The Glenn Beck Program - Best of the Program ｜ Guest： Steve Earnest ｜ 12⧸7⧸21

00:00:00.000 Hey, we've got a great podcast for you today.

00:00:02.360 It kind of starts with something personal that I've been talking to my son about.

00:00:06.380 It's time that we really remember who we are as a way to be able to find the future.

00:00:13.860 That and so much more.

00:00:15.040 And don't forget, tomorrow on the TV show, Wednesday night, 9 p.m., only on Blaze TV,

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00:00:50.780 Here's the podcast.

00:00:57.820 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck Program.

00:01:02.780 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:01:08.560 Tomorrow night on our Wednesday night special, an hour one-on-one with Kyle Rittenhouse.

00:01:15.540 You don't want to miss that.

00:01:17.000 That is tomorrow night, only on my Wednesday night special on Blaze TV.

00:01:21.960 Yeah, I was walking out of the studio last night after doing StuDoes America.

00:01:24.880 Yeah.

00:01:25.040 And just turned around, and then there's just Kyle Rittenhouse standing there.

00:01:29.260 It was really weird.

00:01:31.780 We have a really surreal job at times.

00:01:34.320 Yeah.

00:01:34.740 And the thing is, he's just like a normal kid.

00:01:37.320 Yeah, he is.

00:01:37.740 He's just, he had his two dogs with him.

00:01:39.920 He was just polite.

00:01:41.500 Seemed nice.

00:01:42.680 Yeah, I meet him today.

00:01:44.140 I'm excited.

00:01:45.540 Yeah.

00:01:45.880 I mean, look, he's been in the middle of a firestorm.

00:01:49.400 And, I don't know, there was a moment there that gave us a little bit of hope in humanity

00:01:54.320 and our legal system and so many other things.

00:01:56.700 Oh, yeah.

00:01:57.480 So, I mean, imagine going through that at 18.

00:02:00.400 You were just talking about how you don't even know who you are at that time.

00:02:03.240 No.

00:02:04.220 You have no idea.

00:02:05.500 I mean, you know, I thought we all thought, you know, when we were kids, at least I did,

00:02:09.640 I thought, 30?

00:02:11.240 Oh, you'll be dead by the time you're 30.

00:02:13.780 That's really old.

00:02:15.480 They don't know anything.

00:02:16.520 Uh, and, you know, and you hit 30 and you're like, whoa, wait a minute.

00:02:21.760 I still don't know anything.

00:02:23.300 I thought I had all the answers by the time I was 30.

00:02:26.420 It's, it's weird.

00:02:28.140 It's weird to be a 17, 18 year old kid and go through this his whole life.

00:02:35.100 Wow.

00:02:35.560 What a journey it's going to be.

00:02:36.960 I knew exactly who I was at 18.

00:02:38.960 Really?

00:02:39.420 Really?

00:02:40.260 Yeah.

00:02:40.580 I knew I was the dumbest person on the planet.

00:02:43.800 Wow.

00:02:44.280 That's close to it.

00:02:45.200 Can I tell you something?

00:02:45.900 That's a blessing.

00:02:46.960 Yeah.

00:02:47.180 That's a real blessing.

00:02:48.460 Yeah.

00:02:48.740 I wish.

00:02:49.300 That's when I started to, to change things was exactly at 18.

00:02:53.760 Really?

00:02:54.200 Yeah.

00:02:54.480 Why did you, why did you think you were the dumbest person on the planet?

00:02:57.520 Yeah.

00:02:57.820 I just did dumb things.

00:03:00.120 You know what I mean?

00:03:00.520 Care to share all of them?

00:03:01.920 No, I didn't care to share any of them.

00:03:03.060 I know Pat well enough to know this is not leading anywhere.

00:03:07.600 No, I'm just going to leave it at that.

00:03:08.880 He's just, he's leaving it at that.

00:03:10.440 And I know Pat well enough to know he's not joking about it.

00:03:14.300 He really did discover he was the dumbest kid.

00:03:19.060 And you're not going to hear about it.

00:03:21.500 Yeah.

00:03:22.060 No, that's true.

00:03:22.860 I've done multiple shows with you all this time and I've never, I didn't know you were

00:03:27.080 the dumbest person in the world at 18 or you'd done anything wrong in your entire life, 0.56

00:03:30.040 frankly.

00:03:30.600 Well, some of us has been his friends since the 1980s.

00:03:34.740 So you want to come to me on the day of my daughter's wedding and hear about Pat and

00:03:39.480 how dumb he was. 0.88

00:03:40.560 Maybe I can make that happen for you.

00:03:42.220 I like that.

00:03:42.760 But I will come to you and ask you for a favor and give me some dirt on somebody else

00:03:47.960 someday and you will give it to me.

00:03:50.260 Totally worth it.

00:03:51.300 Okay.

00:03:51.520 All right.

00:03:53.180 So, Pat, we're trying to look for some good news today.

00:03:56.260 Oh, okay.

00:03:56.880 Okay.

00:03:57.860 See, President Biden's throwing a democracy summit with 110 countries on the planet.

00:04:04.820 You know, 110 really great democracies like Pakistan.

00:04:09.920 I mean, is there a clearer indication of democratic people than the government of Pakistan?

00:04:16.720 So are we leading this democracy summit?

00:04:20.260 Uh-huh.

00:04:20.780 And what's the goal?

00:04:21.340 We put it together.

00:04:22.020 What's the goal of this?

00:04:23.480 Just to get together and talk about the important things facing democracies right now other than

00:04:30.060 COVID-19 lockdowns.

00:04:32.100 Oh, so we won't talk about that.

00:04:33.320 We won't talk about that because those aren't a problem.

00:04:35.640 You know, you look at Australia and you see how happy those people are not being able to

00:04:39.300 leave their front yard.

00:04:40.260 Sure, sure, sure.

00:04:40.780 And you know they've got democracy down.

00:04:43.020 And the riots all across Europe.

00:04:45.140 Yes.

00:04:45.520 Where people are like standing up and going, uh, no, you're not doing this to me for COVID.

00:04:50.340 I look at it a little bit differently because like when the Lakers win the championship,

00:04:55.240 people riot.

00:04:56.300 So I think they're really happy in Europe.

00:04:58.220 You could be on to something.

00:05:00.520 Yeah.

00:05:00.660 Or they're just trying to make a point about race.

00:05:03.720 A peaceful protest about race.

00:05:06.420 It could be that.

00:05:06.900 It could be that.

00:05:07.860 It could be that.

00:05:08.220 Now, China, I guess, also says that they too are a democracy.

00:05:12.620 Oh.

00:05:13.180 Yeah.

00:05:13.420 And they wanted to be included, but we're not including them.

00:05:16.160 Oh, boy.

00:05:17.060 Oh, boy.

00:05:18.020 But yeah, they don't have a, they don't have a democratic election.

00:05:20.640 I don't, I don't know if this, uh, I don't know how this is coming to you as good news.

00:05:25.820 Oh, really?

00:05:26.480 You don't like that?

00:05:27.420 No, no.

00:05:28.220 I.

00:05:28.760 Okay.

00:05:29.160 Well, then how about.

00:05:30.640 If you bring up the meeting that he has with Putin today, I'm going to hit you in the

00:05:34.460 face.

00:05:34.920 No, no.

00:05:35.260 How about this?

00:05:36.060 Yeah.

00:05:36.240 Okay.

00:05:36.900 Uh, Chris Cuomo, also known as Fredo, fired not just from CNN, but also SiriusXM.

00:05:43.340 That's right.

00:05:44.280 The fall of Fredo.

00:05:45.300 The fall of Fredo.

00:05:47.240 Oh, so sad.

00:05:47.340 So sad, isn't it?

00:05:47.940 So sad.

00:05:48.540 And yet so happy.

00:05:49.760 I knew it was you, Fredo.

00:05:51.380 I knew it was you.

00:05:53.460 Fredo wants to make sure that you are aware, however, of course, that he resigned from SiriusXM.

00:05:58.500 I see.

00:05:59.440 I see.

00:06:00.420 And that was just because he just wanted to spend more time with this.

00:06:05.520 With, with, with this, with somebody, somebody, somebody, somebody, somebody else, somebody.

00:06:12.960 Yeah.

00:06:13.300 Uh, Stu, I did get you a present.

00:06:15.300 You did?

00:06:15.600 I got you another present.

00:06:16.840 Yeah.

00:06:16.940 Another?

00:06:17.380 Yeah, another one.

00:06:17.960 No, really?

00:06:18.860 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:06:19.360 Oh, wow.

00:06:20.220 Yeah.

00:06:20.520 That is special.

00:06:21.520 It's a framed picture of the TV with the chyron that says, Chris Cuomo has been fired by CNN.

00:06:28.140 Now what?

00:06:29.420 And I thought that's really a good question for Stu.

00:06:32.240 Now what?

00:06:32.820 Now what do you do?

00:06:33.460 I don't have any show left to do.

00:06:35.320 Right.

00:06:35.540 There's no people left.

00:06:37.140 They've both been canned and they're gone.

00:06:38.220 So what do you do?

00:06:38.920 It's like, it's like me when progressivism is finally beaten and the Marxists go away.

00:06:43.620 Then I'll be like, well, now what do I do?

00:06:46.120 Yeah.

00:06:46.580 So.

00:06:47.080 There's no more shows to do.

00:06:48.400 Right.

00:06:48.480 There's no more people to talk about.

00:06:49.680 Right.

00:06:50.020 And, you know, you have that issue where everything, when you start talking about people and they

00:06:53.180 just keep getting fired, what do you do?

00:06:54.860 And I've got that void in my life now, the hours I spend listening to Chris on Sirius

00:07:00.380 XM and the hour that I used to spend watching his television program.

00:07:04.500 What am I going to do?

00:07:05.300 What are you going to do?

00:07:05.980 What am I going to do?

00:07:06.600 You've got all that open time.

00:07:08.180 I guess I just poked myself with a pickle fork during those three hours.

00:07:11.680 Well, it would have been less damaging than watching the show, but.

00:07:16.460 Sure would.

00:07:16.980 Yeah.

00:07:17.320 Did you hear, may I bring this up again?

00:07:19.780 I brought it up at the top of the hour because I think this is the most important story of the

00:07:22.920 day that if cats were people, they'd be psychopaths.

00:07:27.760 This according to scientists.

00:07:30.440 And that's news to people.

00:07:32.680 Right.

00:07:33.180 We all knew that.

00:07:33.780 That's what I said.

00:07:34.560 Yeah.

00:07:34.720 They don't need you.

00:07:35.860 No, they don't need you.

00:07:36.860 They don't care about you.

00:07:37.760 No, they don't need you.

00:07:38.840 No, that's the definition that if cats were CEOs, can you imagine how bad things could

00:07:44.460 be?

00:07:45.320 Because they just fire everybody.

00:07:47.000 They don't care.

00:07:48.040 No, they'd while you were doing your, you know, while you were making the company money,

00:07:52.080 they'd, they'd make a figure eight between your legs and they'd love to rub their head 1.00

00:07:55.920 against your leg.

00:07:56.800 And then the next thing, you know, fire them.

00:07:59.240 I don't care.

00:07:59.880 I don't care about them.

00:08:02.420 That's a cat CEO.

00:08:04.480 Yeah.

00:08:04.840 Yeah.

00:08:05.300 It does seem like the science backs this up.

00:08:08.120 Has Fauci talked about this yet?

00:08:09.340 Is it okay to believe it?

00:08:10.520 No, it's, I don't know.

00:08:11.880 I don't know.

00:08:12.840 But you know, um, that's the reason why you don't like cats.

00:08:17.560 Okay.

00:08:18.240 That's, that says something about you.

00:08:19.980 If you're friends with a psychopath, right?

00:08:23.700 If you're friends with Jeffrey Dahmer, what does that say about you?

00:08:27.020 Correct.

00:08:27.520 And you, people are like, he was friends with Jeffrey Dahmer.

00:08:30.800 If you like cats, really, what does this say about you?

00:08:35.460 People should know this is a long-term stand of Glenn Beck where he believes science is proving

00:08:42.200 me out and cats, the cats are psychopaths.

00:08:44.560 And I guess you can't really disagree with it now because then you're speaking out against

00:08:48.160 science, science.

00:08:49.680 It's, it's illegal to do that.

00:08:50.980 I'm pretty sure.

00:08:52.120 Fact check.

00:08:52.880 Oh, wait a minute.

00:08:53.420 Hang on.

00:08:53.660 Just a wrong one.

00:08:54.900 Fact check.

00:08:57.140 That worked well.

00:08:57.940 Yeah.

00:08:58.100 Thank you.

00:08:58.540 Thank you very much.

00:08:59.260 Hall of Fame broadcaster.

00:09:00.280 Yes.

00:09:00.480 Well, that's me.

00:09:01.380 That's me.

00:09:02.040 So, you know, my dog, you know, the problem is cats don't, I don't know if they don't

00:09:07.000 remember you or they just don't care.

00:09:08.880 I think they remember you.

00:09:10.140 They just don't care.

00:09:12.180 You know, where my dog cares.

00:09:15.500 But I'm not sure he remembers me all the time or for very long, you know, your dog forgets

00:09:21.040 who you are.

00:09:21.600 No, I don't think he forgets who I am.

00:09:23.480 But I mean, let's say I'm dead.

00:09:25.160 Yeah.

00:09:25.680 Okay.

00:09:25.860 He cares.

00:09:26.620 And he'd be licking my face for a while and be like, come on, come on, wake up, wake up.

00:09:32.000 And then after a while, he'd eat me because he'd be hungry.

00:09:37.180 Right.

00:09:37.620 And he'd be like, oh, I remember all the good times we had, but I'm hungry and he'd eat

00:09:41.820 me.

00:09:42.780 You know what I mean?

00:09:43.780 Yeah.

00:09:44.100 Yeah.

00:09:44.260 So I'm, I, I'm thinking that maybe he forgets who I am at some point that would make him

00:09:50.860 eat me.

00:09:51.780 I think he'd just be hungry and eat you.

00:09:53.720 We're a cat.

00:09:54.620 Knowing that he's eating you.

00:09:55.860 Where a cat would be looking at you from the kitchen and you sneeze and the cat is

00:10:01.640 like sharpening the knives.

00:10:03.540 Yeah.

00:10:04.000 You know what I mean?

00:10:04.400 Oh yeah.

00:10:04.760 Yeah.

00:10:05.100 They're like, I'm ready to carve you up.

00:10:06.440 I know who you are.

00:10:07.720 I've never really liked you.

00:10:09.200 I certainly don't care, but you look like food to me.

00:10:13.220 Yeah.

00:10:13.740 So the cat's not going to wait for you to die.

00:10:15.500 The cat will kill you and then eat you. 0.61

00:10:17.960 I'm just saying.

00:10:18.920 So dogs are better.

00:10:19.580 Don't mess.

00:10:20.100 Don't mess with science.

00:10:22.200 One last thing.

00:10:22.960 Yeah.

00:10:23.180 No dog has ever killed a person.

00:10:24.640 That's never happened.

00:10:26.180 Cujo's a movie, man.

00:10:27.380 Okay.

00:10:27.700 It's a movie.

00:10:28.740 Okay.

00:10:29.360 So the Chinese have discovered something on the moon.

00:10:36.240 Yeah.

00:10:36.720 Oh, I saw that.

00:10:37.520 That's it's so far.

00:10:39.680 You know what?

00:10:40.120 It's going to turn out to be a rock.

00:10:42.180 It's a big rock.

00:10:43.660 It's a big.

00:10:44.060 You're convinced of this?

00:10:45.520 Yes.

00:10:46.840 Scientifically, you're convinced?

00:10:48.420 They're calling it a hut?

00:10:49.640 They're calling it a mystery hut.

00:10:51.220 A mystery hut.

00:10:51.980 A mystery hut.

00:10:53.120 What's it going to be?

00:10:54.380 Yeah.

00:10:54.880 Well, they say it's a cube and it's a mystery hut.

00:10:58.660 And they're going to be they're going to be they're going to spend the next two or three

00:11:03.740 lunar days investigating this mysterious feature on the moon, which is actually two to three

00:11:09.820 months.

00:11:10.400 Right now.

00:11:11.120 Researchers expect that it is weirdly shaped.

00:11:13.900 Um, but it's they are expecting that it's just a big rock, that it is just a big rock, but

00:11:21.980 let's not go there.

00:11:23.360 What could be in the mystery hut?

00:11:29.300 Jimmy Hoffa.

00:11:31.800 Is that where very possible?

00:11:33.860 Maybe he was buried on the moon.

00:11:35.660 What year did he die?

00:11:37.000 Wasn't it 74 or something?

00:11:38.760 We'd been to the moon.

00:11:40.100 We have been to the moon.

00:11:41.620 Oh, my gosh.

00:11:42.280 I never thought of it.

00:11:42.940 It's a crypt.

00:11:44.440 It's a crypt.

00:11:45.240 If they don't even have to go in, if they walk up to it and it's a big, you know, block

00:11:49.640 and it says James Hoffa on the front, you'd be like, it's a crypt.

00:11:54.760 Wait, so that would be a cool surprise, wouldn't it?

00:11:56.720 That would be a cool surprise.

00:11:58.140 I'd like that.

00:11:58.760 The theory is that they transported the body of Jimmy Hoffa up to the moon and then put

00:12:05.520 him in a crypt rather than just like releasing him in orbit toward like the atmosphere.

00:12:11.240 Yes.

00:12:11.520 They went through all the trouble to actually build him a burial.

00:12:14.660 Somebody with a telescope could see him.

00:12:16.680 Yeah.

00:12:17.000 And you didn't want that.

00:12:17.900 But you'd burn up in the atmosphere and you'd have no trace.

00:12:21.780 Here's the thing.

00:12:22.440 What you don't know is this was this a concrete structure.

00:12:25.480 And you know how, you know, you put your hands, handprints in it after you've made like a

00:12:30.400 sidewalk or something.

00:12:31.220 Sure.

00:12:31.860 Cat prints all over the bottom of this moon hut.

00:12:37.100 This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:12:42.900 And we really want to thank you for listening.

00:12:44.860 You know, what's white and red and wrap white and black and wrapped in red ready for Christmas.

00:12:58.700 What's that?

00:12:59.500 The great reset Christmas book.

00:13:01.740 It's really perfect.

00:13:03.220 It's perfect.

00:13:04.200 This holiday season.

00:13:05.920 Why would black and white be a holiday mess?

00:13:09.000 Because Santa, black soot, white hair. 0.97

00:13:15.740 OK, yeah, yeah, I agree.

00:13:17.960 And red, the wrapping of it says a great reset right on the front.

00:13:21.240 Perfect gift for the holidays.

00:13:23.160 The great reset.

00:13:25.180 Yeah.

00:13:25.880 Yes, it's about Joe Biden and 21st century fascism.

00:13:29.440 But let's not concentrate on that part.

00:13:32.100 It's good for Christmas.

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00:13:35.380 Go to Amazon or Barnes and Noble and grab the book right now.

00:13:40.020 It comes out in January, but be the first to have it.

00:13:44.420 And you can tell your your loved one.

00:13:47.040 Hey, Merry Christmas in that box.

00:13:48.800 It might be empty, but there's a note coming soon.

00:13:52.380 Glenn Beck's new book, the great reset.

00:13:54.900 So basically a scam if you forget to order something.

00:13:58.420 Yes.

00:13:58.820 Yes.

00:13:59.120 OK, perfect.

00:13:59.940 Definitely do that.

00:14:01.380 So I can see you're kind of good holiday news.

00:14:03.780 Oh, really?

00:14:04.300 The great reset.

00:14:05.060 Yeah.

00:14:05.380 I can see how it ties in.

00:14:06.940 There's some good stories out there.

00:14:08.640 There are some good stories.

00:14:09.720 I'm in the holiday mood.

00:14:11.060 Yeah.

00:14:11.680 For example, it's always good when people can learn things.

00:14:15.220 Learn new things.

00:14:15.960 Right.

00:14:17.220 And be safer around the holidays.

00:14:19.420 I have a feeling you're being sarcastic, but I'm willing to go down this road.

00:14:23.080 This is why we have clip two.

00:14:24.360 This is the Washington, D.C. media helping out their viewers for the holidays.

00:14:31.240 Could we play this, please?

00:14:32.380 Oh, she's frozen.

00:14:36.560 A frozen, just like frozen hot chocolate available now at Macy's.

00:14:41.620 Here it is.

00:14:42.580 Three men shot and wound, or I should say three men shot and wounded a man and carjacked another

00:14:49.100 person at gunpoint in the middle of the night in order to prevent a carjacking.

00:14:54.160 Well, here's what we should be doing.

00:14:55.380 Stop.

00:14:55.520 Stop.

00:14:55.700 This is not festive.

00:14:56.820 It's not festive.

00:14:57.740 I thought it.

00:14:58.420 Play the Christmas bed we just came back and then.

00:15:02.960 Can you play that, Sarah?

00:15:05.860 All right.

00:15:06.520 Now play.

00:15:07.220 Three men shot and wound, or I should say three men shot and wounded a man and carjacked another

00:15:15.200 person at gunpoint in the middle of the night in order to prevent a carjacking.

00:15:20.180 Well, here's what we should be doing.

00:15:21.720 Police say lock the doors when driving and when pumping gas.

00:15:25.480 In fact, stay in your car if you can at the gas station.

00:15:29.580 And always look around before getting out of your vehicle, and if you are the victim

00:15:34.800 of a carjacking, give up that car.

00:15:37.260 Your life is just not worth it.

00:15:39.280 Equip your vehicle with an anti-theft or GPS tracking device and allow yourself room and

00:15:44.620 traffic to move around other cars.

00:15:47.160 Avoid getting boxed in, if you will, and keep your cell phone in your pocket.

00:15:50.980 This is America?

00:15:52.220 That's all you need to do.

00:15:53.620 That's it.

00:15:54.380 Just those things.

00:15:55.420 Just those, that list of 47 things.

00:15:57.760 Yeah, just that.

00:15:58.740 And you could not be stabbed or shot to death.

00:16:03.060 And isn't it good if you're not stabbed or shot to death?

00:16:05.200 It is the holiday spirit.

00:16:07.160 It's what Jesus would have wanted.

00:16:09.000 Little baby Jesus didn't come up in the manger, so you could be shot and shivved.

00:16:14.040 Right.

00:16:15.420 Right.

00:16:16.060 That's the holiday season at work.

00:16:18.400 Or how about in California?

00:16:19.840 Clip one, where, you know, if you happen to be-

00:16:22.280 Be ready with the Christmas music just in case we need it.

00:16:25.300 Go ahead.

00:16:25.960 If you happen to be someone who sells drugs, you might have a difficult, a difficult life

00:16:32.980 on the streets selling drugs to people and it may be dangerous.

00:16:36.480 Okay.

00:16:36.940 Well, that's changing now.

00:16:38.360 Listen.

00:16:38.560 A former convict says he felt safer during his life of crime after his Oakland cannabis

00:16:44.380 dispensary was ransacked last month.

00:16:46.720 Listen to this.

00:16:48.140 I was safer selling weed on the streets of Oakland than I am selling it legally.

00:16:51.520 And that's a problem.

00:16:52.700 That's crazy to even say, but that's just the reality I'm living in right now.

00:16:56.780 I mean, it may be a problem for him.

00:17:00.180 Merry Christmas.

00:17:01.360 This is, again, remember, the holidays, you're not supposed to think of yourself.

00:17:05.580 This may be a problem for him, but it's better for the weed dealers on the streets.

00:17:10.280 Wow.

00:17:10.740 That is-

00:17:11.380 See?

00:17:11.520 Safer on the streets.

00:17:13.100 How about this?

00:17:14.420 You like stories in the holiday season of real achievement.

00:17:19.000 Yeah.

00:17:19.140 People with incredible accomplishments.

00:17:22.880 Sure.

00:17:23.220 You love that type of story.

00:17:24.100 Start the music.

00:17:26.020 Leah Thomas.

00:17:27.900 Leah Thomas.

00:17:29.320 She's 22 years old.

00:17:31.320 She smashed two U.S. swimming records in Akron, Ohio. 0.98

00:17:35.660 Oh, you mean the dude that's now swimming for the women's team?

00:17:39.720 No.

00:17:40.240 I don't know what you're talking about.

00:17:41.480 She defeated Anna Sophia by 38 seconds.

00:17:45.380 38 seconds.

00:17:46.400 In a swimming meet.

00:17:47.880 Wow.

00:17:47.900 That's almost like-

00:17:48.940 It's almost like he has more muscle tone.

00:17:52.560 He keeps saying he by mistake, but it's a she, Leah Thomas. 0.99

00:17:55.920 Well, she is in she.

00:17:57.640 You know what I'm saying?

00:17:58.520 I'm just leaving off the first S for savings.

00:18:02.660 She won another race by 14 full seconds. 0.97

00:18:06.060 She competed in a women's swimming event and broke all the records.

00:18:11.960 And wow, what an accomplishment for the holidays for Leah Thomas.

00:18:15.320 That is really good.

00:18:16.700 That is-

00:18:17.700 Who looks 100% like a woman. 0.99

00:18:23.000 A beautiful woman?

00:18:24.120 I want to make sure that you know.

00:18:24.840 A beautiful woman?

00:18:25.800 She looks beautiful and could compete with Caitlyn Jenner for the woman most beautiful woman. 0.57

00:18:30.860 I want to send her to compete in the Olympics. 0.98

00:18:33.140 I mean, if we're going to go there, let's make use of this.

00:18:38.000 Okay?

00:18:38.600 Yeah.

00:18:39.000 Let's send all of our he's to the Olympics and see what the Chinese have to say about it. 0.99

00:18:49.460 I'm really upset about this whole-

00:18:51.580 We're going to do an ambassador boycott.

00:18:54.600 I'll tell you that right now.

00:18:55.820 Diplomatic boycott.

00:18:56.820 We're not going to have a cocktail party and no American weenies for the Chinese to munch on. 1.00

00:19:03.340 I'll tell you that right now.

00:19:04.380 None of our embassies.

00:19:06.400 No.

00:19:07.260 No, sir.

00:19:08.200 A diplomatic boycott.

00:19:09.780 Oh, that's got to hurt.

00:19:11.680 You're not torn on this at all.

00:19:12.860 Nope.

00:19:13.020 There's no part of you that's torn on this.

00:19:14.680 Nope.

00:19:15.040 I mean, you are an athlete.

00:19:17.580 You've prepared.

00:19:18.400 I am.

00:19:18.660 Thank you.

00:19:19.280 I'm saying, I'm giving you a hypothetical situation here.

00:19:21.820 You are not an athlete.

00:19:23.200 But the hypothetical situation, you are an athlete.

00:19:25.460 Uh-huh.

00:19:25.680 You've worked your entire life.

00:19:27.420 I have.

00:19:28.840 Basically, you know, 80 hours a week training-

00:19:31.580 Training.

00:19:32.100 For this event.

00:19:33.360 Yes.

00:19:34.200 And because of no fault of your own-

00:19:36.380 No fault of your own.

00:19:37.340 You are now told you're not allowed to go to the event.

00:19:40.060 I'm thinking, okay, I'm an athlete.

00:19:41.720 I've worked 80 hours a week.

00:19:43.580 Your entire life.

00:19:44.840 No, I don't need the music for this.

00:19:46.300 Okay.

00:19:46.820 I'm just thinking.

00:19:48.560 Now, I-

00:19:49.320 I'm just thinking.

00:19:49.920 I've worked my entire life.

00:19:51.780 And they say, hey, go compete in China.

00:19:55.280 To defeat China. 0.69

00:19:56.520 To defeat China. 0.69

00:19:57.120 Show them up.

00:19:57.640 Show them up.

00:19:57.660 China.

00:19:58.140 Beat them.

00:19:58.840 Put them on the-

00:19:59.760 Right.

00:20:00.020 Give them-

00:20:00.840 But without even saying anything about it.

00:20:03.820 Without even saying anything about what?

00:20:05.100 You know, not making a statement.

00:20:07.980 You know, if I knew we were sending a bunch of Americans over there that would stand up 1.00

00:20:12.560 and then, you know, make a fist for the Uyghurs, then I would be fine with it. 1.00

00:20:20.800 I'd be fine with it.

00:20:21.640 I mean, they might not come back if they do that, but maybe they will do that.

00:20:25.820 They would come back.

00:20:26.840 The United States would have a coronary.

00:20:29.540 Oh, yeah.

00:20:29.980 We're very tough and have a big backbone right now against China. 0.97

00:20:32.720 You're right.

00:20:32.980 Seriously.

00:20:33.620 Yeah, no.

00:20:34.040 Okay, no.

00:20:34.820 American citizens would have a coronary. 0.99

00:20:37.720 I mean, you know, it was one thing with Jesse Owens.

00:20:41.120 Jesse Owens didn't want to go.

00:20:43.340 I mean, he was going to Berlin and there was half the country said, don't go, don't go,

00:20:47.140 don't go.

00:20:47.940 But Jesse Owens was important to go.

00:20:50.880 It was really important for him to go.

00:20:53.120 Oh, sure.

00:20:53.560 Because he was going to stand up against the German and we knew there's a good chance he's 1.00

00:21:01.080 going to win.

00:21:01.800 That's a good thing.

00:21:03.220 A slap in Hitler's face. 0.71

00:21:05.780 This is not a slap in Xi's face.

00:21:09.840 This isn't a slap in us just going along as we always go along.

00:21:15.260 Maybe.

00:21:15.880 I mean, I think, first of all, if you can beat their asses, I mean, that's sending them

00:21:19.820 quite the message.

00:21:20.780 And I don't know.

00:21:21.360 I don't know enough about these games to know if we will or not, frankly.

00:21:24.540 I don't follow it all that closely.

00:21:27.080 But I like the idea of us beating them.

00:21:30.460 But beyond that, like, just as a, you know, it's your whole life's work is leading to this

00:21:37.680 one moment.

00:21:38.500 And then your country tells you, an individual, no, you're not allowed to travel.

00:21:44.060 I mean, that is not exactly the most American concept of freedom that I've ever heard.

00:21:48.560 I'm going to wrap them all in swaddling clothes.

00:21:51.360 That's what I'm going to do.

00:21:52.320 I'm going to take all of the athletes and I'm going to wrap them in swaddling clothes.

00:21:55.960 You don't care about this because you're not an athlete.

00:21:58.140 No, I don't know anything about athletic competition.

00:22:00.080 I can understand.

00:22:01.620 But we're talking about evil.

00:22:05.620 It's not like we're talking.

00:22:06.860 You know, it was the Soviet Union.

00:22:09.260 It was the Nazis. 0.84

00:22:12.920 And it's China.

00:22:13.940 They all fit in.

00:22:15.460 Would we have been proud if we would have been like, hey, they've built a new stadium

00:22:20.780 right next to the killing fields.

00:22:23.420 Let's all go.

00:22:24.860 Let's all go.

00:22:25.760 We wouldn't have done it.

00:22:26.900 You know, there are thousands and thousands of American businessmen in China right now

00:22:32.000 doing their jobs.

00:22:33.220 Right.

00:22:33.380 And I think we should reevaluate this and we can maybe start with the Olympics.

00:22:38.700 I mean, we should start with the things we don't have to do.

00:22:43.780 Start with the things we don't have to do.

00:22:45.240 You don't obviously have to do the Olympics, but we can show some symbolic victories against

00:22:50.780 them.

00:22:51.080 I mean, it is a propaganda situation.

00:22:53.120 And again, I think not sending your diplomats says something.

00:22:56.680 They're pissed off about it.

00:22:57.680 We know that.

00:22:58.460 China's pissed about this. 1.00

00:22:59.840 Now, it doesn't matter at all to me.

00:23:01.520 Honestly, if we didn't even have any more diplomats, we'd probably be better off.

00:23:05.040 But, you know, this is something that means something to China.

00:23:07.880 Here's what would have happened years ago if we would have done one in Russia, which we

00:23:13.980 didn't.

00:23:14.500 Well, we did in the end in 80.

00:23:17.940 We we we was at 84 was was here and the Soviets boycotted and we boycotted in 80. 0.72

00:23:24.520 Was it was it 1980?

00:23:25.980 I'm forgetting the years, but we boycotted them at one point.

00:23:28.980 We did.

00:23:29.400 Yeah.

00:23:29.580 So imagine back then, ABC, NBC, whoever would have had the Olympics, let's say it was, you

00:23:37.160 know, Dr. Pink Eye is covering the Olympics again.

00:23:41.720 What's his name?

00:23:42.240 Oh, Bob Costas.

00:23:43.100 Yeah.

00:23:44.100 Dr. Pink Eye? 0.98

00:23:45.360 How do I know what he means?

00:23:47.140 Yes, he had Pink Eye.

00:23:47.700 Because that's all anybody remembers from that year of Olympics.

00:23:50.300 Yes.

00:23:50.540 It's like, oh, my gosh, what is that?

00:23:52.520 Anyway, if he would have been broadcasting, if he would have gone over to the Soviet Union,

00:23:57.260 they would have been broadcasting, they would have had all kinds of stories about how awful

00:24:02.480 and oppressive that was and how much of the stuff we have to say is because we have monitors

00:24:09.800 with us and they'll threaten to pull us off at any time.

00:24:13.640 It would have all we all would have known that and they would have made a big deal before

00:24:18.020 and after.

00:24:19.580 OK, now NBC Universal, you think they're going to be ABC Disney?

00:24:26.760 You think they're going to say anything about how bad China is?

00:24:30.720 But they're all going there.

00:24:31.980 All the broadcasters are going to go there.

00:24:33.640 We're not going to stop them.

00:24:34.520 They're all going to cover the games.

00:24:35.680 We're not going to stop that.

00:24:36.700 And we're going to all the sponsorships are going to go through.

00:24:38.760 Yeah, but we can do that.

00:24:39.780 That's our choice.

00:24:40.580 Yeah.

00:24:40.940 But the country making that choice for these athletes and these athletes only.

00:24:45.420 I mean, again, I would say I'm torn on it, but I mean, it's a tough one because

00:24:50.500 I mean, these people have nothing to do with this.

00:24:53.940 They've worked their asses off with the promise that if you're good enough, you're going to

00:24:58.080 go to the Olympics.

00:24:58.620 And then a couple of weeks before, we're like, ah, yeah, I know all of your life's works

00:25:03.240 led to this moment.

00:25:04.100 But no, I mean, it's it's a tough place to put an individual American citizen who might

00:25:10.380 want to make a different choice.

00:25:11.380 We don't stop people from traveling.

00:25:12.900 They're going on vacation.

00:25:13.860 They don't need to go on vacation there when we don't stop that.

00:25:17.080 We let people go where they want to go.

00:25:19.000 And this is the one time we're going to change.

00:25:20.660 I don't know.

00:25:21.200 I do see what you're saying.

00:25:22.880 It would send a very strong message.

00:25:24.920 You're representing the United States of America.

00:25:27.280 Our relationship with China is different than our relationship with the Soviet Union.

00:25:31.180 And if you want to change that and.

00:25:33.440 Oh, I think we should.

00:25:34.420 Right.

00:25:34.700 We were on that path.

00:25:35.780 If you do that in advance, I can understand that stance.

00:25:39.680 But it's that's not our current state.

00:25:41.600 If it was in North Korea right now, we wouldn't be sending anybody. 0.96

00:25:43.680 Right.

00:25:44.080 Right.

00:25:44.420 You know, we wouldn't.

00:25:45.480 Now, I don't know why they wouldn't even they can't even build a hotel, let alone a stadium.

00:25:48.660 Yeah.

00:25:48.680 I mean, it would not be a good one.

00:25:50.600 You do.

00:25:51.680 Hey, our javelin ran out of javelins here.

00:25:54.760 Use this person that we've kept in a concentration camp as a javelin now.

00:25:58.720 Javelin target.

00:25:59.540 Yeah.

00:26:00.080 I mean, just bad.

00:26:01.340 Yeah.

00:26:01.620 No.

00:26:01.840 So I do understand what you're saying, but you have to have some sympathy for these

00:26:05.440 athletes.

00:26:06.520 I do have sympathy, but I have more sympathy for the people that are looking for someone to

00:26:12.820 give them some light at the end of the tunnel, that somebody recognizes them, that somebody

00:26:18.020 says enough.

00:26:20.020 Oh, well, LeBron James recognizes it.

00:26:22.040 I mean, just doesn't care.

00:26:23.320 OK.

00:26:25.240 All right.

00:26:25.740 Let me tell you about American financing.

00:26:27.240 We continue to face so many unknowns, so many market changes, so much inflation.

00:26:34.780 The best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:26:36.780 It all started with a misunderstanding, according to the Los Angeles Times.

00:26:45.460 A black theater student at Coastal Carolina University told a visiting drama teacher she

00:26:49.860 wanted to connect with non-white students.

00:26:52.880 So the teacher drew up a list of names on a whiteboard, then forgot to erase it when they

00:26:59.040 left the studio.

00:26:59.800 When several other students walked in, they saw this list, and they were left with a suspicion

00:27:04.880 that those on it had been singled out with racist intent.

00:27:10.380 A committee of professors investigated and promptly sent out a department-wide email clarifying

00:27:15.160 what had happened that September day.

00:27:17.180 Seeking to calm the students, the professors wrote that the explanation in no way undermines

00:27:21.540 the feelings that any of you feel about the incident, and that the faculty was deeply

00:27:26.660 sorry.

00:27:27.180 The visiting teacher also wrote an apology, no matter the good intention, I still want

00:27:31.620 you to know I'm an idiot, and I'm sorry.

00:27:34.160 Well, things might have ended there, but at a time when college campuses had become center

00:27:38.540 stage for the polarizing issues of race, identity, and what constitutes harm, the theater

00:27:42.720 department was primed for conflict.

00:27:45.820 Enter Steve Ernest.

00:27:48.480 Steve is with us now.

00:27:49.860 We've had him on before when this story first broke, what, two months ago?

00:27:53.640 Uh, yes.

00:27:56.480 It seems longer than that.

00:27:59.020 Yeah, I bet it does.

00:28:00.360 I bet it does.

00:28:01.720 This is an amazing story, especially written by the LA Times.

00:28:07.380 It shows that the person who really came out with you, or came out after you, one of the

00:28:13.500 students, was really, truly, seemingly, to me at least, out of control.

00:28:18.940 I'm not going to ask you to comment on that.

00:28:21.240 Um, what has happened since they took you off and said, we're not sure, we're going to

00:28:26.740 have to investigate this?

00:28:27.980 Well, uh, you know, again, I was, I was removed from teaching and, uh, you know, assigned to

00:28:34.300 other duties, which I, you know, received sometime around November the 2nd.

00:28:39.360 Um, but, um, I'm, I'm simply happy to be reinstated at this point.

00:28:44.200 And, uh, apparently we'll be teaching again next semester.

00:28:47.780 Um, I'm not sure what that world will be like, but I'm certainly, um, you know, I have a long

00:28:52.560 history, uh, at, of great work at Coastal Carolina University, and I'm, I'm intending

00:28:57.220 to continue that work, uh, at this point in my life.

00:29:01.000 So what is the, because I know that the administrators, some of them came out that you thought were

00:29:08.120 friends, came out against you, um, in, including the department chair who said the words in your

00:29:15.080 email were white supremacist language.

00:29:17.860 I think of people burning crosses and wearing white robes, and that's about as far away from

00:29:23.320 me as I can ever imagine.

00:29:25.300 Now he says he didn't, he says he don't, he doesn't remember saying these things.

00:29:30.520 Eric doesn't remember saying that you were a white supremacist, but do you?

00:29:34.800 It was, yeah, it was said at a meeting and I did not disclose the name of the person who

00:29:41.060 said it.

00:29:41.780 I didn't feel like I, I should disclose that name.

00:29:44.420 Um, but it was said at a meeting and, um, I think that the writer, because they couldn't,

00:29:51.860 um, you know, pin down exactly who said it, just, you know, made the chair responsible

00:29:56.840 for it.

00:29:57.480 Oh, okay.

00:29:58.020 So it, it wasn't Eric Hall?

00:30:01.000 No.

00:30:01.460 Okay.

00:30:01.820 All right.

00:30:02.120 Well, that's, that's fair.

00:30:03.080 Good, good to know.

00:30:03.860 Um, so, um, but when, when they said that you could, you could go back, that your behavior

00:30:10.440 was under review to determine whether your emails endangered the welfare of students or

00:30:15.400 violated the code of ethical conduct requiring employees to create a respectful environment,

00:30:20.080 nurture a climate of fairness and civility towards others, even in the face of disagreement.

00:30:24.520 Um, they said that your actions didn't warrant disciplinary and disciplinary action at this

00:30:31.980 time.

00:30:33.920 What is that?

00:30:34.880 What is, I mean, is that how it's left?

00:30:37.780 Is this still hanging over you?

00:30:40.340 Uh, you know, I, we'll see, you know, um, but my attorney who is a, uh, I don't know what's

00:30:47.340 going on there.

00:30:47.840 Um, my attorney, who is a big fan of yours, Ruth Smith in Asheville, North Carolina, asked

00:30:53.840 me to, uh, to, uh, to say, say hello to you.

00:30:56.960 And, uh, um, you know, she's keeping a watch on the whole situation.

00:31:01.840 And so we are, you know, we're, we're taking it day by day and we will just approach, um,

00:31:07.380 you know, next semester.

00:31:08.360 And, um, I'm, I'm considering, uh, you know, body cam and things like this just to, uh, just

00:31:14.900 to make sure.

00:31:15.620 How are you going to, the theater is.

00:31:17.840 All about trust and exploration.

00:31:21.900 Uh, I mean, I tell my daughter, she wants to go into acting and I'm, I'm praying on

00:31:27.800 my knees every day that something happens that doesn't let that happen.

00:31:32.140 But, uh, she, uh, you know, she comes home, she's in high school and girls are not just 1.00

00:31:38.680 mean.

00:31:39.100 They are vicious to one another and she comes home and she'll be crying about something.

00:31:44.760 I said, honey, you know, a, I'm sorry.

00:31:47.580 And, you know, we, we commiserate on, on what, what happened, but also say to her, you have

00:31:53.740 to get used to this because if you really do want to be in acting, people are going to

00:31:58.500 say the worst things about you all the time.

00:32:02.280 And you have to develop thick skin because not only are they going to say the worst things

00:32:07.280 about you, you're going to try out for things and you're going to start in for 20 seconds

00:32:11.440 and they're going to say, next, you can't be crushed.

00:32:14.340 You can't be crushed.

00:32:16.640 Isn't there a lesson for the students here?

00:32:21.000 You know, um, you know, it's funny that you would say that because just this morning, I

00:32:25.280 got a wonderful email from a major, uh, talent agent in Los Angeles who starts out by saying,

00:32:32.600 bravo, you, I'm a talent manager and that the students are going to be faced with rejection

00:32:38.860 their whole lives.

00:32:39.860 Please stay your course.

00:32:41.500 They will learn far from you more from you that way than they even realized.

00:32:45.540 Um, so I mean, it, it really is, it really is that way.

00:32:50.120 Um, I, in, in my opinion, it's a very, very difficult world and you really do have to have

00:32:54.720 a very, very thick skin to even have a chance of surviving.

00:32:58.580 Right.

00:32:58.780 And it seems as though, I mean, you know, I read one of the things you said to one of these

00:33:03.600 girls is there, um, Hey, Shakespeare in the park. 0.99

00:33:06.200 And they're looking to cast people like you.

00:33:07.860 And it's unclear whether it was her voice, her talent or her color.

00:33:13.140 But I will tell you that my daughter was told by an agent, people like you are going to have

00:33:19.760 a very hard time finding a job right now.

00:33:22.340 And I said, what do you mean people like you?

00:33:24.140 And she said, white people.

00:33:25.420 And we were like, okay.

00:33:26.820 And we moved on with our lives.

00:33:28.300 We moved on with our lives.

00:33:29.740 I mean, it is, it reverse discrimination is happening right now.

00:33:33.820 Discrimination or whatever happens because fat people, skinny people, white people, black

00:33:39.360 people, it shouldn't be that way, but it is.

00:33:43.700 Well, you know, I, again, I've worked in professional theater for 30 years and colorblind

00:33:47.960 casting was something that was happening 20 years ago.

00:33:51.160 It didn't matter.

00:33:51.780 You know what, if you, if you were working in Shakespeare, it didn't matter what, what

00:33:55.480 color you were or, or what your ethnic heritage or anything was, it had to do with, with your

00:34:01.080 voice and your ability.

00:34:02.760 Um, and, uh, so I think we've been past this for years and for some reason now it, it's

00:34:10.000 come back to haunt us.

00:34:11.180 I mean, uh, again, this, this idea of, of racism and casting, um, this is a, I think

00:34:18.940 just look at the TV these days.

00:34:20.960 It's, it's such a great time for people of color to be working in the theater.

00:34:25.500 I mean, and we all celebrate that.

00:34:28.180 I mean, it's great.

00:34:29.360 Yeah.

00:34:29.640 Um, so, and it's a, it's a great time for all people in, in any kind of entertainment

00:34:35.800 because the access is everywhere.

00:34:38.420 If you don't get access at theater, you get access someplace else.

00:34:41.460 I mean, you can do anything now with the internet, uh, and, and find your own way.

00:34:47.220 And it's a remarkably free world that seemingly just wants to keep putting itself back into

00:34:52.660 a bottle of, of, uh, of oppression, uh, everywhere.

00:34:58.080 But if you understand it, be free, just do it.

00:35:02.760 Yeah.

00:35:03.280 And we still can't wrap our minds around what level of, you know, pandemic of,

00:35:08.140 break down this, this might've represented, you know, people just, uh, cause you know,

00:35:13.140 a lot of these people are facing, um, a world where who knows what the direction of a theater

00:35:18.720 will be and in film and what, well, I mean, what will be the access to work be and casting

00:35:24.960 in the uncertain times.

00:35:27.340 That's the same thing that I go through that same thing that you're going through.

00:35:31.220 And not just because of this incident, but because things are changing.

00:35:36.020 I don't know if the campus is going to be like the campuses now in 10 years, change is

00:35:41.740 part of life.

00:35:43.320 And if we expect our universities to be a bubble and protect them, I mean, the one thing it

00:35:49.960 should be taught right now is the only thing consistent will be constant change.

00:35:56.620 And it's, it's hard, but if your school isn't preparing you for that, they're not preparing

00:36:03.160 you for life.

00:36:06.560 Am I wrong?

00:36:07.640 Right.

00:36:08.260 No, you're a hundred percent right.

00:36:09.640 And this is, you know, this situation is not unique to coastal Carolina.

00:36:13.700 It's a, it's happening at universities.

00:36:15.920 Uh, my attorney said, we're seeing as many as six of these a day.

00:36:20.380 Sometimes, you know, these types of things, um, Steve, I, uh, I, I, I'm, I'm sorry to hear

00:36:27.800 that you feel like you, you might have to wear a, uh, a body cam.

00:36:32.800 Uh, what a sad, sad statement that is.

00:36:35.460 I, I would encourage you to have videotape on everything anyway.

00:36:39.580 Um, but, uh, it's sad that you have to be there and I'm, I'm glad you went back and

00:36:43.740 I, and I hope that everybody gets along and you can go back to some sort of normalcy.

00:36:49.660 Uh, and do what you do best.

00:36:52.540 Yeah.

00:36:53.040 Well, the great thing is at universities, people graduate.

00:36:56.360 So, and we move on.

00:36:57.780 Yeah.

00:36:58.260 Yeah, that's good.

00:36:59.400 All right, Steve, thank you so much.

00:37:01.080 Uh, he's a theater professor at coastal Carolina university reinstated now over, uh, racism

00:37:07.000 charges, uh, in a ridiculous, ridiculous story.

The Glenn Beck Program - December 07, 2021

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