The Glenn Beck Program - December 10, 2018


Best of the Program ｜ Stu's Back ？ ｜ 12⧸10⧸18


Episode Stats

Length

42 minutes

Words per Minute

160.19838

Word Count

6,848

Sentence Count

659

Misogynist Sentences

4

Hate Speech Sentences

6


Summary

Glenn Beck and Alex Blumberg talk about the growing threat to freedom of speech in Europe, the Tyler Perry challenge to Walmart, and the dangers of monitoring brainwaves. They also discuss the growing problem of global debt and the potential impact on the Middle East and North Africa.


Transcript

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00:00:08.540 Hey, welcome to Monday. We are in the holiday season and it's the podcast and we are thrilled, thrilled to bring you some some really fun and and yet also some some really kind of disturbing stories today.
00:00:22.060 But I think you're going to be left with a good feeling. Yeah, including your kind of taking on the Tyler Perry challenge at Walmart.
00:00:29.680 This is pretty interesting. I didn't even know this happened. I was completely oblivious over vacation.
00:00:33.840 But Tyler Perry did something amazing for people and you kind of jumped on the back of that and it's good.
00:00:38.900 Yeah, it's really great. And I'm encouraging people to do it now as well.
00:00:42.420 And you'll hear all about it here in just a second.
00:00:45.520 Also, we want to talk to you about monitoring brainwaves.
00:00:50.140 We've got a lot to say about freedom of speech today because a lot of people are under attack for freedom of speech.
00:00:57.400 And what's coming next? The monitoring of brainwaves?
00:01:02.060 The answer? Yes.
00:01:04.460 All coming up on today's podcast.
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00:02:14.440 So while you were probably putting up the Christmas tree or doing something, in Europe, they weren't doing that.
00:02:23.580 Europe, they were kind of raging in the streets.
00:02:27.120 And it was happening in England, Belgium, the Netherlands, and France,
00:02:32.280 where over 130,000 rioters took over the streets all across France on Sunday.
00:02:39.260 More than 1,000 people were arrested.
00:02:41.900 Now, this is the fourth straight weekend where the streets of Paris were literally on fire.
00:02:48.980 Rioters burned cars. They smashed windows. They looted stores.
00:02:53.180 You know, there's nothing that says, hey, you should listen to me politically.
00:02:58.860 More than really just looting of a store.
00:03:03.600 90,000 police officers and National Guard were called in to try just to maintain order in France.
00:03:11.400 The scenes coming out of Europe this weekend look like some third world or war-ravaged country.
00:03:18.560 It looked more like Egypt than it did the continent that gave birth to the Renaissance.
00:03:25.500 So now, tell me, why is everybody so pissed off?
00:03:30.900 Macron canceled his fateful gas tax.
00:03:36.380 There is no equivalent being proposed in Belgium.
00:03:40.180 There is no equivalent in the Netherlands or in the UK.
00:03:42.820 Here's what one 67-year-old protester in the Netherlands said.
00:03:49.100 Our children are hard-working people, but they have to pay taxes everywhere.
00:03:53.820 You can't get housing anymore.
00:03:55.700 It's not going well in Dutch society.
00:03:58.540 The social welfare net we grew up with is gone.
00:04:02.360 Now, if you think the 2008 financial crisis ever really ended, you're wrong.
00:04:10.420 It was swept under the rug.
00:04:12.300 That's it.
00:04:13.320 It was hidden for a while by a wave of printed money and low-interest loans.
00:04:19.040 But just like with socialism, eventually the money well dries.
00:04:23.400 Since the 2008 financial crisis, global debt has hit new record levels.
00:04:33.840 At over 300% to GDP ratio, the global debt has now reached more than $240 trillion.
00:04:45.380 The entire world is sitting on a powder keg.
00:04:54.200 By the way, the whole world, if we took everything that everybody made every year, it's about $50 trillion.
00:05:02.160 But that's it.
00:05:04.520 Eventually, something's going to light the spark.
00:05:08.500 People mocked me so hard when I was at Fox and I said the Arab Spring might be that spark.
00:05:13.400 The Arab Spring led to the migrant crisis, which also led to the caliphate.
00:05:20.560 The Greek sovereign debt crisis soon followed after.
00:05:24.680 The migrant crisis woke Europeans up to the very real fact that their governments couldn't even provide for them,
00:05:30.280 much less millions of migrants flooding out of the Middle East and northern Africa.
00:05:34.780 The result was a wave of populist movements on both the left and the right to challenge the established government.
00:05:41.840 It is exactly the chalkboard I laid out at Fox.
00:05:46.200 Exactly.
00:05:48.320 Macron's gas tax was the latest spark, but this all began 10 years ago, and it's now a monster.
00:05:55.140 It's a monster that the original organizers have completely lost control of, and it's spreading.
00:06:00.700 The question is, will it be put out, can it be put out, before it spreads here?
00:06:08.600 What will the final spark be before Americans begin putting on their own yellow vests?
00:06:14.360 Will it be immigration?
00:06:15.680 Will it be the wall?
00:06:16.800 Health care?
00:06:17.520 Taxes?
00:06:18.740 Spending?
00:06:19.220 Because the government has failed to listen to the people here as well.
00:06:27.920 Hopefully, we don't don yellow vests and start burning things in the streets.
00:06:33.860 I mean, Antifa has already got that market cornered.
00:06:36.780 I don't think we need any competitors.
00:06:38.480 What's so frustrating is, Stu, you remember, by the way, welcome back, Stu.
00:06:45.300 Thank you, go on.
00:06:45.900 You remember the monologue that I did at Fox with the little blue book?
00:06:55.760 Yes.
00:06:56.620 The coming insurrection?
00:06:57.700 Yes.
00:06:58.560 The coming insurrection.
00:07:00.060 And remember how people said that had no relevance on anything that was happening?
00:07:04.740 This is ridiculous.
00:07:06.420 This is a rarely read book out of France by just the intellectual and universities.
00:07:14.760 And you were blamed for drawing attention to it, right?
00:07:18.440 Remember, they were like, well, you're going to put ideas in people's heads.
00:07:22.160 Oh, yeah.
00:07:22.480 You're doing it.
00:07:23.280 The book that you didn't write and are criticizing, but you're putting the ideas in people's heads.
00:07:26.820 So I remember holding it up on TV and saying, you have to read this because this is what's coming.
00:07:33.900 And I went through it on the air, and it was truly remarkable that nobody listened to it.
00:07:41.040 Because what did it say?
00:07:43.420 If you were one of those who watched the show or if you went out and read it, what it said was, we're a bunch of communists.
00:07:51.580 We've always been communists.
00:07:53.880 But we played along.
00:07:56.080 And we played along with the left and all of these socialists, all of these progressives that said they were going to turn us communists.
00:08:08.460 They were going to give us the state.
00:08:10.640 We were going to workers of the world unite.
00:08:13.640 And they lied to us.
00:08:15.180 And they keep telling us, wait, wait, we need some more voices.
00:08:19.680 We need to elect some more people.
00:08:21.300 Just basically the same thing.
00:08:22.760 We have to have the House.
00:08:24.160 And we have to have the Senate.
00:08:25.340 And we have to have the White House.
00:08:26.440 If we could just get all three then, and then nothing happens.
00:08:31.100 And so they were making the case that it's time to tear the system apart.
00:08:36.040 It's time to burn it to the ground.
00:08:37.780 Because these people are liars.
00:08:39.860 And so we'll burn it to the ground.
00:08:41.380 And then we'll take it.
00:08:42.760 And we're going to be able to find people that will work with us to burn it down to the ground.
00:08:50.140 Because people are pissed off on all sides.
00:08:53.340 So let's get them.
00:08:56.040 That was pretty much the message of the coming insurrection.
00:08:59.980 Written in France around 2006, 2008.
00:09:06.840 This is what's happening.
00:09:09.780 This is exactly what's happening.
00:09:11.480 And it doesn't take a genius to figure it out.
00:09:14.880 It just takes someone who's not so arrogant.
00:09:19.340 Oh, well, that's just ridiculous.
00:09:21.640 Take people at their word.
00:09:24.620 When they say they're going to kill somebody.
00:09:27.200 When they say they're going to destroy a government.
00:09:29.640 What do you say we start taking them at their word?
00:09:33.660 I'm going to destroy the border system.
00:09:36.640 Let's take them at their word.
00:09:38.560 You'd be surprised at just how many things won't surprise you when you actually start taking people seriously and literally.
00:09:50.040 Anyway, so we've started decorating the house.
00:10:04.060 And it was.
00:10:06.820 Is anybody else?
00:10:07.860 Okay.
00:10:08.000 When you decorate the tree, is everybody just allowed to just hang all the ornaments?
00:10:15.960 Just throw them on the tree?
00:10:18.380 Are we allowed to do that?
00:10:19.440 Is there any kind of thought about how to hang the ornaments?
00:10:23.120 I grew up in a really weird house.
00:10:24.280 No, we have children.
00:10:25.280 They put the ornaments where they put the ornaments.
00:10:27.700 And then, of course, there's the giant holes and you fill them up later.
00:10:30.600 Yes.
00:10:31.260 Yeah.
00:10:31.940 What do you do?
00:10:33.100 Hmm?
00:10:34.040 What do you do?
00:10:35.300 Was that a tough sentence?
00:10:36.480 Yeah.
00:10:36.680 I don't understand.
00:10:37.480 I think it was.
00:10:38.160 So I said, I said towards the end, because I just stopped.
00:10:44.020 And I looked around and I said, am I the only one decorating the tree?
00:10:49.400 And Tanya said, yeah.
00:10:51.440 And I said, is it just me?
00:10:55.600 And she said, oh, no, it's you.
00:10:57.740 Oh, it's you.
00:10:58.500 What's you?
00:11:00.020 Because were you moving things around?
00:11:01.580 Yeah.
00:11:02.120 Yeah, you can't do that.
00:11:02.520 Because it wasn't.
00:11:03.200 Yeah.
00:11:03.680 You can't do that.
00:11:05.060 You can't move things around.
00:11:05.740 I can't.
00:11:06.320 I can't.
00:11:06.960 I can't do that.
00:11:07.200 I can't live in a house with a tree that is just.
00:11:09.940 I can't do it.
00:11:10.820 Was it not even?
00:11:11.460 You're just too used to somebody else coming in and decorating for you.
00:11:13.560 No.
00:11:14.300 No.
00:11:14.780 This is the way I grew up.
00:11:16.480 My mother.
00:11:17.120 We have a very.
00:11:18.000 You put the Christmas.
00:11:19.140 You look for the holes.
00:11:20.400 And you put the big ones.
00:11:22.020 You put them in the back.
00:11:23.420 You put them inside the tree.
00:11:24.880 And then you layer it out.
00:11:26.300 And you put it up.
00:11:27.560 So you fill it all.
00:11:29.000 And we were fine with it as a kid.
00:11:32.160 And I remember liking it.
00:11:34.040 I don't think we did now that I see my kids' reactions to this.
00:11:38.440 But.
00:11:39.880 So your concern is that your children were not appropriately decorating the tree in symmetrical fashion.
00:11:47.940 No, they weren't necessarily enjoying the learning experience of how to decorate a tree.
00:11:54.240 I bet they weren't.
00:11:55.180 Yeah, they weren't.
00:11:55.720 I bet they weren't.
00:11:56.460 No, they weren't.
00:11:56.780 But your kids are not, you know.
00:11:57.860 Judging by how anal you are.
00:11:58.580 No, they're not.
00:11:59.400 How anal you are.
00:12:00.200 But see, that's the way it used to be.
00:12:01.740 Used to be when they were four.
00:12:03.700 Put them on.
00:12:04.560 And then you go to bed and we'll just rearrange them.
00:12:06.860 You know what I mean?
00:12:07.620 And we had to rearrange them because the dog, they were too low for the dog.
00:12:12.200 And the dog might break them.
00:12:13.540 Ah, yes.
00:12:14.020 Okay.
00:12:14.420 So now that doesn't work because they're 12 and 14.
00:12:19.180 So it's time to show them that you just don't hang that there because that doesn't work.
00:12:25.980 Tanya hates me.
00:12:28.000 Tanya hates me.
00:12:28.960 And it's so hard because it's sitting there.
00:12:31.400 It's just, I'm so, I just, I'm so OCD with this.
00:12:36.740 And we sit there and we'll watch a movie and I'll notice that halfway through the movie, I haven't even looked at the screen.
00:12:42.560 I'm looking at the damn tree going, that ornament has to be moved.
00:12:46.100 That has to be moved.
00:12:47.900 And I'm doing everything I can not to move it.
00:12:50.820 It's bad.
00:12:51.620 Yeah, that's borderline psychosis is what that is.
00:12:56.980 Can't we all enjoy the Christmas season?
00:12:59.700 In a psychotic way.
00:13:01.560 You're weak kids.
00:13:02.560 You put them all on the tree and then when you go to bed, dad's going to move them all.
00:13:06.740 No, that won't even work.
00:13:08.000 That won't even work.
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00:13:29.940 I cannot wait to talk to you a little bit about what I did this weekend.
00:13:38.320 I'm fascinated by this Walmart thing that you did.
00:13:40.300 It's fantastic.
00:13:41.480 How do we, I mean, how do I get you to talk about that?
00:13:44.280 Are you going to do it today?
00:13:45.280 I am going to do it today.
00:13:46.160 Because that Tyler Perry thing is pretty amazing too.
00:13:48.200 And you, I mean, you basically just copied him, right?
00:13:50.600 I mean, you just scammed his idea.
00:13:51.960 He came up with a good one.
00:13:52.480 No, no, I took it as a challenge.
00:13:54.260 I took it as a challenge.
00:13:56.000 And I challenged others.
00:13:57.420 And I challenged, I challenged everybody.
00:13:59.840 I challenged Stephen Crowder and Ben Shapiro and Bill O'Reilly.
00:14:06.860 Challenge, just go in and do this.
00:14:08.740 Today is the last day you can do it.
00:14:10.640 Now, you don't have to, you know, spend the money that Tyler Perry or I spent.
00:14:15.060 You can just go in and just do $100 or $50, $10.
00:14:21.060 And you are not going to believe what a difference it makes.
00:14:26.920 I like this because we were shopping on Saturday morning for a battered women's shelter.
00:14:33.760 And so every year we help put together a kind of like a toy store for a battered women's shelter.
00:14:42.280 And so the moms can come in and they can just kind of go shopping for their kids.
00:14:46.140 Oh, that's cool.
00:14:47.180 And so we were doing that.
00:14:48.360 And we were at Walmart.
00:14:49.420 We do it every year.
00:14:50.180 And we just love it.
00:14:51.460 And because you get to go shopping, you're like, okay, we're going to go shop for three five-year-old boys.
00:14:58.620 And it's all he is going.
00:15:00.140 And we just go shopping for, you know, little boys.
00:15:02.920 So we're going to shop for an eight-year-old girl.
00:15:06.540 And so we were at Walmart.
00:15:09.780 And I saw the Tyler Perry thing.
00:15:12.100 And I thought, hmm, I don't know what that would even cost.
00:15:18.760 I can't even imagine how much that must cost.
00:15:20.680 It was a lot.
00:15:21.580 And so I went to Tanya and the kids because they were all there.
00:15:25.700 And I said, I'm going to go up to the manager and just see, would you guys be willing to kind of forego your Christmas, the big Christmas gifts, you know, just kind of just, hey, we're all having, you know, turkey and something small if we did this.
00:15:45.780 And everybody was like, yes.
00:15:49.600 Are you sure you didn't mishear no?
00:15:51.800 I don't know.
00:15:52.800 It was really cool.
00:15:53.700 What country do you live in?
00:15:54.560 I know.
00:15:54.940 It was weird.
00:15:55.340 And so it took them all day.
00:15:58.980 We actually had to leave, go do some other things.
00:16:01.100 And it took a long time to total everything up.
00:16:07.900 Can you just give the basics here?
00:16:10.460 It's layaway, right?
00:16:11.600 It's layaway.
00:16:12.180 So this is what, and the reason why I liked this is because it was something that people were working towards.
00:16:21.420 They weren't asking for a handout.
00:16:23.440 They were, you know, and these are the people who, you know, they would take from, I don't know, $500 to some of them were literally $24 on layaway.
00:16:35.140 And you go and you make payments on it.
00:16:37.100 And then when you make your last payment, you can take it.
00:16:41.440 And the last day to make a payment is today.
00:16:45.340 And so these people are really struggling, really struggling.
00:16:50.080 And so I just went in and I want to thank American Express.
00:16:55.920 Thank you, the American Express for shutting off my card.
00:17:02.020 Well, about 40 minutes into it.
00:17:05.240 And I know, seriously, I'm glad they did because I wondered how long it would take because I just kept buying stuff at Walmart over and over and over again.
00:17:13.900 So they didn't give you like a giant tab to pay once.
00:17:16.340 No, you had to, I thought so.
00:17:18.020 We were supposed to go to a Christmas party and my wife ended up going.
00:17:21.560 This is your way of getting out of Christmas parties.
00:17:23.200 It did work out really well for me.
00:17:26.480 But I thought we were just going to go in and pay one big lump sum and they couldn't do that.
00:17:31.540 And so you had to go in, stand there.
00:17:34.740 I don't know how Tyler did it, but I had to go stand there and keep putting my credit card into it and pay them off one by one.
00:17:43.060 And it took just over two hours to do.
00:17:46.980 And they would just, you know, I'd stick the credit card in and they'd hit approve.
00:17:52.760 And then they'd pull up another deal and it would say the price and I'd stick the credit card number in.
00:17:58.260 I still don't know exactly how much it was.
00:18:01.720 I know relatively close, but I don't know exactly how much it was.
00:18:06.080 This is the type of thing.
00:18:06.820 If I had this information, I could have tweeted to people to go put things on layaway while you were doing this.
00:18:11.780 And just everyone could have just made out like bandits.
00:18:15.300 That would have been the way to do it.
00:18:16.720 Thank you.
00:18:17.140 You should have given me a heads up.
00:18:18.380 That would have been fun.
00:18:18.840 So that's why I didn't give you a heads up.
00:18:21.620 And so I'll talk about what I experienced there.
00:18:27.760 But as long as the Lord gives me strength and the ability to do that, I want to do that every year.
00:18:38.740 Someplace, something.
00:18:40.580 Because I felt so many different things and I remembered so many different things.
00:18:48.180 I remembered, I just remembered what it was like on Christmas and not being able to afford.
00:18:56.540 I remember, and I know you're going to get into the emotion of it coming up, but it's interesting thinking about, we talk about these policies every day as if they're these abstract things in Washington.
00:19:05.880 I remember Nancy Pelosi saying when people got a, what was it, a couple hundred bucks, it was just crumbs off the table when it was a tax cut.
00:19:12.920 And they talk about these prices are going up, cars are going up $1,000, people can pay an extra $1,000 for a car.
00:19:20.900 These are not, these actually affect people.
00:19:23.000 When you're putting $24 on layaway, you're in a position where you're desperately trying to make your kids Christmas just a little bit better.
00:19:30.880 I mean that is, the fact that you're getting $24 back is a big deal.
00:19:35.660 You just, you, it's easy to forget.
00:19:43.360 But I think most of us have been in this situation to where you're counting, you know, you're standing at the gas pump and you're counting and you're having to stop it right at a certain amount.
00:19:53.920 And it's, you know, like $3.27 because that's all you have and you're trying to figure out how do I navigate.
00:20:02.780 And then Christmas comes and Christmas is, Christmas the way we celebrate it now is an absolute lie.
00:20:12.540 That's too strong.
00:20:13.620 I mean, I, there's a lot of things I love about Christmas.
00:20:15.620 Oh, there's a lot of things, but it's, for instance, have you, have you noticed that it's, and there'll be presents on the tree.
00:20:23.160 That song, I think it's, there'll be home, I'll be home for Christmas.
00:20:25.740 It's presents on the tree, not under the tree, on the tree.
00:20:31.180 I don't know that I noticed that.
00:20:32.420 Is that Kenny Loggins?
00:20:33.520 No.
00:20:34.440 No.
00:20:35.200 Is that the one that's Kenny Loggins?
00:20:36.460 My wife always listens to that song.
00:20:37.900 No.
00:20:38.220 I think Ingrid Michelson is the one I've been listening to lately.
00:20:41.160 It's such a great, do you like Ingrid Michelson?
00:20:44.360 I do, quite a bit.
00:20:45.200 Okay, so listen to her new Christmas CD.
00:20:48.680 It just came out a couple of weeks ago.
00:20:51.220 It is my favorite.
00:20:52.200 She, um, uh, she, she wanted to do something traditional, and it's really fantastic.
00:21:01.460 But anyway, think of it, presents on the tree?
00:21:04.240 Right, you can't fit.
00:21:04.980 You're not getting a bike.
00:21:05.840 No.
00:21:06.380 You're not, you're, you know, you're not getting anything big.
00:21:08.640 You're getting something small.
00:21:12.700 This is the best of the Glenn Beck Program.
00:21:14.700 I cannot believe that, uh, that Kyler Murray is still allowed to walk the streets.
00:21:32.840 Saturday, he won the Heisman Trophy.
00:21:37.400 Sunday, uh, USA Today reporter, oh man, he's, he's working on the big story, Scott Gleason.
00:21:44.100 He, he went to work, and he started going through his Twitter, and he discovered that at 14 years old, yeah, Kyler Murray used the word, uh, queer.
00:21:57.140 Wow.
00:21:57.700 Which is now acceptable, right?
00:21:58.960 I don't know if it was when he was 14, but now queer is in LGBTQ.
00:22:03.280 Yeah, whatever.
00:22:03.900 It's one of the Qs.
00:22:04.560 Whatever, Stu, whatever, Stu.
00:22:05.960 It's an anti-gay slur, uh, and I don't care how old you were, and I don't care that it was, uh, it was many, many, many years ago.
00:22:12.600 Uh, he had to apologize, and he did.
00:22:14.620 He had, he issued an apology for something that he had said seven years ago while he was in junior high.
00:22:22.260 Oh man, Scott Gleason, Scott Gleason, I wish we had your Twitter feed.
00:22:26.760 I wish we had your Twitter feed from when you were 14 or 12 or however old you were when you were doing stupid stuff.
00:22:32.420 Because we all did stupid stuff.
00:22:35.360 You know, if the media wants to continue this witch hunt, it's never going to end.
00:22:41.800 Because I don't know anybody who hasn't said stupid and embarrassing stuff, especially in junior high.
00:22:51.260 What are we doing?
00:22:55.080 There's one thing that matters to me, really deeply matters.
00:23:00.420 And that is the Bill of Rights.
00:23:02.420 It is the only thing that brought us together and will hold us together.
00:23:07.620 And we should be, we should be looking at enforcing and, and empowering people with the Bill of Rights.
00:23:14.520 Because without the Bill of Rights, man will shove and beat and shout down and silence and kill
00:23:21.460 whomever the collective wants.
00:23:23.900 All in the name of progress, all in the name of safety, all in the name of understanding or our children.
00:23:35.640 But they're not standing for the Bill of Rights.
00:23:37.740 They're not standing for progress.
00:23:39.260 They're standing for the dark ages.
00:23:43.260 And if you're going to truly stand for the Bill of Rights, and not your right, doesn't matter what's your right, stand for the rights of others.
00:23:51.380 When it's the rights of others.
00:23:53.560 In a time of collective madness.
00:23:56.000 I warn you.
00:24:00.900 You're putting your life and your livelihood in danger.
00:24:04.340 But I also promise you nothing you do in your life will be worth more.
00:24:10.140 It is my sincerest hope that in the end, my children can say, my dad stood for the rights of others.
00:24:22.700 And he stood for justice, real justice.
00:24:25.900 And he stood for mercy.
00:24:28.280 When the world lost its mind and lost its sense of decency.
00:24:33.600 But I also want to warn you, when you have to stand for other people's rights, it's going to make you very uncomfortable.
00:24:42.940 It's going to put you in uncomfortable situations.
00:24:45.080 And you're going to be defending things that you don't want to defend.
00:24:48.320 It's messy.
00:24:50.140 You have to decide what's right and wrong.
00:24:52.300 And then you have to defend someone's right, even if, and maybe perhaps even more so, or especially, if you disagree with how they use that right.
00:25:03.600 We live in dangerous and perilous times.
00:25:07.980 I was on the phone last night, almost midnight, with a friend who called and said, Glenn, I'm about to do something insane.
00:25:13.720 And you're the only guy I could call because it sounds like something you would do.
00:25:20.820 Abort, whatever it was, abort.
00:25:22.780 I said the exact opposite.
00:25:24.040 Sounds good to me so far.
00:25:25.580 I said, do you believe in it?
00:25:27.140 He said, yes.
00:25:28.840 And I said, then why are you wasting your time calling me?
00:25:31.060 There's nothing better than doing what you believe in.
00:25:33.380 And if it destroys you, so be it.
00:25:35.500 Something better will come along.
00:25:38.760 We live in dangerous and perilous times.
00:25:42.500 One mistake and your career, and it's not just this career, it's your career, any career.
00:25:49.080 One mistake and your career could be over.
00:25:53.040 Every day, if you're in the media, you wonder, is this the day that the jackals come to devour me for some reason or another?
00:26:02.000 For some past transgression or stupid error?
00:26:06.020 Or is it maybe perhaps this monologue that will end my career?
00:26:10.380 And if it's not something I've done, it doesn't matter.
00:26:15.080 They'll just twist your words.
00:26:17.400 They'll creatively edit your words.
00:26:19.500 They'll smear you.
00:26:20.960 And if that doesn't work, they'll threaten your life or the lives of the ones that you love.
00:26:25.700 I have many friends now.
00:26:28.140 Many.
00:26:29.900 I used to be the only guy I knew that needed to have security.
00:26:33.060 I have many friends now who have constant threats on their life.
00:26:38.460 And it's from both sides.
00:26:40.020 You know, it's amazing.
00:26:48.740 I want to talk about Gavin McGinnis here in a second.
00:26:51.900 But Gavin, CRTV, not the Blaze Media, not Glenn Beck.
00:26:57.620 I had nothing to do with it.
00:26:59.860 This was an old thing that CRTV had been dealing with.
00:27:03.720 I think.
00:27:04.220 I don't know.
00:27:05.020 It's up to them.
00:27:05.960 I had nothing to do with it.
00:27:07.620 And it's certainly not the way I would have handled it.
00:27:11.740 But he is out.
00:27:14.080 Now, last week, I just spoke to Gavin.
00:27:16.800 In fact, Gavin is on my show tonight.
00:27:19.680 And it's something we recorded last week about the dangers of getting fired.
00:27:28.180 The dangers of being witch hunted.
00:27:31.160 Now, why, if I had something to do with his termination, would I have him scheduled?
00:27:35.480 And that program is airing today.
00:27:37.620 That program is airing.
00:27:38.980 I don't care who it makes uncomfortable.
00:27:40.800 It's airing.
00:27:43.100 Because this is something important we should be talking about.
00:27:46.340 So after we recorded that last week, I talked to him.
00:27:49.180 I said, I'm worried about your family because they've had more than bricks through windows.
00:27:54.780 I'm worried about your family.
00:27:56.320 I told him I wanted him to reach out to a few of my friends who could advise him on safety.
00:28:03.940 Because whatever you think of people like this Heisman Trophy winner or Gavin McGinnis, I don't know him.
00:28:12.440 But I know a lot of people who do.
00:28:13.940 And they all say the same thing.
00:28:15.380 I may not agree with his approach.
00:28:17.220 But he is not what Antiphon needs him to be.
00:28:21.220 And notice that I use the word needs him to be.
00:28:27.680 Because people who wish to destroy us, they need boogeymen.
00:28:33.740 They need those men who have said or done something in the past that you're not going to like.
00:28:41.640 You're not going to want to defend.
00:28:43.480 And so you won't.
00:28:44.480 Even if you correct your mistakes, even if you correct it before anyone noticed.
00:28:56.960 You had a change of heart.
00:28:58.840 You apologized.
00:28:59.960 You asked for forgiveness.
00:29:01.400 There is no redemption.
00:29:03.080 There is no redemption in America anymore.
00:29:06.420 And why?
00:29:06.960 Because anyone who is building their life around spreading chaos is on the opposite side of anyone who preaches forgiveness.
00:29:18.120 And that's a fact.
00:29:23.100 So the left targets and isolates and polarizes and destroys anyone who will not comply.
00:29:29.420 And they can pick voices off one by one because fear is a very powerful gag.
00:29:36.960 Now, it's easy for anyone to say, well, then don't pick the voices that have done something or said something stupid to be out front.
00:29:45.160 Really?
00:29:46.580 Really?
00:29:47.180 Because I think when they were going over the Heisman Trophy winner, I think they probably looked into, is this a decent young man?
00:29:56.780 No, apparently he's not, according to USA Today.
00:30:00.000 Because their crack reporters have so much, with everything that's happening in the world, they've got a crack reporter who's on the case.
00:30:09.260 I found out what this kid was doing in junior high.
00:30:13.580 My gosh, he was also kissing girls out back when he told his parents he wasn't.
00:30:20.760 Let's burn him.
00:30:22.520 It's easy to say.
00:30:24.220 Let's just get the right people.
00:30:26.100 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck Program.
00:30:52.580 Let me go to Elliott, North Carolina.
00:30:55.260 Hello, Elliott.
00:30:56.100 Welcome, Elliott.
00:30:59.800 Are you there?
00:31:01.460 Yes, but I am.
00:31:02.400 You are good.
00:31:03.220 Thanks for taking my call.
00:31:03.920 You bet.
00:31:04.260 And thanks so much for holding for so long.
00:31:06.900 That's no problem.
00:31:07.940 It's my pleasure.
00:31:09.240 So, real quick, I live in Fayetteville, North Carolina.
00:31:11.880 Long-time listener, first-time caller.
00:31:14.660 And I was listening to your segment about the Tyler Perry Challenge and your experience this past weekend at Walmart.
00:31:21.020 Yes.
00:31:21.280 And as I was listening to it, you finished your segment, and I looked up, and there was the Walmart.
00:31:27.020 So, I pulled into Walmart.
00:31:29.420 I had an amount of money that I thought that I wanted to donate to somebody.
00:31:36.200 So, I found the layaway counter, got in this long line.
00:31:42.260 I was thinking, oh, this is going to take a little bit.
00:31:44.460 And this kid came up behind me.
00:31:46.420 So, I started talking to him about the Tyler Perry Challenge and if he had heard about it.
00:31:50.520 And he said, no, he hadn't.
00:31:51.800 And I said, well, I was just listening to Glenn Beck.
00:31:54.280 And he goes, Glenn Beck?
00:31:56.180 And I said, yeah, I was listening to Glenn Beck.
00:31:58.700 And I said, how much do you owe for your payoff?
00:32:02.300 And he told me the amount, and it was within $2 of the amount that I had in my head.
00:32:08.360 So, I reached into my pocket, pulled out the money, and I said, here, I want to pay off your layaway.
00:32:15.060 Anyway, his jaw hit the ground, he was speechless for like 30 seconds, and he was like, you're listening to Glenn Beck?
00:32:24.460 And I was like, yeah.
00:32:25.680 And he said, this is fantastic.
00:32:27.740 He said, I put this stuff on layaway for my kids, and I'm here to pick it up, and this is just wonderful.
00:32:36.200 And the feeling that I felt in my chest was incredible.
00:32:40.520 And that was one of the reasons I pulled over, because I had that same feeling listening to you reiterate your experience at Walmart with your kids.
00:32:50.500 Yeah.
00:32:50.900 And I just wanted to share it.
00:32:52.440 I am so glad, Elliot.
00:32:54.300 Spread it.
00:32:55.520 Tell everybody.
00:32:57.000 Just to do it.
00:32:57.640 Today's the last day you could do it, at least at Walmart.
00:33:00.540 But you could find another place with layaway, I'm sure.
00:33:02.980 But everybody has to have it paid off by today.
00:33:06.180 And it's just a great blessing.
00:33:08.920 Thank you so much, Elliot.
00:33:09.820 I appreciate it.
00:33:10.520 God bless you.
00:33:11.460 No.
00:33:12.120 Thank you, Glenn.
00:33:13.180 God bless you.
00:33:13.860 You bet.
00:33:16.200 So if you don't know what the Tyler Perry challenge is, he went into two Walmarts on Friday, and he paid for everything in layaway.
00:33:26.620 Cost him $470,000.
00:33:31.740 I was going to say that was a really good bargain for $470.
00:33:35.200 $470,000 for two Walmarts.
00:33:38.600 I'm not Tyler Perry.
00:33:40.280 At least not this year.
00:33:42.100 And so, and I had never thought of that.
00:33:45.300 I had never even thought of it.
00:33:46.340 It's a really cool idea.
00:33:46.980 It's a great idea.
00:33:48.620 And Tyler Perry is, you know, getting some heat.
00:33:51.020 You know, oh, how come, you know, you should give in silence.
00:33:53.740 Tyler Perry, that was inspirational.
00:33:57.080 And I think, too, he intended on doing it anonymously initially.
00:34:00.620 And I don't know exactly what happened where he was outed in some way.
00:34:03.900 You're not surprised.
00:34:05.040 If it's happening like it happened with me, you're there for two hours.
00:34:07.940 Right.
00:34:08.460 Okay.
00:34:08.660 And so I decided, I talked to my wife, and we decided that we were going to do a Walmart here in Texas.
00:34:16.980 And so we selected a Walmart, and we went in on Saturday night, and we paid for everything on Layaway.
00:34:23.040 Well, they started getting, when you do that, it will send, we didn't know this until about, you know, a third of the way in.
00:34:32.180 It starts sending out text messages.
00:34:33.980 It says, hey, come get your item.
00:34:37.380 It's available.
00:34:38.420 And so people started calling, and they were confused, and they were like, what, what is, what just happened?
00:34:45.820 And they said, oh, we had a good Samaritan.
00:34:48.540 He just, he just paid that off.
00:34:50.540 And people were crying and calling.
00:34:54.340 I mean, it was, it was so great.
00:34:57.060 Now, I didn't know that you could do it for individuals, but you can.
00:35:03.000 You can go in and just, for whatever amount you want, you can, you can, you know, you could try to gather as many $100 bills as you can from every friend that you know,
00:35:18.280 and go in and pay a good portion of this down for people.
00:35:24.860 You could take, you know, $10 and pay it down.
00:35:29.480 The people that I encountered that I saw because I was there doing the transactions, because I had to pay for them all individually.
00:35:38.480 I couldn't just pay a lump sum.
00:35:39.840 So I was there for a couple of hours.
00:35:41.660 And so I saw some of the people and their reactions.
00:35:45.120 $10 means the world.
00:35:47.700 $10 means the world.
00:35:49.560 It's so incredible.
00:35:51.680 And you can get involved.
00:35:53.860 I mean, because charity goes both ways.
00:35:55.160 And I've decided to get involved in the challenge by putting on Layaway a bunch of big screen TVs strategically near celebrities' homes.
00:36:04.260 My thought is I'm going to get some free stuff out of this, and they'll feel better.
00:36:09.380 Because if they go into a, if they go into a Walmart and they pay off all the Layaway, and it's like, oh, we only had $27 of Layaway.
00:36:16.440 They're not going to feel like they did enough.
00:36:19.260 And so you need someone to step in like me to load it up with some 4K so that if they pay these TVs off, I'll get them.
00:36:27.120 And they'll be like, wow, I did something good for them.
00:36:28.740 So I don't know how you feel about this.
00:36:31.040 But I thought about asking, okay, so are there things like, you know, big screen TVs and things like that that people put on Layaway that, you know, they're not really struggling.
00:36:45.620 And I decided not to ask because I didn't want to pick and choose because you don't know.
00:36:52.380 You know what I mean?
00:36:53.380 And you could have done maybe under a dollar amount, right?
00:36:57.700 Like if someone has a $1,000 thing, somebody had a very expensive thing that I didn't know.
00:37:03.840 I only saw it because I didn't know what anybody was buying.
00:37:06.180 I just saw the price, and it was expensive.
00:37:10.160 But it turned out to be a box.
00:37:14.220 They had six children.
00:37:15.060 And so it was a box of toys and clothing and stuff like that.
00:37:21.940 So they had put, you know, their six children, and it was a single mom.
00:37:25.800 I mean, so you couldn't – I just didn't want to know.
00:37:28.680 No, you just – I mean, it's better.
00:37:30.300 If you could do it, obviously.
00:37:31.260 Look, you've been blessed with being able to help people like that, which is –
00:37:35.800 We have.
00:37:36.320 And there's been years when we needed help.
00:37:38.280 Yeah.
00:37:38.600 And it might change again.
00:37:39.700 We might need help someday.
00:37:40.740 So it's just – I encourage you to do this.
00:37:44.560 You don't – I don't even know if you can just call them and do it,
00:37:47.560 but it's a Good Samaritan program that they had.
00:37:49.980 I didn't even know you had this.
00:37:51.340 You can just go in with $5 or $20 or $100 or whatever.
00:37:55.020 Today is the last day.
00:37:56.220 Everybody has to pay it off today.
00:37:58.300 So there are lines there now.
00:37:59.820 But what I want you to do is call Walmart or go buy Walmart or another store that has layaway and just help.
00:38:10.960 If you have it, it's really a cool thing.
00:38:14.360 It's really, really a cool thing.
00:38:17.900 I prefer to think of you in sort of the caricature of a devil with satanic horns out of the top of your skull.
00:38:27.240 Yeah.
00:38:27.360 And this does not help.
00:38:28.080 This does not help my vision, and I reject it for that reason.
00:38:31.660 I'm sorry to confuse that.
00:38:33.500 I really am very, very sorry.
00:38:35.380 It's much easier to just really hate you.
00:38:39.200 So I'm going to go back to that world.
00:38:41.240 No, no, no.
00:38:42.460 You can hear all this crap and then still hate my guts.
00:38:46.320 I guess I could just give credit to Tanya for the wonderful gesture.
00:38:50.100 He had nothing to do.
00:38:50.880 Here's what you're saying.
00:38:51.740 Okay.
00:38:52.300 He's only doing this for publicity.
00:38:53.860 Yes.
00:38:54.600 That's what you're saying.
00:38:55.300 That's what you're saying.
00:38:55.960 If he really wanted to do it, he would be quiet about it.
00:38:59.300 I've always thought that's such a strange argument to me because, I mean, certainly, like, that's not supposed to be your motivation, right?
00:39:06.020 I mean, we certainly can look at the Bible and see examples of if you're doing it for self-aggrandizement, it's not a good idea.
00:39:12.800 It's not a good reason.
00:39:14.180 So that's what, because I wrestled with this, because Tyler Perry inspired me.
00:39:20.860 I wouldn't even, I wouldn't have done it, not because my heart was hard.
00:39:24.120 I just never even thought of it.
00:39:26.280 And so he inspired me.
00:39:28.260 And I'm like.
00:39:28.520 If he didn't say anything, he wouldn't have been inspired.
00:39:30.240 I wouldn't have been inspired.
00:39:32.120 And so I hope the same thing.
00:39:33.700 I'm telling you, the girls behind the counter, one of the girls, I don't want to say which one.
00:39:40.300 She had worked it, she had worked there for a long time.
00:39:43.360 They were, they were so great, so great.
00:39:46.720 And one of them, we were just talking about how they were, you know, in different ways, each of them struggling.
00:39:58.980 And one of them had worked at Walmart, I think, for like 17 years and, or 20 years.
00:40:04.880 And, um, she started when she was young and she was living in her car and she just needed a job to pay for gas and food.
00:40:15.440 And Walmart, you know, paid well and had great benefits and everything else.
00:40:20.900 And she worked her way up.
00:40:22.000 And now she's a, you know, I don't know if, you know, she's on, you know, first name basis with Mr. Wall or Mr. Walmart, but, uh, she's a, you know, she's a big deal there.
00:40:32.660 And, um, and she still, I mean, she carries it with her and each of the girls that were helping, they all had been in that situation.
00:40:42.660 I had been in that situation and it was so cool that, I mean, they said we should have made this into a TV show because it's just in, it's just infectious.
00:40:53.640 It's just, you want, you crave it more.
00:40:59.040 It's so cool.
00:41:00.680 Do it, do, do yourself a favor.
00:41:02.780 Do you, give yourself a gift.
00:41:04.980 Go do this.
00:41:06.720 Just go do this.
00:41:08.540 You, you will, you'll feast on it for days.
00:41:12.580 So you're doing it selfishly.
00:41:14.020 It's selfish giving.
00:41:15.320 You saying, I will say that's always a, you know, I, I'm a big believer that everything that we do in life is selfish in some way.
00:41:21.360 Um, uh, this is a nine grand sort of, uh, I just think it's virtue.
00:41:26.360 I don't know.
00:41:27.540 I do think it is part of it.
00:41:29.280 It's not necessarily a negative.
00:41:30.600 No, um, I think, because I think that's how we're built.
00:41:33.640 When you serve people, you leave there feeling better.
00:41:37.520 It does something to you.
00:41:39.140 I don't know what it is, but I think it's a God thing.
00:41:41.880 I think that's the way we were designed.
00:41:43.220 We were designed to help each other and we lose our way and we start becoming depressed and we start just thinking about us and all of our problems.
00:41:53.360 And the best way to cure all that is to serve other people.
00:41:57.060 And it sounds horrible.
00:41:58.300 And I never want to do it.
00:42:00.120 I'm on my way to, you know, Hey, you know, so-and-so needs help with their house.
00:42:03.400 I don't want to do it.
00:42:04.360 Can I call, hire somebody to do that?
00:42:06.200 I don't want to go do that, but you do it.
00:42:08.440 And you're driving back and you're feeling guilty.
00:42:10.160 You're like, why did I want to do that?
00:42:11.380 That made me feel so good.
00:42:13.700 You know, it's like exercise.
00:42:15.820 There's just something that's a lie.
00:42:17.480 The exercise one's a lie.
00:42:18.640 The charity one's true.
00:42:19.720 The exercise one, you're just sore and then you get injured.
00:42:22.200 Those are the two things that happen.
00:42:23.220 You know what happens?
00:42:23.720 You die on a treadmill someday.
00:42:25.200 That's the end of the story.
00:42:26.380 Okay.
00:42:26.620 I'm willing to go with that one.
00:42:28.300 Can we agree on the goodness thing?
00:42:29.900 The goodness thing is great.
00:42:31.020 Yeah.
00:42:31.300 The exercise thing is death.
00:42:32.640 Good.
00:42:33.740 All right.
00:42:34.140 Good.
00:42:34.340 I'm cool.
00:42:34.900 Okay.
00:42:35.160 I'm cool.
00:42:35.460 Glad we nailed that.
00:42:36.140 Yep.
00:42:36.420 Thank you.
00:42:37.120 Merry Christmas.
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