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00:00:00.000 Hey, welcome to Friday. We've got a couple of things going on. We had Ben Sass on for a few

00:00:05.300 minutes today. He was absolutely incredible in this abortion debate. And on Monday, he's going

00:00:10.520 to be giving a speech to the Senate and introducing a bill and asking them all to vote against

00:00:16.300 infanticide. It'll be interesting to watch that on Monday. And I will be here in Dallas for the

00:00:22.580 broadcast. And then that afternoon, I'm flying to Washington, D.C. to be part of the coverage

00:00:28.720 for the Blaze TV. And I'll actually be attending the State of the Union. By the way, you can watch

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00:00:55.440 BlazeTV.com slash Beck. Use the promo code Beck. Also, Andrew Heaton joins me. Pat Gray joins me.

00:01:03.760 We strangely end up talking about a cucumber truck that was smuggling in what I believe is a

00:01:11.780 weapon of mass destruction. The truck does go off the road of the show truck goes off the road just

00:01:18.860 a little bit today, but it's Friday. And I think you'll enjoy it all on today's podcast.

00:01:25.440 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:01:38.560 There's a great article today at glennbeck.com written. Well, I just I want you just to listen

00:01:48.440 to it. It was written by a friend of mine, who you may know, and I didn't know his story

00:01:55.960 until he wrote to me and he said, Glenn, I'm sick to my stomach today.

00:02:02.500 There are moments of clarity in all of our lives. And hopefully you experience such a thing more

00:02:06.940 than just once. But on Wednesday afternoon on my drive home in Raleigh, North Carolina,

00:02:12.240 I was listening to a recap of the week's news on the radio. What I heard was that a lawmaker in

00:02:20.140 Virginia had brought forward a bill to expand abortion access and remove restrictions on the 0.99

00:02:27.400 procedure currently in place in the state. The reporter said you'd expect this sort of legislation

00:02:32.600 in New York or California, but it seems out of character for the state of Virginia.

00:02:36.340 My fingers slowly tightened around the steering wheel. Audio played of Kathy Tran, a delegate from

00:02:44.240 Fairfax County, explaining the substance of the repeal act to her colleagues on the floor.

00:02:50.060 I don't know about this moment or this bill, and I don't know why it drew out such a strong reaction

00:02:56.820 from me. After all, the state of New York just passed a very similar measure only a week ago,

00:03:02.200 and I went on with my day. But this afternoon, my vision blurred and my stomach tightened.

00:03:10.060 Something was wrong, and I could feel the most subtle shockwaves going up my arms to my neck,

00:03:17.320 discomfort and rapid breathing. I got through the next stoplight and I pulled the car over.

00:03:22.960 I turned it off and I just sat there for a few minutes, focusing on my breath. I've never experienced

00:03:29.060 this. I think this was a moment of clarity, the realization of a lie. If you're hearing this,

00:03:39.720 you need to know the backstory. Governor Ralph Northam recently joined WTOP radio in Washington,

00:03:47.960 D.C., and was asked about the abortion bill dubbed the Repeal Act, which had been causing a stir in the

00:03:53.420 state for a better part of a week. But one of his answers was, quote,

00:03:56.580 If a mother is in labor, I can tell you exactly what would happen. The infant would be delivered.

00:04:03.220 The infant would be kept comfortable. The infant would be resuscitated. If that's what the mother

00:04:11.060 and family desired, then a discussion would ensue between the physicians and the mother on what to do. 0.84

00:04:19.020 The bill, sponsored by Delegate Kathy Tran of Fairfax County, would allow women to get abortions 1.00

00:04:26.300 up until the point of birth if their physical or mental health are considered at risk. To put a fine

00:04:33.580 point on it, Tran was questioned about her bill earlier this week and expressed that it offered

00:04:38.140 no limits on when the abortion could be carried out, including when the mother is dilated and about

00:04:45.880 to give birth. It reduces the number of doctors required to approve termination from three to

00:04:52.460 one, and it lowers the bar significantly for the severity of the health risk. Now we are talking

00:05:00.300 about the impairment of mental health in addition to the mother's physical health. What does that even

00:05:07.640 mean? Well, making things vague is the point. Something I didn't see coming in the abortion debate,

00:05:16.520 but I'm guessing pro-lifers probably saw it a million miles back. Was that where this was headed

00:05:25.000 the whole time? The first time I had the slightest idea, the slightest thought that the case for abortion

00:05:33.560 might expand to having virtually no boundaries was when the discourse on college campuses began to

00:05:39.720 blend mental and physical harm into a single thing. When is speech violence? was a New York Times article

00:05:47.080 in 2017, and it was actually my first hint. The piece described the science behind the stress and how

00:05:53.280 challenges to the nervous system in the form of hurtful or abusive speech can cause long-lasting

00:05:59.540 physical harm. And I remember thinking to myself about that talking point in cases of physical harm

00:06:05.860 to the mother. But I moved on with my day. On the question of abortion, I have failed the test each time

00:06:13.720 that I can think of for a litany of reasons that all boil down to cowardice. I believe in God. I

00:06:21.940 believe God tests us daily in our lives. On the question of abortion, I have failed the test

00:06:28.480 test. My wife and I are both proud parents of an eight-year-old girl. She's the light of our lives

00:06:35.640 and brilliant. And I will likely never forgive myself on how I reacted when my then college

00:06:42.160 girlfriend, now wife, came to me and told me she was pregnant. I was a 20-year-old pro-life

00:06:50.700 Republican, fair-weather Christian, and she was my liberal girlfriend who didn't see the world on my

00:06:57.600 way on just about anything. My thought process was then, well, obviously she'll handle it and this

00:07:04.660 will go away. So with my head down, I asked her if that was her plan. It was most definitely not.

00:07:13.740 The idea quite offended her and she walked out. I failed the biggest test of my young life.

00:07:21.740 I like to think I made it right by later stepping up and forming the family that I now have and cherish.

00:07:27.340 It took a lot of work on both of our parts, but after that, my view on abortion changed to match my

00:07:32.720 previous failure. I decided that I was pro-choice because how could I champion the right to life

00:07:39.900 when I turned away from it in the moment of my being tested? This new view shielded me from another

00:07:46.240 layer of shame, that of hypocrisy. Gradually, other pressing issues led me away from being conservative

00:07:54.040 to being libertarian, an identification I still hold on to and believe to be correct. Abortion is 1.00

00:07:59.900 still very much in debate in libertarian circles as it has been for quite some time, whereas it's

00:08:05.760 settled for conservatives and progressives. I found comfort in the hand-wringing and uncertainty

00:08:13.360 of the libertarian viewpoint. In order to detach myself from the outcome of America's abortion debate,

00:08:20.120 I had to assume three things. First, that they were sincere in the argument that the survival of

00:08:27.380 the mother was of utmost concern to the pro-choice crowd. Second, that the valid debate over when life

00:08:35.320 begins wouldn't be allowed by courts to extend past the time of birth. Third, that while late-term

00:08:42.480 abortions are generally rare and unpopular, the legality of the practice was not going to extend

00:08:48.460 beyond the most progressive corners of America. The quick rise and fall of the Repeal Act in Virginia

00:08:55.800 unravels all of these things. I taught myself to believe about the abortion debate, that it had

00:09:03.920 boundaries, that it was about people trying to defend life in exceptional circumstances, both on the

00:09:10.180 side of advocacy for the unborn and the women carrying them. But it's simply not true.

00:09:17.660 And this week, I saw it. The radicalized left in 2019, supported by a new wave of true believers

00:09:27.740 who consider physical and mental harm to be entirely subjective concepts, is not going to stop expanding

00:09:36.140 the religion of choice. Governor Northam made it clear in his admission that the fates of children

00:09:43.520 could be decided on after the fact of their birth. This wasn't a slip-up or miscommunication. It was the mask

00:09:52.660 coming off an ideology of death that had now been mainstreamed. I just didn't have the courage and

00:10:01.200 clarity to confront it. Sitting on the side of the road with the keys in my ignition, I wondered if this is

00:10:10.020 what being convicted by God actually feels like. I have prayed for countless years for the Spirit to

00:10:17.220 move me in a way it moved some members of my family, when all I've ever felt is silence in my faith.

00:10:25.140 Now, you might say I just had a panic attack. I would say it was given to me, and I thank God for giving it to me.

00:10:37.420 Kathy Tran and Governor Northam revealed the sidelines are no longer the place where I belong.

00:10:44.820 My hope for moderation and wisdom from public officials has not stopped the worst ideas on abortion from being

00:10:53.700 realized and spread. Eventually, more state legislatures will be faced with similar bills that blur the lines of

00:11:01.060 what divines harm. David French wrote in the National Review that the onset of anxiety, depression, the fear of

00:11:08.680 postpartum will soon be tried as reasons for young life to be terminated. He's right. 0.98

00:11:18.540 I started my engine, and I decided I am now joining the movement to defend the sanctity of life.

00:11:27.060 If you've ever been on the sidelines on this, I hope you'll now join me.

00:11:32.740 The best of the Glenn Beck Program

00:11:37.100 He's just a U.S. Senator, though.

00:11:45.480 Just a U.S. Senator.

00:11:46.260 That's the good thing.

00:11:46.900 No big deal.

00:11:48.200 Not a problem.

00:11:50.160 Senator, are you there, sir?

00:11:52.640 I am.

00:11:53.540 Okay.

00:11:53.880 I've enjoyed the last segment, and you're at, so I'm happy to sit here and wait for a while.

00:11:58.300 Okay, I am so sorry to make you wait.

00:12:00.160 No worries.

00:12:00.880 No worries.

00:12:01.360 So, I have to commend you for the way you have handled this.

00:12:07.300 You, can we please play the quick quote from Ben Sasse that came out yesterday, please?

00:12:14.520 Let's be really clear about what we're talking about here.

00:12:17.760 We're talking about fourth trimester abortion, or what anyone in the normal world calls infanticide.

00:12:25.140 That's what we're talking about.

00:12:26.840 And the governor of Virginia has been defending this all day yesterday and again today.

00:12:31.360 Going out and trying to equivocate and qualify and then double down and again say he wants to defend this practice, which is infanticide.

00:12:39.440 Everyone in the Senate ought to be able to say unequivocally that killing that little baby is wrong.

00:12:45.060 This doesn't take any political courage, and if you can't say that, if there's a member of this body that can't say that, there may be lots of work you can do in the world, but you shouldn't be here.

00:12:55.980 You should get the heck out of any calling in public life where you pretend to care about the most vulnerable among us.

00:13:02.480 I was reading last night about Colonial America and abortions, and you sound like Lord Baltimore. 0.87

00:13:09.520 He said that very thing about somebody who was in government who was involved in an abortion, and he said, get out.

00:13:18.300 You have no place in public service.

00:13:21.240 Thank you for that.

00:13:22.680 Can you tell me what has happened to us?

00:13:26.880 What is going on with these abortion bills?

00:13:31.560 I honestly don't know.

00:13:33.860 I can't understand what is going on in Virginia, in New York. 0.99

00:13:38.420 I guess there are some other states in New England looking at this crap. 0.99

00:13:40.820 Two others. 0.99

00:13:41.160 This is how far the radical pro-abortion lobby has driven this conversation.

00:13:45.780 Fifteen years ago, 20 years ago, Bill Clinton's argument was, well, abortion's bad, but we can't make everything bad illegal, and so we need abortion.

00:13:55.200 This is Bill Clinton talking.

00:13:56.320 We need safe and legal, but we want it to be rare.

00:13:59.440 Now they're talking about keeping a baby comfortable while doctors stand around and have a debate about infanticide.

00:14:04.940 It is truly bizarre what Governor Northam is out there defending.

00:14:08.040 So I want to believe that this is some sort of game that the Democrats are playing to get their side worked up for the next election.

00:14:24.140 They're going to turn it into the right is going to just try to take away all right for women and women's bodies, 1.00

00:14:32.460 or that they are just trying to move the Overton window and be so crazy that we're all like, okay, come on, first term, you know, first trimester abortions.

00:14:43.440 I mean, I think we all agree on that, but I don't think so.

00:14:47.100 I think, I think this is evil.

00:14:49.960 I think this is gone.

00:14:51.220 I think some of these people who are at the top of the Democratic Party really do believe what Peter Singer teaches,

00:15:01.740 and that is you have a right until this child really sees and recognizes that there is a tomorrow. 0.99

00:15:08.060 You have a right to kill it. 0.77

00:15:09.500 Yeah, I don't, I'm one of eight people I think in the Senate who's never been a politician before, 0.50

00:15:16.500 so I'm not going to pretend I'm any good political prognosticator.

00:15:19.640 I don't know where all these motives come from,

00:15:22.600 but I know that, I know that the pro-life movement is going to win eventually because it's on the side of dignity.

00:15:30.440 It's on the side of science.

00:15:32.140 It's on the side of love.

00:15:33.440 And there's all sorts of legislative stuff we need to do.

00:15:36.240 I'm the lead sponsor in the Senate for the last three years of the Born Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act.

00:15:41.780 We're going to try to move some expedited floor consideration of that on Monday.

00:15:46.420 But the most important thing we can do in this movement is continue talking with our friends and our family

00:15:52.220 and women who are going through unbelievably hard circumstances often and keep telling the truth in love because these are babies.

00:16:00.080 And it's really not that complicated to celebrate human dignity and to talk about these babies.

00:16:06.580 And we've got Governor Northam out there just cowardly ducking again and again, you know,

00:16:12.440 unwilling to say that it's wrong to leave a newborn baby to die cold and alone.

00:16:17.160 Senator, this is the first time I've seen politics go like this, where this is this is not it doesn't feel like this is a campaign kind of thing.

00:16:34.440 This feels like a turning point in American history.

00:16:38.740 And I'm I'm a little shocked that more people aren't up in arms about this and aren't standing up even from the Democratic side,

00:16:48.720 because I don't think the Democratic voter, the voters in Nebraska that vote for Democrats, they don't believe this stuff.

00:16:55.660 But they're being told if you and you'll see it online, the social media of spin is, oh, that's not true.

00:17:04.960 It's not like that in the bills. And that's not what this means. And it is in the bill.

00:17:11.100 It is what we're talking about here should be so far beyond Republican and Democratic politics.

00:17:16.680 We're talking about the fact that if you can't say it's wrong to leave a baby to die when that baby survived an abortion, you have no place in public life.

00:17:26.820 This is not complicated. And frankly, now that the Democratic Party, some of their leaders, not all of them, but some of their leaders have started to do this.

00:17:36.020 I think every single Democrat in America should have to answer whether or not they're with those little baby girls or whether there was Governor Cuomo and Governor Northam.

00:17:43.480 It frightens me knowing history that even the Germans, the people who voted for Hitler, when they found out infanticide was happening, they stood up against the T4 program. 0.72

00:17:55.340 Then it just was hidden. But they forced Hitler to say, oh, you're right. We wouldn't do that. We shouldn't do that.

00:18:01.360 I mean, those people, they were crazy and they stood up against it. And we seem to be kind of quiet about it.

00:18:07.860 Yeah, I don't think, though, that even Planned Parenthood's PR army and a national media that's decidedly pro-abortion, I don't think that even that grouping is going to be able to duck the fact that what we're talking about here is infanticide.

00:18:21.660 I hope so.

00:18:22.060 When you hear Northam's comments on that radio show yesterday where he says, oh, you know, people should know that I'm sure that the baby will be will be kept warm and comfortable for a little bit. 0.98

00:18:31.860 Until we kill it.

00:18:33.180 We have to debate about infanticide. 1.00

00:18:34.780 Oh, my gosh. OK, Senator, I've got a break. If you have to go, I understand.

00:18:39.260 If you can, hold on. I'd like to continue a conversation with you.

00:18:42.240 But thank you. Thank you. Thank you for being a voice of reason.

00:18:46.340 And once again, standing up and saying the right things.

00:18:54.160 This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.

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00:19:19.000 You know, I I've I've heard from people because they don't you know, I don't listen to sports radio, but I've heard from people that they absolutely hate it. 0.99

00:19:28.540 When sports radio starts talking about politics because they know nothing about it and they're idiots. 0.98

00:19:38.000 So we have always made it our policy to stick to the things we know, for instance, science, deep science, mathematics, things like that. 0.99

00:19:47.520 And of course, on on the big game weekend, we do talk a little bit about sports, because while I don't have real knowledge of sports,

00:19:56.980 we are surrounded by people who really know it inside and out.

00:20:01.940 And Andrew Heaton is not one of those people. But welcome to the program.

00:20:05.420 Thank you. You're welcome. Good to be here.

00:20:07.220 You know, I think it's kind of like I assume that my friends who are parents enjoy hearing about my theories on parenting because I don't have any kids.

00:20:14.180 And that's a fresh perspective. I will tell you this. Sometimes it's the people who who aren't involved at all that have the clearest look at it.

00:20:23.080 Thank you. I agree. And that's why I spent this morning coming up with awesome ways to improve American football for the big game.

00:20:29.940 Can I lay a couple of these on you? Sure. All right. So I think everyone can get behind this.

00:20:33.360 OK, no more referees. Only very judicious cheerleaders. 1.00

00:20:38.240 I think that that is, first of all, that's giving props to the cheerleaders. And second, win for everybody. I like the cheerleaders. 0.97

00:20:47.200 So they're on a team.

00:20:49.600 You'd have impartial cheerleaders from Canada. You'd have cheerleaders who understand the game but aren't on either team playing.

00:20:56.000 So you've got like a third team of cheerleaders. They're now the refs. They would wear uniforms that are black and white. 1.00

00:21:00.100 But I think that they, in Canada, play a different kind of football.

00:21:06.220 That's possible? I'm going to have to look into that. I just assume everybody's playing with an egg-shaped bond.

00:21:11.240 OK. So that's what I'm... All right. So this next one, my... OK. I think sports, a lot of it, is sublimated warfare.

00:21:18.460 It's that kind of like, we're going to go fight the other team impulse, right?

00:21:21.820 Yeah, yeah.

00:21:22.120 And I think football in particular, because it's very... It's about kind of staging your troops.

00:21:26.300 It's sort of like Napoleonic warfare, right?

00:21:28.220 Mm-hmm. So from now on, each team gets a horse.

00:21:33.060 Everybody gets one cavalry unit. I think that that would fundamentally alter the game.

00:21:36.860 So only one horse. One horse.

00:21:38.020 You don't have a line of horses. 0.94

00:21:38.980 Anything more than that would be excessive and ridiculous. 0.92

00:21:41.120 Right.

00:21:41.280 One horse, that's the same choice. All right.

00:21:43.380 Just one horse per team.

00:21:44.220 If I remember right, I think there was an old Disney movie, like, I don't know, The Nutty Professor or something like that.

00:21:51.360 Maybe it had been Son of Flubber, where they had a horse with a helmet on.

00:21:56.880 I know I saw... Maybe I made this up in my head.

00:22:00.640 And they've got earbuds. So animals are pretty good at football. That's what I've learned from Disney.

00:22:04.160 Now, they wouldn't be catching.

00:22:06.120 No, no, no. I think it would be someone... I mean, I'm not entirely sure what the strategy would be.

00:22:11.020 I mean, that would be more of a Tom Brady call. But, you know, presumably, if you're like the, you know, the windback or whatever,

00:22:17.040 and it's your job to get the ball from the other guy, then, like, you know, I'd rather have a horse.

00:22:22.100 And Tom Brady is the coach, right?

00:22:25.600 He's the quarterback.

00:22:26.700 He's the quarterback.

00:22:27.080 However, how would you know? Because, you know, there's no costuming that identifies him.

00:22:33.460 Like, if you're in the Navy, you're like, oh, that guy's a captain. Look, he's got those epaulets and things.

00:22:38.220 Now, it doesn't happen with football, which is why I think that the quarterback should have to wear a cape.

00:22:44.220 Okay. All right. Now, because the team members may not know who the quarterback is,

00:22:49.700 because I know a lot of people in the stands won't know which one is the quarterback.

00:22:54.040 I can't tell. They all look the same to me.

00:22:55.420 That's not a racial thing. That's a football thing.

00:22:57.520 Right. But maybe it's just for the fans.

00:23:02.460 Or is it for, is the cape to identify, hey, which one of my friends is the quarterback?

00:23:08.440 Or is the cape for the fans that aren't there at practice all the time?

00:23:12.720 That's a very good question.

00:23:13.720 You know, I think any team that's worth its salt is probably doing a lot of trust-building exercises.

00:23:17.480 So if that's the case, chances are you're going to recognize the quarterback.

00:23:21.060 If I were the coach, I'd be doing that sufficiently.

00:23:23.360 It's, I think, for the fans so they can identify them.

00:23:25.440 Because otherwise, how would you know where the quarterback is?

00:23:27.460 And they don't, you know, they don't tackle.

00:23:29.060 It's always a big deal when they tackle the quarterback.

00:23:30.920 Yeah.

00:23:32.160 And so maybe that's because the other team is confused, which one of you guys.

00:23:36.820 That's entirely possible.

00:23:37.940 Because at that point, you're just going off of hand signals and things.

00:23:40.220 Right. So it might make it a little faster.

00:23:42.440 Yeah. Well, and that's another thing, too.

00:23:44.000 And Tom Brady probably wouldn't last as long because he would have been tackled a lot more.

00:23:48.720 And this is an actual, this is a real fundamental thing.

00:23:51.300 No more timeouts. None of that.

00:23:53.220 If you watch rugby, rugby, they're like, we're going to do it from six to eight.

00:23:56.520 And it's just two hours of continuous play.

00:23:58.180 They get like one timeout each.

00:23:59.820 No more timeouts in football.

00:24:00.920 You don't get to do that anymore unless there's some sort of issue involving horse rights.

00:24:04.860 Like I could see the SPCA getting involved.

00:24:07.200 Or if somebody is trampled by a horse.

00:24:09.100 Yeah. But, you know, we don't take time out during war.

00:24:12.280 Yeah. But this isn't real war.

00:24:13.680 That's true. It's not real war.

00:24:14.740 Yeah. Okay. Fine.

00:24:15.540 If someone gets kicked in the head by a horse, you get a horse break of like eight minutes to deal with it.

00:24:19.960 Do you get a penalty if someone is, if the horse is, if you, cause you know, you can't walk behind a horse.

00:24:26.820 Right. Don't do that.

00:24:27.640 So you would never have the horse be the person that goes down with the football and throws the football between his back legs.

00:24:34.420 Yeah. No, that's, yeah.

00:24:35.360 For safety reasons, you want to avoid that.

00:24:37.040 Plus it would be on your team, right?

00:24:38.400 Right.

00:24:38.600 So you, you, you wouldn't have no incentive to do it.

00:24:40.420 Right. Cause the quarterback would get kicked in the head. 0.95

00:24:42.640 Yeah. I think, I think the bigger issue is probably horse steroids. You just want to make sure that horse is clean. 0.97

00:24:46.880 Sure.

00:24:47.200 You don't want to have any, any.

00:24:48.500 Otherwise a regular horse, a thoroughbred could look like a Clydesdale.

00:24:51.560 Right. Exactly.

00:24:52.380 But you know, you don't want an Appaloosa coming off like a Clydesdale.

00:24:55.600 Right.

00:24:55.740 You want it to be okay. So another thing, because again, I think this is sublimated warfare.

00:25:01.140 You could have a third team just watch the game. So like this, hold on. So this, this coming up big game, it's the Falcons and the Patriots, right?

00:25:10.620 But let's say you had the Texas Rangers. Now I'm aware that the Texas Rangers are a baseball team. That's fine.

00:25:16.440 They can come to the game, sit in the stands and then just charge the field and try and take the ball.

00:25:21.420 Got another idea.

00:25:22.380 They got to bring a horse, but if they can do it, they win the game.

00:25:25.160 Okay. Hang on. I got another idea. Have you ever played Chinese checkers?

00:25:29.140 Yeah.

00:25:29.640 Okay. Take a football field. Okay. Left and right. A hundred yards.

00:25:34.700 Okay.

00:25:35.180 Now put another football field and put it in the center. 0.92

00:25:39.260 Whoa.

00:25:39.620 So now you are playing two games.

00:25:42.940 Nice.

00:25:43.320 With one ball.

00:25:44.940 Okay.

00:25:45.360 Yeah.

00:25:46.040 And you've got them facing off. Everybody's trying to get that ball and you can run it in

00:25:51.080 two different, sorry, four different directions.

00:25:54.660 Ooh, I like this. You can, you could totally do that too. If you had like really thick plexiglass

00:25:58.380 that was transparent, still fun for fans to watch. Cause now you could see like, well,

00:26:02.100 you got Tom Brady and the foot soldiers up top and then you got the horse units down at the

00:26:06.340 base level and you could see what's going on. Maybe you'd have like a,

00:26:08.820 Oh no, I know. I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about, it's the same. No, you

00:26:12.580 take a football field and then on the same plane, you have another football field.

00:26:18.000 Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I'm just saying you should make the second one transparent so you can

00:26:20.700 see through the first one.

00:26:21.500 No, the year don't understand. This is not that complex.

00:26:26.580 This is Glenn. I'm sorry. I'm coming here with legitimate reform ideas and you're just,

00:26:30.400 you're just starting to question some of your getting into structural design.

00:26:33.620 I was buying into the, you know, the Cape and the costuming thing. Cause I think like the,

00:26:38.540 like the Browns, I think it's the Browns. I'm not sure, but one of them wears costumes that are,

00:26:43.920 it's like this really bad Brown. It's like a poop Brown and a lighter poop Brown. Uh, and it's not

00:26:51.500 good. And I think those costumes are holding them back. Yeah, I agree. I also think a mascot should

00:26:56.520 be armed. Uh, I think mascot should have some kind of deadly weapon. I want to clarify. I don't think

00:27:01.940 we should relax any murder laws still against the law to kill people, but you would know that

00:27:08.300 the mascot has a loaded gun and every once in a while the camera would come in and you just see

00:27:12.740 the mascot staring at Tom Brady. And you're like, I think that mascot's thinking about killing Tom

00:27:16.400 Brady. And that adds a really interesting psychological, a psychological dimension of

00:27:20.240 the game. And it might be better because we don't want to have, you know, the NFL doesn't want any

00:27:24.920 more trouble. Yeah. So stay away from guns, maybe like a giant mace. Oh, that'd be cool. Yeah.

00:27:29.660 That'd be neat. Yeah. I'd totally go for that. And that actually, that kind of fits with the

00:27:32.600 Cavalry thing more. And you could, I mean, instead of the shoulder pads, why not just put

00:27:38.100 them in armor? That, okay. I would, if, if Stu called me and he's like, Hey, I got tickets to the

00:27:43.400 big game. You want to come? I'd be like, will I be able to see the commercials from the, from the

00:27:47.520 stadium? That's exactly how I would. If not, I don't know. But if Stu were like, uh, Hey, I'm,

00:27:51.820 I'm going over to the, um, the, the football field. There's a bunch of guys in, in armor that are

00:27:56.380 just going to wail on each other with maces. I'd be like, yeah, I'll go watch that. I'll watch a melee 0.74

00:28:00.780 combat. Sure. I've changed my mind because I've, I've realized that what we've just created

00:28:07.840 is the medieval times. Yeah. I don't like that. You got a birthday coming up. Can we go there for

00:28:14.280 your birthday? You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:28:30.780 This is an amazing story. According to us customs and border protection yesterday,

00:28:38.840 a cucumber truck. I already hate this story, Glenn bringing in cucumbers. Yeah, we got enough. Thank

00:28:46.540 you. Are you by any chance? Do you hate Andrew Heaton is joining me today. Do you hate salads as

00:28:53.720 much as I do? Yeah, pretty much. Yeah. And cucumbers just suck the flavor out of everything. And, uh, I had

00:28:58.880 to grow up dealing with them a lot because dad, it's easy to grow cucumbers. So like rather than

00:29:03.600 growing like delicious, like you grow tomatoes, pretty good tomatoes, but you grow these massive

00:29:06.940 cucumbers and we would, we'd leave them. We'd go to our neighbor's houses. We pass them out. No,

00:29:10.800 thank you. And the following day we'd come back with, I got more cucumbers and like, we don't need

00:29:14.220 them. And so we would spend the evening putting them on the door, like an orphan and ringing the

00:29:17.580 doorbell and running away. So I associate cucumbers with, with unnecessary labor and lack of flavor.

00:29:23.440 Right. Okay. So, so you, I mean, you spend time in England. Yeah. Is a cucumber sandwich really

00:29:28.920 just bread with cucumbers on it? Yeah. I think that there's butter or something. That's pretty

00:29:34.420 good. That's a horrible sandwich. No, by English standards though, that's pretty good. Cause

00:29:38.440 your, your other, cause like Scottish cuisine is just basically carnival food with sheep in it.

00:29:43.140 Right. Like take a deep fat fry, like deep fried Mars bar into deep fried sheep. English food is

00:29:48.320 just boiled. And so the cucumber sandwich, once you're over there, you're well, oh, that sounds pretty

00:29:52.240 good. Put a dead fish in a newspaper with some overcooked French fries. I'll eat the cucumber

00:29:57.180 sandwich. Okay. All right. Okay. I look at it anyway. So this cucumber truck is coming across the

00:30:02.100 border and the canine, uh, the canines go crazy and they find what I would describe as a weapon of

00:30:09.780 mass destruction. They find 254 pounds of fentanyl. That's a lot of fentanyl. Um, yeah,

00:30:21.720 it's an enough fentanyl. If you have prescription from a doctor, fentanyl is an end of life hospice

00:30:30.400 only drug. Okay. It is only given out in the most significant and end of life scenarios. Or in my case,

00:30:41.160 they gave it to me because no drugs work on me or your doctors didn't like you. That's a very good

00:30:46.640 possibility. It was up in the Northeast. Um, but, uh, I had a fentanyl patch for three days and I took

00:30:54.380 it off in the middle of the night because I didn't even know what it was. I'd never even heard of

00:30:58.620 fentanyl. Um, but I knew whatever that was is going to kill me, um, and, uh, took it off and then read

00:31:05.880 the box the next day. This is how powerful fentanyl is. Think of a fentanyl patch is like,

00:31:11.120 you know, one of those big bandaid butterfly, uh, bandages that are kind of, you know, like an inch

00:31:18.620 and a half. I get into a lot of bar fights. So you can know the concept. Yeah. All right. So

00:31:22.660 think of it, a fentanyl patch about like that. Okay. And it just has some fentanyl on the pad.

00:31:32.080 That's what you put on. And if you put it on without rubber gloves and you touch it with one

00:31:41.320 hand and then touch it with another hand, you could get a double dose of it and it can kill you.

00:31:48.060 Okay. Okay. That's how powerful this is. So like, like on a scale of like Advil to fentanyl,

00:31:55.160 fentanyl is like at least three times as powerful as that.

00:31:58.160 Yeah. Okay. That's, that's, follow the directions very carefully. Okay, cool. So,

00:32:04.820 all right. So 254 pounds to put this into perspective, 254 pounds of fentanyl is enough

00:32:13.720 for 57 million Americans to overdose and die on. Okay. 254, 254 pounds of fentanyl,

00:32:27.340 57 million Americans could be dead from that. That is a weapon of mass destruction. Is it not?

00:32:36.540 Yes. I mean, I've, presumably they weren't trying to weaponize it, right?

00:32:40.280 Well, no, they were not trying to weaponize it. Or maybe they were going to Canada.

00:32:43.500 Maybe they were just passing through. Yeah. May I make this, may I make this case?

00:32:46.920 Okay. Do you, are you familiar with the opium wars?

00:32:51.380 Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Tell me what you know about the opium wars. Cause I knew nothing about

00:32:55.360 it. So if you don't know anything about it, sure, that's fine. But tell me what you think,

00:32:59.280 you know, about the opium wars. So, um, the British empire was helpfully going around the world,

00:33:05.380 organizing people's things for them and building railroads and infrastructure. Sure. And, uh,

00:33:09.480 they happened to make a stop off in, uh, in China and, uh, they, and the, I think that the Chinese

00:33:16.180 basically were like, Hey, quit selling us opium. And the British were like, no, we're going to keep

00:33:19.380 selling you opium. So they went to war with them to force the Chinese to buy their opium. 0.74

00:33:23.760 Okay. Um, that's, that's my, that's my vague recollection from when I was in England.

00:33:28.380 Kind of. I think that's how they explained it to me. Kind of. That is, that is like saying,

00:33:32.220 uh, uh, the founding fathers all got together and said, uh, you know, we just, uh, we want to be

00:33:39.620 able to not have tea time anymore. And so they, they founded Canada. Yeah. You're close. Okay. But

00:33:45.080 not exactly the ballpark. Right. Okay. Um, so here's what the opium wars were. Um, uh, there was a,

00:33:55.040 uh, um, I think a blockade, uh, on, uh, on China and there was a trade war going on between China

00:34:04.780 and England. I'm going to butcher this. So I am also kind of, it ends up with the declaration of

00:34:10.380 independence being solved as signed in Montreal, but yeah, but I'm closer. Um, uh, maybe it was

00:34:17.300 signed at Niagara Falls. Um, so I guess the declaration of independence would be so much more pretentious

00:34:23.780 if it had been signed in Montreal. It would be terrible. There'd be lots of French in it. Right. 1.00

00:34:27.500 The awful. Yeah. It would have been in two languages. Yeah. It would have, we, we, we would not have

00:34:30.980 gotten very far. Anyway, you are not good for my ADD, man. So, uh, uh, so what happened is there was

00:34:38.380 trade war. We needed, England needed to break it up. And so what they did is they went to India

00:34:44.580 and said, sell us opium. So the, they sold the opium, the Indians sold the opium to the British 0.95

00:34:54.480 who then took it to the border of China and the Chinese wanted, the Chinese people wanted the 0.97

00:35:01.980 opium. Yeah. Why were we selling the opium? Why was England selling the opium to the Chinese?

00:35:08.520 Because they knew they could get them addicted and it would weaken them. Oh, so the Chinese were 1.00

00:35:16.440 fighting back because this makes me rethink the British empire. It doesn't seem like they're,

00:35:21.280 you know, they're just helpfully, you know, like telegraph lines everywhere. No. And so that's what

00:35:26.280 the war was over. They said, stop bringing this illegally across our border and selling it to our

00:35:32.380 people. Well, isn't that what Mexico is doing to us? I mean, is the state of Mexico doing it or are

00:35:38.380 their narco traffickers? The narco traffickers. Okay. However, if you heard about the border,

00:35:44.220 remember, what did they say when Donald Trump said all this fentanyl, all these opioids are coming

00:35:49.540 across the border? What'd they say? Uh, very orange. We don't get much opioid. We don't get much

00:35:58.660 fentanyl. We don't get that. First of all, it doesn't come. Most of it doesn't come across the

00:36:03.240 border. It comes into our ports from Mexico, but the biggest importer is China.

00:36:11.240 So China is now making opioids and fentanyl and doing what the English guys are not even the same 0.99

00:36:21.360 country anymore. We broke up with them. China, you should send it to England. That's fair. I mean, 1.00

00:36:26.060 that's how history works with, with the fentanyl though. Did it, did it come through? Was this

00:36:31.680 stopped at a checkpoint or were they trying like, cause it was a checkpoint. Cause that, cause then

00:36:35.480 that would not really deal with the wall, right? Correct. Okay. Correct. This did go over a

00:36:39.500 checkpoint. Yeah. Um, but what I find interesting is, uh, uh, if that's coming over a checkpoint,

00:36:46.580 how much is coming over elsewhere? Cause you wouldn't think you'd be 254 pounds of fentanyl in a

00:36:53.040 cucumber truck. That's worth a lot of money. Uh, I don't think I'm bringing it across the border.

00:36:57.800 I think I would try to get that across the border, not in a cucumber truck. Yeah. That was,

00:37:01.820 it was your move right there. No one in America is going to welcome a cucumber truck. Right. We're

00:37:06.020 going to put it in an empanada truck. I would have waved it through. Thanks guys. Come on in.

00:37:13.520 This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:37:23.040 Our, um, our state of the union, um, coverage on Tuesday at seven 30 Eastern comes from New York

00:37:34.160 and, uh, Dallas and we have all kinds of great coverage and it'll be different coverage. I'm,

00:37:39.700 I'm thinking cause you strangely are helping in the coverage. Are you? I, I, I am. I think as you,

00:37:46.100 as you know, I am now the, uh, junior assistant Washington correspondent. So I'm, I, it's weird that

00:37:51.920 you guys specified. I'm literally below anyone who works for the blaze in DC. I am the lowest

00:37:56.720 ranking member. However, you did give me a microphone and a camera. Right. And, uh, I,

00:38:00.640 I went out there and I give it the old college try. And there are, uh, there are a lot of things

00:38:04.440 at the state of union address that I, I feel I am able to see that you guys aren't like,

00:38:08.280 right. Did you know in the last day of the union address that Justin Amash kept throwing

00:38:11.120 Twinkies up into the gallery? Well, that's the kind of stuff I'm looking for. I did not know that

00:38:15.120 it may or may not be true, but I'm pretty sure it is true. And you actually, I've seen, uh,

00:38:20.620 the photographic evidence strange, uh, strangely that, uh, the, the, the members, I don't know if

00:38:28.620 they're members of Congress or they were just strangely there somehow, but the, uh, there were

00:38:33.000 some people sitting in the seats of, um, uh, in, in Congress that would not stand for the president.

00:38:39.020 And that was, this, this is something that, that I just, I can't count and such. I try and be fairly

00:38:43.600 forgiving Glenn, as you know, with, with politics, but, uh, you know, when the, when the president

00:38:47.740 stands up and says American sandwiches are some of the best things in the world and everybody

00:38:52.100 stands, Democrats, Republicans stand up and you know, who's not standing up bears, congressional

00:38:56.660 bears, just hanging out, just giving these weak, limp wrist clapping, like a golf clap. I'm,

00:39:02.840 I'm so unimpressed. You're going to bring that to our coverage. Yeah. Uh, that's the kind of stuff

00:39:06.660 you can expect from me commenting on the state of union. Not what you'll expect from the Washington

00:39:10.900 DC bureau, uh, which will bring you, um, non-bear coverage. No, they're, they're all fixated on what

00:39:17.600 the president says and what it means and all that kind of stuff. I'm keeping my eyes on the,

00:39:21.460 my eyes are on the ball. So very, very different coverage, uh, on the blaze, uh, tv.com slash

00:39:28.080 Beck go there. Uh, now you'll be able to see this. It's I believe commercial free, uh, and it is going

00:39:34.220 to be happening, you know, all night and you'll be able to watch it on YouTube, on our Facebook page

00:39:39.900 at blaze TV. Uh, and, uh, you'll also as a subscriber be able to get it, uh, as well. I'm,

00:39:45.540 I'm actually going this year. I have avoided it like the plague. Uh, I have been invited every year

00:39:52.480 to go and I never taken them up on it. Uh, but I, I wouldn't think that you would really like the

00:39:58.160 idea of the state of the union address. I hate the state of the union. Cause you're, you, you're more

00:40:01.860 of you're, I get the impression you're more of a Jeffersonian than a Woodrow Wilson devotee.

00:40:05.820 Oh really? Yeah. I get that impression from you. Yeah. Yeah. So I don't like it. I

00:40:09.800 don't like the pomp and circumstance. I don't like the, you know, Mr. Speaker. I hate that.

00:40:16.560 I hate that. And do you know how to do it in the house of Lords with the queen? Have you ever looked

00:40:20.060 into this? Cause that's what we're doing by the way is we're doing the dress to the house. We now

00:40:23.860 have royalty. Yeah, that's, it's absolutely, it's, it's the, the Imperial presidency. Um, with,

00:40:28.920 I like the British version because I think it's very healthy to have the head of state,

00:40:32.380 not have power. Uh, I like separating reverence from power. So I think the British have figured

00:40:36.960 that out pretty well. And I think we should make Betty White or Kelsey Grammer, the monarch of

00:40:40.700 America and just not leave them in power. What the, what the queen does is they have, 1.00

00:40:44.100 this is part of the whole thing. The queen has a Royal hostage during her parliament address every

00:40:49.140 year that just hangs out of Buckingham palace. That way, if parliament captures the queen,

00:40:53.040 they can murder that member of parliament. Uh, she goes, she goes to the, the house. Well, 0.99

00:40:57.900 that used to be how it was, right? Uh, really? Yeah, no, literally. Cause after the glorious

00:41:01.200 revolution, there's this power dynamic shift where it used to be, you know, that the king could dismiss

00:41:06.120 parliament and that kind of stuff. And now, um, parliament's like, no, at the end of the day,

00:41:10.100 we can, and we'll kill you. In fact, they keep the death warrant for Charles. This first in the 0.99

00:41:15.980 dressing room, the queen hangs out in before she addresses parliament. That's always there. It's

00:41:19.720 the original death warrant just to remind whoever the queen is at the time that we have, and we'll 0.99

00:41:24.000 kill again. If you really cross it. Holy cow. She, she has the hostage. She comes to parliament and 1.00

00:41:29.200 there's this ceremony where she walks over to the house of commons and prepares to enter it.

00:41:34.560 They have to slam the door in her face. Like that's part of the pomp is you, you are not a

00:41:40.180 member of the house of commons. You're, you're a Lord. You cannot enter this. You can't pass this

00:41:44.100 threshold, which is why they do it in the house of Lords. And then she, you know, reads a prepared

00:41:48.420 speech or whatever. And then they all eat, uh, cucumber sandwiches. That is insane. But again,

00:41:54.680 she didn't have any power, which is why I'm fine with that. Like if you just want to know,

00:41:57.300 I'm not. Cause then what are you paying for? Uh, I, I think that we have as human beings,

00:42:02.220 we have this weird fixation where we want to, we want to have social betters and then

00:42:05.500 we crave their approval. And I, I, I'm not sure we can get rid of that. So I just want

00:42:09.960 to funnel it into something that is not, it doesn't have actual power. I, if, if the queen

00:42:16.520 could also set the tax rate, I would abhor that. And I would be a, like an English Republican.

00:42:20.860 Uh, but, uh, but, but as it is, I, I, I think, I think it's cute to have ceremonial

00:42:25.440 right. Okay. But she's been a good queen. Yeah. You know, I don't think that that's

00:42:30.860 going to, when, when Charles comes in, I think everybody's going to look at their, their,

00:42:35.140 their checkbook and go, the hell do we have this guy around for? I don't, I don't think

00:42:39.080 they'll, uh, yeah, that could be, you know, and actually if, if he becomes King, I think,

00:42:42.640 uh, Australia might very well become a Republic. It's true. If you talk to Australians 1.00

00:42:45.660 about this, they're like, we'll be, you know, we'll become a Republic. If Charles,

00:42:49.000 I can't do an Australian nation. Well, if, if Charles commends, we'll be Republic. But

00:42:52.980 if they skip Charles and go straight to William, they'll stay on monarchy. All right. Which

00:42:57.440 is a weird thing to me that, which is exactly what I think the queen is hoping. The queen

00:43:00.980 has only been hanging on because she's like, I've got this son. I don't even think he's

00:43:05.000 mine. I swear. I don't remember his birth. Uh, she wakes up. Everybody goes, is Charles

00:43:09.800 alive? Yes. Oh, I must carry on this time. Right. That's what she's doing. You know, she

00:43:16.080 bucket of fentanyl next to her bed. She would have been dead 20 years ago if her son wasn't

00:43:20.760 Charles. Did you, did you read about a Prince Philip flipped a car two weeks ago? No. That's

00:43:24.680 the queen's husband. Uh, Prince Philip, 97 years old and he flipped his Land Rover, which,

00:43:30.580 uh, well done. But also why is he driving at all? Shouldn't he have a chauffeur? Like get

00:43:35.740 on this England, get some crowdsourcing done. Well, we took the keys away from my grandfather.

00:43:39.600 Yeah. I mean, somebody should take the keys away from Philip. I was talking to my dad

00:43:43.560 of a year or two ago and he was describing, uh, my, his grandmother, my great, great grandmother,

00:43:47.600 grandma Bickle. And he's like, Oh, she was a tough old bird. Uh, grandma Bickle. I mean,

00:43:50.980 she would, uh, you know, she went, went blind at 92, quit driving at 94, uh, fixture of the

00:43:55.560 town. And I was like, wait, what? What was the chronology of that? It was like, apparently

00:43:59.140 grandma Bickle, like, just like she memorized all the turns to get to the grocery store and 1.00

00:44:03.220 refused to quit driving after she went functionally blind. And they would, I guess like the town

00:44:08.020 people in Alva, Oklahoma would just come out and be like, Ethel's driving. And everyone

00:44:11.580 would scatter and go back into their houses. So I assume that's what they're doing with

00:44:14.920 Philip. Well, it could be, could be, I don't think he's probably out on the roads, which

00:44:18.900 if I can plug it, Chad Prather, uh, beloved funny man here at the place. Now he came on

00:44:22.820 last week. We did a full episode of my podcast. That was a biopic of Prince Philip. So it's

00:44:26.820 just an hour of me talking to the opposite of Prince Philip, which is Chad Prather, uh, the

00:44:31.740 opposite of British aristocracy about how it works. It was a fun episode. So I know somebody

00:44:35.660 who has met Prince Philip before and, uh, and it was in a military setting and, uh, Prince

00:44:43.020 Philip came up and it was, I don't even know what they have, you know, uh, I don't know,

00:44:49.560 Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts is their army. Who, who knows? Uh, right. And so, and so, you

00:44:56.100 know, the Boy Scouts were, they're probably more like Cub Scouts and the Girl Scouts were

00:45:00.700 there. And Prince Philip said, uh, uh, what do you do? And he said to the woman and, uh,

00:45:07.420 she said, uh, well, I'm a physician. And he honestly said, he drew back and said, good

00:45:14.300 God, we do not have women doctors in this country now, do we? And this was like what last April? 0.99

00:45:21.040 Yeah. It was like two years ago, five years ago. This is what people don't understand about

00:45:25.180 Prince Philip. He was born in like 1937. Yeah. No, not earlier than that. Cause he's, cause

00:45:29.780 he was served in World War II. So I'm sure he was born in like, like 1917 or something

00:45:34.100 coming up on it, actually like 1921. Uh, imagine if you are already a British cartoon character

00:45:41.600 version of a rich person and then you marry the queen and no one ever expects you to change

00:45:46.340 for the rest of your life. And so you're, you're a cartoon character in 1945 and that's

00:45:50.760 it. He's a, he's a time capsule from 1945. He really is. Cause nobody's going to tell him.

00:45:55.000 No. And that's why he, whenever he goes to country, he's like, he went to Barbados and just

00:45:57.860 opened up with, uh, you're all descended from pirates. Yes. Like that was his opening line

00:46:02.440 going to Barbados was to insult the entire people. Wouldn't it be great though, to be 0.67

00:46:06.640 like that, to be able to be that way, to be just, I don't care. Yeah. What do I say?

00:46:11.260 You're aware that I'm sleeping in the queen, right? I can say whatever I want. Yes. I don't,

00:46:15.360 I don't care. I'm going to die probably the next two years. I think that's what we have 0.74

00:46:20.200 in Donald Trump. I think we have like a Prince Philip that doesn't care. He doesn't care.

00:46:26.020 He's not royalty, but kind of, I mean, he sits in gold chairs a lot, you know, he's doing

00:46:31.080 it. Yeah. He's got the, the Imperial presidency. He's already there for him. And you're right.

00:46:34.840 I don't think he cares that much. I don't think he cares. I don't think he cares at all. So

00:46:38.780 anyway, he's going to get up at the state of the union and, uh, and, uh, it should be

00:46:43.620 interesting to watch. I'm, I'm going and we'll be covering it live from Washington, DC. Are

00:46:48.360 you going to bring like a bingo card that you make in advance of things he might say and

00:46:51.900 like, uh, play with other people in the gallery? You know, we might, we, we might want to do

00:46:55.560 a bingo card. We should, we should. That would, I will say that would be a very surreal moment

00:46:59.340 for anyone in the gallery of like, did Glenn Beck just pass you a bingo card? Right. And

00:47:03.720 it says like America is great. The wall, things like that. Right. And what will be really surreal

00:47:10.080 is if you're watching at home on Tuesday and you hear somebody from the gallery go, bingo!

00:47:15.260 That will. Glenn, I will give you $50 if you yell, play free bird. The blaze radio network

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