00:10:27.320And a guy who used to be the head of ABC, ABC radio, decided towards the end of his career that he would take some of his salary in something brand new.
00:16:41.140My life changed, but I couldn't get a job.
00:16:48.540I get baptized and the the day after my baptism, I just remember this because of the I tried for two years to try to get somebody to to, you know, represent me.
00:17:01.000I couldn't get anybody to represent me.
00:17:02.720And it was a Monday afternoon and my phone rings at my apartment and guy on the other side of the phone said, hey, I understand you're looking for an agent.
00:17:15.140And I said, yeah, I have been for two years.
00:17:20.240And he said, my name is George Hiltzik.
00:17:23.180He was the biggest agent of radio at the time by far, by far.
00:18:14.380He calls me back on Wednesday and he said, all right, I'll take you on.
00:18:21.020Now, I'm thinking to myself over the last couple of days, I'm thinking to myself, there's a chance this guy won't take 10 percent of my money.
00:21:55.180The head of Premier, Craig Kitchen, goes down to Florida to meet with Rush.
00:22:03.240And Rush knows that the meeting is about me.
00:22:07.580And Craig said to me later after we started to really know each other, we were talking about this bogus with talent alone from God and how how much of an act that was.
00:22:25.840How humble he really was in person, how quiet he was in person, how quiet he was in person.
00:22:56.900They said, yeah, he listened a few weeks ago, you know, when you were when you were, you know, on the air before we before we offered you this gig.
00:23:31.080But the point of the story is, is while he was sitting there at dinner, when Craig sat down, the first thing he said was, it's been a good run.
00:23:40.640It's been a great run, Craig, hasn't it?
00:25:03.280You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
00:25:06.140Many members of the media are taking sick, twisted glee in the death of Rush Limbaugh.
00:25:21.080And they're also trying to set the history against him.
00:25:26.940Make sure that that's cemented in by playing all kinds of bad things that he have said that he has said, either in jest or in mistakes that he later apologized for.
00:25:40.040You know, it doesn't matter to people anymore.
00:25:43.500If it's even true, it doesn't matter anymore.
00:25:47.740Uh, and he may be the last example of of somebody who is just, uh, really bulletproof, really bulletproof.
00:26:09.920Um, and, uh, and yet, you know, yet he had carved himself a place where he could, you know, continue to do what he did because he listened to the listeners.
00:26:25.240And we are grateful, truly grateful that the only people we have to answer to are you.
00:26:31.460And we ask you to join us, um, at, uh, blaze tv.com slash Glenn save 30% on your subscription now.
00:26:40.760But, uh, talk radio is going to come under attack because everything is, and they have to shut you up.
00:26:46.860Uh, last night I did a show, uh, our Wednesday night special on, uh, national suicide and what's actually killing our kids.
00:26:56.160And I started the show with Christopher Roo folks.
00:26:58.880We started with the, um, non-literal suicide, the national suicide, uh, that, that really comes from critical race theory.
00:27:07.460Christopher is the contributing editor for the, uh, city journal and the director of center on wealth and poverty.
00:27:12.740He is the guy who is really responsible for, for rooting this out and, and letting people know what critical race theory is and how deeply embedded in the system.
00:27:24.940Um, if you missed last night show, we talked about, um, this curriculum that is in public schools up in New York, uh, and they identify the eight white identities, uh, that you have.
00:27:41.980And then I think the, I think one of them is a race trader.
00:27:45.960And that's on the good side of the scale, by the way, if you're a race trader, if you're selling out the white race, it's, it's, it's crazy.
00:27:52.640Um, I wanted to bring Christopher back.
00:27:55.260This is the only thing that we have done today that is not, uh, related to Rush Limbaugh, because I think this is so important.
00:28:11.340Yeah, you know, I, I, I didn't, you know, I grew up actually, uh, I don't know if you know this, Glenn, as a kind of, uh, liberal bohemian in California.
00:28:19.500That was my upbringing and political orientation for, for most of my youth.
00:28:24.440And then I started kind of questioning those assumptions.
00:28:49.420I said, man, what you hear, what people in California and the people that are spewing so much venom on Twitter here is so different than what you actually hear from his words.
00:28:59.480And, uh, I, I became a fan, uh, subsequently.
00:29:02.760And, um, you know, it was very sad, uh, to hear the news.
00:29:21.480Everything I believed and everything I had been told about him and his audience just wasn't true.
00:29:26.780Um, let, let's talk about critical race theory, uh, because I am getting, um, messages from people who want to know.
00:29:33.780I have to go into a critical race theory kind of thing in my office and they'll fire me.
00:29:40.220If I say anything, I saw Accenture, I think, let a 30 year partner go because he spoke up against this and said, we shouldn't be doing any of this.
00:29:50.700Tell me about how critical race theory is going to be affecting people.
00:29:55.180If it hasn't already in their places of business and what they should do.
00:30:01.140I mean, if it isn't already in your workplace and your workplace is like a large corporation, a publicly owned firm, uh, it's coming and it's going to come under the guise of diversity, equity and inclusion programs, which, which sound great.
00:30:14.200Um, but sometimes are really aggressive, uh, propaganda and indoctrination campaigns.
00:30:21.920Can you, can, can, can you say first what, what the difference between equality, which our constitution talks about and equity, which is critical race theory.
00:30:38.240Equality is the idea that we're all created, uh, equal under God and that we, the government, uh, should protect individual rights, regardless of race, creed, color, religion, et cetera.
00:30:50.360Um, and essentially it's the equal protection, uh, under the law.
00:30:54.380Equity is the, the critical race theory is basically say, Hey, equality hasn't worked.
00:30:58.180We still have large racial disparities.
00:31:00.400Uh, there's still kind of systemic racism in society.
00:31:03.780Uh, so they've abandoned the idea of equality, treating people equally and replaced it with equity, which is treating groups as units and then trying to equalize outcomes based on group identity.
00:31:15.560Um, so it's a very kind of quick way to think about it is equality is something like the equality of opportunity, uh, and equity, uh, is the equality of results, uh, which we've seen, um, over and over in the 20th century lead to, uh, human and, uh, social disaster.
00:31:35.820Thank God, this isn't happening at my company, but I'm in, I'm in my office and I get a note that says I have to attend this racial diversity and equity class and I want nothing of it.
00:31:48.780And maybe there are people in my office, but no one will say anything.
00:31:55.600And what, what happens if nobody does stand up against it?
00:32:01.580Well, there's a couple, there's a couple of things you can do.
00:32:05.860One is if you feel confident enough and you feel like you have the conviction to do so, uh, you can stand up, you can speak out, you can send a letter to the HR department, letting them know that, uh, these theories don't actually lead to better outcomes in the business literature.
00:32:21.200Uh, they, they, they put the firm at legal risk for lawsuits, um, and that they conflict with your own deeply held beliefs.
00:32:29.220How do you, wait, wait, wait, how do, how do they open up the firm for lawsuits?
00:32:33.520Well, you know, I'm working on this, uh, but I think there's a strong case to be made and there's some, uh, some kind of analogies in case law that if critical race theory, for example, traffics and racial stereotypes, they say, uh, white people can be reduced to the essence of whiteness.
00:32:51.160And it's, it's, it's, it's analogous with oppression.
00:32:53.860Um, you know, that's a violation of the civil rights act.
00:32:56.660If they compel speech, especially in public institutions, um, that's also a violation of the law.
00:33:03.180And then if it creates a toxic work environment, which in many cases it does, it's pitting people against each other.
00:33:08.820Um, it's, it's, it's creating a kind of race-based harassment, which is a protected category.
00:33:14.340Again, these are all actual violations of the law.
00:33:17.000And I think big companies are maybe the quickest to potentially change, uh, change tack because, uh, their legal departments, if this starts becoming a cost center, if it starts becoming a legal risk, if they start fearing lawsuits, um, they're going to probably,
00:33:33.160probably disband a lot of these programs pretty quickly.
00:33:35.300So I think that's one, you know, excellent way forward that we could hopefully see unfold in the next few years.
00:34:09.120And I think people are going to have to make a big decision.
00:34:11.580If your beliefs, uh, your politics, uh, your faith is important and you work at a company that is actively, uh, kind of mobilizing against it.
00:34:20.460Um, you have a tough ethical and moral choice to make.
00:34:23.580Do you stay and fight, uh, or do you find employment with a company that lets you express yourself more authentically?
00:34:28.920And I've talked to a lot of people in the last six months where they say, you know, I, I have these obligations.
00:34:34.360I have a family, I have a career, I have a reputation, but this is just eating away at me.
00:34:39.440Um, this political indoctrination, trying to shame people, trying to create collective guilt based on race or faith or identity.
00:34:48.040Um, and I, I tell them, you know, you really have two options.
00:34:51.420You have, you're going to have to sit and take it, uh, or you're going to have to have some courage and stand up for those convictions.
00:34:58.000And in some cases, people are actually starting to fight back.
00:35:01.480And in, you know, some cases, even fewer, unfortunately, they're actually having success at shutting down these programs.
00:35:07.860Um, you, um, you did a great story in the city journal on anti-racism comes to the heartland and you talk about Springfield, Missouri, how the teachers are being forced to locate themselves on the oppression matrix, which is what?
00:35:27.060The oppression matrix is a, is a kind of graph or grid that was designed by some social justice academics that basically said,
00:35:34.900these are the, the checklists that makes you an oppressor.
00:35:38.180These are the checklist that makes you an oppressed person.
00:35:40.760So, uh, white male, heterosexual, English speaking Christians were the kind of dominant oppressors.
00:35:57.880And they were forcing teachers to essentially locate themselves on this oppression matrix and telling white male teachers, you are an oppressor, uh, telling female or people of color that were teaching in the system.
00:36:10.180You are an oppressed, um, taking in none of the actual reality of the situation, no one's individual stories and categorizing them in this way.
00:36:19.620And teachers were absolutely outraged.
00:36:21.900Um, you know, they leaked me the documents and, uh, and, uh, hopefully the school district will think twice before doing it again.
00:36:27.700But it, it, it, it also, they handed out, uh, flyers or some, you know, um, uh, training materials.
00:36:35.500And the handout originally listed MAGA as quote, a form of covert white supremacy.
00:36:42.700Now they took that off because people found out about it.
00:36:46.200And so they went back into the hiding and they scampered under the refrigerator like cockroaches do.
00:36:51.620But, uh, MAGA, this, this is, this should show you where we're headed when they say, Hey, we got to find extremists.
00:37:01.180The, the stuff that is being passed out to our teachers in schools is really revealing on, on who they think those dangerous extremists are.
00:37:11.160And they're the people in the red States.
00:37:16.460And I think we've seen an evolution of language for the last four years under, uh, the Trump administration, there was this drumbeat from the media constantly saying, uh, making the association that white conservative Christians, uh, are, are by definition white supremacists.
00:37:32.220And there was a attempt to tie those two phrases together.
00:37:36.220And then on January 6th, and I know you condemned it.
00:37:39.380The, the, the, the, the violence at the Capitol, uh, they were gleeful.
00:37:43.460You could, you could, those 72 years after they said, this is our big opportunity.
00:37:46.380We can now move from white supremacists to white supremacist, domestic terrorists.
00:37:51.880And, and, and it's a really a kind of maybe spontaneously coordinated, but clearly a, a coordinated language campaign to basically create the connotation between conservative and Republican voters and white supremacists and domestic terrorists.
00:38:09.300I mean, it's a, it's a truly, you know, the worst thing that can be, uh, and they're trying to basically annex all conservative voters, uh, into that kind of linguistic umbrella, um, which then they could use to silence, to de-platform, to, uh, outlaw and to marginalize.
00:38:29.000Um, what I think is, you know, it's not a majority, a strong plurality of the country.