The Glenn Beck Program - 'Lines Have Been Crossed' - 4⧸16⧸18

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00:00:10.140 Love. Courage. Truth. Glenn Beck.

00:00:16.940 Well, the attack order came down late Friday night.

00:00:20.500 The U.S., France, Britain launched a total of 105 missiles

00:00:24.740 at three chemical weapons facilities deep inside of Syria.

00:00:29.120 Explosions could be seen, could be heard inside the Syrian capital of Damascus

00:00:35.440 with coalition firepower, making really a mockery of Syrian air defense. 0.98

00:00:40.980 We're going to shoot them all down. Yeah, you didn't even see it coming. 0.98

00:00:45.260 Here's how the attack went down.

00:00:47.280 While Syria scrambled to hide their military hardware within the safety of the Russian bases,

00:00:52.500 all eyes went to the growing U.S. naval buildup in the Mediterranean.

00:00:56.840 One Russian admiral even threatened to fire a torpedo at the U.S.S. Donald Cook,

00:01:03.880 which was parked alongside the U.S.S. Winston Churchill.

00:01:07.620 Now, both destroyers appeared to be holding the fort until the cavalry,

00:01:12.620 or in this case, the armada, arrived.

00:01:15.160 But it was all a ruse.

00:01:16.320 The attack order was given, and U.S. naval ships in the Red Sea and the Gulf went into action.

00:01:22.700 At the same time, B-1 bombers launched from Qatar

00:01:26.660 began dropping air-launched cruise missiles that are state-of-the-art.

00:01:31.020 They've never been used before in combat.

00:01:33.460 And it was a masterstroke in precision and modern warfare,

00:01:37.980 and exactly what you would expect from somebody like Defense Secretary Mattis.

00:01:43.540 So, what happened?

00:01:46.460 Well, after nearly a week of the coalition threatening a possible strike

00:01:52.260 and an equal amount of time hearing Russia threaten grave consequences,

00:01:56.720 we're left with a few realities.

00:01:58.400 First of all, I mean, it was cool.

00:02:01.540 It was cool to see that, you know, we fooled them,

00:02:06.740 and cool to see the new technology.

00:02:09.240 But it was impressive on that level. 0.73

00:02:12.000 But it's not going to stop Assad from killing his own people.

00:02:14.480 It won't scare Russia and Iran from supporting him. 0.59

00:02:17.620 And both the U.S. and Russia came out kind of looking silly in this whole story 0.97

00:02:22.740 because we're fighting, like, schoolchildren at the U.N.

00:02:26.180 And the hard reality is both of us really don't have the motivation 0.77

00:02:31.960 or the balls to go all in when it comes to Syria. 0.70

00:02:35.100 And that's a good thing.

00:02:36.640 For several days after the April 7th chemical attacks,

00:02:40.420 the West went all Wyatt Earp, you know.

00:02:45.240 Wild Earp, you know, with an English accent.

00:02:48.420 I'm coming, and hail's coming with me.

00:02:52.340 Then Russia barked back as if they were Curly Bill, 0.92

00:02:55.880 and really nothing happened.

00:02:58.780 At the end of the day, our attack was minimal.

00:03:02.560 It was borderline symbolic.

00:03:04.660 And for Russia, they got their bluff called

00:03:06.620 and got punked in front of the entire world.

00:03:09.400 But both countries are not willing to go to the mattresses in Syria.

00:03:15.120 And again, that's a good thing.

00:03:17.800 Now, Russia has threatened a response,

00:03:19.620 but I think you can take it to the bank

00:03:21.340 that that response is going to come in the form of a cyber attack.

00:03:24.500 So, that could be problematic.

00:03:28.180 When and where it happens is anybody's guess,

00:03:31.040 but that is Russia's main strike weapon.

00:03:33.760 It will be fought with ones and zeros. 0.77

00:03:36.640 Meanwhile, the real war in the Middle East continues to build.

00:03:40.220 And the real war is Iran's biggest goal in being in Syria to encircle Israel. 0.85

00:03:47.900 The longer Assad stays in power,

00:03:50.660 the larger the Iranian presence will be on Israel's border.

00:03:54.780 And that is what the world and the media should be watching.

00:03:58.620 The Israelis are going to be forced to strike. 0.97

00:04:01.600 Russia and the U.S. don't have a dog in the Syria fight.

00:04:05.340 But for Israel and Iran, Syria is everything. 0.96

00:04:12.160 And this is the fight we must watch.

00:04:15.340 The coming Iranian-Israeli conflict could and will affect the entire world. 0.89

00:04:22.220 We pray for Israel today.

00:04:25.240 And pray that our leaders and our media and our fellow citizens

00:04:30.520 are keeping their eye on the ball.

00:04:33.720 It's Monday, April 16th.

00:04:41.740 You're listening to the Glenn Beck Program.

00:04:44.280 So, the reaction was interesting, to say the least, on this Syria thing.

00:04:50.240 I thought it was a yawn fest.

00:04:51.580 It was kind of like, you remember when we had shock and awe?

00:04:55.520 And everybody was like, oh, shock and awe.

00:04:57.080 Man, it's going to be Operation Shock and Awe.

00:04:59.000 It's going to be the full force and might of the United States military.

00:05:02.040 And then it happened, and you're like, yeah, that was interesting.

00:05:06.560 It's possible things like Independence Day have skewed our impression of the U.S. military.

00:05:13.620 Have you ever seen Darkest Hour?

00:05:15.400 It's much better.

00:05:17.160 Okay, this is real.

00:05:18.680 These are real things happening to people.

00:05:20.560 Right, right, right.

00:05:20.980 Yeah, I mean, you know, they hit three sites, right?

00:05:24.800 So, I mean, this was not a...

00:05:26.300 I saw the before and after pictures.

00:05:27.740 You were impressed.

00:05:28.460 I wasn't.

00:05:29.400 Well, I mean, I don't know.

00:05:30.420 I mean, there's some potentially impressive things about the technology.

00:05:34.020 Yes, yes, okay, all right.

00:05:35.460 How precise the missiles are.

00:05:36.920 However, whether that is, you know, that doesn't necessarily say anything about the scale of it.

00:05:42.940 I mean, again, they themselves are saying, look, we hit three targets.

00:05:47.200 We told everybody in advance we were going to hit chemical weapons outlets. 0.69

00:05:52.020 All the information is that, you know, they were able to move a lot of this stuff outside and bring it to Russian bases.

00:05:58.620 We talked about that last week.

00:05:59.600 So that maybe we would make sure that it wouldn't be destroyed.

00:06:02.880 So, I mean, it's another message, right?

00:06:05.880 The Trump administration did, you know, sent a message last year, which, you know, apparently they did not listen to.

00:06:13.440 And now we're going to try another one that was a little bit bigger.

00:06:15.520 Can I ask you a question?

00:06:18.320 What is the message?

00:06:20.040 I'm assuming you saw this because this was big news, at least in my house.

00:06:24.300 What was the message that Alex Jones was sending?

00:06:29.080 Well, I think the most important message, as always, when it comes to InfoWars, he's always going to focus on the most important message.

00:06:35.880 Yeah, it was a very emotional day at InfoWars.

00:06:40.460 Yes.

00:06:41.100 And I would say this is my top story of today.

00:06:44.260 Is it?

00:06:44.720 It is.

00:06:45.260 Yeah, this is a good one.

00:06:46.820 This is a good one.

00:06:47.660 Not my top story, but it is a good one.

00:06:50.920 Here is, first of all, Alex Jones was very upset that we went to a missile strike in Syria.

00:07:00.820 And first, can we have the one that has about six words in it that you're allowed to hear?

00:07:06.440 Oh, yeah.

00:07:06.960 This is Alex Jones yelling as he responds to Syria strikes. 0.98

00:07:11.220 Answer, nobody f***ing appear in this f***ing world. 0.97

00:07:15.180 See, now I'm f***ing pissed right now. 0.97

00:07:17.160 Syria fought all the time. 0.93

00:07:18.460 Hold on one second.

00:07:19.380 Hold on one second here because to set this up, he's not actually on the air here.

00:07:25.120 It's important to know that he is broadcasting, he's doing like a Twitter live feed.

00:07:32.240 So this is not his actual show.

00:07:35.100 He has just turned on the feed and is off the air talking about Syria as it comes down.

00:07:42.080 Now, if you don't follow these things, and why would you, but if you don't follow these things, the conspiracy angle here has been since the beginning that Donald Trump is right for not being, quote unquote, tough on Russia, which I don't even think you can say anymore.

00:07:58.540 But Donald Trump is right for not being tough on Russia because Russia are the good guys.

00:08:02.300 Russia are the people who are in there.

00:08:03.960 They're the ones who are fighting ISIS.

00:08:05.940 They're the ones who are doing all the right stuff.

00:08:08.100 We're doing the wrong stuff.

00:08:09.060 Yeah, so this is the one reason why I am playing this because, I mean, I know you and Pat have like a club where you get together, I think, every Tuesday and just play clips.

00:08:18.620 So fun.

00:08:19.440 But I just, I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't subscribe to that.

00:08:23.220 Yes, you do. 1.00

00:08:24.200 Bull crap. 1.00

00:08:24.980 You most certainly do. 1.00

00:08:27.060 We're an hour one break one and you're letting me play this.

00:08:29.680 Yeah, you must enjoy it.

00:08:30.740 No, no, this I enjoy.

00:08:32.040 This one I enjoy.

00:08:33.140 Um, uh, because he's, he's out of his mind nuts, but also I think it's important to, to show.

00:08:40.700 And there are, uh, there are other sites that I have read in the past that I'm reading now.

00:08:46.580 And I'm like, I think these are Russian operatives.

00:08:49.300 I mean, it is so clear that we are the bad guys and that Russia is the good guy. 1.00

00:08:56.860 And Putin in particular is a good guy that it, it, it's remarkable.

00:09:03.120 So here he is on a tirade of being so angry that we would betray our Russian allies.

00:09:12.600 Listen.

00:09:13.340 Fought Al Qaeda.

00:09:14.240 They fought ISIS.

00:09:15.020 They fought it all.

00:09:16.300 And now you got Mattis and all these people all over us.

00:09:21.140 And the liberal fascists censoring us everywhere in the last two days.

00:09:27.320 We did an emergency 36 hour broadcast trying to stop this that could lead to world war three.

00:09:33.340 And you liberal pieces of you support this you degenerate and Mueller and Comey and you.

00:09:47.480 Every major analyst, see, I shouldn't even be on air right now.

00:09:53.500 Every analyst agrees that this could trigger world war three, unlike anything in our history.

00:09:58.200 And the Russians were the good guys battling ISIS and Al Qaeda.

00:10:01.520 I'm not a Russophile.

00:10:03.100 I've never been to Russia, but I've studied the geopolitics.

00:10:06.920 They are the white knights.

00:10:09.360 And our military five years ago, joining the Russians to block Obama and the Arab Spring and do the right thing, did the right thing. 0.94

00:10:15.600 And now Mattis and Mattis looks like a f***ing Emperor Palpatine. 0.97

00:10:24.340 And that f***ing knows full f***ing well that Al Qaeda and ISIS staged all those f***ing chemical attacks. 0.99

00:10:33.640 And now they're blaming it on the f***ing. 0.99

00:10:35.420 Wow. 0.98

00:10:36.340 Okay.

00:10:36.820 So stop, stop, stop.

00:10:38.260 I can't take it.

00:10:39.400 That's how, that's how, that's how deeply some Americans are, are marrying in to the Russian storyline.

00:10:52.400 Yeah, that, that, that Russia.

00:10:55.500 These chemical attacks were staged.

00:10:58.240 Staged.

00:10:58.760 that we knew it and that we are the bad guys and that russia russia the good guys now play the

00:11:07.840 second clip where he breaks down now this is him on the air where he breaks down and he's sitting

00:11:14.020 next to i don't know somebody else uh some gaster and the guy is just looking like deer in the

00:11:19.800 headlights like i don't know what to do here but listen to this it's the opposite of what my ex

00:11:24.980 wife says she says you know oh the system took the kids away from me no you got the kids back

00:11:31.100 because who i was part of the time and then they sit there and they're like you know if you just

00:11:35.620 turn against trump things will be better but he was doing good and that was makes it so bad 0.99

00:11:41.100 oh and that's what makes it so bad if he'd have been a piece of crap from the beginning would be 0.99

00:11:50.040 so bad but we made so many sacrifices and now he's crapping all over us it makes me sick 0.97

00:11:58.460 so by the way stunning update in case you didn't know the man you just heard in those last two

00:12:07.160 clips lost his custody battle yeah yeah it's a real shocker because of who you are sometimes

00:12:13.460 his wife says that's what he says yeah because of who you are sometimes uh no i think it's who

00:12:18.240 you are all the time yeah uh that's not a this is not a mentally healthy person no and he is turning

00:12:25.680 on trump because trump is betraying him with russia that's that's phenomenal that's phenomenal coming

00:12:36.740 from an american i was going to say broadcaster but whatever he is that's truly phenomenal and as

00:12:45.640 as dangerous as anything that the weather underground was doing i mean this is now an operative

00:12:52.460 just like the weather underground and some in the 60s were operatives for russia back then

00:12:57.860 and spreading all the praise and glory to you know lenin now it's just putin i mean the russians are the

00:13:06.560 white knights yeah i mean what an incredible world he must live in to believe that the russians are the

00:13:14.220 white knights coming up in a few minutes we have an incredible incredible show we have three people

00:13:23.940 coming up that i just can't wait to talk to talk to one of them is um it was a disney princess remember

00:13:32.880 planned parenthood came out and said we need a disney princess that that just had an abortion 1.00

00:13:38.360 well she was a disney princess and she did have an abortion and she said it was the biggest mistake

00:13:46.920 of her life so planned parenthood you want a disney princess that's had an abortion we have her coming 1.00

00:13:53.020 up in just a few minutes uh also amy chua she is um the author of a book political tribes this is

00:13:59.940 really fascinating she believes pretty much i think um pretty much the way i do that we are

00:14:08.740 just separating ourselves in tribes and we have to come together because it's what's made us unique

00:14:14.900 from many one e pluribus unum well she's written an interesting book that explains to the left i think

00:14:24.540 using their language who we are on the right and how trump supporters really felt and really feel

00:14:32.000 and how we need to understand that to be able to come back to each other how we come together

00:14:39.340 coming up in about 45 minutes and in our three uh greg gay or his his name now is greg barrett but his

00:14:48.720 legal name is greg gay he is the guy in houston that says the school superintendent of the katie 0.74

00:14:57.340 independent school district has no place talking about bullying because he was a horrible bully himself

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00:17:15.700 back some sad news today about barbara bush uh she's in comfort care uh not doing well she's a 0.95

00:17:35.140 a great lady and our prayers are with the bush family uh today so who came in with us and who

00:17:40.820 was against us on the syria thing well it's interesting list of countries supporting the

00:17:45.880 syria strikes the u.s uk france germany turkey saudi arabia qatar qatar uh canada japan spain

00:17:55.020 australia israel denmark bahrain italy poland oppose the syria strikes the syrian regime okay

00:18:03.700 shocker they did not like this yeah russia iran china iraq venezuela algeria lebanon and hamas

00:18:17.100 hamas did not support this action so what are we doing wow i mean that should tell you if you think

00:18:23.240 if you think that you're on the right side of this yeah and you are siding with russia

00:18:28.800 look at the company you're keeping iran china iraq venezuela algeria lebanon hamas wow i mean

00:18:36.140 that is not you don't want them on your team it's not the time that's not the side that is gonna

00:18:42.580 it's not gonna play out well wow has it ever uh no uh no it has no it is not uh we are um

00:18:52.660 first of all we're gonna get down to the hate for chick-fil-a i don't know if you've

00:18:56.080 if you've heard this uh but uh chick-fil-a is just uh i mean it's a hate group it's clearly

00:19:03.180 and i can explain i can explain why they're killing all those chickens i mean again let me

00:19:09.520 just say this okay peter do i need to say more yeah a good amount more yeah that's just one name

00:19:17.800 you can't tie peter to the chick-fil-a sandwiches i why are they killing all the chickens what what

00:19:24.060 happened peter was minding his own business he was fine jesus was everything was going great

00:19:29.380 and then a chicken three times and what happens damn right it was the chickens it was the chickens 0.78

00:19:38.260 that pulled that whole thing damn right might be the right way to say that you think so yeah yeah

00:19:42.860 yeah i can't i still can't come up with the why the pickles are on the bun uh but i know there's

00:19:49.260 some religious indoctrination going on there with chick-fil-a we'll get to that coming up in a

00:19:53.520 little that is a strange choice is it not pickles on a chicken sandwich i you know i do i do i do

00:19:59.440 think it's like that the reason why we're bringing this up is because there's a christian infiltration

00:20:04.100 going on with chick-fil-a thank you um and uh some people up in the manhattan area are very concerned

00:20:11.640 about the christian infiltration the country's on the side of the of seeing it as a christian

00:20:17.320 infiltration iran syria iraq hamas

00:20:22.060 glenn beck mercury

00:20:28.540 this is the glenn beck program so a few weeks ago um

00:20:42.900 planned parenthood came out with a with a with a tweet that said we need a disney princess that has

00:20:49.940 had an abortion now i just you know i'm just thinking that maybe we shouldn't go down that road

00:20:56.920 uh but you know that's me well deanna falchuk she is um she's a woman who was a disney princess 0.95

00:21:07.080 she played cinderella in the i believe orlando park for quite a while thought she was in love

00:21:14.380 got pregnant and i'll let her tell the story um but um she is a disney princess that that had an 1.00

00:21:22.260 abortion and so uh planned parenthood here's your dream come true let's go to deanna hi deanna how are

00:21:30.520 you hi glenn i'm doing great thanks um you know i've i've read your story and it's

00:21:37.260 truly remarkable can you can you kind of outline the story about you know you were 22 years old

00:21:43.200 you're working at disney this is your dream job and what happens i was actually 18 and i um was

00:21:52.520 fortunate enough to get this very exclusive job as a singer in in the theme park at disney world

00:21:58.900 and what i did was i sang you know cinderella and sleeping beauty and um i loved being there

00:22:06.020 and but shortly after that i started dating this guy who was 22 and i ended up becoming pregnant

00:22:12.200 and if you know i made the the decision to have an abortion and unexpectedly was immediately devastated

00:22:22.940 and ended up continuing to go back onto the stage trying to sing happy song and um dance and about

00:22:32.380 seven months later i just couldn't take it anymore and i just i was devastated and so i ended up quitting

00:22:39.540 the job that i loved and breaking up with the guy and basically falling into a puddle just trying to

00:22:45.520 reconcile my decision but the one thing that i'll have to say is that the reason why this tweet really

00:22:50.640 bothered me was because i really believed that part of my decision making process was based on old

00:22:56.620 rhetoric and product propaganda that that um planned parenthood is used for ages and in my case it was

00:23:02.880 this anti-mother messaging when i was a child i wanted desperately to be a mom but the messages that

00:23:08.220 i constantly got back were you know you can be anything you want why would you want to be just a

00:23:13.060 mother and you know you have to wait till you become a mother till everything's in line and this is

00:23:18.340 basically a strategic messaging and so the people who were telling me that it wasn't even their

00:23:25.240 original thought these were things that had been written through margaret sanger and other people

00:23:30.260 that were trying to champion this uh pro-woman but anti-mother messaging and so when i heard the tweet

00:23:35.660 i was like oh no uh-uh not again i mean it's you know not not our princesses deanna it is it is the

00:23:42.740 part of your story that really connected with me um because as a dad i have heard my daughters

00:23:50.260 struggle with that i have heard my daughters um say that i mean one of my daughters wanted to get 0.91

00:23:56.760 married you know while she was in college and she wasn't going to and i said why why wait there's 0.98

00:24:04.020 nothing better than marriage when you found the right person there's nothing better and she said

00:24:08.960 dad i mean you just don't get married when you're my age i mean it's i mean it's it's i mean look at

00:24:16.580 everybody will look down and in fact her professors when she said because i just said to her i can't

00:24:23.360 believe my daughter just said this to me there's nothing better if you believe he's the one get

00:24:29.660 married and uh so she did and her professor just looked down on her when she said hey i'm not going

00:24:36.480 to be here next week because i'm going to be getting married the professor looked at her and 0.84

00:24:41.600 said oh uh wow okay and this was a a catholic university yeah and the thing is you know like

00:24:52.420 i said we think these are our original thoughts but even what your daughter was saying i mean this

00:24:57.040 has been written up on like when we should have children when we should form families um how many

00:25:03.960 children we should have i mean there's a baby code written by margaret sanger she wrote the in the

00:25:09.740 wickedness of this is her title the wickedness of creating large families and she says the most 0.96

00:25:15.320 merciful thing that the large family does one of its members is to kill it i have a large family now i

00:25:20.480 mean i've been redeemed through this but what you're saying regarding your daughter is very true we think

00:25:25.460 that we're you know that these are our thoughts but we're really being inundated with

00:25:30.240 you know strategic messaging that's going to tell us um when good is evil and you know evil is good

00:25:36.480 when it's not even true we have to really get you know start to think independently as to why we're

00:25:41.880 thinking these things and then so for them to say let's create a princess that you know has had an

00:25:48.100 abortion it made me think that they're conspiring around a table trying to think to rewrite these amazing

00:25:54.120 stories that are have been really positive for women to persevere through unplanned situations

00:26:00.800 in their lives to battle and slay dragons in order to accomplish things when things are unplanned and

00:26:07.060 unexpected that they fight through it and at the end of the day they they become victorious and find

00:26:12.440 their destiny you know their destiny at the top of the castle and so we don't need to rewrite things

00:26:18.940 that you know women can just um discontinue or or not push through and battle that's that creates 0.77

00:26:26.680 strength and resilience and true powerful power and empowerment to be able to look at life and say

00:26:32.680 let's let's let's move through this together and let's get through this and that's what we learn from

00:26:37.320 our princesses and you should be learning from the princess the prince as if you will uh that uh that

00:26:48.100 they also do the same and the guy you were dating was was not acting as a prince no so he you know

00:27:00.380 basically knew where i could get my problem taken care of and is that what he said to you at the time

00:27:05.700 yeah pretty much and so i just you know was lost i didn't really know what to do and i ended up

00:27:13.100 you know making this decision and then you know as i'm you know curled up in a ball crying um he's

00:27:20.600 out there playing you know games you know video games and that type of thing but i mean what you

00:27:24.560 said about the prince it's very true i think there's those characters have been bashed a lot too and um

00:27:30.000 the truth is is that the prince came down off of the castle to find you know an orphan girl in the

00:27:37.620 cinders with cinderella so there's a lot of redeeming and amazing traits with these princes that we can

00:27:42.820 learn from but you know that's not often told there's a lot of bashing in these stories it is

00:27:50.580 amazing to me that um that that stories like cinderella are completely um they're completely

00:27:59.480 changed in some regard we only focus on the fact that uh the prince came and rescued her but he

00:28:07.060 actually didn't she was amazingly strong the entire time i mean she she battled her way through and 1.00

00:28:17.600 you know obviously death in her family uh an awful stepmother she made the best of things and was the 1.00

00:28:25.540 strongest in the movie not the prince the prince fell in love with her i think because she was strong

00:28:31.500 and yet that's not the message that we are told cinderella is about no no and it's so true we see

00:28:39.760 the sparkly icon with you know the glitter and but what what i'm i'm writing a story a book called the

00:28:46.520 cinderella mindset and the one thing that i talk about i really focus on the fire on her being in

00:28:52.060 the fire and persevering through that like even though the evil stepmother and stepsisters are like 1.00

00:28:57.880 you're not going they're basically trying to steal her destiny she calls upon supernatural favor i see

00:29:03.820 it as the holy spirit and and and yet she's she makes her way into that place into the castle and

00:29:10.420 she demands her happily ever after and so you know you can interpret it one way or you can you know you

00:29:17.320 can continue to princess bash which is what they've always done and now they want to get into the game

00:29:21.700 they want to they want to take the identity of the princesses that they've been bashing

00:29:25.800 and try to make their agenda which is more similar to the evil that is told in these stories

00:29:33.000 it's not going to work deanna as you um after you had your abortion and you are on stage and you're 0.71

00:29:43.460 singing about someday my prince will come and everything else uh and you know that the guy you

00:29:50.820 thought was a prince is is there working uh at you know right there that had to be mentally uh exhausting

00:30:02.100 glenn i mean it was grueling it was devastating the emotions swirling around in your mind you know but

00:30:13.080 i was even at the age of 18 a professional so i continued to dance and sing but that was what

00:30:19.940 you know i realized i couldn't i you know it was just like this fake smile and to try to push through

00:30:26.980 your smiles and and being the great disney employee that i was i mean disney to this day is one of my

00:30:32.500 favorite places i mean we live right here but um yeah it was devastating and that's why i ended up

00:30:39.420 walking away from the castle which by the way represented for me personally massive success

00:30:45.540 because i always loved cinderella's you know story and i had my own personal story as a child of really

00:30:52.080 having struggles and believing these stories and the lyrics of the song and then so there i am

00:30:59.240 leaving my dream place but there is there was a happy ending i went on to get married um i gave birth

00:31:06.580 two children one i i ended up conceiving when i went to back to disney like the for the first time

00:31:12.240 um and that was a miracle story so god kept redeeming me and redeeming the story and then i went on to

00:31:19.700 adopt five children um one from guatemala who was born to a 14 year old girl and if we had followed

00:31:26.860 you know planned parenthood's um you know list of who should or should not have kids she would not have

00:31:32.680 been born this her mother was 14 three children who watched their mother die of aids um you know

00:31:40.920 and then one child who was labeled invalid in the ukraine um just for his yeah and abandoned at two

00:31:49.400 days old and they were about to transfer him to a place where they told us that he would have been

00:31:54.320 dead within six months if had we not come when he was five years old about being transferred

00:31:58.240 so our lives have been redeemed and i've learned from these experiences of persevering to adopt these

00:32:05.960 children because it has not been easy it's been a battle and then parenting them and seeing what the

00:32:10.780 orphan mindset has been like and teaching them about they can do anything they can you know rise to

00:32:17.640 great places um so i've learned i've been refined into you know a strong woman of god and yet i've learned

00:32:26.320 i brought them to disney to live near disney because i can i wanted to live here so that they could hear

00:32:32.740 those messages so and so i want them to know that dreams can come true we're talking to deanna felchuk

00:32:38.560 she is um she was a former disney princess uh that had an abortion so she's exactly what uh planned 0.72

00:32:45.260 parenthood is saying they're uh looking for although i don't think that they would agree with that

00:32:50.560 message um real quick deanna um can you can you talk to the people who were like you that are are

00:32:59.440 confused and and afraid and just kind of going down this path and it's because you don't have a child

00:33:09.140 when you're so young you don't have a child when whatever whatever gets you into the planned

00:33:14.900 parenthood office can you speak directly to them yeah first off i would just say that you're not

00:33:23.540 alone and you know don't feel isolated um speak to somebody there are many you know pregnancy centers

00:33:31.840 that want to help but philosophically i'd like them to understand and to really break down their

00:33:39.320 thought process and i would tell them they have a sacred gift to create and never to underestimate

00:33:45.420 the power of what gifts can be received by walking through the so-called mistakes or messes of your

00:33:51.760 life move forward choose to make something beautiful from the unplanned and unexpected surprises that come

00:33:58.620 into your life they aren't always there to take you out sometimes they're there to refine you

00:34:03.400 stand tall walk through the fire and you will come out on the other side sparkling bright

00:34:08.140 in your predestined position um and probably enveloped with your miracle around you and so i would just

00:34:16.660 go ahead i would just i would just say yes and i would just move forward and and and say and choose

00:34:23.180 life deanna thank you so much god bless

00:34:26.280 deanna falchuk wrote this for the uh federalist and we'll uh tweet that out from at world of stew and

00:34:33.740 at glenn beck her twitter account is uh at deanna falchuk uh she's definitely worth a read it's it's

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00:36:28.060 glenn beck

00:36:34.060 welcome to it glad you're here thank you so much for uh listening today we have uh

00:36:47.080 we have um a couple of things the hatred for chick-fil-a is has has gone into insanity it really has

00:36:56.560 it's gone into some sort of a mental disorder uh we'll have that coming up also amy chua she is uh

00:37:03.860 um the author of a book called political tribes group instinct and the fate of nations and she

00:37:10.280 describes america and she's she's really pegged us on what's made us different what's made us

00:37:16.880 honestly better than other other countries been able to pull together and what's happening to us

00:37:22.960 now and she's written and i think so the left will understand who we are she's coming up next glenn

00:37:30.100 back mercury

00:37:32.140 love courage truth glenn beck out of all of the infuriating things about america right now there

00:37:49.860 is one that rests high above towers over all the others of course i don't even need to say it you can

00:37:59.700 say it with me it is of course the looming problem of terrorism no chick-fil-a chick-fil-a

00:38:08.080 okay remember uh the late founder of this restaurant chain had the audacity to believe in the american

00:38:15.440 dream wow now imagine the audacity of truett cathody and his company kathy and and and and the audacity

00:38:25.700 of his company to exploit america's free market system by making a good product that people

00:38:32.820 actually want to buy imagine that then to slowly grow their business over several decades from a

00:38:39.720 single family-run restaurant to the third largest fast food chain in america behind mcdonald's and

00:38:45.380 starbucks providing hundreds of thousands of jobs along the way how dare how dare they

00:38:52.460 but i haven't even scratched the surface of the evil of chick-fil-a chick-fil-a remains closed on

00:39:00.780 sundays as this as if this was still the eisenhower era where it was common to believe in god or

00:39:09.580 something now by closing on sundays chick-fil-a is clearly preaching the bubble

00:39:16.520 now i'm sure there i haven't been to chick-fil-a lately but i have done my homework here

00:39:25.440 uh just in the last couple of days because the new yorker is very upset about chick-fil-a so i i

00:39:32.880 haven't seen it myself but i am sure that they are checking your jesus a card before you're allowed

00:39:39.260 to place an order right no shirt no shoes no savior no service new new what backward hicks i mean we

00:39:48.800 can't allow this to go on can we well we can in the south but now they've crossed the line

00:39:55.360 okay now they've dared to open four locations in manhattan hello don't you realize that we have

00:40:06.000 declared that island godless and you are not allowed to have pickles on your chicken sandwich

00:40:13.720 because we all know that is pointing to our lord and savior jesus christ

00:40:20.260 now this tragedy i i read the description by uh dan pipe and bring he is he's uh he's one of my

00:40:32.400 favorite pipe and burger bringer something i love all of his writings in the new yorker and he wrote

00:40:39.380 over the weekend um and you know i see his point it's it's almost as as if nazi recruitment centers

00:40:47.300 had opened uh in manhattan his article is titled chick-fil-a's creepy infiltration of new york city

00:40:56.340 and that is the feeling i get from chick-fil-a creepiness you know what i mean especially cows

00:41:06.320 cows with paintbrushes on billboards how'd they get up there how'd they get the how do they hold

00:41:12.100 the brush it's that kind of creepiness that really is freaking me out but that's not what

00:41:17.480 he's talking about he of course is talking about chick-fil-a's quoting pervasive christian

00:41:23.320 traditionalism man he says their headquarters in atlanta are adorned with bible verses and a statue

00:41:32.760 of jesus washing a disciple's feet first of all whoa in new york really no it's in atlanta but

00:41:44.280 in new york you have to hear about stories about a statue of a jew doing service to his

00:41:53.140 fellow man oh my gosh all the humanity now he says uh that the bible pounding is just below the

00:42:02.980 surface at chick-fil-a to think that this poor man and other new yorkers have to step inside one of

00:42:13.400 these jesus indoctrination chicken centers for this story assignment i i don't know how he did it it's

00:42:20.080 cruel and unusual punishment this progressive has a problem with chick-fil-a because its founder

00:42:27.540 believed in something wow well it doesn't sound very tolerant and i'm sure the new yorker i mean

00:42:36.260 let's imagine that wendy's founder dave thomas was a muslim let's go further to the point of

00:42:44.220 ridiculousness that we didn't know that wendy had red hair or freckles because she had to wear 0.84

00:42:52.140 a burka uh and uh and a headscarf now do you think the new yorker even at that point of ridiculousness 0.99

00:43:01.500 would talk about the creepy indoctrination that is going on with wendy's no they would celebrate the

00:43:11.860 the diversity wouldn't they he wrote there's something especially distasteful about chick-fil-a

00:43:20.860 which has sought to portray itself as better than other fast food cleaner gentler more ethical oh my

00:43:28.880 gosh the worst thing that could happen is somebody trying to portray themselves as that

00:43:34.080 he's clearly freaked out that someone would dare integrate aspects of their faith and values in

00:43:42.100 how they run their country their company i know it's not usually done i know we don't even usually

00:43:50.240 take our faith and try to live by it in our day-to-day life but here's a company that shows yeah it can be

00:43:57.520 done typical of today's journalists he never pauses to consider that perhaps those ingredients and not

00:44:07.560 the colonel's secret herbs and spices but these well-known ingredients are the reasons why chick-fil-a

00:44:15.620 lines wrap around the block

00:44:18.520 and yes as creepy as it is even in new york city batman

00:44:27.780 it's monday april 16th you're listening to the glenn beck program

00:44:38.680 i am hoping that uh amy chua can spend some time with us today she has written a book called political 0.51

00:44:46.540 tribes group instinct and the fate of nations she is the uh uh the john duff professor of law at the

00:44:55.460 yale law school school she graduated from harvard amy welcome to the to the program how are you

00:45:01.040 i'm great thanks so much for having me you bet i i don't know how much time you have but i would

00:45:06.220 love to spend as much time as you have you're you have time okay your your book is your book is

00:45:13.520 um great uh because you you talk about the secret of america and how we're really kind of violating

00:45:21.080 that now uh really strangely unknowingly but you you you speak to both sides of the aisle so we can

00:45:30.440 kind of hear each other it's not it's not a book written from the left or from the right

00:45:35.900 and it's really not it's trying to speak the language of of of both sides and let's start with

00:45:42.840 the essential goodness of america that you point you point out right so i'm not even trying to be

00:45:49.280 both sides i am just kind of going back i think we all need to remember what it is that makes america

00:45:55.160 special and so i actually have spent 20 years studying different countries countries in the developing

00:46:03.280 world you know european countries and believe it or not there is something really special about

00:46:08.680 america that i think most americans don't even realize and i say that we alone among the major

00:46:14.760 powers not france not england we are what i call a super group and to be a super group glenn it's

00:46:21.960 really simple you only need to do two things the first is to have a really strong overarching national

00:46:28.840 identity just something that holds us together americans but the second requirement for a super

00:46:35.260 group is we have to allow all different kinds of subgroup identities to flourish so it's like so in this

00:46:43.120 country you can be you know you can say i'm irish american i'm italian american i'm croatian american

00:46:50.720 i'm japanese american and still be intensely patriotic at the same time and believe it or not this is not

00:46:57.300 true in a country like france like you wouldn't say i'm italian french there's no such thing you

00:47:02.640 know this so we and right now because of the tribalism that has taken over our political system

00:47:09.040 we're starting to destroy that we're starting to destroy this connective tissue this big overarching

00:47:15.700 national identity that we have that is what's made us special and you know your example you really

00:47:22.460 about chick-fil-a is also there's an attack on allowing individual subgroup identities to flourish

00:47:28.120 too so it's a dangerous moment for us so you i i thought this was really fascinating and the the most

00:47:36.000 clear i've heard anybody state this you're saying that a lot of these uh wars that we have engaged in

00:47:43.000 are unwinnable simply because those nations don't have a super group exactly so one thing that america has

00:47:51.960 done um and so you know my real field for 20 years has been again looking at foreign policy and what i

00:47:58.440 try to say is i explain why we have messed it up so much in countries from vietnam to afghanistan to

00:48:06.500 iraq and a lot of it has to do with we don't realize how exceptional our own identity and history is

00:48:14.280 so we forget how unusual it is to be this multi-ethnic nation with so many different ethnicities

00:48:21.400 and to have a really strong american identity so glenn why do you think libya is now a failed state

00:48:28.360 we miss this president obama actually really honorably conceded this he said we fail to see

00:48:34.500 the depth of the tribalism they libya was a multi-ethnic country like we are 140 different ethnic groups

00:48:42.260 but the difference is that libya didn't have a strong enough national identity this idea of being

00:48:49.660 a libyan didn't matter to these people and it just fell apart it fell apart after we intervened

00:48:55.720 and we didn't see that we thought you know what they're going to be like us yeah if we just take

00:49:00.900 out this horrible dictator and then we leave and put in democracy it's going to come together

00:49:06.120 and it didn't happen so we project that we forget how special we are and we make mistakes by forgetting

00:49:12.880 that other countries are not like us and and it seems in a sick sort of twisted way we understood

00:49:18.500 this with our motivation behind the sykes pico lines uh an agreement uh in the middle east where we drew

00:49:25.460 these country lines knowing that it would cause warring factions and the dictators would have would be

00:49:33.580 be so busy trying to keep their own tribe together that they wouldn't have time to look out we we did

00:49:40.540 know this at one point well you know what's so funny the british were the masters of this actually

00:49:45.600 because the british they um i mean you know morally of course that's another question but how were they

00:49:51.380 so successful in maintaining this empire for centuries with such a small number of people i mean just a

00:49:58.580 handful of british administrators in places like india and the middle east exactly what you

00:50:03.560 said they were masters they were so conscious of all these little group divisions but they used

00:50:09.320 it to divide and you're right you know they they were like okay how can we keep these people at bay

00:50:14.740 and they actually purposely pitted groups against each other but we were not like that after we

00:50:20.560 went to the world stage you know post world war ii we actually um started to increasingly think of

00:50:26.840 democracy as like this magic formula you know that we if we because democracy historically has worked

00:50:33.540 so well for us so for the idea that us we went into iraq thinking uh sunni shias kurds okay it's kind

00:50:40.660 of a mess but let's just have some elections and that was so wrong-headed because what i've shown is

00:50:47.020 that under certain conditions democracy can actually worsen group conflict not make it better

00:50:53.540 sure okay so i i want to go to um uh the part of the book where you talk about how the left isn't

00:51:01.020 listening to the right and the right isn't listening to the left and you you describe especially for a

00:51:06.960 professor i'm i'm just shocked that you're even allowed to teach um but uh i get to go back

00:51:13.480 yeah you yeah you you you you describe that what happened with the trump voter and what's happening

00:51:20.960 with the trump voter and try to explain that to a person on the left and i've not heard anyone in

00:51:27.980 the media do this and do it effectively as you did and what we're supposed to learn from this and how

00:51:34.900 you describe the left to the right when we come back the name of the book uh is uh political tribes

00:51:41.840 amy chua is uh with us don't hold it against her that she's a yale professor she just said i don't 1.00

00:51:49.320 know how i don't know if they're gonna let her back in but uh it's uh it's a remarkable book all

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00:53:09.260 Glenn Beck Mercury

00:53:13.400 Glenn Beck

00:53:23.800 Amy Chua she is a an author of the book political tribes group instinct and the fate of nations

00:53:34.240 in your book you you talk about the left believes that the right-wing tribalism bigotry racism is

00:53:43.220 tearing the country apart the right believes that left-wing tribalism identity politics political

00:53:47.900 correctness is tearing the country apart and they're both right can you explain right so you

00:53:55.180 know I I I'm a kind of person that believes that people are basically good and that so many things

00:54:00.940 that go crazy and that end up being awful and are now ripping us apart actually started off with good

00:54:06.600 intentions um that were positive things so for example let's start with the left progressives um you

00:54:13.280 know in the 60s and 70s a lot of their rhetoric was about equality and they had a very inclusive it

00:54:19.420 was about let's let's include everybody let's transcend groups so that we don't see skin color 1.00

00:54:25.660 but what happened is that right around in the 70s and 80s a lot of people on the left started thinking

00:54:32.620 you know what all these calls for let's not see groups um let's be equal and all this are actually

00:54:39.220 not helping us and so you started to see people as the you know minorities grew a number they're like 0.99

00:54:45.060 look at these histories that we're telling about the united states we are romanticizing our founders

00:54:50.620 we're romanticizing the constitution we're romanticizing everything and I Glenn I think that

00:54:56.520 there's some good to that it's like let's we should talk about the fact that our founders

00:55:00.940 some of them held slaves we do have to talk about our native populations but what happened is they just

00:55:07.080 started going way way too far so now if you fast forward to 2018 it's it's all the way at the other

00:55:15.460 extreme it's like America is a land of oppression it's not even it's not just like look we have this

00:55:22.300 wonderful constitution with these incredibly important principles which we have repeatedly

00:55:27.280 failed to live up to which I believe instead it's like this whole thing is a sham the country is built

00:55:33.780 on white supremacy and that is playing with poison because it's it's throwing the baby out with the

00:55:40.060 bath water so that's one thing that's happened it goes back to what I was saying is where where it's

00:55:45.620 attacking that precious American identity not saying we need to strive to make it better and to make it

00:55:52.240 reality but just saying you know what let's just throw the whole thing out and with identity politics

00:55:56.880 another thing that's happened is um and again I understand where the left came from they were like

00:56:01.980 you know all this group blind stuff is just being used to block affirmative action it's just being

00:56:07.420 used by the right to not let us make any changes well fast forward it's gone too far in 2018 now

00:56:14.900 on a college campus where I teach it's all about groups if you try to be group transcending you will

00:56:22.660 immediately be called a racist because the idea is that you are trying to erase all the very individual

00:56:30.680 examples of group oppression that we've had but the problem is that the groups are dividing smaller

00:56:36.480 and smaller and even worse than that the idea is like you cannot understand me you cannot speak for

00:56:43.800 me um and on top of that the final thing that drives me craziest is the vocabulary policing so I feel

00:56:53.060 like a lot of people you know in the middle of the country who are not on these ivy league campuses

00:56:58.180 they are goodwilled they they may be anxious about immigration they may be anxious about

00:57:03.540 our country changing you know they may have certain views that I would disagree with but that doesn't

00:57:09.460 mean that they're racist and xenophobic and homophobic and whatever but that's the way it goes right now

00:57:15.220 it's like if you don't say something exactly right or you don't tow the party line you're immediately

00:57:20.500 branded all these things and what that does is it drives a lot of people more extreme underground where there

00:57:27.520 is a lot of horrible stuff on the right and there you hear terrible things you know so so and it's

00:57:33.760 this vicious cycle so that's half of it okay so so now let's go when we come back let's go to how do we

00:57:40.640 fix it because i amy you're one of the few people i have talked to that i think fully understands the

00:57:47.280 problem that we face and you have a solution next glenn back mercury

00:57:57.520 this is the glenn back program we're talking to amy chua she's the author of political tribes group

00:58:08.400 instinct in the fate of nations you also might remember her for uh from uh battle hymn of the

00:58:12.800 tiger mother oh you know that only sold about 25 zillion copies a few years ago uh so she joins us now 0.67

00:58:19.200 amy's with us so amy i i have to tell you i i feel like uh you know i'm a a brother from another mother

00:58:28.640 with you um because you're you're um you're so spot on on what the problem is um i think with the

00:58:39.360 political tribes and and how we are how we are um one half of the country dismisses the other half we

00:58:48.540 dismiss you know the the one half of the country dismisses all of the good things that america did

00:58:53.820 the other half dismisses sometimes all of the bad things that america did and we've just been pushed

00:59:00.400 further and further apart so now how do we come together when we each think the other side is the

00:59:10.880 problem so there are these fascinating but terrifying studies that i described that show that a lot of

00:59:18.420 this is actually biological that human beings are tribal animals that we we want it's almost and that's

00:59:25.400 not always bad family is very tribal but positive and and you know we we had to just to survive

00:59:31.760 you know prehistoric man had to be exactly so but there are some scary tests that show that our brains

00:59:39.620 light up when we stick it to the other side so there's a lot of this but here's the good news

00:59:45.260 i have all these studies that show that we can as human beings overcome this tribalism and there are

00:59:52.760 all these very very robust studies that show that if you can pull human beings out of their group 0.90

00:59:58.740 context because we're worse than with our buddies you know um and make and you pull two people from

01:00:05.020 opposite sides opposite tribes and have them interact as human beings it is astounding how much progress can 0.98

01:00:13.060 be made now this is not saying just stick people in a room together because if you put a bunch of

01:00:17.660 diverse people together of different races and backgrounds they could just hate each other more 1.00

01:00:22.360 the point is having them interact as human beings and the best example of this is the integration of

01:00:28.980 our military in the 1950s that was a time when everybody said no way this is not going to work

01:00:35.280 90 percent of america was against integrating our military troops but they did it and afterwards they

01:00:42.480 found that the integrated troops were as or more effective than the all-white troops and when they

01:00:48.380 interviewed and conducted all these studies it was so inspiring i mean this is not just black and white

01:00:54.020 this is like at that time italian americans had never really interacted with swedish americans german

01:00:59.640 americans but what they said is you know what if you throw us all into the same foxhole or the same bunk

01:01:05.280 and we we miss our loved ones in the same way we're terrified in the same way and we have to trust our lives

01:01:11.620 to this other person we don't care what accent they have or what color their skin is and that's a perfect 1.00

01:01:18.700 example because norms really changed and a lot of bad things happened in vietnam but one good thing is

01:01:24.860 people start to see each other as human beings so i have this one idea that a lot of people were excited

01:01:29.700 about it's going to sound silly but like a public service program where you take a lot of children from say

01:01:35.980 one part of the country where they're always with their own kind their own privileged people on the coast or

01:01:41.320 whatever and maybe force you know encourage or you know have them go to another part of the country

01:01:45.960 and work side by side with other young americans on a common project not in a condescending way

01:01:51.340 like we're gonna teach you you know but rather just some common infrastructure or some project together

01:01:57.920 so i think that we really have to think about this i think we have to change the way we teach our

01:02:02.380 history i think we've over corrected um i mean when you were saying bad and good you know

01:02:08.100 we we have to tell the truth but we have to make people feel proud of being part of this country

01:02:14.640 and not forget what makes us so exceptional about it but you know i have to tell you amy my my daughter

01:02:20.860 um challenged me once she said dad you only know the good stories about um america and i said honey

01:02:27.980 you've gone to school you only know the bad stuff uh and i said i'll tell you what you you read the good

01:02:33.880 stuff i'll read the bad stuff and by really immersing myself in things like wounded knee and

01:02:41.720 really truly understanding it i've actually come out more hopeful that we can survive anything if we

01:02:51.960 learn from it i could not agree with you more and what we i think we're criticizing the same thing

01:02:57.740 because you know there's a lot of voices on both the right and the left it's almost like they want to

01:03:02.480 maintain those tribes so if you if i were to want to if you're somebody on the left and you wanted to

01:03:07.960 go to chick-fil-a or read something positive about george washington you're instantly branded by a lot

01:03:13.780 of people you're pulling it's like you're not on our side anymore you know and the same thing happens

01:03:18.020 on the right if somebody on the right wanted to do you know what i want to go hear this person speak

01:03:23.200 about black lives matter no no no you can't and i i just think it's that because i i wrote this book

01:03:29.280 because i actually have looked at other countries that have actually fragmented and just broken up

01:03:35.440 and i think that america doesn't realize how precious what we have is i see people on both

01:03:40.320 sides saying let's just get a divorce let's just break up the country you know and i think they just

01:03:45.280 don't they're playing with fire and i understand that sometimes you just get so mad at the other side

01:03:51.220 of what people are saying and then one extreme thing feels a more extreme reaction and it just

01:03:56.620 escalates into a place where people are so hunkered at both sides so amy i think what stops us from

01:04:03.640 listening to the other side or or or sitting down or or perhaps it's just saying that you're part of

01:04:11.200 the problem if you do sit down is both sides feel and i i can speak for the for the right i think on

01:04:19.040 this one is it feels like you know we'll sit down and we will tell you the truth but you know the

01:04:26.000 left isn't going to tell us the truth of what their real intent is and i think there's a difference

01:04:31.180 between the the average person in the country and those who are leading these you know these these

01:04:40.700 groups um you know where where i totally agree i i think it's actually a lot of very loud shrill

01:04:48.500 groups even on a campus i can say that if you'll you'll hear these things that you know the rest of

01:04:54.040 america will hear about campus craziness these crazy things that are said but when i talk to my

01:04:59.020 students in a in a private setting in a smaller group i find that the majority of them whether

01:05:04.500 they're on the right or the left are actually very very reasonable they may have strong views

01:05:09.880 but they don't want to demonize but it's often like a very small number of people almost like

01:05:15.060 bullying you know and but i think like for example it just like what you just said about

01:05:20.800 you're a very influential person so if you just said you know i read this book about

01:05:25.340 wounded knee or something try it you know that's not a strident thing it's not taking sides and i

01:05:33.120 think if even just a few people start to do that and yes i think the left is very problematic this way

01:05:38.680 you know if somebody it's not what i often say is look maybe george washington was a slaveholder but

01:05:44.520 that's not all he was you know it was an amazing story it was amazing founding there was so much

01:05:50.020 heroism and that's like a no-no you can't say that right now so so there's so much work to be done and

01:05:55.440 that's partly why i wrote this book so amy i i have to tell you i i was in i think it was denver were you

01:06:00.760 with me still i think i was i was in i think denver and i i just flown in and an uber picked me up and

01:06:08.140 it was a um uh a guy who was uh driving the car and uh he was uh a professor and he was a professor

01:06:17.780 of native american studies uh and uh something else i can't remember what it was but everything

01:06:25.900 everything in me went he hates your guts glenn uh and and i you know i would you know i was supposed

01:06:34.060 to hate him i think but i started talking to him and um and he was taking me to a uh broadcast station

01:06:41.780 and i could tell that he didn't really like me uh and so we just started having a conversation

01:06:48.360 and i found out that he was from wounded knee that he had done a lot of his studies on wounded knee

01:06:55.580 so we had this great conversation and he dropped me off at the station and i said wait wait here when

01:07:01.220 i'm done i want to i want to show you something in the back of the car he didn't know this but i had

01:07:08.160 one of the seven native american guns from wounded knee that had been collected wow and uh i told him

01:07:16.360 when we got back in the car i said i want to tell you something i said i don't know if you know who i am

01:07:21.620 and he said oh i do uh and i said uh i said let me tell you what i found about wounded knee and i told

01:07:28.380 him the story and i said when we arrive um i want you to open up the back i have something to show you

01:07:35.340 and i pulled out the gun and i handed it to him and he actually wept he cried wow and we hugged each

01:07:43.980 other and we had a great conversation and we ended up liking each other a lot that doesn't mean we agree

01:07:51.300 on everything we just we saw each i stopped seeing him as a as a professor and he stopped seeing me

01:07:59.540 as a guy who talks politics and we saw each other each as people i love that i mean that's what i was

01:08:07.020 saying it's like i actually try to do that within my own classes i have conservative students believe

01:08:11.600 it or not they take my classes and i have a lot of minority students because i'm i'm a minority and

01:08:16.940 i try to do the same thing i facilitate it but i say that you know i love i think we all need to

01:08:22.480 elevate ourselves on both sides of the spectrum and be more generous because sometimes it's almost

01:08:27.100 like and again i get it you know it there it's almost like a game of gotcha it's very pleasurable

01:08:33.120 to just hate the other side too you think of sports you know um i like my story your story reminds

01:08:40.560 me of the one i tell that it's the same thing i have this um very poor mexican american student

01:08:45.180 who is super progressive who grew up in a trailer park and he tells a similarly moving story about

01:08:51.180 the people in the next trailer over who were so kind to he his family and they were you know

01:08:56.780 very strong trump supporters that the other people would have called white supremacists but what geo said

01:09:03.260 is even though the words they use would to all my progressive friends sound horrible and the things

01:09:09.180 that they said at the level of just two human beings they were the ones that protected us they were the

01:09:14.620 ones that said we're going to be here for you so so i i love that story so we are sitting in a place

01:09:20.280 you know what amy i'm going to run out of time um we are sitting in a place now to where um you just

01:09:28.280 said i think the key the language that they might use we almost speak a different language i don't know

01:09:35.760 if you're familiar with jonathan height um but we we completely agree with him yeah we speak a

01:09:41.760 different language and i've learned this by going to all kinds of different churches and synagogues and

01:09:48.160 mosques and and listening and i'm amazed that we agree i think on 95 of the stuff but we think we're

01:09:56.800 farther away from each other because of the language that each religion happens to use and we don't 1.00

01:10:04.700 understand it coming in we're like okay that's weird no it's exactly what you're saying just said

01:10:10.800 in a different way exactly but in here again you know i think that the the left and the right has to

01:10:16.860 they both have to improve i have been quite harsh about the left just all this vocabulary

01:10:21.960 policing yes the vocabulary changes all the time and if you slip up a little bit you know then

01:10:28.220 suddenly aha we caught you you're you know you're you're you're racist and that's not going to help 0.68

01:10:33.120 anybody but i think what that does is it makes some people on the right go too far in the other

01:10:37.840 direction they're like you know what we're sick of this political correctness so we're going to say

01:10:41.800 this and then it makes them purposely say incendiary things that then do sound very terrible so i i think

01:10:48.380 we have to just get out of the vicious cycle and just be more generous towards i always say

01:10:53.200 just try to think about what they're what the person is really trying to say instead of fixating

01:10:58.720 on the exact word you know where are they coming from are they coming from a good place because i see

01:11:03.760 so many people coming from a good place who suddenly just get torn down because they get the wrong

01:11:08.340 they use the wrong word and again i think that's more like bullying amy chua it is a thrill to talk to

01:11:15.760 the name of the book is political tribes group instinct and the fate of nations she has not

01:11:22.860 only diagnosed the problem uh but she points to the cure amy thanks so much so much for having me you

01:11:31.500 bet i can't believe she's a professor at yale how did she get on campus they find out don't let's 1.00

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01:13:11.980 glenn beck mercury

01:13:15.960 glenn beck

01:13:22.820 can we see if we can get her on for tv 0.79

01:13:26.300 tonight because i want to talk to her about race and our race relations in america

01:13:30.440 talking about amy chua she is the author of political tribes we just had her on she's she's

01:13:35.380 she is right i mean i'm in the middle of you know we've been working what a year on a book and we're

01:13:42.880 just in the middle of it uh and i wish i would have read her book before because i could have just

01:13:48.500 you know said you know buy her book instead yeah or you could just take off the cover and put your

01:13:53.200 face on it and then like just sell it as like yours can we do that i mean if your face is a

01:13:59.420 professor of law but what does she know i mean it would take her buying the book opening it and

01:14:04.560 realizing it's her i mean she's never gonna do that she's gonna see your face in the book and

01:14:07.300 never look at it that's exactly right right and we sell lots of you just look you just have to

01:14:11.540 maybe we'll just go through page by page and cross off her name and write yours in

01:14:14.920 i think that'll work but you only sell tens of copies so it's true uh you know it's it's i like

01:14:21.680 what she was talking about when it comes to seeing it's not about gathering like a bunch of people who

01:14:26.140 hate each other in a room and having them scream about politics you don't get anywhere with that

01:14:30.040 but when you when you work with someone when you do something normal when you have normal human

01:14:34.520 interactions with people you disagree with we had dinner yeah we make america dinner again

01:14:39.620 we'll we'll see if we have time to talk about this a little bit more we we have a fascinating

01:14:45.860 story coming out of katie texas uh a man who says he was bullied by the school superintendent when he

01:14:53.900 was a kid coming up glenn beck mercury

01:14:58.260 love courage truth glenn beck i want to tell you why what's happening in the middle east is

01:15:13.200 something that we all need to care about why it matters to you evangelical pastor andrew brunson

01:15:18.700 was arrested 18 months ago and sent to a turkish prison he was charged with funding a terror

01:15:24.760 organization okay um he's a terrorist well he was one of the quote terrorists and quote jailed in

01:15:34.460 the aftermath of the 2016 failed coup d'etat journalist academics soldiers teachers and christians

01:15:40.680 were deemed terrorists according to brunson his crime is in fact his faith his belief in christianity

01:15:48.100 he's lived in turkey now for 23 years and the turkish government claims that he's involved

01:15:52.780 uh with the uh gulen movement in reality it's likely a power play by uh the turkish president

01:16:00.600 uh erdogan who is paranoid that the coup was orchestrated by the u.s he's furious he's also

01:16:07.180 uh temper uh tantrum prone and he's an authoritarian uh leader so regardless the persecution of christians

01:16:17.880 in that region is subject um of uh of many conversations that we have here on the program

01:16:26.040 and also the subject of something that we are going to air soon of faith keepers it's a documentary

01:16:32.100 that we're going to be showing on wednesday april 18th this is an amazing thing on on what's happening

01:16:40.880 over in the middle east that most people are not talking about they're not showing it to you

01:16:47.620 we'll have the documentaries producers on in the 18th and some of the collaborators on the 19th and it

01:16:53.340 is eye-opening it is it will and in some ways it makes you ashamed that you claim to be a christian

01:17:02.040 because of what real christians are standing up against it's chilling but it is also inspiring

01:17:07.980 christians in the middle east and north africa and now increasingly in europe face hardships

01:17:14.220 uh of the most depraved and terrifying kind for no other reason but their faith 1.00

01:17:20.880 or miraculously the uh the lack or willingness to accept another faith faith keepers it is a

01:17:30.700 it's a metric for the growing persecution that christians are confronted with every day just not us

01:17:37.460 we talk about persecution religious bigotry last hour i told you about chick-fil-a in new york

01:17:44.640 yeah that's religious bigotry but not like what's happening around the world

01:17:49.640 it's crucial that we take notice every time something like the imprisonment of this pastor

01:17:56.500 in turkey takes place because it is likely going to happen more and more often more open

01:18:03.480 and much more violently in the days to come

01:18:06.500 it's monday april 16th you're listening to the glenn beck program

01:18:18.260 so a couple of weeks ago some audio was brought to my attention uh from pat whose kid was in uh

01:18:27.660 katie isd the uh independent school district in houston texas and there is a um

01:18:35.040 uh there's a school superintendent there who is kind of embroiled in a controversy now

01:18:42.720 because a man came to the school district meeting and stood up and said i want to talk about the

01:18:51.520 bullying that is going on in schools right now

01:18:54.860 he called out the school superintendent at the end i want you to hear the story listen

01:19:02.380 my name is greg barrett i graduated from ksd in 1983

01:19:08.060 i started in 1975 with mr lance uh my legal name is greg gay i was bullied unbelievably bullied

01:19:21.720 i started out and i had teachers that bullied me i had kids that bullied me even the coaches i had

01:19:31.100 nobody to turn to one day at lunch i had my head shoved in the urinal

01:19:38.100 where i it busted my lip i had laid on the ground in a fetal position as the kids kicked me

01:19:46.300 i got up i rinsed my face off i walked out of the lunchroom walked straight to the principal's office

01:19:56.100 and he told me these kids will grow up someday they won't always be like this

01:20:02.480 but yet here i am covered in urine from laying on the ground underneath the urinal

01:20:08.740 my lip was busted and they sent me home well i went home and i got the 45 out of my father's drawer

01:20:19.560 and put it in my mouth because at this point i had nobody nobody in the school system to help me

01:20:27.480 is is is that the way this is going to be lance you were the one that shoved my head in the urinal

01:20:36.380 wow powerful powerful moment now lance the school district uh the superintendent said

01:20:46.720 no that's not true i was not that guy and thus the controversy uh greg barrett the guy you just

01:20:55.660 heard speaking is uh joining us now from from houston hello greg how are you i'm just fine sir

01:21:01.860 um that was a powerful um testimony um and i it's my understanding that that was not you were not

01:21:13.980 going to out uh lance uh hint when you first stood up can you tell us this absolutely not can you tell

01:21:22.320 us a story on how you got there well i was sitting there i'd signed up and i was sitting in the audience

01:21:31.140 waiting to speak on on behalf of of sean dolan right yes can you explain that on was in front of me

01:21:41.420 and after he finished speaking lance you know basically embarrassed him and said your deceased son

01:21:52.520 was not even in kisd which was true but his son that was being bullied was in kisd and he was being

01:22:02.440 bullied because he had confided in his classmates about his brother dying of this disease

01:22:10.320 and so they were teasing him about it and he was coming home crying well sean went up there to try

01:22:16.600 to do something and they denied that it was happening and so that and so when he said well your your dead

01:22:25.400 son what didn't even go to school um that kind of angered you oh absolutely it it infuriated me i

01:22:34.520 couldn't believe i was watching this happen in front of my face he was basically bullying him

01:22:40.820 right in front of my face and so then you know i was i was nervous and then it turned to anger and

01:22:49.960 you know so when i went up to the podium i was i was angry and then as i was telling my story the

01:22:59.300 emotions kind of took over because i was like reliving the story and here he is sitting right

01:23:05.880 in front of me you know five feet in front of me and he's smiling and i could see other board members

01:23:12.960 smiling like it was a joke and it just infuriated me so i called him out at the end and and and walked

01:23:25.060 away before i really got ugly i have to tell you um uh we've watched it uh over and over as a as a crew

01:23:34.740 here and we had the opposite none of us were smiling we were horrified um by the by the story now he

01:23:43.720 denies that you even went to school with him does he not yes he he denied uh any any anything towards

01:23:55.040 this whatsoever and we've had multiple people come forward some of them i didn't even know

01:24:01.700 but one man uh chris dolan who is not related to sean dolan came forward two years ago and

01:24:12.960 invited me to a car show here in katie out of the blue and i went and he gave me a big hug and he said

01:24:21.120 i am sorry for the way that you were treated and he said i'm sorry i didn't stand up for you

01:24:28.540 so he was not part of that uh urinal kicking down no but he didn't know he came into the bathroom

01:24:36.540 as i was walking out

01:24:39.280 and he has lived with the cowardice uh his own cowardice and that's what he was apologizing for

01:24:48.720 yes can you tell me uh i mean

01:24:53.180 greg i i i there were i i'm i'm shocked that the the superintendent has not admitted this uh you

01:25:06.300 have a uh a district judge uh in i think louisiana or is it what is he uh is in alabama

01:25:14.580 and do you know him no and he has come out and said this is exactly who this guy was he was a he

01:25:24.040 was a bully who is mark mccool which i have to tell you is the opposite of your name i mean i would

01:25:32.480 have paid to be mccool as my last name but i've told him that i've told him yeah uh so who is mark

01:25:40.380 mccool do you know him i i know him through my sister because they were in the same grade

01:25:47.840 okay i never knew this happened to him until just the other day he travels he drives an 18-wheeler

01:25:56.580 okay and so he just happened to be here and saw all of this and posted his story as well and what's

01:26:05.760 his story well he was walking home from west memorial junior high which was the same school i

01:26:13.720 went to and lance and his buddy which were in high school at the time were down at the bayou and and

01:26:23.480 when they when they walk home from school they have to walk across a pipe to cross the bayou so you

01:26:29.580 don't have to walk through the mud and they were trying to walk across the pipe and they were

01:26:35.060 yelling at him and hollering at him hoping that they would fall off the pipe and when the mark mccool

01:26:42.820 and his friend got to the other side of the pipe they shot him the finger and ran well lance and his

01:26:49.160 buddy they chased him down caught him held him at knife point and made him go back to the bayou and roll

01:26:57.440 all the way across the bayou in the mud to get to the other side one more story there's also somebody

01:27:05.660 that came uh to uh attention i think from the reporting on a fox station that there was charges

01:27:14.120 that were filed against uh the uh superintendent when he was i think 18 years old and um he apparently

01:27:23.340 uh was racing his car loudly down a street and some neighbor came out and said knock it off and he

01:27:29.800 backed to stop the car backed up and beat the guy into a five-day coma um yes there were no for some

01:27:37.880 reason there were no uh i guess battery charges or the charges were dropped uh and so he's kind of

01:27:46.660 denying this as well but there seems to be a pattern here on lance yes and that was settled out of court

01:27:57.880 uh for the man's medical bills

01:28:01.220 thirty thousand dollars of medical bills by the way yes uh look um i'm curious greg if if you had

01:28:09.360 brought up this incident from your childhood with lance and lance and instead of blowing it off or

01:28:15.500 or smiling had responded you know i was a really bad kid i did some really terrible things

01:28:21.960 and you know that's one of the reasons why i'm taking bullying seriously now and and you learned

01:28:26.940 his lessons from those days uh and tried to utilize them today what would your reaction have been

01:28:32.680 different what would you have taken from that absolutely absolutely i forgave him a long time ago

01:28:39.980 you know uh i forgave all of them for what they did long many years ago that was all water under the

01:28:49.280 bridge until i saw sean's post about his son and he needed somebody to come forward to bring attention

01:28:57.220 to bullying and how it scars you for life i mean this is a scar i will carry forever you know these guys

01:29:06.600 are forgiven but it's a scar i'll always have and and i don't want this school district that my family

01:29:15.800 has been in since 1898 1898 my family has gone through this school system and you can't imagine

01:29:25.620 the amount of relatives that have gone through this school system it would horrify me to see something

01:29:32.960 like parkland happened here greg we've had people reach out and say that you're just a front that

01:29:44.000 you've been hired or paid off to do these things to get at this superintendent because he has taken

01:29:51.760 tough positions how do you respond to that well i think that's hilarious because i'm the one that keeps

01:29:59.880 saying he shouldn't lose his job watch every single news interview i have always said he is the person

01:30:07.540 to fix this he went all the way through the system junior high high school being a bully the entire way

01:30:15.300 we know now see i didn't know all of this stuff about high school and all this other stuff i had no idea

01:30:20.660 yeah but to me he's the perfect person to fix this because he knows the loopholes i will tell you knows

01:30:29.400 why he got away i i will tell you that we talked about that on friday when we were talking about you

01:30:34.200 we said the two of you should travel the country if he would if he would have admitted and said yeah boy

01:30:39.320 i was a bad kid and he you two are the perfect story i mean you're the perfect story do you ever think

01:30:46.280 of the um uh principal that told you he won't always be like this and you're finding out now

01:30:52.860 that oh my gosh maybe he is yes yes i've i've thought about that and and but some of what that

01:31:01.720 principal said was true because once we got into high school i mean there were a few kids you know

01:31:08.940 that still called me gay greg or whatever and and but we had all matured and you know and i mean it

01:31:18.620 was kind of blown off but i mean still to this day when i go to a restaurant i don't give them my last

01:31:26.280 name gay you know i i say happy you know it's kind of a running joke around here you know i mean

01:31:34.620 you you give them your last name gay at a restaurant they say gay party of four everybody stops and

01:31:40.520 works um uh greg thank you for sharing your your story and i uh i'm glad that i i don't think that

01:31:51.540 we're the we're the people that um uh that they were we were when when i was growing up as well we're

01:31:57.640 about the same age and um thank you for sharing your story and quite honestly i i hope that

01:32:04.620 uh i hope that everybody finds their way to forgiveness uh and we can and and you and you

01:32:13.360 all set a great example for the rest of the nation that people can change thank you so much greg

01:32:18.300 thank you

01:32:20.220 so i want to talk to you about bitcoin you see in the news uh stew um

01:32:32.400 uh that bitcoin now who was it that just said this i just read this in one of the newsletters

01:32:38.820 that i get from uh from palm beach i can't remember who it was said that cryptocurrency now it looks

01:32:46.760 like it's here to stay and uh you know it's it's not a flash in the pan somebody who was notoriously

01:32:53.020 against it uh george soros pretty much did the same thing he said oh that's a big bubble it talked

01:32:57.960 it down for a long time and now has just opened up what 26 billion dollar fund uh going towards

01:33:03.860 cryptocurrency and bitcoin and what's the price today uh it's been back up over 8 000 yeah it's

01:33:10.000 right around 8 000 right now so anyway bitcoin i i don't know what the future is i do know this

01:33:15.840 i do know that cryptocurrencies are a part of our future i don't know how but that's why i ask experts

01:33:23.880 and uh we we actually were doing our homework for quite some time we found a guy out there who we

01:33:29.680 thought was really really smart his name is tika tiwari he's from the palm beach letter um stew and i

01:33:34.900 read his uh letter every day and and uh we're impressed on what this guy knows and you know when we first

01:33:42.760 talked to him we said and said okay so so what do you think's coming you know what's it and he told us

01:33:47.500 and um i went home and i told my wife and i said hey we should buy this cryptocurrency

01:33:51.940 i had no idea how to even buy it yeah no it wasn't even it's not it wasn't available on one of

01:33:57.140 the major it was right too much too many too many hurdles to clear to buy it this is why we've asked

01:34:03.300 for a crypto master course by tika we asked him could you put together a course that will teach you

01:34:09.800 what cryptocurrency is how to buy it how to sell it uh and then you can take the advice on what to buy

01:34:16.880 or what not to buy uh yourself you decide i urge you to check this exclusive course

01:34:21.880 out now it is smart crypto course.com smart crypto course.com

01:34:28.780 glenn beck mercury

01:34:32.840 glenn beck

01:34:42.400 do you think of the james comey interview so enthralled glenn fully enthralled but i did watch

01:34:49.580 it uh yesterday uh yesterday and um now that we're on hour three towards the end of the show

01:34:54.820 and we haven't talked about it yet it makes me feel like i've wasted my time completely well i don't

01:34:58.860 want to waste your time i want we we want to go over it because there are a few clips that we need

01:35:02.880 to play um and i think i've got a few things to say as i'm sure you do we'll uh we'll do that

01:35:09.740 when we come back

01:35:10.740 glenn beck mercury

01:35:21.120 you're listening to the glenn beck program

01:35:29.300 welcome to the program let's spend a couple of minutes on uh

01:35:32.960 on uh james comey abc did a five hour interview with him five hours uh i mean you want to talk

01:35:43.480 about a grilling and here are the here are the highlights that we thought were worth uh talking

01:35:49.940 about let's let's play uh first uh comey on hillary 1.00

01:35:54.980 try to realize that i'm not trying to help a candidate or hurt a candidate i'm trying to do

01:36:01.040 the right thing and you can come up with different conclusions reasonable people would have chosen a

01:36:05.700 different door for reasonable reasons but it's just not fair to say we were doing it for some

01:36:11.300 illegitimate reason but but at some level wasn't the decision to reveal influenced by your assumption

01:36:17.760 that hillary clinton was going to win and your concern that she wins this comes out several weeks

01:36:23.120 later and then that's taken by her opponents a sign that she's an illegitimate president it must have 1.00

01:36:29.440 been i don't remember consciously thinking about that but it must have been because i was operating

01:36:33.780 in a world where hillary clinton was going to beat donald trump and so i'm sure that it that it was a

01:36:39.360 factor like i said i don't remember spelling it out but it had to have been that that she's going

01:36:44.520 to be elected president and if i hide this from the american people she'll be illegitimate the moment 1.00

01:36:50.320 she's elected the moment this comes out i do you even begin to understand that i mean he he doesn't

01:36:57.220 say it and then stephanopoulos gives him this scenario you know wouldn't you say it was this

01:37:02.000 well i don't recall that at all but it must have been what right that's a pretty big decision you made

01:37:08.540 what do you mean you don't remember i guess he's just saying it was a foregone conclusion at that point

01:37:13.740 remember this is the this is the era right after the access hollywood tape comes out she goes to the

01:37:19.700 biggest lead she's had in the entire campaign and at that point i mean it did seem uh that you know

01:37:25.360 hillary was going to win uh and so he's maybe he's trying to make the argument that subconsciously

01:37:31.520 that's the that's the environment i'm in so i'm sure it was a factor but he never spelled it out

01:37:36.860 specifically in his head it's just a weird thing because he goes on at length at other parts of the

01:37:41.280 interview talking about how politics was never a factor he never considered it he never thought about

01:37:46.460 politics he was just trying to do the right thing but he allows from the idea that the right thing

01:37:51.520 was influenced by politics so it's a kind of a circuitous reasoning in in some ways all right here

01:37:56.680 is uh the um the the clip donald trump is unfit to be president is donald trump unfit to be president

01:38:06.800 yes but not in the way i often hear people talk about it i don't buy the stuff about him being

01:38:15.100 mentally incompetent early stages of dementia he strikes me as a person of above average intelligence

01:38:20.780 who's tracking conversations and knows what's going on i don't think he's

01:38:24.820 medically unfit to be president i think he's morally unfit to be president

01:38:28.000 a person who sees moral equivalents in charlottesville who talks about and treats women like 0.65

01:38:34.600 their pieces of meat who lies constantly about matters big and small and insists the american

01:38:40.320 people believe it that person's not fit to be president of the united states on moral grounds and

01:38:45.640 that's not a policy statement again i don't care what your views are on guns or immigration or taxes

01:38:52.560 there's something more important than that that should unite all of us and that is our president

01:38:57.520 must embody respect and adhere to the values that are at the core of this country the most important

01:39:03.720 being truth this president is not able to do that okay i just want to morally unfit morally unfit

01:39:11.320 and i don't want to play well you guys did it too but would comey say that clinton was morally unfit

01:39:19.120 because do you did you hear what he said he's got to treat women right and he lies all the time he

01:39:24.360 lies all the time bill clinton completely unfit by that stand i mean we'd all agree that nixon was unfit 0.97

01:39:29.400 how about how about lbj who was oh my god a horrible horrible racist horrible racist unfit who like 0.99

01:39:38.400 unfit how about treat women and lies all the time how about jfk how about fdr who had a mistress on the 0.98

01:39:47.700 side how about fdr who who lied about a lot of things uh how about fdr it you want to talk about a bad

01:39:57.160 guy just scooping up the japanese even though his own administration said there is no threat from the

01:40:02.320 japanese and puts him in an internment camp because he's a racist how about woodrow wilson who is

01:40:06.920 constantly the fifth greatest president of all time surprise we ended up with woodrow there yeah i'm

01:40:11.760 really stunned in your list i mean i'm just morally unfit i i wonder if he has if he would put others in

01:40:19.500 that in that category it doesn't seem like he he mentions uh a couple times talking about how

01:40:26.040 he would single trump out as opposed to other presidents he served under or presidents from

01:40:31.980 history um now that doesn't mean that everyone would come out in that in that way but he did signal

01:40:36.940 trump out as worse a couple of times and and you kind of hear the the that's saying something we had

01:40:42.720 like the you see both sides i mean it says something about him not about trump says he says something on

01:40:47.340 both sides about comey too because there's two parts of this part one is let me give you two 0.62

01:40:52.140 points one good for comey one bad for comey comey is i think you hear him throughout this give ground

01:40:59.980 like for example he says trump is an above average uh intelligence and and he you know when he was

01:41:04.920 talking there's another clip everyone was playing about mob just he's like he's not he's not a mobster

01:41:09.400 he just demands loyalty like mobsters do he constantly was equivocating and giving ground which to an

01:41:16.880 average person remember 99 of people don't sit around and think about these issues don't know

01:41:23.080 comey's background don't know him as a quote-unquote grandstander just we'll see a clip of him and i think

01:41:29.540 that helps him as far as credibility goes to the average person who doesn't follow this closely

01:41:33.940 because he's willing to to say things that i think uh hurt his case at times he he went on at length

01:41:42.740 about how well i wasn't sure if i handled something you know something right where he's talking about

01:41:46.500 loyalty and the loyalty pledge conversation which was reported that he kind of uh well i'll be honest

01:41:51.860 with you and that's it comey's actual quote was i'll give you uh he agreed to giving him honest loyalty

01:41:58.800 which i don't know what that means exactly different than blind loyalty yeah yeah i guess

01:42:03.880 yeah but i mean honestly you know loyalty is a is a weird thing in that you know it's easy to be

01:42:10.820 loyal to someone when you completely agree with them and they're doing everything right

01:42:13.340 like the loyalty in a way demands in tough times that you're staying with someone but honest loyalty

01:42:19.480 okay it was it was a as he put it a compromise but it was also something that where he's giving

01:42:24.720 ground and i think that might might connect with the with the average person watching it for the first

01:42:29.220 time on the other side of that he has a problem that someone like megan kelly also has which is 0.79

01:42:36.120 he does not have a constituency nobody likes him there's no one who actually likes james comey

01:42:44.360 even the comey family i don't think because they showed a clip with his wife who's a huge hillary 1.00

01:42:50.120 supporter his family his wife and daughters were marching in the women's march right you think

01:42:55.740 they're happy he released that uh that letter 10 days before the election i bet you know and they i

01:43:01.540 just saw a bunch of interviews with people from the fbi who are all mad at him too right so you have

01:43:06.100 and now if you think about the normal typical left right divide in this country this happened with

01:43:10.080 megan kelly megan kelly was loved for a long time because by the right because she was on fox

01:43:15.820 and largely was taking the left to task on that show uh and she was hated at the same time by the 0.99

01:43:22.660 left they didn't like her for a really long time then when she took on trump the right said we don't

01:43:29.500 like you and the left said we love you when she gets her own show and she's past that circumstance

01:43:35.900 what she has is neither side being passionately for her and the same thing that happens with james

01:43:41.220 comey here is that i listened to a lot of coverage about this afterwards kind of hear the reaction

01:43:46.700 and one of the things you notice is the left can't universally bring themselves to say he's a good

01:43:53.760 guy and doing the right thing because they're so pissed off about the letter 10 days before the

01:43:58.100 election that they can't universally heap praise on him that he's useful to them now and they will

01:44:05.240 say all the things that he said in the interview were great but i can't get past the idea that he

01:44:10.140 did x y and z right before the election and of course the same thing with the trump uh side of the

01:44:14.880 argument who if you remember the 10 days between the letter and the election he was universally praised

01:44:22.380 by the right loved there are quote after quote after quote after quote about how wonderful this

01:44:28.220 guy was and how he was honest about hillary clinton now he's a big enemy and everybody on the right like

01:44:32.980 doesn't like him so no one on the right really likes him and no one on the left can bring themselves

01:44:38.580 to praise him in a universal fashion so he doesn't even get the benefit of the partisan divide and i think

01:44:45.120 that is going to be at the in the end of the day you can say that's the right thing to do

01:44:48.740 but it's not going to make him an effective person in this debate i don't think they're going to have

01:44:54.580 to still get a lot more than this because in the in the end what he did was further clarify some

01:44:59.500 details of what he already testified about there's nothing in this book that we haven't already heard

01:45:04.200 there's nothing in this book that is new and we are in a culture that needs new so i mean people are

01:45:10.720 i've heard the criticism of comey which i think is somewhat fair in that here he is if this is such an

01:45:16.980 important message why are you bringing it to us in a book we're going to make a lot of money hey it's

01:45:20.500 a fair criticism i do too i but but you have to take out the fact that if he really wanted to just

01:45:25.360 get a payday he should have somehow avoided testifying and telling the store all these

01:45:30.440 stories beforehand yeah because these are all the stories from the book and if you watch the

01:45:33.860 interview yesterday all the stories were stories you had already heard from his testimony and all he

01:45:38.320 is is adding a little bit of color a little bit of detail from behind the scenes but really not much

01:45:44.000 more that's new so i want to see bill murray live this weekend much more interested in that than

01:45:57.980 james comey bill murray because this is i've seen tickets i wanted to go to this show i went bill

01:46:04.360 murray live on stage that sounds amazing i liked it okay it was it was mary's 30th birthday so i took

01:46:12.240 her out for a birthday to to see that show and we liked it a lot of people walked out it it's one

01:46:21.840 of the most bizarre things i've ever seen in my life really truly is i also saw the quiet place this

01:46:28.240 weekend a quiet place a quiet place uh and i want to talk to you about that as well you're not going

01:46:33.760 to ruin it for me no no because i want to see it it looks like it's great you're not going to tell

01:46:37.440 me everything that happens throughout the entire film no i'm not they all die at the end anyway um

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01:48:10.420 glenn back so i went to see bill murray uh and friends in concert and you know i was smart enough

01:48:25.400 to go online and look at what does a bill murray concert look like um well let me tell you it looks

01:48:32.460 like this imagine a school talent show with really unbelievable musicians and bill murray

01:48:44.580 shows up once in a while like every you know let me every half hour like you know three minutes

01:48:52.400 and then there's just some kid reading poetry and he's not that good at it that's what that's like

01:49:01.040 what it's the most bizarre theater experience i've ever had in my life so is it like a variety

01:49:05.880 show uh no it well hosting it yeah he well no i mean i don't know what it is i don't know what it

01:49:12.660 is it is it's it's a it's bill murray going i'm almost 70 i'm gonna do whatever the hell i want 0.52

01:49:17.760 right um and it is funny at times really funny um but he just is reading disconnected poetry and play

01:49:27.780 cuttings and doing songs and then singing and he's not good um but he's singing seriously

01:49:35.520 now there's a couple of times where he's singing and it's intentionally bad but it's no different

01:49:41.840 than when he's not intentionally bad uh and it's just bizarre i mean a lot of people walked out uh this

01:49:49.800 couple was sitting in front of me and they were like i don't know should we walk out that'd be rude

01:49:53.340 i'm like you know what's rude is you two sitting here talking about it all the time just get out he

01:49:57.300 doesn't care just get out you already paid him yeah you paid him he doesn't care he opens the show

01:50:02.100 and he's like okay all right the worst part is over which was not true the worst part was is over uh

01:50:08.600 and uh you know if you need to walk out i understand we see it all the time and so he admits it he knows

01:50:14.560 it and i i have to tell you i enjoyed it but i enjoyed the the courage that it took

01:50:20.620 i i i i thought he was exceptional in parts he did a he did he read part of huck finn uh when

01:50:31.580 i can't remember the name of the slave escapes and huck finn is on the raft with him and he reads this

01:50:36.980 whole thing using the n-word and everything and he reads it really well he plays all the characters

01:50:42.660 and it's really good um but that's i mean if you're telling me the hook here is that he read huck finn

01:50:50.200 well that's not exactly a commercial for the show no it's i don't know how to explain it except it's

01:50:56.500 like a really weird talent show that it has no theme to it that i could find what about the parts where

01:51:03.000 he's not on the on the stage what's happening uh the musicians are playing he's on stage the whole

01:51:07.620 time but he just sits down in a chair and the musicians are playing and they are awesome but they're

01:51:13.140 classical it's a a violinist cellist and a pianist and they're playing stuff and it's i mean it's

01:51:20.660 it's bizarre it's just bizarre i enjoyed it but then again i like weird things right i could not

01:51:27.940 recommend this to people who are just like you know what i have a good time let's go i loved caddyshack

01:51:32.560 yeah no that's not you're not no that's not it okay that's not it because i think from a strange i love

01:51:37.540 who he is and that he just doesn't care about anything anymore that's what i liked and that's

01:51:42.600 that's probably what i would get out of that it just like the balls to go up there and just do 0.89

01:51:46.360 whatever you feel like because he's he's beyond f you money yeah he's just an f you life at this 0.71

01:51:51.640 point he just doesn't care yeah which is kind of interesting and tomorrow i have to tell you about

01:51:56.340 the the quiet place i saw the quiet place a quiet place a quiet place and i saw rampage over the

01:52:02.340 weekend i was busy i had a double feature with my son on friday afternoon and uh

01:52:07.520 night out with my daughter on saturday but we'll give you those reviews tomorrow but if you see bill

01:52:13.360 murray uh if you you know you come into town think about it watch it online first you might enjoy it

01:52:22.920 you might walk out

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