The Glenn Beck Program - July 15, 2020


Best of The Program ｜ Guest： Dr. Benjamin Merkle ｜ 7⧸15⧸20


Episode Stats

Length

28 minutes

Words per Minute

150.8886

Word Count

4,347

Sentence Count

339

Hate Speech Sentences

10


Summary

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?


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Welcome to the podcast. Today we find out why Plymouth Plantation has now changed their name
00:00:06.980 because that's just what happens. There's a new movement out to change our national anthem as
00:00:11.140 well. We give you the odd choices that we can select from. We also go into the nuclear family.
00:00:18.300 This is something that's being opposed by Black Lives Matter. And by the way, that is in their
00:00:22.580 documentation, not something I'm just speculating about. And we talked to the head of a college
00:00:28.400 who has decided to take a strong pro-life stance. You don't see this very often. It's an amazing
00:00:33.540 one to hear. And is Texas and other southern states going the wrong way on coronavirus? What
00:00:41.220 is life like? Where is it going in the future? We'll get into that as well. It's all on the
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00:01:41.660 Pat Gray joins us now with another fact of history that has just been changed and most
00:01:49.220 people don't even know. Yeah. Just by the way, glad to see you're rocking the ascot again
00:01:54.900 today. That's it's comforting. It's somehow comfortable. It's a mask. Yeah. I will say
00:01:59.540 in the COVID era now, it's pretty common. Is that what you use it for? A little bandana
00:02:03.480 situation. We were wondering, we were thinking, okay, it's an ascot, but is it also a mask?
00:02:07.480 And I guess the answer is yes. No, no, it's a, it's a bandana. Actually, I know you have a hard
00:02:13.160 time with those, but go ahead. I do. I have an even harder time with, with this, uh, Plymouth
00:02:21.420 plantation changed. They're not their name. Not that they're changing their name. It's already
00:02:28.720 been changed. The Plymouth plantation living museum, 400 years old, uh, changed to be more
00:02:37.360 inclusive and respectful. And it is now Plymouth Patuxet to include the native Americans that
00:02:45.520 live in that region or lived in that region at the time of this. So, okay. Okay. So, so
00:02:49.900 wait a minute, hang on just a second. Wait a minute. The pilgrims, um, they happened to find
00:02:57.460 the land. And if you find this coincidental, they happened to find the land that was abandoned
00:03:05.700 by the native Americans because the native Americans felt that that land was cursed because a tribe had
00:03:13.240 been wiped out with some disease, um, years before. And so it was completely abandoned. So how does
00:03:22.540 that, what, how we're changing it to an Indian name? Yeah. What are you talking about? And by the way,
00:03:29.480 the Patuxet people have been extinct since 1622. So they're not even around to realize this
00:03:35.680 honor that they're being given. This was just that right. I mean, this is nuts. This is absolutely
00:03:45.700 nuts. They, and they are changing everything next hour. We're going to show you they're trying. There's
00:03:51.540 an effort now to get rid of the national anthem as well. It's a big effort too. And it's got some
00:03:57.060 momentum. Huge. Yeah. Yeah, it does. And you know, 16, uh, the 1619 project, do you know that Oprah Winfrey
00:04:06.220 is now, uh, producing a movie that's going to come out based on the 1619 project, which is a lie. Wow. It's a
00:04:14.840 verifiable lie. And she's, she's pushing that. I mean, second tower gang, when are you going to have your
00:04:23.340 second tower moment, we are under attack and it is happening rapidly. So fast. So fast. I mean,
00:04:30.780 things that you couldn't have imagined six months ago are already done. Now that not only, not only are
00:04:37.760 they not opposed, it's already been done. And you don't even know that it's happened. You know,
00:04:43.420 the star spangled banner, the statues that are being removed or being discussed to be removed,
00:04:48.200 the founders that are disparaged now, and you can't even say anything good about the founders,
00:04:53.760 all of, you know, how many times do you have to play the Michelle Obama thing? Uh, they've,
00:04:58.500 they've changed what they set out to do. Hang on. What did, hang on. What was it that Barack knows?
00:05:04.460 And Barack knows that we are going to have to make sacrifices. We're going to have to change our
00:05:09.500 conversation. Uh, we're going to have to change our traditions, our history. We're going to have to
00:05:14.680 move into a different place. We are 10 years past the fundamental transformation of America.
00:05:25.540 This is what in, in, in all of the warnings that we gave you, uh, when we were at Fox, I mean,
00:05:32.660 Pat, you were part of that research team. Stu, you were as well. Um, all of that, can you name
00:05:38.900 anything that we said was coming that isn't now here? No. And I, I think in then some, I, there
00:05:47.980 were, there were things that I don't think we could have imagined back then that have already
00:05:51.340 transpired. And, uh, we put a very little fight on any of it. It's, it's, well, there is, there's
00:05:59.100 some, there's some good news. Um, first of all, uh, voters and according to a new poll, uh, majorities
00:06:07.280 of almost all demographic groups, uh, measured to see cancel culture. They see it as bad. Just
00:06:14.300 under half of the voters under 45, hold that view among the voters. 46% see canceled, uh,
00:06:21.300 cancer, uh, cancel culture. I don't know why I am because it is a cancer, uh, see it as
00:06:28.060 bad. 26% say it's a good thing. Now that is astonishing to think that 26% of Americans think
00:06:35.700 this McCarthy era that we're living in is a good thing. But if you look back in the 1950s,
00:06:41.540 this is what we went through with, with communism. It was just the opposite. You'd lose your job.
00:06:48.360 You were, you were convicted if accused. Um, you know, it, it was, it was a witch hunt then,
00:06:55.460 and it's a witch hunt now. Uh, only 17% of voters see, uh, canceled culture as a good thing.
00:07:03.260 Um, the, the problem is, is, um, the, uh, very liberal voters, very, those who say that
00:07:14.620 they're very liberal, 31% see it as good. 37% see it as bad. 32% aren't sure. You know,
00:07:23.980 if you're not sure, you should probably do something to get sure one way or another. There's,
00:07:29.460 there's no, there's no place for you. I just, I don't know, uh, rounding people up and just
00:07:37.500 making them disappear. Good, bad. I'm not sure. It's so hard to decide on matters like that.
00:07:45.000 And what do you guys think? Do you figure that stuff out before or after you vote? Is there a
00:07:50.340 time? Is there a specific order you need to do these things in? Like, do you learn and then
00:07:54.200 say figure it out and then learn? Yeah, I would say figure it out now. You know, who's figuring
00:08:00.120 it out are the Christians in California. I just said yesterday, churches, you better wake up and
00:08:05.020 you better stand up. I believe I condemned people to hell yesterday. Um, which, well, I didn't
00:08:12.680 actually, um, I didn't condemn them. I just know that they're going to hell, uh, but you're not their
00:08:19.360 judge. I mean, all you're saying is they're going to burn in the fires of hell. That's all. I mean,
00:08:23.380 that's yeah. Everlasting and eternal fire. Yeah. That lake of ever, ever burning fire. Yeah.
00:08:30.500 They're, they're there. Um, but, uh, I'm not their judge anyway. Um, yesterday I was talking
00:08:36.640 about churches waking up and it looks like in California it is starting to happen. Uh, some
00:08:42.380 of the church leaders are saying they are not going to shut down again, San Francisco and
00:08:48.160 the American Russian Orthodox arch archbishop, uh, wrote a open letter to, uh, governor Newsom
00:08:55.460 said, um, that his ban on singing is open discrimination reminiscent of, uh, reminiscent of the era of
00:09:07.280 the godless persecutions in the USSR. It's about time. Somebody starts using this, uh, language.
00:09:14.080 Um, we now observe the contradiction that in mass protests that are taking place, which,
00:09:20.240 uh, which absolutely all precautions are violated with impunity, adding the church, uh, into saying
00:09:30.640 that you have to close down. They said they will defend their rights of the members to continue
00:09:36.100 to worship. And there are lots of churches that are starting to rise up and that's in California
00:09:42.320 and they need to, you can't lose the right of your religion and your faith and to worship.
00:09:50.420 That is a protected right. And I love the fact that all the politicians are saying, uh, you
00:09:55.920 know what protest that's a first amendment, right? So is my house of worship. And you need
00:10:03.480 to stand together as Christians, as Jews, whoever we need to stand together. Uh, cause you know,
00:10:11.940 we can argue about theology for a long time and, uh, we'll all be destroyed doing that. What do you
00:10:18.040 say? We stand together now, uh, and stand up for the things that we all believe in. And then we can
00:10:25.300 argue about the other stuff later. I'm just saying, and they're so blatant about it. We had this speech
00:10:30.480 from de Blasio. Was it last week or the week before where he was asked, well, Hey, how can you,
00:10:36.160 uh, how can you say, because there was a BLM protest coming up and he was perfectly fine with
00:10:40.540 that? Uh, but he didn't want people going back to church. And so they asked him about that disparity.
00:10:45.400 And he said, well, you can't compare the two. Those are apples and oranges because, uh, the BLM
00:10:50.460 people are doing something really important. Wait, what? Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh. So they've just,
00:10:57.860 oh my gosh, they don't care anymore. It's like you said, the mask is off. Uh, obviously figuratively
00:11:04.500 speaking, it's on literally speaking, but they've taken off the mask about how they really feel about
00:11:09.920 religion, about capitalism, about this country and everything it stands for our founders. It's just
00:11:16.120 all out there in the open. And if this doesn't alarm us to the point of taking a stand, nothing will.
00:11:23.000 Nothing will. Nothing will. I read an op-ed page yesterday, um, about, um, uh, about the two tower,
00:11:32.140 uh, kind of philosophy that have you had your second, uh, tower experience. And I was really
00:11:38.900 just struck by that is so right on the money, but when are people, when is the average American or have
00:11:47.480 they, and they're just being quiet? I don't know. Uh, when is the average American going to have
00:11:53.900 their, their second tower kind of moment? Uh, I, you know, my second tower kind of moment was when
00:12:00.660 I realized that when wearing a face mask, uh, I cannot unlock my iPhone with, with the stupid face
00:12:06.680 thing. It is a travesty, a sham and a mockery. It's a Travis sham mockery and it must end stupid
00:12:14.560 Apple. Get a program that reads through my face mask and will recognize me. So I don't have to
00:12:21.340 type in my freaking code, which takes seconds. Oh, they will be careful. What you have to tell you
00:12:26.860 something. It's probably already in the making. I lost, I lost my glasses someplace here. My wife
00:12:32.660 was like, where did you put them? I'm like, I don't know. I lost them outside. So some,
00:12:37.760 some place, someplace where the cattle and the, and the antelope roam. Um, so I, I put my old glasses
00:12:47.020 on and I tried to open up my computer. It didn't recognize my face. And I'm like, maybe Clark Kent
00:12:54.400 was what, I mean, maybe that was true. Apple can't recognize my face with a pair of glasses. Oh,
00:13:01.960 that's not bad. Holy cow. The worst one is when you re when you realize you've gotten so fat,
00:13:07.280 it no longer thinks you're the same person. That is a bad realization. It legitimately happened to
00:13:13.360 me before. It's like, God, no, who the hell are you? That's what it is. Hey, that's what it is,
00:13:20.960 man. I went in, I went in, I, you know, I spent like 12 hours in the hospital this last weekend.
00:13:25.860 Cause I had a kidney stones. Oh my gosh, Pat, you know what that's like. And we can only hope that
00:13:31.480 Stu joins us on this very soon soon. Yes. No, very soon, very soon. Um, but that was, that was
00:13:38.160 incredible, but they pumped me full of so much water that I got out. They put, I think I said
00:13:47.300 gallon and a half. I can't remember how much water they pumped into me, but they pumped in so much
00:13:52.660 fluid. I got out and I looked like, I looked like I had gained 30 pounds and they're like,
00:14:03.340 you got to keep drinking water. And I'm like, not if it makes me look like this dude. Oh, wait a minute.
00:14:07.980 I was just going to say, did you do it again this morning? Because, uh, shut up.
00:14:11.740 The best of the Glenn Beck program.
00:14:25.320 Hey, it's Glenn. And you're listening to the Glenn Beck program. If you like what you're hearing on
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00:14:34.720 your favorite podcasts. And, and then in, in other news today, that makes an awful, an awful lot of
00:14:49.000 sense. The city of Chicago has, uh, has been under a shadow that is, it was cast by the Corona,
00:15:01.720 uh, Corona, uh, the, the flu pandemic and a surge in violence. Well, we still don't know what caused
00:15:12.500 the violence. Probably, probably white people, but mayor Lori Lightfoot is calling in a hero to tackle
00:15:22.380 a different problem in Chicago. The low response rates for the U S census. Apparently her goal is
00:15:31.720 to have at least, uh, 70% of the, of the people fill out the census. It's now, uh, being filled
00:15:43.740 out by only about 40% of the people of Chicago. So yesterday in a press conference, which I think
00:15:52.680 was very, very brave of her. She said, when I was a kid, I love the Batman TV show.
00:16:01.280 And when, and when the city of Gotham had real difficult challenge, one of the things that the mayor
00:16:11.240 did was he called out and sent out a distress signal to Batman. I, I, I'm not, I'm not sure if the mayor
00:16:23.460 lightfoot, uh, uh, knows that Batman isn't real, but she went on to say, so I'm doing something
00:16:33.320 similar for the census. I'm, I'm ha I'm happy to report. I'm calling out this, the, the census cowboy.
00:16:47.620 Cowboy. I mean, who in the inner cities of Chicago don't love cowboys? I mean, first of all, cowboys
00:16:59.180 were killing Indians. Cowboys are, are part of the problem with America, right? So if the sense, she said,
00:17:08.620 if the census cowboy comes into your neighborhood, that's not a good thing. Of course not. Cowboys are
00:17:18.460 bad. She said, that means you got to step up and, and do your part and, and fill out the census. And
00:17:27.680 that's all the news, uh, that makes sense. If you're completely hammered out of your mind.
00:17:38.560 This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.
00:17:41.480 So last week we played a, a, a video that went viral online. I want to play it again. And I want
00:18:01.580 you to listen to this. Hey, Wokey McWokeface quick question. This black life mattered, but
00:18:11.560 doesn't this one? We know this black life, but why doesn't this one? George Floyd. We believe that
00:18:18.780 all these black lives mattered and tens of millions of others too. Murdered in the most dangerous place
00:18:25.960 in this country for any black life, a wound murdered and dissected and sold. Jeez. We believe that each
00:18:35.060 and every human life matters because every human life, regardless of culture or color, is crafted in
00:18:41.120 the sacred image of almighty God, which is the only possible reason why any life could matter at all.
00:18:47.920 We believe that secular progressive white supremacists have been running a vile and genocidal
00:18:53.040 population control campaign against blacks in America that has straddled centuries, trying to
00:18:59.320 keep them from life, from adulthood, from power, from stable families and communities. And that matters.
00:19:07.900 We believe that the organization black lives matter registered trademark is a Marxist front that doesn't
00:19:14.480 care about black lives even half as much as an average white pro-life flyover Trump voting evangelical.
00:19:20.060 Every 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 lot
00:19:32.340 more than BLM can say. This shouldn't be hard, but clear thinking is rare these days, especially on college campuses.
00:19:39.420 All lives matter. All black lives matter. All. Behind a badge. On the street. In the womb. Philosophy matters. Theology matters. History matters. Thinking matters.
00:20:01.420 Matters. Learn to think in unthinking times. New St. Andrews College. Clear thinking. Clear teaching. In person this fall.
00:20:14.000 Jeez. Dr. Ben Merkel is with us. He's the president of New St. Andrews College. Ben, how are you, sir?
00:20:20.700 I am well. Thanks so much for having me on.
00:20:22.460 Uh, so, uh, how much heat did you get for that?
00:20:29.200 Uh, 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,
00:20:51.680 because I think a lot of people are so sick of being told that they're racist, um, because they don't support BLM.
00:20:59.540 And 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.
00:21:07.940 And who came up with this idea?
00:21:10.520 Whose, whose brainchild was this?
00:21:12.800 And 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.
00:21:24.460 So I've never heard of New St. Andrews College. Uh, you're in, of all places, Moscow, Idaho, right?
00:21:32.620 That's right. Yeah. We're the other Moscow. Yeah.
00:21:34.860 We'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.
00:21:47.400 And, and how long have you been around?
00:21:49.840 We 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.
00:22:04.860 So, 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?
00:22:30.820 And, and, and is there, do we survive this?
00:22:36.700 Well, 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.
00:22:53.340 And 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.
00:23:10.500 Um, every teacher, uh, votes Democrat. They, there, there is, um, it's, it's really total how much the left has taken over education.
00:23:21.140 And 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.
00:23:28.800 But 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.
00:23:38.680 And now we're seeing the fruition of it, but it's, it's also that, I mean, there are other elements in education.
00:23:44.920 I think that the way education is funded is a big part of it.
00:23:48.600 The 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.
00:24:06.860 Like 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.
00:24:17.180 So they're allergic to those kinds of decisions.
00:24:21.580 It's, it's also, it's unreasonable to think that a, a school system funded by a federal government is going to teach.
00:24:32.640 Don't trust a federal government.
00:24:34.840 Don't trust the government.
00:24:37.320 Um, you know, you have to think independently.
00:24:39.920 You have to think for yourself.
00:24:41.600 There's no way how we expected that to happen is beyond me.
00:24:47.180 Yeah.
00:24:47.600 But they haven't been teaching that for a long time.
00:24:51.140 Yeah.
00:24:51.380 Oh, real, true government begins with self-government.
00:24:54.500 Um, it has to start there and then, you know, your own self-discipline, your own self-government then makes possible other real government.
00:25:03.460 But yeah, our institutions really, uh, depend on compliance with a larger state.
00:25:09.140 So that's not going to be something that they're going to inculcate in our students.
00:25:12.100 Um, 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.
00:25:25.840 What do you say to that parent?
00:25:29.000 You know, I think you've got to ask some hard questions.
00:25:32.340 I 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.
00:25:42.800 And they remember bumping up against those kinds of things.
00:25:45.140 And 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.
00:25:53.240 It's nothing like what we went through.
00:25:55.720 Um, so you, you need to ask some hard questions.
00:25:58.500 And 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.
00:26:15.980 And 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.
00:26:21.920 That's a much, um, quicker way to get into a job and to avoid the debt and the indoctrination.
00:26:28.580 But 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.
00:26:38.220 It's because we haven't learned how to think.
00:26:39.700 Yep.
00:26:39.940 And, 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.
00:26:50.580 And now we're, we're not, it's not that we can't get a job.
00:26:53.240 It's that we have, um, destroyed our entire economy.
00:27:00.060 Well, you can't, uh, you can't learn to think from wokey McWoke face, as your ad put it.
00:27:08.020 You, you can't learn critical thinking.
00:27:10.440 If you are, if you are told there are things that you can't think, can't say, and things are bad.
00:27:18.400 I 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.
00:27:31.520 If you disagree with us, that that's, what's happening to us now.
00:27:34.920 And they don't seem to see that.
00:27:36.480 Yeah, well, I, I think a lot of it has to do with just that ultimate rejection.
00:27:40.900 Well, the rejection of ultimate truth.
00:27:43.180 So, so when you reject ultimate truth and what you have, everybody reverts to their own personal truth.
00:27:48.880 And then what happens is, is that you're dominated by personal emotion.
00:27:53.600 And, 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.
00:28:00.800 What 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.
00:28:07.600 But in the, um, in the, you know, in the traditional West, we understood that there was a transcendent truth that we all answered to.
00:28:16.020 And, and argument was about understanding these transcendent principles that we then looked to apply consistently in our lives and in how we treated others.
00:28:26.980 And that's where logic comes from, that's where philosophy comes from, that's where theology comes from.
00:28:31.760 So 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.
00:28:43.620 But, uh, they're rejecting all of that, and so all they can do is burn it down.