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00:00:00.000 Hello, podcasters. It is Friday. We've got the future of guns and gun control and how ridiculous

00:00:06.280 this is. I'd like to introduce you to something called the 3D printer. Also, Bill O'Reilly is

00:00:12.160 here. Climate change with a town hall. It just won't end. Walmart and the NRA, Amazon, Apple,

00:00:18.760 Google, kind of an argument, really, between Stu and I with Bill O'Reilly. He thinks that

00:00:26.640 the Republicans have to compromise on the Second Amendment or they're going to lose.

00:00:31.920 I don't understand how you compromise on the Bill of Rights. We also have Dave Rubin on,

00:00:37.960 really fascinating. Joining the Blaze TV is Dave Rubin. We talked to him about how L.A.

00:00:43.760 is changing and the dynamics of politics. Also, he's known as an atheist, but he now, after

00:00:50.500 traveling with Jordan Peterson, says, I'm really not Jordan Peterson. I mean, I'm really

00:00:56.220 not an atheist. Jordan Peterson made a lot of sense to me. And the taste test we've all

00:01:03.820 been waiting for. The Impossible Whopper, all on today's podcast.

00:01:08.760 It was September 25th, 2017. Stephen Paddock checked into a room on the 32nd floor of the

00:01:29.840 Mandalay Bay Hotel in Las Vegas. He had 10 range bags full of guns and ammunition. And six days later,

00:01:37.500 he opened fire on the people on Route 91 at the Harvest Music Festival. He killed 85 people.

00:01:45.580 He wounded 851 others in what is the deadliest mass shooting committed by one person in U.S.

00:01:52.380 history. And then he killed himself. When police investigated, they found 23 rifles and one handgun,

00:02:02.320 14 .223 caliber AR-15 type rifles, 8 .308 AR-10 type rifles, 1 .308 caliber bolt action rifle,

00:02:13.800 and 1 .38 caliber revolver. On the kitchen counter next to his hotel room key, there were four credit

00:02:21.220 cards. Now, I want you to listen to Andrew Ross Sorkin. He's a, he's certain that there is a

00:02:31.620 correlation between, uh, mass shootings and the credit cards. Listen. After Parkland, uh, the

00:02:38.760 shooting in Parkland, uh, and trying to look at the role that banks and credit cards play in these

00:02:43.200 things, I really decided to take a deep dive, uh, into this. Uh, the, the article is called, uh,

00:02:48.420 devastating arsenals bought with plastic and nary a red flag. Uh, it is a New York Times investigation

00:02:53.700 that looks at mass shootings, every single major mass shooting in America since Virginia Tech

00:02:58.240 in 2007. And it really reveals how credit cards have become such a crucial part of the planning

00:03:03.420 of these massacres in a way that I have to say, I did not even appreciate myself.

00:03:09.220 So, you know, he is, um, becoming much more of an activist than a reporter. He wrote the article,

00:03:16.520 how banks unwittingly finance mass shootings in the New York Times. We have some problems with the

00:03:21.500 article and I'll get to those here in just a second, but let me look at his point first.

00:03:24.960 He starts by pointing out that there have been 13 shootings that killed 10 or more people in the

00:03:30.060 last decade. And in at least eight of them, the killers financed their attacks using credit cards.

00:03:37.120 Virginia Tech, Virginia Tech in 2007, uh, Binghamton in 2009, Fort Hood, 09, Aurora, 12,

00:03:45.520 San Bernardino, 2015, Orlando, 16, Sutherland Springs, 17, Las Vegas, 17. He points out

00:03:52.600 that over the course of eight months before the Pulse nightclub, uh, in the, uh, in Orlando,

00:03:58.380 that shooting, the shooter opened six new credit card accounts just 12 days before the shooting.

00:04:04.900 He spent $26,000 on a Sig Sauer, uh, MCX 223 caliber rifle, a Glock 17, nine millimeter

00:04:15.600 semi-automatic pistol and several large magazines, thousands of rounds of ammunition and a $7,500

00:04:22.020 ring for his wife that he bought on a jewelry store credit card. Before then he had spent only

00:04:28.700 $1,500 a month on average. Now the difference is so dramatic that he panicked. According to Sorkin,

00:04:36.600 uh, just two days before the shooting, frantically, he was searching Google for credit card,

00:04:42.200 unusual spending credit card reports, all three bureaus, FBI, and why banks stop your purchases.

00:04:50.520 Now the shooter in Aurora, Colorado, the movie theater shooter spent $11,000 on guns and ammunition

00:04:55.960 and that was all on a credit card. The issue has revealed a split among the banks and credit card

00:05:03.400 companies. On one side, there are companies that support monitoring as a form of public safety.

00:05:08.380 Following the shooting in Parkland, Florida, Citigroup adopted a new code of conduct for gun dealers and

00:05:14.620 manufacturers. The bank does business with it requires retailers to impose age restrictions on

00:05:21.580 gun sales. Wouldn't have helped. CEO Michael Corbett said the policies intended to preserve the rights of

00:05:30.120 responsible gun owners like myself, right while relying on best sales practices to keep firearms out of

00:05:36.380 the wrong hands. Now the new policy does not restrict Citigroup customers from using the

00:05:41.140 company's cards for gun purchases. Bank of America took a similar approach when they stopped giving

00:05:47.120 loans to manufacturers of certain kinds of semi-automatic rifles sold to civilians.

00:05:55.900 Overwhelmingly though, the banks and credit card companies have refused to take part in any sort of

00:06:00.980 monitoring. This week, the New York Times is reporting that's because of conservative pressure.

00:06:07.460 Wells Fargo, the CEO there said, I don't think it's a good idea for banks to decide what products and

00:06:12.420 services Americans can buy. It shouldn't be up to me, to us. We don't decide that. It should be up to

00:06:18.600 the folks following the laws and the folks making the decision. Wells Fargo CFO, John Shrewsbury said,

00:06:26.160 the best way to make progress on these issues is through political and legislative process.

00:06:32.040 Visa said, we don't believe Visa should be in the position of setting restrictions on the sale of

00:06:36.300 lawful goods or services. Asking Visa or other payment networks to arbitrate what legal goods can

00:06:43.240 be purchased sets a dangerous precedent. Spokesperson from MasterCard echoed that sentiment. Privacy,

00:06:50.320 privacy of people's purchasing decisions belongs to them. It's cardholder independence.

00:06:57.380 Jeremy Stein, an economics professor at Harvard University, rightly points out,

00:07:02.720 if the banks decide no longer to do business with gun manufacturers, they would need to look more

00:07:07.900 closely at the customer's information. And by doing so, they'd be getting into the same issues

00:07:13.300 Facebook and others have had problems with. So even if banks and credit card companies agreed to start

00:07:20.000 monitoring purchases, gun sales are difficult to track because they appear on statements at sporting

00:07:26.140 goods or retail shop purchases. Big box retailers like Walmart, they're not selling guns or ammunition

00:07:35.200 anymore. They've been, they have on their receipts, their code just says variety. They sell groceries,

00:07:44.860 pet supplies and, and everything else. Dick's sporting goods imposed restrictions on their gun sales.

00:07:53.500 And a former FBI counterterrorism prosecutor and staff member of the FBI 9-11 Review Commission

00:07:59.360 insist this is easy to fix. They have the infrastructure already in place. All they have to do to deal with

00:08:06.860 suspicious activity is use that infrastructure, just be tweaking it to consider firearm related information.

00:08:13.220 Information is the key word here. Information, your information. Now there are measures in place.

00:08:24.100 For instance, bank have to report every time a single person makes a transaction over $10,000.

00:08:29.060 That transaction could be totally legal. Banks have to report the transaction.

00:08:39.940 At over $5,000, they have to report it if they suspect suspicious activity. There are also laws that

00:08:48.540 restrict gun purchases under the Gun Control Act of 1968. Firearm dealers must report if someone buys

00:08:55.560 two or has two or more handguns in the span of five business days. There's also a lot of official

00:09:00.820 blowback from the idea that banks will monitor all of our purchases now, effectively compiling a list of

00:09:07.720 gun owners. Last year, John Kennedy, a Republican senator from Louisiana, introduced the No Red or Blue

00:09:16.160 Banks Act. The bill would prohibit the federal government from giving contracts to banks

00:09:22.760 that discriminate against lawful business base solely on social policy considerations. Even the ACLU has come

00:09:33.300 out against the monitoring of the banks. Jay Stanley, senior policy analyst for ACLU.

00:09:40.020 The implication of expecting the government to detect and prevent every mass shooting is believing

00:09:49.180 government should play an enormously intrusive role in the American life.

00:09:55.560 Which brings us back to Andrew Ross Sorkin's New York Times article.

00:10:02.580 He doesn't seem convinced by any of this. In fact, this week in the New York Times,

00:10:07.720 he is taking credit for Walmart, and he said,

00:10:13.500 we have just begun this fight. He prefers government stepping in and forcing these companies to start

00:10:23.580 monitoring their customers, you. Or at least the credit card companies made that, uh, uh, made that choice

00:10:32.000 of their own, uh, volition. So government doesn't have to. We just really think that they should.

00:10:39.380 Here he is in an interview on PBS. So right now, legally, you decide you're going to send $10,000

00:10:46.640 anywhere. That gets reported to the government. Instantly. Instantly. Already does. So we could

00:10:52.360 instantly have reported this person just stockpiled $40,000 worth of weapons and grenades. Absolutely.

00:10:58.640 Okay. He makes a valid point, or at least starts to, but it's what he says next. He takes it into a

00:11:06.000 strange direction here. And by the way, the credit card industry has on its own volition decided that

00:11:11.940 there's certain things they don't want to finance. So if you want to buy Bitcoin, you can't. Uh,

00:11:16.100 marijuana in, in many States is legal. Yeah, you can't. MasterCard, interestingly, recently,

00:11:22.120 uh, went to a website that had some hate speech on it, um, and said, we're no longer going to allow

00:11:27.740 you to use credit card transactions using MasterCard because, uh, of this hate speech. So there are

00:11:33.420 companies that are taking positions, if you will, on some of these things. And the question is how

00:11:37.500 that can work in relation to guns. So he starts by saying, it's bad that credit card companies

00:11:43.160 infringe on people's rights in other situations. You know, people purchase marijuana or punish

00:11:48.320 websites for hate speech. It's bad. That should be the end of his point. Full stop. But it's not.

00:11:53.380 He goes on then by saying, why can't we do that in relation to guns?

00:11:57.160 His article quotes a number of experts who are more or less just repeating a version of the same

00:12:05.240 thing. Credit card companies should bear responsibility for mass shootings. More importantly,

00:12:10.660 he just assumes that the connection does exist, but is there a connection between credit card

00:12:16.520 companies and mass shootings or is it spurious? The best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:12:27.160 Hey, it's Glenn. And if you like what you hear on the program, you should check out Pat Gray

00:12:35.220 Unleashed. His podcast is available wherever you download your favorite podcast. Welcome to the

00:12:40.700 program, sir. Do I have to do the rumba here? Yeah, you do. What kind of music is that? That's,

00:12:46.180 uh, that's Bill O'Reilly. He's here. It's going to be, uh, zany, crazy, and there will be some

00:12:51.600 dancing. Uh, I'm ready to do the Macarena whenever you want. Okay. Uh, Bill, let's start with the,

00:12:59.600 uh, the never ending town hall meeting on CNN. Still going on. Um, yeah, they've now got, uh,

00:13:08.880 animated cartoon characters playing in on what they're going to do. Yes. Um, it's a telethon over

00:13:14.480 the weekend. And, uh, I, I don't think Jerry Lewis is going to appear, but he may. So you,

00:13:20.440 you're a guy who, you, you're a guy who looks at the ratings. I'm dying to know what the ratings for

00:13:24.940 that thing were. Um, this is the irony of it. They were bad and they were outrated by the hurricane.

00:13:34.300 So, and there's nothing really blaming the global warming, uh, blaming the hurricane on the global

00:13:42.080 warming with of course, no data or facts to back that up. It's crazy. Um, and then people are going,

00:13:47.320 you know what? I, I think I'll just watch the real hurricane, not you. Uh, that's what happens.

00:13:52.020 CNN did about a little bit more than a million. It's a little bit better than they usually do

00:13:55.780 because you know, they usually don't do anybody. Okay. So, uh, let's do the headlines. First of all,

00:14:02.420 I do believe there is a warming on the planet because I can read the thermometers and the

00:14:11.120 temperatures that come in from around the world. I also went up to Glacier Bay in, in Alaska and I

00:14:16.340 talked to the Marines biologist up there. He said they've lost half the glacier up there. I also

00:14:21.200 used to play ice hockey on long Island for two months outside during the winter on a pond that was

00:14:26.160 frozen last winter. Not one day. Could you do that? So the temperature is changing. Now you go

00:14:33.800 into, well, can human beings do anything about it? Most certainly we can all be cleaner. I mean,

00:14:42.000 it breaks my heart because as you know, I'm big ocean guy that there's so much gunk in the ocean and

00:14:47.420 plastics. I can't figure out why laser technology hasn't been able to just disintegrate these plastic

00:14:54.900 stuff after we use it. I don't know why that hasn't happened, but the plastic stuff is winding

00:15:00.280 up in the oceans. It's awful. So I'm not some guy who goes, there's no global warming. This is God

00:15:08.040 doing this. I'm not. All right. I do believe that the planet has been impacted by bad things from human

00:15:14.300 beings. Okay. Now we have a bunch of totalitarian Stalinists and that's exactly who they are that are

00:15:23.920 saying to the American people. Unless you do what we tell you to do in every aspect of your life,

00:15:32.820 the planet and the world are going to end in 10 years, 15 years, maybe 20. So you got to do what

00:15:40.060 we tell you to do. And then the litany of stuff starts and you back rightly were pithy and said,

00:15:49.860 they want to take all your freedoms away, freedom of choice, freedom of how you live your life.

00:15:55.720 And the central government in Washington, D.C. is going to tell you exactly what you eat, where you

00:16:01.940 go, how you get there and how the jobs are doled out all under the guise of saving you from global

00:16:11.040 warming. There it is. So do the American people connect with this bill?

00:16:22.000 I don't know whether, whether people pay attention enough to see Elizabeth Warren, a very dangerous 0.62

00:16:29.920 woman. And Bernie Sanders are basically saying, they're saying, we're going to take as much money

00:16:34.980 as we can from every American worker and give it to other people because global warming impacts

00:16:42.200 the minority communities the most. That's the latest. You saw that, right? 1.00

00:16:47.240 Yes, yes, yes.

00:16:48.400 Okay. So this guy who wrote this book, this professor at American University, said, hey, hey, hey, hey,

00:16:54.720 global warming impacts people of color because more people of color live in the Southern

00:17:00.880 Hemisphere, and that's where global warming is worse. So if you don't fight it, you're a racist.

00:17:05.900 That's the latest. The book is out. Some people actually bought it.

00:17:11.100 So every time you put gas in your car, get on an airplane, you're a racist. You're a racist 1.00

00:17:15.380 because that's exacerbating global warming. So this is how insane it's gotten. Now, your question 0.98

00:17:21.800 is, do most Americans know it's insane? I would say no, because the media, the national media,

00:17:29.580 particularly on television, doesn't point any of this out. You can only hear it on the O'Reilly

00:17:35.680 update, on BillOReilly.com, on The Blaze, on the Glenn Beck radio show. That's where you're going to

00:17:41.140 hear it. Not going to see it in the New York Times or hear it on NBC News. So they suppress, I love that

00:17:46.800 word, suppress the real thing that's going on with the global warming. It is a power play. That's what it

00:17:54.620 is. So, you know, you were saying that if you gas up your car, it's a racist. Bernie Sanders was

00:18:01.780 talking about aborting poor children from third world countries, most likely not white paying for 0.60

00:18:10.500 the read it that way. What? I have to say, I didn't read it that Bernie Sanders wants to kill minority

00:18:15.960 children. What is he saying? I, this is how I read it. And remember, Bernie Sanders is 112 years old. 0.97

00:18:23.540 So a lot of times it doesn't come out very clear. It's kind of like Biden. So what I, what I heard

00:18:31.440 him say, what I think he said was, if you can ram birth control down more women's throats, 1.00

00:18:38.880 it's better for them. Yeah, that's a very much, very much what Margaret Sanger said too.

00:18:45.740 Yes. And we know the eugenics of Margaret Sanger. Right. But, but here's another thing for you

00:18:51.880 global warming fans out there. Um, and I understand a new, uh, a new, uh, sports franchise in San

00:18:58.580 Francisco is going to be called the climate changers. Okay. So it's going to be great out

00:19:04.520 there. Um, here's a, here's an, here, here's something else. So if Sanders or Warren are elected

00:19:12.280 president, which they won't be, but if they were, all right, then we would have all these

00:19:17.700 draconian changes to our economy and lifestyles in the pursuit of saving us from, uh, destruction.

00:19:25.280 Do you think that Russia is going to not use fossil fuels when it, it's in toxic economy is based on 0.96

00:19:31.480 oil? How about China with 1.5 billion people? All right. Uh, many of whom, um, are, are living

00:19:38.680 from day to day? Are they going to knock out all the fossil fuels over in China? How about

00:19:42.340 India? You know, are they going to do that? I don't think so. Japan, Japan still is massacring 0.98

00:19:49.120 whales. We can't even get them to stop killing the whales over there. All right. They're going

00:19:54.100 to stop with the fossil fuels over there. I don't think so. Okay. So we United States and

00:20:01.880 Sweden, all right, we're going to, we're going to go back and live in the 19th century. All

00:20:07.120 right. We're going to have campfires. Maybe we can't even have them. Well, maybe campfires

00:20:11.800 are not going to be well. All right. And then everybody else is going to go, Oh, look at

00:20:14.800 these Americans. They destroyed their own economy. They blew up their own lifestyle. All right. 1.00

00:20:21.140 They're all on horseback again. I mean, this is so absurd. This is, this is like a Saturday

00:20:28.320 night live skit when that show used to be funny, which was like 30 years ago. Um, all right.

00:20:34.640 Did I cover everything? I think you, I think you covered everything. Uh, I, I want to take

00:20:40.420 you now to the gun debate, but let me break for one minute. So we have lots of time on

00:20:45.820 the other side to talk about what's happening with the gun debate and your take on Walmart

00:20:51.380 and this article that we have not heard Trump speak about, but we have had from the administration,

00:20:58.460 a leak in the administration on something that they are looking at and considering on how

00:21:04.560 to make sure the guns don't get in the hands of bad guys. So this week, San Francisco has

00:21:08.760 designated the NRA as a terrorist organization. You want to talk about dividing the country

00:21:13.340 that's calling half of the country, uh, uh, terrorists or, or financing a terrorist organization.

00:21:21.760 That seems a little divisive. Um, but also we have Walmart who has decided that they are

00:21:28.880 going to take a stand against guns and ammunition, something they have a right to do, but Bill,

00:21:35.020 how do you feel about it?

00:21:37.860 Oh, um, the momentum in America and Republicans need to understand this.

00:21:51.760 is for more stringent regulation of heavy weapons. All right. So I don't know what Walmart does

00:22:01.880 or, or doesn't do. And I don't really particularly care. You pointed out they have a right to do

00:22:06.860 whatever they want. And if you don't want to shop at Walmart anymore, don't. But the bigger issue for

00:22:13.580 the country is that president Trump knows he's got to do something to appear to be concerned about

00:22:23.300 these mass murders. Now I'm not saying he's not concerned, but if the Republicans and Mitch McConnell

00:22:29.580 and the Senate don't do anything, they're going to lose the Senate and the house next time around,

00:22:35.460 because the Democrats are going to run wild with this issue. So the Republicans have to back some

00:22:41.080 kind of more, um, focused, I think that's the best word, uh, more focused legislation on keeping

00:22:51.600 these high powered guns out of the hands of nuts. Okay. So wait, so hang on. Is it going to work?

00:22:58.220 No. Right. I think everybody understands that mass murder will always be with us. Right. And hang

00:23:04.340 on just a second. And that most criminals can get guns illegally. I think everybody got that.

00:23:08.940 AR, these, these, these weapons of war, they're called weapons of war because America first really

00:23:15.300 started noticing them during Vietnam, but they were invented as a modern sporting rifle. That's what

00:23:21.280 they're called. Modern sporting rifles. They'd been around since the 1950s. We had them through the

00:23:26.620 sixties, the seventies, the eighties, the nineties. And today it's, there's no difference. We have had

00:23:33.460 these. There's not a problem with the gun. There's a problem with humanity. Something is missing.

00:23:39.740 Remember there was a federal assault weapons ban that did nothing that did nothing. It was there and

00:23:47.440 it, it had passed. Um, I think that the Republican party, if it wants to fend off this amazingly

00:23:58.240 destructive wave, far left ideology has to compromise in the gun area. In what way? What do we do? What

00:24:08.320 what do we do without violating? I think is doable. Which, um, that gives, um, individual Americans a

00:24:15.820 little bit more power to, um, go and say, you know, Lenny over there is a shooting, uh, uh, dachshunds.

00:24:23.940 Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. So that's fine. Except the president wants to have

00:24:30.540 you, uh, guilty until proven innocent. You cannot take a gun away from somebody unless, I mean, we

00:24:39.420 already have the red flag. If you think somebody is sick, you take, you go to a, you go to a hospital

00:24:45.060 and say, you got to commit this person. Beck. Yes. Somebody on the streets of New York. All right.

00:24:51.880 is running around naked, screaming obscenities. The authorities show up and take that person to

00:24:59.340 Bellevue, where they're placed under observation for a period of time. If the doctors examining the

00:25:07.860 person then feel the person is a threat, they go to a judge and the judge writes an order

00:25:16.140 detaining the person. Okay. So you're making my point. Why do you need a red flag law? You have

00:25:24.420 that. You can do that now. No, you don't have it because this is private behavior. The red flag

00:25:29.580 law would be, would be spotlighting, not public behavior. So if I have imagined somebody who's

00:25:36.080 had an ugly divorce, okay. Say I had an ugly divorce. Of course there's the potential for it to be abused. 1.00

00:25:42.100 I mean, everybody knows that. Huge potential. Huge potential. But if you're a mother,

00:25:46.140 and you have a 20 year old, big strapping guy in the basement with 15 ARs, and this kid,

00:25:54.600 this 20 year old, and the mother knows is, is crazy. Then the mother now has a way to alert the

00:26:04.580 authorities without the kid coming up and beating the hell out of the mother. You can do it under the

00:26:09.540 cloak of anonymity. And the authorities are compelled then to come to the house and look at the kid or

00:26:15.180 pick them up someplace else. So I'm just saying to you, I understand the downside of all of these

00:26:22.000 laws, but I know the political climate in the country and Americans want something to be done,

00:26:29.220 even if that something does not work. I think, you know what? I think you're, I think it's crazy,

00:26:36.060 but completely right. People say this all the time. It's like, well, you know, you guys only care

00:26:41.760 about the NRA and you can only care about the politics of this. The politics of the gun issue

00:26:45.820 suck for Republicans, I think. I mean, the easiest thing in the world is to give up all, 0.95

00:26:50.240 give ground on all this stuff. It's, you feel terrible defending it. You're in the middle of

00:26:53.980 a tragedy trying to come up with these, you know, you know, factual points when no one wants to think

00:27:00.200 about facts. They want to think about emotion. It's, it's, it's that moment. But I mean, that is

00:27:03.740 why emotional issue and the Republican party and traditional Americans and gun owners have to

00:27:10.340 look at the greater good here. But I'm not giving up my constitutional rights because of emotion,

00:27:15.440 Bill. I feel like that's the problem. But you don't have a constitutional right to own a certain

00:27:20.360 weapon. You have a right to shall not be infringed. It's pretty clear. Shall not be infringed.

00:27:27.180 The government under the, under the public safety banner has the right to say you can't have a

00:27:32.280 bazooka. We all know that. So it's just, I'm not, by the way, I wouldn't ban ARs. I'm not for that. 0.60

00:27:41.120 What I am for is if you want to buy a heavy weapon or a weapon of war, as Beck puts it,

00:27:46.820 you have to go through a more stringent process so that you're trained, the people are confident that

00:27:55.980 you're not alone. Uh, the check shows that you don't have four felonies on your sheet,

00:28:00.780 you know, that kind of a thing. And I think that's reasonable. We already have that. The only thing

00:28:06.800 we don't have to hang on federal level, it's not a database. The FBI doesn't have a database of

00:28:14.320 people who own weapons of war. I don't want them to have one. I know you don't. And I don't want them.

00:28:20.660 I also don't want them in my psychiatrist office. If I take Prozac, am I now going to at some point

00:28:27.480 be, uh, deemed unstable? No, your medical records would, would be, would not be subject to scrutiny.

00:28:33.900 And when you buy a firearm, then how, then how, then how are you suggesting that we know that this

00:28:39.580 person is unstable or not? Because the red flag law would then put the person in some kind of

00:28:46.480 observational capacity, where there would be people that were talking to the person. It's not

00:28:51.900 going to work. It's not a foolproof thing. I'm just telling you that if the Republicans continue

00:28:57.680 to say nothing, we're not going to do anything. All right, they're going to lose the Senate.

00:29:02.140 They lose the Senate and they lose the House and Trump, Trump loses the election. Um, you know,

00:29:07.720 I'm going to be looking at Swiss, uh, properties because these people are relentless. Talk about losing

00:29:14.140 your freedom. Can you imagine if Elizabeth Warren is elected president? My God, we're not going to

00:29:20.740 have any freedom at all. That's what socialism is because you got to look at the big picture here

00:29:25.540 and the big picture is frightening. And that's why Trump is, is meeting with Manchin, the Senator

00:29:31.540 from West Virginia. Trump wants to have some kind of something so he doesn't get his butt kicked. 0.99

00:29:39.340 This is the best of the Glenn Beck program. 0.97

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00:30:04.520 Our thoughts and prayers go out to Kevin Hart, who was in a really bad car accident.

00:30:09.340 Uh, he's got a, you know, he has a souped up Barracuda, like 1970 or 68 Barracuda. And that

00:30:16.820 thing, uh, went off the road, I think flipped, took the roof right off, bloat, broke the glass.

00:30:23.860 Uh, the driver, uh, is, uh, in the hospital for back problems. Uh, the driver's wife is okay.

00:30:31.700 And Kevin Hart walked away from the scene. Um, but it was, it was weird. Here's the 9-1-1

00:30:38.460 audio of the eyewitness. Uh, let me just hear this, this here first.

00:30:43.140 Sounds like the passenger's stuck in the car. Uh, the driver's out of the car, but, uh, he looks

00:30:48.260 a little hurt. Uh, I think the top of the car is crushed.

00:30:51.640 How many people are stuck inside, do you know?

00:30:53.680 I think it's just one lady now. Uh, the driver's out right now. They're trying to get the passenger out.

00:30:58.020 Okay. So there was only, there were only the two people in while this guy is describing

00:31:04.760 it because Kevin Hart lived down the street and he walked home. He left the scene and walked

00:31:10.580 home. Now this is the 9-1-1 call from Kevin Hart's wife after he is home for a while and

00:31:20.580 listen to how calm she is and, and what she's saying. It just, it just doesn't make sense.

00:31:26.360 Let's listen to this. He was in a car accident earlier tonight or what happened?

00:31:30.040 Yes, earlier tonight. I don't know what happened. He's not coherent at all.

00:31:36.620 Did he get treatment originally from when he was injured? Did he go to the hospital or?

00:31:40.400 No, no, no, no treatment at all. We, we're just here and he can't, he can't move.

00:31:46.460 Is there any, uh, obvious broken bones that you can tell? You see anything broken?

00:31:50.640 Just something on his back is pulling out on his spine.

00:31:56.360 Holy cow. Now why, why did he walk away? And you know, there's lots of reasons, uh, for this

00:32:05.760 and you know, some not good and, and some perfectly reasonable. I think, you know, he's maybe in shock

00:32:13.520 at first and he thinks he's okay and he walks home, but he isn't moving. He's not responding.

00:32:18.320 And there's something sticking out of his spine. Uh, wow.

00:32:26.620 Pretty, uh, relaxed handling of a moment like that.

00:32:30.300 Yeah. Really, really relaxed.

00:32:32.680 Yeah. That's a very strange, very strange story.

00:32:36.240 Is he going to be okay? Do we know like what the album is?

00:32:38.320 Yeah, I guess he's going to be okay.

00:32:40.380 Big back problems, right?

00:32:41.320 Yeah. Um, but he's, he's going to live and he's going to work again and, and I'm glad

00:32:47.280 for all of that. Um, I like him. I think he seems like a nice, normal guy. You know, he's

00:32:53.020 a guy who kind of came up with a tough upbringing and busted his butt. I think he's from Philadelphia, 0.98

00:32:59.100 isn't he?

00:33:00.220 I think he is. Yeah.

00:33:01.280 I think you're right.

00:33:01.600 And, uh, you know, coming out of Philadelphia in some of those sections is not easy and

00:33:08.520 he's risen and he's from all accounts, a really nice guy. Uh, and except for his four tweets,

00:33:16.400 his jokes makes him a horrible person. Can you believe that people were coming after him

00:33:23.020 this week? He's in the hospital. Well, I, and they're coming after him again. It's unreal.

00:33:27.440 Did you see the Drew Brees thing? I know you're a huge, uh, you know exactly who Drew Brees

00:33:30.840 is obviously. Sure. Uh, baseball player. Yeah. He probably played baseball at some point

00:33:34.960 in his life. Uh, New Orleans Saints quarterback, of course, uh, did a spot for, uh, was it focus

00:33:39.160 on the family where he, he was just helping like a 20 second promo. Hey, it's bring your

00:33:43.920 Bible to, to school day. And of course, focus on the family. They're an anti-gay organization.

00:33:51.000 Why is Drew Brees promoting an anti-gay organization? And so all these people came out and then Drew

00:33:55.880 Brees is forced to come out and say, look, I don't, I'm not saying I agree with all their

00:33:59.740 views. And I don't, uh, I was just trying to help kids and this is a guy. Everybody should

00:34:04.800 say, everybody should say people, uh, you know, Ilan Omar and some of her cohorts in

00:34:10.580 Congress, they also support the Muslim Brotherhood and that's an anti-gay organization. So you

00:34:16.360 want to figure out that you go ahead and then come talk to me. Ilan's been tweeting about

00:34:20.180 you, by the way, we should probably get into that at some point today. Ilan Omar, anti-Glenbeck

00:34:24.940 tweets now. Yes. You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:34:33.560 Dave Rubin's journey from a left leading progressive to a free thinking classical liberal

00:34:50.140 has been quite a journey and we've been watching it now for years. And Dave and I have become

00:34:56.640 friends and, uh, uh, I just hosted his, uh, podcast this week as he came back from a month

00:35:04.460 away from all media, all devices, all electronics, all news. Uh, and, uh, he's, he is totally refreshed

00:35:13.580 and has real perspective. We announced this week that, uh, Dave is joining the blaze TV lineup.

00:35:20.100 And what we're trying to do is, is make sure that we, uh, we have some shelter from the storm

00:35:26.600 and we are only going to be strong if each of us are strong as individuals. So nobody's carrying the

00:35:33.100 other, uh, and we're each strong as independent, uh, people and broadcasters or, or podcasters.

00:35:40.120 And then we also come together under an umbrella so we can fight together as well. So Dave is keeping

00:35:46.680 everything that he is before. If you're a subscriber of Dave's, uh, you still get everything

00:35:51.560 that you have ever had and nothing changes for you. But if you're a blaze subscriber blaze tv.com,

00:35:57.060 you, uh, uh, you will now get in the lineup, the Rubin report and you get it, uh, early just like

00:36:03.360 everybody else. Uh, and the whole archives will be moving over soon. So we have blaze tv.com slash

00:36:09.620 Dave, and you'll save $20 if you subscribe now and, uh, become a fan of the Rubin report on

00:36:16.280 blaze tv. Welcome Dave Rubin. How are you? Glenn, it's good to be with you. I officially

00:36:22.680 handed the hard drive over to your people to be taken to Texas and uploaded. So the deal

00:36:30.960 is on, you know, I tell you, Dave, it's so funny because we announced this, um, because

00:36:35.700 they've been working on the contract for a while and going back and forth and with you

00:36:39.300 in, you know, wherever you were Botswana, uh, it wasn't, it wasn't real easy to be able

00:36:44.840 to get, uh, you know, a contract done with you. Um, and, um, uh, so we did it on a handshake

00:36:50.680 before we announced it. And I like that. I like the, uh, I like the idea that two people

00:36:57.200 can come together and just look each other in the eye and just say, look, I know the

00:37:01.800 attorneys have a lot of work to do, but we're not going to screw you. You're not going to 0.99

00:37:05.380 screw us. Let's just be cool about this. And I love that. Yeah. Well, I love it too.

00:37:10.580 And quite literally, I mean, five seconds before we did that live stream on my channel,

00:37:15.720 we knew we were getting close, but you know, I wanted to announce it and we knew a lot of

00:37:19.340 eyeballs would be on us. And I just put my hand out and you put your hand out and I knew

00:37:24.180 we would be good. And, you know, within 24 hours, the lawyers took care of all the, all

00:37:28.260 the little legal stuff that, you know, you and I don't want to really think about, but

00:37:31.920 it's kind of funny. So I did do this, this 33 days off the grid. And the only thing that

00:37:36.940 I did was every now and again, I had to jump on the phone with my lawyer to talk to the

00:37:42.440 blaze lawyers. And I thought that's, that's really something you try to escape the grid

00:37:46.400 for 33 days. And the only communication you have with the outside world is with a lawyer.

00:37:50.420 I may have done something slightly wrong. Yeah, I think so. I think so. Dave, let me ask

00:37:55.760 you a question. I did Bridget Phetasy. I did Bridget Phetasy's podcast last week. I did

00:38:03.440 Stephen Kent. He just did Beltway Banthas, which is a great, I don't know if you've ever

00:38:08.800 heard it. I love the way he talks about politics. He puts it all in with Star Wars. And then

00:38:14.400 I did yours. And everybody always starts their podcast with, look, I know a lot of my listeners

00:38:22.640 are, you know, they might hate this guy, but I think you're going to be really surprised.

00:38:26.360 And I always am bashed by everybody. However, whenever I have you guys on anybody, even on

00:38:33.980 the left on my show, I rarely see people bashed. I rarely know, I have yet to see maybe five

00:38:44.460 in my career, people saying, if you have this person on, I'm no longer a subscriber of yours.

00:38:50.080 There's a difference between this audience. Why can't we all just start to look at each other

00:38:55.940 and go, hey, I don't agree with everything that Dave Rubin says or Glenn Beck says, but

00:39:00.080 I'm glad everybody's talking.

00:39:03.500 Sure. Well, look, if I do anything for you in the course of this partnership, hopefully it'll be that

00:39:08.240 whatever remaining lefties are sane and willing to talk or the few liberals scattered throughout

00:39:14.800 the galaxy that are willing to do that, hopefully I'll get them to say, you know, you don't have to

00:39:20.400 give Glenn the intro where, you know, you say, oh, I don't agree with everything he says or the rest

00:39:25.660 of it because nobody agrees with everybody, you know, anyone else on, on literally anything.

00:39:30.820 And, you know, you can find clips where I thought something different, you know, two years ago

00:39:35.340 or four years ago. And, and, and evolving is, is really what it's all about. It's really great.

00:39:42.140 In fact, that's what I love about you. Your honesty, you were, I believe the first person that I found

00:39:50.000 that was willing to be really honest about the mistakes that you made in your life and were,

00:39:56.340 were honestly doing soul searching, not for, I mean, in fact, against, uh, any kind of business

00:40:04.680 rule and business sense, you were honest enough to say, look, uh, and I, correct me if I'm wrong,

00:40:12.100 but British, uh, uh, Bridget Phetasy says they were factory settings in her that were just set to 0.94

00:40:17.840 liberal. Were they factory settings with you that were set to liberal? Yeah. Well, I think,

00:40:23.680 I think those factory settings, meaning that when you grow up, if you grow up basically in the secular

00:40:29.500 world, which, which most of us in America mostly do, uh, that the factory settings, the, the ideas

00:40:35.720 that are going to be thought of as the okay ideas, the ideas that you can talk about without being

00:40:41.660 labeled a racist or a bigot or the rest of it, they basically are, are ideas of the left that,

00:40:46.680 you know, the government can kind of fix everything and we should take from some and give to the

00:40:50.580 others. And, you know, the litany of, of specific issues goes all the way down the line. And when I,

00:40:57.360 you know, as I was, I was a progressive, I was on the, um, church, which is a pretty far left network.

00:41:02.580 Um, I, I always had true liberal roots and I come from a truly liberal family in the best sense of

00:41:08.620 liberalism, like a JFK liberalism or Daniel Patrick Moynihan or Ed Koch liberalism, which, which,

00:41:14.400 you know, someone on the right might have some issues with, but usually find the conversation

00:41:18.500 with people like that. Okay. Now, ironically, the three men I just mentioned, all, all once great

00:41:23.540 politicians, they're all dead because there's very few of these liberals remaining. And you can see

00:41:28.220 that just with who the Democrats are putting up now. Um, but you know, when you, when you wake up out

00:41:34.220 of that and you start asking questions, it's not that the specific issues change so quickly as you

00:41:42.940 will be shocked where suddenly you will find friends and how, and more importantly, how quickly

00:41:48.440 the left will purge you out. So it's interesting what you said about your audience, when you bring

00:41:53.460 on a lefty, your audience is completely okay with it. But when you go on a, on a more lefty show that

00:41:58.760 they have to, you know, qualify it and quantify it and warn everybody. And I find the same thing,

00:42:03.780 which is actually hilarious. So when I bring on, uh, someone from the right, um, you know,

00:42:09.620 the lefties go completely insane. If I, you know, even when I had you on the other day,

00:42:13.420 I glanced through the comments quickly, which no one in their right mind should do. And a lot of

00:42:16.680 people are very upset that I had Glenn back on when I bring on someone from the left. So even just in

00:42:21.000 the last, you know, two months, I've had Marianne Williamson on, I've had Andrew Yang on, I've had

00:42:25.220 plenty of lefties on generally, I would say, I would say something like 90% of the comments from the

00:42:30.480 people on the right are basically like, you know, I disagree with these ideas or Marianne

00:42:35.340 Williamson's the little kooky, or I'm not down with UBI universal basic income with like Andrew

00:42:40.180 Yang, but it was nice to hear the conversation. And that right there, that right there, that

00:42:44.960 in essence is the divide that we have in America right now. And, and that's why I keep saying that

00:42:51.120 on the, on the say center, right, you know, anywhere from conservative to libertarian, there is such a

00:42:58.500 richness right now. And, and that's the place that I'm interested in exploring. That's why I wanted to

00:43:03.540 do this, this partnership with you. And that's why I'm so psyched for the next year, which is obviously

00:43:08.640 going to be pretty bananas.

00:43:09.500 Yeah, it is. It is. Um, let me, uh, let me talk to you about Hollywood. I was only out there for a

00:43:15.860 couple of days, Dave, and I, I saw a difference in almost everybody that I met with. Um, and here's

00:43:24.460 the difference. People who would never, never have voted for a Republican ever, and certainly never for

00:43:33.800 Donald Trump from big funders of the democratic party, big supporters, people who are lifelong

00:43:40.980 Democrats. They have all said, if it is, if it is anyone besides Biden, I'm voting for Trump.

00:43:50.920 Yeah. I mean, it's crazy. I look, I live here in Los Angeles. It's quite a bubble. I'm, I'm happy to

00:43:56.660 say, uh, that you and I were able to go out in Beverly Hills and then nobody assaulted us. Uh, actually

00:44:03.380 we got a couple of smiles. That was nice. There is a shift. There is a shift and the shift has in a

00:44:09.460 weird way has less to do what's happening on the right and more to do with how hysterical the left 0.81

00:44:14.640 has become. And the idea that they, the idea that they've brought out Biden clearly, clearly does not

00:44:21.400 want to do this and may not have, uh, the mental capacity or energy to, to do this at, at his age.

00:44:28.040 And he sees fumbling and bumbling through a lot of stuff. And he didn't run when Obama, you know,

00:44:33.140 finished up his two terms. So that kind of makes you think he didn't really want to do this, but

00:44:36.920 they, they brought him out as the last message, the last effort to stop the democratic socialist

00:44:43.400 movement. And that is what's coming. And guess what? They're going to drop the word democratic

00:44:47.980 pretty quick. I mean, they're holding onto that right now, but if you watched any of this climate

00:44:52.360 change summit that they did, I mean, the things that they were saying, it was insane. I mean, Bernie

00:44:57.120 Sanders was basically saying that unless we fund abortions in other countries in South America,

00:45:03.780 uh, that, that, that's going to affect climate change. I mean, the policies are actually ridiculous 0.77

00:45:09.980 if you, if you listen to them, however, the factory settings of the way the media translates all of this

00:45:16.020 for you, the average person that, that the average person that's just out there that has a job and has a

00:45:20.680 family and can only devote so much time to this, they, they have trouble translating what all of that

00:45:25.780 means. And I think the job for people like us over the next year in a world that's getting more and

00:45:31.040 more fractured for your time, uh, it's going to be for us to be as efficient as possible in getting

00:45:36.440 the most important stuff across because otherwise the more, the more we get split, you know, the

00:45:41.740 harder it'll be to get truth out of anything. Right. And that is one reason why Dave, we have to stand

00:45:47.200 together with people who have like principles. If you believe in the bill of rights, you're good.

00:45:54.080 You're good. You're good. I'll stand with you. If you want to overturn the bill of rights, then we have

00:45:59.240 problems, but we, we all speak different languages. We all speak to a different audience. The, the, the Uber

00:46:06.980 left has broken us all apart and, and, and successfully made it so no one can talk to each other. And if we, who

00:46:15.020 are of like mind on the bill of rights can't come together, we're going to be, we're going to be

00:46:22.420 destroyed. We must stand together. So you, you can have a, you can have a movement where you can say,

00:46:30.460 no, look, I disagree with that person over there on this, this, and this, but they're making a very

00:46:36.000 important point. So we have a broader ground right now. The mass media has that broad ground, but we're

00:46:45.360 all separated from each other. We've got to link arms. Well, you said something really interesting

00:46:51.460 to me on the, on the live stream a couple of days ago, which you were, you were telling me which

00:46:55.360 democratic candidates had dropped out and keep staying and all that. And, uh, you mentioned

00:46:59.740 that Tulsi Gabbard is no longer, she hasn't dropped out, but they're not going to have her in the debates

00:47:03.500 now. And I think it's interesting, which was, which was that you disagree with her on almost all of her

00:47:08.280 policy prescriptions, but you believe that she loves the country. And, and that is where you want

00:47:14.480 to be in a pluralistic country where there's over 300 million people in this country. And I do, I do

00:47:19.640 not want all of the people to agree with me, even if I am right. I'm pretty sure, I'm pretty sure I'm

00:47:25.840 not, but, but even if I was, I would not want that because we need a healthy tension in, in a political

00:47:31.620 debate to always keep us on check. And that's why it's so disappointing that, that Tulsi, it looks like

00:47:36.700 she'll, she'll eventually have to drop because once they give you the signal that you're not in

00:47:40.000 the debate, you know, you're, you're pretty much toast, but, but we need more, more voices like

00:47:45.060 that. And that's, again, that's why I wanted to do this deal with the blaze because, you know,

00:47:49.000 we haven't even discussed big tech, but there's so many forces, right. Uh, circling the wagons around

00:47:53.800 us. And I knew that that partnering with you and the blaze and what you guys have built and that's

00:47:59.200 still my ability to remain independent. As I said, on the live stream, you're, you're not my boss. I might be

00:48:04.500 your boss. We're still looking into that one. Um, it was a rather fast contract. That was why I

00:48:10.720 shook your hand so quick. It was pretty clever. Dave, hang on just a second. Hang on. I have to

00:48:16.180 take it. I have to take a break. Hang on just a second. Cause I want to continue our conversation

00:48:19.580 because Dave said something to me during the podcast that I did on his show that I thought

00:48:24.140 was fascinating that we didn't explore more with Dave Rubin. Now part of the blaze TV lineup. Dave

00:48:30.300 Rubin sign up now. The blaze radio network on demand.

The Glenn Beck Program - September 06, 2019

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