The Glenn Beck Program - December 16, 2021


Best of the Program ｜ Guests： Matthew Walther & Michael Shellenberger


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716

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Glenn and Stu open early Christmas presents for Stu. They talk about the dangers of Omicron and how it could affect the war on terror. They also talk about how things are changing with Michael Schellenberger and something that has happened on the border that is not what you would expect from the border.

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00:00:00.000 Today's show, great show. We had early Christmas for Stu.
00:00:03.520 Brought him a whole bunch of gifts.
00:00:04.940 Yeah.
00:00:05.380 Can't keep any of them, but they're really cool, are they not?
00:00:08.500 They're very cool.
00:00:09.420 Yeah, some stuff that you'll see on the podcast today if you're watching us.
00:00:13.380 Otherwise, we'd describe them, but you can watch the podcast on Blaze TV.
00:00:17.500 Just amazing stuff. Amazing stuff you're not going to see anywhere else.
00:00:21.180 We also talked about Omicron, and it looks like it is going to be much more transmissible, but maybe, maybe not as deadly as COVID-19 in the past.
00:00:39.160 We'll see. We diced that all out.
00:00:41.220 We also talked about San Francisco, how things are changing with Michael Schellenberger, and something that has happened on the border that is really crazy and not what you would expect from the border.
00:00:57.740 A couple things as well. You can, of course, subscribe at blazetv.com slash Glenn. Promo code is Glenn.
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00:01:28.500 Yes, well, that's what happens when you do a power hour.
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00:01:47.420 Here's the podcast.
00:01:55.260 You're listening to The Best of the Glenn Beck Program.
00:01:59.020 Stu and I were talking yesterday.
00:02:04.000 He's really in the Christmas mood.
00:02:05.880 I am not in the Christmas mood.
00:02:07.560 I just don't have any confidence that our holiday vacation is going to go well.
00:02:14.380 I just don't have any confidence in it.
00:02:17.240 Your personal vacation?
00:02:19.000 Yes.
00:02:19.480 Which includes Christmas with the kids and everything else.
00:02:22.820 We have had just such a bad year of something.
00:02:25.720 It's like, well, for instance, you know, we've had problems with Tanya's father being sick now.
00:02:32.220 So we've been up to visit him probably the last time you're going to see grandpa.
00:02:37.500 You know, one of those things.
00:02:38.980 Oh, wow.
00:02:39.380 Like three times this year.
00:02:41.040 The guy's got more lives than a cat.
00:02:42.820 I told him last time I saw him, you're never going to die.
00:02:44.960 You're never going to die.
00:02:46.920 But now mom and dad both have COVID.
00:02:51.160 Everybody's been vaccinated and everything else.
00:02:53.140 And he's got COVID.
00:02:54.120 He has COVID.
00:02:55.040 Then she got COVID or vice versa.
00:02:57.340 Then she fell down, had to go to the hospital.
00:02:59.900 This is in this last week.
00:03:01.540 Then so he was at home trying to take care of everything.
00:03:04.380 And then he fell down, broke four ribs with COVID in the hospital.
00:03:09.140 They can't be in the same hospital room, even though their husband and wives, they live together.
00:03:13.320 But it's a COVID thing.
00:03:14.560 You can't be in the same hospital.
00:03:15.840 Even though they both have it.
00:03:16.840 Uh-huh.
00:03:17.380 That's a fascinating medical discovery.
00:03:19.660 Whatever they've discovered to make that rule is fascinating.
00:03:22.800 So it's just, I don't know.
00:03:25.020 So I thought I'd do something today that maybe would put me in the Christmas mood.
00:03:28.420 Okay.
00:03:28.760 Okay.
00:03:29.060 So you get to open some presents, but you don't get to keep any of them.
00:03:34.580 Maybe I could keep one of them.
00:03:35.900 No.
00:03:36.260 You can't keep any of them.
00:03:37.880 I just think these are so cool.
00:03:39.740 And the audience, if you're watching the blaze, it's cool to watch, but also to describe them.
00:03:48.120 So I've got, what, five boxes there.
00:03:51.140 You can start at the top and open them up.
00:03:54.900 These are all things from the museum that we just got in.
00:03:59.340 They must be expensive because you're making me wear gloves.
00:04:01.840 Yes, they are.
00:04:02.680 And they're, you can see that one has a red label that says high value.
00:04:07.480 Okay.
00:04:08.700 All right.
00:04:09.540 So you open that up.
00:04:12.360 Oh, wow.
00:04:13.040 So explain what that is.
00:04:17.400 Okay.
00:04:17.640 So this is, uh, what is it?
00:04:20.620 A clapper?
00:04:21.280 Yeah.
00:04:21.460 It's a clapboard.
00:04:22.640 Yeah.
00:04:22.880 Clapboard.
00:04:23.460 Not the clap.
00:04:24.200 Clapper turns the lights on.
00:04:25.520 Right.
00:04:26.100 Clapboards are what they do in movies where they like, you know, action, you know, that type
00:04:30.020 of thing.
00:04:30.380 Click and they, they clap the board and that's why you sync sound and, and, uh, and a video.
00:04:36.980 And it says universal city studios production jaws director S spiels Spielberg.
00:04:45.460 Wow.
00:04:46.120 And it says at the top, it says a camera.
00:04:48.440 What does that mean?
00:04:48.860 A camera, a cramp.
00:04:50.340 But that means there's a, a unit and a B unit.
00:04:53.680 And the B camera is for all of the pickup scenes.
00:04:57.620 A camera is for everything that Spielberg was standing there the whole time going, all
00:05:03.020 right, wait, let's do it again.
00:05:05.080 It's all the important scenes.
00:05:06.700 And I'll say this, this looks, can I, can I open it up?
00:05:08.840 Uh, yeah, but it has a kind of a latch on it.
00:05:11.180 Do you see in the back?
00:05:12.980 Um, no.
00:05:14.640 Oh yeah, there it is.
00:05:15.720 Yeah.
00:05:15.880 It goes up and down.
00:05:16.740 It's got teeth.
00:05:17.760 Yeah.
00:05:18.380 It looks like it has teeth.
00:05:19.680 It was specially made for jaws.
00:05:21.580 Tons of pictures of that with Steven Spielberg.
00:05:24.280 Isn't that cool?
00:05:24.800 Yeah.
00:05:24.980 And handwritten stuff all in the back.
00:05:26.780 Yeah.
00:05:27.020 Those are, yeah, those are for the different scenes.
00:05:29.960 Really cool.
00:05:30.680 Yeah.
00:05:30.920 Really cool.
00:05:31.280 So this one I get to keep?
00:05:32.400 Nope.
00:05:32.780 You don't get to keep that one.
00:05:34.360 We're, you know, the museum is collecting.
00:05:36.580 We have collect, we have now more, um, founding documents than anyone in the world.
00:05:42.620 Um, except for the national archives and the library of Congress.
00:05:48.000 It's remarkable.
00:05:49.260 The collection.
00:05:49.920 Yeah.
00:05:50.040 You can put it over there.
00:05:50.660 I will, uh, but we're also now, this is a collection of making sure we preserve American
00:05:56.020 culture, things that were really important in American culture.
00:06:00.500 How much does this thing run you?
00:06:01.700 How much, how much does that set you back?
00:06:03.460 That?
00:06:03.960 Mm-hmm.
00:06:04.480 Lots.
00:06:05.360 I'll give you a hundred bucks for it right now.
00:06:06.800 Nope.
00:06:07.080 I'm not going to sell for that.
00:06:08.120 No.
00:06:08.440 These three things I bought, uh, for the museum with the art, my art proceeds.
00:06:16.320 So, all right.
00:06:17.420 Christmas present number two.
00:06:18.660 Christmas present number two.
00:06:19.700 This is really cool.
00:06:24.060 Okay.
00:06:24.920 It's a Stetson box.
00:06:26.560 Hmm.
00:06:26.920 It is.
00:06:27.480 Yeah.
00:06:27.960 And in it, you can take it out and you can put it on your head.
00:06:30.220 Don't read it yet.
00:06:31.000 Don't read it yet.
00:06:31.840 You can put it on your head.
00:06:32.800 I don't know how to.
00:06:33.660 Oh, you don't know how to put a Stetson on.
00:06:35.340 The what, where is this?
00:06:36.420 The, the, uh, little cross tab in the back.
00:06:38.900 Yeah.
00:06:39.100 Yeah.
00:06:39.140 Not the X's.
00:06:40.100 That goes to the front.
00:06:41.880 The little something.
00:06:43.020 Like this.
00:06:43.460 Yeah.
00:06:43.760 Yeah.
00:06:44.040 That's it.
00:06:45.240 Like that?
00:06:46.000 Yeah.
00:06:46.600 Your head is enormous.
00:06:47.840 Cause that's a big hat.
00:06:49.000 My head is enormous.
00:06:50.020 Yeah.
00:06:50.160 There's lots of brains to fit in it.
00:06:51.680 That's why.
00:06:52.020 And it actually looks okay on you.
00:06:53.880 I mean, you look, yeah.
00:06:54.720 It feels very awkward.
00:06:56.380 Yeah.
00:06:56.520 Well, cause you're not used to a cowboy hat.
00:06:58.080 No.
00:06:58.640 I don't know if I've ever put one on in my life.
00:07:00.800 So now take it off and read the inside.
00:07:04.940 Uh, it's made by Stetson says, uh, nudies, rodeo tray, uh, Taylor.
00:07:12.760 And it says Stetson and it says made by Stetson, especially for John Wayne.
00:07:21.200 That's John Wayne's cowboy hat.
00:07:23.720 Um, not sure if it ever appeared in any movies, but it was his personal hat and it was, uh,
00:07:31.060 given in a poker game.
00:07:33.540 He was at a poker game.
00:07:35.200 He was getting ready to leave.
00:07:37.020 And one of the guys at the table said, Wayne, you haven't paid me for the last time you lost.
00:07:43.160 And he took off his hat and he said, well, this will probably pay for it.
00:07:47.420 And he threw it down on the table and the guy kept it until he died.
00:07:51.560 No way.
00:07:52.040 Yeah.
00:07:52.240 Really cool.
00:07:52.860 Wow.
00:07:53.140 Really cool.
00:07:54.260 So, uh, you know, I, I get to keep this one.
00:07:56.600 No, you don't get to keep that one.
00:07:58.340 No, I'll give you 200 bucks for that one. 0.90
00:08:00.800 Nope.
00:08:01.260 Right now.
00:08:01.880 Right now.
00:08:02.420 Nope.
00:08:02.760 You're going to love the last.
00:08:03.960 You're going to love the last two.
00:08:05.660 You're going to love the last two.
00:08:07.440 Okay.
00:08:07.600 So here we go.
00:08:08.520 Number three.
00:08:08.880 Okay.
00:08:09.060 So number three.
00:08:13.260 You can try to be very careful here.
00:08:15.140 Uh-huh.
00:08:15.460 Oh, my.
00:08:18.460 Yeah.
00:08:19.320 Jeez.
00:08:20.040 So that is the gun belt of Jesse James.
00:08:25.120 So if you remember, Jesse James, this is the gun belt that he had on the day he died.
00:08:32.020 So he had two gun belts.
00:08:34.120 Uh, this is one of them.
00:08:35.860 Uh, if you remember, Jesse James was killed by the coward, Robert Ford.
00:08:41.780 And, uh, Jesse James was kind of a hero robber.
00:08:45.920 You know what I mean?
00:08:46.620 Uh, people liked him.
00:08:48.780 Uh, and, uh, and Robert Ford was kind of a clinger on and he really wanted to be famous.
00:08:54.860 And, uh, he made a huge mistake.
00:08:57.720 He killed somebody and then buried them in a shallow grave.
00:09:01.940 And the, the police found out about it and, um, arrested him.
00:09:07.780 And he said, wait, wait, I know where Jesse James is.
00:09:11.640 And the governor said, if you kill Jesse James, I'll, I'll pardon you for the killing of Jesse James and the guy you just buried.
00:09:20.720 And I'll give you the reward.
00:09:22.420 So he went and he was plotting.
00:09:25.800 Jesse James didn't trust him.
00:09:27.840 Uh, uh, Jesse and his brother were there and they were going to rob a bank.
00:09:31.220 And Robert Ford said, I'll help.
00:09:33.240 He went, he had breakfast with the two of them at Jesse James house.
00:09:37.100 Jesse was sitting there in the parlor in the living room and, uh, they were talking and he noticed that his mom's needle point that was over the fireplace was crooked.
00:09:48.060 So he got on a chair, was straightening it out and Robert Ford shot him right behind the ear, shot him in the back, um, in the head actually, but it had his back turned.
00:09:59.740 Uh, and he became the coward Robert Ford, uh, and, uh, eventually was shot in the back as well, uh, by somebody that really wanted him dead.
00:10:13.340 And it had no connection to Jesse James, just hated the fact that this guy started to go on stage and make himself into a big hero.
00:10:21.940 People turned on him quickly.
00:10:23.860 He had no friends after that.
00:10:26.520 And, uh, it says here, uh, it's a cartridge belt used by Jesse James.
00:10:29.860 One of the two he had when killed.
00:10:32.040 Yeah.
00:10:32.700 Wow.
00:10:33.160 Isn't that amazing?
00:10:34.120 Isn't that amazing?
00:10:35.560 You have cool toys.
00:10:36.840 Yeah, they are cool toys.
00:10:38.040 Unfortunately, they're all, they're all in the museum.
00:10:40.520 Uh, by the way, we want to do another museum and open the museum up, uh, this summer for a major opening.
00:10:47.840 Uh, it's going to probably take, you know, we've usually had them in this building.
00:10:51.800 I have a feeling it may take two or three buildings now because this has expanded so dramatically.
00:10:59.080 Um, and we're going to do that this summer, hopefully.
00:11:04.640 Uh, okay.
00:11:05.460 The last two, the last two.
00:11:08.260 Okay.
00:11:09.280 All right.
00:11:10.360 I'm not sure which one that one is.
00:11:14.100 And if it's sorry, it was empty.
00:11:16.540 Sorry.
00:11:17.120 Wait, what?
00:11:17.780 Yeah.
00:11:17.920 I'll throw the box out for you, but it was this one is the coolest thing ever.
00:11:21.720 This one is one of those things.
00:11:23.200 Brad Meltzer, you know, our good friend.
00:11:24.840 Oh yeah.
00:11:25.640 Yeah.
00:11:26.260 Uh, he's going to, he'll flip over this.
00:11:29.560 Uh, and this is one of the coolest things of, I just, I've, I've seen.
00:11:34.520 Okay.
00:11:35.020 Opening up now.
00:11:36.520 Christmas gift number four for Stu.
00:11:38.100 American culture.
00:11:41.220 Okay.
00:11:42.200 It's red.
00:11:43.000 Mm-hmm.
00:11:45.320 It's clothing of sorts.
00:11:46.280 Take it carefully out.
00:11:47.420 Yeah.
00:11:47.720 Mm-hmm.
00:11:48.380 Wearing your gloves.
00:11:49.500 Take it carefully out.
00:11:50.420 Oh my.
00:11:53.320 Wow.
00:11:54.040 Okay.
00:11:54.340 Take, okay.
00:11:55.080 So.
00:11:55.800 It's Superman's cape.
00:11:57.800 Oh my gosh.
00:11:58.740 Now, open it up on the inside and read.
00:12:04.420 This is on the collar.
00:12:06.200 Wow.
00:12:06.460 It says Christopher Reeves.
00:12:08.400 Yeah.
00:12:08.840 It says 4913 walking, which is interesting.
00:12:13.140 Unfortunately, what happened to Christopher Reeves?
00:12:15.000 Yeah.
00:12:16.000 Uh, but this is, that's Christopher Reeves.
00:12:18.820 The, not only his cape, the, in the other box are his boots and that's his suit.
00:12:24.040 Oh yeah.
00:12:24.440 Look at the suit.
00:12:24.860 But pull his suit out.
00:12:26.080 Just the top.
00:12:27.320 Look how small he was.
00:12:28.960 Yeah.
00:12:29.700 Jeez.
00:12:30.220 Now maybe, because it fit pretty tightly.
00:12:33.700 So, I don't know.
00:12:35.140 Maybe it stretches a lot, but he was not a big guy, at least according to the suit.
00:12:41.660 Yeah.
00:12:41.960 It's, it's a, I mean, it is sort of, I guess a spandexy, yeah, sort of material, but yeah.
00:12:46.660 And those are his pants.
00:12:51.320 I mean.
00:12:51.940 And that's from the first Superman movie.
00:12:55.420 I think these are custom, Glenn.
00:12:56.680 I don't think he bought these at the store.
00:12:59.260 Just an amazing, amazing thing.
00:13:02.420 And these are some of the things that David Barton has purchased.
00:13:08.220 I have purchased.
00:13:09.140 The museum has purchased.
00:13:12.000 And all of them will be seen in the museum.
00:13:15.260 There's his boots.
00:13:16.560 It just doesn't seem like a person saving the world would wear these boots.
00:13:19.960 I'll have to say.
00:13:20.520 No.
00:13:20.840 It just doesn't seem.
00:13:22.140 No, it looks more like Lady Gaga.
00:13:23.800 Yeah.
00:13:24.100 It does seem like something Lady Gaga would wear.
00:13:26.160 Yeah.
00:13:27.900 They zipped him right into these things.
00:13:29.720 Yeah.
00:13:30.120 They zipped him in.
00:13:30.820 A little tight suit.
00:13:31.800 Yeah.
00:13:32.300 And some big boots.
00:13:33.240 It's a little weird.
00:13:34.120 It's now that I'm thinking about that whole thing.
00:13:36.620 Yeah.
00:13:36.980 It's a little weird.
00:13:38.360 Yeah.
00:13:38.600 Yeah.
00:13:38.840 It's like, eh.
00:13:41.180 You know, don't, don't be caught walking around with that.
00:13:43.980 You know, unless you are the man of steel, you don't want to be caught in that suit.
00:13:48.280 You don't have to tell everybody, but tell me.
00:13:50.200 How much does it set you back?
00:13:51.580 How much, how much does all this stuff cost?
00:13:53.500 I mean, just, just most of the people in the audience with just tune out audience.
00:13:58.520 Yeah.
00:13:58.920 It's a lot.
00:13:59.640 It's, it's a lot.
00:14:00.620 It's a lot.
00:14:01.460 By the way, here's two more things.
00:14:04.220 This is Captain America's mask from the first Captain America.
00:14:09.820 Look how small his head was.
00:14:11.540 Wait, did he wore this?
00:14:12.860 This is from the first movie.
00:14:14.280 I mean, it's like a kid's head.
00:14:17.700 Was he three feet tall?
00:14:18.440 Yeah, I know.
00:14:18.960 Isn't that crazy?
00:14:20.860 Wait, what?
00:14:22.140 This is from the first movie, Captain America.
00:14:25.260 The first movie being.
00:14:26.700 Captain America.
00:14:28.160 But they've made several versions of that, haven't they?
00:14:29.900 Yeah.
00:14:30.120 This is the one of the Marvel series.
00:14:32.460 This is the first Marvel series movie.
00:14:34.240 It was the first in the series of the Marvel movies, wasn't it?
00:14:36.820 Like recently?
00:14:37.700 Yeah.
00:14:38.040 With, what's his name, who plays Chris Evans?
00:14:41.860 Chris Evans, yeah.
00:14:43.340 That's, that's.
00:14:44.000 Is Chris Evans' head fit into this thing?
00:14:45.560 I don't know.
00:14:46.260 I just know that that is.
00:14:47.860 Look at the inside.
00:14:49.280 Look at the inside.
00:14:50.480 It is from stage four, number four.
00:14:54.580 It's the hard version of the helmet for the film.
00:14:58.680 We've uncovered some news here.
00:14:59.980 Chris Evans is apparently a little person.
00:15:02.980 I'm also going to show you.
00:15:04.400 This is kind of.
00:15:05.680 Wow.
00:15:06.200 This is the actual Captain America shield from the first movie that he wore, you know,
00:15:12.520 that he wore in.
00:15:13.740 That looks Chris Evans' size, though.
00:15:15.600 It does look Chris Evans' size.
00:15:17.040 This looks like.
00:15:17.500 Did he have a shrunken head?
00:15:18.780 I don't know.
00:15:19.880 I don't know.
00:15:21.340 Unfortunately, rubber, not vibranium.
00:15:24.740 Really?
00:15:25.260 Yeah.
00:15:25.700 So they lied?
00:15:26.820 They lied.
00:15:27.900 Captain America is a small-headed liar.
00:15:31.940 Just like the real America.
00:15:36.200 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
00:15:41.420 There's some new early stats out on Omicron, and it looks to be more transmissible.
00:15:58.640 It could be by a lot, but it also looks less deadly.
00:16:02.960 But we don't know yet.
00:16:04.640 But that wouldn't stop everybody from freaking out.
00:16:07.040 I shouldn't say that.
00:16:08.020 It shouldn't stop everybody in the media from freaking out.
00:16:11.860 And in Washington or in certain, you know, blue states, they're all freaking out.
00:16:18.220 I don't think the American people are.
00:16:19.640 I think we're done with it.
00:16:20.640 And Matthew Walther is the editor of The Lamp, a contributing editor, American Conservative.
00:16:26.660 And he's written a piece for The Atlantic, where I live, no one cares about COVID.
00:16:32.280 And reading the article, I think he's exactly right.
00:16:35.460 Matthew, welcome to the program.
00:16:37.860 Thanks for having me.
00:16:39.460 So this, how has this gone over at The Atlantic?
00:16:44.160 So, to be honest, I have been heartened by the response that I've seen from so many people,
00:16:53.660 especially people just, you know, emailing me or sending me messages on social media to say thank you.
00:16:59.880 We're so glad that there's somebody out there who's willing to present our actual experience of reality.
00:17:06.920 We feel like when we read the news or we turn on TV, you know, a different universe is being presented.
00:17:12.480 You know, we thought we were the only ones.
00:17:14.780 Are you getting those from coastal cities?
00:17:19.380 Really from all over.
00:17:20.740 I mean, that's the thing that was really surprising and, again, heartening to me.
00:17:25.740 It wasn't just people who live, you know, in, you know, sort of deep red rural America, as they happen to do.
00:17:33.160 It's people, you know, who live in, say, the Connecticut suburbs who say,
00:17:36.780 yeah, you know, the truth is, is that sometimes, you know, at work, they tell us we have to put these masks on or whatever.
00:17:43.380 But for the most part, I'm over it.
00:17:44.980 I'm living my life.
00:17:45.920 We had grandma over for Thanksgiving.
00:17:47.840 You know, we're all getting together to watch football.
00:17:50.600 We're going to our kids' high school basketball games.
00:17:52.760 Correct.
00:17:53.140 We're just living our lives.
00:17:54.980 It is really a strange thing.
00:17:58.120 There seems to be a split, and I'm not sure that that split is going to last, except in places that are uber, uber, uber, deep, deep blue.
00:18:09.960 But it's almost, I was up in Connecticut, and it's almost religious now.
00:18:15.360 I mean, you are a pariah if you're not wearing a mask in some circles, outside, inside, all the time.
00:18:23.980 It's nuts.
00:18:25.820 It's almost a mental disorder.
00:18:30.120 Yeah, you know, and the worst thing about it is, I suppose it's one thing if these people want to engage in this behavior.
00:18:38.240 But the ones I feel bad for are the service workers, people who clean hotels, people who wash dishes in restaurants,
00:18:45.240 who I fear are going to end up having to do this for years, even after the, you know, people who consider themselves their betters have moved on.
00:18:55.940 Yeah, I think that's going to happen with the airline industry, too, if the airline industry doesn't, it doesn't wake up and start pushing back.
00:19:01.840 You, in your article, talked about a trip in Washington, D.C., and I had this exact same experience when I went into the coastal cities.
00:19:10.320 You said it was bizarre to find thousands of people indifferently donning masks outdoors.
00:19:17.480 Tell me about that.
00:19:18.180 Yeah, I, you know, again, living out here, I was aware that masking, you know, when you go into a restaurant or you walk into a hotel was a thing.
00:19:30.540 But the idea that people were wearing them outside in March, I, it just would never have occurred to me that that was a thing.
00:19:39.380 There was never any real evidence that outdoor transmission of the virus was a thing, but especially when, you know, you're just walking down, down the road.
00:19:49.460 You're alone.
00:19:50.100 Yeah.
00:19:50.560 You know?
00:19:51.640 Yeah.
00:19:52.280 Unless you're trying to signal something, you know, for other people, I have no idea what the public health benefit could be.
00:20:00.600 Well, that's an interesting thing, and you talk about that in the article, unless you're trying to signal something.
00:20:05.460 I think this is a signal.
00:20:09.180 I think this is like the red MAGA hat.
00:20:13.040 This is a signal you're on one side or the other.
00:20:16.580 I think it's horrible that it has become that, and I hope we can get past that, but I think that's what's happening.
00:20:26.860 Yeah, I think you're exactly right.
00:20:28.680 And I should say, I mean, to me, I think that the sort of deep politicization of the most ordinary acts like walking on the street or going into a restaurant or whatever is horrible.
00:20:40.500 You know, I think that people who go out of their way to put on masks to demonstrate some sense of superiority is obnoxious.
00:20:47.500 I also think people who, say, put on a MAGA hat or a Let's Go Brandon shirt or whatever.
00:20:52.880 Just to piss people off.
00:20:53.920 Literally to try to provoke their neighbors.
00:20:55.820 That's obnoxious, too.
00:20:57.180 Yeah, I agree.
00:20:57.680 And I wish we could move beyond that.
00:20:59.540 I agree.
00:20:59.960 I mean, you can wear one, but when you wear it, just like, I'm going on the plane to rile everybody up.
00:21:06.220 That's obnoxious.
00:21:07.560 That is obnoxious.
00:21:08.680 Fun, but obnoxious.
00:21:10.420 Yes, the you come to the conclusion that this is going to be just another stupid thing that we, you know, you wrote no fault divorce, factory slice bread, frozen meals.
00:21:26.980 And, of course, infant formula are adopted enthusiastically by the upper middle class who then think better of them by the time the lower orders come around.
00:21:39.140 Yeah, obviously, that's there's a lot to unpack there.
00:21:43.460 But, you know, one of the most fascinating conclusions that sociologists have drawn over the last few decades is that divorce is actually not something, by and large, that upper middle class professionals are doing anymore.
00:21:58.780 Divorce, if you look at, you know, where it sort of falls on the class ladder, is actually largely concentrated among the lower middle classes, you know, who used to be the people who were most likely to have, you know, sort of lifelong, stable marriages.
00:22:13.460 Um, and so there's this consistent pattern that plays out where, you know, the people at the top get enthusiastic about something, people a little bit further down are sort of skeptical.
00:22:26.440 And the top imposes it on the bottom, and then they think better of it, and they discarded themselves, but everybody else is stuck with it.
00:22:34.420 Mm hmm.
00:22:36.260 I don't know if that's good, because I think that it is generally a lot of the elites that are doing this at this point.
00:22:45.120 And I think I've seen a turn.
00:22:47.640 You know, I think everybody wanted to do the right thing at the beginning, and we all thought the best of each other.
00:22:55.260 And now, you know, some of these things are just completely, you know, either unproven or disproven to be effective in any way.
00:23:05.980 And people are tired of it.
00:23:07.600 They're like, look, I can't live my life in isolation.
00:23:10.980 The rest, I'm not doing it.
00:23:13.060 I'll live with this.
00:23:14.360 And I think that's becoming dominant.
00:23:17.440 With Omicron, what do you see on the horizon?
00:23:20.880 I think that what we're going to see here is that people are finally going to come around to the reality that, you know, COVID is not like Russian roulette.
00:23:36.420 I think that's how most people think of it.
00:23:38.460 Or if it is like Russian roulette, it's playing it with some kind of weird gun that has, you know, a couple million chambers in it.
00:23:48.060 And the same thing is true of, you know, of getting in your car for your morning commute, you know.
00:23:54.400 There is always a non-zero chance that something really bad could happen to you.
00:23:58.920 But I think what a lot of this comes down to is just people's varying, you know, assessments of risk.
00:24:07.160 But I think what we're going to see now is people kind of quietly acknowledging to themselves, oh, yeah, you know what?
00:24:13.660 I don't have to be worried about this.
00:24:15.380 I can go about my business.
00:24:17.120 And I can never be 100% sure that nothing bad is going to happen.
00:24:21.520 But, you know, what can you do?
00:24:24.420 His website is thelampmagazine.com.
00:24:27.860 The article we've been talking about was in the Atlantic where I live.
00:24:31.040 No one cares about COVID.
00:24:32.680 His name is Matthew Walther.
00:24:35.180 Thank you, Matthew.
00:24:35.800 I appreciate it.
00:24:37.480 Thanks, Glenn.
00:24:38.260 You bet.
00:24:38.540 So, Stu, I mean, I think he's coming to the same conclusion.
00:24:42.260 And it ties into something that we talked about yesterday.
00:24:46.420 And that is, can we play the Nancy Pelosi sot from yesterday?
00:24:51.500 This is crazy.
00:24:52.820 This is Nancy Pelosi talking about how crime is just out of hand. 0.90
00:24:57.140 Listen to this.
00:25:00.280 You don't have it?
00:25:01.060 It was cut to, I thought.
00:25:01.960 Well, it is.
00:25:03.520 It's absolutely outrageous.
00:25:06.080 Obviously, it cannot continue.
00:25:08.520 But the fact is that there is an attitude of lawlessness in our country that springs from, I don't know where.
00:25:17.600 Maybe you do.
00:25:18.660 Yeah, we do.
00:25:19.720 You.
00:25:19.820 And we cannot have that lawlessness become the norm.
00:25:25.540 Okay.
00:25:26.780 So, we have yesterday the mayor of San Francisco coming out and saying, enough is enough.
00:25:34.040 Enough is enough.
00:25:35.560 And this person is, you know, was part of the progressive movement.
00:25:40.620 She was the one who said, we're going to cut our spending for our police.
00:25:45.760 We're going to try something different.
00:25:46.900 Important to note, too, that was July of this year.
00:25:50.240 Yeah.
00:25:50.420 Only a few months ago, they were still on this, you know, dissolve the police, defund the police sort of direction.
00:25:57.600 And that's switched around in a lot of cities just over the past few weeks.
00:26:02.960 People are realizing how bad of an idea this was, which is hard to understand that it could take more than, I don't know, eight seconds.
00:26:10.760 I know.
00:26:11.440 I know.
00:26:11.740 Just one viewing of the mainly peaceful marches.
00:26:15.560 Yeah.
00:26:15.740 You know what I mean?
00:26:16.560 Yeah.
00:26:16.780 But they were so locked into that politically, they couldn't see the negatives.
00:26:20.780 And now they're seeing it, but they're blaming it on something else.
00:26:23.360 They're looking to blame it on anything else.
00:26:25.520 But I think this is because, and we're going to talk to Michael Schellenberger.
00:26:29.620 He's the author of San Francisco.
00:26:32.560 We've had him on a couple of times.
00:26:34.620 He's been pushing and saying, look, this has got to stop.
00:26:37.880 And he's, you know, kind of on the left.
00:26:40.100 He started, he used to be in the movement that, the progressive movement about things like homelessness and stuff.
00:26:46.080 He was an activist in that area.
00:26:47.840 And in some ways, I guess he still is.
00:26:49.640 But he's just saying that, like, those approaches that progressives want don't work.
00:26:53.900 We need to change them.
00:26:54.700 Don't work.
00:26:55.040 Yeah.
00:26:55.200 And I want to, I want him to talk about what it took to change, but he'll go into detail.
00:27:01.780 What happened to this mayor?
00:27:04.420 This mayor was approached by people, average people that got together and said, enough is enough.
00:27:13.420 Enough is enough.
00:27:14.380 And the pressure started on her.
00:27:16.900 And that's, that's what she says changed her, is seeing people.
00:27:21.780 And I think this is happening all across America, even in progressive San Francisco.
00:27:28.540 People are waking up.
00:27:29.780 That's very, very good news.
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00:28:06.200 All right.
00:28:06.800 We're sitting here watching some amazing video from Jakob Buhens.
00:28:12.960 He is the president and founder of ShareTogetherNow.org.
00:28:16.620 You were covering the crisis on the border because you are watching.
00:28:21.520 I mean, it is clear.
00:28:24.020 Child trafficking is happening at an enormous rate.
00:28:29.380 And so you were tracking all the way from the Mexican side, all the way to here in America,
00:28:36.320 and not just to the border guard, but also they're going to put them on a plane and they're
00:28:41.920 going to send them someplace else.
00:28:43.320 To Florida, to Alexandria Airport in Louisiana, up to wherever in the U.S.
00:28:51.360 The process of the children coming into the country, making the point that the notion that
00:28:58.480 we can keep every child safe, that our president made that notion is incorrect.
00:29:05.220 And these children end up in the hands of traffickers in the U.S.
00:29:08.120 So now you're following the bus and you go to one of the stations for the border patrol
00:29:14.460 where they're processing these kids.
00:29:15.940 You follow the bus, but you don't go in.
00:29:17.800 No.
00:29:18.660 One of the border people come out and say, hey, thanks for the support, blah, blah, blah.
00:29:22.520 And you're standing there on the edge.
00:29:25.060 And I'm going to show a video.
00:29:27.020 You'll be able to hear what it's doing.
00:29:29.180 A truck comes out like a Ram truck or something.
00:29:33.060 Toyota Tundra.
00:29:33.620 Okay.
00:29:34.440 And this Toyota comes out.
00:29:38.040 It has a border guard in it.
00:29:40.360 You can see his face.
00:29:41.860 He pulls up.
00:29:43.080 He stops.
00:29:44.040 He looks at somebody who is with you.
00:29:46.780 Yeah.
00:29:47.080 I've seen a member of our team, a female. 0.98
00:29:48.940 Okay.
00:29:49.640 And he's filming the bus.
00:29:51.040 Right.
00:29:51.480 She's filming.
00:29:52.600 And he slams down the accelerator.
00:29:57.440 You'll hear the car peel out.
00:29:58.720 And then you'll hear the thump of her being hit.
00:30:02.420 Listen.
00:30:03.180 Watch.
00:30:04.980 There's the bus going in.
00:30:07.720 Now comes the border patrol agent and apparently his personal truck.
00:30:12.120 I mean, that's incredible.
00:30:15.740 Wow.
00:30:16.880 He threw a truck at her. 0.94
00:30:19.920 He threw a truck at her. 0.94
00:30:21.120 Oh, my God.
00:30:24.520 Oh, my God.
00:30:26.800 I mean, that's insane.
00:30:29.620 Yeah.
00:30:29.920 And for what reason?
00:30:31.040 Doesn't know us.
00:30:32.160 And if he did for a minute, all we do is support law enforcement.
00:30:35.400 But then he flees the scene of the crime.
00:30:38.160 He gets chased down to a red light, flees again, and it turns into a massive debacle because he is a border patrol agent in uniform.
00:30:50.140 Very unfortunate.
00:30:51.320 When you look at the video, too, he's not even looking forward where you would normally look when you're driving.
00:30:57.340 He's looking directly, like, with eye contact at this woman who he just tries to run over.
00:31:02.580 He stops his vehicle, comes to a stop, looks at her, and the stop is protocol for them.
00:31:07.160 And I found that out because the gate has to close behind them so that no one can sneak into the gate.
00:31:12.020 So he follows that protocol.
00:31:13.460 So he's at least with wherewithal for that.
00:31:16.620 Yeah.
00:31:17.100 And he knows.
00:31:18.020 I mean, he's clearly looking at you guys on the corner.
00:31:21.220 And there's 10 people that he's looking at.
00:31:23.260 He's not just looking at.
00:31:24.060 He's looking at this particular woman, but you don't see.
00:31:27.400 He misses me by six inches, maybe, enough for me to touch the truck, to slap the side of the truck, to yell stop, because you just struck a human being with your vehicle.
00:31:37.200 So now you might say, and this will separate this show from the left and the rest of media.
00:31:46.520 You might say that that guy thought you were a bunch of lefties that were trying to, you know, do bad things to the Border Patrol.
00:31:55.600 Even if that's true, I hope he goes to jail.
00:31:59.760 You don't, you just don't do that.
00:32:02.480 You say that you just think this is something that is showing how close they are just to snapping the pressure they're under.
00:32:09.500 You know, Glenn, you do such a great job.
00:32:11.040 You and Stu on this show of just connecting dots for America.
00:32:13.520 You do an amazing job.
00:32:14.760 So if we just continue that thread connecting dots, earlier that day and the day before, I have interviews with state troopers.
00:32:22.380 And what you have to remember is not just Border Patrol.
00:32:24.220 We're using state troopers, National Guard, Texas Guard.
00:32:28.200 This is copybook the message on the border.
00:32:31.920 Anybody you talk to, sir, we are here to support the refugees.
00:32:36.080 And I say, son, he's 25.
00:32:37.760 No, you signed up for the U.S. National Guard for a different reason than that.
00:32:40.960 Sir, we're here to support the refugees.
00:32:44.020 Then you could say, but they're not refugees.
00:32:45.720 Sir, we're here to support the refugees.
00:32:47.380 And what that says to me, and I look at this, the pressure that our law enforcement agents on the border are under because of the administration.
00:32:55.220 The message and the edict and the mantra from the Biden administration, they're going to crack.
00:33:02.860 You're going to see this happen more and more and more.
00:33:06.020 We're seeing Border Patrol agents commit suicide.
00:33:07.780 This is a result, I believe, of an unholy pressure that's on our law enforcement from the administration.
00:33:15.120 Because can you imagine every day after day, I'll show you, kids being fished out of the river.
00:33:21.180 If you see that as a Border Patrol agent and you know you're not deterring illegal immigration, that pressure is going to mount up.
00:33:28.380 Something's going to snap.
00:33:29.420 But you are pressing charges against him, aren't you?
00:33:33.400 Yes, and so this is federal.
00:33:35.480 So the district attorney is taking it.
00:33:37.140 It's even in the attorney general of Texas's office at the moment.
00:33:41.000 And the charges against him by the state, not even by us, is aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, which is a felony.
00:33:48.900 And then second felony, fleeing the scene of a crime.
00:33:51.920 There's going to be a civil suit by the woman who was struck by the vehicle, rightfully so. 1.00
00:33:56.840 But there's a federal suit that's even got nothing to do with her. 1.00
00:34:00.780 So he's in serious hot water at this moment.
00:34:04.080 And do we know anything about him and his record?
00:34:06.940 Yeah, we do.
00:34:08.600 And look, it's public knowledge.
00:34:09.960 His name's Roberto Duran.
00:34:11.180 No reference to the boxer, right?
00:34:13.160 Okay.
00:34:14.240 And he's been with Border Patrol for a long time.
00:34:17.060 They call him Bobby.
00:34:18.260 And to what we know, no prior behavior like this, which, again, tells me it's just the snapping.
00:34:25.160 These guys are snapping.
00:34:25.880 He doesn't know us.
00:34:26.960 He's never had any interaction.
00:34:28.300 If he knows anything about us, Glenn, you know, he'll know these guys are with us.
00:34:32.160 They fight for us.
00:34:32.980 Heck, the day before we delivered goods to Border Patrol, physical resources, right?
00:34:38.560 So I think this is unfortunate.
00:34:40.820 He has to, of course, he acted as an individual.
00:34:44.400 And we'll see whether the state feels that the pressure was, he was complying, whatever.
00:34:48.820 It doesn't matter.
00:34:49.300 He still should pay for a crime.
00:34:52.320 I mean, you know, fleeing the scene is almost as bad as the first one.
00:34:58.460 I mean, you know.
00:34:59.580 Two bad decisions.
00:35:00.440 Yeah.
00:35:00.700 You make a mistake.
00:35:01.960 You don't flee the scene.
00:35:04.380 And I think the peeling out of the tires.
00:35:06.920 Intentional.
00:35:07.520 Yeah.
00:35:08.200 Speaks volumes.
00:35:11.280 Yeah.
00:35:11.760 Yeah.
00:35:11.880 Jaco, thank you for everything that you're doing.
00:35:14.660 Let me ask you one more question.
00:35:16.460 When they filed this, I have heard that, because you had nine eyewitnesses?
00:35:21.780 Nine eyewitnesses who had sworn affidavits on site.
00:35:26.280 PD took this very serious.
00:35:28.160 PD separated themselves from Border Patrol because PD can't arrest them.
00:35:31.420 It's got to come from Washington.
00:35:32.340 It's a whole, it's a debacle.
00:35:34.680 Unfortunately, Glenn, when that case was filed by PD to the district attorney's office yesterday,
00:35:40.900 they omitted to enter the eyewitness reports or the video.
00:35:47.320 How is that possible?
00:35:48.780 It's not.
00:35:49.280 I mean, it's possible if it's done intentional.
00:35:51.400 It's not in the case file.
00:35:52.440 So now we had to go to the district attorney, also notified the attorney general to say,
00:35:57.660 look, nine eyewitnesses signed affidavits on site.
00:36:01.740 None of it's in the case file.
00:36:03.860 It's a problem.
00:36:05.580 There's so much cover up at the border, Glenn.
00:36:08.460 There's so much.
00:36:09.460 I mean, it's insane what's happening down there.
00:36:12.400 Guys who are working on the border, you can't just let things fall where they fall.
00:36:20.680 Let the chips fall where they may.
00:36:23.780 Please.
00:36:24.760 We, I believe most people in the United States are with the Border Patrol.
00:36:31.900 Yeah.
00:36:32.160 You start covering, you start doing anything like this.
00:36:36.760 I know the pressure.
00:36:37.820 I know.
00:36:38.640 But you've got to be on the up and up.
00:36:41.180 And I, and I really, truly don't think I believe.
00:36:44.420 And I know 99% of our, our border patrol, our, you know, law enforcement officials, et cetera, et cetera, are good guys.
00:36:55.160 Don't make excuses for the bad guys.
00:36:57.900 Let the chips fall where they may.
00:37:00.320 We've got to have somebody we trust.
00:37:02.660 And if you start doing stuff like this, you'll lose our trust.
00:37:06.540 And then what do we have?
00:37:08.720 What do we have?
00:37:09.860 Yako, thank you so much.
00:37:10.960 Thank you.
00:37:11.360 Thank you, Stu.
00:37:12.040 Keep us up to speed on, on what happens.