The Glenn Beck Program - March 28, 2019


Thawed, Defrosted, Brought Back To Life? | Guests: Dr. Wilfred Reilly & Philip Klein | 3⧸28⧸19


Episode Stats

Length

2 hours and 4 minutes

Words per Minute

169.57936

Word Count

21,160

Sentence Count

74

Misogynist Sentences

10

Hate Speech Sentences

15


Summary

It's Thursday and it's Helium Thursday, which means it's another episode of The Glenbeck Program! This week, the guys talk about AOC's Global Warming Rant, the $10,000 bail deal for Jussie Smollett, and more!


Transcript

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00:01:41.240 this is the glenbeck program hey it's helium thursday oh what wonderful i'm glad we're back
00:01:51.860 to this i am this is thrilling i am stew does not enjoy helium thursday however pat does
00:02:02.200 we're going to look at aoc's wonderful speech about people are dying people are dying
00:02:16.280 because of global warming and it's a very serious issue and we'll talk about that coming up
00:02:25.100 with or without stew what was the second option again
00:02:30.460 this is the glenbeck program
00:02:34.480 you just don't i don't know why you don't like helium thursday it's gonna make that aoc thing
00:02:44.940 much easier to listen to did you hear her rant yesterday i did yes oh i mean it's hard to it's
00:02:52.660 hard to do worse than her so you were probably right on the helium oh my gosh it is so it is
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00:03:53.060 yeah yeah
00:03:56.640 jazio cortez on how the senate just did not take this bill seriously they did not take this bill
00:04:12.180 what they asked you to vote on it go vote on it you brought it up vote no no you're not taking it
00:04:20.240 seriously i'm saying you can vote on it right now no we got to talk about it wait a minute you got to
00:04:29.020 talk about it all of you guys have endorsed this you proposed it you said it was the most important
00:04:35.560 thing elizabeth warren came out and said it was the freaking moon shot it was as important if not more
00:04:41.640 important than going to the moon which i think a lot of democrats might relate to because i think
00:04:49.600 they've been deprived of oxygen for a while like you would if you lived on the moon he this is craziness
00:04:57.700 we're going to talk about that coming up in just a second but also the guy who i mean if we had
00:05:05.540 a scale and we could weigh the balls on a person i would think that jussie which is a stupid name
00:05:16.220 smallette equally as stupid uh i think he might win i i have a theory that he would not be nearly in
00:05:26.180 as much trouble if he would have not gone on abc and said yep i mean i'm just you know the police are
00:05:33.520 looking and i'm just so beaten up about this and i believe it and i think that just irritated the
00:05:38.780 police and the mayor so much that this guy had the balls to go on television and say that when it
00:05:45.480 wasn't true acting like the victim after he already faked acting like a victim correct is really
00:05:51.120 frustrating so really frustrating then when they dismiss the charges earlier this week he just
00:05:57.600 ratchets it up he's if you were innocent why did you pay ten thousand dollars that seems like a pretty
00:06:05.740 bad deal for a guy who's been vindicated okay so he gives up his bail money of ten thousand dollars
00:06:13.860 then he goes out and says again i've been completely vindicated which was not the deal i think he's even
00:06:22.900 in more trouble and then this is what his attorney says yesterday listen to this clearly you think the
00:06:31.700 police are not telling the truth about jussie are you going to sue we're weighing our options now for
00:06:36.560 jussie what's really important is he really just wants his career and his life back again he did not
00:06:41.640 ask for any of this he was a victim of a crime this has completely spiraled out of control and become
00:06:47.780 a political um event at this point and his goal and focus right now is just getting his life back
00:06:55.080 on track he has not even started healing from the initial attack because he's been dealing with
00:06:59.260 everything that's happened since then oh my oh my oh my so they're weighing their options there we don't
00:07:05.580 know we might sue the police you might sue the police forget the bleach you are just putting gasoline
00:07:13.580 all over yourself you're just and you're in a match factory it's crazy i mean they were lucky
00:07:20.680 enough to get the whole case sealed at this point even though the fbi is looking into it and we more
00:07:24.960 may come out but if they were to actually sue and open themselves up to all of the evidence coming out
00:07:31.180 anyway please please do it please do it please because this there needs to be some justice here and
00:07:37.660 you know again i i wasn't there we know that we know what he said happened didn't happen however
00:07:45.160 right like we know for a fact two white guys did not do not do it we know because we saw we have video
00:07:52.380 of the two people who were accused the two brothers with you'd be buying the bleach buying the rope
00:07:58.720 buying the mega buying the masks buying everything everything what were they doing were they were are
00:08:06.960 they are they uh some sort of profits where they bought that stuff because they were going to reenact
00:08:13.600 it in their own home just for fun later but they saw this event coming i mean what what what is the
00:08:20.420 other reason i want to know just that guys if this isn't true which the brothers say it is
00:08:27.880 guys if this isn't true why did you go out in the middle of the night to hardware store and buy all
00:08:35.720 this stuff what did you do with that what what what crazy list has those items on it except for let's go
00:08:47.080 throw bleach on somebody throw a noose around their neck shout you know this is trump country
00:08:54.120 what else yeah there's not a lot of them no you'd have maybe maybe well because you had an incident
00:09:01.400 uh similar to this recently in which you went to a yard sale and wanted to buy a blank canvas right
00:09:10.080 well no i just i look he's one of the campus just wanted canvas and you picked you picked up a painting
00:09:15.500 and it was very controversial yes you know me i'm into recycling right you're a big environmentalist as
00:09:23.020 you were just talking about with a green new deal yeah huge and uh so you picked up this painting
00:09:29.360 yeah at a yard sale i didn't buy it for the painting and i'm sorry i started seeing it after i got home
00:09:36.280 and i thought okay it's clearly unfinished right it's clearly undone unfinished and uh it it looks like
00:09:44.940 the way german propaganda used to make jews look it's like the artist wanted to make hitler
00:09:52.020 kind of look like that rat kind of guy yeah they used to make jews look like the victim of his own
00:09:58.280 propaganda correct then he's holding this piece of paper and i'm guessing it doesn't say anything on
00:10:03.840 it yet because it's unfinished i'm guessing but i'm thinking it probably was going to say uh you know uh
00:10:11.800 infanticide not rejected by the senate and so then there's this hitler kind of looking down at this
00:10:19.680 paper like what and then up above and it looks like the looks like the artist was just like i'm
00:10:25.120 just gonna throw this on here because i just i don't know if this is gonna work and it says wait
00:10:30.120 you mean i only had to call it planned parenthood right i mean an offensive uh controversial piece
00:10:38.400 of art i i thought and you as the 100th most important person in the world of art would know
00:10:44.160 yeah that that's a very controversial thing but again you just bought it at a yard sale for the
00:10:49.380 canvas correct nothing to do with this right perhaps these two brothers yeah were looking to
00:10:55.500 design a hat but had no blank hats okay they needed a white hat to be able to design their incredible
00:11:04.080 artwork on the only hat they could find was red and the only way to get it to white was bleach
00:11:09.700 ah so they bought a red hat they bleached okay red hat all right and the rope was simply like you
00:11:18.000 know when you um uh when you have like sunglasses and some people put the little little piece of
00:11:24.740 like you know a string on the back so like they can hold it around their neck yeah when they take
00:11:28.780 them off sure perhaps that it's chicago it's a windy area perhaps they were concerned this hat would
00:11:35.700 blow off of their heads so you put rope on the back of the back of the hat and tied it to maybe
00:11:40.320 still i think you're onto something in case well you tied it onto your waist well it wasn't just like
00:11:46.160 the glasses that just kind of hangs around your neck well it's young and around your neck it would
00:11:49.980 you know the hat could still blow off so you'd have to tie it to like your belt that's a good
00:11:55.160 fashion accessory first of all it's sexy i mean that's the one you could start there okay
00:11:59.520 we could start there that is higher rope i think that's i think that's very logical i think maybe
00:12:06.540 we should we should reenact this we should we should get a hat we should bleach it let's try it
00:12:11.220 use the rope let's try it around and see if because i mean if you did you watch making a murderer season
00:12:15.780 two by any chance no i did not uh it's on netflix of course and one of the big focuses of the second
00:12:21.240 season is they try all these other scenarios out that they think could explain the murder and they
00:12:28.120 just basically reenact let's do it can we do it tomorrow can we do it let's get the hat let's get
00:12:33.980 the bleach let's get the rope uh and uh will uh the making of the jesse smollett non hate mongering
00:12:45.700 friends that he had right right that's the great title i don't know if netflix takes it but maybe
00:12:53.140 right we're gonna do that tomorrow uh by the way the tmz founder uh let me play the audio here
00:13:00.200 um he said he's never seen anything like this is not the way celebrities are usually treated
00:13:05.480 i have never seen anything quite like this in my entire career nobody understands what really
00:13:13.280 happened here other than a few people in the state's attorney's office you're exactly right this
00:13:17.560 is bizarre makes no sense i've seen celebrities being handled differently sometimes more harshly
00:13:25.840 and sometimes less than the average joe but this case is different from the way all celebrities would
00:13:32.460 be treated there is something fundamentally different in this case i have never seen this
00:13:37.900 kind of a disposition where the state's attorney secretly says go to jesse jackson's for the weekend
00:13:43.760 spend a couple hours you know working on camera shots and then we'll call that community i've never
00:13:48.700 seen anything like that it's different from other celebs well you know now that's that was it's
00:13:59.260 probably the bleach and the hat thing right and the rope around the belt i think you you might be
00:14:04.380 on to something we'll pick that up on tomorrow's program booker had a town hall yesterday that was
00:14:10.440 pretty interesting he's he's i think right now you could just put him in the white house why even
00:14:15.660 have the election after that town hall it was so good well because we have to keep a democrat sure
00:14:20.440 we're gonna have we're going to have socialism but we want it to be democratic that's what we
00:14:26.180 okay so we want to we want to at least have the did you read that appearance of a vote did you read
00:14:29.680 the article about how uh the nazis weren't socialist the national gosh socialists were not socialist
00:14:37.360 as i was reading i was like they will literally do anything anything anything they will even say
00:14:42.760 the words that you know mean things that they don't it's crazy it's incredible it is unbelievable
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00:14:55.520 and they've been making this giant small snowball and rolling it up the hill and they're like we're
00:15:01.380 gonna get it to the top and it's gonna roll down the hill and crush everything and it's just stopped
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00:16:39.820 i have to tell you i um last night we watched uh green book have you seen green book i have not
00:17:00.640 one best picture right i don't i have no idea oh by the way we've got to get a movie review i was
00:17:07.420 invited to go see a screening of dumbo which i'm really nervous about because it's one of my
00:17:13.400 favorite movies but also really excited about it too right yes i'm very worried about it though
00:17:17.580 because it's tim burton and tim burton always misses the heart by this much just barely misses the mark
00:17:26.200 uh and you've been saying this for years this is one of the first like pop culture observations i can
00:17:33.380 remember from you really yeah i don't you've always every tim burton movie you say the same thing
00:17:37.260 it's but it's true he's not every single time but most time 99 percent of the time like edward
00:17:44.600 scissorhands i think hit it it hit the heart just right usually it just misses it and and you're like
00:17:53.840 well no no all you had to do was just a little bit of this and it would have hit the heart dumbo is
00:18:00.700 all about heart and i couldn't go they scheduled it twice and i just i just couldn't make it so i
00:18:08.240 sent marissa who is also a big disney fan and dumbo is one of your biggest one of the your favorite
00:18:14.360 movies disney nerd would probably be a better no there is no disney nerd thank you uh dumbo i
00:18:21.520 wouldn't say it's one of my favorites because it's so sad just like bambi i'm not a fan of emotion
00:18:26.160 quite like that oh my gosh well i don't like bambi either but the man in this scenario is the one who
00:18:32.340 likes the crying oh my gosh dumbo is so sweet it was so sweet emotional was it good okay so a lot of
00:18:40.960 the reviews are saying it missed the mark i 100 disagree though i thought it was excellent i thought
00:18:49.580 it was excellent because did you see um beauty and the beast live action did you like it i was okay it
00:18:56.060 was boring because it was the exact same as the cartoon so everyone's saying they don't like the
00:19:00.900 new dumbo because it's too different but it's refreshing to have something different i don't want
00:19:06.600 the cartoon in real life form the shot for shot remake in real life yeah it's not a good i kind of
00:19:12.520 like i kind of like it sometimes sometimes i'm like okay but i kind of like that there's they're
00:19:18.060 they're doing it you know right back to the uh the original i kind of really like that dumbo though
00:19:24.940 you can't it was only 70 minutes it was a short it was short so yeah it was 70 minutes so you have to
00:19:30.580 add more uh and then and also the animals don't talk in this one right the animals the
00:19:36.580 animals do talk talk in real life either marissa just so you're aware you don't know that and you
00:19:40.800 have to uh you have to dump a lot of dicey scenes today like the crows yep i mean the crows are like
00:19:48.220 they didn't make it in the film yeah i'm not surprised i don't remember the crows the crows are
00:19:53.160 singing i've seen and i've seen this fly i've seen that fly and you're like oh boy this is not going to
00:20:00.760 fly uh oh so yeah yeah so the black crows are not in this one uh so you've you've changed it but
00:20:11.060 all all i care about is the heart between dumbo and the mom mom it's still there and i think it's
00:20:20.360 unbelievable some people don't agree with me my husband didn't agree with it but i thought
00:20:24.920 that the the heart they gave dumbo was just so the animation it was like he was real it blew my
00:20:31.760 mind disney is killing it with the animation i think 70 minutes you know what is enough for some
00:20:37.240 movies though let's be honest about it not disney movies for example the new freak i know this is my
00:20:42.160 my jihad in life the new avengers movie is three hours and two minutes this is you're not okay wait
00:20:49.520 wait wait wait i would agree with you if they were doing you know uh captain america three hours
00:20:54.860 fine this is you don't you don't appreciate marvel movies this is all of the storylines coming
00:21:02.240 together that's what they do all the time they just throw all it's not they have a giant blender
00:21:06.960 and they take all the action figures and they throw it in and turn it on high and that's every
00:21:10.040 marvel movie it's really not all three hours is 14 marvel movies that's how much you all of the
00:21:16.200 movies are have led to this one storyline yeah i know it's the greatest crossover event since i got
00:21:22.860 no i just you can't tell it in i mean it's like telling the lord of the rings i hate to compare the
00:21:29.620 two but it's like the lord of the rings it takes three hours to tell that story no it didn't it took
00:21:35.260 way longer than three hours to tell that story they can't this one is taking about five six movies that
00:21:40.240 series i know i know i know and this one is you know it's comic book so it's not exactly
00:21:46.100 you know it's not lord of the rings so they're only doing it in five hours instead of how long
00:21:51.900 16 hours how long are these comic books is they're longer than the black book of communism
00:21:56.660 no but i just don't understand because it's years it's decades of stories they're telling what each
00:22:04.160 movie feels like decades that's the problem wrong on that i will tell you though if i were disney i
00:22:09.920 would be freaking out right now on what captain america has come out and said have you heard this
00:22:17.760 he's glenn that's a movie he's not even real yeah i know that's unbelievable he is you know the nice
00:22:24.100 thing about the marvel movies is they're not political at all they're not and they have just good
00:22:31.620 values and it's just good captain america has said he feels guilty for not not speaking out about
00:22:40.620 politics so he's gonna start his own uh super pack and he's gonna start speaking out shut up
00:22:46.780 shut up i don't care if your super pack was for you know donald trump or against donald shut up
00:22:54.720 captain america shut up you're listening to glenn beck walt should be he should be thawed and
00:23:02.380 defrosted and brought back to life just to say that shut up anyway uh let me tell you about uh let me tell
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00:24:18.820 little kid you probably loved when people spoke in high voices because of helium well it's helium
00:24:23.080 thursday so get ready
00:24:24.460 this is the glenn beck program um for some reason glenn and pad have decided to dedicate
00:24:43.460 a segment once a week to helium thursdays this is a segment in which they discuss something
00:24:51.800 while sounding like they're on helium this week on helium thursday they discuss the green new deal
00:24:59.300 hello pat hello glenn i want to talk to you about the serious issue of global warming and the new green
00:25:08.960 green new deal or the green new deal whichever right right so i don't know if anybody saw um aoc's speech
00:25:17.920 yesterday but i believe that it needs to be taken seriously oh and we're treating it with the utmost
00:25:25.560 seriousness all right so may i quote she said yesterday people are dying people are dying
00:25:37.280 and this is not an elitist issue this is a quality of life issue you want to tell people that their
00:25:46.780 concern and their desire for clean air clean water is elitist tell that to the kids in the south
00:25:54.780 bronx which are suffering from the highest rates of childhood asthma in the country tell that to the
00:26:01.900 families in flint who whose kids have their blood ascending in lead levels their brains are damaged for
00:26:10.100 the rest of their lives but didn't have anything to do with climate change by the way call them elitist
00:26:16.360 you're telling them that those kids are trying to get onto a plane to davos people are dying
00:26:25.360 they're dying and the response from the other side of the aisle is to introduce an amendment
00:26:34.260 for five minutes before a hearing in a markup
00:26:39.200 will no one take this seriously can you take it more seriously than putting it up for a vote
00:26:47.600 i don't i don't think you can i don't think you can uh i noticed that uh daisy harano daisy head maizey
00:26:57.960 yes uh she was asked if she wants to have it both ways because she didn't want the vote but she
00:27:05.620 is a co-sponsor of the bill and so she was asked yesterday even by katie tur on cnn if she's trying to
00:27:15.300 have it both ways yes and she said no this is an aspirational document oh it's aspirational i
00:27:24.400 thought you wanted i thought you wanted it to be a policy well why would you put the bill together
00:27:29.700 with all of the policies in it if it was just aspirational because i do know an aspirational
00:27:37.060 document but they seem to hate it's one that says something like uh all men are created equal
00:27:44.640 and endowed by their creator or something like that if this is just aspirational why don't you take
00:27:50.920 that document and stick it up your aspiration
00:27:54.900 that's my question to daisy head maizey well we talk about cost but we're gonna pay for this said
00:28:07.700 acasio cortez whether we do the new deal or not because towns and cities are going underwater
00:28:15.920 which ones i missed that report
00:28:20.960 oh there's lots of them there is malibu is underwater pretty sure
00:28:28.800 huh uh there is um um um um is miami miami's gotta be underwater yeah atlantis is underwater
00:28:42.560 that's true so there's lots of them anyway she says we're gonna pay for them and we're either
00:28:48.800 gonna decide if we're gonna pay or react we're gonna react and pay or be proactive and pay
00:28:56.860 she says i'm very sad that the government knew that climate change was real back in 1989 when nasa
00:29:06.200 was reporting this and the private sector knew it even before they knew it back in the 1970s
00:29:15.360 so we had to wait around until the time i was born to address this issue well but in the 1970s
00:29:26.680 it was global cooling right we were going into an ice age i know that so we're just taking it
00:29:33.860 please pat are you taking this seriously i am i am very concerned i wish it didn't have to cost so
00:29:41.860 much but i'm gonna turn 30 this year and for the entire 30 years of my lifetime we did not make
00:29:49.920 substantial investments to prepare our country for what we know is coming so we have a choice now
00:29:57.540 lower the cost now and pursue the new the green new deal or realize that it will cost far more
00:30:07.820 if we do not pass it this has been helium thursdays on the glenn beck program
00:30:16.280 powerful i think it's i think it's much more powerful it is it is it's at least you can at least
00:30:27.880 you can deal with it it gave that story the gravitas it deserves yes don't you think yes because they're
00:30:33.580 they're always saying that we just won't deal with things and and we should deal with them we
00:30:39.120 should deal with them seriously i think it is i think it is incredible that these clowns
00:30:44.920 actually put a bill together and then okay let's pass it all right we'll get it when was the last time
00:30:54.180 the democrat said okay you guys created a bill you did the border wall go ahead pass it let's vote on
00:31:04.280 it right now right they've never done that no never done that i wish they would i do too okay great
00:31:12.400 let's put everybody on record let's put everybody on record go ahead and what does ocasio cortez say
00:31:18.460 she says that she told everybody how to vote she said she told everybody that they had to vote present
00:31:26.720 that was the way to do it so are you telling me all you people running for president of the united
00:31:32.600 states that ocasio cortez is telling you how to vote that's what she's saying democrats oh she's saying
00:31:42.000 that she's telling you how to vote god i can't wait for this i can't wait for this fall oh man this
00:31:47.120 is gonna be so have you heard my snowball theory yet uh yes that the snowball has gotten so big and
00:31:53.380 they're pushing it uphill and it's about to roll back on yes yes because it's collecting all kinds
00:31:58.820 of stuff where it's becoming you know i talked yesterday about the creepy valley or the uncanny valley
00:32:05.220 do you know what the uncanny valley is no uncanny valley uncanny valley is a thing in cgi and animation
00:32:12.080 and we all have experienced it for instance you know when you went to see um the polar express
00:32:20.360 it was good but it wasn't it was just a little creepy the tom hanks character was just a little
00:32:26.560 creepy not creepy but just a little bit it wasn't off-putting it was off-putting it wasn't it wasn't
00:32:31.860 warm it wasn't you didn't want to embrace it you know what i mean yeah it's because they were trying
00:32:36.860 to make him look too human that's why pixar and everybody else when they do cgi they will make
00:32:42.820 their eyes really big they will distort the human features because as you get closer to looking just
00:32:49.620 like a human there's something innate in us that says ick when it's not exactly right we say ick
00:32:56.520 there's something wrong with that and that's called the uncanny valley so as you get closer and closer
00:33:01.180 to um you know having this human as cgi gets better and better and goes up this hill all of a sudden it
00:33:09.340 reaches a point to where it's too close but not right and it plunges down and it creeps people out
00:33:15.700 that's what's happening with the democrats right now they are the american people are compassionate
00:33:24.440 they're fair they don't want people to be racist nobody wants to be around nazis nobody wants people
00:33:32.560 to have sexual harassment so they've done all these things and they're getting closer and closer to like
00:33:39.040 you know the heart and they're like yeah this is this is this is us this is us this is us and it's going
00:33:45.640 up and then all of a sudden it goes too far and you're like oh wait a minute there's something really
00:33:53.740 wrong here and even if you can't put your foot finger on it it's just in all places with abortion
00:34:01.280 it went compassion compassion compassion compassion to uh-oh there's something wrong here i don't feel
00:34:07.000 good about where this is headed same thing with jesse smallette and we saw it with with um the me too
00:34:14.460 movement with um uh what's his name uh the supreme court justice uh um kavanaugh kavanaugh people were
00:34:23.620 like okay no this is a really good thing the me too movement then it started to get really creepy
00:34:28.100 and then it hit kavanaugh and it fell apart they're standing behind this giant snowball of social justice
00:34:34.860 green energy all of this stuff they've made this snowball it kept getting bigger and bigger and
00:34:40.720 they're just about up at the top and they're thinking we are going to roll it down into that
00:34:45.040 valley and we're going to crush everybody but the snowball i firmly believe has stopped
00:34:50.880 it's not rolling back yet but it's stopped and they're pushing harder and harder and pushing more
00:34:56.640 snow on it more things on it and they don't realize that that snowball because they keep doing this is
00:35:02.900 going to roll back and crush them what do you think of that i think i think it's a pretty good analogy i
00:35:08.260 think i think that could happen i hope it happens because otherwise we're doomed they always that
00:35:13.160 snowball goes over the top and down the other side we're done it's a it's a real problem yeah
00:35:17.380 it's done one way or another it's going to wipe it's going to wipe one one way or the other it's
00:35:22.120 going to wipe everything out it's either going to wipe out all this social justice you know there is
00:35:28.440 there there is no difference between male and female there is no right and wrong uh it's all about
00:35:34.480 social justice reverse the power pyramid of the most you know intersected being the most powerful
00:35:42.000 all of that if it rolls down the hill towards us they get to the top and it rolls down it that's
00:35:49.200 the world we will have but i have a feeling the american people are being creeped out by it it's
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00:37:46.620 welcome to the program um we have um tomorrow i'm going to be in salt lake city and i think
00:37:56.540 uh the two shows that i've promised to be at uh are are sold out i'm going to try to go to some
00:38:02.080 other um theaters and um and greet the audience at unplanned it is a new movie um that exposes
00:38:11.380 planned parenthood for what it is i want you to know when i say this this is one of those things
00:38:15.500 that i'd be driving in my car and i'd listen to and go yeah i should do that but then i'd never do
00:38:19.480 it because on the weekend i want to just i just want to unplug and i don't want any heavy issues
00:38:25.580 and i don't want to go to a movie that's heavy this is not a heavy movie i'm telling you it is
00:38:30.740 the most bizarre thing it will no no wait hear me out it's the most bizarre thing it will be one of
00:38:36.420 the heaviest things that you and your family could ever talk about and witness in especially in that 22nd
00:38:43.280 period and it will solidify your kids absolutely solidify abortion is murder um however you walk
00:38:52.320 out not heavy it's not like watching schindler's list or one of those movies you're like oh this
00:38:57.760 is going to be a dirge but it's good for me it's not it's you walk out feeling really good it's really
00:39:04.980 a positive movie all the way around there are no there you know the the women going in for the
00:39:10.940 abortion they're not torn apart the women working at the clinic they're not torn apart uh nobody
00:39:18.560 really it's just this is what this is and it's so grotesque you know you see it really you begin to
00:39:28.420 see it for what it really is this is a money-making venture period this is all about money and it's
00:39:35.020 grotesque so anyway i'm going out to salt lake because um you know there's this divide um between
00:39:44.940 uh religions and it's silly now i'm not talking about theology theology is another thing we can
00:39:51.040 argue about theology all we want but when it comes to life and everything else we are in this together
00:39:57.520 and if we're not we're toast and i think that with the country the way it is every person of faith and
00:40:05.720 i don't care what faith it is every person of faith if you believe that we have had divine providence
00:40:12.620 and protection in this country it's about to be gone and we all have to start standing up and the
00:40:19.520 and i really truly believe we can change what's happening with planned parenthood and abortion right
00:40:27.160 now we can change it i think it's going to be i think it'll end in the next 10 years if we do what
00:40:32.460 we're supposed to do i think it could end in the next five um and this movie will play a role in that
00:40:38.440 but we have to stand together please they've added like 10 shows to each of these theaters of
00:40:45.640 unplanned in in salt lake wherever you are there's a thousand theaters that are showing it please if you
00:40:53.400 are somebody uh that wants your children to understand and be forever solidified it is rated r but it's a
00:41:02.680 political rated r and we can explain it some other time uh if your kids are 13 take them to this movie
00:41:11.060 this weekend go as a family and take them this weekend it's critical you're listening to glenn beck
00:41:19.980 san antonio texas has banned chick-fil-a from the airport from the airport yeah yeah amazing amazing
00:41:35.940 i mean we're losing texas man it's it's happening fast texans are not awake to what is really happening
00:41:42.520 in texas they all just roll their eyes and like oh come on texas will be able to stay
00:41:46.320 no they're spending hundreds of millions of dollars to flip this state soros is all over this state
00:41:53.620 and if you lose texas you don't you you don't have a chance for the constitution ever i can't wait to tell
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00:43:08.780 the fusion of entertainment and enlightenment this is the glenbeck program so yesterday on my tv show i
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00:43:27.940 good where he has looked into claims of hate crimes and he has found that most of these are not true
00:43:35.380 most of these are not true now this is a a professor from kentucky he's a black guy so he has no axe to
00:43:43.580 grind here uh he's just looking at the stats so what does this mean this jussie smollett case what does
00:43:52.500 this mean to those who really would like to claim that there's a hate crime that's going on for political
00:44:00.160 reasons we're going to talk to him when we come back in one minute
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00:45:52.040 dr will reilly yesterday um about uh hate crimes tell me about quickly your search on hate crimes and
00:46:01.680 what you what you write about in uh hate crime hoax how did you come up with this what was your
00:46:07.560 methodology and what did you find well in a sentence the pitch line good to be back on with
00:46:13.520 you guys by the way thank you in a sentence yeah the the pitch line for hate crime hoax is that
00:46:18.420 very many probably most of the high profile widely publicized hate crime incidents that we've seen in
00:46:25.300 the recent past have turned out to be hoaxes so we recently saw the complete collapse of the
00:46:30.540 jussie smollett case uh just a bit before that the last my last appearance we discussed covington
00:46:35.340 catholic where the claim was that this group of prep school athletes had surrounded this elderly
00:46:40.420 native american guy they chanted build the wall odd thing to say to an indian they tried to take his
00:46:45.900 drum away uh but eastern michigan there was allegedly graffiti all over the campus targeting african
00:46:51.640 american students air force academy where j silberia literally came to the campus and spoke out
00:46:57.380 against racism one of our top generals uh grand rapids where a young black woman claimed that white
00:47:02.540 men urinated on her uh university of virginia where the fraternities were accused of holding
00:47:07.060 these sort of underground story of o style rape rings duke lacrosse to wanna brawley i mean you could
00:47:12.820 go back for decades with this sure all of the cases that i just mentioned turned out not to have
00:47:17.380 been real and a couple of years ago as a graduate student in chicago i became aware of this trend
00:47:22.280 because i was actually involved in a hate crime hopes case um the bar velvet ultra lounge velvet rope
00:47:29.400 ultra lounge which was a very trendy it was billed as a hipster bisexual nightlife experience if i
00:47:35.420 recall correctly very chicago but um this trendy bar that a couple of my friends and one of my ex
00:47:41.600 girlfriends would attend from time to time burned to the ground this was i believe in 2013
00:47:45.420 and the claim of the owner was that throughout the bar there were written these horrendous anti-gay
00:47:51.760 slurs um you know gasoline or some accelerant had been used to set the place on fire he had been
00:47:57.920 targeted with hate so i sort of college casually followed that case like most young professionals
00:48:03.000 in chicago at the time and as i did that i became aware of another case which involved a guy named
00:48:07.840 derrick cockaline at the university of chicago uh this was a student activist uh typical cliche guavara
00:48:14.200 type campus radical but he uh claimed that his facebook and twitter page had been hacked and
00:48:20.580 these very violent messages threatening him with things that are never okay brutal rape and so on
00:48:25.080 had been sent to him by conservative students so i was paying attention to both these cases and there
00:48:29.480 were a few others going on in the midwest at the time uh at grand valley state a young black woman
00:48:34.240 claimed that during black history month someone had broken into her room i believe and written
00:48:39.360 anti-black epithets on kind of the whiteboard that college students keep
00:48:42.600 uh at michigan tech a white student was suspended for allegedly initially saying he was going to
00:48:47.980 shoot all the black people on campus it turned out he said he was going to shoot them a smile on twitter
00:48:52.120 that was photographed using screenshots it was miscropped to make him look like a racist
00:48:57.660 but as i follow these local cases they all collapsed i mean four or five big name high profile cases you
00:49:04.480 can still find in the velvage ultra lounge case you had a bizarre situation where the owner apparently
00:49:10.400 owed a lot of money to in chicago perhaps people you wouldn't necessarily want to owe money to
00:49:14.780 he'd racked up a lot of debt and he just set the place on fire burned it to the ground
00:49:19.600 and then claimed it was a hate crime so held a fundraiser where he raised something like thirty
00:49:25.360 thousand dollars paid off his debts and opened a new business so the story that actually emerged was
00:49:30.020 kind of a circus as i understand he owns a bar called bonsai bar in chicago today
00:49:33.860 um but following these cases and watching them collapse as they did as i said at michigan tech
00:49:40.900 the student matt schultz turned out to be a complete anti-racist christian guy as i recall no racial
00:49:46.000 prejudices he had actually said i'm going to shoot everyone a smile tomorrow to tone down these racial
00:49:50.640 tensions and a campus activist had taken that message screenshot it and cropped it to make him look
00:49:55.920 like a shooter so after these cases all collapsed i decided to use modern empirical methods which i had
00:50:02.540 access to at that time's data the more advanced spss programs you know data crunching computers as i
00:50:08.320 was a grad student at a good university and see how frequent this stuff was and as i graduated and i
00:50:14.480 went into academia i compiled a full list of these cases i have 516 cases of hate crime hoax and i put
00:50:20.500 the book together and that recently was published on february 26th with regnery a large conservative
00:50:25.600 publisher and i mean you asked about methodology a lot of it's simply looking uh really using google
00:50:32.380 scholar um being advanced j store any of these resources to look for you know hate crime 2016 2017
00:50:41.420 pick up the cases that you see and then see how many of them survive to the end so i defined a fake
00:50:48.900 hate crime as a case where there's a serious report um either mass media coverage or police report about
00:50:55.400 93 percent of the time it was both that turns out to have either never occurred or to have been staged by
00:51:01.680 a quote-unquote victim or to have been committed by people very very differently from those
00:51:06.420 originally alleged to have committed it and they're not infrequent um kind of kind of last point here
00:51:13.000 but i will say i'm not the only person ever to research this it just until this book had been almost
00:51:18.140 an underground thing so you had www.fakehatecrimes.org that's a great resource but that's just an internet
00:51:25.220 site hosted by a couple of independent researchers you have the fake hate map but that as i recall is
00:51:31.280 on reddit or it's taken off reddit now it has its own site but again that's not affiliated with the
00:51:35.400 university but i looked through those resources and i compared them to my list and i found that in most
00:51:39.960 of the cases on those lists were also real they were hoaxes that had occurred they just hadn't been
00:51:44.620 widely documented so using all those tools basically in a sentence i put the book together
00:51:48.640 i sold it and the response to it has been good okay so what how how how common are these how what
00:51:55.700 is the percentage of hate crimes that are hoaxes it's actually a bit i'm going to give an estimate
00:52:01.800 but it's actually a bit difficult to estimate that um so over most of my cases are concentrated in a
00:52:08.220 period of about five years i did a lot of research in 2017 as i started i started in grad school around
00:52:13.180 2012 so you've got 516 cases concentrated very heavily between 2012 and 2017 what an opponent
00:52:20.320 would say someone who argues that there are a lot of hate crimes is well there are 7 000 hate crimes
00:52:26.080 reported every year so that's still only five percent or whatever it might be of the cases
00:52:30.680 there there are two issues with that first of all only about one in ten hate crime cases is nationally
00:52:37.160 reported to the extent where a researcher like myself could ethically see a story where it begins
00:52:42.460 and a story where it ends and put it in the data set so i'm really looking at about 700 cases a year
00:52:47.980 not 7 000 that would even be available to me where you've had that kind of media coverage
00:52:52.480 uh so i mean first of all the most baseline estimate would be okay 516 out of you know
00:52:57.760 seven times five out of 3500 um but that brings in some other questions though uh when you look at
00:53:04.860 hate crime reports in the case of most crimes if you're talking about murder it's hard to ignore a
00:53:09.600 corpse if you're talking about burglary where there's someone in your house the number of
00:53:13.960 reports is pretty much equivalent to the number of crimes uh with hate crimes that doesn't really
00:53:20.140 seem to be true so there's 7 000 reports in a typical year but the rate of conviction in hate
00:53:27.620 crime cases seems to be between five and ten percent so in california in the most recent year on record
00:53:35.000 which is 2016 you had 931 reported hate crimes most on college campuses which i think is interesting
00:53:40.600 but of those only 220 were shot along by the police to the process the prosecution which is a very basic
00:53:48.340 standard that means we have a suspect and we believe this wasn't a hoax we have any kind of
00:53:52.680 suspect and this probably happened of those only 51 led to a conviction and that includes all plea bargains
00:53:58.420 so i guess my numbers would be over five years you're looking at 3500 nationally reported cases
00:54:03.660 i've got say because they're not all in this period 450 hoaxes that's a rate of say 15 but the real
00:54:10.540 comparison to me would be between hoaxes and convictions so i mean if those 3500 cases produce
00:54:17.580 350 convictions the final number would be you have 350 convictions and 450 hoaxes so there's a very high
00:54:26.960 rate of hoaxing in this field i don't think anyone the numbers there are a little estimated but pretty
00:54:32.740 much on point like i don't think anyone could dispute there are a large number of these so i'm
00:54:36.620 going to take a one minute break and then i'm going to come back and i want to talk to you is there any
00:54:39.820 is there any tell that happens in these fake hoaxes uh do they have do they have anything in in common
00:54:48.720 uh but also what i'm going to bring it back to chicago and i'll start here the jesse smollett case
00:54:55.880 with him being um he says vindicated and with half the country i don't even think half the country
00:55:04.600 with 20 of the country they'll look at it as vindication and the other will not what are the
00:55:10.700 ramifications of that uh and what does that tell somebody else who is prone to be a uh hate crime
00:55:18.900 uh hoaxer we'll we'll continue the conversation here in just a second uh this is uh dr will reilly
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00:57:04.100 i think what jesse smollett uh doctor everybody is you know everybody's looking at this and i don't
00:57:22.100 want to judge but it looks pretty bad um for jesse smollett uh i mean it really looks pretty open and
00:57:28.960 shut it i don't know what happened in chicago but here's what i'm concerned about it's not as much
00:57:35.160 with jesse or jesse it's much more uh to me about what does this say about justice in our country um
00:57:45.340 you know we don't want to do anything that makes people feel like you can get away with it or
00:57:53.140 or somebody else can get away with it because of their wealth or their status or their color
00:57:58.440 yeah i mean i think at the most basic economic level if you encourage bad behavior you get more
00:58:05.960 of it is it do you think about do you think what's happening in chicago is encouraging it
00:58:10.660 i do to be fair um to put it politely i think that the decision to drop the smollett charges was a very
00:58:18.120 questionable legal decision so i mean in this case there was literally a video of the
00:58:22.820 two nigerian brothers involved in the case that the osandario brothers buying red hats and ski
00:58:28.860 masks and pieces of knotted rope a few days before the assault and this isn't me talking as a political
00:58:34.600 commentator i mean you can literally find that by googling video shows brothers linked to smollett
00:58:39.400 attack buying all items that's from national cbs it's still live on youtube um the brothers themselves
00:58:47.740 say that jesse smollett paid them to commit the attack they have a 3500 signed check from jesse
00:58:55.100 smollett for something like physical development i mean it's not my my initial impression looking at
00:59:02.240 this was this is the strongest criminal case i've seen since oj simpson which became very ironic the
00:59:08.140 next day but i mean the prosecution in this case it's worth noting they've stated bluntly that
00:59:13.720 whatever he might say that's their quote they did not acquit jesse smollett uh smollett still had to
00:59:19.540 pay at least ten thousand dollars in bond he forfeited all of the money that he had with the state
00:59:24.020 um he was given credit for some pretty substantial community service in the past he might have to do
00:59:29.440 more the technique used to terminate the case was what's called a no lay proseki that's not a not
00:59:35.880 guilty it's not any kind of acquittal it's a technical dismissal that's often used with guilty
00:59:40.340 defendants and i mean you literally saw this incredible scene where the deputy prosecutor
00:59:45.520 who was probably told to drop these charges by his boss sort of disgustedly said no we still think
00:59:50.920 he's guilty and then across town eddie johnson good cop uh stood up and said chicago's police
00:59:56.760 superintendent this is a travesty of justice rahm emmanuel who's the leftist democratic mayor of the
01:00:02.360 city said this is one of the most ridiculous decisions he's ever seen so there's no chance that
01:00:07.500 jesse smollett did not do this the real question is why was the decision made to drop all charges
01:00:13.660 against a guilty man essentially it's interesting uh doctor when we went back and the story initially
01:00:19.160 happened we were we thought to ourselves this seems to happen a lot particularly with trump supporters in
01:00:23.960 which they're accused of doing these sort of hate crimes and then we would find out later that
01:00:27.800 they're hoaxes and so we went back and pulled a bunch of these stories and you know we we saw that
01:00:34.000 pattern very clearly however one pattern i didn't really expect to see was how many of the people
01:00:39.740 who were caught in a hoax wound up having little to no punishment for perpetrating the hoax is that
01:00:47.520 common because part of me thinks that this smollett story and the way they've treated it isn't quite as
01:00:53.060 uh uncommon as we may have thought well i mean i mentioned uh just in kind of the intro or i did the
01:01:00.600 brief monologue i mean i mentioned about 12 of these cases so now the only thing that is notable
01:01:04.980 about jesse smollett is that he happened to be a very famous man he was the second lead on empire
01:01:10.300 and he described something so cinematic that this became a national or international story
01:01:15.140 but in every other respect normal middle class taxpayer either leftist or nowadays sometimes alt-right
01:01:21.560 claims that a ridiculous thing happened garners local or even regional media attention
01:01:26.840 and then is exposed as a hoaxer and nothing happens that is the pattern for uh hate crime
01:01:32.120 hoaxes in fact very rarely are people punished in these cases uh generally when someone is punished
01:01:38.060 what i saw i believe 74 percent of the time was that they received this is in case there was any
01:01:43.380 punishment at all they receive a single misdemeanor charge of something like false report
01:01:48.080 um disorderly conduct that's how that would generally be treated very in the you see the same thing in
01:01:54.480 many fake uh false sexual assault uh cases very rarely is someone charged with the equivalent of
01:01:59.100 what they claimed happened um in jesse smollett's case he was but the charges were almost immediately
01:02:04.840 dismissed and as you said i mean the line in the law is that justice has to be blind but also has to
01:02:10.560 carry a sword so be fair but also be ruthless enough to keep the public peace and when you do see
01:02:17.000 something like the dismissal of 16 felony counts you have to question whether that's happened but it's not
01:02:21.840 uncommon no because it's interesting we have this situation where we the the the glory of being a
01:02:27.880 victim in our society today seems to be so high the incentive to to become a victim is now something in
01:02:33.380 the american culture for whatever reason and yet we don't disincentivize people from faking it because
01:02:38.640 we never we never seem to to punish that behavior i mean that that that is that's a weird structure
01:02:44.340 for incentives and i think it's it's creating a lot of this isn't it yes well i think the two
01:02:49.360 phenomena tie together so i mean first of all you're absolutely right that american culture
01:02:53.160 glorifies victimhood which is odd really when you look opposite of when you look yeah well when you
01:02:59.580 look at a hero story you're not supposed to cheer for the dragon but you're also not supposed to
01:03:03.340 cheer for the prince or princess tied to the rock you're supposed to cheer for the hero being a victim
01:03:07.620 is a temporary situation that you fight your hardest to escape i was poor as a young man now i'm not
01:03:12.800 and that's the traditional understanding of victimhood i do think that because of this idea of
01:03:18.420 intersectionality and now we're almost getting into philosophy but intersectionality on the
01:03:22.180 activist left is the more oppressed you are the more right you have to talk the more value your
01:03:27.740 lived experience has ben shapiro the conservative commentator has done some good monologues about
01:03:32.360 this because of that idea i do think that victimhood itself has gained kind of a premium um
01:03:39.460 in terms of not punishing people for faking victimhood i think that ties to the idea that victimhood is
01:03:45.400 valuable because so many hate hoaxers do happen to be on the political left because many happen
01:03:50.580 to be people of color the question that's often asked is do we want to prosecute do we want a
01:03:55.180 bunch of big upper middle class white and black guys in suits and police uniforms shouting at this
01:04:00.540 person that's in some victim group that claimed they were abused that's now going to say they have
01:04:05.500 a drug problem that's now going to say they were mentally ill that's going to drag the trial out as
01:04:10.140 painfully as possible do we want to be in that position so very often what you see is a bunch of
01:04:14.260 big cops just disgustedly giving up this is literally eddie johnson we start crumpling his hat
01:04:19.060 just giving up and saying okay and that is a problem that is a real problem dr wilfred
01:04:24.940 riley author of hate crime hoax thanks for being on back in a minute you're listening to glenn
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01:05:58.360 so part of my job in this in this time when everybody seems to be running for something
01:06:13.680 all the time and so you don't know what people really mean until they do it and you can't really
01:06:19.260 trust anybody what anybody says in a run-up to an election because they'll run any direction that
01:06:25.260 they want look at the democratic party running so far left they will eventually when they coalesce
01:06:32.400 around somebody then they will run to the right uh who do you believe when you can't believe the media
01:06:39.420 and you don't really know what the hell is going on what what is really happening and when it comes to
01:06:47.960 uh health care this is costing us so much money as individuals businesses are struggling people are
01:06:56.840 struggling there is real pain and our our health care system is so screwed up now that it's far worse
01:07:04.800 than it's ever been and we're i think the people in washington are going to kill it now there's a story
01:07:13.640 that came out earlier that showed that donald trump said hey we've got to be the party of health care
01:07:18.960 i don't even know what that means we should be the party of the free market that's the way to fix it
01:07:25.940 really open up the free market but i don't think anybody's really talking about that and there is a court case
01:07:33.340 that i'm not sure if if people are just hyping this because they think it'll get votes or if it's real
01:07:41.920 but texas has decided to sue and say you know the individual mandate you said the court said it was
01:07:51.260 not a fee it was a tax and because it was a tax it's constitutional the obama administration said and
01:07:59.920 by the way if you get rid of the mandate then you get rid of the entire health care system because it
01:08:05.660 doesn't work and it the whole thing collapses so texas is saying well there is no tax because it's
01:08:12.700 zero so there is no mandate we should abolish all of it california of course is coming out blah blah
01:08:20.060 blah donald trump has said uh that he is not going to go to court and defend obamacare is this a big
01:08:28.420 deal what does it all mean the other part of my job is to try to figure it out and and bring in the
01:08:34.240 people who actually follow this for a living and know it uh philip klein is an expert on this he's
01:08:39.620 executive editor at the washington examiner he's also an author of overcoming obamacare um what is
01:08:47.720 really happening philip well there are a few things happening i think it's pretty clear that that what
01:08:55.320 happened is that republicans through four election cycles promised that they were going to repeal and
01:09:01.440 replace obamacare and when they had a chance to do it they couldn't uh at the time i said this was the
01:09:08.120 biggest broken promise in american history because never before had you had a promise that uh office
01:09:14.900 holders in one party at every level of government state local federal said we're going to repeal this
01:09:21.320 thing and then they had a chance and they didn't do it and i now that uh president trump is in re-election
01:09:28.240 mode he recognizes that um this is a big problem that he didn't deliver on his promise to repeal and
01:09:36.640 replace and so uh because democrats control the house there's not much you can do so now uh he's
01:09:45.800 looking to the courts i think that this uh particular case and i've written a lot about it
01:09:52.700 um i was a big proponent of the challenge to obamacare in 2012 and i was outraged by um uh chief
01:10:01.720 justice roberts's decision um but in this case i think the argument is much weaker and i don't think
01:10:11.940 that it really has a chance at the supreme court because of the fact that they need um john roberts
01:10:19.420 to uh sign on to it and if he refused to uh overturn obamacare when the mandate had a penalty
01:10:30.240 attached and it was more it had more coercive power and even he found a way to rule that that's
01:10:37.600 constitutional now that the tax is zero dollars uh it's very doubtful that he's gonna somehow
01:10:45.160 revisit that and say he wants to to um uh overturn it particularly because in 2012 when the supreme
01:10:54.240 court originally heard the case nobody had benefited from obamacare yet there was you know the exchange
01:11:00.620 didn't open until 2014 so at that point they could have struck down obamacare and it wouldn't
01:11:07.420 have harmed anyone whereas now if the supreme court were going to strike it down then millions of
01:11:14.900 people who receive benefits would lose those benefits now you and i have a different view of
01:11:21.080 what government's power should be but the reality is that that's going to weigh on john roberts he
01:11:27.200 found a way to enable obamacare the first time he's not going to destroy it now that millions of people
01:11:32.960 depend on it uh for a case that is has a weaker legal argument what do you think philip about the
01:11:39.420 way he handled this there's a story now that's come out um that john roberts i mean he contorted
01:11:45.980 himself into a pretzel um and changed his mind all the things that we had heard rumor of now been
01:11:52.920 verified that he was looking at the image of the court and not the actual law he just wanted to save
01:12:02.840 the and protect the image of the court that that that to me is impeachable as a supreme court uh
01:12:10.980 justice uh you know go ahead i mean it was yeah there's this new book out um and i wrote uh wrote
01:12:19.820 something on it because it's a biography of john roberts and his time on the supreme court and there's
01:12:26.400 a chapter on his deliberations in obamacare and what was pretty revealing to me is that if you read
01:12:33.340 the book if you trust this account then effectively he treated the uh supreme court like a legislative body
01:12:44.420 um and there are many points in the book where it says he was conflicted between his head and his heart
01:12:50.260 what his head said you know the law said versus the idea of overturning a law that was meant to
01:12:58.220 address the health insurance crisis and when they first voted on the the law the it according to
01:13:05.220 the book roberts voted to overturn the individual mandate and actually uphold the medicaid expansion
01:13:13.200 decision and the actual decision ended up being the opposite because of all the horse trading that
01:13:20.200 went on uh the other conservatives on the the bench thought that all of obamacare had to go with the
01:13:27.180 mandate when uh he was on roberts was uncomfortable with that so he went to the liberals and said okay
01:13:35.320 if i say that it's okay as a tax will you sign on to the overturning the medicaid portion
01:13:42.360 so effectively the way it seems as though he decided that he wanted to overturn part of obamacare
01:13:50.940 but substantially keep it intact and then he reversed engineered a legal argument to get to that point
01:13:58.760 and negotiated with the various justices to get agreement on that as opposed to just narrowly being
01:14:06.040 dictated by what is the law say and what is this allowable under the constitution and i think
01:14:12.160 that's very worrisome when you when you look at the future and and and um you know the the reason
01:14:20.180 why i think my personal opinion the gop didn't get rid of obamacare is because they didn't have a
01:14:26.720 replacement and they are looking at repeal and replace i don't want it replaced i want the free market
01:14:32.800 opened up uh i i want the laws that have have made this uh a very profitable game for for uh some people
01:14:42.840 uh to go away let me buy insurance across state lines etc etc just open up the free market donald trump
01:14:51.180 when he says we have to be the party of health care what do you think that means and what do the
01:14:57.460 people is there anybody that is looking at the free market is that chance of ever coming back in your
01:15:03.000 opinion i think it's very unlikely look in in 2015 i saw all of this coming and i wrote my book
01:15:11.840 overcoming obamacare and what that did is it said right now the rights divided on obamacare there's
01:15:18.400 plenty of plans out there contrary to the myth that republicans don't have a plan the in actuality
01:15:24.800 there were a lot of plans there were too many nobody could agree on one single approach so i
01:15:30.180 said okay here are the three basic approaches ranging from reforming uh obamacare to make it
01:15:38.160 less restrictive to what you're saying which i said let's restart and move in a purely female market
01:15:45.360 direction and completely scrap it right and i said here are basically the three different paths you can
01:15:51.400 choose and republicans have to decide on this and fight this out among themselves now so that when
01:15:59.540 they have a position when they're in a position to do something they could hit the ground running
01:16:03.780 obviously they didn't take my advice and all of the fights uh that i predicted um several years in
01:16:12.400 advance played out and nothing was agreed on and so i think it's a real problem and it continues to be
01:16:20.360 the problem because say what you want about the democrats they know what they want to do they want
01:16:25.000 to take over everyone's health care they want the private insurers out of it they want one single
01:16:30.920 government insurer and they want that insurer to dictate prices to doctors and hospitals and everyone
01:16:37.320 to be on the same plan that we know what they want and they're very clear about it and the only argument
01:16:43.000 on the left is how quickly they can get there on the right there's there is this sort of disagreement
01:16:50.280 because you have people that are trying to be democratic light and they're trying to say well
01:16:55.240 let's expand medicaid a little less let's you know provide a little fewer subsidies and the argument i made
01:17:02.840 during the whole repeal debate is look the bill that you're writing that's trying to make all these
01:17:08.760 accommodations to the left is is a twenty percent support it's getting attacked by the left and
01:17:16.360 you know the media so why not go to an actual free market plan that's going to reduce people's premiums
01:17:23.400 if you said that we're going to have a plan that allows people to purchase the type of health insurance
01:17:28.600 that they want it would be a totally you know we'd have a totally different system and that's the
01:17:34.600 problem is that we have a system in which people think either the government or their employer are
01:17:40.520 picking everything up so the normal free market mechanisms that work in every other part of the
01:17:47.080 free market um you know aren't applicable to health care for that reason and the you know i make the example
01:17:56.360 my book like look at the you know look at an iphone right in in you know 20 years ago there was this famous meme
01:18:05.480 on the internet a few years back where it showed a radio shack ad from the 1990s and it had
01:18:12.120 a video camera and a answering machine and a telephone and an alarm clock and all of these things that you could now
01:18:21.480 carry around in your pocket because there is competition um for people to make to innovate
01:18:29.880 and to um find a way to bring down prices and increase quality over time and you know the power
01:18:39.000 of what i carry around in my pocket is drastically different from you know what existed within my own
01:18:47.000 lifetime and there's no reason that that type of innovation can't happen in health care beyond the
01:18:51.960 fact that we have a bit of them in which everything is rigged from the top down and where government
01:18:58.600 sets all the rules or everything has to be rigged through the employer people don't have any choice
01:19:04.920 over what type of insurance they have and you know if republicans don't rally around the plan i could
01:19:12.280 tell you exactly what's gonna happen you're gonna have democrats take over if not in 2020
01:19:16.840 2021 then in 2025 someday and they're going to want to go in the direction of single-payer they
01:19:22.920 may not get there overnight but they'll try to you know they'll expand obamacare they'll end
01:19:29.480 with you know a government plan to obamacare and rig the game so that millions and millions of
01:19:34.920 people shift over to that that's what the argument is on the left right now philip klein executive
01:19:40.200 editor of washington examiner also the author of overcoming obamacare thanks so thanks so much for
01:19:45.000 talking to me um i i want to play something because what he just said is in 2021 or 2025 they will take
01:19:51.240 over and the way he said it reminded me of the trojan horse audio now this is this is such important
01:19:59.640 audio this is what we played at fox and it was inside uh the left who was who was this uh stew do you
01:20:07.880 remember uh jacob something from the tides foundation yeah and he was talking to a group
01:20:15.960 of leftists and and policy makers and he was talking about obamacare and how we are going to
01:20:21.960 do obamacare but don't worry about obamacare come together now where are the secret meetings of us saying
01:20:28.520 okay we're gonna do this but don't worry it's a trojan horse to get us back to a free market
01:20:34.120 are there any anybody that actually believes in that anymore listen to what they said we played
01:20:39.880 this we talked about it almost every night for almost a year and it was dismissed listen to it
01:20:47.240 i someone once said to me this is a trojan horse for a single payer and i said well it's not a trojan
01:20:51.400 horse right it's just right there i'm telling you we're gonna get there over time slowly but we'll
01:20:58.200 move away from reliance on employment-based health insurance as we should but we'll do it in a way that
01:21:03.160 we're not going to to frighten people into thinking they're going to lose their private
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01:24:57.000 i am you know i i tell you we've got quite a controversy going on about that that painting
01:25:01.640 that i bought at a yard sale uh that we'll have to get to we talked about a little bit yesterday
01:25:05.960 also i don't know about used to tax day is coming up oh i feel super charitable don't you feel
01:25:12.040 charitable don't you feel like a good good person that you're doing your american duty and uh and you
01:25:19.640 can just pay all this in taxes and i just feel like oh i'm giving the bit the world a big hug every
01:25:27.080 april 15th to be clear i don't feel like i'm getting screwed no i want to make sure people understand
01:25:32.920 no we're talking charity and we'll get into that in 60 seconds
01:25:39.720 this is the glenbeck program there's a new way to avoid pain glenn really yeah new way and you might
01:25:45.400 think what about sticking needles into me would that be a good way to avoid pain i know a lot of
01:25:49.800 people are on that bandwagon no but i want to be like getting a shot right like yeah getting a shot
01:25:54.680 that's a great way to avoid pain yeah um however you might think well what if that needle is lubricated
01:26:00.200 that might not work well that's why they have dry needling if you could just get that needle to be
01:26:06.600 dry when they stick it into you that is the new way to avoid pain well it is dry isn't it i mean i
01:26:13.960 don't know what they're coating it with luckily nothing nice and dry nice dry needles the therapy
01:26:19.320 has small needles injected into the areas of the muscle and will uh supposedly relieve your pain i don't
01:26:23.960 know if that's a whole bunch of needles just right into your right into your body yeah perfect yep
01:26:27.960 you can try that's like if you have a bad headache i tell my wife all the time i'll punch you in the
01:26:31.160 stomach and you you won't think about your head anymore how about that no it doesn't work doesn't
01:26:34.760 work no uh although she usually hits me i'm i'm an abuse help me i'm abused anyway uh relief factor
01:26:42.360 if you want to get out of pain relief factor relieffactor.com try it i've it's working for me try it uh
01:26:49.000 it's 70 of the people that do they take it as directed for three weeks they see a massive decrease in
01:26:55.720 their pain i know i have 800-583-84 800-583-84 or relieffactor.com stew i'm gonna give you something
01:27:05.160 here all right it's because i'm not gonna give it to you it was given to me for my charity for my
01:27:13.320 charity i wanna i'll throw it over throw it over to you on there yes there it is look at that oh my
01:27:20.120 gosh now this should not piss you off if you lived in my in my town this would not piss you off
01:27:29.320 that is uh it's a nice coin it's a nice coin challenge challenge coin and i guess uh it it comes
01:27:35.880 from the my fire station in your town yes uh wow this is really nice why it's nicer than almost any it's
01:27:46.600 nicer than the challenge coin i have received from presidents it is really nice it's heavy yes
01:27:53.640 beautiful beautiful all carved with the new firehouse on it yeah they have a whole yeah an
01:27:58.440 actual engraving of it and it looks like a very large firehouse well it is it is it's very good
01:28:03.800 throw it back over here because this is this is just my this is my reward for being charitable
01:28:08.280 and every family got one now well they didn't just come in the mail we got a an invitation of
01:28:15.560 very slick full color nicer than some wedding invitations i've ever received everybody in my
01:28:24.280 town got one now remember when you were doing wedding invitations and you were thinking oh my gosh
01:28:30.600 this price of these things is gonna kill me and you were like i can't send out any more
01:28:34.760 invitations because we can't afford just the invitations let alone the food right my town
01:28:41.240 everyone in my town got one and it was for the grand opening of a brand new firehouse now what
01:28:50.280 why would you want to be invited to the opening of a firehouse well you haven't seen a firehouse
01:28:54.280 till you've seen this one this firehouse this firehouse if it cost 10 million it cost a dime
01:29:03.320 okay uh and uh i've gone to the firehouse now i want to make it very clear i have nothing wrong
01:29:09.720 with the firefighters i want the firefighters to that were currently they've been in this like this
01:29:14.120 metal shack okay they've been in there ever since i've lived there i i drive by it and i'm like
01:29:19.800 come on guys we can treat our firemen a little better than this can't we but they've gone from a
01:29:24.440 metal shack to i am not making this up a a firehouse nicer than my house or anyone i know in the
01:29:35.640 neighborhood okay and i live in a nice neighborhood stew you've been to my house yes but did we did did
01:29:43.080 did the the builder chintz on anything in our house no it's very nice very nice very nice very nice
01:29:49.560 now this fireplace or this firehouse uh has uh it's very nice it has a movie theater in it
01:29:59.400 with the automatic blinds that come down and and well you're really manual blinds no you wouldn't
01:30:05.880 want that no beautiful leather seats now this is high quality leather these are beautiful seats
01:30:11.400 and the seats where the head rest is all embroidered with the uh fire seal the fire you know the badge
01:30:21.880 uh on every single seat i don't have a movie theater in my house i don't have those kinds of seats in my
01:30:31.480 house and if i did have those kinds of seats i don't think i could afford to have them embroidered
01:30:37.960 every single one with the logo of the firehouse yeah uh it has this beautiful wolf stove in it and
01:30:49.640 again i don't i mean you want an industrial stove but it has top of the line everything now here's
01:30:56.120 here's my problem this this firehouse literally is nicer than my home much nicer than my home
01:31:07.960 okay if anybody saw my home up for sale it's not cheap and b it's nice this is far nicer are you
01:31:18.120 looking at pictures on the internet yes i'm doing some research yeah far nicer than my home it has a
01:31:24.200 bistro in it i'm a bistro a bistro not a vending machine no it has a bistro in it because we you know
01:31:31.240 the that it's nice to have a vending machine if you're working there for a long time this has a
01:31:35.240 a bistro soda machine maybe yeah it has a full kitchen off to the side but it also has a bistro
01:31:41.800 where you could come in and have coffee and pastries and maybe a little sandwich okay you know uh it has
01:31:48.760 a beautiful patio with a fireplace and outdoor televisions and it's just great nobody's getting
01:31:55.080 into the firehouse i mean because you might want to rob oh i don't know anything in this firehouse so
01:32:01.160 you can only get in with biometric prints so every door is a fingerprint lock
01:32:10.040 because someone might break into the fireplace i don't know i don't know but every lock is a
01:32:15.000 fingerprint lock okay this thing is the doors of this firehouse the door when i when i rebuilt our
01:32:23.400 our uh house up in idaho these people trying to gouge us they were like well these doors are the best
01:32:29.480 doors and the best blah blah blah and i'm like well how much are they they're like oh they're fifteen
01:32:33.640 hundred dollars a door and i'm like i can get them for a hundred bucks let's go let me go to a
01:32:39.000 reclamation site i'm gonna get a bunch of old doors well they won't match well neither do all my kids
01:32:45.480 so what the hell hell these doors just the doors yeah of the firehouse they have these big beautiful
01:32:54.520 uh red doors and don't get me wrong it's beautiful and don't get me wrong i'm glad the firemen do not
01:33:00.360 have to do this disclaimer set with us let me tell you because this is one of those things they do they
01:33:04.600 build these taj mahal schools and if you oppose as pat as there's one pat always references that has
01:33:10.600 two separate arboretums inside of it yes and it's like if you say well is one arboretum enough you hate
01:33:18.520 children yes is is uh you know the nicest doors you've ever seen in the world uh appropriate for
01:33:24.760 a firehouse you hate fire firemen yeah and i know i love firemen they're heroes they're heroes i don't
01:33:30.600 want them in that metal piece of crap but here's my problem i have less problem with the actual firehouse
01:33:40.040 than i do with the city here here's what happened they had an open house where they sent us invitations
01:33:46.440 and i couldn't make it but my son-in-law went to claim my coin uh and he went on a tour uh and
01:33:56.920 this is what was actually said by the person giving the tour no expense was spared here
01:34:06.120 no expense was spared here first of all i know that i walked around while you were building it i
01:34:12.200 walked around and looked through the dusty windows and went i want to live here i'm thinking about
01:34:17.800 becoming a fireman so i can live there three days a week i'll live in a cardboard box for four if i can
01:34:25.960 live there three days a week it's unbelievable there's no bunk beds everybody has their own like
01:34:32.920 suite with an with their own bathroom in it there's an outdoor atrium yes that seems pretty nice yes
01:34:40.600 but i will say now now look when they started planning it yes it was 15 800 square feet yes and
01:34:48.360 you might think to yourself that's not big enough for a fireplace for a fire station i thought we had
01:34:54.120 four fire engines right well no uh it's now it's it was upgraded to 18 000 square feet 18 000 square
01:35:00.920 before it was done uh-huh and uh you know you do have six fire engines six oh we have six however
01:35:08.840 three are reserve so technically really using three right at any given time and that's the thing i
01:35:15.240 think is is is odd this is not chicago we're talking about here with a fireplace no this is a very small
01:35:21.240 town right and so you're at you're now at 3 000 square feet per fire engine right which is right
01:35:28.600 that's a big fire engine high yeah yeah so now remember this is the town that would not
01:35:35.080 would not even listen to my argument when we went to the tax assessor and they said well you have you
01:35:44.600 have almost four acres of property and your neighbors all have one acre of property and their home is on
01:35:51.880 one acre so you could subdivide which i can't because my house is not high it's long you could subdivide and
01:36:00.440 you could have four houses so we're gonna charge you four times as much but you don't have the four
01:36:06.680 but i don't have the four houses i have one house this is how you pay for a really nice fire how you
01:36:12.520 pay for this fire station and i'm so i'm i'm i'm just i'm outraged that quote no expense was spared
01:36:21.480 and you know we could come and we we were did anyone say thank you that was my question to my son-in-law
01:36:29.160 did anyone from the town when they were giving these speeches say thank you for allowing us to
01:36:37.720 live off of your hard work in a style that you don't even live in thank you for that so you hate
01:36:46.920 firemen wow that's an amazing no i hate this this city is driving me out of my mind because and and you
01:36:54.040 know what my neighbors i want to go door to door and say what the hell is wrong with you you were
01:36:59.000 walking around taking those tours and you didn't realize that that was your money no and surely they
01:37:05.000 voted for it at some of course they did of course they did of course they did we need a new firehouse
01:37:10.440 i'm for a new firehouse they were living in a literal metal shack they had their firehouse it
01:37:18.760 it was a metal barn now there's nothing wrong with metal barns we can do a little better than that
01:37:25.480 and it's very hot in texas and the barn looked like it was made in 1965 but my god they don't have to
01:37:33.720 live in a house nicer than any house of anyone i know they are building a house uh you know about
01:37:42.840 three blocks away and somebody's building it on spec it's 15 000 square feet it's gonna be over
01:37:52.920 15 000 square feet it's it's a 10 million dollar spec house it's insanity wow it's insanity
01:38:00.520 the firehouse is nicer and bigger than that what the hell and by the way both true uh because it was
01:38:11.240 when it was only 15 800 square feet the estimate of the cost was 8.9 million now of course they built
01:38:18.520 an extra home i don't want to on top of the 15 800 square feet so you know it's a lot higher than
01:38:24.280 that at the point how much it costs i have also did not include the cost of the land oh my gosh which
01:38:29.480 was donated which was another two million dollars
01:38:34.200 so you're at about 11 million dollars of the old size and that was an initial estimate
01:38:40.360 my guess is what 15 now this is the town i know it's over 10 million it's got to be over 10 million
01:38:46.040 it is the nicest everyone who has driven by it because i drive by people will come to you know
01:38:52.760 visitors i'm gonna say you gotta drive by this tell me what you think this building is and they're like
01:38:57.320 good lord look at that it's everyone has said nicest firehouse they've ever seen in their lifetime
01:39:05.320 i've never seen anything like it you know how you watch movies and people are living in these great
01:39:11.160 houses and you're like look at that dream house this firehouse is nicer i'd have my kids wedding at
01:39:19.800 that firehouse dear god i'm gonna do that i'm gonna do i demand i don't even i'm gonna marry off my kids
01:39:27.480 young just to piss them off i not the kids the firehouse i'm gonna have my wedding there my wife
01:39:33.880 and i are gonna be remarried at that damn firehouse i'm getting some money's worth out of that thing
01:39:39.800 oh my gosh it just and nobody looks at it they're all like oh this is great this is so great for our
01:39:45.480 town oh so great for our town so it's your money it's your well it's a lot of pat because this is
01:39:53.480 the road that pat is always stopped on yeah this is the this is actually them spending the pat gray
01:39:57.960 dividend of all the speed this is literally this my town gives out more speeding tickets than
01:40:03.640 anyone else any other town in all of texas if you haven't looked at a map lately some big towns in
01:40:10.920 texas and it's a big state okay i have a little town in a very big state we give out more speeding
01:40:19.960 tickets than anyone else i know i'm probably gonna get one on the way home tonight oh i'm sure now
01:40:25.720 the fireman will be like you know citizens arrest and again i have no problem our police department
01:40:33.080 is great our fire department is great i i put our i put our police our alarm system i don't know
01:40:40.040 maybe i should call the firehouse and see if i can get one of their alarm systems that they put in
01:40:43.880 the firehouse i put in a great alarm system for for the for uh fire and stuff it's like racks of
01:40:51.320 equipment damn things going off every time we leave town damn things going off and i hear oh the police
01:40:57.320 are at the house oh so i respect the police i honor the police i honor the fire department but in all
01:41:06.280 of in everything that is good and sacred can we stop spending other people's money
01:41:16.760 oh you're hitting that's amazing i have the same i have 10 of these same stories i'm more mad at my
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01:42:48.840 10 seconds station id let me give you my version of this same story in my town they're building a
01:43:06.600 taj mahal uh apparently uh which is it's built as a recreation center okay a beautiful new recreation
01:43:17.560 center that costs millions and millions and millions of dollars seemingly all of that i think i paid
01:43:23.800 for uh i look at my tax bill and so and this is an amazing thing because it's the neighbors that
01:43:30.920 really frustrate me more than anything else they build this now first of all there is a facility
01:43:35.400 nearby which is incredibly similar to this new recreational facility they have it's a gym it's a
01:43:40.920 pool it's got water slides it's got literally you know people don't have any idea texas has gone
01:43:47.000 insane their rec centers have water slides yeah they're amazing it's incredible and they're great
01:43:53.880 they are now if you happen to be the private businessman who invested millions of their own
01:44:02.040 dollars to launch a very similar product several years beforehand literally literally in the same zip
01:44:09.480 code right down the street right assuming they were coming in to compete maybe against other private
01:44:14.840 business people who might try to launch a competing gym or recreation center but instead the town
01:44:20.360 you're paying taxes to launches your competitor okay so they launch a new facility which of course they
01:44:28.280 spare no expense on it's bigger it's newer it's nicer right and then after the after they have the
01:44:37.080 gall to take all of these tax dollars and dump it into a place which we already have in the town
01:44:42.600 they then have the gall to charge us to be members oh my god for it oh my gosh it's and and you know
01:44:50.600 what the reaction is from every person i've talked to in my town about this no did you see how low the
01:44:55.320 prices are for membership they're they're the prices are so low it's much lower than that other place
01:45:01.960 well first of all how bad is that that a local government comes in it undercuts a private business that is
01:45:09.880 already in place and you know what for a not necessary need either by the way businesses is
01:45:15.240 is where they get their tax base it's not from the homes they all want every every single highway in
01:45:22.280 texas you can't build your home anywhere near that because the towns are all saying no there's a huge
01:45:27.720 highway coming here and this is all going to be businesses and that's where they get most of their
01:45:32.120 money for the for the towns to go into business in freaking texas what the hell is happening what is
01:45:42.040 happening and then it's like oh it's so wonderful the prices are lower than the other place well you
01:45:48.600 first of all paid for all of it you the prices aren't lower you've paid them thousands of dollars
01:45:54.760 it should be free it should be free they should be paying you to go oh my gosh oh oh my gosh
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01:47:46.520 so pat who gets a speeding ticket every time he crosses into my town i paid for that firehouse
01:47:55.560 you're talking about no you didn't the pat gray dividend yes that's what they call us no you
01:48:00.280 didn't no you didn't i'll show you my i'll show you my property tax no you didn't you maybe bought
01:48:08.120 the stove but i bought the movie theater i bought the end suite uh uh uh uh uh live-in quarters for
01:48:18.600 everyone i mean how much did just this coin cost that tim got at the grand opening i mean
01:48:27.480 just sending this to 800 or 900 residents of your town wait wait wait yeah wait wait what there's
01:48:36.680 something like 900 residents of your town 900 no my town's bigger than that and that's why you need
01:48:42.920 no my town bigger than that everything right around everything here kind of bleeds into itself
01:48:48.280 how big is my town we have a 15 million dollar firehouse how big of a firehouse does this town
01:48:55.320 need you're telling me it's smaller than i thought i thought we were like 20 000 people oh no no
01:48:59.960 well it is nowhere near 15 what is the population of no it's it's definitely bigger than what pat's
01:49:05.080 saying it's not 900 people but it is 992 people oh my god oh my god it's 992 we have a 15 million
01:49:14.360 dollar firehouse for 992 people and but the good thing about that is it's only 15 000 per person
01:49:22.280 and that includes children oh that's not bad at all that's not bad that's good value
01:49:27.240 now i will say it is on the other hand though we look at it it is 6.7 square miles
01:49:33.480 oh wow so that is only uh 2.14 million per square mile you guys try to kill me i will explode
01:49:42.040 i'm going to explode my town is only six square miles six square miles six square miles and i have
01:49:49.000 a 15 million i am going to town council meetings right now well i am going to the next town council
01:49:58.440 meeting i can't are you are you kidding me we are six square miles and we have a 15 million dollar
01:50:07.160 firehouse it's only 2.14 million per square mile that's not bad that's not bad and i will tell you
01:50:12.520 this it's a well-policed 6.4 square miles yes it is it is i will tell you i will tell you this is the
01:50:20.680 only town that i've ever lived in i mean the police are they are on it remember when we had this string of
01:50:26.360 robberies and they were sophisticated robberies they were they were they were scoping these houses
01:50:32.440 when we first moved here uh they they had they had so they were so sophisticated that they stayed in one
01:50:39.960 house for almost two days to rob it completely okay didn't they remove the safe they removed the safe
01:50:49.320 from the foundation yes from the foundation i mean it was that these guys the the police department
01:50:55.560 boom they got them i mean nice they are good they are really good sure they should probably should
01:51:02.920 be uh can we do please do the we don't have to believe we don't have to build a new police station
01:51:07.960 too do we oh because this is not a police station fire station this is just the firehouse and by the
01:51:13.480 way again in case you missed it there's only three currently used fire trucks for the town
01:51:18.840 no they're not used they're not used very often yeah they are beautiful um and you know there is
01:51:26.360 a lot of open space in this town uh and i've never heard of a fire in the town has there ever been a
01:51:32.920 fire there did they need any fire department could they be serviced by my town's fire department at
01:51:40.120 least my town has 45 000 people in it uh you know 900 we are not helping your town i'm not putting a
01:51:46.680 scratch on those fire trucks not to help the riff-raff like you in the next town no no you're
01:51:52.120 not going to the slums with your beautiful fire trucks they're not coming my way that's unbelievable
01:51:57.160 by the way it wasn't there was a town hall meeting wait wait about this firehouse uh firehouse before
01:52:02.040 it was constructed which happened just a couple of weeks before the 2016 election when everyone was
01:52:07.720 super focused on local fire truck issues is that when they did it that's when it happened and you
01:52:13.640 you didn't attend did you no you're not involved in local government and therefore this is what
01:52:18.680 happens you know what honestly is what happens honestly you know now that i know there's only 900
01:52:23.800 of us i'm just gonna have to start having more children and then we'll just all attend because i
01:52:27.720 could change this town 900 people we can change this town i thought it was much bigger than that uh
01:52:33.000 and i i tell you that we have one of the nicest schools literally one of the nicest schools in the
01:52:38.360 nation people people will move into my town which i thought was strangely much bigger i don't so i
01:52:45.080 don't know how people do it but they move into the town just to be able to attend this school and i
01:52:50.040 mean they'll move anywhere from the country into this town because you get full access to the academy
01:52:58.040 i'm not sending my kids to the academy because i went to it it's beautiful there is a have you been
01:53:03.480 to the academy i've i drive by the academy all the time too i've never been inside okay it has a
01:53:09.400 gigantic beautiful fireplace in the lobby of the school of a school of the school okay i've never
01:53:17.240 seen that before crazy and if you live in town you get to go that's your public school well that's
01:53:22.120 fantastic as long as you like a un world curriculum it's like it's like the little red school house it
01:53:29.960 is it literally is it's the little red school house and i'm like what i'm living in texas i know
01:53:35.560 my neighbors how is this happening how is this happening and all the neighbors say the same thing
01:53:41.480 oh isn't it great no it's not great no it's not great what happened has anybody but us complained
01:53:48.360 about the fire i have not heard anybody well thank god tim and my daughter who also live in town tim
01:53:53.560 and my daughter they were the ones that went and they were like this is insane dad you're gonna
01:53:58.680 you're gonna have an aneurysm when you when you actually go inside of this place but i haven't
01:54:03.880 heard anybody say anything but oh isn't this great no no no nobody needs stone archways outside a fire
01:54:13.880 station i don't understand that every time we drive by and i drive by twice a day i look at that
01:54:19.320 stone archways outside a fire station you ever seen a house that nice no no not certainly not not and
01:54:25.720 not even a pretty nice area i live in a very nice area there's no house as nice as this fire
01:54:30.760 station no houses it's i swear to you it is nicer than the houses that the 900 people apparently own
01:54:39.000 well just the stove if it's a wolf stove what are those ten thousand dollars yeah twelve thousand
01:54:43.720 dollars i don't it yes you could get cheaper stoves you could get out come on yes yes yes i know yes i know
01:54:50.440 i know lg yeah they're very nice and they would do the same thing they would heat the food the same
01:54:55.160 way i am you know that is so far down on my priority list because restaurants will have wolf stoves okay
01:55:01.000 it's not just rich people restaurants industrial well yeah but that's an industrial that's a private
01:55:05.880 business yeah i know that i know that they're paying for it i i just get the movie theater you're
01:55:11.160 talking to me about the store i didn't know there was a movie when there's a movie theater in it
01:55:14.600 that's there's the screen comes down from the as the curtains come down and they all sit in these
01:55:21.560 these plush leather chairs that have the shield embroidered on the back of each chair it's insane
01:55:29.240 that's crazy and if you're if you're a fireman like you may have a long shift where you're
01:55:33.080 staying there and like it's somewhat standard right to have like some like little room to
01:55:37.880 watch television comfortably you should see yeah but a movie theater lines you don't need the electric
01:55:42.440 screen you don't need the movie seats and you certainly don't need the embroidery in the movies
01:55:46.600 guys you should see the gym you should see the gym in this thing oh there's a gym in it there's a gym
01:55:54.360 it is a fully the best freaking gym i mean it's like it's like what i mean do we have like arnold
01:56:03.240 schwarzenegger coming to use the gym every day this is a beautiful gym and it's insane and i feel bad
01:56:11.640 because i don't i'm not saying anything bad about the firemen in fact if you're a fireman the
01:56:16.120 disclaimer i know if you're a fireman you need a job in my town okay this is the sweetest i don't
01:56:23.480 think we have any fires but you i've never heard of one wait till you see the firehouse you need to
01:56:29.800 apply to my town and do not tell me what they're offering for salaries do not tell me because my head
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01:58:53.480 i i i'm sorry to rant i'm sorry to rant on this but i think we've lost our mind i live in a small
01:59:02.440 town in idaho it's just farmers and every time i drive by either a state or a local building it is
01:59:09.640 always the nicest one that's not the way it's supposed to be no it's not and i i drive by this one
01:59:15.720 state building um and it's this beautiful beautiful building and i don't look i don't i don't care i don't
01:59:24.600 care about you know i want our town to be nice i want things but but can we have reason it's you know
01:59:32.200 the schools these schools are built and they are taj mahal's and our education is getting worse
01:59:38.840 can't we just build a building that is nice utilitarian it's not a palace yeah it can be nice
01:59:47.480 and functional yeah it doesn't have to have you know all these bells and whistles right and no one
01:59:53.720 seems to care this is completely our fault uh because a lot of these things go through in votes
02:00:00.440 with 70 and 80 and 90 percent approval nobody thinks and nobody nobody wants to vote against anything
02:00:06.760 when it comes to every time oh i do every time every time every single time i don't even get
02:00:11.080 like i they're probably things that we like desperately need and i vote against it because
02:00:14.040 i'm so annoyed with the whole process but it's like they will they will they put these bonds and
02:00:18.440 it's always borrowed as was the money for your firehouse by the way what uh it was financed um so
02:00:24.040 they they go and they borrow all the money that they don't have to build these palaces so that they
02:00:28.680 can say look what we've done to this town we've been we've made it nicer it's like well yeah it's nice
02:00:33.720 that you have a nice fire firehouse i got it i mean it's it might help when you drive by you see
02:00:39.160 a nice building i mean i don't know what the value of that is really something but but the idea is that
02:00:44.040 nobody critically looks at these things at all everyone's i mean if you put the word kids god
02:00:48.760 forbid you put the word kids in a bill pass with 90 every time everywhere and we all know and this
02:00:54.760 is by the way when it's going to pass by 90 in a state uh like texas in towns like ours which vote
02:01:01.560 very red that shows that we're not even making decisions on this stuff this is wild crazy
02:01:09.800 government spending for things that are way over the top that we do not need and yet still
02:01:16.520 conservatives will go to the polls and approve them every time you know here in texas things have
02:01:20.840 gotten so out of control here in dallas there is a school district i think it's your school district
02:01:27.400 that has the uh the uh stadium and the athletic center that when cowboy stadium is down no i don't
02:01:39.240 think that's mine but i do know you i've heard this right yeah the dallas cowboy professional nfl
02:01:45.000 uses their gym their equipment their field and their stadium for practice it's like it i don't know what
02:01:54.760 happened to texans but texans have gone insane and those are i mean at least you can make the
02:02:00.920 argument a fire department at some level has a a role from government what does that why on earth
02:02:08.760 is a town involved in building a gym like i well it's in their school it's the school that's the
02:02:15.320 high school football team first is a high school football team that are nicer the stadiums all around
02:02:21.720 texas all around texas the stadiums are nicer than most college stadiums uh and they are nicer than
02:02:29.800 some stadium stadiums right and it's it's really hard to justify because i mean yes a lot of people
02:02:35.400 will go to the games in texas more than in other places but i mean at least with college football at
02:02:39.800 times you can justify the cost as uh because a lot of times it comes back right at least some of these
02:02:44.600 big programs all of it yeah it's not that's what it is pride it's pride through the government
02:02:48.440 yeah you know like what a weird thing for a red state to care about uh and and i was talking not
02:02:53.960 about the the school gym but about the recreation center i was discussing earlier where like you know
02:02:58.440 is it really this the role of a of a government of a town to build water slides to entertain children
02:03:05.120 i like water slides i like children children love water slides is it the government's role to take
02:03:11.640 money from me if i want to go to there are water parks all over texas there are water parks all over
02:03:18.600 the place there literally is a water park within driving distance indoor uh in it's incredible and
02:03:23.240 it's it's incredible the city is competing against a private business it's insane this is texas this is
02:03:32.360 texas what the hell are we doing what is happening in you know illinois all right like what is happening in
02:03:39.000 in the north what's going to happen to us right now they've done this for years and years and years
02:03:43.720 and they lived off it and everything was fine because it's all going to be growth and more people
02:03:47.880 are moving in and then something happens and then it all falls apart because you run out of other
02:03:52.280 people's money what happens to a 15 million dollar uh firehouse what happens to a uh a school that has
02:03:59.640 just taken a bond out and built some you know palatial palace and then the economy is hit hard what
02:04:06.280 happens your taxes have to go up then what happens to you because you don't have a job or you're you've
02:04:12.760 had to cut back or whatever it's insane we're all carrying around debt that none of us actually spent
02:04:22.200 we just we just went into a voting booth and we're like oh yeah that sounds good without even thinking
02:04:27.560 about it we're on the hook for debt beyond anyone's wildest imagination one of the reasons the founders did
02:04:33.880 not like direct democracy because you see it right here it's half the people controlling all the money
02:04:38.600 of everybody else yep you're listening to glenn beck