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00:00:00.000 hey everybody what i'm signaling you to let me talk yeah i know

00:00:05.240 so you don't you normally would say what in the middle of that you would just oh there's stew he's

00:00:12.220 ready to talk he's about to say something maybe important about our business here's stew to talk

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00:00:33.840 of great content today i don't know what happened during the show you're gonna hear it in the podcast

00:00:37.980 this hostility is just coming out maybe because he's a fan of ernie sanders oh he's got a great

00:00:43.940 new plan and uh and i don't think the plan makes sense we're gonna we're gonna cover that also hate

00:00:49.540 crimes going on in the lgbtq community really not what everybody's saying on television uh and we

00:00:56.260 have a gay man and a gay journalist to uh tell us all about that uh also the the the wonderful

00:01:04.100 things that could be coming our way in the economy and this is important to understand what's happening

00:01:09.100 in the economy because if you don't want a socialist president we better pay attention and do the right

00:01:15.900 things and we're going to talk about that all on today's podcast just do you want to talk anymore

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00:01:34.500 homeowners beware a data breach exposed 24 million of all of us to home title fraud title fraud is

00:01:49.380 something that we didn't even know about i mean it's crazy nobody is watching this banks can't

00:01:54.220 watch nobody can watch it because the titles are all kept in this you know digital vault if you will

00:01:59.160 and there's only one company that stands right at the doorway so when a title is transferred it's

00:02:05.700 pulled out of this digital vault and then changed and then put back into the digital vault well the home

00:02:11.500 title lock stands right there so everything passes through them they see everything that's going

00:02:16.420 through and if yours is a title that is protected they immediately pull that title out and say wait

00:02:22.300 a minute let's check can i just go to any company to do this for me though glenn you know there's

00:02:26.760 nobody else that does that stupid thanks for asking that question uh they are exclusive home

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00:02:37.240 has happened to you find out if this has happened to your parents home title lock.com but is there a

00:02:42.240 website yeah home title lock.com where would i go on the internet home title lock.com that's what i was

00:02:47.720 trying to say oh who would have thunk it now he's got an exciting platform we go now to our on the

00:02:57.720 scene reporter right across the desk is stew brageer stew now his aides are saying he has a couple of

00:03:04.500 things he wants to do as part of this presidential campaign one he's got to go to potty a lot he's got

00:03:10.300 to go to the potty unless well unless the adult diapers are are freshly changed well that's that's

00:03:16.060 not that's not even nice to joke about that what do you mean well someday you'll be wearing adult

00:03:20.960 diapers and will you be joking about that i didn't make one even hint at a joke you said he had to go

00:03:26.020 potty and i said you don't have to go to the potty i thought it was ageism quite if you have an adult

00:03:30.440 diaper that potty is not necessarily a trip you need to make as okay all right that's all okay he wants

00:03:36.620 to do medicare for all medicare for all now again i point this out every single candidate in this race

00:03:42.120 wants to do medicare for all not the case quite recently in fact you might think to yourself wasn't

00:03:47.460 barack obama a progressive liberal president well uh when he was president bernie sanders introduced

00:03:54.140 medicare for all and got zero co-sponsors zero he was the only one interested in doing medicare for

00:04:01.760 all publicly in 2013 sure now the rest it was marxist nonsense they're not going for that they're

00:04:07.920 never going to go for that yeah how dare you even suggest that you racist medicare for all which

00:04:13.520 means we get rid of all uh private insurance so you don't you don't have your there's a couple

00:04:20.160 different spins on it there's the one kamala harris talked about getting rid of all private

00:04:23.680 insurance some candidates are supporting a version like medicare for all where it would just be

00:04:29.500 available to everyone sure okay so it's like france everybody has uh medicare uh in france

00:04:35.700 or whatever they call it over there oh you sick you get these uh but everybody also gets to on top of

00:04:42.640 the high taxes they also get to buy insurance to cover for the stuff that medicare for all you know

00:04:50.680 doesn't cover yeah so it's a it's a double blessing it's it is a blessing i think that's the right word for

00:04:55.720 and we should say that it is important for medicare for all to happen to cure our horrible

00:05:00.720 health care system currently known as obamacare the last thing they told us was going to cure our

00:05:05.760 horrible health care system remember it hasn't been repealed it's still in effect the thing they're

00:05:11.560 all running against is the thing they all told us was the cure last time remember that when they

00:05:17.280 start saying of all when they start listing all the problems because what they're going to say is

00:05:21.240 well trump has gutted it i mean look the only thing really we've seen a couple of of regulation

00:05:27.220 changes the biggest thing being that they zeroed out the penalty if you don't have health insurance

00:05:32.860 which i like i'm a fan of however the problem with the way they did it was they just zeroed out the

00:05:39.540 penalty but the penalty is still there so the next you know next time the democrats have control they

00:05:44.200 can just non-zero out the president the the uh the penalty they didn't get rid of the mandate

00:05:49.400 they just zeroed the penalty so in theory what you're supposed to do is actually have health

00:05:55.180 insurance if you don't you have to pay a you're against the law but you have to pay a zero dollar

00:05:59.600 penalty right it's a weird way they did it and it's going to go away as soon as democrats get

00:06:03.220 control okay so basically we're in obamacare and that's what they're complaining about got it

00:06:07.900 next up green new deal green new deal yes all of it green new deal green new deal so medicare for

00:06:15.120 control and the green new deal now the green new deal obviously you've probably seen the uh faq that

00:06:21.420 was uh posted by alexandria ocasio cortez's team which said things like everyone gets a job even if

00:06:28.900 they're unwilling to work they get paid basically universal basic income um that is not necessarily

00:06:34.160 what he's saying here he's saying the proposed bill that the resolution that went through and the

00:06:40.280 resolution basically says every green dream you've ever heard of uh from uh democrats okay it's not

00:06:47.660 but it doesn't say some of the things that were in that faq to be clear okay $15 minimum wage $15

00:06:52.940 minimum wage countrywide yep so if you live in new york it's still not a livable wage if you live in

00:07:01.120 you know uh outback wisconsin it's uh sweet living sure you can't no business can run right if they

00:07:10.260 give less than $15 as a minimum wage which of course as we've seen in even high price areas

00:07:15.380 like seattle has destroyed industries yes and destroyed really profitable and not working out

00:07:21.320 for seattle no yeah uh criminal justice reform now we just passed criminal justice reform but as you

00:07:27.940 listen to the people who wanted criminal justice reform they were very clear this was just a first

00:07:32.140 step i believe the act was called the first step act so there's plenty more to come i think what the

00:07:38.340 the end game here is if you haven't committed a crime you go to prison if you have committed a

00:07:43.580 crime you're out you're let you're set free they're just going to reverse the walls well it's going to

00:07:47.080 be like uh superman in superman 2 where he reverses he goes inside the little protective thing and

00:07:52.800 reverses yes they get the kryptonite to the outside right so that zod gets hit with it right it's just

00:07:59.780 like that that's criminal justice reform okay good i like this i like this and and now with all of the

00:08:05.320 you know big state regulation we're all criminals and we've all committed a crime we just don't know

00:08:11.000 it yet yes so we might as well all go to prison sure all right let's make it fun number five free

00:08:16.700 college free college yes that's always fun now of course we've seen the cost of that uh is pretty

00:08:23.720 it's pretty high um it's gonna get even better once the government is involved it's gonna get better

00:08:29.980 you don't you think oh i mean think about it this way think about it this way and they are already

00:08:33.820 heavily involved by the way yeah um if you think about it this way where you've got a uh you've got

00:08:42.520 a college system that would be run by the u.s government uh and you're expecting that college

00:08:50.540 to teach the constitution and to teach the teach the founding documents which says you should be very

00:08:56.880 skeptical of the government you shouldn't trust the government you shouldn't give the government

00:09:01.780 more power of course the people who are paying for that they want that stuff taught right they want

00:09:09.840 that stuff taught yeah okay so that's gonna be good it's gonna work out well so free college again

00:09:14.260 the reason why the cost of college is so high yes is because the government is involved in the on the

00:09:19.780 loan side guaranteeing very low cost loans to people that they run up and then theoretically try to pay

00:09:25.460 back for the rest of their lives theoretically uh theoretically uh uh breaking up the biggest banks

00:09:30.460 break breaking up banks yes now surely there will be a cost to that as well um and of course there

00:09:38.620 will also be massive uh problems with the government invading into private business not but that there's

00:09:47.220 not so these these guys who are running the banks you know the five biggest banks in the world

00:09:53.460 there is that there is absolutely no power there there's no power to do anything or fight back

00:10:00.360 government you know it's like google what is google gonna do if they're like hey you're gonna stop

00:10:06.000 doing these things what are they gonna track politicians and find out all their dirty secrets and

00:10:13.220 threaten to expose them no no google doesn't do that kind of stuff no and big banks and you know

00:10:20.840 global economies running on the backs of these banks there's no one in the world that has incentive

00:10:27.340 or enough power to hurt a socialist federal government from stopping the banks and breaking

00:10:34.400 them up there's no no no one no one no one okay next up is uh gender pay equity now interesting thing

00:10:42.960 about gender is i think it's the most simultaneously the most important thing in the world and also the

00:10:48.180 least important thing in the world yes yes you're not supposed to notice anybody's gender but also

00:10:52.200 there is no difference if you notice the wrong gender it's basically like holocaust denial it's

00:10:58.400 it's like the worst sort of speech you can holocaust what is that uh there you go um that's i don't

00:11:04.360 that might be on the plan here somewhere but i don't think so um but gender pay equity again what

00:11:08.880 you're i guess you're going for an equal pay amendment to do that and which is obviously ridiculous

00:11:13.880 because all of the never mind go ahead uh he wants to lower drug prices now uh elizabeth warren had a

00:11:21.780 way to lower drug prices she's already proposed we don't know exactly how bernie wants to do this yet

00:11:26.120 but uh hers was that the government would actually have own factories that made pills and those the

00:11:32.580 the pills would go to compete of course that's what a socialist does is they control production that

00:11:38.240 is what the socialist does that's true so i would assume bernie's either there or close to there well

00:11:42.840 you're going to mandate that you can't charge americans uh more than more than what you charge

00:11:48.040 people in ethiopia which i think is perfectly fair for a uh progressive to say you know that makes

00:11:54.060 total progressive sense because for instance the progressive income tax okay you know you would

00:12:00.520 never charge you'd never charge people different amounts if they were rich and especially the richest

00:12:05.180 one percent you don't charge them different amounts you charge everybody exactly the same

00:12:10.220 and uh and so that's what they're they're suggesting now seeing that we are the richest one percent even

00:12:16.840 the poorest among us are the richest one percent of the world um we can't charge americans the richest

00:12:24.500 one percent more for their drugs we have to charge the same price that we charge in ethiopia you know

00:12:31.480 who really benefits from this ethiopians because certainly a company that needs to make money

00:12:37.220 and need to needs to pay for their business like a pharmaceutical company is going to just take let's

00:12:42.800 say they're charging ethiopia one dollar they're charging us 10 they're just going to lower it all

00:12:46.420 to one dollar surely they're not going to start charging ethiopia and us seven dollars so then

00:12:51.660 ethiopians can't get access to drugs that's a good policy i really think they should go ahead with

00:12:57.380 that because who needs the ethiopians they're just a country way over there who cares about people

00:13:02.520 another global warming oh yeah they're all going to get killed by global warming anyway i guess

00:13:06.940 well no they're contributing to global warming we can't let them we can't develop right can't let

00:13:12.260 them develop how many times have we heard that seriously that's not you know i know um number nine

00:13:17.020 uh expand social security you see social security has been such a huge success and it's always able

00:13:23.000 to pay now sir sure 90 percent of people who go into social security get more money out of it than

00:13:28.300 they put into it but let's expand it because it's been working so well so far and it has only caused

00:13:33.820 just a giant chunk of our multiple trillion dollar debt don't worry about it our future uh liabilities

00:13:40.760 we're up about 100 trillion right now huge chunk of that is social security don't worry about it let's

00:13:44.840 expand it our unfunded liabilities are more than that more than 100 trillion now i mean it just depends

00:13:49.240 on what timeline you're giving it right the bottom line is it's negative every year so we could go a

00:13:52.960 thousand years in the future and make that number as big as you want go to usdebtclock.org

00:13:56.720 i think it's org and and tell me uh our debt and our unfunded liabilities

00:14:01.440 the best of the glenn beck program

00:14:06.100 unfunded liabilities 122 trillion dollars so i was only up by 22 trillion yeah yeah that's no big

00:14:21.720 deal it isn't it isn't you just calling me out for no reason on that one uh next up on the

00:14:26.520 uh bernie sanders plan for america save unions save people are clamoring i assume this isn't a

00:14:35.720 religious thing um he is you are saved saved unions afl cio put your hands on the radio right now

00:14:44.360 teamsters of america you are saved uh yeah he wants to save unions which i again we don't know exactly

00:14:52.720 what that means or what that would cost it's it could very well cause uh some sort of government

00:14:57.480 matching type of situation also could be attempting to reverse the recent supreme court ruling in some

00:15:04.680 way we'll see where that one goes so can i can i interrupt here for a second i have to tell you last

00:15:08.760 night i was doing homework with my son and uh uh he is now currently in the progressive era

00:15:16.380 so he's in the progressive era and he said this is honestly what he said hey dad um i need to make

00:15:26.660 some 3d objects i said okay he said for history and i said oh okay sure uh what do you need what

00:15:33.360 are you gonna do and he said well i want to build a bomb i said excuse me he said i'm studying uh

00:15:40.180 uh sacco and vicente or sacco and is it no it's ven i can't remember the guy's name uh the two guys in

00:15:47.880 the progressive era that you know were were were robbers that took money so they could take the

00:15:54.200 money and give it to all of the anarchists to build bombs right it's the red square 19 or red scare of

00:16:00.060 1920 so last night i find myself helping my son do research on on how they made the bomb

00:16:10.180 back then and then make a facsimile of that bomb with the string running inside and everything

00:16:17.680 else then he had to make three and i said okay so what's the next one he said well i want to do it

00:16:26.980 on uh propaganda and how propaganda changed the world and i said oh and i told him the story of

00:16:34.420 edward bernays and the cigarettes and what he did with the ladies as they were trying to get the vote

00:16:39.540 and hike up their dresses in the parade do you remember that yep and they would hike up their

00:16:43.920 dresses and in their garter they would have cigarettes women didn't smoke because it was a

00:16:48.200 phallic symbol uh and so he said you're gonna get i'm gonna have the right where the judges are i'm

00:16:54.420 gonna have all the reporters there what i want you to do is as you're going for women's suffrage i want

00:16:58.980 you to stop and i want you to hike up your dress and in your garter i want to you're gonna have a

00:17:05.000 cigarette and a match and you're gonna light it you're gonna put it in your mouth and then you're

00:17:09.000 gonna light it and then you're gonna hold that up like the torch of the statue of liberty he killed

00:17:13.960 two birds with one stone he was working for a tobacco company but he was also working for the

00:17:19.620 women's suffrage movement and how it changed so i built a bomb with my son and then i uh talked to

00:17:26.180 him about the uh the phallic symbol of the cigarette and uh and uh and and the and the women hiking up

00:17:33.960 their skirts women hiking up their skirts and so he went in and he said hey mom i i need a garter belt

00:17:39.520 and my wife said excuse me and i said she said i need he said i need a garter belt and uh she said well

00:17:48.720 i don't happen to have one uh son and uh she said what are you two doing and so he explained to her

00:17:57.720 and she said oh i think you can get those at hobby lobby last night was i was living in a world i

00:18:05.660 didn't even understand lobby lobby lobby lobby when did hobby lobby start to carry that i don't know

00:18:11.960 she said she thought that they might be in like a marriage aisle or a wedding aisle or something like

00:18:16.800 that i'm like okay i officially i'm making bombs with my son and uh buying uh uh you know sexual uh

00:18:24.440 things uh at hobby lobby world makes sense that does make a lot of sense i actually think your

00:18:28.600 your kids are going to be really bad at history what i actually i was thinking about this the other day

00:18:33.400 you you your career is basically made at at finding these little nuggets of history that nobody knows

00:18:39.220 and they don't teach in school so unless the person teaching happens to be a you know a fan of

00:18:46.780 your show the whole point of these shows being successful was that the history teachers weren't

00:18:51.480 teaching it so when you pull out these little stories from history they're unless they go and

00:18:56.840 check them all which you know they're not going to do which if he gets yeah because i will check

00:19:02.160 if he gets a mark down on that history oh we're gonna have a little talk with the history you didn't

00:19:09.680 make that really because here are all the footnotes here's where you can find it what part is not

00:19:15.700 accurate i'm on i made history teachers worst nightmare

00:19:21.620 this is the best of the glenn beck program

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00:19:42.420 and while you're there do us a favor and rate the show chad felix green i would never introduce you as

00:19:47.560 a gay man and a gay journalist except in this particular case because you it gives you the

00:19:53.840 credibility that you just don't hate gay people although i hear that that is actually a charge

00:20:00.640 that people have leveled against you uh because of these uh these stats that you have looked into

00:20:07.220 welcome to the program chad thank you yes uh chad tell me what you found when when you look into

00:20:15.680 hate crimes are trending uh trending down well since 2010 when uh hate crimes started to

00:20:24.860 be tracked by the fbi um we saw a immediate spike uh back in 2013 and then ever since it's really gone

00:20:34.440 down it fluctuates really by just a few uh between 2016 2017 for example when they say there was a 17

00:20:42.960 spike it changed by 54 incidents and we have to remember that these are reports they're not

00:20:49.380 confirmed convictions just this just means because that the fbi received reports right and and there's

00:20:55.680 a huge difference between a report uh and a conviction because jesse small has showed us here

00:21:03.080 the last couple days i mean last yesterday i showed all these hate crimes uh that i think i had 25 of

00:21:09.460 them that the that the media had jumped on and none of them uh were true and so that would be included

00:21:17.580 in the hate crime statistic correct correct that's insanity and hate crimes can be uh anything reported

00:21:27.460 from somebody stealing um rainbow flags from residences uh as a protest to someone finding a swastika on a wall

00:21:37.220 to someone reporting to the police that someone yelled name at them as they were driving by

00:21:43.900 adam ripon for example reported this that he was walking with his boyfriend in new york city

00:21:49.320 and some random stranger walked up to him and said that he hated uh gay slurs and then ran away

00:21:55.740 if he had reported that to the police the police would have listed that as a reported

00:22:01.640 anti-gay uh hate crime you know it's amazing to me um you know i the the hateful things that have

00:22:08.780 been said to me uh on the street and i would never have run to the police to report them you just kind

00:22:15.060 of like yeah well okay everybody has an opinion and everybody has two armpits don't share it with

00:22:20.280 everybody um what is it what exactly chad is a hate crime a hate crime uh is it's different by state but

00:22:30.720 the essential definition is that it's uh they're also called bias crimes uh they were introduced after

00:22:37.140 the matthew shepherd incident and basically it's the idea that a person targets a protected class

00:22:46.560 for violence or intimidation or harassment uh because of their protected class status and

00:22:53.060 that's evolved now into crimes against persons property and society okay so so could you say

00:23:00.640 with the jesse smollett uh case is that a hate crime because he came into it with a bias against

00:23:07.520 trump supporters white people is i mean isn't that a hate crime i mean i think all crime is

00:23:14.280 hate crime quite honestly i mean it's i don't care what your motivation is it's a crime

00:23:20.220 um but isn't this a hate crime what he perpetrated i believe so uh if we look at the law as equally

00:23:29.780 applying to everyone it should be um unfortunately it's not in my opinion hate crimes create inequality

00:23:36.280 in the law because they protect certain people and there's a difference between uh a racial

00:23:43.060 and a gay identifier and a gay identifier the truth is is that if you and i were both

00:23:48.040 mugged on the street because i self-identify as a gay man i would receive more justice more protection

00:23:57.300 my crime would be seen as worse having a priority over yours based only on that characteristic i don't

00:24:04.680 think that is uh justified but you would have to claim that as the victim wouldn't you wouldn't you

00:24:10.140 have to claim this was done to me because i was gay uh yes for example uh there's a recent uh hate

00:24:19.900 crime in austin that is um it's the most recent one that we've seen where two gay men were leaving a

00:24:26.600 bar at 3 a.m and a group of men started yelling homophobic slurs at them and they got into a

00:24:33.600 confrontation and then they beat them up badly ran off and then now it is referred to as a hate crime

00:24:40.740 the police have stated that in that area in austin there has been a rise in uh random targeted attacks

00:24:47.940 at 3 a.m on that area uh at night you know at that time of night by gangs uh and so there's no

00:24:55.060 indication that they were specifically targeted but because these people used homophobic slurs while

00:25:01.440 they were attacking it is now considered a hate crime and if they're convicted hate crimes will

00:25:06.800 be added to their sentence which means that they'll get a harsher punishment uh because they

00:25:12.420 use those slurs not because of what they actually did talking to chad felix green from the federalist

00:25:16.940 chad i mean the the way that the media portrays this you know what maybe it's half of gay people

00:25:22.960 are victims of gay of hate crimes that's what it feels like do you have any any concept of what the

00:25:28.320 percentage is of of gay people who go through a hate crime in a given year uh yes um it's uh as

00:25:37.120 a rounded number it's generally uh 0.001 percent um as the lgbt population has grown uh from three

00:25:47.180 percent to 4.5 percent over the years that has reduced down to 0.0008 percent of the lgbt population

00:25:56.260 and that's not the population of the country that's just 0.008 percent of the 15 million lgbt

00:26:04.680 americans report hate crimes that doesn't tell us how many well they will say the opposite they will

00:26:11.820 say that it's worse they just don't report it correct and my answer to that because that's always

00:26:18.340 a response when we talk about anything where the numbers do not match the narrative as they say well

00:26:22.940 that's underreported imagine how many reports it would take to move that one to 0.1 percent or to

00:26:31.120 one percent you'd have to multiply the incidents by a thousand you'd have to have 120,000 incidents in

00:26:39.120 a year rather than 1200 which we currently have you couldn't really go any further than that because

00:26:44.740 there's only 15 million lgbt people in america so you couldn't have any much much higher than that

00:26:49.460 so we would have to agree that 120,000 people are gay people are attacked intentionally because of

00:26:59.260 their sexuality but fail to report and i just don't see that as being reasonable based on the fact that

00:27:04.820 every person who reports gets a glowing shining media experience they are glorified as victims they

00:27:13.780 are protected they get interviews they get go fund me money there's no downside to telling the media that

00:27:21.520 you were a victim of a hate crime or the police as a gay man what do you think of the uh jesse

00:27:28.280 smollett case what do you but we there's a washington times reporter who said or not washington times

00:27:34.760 washington post reporter yesterday who said i so want this to be true i want this to be true because i don't

00:27:41.700 i don't want i don't want real hate crimes dismissed and so we need this to be true right what's your

00:27:49.940 take on it when i first saw this story it had immediate red flags i think the very first tweet

00:27:55.700 i said was something seems very off about this story i've been covering uh hate crimes every time

00:28:01.700 there's a big hate crime report i look into it to see what's happening uh for years and i'm accustomed to

00:28:08.580 a huge spike in media reports and then nothing what was unique about this was that the police

00:28:14.480 actually continued to investigate and the story continued to move forward and we found out what

00:28:18.740 happened but my first response was when you see a hate crime report and it sounds like a movie

00:28:25.580 sounds like a tv show something's wrong people just do not behave in this way people do not

00:28:32.980 stalk out on the street wearing political gear waiting to see if they come across a gay person

00:28:42.120 and attack them it's different for jews it's different even for black people the jews get very

00:28:48.360 targeted hate crimes but the most if you look at actual hate crimes for gay people um and trans people

00:28:54.480 are a little bit separate because they have a different world of of uh sex sex work and drugs and that

00:29:00.200 sort of thing but if you look at gay people they're typically opportunistic crimes you know

00:29:04.560 they're leaving a bar at 3 a.m they get them into a verbal fight with somebody um or there are things

00:29:11.500 like um i'll give you an example in 2017 there were 52 murders of lgbt and 11 of them were done by people

00:29:21.900 that the that they knew personally and 45 percent of gay male homicides homicides so 45 percent of gay men

00:29:30.220 who are killed are the result of hookups they met somebody online and that person targeted them targeted

00:29:37.700 them or killed them and occasionally that there have been people that have been serial killers who have

00:29:42.060 targeted gay men specifically for that reason but my husband and i walking to walmart are just not going to

00:29:48.640 see somebody in a red hat who yells homophobic slurs at us and beats us up for the fun of it it just

00:29:54.740 doesn't happen all right i want to talk to you if you don't mind i want to take a quick break and i

00:29:59.640 want to come back and and talk about also the the stats that you see the other things they include

00:30:06.200 include including prison riots uh the numbers that we're seeing are so skewed uh that you can't really

00:30:16.520 trust any of these numbers and what does that mean how do we ever solve a problem if we don't really

00:30:23.200 know what the truth is uh last night on uh the news and why it matters uh jason uh was was in he's our

00:30:30.840 head researcher and he and sarah were talking about um the stats of hate crimes and how hate crimes

00:30:38.860 include numbers from like prison riots oh yeah yeah it's it's crazy to to be able to quote any of

00:30:47.760 these and have it mean what the public thinks it means do you have anything on that chad did you look

00:30:54.100 into any of those kinds of stats i tend to focus mostly on lgbt um related stats um because racial and

00:31:03.820 jewish crimes are a little bit different i did uh research into the adl released a huge surge in

00:31:09.800 anti-semitism um last year uh before we saw more of um what we're seeing today uh uh from congress

00:31:17.960 people and that sort of thing but for example there was uh a jewish man who had personally called in

00:31:24.960 several hundred bomb threats and each one of those was included as an incident

00:31:30.240 in the adl's uh in the in the adl's uh uh numbers and you know i was looking at i don't know if you

00:31:39.080 remember there was a young man his name was uh seth owen and the headline that we saw for a while was

00:31:45.120 he was kicked out of his home for being gay and he was now homeless and he was a gay valedictorian he

00:31:50.500 wanted to go to college oh yeah yeah yeah well i researched that and um the truth was that he was 18 when

00:31:57.340 the story happened he actually came out when he was 15 uh he just disagreed with his parents church's

00:32:03.000 view on homosexuality and he left on his own but because of the story that he said i was kicked out

00:32:09.880 i was rejected by my family he got fifty thousand dollars from donors he got a free ride to college

00:32:14.600 and ellen uh invited him on the stage and celebrated him as an lgbt hero there's a huge benefit

00:32:21.340 personally to every minority but specifically to lgbt to be able to say i survived the hate in this

00:32:29.760 country and it's become so important that to say i've never experienced a hate crime like me uh

00:32:37.080 is devalued it's much you receive social benefits uh to saying i survived a hate crime and one of the

00:32:46.560 things that i always point out is if we have such a small amount of reporting how is it that

00:32:52.800 so many lgbt activists will very loudly say that they have experienced multiple hate crimes in their

00:33:01.240 lifetime when it's it just simply isn't possible where we're talking about 1200 people out of you

00:33:07.720 know 325 million that's it's interesting check because i think the jesse jesse smollett story a lot

00:33:14.820 of people on the conservative side have taken you know the media doing a terrible job with it which

00:33:19.620 is certainly a big part of the story but i think this developing incentive to climb up the intersectionality

00:33:26.640 ladder and show how you know show victimhood has become the the trophy you go for in the society and

00:33:34.160 those incentives i think are are even a bigger story than anything the media is doing

00:33:38.500 absolutely um when when he released this story and and and i've said that i don't i didn't necessarily

00:33:46.600 judge people who immediately stood up for him or who sympathized with him because that's just human

00:33:51.480 compassion once we started to see things that were problematic and they started to be bullies and yell at

00:33:57.540 people who questioned or asked questions that's when i started to be frustrated but the truth is that

00:34:03.180 once this story came out dozens and dozens and dozens of activists and celebrities and politicians

00:34:11.060 all suddenly poured out their love to this person and that is from a human perspective that is a very

00:34:20.180 difficult thing to to be strong enough to walk away from imagine the whole world telling you how brave

00:34:28.840 you are and how wonderful you are and how you are the voice of a generation um the human rights

00:34:33.640 campaign and chad griffin's the uh the president of the largest lgbt organization you know is is thank

00:34:41.660 you you speak for all of the uh queer poc people in the world and in america all the all the kids who face

00:34:50.460 hate every day who don't have a voice can now feel safe because you have a voice that's a very

00:34:55.920 intoxicating position to be in that the left is so used to people not questioning them that it seems

00:35:07.140 like a very easy thing to go after and i'll and i'll be honest i believe that very often they believe

00:35:14.740 these things are true even though they set it up there's this mindset in their head of i'm just acting

00:35:20.700 out what i know is happening every day because i have the power to bring it to light even though it

00:35:25.760 didn't happen to me specifically i am bringing a voice to it because i know that it's happening

00:35:30.960 everywhere yep so what do you think will happen to him in the gay community we only have a one minute

00:35:37.640 do you think jussie is going to pay a price for this or are they going to give him a soft landing

00:35:43.000 i think we're going to i'm surprised by the the sort of the negative you know the kind of i can't believe

00:35:49.860 he did this the truth is that everyone is sort of baffled and hurt but they're switching it to

00:35:55.020 look how excited conservatives are to pounce and this doesn't mean hate crimes aren't real and i

00:36:01.640 believe that that's i think that whatever happens to him legally he'll probably fade away but the

00:36:07.560 story is going to be more focused on this just shows us how important it is to fight real hate

00:36:13.020 crimes thank you so much chad felix green from the federalist uh great reporter and and a great guest

00:36:19.900 thank you so much for being on again with us

00:36:21.800 you're listening to the best of the glenn beck program

00:36:29.360 just read a tweet from uh kirsten powers she's she's got a string of tweets but this is the

00:36:44.400 most important i've spent i spent the last few weeks in a mostly twitter free zone to spend time

00:36:49.440 reflecting on what role i may have played in what has indisputedly become a dangerous toxic culture

00:36:56.500 i am not proud of what i have found

00:36:59.400 five years ago i asked will anyone in the press do this and take responsibility for what they have done

00:37:10.860 i'll take responsibility for what i've done will you even look at yourself she's the first person

00:37:16.600 to do it that i know of and i would like we disagree on a lot of things but i would love to have her on

00:37:24.300 and talk to her about this journey that she has made uh herself i think that's hats off hats off

00:37:31.700 all right i want to introduce you to uh somebody um shana lopez uh rivas is a gun rights activist

00:37:41.980 and she was she has a a rather dicey story at the beginning she was against uh guns and she had she

00:37:50.080 said she had all kinds of misconceptions um you know from the gun control groups that she kind of hung out

00:37:56.620 with uh but something happened that changed her mind and she has written a great uh article for

00:38:02.880 the miami herald uh the latest gun background check legislation would not have stopped the parkland

00:38:08.580 tragedy in fact it does so much more uh than that and shana is joining us now hello shana how are you

00:38:15.080 hi um i'm doing great good thanks for having me on you bet shana for those of you who don't

00:38:22.020 know uh can you give us a a a a a brief uh look at what happened to you i'm sorry i'm so uncomfortable

00:38:31.700 even asking you to go through this uh but can can you talk about what happened to you of course uh no

00:38:38.200 problem i um in 2014 i was on my college campus trying to um i was going to study at the library that

00:38:47.100 night uh finals were just a couple weeks away and um instead of studying i ended up being attacked

00:38:54.760 and raped on my college campus um he had a knife i had pepper spray it didn't really work out for me

00:39:01.320 and so from that night i made a promise to myself that i was never going to be a victim again and i

00:39:08.020 started um just delving into self-defense training and um came up came up with um firearms training and

00:39:15.680 have not really looked back since right um and now you are talking to friends and and you become a

00:39:24.220 gun rights activist uh with some credibility behind you uh and um you just uh just took a friend to

00:39:32.700 a uh a shooting range uh who was what neutral on guns or what were their opinion on guns when you went

00:39:41.500 yeah um i have a lot of friends that are just not either neutral on guns not very comfortable around

00:39:50.460 guns um so i kind of always just put out this standing notice essentially to to everyone in my

00:39:57.740 own network that hey like if you you know if you want firearms safety training like we don't you don't

00:40:05.400 have to agree with with um guns you don't have to ever touch a gun again but if you just want

00:40:10.480 you know basic safety and knowledge of how to use one i have no issue teaching teaching you that and

00:40:16.280 so i took my friend who was i wouldn't say she was anti-gun but she wasn't very pro-gun out to the

00:40:22.200 range um and she absolutely fell in love with it she loved every minute she was out there so um

00:40:30.520 i ended up writing about it for the miami herald because of um hra and how that would essentially

00:40:37.680 impact her training in the future this is amazing now this is called the bipartisan background checks

00:40:44.820 act of 2019 or hr 8 uh and it's supposed to make sure that gun safety this is just bipartisan

00:40:52.740 common sense gun safety except it's not explain what it will do so hra is um is what the bipartisan

00:41:03.360 background checks bill is um it does not actually uh one of the worst things that it does is does not

00:41:10.000 define transfer but essentially um it bans any private transfer of a firearm to um from one individual

00:41:17.980 to another so essentially um and and the example in the article that i gave i took my friend out to the

00:41:24.840 to the shooting range if i wanted to lend her a firearm so she could go back and like continue to train on her

00:41:30.900 um it would essentially make me a criminal if i didn't first go to a federal firearms license dealer

00:41:38.180 and get a background check done on her even though she's a close friend and i know her well i know she's

00:41:45.060 not a criminal i know she's not going to hurt herself or others but it would essentially make it a legal

00:41:49.480 punishable by up to um a one thousand dollar fine or a year in prison and there's no excuse for

00:41:56.260 ignorance on this um no none and would it ban would it ban you from taking her to um a shooting range

00:42:06.420 yourself and handing her the gun like for instance automatic weapons uh i have some fully automatic

00:42:13.300 weapons and they take all kinds of special license and everything else it's a nightmare to get through

00:42:19.000 but i cannot hand that weapon to somebody else unless they're on my license so if i just said

00:42:26.840 look at this and i handed it to a friend i could go to jail i'd go to prison for that does this does

00:42:33.600 does hr8 go that far do you know um hr8 originally did go that far however um in order to essentially

00:42:44.940 circumvent people from saying like that's what it's going to be um the the democrats and the people

00:42:51.700 that had written the bill essentially changed it to include a sense it basically makes very few

00:42:57.840 exceptions um but it essentially covers only the transfer the actual transfer of the firearm when

00:43:05.360 you are not there okay so essentially but the problem is it really doesn't define the word transfer

00:43:10.720 at all though so in theory yes it could um include that i did there's nothing better than

00:43:18.920 you know really important laws that are cryptic um it also you say will not stop criminals from

00:43:24.920 stealing firearms getting them on the black market or getting them through straw purchasers

00:43:29.740 no um it won't in fact there was a study that showed that 90 percent of criminals um get their guns

00:43:36.700 through illicit methods essentially and uh and it doesn't stop any of those methods um this hr8 was

00:43:44.980 also um they put this bill in markup the day before the parkland shooting anniversary and um the most

00:43:53.660 ironic part about that is that this bill would not have started parkland in any way if it was passed

00:43:59.120 then like at all it would have had no impact on it because the um person that committed that

00:44:06.000 horrible ass passed a background check anyway can you tell me how many how many how many guns

00:44:15.200 are being used by by criminals uh or killers that have borrowed a gun from their friend do you have

00:44:25.040 any idea i don't i don't know the actual like number for that but i did read recently read a study it

00:44:32.340 was um i think in the journal of preventative medicine that essentially like showed that 90

00:44:38.180 percent of of criminals they did a survey of um inmates that had been put in prison for firearm gun

00:44:44.260 related crimes and they said that like 90 percent of them said that they did not get they they got it

00:44:49.920 essentially from those off the book mean um means where like somebody knew who they were and gave it to

00:44:57.700 them as a gift anyway even though that's legal um or they stole it or um otherwise were given um

00:45:06.060 shared it with other like gang members that sort of thing so you're talking about like the majority of

00:45:11.900 criminals are getting their guns from like illicit means anyway they are not going to follow the law

00:45:17.540 anyway what are the odds hrh the hr8 passes in the house i think it'll pass yeah um in the senate

00:45:27.020 i don't know and i would really hope that if it did pass in the senate that president trump

00:45:33.420 wouldn't sign it into law but um you know i have concerns there too so

00:45:38.040 uh shana uh thank you so much for turning something bad in your life into something good

00:45:45.520 this is the best of the glenn beck program

00:45:51.780 can i switch subjects and go to farrakhan here's lewis farrakhan uh on um congresswoman

00:46:04.260 omar listen to this farrakhan to omar why was he on her well he should get off no

00:46:11.080 breaking up every pillar of democracy because there wasn't no damn democracy from the beginning

00:46:19.800 no it's a republic it needs to be broken up now you got my sisters in there

00:46:26.580 102 women in congress boy am i happy and one of them said that

00:46:33.640 she was using some funny language brother miss omar from somalia she started talking about the

00:46:41.500 benjamins and they trying to make her apologize i sweetheart don't do that

00:46:47.000 oh pardon me for calling you sweetheart but uh you do have a sweetheart

00:46:53.080 because you sure using it to shake the government up you have nothing to apologize for israel and

00:47:01.000 apac pays off senators and congressmen to do their bidding so you're not lying so if you're not lying

00:47:11.620 stop laying down you were sent there by the people to shake up that corrupt house shake it up

00:47:22.260 it's amazing he goes on to talk about the dirty jews and how the dirty jews are breaking up the

00:47:28.760 women's movement uh and trying to get him to uh uh say horrible things how long is this clip sir

00:47:36.380 because i've got 18 seconds yet just listen to this now the wicked jews wicked jews want to use

00:47:43.180 me to break up the woman's movement it ain't about firecon it's about women all over the world have the

00:47:53.440 power to change the world so uh he's uh he's still going he by the way he still has an account on

00:48:00.200 facebook he can still say all of these things you can't question on uh on twitter whether or not

00:48:07.600 uh jussie what's his name created a hate crime or committed a hate crime can't say learn to code

00:48:15.020 god forbid you say learn to code you're gonna get you to lose your account you can say all of these

00:48:19.140 things now there were two two reporters that i think show promise uh that show that maybe maybe

00:48:27.540 slightly a few things are starting to change and one i mentioned uh one i mentioned earlier and that

00:48:35.680 is kirsten powers now she is she's the reporter she was on fox she was annoying um well she yeah

00:48:42.340 she's the democrat that was on fox and all those debates right and so it's just like okay um but

00:48:48.480 there are a lot of republicans are that way uh as well on on uh television um but she just tweeted

00:48:54.620 that she has spent time away from social media and now she has examined her role on what she's done

00:49:02.300 to divide the country and she said i don't like the results uh and i find that very very comforting

00:49:09.420 and interesting from her because i would not say she was one of the worst offenders when it comes to

00:49:13.500 democrats on television if any i think she was on the better side generally of democratic commentators

00:49:20.000 uh but she yeah i disagree with her and she was one of those people you're just like frustrated with

00:49:25.240 yeah but she she doesn't she wasn't a flamethrower and this is a whether she is or not i mean just the

00:49:30.420 fact that she's at least examining and is a positive sign reflection there's also the cbs reporter

00:49:35.860 now this is uh laura laura logan laura logan if you remember laura logan she was the one that was

00:49:42.540 raped in uh egypt during the uh during the revolution the the uh the spring the arab spring

00:49:50.420 the glorious arab spring that was so wonderful and peaceful uh she was raped in that uh here she is

00:49:57.040 she's a 60 minutes reporter i want you to listen to what she said uh in this uh in this podcast

00:50:02.300 about reporters listen to this 85 percent of journalists are registered democrats so that's

00:50:11.060 just a fact right no one's registering democrats when they're rarely a republican so the facts are on

00:50:18.260 the side of what you just stated most journalists are are left or liberal or democrat or whatever word

00:50:24.220 you want to give it how do you know you're being lied to how do you know you're being manipulated how

00:50:30.060 do you know there's something not right with the coverage when they simplify it all and there's no gray

00:50:37.100 there's no gray it's all one way well life isn't like that for example you know all the coverage

00:50:45.380 on trump all the time is negative there's nothing there's there's nothing uh no mitigating policy

00:50:53.020 or event or anything that has happened since he was elected that is out there in the medias that you

00:50:59.500 can read about right well that tells you that's distortion of the way things go in real life because

00:51:05.240 although the media has always been historically always been left-leaning

00:51:09.700 we've abandoned um our our pretense or at least the effort to be objective today

00:51:18.620 unbelievable frankness and she's absolutely right it's what i wrote about in um addicted to outrage

00:51:25.620 i said if if you talk to everything that we everything we watch on donald trump it's all negative

00:51:31.440 or it's all absolutely positive that's not true mcdonald's is the greatest example there are times that

00:51:38.580 you want mcdonald's food there are other times you're like no it'll be all afternoon and you can

00:51:44.740 say mcdonald's has bad food but if i say to you yeah okay i'll agree with the shake and maybe a couple

00:51:49.480 things but their fries are the best if you can't admit that mcdonald's fries are the best there's

00:51:54.380 something wrong with you there is something wrong with you this donald trump is mcdonald's yeah there's

00:52:00.760 some bad things but there's some great things too you got to mention both if not you're not an honest

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