The Glenn Beck Program - 'Politically Connected Bridges？' (Bill O'Reilly & Dennis Quaid join Glenn)

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00:00:16.680 Australia may soon be welcoming a lot of new neighbors, the white South African farmers.

00:00:22.880 Oh my gosh, of course they're welcoming the white people.

00:00:26.400 The African National Congress Party in South Africa has now proposed a constitutional amendment

00:00:33.440 to take white-owned farms and to redistribute the wealth to the black citizens

00:00:41.220 without any compensation to the landowners.

00:00:45.800 Potentially thousands of white South Africans can find themselves now looking for new homes,

00:00:51.220 new land, and new jobs.

00:00:53.480 Peter Dutton oversees the immigration as Australia's home affairs minister.

00:00:59.380 He says Australia should grant emergency visas to white farmers from South Africa

00:01:04.180 that would allow them to resettle in Australia on humanitarian grounds.

00:01:09.440 He says we should do this as a civilized country,

00:01:13.880 and he took heat in Australia and South Africa

00:01:17.800 for saying that the farmers needed protection in a civilized country.

00:01:22.000 Oh my gosh, civilized country. What is he saying?

00:01:26.820 A spokesman for South Africa's foreign ministry called Dutton's remarks regrettable,

00:01:31.460 adding,

00:01:31.920 There is no reason for any government anywhere in the world to suspect that any South African

00:01:36.480 is in danger from their own democratically elected government.

00:01:39.900 That threat just doesn't exist.

00:01:41.820 Really?

00:01:42.180 Because usually, whenever this has happened before, the threat does exist.

00:01:49.080 Wouldn't we be saying exactly the opposite if it was white people taking the land from black people?

00:01:58.880 Wouldn't we be saying the opposite?

00:02:01.920 Whenever a government denies something like this,

00:02:04.560 That usually means, yes, the threat is there.

00:02:09.380 As in many parts of the world, immigration is a hot-button topic in Australia.

00:02:14.240 Thousands of immigrants, mostly Muslims from the Middle East and Southeast Asia,

00:02:18.560 are being held offshore in detention facilities

00:02:21.300 because of an Australian policy that denies asylum seekers who reach Australia by boat.

00:02:27.060 And people think that we are.

00:02:29.720 So, oh my gosh, look how bad the United States is.

00:02:32.200 Every other country just lets people pour in.

00:02:34.700 Apparently not.

00:02:37.400 Dutton is accused of using race as a political tool

00:02:41.320 because he supports the offshore detention facilities

00:02:44.900 and because he also blamed the rising crime in Melbourne

00:02:50.200 on African immigrant gangs.

00:02:53.360 Well, are there African immigrant gangs that have been doing things?

00:03:02.780 Because if there are, I think we could just...

00:03:05.340 Isn't this a math problem?

00:03:07.160 Not a race problem?

00:03:09.960 In an interview with the Sydney Daily Telegraph,

00:03:13.120 Dutton said,

00:03:13.820 We want our people who come here...

00:03:16.040 Listen to this.

00:03:17.440 We want people who will come here

00:03:19.040 to abide by our laws,

00:03:21.760 integrate into our society,

00:03:23.360 work hard,

00:03:24.980 and not lead a life on welfare.

00:03:27.540 End quote.

00:03:29.500 Sounds kind of like what everybody was, isn't it?

00:03:32.680 South Africa seems determined to try to correct decades of injustice

00:03:37.600 with more injustice

00:03:39.640 and create a new homeless class of white farmers.

00:03:44.140 So what's wrong with Australia rolling out the welcome mat for those outcasts?

00:03:48.680 Well, apparently plenty.

00:03:50.760 Plenty.

00:03:51.260 For all of the world's progress,

00:03:55.040 it never ceases to amaze

00:03:56.720 how much we are still hung up on race.

00:04:00.880 It's Friday, March 16th.

00:04:09.400 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:04:11.420 And it really is.

00:04:12.420 That's the crazy thing.

00:04:14.220 It really is Friday, March 16th,

00:04:16.600 and this is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:04:19.360 And welcome to our executive producer,

00:04:21.200 Mr. Stu Bregeer.

00:04:22.160 Hello, Stu.

00:04:23.160 Hello, Glenn.

00:04:23.620 How are you?

00:04:24.020 Oh, my.

00:04:24.920 Oh, my.

00:04:25.980 I'm good.

00:04:26.780 Things are good.

00:04:27.220 Oh, my gosh.

00:04:27.960 They're good.

00:04:28.500 Going well.

00:04:29.120 Yes.

00:04:29.760 Unless, unless you're somebody who happened to be at a stoplight

00:04:34.520 underneath a bridge in Florida yesterday,

00:04:36.780 or you happen to be the people who released this press release.

00:04:43.800 This method of construction reduces potential risks to workers, commuters, and pedestrians,

00:04:49.920 and minimizes traffic interruptions.

00:04:52.720 The main span of the Sweetwater University City Bridge was installed with just a few hours

00:04:58.220 with limited disruption to traffic over the weekend.

00:05:01.560 The Sweetwater University City Bridge is the largest pedestrian bridge,

00:05:05.520 moved via self-propelled modular transportation in U.S. history.

00:05:10.600 It is also the first in the world to be constructed entirely of self-cleaning concrete.

00:05:16.440 When exposed to sunlight, the titanium dioxide in the concrete captures the pollutants

00:05:21.280 and turns it bright white, reducing maintenance costs.

00:05:25.280 Funding for the $14.2 million bridge connecting plazas and walkways

00:05:30.080 is part of a $19.4 million transportation investment generating economic recovery,

00:05:36.500 a Tiger grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation.

00:05:42.020 Now, can I ask you a question?

00:05:47.460 We've just spent $14.2 million of my money and your money on a bridge,

00:05:55.720 a pedestrian bridge, in Florida.

00:05:58.700 All this brand new technology, and it's going to be great.

00:06:02.420 And it was for five whole days.

00:06:06.460 What happened?

00:06:09.880 Who's going to be held responsible?

00:06:12.520 And what do we learn from this?

00:06:14.720 Well, what the left learned was that Donald Trump,

00:06:18.700 who does not care about our infrastructure,

00:06:23.040 has abandoned it and will not, because all these tax cuts.

00:06:27.160 Yeah, well, it's crumbling infrastructure.

00:06:29.060 Crumbling infrastructure.

00:06:29.340 This was really, this was five whole days old.

00:06:31.840 Right.

00:06:32.200 Of course, they didn't realize that it had just been installed five days ago

00:06:35.920 and was an example of us spending millions of dollars on infrastructure

00:06:42.680 and the latest technology.

00:06:44.920 Let's just be specific.

00:06:45.960 $19.4 million taxpayer, federal taxpayer money went down to Sweetwater.

00:06:52.520 14.2 went to build this bridge.

00:06:56.120 And this is separate from the tragedy, which is obviously really bad.

00:06:58.360 Six people died, and it could be worse.

00:07:00.540 You know, it's a really bad event.

00:07:03.700 Separate from that, how can we say that we don't have enough money

00:07:08.940 for our infrastructure when we're spending $19 million on a pedestrian bridge?

00:07:13.160 Thank you.

00:07:13.760 Thank you for saying that.

00:07:15.280 Thank you for saying that.

00:07:16.700 How is it?

00:07:17.520 We're talking about crumbling infrastructure, and we're spending $14 million

00:07:24.460 to build a high-tech pedestrian bridge that I want to quote the press release.

00:07:31.860 Construction of the bridge began in 2017, expected to be completed early 2019.

00:07:36.100 When finished, the bridge will be 298 feet long, 109 feet tall,

00:07:41.160 and the 32-foot-wide bridge will serve as a study and gathering place.

00:07:48.740 That doesn't seem like critical infrastructure.

00:07:51.780 Is that critical infrastructure that we have another study and gathering place?

00:07:57.060 It made it easier for the university students to get to the town

00:08:01.000 instead of having to deal with the streets, which, again,

00:08:03.520 it's not that it's an invalid project.

00:08:06.000 There's no reason for the United States federal government

00:08:10.880 to be funding a project like that.

00:08:12.460 If you want that project, Florida, pay for it yourself, period.

00:08:15.660 There's no reason.

00:08:17.240 This is constant.

00:08:18.800 And they act as if we need another trillion dollars on infrastructure.

00:08:21.860 This does not prove this.

00:08:22.900 It's the opposite.

00:08:24.340 And, you know, you look at this, you know,

00:08:26.420 Florida International is, like, the head of this type of construction.

00:08:31.680 It's called accelerated bridge construction.

00:08:33.360 And it's a new method where they basically build the bridge

00:08:35.380 on the side of the road instead of, you know,

00:08:37.880 interrupting traffic the whole time

00:08:39.200 and then put it on wheels and wheel the thing into place.

00:08:43.140 I mean, it's an amazing thing.

00:08:44.000 It's a great idea.

00:08:44.780 And it's a great thing and probably will be eventually, you know,

00:08:49.480 a way that we do these things more efficiently.

00:08:51.620 Obviously, this big first test of it did not go well, however.

00:08:56.320 Yeah, so we shouldn't be testing things over roads.

00:08:59.140 I mean, just that's to me.

00:09:01.260 Well, we shouldn't be testing things.

00:09:03.340 No, it has to go over a road eventually.

00:09:04.900 You said the first big test.

00:09:06.880 Well, there should be lots of tests of this.

00:09:09.840 I'm sorry.

00:09:10.560 It's not like they just came up with the idea last week.

00:09:12.480 Like, I don't know, let's wheel it over the street.

00:09:14.140 Well, they obviously didn't test it enough.

00:09:17.040 I mean, I know people who are literally dying of cancer.

00:09:21.340 And if it causes any kind of problems, no, no, no, no.

00:09:25.640 We can't.

00:09:26.120 No, we can't do that.

00:09:27.640 You might have the heartbreak of psoriasis.

00:09:33.280 You might have that just horrible heartbreak.

00:09:35.520 As you're dying with cancer, we can't do that.

00:09:38.300 We don't know if it's safe.

00:09:40.840 What was the testing of this like?

00:09:43.040 I mean, it's...

00:09:43.880 Five days.

00:09:45.880 Well, it's apparently...

00:09:47.220 No.

00:09:47.820 I mean, they've been testing it for years.

00:09:49.660 No, I know that.

00:09:50.280 But it lasted five days.

00:09:52.420 I guess what they, you know, from what I've read about it, and I cannot say that I walk

00:09:56.580 into today as an expert on accelerated bridge construction.

00:09:59.720 Yes, I agree.

00:10:00.600 But I think, you know, as everyone does, when something like this happens, everyone becomes

00:10:04.500 a 24-hour expert on accelerated bridge construction.

00:10:07.060 And it does seem like, you know, it takes a lot of precision, and if one little thing

00:10:15.380 goes wrong in that process, you can have a situation like this.

00:10:20.420 Obviously, they didn't think they were going to get anything wrong, and this company that

00:10:24.540 is, you know, responsible for the building and, you know, checking, making sure all the

00:10:31.360 monitoring was going correctly, very politically connected in Florida.

00:10:35.480 So now...

00:10:36.800 No, wait.

00:10:37.520 Yeah, all of their...

00:10:38.940 Wait, what?

00:10:39.600 This is not a pretty story.

00:10:40.980 I will say that.

00:10:42.080 But again, it has nothing to do...

00:10:43.800 All the people that you're going to see on your social media feeds today that tell you this

00:10:48.940 is proof that Donald Trump didn't do his job with infrastructure, it's ridiculous.

00:10:55.080 And beyond that, he's the guy who wants to spend all the money on infrastructure.

00:10:57.920 That's right.

00:10:58.260 It wasn't critical infrastructure.

00:11:01.320 It was a brand new bridge.

00:11:04.240 What do you say?

00:11:05.200 Hey, if we're...

00:11:06.520 You'll never say it.

00:11:07.920 You people will...

00:11:09.140 You...

00:11:09.480 You...

00:11:10.700 Ugh.

00:11:12.020 You political-driven people on the left in this particular case will make this all about

00:11:20.800 our crumbling infrastructure.

00:11:22.520 We've got to spend more money.

00:11:24.440 Donald Trump wants to spend twice as much as Obama did.

00:11:30.440 You will never talk about how this is not critical infrastructure.

00:11:39.320 This was a gift to a university.

00:11:43.340 When are the universities going to start paying their own way?

00:11:47.180 When are the universities going to start giving back?

00:11:49.780 You want to talk about universities?

00:11:51.500 We lived in New Haven, Connecticut.

00:11:53.640 The infrastructure of New Haven is crumbling while Yale just keeps pouring money in.

00:12:03.780 When are these guys going to pay taxes?

00:12:07.360 Oh, no.

00:12:08.800 Churches should pay taxes, but not universities with their billions of dollars.

00:12:14.960 This wasn't critical infrastructure.

00:12:17.280 You can complain to me about critical infrastructure crumbling, which it is, which it is in some

00:12:24.960 areas.

00:12:25.540 You can do that when it is critical infrastructure and it was crumbling because it was there longer

00:12:35.400 than five days.

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00:14:12.680 Glenn Beck, Mercury.

00:14:21.600 Glenn Beck.

00:14:25.960 Hello.

00:14:27.160 Welcome.

00:14:27.600 I'm glad you're here.

00:14:28.760 Let me go to Patrick in Colorado.

00:14:30.760 Hello, Patrick.

00:14:31.480 You're on the Glenn Beck program.

00:14:33.640 Hey, Glenn.

00:14:34.300 Hi.

00:14:34.740 Long time listener.

00:14:35.720 Big fan.

00:14:36.480 Thank you.

00:14:36.760 And if I could quickly say we need more stew.

00:14:41.100 Thank you.

00:14:42.020 That's what America is demanding.

00:14:44.020 And finally, someone's the kind that you get out of a can.

00:14:46.900 But anyway, go ahead.

00:14:48.500 Good point.

00:14:49.020 So I just wanted to go over the idea of inspections and county and state inspectors.

00:14:54.100 I've been in the construction industry most of my life, and we're often taught that the

00:14:59.000 inspector is there to make things safe.

00:15:02.200 But the fact of the matter is, the big joke in construction is that if you wash out in

00:15:06.680 the industry, become an inspector.

00:15:09.060 Yeah.

00:15:09.320 Well, I think that is the joke in every industry.

00:15:14.060 So furthermore, you know, just a quick instance, I built my own house about two years ago,

00:15:20.680 you know, and I had to pay an engineer to design the concrete foundation, and the planning

00:15:25.140 department had to approve it, and then the building department had to approve it.

00:15:29.540 And the engineer missed a really big part of the job, and it was me and the other contractor

00:15:36.540 that I hired to do the concrete that actually caught it.

00:15:39.280 And the two of us are standing there, scratching our heads, looking at each other, thinking,

00:15:42.700 I paid thousands of dollars to this engineer, and then the planning department and the building

00:15:47.520 department both had to approve everything and stamp off on it.

00:15:50.980 And if we built it the way that they designed it, we would have had some problems on the

00:15:54.780 house.

00:15:55.100 Now, we fixed it, but the idea that you have safety or security because the county or state

00:16:01.340 government is involved, I mean, I think most of your audience knows that that's kind of

00:16:05.000 laughable.

00:16:05.680 Yeah.

00:16:05.940 So wait a minute.

00:16:06.580 So hang on just a second.

00:16:07.680 So did you have to go back when you caught it?

00:16:11.040 Did you have to go back and have the plans re-approved, or did you just do it?

00:16:17.100 Oh, we just fixed it.

00:16:18.340 I mean, it took us two hours and a shovel and some rebar to fix it, but, you know, they would

00:16:23.200 want us to do that, but we skip it all the time.

00:16:26.160 Let me give you another, for instance, I don't want to take up too much time.

00:16:29.280 We get given the ideas by magazines all the time.

00:16:33.240 People are like, oh, I want it to look like this.

00:16:35.280 And we say, that's great.

00:16:36.580 We can make it look like that, but it's illegal.

00:16:38.940 So they say, well, what do we do?

00:16:40.740 Well, it's easy.

00:16:41.460 So we go through and we install a standard handrail that looks normal and passes inspection.

00:16:47.260 And the inspector walks out the door.

00:16:49.280 We rip it out.

00:16:50.020 And then we put in the nice metal one that looks like branches and leaves.

00:16:54.340 That's all arcy and cute.

00:16:55.920 Oh, jeez.

00:16:59.380 Oh, my gosh.

00:16:59.860 The inspector's got it.

00:17:00.980 Okay, he's back.

00:17:01.740 Go ahead.

00:17:02.180 Yeah.

00:17:02.760 Well, and the fact is, they don't care.

00:17:05.340 They have to sign off that, yes, when we showed up, it was the way we wanted, but you can change

00:17:10.480 it however you want the next day.

00:17:12.520 They don't have the time or the resources or the care.

00:17:15.320 And so this is the problem.

00:17:17.900 This is the problem.

00:17:19.300 This is why gun control and drug wars and everything else don't work.

00:17:24.680 Because if the people want to do it, they will find a way to get it done.

00:17:30.480 And the inspection process is usually just a joke.

00:17:35.440 It is.

00:17:36.400 I mean, I've had great inspectors on projects that we have done.

00:17:40.880 And the city has come in and looked at things.

00:17:44.800 I've also had pain in the ass.

00:17:47.000 Don't have any idea.

00:17:48.340 They just are there either marking time or, you know, it's like the it's like the, you

00:17:55.240 know, the parking lot cop that is in a, you know, a rented outfit that thinks he's got

00:18:01.060 all of the power in the world and wants to let, you know, I have all the power in the

00:18:04.900 world.

00:18:06.140 Well, and Glenn, it even gets worse than that, because right now in Mesa County, like we had

00:18:10.960 a bad year or two as far as enough money for the county.

00:18:14.500 So what did they do?

00:18:15.500 They got rid of a couple inspectors.

00:18:17.280 So now the guys that they have left have to do more inspections even more quickly.

00:18:22.860 And these guys, and I'm not even kidding you, I've been on job sites.

00:18:26.680 And this is when I was younger, before I was running at any kind of job site.

00:18:30.280 I've seen inspectors not get out of their truck.

00:18:32.840 They drive up a six pack of beers, walked out to the guy, and they sign off on the thing

00:18:37.300 without even getting out of their truck and looking at it.

00:18:39.780 And that stuff still happens.

00:18:41.140 And I hate to say it, but it happens because that's the way that we can make the process quick

00:18:46.580 and painless for our customer and ourselves.

00:18:49.660 So let's keep our mouths shut on that.

00:18:53.420 I don't know how many beers, however, I don't have I don't know how many beers were walked

00:18:57.680 over for the the bridge, you know, but when it comes to when it comes to something like

00:19:02.240 that, when it comes to a serious issue, we need the inspectors and they need to be clean

00:19:09.680 and they need to do their job.

00:19:11.200 By the way, for a six pack of beer, I can get any of your calls on the air.

00:19:13.720 Just set it up for me.

00:19:15.640 This reminds me of a bottle of Jack Daniels.

00:19:17.620 I'll give you the show.

00:19:19.840 This reminds me of last summer in Toronto.

00:19:23.460 And this is a Canadian story, but it applies, I think, here, which is they were going to make

00:19:28.760 a new set of stairs to go down a decline for sixty five to one hundred and fifty thousand

00:19:34.420 dollars was the cost.

00:19:35.720 Yeah.

00:19:36.060 And just a guy in the neighborhood got sick of it and decided he just walked up there

00:19:40.460 one day, just started building stairs, built a nice set of stairs for five hundred and

00:19:44.660 fifty dollars.

00:19:46.080 And what happened?

00:19:47.060 The next day they came in and with power tools and tore the stairs, tore the stairs out.

00:19:51.680 They said they said they can't.

00:19:53.600 We cannot allow just the average citizen to build stairs.

00:19:57.260 Why?

00:19:58.000 He just saved you a hundred grand.

00:20:00.680 Check them out.

00:20:02.120 You know, if you think measure them and go.

00:20:05.140 But I mean, why not take the extra hundred fifty thousand dollars of savings and go buy

00:20:10.820 yourself all the beer you want as far as I'm concerned.

00:20:13.880 Just leave us alone.

00:20:22.380 Glenn Beck Mercury.

00:20:27.260 You're listening to the Glenn Beck program.

00:20:37.140 A Rockland high school teacher.

00:20:40.280 This is in Rockland, California, has been placed on administrative leave due to several

00:20:48.080 complaints from parents and students involving the teachers communications regarding the student

00:20:53.000 led civic engagement activities.

00:20:56.480 Now, here's here's what happened.

00:20:59.060 In California, you know, you can do whatever you want.

00:21:02.560 I mean, illegal aliens smoking pot while having sex with underage children.

00:21:09.240 As long as they're as long as they're wearing a T-shirt that says Gavin Newsom for governor,

00:21:15.540 you're OK.

00:21:17.200 That's a law.

00:21:18.080 That's actually the way it's written.

00:21:21.760 Some would have said that was extremist.

00:21:23.520 But no, no, that's that's the actual law.

00:21:25.980 But so.

00:21:27.640 But however, if you disagree.

00:21:31.240 If you disagree that somebody should be allowed to march out of class against the Second Amendment,

00:21:39.900 you don't have a right to a First Amendment for that opinion.

00:21:44.460 OK, so here's what the teacher said.

00:21:46.680 Look, I just want to know if we are doing these things.

00:21:49.780 She set out a memo and she said, you know, it's it's an example of consistency.

00:21:57.920 Quote, if a group of students nationwide or even locally decided I want to walk out of school for 17 minutes

00:22:05.120 and go into the quad area to protest abortion, would that be allowed by our administration?

00:22:12.520 And you shall not question.

00:22:14.440 And she's been put on administrative leave because she can't ask that question.

00:22:24.100 That's amazing.

00:22:25.000 I mean, because I could tell you this, there's a scientific consensus here.

00:22:28.500 If all gun violence continues and you're still going to wind up with a lot more people alive

00:22:36.720 if you got rid of the abortion the other way, a lot more abortions.

00:22:39.680 You hand everybody in America a gun, there still will be more abortions, more people killed by abortions.

00:22:47.240 Yeah, man.

00:22:47.780 If you get rid of abortion, you're going to have a lot more people alive than if you get rid of gun violence.

00:22:52.580 So and she wasn't advocating for pro-life.

00:22:55.840 She's just saying, I'm wondering if this is equal.

00:22:58.920 Well, both of them are about constitutional rights.

00:23:03.540 How do you test a statement, right?

00:23:07.080 You bring up the opposite side.

00:23:09.480 You bring up, and it may be sometimes even an extreme.

00:23:12.980 You will not question us.

00:23:14.680 You will not say the other.

00:23:17.040 There is no other side.

00:23:20.060 Fraulein, no other side.

00:23:22.020 It's true.

00:23:22.840 That is really the, that's what they want, is there is no way to test it.

00:23:27.340 Because if you test it, then you find the logic of their statement to be incorrect.

00:23:31.300 There is, I'm telling you, there is a movement, there's an underground movement,

00:23:35.140 and there's a possibility that it actually stems from the belly of the beast,

00:23:39.880 that it actually comes out of California.

00:23:43.500 And on the Pacific side, you know, I'm thinking of the,

00:23:47.560 oh, what's the, what's the evolutionist guy that we've been talking about?

00:23:53.020 Weinstein, a biological evolutionist from, what is it?

00:24:00.060 Evergreen University, which is, I mean, really makes Berkeley look like Beck University.

00:24:08.140 And he's, I can't work there anymore.

00:24:12.260 My wife and I, both evolutionary biologists cannot, or scientists cannot work there anymore

00:24:19.580 because they've just unpegged for science.

00:24:22.560 Science and, and, and any kind of reason doesn't exist anymore.

00:24:28.640 She's using reason.

00:24:30.720 This is something that has been lost.

00:24:33.300 She's using reason, which is what we're supposed to be teaching our children.

00:24:38.640 Let me, let me engage in reason here.

00:24:41.340 You're protesting a, a, a constitutional right.

00:24:46.980 Abortion is said to be a constitutional right.

00:24:51.520 Some people disagree with the constitutional right to bear arms.

00:24:55.760 Some people disagree that it's a constitutional right to kill children.

00:25:01.260 If you can protest your constitutional right,

00:25:04.980 do I have the right to protest this constitutional right?

00:25:09.600 The answer is clearly no.

00:25:13.680 Not only do the kids not have the right to protest and walk out of class for 17 minutes

00:25:18.340 and be called heroes and brave,

00:25:20.120 they also don't have the right as a teacher or anyone else to even ask that question.

00:25:27.660 This is a concentration camp mentality.

00:25:33.300 California, let me ask you a question.

00:25:35.740 How do you grow from this?

00:25:38.260 What are you going to do when you have all of your beloved people running the state

00:25:42.780 and you have half or a third of your population that doesn't agree with the way you want to run the state?

00:25:49.400 Do you put them in re-education camps?

00:25:53.420 No, the idea I think is you're just hoping everybody will move out so you can have your socialist utopia.

00:25:59.960 Well, that's wrong.

00:26:06.100 That's wrong.

00:26:07.540 Yeah, we were talking off the air the other day about a book called Science Left Behind.

00:26:13.760 And it goes, it's about Hank Campbell and Alex Berezao.

00:26:17.460 And they go over a ton of examples of how largely,

00:26:21.300 the book focuses on examples on the left because everyone says it's the conservatives who abandon science.

00:26:29.240 And they go through example after example after example after example of how the left does exactly this.

00:26:36.280 They will take science and they will just disregard it

00:26:39.840 when it butts up against whatever theory of the day they're trying to promote.

00:26:44.920 And, you know, you can't successfully run a society that way.

00:26:50.800 You have to be able to look at the facts and objectively analyze them.

00:26:55.200 And, you know, sometimes it doesn't mean you're going to get everything right.

00:26:57.600 But if you can at least take the time to honestly question,

00:27:01.640 there was somebody a long time ago who had something about honestly questioning things that

00:27:05.100 he was a guy who kind of had a good idea about how to run things.

00:27:09.060 So here's this.

00:27:10.020 Wednesday, first illegal immigrant ever to serve in state office in California

00:27:16.860 was appointed by the California Senate Rules Committee.

00:27:21.400 Elizabeth Mateo, 33, who attended Santa Clara University Law School in 2016,

00:27:26.760 passed the California Bar last year,

00:27:28.440 is going to serve as the California Student Opportunity and Access Program Grant Advisory Committee,

00:27:34.540 which advises the California Student Aid Commission on ways to make it easier

00:27:38.840 for students from low-income or underserved communities to attend.

00:27:44.360 What are those underserved communities?

00:27:47.060 I have a guess.

00:27:47.860 Yes, I bet you do.

00:27:49.820 Senate President Kevin DeLeon, who announced the decision, took the opportunity to slam President Trump.

00:27:57.340 He released a statement in which read,

00:27:59.460 while Donald Trump fixates on walls, California will continue to concentrate on opportunities.

00:28:05.240 Ms. Mateo is a courageous.

00:28:06.720 How dare him use Ms.

00:28:11.140 Is that the proper pronoun?

00:28:13.940 I hope to God so.

00:28:15.500 Is that an assumption of gender?

00:28:16.960 I think it is.

00:28:17.840 Ms. Mateo is courageous, determined, and an intelligent young woman who, at great personal risk,

00:28:24.260 has dedicated herself to fight for those seeking their rightful place in this country.

00:28:30.840 Now, Mateo followed that up with, while undocumented students, in my day we used to call them illegally here,

00:28:42.460 illegal aliens, while undocumented students have become more visible in our state,

00:28:48.800 they remain unrepresented in places where decisions that affect them are made.

00:28:55.120 So, in other words, in the House and the Senate, you can't legally vote, but now you can serve in the Senate.

00:29:06.080 If you're Donald Trump, let me run this by you here.

00:29:09.640 You're sitting in the White House.

00:29:11.020 I'm Donald Trump.

00:29:11.580 You're Donald Trump.

00:29:12.300 You're sitting in the White House right now.

00:29:14.360 You are a guy who occasionally likes the jousting of a good conflict.

00:29:19.960 Yes, I like conflict.

00:29:20.940 I'm Donald Trump.

00:29:21.920 I like conflict.

00:29:22.740 It's kind of like what you like about the gig, right?

00:29:24.860 That's right.

00:29:25.440 It's like what life is all about.

00:29:27.560 And you like to send the message that you're very tough.

00:29:30.000 He likes that too.

00:29:31.160 On illegal immigration.

00:29:32.360 Aha.

00:29:32.880 Right?

00:29:33.260 Yeah.

00:29:34.200 You have to be tempted, mid-speech, to send a crew in there from ICE and to remove her from this country in the middle of a sentence.

00:29:47.380 So, in other words, Ms. Mateo, assuming that is her proper pronoun, she is giving a speech and all of a sudden the doors are kicked in on each side and ICE maybe grapples down from the ceiling and grabs her and flies her to Mexico.

00:30:07.040 There's no reason to damage a door in this process.

00:30:09.060 I think Donald Trump might say, you know what, kick the door down, even if it's open.

00:30:14.140 Lock it and then kick it down.

00:30:15.620 Because, look, it's one thing.

00:30:17.680 Yeah.

00:30:17.900 We've talked about, like, the Dreamers.

00:30:19.800 We've talked about all these groups with all these wonderful names, all these wonderful people from other countries who just couldn't make it in their own and have made it there.

00:30:26.020 No issue of their own.

00:30:28.980 No fault of their own.

00:30:30.240 They're just here.

00:30:30.740 Look, that is one thing, and obviously Donald Trump has supported DACA.

00:30:35.820 He's a guy who's been, he's had some sympathies for those arguments, right?

00:30:39.700 When you are flaunting it so badly that you have broken the law, that you're doing something illegal, that you would enter the first ever state representative or whatever it is to go into an actual state government role and then have it publicized in multiple news stories and tell everyone on earth where you're going to be every minute of the day.

00:31:02.860 That is really a finger in the face of the president, of the border guards, of the United States, of the United States of America, and our legal system.

00:31:11.860 Yeah.

00:31:12.000 Okay.

00:31:12.280 So just one more thing, just to point out that not only is she here illegally and she's now serving as an illegal in state government, she's also the one who played a key role in helping a group of people known as the Dream Nine.

00:31:31.580 You know the Dream Nine?

00:31:33.220 The Dream, I don't know the Dream Nine.

00:31:34.700 I know Ocean's Eight, I don't know the Dream Nine.

00:31:36.100 Dream Nine.

00:31:36.680 I didn't watch one through eight, so I don't know if I truly understand Dream Nine, but the Dream Nine were nine people that were returned to the U.S. after being deported to Mexico.

00:31:48.360 So ICE came in, deported them, and she helped them come back into the country.

00:31:53.720 Wait, how do you, did that, I don't know if it happened in the middle of the night, I don't know how it happened, but I think I'm more and more inclined to enjoy someone grappling down during the middle of her speech.

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00:33:43.000 All right, California, I don't want you to feel like all hope is lost, even though it is.

00:33:46.900 I, did I say that out loud?

00:33:49.200 Um, uh, I want to tell you how bad things are in France.

00:33:52.720 There is a, uh, there's a French rule that you, you, you've got to be closed.

00:33:58.060 If you're a business, at least a bakery, you have to be closed one day out of the week because you have to have a day of rest.

00:34:04.220 Not because God told you to do that because that's silly and really, really bad.

00:34:09.840 This is because the government says you have to have a day of rest.

00:34:13.200 Well, there's this, uh, this baker in a town of about 2000.

00:34:16.460 It's a, it's a resort town.

00:34:17.900 He wants to make ends meet by being open on Sundays because the tourists are there and he can make a lot of money during tourist season.

00:34:25.780 He just quote likes to work.

00:34:28.700 The government has fined him and told him he has to close his bakery out of a town of 2000.

00:34:35.620 He's already gotten the 2000 residents to sign his petition to leave the bakery alone.

00:34:42.560 He said, quote, we just have to stop ticking people off who like to work.

00:34:47.900 Wow.

00:34:50.440 I love that.

00:34:50.940 Cause it was, it used to be that they were closed one day a week for like the blue laws, right?

00:34:55.780 Yes.

00:34:56.300 Oh, Alexis talking over there.

00:34:57.680 Alexis, shut up.

00:34:59.560 Uh, but it used to be closed because of religious reasons, uh, or, you know, that was crazy.

00:35:06.620 Then the government overturned those laws and now they're implementing them again, just with no religious connotation.

00:35:13.720 Right.

00:35:14.120 Yeah.

00:35:14.640 Okay.

00:35:14.940 For the same reason you have to rest.

00:35:16.860 Okay.

00:35:17.040 Yeah, of course.

00:35:17.900 Uh, I'm a little concerned about, uh, now tomorrow is St. Patrick's day.

00:35:22.400 I'm sure you'll be celebrating.

00:35:23.880 No, I don't like the saints.

00:35:25.500 I don't like people named Patrick and it all comes from religion.

00:35:29.940 I think it's impressive.

00:35:31.620 Uh, in Savannah, there's a me too movement going on.

00:35:35.040 I think this is how I'm seeing it.

00:35:37.700 Uh, apparently, uh, women in the crowd are known to dash out in the streets in the middle of their parade and plant a smooch.

00:35:46.500 No.

00:35:46.940 No.

00:35:47.380 On uniformed service members.

00:35:49.180 No.

00:35:49.820 Marching in the St. Patrick's day parade.

00:35:52.400 No.

00:35:53.040 It is the, uh, second largest parade, uh, for St. Patrick's day in the United States.

00:35:57.340 Third largest in the world.

00:35:58.880 Uh, and over, it started in the 1960s and it has gotten out of hand over time.

00:36:04.380 Um, the, Kevin Larson's a spokesman for nearby Fort Stewart said that the military is just asking people to police themselves.

00:36:11.180 It's not a law or a rule.

00:36:12.960 Um, they, of course, it's causes delays in the parade and there's all sorts of other issues.

00:36:17.680 However, these poor servicemen might not want these kisses.

00:36:22.820 Amen.

00:36:23.600 Now, the, uh, officials have.

00:36:25.520 It doesn't explain the t-shirt that they all wear that says, me too, question mark.

00:36:30.460 Apparently not.

00:36:31.360 Me too?

00:36:31.640 Me too?

00:36:32.240 Listen to this.

00:36:32.780 They have suggested that soldiers who do not want to be kissed can say no or offer a handshake instead.

00:36:41.420 However, this is a quote from the article, quote, bystanders can't be forced to stop.

00:36:50.180 What the hell do you mean they can't be forced to stop?

00:36:54.520 I, uh, a military member has to accept a kiss in this situation?

00:37:01.460 What do you mean you can't force them to stop?

00:37:04.780 If someone is, is trying to kiss you and you do not want them to kiss you, I'm pretty sure you can force them to stop.

00:37:11.380 No.

00:37:12.200 No?

00:37:12.740 No.

00:37:13.000 So not hashtag me, not, not me too.

00:37:16.360 Hashtag.

00:37:16.820 Nope, it's the California parade rule of 1994.

00:37:20.240 Oh, okay.

00:37:20.840 Yeah.

00:37:21.420 Yeah.

00:37:21.720 Women could do it, but men, they have to accept the kiss.

00:37:27.020 Glenn.

00:37:27.940 Back.

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00:37:37.820 Truth.

00:37:39.580 Glenn.

00:37:40.500 Back.

00:37:41.080 Julianne had a question for her high school history class.

00:37:44.860 Are all protests equal?

00:37:47.820 If a student can decide to walk out of school for 17 minutes in support of gun control or against the Second Amendment,

00:37:54.840 can they do the same to protest another right that is supposedly, uh, uh, protected under the Constitution?

00:38:04.400 Can they?

00:38:05.100 The answer in California is, nope.

00:38:08.920 Julianne wanted her students to think about the double standard.

00:38:12.180 Her message resonated with, uh, Nick Wade.

00:38:15.120 He's a student there.

00:38:15.940 He said, I felt like if we were to go to school and say something like, I wanted to walk out, maybe for abortion rights,

00:38:21.740 then you would, uh, you'd know they probably wouldn't let us there because it's more of a conservative push.

00:38:27.500 But if somebody wants to say, let's walk out for gun control, the school's going to do it and go with it because it's a popular view with them.

00:38:34.260 She was proud of her students that were thoughtful and, uh, you know, were, were open to questioning with boldness.

00:38:42.740 Honest, honest, questioning.

00:38:46.580 The administration didn't like it at all.

00:38:48.700 After class, Julianne received a call that she had been placed on administrative leave.

00:38:53.120 Officials claimed that they had received several complaints from parents and students involving the teachers' communications regarding the conversation about the walkout.

00:39:02.300 For Julianne, the Second Amendment conversation has turned a plea, uh, turned into a plea for the First Amendment.

00:39:09.480 You know, we are, we, we are really in trouble with our schools.

00:39:16.200 If you are in a conservative school and you are only teaching design, uh, intelligent design or creationism, and you are not teaching the Big Bang, you are doing a disservice to your students.

00:39:30.340 If you are in a school in, uh, California, and you are only teaching the Big Bang, and you are not teaching intelligent design, then you are doing a disservice.

00:39:43.060 We must be able to challenge thought.

00:39:47.820 It is what the First Amendment was meant for.

00:39:51.940 She's steadfast in her belief.

00:39:56.660 You're going to allow students to walk out and get out of class without penalty, then you have to allow another group of students that want to protest.

00:40:03.160 There are great teachers out there, and Julianne is one of them.

00:40:08.840 She is the reason that kids should stay in school during school hours.

00:40:13.120 Because in a class like hers, they won't be taught what to think.

00:40:18.500 They just may end up learning how to think.

00:40:25.340 It's Friday, March 16th.

00:40:28.120 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:40:34.060 Mr. Bill O'Reilly from BillOReilly.com.

00:40:37.320 How are you, sir?

00:40:38.840 I'm the same Beck, which is tragic for everyone.

00:40:43.120 Oh, you are funny.

00:40:49.280 Bill, your thoughts on that last story.

00:40:52.660 All right.

00:40:54.340 I was a former high school teacher, as you know, and I taught elective called Contemporary Problems, which dealt with the issues of the day in the early 1970s.

00:41:05.440 So I'm pretty well versed about kids and what they do and how they do it and how they get swept up in all kinds of mania and peer pressure.

00:41:16.600 So my solution to all of this is, look, if you want to have a demonstration or protest against something, you should be able to if you're a student.

00:41:27.220 But it has to be done after school, not during school hours.

00:41:31.760 You can't impose on the school day and force people to make a decision about whether they should protest or not, because it's just wrong to put kids in that position.

00:41:44.580 So you can do it after school and you petition it.

00:41:47.160 You go to the principal and you say, look, we'd like to have this kind of a discussion in the gymnasium or wherever.

00:41:52.540 And, you know, hopefully a reasonable administration will respect that.

00:41:57.300 So that's how you do it.

00:41:59.100 You don't get involved with this trendy and spur of the moment stuff.

00:42:09.060 Well, the most important story, I don't know whether you covered this or not, because I am trying to keep up with you.

00:42:14.300 But you've got so many things going on on the program.

00:42:18.260 You might have, but we uncovered on Bill O'Reilly.com, which is rapidly turning into an investigative agency.

00:42:25.940 Good for you.

00:42:26.400 But there was a far left group behind this protest of these kids.

00:42:30.520 Do you know that?

00:42:31.560 Well, we do.

00:42:32.980 But, yes, most people don't.

00:42:34.920 The group is called Empower.

00:42:36.920 E-M-P-O-W-E-R.

00:42:39.200 Okay.

00:42:39.600 Didn't know this part of it.

00:42:41.180 Good.

00:42:41.500 All right.

00:42:41.880 Go ahead.

00:42:42.780 Oh, you didn't know this?

00:42:43.600 No, this is new.

00:42:44.380 This is new to me.

00:42:45.080 Go ahead.

00:42:46.020 No, no, no.

00:42:46.820 It's good.

00:42:47.540 Go ahead.

00:42:48.260 This group, this group was behind the student walkout.

00:42:54.360 And not only were they behind it, but in certain areas they made signs.

00:42:59.120 They made sure that far left faculty members were posting stuff on social media.

00:43:05.400 It was organized by Empower.

00:43:07.900 Who's Empower, Beck?

00:43:10.180 Empower is an offshoot of a group called the Women's March Movement.

00:43:16.860 Yeah, there we had.

00:43:19.160 I didn't have the loop of Empower.

00:43:22.040 This is truly amazing, Bill, that no one is covering this.

00:43:26.920 It was not reported by any national news service.

00:43:30.420 Bill, do you remember how this is AstroTurf?

00:43:35.080 This tea party, it's AstroTurf.

00:43:36.980 These were people in their kitchens, you know, making little signs with sprinkles on them with their kids.

00:43:43.740 And we were called AstroTurf.

00:43:45.780 And it was everybody knew what AstroTurf meant because they covered it so much at the beginning of the tea party.

00:43:51.920 Not a word about this.

00:43:54.840 And in Santa Barbara, a hotbed of women's movement, women's march movement, they actually had professionally printed signs.

00:44:06.680 The kids were carrying, decrying white supremacy.

00:44:11.420 So, your listeners and every American citizen, you've got to know that this stealth, sneaky propaganda has now reached a national crisis where American children are being manipulated.

00:44:33.060 They have no idea what Empower is or what the women's march movement is.

00:44:39.940 They have no clue.

00:44:42.040 They think it's a spontaneous uprising, and it is not.

00:44:46.720 And these people are making tremendous gains.

00:44:50.020 They have a tremendous amount of money, much of it from the George Soros crew.

00:44:56.320 And they have the media in their pocket.

00:44:58.680 And I will just point out that the women's march movement, as we discussed last Friday, all right, is now favorable toward Louis Farrakhan, the biggest anti-Semite and anti-white person going around speaking today.

00:45:15.720 So, this is bad.

00:45:17.640 And I'm proud that my website, BillOReilly.com, with a small staff, are breaking these stories and letting people know what the truth is about their country.

00:45:27.620 Because you're certainly not getting it from the national press.

00:45:31.840 Bill, if there was a – well, they barely covered the Right for Life march, which was enormous in Washington, D.C.

00:45:40.000 Yeah, they ignore it every year.

00:45:41.420 Yeah, they ignore it every single year.

00:45:42.800 So, they don't – those women don't count.

00:45:45.040 Those people don't count.

00:45:46.320 Those children don't count.

00:45:48.760 And if this – if there was a Right to Life march that was spontaneously happening, spontaneously happening all across the country, and there was a walkout, and the signs, the buses, you know, to get the kids where they needed to go and organize everything and get the permits and get the stage and get the speakers and have all of that done.

00:46:09.080 And then the signs, and then the signs as well were printed by churches, they would have exposed that and said this is nothing but a religious, crazy, crackpot, church-driven thing that is indoctrinating kids.

00:46:25.340 Any doubt in your mind?

00:46:26.940 No.

00:46:27.180 Well, and everybody knows it, though.

00:46:29.800 I mean, so what we're trying to do here is this story about the anti-Trump movement and the anti-conservative movement, which are two different things, is developing quickly.

00:46:46.380 And what Americans are unaware of is that there is a powerful force behind all this.

00:46:53.940 And you said it, that the nation's public schools are really in crisis because the teachers' unions are as far left as you can get, all right?

00:47:05.120 And the administrators, the principals, school boards, are frightened to death of the women's movement.

00:47:13.480 They're petrified of it.

00:47:16.460 So where they couldn't win in the ballot box, they couldn't get Hillary Clinton elected and their liberal people in the House and the Senate, they couldn't get them elected.

00:47:27.680 They're now doing it through propaganda and intimidation, which every totalitarian regime in history has used.

00:47:36.940 And then they're hoping that that wave of intimidation leads to success at the ballot box.

00:47:45.340 And so it's a much bigger story than just kids walking out, waving signs, saying, we don't want any more kids shot.

00:47:54.040 It's a much, much bigger story than that.

00:47:56.800 Bill O'Reilly from BillOReilly.com.

00:47:58.940 A conversation continues here in just a second.

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00:49:34.800 Glenn Beck Mercury.

00:49:42.500 Glenn Beck.

00:49:45.260 We have Dennis Quaid joining us in about an hour from now.

00:49:49.720 There's a new movie out called I Can Only Imagine.

00:49:51.960 And Bart Millard, it's a story about, a true story about Bart Millard and the song that he wrote about his dad, I Can Only Imagine.

00:49:59.740 That is, this incredible story.

00:50:02.400 I will tell you, I watched the movie last week and I was like, okay, well, let's watch this movie and see if it's any good.

00:50:11.060 It is really good.

00:50:13.140 You'll love it.

00:50:13.860 And I think that Dennis Quaid, it may be his best performance yet.

00:50:18.740 And it's an incredible story.

00:50:21.340 We'll talk about that next hour.

00:50:22.360 Right now we have Bill O'Reilly from BillOReilly.com on with us.

00:50:27.100 Bill, let's talk about, do you have any thoughts on the bridge collapse?

00:50:32.540 No.

00:50:33.240 I'm, you know, I'm sure they'll find out if the construction company did something.

00:50:38.460 Okay, so let me ask you this question.

00:50:41.200 Do you have any comments, seeing that the bridge was five days old, do you have any comments about the media talking about how this is Donald Trump and not investing in our infrastructure?

00:50:53.540 You know, I mean, really.

00:50:56.760 I did something.

00:50:58.040 By the way, Dennis Quaid's a good guy.

00:51:00.260 Tell him I said hello.

00:51:01.140 I'll say to you that I will.

00:51:03.300 He's really a good guy and a smart guy.

00:51:06.760 I did a commentary yesterday called Trump Fatigue.

00:51:13.180 And I base it on my analysis of the cable news ratings.

00:51:18.720 Two of the networks, Fox and CNN, are going down rapidly, losing audience rapidly.

00:51:25.520 MSNBC in prime time is gaining a little bit, but that gain is going to evaporate soon.

00:51:33.060 And the reason is, on both sides, the hate Trumpers and the love Trumpers, they're getting tired of this every single day.

00:51:42.400 The most absurd comparisons, as you just said, you know, the infrastructure and it's somehow Trump is tied in.

00:51:50.160 And these women who come out, they obviously want to make money.

00:51:55.760 They're in it for money.

00:51:57.300 Everybody knows they want money.

00:51:59.620 So do their attorneys.

00:52:01.860 Yet the media puts them up as some kind of victims.

00:52:07.160 And you just, even the dimmest of us, Beck, know that it is over.

00:52:15.200 It's Trump fatigue.

00:52:17.100 They want him out.

00:52:18.340 We've heard it all now.

00:52:20.360 Whatever Mueller comes back with, half the country is not going to believe it.

00:52:24.880 All right.

00:52:25.700 And why would Mueller subpoena Trump records for his private business more than a year after he started the Russian investigation?

00:52:34.600 Why wasn't that done in the first three months?

00:52:37.620 You know, I mean, it's just enough already.

00:52:40.500 So I'm not surprised they're trying to tie him into the bridge in Miami or somebody got a hurt toe in Wisconsin.

00:52:49.920 It's got to be Trump's fault.

00:52:51.440 Will you do me a favor, Bill?

00:52:53.240 Because you are really, truly, I think, one of the sharpest minds about television.

00:52:58.740 I mean, I used to marvel at, you know, you would get in in the morning and the first thing you would do is you would go over everybody's ratings and you track them.

00:53:08.000 And you were looking for what's working and what's not, you know, to try to kind of understand the mind of America.

00:53:14.400 America, and I don't do that.

00:53:19.740 America tries to understand the mind of Glenn Beck, which is weird.

00:53:23.640 But I would love to hear your opinion on or your facts on what is really happening with cable news, because you're not hearing this anywhere.

00:53:32.780 And I believe the collapse is coming.

00:53:35.580 It's here.

00:53:36.420 It's not coming.

00:53:37.560 It's here.

00:53:37.940 So tell me what happening back.

00:53:39.580 And it's an excellent question.

00:53:41.420 Is this after you.

00:53:44.400 He left, I left, a few other people left the field, all right?

00:53:49.440 And Donald Trump was elected president.

00:53:52.540 The cable news divided into we hate Trump, we love Trump.

00:53:57.520 And they wiped out all their other coverage of the country and the world.

00:54:04.240 Everything, particularly in prime time, was geared toward either trying to get Trump out of office, the media coup that I've described,

00:54:13.740 get him out, not criticize him, we want him out, or defend him at all costs, all right?

00:54:22.740 So the cable news, instead of covering, I did six segments when I was doing the factor.

00:54:29.940 And maybe two of them were on politics and four of them were on other things.

00:54:34.160 I'll give you an example.

00:54:35.560 The guy who killed Kate Steinle is now suing the federal government, Beck.

00:54:41.300 Did anybody cover that last night?

00:54:43.560 Nobody.

00:54:44.760 Nobody.

00:54:45.120 As outrageous as it gets, okay?

00:54:48.280 So people can watch a little bit of the Trump stuff, but particularly for the, we didn't know whether he was going to do anything or he's a new president.

00:54:57.880 But now he's been in there for 14 months, all right?

00:55:02.440 And it's the same stuff that it was 14 months ago.

00:55:05.660 So tell me what the ratings are doing, Bill.

00:55:09.140 Compare when you were there to...

00:55:11.560 In February 2017, when I was sitting there in the factor, all right, we had more than 4 million viewers at 8 o'clock Eastern time.

00:55:22.620 Tucker Carlson, in February 2018, this year, lost about a million two of that audience.

00:55:30.540 Or a million, 200,000 people who are watching Fox News at 8 o'clock are no longer watching it at 8.

00:55:36.320 Not Tucker's fault, all right?

00:55:39.220 It's not that he's doing a bad show.

00:55:41.560 It's just that it's all about one thing.

00:55:45.500 And is this network-wide, and it is showing the same kind of downward trend for CNN?

00:55:53.440 Yes.

00:55:54.060 CNN has lost a lot of viewers.

00:55:57.000 At Fox, it is network-wide, with the exception of Sean Hannity.

00:56:02.540 Now, Sean's show is the strongest show on the network, and Sean is the most enthusiastic advocate of Donald Trump.

00:56:13.420 And at least provides, and this is why his show is still doing well, he provides the only balance, the only balance in a passionate way.

00:56:25.140 I mean, Laura does it, too, Laura Ingraham.

00:56:27.820 But Trump is really getting defended by one man on cable, and it's Sean Hannity.

00:56:35.560 So those people who like Trump are watching Sean.

00:56:39.600 And, you know, it's necessary.

00:56:41.900 Sean Hannity's show is necessary.

00:56:43.320 If you didn't have it, it would be 100% avalanche bury a president of the United States.

00:56:49.820 But, again, if you do it every night, if it's every night.

00:56:56.080 And every show.

00:56:57.360 And people are just saying, look, I'm going to go on the Internet, I'm going to watch BillOReilly.com, I'm going to listen to Glenn Beck.

00:57:05.040 I just can't invest the time anymore.

00:57:07.220 So hang on just a second.

00:57:07.900 And that's what's happening.

00:57:08.380 Go to CNN, because I just want to see, because I believe this is happening on both sides of the aisle.

00:57:14.200 Tell me about the numbers.

00:57:15.640 How much have they lost at CNN?

00:57:17.240 Do you know?

00:57:18.060 CNN, I don't have the sheet in front of me.

00:57:19.860 We did it yesterday on BillOReilly.com.

00:57:22.000 They've lost about 20%, 25% of their audience across the board.

00:57:26.720 They have no traction at all.

00:57:28.520 It was funny because they're giving Cuomo, Chris Cuomo, a primetime show.

00:57:32.680 I know.

00:57:34.240 His morning show didn't do anything.

00:57:36.020 Quick, let's move him to primetime.

00:57:39.420 Back in a minute.

00:57:45.280 Glenn Beck.

00:57:47.240 Mercury.

00:57:57.420 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:57:59.140 I talked to Larry Kudlow about how hard is it to fix the economy.

00:58:04.380 Here's what he said.

00:58:06.580 I said this before, and I'll say it again.

00:58:08.760 You and I, and like-minded people who believe in freedom and joy, I can sit down with you and fix the economy.

00:58:15.920 Give me a half hour.

00:58:17.520 I can't outlist this stuff.

00:58:18.640 I mean, I've only been, I've been doing it for close to 40 years.

00:58:21.900 It's not, the principles don't change.

00:58:24.220 He now has his 30 minutes to fix the economy.

00:58:27.480 What is your, what are your thoughts on Larry Kudlow?

00:58:31.600 Before I get to that, Beck, I just want to tell you, you know, every time I hear the music coming in from the break to introduce you, I want to go to the spa.

00:58:38.920 I'm going to put hot rocks on your back soon.

00:58:41.180 Yeah, I mean, it's like, I fire up the incense.

00:58:44.520 I know, I know, I know.

00:58:46.260 All right, go ahead.

00:58:47.100 Okay.

00:58:47.820 Larry Kudlow.

00:58:48.960 Good guy.

00:58:50.760 Smart guy.

00:58:51.720 Free marketeer.

00:58:53.920 Don't think he's a big tariff guy.

00:58:56.000 No, no.

00:58:57.260 Which is interesting, isn't it?

00:58:58.800 Yes.

00:58:59.360 Because I've said from the jump, this whole tariff thing is smoke and mirrors.

00:59:02.840 Well, he said it was quite interesting.

00:59:05.140 He said he was called on the tennis court by Donald Trump.

00:59:07.780 And, you know, he thought he was going to get chewed out for what he was saying on CNBC about tariffs.

00:59:14.140 And he said, let me explain, Trump said, let me explain my strategy.

00:59:19.340 That's an interesting word.

00:59:20.620 He said, within 20 minutes, I was on board.

00:59:22.720 Yeah, because the strategy is to save a rattle and then make deals and then not have the tariffs.

00:59:30.960 That's great if that's true.

00:59:32.560 That's great.

00:59:33.140 And I think he's, what do you think about the people who are saying, you know, well, he's a former alcoholic and drug user.

00:59:40.880 He spent, he was 20 years ago, he was drinking and drugging.

00:59:45.100 Look, I mean, anybody who would say that has to examine their own life.

00:59:49.700 Thank you.

00:59:50.120 Everybody has frailties and everybody does things that they're not proud of.

00:59:56.560 And it seems to me that Mr. Kudlow overcame that.

00:59:59.900 So why would anybody be using that to attack him?

01:00:03.420 You know, when people do that, I just say, you're a bad human being.

01:00:06.280 Please vanish from my presence.

01:00:08.740 Let's go to Gina Haspel.

01:00:14.180 The story that was going around was that she was instrumental in the waterboarding of Abu, what's his name?

01:00:22.340 I think he was the hairy back guy.

01:00:24.280 Now ProPublica has...

01:00:26.660 Retracted that.

01:00:27.720 ...admitted that their reporting was fallacious.

01:00:31.080 Word of the day, fallacious, everyone.

01:00:32.800 May I just...

01:00:35.100 Is anybody surprised that ProPublica, which is Fidel Castro, the late Fidel Castro's favorite news operation, would put out this crap?

01:00:44.900 I'm not.

01:00:45.900 I don't know what the woman did or did not do.

01:00:49.320 I think that's for the Senate confirmation hearings.

01:00:52.280 I think everybody should have an open mind about it.

01:00:54.700 We want a good CIA director.

01:00:58.020 But hang on just a second.

01:00:59.200 Hang on just a second.

01:01:00.220 Yeah.

01:01:00.420 She was wildly smeared, and I don't think she gets her reputation back.

01:01:05.680 They even said that they had a book that talked about who was running the camp at the time and that it was a he.

01:01:12.260 But ProPublica just...

01:01:13.500 I mean, for people who are really concerned about pronouns, got this one wrong.

01:01:16.960 They said, we just assumed that the author was trying to hide the fact that it was Gina Haspel that was running the camp.

01:01:23.220 All right.

01:01:24.020 Let's be honest.

01:01:25.860 If you...

01:01:26.660 And people don't know this, but number one, nobody even heard of ProPublica and this story.

01:01:32.000 It's not a big story.

01:01:33.360 But if you do follow it and you see the name ProPublica, you know immediately that this is coming from a far-left position.

01:01:43.300 Wait, wait, wait.

01:01:44.160 But it's not about ProPublica.

01:01:46.460 I mean, Rand Paul has used this...

01:01:49.220 Yeah, but Rand Paul, you knew, was going to pull this.

01:01:51.180 Rand Paul, again, this is for the people of Kentucky to decide.

01:01:55.940 Rand Paul has a very, very sharp view of life.

01:02:00.640 And he's not going to go along party lines.

01:02:03.840 He's just not.

01:02:05.560 And so...

01:02:06.600 Well, neither...

01:02:07.180 Hang on, just a second.

01:02:07.760 ...you want, he's going to derail a lot of stuff.

01:02:10.600 Neither am I when it comes to torture.

01:02:13.520 I don't believe in torture.

01:02:14.600 Waterboarding, we do to our own troops in training.

01:02:19.360 We've heard of this a million times during the Iraq War.

01:02:23.720 And Americans either support waterboarding or they don't.

01:02:27.960 And, you know, that's what we have to go.

01:02:31.080 That's why we vote.

01:02:31.920 And most people, I believe, do on very, very limited occasions when life or death is in play.

01:02:39.580 So, anyway, I think this woman will probably be confirmed to be the director of the CIA.

01:02:45.300 I think it's a good thing we have a woman in that position.

01:02:48.200 I don't know her.

01:02:49.680 I don't know much about, you know, her background.

01:02:53.160 But that's why I'm looking forward to the hearings.

01:02:56.720 Bill, I've been listening intently to your commentary today.

01:02:59.760 And as usual...

01:03:00.380 Well, you should, Stu.

01:03:01.460 It's been amazingly insightful, as usual.

01:03:04.620 What is he kissing up for?

01:03:06.020 But I just, I want to make sure I draw attention to one particular thing from the interview.

01:03:10.960 Which, it was a qualifier that Glenn pointed out.

01:03:14.300 He said, you were one of the brightest minds on television matters.

01:03:19.940 Did you notice the qualification there?

01:03:22.060 He said, you were a very bright mind, but he said it was only really specifically on one minor topic.

01:03:28.800 How do you feel about that?

01:03:29.260 Why are you trying to get into his good graces?

01:03:31.280 I just want to know how he would react to that, because it happened on national radio.

01:03:35.360 No, no, no, but that expanded it.

01:03:36.420 He expanded it by saying O'Reilly looked at the ratings because he wanted to know what the American people found edifying.

01:03:45.140 And it's absolutely true.

01:03:46.440 That's what I did.

01:03:47.640 And I'm not...

01:03:49.060 Look, whether I'm a great mind or not is up to the listeners of your program tonight.

01:03:54.060 What I try to do is bring a honesty and incisiveness into the dialogue.

01:04:01.400 Because, like Beck, and probably you too, Stu, you know, I don't have an agenda here.

01:04:06.800 I really don't.

01:04:08.260 I just want the best for all Americans.

01:04:11.580 And I see tremendous corruption in our country.

01:04:17.260 Tremendous corruption.

01:04:18.600 Yes.

01:04:18.920 Let me ask you this, Bill.

01:04:20.500 Yesterday I did a story on how...

01:04:23.860 You know, if you just Google...

01:04:25.900 Yeah.

01:04:26.280 What was it?

01:04:26.960 People leaving the Trump administration or being fired.

01:04:29.720 And you'll get all kinds of lists from everybody, from every newspaper, but nothing on the first page of the results will tell you who he's replacing them with.

01:04:41.620 And that's really kind of an importance because I think everybody that he's replaced so far has been an upgrade.

01:04:49.740 And I've never seen anything like this thirst for blood.

01:04:55.640 I mean, poor McMaster, man.

01:04:57.440 They've been saying for a year, this is the weekend he's going to be fired.

01:05:01.220 It's incredible.

01:05:02.660 Well, look, there's two things in play here.

01:05:05.080 Pompeo, for Secretary of State, is an upgrade over Rex Tillerson.

01:05:09.500 There's no doubt in my mind.

01:05:11.620 Rex was kind of frightening.

01:05:13.160 Looked a little like Bela Lugosi.

01:05:15.180 Okay.

01:05:15.760 All right.

01:05:16.880 All right.

01:05:17.520 You know why he couldn't have any meetings during the day.

01:05:21.160 That's not true.

01:05:23.000 I was wearing this black cape.

01:05:24.660 No, no, he wasn't.

01:05:26.300 No, he wasn't.

01:05:27.460 But Pompeo's an upgrade.

01:05:29.360 But Trump's management style has not changed since he was running around New York building condos.

01:05:37.680 You do it his way or you're out.

01:05:39.940 And anybody working for Trump has got to understand that.

01:05:43.860 Now, Mattis, who I think is the best administrator in the Trump hierarchy, has managed to stay away and managed to do an excellent job as Secretary of Defense.

01:05:58.100 But the other guys, I mean, it's Trump's way or the highway.

01:06:02.020 And that's just the way the man is.

01:06:04.600 Last question.

01:06:06.160 Russia.

01:06:07.240 What is going to happen with Russia because of the UK?

01:06:10.980 You know, it's hard to predict Putin.

01:06:18.700 Putin's in trouble now.

01:06:20.860 All right.

01:06:21.380 He's in trouble because his image is shattering around the world.

01:06:27.400 It doesn't matter in Russia itself because that's a totalitarian state.

01:06:31.880 If you run against Vlad, he's going to put you in jail or poison you.

01:06:36.640 All right.

01:06:36.940 So that are your options.

01:06:38.700 But around the world, everybody knows that Putin is Stalin light.

01:06:44.840 I mean, that's who he is.

01:06:46.680 And you remember when I interviewed Donald Trump in the Super Bowl for 2017 that weekend, I said to the president, why are you being soft on Putin?

01:06:59.120 He's a killer.

01:06:59.960 Do you remember that, Beck?

01:07:02.580 And then Putin demanded that I apologize or he was going to send poison to Long Island or something.

01:07:10.080 Right, right, right, right.

01:07:11.000 Okay.

01:07:11.720 Now, I saw that.

01:07:13.700 And Trump really didn't have a, you know, his answer was, well, we do bad things, too, which I thought was pretty weak.

01:07:20.180 Very, very weak.

01:07:20.660 But I think the good thing about this, if there isn't any, because people are dead, is that the world, there's no longer any debate about Vlad Putin.

01:07:33.960 You know, he's just a savage.

01:07:37.500 Yeah.

01:07:37.740 He's a savage.

01:07:39.280 Okay.

01:07:39.600 And everybody's got to know it.

01:07:41.740 Bill, as always, thank you so much.

01:07:44.100 Thanks for all the hard work at BillOReilly.com.

01:07:47.120 I want to thank Stu for the kind words.

01:07:49.240 Very, very, my weekend, my St. Patrick's Day weekend.

01:07:52.660 Geez.

01:07:52.980 All right.

01:07:54.260 You're welcome.

01:07:55.100 Thank you very much.

01:07:55.680 Thanks a lot, Bill.

01:07:56.440 Appreciate it.

01:07:56.920 All right, guys.

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01:09:03.600 In Rockland, California, Jillian Benzel asked her students in class, she's a teacher.

01:09:10.560 If a group of students nationwide or even locally decided, I want to walk out of a school for 17 minutes and go into the quad area and protest abortion, would that be allowed by our administration?

01:09:20.680 For asking that question, she is now on administrative leave.

01:09:27.080 They expressed their displeasure with her question immediately.

01:09:35.280 And she joins us now from Rockland, California.

01:09:38.440 Jillian, how are you?

01:09:40.540 I'm doing well.

01:09:41.500 Thank you, Glenn.

01:09:42.480 What do you teach?

01:09:44.300 What subject?

01:09:45.160 Okay, so I teach advanced placement U.S. history.

01:09:49.840 I teach a dual enrollment class, which is basically a college course on the high school campus in conjunction with our, it's a Sierra College, which is our local junior college.

01:10:01.140 I do have my master's degree in history, so I'm teaching a college course on our campus.

01:10:06.840 So isn't this an appropriate question to ask?

01:10:10.100 And not a political question, but a question about the First Amendment, the Second Amendment, and what, the Fourth Amendment?

01:10:21.540 Well, I'm going to also throw in the Sixth Amendment.

01:10:24.480 I think there's something called due process of law.

01:10:26.620 If I remember my stipulations of the Sixth Amendment, you're supposed to be proven, I think, innocent until proven guilty.

01:10:34.540 And basically, when I got a call at 8.30 a.m. on the morning of the protest, when they had ample time two days prior, when I had been on campus, to, you know, interview me, ask me questions.

01:10:47.360 What are they accusing you of doing?

01:10:51.580 At this point, because we had a meeting yesterday, basically, I just want to clarify, I was not told until yesterday afternoon.

01:11:01.440 So 8.30 Wednesday morning, don't come in, you're on administrative leave.

01:11:05.960 I kept calling, I need to know why, what's going on.

01:11:09.740 And they released a statement to the local news as to why I was.

01:11:13.920 And the statement apparently read that it said some students and parents were upset with the dialogue that I had in class.

01:11:21.540 And again, Glenn, I know you are a statistics man.

01:11:24.100 I love statistics.

01:11:25.100 I have over 120 students, two students.

01:11:28.840 So I think that's 1%, less than 1%.

01:11:31.720 And one parent, which I'm going to presume is probably a parent of the student, they went down and apparently were uncomfortable or didn't like that I brought up abortion or that I was challenging the protest.

01:11:43.880 Oh, my gosh.

01:11:44.620 But two students with enough to get me on administrative leave, they didn't corroborate those student stories with, say, another couple of my own students.

01:11:56.500 Are you just being accused of making students uncomfortable by talking about the Constitution and constitutional rights?

01:12:05.240 I'm not sure what the wording, I'd have to look at the statement because they're kind of redacting most of this.

01:12:15.940 They said in the meeting yesterday, this is not a disciplinary issue.

01:12:20.840 We are just going to, we're just continuing to investigate.

01:12:23.940 And I said, what on earth are you talking about?

01:12:26.620 You can't investigate after you have basically criminalized me in front of my entire community.

01:12:31.420 I've been teaching here for 20 years.

01:12:33.040 I have an unscathed reputation.

01:12:35.480 And you basically just put me at guilty.

01:12:39.280 And then now you want to come back and ask me questions.

01:12:43.660 Like it's, it's, so, so, Julianne, I only have a minute.

01:12:47.440 I'd like to talk to you again over the, after the weekend.

01:12:50.100 But do you have any, do you have support locally and how can we help nationally?

01:12:57.240 Oh, that's very kind.

01:12:58.460 I think just the fact that you are interested and you called would probably be enough.

01:13:02.900 I'm, I'm receiving an incredible amount of support from the community.

01:13:06.360 And honestly, the most endearing thing about this is students from my, my past, like I've spoken and taught before.

01:13:13.680 They and their parents are writing letters and sending me emails.

01:13:16.540 So I'm a little overwhelmed with the support, to be honest with you.

01:13:19.640 So I just appreciate your time.

01:13:21.820 Oh my gosh.

01:13:23.100 Julianne, I said, we talked about this yesterday and I said, this is a reason to stay in school is because of teachers like you that are not trying to teach kids what to think, but how to think, how to think.

01:13:34.640 Absolutely.

01:13:35.520 Thank you so much for, thank you, especially in that den of viper.

01:13:39.540 One more question.

01:13:41.200 Is your, is your union supporting you?

01:13:45.040 I must say that my union president was there with me and she was fantastic.

01:13:49.820 So yes, they are.

01:13:50.700 Oh, well, that's unbelievable.

01:13:52.060 Thank you.

01:13:52.500 I'm glad to hear that.

01:13:53.640 Yeah.

01:13:54.080 Julianne, God bless.

01:13:55.220 And we will continue to follow your story.

01:13:57.020 Thank you.

01:13:57.700 You bet.

01:13:58.360 Bye-bye.

01:13:59.000 Boy, you imagine being a teacher in California.

01:14:00.860 Oh my gosh.

01:14:02.380 How alone and how crazy.

01:14:04.540 But that's, I think that's good news.

01:14:06.080 What, what she said about the support and it was only two students.

01:14:10.020 You know, I think that's good.

01:14:11.060 The reaction is ridiculous.

01:14:12.540 I mean, you set up those circumstances and it's a completely ridiculous set of reactions.

01:14:17.900 You should not be just thrown out.

01:14:19.920 Coming up in just a minute.

01:14:21.480 Bart Millard is, has written a beautiful story, a true story, and a great movie is coming out.

01:14:28.180 It opens today.

01:14:28.980 I can only imagine getting rave reviews.

01:14:31.780 I'm one of them.

01:14:32.540 It's a great movie.

01:14:34.260 And Dennis Quaid is the star.

01:14:36.280 He's joining us next hour as well.

01:14:38.520 Don't miss it.

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01:15:01.100 Glenn Beck.

01:15:02.400 I am always a little bit edgy about faith films because they can get so preachy and so just,

01:15:08.520 oh dear God.

01:15:09.640 And on top of that, I am always concerned when a friend says, hey, I've just made a new movie

01:15:17.120 and they give it to you.

01:15:18.740 Watch it and tell me what you think.

01:15:20.160 And you're like, oh dear God.

01:15:21.140 Okay.

01:15:21.380 I'll watch the movie.

01:15:22.780 Um, because I just, I just, you just never know.

01:15:26.080 A friend of mine gave me a movie he's just finished called, I can only imagine.

01:15:30.260 And I watched it with my children and it is a fantastic movie.

01:15:36.620 And if you listen to me, you know that I, I say nothing when I, especially when I have

01:15:42.160 a friend, I say nothing about a movie or a project.

01:15:45.720 Uh, and I never will rave about something that I don't believe in.

01:15:49.620 I think this is absolutely fantastic.

01:15:52.600 My son, who is like pulling teeth to watch anything other than a Marvel movie, watched

01:15:59.720 it, was engaged the whole time and loved it as well.

01:16:03.380 It is a great movie.

01:16:04.920 It is the true story of, uh, uh, Bart Millard.

01:16:08.620 Um, and the song that if you don't know, uh, is, uh, a gigantic Christian, uh, crossover

01:16:16.140 song that has a really interesting story called I can only imagine.

01:16:20.340 Uh, and it's the movie stars, Dennis Quaid who plays Bart's, uh, uh, father.

01:16:27.200 Dennis is going to be joining us here in about a half an hour, but I wanted to get Bart in

01:16:30.740 here to tell us the real story.

01:16:31.980 Also, John Irwin is here, who's my friend, who's a movie maker and, uh, John, uh, first

01:16:38.160 of all, if I may give you some details, yes, uh, this, now this is, you want to talk about

01:16:43.980 the little engine that could.

01:16:45.320 Okay.

01:16:46.620 Uh, so far they expected the, you know, the movie box office expected this movie.

01:16:51.780 It opens today.

01:16:52.840 It was in previews last night, right?

01:16:54.940 Previews last night.

01:16:55.480 Yeah.

01:16:55.640 Uh, they were expecting this movie to make $2 million for the whole weekend.

01:16:59.720 Last night alone in previews, it made $1.3 million.

01:17:05.680 It is one of the largest preview numbers for a faith film.

01:17:08.660 I think only beaten by the passion so far this morning, the ticket sales are now up to

01:17:15.780 2.3 million.

01:17:17.500 So that is, that is the, that's passing what they expected for the entire weekend.

01:17:22.600 It's currently the number one ticket, uh, online this morning at movie tickets.com and Fandango.

01:17:29.420 Uh, and this is going to be the breakout faith film that shocks the box office.

01:17:36.120 Now you're in a, what a third of the movie theaters that Panther is.

01:17:39.580 Yeah, we're, we're all in a state of shock at this point.

01:17:42.080 It's, uh, it's, it's incredible.

01:17:43.920 And, you know, sometimes when you just, when something's meaningful and inspirational, uh,

01:17:48.940 to you, you just have to trust that it will be to other people.

01:17:51.000 And this song made a huge impact in my life at a time of loss.

01:17:54.540 It was kind of like a beacon of hope, you know, and, and I just, we all just felt like

01:17:58.340 there were more of us out there.

01:18:00.160 Can you real quick before I, cause I want to talk to Bart cause he has such a great story.

01:18:03.040 Can you tell me the test results?

01:18:04.680 I mean, didn't it's just, yeah, yeah.

01:18:06.780 It tested, uh, higher than, uh, pretty much any faith film has ever tested at 96 total

01:18:13.000 positive, which in a 91 definite recommend that's, but it's a 40 points above average,

01:18:18.120 uh, in every category.

01:18:19.560 And, uh, you know, I just think it's, it's a song beloved by millions of people.

01:18:24.500 And I think once they know the story behind the song, uh, it's going to make it even more

01:18:28.700 meaningful.

01:18:28.860 And I think it's one of Dennis Quaid's best, uh, roles he's ever played.

01:18:33.760 Incredible.

01:18:34.160 I mean, incredible.

01:18:35.580 It, it, it, one of the most humble, authentic, like I, it was totally unique in his body of

01:18:40.860 work and he deserves a lot of credit.

01:18:42.540 Okay.

01:18:42.820 So Bart is here.

01:18:43.940 Hello, Bart.

01:18:44.460 How are you?

01:18:45.080 I'm great.

01:18:45.960 Good.

01:18:46.500 Uh, I bet you are.

01:18:47.800 I bet you are.

01:18:48.500 So tell me, because the, the story revolves around you and your relationship with two fathers

01:18:54.640 in heaven and, and your dad, uh, that you grew up with.

01:18:59.140 He was truly a monster, really a monster.

01:19:03.340 Yeah, he was, uh, my parents divorced when I was three and, um, my mom remarried when

01:19:07.800 I was in third grade and they moved from Greenville, Texas down to San Antonio and, and, uh, decided

01:19:12.860 that for whatever reason it was best.

01:19:14.800 My whole family was in the Greenville area.

01:19:16.700 And so for whatever reason decided that my brother and I would live with my dad who wasn't, he

01:19:21.840 had a bad temper, but was never really abusive towards like me or my brother until after my

01:19:27.380 mom moved away and it got really bad.

01:19:29.200 He took it for, for some reason, if he had a bad day, he took it out on me.

01:19:32.480 I don't remember many weeks where I wasn't beaten three or four times a week.

01:19:34.900 And, uh, and this went on until, you know, um, probably my freshman year in high school

01:19:40.900 when my dad was diagnosed with cancer and, um, and literally kind of had this front row

01:19:46.300 seat to see this man go from being a monster to somebody that, that like literally fell

01:19:51.200 in love with Jesus and his life completely changed and to the, to the point to where he

01:19:54.540 was like my best friend and the godliest man ever knew by the time he passed away.

01:19:57.740 So your, your childhood, um, he not only, he not only beats you, but, um, is at least

01:20:05.820 in the movie, he's also convincing you at the same time, uh, that you're completely worthless

01:20:12.580 and you'll never accomplish any of your dreams.

01:20:14.820 Is that true?

01:20:15.620 Yeah.

01:20:15.880 He was a, he was a football star, like one of the only all Americans ever to come out

01:20:20.240 of Greenville, small town.

01:20:21.400 And he went to SMU and, and, uh, like I was named after Bart Starr and like football was

01:20:26.180 everything and, um, and, uh, either hurt his knee or somehow ended up quitting college

01:20:30.600 and getting married and, and, um, just always had this, you know, don't, your dreams are

01:20:36.240 worthless and you get a real job, you know, it's just going to, it's going to ruin you.

01:20:39.460 And, you know, cause that was all he ever wanted to do and it just didn't work out.

01:20:41.900 And so, and, you know, between that and I guess never remarrying and then cancer set

01:20:47.400 in, he's just an angry, angry person.

01:20:49.820 So in the movie, he listens to you on the radio and one of your songs, but that obviously

01:20:55.340 is not working in the timeline of real life.

01:20:57.840 So what was the, what was the pivot point of your dad's life in real life?

01:21:01.460 Well, in, uh, real life, my dad was diagnosed when I was a freshman in high school.

01:21:04.600 He passed away.

01:21:05.220 I was a freshman in college.

01:21:06.320 And, um, and so the change was definitely over time in that four or five year period.

01:21:11.080 Um, you know, he, um, we, when I was little, we went to church and then just, you know,

01:21:17.180 he just kind of got sick of it and it was angry.

01:21:19.840 And like when I was in seventh grade, started going like the youth group, like it was just

01:21:23.360 another, uh, excuse not to go home.

01:21:25.320 So the church kind of raised me and he was almost jealous of it and liked the church even

01:21:30.080 less because of that.

01:21:31.200 And, and somewhere along the way, just realize that we would, I would always, I would sing

01:21:35.660 in church from time to time and we'd, you know, broadcast in the local AM rate station

01:21:39.080 or whatever.

01:21:39.620 And, uh, not long before he passed away, he would start telling me, you know, I've, I've

01:21:42.880 always listened because I just didn't think he cared.

01:21:44.720 So that's true then.

01:21:45.540 Yeah, that's true.

01:21:46.200 Cause that's a powerful, powerful point.

01:21:49.020 I wish I could say that I, in fact, there's amazing, one of my favorite scenes is, uh,

01:21:54.120 when I go home to kind of confront my dad and it's kind of this moment to where, you

01:21:57.660 know, Trace Atkins plays Brickles, tell me, you know, you got to face your fears and it

01:22:00.920 looks like it's going to be, you almost know where the movie's going.

01:22:03.660 It's going to be this, you know, angel singing and it's going to be this amazing moment where

01:22:07.260 we live happily ever after.

01:22:08.260 And when we get there, my dad's, this change is already taking place, but I'm the one that's

01:22:12.080 angry.

01:22:12.640 And I have to tell you, that's why, that's one of the reasons why this worked for me.

01:22:16.420 I grew up with a, you know, in an abusive family myself and there's no way if you would

01:22:21.860 have come home and said, Oh dad, you've chained, it would never, it would have been the typical

01:22:27.160 Christian movie.

01:22:27.960 And it's funny because when we originally, when they tested the movie and screened it,

01:22:31.060 some people were like, we, I don't understand why would Bart have been angry?

01:22:34.360 He's going to fix everything.

01:22:35.360 I was like, well, obviously you haven't gone through what I went through because there was

01:22:38.380 a, there was an arrogance about me that if my dad was going to be saved, I was going

01:22:42.400 to be a savior.

01:22:42.960 Like, like I, I deserve that almost like what he did to me, I'm going to be the one

01:22:47.480 to change him.

01:22:48.140 When I get there and he's already changed, I was literally, I genuinely was upset.

01:22:51.140 Like, wait, who's doing this?

01:22:52.800 Like, you, you know, it was a weird, like, you don't have a right to, to be good all of

01:22:56.680 a sudden.

01:22:56.960 Like I, and there's a part of me that didn't want grace to be for him because I was so

01:22:59.460 hurt and so angry.

01:23:00.360 And, uh, and so it ends up being me.

01:23:03.080 I'm the one that it takes time to come around and the change is taking place.

01:23:07.060 And it just, it over time, it's like, okay.

01:23:09.120 And it's just, it was me just trusting and being convinced that it was real.

01:23:12.080 Do you think if your dad hadn't have had that change that, cause at least in the movie,

01:23:18.440 you were going down that road to some degree, just, you were just, I mean, it's normal.

01:23:23.320 Sure.

01:23:23.780 If your dad hadn't had that change, do you think you would have possibly followed in a

01:23:30.300 similar path?

01:23:31.160 Uh, I mean, I hope not, but I don't know.

01:23:33.380 Like, you know, it's, you know, I've, I grew up in a little church that was, there's a little

01:23:37.640 bit of legalism involved.

01:23:38.700 And I remember always kind of being scared into, you know, divorced kids become divorced

01:23:42.520 parents and this kind of, you know, and just, and almost believing that was my identity

01:23:45.860 and that's who I was going to be, whether I liked it or not.

01:23:48.380 So there's a chance I would have fallen into it.

01:23:50.240 Just not realizing that, Oh wait, I'm made for more than this.

01:23:52.980 It's really, it's really an amazing thing.

01:23:54.560 Cause I grew up in a family, my mom committed suicide and alcoholism and everything else.

01:23:59.560 And, and for a long time in my life, I just thought I was, I was destined to do that because

01:24:06.860 that's the way it ends in my family.

01:24:08.920 Yeah.

01:24:09.000 And if, if I had a nickel for everyone that says, well, that's just who we are.

01:24:12.200 Yes.

01:24:12.640 Just who I am.

01:24:13.360 And it's, yes, that's the biggest lie ever.

01:24:15.420 And it's hard and it's, it's hard to get, it's genuinely hard to break the chains.

01:24:20.080 It is.

01:24:20.560 It really is really hard.

01:24:21.660 So the, the song you write it about your, your dad, uh, tell me about that writing process.

01:24:28.720 Well, when he passed away at a grave site, my grandmother said, I can only imagine what

01:24:32.280 Bub's seeing right now.

01:24:33.380 And I was 19 and, and I became obsessed with heaven and it wasn't because I was a super

01:24:37.800 spiritual kid or anything.

01:24:39.060 It was almost like this kind of OCD thing.

01:24:41.080 Like I became obsessed with him being in a better place versus looking at an empty bedroom.

01:24:47.120 And so, and so it's like, I'm telling myself like everyone doesn't lose someone.

01:24:50.820 And they have to be in a better place because I'm, the only time I was angry at God wasn't

01:24:55.300 when I was being abused.

01:24:56.240 It was when I got the dad always wanted and he left.

01:24:58.820 And so, so I kept telling myself, I thought that was again in the movie, really, yeah.

01:25:04.560 I'm strong point.

01:25:05.500 Yeah.

01:25:05.740 Really?

01:25:06.400 Really?

01:25:06.920 Yeah.

01:25:07.120 Now I want, yeah.

01:25:09.080 So that, and that's when I struggled the most.

01:25:10.860 And so it, so it was almost like this superstitious, like I would write the phrase, I can only imagine

01:25:15.800 anything I get my hands on.

01:25:17.040 Like if I was on hold, I'm writing, my grandmother thought I was practicing my autograph, but I'd

01:25:21.180 just be writing it over and over.

01:25:22.560 It's, it's carved into a desk I had in college.

01:25:24.800 And it was just something I always went to.

01:25:27.100 And it was just me telling myself he's in a better place.

01:25:29.880 He's in a better place.

01:25:30.760 It must be better than him being here because I really would like him here.

01:25:34.540 And, and, um, and so years later I'm in the band and we're looking for one more song for

01:25:40.660 independent record.

01:25:41.360 And I'm literally trying to, this is before smartphones and typing stuff on my computer.

01:25:45.340 I had these three journals that I would carry and I was looking for a blank page to write

01:25:48.880 one more song for our album.

01:25:50.120 And literally every page had imagined or I can only imagine written on it somewhere.

01:25:53.980 And so at first I was frustrated, like I really need a blank page.

01:25:57.680 Why do I have to ruin every page?

01:25:59.120 And then all of a sudden I'm like, oh, I get it.

01:26:01.300 I totally get it.

01:26:01.980 And so it was, it's probably the only time in my life a song was written in about 10

01:26:05.900 minutes, but it'd been in my heart for a few years.

01:26:07.920 So it wasn't just out of the blue.

01:26:09.320 So I want to take it from that point to, uh, what happened after the song all the way

01:26:14.460 to the movie.

01:26:15.220 And then we'll pick it up with Dennis Quaid when we come back in a minute.

01:26:30.140 The movie is in theaters today.

01:26:31.560 I can only imagine you can go to, I can only imagine.com to get all the details.

01:26:35.580 It's a great movie.

01:26:37.200 I can't wait to talk to Dennis Quaid.

01:26:39.100 It really is the performance of his career.

01:26:42.900 Uh, hang on just a sec.

01:26:44.160 What'd you say?

01:26:45.120 You got to open it.

01:26:45.840 You got to push it on.

01:26:46.400 There you go.

01:26:47.200 Real quick.

01:26:47.900 Yeah.

01:26:48.080 It's changing his life.

01:26:49.060 It's really amazing.

01:26:49.840 Yeah.

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01:28:04.700 Glenn Beck to be the first time we've ever done an interview with somebody at the North

01:28:10.260 pole.

01:28:11.120 Uh, we'll explain that coming up in a second.

01:28:13.300 Dennis Quaid joins us, uh, in a minute.

01:28:15.300 We're talking to Bart Millard, uh, about a, a song that he wrote and now is a major motion

01:28:20.500 picture.

01:28:21.020 It opens in theaters everywhere across the country today, and I cannot recommend it highly enough.

01:28:26.720 It is great.

01:28:28.320 Uh, I can only imagine there are some good movies out to see this weekend, some really good

01:28:33.120 movies to see.

01:28:34.180 This is the one you should see this weekend and take your whole family, my kids and Tanya,

01:28:39.820 all of us, all of us love this movie.

01:28:42.340 I can only imagine.

01:28:43.900 So it's about, uh, it's about you, Bart.

01:28:46.460 You're not in it.

01:28:47.460 Um, who plays you?

01:28:49.140 It was J.

01:28:49.640 Michael Finley.

01:28:50.500 He's amazing.

01:28:52.200 He's unbelievable.

01:28:53.160 Who is he?

01:28:54.040 His voice is like, I, that was the big question of who's going to play Bart.

01:28:58.360 Cause Bart has this power voice and Andy and I spent many years in the music business.

01:29:02.280 So we're like, this kid's got to sing, you know, he's got to sing these songs.

01:29:04.980 You can tell if it's overdubbed.

01:29:06.280 So I was in New York working.

01:29:08.300 We had looked at a thousand people and, and all over the country turned up to empty.

01:29:12.060 And I went to see, uh, Les Mez on, uh, uh, on Broadway and he was the understudy to

01:29:18.060 Jean Valjean.

01:29:19.320 But the understudy would typically take four or five performances over the course of a run,

01:29:25.720 but the main guy could only play about three performances a week cause that vocal is so

01:29:29.520 hard.

01:29:29.760 So he played Valjean 65 times and closed out the show and closed out the show as Valjean.

01:29:34.780 And so I'm watching him sing these iconic songs.

01:29:37.860 Best voice I've ever heard.

01:29:39.020 Oh, he's great.

01:29:39.640 He looks like Bart.

01:29:40.480 Yeah.

01:29:40.900 He's a pastor's kid from Missouri and he saw Mercy Me play three times in concert.

01:29:44.900 You've got to be kidding me.

01:29:46.060 Cast him on the spot.

01:29:46.940 Holy cow.

01:29:48.360 Holy cow.

01:29:48.720 So that is your Bart.

01:29:49.600 That's your band.

01:29:50.720 And you were looking for a song.

01:29:52.320 You decided to, you, you, you finally realized, I can only imagine might, might be the song I should

01:29:57.240 write, what, what happened?

01:29:58.820 Cause it wasn't really something that you even, you felt passionately about, but it wasn't

01:30:02.920 something that you were like, we've got to song.

01:30:05.740 This is our song.

01:30:07.220 Yeah.

01:30:07.440 We, we recorded on an independent record and we didn't even play it live for about a year

01:30:11.640 because it was special to me, but it was like the last song on the album.

01:30:15.160 And we were just doing church camp, stuff like that.

01:30:17.580 And we just never did.

01:30:18.420 And some guy at a camp said, Hey man, can you play this Imagine song tonight?

01:30:21.800 And I was like, we don't even know it.

01:30:22.900 And so while he's doing his little sermon, we're behind the scenes, like learning our

01:30:26.440 song, whispering it.

01:30:27.440 And then we played it.

01:30:28.840 And that first time ever, and the spotlights in our face, we couldn't see.

01:30:32.380 And when we finished, there was no, nobody made any noise.

01:30:34.300 And we're like, this is the worst decision of our career.

01:30:37.280 This is a horrible choice.

01:30:38.580 And when the lights came up, there were people were kind of at the altar and crying and we'd

01:30:41.320 never seen anything like that.

01:30:42.380 And we were like, what, what is happening right now?

01:30:44.820 And throughout that, we went from selling like a thousand CDs on our own or independent records.

01:30:50.640 If we did that in a year, we thought, well, we can pay our phone bill.

01:30:53.560 And then that independent record did about 130, 140,000 units, which is like, it would

01:30:57.900 be a million on a record label on our own, like out of the trunk of our car.

01:31:01.120 And we're shipping to like four or 500 bookstores out of our garage.

01:31:04.300 And, and, uh, somewhere along the way, you know, Amy Grant heard about it and called and

01:31:07.960 said she wanted to record it.

01:31:09.200 And we were like, well, I don't have any kids, but hopefully they'll go to college one

01:31:12.240 day.

01:31:12.440 Cause that just seemed like a good move.

01:31:13.560 And we're like, yeah, knock yourself out.

01:31:15.200 And, and so is that true?

01:31:16.800 The, that part of the, I don't want to give anything away, but is that true?

01:31:19.960 It's interesting.

01:31:20.540 The two, the two reasons Andy and I said that we want to do this film.

01:31:23.480 One is when Bart said, I watched God transform my dad from a monster into the man I wanted

01:31:27.200 to become and just that reconciliation.

01:31:28.980 But then Andy was doing an interview for one of our other films in Atlanta talking to a

01:31:33.040 DJ and, uh, and, and the, in the break, the DJ said, Hey, what are you guys thinking

01:31:38.420 about doing next?

01:31:39.040 And we said, well, thinking about, I can only imagine kind of kicking the tires of it.

01:31:42.300 And the guy said, I was there.

01:31:43.600 I was at the Ryman in Nashville and Amy Grant pulled Bart up on stage and he sang the song

01:31:48.640 instead of her.

01:31:49.940 We compressed.

01:31:50.580 And she was planning on doing it.

01:31:52.640 Yeah, she, it was, it was her song.

01:31:54.300 And it's like, we, we ended up signing and it was a B side on our album, but it was going

01:31:58.460 to be her single.

01:31:59.280 So she would be known for the song.

01:32:00.700 And so we were literally in their words, we were the guys that wrote Amy's next El Shaddai.

01:32:05.580 And so, uh, that's kind of how we ended up signing.

01:32:07.600 Cause we were the writers of Amy's next hit, but Amy took like a couple of years to actually,

01:32:11.560 she took forever to make the album.

01:32:13.720 So we released ours and our whole plan was sunk because she'd never, nobody knew what

01:32:19.860 the next El Shaddai was cause she was taking forever.

01:32:21.640 And so we were like panicked and our labels like, what do we do?

01:32:25.120 And so what, how it really happened was about a week before we called and she was like, uh,

01:32:31.060 we're like, Hey, any plans to release a song?

01:32:32.780 And that's when she was like, you need to finish what you started.

01:32:35.320 This is a career song for you.

01:32:37.060 So she handed it back and we were like, what?

01:32:39.060 And she goes, but here's the problem.

01:32:40.020 I've got to showcase this thing at the Ryman next week and it's not my song anymore.

01:32:43.620 So you, you have to sing it.

01:32:45.360 And I really wish it would have been spontaneous where I couldn't have sweated bullets for a

01:32:49.240 week.

01:32:49.460 Cause I'm like my first time in Nashville is on, in the, on the Ryman with Amy and Vince

01:32:54.020 singing.

01:32:54.940 And she was like, Hey, you don't know these guys.

01:32:56.820 It's mercy me.

01:32:57.500 And this is their next song.

01:32:58.560 And so, yeah, that's, it's on YouTube somewhere.

01:33:00.180 You can find it.

01:33:00.920 Incredibly selfless act by her.

01:33:02.760 And we just compressed those two moments into one.

01:33:04.600 So tell me, tell me, we're going to Dennis Quaid.

01:33:08.060 He's, he's in the North pole.

01:33:10.820 The North pole is shooting a show called fortitude for Amazon.

01:33:14.460 And, uh, and, and so basically he had a week off promoted the film.

01:33:19.180 He just went back and we've been talking quite a bit, but literally in the North pole shooting

01:33:23.840 the show, uh, talking to him a few nights ago and he's like, yeah, there's polar bears.

01:33:27.800 I'm looking at the Northern lights.

01:33:29.080 And I'm like, uh, Dennis go inside, please.

01:33:30.920 It's the Northern most city in the world.

01:33:33.340 And he said, it's literally the population, the town is a thousand people with 3000 polar

01:33:37.560 bears.

01:33:38.620 Oh my God.

01:33:39.180 He's not kidding.

01:33:40.140 I was like, y'all packing heat.

01:33:41.500 He goes, everybody's packing.

01:33:42.520 By the way, I thought we did pretty good, uh, calmly cause we, we've got him.

01:33:45.960 Uh, but, uh, all morning leading up to about a half hour ago, all the phone lines were,

01:33:50.500 they would ring and you get this weird Scandinavian, like something.

01:33:53.840 Was wrong with the phone line message.

01:33:55.240 And so we've been fixing that and it's fixed.

01:33:57.780 So we have our first guest from the North pole.

01:34:02.180 We also have our first guest that could be eaten by a polar bear during the interview.

01:34:08.460 And what's amazing about Dennis is first of all, this, I think is his career performance.

01:34:14.060 Do you think he feels that way?

01:34:16.140 I, I think he, he, this performance is so unique in his body of work.

01:34:20.560 Yeah.

01:34:20.760 I mean, I can't speak for him, but he, he's proud of it.

01:34:23.380 He's so proud of it.

01:34:25.080 He's so, uh, he loves the film.

01:34:27.760 It's like we're a family.

01:34:29.120 We really, uh, bonded and he really connected to his faith roots.

01:34:34.040 And in fact, wrote a song he recorded for T-bone with T-bone Mariette, uh, on the set of

01:34:39.000 imagine and played it for Bart the first time.

01:34:41.480 And it's amazing what, what, what's happening in his life.

01:34:44.060 Cause yeah.

01:34:44.440 And his story is almost the exact opposite of Bart's.

01:34:47.980 And yet there is this weird connection.

01:34:51.460 Yeah.

01:34:51.740 We go to the bears in the wilderness next.

01:35:07.820 Glenn Beck.

01:35:09.680 Mercury.

01:35:10.280 Mercury.

01:35:10.420 This is the Glenn Beck program.

01:35:20.720 Joined by, uh, Bart Millard and John Irwin.

01:35:23.720 And, uh, now Dennis Quaid, uh, from the film.

01:35:26.920 I can only imagine, uh, which is a remarkable film.

01:35:31.760 Uh, and Dennis Quaid plays, uh, Bart's dad.

01:35:36.260 Uh, it's a true story.

01:35:38.080 And, uh, his, his father was, um, in a line.

01:35:43.620 Describe your dad.

01:35:44.960 Ah, he was just the scariest man I knew.

01:35:46.860 Just really abusive and no, no substance abuse, nothing like that.

01:35:50.860 He just, he was just an angry person.

01:35:53.360 How close was Dennis in the role?

01:35:56.620 How close was he to your dad?

01:35:58.360 Uh, you know, frighteningly close for, you know, I remember.

01:36:01.920 When I went in, I got there when he started shooting his scenes and I got in late.

01:36:06.000 And the first scene I saw was when my dad was diagnosed with cancer.

01:36:08.280 And without ever having a conversation with me, there were just parts of him that kind

01:36:12.120 of creeped me out, like how close they were.

01:36:14.200 And then, then after he was like, Hey, your dad's not here.

01:36:17.620 So you're my guy.

01:36:18.820 Like, you've got to tell me how this is.

01:36:20.300 And, and, uh, yeah, yeah, I don't know.

01:36:22.960 I don't know if it was, he was that accurate or it was just something about it.

01:36:26.340 It was, I knew we were onto something cause there were some, there were some, some painful

01:36:30.140 moments that I was like, okay, I'm feeling what I haven't felt in years.

01:36:33.760 And so we're onto something here.

01:36:36.400 We're waiting for Dennis Quaid to, uh, pick up the phone and get away from the polar bears.

01:36:40.780 He is, he is there now.

01:36:42.420 He's, he's at the North pole of all places.

01:36:46.520 Dennis, are you there?

01:36:50.180 Hello, Dennis.

01:36:50.980 He was there.

01:36:53.980 Okay.

01:36:54.280 He was there.

01:36:54.900 Is he there?

01:36:57.260 Sarah, tell me what's, what's happening.

01:37:01.100 Okay.

01:37:01.660 Did a polar bear eat Dennis Quaid?

01:37:03.220 Yeah.

01:37:03.500 Oh my gosh.

01:37:04.020 It's happened.

01:37:04.420 You know, in a world of, you know, it's technology that is so incredible.

01:37:10.180 You're kind of like, we can't get a line from the North pole.

01:37:13.540 Yeah.

01:37:13.680 Yeah.

01:37:14.020 Really?

01:37:14.620 Why can we not talk to the North pole?

01:37:16.800 Right.

01:37:17.120 What's interesting.

01:37:18.140 I, if you've seen the show, it's fortitude on Amazon.

01:37:20.560 I get cold just watching it.

01:37:21.980 I'm like, why are you doing this show?

01:37:23.620 Why don't I do a Hawaiian show?

01:37:25.340 They have green screens.

01:37:26.920 Yeah.

01:37:27.140 Yeah.

01:37:27.520 He's like, he was excited about it.

01:37:29.360 He's like, uh, yeah, we're going to the farther North, the most, the Northern most city

01:37:33.720 that you can possibly travel to as a human being.

01:37:35.960 I'm like, and you're smiling right now, Dennis.

01:37:38.740 Why?

01:37:39.300 He calls the other day and he was like, it's 30 below and it was midnight.

01:37:42.440 His time.

01:37:43.460 He's like, hold on.

01:37:43.980 Let me go outside and get better signal.

01:37:45.080 And I was like, don't do that.

01:37:46.700 Yeah.

01:37:47.060 Yeah.

01:37:47.460 Yeah.

01:37:47.880 It's what is the, uh, what's the animal that Luke has to

01:37:50.480 open up or, uh, he's sleeping in a Tom Tom.

01:37:55.220 Let me know an average of 20 below, but the film actually did an amazing thing.

01:37:58.940 You know, he, he wrote, had written a song for his mom, uh, 25 years ago, called on my

01:38:04.040 way to heaven, never finished it, an old fashioned gospel.

01:38:06.680 Cause she's very devout.

01:38:07.800 And, uh, and he got to the set and just reconnected with his Baptist roots.

01:38:13.160 He was baptized at nine years old with his brother, Randy on the same day.

01:38:16.820 And, uh, kind of just, it all stirred in him, finished the song, played it for Bart, uh,

01:38:22.440 for the first time.

01:38:23.900 And, uh, um, and I, I guess Bart was probably a little nervous.

01:38:27.760 Like, uh, what do you say to Dennis Quaid?

01:38:29.520 If it's actually, see, see, see what happens, see what happens.

01:38:33.620 That's what I felt like with the movie.

01:38:35.100 But then, uh, so it was really good.

01:38:37.640 And he got with his, uh, friend and producer of legend, T-Bone Burnett recorded it.

01:38:42.260 We just did a music video to it and we're going to launch that next week.

01:38:45.680 And, uh, and he gave it to his mom on his 90 for on her 91st birthday.

01:38:49.100 That's amazing.

01:38:50.000 Yeah.

01:38:50.560 It's really, really good.

01:38:51.940 He it's, it's incredible.

01:38:53.560 And I kind of, if we can get him on the phone, how are we doing, Sarah?

01:38:57.880 Okay.

01:38:58.720 Call Santa.

01:38:59.720 See if he can help.

01:39:00.640 Uh, the, uh, uh, what's amazing is he had the kind of the opposite dad.

01:39:08.560 Yeah.

01:39:09.160 His dad, your dad was, you know, dreams are dead and get a real job.

01:39:13.740 And Dennis, his dad, if I'm not mistaken, was, uh, wanted to be an actor and, uh, studied

01:39:20.820 to be an actor and then was shipped off to war, came back, never pursued it and always

01:39:26.000 regretted it and said, do it, do it, do it, do it.

01:39:29.640 Yeah.

01:39:30.120 Yeah.

01:39:30.360 And they did.

01:39:31.080 In fact, uh, Andy, my brother was in New York and, uh, there was a theater they played

01:39:36.360 in as a play.

01:39:37.300 He and his brother kind of launched that Gary Sinise, really great friend, uh, was the director

01:39:41.340 of it.

01:39:41.800 And, and, uh, you know, so they started very early.

01:39:44.460 Dennis Quay's first movie was in 1976.

01:39:47.540 He was an extra.

01:39:48.540 Cloris Leachman was the star.

01:39:49.920 We have him.

01:39:50.600 Yeah.

01:39:50.820 Cloris Leachman was in this, in this movie too.

01:39:53.200 Uh, Dennis, are you there?

01:39:55.940 Yeah.

01:39:56.360 Hey, Glenn.

01:39:56.940 Hey, we have.

01:39:58.960 You have not been eaten by a polar bear.

01:40:02.860 No, I'm 12 degrees from the North Pole.

01:40:05.760 Oh, that's amazing.

01:40:07.100 Uh, first of all, Dennis, uh, I, I watched the movie, I think earlier this week or late

01:40:13.620 last week.

01:40:14.560 Uh, and I think this is the, the performance of your career.

01:40:18.040 You, you, you were fantastic in this really good.

01:40:22.240 Thank you.

01:40:23.840 Thank you.

01:40:24.460 It's, it's such a great, inspiring story to begin with.

01:40:28.100 And, uh, the way I choose my movies is that I read them, you know, and, uh, that's the

01:40:33.200 first, only time I'm going to have a first time experience like an audience audience member.

01:40:37.280 And, uh, I was just, uh, it touched me in a place where I had no words.

01:40:41.780 I just had to do it.

01:40:43.740 Your, your life.

01:40:44.900 We were just talking about it is in strange ways parallel.

01:40:48.500 You were writing a song about your mom.

01:40:50.640 This story is about a song about a dad and Bart's dad was a monster.

01:40:55.640 And your dad seems to be the exact opposite in encouraging you to, to follow your dreams.

01:41:04.080 Yeah.

01:41:04.640 My dad was, uh, yeah, uh, my dad probably got knocked around a little bit when he was a kid,

01:41:10.820 you know, like, uh, kids in the twenties did, you know, his dad wasn't there a lot.

01:41:16.280 And, uh, but, um, uh, he was, he was encouraged us.

01:41:21.700 He turned both my brother and I onto acting and it was, uh, I was doing comedy skits around

01:41:27.400 the house and, you know, kind of rubbed off on us, I think.

01:41:32.180 And my dad, um, who I play in the film, you know, um, Bart himself called him a monster

01:41:40.140 and basically that's what he was.

01:41:42.760 You know, uh, people who are abused, they're usually were abused themselves.

01:41:48.500 And, uh, I don't really know that story, you know, that can come from several places, but

01:41:53.700 he was, uh, a pretty bitter man that, you know, we took it out on his son.

01:42:01.340 Were you, were you concerned at all about, I mean, you know, when you look at faith films,

01:42:08.360 uh, there's a couple of things that could go through your mind that it could be really,

01:42:11.540 really cheesy, uh, or, uh, I could be, you know, marked, uh, as somebody who is, you know,

01:42:19.180 in these faith films.

01:42:20.360 Did any of that concern you at all when, when, uh, the Irwin brothers contacted you?

01:42:25.600 Well, any movie, whether it's a faith film or, you know, uh, stupid, dumb comedy can be cheesy.

01:42:36.480 Uh, that doesn't have to be a faith film.

01:42:39.420 Yeah.

01:42:39.760 And, uh, you can get marked by making a bad movie.

01:42:43.440 Um, or if you make too many of them, let's put it that way.

01:42:47.600 I, I, I don't care what they say.

01:42:50.980 To me, they are films for the underserved.

01:42:54.700 I'm sorry, they're films for...

01:42:56.260 The underserved.

01:42:58.540 Okay, yeah.

01:43:00.340 There's an audience in this country that has always been there that, uh,

01:43:06.480 that don't want movies, inspirational films, or films that make them think.

01:43:12.500 Films that they relate to.

01:43:15.820 And, uh, there hasn't been, uh, they haven't been serving that market.

01:43:23.880 And, uh, I think that's the reason there's such a groundswell for it.

01:43:29.040 We're talking to, uh, Dennis Quaid.

01:43:31.220 You're, you're up in the North Pole.

01:43:32.980 You're, you're shooting for Fortitude?

01:43:36.920 Right.

01:43:38.140 Yeah.

01:43:38.420 Yeah.

01:43:38.680 It's a series that I'm doing for, uh, Amazon in the States.

01:43:41.840 It originated in, uh, England, the sky Atlantic.

01:43:46.400 It's about a, a strange little town up north.

01:43:50.160 It's the northernmost town in the world, actually.

01:43:52.460 Yeah.

01:43:52.940 And, and you, you know, they can recreate that without having to go to the North Pole.

01:43:59.360 We tried, we tried for two seasons in Iceland to recreate it.

01:44:05.040 We couldn't quite get there.

01:44:06.740 So, just real quick, there are, there are, uh, three to one man to human or man to polar bear relationship.

01:44:15.700 That's what they said.

01:44:17.140 They said it was 3,000 polar bears and 1,000 human beings.

01:44:20.760 And, uh, but I think the human beings have caught up.

01:44:28.320 Really, there's 150 Thai people here.

01:44:32.240 Uh, several people from, uh, the Philippines, from, uh, Eastern Europe.

01:44:37.880 People come here to get a job.

01:44:39.780 It reminds me of maybe when the railroads were being built in the United States in the 1870s.

01:44:46.860 Yeah, but wasn't there some, wasn't there someplace.

01:44:50.340 It's an interesting place.

01:44:51.900 Wasn't there someplace to go when they built those railroads in America?

01:44:57.860 I think there's a big ocean out there.

01:44:59.700 Um, Dennis, tell me about the song that you finished writing about your mom that, uh, you were inspired to, to finish because of this movie.

01:45:11.160 I, I, yeah, I grew up in music all my life.

01:45:14.600 And, uh, I really loved, um, I wanted to say Bill Gosling fans.

01:45:20.140 Um, and, um, I wrote the film called On My Way to Heaven with that in mind about 25 years ago.

01:45:29.180 And I wrote it for my mom.

01:45:30.960 And, um, I even played it for her at the time.

01:45:34.740 Uh, but it never was quite finished.

01:45:37.280 I never recorded it.

01:45:38.840 And I never played it in public.

01:45:41.300 Something was missing.

01:45:42.840 Let's put it that way.

01:45:44.360 And, uh, along comes, uh, I can only imagine the movie and, uh, what it was about.

01:45:52.240 You know, it was about a guy who, it's about, it's about his father.

01:45:56.740 And, uh, you know, people, uh, picked it up as the biggest, uh, faith song or Christian song ever recorded, you know, about his dad.

01:46:07.960 And, um, I don't know, it kind of inspired me.

01:46:10.620 When I was on the set, all of a sudden the bridge came to me, which is, you know, the last thing missing from the song, which was the bridge.

01:46:18.340 And, uh, which actually makes the song and, uh, I played it for Bart and, uh, who thought I should record it.

01:46:26.120 And we didn't quite make, uh, getting it in the film itself.

01:46:29.620 But, um, T-Bone, uh, Burnett, uh, produced it for me.

01:46:34.900 Unbelievable.

01:46:35.540 Who had been a good friend of mine for a while.

01:46:38.020 Yeah.

01:46:38.200 It was like a, a lot of things came together, uh, picking this film in a very, very, incredible way.

01:46:44.880 And, um, so it finished it about, uh, two weeks ago, three weeks ago.

01:46:51.000 And, uh, they made a music video of it and we recorded it, uh, or we played it at Ryman Auditorium the other night with, uh, along with Bart.

01:47:00.720 We opened it for Bart and his band, or she made it.

01:47:04.660 And, uh, now it's going to be out there.

01:47:07.300 Well, it's, uh, it's fantastic.

01:47:10.000 And I really, um, I wanted to, uh, ask you to come on the program and not only promote the film, uh, because I thought it was really good, but just to really honestly tell you, I, I was,

01:47:20.560 um, you know, I, I, I love your, I love your movies.

01:47:23.640 And quite honestly, we had a discussion earlier today.

01:47:26.140 We're a little pissed that there was an inner space too, but, um, uh, uh, but, uh, uh, you're just, your performance is, is really good.

01:47:36.940 Oscar, Oscar worthy, really good.

01:47:39.440 So congratulations.

01:47:40.700 Well, thank you.

01:47:41.240 I appreciate that.

01:47:42.060 But I've already, you know, really, I've been in a really good media that's really gotten my reward.

01:47:45.940 The only reward I ever get, uh, with acting or any kind of endeavor is while I'm doing it and, uh, and work with those people and be on that set.

01:47:56.060 And, uh, you know, I really learned a lot about myself and, uh, I got to witness, you know, the faith of, uh, the people that I was working with who were making this film.

01:48:08.340 And, uh, you know, uh, you know, he turned his life completely around and, uh, you know, first through grace and you can, well, he got cancer and you could call it a death row, uh, conversion, but it happened and it was real.

01:48:29.320 So, and, uh, he and Bart had the most beautiful relationship that you could possibly have at the end of his life.

01:48:37.700 And the gift he did, Bart, is that Bart did not have to carry that around for the rest of his life.

01:48:43.340 It's a great gift.

01:48:44.180 And then Bart wrote this beautiful song that affected so many people and strengthened their faith as well.

01:48:50.880 Dennis Quaid from the North Pole.

01:48:52.360 Next time we speak, I'm, I'm expecting you to be on Mount Everest.

01:48:57.380 Uh, I'd like to be there in person with you, man.

01:49:01.000 I would, I would love it.

01:49:02.480 You're welcome.

01:49:02.920 Anytime.

01:49:03.500 Dennis Quaid.

01:49:04.120 Thank you so much, sir.

01:49:05.320 Appreciate it.

01:49:05.940 You bet.

01:49:06.640 The name of the movie is I can only imagine, and it is open right now.

01:49:13.140 It is already, if I can just get the stats that they, they just released.

01:49:18.300 It's the number one ticket movie or movie ticket online already this morning on movie tickets.com and Fandango.

01:49:25.580 It is already, they were expecting it to make $2 million on its opening weekend.

01:49:30.220 As of six o'clock this morning, it already had made $2.3 million.

01:49:36.140 Uh, that's more than the total estimate for the entire weekend.

01:49:39.700 Uh, and it is receiving rave reviews, including mine.

01:49:43.340 I can only imagine, uh, the story of Bart Millard.

01:49:49.120 John, congratulations.

01:49:50.640 Yeah.

01:49:51.100 What a great weekend.

01:49:52.240 We're all in a state of shock and appreciate the friendship, man.

01:49:55.000 I bet.

01:49:55.300 Thank you, Bart.

01:49:57.200 Good job.

01:49:57.860 Yeah.

01:49:58.220 Thank you so much.

01:49:59.120 God bless.

01:50:00.080 All right.

01:50:00.460 If you want your home sold on time and for the most amount of money with all, all sorts

01:50:04.620 of excuses, uh, you need real estate agents.

01:50:08.520 I trust.com.

01:50:09.680 You need somebody who's going to get the job done.

01:50:11.800 Somebody that is, uh, somebody that has the right marketing plan.

01:50:15.260 You know, the one thing that I've learned about, uh, real estate is your real estate agent

01:50:19.880 has to have a good marketing plan.

01:50:21.860 They have to be able to market and, and constantly having people coming through, uh, at least

01:50:27.880 on their website or, or coming through the houses because the more people that are seeing

01:50:32.520 their houses and seeing this, the, the faster you end up selling your house over a thousand

01:50:38.240 agents all over America who are just like you.

01:50:40.520 Their bond is their word.

01:50:42.160 They have principles.

01:50:43.120 They're, they're fans of the show.

01:50:44.580 They share your same sensibilities.

01:50:46.620 Our agents fully vet them.

01:50:48.340 Uh, and we, we choose them for their knowledge, their skill, and their track record.

01:50:53.880 Thousands of families have already put real estate agents.

01:50:56.640 I trust.com to the test and the results are remarkable.

01:51:00.360 They are selling houses faster and for the most amount of money, which is what you want.

01:51:06.300 Real estate agents.

01:51:07.260 I trust.com whether you're buying or selling your house, real estate agents.

01:51:11.940 I trust.com Glenn Beck, uh, you know, since we're here in the Hollywood thing here, Matt

01:51:31.300 Damon has announced that he is moving to Australia because of Donald Trump.

01:51:38.560 Yeah.

01:51:39.100 I, you give him a little credit for this.

01:51:40.680 I do.

01:51:41.000 If he actually goes through with it, he's the first celebrity who's promised this.

01:51:44.660 First one.

01:51:45.420 None of them have delivered.

01:51:46.880 He's the first one.

01:51:48.360 Congratulations to Matt Damon.

01:51:50.480 You're nuts, but congratulations for moving over there.

01:51:53.860 And, uh, just a message to Australia.

01:51:55.680 Australia, you can keep him so you're aware.

01:52:00.360 Have a safe weekend.

01:52:01.820 God bless.

01:52:12.200 Glenn Beck.

01:52:15.480 Mercury.

01:52:16.160 Mercury.

01:52:16.240 Mercury.

01:52:16.320 Mercury.

01:52:16.860 Mercury.

01:52:17.180 I love you.

01:52:18.860 Mercury.

01:52:24.040 Mercury.

01:52:24.780 Mercury.

01:52:25.000 Mercury.

01:52:25.360 Mercury.

01:52:25.940 Mercury.

01:52:26.300 Conservative.

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The Glenn Beck Program - March 16, 2018

'Politically Connected Bridges？' (Bill O'Reilly & Dennis Quaid join Glenn) - 3⧸16⧸18

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