The Glenn Beck Program - April 09, 2018


'The Beginning of The End?' - 4⧸9⧸18


Episode Stats

Length

1 hour and 52 minutes

Words per Minute

166.12656

Word Count

18,745

Sentence Count

564

Misogynist Sentences

8

Hate Speech Sentences

21


Summary

The latest chemical weapons attack in Syria has left more than 60 dead and over 1,000 wounded. Russia and Syria deny it, and the White House says it's the work of the Assad regime. Will the U.S. retaliate?


Transcript

00:00:00.000 The Blaze Radio Network, on demand.
00:00:10.420 Love. Courage. Truth. Glenn Beck.
00:00:17.680 The phrase that caught my eye this weekend came out of Russia.
00:00:21.700 It was from a General Putin supporter who said,
00:00:25.720 this may be the beginning of the last war of mankind.
00:00:32.760 It's a little sobering.
00:00:35.820 More than 60 dead, over 1,000 wounded,
00:00:39.020 and yet another chemical weapons attack inside of Syria.
00:00:43.320 Syria is denying it. Russia is denying it.
00:00:47.440 It's exactly a year ago, to the week,
00:00:50.100 that President Trump retaliated with 59 cruise missiles
00:00:53.240 after the last chemical attack inside Syria.
00:00:56.880 The images, if you had the stomach to see them,
00:00:59.680 of the men, women, and children lying dead or foaming at the mouth.
00:01:04.000 That reportedly prompted the President to strike last year.
00:01:08.840 They were just as gruesome this year.
00:01:13.980 The UN has called for an emergency meeting for some time today,
00:01:16.860 but really, does anyone expect anything to actually come from the UN?
00:01:20.840 Again, when Assad used chemical weapons 12 months ago,
00:01:23.920 the UN Security Council was blocked from retaliation
00:01:27.160 by a veto from Russia.
00:01:29.180 It's going to be exactly the same scenario today,
00:01:31.540 and all eyes will then shift to President Trump,
00:01:33.940 who has to decide, do I act unilaterally?
00:01:36.980 That's what he did last year.
00:01:39.160 For the first time ever in a tweet sent yesterday,
00:01:41.600 the President called Putin out directly,
00:01:44.160 placing the blame squarely on his shoulders for,
00:01:46.580 quote, backing animal Assad, end quote.
00:01:51.160 Russia has responded in their typical Russian manner,
00:01:53.480 deny, deny, deny.
00:01:54.560 Russia apparently thinks the chemical attacks
00:01:56.980 just materialized out of thin air.
00:01:59.200 They say this is a false flag.
00:02:01.740 First in the UK, now in Syria.
00:02:05.240 Putin is in danger of becoming the international Alex Jones
00:02:09.020 with all of the false flags.
00:02:10.480 And the U.S. government is behind all of this conspiracy.
00:02:16.280 The next thing you know,
00:02:17.180 Putin is going to be ripping his shirt off on TV
00:02:18.880 while trying to sell you supplements.
00:02:20.260 I mean, it's getting that ridiculous.
00:02:24.220 So the question is now,
00:02:27.080 will Trump retaliate?
00:02:29.880 Should the President retaliate?
00:02:32.140 And what does it mean?
00:02:33.940 Eight missiles struck a Syrian airbase last night.
00:02:36.920 Russia has accused Israel for the attack.
00:02:39.460 We denied it.
00:02:40.980 No one has claimed responsibility yet.
00:02:43.040 But if the U.S. attack occurs,
00:02:45.600 it'll probably be after today's U.N. Security Council meeting.
00:02:50.240 Military action inside Syria has never been more dangerous.
00:02:54.460 Both Russia and Iranian military troops are all over the place.
00:02:58.680 Reports last night indicated Russian air defense units
00:03:01.520 were scrambling to prepare for an imminent U.S. attack.
00:03:04.280 If Russian soldiers die in a U.S. cruise missile strike,
00:03:08.320 this whole thing changes dramatically.
00:03:16.640 But I guess we can thank the Obama administration for this.
00:03:19.600 Susan Rice, do you remember when she and the rest of the Obama administration
00:03:22.440 promised us that Assad got rid of all of its chemical weapons,
00:03:26.160 that they had all been turned over to Russia?
00:03:28.380 And Putin was, you know, there to say, oh, no, we verified.
00:03:32.660 Do you remember all that?
00:03:33.620 Because it was supposedly a masterstroke in diplomacy
00:03:36.320 after the debacle of the infamous red line from President Obama.
00:03:41.300 Yes, they crossed his red line,
00:03:43.160 but he used that to have Assad's chemical weapons removed from the country.
00:03:47.980 And Putin saw to it.
00:03:50.200 Uh-huh.
00:03:50.660 Yet another lie from that administration.
00:03:54.860 Weren't these guys considered the grown-ups?
00:03:57.400 The responsible intellectuals when it came to foreign policy?
00:04:01.880 Take a look around at the world.
00:04:05.000 Libya is now a failed state.
00:04:07.420 Iran is taking over the entire Middle East.
00:04:10.600 And Assad is still using chemical weapons.
00:04:13.180 And apparently, now with Vladimir Putin's blessings.
00:04:16.600 We're in a war that's been undeclared.
00:04:19.040 Most Americans don't even know about it in Yemen.
00:04:23.020 This is what the grown-ups are responsible for?
00:04:27.860 Okay.
00:04:29.140 Thanks, President Obama.
00:04:39.180 It's Monday, April 9th.
00:04:41.180 This is the Glenn Beck Program.
00:04:43.180 Hey, Rob Brace, Jason Bertrillon,
00:04:45.840 who's our chief researcher and military expert,
00:04:50.800 former military intelligence,
00:04:52.660 who's been watching Russia and the Middle East
00:04:54.700 with me now for several years.
00:04:58.560 Where are we, Jason?
00:05:01.460 Massive headache.
00:05:03.520 It's John Bolton's first day on the job.
00:05:07.020 And they're saying, you know,
00:05:07.900 this is bad because he's a hawk.
00:05:10.100 Like, well, no, he was actually against the Syria thing.
00:05:13.620 He was against this.
00:05:15.060 Yeah.
00:05:15.280 Now, I'm...
00:05:16.540 The quote that you just picked out from...
00:05:19.600 What was that general?
00:05:20.960 That retired lieutenant general?
00:05:22.600 Yeah.
00:05:24.960 Archduke...
00:05:25.760 No, no, no.
00:05:26.400 Let's see here.
00:05:27.140 General Evgeny Bruinskij.
00:05:33.700 Yeah.
00:05:34.000 So, I think what he was referring to is...
00:05:36.860 So, the war to end all wars,
00:05:39.380 basically, is what the Cold War was supposed to materialize into,
00:05:42.080 which was World War III.
00:05:43.440 But the Cold War, like,
00:05:44.900 the things that we saw during the Cold War
00:05:46.500 were nothing compared to what's going on right now.
00:05:49.560 Like, the sanctions, all the threats,
00:05:52.260 all that stuff would have escalated the Cold War
00:05:54.360 into a whole other playing field.
00:05:56.900 But we're starting at that right now
00:05:59.100 as we go into this next Cold War.
00:06:01.520 So, it's already escalated.
00:06:03.620 And so, he was talking about...
00:06:05.220 I remember in one of the interviews he just did,
00:06:07.220 he said that, well, you know,
00:06:08.900 what would kick off actual kinetic confrontation?
00:06:11.660 And he straight up said,
00:06:13.060 well, the Syrian...
00:06:14.420 The conflict in Syria.
00:06:15.540 That's what will kick it off.
00:06:17.080 So, if we retaliate...
00:06:18.080 Let's say we retaliate,
00:06:19.140 and the area where this chemical attack happened,
00:06:21.420 where some of these things are happening,
00:06:22.460 is around the Damascus area.
00:06:24.920 So, if we strike towards Damascus,
00:06:27.360 Russian troops are all over the place there.
00:06:29.300 If we do that, then Russia will respond.
00:06:31.360 How will they respond?
00:06:32.460 Well, they'll start hitting our naval assets
00:06:34.460 that are in the Mediterranean,
00:06:36.740 in that area that launched the cruise missiles.
00:06:39.100 So, it'll be direct.
00:06:41.520 U.S. kinetic operations that will kill Russians,
00:06:45.620 and then Russians will respond
00:06:46.600 by attacking the United States Navy.
00:06:48.320 That will take this to a whole other level,
00:06:49.860 and I think that's what he was referring to.
00:06:51.300 There's no way we don't respond to an attack.
00:06:54.500 No way they don't respond to an attack.
00:06:56.660 I mean, Putin came out this weekend and said,
00:06:58.940 you know, this is not going to end well.
00:07:00.560 Don't do it.
00:07:01.560 Don't do it,
00:07:02.220 because we will have to respond back to you.
00:07:04.680 So, I don't know where we're headed,
00:07:09.840 but it doesn't seem to be any place good
00:07:12.500 in the Middle East.
00:07:14.520 This cycle has just got to stop.
00:07:16.300 I mean, it has just got to stop.
00:07:18.100 It has escalated beyond,
00:07:20.760 I mean, after the Cold War,
00:07:21.900 it kept on going.
00:07:23.320 But I would say after 9-11,
00:07:25.020 it has ramped up to a whole other level,
00:07:26.860 and it has got to stop.
00:07:27.660 We have got to put some restrictions
00:07:31.300 on where we're influencing the world,
00:07:34.880 where we're getting involved,
00:07:35.900 and all the things that we're doing.
00:07:36.860 Like, we don't have to,
00:07:37.380 I saw a quote from President Erdogan, Turkey,
00:07:41.060 that he, so he's been doing all kinds of,
00:07:43.200 he's basically invaded northern Syria,
00:07:45.320 and he's going after Kurds, killing Kurds,
00:07:47.980 but he had the audacity to call out the West
00:07:50.040 and say, if you don't respond to this,
00:07:51.980 then you just don't care about, you know,
00:07:53.360 Muggles, you don't care about the region.
00:07:55.140 Why?
00:07:55.460 Why is it always put on us to respond?
00:07:58.480 Like, you're trying,
00:07:59.160 Turkey is trying to get so involved right now.
00:08:00.800 Look, this is your backyard.
00:08:02.240 You need to respond to this.
00:08:04.140 This is, you know, this is your job.
00:08:05.860 This is not our job.
00:08:06.800 They don't want to respond
00:08:07.760 because they know that Iran is involved.
00:08:12.000 They need us to be the bad guys here
00:08:15.140 so they can sit on the sidelines
00:08:17.460 and not piss off everybody else in the neighborhood.
00:08:20.020 You're exactly right.
00:08:21.000 Everyone, because we're so involved in the region
00:08:23.440 over all the years,
00:08:24.600 everyone plays us off of everybody.
00:08:27.000 Yes.
00:08:27.180 You notice that.
00:08:27.760 Like, they call us the bad guys.
00:08:29.400 Iran calls us the bad guys.
00:08:30.600 Russia.
00:08:31.100 I mean, everyone plays us as the bad guys.
00:08:34.000 Now, if you notice,
00:08:34.600 all the meetings that are taking place right now
00:08:36.160 are between,
00:08:36.920 they're not even including us.
00:08:38.560 It's between Turkey, Iran, Russia, and Syria.
00:08:41.740 They're the ones that are doing all these talks
00:08:43.660 and they're coming up with all these, like, cooperation packs.
00:08:46.560 They're not even involving us,
00:08:47.820 but they're still playing us off of one another.
00:08:50.720 We need to get the heck out.
00:08:52.120 That's it.
00:08:52.740 The problem is,
00:08:53.760 is that we've set up the region now
00:08:55.360 to where Iran is completely going to take over.
00:08:57.560 They are.
00:08:58.180 Like, so if we were in this conundrum now
00:09:00.120 to where if we back out,
00:09:01.460 we basically just hand over the region to Iran.
00:09:03.900 And then what happens to Israel?
00:09:05.640 You're exactly right.
00:09:07.380 I mean, that's why Israel struck last night.
00:09:09.880 And it may be that Israel is our proxy in this.
00:09:13.780 I mean, I can't imagine it,
00:09:15.240 but maybe Israel becomes our proxy,
00:09:17.700 just like, you know, Syria is.
00:09:21.760 We're in a proxy war with Russia right now.
00:09:24.560 And here's something else.
00:09:26.220 The sanctions have hit Russia hard.
00:09:29.380 So if you were for sanctions,
00:09:32.740 and I am for sanctions,
00:09:34.340 this is,
00:09:35.440 this has stuck a stake,
00:09:39.820 not in their heart,
00:09:41.020 but in the chest cavity.
00:09:42.720 It is close.
00:09:44.580 We hit their aluminum industry,
00:09:47.740 which is very important to them.
00:09:50.080 What's happened?
00:09:51.420 Second largest aluminum company in the world.
00:09:53.740 Their shares have lost 50% of their value since Friday,
00:09:58.760 just off of U.S. sanctions.
00:10:00.620 That's it.
00:10:01.180 So imagine if GM lost 50% of its value
00:10:07.680 because of something Vladimir Putin did.
00:10:10.400 We wouldn't be happy.
00:10:12.340 It would not sit well.
00:10:13.900 That's not the only thing.
00:10:15.700 Tell me about the ruble.
00:10:16.820 So the ruble dropped to about 60 rubles per $1.
00:10:22.260 And that's the lowest it's been,
00:10:24.300 I think in a couple of years.
00:10:29.640 We have a cold war and a hot war,
00:10:34.840 but it's a proxy war going on at exactly the same time.
00:10:39.400 It is so easy to make a mistake here.
00:10:42.380 And if we make a mistake,
00:10:45.180 the world changes.
00:10:46.820 The world changes overnight.
00:10:48.460 I don't think people really truly understand.
00:10:51.560 And I'm going to do something on television tonight.
00:10:55.560 I need to spend 10 minutes with you
00:10:57.900 and laying it out on the chalkboard
00:11:00.240 of all of the things that are happening right now.
00:11:03.700 We all have come into this feeling of comfort
00:11:10.280 because the election happened.
00:11:13.800 And so half of the country trusts that,
00:11:16.680 you know,
00:11:17.280 the right half of the country will keep us secure.
00:11:21.240 Well,
00:11:21.760 the other half doesn't.
00:11:23.360 Well,
00:11:23.620 nothing really has changed.
00:11:26.180 Obama's proxy war in Yemen is still happening.
00:11:31.640 Obama's Syrian war is still happening.
00:11:35.200 The effects of Libya is still happening.
00:11:38.640 The,
00:11:38.900 the,
00:11:39.300 the corruption in Russia that we were dealing with
00:11:42.960 still happening.
00:11:44.240 All of these things that were going on,
00:11:47.040 they haven't stopped.
00:11:48.100 And in fact,
00:11:48.880 they're getting worse.
00:11:50.600 Now,
00:11:51.300 Trump is playing hardball,
00:11:54.440 which I generally support.
00:11:56.920 I think that,
00:11:58.860 you know,
00:11:59.140 I,
00:11:59.280 I want a president to make it very clear.
00:12:01.480 We know what happened to the world when the United States said,
00:12:05.020 eh,
00:12:05.360 you know,
00:12:05.800 well,
00:12:05.940 there's a red line,
00:12:06.760 but it's kind of a pinkish line.
00:12:08.600 And there is no actual,
00:12:10.400 I mean,
00:12:10.620 we live in a postmodern world.
00:12:12.120 There is no actual red.
00:12:13.820 Who are you to define red?
00:12:16.520 We know what happened.
00:12:18.220 We're paying that price now,
00:12:19.960 but we have to be really careful because everything seems to be,
00:12:25.600 coming into one really bad place.
00:12:29.480 And that includes China as well.
00:12:31.840 I'd love to get an answer from you,
00:12:33.200 Jason.
00:12:33.400 And I know you don't have one to the idea that how did Syria commit a
00:12:39.100 chemical weapons attack when there was a major international agreement
00:12:42.980 that disarmed Syria of its chemical weapons just a few years ago.
00:12:46.820 And Putin verified that those chemicals didn't exist.
00:12:49.520 Thank you.
00:12:49.960 It's been verified.
00:12:51.940 Obama,
00:12:52.640 Putin working together.
00:12:53.800 This was knocked out years ago.
00:12:55.660 And now all of a sudden they have them again.
00:12:57.300 How is that possible?
00:12:59.140 Unpossible.
00:12:59.820 It's unpossible.
00:13:01.580 Unpossible.
00:13:02.720 You fail English?
00:13:03.840 That's unpossible.
00:13:09.040 Thank you,
00:13:09.640 Jason.
00:13:09.900 I appreciate it.
00:13:10.560 Yeah.
00:13:11.880 Hey,
00:13:12.360 by the way,
00:13:13.000 what side does China come down on this?
00:13:16.180 Um,
00:13:16.660 I,
00:13:17.520 it's a good question.
00:13:18.660 I think that China will probably veto or I know I think that China will
00:13:23.000 probably abstain from any,
00:13:24.720 uh,
00:13:25.380 from any actual action.
00:13:26.640 If it went to hot war,
00:13:28.060 whose side are they on?
00:13:29.800 Uh,
00:13:30.080 they just actually did a military pact with,
00:13:32.520 uh,
00:13:32.720 with Russia.
00:13:33.320 Holy.
00:13:33.520 So they're signaling that that's where they're going.
00:13:36.200 Okay.
00:13:36.580 Thank you very much.
00:13:38.300 I don't know if I actually mean the thank you very much.
00:13:40.700 It might've been better if I could have lived in my blissful ignorance there on that.
00:13:45.460 All right.
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00:16:13.520 um,
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00:16:19.520 and they have sent letters to the city and the state of Connecticut cities and the state of Connecticut offering to spend $2 billion.
00:16:25.380 to purchase publicly owned office building health care facilities and transit related properties.
00:16:31.460 Anything else in the state and municipal governments might be willing to part with.
00:16:35.280 There is a catch.
00:16:36.360 They're insisting on 7.25% annual yield on the investment,
00:16:40.260 and they're going to do it by raising the rent and leasing the properties back to the city and the state.
00:16:45.820 So that will give them the,
00:16:48.580 uh,
00:16:49.040 the money that they are short for $2 billion.
00:16:52.300 Uh,
00:16:54.360 however,
00:16:55.420 how are they going to pay for this?
00:16:59.080 So they'll pay,
00:17:00.160 they'll,
00:17:00.360 they'll take this money,
00:17:01.560 they'll sell all of the assets,
00:17:03.340 but they'll continue to spend money until the,
00:17:07.760 until the,
00:17:08.700 the administration changes until you get fiscally responsible people in there.
00:17:14.760 And that doesn't mean necessarily Republicans until you get people who say,
00:17:19.120 look,
00:17:19.320 this,
00:17:19.640 this is a house of cards and it's just not going to work anymore.
00:17:23.800 You can't sell the assets and then spend it.
00:17:28.060 By the way,
00:17:29.500 uh,
00:17:29.880 the pension benefit guarantee corporation,
00:17:32.340 this is the equivalent to the,
00:17:34.440 you know,
00:17:34.940 FDIC.
00:17:36.640 This is the one that backs up all of the state and,
00:17:39.460 and,
00:17:39.960 uh,
00:17:40.220 and big pensions.
00:17:41.740 Uh,
00:17:42.620 it's completely insolvent already.
00:17:46.820 These pensions haven't really started to collapse yet.
00:17:49.380 And that's what's collapsing,
00:17:50.520 uh,
00:17:51.240 Connecticut.
00:17:51.980 So there's no money left to be able to grab these insolvent,
00:17:56.920 uh,
00:17:58.160 uh,
00:17:59.080 pensions.
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00:18:04.300 That's what's going to collapse,
00:18:05.380 uh,
00:18:06.400 Michigan and,
00:18:07.680 uh,
00:18:08.260 and,
00:18:08.700 and Connecticut and all of these other big States,
00:18:11.540 New York,
00:18:12.900 Pennsylvania.
00:18:13.660 And at that point too,
00:18:14.440 if those big States start falling,
00:18:16.180 even the States that have done it relatively right are going to fall.
00:18:19.420 Of course,
00:18:19.820 it's going to be pushed onto everybody else.
00:18:21.660 Yeah.
00:18:22.460 And they will,
00:18:23.080 what they'll end up doing is just printing money.
00:18:25.680 I mean,
00:18:26.240 it's,
00:18:26.480 it's,
00:18:26.740 this is not a happy scenario.
00:18:29.380 Now there,
00:18:30.560 there is some good news.
00:18:32.340 Every time I go out to California for the last few years,
00:18:37.460 I have told you there is something happening.
00:18:40.060 There is something happening in California.
00:18:42.780 And I am finding these people who are on the left and the right,
00:18:47.080 who are finally coming to common sense.
00:18:48.880 And they're going,
00:18:49.460 you know,
00:18:49.940 I've had deep,
00:18:51.500 deep,
00:18:51.840 deep,
00:18:52.140 deep,
00:18:52.400 deep liberals go,
00:18:53.420 you know,
00:18:53.720 I've taken a look at the 10th amendment.
00:18:55.240 And I think you guys were right on that.
00:18:57.160 Oh,
00:18:57.780 you think we've,
00:19:00.860 we've,
00:19:00.900 we're getting,
00:19:02.100 we're starting to see the UNAM come back and it's going to start happening in
00:19:08.040 the States that are the most under pressure.
00:19:12.360 If,
00:19:12.960 if there is a group of rock solid,
00:19:16.300 common sense people there now in California,
00:19:19.460 I think there's enough farming.
00:19:21.080 There's enough,
00:19:22.000 there's enough people in the rural areas that believe like this is out of
00:19:26.680 control.
00:19:27.080 There was a,
00:19:29.260 there was a story on Fox news and their op-ed section that,
00:19:36.920 you know,
00:19:37.400 they have Los Alamitos was the,
00:19:41.640 the community that said,
00:19:44.460 you know what?
00:19:45.460 No,
00:19:46.320 we are not going to be a,
00:19:48.520 a refugee city.
00:19:50.140 We're not going to be a sanctuary city.
00:19:53.300 We're not following California.
00:19:54.820 We're going to follow the federal government.
00:19:56.260 Well,
00:19:56.940 now there are several cities and towns all around California that are
00:20:02.580 starting to do this,
00:20:03.460 but it's lit the fire of something that I think has been smoldering in
00:20:08.960 California for a while.
00:20:10.220 And I want to talk about that a little later on the program,
00:20:12.360 but that,
00:20:13.240 that fire is common sense.
00:20:17.560 People standing up that understand what common sense is.
00:20:21.740 Mercury.
00:20:26.260 This is the Glenn Beck program.
00:20:30.140 So it's Monday.
00:20:30.980 Let me share some good news with you.
00:20:35.580 A couple of weeks ago,
00:20:36.580 I had Chad and Logan Blythe on my television program.
00:20:40.160 It was on a world down syndrome day and Chad and his 15 year old son,
00:20:45.360 Logan,
00:20:45.620 they live in a place called Payson,
00:20:48.060 Utah and Chad and his wife,
00:20:50.100 Diane moved to Utah from Illinois four years ago because the schools were
00:20:55.980 better for,
00:20:56.640 for Logan and he had just better options.
00:20:59.940 Logan has down syndrome and he has been in the boy Scouts for the last four
00:21:05.200 years.
00:21:05.680 He has seen great improvement with his dexterity and also his speech because he
00:21:15.120 joined the boy Scouts.
00:21:16.320 He also is in special Olympics and his earned swimming medals and he joined the
00:21:23.540 boy Scouts and everybody understood what the deal was.
00:21:26.960 There are things that Logan can't do.
00:21:28.780 He,
00:21:29.060 he operates with the mentality of about a four or five year old and he needs,
00:21:35.860 you know,
00:21:35.980 special attention,
00:21:36.660 but he is completing things and he is,
00:21:39.780 he's not completing them necessarily to the exact handbook because he can't,
00:21:45.960 but he's completing them to the best of his ability.
00:21:48.500 Um,
00:21:49.620 and,
00:21:50.240 uh,
00:21:50.820 he's been earning merit badges.
00:21:53.120 Now this is all been understood.
00:21:56.260 Everybody in the boy Scouts understood this.
00:21:58.840 Uh,
00:21:59.380 and he was working his way to an Eagle.
00:22:01.760 Now he got all of the merit badges and did,
00:22:04.460 did the work at his level.
00:22:08.760 The scout masters,
00:22:10.200 they take a picture with him and,
00:22:13.200 uh,
00:22:13.720 it gets into the press and the national scouts see this and say,
00:22:18.040 this is,
00:22:18.620 this is wrong.
00:22:19.420 He,
00:22:19.960 he hasn't really completed anything.
00:22:21.680 He can't really be an Eagle.
00:22:24.560 Well,
00:22:25.040 that seems a little callous.
00:22:27.680 Uh,
00:22:28.240 and I'm not one for giving,
00:22:29.600 uh,
00:22:30.020 trophies to people who don't earn it,
00:22:32.040 but I think this is a little bit different.
00:22:35.440 Uh,
00:22:36.160 and,
00:22:36.880 uh,
00:22:37.280 and so they told him and his parents that there's no way that he's going to be able to,
00:22:43.380 um,
00:22:44.200 go on and be an Eagle and to take away all of the merit badges.
00:22:48.040 As you can imagine,
00:22:50.200 a boy who has been working for five years for that had started his Eagle project.
00:22:59.000 He didn't,
00:22:59.940 it,
00:23:00.260 it didn't,
00:23:00.620 it didn't go over well with the family.
00:23:03.120 So then what happens?
00:23:06.960 We find out about it.
00:23:08.400 It happened,
00:23:08.980 uh,
00:23:09.720 a while back.
00:23:10.540 We found out about it on,
00:23:11.940 um,
00:23:12.380 on,
00:23:13.680 uh,
00:23:14.140 um,
00:23:15.100 you know,
00:23:15.660 the,
00:23:15.960 uh,
00:23:16.200 down syndrome day and we bring the family on TV and we talk about it.
00:23:21.920 And there's been kind of an outcry from the local community.
00:23:26.140 And we have an update for you.
00:23:28.540 Chad is joining us now.
00:23:30.300 Um,
00:23:31.140 uh,
00:23:31.720 hello,
00:23:32.140 Chad,
00:23:32.360 how are you?
00:23:33.260 I'm doing well.
00:23:34.180 How are you?
00:23:34.820 Good boy.
00:23:35.540 Could we use some good news on a Monday?
00:23:38.060 Yes,
00:23:38.380 definitely.
00:23:39.620 So,
00:23:40.300 so tell me what happened since last we spoke.
00:23:43.180 Well,
00:23:43.680 approximately two weeks ago,
00:23:44.920 we actually met with the national commissioner of the BSA.
00:23:48.460 Uh,
00:23:48.900 he was very apologetic for everything that we've been going through here and
00:23:52.640 assured us that the merit badges that Logan has earned,
00:23:56.460 he has indeed earned and they still qualify.
00:23:59.180 And that Logan is,
00:24:01.700 uh,
00:24:02.400 has every right and will earn his Eagle Scout.
00:24:05.840 That's great.
00:24:07.040 Um,
00:24:07.800 and actually,
00:24:08.820 now,
00:24:09.020 now,
00:24:09.220 can you tell me what their concern was or what happened,
00:24:13.780 how this broke down and,
00:24:15.180 and how it was finally solved and what it means to them for future,
00:24:19.500 uh,
00:24:21.160 cases?
00:24:22.580 Well,
00:24:23.140 I'm not exactly a hundred percent sure what happened there.
00:24:26.300 They did indicate to me there was a bit of a miscarriage.
00:24:29.180 Discommunication within the national boy scout organization itself.
00:24:33.540 Um,
00:24:34.340 I wasn't entirely sure on that,
00:24:36.180 but I do know going forward for them,
00:24:39.080 they have already made several changes that will allow,
00:24:42.700 uh,
00:24:43.620 kids with special needs to actually request alternative merit badge
00:24:48.540 requirements,
00:24:49.460 not just alternative merit badges.
00:24:52.860 So for example,
00:24:54.040 if you have,
00:24:55.400 uh,
00:24:55.420 you know,
00:24:55.720 if you can't dive to the bottom of a pool,
00:24:57.520 you can actually request that it be substituted with maybe holding your
00:25:02.100 breath for five seconds underwater.
00:25:04.180 And this is not,
00:25:04.860 this is not for the average person.
00:25:06.600 This is for someone with down syndrome or,
00:25:08.760 you know,
00:25:09.420 or,
00:25:09.720 or significant disabilities.
00:25:12.120 Correct.
00:25:12.720 Yes,
00:25:13.040 it is,
00:25:13.580 uh,
00:25:13.980 not for a normal individual that can do those activities themselves.
00:25:17.880 It's for someone that has some kind of mental or physical handicap
00:25:22.020 that will not allow them to do so.
00:25:25.360 So Chad,
00:25:26.360 you know,
00:25:28.800 tell a story of,
00:25:30.720 of,
00:25:31.700 uh,
00:25:31.980 the other Eagles in the area when they,
00:25:34.920 when they found out about your son's case,
00:25:36.900 not just the Eagles in my area,
00:25:39.780 but across the country,
00:25:41.000 they were outraged.
00:25:42.520 Um,
00:25:43.000 many of them,
00:25:44.220 um,
00:25:45.740 volunteered their Eagle badges and Eagle scout awards to my son.
00:25:49.620 Uh,
00:25:50.580 I don't think I lost count at over a hundred.
00:25:52.680 Oh my gosh.
00:25:53.700 Yes.
00:25:54.040 They were more than,
00:25:55.720 more than forthcoming and supportive in our,
00:25:58.200 uh,
00:25:58.860 efforts here.
00:25:59.640 So,
00:26:00.000 um,
00:26:00.800 they've been great.
00:26:02.060 It was,
00:26:03.060 it's been amazing to see just how much they were willing to support us,
00:26:07.560 get behind us and just cheer us on.
00:26:09.800 Uh,
00:26:10.320 I think we had an Eagle scout as far away as,
00:26:12.940 uh,
00:26:14.040 uh,
00:26:14.340 London,
00:26:14.820 England offer their,
00:26:15.940 uh,
00:26:17.300 uh,
00:26:17.500 Eagle scout award.
00:26:18.800 That is really remarkable.
00:26:20.820 Really remarkable.
00:26:21.360 Yes,
00:26:21.560 quite.
00:26:22.400 So,
00:26:22.800 uh,
00:26:23.020 you broke it to your son,
00:26:24.140 the news.
00:26:24.640 How did he,
00:26:25.240 how did he take it?
00:26:26.820 He was fine with it.
00:26:28.380 Um,
00:26:28.740 right now we're in the middle of the special Olympic season here in Utah.
00:26:31.960 So he's principally focused there.
00:26:33.880 Uh,
00:26:34.160 two weeks ago,
00:26:34.760 he got his latest silver medal,
00:26:37.360 uh,
00:26:37.960 for basketball skills and,
00:26:39.600 uh,
00:26:39.880 swimming is coming up.
00:26:41.100 So he's got his mind focused more on that than anything else.
00:26:44.480 And I think once this is,
00:26:46.400 uh,
00:26:46.840 once the special Olympic season is over,
00:26:48.600 which is sometime around the middle of the summer out here in Utah,
00:26:51.280 um,
00:26:52.720 we'll probably readdress it with him,
00:26:54.640 see if he's interested or not.
00:26:55.900 But as it stands right now,
00:26:58.060 he's more focused on the special Olympics.
00:27:00.940 Chad,
00:27:01.040 thanks a lot.
00:27:01.520 I appreciate it.
00:27:02.460 Oh,
00:27:02.840 thank you.
00:27:03.480 You bet.
00:27:03.900 God bless.
00:27:04.300 So the,
00:27:19.040 uh,
00:27:19.380 Washington free beacon,
00:27:20.580 uh,
00:27:21.600 put together some clips about Syria.
00:27:25.320 Do we have those two?
00:27:26.740 Yes.
00:27:27.380 Uh,
00:27:27.920 the,
00:27:28.860 uh,
00:27:29.200 cause remember this chemical attack,
00:27:31.560 if you saw the pictures,
00:27:32.340 it was just horrifying,
00:27:33.260 but this chemical,
00:27:34.500 this chemical attack clearly did not happen because the last administration took care of this problem.
00:27:42.220 And in case you don't remember,
00:27:44.560 the Washington free beacon is here to remind you.
00:27:48.740 Dozens of people reportedly killed,
00:27:51.080 including at least 10 children,
00:27:53.000 hundreds of others injured.
00:27:54.240 And these numbers are very preliminary.
00:27:56.860 What caused this right now?
00:27:58.700 It's seen as a gas or chemical attack.
00:28:01.500 I think ultimately that president Obama is the big winner here.
00:28:05.140 He is a big,
00:28:06.540 big winner.
00:28:07.020 In my estimation,
00:28:07.980 it turns out we're getting chemical weapons out of Syria without having initiated the strike.
00:28:11.940 So what else are you talking about?
00:28:13.320 We've got the chemical weapons.
00:28:14.880 We've got,
00:28:15.420 we're getting the chemical weapons out of Syria.
00:28:17.300 Well, uh, Chris,
00:28:18.520 all you have to do is look at the fact that today,
00:28:20.980 the final 8% of chemical weapons,
00:28:23.100 uh,
00:28:23.320 were taken out of Syria.
00:28:24.580 We should commend the administration for the result that they got.
00:28:27.700 The removal of chemical weapons out of Syria is a substantial accomplishment.
00:28:33.060 We certainly worked with them in Syria to,
00:28:35.000 uh,
00:28:35.200 to bring all the chemical weapons out of Syria.
00:28:37.400 We struck a deal where we got 100% of the chemical weapons out.
00:28:40.960 100% of the declared chemical weapons out of Syria.
00:28:45.520 We kept chemical weapons or got chemical weapons out of the area.
00:28:50.080 We got,
00:28:51.340 as you know,
00:28:51.900 last year,
00:28:52.520 all the chemical weapons out of Syria.
00:28:54.920 Uh,
00:28:55.240 no small feat.
00:28:56.520 Syria eliminating its chemical weapons and ultimately having them destroyed by the international community.
00:29:04.500 Syria would still have a declared chemical weapons stockpile.
00:29:07.500 Right now,
00:29:07.960 they don't.
00:29:08.480 Right now,
00:29:09.000 Bashar al-Assad does not have a declared chemical weapons stockpile.
00:29:11.620 We removed that declared chemical weapons stockpile,
00:29:14.100 and we destroyed that declared chemical weapons stockpile,
00:29:16.400 which means that Bashar al-Assad can't use those chemical weapons against his own people.
00:29:20.080 And the purpose of the strike was to get the chemical weapons out of Syria.
00:29:24.300 Weapons of mass destruction are taken out of the zone of conflict.
00:29:28.120 And thank God we did that.
00:29:29.900 We are making real progress in Iraq and Syria.
00:29:33.820 And I mean real progress.
00:29:34.880 So if Russia can help us,
00:29:36.560 and it is right now,
00:29:38.180 Russia has helped to bring about the Iran nuclear agreement.
00:29:41.760 Russia helped get the chemical weapons out of Syria.
00:29:44.140 The destruction of the Syrian chemical weapons stockpile.
00:29:47.600 I would have,
00:29:48.820 I think,
00:29:49.580 made a bigger mistake
00:29:50.700 if I had said,
00:29:53.380 yeah,
00:29:54.580 chemical weapons,
00:29:56.140 uh,
00:29:56.740 that doesn't really change my calculus.
00:29:59.960 Hmm.
00:30:02.520 So now,
00:30:03.280 if you're sitting in a newsroom at CNN,
00:30:05.640 what do you do?
00:30:07.000 Seriously,
00:30:07.500 what do you do?
00:30:08.000 You're like,
00:30:09.040 well,
00:30:09.520 I believe the Obama administration,
00:30:11.000 when they said that they got rid of all the chemical weapons,
00:30:13.820 and now,
00:30:15.200 uh,
00:30:16.080 Russia is saying that
00:30:18.240 this is a false flag
00:30:20.640 because Syria didn't have any chemical weapons.
00:30:23.940 So,
00:30:24.260 who gassed these people?
00:30:28.640 How do you report on that news?
00:30:30.880 It's going to be really interesting
00:30:31.960 because the left,
00:30:32.980 who was saying,
00:30:34.320 uh,
00:30:34.680 we need to be super hard
00:30:36.140 on,
00:30:36.760 on,
00:30:37.260 uh,
00:30:38.300 on Syria,
00:30:39.480 and we need to take this seriously.
00:30:40.660 Now,
00:30:41.120 says the opposite,
00:30:42.440 right?
00:30:43.220 You've got the,
00:30:44.140 the people who were saying that there were no chemical weapons
00:30:46.600 now have to say there are chemical weapons
00:30:48.160 and Trump needs to deal with them
00:30:49.220 and take them seriously.
00:30:50.300 You have the big time Trump supporters
00:30:52.100 on kind of the conspiracy side
00:30:53.680 who have been saying the entire time
00:30:55.600 this is fake news,
00:30:56.720 there is no chemical attacks,
00:30:57.960 these are not attacks
00:30:58.860 done by Syria.
00:31:00.320 now have Trump
00:31:01.740 on the other side
00:31:02.380 who's being very tough
00:31:03.580 and speaking out
00:31:04.280 against not only this
00:31:05.440 but also Putin
00:31:06.420 which puts the left
00:31:07.420 in another difficult spot
00:31:08.660 because they're saying
00:31:09.460 he's not tough on Putin
00:31:10.420 but he's being tough on Putin.
00:31:11.840 This is insane.
00:31:13.980 This is insane.
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00:31:17.120 I'm so glad
00:31:17.940 that you're tethered to the truth
00:31:19.360 otherwise I just don't know
00:31:20.940 where you would be now.
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00:32:47.740 Glenn Beck Mercury.
00:32:55.820 Glenn Beck.
00:32:58.260 So there is now,
00:33:00.920 I can't believe I'm saying this,
00:33:03.300 and it's serious.
00:33:05.280 There is now a controversy
00:33:07.040 with the storylines
00:33:08.760 of The Simpsons.
00:33:12.420 You know,
00:33:13.160 the cartoon.
00:33:15.520 Apparently people are upset now
00:33:17.280 at Apu's character.
00:33:20.880 He is the Indian character
00:33:22.820 that owns a convenience store.
00:33:25.180 I know.
00:33:26.240 I know.
00:33:26.760 You can't say that
00:33:27.320 they're good business owners.
00:33:28.540 Well, you know.
00:33:29.220 How dare you?
00:33:29.620 No.
00:33:30.040 Are you saying all Indians
00:33:31.440 are competent business owners?
00:33:32.800 No, that's what
00:33:33.520 Hillary Clinton said.
00:33:34.580 Oh, yeah.
00:33:35.420 That's right.
00:33:36.820 And Joe Biden.
00:33:37.840 And Joe Biden.
00:33:38.740 Yes.
00:33:39.180 Yes.
00:33:39.580 You can hardly go anywhere now
00:33:40.980 into a convenience store
00:33:41.940 without somebody from India.
00:33:43.540 Joe Biden,
00:33:44.480 Hillary Clinton.
00:33:45.980 Anyway,
00:33:46.800 so here is,
00:33:47.940 they addressed it last night
00:33:49.420 on The Simpsons.
00:33:50.160 Yeah, there was a documentary,
00:33:51.080 first of all,
00:33:51.520 that it's called
00:33:52.360 The Problem with Apu.
00:33:53.660 Apparently,
00:33:54.200 I've not seen it,
00:33:55.100 unfortunately.
00:33:55.760 But it says that basically
00:33:56.800 it's okay to make fun
00:33:58.540 of certain groups.
00:34:00.740 And for example,
00:34:01.220 they're saying Indians,
00:34:02.320 right,
00:34:02.640 where like we see everyone,
00:34:03.800 if they put a black character
00:34:05.320 on that would,
00:34:06.480 had a black voice
00:34:07.500 and had black stereotypes,
00:34:09.140 no one would agree with it.
00:34:10.440 But Apu,
00:34:11.480 because he's Indian
00:34:12.240 with Indian stereotypes
00:34:13.160 and an Indian voice
00:34:14.240 voiced by a white guy,
00:34:15.740 that's totally fine.
00:34:16.900 That's their point.
00:34:17.920 So,
00:34:18.640 they addressed this
00:34:20.460 in the storyline
00:34:21.780 of The Simpsons last night.
00:34:23.340 Well,
00:34:23.600 what am I supposed to do?
00:34:25.580 It's hard to say.
00:34:26.800 Something that started
00:34:27.820 decades ago
00:34:28.760 and was applauded
00:34:29.860 and inoffensive
00:34:30.640 is now politically incorrect.
00:34:32.860 What can you do?
00:34:34.600 Some things will be dealt
00:34:35.860 with at a later date.
00:34:37.520 If at all.
00:34:39.260 And there's a picture of Apu,
00:34:40.680 as they say that,
00:34:41.320 they look at the picture
00:34:42.200 of Apu on the side.
00:34:44.180 And their point being like,
00:34:45.320 yeah,
00:34:45.500 like this is how it started.
00:34:46.580 Everyone was fine
00:34:47.620 with it at the time.
00:34:49.080 And now,
00:34:49.860 all of a sudden,
00:34:50.400 it's turned into
00:34:51.440 something that
00:34:52.820 has become
00:34:54.580 offensive.
00:34:56.020 Right.
00:34:56.320 And you have to remember
00:34:57.240 25 years.
00:35:00.380 Yeah.
00:35:00.740 This has been going on
00:35:01.420 for 25 years.
00:35:03.060 How old were you
00:35:03.680 when you were 25 years ago?
00:35:06.360 Yes,
00:35:06.920 exactly.
00:35:07.660 Very young.
00:35:10.460 Think of the mistakes
00:35:11.460 you were making.
00:35:12.280 And now,
00:35:13.380 we're having to decide
00:35:16.380 what is offensive,
00:35:17.500 what isn't
00:35:17.980 on something
00:35:18.340 that's 25 years old.
00:35:19.680 And quite honestly,
00:35:21.660 I mean,
00:35:23.220 I don't care.
00:35:24.920 Jeez,
00:35:25.380 look what they have done
00:35:26.620 to white people.
00:35:28.120 Look at how much
00:35:29.320 you made fun of white people.
00:35:30.920 White men,
00:35:32.440 Mormons,
00:35:33.460 people of religion.
00:35:35.060 Oh, yeah.
00:35:35.440 Mormons is a great one.
00:35:36.520 I mean,
00:35:36.700 the left can't put
00:35:38.460 enough praise
00:35:39.200 on whatever musical
00:35:40.280 that is
00:35:40.740 taking on Mormons.
00:35:42.560 They love it.
00:35:43.320 They made it
00:35:43.700 the best musical
00:35:44.220 of the year.
00:35:45.200 It's touring
00:35:45.880 all over the country.
00:35:46.960 Right.
00:35:47.240 And they love it.
00:35:49.420 It's part of
00:35:50.280 what happens
00:35:51.120 in this country.
00:35:52.400 And get over it.
00:35:53.500 Yeah.
00:35:53.820 The funny thing,
00:35:54.540 everyone should be able
00:35:55.600 to be a target.
00:35:56.200 If you're a target,
00:35:57.380 it's okay.
00:35:58.340 As long as you're
00:35:58.960 a target for everybody.
00:36:00.320 You know,
00:36:00.640 like there are obviously,
00:36:02.380 there are some things
00:36:04.740 that we're going to see
00:36:06.180 as offensive now.
00:36:07.100 And these things
00:36:07.480 do change over time.
00:36:08.500 But to sit here
00:36:09.020 and they're upset
00:36:09.860 at that response
00:36:10.780 because they wanted
00:36:11.860 it to be addressed.
00:36:12.600 I think they wanted
00:36:13.260 Apu executed.
00:36:14.160 I think that was
00:36:14.760 the only thing
00:36:15.180 that would actually
00:36:16.380 accept him.
00:36:16.700 No, I think they wanted
00:36:17.020 him to execute others.
00:36:19.040 Right.
00:36:19.420 There you go.
00:36:20.060 They just want him
00:36:20.560 to not do the things
00:36:22.280 he's done.
00:36:23.360 So what do you do
00:36:23.840 with that?
00:36:24.540 He becomes a character
00:36:26.260 that only...
00:36:28.020 Is a positive...
00:36:28.880 He becomes a doctor.
00:36:30.920 And a brain surgeon.
00:36:31.900 Hank Azarian loses his gig.
00:36:33.580 You give Apu a job.
00:36:35.020 An Indian actor
00:36:36.000 comes in and plays Apu
00:36:37.180 and he only says
00:36:38.540 really boring
00:36:39.300 motivational things.
00:36:41.360 That's what they did
00:36:41.800 with the SAT scores.
00:36:43.120 The SAT,
00:36:43.500 there was this thing.
00:36:44.360 I read a book
00:36:44.820 about the SATs
00:36:45.540 before I took it
00:36:46.160 and what happened
00:36:47.200 was African Americans
00:36:47.980 complained about the test
00:36:49.760 and said that they're
00:36:50.360 not culturally equal.
00:36:52.420 So they put a bunch
00:36:53.460 of questions in
00:36:54.020 about African American
00:36:54.780 culture.
00:36:55.780 And there's the book
00:36:56.940 that told me
00:36:57.600 how to prep for the test.
00:36:59.920 I was going to say cheat
00:37:00.580 but really it's not a cheat.
00:37:01.860 But it said
00:37:02.200 if it's an option
00:37:04.220 it will never be bad
00:37:05.680 for African Americans
00:37:06.520 because they put
00:37:07.020 all the questions in.
00:37:08.820 So you can eliminate
00:37:09.980 the things that look bad
00:37:11.160 out of the answers
00:37:12.300 because you know
00:37:12.980 it's going to be positive
00:37:13.820 and it's true.
00:37:14.760 At least back then it was.
00:37:21.280 Glenn Beck.
00:37:23.320 Mercury.
00:37:30.020 Love.
00:37:31.240 Courage.
00:37:32.920 Truth.
00:37:34.640 Glenn Beck.
00:37:36.180 Remember 2016
00:37:37.340 the Berlin Christmas
00:37:38.340 market attack
00:37:39.260 where ISIS claimed
00:37:40.400 responsibility
00:37:41.000 and they took a truck
00:37:42.640 and they just
00:37:44.660 they drove it
00:37:45.480 into a busy crowd
00:37:46.400 at Christmas time.
00:37:47.400 The man it turned out
00:37:48.840 was a Tunisian
00:37:50.040 illegal immigrant
00:37:50.740 who was able
00:37:51.480 to elude police
00:37:52.420 for months
00:37:53.220 as he traversed
00:37:54.380 Europe and incited
00:37:55.560 riots at
00:37:56.380 migrant holding centers.
00:37:58.200 He killed 12 people
00:37:59.480 that day.
00:38:00.580 Injured 56.
00:38:02.440 After his bloody
00:38:03.200 murder streak
00:38:04.020 he was able to make
00:38:04.960 it to Italy
00:38:05.520 before the police
00:38:06.380 there shot him.
00:38:08.420 So the jihadist
00:38:09.180 is dead
00:38:09.680 but his legacy
00:38:10.820 apparently lives on.
00:38:12.680 On Sunday
00:38:13.260 a few of his friends
00:38:14.680 led a failed attack
00:38:16.300 on a half marathon
00:38:17.880 in Berlin.
00:38:18.920 Now this is really important.
00:38:20.220 There was a shooting
00:38:20.880 that happened in Berlin
00:38:22.240 the day before
00:38:23.560 and it was a mass shooting.
00:38:26.100 Wait a minute
00:38:26.380 I thought it was hard
00:38:26.980 to get guns in.
00:38:28.040 Oh pay no attention.
00:38:29.940 The police came out
00:38:30.920 and said look
00:38:31.360 this is a white guy.
00:38:32.640 People were trying to
00:38:33.600 make it into a
00:38:35.100 nationalist
00:38:35.960 kind of Nazi thing
00:38:37.340 and the police
00:38:38.960 immediately came out
00:38:39.800 and said no
00:38:40.220 this guy was
00:38:41.060 seriously disturbed
00:38:42.340 he had mental
00:38:43.100 health disorders.
00:38:44.720 What a surprise.
00:38:47.200 But then the next day
00:38:48.420 the police
00:38:52.160 buckled down
00:38:53.340 and were watching
00:38:54.520 an event
00:38:55.040 that they were
00:38:56.000 I'm quoting the police
00:38:57.780 isolated indications
00:38:59.200 that those arrested
00:39:00.880 aged between
00:39:01.520 19 and 21 years old
00:39:03.380 were participating
00:39:04.460 in the preparation
00:39:05.500 of a crime
00:39:06.160 in connection
00:39:06.940 with this big event.
00:39:08.380 So the terrorists
00:39:09.720 were deciding
00:39:10.860 that they were going
00:39:11.540 to go in and kill
00:39:12.220 a bunch of people
00:39:12.940 and they were caught
00:39:14.420 at the last minute.
00:39:16.060 They were planning
00:39:17.020 on using knives
00:39:18.660 for the foiled attack.
00:39:23.060 When asked about
00:39:23.960 the suspects
00:39:24.500 police spokesmen said
00:39:25.360 that they were very
00:39:26.140 vague indications
00:39:27.460 but because of
00:39:29.460 the high threat level
00:39:30.640 we immediately
00:39:31.160 started with our
00:39:32.400 police searches
00:39:33.260 and arrests
00:39:34.060 but at the moment
00:39:35.100 there are really
00:39:35.780 no concrete indications
00:39:36.940 that an attack
00:39:37.960 on the Berlin
00:39:38.520 half marathon
00:39:39.280 was foreseen.
00:39:41.120 Thankfully
00:39:41.720 the plot
00:39:42.600 was foiled
00:39:43.360 and no one
00:39:44.080 was injured
00:39:44.720 or killed.
00:39:49.540 Knives.
00:39:50.600 Oh that reminds me
00:39:52.040 London is
00:39:52.960 talking now
00:39:54.240 about banning
00:39:54.900 knives.
00:39:55.420 Of course
00:39:57.240 the four people
00:39:57.980 who died
00:39:58.540 and the 30
00:39:59.280 who were injured
00:40:00.460 in Münster,
00:40:01.620 Germany on Saturday
00:40:02.700 mowed down
00:40:03.340 by a car
00:40:04.060 that hit that
00:40:04.680 crowd of people.
00:40:06.000 They were not
00:40:06.660 so lucky
00:40:07.220 but I'll take
00:40:08.860 the good
00:40:09.400 over the bad.
00:40:21.000 It's Monday
00:40:21.840 April 9th.
00:40:23.120 This is the
00:40:23.780 Glenn Beck Program.
00:40:24.560 So I don't know
00:40:27.020 if you saw
00:40:27.420 the hero
00:40:28.720 of the Parkland
00:40:30.380 shooting
00:40:30.800 got out of
00:40:31.540 the hospital
00:40:31.980 and what he said
00:40:33.080 we'll go over
00:40:33.680 that here
00:40:34.040 in a few minutes
00:40:34.600 he was very
00:40:35.800 very clear
00:40:36.580 that everybody
00:40:38.040 is letting
00:40:38.680 the victims
00:40:39.800 in the school
00:40:40.780 and you know
00:40:41.960 future victims
00:40:42.780 down
00:40:43.200 because they're
00:40:44.240 not actually
00:40:44.880 taking any
00:40:45.540 concrete steps
00:40:46.380 and he spoke
00:40:47.240 about the
00:40:47.800 sheriff's department
00:40:48.580 and this
00:40:50.080 promise
00:40:51.200 where they
00:40:52.480 weren't going
00:40:52.980 to prosecute
00:40:55.540 anybody
00:40:55.900 who broke
00:40:57.620 the law
00:40:58.140 at school.
00:40:59.080 We'll talk
00:40:59.780 about that
00:41:00.260 but I wanted
00:41:01.120 to get David
00:41:01.740 Hogg on
00:41:02.440 with us.
00:41:03.880 Now David
00:41:04.880 Hogg is
00:41:05.340 obviously a
00:41:06.220 very controversial
00:41:07.220 figure
00:41:07.960 and has
00:41:10.240 stirred up
00:41:11.620 an awful
00:41:12.360 lot of
00:41:13.340 passion
00:41:15.800 on both
00:41:16.760 sides
00:41:17.240 but that's
00:41:19.060 not the
00:41:19.400 David Hogg
00:41:19.960 we're talking
00:41:20.500 to.
00:41:21.460 This is the
00:41:21.940 David Hogg
00:41:22.760 that is
00:41:23.640 receiving
00:41:24.140 death threats
00:41:25.740 and his
00:41:26.840 parents are
00:41:27.420 being threatened
00:41:27.980 and he
00:41:30.120 is constantly
00:41:30.900 being mistaken
00:41:31.860 for the
00:41:32.460 other David
00:41:33.180 Hogg
00:41:33.580 and he
00:41:34.060 wrote a
00:41:34.440 powerful
00:41:35.200 op-ed
00:41:36.940 in the
00:41:37.380 Wall Street
00:41:37.760 Journal
00:41:38.040 last week
00:41:38.740 where he
00:41:39.400 says I
00:41:40.240 support gun
00:41:40.900 rights
00:41:41.240 and I'm
00:41:41.860 David Hogg.
00:41:42.780 Welcome to
00:41:43.440 the program
00:41:43.860 David.
00:41:44.180 How are you?
00:41:45.280 Good.
00:41:45.820 How are you?
00:41:47.100 Good.
00:41:47.500 So tell
00:41:48.820 me your
00:41:49.160 story
00:41:49.560 when this
00:41:50.620 broke
00:41:50.960 and David
00:41:51.360 Hogg
00:41:51.620 started being
00:41:52.260 as vocal
00:41:52.900 as he
00:41:54.080 was
00:41:54.580 what started
00:41:55.620 to happen
00:41:56.660 to your
00:41:57.080 life?
00:41:59.240 Well it
00:41:59.860 was kind
00:42:00.480 of an
00:42:00.720 awful time
00:42:01.360 for that
00:42:02.040 to happen
00:42:02.540 because a
00:42:03.380 lot of
00:42:03.600 things I
00:42:04.060 was doing
00:42:04.380 a lot of
00:42:04.700 things in
00:42:05.000 my life
00:42:05.320 at the
00:42:05.540 time I
00:42:05.840 was getting
00:42:06.160 my learner's
00:42:07.680 permit I
00:42:08.500 was applying
00:42:08.980 for a
00:42:09.740 new bank
00:42:10.080 checking
00:42:10.480 account I
00:42:11.200 was getting
00:42:11.480 a job
00:42:12.140 I go to
00:42:13.120 college so
00:42:13.880 I'm here to
00:42:14.560 learn I'm not
00:42:15.100 here to have
00:42:15.560 people ask me
00:42:16.160 about questions
00:42:16.680 all the time
00:42:17.280 about the
00:42:17.740 news but
00:42:18.960 it was just
00:42:19.760 people constantly
00:42:21.020 like oh are
00:42:23.000 you the David
00:42:23.440 Hogg in
00:42:23.780 Florida and
00:42:24.480 at first it
00:42:25.760 wasn't a lot
00:42:26.280 of people but
00:42:26.840 then as he
00:42:27.700 kept getting on
00:42:28.300 the air and
00:42:28.880 more people had
00:42:29.520 a chance of
00:42:30.020 seeing him then
00:42:31.300 it became more
00:42:31.940 of a everyday
00:42:33.080 thing and
00:42:33.740 people were
00:42:34.360 responding to
00:42:36.400 all our
00:42:37.720 pictures like
00:42:38.780 not just my
00:42:39.400 pictures but my
00:42:40.020 family's pictures
00:42:40.660 on social media
00:42:41.600 asking questions
00:42:43.200 making comments
00:42:44.520 rude comments
00:42:45.400 and things like
00:42:46.760 that they
00:42:47.360 wouldn't actually
00:42:47.860 say in person
00:42:48.560 so I get
00:42:49.920 this you know
00:42:51.300 all the time
00:42:52.280 people say
00:42:52.980 oh you the
00:42:54.080 Leonardo DiCaprio
00:42:55.060 from the movies
00:42:55.760 and I'll say
00:42:56.420 no I just look
00:42:57.240 a lot like him
00:42:57.880 I mean that
00:42:59.020 happens a lot
00:43:00.160 of the time
00:43:01.260 and you can't
00:43:01.740 do anything
00:43:02.500 about mistaken
00:43:03.160 identity however
00:43:04.100 this turned
00:43:05.360 into trouble
00:43:07.320 for you and
00:43:08.300 your family
00:43:08.840 yeah so
00:43:11.840 I actually went
00:43:13.740 off social media
00:43:14.380 for a time
00:43:14.900 I came back
00:43:15.760 but like people
00:43:17.460 were taking our
00:43:18.100 photos offline
00:43:18.900 and editing them
00:43:19.700 and like putting
00:43:20.640 hog noses on them
00:43:21.520 which wasn't a
00:43:22.020 big deal but
00:43:22.720 putting like
00:43:23.260 anti-semitic
00:43:24.400 things and my
00:43:25.500 family's not
00:43:26.080 Jewish we have
00:43:27.080 nothing against
00:43:27.580 Jewish people but
00:43:28.340 that's just rude
00:43:29.520 for anybody to
00:43:30.440 have to see
00:43:30.980 people were
00:43:32.600 stopping my
00:43:33.140 little brother
00:43:33.680 because I used
00:43:34.460 to go to school
00:43:34.920 at my little
00:43:35.280 brother's school
00:43:35.920 and asking if
00:43:37.000 I was
00:43:37.580 if the David
00:43:39.380 Hogg in the
00:43:39.780 news was his
00:43:40.320 older brother
00:43:40.900 which didn't
00:43:41.920 make a whole
00:43:42.240 lot of sense
00:43:42.600 either because
00:43:43.180 why would I
00:43:43.820 be in Florida
00:43:44.340 and he would
00:43:44.720 be in Charlotte
00:43:45.320 so so
00:43:48.800 you wrote
00:43:50.280 this op-ed
00:43:51.320 to the Wall
00:43:52.040 Street Journal
00:43:52.500 how did that
00:43:53.340 come about
00:43:53.920 and then I
00:43:54.300 want to talk
00:43:54.660 to you a
00:43:54.880 little bit
00:43:55.100 about it
00:43:55.720 um they
00:43:57.820 actually responded
00:43:59.300 to me on
00:43:59.860 Twitter after I
00:44:00.540 posted a few
00:44:01.120 things on
00:44:01.640 Twitter um
00:44:03.220 and asked me
00:44:04.140 to write it
00:44:04.620 and I I did
00:44:05.640 well it was
00:44:06.960 it's really
00:44:07.640 um well
00:44:08.660 written and
00:44:09.660 uh in it
00:44:10.520 you talk about
00:44:11.580 that you are
00:44:12.980 uh not for
00:44:14.320 gun control
00:44:15.060 uh you're the
00:44:16.120 opposite of uh
00:44:17.140 the other David
00:44:17.960 Hogg and you
00:44:19.020 said there are
00:44:19.420 other things that
00:44:20.140 we should be
00:44:20.820 doing you want
00:44:22.260 to share some
00:44:22.880 of that
00:44:23.220 yeah I feel
00:44:25.640 like more of
00:44:26.300 the issue is
00:44:26.840 education um
00:44:28.640 I think that
00:44:29.660 gun education
00:44:31.700 should almost
00:44:32.280 be like CPR
00:44:33.600 education so
00:44:34.480 like in your
00:44:34.900 health class
00:44:35.460 or some some
00:44:36.140 other class
00:44:36.680 you should have
00:44:37.380 to learn about
00:44:38.000 um what to do
00:44:39.500 in a situation
00:44:40.140 when you see
00:44:41.200 a gun or when
00:44:42.020 somebody approaches
00:44:42.800 you with a gun
00:44:43.600 or things like
00:44:44.740 that so people
00:44:46.180 just know more
00:44:47.380 and then when
00:44:48.660 you're procuring
00:44:49.480 a gun maybe
00:44:51.320 maybe more
00:44:52.200 background checks
00:44:52.980 but that's the
00:44:54.480 main issue is
00:44:55.160 just education
00:44:55.880 and knowing how
00:44:56.880 to use one
00:44:57.440 knowing what
00:44:58.160 to do if you
00:44:58.580 see one
00:44:59.080 and then like
00:45:00.580 even like little
00:45:01.940 children like
00:45:02.460 elementary school
00:45:03.020 kids like knowing
00:45:04.160 not to play with
00:45:04.980 that knowing that
00:45:05.640 that's not a
00:45:06.540 nurse gun and
00:45:07.200 you can't point
00:45:07.740 that at somebody
00:45:08.300 else um do you
00:45:10.020 have guns in
00:45:10.520 your home yes
00:45:12.580 my father has
00:45:13.300 guns and you and
00:45:14.260 so do you go
00:45:14.880 shooting with him
00:45:15.660 or are they for
00:45:16.340 security or for I
00:45:18.060 mean are you
00:45:19.100 coming from a
00:45:19.760 gun home uh
00:45:22.360 yes I have my
00:45:23.500 dad has taught
00:45:24.300 me all there is
00:45:24.960 to know well all
00:45:26.240 that I need to
00:45:26.740 know about guns
00:45:27.280 at my age and
00:45:28.360 uh we don't do
00:45:30.140 as much shooting
00:45:30.840 as maybe we
00:45:32.040 would like but
00:45:32.780 we don't shoot
00:45:33.740 in the city
00:45:34.260 and uh you guys
00:45:35.900 members of the
00:45:36.520 NRA no we're
00:45:39.140 not okay um
00:45:40.800 well it's a good
00:45:41.460 thing that your
00:45:41.920 clothes aren't
00:45:42.440 soaked in blood
00:45:43.440 then um the um
00:45:45.760 uh you you said
00:45:47.880 look I I stand
00:45:48.780 for the second
00:45:49.320 amendment but I
00:45:50.420 also stand for the
00:45:51.600 other David Hoggs
00:45:52.520 first amendment
00:45:53.400 yes you want to
00:45:56.560 expand on that a
00:45:57.380 bit well I stand
00:46:00.380 for everybody's
00:46:01.160 right to free
00:46:01.900 speech and I
00:46:02.620 feel like the
00:46:03.020 only way we'll
00:46:03.520 ever get anything
00:46:04.160 done in this
00:46:04.640 country is if we
00:46:05.820 acknowledge each
00:46:06.560 other's opinions
00:46:07.320 and change on
00:46:09.320 both sides not
00:46:10.580 everyone can always
00:46:11.360 be right especially
00:46:12.260 with differing
00:46:12.880 views um you
00:46:16.600 you wrote uh
00:46:17.520 people who aren't
00:46:18.340 willing to budge
00:46:19.040 from their goal
00:46:19.640 make it harder for
00:46:20.540 change to occur uh
00:46:22.780 and uh some of
00:46:24.400 David Hogg's recent
00:46:25.360 actions like calling
00:46:26.320 sponsors to stop
00:46:27.220 advertising on a
00:46:28.060 commenter's program
00:46:28.880 because she was rude
00:46:30.020 to him come across
00:46:30.800 as bullying
00:46:31.440 yes I don't think I
00:46:36.200 I was bullied in my
00:46:37.140 life and I don't
00:46:38.300 find bullying an
00:46:39.060 acceptable way to
00:46:40.020 have anything done
00:46:41.160 I feel like that's
00:46:42.320 actually gonna even
00:46:44.060 if your cause is
00:46:44.900 good that's gonna
00:46:46.240 make people not like
00:46:47.280 your cause as much
00:46:48.020 because of how you're
00:46:49.300 representing it and
00:46:50.520 how you're trying to
00:46:51.220 get things accomplished
00:46:52.280 you you say teenagers
00:46:54.520 are smart but we
00:46:55.660 certainly don't have
00:46:56.260 all of the answers
00:46:57.320 I'd like to see him
00:46:58.960 uh soften his tone
00:47:00.500 and be more respectful
00:47:01.580 in delivering his
00:47:02.540 message
00:47:02.980 yes uh well we
00:47:06.940 haven't gone through
00:47:07.600 everything we've we've
00:47:08.580 been in school our
00:47:09.420 whole lives but we
00:47:10.720 haven't experienced
00:47:11.440 the real real world
00:47:12.940 yet we haven't
00:47:13.900 experienced the entire
00:47:14.960 realm of politics
00:47:16.120 um he's just just now
00:47:18.600 getting into like
00:47:19.280 journalism and
00:47:19.920 everything and that's
00:47:20.960 fine but there are
00:47:22.640 plenty of people who
00:47:23.920 know a lot more about
00:47:25.140 what he's trying to do
00:47:26.800 than him and plenty of
00:47:28.640 people who know a lot
00:47:29.300 more than what I'm
00:47:29.860 trying to do than me
00:47:30.820 uh David I'm sorry for
00:47:34.060 what your family has
00:47:34.920 gone through but I'm
00:47:35.740 I'm glad to see have
00:47:37.120 you had response from
00:47:38.580 this now
00:47:39.240 uh yeah people are um
00:47:42.880 like even at my job
00:47:44.840 people are like oh
00:47:45.980 are you the David
00:47:46.560 hogging the news and
00:47:47.360 I'm like yeah that's
00:47:48.420 me and they're like
00:47:49.820 oh I'm so sorry for
00:47:50.720 what you've gone
00:47:51.200 through and it's it's
00:47:52.520 it's real nice to hear
00:47:53.580 people like apologize
00:47:54.920 for actions of other
00:47:55.860 people yeah good
00:47:57.040 David thank you very
00:47:58.000 much appreciate it
00:47:58.860 god bless
00:47:59.340 you know he uh he
00:48:09.900 talked about um
00:48:12.080 education shooting
00:48:14.860 education at school I've
00:48:16.080 got an amazing story and
00:48:17.680 an artifact I have to go
00:48:18.640 up to the the vault and
00:48:19.820 and uh pull it out of the
00:48:21.780 archives uh but I got to
00:48:23.660 share a story with you
00:48:24.400 that will blow your mind
00:48:25.460 on how much the world has
00:48:27.620 changed uh since the
00:48:29.300 progressive era began
00:48:30.360 coming up in just a few
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00:49:06.360 many people have asked us
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00:49:15.560 you up Stu about eight
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00:49:22.320 I think it started the last
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00:49:25.360 it's still people like oh
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00:50:59.320 Glenn Beck mercury
00:51:03.520 Glenn Beck so when it comes to uh
00:51:14.660 guns and uh and schools there's
00:51:20.300 there's a lot of controversy and
00:51:22.540 there always has been and this
00:51:24.500 isn't the first time that people
00:51:25.960 have said like our just last guest
00:51:27.880 just uh said you know I think
00:51:29.460 that we should that we should
00:51:30.300 have you know uh gun training in
00:51:34.480 school there should be some sort of
00:51:36.260 training that that you know that
00:51:37.860 shows that uh you know gives
00:51:40.100 everybody a basic understanding of uh
00:51:43.840 of what a gun does gun safety
00:51:46.180 it'd be great too if it wasn't just
00:51:49.160 scare tactics right it's not just
00:51:50.540 about how you react if some dangerous
00:51:53.260 person comes in with a gun which is
00:51:57.060 important right everyone should have
00:51:59.140 some basic idea who was it was it
00:52:01.000 ben sherwood years ago who uh who
00:52:02.840 wrote the book about surviving um uh
00:52:07.060 critical moments in your life and how
00:52:09.720 people think like well you get in a to a
00:52:11.800 plane crash you're just dead and and
00:52:13.740 what you find out is that the numbers
00:52:15.240 are not like that the numbers are if
00:52:16.980 you're prepared for how to deal with it
00:52:19.280 a lot of people actually survive same
00:52:20.980 thing with you this is at the time of
00:52:22.780 that really bad fire um at a at the
00:52:25.900 bar in I think it was Rhode Island
00:52:27.600 where so many people couldn't get out
00:52:29.320 and it's just a matter of uh of knowing
00:52:33.060 the escape routes yeah right yeah so
00:52:35.180 that's important but it's also about
00:52:36.760 like taking the stigma away there's that
00:52:39.120 negative sort of stigma of guns and I
00:52:41.600 know this from growing up in the
00:52:42.680 northeast like people just generally
00:52:44.840 speaking think of them as bad and how
00:52:47.760 do you deal with this bad thing instead
00:52:49.820 of understanding what it does how to
00:52:51.680 use it the good things that can come
00:52:53.420 with it and then that would be a great
00:52:54.600 that'd be a great place yeah it would
00:52:57.040 never you would never want it in school
00:52:58.480 because they would never they would
00:52:59.760 they would find a way to demonize them
00:53:01.240 and make them horrible okay but this
00:53:03.560 isn't the first time now this what I'm
00:53:06.200 holding is from the um from the mercury
00:53:08.700 museum and I love this is from 1906 and
00:53:12.400 this comes from Theodore Roosevelt and
00:53:15.820 this was a campaign to get gun safety
00:53:19.820 and shooting uh into our public schools
00:53:23.340 now imagine this now it's it's a it's a
00:53:26.360 giant target and it says who can kill
00:53:29.560 teddy bear okay that just sounds crazy
00:53:32.760 uh remember this is the time where teddy
00:53:35.320 bear was just getting its name from
00:53:37.020 Theodore Roosevelt from teddy
00:53:38.180 roosevelt so uh it shows a bear and
00:53:42.040 then it has targets all across the bear
00:53:44.860 now this was made for kids this was
00:53:51.020 made for kids so that's one way that
00:53:55.880 things have changed so much in the last
00:53:57.640 hundred years but there was an outcry
00:54:00.060 when this went out the school that the
00:54:02.860 towns were so outraged that the president
00:54:07.420 of the United States would try to get
00:54:09.760 shooting done in schools and do you know
00:54:13.320 why
00:54:13.640 because the locals said how dare the
00:54:23.600 federal government try to tell us what
00:54:27.060 needs to happen in our own local
00:54:30.060 schools we'll put shooting ranges in if
00:54:34.320 we choose to put shooting ranges they
00:54:36.820 had no problem at the time with putting
00:54:39.560 shooting ranges into school what they
00:54:41.720 had the problem with was the federal
00:54:43.860 government trying to tell them what to
00:54:47.240 do when it came to educating their kids
00:54:49.320 wow is that not nuts looking look what
00:54:54.420 the progressive era has done
00:54:56.000 the progressives Theodore Roosevelt he's
00:55:01.600 taking that step because the progressives
00:55:04.540 believe they should have the power to tell
00:55:07.280 you what to do in your own town in your
00:55:09.860 own home and in your own life but a hundred
00:55:12.620 years ago people didn't believe that people
00:55:15.940 didn't think that way people knew wait I'm
00:55:18.820 free my town will decide what's bet get
00:55:22.080 away from us and if we want guns we'll do
00:55:26.120 guns if we don't want guns we won't do
00:55:28.000 guns but get away from us federal government
00:55:30.420 you have nothing to do to now everyone is
00:55:34.060 crying out saying the federal government
00:55:36.040 must do these things the federal government
00:55:39.500 has the ultimate responsibility in keeping
00:55:42.480 us safe in telling us what we can and
00:55:44.960 cannot do in school and in our own homes
00:55:47.440 and when we bring up maybe we should have
00:55:51.020 you know shooting classes in school oh my
00:55:55.140 gosh that's an outrage you local yokels you
00:55:58.000 have no idea what you're doing you're all
00:55:59.980 dangerous the government needs to restrict
00:56:02.260 you
00:56:02.680 it's amazing how a hundred years of
00:56:09.640 progressive thought has perverted the
00:56:12.560 idea of what it really means to be free
00:56:15.320 in America
00:56:16.320 that's a that's a long journey you just
00:56:19.900 described hundred years I mean a hundred
00:56:22.720 years and I mean really happened a lot
00:56:24.460 faster than that but I mean to be able to
00:56:26.260 go to a place where I mean it should be
00:56:28.920 local control they talked about there's a
00:56:31.300 school I believe it's in Idaho that has
00:56:34.620 already done the arming the teachers
00:56:37.320 thing they've done it for a long time
00:56:39.000 because there's not really a police
00:56:41.600 station nearby it's not an option yeah
00:56:44.700 so they actually have this they actually
00:56:47.600 have armed teachers stunningly there's
00:56:50.240 been no school shootings at this at this
00:56:52.200 school um but I mean that is something
00:56:55.880 that I think a good chunk of the country
00:56:57.620 understands still right there's still a
00:56:59.840 good chunk of the country that understands
00:57:01.540 that you know law-abiding gun owners that
00:57:03.960 are properly trained are a real positive
00:57:06.140 influence on the country but there's huge
00:57:08.820 we talk about this blue and red sort of
00:57:12.040 divide among the country that is so real
00:57:16.240 because guns are in large chunks of the
00:57:18.880 country are not treated as if they're
00:57:20.700 anything but murderous devices used by
00:57:23.300 bad people so I want to take that to
00:57:24.920 someplace else I want to take that to
00:57:26.300 what happened what I read about this
00:57:27.620 weekend in Indiana where these two guys
00:57:31.300 were tired of the potholes so they went
00:57:33.400 out and they took their own money and
00:57:35.340 they bought asphalt and they're repairing
00:57:38.120 the potholes wait until you hear the
00:57:40.400 reaction no no it's not what you think
00:57:43.020 Glenn Beck Mercury
00:57:45.820 this is the Glenn Beck program
00:58:00.600 so let me show you how things are
00:58:06.420 changing now I think these guys I want
00:58:11.540 to talk to these guys in about a week
00:58:13.020 because I have a feeling things are
00:58:14.400 going to change for him now that they're
00:58:15.440 getting a national attention which I
00:58:17.560 would find really unfortunate there are
00:58:19.700 two men in Indiana that were really
00:58:22.600 tired of waiting for the city to repair
00:58:24.840 potholes so they started a grassroots
00:58:27.580 organization called open source roads
00:58:30.480 and they they started to make an
00:58:34.480 Indianapolis pothole map and where the
00:58:38.900 really bad ones are and then they were
00:58:40.860 tired of sitting around waiting for the
00:58:42.500 city so Mike Warren and Chris Lang
00:58:45.620 spent their own money and they're not
00:58:50.100 you know they're not wealthy and they
00:58:52.960 bought asphalt and now they're going
00:58:56.640 around and they're filling the potholes in
00:58:59.000 the city now they're fans of of Ron
00:59:02.700 Swanson from Parks and Recreation and you
00:59:07.360 know one of them's got he said I've got a
00:59:08.860 poster on my wall of of Ron and he's
00:59:12.020 basically libertarian on the show yeah in
00:59:15.240 real life he does not seem to be at all
00:59:17.360 the actor that portrays him but yes right
00:59:19.360 okay so he said that they have gathered
00:59:24.940 about five different friends these two and
00:59:28.620 Warren and Lang and sometimes others they
00:59:31.520 go out on their weekends in their spare
00:59:33.320 time and they fix the worst potholes in the
00:59:35.940 city we want to fill a lot of potholes we
00:59:38.380 want we want people to help out and see
00:59:40.500 that we don't need to rely on this
00:59:42.260 monopoly of a government for it I want
00:59:45.860 that to be what starts the people taking
00:59:48.020 charge about of their own life and start
00:59:52.100 talking about change the city is going to
00:59:55.200 fail at their own monopoly why should they
00:59:57.200 have that monopoly the Department of Public
01:00:00.040 Works audit rated the city's roads poor
01:00:02.200 said it would take 200 and sorry 732
01:00:05.920 million dollars to upgrade them to fair
01:00:08.980 condition so they don't have a permit for
01:00:13.900 what they're doing this is awesome I know
01:00:16.740 but they say the city and the police
01:00:18.480 officers they're not stopping them
01:00:20.260 Betsy Whitmore chief of communications for
01:00:24.020 the Indianapolis Department of Public
01:00:25.280 Works said in an email that obtaining a
01:00:27.060 permit to work on city-owned streets and
01:00:29.580 right-of-way is important so the city knows
01:00:31.560 what's going on what kind of answer is
01:00:34.460 that I mean I love that answer but what
01:00:36.920 that's like a Texan hey just let us know
01:00:39.440 what you're doing in the streets can you
01:00:44.220 imagine doing this in New York I can't
01:00:46.420 that that's though also seems like a way
01:00:49.360 that they're saying you better get a
01:00:50.600 permit or this is gonna stop no I don't
01:00:53.440 know so far Lang one of the guys estimates
01:00:56.720 they spend between eight hundred and a
01:00:58.320 thousand dollars for tools and for
01:01:00.200 asphalt part of the money came from their
01:01:02.600 own paychecks and donations for their
01:01:05.380 GoFundMe page campaign to fix my roads
01:01:09.240 M-U-H road these guys I know the two
01:01:14.400 started April 2017 after Warren saw video
01:01:17.960 of anarchists in Portland patching their
01:01:20.800 city streets it's hilarious I love this
01:01:24.320 the anarchists in Oregon say that
01:01:29.060 capitalism and government are not
01:01:31.160 necessary for society to function
01:01:33.560 according to the Oregonian okay so these
01:01:36.060 guys don't necessarily have a lot in
01:01:38.760 common except you know capitalism all
01:01:44.620 right on in Oregon doesn't work but they
01:01:47.220 both believe we don't need the government
01:01:49.940 to do the things that they don't do
01:01:51.820 well we can do this Lang and Warren say
01:01:56.080 they are not anarchists and do not want
01:01:59.000 to replace the Department of Public Works
01:02:00.860 but they thought a similar grassroots
01:02:02.700 repair effort would help solve some of
01:02:04.400 the problems on side streets and call on
01:02:06.760 the city to provide better service
01:02:08.680 that's really interesting because I mean
01:02:12.080 one of the classic complaints against
01:02:14.500 libertarianism is what are you what are you
01:02:16.280 you want just private businesses to have to
01:02:18.700 run all the roads yeah yeah that would be
01:02:21.020 fantastic I mean we could see how it
01:02:22.640 works when you drive around let's say a
01:02:25.780 business how many how many entrances to
01:02:28.560 Walmart are in complete disrepair they're
01:02:31.880 not because they want people to drive on
01:02:33.640 those roads and come into the store so
01:02:35.540 they make sure that they're kept up if you
01:02:37.900 give private business an incentive to to
01:02:41.340 do these things and they will be done
01:02:42.640 better I love this though this is a great
01:02:44.580 idea because this it's interesting it's
01:02:46.900 not because there was a story we talked
01:02:48.420 about with Toronto a few months ago where I
01:02:52.780 am I hate this story and I simultaneously
01:02:56.340 love this story yeah because it's the
01:02:58.520 outcome is unfortunate but Toronto said
01:03:01.480 they needed stairs to go down this little
01:03:03.860 walk this little hill I mean it's a little
01:03:05.600 not even a hill it's a park right right it
01:03:07.900 was like a you know from one level of like
01:03:10.020 parking lot into the park it was a very
01:03:12.000 short stair I mean it was 10 stairs 12
01:03:15.060 stairs yeah and they were it was going to
01:03:18.060 be 55 to 60 thousand dollars for them to
01:03:21.460 install these stairs well a local guy is
01:03:24.720 just like yeah what's 55 thousand dollars
01:03:28.040 he spent 550 dollars of his own money he
01:03:31.500 bought the lumber and the concrete yep
01:03:32.920 built the stairs himself put them in
01:03:35.200 perfectly fine stairs and problem solved
01:03:38.820 until of course Toronto got wind of it and
01:03:41.140 then came in and tore the stairs down
01:03:43.060 because they didn't like the way it was
01:03:45.900 done now of course you're going to always
01:03:48.220 have those issues but the point that I
01:03:50.520 think he was trying to make was it doesn't
01:03:52.480 take 60 thousand dollars to make stairs
01:03:54.900 exactly it doesn't take that we all know
01:03:57.380 it doesn't yes I mean even we even hear
01:03:58.720 this with the wall where they're talking
01:04:00.160 about the wall on the southern border and
01:04:01.860 they're like oh it's going to cost you know
01:04:03.800 25 billion dollars there's like 25 billion
01:04:08.360 dollars for a wall like I understand that
01:04:11.440 it's government and everything seems to
01:04:12.940 cost more but does that does that sound
01:04:15.400 even remotely coherent may I may I just
01:04:18.300 say may I just say this listen to what
01:04:20.180 listen to what these two guys in Indiana
01:04:21.640 said they were asked are you worried about
01:04:24.020 getting hit while it seems like two people
01:04:28.440 can actually fill potholes there is a
01:04:31.640 supporting group to protect the workers
01:04:33.220 from traffic this can include an extra
01:04:35.440 staff to hold warning signs for drivers
01:04:38.240 and a driver of a blocker truck to provide
01:04:41.280 a barrier between pothole filling workers
01:04:44.140 and traffic it more said usually the city
01:04:50.660 uses five to six people we pretty much get
01:04:55.520 it done with two that's great it is and it
01:05:00.820 is because there are obviously like if you
01:05:02.740 had just guys kind of coming around and
01:05:05.280 building bridges across things like you
01:05:07.200 might have some issues maybe there's not
01:05:08.620 engineering necessary but if you have a
01:05:10.640 an understanding of how to do this and
01:05:12.360 can do it safely and the other part is
01:05:14.520 like with the exception of getting hit
01:05:16.420 while you're filling the pothole it used
01:05:18.960 to have nothing in it right I mean if they
01:05:21.900 put marshmallows inside of it it would
01:05:23.540 probably be better than what it was so
01:05:26.440 it's hard to do damage when you're
01:05:27.800 filling a pothole it's it's it's remarkable
01:05:31.080 and now who will be the first to stop
01:05:34.260 these guys because they just get I mean
01:05:37.800 it's not I mean you imagine that in New
01:05:41.420 York City I remember I I remember when New
01:05:45.840 York City began to change me and it was I
01:05:49.580 was standing at a subway or someplace and
01:05:52.420 there was there was garbage blowing
01:05:54.720 around everywhere now I'm in some cities
01:05:57.320 I'm in towns and things and I see
01:05:58.780 garbage I'll pick it up and I'll put it
01:06:00.380 in the trash can I don't do that in New
01:06:02.720 York you don't ever do that in New York
01:06:04.700 for multiple reasons you don't usually
01:06:06.780 needles attached to each piece of garbage
01:06:08.660 yeah so you don't do that in New York but
01:06:10.540 I remember seeing the trash blowing and I
01:06:12.600 remember thinking to myself about a year
01:06:14.220 and a half into New York and the hell is
01:06:16.180 the city going to do something about this
01:06:17.520 and it just took me by surprise like what
01:06:20.140 and it was in front of our building and I
01:06:24.020 was complaining about the city if here go
01:06:27.280 out and pick it up go out and sweep it's
01:06:29.580 interesting but you don't do that and the
01:06:32.040 city makes it impossible for you to want
01:06:35.100 to do anything they don't want you doing
01:06:37.360 anything no no no no no no no no don't
01:06:40.520 move that I mean a lot of that is you know
01:06:42.660 people justifying their jobs and people you
01:06:44.860 know but there's a longer term ideological
01:06:49.480 reason for these things which is in to
01:06:51.920 imprison you to government I mean this is
01:06:54.100 what they want you to believe they like
01:06:56.440 the idea that you're dependent on them it
01:06:59.680 gives them the control it gives them the
01:07:01.920 power gives them everything so when and
01:07:04.520 again these are little examples of it but
01:07:06.380 it goes deeper than this it's people who
01:07:08.860 used to be I need to go oh my god I'm I
01:07:11.280 lost my job I gotta need to get a job well
01:07:13.480 then there was people arguing for 99 weeks
01:07:15.780 of unemployment right 99 weeks that was
01:07:19.100 never something look there are reasons
01:07:20.940 there are reasons that you know these
01:07:22.880 things pop up but that it's a change in
01:07:25.420 mindset in which we demand from the
01:07:27.300 government things that we used to demand
01:07:29.500 of ourselves it's it's it is remarkable
01:07:33.120 that I think this is beginning to change I
01:07:36.660 really think this is beginning to change let
01:07:39.280 me go to Andy in Washington who has
01:07:41.040 possibly an example hello Andy good
01:07:44.140 morning fellas you're in Washington
01:07:45.520 State yes sir where what part
01:07:48.260 uh Yakima Valley Eastern Washington okay
01:07:51.020 Eastern Washington all right tell me
01:07:53.120 what's going on well you had made a
01:07:55.340 comment uh one of you did a bit ago
01:07:57.540 about an Idaho school that does some
01:07:59.080 concealed carry
01:07:59.800 we have at least two here just in the
01:08:02.800 Yakima Valley that also do and I know
01:08:04.980 there's well at least a couple more
01:08:07.100 that are talking about it and so people
01:08:10.100 are starting the teachers are all are
01:08:12.140 starting to conceal carry well it's not so
01:08:15.960 much teachers as it is admin and or
01:08:18.640 conceal carry security guards but in fact
01:08:21.920 while we're on the subject there's a it's
01:08:23.700 an I-1620 I think they're trying to get
01:08:26.260 names uh to get it on the ballot for
01:08:28.660 November to allow concealed carry for
01:08:30.800 uh almost any staff I believe that
01:08:33.020 passes the security and and training so
01:08:35.340 when you said Yakima I responded okay
01:08:38.400 meaning uh okay I understand your phone
01:08:41.300 call now because I saw that you you were
01:08:43.220 talking you wanted to talk about
01:08:44.620 concealed uh carry teachers in
01:08:47.180 Washington State um and Washington State
01:08:51.440 is a really good example of this there
01:08:53.840 are there were two kind there are two
01:08:56.060 states I mean it's not even the same
01:08:58.180 state uh you go Seattle and Yakima it's
01:09:02.320 it's a completely different world from
01:09:05.740 one side of the state to the other you do
01:09:08.340 that in California you drive you know 25
01:09:11.420 miles and it's a different state the
01:09:14.780 people think differently so how do you
01:09:17.440 think it's gonna go over Andy you know
01:09:19.680 in the Seattle area you know actually the
01:09:23.340 the gentleman that started the initiative
01:09:25.080 uh the name gathering for the initiative
01:09:27.800 1621 uh he's actually from Bellevue I
01:09:31.180 believe oh my gosh or Bellevue somewhere
01:09:33.360 which really surprised me yeah you know
01:09:36.580 you're correct though the eastern and
01:09:38.060 western Washington the same with Oregon
01:09:40.060 and or California yeah uh it's it's like
01:09:42.800 two complete states western well I mean
01:09:44.940 you're from Washington uh western
01:09:46.680 Washington it's two counties has enough
01:09:48.700 population to overrule the vote for the
01:09:51.480 entire state it's crazy it's absolutely
01:09:54.820 crazy I don't know how we I don't know
01:09:57.900 how we um bring this together other than I
01:10:01.720 think there is a there's a growing number
01:10:05.200 of people especially in these really
01:10:07.160 divided areas um and in states that are
01:10:10.340 failing that people are starting to say
01:10:13.100 okay guys I don't want to play teams
01:10:15.360 anymore what do we do to make this work
01:10:17.700 and common sense is starting to take a
01:10:21.000 toehold not a foothold but a toehold in
01:10:24.360 some of these very very progressive states
01:10:26.940 have you seen any of that Andy a little
01:10:30.920 yeah not not a ton but you know you look
01:10:33.060 around Seattle and things are so crazy
01:10:34.880 um you know there comes a point where
01:10:38.720 even even somebody who's who's absolutely
01:10:41.660 anti-gun has to realize that we have to
01:10:43.820 do something and what we've been doing
01:10:45.480 for you know umpteen years isn't working
01:10:47.400 yeah Andy thank you so much appreciate
01:10:49.480 it
01:10:49.920 sort of feels like the just the momentum
01:10:57.140 of all of this is going to help these
01:10:58.680 situations like there wasn't a way
01:11:00.440 easily to do a map of all you know
01:11:04.020 potholes right it was a would have been
01:11:06.520 a pain to for people to do that but now
01:11:08.880 with crowdsourcing and and apps and all
01:11:11.800 these things I mean like you look at a
01:11:13.240 change Waze is that company that does the
01:11:15.140 traffic you know like your GPS app it's
01:11:17.740 like there people are constantly
01:11:19.020 reporting when everything from
01:11:21.620 something's in the road or a car is
01:11:23.560 pulled over on the side of the road
01:11:24.580 and you pull up and you're like how
01:11:26.500 long has this car been here an hour and
01:11:27.880 there's 25 reports of this one car
01:11:30.580 pulled over the side of the road that
01:11:31.480 doesn't even affect traffic flow at all
01:11:33.060 it's because people are constantly
01:11:34.500 reporting and as this as this stuff
01:11:36.120 improves and people are involved in it
01:11:37.660 you think it's going to be easier the
01:11:39.760 momentum of this technology you know
01:11:41.480 you know how Google gets Google traffic
01:11:44.020 right just people just monitoring
01:11:46.520 people as they drive it's yes it's
01:11:48.400 tracking your your phone so you've got
01:11:51.120 your phone in your car you're driving
01:11:53.080 it sees when you're slowing down that
01:11:55.220 goes and it's fed up into the into the
01:11:57.500 system and it it creates this map I'm
01:12:00.560 old enough Glenn to remember when traffic
01:12:03.760 cams were this big thing and they were
01:12:05.800 like oh my god you could check your
01:12:06.880 traffic on your way to work because you
01:12:08.840 because of traffic cams that the
01:12:10.520 government put up to see certain roads
01:12:12.340 think of how ancient that is now I know
01:12:14.680 and that is just the big signs that say
01:12:16.880 that hang over you know hey slow down or
01:12:19.280 this amount of time to you know the next
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01:14:07.200 glenn beck mercury
01:14:11.280 glenn beck
01:14:19.920 hey just a quick personal note i'd ask
01:14:33.900 for some prayers for uh robert morris he's
01:14:36.280 a friend of uh friend of mine and a good
01:14:39.180 man he's from uh gateway church here and
01:14:42.300 and huge uh positive influence in the
01:14:44.920 community he was medevaced uh to the
01:14:47.460 hospital yesterday for some complications
01:14:49.600 after some surgery and just keep robert
01:14:52.080 morris in your prayers glenn beck mercury
01:14:55.960 love courage truth glenn beck well once
01:15:08.220 in a while once in a blue moon bill maher
01:15:10.160 actually says something he veers into
01:15:12.100 common sense and takes a stand on
01:15:14.180 something that even conservatives can get
01:15:16.860 behind friday night was one of those rare
01:15:19.380 occasions he defended laura ingram on
01:15:22.180 principle now he did come out and say
01:15:24.980 you know i also want you to know this
01:15:27.720 sounds ridiculous uh because i think she's
01:15:30.500 a deliberately terrible person so i mean he
01:15:33.380 didn't qualify it he's not in love with
01:15:35.700 laura ingram he's doing something more
01:15:38.040 important he's standing on principle so
01:15:40.840 after two months of conservatives pointing
01:15:42.920 to the fact that that the parkland brat pack
01:15:45.880 should be willing to take some criticism if
01:15:48.360 they're going to launch their attacks on
01:15:50.160 conservatives through big media someone on
01:15:53.080 the left has finally made that same argument
01:15:56.240 and it turns out it's bill maher here's what
01:15:58.920 he said but it has to do with the parkland
01:16:01.960 kids and guns and free speech now i think
01:16:04.820 those kids did a great thing they put this
01:16:06.780 issue uh in a place we've never had it before
01:16:09.200 and i wish them success but you know if you're
01:16:11.960 going to be out there in the arena and make
01:16:13.940 yourselves the champions of this cause people
01:16:17.840 are going to have the right i think to argue
01:16:19.940 back okay maybe you shouldn't say that about a
01:16:23.440 seventeen year old but again he is in the
01:16:25.280 arena and then he calls for a boycott of her
01:16:28.580 sponsors now what what is really is that
01:16:33.120 american to call for a really let me explain
01:16:36.520 something because i told and he complains
01:16:39.360 about bullying that's a bully i have been the
01:16:41.780 victim of a boycott i lost a job once it is
01:16:46.160 wrong you shouldn't be do this by team you
01:16:48.620 should do it by principle wow yes yes so
01:16:56.220 empathy is a huge missing ingredient in our
01:16:59.360 national dialogue so is common sense and
01:17:01.700 clear thinking but it's what allowed bill
01:17:05.160 maher to defend laura ingram because he
01:17:07.760 knows what she's going through after the
01:17:10.920 9-11 attacks he disagreed with characterizing
01:17:13.060 the hijackers as uh as cowards he said we've
01:17:17.120 been cowards lobbying cruise missiles from
01:17:19.340 2 000 miles away well that led to a boycott of
01:17:22.840 his sponsors on abc which then canceled the
01:17:26.440 show called politically incorrect one of the
01:17:30.380 most amazing things ever that's why in principle
01:17:34.140 right after 9-11 and you can imagine how
01:17:37.340 popular this was i took the stand of supporting
01:17:41.100 bill maher not for what he said but what part of
01:17:44.760 politically incorrect did you not understand
01:17:48.120 abc that's what this man does why you hired
01:17:52.760 right and if we can't we cannot uh let name
01:17:59.400 calling and uh and and political thought come
01:18:05.220 under control from a mob left or right that's
01:18:09.680 why you don't want democracy democracy is
01:18:12.180 mob rule it's majority wins that hasn't that
01:18:16.540 doesn't work and by the way this isn't even
01:18:18.940 majority wins on these boycotts this is just a
01:18:22.240 handful of people who are really dedicated to
01:18:24.600 making people's lives miserable and so they get
01:18:27.880 their way but mar got this right this is about
01:18:32.560 principle and the worst lesson that the parkland
01:18:35.740 kids and and the rest of america's youth are
01:18:38.480 learning for all of this is that an inability to
01:18:41.560 agree to disagree we have to be able to get
01:18:45.740 there it's not enough for the left anymore if
01:18:49.200 they don't like your viewpoint their their only
01:18:52.360 response is to try to destroy your livelihood and
01:18:56.640 drum you out of the market to me that is much more
01:19:02.500 dangerous to society than any number of guns
01:19:06.360 it's monday april 9th this is the glenn beck program
01:19:16.340 so there was a movie that premiered on hbo over the weekend
01:19:19.880 it was a movie about penn state robert de niro played joe paterno
01:19:24.340 and uh it it ended looking like things were even worse
01:19:29.420 i don't want to give away the end line in case you want to watch it but it was
01:19:34.520 not making joe paterno look like it looked like he was uh
01:19:38.340 like there was any shadow of a doubt that this guy was a bad guy
01:19:42.540 well john ziggler is a friend of ours and a friend of the program he's a
01:19:45.700 columnist at media he also uh runs the uh podcast the world
01:19:50.260 according to zig which is worth a listen at free speech broadcasting
01:19:54.460 dot com uh john has been john has been uh following the joe
01:20:00.000 paterno uh case for a while and will not let it go
01:20:04.280 uh and uh he was writing a massive story for newsweek
01:20:09.820 it took months and months to do they spent a lot of money on it and then at the
01:20:15.200 last minute they pulled it and uh and killed the story and
01:20:19.400 quickly glenn this is my fault and i do this all the time i always i always
01:20:22.980 confuse robert de niro and al pacino it was al pacino
01:20:25.220 who played paterno it's my fault i did that to you in the break my bad
01:20:28.480 uh yeah john has been on all over the story for forever
01:20:31.640 uh and he joins us now uh john first of all did you see did you
01:20:35.840 actually watch paterno on hbo i did eventually bring myself to watch
01:20:40.700 it and i was able to do so without vomiting
01:20:42.700 i thought an accomplishment um but it was it was interesting historical fantasy
01:20:48.020 it was a it was a fairy tale based in a media created myth and and to be
01:20:52.640 fair uh to say i followed the story for a while
01:20:55.760 no no you were a stalker you were i mean
01:20:58.520 well i i'm the only person who has looked at this from an independent
01:21:02.440 perspective not within the media industrial complex that jumped to a
01:21:06.660 ridiculous conclusion in two days back in november of 2011
01:21:09.720 and i know more and this is not an exaggeration
01:21:12.240 i know more about this whole penn state paterno and jerry sandusky story
01:21:16.860 than anybody on the planet including jerry sandusky
01:21:20.040 and jerry sandusky would be the first person to tell you that
01:21:22.520 and it's been the worst decision of my life but it's also been the best work of
01:21:26.320 my life because what i have found is a completely and totally different
01:21:30.760 reality than the myth that you've been told
01:21:33.540 for the last seven years so john i want to get into this because i'm so
01:21:37.420 fascinated by you and this this uh this cross that you carry because i know
01:21:43.820 what it's like to know something and no one will listen i mean i i got the
01:21:48.840 caliphate is coming oh you're an idiot okay all right and it's it it will drive
01:21:53.940 you out of your mind but talk take me to newsweek because
01:21:57.720 you thought okay finally somebody's going to do something and newsweek
01:22:01.420 what was it like 11 000 words 20 000 words on the website 15 000
01:22:07.560 in the magazine here's what happened for many of your listeners and viewers
01:22:11.700 probably remember that a little over a year ago you guys had me in in dallas
01:22:14.920 for a full day of interviews about this you're the only ones with the guts to
01:22:19.020 do anything like this and i thought at the time all right you
01:22:22.600 know what that's pretty much the end of this for me because there's nowhere else
01:22:25.420 for this to go nobody you know you you guys you don't
01:22:29.120 really care about being part of the media club
01:22:31.040 and so no other big media is ever going to accept this because they're too
01:22:34.740 invested in their myth their santa claus myth
01:22:37.260 and so uh we got a huge break at the end of last year
01:22:41.680 where newsweek hired as their top editor a guy by the name of bob roe
01:22:45.680 and bob roe had worked on the mcmartin preschool sex abuse case here in california
01:22:50.480 many years ago which turned out to be a fraud so bob roe got it and bob roe
01:22:55.840 didn't care about any kind of criticism he was going to get he also had a
01:22:59.220 previous relationship with my co-author on this uh with what would end up
01:23:03.600 being this proposed uh again and accepted newsweek piece ralph
01:23:08.120 ralph cipriano l.a times and philadelphia inquire reporter
01:23:11.580 he and i've been working on the case for quite a while together
01:23:14.580 and so he hired ralph ralph brought me on as his co-writer and then we
01:23:18.640 so this was back in october of last year
01:23:21.280 and and we had gotten a huge other break in that
01:23:24.820 ralph had been leaked all of the settlement documents
01:23:29.540 from penn state's 118 million dollars that they gave the 36 accusers of jerry
01:23:35.520 sandusky and i think all of the free report documents and i went to
01:23:41.120 philadelphia for two days and reviewed the documents and they're
01:23:44.220 unbelievable i was positive i was right when i was with you guys over a year ago
01:23:48.920 now it it's not even remotely close okay so why what did you see in the
01:23:54.880 documents that that make you say that it's all science
01:23:58.840 fiction glenn every bit of it we and the the guys who were at trial told
01:24:05.060 completely different stories when it came time to getting their money from penn
01:24:08.540 state because that's how penn state was paying out their money
01:24:11.600 we know that the so-called 70s accusers that supposedly implicated joe paterno
01:24:16.100 that got referred to in that al pacino movie by the way incorrectly they
01:24:19.700 couldn't even get the right accuser they can't even get their myth right
01:24:23.220 in this movie uh they referred to a 1976 accuser they meant 1971
01:24:27.920 these guys stories are hilarious and i now know the key thing glenn and
01:24:34.660 and this actually goes kind of the parkland situation you know the parkland
01:24:38.120 kids are protected right that's nothing compared to the sandusky accusers
01:24:42.760 because i now know their identities and we have this bizarre situation where
01:24:48.160 adults sometimes very old adults getting state money millions of dollars
01:24:53.300 are not allowed to have their names it's not a legal situation it's a media
01:24:57.780 decision because they're a cowardice they're not allowed to have their names
01:25:00.920 be public because that would be insensitive to sex abuse victims well guess
01:25:06.580 what when you know their identities you know a lot about them and you know how
01:25:11.620 ridiculous their stories is all stories are all you have to do is go to their
01:25:15.060 facebook pages they're all still huge penn state fans they're all still joe
01:25:19.680 paterno fans they've got pictures of themselves at penn state games in penn
01:25:24.080 state uniforms in penn state shirts their children in penn state shirts
01:25:28.520 they're they all got massive uh expensive sports cars they're not they're all
01:25:35.020 married they're all heterosexual which which i think goes to the heart of this
01:25:39.640 whole baloney narrative there there's nothing about the story
01:25:43.920 that makes any damn sense none of it and when you consider the fact and part of
01:25:48.920 what newsweek was very excited about was that we have had a three and a half
01:25:53.240 year sting operation on the number one lawyer named
01:25:57.080 andrew shuban in state college pennsylvania and his therapist
01:26:00.400 with with unimpeachable evidence that they took this fake accuser for three and a
01:26:06.880 half years they embraced him he they manipulated him they gave him a
01:26:10.340 completely false story then when he tried to tell him he wasn't really a victim
01:26:14.500 of jerry sandusky they convinced him that he was even though he wasn't and they
01:26:19.900 they he got uh diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder for something that
01:26:25.400 didn't happen that he says didn't happen right because
01:26:29.180 you've told the story let's be clear this is a purposely fake accuser he's a guy who who was in
01:26:36.440 the second mile charity jerry sandusky's charity he knew him for much of his youth his mother knew
01:26:42.280 him and he decided you know jerry is innocent this whole thing is baloney he went to the trial
01:26:47.300 and and and it was told by matt sandusky who is now you know an alleged victim of jerry that this
01:26:53.040 is all bull crap he knows that jerry is innocent and he decided to try to prove it and so and so he
01:27:00.080 he went to the number one lawyer in the case that completely embraced him and he and he sat him down
01:27:05.720 and totally changed his story made about made up a story because he knew that the original story
01:27:12.860 he gave was given was so ridiculous and that penn state wouldn't pay it because it didn't fit the
01:27:17.480 criteria so he gave him a brand new story and that there and he met with a therapist over a hundred
01:27:23.780 times okay but the good thing is you're not passionate about this at all the important part
01:27:32.740 but maybe the most important part of the accuser thing and this i think goes to how this kind of
01:27:36.780 thing could happen because everyone wants to know how could this happen well this is a perfect storm
01:27:41.620 and one of the perfect storms is everybody thinks everyone else is vetting we have evidence the
01:27:46.620 therapist told our fake accuser that the lawyer had vetted the accusers and we have evidence the
01:27:51.700 lawyer telling the fake accuser that the therapist had vetted the fake accusers and penn state thought
01:27:57.200 the lawyers were vetting the accusers nobody was there was no vetting i've been i got contacted this
01:28:03.820 weekend by a guy out of the blue i get this happens all the time where someone who got seven million
01:28:09.060 dollars from penn state this guy got a call from his lawyer and then from the the guy who got seven
01:28:15.440 million dollars offering him a truck if he would tell the his lawyer that he had witnessed jerry
01:28:22.440 sandusky kissing him which never happened and the guy told him to go pound sand because he knew the whole
01:28:27.940 thing was a scam this i get this all the time this was a this was a scam listen listen i recognize this
01:28:36.540 frustration i lived this frustration so john so you had this huge story in newsweek when we come back i want
01:28:45.940 you to tell us what happened because all of a sudden it was dropped and i need you to tell the story of
01:28:54.540 of of of what you think happened to get this story spiked
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01:30:18.420 glenn beck so at free speech broadcasting dot com you can find the john ziegler uh article that was
01:30:32.300 written for newsweek and then spiked uh at the last minute after months and months and months of
01:30:38.240 agonizing over every word and meeting with attorneys and everything else to make sure they
01:30:42.180 had it all right john we've got about three minutes why why did they spike this
01:30:46.800 is he there the segment was that we had bob roe this guy with a history uh with a similar story
01:30:54.440 in a prior relationship with my co-writer and i was urging uh ralph and and and bob we got to get
01:31:01.460 this out now we hope we're hoping to get it out last year because i knew that things were not good
01:31:06.040 newsweek and in this environment in this story anything that can go wrong will go wrong well
01:31:10.400 bob got fired the day after the super bowl and i thought we were done at that point but those who
01:31:15.560 took over for him said wow this is a great story and they were so enthusiastic about the fake accuser
01:31:20.200 and the fact that we have a brand new date for the infamous mike mcquery episode that blows his
01:31:25.320 whole story apart we got all sorts of other bombshell evidence by the way the best place to go to find
01:31:29.640 this is framing paterno.com my website framing paterno.com where i posted the entire 20 000
01:31:35.640 word story that was going to be on the newsweek website and one day before one day before the
01:31:42.260 deadline everything fell apart and i believe the short answer is because of abject fear i think that
01:31:49.040 somebody within the infrastructure whether it was the lawyer or whatever realized that they were going
01:31:54.420 to get a whole bunch of crap for this and that it just simply was not worth it and i frankly think
01:32:00.260 the biggest problem we had glenn is our evidence and our facts are so powerful that that we cannot
01:32:06.980 conclude anything other than the fact that the whole thing is a scam and that jerry sandusky as bizarre
01:32:12.400 as it sounds is actually an innocent man had our evidence not been as strong i don't think they would
01:32:17.300 have been as afraid of the story they would have published it and instead i was forced to put it up
01:32:21.260 at framing paterno.com it's amazing stuff i hope people will check it out so you i mean this is
01:32:27.520 not written in your usual uh style of you know uh john ziegler rant this you can tell that this is
01:32:35.080 you've labored over every word you've checked every word um you had attorneys look at this
01:32:41.240 all the way through yeah the two editors uh bedded the whole thing and it was right i had discussions
01:32:48.720 with the printer and distributor of the magazine because i want to get extra copies i want to make
01:32:53.760 sure they got extra copies into the state of pennsylvania uh i mean this this was as done a
01:32:58.400 deal as possible they took the cover away from us at the last minute and put vladimir putin on
01:33:02.520 but i was like okay fine it's the biggest story news we've ever run it's at least it's out there and
01:33:07.560 then everything fell apart literally at the last minute and it's frankly because glenn as you know
01:33:13.460 popularity trump's truth now in the media and this is the ultimate proof of that this story this
01:33:21.180 whole perfect storm proves that in spades the truth no longer matters this is not a conspiracy theory
01:33:27.040 what i laid out is makes far more sense than the media myth that you've been told for the last seven
01:33:33.660 years of this incredible tragedy you know john i don't know if um you've ever heard the story of
01:33:39.140 tokyo rose uh and the real story behind her but when i was writing a uh one of our books uh and i i
01:33:46.680 took her story and told her story um she was she was wrongly accused she served two prison sentences
01:33:53.600 the government um uh you know trumped up the charges silenced witnesses uh in the navy that were
01:34:01.740 were going to be witnesses for her in her defense uh and she was eventually pardoned
01:34:08.500 she she's lived through this it's this is not a new thing i mean that was started by walter winchell
01:34:14.980 right well they wanted they wanted ratings well it's a good example but i think this one is way worse
01:34:21.440 because so many people were harmed the three administrators the paternal legacy yes the reputation
01:34:25.940 of a university hundreds of millions of dollars put out there a guy's got an innocent man and my
01:34:30.540 very strong view is going to die in prison and and most importantly if this can happen
01:34:34.920 our system is broken our media is broken the truth must still matter and if it doesn't matter in this
01:34:41.480 case it doesn't matter at all because it's clear cut when you get the details and you put it all
01:34:46.340 together like we have in a very credible fashion please check it out at framing paterno.com and glenn
01:34:51.420 thank you guys for caring about the truth they're the only ones that do and it's uh it's kept me
01:34:55.420 somewhat sane over the last somewhat i would leave it at somewhat john ziggler thanks so much
01:35:00.040 framing paterno dot com
01:35:02.420 glenn back mercury
01:35:15.660 you're listening to the glenn back we've got a couple of things we we gotta we gotta race through a couple
01:35:27.820 of things we have some really important stuff to talk about but i uh i i saw ready player one this
01:35:33.380 weekend i read like it i read the book and everyone told me if you've read the book you're gonna hate
01:35:39.080 the movie it is not the book but it is a great movie oh okay it is it's good it's a great steven
01:35:46.200 spielberg movie yeah i think great is a little too far oh i think it's i think it's good i think
01:35:51.600 it's fun like it's fun t and definitely you know indiana jones it's a fun it's not a classic like et
01:35:57.320 though et is a class no no but it's good i thought it was really good i really liked it i really liked
01:36:01.960 it um and you guys saw chappaquiddick chappaquiddick yes really like that as well really good i mean
01:36:07.880 you know i thought they were incredibly fair on chappaquiddick it did it incredibly right yeah
01:36:12.840 everybody not feel political at all it it i think gave him in some ways the benefit of the doubt on
01:36:20.020 you know never said he was having an affair with her no it didn't seem like that's where that night
01:36:24.260 may have ended yes yes clearly they never however they never they never said it nope
01:36:29.740 the one the one hole is how do you get out of the car and if he got out of the car why couldn't
01:36:35.220 she get out of the car yeah why couldn't he have gone back the same way he came out and pulled her
01:36:41.200 out and bizarrely they they he claims to just have forgotten yeah how we got out of the car but again
01:36:48.620 i would not look a gift horse in the mouth no no no i mean no i'm not i can't believe hollywood
01:36:54.020 told this story in the way they did they didn't tell it while he was alive oh yeah
01:36:59.400 they waited until nine years after his death i'll take it i know we talked at least it's
01:37:04.800 restoring history yeah what was the the genesis of the script again it was it was uh the election
01:37:10.940 of uh of uh barack obama um and uh i think it was bill maher said well if ted kennedy uh would
01:37:20.400 have endorsed hillary clinton then hillary would have won but he endorsed uh um obama obama yeah that's
01:37:27.480 right and he and they said and that these two writers were like they're from texas they were
01:37:32.220 big fan of the kennedys and they're like you know why didn't he ever run for president and they started
01:37:36.700 looking into it and they were like holy cow how do i not know this story yeah he did run for president
01:37:40.820 yeah yeah yeah they didn't know he couldn't even get the democrat nomination yeah no no it happens when
01:37:46.420 you kill people yeah a chap according could have had a little something to do with that but i mean he
01:37:50.100 was praised uh up until i mean he spoke at obama that the conventions oh they loved him he the lion
01:37:58.320 of the senate always loved him still the i mean really obamacare really the reason you know i mean
01:38:04.200 that uh didn't get to change was because of his death i mean if you remember i mean it's really
01:38:10.860 he had a heck of a run after that oh despite that craziness he did evil is an actual legitimate power
01:38:18.440 anyway um if you look at the kennedy uh history it's hard not to think that there was something
01:38:26.220 going on i think there was i think there was holy cow i think there was one good guy in it and it was
01:38:31.240 bobby kennedy and the women i think the women were good um but i i really like bobby kennedy jack was
01:38:38.800 i mean you know it was his dad the root of all evil was joe p yeah i mean he's yeah and was that not
01:38:44.540 a great performance yeah like eight words really good in that movie really but he was great in that
01:38:49.220 oh he was you got just where he's coming from oh yeah oh yeah that guy was pretty he was pretty cagey
01:38:55.960 he was pretty brilliant and he was a millionaire by the time he was 30 and some of it you know he
01:39:01.000 came from shady uh sources yes uh most people believe he had mob ties most people believe he ran
01:39:08.100 liquor during the prohibition um but he also had some incredible business savvy and and he turned
01:39:15.560 what was maybe between five and ten million into like 400 million uh by 1940 yeah and then soon as you
01:39:23.660 get into the presidency into the into the senator house you know you can use insider trading to do
01:39:29.120 all kinds of well he was doing insider trading before he got anybody in the house he was doing
01:39:33.280 that from when it was legal though it was it was legal it was shady unethical but legal okay this
01:39:39.540 falls into the category by the way just quickly of of movies that we all wish get made by hollywood
01:39:45.600 and if if they make one we should go see it yeah and not just because of that this is a good movie
01:39:52.060 great it is a good movie it's a good movie my daughter who's 18 i thought she was gonna be so
01:39:56.200 bored um right she loved it loved it loved it i watched it with 20 somethings they loved it yeah
01:40:02.140 they loved it and it but it only brought in 6.2 million i don't know what it cost to make but
01:40:06.460 there was only seventh so go see it it's really good it's really good really good how did it do
01:40:11.720 it have a lot of theaters or no uh see it's in you guys worked out i need to bring troy walker in
01:40:18.080 oh cool troy is uh troy's actually a friend of yours that you and doc found on the blaze radio network
01:40:23.100 and i met him uh what was what troy what was it a week ago yes sir yeah uh and you guys came down
01:40:32.040 and you're just one of the most uh honest decent uh honorable guys i think i've met you know you
01:40:38.240 you you shake a man's hand you look him in the eye and you can usually tell uh and you are so sincere
01:40:44.760 what you're trying to do is you're you're making um you're making these wooden flags and they're
01:40:51.120 really great and they're great to hang on the wall and everything else and um but you're not making any
01:40:56.040 of these for your profit you're a former uh military man and uh you are trying to bury the
01:41:05.920 dead of some of these uh the servicemen that come back and kill themselves yes sir not only do we uh
01:41:14.320 pay for um suicide but we pay for any veteran who cannot afford a funeral because there's no other
01:41:19.860 recourse for them right troy there's uh the va provides them up to the va only yeah go ahead yeah
01:41:26.700 i'm sorry yes they pay provide up to 300 they provide another 362 if you die at the va that's why
01:41:34.440 you see a mass of suicides at the va because they're trying to get that extra 362 oh my gosh
01:41:40.840 that's the first i've heard of that wow gosh wow and and and it might not even be it might not
01:41:49.960 even be 300 right troy they start at 25 no yeah we like i like i said on your show we we have yeti
01:41:57.440 two payments the same out of 126 funerals it's anywhere between 26 and 298 is what i've seen
01:42:04.800 wait wait wait i mean i can't and i've never paid for a funeral but i can't imagine that getting
01:42:10.640 somebody buried is cheap isn't that i mean even if you go cheap that's in the thousands isn't it
01:42:16.020 yeah oh yes sir and you get free burials at national cemeteries however you have to pay for
01:42:22.300 the coffin transportation and bombing of the individual which usually runs anywhere between
01:42:27.480 25 and 35 hundred dollars my mom's funeral last year was 15 000 oh my gosh and that wasn't extravagant
01:42:34.620 not at all okay so um so troy um first of all let me just um give the information buy one buy one of
01:42:42.940 these wooden flags they're great you can hang them on your wall and all of the proceeds go to help
01:42:47.880 people out um dog tag furniture dot com dog tag furniture dot com how much are they about 100 bucks
01:42:54.740 they start off 125 and that includes free shipping and then for every logo you want it goes over there
01:43:01.940 okay so um so troy tell me about the i think it was a world war ii veteran that you just buried
01:43:09.320 yes sir uh sergeant uh willin he uh dropped out of high school and it was eight weeks and two days
01:43:17.580 after his 18th birthday he landed on the beaches of normandy for the first time he went through
01:43:23.060 normandy got wounded got a silver star at the beaches of normandy uh went through france got wounded
01:43:28.580 again they sent him to bastone for r and r to heal we all know what happened at bastone where he
01:43:35.040 received his third silver star in his second purple heart wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait three
01:43:41.280 silver stars yes sir wow holy cow okay and three he ended up getting his final third purple heart when he
01:43:51.620 was just crossing the border into germany when he lost the split he came back to minnesota he worked in a
01:43:57.640 factory all his life uh made some bad investments uh oh eight ended up in assisted living and then
01:44:04.820 when he died they they took all his assets and they called the va and said hey come and get your
01:44:09.560 veteran and the va goes no we don't do that we'll give you three hundred dollars up to three hundred
01:44:13.940 dollars oh my gosh oh so how did you find out about it the casual well actually i have ties with the
01:44:20.220 minnesota casualty office who ended up calling me the national guard ended up calling me and say hey we
01:44:25.380 have this veteran here we don't know what to do with them and we heard you pay for funerals will you
01:44:28.900 take care of them oh and that's when they that's when i saw a service record and i i'm like this guy's
01:44:34.120 these are the kinds of people that need to be remembered forever they they fought for us they
01:44:40.140 they endured the worst of the worst and they should at least get a burial
01:44:45.340 boy that doesn't even sound that doesn't even sound like a sentence that should be that needs to be
01:44:53.060 uttered they deserve a burial um troy i can't thank you enough and and again just meeting you just last
01:45:01.180 week was was a thrill for me um you know it's it's it's nice to meet people who are so genuine and are so
01:45:11.540 uh beyond the self-service and gratification and uh what you guys are doing is is really really
01:45:19.060 remarkable and good and and thank you for that well thank you so much for having me and for everything
01:45:26.460 you've done and uh you know we we're the only veteran organization that does it uh every other
01:45:32.720 veteran organization non-profit stops the minute the veteran dies we're the only ones that go beyond that
01:45:38.520 can people just make a donation can they go to you and make a donation yes please make donations
01:45:45.300 um that way the 100 of your donation goes towards the funeral fund we have to sell 45 flags to pay for
01:45:51.040 one funeral uh average funeral is uh we pay out at average of 3600 dollars um 100 of the proceeds
01:45:58.300 goes to pay for burial i do not take a sale neither does my wife uh my mother-in-law is going to be
01:46:04.420 answering phones today and i got two helpers in a shop today um all volunteers awesome dogtakefurniture.com
01:46:11.580 thank you so much troy appreciate it thank you sir you bet he gets nothing out of it i know i know
01:46:17.140 nothing he's just a former service guy and he's like i needed to do something to help just and he said i
01:46:21.900 could not believe that no one no one pays for these guys out of 72 000 veterans organizations zero
01:46:31.440 until troy paid for funerals zero it's amazing um so go to the website now it is uh dogtagfurniture.com
01:46:42.000 dog he needs a better dogtagfurniture.com but um call them up make a donation you can buy the flag if
01:46:50.400 you want they're nice you can hang them on the wall um or just as he said you know they have to pay for
01:46:55.280 the wood and the shipping and everything out of that um if you don't need the flag just just make a
01:47:00.320 donation um because this is these are remarkable people a three-time silver star winner and no one
01:47:10.720 was going to bury him
01:47:12.960 remarkable dogtagfurniture.com back in a minute
01:47:21.440 it's amazing
01:47:40.720 it's amazing how you can do something in your life and then
01:47:44.400 it's and it's and do something really truly remarkable and uh and then it's it's meaningless
01:47:53.840 to later generations i mean three times silver star winner man i it's like i wish i would have i
01:48:04.320 wish i would have known him i wish i would have been able to talk to him you know did anybody talk to
01:48:09.280 him towards the end what what what what was that like
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01:50:11.840 glenn beck
01:50:24.880 welcome to the program i'm i'm glad you're here there's a
01:50:29.280 there's a couple of stories one of the big stories on the blaze today is uh the woman who
01:50:33.680 bashes mike rose worth ethics scholarship um her son was applying for a scholarship to become a welder
01:50:44.960 and um and uh she read the pledge that he had written and can you look up his pledge real quick
01:50:54.640 still he wrote a he wrote a pledge and it's it's a sweat pledge and it's it's it's good
01:51:01.360 skill and work ethic aren't taboo yeah that's what the pledge means and it basically it's it's like
01:51:07.840 you know you got to work hard you got to take responsibility for yourself everything else so
01:51:12.640 karen siegel said she was appalled when her son showed her the sweat pledge requirement uh she um
01:51:22.400 she she said where did you come up with this nonsense there's so many things wrong with this
01:51:26.560 document i don't even know where to begin suffice to say we will not be applying so mike mike roe wrote
01:51:33.440 and said to be clear i have absolutely no interest in paying for the training if he doesn't share my
01:51:38.960 opinions on the important importance of hard work ethics a positive attitude delayed gratification
01:51:45.200 and personal responsibility sorry but i made a promise to the people that contribute to this fund
01:51:51.200 and i'm not going to bend the rules fortunately lots of scholarship funds will hand out money
01:51:55.120 with no strings attached and if you poke around i'm sure you'll find one that's more in line with
01:51:59.040 your world but the world view but uh it's been my sad duty to inform lots of angry parents that this
01:52:05.600 particular pile of free money might not be for them or for their children i love micro we'll see
01:52:13.680 you at five o'clock on the blaze tv with the latest on russia and what comes next glenn back mercury
01:52:25.600 can preserve it first time
01:52:32.800 and then if you're listening to the fellow i'm certainly not happy
01:52:38.240 and i don't see thanks
01:52:39.920 well
01:52:40.800 and i wouldn't love you
01:52:42.080 and i know
01:52:42.640 well
01:52:43.380 for my folks
01:52:43.900 you
01:52:45.440 we'll see you
01:52:45.840 and i know
01:52:46.840 so
01:52:47.380 i would try just want to tell you
01:52:48.560 and