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On this episode of the Glenn Beck Program, Glenn and Stu talk about the release of John Walker Lind, the lack of a warrant for his release from custody, the latest on the Biden/Trump controversy, and much, much more!
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Welcome to the podcast. We have quite the show here for you today as we get you into the Memorial Day weekend.
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John Walker Lind, the American Taliban, he was released.
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We go through the New York Times case that he should have been released.
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And we talked to Jason Buttrell, who was there, who actually was in Afghanistan as the interrogation of John Walker Lind was going on.
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In our two, we talk about some of the Democrat candidates, Beto and his gun ban that he wants to bring about.
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Or does he? We talked about the Biden hype a little bit.
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And we get into Buttigieg and his take on Donald Trump and Trump's lack of military service.
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If you don't know this HBO series, it's one of your times.
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And they were all workers who were actually standing next to the corp.
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If you have a voter that you know is thinking about Bernie Sanders, let him watch Chernobyl a little bit.
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Stephen Colbert and ESPN were competing evidence.
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You know, the story is pretty varied, honestly, around the media.
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You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck Program.
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Pat and Stu for Glenn and Jeffy joins us as well.
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And like 95% of the prime ministers in Britain don't serve out their term.
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It's like, okay, we pissed us off this week and it's windy.
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Right, because Brexit was also responsible for Cameron leaving, wasn't it?
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Yeah, when the vote happened, Cameron said, okay, I'm resigning.
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And then Theresa has screwed it up so much that she has to go now.
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And I don't even know, I don't know that she had a win.
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I don't know that there was any way to win this because, you know, she has to get something
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So as much as it, to me, it seems like, look, the people voted on it.
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You have a system where people can vote on these things.
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You know, it's a lot more complicated than that.
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And there's not really a simple, simple solution there.
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We've talked to Daniel Hannon about this, who's really the only person to go to when
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He's the only person that understands it, I think.
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And he was really the guy who, he was the guy who basically pushed for this.
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A lot of other people have had press on this over the years.
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But Daniel Hannon was the guy who really talked about this.
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I mean, the first time he was on with us, probably in 2010 or 2011, he talked about
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He worked in the, he was in the European Union, he was in the government, and he wanted to
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And then here we are, years and years later, they're still fighting about it.
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But it's one of those things where I just don't understand.
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Like, it seems like every time something that's a priority to a prime minister doesn't go
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I tried for like a year, and you guys don't want to do the thing I want you to do.
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These coalition governments are really confusing.
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Because if you, I guess if you don't have enough members of your party voted into parliament,
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And then you strike some deal with some other party, and they take over.
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I knew what the Tories were in the Revolutionary War.
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And so, and her resignation is effective June 7th, but she's not really leaving until
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And are you going to vote on somebody, or you just put them in there?
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They don't have to have another election, which they can do elections at any time.
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Because they're just like, I love when there was like, you'll get this story, like, Theresa
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May decided she was going to call for a new election.
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Like, wait, they didn't schedule these things in advance?
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Like, it seems like what happens is whenever the prime minister thinks they've consolidated
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power or are doing well in the polls, they just call for another election to try to get
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more power, which is a bizarre way of running things.
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That's why we left that stupid country in the first place.
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I mean, the parliamentary democracy has spread around the world, and a lot of times we talk
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about that essentially being how democracy has spread.
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I mean, like, a lot of countries have this type of system.
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It's less like our type of system, which has proven to be vastly superior.
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I mean, again, there are a lot of problems here.
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I'm not going to sit here and say that there's no problems in this country.
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But the idea that, like, can you imagine if, like, Donald Trump had a good day, and then
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he would just call for a new election and get, like, 80 senators, and then he's like, you
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I want to pass the wall, and he couldn't get enough of his bill.
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It's like we signed you to a four-year contract.
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And it was like, it would be as if, it's like everyone in Great Britain and all these
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Like, they get signed, they get offered these deals, and it's like, no, I'm not showing up
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And to me, so I don't know what the Tories are all about.
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The Labor Party seems to be like the liberals here.
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Then there's a conservative party that I don't think they're like Americans conservatives.
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And the Brexit party has vastly increased their numbers over the last couple of years.
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And they just did a poll where if the election would have been held when they did the poll,
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apparently the Brexit party was maybe in the lead, I think.
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It had more support than the Labor and Tories combined.
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But you go through this whole thing where they put this up to a big vote.
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You've got a situation where your entire nation steps up and does something that was thought
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I'm fully behind, you know, the Daniel Hannon view of this.
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But the elites, you know, a lot of the elites didn't think it was.
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That's what Theresa May tried to do is, you know, pull out what we're going to leave,
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Well, and too, I mean, May gets, you know, just destroyed by everybody here because she
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But I mean, the bottom line is she had to get something passed.
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So she can't just say, well, pure Brexit, you know, Daniel Hannon, you design it because
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then none of the other people are going to vote for it.
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So like she has to actually come up with something that everyone votes on, which is, you know,
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So the closer we get to this sort of deadline, they have this hard pullout thing, which I
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think is, you know, probably where this winds up, honestly, at this point.
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And I don't think it's going to be nearly as disastrous as everyone else is saying.
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When we had Obamacare going on in this country and Obamacare is, they're going back and forth
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about it, trying to figure out what, you know, whether this thing is going to pass.
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He can pass anything he wants, you know, with the just filibuster proof majority here.
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So the Senate passes this bill and as they're negotiating it, a special election happens
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in, of all places, Massachusetts in the middle of this.
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And Scott Brown, a Republican, somehow wins in Massachusetts almost entirely to stop Obamacare.
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And then the House just abandons the whole negotiation and takes basically takes a cork
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of the rules and passes the thing that was already passed that they never planned on actually
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They just passed the old thing because they couldn't vote on it again because Scott Brown
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would have made it so they could not have passed it.
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It started, you know, the Tea Party was largely, you know, right in tune with that.
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We're talking one of the largest wave elections in the last century.
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I mean, it was a massive change in our country because of that.
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That's nothing compared to what's happened with Brexit.
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The people actually all came out and voted for it and they're like, yeah, we're not going
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And now it's been, you know, dragging on for so long.
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And it's not like that was a non-binding referendum.
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And they were like, you want to get out of Brexit, we'll get out of Brexit.
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And the government called for it thinking it would be defeated and we could finally be
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done with this whole leaving the EU thing because we'll just destroy it.
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And then, you know, or remain will win and leave will lose.
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And it's one of those things where now they're like, well, yeah, we didn't really like what
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It's like when you go to your wife and she says, oh, what do you want?
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It might just be time to send American troops and force issue.
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There's not more of a rush to adopt the American system.
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You know, like a lot of people will go towards democracy, towards capitalism.
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But because I think America is the big bad boy on the block and they're vilified over
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everything, there's very few countries who are just like, you know what?
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We were kind of watching this whole America thing develop the last couple hundred years
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It's got some issues, but like I think we should get in that boat.
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We have Supreme Court justices saying, you know, an African nation is better than ours.
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And I guess because, my guess is because it does not allow for enough government control.
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If you're starting a new country and you've got the power to design it, well, you're going
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That's why the founders were so freaking great.
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We have the opportunity to do whatever we want.
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Well, it's something that almost no one to this day really tries to do.
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To the extent where when Washington was asked to be a king, he said, don't ever bring that
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And I don't want to hear that kind of talk because it might spread.
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So that takes a pretty amazing person to shut that down.
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And in the new, you know, these countries, as they design their systems, they don't necessarily
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get, you know, they make themselves kings anymore.
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They just, well, we're going to take control of health care, banking, and energy.
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So that's like, you know, 75% of the economy will just run.
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And then we'll put heavy regulations on everything else.
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And we'll tell you exactly what you can and can't do.
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But you guys get to vote for the next person to tell you what you can and cannot do.
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And again, you do have that moment as much as we complain about it.
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Remembering when you watch, you know, the whole situation going on in Britain, which is
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They're like a good example of how things are run.
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You see how things are going there, and you step back and you say, okay, maybe we do have
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So yesterday, the American Taliban, John Walker-Lind, was released early.
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After 17 of his 20-year sentence, they just let him go, I guess, because of good behavior.
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And people are, including us, we're a little perplexed by that.
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But the New York Times apparently has a little different spin on it.
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The Times has an op-ed talking about the release of John Walker-Lind, and they're basically
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They say, hard to imagine now, after everything that's happened in the brutal decades since,
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but there was a time when we were fairly cozy with the Taliban.
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Famously, there's pictures of Donald Rumsfeld, and these were trotted out constantly during
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For much of the 1990s, when an earnest, bookish California teenager named John Walker-Lind
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first felt himself drawn to the study of Islam.
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The United States lent its support to plans by an American-led group of businesses to develop
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an oil pipeline that would run through Afghanistan.
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This would require negotiations with the Taliban, the world's most oppressive Muslim regime.
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Government officials who had misgivings about human rights abuses in Afghanistan largely
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Not long before, in the Reagan era, the term Mujahideen had a heroic ring to it.
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These were fierce and noble Afghan warriors, our president assured us, fighting with limited
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resources to liberate their country from Soviet oppression.
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Now, of course, you get the tone of this, which is, Lind is just a teenager, no big deal.
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And it was really these Republicans that we were friendly, the reason why we were friendly
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Um, the official stance, uh, of course, changed after September 11th.
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And this is one thing I didn't know, or didn't remember, at least about this case.
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Um, all these events of September 11th were all but unimaginable in mid-2000 when Lind,
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age 19, decided to travel to the Middle East to study the Quran.
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So, they are making the case, and not explicitly saying, but insinuating at least, that Lind joined
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So, and at this point, while certainly Osama bin Laden was known, uh, in, you know, circles
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of terrorism, um, he, you know, it wasn't like the main headline of the United States that
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the Taliban were, you know, was, was, was a, was a bad group of people.
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And someone who's a teenager could easily think that it's not necessarily the worst thing
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Now, of course, you have September 11th happens, and we should talk about maybe, uh, I don't
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I think he is, because he was doing, uh, he was doing, uh, your show, right?
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Yes, yes, that great unleashed Jason Buttrell, who was actually there when he was there,
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when John Walker Lind was at, when they captured him, he was, oh, wow, he was there, uh, like
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when he was waterboarded, he was there, like he was, he's a, you know, former military guy
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I asked him that, um, and I, I said, you know, I was like, if it's true, he won't tell
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me, but he did say no, uh, but he said he was like, I don't know if he was in the room,
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but he was like right there, he saw the guy, he, he had, he is, we got to talk to him
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Oh, wouldn't you like to work with the guy who, uh, waterboarded?
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I'd like to work with someone who waterboarded Jeffy.
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Now, we all work with people who waterboarded Stubergear.
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I was waterboarded with a chocolatey, um, shake, which was far too chocolatey for that treatment.
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And, uh, that's one to go back on YouTube and find today.
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Um, the consequences of the decision, of course, uh, John Walker Lind are a matter of public
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Uh, two months after the Twin Towers had fallen, six weeks after the United States dropped its
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first bomb on Afghanistan, a few hundred Taliban soldiers held as prisoners of war in, uh, and,
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uh, fortress, a stage and uprising over the next eight days, all but 86 of those prisoners
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would die as well as a great number of their jailers and a man, man named John Spann, uh, Michael
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Spann, Johnny Michael Spann was his actual name, uh, who was serving as CIA advisor.
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He's the first person who died in, in that war.
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Um, and of course they found that one of the people was an American, John Walker Lind.
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Now this is their take on the whole prison riot thing, which is one of the big issues with
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He was responsible for the death of a, of a CIA agent, the first death in the Afghanistan
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They say there was no evidence that this young American had taken an active part in the violence.
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In fact, it was later determined that he had been hiding in the basement for the bulk
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of the conflict, which I don't know, kind of, I've never heard that makes me laugh a little
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Um, the Taliban and sheltered Osama bin Laden after all, and therefore, uh, every better
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of his regime, no matter how inconsequential was a terrorist at well, as well.
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They go on and say that basically Lind was a, a teenager.
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Didn't even know the Taliban was bad when he joined, had no role in this at all.
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So he gets 20 years, which was a plea agreement.
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And then he's released and people are going to give him a hard time on it.
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Now I, to me, it's interesting because, and I think, I think this is a positive for our
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And it's the type of thing that I, as much as I don't like when it goes wrong like this,
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it's something I'm proud of when it comes to the United States, which is the guy served
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Now this, he did get 17 years, um, because of good behavior, but that was part of his sentencing,
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They are saying it doesn't matter if he's reformed or not.
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Trump yesterday came out and said, look, I went, I asked, is there anything I can do about
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And they said, no, there's nothing I can do about this.
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Um, so you do kind of like the fact that the president doesn't necessarily have that
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And you can, you can do that to any of your enemies as president, right?
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You could say, oh, well, I think he's a real risk and then keep him in prison forever.
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So the fact that we're letting him out while I think in this case is really bad, because
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I mean, even the media is not trying to make the case that he's reformed.
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But if you look at his statements in the past few years, they're pretty G-odd friendly.
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They're like, yeah, I'm going to get back to being radical as soon as I get out of this
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Like there's something he wants to do really badly.
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I don't know if it's Wendy's for John Walker Lynn.
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Like, what's he doing for the rest of his life?
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President Trump responding, of course, because that's what he does.
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And then, of course, there's this big controversy over the posting of Nancy Pelosi videos
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where somebody, I don't know who, but Rudy Giuliani tweeted it out and said,
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They slowed down the video so it sounds like she's drunk when she's talking.
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Anytime you slow down just a little bit, the audio, it just is hilarious.
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The first one is her slowed down and then it quickly goes into the actual sound.
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We want to give this president the opportunity.
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opportunity to do something historic for our country.
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We want to give this president the opportunity to do something historic for our country.
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Okay, so clearly somebody's trying to make her look bad.
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I don't know who it was, but because somebody in the Trump administration or the Trump team
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tweeted it out, now they're blaming President Trump for it.
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I don't think he's sitting at an edit bay right now slowing up her audio and video clips.
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I think he probably has a little too much on his plate to be doing that.
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And he would tell you, I don't need to do that.
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And he thought that it was real and thought that there was something wrong with her, which
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Well, because we've played many Nancy Pelosi clips that weren't edited or altered in any
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She slurs and she sounds like something's wrong with it.
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So it's kind of logical to think that that was a real, that was a real audio or video.
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So I don't think it's a, again, these things turn into international incidents all the time.
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Not because they're real, because they see it as an opportunity to bash the president
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and the administration and say how evil Republicans are.
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Well, of course, you're telling me, you go online, you just tell me Democrats aren't
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But, you know, this is a, you know, you do open yourself up to it.
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If you're, especially if you're Rudy Giuliani and an attorney, you probably should be a little
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I mean, you're representing the president of the United States in personal matters.
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You probably don't want to be sharing fake videos.
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I mean, you probably want to, before you hit send, you probably want to look at it one
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You know, but I mean, this is the world we live in now.
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This is, this is, this, this would have been interesting commentary in 2008.
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Like it's 2019, you know, celebrities are doing this all the time.
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We've just entered that world where people aren't careful anymore.
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I remember when Glenn was doing the TV show and we started out, uh, was it, I can't remember
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And he was in the middle of, uh, writing something on the chalkboard and like the chalkboard is
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like a difficult thing as, as it doesn't seem like it would be difficult to do, but you're
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like, you're, he, Glenn's in the middle of doing a TV show.
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He has to look at all the elements that are coming up, like what video is next and what
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Like he's doing a monologue and he's writing on the board and I can't remember what word
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it was, but he misspelled a word on the board and there was a reason, I can't remember what
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it was at this point, but it was something like it was either misspelled in the script
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or like he did like a Ron Burgundy and just wrote it the way he saw it.
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I can't remember what the, what the situation was.
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It was not a word he didn't know how to spell, but he just screwed it up on the air and that
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Like I, I miss, I mean, you know, it was like Dan Quayle misspelling potato back in the
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Everyone was like, Oh, I, can you believe this guy can't spell words?
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Oh, he's very, very hesitant to spell writing things.
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Every time he does a chalkboard, he makes sure someone checks it to make sure, you know,
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Apologist like you, Stu, but you know, I can't blame him.
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And, and so, but now, I mean, it doesn't feel like people make mistakes that are much worse
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than anything that from the old days and no one cares.
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I mean, because it's constant, you're constantly berated.
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Like there was a time where you thought maybe celebrities had some level of intelligence.
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Then you see them tweet and it's like, okay, well, we know they're idiots.
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Like we, we thought we were wondering if they're, yeah, they're idiots.
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That is acting when they act like when they're playing the role of a doctor, they're not really
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You kind of, you kind of gets the sense of that pretty quickly when you see them spell.
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More vitriol, of course, uh, from the left directed at president Trump, uh, Nancy Pelosi
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Uh, which I mean, I guess that's okay to say about the president when you're the speaker
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Now, uh, if that had happened during the Obama years, as with every single story, yes, uh,
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all hell would have broken loose by now, uh, the speaker of the house would have been vilified
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if they would have said an intervention is necessary with Obama and make him sound like,
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you know, he's, he's crazy or he's, uh, insane, uh, or just completely out of control.
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They used to throw that label out at us when we, when we criticized him for anything.
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And our criticism was never anything approaching what the Democrats do to Trump now.
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That's really the main use, I think, of identity politics at this point.
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A lot of people talk about it in terms of like, well, they will try to give money to minority
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groups so they get minority groups votes or they'll try to give, uh, you know, benefits
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to a certain minority group or they'll talk, you know, nicely about them to try to get
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But the other side of it is, I think more the real use of today, which is if you have
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someone who's in a protected group there, you always have the defense of saying no matter
00:26:41.780
what the accusation is, it's based on race or it's based on, right?
00:26:45.340
Like whatever the group is, if Pete Buttigieg, right, becomes president of the United States
00:26:48.960
and he has a crappy tax policy, when you say he has a crappy tax policy, they'll say you
00:26:54.440
So they don't actually have to defend the policy.
00:26:56.300
They'll just say you are a hater of gays or you're a hater of women or you're a hater
00:27:03.600
And so that becomes the catch-all for every single defense of every single thing that
00:27:12.500
It's like the main reason why you don't want Joe Biden to be the nominee because he's basically
00:27:17.740
the only one in the field that has a chance to win, um, that isn't in some protected
00:27:23.860
I mean, I pretty much can go through the entire list.
00:27:26.300
I mean, you have obviously, you know, Bernie Sanders, Kamala Harris, uh, Klobuchar, she's
00:27:32.060
a woman, Cory Booker, and then Elizabeth Warren, of course, is Native American.
00:27:41.460
So I think that there is a, it works on both sides.
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They don't have to make arguments about their points.
00:27:49.660
They just say you're a racist and it's a catch-all for every single argument.
00:27:54.080
And Buttigieg had something interesting to say about the president, which I don't know
00:27:58.440
that this is true, but he said it as if it's proven fact.
00:28:05.040
Well, I have a pretty dim view of his decision to use his privileged status to fake a disability
00:28:24.880
Chris, that's making fun of other people, which is okay.
00:28:29.080
This is actually really important because I don't mean to trivialize disability, but I
00:28:37.400
Has anybody stated a fact that he didn't have bone spurs when he claimed to have bone spurs?
00:28:45.040
Uh, back in, what was it, the late 60s or early 70s when it was time for Vietnam service?
00:28:52.500
I think that's why he wasn't drafted, but, uh, I, I'm not, I'm not aware that he faked
00:28:59.100
I think that's, I think, I would say that's generally thought to have been the case, but
00:29:04.040
I don't know that there's evidence of it, right?
00:29:05.960
Like he, he, there was something else, I can't remember what the, there was another thing
00:29:10.200
right around there where he was, he, he did, he passed some physical or something like
00:29:15.580
that around the time where then he, then he went for another one and got bone spurs
00:29:20.320
Like, I can't remember what, do you remember what it was, Jeffy?
00:29:22.140
No, I was trying, I was trying, as you mentioned it, there, in that story, because that was
00:29:27.340
Was still around making some choices for a son, Donald, at that time to...
00:29:32.260
Yeah, they were, but I mean, again, first of all, it's ancient history, right?
00:29:37.700
Second of all, there was a lot of that that went on in that era.
00:29:40.580
Uh, you know, the draft to me is a, is a terrible, terrible thing and should not be, it's, it's
00:29:47.960
And I hope it doesn't, um, you know, there were plenty of people on the left and, and honestly,
00:29:54.260
I mean, at that point, Donald Trump is probably a Democrat, right?
00:29:57.140
I mean, he's probably at that point in his life, not even a Republican.
00:30:03.040
And especially a lot of people with, with lives that were privileged did that.
00:30:08.500
It wasn't a good thing, but a bigger story there is that we should not be taking people
00:30:13.020
unwilling to join the military and throw them in the middle of our battles.
00:30:18.520
That's not something, I mean, that, you want to talk about last resort area.
00:30:24.940
I mean, you know, maybe if you're in, you know, maybe if the Nazis are currently bombing
00:30:29.380
Kansas, uh, maybe that's something you may, and I will say at that point, you're not going
00:30:35.340
There's going to be plenty of people willing to fight there.
00:30:37.800
Um, but yeah, I mean, that is part of the situation with war, right?
00:30:40.620
Like that's part of the, when you're going to send the military of war, this is why you
00:30:47.120
And you make sure that you're convinced the American people that it's the right thing
00:30:50.700
to do, because if you don't, then you have situations like this where, you know, people
00:30:55.320
aren't volunteering enough and you feel like you need to institute draft.
00:30:58.060
The draft should not be something that happens though.
00:30:59.980
But I would think that that's one of those things.
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If you're in the military, do you really want to be fighting next to someone who is like,
00:31:10.620
That does not seem like the type of person you'd want next to.
00:31:14.000
You know, a lot of people who were drafted fought valiantly and many, uh, went and died,
00:31:18.920
um, you know, during the draft and their service should be honored.
00:31:22.880
I mean, they really should, but I mean, I don't think that's a good generalized policy
00:31:34.440
Triple eight, seven, two, seven, B E C K back in about 60 seconds.
00:31:45.000
Uh, things are, are kind of heating up on the Democrat side.
00:31:49.440
Apparently in Iowa, there's a dead heat now between Biden and, uh, Bernie Sanders.
00:31:55.840
As far as the town hall halls that all these cable channels are doing, here's how badly
00:32:05.140
I think we mentioned this briefly yesterday that no other candidates are doing any opposition
00:32:19.180
There are no research projects right now on Beto O'Rourke.
00:32:23.580
And like, as inexplicable as the rise of Beto O'Rourke is, to me, the same can be said about
00:32:38.840
People were just like, yeah, we really like you.
00:32:40.560
And they look like they're toying with him to get him into the race.
00:32:43.000
And as soon as he got in the race, like, yeah, we actually ate your guts.
00:32:46.400
I think it was that little, I'm getting in my car by myself and I'm driving around the
00:32:52.620
country, stopping in at weird places and, and I'm going to find myself.
00:32:59.900
And he got in and immediately was at what, you know, 12 and 15%.
00:33:04.500
I mean, he was, he was second or third place when he got into the race and just every day
00:33:09.000
another poll comes out where he's one point lower and there's only so many days that you
00:33:15.320
And I'm not sure it's about his policies because he doesn't have any.
00:33:21.440
Here's what he said the other day about eliminating guns.
00:33:25.560
That weapons of war designed for use on the battlefield are no longer sold into our communities
00:33:30.840
so they don't end up in our schools or our synagogues, in our churches.
00:33:39.240
And not just do it town by town or state by state, but do it nationally so that anyone
00:33:44.120
who exhibits a tendency to harm themselves or to harm somebody else can be stopped before
00:33:50.820
And then the last part, let's make sure that we invest in the counseling and the mental
00:33:55.220
health and the therapy necessary for people to get the care that they need.
00:33:59.480
Do you support mandatory federal licensing for guns, gun owners rather, in the United States,
00:34:08.040
I think that's something that we need to look at.
00:34:11.220
And I'm grateful to Senator Booker for taking a bold approach to a very urgent problem that
00:34:18.740
But I would start with those four steps that I just outlined.
00:34:26.100
But yes, I think this is something that should be debated.
00:34:30.300
And if it makes sense to the American public, then let's move forward.
00:34:35.120
And if it turns out people like it, if they're popular, then I'll be for them.
00:34:42.220
Yeah, that is, I guess, if you were going to say the one big problem right now, it's
00:34:47.940
You know, like if the American people like it, we'll move forward.
00:34:50.660
It's not what the Democrats want to hear right now.
00:34:53.460
They want to hear like, I want socialism, whether people want it or not.
00:35:00.220
They want someone who's going to, you know, the way they see Trump, right?
00:35:04.140
They see Trump doing whatever he wants to do, which is, of course, not true.
00:35:06.960
But that's what they that's their vision of him.
00:35:10.940
You know, Beto, one of the big things you could say about him is he does not have an
00:35:21.320
I mean, if you see if there's one candidate who I would say is in the middle of a, I mean,
00:35:25.220
Biden, obviously, he's in a category of his own right now.
00:35:29.040
But if there's another one of these lower candidates that's having a bit of a moment,
00:35:32.420
I would say it's probably Elizabeth Warren right now.
00:35:34.740
And the reason is because, I mean, she's got a policy for everything.
00:35:39.480
And people like talking about that they care about that.
00:35:44.400
None of these people have actually read any of the policies.
00:35:46.340
But her brand of being the person who comes up with a new policy for every issue is very
00:35:52.680
attractive to a Democrat who thinks the federal government should do everything for you.
00:36:04.540
That's the entire definition of your philosophy.
00:36:06.680
It's the exact opposition of what the country was built on, federalism, which is where we
00:36:16.780
When it comes to the Second Amendment, you have no wiggle room.
00:36:22.020
You want to ban semi-automatic weapons, which includes handguns now.
00:36:26.720
Now, he did say, yeah, he didn't actually say that, did he, in that clip?
00:36:31.920
He said weapons, we got to get these weapons of war on the street, which is an even dumber
00:36:35.800
thing to say, because everything is a weapon of war.
00:36:38.840
I mean, go watch, every time, watch the Arab Spring.
00:36:42.940
They're freaking throwing rocks in glass bottles.
00:36:45.880
When you need a weapon in war, you use anything as a weapon of war.
00:36:53.000
People are like, oh, well, that means weapons that were designed for war.
00:36:58.600
A handgun, every single war that has ever been fought since the invention of a handgun
00:37:09.200
If you're just sitting there like, ah, you know what?
00:37:11.140
My big scary AR doesn't have any bullets left, but I'm not going to fire this because
00:37:16.980
That's not something that occurs with a soldier.
00:37:22.120
I mean, semi-automatic weapons bans, again, that's basically every gun people use.
00:37:26.820
Like, it sounds like a scary word to a lot of people.
00:37:30.180
And I know in this audience, most people are going to be familiar with the difference
00:37:33.740
between an automatic weapon and a semi-automatic weapon and, you know, a hunting modern sporting
00:37:40.380
I could say that growing up in Connecticut, largely, like, I don't think I would have,
00:37:45.340
you know, if I wasn't in this business, I wouldn't have any interest or knowledge about
00:37:51.980
That's what people in Connecticut think, which is why they were able to pass, you know,
00:37:56.060
a massive bill restricting gun rights in Connecticut.
00:37:59.660
You know, I think there's a, it's certainly not everybody in Connecticut, of course, but
00:38:04.380
I know, I mean, we were, I didn't come from a gun household.
00:38:07.000
My dad was in the military, but I didn't come from a household that knew anything.
00:38:13.920
And so, you know, people just don't know what these terms mean.
00:38:17.320
So you throw out banning semi-automatic weapons.
00:38:19.100
People think, good, we're going to get rid of those, those school shooting guns.
00:38:22.840
Well, no, this is basically every gun operationally that people have for self-defense, right?
00:38:28.740
I mean, you have shotguns, you know, which would fall out of that definition in most cases.
00:38:38.000
I mean, do people, I mean, do people really use, I guess they do.
00:38:40.540
I mean, some, but I mean, most people are just going to have a semi-automatic weapon.
00:38:43.740
I haven't seen a revolver other than in a gun store.
00:38:50.760
But they're not, I mean, they're not the prototypical American self-defense firearm.
00:38:55.560
That's going to be a semi-automatic handgun or, you know, maybe a shotgun.
00:38:58.780
But still, it's like, they're talking about banning.
00:39:02.800
They're going way beyond anything Australia did or anything the British did.
00:39:07.420
This is, you know, it's gun control to a level we haven't seen in a long time.
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You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck Program.
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We got an amazing story about a university that's been kicked out of their sports conference.
00:39:55.380
As a matter of fact, we might as well just jump into it.
00:40:01.280
The University of St. Thomas, they're a Division III school.
00:40:07.160
They're being kicked out of the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference
00:40:14.520
We're sorry, you're too good for us, and we're sick of it, so we can't beat you.
00:40:23.780
They're like, well, wait, we'd like to stay in the conference.
00:40:28.060
If you stay in the conference, the conference is going to dissolve.
00:40:37.740
Because I don't follow the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference.
00:40:43.720
Back in the day, I used to watch every game, but now it's more like no games.
00:40:51.880
Yeah, I'd say that seems like more than a slight change.
00:40:57.300
ESPN said St. Thomas has won six MIAC football titles since 2010.
00:41:03.480
Okay, so they won six out of eight or maybe even nine now.
00:41:09.400
And they reached the title game in 2012 and 2015, but they also said the school's overall
00:41:18.220
St. Thomas finished 10th nationally in the Learfield Directors' Cup.
00:41:25.000
That's where they take all the sports and add up how you did in each sport, and then the
00:41:31.520
school that did the best in all of those sports wins the most points.
00:41:34.820
You're acting as if we don't know what the Learfield Directors' Cup is.
00:41:41.240
There's millions of people going, we know, Pat.
00:41:48.380
Why don't you explain the Heisman Trophy to us now?
00:41:55.080
According to St. Thomas President Julie Sullivan, she said, the league's decision is extremely
00:42:01.220
But out of the school is committed to finding a new athletic conference.
00:42:04.200
Although our athletic conference will change, one thing will not, our commitment to continued
00:42:10.460
I mean, according to this, they were one of the founding members of this conference.
00:42:20.920
I mean, they've been in this conference for that long and they're kicking them out because
00:42:24.920
They won 47% of all the MIAC championships, both team and individual sports.
00:42:37.560
But it'd be like the Big Ten kicking Ohio State out of the Big Ten.
00:42:48.420
I would support Alabama getting kicked out of college football.
00:42:55.440
Because it is annoying when that team constantly wins.
00:42:57.440
They have every right to get rid of this school.
00:43:00.760
I mean, it is annoying when a team constantly wins, right?
00:43:05.220
I mean, the Golden State is again in the finals this year.
00:43:12.080
I couldn't be more sick of the New England Patriots.
00:43:14.440
Thankfully, the Philadelphia Eagles were there to make sure they didn't win multiple
00:43:19.360
As we all know, everyone thanks God for the Eagles, but...
00:43:27.280
And I'm sure as a college where you're losing all the time to the same colleges, I could
00:43:32.960
see it being irritating, but that really should just motivate you to be a better program.
00:43:39.920
Like, if you're really that frustrated with it, you drop out and join a crappier conference.
00:43:44.800
Now, according to this story, it goes back to one particular game.
00:43:48.720
Now, we talk all the time about teams shouldn't hold back.
00:43:51.100
You know how angry we are with coaches who reach 50 points, and they're winning 50 to
00:43:59.720
So, in 2017, St. Thomas played St. Olaf College, and when you bring those two teams together...
00:44:06.100
You can throw the record books right out the window.
00:44:08.140
And you have to, because St. Thomas beat them 97 to nothing.
00:44:16.340
You know, you would say, we need to go back to the drawing board.
00:44:20.260
Well, that should have been the catalyst for St. Olaf to maybe leave or get their football
00:44:35.360
Well, we'd like to try harder only with St. Thomas out.
00:44:39.660
Because really, the whole point of sports, it's, you know, it's supposed to be something
00:44:45.020
where it's pure competition, pure merit, right?
00:44:48.120
Now, of course, we all know that that's not always the case anymore.
00:44:52.980
It's one of the, it's the last bastion of any merit-based activity in the world.
00:45:00.900
That's why I think, you know, a lot of times conservatives complain about the same sort
00:45:05.020
of thing, like the trophy, the free trophy culture, and everybody gets an award and all
00:45:09.360
of that, and it's not because we care all that much about, you know, who gets trophies.
00:45:16.680
It's about caring about the authenticity of competition.
00:45:21.400
You have to have competition that's merit-based and pure, or there's no reason to do it.
00:45:27.040
And, you know, a lot of these sports leagues, when it comes down to the way the salary cap
00:45:32.660
operates and people switching teams to go play with their friends and all of this craziness
00:45:37.160
that goes on in these leagues these days, it winds up, you know, it's putting a little
00:45:49.280
And losers, really, because if you keep losing in this conference to this school, as you
00:45:59.160
said, that should be motivation for you to work all that much harder in order to get
00:46:04.960
better so that you can come back and beat these guys the next year.
00:46:09.780
If you're going to lose 97 to nothing to everybody in your conference, maybe it's time to just
00:46:13.980
It's like back in 19, I think it was 1920 or 22, somewhere in there, when Georgia Tech
00:46:22.440
And Cumberland College decided, okay, you know what?
00:46:27.660
That was probably a good decision on their part.
00:46:29.420
If you don't want to be humiliated, you either strive to do better or you quit.
00:46:37.500
At 222 to nothing, it's hard to blame them on that one.
00:46:39.760
You know, if you lose 17-7, you should probably try harder.
00:46:47.840
I'm a little disappointed that you didn't remember.
00:46:55.000
And I think this was a game where, I think it was this game where they, the team on offense,
00:47:02.120
one of the reasons why the score was so high, the team that was losing was angry about it.
00:47:10.420
It could be, there's another game that was the same similar type of blowout.
00:47:14.280
And they just stopped trying because they were just like trying to prove a point.
00:47:17.520
Like, go ahead, score another freaking touchdown.
00:47:19.460
And then they would just take the ball and not even try.
00:47:24.980
They should just get out of the league at that point.
00:47:26.900
Well, this attitude has become so prevalent that it's even entered the NFL where you got
00:47:31.040
people making five, 10, 15 million dollars a year on defense to stop an offense.
00:47:36.480
And then they still expect the offense not to try hard.
00:47:39.580
Why didn't you take a knee when it was 27 to nothing?
00:47:45.720
They kicked a field goal with a minute left in a 24-10 game.
00:47:53.480
Isn't your team payroll like 400 million dollars?
00:48:01.360
It's such a weird, I mean, and it gets folded into sportsmanship, and I think it's the exact
00:48:09.100
If you are taking, and I understand this when it comes to young kids.
00:48:16.060
A lot of times this is where this stuff begins, but it's like, what is more insulting to a
00:48:22.180
Either kicking an extra field goal or literally giving up and saying, I'm so much better than
00:48:38.960
Pat Stu and Jeffy for Glenn on the Glenn Beck program.
00:48:45.160
Harvey Weinstein has apparently reached a settlement with some of the women he apparently abused.
00:48:58.420
It is a fact, though, that nothing's been proven against him.
00:49:18.220
That one is problematic for him because there is audio of him kind of saying he did it.
00:49:26.800
Now, of course, he'll say, well, what I meant was and come up with some other excuse or explanation.
00:49:33.180
It did pretty much seem like he was going along with the fact that he did grab her several times at the very least.
00:49:38.160
But so the Weinstein thing is this is really the company, right?
00:49:45.200
There's 80 people who had allegedly alleged that he had done things to them.
00:49:52.120
And this this is basically becomes a pool of money that they can get claims from.
00:49:58.940
And so none of this money comes from Harvey Weinstein.
00:50:01.620
And of course, he's obviously paid already with the entire the entire company.
00:50:08.740
Four days after all this happened, he got fired.
00:50:10.720
And within a couple of months, the company was dissolved.
00:50:13.720
So this is just kind of a fallout from that, which is a pretty big deal.
00:50:16.580
I mean, it's weird because people look at this and say, well, he's not getting the punishment he should get for these things.
00:50:30.900
We say like this is all about me, too, and empowering women.
00:50:33.260
But don't let them choose to take a bunch of money.
00:50:38.220
If they want to take a bunch of money, they should be able to take a bunch of money.
00:50:41.320
Like, I mean, you know, a crime is a crime and there's a criminal process for that.
00:50:47.760
But we've also seen in this Me Too movement that they want the bunch of money and then they want to go.
00:50:54.120
And I that is one thing that is has not been discussed as much when it comes to the whole Me Too movement, which is, look, humans are awful.
00:51:12.720
They're really awful people and they do awful things to each other.
00:51:16.680
I mean, you know, we were just talking about football.
00:51:18.600
Tyreek Hill, who's the star wide receiver for the Kansas City Chiefs, sort of.
00:51:25.880
He's been indefinitely suspended from the team because of these clips of audio where he seems to be being abusive to his wife and talking about potentially being abusive to their girlfriend.
00:51:37.840
I don't know if it's a girlfriend or his wife, but and also their child.
00:51:43.420
And then they release a competing tape where she's basically admitting he did nothing wrong.
00:51:50.280
So, I mean, yeah, but like we don't know where this one turns out.
00:51:54.080
I don't know the ins and outs of it well enough.
00:51:55.820
But the bottom line is women are also humans and women are also awful at times.
00:51:59.700
And so are guys like everybody does, you know, terrible things.
00:52:05.900
And at times, the legal system of the United States and even the victims benefit from a system that they can go and say, look, I don't want to go through the court system.
00:52:21.900
I don't want to go in front of everybody and tell everyone my deepest, darkest, most the worst moment of my life.
00:52:29.280
And they have these settlements for those reasons.
00:52:31.760
And now we're like, well, they shouldn't be able to have those settlements.
00:52:34.340
They shouldn't be able to choose that direction.
00:52:36.460
Well, they should be able to choose it, you know.
00:52:38.520
And I think that part of it, if that goes away, you're going to wind up having every woman who has a legitimate claim be dragged through the courts by really wealthy people.
00:52:48.480
And it's going to be a terrible outcome at the end.
00:52:53.380
But I think the Weinstein situation is going to play out in ugly fashion over the next year.
00:52:58.300
This settlement, I mean, this is like they're reporting $44 million is the pile.
00:53:09.360
But it's still only part of what's going to happen to Harvey Weinstein here.
00:53:21.040
Speaking of Harvey Weinstein, some new movies are released this weekend, including Aladdin.
00:53:42.060
It looks to me, it's just like the end of the Will Smith career.
00:53:53.260
I think he's trying to be Robin Williams, right?
00:53:56.360
That's a tough order when you're not Robin Williams.
00:54:05.740
He'll probably make a lot of money and he'll be fine.
00:54:07.180
But, like, it's going to be hard to take him seriously in the next role.
00:54:17.820
And then according to Google users, 92% liked it.
00:54:29.920
I mean, it's not an adult type of movie, right?
00:54:35.020
For me, you know, it's Pokemon, Detective Pikachu.
00:54:47.960
And it saw the preview of this movie at another movie we were at.
00:54:56.060
I don't have small children to have to take to this.
00:55:01.800
This is, Pat, though, where the dine-in theater becomes a big thing.
00:55:04.560
Because I can go to any movie that's at a dine-in theater.
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Just shovel food down my mouth the entire time.
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And not to mention, I mean, you know, this is not going to be necessarily your forte here, Pat.
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But, of course, the full bar of being available makes Aladdin pretty good.
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I got to believe there's a certain amount of drinks in which Will Smith's performance is excellent.
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And I got to tell you, a couple of those movies, you put your feet up in those movies, you're sleeping gone.
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Because if you're not, you know, some of them are good.
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Yeah, my kids, like, wandered off into Hostel Part 2.
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They're opening up in, I think it was Switzerland.
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And they've got, they come in and they change it every single showing, apparently.
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And, I mean, it literally reclines into a bed with, like, a bed stand.
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That kind of comfort is just, it gets too comfortable at some point.
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Have you heard the new, this is off topic, but I've been seeing commercials for this lately.
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And I think it's actually a thing, which is the Capital One Cafe?
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Because you don't want to just go into a bank and bank.
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Because they're like, we're reinventing banking.
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And what it means is, I guess you go and you get a coffee while you're opening an account?
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I will say I'm intrigued enough to walk into one of them, if I could find one.
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Because I want to know what they're trying to do.
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And they don't seem to ever say they're serving anything.
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But then they just talk about signing up online for bank accounts.
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Well, you've reimagined a bank into a coffee shop.
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Oh, well, I've already, I'm going to, why don't I just go to a coffee shop?
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Because you're not going to be able to bank there.
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And if you're going to combine two things, I'm not, I don't think bank and cafe are the
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And I don't know if it's a Robert Kraft establishment.
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But on the sign for the complex, it just says massage donuts.
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And I'm like, donuts and massage is a solid combo.
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Well, like, I just want to be, you're getting a massage and people are just feeding you
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You go in there, you can order whatever fried chicken thing you want and you get a bunch
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I feel like bank and cafe is not the direction we need to be going.
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What if you could go the other way on the bank cafe where it starts as a cafe, but
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We're just, we're reimagining a coffee shop and we're going to give you banking.
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I know it's not a movie, but have you started watching Chernobyl yet?
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I know there's three episodes released on HBO now.
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I think I'm two in and they both are really good.
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But I see where IMDb ranked it as its top rated show now.
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And it also had, you know, it's like the top of the launch on Sky Atlantic now of like
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