Glenn Beck is back on The Blaze talking about the impact of the Trump administration's trade war with China. He also talks about the border patrol caravan and what the media won't tell you about it. And he talks about Superfoods and the dangers of superfoods.
00:00:46.460Also, the border and what the media won't tell you.
00:00:51.200I mean, even Pat came on and said, you know, I'm not one that likes the president when he says that the press is the enemy of the people.
00:00:59.700But they're kind of being like the enemy of the people on this one.
00:01:03.200So we're going to that, by the way, on tonight's TV show today.
00:01:05.160If you happen to be watching, go back and the Tuesday TV show is all about the caravan, all the background of it, where the funding comes from.
00:01:17.000It's all on the TV show tonight on the Blaze.com slash TV.
00:01:20.140Also, Merrill Hodge and Peter Cummings are on.
00:01:23.840He's an NFL superstar and Peter Cummings is a is a neuroscientist.
00:01:29.840And they've written the book Brainwash about the destruction of football in America based all around what they say is incredibly faulty science of CTE.
00:01:41.100Fascinating conversation, especially if you have a kid, you want to play football.
00:01:45.600Well, this is a don't miss all on today's podcast.
00:01:55.600You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
00:02:07.860Brick House wants to remind you that superfoods aren't always super.
00:02:11.800You have to really look at the labeling on them, because sometimes, you know, if you see something that says supplement facts, that means it's made from extracts and not real food.
00:03:09.960And for anybody who has been listening to me for a long time, you hopefully remember, you know, what that felt like and what we don't want to face again.
00:03:22.000We are headed toward real economic trouble.
00:03:26.440And we have a window of time to accomplish an awful lot of things.
00:16:00.920They were going to an extermination camp.
00:16:03.760That's what fate had in store for them.
00:16:07.900If you want to talk to me about asylum, then tell me that you have been leading the charge for the Christians and the Yazidis who are being exterminated and enslaved.
00:16:23.480Oh, but nobody can talk about having helped those people.
00:16:58.840If you have said yes to those two things and you're on record, well, then let's talk about let's talk about the immigration status of these people, because I know you're an honest broker.
00:17:10.220No one in the media is an honest broker on this.
00:19:03.440They only had a hundred back in Obama and he just threw the tear gas.
00:19:06.940We have to be a welcoming country because we are, we are a welcoming and they are not going to come and push the fences down or climb the walls.
00:19:21.460Remember Jim Acosta said, Mr. President, you showed in your campaign a video of protesters climbing walls and pushing down fences.
00:23:21.740You could assume that he or his organizations would be funding this based on the fact that they finance the NGOs that organize the April caravan.
00:26:11.440Because if you do believe that today, could you please show me your Twitter account where you were talking about the women and children who are Christians and Yazidis who have been crucified, tortured, raped up to 20 times a day.
00:26:29.780Can you please show me where you said we must take these people in?
00:26:33.020Because the Nazarene Fund has been saying that for a while.
00:26:38.040We have thousands of people that have gone to other countries, including Australia.
00:26:42.540Australia has been an amazing country.
00:26:45.260You know how many of the United States has taken?
00:27:34.220Can you show me your tweet and your Twitter feed where you are standing up to China and helping expose the one million Muslims that have been rounded up in China merely for being Muslim?
00:27:48.960If you can show me your Twitter feed, I can have an honest conversation with you because I'll show you mine.
00:27:53.860But if you only care about women and children today, if you're only caring about the migrants and the oppressed and the, oh, the huddled masses yearning to breathe free today, you have no credibility.
00:32:12.260The literary agents say, you've got to get on the Glenn Beck Program.
00:32:15.260Number one on the press tour is definitely the first stop you want to do.
00:32:18.520I have a feeling we're not the number one stop.
00:32:21.740But we're thrilled to have a couple of guests talking about the new book, Brainwashed, the bad science behind CTE and the plot to destroy football.
00:33:04.200The book, Brainwashed, is, I think, really important from the perspective of it.
00:33:09.600It gives a little bit more context into a story that people have followed very loosely, I think.
00:33:16.640You know, I think – I was joking before we came on the air that, you know, most people's understanding of this issue starts with Will Smith was a doctor.
00:33:23.780And Will Smith actually was not a doctor.
00:33:25.540He played that in – he was in a movie.
00:33:28.680And I think that set the narrative for CTE and the NFL.
00:33:32.480So let me take this because I'm not a football fan, and I have been following this, I think, like the average American who is not a big fan.
00:33:40.840So let's start with – let's start with this.
00:33:42.940And I may be below the average American.
00:34:24.920You know, I tell people my first – my son's first concussion ever slipped in a shower.
00:34:31.700Okay, now it's four days before his first bowl game ever, but he's now ineligible to play even though the concussion was not in an athletic environment or, say, practice in football.
00:34:42.720Because for an hour I was trying to get – now, Bo, of all the things that you could have done, how did – and he's the best athlete I've ever seen.
00:35:52.680So when my son became interested in football, I took it upon myself to sit down proactively and go through the science and then look at the sport and see how that had changed.
00:36:02.120And one of the things you start to notice is this narrative now that is sort of believed that if you play football, you're inevitably going to get concussions.
00:36:13.560You're inevitably going to become suicidal, depressed, anxious, and demented.
00:36:19.200And that just doesn't exist scientifically.
00:36:21.020If you actually look at the mortality studies that have been done on – and this is NFL players, so it's really hard to bring this back to youth football players because 99% of the football players in this country are not going to play beyond high school.
00:36:33.540So you'll see that NFL players live longer.
00:36:59.140You would even think that you could explain some suicide from – I mean, people identify with, what am I going to do with my life?
00:37:07.360If you've wanted to play football your whole life, and then it's over, you can really go – that could really screw with somebody's head, even if you've not been hit in the head.
00:37:16.060Well, you know, I try to use this with people to make them understand that.
00:37:19.160Now, Glenn, I know you've been doing this for a long, long time.
00:37:21.120Let's just say something happens to you, and I'm saying you can never do radio or TV again.
00:37:42.820You're going to have to do something else with your life's work.
00:37:45.540Well, when you transition from football to your life's work, that's not easy for any football player.
00:37:53.140And I think the more that football was your life and the more you really worked on your life's work, that bridge over there, the bigger the struggle is, the longer that can take.
00:38:04.140And then you add the things that we know cause – they have connections with our mental health, cancers, and every cardiovascular disease is drugs, alcohol, opioids, obesity, sugar, inflammation.
00:38:20.040Those are all lifestyle choices that are scientific evidence.
00:38:24.080They contribute to all the things I just mentioned.
00:38:41.340But a majority of all the things that create a lot of the cognitive brain health issues we have stems from all those things I just said, drugs, alcohol, opioids, inflammation, sugar, all of those things which are a lifestyle choice.
00:38:54.140So – and again, excuse me for just being a regular layperson on this, I haven't paid attention, but are you saying that getting hit in the head did not increase the problems with people like Muhammad Ali?
00:39:11.380Well, I think there's a difference between that because if you look kind of historically at this CTE science, the first original cases were from the 20s in boxers, and these were guys that boxed all year.
00:39:26.140And after they finished their whatever tournament or whatever they were doing their season, they would go box in carnivals.
00:39:42.540And it's been really well described in the literature.
00:39:45.160And there's – so if you want to bring it up to football, I mean, nobody's going to say that hitting your head is okay one time or a hundred times.
00:39:52.940And we do a lot of things to try to prevent that.
00:39:57.780And so if you look at the boxing population of people and what their brains kind of look like when they looked at them in the autopsies versus what the football players' brains look like, they have different pathologies in them.
00:40:11.080And there are some people in Europe and Britain that say, you know, CTE doesn't exist outside of boxing.
00:40:18.940And Merrill has said it so perfectly a million times, I'm going to steal his line, that with CTE, we don't know what causes it and we don't know what it causes.
00:40:27.840And I think that is where the science is right now.
00:40:30.900And you know something that I think – it was really the final spark that drove this book is when I went from neuropathologists and neuropathologists in this country and Canada.
00:40:40.100And they all kept coming back to, guys, we don't – it's an observation state.
00:40:54.140If you have cases where you didn't even play sports and they have this pattern and they had no history of head trauma, how can we only hear about football ones and sports ones?
00:41:05.860And now people think it's only in that arena when we have all these cases outside that arena.
00:41:12.040And that's when the discrepancy of what science really says versus what we see in the media was so grotesquely off that I just believed that people needed all the information to understand the science, to help them with the choices that they're making with their families and their kids.
00:41:28.140I did an interview with Dr. David Chow from San Diego.
00:41:30.860He's a former head doctor of the San Diego Chargers and now does a lot of NFL injury stuff.
00:41:37.580And talking to him was fascinating because it was the first exposure I ever had to any skepticism from the idea that you go in the NFL, you get CTE.
00:41:45.640That's pretty much what the media says.
00:41:46.940And he said there's much more that we don't know about CTE than we do know.
00:42:05.940Well, let me just tell you this, and Dr. Cummings will build on this in a much better way.
00:42:11.220But when you start, when I ask these neuropathologists about, you know, the pattern, since it's an observation state, you don't know what causes it.
00:42:18.560You don't know what it causes, and they start sharing all of these cases where, you know, they find the pattern in somebody who never played football, you know, never had a history of concussion, never had a head trauma.
00:42:29.640There's a four-month-old and a one-year-old that have found the pattern in.
00:42:33.820Well, right there, you can't obviously blame sports or football, right?
00:42:39.440But what was interesting in some of the literature, like even the science papers, if you read the science papers, there's clarity there, too, that they don't know.
00:42:49.100They say it a hundred times in the paper, we don't know, we don't know.
00:42:51.800But those people who wrote the paper are the ones that are in the media giving you the quotes where, oh, I've got to believe everybody has this that's played football.
00:43:00.760How is it that you, because didn't you earlier say we don't even know really what it is?
00:43:05.880You don't know, I mean, how do you, what are the symptoms?
00:43:18.160You know, there's outside in the kind of football world, CTE papers, there's, and this is something you touched on a second ago, the voices of skepticism.
00:43:28.580When I started this journey for myself, you know, I thought it was Don Quixote swinging at windmills.
00:43:34.280You know, am I the only person that sees that this isn't matching up?
00:43:52.360And I found out that, you know, a lot of the people, majority of the people in my neurotrauma world feel the same way I do, have the same opinion that I have about this.
00:44:01.180And so they're, one of the things we try to talk about in this book is try to show that research that's out there that contradicts a lot of the things that we've taken to be truth about CTE.
00:44:11.880So when you start looking, you find these cases of people who have never played football that have CTE, like this one epilepsy case series that had a one-year-old, a four-month-old, I think two one-year-olds.
00:44:25.940You know, how do they have, and they have temporal lobe resections.
00:44:29.100They take out a piece of temporal lobe out of their brains, and you look at them under the microscope for this protein tau, which we all have.
00:44:36.140It's a normal protein that helps stabilize nerve cells, but if something happens to the nerve cell, the tau becomes what's called hyperphosphorylated.
00:44:45.320A lot of phosphate groups get stuck on it, it gets sticky.
00:44:48.580And so they found this same pattern in these children and in all of the epileptic cases that they looked at who had never played contact sports.
00:44:58.080So when you start looking at these cases and you have to say, well, did they even have symptoms of CTE or what we think might be symptoms of CTE?
00:47:08.840Ninety-nine percent of our football players are ages 8 to 18, and we're doing nothing there.
00:47:14.760Let's establish a protocol, and actually what I challenged them to do with all of sports, because what I'd found out, even to that point, I'd been implementing a head trauma protocol in my youth program for years, that if we do these things, if your son or daughter has any type of head trauma in any environment, do the one thing that's most important.
00:47:33.740Remove them from that environment and don't let them return.
00:47:52.280If you need to get them to a neuropathologist or a medical professional to be evaluated before they return to that activity, that's the best thing and safest thing you can do for your kids.
00:48:11.700I am going to talk to him about that shower deal.
00:48:13.320The way they've gone after the NFL, I think, has been interesting in this because the way they portray it is this doctor from Nigeria comes up.
00:48:22.440He discovers this, goes to the NFL, proves it to them.
00:48:25.320They ignore it because they want money.
00:48:28.080Now, in reality, they have some of the top doctors there.
00:48:30.220There was disagreement at the time and still is to some level.