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00:00:00.000 Hey, welcome to the podcast. A lot to talk about today. We go back into the Jussie Smollett case

00:00:04.780 with a guy who has studied hate crimes and found many of them to be hoaxes. And what does this

00:00:12.060 mean? Also, Obamacare. What does this mean? The president now says the Republicans have to be

00:00:18.260 the party of health care. What does he mean by that? And is this just election talk coming from

00:00:24.080 the right? And we also have Helium Thursday. Helium Thursday, that's right. Which I think

00:00:31.760 is very important because we looked at AOC and she wanted people to take this Green New Deal

00:00:38.560 seriously. And you sure did. And you sure did. We did. And then I had an aneurysm towards the end

00:00:46.060 of the podcast where we start talking about the taxes, local taxes, and the way people are spending

00:00:53.520 local taxes. I happen to live in a town that I found out a little too much about during today's

00:00:59.960 podcast that just built a $15 million firehouse. The grand opening, I think, cost more than my

00:01:09.880 daughter's wedding. And nobody was pissed. None of my neighbors were pissed. They were like,

00:01:16.940 isn't this great? No, you paid for it. Anyway, before I have another aneurysm, here's the podcast.

00:01:23.520 The guy who, I mean, if we had a scale and we could weigh the balls on a person,

00:01:47.680 I would think that Jussie, which is a stupid name, Smollett equally as stupid. I think he might

00:01:57.240 win. I have a theory that he would not be nearly in as much trouble if he would have not gone on ABC

00:02:05.220 and said, yep. I mean, I'm just, you know, the police are looking and I'm just so beaten up about

00:02:11.060 this. And I believe it. And I think that just irritated the police and the mayor so much that

00:02:16.440 this guy had the balls to go on television and say that when it wasn't true. Acting like the victim

00:02:23.200 after he already faked acting like a victim. Correct. Is really frustrating. So really frustrating. Then

00:02:28.720 when they dismiss the charges earlier this week, he just ratchets it up. He's, if you were innocent,

00:02:36.260 why did you pay $10,000? That seems like a pretty bad deal for a guy who's been vindicated.

00:02:44.260 Okay. So he gives up his bail money of $10,000. Then he goes out and says, again, I've been completely

00:02:53.900 vindicated, which was not the deal. I think he's even in more trouble. And then this is what his attorney

00:03:02.660 says yesterday. Listen to this. Clearly you think the police are not telling the truth

00:03:08.420 about Jesse. Are you going to sue? We're weighing our options now for Jesse. What's really important

00:03:13.520 is he really just wants his career and his life back again. He did not ask for any of this. He

00:03:18.500 was a victim of a crime. This has completely spiraled out of control and become a political

00:03:24.140 event at this point. And his goal and focus right now is just getting his life back on track. He has not

00:03:31.500 even started healing from the initial attack because he's been dealing with everything that's

00:03:35.480 happened since then. Oh my, oh my, oh my. So they're weighing their options there. We don't know.

00:03:41.560 We might sue the police. You might sue the police. Forget the bleach. You are just putting gasoline

00:03:49.220 all over yourself. You're just, and you're in a match factory. It's crazy. I mean, they were lucky

00:03:56.300 enough to get the whole case sealed at this point, even though the FBI is looking into it and more may

00:04:00.800 come out. But if they were to actually sue and open themselves up to all of the evidence coming out

00:04:06.800 anyway, please do it. Please do it. Please do it. Please. Because there needs to be some justice here.

00:04:13.280 And, you know, again, I wasn't there. We know that, we know what he said happened didn't happen,

00:04:20.460 however, right? Like we know for a fact, two white guys did not do it. We know because we saw,

00:04:27.500 we have video of the two people who were accused, the two brothers with, you'd be buying the bleach,

00:04:33.400 buying the rope, buying the red hat, buying the masks, buying everything, everything. What were

00:04:40.460 they doing? Were they, were, are they, are they, uh, some sort of profits where they bought that stuff

00:04:47.700 because they were going to reenact it in their own home just for fun later? But they saw this event

00:04:53.460 coming. I mean, what, what, what is the other reason? I want to know just that guys, if this

00:05:00.240 isn't true, which the brothers say it is guys, if this isn't true, why did you go out in the middle

00:05:08.260 of the night to hardware store and buy all this stuff? What did you do with that? What, what,

00:05:14.260 what crazy list has those items on it except for let's go throw bleach on somebody, throw a noose

00:05:25.760 around their neck, shout, you know, this is Trump country. What else? Yeah. There's not a lot of

00:05:33.380 them. No, you'd have maybe, maybe, well, cause you had an incident similar to this recently in which

00:05:40.060 you went to a yard sale and wanted to buy a blank canvas, right? Well, no, I just, I look,

00:05:47.140 he's one of the campus, just one of the campus and you picked, you picked up a painting and it was

00:05:51.720 very controversial. Yes. You know, I'm into recycling. Right. You're a big environmentalist

00:05:58.500 as you were just talking about with the green new deal. Yeah. And, uh, so you picked up this

00:06:04.640 painting. Yeah. I didn't buy it for the painting and then I started seeing it after I got home and

00:06:12.260 I thought, okay, it's clearly unfinished, right? It's clearly undone, unfinished. And, uh, it, it looks

00:06:20.160 like the way German propaganda used to make Jews look. It's like the artist wanted to make Hitler 0.70

00:06:27.640 kind of look like that rat kind of guy that they used to make Jews look like. The victim of his 1.00

00:06:33.760 own propaganda. Correct. Then he's holding this piece of paper and I'm guessing it doesn't say

00:06:39.080 anything on it yet. Cause it's unfinished. I'm guessing, but I'm thinking it probably was going

00:06:44.140 to say, uh, you know, uh, infanticide not rejected by the Senate. And so then there's this Hitler kind of 0.68

00:06:54.340 looking down at this paper, like what? And then up above, and it looks like the, looks like the

00:06:59.880 artist was just like, I'm just going to throw this on here. Cause I just, I don't know if I,

00:07:03.040 this is going to work. And it says, wait, you mean I only had to call it planned parenthood?

00:07:10.360 Right. I mean, an offensive, uh, controversial piece of art. I thought, and you as the 100th most

00:07:17.680 important person in the world of art would know that that's a very controversial thing, but again,

00:07:23.240 you just bought it at a yard sale for the canvas. Correct. Nothing to do with this. Right.

00:07:27.800 Perhaps these two brothers were looking to design a hat, but had no blank hats.

00:07:35.500 Okay. They needed a white hat to be able to design their incredible artwork on. The only hat they

00:07:42.120 could find was red. And the only way to get it to white was bleach. Ah, so they bought a red hat.

00:07:48.160 They bleached the red hat. And the rope was simply like, you know, when you, um, uh, when you have

00:07:56.160 like sunglasses and some people put the little, little piece of like, you know, a string on the

00:08:01.700 back. So like they can hold it around their neck when they take them off. Sure. Perhaps it's Chicago.

00:08:07.720 It's a windy area. Perhaps they were concerned this hat would blow off of their heads. So you put rope

00:08:13.360 on the back of the back of the hat and tied it to maybe the waist. Still, I think you're onto

00:08:16.880 something. In case it blew away. Well, you tied it onto your waist. It wasn't just like the glasses

00:08:22.280 that just kind of hangs around your neck. Well, it's hanging around your neck. It would, you know,

00:08:26.100 the hat could still blow off. So you'd have to tie it to like your belt. That's a good fashion

00:08:31.320 accessory. First of all, it's sexy. I mean, that's the, we could start there. Okay. We could start

00:08:36.240 there. I think that's, I think that's very logical. I think maybe we should, we should

00:08:42.960 reenact this. We should, we should get a hat. We should bleach it. Let's try it. Use the

00:08:47.240 rope. Let's tie it around and see if, because I mean, if you, did you watch making a murderer

00:08:51.040 season two by any chance? No, I did not. Uh, it's on Netflix of course. And one of the

00:08:55.060 big focuses of the second season is they try all these other scenarios out that they think

00:09:00.380 could explain the murder and they just basically reenact them to see what would happen.

00:09:06.700 Can we do it tomorrow? Can we do it? Let's get the hat. Let's get the bleach. Let's get

00:09:10.520 the rope. Uh, and, uh, we'll, uh, the making of the Jesse Smollett non hate mongering friends

00:09:22.480 that he had. Right. Right. That's the great title. I don't know if Netflix takes it, but maybe

00:09:28.780 who, right. We're going to do that tomorrow. Uh, by the way, the TMZ founder, uh, let me

00:09:34.900 play the audio here. Um, he said he's never seen anything like this. This is not the way

00:09:39.680 celebrities are usually treated. I have never seen anything quite like this in my entire

00:09:45.340 career. Nobody understands what really happened here other than a few people in the state's

00:09:51.700 attorney's office. You're exactly right. This is bizarre. Makes no sense. I've seen celebrities

00:09:58.620 being handled differently, sometimes more harshly and sometimes less than the average Joe. But

00:10:04.860 this case is different from the way all celebrities would be treated. There is something fundamentally

00:10:09.860 different in this case. I have never seen this kind of a disposition where the state's attorney

00:10:16.900 secretly says, go to Jesse Jackson's for the weekend, spend a couple hours, you know, working

00:10:21.280 on camera shots and then we'll call that community. I've never seen anything like that. It's different

00:10:26.600 from other celebs. Hmm. Hmm. Hmm. Hmm. Well, you know, it's probably the bleach and the hat

00:10:36.400 thing and the rope around the belt. I think you, you might be onto something. We'll pick

00:10:41.040 that up on tomorrow's program. Booker had a town hall yesterday. That was pretty interesting.

00:10:47.380 He's, he's, I think right now you could just put him in the white house. Why even have the 0.78

00:10:51.660 election after that town hall? It was so good. Well, because we have to keep a Democrat. Sure.

00:10:56.140 We're going to have, we're going to have socialism, but we want it to be democratic. That's what

00:11:01.660 we really want. Oh, okay. So we want to, we want to at least have the appearance of a vote. Did

00:11:05.060 you read the article about how, uh, the Nazis weren't socialist? The national socialists were

00:11:11.860 not socialist. As I was reading, I was like, they will literally do anything, anything, anything.

00:11:17.400 They will even say the words that you know, mean things that they don't. It's crazy. It's

00:11:22.820 incredible. It is unbelievable. It goes to my snowball yesterday on the, uh, the news and

00:11:29.420 why it matters. I talked about a snowball and they've been making this giant small snowball

00:11:34.040 and rolling it up the hill. And they're like, we're going to get it to the top and it's going

00:11:38.620 to roll down the hill and crush everything. And it's just stopped and they keep pushing and

00:11:44.120 they keep adding to it and it stopped. And I think it's about to roll back on top of

00:11:49.600 them.

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00:12:08.080 This is the Glenn Beck program. Um, for some reason, Glenn and Pat have decided to dedicate

00:12:14.100 a segment once a week to helium Thursdays. This is a segment in which they discuss something

00:12:22.540 while sounding like they're on helium this week on helium Thursday, they discuss the green

00:12:29.480 new deal.

00:12:30.580 Hello, Pat. Hello, Glenn. I want to talk to you about the serious issue of global warming

00:12:38.100 and the new green deal or the green new deal, whichever. Right. Right. So I don't know if

00:12:45.720 anybody saw AOC speech yesterday, but I believe that it needs to be taken seriously. Oh, and

00:12:54.540 we're treating it with the utmost seriousness. All right. So may I quote, she said yesterday,

00:13:02.260 people are dying. People are dying. And this is not an elitist issue. This is a quality of

00:13:13.660 life issue. You want to tell people that their concern and their desire for clean air, clean

00:13:21.040 water is elitist. Tell that to the kids in the South Bronx, which are suffering from the highest

00:13:28.080 rates of childhood asthma in the country. Tell that to the families in Flint, whose kids

00:13:35.560 have their blood ascending in lead levels. Their brains are damaged for the rest of their

00:13:41.780 lives. It didn't have anything to do with climate change, by the way. Call them elitists. You're

00:13:48.260 telling them that those kids are trying to get onto a plane to Davos? People are dying.

00:13:56.080 They're dying. And the response from the other side of the aisle is to introduce an amendment

00:14:04.980 for five minutes before a hearing in a markup. Will no one take this seriously? Can you take

00:14:15.900 it more seriously than putting it up for a vote? I don't, I don't think you can. I don't think

00:14:21.860 again. Uh, I noticed that, uh, Daisy Harano, Daisy Head Maisie. Yes. Uh, she was asked if

00:14:32.040 she wants to have it both ways because she didn't want the vote, but she is a co-sponsor 0.82

00:14:37.920 of the bill. And so she was asked yesterday, even by Katie Tourer on CNN, if she's trying

00:14:45.880 to have it both ways, yes. And she said, no, this is an aspirational document. Oh. It's aspirational?

00:14:55.020 I thought you wanted, I thought you wanted it to be a policy. Well, why would you put the bill

00:14:59.880 together with all of the policies in it if it was just aspirational? Because I do know an

00:15:06.920 aspirational document that they seem to hate. It's one that says something like, uh, all men are

00:15:14.340 created equal and endowed by their creator or something like that. If this is just aspirational,

00:15:21.020 why don't you take that document and stick it up your aspiration?

00:15:28.800 That's my question to Daisy Head Maisie. Well, we talk about cost, but we're going to pay for

00:15:37.620 this, said Ocasio-Cortez. Whether we do the New Deal or not, because towns and cities are going

00:15:45.860 underwater. Which ones? I missed that report. Oh, there's lots of them. There is Malibu? Is

00:15:57.620 underwater? Pretty sure. Huh. And there is, um, um, um, um, um, is Miami? Miami? Miami's got to be

00:16:09.180 underwater. Atlantis is underwater? It's true. So there's lots of them. Anyway, she says we're

00:16:17.600 going to pay for them, and we're either going to decide if we're going to pay or react. Are we going

00:16:23.760 to react and pay or be proactive and pay? She says, I'm very sad that the government knew

00:16:31.400 that climate change was real back in 1989 when NASA was reporting this, and the private sector

00:16:40.160 knew it even before. They knew it back in the 1970s. So we had to wait around until the time

00:16:51.580 I was born to address this issue. Well, but in the 1970s, it was global cooling, right? We

00:16:59.940 were going into an ice age. I know that, so. We're just taking it. Please, Pat, are you

00:17:07.140 taking this seriously? I am. I am. Very concerned. I wish it didn't have to cost so much, but I'm

00:17:14.020 going to turn 30 this year, and for the entire 30 years of my lifetime, we did not make substantial

00:17:21.360 investments to prepare our country for what we know is coming. So we have a choice now. Lower

00:17:28.680 the cost now and pursue the Green New Deal, or realize that it will cost far more if we do

00:17:39.840 not. This has been Helium Thursdays on the Glenn Beck Program.

00:17:46.840 I don't know about you, but I think it's much more powerful. It is. It is. At least you can deal

00:17:59.180 with it. It gave that story the gravitas it deserves. Yes. Don't you think? Yes, because

00:18:04.000 they're always saying that we just won't deal with things, and we should deal with them. We

00:18:09.840 should deal with them seriously. I think it is incredible that these clowns actually put

00:18:17.200 a bill together, and then, okay, let's pass it. All right. We'll get it. When was the last time

00:18:24.900 the Democrats said, okay, you guys created a bill. You did the border wall. Go ahead. Pass it. Let's

00:18:34.640 vote on it right now. Right. They've never done that. No. Never done that. I wish they would.

00:18:40.840 I do, too. Okay, great. Let's put everybody on record. Let's put everybody on record. Go ahead.

00:18:47.200 And what does Ocasio-Cortez say? She says that she told everybody how to vote. She said she told

00:18:55.140 everybody that they had to vote present. That was the way to do it. So are you telling me,

00:19:00.920 all you people running for president of the United States, that Ocasio-Cortez is telling you how to

00:19:08.460 vote? That's what she's saying, Democrats. Oh, my gosh. She's saying that she's telling you how to

00:19:14.420 vote. God, I can't wait for this. I can't wait for this fall. Oh, man. This is going to be so

00:19:18.420 dramatic. Have you heard my snowball theory yet? Yes, that the snowball has gotten so big,

00:19:24.040 and they're pushing it uphill, and it's about to roll back on. Yes. Yes. Yes. Because it's

00:19:28.480 collecting all kinds of stuff where it's becoming... You know, I talked yesterday about the creepy

00:19:33.920 valley, or the uncanny valley. Do you know what the uncanny valley is? No. Uncanny valley is a thing

00:19:40.220 in CGI and animation, and we all have experienced it. For instance, you know, when you went to see

00:19:48.660 the Polar Express, it was good, but it wasn't... It was just a little creepy. The Tom Hanks character was

00:19:56.600 just a little creepy. Not creepy, but just a little bit. It wasn't off-putting. It was off-putting.

00:20:01.860 It wasn't warm. It wasn't... You didn't want to embrace it. You know what I mean? Yeah. It's

00:20:06.620 because they were trying to make him look too human. That's why Pixar and everybody else, when

00:20:11.440 they do CGI, they will make their eyes really big. They will distort the human features, because

00:20:17.420 as you get closer to looking just like a human, there's something innate in us that says,

00:20:23.700 ick. When it's not exactly right, we say, ick. There's something wrong with that, and

00:20:28.760 that's called the uncanny valley. So as you get closer and closer to, you know, having

00:20:35.020 this human, as CGI gets better and better and goes up this hill, all of a sudden it reaches

00:20:40.300 a point to where it's too close but not right, and it plunges down and it creeps people out.

00:20:46.420 That's what's happening with the Democrats right now. They are... The American people

00:20:53.580 are compassionate. They're fair. They don't want people to be racist. Nobody wants to be

00:21:00.620 around Nazis. Nobody wants people to have sexual harassment. So they've done all these things,

00:21:06.740 and they're getting closer and closer to, like, you know, the heart, and they're like,

00:21:12.120 yeah, this is us, this is us, this is us, this is us, and it's going up, and then all

00:21:17.800 of a sudden it goes too far, and you're like, oh, wait a minute. There's something really

00:21:24.460 wrong here. And even if you can't put your finger on it, it's just in all places. With

00:21:31.500 abortion, it went compassion, compassion, compassion, compassion to, uh-oh, there's something wrong

00:21:36.760 here. I don't feel good about where this is headed. Same thing with Jesse Smollett.

00:21:41.280 And we saw it with, with, um, the Me Too movement with, um, uh, what's his name? Uh,

00:21:48.320 the Supreme Court justice, uh, um, Kavanaugh, Kavanaugh. People were like, okay, no, this is

00:21:55.560 a really good thing. The Me Too movement. Then it started to get really creepy, and then it

00:21:59.480 hit Kavanaugh and it fell apart. They're standing behind this giant snowball of social justice,

00:22:06.060 green energy, all of this stuff. They've made this snowball. It kept getting bigger and bigger

00:22:11.260 and they're just about up at the top, and they're thinking, we are going to roll it down

00:22:15.000 into that valley, and we're going to crush everybody. But the snowball, I firmly believe,

00:22:20.500 has stopped. It's not rolling back yet, but it's stopped. And they're pushing harder and harder and

00:22:26.720 pushing more snow on it, more things on it, and they don't realize that that snowball, because they

00:22:32.620 keep doing this, is going to roll back and crush them. What do you think of that?

00:22:36.440 I think, I think it's a pretty good analogy. I think, I think that could happen. I hope it happens,

00:22:41.380 because otherwise we're doomed. They always, that snowball goes over the top and down the

00:22:45.460 other side. We're done. It's a, it's a real problem. Yeah. Yeah, we're done. One way or another,

00:22:49.600 it's going to wipe, it's going to wipe one, one way or the other, it's going to wipe everything out.

00:22:54.440 It's either going to wipe out all this social justice. You know, there is, there, there is no 0.84

00:23:00.380 difference between male and female. There is no right and wrong. It's all about social justice,

00:23:06.540 reverse the power pyramid of the most, you know, intersected, being the most powerful, all of that.

00:23:14.120 If it rolls down the hill towards us, they get to the top and it rolls down. It, that's the world

00:23:20.580 we will have. But I have a feeling the American people are being creeped out by it. It's really

00:23:26.740 hard to get anything meaningful out of this conversation without helium. Right. See,

00:23:31.500 that's exactly right. Exactly right. This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:23:50.520 I want to pick up a conversation that I was having with Dr. Will Riley yesterday about,

00:23:56.740 uh, hate crimes. Tell me about quickly your search on hate crimes and what you, what you write about

00:24:04.860 in a hate crime hoax. How did you come up with this? What was your methodology and what did you find?

00:24:12.000 Well, in a sentence, the pitch line, good to be back on with you guys, by the way. Thank you.

00:24:16.000 In a sentence. Yeah. The, the pitch line for hate crime hoax is that very many, probably most

00:24:21.640 of the high profile, widely publicized hate crime incidents that we've seen in the recent past have

00:24:27.640 turned out to be hopeless. So we recently saw the complete collapse of the Jussie Smollett case.

00:24:33.560 Uh, just a bit before that, the last, my last appearance, we discussed Covington Catholic where

00:24:37.300 the claim was that this group of prep school athletes had surrounded this elderly native American

00:24:42.980 guy. They chanted build the wall, odd thing to say to an Indian. They tried to take his drum away.

00:24:47.920 Uh, but Eastern Michigan, there was allegedly graffiti all over the campus, targeting African

00:24:52.980 American students, Air Force Academy, where Jay Silveria literally came to the campus and spoke

00:24:58.640 out against racism. One of our top generals, uh, Grand Rapids where a young black woman claimed that

00:25:03.740 white men urinated on her, uh, University of Virginia, where the fraternities were accused of 0.99

00:25:08.200 holding these sort of underground story of O style rape rings, Duke lacrosse, Tawana Brawley. I mean,

00:25:14.040 you could go back for decades with this. All of the cases that I just mentioned turned out not to

00:25:18.640 have been real. And a couple of years ago, as a graduate student in Chicago, I became aware of

00:25:23.300 this trend because I was actually involved in a hate crime hopes case. Um, the bar Velvet Ultra

00:25:29.900 Lounge, Velvet Rope Ultra Lounge, which was a very trendy, it was billed as a hipster bisexual nightlife

00:25:36.140 experience, if I recall correctly, very Chicago. But, um, this trendy bar that a couple of my friends

00:25:42.120 and one of my ex-girlfriends would attend from time to time burned to the ground. This was,

00:25:46.120 I believe, in 2013. And the claim of the owner was that throughout the bar, there were written

00:25:51.520 these horrendous anti-gay slurs. Um, you know, gasoline or some accelerant had been used to set

00:25:58.280 the place on fire. He had been targeted with hate. So I sort of casually followed that case,

00:26:02.860 like most young professionals in Chicago at the time. And as I did that, I became aware of another case,

00:26:08.300 which involved a guy named Derek Coquelin at the University of Chicago. Uh, this was a student

00:26:13.220 activist, a typical cliche Guevara type campus radical, but he, uh, claimed that his Facebook

00:26:19.680 and Twitter page had been hacked. And these very violent messages threatening him with things that

00:26:24.600 are never okay, brutal rape and so on, had been sent to him by conservative students. So I was paying

00:26:29.340 attention to both these cases, and there were a few others going on in the Midwest at the time.

00:26:33.140 Uh, at Grand Valley State, a young black woman claimed that during Black History Month,

00:26:37.940 someone had broken into her room, I believe, and written anti-black epithets on kind of the white

00:26:42.620 board that college students keep. Uh, at Michigan Tech, a white student was suspended for allegedly

00:26:48.440 initially saying he was going to shoot all the black people on campus. It turned out he said he

00:26:51.820 was going to shoot them a smile on Twitter that was photographed using screenshots. It was miscropped

00:26:58.080 to make him look like a racist. But as I followed these local cases, they all collapsed. I mean,

00:27:02.800 four or five big name, high profile cases you can still find. Uh, in the Velvage Ultra Lounge case,

00:27:08.940 you had a bizarre situation where the owner apparently owed a lot of money to, in Chicago,

00:27:14.040 perhaps people you wouldn't necessarily want to owe money to. Uh, he'd racked up a lot of debt

00:27:18.180 and he just set the place on fire, burned it to the ground, and then claimed it was a hate crime.

00:27:23.320 So held a fundraiser where he raised something like $30,000, paid off his debts and opened a new

00:27:28.600 business. So the story that actually emerged was kind of a circus. As I understand, he owns a bar

00:27:33.580 called Bonsai Bar in Chicago today. Um, but following these cases and watching them collapse

00:27:40.060 as they did, as I said at Michigan Tech, the student, Matt Schultz turned out to be a complete

00:27:44.960 anti-racist Christian guy. As I recall, no racial prejudices. He had actually said, I'm going to shoot

00:27:49.960 everyone a smile tomorrow to tone down these racial tensions. And a campus activist had taken that 0.63

00:27:54.620 message, screenshot it, and cropped it to make him look like a shooter. So after these cases all

00:28:00.480 collapsed, I decided to use modern empirical methods, which I had access to at that time,

00:28:04.980 Stata, the more advanced SPSS programs, you know, data crunching computers as I was a grad student at

00:28:10.400 a good university, and see how frequent this stuff was. And as I graduated and I went into academia,

00:28:16.600 I compiled a full list of these cases. I have 516 cases of hate crime hoax, and I put the book

00:28:22.180 together, and that recently was published on February 26th with Regnery, a large conservative

00:28:27.020 publisher. And I mean, you asked about methodology, a lot of it's simply looking, really using Google

00:28:33.780 Scholar, Bing Advanced, JSTOR, any of these resources to look for, you know, hate crime 2016, 2017,

00:28:43.700 pick up the cases that you see, and then see how many of them survive to the end. So I defined a fake

00:28:50.300 hate crime as a case where there's a serious report, either mass media coverage or police

00:28:56.300 report, about 93% of the time it was both, that turns out to have either never occurred or to have

00:29:02.360 been staged by the quote-unquote victim, or to have been committed by people very, very differently from

00:29:07.400 those originally alleged to have committed it. And they're not infrequent. Kind of last point here,

00:29:14.400 but I will say I'm not the only person ever to research this. It just until this book had been almost

00:29:19.520 an underground thing. So you had www.fakehatecrimes.org. That's a great resource, but that's just an

00:29:26.380 internet site hosted by a couple of independent researchers. You have the fake hate map, but that,

00:29:32.060 as I recall, is on Reddit, or it's taken off Reddit, now it has its own site. But again, that's not affiliated

00:29:36.540 with the university. But I looked through those resources, and I compared them to my list, and I found

00:29:40.840 that most of the cases on those lists were also real. They were hoaxes that had occurred. They

00:29:45.560 just hadn't been widely documented. So using all those tools, basically in a sentence, I put the

00:29:49.540 book together, I sold it, and the response to it has been good. Okay, so how common are these?

00:29:56.700 What is the percentage of hate crimes that are hoaxes? It's actually a bit, I'm going to give an

00:30:02.960 estimate, but it's actually a bit difficult to estimate that. So over, most of my cases are concentrated

00:30:09.280 in a period of about five years. I did a lot of research in 2017. I started in grad school around

00:30:14.580 2012. So you've got 516 cases concentrated very heavily between 2012 and 2017. What an opponent

00:30:21.720 would say, someone who argues that there are a lot of hate crimes, is, well, there are 7,000 hate

00:30:27.220 crimes reported every year. So that's still only 5% or whatever it might be of the cases. There are two

00:30:33.580 issues with that. First of all, only about one in 10 hate crime cases is nationally reported to the

00:30:39.980 extent where a researcher like myself could ethically see a story where it begins and a story where it

00:30:45.020 ends and put it in the data set. So I'm really looking at about 700 cases a year, not 7,000 that

00:30:50.980 would even be available to me, where you've had that kind of media coverage. So, I mean, first of all,

00:30:55.640 the most baseline estimate would be, okay, 516 out of, you know, seven times five out of 3,500.

00:31:01.320 But that brings in some other questions, though. When you look at hate crime reports, in the case

00:31:07.940 of most crimes, if you're talking about murder, it's hard to ignore a corpse. If you're talking

00:31:12.140 about burglary where there's someone in your house, the number of reports is pretty much equivalent to

00:31:17.060 the number of crimes. With hate crimes, that doesn't really seem to be true. So there's 7,000 reports

00:31:25.580 in a typical year, but the rate of conviction in hate crime cases seems to be between 5% and 10%.

00:31:31.300 So in California, in the most recent year on record, which is 2016, you had 931 reported hate

00:31:39.860 crimes, most on college campuses, which I think is interesting. But of those, only 220 were shot

00:31:45.740 along by the police to the prosecution, which is a very basic standard that means we have a suspect,

00:31:51.900 and we believe this wasn't a hoax. We have any kind of suspect, and this probably happened.

00:31:55.340 Of those, only 51 led to a conviction, and that includes all plea bargains. So I guess my numbers

00:32:01.300 would be over five years, you're looking at 3,500 nationally reported cases. I've got, say,

00:32:07.020 because they're not all in this period, 450 hoaxes. That's the rate of, say, 15%. But the real

00:32:11.960 comparison to me would be between hoaxes and convictions. So I mean, if those 3,500 cases produce

00:32:18.980 350 convictions, the final number would be you have 350 convictions and 450 hoaxes. So there's

00:32:27.260 a very high rate of hoaxing in this field. I don't think anyone, the numbers there are a little

00:32:32.820 estimated, but pretty much on point. Like, I don't think anyone could dispute. There are a large

00:32:36.680 number of these.

00:32:37.260 So I'm going to take a one minute break, and then I'm going to come back, and I want to talk to you.

00:32:40.680 Is there any tell that happens in these fake hoaxes? Do they have anything in common? But also,

00:32:52.500 what, I'm going to bring it back to Chicago, and I'll start here. The Jesse Smollett case,

00:32:57.760 with him being, he says, vindicated, and with half the country, I don't even think half the country,

00:33:05.980 with 20% of the country, they'll look at it as vindication, and the other will not. What are

00:33:11.940 the ramifications of that? And what does that tell somebody else who is prone to be a hate crime

00:33:20.320 hoaxer? We'll continue the conversation here in just a second. This is Dr. Will Riley.

00:33:27.820 He has written a great book called Hate Crime Hoax.

00:33:35.980 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck Program.

00:33:49.620 So part of my job in this time when everybody seems to be running for something all the time,

00:33:55.820 and so you don't know what people really mean until they do it, and you can't really trust anybody,

00:34:01.380 what anybody says, in a run-up to an election, because they'll run any direction that they want.

00:34:07.320 Look at the Democratic Party running so far left. They will eventually, when they coalesce around

00:34:13.760 somebody, then they will run to the right. Who do you believe? When you can't believe the media,

00:34:20.560 and you don't really know what the hell is going on, what is really happening? And when it comes to

00:34:29.140 health care, this is costing us so much money as individuals. Businesses are struggling. People

00:34:37.600 are struggling. There is real pain. And our health care system is so screwed up now that it's far worse

00:34:45.920 than it's ever been. And we're, I think, the people in Washington are going to kill it.

00:34:52.600 Now, there's a story that came out earlier that showed that Donald Trump said, hey, we've got to

00:34:58.400 be the party of health care. I don't even know what that means. We should be the party of the free

00:35:04.560 market. That's the way to fix it. Really open up the free market. But I don't think anybody's really

00:35:12.040 talking about that. And there is a court case that I'm not sure if people are just hyping this because

00:35:20.220 they think it'll get votes or if it's real. But Texas has decided to sue and say, you know, the individual

00:35:28.960 mandate, you said, the court said it was not a fee. It was a tax. And because it was a tax, it's

00:35:37.440 constitutional. The Obama administration said, and by the way, if you get rid of the mandate,

00:35:43.460 then you get rid of the entire health care system because it doesn't work and the whole thing

00:35:48.660 collapses. So Texas is saying, well, there is no tax because it's zero. So there is no mandate.

00:35:57.040 We should abolish all of it. California, of course, is coming out, blah, blah, blah. Donald Trump has said

00:36:02.740 that he is not going to go to court and defend Obamacare. Is this a big deal? What does it all

00:36:10.680 mean? The other part of my job is to try to figure it out and and bring in the people who actually

00:36:16.360 follow this for a living and know it. Philip Klein is an expert on this. He's executive editor at the

00:36:22.540 Washington Examiner. He's also an author of Overcoming Obamacare. What is really happening, Philip?

00:36:30.260 Well, there are a few things happening. I think it's pretty clear that that what happened is that

00:36:37.580 Republicans, through four election cycles, promised that they were going to repeal and replace Obamacare.

00:36:44.080 And when they had a chance to do it, they couldn't. At the time, I said this was the biggest broken

00:36:50.020 promise in American history, because never before had you had a promise that office holders in one

00:36:57.120 party at every level of government, state, local, federal, said, we're going to repeal this thing.

00:37:02.940 And then they had a chance and they didn't do it. And now that President Trump is in re-election mode,

00:37:10.280 he recognizes that this is a big problem that he didn't deliver on his promise to repeal and replace.

00:37:18.140 And so because Democrats control the House, there's not much you can do. So now he's looking to the

00:37:27.620 courts. I think that this particular case, and I've written a lot about it, I was a big proponent of

00:37:36.560 the challenge to Obamacare in 2012, and I was outraged by Chief Justice Roberts' decision. But in

00:37:46.800 this case, I think the argument is much weaker. And I don't think that it really has a chance at the

00:37:54.680 Supreme Court, because of the fact that they need John Roberts to sign on to it. And if he refused to

00:38:05.880 overturn Obamacare, when the mandate had a penalty attached, and it was more, it had more coercive

00:38:14.440 power, and even he found a way to rule that that's constitutional, now that the tax is zero dollars,

00:38:22.760 it's very doubtful that he's going to somehow revisit that and say he wants to overturn it,

00:38:32.080 particularly because in 2012, when the Supreme Court originally heard the case, nobody had benefited

00:38:38.480 from Obamacare yet. There was, you know, the exchange didn't open until 2014. So at that point,

00:38:45.180 they could have struck down Obamacare, and it wouldn't have harmed anyone. Whereas now,

00:38:51.920 if the Supreme Court were going to strike it down, then millions of people who receive benefits would

00:38:58.440 lose those benefits. Now, you and I have a different view of what government's power should

00:39:03.800 be. But the reality is that that's going to weigh on John Roberts. He found a way to save Obamacare

00:39:09.880 the first time. He's not going to destroy it now that millions of people depend on it for a case that

00:39:16.880 has a weaker legal argument.

00:39:19.160 What do you think, Philip, about the way he handled this? There's a story now that's come out

00:39:23.400 that John Roberts. I mean, he contorted himself into a pretzel and changed his mind. All the things

00:39:32.260 that we had heard rumor of now been verified that he was looking at the image of the court

00:39:40.200 and not the actual law. He just wanted to save the and protect the image of the court that that to me

00:39:47.980 is impeachable as a Supreme Court justice. Go ahead.

00:39:54.360 Yeah, there's this new book out, and I wrote something on it because it's a biography of John Roberts

00:40:04.840 and his time on the Supreme Court, and there's a chapter on his deliberations in Obamacare.

00:40:10.780 And what was pretty revealing to me is that if you read the book, if you trust this account,

00:40:17.200 then effectively he treated the Supreme Court like a legislative body.

00:40:26.480 And there are many points in the book where it says he was conflicted between his head and his heart,

00:40:31.560 what his head said, you know, the law said versus the idea of overturning a law that was meant to address

00:40:39.840 the health insurance crisis. And when they first voted on the law, according to the book,

00:40:47.280 Roberts voted to overturn the individual mandate and actually uphold the Medicaid expansion.

00:40:54.900 And the actual decision ended up being the opposite because of all the horse trading that went on.

00:41:02.300 The other conservatives on the bench thought that all of Obamacare had to go if the mandate went

00:41:09.180 and he was – Roberts was uncomfortable with that. So he went to the liberals and said,

00:41:16.300 OK, if I say that it's OK as a tax, will you sign on to overturning the Medicaid portion?

00:41:23.900 So effectively, the way it seems is though he decided that he wanted to overturn part of Obamacare,

00:41:32.060 but substantially keep it intact. And then he reversed engineered a legal argument to get to that point

00:41:39.880 and negotiated with the various justices to get agreement on that, as opposed to just narrowly being dictated by

00:41:48.060 what is the law to say and what is this allowable under the Constitution. And I think that's very worrisome.

00:41:54.800 When you look at the future and, you know, the reason why I think, my personal opinion,

00:42:03.560 the GOP didn't get rid of Obamacare is because they didn't have a replacement. And they are looking

00:42:09.480 at repeal and replace. I don't want it replaced. I want the free market opened up. I want the laws

00:42:17.120 that have made this a very profitable game for some people to go away. Let me buy insurance across

00:42:27.480 state lines, et cetera, et cetera. Just open up the free market. Donald Trump, when he says,

00:42:33.020 we have to be the party of health care, what do you think that means? And what do the people – is

00:42:39.400 there anybody that is looking at the free market? Is that a chance of ever coming back, in your opinion?

00:42:44.380 I think it's very unlikely. Look, in 2015, I saw all of this coming, and I wrote my book,

00:42:53.100 Overcoming Obamacare. And what that did is it said, right now, the right's divided on Obamacare.

00:42:59.280 There's plenty of plans out there. Contrary to the myth that Republicans don't have a plan.

00:43:04.540 In actuality, there were a lot of plans. There were too many. Nobody could agree on one single

00:43:10.560 approach. So I said, okay, here are the three basic approaches, ranging from reforming Obamacare to

00:43:18.680 make it less restrictive, to what you're saying, which I said, let's restart and move in a purely

00:43:25.840 free market direction and completely scrap it, right? And I said, here are basically the three

00:43:31.340 different paths you can choose. And Republicans have to decide on this and fight this out among

00:43:38.300 themselves now so that when they're in a position to do something, they could hit the ground running.

00:43:45.480 Obviously, they didn't take my advice, and all of the fights that I predicted several years in advance

00:43:53.960 played out and nothing was agreed on. And so I think it's a real problem, and it continues to be

00:44:01.500 the problem, because say what you want about the Democrats, they know what they want to do. They

00:44:05.940 want to take over everyone's health care. They want the private insurers out of it. They want one

00:44:11.600 single government insurer, and they want that insurer to dictate prices to doctors and hospitals and

00:44:18.120 everyone to be on the same plan. We know what they want, and they're very clear about it,

00:44:23.140 and the only argument on the left is how quickly they can get there. On the right, there is this

00:44:30.440 sort of disagreement, because you have people that are trying to be Democratic-lite, and they're

00:44:35.580 trying to say, well, let's expand Medicaid a little less. Let's provide a little fewer subsidies. 0.80

00:44:42.820 And the argument I made during the whole repeal debate is, look, the bill that you're writing that's

00:44:48.780 trying to make all these accommodations to the left is a 20% support. It's getting attacked by the left

00:44:56.780 and, you know, the media. So why not go to an actual free market plan that's going to reduce

00:45:03.300 people's premiums? If you said that we're going to have a plan that allows people to purchase the type

00:45:09.000 of health insurance that they want, it would be a totally, you know, we'd have a totally different

00:45:14.720 system. And that's the problem, is that we have a system in which people think either the government

00:45:20.560 or their employer are picking everything up. So the normal free market mechanisms that work in

00:45:26.500 every other part of the free market, you know, aren't applicable to health care for that reason.

00:45:34.140 And the, you know, I make the example in my book, like, look at the, you know, look at an iPhone,

00:45:42.580 right? In, you know, 20 years ago, there was this famous meme on the internet a few years back where

00:45:48.480 it showed a Radio Shack ad from the 1990s. And it had a video camera and a answering machine and a

00:45:57.920 telephone and an alarm clock and all of these things that you could now carry around in your

00:46:03.660 pocket because there is competition for people to make, to innovate and to find a way to bring

00:46:14.540 down prices and increase quality over time. And, you know, the power of what I carry around in my

00:46:22.000 pocket is drastically different from, you know, what existed within my own lifetime. And there's no

00:46:29.320 reason that that type of innovation can't happen in health care beyond the fact that we have a system

00:46:34.460 in which everything is rigged from the top down and where government sets all the rules or everything

00:46:41.800 has to be rigged through the employer. People don't have any choice over what type of insurance they

00:46:48.060 have. And, you know, if Republicans don't rally around the plan, I could tell you exactly what's

00:46:54.600 going to happen. You're going to have Democrats take over, if not in 2021, then in 2025, someday,

00:47:00.700 and they're going to want to go in the direction of single payer. They may not get there overnight,

00:47:06.140 but they'll try to, you know, they'll expand Obamacare, they'll end what's, you know, a government

00:47:12.080 plan to Obamacare and rig the game so that millions and millions of people shift over to that. That's what

00:47:18.400 the argument is on the left right now. Philip Klein, executive editor of Washington Examiner,

00:47:23.000 also the author of Overcoming Obamacare. Thanks. Thanks so much for talking to me. I want to play

00:47:28.360 something because what he just said is in 2021 or 2025, they will take over. And the way he said it

00:47:34.620 reminded me of the Trojan horse audio. Now, this is, this is such important audio. This is what we

00:47:43.060 played at Fox and it was inside the left. Who was, who was this? Stu, do you remember?

00:47:49.360 Uh, Jacob, uh, something from the Tides Foundation? Yeah. And he was talking to a group

00:47:57.160 of leftist and, and policymakers, and he was talking about Obamacare and how we are going to

00:48:03.160 do Obamacare, but don't worry about Obamacare. Come together. Now, where are the secret meetings of

00:48:08.880 us saying, okay, we're going to do this, but don't worry. It's a Trojan horse to get us back to a free

00:48:14.640 market. Are there any, anybody that actually believes in that anymore? Listen to what they

00:48:19.660 said. We played this. We talked about it almost every night for almost a year and it was dismissed.

00:48:27.540 Listen to it. I, someone once said to me, this is a Trojan horse for a single payer. And I said,

00:48:31.860 well, it's not a Trojan horse, right? It's just right there. I'm telling you, we're going to get

00:48:36.580 there over time slowly, but we'll move away from reliance on employment-based health insurance as we

00:48:42.360 should, but we'll do it in a way that we're not going to, to frighten people into thinking they're

00:48:47.120 going to lose their private insurance. We're going to give them a choice of public and private

00:48:50.340 insurance when they're in the pool. And we're going to let them keep their private employment-based

00:48:53.800 insurance if their employer continues to provide it. There it is. This is the best of the Glenn Beck

00:49:01.580 program.

00:49:12.460 So Pat, who gets a speeding ticket every time he crosses into my town.

00:49:19.860 I paid for that firehouse you're talking about.

00:49:22.600 No, you didn't.

00:49:23.900 The Pat Gray dividend.

00:49:24.900 Yes.

00:49:25.100 No, you didn't.

00:49:25.840 No, you didn't.

00:49:28.440 I'll show you my, I'll show you my property tax. No, you didn't. You maybe bought the stove,

00:49:35.700 but I bought the movie theater. I bought the end suite, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, live in quarters

00:49:44.440 for everyone.

00:49:45.320 I mean, how much did just this coin cost that Tim got at the grand opening?

00:49:51.780 I mean, just sending this to 800 or 900 residents of your town.

00:49:57.420 Wait, wait, wait.

00:49:58.940 Yeah.

00:49:59.460 Wait, wait.

00:50:00.760 Wait, what?

00:50:02.100 There's something like 900 residents of your town.

00:50:05.740 900.

00:50:06.620 No, my town's bigger than that.

00:50:07.520 And that's why you need.

00:50:08.880 Is my town bigger than that?

00:50:10.860 Everything here kind of bleeds into itself.

00:50:14.340 How big is my town?

00:50:16.120 We have a $15 million firehouse.

00:50:18.660 How big of a firehouse does this town need?

00:50:22.140 You're telling me it's smaller than I thought?

00:50:23.760 I thought we were like 20,000 people.

00:50:25.320 Oh, no.

00:50:26.000 Nowhere near.

00:50:26.800 Nowhere near.

00:50:27.400 We have a 15.

00:50:28.600 What is the population of my town?

00:50:29.960 It's definitely bigger than what Pat's saying.

00:50:31.580 It's not 900 people, but it is 992 people.

00:50:34.740 Oh, my God.

00:50:35.780 Oh, my God.

00:50:37.320 It's 992?

00:50:38.480 We have a $15 million firehouse for 900 and. . .

00:50:44.660 But the good thing about that is it's only $15,000 per person.

00:50:48.260 And that includes children, obviously.

00:50:50.140 Oh, that's not bad at all.

00:50:50.980 That's not bad.

00:50:51.580 That's not bad.

00:50:51.960 That's good value.

00:50:53.260 Now, I will say it is. . .

00:50:55.680 On the other hand, though, when you look at it, it is 6.7 square miles.

00:51:00.480 Oh, wow.

00:51:00.940 So, that is only $2.14 million per square mile.

00:51:05.640 You guys are trying to kill me.

00:51:06.760 I will explode.

00:51:08.020 I'm going to explode.

00:51:10.020 My town is only six square miles?

00:51:12.480 Six square miles.

00:51:13.380 Six square miles, and I have a 15 million.

00:51:16.980 I am going to town council meetings right now.

00:51:22.120 I am going to the next town council meeting.

00:51:25.140 Are you kidding me?

00:51:27.180 We are six square miles, and we have a $15 million firehouse?

00:51:34.240 It's only $2.14 million per square mile.

00:51:36.400 That's not bad.

00:51:37.060 That's not bad.

00:51:38.040 And I will tell you this.

00:51:38.880 It's a well-policed 6.4 square miles.

00:51:42.980 Yes, it is, Pat.

00:51:43.880 It is.

00:51:44.480 I will tell you.

00:51:45.340 I will tell you.

00:51:46.400 This is the only town that I've ever lived in.

00:51:48.480 I mean, the police are. . .

00:51:49.980 They are on it.

00:51:51.000 Remember when we had this string of robberies?

00:51:53.240 And they were sophisticated robberies.

00:51:55.360 They were scoping these houses when we first moved here.

00:52:00.680 They were so sophisticated that they stayed in one house for almost two days to rob it completely.

00:52:12.680 Didn't they remove the safe from the foundation?

00:52:16.360 Yes, from the foundation.

00:52:17.740 I mean, it was that.

00:52:19.460 These guys, the police department, boom, they got them.

00:52:24.080 I mean, they are good.

00:52:25.880 They are really good.

00:52:27.200 Sure.

00:52:28.400 They probably should be.

00:52:29.760 Can we do. . .

00:52:30.740 Please. . .

00:52:31.360 We don't have to build a new police station, too, do we?

00:52:35.000 Oh, of course you do.

00:52:35.620 Because this is not a police station fire station.

00:52:37.940 This is just the firehouse.

00:52:39.340 And by the way, again, in case you missed it, there's only three currently used fire trucks for the town.

00:52:44.500 No, they're not used.

00:52:46.520 They're not used very often.

00:52:47.960 Yeah, they are beautiful.

00:52:51.120 And, you know, there is a lot of open space in this town, I will say.

00:52:55.640 And I've never heard of a fire in the town.

00:52:57.660 Has there ever been a fire there?

00:53:00.340 Did they need any fire department?

00:53:03.120 Could they be serviced by my town's fire department?

00:53:06.240 At least my town has 45,000 people in it.

00:53:09.280 You know, 992 people.

00:53:10.900 We are not helping your town.

00:53:12.100 I'm not putting a scratch on those fire trucks.

00:53:14.600 Not to help the riffraff like you in the next town hall. 1.00

00:53:17.740 No, you're not going to the slums with your beautiful fire trucks.

00:53:21.720 They're not coming my way.

00:53:22.760 That's unbelievable.

00:53:23.480 It's incredible.

00:53:24.300 There was a town hall meeting about this firehouse before it was constructed,

00:53:29.660 which happened just a couple of weeks before the 2016 election,

00:53:33.240 when everyone was super focused on local fire truck issues.

00:53:37.120 Wow.

00:53:37.420 Is that when they did it?

00:53:38.300 Yeah, that's when it happened.

00:53:39.640 And you didn't attend, did you?

00:53:40.680 No, you're not involved in local government, and therefore this is your fault.

00:53:44.920 You know what?

00:53:45.640 Honestly, this is what happens.

00:53:46.740 Honestly, you know, now that I know there's only 900 of us,

00:53:50.380 I'm just going to have to start having more children,

00:53:52.140 and then we'll just all attend because I could change this town.

00:53:54.960 900 people, we can change this town.

00:53:57.000 I thought it was much bigger than that.

00:53:58.540 And I tell you, we have one of the nicest schools,

00:54:02.460 literally one of the nicest schools in the nation.

00:54:05.560 People will move into my town, which I thought was strangely much bigger.

00:54:10.940 So I don't know how people do it.

00:54:12.360 But they move into the town just to be able to attend this school.

00:54:16.140 And I mean they'll move anywhere from the country into this town

00:54:19.740 because you get full access to the academy.

00:54:22.900 I'm not sending my kids to the academy because I went to it.

00:54:27.340 It's beautiful.

00:54:28.180 There is a – have you been to the academy?

00:54:30.700 I drive by the academy all the time, too.

00:54:32.760 I've never been inside.

00:54:34.020 Okay.

00:54:34.420 It has a gigantic, beautiful fireplace in the lobby of the school.

00:54:41.340 Oh, man, of a school.

00:54:42.100 Of the school.

00:54:43.020 I've never seen that before.

00:54:44.380 It's like crazy.

00:54:45.680 And if you live in town, you get to go, that's your public school.

00:54:47.920 Well, that's fantastic.

00:54:49.120 As long as you like a U.N. world curriculum, it's like the Little Red Schoolhouse.

00:54:56.120 It is.

00:54:56.380 It literally is, yeah.

00:54:57.240 It's the Little Red Schoolhouse.

00:54:58.980 And I'm like, what?

00:55:00.160 I'm living in Texas.

00:55:01.420 I know my neighbors.

00:55:02.640 How is this happening?

00:55:04.260 How is this happening?

00:55:06.060 And all the neighbors say the same thing.

00:55:07.780 Oh, isn't it great?

00:55:08.800 No, it's not great.

00:55:10.700 No, it's not great.

00:55:12.420 What happened to you?

00:55:13.180 Has anybody but us complained about the firehouse?

00:55:15.180 I have not heard anybody.

00:55:16.540 I haven't either.

00:55:17.380 Tim and my daughter, who also live in town, Tim and my daughter, they were the ones that

00:55:21.080 went.

00:55:21.580 And they were like, this is insane, Dad.

00:55:24.240 You're going to have an aneurysm when you actually go inside of this place.

00:55:29.440 But I haven't heard anybody say anything but, oh, isn't this great?

00:55:32.760 No.

00:55:33.700 No.

00:55:34.700 No.

00:55:35.440 Nobody needs stone archways outside a fire station.

00:55:40.720 I don't understand that.

00:55:42.300 Every time we drive by, and I drive by twice a day, I look at the stone archways outside

00:55:47.000 a fire station.

00:55:47.720 Have you ever seen a house that nice?

00:55:48.840 No.

00:55:49.260 No.

00:55:49.540 Not.

00:55:50.280 Certainly not.

00:55:51.220 Not in.

00:55:51.820 And you live in a pretty nice area.

00:55:53.780 Yeah.

00:55:53.980 I live in a very nice area.

00:55:55.200 And there's no house as nice as this fire station.

00:55:57.220 No houses.

00:55:58.040 It's unbelievable.

00:55:58.580 I swear to you, it is nicer than the houses that the 900 people apparently own.

00:56:05.240 Well, just the stove.

00:56:06.100 If it's a wolf stove, what are those?

00:56:08.040 $10,000?

00:56:09.060 Yeah.

00:56:09.340 $12,000?

00:56:10.020 $12,000?

00:56:10.100 I don't.

00:56:12.020 Yes.

00:56:12.460 You could get cheaper stoves.

00:56:13.520 You could get out.

00:56:14.400 Come on.

00:56:14.920 Yes.

00:56:15.140 Yes.

00:56:15.320 Yes.

00:56:15.540 I know.

00:56:16.000 Yes.

00:56:16.320 I know.

00:56:16.760 I know.

00:56:17.480 LG.

00:56:18.340 Yeah.

00:56:18.500 They're very nice.

00:56:19.400 I know.

00:56:19.880 They would heat the food the same way.

00:56:21.860 Yes.

00:56:22.220 I am.

00:56:22.580 You know, that is so far down on my priority list because restaurants will have wolf stoves. 0.98

00:56:27.100 Okay.

00:56:27.260 It's not just rich people.

00:56:28.200 Restaurants.

00:56:29.400 Industrial.

00:56:29.960 Well, yeah, but that's a private business.

00:56:32.760 Yeah, I know that.

00:56:33.420 I know that.

00:56:33.860 They're paying for it.

00:56:34.920 I just get the movie theater.

00:56:37.260 You're talking to me about the store?

00:56:38.360 I didn't know there was a movie theater.

00:56:39.300 When there's a movie theater in it?

00:56:40.860 That's amazing.

00:56:41.100 The screen comes down from the as the curtains come down and they all sit in these plush leather

00:56:48.840 chairs that have the shield embroidered on the back of each chair.

00:56:54.260 It's insane.

00:56:55.520 That's crazy.

00:56:56.080 And if you're a fireman, like you may have a long shift where you're staying there and

00:56:59.840 like it's somewhat standard, right?

00:57:01.860 To have like some like little room to watch television comfortably.

00:57:05.740 You should see.

00:57:06.420 Yeah, but a movie theater?

00:57:07.400 You don't need the lines, you don't need the electric screen, you don't need the movie

00:57:09.960 seats, and you certainly don't need the embroidery in the movie seats.

00:57:12.860 Guys, you should see the gym.

00:57:15.120 You should see the gym in this thing.

00:57:17.820 Oh, there's a gym in it.

00:57:18.740 There's a gym.

00:57:20.160 Wow.

00:57:20.520 It is a fully, the best freaking gym.

00:57:25.360 I mean, it's like, it's like what?

00:57:27.700 I mean, do we have like Arnold Schwarzenegger coming to use the gym every day?

00:57:33.020 This is a beautiful gym.

00:57:35.420 And it's insane.

00:57:36.800 And I feel bad because I don't, I'm not saying anything bad about the fireman.

00:57:40.640 In fact, if you're a fireman, I know, if you're a fireman, you need a job in my town.

00:57:47.080 Okay?

00:57:47.640 This is the sweetest, I don't think we have any fires, but you, I've never heard of one.

00:57:53.660 Wait till you see the firehouse.

00:57:55.440 You need to apply to my town and do not tell me what they're offering for salaries.

00:58:00.820 Do not tell me because my head will explode.

00:58:03.660 Oh, no, no, no, no, no.

00:58:04.560 Let me find out.

00:58:08.300 A quick commercial break and we'll come back.

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The Glenn Beck Program - March 28, 2019

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