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00:00:00.000 Welcome to the podcast. Big news today. Joe Biden, Joseph Robinette Biden Jr., the seemingly the

00:00:07.780 Democratic candidate for president of the United States, finally got asked after 35 days of an

00:00:14.320 accusation of sexual assault, was finally asked in the media. And honestly, you got to give Mika

00:00:19.420 some credit. She actually pushed him pretty hard on this stuff. We'll get into that today,

00:00:24.140 kind of as it's happening. The comparison between Joe Biden and Brett Kavanaugh kind of

00:00:30.280 spins some differences, I've noticed. Also, Bill O'Reilly is on. Bill was on fire today. He is

00:00:35.840 really fired up about this. And he goes on about not only the Biden situation, but also the media

00:00:42.020 handling of it. We get into that. Pat Gray joins us as well. And Thomas Massey about our food supply.

00:00:47.880 Are we going to be able to get the food that we need? He's got a plan to try to make sure that

00:00:51.060 that actually happens. And we talk about how this weekend in Texas, we can go out to dinner.

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00:01:39.960 Did I say hello, America? It's Friday.

00:01:53.160 Joe Biden apparently has finally addressed the Tara Reid issue after what? 35 days without anyone

00:02:04.760 asking him to explain himself. 35 days. In fact, when when yesterday when the press was going

00:02:13.060 was was talking about this, they went after Donald Trump somehow. They made it about Donald Trump.

00:02:18.520 So he's finally come under under enough pressure because the Uber left and I will say this about

00:02:28.140 the Uber left. They actually believe in something. I mean, Ilan Omar believes in something, you know,

00:02:35.940 it's the destruction of America, but she does fully believe it and she's willing to do it where most of

00:02:44.160 the Democratic Party is. And I'm talking about the leadership. They just don't care. I mean,

00:02:48.600 they're just in it for the money or the power or to win. They're not actually diehard and they'll do

00:02:55.780 anything to win. So the Uber left has started to come out and say, excuse me. And they're turning

00:03:02.380 on the press first. And that's why you're seeing now the press and the Washington Post did an

00:03:08.560 editorial yesterday. And then the New York Times did an editorial like they've been covering this

00:03:14.520 and demanding answers. Nobody's asked him. But now they're like, this is getting ridiculous.

00:03:21.000 He's got to answer for this. And so he did. And here's what he said on MSNBC just a few minutes

00:03:29.840 ago. And please, to our viewers, please excuse the graphic nature of this. But I want to make sure

00:03:36.840 that there is no question as to what we're talking about. She says in 1993, Mr. Vice President,

00:03:44.140 that you pinned her against the wall and reached under her clothing and penetrated her with your

00:03:49.500 fingers. Would you please go on the record with the American people? Did you sexually assault Tara

00:03:55.260 Reid? No, it is not true. I'm saying unequivocally, it never, never happened. And it didn't. It never

00:04:03.980 happened. I, you know, I really expected him to say, yeah, dang it. I was hoping you wouldn't ask me

00:04:12.560 the question. You got me. You got me. Yeah, I did. Yeah, I did. Penetrate her with my, yeah, I did. 0.93

00:04:17.640 Dang it. Why did you have to ask? I've been doing so well for 35 days. Yes. Why did you ask me that?

00:04:28.360 Ah, you forced me into it. I wish I didn't have to say it, but I do. Yes. Yes, I did.

00:04:35.460 I strangely feel, but I strangely feel better now. I do. I feel better. Now that I've got it off my

00:04:45.640 chest, you know what I brought in? In fact, I, I brought in a notebook. I've got this little black

00:04:51.520 notebook of all the people that I've penetrated with my fingers. Uh, and I just, I just like to just,

00:04:59.620 strangely, uh, it, uh, starts with Alan Spector. Uh, Arlen Spector is, uh, Arlen Spector is in this

00:05:09.740 and, uh, I don't remember it, but, uh, yeah. In fact, Jill, Jill, can you come on in here? I got

00:05:17.120 some things to admit to you. Uh, come on in. Let me tell you about this stuff. I would not put any

00:05:22.040 of this past Joe Biden, by the way, this can actually happen. Oh, at this point he is. And

00:05:28.060 everybody would be looking at the, you know, in his rec room, looking at him like, what are you

00:05:32.340 doing? No, no, no, no, no. Oh, I'm, oh, I'm supposed to the other way. Oh, okay. He'd have

00:05:39.980 absolutely no idea. I mean, I'm, uh, I'm not surprised by the response, but I am surprised

00:05:45.640 that he seemed to know, uh, who he was talking to, what he was talking about, right. You know,

00:05:53.140 his name, um, uh, the fact that he even was a Senator, do we have, we have more of

00:05:59.600 this? I know this just broke. And, uh, so we are trying to get, I just, but just give

00:06:04.100 me the raw audio. Uh, Martin, if you're in the control room, if you can just give me

00:06:08.580 the raw audio, I just like to play the whole thing because apparently Mika did hold his

00:06:13.980 feet to the fire, uh, a little bit. Uh, and you know, she was very, very somber. Uh, and

00:06:23.180 I just want to, and you'll, you'll notice there wasn't a man on the screen. Well, except for

00:06:28.440 Joe Biden. Uh, but there wasn't a man on the screen. Um, you know, they, this was, this

00:06:34.020 a big moment for Mika. It's a big moment. And, and I think she is, uh, I think she is

00:06:43.160 she, do you think she's one of these people on the left that actually believes in stump

00:06:47.020 something? Um, no, but I think she is, um, not, we should ask her that question. Cause

00:06:57.600 I'm sure she'd come out and go, yeah, no, I actually don't. I was hoping you would ask me

00:07:01.720 that question, but I strangely feel better now. Yeah. I mean, does she stand for something?

00:07:09.380 Remember her behavior during the 2016 election? She was Donald Trump's best friend when she

00:07:15.000 didn't think he was going to win. She was all over him. Um, and then when he, all of a sudden

00:07:18.440 he started winning, like, Oh, I'm very mad and I'm going to stop going to Mar-a-Lago every

00:07:23.000 weekend. So no, she stands for nothing, but I wouldn't say that is right. She is one of those

00:07:29.180 people where I could see her, uh, realizing that this is not going well and not trying

00:07:37.120 to sink or trying to put him on, put his feet to the fire here. Because I mean, look, if

00:07:42.260 you're a Democrat, this is all going to happen. Like whether you let it happen now or you let

00:07:46.500 it happen in October, uh, on a debate stage, he, Donald, uh, Joe Biden's going to be pressed

00:07:52.120 on all of this stuff. So you might as well test him now and see if he can get through this.

00:07:56.100 Because if you give, if you push him now and he falls apart and crumbles, there's a chance

00:08:00.720 you can replace him. You can go another direction. You let this sit and then let him take the

00:08:05.660 nomination. You're going to have to deal with it in October. It's going to be a disaster.

00:08:09.700 Which is probably why you're finally dealing with it.

00:08:11.840 Yeah. Yeah. Yes. Uh, yesterday I was, uh, I was asked to speak, uh, online to, uh, the

00:08:19.720 clear channel or, or I heart radio, uh, programmers from radio stations all across the country.

00:08:24.920 And, um, the, the last question I was asked, uh, was kind of just a, you know, fun question,

00:08:33.480 I think, uh, which was, uh, any predictions on what's coming? And I said, yeah, I don't

00:08:40.560 think Joe Biden's going to be the guy. I don't think he's going to, I don't think he's going

00:08:45.700 to be the guy that they're actually running against Donald Trump. And I know that sounds

00:08:50.340 crazy, but I'm telling you, uh, he was a placeholder. He was like the unnamed Democrat

00:08:57.720 that everyone was for. Cause they didn't like anybody else. And they're like, yeah, now,

00:09:03.360 now they're coming up to it. A guy who is totally in bed with China, totally in bed. Anything you 0.86

00:09:11.400 thought about him with Ukraine? Oh, it's a thousand times worse with China. I mean, nobody's talking 1.00

00:09:18.180 about it now, but if he's the candidate, all of this stuff is going to be everywhere. I mean,

00:09:24.860 remember, he's the guy who said, look, you know, they're one child policy, uh, in China. I mean,

00:09:31.240 you know, it's not American, but I understand it. And I think it works for them. I mean, he is just,

00:09:37.400 he is in the pocket of China. Um, and now this, everybody's going to get to the convention and go, 0.95

00:09:44.440 come on guys, we're not serious, right? I mean, listen to him. He's, if he had,

00:09:51.620 if he wasn't going senile and I don't say that with glee and I don't, cause we're all going to

00:09:57.560 be there. And I don't, I don't, I don't find any joy in saying that somebody who is even a guy,

00:10:06.060 I completely disagree with all the time, a guy who has served his whole life, uh, and,

00:10:11.880 and had a decent image, uh, if you will, for a politician is now, let me just put it this way.

00:10:21.540 I've told my children as I've watched them, and I've said this seriously,

00:10:25.620 if your father ever starts to sound and look like that, you must come and tell me, dad, it's time,

00:10:33.380 it's time to go. I feel bad for Joe Biden on that. But if you are looking to pick a president

00:10:39.160 of the United States, are you kidding me? You have to believe the Democrats are going to come

00:10:45.900 to the convention and go, come on guys. Do you remember? We can't have him. You remember what

00:10:50.860 they were saying about, uh, Ronald Reagan in 1984 during the election? You can't reelect this guy.

00:10:56.260 He's senile and he wasn't even showing any signs yet. I mean, it was only, no, he was a,

00:11:02.740 he, he, in 1984, it wasn't until what? 1991 or something late. Yeah. It was 90, 91 in there

00:11:12.320 somewhere where he really, where they finally announced it where they finally announced it.

00:11:16.340 And he still had good years ahead of him. Yeah. You know, he wasn't sounding like, uh,

00:11:22.220 like Joe Biden is now. And I'm not saying that Joe Biden has Alzheimer's. I just think he's going

00:11:27.520 into, you know, his very, uh, difficult twilight years where he's not processing. Right. This guy

00:11:37.300 cannot be president of the United States. And I think even the Democrats will understand that

00:11:41.940 by the time we get to August, which brings me to this. I know Michelle Obama says she doesn't want

00:11:50.660 to run for president. She doesn't want to be president, but if someone offered the Obamas a 0.99

00:11:57.380 chance to go back to the white house and you don't have to even run Michelle, you'll win. If it's it's 0.65

00:12:05.660 September, you just have to remain standing until November and it's yours and your husband's already

00:12:14.500 done it. I, I just, uh, who in who that actually believes something and is already in politics,

00:12:24.500 who doesn't say, well, I'll seriously consider that. I don't have to actually do the campaigning.

00:12:31.160 I just have to walk in and the office is pretty much mine.

00:12:36.280 It's pretty tempting. That's it. It's very tempting. Terrifying scenario to

00:12:41.000 she'd win scenario. She would absolutely win. I think she would, you know, she would come in as

00:12:49.160 the favorite. I mean, her polling would look really nice at the beginning of it. I mean,

00:12:52.420 she's got like 80% approval right now. Right. If you are, you got to deal with Donald Trump,

00:12:57.840 given pressuring you for a month and a half, it would be tough. Uh, it's a, a black woman. 1.00

00:13:04.360 He'd look like a bully. They would, I mean, they would just smear him and you know,

00:13:10.060 that may not stick to him that, you know, what else can they do? Um, but he, it would be,

00:13:15.860 it would not be an easy thing. And she probably would not go out and do very much, you know,

00:13:21.360 during his election, no one would push her on anything. I mean, like at least Hillary,

00:13:26.240 you know, like they, she was a bad, really bad, unlikable candidate. And she was at least 1.00

00:13:30.840 pressed occasionally by the media. Obama would have a, you know, if you think Joe, if you think Joe

00:13:37.640 Biden is untouchable with the press, I mean, Michelle Obama could have inserted her entire

00:13:44.360 body into Tara read and they would never ask. Thank you. Yes, I did insert myself, uh, shoes and all

00:14:00.640 handbag too. I had a big handbag. Anyway, the best of the Glenn Beck program, Mr. Bill O'Reilly,

00:14:09.360 who has got a cute little podcast. I remember when I remember when podcasts were like, Oh,

00:14:17.480 and he's got a podcast. Now podcasters are disrupting everything. And Bill is part of that.

00:14:24.480 Welcome to the program. Mr. Bill O'Reilly from billoreilly.com. Thank you, Beck. Thanks for having

00:14:30.880 me back. You bet. You bet. I want to start with, uh, a couple of clips in case you haven't heard

00:14:38.220 them yet. I'm sure you have, but let me play them for the audience. A couple of clips from, uh, Joe

00:14:44.120 Biden about an hour ago on MSNBC addressing Tara read listen. And please, uh, to our viewers,

00:14:51.860 please excuse the graphic nature of this, but I want to make sure that there is no question as to

00:14:58.360 what we're talking about. She says in 1993, Mr. vice president, that you pinned her against the wall

00:15:04.720 and reached under her clothing and penetrated her with your fingers. Would you please go on the 0.74

00:15:10.900 record with the American people? Did you sexually assault Tara read? No, it is not true. I'm saying

00:15:18.600 unequivocally it never, never happened. And it didn't never happened. Okay. So he, he unequivocally,

00:15:28.020 uh, denies it, but then he's pressed with some questions and maybe it's his growing, um,

00:15:36.000 you know, senility. Um, but he didn't handle it. Well, I want you to hear, uh, here's cut to the

00:15:42.940 first is about your university of Delaware records. Do you agree with the reporting that

00:15:49.300 those records were supposed to be revealed to the public and then they were resealed for a longer

00:15:54.060 period of time until after you leave quote public life. And if you agree with that, if that's what

00:15:59.620 happened, why did that happen? Because look, the fact is that there's a lot of things that of speeches

00:16:08.020 I've made positions, I've taken interviews that, that, that I did overseas with people,

00:16:13.240 all of those things relating to my job and the idea that they would all be made public. And the fact

00:16:19.000 while I was running for public office, they could be really taken out of context. Their papers are

00:16:24.500 position papers. They are documents that existed. And, and, uh, that, that when I, for example, when I

00:16:31.040 go, when I met with Putin or when I met with whomever and all of that to be fodder in a campaign

00:16:36.680 at this time, I don't know of anybody who's done anything like that. And so the national archives

00:16:42.560 is the only place there would be anything having to do with personnel records. There are no personnel

00:16:47.900 records in the Biden papers at the university. So personnel records aside, are you certain there

00:16:55.520 was nothing about Tara read in those records? And if so, why not, why not approve a search

00:17:01.840 of her name in those records? Approve a search of her name? Yes. And reveal anything that might be

00:17:10.120 related to Tara read in the university of Delaware records. There is nothing they wouldn't, they're,

00:17:16.640 they're not there. And if they, if it's, I, I, I, you know, I don't understand what you're the point

00:17:22.260 you're trying to make. Holy cow. Let's just stop there and let's talk to, uh, uh, Bill O'Reilly

00:17:27.380 about this. Um, Bill, what, what are your, what are your initial thoughts? Well, there's a lot of

00:17:34.500 stuff there. So let's just do the fact-based thing. Biden doesn't know what the search question was.

00:17:40.460 He doesn't understand what that was. All right. Correct. I agree. Which is not, hang on just a

00:17:47.460 second, which is not helpful, which is not helpful for, I mean, they said, you know, George Bush just saw

00:17:52.860 a scanner at a supermarket, which was not true, but that was used against him. This is somebody not

00:17:59.560 understanding that you can search records for a name. I mean, that's incredible. Yeah. That woman's

00:18:06.460 name would be in his archives are a thousand one. Um, that would, even if it, even if the name, uh,

00:18:16.140 or any document was there is gone now. Um, so I'm not putting any credence into that. The reason he

00:18:23.340 doesn't want the Delaware records made public is because today is the anniversary of bin Laden's

00:18:30.500 takedown. He was the only member of the Obama cabinet to object to that Navy SEAL raid.

00:18:40.820 That's why he doesn't want that open. A lot of people have forgotten about that. Wow. All right. And

00:18:49.000 you did too, didn't you? Yeah, I did. I did. All right. That's why you have me on here back.

00:18:55.420 Uh, that's why he doesn't want that. All right. It's the kickbacks that the overall denial. All right. I

00:19:07.240 have no idea, but I can tell you that in the past, vice president Biden has convicted many men of

00:19:17.920 heinous things, denying all of them due process. So this is karma. That's what Bill, I would imagine

00:19:27.920 that you are taking the same stance that I'm taking, which is the standard that anyone is being judged on

00:19:36.480 is so absolutely insane and, um, and really un-American. Um, you just can't try these 0.94

00:19:47.040 things and convict people in the court of public opinion. I mean, you're just destroying lives.

00:19:54.680 I can't going on. It's been going on. Oh, I know that. I know that, but I think, I think it's

00:20:01.020 important to point out to the left and to not to the left because they don't care to the average

00:20:07.120 Democrat. We're against it when it's Joe Biden. We're against it when it's Joe Biden. It's not

00:20:15.020 right to try people like this. Uh, if you have facts, then bring the facts forward, but we can't

00:20:23.100 just judge people on, he said, she said, look, the worst here is Nancy Pelosi, who had the gall 1.00

00:20:30.840 to say yesterday that there was no record of a filing against Joe Biden, that the story changed,

00:20:44.340 that all of what she has heard doesn't stack up. The same thing was in play with Blasey Ford and

00:20:53.740 Kavanaugh and Pelosi convicted Kavanaugh. Exactly the same thing. No, no, I disagree with you. I,

00:21:03.280 I disagree with you. There was much, much less with Kavanaugh, much less about Pelosi.

00:21:11.080 Pelosi said there was no initial filing of complaint. Okay. It's, there's no record of

00:21:19.360 it. There was no record of any filing of a complaint with Kavanaugh. All right. The woman's 0.51

00:21:25.980 Tara Reid story has changed. So did Blasey Ford's story yet in Tara Reid's case, she dismisses,

00:21:36.180 Pelosi dismisses, but supported Blasey Ford for exactly the same presentation. Exactly.

00:21:46.600 I, I, I can't tell you, I said I'm on billoreilly.com. It used to be, I thought Nancy Pelosi was

00:21:54.500 misguided. Now I believe she's evil. She is an evil person in a position of tremendous responsibility in

00:22:05.860 this country. Wow. This is the best of the Glenn Beck program. Thomas Massey.

00:22:16.780 Thomas Massey. Sure. It's not quite as sexy when you say Thomas Massey, uh, but he's with us,

00:22:25.280 uh, representative Congressman Thomas Massey from Kentucky. There's a couple of things I wanted to

00:22:30.760 talk to him about. One, he had the greatest tweet of all time yesterday. Uh, I think it was yesterday.

00:22:36.780 Uh, if no one goes into Congress, uh, to vote on bills, who's writing the bills? I love that question.

00:22:44.120 Uh, but at first I want to talk about the, um, uh, the prime act, uh, Thomas Massey has been on the

00:22:50.900 food shortage thing, uh, early, early, early, and on the meat shortage. And there is an answer for this

00:22:57.540 and we should all be looking to this, not just for today, but also in the future. Welcome to the

00:23:06.260 program, Thomas Massey. How are you? I'm doing great. Thanks for having me on Glenn. You bet. You sound

00:23:12.100 good. You sound good. You sound like you're either on a super confidential spy phone or you've, you've

00:23:20.680 updated something in your home. We've got a com rec system. The last time I talked to you,

00:23:26.220 you asked if I was at Chernobyl because the line was so bad. That's right. You shamed me. You shamed

00:23:33.940 me into buying a real system. All right, good, good. I'm glad to have you. Okay. So, uh, Congressman

00:23:40.040 talk to me about the prime act first, tell people what they should expect in their grocery store

00:23:45.040 soon. Well, you're going to see shortages and these aren't going to be temporary shortages.

00:23:50.160 You're, you're being assured in the news that the factories that process this meat will open right

00:23:55.060 back up and there'll be no problems, but here's the real problem. They're aborting piglets right 0.99

00:24:01.020 now. They're causing the sows to abort. And so the animals that would be going into the pipeline that

00:24:06.600 would be showing up in your supermarket in a couple of months aren't being born. So it's not

00:24:13.060 just a problem at the processor. Now the farmers are responding rationally to their concerns that

00:24:19.280 the, that they'll have to euthanize more hogs. By the way, there are slaughter ready hogs. 0.64

00:24:24.420 They're being euthanized, shot, destroyed, buried. The same with, same with cattle. If it's not

00:24:31.640 happening on a mass scale, it, it probably will be happening on a mass scale, uh, to where they're

00:24:37.200 just the chickens, cattle, they can't process them. Uh, and so they have to kill them and bury

00:24:43.660 them. Uh, and it's, this is not good. That's right. It's already, uh, it happened a few weeks

00:24:49.560 ago with chickens. It's happening with hogs this week. We've got more leeway, a lot more leeway in the 0.98

00:24:55.240 cattle market. By the way, I raise cattle. I have 60 head of cattle. I took two of them to a

00:25:00.940 processing facility yesterday. Yeah. Rookie. Sorry. Yeah. Um, and so I took two to the processing

00:25:07.960 facility yesterday and, uh, where I, where I saw something I've never seen before. There were dairy

00:25:13.920 cattle being hauled to the processing facility for beef. Wow. And so, because, you know, whenever they

00:25:21.180 take, uh, uh, cows out of the dairy production and turn them into beef, that also has a long-term

00:25:27.640 effect. And that, but that's just farmers responding rationally to what they're seeing, which is prices,

00:25:34.820 you know, when you saw the price of oil going negative, we're, we're there with slaughter ready

00:25:40.120 hogs, um, in, in certain circumstances, there are these processing facilities that are canceling their

00:25:47.020 contracts claiming act of God, you know, to the farmers. And so anyways, I saw this coming. I was

00:25:55.680 on your show, like you said, weeks ago, I know talking about this. When I saw the milk being poured

00:26:00.340 out, I said, you know what, they're going to be pouring out animals too. And it's one thing. Yeah,

00:26:06.460 go ahead. Go ahead. It's one thing to watch milk being poured out because everybody spilled a glass of

00:26:11.140 milk. It's another thing to see a thousand pigs piled up in a pile that are going to be wasted. 0.98

00:26:17.020 So Thomas, this is really something, I mean, this happened in the great depression, um, and the

00:26:23.400 government was actually paying for people to, to destroy animals, uh, that way they could drive the

00:26:29.660 price up. And it was, it was a nightmare and it happened in the Soviet union as well. And it, it leads

00:26:36.500 to famine in countries that are not as sophisticated as ours. Um, and it's going to, we're going to have

00:26:42.680 famine all around the world, all around the world. Um, and the United States, Brazil, and Canada

00:26:49.780 are, we provide 60% of the meat for the rest of the world. Um, when we, when we look at these,

00:26:58.120 these slaughterhouses or processing plants, the problem is, is that you can go down to the processing

00:27:05.580 plant and you can have your cattle, uh, uh, you know, a butchered the same with me. I do it. I do

00:27:13.120 it locally cause I eat my own, uh, beef. Um, and so we can do that, but you can't have a local

00:27:21.020 processing plant, which are great. Um, actually provide that meat at the grocery store, which is

00:27:28.820 what we should be doing. It should be local. I mean, every environmentalist should be all over

00:27:35.520 this. It's absolutely right. Things local. That's absolutely right. Do you realize 80% of our meat

00:27:42.040 supplies processed by four different companies and one of them is owned by the Chinese and the other

00:27:47.680 zone by Brazil. And those, so what we've done is we've made our supply line very brittle. We've relied

00:27:55.040 on foreign investment to process the meat that our farmers are growing before it can get to the

00:28:00.280 consumers. We do this. Uh, I mean, Brazil is one thing, but China is another. Can we stop selling

00:28:08.360 things to the Chinese? God help us. I think we should. And you, and you put your finger on the 1.00

00:28:14.560 solution, Glenn. There are still thousands of small mom and pop American owned. There's not a single

00:28:20.880 foreign investment dime, you know, in these little mom and pop shops where you take your cattle and I

00:28:26.580 take my cattle, but the USDA has regulated them out of the market because what they require is that

00:28:34.720 you have a full-time employee of the USDA at your facility. You have to give them an office and all

00:28:40.920 this other stuff. Your drains and your floors have to be a certain size and all of these rules, you know,

00:28:46.700 they may be appropriate when you invite the Chinese into your country to process your food for you.

00:28:52.200 But what they've done is they've kept the small guys from being able to produce meat and selling

00:28:56.900 it in the supermarket. So you're going to have, you're going to have the ironic situation. It's

00:29:01.700 already happening where, uh, in Iowa, for instance, you have farmers slaughtering hogs. And then at the

00:29:09.720 supermarket, there's a shortage of pork just a few miles away. And while there's a processor,

00:29:15.560 a local guy who, you know, can do your deer if you shoot one, if you shoot a deer or you can do

00:29:22.420 your cattle, if you're just selling it to your friends and family and they have ownership in the

00:29:26.900 cow. And so what I've, I've recognized this five years ago, Glenn, and I introduced the bill called

00:29:33.180 the PRIME Act and everything's a ridiculous acronym in Washington DC. So I've, I've was compelled to come

00:29:39.900 up with an acronym that makes PRIME the word PRIME and don't laugh, but it stands for processor

00:29:46.100 revival, intrastate meat exemption. What? And at the time I was like, well, who would ever care about

00:29:54.380 reviving the processors? Well, the processors are shutting down. And so I think right now this week,

00:30:00.360 people understand we need to revive the processing and it's going to become more acute. When you go to

00:30:05.560 the supermarket, it's going to be like Soviet Russia. You're going to go to buy chicken wings 0.89

00:30:10.520 and they're going to say, sorry, no chicken wings, take a pound of chuck roast. And, and so we won't,

00:30:16.660 we won't have famine here because what'll happen before that happens is we'll be importing meat.

00:30:22.700 The poor countries will realize, you know what? We can, we can eat beans and rice and we'll sell our 1.00

00:30:28.760 beef to the Americans. Yeah. And that's already starting to happen. We're getting meat from like 0.74

00:30:35.520 Africa or somewhere and we can stop all this nonsense. If we would pass the PRIME Act, here's 1.00

00:30:42.920 what it does. It's real simple. It says, if you've got a farmer and a processor and a grocery store and

00:30:51.500 a consumer who are all in the same state, as long as we're not crossing state lines with this

00:30:56.600 transaction, as long as everybody is abiding by state laws and state regulations in that transaction,

00:31:04.380 then the USDA can't put a farmer in jail for selling a hamburger to somebody. This will never,

00:31:11.620 you know this as well as I do, Thomas, this turns the Commerce Act back on its head, back on the way

00:31:18.280 that it should be. Yes. They, in the, in the Great Depression, they turned it upside down. This would

00:31:24.240 turn it right side up and the federal government will never, never give into that. Never. There are

00:31:31.540 two groups that are opposing this. Obviously the lobbyists in DC that represent the big meat packers.

00:31:38.320 Yeah. Okay. That's one big group, but, but also. Which is a, it's corrupt. The meat industry is

00:31:44.200 absolutely corrupt. And, and some of these organizations are disguised as farming organizations

00:31:50.560 that are supposed to represent farmers, but they're actually financed by the processors.

00:31:56.640 And I can tell you, they, they flip the table on the farmer when they get to Washington DC and they

00:32:02.980 act like they're representing the farmer, but it's all about the meat processor. This is why they got

00:32:07.560 rid of country of origin labeling on beef and pork five years ago. And, and you had the farmers who were

00:32:13.860 against getting rid of the country of origin labeling. If you're an American farmer, you want your

00:32:18.080 stuff labeled in the supermarket, but if you're a meat processor, you, you'd be just as happy to get

00:32:25.280 that animal from Mexico, grind it up, put the USD able, a DA label on it and sell it in the supermarket

00:32:33.560 and have people think it was made in USA. Okay. Um, Thomas, let me ask you this question. Uh, are you

00:32:40.780 introducing this bill again? Yes. In fact, I introduced it last May. We've, I had, uh, before

00:32:46.980 this week, I had 24 co-sponsors set six of them are Democrats. And this week alone, I've picked up

00:32:53.640 eight co-sponsors because people are calling their Congressman and they're saying, what's your solution?

00:32:59.020 And if you don't have a solution, sponsor the prime act boy, call your Congressman then and tell them to

00:33:05.440 do the prime act, tell them to do this. Cause this, this changes so much, so much. If this change

00:33:12.380 actually is passed, uh, this would change a lot of regulation. This is, there could be nothing better

00:33:21.500 that could happen. This is profound change if they would pass this. Uh, so call your Congressman and

00:33:28.540 tell them to do the prime act and they may not even understand that they may not even, you know,

00:33:34.140 they'll, they'll pass anything. I mean, they're not even there. Um, but if this is brought up,

00:33:38.880 this would be really good, really good. And I'll tell you why it's good. It can't be temporary.

00:33:43.960 It can't be temporary. This is not an emergency thing just for this virus. Yeah. This gets the

00:33:49.000 meat processing back in the hands of Americans and, and people, the small mom and pops, they will 1.00

00:33:55.480 invest. They'll hire more people. They'll expand their production. And instead of everything going

00:34:00.900 across one bridge, we'll have a hundred or a thousand bridges between the farmer and the table.

00:34:06.460 That's the way, I mean, you redundancy, redundancy, to get this program on the air. There is,

00:34:13.240 there are three lines that are running, um, on this program right now. One of them is, is being used

00:34:21.320 to bring my voice to you, but two others are redundant. We have an uplink that takes this thing

00:34:28.380 in New York, in, in, uh, Denver and also Los Angeles. You, you, redundancy with, it's something

00:34:36.320 important. You have redundancy. We don't anymore and it's wrong. And that's the one thing we should

00:34:44.000 take from this.

The Glenn Beck Program - May 01, 2020

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