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00:00:08.280 Hello everybody, it's Monday and we welcome you to the podcast. I'm so glad that you're listening today.

00:00:14.360 There's a couple things that before we get to the podcast I want to tell you about.

00:00:18.280 We are in California right now. We're still in Florida.

00:00:23.560 I think we still have people in the Carolinas and also still have people for Hurricane Harvey on the ground here in Texas from Mercury One.

00:00:33.860 The wildfire has killed 31 people at this hour and it's just out of control.

00:00:41.800 Our hearts, our prayers and our thoughts are with the people of California, but so are our backs and our hands and our legs.

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00:00:53.580 If you'd like to donate for any of these disasters, 100% of the proceeds go to these disasters that you earmark. 100%.

00:01:03.340 Is that where you can buy the raffle tickets too for the car?

00:01:06.520 Yes.

00:01:06.980 Because that's what I want.

00:01:07.900 Donate what?

00:01:09.220 I just like Mercedes. I think they're fine people and I think they should give me a car.

00:01:13.700 Alright, well that's a good way to donate as well.

00:01:16.060 And you're doing good and you possibly get a new car.

00:01:18.680 You can buy a raffle ticket now.

00:01:20.600 Only, I think we draw on Saturday night.

00:01:22.820 You don't have to be present to win.

00:01:24.580 Somebody's going to be driving a new Mercedes and you have a really good shot.

00:01:28.980 It's a very small number of tickets that we sell.

00:01:31.840 So, please, have at it.

00:01:34.360 Grab your raffle ticket and I could be calling you Saturday night going,

00:01:37.200 Hey, come on down. Pick up your brand new Mercedes.

00:01:40.060 So, on the podcast today we have, we talk about the fires a lot.

00:01:43.160 Um, it's been obviously a huge deal.

00:01:45.000 We have some incredible video and audio here for the podcast of what is actually happening to people going through that.

00:01:51.820 We also talk a little bit about, um, uh, Tucker Carlson and what he's going through.

00:01:57.120 It's a travesty.

00:01:59.040 Yeah, no kidding.

00:01:59.900 We talked to Burgess Owens as well, uh, who wrote a book, uh, called Why I Stand.

00:02:03.580 Uh, he's a former NFL player that says, yeah, maybe standing for the national anthem might be the right thing.

00:02:07.500 Uh, and his reason why the NFL is putting up with it is one I have not heard.

00:02:13.540 And as soon as he said it, it made total sense.

00:02:15.920 All on today's podcast.

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00:02:30.760 It's Monday, November 12th.

00:02:32.940 Brickhouse nutrition.

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00:02:40.240 I hate salads.

00:02:41.640 I hate vegetables.

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00:02:52.760 Shockingly, Brickhouse nutrition doesn't necessarily recommend you stop eating all vegetables.

00:02:56.180 I do.

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00:03:06.220 Uh, you can go through the whole eat your vegetables thing that your mom told you to do and you never did.

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00:03:31.580 Glenn Beck.

00:03:32.780 The personal is political.

00:03:35.060 That was a slogan, uh, used by the feminists in the 1960s. 1.00

00:03:39.340 And like most slogans, you know, really kind of starts to fall apart once you examine it long enough, but it's generally meant to understand, uh, to be understood as, um, uh, women and minorities and the struggles that they face directly connected to the patriarchy.

00:03:56.440 And it has come to take on many more meetings, uh, but most of all, it's just a way to say my feelings equal truth.

00:04:05.340 Eh, they don't.

00:04:07.620 They don't.

00:04:08.220 Now the personal is so political that the political has become personal and it is everywhere.

00:04:15.680 Thanks to the radically left-leaning forefathers of post-modernism, every single word we utter now is political.

00:04:23.960 So if anything we say offends someone on the left, it's not just personal.

00:04:28.800 It is a political act.

00:04:30.980 Even worse, having a difference in opinion is a personal insult.

00:04:35.980 Now we're seeing it constantly Ted Cruz heckled out of a restaurant, Sarah Sanders kicked out of a restaurant, Florida attorney general, Pam Bondi chased out of a movie about Mr. Rogers, the entire Kavanaugh confirmation hearing for that matter.

00:04:51.360 And it is escalating.

00:04:53.660 Verbal abuse.

00:04:54.680 Isn't good enough.

00:04:55.840 As we saw last week with, uh, Antifa protesters who broke down Tucker Carlson's front door and screamed threats.

00:05:03.100 Yesterday, Michael Avenatti claimed on Twitter that he is investigating Tucker Carlson for an alleged assault on a gay Latino immigrant. 0.98

00:05:14.620 Well, this sounds about as plausible, uh, as, uh, Avenatti's ridiculous claim that Brett Kavanaugh was a serial rapist, uh, in, uh, high school. 0.97

00:05:25.880 Well, Tucker Carlson responded, as is expected, Avenatti wasn't telling the truth. 0.74

00:05:34.580 It seems officials from the Farmington country club where the incident happened have confirmed it.

00:05:41.560 Now they revoked the man's membership that night.

00:05:44.780 Turns out he was the aggressor.

00:05:47.160 Turns out Tucker Carlson was at dinner with his kids and some friends when his teenage daughter went to the restroom and came back to the table crying. 0.85

00:06:03.120 Apparently the middle-aged man, uh, said to Tucker Carlson's daughter, are you having dinner with Tucker Carlson?

00:06:13.000 And she said, yes, that's my father. 1.00

00:06:16.920 He said, oh, you're Tucker's whore. 1.00

00:06:21.160 Then he said, you're an effing C word. 1.00

00:06:26.780 She came back to the table and started to cry. 1.00

00:06:30.000 Her brother immediately got up from the table and said, excuse me, did you just say this to my sister?

00:06:35.960 After he proudly admitted that he had, and the son or the brother took a glass of wine and threw it at him.

00:06:46.800 Carlson wrote, I love my children.

00:06:49.320 It took an hour of self-control not to beat the man with a chair, which is what I wanted to do.

00:06:55.160 I think any father can understand the overwhelming rage and shock that I felt seeing my teenage daughter attacked by a stranger.

00:07:01.900 After his son threw wine, Tucker Carlson got up and he asked the guy to please leave.

00:07:09.880 They were restrained.

00:07:12.680 Tucker said, I restrained myself.

00:07:15.300 I didn't assault the man.

00:07:16.560 Neither did my son.

00:07:19.640 He said, everything about this is a lie.

00:07:23.980 First of all, I didn't know that the man was gay or Latino.

00:07:27.400 Not that it would have even mattered.

00:07:28.920 What happened on October 13th has nothing to do with identity politics.

00:07:33.860 It was a gross violation of decency.

00:07:36.760 I've never seen anything like it in my life.

00:07:40.260 End quote.

00:07:41.020 This is what I experienced with my family a few years ago in New York.

00:07:47.020 It is the reason in the end that really compelled us to seriously talk about leaving New York.

00:07:55.380 My family was endangered by a crowd of people, and they all thought it was funny.

00:08:04.720 The political is personal.

00:08:08.040 A middle-aged man feels so personally insulted and outraged by Tucker Carlson's political views,

00:08:15.020 his different opinions, that he responds with a personal insult to Tucker Carlson's daughter using the C word.

00:08:25.380 Is this the world that the early feminists, with their personal as political signs, wanted? 1.00

00:08:34.040 How many things have gotten so turned around that it's considered progressive now for a grown man to call a teenage girl the C word?

00:08:43.240 Which I believe is one of the most heinous and degrading words ever used to demean women.

00:08:48.920 Tucker was right to restrain himself.

00:08:56.520 The country club was right for asking this guy to leave and to revoke his membership.

00:09:02.920 It's the best response.

00:09:05.420 Violence is not the answer.

00:09:07.400 We have to keep our head.

00:09:08.980 And it is going to be unbelievably hard sometimes.

00:09:13.140 It gets a little harder every time we see something like what happened to Tucker Carlson.

00:09:18.640 But it is the only way to win.

00:09:20.360 Not everything is personal.

00:09:21.900 Not everything is political.

00:09:23.460 And that is the reality.

00:09:25.540 And your feelings do not equal truth.

00:09:29.140 They are your feelings.

00:09:32.520 Hopefully, if we can keep our composure long enough,

00:09:35.260 Hopefully, they'll find a better slogan, one that calms people down instead of inciting outrage.

00:09:43.260 In the meantime, we can all agree that no one, no one at all, especially a grown man,

00:09:48.800 should verbally assault a teenage girl because her daddy hurt his feelings.

00:09:59.480 It's Monday, November 12th.

00:10:01.580 You're listening to the Glenn Beck Program.

00:10:05.260 I, for one, am so sick and tired of hearing from the left that,

00:10:12.440 Oh my gosh, they've never experienced hatred like this.

00:10:17.560 Nobody said a word when my family was assaulted in a park in New York.

00:10:23.960 No one said a word.

00:10:27.840 My daughter and I had always wanted to go see a Hitchcock film in the park.

00:10:33.660 And so we did.

00:10:37.420 And I just thought it was going to be fine.

00:10:39.680 I just assumed that everybody was human still.

00:10:45.340 Well, not in New York.

00:10:49.180 And so my daughter and her then fiancé and my wife decided to go to the park.

00:10:56.600 And we just spread out a blanket and we arrived, you know, maybe a little bit early.

00:11:04.220 People started to come.

00:11:06.700 And this group behind us of these 20-somethings, women, believe it or not,

00:11:13.440 They were quite aggressive.

00:11:20.000 They threw wine on my wife. 1.00

00:11:23.540 My wife knew that it wasn't an accident because we had security there.

00:11:28.920 And they were able to see their Twitter feed and their Facebook feed where they were admitting what they were doing.

00:11:36.140 I went to the park with, I think, one security agent.

00:11:41.060 By the time we were done, I think we had four.

00:11:44.960 We had four.

00:11:45.980 We may have had six by the end.

00:11:49.520 I finally leave at the—towards the end of the movie.

00:11:53.920 I want to get out of there before the movie is over, for obvious reasons.

00:12:00.300 And I get up with my wife.

00:12:02.460 And the entire crowd applauds that we leave.

00:12:06.900 Now, that could have been—I could have, you know, taken that.

00:12:11.580 But not after you had assaulted my wife. 1.00

00:12:15.360 Not after my wife and my daughter walk about half a block to go to the restroom.

00:12:21.520 And as they are walking by themselves, they are shouted at and fingers pointed and thrust into their chest saying,

00:12:31.300 We don't want your hate here.

00:12:33.060 We don't want your kind here. 1.00

00:12:35.660 Racists, bigots, haters. 0.97

00:12:37.780 When we were walking out, by the time we got across the street, I looked at the security agents and I said, 0.96

00:12:49.940 Go back and get my daughter and her fiancé. 0.67

00:12:53.680 This is far too dangerous for them.

00:12:56.820 My daughter was already in tears.

00:12:58.800 She didn't know what to do when the security agents arrived and pulled them both into the car.

00:13:04.120 So please, leftists, CNN, don't tell me how hard your life is.

00:13:14.760 I know.

00:13:15.500 I know how hard your life is now.

00:13:17.940 And no one should have to live through that.

00:13:21.160 But what's happening to Tucker Carlson is not an isolated incident.

00:13:25.900 It's been happening from the left for a very long time.

00:13:30.900 And it goes beyond mean tweets.

00:13:34.500 Your family is in danger.

00:13:39.340 And it's only getting worse.

00:13:41.420 So what are we going to do about it?

00:13:45.060 Well, you know what we're going to do?

00:13:46.460 We're going to live our lives.

00:13:48.960 We're going to tell the truth.

00:13:50.360 We're not going to play the game that they're playing because I don't want to be that person.

00:13:57.980 I remember leaving that crowd and saying to my wife, I would be so ashamed if anyone, anyone in my audience treated people like that.

00:14:10.620 If Michael Moore, who was at the top of the, you know, I guess, hate list for the left, if Michael Moore would have been treated like that by my audience, I would have been horrified.

00:14:24.160 But I slept well that night knowing my audience wouldn't do that.

00:14:28.080 It's one of the reasons why we did Restoring Love.

00:14:30.880 I wanted to see a big, huge crowd fill Dallas Cowboy Stadium and treat people with respect and come together and be good and serve one another and serve the community.

00:14:46.040 The press seems to miss all of that.

00:14:51.020 That's okay.

00:14:53.420 That's okay.

00:14:54.860 We know who they are.

00:14:56.320 This is the sound of an angry mob in Pakistan. 0.97

00:15:26.320 And they are, they are demanding the execution of a Christian woman for blasphemy.

00:15:34.620 If you're a Christian in the world today, welcome to the first century. 1.00

00:15:40.460 Oh, this in Pakistan.

00:15:43.340 Well, yes, it is.

00:15:44.860 And if we continue to have this blasé attitude, the ravenous calls for death of anyone simply for their religious belief.

00:15:53.320 I don't care if it is in China and we are talking about the Muslims that are being rounded up in China now.

00:16:00.740 A million of them in a re-education camp.

00:16:06.520 A million.

00:16:08.300 People are just disappearing.

00:16:10.100 The Chinese are taking on the Christians as well. 0.54

00:16:18.560 Christians in Pakistan.

00:16:21.240 Christians in the Middle East.

00:16:23.180 Syria.

00:16:23.820 Iraq.

00:16:25.700 People who just will not accept Islam in Northern Africa.

00:16:31.120 You remember the hashtag, bring our children back?

00:16:37.100 Yeah, that did a lot, didn't it?

00:16:38.820 It did nothing.

00:16:42.760 This morning, I urge you.

00:16:45.100 I urge you to put a sign up in your front door of your business.

00:16:53.180 Tweet.

00:16:54.280 Facebook.

00:16:54.780 We are all this Pakistani Christian woman today.

00:17:00.500 We must be.

00:17:03.400 If you're not hearing about her plight in church, you should be.

00:17:09.180 We have come full circle.

00:17:11.280 Where the persecution that Jesus and his apostles in the first century had to endure by the Romans,

00:17:20.500 it's now again standard fare in places like the Middle East.

00:17:25.620 But the cowardice I saw from our cousins in the United Kingdom is what truly has horrified me.

00:17:32.760 It is rare to be a witness to such a cowardly act that the British have just committed. 0.99

00:17:39.920 And it all centers around this young woman from Pakistan.

00:17:44.220 Here's her story.

00:17:45.580 Asia Bibi.

00:17:46.340 She was picking berries with a few other farm workers in a remote Pakistani field.

00:17:50.100 And this is in 2009.

00:17:53.640 A supervisor asked her to get some water.

00:17:56.920 Well, her life changed forever.

00:17:59.280 You see, Christians in Pakistan have always been on the receiving end of bigotry and persecution.

00:18:06.440 So it probably wasn't a surprise to Asia when two Muslim women began to fight with her, 1.00

00:18:12.260 saying that they would not drink from anything that had been touched by a Christian. 0.92

00:18:17.600 But it then spun out of control when the two Muslim women claimed she had insulted Mohammed, 1.00

00:18:23.800 a crime punishable by death.

00:18:26.280 Now, there are no witnesses.

00:18:28.040 No one can verify this claim.

00:18:30.500 But she has been in prison since 2009.

00:18:36.960 Now, Pakistan's Supreme Court just acquitted her and set her free.

00:18:42.460 Apparently, this is the kind of bad precedent that you don't want to do if you're in Pakistan.

00:18:49.180 You have to condemn a person to death based off hearsay if it involves the Prophet Mohammed. 0.73

00:19:02.100 Well, they didn't...

00:19:03.640 The Supreme Court said no.

00:19:06.360 No to that.

00:19:07.100 But the mob didn't care. 0.69

00:19:08.280 They wanted blood. 0.97

00:19:09.560 And they have been out in the streets demanding Asia's death. 0.99

00:19:12.780 Crucify her.

00:19:13.720 Now, the only chance she has is for her and her family to get the heck out of Dodge before the mob takes justice into their own hands.

00:19:24.060 So you would think that asylum would be an easy slam dunk.

00:19:27.460 I mean, after all, Europe has been taking refugees in by the millions, quite literally by the millions.

00:19:35.220 So, why wouldn't they take another refugee from Pakistan? 1.00

00:19:42.960 Well, the UK decided not to grant her asylum because they fear, quote, unrest that might spring up in the British streets from certain areas of our population.

00:20:00.140 Okay, what you're fearing, let me translate British bullcrap into English.

00:20:07.980 What the British are saying is, we have so many Islamists, not Muslims, Islamists here that we have taken in and they really control our streets. 1.00

00:20:19.680 We are too cowardly to even take on the sex ring gangs that are targeting British children. 0.99

00:20:28.120 We're too afraid of the Islamists to even do anything about that. 1.00

00:20:34.940 The last thing we can do is help this Christian. 1.00

00:20:42.080 Because we're afraid.

00:20:45.080 That's really what the British are saying.

00:20:48.160 Where are the people that once said, we shall fight on the beaches?

00:20:52.020 We shall fight on the landing grounds.

00:20:54.200 We shall fight in the fields and in the streets.

00:20:56.260 We shall fight in the hills.

00:20:57.800 We shall never surrender.

00:21:00.120 Where are those people?

00:21:02.700 Where is that courage?

00:21:04.660 Where is that decency?

00:21:09.780 If you want to know what true manifested cowardice is, I give you today's British government.

00:21:17.100 It pains me to say it.

00:21:19.280 And to the women's marchers and the new wave feminists, if you want to know what a real war on women is and real bigotry, try being a woman and, God forbid, a Christian woman in a place like Pakistan. 0.71

00:21:36.540 And now, apparently, in places like the UK, history will say shame on them, shame on them, if we don't step in and be who we always have been.

00:21:57.060 The MS St. Louis is a black stain on our history.

00:22:02.840 A group of Jewish immigrants who are being targeted by the Nazis.

00:22:09.720 They went to every country in the Western Hemisphere, including us, and we turned them around. 1.00

00:22:18.120 We sent them back to their death.

00:22:20.820 Let's not do it again.

00:22:22.140 President Trump, Mike Pence, Mike Lee, Ted Cruz, I beg you, please, grant this woman and her family immediate asylum here in the United States.

00:22:38.860 Now is the time to stand and lead and show the world our compassion and how great we are because we stand for people who are truly targeted.

00:22:52.140 If we fail to stand for this Muslim woman and her family, this, I'm sorry, Christian woman and her family, who is going to die, she will die. 1.00

00:23:05.580 If we don't stand for her, what are we all fighting about? 0.89

00:23:11.580 What are we all fighting for?

00:23:13.880 What are we all trying to save?

00:23:15.860 What are we trying to convince our friends and family that America is important if we won't stand for her?

00:23:24.740 And should we fail?

00:23:26.820 The world is showing us right now.

00:23:30.060 No one will do it in our absence.

00:23:33.140 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:23:50.900 So I tweeted a story from The Blaze, I think it was on Friday or Saturday.

00:23:54.240 A Hollywood actor tweets,

00:23:55.860 There were many ways I could go with that story on Twitter, but I, it was about Ashton Kutcher and I decided to go a different way.

00:24:11.320 So I, I started a thread with him and it was quite interesting to watch, especially the way it ended.

00:24:19.100 Uh, I tweeted, um, no disrespect, Ashton, as you stated, guns are not for hunting or simply to protect your home.

00:24:26.640 And for those who say you can't fight the U.S. government, see Afghanistan.

00:24:32.100 Plus, school violence is down by 33% since 1993.

00:24:36.460 Gun homicides are down by 49%.

00:24:39.180 Gun crime is down by 75%.

00:24:42.060 He responds, more lives are lost in seven weeks in the U.S. to guns than seven years in the Iraq war.

00:24:51.780 Let's make this about data, Glenn.

00:24:54.480 Okay, well, I, I did in the last one, but I didn't get hostile.

00:24:59.200 I said, okay, let's.

00:25:01.540 Now, first of all, Stu, would you please try to find any verification more lives are lost in seven weeks in the U.S. than guns in seven years?

00:25:08.280 Because I cannot find anything close to that.

00:25:10.660 Yeah, I mean, again, that's eliminating one entire side of the war, right?

00:25:15.340 Like, if you're saying, I guess he's assuming U.S. troops, right?

00:25:18.880 No, I looked it up, even U.S. troops.

00:25:21.500 I don't, it's not accurate.

00:25:22.460 Let me look at it.

00:25:23.220 You look at it.

00:25:24.540 Okay, so he said, let's make this about data.

00:25:27.120 I wrote back, okay, let's.

00:25:29.400 Ten people a day die in a pool in the U.S.

00:25:34.800 Seventy-five percent of those are children.

00:25:37.420 We could eliminate almost all pools.

00:25:40.960 Yes, the very rich criminal may still get their hands on an indoor, in-ground illegal pool, but at a much lower rate than illegal guns.

00:25:49.580 Also, suicide was the second leading cause of death among individuals between the ages of 10 and 34,

00:25:57.540 and the fourth leading cause of death among individuals between the ages of 35 and 54.

00:26:03.500 There were more than twice as many suicides, 44,965, in the United States, as there were homicides, 19,362.

00:26:13.580 The reason why I brought this up, I'm missing one of the tweets, is because I said you're conflating numbers here.

00:26:24.340 Also, overdose deaths from opioids, include prescription opioids and heroin, have increased by more than five times since 1999.

00:26:35.840 Overdoses involving opioids have killed more than 42,000 people in 2016 alone.

00:26:42.040 Remember, homicides are down, 19,362.

00:26:48.460 We also keep hearing about the shootings, when the truth is, a kid is safer in school today than in 1990.

00:26:57.360 Much, much, much safer.

00:26:59.240 By the way, I was in school in 1990.

00:27:01.340 So I was actually four times as likely to be killed in a school shooting than kids are going to go to school today.

00:27:07.240 That is impossible to believe, but it is absolutely true. 0.97

00:27:12.540 The difference, the only difference really is, just to make a quick point here, is that now we're talking about big media events, right?

00:27:19.620 Now it's one kid shooting 13 people at a school, right?

00:27:24.760 And that obviously turns into media celebrity type of event, which again, I argue, is a huge driver of this stuff.

00:27:30.540 If the media would stop talking about it, and we have.

00:27:33.040 We've stopped.

00:27:33.520 We do not talk about their manifestos, except for very brief mentions if there's something vital.

00:27:37.840 We never say their names.

00:27:39.180 We don't go into all their reasoning because that gives them what they want.

00:27:42.320 But beyond that, I mean, four times is safe.

00:27:45.100 Back then, it was people picking off each other one by one.

00:27:49.200 It was spread over a much larger amount of the schools.

00:27:52.460 I mean, school, it happened a lot more commonly because it wasn't necessarily these mass shooting events.

00:27:58.260 They're scary, but they're built for media consumption, and that is a huge driver of this stuff.

00:28:03.500 So you're four times safer in school today than you were in 1990.

00:28:09.340 And I wrote to Ashton, unless MS-13 is around, they kill four times as many people than mass shooters.

00:28:17.420 And yet, Google MS-13.

00:28:20.100 You will mainly find stories that are anti-Trump.

00:28:24.240 By the way, MS-13 guns are illegal.

00:28:29.300 Then he writes back and says, I'm not isolating the argument to mass shootings.

00:28:34.280 Great.

00:28:35.220 Neither am I.

00:28:36.100 All gun-related death and violence down dramatically since 1990.

00:28:42.860 If we want to make a difference, we should join forces to help those in places like Chicago, where strict gun laws haven't helped at all.

00:28:50.960 How can we, together, stop the killing in Chicago?

00:28:55.340 And the last tweet is, on another note, I have great respect for the work you do on sex trafficking.

00:29:00.080 I raised money to start Operation Underground Railroad, as well as the Nazarene Fund to free slaves in the Middle East.

00:29:06.900 We may disagree on many things, but not on the value of freedom and human life.

00:29:12.220 After that tweet, others got involved, and the tone by the end had completely changed.

00:29:20.460 Others got involved, why don't you tell us what his response, what do you mean others got involved?

00:29:25.480 Did I miss one of his responses?

00:29:27.940 I don't know.

00:29:28.800 Yeah, no, that was his response.

00:29:30.800 So wait, so he came out and tried three or four points, failed on all of them, and then just stopped responding?

00:29:37.800 Yes.

00:29:38.140 That was the approach to the conversation?

00:29:39.600 Yes.

00:29:40.000 Was he playing his character from that 70s show?

00:29:42.600 I'm not sure.

00:29:44.560 I'm not sure.

00:29:45.740 Because I will say, too, that Ashton Kutcher has, you're right, done some good things.

00:29:48.760 He has.

00:29:49.040 He's said some things that I think have been beneficial.

00:29:51.800 A lot of people just don't know.

00:29:53.440 I mean, you know, when you're surrounded by a media that tells you the reason why we have shootings is because the NRA donated $5,000 to some congressional candidate,

00:30:03.520 well, of course you believe this nonsense.

00:30:04.960 I mean, you believe the NRA is in control of all gun policy in the United States, despite having literally no power.

00:30:11.000 People can vote for whoever they want.

00:30:12.740 The NRA doesn't make you vote for anyone.

00:30:15.100 People can vote in whoever they want.

00:30:17.680 And still, we're told this stuff, a lot of people, I would assume, particularly in Hollywood, believe it.

00:30:23.800 I mean, what are they going to do?

00:30:24.640 They're going to believe it.

00:30:26.200 Well, did you see that some doctors were very upset?

00:30:31.600 And they said, you know, hey, you know, I see bullets in kids all the time.

00:30:40.540 I work at an emergency room, and guns have to be taken off the streets.

00:30:45.640 And I'm an expert in this.

00:30:47.940 No, you're an expert in pulling the bullets out of bodies.

00:30:52.120 That's what you're an expert at.

00:30:53.720 And you may be an expert at witnessing the traumatic ends to illegal guns.

00:31:02.600 However, when I tweeted back to this doctor, you know, where do you work?

00:31:08.520 Are you in California?

00:31:10.440 Are you in New York?

00:31:11.520 Are you in Chicago?

00:31:12.420 Because if you are, you're in the capitals of no-gun zones.

00:31:19.900 And I can guarantee you the bullets that you're pulling out at a high rate are from illegal guns.

00:31:26.260 Right.

00:31:26.660 You know, there's a big article in the Washington Post.

00:31:29.200 This one came after, I think, the Vegas shooting.

00:31:30.880 But they've been updating it because, you know, it gets passed around every time there's another mass shooting.

00:31:34.760 And it talks about the deaths.

00:31:36.520 First of all, to your point, I think the same way.

00:31:38.840 There's been 25 mass shootings in California.

00:31:41.080 Well, California is a place that has the most restrictive gun laws in America.

00:31:45.020 Maybe Connecticut and Maryland you could throw into that conversation as well.

00:31:48.520 But California is right near the top of making it incredibly difficult.

00:31:52.200 And the cities make it even more difficult.

00:31:54.200 So it's a terrible argument to argue for gun control on mass shootings.

00:31:58.920 The mass shootings are happening in areas with gun control.

00:32:01.440 Of course, we all know that almost every single one of them happens in a place where all guns are banned for any purpose in a gun-free zone.

00:32:07.480 But the entire state of California, which is the place, as the Washington Post points out, is the central location for the most of these mass shootings, has the gun laws that every liberal Democrat would wish to pass.

00:32:21.280 It's a fever dream to pass in California what you would get nationally.

00:32:26.160 In fact, most of these things aren't even things that Barack Obama was asking for.

00:32:30.140 They've gone further than even what Barack Obama was asking for, given the political realities of the United States and the diverse populations represented.

00:32:38.580 So that is, gun control obviously doesn't prove that.

00:32:43.520 But when you look at really like the statistics, I think they get down to 1,135 killed in mass shootings.

00:32:50.100 That is way too many.

00:32:51.220 It should be zero.

00:32:51.860 We all know it.

00:32:53.220 But you pointed out the pool stat, and I'm taking this for, I didn't look this up myself.

00:32:56.960 What did you say?

00:32:57.240 It was 10 per day?

00:32:59.140 Something like that?

00:32:59.580 10 per day.

00:32:59.920 10 per day killed in pools.

00:33:02.180 That's 3, you know, 3,650, you know, per year?

00:33:07.640 Yeah.

00:33:08.580 Is that right?

00:33:10.200 Yeah.

00:33:11.100 No, it's more than that, I think.

00:33:12.840 I mean, whatever.

00:33:13.480 It's a lot.

00:33:14.060 And it certainly is going to pass what's killed in mass shootings.

00:33:17.440 Look, it is not comforting.

00:33:21.220 10 people a day, 75% of them are children.

00:33:25.340 It's incredible.

00:33:26.120 And it's no comfort to someone who's, God forbid, been a victim of one of these or have a family member been a victim of one of these.

00:33:31.900 But, I mean, the bottom line is that these events are incredibly rare.

00:33:37.720 However, the odds of you being involved in one of these are so insurmountable that it's almost impossible to stop them.

00:33:47.180 It's certainly, I would say, impossible to stop these things in a country that already has 400 million guns on the streets.

00:33:57.280 You go out there and try to, there's no way to stop them.

00:34:01.640 I believe you can do some damage to this type of event.

00:34:05.560 You can slow down these types of events through media.

00:34:09.560 I think that's, you know, we've talked about studies that have shown that that would really do something.

00:34:13.800 You can obviously secure certain areas, but all you're doing is going to, you're going to free up those areas to, the shootings to happen in other areas, right?

00:34:20.260 Like, we all talk about school security because we're most focused on trying to protect children.

00:34:24.400 Though, as you point out, it's four times, you're four times more likely to be killed in a school shooting in the 1990s than you are today.

00:34:31.200 But we talk about school security just because, you know, here are our most vulnerable people and it's the hardest to deal with when it happens in a school.

00:34:39.180 But if it didn't happen in a school and we secured all of them with giant walls around them and everyone wore bulletproof vests every day, they just go down the street to the supermarket or they go somewhere else.

00:34:48.580 You're not going to be able to stop them completely.

00:34:50.840 It's just not plausible.

00:34:51.860 And when you look at California and you look at Chicago where we have so many gun deaths, what do they have in common?

00:35:01.200 Despair, emptiness, there is a problem.

00:35:08.080 There is a problem.

00:35:09.080 We know it.

00:35:09.680 We can recognize a problem in the inner city, in Chicago.

00:35:12.880 We know there's a problem of fatherlessness.

00:35:15.940 There's whatever.

00:35:17.320 We know there's a long list.

00:35:20.720 California.

00:35:22.160 What's the problem in California?

00:35:25.060 I contend the same thing.

00:35:27.040 Dad might, might be at home.

00:35:29.460 But those families are completely different in some of these major cities in California.

00:35:36.840 And I don't mean, oh, there's two dads.

00:35:39.140 I mean, the values are gone.

00:35:42.380 The, the, the meaning of life.

00:35:45.620 What is the meaning of life?

00:35:48.240 What gives people purpose?

00:35:50.480 It's very, very shallow water in parts of California.

00:36:01.660 This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:36:03.880 And don't forget, rate us on iTunes.

00:36:06.280 We have, we have with us a guy who played for the New York Jets, Los Angeles Raiders, former, obviously, NFL player and Super Bowl champion.

00:36:24.740 Yes, I just had to check his fingers, see if I could see the ring.

00:36:27.360 Yeah, Super Bowl champion.

00:36:28.920 His name is Burgess Owens, a friend of the show.

00:36:31.500 He's been on with us for a while.

00:36:33.040 He has a new book out called Why I Stand, From Freedom to the Killing Fields of Socialism.

00:36:40.760 How are you, sir?

00:36:41.660 Glenn, Christine, again, my friend.

00:36:43.060 Good seeing you.

00:36:43.720 Good to be back.

00:36:44.020 First of all, let's introduce your friend here.

00:36:46.840 And we'll get to your story here in just a second.

00:36:49.980 But this is Mac.

00:36:51.620 Mac White.

00:36:52.160 White. 0.81

00:36:52.760 Okay.

00:36:53.520 Hi, Mac.

00:36:54.140 Hi, how are you doing?

00:36:54.880 How are you?

00:36:55.200 Welcome.

00:36:55.540 I'm good.

00:36:55.980 Glad you're here.

00:36:56.560 Thank you.

00:36:56.860 I'm glad to be here.

00:36:57.800 Okay, so tell me, tell me the, the, the idea behind this book.

00:37:02.000 Because you are, you say it like it is.

00:37:06.980 1910 NAACP.

00:37:09.020 Well, you know, Glenn, the book basically highlights the fact that what we've done together is, is remarkable.

00:37:14.820 We have a country that from the very beginning was based on what we, the people, can do together.

00:37:19.280 And the history that we've lost is what we've done, regardless of race, because we have such great hearts.

00:37:25.920 We reach out for those who are needy, those who are at risk.

00:37:29.060 That's been our nature.

00:37:30.520 And the reason I brought Mac with me today is because we need to get that done again.

00:37:35.620 We need to realize that there is an invisible generation out there of kids that have not been given opportunities that many of us have gotten.

00:37:42.480 They've not been taught about respect and commitment and love and all those things that we kind of take for granted.

00:37:47.340 And once they get it, they will be our strongest advocates for our American way.

00:37:51.800 I think that's going to be the generation of bringing our country back.

00:37:55.220 And before we get to the solutions, which is the main point, but you, you point out that this was intentionally done to African-Americans.

00:38:03.080 Oh, absolutely. Now, what we have to recognize is we're in a fight for the heart and soul of our nation.

00:38:08.240 The Judeo-Christian values we have are very unique.

00:38:11.840 We're the only country that's ever done it this way.

00:38:13.900 And that's why we're the greatest country in the history of mankind.

00:38:16.640 At the same time, we have an adversary, the socialists, Marxists, and atheists, who are anti-God, who wants to destroy us in any way possible.

00:38:23.860 And for those who understand the history of the black community, one thing, for instance, I don't even know if you know this, but in 1905, Tuskegee Institution,

00:38:34.260 where we've talked about quite a bit, led, was producing more self-made millionaires in Harvard, Yale, and Princeton combined.

00:38:41.680 And this is the way Americans do it. 0.75

00:38:43.460 And we have freedom, hope, and opportunity.

00:38:45.780 And every race has done the same thing.

00:38:48.340 Those things we have not heard about.

00:38:50.560 But that race, that community, was purposely undermined because it was such a threat to the leftists.

00:38:57.300 So the leftist piece is still there.

00:39:00.140 They're now still attacking our country, have destroyed, basically, the black family. 1.00

00:39:04.920 And we'll get it back.

00:39:06.060 We're in the process to have young people like Mac, who's super committed to his family.

00:39:10.180 And I'm excited about what he represents.

00:39:12.420 Okay, so Mac, let me hear your story.

00:39:15.780 Tell me about yourself.

00:39:17.880 I was born and raised in Houston, Texas.

00:39:22.640 Lived in foster homes.

00:39:25.340 My mom was separated from my mom when I was probably like four or five.

00:39:29.980 She had me at 20.

00:39:31.700 She kind of wasn't ready to have a child.

00:39:33.900 So I had to deal with the consequences of that.

00:39:37.940 And I lived with my aunt for a little bit.

00:39:41.500 Then basically jumped around from house to house, staying with my dad.

00:39:45.780 Or, you know, different girlfriends he would have.

00:39:48.500 Kind of really know a stable place all the time.

00:39:52.220 Because him and my stepmom had like a dysfunctional relationship.

00:39:57.120 So it was always a lot of fighting and going on and a lot of arguing.

00:40:02.700 They never really learned how to work things out.

00:40:04.900 So it was always he would just leave and pack up and leave and go stay somewhere else.

00:40:09.900 Or I would get dropped off somewhere.

00:40:13.060 And just by the time I was probably a teenager, I started getting involved with, you know, drugs and gangs and hustling.

00:40:22.340 Because my dad didn't have a job.

00:40:24.620 And his girlfriend at the time, she didn't have a job. 0.59

00:40:27.720 So I kind of was like providing for myself for like clothes and food.

00:40:32.780 And when I was 16, I ended up, well, I dropped out of high school.

00:40:36.560 And then by the time I was 16, I was charged with two counts of aggravated robbery.

00:40:41.560 And I was sentenced to three years.

00:40:44.360 Texas Youth Commission in Gainesville, Texas.

00:40:48.040 How'd that work out?

00:40:49.000 Which one?

00:40:50.520 The prison.

00:40:52.440 It was rough.

00:40:53.700 It was rough.

00:40:54.820 But at the now that I look at it, I think that was the best thing that could ever have happened to me.

00:41:01.340 Just because the simple fact that I was just on this path to destruction.

00:41:05.480 And it was just because I had no hope.

00:41:08.880 You know, just growing in the community that I grew up in and the environment and the household.

00:41:16.060 You kind of just grow up hopeless.

00:41:19.240 So what was the turning point?

00:41:20.960 You found hope in prison?

00:41:22.640 I didn't find hope in prison.

00:41:24.740 I found just realization with everything that I believed in in the streets.

00:41:29.800 The everything that I was looking for in there was the same thing I wanted in my household.

00:41:34.900 It's just that I didn't find it in the household.

00:41:37.100 So I went other places to go find it.

00:41:39.300 It's kind of like a teenager that feel like they can't talk to their parents about something.

00:41:46.520 So they go talk to a friend.

00:41:48.740 But, you know, they might talk to somebody the same age as them.

00:41:51.500 So it's kind of like the blind leading blind.

00:41:53.060 You're not going to get the best information from that person.

00:41:56.000 But that's just the only person at that time that you feel like you can run and talk to.

00:42:01.820 And so with my situation was the guys that were in my neighborhood, the ones I felt like I could talk to that could help me,

00:42:10.040 that I would get that love and everything I was looking for in a family out of those gangs or, you know, the friends.

00:42:17.060 And I mean, being 13, you can't really have a job at that age.

00:42:21.920 And you don't we don't we're not taught how to fill out applications.

00:42:25.280 A lot of us can't even read.

00:42:27.980 We don't know about finances or anything.

00:42:30.040 The only thing we know is just what our community has to offer.

00:42:33.260 And nine times out of 10 is selling drugs or robbing people.

00:42:37.580 The only way to survive.

00:42:38.600 And that's what we see growing up as kids.

00:42:42.540 I always say, like, when you always like to say that a lot of kids never come out of the womb throwing up gang signs or, you know,

00:42:52.380 any of this stuff that a lot of people and it's something that is taught and, you know, it's easy.

00:43:00.420 Kids are so vulnerable.

00:43:02.140 I mean, the first person to get to them is going to have the biggest impact and going to be able to change their mindset to where they want it to be.

00:43:10.720 And that's what you have a lot of times in those environments, too, as well.

00:43:14.520 But it's just a cycle because those people are just doing what was done to them.

00:43:18.500 Can I just say, because the key is there's something that happened that allowed you to change that trajectory.

00:43:24.580 And why don't you explain that to Glenn?

00:43:25.560 Because this is really what we're the people, what we've done as a people to help each other.

00:43:30.080 That's really, I think, what I think we can highlight with Mac.

00:43:33.500 So explain what happened that got you out of that trajectory you're heading into.

00:43:39.460 As far as like when I got out.

00:43:41.040 Carmen and Steve.

00:43:41.640 And so, all right, so when I was in jail, it gave me a lot of time to reflect on a lot of things that I did.

00:43:48.960 And then I start realizing that those things I believed in, those people that got to me first when I was a kid, that I believed in those things.

00:43:57.800 And when I saw what those things got me and that this was the end point right here is jail or either a graveyard.

00:44:06.260 I had to start finding a new way of thinking, but not knowing how to because I didn't have anybody to teach me.

00:44:16.000 My father said to me when I was young, I said, I'm never going to be like you.

00:44:19.500 And he said, son, I'm proud of you.

00:44:22.080 I didn't want to be like my father either.

00:44:23.660 He said, but if you don't find someone to model, you will be exactly like me.

00:44:31.180 And that's kind of the problem.

00:44:32.220 You don't have any place.

00:44:33.340 So where did you find the model?

00:44:35.080 Okay.

00:44:35.280 So when I got released from jail, I received a card from a lady that was a co-founder on a project called One Heart.

00:44:45.980 And she sent me a postcard that had the One Heart project, like the label of like, I guess they were going to do a film.

00:44:57.800 And it had like all her information on the back, basically wanting me to contact her.

00:45:02.320 So I did.

00:45:03.380 And then when I contacted her, she basically asked me a lot of questions and just asked about my crime, how serious it was.

00:45:12.200 Asked me, what was I doing now?

00:45:14.560 Where did I want to be in life?

00:45:16.800 And just basically just having conversations, just seeing where my mind was.

00:45:20.400 And I didn't think anything of it.

00:45:21.760 I thought she just wanted to talk to me and then have something to tell at the end of the movie or something like that, like from a real actual person that was at the game.

00:45:30.880 And she ended up contacting me again.

00:45:34.660 And I met with her and her family.

00:45:36.540 Mother's Day, they drove from Dallas to Houston.

00:45:38.600 It was just me and my dad.

00:45:39.720 Because when I got out, I went back to the same environment that brought you into prison.

00:45:45.720 Exactly.

00:45:46.500 So that was one of those things.

00:45:47.780 It was like I got out and then, hey, close the door, you know, figure it out.

00:45:52.580 And luckily, I was blessed enough to actually, what I like to consider her my angel.

00:45:58.360 She came and she asked me to, did I want to come live with them?

00:46:04.400 And she was going to help change my life.

00:46:06.560 Holy cow, that is risky.

00:46:08.580 Yeah, and it was scary for me, too, because I don't want to say this, but I can't help it.

00:46:15.960 It's not common for a white person to want to come help a black kid, especially a young black kid from where I'm from, because either they hate us or they fear us.

00:46:25.580 You know, nobody really takes the time to understand us or understand our situation.

00:46:31.960 And a lot of times I feel like the media portrays that because the news only shows you the two gangbangers that had a shootout.

00:46:40.500 But they don't ever do a story on those gangbangers.

00:46:42.800 It was 10 years ago when their dad was in prison or their mom was drunk out on crack and they had to find ways.

00:46:49.080 It's some crazy stories.

00:46:50.480 If a lot of people would hear them, a lot of people would say, I don't know if I would have been able to make it through that.

00:46:57.520 Yeah.

00:46:57.700 You know, so just going through that, but back to the topic.

00:47:02.780 I'm sorry.

00:47:03.260 That's okay.

00:47:03.780 No, that's okay.

00:47:04.900 So how has your life changed now?

00:47:09.320 What are you doing now?

00:47:10.160 When the lady took me in, she put her hand on me, on my hand, and she said, if you come with me, I will take your life to a level you never thought was possible.

00:47:21.420 And at the end of the day, my whole reason for finding that realization that I need to change my way of thinking, I felt like this was what I needed right here to help me completely change that.

00:47:35.660 And then also take action because I actually wanted to make some out of my life.

00:47:39.480 I just didn't know what I wanted because I never dreamed past 21 because I didn't think I would make it to be 21 or even be a free man at 21.

00:47:48.320 What do you do now?

00:47:49.360 I do acting, modeling.

00:47:51.200 I do speaking and like mentoring, but individually, like on my own with like younger people that I've encountered with that I want to help.

00:48:02.400 Can I say this?

00:48:03.380 I've spoken to about 30 young people in the juvenile system, and they are mesmerized by his story because what he does best is leave the message, if I can do it, you can do it.

00:48:13.840 He takes away excuses that you can't, he takes away the thought you cannot make in this country, that this is a place you have a second chance.

00:48:21.620 If given it and you go for it, you can change your life.

00:48:24.320 I don't know anybody that could make it in today's world, especially African-Americans, after being told all the time, young girls now, you're not going to make it.

00:48:36.860 It's the system is a rape culture. 1.00

00:48:38.760 It's against you.

00:48:39.860 I wouldn't.

00:48:40.720 I mean, I grew up in a poor family and my father was, you know, a small businessman, kind of a failing businessman, Willie Loman kind of guy.

00:48:48.760 Suicide in my family, divorce, blah, blah, blah.

00:48:51.140 We've all had our share of problems, but the one thing that was instilled in me was you can do anything you set your mind to, and if you don't have that, and in fact you have a society telling you this society is against you, you'll never make it because of them, you don't have a chance.

00:49:10.900 And my story is I grew up in the deep south, in the Tallahassee segregated community, KKK and Jim Crow, and a very successful community, though, because in that community, there were people who believed in our country, they believed in God, they believed in the family unit, and their goal was to show those who didn't believe in them that they could make it happen.

00:49:29.520 And so for me to look back 50 years later and see the message that you see, you're so correct.

00:49:34.580 The messages are so different now.

00:49:36.680 For us to tell young people like Mac that you can't make it in this country is stealing their dreams.

00:49:41.740 It's the worst that Americans do to another American.

00:49:44.400 And yet we have it.

00:49:45.240 It's almost a business now.

00:49:48.140 People make millions of dollars by giving the message of hopelessness.

00:49:51.320 And so this is why we have to recognize if we're going to change the trajectory of our country, we need to make sure our kids know that this is the greatest place in history of mankind.

00:49:59.480 Tell me about your great, what was it, your great-great-grandfather?

00:50:03.340 Oh, great, thanks.

00:50:04.840 Great-great-grandfather, Silas Burgess, came to this country in the belly of a slave ship in 1848.

00:50:10.680 I was sold on an auction block in Charleston, South Carolina with his mother.

00:50:14.480 His mother either committed suicide, took her life or escaped.

00:50:19.160 She couldn't take it anymore.

00:50:20.700 The heinous things was happening to her.

00:50:23.700 And so at age eight, he was an orphan.

00:50:25.660 But he had men around him that believed that they still had hope and they escaped.

00:50:30.820 Took the southern route of the Underground Railroad, facilitated by Mexican and German Americans,

00:50:36.980 and made his way out to Smithfield, Texas, where he became a very successful entrepreneur,

00:50:41.980 owned 100 acres of land, bought it two years, started the first black church, first black elementary school,

00:50:48.420 pillar of his community, Republican, proud American, and that is what the American way is all about.

00:50:54.460 It doesn't matter how we got here, as long as you have hope.

00:50:57.100 And that's what people like Mac, I think, is a future of our country.

00:51:01.260 They're finding out that this is a place that can make it if given the chance, if given hope.

00:51:06.780 And once they get that, it's like the Harriet Tubman that I've come to love when I was a 12-year-old kid.

00:51:12.740 She not only escaped, but went back 20 times, helped 300 people, because that was her love and empathy for people.

00:51:18.860 And that's what Mac is doing now.

00:51:20.340 He's going back and telling his kids, you can make it, you can do it, I'm here to help you, we'll make it happen.

00:51:25.220 And he'd help four or five of his friends to come out after they came out of the same situation.

00:51:30.280 And that's the heart of Americans.

00:51:33.020 So we continue to do that.

00:51:35.820 It doesn't matter what color we are.

00:51:37.540 It's who we are.

00:51:38.640 It's those values we have inside of us that say there's a God in heaven,

00:51:42.360 that if we do the right thing, we give as much as we can, that we'll be blessed,

00:51:45.880 and they will be blessed in the same process.

00:51:47.740 Tell me what you think is going on with the NFL and the kneeling.

00:51:50.800 Okay.

00:51:51.720 First of all, we have to recognize the NFL is not the same as the days we grew up.

00:51:55.140 You know, Al Davis and Pete Rozelle, they're globalists.

00:51:57.620 Globalists and globalists basically do not prioritize our country.

00:52:03.020 They see their profit, their profitability across the world,

00:52:05.920 and that they've done purposely the last three years.

00:52:08.220 I wonder why it's taken three years for them to figure out how to deal with this flag thing.

00:52:12.260 They want to demean the NFL brand very simply because they have places like China, France, Mexico.

00:52:19.640 There's over 68 countries that they already have a presence in,

00:52:22.720 and they're looking at having the Super Bowl in London.

00:52:24.500 So at the end of the day, they want to make sure they demean the brand enough

00:52:28.760 so it's accepted in China and all these other places.

00:52:31.240 They don't really care too much for our country.

00:52:33.620 It's a global stretch.

00:52:35.140 They don't mind giving up or sacrificing these kids' careers.

00:52:38.180 That's what they're doing.

00:52:38.780 These young men are not only sacrificing their careers today, but their brand.

00:52:43.320 When they leave the game, they will not have the same power to move forward as those days.

00:52:49.580 Colin Kaepernick.

00:52:50.580 Yeah.

00:52:51.240 I mean, he's done pretty well for himself.

00:52:52.900 Well, and what they'll do is they deal with the idea of use, abuse, and discard.

00:52:57.980 He will be discarded eventually when they figure out they don't need him anymore.

00:53:01.620 The leftists are very heartless people because it's all about themselves.

00:53:05.700 And so you understand the NFL, what I like to do, I see the NFL do, is apologize for the last three years.

00:53:11.360 I think at that point, what they're trying to do now is trying to move forward.

00:53:14.540 They just had a big thing with Veterans Day where they're showing how proud they are,

00:53:17.800 and you don't see too much of this crisis right now.

00:53:21.880 They've been able to push that down.

00:53:23.620 They want us to forget what they've done the last three years.

00:53:26.140 It's just like the Democratic Party does the same thing. 0.96

00:53:28.260 They have been a menace to the black community for a century, 1.00

00:53:32.060 and they want to kind of help us forget that they were the bad piece of this process.

00:53:37.320 So I would love to see the NFL not only apologize,

00:53:41.200 but tell us what they did with the $90 million that they put into this social justice.

00:53:45.880 Where is that now?

00:53:47.560 And how is it being used?

00:53:49.220 And I don't think we'll ever find out how that's all worked out.

00:53:52.000 You know, when you said this when we were off the air, I was like,

00:53:55.400 I can't believe I didn't think of that.

00:53:59.000 People don't understand in America that we are just a market to many of these companies now.

00:54:04.540 When it comes to NFL, you know, we're a market.

00:54:08.480 You know, we're just one of many, and they've maxed out their growth here in America.

00:54:12.880 So now what do we do to get Mexico and other places around the world to accept NFL like soccer, World Cup?

00:54:22.240 And that's really what's happening.

00:54:24.880 I'm glad you brought that up.

00:54:26.520 I would have never thought of it.

00:54:27.340 Well, and I mentioned this when we were off air,

00:54:29.320 but the commissioner just got signed a contract of $40 million per year.

00:54:34.280 Keep in mind, only 10% of that is $4 million guaranteed.

00:54:38.840 The rest of 90% is based on growth.

00:54:40.900 Their growth started tailing off three years ago.

00:54:44.100 They capped $3 billion in the United States, and they're going south ever since.

00:54:47.480 So they have to get that internationally.

00:54:49.620 You wonder why Nike stepped in.

00:54:51.100 Well, Nike gets all their money in China.

00:54:53.280 That's where their big payday is, very little bit, comparatively speaking, here in the United States.

00:54:58.880 So if they were to put Colin Kaepernick, the Marxist he is, as their brand, yeah, the champion,

00:55:08.620 it's very attractive to the Chinese people.

00:55:11.620 Have you heard that anywhere, Stu?

00:55:13.080 No.

00:55:13.820 Really, Brian?

00:55:14.560 You have to really have to think through how bad these people are to really get to what they're capable of doing.

00:55:20.860 And I think American people haven't gotten there yet.

00:55:22.880 They don't quite understand how devious the leftists really are.

00:55:27.300 Do you, I mean, your book is full of stuff like that.

00:55:30.980 But I want to take you to a more positive place that you say, how long have we known each other?

00:55:39.540 Four years?

00:55:40.340 Yeah.

00:55:40.640 Okay.

00:55:41.000 Yeah.

00:55:42.400 You say just in the last four years, the world has changed in the black community. 1.00

00:55:48.200 What do you mean?

00:55:48.820 It is.

00:55:49.420 I am so, so excited about what's happening.

00:55:53.580 I think the greatest present to our country was President Obama because he showed how much of a failure liberals and socialists and Marxists can be.

00:56:04.440 We have people, the black community has so much hope that he's going to be the savior.

00:56:09.180 And when he failed after eight years, they realized, wait a minute, what happened here?

00:56:12.560 You never hear about his failures.

00:56:14.000 How do you mean he failed?

00:56:15.700 Well, when you look at the fact, I'm going to give you just a couple, just so you know how bad things have gotten.

00:56:20.100 75% of the black boys in the state of California cannot pass standard reading and writing tests.

00:56:24.700 83% of black teen males for the last eight years could not find jobs.

00:56:28.720 70% of black men forsake their families. 0.51

00:56:31.300 I mean, go to the litany. 0.91

00:56:32.520 You go through the increase of welfare.

00:56:34.860 What the leftists do is they understand that misery is how they get their power.

00:56:39.740 So they do everything they can.

00:56:41.120 And they lie, they'll pat you on the back and give you a big, big hug as they're giving you misery. 0.93

00:56:46.160 But what's happening is that now that we're where we are, black folks realize my misery didn't go away. 0.97

00:56:52.080 So we have a president, Trump, who, of course, doesn't do it politically the way it's supposed to be done.

00:56:57.500 But the results are there.

00:56:58.820 We now have more, less unemployment than ever in the history of our race.

00:57:03.120 We're now talking about education.

00:57:04.260 We're talking about prison reform.

00:57:05.600 This has never been talked about.

00:57:06.640 But all the things that now bring hope to people, we're now finding.

00:57:10.940 And we have many young people now.

00:57:12.780 And that's just the older folks who came from the generation I did.

00:57:15.300 We saw the success.

00:57:16.800 Younger people are getting it. 0.85

00:57:18.280 And they're leaving.

00:57:19.040 They say, there's a blacksit now. 1.00

00:57:20.480 We're leaving. 0.99

00:57:22.080 Blacks leaving the Democratic Party. 0.98

00:57:23.800 There's a walk away. 0.84

00:57:24.800 Do you really believe that's happening?

00:57:27.000 Well, what's happening?

00:57:28.140 To a real significant extent?

00:57:30.500 Here are the numbers.

00:57:31.240 We have 16% of black Americans that were for candidate Trump.

00:57:35.500 It's now 36% for President Trump.

00:57:38.380 I've never seen that with a Republican or conservative candidate. 0.85

00:57:42.140 Well, because blacks are feeling it. 0.99

00:57:44.500 When you start to see jobs coming, you start to feel hope.

00:57:47.960 It's a whole different ballgame.

00:57:49.160 And we're just getting started.

00:57:50.460 My goal, very simply, is two things.

00:57:52.840 It's education and it's ownership.

00:57:55.980 And ownership, basically, is not just being entrepreneurs, but it's owning your future,

00:58:00.060 realizing that you can actually make a difference in what you do and be accountable for your actions.

00:58:04.220 We get that message, which is now going to be starting to happen in the black community. 0.98

00:58:07.780 And we'll be the community that we were back in the turn of the century,

00:58:12.220 where we're literally the example of what can happen when a community got it right.

00:58:16.720 Have you met African Americans who have read your book and see things like, for instance,

00:58:21.740 just talk about the NAACP and the way it started?

00:58:23.840 NAACP was started back in 1910.

00:58:28.560 It's the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

00:58:31.500 The problem is it wasn't started by colored people.

00:58:34.080 It was started by 21 white socialists, Marxists, atheists, race-controlled Democrats. 0.71

00:58:38.120 And they had a black socialist, W.E. DeVos, who was a facade. 0.87

00:58:42.980 And through stealth, they got into our community and switched that community.

00:58:46.120 At that time, it was leading our country and the growth of the middle class, capitalism, patriotism, you name it. 0.65

00:58:54.000 It was the most successful, even in the 1960s.

00:58:57.280 It was the most stable family in the country.

00:59:00.920 That's exactly right.

00:59:01.640 What happened from slavery up until about 1920, 1930-ish with the black Americans was amazing what they did. 0.61

00:59:14.300 And then it was just dismantled.

00:59:15.840 Well, Glenn, you've talked to your audience.

00:59:17.360 I've heard you talk about Black Wall Street.

00:59:19.540 We talk about Madam C.J. Walker, who was the first female self-made millionaire in our country.

00:59:24.920 People would say that that was Oprah Winfrey. 1.00

00:59:26.900 It happened a century before her.

00:59:29.120 The first black millionaire on Wall Street was in 1840, and he died in 1875 with a wealth of $250 million today's dollars.

00:59:39.240 So there's a success going on.

00:59:40.580 We don't hear about it.

00:59:41.380 That's what the left does.

00:59:42.840 It's called, it's what Karl Marx said, the first battleground is the rewriting of history.

00:59:47.480 You steal our history.

00:59:48.780 You steal away the vision of our future and our pride and our past.

00:59:51.700 And that's what they've done.

00:59:52.700 So we're going to get that back.

00:59:53.820 So when you have people who are African-American who read this, do you have, and don't know what you do, do you have them come back to you and say, oh, my gosh. 0.99

01:00:04.820 I've had some.

01:00:06.980 I think, though, what I love is that I'm not the only voice out there now.

01:00:11.580 This is what's exciting to me, Glenn.

01:00:13.860 That might have been a deal 10, 15 years ago that I would have been a big, big deal because this is such a new voice.

01:00:19.940 Right.

01:00:20.180 Like the Shelby, there's a few guys, Walter Williams and a few others.

01:00:25.660 Now I'm just one of many voices out there.

01:00:28.360 And so it's nice to see that people are reading.

01:00:31.180 I think, though, the key is the venues like this is what we, the people, do.

01:00:35.060 It's not just black voices.

01:00:36.780 It's black and whites together doing things and realizing that color has nothing to do with it.

01:00:41.580 We all have issues.

01:00:42.420 We're all trying to get through this thing called life.

01:00:44.100 And if we give back, no matter what color we are, we all we all win at the end of the day.

01:00:48.600 I just think you're a you're a miracle in today's world.

01:00:51.880 And I'm always pleased to have you here.

01:00:53.880 The name of the book is Why I Stand from Freedom to the Killing Fields of Socialism by Burgess Owens, available everywhere.

01:01:01.260 Thanks, Glenn.

01:01:01.820 Good seeing you, Anthony.

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The Glenn Beck Program - November 12, 2018

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