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00:00:00.000 Hey, it's Glenn Beck, Stuber here, ready for the podcast.

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00:00:04.980 First, Stu is getting ready for the big weekend here at the Mercury Studios for our Mercury Museum.

00:00:10.840 Yeah, can't wait to check it out at the museum.

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00:00:37.260 There may be some discount for two-spirit.

00:00:39.380 I understand it's half price for each spirit.

00:00:42.140 Is it?

00:00:43.440 So if you're two-spirit.

00:00:44.880 Yep.

00:00:46.720 See, I was pushing for double for two-spirit.

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00:01:06.780 Great show today.

00:01:07.640 I started with a call from a member of Ocasio-Cortez's staff who was there and could tell us all about the horrible brutality that Ocasio-Cortez had to go through.

00:01:23.520 That really was a sad way to start the show.

00:01:26.240 It was.

00:01:26.780 It was.

00:01:27.220 Then we got into another sad tale of how somebody let this one slip onto the back of Nike's shoes, the real story about the racist Betsy Ross flag, and why Nike should have listened to Colin Kaepernick.

00:01:43.660 And there might be a little sarcasm in today's show.

00:01:47.340 I don't know if we actually got to any of that.

00:01:49.860 Also, the latest poll numbers and what they all mean, and how Antifa is running our cities now.

00:01:57.880 Oh, and Showtime has a show on Fox, and I guess I'm featured in the next episode.

00:02:02.580 And I'm guessing it's going to be very, very flattering to me, especially since the guy from The Walking Dead, who played just an obnoxious redneck, is playing me.

00:02:13.800 But all that and more on today's podcast.

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00:03:25.900 Okay, we are, we have to take these things seriously because women need to be believed. 1.00

00:03:33.980 And here is what Ocasio-Cortez said when she left the border guard yesterday.

00:03:42.540 Listen carefully.

00:03:43.900 In that last facility, I was not safe from the officers in that facility.

00:03:50.060 Do you have any comment about what was posted about you in the alleged Facebook group?

00:03:55.100 I mean, I think it's just, uh, it's, it's just indicative of, of the violent culture that

00:04:02.140 we saw on the inside.

00:04:03.960 Wow.

00:04:04.580 The violent culture that she just saw.

00:04:07.680 She in that facility that she went to check out with all the cameras and everything else.

00:04:12.560 She was not safe.

00:04:15.060 I wish there had been somebody around that might have witnessed her feeling unsafe.

00:04:24.840 And I understand we have somebody who had witnessed that or couldn't explain exactly what happened

00:04:31.800 yesterday because we must take her seriously.

00:04:36.260 She must be believed.

00:04:38.720 In one minute.

00:04:40.000 She wasn't safe, Stu.

00:04:48.720 She was not safe.

00:04:49.780 No.

00:04:50.100 I'm glad you're aware of that. 0.77

00:04:52.380 When I heard this, I thought to myself, my gosh, these border patrol agents are animals.

00:05:01.980 They're just animals.

00:05:04.380 Physically and emotionally putting Ocasio-Cortez in an unsafe atmosphere.

00:05:11.060 Uh, and of course, all women must be believed.

00:05:14.660 And so we're going, we're shooting from the hip on that one.

00:05:17.840 We're just going to believe her and take her at her word.

00:05:21.060 And we have somebody, uh, and what is your name again?

00:05:25.000 Hello?

00:05:25.600 Yes.

00:05:26.080 Hi, my name is Brittany.

00:05:27.100 Hi, Brittany.

00:05:28.320 Hi, I'm an aide to Alexander Ocasio-Cortez.

00:05:30.600 You are what?

00:05:31.240 I'm an aide to Alexander Ocasio-Cortez.

00:05:33.800 Okay.

00:05:34.140 So I was on the trip to the border.

00:05:35.500 You were on the trip.

00:05:36.740 I was.

00:05:37.400 Mm-hmm.

00:05:38.720 And what I witnessed was shocking.

00:05:40.620 Was shocking.

00:05:41.260 To the American people.

00:05:42.480 Okay.

00:05:43.260 Uh, and so you were there when she was unsafe.

00:05:46.200 She was unsafe.

00:05:46.980 All right.

00:05:47.420 Did you feel.

00:05:48.180 From the officers.

00:05:49.140 Yeah.

00:05:49.500 Did you feel unsafe?

00:05:51.000 I did feel unsafe as well.

00:05:52.260 Okay.

00:05:52.760 All right.

00:05:53.340 Um, I was very disturbed by the way that the officers were, were, were threatening.

00:06:00.840 Alexander Ocasio-Cortez.

00:06:02.560 Okay.

00:06:03.000 What?

00:06:03.300 So what?

00:06:04.480 So how was she being threatened?

00:06:06.160 She was physically abused.

00:06:07.460 She was physically abused.

00:06:08.780 While at the facility.

00:06:09.700 And you witnessed it.

00:06:10.700 I did.

00:06:11.180 Okay.

00:06:11.500 There was one officer in particular.

00:06:13.540 Uh-huh.

00:06:14.320 Who physically abused Alexander Ocasio-Cortez.

00:06:18.260 Okay.

00:06:18.900 With his pupils.

00:06:20.760 With his pupils?

00:06:22.240 Yes.

00:06:22.840 He physically looked at her.

00:06:25.800 Uh-huh.

00:06:26.360 Multiple times.

00:06:27.540 Multiple times.

00:06:28.920 And, and I can't believe I had to witness it.

00:06:35.020 Well, wait, but wait.

00:06:38.780 Okay.

00:06:39.520 Did I say the officers were doing it?

00:06:41.400 Yes, you did.

00:06:41.820 Because the officers were looking at her with her, with the pupils.

00:06:46.160 Uh-huh.

00:06:46.940 And at one point she was molested with a retina.

00:06:51.280 Okay.

00:06:52.140 Um, so.

00:06:53.060 And it was not just the physical abuse.

00:06:54.620 It was also mental abuse that I witnessed.

00:06:56.520 How was the mental abuse?

00:06:58.360 Um, one officer was thinking about her repeatedly.

00:07:03.320 How, how do you know this?

00:07:04.980 Thinking over and over again.

00:07:07.220 Thinking about what?

00:07:08.340 These officers.

00:07:09.500 Uh-huh.

00:07:10.020 Who had other, they hurt the thoughts.

00:07:13.540 The what?

00:07:14.300 The thoughts inside of his head were about Alexander Ocasio-Cortez.

00:07:19.100 Okay.

00:07:19.280 How do you know that?

00:07:20.220 There was, I was a social media post about her.

00:07:24.220 Okay.

00:07:24.920 This is the Holocaust. 0.92

00:07:27.200 The Holocaust of social media posts occurred to Alexander Ocasio-Cortez.

00:07:32.320 Okay.

00:07:32.920 Boy, it was there.

00:07:34.220 Okay.

00:07:34.440 And these, these Holocaust-like posts. 0.50

00:07:37.600 Right.

00:07:38.300 They, they, this was assassination by meme.

00:07:42.940 Assassination by meme.

00:07:44.180 By meme.

00:07:45.020 And these, these are people who are former border agents or people who said they were

00:07:51.020 former border agents or people who said they knew someone who was a former border agent

00:07:55.640 or someone who has once seen a former border agent who posts memes that were negative about

00:08:00.560 Alexander Ocasio-Cortez.

00:08:02.200 Okay.

00:08:02.840 And that is the Holocaust. 0.87

00:08:05.460 The Holocaust of memes. 0.65

00:08:06.620 Yes.

00:08:06.840 Yeah.

00:08:07.060 Okay.

00:08:07.360 So may I.

00:08:08.160 One person who was a prisoner told Alexander Ocasio-Cortez while she was there that she was

00:08:16.180 recently forced to sleep on a bed of needles.

00:08:20.980 On a bed of needles.

00:08:22.320 Infected needles.

00:08:23.760 Infected bed of needles.

00:08:25.660 By, the, the, the needles were infected by government created HIV because they were the

00:08:32.180 ones that did that.

00:08:32.960 Right.

00:08:33.700 I don't think so, but.

00:08:35.200 And then this poor prisoner was carved up with a machete by a man wearing a hockey mask

00:08:41.080 who was a former border agent.

00:08:43.400 Okay.

00:08:43.920 I don't, I don't think any of this happened.

00:08:46.420 And then they were put in a barrel of acid.

00:08:48.540 Right.

00:08:49.140 And dissolved.

00:08:50.380 Okay.

00:08:50.740 So.

00:08:50.960 And only because Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was coming did they surgically repair her. 0.99

00:08:55.160 They surgically repaired her after they dissolved her and. 0.99

00:08:58.240 To cover what they did at the border.

00:08:59.980 Okay.

00:09:00.340 So did you see the bed of needles?

00:09:02.960 I didn't, I.

00:09:08.140 Hello?

00:09:09.380 What, what was that?

00:09:11.220 That was, oh, well, that was me rolling my window up.

00:09:14.260 Just like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez does when she gets tough questions. 0.98

00:09:19.320 All right.

00:09:21.080 Brittany, thank you very much for the report.

00:09:23.520 I appreciate it.

00:09:26.100 So she has refuses to refuse to respond to claims that, uh, she saw people drinking out

00:09:39.320 of toilets.

00:09:40.020 I, I would, I, I, I wish you would look, here's the thing that should happen.

00:09:46.440 When I saw this report yesterday, I thought this is the most outrageous.

00:09:51.160 I mean, remember, this is the woman who compared these to concentration camps.

00:09:54.780 So we're lucky that she didn't say that the, you know, the border guard was shoving people

00:09:59.060 into showers and, uh, into ovens.

00:10:01.440 Um, but instead she said they're forcing people to drink out of toilets. 0.98

00:10:07.920 Now, I cannot imagine this happening, but stranger things have happened, right?

00:10:15.300 I guess stranger things have happened.

00:10:17.540 So stranger things have happened than a prisoner, a supposed prisoner who's saying, uh, things

00:10:23.960 about the people who are watching them, the guards, because that never occurs.

00:10:29.000 Someone who commits an offense, like crossing the border illegally, would never say something

00:10:34.600 negative about border patrol.

00:10:35.860 They should just be immediately believed without even a hint of skepticism.

00:10:40.140 Right.

00:10:40.200 Especially that we know that a lot of the organizers are, uh, from, uh, uh, Chicago and are, are

00:10:47.720 communists and Marxists.

00:10:49.740 So when they see their ally, Ocasio-Cortez come in, I can't imagine anyone running to the,

00:10:55.560 running to the chain link fence and saying, oh, they were forcing me to drink out of toilets.

00:10:59.620 I can't imagine that.

00:11:00.860 No, no.

00:11:01.720 However, let's just take it at face value because when somebody makes a charge like that, we

00:11:07.640 should know, for instance, let's say, let me think of something that would just never

00:11:13.780 happen.

00:11:14.580 Uh, you were walking down the street in the middle of the night, let's say in Chicago.

00:11:19.800 And somebody said, this is Trump country.

00:11:23.500 And then put a noose around somebody's neck.

00:11:26.440 We should take that seriously and then figure out, did that really happen or not?

00:11:32.960 It's kind of important to investigate.

00:11:35.080 So when I first saw this yesterday, my first thought was, if I'm Donald Trump, I immediately

00:11:41.560 dispatch the FBI and I go to Ocasio-Cortez and I, I seriously say to them, I don't want

00:11:50.240 to show any, you know, some short sort of show investigation.

00:11:53.420 I want an actual investigation.

00:11:55.800 We want you to investigate exactly what she said.

00:12:00.000 And then I want her to identify that woman.

00:12:03.260 We'll take that woman and we'll put her into protective custody. 0.99

00:12:06.900 So there's, there's, you know, not going to be a problem with the border guards.

00:12:10.940 The FBI can take her if they want, uh, and make sure that she's protected and taken care

00:12:16.640 of.

00:12:17.360 We want to know the description of the border guard.

00:12:21.100 We want to know his name.

00:12:22.460 I'm sure she remembered his badge number.

00:12:24.380 Cause if somebody was saying that I would, I would try to remember at least his name.

00:12:28.600 Uh, and then I want a full investigation on that.

00:12:31.680 And if those border guards are doing those things, I want them fired.

00:12:36.460 Now on the off chance that this didn't happen, I would like to prosecute anyone who is making

00:12:48.480 outrageous charges like this, because you just can't go in and make charges.

00:12:55.940 If we're going to take every woman seriously, I think we need to start with Ocasio-Cortez. 0.98

00:13:03.420 Let's take her seriously.

00:13:05.820 Let's send the FBI down. 0.98

00:13:08.060 She felt unsafe.

00:13:10.480 She felt unsafe in that facility.

00:13:14.720 My gosh, let's get, let's get it on the record.

00:13:18.860 What exactly was making her feel unsafe in that facility.

00:13:25.820 Now I can't imagine that the, the pro publica story that coincidentally came out at the same

00:13:36.720 time she was making this charge.

00:13:39.040 I can't imagine that she had prior notice of that.

00:13:43.260 And this was a great way to hype that story, but let's take her at her word.

00:13:52.260 I'm sure she was asked for comment considering she was the first person named in the story.

00:13:57.280 So she obviously she would know unless pro publica is a horrible, horrible journalism organization

00:14:03.540 that decided not to get comment from the people mentioned.

00:14:06.380 It's just an amazing coincidence that she happened to be down at the border and she felt unsafe

00:14:12.760 in that facility at exactly the same time that that story was coming out.

00:14:18.660 And again, what's the story exactly?

00:14:20.860 I want to make sure I understand that people post bad things online.

00:14:26.240 Is that a news story?

00:14:28.760 Is it?

00:14:29.180 It's because gosh, I've seen a lot of terrible things posted about you, but yet never one

00:14:34.840 report about how awful it was.

00:14:37.940 That is a, I mean, I can't believe a public figure would have nasty things posted about

00:14:44.300 them on the internet.

00:14:46.360 What an incredible scoop.

00:14:48.080 It was not pro publica.

00:14:49.660 Wait a minute.

00:14:49.960 It was not just nasty things.

00:14:51.880 They were things that made her feel unsafe.

00:14:55.100 Were they?

00:14:56.580 I guess they were.

00:14:57.640 I mean, I, she was, I don't know why she thinks that the people that she was standing

00:15:02.180 near were the ones who did it.

00:15:03.780 They're like, this was a, was this, how did we know they were border guards?

00:15:06.880 Well, this is a Facebook private group.

00:15:09.380 And like a Facebook private groups with 10,000 people.

00:15:14.040 All you need to know is have an invite from someone.

00:15:16.920 You could be five steps removed from a border agent and be in that group. 0.97

00:15:20.960 It's the dumbest thing I've ever, just so you know, by the way, border agents are people, 0.99

00:15:24.200 right? 0.99

00:15:24.500 Like, so yes, they also have dark humor and do bad things.

00:15:27.680 There are some agents that obviously make inappropriate jokes.

00:15:30.940 What world do you think you live in?

00:15:33.840 This is, we, every conservative that has ever posted anything negative about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

00:15:40.280 in any level of critique has been accused of much worse.

00:15:44.200 I don't know if you remember Ben Shapiro asking Ocasio-Cortez to debate and she accused him

00:15:50.040 of catcalling, not some random person, 10 steps removed from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez,

00:15:56.120 but her, herself.

00:15:57.900 She said it.

00:15:59.080 She accused him of doing that because he asked for a debate on, on the issues.

00:16:03.900 Well, I just know that Ben Shapiro has never felt unsafe from things that were said about

00:16:09.360 him on the internet.

00:16:10.160 Oh no.

00:16:10.680 I have never felt unsafe, ever, by things that were said by people on the internet or

00:16:16.600 in Facebook groups or ThinkProgress or, you know, basically from the floor of Congress.

00:16:22.540 I've never felt unsafe by anything like that.

00:16:26.460 We need to take her seriously.

00:16:28.640 And I mean it.

00:16:30.000 The president needs to investigate this story.

00:16:33.700 The FBI should investigate this story.

00:16:38.740 If the border guards are doing the things in the facility, remember, she felt unsafe in

00:16:44.920 this facility. 1.00

00:16:46.120 How stupid does a border guard have to be to do that to a member of Congress with witnesses 1.00

00:16:51.860 around? 1.00

00:16:54.100 She also claims they're drinking out of toilets.

00:16:56.780 I want to know, is that true?

00:16:58.780 Is that, if that's true, then those border guards need to be dismissed and fired immediately.

00:17:07.120 If they were doing something criminal, they should go to jail.

00:17:10.460 But on the off chance that they didn't do that, we must put a stop to people making crazy,

00:17:22.820 crazy statements, and then they're just floating out there in space.

00:17:28.780 The best of the Glenn Beck Program.

00:17:38.060 Hey, it's Glenn.

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00:18:01.640 In news that proves we're not anywhere close to Kansas anymore, Toto.

00:18:09.980 49-year-old Roy Larner.

00:18:12.420 He was defending himself against jihadists who killed eight people, injured 38 others.

00:18:22.100 Now, do you remember this is the London Bridge attack two years ago?

00:18:27.780 Remember, the Islamists came on London Bridge. 1.00

00:18:30.200 They just started slaughtering people, killing people. 0.53

00:18:32.620 And this guy, 49-year-old guy.

00:18:35.240 He defended himself.

00:18:37.520 The attack left him with more than 80 stitches to his head, ear, arms, and hands after two

00:18:43.900 of the terrorists slashed at his head and neck.

00:18:46.360 Following the attack, Larner revealed that the terrorists had shouted, this is for Allah, Islam, Islam, Islam, during the rampage.

00:18:54.520 So he fights these guys off.

00:18:56.520 Now, this is not like, you know, they were having a planned thing.

00:18:59.840 This was a planned attack.

00:19:01.620 This was not a peaceful gathering of Islamists.

00:19:06.980 These were people who came on to London Bridge and just started killing people two years ago.

00:19:13.660 So he was awarded the highest civilian award for gallantry.

00:19:23.460 He was given the George Cross.

00:19:27.360 Seems great.

00:19:28.480 So far, everything seems great, right?

00:19:31.620 Well, apparently, he was contacted and interviewed by a far-right-wing group.

00:19:43.400 And the man who says, I'm not political at all, has now been put on the government's terror watch list.

00:19:54.480 The guy who fought against terrorists is now on a terrorist watch list for fears that he might become an extremist.

00:20:08.180 He is now being forced to attend de-radicalization classes and is now being monitored by the police.

00:20:16.220 Could we maybe see if we can get a hold of this guy?

00:20:26.120 It's going to make it worse for him.

00:20:27.720 Now he's really going to be on the terrorist watch list. 0.98

00:20:30.440 We're either missing something in this story or England has gone full-fledged bat-crap crazy. 0.90

00:20:38.820 Is it possible this guy was spotted with a Betsy Ross flag? 0.97

00:20:42.940 Because that, you want to talk about a sign of terrorists.

00:20:46.220 Not in his shoes.

00:20:47.820 Basically, the number one sign of terrorism in the world is the Betsy Ross flag. 0.99

00:20:53.220 Well, she was a horrible human being. 1.00

00:20:56.540 Oh my gosh, yes. 0.98

00:20:57.360 I don't know anything really about her except she was a seamstress.

00:21:00.820 And probably the story's not true. 0.99

00:21:02.980 But I am so offended by the Betsy Ross flag because it shows that you are a crazy kook. 1.00

00:21:13.460 No, it does. 0.97

00:21:14.220 I, for one, am glad that Nike listened to Colin Kaepernick and pulled all those shoes from the market.

00:21:21.280 Well, I mean, he has a lot of evidence that the Betsy Ross flag is basically white supremacy.

00:21:28.320 It's basically a white hood, is what I see it as.

00:21:31.320 Amen.

00:21:31.740 BuzzFeed has pointed this out, by the way, and they have nailed it.

00:21:35.360 Listen to the evidence piling up.

00:21:38.940 It's so, it's piled so high, you can't see the top of the heap of this evidence.

00:21:45.620 Are you ready?

00:21:46.460 Yes.

00:21:47.160 Number one.

00:21:48.060 Yes.

00:21:48.420 A 2018 story by The Outline noted that the Betsy Ross flag was on display in the home of a member of a white nationalist group. 0.98

00:22:04.460 Shut up. 0.98

00:22:04.920 That's number one. 1.00

00:22:06.420 Shut up. 0.99

00:22:07.080 And you think, well, that's more than enough to remove this historical flag. 1.00

00:22:11.580 Well, that's why I have been boycotting Lucky Charms, because that white supremacist also was eating Lucky Charms.

00:22:19.240 And I'm telling you right now, General Mills is a white supremacist symbol.

00:22:26.400 Everything General Mills makes, I boycott.

00:22:29.920 I don't want it on the shelves.

00:22:31.680 I am telling my local grocer, you carry anything made by General Mills, and I am out. 0.99

00:22:39.540 You are a racist. 0.96

00:22:42.420 Now, some people might say that's one piece of evidence, okay, from 2018. 0.96

00:22:46.700 You don't have anything from this year so far, but the year isn't, I mean, it's not over yet.

00:22:52.420 It's still 2019.

00:22:53.340 Did you hear that David Duke also eats cereal from General Mills?

00:22:55.560 No, I was talking about the flag.

00:22:57.920 Oh.

00:22:58.320 The Lucky Charms, there's plenty of evidence on that.

00:22:59.740 Oh, I thought that was enough for me to hate the flag.

00:23:02.580 There's more evidence?

00:23:03.240 There's more.

00:23:03.760 So, 2018, one Betsy Ross flag spotted in the home of one guy who belonged to a white supremacist group.

00:23:11.980 That's evidence piece number one.

00:23:13.540 Number two.

00:23:14.480 As if you need more.

00:23:15.660 As if you need more in 2016.

00:23:18.760 Now, 2016, you might notice I skipped over 2017.

00:23:22.540 There were no pieces of evidence, apparently, that the Betsy Ross flag had anything to do with white supremacy in 2017. 0.57

00:23:28.120 That's what they want you to think.

00:23:29.360 Or, so far, 2019.

00:23:31.400 But we have one example.

00:23:32.280 Let me tell you something.

00:23:33.320 That's what the racist right-wing media wants you to believe.

00:23:38.320 Right-wing media like BuzzFeed.

00:23:39.960 Yeah, and CNN.

00:23:41.920 But in 2016, now listen to this white supremacy.

00:23:45.620 Are you ready?

00:23:46.160 Yeah.

00:23:47.180 At a high school.

00:23:48.860 High school.

00:23:49.420 In Grand Rapids, Michigan.

00:23:51.640 Grand Rapids, Michigan.

00:23:52.480 Which is basically, it's a hood in the form of a city.

00:23:56.400 Let me just remind you.

00:23:58.220 That is Grand Wizard.

00:24:00.220 Grand Rapids.

00:24:01.220 Grand Rapids.

00:24:01.860 Uh-huh.

00:24:02.120 What kind of, let me think.

00:24:03.520 What kind of rapids?

00:24:04.860 White Water Rapids.

00:24:06.900 Exactly right.

00:24:07.800 Commonly referred to.

00:24:08.740 Everybody knows it.

00:24:09.900 So, it's code.

00:24:11.080 It's a dog whistle.

00:24:11.960 Yep.

00:24:14.300 In 2016, students at a high school in Grand Rapids, Michigan, displayed the Betsy Ross flag.

00:24:22.940 Not on Cinco de Mayo.

00:24:24.040 Please tell me not on Cinco de Mayo.

00:24:25.720 No.

00:24:26.200 Okay.

00:24:26.880 Worse.

00:24:27.960 Worse?

00:24:28.380 Worse than that.

00:24:29.040 I can't even think of that.

00:24:30.000 Uh-huh.

00:24:30.160 This is becoming the flag holocaust. 0.98

00:24:32.380 And you might think, wow, is there a white supremacy gathering at a high school in Grand Rapids?

00:24:37.380 In Grand Rapids?

00:24:38.600 Right.

00:24:38.920 You think, it must be that.

00:24:40.120 Well, no.

00:24:41.000 Mm-mm.

00:24:41.840 In 2016, students at a high school in Grand Rapids displayed the Betsy Ross flag along with a Trump campaign flag.

00:24:52.800 Oh, my gosh.

00:24:54.920 It's even worse.

00:24:56.800 Oh, my gosh.

00:25:00.120 Yep.

00:25:00.820 Uh-huh.

00:25:01.480 The student school superintendent later apologized.

00:25:04.320 How did Nike miss these bombshells?

00:25:07.840 So, let me just review.

00:25:09.100 Okay.

00:25:09.400 I don't know if we have time for me to get through all these again, but let me just review all of them.

00:25:12.860 Just give me the highlights.

00:25:13.800 Right now.

00:25:14.140 Okay.

00:25:14.280 I'll give you the highlights.

00:25:15.220 Okay.

00:25:15.440 Or all of them.

00:25:16.240 2018.

00:25:16.740 Yeah.

00:25:17.700 One guy.

00:25:18.960 Yeah.

00:25:19.300 Who was in a white supremacist group had the flag.

00:25:22.340 Holy cow. 0.89

00:25:23.440 Along with cereal.

00:25:25.040 Along with probably cereal.

00:25:26.380 General Mills.

00:25:27.300 You put those two together.

00:25:28.240 By an Irish cereal.

00:25:29.320 Yes.

00:25:29.840 Yes.

00:25:30.000 By the way.

00:25:30.420 Lucky charms.

00:25:31.500 What do you think they're saying?

00:25:32.760 And then in 2016, only two years before that.

00:25:36.880 Only two years.

00:25:37.640 Only two years separated these incidents.

00:25:39.960 This is showing a pattern.

00:25:41.460 Yes.

00:25:42.260 And this one was a flag with the Betsy Ross flag next to a Trump campaign flag.

00:25:50.640 And there you go.

00:25:52.020 Hear the dog whistle?

00:25:54.600 Well, no.

00:25:55.420 You're not supposed to be able to hear dog whistles unless you're a dog.

00:25:57.940 Well, you know who can hear it?

00:26:00.700 People in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

00:26:02.860 Those people can hear it. 0.99

00:26:04.820 Racists. 1.00

00:26:05.300 Because they're racists. 0.78

00:26:06.500 As evidenced by this 2016 school that displayed a flag of a candidate that won approximately half the vote.

00:26:16.420 Now, you might ask yourself, why are you guys talking about the Betsy Ross flag being a symbol of obvious hatred and racism?

00:26:22.880 Well, that's because Nike has yanked a USA-themed sneaker featuring an early American flag.

00:26:30.740 Notice CNN is covering—oh, sorry, this is the Wall Street Journal—covering for Nike right now, just saying an early American flag.

00:26:39.520 No, it's the Betsy Ross flag that has a long history of two incidences of being a racist symbol.

00:26:47.620 Mm-hmm.

00:26:48.820 Colin Kaepernick told the company it shouldn't sell a shoe with a symbol that he and others consider offensive.

00:26:55.620 Yeah, because he really should have the veto rights over all of America and what they find offensive.

00:27:01.000 Right?

00:27:01.600 Colin Kaepernick, his head is just screwed on so well that he's the guy that should make the judgments for all of us. 0.91

00:27:07.800 Yeah. 0.92

00:27:08.320 Well, but wait a minute.

00:27:09.620 I thought it wasn't about the flag.

00:27:11.520 No, it's not.

00:27:12.900 Why would you say it's about the flag?

00:27:14.880 These are people who are patriotic that were kneeling on the field.

00:27:19.880 No, hang on.

00:27:20.620 He said it's an utter patriotism.

00:27:23.300 Right.

00:27:23.460 He says they shouldn't sell a shoe with a symbol that he and others consider offensive.

00:27:28.600 So the symbol was the flag.

00:27:30.360 No, I remember it's not about the flag.

00:27:32.000 I have—well, let's listen back to Don Lemon.

00:27:35.100 Okay.

00:27:35.500 Who can tell us the true origins of this debate.

00:27:38.780 Here's Don Lemon. 0.93

00:27:40.160 Number one, she is a black woman. 1.00

00:27:42.000 She's a mixed-race woman. 1.00

00:27:43.300 When you see her, you see her blackness, but she is also South Asian.

00:27:47.420 Her mom is South Asian, and her dad is—

00:27:49.740 Listen, there is more power to her, and I think it's great.

00:27:55.180 That is—that should be enough. 0.98

00:27:57.600 Listen, it is enough that she's a black woman.

00:27:59.400 We are not a monolith either. 0.90

00:28:00.600 No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

00:28:01.800 But they did the same thing.

00:28:02.960 No, no, no, no, no, no, no.

00:28:04.440 I think you're not hearing what people are saying. 0.97

00:28:07.420 The people who are saying she's black enough, that's bull. 0.98

00:28:09.500 That's BS. 0.94

00:28:10.120 But to want a distinction to say, is she African-American, or is she black, or is she—

00:28:18.840 I think this is the wrong—

00:28:20.080 This is another really good Don Lemon cut, I'm sure.

00:28:24.420 Yes.

00:28:24.720 Can you play the video, please, of Don Lemon?

00:28:27.840 Taking a knee at an NFL game was never about the flag or the military.

00:28:32.600 Never.

00:28:33.300 That's what the president wants you to believe. 0.99

00:28:35.200 It gives his insulting sons-of-bitches comment cover. 0.99

00:28:38.740 Yes, it does. 0.98

00:28:39.540 A comment that not only insults hard-working professional men, but tries to drag their

00:28:44.220 mothers down. 1.00

00:28:45.880 Yes, the mothers, because the sons-of-bitches, get it? 1.00

00:28:49.120 Taking a knee is a constitutionally protected expression that falls within league rules. 0.99

00:28:53.740 Period.

00:28:54.540 Right.

00:28:54.980 If anyone actually believes this is about the flag, then you must believe Rose of Parks' 1.00

00:29:00.060 protest was about a bus.

00:29:01.680 Oh, that's right.

00:29:03.140 See?

00:29:03.620 That's funny.

00:29:03.840 It wasn't about the flag.

00:29:05.040 You know what else gave Donald Trump a little cover about it being about the flag?

00:29:08.620 It being about the flag.

00:29:11.340 And now it being confirmed yet again, it was about the flag.

00:29:15.100 This is about sneakers.

00:29:16.160 Oh.

00:29:17.060 This is about sneakers.

00:29:18.480 It wasn't about the flag.

00:29:19.980 Now, he works for a sneaker company.

00:29:21.540 But I'm sure that it was something else about these sneakers, not just the flag being a,

00:29:28.160 quote, symbol that he and others consider offensive.

00:29:31.820 So here's what Nike did.

00:29:34.700 Nike took those sneakers and shipped them all over the U.S. for Independence Day and then

00:29:42.440 shipped them all back to be destroyed or more likely shipped to a homeless shelter where

00:29:50.600 they will be worn by the homeless, which, good for them, but probably not in America because

00:29:57.140 they probably wouldn't want that to be seen.

00:29:59.280 So they'll ship them over to Africa or someplace else where people will gladly grab those sneakers

00:30:04.880 and wear them proudly.

00:30:07.820 I hope they cut the back of the shoe out, though, so that people don't see the Betsy Ross flag,

00:30:12.900 which, by the way, need I remind you, was used in two prominent white supremacist attacks,

00:30:19.140 including the display in one home of one person and next to a Donald Trump flag in 2018 and 2016.

00:30:26.980 Now, we are going to do the work that other journalists won't do.

00:30:33.720 We are going to find out if Don Lemon has ever had any breakfast cereal from General Mills.

00:30:40.180 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:30:48.120 Hey, it's Glenn.

00:30:59.800 And if you like what you hear on the program, you should check out Pat Gray Unleashed.

00:31:03.940 His podcast is available wherever you download your favorite podcast.

00:31:07.980 Stu, how excited are you?

00:31:09.140 The political glass ceiling may be shattered.

00:31:11.340 Oh, thank goodness.

00:31:14.300 Well, actually, it was already shattered.

00:31:16.520 Well, by what was her name?

00:31:20.380 Geraldine Ferraro.

00:31:22.060 And then it was shattered again by Hillary Clinton. 0.97

00:31:24.320 But this time, maybe.

00:31:25.240 Don't forget about Sarah Palin as well.

00:31:26.600 Oh, yeah, Sarah Palin.

00:31:27.600 Sorry, Sarah Palin.

00:31:29.600 But this time, this time it might be shattered.

00:31:32.360 It might be.

00:31:33.140 Yeah, for the fourth time.

00:31:34.040 We've been told over and over again it was only white men that were getting any votes in this primary.

00:31:37.560 Well, Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden, it was obvious that the people that vote Democrat were racist.

00:31:44.080 Yeah.

00:31:44.500 Because it was the craziest thing I've ever seen.

00:31:47.400 They're calling their own people racist.

00:31:49.700 Mm-hmm.

00:31:50.720 But apparently not so.

00:31:52.280 No, not now.

00:31:53.540 Yeah.

00:31:53.680 It's almost like they were looking to hear the voices in a debate and then compare instead of just jumping on a bandwagon because of what's in your pants.

00:32:04.020 Yeah, and this has been kind of a different – these polls look a lot different than they did just a couple of weeks ago.

00:32:11.100 Yeah.

00:32:11.380 Joe Biden, again, we said this over and over again.

00:32:13.420 It's Joe Biden's to lose, right?

00:32:15.400 But Joe Biden is good at losing.

00:32:17.240 Yes, he is.

00:32:17.820 He's lost many presidential runs.

00:32:21.400 Yeah.

00:32:21.740 I mean, again, he was handed the vice presidency with Barack Obama.

00:32:26.160 But other than that, I mean, he's run – this would be his third time running, and the first two did not turn out well, 1988 and 2008.

00:32:35.440 So here he is again back in 2020, which is incredible, Joe Biden running for president.

00:32:41.840 Now, two months ago, he led Kamala Harris 39 to 5, which is a pretty significant lead.

00:32:50.260 Then –

00:32:51.160 It's high score wins, right?

00:32:53.220 Yes, high score wins, yes.

00:32:54.400 All right, good.

00:32:54.520 I just want to make sure that Joe and his team understand that.

00:32:57.860 High score wins.

00:32:58.980 Keep that in mind.

00:32:59.820 So that was in late April.

00:33:01.320 Late May, he led 32 to 8, so a 24-point lead.

00:33:06.020 After this debate, he now leads 22 to 17 over Harris, a 5-point lead.

00:33:11.160 So he's lost –

00:33:11.620 Which is a smaller number than 39.

00:33:14.860 That's a great point, Glenn.

00:33:16.000 Thank you.

00:33:16.260 I just thought I'd throw that in.

00:33:17.200 I didn't know you were a poll nerd.

00:33:18.360 I'm a mathematician.

00:33:18.920 I'm a mathematician, you know, I'm not a mathematician, but I play one on TV and radio.

00:33:23.480 Yeah, basically the latest poll after the debate, all taken after the debate, it has

00:33:27.140 a four-person sort of top tier now, with Biden at 22%, Kamala Harris at 17%, Elizabeth Warren

00:33:36.780 at 15%, and Bernie Sanders at 14%.

00:33:40.120 So what do you think – the two most important things that I take from this is the Kamala

00:33:48.320 Harris surge.

00:33:49.460 She's basically doubled her level of support.

00:33:52.340 In one fell swoop.

00:33:55.040 One question, really, is the difference between the poll numbers.

00:34:00.340 Joe Biden, if she hadn't have done that, I'm not sure Joe Biden would have come down, and

00:34:05.400 I'm not sure she would have come so far up.

00:34:07.560 But she handled that like a prosecutor.

00:34:10.520 She's a great prosecutor and a great actress. 1.00

00:34:16.080 And I'm not saying that anything she said she didn't believe or whatever.

00:34:20.360 I'm just saying that she knows how to package it.

00:34:22.600 She's a good storyteller. 0.63

00:34:24.620 Joe Biden was not.

00:34:25.740 He's an old-school kind of storyteller, and everybody just feels like that just rings

00:34:31.420 totally false.

00:34:32.960 And he seems old and outdated, and she made him look that way immediately.

00:34:38.660 Also, you look at Joe Biden's numbers, and you look at Joe Biden's performance, and if

00:34:46.220 you couldn't answer Kamala Harris when you knew that question was going to come up, you

00:34:50.940 knew you were going to be cornered on that.

00:34:53.480 And if that's the way you handle it, how are you ever going to handle somebody on stage

00:35:00.480 that is a, I mean, he's an IED waiting to go out.

00:35:05.660 You step one place, and Donald Trump's going to blow you up.

00:35:08.440 Right.

00:35:08.500 It's very difficult to prepare for Trump because you don't know where he's coming from.

00:35:12.160 You have no idea where those IEDs are buried.

00:35:15.700 Much less predictable than this situation, which was totally predictable.

00:35:19.140 Again, you're talking about the biggest story in Biden's previous two weeks leading up to

00:35:24.840 this debate, whether he had said these things about segregationists and busing and stuff.

00:35:29.780 And you're next to the top-tier candidate who happens to also be African-American.

00:35:36.540 How did you not see this coming?

00:35:38.120 The other thing that I find very interesting is, and I would like to see, where did those

00:35:45.300 people go who were with Bernie Sanders?

00:35:48.520 It appears as though they went to either Warren or Harris.

00:35:53.240 Yeah.

00:35:53.680 I would say Harris.

00:35:55.560 I mean, excuse me, Warren, mostly.

00:35:57.380 I mean, because Warren had been making a move before the debate.

00:36:00.020 I don't think anyone says that Warren had an amazing debate.

00:36:04.120 Part of this poll was, who do you think won the debates?

00:36:09.120 So that was Kamala Harris, 41, Elizabeth Warren, 13, and then Biden, 10, Castro, 4, Sanders, 0.98

00:36:17.380 4, Buttigieg, 3.

00:36:18.840 So, I mean, basically.

00:36:19.780 Well, that's not counting Beto, right?

00:36:21.600 Beto has the other.

00:36:22.640 Beto actually showed up as a negative number.

00:36:25.060 I don't know.

00:36:25.540 Maybe a misprint.

00:36:26.840 I don't understand.

00:36:28.160 So this is a situation where Harris had a breakout performance, right?

00:36:33.060 But, I mean, again, one breakout performance a year and a half before an election does

00:36:38.500 not win you a nomination.

00:36:40.020 She's got to do a lot more than this. 0.59

00:36:41.960 What she did here was get herself into that top tier.

00:36:45.220 Yeah.

00:36:45.340 Now she's got to, and it's really hard to hold.

00:36:47.740 It's easier to gain than it is to hold it.

00:36:50.320 Yeah.

00:36:50.540 So she's got to, you know, if you're on her campaign, you're hoping that she doesn't

00:36:55.380 peak too early here because she's got to hold this thing. 1.00

00:36:59.620 I mean, we can run through the names and you'll remember a lot of them.

00:37:02.500 I mean, you know, Herman Cain and Fred Thompson and Carly Fiorina had a run like this in 2016.

00:37:10.900 She had a great debate performance, came up to that top tier, was not able to hold it.

00:37:14.580 Now, Harris was kind of bubbling under that top tier anyway.

00:37:18.140 So this one, I think she's a real deal.

00:37:20.520 Yeah.

00:37:20.680 It seems like it's real.

00:37:21.780 But another thing they show in this poll is who do you think could handle particular

00:37:26.160 issues best?

00:37:27.900 And Harris doesn't particularly perform well when it comes to things like the economy,

00:37:32.720 for example, or health care.

00:37:34.100 She performs really well when it comes to race relations, which is one of the four categories

00:37:39.400 they tested.

00:37:40.300 But again, race relations, while it's going to be a big issue, certainly in the Democratic

00:37:44.760 primary, as it always is, obviously identity politics are huge.

00:37:48.100 Which it's not necessarily, you got to do more than that to be able to, you know, get

00:37:53.360 elected by the American people as a whole.

00:37:55.280 I mean, that's one issue and it's an important issue, but it's like, they're also going to

00:37:58.660 want you to be good with the economy and health care and all these other things.

00:38:02.740 If she can't close the gap on health care and the economy, she doesn't win. 1.00

00:38:07.100 Because if the economy is good, people are going to be much more reluctant to switch horses

00:38:12.900 midstream when things are good.

00:38:14.520 If things are bad, that's going to be the top priority.

00:38:18.880 Also, something else you should look into is how do they fare on foreign affairs?

00:38:24.360 Because between Iran and their ally, Russia, I wouldn't count out real problems internationally 0.98

00:38:35.800 sprouting up right before this election.

00:38:38.620 No, I mean, obviously it could be a potentially huge issue.

00:38:41.220 I don't think they tested that.

00:38:42.160 They tested the economy, health care, the climate crisis, and race relations.

00:38:46.300 The climate crisis.

00:38:47.520 Who's best to handle that?

00:38:49.000 The climate crisis, Bernie Sanders, apparently.

00:38:50.660 Bernie Sanders is.

00:38:51.300 He's number one, then Biden two, Warren three, Harris four.

00:38:55.620 Excuse me, that was health care.

00:38:56.940 I remember that incorrectly.

00:38:57.860 I'm sorry.

00:38:58.220 For the climate crisis, it's a tie between Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden at 19%.

00:39:02.960 Warren at 14 and Harris at six.

00:39:05.880 Listen to the economy, though.

00:39:06.780 This is a legitimate problem, I think, for Kamala Harris. 0.99

00:39:09.700 And why, if you want to make an argument that this is a fleeting moment, because she has

00:39:15.600 to do more than this.

00:39:16.520 That's the most important takeaway.

00:39:17.740 She can't just have one moment about race with Joe Biden.

00:39:21.440 She's got to continue this.

00:39:23.020 She can't do.

00:39:23.740 I mean, we've seen this in the past.

00:39:25.420 You know, Mitt Romney was a great example of this.

00:39:27.420 Beats up on Barack Obama in debate number one, but then does basically turns the campaign

00:39:32.040 off for the rest of the time and loses.

00:39:34.480 Like literally, like it seemed intentional.

00:39:37.020 It seemed like, how could I lose this race?

00:39:39.840 Yeah.

00:39:40.360 Listen to this for the economy.

00:39:41.540 Tell me Harris does not need to improve these numbers.

00:39:43.840 Who's the best for the economy?

00:39:44.860 Number one, Joe Biden, 28 percent.

00:39:46.960 Number two, Elizabeth Warren, 20 percent. 0.96

00:39:49.680 Number three, Bernie Sanders, 16 percent.

00:39:52.380 Kamala Harris, 6 percent.

00:39:54.660 I mean, her issues are 6 percent for the economy, 10 percent health care, 6 percent climate crisis,

00:40:00.000 29 percent racial relations.

00:40:02.240 It's not enough.

00:40:02.940 Right now, it's just a moment for her.

00:40:04.780 Here's the thing.

00:40:05.360 She is a prosecutor.

00:40:07.060 She's very, very smart.

00:40:09.060 She's accomplished.

00:40:11.060 She can do this.

00:40:12.400 This will be hers to lose.

00:40:13.840 She could do this.

00:40:15.760 And she, to me, she would make the most fierce opponent. 0.94

00:40:19.680 If I were advising the president, which I'm not, but if I were advising the president,

00:40:25.540 I would be most fearful of her.

00:40:29.180 I would be doing more work if this holds to make sure that you know how to go toe to toe

00:40:37.120 with her because she's going to be a different.

00:40:39.280 Yeah, she's not Hillary. 1.00

00:40:40.540 She's not Hillary. 0.82

00:40:41.260 You have to look at that and realize that Hillary was a uniquely terrible candidate. 1.00

00:40:46.640 Joe Biden, I think he's going to, I think he'll crush Joe Biden.

00:40:51.740 I think he'll do a great job on Joe Biden.

00:40:54.320 I think he'll do a great job on Elizabeth Warren.

00:40:57.580 I think he'd do a great job against Cory Booker.

00:41:02.160 I can't think of anybody that I don't think he could crush.

00:41:08.600 Kamala Harris is different.

00:41:11.100 She'll be able to make him look like a bully easily.

00:41:16.880 And if that happens, I think he would lose.

00:41:20.240 And I think, you know, we talked about this from the very beginning with Harris and that,

00:41:23.800 you know, we've been pretty bullish on her chances to win this primary because of her 1.00

00:41:28.460 kind of unique skill set.

00:41:30.320 That being said, she has not been tested in this sort of spotlight before.

00:41:35.900 She had a great first debate, but that doesn't mean that she's going to be able to perform

00:41:40.020 like that every time.

00:41:41.680 She has, she's won one, you know, she won a Senate race in 2016. 0.95

00:41:46.000 Remember, this is not, she's not been around that long.

00:41:47.920 No, and nor should, but she has the experience of being in front of a jury.

00:41:51.680 And she's used to, she's used to winning regular people over, right? 0.79

00:41:55.080 You know, and your job as a prosecutor is not just to come up and be prepared for every

00:41:58.980 line of argument, which is, is, is, is, is a big deal in a debate, but also be able to

00:42:04.400 communicate to regular people with emotion to move them.

00:42:07.980 And to be likable.

00:42:09.000 That's right.

00:42:09.540 And, you know, look, I don't think a lot of people will tell you that she's not likable

00:42:13.480 and they, but she's, she was able to do it for a, for a pretty long time successfully.

00:42:19.000 That does not mean this translates to a win in the election by any means, but we're talking

00:42:22.700 about danger and percentages and what's her chances.

00:42:26.140 And I think her chances are, you know, of all these candidates, she has this sort of

00:42:31.140 skill set that, that is dangerous in an election.

00:42:33.700 And which is why, of course, Democrats are throwing money at her like crazy. 1.00

00:42:36.660 Uh, the other one they keep talking about is Buttigieg who looks really bad in these polls

00:42:40.680 did not seem to do very well.

00:42:42.120 Buttigieg isn't going to do it.

00:42:43.080 It doesn't, it doesn't, you know, the thing about Buttigieg is, man, this guy cannot get

00:42:46.600 an African-American to like him.

00:42:48.780 It's amazing.

00:42:49.640 I mean, it's a big part of this primary and he'll, he can, every other group he's okay

00:42:55.020 with.

00:42:55.280 And then it gets to black voters and they're like, zero percent. 0.70

00:42:58.360 Has he tried to use the Joe Biden trick of using the word man a lot?

00:43:03.360 Not enough.

00:43:04.080 Yeah.

00:43:04.460 Not enough.

00:43:05.260 Hey, I'm Pete Buttigieg, man.

00:43:06.700 Man.

00:43:07.180 And man, I got to tell you, man, it's going to be great, man.

00:43:13.640 This is the best of a Glenn Beck program.

00:43:16.620 Uh, just an interesting side note, I guess, uh, the, uh, uh, Showtime is doing a Fox news

00:43:29.940 series, uh, and, uh, I'm sure it's absolutely accurate.

00:43:36.540 Uh, it's called the loudest voice, uh, voice, um, and, uh, Russell Crowe is playing, uh, Roger

00:43:44.780 Ailes started this last weekend, uh, and it showed, uh, the beginning of the Hannity

00:43:51.960 show, um, when Roger Ailes hired, uh, I'd love to talk to Sean to see if he even saw it.

00:43:57.720 I didn't see it.

00:43:58.460 I'm sure he didn't either, but, uh, how accurate he thinks this is.

00:44:03.000 I, I, I, cause you, cause you have some, you have some interesting episodes coming up

00:44:07.000 as well.

00:44:07.580 I do.

00:44:08.080 I do.

00:44:08.780 Well, I mean, I've just, I'm looking at the cast here and, uh, a, uh, Josh McDermott

00:44:14.440 who was in walking dead twin peaks among other shows playing you in this particular

00:44:21.940 series.

00:44:23.900 We do need to, of course, have clips of this ready.

00:44:27.580 I'm sure it's going to be very flattering.

00:44:30.320 You know, how could they portray you in a way that isn't flattering?

00:44:33.000 That's what I, that's what I, I can't think of a way to make it negative.

00:44:37.160 I can't, I can't, or at least more negative than it's already been.

00:44:41.100 You know what I mean?

00:44:41.820 And what's weird is looking at Russell Crowe in Roger Ailes office, were you ever in his

00:44:46.300 office?

00:44:47.080 Maybe, maybe once.

00:44:48.440 Hiding under his desk.

00:44:50.260 I had a, I have a, I have a me too story coming out soon, so I don't want to, I don't want

00:44:53.740 to, I don't want to break that news yet.

00:44:54.780 I don't want to ruin it for everybody.

00:44:55.600 But you look at him in the office and stuff and, and, and at least the pictures, I haven't

00:44:59.480 seen the movie.

00:45:00.000 The picture looks like his office.

00:45:02.160 Uh, and, uh, and it looks like, uh, Roger from a distance.

00:45:10.440 Yeah.

00:45:10.820 I mean, this is, I mean, this is going to be interesting.

00:45:12.980 It's been interesting.

00:45:13.480 It's interesting too.

00:45:14.180 They waited until Ailes died before doing all of these things.

00:45:17.500 There's a big documentary that came out.

00:45:19.620 Uh, was it Netflix?

00:45:20.620 I think a documentary, you were in that too, um, about Roger Ailes and now that he's gone

00:45:26.800 and, and no longer can defend himself, there's a lot of, well, but it's not, I mean, wait

00:45:30.700 a minute.

00:45:31.060 No, I won't be fair.

00:45:31.420 This book came out while he was alive.

00:45:32.840 The book it's, this series is based on.

00:45:34.600 Yeah.

00:45:34.840 And, and the documentary, uh, uh, I thought was reasonably fair.

00:45:42.180 They definitely took, they went to great pains to not just show the bad side of Roger Ailes,

00:45:47.800 which was usually they will not do that in these things.

00:45:50.140 They showed that he was really a genius and did do a lot of amazing things in the industry,

00:45:54.500 not just related to Fox news.

00:45:56.180 I mean, his whole life was basically.

00:45:58.520 He was an Emmy award winner.

00:45:59.800 Yeah.

00:46:00.220 I mean, he won, or not an Emmy, a Tony.

00:46:02.680 Right.

00:46:03.060 Right.

00:46:03.320 He won a Tony.

00:46:04.820 I mean, that's crazy.

00:46:06.720 He was a Broadway guy.

00:46:08.300 His first play that he ever did on Broadway was called Hot L Baltimore and, uh, Norman

00:46:15.460 Lear bought it from him.

00:46:17.620 Uh, and, and he's the guy who found it.

00:46:20.140 And Norman Lear bought it from him, bought the rights, did a TV show based on it.

00:46:24.480 And, uh, and it won a Tony.

00:46:26.800 I mean, the guy was no dummy when it came to entertainment.

00:46:31.080 Now this has a pretty big, uh, cast to Russell Crowe, Sienna Miller, Seth McFarlane, Naomi

00:46:35.580 Watts is in it, uh, all on Showtime.

00:46:37.980 I was thinking though about this.

00:46:39.040 You've had an interest.

00:46:40.320 We need to go back through these at some point because the stuff comes and goes so fast that

00:46:45.480 you forget about it, but there's been a lot of portrayals of our own Glenn Beck, uh, over

00:46:51.140 the years.

00:46:51.640 I mean, you had two, I think two episodes of the Simpsons, at least one of South Park.

00:46:57.160 You had, uh, Jason.

00:46:58.620 I don't know if I ever saw the South Park one.

00:47:00.120 Really?

00:47:00.720 Uh-uh.

00:47:01.480 Yeah.

00:47:01.700 It was Cartman.

00:47:02.240 And you, when that was the most accurate portrayal, I thought, I mean, it's basic.

00:47:07.220 It's almost like you've based your persona on Cartman.

00:47:10.920 Yeah.

00:47:11.280 If you think about it.

00:47:12.280 Yeah.

00:47:12.480 I believe that.

00:47:13.040 Yeah.

00:47:13.460 I can see that.

00:47:14.520 Yeah.

00:47:15.000 You're growing into the role.

00:47:16.320 Let's put it that way.

00:47:17.220 Thank you.

00:47:17.520 Uh, you also have, um, Jason Sudeikis, uh, who did, who played you, I think it was him

00:47:22.780 on Saturday Night Live, right?

00:47:23.920 Didn't.

00:47:24.680 I don't remember.

00:47:25.040 A bunch of times.

00:47:25.880 Yeah.

00:47:26.540 Um, over, and now you have this series, which is, uh, about Roger Ailes.

00:47:31.480 There was something else I saw recently.

00:47:34.220 There was a, there's a Boston Legal.

00:47:36.300 Remember Boston Legal, that show?

00:47:38.020 Yeah.

00:47:38.120 You were on that.

00:47:38.920 Uh, there was, and sometimes they would, they do it and they, they just like portray a,

00:47:42.360 a Glenn Beck-esque character.

00:47:44.620 Yeah.

00:47:44.900 Which they don't actually call Glenn Beck, which is blatantly based on you.

00:47:48.460 You're writing on a chalkboard saying crazy conspiracy theories.

00:47:51.460 Well, that was the Homer Simpson, the one where he became, uh, a TV show host.

00:47:55.340 Yeah.

00:47:55.600 And he was crying all the time and writing at a chalkboard and using crazy things.

00:47:59.780 Like, I think he had a bacon cake.

00:48:01.940 Yeah.

00:48:02.220 Or something like that.

00:48:03.160 And he was like, this is the United States.

00:48:06.420 Was it, was a family guy too on, on, on that?

00:48:09.720 I don't remember.

00:48:10.020 I feel like there was a family guy where maybe Peter portrayed you as well.

00:48:13.080 We should find, we should find them all.

00:48:15.260 Cause I don't know if I've.

00:48:16.520 That would be a good webpage.

00:48:17.780 Just have all those in the same place.

00:48:19.420 Yeah.

00:48:19.660 Cause remember when, remember when this was all happening, we were, you know, people would

00:48:23.600 say, Hey, you know, see Saturday Night Live.

00:48:25.380 We're like, no.

00:48:26.280 Oh, they did a big sketch on you.

00:48:27.620 Huh.

00:48:27.800 And then we'd move on.

00:48:29.200 Right.

00:48:29.280 You wouldn't even know about it.

00:48:29.960 And so there was like so many shows that did stuff that we never even saw.

00:48:33.520 Yeah.

00:48:33.660 You got mentioned on, on, on Saturday Night Live during the election, uh, during 2016.

00:48:38.300 And I remember, you know, they, they do like four new episodes a year.

00:48:42.920 I think Saturday Night Live at this point.

00:48:44.340 Well, it's very tough.

00:48:44.760 It's very difficult for them to come up with those three terrible sketches that they come

00:48:48.180 up with.

00:48:48.540 Um, but they, it was a sketch about the election and you were talked about in it.

00:48:53.280 Yeah.

00:48:53.540 The decent, you know, like 30 or 45 seconds of one of these monologues is about yours, you

00:48:58.160 know, whatever you were doing at the time.

00:49:00.240 And I didn't see it until the rerun.

00:49:02.600 And I was just like, this is amazing.

00:49:04.080 Like here, I work with this guy every day and Saturday Night Live.

00:49:08.100 Remember this is Saturday Night Live.

00:49:09.440 The one that said, you know, Russia, I can see it from my house.

00:49:11.620 It like changes the course of elections now is so invisible that they're talking about

00:49:16.700 a guy I sit across from every day and I didn't even know about it.

00:49:20.420 Like that is a bizarre change.

00:49:22.780 Everything has changed.

00:49:23.940 Really has.

00:49:24.740 60 minutes.

00:49:25.880 60 minutes.

00:49:26.560 Remember when 60 minutes would set the news?

00:49:28.980 There were two things that set the news for a week.

00:49:32.400 And that was the New York Times and 60 minutes.

00:49:35.380 The New York Times still kind of sets the, you know, the pace for most of the media news.

00:49:41.620 But 60 minutes, you never hear anybody talking about that anymore.

00:49:45.780 And sometimes they do really interesting things.

00:49:47.920 I mean, 60 minutes has a lot of liberal bias, but some of the reporting has nothing to do

00:49:51.720 with politics.

00:49:52.220 And some of it's really interesting.

00:49:54.040 You know, the.

00:49:55.140 I can't remember the last time I watched a 60 minutes.

00:49:58.260 I just watched something on there recently and it was, it was pretty interesting.

00:50:02.060 I can't remember.

00:50:02.260 On actually TV or.

00:50:04.100 Yeah.

00:50:04.180 No, it was on the website.

00:50:05.240 When's the last time you actually sat down and watched a network TV show?

00:50:09.460 Like a major network TV show?

00:50:13.200 Yeah.

00:50:13.360 Like ABC, NBC, Fox.

00:50:14.920 And I'm assuming you're not going to allow me to include like the NBA finals.

00:50:18.820 No.

00:50:19.140 Or Sunday night football.

00:50:21.120 Yeah.

00:50:21.880 Because if that's the case, I think mine would be the Super Bowl.

00:50:24.760 Right.

00:50:25.140 And before that would be the Super Bowl.

00:50:28.460 The previous year's Super Bowl.

00:50:31.460 Jeez.

00:50:31.940 I, I, I'm trying to think of one that I've, I honestly, I'm having trouble even naming

00:50:41.300 them.

00:50:42.100 I, I, you know, Saturday Night Live, uh, I, maybe there was, I can't remember.

00:50:48.900 Name the Thursday night lineup, uh, in the eighties or nineties of NBC.

00:50:54.520 All right.

00:50:54.660 Your friends and Seinfeld and, you know, uh.

00:50:57.460 Name it in order.

00:50:58.540 Can you do it?

00:50:59.040 I don't know what I'm going to do in order.

00:51:01.520 Uh, but I mean, in the eighties, it was like Cosby and right.

00:51:04.700 All those Cosby family ties, uh, then it was, uh, Cosby family ties.

00:51:11.700 Then it was, oh shoot.

00:51:13.800 Uh, cheers.

00:51:15.720 Right.

00:51:16.260 Right. 0.97

00:51:16.660 What a freaking line up. 0.97

00:51:18.000 Night court. 0.96

00:51:18.960 Oh my God.

00:51:19.460 Then LA law.

00:51:20.500 I couldn't tell you two shows back to back on network television, any day of the week,

00:51:27.860 any network.

00:51:30.560 I can't, I can't either.

00:51:32.880 I mean, I know like a Sunday, I like Fox has family guys still on in the Simpsons still

00:51:37.640 on.

00:51:38.760 That's probably the only one that in 60 minutes.

00:51:41.120 Cause they've been running ever since.

00:51:42.660 Right.

00:51:43.160 But, but those are like, obviously, I mean, I think family guys in, it's like 20th season

00:51:47.020 or something.

00:51:47.620 I mean, Simpsons is what?

00:51:49.160 30th.

00:51:49.660 Yeah.

00:51:50.860 Uh, I think about how culture has changed since that's incredible, but I mean, we could

00:51:54.960 all sit here and rattle off Netflix shows, right?

00:51:57.860 I mean like that, that is look at the change.

00:52:01.800 That is amazing.

00:52:02.960 Remember Netflix.

00:52:04.160 The thing I love about Netflix is first of all, they're just a DVD company, right?

00:52:07.600 They're mailing DVDs to people's houses.

00:52:10.140 That's how they started.

00:52:11.120 All of a sudden they make that announcement and they switched over to, to streaming.

00:52:13.900 And at the time, this is when we were kind of first getting into this with the blaze.

00:52:18.660 People thought it was insane.

00:52:19.980 You'd have to go in like, everything would buffer and it wouldn't work and no one wanted

00:52:23.380 to deal with it.

00:52:24.440 And then they had that time that they, I think I want to say they raised prices and there

00:52:29.260 was story after story after story about how they were over.

00:52:33.140 They've let down all their subscribers.

00:52:35.320 This is going away.

00:52:37.220 And then here they are.

00:52:38.540 Uh, now, you know, I mean really the, the force of entertainment is, I mean, there's

00:52:44.420 no one even close to matching it.

00:52:45.560 I mean, Amazon has a place there in Hulu, I guess, but it's really just Netflix.

00:52:50.020 And the Amazon is pretty good.

00:52:51.920 It's, it's secondary, but it's secondary, but it's there.

00:52:54.800 But the selection for, for, uh, more, I think the selection on Amazon is better than, uh,

00:53:03.240 Netflix, but the Netflix, you know, special movies, you know, Netflix only, those are

00:53:09.500 probably better than the Amazon things.

00:53:11.280 But, and the crazy part about that is Netflix at one point in a moment of desperation, their

00:53:17.920 founder went in and almost sold Netflix to Blockbuster for, I want to say it was like

00:53:25.200 $75 million.

00:53:26.300 It was like, I mean, on the scale of what it is today, nothing.

00:53:32.400 And they were in a point where it was like things were not going well and they were wondering

00:53:36.980 whether they were going to make it.

00:53:38.480 They met, had several meetings and Blockbuster was the one that said, no, it didn't think

00:53:43.000 Blockbuster said no.

00:53:44.980 Yeah.

00:53:45.960 That's unfortunate.

00:53:46.980 Do you know there's still one Blockbuster left in the United States?

00:53:48.780 It's just the one, yeah.

00:53:49.720 There's one.

00:53:50.160 It's in Oregon.

00:53:51.000 It's the last one left.

00:53:53.060 I mean, I don't know how, I mean, do they own?

00:53:56.420 The entire light of the entire company just end up in that one, like, franchisee is like,

00:54:03.200 yeah, I'm the president of Blockbuster.

00:54:05.660 And hey, don't forget, return that video.

00:54:08.060 Be kind, rewind.

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The Glenn Beck Program - July 02, 2019

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