The Glenn Beck Program - September 03, 2019


Best of the Program ｜ 9⧸3⧸19


Episode Stats

Length

45 minutes

Words per Minute

140.60597

Word Count

6,350

Sentence Count

507

Misogynist Sentences

14

Hate Speech Sentences

2


Summary

Who's to blame for the latest mass shooting in Odessa, Texas? Is it the media or the gun lobby? Also, I had to travel with a gun in an airport. We ll talk about the insanity of the TSA, Dave Chappelle and the cancel culture.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Hello, podcasters. It's Tuesday. We're right out of Labor Day weekend. Had a tough Labor Day weekend for a few reasons.
00:00:08.720 We begin with the shooting in Odessa, Texas, and what that's really about.
00:00:13.260 What is the media missing, and how do we have a conversation?
00:00:16.500 Also, kind of had a rough weekend because I had to travel with a gun in an airport.
00:00:22.540 Oh my gosh. We'll talk about the insanity of the TSA.
00:00:27.240 Plus, Dave Chappelle and the cancel culture.
00:00:30.540 We've seen this over and over again with comedians trying to make points that used to be what we went to comedians for.
00:00:37.660 To laugh and to look at the world in a different way. Chappelle's now being hammered for doing just that.
00:00:42.560 However, not every person who's in entertainment is insane, apparently.
00:00:48.520 One of the former stars of Seinfeld points out that we've really gone insane as a culture.
00:00:58.680 And he sticks to the actual facts of the matter and talks some sense into Hollywood.
00:01:04.700 As Glenn's in Hollywood, maybe he can do the same thing. It's all on today's podcast.
00:01:07.740 In Odessa, Texas, we had bad news again.
00:01:27.540 A gunman, a gunman, went on a rampage.
00:01:31.620 And we all looked at each other, at least we did in my circle, and I imagine it's the same.
00:01:38.580 All of us thought, this has got to end.
00:01:43.580 What is happening to us?
00:01:45.940 Well, celebrities know exactly what's happening to us.
00:01:52.640 Bette Medler said, it's the NRA.
00:01:55.480 For years, gun dollars have paved their way.
00:01:58.240 Lobbyists always buy them something.
00:02:01.320 So it is now the NRA's fault, according to Bette Medler.
00:02:06.900 Then, Rob Reiner said, guns don't kill people.
00:02:10.260 Politicians in bed with the NRA kill people.
00:02:12.600 Then, Casey Musgraves says, I love you, Texas.
00:02:17.400 I can't believe we're all being forced to live in a constant state of fear.
00:02:20.960 Second mass shooting in my home state in a month makes me sick.
00:02:24.300 When will we live in a world where human lives mean more than money?
00:02:29.480 Meaning the NRA is taking money, and they're bribing politicians to keep the Second Amendment intact.
00:02:37.960 Josh Gad just says, another week, another gun massacre.
00:02:40.660 Another week, another gun massacre.
00:02:42.840 Alyssa Milano says, happy Friday, everyone.
00:02:47.500 Oh, I'm sorry, this is Chelsea Handler.
00:02:49.400 Happy Friday, everyone.
00:02:51.140 And Republicans, how about no white supremacists with guns after Labor Day?
00:02:56.560 Stephen King, when are the benchwarmers in Washington going to do something about the river of blood produced by gun violence?
00:03:03.020 Change the laws, or change the ones who make the laws?
00:03:06.260 George Takai says, when will the Senate act on gun control?
00:03:16.080 How many more mass shootings will we see before we come to our senses?
00:03:20.260 And Mia Farrow says, we have a crisis here.
00:03:24.240 When will someone do something?
00:03:27.760 So I don't know what you got out of that.
00:03:29.640 But let's maybe go to our politicians.
00:03:33.360 Our politicians say they have the solution.
00:03:38.120 The former HUD secretary, now running for president, Julian Castro, he said that he wanted to expand background checks
00:03:51.080 for those who sell more than five guns in a year.
00:03:55.500 So now, I don't know if he knows this, you have to be a licensed dealer, and you go through background checks to become a licensed dealer.
00:04:06.240 But he wants to expand that.
00:04:09.260 So maybe we have fewer people selling guns.
00:04:13.520 Beto says that he is going to push for mandatory gun buyback legislation.
00:04:19.120 He says, we're going to speak as strongly and as defiantly as we can, but we're also going to take action.
00:04:26.860 Universal background checks, red flag laws, ending the sales of weapons of war,
00:04:31.880 and buying those AK-47s and AR-15s back so they can't be used against our fellow Americans.
00:04:39.900 He's going to buy the weapons of war back.
00:04:43.420 Now, now that we've heard all the solutions, now that we've heard who's to blame, let's have a real conversation, can we?
00:04:58.760 Let's start first with what happened.
00:05:02.680 The police chief in Odessa said both the shooter and his company rang 911 after he was fired.
00:05:11.840 But he left before police arrived.
00:05:15.100 He was a truck driver.
00:05:17.460 He lost his job.
00:05:20.160 But that's not why he went on the rampage.
00:05:27.200 FBI agent told the press it didn't happen because he was fired.
00:05:31.860 He showed up to work enraged.
00:05:34.760 Seven people were killed, at least 22 injured in the attack.
00:05:37.760 Authorities have named the suspect attacker.
00:05:42.640 We're not going to give you his name.
00:05:44.320 But he was a 36-year-old man.
00:05:47.720 He worked at the Journey Oil Field Services.
00:05:54.060 We haven't found any links to domestic terrorism or international terrorism.
00:05:59.200 Do you remember when we used to, we hoped and prayed when something went wrong, that it wasn't an American.
00:06:08.160 That we, we wanted to believe that Americans just couldn't do this.
00:06:13.320 He got into his car after he was fired.
00:06:26.620 Police pulled him over as he failed to signal for a turn.
00:06:32.160 He then shot the officers.
00:06:34.960 And then he drove to Odessa.
00:06:37.320 He shot at random.
00:06:38.620 He targeted motorists.
00:06:40.080 He targeted passers-by.
00:06:43.320 He was killed in front of a movie theater.
00:06:46.040 But 22 people were wounded, including a 17-month-old girl, Anderson Davis.
00:06:52.660 A family friend said she had a hole in her bottom lip, a hole in her tongue.
00:06:58.100 And her top and bottom teeth were all knocked out.
00:07:03.420 Now that's a pretty compelling story, but let me give you,
00:07:06.380 let me give you the last two paragraphs.
00:07:09.700 The suspect had previously failed a gun purchase background check in Texas.
00:07:19.880 We must keep guns out of the hands of criminals, said the governor of Texas.
00:07:28.180 Now that's a pretty compelling story.
00:07:36.400 And if you're anything, if you're anything like me,
00:07:40.900 you were impacted by this story.
00:07:45.620 I was with family and friends.
00:07:48.120 And we were all together.
00:07:53.340 And somebody came to the house and said, there's been another shooting.
00:07:58.680 The entire room, everybody in the room went, oh, geez, where?
00:08:02.240 Can we do one thing today?
00:08:07.620 Can we just stop assuming that everyone within the sound of your voice, my voice,
00:08:15.740 that there is half of the country that wants the other half dead?
00:08:20.220 Can we stop assuming that because you believe in the Second Amendment,
00:08:26.940 you don't care about children, you don't care about families,
00:08:31.120 you don't care about what happened?
00:08:34.520 I was with a good friend.
00:08:40.520 And I saw the way he reacted.
00:08:42.460 It stayed with him for a long time.
00:08:51.580 And throughout the day, he said,
00:08:53.780 just in the middle of conversation talking about something else,
00:08:58.140 he would say,
00:08:59.200 all those people that got up this morning,
00:09:03.180 they were going to a family picnic where they had plans,
00:09:09.540 and now nothing.
00:09:10.640 All those people that got up and had a son or a daughter,
00:09:15.540 and now they're dead.
00:09:23.280 Now see,
00:09:24.260 if I told you he was against guns,
00:09:28.240 he would be okay.
00:09:31.540 But his response was,
00:09:33.760 I am going home,
00:09:35.520 and I am going to get trained and carry a gun
00:09:38.680 because I am not going to let this happen around me.
00:09:45.480 Now,
00:09:46.280 if I tell you this,
00:09:47.960 half of the country hates him
00:09:50.160 and says he has no heart.
00:09:52.620 We all abhor the violence.
00:10:02.420 All of us.
00:10:05.100 But just like that story,
00:10:07.300 the headlines are all wrong.
00:10:12.780 That story
00:10:13.860 was not a story that was printed
00:10:15.940 in the first hour
00:10:17.840 or the first day.
00:10:18.920 That story came from the next day.
00:10:22.380 There are stories today
00:10:23.800 talking about 22 injured and dead.
00:10:31.400 That's not the headline today.
00:10:34.520 The headline is in the story,
00:10:36.440 but it happened to be
00:10:37.820 the last two sentences.
00:10:40.660 The gunman failed
00:10:45.420 the background check
00:10:47.920 in Texas.
00:10:50.540 So how did he get the gun?
00:10:54.380 Was he a racist?
00:10:56.560 He had a long history
00:10:59.520 of mental illness,
00:11:01.300 and he failed
00:11:02.900 the background check
00:11:04.380 and was not allowed
00:11:06.280 to buy a gun.
00:11:08.240 He didn't buy this gun,
00:11:10.660 legally.
00:11:13.460 He didn't buy it
00:11:14.760 in a store
00:11:15.520 because he failed
00:11:17.340 the background check.
00:11:19.300 So who sold him
00:11:20.800 the gun?
00:11:21.740 And that should be
00:11:23.340 our discussion today.
00:11:24.880 Who sold him the gun?
00:11:27.960 How did he get this gun?
00:11:31.340 That's what we should be
00:11:32.420 looking for today.
00:11:37.300 We should also be having
00:11:38.640 a conversation about
00:11:40.120 mental health.
00:11:43.140 But even that is dicey.
00:11:46.080 Because we have a preacher
00:11:47.380 now that says,
00:11:48.680 if you vote for Donald Trump,
00:11:51.400 that's a sign of mental illness.
00:11:54.200 We have people in Hollywood
00:11:55.580 saying that if you believe
00:11:57.060 in the Second Amendment,
00:11:58.800 you have some sort
00:12:00.340 of mental illness.
00:12:02.700 Mental illness is
00:12:03.940 always politicized.
00:12:05.580 when a country
00:12:06.260 goes insane,
00:12:07.960 the first people
00:12:09.200 to jump on board
00:12:10.040 are the psychiatrists.
00:12:11.860 And they'll tell you
00:12:13.080 who's sane
00:12:14.020 and who should be locked up.
00:12:15.560 It happened in Germany.
00:12:16.760 It happened in
00:12:17.500 with Stalin.
00:12:18.920 It happens
00:12:19.620 in China.
00:12:21.200 You use the medical
00:12:22.760 terminology
00:12:24.740 and the medical personnel,
00:12:26.420 and they're always
00:12:27.480 more than eager
00:12:29.040 to tell you
00:12:29.940 who should be locked up.
00:12:31.320 But we're not having
00:12:41.320 those conversations today.
00:12:43.780 We're talking about
00:12:44.900 banning assault rifles.
00:12:46.480 We're talking about
00:12:47.620 banning semi-automatics.
00:12:49.140 We're talking about
00:12:50.620 confiscating guns.
00:12:52.500 Joe Biden even said
00:12:54.500 we should ban
00:12:55.860 all magazines.
00:12:56.860 It's insanity
00:12:57.700 that we haven't
00:12:59.080 already banned
00:13:00.360 all magazines
00:13:01.320 that hold
00:13:02.840 more than one bullet.
00:13:05.380 Well, that would be
00:13:06.620 a musket, Joe.
00:13:09.820 We're talking about
00:13:11.340 red flags
00:13:12.340 and background checks.
00:13:14.180 He failed
00:13:15.560 his background check.
00:13:17.520 The law this time
00:13:19.120 worked.
00:13:23.360 Well, he was fired.
00:13:25.140 He was a trucker.
00:13:26.040 Well, we could go down
00:13:26.960 that rabbit hole.
00:13:27.960 How many truckers
00:13:28.860 are going to lose
00:13:29.380 their jobs
00:13:29.940 in the next few years?
00:13:32.440 If that's the problem,
00:13:34.240 we have real,
00:13:35.800 real issues
00:13:36.800 headed our way.
00:13:42.400 How long did it take you
00:13:43.920 before you heard,
00:13:46.360 and perhaps this is
00:13:47.360 the first time
00:13:47.960 you've heard it,
00:13:49.120 that he was struggling
00:13:49.980 with the suicide
00:13:50.920 of his sister?
00:13:59.280 Have you seen the place
00:14:00.480 he lived?
00:14:03.200 All the broken windows?
00:14:06.320 It's like an old factory
00:14:07.740 or
00:14:08.080 granary.
00:14:08.860 granary?
00:14:17.120 Can we just spend
00:14:18.440 a few minutes
00:14:18.940 just talking about
00:14:19.700 the real issue here
00:14:20.800 like adults
00:14:23.400 and not assume
00:14:26.560 that either side
00:14:27.720 is bad,
00:14:30.780 but we're just
00:14:32.240 all Americans
00:14:33.260 struggling with something
00:14:35.160 that we've never
00:14:36.160 struggled with before?
00:14:39.980 Continue our conversation
00:14:41.100 in one minute.
00:14:52.120 So where do we go
00:14:53.140 from here?
00:14:54.260 Well, we could all
00:14:55.160 be fired up
00:14:55.780 by the rhetoric
00:14:56.360 because there's
00:14:56.920 a campaign going on.
00:14:58.940 We can all talk
00:14:59.900 about how much money
00:15:00.980 the NRA gives people.
00:15:02.520 Are you kidding me?
00:15:06.080 We're really,
00:15:06.760 we really are
00:15:08.100 living in this
00:15:10.220 cartoon world
00:15:11.360 where the
00:15:12.760 the
00:15:13.480 Acme
00:15:14.220 anvil
00:15:15.080 says
00:15:16.020 instead of
00:15:16.580 Acme
00:15:17.040 NRA
00:15:17.800 because that's
00:15:19.220 that's the kind of
00:15:20.360 world we're living in now.
00:15:22.220 We've boiled everything
00:15:23.600 down to cartoons.
00:15:25.180 You're either the
00:15:26.180 coyote
00:15:26.620 or the roadrunner.
00:15:27.600 And the NRA
00:15:30.200 is the bomb
00:15:31.580 with
00:15:31.980 that has the fuse
00:15:33.460 that never goes off
00:15:34.360 unless it goes off
00:15:35.080 in the face of the coyote.
00:15:36.740 It's the anvil.
00:15:38.320 It's the box
00:15:39.180 of bird seed.
00:15:47.320 Let's just start here.
00:15:51.180 People say that he was
00:15:52.740 struggling
00:15:53.540 with the suicide
00:15:56.020 of his sister.
00:15:57.600 Do you ever have
00:16:03.540 a suicide
00:16:03.920 in your family?
00:16:04.720 Do you know
00:16:05.180 anybody who's
00:16:05.840 committed suicide?
00:16:10.780 I do.
00:16:15.540 One was my mother.
00:16:21.200 The other was
00:16:22.080 my brother-in-law.
00:16:23.320 And I
00:16:26.160 don't understand
00:16:28.140 either.
00:16:32.260 You never
00:16:33.340 come to terms
00:16:34.200 with a loved one.
00:16:39.160 But imagine
00:16:40.240 losing
00:16:40.900 imagine
00:16:43.300 losing
00:16:43.960 a younger
00:16:44.420 sister.
00:16:44.900 a sister
00:16:53.140 and you have
00:16:53.960 no family
00:16:55.600 or friend
00:16:56.200 network.
00:16:57.280 You are
00:16:58.160 alone.
00:16:59.580 You're
00:17:00.220 isolated.
00:17:01.840 You're
00:17:02.020 living
00:17:02.480 in a
00:17:04.020 family.
00:17:05.900 You're
00:17:06.580 living in
00:17:07.060 an old
00:17:07.640 factory
00:17:08.400 with broken
00:17:09.220 windows.
00:17:10.400 You have
00:17:10.740 nothing.
00:17:12.280 No one.
00:17:14.000 And
00:17:14.480 you have
00:17:15.980 a long
00:17:16.580 history
00:17:17.040 of mental
00:17:17.800 illness.
00:17:18.420 illness.
00:17:28.360 I'm
00:17:29.000 reminded of
00:17:29.560 this
00:17:29.940 hymn.
00:17:35.500 Where
00:17:36.180 can I
00:17:36.540 turn
00:17:36.840 for peace?
00:17:40.080 Where
00:17:40.740 can I
00:17:41.180 find
00:17:41.640 some
00:17:42.020 solace?
00:17:42.560 I
00:17:52.000 know
00:17:52.280 that
00:17:52.520 song.
00:17:54.500 And
00:17:55.180 I
00:17:55.300 know
00:17:55.480 where
00:17:55.680 I
00:17:55.860 was
00:17:56.180 when
00:17:56.320 I
00:17:56.460 first
00:17:56.780 really
00:17:57.420 heard
00:17:57.960 that
00:17:58.240 song.
00:17:59.780 Because
00:18:00.460 I
00:18:00.680 was
00:18:00.980 feeling
00:18:01.700 that
00:18:02.160 way
00:18:02.520 and
00:18:03.860 feeling
00:18:04.280 very
00:18:04.720 alone.
00:18:06.040 And
00:18:06.660 I
00:18:06.820 realized
00:18:07.440 that
00:18:08.140 I
00:18:08.300 wasn't.
00:18:10.120 That
00:18:10.620 God
00:18:10.920 had
00:18:11.220 this
00:18:11.580 he
00:18:14.660 doesn't
00:18:15.000 have
00:18:15.460 a
00:18:16.060 friend.
00:18:17.600 I
00:18:17.900 don't
00:18:18.220 think
00:18:18.480 he
00:18:18.660 understood
00:18:19.080 God.
00:18:21.040 And
00:18:21.680 now
00:18:21.940 our
00:18:22.160 politicians
00:18:22.760 are
00:18:23.560 arguing
00:18:24.080 nonsense.
00:18:28.100 The
00:18:28.780 best of
00:18:29.240 the
00:18:29.340 Glenn Beck
00:18:29.740 program.
00:18:36.740 Hey,
00:18:37.540 it's
00:18:37.820 Glenn.
00:18:38.280 And
00:18:38.420 if you
00:18:38.580 like
00:18:38.740 what you
00:18:38.940 hear on
00:18:39.220 the
00:18:39.320 program,
00:18:39.840 you
00:18:39.940 should
00:18:40.100 check
00:18:40.360 out
00:18:40.600 Pat
00:18:40.960 Gray
00:18:41.360 Unleashed.
00:18:42.460 His
00:18:42.700 podcast
00:18:43.060 is
00:18:43.360 available
00:18:43.680 wherever
00:18:44.080 you
00:18:44.400 download
00:18:44.800 your
00:18:45.060 favorite
00:18:45.360 podcast.
00:18:46.320 Do you
00:18:46.520 remember
00:18:46.780 how the
00:18:47.080 world
00:18:47.280 looked
00:18:47.760 when we
00:18:48.600 were
00:18:48.740 kids?
00:18:50.120 It
00:18:50.480 was
00:18:50.620 always
00:18:50.880 so
00:18:51.160 bright
00:18:51.700 and
00:18:51.940 so
00:18:52.140 enormous,
00:18:52.720 so loud,
00:18:53.560 fragrant,
00:18:54.420 vivid.
00:18:55.180 And you
00:18:55.880 wandered
00:18:56.200 through it
00:18:56.620 like a
00:18:57.040 tiny little
00:18:57.740 emperor
00:18:58.160 who doesn't
00:18:58.780 realize
00:18:59.260 what they
00:18:59.640 have.
00:19:00.920 The
00:19:01.080 adults
00:19:01.400 preened
00:19:02.040 and
00:19:02.320 obsessed
00:19:03.120 over their
00:19:03.520 meaningless
00:19:03.860 details
00:19:04.300 every day.
00:19:04.820 But from
00:19:05.120 your
00:19:05.460 angle,
00:19:06.420 the life
00:19:06.880 they occupied
00:19:07.460 was fundamentally
00:19:08.480 different from
00:19:09.300 the life that
00:19:09.900 you called
00:19:10.440 your own.
00:19:11.940 Slowly,
00:19:12.760 you watched as
00:19:13.740 the endless
00:19:14.160 days began to
00:19:15.120 constrain into
00:19:16.140 something a little
00:19:17.460 bigger.
00:19:18.760 As the tiny little
00:19:19.860 race car,
00:19:20.440 the full-sized
00:19:21.060 dollhouse,
00:19:22.100 shrunk in size.
00:19:23.740 As that huge
00:19:24.720 elephant of a
00:19:25.780 toilet that you
00:19:26.420 had to climb up
00:19:27.440 on really
00:19:28.560 turned into that
00:19:29.620 tiny plastic
00:19:30.640 practice potty
00:19:31.700 that you once
00:19:32.400 used.
00:19:32.800 As the bumpers
00:19:33.600 were removed from
00:19:34.440 the bowling lane,
00:19:35.660 as the training
00:19:36.280 wheels were
00:19:36.980 unsocketed from
00:19:38.280 the bike.
00:19:39.660 As the smiling
00:19:40.340 world of adults
00:19:41.060 occasionally revealed
00:19:42.060 a hint of
00:19:42.680 sadness,
00:19:43.520 something you
00:19:43.920 only vaguely
00:19:44.680 understood.
00:19:46.620 Then,
00:19:47.460 that one day,
00:19:48.960 you found
00:19:49.440 yourself on a
00:19:50.160 school bus,
00:19:51.420 or in the car
00:19:52.060 so early in the
00:19:52.880 morning,
00:19:53.220 and all you
00:19:53.780 knew was
00:19:54.920 today was
00:19:56.240 the first day
00:19:57.040 of school.
00:19:58.060 The idea of
00:19:58.760 school was
00:19:59.160 really kind of
00:19:59.660 foreign.
00:20:00.120 I mean,
00:20:00.620 what could you
00:20:01.200 even compare it
00:20:01.920 to?
00:20:02.760 Laughing and
00:20:03.360 laughing with
00:20:03.840 dad and the
00:20:04.400 rest of the
00:20:04.740 family in the
00:20:05.300 living room
00:20:05.660 because he
00:20:06.020 sneezed out
00:20:06.680 some mashed
00:20:07.180 potatoes?
00:20:08.440 Running around
00:20:09.260 the cul-de-sac
00:20:10.240 with your
00:20:10.560 neighbor friends
00:20:11.300 who were
00:20:11.640 really some
00:20:12.120 of the only
00:20:12.460 people your
00:20:13.020 age that you
00:20:13.680 knew?
00:20:14.760 Or was it
00:20:15.200 like eating
00:20:15.660 broccoli?
00:20:17.380 Was it like
00:20:18.320 going to church?
00:20:19.140 Was it...
00:20:20.420 It wasn't like
00:20:21.060 going to a
00:20:21.480 funeral,
00:20:21.860 was it?
00:20:23.380 There was
00:20:24.120 an earthquake
00:20:25.220 tumbling through
00:20:26.480 you because here
00:20:27.300 you are facing
00:20:28.060 the dark of
00:20:29.220 unknown territory
00:20:30.420 and you're being
00:20:31.600 shoved right
00:20:32.840 into it by
00:20:34.060 some big fat
00:20:35.220 guy driving
00:20:35.960 the bus.
00:20:36.900 When you
00:20:37.160 arrive at the
00:20:37.920 wax-scented
00:20:38.660 building with
00:20:39.380 the slippery
00:20:40.080 floors, it's
00:20:40.860 all loud bells
00:20:42.100 and uptight
00:20:42.760 adults herding
00:20:43.820 you into some
00:20:44.480 musty room or
00:20:45.580 some stinky
00:20:46.140 gym or some
00:20:47.140 chaotic cafeteria
00:20:48.240 that smells way
00:20:49.300 too much like
00:20:49.920 cleaning chemicals
00:20:50.900 and it's hardly
00:20:52.440 smelling like
00:20:53.680 food.
00:20:55.060 That first day,
00:20:56.620 you feel as
00:20:57.340 untethered and
00:20:58.340 confused as the
00:20:59.500 troops who invaded
00:21:00.340 the French beaches
00:21:01.220 on D-Day.
00:21:02.440 How they all
00:21:02.860 looked so
00:21:03.220 desperately nervous
00:21:04.260 as they waited
00:21:05.000 in the metal
00:21:05.500 boats.
00:21:06.800 You know this
00:21:07.380 because you
00:21:08.020 always stared
00:21:08.800 quizzically at
00:21:09.940 your dad and
00:21:10.580 grandpa any time
00:21:11.340 a program about
00:21:12.080 D-Day came on
00:21:12.940 TV because they
00:21:14.420 always had this
00:21:14.860 faraway look like
00:21:16.340 they were spooked
00:21:17.240 by a monster that
00:21:18.860 would always be
00:21:19.700 there.
00:21:21.100 Halfway through
00:21:21.700 the school day,
00:21:22.440 you found yourself
00:21:23.520 laughing with
00:21:24.260 other kids,
00:21:24.820 kids you've never
00:21:25.380 met before.
00:21:26.560 At recess,
00:21:27.520 you joined the
00:21:28.040 kickball game and
00:21:28.980 before you knew it,
00:21:29.900 you had to go
00:21:30.800 back inside.
00:21:32.180 Yeah, your teacher
00:21:33.000 was kind but that
00:21:33.800 was her time.
00:21:34.520 She could talk
00:21:35.060 and talk and
00:21:35.540 talk.
00:21:36.560 She was a little
00:21:37.020 serious but she
00:21:38.780 couldn't compare
00:21:39.320 them to your
00:21:39.760 parents.
00:21:40.660 She was maternal
00:21:41.620 but in a different
00:21:42.460 way, kind of the
00:21:43.280 way you liked and
00:21:44.740 whether you realized
00:21:45.420 it then, you
00:21:46.440 deeply respected
00:21:47.320 her.
00:21:48.400 On the car ride
00:21:49.300 home, you couldn't
00:21:49.960 stop talking about
00:21:50.660 everything that
00:21:51.120 had happened on
00:21:51.620 your first day of
00:21:52.300 school.
00:21:53.100 Maybe other
00:21:53.540 people's first day
00:21:54.400 went differently.
00:21:56.080 Maybe yours was a
00:21:56.960 disaster.
00:21:58.360 Maybe you cried
00:21:59.080 and cried until
00:21:59.820 your parents
00:22:00.420 picked you up
00:22:01.040 or maybe you
00:22:02.240 sat alone at
00:22:03.000 the lunch table
00:22:03.700 and it was the
00:22:04.580 first time in your
00:22:05.360 life you understood
00:22:06.160 the meaning of
00:22:07.660 really being alone.
00:22:09.620 But whatever the
00:22:10.480 case, you survived.
00:22:13.180 The first day of
00:22:13.940 school embodies the
00:22:14.780 lesson that we
00:22:15.280 revisit often in our
00:22:16.980 lives.
00:22:17.440 We like to think
00:22:18.100 that once you make
00:22:19.040 it through that
00:22:19.460 first day of school,
00:22:20.580 you'll never have to
00:22:21.160 go through that
00:22:21.700 whole routine again.
00:22:23.040 But in reality,
00:22:24.680 kids, it's gonna be
00:22:26.020 like this for the
00:22:26.860 rest of your lives.
00:22:28.000 The way I like to
00:22:29.640 think of it is that
00:22:30.980 there are situations
00:22:31.800 that take courage.
00:22:33.060 A job interview, an
00:22:33.880 exam, graduation, a
00:22:35.280 lecture, any number
00:22:36.460 of things.
00:22:37.700 Get to know them as
00:22:39.280 you move through
00:22:39.880 life.
00:22:40.900 And that's just the
00:22:41.800 professional stuff.
00:22:42.940 The first day of
00:22:43.620 school pales in
00:22:44.620 comparison to your
00:22:45.360 first date.
00:22:46.480 Oh, your first love,
00:22:47.880 your first kiss, your
00:22:49.780 first concert, your
00:22:50.780 first drive, your
00:22:52.060 first drive alone with
00:22:53.060 your license, your
00:22:54.360 first big game or
00:22:55.660 recital or performance.
00:22:57.400 Those are moments that
00:22:58.920 you'll never forget.
00:23:00.640 And then there's the
00:23:02.260 rotten stuff, the
00:23:03.620 stuff you try to
00:23:04.260 forget the first time
00:23:05.180 you get your heart
00:23:06.340 broken or the first
00:23:07.680 time you experience
00:23:08.600 honest-to-God
00:23:09.440 betrayal or your
00:23:11.020 first speeding ticket
00:23:12.220 and seeing those blue
00:23:13.080 lights in the rearview
00:23:13.960 mirror, the first time
00:23:15.420 you lose a friend or
00:23:16.440 a loved one.
00:23:17.860 A lot of stuff's gonna
00:23:18.920 happen to you in life.
00:23:20.200 And while it sometimes
00:23:21.300 might seem like the
00:23:22.120 world is a whirlwind of
00:23:23.520 chaos, there is a point
00:23:25.260 to it all, just like
00:23:27.000 there was a point to
00:23:28.000 that very first day at
00:23:29.120 school.
00:23:30.400 In other words, one
00:23:32.300 moment you're as big as
00:23:33.400 your backpack, shuffling
00:23:35.280 onto a school bus, and
00:23:36.880 the next, you're
00:23:38.040 pretending to be
00:23:38.820 apathetic and bored as
00:23:39.960 you walk into your
00:23:40.960 high school for the
00:23:41.660 first time on the
00:23:42.480 first day.
00:23:44.240 Secretly, you're still
00:23:45.840 terrified.
00:23:47.000 And it's a terror that
00:23:48.160 feels so isolating that
00:23:50.760 you truly believe you're
00:23:51.620 the only person in this
00:23:52.660 high school, the only
00:23:53.380 person in the entire
00:23:54.340 world that has ever
00:23:55.940 felt this kind of
00:23:56.920 dread.
00:23:58.200 That first day of
00:23:59.400 school, it's an
00:24:01.260 excellent glimpse into
00:24:02.820 what the future holds,
00:24:04.160 but in a good way.
00:24:05.980 At its core, it's just
00:24:07.180 an exercise in looking
00:24:08.840 for meaning.
00:24:09.720 And that's no easy
00:24:10.580 task.
00:24:11.520 Life is full of joy and
00:24:12.980 disaster.
00:24:14.200 Sometimes you get stuck
00:24:15.420 in the disaster of it
00:24:16.420 for a while.
00:24:17.780 And as long as humans
00:24:19.040 have had language and
00:24:20.020 thought, we've all
00:24:20.660 wondered, what is the
00:24:22.660 point of this weird
00:24:24.820 thing called life?
00:24:27.280 Sometimes, in really
00:24:29.420 bad moments of despair
00:24:30.480 or misfortune or
00:24:31.280 weakness, we almost
00:24:33.260 lose track of the point
00:24:34.460 of living.
00:24:36.440 Hopefully, we can remind
00:24:38.460 ourselves today that it
00:24:40.280 can always get worse.
00:24:41.600 It can get much, much
00:24:42.500 worse.
00:24:42.780 Believe me, much, much
00:24:44.400 worse.
00:24:45.220 But even if that happens,
00:24:47.240 there's still a way out
00:24:48.200 always.
00:24:50.080 Austrian psychologist
00:24:51.120 Viktor Frankl, he's
00:24:52.400 proof of this.
00:24:53.160 Frankl was Jewish.
00:24:54.000 He was in Austria during
00:24:55.020 World War II.
00:24:56.120 He lived through the
00:24:57.240 hellish realities of
00:24:58.780 being in Auschwitz.
00:25:00.360 He survived.
00:25:01.600 And most impressive of
00:25:02.760 all, he emerged with a
00:25:04.020 remarkably optimistic
00:25:05.740 and humane worldview.
00:25:07.960 He writes in his book
00:25:09.240 that you should read,
00:25:10.580 Man's Search for
00:25:11.380 Meaning.
00:25:12.440 Everything can be taken
00:25:13.540 from a man but one
00:25:14.520 thing.
00:25:15.680 The last of human
00:25:16.800 freedoms.
00:25:17.220 to choose one's
00:25:18.940 attitude in any
00:25:20.520 given set of
00:25:21.320 circumstances.
00:25:22.460 To choose one's
00:25:23.640 own way.
00:25:26.040 Wow, have we
00:25:26.900 forgotten this.
00:25:28.780 That involves a
00:25:29.680 growing number of
00:25:30.520 decisions that we
00:25:31.320 have to make.
00:25:32.420 And some of them
00:25:33.120 are really hard and
00:25:34.200 complicated.
00:25:34.980 And some of them
00:25:35.540 we're not going to
00:25:36.040 like the answers.
00:25:37.300 They're too complicated
00:25:38.120 for us to understand,
00:25:39.360 we think, which is
00:25:40.740 probably the point of
00:25:42.040 them anyway.
00:25:43.640 Frankl wrote,
00:25:44.460 There's nothing in
00:25:45.320 the world, I venture
00:25:45.980 to say, that would so
00:25:47.120 effectively help one
00:25:48.140 survive even the
00:25:49.180 worst conditions as
00:25:51.220 the knowledge that
00:25:51.880 there is meaning in
00:25:53.000 life.
00:25:55.760 I have no idea what
00:25:56.940 the meaning of life
00:25:57.720 is.
00:25:59.800 But maybe it arises
00:26:00.960 from the relentless
00:26:01.680 search for the meaning
00:26:03.180 in life.
00:26:04.700 And the first day,
00:26:06.220 the first day of
00:26:07.000 school, is the series
00:26:08.840 of first days.
00:26:09.760 And at each stage in
00:26:11.460 life, we are and see
00:26:14.360 miracles.
00:26:15.700 It's unbelievable that
00:26:16.840 honestly, that any of
00:26:17.760 us are still alive today.
00:26:18.780 It's a miracle.
00:26:20.020 Childbirth is a miracle.
00:26:21.200 And at every stage that
00:26:22.980 follows, every day that
00:26:24.520 arrives is a miraculous
00:26:26.280 gift.
00:26:26.880 So, as you either fumble
00:26:32.300 with your padlock, or
00:26:34.120 you're starting a new
00:26:35.060 job, new school, or
00:26:36.980 your kids are, your
00:26:39.100 first brand new high
00:26:40.840 school outfit, your
00:26:42.140 first grade outfit,
00:26:44.820 muttering to yourself
00:26:45.940 under your breath,
00:26:46.760 because you'd practice
00:26:48.200 this at home, you want
00:26:49.760 it to look smooth and
00:26:50.660 natural, just remember
00:26:51.760 that soon you'll be able
00:26:54.120 to unlock the padlock
00:26:55.100 without even looking at
00:26:56.140 the dial.
00:26:57.060 Soon, you'll be too
00:26:58.100 busy talking to friends,
00:26:59.280 new friends, good
00:27:00.000 friends, or a boyfriend
00:27:01.780 or girlfriend.
00:27:03.160 And the once impossible
00:27:04.200 task of undoing the
00:27:05.880 padlock is going to
00:27:07.420 seem laughably minor.
00:27:09.580 But you've earned that
00:27:10.600 padlock, just like you
00:27:12.500 earn every day moving
00:27:13.820 forward.
00:27:14.820 You're great, you're
00:27:16.240 marvelous, you're
00:27:17.660 powerful.
00:27:19.620 I can't think of a
00:27:20.520 better way to express
00:27:21.360 this puzzling and
00:27:22.860 beautiful enigma than
00:27:24.860 a quote from poet
00:27:26.160 Alfred Tennyson.
00:27:27.800 Yeah, who you're
00:27:28.840 going to have to read.
00:27:30.580 It's in the poem
00:27:31.160 Ulysses, which is
00:27:32.840 about the great
00:27:33.460 Odysseus as he looks
00:27:34.900 at life, first with
00:27:36.500 callous anger and
00:27:37.360 frustration, then
00:27:38.440 slowly with a sense of
00:27:39.820 amazement.
00:27:41.140 The closing line
00:27:42.340 captures his spirit.
00:27:44.680 Though much is taken,
00:27:46.540 much it bides.
00:27:48.360 And though we are not
00:27:50.040 now that strength which
00:27:51.820 in old days moved the
00:27:53.260 earth and heaven, that
00:27:54.920 which we are, we are
00:27:56.920 one equal temper of
00:27:59.160 heroic hearts, made
00:28:01.060 weak from time and
00:28:02.680 fate, but strong in
00:28:04.980 will to strive, to
00:28:06.980 seek, to find, and
00:28:09.580 not to yield.
00:28:10.760 This is the best of the
00:28:18.700 Glenn Beck program.
00:28:19.620 Hey, it's Glenn, and if
00:28:31.620 you like what you hear on
00:28:32.320 the program, you should
00:28:33.200 check out Pat Gray
00:28:34.460 Unleashed.
00:28:35.560 His podcast is available
00:28:36.780 wherever you download your
00:28:38.160 favorite podcast.
00:28:39.360 So I'm in the airport
00:28:40.420 yesterday, doing what I
00:28:42.840 love to do, fly to Los
00:28:45.380 Angeles, to meet with a
00:28:48.440 bunch of people in Los
00:28:50.020 Angeles and the
00:28:51.500 Hollywood type, you
00:28:53.660 know, a day after a
00:28:55.500 shooting where
00:28:56.400 McCarthyism is like,
00:28:58.500 you're a Trump
00:28:59.160 supporter, we need to
00:29:00.460 kill you, except that
00:29:02.160 wouldn't be the voice.
00:29:03.740 The Trump supporter, you
00:29:04.760 know, the voice would be
00:29:05.620 like, hey, you're a
00:29:07.480 Trump supporter or not a
00:29:09.060 Trump supporter, we
00:29:10.800 should have some fixings.
00:29:12.880 Want to come over to my
00:29:13.660 house, we can talk about
00:29:14.780 things.
00:29:15.680 Instead, the real
00:29:17.640 hillbillies are the ones
00:29:18.840 that are living in
00:29:19.880 Hollywood.
00:29:21.160 They found out about a
00:29:22.500 fundraiser in Beverly
00:29:25.480 Hills that Donald Trump
00:29:26.860 is going to be attending.
00:29:28.060 And they're like, oh my
00:29:28.740 gosh, we are surrounded by
00:29:29.900 people who actually voted
00:29:31.920 for Trump.
00:29:32.740 I'm telling you, I know
00:29:35.020 people, I know a lot of
00:29:37.220 people, in fact, a friend
00:29:38.300 of mine had dinner with
00:29:39.240 somebody last night who
00:29:40.880 wants to be a liberal
00:29:42.920 politician.
00:29:44.780 who said, people here
00:29:46.520 have no idea how many
00:29:48.340 people are just going to
00:29:49.400 vote for Trump because
00:29:50.600 they've gone crazy.
00:29:53.840 All of the people they're
00:29:54.980 putting up are crazy
00:29:56.820 people.
00:29:57.380 So anyway, they just want to
00:30:00.380 make sure that they find
00:30:01.260 him.
00:30:01.360 So I was thrilled to be
00:30:03.000 coming to Los Angeles
00:30:04.040 yesterday.
00:30:05.840 And I'm on, I'm getting on
00:30:07.580 the plane.
00:30:07.940 I'm going to the airport.
00:30:08.880 And I said to my wife,
00:30:09.940 before we left, I said,
00:30:11.660 honey, I got to bring my
00:30:13.160 gun home, but I don't want
00:30:15.000 to carry it to Los Angeles.
00:30:16.440 I don't think that would be
00:30:17.620 helpful.
00:30:19.260 And can you just carry it
00:30:20.720 with you?
00:30:20.940 And she was like, oh, no,
00:30:22.240 please don't make me take
00:30:23.500 your gun.
00:30:24.040 And I'm like, honey, it's a
00:30:25.260 shotgun.
00:30:26.200 It's not the pistol or
00:30:27.580 anything.
00:30:27.800 It's a shotgun.
00:30:28.960 It's completely unloaded.
00:30:31.260 It's open.
00:30:32.240 They can see it.
00:30:33.700 I know how to do it.
00:30:34.680 I've flown with the gun
00:30:36.480 before, blah, blah, blah,
00:30:37.800 blah, blah.
00:30:38.160 And she's like, oh, don't
00:30:39.120 make me take your gun.
00:30:41.820 It's going to be a hassle.
00:30:43.140 No, it's not.
00:30:48.580 So I get to the airport.
00:30:53.540 And I check in.
00:30:56.480 And I have to go to another
00:30:57.520 line to check in the bag,
00:30:59.360 which is a very, very,
00:31:02.020 very long line.
00:31:05.240 And all the way along,
00:31:06.420 there are people there who
00:31:08.000 are like, you in line for
00:31:09.100 your bags?
00:31:09.600 No, I'm in line for
00:31:10.740 lollipops.
00:31:11.400 Do we have any lollipops
00:31:12.460 that you're handing out?
00:31:13.380 Of course, that's what it
00:31:14.540 says.
00:31:15.280 Bags, you see me with all
00:31:16.360 the bags?
00:31:17.200 Yes, that's what I'm in
00:31:18.360 line for.
00:31:19.140 I get to the front of the
00:31:21.520 line and somebody says,
00:31:22.960 is I at a gun?
00:31:24.340 You mean the big box I've
00:31:25.940 been carrying that is
00:31:26.960 clearly a gun box that
00:31:29.560 I've been carrying for the
00:31:30.440 last hour while I've been
00:31:31.720 standing in line?
00:31:32.500 Yes, that's a gun.
00:31:33.340 Well, you can't check it in
00:31:34.520 here.
00:31:35.520 You got to go down there.
00:31:38.200 Really?
00:31:39.460 You know what?
00:31:40.360 You should be at the
00:31:41.900 front of the line.
00:31:43.540 You should be right there
00:31:45.120 where people are getting
00:31:46.040 into the line where
00:31:46.960 they're like, you getting
00:31:47.920 in to check your bags?
00:31:51.000 Yes.
00:31:51.860 You should maybe tell
00:31:52.960 them if somebody's
00:31:54.140 carrying something shaped
00:31:55.340 like a gun, they should
00:31:57.880 say, you going to try to
00:31:59.320 check that?
00:32:01.640 And tell them that person
00:32:03.540 should go instead of
00:32:04.540 standing in this line for
00:32:05.500 an hour to go to the
00:32:06.920 other line.
00:32:07.640 So I go to the other
00:32:08.580 line and I'm not in a
00:32:10.340 good mood.
00:32:12.440 And the lady behind the
00:32:14.340 counter, now I'm, I have
00:32:16.540 to tell you, I flew Delta
00:32:18.920 and they were fantastic,
00:32:21.460 fantastic from start to
00:32:23.500 finish.
00:32:25.100 And I get to the line and I
00:32:29.440 said, is this the correct
00:32:31.080 line to check a gun?
00:32:32.820 And my wife elbowed me and
00:32:35.620 she was like, stop it.
00:32:37.860 And I'm like, no, no,
00:32:39.080 honey, no, no, I just want
00:32:40.900 to know if we're in the
00:32:41.580 correct line.
00:32:42.780 Stop it.
00:32:44.340 The lady says, I'm a little
00:32:45.880 starstruck right now.
00:32:47.800 I just listen to your show
00:32:49.120 all the time.
00:32:49.820 And I said, good, then you
00:32:51.040 can talk to me about this.
00:32:52.540 This is insane.
00:32:54.160 This is insane.
00:32:55.680 And she's like the gun thing.
00:32:56.940 And I said, yes.
00:32:57.760 She said, you want to know
00:32:58.620 what's insane in really
00:32:59.940 insane?
00:33:00.360 And I said, yes.
00:33:01.680 And she said, I have to
00:33:03.420 ask you to unlock it.
00:33:04.940 And I said, OK.
00:33:06.180 And I figured I was going
00:33:07.140 to show her the gun and
00:33:09.080 make sure that it was
00:33:09.680 unloaded and everything
00:33:10.580 else.
00:33:11.020 And she said, OK, now you
00:33:14.400 have to walk with me down
00:33:15.620 to the TSA.
00:33:17.200 And I said, wait.
00:33:19.640 You told me to unlock the
00:33:21.380 gun.
00:33:22.800 And now you're handing me
00:33:24.360 the gun to walk through
00:33:26.420 the crowded airport.
00:33:27.440 She said, yeah, yeah.
00:33:28.680 Makes a lot of sense,
00:33:29.520 doesn't it?
00:33:29.880 And I said, no, it
00:33:31.200 doesn't make any sense.
00:33:31.960 And she said, yeah, all
00:33:33.100 of us have been talking
00:33:33.820 about it, that maybe the
00:33:34.960 TSA should, you know,
00:33:36.460 make that rule kind of
00:33:37.720 like change.
00:33:39.940 Like, don't unlock it
00:33:41.460 until you get to the TSA.
00:33:43.260 Because how about somebody
00:33:44.600 just comes to the airport?
00:33:46.420 I say unlock it.
00:33:47.880 They do.
00:33:48.460 We're walking through the
00:33:49.220 crowded part of the airport
00:33:50.100 and somebody pulls out a
00:33:51.560 gun in the unlocked bin
00:33:53.580 because that's what TSA
00:33:54.960 told them to do.
00:33:57.100 And shoots everybody.
00:33:58.280 I'm like, this is insane.
00:34:01.100 She said, yeah, yeah.
00:34:03.260 So we walked down to the
00:34:04.620 TSA.
00:34:05.380 And I mean, and I would
00:34:06.460 never say this if I didn't
00:34:08.680 actually believe it.
00:34:10.680 And if everyone in my
00:34:13.220 party, my kids, my wife,
00:34:16.860 who doesn't ever say a bad
00:34:18.000 word about anybody, never
00:34:19.240 wants to say, the guys I was
00:34:21.280 traveling with, we had two
00:34:22.840 friends with us.
00:34:23.780 We all walked away from TSA
00:34:26.960 and everyone said, I don't
00:34:30.040 mean to be rude, but were
00:34:31.380 they mentally handicapped?
00:34:34.540 They were like very low
00:34:37.980 level, maybe 60 IQ, I think.
00:34:41.500 And there were two of them.
00:34:45.800 And when we're standing in
00:34:47.640 line, there's a soldier and
00:34:50.420 the TSA opens up his gun.
00:34:52.320 It's an AR.
00:34:53.660 And in exactly how I would
00:34:55.940 have done it, he takes the
00:34:57.740 bullets and they're in a in a
00:34:59.100 box or he in his case, they
00:35:00.800 were in a plastic bag.
00:35:02.020 The magazine was empty and
00:35:03.800 separate.
00:35:04.140 And the the the the AR was
00:35:08.860 there and it was open so you
00:35:10.940 could see there was not a
00:35:12.000 shell in it.
00:35:12.980 OK, great.
00:35:14.260 He opens it up and he's like,
00:35:15.820 wow, this is a fantastic gun.
00:35:18.840 You shoot this a lot.
00:35:20.260 Yeah, he's a soldier.
00:35:21.200 He's clearly a soldier.
00:35:22.520 Yes, he shoots it a lot.
00:35:25.080 Why are these in a plastic bag?
00:35:28.380 Well, because I airports tell
00:35:32.120 me that it shouldn't be loaded
00:35:34.620 and it shouldn't be that it
00:35:36.040 should be separate from the
00:35:37.040 magazine.
00:35:38.260 Oh, well, not here.
00:35:39.380 You don't have to worry about
00:35:40.180 that.
00:35:41.040 Then he says, you can go ahead
00:35:42.540 and put them in the magazine.
00:35:44.140 So now we have a guy loading
00:35:46.120 his AR bullets into the
00:35:49.360 magazine.
00:35:50.180 All you have to do now is grab
00:35:51.900 the gun, slap it in the base,
00:35:54.620 cock it and fire.
00:35:57.780 OK, why would you have him
00:35:59.240 load the gun?
00:35:59.980 Why?
00:36:00.260 Why would you?
00:36:00.820 What what purpose does that
00:36:02.400 hold?
00:36:03.540 So then he's like, OK, now
00:36:05.420 you just put that in there
00:36:06.620 and OK, we're going to lock
00:36:07.640 it up.
00:36:07.920 He puts the lock on.
00:36:09.020 OK, it's good.
00:36:10.000 And some other guy comes out
00:36:11.980 who has an IQ of maybe 40
00:36:13.840 takes the gun.
00:36:15.820 The next the next in line is
00:36:18.180 me and I put the gun down
00:36:20.100 and it's in a shotgun case.
00:36:23.280 And he's like, you only have
00:36:25.720 one lock for this.
00:36:26.820 And I'm like, yeah, I only
00:36:30.080 have one lock for this.
00:36:31.540 And he's like, it can't fly.
00:36:33.500 And I'm like, I know the case
00:36:34.680 can't fly, but your airplanes
00:36:35.960 fly.
00:36:36.660 And so we could put it on the
00:36:38.680 airplane and it can fly.
00:36:41.480 And he's like, no, it can't fly,
00:36:43.660 sir, because look.
00:36:45.420 And then he reaches down to the
00:36:46.660 top and he starts to pull it
00:36:47.940 apart.
00:36:48.220 And he's like, see, you could
00:36:49.360 just kind of open it here and be
00:36:52.480 able to.
00:36:52.960 And I'm like, what are you
00:36:54.000 insane?
00:36:57.040 So he had to go run and buy
00:36:58.620 two other locks.
00:36:59.720 So it had three locks on it.
00:37:01.580 It's completely empty.
00:37:04.140 He's taking the foam out like,
00:37:06.420 you know, I swear to you, it was
00:37:07.780 bomb sniffing dogs on mine.
00:37:09.460 He's telling the other guy in
00:37:10.760 front of me, go ahead and load
00:37:12.520 the magazine with me, an empty
00:37:15.040 shotgun.
00:37:16.580 He's got to take all the foam
00:37:18.160 out and everything else.
00:37:19.480 And I'm like, this is crazy.
00:37:23.780 And it's, I'm sorry, but the
00:37:25.980 TSA, there are good people.
00:37:28.060 There was a guy in Dallas who was
00:37:29.900 so great.
00:37:31.480 And he was, man, the trains ran
00:37:34.200 on time on his line.
00:37:36.380 He was, he, everybody was laughing
00:37:38.800 and joking with him because he
00:37:41.060 was like, no, don't touch that.
00:37:42.420 Don't, no, don't touch that
00:37:43.580 tray yet.
00:37:44.120 No, no.
00:37:44.860 And he was just running it so
00:37:47.180 efficiently and so right.
00:37:48.940 And you all stood in line.
00:37:50.060 And if you moved in line, he was
00:37:51.560 like, no, no, no.
00:37:52.380 I didn't say to go yet.
00:37:53.400 Wait.
00:37:54.380 But he had a sense of humor about
00:37:56.120 it and he was cool and he had,
00:37:58.080 he was doing his job and everyone
00:38:00.440 was cool with it.
00:38:02.460 There are great TSA agents.
00:38:05.160 And then there are really bad TSA
00:38:07.620 agents.
00:38:08.260 And then the TSA just makes stuff
00:38:10.820 up.
00:38:11.180 Well, that's kind of up to me
00:38:12.860 whether to decide that flies or
00:38:14.360 not.
00:38:15.160 This is not a system.
00:38:16.740 This is ridiculous.
00:38:23.120 There are really good TSA agents.
00:38:25.880 Really good.
00:38:26.960 In Salt Lake City, there were
00:38:28.120 great TSA agents.
00:38:31.080 Did their job.
00:38:32.300 Looked you in the eye.
00:38:33.560 Looked at your identification.
00:38:35.920 We're actually doing their job.
00:38:37.960 And once in a while, you'll find a
00:38:39.980 boob or two that are just, they have
00:38:41.860 no idea what they're doing.
00:38:43.380 They don't fill you with confidence
00:38:45.500 and yet they have total control.
00:38:47.580 It's ridiculous.
00:38:49.340 It's ridiculous.
00:38:52.240 All I had to do, and I found this
00:38:54.700 out later, all I had to do was bring
00:38:58.220 a miniature horse.
00:39:00.560 If I would have brought a miniature
00:39:02.500 horse, I would have been escorted
00:39:04.480 directly to the plane.
00:39:07.600 I'm not making this up.
00:39:10.060 Somebody said to me just a couple of
00:39:11.580 weeks ago on the air, they said,
00:39:12.760 you know, next, you know, they're
00:39:13.920 going to bring horses as, you know,
00:39:16.200 assistant animals, you know, those
00:39:18.040 those animals that can, you know,
00:39:20.220 wear the little vest.
00:39:22.560 Yeah.
00:39:23.300 Yeah.
00:39:23.600 And I said, don't laugh.
00:39:25.540 Don't laugh.
00:39:26.140 It's coming.
00:39:26.880 It's here.
00:39:28.560 Did you see the picture of the horse
00:39:31.260 on American Airlines?
00:39:34.140 Someone brought an emotional support
00:39:36.380 animal and it was a horse.
00:39:38.760 horse.
00:39:40.560 Now, I don't know if you're like me.
00:39:43.640 I don't.
00:39:44.220 I have a hundred pound German shepherd
00:39:46.400 and he is a protection animal.
00:39:49.460 He's actually gone through all the
00:39:51.220 training.
00:39:51.660 He has the little vest.
00:39:52.880 He's got all of it.
00:39:54.240 I don't bring him everywhere.
00:39:56.300 I don't bring him on airplanes
00:39:57.860 because I think it's kind of rude.
00:40:00.220 I don't know if somebody has a bad
00:40:02.500 dog allergy, just like I have a bad
00:40:04.620 cat allergy.
00:40:05.500 I don't do that.
00:40:08.360 So we kennel him.
00:40:10.340 We can use him.
00:40:12.540 That's his job to make sure that
00:40:14.580 we're safe.
00:40:16.360 I don't do it because I just don't
00:40:18.140 think it's right.
00:40:18.940 This person brought a pony, a pony.
00:40:23.140 And, you know, here's what's crazy.
00:40:24.400 In the article, it talks about how
00:40:27.800 the lady was having to say sorry all
00:40:30.200 the time because the horse kept
00:40:32.520 jostling the other passenger in the
00:40:35.420 seat next to her in the pony.
00:40:37.280 And I thought, you know, if I'm if I
00:40:39.780 gain another five pounds, they're
00:40:41.380 going to make me buy a second seat.
00:40:44.320 But if I bring a pony on, I don't have
00:40:47.800 to buy a second seat.
00:40:49.700 The world has gone insane.
00:40:54.400 Oh, excuse me.
00:40:59.360 Could you could you maybe put the
00:41:01.360 pony in the overhead?
00:41:02.520 Because I'm going to rent a pony and
00:41:06.520 I'm going to come into the Salt Lake
00:41:08.180 City Airport on the back of my pony.
00:41:12.160 And I'm going to have my shotgun in
00:41:14.460 the saddle.
00:41:15.720 OK, like the rifleman.
00:41:17.240 I'm going to have that in there and
00:41:18.980 I'm going to ride in on my emotional
00:41:21.000 support pony.
00:41:22.040 And I'm going to buy the extra seat
00:41:25.100 because I'm five pounds too fat.
00:41:28.480 And then my pony and my gun and I are
00:41:30.640 getting on board.
00:41:32.660 I think the world makes total sense.
00:41:37.500 That is an incredible that I mean, now
00:41:39.840 that you've pointed out this horse
00:41:41.200 thing, I've gone and, of course, looked
00:41:42.820 at the photo of it.
00:41:44.960 How on earth?
00:41:46.680 How on earth could that happen?
00:41:48.800 We we had to bring our little dog on
00:41:51.340 the plane one time and didn't.
00:41:52.660 And your little dog is like 10 pounds.
00:41:54.280 Yeah, like 10 pounds.
00:41:56.260 So she was a little fat at the time.
00:41:57.680 20 pounds, maybe.
00:41:59.680 And but 20, 10, 10 of those pounds is
00:42:02.680 just in the eyes.
00:42:03.980 Yeah, that's true.
00:42:05.240 It was a pug.
00:42:05.800 So but they gave us such a I mean, just
00:42:09.440 to put the thing under underneath the
00:42:11.160 seat where it just sat sits there calmly
00:42:13.000 and does nothing for the entire flight.
00:42:15.260 That was deposits and and finagling and
00:42:19.340 making sure there was so much we had to
00:42:22.080 do just to do that one time.
00:42:24.800 You can put a freaking the horse is
00:42:26.780 standing across the entire row.
00:42:29.300 It's a horse.
00:42:31.260 It's a horse, a legitimate horse.
00:42:33.720 It is a horse.
00:42:35.060 And it is its head is like in the lap of
00:42:38.660 the other passenger.
00:42:40.360 And you're like, what the what?
00:42:42.880 Can you imagine sitting down and somebody
00:42:45.260 going, excuse me, excuse me, excuse me.
00:42:47.180 Oh, is this is this my row?
00:42:48.380 Are you in the right seat?
00:42:50.100 Excuse me.
00:42:50.600 Do you have a pony with you?
00:42:52.520 No, this is not your aisle.
00:42:54.560 This is not the right seat for you.
00:42:56.580 Excuse me, stewardess.
00:42:57.820 She has a pony.
00:42:59.560 You won't let me keep my laptop out under
00:43:03.940 my feet.
00:43:05.560 You won't let you won't let me have that.
00:43:07.320 Everything has to be over.
00:43:08.220 She has a pony.
00:43:09.820 I don't know how we're all going to get
00:43:11.680 out if there's an emergency because
00:43:14.700 there's a pony blocking our way.
00:43:17.220 Like we were really at that point in our
00:43:18.900 society where a normal thing is hated
00:43:23.720 by so many.
00:43:25.040 And there's the cancel culture that comes
00:43:26.980 out and goes crazy.
00:43:28.200 You say you say one thing that's
00:43:30.260 slightly wrong.
00:43:32.000 You post a picture that looks insensitive.
00:43:34.000 Like there's a couple of those stories
00:43:35.420 today where I think it was like Kim
00:43:37.360 Kardashian.
00:43:38.440 And what was the lady from Modern
00:43:41.240 Family, Sofia Vergara, posted photos of
00:43:43.820 the Bahamas.
00:43:44.460 They're like, how dare you post a photo of
00:43:49.160 your vacation when there's a hurricane
00:43:51.360 destroyed in the Bahamas.
00:43:52.580 Oh, shut up.
00:43:53.520 And it's like, and at that point we're so
00:43:56.380 offended by the most minor things and then so
00:43:59.560 accepting of the most bizarre things.
00:44:02.880 A horse on a plane.
00:44:04.360 They made a movie called Snakes on a Plane because
00:44:07.920 it was ridiculous.
00:44:08.680 Now there are horses on planes.
00:44:11.960 Like that's a sequel you wouldn't even make.
00:44:14.300 You know, the two most under word underused
00:44:16.780 words in in the English language today.
00:44:19.420 I shut up.
00:44:21.740 Shut up.
00:44:22.860 Excuse me.
00:44:23.320 I have a pony.
00:44:24.100 How do I shut up?
00:44:25.780 No, I really have a pony.
00:44:27.240 Shut up.
00:44:28.520 No, but I want to get it on the plane.
00:44:30.320 Shut up.
00:44:31.860 I mean, we just need, I want a t-shirt.
00:44:34.240 I want a Glenn Beck program.
00:44:35.620 Shut up t-shirt because that's what needs to
00:44:38.500 be said.
00:44:39.120 All the, you know, this is really stressed.
00:44:41.260 Shut up.
00:44:41.960 Oh, can I please point to it every time someone
00:44:43.860 says we have to have a conversation about gun
00:44:46.120 violence?
00:44:46.720 Yeah.
00:44:46.980 Shut up because you don't want a conversation.
00:44:49.480 You don't want to talk about it.
00:44:51.320 No, you just, you want to preach about it.
00:44:53.860 You want somebody to give you claptor and you want
00:44:56.920 to win an argument.
00:44:58.920 So shut up.
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