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00:00:00.000 Hey, welcome to the podcast. It is Tuesday. Great podcast for you. We're going to talk a little bit

00:00:05.800 about Kate Smith and why she is being targeted. I mean, she's dead for the love of Pete. Nobody

00:00:12.820 knew her racist, quote, racist song, end quote. I put it in quotation marks for a reason you'll

00:00:19.000 find out here in just a second. Also, Greg Abbott, the greatest governor in America, he is the

00:00:25.060 governor of the state of Texas. I was impressed when we talked to him about the new DA in Dallas

00:00:31.280 that said, if you steal stuff that's only worth $750,000 or less, we're not going to prosecute

00:00:42.040 you unless you were doing it to make money. If you really needed it, no prosecution. Oh,

00:00:49.340 you're going to love my governor as much as I do when you hear his opening salvo.

00:00:55.060 Uh, when he, when I said, hello, governor, wait, it's coming up on the podcast. Also,

00:01:00.340 was Jesus a Jew? Not according to the New York times. He was a Palestinian. Really? And Bernie

00:01:09.060 on taxes and Jews, you know, they're all racist over there. That's a racist government. You're 1.00

00:01:15.860 going to learn a lot on today's show.

00:01:25.060 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:01:29.920 Do you know that there's a bust of Che glaring at a hillside in Bolivia? There is a statue of

00:01:41.260 Lucifer in Madrid, Spain, and another one in Belgium. There are statues of Karl Marx, Stalin,

00:01:49.060 Lenin all over the world, including a statue of Lenin in Seattle. Same goes for Mao. There's a

00:01:56.200 statue of Satan in Detroit. That's great. Hey, kids, it's not oppressing you. It's just a statue

00:02:04.360 of Satan. Just outside a former ghetto in Warsaw, there's a statue of Hitler kneeling in prayer.

00:02:11.840 There's a monument to a fascist soldier in Chicago that was gifted by Italian fascist dictator Benito

00:02:18.740 Mussolini. It's adored. A large statue of a naked man standing on a naked woman in a cemetery in

00:02:26.440 Brooklyn. There's a statue of a policewoman urinating in Dresden, Germany. And of course,

00:02:32.720 there's Mannequin Piss, the statue in Brussels of, you know, the little kid peeing in the pond,

00:02:39.400 which is kind of cute because they dress him up as different things depending on the time of the

00:02:43.460 year. I'm sorry, that's horrible. It's a horrible statue and it's been oppressing me. And I, I wake

00:02:49.060 up in night terrors thinking, Mannequin Piss! But there are a lot of things we have to worry about

00:02:57.280 today. Statues are not, that's not all. This is an actual list that we compiled for you today

00:03:06.680 of the things that have been branded racist just in the last two years in America. Dogs and dog

00:03:16.740 walking. 911 calls. TSA body scanners. Classical literature, literature and philosophy. Do I even

00:03:28.200 need to say this one? Milk. Knitting. Being cheerful, not being cheerful. Friendliness.

00:03:36.680 Not being friendly enough. Libraries. Clowns. The Avengers. Diets. Infant mortality rates. The one

00:03:45.540 that comes from none other than Kamala, how do you say her name? Kamala. Kamala Harris. You should know

00:03:51.200 that. When she comes and she says infant mortality rates. She tweeted that implicit racial bias is one

00:03:58.000 critical reason that maternal mortality rates for black women is three or four times higher than white

00:04:04.720 women. She blamed maternal mortality rates on, of course, racism. So, but also there's makeup. 1.00

00:04:14.500 Makeup. Personal space is very, very racist. Vikings. Potatoes. Inclusion. Inclusion.

00:04:24.340 Burger King commercials. The okie-dokie hand sign. The rainbows. Compliments. Childbirth. Houseplants. Nail polish.

00:04:36.600 Bacon. Yes, bacon. Trying to improve racial tensions. Not focusing constantly on racial tensions.

00:04:45.120 Mentioning racial tensions. Existence. If you're white. Now, I would like to just be the first to add 1.00

00:04:54.020 this monologue will soon be called racist, I'm sure. There is an incredible amount of overlap between

00:05:02.540 statues and perceived racism. I don't have to give you any examples because you know exactly what I'm

00:05:09.580 talking about. By the way, more statues of Christopher Columbus are coming down. It was celebrated

00:05:16.700 yesterday that two more states are replacing Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples Day. There's

00:05:25.120 Columbus. There's Thomas Jefferson. There's Francis Scott Key. Abraham Lincoln, of all people. Joan of

00:05:33.040 Park, and many, many others. Now, the most recent example is, as unexpected as the whole, walking

00:05:40.560 your dog is racist. But here's the thing on the latest outcry. They had to work really hard

00:05:51.280 for this one, except in doing any kind of research. The controversy centers on the statue of Kate

00:05:59.600 Smith, a singer who was once called the Songbird of the South. She gained fame in the 1940s for 1.00

00:06:08.340 God Bless America, which I think is a progressive nightmare. But that's a different story. Smith's

00:06:18.500 achievements are a little awe-inspiring. She performed for King George and Queen Elizabeth.

00:06:25.620 She performed at the White House right before World War II. Ronald Reagan bestowed her with the

00:06:33.020 Presidential Medal of Freedom. She was credited on helping defeat the Nazis, thanks to an 18-hour 0.67

00:06:41.100 broadcast in which she helped CBS raise over $100 million in war bonds. Think of that. This is back in

00:06:49.360 the 1940s. $100 million because of her 18-hour broadcast. And that was just one broadcast. 0.78

00:06:58.640 Yeah. She did, like, I think the total was $600 million. I mean, which is, if you, today's dollars

00:07:04.020 is over $10 billion. Think of that. For World War II. Think of that. Think of that. She helped us defeat

00:07:09.560 the Nazis. For decades, both the New York Yankees and the Philadelphia Flyers played her version of God

00:07:16.040 Bless America at home games. The Yankees featured it in the seventh inning since 9-11. Flyers even had

00:07:23.020 a statue of Smith outside their stadium. She'd become the team's good luck charm after she performed

00:07:28.960 God Bless America before Game 6 of the 74 Stanley Cup Finals and the Flyers won.

00:07:35.720 But this month, all of that has changed. Now she's a racist. We shouldn't even mention her. There 1.00

00:07:45.320 shouldn't be a statue. She needs to be canceled. She needs to be forgotten. She needs to be smeared 0.99

00:07:51.120 and destroyed. Here's what the statement reads. The Flyers have enjoyed a long and popular relationship 0.99

00:07:57.020 with God Bless America as performed by the late Kate Smith. But in recent days, we learned that several

00:08:02.180 of the songs Kate Smith performed in 1930s included lyrics and sentiments that are incompatible with the

00:08:09.800 values of our organization and evoke painful and unacceptable themes. The songs? Now, I want you to know

00:08:18.060 you're going to be offended by the lyrics and the songs, but hang on. The song? That's why darkies are born. 1.00

00:08:26.760 There's not a lot of room on that one. And Pickaninny Heaven. Not a lot of room there either.

00:08:36.500 Pickaninny, in case you don't know, is an archaic derogatory word to describe black children.

00:08:42.840 She performed the movie. She performed this song in a movie in 1933. In the scene, she devoted the song

00:08:52.880 to a lot of little colored children living in the orphanage. And she sang about watermelons. And it's

00:08:59.460 it's clearly a racist song. Okay. She's under contract in a movie that she didn't write.

00:09:07.200 But she performed it. Okay. But let's look at the really disturbing one. That's why darkies were born. 1.00

00:09:17.280 I don't even want to say the lyrics on the air because they will be taken out of context

00:09:22.820 and used to smear me. I'll let Kate sing it for herself. Here it is.

00:09:29.260 Someone had to pick the cotton. Someone had to plant the corn. Someone had to slave and be able to sing. 1.00

00:09:47.280 That's why darkies were born. Holy cow, that's bad. 1.00

00:09:53.760 Someone had a laugh at trouble. Though he was tired and worn. Had to be contented with any old thing.

00:10:12.820 That's why darkies were born. 1.00

00:10:15.680 Okay. So you listen to that and you're like, what is this? The Klan meeting?

00:10:20.580 How is this possibly? How is this even acceptable?

00:10:27.240 Listen to the lyrics.

00:10:30.080 That's why they were born?

00:10:32.360 Because somebody just had to be content with any old thing?

00:10:37.400 Somebody had to be tired and worn and laugh at trouble?

00:10:41.140 Had to plant the corn, pick the cotton? 0.99

00:10:43.920 That's why people were born?

00:10:45.840 Are you kidding me?

00:10:47.640 How could you possibly record that?

00:10:52.020 Well, if we would like to live in the world of ignorance,

00:10:55.700 if we would like to live in a world where nobody does any critical thinking,

00:11:00.860 you just jump to whatever conclusion suits your agenda.

00:11:06.500 And that's really important.

00:11:07.640 I'm going to come back to that.

00:11:10.060 Well, then you can just be pissed off at Kate Smith or,

00:11:14.360 or you can understand that that is a song from a 1931 Broadway review called George White's Scandals.

00:11:25.220 And it was a satire of white supremacists.

00:11:32.800 She actually wrote this song along with Paul Robinson.

00:11:37.440 He was an actor and a civil rights activist.

00:11:42.360 His father was literally a runaway slave.

00:11:48.280 So what happened?

00:11:51.280 What happened?

00:11:52.300 Oh, oh, this was a song that civil rights activists were actually singing to mock racists.

00:12:02.840 You know, if we get rid of Kate Smith because of this, 0.96

00:12:07.040 may I suggest we put, uh, we put Mel Brooks on the chopping block.

00:12:13.120 Have you heard the song he sang?

00:12:16.380 Because he sang about the Inquisition.

00:12:18.960 I don't know.

00:12:19.480 Did you hear that?

00:12:22.300 I'll play it for you in a minute.

00:12:26.100 But he's also done a movie where he's treating black people. 0.98

00:12:30.800 It's crazy. 0.92

00:12:31.860 Called Blazing Saddles.

00:12:37.440 Here's, here's the Inquisition.

00:12:39.540 His song.

00:12:40.380 Let's begin.

00:12:41.320 The Inquisition.

00:12:42.740 Look out, Sam.

00:12:43.600 We have a mission.

00:12:45.100 To convert the Jews. 0.98

00:12:46.720 Jews, Jews, Jews, Jews, Jews. 0.69

00:12:47.840 We're going to teach them wrong from right.

00:12:50.800 We're going to help them see the light.

00:12:53.180 And make an offer that they can't refuse.

00:12:56.200 That the Jews just can't refuse.

00:12:58.000 Confess.

00:12:58.700 Confess.

00:12:59.940 How was this made?

00:13:02.600 How could anybody do this?

00:13:07.720 The Inquisition?

00:13:09.560 We're going to convert the Jews? 1.00

00:13:11.280 It's better to lose your skull cap than your skull. 1.00

00:13:15.320 Oh my gosh.

00:13:16.440 I need to take a break.

00:13:18.120 I'm so offended.

00:13:19.340 The best of the Glenn Beck Program.

00:13:27.540 Hey, it's Glenn.

00:13:28.500 And I want to tell you about something that you should either end your day with or start your morning with.

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00:13:51.080 The town hall last night.

00:13:53.600 Exciting, wasn't it?

00:13:54.780 Oh, it was great.

00:13:55.700 Oh, man.

00:13:56.300 If they could have done all of the candidates, I would have loved it.

00:14:01.100 Yeah.

00:14:01.840 You can barely get through any of these things.

00:14:04.360 When did criminal voting become such a big deal in the Democrat Party?

00:14:11.740 Because they have to have every single vote.

00:14:15.620 Right.

00:14:15.860 And because they know criminals are going to vote for Democrats.

00:14:18.540 Now, listen to this question that we have from the town hall last night about prison voting.

00:14:25.480 And listen to the way the question is asked of Bernie Sanders.

00:14:29.500 And tell me if Fox News would have asked this question exactly the same way if they wouldn't have been called racist and Islamophobes.

00:14:39.480 Listen, my follow-up question goes to this being like you're writing an opposition ad against you by saying you think the Boston Marathon bomber should vote not after he pays his debt to society, but while he's in jail.

00:14:52.380 You sure about that?

00:14:53.580 Well, Chris, I think I have written many 30-second opposition ads throughout my life.

00:15:00.460 This will be just another one.

00:15:02.280 But I do believe.

00:15:02.940 Look, you know, this is what I believe.

00:15:05.680 Do you believe in democracy?

00:15:07.100 Do you believe that every single American 18 years of age or older who's an American citizen has the right to vote?

00:15:13.500 Or once you start chipping away at that, believe me, that's what our Republican governors all over this country are doing.

00:15:19.580 They come up with all kinds of excuses why people of color, young people, poor people can't vote.

00:15:25.300 Stop.

00:15:25.820 And I will.

00:15:26.340 No, they're not.

00:15:27.100 No, they're not.

00:15:27.960 You're printing up.

00:15:29.060 I want 16-year-olds to vote.

00:15:32.240 Yeah.

00:15:32.380 No, no.

00:15:33.380 You're just printing up new things.

00:15:35.020 Well, if 16, how come a 12-year-old can't vote?

00:15:37.500 And Republican governors are actually asking people to bring their ID to the poll with them so we can verify that it's you.

00:15:42.860 I mean, that's as hateful as you can get.

00:15:46.280 You have to do that when you pick up prescriptions.

00:15:49.700 Right.

00:15:49.920 You have to do that when, what, our druggists, our pharmacists, are they racist?

00:15:55.940 Because you can't get up a prescription without your ID.

00:15:59.520 So are they racist?

00:16:01.220 That's life-saving medicine.

00:16:02.560 It's not just casting a vote of one of millions.

00:16:05.140 Right.

00:16:05.480 This is saving someone's life.

00:16:07.280 Right.

00:16:07.400 And they have to show up with ID?

00:16:08.460 To me, it is so racist to claim that minorities can't produce an ID.

00:16:14.420 They can.

00:16:15.620 They can.

00:16:16.020 They do.

00:16:16.360 They do.

00:16:16.800 And by the way, you know who else believes that?

00:16:18.080 And they're all for it.

00:16:18.460 What was it, 80%?

00:16:20.080 It's about 80%.

00:16:21.140 It's honestly one of the most popular things in all of our discourse.

00:16:24.560 And yet the Democrats continue to get away with harping on it.

00:16:28.100 It's amazing.

00:16:28.820 Yeah.

00:16:29.120 It's amazing.

00:16:29.440 I admit to being a little torn on this issue, what Sanders was mentioning.

00:16:36.240 Even with the Boston Bombers, should they be able to vote while in prison?

00:16:39.540 No.

00:16:40.260 And that's where I've been my whole life.

00:16:42.040 But let me just, minor question.

00:16:44.840 I would like to hear, because you're-

00:16:46.000 Listen to this.

00:16:47.060 Listen to this question, but understand.

00:16:49.520 This is Stu, who's never been, oh, you know, he's always been, look, we've weathered all kinds of storms.

00:16:56.800 Listen to this.

00:16:57.740 Go ahead.

00:16:58.040 Go ahead.

00:16:59.440 Go ahead.

00:17:00.040 I don't have any, I can't say the thing, because I have no idea what you're wanting me to say here.

00:17:04.200 No, I want you to say what you're going to say, what you said earlier today about, you know, you've had a new look at this.

00:17:10.720 Go ahead.

00:17:12.140 My new perspective on it, or at least, because I feel like I'm torn on it, and I don't know what Glenn's leading to here, so I hope I don't butcher your thing here.

00:17:20.500 But, so, the idea being that, like, if someone is in prison, and one of the issues in the campaign is about prison conditions, should the person who's being affected by those policies be able to have input in them?

00:17:36.640 Use the example that you used today, and I'm not saying that this is your, and maybe you were just using this for me.

00:17:43.360 I don't know.

00:17:43.860 Oh, yeah.

00:17:44.160 Oh, I do.

00:17:45.000 Okay, now I know what you're saying.

00:17:45.840 So, my first example was, what if they outlawed air conditioning in prison?

00:17:49.260 Okay, and so, it's really hot, and should you be, as a person who's affected by the policy, be able to say, wait a minute, I want a politician who's going to oppose that?

00:17:57.140 Then, to appeal to Glenn, I said, what if they started outlawing, they started throwing, as we've, you know, foreshadowed many times, they started throwing people with unacceptable political opinions in prison.

00:18:08.080 What if you're some outrageous talk show host, and you get into prison, and you're now in prison for some BS thing that you shouldn't have to do?

00:18:16.280 What if they started throwing Kate Smiths to the world in prison, right, because they said these horrible things? 0.83

00:18:21.140 Should you not have input to say, you know what, I don't think that candidate who is, in my belief, violating the Constitution should be able to go?

00:18:29.340 A gun claim is another good one, the Second Amendment. 0.99

00:18:31.980 If you get thrown in jail because they put in one of these crazy policies, should you not, while you're in prison, be able to say, I want a different politician who sees the Constitution the right way?

00:18:40.320 And I think there's an, I think this is a largely meaningless conversation, number one.

00:18:46.120 We're not there.

00:18:47.040 We're not there.

00:18:47.840 Number two.

00:18:48.480 We will be next week.

00:18:49.540 Next week.

00:18:50.320 But number two, also, like, you know, I know we all get all, we get all excited about the actual, you know, meaning of a vote, and it's very, very important historically and all that.

00:18:59.120 You know, the idea that these are turning over elections often is going to be unlikely.

00:19:03.680 But just from a, from a principled manner, like, I think that if you, people who would oppose those policies that put them in prison shouldn't, you could, in theory, right, like, you're Hitler, you could put, you could put Jews in prison who could never vote you out of office, right? 0.78

00:19:20.980 And you could come up with some ridiculous way to put them in prison, and then they would have no input to overturn that way.

00:19:26.940 Yeah, that's kind of a separate topic, though, from what we're talking about here, because we're not at that place.

00:19:31.980 If we got to that place, then, yeah, it might, I might think differently about it, but we're not there.

00:19:37.160 No, it's definitely not a, it's not a vote for their own air conditioning.

00:19:39.960 They lost that opportunity.

00:19:41.320 You lost that, right?

00:19:42.180 Well, look, here's the, here's the thing on that. 0.81

00:19:43.780 You screwed up.

00:19:44.020 On the air conditioning thing, that takes a, a moral society. 0.82

00:19:48.340 Yeah, it does.

00:19:48.760 You know, if you're not a moral, you don't want to torture them.

00:19:50.780 Right.

00:19:51.200 And it'd be declared unconstitutional anyway, probably.

00:19:53.360 Nobody in today's America is going to say, I don't care if they drink swill, put them in a cave and let them starve today.

00:20:00.980 We don't, we're not like that.

00:20:02.680 Yeah.

00:20:02.900 So, so that one doesn't work because we still are a somewhat moral people that don't want our prisons to be nightmares.

00:20:10.960 Somewhat.

00:20:11.800 Somewhat.

00:20:12.480 But I mean, that's not what principles are about.

00:20:14.740 What, you know, like you're not, you don't come up, like we don't, there's no, no one's going to be putting soldiers in your home.

00:20:21.440 No, not during wartime, but we still have the third amendment and it still stands as a legitimate principle.

00:20:26.540 And I think the principle is that I happen to agree with.

00:20:30.580 I don't agree with once you get out of prison that you've lost that right forever.

00:20:35.440 I don't think that's right.

00:20:37.080 You've paid your debt.

00:20:39.300 You've paid your debt.

00:20:40.540 But while you're in prison, I'm sorry, you lose your rights.

00:20:44.720 You're in prison.

00:20:45.860 So there's nothing you can do serious enough, serious enough that you could lose your voting rights forever.

00:20:51.000 In Bernie Sanders' world, right.

00:20:53.060 I will tell you, I don't think so because you pay your. 0.98

00:20:57.840 Sex crimes. 1.00

00:20:58.400 Like molesting children, rape. 1.00

00:21:01.340 You've paid your debt. 0.99

00:21:03.300 I mean, we either believe in the pay your debt or we don't.

00:21:08.120 Once you've paid your debt, if your, if your crime is so bad that you can never, ever recover from it, you should never, ever be out of jail.

00:21:17.460 Yeah.

00:21:18.900 Yeah.

00:21:19.460 That's the, that's kind of the argument on the, like the, you know, Megan's law list, right?

00:21:23.620 Like if, if you are a threat enough to potentially molest children that we need to tell everyone in your neighborhood about it, maybe you shouldn't be in the neighborhood.

00:21:33.000 Yeah.

00:21:33.300 But I do think that if there are things that we don't understand, we don't understand, you know, if you can ever be cured and God forbid in this, this tape will destroy me probably in maybe a year and a half.

00:21:50.000 Uh, but if you can't be cured from pedophilia, yeah, I know it's old timey.

00:21:55.760 He believed in cures for pedophilia, which is just natural.

00:22:00.840 Um, that might not be a year and a half.

00:22:04.520 Yeah, I know.

00:22:05.060 It'd be a week and a half.

00:22:06.260 I know.

00:22:06.420 I know.

00:22:07.180 Um, but we don't know, we don't know.

00:22:10.980 And so we don't want to take chances with our children.

00:22:13.740 However, you know, the voting booth is not a schoolyard with kids in it.

00:22:19.580 Now you just hope you don't move into an area where the voting booth ends up being in the school because then you're, you know, and you're solved.

00:22:27.720 If you've committed a crime, you know, against children, go to the school, you can't go to school to vote.

00:22:33.080 So we got you covered.

00:22:35.540 Uh, and I think too, my general position on this forever has been, if it's part of the punishment and you receive, you do the crime and receive the punishment, you know about it in advance, right?

00:22:45.840 Like it's all publicly available that you're not going to be able to vote anymore, probably okay and fair, but I can understand the other side of that one because there is, you know, like part of your voting right is, is saying like, I think laws should be this way.

00:22:59.280 And if you are on the wrong side of that law and then there's no one there to overturn an unjust law, that could be problematic in a long-term scenario.

00:23:08.400 And I don't know if the cost of having somebody vote in prison is worth that.

00:23:13.080 We, uh, the American way used to be that we err on the side of, of, of freedom, of freedom, always err on the side of freedom.

00:23:24.660 So what you're saying is, well, yeah, but maybe these guys get out and they're going to vote for this or that.

00:23:30.520 Well, yeah, maybe, but what about the guys who come out and they are truly reformed?

00:23:35.880 Are we going to, we're going to punish them just the other day.

00:23:38.680 The guy who was released under Trump's, uh, second chance law and he, you know, completely reformed and actually got out of prison.

00:23:45.900 Then they brought him back in on some technicality and then Trump's, uh, law, uh, bipartisan law, by the way, here's, what's crazy.

00:23:52.760 Now, this is not Bernie Sanders because Bernie Sanders doesn't think you should ever lose that right.

00:23:57.500 Even while you're serving, while you're serving, you are the Boston marathon guy.

00:24:01.980 You should still be able to vote basically the same.

00:24:04.520 Yeah, that's, that's crazy.

00:24:05.900 In my opinion, that's craziness.

00:24:07.580 What isn't in my opinion is to be able to say, look, you lose it for that time period, but we either as a country believe in forgiveness and redemption or we don't.

00:24:19.520 So if you pay the price, we must let it go.

00:24:24.920 We must let it go.

00:24:26.700 I think you should not put a voting booths in prisons.

00:24:30.460 Uh, so, but if they can escape prison and get to vote, they can, that should count.

00:24:34.620 That's my policy.

00:24:36.240 So don't say that loud.

00:24:37.600 Don't say that loud.

00:24:38.340 I mean, George Soros will have helicopters over every prison.

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00:25:06.660 Greg Abbott, you haven't gone insane yet.

00:25:08.360 Have you?

00:25:09.680 This is Texas.

00:25:11.040 We will not allow lawlessness in the state of Texas.

00:25:15.440 What is going on in Dallas County is unacceptable.

00:25:18.420 It is the job of a district attorney to enforce the law.

00:25:23.040 In fact, he took an oath to preserve, protect, and defend the laws of the state of Texas.

00:25:29.200 He is violating his oath.

00:25:30.880 It's unacceptable.

00:25:32.040 If he wants to change policy, he ran for the wrong job.

00:25:35.220 He should have run for the legislature where he would have failed in his policy.

00:25:38.660 But let me tell you something.

00:25:40.240 We are not going to allow district attorneys in the state of Texas to hijack our legal system

00:25:44.580 and to promote lawlessness, to not prosecute crimes.

00:25:47.720 That is insanity.

00:25:49.180 We're going to send him back into New York or some other place.

00:25:52.980 What color curtains do you like?

00:25:55.820 I just love you.

00:25:57.360 I love you.

00:25:58.620 I saw this come out over the weekend.

00:26:01.580 And if you really need it, if it's a necessity for you, $750, they can just rob you?

00:26:11.140 That's insane.

00:26:12.420 What do we have charities for?

00:26:13.640 What do we have churches for?

00:26:14.640 What do we have soup kitchens for? 1.00

00:26:16.040 Well, this is nuts.

00:26:18.640 What are these people thinking?

00:26:20.800 Well, listen, you know, we've got the NBA playoffs and hockey playoffs going on right now.

00:26:25.500 And I need a nice big TV that I can have people over to watch the game with me.

00:26:32.200 And I found one for only $700.

00:26:34.800 So I'm just going to stop by and grab me a TV, not worry about paying for it, so I can be able to host a good TV watch game.

00:26:43.380 This is insanity.

00:26:44.660 We talked about this.

00:26:46.380 They're making the case right now.

00:26:47.920 I mean, this is socialism in a nutshell, except it's with crime.

00:26:53.100 We were talking about yesterday.

00:26:56.100 They're making a big deal out of having access to the Internet.

00:27:00.060 Well, if I have access to the Internet and Wi-Fi, but I don't have a computer, as long as I steal one for $700, I'm okay.

00:27:07.740 And think of the message this is, but put yourself in the shoes of the mom-and-pop grocery store or some other type of store in some part of town in Dallas County somewhere,

00:27:21.740 where they may have people coming in and saying, listen, I'm just going to take this or take that from the store owner because there's no fear whatsoever of being prosecuted.

00:27:32.900 That is lawlessness by this district attorney, and I'm very, very proud of all the law enforcement agencies, both in the state of Texas as well as in Dallas County, coming out as well as I did, as well as the attorney general did.

00:27:46.120 We want to send a message, not just to Dallas County, but also to the entire state of Texas, that this type of lawlessness is not going to be allowed, will not be allowed to be promoted, and we're going to work to shut it down.

00:27:58.500 How do the police feel about, because they're going to be the ones who a Starbucks is going to call and say, we have these guys, they come in every day and they steal muffins right off the counter.

00:28:11.180 They just take them and they walk out.

00:28:13.500 We can't continue to do this.

00:28:15.640 How do the police, how are they expected to deal with this?

00:28:19.260 Because they're going to take the brunt of the store owner or the person that's just been robbed when they say, I'm sorry, there's nothing I can do.

00:28:26.580 Exactly, and that's one reason why the police are so extremely angry about this, because they, too, take an oath.

00:28:33.680 They, too, risk their lives every single day where they could be shot and killed as they were gunned down in downtown Dallas a couple of years ago.

00:28:42.040 They put their lives on the line to promote safety, to protect the people whose communities they patrol, and now they are being told by the prosecuting attorney in that county that these criminals may not be prosecuted.

00:28:56.960 And so it ties the hands of police officers, and they are rightfully angry about this.

00:29:03.240 Governor, this is way above your pay grade, but I know you're doing something about it.

00:29:08.400 I want to tell you a story of something that happened to me, or this is way below your pay grade, way below your pay grade, sorry.

00:29:16.120 But I want to tell you something that happened to me, that I could not believe I lived in the state of Texas.

00:29:22.900 My home taxes, my taxes went up.

00:29:30.800 Property taxes?

00:29:31.380 Property taxes through the roof, through the roof.

00:29:34.640 And everybody that I know, the taxes have gone through the roof.

00:29:38.560 My taxes went through the roof because I own three and a half acres.

00:29:43.160 Everybody else in my neighborhood only owns one acre.

00:29:46.140 And even though my house is built across those three acres or, you know, two and a half of those acres,

00:29:52.580 and it's, you know, one story, the tax assessment came back that I had to pay for all three acres

00:30:01.600 as if there was a home on all three because I could divide my land up, as long as I tore my house down,

00:30:09.680 divide my land up and be able to sell three houses on there.

00:30:14.200 It was insane.

00:30:16.200 So we wrote a letter saying, yes, we're coming.

00:30:20.440 We want to contest this.

00:30:22.800 Our attorney wrote a letter.

00:30:25.140 A comma was in the wrong place.

00:30:28.340 We went to defend it with our attorney before my wife walked up. 1.00

00:30:34.180 She heard the woman at the tax assessor who was sitting at this little council.

00:30:39.480 She's she walks up and she hears the woman say, I'm so sick of these rich people and their problems, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. 1.00

00:30:49.280 My wife is like, oh, dear God. 1.00

00:30:51.420 So she she presents it.

00:30:53.620 The woman looks at her and said, how do we know that you meant that this letter means what you say it means?

00:31:02.080 We said, well, because we're the ones who wrote it.

00:31:06.340 Our attorneys wrote it for us.

00:31:07.760 We're the ones who wrote it.

00:31:09.560 And they said, well, but the comma here means that it could have been written about this.

00:31:13.520 We're like, no, but that was a mistake on the comma.

00:31:16.020 We are fighting it for this reason.

00:31:18.600 Forget the comma.

00:31:19.600 We're here to testify.

00:31:20.860 This is what we believe.

00:31:24.040 They rejected it because the two other people looked at the woman and said, I don't care whatever you decide. 1.00

00:31:30.900 And of course, she decided, no, we're not accepting this because of the comma.

00:31:35.140 Governor, this is insanity.

00:31:38.940 It's insanity what's happening to people in with property taxes in Texas.

00:31:43.340 Well, I think it's theft by taxing authorities.

00:31:47.520 And that's why we are focused this session as we speak right now on reforming your property tax system, doing three things.

00:31:54.380 One is to address in part what you're talking about.

00:31:56.720 And that is to rein in and out of control appraisal system.

00:32:00.720 Thank you.

00:32:01.480 Listen, I know this is tough on you and many of your listeners.

00:32:03.920 But think about the average senior who is being driven out of their home that they may have already paid off because the property taxes are increasing so much they can no longer live in their home.

00:32:14.520 It's insane.

00:32:15.540 Think about the millennial who's looking to buy their first home and they average out their monthly income and things like that and figure out, you know, we can afford to buy this home for $100,000 or whatever the case may be.

00:32:26.340 But then when they have to factor in what the property taxes are, they realize, well, they're not going to be able to afford to live in the home.

00:32:32.860 So point one is we have to reform an appraisal system.

00:32:38.680 The way the appraisal system works in the state of Texas for property owners, for homeowners, is that they are able to jack up your appraised value by 10 percent per year.

00:32:48.720 By God, they're going to try to get every penny from you by doing exactly that.

00:32:53.020 And there is no limit on businesses of what they can increase the property taxes by.

00:32:58.180 And so the cost of what you're paying for your goods and things like that that you may buy somewhere is going up a whole lot because property taxes of the seller is going up so much.

00:33:07.520 But point one, we want to reform the appraisal system.

00:33:10.660 Point two, we want to use state money to buy down your property tax rate so that we will lower the amount of property taxes that you pay.

00:33:20.720 And then point three, we need to close the back door to prevent taxing authorities from being able to come back in and raise your property taxes back up. 0.73

00:33:31.400 That's why people have seen in the news that the Texas Senate has already passed out and the Texas House soon will pass out limits on the ability of taxing authorities to raise your property tax rates.

00:33:43.280 We are going to hammer down property taxes in Texas.

00:33:47.340 Thank you for that.

00:33:48.060 OK, do you have time?

00:33:50.060 Could I could I hold you over for one minute and then come back on it?

00:33:53.000 Because I want to talk to you about what's happening to our state.

00:33:56.140 I think I mean, there you know, there's a good to ask me, Glenn.

00:33:59.560 I got to I got to get to the capital, I guess.

00:34:01.720 OK, I got to take a question real quick and I'll answer.

00:34:05.600 We are.

00:34:06.240 I am very concerned.

00:34:07.480 Texans are not aware of the efforts to flip us blue.

00:34:11.060 And we are we are close to losing this state.

00:34:15.300 It feels.

00:34:16.060 Am I just feeling something that's not happening?

00:34:19.040 No, it is true.

00:34:20.620 Obviously, the elections got close this past year with the Beto effect.

00:34:24.280 But part of the Beto effect was the fact that he raised 80 million dollars.

00:34:28.660 He was able to spend that money on getting people to register to vote and go vote who had never voted before.

00:34:34.380 And so what we are working is to counter that by making sure we get conservatives out to vote and get them registered.

00:34:42.520 And so we listen.

00:34:43.580 Listen, we understand that if we lose Texas, we lose the United States of America.

00:34:47.660 There will be no other Texas for people to go to.

00:34:50.100 And this is worth fighting for.

00:34:52.260 And so we are going to work every single day to make sure we fight to keep Texas the conservative bastion of the United States of America.

00:34:59.000 Governor, God bless you.

00:34:59.920 Thank you so much.

00:35:05.620 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:35:13.580 We have a fabulous new game show, Glenn.

00:35:20.460 It's called, is it David Duke or Amy Schumer?

00:35:24.360 Which one is it?

00:35:25.740 It's going to be very difficult for the audience to come up with these answers.

00:35:29.420 And that's why we brought in an expert.

00:35:32.220 It has nothing to do with neither one of us wanting to read a bunch of David Duke quotes so we can be taken out of context and we don't care about Jeffy.

00:35:38.080 It's Jeff Fisher.

00:35:39.880 Yeah.

00:35:40.620 You know, I don't think this is fair.

00:35:43.580 It's not fair to say, is it David Duke or Amy?

00:35:46.700 It should be, is this David Duke or somebody just as bad as David Duke?

00:35:51.980 Right, because that's the thing.

00:35:52.980 They're saying Kate Smith is as bad as the racists of that day because she sang the song, which was a parody.

00:35:58.720 It was a satire.

00:35:59.980 It was a satire. 1.00

00:36:00.600 To show that racists were dumb, essentially. 1.00

00:36:03.120 Right, right. 0.99

00:36:03.480 So we brought in Jeffy, and again, it has nothing to do with not wanting to be on record.

00:36:07.300 His career is completely expendable.

00:36:09.580 Some people have said that.

00:36:12.000 Welcome, Jeffy.

00:36:12.880 Thank you.

00:36:13.380 The host of this game that Glenn has given a brand new, very clunky title to.

00:36:17.860 Yes.

00:36:19.060 David Duke or someone just as bad as David Duke.

00:36:23.040 All right.

00:36:23.620 So you're going to read the lines.

00:36:24.480 Now, I happen to know these, Glenn.

00:36:26.320 I've heard this particular Amy Schumer bit.

00:36:28.680 But I'm curious to know if you can actually tell.

00:36:33.060 I think some of them are going to be difficult.

00:36:34.500 Okay.

00:36:34.800 Go ahead.

00:36:35.440 All right.

00:36:35.940 All right.

00:36:36.480 Is this David Duke or someone just as bad?

00:36:39.880 Yeah.

00:36:40.900 Are the Asian people laughing? 1.00

00:36:42.740 I can never tell.

00:36:45.960 Well, seeing that it's from, you know, talking about laughing, I would say that it's someone just as bad as David Duke.

00:36:52.780 Oh, Amy Schumer.

00:36:54.020 Do we have Amy Schumer audio?

00:36:55.740 Are the Asian people laughing? 1.00

00:36:59.500 I can never tell.

00:37:01.660 Oh, wow.

00:37:02.780 They all look alike.

00:37:03.800 They all look alike and they don't make facial expressions.

00:37:05.740 Wow.

00:37:06.180 Wow.

00:37:06.580 Wow.

00:37:06.720 That's someone just as bad, I'll tell you that, as David Duke.

00:37:09.480 Thank you.

00:37:09.800 And I hope the future generations realize that.

00:37:13.240 We all know how bad David Duke is, but we don't realize there are other people just as bad as David Duke.

00:37:21.000 Question number two.

00:37:22.020 Question number two.

00:37:24.000 Now who's the wetback? 1.00

00:37:27.680 Wow.

00:37:29.400 Again, this is why we have Jeffy reading these lines.

00:37:31.760 David Duke?

00:37:33.080 Oh.

00:37:33.400 David Duke.

00:37:33.880 Do we have Amy Schumer audio on that line?

00:37:36.700 He's Hispanic, so he was like, now who's the wetback? 1.00

00:37:39.060 I'm like, hey!

00:37:39.780 Oh, no.

00:37:41.120 That was Amy Schumer.

00:37:42.720 Somebody just as bad.

00:37:44.080 Just as bad.

00:37:45.000 As David Duke.

00:37:46.520 Next one.

00:37:47.340 Really bad.

00:37:48.780 I think that white people were, no question, the creators of what we call white America. 0.94

00:37:54.860 Ooh, is that David Duke or someone just as horrible as David Duke? 0.71

00:37:57.960 Say that again, because that one's tough.

00:37:59.460 Say that again. 0.71

00:37:59.900 I think that white people were, no question, the creators of what we call white America. 0.92

00:38:06.400 Oh, I think, does it have to be in a comedy routine?

00:38:10.040 Because that sounds like Amy Schumer. 1.00

00:38:12.160 Do we have Amy Schumer of that line? 0.93

00:38:14.820 Oh, no.

00:38:16.080 That's David Duke.

00:38:17.180 Doesn't that sound like something?

00:38:18.100 It does.

00:38:18.620 I mean, that sounds like something they would say.

00:38:20.100 Yeah, white America definitely built what we would call white America. 1.00

00:38:24.340 It could have been, yeah.

00:38:25.060 That could have been a serious policy statement from Amy Schumer. 0.87

00:38:27.560 So it was either Amy Schumer trashing being racist against white people or David Duke being racist against people of other color.

00:38:37.060 This is an incredibly confusing game show.

00:38:39.080 It really is.

00:38:39.860 Back to our host, Jeff Fisher.

00:38:41.660 Of course you know the miracle of AIDS.

00:38:44.040 We all do.

00:38:44.820 It's the only disease that turns fruits into vegetables. 0.95

00:38:51.140 Wow.

00:38:52.060 Is that bad?

00:38:53.900 I don't think even Amy Schumer would have said that.

00:38:57.920 But that isn't a joke form.

00:38:59.720 It is a joke form.

00:39:00.620 Yes, it is.

00:39:01.180 Your final answer, sir.

00:39:02.420 David Duke.

00:39:03.500 David Duke.

00:39:03.980 Do we have Amy Schumer audio of that one?

00:39:06.200 Oh, you're correct.

00:39:07.280 David Duke.

00:39:08.000 Nice work.

00:39:08.640 Nice work.

00:39:10.380 Wow.

00:39:10.900 So, my best friend is black.

00:39:14.900 She's teaching me how to freestyle rap.

00:39:17.500 And I'm teaching her how to freestyle swim.

00:39:20.180 That is Amy Schumer.

00:39:21.400 Play the audio.

00:39:22.540 And my best friend is black in this story.

00:39:26.160 In this story.

00:39:29.140 Gosh, she's awesome. 1.00

00:39:31.640 She's a comedian. 1.00

00:39:32.720 And it's cool.

00:39:33.100 She's been teaching me how to freestyle rap, which I'm kind of good at.

00:39:37.200 And I've been teaching her how to freestyle swim.

00:39:39.360 And it's okay that the audience laughed at that today.

00:39:43.700 But will it be okay in the future?

00:39:45.660 I think we need to identify with cell phone technology, everyone who's in the audience laughing at these.

00:39:51.240 I think that's important.

00:39:52.320 If you're laughing at that, it's sad.

00:39:53.760 It's a sad statement. 0.81

00:39:54.760 You think that all white people freestyle swim and all black people freestyle rap. 1.00

00:40:00.120 You're clearly a racist. 0.99

00:40:02.120 It's an interesting take on that. 0.99

00:40:03.480 But yes, okay.

00:40:04.440 All right.

00:40:04.700 Next up, Jeff Fisher, the host of this fabulous game show.

00:40:06.960 Get back in the kitchen.

00:40:09.600 Those dishes aren't going to do themselves.

00:40:12.140 That is something that David Duke absolutely said.

00:40:15.380 But I bet Amy Schumer also said it.

00:40:17.980 Let's hear it.

00:40:18.660 Do we have Amy Schumer audio?

00:40:19.920 Get back in the kitchen.

00:40:20.660 Those dishes aren't going to do themselves.

00:40:22.860 Talking about Hispanics.

00:40:24.980 Saying they need to get into the kitchen.

00:40:26.100 It does sound like something.

00:40:27.160 Even as the host, it does sound like something David Duke would have said.

00:40:30.060 Yeah.

00:40:30.380 Because that's just a straight racist line.

00:40:32.800 Right? 0.91

00:40:32.880 Like, hey, Hispanics. 1.00

00:40:34.580 I thought it was about women. 0.93

00:40:35.640 Oh, no.

00:40:36.000 It's about Hispanics. 0.92

00:40:37.280 It's about Hispanics. 0.92

00:40:38.980 Yes.

00:40:39.720 Because you see, Hispanics do dishes, according to Amy Schumer, when we take out the context

00:40:44.760 of what she's actually doing here.

00:40:46.380 And I think this is great.

00:40:47.240 Because when they build all of the Amy Schumer statues that are clearly coming, when that

00:40:52.600 happens, we can all revisit this in 50 years and tear them all down.

00:40:55.660 Good thing there's never going to be a statue of Amy Schumer.

00:41:01.000 I'm so sick and tired of hearing about slavery.

00:41:04.080 You think slavery didn't exist in Africa, even Indian tribes? 0.99

00:41:08.380 That's David Duke.

00:41:09.720 That's David Duke.

00:41:10.620 And do we have Amy Schumer audio?

00:41:12.960 You are correct again, Glenn.

00:41:14.580 You're pretty good at this game.

00:41:15.740 You seem to know these racist things very well.

00:41:19.180 That's a different game show.

00:41:20.680 Is the game show contestant also just as bad as David Duke?

00:41:28.960 Thanks very much, Jeffy.

00:41:30.140 By the way, you can get Jeffy on his podcast, Chewing the Fat.

00:41:35.240 Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher available where all podcasts are.

00:41:37.620 I can't believe we didn't get to the line about Mexicans and their work habits. 1.00

00:41:43.040 Do we have that one?

00:41:43.760 It would be the fourth clip on our list from Amy Schumer.

00:41:46.000 Tell me, is this David Duke or Amy Schumer?

00:41:47.480 Would you know when you heard this line if it was just read to you?

00:41:49.960 I mean, nothing works 100% of the time, right?

00:41:53.240 Except Mexicans. 1.00

00:41:56.180 Oh, boo, right? 1.00

00:41:59.740 Boo, Mexicans. 1.00

00:42:02.420 Really? 0.99

00:42:03.360 Wow.

00:42:04.360 But that, I mean, again.

00:42:07.660 Taken out of context.

00:42:09.420 Taken out of context, which is what they've done to me on multiple occasions.

00:42:15.840 Taken me out of context.

00:42:17.620 They just did it to me last week.

00:42:19.600 Just did it to me last week.

00:42:21.740 You take things out of context, and it's bad.

00:42:25.860 But we're not playing that game because, take it out of context, you've already decided,

00:42:32.540 America, by letting these things stand, you've already decided that you'll just go along with it.

00:42:39.360 So, whoever they want to sweep up, and believe me, Amy, they will come for you eventually.

00:42:45.140 They will.

00:42:46.680 They will come for you.

00:42:49.240 I mean, they're already eating their own.

00:42:51.860 They don't even have power yet.

00:42:54.060 And they're already kicking people out of the club.

00:42:57.160 What do you think is going to happen to you?

00:42:59.760 You make one wrong move, you're out.

00:43:02.600 So, good luck to you.

00:43:05.440 We, by the way, as conservatives, welcome you to do your comedy and any comedy you want to do anywhere.

00:43:15.140 I may not pay for it.

00:43:17.060 I may not enjoy it myself.

00:43:19.240 But I stand by your right to do it any place you can draw an audience.

00:43:24.600 You'll never find us outside protesting.

00:43:26.680 Never.

00:43:27.080 Trying to throw pies at you.

00:43:28.640 Never.

00:43:29.040 Trying to stop you from speaking at college.

00:43:31.420 Which one's the fascist?

00:43:33.280 Which one's the fascist?

00:43:34.520 The one that says, hey, book the theater.

00:43:36.500 Go.

00:43:37.020 Make as much money as you want.

00:43:38.460 Tell any joke you want.

00:43:39.620 Or the ones that say, you can't say that.

00:43:42.480 How dare you say that?

00:43:44.340 I'm going to protest.

00:43:45.440 I'm going to pick it. 0.76

00:43:46.220 And I'm going to burn every book that you've ever...

00:43:49.780 Uh, hello. 0.86

00:43:50.820 Which one's the fascist?

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