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00:00:00.000 We had a ton on today's show that I think you're going to love.

00:00:18.600 First of all, we had Texas Governor Greg Abbott talk about what's going on in Texas,

00:00:23.880 and now the Democrats are going back to session, what's going to happen this weekend.

00:00:30.020 We also, I think he made some news about Beto and how he feels about Beto and bribery.

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00:00:40.100 Also, I talked to an expert on the airlines.

00:00:42.900 What is happening with the airlines?

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00:00:53.800 The airlines seem to be really having problems.

00:00:56.900 I talked to him about it, and he had some really good news about what's happening with the FAA.

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00:03:25.760 Welcome to the Glenn Beck Program.

00:03:27.880 We are excited to have Greg Abbott on.

00:03:30.780 Named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time Magazine in 2024.

00:03:36.000 He's running the eighth largest economy in the world.

00:03:39.340 Texas, made in Texas, never been a bigger brand.

00:03:42.860 We are home to more than three million small businesses that employ almost half of all working Texans.

00:03:50.380 Texas led the way out of the 08 recession, and it's leading the way again because the government doesn't tell everybody exactly what to do.

00:04:00.200 It is a great place to run a business.

00:04:02.660 And I think if he can get his property tax reform through, he will also make it a great place to live.

00:04:13.400 It's getting a little expensive, but he knows that and he's working on it.

00:04:16.440 He's here to talk about the Texas redistricting.

00:04:20.360 Looks like, at least, Governor, welcome to the program.

00:04:23.580 Blaze News is reporting today.

00:04:25.640 Texas redistricting standoff is over.

00:04:29.280 They are returning to the statehouse.

00:04:30.660 Statehouse, is that true?

00:04:33.580 Trust but verify.

00:04:36.020 The Democrats say that they are coming back to put all this in context to make sure the audience knows what's going on.

00:04:42.960 So the governor has the ability to call a special session the last 30 days.

00:04:48.120 This one was scheduled to end early next week.

00:04:50.840 But yesterday, the House and Senate agreed they were going to adjourn at the end of this Friday.

00:04:58.200 And I said that I was going to call back another special session beginning immediately.

00:05:03.260 And it was after that that the Democrats, I think, learned that their fate was they were going to have to take up permanent residency in Illinois or California, wherever they were.

00:05:12.080 If they did not come back and that's when discussions began that they were going to be actually coming back.

00:05:18.100 And so the word on the street and the word in the news is that they are coming back and they will be part of the special session that begins either on Friday of this week or Saturday of this week.

00:05:30.160 But again, we'll see when and if they show up, we will be prepared.

00:05:35.700 If they don't show up, we will be prepared if they do show up.

00:05:38.860 Either way, I'm going to say this, and that is these congressional district maps, they're going to pass as well as the other items on the agenda.

00:05:47.260 They are going to pass.

00:05:49.040 That's good news.

00:05:50.560 It's already passed in the Senate, as you know.

00:05:52.860 Do you believe you have enough votes in the House to pass it as well?

00:05:56.280 Oh, we know we have enough votes in the House to pass it to get something passed like this only requires a majority.

00:06:04.060 Doesn't require two thirds vote.

00:06:06.620 And we have almost two thirds of the Texas House made up of Republicans because we do not have actually two thirds.

00:06:14.180 It means that the one third, a little bit more than one third of the Democrats, they can break the quorum under current law.

00:06:20.100 By the way, current law that needs to be changed.

00:06:22.020 But that point aside, there will be plenty of votes to make sure that the map that passed out of the Texas Senate will also pass out of the Texas House.

00:06:31.520 Gavin Newsom has just demanded that you stop your redistricting efforts.

00:06:37.640 He said he was going to retaliate by adding five more Democratic seats in California to cancel out the five that Texas is going to add.

00:06:46.220 He said, Governor Abbott, you are not entitled to five congressional seats.

00:06:51.200 Any response to Gavin Newsom?

00:06:53.920 Oh, my God.

00:06:59.700 So for one, there's so many things wrong with that in Texas, for us to redraw congressional lines and make sure that people in Texas are going to have the ability to vote for the Republican candidate of their choice in these congressional seats.

00:07:18.980 All it requires is for the governor and call a special session on it and for a majority of the Texas House and Senate to vote on it.

00:07:25.940 In California, they have to go through this complex constitutional process, which really means they would not even be able to get it done.

00:07:32.720 But that point aside, if they still really wanted to get something done, it's impossible because they are so gerrymandered in the first place.

00:07:43.480 They have almost eliminated all Republican members of Congress out there.

00:07:47.580 Glenn, this is the biggest issue that surfaced because of this redistricting battle, and that is most Americans had no idea how much California, Illinois, New York, and Massachusetts had gerrymandered their state so that they had purged pretty much every Republican from the United States Congress.

00:08:07.640 And so California with Gavin Newsom is kind of like someone showing up to a gunfight but forgot to bring the bullets because he doesn't have any bullets to shoot in this fight, whereas Texas has plenty of bullets to shoot to make sure that we will maintain a congressional district in Texas that's going to be more Republican, more representative of the values and votes in our state,

00:08:30.080 but also capable of stretching that if we do have states like California or Illinois, whatever the case may be, if they go full scale and really rig the system the way that Gavin Newsom is talking about doing, if those rules apply, then Texas can gain more ground than California can.

00:08:48.700 You said that Beto should be arrested over his fundraising for Democrats on the run. What law did he break?

00:08:56.100 So, first, let me tell you what he said, and I'll tell you what law that he broke.

00:09:01.300 And I am quoting to you what I saw and actually posted on my X account of what Beto said in writing, at least it was in quotations.

00:09:12.540 And that is, he suggested that if these Texas Democrats were to skip the vote, not vote, break quorum, meaning not uphold their responsibility to, say,

00:09:25.760 in the legislative session, then he would give all of the House members who evaded Austin money to support them.

00:09:37.100 So this is what you call a quid pro quo, if that's exactly what happened.

00:09:42.840 So, Glenn, that would be bribery if that's what took place.

00:09:46.700 And that is a second-degree felony in the state of Texas.

00:09:50.420 And I pointed it out in part for him, but really aiming the target at the Texas House members because it exposes these Texas Democrat House members who ran away to charges of bribery.

00:10:04.000 But also, that charge of bribery would be grounds for them to actually have forfeited their Texas House seat that would vacate it and allow us to fill it.

00:10:13.360 There were reports that Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett could lose her seat because of the new map.

00:10:19.980 It would boot her out of her own current district. 1.00

00:10:23.100 Please tell me that's not true.

00:10:24.860 We think she's the best thing to happen to the Republican Party in a very long time.

00:10:32.360 No doubt about it, but I think she may be even better for the media because she writes the story for you every single day. 0.99

00:10:39.100 Oh, yes, she does.

00:10:39.980 So, listen, I haven't seen the lines exactly how they impact her district.

00:10:47.580 What we have seen already, there's a seat down in the Austin area where a representative named Lloyd Doggett currently represents.

00:10:57.620 And it's been consolidated with one by one of these progressive leftists, you know, basically socialists, Greg Kassar.

00:11:07.400 And it looks like they have been put together in one district.

00:11:13.940 And news overnight said that Greg Kassar was going to be running against Lloyd Doggett.

00:11:17.760 My point in telling you this, and that may be the very same thing that happens up in the Dallas area with a couple of seats.

00:11:23.680 I think there will be maybe two seats in the Dallas area that are impacted by this.

00:11:28.180 And it could likely be a free-for-all among the various different candidates, and she may very well be one of them.

00:11:36.200 Can I ask you, how is the property tax reform going?

00:11:42.880 I think property tax is one of the most immoral taxes we have.

00:11:49.940 I mean, I want to leave my house to my kids.

00:11:53.040 They'll never be able to afford, you know, not only the death tax, but they wouldn't be able to afford the property tax.

00:11:58.080 It makes people a renter from the government every year.

00:12:03.620 What are we doing on property tax reform?

00:12:05.880 Because it's getting devastating here in Texas.

00:12:08.820 All right.

00:12:09.380 Let me ask you.

00:12:10.140 So you brought us some other taxes.

00:12:11.860 Let me, you know, pare down exactly the property tax by telling you this.

00:12:16.800 And that is to ensure other taxes would never be imposed in the state of Texas, we made unconstitutional the income tax, the death tax, the capital gains tax, and the transactions tax.

00:12:31.100 And there's another one I'm forgetting right now.

00:12:33.060 Bottom line is we made unconstitutional all these other taxes.

00:12:36.780 Now what we're trying to do is to trim down the property tax.

00:12:40.500 Let me tell you what the challenge is.

00:12:42.060 And the challenge is the state of Texas does not impose a property tax itself.

00:12:46.640 Only local governments do.

00:12:48.860 And so when we strive as a state to pare down what local governments tax, we have only several options.

00:12:55.940 And that is to increase the homestead exemption or to buy down that property tax rate.

00:13:01.400 You know, one thing I know you heard me talk about before, and that is to eliminate the largest part of the property tax is the school property tax.

00:13:10.240 And one of my goals was to eliminate the school property tax, which would go a long way to eliminating the property tax.

00:13:18.560 That said, let me tell you where we are, where we're going.

00:13:21.420 So where we are after we finish the regular session through the combination of the increase in homestead exemption as well as buying down or reducing those school property tax rates, at least at the senior level.

00:13:34.220 If you're a senior, the average senior, through the combination of all this, will pay zero dollars, none, for their school property tax.

00:13:46.920 Others will still have to pay a level of school property tax.

00:13:52.400 That said, Glenn, there's a couple of more things we need to do.

00:13:56.840 And we're going to get some of this done in this special session.

00:14:00.800 It looks like it'll be the second special session.

00:14:02.940 But one is to make further cuts in the property taxes.

00:14:09.600 But secondly, we've got to understand this.

00:14:11.020 Mayor, I told you to begin with it, it's the local governments that impose the property tax.

00:14:15.180 So what I want to see done is I want to put the same restrictions on local government that exists on state government, and that is spending limits.

00:14:23.240 Their spending is out of control.

00:14:24.460 Thank you.

00:14:25.260 Well, completely reckless and unnecessary.

00:14:28.520 Yes.

00:14:29.160 And we've got to tie the hands of these local governments from increasing your property taxes, even having a chance to increase it.

00:14:37.240 And so the state has four constitutional spending limits.

00:14:41.900 Local governments have zero spending limits.

00:14:45.680 They must, at a minimum, be constrained to spending no more than population growth plus inflation.

00:14:50.740 If they do that, you will see a dramatic reduction at your local level.

00:14:56.260 And one thing I know that you face with, and others do, you open up your property tax bill, and it's like not one or two items, not like the school district and one other item.

00:15:05.740 It seems like there's 14 different items on there.

00:15:08.720 Yeah, yeah.

00:15:09.000 Something like that.

00:15:10.180 They're texting you here, there, and everywhere.

00:15:12.000 That has to stop.

00:15:14.240 Well, I have to tell you, while we're here on school, Stu and I were just talking, first day of school, at least for his kids here in Texas.

00:15:20.720 And the changes that are coming in the schools, can you just list some of these?

00:15:24.420 No cell phones in any school in Texas now, beginning this year.

00:15:29.200 Big one.

00:15:29.560 That's great.

00:15:29.980 Yeah, that's a great one.

00:15:31.120 Thank you for that.

00:15:33.200 Bans on DEI-type teachings.

00:15:36.620 Thank you.

00:15:37.200 And curriculum.

00:15:38.240 Ten Commandments in the classroom.

00:15:39.760 Thank you.

00:15:40.140 Prayer in school is allowed.

00:15:43.320 And then, of course, next year is school choice, which is massive.

00:15:48.800 Great stuff.

00:15:49.960 Great stuff.

00:15:50.920 Governor, thank you.

00:15:52.440 You got it.

00:15:53.560 A lot of changes for that.

00:15:55.200 Some other curriculum reform really focuses on reading and math to ensure that our students are getting the best education possible.

00:16:02.900 So we had a transformative session for changing education, put it on a very strong pathway.

00:16:09.800 I'm the first governor in the history of Texas to talk about our true vision.

00:16:13.860 And our true vision is to ensure that we put our state on the pathway where we rank number one in educating our kids.

00:16:19.640 Yeah, good.

00:16:20.000 Good, good.

00:16:20.460 Thank you so much, Governor.

00:16:21.680 I appreciate it.

00:16:22.340 Governor Greg Abbott from the great state of Texas.

00:16:24.940 is, you know, we are number one, the state, the number one state for job creation for black business owners.

00:16:33.200 We are the number one state for Hispanic women business owners, veteran women business owners.

00:16:42.700 Texas has become a place just because they don't get in your way.

00:16:47.800 They're not doing anything special.

00:16:49.420 They're just not doing anything.

00:16:52.100 You know what I mean?

00:16:52.980 They're just like, hey, you come to Texas, you want to start a business, start a business, be successful.

00:16:57.860 Uh, and we won't crush you.

00:17:00.860 Uh, that's why Texas is leading, uh, business.

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00:18:20.840 Mike Boyd.

00:18:22.020 Welcome to the program.

00:18:22.920 Mike, how are you?

00:18:24.440 I'm doing fine, sir.

00:18:25.400 Honored to be here.

00:18:26.180 Thank you.

00:18:26.660 So thank you for coming on.

00:18:28.520 I, I, um, uh, I, I've been asking for a, uh, interview with Secretary Duffy and, uh,

00:18:35.080 we haven't been able to line the schedules yet, um, but I am very concerned about our

00:18:40.300 airlines.

00:18:40.860 I was on a plane and these were all American airlines, by the way, I was on a plane.

00:18:45.680 The pilot we got on, it was like two hours, three hours late.

00:18:48.980 And we got on and the pilot was standing in the aisle and he said, everybody, I don't

00:18:53.960 want you to blame the airlines.

00:18:55.060 I want you to blame me.

00:18:56.960 And we're like, oh, okay.

00:18:58.180 And he said, um, because I wouldn't accept the, uh, plane that they wanted us to fly because

00:19:06.700 I've flown it before and it has problems and they haven't fixed those problems.

00:19:11.060 And the only way it's going to be fixed is if we reject it and say it can't, I can't

00:19:15.860 fly, uh, I don't know if that's true or not, or what this guy, you know, what the story

00:19:20.380 was, but that didn't fill me with confidence.

00:19:22.940 I'm like, wait a minute, wait a minute.

00:19:24.080 So you're actually saying the airline's not replic repairing a plane.

00:19:28.280 And I don't think, I mean, I don't, I don't think our airplanes are in trouble and going

00:19:32.780 to start falling out of the sky, but that has been happening lately.

00:19:35.880 What is happening with our airlines?

00:19:38.980 Well, I think the experience you had that one specific one that comes up, we've done a lot

00:19:43.920 of work with, I come from an American airlines background, but nevertheless, we've done a

00:19:48.620 lot of work with Americans, pilots unions.

00:19:50.360 These are very professional people.

00:19:52.100 And if that guy stood up there and said, I'm not confident with this airplane, that's a

00:19:56.120 safety, that's a safety plus.

00:19:57.940 Oh, I, I appreciated that.

00:19:59.860 We thanked him for that.

00:20:01.040 Thank you.

00:20:01.620 Thank you.

00:20:02.300 But we have a major problem then with American airlines.

00:20:04.800 If you have pilots saying, I don't trust you, these are, these are not yo-yos. 1.00

00:20:08.900 These aren't good, good humor men.

00:20:10.500 These are professionals.

00:20:11.500 If they say that we have a problem in American, if all this happened on American, I think you

00:20:15.840 might want to call the folks down there in, in Fort Worth that they're, they're brand

00:20:19.200 new American way headquarters.

00:20:20.700 They spent billions on and ask them some questions, but overall, I haven't seen that.

00:20:26.440 Are there big problems with air traffic control?

00:20:29.220 Yes.

00:20:29.840 No question about that.

00:20:31.080 And we finally have somebody at the FAA and at DOT who has a clue.

00:20:35.980 And I think that'll be addressed.

00:20:37.720 But overall, if it was just on one airline, you're, you're, you're on the right track

00:20:42.760 as far as looking at it.

00:20:44.460 Okay.

00:20:45.060 So this is, but are you seeing this kind of stuff happening with other airlines?

00:20:50.920 No.

00:20:51.340 I mean, I'm flying out of, uh, I'm flying out of Dallas all the time.

00:20:54.320 So I generally fly, uh, American and I occasionally will fly Delta, but you know, it's mainly American.

00:21:00.800 So I just assumed this was happening on other airlines as well, because I mean, I I'm reading

00:21:06.760 the comments from people and they're like, I can't trust that I can get there the next

00:21:10.360 day anymore.

00:21:11.520 And that's a real problem.

00:21:14.200 Well, because air travel is, I have to get their time certain.

00:21:17.360 It's not a game.

00:21:18.200 I've got to get to the bar mitzvah, whatever I'm going to.

00:21:20.640 So if it can't get there, I'm not going to go.

00:21:23.180 And the reason I'm not going to go is you can't get me there.

00:21:25.340 Now, if you look at reliability and again, we've had some issues like frontier airlines.

00:21:30.740 I mean, if you want to see Saturday night fights, go to YouTube and you'll see a gate,

00:21:34.120 a gate event at frontier airlines.

00:21:36.180 It's really bad.

00:21:37.280 But if you look at others, like our friends at United airlines, and I don't really work

00:21:40.740 for those guys. 0.91

00:21:41.560 They have a system where if you book on United very often, they're with you the whole damn 0.97

00:21:45.840 trip.

00:21:46.240 If you don't like a lot of test messages, don't book them.

00:21:49.140 They're with you the whole time.

00:21:50.540 And their CEO is functionally anal about making sure customers know whatever went on,

00:21:56.800 whatever it is, take it or leave it.

00:21:58.400 So from that, it's going better.

00:21:59.460 But I think you may have stumbled over something that affects a Metroplex more than anything else.

00:22:06.480 So how does, because I've been on the plane and everybody's like, we're going to have missing,

00:22:12.460 you know, you're going to miss your connections, blah, blah, blah.

00:22:14.260 And everybody is, is, is this kind of, is the airline system set up almost like the just

00:22:21.980 in time supply line that if it, that if it did ever go into catastrophic failure, it would

00:22:28.300 be a real problem because I mean, it's just one plane arrives just in time for everybody

00:22:34.940 to unload and reload and take off again.

00:22:37.960 Well, yeah, see, that's just the issue.

00:22:40.680 You know, like in ancient times, you know, our friends at Southwest could come in and

00:22:45.740 go in 10 minutes.

00:22:46.940 Today, you can't get 10 seats emptied in that amount of time.

00:22:49.660 So they're really trying to cut down the amount of time they're on the ground.

00:22:52.240 That makes sense.

00:22:53.340 The question is, they've got to have systems that allow them to do that.

00:22:57.060 Now, Delta's put in a very comprehensive system.

00:22:59.960 Don't really work for Delta, but where they have been able to better coordinate all those

00:23:04.720 things and do a better job of it.

00:23:06.280 But you're right, if you're coming in and going out and that airplane has to do a go

00:23:10.720 around coming into Atlanta, that could be 15 minutes.

00:23:13.980 That 15 minutes could mean you can't get across the terminal E to get your connection.

00:23:18.060 That's going to happen.

00:23:19.460 Tell me about the situation because, Stu, you did a documentary on how bad the air traffic

00:23:25.280 control system was, right?

00:23:27.340 Yes, I did.

00:23:28.240 And is that on YouTube still?

00:23:30.580 It is.

00:23:31.060 What's the name of it?

00:23:31.660 It's called Countdown to the Next Aviation Disaster.

00:23:33.980 Unfortunately, the countdown was not as long as you'd hoped it would have been.

00:23:37.920 Yeah, it is.

00:23:38.680 I mean, what's going on in our air traffic control, and I would never want to be an air

00:23:43.260 traffic controller.

00:23:44.040 The stress these guys are under, and that's not, I'm not even calculating the stress on

00:23:49.940 how close these planes are flying in and out now.

00:23:53.120 I mean, I'm just thinking, you know, back in the good old days where it was very stressful.

00:23:58.320 Now, they're still passing paper to each other, and these planes are one right on top of the

00:24:03.620 other one.

00:24:05.060 When are we going to change this system and update it?

00:24:10.600 Duffy's doing that.

00:24:12.120 Duffy's on it, and we finally have an FAA administrator who has a clue.

00:24:16.520 Brian Bedford.

00:24:17.460 He's been around.

00:24:18.160 No, I've known him for 40 years.

00:24:20.020 This man knows the business, and he's all business.

00:24:22.380 And, you know, I know he's good because Chuck Schumer doesn't like him, so that underlines

00:24:29.300 everything right there.

00:24:30.580 So I think that is starting right now.

00:24:32.800 Look, we testified to Congress in 1994 on this, on a free flight system that you could

00:24:37.980 make it far more efficient.

00:24:39.640 The FAA blew it off.

00:24:41.840 The FAA has always been a repository of some really great people at the operational level,

00:24:47.120 but at the top, these are just political appointees.

00:24:49.540 Take a look at the FAA administrator that the last president wanted, Phil Washington.

00:24:53.920 Nice guy, clueless, but he was a good appointee.

00:24:56.860 We can't do that anymore, and I think we're going to see some major changes right now.

00:25:00.980 Now, how long is it going to take us to fix this?

00:25:04.500 Well, you know, one of the things, you know, it's sort of like what Duffy said.

00:25:08.340 Well, there was a program in place to fix it over the next five years. 0.91

00:25:11.860 He says, that's ridiculous.

00:25:12.980 So he's on it. 0.96

00:25:13.980 I mean, he just went up to Wisconsin.

00:25:15.600 He found the oldest, I think the oldest control tower in the nation.

00:25:18.880 He said, we're going to fix this.

00:25:20.020 He's really making a point of trying to get it done, and I think he's doing it, you know,

00:25:24.600 incrementally.

00:25:25.960 We're at, like, Newark.

00:25:27.300 What a disaster.

00:25:28.120 I don't mean the city necessarily.

00:25:29.600 I do.

00:25:30.400 But the airport, you know, he's trying to make that work better.

00:25:35.860 This guy is on it.

00:25:37.260 So I'm thinking 18 months.

00:25:39.120 It's going to be incremental, but we're going to start to see this happen.

00:25:41.940 In Newark or in the country?

00:25:45.220 In the country.

00:25:46.460 Because we can have a free flight system that is far more efficient than what we've had in

00:25:51.340 the past.

00:25:51.720 What does it mean, a free flight system?

00:25:53.820 There's a free flight system, and, you know, they don't want to ignore this, where every

00:25:56.820 airplane takes off and it finds its own way.

00:25:59.540 Keep in mind, the skies aren't crowded.

00:26:01.080 You can put 250,000, count them, 737s in a cubic mile of airspace, parked, not moving.

00:26:08.380 But that's a quarter million of them.

00:26:09.680 And any time in America today in the sky, you might have just 14,000 airplanes in the

00:26:15.620 sky.

00:26:16.040 But that's over, like, 11 million cubic miles of airspace.

00:26:19.700 So we can use our airspace better.

00:26:21.660 But what we have had is, quite frankly, an FAA that hasn't wanted to even think about

00:26:26.760 it.

00:26:26.920 It's more worried about itself.

00:26:28.620 I am convinced that's going to change over the next two years.

00:26:32.520 And are we close to having AI do all of this free flight?

00:26:37.820 I mean, I imagine that you don't need to check in with Tower if AI is assisting finding

00:26:47.220 it.

00:26:48.400 Exactly.

00:26:48.940 We've got to use that.

00:26:49.920 And again, a lot of it, you know, it's ahead of the FAA has always been kind of the helm

00:26:55.620 of the Titanic.

00:26:56.460 He says, slow down.

00:26:58.000 And by the time it gets back to the engine room, it's, you know, we've hit the iceberg.

00:27:01.700 I think it's one of those things where we have to recognize a lot of stuff has to change

00:27:06.500 organizationally at the FAA and at the Department of Transportation.

00:27:10.680 I think, finally, we've got people that can actually address that.

00:27:14.560 Wow.

00:27:15.080 That is, I mean, this is wildly optimistic and I'm happy to hear that.

00:27:18.700 I like Secretary Duffy.

00:27:20.080 I, you know, I don't know much about him, but not enough to be able to say with confidence

00:27:24.480 like you are talking.

00:27:25.460 It makes me feel really good because I'm very concerned about our air travel.

00:27:29.740 It's not good.

00:27:31.160 It's not good.

00:27:31.840 Not going in the right direction.

00:27:33.040 It is.

00:27:33.860 It's going in the right direction.

00:27:35.600 More carriers are worried about, have found out, if I treat the customer right, they might

00:27:40.100 come back and fly me and that's happening now where people are getting away from some

00:27:43.840 of these really low fare airlines where the seat is like, you know, a bucket seat in a

00:27:48.180 C-119.

00:27:49.280 They don't want to fly those things anymore and people like United and Delta and other

00:27:53.620 carriers are saying, we'll take your business and they are.

00:27:55.880 I got to tell you, I feel at times I'll be on a plane and I think we are like one scruffy

00:28:01.980 dog with one blue eye just walking down the aisle creepily away from third world airlines. 0.66

00:28:07.740 I mean, it's like, there are times I'm like, is there a chicken going to run down the aisle

00:28:11.420 too?

00:28:11.840 Is this, I mean, where, what country do we live in?

00:28:14.120 It's beyond, it's, it really is the greyhound of the sky now.

00:28:20.000 Oh, it is.

00:28:20.820 There's no question.

00:28:21.500 Like my mother was a stewardess in the 1930s.

00:28:24.880 Everybody dressed up.

00:28:26.380 Yes.

00:28:26.780 Today, you're lucky if everybody is dressed.

00:28:32.660 I don't know why we haven't had you on before, Mike.

00:28:34.840 You're very funny.

00:28:35.380 Mike, thank you so much for an inside look on this.

00:28:38.980 I appreciate it.

00:28:40.220 It's my pleasure, sir.

00:28:41.020 Thank you.

00:28:41.660 Mike Boyd, aviation expert from the Boyd Group International.

00:28:45.580 He's the president and CEO.

00:28:47.420 He's a guy who consults all these airlines and tries to help fix them and is also, you

00:28:55.520 know, testifying in front of Congress all the time on how can we fix this?

00:28:59.640 Maybe he's right.

00:29:00.960 Maybe we have some people that will actually now listen and fix it because they have the

00:29:07.540 skill and the knowledge set that, you know, the other leaders should have had the whole

00:29:12.720 time.

00:29:14.620 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:29:17.520 Constantine, welcome to the program.

00:29:22.920 Great to be back with you, Glenn.

00:29:24.160 How are you?

00:29:24.500 It is great.

00:29:25.360 Great to have you back.

00:29:26.560 I just have to play a clip for the audience to hear this bravery.

00:29:31.040 This is Doha Summit on slavery.

00:29:35.360 Listen.

00:29:35.500 Slaves were the first good that were ever traded between human beings. 0.99

00:29:40.380 Ever.

00:29:41.180 They were the first good ever traded.

00:29:43.520 Native Americans had slaves. 1.00

00:29:45.380 Ottomans had slaves. 0.96

00:29:46.780 African had slaves. 1.00

00:29:48.200 Everybody had slaves. 0.96

00:29:50.240 The reason there is no slavery in the West is the British Empire, having practiced slavery 0.96

00:29:54.360 for a long time, like everybody else, ended it.

00:29:57.780 Not only that, not only that, the British Empire then spent a tremendous amount of blood and

00:30:05.400 treasure to force the Middle Eastern slave traders, with the trans-Saharan slave trade

00:30:11.280 being much worse than the transatlantic slave trade, in terms of the number of people who

00:30:15.880 were killed, in terms of the way that they were treated, in terms of how long it lasted,

00:30:20.780 it was much worse.

00:30:21.860 And we spent a tremendous amount of blood and treasure to stop it.

00:30:25.660 That's the true history of slavery.

00:30:28.280 Wow.

00:30:29.380 What was that moment like on the stage after?

00:30:34.800 Well, Glenn, let me fill out a few details for your audience.

00:30:37.840 First of all, if it sounds like I'm being very aggressive, it's only because I literally

00:30:41.860 wasn't allowed to talk, and I kept being screamed over by, well, the entire audience, and the

00:30:47.480 moderator kept jumping in as well.

00:30:49.960 Well, one thing I'll correct, if you don't mind, is this wasn't actually in Doha.

00:30:54.560 I don't blame you for thinking that it was, because it's a Doha debate, and also, you'd

00:30:58.840 be forgiven for thinking it was in Qatar, because the demographics of the issue, I was

00:31:01.980 actually in Bradford, in England.

00:31:04.100 You've got to be kidding me.

00:31:06.040 Right.

00:31:06.660 Oh, my gosh.

00:31:08.040 It might speak to some of the other stuff that we can get into in the conversation.

00:31:12.260 But yeah, I'm really just quoting facts from, there's a chapter in my book, An Immigrant's

00:31:17.260 Love Letter to the West, in which I talk about slavery.

00:31:19.520 I talk about the fact that my grandfather was taken from Ukraine as a slave laborer to 0.89

00:31:25.380 Germany during the war.

00:31:26.720 So, you know, I try to make the point that slavery is a universal, terrible thing that

00:31:32.000 human beings have done to each other throughout the ages, and we've got to have a factual

00:31:36.500 understanding of that issue.

00:31:38.020 And the metaphor I give in the book, and I think it's a valid one, is, you know, if

00:31:43.360 you think about, you know, vegetarianism and veganism, if we ever get to a position, which

00:31:48.040 I suspect we might, if the vegans win the war, so to speak, is, you know, to a position where

00:31:54.240 we think eating animals is, you know, a terrible thing, and that we shouldn't do, and we regret

00:31:58.900 that we ever did that.

00:31:59.940 Well, would we then look at the countries that were the very first ones in history to

00:32:04.240 end that practice of eating and killing animals, and say, well, they are the worst ones in history,

00:32:10.280 they're the ones that must make amends, they're the ones that should atone.

00:32:14.120 But that is exactly what we do with slavery.

00:32:16.420 Now, of course, you know, I've traveled, I'm very fortunate, having traveled around your

00:32:20.780 wonderful country, but I've been to probably at least half of the states, and I've seen many

00:32:24.860 of the ways that you guys talk about the history of slavery in your country, and I think it's

00:32:28.980 very important, I think we'd all agree about that.

00:32:31.700 But I just think we don't do this issue justice.

00:32:34.940 I went to the Slavery Museum in Liverpool, in England, here, and it was a brilliant museum,

00:32:40.240 it covered the issue of slavery extremely well, except it never said who captured the

00:32:45.280 slaves, it never said who sold them, it never said where else in the world that practice

00:32:49.700 was ongoing, and of course, it never talked about who ended the practice and who forced

00:32:53.940 other people to end the practice of slavery.

00:32:56.040 So, yeah, I just think this issue is just not being factually covered, and all the information

00:33:02.080 is out there.

00:33:03.040 And by the way, I know that, you know, I personally don't think the truth has a skin color, but

00:33:07.400 there are people who think that this issue should only be discussed by people whose ancestors

00:33:11.700 may in some way have been affected by it.

00:33:13.640 Well, actually, all the facts in my book I took from people like Orlando Patterson, who's

00:33:17.980 a Jamaican black sociologist, and of course, the great Thomas Sowell, one of the most brilliant

00:33:23.420 men America's ever produced happens to be a black guy as well.

00:33:26.860 So, I just think we need to talk about the facts without all this rhetoric and the BS

00:33:31.900 that often gets discussed in these issues.

00:33:33.980 And when you try to, people try and shout you down, as you saw.

00:33:37.200 So, I, you know, I'm glad that this was happening in England.

00:33:40.660 I mean, not really, but because it brings up, I am so concerned about Europe and England

00:33:48.300 in particular.

00:33:49.360 You can't change the demographics that quickly and expect, especially when the demographics

00:33:57.260 are changing and nobody's assimilated.

00:33:59.520 They don't want to assimilate. 0.94

00:34:00.860 Um, you can't, um, injure and re-injure the, the native population and just put them in 1.00

00:34:10.160 jail for speaking their mind about what's really going on.

00:34:13.240 You, you don't have a civilization that lasts long in that kind of, in that kind of situation.

00:34:18.940 How, how, where, where, where is England on the life cycle?

00:34:24.200 Yeah, I don't know, Glenn.

00:34:26.540 It's very worrying time, to be honest with you.

00:34:28.540 And, uh, you know, on, on my show on Trigonometry, we just, uh, sat down and recorded a discussion

00:34:33.040 with me and Francis where we talk about this very issue, uh, because, um, you know, it's

00:34:38.480 kind of weird because on the one hand, you go out, you walk around and everything is sort

00:34:42.800 of fine.

00:34:43.460 But on the other hand, you can also sense that the country is at fever pitch and there's

00:34:48.000 a tremendous amount of concern about, look, I think the, I'm an immigrant myself, as

00:34:52.760 you know, I came to this country in 1995, 1996.

00:34:56.020 Uh, and my experience of British people is they're incredibly welcoming, incredibly friendly,

00:35:01.060 incredibly tolerant of, of immigration.

00:35:03.600 But on the other hand, we have got to a point where, you know, the year that I came to Britain,

00:35:08.460 1996, 55,000 people came to Britain from other countries lawfully, legally.

00:35:14.880 Well, it's been, uh, about a year since we had an election in which the Labour Party were

00:35:20.000 elected.

00:35:20.340 By the way, the Conservatives before them weren't any better, just to be clear.

00:35:23.820 But within that year, we've had 50,000 people come illegally on small boats into the country.

00:35:29.020 So you've got to understand 30 years ago, when I came here, 55,000 a year legally.

00:35:34.400 Now we've got that same number of people coming illegally.

00:35:37.220 And when they arrive, we don't deport them.

00:35:39.260 What we do instead is we escort them to a hotel.

00:35:41.780 We give them pocket money.

00:35:43.220 Uh, we look after them in every way imaginable in a way that we don't even look after our own

00:35:47.500 people anymore.

00:35:48.220 So, um, it's, it's not a, it's not a good place for our country to be in.

00:35:53.220 Um, and a lot of us are very worried because on the one hand, we all want to say that we

00:35:58.900 are concerned and we want things to change and we want to put pressure on the government

00:36:02.260 to change.

00:36:02.900 But on the other hand, we've got demonstration outside these illegal migrant hotels almost

00:36:07.540 every day.

00:36:08.100 And a lot of us are just very concerned that they're going to spill over into violence.

00:36:11.140 Yeah.

00:36:11.960 Um, the, the, the thing that really interests me is it doesn't appear that the Middle East

00:36:20.520 is taking any of these refugees.

00:36:23.600 I've never seen so many refugees in my life.

00:36:26.160 Um, but, uh, let's go back to Qatar for, for a minute.

00:36:30.240 How many refugees are they taking in from the Middle East?

00:36:33.660 Cause I know they're preaching to us that we need to take more.

00:36:36.960 How many are they?

00:36:37.740 Yeah.

00:36:38.000 Well, look, uh, I don't know about Qatar.

00:36:40.240 I'm pretty sure they haven't taken a lot.

00:36:41.760 There are a lot of refugees in the Middle East.

00:36:43.780 There are lots in Lebanon.

00:36:45.000 There are, there are, uh, in Jordan, in Egypt.

00:36:47.380 So I have the number of Qatar.

00:36:49.380 It's 197.

00:36:51.260 Well, that, that is very generous.

00:36:52.940 Yeah, it's very generous.

00:36:54.260 Okay.

00:36:54.580 But if they maybe took some of those billions, they're investing in, uh, in indoctrinating our

00:36:59.620 students and, and put them into helping refugees, that that's something I think we'd all

00:37:03.500 appreciate.

00:37:03.960 Um, but I think your, your broader point is entirely correct Len, which is that, um, you

00:37:10.020 know, uh, by the way, we should say this too.

00:37:13.380 A lot of these people who are coming to Britain, they're not actually refugees at all.

00:37:17.900 They're economic migrants.

00:37:19.400 And we know this, look, I make this joke very often, which I say, I don't blame them.

00:37:24.140 I don't blame these people coming to Britain on small boats across the channel.

00:37:27.600 Cause I wouldn't want to stay in France either.

00:37:29.960 And, and, and my point is, you know, if you've traveled through about seven different countries

00:37:36.760 that are perfectly safe and you've decided to come to Britain, there is a chance that 0.99

00:37:41.740 you're not doing that simply because you're fleeing violence or persecution.

00:37:45.340 There's the chance that you're doing that because you just want to come to Britain.

00:37:48.780 And look, I've got no problem with people who want to come to Britain as I once did. 1.00

00:37:52.920 I just think, and by the way, it's a very British thing.

00:37:56.200 I just think you've got to, uh, what we call a queue and what you call a line is one of

00:38:01.180 the key British values is being able to stand in a line properly and know when it's your

00:38:06.060 turn and act in a way that's fair.

00:38:08.280 Uh, and also you, if you want to go to a country, then assimilate in that country.

00:38:14.100 I mean, the, the, the, the crime, the rape, uh, the, the, the demonstrations that I see

00:38:20.740 on the streets, the, the, uh, the, the, the explosion of, of mosques everywhere, you're 0.99

00:38:29.360 losing the Christian, uh, heritage of England.

00:38:34.580 And maybe that's okay.

00:38:36.380 I don't think it is.

00:38:37.840 I think it was the Christian Western world that, that brought peace to the world as much

00:38:42.260 as we had it.

00:38:43.320 Um, but they're, they're not coming in and saying, you know what?

00:38:46.400 We're, yeah, we're Muslim, but we're also going to adapt to life in great Britain.

00:38:50.880 Cause we like that as well.

00:38:52.760 They don't seem to like that.

00:38:54.440 Is that just an impression from far off?

00:38:57.140 No, I, I think it, I think it's accurate to say that of some people within the Muslim

00:39:01.520 community, I certainly wouldn't want to say that about everybody.

00:39:03.760 I think there are plenty, and I know I have people that I know who are Muslims who've integrated

00:39:09.640 beautifully, right?

00:39:10.500 Correct.

00:39:10.660 But the problem we have is within that community, there is a unique problem, which is that there

00:39:17.100 is a lot of extremism.

00:39:18.920 There's a failure of integration.

00:39:20.420 There's a barrier.

00:39:21.480 And that barrier can be visually observed when people dress in a way that prevents face-to-face

00:39:26.980 communication.

00:39:28.300 Um, and, and, and that follows through with everything else.

00:39:31.660 You know, there, there is a lot of, uh, cousin marriage in that community, which means people

00:39:36.140 are staying very, very insular.

00:39:37.860 It obviously causes a lot of genetic problems that then become health problems for all of

00:39:41.760 us to pay for.

00:39:42.660 But just in general, there's a kind of isolationism within that community on the one hand.

00:39:47.540 And on the other hand, we have 40,000 jihadis on a terrorist watch list that we're all, uh,

00:39:52.100 having to have our secret services snoop on, uh, great government costs, and of course, a

00:39:56.500 great threat to the public.

00:39:57.500 And so when you have, you know, terrorism and this kind of insulation and separation

00:40:03.320 coming from one particular group, you have to start to, to ask whether that is going to

00:40:07.420 work in our society.

00:40:08.380 And I think a lot of people are starting to ask the same questions as you are, but at

00:40:11.980 the same time, as I say, I think it's important to recognize, you know, America has, by the

00:40:15.860 way, has dealt with this issue very well.

00:40:17.400 I, you know, American Muslims are incredibly well integrated by and large, uh, serving your

00:40:22.100 armed forces, serving your government.

00:40:23.720 And, and, um, there is, that is changing.

00:40:27.340 It is changing, but that doesn't mean that there's not a ton of good.

00:40:31.840 Uh, I, I hate having to point this out every time because any reasonable person knows this.

00:40:36.980 Um, but, uh, you know, there, there, there are those who don't have any intention of changing

00:40:41.980 who are working for Sharia law.

00:40:44.840 And then there are the others who are like, no, that's why I left.

00:40:47.600 That's why I'm over here.

00:40:48.880 I still believe in Islam, but not that kind of Islam. 1.00

00:40:53.120 Hmm.

00:40:54.020 Uh, and that's, I think a really important distinction because if people want to come 1.00

00:40:57.800 and integrate and live peacefully and they want to worship a different God to you and

00:41:01.900 I, I, I, they're most welcome.

00:41:04.300 Uh, but once you start to try and impose your values on other people, or frankly, when you

00:41:09.260 start getting away with horrific crimes that get covered up because your skin color happens 1.00

00:41:13.140 to be different, uh, then we've got a problem.

00:41:15.260 Well, Constantine, thank you so much for talking to us.

00:41:18.360 It's always great to have, I'd love to have you back for a longer podcast at some point.

00:41:22.140 Anytime.

00:41:22.840 Thanks for having me, Glenn.

00:41:23.500 Thank you.

00:41:23.720 You bet.

00:41:24.160 Constantine kissing, uh, check out his podcast.

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