On today's show, Glenn Beck talks about the DNA evidence in the Trump vs. Hillary Clinton presidential debate, why Ted Cruz is a better choice than the other candidates, and why a woman who claims to have been raped by Donald Trump may have been mistaken for a man on the Titanic.
00:00:32.840If you buy your ticket today, tomorrow I'm going on the radio program, announce I'm going to just reach in to everybody who bought a ticket,
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00:12:22.440You think you have now a chance to take her apart because it's all starting to unravel.
00:12:30.520The last thing you do, unless you're part of the defense of this woman, not prosecution or looking for the truth, if you're part of the defense, you immediately go, your honor, we need a recess.
00:12:46.060Yeah, I mean, you could make the argument, look, it's a woman who's claiming to be, you know, claiming to be raped.
00:12:51.840And usually those people are not attacked in an interview.
00:12:55.720However, if it was a Republican who, you know, if it was, you know, Roy Moore who's on the air and he's being pressed and he says something like that, like, that's not going to be just like, forget about politics for a second.
00:13:08.600If you are trying to find the truth, you don't take a four minute break where one of her handlers can come up to her and go, um, you, uh, we should end this interview.
00:39:27.380It's actually stunning the things you will learn about American history that you didn't know.
00:39:37.800It is stunning when you learn about things that are going on right now and you see the actual items and it actually will be very uplifting for you and your family at the end.
00:39:52.000It's this Saturday here in Texas and it goes until July 7th.
00:39:58.320Now, right now, if you buy a ticket at mercuryone.org, you buy 50 tickets if you want to bring, you know, everybody in your church or whatever, you'll be upgraded.
00:40:08.740We're going to select one person that bought tickets from now until this time tomorrow.
00:40:13.580Uh, and we will pull a name tomorrow at this time and whenever you bought your tickets for, you can choose, uh, whoever is here.
00:40:22.820And, uh, you know, if I'm, if I'm here, I think I'm, the last thing I'm doing is July 4th, uh, cause I've got something I have to go to New York for, but David Barton will be here.
00:42:27.620You, you bet. You bet. Uh, are you surprised by the success of the, the show?
00:42:35.140I think it's surreal. You know, sometimes we're all in a pickup truck driving down the road and we just look at one another and without saying a word, just bust out in laughter.
00:42:51.740You know what? I, I'm fascinated by a couple of things.
00:42:55.480First, I own an, an old log cabin and that's why your name came up, um, is because I'm restoring an 1800s, uh, uh, cabin that, uh, is in Idaho, one of the first settlers.
00:43:07.760Uh, and, uh, we're expanding it and, and taking it apart has been a nightmare because we're just so, you know, you take out the chinking and the thing almost falls down.
00:43:19.760Which, uh, I didn't, I didn't know that that would happen. Uh, you really have to know what you're doing and I don't. Um, but I have been approached. I was stopped by this 80 year old woman in the grocery store. She said, Mr. Beck.
00:43:32.080And I said, yes. She said, you just bought the property with this, uh, with this 1880s log cabin. I said, yes, ma'am, that is a historic site. And you are, you, what have you done with that cabin? I heard you took that cabin down. And I'm like, no, no, no, we haven't. We haven't. We're restoring it. And she's like, that is a historic site. I'm like, I know.
00:43:51.020Do you ever get any heat from people on taking these things down? Because they are treasures.
00:43:59.600They are. Um, well, first of all, I'd like to say that my marketing team, which is, uh, me didn't do a very good job of making ourselves known to you, or we would have taken it down.
00:44:10.760We would have taken that thing down for you. So I've got to get on the marketing department, which is myself.
00:44:14.860Well, okay. Well, you have a strong talking to, I honestly, I didn't even think about calling you guys, you know, cause I mean, I'm just a, you know, I'm just doing it myself. I didn't even think about calling you guys. Um, but, but, uh, you know, we just, we just hired a guy to do chinking, which I think somebody should have a problem with the name. I know it's not racist, but it sure sounds racist. Uh, and, uh, there's so few people that I apparently do it right.
00:44:42.080But as I'm interviewing this guy, I don't know what to ask. I'm just like, can you put the white stuff in between the logs? And he's like, yeah, you're hired.
00:44:51.260Yeah. Right. Right. Well, that's how it goes. I think that, uh, to your point earlier there, we do have, and come across some really historic buildings and we try to leave those in place. Um, you know, if it's a first building or it's got, you know, a document of history, the thing to do first is a consultation with the homeowner.
00:45:11.140Um, and, and, and see if they want to restore it on site. But a lot of times, uh, for example, you know, these bicentennial farms and some of the other things that are, that are, you see in Ohio and Pennsylvania, these, these structures are not a lot for use, um, because farming and lifestyles have changed.
00:45:28.160So what you're seeing is a lot of dilapidated farms across the country. So I feel like if we're not repurposing these structures, then, then we're going to forget about, you know, this history, because they're going to just rot, you know, they're going to fall over.
00:45:41.680And, you know, mother nature takes care of enough things like, you know, tornadoes. I've gotten a lot of calls in the last two weeks. So I think, um, you know, we're, we are seeing a lot of the landscape change.
00:45:53.360They are, and they are beautiful. And as somebody who's, I was just building a fence and taking down an old fence. And, you know, some of these fences were put in with telephone poles.
00:46:04.300And I have to tell you, if I didn't have power tools, if I didn't have, you know, uh, you know, uh, uh, a backhoe, I don't, I would have stopped. There's no way to do it. I can't believe when you see these old homes that you are taking down, these old barns that are all hand hewn, they are all hand cut.
00:46:26.080These guys, you cannot walk away from, uh, an old barn or something like that and not walk away with just tremendous amounts of respect for how hard people worked.
00:46:40.220Man, it's, it's incredible. You think back to the pioneers and you think that they show up in a wagon and, and there's a family and they start cutting down trees and dragging the trees out, you know, with force and then taking a broadax, squaring that, then putting a dovetail notch on it.
00:46:56.080With a hand saw and, and, and start to stack those logs. And there's so many barns they can down. It's got 10 by 10 beams that are six feet long. And every time we do one, we're just thinking, how in the world did they get here? And who else are we going to hire a tinkering?
00:47:10.640So, um, so if somebody has a barn, uh, and can they just call you and you'll look into it and, and do you buy these? Are they given to, to restore what, how does this work?
00:47:23.800Well, you know, we're like any other business, uh, Glenn, we, we like to buy low and sell out. And, and I always say that we're slow, but we're expensive.
00:47:34.320So we, you know, years ago, we used to, um, take them down and clean the site up real well. And, and then over the years, you know, barn has become more popular.
00:47:43.140And, um, so I buy the barns now and I give, I think I give more than most people do because I understand the history and, you know, it's really hard to purchase somebody when you're buying a family airline.
00:47:56.260And that's always a difficult part for, for me as, as a businessman is that, you know, it's not a workout for everybody. So, you know, we, we hadn't got a new barn in a while.
00:48:07.280Well, uh, Mark, it's good to talk to you and I may take you up in the future on, uh, cause I want to build a, I want to build a barn, but I don't want to build a new one.
00:48:14.420I'd, I'd like to take an old barn and reclaim it and then, and then shore it back up and rebuild it. I just, I just love these old, uh, structures and you're exactly right.
00:48:25.280I, this, why I love you is, is you guys are saving history that has just been left to fall apart and it will rot if we don't save them. And they're so cool. They are just so great.
00:48:38.600Well, you know, I think a lot part of, uh, to the success of our show, um, has to do with the fact that we honor those old time skills and those trades that the pioneers use to build these houses.
00:48:50.800And the other thing about us, we don't, I don't argue, you know, we, we have fun working. It's really hard. And, um, at the end it's, you know, I've got a saying that you work hard behind it and take a ride.
00:49:02.740And I think if you do those three things, um, you know, it, it, it shows in your work and it shows in your attitude. That's been part of the show.
00:49:11.660Mark, thank you so much. Good, good talking. What'd you say?
00:49:16.420Have you ever been in a room with a hillbillies?
00:49:19.160With a bunch of hillbillies? Uh, no, no, but I did watch, uh, what is it? Lucky Logan or Logan Lucky. I did, I did see that. I did see that. So I've seen Daniel Craig's version of a hillbilly.
00:49:31.700Okay, good. All right. Good. Good to talk to you, Mark. Thank you so much.