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On today's show, Glenn Beck is joined by Pat Gray and Andrew Heaton to discuss the latest in the abortion debate in Virginia. Also, the latest on a cucumber truck that was caught smuggling in a weapon of mass destruction.
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Hey, welcome to Friday. We've got a couple of things going on. We had Ben Sass on for a few
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minutes today. He was absolutely incredible in this abortion debate. And on Monday, he's going
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to be giving a speech to the Senate and introducing a bill and asking them all to vote against
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infanticide. It'll be interesting to watch that on Monday. And I will be here in Dallas for the
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broadcast. And then that afternoon, I'm flying to Washington, D.C. to be part of the coverage
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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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The next generation of truth and entertainment and enlightenment and all of that stuff.
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BlazeTV.com slash Beck. Use the promo code Beck. Also, Andrew Heaton joins me. Pat Gray joins me.
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We strangely end up talking about a cucumber truck that was smuggling in what I believe is a
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weapon of mass destruction. The truck does go off the road of the show truck goes off the road just
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a little bit today, but it's Friday. And I think you'll enjoy it all on today's podcast.
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You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
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There's a great article today at glennbeck.com written. Well, I just I want you just to listen
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to it. It was written by a friend of mine, who you may know, and I didn't know his story
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until he wrote to me and he said, Glenn, I'm sick to my stomach today.
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There are moments of clarity in all of our lives. And hopefully you experience such a thing more
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than just once. But on Wednesday afternoon on my drive home in Raleigh, North Carolina,
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I was listening to a recap of the week's news on the radio. What I heard was that a lawmaker in
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Virginia had brought forward a bill to expand abortion access and remove restrictions on the
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procedure currently in place in the state. The reporter said you'd expect this sort of legislation
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in New York or California, but it seems out of character for the state of Virginia.
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My fingers slowly tightened around the steering wheel. Audio played of Kathy Tran, a delegate from
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Fairfax County, explaining the substance of the repeal act to her colleagues on the floor.
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I don't know about this moment or this bill, and I don't know why it drew out such a strong reaction
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from me. After all, the state of New York just passed a very similar measure only a week ago,
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and I went on with my day. But this afternoon, my vision blurred and my stomach tightened.
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Something was wrong, and I could feel the most subtle shockwaves going up my arms to my neck,
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discomfort and rapid breathing. I got through the next stoplight and I pulled the car over.
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I turned it off and I just sat there for a few minutes, focusing on my breath. I've never experienced
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this. I think this was a moment of clarity, the realization of a lie. If you're hearing this,
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you need to know the backstory. Governor Ralph Northam recently joined WTOP radio in Washington,
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D.C., and was asked about the abortion bill dubbed the Repeal Act, which had been causing a stir in the
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state for a better part of a week. But one of his answers was, quote,
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If a mother is in labor, I can tell you exactly what would happen. The infant would be delivered.
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The infant would be kept comfortable. The infant would be resuscitated. If that's what the mother
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and family desired, then a discussion would ensue between the physicians and the mother on what to do.
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The bill, sponsored by Delegate Kathy Tran of Fairfax County, would allow women to get abortions
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up until the point of birth if their physical or mental health are considered at risk. To put a fine
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point on it, Tran was questioned about her bill earlier this week and expressed that it offered
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no limits on when the abortion could be carried out, including when the mother is dilated and about
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to give birth. It reduces the number of doctors required to approve termination from three to
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one, and it lowers the bar significantly for the severity of the health risk. Now we are talking
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about the impairment of mental health in addition to the mother's physical health. What does that even
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mean? Well, making things vague is the point. Something I didn't see coming in the abortion debate,
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but I'm guessing pro-lifers probably saw it a million miles back. Was that where this was headed
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the whole time? The first time I had the slightest idea, the slightest thought that the case for abortion
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might expand to having virtually no boundaries was when the discourse on college campuses began to
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blend mental and physical harm into a single thing. When is speech violence? was a New York Times article
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in 2017, and it was actually my first hint. The piece described the science behind the stress and how
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challenges to the nervous system in the form of hurtful or abusive speech can cause long-lasting
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physical harm. And I remember thinking to myself about that talking point in cases of physical harm
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to the mother. But I moved on with my day. On the question of abortion, I have failed the test each time
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that I can think of for a litany of reasons that all boil down to cowardice. I believe in God. I
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believe God tests us daily in our lives. On the question of abortion, I have failed the test
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test. My wife and I are both proud parents of an eight-year-old girl. She's the light of our lives
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and brilliant. And I will likely never forgive myself on how I reacted when my then college
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girlfriend, now wife, came to me and told me she was pregnant. I was a 20-year-old pro-life
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Republican, fair-weather Christian, and she was my liberal girlfriend who didn't see the world on my
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way on just about anything. My thought process was then, well, obviously she'll handle it and this
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will go away. So with my head down, I asked her if that was her plan. It was most definitely not.
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The idea quite offended her and she walked out. I failed the biggest test of my young life.
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I like to think I made it right by later stepping up and forming the family that I now have and cherish.
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It took a lot of work on both of our parts, but after that, my view on abortion changed to match my
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previous failure. I decided that I was pro-choice because how could I champion the right to life
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when I turned away from it in the moment of my being tested? This new view shielded me from another
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layer of shame, that of hypocrisy. Gradually, other pressing issues led me away from being conservative
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to being libertarian, an identification I still hold on to and believe to be correct. Abortion is
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still very much in debate in libertarian circles as it has been for quite some time, whereas it's
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settled for conservatives and progressives. I found comfort in the hand-wringing and uncertainty
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of the libertarian viewpoint. In order to detach myself from the outcome of America's abortion debate,
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I had to assume three things. First, that they were sincere in the argument that the survival of
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the mother was of utmost concern to the pro-choice crowd. Second, that the valid debate over when life
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begins wouldn't be allowed by courts to extend past the time of birth. Third, that while late-term
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abortions are generally rare and unpopular, the legality of the practice was not going to extend
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beyond the most progressive corners of America. The quick rise and fall of the Repeal Act in Virginia
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unravels all of these things. I taught myself to believe about the abortion debate, that it had
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boundaries, that it was about people trying to defend life in exceptional circumstances, both on the
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side of advocacy for the unborn and the women carrying them. But it's simply not true.
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And this week, I saw it. The radicalized left in 2019, supported by a new wave of true believers
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who consider physical and mental harm to be entirely subjective concepts, is not going to stop expanding
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the religion of choice. Governor Northam made it clear in his admission that the fates of children
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could be decided on after the fact of their birth. This wasn't a slip-up or miscommunication. It was the mask
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coming off an ideology of death that had now been mainstreamed. I just didn't have the courage and
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clarity to confront it. Sitting on the side of the road with the keys in my ignition, I wondered if this is
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what being convicted by God actually feels like. I have prayed for countless years for the Spirit to
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move me in a way it moved some members of my family, when all I've ever felt is silence in my faith.
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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.
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Kathy Tran and Governor Northam revealed the sidelines are no longer the place where I belong.
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My hope for moderation and wisdom from public officials has not stopped the worst ideas on abortion from being
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realized and spread. Eventually, more state legislatures will be faced with similar bills that blur the lines of
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what divines harm. David French wrote in the National Review that the onset of anxiety, depression, the fear of
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postpartum will soon be tried as reasons for young life to be terminated. He's right.
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I started my engine, and I decided I am now joining the movement to defend the sanctity of life.
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If you've ever been on the sidelines on this, I hope you'll now join me.
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I've enjoyed the last segment, and you're at, so I'm happy to sit here and wait for a while.
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So, I have to commend you for the way you have handled this.
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You, can we please play the quick quote from Ben Sasse that came out yesterday, please?
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Let's be really clear about what we're talking about here.
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We're talking about fourth trimester abortion, or what anyone in the normal world calls infanticide.
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And the governor of Virginia has been defending this all day yesterday and again today.
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Going out and trying to equivocate and qualify and then double down and again say he wants to defend this practice, which is infanticide.
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Everyone in the Senate ought to be able to say unequivocally that killing that little baby is wrong.
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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.
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You should get the heck out of any calling in public life where you pretend to care about the most vulnerable among us.
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I was reading last night about Colonial America and abortions, and you sound like Lord Baltimore.
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He said that very thing about somebody who was in government who was involved in an abortion, and he said, get out.
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I can't understand what is going on in Virginia, in New York.
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I guess there are some other states in New England looking at this crap.
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This is how far the radical pro-abortion lobby has driven this conversation.
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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.
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We need safe and legal, but we want it to be rare.
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Now they're talking about keeping a baby comfortable while doctors stand around and have a debate about infanticide.
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It is truly bizarre what Governor Northam is out there defending.
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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.
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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,
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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.
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I mean, I think we all agree on that, but I don't think so.
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I think some of these people who are at the top of the Democratic Party really do believe what Peter Singer teaches,
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and that is you have a right until this child really sees and recognizes that there is a tomorrow.
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Yeah, I don't, I'm one of eight people I think in the Senate who's never been a politician before,
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so I'm not going to pretend I'm any good political prognosticator.
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I don't know where all these motives come from,
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but I know that, I know that the pro-life movement is going to win eventually because it's on the side of dignity.
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And there's all sorts of legislative stuff we need to do.
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I'm the lead sponsor in the Senate for the last three years of the Born Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act.
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We're going to try to move some expedited floor consideration of that on Monday.
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But the most important thing we can do in this movement is continue talking with our friends and our family
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and women who are going through unbelievably hard circumstances often and keep telling the truth in love because these are babies.
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And it's really not that complicated to celebrate human dignity and to talk about these babies.
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And we've got Governor Northam out there just cowardly ducking again and again, you know,
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unwilling to say that it's wrong to leave a newborn baby to die cold and alone.
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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.
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This feels like a turning point in American history.
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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,
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because I don't think the Democratic voter, the voters in Nebraska that vote for Democrats, they don't believe this stuff.
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But they're being told if you and you'll see it online, the social media of spin is, oh, that's not true.
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It's not like that in the bills. And that's not what this means. And it is in the bill.
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It is what we're talking about here should be so far beyond Republican and Democratic politics.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I mean, those people, they were crazy and they stood up against it. And we seem to be kind of quiet about it.
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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.
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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.
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Oh, my gosh. OK, Senator, I've got a break. If you have to go, I understand.
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If you can, hold on. I'd like to continue a conversation with you.
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But thank you. Thank you. Thank you for being a voice of reason.
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And once again, standing up and saying the right things.
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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.
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When sports radio starts talking about politics because they know nothing about it and they're idiots.
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So we have always made it our policy to stick to the things we know, for instance, science, deep science, mathematics, things like that.
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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,
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we are surrounded by people who really know it inside and out.
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And Andrew Heaton is not one of those people. But welcome to the program.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Can I lay a couple of these on you? Sure. All right. So I think everyone can get behind this.
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OK, no more referees. Only very judicious cheerleaders.
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I think that that is, first of all, that's giving props to the cheerleaders. And second, win for everybody. I like the cheerleaders.
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You'd have impartial cheerleaders from Canada. You'd have cheerleaders who understand the game but aren't on either team playing.
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So you've got like a third team of cheerleaders. They're now the refs. They would wear uniforms that are black and white.
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But I think that they, in Canada, play a different kind of football.
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That's possible? I'm going to have to look into that. I just assume everybody's playing with an egg-shaped bond.
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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.
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It's that kind of like, we're going to go fight the other team impulse, right?
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And I think football in particular, because it's very... It's about kind of staging your troops.
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Mm-hmm. So from now on, each team gets a horse.
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Everybody gets one cavalry unit. I think that that would fundamentally alter the game.
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Anything more than that would be excessive and ridiculous.
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If I remember right, I think there was an old Disney movie, like, I don't know, The Nutty Professor or something like that.
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Maybe it had been Son of Flubber, where they had a horse with a helmet on.
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I know I saw... Maybe I made this up in my head.
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And they've got earbuds. So animals are pretty good at football. That's what I've learned from Disney.
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No, no, no. I think it would be someone... I mean, I'm not entirely sure what the strategy would be.
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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,
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and it's your job to get the ball from the other guy, then, like, you know, I'd rather have a horse.
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However, how would you know? Because, you know, there's no costuming that identifies him.
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Like, if you're in the Navy, you're like, oh, that guy's a captain. Look, he's got those epaulets and things.
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Now, it doesn't happen with football, which is why I think that the quarterback should have to wear a cape.
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Okay. All right. Now, because the team members may not know who the quarterback is,
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because I know a lot of people in the stands won't know which one is the quarterback.
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That's not a racial thing. That's a football thing.
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Or is it for, is the cape to identify, hey, which one of my friends is the quarterback?
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Or is the cape for the fans that aren't there at practice all the time?
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You know, I think any team that's worth its salt is probably doing a lot of trust-building exercises.
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So if that's the case, chances are you're going to recognize the quarterback.
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If I were the coach, I'd be doing that sufficiently.
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It's, I think, for the fans so they can identify them.
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Because otherwise, how would you know where the quarterback is?
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It's always a big deal when they tackle the quarterback.
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And so maybe that's because the other team is confused, which one of you guys.
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Because at that point, you're just going off of hand signals and things.
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And Tom Brady probably wouldn't last as long because he would have been tackled a lot more.
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And this is an actual, this is a real fundamental thing.
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If you watch rugby, rugby, they're like, we're going to do it from six to eight.
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You don't get to do that anymore unless there's some sort of issue involving horse rights.
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Yeah. But, you know, we don't take time out during war.
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If someone gets kicked in the head by a horse, you get a horse break of like eight minutes to deal with it.
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Do you get a penalty if someone is, if the horse is, if you, cause you know, you can't walk behind a horse.
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So you would never have the horse be the person that goes down with the football and throws the football between his back legs.
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So you, you, you wouldn't have no incentive to do it.
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Right. Cause the quarterback would get kicked in the head.
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Yeah. I think, I think the bigger issue is probably horse steroids. You just want to make sure that horse is clean.
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Otherwise a regular horse, a thoroughbred could look like a Clydesdale.
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But you know, you don't want an Appaloosa coming off like a Clydesdale.
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You want it to be okay. So another thing, because again, I think this is sublimated warfare.
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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?
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But let's say you had the Texas Rangers. Now I'm aware that the Texas Rangers are a baseball team. That's fine.
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They can come to the game, sit in the stands and then just charge the field and try and take the ball.
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They got to bring a horse, but if they can do it, they win the game.
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Okay. Hang on. I got another idea. Have you ever played Chinese checkers?
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Okay. Take a football field. Okay. Left and right. A hundred yards.
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Now put another football field and put it in the center.
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And you've got them facing off. Everybody's trying to get that ball and you can run it in
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two different, sorry, four different directions.
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Ooh, I like this. You can, you could totally do that too. If you had like really thick plexiglass
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that was transparent, still fun for fans to watch. Cause now you could see like, well,
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you got Tom Brady and the foot soldiers up top and then you got the horse units down at the
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base level and you could see what's going on. Maybe you'd have like a,
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Oh no, I know. I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about, it's the same. No, you
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take a football field and then on the same plane, you have another football field.
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Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I'm just saying you should make the second one transparent so you can
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No, the year don't understand. This is not that complex.
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This is Glenn. I'm sorry. I'm coming here with legitimate reform ideas and you're just,
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you're just starting to question some of your getting into structural design.
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I was buying into the, you know, the Cape and the costuming thing. Cause I think like the,
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like the Browns, I think it's the Browns. I'm not sure, but one of them wears costumes that are,
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it's like this really bad Brown. It's like a poop Brown and a lighter poop Brown. Uh, and it's not
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good. And I think those costumes are holding them back. Yeah, I agree. I also think a mascot should
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be armed. Uh, I think mascot should have some kind of deadly weapon. I want to clarify. I don't think
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we should relax any murder laws still against the law to kill people, but you would know that
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the mascot has a loaded gun and every once in a while the camera would come in and you just see
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the mascot staring at Tom Brady. And you're like, I think that mascot's thinking about killing Tom
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Brady. And that adds a really interesting psychological, a psychological dimension of
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the game. And it might be better because we don't want to have, you know, the NFL doesn't want any
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more trouble. Yeah. So stay away from guns, maybe like a giant mace. Oh, that'd be cool. Yeah.
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That'd be neat. Yeah. I'd totally go for that. And that actually, that kind of fits with the
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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
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.
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.
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
00:34:54.480
who then took it to the border of China and the Chinese wanted, the Chinese people wanted the
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
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
00:36:21.360
country anymore. We broke up with them. China, you should send it to England. That's fair. I mean,
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.
00:37:23.040
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,
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,
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
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
00:41:24.000
kill again. If you really cross it. Holy cow. She, she has the hostage. She comes to parliament and
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
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
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?
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
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
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