The Glenn Beck Program - Best of The Program ｜ Guests： Matt Walsh & Joe Green ｜ 6⧸5⧸20

00:00:00.000 Hey, it's Pat Gray. Today on the Glenn Beck radio program, we wonder where the COVID-19 scare went.

00:00:05.920 We destroyed our economy because Democrats demanded we stay home.

00:00:10.500 Now these same Democrats are silent while Americans come together in gatherings of thousands to protest and riot.

00:00:18.820 Also, Glenn spends an hour listening to you to find out how you're doing during these crazy times.

00:00:23.080 As we discuss Drew Brees' second apology video after he was attacked for standing up with something he believes in.

00:00:31.420 According to The Hill, it looks like, this is going to surprise you too,

00:00:34.460 it looks like Antifa is the group to blame for the violent riots across the country?

00:00:39.320 And also, Glenn speaks with Joe Green, who's a business owner and stood his ground during the riots by trying to defend his business.

00:00:48.340 All of that and lots more coming up on the podcast.

00:00:53.080 This is the Glenn Beck program from the Standing Rock Ranch in God's country.

00:01:11.660 Welcome to the program, Mr. Matt Walsh.

00:01:14.520 He's the author of The Church of Cowards, also the host of The Matt Walsh Show.

00:01:20.080 Matt, welcome.

00:01:20.960 Hey, Glenn, thanks for having me.

00:01:24.420 You bet.

00:01:25.380 You know, I know we were going to talk about Tony Timpa, and we will, because it's really important what you've exposed here.

00:01:32.920 But I just want to ask you, as I think this is a very relevant question, and your book handles this well.

00:01:38.940 What do you mean by The Church of Cowards?

00:01:41.240 Well, I mean, you know, when we look around at the church in the country today, I think it's pretty clear to most Christians that, you know, it's a church infected by not just cowardice, 0.98

00:01:56.700 but I think complacency, you know, people's spiritual complacency, where we're just sort of floating along on the tide of the culture.

00:02:04.960 And, of course, I wrote this book before the lockdowns and everything else happened, but everything that we've seen in the last few months has only, unfortunately, I think, sort of proven my point,

00:02:14.200 especially as prisons have been shut down and so many of us as Christians have just sort of gone along with that as our First Amendment rights were totally obliterated on a basis that, by the way,

00:02:26.680 has now been exposed as a total sham, because, of course, they've thrown all that to the side for the protest.

00:02:31.360 So, unfortunately, I hate to say, you know, I've been proven right by this, but I think I have been.

00:02:38.980 So, Matt, what do you draw from this?

00:02:42.480 We were just talking about it.

00:02:43.820 I mean, this is the Reichstag fire now, and just like the Reichstag fire, it may have been started by communists.

00:02:53.400 It may have just been taken advantage of, or it could have been started by the Nazis.

00:02:58.220 You don't really know for sure.

00:03:00.080 And I think what's coming our way is a large part, part and parcel with the COVID-19 lockdowns.

00:03:11.600 You would not have been able to have this kind of unrest without 20% unemployment.

00:03:17.040 And you could make the case, I think pretty easily, that this was either planned or it was just used.

00:03:26.120 And then they hatched a plan along the way.

00:03:29.900 I mean, I don't think we'll ever really know.

00:03:32.160 Do you have an opinion on this?

00:03:34.220 Yeah, I think it's a combination of factors.

00:03:36.140 I think, obviously, it cannot be a coincidence that we're seeing this kind of mass unrest three months into these lockdowns.

00:03:43.380 But I don't think that's a coincidence.

00:03:45.020 We know Antifa's involvement.

00:03:46.320 So there's a combination of factors.

00:03:48.240 But I also think we should keep in mind that we shouldn't forget that there have been riots and mass looting and violence at BLM protests for years now.

00:03:59.320 I mean, before Antifa was as prominent as it is now.

00:04:03.080 Have we forgotten Ferguson, Baltimore?

00:04:05.000 We've forgotten Dallas, where five police officers were executed at a BLM protest.

00:04:08.480 So there's a weird thing that I've noticed among some conservative commentators, where it seems like they're trying to absolve BLM of any guilt and put this all on Antifa and say, well, they're coming in and doing the rioting and looting.

00:04:20.560 I know that they're partially responsible.

00:04:22.340 But why are we pretending that Black Lives Matter has not also been a violent movement from its inception, from day one? 1.00

00:04:29.580 I don't know why we're pretending that.

00:04:31.100 Well, I guess I do know why.

00:04:32.040 I'm being intentionally naive.

00:04:34.240 But we should not pretend that, because it is a violent movement, in my opinion.

00:04:37.620 I will tell you, Matt, that was the same thought I had yesterday.

00:04:41.900 I was watching this stuff, and I thought, we are just, we're cleansing.

00:04:45.260 As a society, we're cleansing BLM. 1.00

00:04:48.300 And we're saying, well, they're not Antifa.

00:04:51.360 Yeah, they are.

00:04:52.560 Yeah, they are.

00:04:53.220 Their goals are much the same as Antifa, and their actions are much the same.

00:04:59.720 One more thing on the Christian community.

00:05:01.340 The black box, which I refuse to tweet or anything else, this black box movement, 0.99

00:05:07.620 it was tweeted out by so many people who were not just church members, but church leaders,

00:05:16.700 were going ahead with the black box movement on this last Tuesday.

00:05:23.060 If you go to the black box movement website, they provide education for you, one of which is the 1619 project,

00:05:34.340 which is thoroughly discredited.

00:05:36.540 A horrible, horrible look at history makes our founders, our pilgrims, into nothing but racists.

00:05:47.780 Where do we go for truth if our own pastors and preachers can't find truth?

00:05:54.920 Yeah, I think there's obviously a lot of empty virtue signaling that goes on.

00:05:58.780 I think also people are, you know, of course, they're afraid of being called racist.

00:06:01.840 I mean, I've heard from many conservatives, you know, some prominent commentators and others,

00:06:07.620 saying that, yeah, well, I condemn the violence and rioting, of course, everything, blah, blah, blah.

00:06:11.580 But the message of the protests, I agree with.

00:06:14.420 I mean, I support the message.

00:06:15.760 I support them.

00:06:16.200 Well, do you really?

00:06:17.180 Because look at what, go to Black Lives Matter website and look at what they're saying about America 1.00

00:06:22.000 and what they stand for.

00:06:23.560 You support that now as a conservative? 1.00

00:06:25.460 They're saying America is a white supremacist country that cops are out hunting for black people to kill. 0.99

00:06:29.740 They're not, they don't defend or save black lives at all. 1.00

00:06:32.060 They just kill black people. 1.00

00:06:33.480 You know, we're a country infected by the virus of white supremacy, 1.00

00:06:38.240 and white supremacists are killing black people every day. 1.00

00:06:40.540 This is what Black Lives Matter is saying. 0.99

00:06:42.960 And you've got conservatives now saying, oh, yeah, I support that part of it.

00:06:46.200 What do you mean you support that?

00:06:47.240 I thought we're supposed to be standing against this kind of nonsense.

00:06:49.940 We'd better stand against it.

00:06:50.660 Well, now, wait a minute.

00:06:51.200 Wait, wait, wait, wait.

00:06:51.980 Let me make sure that I understand you and we're on the same page,

00:06:56.680 because I support the criminal prosecution of the police officer who killed George Floyd.

00:07:05.220 George Floyd's not a hero.

00:07:06.920 He's not a martyr.

00:07:07.880 He was a very bad guy.

00:07:10.160 He should have been a criminal that went to jail,

00:07:12.040 should not have been somebody who was killed.

00:07:16.200 By a police officer.

00:07:17.320 So I separate this with the police officer.

00:07:21.240 I want to see him go to jail.

00:07:23.020 And that part I support.

00:07:25.980 And I want to see that all of, you know,

00:07:28.720 all of our cops are as clean as possible that they can be.

00:07:32.660 I support that.

00:07:33.440 But I don't support Black Lives Matter. 1.00

00:07:35.900 I don't support what they want.

00:07:37.700 And I don't support the so-called protesters,

00:07:40.400 because when I listen to the interviews for them,

00:07:43.600 they're saying either burn the entire thing down or I deserve this,

00:07:48.540 so I'm going to take it.

00:07:49.800 Neither of those do I agree with.

00:07:52.340 Yeah.

00:07:52.860 Well, and I think you're exactly right.

00:07:54.640 I mean, yes, I also agree with that.

00:07:56.740 We need to prosecute the officer that killed George Floyd.

00:07:59.640 Everybody agrees with that.

00:08:01.000 Everyone agreed with it from day one.

00:08:03.760 They arrested the officer.

00:08:05.260 I mean, there's really not much else to be said about it.

00:08:08.220 We were all on the same page.

00:08:10.360 And that's how we know.

00:08:11.000 It's a very rare time where we are this lockstep in United in America.

00:08:17.800 We had about one day where everyone was united in America.

00:08:21.860 Everybody said, oh, yeah, this is horrible.

00:08:24.820 And then all of a sudden, we were made to believe like we disagreed with each other.

00:08:30.200 Yeah, and usually that's the thing with a protest.

00:08:32.500 Usually you've got one side insisting on something,

00:08:35.240 and there are people disagreeing, which is why you need to protest.

00:08:37.900 But if the protesters are saying, prosecute the killer, justice for George Floyd,

00:08:42.140 and everybody in America is like, yeah, I agree, totally, let's do that.

00:08:45.600 Well, if that's all you wanted to accomplish,

00:08:47.420 then you would put your sign down and go home.

00:08:49.680 It's like as a pro-life protesters, I mean, we're out saying abolish abortion.

00:08:52.940 If the whole country said, yeah, let's do it, then we would say, great.

00:08:56.380 And we would put our signs on and go home, and we would celebrate and say we won.

00:08:59.240 So that's how we know that it's not just about George Floyd,

00:09:02.340 because they're still out there, obviously.

00:09:03.720 They want more than just justice for George Floyd.

00:09:07.080 And if you want to know what else they want,

00:09:09.380 we just have to look at what Black Lives Matter is saying.

00:09:12.340 So, Matt, you have made Tony Timpa rather famous this week,

00:09:17.800 a name I had never heard of.

00:09:19.300 I live in Dallas.

00:09:20.240 I didn't even know this story.

00:09:21.600 Tell the story of Tony Timpa.

00:09:24.280 Yeah, Tony Timpa was a white man who was also killed by police.

00:09:30.100 This happened a few years ago, back in 2016.

00:09:32.400 Very similar situation.

00:09:34.100 The video's out there now, the body cam footage.

00:09:36.260 Very similar situation to George Floyd.

00:09:38.200 He was being arrested.

00:09:40.200 They were on top of him.

00:09:41.180 He couldn't breathe.

00:09:41.900 He said many times, like, you know, I can't breathe.

00:09:44.000 I'm going to die.

00:09:45.020 They didn't listen to him. 0.99

00:09:46.260 He died on the pavement.

00:09:47.380 And after he died, the police officers were cracking jokes.

00:09:51.580 You know, they might not have known that he was dead,

00:09:54.000 but they thought they knew he was unconscious and they thought it was very funny.

00:09:56.840 They did not give him, they did not administer, you know, anything medical-wise.

00:10:02.000 The other part of this is that Tony Timpa, to make it even more outrageous,

00:10:07.020 Tony Timpa suffered from mental illness.

00:10:09.280 He called the police to come help him.

00:10:11.480 He realized that he was on the verge of, you know, he just, he needed, he hadn't been off his medication.

00:10:16.020 He knew he needed help.

00:10:17.680 He did what you're supposed to do.

00:10:19.320 And he called the police to come help him, and they killed him instead.

00:10:23.060 And, I mean, it's just totally horrifying.

00:10:26.080 It's at least as bad as George Floyd, if not worse.

00:10:30.740 Oh, I think it's, I have to tell you, I think it's worse because he wasn't in a criminal act.

00:10:35.580 We have to separate the act from the killing.

00:10:39.540 They are two separate things.

00:10:41.180 But here's a totally innocent guy who is calling and saying, help me, and they kill him. 0.62

00:10:47.040 That's, that's more insane than he thought he was. 0.87

00:10:51.660 Exactly.

00:10:52.360 And, and, and yet, and this is not about, look, this is not about whataboutism or anything like that.

00:10:56.800 I'm not trying to score points or make this into a racial scorecard thing.

00:11:01.820 Uh, we're just pointing out that these sorts of things happen all the time to people who are not black.

00:11:09.280 Daniel Shaver is another case that I've, I've mentioned a little bit more well-known,

00:11:13.500 but that video is just the worst thing I've ever seen.

00:11:17.460 If you haven't seen the video of Daniel Shaver, if you want to see it, I, I warn you.

00:11:20.720 It's horrible, but he was killed, shot dead by police while begging for his life on his knees.

00:11:25.920 I mean, that's what they said happened to Michael Brown.

00:11:27.800 It didn't happen to Michael Brown.

00:11:28.820 That was a lie.

00:11:29.860 It actually did happen to Daniel Shaver on his knees, begging for his life saying, don't kill me.

00:11:33.720 And they shot him white man, you know, and, and this kind of thing happens all the time.

00:11:37.560 The important point is that the police brutality is a real problem.

00:11:41.220 In my opinion, there's a real problem with the way sometimes the police go about things,

00:11:44.760 even though it's a minority of cases, but it does happen.

00:11:47.500 I don't think there's any reason to believe at all, actually, that it's racially motivated.

00:11:51.960 I don't think it has anything to do with race.

00:11:53.480 The vast majority of cases, I think it's, it's, you know, power trip.

00:11:57.660 I think it's sometimes police officers don't value human life as much as they should.

00:12:01.060 And then also sometimes this idea that, you know, there, there, there are some cops who don't want to take any chances at all with their own lives, none at all.

00:12:08.300 And so they'd rather kill you than take any chance whatsoever.

00:12:11.380 Now, fortunately, most cops don't operate that way.

00:12:14.380 Some do.

00:12:15.080 And I think that's what leads to Daniel Shaver, Tony Tempo, George Floyd, and many of these other cases.

00:12:20.240 If we're going to go further than that and say that this person was killed because of their race, because this cop hated him because he was black, you're going to need some evidence for that.

00:12:28.900 And the evidence cannot be that the person died, because we know that happens to white people, too.

00:12:33.960 Happens to more white people. 0.68

00:12:35.220 You need more evidence.

00:12:36.120 I mean, maybe the cop who killed George Floyd was racist.

00:12:38.400 Is there any evidence of that?

00:12:39.580 Do we have anything else aside from the video of George Floyd dying?

00:12:42.600 If we don't, and you're going around saying he was racist, that is irresponsible, reckless.

00:12:47.620 And you have, you know, you have no reason to be saying it other than maybe you want it to be true for your narrative.

00:12:54.380 Hey, Matt, it's Pat.

00:12:54.980 It's Pat Gray.

00:12:56.320 Do you know if any of the police officers were ever charged in this death?

00:13:01.080 Did anybody, was anybody brought to justice over Tony Tempo?

00:13:06.300 I don't believe, I know in the case of Daniel Shaver, nobody was, there was, there was no conviction.

00:13:12.600 Wow.

00:13:12.940 And I believe that was the case for Tony Tempo as well.

00:13:19.020 This is amazing.

00:13:20.480 I mean, they were joking.

00:13:22.200 They thought he was asleep.

00:13:23.660 They tried to wake him.

00:13:24.300 It's time for school.

00:13:25.180 Wake up.

00:13:26.460 I don't want to go to school.

00:13:27.940 Five more minutes, mom, said the other officer.

00:13:31.100 They joke about buying him new shoes for the first day of school, making him a special breakfast, laughing loudly.

00:13:36.840 He is, he's dead.

00:13:43.180 And there was nobody that even cared about this story.

00:13:47.120 Nobody that even cared.

00:13:48.320 So I think this says, if I'm not mistaken, Matt, you're not playing whataboutism.

00:13:54.940 You are saying that there is a problem with the police departments, but not all police departments are not all police.

00:14:02.300 But there is something to be said for the brutality that sometimes happens with a, you know, with certain cops.

00:14:12.440 Yeah, exactly.

00:14:14.840 And if we want to really, if we're serious about addressing the problem, then we have to first diagnose it correctly.

00:14:22.360 And if we're insisting on this racial narrative, then we can't possibly diagnose it correctly. 0.56

00:14:26.800 Because then if we're saying, well, this is all racial, then what the hell are we going to say about Tony Tempo and Daniel Schaefer and the others?

00:14:35.380 How does that, that doesn't fit with the theory.

00:14:37.660 So there's obviously something else going on here.

00:14:40.640 And I think I just, I think that's how we have to look at it.

00:14:43.880 And, you know, by the way, you know, twice as many white people are killed by cops every year as black people.

00:14:49.300 Of course, there are many more white people in the country. 0.94

00:14:51.120 So you could always point that out. 0.92

00:14:52.520 But it's still, if that's not, if it's true that cops are racist out hunting for black people to kill, which is what we're told by BLM, you would not expect, based on that theory, to find out that there are twice as many white people killed by cops.

00:15:07.460 It just, it doesn't work with the racist cop theory, does it? 0.90

00:15:10.480 But that's the fact.

00:15:11.420 And so, again, I think it just means that we need a different explanation other than the racial one to get to the bottom of the police brutality issue.

00:15:20.980 Host of the Matt Walsh Show on the Daily Wire, good friends of ours, Ben Shapiro's Daily Wire, the Matt Walsh Show.

00:15:27.700 You should check it out.

00:15:28.680 Also, the author of Church of Cowards.

00:15:31.280 His name is Matt Walsh.

00:15:33.200 You follow him on Twitter at Matt Walsh Blog.

00:15:35.720 Thanks, Matt.

00:15:36.280 Appreciate it.

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00:16:40.900 Do people even want to hear people's opinion anymore?

00:16:50.080 Because that's a problem.

00:16:51.020 Sometimes we don't.

00:16:52.260 We don't have honest conversations anymore.

00:16:54.420 And honest is the key here.

00:16:57.640 Not somebody who's trying to win, but just have just understand.

00:17:01.980 I just want to understand what you're saying.

00:17:04.780 But we can't do that anymore.

00:17:06.720 Because if you talk about facts, you're a racist. 0.94

00:17:09.980 If you don't prostate yourself in front of the mob, you're a racist.

00:17:16.540 But I think millions of Americans are saying right now, I'm not a racist.

00:17:20.900 Because I'm not.

00:17:22.660 Maybe I've done racist things in the past that I wasn't aware of it.

00:17:27.400 It was a mistake.

00:17:28.700 If I did it, I didn't know.

00:17:30.520 But I try really hard to be open to everybody.

00:17:35.460 I don't think I've ever done anything racist, but perhaps I have.

00:17:39.080 And I would apologize for it to the people that were actually hurt at the time.

00:17:44.340 Not to a mob.

00:17:46.160 I don't know anybody who's really, truly racist.

00:17:49.800 And if I ever do hear those people, I immediately correct them and distance myself from them.

00:17:55.000 And there's nothing I can do to alleviate racism in my life other than to, quite frankly, overcorrect and give preferable treatment to blacks or other minorities.

00:18:06.900 Which I find myself doing here and there, I guess, but I don't think it's fair.

00:18:14.640 I'm not posting the black box, but that just means I'm sick of the mob. 0.99

00:18:18.920 I'm not kneeling down to anybody.

00:18:23.720 Sorry to say it, but the man that was buried today was not a martyr.

00:18:26.920 He was a criminal.

00:18:28.300 But like every other criminal, he should have been arrested respectfully and tried. 0.61

00:18:35.740 But he was a criminal that was arrested and now celebrated.

00:18:42.140 He shouldn't be celebrated.

00:18:43.880 We should be condemning the act of what happened after he was arrested.

00:18:49.740 I'm not happy with the police.

00:18:51.520 I'm no mouthpiece for the police.

00:18:53.720 I, quite honestly, have been worried for many years about the militarization of the police and police brutality.

00:19:01.260 It seems to be getting worse with all races. 1.00

00:19:05.380 And I don't think they're making matters any better for themselves.

00:19:08.940 During the coronavirus, the police really bothered me.

00:19:12.240 Do I need to complain more?

00:19:15.600 Yeah, I guess I do.

00:19:16.860 I mean, I think I'm being reasonable.

00:19:21.180 You know, when you look at things, there are lots of things that are unacceptable.

00:19:27.440 Let me show you a couple of video clips that I think were unacceptable.

00:19:31.820 The Buffalo PD and the attempt to murder an old man.

00:19:35.980 Do you have these clips for me, Sarah?

00:19:39.040 Here it is.

00:19:39.700 This is absolutely unacceptable.

00:19:49.400 This is a guy protesting COVID.

00:19:54.340 All right.

00:19:55.020 Let's go to the next clip.

00:19:56.980 Absolutely unacceptable.

00:19:58.600 Here's the next clip.

00:20:03.840 Same thing.

00:20:04.640 We got that on camera.

00:20:09.000 Got it.

00:20:11.200 Police brutality again.

00:20:13.340 Hey, we see you.

00:20:15.700 Just arresting somebody just for marching.

00:20:18.640 Or how about this one?

00:20:20.380 Police officer in Virginia spits on a protester.

00:20:25.820 COVID.

00:20:26.340 During the crisis.

00:20:27.100 That's not, that's not right.

00:20:33.580 How about the, how about the guy who had, he's Hispanic and he had his door broken into.

00:20:39.140 Play this one.

00:20:40.020 I need to know why you busted my door in, where the warrant is.

00:20:44.580 First of all, because you need to, I don't care what kind of call you got outside from anybody walking around outside.

00:20:48.880 You need a warrant to bust my door in. 0.79

00:20:50.880 I just had four cops with AR-15s in my front door and busted it down because somebody called them, said a Hispanic male had an AK-47 or whatever.

00:21:01.660 And that's all, that's all the information you need to bust my door down.

00:21:07.620 Okay.

00:21:08.360 Are you ready for me to answer?

00:21:09.480 No, I'm at, that's the question.

00:21:10.860 Okay.

00:21:11.200 Because I know you need more than, I, I, I, I, I'm well versed in this.

00:21:14.820 Okay.

00:21:15.120 Okay, I've done time.

00:21:16.120 I'm well versed in this.

00:21:17.300 You have no right.

00:21:18.340 I don't care who calls you.

00:21:19.460 I can answer.

00:21:19.960 I don't care who calls you.

00:21:20.860 You have no right to bust my door down without a warrant.

00:21:23.700 Even if I did have an AK-47 in here, I am fully within my rights to own an AK-47.

00:21:28.660 AK-47, a volume is not an automatic, an automatic firearm weapon.

00:21:32.540 This guy is ranting and raving, but he's right because the cops broke his door down because they said they had a, a very vivid description.

00:21:42.120 When asked what the vivid description was, a Hispanic, listen to him here, under normal circumstances, a warrant is not needed.

00:21:50.020 It requires what?

00:21:51.320 Extenuating circumstances.

00:21:52.080 A full description.

00:21:53.200 Okay.

00:21:53.460 All you guys had was a Hispanic male.

00:21:55.280 You had no clothes on.

00:21:56.480 You had no clothes on.

00:21:56.720 This is wrong.

00:21:57.220 All of this stuff is wrong.

00:22:00.340 All of it is wrong.

00:22:03.760 I'm very much in favor of the police being respectful of all of the public at all times, even in tough times.

00:22:10.440 And I support them when they are.

00:22:13.300 I'm in favor of firing every bad cop we can find.

00:22:17.360 Constitutional Americans, you know what?

00:22:19.380 We've been far too timid.

00:22:20.560 We should have been marching in the streets peacefully until people are fired in the Justice Department and the FBI for the abuse of power and the corrupt procedures that they have used to frame innocent people in Washington, D.C.

00:22:36.900 But we're just too docile.

00:22:39.700 We don't do anything.

00:22:41.080 Over the last 10 years, I've seen personally how the wheels of justice can grind a man, a race, or just people with political differences down into dust.

00:22:52.580 I agree with the African-American.

00:22:55.740 This system is corrupt, and it needs to be cleaned.

00:22:59.000 That said, when we're talking about police officers, that is an insanely tough job.

00:23:06.260 I don't know how they do it.

00:23:08.000 I don't want to ever do it.

00:23:10.160 Somebody has to.

00:23:11.400 But they're facing being maimed or being killed, and those good cops should be supported 1,000% and deserve our respect and be held up as the heroes that they are.

00:23:22.560 They do things that you wouldn't want to do and I wouldn't want to do.

00:23:26.500 The bad cops should be terminated.

00:23:30.500 But there's something else that needs to be said. 0.99

00:23:33.060 When you look at the stats, maybe black males should stop doing so many crimes. 1.00

00:23:42.940 37.5% of all violent crime is committed by African-Americans who make up 12% of the population. 0.97

00:23:51.420 Now, there's one glaring factor that would bring the number of police interactions that they have to suffer through way down.

00:23:58.940 This would be a good safety tip for all races, not just the blacks. 0.88

00:24:04.160 Stop committing crimes. 0.91

00:24:07.940 Now, that doesn't solve all the problems because I know a lot of white people that have gotten into a lot of trouble for going out and peacefully protesting coronavirus.

00:24:18.360 And they were treated like criminals.

00:24:20.560 So, I know this is a couple-a-week thing or a couple-a-month thing, and it's been going on with blacks forever in America. 1.00

00:24:30.940 But I don't care what it looks like or who that person looks like when they come to kick down the door or to ask you questions to make you feel like a criminal when you're not.

00:24:42.740 That's got to stop.

00:24:44.480 That's got to stop.

00:24:45.660 But here's what we really have to say to one another.

00:24:52.140 There are good black people, and there are good white people. 0.98

00:24:55.580 There are bad black people, and there are bad white people. 0.99

00:24:59.680 And if all black people don't want to be lumped in with all criminals and looters, and they shouldn't be, 1.00

00:25:05.520 then why is it okay to lump me in with all of the bad white people? 0.98

00:25:10.580 Why is it okay to lump all of the bad cops in with all the good cops?

00:25:16.140 It's almost like it's okay to stereotype cops or white people, but anything else is literally hate speech.

00:25:25.580 Factual data is hate.

00:25:27.220 I can tell you right now, that data that I just gave you is going to be deemed hate speech.

00:25:32.680 I'm going to have all kinds of problems with it.

00:25:34.920 You know, Biden said that 10 to 15% of Americans are just not good people. 0.96

00:25:48.620 Blacks are 12% of the population. 0.94

00:25:50.560 Do you think he was talking about them?

00:25:54.120 12?

00:25:55.080 I'm sorry, 10 to 15% of Americans are just not good people.

00:25:59.600 So who's he talking about?

00:26:01.680 Which Americans are not good people?

00:26:04.920 Do you realize that if Trump would have said that, that exact narrative, what they would have said about him, 0.95

00:26:12.860 they would have said he was absolutely talking about black people.

00:26:16.920 10 to 15%?

00:26:18.400 Whoa, that's kind of a coincidence, isn't it? 0.77

00:26:21.220 Blacks are 12% of the population. 0.80

00:26:24.380 And you know it's true.

00:26:27.320 But instead, reasonable people give Biden the doubt.

00:26:32.200 But let me ask you this.

00:26:33.760 If you believe that 10 to 15% of Americans are bad people, which I think is awfully high, what are you going to do about it?

00:26:41.820 Are you going to round them up?

00:26:43.540 Are you going to ban them from the internet? 1.00

00:26:45.000 Are you going to kill them? 1.00

00:26:45.880 What are you going to do? 1.00

00:26:46.860 People have a right to be jerks. 1.00

00:26:50.300 People have a right to be flat out racist. 1.00

00:26:52.960 I don't like it.

00:26:53.860 I don't want them around me.

00:26:55.120 But they have a right to do that.

00:26:57.720 Let me give you an example.

00:26:59.480 This is from a Twitter feed from John Boyega. 0.96

00:27:04.040 I really effing hate racists. 0.53

00:27:07.600 Dexie Dale, nobody loves racists. 0.92

00:27:09.620 I'm from Nigeria.

00:27:10.980 My ex said she hates whites, so I broke up with her. 0.97

00:27:14.020 John responds, I'm talking about the white on black racism. 0.99

00:27:17.500 The kind that ruined the world, not caused a little breakup with your girlfriend. 0.94

00:27:22.720 Why is that on Twitter?

00:27:24.620 Why can I find that on Twitter?

00:27:27.820 That's racist.

00:27:29.500 But it's fine with everybody on the left.

00:27:31.640 How is this acceptable?

00:27:33.660 This is not about all men are created equal.

00:27:36.840 It's not.

00:27:37.300 This is not about justice, fair and equal, justice for all.

00:27:43.440 This is, if I may, a dog whistle. 0.94

00:27:49.600 He's saying he hates a segment of white people. 0.97

00:27:54.020 And that's allowable because of world history. 0.97

00:27:57.820 Mark my words.

00:27:59.840 The world will weep.

00:28:01.460 The world will weep when they see when the European societies that have been built over the centuries,

00:28:14.080 ugly as they have been in the past and even ugly as they are now,

00:28:19.620 when they are removed from the face of the earth,

00:28:22.440 the world will weep and finally recognize what they actually had.

00:28:31.460 This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:28:39.740 Now, I saw a story, I think it was on Monday,

00:28:42.620 about the owner of the Broadway Wine and Spirits in Santa Monica,

00:28:46.320 who was protecting himself and his store with neighbors and friends.

00:28:51.300 They all kind of got together and they were protecting his store with,

00:28:56.520 I believe the article said, automatic weapons or semi-automatic weapons.

00:29:02.220 ARs.

00:29:02.920 I didn't even know you could have an AR in California,

00:29:05.540 but I wanted to talk to him because there's a good ending to this story.

00:29:10.040 And Joe Green is on with us now.

00:29:11.720 Hi, Joe.

00:29:12.820 Hi, how are you doing?

00:29:14.880 I'm good.

00:29:15.920 So tell me what happened Sunday night.

00:29:17.720 How did this unfold?

00:29:18.600 Well, you know, we thought it was going to be a peaceful protest,

00:29:23.700 but we've had a few other protests here nearby in California and they turned bad.

00:29:31.400 A lot of lewd and a lot of vandalism.

00:29:33.380 So when they came to Santa Monica, you know, they were gathered at the oceanfront down there

00:29:40.660 and the crowd just, it got tremendous.

00:29:44.220 When they were showing aerial views, it was just a lot of people.

00:29:47.420 So at that time, I knew that, you know, our police department couldn't handle it.

00:29:55.140 Yeah, it was overwhelmed.

00:29:56.760 So then when the lewd and start, because we have a Third Street promenade,

00:30:01.160 which is just three blocks off the ocean.

00:30:02.860 And when it started, then that's when, you know, I started preparing myself.

00:30:08.500 I, you know, I closed up the store and got my wife out of here and, you know,

00:30:14.480 started calling a few friends to see what was going on.

00:30:17.580 And I, it started really early.

00:30:20.660 I mean, this is like 3.30, 4 o'clock.

00:30:23.600 I mean, it's broad daylight.

00:30:26.480 So it, it got scary.

00:30:28.860 I mean, well, I'm all for protesting and I'm all for Black Lives Matter.

00:30:32.220 You know, something needs to be done about that.

00:30:35.980 But looting and vandalizing and destroying somebody's livelihood, not acceptable.

00:30:41.380 So, Joe, did you have ARs that you were protecting the store with?

00:30:47.860 Yes.

00:30:48.980 You know, a few of my neighbors, you know, they're licensed gun owners and they had an AR.

00:30:57.220 The person across the street had an AR.

00:30:59.140 We had nine millimeters, 12 gauge, a few bats.

00:31:03.660 You know, we just, you know, there wasn't going to come in here and take this door without a fight.

00:31:08.980 You know, it's just, I mean, it's...

00:31:11.300 Doesn't that make you, doesn't that make you almost a pariah in California?

00:31:17.460 Well, a lot of people frown on it, you know, because you have a lot of liberals out here that just, you know, you should just lock up and that's what your insurance is for.

00:31:27.120 Well, insurance doesn't cover that, you know.

00:31:29.300 Insurance doesn't cover inventory loss.

00:31:31.120 You know, it's a...

00:31:34.640 So, you went in about three o'clock in the afternoon is when you started thinking trouble is coming and it came shortly after your windows were smashed.

00:31:44.740 And by the time you got there, people were starting to smash more and try to get in and grab things.

00:31:49.620 But you didn't go home, the authorities didn't actually arrive until the National Guard arrived at, what, about four o'clock in the morning?

00:31:57.840 Four o'clock the next morning, yes.

00:31:59.920 So, it was a long night.

00:32:02.620 But it was.

00:32:03.640 I mean, like I said, I've never seen anything like it.

00:32:06.900 I don't want to ever relive Sunday.

00:32:08.520 I mean, that's...

00:32:10.520 It got really dicey and I, you know, I have friends out here and customers that were standing with me and I would never be able to live with myself if anything happened to any one of them, you know.

00:32:26.580 So, I'm just glad it turned out how it did.

00:32:28.800 I want to get to the ending of this story here in a second, but I want to ask you, how do Californians and business people react when you've been told by the governor and specifically the mayor of Los Angeles has been, I think, one of the worst,

00:32:48.240 is that we're not fully going to be reopened until there's a cure for coronavirus.

00:32:54.480 They've been arresting people that have been surfing on the beaches.

00:32:57.500 They've kept stores closed, all because of coronavirus.

00:33:01.480 And now, they're saying that it's okay, and in fact, the mayor of Los Angeles is marching down the street with the protesters at times without a mask.

00:33:10.760 Does this make sense to you?

00:33:12.300 How do you process that?

00:33:13.980 It's like a double standard, you know.

00:33:16.400 It's just like, you know, you tell the stores that are open that you have to have social distancing and you have to wear a mask.

00:33:23.300 But you can gather in these humongous, I mean, I couldn't, probably 5,000 people down there on Sunday.

00:33:33.080 Nobody, you know, most wearing masks, but a lot not wearing masks and not social distancing.

00:33:39.180 And, you know, it's just, and then, you know, like you were saying, you know, the mayor, and it's just put a lot of businesses in dire straits.

00:33:52.480 I mean, they're struggling to make it.

00:33:54.280 So, what do people in California that you know, Joe, say of this?

00:33:59.620 Because I think there's a lot of people around the country that say, wait a minute, I do believe the coronavirus was real.

00:34:06.440 But did they just take advantage of this?

00:34:08.580 Did they believe any of this?

00:34:10.000 Why are doctors now coming out and saying that, you know, racism is a plague on humanity, and so if you're going to protest racism, that's more important than the coronavirus?

00:34:23.780 How are doctors saying these things when so many people have lost their jobs or lost their businesses?

00:34:32.520 How do you reconcile this in California with your leadership?

00:34:37.320 That's one of the main questions.

00:34:39.340 I mean, it's just like we're ready to reopen.

00:34:41.880 I mean, I, you know, the barber shops, the hairdressers, nail salons, the restaurants, especially the restaurants.

00:34:49.700 I mean, this is, you know, most people, you know, nobody goes home and cooks a meal anymore because both parents have to work.

00:34:57.540 You know, it's just, you know, so we're ready for it to open up.

00:35:01.300 We're ready for a business to get back to normal, and it's been tough.

00:35:06.200 And then, like I said, with all this on top of it, you know, and then you use the coronavirus, and then, but it's okay to protest.

00:35:15.160 And it just, I know a lot of people that are ready for all this to end and just get back to some normality here.

00:35:21.760 Let me just take you to the ending of the story.

00:35:26.720 The next day, you saw a guy with a broom.

00:35:30.200 Tell me what happened.

00:35:31.140 The next day, the sun was coming up.

00:35:35.040 The National Guard done made its way downtown.

00:35:39.100 I'm just like, wow.

00:35:40.480 You know, we have a few helicopters up there, but the light is starting to come out.

00:35:44.420 I see a middle-aged black gentleman coming down the street with a broom in his dustpan, and he says, we have to start somewhere.

00:35:51.880 And it was just, it was beautiful.

00:35:53.720 And, I mean, within an hour, the community, I mean, it was a beautiful thing.

00:35:58.520 The community came together, and you couldn't even tell within, by 12 noon Monday, all the graffiti was gone.

00:36:05.960 All the, all the carnage, all the, everything was gone.

00:36:09.360 Glass was cleaned up.

00:36:11.000 Windows were boarded.

00:36:12.320 I mean, it was a community coming together.

00:36:14.520 It was nice.

00:36:16.580 Joe, thanks for ending it there.

00:36:18.280 God bless you.

00:36:18.920 Thank you, and best to you and your customers at Broadway Wine and Spirits in Santa Monica.

The Glenn Beck Program - June 05, 2020

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