The Glenn Beck Program - '#Life' - 3⧸22⧸18

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00:00:16.540 Well, there's another school shooting. It happened the day before yesterday.

00:00:21.940 We wanted to see if anybody was covering it. Of course not.

00:00:25.560 Another chance for the progressive left to further their gun control narrative,

00:00:28.960 to further inflame the national dialogue to continue a debate that ended in 1791.

00:00:36.520 So here's the thing. This happened in St. Mary's County in Maryland, but it doesn't fit the narrative.

00:00:42.160 That's why you didn't see it anywhere. 17-year-old started firing his pistol.

00:00:49.000 Now here's a shooting that wouldn't have been stopped.

00:00:54.000 You ban all the ARs. He had a pistol.

00:00:57.400 He wounded a little girl and a 14-year-old boy.

00:01:02.960 Within one minute, a school resource officer, Deputy Blaine Gaskell, returned the fire.

00:01:10.780 And then the gunfight was over.

00:01:13.760 It's clear cut.

00:01:15.380 There's a good guy with a gun shot a bad guy with a gun.

00:01:19.760 It's that easy.

00:01:21.500 Yet, already, mainstream media downplayed the incident.

00:01:25.440 They first were saying things like,

00:01:27.600 Well, maybe the kid shot himself.

00:01:29.440 We can't know for sure that the armed resource officer did any good.

00:01:33.880 We can't say that for sure.

00:01:35.540 That's a quote.

00:01:36.240 Why is this story better if the kid shot himself?

00:01:47.580 The only reason why this would be better is if he had an agenda to take all the guns.

00:01:54.080 Now, this shooting is different.

00:01:56.020 That's what the left will say.

00:01:56.960 This time, the shooter used a handgun, which are strictly regulated in Maryland.

00:02:02.700 Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

00:02:06.560 Handguns are?

00:02:07.780 Or ARs are?

00:02:09.320 Or all guns are?

00:02:11.020 Which is it?

00:02:12.600 The strict regulations, you know, probably forced him to grab a handgun instead of an AR.

00:02:20.120 Therefore, gun control is necessary, they will say. 0.56

00:02:25.020 But here's the deal.

00:02:26.580 In close quarters, handgun is just as lethal as any other gun.

00:02:33.160 Close quarters, handgun is probably more so.

00:02:36.940 And it's easily concealed.

00:02:39.500 The shooter in the Virginia Tech Massacre, which stands as the deadliest school shooting in U.S. history,

00:02:45.140 he didn't use an AR.

00:02:46.540 Isn't that weird?

00:02:47.100 He used a .22 Walther P-22 and a Glock 19, two pistols.

00:02:53.920 That's what he used.

00:02:57.120 Of course, the fact that an armed guard effectively stopped the school shooter

00:03:00.340 and possibly prevented further violence proves the lethality of the gun is not the issue.

00:03:07.180 The whole point of having a gun is that it is lethal.

00:03:10.160 The issue concerns the mental instability of the teenage boy who is holding the gun, not the gun.

00:03:19.180 But that would challenge David Hogg and his narrative.

00:03:23.860 You know, he's been doing the rounds for the last month.

00:03:26.700 The media prefers to ignore what Deputy Blaine Gaskell did.

00:03:31.740 He's the guy who went in and stopped this guy.

00:03:36.740 And the media continues to ignore what the sheriff, the deputy,

00:03:41.840 and now the deputy this week that was asleep at the job at Parkland.

00:03:47.740 They refuse to look at that deputy and the one that just stopped this one,

00:03:52.720 this shooter, this attempted murderer in Maryland.

00:04:00.640 Is anybody else tired of just looking over the facts?

00:04:05.640 Because the deputy in Maryland, Blaine Gaskell, he wasn't just armed.

00:04:12.440 He really would have been part of what the founders would call a well-regulated militia.

00:04:18.460 It's Thursday, March 22nd.

00:04:31.800 You're listening to the Glenn Beck Program.

00:04:36.640 We're live from Los Angeles today where there were more rules in the parking lot.

00:04:42.940 There were signs I didn't even understand in the parking lot of where you could park

00:04:46.340 and where you couldn't park and the fines that were.

00:04:49.180 What's a, what was it, Tim?

00:04:51.260 A low clearance or high clearance vehicle?

00:04:54.780 High clearance vehicle.

00:04:55.920 What the hell is a high clearance vehicle?

00:04:58.240 I don't, I'm not sure what that is.

00:05:01.380 But one that requires a high clearance?

00:05:05.180 Oh, okay.

00:05:06.200 No?

00:05:06.660 I don't know.

00:05:07.860 It looked exactly the same as the other parking space on the other side that didn't say that.

00:05:14.340 Well, it could be low flying birds.

00:05:15.640 I don't, I'm not sure what it is, but a high clearance vehicle and there's a $250 fine for

00:05:22.420 that one.

00:05:23.020 And then the, the rows and rows and rows of compact cars, which, you know, you allows

00:05:27.800 you to, you know, park closer to the building.

00:05:30.120 Oh my gosh.

00:05:31.180 I mean, within hours of being in, in, in California over Texas, I was, I was losing my mind.

00:05:36.980 I don't know how people live here.

00:05:38.400 We've got a lot of stories, uh, from, uh, from California today.

00:05:42.800 We are going to be talking to the teacher that lost her, uh, lost her job or thought

00:05:47.340 she was losing her job.

00:05:48.700 She was put on administrative leave.

00:05:50.160 She found out through the media, she's watching television.

00:05:54.400 She's like, I've been put on administrative leave.

00:05:57.420 She was put on administrative leave because in her history, in context, in today's world

00:06:03.520 class, she, um, she's mentioned to her class.

00:06:07.160 So you have this walkout for 17 days and it's about the constitution.

00:06:11.880 It's about the second amendment.

00:06:13.680 Would our school allow somebody to have a walkout for 17 minutes and would they support

00:06:20.540 it and celebrate it if it was pro-life, which is also a constitutional, uh, question.

00:06:27.380 Uh, she was suspended, uh, put on administrative leave because her students and all of their past

00:06:35.260 students rose up in the community and said, excuse me, this isn't right.

00:06:39.840 The school backed down, but one of her students is now saying, I'm going to do a, I, I, I'm going

00:06:45.600 to put that to the test.

00:06:46.640 I'm going to do a, I'm going to ask for a 17 minute walkout that is pro-life.

00:06:52.480 Let's see if the school is consistent on their constitutional feelings.

00:06:58.740 We have the student on with us in about 90 minutes as well.

00:07:02.220 You're really pessimistic and that's your problem.

00:07:05.040 You know, I mean, I know we can all get there occasionally, but I think every once in a while

00:07:09.680 an event comes along that proves your pessimism incorrect and you have to maybe view the world

00:07:15.720 in a new way.

00:07:16.460 Like, well, like I think best example recently would be the budget.

00:07:20.880 Oh my gosh.

00:07:22.160 I mean, I was skeptical.

00:07:23.680 I got to say it.

00:07:24.340 I was skeptical.

00:07:25.140 You know, I went in thinking, you know, I don't know.

00:07:28.100 I don't think Washington is going to get their spending under control.

00:07:30.440 Right.

00:07:30.780 You were thinking, I know what you're thinking, that there's no difference between Mitch McConnell

00:07:35.420 and Chuck Schumer.

00:07:36.820 That's what you were thinking.

00:07:37.680 I was thinking that.

00:07:38.620 I was thinking, you know, that the spending would just continue to go on.

00:07:43.200 I was thinking, I had this, I had this weird impression they wouldn't give them enough

00:07:48.600 Right.

00:07:48.860 I had this impression that getting control of the House, the Senate and the presidency would

00:07:53.400 result in not much of a change, but I was obviously proven wrong.

00:07:57.760 OK, so they've they've they've they've just put together the the the budget.

00:08:04.080 It's two thousand three hundred and thirty two pages.

00:08:07.860 It's going to allocate one point three trillion dollars of federal funding over the next two

00:08:13.400 years from everything from the military to disease prevention to job training programs,

00:08:19.600 yada, yada, yada.

00:08:20.580 And it was done by the big four congressional leaders, Mitch McConnell, Chuck Schumer, Paul

00:08:26.260 Ryan and Nancy Pelosi.

00:08:28.400 And then given a few hours, you know, for everybody in Congress to be able to read that

00:08:32.600 2000, the two hundred and thirty two page bill and then add a vote on it.

00:08:38.600 Now, here's Stu's been skeptical, but he's such a cynic.

00:08:41.880 Here's some of the things that are in there that I think are that are great.

00:08:45.220 Well, big conservative priorities.

00:08:46.620 We've been talking about it for a long time.

00:08:47.920 We got to get these things done.

00:08:49.000 We got to get more funding for the IRS.

00:08:51.220 Right.

00:08:51.440 How long have we have we demanded the IRS needs more money?

00:08:56.100 It needs more.

00:08:57.660 It needs a couple hundred million dollars more.

00:09:00.420 OK, and we've been pounding that.

00:09:03.740 And then here it is in the bill.

00:09:05.260 Really excited about that.

00:09:07.000 Well, how about how about this one?

00:09:08.700 One point two billion dollars for the Federal Railroad Administration.

00:09:12.860 Oh, huge.

00:09:13.700 OK, so I mean, I've been saying, you know, hey, we need more bureaucrats on the railroad system.

00:09:20.980 You know, we need we need a bigger administration.

00:09:23.320 What we need is an increase in the budget of one point two billion dollars for the administration

00:09:30.140 of the railroads.

00:09:31.400 And that's really good.

00:09:32.320 That's really good.

00:09:33.380 I was also any of we've talked about this dozens of times.

00:09:35.760 I don't mean to bore the audience, but I said, make sure that Planned Parenthood and

00:09:39.740 sanctuary cities get their money and they are getting it in this bill.

00:09:43.140 So I feel really good about that.

00:09:44.340 That's why we you know, that's why we voted for the Republicans.

00:09:46.720 That's why we voted.

00:09:47.660 But, you know, when they when how many times have we said we need high speed Internet?

00:09:52.760 Oh, yeah.

00:09:53.520 For rural areas.

00:09:54.260 For rural areas.

00:09:55.300 And I as a mother, I need high speed Internet.

00:09:59.240 The good news is six hundred million dollars for high speed Internet.

00:10:02.300 Oh, yeah.

00:10:03.080 I got it done about that.

00:10:05.040 And I'm very excited as well.

00:10:06.580 Now, I will say not everything us conservatives wanted got in the bill like the president

00:10:13.340 has issued.

00:10:14.460 Now, he backs the bill, but he does have some reservations.

00:10:18.060 For example, the Democrats would not put DACA in the bill. 1.00

00:10:22.240 Those damn Democrats. 1.00

00:10:23.160 The Democrats, they just don't listen. 1.00

00:10:25.180 Oh, Democrats.

00:10:26.120 How many times have we said we want illegal immigrants to be given legal status and a pathway

00:10:31.100 to citizenship?

00:10:32.000 We demand it.

00:10:33.280 And Democrats keep shutting us down when we go for that.

00:10:35.540 I'm sick of it.

00:10:36.660 The president's mad.

00:10:37.540 And he's pushed back on that, which is working out.

00:10:39.360 That's I'm glad he's doing that.

00:10:40.880 Yeah, but it did not make it in the bill.

00:10:42.580 So you can't be.

00:10:43.420 It's not all celebration.

00:10:45.140 Well, there there is.

00:10:46.660 But let me stop being such a cynic.

00:10:48.560 Let me look at the bright side.

00:10:50.500 The president asked for about six hundred million dollars more for the census.

00:10:56.540 And we love the census.

00:10:59.020 Remember when the census came out?

00:11:00.620 Remember under under Barack Obama?

00:11:04.220 And remember how all of the the the the conservatives were just clamoring and saying, hey, wait a minute.

00:11:11.540 Do I have to answer all of these questions?

00:11:13.660 What do you mean?

00:11:13.980 I go to jail if I don't tell you everything about my household.

00:11:17.180 Remember that?

00:11:17.680 Yeah.

00:11:17.780 Well, he asked for six hundred million dollar increase and he got it times to do times to double it.

00:11:25.240 Double the double the amount of money he asked for.

00:11:28.040 Double the success.

00:11:29.340 Now, what?

00:11:29.920 Some people will look at some of this stuff and say, I'm not a hundred percent sure that's the best idea.

00:11:35.460 But I can tell you this.

00:11:36.940 You know what the left wanted.

00:11:38.540 They wanted big time funding for ACORN.

00:11:41.160 Remember ACORN?

00:11:42.020 Yeah.

00:11:42.240 We in the bill, Section 522 says none of the funds under this act can be provided to ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, which is great because a lot of people thought, you know, given that the it went out of business eight years ago, that they might at any time get more funding.

00:12:00.880 And this guarantees they were guarantees they took care of that problem that was happening in 2008.

00:12:06.740 By 2010, they had all changed names from ACORN.

00:12:10.820 But here they are eight years later, ensuring that that business, which is no longer in business, doesn't get funded.

00:12:20.040 That's right.

00:12:20.600 And if there's anything, Glenn, that we wanted to do as conservatives here with this bill.

00:12:26.000 And it's about setting a precedent.

00:12:29.040 It's about breaking new ground.

00:12:32.320 And it's about setting new records.

00:12:35.500 And here we go looking at this bill that was agreed upon between Democrats, Republicans and the president.

00:12:41.020 And it's going to be voted on without really full time to read it.

00:12:44.220 But some of it you can kind of check out.

00:12:45.900 Maybe you could skim.

00:12:47.100 The great thing is this provides more discretionary funding for our government than any year during the Obama administration.

00:12:56.160 Oh, thank goodness.

00:12:56.680 That's what we were asking for.

00:12:57.820 I was saying to myself, the government doesn't have enough of our tax dollars.

00:13:01.600 Right.

00:13:01.760 They need more.

00:13:02.300 They need more.

00:13:03.040 They need more.

00:13:03.960 And discretionary so they can spend it any way they want.

00:13:05.860 Well, that's the thing.

00:13:07.080 This isn't mandatory coming down from one of the programs that was already passed by law because those things increase.

00:13:11.940 And there's nothing much you can do about those things unless you pass the law.

00:13:14.960 The cupboards are bare.

00:13:15.840 Of course, here, though, this is discretionary spending.

00:13:18.900 And it's good to see that with a Republican Congress, a Republican House, Senate and presidency, that we are spending more money than any year of the Obama administration.

00:13:31.540 I'm thrilled.

00:13:32.980 I don't know about you.

00:13:34.020 I'm thrilled.

00:13:34.820 Well, hang on just a second.

00:13:35.900 Let me tell you this, Stu.

00:13:36.980 You're going to be winning.

00:13:38.440 Remember, this is a two-year budget.

00:13:41.080 Oh, that's great.

00:13:42.440 So it's happening two years in a row.

00:13:44.900 All about setting new records.

00:13:46.020 Listen, remember the border wall.

00:13:50.740 Did he get that passed?

00:13:52.220 Oh, you're going to be very happy.

00:13:53.920 Okay.

00:13:54.820 Now, of course, you might remember that we don't need any money for it.

00:13:58.080 We don't need any money.

00:13:58.880 Because it would be paid for by Mexico.

00:13:59.940 But some people were skeptical of that claim.

00:14:02.940 And here, we find out that we got $1.6 billion to start the wall on the southern border.

00:14:10.600 Wow.

00:14:11.040 Now, when you read the details, it doesn't actually say any of it can be applied to the wall.

00:14:16.820 I don't know.

00:14:17.800 What do you mean?

00:14:18.360 Per se.

00:14:20.520 Does that explain it?

00:14:21.140 When I say per se, does that explain it?

00:14:22.400 No, wait a minute.

00:14:22.900 Hang on just a second.

00:14:23.720 I'm reading it right here, and it's very clear it cannot be used for the wall on the border.

00:14:34.480 However, they can build fencing similar to what exists now.

00:14:41.440 Great.

00:14:42.260 Right.

00:14:42.680 Additionally, the funding cannot be used to hire agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement, ICE,

00:14:50.360 who are not stationed on the border.

00:14:51.840 So, the money can't be used for additional agents around the country, and it specifically cannot be used to build a wall,

00:15:00.560 but they can put a fence up.

00:15:02.300 And hopefully, it's a nice, you know, I don't know if it's chain link.

00:15:05.600 I would like to get one of those chain link fences where, you know, they put the little slats in between it

00:15:10.660 so you can't really see in because that will confuse the illegal aliens.

00:15:14.300 They won't know, you know, especially if it's camouflage.

00:15:18.240 They won't know.

00:15:19.000 Should I climb over it or under it?

00:15:20.780 Is it even a fence?

00:15:22.040 I don't know.

00:15:22.740 Who knows?

00:15:23.600 So, let's just say it's a huge success.

00:15:25.680 Huge success.

00:15:26.340 Big, big, big.

00:15:27.080 In fact, we're going to talk to one of our congressmen coming up in just a few minutes

00:15:30.500 about this huge success of the budget, and that's what we get for having a Republican in the House,

00:15:39.000 in the Senate, and the White House.

00:15:40.960 This is what you get when you get all three.

00:15:42.560 It's fantastic.

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00:17:34.740 Glenn Beck.

00:17:36.600 Mercury.

00:17:42.600 Glenn Beck.

00:17:43.600 I don't know about you, but I am thrilled, no, sincerely thrilled, that we have finally

00:17:52.720 the GOP in charge of the House, the Senate, and the White House because it allows us to

00:18:00.060 get a budget like we're getting now, which, you know, is higher discretion spending and

00:18:08.260 more spending than any time during the Obama administration.

00:18:13.720 And this is, I mean, honestly, partially our fault.

00:18:16.420 We continually said, you know, I don't think it's, you're going to get a good deal if you

00:18:20.740 start working with Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer.

00:18:22.680 We kept saying, we discouraged that.

00:18:24.640 We got to stop being sarcastic.

00:18:26.480 And here we are being proven so wrong.

00:18:27.900 Oh my gosh.

00:18:28.440 This is so, Mo Brooks is going to be on with us here in a second.

00:18:32.000 I'm guessing he's not happy with the budget.

00:18:34.640 Really?

00:18:35.220 Yeah.

00:18:35.700 Mo doesn't tend to like extra spending. 0.97

00:18:39.180 In fact, a lot of sort of Freedom Caucus types are pushing back against this.

00:18:44.620 You know, Thomas Massey yesterday was doing it.

00:18:46.700 You know, it's Justin Amash.

00:18:47.740 And it's not even just-

00:18:49.140 Mike Lee was beside himself.

00:18:49.900 Mike Lee.

00:18:50.480 He was beside himself.

00:18:51.640 It's not just all the extra spending and all the nonsense that we can point out because

00:18:56.600 there's always some of it.

00:18:57.860 This is worse, again, than any other budget.

00:19:00.360 So, I mean, I don't know how you justify that and get excited about it.

00:19:03.360 But, I mean-

00:19:03.640 This is worse, so you know, this is worse than the turtle-tuttle budget.

00:19:07.140 Yeah.

00:19:07.540 And by considerable amounts.

00:19:08.880 The issue, I guess, in addition to that is the way they're doing this.

00:19:12.980 It was drawn up behind closed doors.

00:19:15.120 No one had any hand.

00:19:16.140 No one knew it was coming.

00:19:17.460 It's a 2,232-page bill that they're going to have less than 24 hours to read and vote on.

00:19:23.160 You know, this is all nonsense that we've argued about and tried to get rid of for all this time.

00:19:28.520 You get control of everything, and you still can't stop this craziness.

00:19:33.780 You know what really bothers me?

00:19:36.340 I mean, well, all of it.

00:19:37.820 But the IRS is such a slap in the face of all of the Republican voters.

00:19:44.600 A slap in the face by the Republicans to the Republicans.

00:19:49.640 We all know that the IRS harassed and used their power and were out of control.

00:19:56.560 And what did they do?

00:19:58.160 They rewarded them.

00:19:59.840 They rewarded them.

00:20:01.360 They increased the budget for IRS agents.

00:20:05.660 Are they out of their mind?

00:20:08.400 No, they're not.

00:20:09.420 They know exactly what they're doing.

00:20:11.240 They're increasing their control.

00:20:13.640 Glenn Beck, Mercury.

00:20:26.020 You're listening to the Glenn Beck Program.

00:20:28.200 All right.

00:20:29.040 There's a story we have to get to today.

00:20:31.440 I'm just going to read the headline.

00:20:33.520 Florida man dressed in a bull costume accused of trying to burn down a house using ragu spaghetti sauce.

00:20:42.000 I have to get to that story today.

00:20:45.700 Also, an Alabama state rep said we should not arm teachers because there are ladies. 1.00

00:20:55.320 And I think he said most women are scared of guns and they don't want to carry a gun. 0.98

00:21:02.540 So I'm waiting for the women's movement to come out and say, how dare you say that women can't carry a gun? 1.00

00:21:10.320 I just, it's going to be fun to watch that.

00:21:13.660 Meanwhile, we have Mo Brooks. 0.99

00:21:15.460 He's one of the good guys in the House.

00:21:19.380 Representative Mo Brooks from Alabama.

00:21:21.900 He's introduced End the Federal Shutdown Act.

00:21:25.500 Mo, welcome to the program.

00:21:27.220 How are you feeling about that great Republican budget?

00:21:32.780 Well, let me kind of toss it back at you, Glenn.

00:21:36.660 As the father of the Tea Party and the 2010 revolution, do you kind of feel like we're in George Orwell's animal farm?

00:21:44.720 Oh, my gosh.

00:21:45.700 I mean, we are we are living in such a upside down world.

00:21:51.700 The the the the Republicans that were put into Congress by voters who were being oppressed and targeted by the IRS just had their representatives.

00:22:06.340 Those guys just went and voted for more money for the IRS agents.

00:22:11.720 It's crazy.

00:22:12.940 Everything is turned upside down.

00:22:15.860 One of the reasons that we've got the end of the in the Government Shutdown Act is to try to minimize the power plays that take place with must pass legislation.

00:22:27.480 We have a bill that's 2000 pages long.

00:22:30.500 I have little idea what's in it.

00:22:32.280 I mean, I'm reading media reports as quickly as I can, talking to other congressmen as much as I can to try to ascertain it.

00:22:37.360 But when it's over 2000 pages long, over one point three trillion dollars being spent and you have what I was introduced last night.

00:22:46.760 You know, I have to have sleep sometime during the night.

00:22:50.880 This is a this is a horrible way to do business.

00:22:53.520 And it pushes up us up against a deadline where the threat is if you don't do what we tell you to do.

00:22:59.780 And the special interest groups, of course, are the ones that are really the puppeteers running the show.

00:23:04.180 So if you don't do what we tell you you need to do, then there's going to be a government shutdown.

00:23:09.280 It's going to be all your fault.

00:23:10.760 Well, the in the Government Shutdown Act that I've introduced would eliminate that PowerPoint that the special interest groups are able to use against us congressmen and senators by saying, OK, if we fail to meet a deadline, the government does not shut down.

00:23:25.700 It continues to operate at the same spending levels that it operated on the day before and the month before and the year before.

00:23:32.520 And it just continues that until such time as Congress gets its act together and passes a piece of legislation that spends either more or less money or reprioritizes the money being spent.

00:23:42.680 So it's a great piece of legislation.

00:23:44.060 Unfortunately, since it's a great piece of legislation, that makes it much less likely that it would get through this Congress.

00:23:50.880 So let me ask you this.

00:23:52.240 Is it that they have to pass a continuing resolution or an actual budget?

00:23:59.220 Well, with my legislation, it's just automatic.

00:24:01.860 The funding continues at prior spending levels until such time as Congress reprioritizes either with a continuing resolution, an omnibus, or what I'd really prefer would be the honest-to-goodness appropriation bills that we work on for many months but don't ever seem to pass.

00:24:19.420 Most people would refer to those appropriation bills as a budget, although in Washington, in the upside-down world we're in, the word budget doesn't mean what it means everywhere else in the United States.

00:24:30.740 In Washington, a budget doesn't spend any money.

00:24:34.380 It's just a game plan.

00:24:36.020 It's an outline of what you hope will happen.

00:24:38.140 It's the appropriation bills, the continuing resolutions, and the omnibus bills that actually spend money, that allocate it to particular programs or departments for them to then spend.

00:24:48.080 Mo, you know, we have been afraid.

00:24:52.760 Half the country was afraid of an out-of-control dictatorship with too much power under Obama that we could easily slide into.

00:25:00.740 Now, the other half of the country is afraid that we could easily slide into dictatorship under Donald Trump.

00:25:08.560 I contend we have a dictatorship.

00:25:11.420 When it comes to the budget, which is really what the federal government is, it's a four-person dictatorship.

00:25:18.060 It is Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer, Mitch McConnell, and Paul Ryan.

00:25:26.140 That is pretty much it, and to a large degree, those four delegate a lot of this homework on negotiating to staffers.

00:25:36.760 Unfortunately, President Trump, his wishes with respect to our spending priorities, his wishes weren't respected very much at all, particularly by Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi, but to a lesser degree by Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell.

00:25:55.840 I mean, if you're a Democrat, this is the bill you won't, okay?

00:26:01.040 It's a great bill for Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi.

00:26:05.120 It's a horrible bill for the American people because it increases the likelihood of America suffering a very dangerous and debilitating insolvency and bankruptcy.

00:26:15.220 And I hate to mention that so bluntly because a lot of people are startled by it, and they think I'm speaking hyperbole, but I'm not.

00:26:23.980 We're looking at a trillion-dollar deficit within the next 12 to 15 months, and the estimates that I'm getting from, say, the Bipartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget has concluded that the deficits will be $2.4 trillion a year.

00:26:41.700 A year within 10 years.

00:26:44.600 And we're talking about a spending bill.

00:26:46.460 Our entire discretionary spending bill is $1.3 trillion.

00:26:50.360 And we're looking at deficits at $2.4 trillion in a decade.

00:26:54.240 It's horrific what this Congress, this White House, and past Congresses and White Houses have done to America's future with what is now a $21 trillion debt level that is projected to be at $38 trillion in 10 years if we keep doing what we're irresponsibly doing.

00:27:11.700 That's $30 trillion more than when everyone was yelling at George W. Bush, saying that we are out of control, spending is out of control, and we're going to go bankrupt.

00:27:22.800 That'll be a $30 trillion increase in our debt.

00:27:30.880 And does anyone in Washington really care except for a handful of you guys?

00:27:37.280 There are maybe 10 or 20 percent of the members of the United States Senate and the United States Congress who understand it and care enough to have the backbone to do something about it.

00:27:47.440 Is it bipartisan at all?

00:27:52.860 I don't know of any Democrats that I can say are financially responsible.

00:27:58.880 There might be one or two.

00:28:00.240 Okay, I just don't know it.

00:28:01.480 They haven't been put in the position where they've had to make that really hard decision.

00:28:05.160 Certainly, they lead the spending charge.

00:28:08.440 But because so many Republicans right now are concerned about the 2018 elections, it looks like they're just copycat Democrats.

00:28:14.620 I mean, let's face it, this spending bill that passed in February and the one that we're about to pass right now, it's a debt junkie's wildest dream.

00:28:25.980 It's financial insanity.

00:28:27.820 I don't have words that adequately describe how bad it is or how horrific it's going to be for the United States of America long term if we go into an insolvency and bankruptcy.

00:28:38.000 And I could give some examples of what has happened in other places that have defaulted on their credit obligations.

00:28:45.240 If you won't, it'll scare the daylights out of your listeners, though.

00:28:48.760 Mo, please do.

00:28:50.440 But start here.

00:28:52.000 Because the argument will be, oh, that's irresponsible.

00:28:54.920 Mo Brooks going on and saying that we'll become insolvent.

00:28:57.860 We'll never go bankrupt.

00:28:59.340 We can't go bankrupt.

00:29:00.600 We can always print more money.

00:29:03.760 OK, well, let me let me give some examples.

00:29:06.220 And there's some truth to the statement that we can print more money.

00:29:09.480 But in real dollar terms, you're still bankrupt.

00:29:12.120 OK, all you've done is handed out different pieces of cash with different numbers on them.

00:29:16.580 But that doesn't mean you're not bankrupt.

00:29:18.160 And I'll use Venezuela as an example.

00:29:20.800 Their inflation rate in 2017 was roughly 4,000 percent.

00:29:27.620 Their adult population age bracket roughly 20 to 65 in 2017 because of the collapsing economy that's associated with those kind of high interest rates caused by just printing more money.

00:29:40.260 OK, that population segment, adult population, Venezuela, had an average weight loss last year of 24 pounds per person because they can't get the food and the calories to sustain their body weight.

00:29:53.920 That's what happens when an economy collapses because the central government can't make their ends meet.

00:29:58.680 Or you could look at Greece.

00:30:00.240 I'm trying to get us to learn from what other countries have gone through rather than repeating their mistakes.

00:30:04.680 Greece has been basically in default at least three different times in the last six or seven years.

00:30:10.380 Now, fortunately for them, the European community has bailed them out. 0.96

00:30:13.300 So they're in better shape than America would be because no one's going to bail out America.

00:30:17.100 But their unemployment rate right now approximates our worst periods during the Great Depression.

00:30:22.480 And that's after they've been bailed out three different times.

00:30:24.640 So when you have a central government that is defaulting on loans, it has an adverse effect on the economy and the lives of the people who are there.

00:30:31.440 Puerto Rico defaulted a year or two ago on $72, $73 billion in debt.

00:30:38.120 So when the hurricane came, and, you know, being a Caribbean island, hurricanes do come.

00:30:42.640 They were wholly unprepared.

00:30:44.500 Their infrastructure was not hardened.

00:30:46.500 Their utilities fell apart.

00:30:48.140 They were in a shambles.

00:30:49.360 And but for the rescue effort by the United States of America, a lot of Puerto Ricans would have died by now

00:30:54.120 from the hardship associated with their government being insolvent and not having depots spread out throughout the island

00:31:01.360 with drinkable water and food, not having shelters that you could weather the storm in,

00:31:07.520 not having a hardened utility system that wouldn't be so destroyed, electricity, running water to the extent they've got sewer.

00:31:15.900 These are all things associated with insolvency and bankruptcy with one huge difference.

00:31:19.840 If the United States follows these paths, and I hope we won't, but it looks like we're gonna.

00:31:25.920 But if America follows that path, think of the adverse effect that has on our United States military when we can no longer afford to pay for it.

00:31:33.000 And what kind of adventurism there may be around the world and the deaths that would ensue as a result because of the United States of America no longer being able to help preserve the peace.

00:31:42.780 You know, I have to tell you, Mo, I, I, if I may scare the hell out of you, I take that a step further.

00:31:48.860 In 2008, when we were bailing everybody out, the president of China, you know, bought, you know, bought some more of our treasuries and said to us,

00:32:01.400 do not dishonor our investment, they are investors in us.

00:32:07.040 When we, when we go down like Venezuela, the entire world goes down and everyone will blame us.

00:32:16.660 And anyone who has the ability to come claim some of our assets, they will claim our assets.

00:32:23.940 And the entire world will point the finger to Americans and say, it was, it's your fault that we're starving because you were greedy and fat and you wanted it all.

00:32:35.100 And if you don't think that the politicians all over the world will tell their people that and blame it on the average American,

00:32:42.720 and we will be the pariahs of the world, you don't know who politicians are because they always look for a boogeyman.

00:32:49.600 And so they're not blamed.

00:32:51.200 There is a lot of truth to that statement.

00:32:55.180 And let me also talk about history for a moment.

00:32:58.780 Great Depression.

00:33:00.180 What happened during the Great Depression?

00:33:01.940 And that's where America is headed if we go insolvent.

00:33:04.120 We don't pay our bills.

00:33:07.020 America during the Great Depression had to reduce our military capability.

00:33:10.280 What happened as a result of that?

00:33:12.040 Japan actually thought they could win a war with us, so they initiated one at Pearl Harbor. 0.62

00:33:16.100 And that was in the day before there were nuclear weapons and weapons of mass destruction.

00:33:21.200 Now, fast forward to today.

00:33:26.660 What enemy of ours or geopolitical foe of ours might be tempted to do something they never would be tempted to today

00:33:34.080 if the United States does not have the military capability to strike back?

00:33:38.040 It will repeat the mistakes of the Great Depression in the 1930s that resulted in 50 to 60 million people losing their lives around the planet with World War II.

00:33:47.460 You don't have to really imagine that.

00:33:51.560 Look what Russia is doing to us and to the U.K.

00:33:54.500 because they know we don't have the political will.

00:33:58.360 Add to that, you don't have the economic might to do it.

00:34:02.300 And you're toast.

00:34:03.980 We're talking to Congressman Mo Brooks from Alabama.

00:34:06.920 The End Federal Shutdown Act is his legislation.

00:34:11.160 Any chance of this even being brought to the floor?

00:34:14.740 And how can people help you, Mo?

00:34:16.520 There is a chance if the American people will rise up, understand the risk associated with the structure that is in place

00:34:23.860 that has resulted in large part with us looking at a trillion-dollar deficit in the next year, year and a half,

00:34:30.140 and ultimately that $37 trillion debt and insolvency and bankruptcy,

00:34:35.700 if the American people will call their senators and their representatives and demand that their congressmen and senators

00:34:45.000 end this perpetual shutdown risk that gives leverage to the special interest groups that provide the money that fund the elections, okay?

00:34:54.960 But the threat of a government shutdown is what results in us getting a 2,000-page bill last night that nobody has read

00:35:02.060 that the American people, the American people are going to have no chance to comment to their congressmen and senators on

00:35:07.760 that results in really bad things happening that the American people don't want.

00:35:13.080 Mo Brooks, thank you very much for your hard work.

00:35:17.300 This is the End the Federal Shutdown Bill.

00:35:20.100 Call Congress, call your senator, and demand that they end the federal shutdowns with this shutdown act.

00:35:27.600 Thank you very much, Mo Brooks.

00:35:29.260 I want to tell you about American financing.

00:35:32.440 Did you see that the Fed came out and raised the interest rate again yesterday?

00:35:39.700 Even though they came out and said, oh, we were wrong about our GDP growth,

00:35:43.920 we thought it was going to be 5.8, I think it's 1.7.

00:35:49.900 This is not the time to be, you know, raising interest rates, but they're doing it.

00:35:55.720 What does that mean for you?

00:35:57.100 If you have an adjustable mortgage, your rates are going to go up.

00:36:01.220 If you're looking to buy a house, your rates are going to go up.

00:36:05.220 You need to lock in a mortgage now.

00:36:07.440 If you're looking to buy or sell your house, now is the time to do it.

00:36:11.180 If you're looking to take your debt and consolidate it, now is the time to do it.

00:36:18.700 Call the salary-based mortgage consultants.

00:36:21.040 Please do this today.

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00:36:41.180 Glenn Beck, Mercury.

00:36:52.860 So the good news is, Stu has done his research.

00:36:55.900 He's found some fiscal responsibility in the new GOP budget.

00:36:59.700 Getting rid of the pork, the new $1.3 trillion congressional spending plan

00:37:02.800 prohibits members of Congress from spending more than $1,000 a month on car leases.

00:37:07.140 So that means you can get the 2 Series, the 3 Series, the 4 Series, and the 5 Series,

00:37:11.820 but you cannot get a BMW 6 Series.

00:37:13.980 You can't even do it.

00:37:14.920 Wow, they're holding it down.

00:37:17.060 They're holding it down.

00:37:21.220 Glenn Beck, Mercury.

00:37:28.780 Love.

00:37:29.960 Courage.

00:37:31.700 Truth.

00:37:32.140 Glenn Beck.

00:37:34.880 All right.

00:37:36.120 Everybody, you need to pull out your neo-Marxist playbook now.

00:37:40.000 Your post-modernism playbook where we all can learn and sing from the hymnal that there

00:37:46.700 is no objective truth, nor is there any objective reality.

00:37:51.920 Just because you believe that's reality doesn't make it reality.

00:37:56.640 There is no such thing as objective reality.

00:38:00.020 We all can create our own reality.

00:38:03.640 Can I get an amen?

00:38:07.300 Campus feminism now has added a new rule. 1.00

00:38:10.680 Mount Holyoke College in Mass has just sent out a guide advising its professors to refrain

00:38:16.260 from using the word women when describing, well, women. 0.71

00:38:25.800 Instead, they say, when referring to students who are women, the professors have now been 0.98

00:38:32.000 instructed to use the word students because it is more gender exclusive.

00:38:41.000 I thought we were supposed to be inclusive.

00:38:42.620 Anyway, the rest of this article doesn't make sense.

00:38:46.920 This is a problem at this particular university because this happens to be an all-women's university. 1.00

00:38:54.560 I'm sorry.

00:38:55.540 Sorry.

00:38:56.180 An all-student university.

00:38:58.720 Wait.

00:39:00.020 Aren't all universities all-student universities?

00:39:02.760 No, there are those universities that are students and construction workers, I think, and cab driver universities.

00:39:13.260 Anyway, this is part of an initiative to foster intersectionality.

00:39:20.280 A complete nonjudgmental acceptance of women because, in their words, traditional binaries around who counts as a man or a woman

00:39:38.060 are being challenged by those whose gender identity doesn't conform to their biology.

00:39:44.140 Remember, there is no reality and there is no truth.

00:39:46.820 You could not make this stuff up.

00:39:51.460 So, the answer, I'm going to read the question and the answer from the school.

00:39:57.860 Who is female or identifies as a woman?

00:40:02.260 That's the question.

00:40:03.240 Who is female or identifies as a woman?

00:40:07.120 In other words, if gender identity doesn't conform to biology, who is allowed to apply at a, excuse this, I don't mean to be a trigger here,

00:40:18.460 but who is going to apply to a woman's only university? 1.00

00:40:22.160 So, who can apply?

00:40:25.540 Okay.

00:40:26.260 This is the actual answer.

00:40:27.920 The following academically qualified students can apply for admission consideration.

00:40:35.620 Biologically born female that identifies as a woman.

00:40:39.260 A biologically born female that identifies as a man.

00:40:43.100 Okay, now this is a women's only college, but if you're a biologically born female and you identify as a man, you can go. 0.99

00:40:54.280 A biologically born female that identifies as other, they, or Z. 0.99

00:41:02.080 Biologically born female does not identify as either a woman or a man.

00:41:08.280 A biologically born male that identifies as other, they, or Z when other or they identity includes a woman.

00:41:28.520 Biologically born male that identifies as a woman.

00:41:40.380 The following academically qualified students cannot apply for admission consideration, and that is, biologically born male identifies as a man.

00:41:51.540 This is neo-Marxism and post-modernism at its finest, and you know it's good.

00:42:00.760 I mean, at least by their standards, because it makes absolutely no sense to any logical person, no matter how you define yourself.

00:42:16.180 It's Thursday, March 22nd.

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00:42:43.400 Coming up in just a second.

00:42:44.800 Yesterday, we caught up with, you remember the teacher that last week was put on administrative leave because she dare ask the question in her history in context class.

00:42:58.920 You know, you're being encouraged to stand up and have your voice heard on the Second Amendment, which is a constitutional right.

00:43:08.060 And the the the the students are all going to gather for 17 minutes in the courtyard.

00:43:14.460 This daring teacher then said, hey, do you think that the school would support you here in California if you were organizing something that was pro-life?

00:43:29.100 Well, that upset a couple of students and one parent and they called and she was put on administrative leave.

00:43:35.860 Thank goodness her community of students and past students all rose up to defend her because they quickly reversed that.

00:43:44.460 But now one of the students, Brandon Gillespie, is is taking that challenge and saying, I wonder what would happen in school if we did start a pro-life walkout in a California school.

00:44:01.020 The high school is Rockland High School and Brandon is the student.

00:44:05.640 Brandon Gillespie joins us now.

00:44:07.420 Part of the hashtag life campaign.

00:44:10.680 Brandon, how are you?

00:44:12.260 Good. How are you?

00:44:13.440 I'm good. So now tell me tell me the story.

00:44:16.980 You were in the class when you're when you're history teacher asked this question.

00:44:22.240 Yeah, so basically, Miss Benzel was just simply asking the question if would would the school district allow a walkout for something like like abortion?

00:44:35.020 And that's the only question she asked us.

00:44:37.440 And she just wanted us to go do our own research and not just stick with the crowd.

00:44:42.800 She wanted us to do our own research about the walkout last week to see if it was really something that we wanted to take part in.

00:44:50.120 And she didn't. She was not using this as a political tool.

00:44:55.080 She I mean, this fits in her class, does it not? History in context?

00:44:58.780 Yes. Yeah. I mean, it's it's history class.

00:45:01.560 Yeah, of course it fits.

00:45:03.240 Right. And it's a and it's an AP course.

00:45:05.220 So this is basically a college course in a high school program, right?

00:45:09.600 Yeah. Yes.

00:45:11.540 All right. So you heard that and you saw her, you know, be kicked out of school for a couple of days. 0.99

00:45:19.020 A, how did you feel about that?

00:45:20.140 Oh, well, I mean, I was really upset in the first place.

00:45:25.880 I was really upset that the school district even allowed a protest on the Second Amendment.

00:45:31.460 But yeah, when this happened to Miss Benzel, I mean, it would just really upset me.

00:45:36.940 And it made me want to go out and take a stand.

00:45:41.060 OK, so why did it upset you that they allowed a protest of the Second Amendment?

00:45:45.580 Well, I personally don't think that that they should allow political political protests or beliefs in in our schools.

00:45:57.260 However, since they were masking this walkout last Wednesday, they were masking it and saying that it was to honor the victims of the Parkland shooting.

00:46:07.560 And I would not have had a problem with that, but they were masking it.

00:46:10.360 And it was really about protesting the Second Amendment.

00:46:12.620 And why do you say that it was a mask? What led you to believe that?

00:46:16.940 Because that's just what it was advertised as was, oh, we're going to do it for 17 minutes to honor the victims of the Parkland shooting.

00:46:26.260 However, if you went on like the Women's March website, all it said was it's for gun control and more gun control. 0.90

00:46:32.780 OK. And so you have decided to see if you could stage a walkout for a constitutional right.

00:46:43.520 How do you how do you think that's going to do to go, especially since they will claim that this was just a memorial for those killed at Parkland?

00:46:54.140 Yeah, exactly. So so tomorrow I actually have a meeting with my school principal and I'm just going to tell him that I'm trying to organize a pro-life walkout at our school.

00:47:07.500 And it's going to be to commemorate the lives of the millions of prematurely killed children who fell victim to abortions.

00:47:14.940 And what do you expect them to say?

00:47:20.380 Well, I'm I'm really not sure. That's what I'm really intrigued to see what happens tomorrow.

00:47:26.500 I'm I would really hope that they would allow it to happen.

00:47:30.720 But if if they don't allow my walkout to take place, it'll be a blatant evidence of the double standard that Miss Benzel had warned us of in class.

00:47:40.740 Have you have you role played this?

00:47:45.920 I mean, I'm sure your principal is, you know, he's aware of what you're going to do and what you're going to ask.

00:47:51.040 So he's going to be loaded. Have you role played this?

00:47:54.820 Yeah, I've I've been writing down talking points and things.

00:47:59.080 So I think I'm ready to meet with him tomorrow.

00:48:02.460 And what is your strongest point?

00:48:04.640 Um, I think my strongest point would be that they they allowed the first walkout and they they were masking it to to be only about honoring the lives.

00:48:17.920 So that's exactly what I'm doing is I'm having a walkout to honor and commemorate.

00:48:21.940 Now, Brandon, Brandon, hang on just a second.

00:48:25.420 You're you're saying that you're assuming that this was a mask.

00:48:29.560 We really were looking at those fellow students at another school and we really were.

00:48:37.180 Now, you're saying to me that you're just trying to make this into political, a political statement.

00:48:44.300 And you're using those children as a mask when we deny that we we use that as a mask.

00:48:49.100 That's your perception.

00:48:50.760 No, absolutely. Absolutely not.

00:48:52.460 This my my walkout is purely to honor and commemorate the lives of those 60 million children.

00:49:03.940 Yes, of the millions of children.

00:49:07.040 So, Brandon, but if we allow this, I mean, you know, then we're just going to be a nonstop.

00:49:14.900 We'll never be in class.

00:49:17.160 Yes, exactly.

00:49:18.080 That's why I don't think that they should have allowed the first one.

00:49:22.120 But now that they allowed the first one, they must allow more.

00:49:26.240 OK, Brandon, I hope you do your homework and and and, you know, I love the fact that, you know, people of your age are standing up and that you are getting involved in things.

00:49:39.000 But if I if I if I may just don't treat those who disagree with you like the Parkland students are treating the people that disagree with them.

00:49:50.000 Yeah, I think they're I think they're I think they're shameful, always remain, always remain polite and respectful and know that, you know, you'll you'll gather more support if you are honest and open and and really try to play by the rules and be fair to even those who disagree with you.

00:50:16.260 Yeah, I completely agree.

00:50:18.040 All right. So we'll check in probably Monday.

00:50:22.600 I'd like to get a report from you on what the what the principal said.

00:50:26.680 All right. OK.

00:50:28.040 All right. And also, so this walkout that I'm planning, I'm going to propose to my principal tomorrow that for the walkout to take place on Wednesday, April 11th at 10 o'clock in the morning,

00:50:39.980 which is approximately one month after the gun control protest that took place last Wednesday.

00:50:46.300 So I'm just trying to spread the word on social media using the hashtag life.

00:50:51.860 So I'm just trying to spread the word not only locally, but across the nation.

00:50:57.300 OK, so you would like others to participate in this?

00:51:01.640 Only only if they want to, of course.

00:51:03.700 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Sure, sure, sure.

00:51:06.100 In solidarity, I will be walking out of this show every day at 10 a.m.

00:51:09.660 to make sure that we support your protest.

00:51:13.060 Yeah, I will tell you, we will have some we will have somebody there to cover your protest for the blaze.

00:51:20.000 And while I'm here in Los Angeles, I'm going to stop by and say hi to a couple of friends that I know will also want to support this.

00:51:28.400 And so you might be getting some other calls from some other famous people.

00:51:32.980 All right. All right. Thank you.

00:51:35.000 All right, Brandon.

00:51:38.620 Wow. That's powerful.

00:51:40.360 I think I'm going to walk out at 11 and nine.

00:51:42.720 No, I don't. And noon.

00:51:43.820 No, see, I didn't want in two.

00:51:45.120 I didn't back solidarity.

00:51:46.580 No, I didn't back the first protest.

00:51:48.840 So, well, yeah, but I'm going to you look like you might have.

00:51:52.420 Well, no, but I but I I didn't.

00:51:54.280 I'm going to walk out this teacher.

00:51:56.000 We have a bizarre connection that I just found out about yesterday.

00:52:00.280 A bizarre connection to this teacher.

00:52:02.680 I can't I can't believe we didn't know this.

00:52:05.580 I can't believe she didn't say something.

00:52:07.440 You won't believe it when we tell you about it.

00:52:10.780 But before we get to that, I've I've got to tell you about the Florida man that's dressed as a bull

00:52:16.500 and tried to set a house on fire using spaghetti sauce.

00:52:19.640 We'll get we'll get into that when we come back.

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00:54:00.720 All right.

00:54:06.340 I I mean, I this may be one of the greatest stories of all time,

00:54:11.360 mainly because the writer just assumes that we don't need any more information than this.

00:54:17.800 Are you ready?

00:54:19.360 Two Florida men.

00:54:21.640 Got it so far, Stu?

00:54:22.980 Every one of these stories starts that way.

00:54:24.860 It does.

00:54:25.640 It's always in Florida.

00:54:27.180 There's something weird about Florida.

00:54:29.240 Two Florida men, one dressed in a bull costume, accused of trying to burn down a house using ragu spaghetti sauce.

00:54:38.760 That's the headline.

00:54:40.260 It's a long headline.

00:54:41.500 It is.

00:54:42.600 Two Florida men accused of breaking into their ex-boyfriend's home.

00:54:47.760 So quick question.

00:54:49.520 Yeah.

00:54:49.900 Did both of the men that broke in date the boyfriend?

00:54:54.160 Don't have any idea.

00:54:54.920 Two Florida men are accused of breaking into their ex-boyfriend's home and using ragu spaghetti sauce to try to burn it down.

00:55:05.060 Derek Irving, 36, John Silva, 28, were arrested on March 13th after allegedly breaking into the home and stealing several items,

00:55:15.500 including a flat screen television, a window air conditioning unit and a vacuum.

00:55:24.000 And a vacuum?

00:55:25.940 It's a Bissell.

00:55:26.960 You got to grab the Bissell.

00:55:27.840 When you're when you're robbing a house, you got to grab the vacuum and the window air conditioning, the window air conditioning unit.

00:55:33.940 OK, the victim called 9-1-1 after being alerted by security cameras of motion being detected in the house.

00:55:40.680 He said a towel had been placed over one of the cameras.

00:55:44.240 Arriving deputies saw a red SUV leaving the area and conducted a stop.

00:55:49.160 The two men inside the vehicle later identified as Irving and Silva said they were just picking up some clothes from the home.

00:55:55.220 The victim told the reporter that Irving was wearing a bull costume.

00:56:07.360 A bull.

00:56:07.980 And there's no and there's no explanation.

00:56:09.780 Like not a Chicago Bulls uniform.

00:56:11.220 No, no, it's a bull costume.

00:56:12.760 And it doesn't say why it doesn't.

00:56:15.360 There wasn't a follow up question on that one.

00:56:17.320 No, no, no.

00:56:18.400 Just the victim told the reporter that Irving was wearing a bull costume.

00:56:22.020 Period.

00:56:24.020 The.

00:56:25.220 The men initially denied the burglary, but when authorities went to the home, they found a burning pot of ragout spaghetti sauce and a washcloth near it, which appeared to be an effort to start a fire.

00:56:40.580 Now, when I start a fire, I think, let's put some spaghetti sauce on, hoping that that catches a flame and it jumps over to the washcloth that I have near it.

00:56:53.520 Uh, the victim said, uh, the victim said, and I quote, they were trying to make it look like I left the stove on, but who gets up at 2 a.m., I'm still quoting, and fixes Skeddy.

00:57:09.200 Uh, Skeddy.

00:57:10.360 S-K-E-I-T-T-I. 0.98

00:57:13.520 Skeddy.

00:57:14.420 Who gets up at 2 o'clock and fixes Skeddy?

00:57:17.280 I think it's a totally appropriate thing to do.

00:57:19.240 I think.

00:57:19.920 Honestly.

00:57:20.600 Who gets up at 2 o'clock in the morning, dresses in a bull costume, and tries to fix Skeddy?

00:57:25.920 That's the real question.

00:57:27.220 Better question.

00:57:27.960 Yeah.

00:57:28.300 You're right.

00:57:28.580 Yeah.

00:57:28.720 Yeah.

00:57:28.800 Yeah.

00:57:28.880 Yeah.

00:57:28.920 Yeah.

00:57:28.960 Yeah.

00:57:29.160 Yeah.

00:57:29.200 Yeah.

00:57:29.400 Yeah.

00:57:29.460 Yeah.

00:57:30.460 Yeah.

00:57:30.960 Yeah.

00:57:31.460 Yeah.

00:57:32.460 Yeah.

00:57:32.840 Yeah.

00:57:32.900 Yeah.

00:57:34.900 Yeah.

00:57:36.840 Yeah.

00:57:36.900 Yeah.

00:57:38.900 Yeah.

00:57:40.900 Yeah.

00:57:42.900 Yeah.

00:57:43.900 Yeah.

00:57:44.900 Yeah.

00:57:45.900 Yeah.

00:57:46.760 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:57:50.780 From Los Angeles, California.

00:57:53.220 Welcome to the program.

00:57:54.660 We're glad you're here.

00:57:57.900 Actually, I wish you were here and I wasn't, but we're in California today, which is just

00:58:05.260 bizarre as hell.

00:58:07.080 It really is.

00:58:07.960 I stood in the parking lot today.

00:58:11.860 I didn't understand the rules of the parking lot.

00:58:15.640 There are more rules in this parking lot, this parking garage that I parked in at four

00:58:20.620 o'clock this morning than there are in my church.

00:58:23.280 I don't, I don't know how, I don't know what all the rules mean.

00:58:27.260 So I'm, I'm fully expecting that my, my car has been impounded by the state and probably

00:58:34.820 sold off, uh, you know, in, in some sort of, uh, you know, grab and, and, and I'll fully

00:58:41.620 support it.

00:58:42.240 Whatever.

00:58:42.600 I, I'm just glad I'm here.

00:58:44.840 I'm just glad I just made it in here.

00:58:47.520 Uh, California is an, is a really an interesting place.

00:58:51.280 And what, what is fascinating to me is there is starting to be this movement here in California

00:59:01.720 that people are starting to gather together and rise up and say, okay, all right, all right.

00:59:08.480 I'm not, no, I'm not going to play that game.

00:59:10.040 Um, and one of the people that is doing it, we just talked to a student of, uh, Julianne

00:59:15.780 Benzel.

00:59:16.200 She's from Rockland high school.

00:59:17.520 She's a history teacher.

00:59:18.340 She was put on a leave last week for questioning the walkouts and not, not even questioning

00:59:22.340 the walkouts, just saying, Hey, would this be, would this, would this be okay?

00:59:27.820 And would the school react?

00:59:29.540 Would it be right?

00:59:30.260 And would the school react the same?

00:59:31.920 If this was a pro-life movement that inspired one of the students to do this.

00:59:35.820 And, and, uh, Julianne, we just got off the phone with him and, and he's, uh, he's hoping

00:59:41.700 that this turns into something that is a nationwide, uh, movement on, on pro-life.

00:59:50.140 Yes.

00:59:51.700 Now is this, Julianne, is this something that you as a teacher, I mean, do you think this,

00:59:57.400 is this what our students should be doing with their time and having walkout after walkout

01:00:04.160 after walkout?

01:00:05.820 Well, you know what?

01:00:07.300 I'm actually still grappling with that myself because, um, just to, to backtrack for one

01:00:12.780 sweet second.

01:00:13.680 Um, I asked kind of a hypothetical question in class, as you well know, and on the day

01:00:19.000 of the walkout, when I was placed on leave, Brandon sat in class and really processed through

01:00:23.840 this and said, Hmm, I wonder if there is a double standard.

01:00:27.880 And that led him to, on his complete own volition, go make an appointment with our principal.

01:00:33.820 And so when I came back to school on Monday, um, much to my quite delight, he said, I'm

01:00:41.740 going to make, or I made an appointment and I'm going to see, I'm going to answer your

01:00:45.560 question, Mrs.

01:00:46.200 Benzel.

01:00:46.520 And so, um, at the moment I can't necessarily answer your question because I have mixed feelings

01:00:52.060 on whether, um, public schools should be hotbeds of political activism, but I am unbelievably

01:00:59.340 impressed by his bravery and courage.

01:01:01.780 And so I'm going to say a yes, no to your question.

01:01:05.020 Yeah.

01:01:05.400 You know, I, I think, you know, I don't think the schools, you walk out after school, you

01:01:10.560 do this, show me your, your commitment when it's after class, because a lot of kids will

01:01:16.240 just walk out because they just want to get out of school.

01:01:18.940 And I don't know anybody who's sitting in front of me that might've done that during

01:01:22.020 high school at all.

01:01:23.440 Just, just, just a couple dozen times.

01:01:25.020 Yeah.

01:01:25.220 No more than that.

01:01:25.760 I didn't care.

01:01:26.640 You didn't care what it was.

01:01:27.960 No, you could have been, you know, I'm standing for Satan.

01:01:30.580 Yeah, yeah, whatever.

01:01:31.560 We're leaving class.

01:01:32.800 Uh, and so you want to show commitment, do it on a Saturday, do it after school.

01:01:38.300 Then I'll believe you're actually committed to it.

01:01:40.980 However, that being said, we have to get to a point perhaps that if kids did this and

01:01:48.060 went to their, the, went to their schools and said, we want to stand for life and we

01:01:52.580 want to have a memorial for the 60 million children that have been killed through

01:01:57.780 abortion and we want to, we want to stand for life.

01:02:02.000 Uh, those schools should do that. 0.99

01:02:05.700 I doubt they will, but they should do that based on their reaction last week and their

01:02:11.640 endorsement of that.

01:02:13.600 Then after that, maybe all the schools can get together and go, you know, okay, let's,

01:02:17.040 let's just hold these after, after class.

01:02:19.900 Exactly.

01:02:20.480 And that's exactly where I hope the narrative is going.

01:02:23.780 Um, I believe Brandon's whole point is, um, not just our school administration, but I

01:02:28.400 think he's putting a fleece out to the entire country.

01:02:31.080 However, each school reacted and, um, allowed, uh, students to protest last, uh, Wednesday,

01:02:38.280 March 14th.

01:02:39.080 We're just asking for the same standard and hold your school accountable in this particular,

01:02:45.140 uh, protest.

01:02:46.140 And then maybe after, you know, thousands upon thousands of students walk out on April 11th,

01:02:51.940 maybe there'll be a national dialogue that public schools should not be the hotbeds of

01:02:56.720 political activism.

01:02:57.400 And maybe we should actually be, you know, in the classroom construct, uh, instructing,

01:03:01.640 having dialogue.

01:03:02.540 But then, yeah, if you're really passionate about a particular subject, there is ample time

01:03:06.720 on your own time to go, uh, be active.

01:03:09.800 So let me, let me say this too, just to, just to prove the point.

01:03:13.660 If you went to a school that did not support the walkouts, you should be going into the

01:03:19.260 principal's office and saying, Hey, we want to do a walkout on pro-life to see if they

01:03:23.520 are biased the other way as well.

01:03:25.240 It should be consistent.

01:03:26.620 If you're going to do it, it's got to be consistent and not pick and choose the administration

01:03:31.120 or the school district's, uh, you know, pet project.

01:03:34.660 100% Glenn, 100%.

01:03:38.140 So if there, and, and again, I heard, you know, a gamut of different stories, like, you

01:03:43.440 know, in some schools in Texas, they were not allowed.

01:03:45.940 So I would say, challenge them.

01:03:47.900 You can't allow this pro-life, uh, you know, protest, but how about the mayor of Baltimore?

01:03:52.960 Is she going to use city funds to put kids on school buses and bring them to the, the, 1.00

01:03:58.340 um, capital, uh, next, you know, on Wednesday, April 11th to protest abortion.

01:04:03.340 And let's challenge this.

01:04:06.320 Uh, if you would like to be, if you'd like to be involved, there is no, uh, there's no

01:04:12.440 George Soros fund, uh, that is funding this.

01:04:15.700 Uh, this is going to have to be actual grassroots.

01:04:18.180 There's, there's no women's March.

01:04:20.180 There's no Louis Farrakhan to provide security or inspiration.

01:04:24.340 Uh, this is you.

01:04:25.540 Uh, and if you want to get involved, I ask you to, uh, get involved and you can hashtag

01:04:31.120 life, hashtag life and spread the world word, talk to your kids, encourage them to hold each

01:04:39.560 administration accountable and consistent.

01:04:42.180 And let's affect change in this way.

01:04:46.380 Schools should not be the hotbed of political marches.

01:04:52.740 Kids should not be used for politics. 0.83

01:04:56.160 Let's if, if everybody would rise up and say, okay, we want to do this.

01:05:01.160 The school is going to say most likely no, even if they wanted to do it because they're

01:05:07.800 real, they will realize, oh crap, now we've opened a can of worms, but let's get them on

01:05:13.080 record saying no more of these marches during school hours. 0.53

01:05:18.260 That's a good, that's a good thing to stand for.

01:05:21.580 And, um, I'm just going to take it maybe one step further because there are little other

01:05:25.720 protests that we've had throughout the year.

01:05:27.720 Um, maybe where a student will show up and they don't talk for the day.

01:05:31.040 It's called the day of silence or there's been other little things.

01:05:34.120 I just, I'm, I think Brandon is challenging school protests in general, whether it's a

01:05:39.900 walkout or you're not going to talk for the day or what have you like, like, let's, let's

01:05:44.880 figure this out, please.

01:05:46.120 I think they're not going to talk for a day.

01:05:48.060 If I was a teacher, I would have inspired that one.

01:05:50.640 Hey kids, let's do a not going to talk today.

01:05:53.800 Walk out.

01:05:54.500 Um, Julianne, I have to tell you, I, we've talked to each other.

01:05:57.700 Now three times.

01:05:58.800 I can't believe I didn't know our connection to each other.

01:06:02.080 I know.

01:06:03.000 Isn't it unbelievable?

01:06:04.240 Okay.

01:06:04.620 So you want to talk about a small world and weird Josh Charles.

01:06:08.580 If you, if you, if you're a long time listener and viewer of me, you know that when I was

01:06:14.660 on Fox, I said offhand, somebody needs to write the federalist papers in today's language.

01:06:21.700 The, the original argument, somebody needs to write that so people can read it.

01:06:26.580 Well, this kid, Josh Charles, he was in college and he was watching me and he was like, I can

01:06:32.400 do that.

01:06:33.200 And so he wrote it and it became a book that we put out together called the original argument

01:06:39.080 in that, uh, in the acknowledgement.

01:06:42.340 I just, I just saw this yesterday, um, to Julianne Benzel for being the absolute best

01:06:49.040 kind of U S history teacher.

01:06:50.460 There is one whose love of history and her students inspires all who know her to be passionate

01:06:55.880 about learning and truth.

01:06:57.440 I can't believe, I can't believe you're, you're really the person that inspired him

01:07:04.900 to do that.

01:07:06.680 Well, as I was talking to your producer and Joshua and I were conversing over text, um,

01:07:12.660 he said, Hey, do you remember?

01:07:13.960 And I'm like, Oh yeah.

01:07:14.940 And then, so I went and looked up the, the, and, and snapshot a picture of the, uh, where

01:07:20.480 he, you just, what you just wrote.

01:07:22.500 And I thought this is, this is kind of crazy.

01:07:24.940 Because that's about 10 years, maybe even 15 years ago when I had Josh in class and, um,

01:07:30.380 this all unfolded and, um, yeah, it's, it's pretty fascinating.

01:07:34.480 Now I understand too, uh, the kind of teacher that you are, uh, that when you said all of

01:07:39.700 my old students called up to support me, uh, you're, you're one of those teachers that,

01:07:44.640 that each of us have had at least one that is a pivot point in your life is somebody who,

01:07:50.560 who inspires you to go in and do your own homework and really challenges you.

01:07:54.940 Every step of the way, Julianne, great to talk to you.

01:07:58.320 Um, best of luck.

01:07:59.420 And we'll, we'll check in, uh, next week when we hear from the principal in the school.

01:08:04.020 Thank you so much.

01:08:08.720 Hashtag life, by the way, spread the word.

01:08:15.200 Notice you haven't brought up the scrunchie story today yet.

01:08:18.160 I'm good.

01:08:18.880 You haven't even addressed it.

01:08:19.780 I am going to, I love this.

01:08:21.980 Let me give you the headline.

01:08:23.940 Ruth Bader Ginsburg ranks the best cities to buy scrunchies.

01:08:31.700 Now you want to say the fake news?

01:08:34.400 No, this is actual news.

01:08:38.520 Fox news has defined this as news.

01:08:42.080 It's, uh, it's almost better than the guy dressed as a bull trying to set a house on fire with

01:08:47.940 spaghetti sauce, which I gave you in a minute, a minute ago.

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01:09:07.940 Look at this house.

01:09:08.740 It's got another open house.

01:09:10.560 This, I started real estate agents.

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01:09:30.140 Don't move that pillow.

01:09:31.160 Don't move that.

01:09:31.720 We have an open house this Saturday. 0.94

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01:10:29.180 Okay.

01:10:30.040 So yes, yes.

01:10:32.040 The GOP budget.

01:10:33.360 It's fantastic.

01:10:35.080 It's truly fantastic.

01:10:36.520 It spends more money than any year during the Obama administration.

01:10:41.720 It puts us on track for a $38 trillion debt.

01:10:46.400 Exciting.

01:10:47.100 Oh my gosh.

01:10:47.680 It's great.

01:10:48.460 It's so great.

01:10:49.400 And we'll get into that a little bit more, uh, next hour.

01:10:52.860 But can we talk about the real news, please?

01:10:54.800 Not all the fake news, but the real news.

01:10:57.200 Uh, this from Fox news today, Ruth Bader Ginsburg ranks the best cities to buy scrunchies.

01:11:06.540 The Supreme Court.

01:11:07.880 Supreme Court justice.

01:11:08.680 Well, fashionistas everywhere champion the return of the scrunchie. 1.00

01:11:11.960 Um, I, I didn't know this was, uh, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, uh, uh, uh, argues that they never

01:11:20.060 went out of style.

01:11:21.460 I've been wearing scrunchies for years.

01:11:23.800 Says the 85 year old Supreme Court justice.

01:11:26.800 My best scrunchies come from Zurich.

01:11:29.740 The next best is London.

01:11:31.440 And the third best city to buy scrunchies is Rome.

01:11:35.420 She has served in the Supreme Court for nearly 25 years is famed for accessorizing her black 1.00

01:11:40.760 robes with lace collars, oversized glasses, and fishnet gloves.

01:11:44.640 She says the fluffy circlet hair ties of the eighties and nineties have a special place

01:11:50.280 in her heart.

01:11:51.320 This, by the way, is not fake news.

01:11:53.680 Uh, my scrunchie collection is not as large as my collar and glove collection, but scrunchies

01:11:59.060 are catching up.

01:12:00.240 The justice said both in and out of the courtroom.

01:12:03.680 She's been known to fasten a low ponytail with a tried and true hairband, uh, in neutrals

01:12:10.300 and metallic color, uh, uh, colors for their part.

01:12:14.720 Scrunchies are back with a vengeance.

01:12:16.700 Urban outfitters reported had a hundred and 70% uptick of scrunchie sales.

01:12:23.040 Nevertheless, opinion is mixed as to whether or not scrunchies are appropriate in the workplace.

01:12:29.680 Like the Supreme Court.

01:12:30.740 Some in the pro scrunchie camp say they're gentler than elastics, but the pro scrunchie

01:12:38.260 camp, uh, yeah, uh, this is by a way, a quote from the wall street journal.

01:12:45.600 Oh, some in the pro scrunchie camp say they're gentler than elastics and easy like sweatpants

01:12:51.820 for your hair.

01:12:53.180 Scrunchie haters, however, say there are sweatpants for your hair.

01:12:57.260 The women that have been polled, however, were bar by and large fans of scrunchies. 0.87

01:13:06.340 Okay.

01:13:07.160 So there's a lot of things going on here.

01:13:09.560 Um, we have the wall street journal and Fox news polling people about scrunchies.

01:13:15.960 There is a pro scrunchie camp and a hate scrunchie camp.

01:13:22.800 Apparently in America, we found out that scrunchies are coming back in style.

01:13:28.480 Who knew they were ever out of style.

01:13:30.880 And we have Ruth Bader Ginsburg on record on fashion accessories and not to be an elitist

01:13:41.300 at all.

01:13:41.960 We're the best places you can buy scrunchies.

01:13:44.800 Some would say the mall.

01:13:47.360 She went right for Zurich, London, and Rome.

01:13:50.900 You gotta love this.

01:13:52.000 Fox news is doing some interesting stuff.

01:13:53.600 How much time do we have here, sir?

01:13:54.500 Do we have time for a little?

01:13:56.260 Okay.

01:13:56.760 Here, Glenn.

01:13:57.200 These are these news alerts.

01:13:58.300 Listen, which one is Fox news?

01:14:00.500 GOP senators recommend FBI probe.

01:14:03.040 The Steele dossier explained.

01:14:04.880 Teenager broke into Texas home.

01:14:06.360 Watch mom and daughter sleep.

01:14:07.540 Left behind stain.

01:14:09.480 Wait.

01:14:10.340 These are all actual Fox news alerts.

01:14:12.940 Women sued by Salon after posting photos of painful reaction to eyebrow tattoos.

01:14:20.140 Police breakfast photo stirs controversy on Twitter.

01:14:24.540 Um, opinion.

01:14:26.120 I made a great discovery when I stopped staring at a woman on the beach. 0.97

01:14:30.800 What the hell? 0.84

01:14:35.440 Well, there you have it. 0.98

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01:14:42.860 Glenn.

01:14:43.600 Back.

01:14:44.560 Mercury.

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01:14:58.340 Then the IRS deposits money into the hacked client's bank accounts.

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01:15:57.800 A bunny.

01:15:58.640 A bunny.

01:16:00.560 A bunny.

01:16:01.860 Named Marlon Bundo is the latest victim of attacks from the far left. 0.85

01:16:06.580 They've gone nuts.

01:16:08.420 Vice President Pence and his wife Karen have a black and white pet bunny rabbit named Marlon Bundo.

01:16:15.120 Popular bunny.

01:16:16.660 Close to 23,000 followers on Instagram.

01:16:20.100 And one of Pence's daughters, Charlotte, wrote a children's book that went on sale this week titled

01:16:24.820 Marlon Bundo's Day in the Life of the Vice President.

01:16:31.500 Now, I mean, we don't have to really spend any time about how exciting a day in the life of a vice president actually is.

01:16:40.500 But the book is really well illustrated by Karen Pence, who's an accomplished watercolor painter.

01:16:46.400 And in the book, Marlon Bundo narrates a tour of the White House and the vice president's house.

01:16:53.220 It sounds harmless.

01:16:54.780 It's a bunny rabbit.

01:16:58.180 Kid fun.

01:16:59.680 Portion of the proceeds being donated to a nonprofit that fights human trafficking and an art therapy program at a children's hospital.

01:17:07.540 So the money's going to a good place.

01:17:09.180 The book is completely nonpolitical.

01:17:14.360 But the bunny rabbit has been targeted by the radical left because Marlon Bundo's owner, we should I'm sorry, apologize.

01:17:22.320 His caretaker, Mike Pence, has committed the unpardonable sin of supporting the Religious Freedom Restoration Act when he was governor of Indiana,

01:17:31.460 which was immediately spun as anti-gay, which it wasn't, and it branded Pence a bigot for life.

01:17:37.780 So in the never-ending vengeance of the far left, now comedian John Oliver has joined the attack.

01:17:44.940 We also wrote a book about Mike Pence's rabbit that has also been published.

01:17:50.380 In fact, while his is out tomorrow, ours is released right now.

01:17:57.260 Now, there are a few small differences between the two books.

01:18:02.880 You'll notice right away that our rabbit has a bow tie, so there's that.

01:18:09.260 Also, our story is about Marlon Bundo falling in love with another boy rabbit because our Marlon Bundo is gay just like the real Marlon Bundo. 0.81

01:18:19.460 And let me be completely clear about this.

01:18:21.780 This is actually a book for children.

01:18:23.520 This is a real children's book. 0.98

01:18:24.920 This isn't some adult book telling Mike Pence to go f**k himself, although in buying it, that's exactly what you would be doing. 0.98

01:18:33.580 Isn't that great? 0.99

01:18:34.760 The villain in the book is a Mike Pence lookalike named Stinkbug who tries to stop gay marriage.

01:18:42.300 On Monday, the fans of John Oliver spammed the real Marlon Bundo page on Amazon with one-star reviews and really crude comments.

01:18:51.280 So, why is the left mocking and cruel towards Mike Pence?

01:18:57.380 I mean, when they hate Donald Trump with such intense passion, you would think that the button-up Pence would be their favorite Republican.

01:19:05.580 The left hammers Trump 24-7 for all of his moral failures and then hammers Pence for being old-fashioned and square and remaining faithful to his wife.

01:19:16.760 I just want the left to understand, if your dream comes true and you impeach Trump, you do know that Mike Pence becomes president, right?

01:19:27.860 Oh, maybe that's why you're hammering him now.

01:19:33.240 Just setting the table to make sure that the whole world knows that he just might be worse than Donald Trump.

01:19:46.760 It's Thursday, March 22nd.

01:19:52.720 You're listening to the Glenn Beck Program.

01:19:55.180 I had a fascinating night last night.

01:19:57.660 We did a show that's going to be posted tonight for subscribers only on theblaze.com slash TV.

01:20:05.600 We had dinner last night with how many people, Stu?

01:20:10.080 There was eight of us at the table, right?

01:20:11.820 Yes.

01:20:12.360 And they ranged from a—I mean, they were all—it was the Island of Misfit Toys.

01:20:19.380 There was a transgender man who was African-American, or still is African-American, and deeply Christian.

01:20:33.000 There was a Marxist, socialist kind of professor at the table.

01:20:40.240 There was a deep Christian constitutional scholar.

01:20:46.060 There was a really smart libertarian guitar player in a band.

01:20:51.340 There was an African-American activist radio host and a refugee from Venezuela who could not stop talking about liberty and how important it is to pay attention to what your government is doing.

01:21:06.720 It was amazing.

01:21:09.000 Amazing.

01:21:09.520 We got up afterwards, and the socialist professor said to me, I have to tell you, that was the best discussion I think I've been engaged in in a long time.

01:21:23.400 While we all completely disagree with each other, that was fascinating to be able to have that talk in today's America.

01:21:30.920 America, thank you.

01:21:32.900 It was truly remarkable, truly remarkable, when you just start treating people with respect.

01:21:39.480 And we did—it got heated a couple of times, but we all walked away with respect for one another.

01:21:46.880 Yeah, it was kind of more of an experiment to just see if the Earth would fold in upon itself if this event occurred.

01:21:53.000 Yeah.

01:21:53.280 And it did not.

01:21:53.940 It didn't.

01:21:54.520 And it's something that you do not see on television.

01:21:57.360 Nobody—everybody has an agenda.

01:21:58.600 We had no agenda other than, I want to understand you.

01:22:02.820 I want to understand you.

01:22:04.500 And I want to understand what you're thinking.

01:22:06.180 And it was quite remarkable.

01:22:08.820 That doesn't happen everywhere.

01:22:10.620 In fact, it's not happening really anywhere.

01:22:12.280 Here in California, let me give you this story quickly.

01:22:15.140 This is a story we're going to cover on tomorrow.

01:22:17.020 There's a community here in the county of San Bernardino that has just told this cafe that they can't—they won't retain their business license because they're playing religious Christian music as Muzak.

01:22:36.360 Now, the store owner says, look, yes, we do.

01:22:40.400 We have easy listening music and contemporary Christian.

01:22:43.820 Well, some atheists got together and said that that needed to be brought to the attention of the Department of Real Estate Services. 0.80

01:22:53.820 I don't want to live in a state that has a Department of Real Estate Services.

01:22:56.740 But the Department of Real Estate Services, the county of San Bernardino, they have now—they're going to put this cafe out of business.

01:23:07.940 And it is because it is located in the Superior Court building.

01:23:16.100 And they say they can do it.

01:23:18.640 The owners say this is religious bigotry.

01:23:21.380 I think this is, quite honestly, the old progressive and hippie bigotry.

01:23:27.340 I'm reading a book, Rock Gets Religion.

01:23:30.140 It's by Mark Joseph, forward by Alice Cooper.

01:23:34.440 And right towards the beginning, it talks about how the younger generation is more tolerant.

01:23:40.300 Listen to this.

01:23:40.740 The generational shift became apparent when Rolling Stone, a legend of the old guard of rock music criticism, refused to run an advertisement for a modern translation of the Bible in its magazine, though it violated no guidelines.

01:23:55.300 Blender, on the other hand, representing a new and more tolerant generation of the music business, readily agreed to run the ad.

01:24:02.960 The old guard of rock, schooled in the fires of battles between church and rock music, was given way now to a new group of rock executives, journalists, and radio programmers, though not necessarily supportive of the effort to blend Christian ideas into the mainstream music industry, aren't openly hostile as their forebears were.

01:24:24.620 Mark Joseph is on with us now, the author of Rock and Religion.

01:24:27.980 Hey, Mark, how are you?

01:24:29.620 Hey, Glenn.

01:24:30.160 Glenn, good to be with you.

01:24:30.900 So, first of all, this is crazy.

01:24:35.140 I know you live in California.

01:24:36.360 This is crazy, what is happening here.

01:24:39.480 But when you started writing this about rock and religion, are you finding that there really is a trend of more tolerance at the lower end?

01:24:50.600 Because that seems to run counterintuitive to what everything we're seeing on TV.

01:24:56.820 No, there is definitely a generational factor at work here.

01:25:00.240 And, you know, in the book I talk about, rock and religion got off to a bad start in the 50s.

01:25:05.420 You know, when rock and roll first started, look, the culture was inundating traditionalists at one time.

01:25:12.800 There was the pill, there was rock and roll, it was the Beatles, it was the Stones, it was drugs.

01:25:17.240 It was hard to know what was good and what wasn't.

01:25:19.540 And I think many in the church overreacted and began to burn records and, you know, brand it the devil's music and all that.

01:25:25.580 And some of the rock guys went along with the gag, like, okay, we'll pretend we're Satanists.

01:25:29.720 They weren't all, very few were real Satanists, right?

01:25:32.500 But they took the pose.

01:25:34.440 And so you had this unnecessary, in my mind, battle going on.

01:25:38.500 And really what the book is about is in the last, so what happened in response to that was when Christian people did try to make rock music,

01:25:46.760 they were often told, take, water it down a little bit, tone it down a little bit.

01:25:50.980 The founders of Christian rock, Larry Norman, recorded a record for Capitol,

01:25:55.260 and he wanted to call it, we need a lot more Jesus and a lot less rock and roll.

01:25:58.840 And Capitol said, nah, call it I love you instead.

01:26:02.680 And so they did face some opposition, right?

01:26:05.420 I love you instead of that title.

01:26:06.960 Yeah.

01:26:07.980 So they did face opposition.

01:26:09.220 But the response, unfortunately, was to go off and create a separate genre called contemporary Christian music.

01:26:15.720 And so for 20 or 30 years, CCM, as it was called, was kind of what I would call the Negro Baseball Leagues.

01:26:23.980 It was amazing players.

01:26:26.040 And as I researched that league, you know, Satchel Paige is an amazing player.

01:26:30.260 But a lot of those players never got out of the Negro Baseball Leagues.

01:26:33.480 And CCM was very similar.

01:26:35.100 So you had a parallel musical universe going on for about 30 years.

01:26:38.880 But I would say the last five to 10 years, that has changed most.

01:26:42.540 A great deal of those artists have gone mainstream.

01:26:45.720 And you say it's because a big part of it is because of American Idol.

01:26:51.640 That's right.

01:26:52.360 American Idol is really significant, Glenn, because what happened was the pop and rock stars that you and I grew up listening to in the 70s, 80s, and even the 90s, generally those are picked by a half a dozen white guys in Hollywood.

01:27:04.660 And let's just say they didn't have Glenn Beck's values, to keep it simple.

01:27:08.440 To become a rock or pop star, you had to pass a certain test to get by those guys.

01:27:16.360 And I have in the book an actual example of this happening where a guy who went on to become a major Christian pop star named Keith Green, before he became a Christian pop star, he auditioned for Clive Davis in New York in 1977.

01:27:29.360 He didn't pass the Clive Davis test, whatever it was.

01:27:33.280 And so he was relegated to Christian music.

01:27:35.940 And that happened over and over again.

01:27:38.420 But, however, when American Idol hits, it's really interesting because for the first time, it doesn't matter what a Clive Davis thinks about you.

01:27:45.420 All that matters is what Hank in Cleveland and Susie in Tuscaloosa thinks about you, because they were voting for our pop and rock stars.

01:27:54.100 And so suddenly you have artists like Carrie Underwood and Chris Allen and dozens and dozens of artists who may not have passed the Clive Davis test.

01:28:03.140 So, you know, when you think of rock and roll music, you do think of two things, the devil's music, you know, from the old, the 1950s, he's shaking his hips, he's singing the devil's music.

01:28:18.540 You think of that, you think of, you think of the, the counterculture groups.

01:28:25.760 But then you also, if you bring Christianity into popular music, you think of those Christians like Miley Cyrus and others that have just gone horribly awry when they went and crossed over. 1.00

01:28:40.560 Right.

01:28:41.320 Yeah, it's all, it's all in the book.

01:28:43.020 The Miley Cyrus chapter is in the book.

01:28:45.560 The Katy Perry chapter is in the book.

01:28:47.020 So look, it's a mixed bag.

01:28:48.480 It's a mixed story.

01:28:49.500 But there's three other trends besides the American Idol.

01:28:52.540 The second one is young artists, for instance, like the ones I mentioned, and even Justin Bieber, whose mother is a very devout Christian woman and raised him in the church and very pro-life.

01:29:03.780 That's the kind of artist who in the past would have gone to Nashville and signed to a Christian music label.

01:29:09.280 But no, he goes straight.

01:29:10.560 His mother helps guide him straight to a mainstream label.

01:29:13.500 The second, the other phenomenon is the Alice Cooper, who wrote the foreword to the book, as you talked about.

01:29:18.220 So Alice Cooper comes back to his faith in the 1980s.

01:29:22.880 And in the old days, here's what would have happened.

01:29:24.940 He would have gone to his preacher, and his preacher would have said, well, Alice, time to go back to your given name of Vincent Furnier.

01:29:30.120 Cut your hair and tour the country singing hymns at churches.

01:29:33.420 And of course, none of his old fans would have tagged along for that ride.

01:29:37.160 But so Alice goes to his preacher and says, okay, what do I do now?

01:29:40.180 And his preacher says to him, does God make mistakes?

01:29:43.840 And Alice says, yeah, I don't think so.

01:29:45.460 And he says, well, he made you to be Alice Cooper, so go back out there and be the best, most godly Alice Cooper you can be.

01:29:52.100 And so for the last 20 years, that's what we've had.

01:29:53.740 We've had Alice Cooper essentially singing from a Christian point of view.

01:29:57.400 He doesn't drink.

01:29:58.400 He replaced his drinking with golf.

01:30:00.740 And he's the same Alice Cooper.

01:30:03.380 So that's also been huge.

01:30:05.380 And then finally, have an artist like Switchfoot and dozens and dozens of others who used to be in the contemporary Christian music industry,

01:30:12.360 who now are on mainstream labels and on your local radio station and playing at Starbucks.

01:30:17.400 So what do you think is, because at the same time that Christianity is getting such pushback and being, you know, pushed out of the public square,

01:30:29.120 you say this is happening.

01:30:31.820 Can you square the two?

01:30:33.080 Yeah, look, the price of admission to this party is to drop the label.

01:30:39.620 The label was off-putting to people.

01:30:42.860 Try telling Alice Cooper or Dave Mustaine of Megadeth you have to step off the public square because you're a born-again Christian.

01:30:49.640 Good luck with that, right?

01:30:51.160 They've earned their place in the public square, and they can't be pushed out.

01:30:55.000 I think the key is to really do good work.

01:30:58.740 And sometimes, you know, in the case of Christian music, that label was off-putting to people because it felt like it wasn't for the rest of, you know, people who weren't religious.

01:31:08.720 And so I catalog dozens and dozens of artists who are in the mainstream, and people sometimes aren't even aware.

01:31:14.780 I have friends that have no idea about Alice Cooper and the changes that he's undergone.

01:31:20.140 And so, look, his persecution sometimes happens to people of faith.

01:31:24.220 Of course.

01:31:24.760 We've all heard stories from around the world throughout history.

01:31:28.160 But I think the key is to do good work, to make the work so compelling that people will put up with some idea they might not agree with because they love what you're doing.

01:31:39.220 And the guy from Megadeth, Natasha, who's a producer on our show, she's big.

01:31:44.160 I mean, she's a big Megadeth fan.

01:31:45.900 She said that there are some songs now that he just won't sing that he used to, but he's still doing it.

01:31:54.340 That's right.

01:31:54.880 That's right.

01:31:55.360 And he is – it's an amazing story.

01:31:58.680 He, too, had, you know, bouts with alcohol and drugs.

01:32:01.980 And in the case of Alice, by the way, Alice, to my understanding, at least from what I've heard from him, he never really had to go through the 12-step program.

01:32:08.880 He just, you know, slopped, put in golf where alcohol used to be.

01:32:12.700 Wow.

01:32:12.960 Dave's had a more interesting journey.

01:32:14.960 But Prince had a similar journey.

01:32:17.020 You know, he became a very devout Jehovah's Witness.

01:32:19.340 And there were songs that he wouldn't play from his catalog as well.

01:32:22.020 So that's part of – you know, part of rock and roll is a youth thing.

01:32:26.160 And eventually people grow up, and their opinions change.

01:32:31.000 I have to tell you, Mark, it's a fascinating book.

01:32:34.240 Rock Gets Religion, The Battle for the Soul of the Devil's Music.

01:32:38.260 And I thank you so much for sharing it with us.

01:32:40.920 God bless.

01:32:41.600 Thanks, Glenn.

01:32:42.220 Thank you.

01:32:44.680 We should point out that Natasha, who's leaving us, is a big Alice Cooper fan, not a big Megadeth fan.

01:32:55.440 Oh, Alice Cooper fan.

01:32:56.020 And we can't let her leave the company.

01:32:58.040 No, no, no.

01:32:58.520 Sorry about that.

01:33:00.000 And we have to talk about that, too, tomorrow.

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01:34:52.240 According to an official who is asked to remain anonymous because they're not authorized to speak to the press on this issue,

01:34:58.000 there's a new directive already in place, and it's led to some difficult situation for civil servants up in Canada.

01:35:05.100 It happens when they talk to people and say, what's the name of parent number one?

01:35:11.980 And apparently people don't understand what is parent number one.

01:35:16.300 You mean mom or dad?

01:35:17.340 What is parent number one?

01:35:18.620 Some are very, very pleased to hear about the changes to the forms up in Canada because people just don't fit into neat little boxes.

01:35:31.780 But one MP and Treasury Board member said, yes, there are important issues for the government to concentrate on right now,

01:35:43.380 but maybe one day our government is going to decide to cancel each and every Mother's Day or Father's Day.

01:35:51.500 And we need to be able to prepare the people.

01:36:00.600 Glenn Beck Mercury.

01:36:07.700 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

01:36:09.520 I'm so glad that we have the House and the Senate and the White House controlled by the GOP

01:36:16.620 because the only way we could get, seriously, the only way we could get spending like we got in the budget that they are passing now

01:36:26.940 is if we had the GOP in and there was nothing to stop them or slow them down.

01:36:33.620 I mean, we thought that that's what would happen with the Democrats.

01:36:36.780 Democrats, well, we just got more spending than at any time during the Obama administration.

01:36:46.880 And the good news is we got our funding for the border, $1.3 billion for the funding,

01:36:55.380 but none of it can be used for a border wall.

01:36:59.440 They can build a chain link fence, but not a border wall.

01:37:04.060 So we'll keep some of our dogs in the country.

01:37:06.780 Yes.

01:37:07.320 Which is good.

01:37:08.440 Yes.

01:37:09.060 Welcome, Pat Gray, to the extravaganza.

01:37:13.000 Pat, aren't you glad that now we can get all of these things passed, like more money for IRS agents?

01:37:21.740 As Barack Obama might have said, well, at least it's not $130 trillion.

01:37:29.140 It's only $1.3 trillion.

01:37:30.720 Yeah.

01:37:31.320 So it's, but it's not, you know, a hundred times that, which is really good.

01:37:37.220 It just puts us on track to have a debt of $38 trillion in 10 years.

01:37:45.620 Jim Jordan called it the worst bill since he's been in office.

01:37:49.320 Mo Brooks was on with us earlier today.

01:37:51.860 He said the same thing.

01:37:52.600 He said, I think this is, he said, I cannot overstate how bad this budget is.

01:37:58.860 He said, this is, this is a bankrupting budget.

01:38:02.320 Yeah.

01:38:02.460 But is he an economist?

01:38:04.820 I mean, you know.

01:38:07.060 Yeah, he is.

01:38:08.380 Yeah, actually, highest daughters, highest daughters.

01:38:11.880 So anyway, besides the budget, what's on your mind today?

01:38:15.620 Well, the, the Twitter war between the president and Joe Biden, actually, Joe Biden's wasn't

01:38:21.520 on Twitter.

01:38:22.400 He was speaking to groups of kids and he told them that he would have beat the hell out of

01:38:30.680 Trump if they attended high school together.

01:38:32.800 Hold it.

01:38:33.500 So all the kids that we're supposed to, we're supposed to be teaching that violence isn't

01:38:43.880 the answer and bullying is wrong.

01:38:47.740 He just said that he would have beaten the hell out of the president.

01:38:51.240 Yeah.

01:38:51.520 If, if they were back in high school, he would have taken it behind the school and beat the

01:38:55.720 hell out of him.

01:38:56.760 Okay, good.

01:38:57.780 It's a good message.

01:38:58.880 And it's a great message.

01:39:00.200 And the president thought it was as well.

01:39:02.440 So he responded early this morning while he was, he probably got up and went to the bathroom,

01:39:07.600 immediately started his thumbs working hard.

01:39:10.440 He said, crazy Joe Biden is trying to act like a tough guy. 0.99

01:39:13.340 Actually, he's weak, both mentally and physically. 0.98

01:39:16.120 And yet he threatens me for the second time with physical assault.

01:39:19.480 He doesn't know me, but he would go down fast and hard crying all the way.

01:39:24.280 Don't threaten people, Joe.

01:39:26.540 Now, wait a minute.

01:39:28.740 I can't hold it.

01:39:30.020 Let me hear first.

01:39:30.840 Let's hear the audio of Joe Biden in front of the kids yesterday.

01:39:34.360 When a guy who ended up becoming our national leader said, I can grab a woman anywhere and 0.76

01:39:39.640 she likes it.

01:39:40.900 And then said, I made a mistake.

01:39:42.780 I didn't make a mistake, but they asked me, would I like to debate this gentleman?

01:39:47.740 And I said, no.

01:39:48.360 I said, if we were in high school, I'd take him behind the gym and beat the hell out of 0.78

01:39:51.180 him.

01:39:53.240 Yay! 0.99

01:39:55.020 I've been in a lot of locker rooms my whole life.

01:39:57.400 A pretty damn good athlete.

01:39:58.980 Yeah. 0.98

01:39:59.260 Any guy who talked that way was usually the fattest, ugliest SOB in the room. 0.99

01:40:04.460 Yay! 0.99

01:40:06.080 And insult their looks.

01:40:08.280 That's perfect.

01:40:09.640 So bullying and insulting people's physical appearance.

01:40:13.420 Both brilliant tactics from Joe Biden.

01:40:16.040 Okay.

01:40:16.300 And so then the president responds equally as third grade.

01:40:21.020 Of course.

01:40:21.840 Of course.

01:40:22.540 But this one kind of felt good, you know, because I can't.

01:40:25.540 Joe, middle class Joe is doing this kind of stuff all the time.

01:40:28.240 Lunch bucket Joe's the best.

01:40:31.120 And so, you know, it didn't hit me as hard as it normally would from a president saying

01:40:38.980 something like this.

01:40:40.060 But then along came Jake Tapper, who kind of put the whole thing into perspective.

01:40:46.260 Tapper tweeted out that, you know, these two tough guys had nine Vietnam deferments between

01:40:55.740 the two of them and one was asthma and the other was bone spurs.

01:41:04.380 So maybe they're not quite as tough as they're trying to make it out.

01:41:10.940 And it's interesting with Tapper because, yeah, he went after both of them.

01:41:14.800 He didn't just go after Trump.

01:41:16.440 I like the fact that he treats both sides the same.

01:41:21.700 And, you know, our side doesn't like that normally, but it's nice to have an actual journalist

01:41:25.400 because that's what they're supposed to do, right?

01:41:27.440 They're supposed to hold our elected officials feet to the fire. 0.54

01:41:30.820 And he does that on a pretty regular basis.

01:41:33.740 Then he tweeted out, you know, who is a tough guy from that generation?

01:41:36.820 My father-in-law, Sergeant Tom Brown, enlisted in the U.S. Air Force in 1966, honorably discharged

01:41:42.620 1969, in country from 68 to 69 in the 12th Security Police Squadron Pacific Air Command.

01:41:49.500 Isn't running around talking about how tough he is.

01:41:53.400 Perspective.

01:41:54.360 What a, you know. 0.96

01:41:56.420 What a braggart, you know.

01:42:01.620 You know, it's one of those things, too, where Tapper is very consistently pro our troops.

01:42:08.960 I mean, he has backed them through very tough times.

01:42:11.760 When Democrats have taken shots at them, he's backed them.

01:42:14.720 I mean, you know, you may not like his criticism of, you know, Trump or whatever,

01:42:19.020 but, you know, he's done it to both sides for a long time.

01:42:21.380 And not necessarily because he's pro, you know, war or pro, you know, this battle or that battle.

01:42:27.340 Just because I think he has perspective on, it's not the troops' fault.

01:42:32.180 It's just not the troops' fault.

01:42:35.700 Thank you very much, Pat.

01:42:37.600 We'll be looking for your extravaganza coming up in just a second.

01:42:41.060 I just lost a...

01:42:43.580 My extravaganza?

01:42:45.420 Oh, it's, I mean, it's incredible.

01:42:48.360 It's going to be especially extravagant today, so...

01:42:50.920 Oh, really?

01:42:51.340 What do you have coming up on the program today that's so extravagant?

01:42:54.060 Well, we're going to have dancing elephants. 0.99

01:42:57.000 Really?

01:42:57.460 Hang on just a second.

01:42:58.180 Yeah.

01:42:58.440 Hang on.

01:42:58.680 Oh, my gosh.

01:42:59.000 And then I'm training lions in about an hour and a half, so watch for that.

01:43:03.500 And I've asked Pat to practice on the ribbons, and he's going to fly over the crowd tonight.

01:43:10.700 I'm going to have a safety net, however.

01:43:12.820 He's going to...

01:43:13.420 We don't want a repeat of what happened.

01:43:15.220 No, no, no.

01:43:15.940 No safety net for you.

01:43:17.180 No safety net.

01:43:18.000 Yeah.

01:43:18.300 Did you see that video of the Cirque du Soleil guy?

01:43:20.840 Oh, gosh.

01:43:20.980 So disturbing.

01:43:22.100 So sad.

01:43:22.320 So disturbing.

01:43:23.540 Oof.

01:43:24.240 And, you know, so what does that mean?

01:43:27.920 Do you put a safety net under, you know...

01:43:29.960 Yeah, I think so, right?

01:43:32.160 I mean, it's America.

01:43:34.320 So, of course, you either ban the activity or you put a safety net under him.

01:43:39.360 That's how we work, right?

01:43:40.800 But any time anybody's hurt or killed doing something, that's what we do.

01:43:45.740 We kind of overreact.

01:43:46.820 Well, we don't want that to happen again.

01:43:49.680 No.

01:43:50.040 Have you gone to O?

01:43:51.600 Have you guys been to O in Vegas?

01:43:53.340 No.

01:43:53.500 I think I did see that one.

01:43:54.560 It's the only one I think I've ever seen.

01:43:55.740 With the water?

01:43:56.320 Yeah.

01:43:56.640 Oh, my God.

01:43:57.560 Holy cow. 0.89

01:43:58.900 Cirque du Soleil is...

01:44:00.340 I mean, it's amazing.

01:44:01.580 I've seen them under the tent in Philadelphia.

01:44:04.200 Did you go with us?

01:44:04.980 I've only been to O in Vegas.

01:44:05.800 So it was a small tent.

01:44:07.440 This is before they became big.

01:44:08.740 I saw them in a small tent, and it was wild in a small tent.

01:44:14.800 You know, I've seen them all over the country.

01:44:17.040 I went to see O.

01:44:19.380 O is...

01:44:20.740 It's all water.

01:44:23.220 And the floor continues to open up and then close, and the depth of the pool can go up and down.

01:44:30.540 And so you never know how deep the water is, because it changes all the time.

01:44:36.060 Like, you'll see someone kind of like on the...

01:44:39.720 It looks like they're walking on the water.

01:44:41.420 And then, you know, five seconds later, they'll be in another spot, and a person will dive from like a high dive right to the spot where the person just was standing.

01:44:50.880 So it looks like he's going to crash right into the ground, but of course, the floor is always altering.

01:44:56.000 It's always changing, and so you never know.

01:44:58.260 And there are...

01:44:59.300 I can't remember how many trips there are, how many safety triggers there are in this thing.

01:45:09.440 It's like 9,000 safety points that the show has to stop at, and it has to tick it off, and it has to be cleared like 9,000 times every single performance.

01:45:21.240 It's nuts.

01:45:22.980 And these guys will be up three stories, and they dive down into a pool, and this pool is deep enough, but it's very narrow.

01:45:32.140 It's a very...

01:45:32.780 I mean, you've got to hit it right.

01:45:34.240 And it's terrifying to watch.

01:45:36.640 Terrifying.

01:45:37.760 But, I mean, you know, these guys choose to do it every night.

01:45:42.580 Yeah.

01:45:43.220 I won't be doing any of that, but I do have Lippinzer Stallions coming up in about 15 minutes.

01:45:47.680 Really?

01:45:48.220 Good.

01:45:48.740 Yeah.

01:45:49.380 Why are they...

01:45:50.420 I mean, I know you're an expert.

01:45:51.740 Why are they called Lippinzer?

01:45:53.460 Because they're from Lippins.

01:45:57.000 The island of Lippins.

01:45:58.640 Oh.

01:45:59.760 Which we're all familiar with, of course.

01:46:01.320 I hope that wasn't a spoiler alert for your show.

01:46:03.360 Was that a big thing you were going to explain?

01:46:04.420 No, I already revealed that about three weeks ago.

01:46:07.600 Are you running pictures of the island of Lippins?

01:46:11.380 No.

01:46:11.800 No, no.

01:46:12.140 And is it close to the island of Misfit Toys?

01:46:15.580 I don't want too many people to visit because there's danger that it could tip over and capsize.

01:46:22.760 Capsize.

01:46:22.860 Yeah, okay.

01:46:25.240 Well, I hear, and I don't know if this is true, but I hear those horses, they were kept secret.

01:46:31.180 That's the same island where Gilligan and the professor and the Marianne and the others were on.

01:46:36.380 Wound up on their three-hour tour.

01:46:38.020 Yeah.

01:46:38.420 Exactly right.

01:46:39.040 Which landed on a lot longer than three hours.

01:46:42.820 So anyway, thanks a lot, Pat.

01:46:44.560 Appreciate it.

01:46:45.200 Pat Gray and his orchestra in about 15 minutes.

01:46:54.820 All right.

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01:48:21.480 Welcome to the program.

01:48:23.480 Glad you're here.

01:48:26.900 What have we missed, Stu?

01:48:28.480 What have we not hit today that we needed to?

01:48:33.840 I just want to make sure we've been going through a lot of the budget stuff, and sometimes we have been pessimistic about what our spending future is.

01:48:45.180 But we want to make sure that the important things are funded.

01:48:49.560 And President Trump had threatened to make massive cuts to the EPA budget.

01:48:53.360 This is according to the Washington Examiner.

01:48:54.700 But Congress decided to keep those funding levels the same.

01:48:58.500 You've got to be kidding me.

01:48:59.800 That's in the budget?

01:49:00.720 Yeah, no cuts on that.

01:49:02.260 We still get the $8.1 billion.

01:49:04.380 Un-frickin'-believable.

01:49:05.780 So that's good.

01:49:06.560 So wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

01:49:07.780 It's amazing.

01:49:08.180 So does that undo a lot of the stuff that he did?

01:49:12.260 I mean, a lot of stuff, Trump has done a lot of really good things with the EPA when it comes to regulation.

01:49:16.340 Scott Pruitt was a really good appointment, I think.

01:49:18.720 And they've done a really good job on that sort of executive side when it comes to environmental stuff.

01:49:26.520 I've been very pleased with it, as I've kind of gone over multiple times here.

01:49:31.740 But, you know, this is, again, that's the problem with these big bills.

01:49:35.880 Separate from all of the stuff that we could talk about, you know, Trump really does support cutting this budget.

01:49:43.280 Like, this is actually something he's pretty good on.

01:49:45.420 And, you know, but, again, it's a giant bill, and they just, well, we have to get X, Y, and Z done, so we have to agree to A, B, and C.

01:49:51.940 I'm really torn on this because Donald Trump has said that he's a big budget guy.

01:49:59.060 He's a big debt guy.

01:50:00.340 He doesn't mind debt.

01:50:01.920 Well, I do.

01:50:03.100 But in this particular case, it looks like they're giving him more than what his budget asked for.

01:50:09.320 And he asked for a lot.

01:50:11.740 Remember when he laid out the State of the Union and we were like,

01:50:15.420 Are you kidding me?

01:50:16.700 All of this spending?

01:50:18.280 No, no, no.

01:50:19.080 The Republicans gave him more.

01:50:21.620 He gave, they, the Republicans gave more spending to whoever, you know, whoever likes spending.

01:50:26.520 They gave more spending than any year of the entire Obama administration.

01:50:30.640 You have a Republican House, a Republican Senate, and a Republican presidency, and the spending levels you're getting are higher on, on the, not on the mandatory side.

01:50:40.640 On the other side, where they can make the, on the discretionary side, where they can make the choices, the spending is higher than any individual year in the entire Obama administration.

01:50:52.240 Do you remember how upset we were at the spending?

01:50:54.420 I mean, you know, again, this is not a criticism of one person.

01:50:59.240 It's a criticism of, I guess, Washington in general, and the fact that the Republican Party is largely worthless.

01:51:05.900 Let's be honest about it.

01:51:07.020 What do they do?

01:51:08.520 What do they do?

01:51:09.660 Nothing.

01:51:09.760 This is a complete waste of our time to go out there and campaign for these people and vote for them.

01:51:15.220 If you go out there and you dedicate your time, a lot of people in this audience have sent their hard-earned money to support these candidates who then go in there and vote for higher spending levels than Barack Obama.

01:51:29.360 It is really important.

01:51:30.780 Do not give your money to the GOP.

01:51:32.840 Don't give your money to the GOP.

01:51:34.740 Give it to individual candidates.

01:51:36.500 Because those individual candidates, they're most likely, if they're like you, they've been cut off from the funding from the GOP.

01:51:45.240 The GOP is not supporting them.

01:51:48.100 We need to support those people because most of them are getting cut off by the Mitch McConnells of the world.

01:51:55.600 And there is a group of Republicans that are supposed to vote against this, it looks like.

01:51:59.460 It's not finalized yet.

01:52:00.420 Justin Amash, Davidson from Ohio, Gohmert from Texas, Jordan, Ohio, Mooney, West Virginia, Posey, Florida.

01:52:06.560 Yoho, Florida, Biggs, Arizona, Duncan, Tennessee, Griffith, Virginia, Labrador, Idaho, Norman, Sanford from South Carolina, Blum.

01:52:15.760 He's turned into good, hasn't he?

01:52:17.560 Mark Sanford, yeah.

01:52:19.480 Yeah, he's been solid.

01:52:21.060 And he's been on the show a few times as well.

01:52:22.620 But his comeback has been better than his first act, I would say.

01:52:26.480 Garrett, Harris, Massey, Pierce, Brooks, let's see, Meadows, a couple of other names you're going to know.

01:52:35.180 I mean, there's a pretty solid, they're saying about 25 are going to vote against it.

01:52:40.200 It's not going to be enough to stop it, though.

01:52:41.420 That's the important part.

01:52:41.980 You need to call your House of Representatives and your senator and tell them to pass the Mo Brooks bill, which stops the government shutdown.

01:52:53.900 If they can't come together and produce a real budget, then the government doesn't shut down.

01:53:00.920 The levels just stay exactly the same.

01:53:03.100 Mercury.

The Glenn Beck Program - March 22, 2018

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