The Glenn Beck Program - Remember Our Unity ｜ Guests： Garrett Graff & Tristan Harris ｜ 9⧸11⧸20

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00:01:18.200 what you're about to hear is the fusion of entertainment and enlightenment this is the glenn beck program

00:01:30.660 letting people live

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00:02:00.360 956, did you understand that transmission?

00:02:02.360 Yeah, that transmission, he said it was unreasonable.

00:02:04.360 It sounded like someone said they have a bomb on board.

00:02:06.360 Sir, did you hear the signs?

00:02:08.360 The air probably just said he had a bomb on board.

00:02:10.360 He said there was a bomb on board.

00:02:12.360 That's what we thought.

00:02:14.360 We just didn't get it clear.

00:02:16.360 That aircraft, he can't get a hold of it.

00:02:18.360 Has he turned to the east now?

00:02:20.360 He's just turned to the east also.

00:02:22.360 956, we had a visual on him at standby.

00:02:24.360 Do you have a visual on him now?

00:02:26.360 We did, but we lost him at the turn.

00:02:28.360 Turn back to 220 heading, let me know if you can see him.

00:02:30.360 We're making the term at 90.

00:02:32.360 Thank you.

00:02:38.360 Okay, American 1060, Executive 956.

00:02:40.360 We just lost the target on that aircraft.

00:02:46.360 Man, Z100 852.

00:02:48.360 Something weird is going on.

00:02:50.360 The World Trade Center is on fire.

00:02:52.360 Oh my goodness. Seriously, the top of the building.

00:02:54.360 We're trying to get information.

00:02:56.360 The top level of one of the...

00:02:58.360 ...news to unfold from New York City.

00:03:00.360 A plane crashed.

00:03:02.360 Just...

00:03:03.360 My sister's in that building. 0.74

00:03:04.360 Okay.

00:03:05.360 And I hope she's okay, and I gotta run to New York.

00:03:07.360 Oh my gosh, complete pandemonium!

00:03:09.360 First of all, calm down, where...

00:03:10.360 There's raining papers and...

00:03:12.360 Everything.

00:03:13.360 There's a huge explosion.

00:03:14.360 People are jumping out the windows.

00:03:15.360 Over there, they're jumping out the windows.

00:03:16.360 I guess...

00:03:17.360 The second plane has now flown in...

00:03:19.360 Wait, explosion at the Pentagon?

00:03:20.360 The third location is on fire.

00:03:21.360 And outside of...

00:03:22.360 I don't have words to describe what I'm witnessing right now.

00:03:23.360 Effective immediately until further notice.

00:03:25.360 Flight operator is on fire.

00:03:27.360 And you're getting it.

00:03:28.360 There's a huge explosion.

00:03:29.360 The second plane is now flown in...

00:03:30.360 Wait, explosion at the Pentagon?

00:03:31.360 The third location is on fire.

00:03:32.360 And outside of...

00:03:34.360 I don't have words to describe what I'm witnessing right now.

00:03:36.360 Effective immediately until further notice.

00:03:38.360 A second plane has now flown in.

00:03:42.620 Wait, explosion at the Pentagon?

00:03:43.680 The third location is on the air.

00:03:45.820 I don't have words to describe what I'm witnessing right now.

00:03:50.540 Effective immediately until further notice.

00:03:52.920 Flight operations in the National Airspace System by United States civil aircraft and foreign civil and military aircraft are prohibited.

00:04:01.440 Freedom itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward.

00:04:06.020 And freedom will be defended.

00:04:08.360 Oh, God. Oh, my God.

00:04:12.620 One of the World Trade Towers has collapsed and fallen.

00:04:16.520 The whole freaking evening.

00:04:18.240 What's happening?

00:04:20.200 I got no code.

00:04:23.140 Let's go.

00:04:24.500 Let's go.

00:04:25.460 Let's go.

00:04:26.300 Oh, no.

00:04:34.100 I've never seen anything like this.

00:04:36.440 I've got five patients.

00:04:43.320 They need to...

00:04:43.880 We've got an ambulance full of cops and, uh, pedestrians.

00:04:46.400 We just collapsed.

00:04:47.840 We got another tower that just came down.

00:04:51.960 Let's go.

00:04:52.540 Let's go.

00:04:52.700 Let's go.

00:04:53.480 Let's go.

00:04:54.080 Let's go.

00:04:54.700 Let's go.

00:04:55.000 Get all the cops away from the building.

00:04:56.420 Let's go.

00:04:56.720 Let's go.

00:04:57.200 Let's go.

00:04:57.260 Let's go.

00:04:57.720 Let's go.

00:04:58.260 Let's go.

00:04:58.720 Let's go.

00:04:59.260 We're not going to be stopped.

00:05:13.980 We're not going to be deterred.

00:05:16.100 We're not going to stay at home.

00:05:17.980 We're not going to be frightened.

00:05:19.320 We're going to live our lives as Americans.

00:05:22.200 We're all brothers.

00:05:28.580 We've all got to stick together.

00:05:38.620 Oh, my God.

00:05:40.100 Look at the skyline without the towers.

00:05:41.640 Let's go.

00:05:42.180 Let's go.

00:05:42.680 Let's go.

00:05:43.180 Let's go.

00:05:43.680 Let's go.

00:05:43.720 Let's go.

00:05:44.240 Let's go.

00:05:44.780 Let's go.

00:05:45.320 It is Tuesday, September 11th, 2001.

00:05:53.060 This is Glenn Beck.

00:05:57.060 Dateline, New York.

00:05:59.840 In one of the most audacious attacks ever, terrorists hijacked two airliners, crash them

00:06:07.440 into the World Trade Center in a coordinated series of blows today that brought down the

00:06:14.880 twin 110-story towers.

00:06:18.980 Thousands may be dead.

00:06:21.320 58,000 people work at the World Trade Center.

00:06:26.160 Sean, it's me.

00:06:27.240 I just wanted to let you know I love you.

00:06:29.200 And I'm stuck in this building.

00:06:31.000 I'm playing at the building where mom went off.

00:06:33.140 I don't know.

00:06:33.720 But there's lots of smoke.

00:06:34.980 And we just wanted you to know that I love you.

00:06:36.940 One plane, United Flight 93, crashed north of Somerset County Airport, a small airport

00:06:49.140 80 miles southeast of Pittsburgh.

00:06:52.580 United sent that flight.

00:06:55.940 Boeing 757 left Newark at 8.01.

00:07:00.880 And in for San Francisco with 38.

00:07:02.520 And as a fight for freedom, we'll prevail.

00:07:05.760 For everything we have to fear, we will not turn.

00:07:09.660 It is as old as the scriptures.

00:07:10.880 We will not falter.

00:07:12.060 And it is as clear.

00:07:12.960 And we will not fail.

00:07:14.080 It is the American Constitution.

00:07:15.920 That is the news of this day.

00:07:20.680 September 11th, 2001.

00:07:28.360 It is September 11th.

00:07:58.340 September 11th, 2020.

00:08:01.900 It has been 19 years.

00:08:04.700 And what a slog it has been.

00:08:07.540 How much has changed.

00:08:09.680 From having to stand in line at airports, which we never did.

00:08:17.820 Taking our shoes off.

00:08:22.380 All of the crazy things.

00:08:24.280 All of the men and women lost.

00:08:26.700 All of the treasure that was lost in this war that doesn't seem to end.

00:08:31.700 The fighting back and forth from the left and the right to where we don't even know who we are anymore.

00:08:47.760 Americans came together on 9-11.

00:08:52.060 And it didn't matter who you were.

00:08:55.500 It didn't matter who you voted for.

00:08:57.540 All of a sudden, we were united.

00:09:00.240 Because we believed in something.

00:09:03.420 We believed in something elusive.

00:09:07.160 Something.

00:09:09.620 Something that we had taken for granted.

00:09:11.940 Up until that day.

00:09:15.400 And that is.

00:09:17.060 Who we are.

00:09:18.200 And what we are.

00:09:20.080 And what we stand for.

00:09:21.260 Now in our streets.

00:09:29.900 Police chiefs are retiring.

00:09:32.200 The Detroit police chief.

00:09:35.100 Said Detroit's in total anarchy.

00:09:40.180 Because leadership is folding.

00:09:43.100 To protest pressure.

00:09:45.260 China is talking about today.

00:09:52.320 Cutting our access to drugs.

00:09:57.360 I don't know.

00:09:58.300 That's probably more important to talk about and work on than.

00:10:02.340 Arguing back and forth.

00:10:06.180 We knew.

00:10:07.520 How close we were.

00:10:09.740 And we've all been surprised.

00:10:11.800 On how resilient.

00:10:13.820 The economy.

00:10:14.440 And this nation.

00:10:15.720 Has been.

00:10:17.040 Why?

00:10:18.920 Because of its people.

00:10:27.860 I had a friend in my home last night.

00:10:33.320 He's probably 60.

00:10:38.960 He's worked his whole life.

00:10:40.280 He's.

00:10:41.720 He's tried to be fair.

00:10:43.080 He's tried to be honest.

00:10:44.960 He was wiped out.

00:10:46.220 He was wiped out in 2008.

00:10:48.600 But he didn't declare bankruptcy.

00:10:50.680 He instead.

00:10:51.560 Took 10 years to pay it all off.

00:10:53.640 Because of his integrity.

00:10:58.600 He's a hard.

00:11:00.000 Hard.

00:11:00.580 Working man.

00:11:03.100 And he said.

00:11:03.960 Now just as I was starting to get back on my feet.

00:11:06.520 Now this has happened.

00:11:07.440 And it's wiped me out.

00:11:08.460 And he said.

00:11:08.980 Glenn.

00:11:09.300 I.

00:11:09.380 I don't know what to do.

00:11:11.320 I feel like I've been cheated.

00:11:14.260 My whole life.

00:11:17.080 I heard him.

00:11:19.360 And I heard so many Americans.

00:11:23.940 Through him.

00:11:25.060 We've played by the rules.

00:11:29.960 We've believed in something.

00:11:32.100 And now that something is being taken away.

00:11:38.220 Headline today.

00:11:39.060 Has America's second civil war already started?

00:11:41.860 Headline today.

00:11:48.140 September 11th.

00:11:49.100 Series of wildfires may be coordinated and planned.

00:11:52.640 Headline today.

00:11:58.760 The Transition Integrity Project.

00:12:03.420 Which is a group.

00:12:05.940 That recently war gamed potential outcomes of the 2020 election and transition.

00:12:12.000 and outlying various ways to oust Donald Trump including declaring him mentally unfit and carrying out a mentally, mentally, a military coup.

00:12:24.360 The woman who, the woman who, the woman who was part of that military coup, that dreamt that up, that actually tried to sell it in 2016,

00:12:44.480 is the co-founder of the Transition Integrity Project.

00:12:51.320 The ones that are trying to save us now.

00:12:54.360 Because of the right-wing extremists that are going to steal the election.

00:13:07.000 She said, unless there's a Biden-Harris landslide, there will be violence in the streets and we'll be at a constitutional impasse.

00:13:24.360 A letter was written to America this week.

00:13:30.700 I want you to listen to the words.

00:13:33.100 She warned America

00:13:34.180 that we're at the very edge of a precipice.

00:13:38.780 America, you're at the very edge of the precipice.

00:13:47.520 Please wake up.

00:13:48.780 Take hold.

00:13:50.060 Fight for your country.

00:13:51.300 Be proud of your roots.

00:13:52.920 Uphold your values, she wrote.

00:13:56.200 Stand for your flag and your anthem.

00:13:58.940 Defend your history.

00:14:00.160 Don't relent in the face of those who seek to rewrite your history and serve their narrative and justify the destruction of your nation.

00:14:09.000 You have so much to cherish and protect for your sake and ours.

00:14:15.340 She doesn't live in America. 0.98

00:14:32.920 She lives in Switzerland now.

00:14:35.120 She says she's an American at heart.

00:14:37.500 She had a U.S. flag in her childhood bedroom.

00:14:40.240 She spent a lot of time in America.

00:14:46.780 She said you look at all the terrorist attacks that have happened in Europe over the past 19 years.

00:14:52.660 They've shaken Europe to the core.

00:14:57.320 Our society has been completely infiltrated.

00:15:01.040 And in the U.S., we're watching you from afar, seeing that the far left that has aligned itself completely with the people that share the ideology of the people who brought down the World Trade Center.

00:15:19.000 It's vital for our future, not only of America, but the Western civilization as whole.

00:15:31.740 The woman who wrote that, the woman who is an American at heart, who's warning us, is Osama bin Laden's sister. 0.58

00:15:51.600 Osama bin Laden's sister, who has never been with Osama bin Laden, is warning us to wake up.

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00:16:21.620 She's so tough.

00:16:22.400 She survived being hit by a car while she was out walking a year ago.

00:16:25.560 She was injured, especially in her lower back and legs.

00:16:28.380 But she survived.

00:16:29.580 Tough lady. 1.00

00:16:30.380 She's a Texan. 0.99

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00:18:49.980 I want to give you some perspective on something that happened as the Chiefs and the Houston

00:19:07.800 Texans locked arms in solidarity for social justice.

00:19:12.880 Do we have the audio from this?

00:19:14.940 It surprised a lot of people, and boy, oh boy, the networks are very upset at the people

00:19:25.520 that were in the stands.

00:19:27.880 It was the NFL kickoff between Kansas City and Houston, and they locked arms in unity as

00:19:36.940 part of the protest against racism.

00:19:39.740 And here's what happened.

00:19:42.720 Ladies and gentlemen, please join us in a moment of silence dedicated to the ongoing fight

00:19:48.140 for equality in our country.

00:19:49.860 Okay, everybody's silent.

00:20:01.080 Everybody's respectful.

00:20:03.080 It's good.

00:20:09.500 Everybody's locking arms.

00:20:10.960 Thank you.

00:20:28.680 Now, they did the national anthem, Lift Every Voice and Sing, which is a great song written

00:20:35.260 by a Republican, by the way, written by a Republican.

00:20:40.740 It's known as the Black National Anthem.

00:20:43.000 It's a great, great song.

00:20:45.840 But as a friend of mine said, and Stu, you may be able to verify this.

00:20:52.100 My friend said that his wife had sworn off the NFL, said, I'm not going to watch football

00:20:58.640 anymore.

00:20:59.160 She's a big Dallas Cowboy fan.

00:21:00.380 He said, you're going to be watching it.

00:21:01.480 She said, no, I'm not.

00:21:02.160 And she hasn't joined in, you know, but he said he watched the NFL.

00:21:08.120 He said, 40 minutes in, I had to turn it off.

00:21:10.640 He said, because it wasn't football, it was a lecture.

00:21:12.860 He said it was all about, now this is the game I think that was played over the weekend.

00:21:17.260 No, last night.

00:21:18.520 Okay, well, he told me this yesterday afternoon.

00:21:20.560 So, he saw maybe a preseason.

00:21:22.860 There was no preseason this year.

00:21:24.180 So, maybe he was watching college.

00:21:25.360 Maybe college.

00:21:26.060 I don't know.

00:21:26.420 He said, but it was a nonstop lecture.

00:21:29.160 Yeah, I mean, I actually, now I've watched the NBA and Major League Baseball as well.

00:21:34.160 I mean, the NFL was much better, I think, than those other sports.

00:21:38.200 They, you know, there was one person on the Chiefs that took a knee for the anthem.

00:21:43.220 I mean, you listen to that, that was kind of promoted as like, well, they're booing the

00:21:46.440 moment of unity.

00:21:47.660 Like, it seemed like they were booing the moment, the people who, the few people who were kind

00:21:51.940 of like yelling in the middle of the moment of silence is what it sounded like to me.

00:21:54.880 I mean, I don't know.

00:21:55.600 No, I think there were some people probably that were booing, you know, the general Black

00:22:00.900 Lives Matter, you know.

00:22:02.840 Possibly, yeah.

00:22:03.440 All of that, all of that stuff.

00:22:05.420 I mean, I came up with a great solution to this problem, though.

00:22:08.500 Yeah.

00:22:08.720 Start about 20 minutes late.

00:22:10.740 And then when they start going, let's go ask Bob Tomlin about his opinion about racism.

00:22:15.920 You just go, bloop, bloop, bloop.

00:22:17.260 And then it's over and you don't see any of it.

00:22:19.300 I found it to be a good solution.

00:22:21.040 I find it interesting that you don't see soccer doing this.

00:22:23.840 Hockey is standing up against it.

00:22:25.920 No, they don't seem to be getting real backlash.

00:22:28.680 They're destroying our tradition of football, basketball, and baseball.

00:22:34.980 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:22:36.240 That's what this is all about.

00:22:39.580 All right.

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00:23:50.900 Tonight on Glenn TV, it's going to be a really interesting show, but we are going to interrupt

00:23:54.040 it every five seconds with another message about social justice.

00:23:57.140 It's at BlazeTV.com slash Glenn.

00:24:04.080 This is the Glenn Beck program.

00:24:06.160 I want to make a small correction.

00:24:08.440 Earlier, I was telling you about the words of Osama bin Laden's, I said, sister, it's 0.68

00:24:13.280 actually niece.

00:24:14.360 She wrote an open letter to America.

00:24:17.600 And I want to read more of it because I find this amazing.

00:24:23.180 Now, this is Osama bin Laden's niece.

00:24:25.620 The bin Laden family, you know, they are very successful. 0.64

00:24:31.420 Bin Laden, Osama bin Laden was really the black sheep of the family. 0.84

00:24:35.200 Um, I don't know if I would still carry around the bin Laden name, uh, myself, but that's 0.99

00:24:42.540 such a Western perspective.

00:24:44.680 But she's written this letter and she lives in Switzerland.

00:24:48.040 She is known in Switzerland as somebody who wears a MAGA hat all the time.

00:24:53.660 So she's wearing really, yeah.

00:24:56.940 This letter says in full with president Trump at America's helm, she stands a chance of restoring

00:25:04.580 her principles, pride, independence, and true place in the world as a beacon for liberty and

00:25:09.920 hope for all.

00:25:10.680 To me, this is what makes America great again.

00:25:14.540 Looking back at your country's foundation and preserving what truly made it great, but

00:25:20.420 also knowing that the best is yet to come.

00:25:23.160 All of the achievements will be torpedoed with a bin Laden Harris presidency and the dream 1.00

00:25:30.340 of America's enemies to see her weak and on her knees will be fulfilled. 0.83

00:25:34.860 Probably a Biden Harris, uh, presidency, right?

00:25:37.640 A lot of Harris.

00:25:38.880 Yeah.

00:25:39.220 Yeah.

00:25:39.500 Sorry.

00:25:39.840 Yeah.

00:25:40.000 Yeah.

00:25:40.180 Biden Harris.

00:25:41.280 Uh, she said, stand for your flag and your anthem, defend your fist, your history.

00:25:45.940 Don't relent in the face of those who seek to rewrite it and serve their narrative and

00:25:49.960 justify the destruction of your nation.

00:25:52.120 You have so much to cherish and protect for your sake and ours.

00:25:57.240 She said, Trump has made the world a safer place since taking office.

00:26:01.440 I'm quoting to name a few achievements.

00:26:03.840 He stood up to China. 0.94

00:26:05.200 He's kept us out of new wars, made Europe comply with their NATO requirements, solidified

00:26:11.260 ties with Israel, overturned the disastrous Iran deal, obliterated ISIS, took down other

00:26:18.640 key terrorists and facilitated a historic peace deal between Israel and the UAE.

00:26:24.660 Now, if anybody in the media would ever report this story, they'd say, yeah, well, look, of

00:26:29.440 course, Osama bin Laden's niece, his family is all for Donald Trump. 0.84

00:26:34.280 What is she saying here?

00:26:36.720 She's saying obliterated ISIS, got out of the Iran deal, has ties with Israel, made historic

00:26:44.040 peace with Israel.

00:26:46.200 And that doesn't sound like her brother at all.

00:26:49.760 I mean, her uncle.

00:26:51.100 She said his administration has also made Christian persecution worldwide a top priority with the

00:26:57.200 State Department instituting the ministerial to advance religious freedom, the first of

00:27:03.580 its kind.

00:27:05.520 Trump shows that he protects America and us in Europe by extension from foreign threats

00:27:11.460 by obliterating the terrorists at the root before they get a chance to strike.

00:27:17.320 Wow.

00:27:18.100 I mean, it's amazing.

00:27:18.720 That could have come from Kayleigh McEnany.

00:27:20.260 Yeah.

00:27:21.640 It's bin Laden's niece.

00:27:24.480 Yeah.

00:27:24.820 Amazing.

00:27:25.560 Yeah.

00:27:25.920 It's really amazing.

00:27:27.140 And I honestly, I want to try to reach out to, you know, liberals and Democrats, not

00:27:36.580 progressive Marxists, but liberals, people who believe in the Constitution.

00:27:42.620 They just may believe in a bigger welfare state than, you know, a typical conservative, somebody

00:27:49.680 that feels the country is in trouble and you don't like Donald Trump.

00:27:54.520 I get it.

00:27:54.980 I get it.

00:27:55.800 And even if we vote differently, I get it.

00:27:59.460 But we have to have conversations with liberals and with Democrats and just say, how are we missing

00:28:09.900 each other on this one?

00:28:11.280 How are we, because the, the, the country is, is being sold down the river.

00:28:17.940 I can't believe it's only conservatives that still believe in the flag and the military.

00:28:26.040 Did you hear what happened in California?

00:28:29.060 In California, I think this is, this is who we are.

00:28:32.980 Three hundred campers were out in one of the state parks and they were trapped by the fire

00:28:41.900 and the California fire said, there's no hope.

00:28:46.380 We can't get in.

00:28:47.460 It's way too dangerous.

00:28:49.480 There's no way for us to rescue you guys.

00:28:52.340 Three hundred, three hundred campers.

00:28:54.280 And they said, jump in the lake to survive.

00:28:57.740 You've got to just go into the lake, put your head underwater.

00:29:00.860 It's the only way you guys are going to make it.

00:29:03.800 Well, then army pilots found out about it.

00:29:06.900 And so the U.S. military said, we'll go in.

00:29:11.140 California fire said it was too dangerous.

00:29:13.980 The, the military crews go in.

00:29:17.460 There was zero visibility in the canyon.

00:29:22.500 Zero visibility.

00:29:25.000 The, uh, the overload with people on these helicopters was also really, really dangerous.

00:29:32.760 Are people going to overload it?

00:29:34.040 Is it going to crash?

00:29:34.900 And the, none of it happened.

00:29:37.160 They went in with zero visibility.

00:29:40.380 They went to the lake and they rescued 300 people.

00:29:44.400 They went in and then they got survivors and went out and then went back in again, got more survivors and got out.

00:29:53.140 This is who we are.

00:29:55.800 We are people that we don't care.

00:29:58.380 They didn't card people.

00:29:59.520 Who are you voting for?

00:30:01.280 They didn't care.

00:30:03.240 We're Americans.

00:30:05.080 And we have such little pride right now that we're not even talking about the heroes like these guys.

00:30:12.720 Absolute heroes.

00:30:14.400 That remembered we're all Americans and Americans don't leave Americans behind.

00:30:21.580 We don't say, oh, it's too dangerous.

00:30:24.480 I don't, I don't hold this against the fire, you know, the California fire because they don't have military experience and helos like the federal government does.

00:30:35.560 So I'm not saying anything bad.

00:30:36.920 I'm not calling the firefighters anything bad.

00:30:39.160 I'm just saying we do things in America.

00:30:43.160 We do things.

00:30:44.160 We've spent a lot of time, a lot of money, and we have a lot of, we've, we've shed a lot of blood to be able to do amazing things.

00:30:52.440 Can we step and just recognize it for a minute?

00:30:55.360 That's a great idea.

00:31:00.020 I mean, I kept coming back to that thought today.

00:31:01.840 As, as we sit here on 9-11 and the 19th anniversary, all this anti-cop stuff we've been taking in lately is it puts, kind of puts you in a different place on that, doesn't it?

00:31:12.800 And obviously I think this audience is, you know, generally pro-police and doesn't put up with that nonsense, but it's been so commonplace over the past few months to just basically say all cops are bad, all cops, A-C-A-B.

00:31:24.640 And you know what?

00:31:25.360 And that's not what that stands for.

00:31:26.640 We made the other, we, we went too far the other way on September 11th.

00:31:32.140 We said all cops are good.

00:31:33.800 No, not all cops are good.

00:31:35.960 Not all cops are bad.

00:31:38.100 Cops, military, everything.

00:31:41.500 It's a section of society.

00:31:45.180 All cops are us.

00:31:47.400 They're us.

00:31:48.560 Some are good.

00:31:49.200 Some are bad.

00:31:50.260 You root out the bad ones and you elevate the good ones.

00:31:54.780 We're not doing that anymore.

00:31:55.920 Instead, it's just all cops are bad.

00:31:57.800 All cops.

00:31:58.340 I mean, remember people all over the country were wearing like NYPD t-shirts and hats.

00:32:04.680 Couldn't keep them in stock.

00:32:05.560 Yeah.

00:32:05.760 And now we're told they're just these evil people that basically just show up everywhere and just try to kill minorities.

00:32:14.280 Well, now people are losing their job just for supporting cops online.

00:32:18.140 What?

00:32:18.980 Yeah.

00:32:19.540 Uh, there's been a couple of professors who have said good things about, uh, police officers.

00:32:25.500 You got fired for it.

00:32:27.000 Well, wow.

00:32:29.500 It's, have we come that far that you can't even say anything good about police?

00:32:35.160 You can't, uh, I remember the, the 4th of July celebrations that, that, uh, people were pissed off about.

00:32:41.680 You can't celebrate the nation anymore.

00:32:44.200 Uh, it's no, no, no.

00:32:46.720 I'm saying no.

00:32:47.760 Yet.

00:32:47.940 I know you believe this too.

00:32:49.240 No, not on my watch.

00:32:50.560 Right.

00:32:51.000 Not on my watch.

00:32:52.280 And it's look next week.

00:32:56.080 We are going to tell you an outline how America could very well be in civil war by Christmas.

00:33:02.700 Uh, it is being plotted and planned and either side could start it the crazy right wing, uh, groups, which I think there's maybe 12 members of, um, but they are, they are just as interested in destroying America.

00:33:20.940 I mean, Richard Spencer is a socialist, so he is just as in, uh, motivated to destroy America as the far left is.

00:33:32.700 So, uh, there are all kinds of people and all it needs is just a little shove, but we have got to find the people who we don't agree with that we can actually talk to and say, we've got to keep our heads.

00:33:51.280 We've got to keep our heads and remember who we are.

00:33:55.440 Eric Weinstein, you know who he is, right?

00:33:58.280 He's the lefty professor up in Oregon that was, I mean, he's as left as they come.

00:34:05.240 He tweeted after the fire, uh, story.

00:34:08.400 He tweeted, I miss heroic official behavior.

00:34:12.040 I miss heroic official behavior.

00:34:16.740 I also miss rule breaking for the greater good.

00:34:20.900 Can you imagine being an abandoned abandoned in a lake and seeing a chopper with an American flag coming to pick you up, highlight, uh, piloted by actual Americans who remember what the hell that even means rather than whatever it is.

00:34:41.640 That's tearing us apart.

00:34:46.120 That should be our goal.

00:34:47.560 I, I, I call on you to reflect on the last 19 years and where we were and who we were and what we knew to be true.

00:35:03.160 And then look at what has torn us apart.

00:35:10.320 And are there things with people that you don't vote the same way?

00:35:14.520 Are there neighbors that are just afraid, just as afraid of talking to you as you might be to them because they think you're an extremist that's just going to yell at them or you think they're an extremist is just going to yell at you.

00:35:29.160 Well, some of them might, but we're all feeling how close we are to the edge, reach out to anybody you think, and don't try to win.

00:35:41.320 Just say, we got to keep our heads.

00:35:43.160 I don't care how you vote.

00:35:45.140 We got to keep our heads.

00:35:46.700 Because if it's a fair election, we'll be okay.

00:35:51.960 But the way this is being set up, it is being set up to cause people on both sides to feel like it was unfair.

00:36:04.720 And this will be our undoing.

00:36:07.900 This election will be our undoing if we don't remember who we are.

00:36:13.560 So take today to remember where we were, what we went through, how many lives have been lost to protect this country and to save our principles and our Constitution.

00:36:25.760 The treasure that we have spent and the blood that we have all spent over the last 19 years, it cannot be for naught today.

00:36:35.600 Because we're all pissed and not talking to each other.

00:36:38.400 Remember who you were on September 12th.

00:36:46.000 Remember the 9-12 project.

00:36:49.140 Remember who you were the next day.

00:36:53.200 You were kind.

00:36:54.680 You were generous.

00:36:56.680 We were in it together.

00:36:59.720 Race didn't matter. 0.95

00:37:02.200 Status didn't matter.

00:37:05.160 Religion, politics, none of it mattered.

00:37:08.400 Because in the end, we all realized we're Americans.

00:37:14.200 Find those Americans that still remember what the hell that means.

00:37:24.320 Pat, thanks for joining us.

00:37:27.100 Pat Gray, Unleashed.

00:37:29.100 You can find it wherever you get your podcasts.

00:37:31.520 Podcasts every day.

00:37:33.420 Also on Blaze Radio and TV prior to this program.

00:37:38.820 All right.

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00:38:53.260 You're listening to Glenn Beck.

00:38:59.300 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:39:01.480 Just an update.

00:39:02.400 Facebook has made our point for us.

00:39:06.760 Facebook has demonetized a clip from Wednesday night show on television where we showed you the curriculum that is being pushed in your schools already in 27 states.

00:39:18.560 Could be not in your state, but in your own local independent school district.

00:39:24.120 Just depends on who's running it and who's on the school board.

00:39:27.460 We've been telling you it's pedophilia, that it's horrendous.

00:39:35.600 Well, they demonetized a clip from our show and put a warning to us that it had objectionable visuals and objectionable material.

00:39:49.680 Now, we agree, but we agree with that analysis, yes.

00:39:53.640 Not false, just disturbing stuff.

00:39:59.240 Okay, so wait, then are you taking advertisements, Facebook, for cuties?

00:40:05.080 I'd like to know.

00:40:05.840 If it's so disturbing that we can't talk about it on Facebook, why?

00:40:14.760 Because it's being taught to our kids without our knowledge in schools.

00:40:18.400 So, who's going to find, what are you afraid?

00:40:22.380 Adults might find that?

00:40:23.820 What happened to a consenting adult?

00:40:25.620 Can do whatever they want.

00:40:26.640 Whatever happened to that?

00:40:28.620 Parents would find this objectionable?

00:40:30.640 Damn right.

00:40:31.880 As soon as they find out about it, they do.

00:40:34.500 You're worried about some kids finding it online?

00:40:37.800 Why?

00:40:38.820 The kids know about it if it's being taught in their schools.

00:40:43.500 And Facebook, you're in California, where this has all been adopted.

00:40:49.420 Your censors in California, the people that put these people in office, you find it objectionable?

00:40:57.100 Or is it you just don't want the truth out?

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00:42:02.940 Last year, on September 11th, we had the author of then a new book, The Only Plane in the Sky, Jared Graff.

00:42:12.320 Jared had put together one of the most incredible books.

00:42:16.580 It was all in real time, and it was all quotes from people, be them, you know, people in the military or the government or celebrities or just regular people, police officers, firefighters, and put the day in context of what people were saying at the time.

00:42:36.840 It's really an incredible book on 9-11.

00:42:40.780 Well, we had the conversation about 9-11 and his book last year.

00:42:48.620 I wanted to have him on because he listened to everyone and went through all of the comments on 9-11 and put them in order.

00:43:02.260 Does he see those kinds of uniting comments even possible in today's America?

00:43:12.620 Jared Graff, the author of The Only Plane in the Sky, as we remember today, the 19th anniversary of 9-11.

00:43:23.380 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:43:25.920 I don't know what is wrong with me.

00:43:29.000 I'm sorry.

00:43:29.600 It's Jarrett.

00:43:31.160 Garrett.

00:43:32.000 Gosh.

00:43:32.960 Garrett.

00:43:33.580 Valerie Jarrett on the mind?

00:43:35.280 Perhaps.

00:43:37.020 Give me that.

00:43:38.220 Thank you for that.

00:43:39.300 Thank you.

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00:45:35.740 Garrett Graff, author of The Only Plane in the Sky.

00:45:44.640 Welcome to the 19th anniversary of 9-11, Garrett.

00:45:48.460 Thanks, Glenn.

00:45:50.620 It's always a pleasure to talk to you, even on a somber day like this.

00:45:53.540 Yeah.

00:45:54.960 First of all, your book, as we talked last year, absolutely incredible.

00:46:01.480 Really, truly incredible.

00:46:02.880 The way you, I mean, it's called an oral history of 9-11, but the way you put this together, can you talk about it just a little bit?

00:46:13.300 Yeah, so the book is the voices of 480 Americans as they lived that day, sort of firsthand, from the pilot of Air Force One to firefighters at the World Trade Center,

00:46:31.860 to schoolchildren to, you know, survivors in the tower, survivors at the Pentagon, and even the Navy commander in the White House bunker with Vice President Cheney,

00:46:47.120 who asks for authority that day to shoot down the hijacked airliners.

00:46:51.520 And, you know, we all know the story of 9-11, but I think, you know, this is the 19th anniversary now.

00:47:02.700 We are having people who were born after 9-11 voting in the presidential election this fall for the first time.

00:47:12.540 And so we're seeing this day slip from memory into history.

00:47:18.220 I mean, literally, people voting in this election who will have only read about 9-11 in high school history books.

00:47:25.820 And I fear that the story that we tell about 9-11 as history doesn't capture the day for those of us who lived through it.

00:47:37.520 And so the goal for this book was not to tell sort of the neat and clean and simple history of 9-11,

00:47:45.180 where we talk about it as the first attack began at 846 that morning.

00:47:51.620 There were four planes, the Pentagon, the Twin Towers, Shanksville,

00:47:55.120 and the whole thing was over 102 minutes later at 1029 with the collapse of the second tower.

00:48:01.300 Because, Glenn, as you remember, for those of us who were alive that day, that's not the day any of us experienced.

00:48:09.280 No.

00:48:09.420 You know, we didn't know when the attacks began.

00:48:13.140 We didn't know when they were over.

00:48:15.940 We didn't understand what transpired, even as it transpired.

00:48:21.140 And we didn't know what came next.

00:48:24.240 I mean, part of what you have to understand about that day as history is the fear and the confusion and the chaos and the trauma

00:48:34.860 and the thought of what might come on the afternoon of September 11th, what might come on 9-12,

00:48:43.160 what might come in October, what might come in 2002.

00:48:47.240 And when you look at how our country reacted to that day, we weren't reacting to sort of the facts of 9-11.

00:48:58.180 We were reacting to the emotions of 9-11.

00:49:03.060 And so the goal for this book, the goal with this experience to tell that day through the voices

00:49:10.480 and the experiences of the people who lived it is to capture the emotion of the day, not the facts of the day.

00:49:19.340 If I remember right, one of my favorite guys that is part of the book is the Air Force One pilot

00:49:26.760 who is now taking the president someplace entirely different, and the president doesn't want to go there.

00:49:33.320 Yeah, I mean, that remains one of the most dramatic parts of that day is, you know,

00:49:40.640 President Bush was reading, as we all remember, in that Emma Booker Elementary School classroom that morning,

00:49:48.180 rushed aboard Air Force One.

00:49:50.080 Air Force One races into the sky.

00:49:54.380 And President Bush wants to go back to Washington.

00:49:56.900 You know, he understands that the most important thing he can do as a leader that day is to be back at his desk

00:50:04.700 in the Oval Office reassuring the country that everything is going to be okay.

00:50:09.460 The military doesn't want to bring him back to Washington.

00:50:12.420 There are still, they believe at that point, still dozens of other hijacked airliners that they fear are still in the sky.

00:50:19.520 They don't know what is happening.

00:50:21.480 And so they don't want to bring him back.

00:50:25.420 The Secret Service doesn't want to bring him back.

00:50:28.400 And White House Chief of Staff Andy Card is, you know, on board with the pilot and the president and the Secret Service detail.

00:50:35.260 And they're all having this sort of incredible dance aboard the plane that morning

00:50:40.100 because the president, you know, doesn't want to give a direct order to return to Washington

00:50:46.760 because he's not sure it would be followed.

00:50:49.260 And the Secret Service and the captain of Air Force One, the pilot of Air Force One, Colonel Mark Tillman,

00:50:56.240 you know, they don't know whether they would follow the direct order of the president that morning

00:51:02.000 because their job is to protect him, to keep him alive.

00:51:08.100 And so sort of everyone aboard the plane is very careful to stay sort of just short of the,

00:51:16.300 I order this plane back to Washington.

00:51:19.260 The only thing that I remember as weakness of that day, I mean, we were all freaked out.

00:51:24.920 We didn't know what was going on and we were all afraid.

00:51:29.180 I mean, I don't know if you felt this way, but I felt like we're at war.

00:51:35.440 We don't even know who we're at war with.

00:51:38.480 We could be over.

00:51:40.140 We could be over.

00:51:41.060 If they could pull this off, what else do they have planned?

00:51:43.700 And we could be over quickly.

00:51:45.860 And the only moment that I saw anything that wasn't, that fed into that was President Bush.

00:51:58.920 Do you remember he did that live thing?

00:52:00.920 I think it was like a concrete wall.

00:52:02.640 It looked like he was in a bunker.

00:52:03.880 And you're kind of like, holy mother, we are in trouble.

00:52:07.400 He's underground.

00:52:08.400 He was raised first to Barksdale Air Force Base in Shreveport, Louisiana, then on to Offutt Air Force Base in Omaha, Nebraska.

00:52:21.700 Which, you know, part of remembering this 9-11 story is, you know, we think of 9-11 as part of our modern world.

00:52:30.040 I mean, it is probably as clear a dividing line between the 21st century and the 20th as we have.

00:52:36.320 But, you know, you look at the outfits that day, you look at the technology that day, and that was really the 1990s.

00:52:43.700 And, you know, the White House is trying to manage this with two-way pagers.

00:52:51.600 You know, there are no BlackBerrys at the White House.

00:52:54.280 Oh, my gosh, not even BlackBerrys.

00:52:56.940 You know, there's no email aboard Air Force One.

00:53:00.540 Aboard Air Force One that day, they don't even have cable TV or satellite TV.

00:53:08.240 So they are picking up local TV news stations on a rabbit ears antenna aboard Air Force One.

00:53:16.260 And so as they're flying around the country, they, you know, they pass over a major city and get some TV coverage and then pass away from it.

00:53:26.460 And the TV coverage fades out.

00:53:28.140 And part of the reason that the president ends up in Omaha, Nebraska that day is that's literally the only place outside of Washington in September 2001 where the president could participate in a secure video teleconference.

00:53:43.640 I mean, now the president travels with a briefcase that you can plug into any Ethernet jack anywhere in the world, and it's an instant secure teleconference.

00:53:53.100 And that day, they have to fly him all the way to Omaha to the bunker of the Strategic Air Command to sort of even be able to talk to other government officials.

00:54:05.780 Wow. Wow.

00:54:07.900 So let me just take a quick break for a minute.

00:54:10.540 And when we come back, I want to talk to you about, you know, you said there was a dividing line between the centuries.

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00:54:49.680 And we're we're not all rushing out to buy a flag to put it on our doorway.

00:54:55.700 And we are a vastly different nation 19 years later.

00:55:00.380 And we would be horrified if we could see into the future on that day and said, this is what our country is going to look like in 19 years.

00:55:09.440 We all would have banded together and said, no, no, we're not going there.

00:55:15.020 Is it possible that we can be brought back and and coalesce around things we have mutually in common?

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00:57:26.980 So we have Garrett Graff on with us, and he is the author of the book The Only Plane in the Sky,

00:57:33.620 which is now out, I think, isn't it coming out of paperback this year?

00:57:38.520 It's out in paperback this week.

00:57:40.060 Yeah, it's just a tremendous book.

00:57:43.800 But let's talk about what you call the the grief Americans no longer share.

00:57:51.700 Yeah, so, you know, part of what makes this such a strange and solemn anniversary, the 19th, September 11th, this year in 2020,

00:58:05.940 is this sense that, you know, we are living through another, we hope, once a century unfolding disaster right now.

00:58:16.160 The COVID pandemic has killed, you know, has a death toll, many, many multiples, that of 9-11.

00:58:26.320 It's a national event in the same way that 9-11 was.

00:58:31.300 It's, you know, dominated our news coverage.

00:58:33.560 And yet, our country feels so different today than it did after 9-11, when we came together.

00:58:43.040 And, you know, President Bush's approval rating in the wake of 9-11 reached the highest approval rating a president has ever had.

00:58:51.760 It was like 92 percent.

00:58:53.160 I mean, which, you know, to put that in context, that is, you know, literally double the current president's approval rating.

00:59:00.720 Yeah, no, it's almost dictator-style approval ratings.

00:59:07.000 You'll see, you know, Saddam Hussein, he won with 98 percent of the vote. 0.56

00:59:10.280 And you're like, yeah, of course, everybody had a gun to their head.

00:59:13.580 Yeah.

00:59:15.200 And, you know, that, you know, Democrats were right there with President Bush in the wake of 9-11, you know, as much as everyone.

00:59:22.780 I mean, you know, we all remember President Bush going to Ground Zero that Saturday and speaking with a bullhorn to the firefighters and the rescue workers and the construction workers.

00:59:37.080 And, you know, they shout, you know, we can't hear you over the din at Ground Zero.

00:59:42.680 And he turns around and shouts, well, I can hear you and the whole world is going to hear us soon enough.

00:59:49.600 And that that was that rallying cry, the united we stand belief, the flags, you know, the candlelight vigils, all of that sort of collectivized our grief in a way that we have really only experienced a couple of times in the past.

01:00:04.340 You know, you're a great student of history yourself, and, you know, we have these sort of civic moments in the country, you know, the founding in 1776, you know, the Civil War and the way that that taught us about sort of death and rebirth and sacrifice.

01:00:24.560 And then we had 9-11. And now, 19 years later, we're in the midst of this pandemic that is doing a lot more dividing than it is uniting.

01:00:37.280 Why?

01:00:40.460 Well, I think there are a couple of things that stand out for this this year.

01:00:46.000 The first is, you know, it literally feels different.

01:00:51.580 You know, part of what made part of what allowed us to have the collective grief after 9-11 were those community gatherings, the sense that, you know, the candlelight vigils, the church services, the memorial services, whereas we are now in a pandemic that is actually isolating us.

01:01:15.920 I mean, literally, it is robbed us of the ability to hug friends, to hug loved ones, to sort of be in groups and share that grief together.

01:01:29.400 The other thing I think that really stands out just from a sort of spiritual side is the extent to which, you know, 9-11 had a certain purity and finality to it.

01:01:48.620 You know, we understood that innocent people had died attacked by evil, and we understood the breadth of that attack.

01:02:01.360 Whereas today, you know, there is a sense in our country that, you know, we don't really know where this goes next.

01:02:10.660 I mean, there are potentially, you know, 100,000 people alive in America today, you know, a population roughly the size of South Bend, Indiana, who will not be alive by the end of the year.

01:02:26.540 And that sort of imposes a sense of uncertainty and nervousness that we didn't have in 2001.

01:02:41.320 I mean, part, you know, we were talking a few minutes ago about that fear of what came next.

01:02:45.180 Right.

01:02:45.320 It's like we would have had a very different reaction after 9-11 if we were standing there on 9-11 and sort of knew in our gut that between September and the end of the year, 100,000 more Americans would die in terror attack.

01:03:01.160 Garrett Graff, the author of The Only Plane in the Sky, a well worth time to read.

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01:04:58.920 A few new people that have joined us here on the stage.

01:05:02.000 I have met them.

01:05:03.420 I work with them every day.

01:05:04.900 I would not recognize them on the street if they didn't have a mask on because they're wearing masks the whole time.

01:05:12.020 And I have no idea what they look like.

01:05:14.300 I mean, you don't know people in the mask.

01:05:16.700 You lose that connection.

01:05:18.000 But I also seem to think there's a big difference in our media than there was in 2000.

01:05:25.120 Social media was not a thing.

01:05:27.500 And that's ever so destructive.

01:05:30.800 And the other is we're an election.

01:05:33.680 We were three years away from an election.

01:05:35.940 And gee, when did that unity start going away?

01:05:38.840 Hmm.

01:05:39.700 About the election time.

01:05:42.340 All right.

01:05:43.020 I want to talk a little bit about what's happening in California.

01:05:46.520 In California, you know, we know the Nancy Pelosi, you know, blow my hair out scandal where she just called up a salon and said, hey, I need you to blow dry my hair and and make me look nice. 0.99

01:06:03.080 And the owner of the salon was so upset because, wait a minute, I can't open my salon, but you can just come in and get a haircut.

01:06:12.600 And we've got another situation like that.

01:06:15.920 This is Danielle Rabkin.

01:06:18.540 She is the owner of the CrossFit Golden Gate Gym.

01:06:23.480 And I want you to hear her story.

01:06:25.460 She's got this unbelievable gym where she could social distance people by 30 feet and have them wear masks. 1.00

01:06:33.880 She's not allowed to open.

01:06:36.020 But the state has opened the state gyms.

01:06:40.600 Welcome to the program, Danielle.

01:06:43.780 Good morning.

01:06:44.860 So tell me, tell me what's happening in San Francisco.

01:06:51.420 It's been pretty unbelievable.

01:06:53.980 It's been the hardest six months of my life.

01:06:59.360 We have been pretty closed still.

01:07:02.340 I don't know that the rest of the country realizes we're almost still entirely on lockdown.

01:07:08.460 The only things open are outdoor dining, indoor retail.

01:07:12.660 I think that's pretty much it.

01:07:16.680 San Francisco has incredible COVID metrics.

01:07:19.800 When I checked yesterday morning, we only had 88 COVID deaths since March.

01:07:24.620 We have never had more than 38 COVID ICU patients at a time since day one.

01:07:31.560 Our hospitals were so empty in the early days waiting for the surge that never came, which is wonderful.

01:07:36.580 But we were cutting back nursing hours, doctors' shifts, giving salary cuts because hospitals were bleeding money.

01:07:45.000 So we've been in really good shape to flatten the curve.

01:07:49.480 And somewhere along the line, flattening the curve turned into flattening the local economy because we've just kept everything closed.

01:07:56.720 And my personal life and livelihood has just been completely burned to the ground.

01:08:05.420 I've spent over eight years building this business, and I'm watching it just completely fall apart before my eyes.

01:08:13.040 San Francisco has experienced a mass exodus.

01:08:16.120 People are leaving left and right.

01:08:17.300 If they're going to be locked down, they want more space.

01:08:19.160 They want cheaper rent.

01:08:20.160 But as other parts of the country continue to open up, why do people want to be here?

01:08:25.680 Of course they don't.

01:08:27.480 Tech can work remote.

01:08:29.640 There's no reason to stay somewhere where you can't get a haircut or go to the gym.

01:08:35.380 You know, it's just been so extremely frustrating.

01:08:38.600 Even the Tony Fauci's of the world say that prolonged closures will cause irreparable damage.

01:08:44.940 So it's just been mind-blowing to me why this has been going on.

01:08:48.660 Okay, so tell me first, the state has opened their gyms.

01:08:54.120 Are these publicly financed gyms, or are these gyms for state workers and city workers?

01:09:01.860 These are publicly financed gyms, taxpayer dollars.

01:09:06.860 So I know with certainty that at the end of June, police station gyms were closed.

01:09:12.560 A good friend of mine is a police officer, and I know that his gym was shut.

01:09:18.660 So I really hesitated to build an outdoor gym in my neighborhood.

01:09:23.440 The streets are not clean here.

01:09:25.820 The air is smoky.

01:09:27.840 It's just not a great setup for outdoor activity, which is what we're moving towards.

01:09:32.140 But I finally bit the bullet and did it.

01:09:33.940 And recently, I saw a couple of police officers at the end of my block, and I'm thinking,

01:09:37.880 all right, I know that their gym is shut.

01:09:39.440 I got this.

01:09:39.980 I'm going to get them to come work out at my outdoor gym with me.

01:09:43.480 And so two weeks ago, I go up to them, and I'm chit-chatting, and I say, hey, what are

01:09:49.340 you guys doing for workouts these days?

01:09:50.840 And they tell me that their station gym has reopened.

01:09:53.220 And I about fell over.

01:09:54.240 I couldn't believe it.

01:09:55.240 Here I am suffering with prolonged closure, and I find out that their gym has reopened.

01:10:01.020 And so I immediately reach out to a friend of mine who is an attorney and works out of

01:10:09.920 a courthouse in the city, and I say, does this set a precedent for me?

01:10:14.000 What does this mean?

01:10:14.660 They've told me Cal OSHA has inspected their gyms.

01:10:17.160 Can I get a Cal OSHA inspection?

01:10:19.420 And he says, oh, yeah, I know that paralegals have been working out at the Hall of Justice.

01:10:24.060 And I couldn't believe it, Glenn.

01:10:26.620 It takes me everything to not drop 20 S-bombs right now. 1.00

01:10:30.020 I could not believe it.

01:10:31.740 Here I am, business owners like me still shut, and paralegals are working out at indoor gyms

01:10:38.140 funded by taxpayer dollars.

01:10:40.760 So I actually go down to the Hall of Justice to check out these gyms, and I see notices 0.98

01:10:45.280 on the door saying that they've been reopened since July 1st.

01:10:49.760 Limited occupancy, new COVID rules, new sign-in sheets.

01:10:53.960 So we send it to the press.

01:10:56.440 I was trying to reach out through a city attorney, through my supervisor's office, through the

01:11:01.980 Office of Economic Workforce and Development.

01:11:04.520 Why is this happening?

01:11:05.720 Why am I still closed?

01:11:07.300 Does this mean I can reopen?

01:11:08.640 Does this set a precedent for me?

01:11:09.940 I want to be very clear.

01:11:12.560 I don't want to see these gyms shut down, but what are the implications for gym owners like

01:11:17.600 myself?

01:11:18.600 Right.

01:11:19.320 Because the PPP money is long gone, and it probably didn't help San Francisco.

01:11:25.600 I can't even imagine what you are paying in rent for a 4,700-square-foot gym.

01:11:32.380 No, you don't want to know.

01:11:33.560 It was unbelievable to me to see articles about people throughout the country having windfalls

01:11:40.640 with the CARES Act, $600 a week.

01:11:43.820 And there being debate over them wanting to incentivize people to go back to work, and I'm

01:11:49.340 thinking, $600 a week doesn't even pay for the rent at my one-bedroom apartment, and there

01:11:53.300 are people gathering savings from that.

01:11:56.580 This isn't right.

01:11:57.440 San Francisco is extremely expensive.

01:11:59.480 There are businesses across the country that got the same PPP loans that we got.

01:12:05.640 They weren't ever closed.

01:12:07.040 Maybe they were closed for one month, and we've been closed for six months.

01:12:10.860 Where's our help?

01:12:12.100 If the city wants me to stay closed, they can start paying my rent.

01:12:15.240 Because as you said, it's not cheap.

01:12:18.200 I'm many, many tens of thousands of dollars in debt to my landlord now because of this.

01:12:22.840 So if I may voice what I think some Americans may be saying, and that is, why would we pay

01:12:35.400 for, why would we take my tax dollars that I'm working hard for and send them to a state

01:12:41.960 that is absolutely out of control, on fire literally and figuratively, and they're screwing

01:12:50.480 their own people, I don't know why, but they're screwing their own people, and I think Americans 1.00

01:12:57.540 really feel for people who are trapped in this, but it's kind of like, you know, this is what

01:13:07.120 everybody in San Francisco voted for.

01:13:09.880 I get it, and I've heard that a lot, but the reality of the situation is that small business

01:13:14.560 owners like myself, we are where we are, people voted in who they voted in, this is the situation

01:13:21.860 now, and we need help.

01:13:25.660 I've never, admittedly, I have not followed local politics, and that's my own fault, and

01:13:31.060 you sure as well better believe it's a learning experience.

01:13:33.520 But decision makers right now aren't just the local politicians, it's the Department of Public

01:13:41.740 Health, and...

01:13:43.220 Well, I don't know how your Department of Public Health can say that working outside,

01:13:47.500 working out outside is safer for you.

01:13:50.480 I mean, the entire, the entire state is on fire.

01:13:54.420 Smoke has to be, I mean, California wildfire smoke was at my home in Idaho last weekend.

01:14:01.120 Idaho, it's got to be in San Francisco.

01:14:05.600 Glenn, I completely agree with you, and I've been trying to push that up the chain for weeks.

01:14:10.340 I have human feces on the sidewalk next to my outdoor gym.

01:14:14.560 We are dealing with extremely poor air quality.

01:14:17.100 I've been trying to push for an indoor reopening for a very long time, and my voice just isn't

01:14:22.860 loud enough.

01:14:24.240 And an interesting turn of events, two weeks ago, of course, as soon as I found out about

01:14:29.180 these courthouse gyms reopening, you know, we've been pushing this up to change with

01:14:36.020 supervisors, the Office of Economic Workforce and Development.

01:14:39.340 Just yesterday, public health officers announced that they were shutting down the city gym.

01:14:47.480 And I want to be very clear, that was not the goal.

01:14:49.800 But within minutes, they've announced that gyms, hair salons, and tattoos can now reopen

01:14:56.180 on Monday.

01:14:57.640 It is unbelievable to me.

01:15:00.180 Maybe it shouldn't be so unbelievable that it took something like this to get it to happen.

01:15:05.500 So wait, wait, wait.

01:15:06.100 So they are letting you open on Monday?

01:15:09.100 Because of the discovery of these city gyms, they just announced yesterday that they're

01:15:14.080 letting all gyms open on Monday.

01:15:15.820 Well, congratulations on that.

01:15:20.900 I mean, I don't know.

01:15:24.560 We're living in a time now where many of these people are rulers.

01:15:31.780 They're not just politicians.

01:15:34.920 They're not people that were protecting our rights.

01:15:37.900 And they're just rulers.

01:15:39.340 And this Nancy Pelosi thing at her, you know, hair salon, are people in San Francisco waking

01:15:47.240 up and saying, wait a minute, this is, this is, or are they still just as crazy?

01:15:55.780 It's a good question.

01:15:57.500 I can't answer for you, but it certainly has not felt like a democracy to me lately.

01:16:02.040 Uh, it, it's very difficult to feel like your voice isn't heard.

01:16:09.220 Um, I'm curious to know if, if the mayor has been using these gyms, these public, these

01:16:15.940 police station gyms, if her name is in the log books, um, we've put out a records request

01:16:21.880 and I don't know if they'll try to keep those names public, but I think it'll be very interesting

01:16:25.520 to see if her name is, is on there between, uh, uh, March and September.

01:16:34.240 Danielle, I, I, I, I feel for you.

01:16:37.920 I mean, I live in Texas and things are still crazy here.

01:16:41.320 Not like that, but even in Texas, uh, and there is, there is, uh, you know, when you have

01:16:48.200 about 600 people in 10 days in a, in a country of 350 million dying in those 10 days, that's

01:16:58.640 the last 10, I think has been about 600 people nationwide, 350 million, and we are shutting

01:17:05.680 and destroying our economy.

01:17:08.000 It makes no sense.

01:17:09.940 And you have to ask yourself, what's the real agenda here?

01:17:13.340 Uh, because it, this is doing far more damage to our children, uh, to our psyche and to

01:17:21.400 our economy.

01:17:22.400 People like you, I mean, how long is it going to take for you to recover?

01:17:26.800 Yeah.

01:17:27.300 I don't know if I will, to be honest, and it's devastating to me.

01:17:30.560 I can tell you that San Francisco is letting the local economy burn to the ground.

01:17:36.320 I don't know that anywhere else is as severe here where reopenings can be done safely.

01:17:43.920 Slowly and cautiously, they need to start moving forward.

01:17:47.140 Thank you so much, Danielle.

01:17:48.920 I appreciate you, uh, speaking out.

01:17:50.960 Thanks for coming on the program.

01:17:52.580 It's not just San Francisco.

01:17:54.200 It is the overwhelming, this is Cloward and Piven.

01:17:56.780 This is overwhelming the system.

01:17:58.400 They're doing the same thing in New York, just burning it to the ground.

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01:19:20.880 You know, I should send, I should send, uh, Danielle, a, uh, a SABO shirt. 0.98

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01:19:44.940 Yeah.

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01:19:49.240 Is that right?

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01:19:55.300 So you can try that stewdoesmerch.com.

01:19:57.280 And I think it is, uh, you gotta go to click on Glenn Beck.

01:19:59.780 Yeah.

01:20:00.000 Click on Glenn Beck.

01:20:00.800 It's under my, which I don't, I mean, the old Glenn would wear that t-shirt all the time.

01:20:07.360 I'd be wearing it now.

01:20:08.720 I'd be wearing it out.

01:20:10.020 I'd be wearing it to bed.

01:20:11.320 I'd be wearing that.

01:20:12.400 I would have ordered 10 of these t-shirts.

01:20:15.300 Uh, I think we're coming up with one that doesn't have the phrase up at the top.

01:20:19.340 I can't even say the phrase, uh, but it's accurate if she's getting, you know, blow dried, 0.79

01:20:24.600 uh, you know, getting her hair.

01:20:26.540 Uh, um, she's just making a request to the hairdresser.

01:20:29.380 And she's saying also saying that to all of the hairdressers and all of the businesses

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01:20:38.100 That is how this works.

01:20:38.900 Yes.

01:20:39.080 That's how it works.

01:20:39.860 That's how it works.

01:20:40.940 Uh, so those are available at shop.

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01:20:53.380 You'll find it.

01:20:55.220 That's going to be pretty interesting.

01:20:56.480 I think I can't wait to see the first person walking around with that thing.

01:20:59.220 Oh, I know.

01:20:59.560 You've got to take a, you have to, if you are in California, uh, you know, anywhere you're

01:21:04.880 anywhere.

01:21:05.460 You have to take a picture of you in that t-shirt because Sabo made these, these, these

01:21:11.840 posters.

01:21:12.320 He's this graffiti artist.

01:21:14.020 He put them up in San Francisco and he said, liberals in San Francisco were like, that's

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01:21:21.760 I mean, it doesn't seem to offend liberals cause they get it.

01:21:30.920 Hello America.

01:21:32.740 Welcome to the Glenn Beck program.

01:21:34.520 I saw a letter to the editor in a small newspaper, uh, up in the, uh, Northeast that has a very

01:21:46.480 different perspective than mine.

01:21:48.880 And I want to read it to you and address it.

01:21:53.540 Uh, because I, there is a, there is a, there's a divide in America that is now as wide as the

01:22:01.800 Grand Canyon.

01:22:02.440 And if we can't find a bridge, we're not going to stand.

01:22:06.440 Uh, and we go there in 60 seconds.

01:22:09.760 This is the Glenn Beck program.

01:22:12.640 All right.

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01:23:43.260 I want to read an op-ed from a local paper up in the Northeast, written by a guy named

01:24:01.340 Art Payne.

01:24:02.560 Uh, he says for 20 years, I've listened to conservative talk radio and my liberal friends

01:24:06.860 say they sometimes try, but they can't tolerate it long.

01:24:09.340 Ever since William F. Buckley, who was at least erudite, uh, I've considered it a citizen's

01:24:15.700 obligation to tune in partly because I'm a veteran and like many veterans, I take it as

01:24:20.820 an ongoing obligation to support and defend this country and everything it claims to stand.

01:24:26.140 It stands for, um, Buckley promoted traditional right-leaning ideology, a small portion of which

01:24:35.040 I agreed with the Fox Bay, uh, backed voice of main channel, uh, now airs Glenn Beck in

01:24:41.940 the morning and Rush Limbaugh in the afternoon.

01:24:44.740 If you want to know the wellspring for most of the ideas that are threatening to divide and

01:24:50.700 destroy this country and make you anxious and depressed ideas that unquestionably influence

01:24:58.140 the tweets and chaotic outbursts of our president, then listen for yourself, but expect to be

01:25:04.980 shocked.

01:25:06.000 Now he has set himself up with, as somebody who is open mind, he's open-minded.

01:25:11.840 He listens to the other side because it's a citizen's duty.

01:25:14.680 I do that every day.

01:25:15.960 I listened to the New York times podcast.

01:25:18.400 I listened to NPR.

01:25:19.900 I read, uh, the Huffington post.

01:25:22.320 I read the New York times.

01:25:24.160 I, I can't really watch cable news, uh, anymore, but I can't watch Fox either.

01:25:30.920 I try to be open-minded just like you art.

01:25:34.160 Uh, but now I'm being, uh, accused, uh, of a wellspring of ideas that are threatening to

01:25:41.220 divide divide. 0.98

01:25:42.660 If you are a new listener of mine, if you are somebody who is on the left, I want you to

01:25:47.920 know, here are my ideas.

01:25:49.460 All men are created equal and endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights.

01:25:54.180 Among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

01:25:57.940 And governments are instituted among men to protect those rights.

01:26:04.080 I, I will, I will stand in battle shoulder to shoulder with anyone who agrees with the

01:26:10.180 constitution and the bill of rights.

01:26:12.720 I believe in the free market.

01:26:15.160 It's what built America and built the world.

01:26:19.640 I will stand shoulder to shoulder with somebody who says higher taxes, but I believe in the,

01:26:25.260 uh, the, the, um, uh, the constitution and the free market.

01:26:30.960 Anybody that believes that children belong to their parents, not to the community.

01:26:35.740 I believe I will stand with you.

01:26:38.000 I will stand with you.

01:26:39.940 Uh, if you, uh, that's no, that's at the bottom of the hour.

01:26:44.680 Um, I will stand with you.

01:26:46.840 If you are someone who is, uh, voting the other way, you would say, I can't vote for Donald Trump.

01:26:55.280 That's fine.

01:26:55.900 I don't hate you.

01:26:57.040 I don't hate you.

01:26:57.660 I don't understand it.

01:26:59.980 If you're an educated person, I really don't understand it.

01:27:03.080 Just seeing who the other side is in line with.

01:27:07.500 If you look at the truth of BLM from their own website, uh, they tell you that they are trying to destroy capitalism.

01:27:17.220 They are trying to overthrow the Western values.

01:27:20.360 They are, they are working to destroy the nuclear family. 0.85

01:27:24.240 Those are their words, not mine.

01:27:26.020 And I gladly will stand on a divide and say, yes, if that's what you're working for, then I don't stand with you.

01:27:38.040 I can't stand with you.

01:27:42.600 During the past few years, after Beck finally jumped on the Trump train, the rhetoric from these two has grown increasingly spiteful, divisive, and untrue.

01:27:52.140 A major portion of the thousands of lies now attributed to Trump originated there with us.

01:28:00.820 Really?

01:28:02.440 Could you give me one example?

01:28:04.820 Every day raises the bar on dangerous, probably illegal speech in terms of inciting violence and riots.

01:28:14.000 I don't believe art's even a real person.

01:28:17.620 As a former serviceman, I realized that rhetoric like theirs would never be tolerated out in the open in the military.

01:28:24.580 No, because you are not an individual in the military.

01:28:27.820 You belong to the state.

01:28:30.280 The minute you sign up or the minute you enter the military, you no longer have an individual identity.

01:28:37.820 So, yeah, you can't say those things.

01:28:41.860 But here in America, again, Art, it's the First Amendment.

01:28:46.800 It's speech, press, questioning your government, asking them to answer, assembling, protesting, all of it.

01:28:59.520 But not riots, not violence, not burning cities down.

01:29:07.700 Here's an up-to-date synopsis.

01:29:09.680 Democrats, liberals, and inclusive, open-minded folk are lumped together in two words.

01:29:14.460 The left.

01:29:15.000 That is not true.

01:29:16.780 How many times have I said, in fact, just on today's show,

01:29:20.180 Democrats, liberals, as long as you are not trying to destroy the country,

01:29:30.100 as long as you are not part of the movement that is cheering on lawlessness,

01:29:36.980 and you want the free market, you want the Bill of Rights,

01:29:41.380 and you will stand and protect those things, you are not a member of the left.

01:29:47.400 Liberals, I don't have a problem with liberals.

01:29:50.180 I've had a problem with progressives, because progressives have, by definition,

01:29:57.960 as Hillary Clinton said, the early 20th century progressive.

01:30:02.200 The early 20th century progressive was a nightmare, was for eugenics, 1.00

01:30:06.880 was for sterilization, was for state control,

01:30:10.240 was for totalitarianism without the revolution.

01:30:14.900 That's what they were progressing for.

01:30:16.980 I got a problem with that.

01:30:18.320 If you don't understand what the definition of a progressive is,

01:30:22.320 well, that's not my fault, that's your fault.

01:30:26.180 But liberals, people who differ on tax policy and welfare and things like that, no!

01:30:32.040 You're not an enemy of the state or an enemy of mine!

01:30:40.200 This hateful faction, it's claimed, are almost all secretly members of Antifa.

01:30:46.020 Have I said that, Stu?

01:30:47.100 Anything like that, that Democrats are all secretly members of Antifa?

01:30:51.180 No.

01:30:52.160 And are predominantly Marxists.

01:30:54.720 Well, I will tell you this, I've never said anything like that.

01:30:57.620 I don't believe that.

01:30:58.800 In fact, I'm pleading for Democrats to stand up.

01:31:03.720 It's been a hostile takeover of the Democratic Party.

01:31:07.320 I don't believe you're Marxist, but if you don't stand up,

01:31:10.180 at some point, you are going to be labeled a Marxist.

01:31:14.760 You are a Marxist because you're allowing it to take over your party and your ideology.

01:31:21.300 I mean, this is not exactly a reach.

01:31:23.560 You have a guy who has explained multiple dozens of times that he is a socialist

01:31:28.940 and he keeps coming in second in your primaries.

01:31:31.860 So, I mean, like, it's not exactly like there's no people that support this ideology in the party.

01:31:37.820 He goes on,

01:31:38.560 There are daily warnings with Limbaugh and Beck that the entire educational system

01:31:42.780 from grade school through college has been co-opted by a radical leftist agenda.

01:31:48.300 Art, are you blind?

01:31:49.320 Are you blind?

01:31:52.020 Are you seeing what's happening in colleges?

01:31:54.280 Are you seeing liberal, very liberal, Democrat, voted Democrat their whole life?

01:32:01.780 Some of them actually considered themselves kind of pro-Marxism for a while

01:32:06.960 that have said,

01:32:08.200 Oh my gosh, this is completely out of control.

01:32:10.720 And they've left the university on their own.

01:32:14.940 Have you noticed that, Art?

01:32:16.800 As to the recent unrest arising out of the latest spate of police killings of black men,

01:32:27.900 the Black Lives Matter movement...

01:32:30.000 That's the summary of that story.

01:32:31.760 Interesting one.

01:32:32.580 The Black Lives Matter movement and the standoffs against the militia of patriots in pickup trucks

01:32:38.520 bearing AK-47s beneath Trump-Pence banners,

01:32:43.020 Rush and Beck define this as a biblical battle as clear as black and white or good versus evil.

01:32:48.720 They often use the evil word for the left and not infrequently claim that all of us evil ones are negative on God.

01:32:58.220 Well, if you are evil, yeah, you are.

01:33:01.600 You...

01:33:02.020 I mean, by definition, you're not standing with God.

01:33:04.940 I am not accusing Democrats of being that.

01:33:09.720 But Marxists?

01:33:11.820 Yes.

01:33:13.380 Those people who are attacking our churches, literally?

01:33:17.260 Yes.

01:33:18.720 Those people who say the church and the belief of God must be eradicated?

01:33:25.660 Yes.

01:33:26.300 The people who call for individual rights to be abolished so we all are told exactly who to be, where to live, what to do, at all times?

01:33:40.040 Yes.

01:33:41.760 Man is granted certain unalienable rights by God.

01:33:47.700 Anyone who fights against those rights?

01:33:53.040 Yes.

01:33:53.800 You would be on the side of evil.

01:33:57.380 Doesn't make you evil unless you really know it.

01:34:04.080 Art, this is the problem here.

01:34:12.780 I'm trying to be very kind.

01:34:15.880 You seem to be an intelligent person.

01:34:18.920 You seem to be someone who knows a lot of the stories that are going on.

01:34:28.900 How you are seeing something so incredibly one-sided is beyond me.

01:34:37.620 That you are parroting all of the fictions of BLM, of Antifa. 0.92

01:34:46.980 I mean, it is to the point now to where Joe Biden came out and said,

01:34:52.440 no one's talking about defunding the police except Donald Trump.

01:34:57.140 What?

01:34:57.700 What are you even talking about?

01:35:01.340 If you are this deluded, I pray that the scales fall from your eyes.

01:35:08.040 I know who Donald Trump is.

01:35:11.900 I know what he's done bad.

01:35:14.220 I know what he's done good.

01:35:16.100 Do you?

01:35:16.700 Can you recognize the truth anymore and on either side say, I like these things?

01:35:27.980 I don't like these things.

01:35:29.960 I believe these things.

01:35:33.080 I don't believe these things.

01:35:34.880 Or are we all just in lockstep zombies, sheep that agree with everything right down the party line?

01:35:45.060 Because you're claiming that Donald Trump is a dictator and a fascist that just is just itching for his moment to take over.

01:36:02.200 In fact, I want to let me break for one minute and I want to come back and I want to play some audio of a teacher and talking to their college class about how Donald Trump is evil.

01:36:13.540 And I want you to listen to this.

01:36:14.860 And then, Art, I want to ask you a question.

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01:37:54.800 So I I I'm talking about a letter to the editor by a guy named Art Payne and Art, I would invite you to be on the show.

01:38:08.180 I saw his his letter to the editor in the Mountain Desert Islander and he has a very different point of view than I do.

01:38:19.580 Let me ask you, let me play this audio, Art, and I I would love to know how you view this.

01:38:27.120 Listen to this as a teacher teaching your classes, not a political class.

01:38:32.560 Listen to what she's saying to the students.

01:38:34.120 This was recorded by one of the students or their parents.

01:38:37.160 Listen for four years, because that's what people say.

01:38:39.880 Give him a chance.

01:38:40.600 Give him a chance.

01:38:41.480 Well, he's had four friggin years of a chance and he's done a crap job and he's really ruining our country.

01:38:46.720 Many of you, this may be the first time that you're voting.

01:38:50.780 I'm sorry it's such a contentious situation that you're being thrusted into.

01:38:56.220 If any of you do still think Trump, you know, is a good person, I beg you to not only go into your heart center and think about this a little more.

01:39:06.700 Pull up all the stuff that he's been doing to our country, taking away so many of our rights.

01:39:12.700 He's trying to turn this into more of a, you know, dictatorship type of situation.

01:39:19.280 Let me ask you, Art, because I hear this all the time.

01:39:24.120 What rights has he taken away?

01:39:27.060 What rights has he taken away?

01:39:28.620 What rights has he attempted to take away?

01:39:31.680 I know he has tried to protect rights, the right to life.

01:39:36.340 You disagree with that.

01:39:37.420 Maybe so.

01:39:38.220 Maybe it's well, he wants to take away, but he has not take away the right to free abortions or whatever.

01:39:45.560 OK, we could haggle over that, but he hasn't taken it away.

01:39:49.040 What right has he taken away?

01:39:51.320 What has given you the impression that through his actions, as stated here, that he wants to turn everything into a dictatorship?

01:40:00.120 Because that was one of my fears four years ago, and especially I said it on the air at the end of four years.

01:40:08.120 We are going to be in so much trouble and there's going to come an economic crisis.

01:40:11.880 And this guy will be more FDR than FDR.

01:40:16.640 But what has he done?

01:40:18.540 He has rejected all of the calls for the federal government to mandate anything about covid.

01:40:26.100 He has rightfully, constitutionally said that public health falls into the category of each state.

01:40:37.740 And I don't know if you've noticed this, but states like New York and California, the one that is the least like Donald Trump or a conservative,

01:40:47.660 in fact, listen to last hour, are states that are crushing people.

01:40:53.600 They feel that they have no rights.

01:40:56.160 California is still on lockdown.

01:41:00.260 They wanted to cancel Halloween.

01:41:04.120 For what?

01:41:05.780 For what?

01:41:06.920 There is a balance.

01:41:08.980 It was to slow the curve so we didn't overwhelm our hospitals.

01:41:14.720 Well, we did that a long time ago.

01:41:17.800 Our hospitals are not overwhelmed.

01:41:20.300 What is the goal here?

01:41:22.200 You'll notice the goal for Donald Trump is to let people be free and ask them to be responsible.

01:41:32.120 And being responsible doesn't mean that when you are six feet away from each other and outdoors and you're you're way away from each other,

01:41:41.660 that you wear a mask all the time.

01:41:43.500 If you're close up, if you're at, let's say, breaking into a Macy's and stealing stuff from a Macy's because you're upset about the police,

01:41:53.420 you know, there's a reason for you to wear a mask.

01:41:56.780 You know, you don't want to be caught, but nobody's prosecuting that anymore, Art.

01:42:02.060 So I guess you wear a mask for that.

01:42:05.200 For what reason?

01:42:06.380 Because you're close to each other.

01:42:07.900 But you'll notice that's not happening.

01:42:10.200 And nobody seems to have a problem with that in the states that are run by deep progressives.

01:42:17.540 Tell me your plan, Art.

01:42:19.380 Tell me the plan.

01:42:21.460 What is the point of the shutdown at this point?

01:42:25.320 Tell me what rights have been taken away by Donald Trump.

01:42:28.740 And tell me how he has demonstrated himself to be a dictator.

01:42:32.280 This is the Glenn Beck program.

01:42:37.280 I really hope that Art calls in and I'll make space for you, Art.

01:42:42.140 You just let me know.

01:42:43.620 All right.

01:42:44.260 Life is complicated and tricky enough to navigate during normal times when you're feeling fine.

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01:43:09.200 But, you know, most of our pain is caused by inflammation in the body.

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01:43:18.120 I don't know.

01:43:18.580 I've been on.

01:43:19.380 Yeah, I've taken ibuprofen 800.

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01:44:25.840 It shouldn't be in our children's schools.

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01:44:34.200 But the real problem is, is that it's being shown to our children.

01:44:38.840 So who are you afraid is going to see this objectionable material?

01:44:42.840 Children?

01:44:44.120 Because they're already seeing it in school.

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01:44:54.180 But there is another video or documentary out right now that is so well worth watching and watching with your kids.

01:45:04.540 And it really kind of stars Tristan Harris.

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01:45:26.480 Welcome to the program, Tristan.

01:45:29.360 How are you?

01:45:30.720 Glenn, it's great to be back.

01:45:31.800 Thank you for having me.

01:45:32.520 So in the social dilemma, I mean, it is really quite clear that they are profiting off of the divide, even though they're saying they're trying to heal us.

01:45:45.940 That's exactly right.

01:45:49.180 You know, I'm really concerned with the fact that, you know, how can you do anything when our fellow countrymen disagree vehemently across all topics that matter, right?

01:45:57.480 I mean, how can you fix anything if at least half of the world violently opposes the idea and will counter every strategy that you do?

01:46:04.160 This film is the first time that the, you know, the people who built some of these products, you know, the inventor of the Facebook like button, the person who built the YouTube recommendation system, the guy who brought the advertising business model to Facebook, Jaron Lanier, the father of virtual reality, are on camera saying, look, these are the harms that it's causing first to children and the problems of addiction and the breakdown of the family that we all know that I'm sure that so many parents are struggling with, especially in COVID times when you have a kid on Zoom calls, right?

01:46:33.840 I mean, I know how deep this is and the mental health issues there, but then the second is on the polarization, and that's what I'm really most concerned about, because as you just said, they profit from the divide, because no matter what topic that there is, social media will take the most egregious and extreme and worst part of that topic and show it to your outgroup, to the other side, in the least charitable way, which means that we're all biased in a worse way about each other, right?

01:47:00.220 And it's driving us crazy. And it's actually killing our democracy, if we don't actually fix it. And I'm really hoping is that if enough people see this film, we'll have a new shared truth about the breakdown of our shared truth in reality. And that's, that's really what we're hoping for.

01:47:16.540 Okay, so by the way, if you don't know, we're talking about, it is a new movie on Netflix called The Social Dilemma. I think you, you break it down really, really well. And it is very credible in its approach. And because everybody who's in it is pretty much legendary. I mean, they were there, they invented it.

01:47:38.720 However, the problem is, and I mean, I, I try to listen to, well, I do, I listen to two podcasts every day that disagree with me. I don't necessarily listen to anything that agrees with me. I read a lot, but I read all sides.

01:47:57.840 And I'm surprised on both sides, how many people don't know how a story was covered by the other side. A lot of people on, let's just take on the right. A lot of people say the New York Times never covered that. Well, they did. They did. They may have covered it differently.

01:48:17.120 They may have covered it one day or on page 18, where the right was saying this is a front page story, but they did cover it. And I'm shocked at how many people on both sides don't know what the other is side is being fed.

01:48:37.140 Yeah. Well, it's because, as you said, the beginning of the hour, the, you know, these companies profit by showing you a, your own Truman show, your own affirming view of reality, because imagine there's two news feeds at Facebook, right? One called the everything you believe is right feed, right? And it just shows you more and more news from your side that basically gets you to click on it more, right? And there's another feed called the everything you know might be different than what you know, right? We're going to show you news that challenges your views constantly, right?

01:49:06.400 You can imagine they could easily find two different sets of stories to show you which one is going to do better for their business model of capturing your attention, the one that you like, the one that affirms your view of reality, the one that you like. And so the problem is each of us have been given our own Truman show, our own reality, right? Where it's not that everything that we're believing is wrong. We've just been seeing a tiny, tiny, tiny sliver. And it's actually infected the rest of the media, because even cable news or radio news, where do they get their news from?

01:49:35.140 Well, they get their news from Twitter as well, right? So Twitter is is is the basis is this divisive force is the basis that's feeding into all forms of media. And it's making us all bias in a worse and worse way. That's what we've got. We've got to fix that.

01:49:51.560 So we've talked about this many times that we don't want to get news off of Twitter, because it seems like journalists are not doing real journalism, they're reacting to Twitter.

01:50:03.060 That's right. It's turned all of us into little monkeys that react, you know, impulsively to the latest thing. And whatever media ethics or journalism or training that we might have had in a previous generation, that goes out the window. When I win, the faster I make an assertion about what the other side did.

01:50:19.320 Yes. And I say something without without actually stopping and holding, because if I don't do it, the other guy will. So it's a race to the bottom of the brainstem, a race to the immediate who can say it first.

01:50:29.080 But that just means that exponential hearsay, exponential gossip. And it doesn't lead to good sensemaking. Right. And if we cannot agree and it just leads to violence and really escalating towards levels of violence, I think people are worried about civil war.

01:50:42.380 That's not actually productive. And by the way, our enemies are using this right now against us. Right. I mean, they actually want us to just sit here fighting with each other after World War Two, you know, with the big powers with nukes.

01:50:54.340 You can't actually wage a conventional war anymore. So you want to use subtler methods with plausible deniability, proxy wars. But if you're Russia and China, Iran, Turkey or North Korea, you know, you're not going to launch a nuke against us. Right.

01:51:07.480 But you might want to take the existing tensions and turn the enemy against itself. And that's what Sun Tzu exactly would say to do. That's what the Chinese military strategy is. And Facebook makes it a trillion times easier.

01:51:18.000 So if I'm China, I want that, you know, the extreme right and the extreme left to proliferate and fight each other and would be stoked about the rise of extremist groups on all sides.

01:51:26.400 So so let me ask you, Tristan, because because here's the problem from the right point of view, from the conservative point of view, and that is we don't have any billion dollar hundred year old institutions like The New York Times.

01:51:44.360 Fox News, Fox News, a lot of conservatives are just not even not even watching Fox News anymore.

01:51:50.800 They're tired of a lot of the stuff. And when you have a group of people, let's say the blaze where we we really not.

01:52:01.680 I'm not saying all of our stories are perfect or anything else, but we really try to look into things.

01:52:07.920 And for instance, I'm saying right now about civil war. There are people that want civil war.

01:52:13.960 They do want to tear the country apart. I can tell you what the groups are.

01:52:18.520 I think they have they are on the left. But there are also, as I said yesterday, there are also people who, like Richard Spencer, you think the Nazis and the white supremacists don't want a civil war?

01:52:31.060 They don't want freedom either. And and same with the outside.

01:52:35.980 But if I say what MSNBC is now saying about civil war and they're saying that it's all coming from white supremacy, but I say, well, yes, there might be some white supremacists that want that.

01:52:49.640 But there is also these organizations that want it. Antifa is in the street calling for the destruction of America.

01:52:55.400 America, I'm somehow or another unreasonable. How do we how do we bridge that?

01:53:02.580 Well, this is the thing. So, you know, are there reasonable versions of each of each thing going on?

01:53:07.820 You know, are there new patriot movements where people are learning the Constitution, learning how to do homesteading?

01:53:12.360 You know, absolutely. But then there's also acceleration is orienting towards civil war and which side is social media going to expose?

01:53:18.920 They're going to take a tiny percent of the worst side and they're going to expose them in a statistically much bigger and greater way of the evil parts, missing the good parts to the other side.

01:53:29.900 Right. And that's going to disproportionately create a counter response by the other side that says, well, if they're going to do that, then we're going to escalate this.

01:53:37.180 And then that's also going to take the least represented, most extreme view on the left on Antifa. Right.

01:53:42.820 And so and I'm not saying that there's there's there's real legitimate problems on both sides here.

01:53:48.240 But the problem is that it's selecting for the worst of us and making us hate each other.

01:53:52.660 And by the way, we're not going to get anything done as a country, you know, when that happens.

01:53:56.640 I mean, and do you think that when we're sort of devolved into conflict with ourselves, that our adversaries just sit around and, you know, handle things and drive their own countries or they want to take advantage of it?

01:54:05.180 Oh, they'll. And, you know, I think, you know, there's this line that, you know, while we've been obsessed with protecting our physical borders, we left the digital border wide open because if if Russia trying to try to fly, you know, a bomb or cruise missile into the United States, they'll get shot down by the Department of Defense.

01:54:20.760 But when they try to fly an information missile into the United States, they're met by a Facebook algorithm that says, yeah, exactly.

01:54:27.220 Which zip code or personality do you want to target?

01:54:29.640 And they make it as easy as possible because the digital border is wide open.

01:54:32.860 So they say all of them say they're trying to stop and suppress hatred in the division, et cetera, et cetera.

01:54:42.020 So is any of that true?

01:54:45.880 Well, I think that they've they've been very slow on waking up to these problems, Glenn.

01:54:50.040 And that's actually why I think and I'm not saying this as a self promoter.

01:54:53.280 I think the film is important for this reason, because at this point, the tech companies can't just fix what all of us are thinking and believing.

01:55:00.000 We're 10 years in to this social media washing machine that spread that split us apart into these two different almost like a what you call the centrifuges.

01:55:08.340 You know, you spin them around. Right. And then split us apart on two completely different sides.

01:55:12.440 I think the only way to actually reverse that is to have a new cultural understanding about how this this this hypnotic induction took place.

01:55:20.400 And I don't mean we've each been hypnotized to believe something is wrong.

01:55:23.200 I mean, each of us have been hypnotized into these different bubbles of reality that are not compatible with each other.

01:55:29.140 And I'm really hoping that the film can actually, again, create a shared truth about the breakdown of our shared truth.

01:55:35.600 And so far, it seems to be, you know, working really well at having people say, you know, I want to have a conversation with my family.

01:55:40.660 And the best thing, by the way, you can do if you see the film is watch it with your family members, especially who might have different political beliefs.

01:55:47.400 And after you watch it, exchange, open up Facebook on both your phones and exchange your phone and look at the other person's newsfeed.

01:55:55.100 And you will be surprised that even with the same friends, because you're probably your husband or wife or whatever, you have many similar friends.

01:56:01.800 You will see a completely different feed, which will show you.

01:56:05.420 Imagine if I was living in that world for the last 10 years.

01:56:08.460 Well, of course, that person would be concerned about climate change because their entire feed is so good climate change stories.

01:56:13.780 Or on the other side, of course, that person would be like, we've got to do something about Black Lives Matter because they just see infinite evidence of just people looting and rioting on the streets. 0.69

01:56:21.640 Right. And that's the thing is we can't really see this because we've been so narrowly trapped in these realities.

01:56:27.300 And it really is an issue that can unite us because the whole thing is meant to divide us.

01:56:32.620 Tristan, I'm I'm very glad that people like you exist.

01:56:36.340 I've I've I've talked to Ray Kurzweil about ethics in Silicon Valley for a while.

01:56:43.920 He scares the hell out of me.

01:56:46.020 And I had been praying for 20 years that ethicists would wake up and start to really guide these companies.

01:56:56.340 I hope it's not too late.

01:56:57.480 I don't think it is.

01:56:58.540 But thank you for everything that you're doing the documentary.

01:57:02.180 And you should watch it with your family.

01:57:04.840 Watch it with your whole family.

01:57:06.580 It's called The Social Dilemma.

01:57:08.480 It's not only going to show you how we're being divided, but it'll show you if you aren't convinced you're being watched and spied on.

01:57:16.280 Boy, you will understand why and what's really going on.

01:57:20.960 It's The Social Dilemma and it's on Netflix now.

01:57:24.300 Tristan, thank you so much.

01:57:25.220 We'll talk again.

01:57:26.860 Thank you so much.

01:57:27.420 All right.

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01:59:25.360 This is the Glenn Beck program.

01:59:41.240 Stu, I have lost track of Elon Musk, but let me just give you the highlight of what I think has been going on.

01:59:48.040 This is what I've gotten, uh, Elon Musk.

01:59:51.000 He was over.

01:59:52.180 He was a disaster.

01:59:53.200 He's broke.

01:59:54.120 He's got to sell his houses.

01:59:55.600 He can't even get a car out of, uh, the, out of the shop.

01:59:59.860 He can't even get one off the line to sell.

02:00:02.420 So he's over.

02:00:03.500 Right.

02:00:04.060 Then Tesla bigger than GM biggest card, uh, biggest car brand in the world.

02:00:11.820 He's rolling in the money.

02:00:13.780 He's a genius.

02:00:14.900 He's changing the world.

02:00:17.460 His stock is about to collapse.

02:00:19.660 He's over.

02:00:20.720 It's done.

02:00:22.060 What the hell is the truth on Elon Musk?

02:00:25.540 All of them are true.

02:00:26.740 Uh, that's probably the issue.

02:00:28.220 No, I mean, I think the media stuff recently, a lot of it has to do with, I think his commentary

02:00:32.760 recently, the media has turned negative on him since he decided he wanted to open up his

02:00:37.080 own factory in California.

02:00:38.940 Um, good for him, which, you know, is, uh, you know, I don't think he cares all that much

02:00:42.860 about that, uh, but I think his stock price, the hype was way too high, way too high, but

02:00:48.240 he's also, you know, look, it's an amazing company.

02:00:50.160 I mean, they were doing amazing things and it should be valued high, whether it should

02:00:53.620 be valued more than every other company on earth.

02:00:56.860 Yeah, that's a, that's a little high, but I have to tell you, it makes no sense is this

02:01:02.060 is 2020, it makes no sense.

02:01:04.760 He's, he's neither of those things.

The Glenn Beck Program - September 11, 2020

Remember Our Unity ｜ Guests： Garrett Graff & Tristan Harris ｜ 9⧸11⧸20

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