Today we find out why Plymouth Plantation has now changed their name because that's just what happens. There's a new movement out to change our national anthem as well, we give you the odd choices that we can select from, we also go into the nuclear family, this is something that's being opposed by Black Lives Matter, and we talk to the head of a college who has decided to take a strong pro-life stance. And is Texas and other southern states going the wrong way on coronavirus? What is life like in the future?
00:01:33.420You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
00:01:41.660Pat Gray joins us now with another fact of history that has just been changed and most
00:01:49.220people don't even know. Yeah. Just by the way, glad to see you're rocking the ascot again
00:01:54.900today. That's it's comforting. It's somehow comfortable. It's a mask. Yeah. I will say
00:01:59.540in the COVID era now, it's pretty common. Is that what you use it for? A little bandana
00:02:03.480situation. We were wondering, we were thinking, okay, it's an ascot, but is it also a mask?
00:02:07.480And I guess the answer is yes. No, no, it's a, it's a bandana. Actually, I know you have a hard
00:02:13.160time with those, but go ahead. I do. I have an even harder time with, with this, uh, Plymouth
00:02:21.420plantation changed. They're not their name. Not that they're changing their name. It's already
00:02:28.720been changed. The Plymouth plantation living museum, 400 years old, uh, changed to be more
00:02:37.360inclusive and respectful. And it is now Plymouth Patuxet to include the native Americans that
00:02:45.520live in that region or lived in that region at the time of this. So, okay. Okay. So, so
00:02:49.900wait a minute, hang on just a second. Wait a minute. The pilgrims, um, they happened to find
00:02:57.460the land. And if you find this coincidental, they happened to find the land that was abandoned
00:03:05.700by the native Americans because the native Americans felt that that land was cursed because a tribe had
00:03:13.240been wiped out with some disease, um, years before. And so it was completely abandoned. So how does
00:03:22.540that, what, how we're changing it to an Indian name? Yeah. What are you talking about? And by the way,
00:03:29.480the Patuxet people have been extinct since 1622. So they're not even around to realize this
00:03:35.680honor that they're being given. This was just that right. I mean, this is nuts. This is absolutely
00:03:45.700nuts. They, and they are changing everything next hour. We're going to show you they're trying. There's
00:03:51.540an effort now to get rid of the national anthem as well. It's a big effort too. And it's got some
00:03:57.060momentum. Huge. Yeah. Yeah, it does. And you know, 16, uh, the 1619 project, do you know that Oprah Winfrey
00:04:06.220is now, uh, producing a movie that's going to come out based on the 1619 project, which is a lie. Wow. It's a
00:04:14.840verifiable lie. And she's, she's pushing that. I mean, second tower gang, when are you going to have your
00:04:23.340second tower moment, we are under attack and it is happening rapidly. So fast. So fast. I mean,
00:04:30.780things that you couldn't have imagined six months ago are already done. Now that not only, not only are
00:04:37.760they not opposed, it's already been done. And you don't even know that it's happened. You know,
00:04:43.420the star spangled banner, the statues that are being removed or being discussed to be removed,
00:04:48.200the founders that are disparaged now, and you can't even say anything good about the founders,
00:04:53.760all of, you know, how many times do you have to play the Michelle Obama thing? Uh, they've,
00:04:58.500they've changed what they set out to do. Hang on. What did, hang on. What was it that Barack knows?
00:05:04.460And Barack knows that we are going to have to make sacrifices. We're going to have to change our
00:05:09.500conversation. Uh, we're going to have to change our traditions, our history. We're going to have to
00:05:14.680move into a different place. We are 10 years past the fundamental transformation of America.
00:05:25.540This is what in, in, in all of the warnings that we gave you, uh, when we were at Fox, I mean,
00:05:32.660Pat, you were part of that research team. Stu, you were as well. Um, all of that, can you name
00:05:38.900anything that we said was coming that isn't now here? No. And I, I think in then some, I, there
00:05:47.980were, there were things that I don't think we could have imagined back then that have already
00:05:51.340transpired. And, uh, we put a very little fight on any of it. It's, it's, well, there is, there's
00:05:59.100some, there's some good news. Um, first of all, uh, voters and according to a new poll, uh, majorities
00:06:07.280of almost all demographic groups, uh, measured to see cancel culture. They see it as bad. Just
00:06:14.300under half of the voters under 45, hold that view among the voters. 46% see canceled, uh,
00:06:21.300cancer, uh, cancel culture. I don't know why I am because it is a cancer, uh, see it as
00:06:28.060bad. 26% say it's a good thing. Now that is astonishing to think that 26% of Americans think
00:06:35.700this McCarthy era that we're living in is a good thing. But if you look back in the 1950s,0.92
00:06:41.540this is what we went through with, with communism. It was just the opposite. You'd lose your job.
00:06:48.360You were, you were convicted if accused. Um, you know, it, it was, it was a witch hunt then,
00:06:55.460and it's a witch hunt now. Uh, only 17% of voters see, uh, canceled culture as a good thing.
00:07:03.260Um, the, the problem is, is, um, the, uh, very liberal voters, very, those who say that
00:07:14.620they're very liberal, 31% see it as good. 37% see it as bad. 32% aren't sure. You know,
00:07:23.980if you're not sure, you should probably do something to get sure one way or another. There's,
00:07:29.460there's no, there's no place for you. I just, I don't know, uh, rounding people up and just
00:07:37.500making them disappear. Good, bad. I'm not sure. It's so hard to decide on matters like that.
00:07:45.000And what do you guys think? Do you figure that stuff out before or after you vote? Is there a
00:07:50.340time? Is there a specific order you need to do these things in? Like, do you learn and then
00:07:54.200say figure it out and then learn? Yeah, I would say figure it out now. You know, who's figuring
00:08:00.120it out are the Christians in California. I just said yesterday, churches, you better wake up and1.00
00:08:05.020you better stand up. I believe I condemned people to hell yesterday. Um, which, well, I didn't
00:08:12.680actually, um, I didn't condemn them. I just know that they're going to hell, uh, but you're not their
00:08:19.360judge. I mean, all you're saying is they're going to burn in the fires of hell. That's all. I mean,0.99
00:08:23.380that's yeah. Everlasting and eternal fire. Yeah. That lake of ever, ever burning fire. Yeah.
00:08:30.500They're, they're there. Um, but, uh, I'm not their judge anyway. Um, yesterday I was talking
00:08:36.640about churches waking up and it looks like in California it is starting to happen. Uh, some
00:08:42.380of the church leaders are saying they are not going to shut down again, San Francisco and
00:08:48.160the American Russian Orthodox arch archbishop, uh, wrote a open letter to, uh, governor Newsom
00:08:55.460said, um, that his ban on singing is open discrimination reminiscent of, uh, reminiscent of the era of
00:09:07.280the godless persecutions in the USSR. It's about time. Somebody starts using this, uh, language.0.99
00:09:14.080Um, we now observe the contradiction that in mass protests that are taking place, which,
00:09:20.240uh, which absolutely all precautions are violated with impunity, adding the church, uh, into saying
00:09:30.640that you have to close down. They said they will defend their rights of the members to continue
00:09:36.100to worship. And there are lots of churches that are starting to rise up and that's in California
00:09:42.320and they need to, you can't lose the right of your religion and your faith and to worship.
00:09:50.420That is a protected right. And I love the fact that all the politicians are saying, uh, you
00:09:55.920know what protest that's a first amendment, right? So is my house of worship. And you need
00:10:03.480to stand together as Christians, as Jews, whoever we need to stand together. Uh, cause you know,
00:10:11.940we can argue about theology for a long time and, uh, we'll all be destroyed doing that. What do you
00:10:18.040say? We stand together now, uh, and stand up for the things that we all believe in. And then we can
00:10:25.300argue about the other stuff later. I'm just saying, and they're so blatant about it. We had this speech
00:10:30.480from de Blasio. Was it last week or the week before where he was asked, well, Hey, how can you,
00:10:36.160uh, how can you say, because there was a BLM protest coming up and he was perfectly fine with
00:10:40.540that? Uh, but he didn't want people going back to church. And so they asked him about that disparity.
00:10:45.400And he said, well, you can't compare the two. Those are apples and oranges because, uh, the BLM0.74
00:10:50.460people are doing something really important. Wait, what? Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh. So they've just,
00:10:57.860oh my gosh, they don't care anymore. It's like you said, the mask is off. Uh, obviously figuratively
00:11:04.500speaking, it's on literally speaking, but they've taken off the mask about how they really feel about
00:11:09.920religion, about capitalism, about this country and everything it stands for our founders. It's just
00:11:16.120all out there in the open. And if this doesn't alarm us to the point of taking a stand, nothing will.
00:11:23.000Nothing will. Nothing will. I read an op-ed page yesterday, um, about, um, uh, about the two tower,
00:11:32.140uh, kind of philosophy that have you had your second, uh, tower experience. And I was really
00:11:38.900just struck by that is so right on the money, but when are people, when is the average American or have
00:11:47.480they, and they're just being quiet? I don't know. Uh, when is the average American going to have
00:11:53.900their, their second tower kind of moment? Uh, I, you know, my second tower kind of moment was when
00:12:00.660I realized that when wearing a face mask, uh, I cannot unlock my iPhone with, with the stupid face0.99
00:12:06.680thing. It is a travesty, a sham and a mockery. It's a Travis sham mockery and it must end stupid1.00
00:12:14.560Apple. Get a program that reads through my face mask and will recognize me. So I don't have to1.00
00:12:21.340type in my freaking code, which takes seconds. Oh, they will be careful. What you have to tell you0.73
00:12:26.860something. It's probably already in the making. I lost, I lost my glasses someplace here. My wife
00:12:32.660was like, where did you put them? I'm like, I don't know. I lost them outside. So some,
00:12:37.760some place, someplace where the cattle and the, and the antelope roam. Um, so I, I put my old glasses
00:12:47.020on and I tried to open up my computer. It didn't recognize my face. And I'm like, maybe Clark Kent
00:12:54.400was what, I mean, maybe that was true. Apple can't recognize my face with a pair of glasses. Oh,
00:13:01.960that's not bad. Holy cow. The worst one is when you re when you realize you've gotten so fat,
00:13:07.280it no longer thinks you're the same person. That is a bad realization. It legitimately happened to
00:13:13.360me before. It's like, God, no, who the hell are you? That's what it is. Hey, that's what it is,0.98
00:13:20.960man. I went in, I went in, I, you know, I spent like 12 hours in the hospital this last weekend.
00:13:25.860Cause I had a kidney stones. Oh my gosh, Pat, you know what that's like. And we can only hope that
00:13:31.480Stu joins us on this very soon soon. Yes. No, very soon, very soon. Um, but that was, that was
00:13:38.160incredible, but they pumped me full of so much water that I got out. They put, I think I said
00:13:47.300gallon and a half. I can't remember how much water they pumped into me, but they pumped in so much
00:13:52.660fluid. I got out and I looked like, I looked like I had gained 30 pounds and they're like,
00:14:03.340you got to keep drinking water. And I'm like, not if it makes me look like this dude. Oh, wait a minute.
00:14:07.980I was just going to say, did you do it again this morning? Because, uh, shut up.1.00
00:14:11.740The best of the Glenn Beck program.0.98
00:14:25.320Hey, it's Glenn. And you're listening to the Glenn Beck program. If you like what you're hearing on
00:14:29.360this show, make sure you check out Pat Gray Unleashed. It's available wherever you download
00:14:34.720your favorite podcasts. And, and then in, in other news today, that makes an awful, an awful lot of
00:14:49.000sense. The city of Chicago has, uh, has been under a shadow that is, it was cast by the Corona,
00:15:01.720uh, Corona, uh, the, the flu pandemic and a surge in violence. Well, we still don't know what caused
00:15:12.500the violence. Probably, probably white people, but mayor Lori Lightfoot is calling in a hero to tackle
00:15:22.380a different problem in Chicago. The low response rates for the U S census. Apparently her goal is
00:15:31.720to have at least, uh, 70% of the, of the people fill out the census. It's now, uh, being filled
00:15:43.740out by only about 40% of the people of Chicago. So yesterday in a press conference, which I think
00:15:52.680was very, very brave of her. She said, when I was a kid, I love the Batman TV show.
00:16:01.280And when, and when the city of Gotham had real difficult challenge, one of the things that the mayor
00:16:11.240did was he called out and sent out a distress signal to Batman. I, I, I'm not, I'm not sure if the mayor
00:16:23.460lightfoot, uh, uh, knows that Batman isn't real, but she went on to say, so I'm doing something
00:16:33.320similar for the census. I'm, I'm ha I'm happy to report. I'm calling out this, the, the census cowboy.
00:16:47.620Cowboy. I mean, who in the inner cities of Chicago don't love cowboys? I mean, first of all, cowboys
00:16:59.180were killing Indians. Cowboys are, are part of the problem with America, right? So if the sense, she said,
00:17:08.620if the census cowboy comes into your neighborhood, that's not a good thing. Of course not. Cowboys are1.00
00:17:18.460bad. She said, that means you got to step up and, and do your part and, and fill out the census. And
00:17:27.680that's all the news, uh, that makes sense. If you're completely hammered out of your mind.
00:17:38.560This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.
00:17:41.480So last week we played a, a, a video that went viral online. I want to play it again. And I want
00:18:01.580you to listen to this. Hey, Wokey McWokeface quick question. This black life mattered, but1.00
00:18:11.560doesn't this one? We know this black life, but why doesn't this one? George Floyd. We believe that0.95
00:18:18.780all these black lives mattered and tens of millions of others too. Murdered in the most dangerous place
00:18:25.960in this country for any black life, a wound murdered and dissected and sold. Jeez. We believe that each1.00
00:18:35.060and every human life matters because every human life, regardless of culture or color, is crafted in
00:18:41.120the sacred image of almighty God, which is the only possible reason why any life could matter at all.
00:18:47.920We believe that secular progressive white supremacists have been running a vile and genocidal0.86
00:18:53.040population control campaign against blacks in America that has straddled centuries, trying to0.98
00:18:59.320keep them from life, from adulthood, from power, from stable families and communities. And that matters.
00:19:07.900We believe that the organization black lives matter registered trademark is a Marxist front that doesn't
00:19:14.480care about black lives even half as much as an average white pro-life flyover Trump voting evangelical.
00:19:20.060Every single black life matters, from conception to the grave and beyond into eternity. That is God's truth, and it's a hell of a lot1.00
00:19:32.340more than BLM can say. This shouldn't be hard, but clear thinking is rare these days, especially on college campuses.
00:19:39.420All lives matter. All black lives matter. All. Behind a badge. On the street. In the womb. Philosophy matters. Theology matters. History matters. Thinking matters.
00:20:01.420Matters. Learn to think in unthinking times. New St. Andrews College. Clear thinking. Clear teaching. In person this fall.
00:20:14.000Jeez. Dr. Ben Merkel is with us. He's the president of New St. Andrews College. Ben, how are you, sir?
00:20:20.700I am well. Thanks so much for having me on.
00:20:22.460Uh, so, uh, how much heat did you get for that?
00:20:29.200Uh, you know, it's gotten, uh, considerable. We had our mayor pretty upset at us and, um, uh, say something in a local paper. Um, and we've had, uh, but, but to be honest, actually, I have to say the, the positive response has been outweighed it by about 95% to five,
00:20:51.680because I think a lot of people are so sick of being told that they're racist, um, because they don't support BLM.
00:20:59.540And I think that we were able to say what a lot of people sort of intuitively felt, but weren't hearing anybody articulate it clearly.
00:21:12.800And our, our marketing team here, we, we've got, um, some, some friends that we hired to, to put this together, but they're all graduates from our college.
00:21:24.460So I've never heard of New St. Andrews College. Uh, you're in, of all places, Moscow, Idaho, right?
00:21:32.620That's right. Yeah. We're the other Moscow. Yeah.
00:21:34.860We're a very small, very small private Christian college in North Idaho. Uh, so very small little school. Um, so it's, it's understandable. A lot of people don't know about our existence.
00:21:47.400And, and how long have you been around?
00:21:49.840We started in 1994. We grew out of the, um, classical Christian education movement, uh, started in 1980. And then we're a college that tends to pull from kids who have done classical Christian education.
00:22:04.860So, um, Ben, you know, we, we're looking at our colleges now and none of them seem to have a spine. I mean, I, I just told the audience about, uh, Penn state where they, they, they took conservative off of the, you're welcome here. Um, because of backlash from their, their students and faculty, what's really happening to our university system?
00:22:30.820And, and, and is there, do we survive this?
00:22:36.700Well, I, I think we could survive it, but it would take a really bold change for us to do it. I mean, I don't think Americans, we, we complain a lot as conservatives about what we see as the deep state, the sort of unelected mechanism that seems to run our country, but can't be held accountable.
00:22:53.340And I don't think we realize how much education is the ultimate deep state, both K to 12 and also colleges, um, are fact, the faculty and staff of most colleges, including your Christian colleges are dominated by progressive left, uh, ideology.
00:23:10.500Um, every teacher, uh, votes Democrat. They, there, there is, um, it's, it's really total how much the left has taken over education.
00:23:21.140And I think that's why, I mean, I was listening to your show earlier and you were talking about how, how swiftly everything seems to have changed.
00:23:28.800But I, I think that's because we have slowly had, um, basically an entire generation indoctrinated in a way that we didn't really realize was happening.
00:23:38.680And now we're seeing the fruition of it, but it's, it's also that, I mean, there are other elements in education.
00:23:44.920I think that the way education is funded is a big part of it.
00:23:48.600The federal money, um, has such, um, big strings that are attached to it and steer you in terms of your ideology and then the way accreditation and other things like that work, it really cultivates a leadership class that is all about, um, demonstrating compliance.
00:24:06.860Like you just, you're not going to see college administration make any kind of bold move because they got there by demonstrating compliance over decades and decades of their professional life.
00:24:17.180So they're allergic to those kinds of decisions.
00:24:21.580It's, it's also, it's unreasonable to think that a, a school system funded by a federal government is going to teach.
00:24:51.380Oh, real, true government begins with self-government.
00:24:54.500Um, it has to start there and then, you know, your own self-discipline, your own self-government then makes possible other real government.
00:25:03.460But yeah, our institutions really, uh, depend on compliance with a larger state.
00:25:09.140So that's not going to be something that they're going to inculcate in our students.
00:25:12.100Um, for the per, the person who is thinking, well, I got to send my kid to college, um, and they're going into college this, uh, you know, this fall.
00:25:29.000You know, I think you've got to ask some hard questions.
00:25:32.340I think that a lot of parents, they, they, they have the impression that, okay, I know that the colleges are generally liberal, but they remember going to the college in the eighties and the nineties.
00:25:42.800And they remember bumping up against those kinds of things.
00:25:45.140And they assume that everybody's talking about the same kind of college that they went to, and they don't realize how radically transformed the college campus is.
00:25:53.240It's nothing like what we went through.
00:25:55.720Um, so you, you need to ask some hard questions.
00:25:58.500And I, I think that I'm, I'm torn cause I go back and forth on the one hand, people are paying exorbitant amounts of money for an education that gives them no, um, no real education whatsoever and hardly any actual, um, professional skills.
00:26:15.980And so in a lot of ways, I see the, the movement for like, we'll just go to a trade school and learn a trade.
00:26:21.920That's a much, um, quicker way to get into a job and to avoid the debt and the indoctrination.
00:26:28.580But at the same time, the reason why we're at the place that we are right now, it's not because we haven't learned how to employ professional skills.
00:26:38.220It's because we haven't learned how to think.
00:26:39.940And, and, and I think that we need to, we need to reprioritize critical thinking at the college level, because that's what we have lost.
00:26:50.580And now we're, we're not, it's not that we can't get a job.
00:26:53.240It's that we have, um, destroyed our entire economy.
00:27:00.060Well, you can't, uh, you can't learn to think from wokey McWoke face, as your ad put it.
00:27:08.020You, you can't learn critical thinking.
00:27:10.440If you are, if you are told there are things that you can't think, can't say, and things are bad.
00:27:18.400I mean, I don't, I don't understand how, uh, academia doesn't realize they have become the old church in the dark ages where we'll lock you in a tower.
00:27:31.520If you disagree with us, that that's, what's happening to us now.
00:27:36.480Yeah, well, I, I think a lot of it has to do with just that ultimate rejection.
00:27:40.900Well, the rejection of ultimate truth.
00:27:43.180So, so when you reject ultimate truth and what you have, everybody reverts to their own personal truth.
00:27:48.880And then what happens is, is that you're dominated by personal emotion.
00:27:53.600And, um, and, and so like, if you try to interact with somebody at a BLM protest, you're not going to get an actual argument.
00:28:00.800What you'll get is them sort of vomiting up their emotion because that's how they've been, that's what they've been trained thinking is.
00:28:07.600But in the, um, in the, you know, in the traditional West, we understood that there was a transcendent truth that we all answered to.
00:28:16.020And, and argument was about understanding these transcendent principles that we then looked to apply consistently in our lives and in how we treated others.
00:28:26.980And that's where logic comes from, that's where philosophy comes from, that's where theology comes from.
00:28:31.760So you, you have this larger, um, transcendent truth that you live under, and it provides the kind of, um, cultural success that the West has had for a millennia.
00:28:43.620But, uh, they're rejecting all of that, and so all they can do is burn it down.