The Glenn Beck Program - Best of the Program ｜ Guests： Elizabeth Johnston, Dr. Grazie P. Christie & Gregory Wrightstone ｜ 2⧸13⧸19

00:00:00.000 Hey, podcasters. What a podcast for you today.

00:00:04.060 We start with this heartbreaking story out of West Virginia about a mom who had a child of special needs who was terrified to go to school.

00:00:13.180 She put a recorder in her child's hair and came home after one day with just a horror story that you have to hear.

00:00:21.560 Also, we talk about the high-speed train and why Gavin Newsom is actually now pulling out of something on the week of the Green New Deals.

00:00:34.840 Yeah, it's strange and it's just fun to look back at how bad of a project this was, how much it's costing, how destructive it's been to their economy.

00:00:44.220 I mean, it's a complete disaster.

00:00:45.260 We also had a couple of great guests.

00:00:47.600 Grazie Christie, she's a woman who has a video that has gone viral.

00:00:51.620 She's a doc. She's a doctor in Miami. 0.85

00:00:56.020 She has more to say about what abortion is really, what's really going on with this argument of health of the mother.

00:01:04.200 But she also has very good insight on why the women were wearing white, what they were trying to do at the State of the Union,

00:01:11.980 and speaking right into Latin America and a little bit on Venezuela.

00:01:15.260 Yep, we have Gregory Wrightstone on the climate.

00:01:19.500 We also have Elizabeth Johnston is on today with her activist push and a new event about abortion.

00:01:25.740 So much good stuff on today's podcast.

00:01:34.260 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:01:38.280 I want to talk to you a little bit about home title lock.

00:01:45.900 Stu, what is that story that you read from the New York Times yesterday?

00:01:51.160 It's actually Fox News.

00:01:52.060 The Fox News.

00:01:52.880 Around the U.S., deed theft has emerged as one of the most sophisticated and devastating frauds ever to menace homeowners.

00:01:59.200 Think of that. Think of that.

00:02:00.680 To ever menace homeowners.

00:02:02.500 Why?

00:02:03.980 Yeah, I mean, now they're saying scammers are no longer content with stealing $5,000.

00:02:08.420 Now they want the whole house.

00:02:09.520 That comes from the New York Attorney General's office.

00:02:11.280 Okay, so this is really bad.

00:02:13.480 And the people that have been on this, we heard about this from these people, home title lock.

00:02:18.580 And we actually heard about it in an ad.

00:02:20.600 And Stu brought it in.

00:02:21.660 And he was like, look at this.

00:02:23.240 Pat jumped on the bandwagon.

00:02:24.820 We talked to the people.

00:02:26.020 I'm in.

00:02:27.380 Stu's in.

00:02:27.940 And this is really a problem.

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00:02:49.220 I want to get to the school in school in Florida.

00:02:53.440 Florida, but I I want to start with something that I read that is just so sickening.

00:03:02.000 And we have audio.

00:03:05.360 To show you what's happening in the school in West Virginia.

00:03:09.800 Now, Amber Pack is a mom, eight year old special needs girl.

00:03:16.840 And her girl just kept saying, I don't want to go to school, mom.

00:03:20.560 I don't want to go to school.

00:03:21.520 I don't want to go to school.

00:03:22.740 And so Amber thought there's something going on.

00:03:25.900 Some somebody's doing something to my daughter because she's she's never been like this.

00:03:31.080 So she didn't know if it was a classmate picking on her, the teacher or whatever.

00:03:37.160 So she actually put a recording device in her daughter's hair. 0.99

00:03:43.260 And and and then recorded absolutely everything that happened to her and tried to figure out what was going on.

00:03:53.620 Well, it wasn't too hard to see why her daughter did not want to go to school.

00:04:00.840 Let me let me let me just start by playing some of the audio.

00:04:07.540 This is this is what she got.

00:04:10.120 And these are teachers at this this special needs class.

00:04:17.380 These are teachers.

00:04:18.840 Cut one, please. 0.97

00:04:20.000 I'm going to backhand you right in your teeth. 1.00

00:04:24.980 How's that for anxiety? 1.00

00:04:26.560 I'll punch you in your face. 1.00

00:04:30.600 OK, so the first thing is she has anxiety. 1.00

00:04:35.120 Well, how about if I just hit you in the face? 0.99

00:04:37.300 How about if I punch in the face? 0.99

00:04:38.840 How will that be for your anxiety? 0.99

00:04:40.400 OK, and you hear the girl whine.

00:04:44.960 Then cut to.

00:04:47.360 Well, you got to go pee pee.

00:04:49.480 Pee pee. 1.00

00:04:50.560 Pee.

00:04:51.800 Or do you not have to go pee pee and you just want to go? 0.99

00:04:55.260 Do you want to just go into the restroom and masturbate? 1.00

00:05:01.200 But she didn't say it that way. 0.99

00:05:04.440 Cut three.

00:05:05.680 I'm going to pull your hair until you stop crying. 1.00

00:05:08.080 Don't throw it.

00:05:09.220 Don't throw.

00:05:10.400 Animal you.

00:05:13.020 Yep. 0.76

00:05:13.580 You animal you. 0.98

00:05:14.260 You wench. 1.00

00:05:15.440 You wench. 1.00

00:05:16.440 You're like a pygmy. 1.00

00:05:17.180 You're like a pygmy. 0.99

00:05:19.440 Oh, my God. 0.97

00:05:20.640 OK.

00:05:21.960 This is not, by the way, this is not the same teacher.

00:05:25.940 Cut four.

00:05:27.200 How your tears dry up so quickly, crocodile.

00:05:30.160 And then she wants to destroy everything in sight. 0.99

00:05:33.020 I'm going to knock you out. 0.99

00:05:34.980 I'm going to knock you out. 1.00

00:05:36.200 How quickly your tears dry, you crocodile. 1.00

00:05:40.380 Cut five. 1.00

00:05:42.080 I'm going to beat your butt. 1.00

00:05:43.840 For sure. 1.00

00:05:45.580 You know, and you're going to get one just, just because.

00:05:51.340 Now listen to how severely handicapped the child is, obviously.

00:05:55.520 Listen to the reactions of this child.

00:05:57.440 Uh, now it's lunchtime.

00:06:02.440 Cut six.

00:06:03.480 Growl at me.

00:06:04.200 I dare you.

00:06:05.060 And you won't get one.

00:06:06.240 Go ahead.

00:06:10.200 There's nothing says I have to give you a snack.

00:06:12.500 Nothing.

00:06:13.260 Looks like you get nothing, Ellie.

00:06:17.260 Sorry, buddy.

00:06:17.920 Do you understand what that was?

00:06:20.240 It was lunchtime.

00:06:22.400 Or snack time.

00:06:23.420 Snack time.

00:06:24.080 You keep, you keep whining at me like that.

00:06:26.200 You're not going to get any.

00:06:26.940 There's nothing that says I have to give you food. 0.93

00:06:30.980 What the hell?

00:06:32.320 I mean, jeez.

00:06:34.460 So the teachers involved have been suspended.

00:06:41.080 Suspended?

00:06:42.840 Suspended?

00:06:43.900 What more do you need?

00:06:45.200 What?

00:06:47.920 Sincerely, what more do you need?

00:06:51.380 If these teachers can't be fired immediately for something like that, what else do you need?

00:07:02.060 Seeing that they resigned, however, it seems.

00:07:05.560 They tendered their resignation soon after the story came out, which would make a little

00:07:11.340 bit of sense and something that should be accepted, I suppose.

00:07:13.620 I wonder if that resignation still allows them to get any kind of, you know, pay.

00:07:25.380 Obviously shouldn't be accepted if that's the case.

00:07:28.060 What the hell are you doing in this business?

00:07:30.780 What are you doing with your life if that is the way you're going to treat people?

00:07:33.620 Well, to live your life and have your, the way you're making your money be with special

00:07:40.460 needs kids, you have to be a pretty special person.

00:07:42.860 You know, you have to be someone who's patient and understanding and trying to do something.

00:07:48.800 I mean, that is a, that's a, that's not even a job, right?

00:07:51.280 That is a life choice.

00:07:52.900 It's a calling.

00:07:53.520 That's a calling.

00:07:53.720 And if you don't have that calling, what are you doing working in that world?

00:07:57.080 That's, I mean, that is inhuman to treat someone like that, anybody, let alone a special needs

00:08:02.620 kid.

00:08:03.000 What's interesting is all of those cuts, all of those, that's the same day.

00:08:11.040 That's not, that wasn't an ongoing investigation.

00:08:14.140 That's what, when, when the child got home, mom took the recorder and replayed it all.

00:08:20.740 And all of that happened on that one day.

00:08:26.700 Imagine why that child of special needs did not want to go to school.

00:08:39.600 When the government runs everything, who do you run to?

00:08:50.740 If this were a, um, if this were a, a private school, people would be clamoring and it would

00:09:05.820 end immediately, immediately.

00:09:09.960 There would be, there would be things in place because the corporation that ran it, if it wasn't

00:09:17.460 in bed with the government or press would have to stop it, they would stop it before it started.

00:09:27.860 I'm sorry, but these teachers resigned.

00:09:31.620 What I loved was the school administrators that were horrified by this.

00:09:36.200 Excuse me.

00:09:37.420 Hang on.

00:09:38.540 It's not just one teacher.

00:09:40.240 How is this going on in your school and you don't know it?

00:09:47.360 If it's one teacher, you're like, okay, but it wasn't just one.

00:09:53.660 So how is this happening without you knowing it?

00:09:57.500 How have you created an atmosphere where this kind of thing could go on?

00:10:03.520 We have lost touch with humanity and common sense.

00:10:21.960 Look at, look at the heat that the school in Florida is getting.

00:10:27.000 The school in Florida that actually is doing the right thing.

00:10:34.980 I mean, what is, what is the right thing?

00:10:37.640 What is the right thing?

00:10:38.720 Protect your children, right?

00:10:41.660 Do you not, would you not do everything you had to do to protect your children?

00:10:48.980 Of course you would.

00:10:50.380 Of course you would. 0.81

00:10:51.360 If there were people outside of your house and you knew they wanted to come in and kill 0.79

00:10:58.740 you and your family, I don't care how you feel about guns.

00:11:03.060 When all was said and done, you would get a gun or you would do something to protect your

00:11:09.460 family from somebody coming into that house.

00:11:12.420 You would do it.

00:11:15.400 Because in the end, it's either them or your kids.

00:11:19.620 And what do we argue about?

00:11:22.800 We argue about whether we should have a mall cop.

00:11:26.080 We argue, we argue about, well, we don't want somebody with an automatic weapon around

00:11:31.880 my kids.

00:11:32.560 I do.

00:11:33.720 If my kids are in danger, I do.

00:11:37.060 If that will stop somebody from coming in and shooting up a classroom, yeah, you park a

00:11:42.420 tank out front. 0.99

00:11:43.080 I don't give a crap. 0.99

00:11:45.320 I don't care. 1.00

00:11:47.600 Keep the bad guys away.

00:11:49.620 So here's a school that's making sense and saying, you know what?

00:11:54.040 We have all these veterans that have come home.

00:11:56.980 They have made a difference.

00:11:59.060 And now they feel like they don't make a difference.

00:12:02.400 Put them at our school.

00:12:05.300 We are so, we are so short-sighted that we don't even, we don't even recognize the threat

00:12:12.000 of Beslan.

00:12:12.800 That was a horrible, horrible, game-changing situation that happened in Russia about 15 0.91

00:12:22.760 years ago.

00:12:23.380 When this thing happened, terrorists took over a school on the first day of school and they

00:12:31.420 slaughtered children and parents.

00:12:33.820 Just slaughtered them. 0.99

00:12:35.540 Held on to the school.

00:12:36.960 The story is horrific.

00:12:43.380 Military had to come in.

00:12:46.660 I don't know.

00:12:47.780 I'd rather just have a couple of vets just to say, hey, we've hardened our school and yeah,

00:12:54.300 they've got an automatic weapon. 1.00

00:12:55.500 And if you come on school and you are going to do something, we're going to kill you because 1.00

00:13:02.560 it's better that we kill you than you kill anybody else. 1.00

00:13:05.680 You see what happened in Portland a couple of weeks ago? 1.00

00:13:08.700 Press didn't cover it.

00:13:10.660 School shooting.

00:13:12.860 Guy comes in.

00:13:14.440 The police happen to be there.

00:13:16.940 They happen to notice this guy and he just seemed off.

00:13:20.900 And so they start questioning him and he gets a little aggressive.

00:13:26.780 He's in the school.

00:13:28.020 They push him outside of the school.

00:13:30.780 They push him through the doors.

00:13:32.380 They start to tackle him.

00:13:34.160 He grabs his gun.

00:13:35.500 He shoots at the deputies.

00:13:37.120 He shoots, I think, five or six times.

00:13:40.340 Nobody is killed, thank God.

00:13:43.240 But he's discharging his weapon.

00:13:46.680 Well, that's not really a story.

00:13:48.520 That wasn't a school shooting.

00:13:49.600 Why?

00:13:50.120 He was in, with a gun, shooting. 0.99

00:13:53.840 He wanted to shoot children. 0.92

00:13:56.180 The cops stopped him.

00:13:58.180 Why isn't that a story?

00:14:01.780 The best of the Glenn Beck Program.

00:14:10.380 Now, what the hell is the Green New Deal? 0.66

00:14:13.080 What is that, really?

00:14:15.140 You have all the Democrats signing on.

00:14:17.420 Now, Mitch McConnell will see how real it is.

00:14:21.400 But they're all signing on.

00:14:23.540 All the Democrats, they have, what, 70-some co-sponsors for this?

00:14:28.100 Yeah, about 70, yeah.

00:14:29.200 You have most of the Democratic presidential candidates signing on.

00:14:34.240 And what is it in reality?

00:14:35.920 It is the abolishment of the car industry.

00:14:39.720 It is the abolishment of the combustion engine car within 10 years.

00:14:45.300 It is the grounding of airplanes within 10 years.

00:14:49.080 The abolishment of air travel.

00:14:51.680 It is building of high-speed rail, which, by the way, Gavin Newsom just pulled out of the high-speed rail in California.

00:15:02.160 Said it's a boondoggle.

00:15:04.080 They always are.

00:15:06.640 So you want to build a high-speed rail.

00:15:09.180 You want to get rid of cars.

00:15:10.800 You want to get rid of airplanes.

00:15:12.760 Plus, you're going to ban all oil, natural gas, and nuclear energy.

00:15:23.280 In 10 years.

00:15:24.760 So by 2029, you're going to do all that.

00:15:30.440 Now, remember that Bain Capital said, just because of new technology, we are going to have a 30% unemployment rate by 2030.

00:15:42.140 Okay?

00:15:42.620 Now, that may change.

00:15:44.840 And it may change because we always are pessimistic.

00:15:48.620 You know, what happens when we start building cars?

00:15:51.320 What's going to happen to all the blacksmiths?

00:15:53.380 Well, the blacksmiths are going to go away, and there's going to be some pain, but we're going to have mechanics.

00:15:58.720 So there will be new jobs created.

00:16:00.820 Now, people that understand technology, and I tend to agree with them, say that those jobs are not.

00:16:08.920 There's no new job that's going to be recreated because you're going to have robots that are going to be able to do it.

00:16:14.680 And I know that sounds like sci-fi, but we are now living in that time where science fiction is becoming science fact.

00:16:22.340 Now, how it all shakes out, it's going to be up to us.

00:16:26.440 So we have all this displacement coming just from technology.

00:16:30.980 This is the best of the Glenn Beck Program.

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00:16:58.080 Thanks.

00:16:58.380 So, Stu, one of the things that you have been on, I mean, you've done so much with The Wonderful World of Stu, where you kind of took on all of these topics.

00:17:08.840 You know, my son, he just started watching Adam, what is it, Adam Destroys?

00:17:14.500 Adam Ruins Everything.

00:17:15.200 Ruins Everything, yeah.

00:17:17.300 And I was proud of my son.

00:17:19.300 He came to me, and all of a sudden he starts quoting all this stuff.

00:17:22.740 Dad, did you know?

00:17:23.940 And I'm like, what?

00:17:25.280 In fact, that may be where I got the fingerprint thing and thought, I've got to look into that.

00:17:30.960 But he starts quoting all this stuff.

00:17:33.080 Did you know, Dad?

00:17:33.940 And I'm like, no, what are you, reading the encyclopedia?

00:17:37.520 What is going on?

00:17:38.520 And he said, I've been watching this show.

00:17:41.120 And I said, uh-huh.

00:17:43.080 And he said, and it's all footnoted, which I was happy to hear him say.

00:17:47.340 And I said, have you followed any of those footnotes or links?

00:17:51.400 No.

00:17:52.720 Well, just because it says it was footnoted doesn't mean that it's accurate.

00:17:56.680 That's why they footnote it.

00:17:57.820 That's right.

00:17:58.320 You're supposed to follow up on it.

00:17:59.380 Right.

00:17:59.680 If you want to.

00:18:00.320 And you're also, they footnote it also because it's like, nope, that's fact.

00:18:03.660 No, Washington Post said it's fact.

00:18:05.080 Right.

00:18:05.620 And that's what they do in political ads, even.

00:18:07.560 Correct.

00:18:07.860 I feel like he is, he's an absolute communist.

00:18:10.560 Right.

00:18:10.680 And then you look at the link and it just says, it's like an ad in the Saint, you know, Saint

00:18:15.540 Walker Tribune.

00:18:16.600 Yeah.

00:18:16.800 What is that?

00:18:17.540 So he said, I've been saving a couple of them because I want to watch them with you

00:18:22.860 because I want to know what you think.

00:18:25.780 That's all.

00:18:26.160 A lot of people, when I was doing Wonderful World of Stew, would compare that show to Adam

00:18:31.020 Ruins Everything.

00:18:31.920 Yeah.

00:18:32.060 Except he has had a very large budget.

00:18:34.500 He has actors acting out every city.

00:18:36.640 I mean, it's, it's pretty, and he's also liberal.

00:18:38.700 I mean, generally speaking.

00:18:40.220 Yes.

00:18:40.380 Although sometimes I do find him to be right on certain things.

00:18:43.620 So I had to tell, I had to tell my son, we watched the one on about the border and

00:18:46.740 I said, okay.

00:18:48.280 He said, so is that right?

00:18:50.440 Is that accurate?

00:18:51.260 We stopped all the way along and I said, let's watch the whole thing and then we'll go back.

00:18:57.080 And so I said to him, I have to tell you, I would say 90% of it, maybe 98% of it is, is

00:19:06.020 accurate.

00:19:07.180 However, it's only half the story.

00:19:10.940 So it's inaccuracy is, is in what it leaves out.

00:19:15.460 So I can't dispute the facts that he's saying, although some of them I can, but I can dispute

00:19:22.700 easily.

00:19:24.140 Well, yes, but he's only giving half the story here.

00:19:27.060 Okay.

00:19:28.220 And so I've been trying to get him to watch wonderful world of stew.

00:19:31.660 I just wish I knew there was a place where they all lived, where you could just get online

00:19:36.100 and watch them.

00:19:37.140 At least you can get all every episode on blaze tv.com slash Beck promo code Beck and watch

00:19:42.620 all the back episodes.

00:19:43.580 So one of that's convenient.

00:19:45.220 I should write that down.

00:19:47.300 So one of the episodes you take on these high speed rails.

00:19:52.520 Yeah.

00:19:52.620 A couple of them, actually.

00:19:53.960 One in particular, we did an interview with a guy, Eric Christian is his name.

00:19:57.300 He was, he was kind of leading the fight against this train system in California that they were

00:20:04.040 trying to do.

00:20:04.700 And he actually got thrown out of like public hearings because he would ask questions about

00:20:08.660 the cost and how feasible these things were and how the exploding cost really had, I mean,

00:20:17.040 it was mesmerizing how fast it, this is the case with every one of these things.

00:20:21.240 We did, you know, another light rail is another big, one of my big pet peeves in the world because

00:20:27.040 there are light rail systems all over the country.

00:20:29.600 And everyone likes to defend their own light rail system.

00:20:32.940 Everyone says, well, mine is pretty good, but I think overall they're all terrible.

00:20:37.180 The best case scenario for a light rail system is that no one ever steps foot on it because

00:20:41.500 every time it moves, it costs you money.

00:20:43.940 And it costs money to the, the 100% of taxpayers when 5% of people actually ride on the thing.

00:20:51.900 It's almost always really inefficient.

00:20:54.300 It's always subsidized.

00:20:55.780 It's one of those things where they'll be like, well, it only costs a dollar from going

00:20:58.600 to X to Z.

00:20:59.300 No, it doesn't.

00:21:00.320 It costs you a lot more than a dollar because you're paying for it in another way.

00:21:03.540 This is something that we all understand when it comes to taxes and healthcare.

00:21:06.380 But for some reason, we just had this nostalgic thing about trains in the United States.

00:21:11.520 I mean, trains were a big part of our history and they were something that was really important

00:21:14.860 to the foundation of this country.

00:21:16.160 And it's, it's all, that's all true, but we have this weird nostalgia as if this technology

00:21:21.660 needs to exist anymore.

00:21:23.280 There are things as far as shipping where it's valuable because those lines are already

00:21:27.860 laid.

00:21:28.720 There's a reason.

00:21:29.960 There's no reason to build a new set of train tracks in the United States of America today.

00:21:35.220 And every time a new light rail proposal comes through, it is an absolute boondoggle every

00:21:41.280 time.

00:21:41.700 And every time it is a thing where you wind up paying more and more and more, the budget

00:21:48.200 always doubles and then triples and then quadruples.

00:21:50.760 And people want to see it through to the end because politicians make these promises.

00:21:55.400 And then at the very end of the game, you have a light rail system that does something that

00:22:01.660 is in a very limited way, in a very inefficient way.

00:22:04.500 It goes too slow.

00:22:05.800 It doesn't go as fast as you can get there when there's a car in almost every single situation.

00:22:09.820 And at the end of the day, you have something that goes from one place to another when we,

00:22:16.280 as we all know, population centers shift constantly.

00:22:20.320 If you had, if you 100% knew two things would stay the exact same way for a very long period

00:22:25.440 of time and people wouldn't move and people wouldn't have different priorities, you could

00:22:28.740 maybe make an argument for it.

00:22:30.740 But these things change all the time.

00:22:32.920 People move from neighborhood to neighborhood.

00:22:34.480 Some neighborhood decides to be, it's no longer trendy.

00:22:37.460 There's no stop in the place where all the new restaurants are.

00:22:40.540 It is not an efficient way to travel, which is why we moved on, by the way, from trains

00:22:46.040 to cars to planes.

00:22:47.400 But people don't understand that because in the power centers, for instance, mainly in

00:22:52.080 New York, the subway is so critical to people.

00:22:56.300 I mean, it changes, it changes the value of property.

00:23:00.500 Because if you're on the east side, the train does not, the 2nd Avenue train has, has it

00:23:08.320 been completed yet?

00:23:09.380 I know it was, it was, it was supposed to be completed forever.

00:23:13.460 And, and it actually affected property values because you wanted to be near a subway stop

00:23:19.600 and there wasn't one there.

00:23:20.840 The problem is, is that that's New York.

00:23:24.120 Right.

00:23:24.400 That's New York.

00:23:25.020 When you get out of the major population centers, you're not going to take a train because you're

00:23:31.500 already driving.

00:23:32.880 You would be driving from, you know, uh, 20 miles to go get to the train and then park

00:23:40.540 and then get on the train and then wait and then go another, maybe 20 miles.

00:23:44.500 And then what do you have on the other end?

00:23:46.060 There's no car, there's no Uber.

00:23:47.960 I mean, it's not like it is in the major cities.

00:23:50.220 Right.

00:23:50.360 And the other thing too, about the subway system, even in New York, New York, first of

00:23:53.200 all, is obviously the best possible example for this because it's very, you know, it's

00:23:57.400 very congested and very contained in this small area.

00:24:00.440 It's an Island.

00:24:01.140 There's nowhere to expand all the things that aren't, don't apply to any of these other

00:24:05.120 projects.

00:24:05.740 Everyone will bring up New York.

00:24:07.060 However, if you were bringing, if you were making New York today, you would not put a subway

00:24:10.540 on it.

00:24:10.900 The fact that the subway exists from a long time ago, it doesn't mean you wouldn't stop

00:24:15.680 using it, right?

00:24:16.860 There's nowhere else to build roads.

00:24:18.360 There's no way to do it that way.

00:24:19.740 You wouldn't build New York the way it is today.

00:24:22.020 If you started today.

00:24:23.760 And that's the problem.

00:24:25.040 You would put the traffic underneath.

00:24:26.640 You probably put the traffic, you might put the traffic underneath, but you probably don't

00:24:29.740 build it all on that Island the way it is.

00:24:31.800 Oh, yeah.

00:24:32.200 Right.

00:24:32.520 You're going to make less, you're going to make more room for cars to go.

00:24:35.660 Cause you know, cars are there when they built New York.

00:24:37.860 They were like, you know what we need?

00:24:39.060 We need more horse space.

00:24:40.900 Right.

00:24:41.540 So yes, you use technology that you had at the time.

00:24:45.320 If something's already built, you don't just abandon it because it may, you know, the infrastructure

00:24:49.660 is such a large part of the cost.

00:24:50.940 But 92% of its costs of light rail across the country are paid by people who never use

00:24:56.940 it.

00:24:58.240 92% of the costs are paid by people who don't ride the train.

00:25:02.000 That is completely insane.

00:25:05.580 That is just a, a feel good project for a politician to say, look what I'm doing for this community.

00:25:12.840 And how much, how much is the American people paying for Amtrak?

00:25:17.220 Oh God.

00:25:18.160 I mean, it's billions.

00:25:19.360 And, and that really only is for the elites that are going to Washington between Washington

00:25:25.180 and New York.

00:25:26.480 That's how they travel.

00:25:27.500 You know, that's for the, the government officials, uh, to, to move.

00:25:32.860 I mean, a lot of regular people use it as well.

00:25:35.420 I mean, you, you do use that train if you're going from Washington, New York, but that's

00:25:39.380 what that's for.

00:25:40.320 That's a Washington, New York thing.

00:25:42.740 If you're not going to Washington, New York, I mean, you're generally driving.

00:25:47.820 If you're not on business, you're generally driving.

00:25:51.080 Yeah, no, of course.

00:25:51.960 And that's makes sense, right?

00:25:53.660 I mean, I think it's 4% of people in Dallas to commute by public transport, 4%.

00:25:58.420 That doesn't even include the suburbs, but in Dallas, 4% of people.

00:26:01.680 So they build this light rail and it goes all over the place.

00:26:03.900 Every time someone steps on the Dallas light rail system, we have to pay them $4 and 21 cents.

00:26:10.580 Oh my gosh.

00:26:11.020 So the best thing in the world would be no one writes it and we just park it somewhere

00:26:15.680 because every time somebody steps foot on it and it's rare.

00:26:19.020 If you ever see the, the, the, the dark cars pass by, it runs empty all the time.

00:26:22.560 All the time.

00:26:23.040 Uh, of course that if it's running empty, that's even worse.

00:26:25.780 Right.

00:26:25.960 Right.

00:26:26.120 But it would be better if they just stopped all the cars $4 and 21 cents every single time.

00:26:31.740 Uh, there are, uh, 96,380 passenger trips, uh, on the Dallas light rail every weekday.

00:26:37.540 Um, most of them are obviously round trips.

00:26:39.820 So about 48,000 passengers.

00:26:41.700 Uh, we could buy all of those passengers, a new Prius for about $1.2 billion, which is

00:26:47.660 the cost of just one of the four lines that make up the Dallas rail system.

00:26:51.840 So we could buy everyone who uses it.

00:26:53.980 There's four lines.

00:26:54.900 The whole thing is $7 billion less than how much taxpayers have already invested in the

00:26:58.980 train.

00:26:59.680 And we could buy everyone who rides it a new car.

00:27:02.200 That's how bad these systems are.

00:27:03.800 And Dallas is not an outlier here.

00:27:05.660 All the things when you're saying, well, my town's not like that.

00:27:08.300 Yes, it is.

00:27:09.220 I promise.

00:27:09.860 Yes, it is.

00:27:10.320 It's a debacle.

00:27:11.100 I've lived all over this country and every city always, you know what we're going to

00:27:15.900 do?

00:27:16.020 We're going to build light rail.

00:27:17.300 We're going to be right.

00:27:18.000 Light rail.

00:27:18.420 We're, you know what we're going to do?

00:27:19.440 We're going to, we're going to build a high speed rail between Tampa and Orlando.

00:27:22.780 Cause we're going to get all those people that are in Orlando.

00:27:25.260 They don't want to really be there for Disney world.

00:27:27.320 They'd rather be on the beach at St.

00:27:28.860 Pete.

00:27:29.220 Really?

00:27:29.980 Really?

00:27:30.380 Would they, would they, uh, they tried to build it.

00:27:34.360 Disaster.

00:27:35.480 Disaster.

00:27:36.500 Disaster.

00:27:37.120 And you could make the case that people would want to go on vacation and spend a few days

00:27:42.700 in Disney and then go to the ocean or to the Gulf and be on the beach.

00:27:47.220 You could make that case that you're in Disney and you want to take a high speed rail to go

00:27:52.220 see a space shuttle launch.

00:27:54.100 You could make that case.

00:27:55.420 No.

00:27:56.020 Disaster.

00:27:56.740 Cost benefit analysis.

00:27:58.240 Disaster.

00:27:58.540 Not just benefit analysis.

00:27:59.700 Now, so did Gavin Newsom wake up and suddenly recognize the free market system and

00:28:05.840 go, you know what?

00:28:07.580 This is a debacle.

00:28:09.520 This doesn't work.

00:28:11.240 What a waste of money.

00:28:13.020 Really?

00:28:18.600 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:28:31.860 Welcome Elizabeth Johnston.

00:28:33.500 How are you?

00:28:34.940 Hi, Glenn.

00:28:35.920 Thank you so much for having me.

00:28:37.260 I'm great.

00:28:37.760 I'm trying not to wet my pants right now.

00:28:40.240 I did the math.

00:28:42.620 I did the math and I've been listening to you for 18 years.

00:28:46.300 Oh my gosh.

00:28:47.280 Wow.

00:28:47.640 Oh my gosh.

00:28:48.220 Thank you.

00:28:49.000 Thank you.

00:28:49.540 And I haven't cured you of that yet.

00:28:51.680 No matter how hard I try.

00:28:53.180 Glenn Beck is too much. 1.00

00:28:53.960 Back when you were doing, back when you were doing a moron trivia every Friday. 0.99

00:28:58.360 That's how far back I could. 0.98

00:28:59.420 Okay, so Elizabeth, tell me about yourself first quickly.

00:29:08.100 Who you were before you were, before you snapped.

00:29:11.600 Yeah, I am a homeschooling mother of 10 children.

00:29:17.420 Holy.

00:29:17.720 My obsession, my obsession these last 20 years have been my children, my husband, educating

00:29:27.340 my children.

00:29:28.840 And really, we've been very active in the pro-life movement for 20 years.

00:29:33.580 But what really was the turning point for me was when Kim Davis went to jail for not being 0.60

00:29:41.500 able to, according to her conscience, sign a same-sex marriage license.

00:29:47.860 And then when Obama issued his transgender bathroom directives, and I knew that our little

00:29:52.600 daughters were going to be submitted to having men in their dresser rooms and locker rooms, 1.00

00:29:58.460 I no longer recognized my country.

00:30:00.500 I was extremely alarmed, and I said, I have got to get off of the sidelines and get onto

00:30:06.680 the front lines of culture.

00:30:08.220 That's when I filmed my first video, and the rest is history.

00:30:12.220 Lo and behold, there was a huge hunger for a bold and, when necessary, even confrontational

00:30:18.980 response to the outrageous moral and social issues of the day.

00:30:22.860 So tell me about some of the, some of the places, because I want to get into the, what

00:30:28.140 you've paid, you know, it's come at a high price.

00:30:31.900 But tell me, you know, Teen Vogue, for anybody who doesn't remember your involvement in that.

00:30:38.800 Yeah, we dealt Teen Vogue a black eye that they were never able to recover from, by the

00:30:44.180 grace of God, when Teen Vogue was teaching little children in a fashion magazine, teenagers, how to 1.00

00:30:51.400 have anal and oral sex with one another. 0.99

00:30:54.300 We had had enough, and we built a bonfire in my backyard, and I burned the magazine. 0.99

00:30:59.540 And that video was viewed, I think, about 15 million times.

00:31:03.600 And we started Operation Pull Teen Vogue.

00:31:06.080 I don't have a fund.

00:31:07.980 I don't have, you know, money or anything to work with.

00:31:10.800 When I say grassroots, this is as grassy and as rooty as it gets, what we do.

00:31:15.880 And we started Operation Pull Teen Vogue and started calling their advertisers.

00:31:20.800 And, of course, the editor of Teen Vogue responded to us on Twitter by posting a picture, shooting

00:31:27.840 a bird at us with his rainbow-colored fingernail and a picture of him kissing his lover.

00:31:34.680 But we didn't, as parents, appreciate that that was how Teen Vogue responded to us.

00:31:40.560 They're not concerned at all about the sexualization of our children.

00:31:44.120 And so five months later, they shuttered their print edition.

00:31:47.900 They were the only, only magazine of all of Condé Nast's magazine, Vogue, Glamour, Brides.

00:31:54.440 They were the only one who had to shutter their print edition that year.

00:31:58.220 So I want to talk to you about abortion, because you cover this in your new book.

00:32:02.580 You cover all of the issues that every parent is dealing with now.

00:32:07.180 But I want to talk to you about abortion, because I think that we have, we've approached

00:32:11.860 the cliff, and we are looking into the abyss right now.

00:32:15.640 And if we don't pass this test, if America doesn't stand and say, okay, you know what?

00:32:23.440 No, we do not do what they're proposing in New York.

00:32:29.280 This state, this law is immoral and wrong.

00:32:34.500 We have gone from, let's have an argument, and we're making some progress, to,

00:32:40.300 they have gone to the insane lines where the Nazis were,

00:32:46.300 and even the German people stood up.

00:32:48.560 If we don't pass this test, I think we fail as a nation.

00:32:54.040 Glenn, I agree.

00:32:55.400 I believe that this is not just a horizontal problem, a policy problem,

00:33:00.780 that we have a very serious vertical problem between us as a culture and God.

00:33:06.280 We do not have God's heart on this issue.

00:33:09.220 And that is why we are organizing something right now that is the most important thing

00:33:13.620 I have ever done.

00:33:14.660 And I know that you and your listeners are going to love this.

00:33:16.800 This is the Day of Mourning.

00:33:18.840 It is just a week and a half from now.

00:33:21.160 On February the 23rd, we are asking Americans to wear black, to not shop, 0.89

00:33:27.180 to close down your businesses, and to repent with us for the sin of abortion. 0.76

00:33:32.160 This is just a week and a half away.

00:33:34.260 On February the 23rd, if you go to dayofmorning.org,

00:33:37.240 you will get all the information you need, a toolkit there.

00:33:40.640 We are asking Americans to stand in solidarity with the pre-born.

00:33:45.220 You know, we've tried a lot, Glenn, over the years.

00:33:48.040 We've tried a lot of different, you know, compromised pro-life measures,

00:33:51.480 just taking scraps from under the table from these politicians.

00:33:54.940 We've tried so many things over the years.

00:33:57.440 Can we try for a day as a nation to get on our faces before God

00:34:03.260 and plead for Him to change our hearts and have mercy on us,

00:34:07.260 and maybe He will hold back the judgment from us that we very much deserve right now.

00:34:13.580 So I'd ask your listeners to go to dayofmorning.org.

00:34:16.260 We're going to have a huge rally in Albany, New York.

00:34:18.640 The Benham brothers are going to be speaking there.

00:34:20.820 Black conservative David J. Harris Jr.

00:34:22.900 An eight-year-old abortion survivor will be sharing with us.

00:34:26.280 It's not going to be a pep rally.

00:34:27.900 It's not going to be a fundraiser.

00:34:29.520 It is going to be a sober time of repentance and praying for God to send revival to us,

00:34:36.540 which I know that you know so much about times in history where we've had a massive spiritual awakening.

00:34:43.040 Guys, we've got to admit that that is what we need more than anything right now.

00:34:48.060 And so if your listeners could get behind us and be at our Albany, New York rally,

00:34:52.320 this thing is going viral and spread it now to over 10 cities that are going to be live streaming our event.

00:34:58.520 Again, with no money, this has become an expensive event, $20,000 for this venue in Albany.

00:35:05.500 I had to borrow $2,000 from my 16-year-old son a few days ago so we could buy plane tickets to get some of our speakers there.

00:35:13.120 But God has put this on our heart, Glenn.

00:35:15.580 And we really believe that this is the call to action right now, the day of mourning.

00:35:21.380 So please go to dayofmourning.org, and I hope I can meet some of your listeners in Albany, New York, on the 23rd.

00:35:27.340 Where is it being held in Albany?

00:35:30.960 The venue is awesome.

00:35:32.680 The venue is actually the Empire State Plaza Convention Center room.

00:35:36.680 And listen to this, Glenn.

00:35:37.620 It is literally underneath the ground where Cuomo and the radical feminists signed and celebrated and cheered like they had won a Super Bowl game when they signed that infanticide law.

00:35:49.960 It's like Satan thought he had crushed us, but he didn't realize that we were just seeds.

00:35:54.840 And we're going to be the seeds under the ground who are going to rise out from under the ashes of this terrible infanticide law.

00:36:02.120 And we are going to see an end, finally, to the child killing, I believe, as a result of this.

00:36:06.600 You know, it's interesting, and sorry to go, you know, religious on you here more than we already have.

00:36:13.580 But in my faith, all of our baptismal fonts are underground because we believe that it is dying and being cleansed and rising again.

00:36:26.060 So we, all of our baptismal fonts have to be in the basement level or, you know, at the ground level, underground.

00:36:33.100 And it's striking to me that you are holding this underground as you are, as you're mourning death and coming back up out from under the ground, hopefully renewed.

00:36:50.260 I'd like to talk to you more about this myself.

00:36:53.640 I'd like to help you in any way I can.

00:36:55.880 You are facing pushback, and it's, you know, pretty extreme.

00:37:06.140 This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:37:08.620 Dr. Grazie Christie is from Miami, and she gave this great talk at the Right to Life march, and it's gone viral.

00:37:31.280 You might have seen it, and I'm going to ask her about that.

00:37:33.620 But she's, because she's from Miami, she also has, you're from Latin America, or your people are from Latin America, Grazie?

00:37:43.120 I'm from Cuban parents.

00:37:45.120 My parents are Cuban, and I grew up in Mexico.

00:37:47.260 Okay.

00:37:47.480 So I've got it from all sides.

00:37:48.640 Okay, all right.

00:37:49.620 So you have this, just this great understanding of what is happening.

00:37:54.900 I think I just want to start with what the white really signified. 0.64

00:38:01.020 Because I just read a story two days ago from the New York Times that the Democrats are concerned about Trump's stance on Venezuela, because the Venezuelans could be like Cubans.

00:38:11.400 They could become conservatives and not vote for Democrats, because the Democrats look like they're wrong on the Venezuelan policy.

00:38:19.040 And so they wear white just by happenstance.

00:38:26.120 At least that's what I think.

00:38:27.800 Tell me the significance of the white that they were wearing during the State of the Union.

00:38:32.940 So the women in the State of the Union and Democrats, they were referring to suffragettes, the old suffragettes of women wanting the vote. 0.69

00:38:41.640 And those women wore white when they demonstrated, or sometimes they did, I guess. 1.00

00:38:46.400 But when you're watching this from Miami and from other parts of the country, the optics are very different, because to us here, the wearing of white is done by women, especially, who demonstrate peacefully for human dignity.

00:39:03.640 And women who live under an oppressive, authoritarian system, like the one in Cuba or the one in Venezuela. 0.96

00:39:11.720 So many years ago, women demonstrated in white in Argentina when their children were being disappeared by the government.

00:39:19.060 And so they demonstrated asking for information on their children who had been kidnapped and tortured.

00:39:24.040 In Cuba, women in white dress every Sunday, they walk to church in Havana.

00:39:30.240 And on the way to church, these are women of political prisoners, their wives and sisters and mothers.

00:39:35.060 On the way to church, they're harassed by Castro's forces. 1.00

00:39:38.440 So here in Miami, dressing in white just looks stupid, because... 0.98

00:39:43.860 It signifies, there is something called the, what is it, the Damas de Blanco. 0.99

00:39:50.060 That's it. That's what they're called in Spanish, the Ladies of White. 1.00

00:39:53.120 Okay. And they stand against oppression, and they stand against the oppression of government.

00:39:59.820 And so it is a, it's a, not too subtle in the, in the Cuban or Venezuelan world or Latin American world.

00:40:10.240 It's not so subtle tip of the hat of, hey, we're, we're standing against those who want to oppress.

00:40:17.400 But do they, do they realize that the oppressor is the big government, the big Marxist government, usually?

00:40:24.400 Yeah, but what's horrible watching it from here and understanding is that we know what real oppression looks like.

00:40:31.160 We know what it's like when the country, when the governing, the, you know, dictatorship destroys your life and takes your children and your husband and just explodes the country.

00:40:42.020 So much suffering, so much suffering, so many years of suffering in Cuba and now Venezuela.

00:40:46.900 And, and then we just, we look at these women, these democratic women who are elite, you know, who have everything on their plate. 0.91

00:40:53.900 Especially they have the right to protest their government without being afraid of being imprisoned and tortured.

00:40:59.700 So it's, it just looks really bad from here.

00:41:02.100 We're talking to Dr. Grazie Christie.

00:41:04.600 She is from Miami.

00:41:06.560 She is with the Catholic association.org Catholic, the Catholic association.org.

00:41:13.080 She spoke at the right to life rally.

00:41:18.080 And you talked about abortion and the, the fallacy that a woman's life is in danger.

00:41:26.420 And that's why we would perform a late-term abortion. 1.00

00:41:30.020 Can you address that?

00:41:32.040 Yeah.

00:41:32.280 So I did a very short little Twitter video explaining that when a woman is in her third trimester of pregnancy and she, and her life is in danger, which is a very rare occurrence, but it does happen.

00:41:43.080 Um, there is no need to abort the child, that what can happen and what should happen is that the child should be delivered.

00:41:50.040 So a late-term abortion for the mother's health is never medically necessary.

00:41:55.220 Um, it's the preferential option should always be to try to preserve both the life of the mother and the child. 0.87

00:42:01.180 I want to make sure that I have this right.

00:42:03.960 Because I had a doctor tell me the other day that the right thing to do, if the mother, the health of the mother is really in jeopardy, it's usually means cesarean section right now.

00:42:15.280 Get the child out of her right now. 0.94

00:42:18.020 Correct?

00:42:18.840 Exactly.

00:42:19.520 Exactly.

00:42:20.020 And that's a six-minute procedure in skilled hands.

00:42:22.420 So if there is a real urgency to end the pregnancy, the way to end the pregnancy is through a C-section, not an abortion, which destroys the child.

00:42:29.540 And the, and the other case is in destroying the child, that's a three-day process.

00:42:37.460 So if the mother's health is in danger, that would mean we've got to, we've got to move.

00:42:43.520 But this is a three-day process to kill and then actually give birth to a dead child. 0.95

00:42:50.900 Right.

00:42:51.380 And so when those women in white at the, at the State of the Union address, when President Trump spoke out against third trimester, late trimester abortion, and they just sat there with their sour faces, you know, this is what they're advocating.

00:43:04.080 They're advocating this crazy procedure where the child ends up dead versus a quick cesarean section where at least the child gets a chance of life and the mother will do just fine.

00:43:14.800 Your parents being from Cuba and you growing up in that community, I know, I know Cuban refugees or, or kids of, of the refugees from Cuba.

00:43:29.920 And they all, they know exactly what's coming.

00:43:34.320 How are your parents dealing with this right now, watching their new country now going through this?

00:43:40.620 What, what are they saying at night?

00:43:42.060 Well, what, what really astounds, uh, Cubans and other people who've lived through socialist nightmares is the way that the democratic party is embracing socialism.

00:43:51.560 That just, that just flips us out.

00:43:53.880 We're just sitting there going, what?

00:43:56.160 This has already been tried and found disastrous and, and caused so much human suffering, so much pain.

00:44:03.340 So that's the, there's, there's a lot of that going on down here.

00:44:06.660 How can we help the Venezuelan people?

00:44:09.840 You know, we, we can't get into Venezuela.

00:44:12.580 The people that we have in Venezuela, they don't want to talk to us because they're afraid that they will be found and, and disappeared.

00:44:21.260 Um, uh, Maduro has, has blocked all of the aid.

00:44:26.120 He knows whoever, uh, uh, controls the food wins.

00:44:31.020 I mean, in the last election, which was totally rigged, um, you know, he just, he, he arrested people who are running against him, but in the poorest areas, he, I can't remember what the slogan was in Spanish, but it, it translates to, uh, uh, you give, I give, meaning you give me your vote.

00:44:49.800 And I'll give you the food, uh, you just have to vote for me.

00:44:53.540 He's blocking all the food and humanitarian aid because he knows he who has the food has control.

00:44:59.500 What do we do?

00:45:00.620 Well, he's got to be treated as the pariah that he is by the entire, um, world of the entire political community of the world.

00:45:09.420 Um, also, especially the United States.

00:45:12.240 And also we have to remember that it's Cuba.

00:45:15.260 It's the dictatorship in Cuba that's keeping Venezuela going.

00:45:18.780 Right.

00:45:19.220 So I think also there has to be a big crackdown on our relations with Cuba, uh, because there's a lot of help coming over there from us, um, in the way, uh, well, lots of different ways, but even just tourism.

00:45:30.680 Um, so we're helping to prop up the Cuban economy and the Cubans are spending a ton of money, um, making Venezuela a hellhole. 0.57

00:45:38.480 Um, also Mexico, Mexico is the president of Mexico is one of the only, uh, in this hemisphere.

00:45:45.360 Um, there's only two other countries, Cuba, and I can't remember the other one, maybe Chile that, uh, are not, uh, that they're still siding with Maduro, Mexico.

00:45:56.280 This guy, do you know anything about the new president?

00:45:58.440 Cause I don't know much other than he is a, he's a, you know, a diehard Marxist.

00:46:05.580 Um, but his, all I know is my Mexican friends here.

00:46:08.780 And there's a lot of Mexicans here in Miami again, everyone in Miami is from somewhere else. 1.00

00:46:13.780 As you know, um, so, but they're really destroyed by, by the new president.

00:46:18.860 They really think he's going to be, it's another Venezuela, another, yes, yes.

00:46:24.220 It's a very distressing thing to have a Marxist at the helm of that good country.

00:46:29.500 Doctor, I appreciate it.

00:46:30.960 I appreciate your, uh, strength and willingness to, uh, speak out.

00:46:34.480 How's, how's your career doing with now that you're, you know, being so outspoken on abortion?

00:46:39.920 You know, one of the things that scared me a little bit is the amount of hate that's been

00:46:45.880 poured on me, uh, over this, uh, especially my little Twitter thing that went viral.

00:46:52.340 Um, and I'm surprised at how much personal animus, uh, people think is appropriate, uh, to,

00:46:59.000 to throw, but I guess you're not surprised.

00:47:01.240 No, no, I'm not surprised.

00:47:03.100 I'm not surprised.

00:47:04.040 It is a, it's an honor to talk to you.

00:47:05.760 Thank you so much.

00:47:06.540 The best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:47:26.320 Al Gore made a movie called The Inconvenient Truth.

00:47:30.600 And I remember when Stu went, uh, or when I went, Stu was holding his breath.

00:47:37.260 He had already seen it and he knew, oh man, if Glenn gets his teeth into this one and he's

00:47:42.740 swayed by the, you know, whatever.

00:47:45.340 And I, I walked out of it and I went, that was a powerful movie.

00:47:48.680 And I called you from the lobby of the movie theater.

00:47:51.400 And I said, give me all the other side.

00:47:54.980 I want to hear all the other side.

00:47:57.080 Um, and we debunked it piece by piece and it led to a book, an inconvenient book, uh,

00:48:03.560 which had inconvenient facts, but that was only part of that book.

00:48:07.600 There's a new book out now called Inconvenient Facts.

00:48:10.760 The science that Al Gore doesn't want you to know.

00:48:13.760 And the author Gregory Whitestone is a right stone is, uh, with us, uh, now to go over some

00:48:19.800 of it.

00:48:20.320 How are you, Greg?

00:48:21.000 I'm good.

00:48:21.400 Thanks for having me on.

00:48:22.100 Yeah, you bet.

00:48:22.780 You bet.

00:48:23.080 Okay.

00:48:23.380 So we were just talking off air about forest fires.

00:48:26.720 Let's talk, let's start there on, uh, on what climate change is doing to the state of

00:48:32.320 California.

00:48:33.140 Yeah, it's just awful.

00:48:34.140 Did you know that forest fire, the number of forest fires actually are declining in

00:48:39.300 California, according to Cal fire, that's the, the source of all fire related data in

00:48:44.140 California, according to Cal fire, the number of fires have declined by almost 50% over the

00:48:49.280 last 30 years.

00:48:50.300 Now, granted the area burned has increased, but that has, the area burn has nothing to

00:48:55.220 do with global warming or climate change, but rather poor, poor forest management.

00:48:59.740 No, Greg, it has everything to do with, there's no water in California and it's getting hotter

00:49:04.720 in California.

00:49:05.860 Well, the dirty little secret is with fires, there's, there's three things we need, uh, for

00:49:11.080 wildfires and forest fires.

00:49:12.340 You need an ignition source, you need fuel, and then you need arid conditions.

00:49:16.880 And you know what we're doing, man's actions are actually contributing negatively to all

00:49:21.640 three, but it's not because of global warming.

00:49:24.740 Um, the Sierra Nevada conservancy says there are four to five times as many trees per acre

00:49:29.940 today than what a normal healthy forest should have four to five times too much.

00:49:34.980 And what that means is, of course, more fuel, that's easily understood.

00:49:38.360 What it would also means is the second largest source of aridity of loss of soil moisture

00:49:44.400 is the oil that's sucked out of the, out of the ground in the soil from the trees, from

00:49:48.840 the trees.

00:49:49.480 So now you've got four to five times too many trees competing for that same scarce, uh,

00:49:55.660 soil moisture.

00:49:56.380 When you think about it now, it's leading to the aridity and there's estimated 1,000%

00:50:02.660 increase in the last 40 years of people living in fire prone areas.

00:50:07.540 So now we get ignition sources up, we got more fuel and we got more aridity and it's not due

00:50:13.000 to climate change or global warming.

00:50:14.880 Of course, that causes a lot more damage when the fire actually happens to get a lot more

00:50:17.880 homes to burn.

00:50:18.480 Intensity area burning, California has increased.

00:50:22.160 So necessarily, uh, each fire is about twice as big as it used to be.

00:50:26.580 But the good news clan that goes on reported is that worldwide fires, the number of fires

00:50:32.160 is declining and it's the experts.

00:50:35.040 Well, but it's probably those fires are put out because of all the hurricanes that are

00:50:38.400 happening.

00:50:39.040 Yeah.

00:50:39.240 But that would be area burned.

00:50:40.500 We're talking, they, they're, they're talking about number of fires.

00:50:43.660 Once that fire ignites, they count it.

00:50:45.540 So even if it's put out, it's counted.

00:50:47.520 So what we find is soil moisture across the world is increasing and the fire experts tell

00:50:53.200 us it's because of climate change, increasing precipitation and the climate alarmist will

00:50:57.980 say, well, that'll lead to flooding. 0.95

00:51:00.020 And it might in some cases, but the good news is we're seeing increased soil moisture around

00:51:04.620 the world.

00:51:05.060 And then because of increased CO2 fertilization effect, plants need less water.

00:51:11.340 Okay.

00:51:11.780 All right.

00:51:12.160 But I mean, you're such a denier.

00:51:15.760 Let's go to the real facts.

00:51:17.220 Let me take you to the real facts.

00:51:19.440 The, the polar ice caps are, are melting.

00:51:23.180 The polar bears are having to move, you know, down into civilization because they're there.

00:51:29.380 It's just, they have no ice.

00:51:31.740 They have no more ice.

00:51:32.880 And at the same time, you see how hot it's getting.

00:51:36.940 And at the same time, how cold it's getting all around the world.

00:51:41.620 Answer that one.

00:51:43.080 Yeah.

00:51:43.240 Well, sea ice is diminishing in the northern polar ice cap.

00:51:47.300 Um, just as an aside, before we go any farther, you may not realize you could melt the entire

00:51:52.700 northern polar ice cap and it would have scarcely any effect on, on sea level.

00:51:57.860 And the reason is it's ice that's floating on the ocean.

00:52:01.300 So as it melts, it displates.

00:52:03.260 So we can, it's, it's only land-based glaciers that cause sea level rise.

00:52:07.760 Uh, but what we have, and in my new app, I've got a, uh, a chart showing the decline of sea

00:52:14.720 ice and then comparing it to the increase in population of polar bears.

00:52:19.040 So as sea ice has been diminishing, polar bears are increasing.

00:52:23.040 Now, granted, part of it's because we stopped doing trophy hunting.

00:52:26.720 Uh, but certainly the loss of sea ice hasn't hurt them to any measurable extent.

00:52:31.180 And, uh, the study related in the book, they compared bears in a high ice loss area along

00:52:37.880 the Russia to the areas of bears that, that didn't have much.

00:52:41.500 And those bears where there was a lot of ice loss, man, they were fat and happy.

00:52:46.380 They were much, much heavier, more successful than the bears where there was a lot of ice.

00:52:51.300 I have a say to you, I also have an update on a stat that we talk about all the time when

00:52:55.160 it comes to polar bears.

00:52:56.260 I mean, back in the sixties, it was about 5,000 polar bears that existed.

00:52:59.260 And we talk all the time, Glenn, we said this just the other day.

00:53:01.100 That it's about up to about 25,000.

00:53:03.520 And that number had come from the mid two thousands ish.

00:53:07.040 So I, I honestly hadn't seen an update in quite some time.

00:53:09.980 You have an update in the book.

00:53:11.040 Yeah, it's, it's a 2017, uh, Susan Crockford's probably the top polar bear expert.

00:53:17.220 And I communicated her.

00:53:18.560 I wanted to get the best data.

00:53:20.560 Uh, we published the book about a year ago.

00:53:23.160 We've got a new app that's come out.

00:53:24.680 I contact, we were back and forth.

00:53:26.520 I said, what's the best data you have to date?

00:53:28.200 And that's what's incorporated in the app confirmed what I have in the book there.

00:53:32.260 And the average now, bear in mind, it's dangerous and pretty tough to measure polar bear populations.

00:53:38.980 Sure.

00:53:39.140 Because, uh, they eat you.

00:53:41.040 Right.

00:53:41.480 Yes.

00:53:41.840 Apparently America, people taste a lot like seals because we're on the polar bear.

00:53:45.920 Right.

00:53:46.160 And, uh, but, but, uh, her average, she estimates is 28,500.

00:53:52.480 So it's increased since that, that, because I remember the first time I heard 5,000 to 25,000, I thought it was impossible.

00:53:59.120 Bear in mind, there's an, there's like an error bar like this.

00:54:01.540 Sure.

00:54:01.820 It might be off by a couple thousand because it's pretty tough to.

00:54:04.980 Bottom line is we haven't seen a significant decrease.

00:54:07.960 Oh, no.

00:54:08.440 It's definitely been increasing.

00:54:10.400 It's just how much.

00:54:11.260 That's the question.

00:54:12.120 When it comes to the fires, let me back up a little bit to that.

00:54:15.400 One of the things that people will say when it comes to these fires getting worse is we just have had so much drought.

00:54:22.080 There, there's been more, there's more drought now than there's ever been before.

00:54:24.580 And that's causing all of these problems to get worse.

00:54:27.280 Yeah.

00:54:27.680 Again, again, what we're being told flies in the face of the science and the facts.

00:54:32.440 Um, I think at this point it might be, might be interesting for your viewers to find out that I didn't set out to write a book.

00:54:39.340 I set out to seek the truth.

00:54:40.700 And it was that search for the truth that led me to this.

00:54:45.140 And that was one of the stunning things about drought and forest fires.

00:54:48.580 When I found out that actually droughts were in a slight decline, um, and especially the big droughts were declining.

00:54:55.680 I just, I said, wow.

00:54:57.680 And I said, no one knows that.

00:54:59.680 No one knows that.

00:55:00.480 Yeah.

00:55:00.780 Everyone.

00:55:01.060 There might be droughts here and there, but overall.

00:55:03.880 Right.

00:55:04.360 Exactly.

00:55:05.300 Droughts is all have always been with us. 0.91

00:55:07.020 They always will be.

00:55:07.760 The good news is, um, the most severe droughts are being exacerbated mainly by that increase in soil moisture.

00:55:15.260 We talked about before.

00:55:16.960 Um, and this increase in soil moisture, uh, alleviates those droughts.

00:55:21.020 I've got a chart in the book and on my app, uh, showing the most intense and significant droughts of the 20th century.

00:55:26.740 And if you look at those, those are the really bad ones, the dust bowl, the dust bowl, the Sahel droughts, uh, uh, there were, there were a number of, I think there were 28 that they recognized in the 20th century.

00:55:38.140 But we find that most of those, almost all of them were in before 1960.

00:55:42.640 Um, so as CO2 has increased, as temperature increased, and yes, temperature, we're in a temperature increase, thankfully.

00:55:52.000 We have been for the last 300 years.

00:55:54.360 You say thankfully, and you actually show that pretty well in the book.

00:55:57.140 Oh, yes.

00:55:57.760 Yes.

00:55:58.060 When it comes to, you know, the, the amount of greens that were greenery, were we able to grow?

00:56:04.300 I mean, it's increased almost everywhere in the entire world.

00:56:06.180 And also, it's fascinating if you look over human history, if we look over the last 4,500 years, each of the warming trends that we've seen, the Minoan, the Roman, the medieval warm period, each one of these, uh, correlated to a benefit of, of civilization.

00:56:25.080 We see a great correlation between the rise and fall of temperature and the rise and fall of civilizations.

00:56:30.580 Um, if you were Emperor Glenn in a warm period, you had it good because you could feed your subjects.

00:56:36.840 Food was bountiful.

00:56:38.400 Um, people had time to, to dream, to tinker, to invent.

00:56:42.260 In the cold periods, just again, opposite of what we're being told, the cold periods were where bad things happened consistently.

00:56:50.640 Famine, crop failure, pestilence, nasty population.

00:56:55.520 Cold is very, very bad.

00:56:57.120 And in the Little Ice Age, which was just recently, uh, we started warming at the end of this late, late 17th century.

00:57:04.720 And it's that beneficial warmth that we're recognizing today.

00:57:08.860 Yeah, but if it stays on this, uh, worst case projections, we'll be as hot as the sun in a thousand years.

00:57:14.060 Yeah, yeah.

00:57:14.860 I mean, that's the problem.

00:57:15.980 Exactly.

00:57:16.680 Is, is they take these projections and then say, worst case scenario.

00:57:21.260 Well, that's not happened to the world before.

00:57:24.240 And if you look back, how many, how many, uh, hothouse and ice house periods have there been?

00:57:31.280 Yeah, there've been, most of the earth has been significantly, going back to the pre-cam, have been significantly warmer than we are today.

00:57:37.640 By as much as 15 to 20 times, or degrees Fahrenheit.

00:57:41.240 Wow.

00:57:41.960 But 15 to 20 times hotter?

00:57:44.480 Significant.

00:57:44.680 It's called hothouse events or, or ice house events, which is what we're in now.

00:57:49.620 Uh, during ice house events, we have, uh, ice at both poles or one of the poles.

00:57:54.840 During the hothouse, there's no ice, uh, on earth.

00:57:57.880 And, uh.

00:57:59.120 Really?

00:57:59.780 And, but the, the, the key thing here is we look at carbon dioxide.

00:58:03.280 Uh, it's, in the past up until now is consistently temperature has caused carbon dioxide to change.

00:58:11.880 In other words, when it warms, the oceans vent carbon dioxide, so carbon dioxide increases.

00:58:17.440 During cold periods, it sucks up, because I know it sounds counterintuitive, but if you put your, a liter of, of ginger ale in your refrigerator, right?

00:58:26.320 You open it up and it goes, you put that out in your, on your patio in August and open it up.

00:58:31.960 And man, it's like a volcano.

00:58:33.520 And that, what that's doing is spewing the carbon dioxide.

00:58:36.460 And we have that same event happen with a warming ocean.

00:58:40.300 Um, so the, actually the, the temperature change precedes changes in CO2.

00:58:45.480 When did CO2 become bad?

00:58:46.960 Because I remember being taught in school.

00:58:48.900 Were you taught this still?

00:58:50.060 Oh yeah.

00:58:50.240 That what you, that it was the miracle of the miracle of the circle of life.

00:58:56.320 Ah, is poison to man.

00:58:58.640 Enough of that.

00:58:59.660 Ah, you breathe out what you can no longer use, but the trees, ah, breathe it in.

00:59:06.100 And they breathe out, ah, poison to them, if you will.

00:59:09.820 Uh, just the air that we can breathe, the oxygen that we breathe.

00:59:14.760 And it's, it's this circle.

00:59:17.140 Is that even taught anymore?

00:59:19.480 I don't know about that.

00:59:20.880 I know you and I learned it.

00:59:22.440 Uh, it's, but.

00:59:23.580 Did you learn that?

00:59:24.220 I did learn it.

00:59:24.640 Yep.

00:59:24.760 You, you've hit on an important point here, Glenn, is that they need to demonize carbon

00:59:30.140 dioxide and they need to demonize it terribly because this is, this drives all of these

00:59:35.720 anti, the, the environmental people that keep it in the ground movement, the anti-fossil

00:59:40.640 fuel, the divestment movement on college campuses.

00:59:43.520 It's all driven by a demonization of carbon dioxide.

00:59:47.160 They're saying that carbon dioxide is driving dangerous increases in temperatures and that

00:59:52.440 those dangerous increases in temperatures will necessarily lead to catastrophic events.

00:59:57.080 Right.

00:59:57.400 Well, what they, what these predictions are and their predictions, they're based on failed

01:00:02.580 climate models of what may happen 30, 50 or 80 years in the future.

01:00:06.860 What I've done in the book and in the, in the app is, is to say, well, what's actually

01:00:11.740 happening today?

01:00:13.280 And we've been warming for 300 years.

01:00:15.620 We've been in adding significant CO2 for, well, since the end of the world war two, shouldn't

01:00:21.480 we recognize something bad happening by now?

01:00:24.320 But yet, no, we see crops continue to increase, not entirely do it due to it, but a significant

01:00:30.280 contributor is warming temperatures, lengthening growing seasons and increasing CO2 leading

01:00:35.200 to CO2 fertilization.

01:00:36.520 And we see these bad things that are predicted just ain't happening.

01:00:41.260 I mean, even, even the UN says the net, increased CO2 levels until I think it's about 2080 is

01:00:48.140 a net benefit for the globe, which is a, it's a, it's a statement you'd never hear said other

01:00:52.540 that doesn't mean they don't have negative consequences in some parts.

01:00:54.760 This is again, the UN saying this, but they say net net for the globe.

01:00:58.340 It's actually a benefit until about 2080.

01:01:00.320 Yeah.

01:01:00.760 Yeah.

01:01:00.960 I don't think the UN is a good person to use because they've got a history of, of failed

01:01:05.340 predictions and, but you're right.

01:01:07.420 But even if they're saying it, um, and of course their, their intergovernmental panel

01:01:12.300 on climate change at the UN, uh, uh, climate alarmist or organization, things like, uh, there,

01:01:19.000 there are things that they capture that they kind of say tucked away here and there that

01:01:23.840 I've publicized here as an inconvenient fact.

01:01:26.480 Um, and so this, yeah.

01:01:28.680 Can you, can you tell us about the app here before we leave real quick?

01:01:31.720 Yep.

01:01:32.000 Uh, app store, Google play store search for.

01:01:35.540 Inconvenient facts.

01:01:37.580 It's awesome.

01:01:38.640 It's powerful.

01:01:39.420 It puts, it puts this information in the palm of your hands.

01:01:42.380 It's well-sourced, well-referenced and, uh, videos linked, uh, to each one of these.

01:01:48.620 That's great.

01:01:49.040 So this is something that you can have in your pocket at all the time.

01:01:52.160 So when you meet a climate alarmist, you go to the app and it will help you with the charts

01:01:57.260 and the graphs.

01:01:57.880 Everything is sourced.

01:01:59.160 Uh, everything is, uh, is triple check to make sure that it's exactly right.

01:02:03.360 And you have the argument.

01:02:05.600 So you're not going, geez, I wish I heard that guy.

01:02:08.420 I wish I would have listened or written it down and, or I did write it down and now I

01:02:12.020 don't have the paper.

01:02:12.660 It's there on your phone with inconvenient app.

01:02:15.860 Get the inconvenient app.

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