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00:00:00.000 Welcome to the podcast. It is Stu back from vacation. Glenn is here as well today. We talk

00:00:05.960 a little bit about COVID-19 and I don't know if you've heard of this. It's a virus that's going

00:00:12.620 around. Also, we look at that and Glenn has kind of an announcement to make about him and his family

00:00:18.900 and COVID-19. You're going to be interested in that, I think. Also, Glenn is up for the Radio

00:00:24.340 Hall of Fame. You can vote for him at RadioVote.com. It goes through August 9th. The listeners are

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00:00:36.180 address and you can cast your vote for Glenn Beck and or against him, honestly. It's up to you.

00:00:42.180 Also, Christopher Ruffo joins us. He's a guy who's done documentaries about the Pacific Northwest and

00:00:47.540 all the craziness going on in these cities. He's got more on what's going on in Seattle right now,

00:00:51.580 which is mind-blowing. And there's a coin shortage right now. Why? Why is there a coin

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00:01:34.940 Don't get too close to your headphones, Pat, or to the camera lens. Apparently, my family all has

00:01:57.560 COVID. The most isolated family on the planet, except for one weekend over a month ago. Over a month ago,

00:02:05.360 we had 400 people up at our house. And if we were going to get it, two weeks after that is when we

00:02:12.100 should have gotten it. But we didn't. No, we didn't. Instead, we just isolated and stayed indoors.

00:02:18.620 I think it can take up to 30 days. Somehow or another got COVID. It can to incubate or whatever

00:02:25.540 they call that, to percolate in your system. I think it can take up to 30 days. Now, initially,

00:02:32.340 they said it takes 15 minutes, and then it went to like two weeks. And then it was like,

00:02:38.700 maybe it's 30 days. And then it was like, nah, a year and a half later, if you're exposed,

00:02:44.940 it could just pop right out. Were doctors present at your birth? Because if they were,

00:02:51.860 that was a crowded room you shouldn't have been in. You could get it at any moment.

00:02:57.340 But so I don't know how, but everybody last week, I mean, I think I joked about it last week on the

00:03:04.360 air that, and it's the only reason why we're on the air today, is because I joked about it with

00:03:10.040 the head of Mercury. And I said, yeah, everybody's dropping from fly. We got the COVID here.

00:03:15.760 And he was like, everybody's dropping like flies. Glenn may be joking, but I'm smarter than he is.

00:03:22.380 So I'm going to tell engineering to have everything ready to go. So last night, I get a call, and they

00:03:27.940 were in my house last night at midnight, after my wife and I came in with masks and wiped everything

00:03:35.340 down in here. So they could come in and put the program back on the air, because everything had

00:03:42.080 been ripped out of my house, because I was going back to work today. Can't they just leave it there?

00:03:48.280 I don't know. Just in case, you know, if you ever have a hankering to stay home, you can just do it.

00:03:53.620 Well, can't they just leave it? That's why they don't put it there, because he'll stay home every day.

00:03:57.280 That's why they don't do it. That's true.

00:03:58.700 I think that's exactly right. They don't want to put it in my house, because they know I will

00:04:02.840 never come back into the studio, and I paid a lot of money for those studios. So in retrospect,

00:04:09.040 not a good idea, although we might get Joe Rogan. I mean, I think we should, I think all

00:04:14.380 the listeners should email Joe Rogan today and tell him, work at the Mercury Studios.

00:04:21.160 I think Joe Rogan has enough money for his own building, maybe several buildings.

00:04:25.580 No, he does, but he's smarter than that. He's smarter than that. You know, why would he,

00:04:31.640 when you can just, when you can have somebody else's studio and just rent, why would you buy

00:04:37.900 a huge, why would you buy the Paramount lot? Right. You know what I'm saying? That makes

00:04:42.540 a lot of sense. That makes no sense. You know, Pat, this is the sort of reasoning that's going

00:04:46.240 to get Glenn into the Radio Hall of Fame. It's this sort of thinking out of the box that's

00:04:51.080 going to win it for him, I think. So here's the problem. Is it RadioVote.com?

00:04:56.260 Yeah, RadioVote.com. I've already voted. I mean, not for Glenn. Right. But I did vote.

00:05:00.560 NPR? NPR guys?

00:05:01.780 No, yeah, I went with NPR. I thought that would be a good, they'd be better than Glenn.

00:05:05.640 If I lose to the NPR guys, and listen, audience, because I know you, you will vote for the NPR

00:05:11.220 guys because you'll think it's funny.

00:05:12.940 Don't. Don't do it.

00:05:13.840 It won't be funny to me. It won't be funny to me.

00:05:20.240 It was funny last year. I can't lose to the NPR guys. It's crazy.

00:05:22.980 Last year when you lost to the Fabulous Sports Babe or whoever, that was funny.

00:05:28.800 This will not be funny. It'll be funny to us, Pat, but not Glenn.

00:05:32.540 I'm the Susan Lucci of the Radio Hall of Fame. Right.

00:05:35.120 I'm the Susan Lucci, and I know I'm never going to get in it because I've been told by the

00:05:39.960 guy who runs the Radio Hall of Fame, you will never be inducted to the Hall of Fame.

00:05:45.880 Now, this is a very long time ago, right? This is many, many, many years ago.

00:05:49.980 He's still there. He's still there. And believe me, he still remembers.

00:05:54.780 The president of the place is somebody we know pretty well.

00:05:58.920 Yeah, yeah.

00:05:59.380 And I would think would be friendly.

00:06:00.520 No, but the guy who started it all is there.

00:06:04.220 Okay.

00:06:04.720 Well, here's the thing. Here's the thing.

00:06:06.240 Last year, apparently, when you could vote, it counted for, like, it could override all

00:06:17.000 the other votes. But apparently, somebody did what I would have done this year and cheated.

00:06:22.720 And we're offering, like, prizes for people who could vote and, you know, set up extra

00:06:29.420 emails and everything else. And so now it's only one twentieth of the vote, which I think,

00:06:35.120 you know, is not the way it should be. But, you know, because listeners listen more than,

00:06:41.040 you know, probably board members do.

00:06:43.100 Oh, yeah.

00:06:43.600 And board members sometimes can have vendettas against people and then they never get in.

00:06:48.200 You're doing a good job to win this vote. Let me tell you, you are working it hard.

00:06:53.320 Again, the reason I'm on baby aspirin right now.

00:06:56.200 Now, I'm on baby aspirin.

00:06:58.940 Look, I can't be held responsible for what I'm saying.

00:07:01.500 Someplace, but it's so small because it's printed for baby eyes, all the warnings.

00:07:06.900 I don't know if I should be operating high, you know, heavy machinery with this or not.

00:07:11.460 I don't know.

00:07:12.880 Probably not because I never see babies operating heavy machinery.

00:07:16.940 That's true.

00:07:17.380 So they might all be on baby aspirin and probably, probably.

00:07:22.560 Now, let me ask you this. What does the baby aspirin do in the COVID situation?

00:07:27.820 Oh, it's a strong pain reliever.

00:07:30.580 Is it?

00:07:31.500 Okay.

00:07:32.200 I'm still working up to ibuprofen 800. You know, when the doctor says, have you ever...

00:07:36.860 Now, listen, I want to talk to you about something. I want to be serious here for a moment.

00:07:40.500 Have you ever had ibuprofen 800?

00:07:42.740 I want to just slap the doctor when they say that.

00:07:45.060 Yeah, it's like, no, no, doc, slow down. Not ibuprofen. 800? I take them by the handful, doc. 0.92

00:07:53.780 Anyway.

00:07:54.800 Never had anything that strong.

00:07:57.240 So I think we've cracked. I really think we've cracked this.

00:08:01.040 Did you see the Yale epidemiologist who said, stop with the hydroxychloroquine scare tactics?

00:08:08.680 Yes.

00:08:09.500 It works. It works.

00:08:12.400 And we all had to hate it, I guess, because we all hate Donald Trump.

00:08:16.120 But it works.

00:08:17.700 It's such a bizarre...

00:08:18.400 And I don't know...

00:08:19.620 It's so bizarre.

00:08:21.060 I just honor it.

00:08:21.600 It's just like a religious fervor around this one medication.

00:08:24.220 It is.

00:08:24.540 On both sides of it, too.

00:08:25.600 I mean, like, it obviously doesn't cure every single case, right?

00:08:29.240 But it does seem to help in some cases.

00:08:32.320 There's been multiple studies that have showed that.

00:08:34.000 It should be tried.

00:08:34.140 And, you know, it's been tried in several areas.

00:08:36.780 And, like, there's this fervor against it and for it, as if it's, like, been this, like,

00:08:41.640 long-term political dividing point.

00:08:44.540 Like, pro-life and pro-choice.

00:08:46.200 You know what it is?

00:08:46.300 Like, pro-hydroxy and anti-hydroxy.

00:08:48.480 And we all have this in our DNA for the last 50 years.

00:08:50.820 It's like, well, we all just want something that works, right?

00:08:53.340 Like, Trump also said remdesivir in the press conference where he mentioned hydroxychloroquine.

00:08:58.180 The same press conference.

00:09:00.600 And that's fine.

00:09:01.700 Nobody cares about remdesivir.

00:09:03.120 I don't know about that one.

00:09:03.520 Why?

00:09:04.320 I just don't understand it.

00:09:06.240 I talked to a listener last week who said his whole family got it.

00:09:09.580 And it was, like, the sniffles for his kids.

00:09:11.660 It was, like, a mild cold for him.

00:09:14.040 Then his wife was really sick because she's got underlying issues.

00:09:17.140 And they wouldn't give her hydroxychloroquine at the hospital.

00:09:19.980 So we brought her home.

00:09:21.160 And their primary care physician ordered hydroxychloroquine for her.

00:09:26.820 Twelve hours later, she was almost completely better.

00:09:29.640 Wow.

00:09:29.960 Twelve hours later.

00:09:30.720 Yeah.

00:09:31.240 Yeah.

00:09:31.520 It's amazing.

00:09:32.300 I got it from my vet.

00:09:34.060 Really?

00:09:34.660 I'm kidding.

00:09:35.300 Yeah.

00:09:35.900 No.

00:09:36.460 You know, they were talking about in some states they are making it illegal for doctors to prescribe it.

00:09:41.920 I know.

00:09:42.580 That's insanity.

00:09:44.300 Political.

00:09:44.720 Insanity.

00:09:45.420 As Stu said, it's not the cure-all.

00:09:48.960 But it does help a lot of people.

00:09:50.820 But I will tell you that my doctor has done a lot of research.

00:09:54.700 And he is always calling me going, hey, hey, you should know.

00:09:59.280 But hydroxychloroquine is what I'm supposed to take.

00:10:04.600 He said with zinc, not with zinc, not with a Z-Pak, but with zinc, then the bare children's baby aspirin, that's because people are getting blood clots.

00:10:20.020 People are getting blood clots.

00:10:21.300 Oh, wow.

00:10:21.820 In their lungs.

00:10:22.900 And so take one baby aspirin and it helps so you don't get blood clots in your lungs.

00:10:28.380 And then this is the newest part is, I don't know what it is, busudan.

00:10:34.000 How would you say that, Pat?

00:10:35.120 Look at the label here.

00:10:36.380 How would you say that?

00:10:38.840 Bussudanide.

00:10:39.460 Yeah.

00:10:39.900 Not really readable.

00:10:40.460 B-U-D-E. 1.00

00:10:42.020 Budacetanide.

00:10:43.600 Yeah, like you said.

00:10:47.400 That's why I'm nominated for the Radio Hall of Fame and you're not, man.

00:10:50.220 That's why.

00:10:50.980 Wait, but your doctor didn't give you the pepsid?

00:10:53.440 They keep saying that there's a chance that pepsid actually helps the fight.

00:10:57.300 Really?

00:10:57.860 I'm serious.

00:10:58.520 I mean, that is true, right?

00:10:59.620 It is legitimately like...

00:11:00.860 Yeah, they have said that.

00:11:01.480 Again, that does not mean you should go out and take Pepsin for...

00:11:03.840 I've not looked into...

00:11:05.140 But there are studies that say that they think it could be a potential treatment for COVID-19.

00:11:10.680 There's so many things out there.

00:11:12.000 They just say everything, right?

00:11:13.280 Yes.

00:11:13.600 It's like a...

00:11:14.540 You know what?

00:11:15.700 Glenn, I think...

00:11:16.840 I mean, can we come up with like nachos?

00:11:19.420 Is it possible nachos can cure COVID-19?

00:11:23.120 You should try it.

00:11:23.840 Let's see what happens.

00:11:25.080 He said, it doesn't make sense that you didn't get it because, you know, you have a compromised immune system.

00:11:31.780 And I said, Doc, I have been eating a steady diet of ice cream and Hershey's chocolate.

00:11:37.580 I think we should look into that.

00:11:39.280 I think we should look into it.

00:11:40.640 It may have helped my immune system.

00:11:43.420 It's an obvious vaccine.

00:11:44.260 I'm just saying.

00:11:44.640 It's a vaccine.

00:11:47.060 Right.

00:11:48.260 Ooh, wait a minute.

00:11:49.100 I never thought about just intravenously taking Hershey's chocolate.

00:11:54.520 Wow, that would be really...

00:11:56.520 You'd miss the taste, but...

00:11:58.740 Let me just check with one thing here.

00:12:02.200 I just want to get Pat's take on John Roberts.

00:12:06.860 Oh, my God.

00:12:07.860 John Roberts.

00:12:09.660 How this one...

00:12:11.260 This one really drives me crazy.

00:12:13.860 Yeah.

00:12:14.080 Because this one is clearly constitutional.

00:12:18.720 Yeah.

00:12:18.880 This one is not like, well, it's in the Commerce Clause.

00:12:21.720 This is the First Amendment.

00:12:24.820 The First Amendment.

00:12:27.620 And the court wouldn't even take it up.

00:12:30.640 And John Roberts was the deciding vote.

00:12:33.280 They wouldn't take up the Nevada limits on in-person worship services.

00:12:39.060 Wouldn't even listen to it.

00:12:41.020 I'm telling you, just like the Jim Crow laws and the, oh, shoot, what was the really bad, 0.99

00:12:50.760 the Dred Scott decision?

00:12:52.380 Yeah.

00:12:52.540 The American people did not listen to the Supreme Court on the Dred Scott decision.

00:12:58.140 They didn't listen.

00:13:00.240 And they were right for not listening.

00:13:02.400 These 10 people do not decide what our First Amendment actually means.

00:13:10.640 Yeah.

00:13:10.920 It's true.

00:13:11.920 It's true.

00:13:12.360 John Roberts has lost all his marbles.

00:13:16.880 I mean, he's got one job.

00:13:18.420 You've got one job.

00:13:19.840 Defend the Constitution.

00:13:21.040 And he can't do it.

00:13:22.260 He can't do it because of his legacy or whatever.

00:13:24.260 He doesn't want to be seen as conservative or he doesn't want his court to be seen as right wing.

00:13:29.840 I can handle Ginsburg.

00:13:32.900 I really can.

00:13:33.780 I can handle Ginsburg because she's consistent and she believes in something.

00:13:38.680 John Roberts is just political.

00:13:41.140 Yeah, he is.

00:13:41.680 John Roberts is the worst Supreme Court justice that I have seen in my lifetime because I don't believe he believes anything.

00:13:50.280 He believes he'll he'll go with the Constitution on some things, usually small and insignificant.

00:13:55.980 And then when it's there in the First Amendment, he goes against it.

00:14:02.020 Why?

00:14:02.460 How could you possibly do that?

00:14:04.300 How could you possibly do that, John?

00:14:07.400 It's in the First Amendment.

00:14:10.280 You know, I know if you get up to like, I mean, who would expect you to read, you know, 20, 23, 24?

00:14:16.220 I mean, it starts to get long.

00:14:17.680 That's too many.

00:14:18.400 This is the first one.

00:14:20.520 This is the first one.

00:14:22.180 Yeah, it should have been so crystal clear.

00:14:25.420 He's just too worried about his legacy.

00:14:27.140 That's the only thing that's that's on his mind, it seems, when he makes these decisions.

00:14:31.100 And he's made he's made decisions on little teeny things.

00:14:34.020 But any time it really matters, he's with the liberals.

00:14:38.080 He has rewritten the Constitution.

00:14:41.460 He rewrote the law, rewrote the law for the Obama administration.

00:14:47.720 You don't do that.

00:14:49.040 You can't do that.

00:14:50.020 He rewrote it so he could pass it.

00:14:53.640 And now this, he just doesn't even read the First Amendment.

00:14:57.340 People of faith, you need to stand up.

00:15:00.800 You must stand up.

00:15:03.100 There is an attack of biblical proportions coming on people of faith. 0.59

00:15:08.360 You must stand up now.

00:15:13.860 This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:15:20.020 So, Seattle, we saw the juvenile, new juvenile hall burned down this weekend that they were building.

00:15:31.080 And Seattle is actually looking to abolish prisons.

00:15:35.460 Is that right?

00:15:35.960 Yeah, that's right.

00:15:37.960 So, this really comes on the heels of Seattle City Council's support for cutting the police department by 50 percent.

00:15:45.260 The next thing on their wish list is to close the largest county jail in downtown Seattle, which would reduce the county's total jail capacity by at least 60 percent.

00:15:55.860 And this is something that the county executive had been kind of circulating documents.

00:16:02.080 I broke it before he announced it.

00:16:04.480 But these are real plans.

00:16:06.720 Within the next six to 12 months, we could have 50 percent of the police force and about 40 percent of the county jail capacity.

00:16:16.060 And it's all predicated on the same ideas that we talked about last time with the kind of undoing whiteness training.

00:16:23.060 The documents that I've obtained really show that critical race theory, the idea that the world is reducible to the kind of evil force of whiteness and creating these racist institutions, is at the heart of this plan.

00:16:37.600 And their solution is very clear.

00:16:39.380 They make it explicit that if you have a racist criminal justice system, the only thing that can be done is to tear it down.

00:16:49.940 When I ask you this every time I talk to you, when are the people in Seattle going to wake up?

00:16:57.640 You know, I've been asking that question for many years with the hopes that that things could turn around.

00:17:03.780 I am curious.

00:17:05.640 There's a there's a there's a real disconnect.

00:17:07.660 And I think a lot of people are now contacting me just saying, you know, what's happening?

00:17:13.160 What can we do to turn it around?

00:17:14.300 People who haven't been engaged.

00:17:15.940 I know that people homeowners that are selling their houses and leaving the city of Seattle, it's up fifteen hundred percent compared to the same period last year.

00:17:25.100 People are definitely moving with their feet.

00:17:27.540 But there is a kind of religious fanaticism and conviction to socialist politics.

00:17:35.380 And it's rationalized in the sense that when when their plans don't work, people people basically say we didn't go far enough and they double down.

00:17:45.280 And I'm I'm very afraid that that's what's happening here.

00:17:48.080 When do you move?

00:17:52.560 Have you have you put a line, a red line down on the ground and said, you know, I mean, because honestly, this is getting so crazy.

00:18:01.460 And I'm going to use a hyperbolic example here.

00:18:06.680 And I know that it is not to this level by any stretch.

00:18:10.760 Hopefully it never does come to this.

00:18:12.900 But in the in the 1930s, the Jews were looking at things just starting to just completely fall apart.

00:18:20.100 And some of them said, I'm getting out of here now while they're getting is good.

00:18:24.320 And eventually, you know, they were trapped and they couldn't leave.

00:18:29.880 At what point is there a red line that you look at and go, you know, if it gets to here, I got to get out of here.

00:18:37.040 Yeah, I mean, you know, there is.

00:18:40.780 And I think that it's it's really kind of fallen and collapsed very quickly.

00:18:45.700 Five years ago, I had a friend visiting in Seattle and he said, wow, this is one of the cleanest big cities in America.

00:18:51.300 It's great. You can go anywhere.

00:18:52.920 High quality of life.

00:18:54.560 And then he came back last year and he said, it looks like somebody dropped an atomic bomb on your city.

00:19:00.500 I mean, the change has just been extremely rapid.

00:19:03.540 And I think that, you know, the question of when to move, people are starting to now really speed up this exodus.

00:19:11.020 You know, the numbers from the real estate companies are a huge exodus.

00:19:14.980 If you look at the price of a U-Haul from Seattle to Boise, it's about 10 times more than the price from a U-Haul from Boise to Seattle, suggesting a huge outflow.

00:19:25.540 And, you know, a friend of mine who's a pillar of the Jewish community in Seattle, you know, as you mentioned, he says, you know, all of my community, the kind of conservative Jews in Seattle, we're now meeting very often trying to say, when is the time that we actually leave?

00:19:42.940 And he said something I thought was very astute.

00:19:45.680 He said, you know, as Jews, we have a special instinct for when things are about to go bad.

00:19:50.760 And those sentiments, those feelings, those premonitions, they're now firing at an extremely rapid rate.

00:19:57.800 And people are making plans either to leave Seattle for another city, for an outlying area.

00:20:02.020 And some of the folks are saying it's gotten so bad, we're actually thinking about going to Israel.

00:20:10.180 Well, Israel, I mean, if the times of the seasons are what I think they are, Israel's not going to be a very safe place either, but at least they'll stand there. 1.00

00:20:22.460 Would you mind putting us in touch with him?

00:20:24.220 I'd like to talk to him about that, because this is a very unique time period.

00:20:31.520 And I think people of all religions really need to wake up, especially with what happened with John Roberts this weekend, when they don't recognize the First Amendment that sets it completely apart from the government.

00:20:45.920 I don't know what's coming.

00:20:48.220 So tell me more about this document that you found, the Community Supports Meeting.

00:20:54.120 Tell me the highlights of this document.

00:20:55.720 So this is a document that comes from the King County Executive's Office and really provides the theoretical basis for the executive's plan to really just completely and permanently shut down the largest jail with no plans to replace it.

00:21:11.560 And it basically looks kind of like a hybrid of a university lecture on critical race theory or a diversity training and kind of a very progressive company.

00:21:21.800 But it has kind of a chart in a pyramid that says underneath the justice system are the thing that is foundational to the justice system in Seattle and in the United States is white racism, white supremacy, white fragility, and a whole other series of kind of the buzzwords that have been circulating lately.

00:21:44.800 And then it goes up the pyramid, and then at some point they say, you know, when criminal offenders offend, it's actually the fault of society, not that criminal offender.

00:21:55.900 And the logic is, well, if you have a racist society that in essence forces people, especially people of color, to commit crimes, if you abolish the institutions of the carceral system, if you abolish the jails, if you abolish the police, if you abolish the municipal courts,

00:22:13.800 those people will stop offender because their oppression has been lifted.

00:22:18.800 And I mean, it's absurd. It doesn't work in practice at all and gets the causality so skewed it's hard to even understand on logical grounds.

00:22:30.220 But this is the kind of pseudoscientific, kind of pseudo-academic nonsense that is driving the decision-making at the highest levels of government in Seattle and Portland and New York, elsewhere.

00:22:44.400 And it's really shocking, because they're really boiling down a very complex social problem, crime, to just, you know, white people are evil, and they've set up these evil institutions that force people to do wrong, and their only solution. 0.89

00:23:04.760 It's not reform at this point. For many years, it was about criminal justice reform. 0.91

00:23:09.480 They've moved well beyond that in very rapid succession to do criminal justice abolition.

00:23:15.540 And, you know, my last thing I'd say is that you had three weeks ago cutting the police department 50 percent, this week cutting the jails by 60 percent.

00:23:24.620 And my sources in city government are saying the next target is to get rid of the municipal courts almost altogether.

00:23:31.640 Jeez. And what do you have instead?

00:23:37.520 So they're basically saying that we are not going to prosecute or bring to the courts any misdemeanors, and we'll bump up felonies to the county court system.

00:23:47.160 So they're really looking to essentially eliminate criminal penalties and the criminal process for, you know, really the vast majority of crimes, and only prosecute the most serious crimes, the most violent crimes at the county level.

00:24:03.960 So this is something that I had heard rumblings about two years ago.

00:24:09.260 Activists were agitating.

00:24:11.180 But I was told this is something that is far-fetched.

00:24:14.340 It's not going to happen.

00:24:15.780 It's just a few people.

00:24:17.940 But it's very quickly capitalizing on the chaos of the coronavirus shutdown, capitalizing on the death of George Floyd.

00:24:25.860 But these are people who have been laying the groundwork for years, and now they're really seizing this opportunity to push forward.

00:24:34.540 And unfortunately, when you shut down the jails, you fire 50 percent of your cops, and you abolish the courts, those are almost irreversible decisions.

00:24:43.900 So it really is a very dangerous period for these cities.

00:24:47.800 What are the business owners saying?

00:24:54.200 Because at some point, even the most liberal business owner has got to say, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

00:25:01.220 Somebody comes in and shoplifts.

00:25:02.840 Somebody comes in and does something in my store.

00:25:05.700 I've got to have some police.

00:25:10.140 Yeah.

00:25:10.820 I mean, business owners are apoplectic.

00:25:12.860 They have been fighting kind of headwinds in Seattle for many years, and it really started with kind of economic policies, taxes, minimum wage.

00:25:23.520 Those are kind of your traditional business versus labor fights, right?

00:25:28.280 These have been the kind of mainstream battleground between business and labor organizations.

00:25:34.700 And there was a sense, looking back in retrospect, a naive sense that, well, this is really as bad as they can make it.

00:25:42.260 They can raise the minimum wage.

00:25:43.720 They can put in kind of onerous scheduling laws.

00:25:46.400 They can increase the property taxes on business owners.

00:25:50.080 But now business owners are finding themselves in a real whole new terrain.

00:25:54.300 I know that in downtown Seattle right now, there are entire blocks that have been boarded up for two months.

00:26:00.620 I mean, businesses that are saying, you know, the risk of getting looted, the risk of getting ransacked, the risk of getting burned down is a greater risk than just shutting down and going to zero revenue for the foreseeable future.

00:26:15.080 So this is really catastrophic.

00:26:16.940 And the business trade groups, they're predicting that maybe up to 50 percent of all restaurants in downtown Seattle may never come back.

00:26:29.760 So this is a really frightening thing.

00:26:32.800 And then if they do come back and there are 50 percent of the police officers on the street, it's going to be an absolute nightmare.

00:26:40.400 And my friends and sources within the police department say if these cuts go forward, they're going to have no proactive policing and they're going to have a limited number of officers basically bouncing from emergency call to emergency call to emergency call.

00:26:57.380 And it could be sometimes up to two hours before an officer can show up at the scene of a crime.

00:27:05.940 Real quick, because I have to take a network break.

00:27:08.320 Is there any chance that the the the chief of police runs for higher office?

00:27:15.960 I mean, she seems to be striking a chord with a lot of people where she's just coming out.

00:27:20.980 She's apologizing and saying, look, I have nothing to do with this.

00:27:24.220 And Seattle, you're on your own.

00:27:25.700 I wish I could help.

00:27:26.700 I but I can't.

00:27:28.360 I can't.

00:27:29.220 Is she looked on as reasonable or not reasonable?

00:27:33.620 She's looked at she's looked on as very reasonable.

00:27:36.040 And I think what what's happening is increasingly a chief of police, Carmen Best.

00:27:41.280 She's a longtime SPD officer, moved up the ranks and is now chief.

00:27:45.700 She's seen as the only thing standing between the city and the mob. 0.99

00:27:50.500 I mean, she's really the last kind of bastion of hope for the city of Seattle.

00:27:54.980 And I know that rank and file officers, as well as some of the political power brokers who are in the more kind of center left moderate camp.

00:28:02.900 They're encouraging her to consider a run.

00:28:06.120 The mayor's race is next year.

00:28:08.620 It's an off your election.

00:28:10.120 And I think that she can run on a very clear platform is standing up to the mob, standing up to the radicals.

00:28:17.000 And, you know, I, for one, absolutely hope that she considers it.

00:28:21.400 Thank you so much.

00:28:22.120 I appreciate it, Chris.

00:28:23.000 And thank you for all of your hard work and being places that none of us want to be.

00:28:27.400 This is the best of the Glenn Beck Program.

00:28:36.680 Hello, Kara.

00:28:38.580 Hi.

00:28:39.120 How are you doing today?

00:28:41.360 I'm very good.

00:28:42.300 I'm very good.

00:28:43.660 Good.

00:28:44.300 I'm so glad I get to talk to you.

00:28:45.960 I've been listening to you all the way back since Fox News.

00:28:49.180 And you've taught me and my kids so much.

00:28:52.540 We want to thank you.

00:28:53.620 No, thank you.

00:28:54.600 Thank you very much.

00:28:55.540 I appreciate that.

00:28:57.100 Sure.

00:28:58.340 I am wondering about this coin shortages that we're having.

00:29:03.440 I don't think I've ever in my life had coins that were not available.

00:29:08.220 Are we moving into a cashless society?

00:29:13.100 Yes, but I don't think that's what this is all about.

00:29:16.240 I'm not sure.

00:29:17.460 I honestly have not spent the time looking at the coin shortage.

00:29:20.900 I've been looking at the dollar abundance and been researching some other things.

00:29:27.520 But the short answer on the coin shortage, I don't know why we're going through this right now.

00:29:33.860 Longer answer for you, really the root of your question, are we going to a cashless society?

00:29:43.360 We absolutely are going to a cashless society.

00:29:45.940 But it will take the collapse of the U.S. dollar to bring us to that.

00:29:53.900 And we're going to most likely go back to a gold standard, at least for a while.

00:30:02.440 Then it will all be digitized and, you know, the banks will close.

00:30:06.140 And we've done this before, unfortunately.

00:30:09.040 We did this just before World War II and the Great Depression.

00:30:13.720 And this is what happens when you go off the gold standard, as we did in 73, Stu, or 71 with Nixon.

00:30:21.980 And gold has just gone through a record spike again.

00:30:28.640 It just passed the September 2011 price of $1,943.

00:30:36.900 It's almost up to $2,000.

00:30:38.740 And I'll tell you, it is, I think, is going to continue to go through the roof as we go into the fall and then some.

00:30:48.120 And you don't want to know what the world is like when we have gold at $2,000, $3,000, $5,000 an ounce.

00:30:58.040 It's nobody's hoping for that.

00:31:01.640 Thank you so much for your phone call.

00:31:03.900 There's also an aluminum shortage.

00:31:06.260 Is there not?

00:31:06.580 There's a lot of shortages of different things because the factories aren't open.

00:31:12.160 There is a shortage, from what I understand, of sheetrock, of building in some places.

00:31:21.120 I know that I had to pour some concrete a couple of weeks ago.

00:31:25.180 And I paid three times the price of concrete because we can't get the coal ash.

00:31:34.400 What kind of ash is it that they put in?

00:31:35.960 They could tell you anything to charge you three times the cost, couldn't they?

00:31:38.860 I know, and they probably did.

00:31:41.500 Yes, sir.

00:31:41.920 Sorry, the coal ash is out, so therefore.

00:31:46.300 Yeah.

00:31:47.120 No, there's something that they add into it so they don't have to add so much sand.

00:31:51.860 And right now the stuff that I poured had real sand and a lot of real sand.

00:31:58.420 And sand is, we're running out of sand.

00:32:02.280 And I've talked about this for the last couple of years, and nobody seems to be concerned about it.

00:32:07.520 It's a really big deal.

00:32:10.180 You can't make sand.

00:32:12.480 We can't get the sand from the desert because that is smooth on all sides.

00:32:16.980 The sand that we can use only really comes from oceans and the bottom of rivers, where it's just been broken and it's all jagged so it locks together.

00:32:30.080 And we run out of sand.

00:32:31.560 We run out of a lot of things.

00:32:33.500 A lot of things.

00:32:34.480 And nobody thinks about it.

00:32:37.460 What's the deal on the aluminum?

00:32:39.680 We're running out of aluminum cans now, right?

00:32:42.140 Yeah, and on the coins, it seems like less people going out and having face-to-face transactions is stopping the circulation of these coins.

00:32:50.640 People are just keeping them at home.

00:32:52.580 And the mint has turned down the amount of coins they're making because of coronavirus and the shortages, you know, lowering staff numbers.

00:33:01.180 So that is apparently what's causing the coin shortage.

00:33:04.440 So it's going out.

00:33:08.640 People make change.

00:33:10.020 And then they get that change and then they just keep it at home.

00:33:13.760 They're bringing it home.

00:33:14.460 And so it's not circulating.

00:33:15.780 Yeah.

00:33:15.940 It's not cycling through.

00:33:17.300 Yeah.

00:33:17.500 Yeah.

00:33:17.720 So that's the thing.

00:33:18.660 The aluminum thing is interesting because they're having usually like, you know, you're selling beer, let's say, in a keg.

00:33:26.240 Well, they're still selling plenty of beer.

00:33:28.080 That has not been one of the industries that's been hard hit by the coronavirus.

00:33:32.000 I mean, people are still finding a way to buy their alcohol, oddly.

00:33:36.560 Yeah.

00:33:36.980 But they're taking, instead of selling it in kegs, they're selling it in individual cans for people at home.

00:33:42.160 So they're running low on aluminum.

00:33:43.860 It's why, apparently also why some soda flavors have been, you know, not really been seen on shelves in a while because they are trying to go to their core flavors.

00:33:55.180 This is killing us, guys.

00:33:56.400 This is what I was talking about.

00:33:59.380 We're losing the Western way of life when we can't have any flavor of soda we want.

00:34:04.460 We've gone too far.

00:34:05.900 We have.

00:34:06.120 We're not coming back.

00:34:07.280 Yes, it's true.

00:34:08.120 We're not coming back.

00:34:08.620 Na, na, na, na.

The Glenn Beck Program - July 27, 2020

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