Population Bomb Fails to Detonate - 5⧸22⧸18
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Summary
A new study says that since the dawn of civilization, humans have wiped out 83% of all the wild animals that have ever lived on this planet. What does that have to do with population growth? Is there a way to slow it down?
Transcript
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Pat Gray and Jeffy for Glenn this week, who is on vacation.
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We have this new study that I just noticed about humankind.
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The world's 7.6 billion people represent just 0.01% of all living things.
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So we're going to compare our life to bacteria.
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And they claim that since the dawn of civilization, humanity has caused the loss of 83% of all wild mammals and half of plants.
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Humans have killed 83% of all the wild animals that have lived on this planet?
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But this is the kind of stuff we're hearing all the time.
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Yesterday in the afterglow of the big royal wedding, there was a news report about Prince Harry's brother, William.
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Prince William, who was talking about how population growth in Africa is wiping out the wildlife population there.
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Let's just say for argument's sake that that's true.
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Well, the answer is from people who feel this way, from people who do these studies.
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Reduce the human population so animals and bacteria can thrive here.
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Leftists have been hysterical about population control or the population bomb for decades.
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Remember, back in the 60s and 70s, Stanford biologist Paul Ehrlich made all kinds of doomsday overpopulation predictions,
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including the battle to feed all of humanity is over.
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He went on to forecast that hundreds of millions would starve to death in the next decade of the 70s.
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That 65 million of those who starved to death would be Americans.
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When 2000 comes around, I'd get off that island if I were you.
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He was so sure of himself that he warned in 1970, sometime in the next 15 years, the end will come.
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And by the end, he meant an utter breakdown of the capacity of the planet to support humanity.
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And a collapse of civilization is a near certainty within decades.
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And obviously, none of those scenarios came to pass.
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And today, we have double the population of 1970.
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And his book, The Population Bomb, which I think came out in 1968, turned out to be such a bomb
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that even the ultra-liberal New York Times finally realized in 2015
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in an article called The Unrealized Horrors of Population Explosion
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Sadly, there were a lot of people who bought into the cataclysmic hype from Ehrlich and others,
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who instituted policies like forced sterilization, forced abortions,
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and other extreme and downright crazy measures that took human life for no reason.
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And even though some of Ehrlich's most devoted disciples have seen the light in the last few decades
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and have realized just how incredibly wrong Ehrlich and the rest were,
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there are still others, on the other hand, with all the evidence to the contrary,
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that still believe and continue to push his agenda.
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So it's already gone up quite a bit since he did this a few years ago.
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Now, if we do a really great job on new vaccines, health care, reproductive health services,
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we could lower that by perhaps 10 or 15 percent.
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Now, if we do a really great job on new vaccines, health care, reproductive health services,
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we could lower that by perhaps 10 or 15 percent.
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If we do a really great job on reproductive health care and vaccines, we can lower the population by 10 to 15 percent.
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Well, by reproductive health, he obviously means abortion, right?
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We're going to control human population through abortion.
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But what do vaccines have to do with limiting population growth and health care?
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I think with health care, he's talking about death panels.
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Because that's the only way you lower the population through health care.
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Because being healthier as a population would mean more people, not 10 to 15 percent less.
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Unless you're controlling population growth with something in the vaccine, other than disease prevention.
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Maybe you're sterilizing people with the vaccines.
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And as far as I've seen, nobody asks him about this when he does this presentation.
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How did Bill Gates from Microsoft get into population control?
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Bill Gates had a pretty interesting, had some interesting things to say about his dad and what his dad did in the past.
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The two that really grabbed me as urgent were issues related to population, reproductive health.
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But did you come to reproductive issues as an intellectual?
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When I was growing up, my parents were always involved in various volunteer things.
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And it was very controversial to be involved with that.
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You mean people have a problem with killing babies?
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I think that's something a lot of people don't know about Bill Gates is that his dad was the head of Planned Parenthood.
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And from its inception, Planned Parenthood was designed to limit population by killing undesirables in our society.
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Undesirables to Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger meant blacks, minorities.
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In her own words, she said, the minister's work is also important and he should be trained, perhaps by Planned Parenthood Federation, as to our ideals and the goal that we hope to reach.
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We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population.
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And the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members.
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Decades later, the evil that is Planned Parenthood is praised, beloved, honored by the left, and its racist, evil, eugenics-loving founder is somehow strangely admired.
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We have 7.6 billion people on the planet and a much smaller percentage of starvation and lack of resources than ever before in human history.
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They couldn't have been more wrong about the population explosion, about the dangers we faced, thanks in large part to capitalism.
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Also, if you're a believer, you know that mankind was given dominion over the earth and everything on it, meaning we're stewards and we're supposed to take good care of the earth and the animals, but we're obviously the top of the food chain.
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We're more important than bacteria or the plant life.
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God's first commandment was multiply and replenish the earth.
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He didn't say multiply and replenish the earth until 1968 and then stop having babies because we need to go to zero population by then.
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He created a planet that can sustain life, a planet durable enough to handle SUVs.
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And all these people with their cataclysmic predictions are dangerous and causing people to make ridiculous decisions like China and their forced abortion policy.
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More Pat Gray and Jeffy for Glenn coming up on the Glenn Beck program.
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It's Pat and Jeffy for Glenn, who is on vacation this week.
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When will we finally bring about common sense gun reform?
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MSNBC's Katie Tour had Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on yesterday.
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Can you promise kids in Texas today that they're safe to go to school?
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Can you promise kids in Texas that they're safe?
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I can't promise that you're going to be alive in 30 seconds.
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I don't think anybody can promise that at this point.
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I do think that this school was in the process of moving in that direction.
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The guy that you just talked about just might have saved many, many lives by being there at the right time.
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And I think they were also in the process of potentially training teachers and administrators.
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And I think that will be helpful in the future.
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And I think we need more schools that have on-site law enforcement or trained teachers that can respond quickly.
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Instead of having to wait a few minutes for first responders, we might end up losing a lot more kids.
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Yeah, I know we could have potentially lost a lot more kids, but we did lose eight kids.
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Well, no, I don't think there's any way to say that we're ever 100% safe.
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I think they need to continue to improve on their plan, which may be a use of technology, maybe controlling access better, and also actually getting those teachers trained.
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I don't think they had finished their implementation of their plan.
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So what they had done was commendable, and I think it did save lives.
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If we look at Sutherland Springs Church, there was nobody in that church with a gun.
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And what saved some of those people was that somebody ran into the church after a while and shot the gunman and probably saved many, many lives.
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I do want to point out, though, maybe more people would have died.
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But I don't think you're intending to do this, but I do think it minimizes the eight lives that were lost and the two lives that were lost to say that, well, this person saved more lives.
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I do want to play with you one of the students, Paige Curry.
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I mean, this is just, it's crazy talk, what she does here.
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Is this just what we're living in now, 2018, where the Attorney General of Texas, and I'm sure you're doing your very best,
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will tell me on national news that we can't keep kids safe, that they're never going to be 100% safe?
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I mean, that, to me, just, I'm sorry, sir, but that's wild.
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Yeah, that's what, I wish she would have done that.
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We can protect all children from all murderers, and we can safeguard this whole society from terrorists.
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We've tried to deal with this through regulation, which, you know, somebody that wants to kill somebody is not going to follow a new gun line.
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You know, in 1974, they had a similar situation where, I think it was 22 kids died, 68 injured, and they've been able to lock their schools down since.
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You know, I understand that, and I spend a lot of time in Tel Aviv, and I've been to a lot of schools in Tel Aviv.
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I've got stepkids who go to school in Tel Aviv.
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And you're right, there are armed guards standing at the doors to Israeli schools.
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No, this school didn't have armed guards at the doors.
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They were in the process of implementing, I think, greater plans than what you're talking about.
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I'm proposing that they finish their plan, which was to arm teachers and administrators.
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You don't know what teacher might have been in a better place than one of those resource officers.
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At least let's do the training, and let's do the best.
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Let's create a deterrent, first of all, that when a shooter's coming in, they know there's armed people, and they don't know who they are.
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Presumably he knew that there were two resource officers there.
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But had there been teachers, he would have likely not known which ones of them were armed, and he would have been unprepared to defend them.
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We can't know what's in his head, but we can know that we can do better.
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Wow, that was such a great right-down-the-middle job of a journalist that I don't know where you stand on the gun control issue.
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I'd have been screaming at the top of my lungs by the end of that interview.
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Katie, why don't you tell me what you would do?
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Give it to me, and I'd love the advice here, because obviously you know of some magical cure
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that's going to guarantee the safety, 100% guarantee the safety of all of our children.
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You have to know it, otherwise you wouldn't be asking me what I was going to do.
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During the Obama administration, they were just essentially the propaganda arm of the Obama administration.
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And now they just continue to spew out all the garbage from the left.
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Anything that the left wants out there, NBC, is there to spew it for you.
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I mean, how would you 100% guarantee the safety?
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I mean, that's what the two former education secretaries suggested, you know, pull parents
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to pull their children out of schools in the public school system.
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And they were the, you know, they're trying to say that they'd pull them out until they
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Where were you when the shootings were happening during the Obama administration?
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Because, you know, parents do have the choice of, it's called homeschooling, and more and
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I mean, that'd be certainly safer than having a thousand kids in one location.
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I mean, when you've got schools the size of the schools that we have in Texas, one of
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our schools in the DFW area has over 5,000 kids.
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We're going to talk to John Ziegler about an article he wrote, article that I believe
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Ziegler is not, maybe not the biggest Trump fan on planet Earth.
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We have been willing to give President Trump credit when he has done things that are good.
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And I think we still call him out when he does things with which we disagree.
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You know, we just, we try to be honest about it.
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I mean, I just, it's either conservative or it's not.
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And so when he's not putting forth those principles, we call him on it.
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So we're going to talk to him in about half an hour or so.
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In the meantime, though, I wanted to share with you the sheer profound genius that is Sheila Jackson Lee.
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You know, we just had the wonder of Katie Tour from MSNBC.
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But I, I miss the wonder of Sheila Jackson Lee.
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But when, when she's, when she's sharing her wisdom with us, we need to take, we need to
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And so here she is talking, of course, about the second amendment and speaking directly to
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Let me speak to those who continuously tout the second amendment.
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The first amendment is not without a Supreme court definition.
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Wait, I thought we were talking about the second amendment.
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And what are you going to the first amendment for?
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And it is, it's the, uh, it's the wolf and, uh, fire clause in the constitution that says
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you do have freedom of speech, but you can't cry wolf or fire in a crowded theater.
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But we're, but the second amendment, but the second amendment, we'll get to that in a second.
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And that means that if you take assault weapons and bump, uh, and use bump, uh, weapons, uh,
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bump fixtures to make an assault weapon and you're killed.
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That means if you take an assault bump, bump, use bump fixtures, uh, if you do the bump, uh,
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from the seventies, that was a really good dance.
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It was fun for about 15 minutes, uh, hundreds of people, tens upon tens of people.
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Killing tens of tens of people is not protected by the constitution.
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Since when is murder not constitutionally protected?
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I missed it, but I, this is, this is going to become a clip of the ages soon.
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And so we've got to find a way to keep guns away from people who would do harm.
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We have to find a way to intervene in the lives of young people.
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Why haven't we said, uh, no, you're a person who will do harm.
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And, uh, I can't allow it because you would go out and kill hundreds, tens and tens of
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Now, I know you think murder is constitutionally protected, but it isn't.
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What if I wanted to go out and bump, bump, get a bump.
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You have to find a person like that, that has a born to kill t-shirt shown on his Facebook.
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That child needs intervention either by way of mental health needs or behavioral needs.
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And therefore we've got to honor these children, not just mourn these children.
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Uh, it deals with parents' responsibility and locking them up.
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Uh, it deals with intervention on a child's mindset, uh, and it certainly deals with enhanced
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She did actually get into some areas there where, yeah, we can do better on parental, uh, issues.
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You know, these, these particular parents, uh, from Texas said he was a smart, quiet, uh,
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Well, smart, quiet, nice boys don't murder 10 people at their high school.
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So maybe you didn't know your son as well as you thought you did.
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Uh, you know, and look, he had a born to kill t-shirt on his Facebook page.
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Anybody's, there's thousands of pictures, if not millions.
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So do you arrest everybody with a born to kill t-shirt?
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If you, if you, you do, if you go down the line of, uh, I think you're going to be a bad
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You cannot go out and kill hundreds, tens of tens of people.
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She's saying, let's go back to the beginning and really decipher what she's, what she's
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Let me speak to those who continuously tout the second amendment, the first amendment.
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Let me speak specifically to those continuously tout the second amendment, the first amendment.
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Let me speak to those who continuously tout the second amendment.
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The first amendment is not without a Supreme court definition that if you cry fire in a
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crowded theater, that is not protected by the first amendment.
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And that means that if you take assault weapons and bump, uh, and use bump, uh, weapons, uh,
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And then you kill, uh, hundreds of people, tens upon tens of people, that's not protected
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So you can't kill hundreds of people or tens and tens of people.
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Don't kill hundreds of people and don't kill tens and tens of people.
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What if there's actually a fire in the theater?
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I do not want to hear you yelling fire, uh, under any circumstances.
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Because the constitution does not say that a person can shout, yell wolf in a crowded
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These Democrats are such constitutional scholars.
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They know the constitution like the back of their hand.
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And the, they know that the constitution doesn't protect you from killing hundreds of people
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And they know that the constitution does not protect you from crying wolf in a crowded
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We have the dumbest representative on the Democrat side that you can possibly imagine.
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It's just, it's really, uh, it's sad and pathetic.
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I mean, Nancy Pelosi is never going to be voted out of office.
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Uh, she, you know, it is possible she's got something more wrong with her than stupidity.
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We've played some of the, uh, some of the examples.
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And there, there was, uh, one that they showed that just happened recently that where she's
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And I am familiar with that particular, uh, train of-
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There's a pharmacy that's right next to the Capitol.
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And he said he has delivered Alzheimer's medication to people in Congress.
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Who are these people that have Alzheimer's disease and are battling with it in the U.S. Congress?
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It's Pat Gray and Jeffy for Glenn on the Glenn Beck Program.
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Hey, the new, uh, Los Angeles Rams stadium, uh, is supposed to be somewhat nice.
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You know, for $4 billion, it probably better be nice.
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Yeah, $4 billion used to get you a pretty decent stadium.
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Well, yeah, you get luxury, but you get, like, the business class luxury boxes.
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And maybe, you know, with the, you know how the luxury boxes, you get food?
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I don't know if you're familiar with luxury boxes.
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In those, in the business class ones, you don't have to, like, go out into the hallway
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The most expensive stadium ever built is MetLife Stadium in New Jersey, $1.7 billion.
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The Raiders' new stadium in Las Vegas is expected to cost more than $2 billion.
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Now, the Rams and Chargers are both going to use it.
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Well, right there, you've cut the cost in half.
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For some reason, though, I think this is mostly the Rams, and they're just, I don't
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know if they lease it during certain games to the Chargers or how that arrangement works.
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And the actual owner, I think, has, like, one point.
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You can't expect the owners to pay for their own stadiums.
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Why would the residents of the city pay for the owner's new stadium?
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They'll say that, you know, the restaurants are going to get business.
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Movie theaters, everybody will get business in their area.
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And while that is true, and that's their argument, and I've been through it.
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One big one in Tampa, when they were building Tampa, man, they would not stop.
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If my tax dollars are going to your stadium, I should be able to go to games for free.
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And look, you could, if you were part of the sports authority, which has been put together,
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to help focus the energy on the team and the community and the help that the team and
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The sports authorities, they put together a sports authority when I was in Houston and
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it was designed, I believe, to make sure that the stadiums wouldn't be taxpayer funded,
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We found no possible way we could do it without that.
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Look, we asked a couple of businesses if they'd like to donate.
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And then they threaten you with, okay, well, if you're not going to pony up the taxpayer
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And so 40% of the city is saying buy, and 60% says yes, the team stays, and the other
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And now, they're about to play football in a $4 billion stadium.
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John Ziegler from freespeechbroadcasting.com wrote a great article about Trump and conservatives.
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He started out by saying, it's no secret that despite numerous scandals, two big-selling
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bombshell books about him and the ongoing Russian investigation, President Trump's poll
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numbers have recovered this year and are now in the realm of respectability.
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There's many explanations for this phenomenon, but many people who call themselves conservatives
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have settled on the one which makes them feel the best.
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Trump has exceeded our incredibly low expectations and now deserves credit for a lot of really good
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He writes, I have recently seen this now-popular position be suddenly postulated by major commentators
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for whom I have great respect, as well as via people of questionable character and intellect
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on Twitter and Facebook whose names I don't even know to be real.
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John Ziegler from freespeechbroadcasting.com joins us on the Glenn Beck program with Pat Gray.
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And I just couldn't help but wonder if one of those major commentators for whom you have
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great respect is Glenn Beck, who was wearing a Make America Great Again cap last week.
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And as you know, I do link to that phrase, or from that phrase, to an article about Glenn
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wearing the Make America Great Again hat, by the way, for the record, I am not wearing
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And look, to be clear, you guys know me pretty well at this point, and I've gotten to know
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Glenn pretty well over the years, and I have had a fairly dramatic evolution about my view
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And he and I exchanged some pretty pointed emails after that episode on Friday, and I
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think that I understand where Glenn is coming from a lot better than I did at first.
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At first, I was shocked, but then I think I understood it a little bit better.
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I think Glenn deserves, from my perspective, some benefit of the doubt because of the courage
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that he has shown during this entire Trump, whatever you want to call it.
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I think it's a fiasco from the standpoint of conservatism.
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He was, I was going to write that column before Glenn did that, because this is something
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that I think is a far greater phenomenon than just Glenn.
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And I think that Glenn, I think Glenn has a lot of factors into his thinking that most
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people, maybe even you guys, couldn't possibly comprehend as far as the complexity of it.
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I'm talking about, I'm talking more generally about the people who are believing this simply
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because it makes them feel good about themselves.
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And, and I think that Glenn, while I disagree with the substance of what substantiated his
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position, I believe that he, he thinks that this is a substantive position and that's fine.
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That's what, you know, that's what discussion's about.
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And he and I have shared some of those disagreements at each other on Twitter.
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So, so this is not about Glenn, although I certainly understand why people are, we're
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I, I considered that as I wrote the column, oh boy, people, people are going to think I'm
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And I'm, I'm not really, although again, uh, I'm a very honest guy and I, I am referencing,
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uh, at least, uh, vaguely what happened on Friday, which was really very dramatic as you
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guys know, and, and got a lot of people's attention.
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Well, and that's, I think this is one of the reasons he did it, um, was, was to shake things
00:38:59.340
Um, it's interesting though, because, uh, you know, the Trump presidency, which I was
00:39:06.100
not excited about has probably been better than I anticipated, but you would not say
00:39:13.460
See, that's interesting that you say that, Pat, and I, and expectation, I'm a big believer
00:39:17.280
that expectations are everything in life and they really are.
00:39:20.700
And Trump has benefited more than anyone I can think of from the phenomenon of low expectations.
00:39:28.240
I mean, when I watch, uh, most of the conservative media coverage of Donald Trump, I know you
00:39:36.200
It reminds me a lot of watching the golf channel cover Tiger Woods, uh, you know, these days
00:39:41.560
when, when Tiger finishes an entire 18 hole round without pooping himself, uh, the, the,
00:39:49.640
He's only 14 shots down going into the final round.
00:39:54.120
And of course, the, the biggest difference though, is Donald Trump never won 14 major
00:39:59.820
Tiger Woods at least deserves, uh, you know, some of that, uh, that hype and benefit of
00:40:05.200
Um, uh, despite his other personal problems, I think there's a lot that Trump and, and,
00:40:09.740
and Tiger have in common by the way, but, uh, 14 majors is not one of them.
00:40:14.960
Um, and, and so I think that the low expectations is really extraordinary.
00:40:18.300
And I think it goes back to, okay, so to what do we compare Trump to?
00:40:23.020
See, I think that one of the things he benefits from, uh, in conjunction with the low expectations
00:40:28.500
is that for conservatives, they think Hillary Clinton was going to end the world, right?
00:40:33.500
So, so, so anything that doesn't end the world is better ahead of, we're ahead of the game.
00:40:39.160
And, and see, I've never, I've just never accepted that premise because Hillary Clinton
00:40:46.100
She was, and as morally decrepit as she is, and all those things I, I acknowledge, um, she
00:40:53.560
was going to be working with the Republican Congress and, and she was going to want to get
00:40:59.240
And so I just have never, I've never bought into this notion that she was something that
00:41:05.420
And so, and I, and I also learned that John under Obama, right?
00:41:10.880
Which in 2009, we were doubting that we were going to survive eight years of Obama.
00:41:17.560
And by the way, with a democratic Congress for a large portion of that.
00:41:21.160
So, um, and so I, I get, that's a very good point.
00:41:24.520
And I, um, and so I know, by the way, the other thing I compare this to,
00:41:28.080
is maybe, you know, I'm not known as a delusional optimist, but, uh, I, I am still upset that
00:41:35.400
the president is not either Marco Rubio or Scott Walker, uh, because I think both of
00:41:43.360
Uh, Donald Trump ended up winning with effectively Scott Walker's map.
00:41:49.620
Uh, and if the, if, if Matt Drudge and the, and, and the portions of the conservative media
00:41:54.920
that just weren't thrilled with Scott Walker, cause he was boring, uh, hadn't abandoned
00:41:59.320
If people remember correctly, he was the front runner before Trump got in.
00:42:02.520
Uh, if, if, if that had, if Trump had never gotten in, I believe Scott Walker would have
00:42:07.500
been the nominee, maybe even Marco Rubio would have been his VP and we would have two young,
00:42:11.620
uh, real conservatives in the white house with a Republican Congress and the accomplishments
00:42:15.620
that would, would be achieved with, would dwarf whatever it is that we're trying to pretend
00:42:22.300
Uh, because what I have seen, yeah, well, yeah, we have, we have not, the world has not
00:42:28.180
Um, uh, but it's early, he's, he's two and a half years in and, and to me, the accomplishments
00:42:34.220
have been overstated and the dangers have been by some conservatives.
00:42:38.240
I'm not saying Glenn, but, but many of his most ardent fans are underestimating the, the
00:42:46.460
I mean, my God, you guys know this better than anybody.
00:42:48.500
If, if Hillary Clinton had been credibly accused of one 10th of some of the things that Donald
00:42:54.660
Trump has been accused of, both in the realm of the Russian investigation and related areas,
00:42:59.940
they, the, most of the conservative media would be on 24 seven hair on fire alert.
00:43:07.980
And some, and some of the people I really used to respect in the conservative media have
00:43:13.460
Although during this entire, during this entire presidency, and I, and I do agree with
00:43:18.460
that they have never, and by the, the, the Democrats or the left or the liberal media,
00:43:24.180
whatever you want to call them, have been relentless in hammering Donald Trump for everything
00:43:31.420
And so at some point we all said, man, give the galactic guy, give the guy a chance.
00:43:39.380
I'm all for giving him a chance and I've given him a chance.
00:43:41.640
And I, you know, I, I can't stand it when people use the, uh, Trump derangement syndrome,
00:43:45.840
uh, you know, description, but I don't believe I have Trump derangement syndrome.
00:43:52.200
And I agree that the, and look, I've said many, many times that the news media in a large
00:43:56.960
part is getting what it deserves for having had eight years of having the pom poms out
00:44:02.740
When you have the pom poms out for Barack Obama for, for actually more than eight years,
00:44:07.600
That's why I made the movie media malpractice Obama got elected for, for basically nine
00:44:12.160
or 10 years, you have the pom poms out, uh, with no objectivity whatsoever.
00:44:16.760
Now, all of a sudden you're going to pretend that you're, you're the fourth estate and
00:44:26.120
And that's why the way by why it's not working.
00:44:28.880
That's part of the why, part of why Trump is not just surviving, but in many ways he's
00:44:34.060
prospering because the media has completely lost its power to influence these events for
00:44:41.540
And that's dangerous, but it's understandable given what they did with Obama.
00:44:45.400
There's also kind of a phenomenon where the media is so over the top that it just kind
00:44:54.960
Uh, in, in people who have rooted for Republicans, generally speaking.
00:45:00.420
Well, and I'm going to differ with you guys a little bit on that.
00:45:03.520
I mean, I, I get that a lot of this is over the, it seems over the top.
00:45:06.880
Uh, see, I don't give Trump any credit for having an R next to his name because I never
00:45:11.320
So, so therefore I don't have that defense mechanism, uh, and inherently in me with Donald
00:45:20.840
Um, but also, um, I do think there's a little bit benefit.
00:45:24.520
Trump also benefits from what I call the big lie theory, uh, that some of, uh, his scandals
00:45:30.120
and his, his lies are so large that we are hesitant.
00:45:35.940
Like for instance, the Russia thing, I've never said he's guilty of Russian collusion, but the
00:45:43.440
It's tough to wrap your brain around and actually believe it.
00:45:46.940
Even if you don't like the guy stuff to believe it either way, when you start going inside
00:45:51.380
either way, I mean, it's either Trump or Obama and who knew and when they knew and what they're
00:45:55.920
I mean, it's, it's a difficult thing to wrap your head around and it's a difficult thing
00:46:03.800
I mean, I get that a lot of people are, have stopped caring because it's supposedly gone
00:46:07.500
on so long and it's complicated and we don't like that.
00:46:12.580
And, and, and, and, you know, we like things that are simple, but I, frankly, frankly, I
00:46:17.520
am appalled by a lot of what we've already learned in the Russian investigation.
00:46:22.480
And, and even we seem to learn almost on a daily basis.
00:46:25.920
And I have to say that, that, that Trump's reaction to it, Trump's reaction to it is
00:46:31.980
probably the strongest evidence that there is something seriously, seriously wrong here.
00:46:39.440
I have some theories, but his reaction is completely inconsistent with that of an, of an
00:46:45.780
If you, if you think you're going to be exonerated and which by the way, Robert Mueller is a respected
00:46:51.220
Let's remember that before this became political.
00:46:54.400
So, so if you think you're, if you're innocent, you're the president of the fricking United
00:46:58.600
States, you, you, your party is in control of both houses of Congress.
00:47:02.660
You have a state run Fox news channel, which is the highest rated cable news network that
00:47:10.140
You have a conservative media industrial complex.
00:47:12.040
You cannot get railroaded for being an innocent person when you're the president of the United
00:47:20.560
And yet here, you have the perfect situation to be exonerated and you're calling it a witch
00:47:32.260
So you're saying, John, I should hold off sending you the mega hat that Glenn wore on Friday.
00:47:40.620
I was going to get it in the mail to you today.
00:47:43.940
If you guys sign it and maybe, uh, maybe I might find some value in that.
00:47:52.680
Uh, what about the, uh, Penn state movie on Netflix?
00:48:04.480
It's literally a fantasy based upon a media created myth.
00:48:08.460
I've written quite a bit about it, um, which you can, you can find it, uh, framing paterno.com.
00:48:13.860
You guys know better than almost anybody else in the news, news media, how everything people have been told about that entire Penn state, Jerry Sandusky, Joe Paterno story.
00:48:28.180
I'm the only person that's come to a conclusion against my own self-interest.
00:48:31.400
I know more about the story than anybody in the world.
00:48:35.540
I'm, I will bet anything that I am right about it.
00:48:39.800
That's what's so, that's what's so scary about it.
00:48:47.020
Uh, there's never been a story of more abject media malpractice, uh, that makes what happened
00:48:53.620
with Obama look like child's play, uh, more cowardice.
00:48:56.920
Uh, and, and frankly, it's scary because if it can happen in a situation like this to really
00:49:06.360
So since it's a release, have you gotten any strong feedback like, uh, you're right, or this
00:49:19.300
I mean, the people that are my supporters have been made up.
00:49:24.140
And that, and, and, and without any real information, the movie, here's what's interesting to me
00:49:29.220
The movie actually, um, kind of gets it, um, right.
00:49:38.360
The movie basically pretends that Joe Paterno, because he was so old, forgot that Jerry
00:49:46.740
That's a fairly good analysis in one sentence of what the movie is.
00:49:52.880
Joe Paterno forgot that he hadn't been told that Joe, that Jerry Sandusky had been abusing
00:50:00.100
a boy and got manipulated by prosecutors and by his own son and by his own assistant coach,
00:50:06.200
because 10 years later, all the incentives changed.
00:50:10.980
And so it's funny to me that HBO was kind of like in the right ballpark.
00:50:15.360
They just got in the absolutely 100% opposite direction of what really happened here.
00:50:24.860
Also with, uh, insightful articles on a regular basis on, uh, mediate.com.
00:50:39.060
One of the worst Twitter handles of all time, but I'm pretty good.
00:50:53.140
It's Pat and Jeffy for Glenn on the Glenn Beck program.
00:51:03.180
Uh, interesting article from movie critic Rex Reed titled, What Happened to Jim Carrey?
00:51:21.820
Then David Letterman became a crotchety old progressive who hated everybody on the right.
00:51:33.580
And that's fine if they, if they care more about their politics than they do their career.
00:51:39.560
But nobody, uh, pays attention to Jim Carrey anymore.
00:51:44.000
No, because every once in a while he shows up and says something kind of good.
00:51:49.560
And you think, and you think, oh, okay, maybe we'll give him a shot.
00:51:59.460
It was a club that invited former gang members in.
00:52:03.200
And he showed up talking about Jesus and redemption.
00:52:08.540
Uh, but then he started battling about gun control and all that.
00:52:19.220
Instead, he's done some really bizarre, Polish, uh, ugly, icky, dark, dank drama movie is his latest.
00:52:40.060
Uh, Rex Reed says it's so lurid, irrelevant, and unwatchable.
00:52:45.020
It makes you wonder if he ever read the script.
00:52:48.300
He needs the money, he needs the work, he wants to try to get out there.
00:52:51.820
And, uh, you know, there's so many places making movies now, he's hoping to make something dark
00:52:58.400
This is a guy who had a string of, what, six or seven hundred million dollar plus movies.
00:53:10.900
And this, this movie is so bad, it went straight to video.
00:53:18.640
I mean, if you can't even get it to a Hulu or a Netflix.
00:53:39.800
Uh, at noon Eastern, immediately following, uh, this show.
00:53:54.080
Yeah, you can see it on, you know, you watch it on podcasts later at your leisure.
00:54:03.520
I mean, if you watch it at your leisure again, maybe that's fine.
00:54:08.980
You probably want to go back and get the subtle nuances.
00:54:20.420
A circuit court judge just issued his restitution opinion for a teenager who pleaded guilty to
00:54:37.360
The teen, uh, was in court on Thursday where 11 different claims were submitted from different
00:54:45.760
And he has been charged with restitution of $36 million.
00:55:01.260
He gets five years probation and 1,920 hours of community service with the U.S. Forest
00:55:11.000
His attorney, uh, called it the opinion absurd.
00:55:15.380
Uh, you can kind of, I can see where that would, uh, where he would feel that way.
00:55:20.200
But $36 million, I mean, this kid can never pay $36 million.
00:55:23.040
Most people don't make $36 million in a lifetime.
00:55:25.320
Look, the judge said the restitution is clearly proportionate with the offense.
00:55:28.840
It doesn't break any of the constitutional laws.
00:55:32.420
And it said, he also said, and I thought this was nice of the judge.
00:55:35.460
He said, look, if the teen cannot pay the millions in full, he can establish a pay schedule
00:55:42.180
through the hood river juvenile department and pay schedule.
00:55:47.420
You know, look, if you can't pay $56,000 a month for the rest of my life, you can't
00:55:59.940
I don't know that you could actually claim bankruptcy and then make it all go away.
00:56:05.580
I wonder, I wonder, because that's what you would obviously do if you could.
00:56:10.760
That's, I mean, and he's only 15 now, so that stays with you.
00:56:14.660
I think you just have to get an attorney and go to each payment and say, work out some
00:56:23.580
The court awarded restitution to the state on behalf of the following victims in the following
00:56:31.760
$5,000 to Iris Shank, who's, did her house burn down?
00:56:35.360
Yeah, she was renting a house in the forest and it burned.
00:56:38.440
She lost a bunch of stuff, everything in the house.
00:56:51.140
It's still kind of doable, but that's going to take a while.
00:57:16.420
All right, well then, Union Pacific Railroad, $1,048,877.
00:57:23.620
I mean, you might be close to a breaking point here.
00:57:33.080
$12,500,000 to ODOT, the Oregon Department of Transportation.
00:57:37.560
I mean, the infrastructure, right, is just, oof.
00:57:42.120
And then, of course, to the U.S. Forest Service, you owe $21,113,755.
00:57:57.540
I mean, I don't know how you, I guess you charge them an acre.
00:58:02.000
I don't know how they came to that justification for the amount.
00:58:05.780
But the judge was all saying that it was proportionate because they were saying that it violated the Oregon and the Oregon and U.S. constitutions.
00:58:16.920
Well, it seems excessive to me to a 15-year-old.
00:58:26.740
Well, like you said, you made a point it was excessive to a 15-year-old.
00:58:30.160
But I mean, are you thinking that someone older it wouldn't be?
00:58:32.480
No, it's excessive for everybody, but especially a 15-year-old.
00:58:43.780
The judge wrote, in short, I'm satisfied that the restitution ordered in this case bears a sufficient relationship to the gravity of the offenses for which the youth was adjudicated.
00:58:57.780
Look, if you can't pay it in full, I'm okay with that.
00:59:01.200
I'm not saying you got to pay it in full right now.
00:59:04.000
You work out a pay schedule of a million a year for 36 years.
00:59:12.060
You will have no more payments, and you'll still be under 50 years old.
00:59:17.500
This guy could pay about $60,000 a month for the next 36 years, and maybe he could pay it off.
00:59:37.720
$80,000 a month for the next 36 years, and he's fine, and you're all paid up.
00:59:57.040
But he didn't start the fire on purpose, right?
01:00:00.440
Well, they hurled fireworks into a canyon that was along the hiking trail, and then they
01:00:09.100
were all loving the spark of clouds and smoke and everything that came up out of the canyon
01:00:13.740
from the fireworks, and there's even a little bit of a video somewhere of it.
01:00:18.660
I don't know if this link takes me to the video or not.
01:00:25.540
But, you know, that's what started the actual $48,000.
01:00:31.680
So he and his buds, and I don't know where he gets...
01:00:35.560
I never did see where it came down to why he's the only one.
01:00:45.740
I'll try to find out why, but they didn't let me in the courtroom.
01:00:56.280
You don't want to be saddled with a $36 million debt your entire life.
01:01:00.740
Now, look, to be fair, like I said, you know, I think you just have to go to each one of
01:01:04.880
Each one of these that you're supposed to pay restitution to and work out some kind of
01:01:08.880
And I don't know that they will work it out with you.
01:01:10.740
I don't know that they say, you know, look, we got our insurance money.
01:01:16.620
First of all, you say to the U.S. Forest Service, eh, no.
01:01:24.740
I'm going to pay taxes to the U.S. government on the money I earn.
01:01:29.840
And you're welcome to whatever share the government gives to you.
01:01:34.880
To Oregon Department of Transportation, you say the $12 million, $500?
01:01:53.400
And, you know, and look, they're the railroad company too, right?
01:01:59.620
They know for a fact they're not getting that money.
01:02:03.420
You know for a fact there's no way this 15-year-old kid is ever going to pay you...
01:02:11.880
Maybe you work on trying to pay off Allstate and Irish Shank.
01:02:20.120
And the restitution of $8,100 to Allstate and you call it a day.
01:02:36.440
Allstate, I've known a couple of stories and I have a couple of stories.
01:02:51.140
And you know something like that is going to take place because there's no way this would
01:02:58.480
So right now we're looking at Irish Shank getting her $5,000 back and that's it.
01:03:07.000
I don't know who Hewker Properties is who's who owes $100,000.
01:03:11.040
They probably owned the house Iris was living in.
01:03:18.340
The Scouts will help you to build another trail.
01:03:24.900
Speaking of the Scouts, you've got an interesting story there too.
01:03:31.760
And you really don't of yourself, but your wife does and your son does.
01:03:45.140
He's going to have to, he's been working at a scout camp all summer here in Texas.
01:03:56.300
He's refurbishing an old cemetery in South Lake, Florida, or South Lake, Texas.
01:04:08.000
He's redoing all the gravestones and making a virtual map of who's buried where.
01:04:16.280
Well, you know, when it's time for the project, give somebody else a call.
01:04:25.160
I've already sent a card to have you come over.
01:04:29.860
I've got a toothbrush to clean the headstone with your name on it.
01:04:33.480
Yeah, the mail doesn't come to my house anymore.
01:05:01.220
We've got to tell you about this scouting story, though.
01:05:06.220
More Glenn Beck program with Pat and Jeffy coming up.
01:05:19.580
Talking about this world scouting event, I've got to tell you about this in a second.
01:05:33.060
I went to some of the meetings, and they were tying knots.
01:05:36.080
And frankly, I wasn't the least bit interested in learning how to tie knots.
01:05:43.040
I will never forget the first campout I went on, because I avoided them like the plague.
01:05:52.560
Finally, my parents, I think, forced me to go on one of these campouts.
01:06:04.520
And yeah, just outside, but way outside the mean streets.
01:06:09.980
And it's cold, and I brought some skimpy little sleeping bag that was good to about 84 degrees.
01:06:20.220
And fortunately, I had a really good friend who knew that I was completely inept at camping.
01:06:31.740
My first campout as a Boy Scout, because you had to be a Weeblo and then a Boy Scout, which
01:06:39.320
I didn't want to be part of, because of camping.
01:06:42.880
I was forced to camp as a little kid, and I didn't care for it.
01:06:59.680
There was one kid, one fat kid that almost fell in the river that weekend on his weekend.
01:07:04.900
Yeah, there was a fat kid that almost fell in the river.
01:07:07.680
The only reason the hazing is the Good Scouts are clear of the land, and they put the straw
01:07:13.680
down, and they put the blanket down, and they put the tent down.
01:07:16.360
Yeah, the hazing becomes when they're going to let the fat kid just sleep on the ice.
01:07:22.980
And they're going to freeze to death, or put a hot rock in his sleeping bag.
01:07:33.040
Otherwise, you'll melt the bottom of your boots, fat kid.
01:07:39.100
Your empathy for this fat kid is impressive, Jeffy.
01:07:45.600
It surprises me that you cared that much about the fat kid.
01:07:59.740
I did care about the fat kid that was being hazed.
01:08:04.420
The Boy Scouts now have decided, of course, they've made a lot of decisions lately.
01:08:12.860
There is a mandate that all their participants of their global gathering coming up will be distributed condoms.
01:08:25.740
So at the World Scout Jamboree, there's mandatory condom distribution.
01:08:36.140
For the first time, a World Jamboree will be hosted by the three National Scout organizations.
01:08:41.220
Scouts Canada, Scouts of Mexico, Boy Scouts of America.
01:08:44.440
These three distinct cultures will join together to host World Scouting Community in a celebration of culture exchange,
01:08:50.540
mutual understanding, peace, and friendship, and apparently sex.
01:08:56.840
And then they wonder why our church pulled out.
01:09:20.660
You can join me, by the way, on Pat Gray Unleashed.
01:09:22.760
Every day, 12 Eastern, the Blaze Radio and TV Network.
01:09:30.660
It kind of accidentally started a forest fire that burned 48,000 acres in Oregon.
01:09:36.660
I mean, you know, it was a stupid thing to do, throw firecrackers into a canyon.
01:09:42.500
You would think that, you know, someone would be smart enough to not throw fireworks into, you know, a canyon where the-
01:09:50.080
But, you know, seriously, on a serious note, all 15-year-olds do something stupid.
01:09:56.440
Now, hopefully you don't do a 48,000-acre burn.
01:10:01.420
And granted, there are consequences for actions.
01:10:04.200
It's just that $36 million seems a bit exorbitant for a 15-year-old kid.
01:10:12.660
And we've already, we've gone down the list of people who he owes money to now, according to the court.
01:10:19.640
And Iris Shank gets the five grand and the rest of the people suck wind.
01:10:25.940
At least that's the way we kind of laid it out.
01:10:27.760
Iris was renting a home, and so she was awarded $5,000 because the rented home she was in burned down.
01:10:41.040
Everybody else, all state, Oregon State Parks, U.S. Forest Service, and probably not getting their money.
01:10:48.720
But Sean in Oregon, maybe she can shed some light on this.
01:11:01.260
I just wanted to point out that, I mean, it took thousands of people to fight that fire.
01:11:08.280
I mean, you guys made a little bit of fun of the fire service and how much money goes to them, but literally, it costs.
01:11:19.480
It's inefficient, but it was millions of dollars to fight that fire.
01:11:24.480
And then the whole, you know, what you don't want is you don't want some weenie sentence, oh, here's some community service for, like, putting lives in danger.
01:11:47.240
But, I mean, you know, you put lives in danger.
01:11:50.940
It's really seen through there if you're familiar with it at all.
01:11:52.840
And not only innocent lives, but lives of the people working trying to put the fire out.
01:11:58.760
And then the question of the, you know, $36 million, no, he's never going to pay that, but he put a safety valve in there.
01:12:06.620
So, you know, if he doesn't win Powerball, you know, after 10 years, assuming that he completes his probation and stays compliant with whatever payment plan, which, you know, it could be $100.
01:12:16.780
I mean, they'll probably set it up proportional to whatever he's making.
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It says, he also cited safety valves in state law, including one that allows payments to stop after 10 years if a juvenile defendant completes probation, doesn't commit other offenses, and complies with payments.
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Right, because the probation is five years, and he's got, you know, just, you know, 1,900 hours of community service.
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I mean, the point is, like I said, if he wins the lottery, great.
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You know, otherwise, odds are decent that, you know, somebody's going to look at that and go, whatever.
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You know, 10 years, you're a reasonable citizen.
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Yes, but let's just be realistic about some of the real costs.
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I was actually, I was really making fun of the $36 million.
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Maybe they'll feel bad for the kids, you know, and pay it off for them.
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We've got this agonizing story about what happened at a Kendrick Lamar concert.
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Big rapper, Kendrick Lamar, he's one of the big rappers in America, right?
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And I guess, like so many performers, he brings audience members up on stage with him to rap his songs.
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Keep in mind, they're rapping his songs with his lyrics.
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And here's what happened when he invited one young girl up on stage.
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They probably got me down by the end of the song.
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It's written like the whole city go against me.
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Every time I'm in the street, I get cock, cock, cock, cock.
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This is coming, my little girl, my little girl.
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My boy Roland kind of knew the rules a little bit.
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The first guy wrapped the song with him and skipped the N-word.
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The girl, who is white, wrapped the song and included his lyrics, which include the N-word three or four times in a row.
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So, she was thinking to herself, I've got to skip it.
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F, who you know, where are you from, my N-word.
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Wait, what does my grandma have to do with this?
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My grandmother is none of your business, Kendrick.
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He wrote those into it, and she's expected not to say them when he invites her on stage to sing his song.
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And she's tormented by the audience and, you know, called all manner of hateful things.
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Yeah, because she got comfortable singing the song that she knows.
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That's the way she sings it every day because guess what?
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And if you don't want people singing the N-word, don't put it in your song.
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What do you think happens when the song comes on the radio?
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Of course they're singing along with your song.
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How is it possible that this kind of double standard is perfectly acceptable?
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And you could tell the audience fully accepts that double standard.
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I guess if he brought a black person up on stage, they could say it.
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You can't have it both ways, at least as far as I'm concerned.
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If we're going to make that a big deal, Kendrick, you're asking for it by bringing white people up on stage to rap your songs.
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I mean, unless you tell them beforehand, hey, look, only I can say the N-word.
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Too soon to be asking me where my grandma stay.
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More Pat and Jeffy for Glenn on the Glenn Beck Program.
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Still thinking about this bizarre rap incident.
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It just fascinates me how we're supposed to not say the word.
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And we've, you know, the rap community, people like Jay-Z, is he the king of the rap community,
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He believes that, you know, we've, hip hop has taken the word and flipped it to use as
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I don't know that I buy it either, but, you know, okay, so.
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But then you put it in your music and you bring people up on stage to perform while you take
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Heaven forbid you do the whole show without bringing anybody else up on stage.
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And I know one of the tweets during the show from at also Stephen King.
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And she's trying to act all baller saying, man, I got you.
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So he starts to track and she gets to the first N word of the song and she doesn't say
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Now then, you know, on, onward we go to the rest of it where she ended up using the word
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because she was nervous and realized she shouldn't say it.
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But then she decided as she felt more comfortable singing the song the way she normally sings
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it in her bedroom, in her car, in her kitchen, at wherever she's at by herself because she
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Sings it the way it's written by Kendrick Lamar.
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By the way, this also took me a little bit back.
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I'm a little surprised that rapper Kendrick Lamar has a Pulitzer Prize.
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In the segment before this, I heard those poignant lyrics.
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And I don't know if it's for that song or all songs in general.
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But I'm not as up on my Kendrick Lamar Pulitzer Prize information as I should be.
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I mean, I find it difficult to believe that you read lyrics from one of his songs and then
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Well, he's been called the voice of the generation.
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Mixes hip hop with poetry and political protest.
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It's common subjects of race, police brutality, and perseverance.
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Made his songs the anthem of the Black Lives Matter movement in the United States.
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But, you know, for poignant lyrics like we just read you a few minutes ago, clearly those
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In fact, not only should he get a Pulitzer Prize, he should get a Nobel Prize for peace
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Well, I'll tell you one thing that I didn't realize that he had the Pulitzer either because
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I was just going by the song that he was, that we were playing.
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I'm not really surprised that he's not in the Rock Hall of Fame yet.
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I mean, sadly, I'd like to say that that's not true, but I don't know that it is.
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No, I mean, we stumbled into an interesting fact the other day on Pat Gray Unleashed,
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my show that immediately follows this on the Blaze Radio and TV network.
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But we were talking about Johnny Cash for some reason.
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An actual rock band has actually sold 80 million albums.
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If I remember correctly, Johnny Cash has sold like 90 million.
01:24:01.400
Eric, you're on the Glenn Beck program with Pat and Jeffy.
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Hey, first-time caller, and I wanted to make a comment on the Boy Scouts.
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But it breaks my heart to see the values of our nation that dwindle away.
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And here's an organization that's been around for, you know, a hundred years.
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And now it's a lot of people that we've lost our way, and we're stumbling.
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And they've made some really amazing decisions in the last few years that I never believed the Boy Scouts of America would make.
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And I think that's one of the biggest reasons that you saw all the churches pull out of the Boy Scouts.
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And now to see, you know, administering condoms at a worldwide jamboree.
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I know the motto is be prepared, but that's taken it a little too far.
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That's one thing that the Boy Scouts shouldn't be prepared for because it shouldn't be happening on a World Scouting campout.
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But here's the interesting aspect is, I mean, aren't you going out in the wilderness somewhere and camping?
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They've allowed the Boy Scouts are no longer the Boy Scouts.
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The boys and the girls are not together when you look at the facts.
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Boy Scouts changed their name with girls soon to join their ranks.
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The Boy Scouts of America flagship program has been known simply as the Boy Scouts.
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With girls soon entering the ranks, the group says that name will change.
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Organization on Wednesday announced that the Boy Scouts, the program for 11 to 17 year olds,
01:27:06.320
Scouts B.S.A. seems to be a different name than Boy Scouts.
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But again, you know, it's disappointing because the Boy Scouts stood for traditional values.
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And it seems that in the last 15 years or so, they threw those traditional values out the window.
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Because my sons, two of my sons, were very close to their Eagle Scout.
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And they're Eagle Project away from Eagle Scouts.
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This Kendrick Lamar rap concert story gets more agonizing with each passing second.
01:28:21.840
I was just reading some of the tweets about it.
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The wisdom being imparted on Twitter cannot be overstated.
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Then, as I scroll down to somebody who calls themselves Jason L on Twitter.
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He says, apparently, y'all haven't seen these videos that pop up every time he pulls a white
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First time I've seen this reaction, just saying.
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So, he wants it to happen so he can make a statement every single time.
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If, but if, okay, the claim is now on the N-word that the N-word has been taken back and
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The situation with this word has gotten so ludicrous.
01:29:55.180
I would like to see the other videos on this that I've apparently missed where this keeps
01:30:01.880
Uh, Charlie in Mississippi, you're on the Glenn Beck program with Pat and Jeffy.
01:30:07.440
They, uh, just wanted to set some, some records straight on the Boy Scouts America transition.
01:30:13.660
Um, so when this thing was, was created, when this whole drive to, to move to the, the segregation
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of boys and girls and, and, and the evolution of things that have happened over the course
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So this is the real reason why this is happening.
01:30:31.240
So number one, when, uh, this, this emerging, um, boys and girls come together, they are
01:30:40.960
So if there's a group of, uh, females that want to participate in the boy, the Boy Scouts,
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they would have the option of doing that, but it would be in their own separate group.
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They're, they're, they're not camping together.
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Well, they, they, they, they do project, they could do projects together, but they come
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And the things that, that, that's really missing from this in 2018, if you think of all the
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pressure from the media and all the social pressure from these activists and whatnot, think
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of the crushing weight on, on the Boy Scouts of America by these, these left wing, either
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media groups or activists to, to participate in inclusion.
01:31:31.880
Think about on a, uh, a call standpoint, if, if the Boy Scouts of America did not take this
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position and I, I promise you, this was not their intention, but it was the, they were
01:31:47.640
They had no other option other than fighting this, this momentum with throwing dollars and
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dollars and eventually would, would crush the Boy Scouts of America.
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And that's the problem that we face is, you know, it wasn't that they wanted to do it.
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And then you coupled that with the fact of, you know, when the Girl Scouts was created,
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it was founded upon the, the, the premise that males went to the workforce and females
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And, and so the Girl Scouts was kind of a glorified home economics class, right?
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So you, you did these treats, you learn how to take care of laundry and cook and sell cookies.
01:32:27.600
But now in 2018, you know, there's dual income earners, right?
01:32:32.540
So if you are a female in, in say you're a senior, what is, what is one of the one, number
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one things you can have on your college resume is an Eagle Scout.
01:32:44.560
Well, there was not, there was not, there was not a path for those females to, to have
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So, you know, once again, I think it's, I think it's the evolution of, of society coupled
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that with the, the crushing weight of these, these activist groups and everything in between.
01:33:07.780
I don't think it's, I think honestly, I've never said, I'm not saying that the Boy Scouts
01:33:14.140
I'm saying they've caved in to all of these things.
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I mean, we're all under pressure every single day.
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Uh, there are special interest groups that are hammering on virtually everybody, but don't
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you, if you have integrity, don't you hold out?
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If you believe in certain principles, don't you hold out?
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What if your daughter came to you and said she wanted to be Eagle Scout?
01:33:46.580
Well, I'd say, well, uh, there's not a mechanism for that to do something else.
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I mean, there's plenty of other things you can do besides being an Eagle Scout.
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Now, if somebody wants to create something similar for girls, create something similar
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The fact that they don't do what the boys do, isn't the fault of the Boy Scouts.
01:34:13.160
If they're such a clamor for girls wanting to be Eagle Scouts, create it.
01:34:18.920
The Boy Scouts are under no obligation to do that.
01:34:23.280
Well, which is really what he's saying is that the Boy Scouts did.
01:34:28.100
Well, no, they just caved in to the pressure and, and just decided to, uh, make it a boys
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and girls organization, which, you know, whatever, but there are groups that aren't going to
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And so, you know, if you're going to change your principles after 108 years, there's going
01:34:49.420
You're a, you're a Boy Scout fan and there's a lot of Boy Scout fans.
01:35:02.820
Uh, you know, society is under pressure and that's why you're seeing all the cracks in
01:35:11.520
Um, I mean, we're all under pressure, not to say certain things, not to do certain things,
01:35:18.260
You got to change your religious points of view, uh, or be persecuted for it.
01:35:29.820
I mean, that's our problem is that because of the pressure, everybody caves, you don't
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have to, you don't have to, it's just easier to cave.
01:35:40.540
It's just easier to say, yeah, there's, eh, there's too much going on now.
01:35:50.040
Well, that's not what, that's not the way it was set up.
01:35:52.420
And, and girls could create their own thing because up until recently, girls weren't part
01:36:08.020
Maybe they should have, it would have been a different organization though.
01:36:11.340
But if they, you know, if, if they would have said that at the beginning, all boys, all
01:36:20.120
You just, I mean, girl scouts should have accommodated girls if they want to be Eagle
01:36:30.440
Well, I know that, but it's not their obligation to make it okay for the girl scouts.
01:36:40.620
Uh, the umbrella organization over come scouts and scouts, uh, retains its name.
01:37:00.540
They're handing out condoms at their world event.
01:37:10.620
Well, who are they going to have sex with if the girls aren't there?
01:37:19.440
So, because you changed your policy on homosexuality.
01:37:34.860
If you're handing it out, it's like, okay, we know you're going to do something.
01:38:01.320
And that's, you know, that's why they've, they've run into the, uh, situations they've
01:38:11.100
John Stemberger, president of the Florida family policy council wrote.
01:38:16.480
It's not clear how far down the rabbit hole, the boy scouts will continue to fall.
01:38:24.540
They're going to go all the way to the bottom of the rabbit hole.
01:38:34.320
More Pat and Jeffy coming up for Glenn on the Glenn Beck program.
01:38:42.380
According to a Democrat from Texas, Al Green, if Americans give the house of representatives
01:38:50.920
back to Democrats this November, one of the first things that will happen is the impeachment
01:39:02.820
Cause I don't think they're going to win running.
01:39:15.940
There will be articles of impeachment brought against Trump.
01:39:18.540
Green said, here's a point that I think is salient and one that ought to be referenced.
01:39:23.060
Every member of the house is accorded the opportunity.
01:39:27.040
I think he means afforded the opportunity, but, uh, to bring up impeachment, this is not
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something the constitution has bestowed upon leadership.
01:39:34.560
It's something every member has the right and privilege of doing and they fully intended
01:39:44.220
President Trump's been tweeting that out as well.
01:39:47.380
If the Democrats get, get, uh, control of the house, look for impeachment.
01:39:54.680
I, you know, I don't think that they can win on that.
01:39:58.860
You know, I don't know what Netflix has to do to make me go away, but they're trying.
01:40:08.040
It takes to get me to go away from them, but they're trying.
01:40:13.700
They've got Jane Fonda doing a show and now they've just signed this multi-year deal.
01:40:20.200
She's with, I can't remember the name of it now.
01:40:33.940
The Obamas have just signed a multi-year deal to make shows and movies for Netflix.
01:40:45.040
Since when are the Obamas entertainment specialists?
01:40:56.200
Again, I don't know what the content is going to be produced by higher ground productions.
01:41:06.920
Yeah, TV shows and movies produced by Barack and Michelle Obama.
01:41:28.540
Again, I don't know what Netflix has to do to make me go away because I do enjoy some of
01:41:33.420
their, you know, a lot of their original content, very much, and they're spending a boatload
01:41:48.420
I did not make it all the way through the Letterman-Obama interview.
01:41:53.680
And don't make me, don't make me have to pass by Obama stuff every day, please.
01:42:01.380
Just Letterman's look is enough to avoid that show.
01:42:10.020
I still have a soft place in my heart for Dave.
01:42:19.520
That interview with Jay-Z was kind of agonizing.
01:42:24.460
As they sit down, Jay-Z brought up something about the housekeepers and the nannies.
01:42:30.960
And Jay-Z's like, oh, we're not supposed to talk about the help, Dave.
01:42:39.240
I liked when he was talking with Jerry Seinfeld.
01:42:57.560
Because, you know, you have the Sunmaid company.
01:43:04.920
And you're going to go with the Sunmaid people.
01:43:06.780
Well, I just think it's interesting that after 80 years, Sunmaid finally went, hey, why don't we put some chocolate on it?
01:43:13.920
Like, imagine not thinking of that for 80 years.
01:43:25.360
And Letterman's trying to goad him into bashing Trump.