The Glenn Beck Program - May 24, 2023


Best of the Program ｜ Guests： Paul Howe & Dallas Brown ｜ 5⧸24⧸23


Episode Stats

Length

42 minutes

Words per Minute

160.91014

Word Count

6,822

Sentence Count

577

Misogynist Sentences

6

Hate Speech Sentences

5


Summary

Glenn and Stu discuss the debt ceiling, Ron DeSantis' announcement, and the fallout from Target's decision to pull LGBTQ-friendly kids clothing from their stores. Plus, the latest on the latest in the Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales numbers.


Transcript

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00:01:40.740 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
00:01:54.780 Hello, Stu. Glenn, how are you?
00:01:56.860 I'm pretty good. I'm pretty good. I want to tell the story here of Target.
00:02:03.040 Target. Now, it came out in the New York Post just a couple of days ago.
00:02:10.860 Target's top executive dismisses the social media uproar over the retailer's new line of LGBTQ-friendly kids clothing.
00:02:20.180 Outraged shoppers have posted videos and images on social media showing bathing suits that offer an extra crotch coverage,
00:02:27.840 as well as rainbow-covered onesies for infants and children.
00:02:33.760 Other offerings that raise conservative hackles include t-shirts that say Pride Adult Drag Queen, Katia.
00:02:42.780 Trans people will always exist.
00:02:45.660 Girls, gays, theys.
00:02:47.340 So, in the podcast last week for Fortune, called Leadership Next, the CEO of Target, Brian Cornell, was asked about the backlash to woke capitalism,
00:03:02.800 and specifically about Budweiser and Disney.
00:03:06.740 He said, you know, I think these are just good business decisions, and it's the right thing to do for society, and it's a great thing for our brand.
00:03:17.220 The things we've done from a D, E, and I, diversity, equity, and inclusion standpoint, it's adding value.
00:03:25.160 It's helping us drive sales.
00:03:27.420 It's building greater engagement with both our teams and our guests, and those are just the right things for business today.
00:03:33.500 Spokesperson for the company told Associated Press the tuck-friendly swimsuits are only offered, now, in adult sizes.
00:03:41.560 Kids collection does not feature the label.
00:03:43.700 Oh, well, that's nice of them.
00:03:44.620 Oh, that's great.
00:03:45.220 Yeah.
00:03:45.600 When we think about purpose at Target, he said, it's really about helping all the families, and the word all is very important.
00:03:55.860 Most of America shops at Target, so we want to do the right thing that supports families across the country.
00:04:00.840 I know that the focus on diversity and inclusion and equity has fueled much of our growth over the last nine years.
00:04:08.460 Huh.
00:04:08.880 So it was last week, the story was, they're going to stick to their guns.
00:04:13.940 Well, Target came out on yesterday, Tuesday, said the retail giant is going to pull some of its LGBTQ-friendly kids' clothing from its stores after facing customer backlash.
00:04:27.560 Just days after the company's talk executive dismissed the social media uproar, the Minneapolis-based chain said one of the main factors in the nationwide adjustment ahead of Pride Month was because some customers had become violent with workers.
00:04:44.540 Well, I hope that that is not true, and if that is happening, I don't want anything to do with that.
00:04:52.340 If you were to harass a Target employee violently over clothing.
00:04:57.680 You're an idiot.
00:04:58.260 Of any sort.
00:04:59.040 But still, I mean, this is what they always say, right?
00:05:01.880 Yeah, I know.
00:05:02.600 So I don't know if I believe anything.
00:05:04.180 Yeah.
00:05:04.460 They always say, oh, we've had death threats.
00:05:06.440 This is what it's always said.
00:05:09.720 The death threat thing is particularly comical for anyone who happens to be in, I don't know, AM talk radio.
00:05:15.360 Yeah, I know.
00:05:16.100 Suck it up, buttercup.
00:05:17.400 Yeah, jeez.
00:05:19.680 Since introducing this year's collection, we've experienced threats impacting our team members' sense of safety and well-being while it works, said the Target spokesperson.
00:05:28.380 Given these volatile circumstances, we are making adjustments to our plans, including removing items that have been at the center of the most significant confrontational behavior.
00:05:36.060 Target declined to say whether it would remove the tuck-friendly women's swimsuits that allow trans women, their men, who have not had gender-affirming operations to conceal their junk.
00:05:49.500 My words, not theirs.
00:05:50.440 One of the LGBTQ brands being pulled, however, is Abpralin, which makes t-shirts, sweatshirts, bags, mainly because, you know, it's a cult and satanic-themed LGBTQ t-shirts and stuff.
00:06:09.380 I mean, I don't know.
00:06:09.980 Criticism has been widespread, Target spokesperson said.
00:06:14.760 Folks are reaching out with feedback, and while some are sharing it with constructive criticism, they disagree with product decisions that we have made.
00:06:22.900 Target shares were down 3% yesterday at closing.
00:06:28.820 So it's good for their brand.
00:06:31.980 Good for their brand.
00:06:33.420 No, actually, not good.
00:06:36.040 You are beginning to have an effect.
00:06:38.020 You, anyone, anyone that you know is like, let's go and tear it down.
00:06:45.420 Tell them they're a moron.
00:06:47.880 You're beginning to win.
00:06:51.160 Already, ESG, any ESG fund is way down.
00:06:57.460 They're not introducing, they're introducing half of the number of funds than they did last year.
00:07:04.140 That's because you're winning.
00:07:06.940 Now you have Budweiser on the ropes.
00:07:12.720 I mean, have you heard the ads from one of the local bottling companies in Alabama did an ad?
00:07:21.400 And it's a really bad ad, but it was like, we're sorry.
00:07:24.720 We don't have anything to do with this.
00:07:27.080 We have nothing to do.
00:07:28.640 We're all local people just like you.
00:07:30.540 We disagree.
00:07:31.280 We have nothing to do with this.
00:07:35.780 But it's getting, it's bad.
00:07:38.420 I think this is a really fascinating case study, the whole Bud Light thing.
00:07:41.540 And I think the Target thing is rising to that level as well.
00:07:44.880 In which, like, I don't know exactly how these things work or how you do them or how you make it happen.
00:07:49.400 But, like, you know, like we were talking about this a little bit off the other day.
00:07:53.260 Obviously, Miller Lite is one of the big alternatives for Bud Light.
00:07:57.520 I swear Bud Light is the one.
00:07:59.860 This is Sarah Gonzalez's point, which I'm stealing.
00:08:02.500 But I swear Bud Light leaked the Miller Lite ad because it was old.
00:08:06.280 Oh, sure they did.
00:08:07.140 But Miller Lite's the alternative, right?
00:08:11.740 And they, but then they were doing this too.
00:08:14.180 Now, of course, Coors owns Miller Lite.
00:08:17.900 So Coors Lite and Miller Lite are in on all this stuff too.
00:08:21.480 And then Michelob Ultra also released an ad a while ago that had a transgender athlete that we just all missed.
00:08:26.660 That's okay.
00:08:27.040 Like, I didn't know what happened.
00:08:28.160 I don't care who teaches everybody a lesson.
00:08:31.060 Somebody needs to teach and be taught the lesson.
00:08:33.460 That's what's fascinating here is, like, maybe that's the answer.
00:08:36.060 Because you really can't boycott everybody that does things that you don't like.
00:08:40.000 It wouldn't be, it wouldn't be, it wouldn't even be consistent with capitalism to boycott everybody that disagrees with you.
00:08:45.200 Correct.
00:08:45.480 But it's not even possible.
00:08:46.780 It's not possible in this society.
00:08:48.460 But it's also, like, not consistent with the principles of capitalism.
00:08:51.800 Like, there's, you're not supposed to only do business with people you agree with.
00:08:56.000 That being said, when you have an example like this that is making a big difference, it's down, their sales are down 24%.
00:09:02.280 Yes.
00:09:02.740 Their stock does seem to finally be reacting to this.
00:09:05.720 For a while, it really hadn't reacted.
00:09:07.740 Because I don't think people thought it was serious.
00:09:09.320 It was going to last.
00:09:10.240 Right.
00:09:10.700 And so now, you're seeing them panic.
00:09:13.140 You're seeing real reaction.
00:09:15.500 Disney's the same way.
00:09:16.620 Like, I don't know that Disney's business was particularly harmed by any of the stuff that happened there.
00:09:21.640 But, maybe, I mean, they, a lot of the stuff that has been talked about, we talked about this with the DeSantis situation, they acted like they were blaming DeSantis for this $1 billion project that they shut down.
00:09:36.560 When, in reality, they had already pretty much shut it down previously.
00:09:39.560 But, still, like, nobody wants to be the next Disney.
00:09:45.780 Nobody wants to have to deal.
00:09:47.540 No one wants to be the next Bud Light.
00:09:48.660 No one wants to be the next Target.
00:09:49.940 So, why bother with this stuff?
00:09:51.720 Just stay out of this, you know, discussion completely.
00:09:54.820 I will tell you that I hear from Ramaswamy.
00:10:00.440 What's his first name?
00:10:01.940 Yeah, Vivek.
00:10:03.040 Ramaswamy.
00:10:03.580 He said, I talk to business leaders all the time, Glenn.
00:10:07.120 He said, there's a few of them that are held hostage.
00:10:10.400 He said that they're like, we don't want to do any of this, Vivek.
00:10:13.620 We just can't not do it.
00:10:16.940 I think that's more common.
00:10:18.220 I think so, too.
00:10:19.160 Than we realize.
00:10:19.940 And, you know, you start teaching.
00:10:22.100 I don't know if Target is a true believer or not.
00:10:25.420 Boy, they sure seem like it.
00:10:27.340 But the fact that they're moving clothes out from the front to the back.
00:10:30.580 Yeah, but they're only doing it in certain cities, et cetera, et cetera.
00:10:34.080 I think they just boycott.
00:10:40.260 Don't.
00:10:40.720 And this is a women's thing, really.
00:10:43.300 The men who go to Target and they're like, I'm going to tear your face off.
00:10:48.400 Are not the ones that they're going to concern themselves with.
00:10:52.100 Also, are there actually any of these people?
00:10:54.240 I don't know.
00:10:55.160 I've never seen one.
00:10:56.580 It's possible, I suppose, that some idiot is doing something dumb.
00:10:59.980 Yeah, but you do, you know, one person does something dumb and then it becomes the whole thing.
00:11:04.480 Yes.
00:11:04.980 But women.
00:11:07.480 And I, I mean, Ricky, our executive producer, she's like, I'm trying not to go to Target.
00:11:12.300 It's been three days.
00:11:13.200 I'm having a hard time not going to Target.
00:11:15.300 And I'm like, well, we can, you know, I can give you a 12 step class to go to.
00:11:19.900 We can, you know, we'll do 12 steps to get you off of Target.
00:11:23.320 But it's the women that are going to make the difference in this one.
00:11:27.200 And if you keep this up, if you teach Target the Anheuser-Busch lesson, you've got two in a row and kind of with Disney three.
00:11:38.000 Yeah, I think Disney counts too.
00:11:39.340 I think too, one of the things that's interesting about the Bud Light thing, and I've gone through this myself, is it's not as much about some sort of organized boycott against this company.
00:11:50.640 Because honestly, I don't know that, like, I've heard a lot of people talking about that, but it's not like a typical boycott that we've been on the other side of, right?
00:11:57.480 Where you have all these big organizations.
00:12:00.000 One of the things I think with Bud Light, and maybe Target is getting to that point, is that it's created some level of, like, societal, like, ickiness.
00:12:11.160 Like, it's one of those things that, like, I went to a, I think I mentioned this story, I went to a wedding, and they had all the beers up there.
00:12:18.380 You could choose whatever you like.
00:12:19.340 And normally, I'm going to have one beer at a wedding, I'll probably have a Bud Light just because it's the one I, but I looked at it and I was like, eh, I don't want to get a conversation.
00:12:27.480 Conversation about transgender issues tonight with somebody, I'll take a Miller Lite.
00:12:32.420 And I think that is, like, what is actually affecting the sales.
00:12:36.180 I don't know that it's, like, everyone be like, I'm, you know, yes, we have people who are shooting, you know, Kid Rock is shooting his Bud Light with machine guns.
00:12:42.280 Maybe that's part of it.
00:12:43.640 But I think part of it, too, is just, like, people want to avoid it, and it's created this societal pressure on people to just choose something else.
00:12:52.320 When that happens, when somebody comes into the house with a Target bag, or you say, oh, I got this at Target, and they'll say, you're shopping at Target?
00:13:03.680 That's when this will change.
00:13:04.880 That's when it happens.
00:13:05.520 That's when this will change.
00:13:07.760 It's amazing.
00:13:08.800 I think we are, I've been saying this for a while.
00:13:11.660 I have really good feelings.
00:13:13.400 I mean, bad crap is coming our way.
00:13:15.580 Don't get me wrong.
00:13:16.320 Don't get me wrong.
00:13:17.140 For those of you who listen for the doom and gloom, I'm still here.
00:13:21.040 But good things are happening as well.
00:13:23.720 There is something happening in America.
00:13:26.960 And Anheuser-Busch going down and staying down.
00:13:31.400 And now, just in a couple of days, I mean, the icky feeling happened with me and my wife when we were walking through Target, and it's right there.
00:13:40.340 It's in your face.
00:13:42.660 And as I'm walking down the aisle of Target, right in front of the cashier, and I see all of this, I'm like, you know, really?
00:13:54.680 This is who you are?
00:13:56.220 This is who you think we are?
00:13:58.820 You think that transgender needs a display up front?
00:14:04.560 How many transgender people are there?
00:14:08.040 You are grooming our children.
00:14:13.220 It really bothered me.
00:14:14.840 Really bothered me.
00:14:16.780 Yeah.
00:14:17.480 And, you know, when you look at, we just talked about this with the social media alert from the government yesterday.
00:14:26.140 They said as a positive, one of the things about social media was it helped people, what was it, develop their identity in LGBTQ issues.
00:14:34.980 That was one of the positive effects of social media, and they had tons of negatives like suicide and everything else.
00:14:39.240 But one of the positives was if you happen to think you might be LGBTQ, this helps you develop your identity.
00:14:45.920 And it's like, well, that's just saying that social media is there to walk you.
00:14:51.120 I mean, grooming is actually a really good word for that.
00:14:54.840 It is.
00:14:55.200 I mean, it's different than the criminal version of it, but it's a pretty applicable word.
00:15:03.980 You know, they say the thing that one generation tolerates, the next will embrace.
00:15:11.740 If you look at casual sex, we tolerated Bill Clinton.
00:15:18.100 Well, it depends what the definition of it is.
00:15:19.920 And all of a sudden, it became totally cool.
00:15:24.960 Sex and, you know, oral sex, all of that, totally fine.
00:15:29.040 Kids doing it in schools almost immediately.
00:15:31.760 Okay?
00:15:33.120 Remember that, so where was that story that was in Virginia?
00:15:37.540 Alexandria?
00:15:38.100 Alexandria, Virginia.
00:15:39.340 Anyway, there was, you know, this happened overnight.
00:15:43.700 What are we tolerating?
00:15:46.700 We are now tolerating Satanism.
00:15:50.360 We are now tolerating our children being groomed for trans drag shows.
00:15:58.480 This is the best of the Glenn Beck program, and we really want to thank you for listening.
00:16:03.060 A push to inject, from the New York Times,
00:16:05.380 A push to inject religion into public schools across Texas faltered on Tuesday
00:16:10.820 after the State House failed to pass a contentious bill
00:16:14.220 that would have required the Ten Commandments to be displayed prominently in every classroom.
00:16:20.220 Now, I know the Ten Commandments,
00:16:22.420 Thou shall not murder, thou shall not lie, thou shall not steal.
00:16:26.520 Very, very controversial.
00:16:29.020 The only one that they really have a problem with are the first two.
00:16:33.740 I am the Lord thy God that took you out of slavery.
00:16:39.140 Kind of an important thing to remember.
00:16:41.360 And you shall have no other gods before me.
00:16:44.060 I don't know.
00:16:45.000 Really good safety tip.
00:16:47.740 Really good safety tip as our society is being pushed into slavery
00:16:52.640 because we worship a different god.
00:16:55.140 And that could be your car.
00:16:56.100 That could be your job.
00:16:57.520 In many cases now, in after school classes, it's Satan.
00:17:01.960 But anyway, it passed the Senate.
00:17:06.760 It only had to go to the House and pass.
00:17:10.080 But we have a Republican rhino.
00:17:13.300 He's a Texas House Speaker, Dade Phelan.
00:17:17.120 And gosh darn it, he just ran out of time.
00:17:19.320 He was trying to get it.
00:17:20.940 Now, we only meet every two years.
00:17:22.560 They also were trying to get past the idea that preachers could be school counselors.
00:17:31.480 Well, you don't have to go to the school counselor.
00:17:33.840 But I know I don't trust any school counselor because they're all learning the same bull crap.
00:17:40.780 And here in Texas, it's different than most places.
00:17:45.480 This is a very religious state.
00:17:51.140 You'll hear open conversations everywhere about God and Jesus.
00:17:55.740 You know, the first time I went to a doctor here in Texas, he said,
00:17:59.880 Okay, before we start, tell me about your spiritual health.
00:18:03.160 And I went, I'm sorry.
00:18:05.300 I think the lawsuit and we just both laughed.
00:18:08.440 And he said, yeah, here in Texas, we we look at the whole the whole spirit and body.
00:18:15.520 And not all doctors do that.
00:18:17.220 But he did.
00:18:18.360 And I appreciate it.
00:18:20.240 So what happens?
00:18:21.740 This rhino, Dade Phelan, he goes and he makes sure that these things are not passed because they run out of time.
00:18:32.320 They would have passed if he would have put it on the schedule.
00:18:35.780 But he didn't.
00:18:37.260 Now, there's something else about Dade that happened last weekend.
00:18:40.400 And now our attorney general is calling for him to resign.
00:18:44.720 I want to play just the audio of him leading the House just last weekend.
00:18:53.780 The speaker, I'll move adoption.
00:18:57.640 Mr. Campbell, send them an amendment.
00:19:00.240 The amendment is acceptable to the author.
00:19:01.500 Is there objection to the opposite amendment?
00:19:03.800 The chair has done it.
00:19:05.460 The amendment is adopted.
00:19:06.360 The chair recognizes Mr. Johnson of Harris.
00:19:16.780 Mr. Johnson of Harris to speak in opposition to the bill.
00:19:22.500 That's not right.
00:19:23.800 Do you want the opposite?
00:19:26.060 The chair recognizes Mr. Niave Criado to speak in opposition to the bill.
00:19:33.640 Okay.
00:19:33.860 This guy is hammered either that or he's having a stroke or or something like that.
00:19:41.360 But you'll see nobody gets up and says, are you okay?
00:19:45.840 Nobody says, are you okay?
00:19:47.880 Are you having a stroke?
00:19:50.020 Nobody goes to him afterwards.
00:19:52.220 Nothing happens.
00:19:54.100 The guy and forgive me if he has some.
00:19:58.200 I mean, I had this on Monday.
00:19:59.600 I didn't air it because I didn't know if he was having a stroke or something else.
00:20:06.040 Now the Texas AG, Ken Paxton, has come out and said, look at this guy.
00:20:13.700 Hammered while he's dropping the hammer.
00:20:17.240 In the last weekend of legislation.
00:20:21.000 That is inexcusable.
00:20:25.300 Inexcusable.
00:20:26.940 All right.
00:20:28.020 So we didn't pass a lot of things, but we did pass some things.
00:20:33.740 You know, we passed a lot of stuff here recently about schools because of Uvalde.
00:20:43.800 But we only meet every two years.
00:20:46.240 So once this session is closed, then that's it for the law for every two years.
00:20:50.020 And it's fantastic, by the way.
00:20:52.440 But House Bill 13 is a school marshals program, school guardian program, and school sentinel program.
00:21:00.760 I don't know, are these things good or not?
00:21:03.940 We have a retired U.S. Army Special Operations Team Leader and Combat Shooting and Tactics Owner.
00:21:10.280 It's Paul Howe.
00:21:11.560 Welcome, Paul.
00:21:12.380 How are you?
00:21:13.880 Glenn, thank you.
00:21:15.880 I am doing good.
00:21:17.280 I appreciate you airing this topic.
00:21:19.300 It's huge.
00:21:20.740 And it's like you said, two years.
00:21:22.980 It's been a year.
00:21:23.700 I think today is the anniversary date of Uvalde.
00:21:26.140 It is.
00:21:26.620 So what happens is what has been done.
00:21:29.140 Have the legislators, it's a clown show to a certain extent, as you described.
00:21:34.900 We have not done our due diligence, figured out the problems, and we need to do that to protect our kids.
00:21:43.420 I can give you some ideas.
00:21:44.560 You just ask the questions.
00:21:46.160 So let me ask you.
00:21:47.540 So House Bill 13, what's the school marshals program?
00:21:52.940 Usually that's an 80-hour program.
00:21:54.860 And I've had instructors.
00:21:56.080 We actually have a guardian program on the ground right now.
00:21:58.480 This is our final day of instruction.
00:22:00.320 It's our teachers and staff.
00:22:02.160 But it's a hybrid program that nobody will touch because of the requirements.
00:22:08.320 They're vague.
00:22:09.140 It's not well written.
00:22:10.120 The bills are coming in not well written.
00:22:11.740 They don't understand the protocols.
00:22:14.400 And so what happens is people are going to the guardian, which is less stringent.
00:22:19.460 And we've trained about, I think, I want to say over 12 ISDs as far out as Midland to the Waco area to East Texas in School Guardian.
00:22:28.040 That's armed teachers and staff.
00:22:29.600 And we've been doing it for about 10 years right now.
00:22:31.720 And has that grown?
00:22:33.960 I mean, I've been to a campus here in Texas that have these great signs that says some teachers and employees here will protect the children.
00:22:46.220 They are armed and dangerous.
00:22:49.780 Oh, yes.
00:22:50.980 Nobody's coming into that school.
00:22:53.820 Well, if we go to Uvalde, we saw the train wreck there.
00:22:58.480 And then you had Nashville, which is more recent.
00:23:01.340 Now, the problem with Nashville, the shooter elected that school because it was a soft target.
00:23:05.920 And what happens is the administrators that approached the shooter basically died.
00:23:11.200 And so they're waiting for law enforcement.
00:23:13.860 Well, Virginia Tech set the template.
00:23:16.700 The shooter there killed 32 people in 11 minutes.
00:23:19.160 Every minute we did not penetrate the target and engage that shooter, three people died.
00:23:24.480 And so we know the answers to the tests.
00:23:26.860 Columbine happened in 99.
00:23:28.040 And so we're a long time past that, and we need to get better because the problem with schools is the standards as far as the law enforcement officers there.
00:23:38.460 A lot of times there's some great school resource officers, and they're phenomenal.
00:23:43.020 But there's a lot of them that law enforcement agencies are using it as a dumping ground for officers, and they're not maintaining their skills.
00:23:50.860 And these are the folks that are going to be shooting around your kids, and they can't shoot.
00:23:54.260 And we have issues with that.
00:23:56.000 So I'm trying to fix that, trying to stay, you know, I don't want to, you know, push the, it's the training standards is really what it is for the state.
00:24:05.040 It's pathetic.
00:24:06.400 So what, so what, have we done anything in the last year from Uvalde?
00:24:11.320 Have we, have we upgraded anything?
00:24:13.580 Is there a way to fix this?
00:24:15.760 Oh, yes, sir.
00:24:16.460 They, what happens is we have a, the TECOL, which is the state basically governing board,
00:24:23.220 and they're an action agency that makes sure all the standards.
00:24:25.900 The problem is the state has very low standards.
00:24:28.460 We have low operator standards for police officers, and then the instructor standards are horrific as well.
00:24:34.260 They haven't been updated in the firearms in probably 23 years.
00:24:38.320 Oh, my gosh.
00:24:38.880 So, oh, yes.
00:24:39.880 And so now you have officers going in, in schools, and these are the folks that, you know, we understand air marshals and the priority,
00:24:47.720 they have a high priority on shooting and qualifications and their technical skills.
00:24:51.700 Well, it needs to be the same as schools.
00:24:53.660 Yes.
00:24:53.780 So the guardians, it's a great augmentation to a school resource officer.
00:24:58.180 Somebody can get there within 30 seconds and solve the problem, engage the shooter.
00:25:02.600 And then what happens after that, the guardians, we train them to medical.
00:25:05.600 And so with the medical, what happens is we can start treatment immediately.
00:25:09.940 And so these problems are going to happen.
00:25:12.060 We know it.
00:25:12.740 We have, you know, case histories.
00:25:14.560 As the politics in our world, and you see it, I listen to you, and, you know, it's frustrating because we know the answers to the test.
00:25:22.380 Oh, I know.
00:25:23.400 When is America going to stand up?
00:25:25.240 When is the conservatives in America going to start fighting, you know, for, they've been pushed back for so long and are told, no, you can't fight.
00:25:32.480 Well, let me tell you, the other side is pushing.
00:25:35.960 You know, we have a mental health crisis in America.
00:25:39.100 And so it's huge, but, you know, I try to just say, hey, Texas, let's fix this.
00:25:44.360 Okay, so if we change the standards, first of all, tell me what the standards are.
00:25:48.180 I'm a really good shot, but I generally only shoot during the summer.
00:25:53.380 I shoot all summer long, and I get so busy when I'm down here in Dallas that I just don't usually shoot unless I'm, you know, I don't do any live firing.
00:26:03.320 And I don't know, if I were standing in front of a class and somebody came in, I would hesitate just enough because I'd be like, am I good enough shot to hit him over there without hitting any of the kids?
00:26:16.220 You know, you really have to be up on your skills and confident to pull a gun out, especially in a school where there's kids everywhere.
00:26:25.320 Oh, correct.
00:26:27.280 Now, we teach the teachers and the guardians, and my lead instructor for the civilians, he's been running a guardian program for years.
00:26:35.380 They actually shoot once a month.
00:26:36.980 Okay, but wait, wait, wait, wait.
00:26:38.100 What are the standards, though?
00:26:39.780 That's what you're doing.
00:26:41.300 What are the standards?
00:26:42.940 Well, we have seven pistol standards.
00:26:45.400 And then what we do is so they have to meet a time and an accuracy.
00:26:48.180 So they shoot these standards, and then they have to go into a live fire environment, which is we have a shoot house, and they shoot real bullets.
00:26:55.760 What they do is they have to clear rooms, T-intersection, outside contact, and they have to be able to put on tourniquets and do a little bit of medical.
00:27:04.220 So they have to complete these, and we document it.
00:27:08.080 It's just like law enforcement.
00:27:09.900 This is not Texas standard.
00:27:13.440 This is your standard for the guardian program, right?
00:27:17.100 Yes, sir.
00:27:17.680 Yeah, okay.
00:27:18.420 Because I am willing to go into court and testify as an expert witness, and all our standards that I teach exceed the state law enforcement.
00:27:27.900 Why?
00:27:28.260 Because the state law enforcement is, unfortunately, pathetic.
00:27:32.180 And they want to keep people, and they don't want to lose anybody.
00:27:35.780 But the problem is we want to keep the right people, and we want the right people going into schools.
00:27:41.060 The schools, all the ISDs, go ahead, sir.
00:27:44.680 Just, no, go ahead.
00:27:46.140 Finish your thought.
00:27:46.780 Okay.
00:27:47.680 We have schools that want to have their own ISD police.
00:27:50.980 And so you have these schools and superintendents that have never run a police department have their own personal police department, but they don't understand the standards of training.
00:27:59.420 And that becomes a train wreck in itself.
00:28:01.120 So these officers are not training like they should, and they're on, they should be active shooter response.
00:28:06.860 And that's their primary goal.
00:28:08.500 Keep the kids safe.
00:28:09.300 We want to interdict outside.
00:28:10.740 We don't want that problem even getting into the school.
00:28:12.780 If you watch the Nashville footage, the bad person drove around right by a playground with kids.
00:28:20.760 And it could have been horrific there.
00:28:23.180 So, worse than it is.
00:28:24.900 So, tell me, is this something that has to be pushed by the state legislature, or can you just, if you're in, you know, you're a parent and you're like, I want to bring this to the school board.
00:28:36.040 I think we should have these guardians there.
00:28:38.400 Can people do that?
00:28:41.720 Yes, sir.
00:28:42.040 And that's what happens.
00:28:43.600 The people on the school boards now are asking the questions and the right questions, and then what is the training standards?
00:28:50.840 And so, what happens is the more the parents get involved and the school board members and get in touch with the superintendents, they can make these programs happen.
00:29:00.940 And it needs to happen.
00:29:02.220 Our county schools, for example, we have maybe one deputy north and one deputy south in the county.
00:29:07.600 It's a 15-minute response time to get to that school sometimes, depending on where they're located.
00:29:12.900 So, that's 15 minutes of carnage that can happen unless you have a school guardian there.
00:29:17.280 And these school guardians can be there early, late, and we don't advertise who they are.
00:29:23.460 Okay.
00:29:23.780 So, do people go to combatshootingandtactics.com to find out more about this?
00:29:29.920 Yes, sir.
00:29:30.320 They can do that.
00:29:30.780 That's where they do?
00:29:31.160 And, by the way, just so people know who you are, it is my understanding that Blackhawk Down, it was kind of based on your experience.
00:29:42.020 Was it not?
00:29:43.860 I, yes, I don't like to put that out there, but I spoke with Mark Bound in the day and helped him get the story right.
00:29:54.440 We're coming up on the 30th anniversary of that incident.
00:29:57.320 And so, yes.
00:29:59.660 And so, what I want to do is I left special ops and decided, you know, punched out my master's degree and then started my business to help law enforcement in the United States.
00:30:10.360 Yeah.
00:30:10.660 I believe in giving back.
00:30:12.360 You know, you just, when you retire, it's just time to get a job you like.
00:30:15.400 I know.
00:30:15.900 And so, you know how it is.
00:30:17.900 Paul, thank you so much for everything.
00:30:19.920 Again, if you're interested in this school, just go to combatshootingandtactics.com, combatshootingandtactics.com.
00:30:29.460 Paul, thank you for your multiple years of service, and thank you for what you're doing now.
00:30:35.240 God bless you.
00:30:36.540 Glenn, take care.
00:30:37.320 Be safe.
00:30:37.820 You bet.
00:30:38.780 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck Program.
00:30:42.380 All right.
00:30:42.960 Dallas Brown, welcome to the program, sir.
00:30:44.480 How are you?
00:30:46.380 Hey, Glenn.
00:30:47.000 How are you doing?
00:30:47.600 I'm good.
00:30:48.320 I'm good.
00:30:48.660 So, I don't know if you know much about me, but I tend to think that we are running a shell
00:31:00.360 game with our banks and our Federal Reserve and our central banks and our treasury, and
00:31:09.440 I think we've done such damage to our banks, and they are just printing money to keep everything
00:31:15.900 looking like it's okay.
00:31:17.420 I saw your, so that's my point of view, so you know where I'm coming from, and I want
00:31:22.320 you to correct me, you know, and enlighten me if you have anything better to say.
00:31:28.720 I have not heard of Weiss ratings before, but I know you guys have been around for about
00:31:34.140 50 years, and in the last bank crash, I think you guys were the ones leading the way saying,
00:31:40.620 trouble, isn't that correct?
00:31:43.620 Yeah, so we did.
00:31:46.600 So, I can get to both your points really quick, but let me just jump in and tell you who Weiss
00:31:52.380 is and what we've been doing.
00:31:53.520 So, this analysis we did isn't something that we just did one time.
00:31:58.340 We rate banks and many assets, stocks, insurance companies, bonds, and crypto daily.
00:32:08.340 And so, we see the movement that happens based on liquidity of banks, capitalization, stability.
00:32:15.240 And so, we're very vigilant.
00:32:18.060 Our analysts were very vigilant about this.
00:32:19.760 And so, Weiss has been doing this.
00:32:21.880 They started rating banks in 1971.
00:32:25.100 Okay.
00:32:25.400 And we, so Martin Weiss is the founder, and his father, actually back in 1930, his name
00:32:36.520 is Irving Weiss, he predicted the failure of the Bank of the United States.
00:32:42.360 And so, that's where the catalyst of this came.
00:32:45.100 And so, in 1971, he got together with his son, and they started rating banks for safety
00:32:49.940 for consumers.
00:32:51.040 And so, we rate every bank.
00:32:53.500 And so, it's not just banks, it's also credit unions.
00:32:56.880 And so, in 2008, you know, we named, in advance warning, all the major banks that failed during
00:33:03.800 that financial crisis.
00:33:04.780 I mean, you were the, I think the only guys that said, Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers
00:33:08.420 are going.
00:33:10.000 Yep.
00:33:10.480 Yep.
00:33:10.760 So, it was like weeks before Bear Stearns, and it was like 100 and some odd days before Lehman
00:33:17.980 Brothers that we announced that they're gone.
00:33:20.700 Like, it's an end game with them.
00:33:23.800 But since 2008, there's been 539 bank failures.
00:33:28.900 And we have given advance warning on 535 of those.
00:33:33.560 And some of those other ones were fraud.
00:33:35.120 Yeah.
00:33:35.640 Yeah.
00:33:35.960 Okay.
00:33:36.180 So, this isn't something that we take lightly here.
00:33:39.240 It's important.
00:33:40.200 It's important for consumers.
00:33:41.920 But we kind of agree with you.
00:33:45.240 It's not the bank's fault 100%.
00:33:48.140 It is the government.
00:33:49.740 It is the government forcing them to push this money out, not letting the free market play
00:33:57.140 a key role in regulating the banks.
00:34:00.800 And they just keep stepping in to protect banks, protect them from the market.
00:34:05.500 And it's created this monster that's going to be tough to fix or save.
00:34:09.460 Right.
00:34:09.960 And it's only really benefiting, at least at this point, the big banks.
00:34:14.980 Everything keeps getting folded in to these banks that we said were too big to fail, and
00:34:19.380 so we got to make them smaller back in 2008.
00:34:23.000 They're just getting bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger.
00:34:25.560 I mean, it feels like we're going to end up with, well, just a Bank of America.
00:34:32.240 Well, hopefully that doesn't happen, because that's not good for anybody in our country
00:34:37.360 at all.
00:34:38.020 Right.
00:34:38.300 I was talking with a president of a regional bank not too long ago, and he was talking about
00:34:46.960 a nationalized bank.
00:34:47.960 And I'm just like, why are you even talking about this?
00:34:50.460 This is not something that we want to be discussing.
00:34:54.660 Correct.
00:34:55.560 We need the privatization.
00:34:56.620 Yeah.
00:34:57.420 So, go ahead.
00:34:59.020 This is what we found.
00:34:59.980 Yeah.
00:35:00.200 This is what we found.
00:35:01.460 So, basically what's happening is because of how quickly they raised interest rates,
00:35:07.280 right?
00:35:08.040 There's a lot of banks that are holding bonds.
00:35:11.860 And when someone comes and does a bank run, or we have a lot of people taking out deposits,
00:35:18.560 especially ones that have high uninsured amounts.
00:35:21.420 So, that's people that have over 250.
00:35:23.320 The banks are having a crisis.
00:35:26.240 And if they don't have the liquidity, or they don't have the cash to cover those, like
00:35:31.280 a typical bank run, they have to sell their bonds.
00:35:34.340 And on their balance sheet, the bonds are marked or held to maturity.
00:35:38.760 And so, they have them marked as if they were going to sell them in 10 years, in 20 years,
00:35:43.740 in 30 years.
00:35:44.480 But then they have to take them now, and they take a loss, right?
00:35:47.940 And so, after that, if their money that they're taking exceeds the capital, it's a game over
00:35:53.500 for the bank.
00:35:54.020 And then somebody has to step in and save them.
00:35:55.800 And we only have two options.
00:35:57.180 Either we bail out regional banks, if this starts happening, or we sell them to the bigger banks,
00:36:06.100 and we lessen the free market.
00:36:08.720 Okay, so, this is what I read, what, a week or two ago.
00:36:14.900 1,210 institutions, that's banks and, what do you call them, credit unions.
00:36:23.740 Credit unions.
00:36:24.180 That's 12.8% of our banking system got a red warning flag signaling risk of imminent failure.
00:36:35.300 3,000 received a yellow warning flag indicating risk of failure in a financial crisis or recession.
00:36:43.760 And 45% of all banks and credit unions were deemed vulnerable.
00:36:49.280 Well, if the 12.8% go down, then you have a financial crisis or recession, and that just
00:36:58.420 triggers the other 3,000, does it not?
00:37:01.400 So, a lot of these banks are teetering, right?
00:37:04.820 They're getting loans from other banks, or they're selling their assets to be able to cover
00:37:14.120 if any type of run happens.
00:37:15.780 And so, what we're saying is there are 12% or 1,210 institutions are at a point where
00:37:24.100 if anybody decided to start pulling money out or we had some sort of small panic, they're
00:37:30.300 not surviving.
00:37:31.140 It's not happening.
00:37:32.380 And that is a lot to do with the fact that they don't have the liquidity based on the
00:37:37.540 short-term and long-term demands on their banks.
00:37:39.600 And so, when we rate banks, we have five different ratings, and there's 154 different data points
00:37:46.860 we look at within that rating.
00:37:49.460 And then we compare them to the stability across all of our data on those banks.
00:37:53.640 And so, we compare 6,000 data points to figure out what is the stability of this bank.
00:38:00.180 And then we rate every bank A through E.
00:38:02.760 And so, A and B are more stable, C is in a vulnerable, that's the yellow flag, right?
00:38:10.040 And then D and E are the red flag.
00:38:13.220 But there's quite a bit, even in that yellow flag, that if we hit a recession or we come
00:38:20.880 into a new financial crisis, they do not have the liquidity or the cash on hand to be able
00:38:27.580 to survive.
00:38:28.420 So, what does that mean to the average person?
00:38:33.680 I've been telling people, don't pull your money out of a bank, unless I think you're
00:38:39.460 foolish for putting more than $250,000 in a bank account, especially if you're an individual,
00:38:45.220 maybe businesses, I understand.
00:38:47.500 But you put, you're going to get your money back.
00:38:50.900 Now, how much your money is worth in the end is another story.
00:38:54.120 But don't pull your money out, because you're going to get that money if it fails.
00:38:59.420 Right?
00:38:59.940 Yeah, we don't, we don't, first of all, we don't want to cause panic, right?
00:39:02.900 Yes.
00:39:03.260 That's why, that's why the FDIC, who understood that a lot of the problems with these recent
00:39:08.720 bank failures were, they had a lot of uninsured accounts, right?
00:39:12.580 That means they were over to $250,000 in it.
00:39:16.140 But the first thing is, don't hedge your bets.
00:39:19.660 Don't, don't think that the FDIC has the capital to cover everybody, because they don't,
00:39:25.760 right?
00:39:26.020 When they came out and said, we're going to cover all accounts over the $250,000, they're
00:39:31.300 just, they're just playing, paying lip service.
00:39:33.600 That's exactly what they're doing.
00:39:34.860 Well, I think they'll print, I think they'll print the money.
00:39:37.780 That's why I say, I wonder how much it'll be worth in the end, but they'll just print
00:39:41.260 it.
00:39:41.360 It's not the FDIC that will bail them out, it will be the U.S. Treasury, right?
00:39:45.260 Yes.
00:39:45.740 That will bail them out.
00:39:46.780 Right.
00:39:47.980 Yeah.
00:39:48.320 And so, and so the first thing I would do is never, like you said, never have over $250,000.
00:39:55.500 Okay.
00:39:55.920 And spread them out, because each account is actually insured.
00:39:58.640 And so you can have one and one and one and the other, and have a total of $500,000.
00:40:03.740 In the same bank?
00:40:04.920 But, yeah.
00:40:06.340 Okay.
00:40:06.640 As long as they're in separate accounts, it's the accounts themselves that are insured.
00:40:10.740 Okay.
00:40:11.740 So, when you say, signaling a risk of imminent failure, that means if something happens, or,
00:40:20.400 I mean, imminent failure usually is like DEFCON 1, the war has started.
00:40:25.380 It's coming in.
00:40:27.480 So, everybody, anybody that is on, listening right now, can go to WeissRatings.com and see
00:40:35.140 what their bank is rated.
00:40:36.800 They don't have to do anything.
00:40:38.160 There's a search at the top.
00:40:39.700 You get all the information.
00:40:41.120 You don't have to pay for it.
00:40:42.560 We do this just because we care about the everyday person.
00:40:48.740 And so you can go right now and see what your bank's rated.
00:40:51.600 If your bank is rated red, there's a possibility, and I'm not going to say it's happening, but
00:40:57.300 if it's rated a D or E, there's a possibility that even without a crisis, they could go under.
00:41:04.140 They could fail.
00:41:04.500 So, what do you do if you're in one of those banks?
00:41:06.720 Because I don't want people to panic and freak out, but I want them to be safe.
00:41:10.940 So, what do you do if you're in one of those banks?
00:41:14.600 So, right now, it's not an issue.
00:41:18.580 We do not have an issue.
00:41:19.940 And so, we're not panicking.
00:41:21.620 Nobody needs to panic.
00:41:22.700 Nobody needs to go take their money out.
00:41:24.280 They need to be careful, right?
00:41:26.580 They need to see where their money is, see why, because you can see right there why the
00:41:32.880 institution is rated that.
00:41:34.160 And if it's a profit problem, if it is a stability issue, a lot of these are really small banks,
00:41:42.060 right?
00:41:42.360 And so, what they need to do is they're going to be covered.
00:41:50.140 Everything is covered.
00:41:51.060 Credit unions are covered under the NCUA.
00:41:54.160 Banks are covered under the FDIC.
00:41:56.820 And if you're in one of these small banks, you're just going to be pushed into, like
00:42:00.380 we saw with these other bank failures to happen, into a larger bank that buys your assets.
00:42:05.840 Right.
00:42:06.140 Or it's taken over by until they can tell they can off and off the accounts.
00:42:11.160 And so, it's going to be seamless for them.
00:42:13.520 But, you know, we have them there just so when people are looking to get into banks or looking
00:42:20.900 to not have to deal with this, they know.