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00:00:00.000 Oh, help us. Welcome to the Friday podcast. We're both a little stuffed with ice cream

00:00:08.200 today. We had some fans of ours that just started this new ice cream company called

00:00:13.200 Brooker's Founding Flavors send ice cream. So it was three hours of taste testing and

00:00:19.020 10 flavors. I don't think we can either of us can move. But in that time, we also talked

00:00:25.380 about Bernie Sanders and his health care. His health care plan is insane. We also had

00:00:31.060 the Biden bracket where Ted Stanley and Rock Rockwell stopped by to tell us about that.

00:00:38.280 Fascinating conversation with Blake Harris on his book, The History of the Future, which

00:00:42.520 is something that everyone should know. It's a story of corruption, a real true crime, political

00:00:50.880 silencing at Facebook, The History of the Future. Brad Palumbo talked a little bit about

00:00:56.840 how the left and the right can come together, but the left won't do it. The black hole and

00:01:03.120 the donut scandal. I believe, yes, that there's no pictures of black holes. It's a donut. And

00:01:10.240 I proved it. And you can see the evidence that we put together on glennbeck.com. You can see

00:01:18.080 that from today's podcast as well. And don't forget, tomorrow's podcast is a must listen.

00:01:24.260 It is Arthur Brooks, formerly from the American Enterprise Institute. He's now going next fall,

00:01:31.360 he'll be making his premiere, his debut as a Harvard professor. He's one of the greatest

00:01:37.940 free market minds you've ever met. And he's got a really inspirational message, empowering message.

00:01:45.660 And that is on Saturday's podcast, Arthur Brooks.

00:01:57.080 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.

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00:03:25.320 that we never went to the moon. You've got some evidence. I do have evidence. I was surprised about.

00:03:32.340 Okay. So I'm going to prove we never went to the moon and NASA is still lying to us. Uh, you saw that

00:03:38.420 picture of the black hole? I, yes, I have. I have a theory that is a glazed donut on a piece of black

00:03:45.040 velvet and he hit the lighting, right? And you just knock the camera out of focus and that's a glazed

00:03:52.880 donut. That is not a black hole. Oh, first picture of a black hole. No, it's not. It's a donut hole

00:03:58.000 and I can prove it and we will do side by side. To be clear, it is not a donut hole, which is

00:04:04.220 something else you would buy. Also known as a munchkin, which is hateful, I believe, by Dunkin'

00:04:09.420 Donuts. Right. Uh, but no, yeah, it's not a donut hole. It's an actual donut with a hole in it.

00:04:14.080 Right. That you believe represents what the black hole picture is. I'm telling you, NASA says,

00:04:18.980 oh, look, we took a picture of the black hole. No, you didn't. You put a donut, a glazed donut

00:04:23.780 on a piece of velvet and, uh, and, and knock the camera out of focus. And that's what you're saying

00:04:30.840 is a black hole. And I will prove it on today's program. Now, before you, um, do what you're about

00:04:35.720 to do, cause we're going to talk about Bernie Sanders, uh, Medicare for all thing. And so let's

00:04:40.920 start it with something that's going to make us need Medicare, at least for us. Um, we're, we have,

00:04:46.520 first of all, donut talk. Second of all, we have tons and tons of ice cream to taste

00:04:51.400 today during the show. This is the greatest day of my life. This is why, I mean, I don't

00:04:55.920 know why we're doing anything else. Forget Bernie Sanders. He's a socialist, whatever. I mean,

00:05:00.100 whatever. We're all going to die someday. Um, no, we have a Brooker's founding flavors, 0.83

00:05:05.720 which you talked about a couple of weeks ago. Okay. These are people who started their own,

00:05:09.760 uh, ice cream store. And I am, I am not kidding you. I've only had a couple of their flavors when

00:05:15.040 I was out, uh, by their store and they came and they brought some ice cream a couple of weeks to

00:05:20.140 me, uh, a couple of weeks ago. And I said to my wife, I want a franchise. You actually came back

00:05:25.200 legitimately pitching for a franchise. I really want a franchise. I want a part of this because

00:05:31.260 they, I, cause I could die happy. I could retire and go work at an ice cream store. It'd be the

00:05:37.020 greatest thing of my life. And it's got the founding father's stuff in it. I, this is me. I'm all in.

00:05:43.460 I wasn't necessarily all in until I've, I mean, I like the idea of an ice cream store,

00:05:49.080 but this is, what is it? 18% butterfat. That is, I believe what they said. Yes. So now the best

00:05:55.640 ice cream I've ever had is Bluebell here in Texas. And, and people will talk about Bluebell. If you've

00:06:01.400 ever been to Texas and you've had Bluebell, you talk about it and everybody's like, it is the best.

00:06:05.400 And you don't think it could get better. Uh, once you've had it. And that is 14%

00:06:13.060 13, 13. And Bluebell does not even hit the 14%, which is the level for super premium. I think it

00:06:20.140 is, or mega premium or exotic premium. Or so there's some level of ice cream where you get

00:06:25.300 there. Um, because it's like the ice cream of Kings is 14%. Bluebell is good ice cream,

00:06:31.460 but Bluebell is ice cream. You go and you get in a half gallon at a grocery store. Like it's really

00:06:35.980 good ice cream. You know, there's a level of like craft ice cream that is available now.

00:06:40.780 If you don't mind spending $12 a pint for it. Yeah. Not craft with a K. No, not craft with a K.

00:06:46.320 That's right. It's like craft beer, right? Like now there's millions of these crazy varieties.

00:06:51.660 Now this one is not one of them. Cause there's a lot of these are mail order and I've actually

00:06:55.140 ordered some of these before and it's insane. It's like, you know, triple the calories per

00:07:00.020 serving. Have you had any of this yet? I haven't had any of it. I'm so excited. So we have two

00:07:03.080 flavors to start off. Okay. Um, we've paired the Adams together. There's Abigail Adams salted

00:07:09.360 crack cookie advice and Samuel Adams father of the cookies and cream revolution. Okay.

00:07:15.080 Which one is the, which one's the white one and which one's kind of really a question from

00:07:19.000 someone. If someone knows ice cream, they know cookies and cream is obviously the one with Oreos

00:07:22.140 in it. I can't tell which is Oreo. Okay. Okay. Okay. I see it. All right. I see it.

00:07:28.140 One's caramel. No, geez. All right. Let's try it. Oh my gosh. This is so good.

00:07:34.600 Which one are you trying?

00:07:36.040 The cookies and cream one. I'm trying the other one. Oh my gosh. Oh my God. Try the other

00:07:40.380 one. Okay. The one with this has caramel in it and chocolate. I'm a big caramel guy too.

00:07:45.100 And notice the ice cream. It is like,

00:07:47.480 it's not, this sounds gross, but imagine the, the creaminess. It's almost like eating a stick of

00:07:57.980 butter, not in a gross way. It doesn't taste like that. It doesn't taste like that. It's just so

00:08:03.980 creamy. Oh my gosh. Yeah. That's over the top. Oh my gosh. It like sticks to your tongue I've ever

00:08:10.280 had. It like sticks to your tongue. It is so creamy. And like this, this is why, and we've

00:08:19.440 talked about this a million times. Oh my gosh. This is good. This is why our, this is why our

00:08:24.960 country was founded. Uh, this is why our listeners are so great. Well, yeah, listeners, whatever.

00:08:30.420 What I'm talking about is this nation was founded to create things like this. You think they have

00:08:35.720 this in North Korea? No, there's no ice cream that tastes like this in Cuba. There's no fat

00:08:42.180 in North Korea, except on one guy. This is, this is unbelievable. Really good.

00:08:53.020 Those are two. And like, we kind of started off with, I mean, these are two flavors that look

00:08:57.540 really good. These are not, I have a whole menu of flavors tonight to taste test. This is not the

00:09:02.000 one I would pick. I don't think I would pick either one of these. I do like cookies and cream. I like

00:09:05.080 cookies and cream. I would not have picked the other one. Is that the Abigail? Yeah. And

00:09:09.840 that is, I haven't even tried the cookies and cream. That is unbelievable. So two

00:09:16.180 flavors. This is Brooker's. Yes. Brooker's founding flavors. It's a, you have the Abigail

00:09:21.840 Adams one, which is smoked salted caramel ice cream with cracked cookie chunks. And

00:09:26.300 then the Samuel Adams, which is cookies and cream ice cream chunks of chocolate

00:09:29.100 sandwich cookies. It is my goal today to do two things. Blake Harris.

00:09:35.080 His book was 33,336 or 32. Um, two days ago. Yeah. It had been out for a month. Nobody had read

00:09:44.940 it. This guy is a liberal journalist who found out the truth about what was going on because of

00:09:51.620 Donald Trump and the way the press was treating, um, the supporter of Donald Trump. Uh, and it's a huge

00:09:58.820 story. No one would cover it. No one. And this guy is a great writer. Last night, I got a note that

00:10:05.900 his book is up to number four. Oh, really? Yeah. So it's number four from 33,000 to number four

00:10:11.800 because of this audience. He has no other interviews. It's my goal to make that book number

00:10:16.940 one. And it is also my goal for everyone to gain at least three pounds with, uh, with, uh, with

00:10:25.640 Brooker's, uh, what is it? Founding flavors? Yes. I've had three, uh, spoonfuls. So I already

00:10:31.780 have gained the three pounds. Uh, that's what it feels like at least it is really good. So

00:10:36.840 we'll give you more flavors. Oh my gosh, this cookies and cream is, I've never tasted anything

00:10:42.580 like that. It is really good. Really good. Oh my gosh, this is good. By the way, yes, we're

00:10:48.340 eating, uh, ice cream, uh, at this time of day. Yes, but we're looking at my retirement. I'm going

00:10:53.180 to buy a franchise. When they start to franchise, they don't franchise yet. When they start to

00:10:58.040 franchise this, you know what? This makes a Cold Stone Creamery look like, I don't know, Dairy

00:11:05.900 Queen. This is always the Glenn way. He cannot give a compliment without insulting somebody

00:11:09.580 else. I've had to deal with this for 20 years, 20 years of this. It's always been a sweet

00:11:16.700 ice cream filled 20 years. Has it not? I will say I've had more ice cream at work than I

00:11:21.740 would have expected getting into this business. So thank you for that. Uh, should we talk,

00:11:26.720 should we take a quick one minute break and then talk about the Bernie Sanders thing? Because

00:11:29.520 there are differences in this Bernie Sanders Medicare for all thing from all the other pitches

00:11:34.080 that you are not going to believe. This is worse than the NHS in England. It is, it is Venezuelan 1.00

00:11:42.420 healthcare. It really is. It will blow your mind how far we have come from Obamacare where you can

00:11:50.700 keep your doctors to remember that you will not keep your healthcare. You will not keep your doctor

00:11:56.320 no matter what. Nope. And it is, this is a terrifying plan to be proposed in America. In fact, this plan

00:12:03.820 is so radical, it would not even fly in Canada. This is way beyond Canada. Unconstitutional in

00:12:11.920 Canada. The best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:12:24.080 Hey, it's Glenn. And I want to tell you about something that you should either end your day with

00:12:28.100 or, um, start your morning with, and that is the news and why it matters. If you like this show,

00:12:35.080 you're going to love the news and why it matters. It's a bunch of us that all get together at the

00:12:39.580 end of the day and just talk about the stories that matter to you and your life. The news and why

00:12:44.220 it matters. Look for it now, wherever you download your favorite podcasts. Uh, we, uh, we have to

00:12:49.620 touch base on something that we've been working on all week. And that is the Biden bracket. We,

00:12:54.240 we started out with the 32 creepiest pictures of Joe Biden and, uh, whittled it down yesterday.

00:13:01.680 We found out as the, as the listeners spoke and each picture was pitted against another,

00:13:07.940 we found the, the most creepy, or at least voted by the, uh, by the audience, the most creepy picture

00:13:15.680 of Joe Biden to talk about the Biden bracket. We go to our sports desk with Ted Stanley and, uh,

00:13:21.880 rock rock. Well, hi everybody. I'm Ted Stanley along with rock rock. Well, hi rock. Hi Ted.

00:13:26.820 How are you? Very well. Very well. The Biden bracket was an incredible week. We saw all sorts of

00:13:31.680 incredible performances. They were talking grope, tastic things that happened well beyond what we

00:13:37.160 believe is normal human interaction. Uh, some interesting things happened in the early rounds

00:13:41.820 I felt, and that the number one overall seat in the tournament, which was Joe Biden nuzzling up

00:13:47.300 under a biker chick as his, her seemingly two boyfriends look on in horror. That one I really 0.98

00:13:54.080 thought was going to go far and got knocked out on the second round. That was a huge upset Ted,

00:13:58.180 uh, because that was a strong entry for, for Joe. She was sitting directly on his lap. Uh, and, uh,

00:14:04.980 both the men in her life were, uh, we're, we're not looking happy about it. Yeah. And if you really

00:14:09.400 look at the details of this photo, you'll notice that the, the, the name on the biker guy on the right,

00:14:15.080 who looks horrified, his name is troll. And if you look even closer, you'll notice it's actually

00:14:21.560 president troll. Now that is actually on his jacket. If you look at the photo, that is not something

00:14:26.640 we expected, uh, but there it is. Of course, uh, we also had that one. And I will say in the first

00:14:31.900 round, it had a did win in the first round, but one against a very surprising competitor, which was

00:14:36.800 Joe Biden leaning over a series of chairs to put his hand on the inner thigh of Samuel Alito, a Supreme

00:14:42.220 Court justice. I had never seen that one before. I really, really made a difference. Also, I'll say

00:14:49.620 that the loss went to, uh, a, uh, an interesting photo with the former defense secretary of Barack

00:14:56.760 Obama, Ash Carter and his wife. And he was speaking and focused on a speech while Joe Biden almost made

00:15:03.800 out with his wife right behind them. Seeing that in a public setting was shocking, Pat.

00:15:10.240 That was one of, uh, Joe's more impressive rock. Sorry. What, one of Joe's more impressive

00:15:15.520 performance. Wait a minute. This is starting to come apart. He really nuzzled in there. He got a

00:15:22.580 good whiff of the hair. He got his head. He got his nose right up into those follicles. I'm pretty

00:15:27.540 sure there was a little tongue involved too in the back of her neck. Uh, Ted, that was very, 1.00

00:15:31.220 very impressive to me. Great point. We can ask Joe Biden, Joe Biden later. How does hair taste?

00:15:36.080 We'll find that out on a future program. Uh, also, uh, an early, uh, leader was Joe Biden

00:15:42.840 as he's talking to, uh, I don't know if it's the parents, another Senator and wrapping the,

00:15:49.660 his hand only around onto the stomach of a teen, a young teenaged girl and seemingly checking her

00:15:57.560 if to see if she has abs is how I would describe that motion. Uh, rock. I just, I, I was surprised

00:16:03.740 to see that. It was a bold move. That's, uh, that's, uh, that's one that makes you proud

00:16:07.600 of, uh, of Joe and his prowess, uh, in this event. You know, I, I hate to break in as, uh,

00:16:13.360 the anchorman here and, and, and delve into sports, which I know nothing about. That's right. That's

00:16:18.460 right. Glenn, you do know nothing about it. When he was, when he was not a man, he's not

00:16:22.480 a man. Does he rock? When he was not a, he's about 98% woman. He certainly is. If we were

00:16:27.480 doing a show about shitty, shitty, bang, bang, he'd be able to come, come in and come 0.97

00:16:30.880 out over and over again, but he really, if sound of music is the topic, Glenn, just what I'm saying 0.96

00:16:36.640 here is he might've been checking for abs, but to me, it appears he was just checking for any kind

00:16:42.700 of lumps. The young 13 year old might've been developing. Well, I think we'll leave, we'll leave

00:16:51.320 that one alone. Go check that one out on the internet. Uh, there are some moments in which

00:16:55.200 that does look like it could be happening a little bit. Uh, we also have, uh, Chris Coons's

00:16:59.200 daughter who is a young, a young woman. Uh, and you know, one of the interesting things

00:17:04.560 we, we, we've all seen, uh, people who want to say they're, they're really, uh, advanced

00:17:10.420 at groping rock, but what sets someone like Joe Biden apart here is the ability to walk

00:17:17.540 right through the obvious human signals of someone pulling away. You know, it's one thing

00:17:24.100 to, to grope someone against their will. It's another thing to sniff their hair as they continually

00:17:29.380 pull away and then try to land a kiss on their cheek. Any good performer Ted needs to have amnesia

00:17:35.060 and, uh, and Joe seems to have no problem forgetting all of his past faux pas and just moving forward

00:17:41.140 with the performance. Like a, like a, uh, uh, uh, an offensive, uh, guy off the bench, a six man who

00:17:46.400 comes in and tries to put some offense and you got to have no, you have no conscience. You can't be

00:17:50.040 sitting there. You just got to go for it. And that's what Joe Biden always does as he did with

00:17:54.780 a reporter at a Christmas party where he wrapped his hands around her and seemingly inched towards

00:18:02.260 her breastial regions. As the, her breastial, her breastial region. As a anchor, I would just like 0.50

00:18:10.900 to point out again, I don't know anything about sports, but I don't think breastial is actually a

00:18:17.720 word. No, it's actually should be snoobage. Snoobage is actually the word that you're looking

00:18:22.280 for. Thank you very much. I appreciate that rock. Also, you know, an interesting, I thought

00:18:26.860 moment in this tournament was Joe Biden reaching over, bringing in close, uh, an Eva Longoria 0.98

00:18:34.100 inner prime and getting right again in there, sniffing every bit of that L'Oreal or whatever

00:18:39.880 the hell she had on. Um, and I think that one did not advance too far in this tournament 1.00

00:18:45.360 because she looks really good and people understood it. What are your thoughts on that?

00:18:50.840 You know, I think he was like, all right, I kind of would have done the same thing if I were Joe.

00:18:55.940 Your thoughts on that rock rock well. Yeah. That's an underrated performance from Joe,

00:19:00.900 because, uh, a lot of people might've been intimidated by the, uh, by the person on the

00:19:05.740 other side of the affection. Uh, but Joe had no such quals. He doesn't care.

00:19:10.460 Joe's aggressive. Adults, men, none of it matters to Joe Biden. Now, if we got down to the final four

00:19:17.280 yesterday, we had the red dress girl. He was checking for abs or lumps. We have, uh, Chris

00:19:23.520 Coon's daughter who was visibly pulling away. And then after she pulls away multiple times, 0.96

00:19:28.640 he goes in for a kiss. That is something you don't normally see. I'll tell you that much.

00:19:32.380 That is persistence. You had the reporter. Can you imagine someone from another party

00:19:39.040 groping a reporter on camera? What that would do to your newsfeed? But you didn't even notice this

00:19:45.980 one because it was Joe Biden. And then you also had a young, another young, and this one was tough.

00:19:52.280 I thought this one picture who, which actually made it all the way to the final two was maybe,

00:19:57.260 it just seems like his hand is dangling in a very unfortunate place. But I guess if you believe

00:20:03.080 Joe Biden, you know, Rock, we talk about this all the time. Unless it's Pat, you keep mistaking me for it.

00:20:11.600 You know, it was your fill-in when you were sick last week. Uh, when you have these sorts of performers,

00:20:17.600 when you go to the top, you have people who walk through anything. You have people who do things

00:20:24.680 unconsciously. It's not like they're thinking through every moment. They just go out there.

00:20:28.700 They just hit the ball. They just pull up and nail the jump shot. That might be Joe Biden this spot.

00:20:33.060 I don't know that he's intentionally groping this child, but he's just so good at it. It almost

00:20:38.380 happens naturally. It is natural for him. I think that, uh, that when Joe sees a female or a male for

00:20:44.960 that matter, and they're in close proximity, he is, uh, his hands just naturally go into action.

00:20:49.720 He's had so much training in this field or he has the worst luck in the world. Hands constantly

00:20:55.160 just going into private parts of women. And we also have the winner yesterday was named on the 0.81

00:21:00.920 Glenn Beck program. Uh, this is a, I'm not sure if you have, you're familiar with this program at all.

00:21:05.620 Do you have any idea what they do? I have no idea. I don't know. He looked like an insane conspiracy

00:21:10.080 theorist. He had all these magnets on the board and he's thrown around and screaming about something.

00:21:13.420 I don't know. Uh, but I will say the girl in the red dress being checked for abs slash lumps 1.00

00:21:19.400 was the winner. And Joe, the, the, the, just the incredible achievement of doing that on camera

00:21:27.840 and a public event really, I think is what put that over the top. I think if it happened, uh,

00:21:33.740 behind closed doors, uh, you'd say to yourself, well, that is weird. And that person should be put

00:21:39.520 in prison, but this to do it in front of cameras over and over again. Wow. What an achievement.

00:21:45.500 Our champion in the 2019 Biden bracket, Joe Biden, while talking to the mom,

00:21:53.040 gropes his daughter, well, not his daughter, her daughter, I guess. Whoever it was. Right. Uh,

00:21:59.960 and I don't know. We did not get any results of the lumps. Uh, we don't know. Hopefully we never

00:22:04.740 test results. We'll, we'll, uh, we'll be a return soon. Thank you, Ted Stanley and a rock rock. Well,

00:22:10.260 Glenn, I don't recall what time of day it was where my article went live, but I remember it was

00:22:33.500 Saturday and within 30 minutes of being published, I had already been called a Nazi, a white supremacist, 1.00

00:22:39.900 a stupid effing liar. In fact, a long time friend, one of my college roommates actually 1.00

00:22:45.860 even tested me, uh, texted me and said that he was embarrassed for me and that it was really sad

00:22:52.260 that I had gone from a writer with so much promise to a misguided MAGA apologist. I vividly recall

00:22:59.380 reading that text message as I did. I wanted to crumble. I wanted to evaporate. I wanted to go back

00:23:05.520 in time and never have started work on this book in the first place. I remember specifically thinking

00:23:10.780 this is supposed to be a book about a scrappy tech company filled with colorful characters.

00:23:15.420 This was supposed to be a book that had nothing to do with politics. What had I gotten myself into?

00:23:21.900 And more importantly, what's the point? Why was I going out of my way to try to set a record

00:23:26.860 straight for a multimillionaire whose political views I often disagreed with and who had supported a

00:23:32.440 presidential candidate that I found repugnant? Why hadn't I just picked another fun, loving,

00:23:38.080 beloved topic like Sega and Nintendo, my last book that would make everybody happy and nostalgic to

00:23:44.980 read. And everyone, uh, everyone would, I would earn applause from everyone in the press and the pride

00:23:52.680 from my friends. For several minutes, I sat there feeling sorry for myself, continuing to wonder again

00:23:58.660 and again. What was the point? What was the point of continuing to push my deadline to try to dig

00:24:04.320 deeper into what really had happened? And then for all my extra works met with little more than ire.

00:24:10.580 Seriously, what was the point? And then aided by a refreshing cup of coffee, the answer became

00:24:19.860 overwhelmingly obvious. Because that's what journalism is. You follow the story wherever it

00:24:27.360 takes you and never, however tempting it may be the other way around. You follow leads, you examine

00:24:34.240 evidence, you continue to dig deeper and deeper until you get to it. You get to the truth, not for the

00:24:40.940 praise you think you deserve, not to try to be everybody's best friend. But because however fast or

00:24:47.920 partisan or cynical the world has gotten, the truth still matters, it still matters so much.

00:24:56.800 So, so much that from that moment forward, I knew chasing the truth was more important than whatever

00:25:03.620 it might cost me and my career, especially because I could afford it, both literally due to the success

00:25:10.060 of my first book and figuratively due to my having front row seats to see what Palmer, uh, Lucky Palmer

00:25:17.600 had gone through going from a beloved high tech wonder kin to Silicon Valley's biggest pariah.

00:25:24.620 And my knowing no matter how bad things might happen up for me, they'd never be worse than what

00:25:30.800 he had already gone through. This is from a private letter that I received, uh, from Blake Harris.

00:25:39.940 I got it a couple of nights ago and I asked for his permission to share it. He's with us on the phone.

00:25:45.240 Now the book that he wrote that has cost him his career and his friends and his standing is the

00:25:52.880 history of the future. When he was on the program, what three days ago, his book was 33,000, I think

00:26:00.160 332. Uh, last night I got word that it hit number four. The only exposure that he had had up until this

00:26:09.800 program was this program. No one wanted to support him because of the truth of this book. Half of it

00:26:18.600 is about the miracle of the free market and inventors and, and, and how one kid in a trailer can change

00:26:28.900 the world. Then it takes a political turn and not by his choice. Welcome to the program, Blake Harris.

00:26:37.160 Thank you so much for having me on. And I mean, I texted your producer the other day and, and also

00:26:45.840 wrote in that email that my, my job is literally to come up with words, but I am still sort of

00:26:52.400 speechless. Uh, you know, before we get into it, I really just want to thank you again so much and,

00:26:59.320 and, and your listeners and your viewers, you know, to go from being my book being ranked 33,000 to

00:27:06.220 number three and even surpassed number three, number three. We're going to get it to number

00:27:10.400 one. Blake, you're going to have a number one bestseller. It's obvious it's life-changing and,

00:27:17.220 and, um, beyond it being the greatest feeling in the world, a close second is just the dozens of

00:27:25.640 letters that I've received from your listeners over the past few days. Um, just, just saying,

00:27:31.560 thank you. I mean, like, like, to the point that I made in that email, um, you know, no one was

00:27:37.580 saying thank you and that's not why I do it, but it's certainly nice to hear. Um, and, and to hear

00:27:42.620 it from people who probably have pretty different views than me. Um, that's wonderful because the

00:27:47.680 point who can't, it's irrelevant. It's not about left and right. It's about right and wrong. You know,

00:27:53.100 I tell you, Blake, the, um, the media gets much of America wrong. Um, and, uh, and the left and the

00:28:03.060 right get much of America wrong. We're not as in, we're not as focused on winning as we are living

00:28:13.860 truth and letting the chips fall where they may. We, we are very interested in everybody being free

00:28:20.660 and being able to express who they want to, to, you know, what they want to express and very much

00:28:25.980 into, I mean, I've at the height of my Fox days and for years after one of my key, uh, people on,

00:28:36.620 on, uh, the daily line of production was a San Francisco progressive that voted absolutely every

00:28:45.780 time, the complete opposite of me. And we're good. We're good friends. I appreciated her counsel.

00:28:54.100 I asked for her counsel. I mean, it was an important thing to work and have many different views

00:29:01.920 around me. Otherwise you just get trapped in an echo chamber. And I think people are sick of my way or

00:29:09.700 the highway. Well, that's, that's what I make these conversations even more important and timely is

00:29:17.820 that at the end of the day, Palmer lucky is just a proxy for what is going on with big tech. You know,

00:29:24.800 he is a high profile story, but it's a story that, that so many people have experienced to some degree

00:29:30.580 either. It's happened to a friend, some sort of censorship and, and Facebook's my way or the

00:29:35.380 highway mentality is, is just going to keep getting stronger unless we push back on it. In fact,

00:29:41.620 um, you know, I mentioned on the show the other day that I basically spoken to Palmer lucky, um,

00:29:47.280 every day for the past three years for the book, but, but I still continue to talk to him and let me

00:29:51.840 pull this up. But, you know, yesterday we were just chatting, um, about what is it? It's a Facebook's

00:29:57.880 new content policy. Uh, where is it? Um, yeah, they, they, they posted a new policy,

00:30:04.520 um, to the Facebook newsroom is called, uh, remove, reduce, and for new steps to manage

00:30:09.620 problematic content. Um, and you know, one of the things it says is if a meme doesn't constitute

00:30:14.640 hate speech or harassment, but it's considered in bad case, lewd, violent, or hurtful, it could get

00:30:19.320 fewer views. And so, you know, that that's, first of all, let me, I think I can guess what kind of

00:30:26.560 content is going to be considered, um, lewd, hurtful, um, inappropriate. It's certainly not going to be,

00:30:33.580 uh, equally, uh, no content from liberal content and, and conserved content, first of all. And then

00:30:41.020 second of all, just the fact that it might get fewer views. We don't, we have, we, we, we talk

00:30:45.440 sometimes about shadow banning, um, and basically not even, you know, that's so bad because you don't

00:30:50.940 even know that your content is being banned or, you know, mitigated. And, and Facebook is here

00:30:55.960 basically saying, yep, we've given ourselves the rise to do that. Um, don't worry about it. It's our way

00:31:01.660 or the highway, but we'll say it in a more eloquent manner. So Blake, let me ask you, because you are

00:31:06.460 a liberal, you don't necessarily, I can't even imagine, uh, you know, what you and your friends

00:31:11.440 and you're not real political. So maybe you didn't have, but I'm sure some of your Silicon Valley

00:31:15.280 friends had great opinions of me. Um, and, uh, and you don't need to reinforce that like that, but,

00:31:23.680 um, but, uh, uh, they, they, they were not your biggest fans, but, uh, yeah, I know that.

00:31:31.400 I know that you appreciate, um, you know, I've talked to them about, I didn't share your private

00:31:37.420 email, but, uh, I told them some of the points that you made. And, um, they, they, I guess at the

00:31:42.940 end of the day, what I hope my book does, and it goes to what you just said, that the left and the

00:31:48.640 right don't really have a proper opinion of each other or of the country is I, you know, I talked

00:31:53.200 to my friends on the left and they have such a inaccurate, crazy opinion of the right. And a lot

00:31:59.620 of my friends on the right of the people that I talked to for this book that were on the right,

00:32:03.020 they have such a crazy opinion of the left. And at the end of the day, I think that we're all so

00:32:08.720 much more similar than we believe. And I hope this book in some small way makes you realize, Oh,

00:32:14.500 the other side's not out to get me. They're not bad. They're not evil. They just think of certain

00:32:18.700 things a little bit different. So I agree. So, so that leads me right to what I was going to say.

00:32:24.040 I agree with that. And I went in to meet with Mark Zuckerberg about four years ago,

00:32:29.160 and I really liked him. And I really thought he was being sincere. And he wasn't trying to

00:32:35.160 stifle people's voices and everything else. And I stuck up, stuck up for him. And I took

00:32:40.200 massive amounts of heat for it. But I was willing to do it because I believed him. I no longer believe

00:32:47.660 him. And so there, there, there are these questions that you say, well, wait a minute,

00:32:53.320 you were, they're not out to get us, but yet their policies are going that way to stifle

00:33:00.060 the, the thoughts of people like me or anyone else and make me into a hate monger or my audience into

00:33:07.420 a hate monger. And, and we're all racist and we have no platform. Well, that is that, that is,

00:33:14.920 you know, the, the very definition of an enemy, somebody who is trying to stifle my thought and

00:33:23.800 categorize my thought into something that is not just another opinion, but hateful.

00:33:30.660 Right. And I think that that's what I've come to learn is that there's this compartmentalization

00:33:35.040 that allows for sort of that, you know, double thing to quote George Orwell, where I do believe

00:33:41.580 that Mark would probably pass a polygraph that, that for many of the things he says, and then he

00:33:47.440 just plays this semantic gymnastics where, you know, if he believes, of course, his, his Facebook

00:33:54.720 is a platform for diverse views, but then you take something as simple as abortion, you're pro-life

00:34:01.320 versus pro-choice. And then he would think, oh, well, well, pro-life is not a, just a diverse view.

00:34:06.100 That's immoral. That's extreme.

00:34:08.560 There's probably a better case to be made the other way around. Right. And myself even being

00:34:12.580 pro-choice. But, you know, that, that's kind of what I started to see. Once you do that,

00:34:17.120 I just went down the list of, of conservative perspectives and thought there is not a single

00:34:23.480 one here, whether it's taxes or immigration that, that, that most liberals I know would say is,

00:34:30.780 you know, I disagree with, but that's, that's a fair perspective to have. Most people would

00:34:34.880 just say, most liberals I know would say, well, well, that one's wrong.

00:34:38.980 So, you know, so here's here and, and I'll take a break and let you think on this. And then I want

00:34:43.120 to talk a little bit about the book because I, I started reading it. It's fantastic. Um, but, uh,

00:34:49.340 the, um, the, the one thing that comes to mind is I had dinner last night, uh, with a guy who doesn't

00:34:57.340 agree with her two nights ago that doesn't agree with me on anything. In fact, he was a big enemy of

00:35:02.220 mine, you know, quote unquote. Uh, and we had a very public battle and it's not Van Jones for

00:35:07.740 anybody who thinking it is. Uh, and, um, we had a great dinner. He asked to say, you know,

00:35:15.000 I've seen a change in you and there's been a big change in me. Can, can we just talk? So we did.

00:35:19.560 And we, we discovered, we still don't agree with each other on anything, but we had a really good

00:35:24.320 conversation. Then he wrote to me and he said, I saw you on Hannity. And he said, I can't square the

00:35:29.420 two. He said, how, how are you saying this about the border? Uh, and you know, blah, blah, blah, blah,

00:35:36.140 blah. And what it was, I had to write to him last night and say, look, there's one thing about a

00:35:41.760 welfare state. You want a big welfare state and you want the free market and you want the constitution.

00:35:47.140 That's great. There's another thing about saying, Hey, I want socialism and not Swedish socialism

00:35:52.620 because that's a free market. They're more free than we are. Um, that's just a big, big welfare

00:35:57.340 state with a very free market. Uh, and we can talk about that. But when you're starting to talk

00:36:03.040 about things like banning the free market on healthcare, then I got trouble with you. But

00:36:08.720 if you're a communist who is looking to overturn the constitution and you're trying to do it

00:36:16.680 intentionally through overwhelming the system, I don't have a lot of nice things to say. I mean,

00:36:23.020 I think we should be all be able to agree that there are lines that you just say, I can't cross

00:36:30.200 that. I can't, I can't cross that. If we're going to have a civil society, there are a few things

00:36:36.740 that we have to agree on. And I think that the left is allowed to group everything from a big

00:36:44.380 welfare state to communism together and say, look, it's all the same. No, no, it's not.

00:36:53.020 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:37:09.860 We go to Brad Palumbo, who's with Young Voices and National Review. Um, and Brad's been on us

00:37:15.420 with us before he wrote an op-ed in the Washington Examiner. Christians and LGBT advocates could,

00:37:20.960 should, should come together and support Trump's fight against gay criminalization. Brad joins us

00:37:26.360 now. Hey, thanks for having me on. You bet. So tell me what's happening here, Brad.

00:37:32.600 Yeah, absolutely. So the Asian island nation of Brunei just enacted Sharia law. It went into effect

00:37:39.340 in early April. So they're now one of 72 countries that criminalize homosexual behavior. They make it 1.00

00:37:46.000 illegal to be gay. In fact, they even give people the death penalty by stoning. So thankfully, 1.00

00:37:52.300 I think this has triggered a bipartisan backlash. But what I really called on everybody in this piece

00:37:57.460 to do is to come together, whether you're personally Christian, religious, conservative,

00:38:01.660 or you're a wild progressive LGBT advocate. Not going to happen.

00:38:04.820 You should all stand up for human dignity. It might not happen.

00:38:07.480 No, I tell you, it won't happen. I went, when this was happening in Russia, remember they started

00:38:13.240 giving, uh, they started denying driver's license to people who were gay in Russia. And then there

00:38:18.200 were the, the, uh, uh, news. The outlawed like PDA in public, remember the anti-PDA law.

00:38:24.740 Right. And it was, when it was voted on, it was, if I'm, if I'm not mistaken, unanimous in,

00:38:28.680 in the Russian, uh, uh, uh, legislative branch. So they, they also, there were rumors that they

00:38:35.000 were just scooping homosexuals up, uh, and they were killing them in one of the 0.98

00:38:38.980 provinces or districts or whatever they call them over there. Uh, pardon me? 0.99

00:38:44.200 It was in Chichena, right? And I want to actually give you, give you credit on that, Glenn,

00:38:48.180 because I listen to your show all the time. And I remember that you had some activists on,

00:38:51.720 undercover activists from Chichena. And you were out there being, I think, one of the only ones that

00:38:56.500 I was aware of, of religious conservatives standing up for human dignity and standing up for human

00:39:01.780 rights. So I think, I think that you were an example with that.

00:39:04.480 Well, Brad, I will tell you that long before that, three, four years before that,

00:39:09.320 I went and asked for a private meeting with GLAAD, uh, in New York. And I said, look,

00:39:14.240 we're never going to agree on a lot of stuff. We're never going to agree on bakeries and everything

00:39:18.320 else, but we can agree on human rights. And just because you're gay, you should not, 0.99

00:39:23.460 you should not lose your driver's license. You should not lose your life. You should not, 0.78

00:39:27.500 none of these things. Uh, and we can stand on this and we have to come together.

00:39:32.340 Christians who do not agree with you on what you're pushing and you who don't believe with 0.98

00:39:38.700 Christians. We need to come together and say, this cannot happen. I spent a, the one of the

00:39:46.480 most frustrating hours of my life in a meeting. They could not get past the cake. And that bothers me

00:39:54.540 to no end, Glenn. I mean, it just showed me that you're not serious. You're not serious

00:40:00.520 because cake is cake. These homosexuals here can get married and they could go buy a cake 1.00

00:40:07.000 someplace else. These people are being killed. Where are your priorities? 1.00

00:40:12.660 Yeah. I've never had any trouble obtaining cake. I can tell you that Glenn and Sue,

00:40:18.080 but what it shows me, and I I've been a long time critic of kind of the progressive LGBT movement

00:40:25.280 for exactly this reason, you know, Trump derangement syndrome is real guys. I remember after Trump

00:40:31.220 announced this initiative, uh, to fight the decriminalization of homosexuality worldwide.

00:40:36.280 It's an initiative led by ambassador Rick Grinnell. Um, the progressive reaction to it was kind of

00:40:42.880 ridiculous. I mean, one op-ed and out magazine and LGBT publication, well, it went viral because 1.00

00:40:48.520 it bizarrely argued that Trump's plan to decriminalize homosexuality is an old racist tactic.

00:40:54.740 Oh my gosh. People are not discussing these issues in good faith and they're more interested

00:41:00.000 in weaponizing them for political purposes than actually coming together and getting things done.

00:41:04.280 And that's a shame. And, and where has Donald Trump ever, ever given any indication that he was

00:41:13.480 anti-homosexual ever? I think as far as Republican presidents go, he is on issues of gay rights,

00:41:21.920 definitely the best that I'm I've ever known. In fact, I mean, he came into, uh, the oval office with

00:41:27.320 a neutral position on same sex marriage, right? States should have the right to legalize it. He's

00:41:31.780 it's settled law. That's better than what Barack Obama was saying in 2008. So I give him credit on

00:41:36.700 that. Even if he does, uh, in general have some positions, maybe I wouldn't personally agree with

00:41:41.140 on, on homosexual rights. No, but I do think some of his, some of his stances on transgender issues

00:41:48.400 are more controversial, but I think on, on, on gay rights, he absolutely has been probably the best

00:41:53.920 president, um, in modern history is definitely the best Republican. So, so Brad, what do you suggest

00:41:59.920 that people do? So I think that we can all do something to stop these atrocities that are going

00:42:07.280 on in Brunei and going on in 71 other countries, regardless of our partisan feelings. One thing you

00:42:12.560 can do is you can support president Trump's initiative, right? He's already taking diplomatic

00:42:16.880 steps to punish countries that are violating the human rights of gay people. Look at how tough he's

00:42:21.880 been on Iran. Iran is one of the worst countries in the world to be gay. And he's taken all sorts of 1.00

00:42:27.160 diplomatic actions against them. Another thing we can do is boycott the American hotels that Brunei 0.83

00:42:32.640 actually owns. The Brunei Sultan and Royal Family own a number of hotels in America.

00:42:37.400 Which are, what are they?

00:42:39.140 So I don't have a list in front of me, but you can actually go to George Clooney's Twitter account

00:42:42.980 and he's tweeted them all out. I wouldn't normally be, I think allies with George Clooney, but Hey,

00:42:47.440 that shows you how we should all be able to come together on this. Another thing I would encourage

00:42:51.180 people to do is to donate to the charity Rainbow Road. A lot of these LGBT charities are extremely

00:42:57.240 political, extremely partisan. Rainbow Road is not one of those. What they do is they help LGBT people

00:43:02.900 escape and flee countries where their lives are in danger from oppressive governments. So most

00:43:07.960 importantly, I think everyone's just got to love thy neighbor, you know, and embrace an attitude

00:43:12.740 of human dignity and mutual tolerance.

00:43:15.500 I feel like this is a little bit too heavy an issue to ask this question, but do you think the NASA photo

00:43:21.600 was faked with a glazed donut?

00:43:25.040 Well, I haven't seen the rest of your show yet.

00:43:27.020 I haven't seen the hard evidence.

00:43:28.760 Brad, when you see it, if we can get it right, when you, do we have the first photo? Let's bring up the first

00:43:34.320 photo. Bring up the first photo.

00:43:36.700 Okay.

00:43:37.540 Okay. Now let's see. It doesn't work.

00:43:39.060 Oh no, it's closer than I thought it would be though. I mean,

00:43:42.320 but it's not, you're right. It's not right.

00:43:43.900 It's not right. That, that could be something, but it does still kind of look like a donut.

00:43:48.480 We'll tweet these photos out individually, by the way.

00:43:50.280 We've got to get rid of, I think we have to hit some of the lights.

00:43:53.380 Okay. All right. Brad, thank you so much. Appreciate it.

00:43:57.260 Assistant editor for Young Voices. Would you write down, what is it? Rainbow Road?

00:44:03.400 Rainbow Road.

00:44:04.020 Would you write that down so we can look into that organization?

00:44:06.580 I will.

00:44:07.380 That's an organization. If that's really what they do, I support that organization.

00:44:11.700 Yeah, absolutely. I mean, you know,

00:44:13.180 this is the issue of focusing on low hanging fruit, right? Like there's,

00:44:16.960 this is low hanging fruit. The, the, the ability that, you know,

00:44:19.620 the idea that we can step together and say, okay, Donald Trump. Yeah.

00:44:23.860 He's the guy you don't like on the left, but you know what he's doing? He's,

00:44:27.080 he's going after people who are victimizing these groups.

00:44:31.080 You say you care so much about, uh,

00:44:33.720 instead of arguing about politics here in the United States,

00:44:37.080 here's something that we can all actually be on the same side on.

00:44:39.720 It doesn't raise money though. No, it's the deal. It doesn't get clicks.

00:44:42.700 It doesn't get clicks and it doesn't raise money.

00:44:44.760 I know. And that's, that's, I mean, that is a huge problem. And I,

00:44:48.040 and I, and I don't care if it never gets a click. It's,

00:44:49.960 it's worth talking about because there are a million issues like that where,

00:44:53.920 you know, Arthur Brooks, who's on your podcast this weekend,

00:44:56.560 really good. Awesome. He's a, he's one of my personal heroes.

00:44:59.700 The guy legitimately he's able to do all the things I say in my head.

00:45:04.920 I want to do. He's somehow able to do them, right? You know, right. Yeah.

00:45:08.720 And, uh, he's super smart and he, he, he's run, um, American enterprise Institute.

00:45:13.120 You go watch his Ted talk on, on capitalism and what it's done in the,

00:45:17.040 in the world. Again, it's a Ted talk. This is not a conservative audience.

00:45:19.900 He's able to go to these places where people don't even hear these ideas about how

00:45:23.380 good capitalism is and tell these stories. Um, and you know,

00:45:26.800 he does that really, really well. And one of the ways he does it is that he,

00:45:30.540 there's a million issues in which we can find a common ground and both all be

00:45:35.320 right on. And his point is, instead we are incentivized by the media and,

00:45:40.200 and all of these other, um, things to focus on the slight differences and make

00:45:45.660 them as expansive as possible. And now look,

00:45:48.220 we have real differences with people like Bernie Sanders and, and this is,

00:45:51.180 you know, Arthur Brooks is a conservative. He's not arguing.

00:45:53.160 We adopt his policies by any means, but instead of constantly looking for the

00:45:59.180 outrage and the conflict,

00:46:00.260 trying to instead find those things where we can actually persuade people to

00:46:05.260 our point of view.

00:46:06.540 Yeah. He's, he's a brilliant, brilliant guy. Uh,

00:46:09.480 and he's going to be on the podcast this weekend.

00:46:11.640 That's the Saturday podcast, wherever you get podcasts,

00:46:13.940 make sure you sign up for the Glenn Beck podcast. Uh,

00:46:16.380 you get this show every day. And then on Saturdays,

00:46:18.900 you get an amazing interview with somebody, uh,

00:46:22.000 that has just something incredible to tell.

00:46:24.920 Arthur Brooks is one of the most hopeful people I think I've ever met.

00:46:28.840 He'll make you believe that, you know, wait a minute, hang on just a second.

00:46:32.260 No freedom might actually win here. Uh, and, and he's right.

00:46:36.720 He's right. If we just start looking at the,

00:46:40.480 the right things,

00:46:41.740 the blaze radio network

00:46:43.720 on demand.

00:46:47.460 He's right.

00:46:48.640 You're right.

00:46:48.880 So that's pretty neat.

00:46:59.080 He's right.

00:47:02.200 He's right.

00:47:06.600 So,

00:47:06.980 you're right.

00:47:11.140 You're right.

00:47:12.940 He's right.

00:47:13.520 So,

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