740Also, we are going to be calling somebody else.
00:36:55.980You know, yesterday we pulled, I don't know, 1,400 names from people who we were trying to say, hey, come on down to Dallas and have dinner with us on Saturday for the M1 gala.
00:43:02.160The column's on Bill O'Reilly dot com.
00:43:03.440I mean, yesterday we brought in a guy, a lawyer, former prosecutor, who went down line by line over CNN's complaint and pointed out at least a dozen inaccuracies in the complaint to the federal judge.
00:43:18.740They were flat out wrong and provable wrong.
00:43:22.880And I said, well, will that influence the judge?
00:43:24.820If CNN's not telling the truth about Jim Acosta and what happened in the White House briefing room, will that?
00:43:31.720He said, well, it shouldn't influence the judge's ruling on a constitutional request, but it'll tee off the judge because the judge will see that CNN is lying, which they clearly were in the complaint.
00:43:45.040So that tells you that CNN has no interest.
00:43:48.080Give me the give me the lies, because I miss that.
00:43:51.340And that sounds like the first bill O'Reilly dot com every night.
00:43:55.440I know. It sounds like the first segment in three years that I've been interested in.
00:47:33.980I believe that this is obviously the judge's big moment in the spotlight.
00:47:41.000And he wants to probably go over his decision, every word of it, because he knows he's going to get hammered either way.
00:47:48.820Whatever his decision is, the judge is going to get hammered.
00:47:51.180So he wants to go over a little more time and just get the wording correct.
00:47:54.560That's speculation, but that's what I would surmise.
00:47:57.160Bill, separate from the actual court proceedings, because you said something, and I think I totally agree with it, which is CNN wants the disruption.
00:48:12.660He wants to put himself and elevate himself to the level of a fight with the president of the United States.
00:48:17.200My question is, just strategically, from the Trump administration's standpoint, doesn't this elevate him and put him on this platform where it's Trump versus Acosta, and it's giving Acosta everything he wants to be a martyr for the First Amendment?
00:48:32.740Well, Trump sees it differently in the sense that Trump wants to build a wall, not only to keep out migrants on the southern border, but against criticism from the national press.
00:48:45.380And part of the wall is convincing Americans that the press will never report accurately on him.
00:48:55.520So the Trump administration believes that Acosta's aggression helps them by diminishing the press in general.
00:49:05.220And, you know, I'll tell you what, if you look at the surveys about Americans and how they feel about the American media, they're down there in the 30s now.
00:51:13.100The day that Fox News fires their entire primetime lineup and to replace it with Shep Smith is the day they would consider, consider allowing Fox News into the club for about two days.
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01:15:23.040He is actually, who happened to be here for the event tomorrow for Mercury One.
01:15:29.680He's the COO of the Lincoln Museum and Library up in Illinois, which is this amazing museum that has preserved everything from Abraham Lincoln or as much as they could get their hands on.
01:15:40.460And I just got a $20,000 bid from Bill O'Reilly.
01:16:27.300And then this one is your copy that only is allowed to see the light of day for three days a year to keep it vibrant.
01:16:37.840And this was the one Abraham Lincoln wrote for the guy who gave the two-hour speech.
01:16:43.540Yeah, so, yeah, so, Everett, who was the main speaker that day that got up and gave about a two-and-a-half-hour speech shortly after this event,
01:16:54.100asked President Lincoln if he would write him a copy of the Gettysburg Address.
01:16:59.360And this is the only one that has God, under God in it.
01:18:15.280But that would be my general impression.
01:18:18.440He took probably some personal hits saying that he was going to go talk to Glenn Beck.
01:18:24.680And he asked me at the time, could you help get your audience to participate in something?
01:18:34.840Because without your audience, this won't work.
01:18:37.920Without the people who are in the middle of America and who are not thinking like the, you know, NPR listener, if you will.
01:18:50.400If they don't participate, this doesn't work.
01:18:55.440And what they're trying to do is, A, record the voices of people and how people feel right now and what they're really thinking.
01:19:05.100But more importantly, they're trying to bring people together that society would say have nothing in common, but they find their way to each other and to record it.
01:19:19.460If you've ever listened to NPR, you might have heard something called StoryCorps, which is really a fantastic record of our society, an audio record of our society.
01:19:34.020And really, only the people who listen to NPR kind of know it.
01:20:07.480We put a booth just to start out in Grand Central Terminal, where you bring anyone you want to honor by listening to their story, a parent, a friend, a kid.
01:20:15.820And you come to this booth, and you're met by a facilitator who works for StoryCorps.
01:20:25.500And you sit across from your grandmother, and you talk to her for 40 minutes.
01:20:28.800And you know that the microphone gives you the license to talk about things you never usually get to talk about.
01:20:34.260So many people think of it as if I had 40 minutes left to live, what would I say to this person who means so much to me?
01:20:39.980At the end of the 40 minutes, you get a copy, and another stays with us, and it goes to the Library of Congress so your great, great, great, great grandkids can get to know your grandmother through her voice and story.
01:20:50.000So it's really about the poetry and the grace and the beauty and the eloquence and the stories kind of hiding in plain sight all around us when we take the time to listen.
01:20:58.980It started as this kind of crazy idea, and we've now had about half a million people participate.
01:21:03.180So it's the largest collection of human voices ever gathered.
01:21:06.180And because of the nature of what happens in the booth, we're kind of just collecting the wisdom of humanity.
01:21:11.140It's about, you know, no matter where you are, it's always the great themes of human existence that come out in StoryCorps.
01:21:18.560People talk about their parents and their kids and, you know, death and what they dream of for their future, how they want to be remembered.
01:21:37.700I mean, I think it's – my people kind of hate me saying this, but it reminds us of our mortality.
01:21:45.700You know, it really kind of shakes you on the shoulder and says, like, you know, life is important.
01:21:50.140Ignore some of the – all the nonsense that's coming in, you know, and it forces you to focus on what really matters to you.
01:21:56.020So it's a very kind of intense experience.
01:21:58.840We're a nonprofit, and we think of it as, you know, we treat it as if it's a sacred experience in people's lives.
01:22:05.040And often it is because, you know, like I did a StoryCorps interview with my dad many years ago, and then he died, you know, very suddenly.
01:22:11.840And, you know, the night that he died, I listened to it for the first time.
01:22:15.940And I have young kids, and I knew this was going to be the way they were going to get to know my dad.
01:22:23.400And, you know, I thought I couldn't believe in StoryCorps any more deeply than I already did, but that night is, you know, when the rubber really hits the road.
01:22:44.820And as you said, I came to you a bunch of months ago, one of my very first meetings, to talk about this new thing, crazy new thing we're trying with StoryCorps.
01:22:54.700Because up to now, everybody who's participated has known and loved each other.
01:22:58.840And, you know, seeing the country kind of coming apart and recognizing, you know, that really there's just such contempt across the political divides that we don't see each other as human beings anymore.
01:23:10.720And the danger, the existential threat that poses to the country.
01:23:14.900We started experimenting with a new kind of StoryCorps interview.
01:23:17.980We started with family members, which is easier.
01:23:20.140Family members who disagree about politics.
01:23:22.500Having them come into a StoryCorps booth not to argue about politics.
01:23:25.520This is not about finding common ground.
01:23:27.460It's about recognizing that, you know, frankly, that you don't really wish people across political divides dead.
01:23:34.520But, you know, it's weird to say that, isn't it?
01:26:54.980And what we're trying to do is a real long-term culture change here.
01:26:59.380We would love to have people volunteer to be a part of this.
01:27:02.520It's going to take a little while as we get up to speed.
01:27:05.920But if people want to learn more about this, they can go to our website, to storycorps.org, or they can send an email to onesmallstepatstorycorps.org.
01:27:16.780StoryCorps is S-T-O-R-Y-C-O-R-P-S dot O-R-G.
01:27:22.180Right now, we're actually looking for participants in Houston.
01:27:25.380So, in particular, if there are people in Houston who want to be a part of this, we'd love that.
01:27:30.720And we're going to pair you with someone who is on the opposite sides of the political divide.
01:27:36.280You're not going to know who they are, but we're going to ask you for a little bio.
01:27:42.920We're going to strip your name off it, and you'll get a bio from the other person.
01:27:45.920So you'll know we've been experimenting with this, how to make this work.
01:27:48.700And it's important for people to know a little bit about the other person.
01:27:52.540We're going to match you with someone who's got something in common with you.
01:27:56.020It could be that you're both single parents or there's a sports team that you like in common.
01:28:01.480And you'll sit and you'll talk, and you won't talk about politics.
01:28:04.380You'll talk about what you care about, who you love, who's been kindest to you.
01:28:09.160And you'll talk about politics in a way that, you know, doesn't drive people into their corners.
01:28:14.000You know, you'll ask questions like, what is it in your life that kind of formed, was there a moment in your life that formed your political views?
01:28:20.700What is it that's most hurtful that people say across the political divides to you?
01:28:31.800And we're just, we call it one small step because it's just, it's one step.
01:28:35.860You know, if we despise each other, you know, we're never going to get anywhere.
01:28:41.580And we have to see the humanity in each other, or it's a real threat to our democracy.
01:28:46.880You know, democracy can't breathe without hope.
01:28:50.540And we need hope, and we need to respect one another.
01:28:53.840I mean, I've been thinking a lot about, in Nazi Germany, the Nazis used to call Jews and black folks and others untermentioned less than human.
01:29:05.900And slavery was built on, you know, people being looked at as less than human.
01:29:10.820And there is a very, very deep danger in seeing people as less than human.
01:29:15.860And that's just the little piece of this that we're trying to attack and set right.
01:29:20.940We have to see each other as human beings.
01:29:24.620And all of these, so you're not, you're definitely not looking for people who are going in there trying to win.
01:29:31.080This is, this is not about convincing, you know, we, we ask you just not to talk about politics, but we do hope that you, that you, you know, I, I think there's, there's, there's, there's, there's, there's, there's just a lot of fear everywhere, you know?
01:29:44.560And, and I, there, there's a great quote that I saw recently.
01:29:49.640I've seen versions of this, you know, it's, it's impossible to hate up close.
01:29:53.080You know, Mr. Rogers used to carry a line in his wallet from a nun in Philadelphia that said, it's impossible not to love someone whose story you've heard.
01:30:04.740So, so it's just about getting rid of that fear.
01:30:08.800You know, we live in a, in a country, I think where there's, there's less and less hope and more and more fear.
01:30:13.760And, you know, we're our, our most dangerous and worst selves were, were in fear.
01:30:18.960So it's really about just seeing the other as a person and being with that person just for a little bit of time.
01:30:26.940And then hopefully we'll get, we'll get you addicted to story core and you'll start listening to these stories and, you know, finding out about people, the lives of people who you may have thought were, were very different than you.
01:30:39.200And, you know, recognizing yourself in that person and walking in their footsteps for just a minute and all, all of the good and important things that come from that.
01:30:47.260So I'll tell you, Dave, this, this works and I'll tell you how I know it does.
01:30:50.320There was a guy who is one of the bigger Hollywood writers wrote for some of the biggest TV shows in, in Los Angeles.
01:32:10.160But he doesn't, he doesn't want to see me dead, uh, which is, it was not where we started.
01:32:17.640And that is remarkable when you, and, and, and, and, and it is, it's about listening, you know, and it, it isn't, you know, there are issues that we're, we're never going to agree on and that's okay.
01:32:27.080And there's, and you know, there's, and there's a place for, you know, shouting and fighting for issues, but there's also a place for kind of whispering in each other's ears.
01:32:33.640And we need both, we, we need both of those pieces to be a functioning democracy.
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01:47:03.320And, and I don't think it's going to stop there because I just want you to talk me into buying it because it is, this is the only copy of the Gettysburg Address that you've ever made or ever will make.
01:47:17.100And you guys have the copy of the Gettysburg Address.
01:47:49.780How do you, when you're, when you're, do you, do you, do you put a job search out and like looking for someone who can touch the Gettysburg Address?
01:47:57.860Well, it's somebody that has a lot of skill and she has a lot of letters behind her name so that she is able to work with just incredible items.
01:48:08.780So from the, she has no children, right?
01:48:25.520You know, she's worked on some just rare, rare items.
01:48:28.780What's coming down for the museum in February?
01:48:31.360We're doing black history and we've, we've partnered with you and another, what is the name of the other African-American museum?
01:48:37.720It's just African-American museum in Dallas.
01:48:42.460And so it's going to be quite an amazing collection and a, and a, and a take on the African-American experience that you just don't see everywhere.
01:48:51.240You know, actually right now, I think we're still working with your team to figure out what would be the best pieces to bring down.
01:48:57.220So we'll definitely have some incredible pieces because we do have the largest collection outside the Library of Congress for President Lincoln.
01:49:05.940We have the largest collection of Mary Todd Lincoln items and documents.
01:49:38.040The Lincoln boys were notorious for being wild and, uh, not really having a lot of rules.
01:49:43.280So their clothes were always getting, uh, torn and ripped and she would fix them.
01:49:48.400Um, and people always commented how great the little boys looked, even though they were kind of wild and like to get into things.
01:49:56.240So, um, uh, by the way, we're, so, you know, we're taking the money raised for the Gettysburg address and we're turning it back over, uh, to you guys.
01:50:06.140I think you're getting every dollar of that.
01:50:08.560Because we really, um, the, the, the stuff needs to be kept together, uh, and they're having a hard time.
01:50:15.560They have the hat and bloodstained gloves that Lincoln was wearing, um, at the night he was killed.
01:50:22.240And, uh, it, it, it, this first time that they've been in, in public hands, they sat in somebody's house or somebody's, you know, office in their own private collection and unseen for so long.
01:50:35.360And they must remain in public view, in my opinion, uh, and they've got a lot of money to raise and we would love to help them.
01:50:44.280If you would like to help five for Lincoln, five for Lincoln, uh, dot com, just give $5, do $5 a month and help pay for, uh, this hat.
01:50:55.700So it can be seen in public, uh, for, uh, for generations to come.