Glenn Beck talks the devastating fires in California and Florida, Tucker Carlson and why he thinks the NFL should allow him to take a knee during the national anthem, and much, much more! Glenn also talks about his new book, Why I Stand, which is a book about why he believes Colin Kaepernick should have taken a knee.
00:00:08.280Hello everybody, it's Monday and we welcome you to the podcast. I'm so glad that you're listening today.
00:00:14.360There's a couple things that before we get to the podcast I want to tell you about.
00:00:18.280We are in California right now. We're still in Florida.
00:00:23.560I 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.
00:00:33.860The wildfire has killed 31 people at this hour and it's just out of control.
00:00:41.800Our hearts, our prayers and our thoughts are with the people of California, but so are our backs and our hands and our legs.
00:00:48.900And we are trying to help them out as much as we can at mercuryone.org.
00:00:53.580If you'd like to donate for any of these disasters, 100% of the proceeds go to these disasters that you earmark. 100%.
00:01:03.340Is that where you can buy the raffle tickets too for the car?
00:02:56.560But, uh, this is, if you're like Glenn or most male, um, males in the audience, uh, you may want to try field of greens because you get all the nutrients and stuff that you need.
00:03:06.220Uh, you can go through the whole eat your vegetables thing that your mom told you to do and you never did.
00:03:10.680You can do that with one scoop and juice or milk or water.
00:03:35.060That was a slogan, uh, used by the feminists in the 1960s.
00:03:39.340And 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.
00:03:56.440And 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.
00:04:30.980Even worse, having a difference in opinion is a personal insult.
00:04:35.980Now 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.
00:04:55.840As we saw last week with, uh, Antifa protesters who broke down Tucker Carlson's front door and screamed threats.
00:05:03.100Yesterday, Michael Avenatti claimed on Twitter that he is investigating Tucker Carlson for an alleged assault on a gay Latino immigrant.
00:05:14.620Well, this sounds about as plausible, uh, as, uh, Avenatti's ridiculous claim that Brett Kavanaugh was a serial rapist, uh, in, uh, high school.
00:05:25.880Well, Tucker Carlson responded, as is expected, Avenatti wasn't telling the truth.
00:05:34.580It seems officials from the Farmington country club where the incident happened have confirmed it.
00:05:41.560Now they revoked the man's membership that night.
00:05:47.160Turns 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.
00:06:03.120Apparently the middle-aged man, uh, said to Tucker Carlson's daughter, are you having dinner with Tucker Carlson?
00:13:50.360We're not going to play the game that they're playing because I don't want to be that person.
00:13:57.980I remember leaving that crowd and saying to my wife, I would be so ashamed if anyone, anyone in my audience treated people like that.
00:14:10.620If 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.
00:14:24.160But I slept well that night knowing my audience wouldn't do that.
00:14:28.080It's one of the reasons why we did Restoring Love.
00:14:30.880I 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.
00:19:13.720Now, 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.
00:19:24.060So you would think that asylum would be an easy slam dunk.
00:19:27.460I mean, after all, Europe has been taking refugees in by the millions, quite literally by the millions.
00:19:35.220So, why wouldn't they take another refugee from Pakistan?
00:19:42.960Well, 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.
00:20:00.140Okay, what you're fearing, let me translate British bullcrap into English.
00:20:07.980What 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.
00:20:19.680We are too cowardly to even take on the sex ring gangs that are targeting British children.
00:20:28.120We're too afraid of the Islamists to even do anything about that.
00:20:34.940The last thing we can do is help this Christian.
00:21:19.280And 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.
00:21:36.540And 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.
00:21:57.060The MS St. Louis is a black stain on our history.
00:22:02.840A group of Jewish immigrants who are being targeted by the Nazis.
00:22:09.720They went to every country in the Western Hemisphere, including us, and we turned them around.
00:22:22.140President Trump, Mike Pence, Mike Lee, Ted Cruz, I beg you, please, grant this woman and her family immediate asylum here in the United States.
00:22:38.860Now 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.
00:22:52.140If 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.
00:23:05.580If we don't stand for her, what are we all fighting about?
00:25:01.540Now, 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?
00:25:08.280Because I cannot find anything close to that.
00:25:10.660Yeah, I mean, again, that's eliminating one entire side of the war, right?
00:25:15.340Like, if you're saying, I guess he's assuming U.S. troops, right?
00:29:53.440I 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,
00:30:03.520well, of course you believe this nonsense.
00:30:04.960I mean, you believe the NRA is in control of all gun policy in the United States, despite having literally no power.
00:30:11.000People can vote for whoever they want.
00:30:12.740The NRA doesn't make you vote for anyone.
00:31:36.520First of all, to your point, I think the same way.
00:31:38.840There's been 25 mass shootings in California.
00:31:41.080Well, California is a place that has the most restrictive gun laws in America.
00:31:45.020Maybe Connecticut and Maryland you could throw into that conversation as well.
00:31:48.520But California is right near the top of making it incredibly difficult.
00:31:52.200And the cities make it even more difficult.
00:31:54.200So it's a terrible argument to argue for gun control on mass shootings.
00:31:58.920The mass shootings are happening in areas with gun control.
00:32:01.440Of 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.
00:32:07.480But 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.
00:32:21.280It's a fever dream to pass in California what you would get nationally.
00:32:26.160In fact, most of these things aren't even things that Barack Obama was asking for.
00:32:30.140They've gone further than even what Barack Obama was asking for, given the political realities of the United States and the diverse populations represented.
00:32:38.580So that is, gun control obviously doesn't prove that.
00:32:43.520But when you look at really like the statistics, I think they get down to 1,135 killed in mass shootings.
00:33:26.120And 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.
00:33:31.900But, I mean, the bottom line is that these events are incredibly rare.
00:33:37.720However, the odds of you being involved in one of these are so insurmountable that it's almost impossible to stop them.
00:33:47.180It's certainly, I would say, impossible to stop these things in a country that already has 400 million guns on the streets.
00:33:57.280You go out there and try to, there's no way to stop them.
00:34:01.640I believe you can do some damage to this type of event.
00:34:05.560You can slow down these types of events through media.
00:34:09.560I think that's, you know, we've talked about studies that have shown that that would really do something.
00:34:13.800You 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?
00:34:20.260Like, we all talk about school security because we're most focused on trying to protect children.
00:34:24.400Though, 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.
00:34:31.200But 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.
00:34:39.180But 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.
00:34:48.580You're not going to be able to stop them completely.
00:36:06.280We 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.
00:36:24.740Yes, I just had to check his fingers, see if I could see the ring.
00:37:30.520And the reason I brought Mac with me today is because we need to get that done again.
00:37:35.620We 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.
00:37:42.480They've not been taught about respect and commitment and love and all those things that we kind of take for granted.
00:37:47.340And once they get it, they will be our strongest advocates for our American way.
00:37:51.800I think that's going to be the generation of bringing our country back.
00:37:55.220And before we get to the solutions, which is the main point, but you, you point out that this was intentionally done to African-Americans.
00:38:03.080Oh, absolutely. Now, what we have to recognize is we're in a fight for the heart and soul of our nation.
00:38:08.240The Judeo-Christian values we have are very unique.
00:38:11.840We're the only country that's ever done it this way.
00:38:13.900And that's why we're the greatest country in the history of mankind.
00:38:16.640At 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.
00:38:23.860And 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,
00:38:34.260where we've talked about quite a bit, led, was producing more self-made millionaires in Harvard, Yale, and Princeton combined.
00:43:02.140I 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.
00:43:10.720And that's what you have a lot of times in those environments, too, as well.
00:43:14.520But it's just a cycle because those people are just doing what was done to them.
00:43:18.500Can I just say, because the key is there's something that happened that allowed you to change that trajectory.
00:43:24.580And why don't you explain that to Glenn?
00:43:25.560Because this is really what we're the people, what we've done as a people to help each other.
00:43:30.080That's really, I think, what I think we can highlight with Mac.
00:43:33.500So explain what happened that got you out of that trajectory you're heading into.
00:43:41.640And 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.
00:43:48.960And 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.
00:43:57.800And when I saw what those things got me and that this was the end point right here is jail or either a graveyard.
00:44:06.260I had to start finding a new way of thinking, but not knowing how to because I didn't have anybody to teach me.
00:44:16.000My father said to me when I was young, I said, I'm never going to be like you.
00:45:21.760I 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.
00:46:08.580Yeah, and it was scary for me, too, because I don't want to say this, but I can't help it.
00:46:15.960It'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.
00:46:25.580You know, nobody really takes the time to understand us or understand our situation.
00:46:31.960And a lot of times I feel like the media portrays that because the news only shows you the two gangbangers that had a shootout.
00:46:40.500But they don't ever do a story on those gangbangers.
00:46:42.800It was 10 years ago when their dad was in prison or their mom was drunk out on crack and they had to find ways.
00:47:10.160When 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.
00:47:21.420And 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.
00:47:35.660And then also take action because I actually wanted to make some out of my life.
00:47:39.480I 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.
00:47:51.200I 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.
00:48:03.380I'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.
00:48:13.840He 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.
00:48:21.620If given it and you go for it, you can change your life.
00:48:24.320I 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.
00:48:40.720I 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.
00:48:48.760Suicide in my family, divorce, blah, blah, blah.
00:48:51.140We'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.
00:49:10.900And 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.
00:49:29.520And so for me to look back 50 years later and see the message that you see, you're so correct.
00:49:48.140People make millions of dollars by giving the message of hopelessness.
00:49:51.320And 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.
00:49:59.480Tell me about your great, what was it, your great-great-grandfather?
00:55:49.420I am so, so excited about what's happening.
00:55:53.580I 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.
00:56:04.440We have people, the black community has so much hope that he's going to be the savior.
00:56:09.180And when he failed after eight years, they realized, wait a minute, what happened here?
00:59:53.820So 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.