The Glenn Beck Program - The Big Britney Spears⧸Bill Cosby Mix-Up

00:00:00.400 Welcome to the program. It's myself and Pat Gray today in for Glenn Beck, who's on vacation.

00:00:07.080 Well, he was on vacation earlier this week. He just still showed up and did the show.

00:00:11.280 He just acted like he was on vacation. The effort percentage level is suboptimal.

00:00:19.360 Really?

00:00:19.660 Yeah.

00:00:20.320 Really?

00:00:20.880 No, you could just tell his head was in vacation mode a little bit.

00:00:25.240 That happens.

00:00:25.680 I did an interview with him yesterday on Studios America, and he just, I don't even think he mentally showed up for it.

00:00:34.220 He was very funny, and he made some good points, but he was basically falling asleep in the middle of it.

00:00:40.600 Really?

00:00:40.940 That's kind of the...

00:00:42.000 I noticed a lot of yawning in the middle of his...

00:00:44.680 He just breaks out in full frontal yawn. What, 80 times a morning?

00:00:51.760 Yesterday was probably a top five worst day ever, would you say, Sarah?

00:00:55.680 Probably one of the five worst days I've ever seen him.

00:00:58.060 He was just, from the beginning of the show to the end of the show, every time he had to take a breath, he was like...

00:01:03.260 He's sometimes in the middle of sentences.

00:01:06.540 It's crazy.

00:01:07.580 It really is. I don't know anyone else like that.

00:01:09.500 I don't either.

00:01:10.180 I've never seen you before.

00:01:10.360 I get tired too, but I don't yawn a thousand times a day.

00:01:13.680 I know!

00:01:14.760 Especially while you're on the air.

00:01:17.880 I just bored the snot out of myself.

00:01:21.360 Oh, man.

00:01:22.280 Oh, man.

00:01:25.680 What you are about to hear is the fusion of entertainment and enlightenment.

00:01:49.960 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:02:01.300 All right.

00:02:02.660 Pat and Stu for Glenn today.

00:02:04.620 We've...

00:02:05.080 Just a ton of things happened yesterday.

00:02:07.120 They're fascinating.

00:02:09.180 Bill Cosby.

00:02:10.880 Britney Spears.

00:02:12.780 Donald Rumsfeld died.

00:02:14.720 Very sad.

00:02:15.180 88.

00:02:16.520 Struck down on the prime of life.

00:02:19.000 He was the master of press conferences, though.

00:02:21.480 He was...

00:02:21.960 Yeah, he was fantastic.

00:02:22.960 No-nonsense guy.

00:02:24.620 Put the hammer down.

00:02:26.120 All right.

00:02:26.620 We'll get into that and lots more in 60 seconds.

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00:04:04.300 A really surprising development yesterday.

00:04:06.800 All of a sudden, because I didn't know this was in progress, court-wise.

00:04:13.540 Bill Cosby had his conviction overturned by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.

00:04:20.040 And he left prison yesterday.

00:04:22.240 Yeah.

00:04:22.740 Bang!

00:04:23.160 Just like that, he's out and free.

00:04:25.240 That was wild.

00:04:26.600 Really something.

00:04:27.340 A lot of times you hear these cases get overturned and then they wind through the court for another

00:04:31.620 six months.

00:04:33.220 Right.

00:04:33.940 Nope, but overturned and that day he's leaving.

00:04:35.940 Yeah, you're free to go.

00:04:37.280 Oh, see ya.

00:04:37.780 Not even like the, you're under probation.

00:04:41.660 Nothing.

00:04:42.400 He's just home.

00:04:43.840 Yeah.

00:04:43.940 Ready to, now I don't know that he's going to leave the house all that much.

00:04:47.360 But I don't think.

00:04:48.620 I don't think he's quite as popular as he was.

00:04:51.000 Yeah.

00:04:51.300 You know, in the late 80s.

00:04:52.440 There's been a slight fall off from the Cosby show years.

00:04:54.980 I don't know if people have sensed that.

00:04:57.500 If you don't monitor the entertainment industry closely, you might not have sensed that.

00:05:02.800 But there's been a slight fall off in his popularity from the most popular and beloved

00:05:07.540 figure in all of America to the, to not so much, to rapist, serial rapist, really.

00:05:16.820 Yeah.

00:05:16.980 And that's not necessarily the move you want for your career.

00:05:22.520 Now, he's always maintained his innocence.

00:05:25.060 Yes.

00:05:25.340 And that's why he said, he said during his prison sentence that he's probably going to

00:05:32.720 serve the full 10 years because he's never going to admit what he did.

00:05:36.620 And that was part of the, apparently part of the process to be released in three years

00:05:41.740 instead of 10 was he had to admit it, admit that he did it when he wasn't going to do it.

00:05:46.840 In fact, not only was he not going to admit to any wrongdoing whatsoever, he wouldn't attend

00:05:50.880 their sexual predator class either.

00:05:52.980 He wouldn't do the therapy and he just flat, flat out refused.

00:05:56.780 So he would have not conforming to the conditions of early release.

00:06:03.140 He wouldn't have been released early.

00:06:04.500 Yeah, he would have been there for 10 years, probably dies in prison, probably, probably

00:06:08.740 dies in prison.

00:06:10.020 Now, it was a very strange day with that case and that you don't expect a guy at that high

00:06:17.180 profile level to just be released and go home the same afternoon.

00:06:21.800 I mean, it was a very strange development.

00:06:23.700 But when you really look at this case and this has been true the entire time, it really

00:06:31.600 was, in my view, a miscarriage of justice.

00:06:35.240 Really?

00:06:35.720 Yes.

00:06:36.420 And I know...

00:06:37.140 I didn't follow it that closely.

00:06:38.920 I think a lot of people did what most people would do, which is to look at, okay, look,

00:06:45.660 wait a minute, he did what?

00:06:46.660 You get the quotes that you hear.

00:06:48.440 Yes, I got quaaludes and I was drugging women or whatever.

00:06:51.440 He didn't quite say it that, but that's how it's portrayed every time.

00:06:54.160 And you look at his fall from grace, the fact that he's been beat up by everybody, no one

00:07:02.380 likes him anymore, there's really no defenders of him.

00:07:05.840 Except Felicia Rashad, which is strange.

00:07:08.340 She has been the lone defender of this guy.

00:07:11.940 In fact, she said, finally, justice has been served or whatever she said yesterday.

00:07:16.880 She was the one person who tweeted something good about him.

00:07:19.800 Yes, that's true.

00:07:20.920 He does have that one defender and it's his wife.

00:07:24.100 She's the one, by the way, yeah, who played his wife on the Cosby show.

00:07:28.380 Claire Huxtable, was it?

00:07:29.560 Yeah.

00:07:29.940 That's been a while.

00:07:30.740 It's been a while.

00:07:31.980 But, so, stepping back for a second, did Bill Cosby do these things to these women?

00:07:37.860 I don't know.

00:07:39.220 I wasn't there.

00:07:41.080 Seems to be a lot of women who were accusing him.

00:07:43.480 Like, obviously, you can't just make it about that.

00:07:46.160 He definitely said some things in the transcript of the trial for the civil case that would

00:07:52.700 lead you to believe he was certainly not a good guy and maybe very well did some terrible

00:07:57.520 things to the women.

00:07:58.320 So, let's just assume for a second he did these things.

00:08:01.140 A hundred percent, we know mentally that he did these things.

00:08:05.520 He still should not have gone to prison.

00:08:08.540 And here's the thing.

00:08:09.380 If you go back and look at how this progressed, basically, this woman accused Bill Cosby of

00:08:16.500 these terrible things.

00:08:17.920 He said he didn't do it.

00:08:19.380 He denied it.

00:08:20.660 And they were going to bring him to criminal trial.

00:08:23.140 The prosecutor at the time, or the DA at the time, says, okay, I'm looking at the evidence

00:08:27.560 here.

00:08:28.040 We have nothing except she's saying it, right?

00:08:31.680 She's saying it.

00:08:32.820 And he's saying that it didn't happen.

00:08:34.960 No physical evidence.

00:08:35.920 This happens all the time in these types of cases.

00:08:37.540 This is why, by the way, if something, God forbid, something like this happens to you,

00:08:41.660 go immediately to the authorities so they can get as much physical evidence as possible

00:08:45.780 and circumstantial evidence as possible.

00:08:48.160 Because once you let a few years go by, it's impossible to look at these things unless

00:08:53.100 you have the person admitting it.

00:08:54.860 And there were way more than a few years.

00:08:56.800 Right.

00:08:57.400 Yeah.

00:08:57.700 And in a lot of these cases, it was decades and decades and decades.

00:09:00.540 Yeah.

00:09:00.880 So, the DA says, okay, I'm looking at the evidence here.

00:09:04.920 There's no way we're going to get him convicted in a criminal suit.

00:09:09.040 There's no way.

00:09:09.940 Because he's just going to say Fifth Amendment right to not have to testify.

00:09:15.820 And they're just going to throw it out of court.

00:09:17.160 So, their solution to that was to say, hey, you know, Bill, what if we give you immunity

00:09:26.860 in this case in exchange for you to testify in the civil case to give some answers to these

00:09:34.220 questions?

00:09:34.980 So, you'll be guaranteed you will not be convicted and go to prison if you give, actually tell

00:09:41.340 your story and answer these questions.

00:09:42.820 Mm-hmm.

00:09:43.500 So, he, they think about it, you know, now look, if you're totally innocent, do you just

00:09:48.480 say, screw it, I'm going to court anyway?

00:09:50.320 Maybe, but you're taking a huge risk.

00:09:52.020 Right.

00:09:52.820 So, in his telling of the story, he said, well, look, I'm, I can get right, get rid of the

00:09:58.900 possibility of going to prison.

00:10:00.900 And the worst case is I'll have to go and I'll defend myself in this, in this case.

00:10:05.160 And I might lose some money in a civil case.

00:10:07.340 Right.

00:10:07.880 Mm-hmm.

00:10:08.160 So, that happens, they go through, they wind up settling the civil case eventually, he pays

00:10:13.420 a few million dollars.

00:10:14.980 This testimony is sealed, guaranteed to be sealed, and guaranteed that he cannot be convicted

00:10:21.040 of this crime and go to prison.

00:10:23.160 That DA leaves, the new one comes in and says, you know what?

00:10:27.700 The thing is, when we made that deal, there wasn't this comedian that went viral about the

00:10:33.140 case.

00:10:33.400 So, let's reopen it and just forget all the stuff we told him before.

00:10:37.580 Instead, we'll just say, you know what?

00:10:39.400 We can use all that testimony that had to be sealed.

00:10:41.860 And you know what?

00:10:42.660 You can be convicted for it.

00:10:44.040 Sorry.

00:10:45.240 And so, they just redid it all, totally against what had been guaranteed to him this entire

00:10:51.460 time.

00:10:52.660 It goes through the process.

00:10:54.240 He obviously, now they have the testimony of him saying the Quaaludes thing and all of

00:10:58.240 these other things.

00:10:59.020 So, he looks much, much worse than he would have looked initially.

00:11:01.440 They just tricked him and overturned their own promise.

00:11:06.180 That's crazy.

00:11:06.900 And that is absolutely not our legal system.

00:11:10.420 I'm sorry.

00:11:11.180 Like, as bad as this guy may be, he may very well be a serial rapist.

00:11:16.740 But just like everyone else in this country, you get rights in the legal system and the

00:11:24.500 government cannot continually screw you and tell you one thing and do the other.

00:11:29.380 Did he admit to all those things in the civil trial?

00:11:31.600 He didn't admit to them.

00:11:32.560 So, he said things like, you know, I bought Quaaludes.

00:11:35.480 Did you ever buy Quaaludes to be with women?

00:11:37.980 Yes.

00:11:38.800 Did you ever, what was your intent when you bought the Quaaludes?

00:11:41.780 Were you wanting to have sex with these women?

00:11:43.680 Yes.

00:11:44.660 Now, when they asked him, did you have sex with them without, you know, when they were

00:11:49.520 asleep or against their will?

00:11:51.260 He says no.

00:11:52.520 So, basically, again, I'm not saying I believe his case, but his case is.

00:11:56.760 So, he gave him Quaaludes just to relax him, get him in the mood.

00:11:58.980 Yeah.

00:11:59.420 His case, his case was basically like, you know, in this, you know, whatever.

00:12:03.380 It's an avrodisiac.

00:12:04.100 That's all the Quaaludes are.

00:12:05.260 Right.

00:12:05.820 It would like, take Quaaludes because no one uses Quaaludes anymore.

00:12:09.140 It's not, it's not even a thing.

00:12:10.120 Oh, it sounds like Ludes.

00:12:10.980 We should ask Jeffy in here because he'd be able to.

00:12:13.020 It's like the 1960s or 70s.

00:12:13.880 But his point, this was his point.

00:12:16.120 The 60s and 70s, Quaaludes were like wine.

00:12:18.700 You know, again, I'm not, again, I don't agree with his point.

00:12:21.820 But his point is like, basically, I bought a case of beer to drink with a woman and then

00:12:27.640 in my hopes, I was going to sleep with her.

00:12:29.540 That was kind of what he was, his point was in these moments.

00:12:32.440 Of course, Quaaludes now are much more associated with drugging of women.

00:12:36.280 And that is, by the way, their accusation.

00:12:38.560 That he was slipping the Quaaludes into drinks or whatever.

00:12:41.220 However, they would drink them and would not, they would fall asleep and then he would

00:12:45.680 have his way with them.

00:12:47.580 He completely denies that.

00:12:49.420 We don't know the truth here.

00:12:50.940 There's so many accusations.

00:12:52.280 It's amazing.

00:12:52.840 It's easy to believe that it is true.

00:12:55.460 However, they basically went to Bill Cosby and said, hey, we're not going to, we're not

00:13:03.320 going to pursue any prosecution.

00:13:05.060 You will have immunity in this case.

00:13:06.740 In exchange for that, you have to abandon your Fifth Amendment right.

00:13:11.220 To be able to not answer these questions.

00:13:13.140 You get to, your constitutional right's gone because you cannot be convicted.

00:13:17.200 So you have to answer these questions.

00:13:18.660 And so they used that against him in the criminal trial?

00:13:21.060 Yeah.

00:13:21.300 They brought all of the information they got from the civil trial and said, okay, now you

00:13:26.100 can be convicted and we can use this information.

00:13:29.280 I mean, that is completely insane.

00:13:33.040 It's just like.

00:13:33.480 There's not a lot of people are going to be sympathetic though.

00:13:35.360 And that's true.

00:13:35.860 He clearly did something.

00:13:38.480 Yes.

00:13:38.820 In the eyes of the American people, he did something wrong.

00:13:40.980 And I think in a way.

00:13:42.120 He's a rapist.

00:13:43.060 This is a positive development for our legal system because we have decided as a country

00:13:51.160 to start doing justice via social media, via documentary.

00:13:56.840 You know, like they came out with a documentary against this person.

00:13:59.820 We now know they're evil and they never get to do anything in society again.

00:14:02.380 And when we have an actual legal system that's supposed to go through this stuff and just

00:14:09.180 because like, it seems like people were like, well, Bill Cosby, we all think he's bad.

00:14:16.540 He's really bad.

00:14:17.320 In fact, it looks like he did some really, really bad stuff and we don't like him.

00:14:21.300 And this is different than a normal person because we really don't like him.

00:14:27.020 And he made us like him before.

00:14:28.800 And so now we don't.

00:14:30.520 So it's even worse.

00:14:31.940 Yeah, we feel burned by that.

00:14:32.980 So we're just going to, you know, the whole legal system.

00:14:36.240 What if we don't do that for now and just instead focus on the fact that we really don't like him?

00:14:41.360 Yeah.

00:14:41.700 You know, like what if we overturn all these rules and laws because Bill Cosby's really bad?

00:14:47.240 And look at all these tweets.

00:14:49.460 Have you seen the Hannibal comedy session?

00:14:52.820 I don't know.

00:14:53.000 It's really funny.

00:14:54.380 People look at all the views on YouTube.

00:14:56.700 Maybe he should be convicted.

00:14:58.760 That's not justice.

00:14:59.980 It's not the way this system works.

00:15:03.160 Yeah.

00:15:03.320 And even when it benefits the worst people among us, those rules still get to be applied.

00:15:11.580 And the other interesting aspect of this, he was admitting to all of that stuff with his wife in tow.

00:15:18.240 With his wife hearing it all.

00:15:19.880 And supporting him.

00:15:20.800 And supporting him.

00:15:22.240 The whole time.

00:15:23.340 She's still with him.

00:15:24.580 Yeah, still with him.

00:15:25.740 What kind of weird arrangement did they have?

00:15:28.420 I don't know.

00:15:29.260 Wow, that's something.

00:15:30.740 There was never a point where he was like, I didn't cheat on my wife.

00:15:33.880 What are you talking about?

00:15:34.500 Right, no.

00:15:34.640 I mean, there may have been a point, but that point is long past.

00:15:37.040 Not lately.

00:15:38.420 Yeah, not during the case and not during the trial.

00:15:42.640 And not during any interviews did he ever say.

00:15:45.220 And she sat there right by him a few times in interviews.

00:15:49.420 And they talked about this stuff.

00:15:51.400 Really amazing.

00:15:52.660 And it's one of those things.

00:15:53.720 There's a million accusations.

00:15:55.400 It was a known secret in Hollywood for a long time.

00:15:59.660 There are people who, you know, I was talking to somebody who went to Temple recently.

00:16:03.960 And he was like, you know, everybody.

00:16:05.620 Everybody.

00:16:06.020 It was like a known secret around there.

00:16:07.220 Like, he would always be down, like, having his arms around the young girls.

00:16:11.840 Oh, man.

00:16:12.240 It was just a thing, you know.

00:16:14.700 But that's neither here nor there when you're talking about putting someone in prison.

00:16:19.760 Yeah.

00:16:19.960 Like, you can have all the beliefs you want about somebody, but you can't throw them in prison.

00:16:25.060 And I do feel like there's this thing that's happening in our society right now where we,

00:16:31.560 if enough social media pressure exists, it's just okay to break the rules to punish that person.

00:16:39.820 It's just okay.

00:16:40.620 You know, sure, you might have, like, you might have the right to not be in prison, but we don't like you.

00:16:49.680 It does seem to be almost the long and the short of it.

00:16:52.580 Like, there's a lot of accusations against you.

00:16:54.660 We have no evidence to put you in prison.

00:16:56.720 However, you should go to prison because look at all these freaking retweets.

00:17:02.180 Yeah.

00:17:02.800 That's not America.

00:17:04.160 Going to the First Amendment, Pat, everyone always says it.

00:17:09.060 The speech the First Amendment protects is the speech people hate because it's not everybody who says nice things to each other.

00:17:16.020 No one's trying to censor Hallmark greeting cards.

00:17:18.900 It's the stuff that you don't want to hear.

00:17:20.320 It's the stuff that's difficult to hear.

00:17:21.940 That's what it's there to protect.

00:17:23.380 That it's supposed to be there to protect the worst people in society.

00:17:27.820 And I think that may very well be the case here.

00:17:30.480 But the fact that that still stands in the Pennsylvania Supreme Court because they're not going to want to, they're not going to have fun at dinner parties here for a while after this one.

00:17:39.340 That's for sure.

00:17:40.300 People are not going to like it.

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00:19:06.820 So, Bill Cosby, walking free today.

00:19:09.380 He's free as a bird, back with his lovely wife, and his committed, loyal wife.

00:19:16.640 Very loyal, I would say.

00:19:18.220 Very, very loyal.

00:19:19.160 I don't think, if there's anything to question in this case, it is not her loyalty.

00:19:22.480 That's for sure.

00:19:24.680 The other thing that happened yesterday, celebrity-wise, was astounding as well with Britney Spears.

00:19:30.780 And her thing, her freedom, went the other way.

00:19:32.940 I am astounded that she wasn't set free from this conservatorship.

00:19:40.100 Her dad still has control over every aspect of her life, apparently.

00:19:44.060 But now I think he shares control with some corporation.

00:19:48.840 Because Britney asked the judge that, okay, if you're going to at least keep this in place,

00:19:54.620 can they at least join this situation?

00:19:57.340 Because she doesn't, apparently there's not a good relationship there with her dad,

00:20:00.660 and he's controlling every aspect of her life.

00:20:02.440 She claims to, all the way down to her dance moves, what dance moves she does.

00:20:07.280 Yeah.

00:20:07.820 Amazing.

00:20:09.060 And I don't understand how in the United States of America, with a 39-year-old adult,

00:20:15.920 this is even possible.

00:20:17.360 How do you make a ruling like that?

00:20:18.600 Yeah, he's going to continue to control your life.

00:20:21.220 Sorry.

00:20:21.480 And they didn't even say sorry, actually.

00:20:25.700 So, the only way this can happen is if you have dementia of some sort.

00:20:31.720 Clearly, she doesn't have dementia.

00:20:33.960 Or you're completely mentally ill to the point where you're a danger to yourself or others.

00:20:40.100 That doesn't seem to be the case either.

00:20:41.960 I mean, I know she's a little strange.

00:20:43.640 She's a little weird.

00:20:44.380 She's always been.

00:20:46.040 But, why would you completely lose your freedom over that?

00:20:50.900 If she's a danger to herself or others, she should be in a mental institution.

00:20:55.640 How do they continue to allow her dad to control her money?

00:20:58.920 I don't understand that.

00:21:00.860 How is that even possible?

00:21:02.560 With the things that she testified to, and the support that she has with the American people,

00:21:08.120 of course, I guess that didn't enter into it.

00:21:09.620 But, how do they rule against a 39-year-old adult who is a U.S. citizen?

00:21:17.520 And, nope, sorry, you can't be in control of your life.

00:21:20.620 I don't know how that happens.

00:21:21.660 Yeah, the social media pressure on this one was not enough.

00:21:24.680 Not even.

00:21:25.900 Not at all.

00:21:26.920 To take it into account.

00:21:28.620 Because that's certainly where everyone seems to be on this.

00:21:32.840 And I think they should be there.

00:21:35.440 Yeah, we should talk about this a little bit.

00:21:38.000 I think you're probably right.

00:21:40.260 I mean, the idea that you can just overturn someone's life.

00:21:45.060 I mean, you know, the imprisonment thing is a little bit of hyperbole.

00:21:50.420 Yeah.

00:21:50.680 I mean, she's, you know, a multimillionaire and a very, very nice house and all of these things.

00:21:54.500 But there's, you know, by her telling, I mean, it does not seem to be something that should be allowed in the United States of America.

00:22:01.500 And clearly, he's in control of her finances.

00:22:03.740 And she's living a good life.

00:22:05.200 Yeah, she's got a nice house and I'm sure she's got nice things.

00:22:08.520 Yeah, I don't mean to say that that's the end all be all of human existence, though.

00:22:12.180 I mean, you get to do, you should have freedom.

00:22:14.620 You should have complete freedom over your life decisions.

00:22:18.300 Yeah.

00:22:18.840 Unless you're a criminal.

00:22:20.140 Or unless you're so mentally incapacitated that we can't trust that to you because you'll hurt yourself or somebody else.

00:22:26.920 Well, that's not the case here.

00:22:28.620 She doesn't have Alzheimer's disease.

00:22:30.460 She doesn't have an early onset dementia.

00:22:33.140 So how does this continue into 13 years now?

00:22:37.120 That's really something.

00:22:38.420 I don't fully comprehend it.

00:22:41.060 Weird ruling as far as I'm concerned.

00:22:44.580 All right.

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00:24:15.280 Doing our part to keep free speech alive.

00:24:18.680 There's much more after the break on the Glenn Beck Program.

00:24:21.940 It's Pat and Stu for Glenn, 888-727-B-E-C-K.

00:24:33.420 We're talking about Britney Spears, the Bill Cosby situation too, which is incredible.

00:24:39.980 He's now a free man.

00:24:41.360 Conviction overturned.

00:24:42.840 Can't be tried again.

00:24:44.880 So he's free now for the rest of his life.

00:24:48.260 Well, unless he rapes again or does something illegal again and gets caught for it.

00:24:54.120 But Britney Spears lost her bid to get out of her conservatorship with her father yesterday.

00:25:01.580 And it just seems bizarre to me that a 39-year-old woman can't run her own life if she's not a danger to herself or others.

00:25:10.660 And, you know, we were talking during the break.

00:25:12.680 Maybe she is, and we just haven't heard.

00:25:14.800 Maybe we just don't know all the facts.

00:25:16.440 That is the one thing that should cause a little bit of hesitation with this.

00:25:19.980 Because if it is, if the situation is as it's been presented in the media, it's absolute injustice, right?

00:25:28.240 If she's just, like, maybe she's got some issues.

00:25:30.540 She's un-American.

00:25:30.880 But so many un-American things are happening right now.

00:25:33.360 It's like, oh, okay, well, there's another one.

00:25:35.300 I will say very well may be exactly what we think it is on the surface.

00:25:39.840 Maybe it is completely un-American and completely out of control.

00:25:43.220 It's very possible.

00:25:44.940 That's just the truth.

00:25:45.640 I mean, we have a background of information on this, right?

00:25:49.760 Where the parent of a child star wants to take in their millions and is dedicated to basically ruining their life in that pursuit.

00:25:59.980 Yeah.

00:26:00.240 We certainly have plenty of evidence on that from other cases.

00:26:03.680 The only thing I would hesitate, and I don't know the laws in California, per se, but I will say, you know, having to go through, you know, some stuff recently regards to people, you know, with mental health issues and seeing people try to handle those issues.

00:26:21.060 It is, it's not like you walk in to a courtroom and say, I'd like a conservatorship over that person.

00:26:28.920 Can I have one?

00:26:29.620 And they're like, oh, yeah, sure.

00:26:30.700 Here, here's the paperwork.

00:26:31.720 Like, this is like, it's not easy.

00:26:35.180 It's hard to get to get a conservatorship.

00:26:37.320 And so, the question is, like, people are like, well, I can't believe that her dad would say she's forced to take an IUD.

00:26:44.120 And she's, every one of her dance moves goes through her dad.

00:26:48.600 Stop for a second and think, what if, what if he didn't do that?

00:26:52.140 Just, what if, everything she said was completely made up?

00:26:59.400 What if, every one of her claims exists in her mind as reality, but is not reality?

00:27:08.900 That's what mental, severe mental health looks like.

00:27:12.780 Yeah.

00:27:13.160 And so, we don't know, for example, you know, I'm just this, I don't have information on this, but just throwing this out there.

00:27:19.220 Like, did Britney Spears try to commit suicide eight times?

00:27:23.480 I don't know.

00:27:25.500 I'm not saying that, the court does know it, though.

00:27:29.040 And so, they might be dealing with a completely different set of information.

00:27:32.580 Very true.

00:27:33.100 And like, I will say, some of the claims, you know, that she was making, I read her testimony where she made all these claims.

00:27:41.320 And they sounded familiar from other people I've heard going through these situations.

00:27:47.720 Like, people who have gone through and said, you know, there's like, a new accusation every day.

00:27:54.520 There's a new sort of like, thing you've never heard of.

00:28:00.460 And they're very often crazy scenarios that are shocking to hear.

00:28:06.480 But when you investigate them with someone dealing with severe mental health issues, a lot of times what you find out is they just made it up.

00:28:17.400 You know?

00:28:17.940 I mean, as crazy as it sounds, and it may not be Britney Spears.

00:28:21.560 I'm not defending the dad.

00:28:22.600 I don't know enough about the situation.

00:28:24.140 I just think that when we look at it, we have to understand that these situations a lot of times are a lot more complicated.

00:28:29.260 Like, I've seen, you know, cases where, you know, something will happen, a dramatic event will happen to a family member.

00:28:36.960 And, you know, someone dealing with mental health issues will hear about that event and then adopt it into their own life.

00:28:44.700 They'll all of a sudden start telling people it happened to them instead of the other family member.

00:28:49.140 Because it's just like, the brain is just, you know, it's just not working.

00:28:54.580 It's just not working anymore.

00:28:56.460 And it's really sad and hard to deal with.

00:28:58.400 And if you think about yourself as a dad, if your daughter is going through something like this, you're going to do what you can to try to protect them.

00:29:06.160 Now, given that it's Hollywood, given that we're millions of dollars on the line,

00:29:11.640 given that she is seemingly coherent enough to come out and speak and do some basic things,

00:29:19.040 it does appear that change should be made in some way.

00:29:23.420 But I would just, you know, you got to, there's a reason I think you need to at least have hesitation

00:29:28.500 to believe, like, this is the ultimate injustice, open and shut case.

00:29:33.620 The court knows a lot more about this than any of us do.

00:29:37.120 And if she really has been a danger to herself or if she's, you know, if she's a person who is incapable of sort of, like, landing in reality

00:29:48.420 and that, you know, every time she has a dealing with someone else, she can't keep track of what is real and what is not.

00:29:58.260 That's a basic thing we all need to have.

00:30:01.140 At times, it feels like when you listen to the media, you listen to the government, it doesn't feel like anybody has it anymore.

00:30:07.120 But, like, you need to be able to say, hey, last week I went to Arby's and got a roast beef sandwich and a curly fries.

00:30:15.840 Like, all of us, when we would say that, we would know.

00:30:19.060 We were at that Arby's.

00:30:21.080 What if you weren't at the Arby's?

00:30:23.220 What if you never went and got the curly fries?

00:30:25.820 A lot of, there are people who go through severe mental illness where they can't decipher the difference

00:30:31.220 between what is real and what is not.

00:30:33.540 And to get a conservatorship over a celebrity with millions of dollars of legal backing behind them.

00:30:42.020 And millions of supporters.

00:30:43.700 Yeah.

00:30:43.940 That is very young.

00:30:45.400 To get a conservatorship at all, I would argue, at least from my understanding of it, it is incredibly difficult to do.

00:30:54.380 And when you look back to, when you remember what was going on in 2008 with her, she was going through some things.

00:31:01.680 Very public meltdown.

00:31:02.680 Yeah.

00:31:03.000 She had some meltdowns and she shaved her head and stuff.

00:31:06.100 But, again, you can shave your head if you want to.

00:31:08.620 If that's all it is.

00:31:09.440 But she melted down.

00:31:10.760 Yeah.

00:31:10.900 And I think there were bigger issues than shaving her head.

00:31:13.740 Right.

00:31:14.120 And so that's how the conservatorship started in the first place.

00:31:19.360 So there were things going on.

00:31:21.200 She was doing weird things.

00:31:22.300 She was saying weird things.

00:31:25.160 She was acting erratically.

00:31:28.200 And that's how she lost control of her financial life.

00:31:32.100 Yes.

00:31:32.560 And the legal system should err on the side of freedom.

00:31:36.480 Right.

00:31:36.820 So if she's even close to being able to deal with anything in her life, even if she is a disaster, even if she's a person who's going to go out and take the second she's free, go to a casino with all of her money and bet it all and lose it all.

00:31:51.380 Even that, she should still be free.

00:31:54.380 Like, she should be able to do what she wants to do.

00:31:57.880 But, you know, it may be more significant than that.

00:32:01.500 And we should remember that everything that she said in her hearing should not be taken as truth.

00:32:07.180 You know.

00:32:07.680 It's true.

00:32:08.000 But, you know, it is really important that if she's at all capable of handling her life, she should be able to handle her life.

00:32:17.020 And even if she's incapable of it, you know, even if there's a lot of people who, I mean, there's people I know who are, you know, in this building who work here.

00:32:25.800 I mean, Jeffy should not be able to allow it to handle his life.

00:32:28.220 How many times have we argued that he should not be able to be around his children?

00:32:32.140 Many times.

00:32:32.960 Us?

00:32:33.640 You're right.

00:32:34.220 Should not be allowed in the building.

00:32:35.520 Right.

00:32:36.200 Right.

00:32:36.500 You know?

00:32:37.000 But, I mean, no one's going to want a conservatorship for Jeffy.

00:32:40.820 Nobody's going to want that.

00:32:41.420 Nobody wants to try to untangle that mess.

00:32:43.400 No.

00:32:43.720 No.

00:32:44.340 No.

00:32:44.660 No, thank you.

00:32:45.940 But.

00:32:46.700 Not even Brittany's dad could intervene and make that one work out okay.

00:32:50.880 It's like the reverse bit, Brittany, you get the conservatorship and suddenly you owe millions of dollars.

00:32:55.880 And you're like, how did this happen?

00:32:58.700 But, you know, so the legal system should always err on freedom.

00:33:03.480 So, likely, probably this should change.

00:33:07.160 But there is, there should be at least consideration to the alternative.

00:33:13.540 Yeah, I guess so.

00:33:15.140 Because it did seem like the judge was pretty solid in his ruling and, and pretty definitive that this needed to continue.

00:33:25.700 And then.

00:33:26.860 Weird.

00:33:27.060 But somebody else joined in the, she wanted some institution, some financial institution to be part of it.

00:33:33.980 And so now he's got to share that conservatorship with somebody else.

00:33:38.420 So, maybe that'll make her life better.

00:33:40.640 I don't know.

00:33:41.460 But, um, it's going to continue for an indefinite amount of time.

00:33:45.740 I don't know how many times you can revisit that and try to over, uh, over, overcome the conservatorship.

00:33:53.380 Conservatorship.

00:33:54.400 Um, I don't know how many times you can revisit that.

00:33:57.220 So.

00:33:58.280 I don't know either.

00:33:59.440 And, you know, look at their, if, if it's, that's the other thing that you could argue here is that, let's just say it was a really bad situation.

00:34:07.100 Most people probably are unable to do what she's done here, right?

00:34:12.740 You can't, it's hard to come up with the, the legal, you don't have the resources to mount a legal challenge against it.

00:34:18.160 You also don't have the, the, the public support to go through something like that.

00:34:22.460 Nobody cares, right?

00:34:23.380 You just, you're just wasting away in, in conservatorship land.

00:34:27.060 Uh, but she has the resources to be able to challenge it in ways that other people wouldn't, right?

00:34:37.440 So maybe, you know, in the, in this world where it actually was a good decision to put her in a conservatorship, if you accept that for a second, most people wouldn't be able to get out of it where she might be able to get out of it because she has those resources.

00:34:49.900 So are the resources helping overturn a situation that was appropriate is the other way to look at it, right?

00:34:57.000 And again, I don't, I don't know, but it is one of those situations.

00:34:59.980 It does feel like in a similar way with the Cosby thing where social media documentaries, we do justice by documentary.

00:35:09.100 Now the New York times released a documentary that said Brittany had really unfair treatment of her when she was younger.

00:35:14.500 And, and there's some convincing evidence to that.

00:35:17.120 So we now kind of, everyone's on that side of things and we now kind of look at this and say, all right, well, that's the way it is.

00:35:26.140 Maybe it may not be the way it is.

00:35:28.220 Yeah.

00:35:28.760 Might, it might not.

00:35:29.860 Yeah.

00:35:30.260 888-727-BECK.

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00:36:49.180 It's Pat and Stu for Glenn, 888-727-BECK.

00:36:58.040 It's amazing the things that are racist now.

00:37:03.040 In the last few months, we found out quite a few things are racist that you may not have known about, like highways.

00:37:10.440 Highways are racist.

00:37:12.320 Why is that?

00:37:13.160 Uh, because I think less BIPOC people drive on them.

00:37:19.380 Is that?

00:37:20.200 Yeah.

00:37:20.600 And more BIPOC people get killed on them.

00:37:23.820 Oh, really?

00:37:24.980 Per capita.

00:37:26.260 Is that really the reason?

00:37:27.520 Yes.

00:37:28.140 Because I've heard that, well, these highways get built in places that divide communities.

00:37:32.020 There's also that.

00:37:32.700 There's that thing that they try to do, which is not even true in most cases.

00:37:36.780 Because there's an accusation, I think it was against the Chicago mayor, that he did it intentionally.

00:37:43.320 Like, he put a highway in to keep, essentially, black people away.

00:37:46.580 Like, from a long time ago?

00:37:47.180 Yeah, from a long time ago, in the early 1900s.

00:37:50.220 And when you look at the actual facts of the case, it was planned before he was even mayor.

00:37:56.460 But, like, no one cares.

00:37:57.600 Who cares?

00:37:58.700 Do you say it anyway?

00:37:59.320 Yeah, you just say it anyway.

00:38:00.200 And that's what they've learned, really.

00:38:01.440 You just keep saying it until people believe it.

00:38:03.680 And people will believe it if you just keep saying it.

00:38:06.020 Even when others are saying, that's a stinkin' lie.

00:38:09.740 Yeah.

00:38:10.160 It doesn't matter.

00:38:10.720 You just keep repeating it.

00:38:11.720 Doesn't matter.

00:38:12.300 Don't even respond to the people who are saying it's a lie.

00:38:14.640 Just keep saying it.

00:38:15.700 And eventually, people do believe it.

00:38:17.540 There was that time where, and I feel like it wasn't that long ago, where people would

00:38:22.000 have this weird internal thing happen to them where they felt like they needed to answer it

00:38:26.640 or justify it.

00:38:27.620 Right.

00:38:28.100 And that's just gone.

00:38:28.820 That's gone.

00:38:29.360 It's gone now.

00:38:30.500 Completely gone.

00:38:31.400 It is.

00:38:31.680 Just keep going.

00:38:32.060 You know what?

00:38:33.280 Yeah, we just, you know what?

00:38:34.260 We are the party that said we shouldn't defund the police.

00:38:36.940 That's us.

00:38:38.300 They're just doing that now.

00:38:39.720 Right.

00:38:40.220 They're acting as if the last year just didn't occur.

00:38:43.920 It just didn't happen.

00:38:45.260 Yeah.

00:38:45.460 Democrats are able to pin this on Republicans now.

00:38:49.280 Okay.

00:38:50.060 Wait.

00:38:50.680 No.

00:38:51.140 No Republicans wanted to.

00:38:52.740 I don't know of a single Republican who wanted to defund police.

00:38:56.140 Democrats were screaming about it all over the country.

00:38:58.940 No.

00:38:59.340 No, we didn't.

00:39:00.460 What do you mean?

00:39:01.440 No, that's Republicans.

00:39:02.200 Those are Republicans who did that.

00:39:03.480 That very thin, very young, crazy person with the weird eyes from New York is actually

00:39:11.340 a Republican.

00:39:12.420 No, I think that's AOC.

00:39:14.260 I think she's a Democrat, right?

00:39:16.520 Yeah.

00:39:17.360 They just, they are able to deny it because they get the assistance of the media to help

00:39:21.680 them further those odd narratives that they pick.

00:39:26.960 It surprises me that it works, though.

00:39:29.240 I don't know how it works.

00:39:30.200 And I love this from Towson University now.

00:39:34.320 They recently hosted a virtual anti-racist pedagogy symposium.

00:39:38.820 I'm so sorry I missed this.

00:39:40.640 Oh!

00:39:41.000 I try to go to all the pedagogy symposiums and especially the anti-racist one.

00:39:46.860 I really wanted to attend, but couldn't.

00:39:49.440 But it criticized university writing curriculum and programs for being racist and perpetuating

00:39:55.140 whiteness with proper grammar.

00:39:59.300 So proper grammar now is also racist.

00:40:05.680 There's such a strange thing in this anti-racist Ibram Kennedy white fragility type of world where

00:40:12.960 they just pick the things that are good about people and say that's white people.

00:40:17.640 You know, like that's, those are white people things.

00:40:19.720 Like, showing up on time.

00:40:21.580 It's just a white person thing.

00:40:23.120 It's like, wait a minute, that's...

00:40:24.040 Being productive members of society.

00:40:25.780 Yeah.

00:40:26.260 That's a white person thing?

00:40:27.720 Legitimately, being polite.

00:40:29.700 Yeah.

00:40:30.280 They say is a white person thing.

00:40:32.260 And it's like, wait, that's just racism.

00:40:34.860 Like, David Duke said the same things 20 years ago.

00:40:38.160 And you're just like, yeah, you know what?

00:40:39.380 Duke was right.

00:40:40.760 That seems to be their argument.

00:40:42.960 Like, yes, you know what?

00:40:43.700 All those things that you like about society, people being polite to each other, people being

00:40:47.100 advanced on their merit is another one that they say is a white...

00:40:52.320 Racist.

00:40:52.580 Is a part of the white culture.

00:40:54.460 Yeah.

00:40:54.620 People being...

00:40:55.520 Because it shouldn't be about your merit.

00:40:57.540 It should be a guess about your skin color.

00:40:59.580 Do you guys remember how this turned out last time we tried this?

00:41:03.400 Last time we were like, you know what?

00:41:05.000 We should make decisions based on skin color.

00:41:06.880 It didn't go well for anyone.

00:41:09.460 It went well.

00:41:10.460 I mean, it went well for racists.

00:41:13.660 And by the way, racists are now here in the movement calling themselves the anti-racism

00:41:19.680 movement.

00:41:20.560 That's what these people are.

00:41:22.480 They're racists.

00:41:23.540 It's clear.

00:41:25.040 It is quite clear.

00:41:26.980 888-727-BECK.

00:41:29.420 More Pat and Stu for Glenn coming up.

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00:41:35.280 There's a lot going on.

00:41:36.700 Oh, man.

00:41:37.220 This is one of those days that I'm glad we have a show because I would go insane without

00:41:40.400 one.

00:41:41.880 Yeah.

00:41:42.280 We're going to talk about some climate situations coming up here in a few minutes.

00:41:46.880 Also, I love the fact that this first lady is treated like she is so classy and so beautiful

00:41:56.760 and so wonderful and just got a Vogue cover when Melania Trump was completely ignored.

00:42:05.660 She's an actual beautiful supermodel who still looks like a supermodel and is one.

00:42:12.540 Never got on the cover of Vogue or I don't think any other magazine.

00:42:16.060 Any other big fashion magazine.

00:42:17.140 I honestly think it's the most pure example of what they call Trump derangement syndrome.

00:42:21.600 Yeah, absolutely.

00:42:22.900 Because she's got nothing to do with these policies at all.

00:42:25.520 It's just association.

00:42:27.720 She's married to a guy.

00:42:28.740 They don't like his politics.

00:42:29.980 And so they don't like her.

00:42:30.900 They don't like her.

00:42:31.400 And they just basically act like she's not pretty.

00:42:33.660 Like it's insanity.

00:42:34.920 It's amazing.

00:42:36.080 It's amazing.

00:42:37.860 And when it's brought up, hey, what about Melania Trump?

00:42:40.740 You know, Michelle Obama had incredible arms.

00:42:44.080 Oh, incredible.

00:42:44.580 I've seen her arms.

00:42:45.600 Oh, my gosh.

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00:43:31.640 They are already speculating on whether or not climate change caused the collapse of the building in Miami last week.

00:43:42.280 It's just, I mean, it's unbelievable.

00:43:46.680 It is unbelievable.

00:43:47.500 And, of course, then you've got the heat wave going on in the Northwest, which I think has subsided now.

00:43:53.560 But that, of course, is also climate change.

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00:45:27.620 We had this horrible tragedy in Miami with the building collapse, with the condo collapse the other day.

00:45:33.660 And it's taken the lives of, you know, what is it?

00:45:36.700 A dozen people so far that they've actually found and then 149 missing still.

00:45:41.520 And it's just an awful, awful tragedy.

00:45:44.340 It just shouldn't happen in America.

00:45:47.520 But then you take that tragedy and you politicize it, which is what they're doing already.

00:45:54.940 The energy secretary was on CNN and she was being asked about whether or not this is a Gretchen.

00:46:02.600 Is it Gretchen Granholm?

00:46:03.920 Uh, I can't remember her first name.

00:46:09.160 It's not Jennifer Granholm.

00:46:10.500 Thank you.

00:46:11.400 So Jennifer Granholm is on, uh, talking about, and she's asked whether or not, uh, climate change had anything to do with it.

00:46:18.780 In terms of, in terms of climate, you brought up what's happening, what we're seeing in the Pacific Northwest.

00:46:22.380 Um, but we've been talking a lot about what happened in Florida at the Surfside condominium building that collapsed.

00:46:29.800 We don't know exactly what happened at this point, but given what we know about the changing climate, given that we've seen an increase in the so-called extraordinary tides and the impact that that can have in areas like South Florida.

00:46:42.080 Do you think that climate could have played a role in that building's collapse?

00:46:47.400 Well, obviously we don't know fully, but we do know that the seas are rising.

00:46:51.200 I mean, we know that we're losing inches and inches of beaches, not just in Florida, but all around.

00:46:56.780 It wasn't knocked over by a tsunami.

00:46:58.060 In Michigan, where I'm from, you know, we've seen the loss of beaches because the, the waters are rising.

00:47:04.460 So, you know, this is a phenomenon that will continue, whether it, we'll have to wait to see what the analysis is for this building.

00:47:12.000 But the issue about resiliency and making sure we adapt to this changing climate, that's going to mean levees need to be built.

00:47:19.780 That means seawalls need to be built.

00:47:21.180 That means infrastructure needs to be built.

00:47:23.180 We need to make sure that we invest enough in clearing out the forests so we don't have these weather events.

00:47:29.440 We need to invest in hardening our transmission lines, maybe burying wires so that we can protect areas that are like tinderbox dry.

00:47:37.680 This is really transparent here.

00:47:38.640 There's so much investment that we need to do to protect ourselves from climate change, but also to address it and mitigate it.

00:47:44.900 And hopefully these infrastructure bills are taken together.

00:47:46.700 How long does this go on?

00:47:47.960 Make a huge step and allow America to lead again.

00:47:50.360 Secretary, she's still blabbing about this.

00:47:53.800 Is that agonizing?

00:47:54.780 I will say, Pat, there are days that I just, I kind of just want to be a liberal.

00:48:00.700 You know, it's so much easier.

00:48:04.920 It is.

00:48:05.260 Life has to be fantastic for these people.

00:48:07.720 They come out and they say, well, look, every time there's a bad event, they say, look, we don't know for sure if it's climate change.

00:48:15.440 What we do know is that every, everything that's bad in the world is climate change.

00:48:20.240 So we'll look at the details.

00:48:21.400 We'll look at the analysis later on.

00:48:22.620 We don't know yet, but we do know that every bad thing you'll ever hear about is about climate change.

00:48:27.480 Right.

00:48:27.680 And then when something happens that is the opposite of what they predicted, they say, oh, that's not climate.

00:48:34.520 That's weather.

00:48:35.480 You're confusing climate with weather.

00:48:37.960 That's the problem.

00:48:38.880 You're not, you don't understand it.

00:48:40.100 Yes, obviously, it's been cooler than normal for the past year, but that's just, that's, that's weather.

00:48:47.280 No big deal.

00:48:48.740 Don't even focus on that.

00:48:49.680 You got to talk about the trends.

00:48:50.800 Well, what about this one singular event that, that would agree with your trends?

00:48:55.040 Well, that's obviously global warming.

00:48:56.020 I mean, 116 degrees in Portland, Oregon.

00:48:58.460 That's clearly climate change.

00:48:59.800 Of course.

00:49:00.540 Clearly.

00:49:01.040 Clearly climate change.

00:49:02.140 They're going to happen more often.

00:49:03.960 It's 62 degrees right now in Portland.

00:49:06.580 That isn't climate change, but it was two days ago.

00:49:10.660 Yes.

00:49:11.000 It was two days ago.

00:49:12.480 You have every single time something happens that's bad, it proves your point.

00:49:17.700 Yeah.

00:49:17.940 And every single time the opposite of that thing happening also proves your point.

00:49:22.620 This is the greatest thing in the world.

00:49:24.840 Sure is.

00:49:25.100 It's the ultimate scam.

00:49:26.420 They're right no matter what.

00:49:27.840 No matter what.

00:49:28.840 They've completely rigged the discussion so that whatever happens, they're right.

00:49:34.760 And even when they're wrong, they're the ones that get to tell you that the previous

00:49:40.340 position they had is no longer the science.

00:49:43.740 Right.

00:49:44.320 So they're just like, well, that's the science.

00:49:45.980 They're not wrong now.

00:49:47.060 They, and they weren't really wrong then.

00:49:49.400 They're just more right now.

00:49:50.540 They're just more right now.

00:49:51.280 Like, you know, the example that a lot of people use, we've used it many times here on

00:49:54.680 the air is the, the, the push in the seventies to say that global cooling was coming at an

00:50:00.860 ice age, another ice age was coming.

00:50:02.700 And if you ask the left about that now, they'll say, well, look, that was just a couple of

00:50:08.720 scientists.

00:50:09.320 It was not the mainstream position.

00:50:11.140 Look at the articles.

00:50:13.120 They don't, they were all, they all say it was a mainstream position that it was definitely

00:50:19.580 happening.

00:50:20.100 It was only a question of how bad it was going to be and how fast it was going to come.

00:50:23.560 If they were completely sure about it and their argument now as well, you can't blame the

00:50:29.340 scientists for that because that's just the journalists saying that in an incorrect way.

00:50:35.680 Well, that is who we're blaming though.

00:50:37.420 Like I, I'm not sitting here blaming climate scientists for how badly you cover the climate.

00:50:42.280 I'm blaming you.

00:50:43.640 I'm blaming the journalists for doing it.

00:50:46.460 They're the ones and the media and, and, uh, and the, the politicians in this particular

00:50:52.300 case are the ones furthering this nonsense, at least in this particular way.

00:50:57.800 And I mean, look, let me give you an example here, uh, Pat, this comes back from 1995.

00:51:03.880 Newsbusters pointed this one out.

00:51:05.120 I hadn't, I, you know, there's so many hyperbolic complaints about the climate.

00:51:11.080 You lose track of them over time and you don't remember to look back at them.

00:51:16.580 Mm-hmm.

00:51:17.180 This is a, this is a terrible, terrible, uh, report about how bad the climate is going

00:51:23.440 to be.

00:51:23.880 It's called scientists say earth's warming could set off wide disruptions, uh, from

00:51:28.800 September 18th, 1995.

00:51:31.360 So now we're not in the seventies now.

00:51:34.280 Okay.

00:51:35.000 All right.

00:51:35.340 We're in the nineties in 1995, they say that a continuing rise in global sea level, which

00:51:45.140 is likely to amount to more than a foot and a half by the year 2100, uh, would inundate

00:51:50.740 parts of many heavily populated river deltas and the cities on them, making them uninhabitable.

00:51:55.940 It would destroy many beaches around the world.

00:51:59.400 This is the most important, uh, phrase in this entire article.

00:52:03.060 At the most likely rate of rise, some experts say most of the beaches on the east coast

00:52:12.360 of the United States would be gone in 25 years.

00:52:17.300 Now you may recognize if you're a mathematician that 25 years from this article would be 2020

00:52:23.960 last year.

00:52:26.000 I happen to be completely sure there are still beaches on the east coast of the United States.

00:52:31.960 How do you know that?

00:52:33.060 I've been at them in 2021.

00:52:35.560 When though, when 2021 after the year they said they'd be gone.

00:52:39.600 Yeah.

00:52:39.740 But what month in 2021 were you there?

00:52:43.540 Uh, let's see.

00:52:45.320 It was a couple of months ago.

00:52:46.400 Okay.

00:52:46.980 How old were you a couple of months ago?

00:52:48.720 Come on now.

00:52:49.680 Come on.

00:52:50.000 That was a long time ago.

00:52:51.840 I don't think I was even born a couple of months ago.

00:52:54.360 Really?

00:52:54.720 Really?

00:52:55.120 I'm going to go ahead and say just with visual evidence that maybe I was born.

00:52:59.300 Yeah.

00:52:59.660 But I mean just barely.

00:53:01.820 Barely.

00:53:02.380 Barely.

00:53:02.800 Probably preschool in that particular month.

00:53:08.640 It's just ridiculous.

00:53:09.980 You look at this article.

00:53:10.800 This is in the paper of record.

00:53:12.440 Mm-hmm.

00:53:12.840 This is a peer-reviewed report about how bad the climate's going to be.

00:53:18.920 And it is presented in a way.

00:53:20.540 It is not the worst case scenario that there would be no beaches on the east coast of the United States.

00:53:28.080 That's not the worst case scenario.

00:53:29.880 That is the most likely rate of rise.

00:53:35.420 Yeah.

00:53:35.500 The most likely scenario.

00:53:38.140 No beaches on the east coast.

00:53:40.860 And how many times did they say things like the west coast or the west side freeway?

00:53:47.360 Is that what it's called in New York?

00:53:48.680 You know the one that we used all the time going into the city?

00:53:51.040 Yeah.

00:53:51.480 Yeah.

00:53:51.560 It was going to be completely submerged underwater by, was it 2000?

00:53:56.680 It was definitely before we worked there because I did a segment.

00:54:00.400 And I went down to that particular freeway.

00:54:03.020 And it was still there.

00:54:04.660 And people were driving on it.

00:54:05.900 Yeah.

00:54:06.340 And we have quote after quote after quote from, this is from James Hansen, who is the lead NASA scientist that was testifying in front of Congress telling us how bad global warming would be.

00:54:17.800 Right.

00:54:18.040 And of course, shockingly enough, they were totally wrong.

00:54:20.900 She mentions in here, the Granholm thing here, and she's a total global warming nut.

00:54:26.280 I mean, she is Al Gore, basically.

00:54:28.360 She's that far.

00:54:29.640 And what she mentions there is interesting because, of course, because she's a Democrat, she is in infrastructure pitch mode.

00:54:39.900 And what she's saying is, if this continues, we'll have to build seawalls.

00:54:45.220 Okay, let's just go down this road a little bit.

00:54:47.960 What the hell else would you do, right?

00:54:52.680 If the sea levels do rise, you build seawalls.

00:54:59.520 It's not a, building a wall is not a reason to shut down all industrial progress in our country.

00:55:09.080 Like, when the realities hit you, what she's saying in that little tiny chunk there is true.

00:55:15.460 When you have, which sometimes you do have, a changing environment, changing climate, what you do is adapt to that climate.

00:55:23.380 Well, they did that in 1900 in Galveston, Texas.

00:55:26.320 They sure did.

00:55:26.860 They raised the city 17 feet.

00:55:30.220 In 1900.

00:55:31.160 In 1900.

00:55:32.060 1900.

00:55:32.580 Yeah.

00:55:33.180 So, yeah, you adapt.

00:55:35.480 You modify.

00:55:37.580 You, if the conditions change, you've got to change with them or move.

00:55:42.020 It's going to be one of the two.

00:55:43.220 Yeah, it's funny because if you read Michael Schellenberger's book, which is great, by the way.

00:55:47.520 I love it.

00:55:48.060 It's a really, is it?

00:55:51.980 Apocalypse Never.

00:55:53.000 Apocalypse Never.

00:55:53.840 Thank you.

00:55:54.180 I knew it was a play on a movie title.

00:55:55.980 Yeah.

00:55:56.320 Apocalypse Never.

00:55:57.240 It's a great book.

00:55:58.040 And you go through it and he explains, and Bjorn Lomborg has a great book out as well

00:56:01.700 that does, explains a similar thing as well, where you'll hear these estimates that in

00:56:08.020 like Bangladesh, you know, a hundred million people will be displaced by climate change.

00:56:14.600 You're like, wow, I mean, that sounds really bad.

00:56:17.560 How do they come up with an estimate like that?

00:56:19.460 How do they do it?

00:56:20.420 And legitimately how they do it is to say that the sea level will rise, let's say a foot,

00:56:26.120 they predict, and what will happen is the people of Bangladesh will literally do nothing

00:56:32.680 about it.

00:56:33.280 They will sit here and every day and be like, wow, there's more water in the house today.

00:56:38.920 What should we do now?

00:56:40.760 It just went up another four inches overnight.

00:56:43.880 Right.

00:56:44.320 What should we do about that?

00:56:45.520 I don't know why they have a creepy accent like that in Bangladesh.

00:56:49.560 It's a very strange country you're describing.

00:56:51.600 I don't know why the people from like, you know.

00:56:54.880 And probably not many Agneses in Bangladesh either.

00:56:57.520 Probably not.

00:56:58.180 Probably not that many.

00:56:58.800 There's only a few Agneses, but that Agnes is sitting here going like, wow, look at all

00:57:03.340 that.

00:57:03.740 Now the water is up to the middle of the refrigerator.

00:57:06.500 What do we do now?

00:57:08.300 And it's like, okay, yes, we understand that there's poverty there and it's difficult.

00:57:12.360 But however, this is what you do.

00:57:14.300 There are multiple ways to mitigate a situation like that.

00:57:16.720 Things like seawalls, things like, you know, all sorts of technology that can change the

00:57:26.080 way the water, the tides work, the way that you're protected from the tides.

00:57:32.800 All of these things have been in place in other countries around the world for decades and can

00:57:38.240 be easily utilized in a situation like this.

00:57:40.680 And they talk about like people moving.

00:57:43.320 Well, that's another part of it.

00:57:44.820 Like worst case scenario, if you did nothing, what would people do?

00:57:47.700 Would they all just die?

00:57:49.300 They'd all just sit there and drown?

00:57:51.060 No, they'd move.

00:57:52.520 And like that would even, that's an extreme situation.

00:57:55.300 And of course, there's a million steps you take before that situation.

00:57:58.060 But that is not, it's just not real life.

00:58:01.060 And so they take a thing like that and they say, what if the sea level rose and everyone

00:58:06.780 in Bangladesh did nothing and the water just came up to their knees and then their chest

00:58:10.540 and then their heads and they all drowned?

00:58:12.740 It could kill 100 million people.

00:58:14.700 Okay, I guess if they all just stood there.

00:58:17.820 But we are a society that is going to come up with amazing new technologies that we are

00:58:22.740 doing every single day.

00:58:24.120 We've improved all of these technologies that can not only mitigate the situation, but also

00:58:29.260 make green energy better, if you would allow, let's say, the ultimate green energy, which

00:58:36.560 is nuclear power, to actually develop, all of these problems would have been solved a

00:58:40.160 long time ago.

00:58:40.980 But you environmentalists stopped it.

00:58:43.680 It's so infuriating.

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01:00:57.080 You're thinking about like Rachel Maddow looking at the rankings on the podcast list and thinking,

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01:01:06.140 Like Glenn Beck, I know that guy, Glenn Beck.

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01:01:14.100 We were talking a minute ago about James Hansen and his predictions about the West Side Highway

01:01:20.440 being underwater, completely underwater.

01:01:22.260 And I believe it was by 2000, maybe even before that.

01:01:25.380 But it was certainly before we lived in New York in the 2000s.

01:01:29.520 I just read a headline a couple of weeks ago that concerned James Hansen from NASA.

01:01:36.680 And it said, James Hansen wishes he wasn't so right.

01:01:41.820 How do they keep doing this?

01:01:45.120 How do you write that article about this guy?

01:01:47.480 He's never been right.

01:01:49.960 Are you kidding me?

01:01:51.380 None of these guys have been right.

01:01:53.120 And yet they act as though and people treat them as though they've never gotten a single

01:01:57.580 prediction wrong.

01:01:58.660 I know.

01:01:59.160 When he did his testimony in front of Congress where they intentionally turned the air conditioning

01:02:06.740 off to make people look hot, he actually came out and said, hey, I'm going to give you three

01:02:12.680 scenarios of what could happen.

01:02:14.460 We could have my scenario where everything goes great and we turn off the emissions and

01:02:18.700 we cut them and everything's great.

01:02:20.720 We could have a medium scenario or a really worst case scenario.

01:02:25.040 And what wound up happening was the temperatures were better than his best case scenario.

01:02:29.780 So like better than his situation where we cut emissions lower, they were lower and the

01:02:36.000 emission, actual emissions were worst, were worse than his worst case scenario.

01:02:41.540 So he thought he, the emissions went up more than he thought was possible and the temperature

01:02:48.060 was lower than he thought was possible.

01:02:50.300 And he's like, I'm a genius.

01:02:53.420 What you should take from this is that I was right.

01:02:56.160 I don't understand it.

01:02:59.500 And you know what?

01:03:00.160 Part of that might be because their whole premise for this may be completely wrong.

01:03:06.800 That CO2 drives temperature because sometimes that's true.

01:03:09.960 And as Al Gore has admitted, sometimes the opposite is also true.

01:03:16.140 When he said this, I think this blows the whole premise.

01:03:19.060 Temperature goes up before the steam goes up.

01:03:21.460 Sometimes that has been true in the past.

01:03:23.480 The opposite has also been true.

01:03:25.160 I mean, he admitted that sometimes temperature drives up CO2.

01:03:31.120 Sometimes CO2 drives up temperature.

01:03:33.160 Well, then doesn't that destroy your whole argument that CO2 is behind this and it's the

01:03:38.460 it's the greenhouse gas that is killing the planet when it might be the fact that the

01:03:43.700 temperature is going up and that's pushing up the CO2.

01:03:47.320 What?

01:03:48.700 That is an incredible premise is ruined.

01:03:51.720 Right.

01:03:51.760 And then that's there's that they have not changed their mind on that.

01:03:54.060 I mean, that's still still the case, but it's a great it's a great illustration as to they

01:03:58.200 can have this both ways every time.

01:04:01.200 It doesn't matter if what they say is proven correct.

01:04:05.100 Just, you know, look, I mean, they just get to go along with it.

01:04:08.800 Yeah.

01:04:08.960 They just continue to be able to take whatever position they want.

01:04:12.400 And no one no one goes back in The New York Times to say, wow, look at this dumb thing

01:04:16.120 we wrote 25 years ago.

01:04:17.540 We should write a new article updating it and saying how wrong it was.

01:04:20.860 That never happens.

01:04:22.160 It's left to us to do it.

01:04:24.400 The only person who's ever done that has been Glenn Beck.

01:04:27.000 Hey, I'm sorry for what I said a while ago.

01:04:29.440 That's it.

01:04:29.720 Nobody else ever does that.

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01:07:22.080 Also, today is Bobby Bonilla Day in New York.

01:07:25.820 It is Bobby Bonilla Day.

01:07:27.140 My favorite day of the year.

01:07:28.740 July 1st.

01:07:29.540 July 1st is Bobby Bonilla Day.

01:07:31.140 If you don't know what Bobby Bonilla Day is, it is a holiday that is celebrated in New York

01:07:35.500 every year, and I love this story because it's just, it's very satisfying, but he basically,

01:07:41.840 Bobby Bonilla was a very good baseball player, you know, all-star, you know, many times, and

01:07:47.220 he signed a very large contract with the New York Mets at the time, and as his career sort

01:07:53.220 of winded down, they decided they were going to, they didn't want to pay him all of the

01:07:58.940 money they owed him, which is an understandable instinct.

01:08:01.880 I don't want to pay people the money I owe them either, so the Mets thought, instead of

01:08:06.840 paying the amount that they owed him, which is multiple millions of dollars, they said,

01:08:14.680 what if we defer this money?

01:08:17.520 At the time, they wanted to pay, I think they owed him $5.9 million, and they didn't want

01:08:21.320 to pay him $5.9 million.

01:08:22.620 They were in the midst of a championship run, they thought.

01:08:25.960 They wanted to hire, just go sign some free agents.

01:08:28.160 And what year was this?

01:08:29.120 Do you remember?

01:08:30.360 1999.

01:08:30.720 1999.

01:08:31.640 Yeah, I thought it was over 20 years ago.

01:08:33.940 Yeah.

01:08:34.640 Jeez.

01:08:34.740 So they said, instead of paying him the $5.9 million they owed him, they said, what if,

01:08:39.640 Bobby, let's listen to this, just listen to us, what if we don't pay you that $5.9 million

01:08:46.140 in one chunk, and instead, we'll give you $1.193 million every year from now, 1999, till 2035.

01:08:58.160 Why would you make that deal?

01:09:02.460 Why would you make that deal?

01:09:04.180 It's a great deal.

01:09:05.100 Okay, so instead, we don't want to pay you $5.9 million.

01:09:07.940 Right.

01:09:08.220 How about we pay you $30 million?

01:09:11.300 Yes.

01:09:11.620 It's essentially what they were saying.

01:09:13.040 Yep.

01:09:13.240 It would be $29.8 million instead of $5.9 million.

01:09:17.320 But they don't have to pay it.

01:09:18.460 They will pay him a little bit until 2035.

01:09:20.560 So you think about it from your Bonilla, you're like, wow, even if I screw up and I become

01:09:24.480 the typical athlete that blows it all on a car wash or something.

01:09:27.700 We're going to get a million dollars every year.

01:09:29.040 I'm still going to get a million dollars coming up the next year, and I never have to worry

01:09:31.640 about it ever again.

01:09:32.600 Great idea.

01:09:33.400 Gosh.

01:09:33.500 For them, why would they do it?

01:09:34.740 Well, there actually is a reason they did it, and it's actually something that everyone

01:09:43.060 is somewhat familiar with.

01:09:45.360 But the truth is, at the time, the owners of the Mets were heavy investors in a fantastic

01:09:53.440 fund run by a brilliant hedge fund manager named Bernie Madoff.

01:09:58.760 And they looked at the numbers, and they thought-

01:10:00.680 He was a good friend of management, I believe.

01:10:02.580 Yes, he was.

01:10:03.400 Yeah.

01:10:03.680 And they looked at the numbers, and they said, well, we're making 20, 30, 40% a year on this.

01:10:08.320 If we just keep the money with Madoff, all of the money we're making off that investment

01:10:13.980 will pay for Bonilla, and we won't basically have to pay him any of this money.

01:10:17.740 We're going to wind up saving money by deferring the cash for all that time.

01:10:22.480 Now, you may have heard in the news that the Bernie Madoff situation did not turn out as

01:10:29.080 expected.

01:10:30.140 Apparently, he was running a giant Ponzi scheme, and he's now dead.

01:10:33.360 So, it didn't turn out great.

01:10:35.620 We lost him.

01:10:36.140 We lost him.

01:10:37.520 We did lose him.

01:10:38.780 Yeah.

01:10:39.040 But today's the day he gets his check.

01:10:40.840 The check-

01:10:41.780 I love it.

01:10:42.320 Of $1.19 million.

01:10:46.280 It was actually $1,193,248.20.

01:10:50.720 So, essentially, $1.2 million every year till 2035.

01:10:55.600 Yep.

01:10:55.900 And he still has-

01:10:56.860 Just unbelievable.

01:10:57.640 Half of the time left, which is almost half the time of this situation continuing.

01:11:03.060 And since then, those owners don't even own the team anymore.

01:11:08.840 But-

01:11:09.320 What foresight on Bonilla's part to say, yeah, okay.

01:11:13.140 All right.

01:11:14.040 Instead of paying me $5 million, you pay me $30 million?

01:11:16.220 Okay.

01:11:16.780 Okay.

01:11:17.140 All right.

01:11:17.600 Sounds great.

01:11:18.700 Are you sure?

01:11:19.460 They actually-

01:11:20.580 Ow, ow, ow.

01:11:21.020 Okay.

01:11:21.780 The other side of this was just-

01:11:22.720 They did this multiple times, by the way.

01:11:24.460 It wasn't just Bonilla.

01:11:25.200 They did it with other players as well around this time because they were convinced-

01:11:30.020 They were getting such great returns from this Madoff guy that anything that they could

01:11:34.820 defer would wind up being a good investment.

01:11:37.040 What's interesting, though, is it did allow them to bring in new free agents, a pitcher in

01:11:42.920 particular, which actually led them to the World Series that year.

01:11:45.480 So, in a way, it did kind of work.

01:11:48.700 But that being said, it doesn't feel like that every July 1st, I think, for the Mets.

01:11:54.280 So, happy Bobby Bonilla Day.

01:11:55.960 This is what we need, Pat.

01:11:57.840 We need to go to Glenn and say, look, we will fill in for you every time you're out.

01:12:04.980 And you don't have to pay us anything now.

01:12:08.880 You just have to pay us X amount of dollars.

01:12:13.960 I mean, it's already here, 1.19 million.

01:12:16.880 We'll just call it the same.

01:12:17.740 Why play with the numbers?

01:12:19.160 Yeah.

01:12:19.400 Every year.

01:12:20.140 Every year.

01:12:20.560 Until, say, 2060.

01:12:24.160 Totally fair.

01:12:25.300 Totally fair.

01:12:26.540 Yeah.

01:12:26.960 I like it.

01:12:27.700 I think it's something-

01:12:28.280 And knowing Glenn's history with investments-

01:12:30.340 He probably would.

01:12:30.960 He probably would go along with it.

01:12:32.320 Let's try it when he gets back.

01:12:35.520 See how that works out.

01:12:36.540 I think it's worth a shot.

01:12:37.880 I like that.

01:12:38.360 I think it's worth a shot.

01:12:40.120 Have you been following the NBA playoffs at all?

01:12:45.560 Not since the Jazz lost, no.

01:12:47.320 All right, yeah.

01:12:48.620 So, you know, I find it very difficult to get interested in them at this point.

01:12:54.900 Yeah.

01:12:55.100 Because the sport is basically a Democratic Party operation that occasionally bounces a ball.

01:13:01.300 Yeah.

01:13:01.540 Right now, we're at the point where it's basically the Socialist Party plus three-pointers.

01:13:09.720 Yeah.

01:13:09.820 That's essentially where we are with it.

01:13:11.760 Yeah.

01:13:11.920 Or the, you know, the new Black Panther Party plus occasionally, you know, there's a buzzer beater.

01:13:23.760 Like, it's not-

01:13:24.760 It's about it.

01:13:25.320 It really is, like, incredible.

01:13:27.060 It's a lot of stuff that you put in a Black Lives Matter sort of context.

01:13:31.620 The most extreme elements of Black Lives Matter.

01:13:33.500 Listen to the interviews of these guys after they get off the air or after they get off the court.

01:13:38.040 And they sound like the most extreme Black Lives Matter person you could find.

01:13:43.920 And similar to the Black Lives Matter founders, they also own multiple houses.

01:13:48.220 So, it works.

01:13:50.260 It works well.

01:13:51.680 One of the things that has been entertaining to me is to watch the breaking news about LeBron James, which is he's still not in the playoffs anymore.

01:14:00.440 He's still-

01:14:01.100 Yeah.

01:14:01.240 They lost.

01:14:01.960 First round.

01:14:02.780 First round exit.

01:14:03.960 And they're not in the playoffs.

01:14:05.080 Nice.

01:14:05.560 Really sad to see.

01:14:06.520 I mean, those Lakers, they just seem like great guys.

01:14:09.540 And it's sad to see.

01:14:11.180 But it's shocking that they didn't play as well with the actual best player on the team, Davis, who's actually better than LeBron James at this point.

01:14:19.660 But beyond all of that, I'm not exactly a LeBron fan, as you may know.

01:14:23.860 One of the things that they- LeBron James came out and said is, we saw all these injuries and I predicted this.

01:14:30.600 LeBron predicted everything.

01:14:32.380 He's always right on everything.

01:14:33.760 He's right the fact that the Uyghurs, he shouldn't really comment on them because, I don't know, people might have their pocketbooks hurt.

01:14:40.880 So he's right on that.

01:14:42.120 Sure, it's a million people in prison, but let the Chinese people just continue to roll all over those people's lives on a daily basis and torture them and re-educate them.

01:14:54.160 Because you know what?

01:14:55.200 I need an extra few dollars out of China.

01:14:58.400 That particular stance-

01:15:00.380 It's despicable.

01:15:00.980 Is totally fine, apparently, in our society.

01:15:03.760 But he came out and he said, I knew this was going to happen.

01:15:07.600 All these injuries are happening because we had a short break in between the seasons.

01:15:11.720 And now, you know, COVID, obviously, the 2020 COVID season went long.

01:15:15.040 So they didn't have the normal full off-season as they were to come back.

01:15:20.740 And we've had some playoff injuries.

01:15:22.920 Giannis was hurt in the playoffs.

01:15:24.900 Trey Young was hurt in the playoffs.

01:15:26.500 Like, big players are out.

01:15:28.100 And he's using this as a, like, victory lap.

01:15:30.060 So apparently, the theory here, Pat, is that there was a short break in November of 2020.

01:15:38.700 The players came back, played a full season.

01:15:45.160 And then in the playoffs, they're getting hurt because of the short break in November.

01:15:50.160 So the injuries just sat back a little bit, waited until June and July.

01:15:57.220 And now are just vindicating his idiocy.

01:16:01.840 That's the theory we're all supposed to accept now.

01:16:05.360 So they didn't get hurt in January or February.

01:16:09.460 They got hurt now in June.

01:16:13.700 He's an idiot.

01:16:14.840 I mean, people like to complicate the LeBron James thing.

01:16:17.560 He's just an idiot.

01:16:19.080 It's not necessarily that he, I mean, he doesn't care one bit about the people whose lives are being destroyed in China.

01:16:27.340 Doesn't care a bit.

01:16:28.200 He cares about LeBron James solely.

01:16:30.760 So he doesn't care about those people in China at all.

01:16:34.740 But he also doesn't know anything about them.

01:16:36.800 It's not that he's made a decision and looked at all the evidence and decided to side with the socialists and the communists.

01:16:45.620 He's just an idiot and he doesn't know anything about any of these topics at all.

01:16:51.940 That's why, of course, we did.

01:16:54.040 I mean, I don't know that I'm an unbiased observer here.

01:16:57.880 I do have for sale.

01:17:00.480 Don't be an idiot.

01:17:02.180 Don't be a LeBron T-shirts.

01:17:04.880 That is actually at don't be a LeBron dot com.

01:17:08.780 And the reason why those exist is because LeBron is an idiot.

01:17:12.060 And the word idiot should be used as a synonym with the name LeBron when it's associated with LeBron James.

01:17:19.640 At least there's probably like a LeBron Johnson who's like, what the hell?

01:17:23.060 What kind of shirt is that?

01:17:24.660 I understand.

01:17:26.020 Might be a little offensive.

01:17:27.120 It's not about you, LeBron Johnson.

01:17:28.380 It's about LeBron James.

01:17:30.100 And I'm just so sick of these athletes who come out here all the time and preach to us about how smart they are and how just their world would be if they were only in control of it.

01:17:40.620 Well, you're not in control of it.

01:17:43.140 I'm sorry to tell you about that.

01:17:44.700 The China situation is getting worse and worse every day, too.

01:17:48.440 Not just for the Uyghurs, but for the rest of the world.

01:17:51.060 Xi Jinping just gave this big speech at a celebration of communism where he said only socialism can save China.

01:18:02.120 And only socialism with Chinese characteristics can develop China.

01:18:05.840 We will never allow anyone to bully, oppress, or subjugate China.

01:18:10.360 He's trying to send a message to everybody else who's saying, hey, you know, maybe you do something about the Uyghurs in your country and stop putting them in concentration camps.

01:18:18.480 And so he's talking directly to the United States here when he says anyone who dares to try to do that will have their heads bashed bloody against the Great Wall of Steel forged by over 1.4 billion Chinese people.

01:18:33.580 So you got Xi Jinping now talking like he's Mao Zedong back in the 70s again.

01:18:40.500 And Vladimir Putin kind of doing the same thing in Russia because you see the weak leadership we're stuck with right now.

01:18:47.140 And the situation in China is just getting worse.

01:18:50.480 And the NBA basketball players continue to ignore it and continue to.

01:18:56.240 It was the it was Nike, in fact, who just said this week that they are a company of China and for China.

01:19:06.660 Incredible.

01:19:08.440 Amazing.

01:19:09.180 I was listening to the Barry Weiss podcast.

01:19:11.520 She has a podcast now and I think it was her second episode.

01:19:15.280 She interviewed Mark Cuban, the owner of the Mavs here in Dallas.

01:19:19.660 And, you know, Mark Cuban, you like him or not, he's got billions of dollars and says whatever he feels like.

01:19:26.520 Right.

01:19:26.680 Like that's his that's his shtick.

01:19:28.140 Right.

01:19:28.500 So he's coming out there and every question she's asking him, he's answering confidently and, you know, like like you'd expect Mark Cuban.

01:19:35.560 And then she comes to China and ask the questions that we would ask about China.

01:19:38.760 Like, hey, well, how the hell are you ignoring this, basically?

01:19:42.680 And all of a sudden he's a different person.

01:19:45.560 He acted as if he well, look, we just I don't want to get involved in other countries.

01:19:50.400 And we just have to make sure that I don't want to say, by the way, that we're criticized.

01:19:55.080 And yes, it's this might be wrong, but we should also can we talk about anything else in the world?

01:20:00.860 It was really like awkward.

01:20:02.780 That's embarrassing.

01:20:03.160 He just changed.

01:20:04.280 It's embarrassing.

01:20:04.960 Why did they hold this power over us?

01:20:07.020 I don't understand money.

01:20:08.760 Just plain and simply money.

01:20:10.880 That's their next big market.

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01:21:22.360 Sadly, Pride Month is now over.

01:21:33.740 What?

01:21:34.160 Yeah.

01:21:34.740 It's only a month long.

01:21:35.880 Can we still have Pride?

01:21:37.100 Yes.

01:21:37.900 I say you should.

01:21:38.860 And we should probably extend Pride Month throughout the year.

01:21:41.640 You know, but what we can do is keep it at our hearts year-round.

01:21:45.140 Oh, we can.

01:21:45.780 Yeah, we can.

01:21:46.000 That's official?

01:21:46.580 Yeah.

01:21:46.920 Okay.

01:21:47.500 Good.

01:21:47.740 Um, Ikea for Pride Month, uh, made some LGBTQQIA2 plus couches.

01:21:56.340 They, they, they made, uh, couches for transgender people, pansexuals, non-binary, asexual, gender

01:22:05.040 fluid, bisexual, and then one simply for progress.

01:22:09.100 And these couches all had different things, themes to them.

01:22:13.160 You know what's weird?

01:22:13.780 All of my couches are asexual.

01:22:15.740 Are they?

01:22:16.220 Yeah.

01:22:16.540 You don't have sex on any of them?

01:22:18.040 Well, I, I mean, I try to, and then that doesn't work out.

01:22:21.620 But I will say the couch itself.

01:22:22.660 Maybe that was too much information.

01:22:23.800 I'm not sure.

01:22:24.460 The couch itself has no preference at all.

01:22:27.540 None.

01:22:27.900 Seems to not be interested in sex whatsoever.

01:22:30.080 That's weird.

01:22:30.680 Yeah.

01:22:30.900 Never says anything about it.

01:22:32.740 Weird.

01:22:34.520 Uh, well, the bisexuals are, are confused by their couch because, you know, they come

01:22:39.420 in all these crazy colors and then they have some writings on them, some sayings.

01:22:43.180 And one of the sayings on the bisexual couch was, nobody believes you.

01:22:47.740 Wait, wait, what?

01:22:49.540 What?

01:22:50.540 Where'd that come from?

01:22:51.780 This is the Glenn Beck program.

01:22:53.760 Um, gosh, I've missed him.

01:22:55.860 I've missed him.

01:22:56.480 Yeah.

01:22:56.680 I'd love to watch him again because it's been a while.

01:23:00.980 Yeah.

01:23:01.140 You know, since I've seen a lot of, uh, he doesn't dominate the news as he did.

01:23:07.180 No.

01:23:07.580 Which is, you know, of course, any president would be in that situation.

01:23:10.000 But now that he's not on social.

01:23:11.720 It's just fun to see him now.

01:23:12.560 Yesterday, he just, he doesn't, he just says things to him.

01:23:16.360 He says, yesterday he's like, we built this wall.

01:23:18.680 It was an impenetrable wall.

01:23:20.360 It's not an impenetrable wall.

01:23:22.540 And he's like, we, we, we almost finished it.

01:23:25.080 You didn't almost finish it.

01:23:27.800 What are you talking about?

01:23:29.380 Uh, you know, he just, I mean, look.

01:23:31.920 Well, they finished about 4% of it or so.

01:23:34.720 That's almost finished.

01:23:36.260 5% maybe.

01:23:36.700 Again, like, there's so much hyperbole with him.

01:23:39.020 Yeah.

01:23:39.480 It just built into his, his character.

01:23:42.420 Like, you, you know, every, you go back to the old, uh, uh, Selena Zito thing of you,

01:23:48.160 you take him, you don't take him literally, but you take him seriously.

01:23:51.440 Like, what he's saying is, we did a good job on the border much better than Joe Biden.

01:23:55.280 Which is true.

01:23:56.100 It's totally true.

01:23:57.160 Yes.

01:23:57.360 What he actually said about the border, if you break it down word by word, maybe not

01:24:02.240 as true, but whatever.

01:24:05.620 I mean, again, do people miss him?

01:24:07.800 The answer to that is yes.

01:24:08.960 Oh, yes.

01:24:09.340 What you are about to hear is the fusion of entertainment and enlightenment.

01:24:36.660 This is the Glenn Beck program.

01:24:42.660 And it's Pat and Stu for Glenn on the Glenn Beck program.

01:24:49.140 Uh, 888-727-BECK.

01:24:53.380 Uh, former President Trump speaking out again.

01:24:57.440 Uh, this is kind of interesting because in California, they have just, uh, allocated $500 million to thin out their forests in lieu of, uh, the upcoming wildfire season.

01:25:12.560 Huh?

01:25:13.320 What do you mean you're going to thin out your forests?

01:25:15.080 Why would you do that?

01:25:18.540 Another, another suggestion from, you know, I mean, obviously others, but President Trump made that suggestion and they were, they thought it was so ridiculous when he was in office.

01:25:28.460 How stupid is that?

01:25:29.900 We don't need to thin out the forest.

01:25:32.300 That brush is just great kindling.

01:25:35.540 Yeah, that's kind of the point.

01:25:36.980 Uh, we've got that and, uh, much more coming up in 60 seconds here.

01:25:45.400 The Glenn Beck program.

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01:25:54.220 If you've been paying attention at all lately, you've noticed that our schools are full of leftist, socialist ideologues who just want to push things like critical race theory on your children so they can raise them to be good, docile servants of the state.

01:26:07.160 Woke-ism, which is a stupid term, just a few years ago, it now dominates the guiding philosophy and our country's history is being ripped apart at the seams so we can pretend that we live in a terrible racist nation that was founded on the preservation of slavery.

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01:26:55.920 Another fascinating situation is, uh, what's going on in New York City right now with the mayoral race?

01:27:02.260 Um, so, it's just so.

01:27:05.800 Embarrassing.

01:27:06.340 I mean, according to the Democrats, uh, at least during this last election cycle, uh, there's nothing that can go wrong with voting.

01:27:15.480 Shut up.

01:27:16.220 There's no problem there.

01:27:17.840 There's no problem with the ballots.

01:27:19.460 There's no problem with the system.

01:27:21.460 And then what happens in New York in the very next election?

01:27:26.000 Uh, problems with ballots.

01:27:28.000 These test ballots.

01:27:29.480 What was it?

01:27:29.840 135,000 of them?

01:27:31.640 Unbelievable.

01:27:32.440 Left in the machine and counted?

01:27:34.240 Yeah.

01:27:35.200 Uh-oh.

01:27:35.680 And what I find to be fascinating about this is they are trying to blame this on ranked choice voting, when in reality, they're just a bunch of morons.

01:27:46.320 Like, ranked choice voting didn't make you put test ballots in the actual vote count.

01:27:53.980 That's not ranked choice voting's problem.

01:27:57.220 If you've never done ranked choice voting, if you don't have it in your area, basically, it's the idea that you have, let's say, there's 10 candidates running for mayor.

01:28:05.880 Instead of just picking the one you want the best, the one you want the most, you would pick and rank your top five.

01:28:13.260 So you'd say, okay, I want this one the most, but if I can't get them, I get this person, and you rank them one to five.

01:28:17.780 This is not brain surgery here.

01:28:21.180 This is pretty freaking easy, and anybody who can't handle it is a moron.

01:28:26.920 Enter New York City, who apparently is filled with a bunch of morons, at least in the Democratic Party, because they, it really has nothing to do with the voting system.

01:28:36.380 It has to do with them screwing up, but basically, the way they do it is you go in, you vote for your number one, and if, let's say, your number one is in last place, well, then, your votes go from your number one candidate.

01:28:49.320 They go to your second choice.

01:28:50.900 The concept here is interesting, and I like ranked choice voting overall, because it gives you a chance to vote.

01:28:56.940 I've never had the chance to do it.

01:28:58.220 It's really, I...

01:28:58.840 Have you had ranked choice?

01:29:00.040 I've never done it, but I've followed its progression throughout the country, and it's been popping up.

01:29:05.700 Now, some conservatives don't like it, because the results sometimes don't work for you, right?

01:29:12.320 Like, are you, but are we looking at it from the results, or what the actual concept is?

01:29:16.600 And the concept, I think, is right, which is, basically, if we do live in a center-right country, as we claim to live in, I don't know if we still claim that, but if we do, overall, this should be good for conservatives long term.

01:29:31.540 A lot of times, these voting changes occur, and everyone thinks they're going to be bad for their side, so they oppose them.

01:29:39.060 We saw this in Georgia, right?

01:29:40.760 The runoff voting in Georgia that was implemented, and had been used in the Senate, was implemented not by Republicans, but by Democrats, who thought the reason they wanted to do it is because they thought they'd win every election until the end of time.

01:29:52.240 And now, with the exception of this most recent year, which was a bit of an outlier, they'd lost every single one of the runoffs, every one of them.

01:30:01.800 They thought they were going to win them all, and they lost them all for a very long time.

01:30:05.020 So, you can't look at how you think the result might come out.

01:30:09.500 The concept is, hey, I might like the Libertarian, or maybe there's a candidate who is even further to the right.

01:30:18.500 Maybe there's a nationalist candidate you like.

01:30:20.940 You get to put them number one, and there might be, like, a squishy Republican that you don't really like, and they're running for the Republican Party.

01:30:29.000 What do you do in this situation?

01:30:30.320 In normal situations, you'd have to pick either the moderate squish that I don't like, or the candidate I really do like, but I don't think is going to win.

01:30:41.600 This gives you the freedom to pick that person who you don't think is going to win, even though you think they're a better candidate, without feeling like you wasted your vote.

01:30:50.660 Because your vote will go to the better of the two main candidates at the end.

01:30:56.960 And in a center-right country, that probably works out pretty well for Republicans at the end.

01:31:03.280 In theory, yeah.

01:31:03.860 In theory.

01:31:04.580 But regardless of whether it works out well for Republicans in the end, it still, I think, is a better telling of what the people really want.

01:31:15.240 You know?

01:31:16.240 It's not people trying to come up with this calculated way to vote.

01:31:19.860 It's not people trying to figure out how, well, if I vote for him, am I taking my vote away from this person?

01:31:26.340 Like, you know, there's a lot of votes who went to Gary Johnson, for example, back when he was running for a libertarian against, say, the Trump-Clinton election.

01:31:33.820 You know, if people, if there was ranked choice voting, they could have put Gary Johnson 1 and Donald Trump 2.

01:31:40.080 Right?

01:31:40.300 So, when Johnson was eliminated, those votes would go to Trump.

01:31:44.260 I mean, again, this is not brain surgery.

01:31:46.600 But New York is trying to turn it into brain surgery.

01:31:49.340 And they made the explanations incredibly dumb and complicated.

01:31:53.560 So, no one in the city understands it.

01:31:55.840 And then, now, the representatives and the election officials in the city have just screwed up.

01:32:03.600 Basically, they've taken fake votes and put them in with the real votes.

01:32:06.960 And they've admitted it now.

01:32:08.880 They screwed it up.

01:32:10.040 That has nothing to do with ranked choice voting.

01:32:11.660 That's just them being idiots.

01:32:13.080 And it was 135,000 of them.

01:32:15.660 Yes.

01:32:15.960 So, it's a really significant number that changed the election.

01:32:19.140 Yeah.

01:32:19.740 Completely.

01:32:20.100 And it's, you know, and now we might not know who's going to win until mid-July.

01:32:25.360 Which is, again, not the fault of ranked choice voting.

01:32:29.640 It's the fault of Democrats who came out and have made the argument for the past year

01:32:34.320 that you should be able to send in absentee ballots weeks after the election is over.

01:32:41.300 Now, I don't understand why it is wrong to suggest that if you want to send in an absentee ballot,

01:32:54.840 you should maybe make sure the ballot arrives before the election.

01:33:00.760 That is not, again, not brain surgery.

01:33:03.520 You should be able to get a piece of mail to a location on time.

01:33:08.240 That is not hard.

01:33:10.160 Especially when it's something that's required every few years.

01:33:13.620 Is this really that difficult?

01:33:15.360 We all pay bills and they have to show up on time.

01:33:18.260 If it shows up three weeks late, the credit card company says we're fining you or we're giving you a fee or whatever.

01:33:26.760 The American people are able to send in mail on time.

01:33:30.180 But because the Democratic Party has made this argument that it's essentially shutting down voters' rights

01:33:37.280 and hurting minorities who apparently don't know how to use the mail or something.

01:33:43.380 Yeah.

01:33:43.560 Well, they can't get online either.

01:33:45.220 They can't get online.

01:33:46.000 They can't get the ballot.

01:33:47.980 They don't know how to send it in on time.

01:33:50.000 No.

01:33:50.460 They don't know where the DMV is, so they can't get ID.

01:33:53.060 They can't get ID.

01:33:53.960 But we're the racists.

01:33:55.200 The Republicans, the conservatives are the racists.

01:33:58.620 When they're saying that about minorities, how does this stuff work?

01:34:03.700 And so they made this big argument that the only way an election can be just

01:34:10.860 is if we count ballots multiple weeks after the election occurs.

01:34:17.620 Okay.

01:34:18.420 Well, now you've made that argument.

01:34:20.100 I mean, you made it in states all across the country.

01:34:22.840 So now you have to stick to it.

01:34:24.480 And that's why the election results won't be known until mid-July.

01:34:28.860 It's got nothing to do with rank choice voting.

01:34:30.320 And the other option was, their old option was, they were going to have a whole new election

01:34:36.120 in this situation.

01:34:37.720 So they would just take all the results that came in from this last set of ballots

01:34:41.720 and then throw another election in a few weeks.

01:34:45.080 Like, that can't possibly be better.

01:34:47.940 One election is more than enough.

01:34:50.440 Just have the one.

01:34:51.300 So all of these people who are now running for their lives from the responsibility of

01:34:57.220 putting 130,000 oopsie ballots inside the machine, those people now are going to come

01:35:03.420 out and blame, I guess, rank choice voting as if it's the fault of all the numbers.

01:35:08.520 It's pathetic.

01:35:09.460 It's so pathetic.

01:35:10.760 It's absolutely pathetic.

01:35:12.440 They're going to turn out to be like Israel who are doing four elections in two years because

01:35:16.780 they can't get them right.

01:35:17.780 Yeah.

01:35:17.960 I will say, you watch the rest of the world and you say, okay, well, you know, our system

01:35:23.520 kind of sucks at times, but it's a hell of a lot better than what they're doing.

01:35:27.380 Yes.

01:35:27.920 I mean, Israel's like, yeah, I don't know.

01:35:29.760 Like, we can't tell who won.

01:35:31.240 Another election.

01:35:32.380 Everybody show up at the polls again in two weeks.

01:35:34.800 What?

01:35:35.700 What do you mean you can't put together a government?

01:35:37.720 What?

01:35:38.240 Wait.

01:35:39.860 So you're putting together a government every single time you have a vote on your prime

01:35:46.820 minister?

01:35:47.240 That's really...

01:35:48.860 Stop doing that.

01:35:50.380 Yeah.

01:35:50.620 That's just dumb.

01:35:51.220 Stop doing it.

01:35:52.060 That's dumb.

01:35:52.760 That's your problem.

01:35:53.800 Yeah.

01:35:54.660 Yeah.

01:35:55.520 It really is.

01:35:56.180 The whole parliamentary system is...

01:35:57.620 It's ridiculous.

01:35:58.500 It just seems to me that the person who's like the prime minister of your country shouldn't

01:36:02.940 be telling you when elections are going to happen.

01:36:05.620 They're like, oh, this is a risky move.

01:36:06.720 She's calling for a new election.

01:36:08.020 Okay.

01:36:08.380 But wait.

01:36:08.940 Why?

01:36:09.780 Right.

01:36:10.320 Why don't you just schedule them in advance?

01:36:13.700 Why is the prime minister calling for one?

01:36:16.220 I really don't understand how anyone could like this system.

01:36:19.440 I don't either.

01:36:19.980 It's absolutely bizarre.

01:36:22.200 888-727-BECK.

01:36:24.480 Also, President Trump went to the border.

01:36:29.660 And I think this is what prompted Kamala Harris's visit to the border late last week, is that

01:36:36.600 President Trump was going to make it to the border.

01:36:39.100 And I guess he made it yesterday.

01:36:41.380 And so he met with Texas Governor Abbott at the border.

01:36:47.840 And here's what he had to say.

01:36:50.020 The real question is, do they really want open borders or are they incompetent?

01:36:56.940 There's only two things.

01:36:58.140 You're either incompetent or for some reason you have a screw loose and you want to have open borders.

01:37:03.640 Now, the problem with the open borders is that countries are opening up their jails.

01:37:10.780 They're opening up their prisons.

01:37:12.540 You guys see this.

01:37:13.560 And they're letting all their prisoners out.

01:37:15.440 Do you notice their prison populations are way down?

01:37:18.580 They do it very slowly because they don't want people to know this.

01:37:21.620 But I know it.

01:37:22.240 And they're letting all of their murderers, rapists, drug dealers and human traffickers out.

01:37:29.800 And they're coming into the United States of America at a level like we've never seen.

01:37:35.860 They weren't coming in with us.

01:37:37.840 And in fact, one of the quick stories I tell is that when we first started, I said, get them out.

01:37:42.840 And I said to I said, really, more than anybody, I guess, to you, Mark, you and Tom, I said, get them the hell out.

01:37:50.880 The MS-13 gang members who they say are the worst in the world that they certainly might very well be.

01:37:57.180 I see what they do with knives where they cut them up into small people.

01:38:00.240 They cut people up into small pieces because it's more painful than using a gun.

01:38:04.640 I said, get them out.

01:38:05.980 And Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador would not accept the people under the Obama administration.

01:38:12.100 They wouldn't take the people.

01:38:13.820 So the people came back to me just, sir, I'm sorry, but they won't take them.

01:38:17.700 I said, who won't take them?

01:38:19.680 Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador.

01:38:21.940 They won't take the people back.

01:38:23.260 I said, oh, really?

01:38:24.660 Why?

01:38:25.020 They don't want them.

01:38:25.960 I said, OK, how much money do we pay them?

01:38:28.280 Sir, we pay them $500 million a year.

01:38:31.000 What does that have to do with it, sir?

01:38:32.420 I said, a lot.

01:38:33.540 We're not paying them anymore.

01:38:35.400 And then I got a call the next day from the heads of the three countries.

01:38:38.280 We would love to take MS-13 back.

01:38:40.340 They are wonderful people.

01:38:41.440 We'd love to have them back where they belong.

01:38:45.020 And why not?

01:38:46.480 Why not?

01:38:47.400 You know, if they won't cooperate with taking their own citizens back when we're deporting

01:38:54.420 them and we don't want their gang members here, why would you continue to give them the

01:38:59.540 foreign aid that they seek every single year?

01:39:02.340 That's just brilliant.

01:39:03.960 It's just a good way to do business, as far as I'm concerned.

01:39:06.740 And the media wants to sit back and criticize Trump and the Democrats want to say he was

01:39:10.420 doing this terrible job on the border.

01:39:12.180 We're seeing now what the alternative is, which is obviously much worse.

01:39:18.400 There's no argument here.

01:39:20.020 I mean, we can't even get the vice president to show up within a few hundred miles of it.

01:39:23.860 It's amazing.

01:39:24.160 I know I'm running this whole operation, supposedly, but you know what?

01:39:29.640 You know what?

01:39:30.200 I love the border town of Oklahoma City.

01:39:34.260 That sounds like a lot of fun.

01:39:36.280 Like, it's not, it's just like, it's so transparent that the left has caused chaos on the border

01:39:47.120 and the exact opposite treatment has come to them from the media.

01:39:53.640 They said Trump was causing all this chaos and now they're saying that Biden is in the

01:39:59.320 middle, with a few exceptions, I should say.

01:40:01.320 There are some exceptions to this, but basically they're accepting this.

01:40:04.260 It's not a crisis.

01:40:04.960 It's a challenge.

01:40:06.780 It's a challenge.

01:40:07.360 It's a border challenge.

01:40:08.480 Yeah.

01:40:08.780 You know, it's like, it's like a Taco Bell eating competition.

01:40:11.620 It's a, it's a run to the border challenge.

01:40:14.220 Who knows how it could turn out?

01:40:16.260 I ate six chalupas yesterday.

01:40:19.460 It's not the same.

01:40:20.860 Not, not exactly.

01:40:21.620 It's not the same.

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01:41:35.440 As you would expect, with former President Trump at the border, also CNN showed up and

01:41:43.060 Jim Acosta, who's not getting nearly enough attention now because Trump's gone, you know,

01:41:49.740 And nobody cares about Jim Acosta anymore.

01:41:52.680 Since January 20th, I don't think I've uttered the name Acosta.

01:41:57.740 I don't think I had either until today.

01:42:00.160 And the only reason I'm doing it today is because he's at the border with Trump hoping to get,

01:42:06.220 you know, his face and name out there again.

01:42:10.040 And so he's yelling at Trump about apologizing for January 6th.

01:42:15.640 Check this out.

01:42:16.440 Mr. Trump, will you apologize about January 6th?

01:42:23.220 Governor, I'm going to go ahead and do that.

01:42:28.060 Okay.

01:42:29.340 You are apologized for January 6th?

01:42:32.760 What do you expect him to say?

01:42:34.260 Yeah, I do.

01:42:34.960 Yeah.

01:42:35.360 Yeah.

01:42:36.020 Because I really tried to incite that violence.

01:42:38.340 So let me go ahead and do that.

01:42:40.540 That would be notable.

01:42:41.360 That would be notable, wouldn't it?

01:42:42.700 But he's just, it's a, it's a desperate plea for attention again from this guy.

01:42:48.820 Nobody cares about Jim Acosta with the exception of Jim Acosta.

01:42:54.000 Yeah.

01:42:54.280 I don't think, is he married?

01:42:55.680 If he's married, I don't think his wife even cares.

01:42:58.240 Oh, there's no way his wife cares.

01:42:59.460 No.

01:42:59.620 If he has, if he's married, his wife cares less than we do.

01:43:02.360 Yeah.

01:43:02.600 Oh, for sure.

01:43:03.380 You know?

01:43:03.940 Yeah.

01:43:04.120 I mean, it's got to be, imagine, imagine that's, imagine the relationship with a guy

01:43:08.200 who does his business like Jim Acosta does.

01:43:10.880 I mean, he just basically sat there for four years screaming questions that were not answered

01:43:15.900 and then publicizing himself on the internet for doing it.

01:43:19.280 And now that Trump's gone, they've lost all of their fuel.

01:43:23.180 It really is interesting to watch this entire industry collapse since Donald Trump has left

01:43:28.780 office.

01:43:29.160 The cable news industry basically is no more.

01:43:34.880 They've lost 70 and 80% of their audience.

01:43:37.860 They don't know what to talk about.

01:43:39.920 No, it really is.

01:43:41.560 It was a Trump centric world for those four years with people, you know, that worked on

01:43:48.060 CNN and MSNBC.

01:43:49.820 That's all they talked about.

01:43:50.860 It's all they cared about.

01:43:52.080 Every single story, no matter how disconnected to Donald Trump was always made about Donald

01:43:58.020 Trump.

01:43:58.660 Sure was.

01:43:58.900 Now, what do you say?

01:44:00.260 And, and like, it's funny because they all argued for him to be eliminated from social

01:44:04.200 media.

01:44:05.120 Well, now they don't have his tweets to talk about.

01:44:07.540 They don't have.

01:44:09.060 I think they regret a lot of what they did to get rid of him.

01:44:12.060 I remember saying during the, the, the campaign, be careful what you wish for CNN, because this

01:44:18.020 is what you built your, your stupid ratings on.

01:44:21.120 And when he's gone, you're not going to have ratings anymore.

01:44:23.560 And they don't, they don't at all.

01:44:25.460 I think they wanted him gone so badly that if you ask them, if you somehow found them

01:44:30.460 with truth serum and a quiet room and they told you the truth, they would tell you the

01:44:36.320 80% drop in ratings is worth it.

01:44:38.600 Is worth it.

01:44:39.000 We wanted him out that badly, but it is.

01:44:41.480 That's how much they hate him.

01:44:42.320 That's how much they hate him.

01:44:43.560 But that's, that being said, it still is that consequential to their, to their viewership.

01:44:49.460 No one is watching these shows anymore.

01:44:51.480 No one.

01:44:52.320 I love the headline on the, uh, uh, news aggregate website, spin quirk, uh, Chris Cuomo comes

01:44:57.380 in first place on CNN, right behind 14 Fox news shows and seven MSNBC shows.

01:45:05.200 Came in 22nd because they, nobody, nobody cares about Cuomo anymore.

01:45:11.520 Nobody cares about Jim Acosta anymore.

01:45:13.440 Nobody cares about CNN anymore.

01:45:15.840 The only notable things Chris Cuomo does are off the air, right?

01:45:19.520 Like he, he's either advising his brother on how to avoid me too charges or getting in

01:45:24.800 arguments with by people cycling by his house while he's got Corona virus.

01:45:29.980 Everything else he does is just a, he's just a boring dolt 99% of the time.

01:45:34.220 That's for sure.

01:45:35.800 Uh, amazing how nobody's talking about his brother's me too charges anymore.

01:45:41.840 Isn't it?

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01:47:27.120 We're filling in for Glenn here for a few days as he's on vacation far away from here.

01:47:31.980 And, uh, he's missing out on some, some big things.

01:47:35.820 Like we were going to have a January 6th commission after all.

01:47:38.660 But yeah, yeah, that'll be great on it.

01:47:46.900 Yeah.

01:47:47.300 It's going to be really exciting.

01:47:48.500 Now this one's done by the Democrats in Congress.

01:47:51.280 So it's not this, they were initially going for this special commission or bipartisan variety.

01:47:56.400 That's not going to happen.

01:47:58.220 Republicans did not get on board with that.

01:48:00.760 And for good reason.

01:48:01.520 And that obviously was not an honest attempt to get the information needed.

01:48:07.620 I am of the thought that there is information we can get from a commission looking into this.

01:48:15.360 If it was honest, this one isn't going to be honest, but I would like to know.

01:48:18.800 There's certainly questions like why the hell was the security so bad at the Capitol?

01:48:24.820 Why was this possible?

01:48:25.980 I mean, think about this for a second.

01:48:27.880 Yeah, this was a, you know, there was a mob, a lot of people, there were some people who were pretty bad in the mob.

01:48:32.400 A lot of people who were just, you know, there for the speech and didn't do much of anything.

01:48:37.160 What if it was a foreign group of terrorists that decided to do this?

01:48:43.900 What if, remember this is an announced rally down the street where they knew it was a contentious time.

01:48:50.620 They knew that a lot of these people obviously believe what was going on in the Capitol was very bad.

01:48:56.860 And they didn't prepare for it really at all.

01:48:59.960 What would happen if like a foreign terrorist group did try to go in and kill a bunch of our representatives?

01:49:06.080 I don't know.

01:49:06.900 Like that's the type of like a bad thing.

01:49:08.600 A really bad thing.

01:49:09.600 And like if we had an honest government and people who actually cared about the outcomes in these matters, you know, there would be reason to really look into this and get a report.

01:49:19.060 Why wasn't the National Guard out there in less than what was it, four hours?

01:49:23.620 Why did that take four hours?

01:49:25.020 That's insanity.

01:49:27.300 So there are reasons to look at this.

01:49:29.320 It's just not going to happen with a commission like this.

01:49:31.120 I mean, you look at the New York Times put out a documentary yesterday for about 40 minutes on January 6th.

01:49:39.780 And of course, obviously, you know, the Times is coming.

01:49:42.760 You know, the story they're telling.

01:49:44.020 I don't need to tell you in advance what story they're telling.

01:49:46.920 It was the worst event in American history.

01:49:48.820 Worst event in American history.

01:49:50.700 Now, so they don't spend any time on the people who were not violent.

01:49:55.520 There was, you know, I don't know how many people were at that particular rally, but thousands and thousands and thousands of people.

01:50:02.620 We've talked to many of them who were there and didn't even know any of this occurred.

01:50:05.880 There weren't any nonviolent people there, were there?

01:50:08.020 Yeah, shockingly, there was.

01:50:09.240 You know, with all the judging by all the piles of dead bodies, I wouldn't think there was a single nonviolent person.

01:50:14.420 I know.

01:50:14.740 It's shocking.

01:50:15.740 But a lot of people like went to the Trump speech and went back to their cars.

01:50:19.540 Yeah.

01:50:19.700 Like there's a lot of that.

01:50:20.800 And they don't, of course, don't show any of that.

01:50:22.260 And there are people who went to the Capitol and didn't go into the building.

01:50:25.520 There were also people who went to the Capitol, did go in the building, but didn't break anything or steal anything or hurt anybody.

01:50:31.860 Now, we do, because all of that, what you just said is true.

01:50:34.820 We do at times forget that there was a lot.

01:50:37.380 I mean, there were a lot of people.

01:50:39.000 There were some bad things that happened.

01:50:40.220 Who did do bad things.

01:50:41.120 Yeah.

01:50:41.380 It was an embarrassment.

01:50:42.700 Yeah.

01:50:42.960 I mean, 150 police officers were injured.

01:50:46.760 And like they have legit.

01:50:48.600 The Times does this thing very well.

01:50:51.660 If you go back and look at, for example, they did the exact same thing for the Las Vegas shooting.

01:50:59.200 And it's really a legitimately incredible thing to watch.

01:51:02.880 They have a zillion videos.

01:51:04.700 They kind of place them on a map.

01:51:06.620 So, you know exactly where they happened, where like this person was driving by this building.

01:51:10.400 You hear the shots going over their head.

01:51:12.300 You get views.

01:51:12.980 I mean, it really, when they do like actual journalism, you can get some value out of the New York Times occasionally.

01:51:20.300 This one is obviously much more partisan than the Las Vegas shooting was.

01:51:24.000 But they do have a lot of video.

01:51:26.040 And there are legitimately bad people, you know, bashing police officers over the head with stuff.

01:51:32.140 That doesn't mean that they died.

01:51:33.420 But still, like, I'm never, I don't give a crap about partisan nonsense when it comes to, if you're a person that hits a police officer over the head with something, screw you.

01:51:46.440 Yeah, you need to be, you need to be punished.

01:51:48.840 Yeah, I've had officers in my family.

01:51:51.100 These people risk their lives for us every day.

01:51:53.560 The same way that I don't care what you think about the George Floyd case.

01:51:59.660 Please don't throw a brick at a police officer.

01:52:02.780 I will stand by that till the day I freaking die.

01:52:06.240 The same thing with January 6th.

01:52:08.000 If you had a Trump flagpole and were bashing police officers over the head with it, screw you.

01:52:15.620 Honestly, I don't, I don't, it was not nothing.

01:52:20.480 That being said, what are they going to find in this report?

01:52:24.380 What are they going to do here?

01:52:26.080 You know, it's, was it an insurrection, some calculated attempt to take, to actually take over the government?

01:52:35.560 Were there, they have messages and they have a lot of people saying those types of things.

01:52:41.620 So it was not no one in the crowd.

01:52:43.980 It was not zero people in the crowd who were thinking that way.

01:52:46.560 There were some, but it was an overwhelming minority of, and almost all these people were unarmed.

01:52:52.880 How the hell did they think they were going to actually take control of the government, right?

01:52:56.220 Like, it was a riot.

01:52:57.780 The right way to say this is it was a riot.

01:53:01.060 It was unacceptable, but it was not what the Democrats are saying it was.

01:53:06.320 They are trying to make every grandmother who's in 300 miles of this thing and voted for Donald Trump into a criminal.

01:53:11.700 It's insane.

01:53:12.560 And while the, the, the, the events of the day, uh, might lead you to say, Hey, maybe we should be prepared for this next time.

01:53:25.160 And maybe we should take an honest view and look at how we can do that because obviously the way we're doing it now does not work.

01:53:33.740 That would be something that a commission might, a serious country with serious people and a serious government might look into and say, Hey, here's, here are the steps we should take next time.

01:53:46.920 Instead, they're just going to make this into a way to try to make January 6th into a date you remember like 9-11, right?

01:53:55.020 It was the worst thing that had ever happened to us.

01:53:57.100 And despite the fact that the, the business of the government continued on the same day, also January 6th, kind of indicating maybe it wasn't, you know, Pearl Harbor or 9-11.

01:54:13.380 It was a bad day, but it was not what they're trying to make it out to be.

01:54:17.600 They want to make that out to be the only thing that's happened.

01:54:19.940 And I would be, I think that was a really legitimate request by Republicans who said, look, we'll do your bipartisan commission.

01:54:27.720 It's great, but we're going to do it.

01:54:29.660 And we're also going to look at the violence that happened over the summer when billions of dollars of damage were done.

01:54:36.340 When way more people were killed, far more death occurred in those riots than the one that happened on January 6th.

01:54:45.460 The far bigger loss of property.

01:54:46.960 Yeah.

01:54:47.580 Much more damage.

01:54:48.940 Yeah.

01:54:49.160 People died all over the place.

01:54:51.940 And there were federal buildings that were attacked.

01:54:55.280 It was government stuff as well as just property as they like try to demean, you know, of someone's life's work and their local business.

01:55:02.380 Huge swaths of American cities actually taken over by mobs.

01:55:06.800 Yeah.

01:55:07.160 By mobs.

01:55:07.620 And they act as if that should be investigated too.

01:55:10.000 I would like to know what is the truth there?

01:55:12.860 Yeah.

01:55:13.160 What, you know, what groups, where did they get the money for?

01:55:15.440 Totally legitimate.

01:55:16.280 What they were doing.

01:55:17.660 How about the money that was raised by, you know, one of the people serving in the administration who was tweeting out links to bail the criminals out of jail?

01:55:27.880 Huh.

01:55:28.700 Why was that?

01:55:29.760 Who would do that?

01:55:30.820 How was that set up?

01:55:32.200 Kamala Harris.

01:55:32.340 Who would set up?

01:55:33.740 Kamala Harris.

01:55:34.500 Who would do that?

01:55:35.660 Not Kamala Harris.

01:55:36.800 Kamala Harris?

01:55:37.700 What?

01:55:37.940 Why would you say Kamala Harris?

01:55:40.100 Oh, she's laughing.

01:55:41.060 I can't believe it.

01:55:42.140 I would like to know that.

01:55:43.060 I think that's part of this, right?

01:55:44.320 It's part of political violence in the same time frame.

01:55:48.160 It's totally reasonable to look into that.

01:55:50.140 Yeah.

01:55:50.420 And instead, it's...

01:55:52.320 Oh, how dare you?

01:55:53.860 Yeah.

01:55:54.600 They're seen as totally different events.

01:55:56.420 And you know what the real truth of this is?

01:55:58.100 At least in large extent, I think.

01:56:01.240 The truth of the reason why they weren't prepared for January 6th is because they had seen 9 billion conservative-leaning rallies not go awry.

01:56:14.060 And they probably thought, you know what?

01:56:17.280 Yep.

01:56:17.700 There's always people who are saying stuff like this.

01:56:20.420 You can always find somebody online who says, we need to take...

01:56:23.020 That's our house.

01:56:23.680 Let's take back our house.

01:56:25.140 All right.

01:56:25.640 We've seen this a zillion times.

01:56:26.660 The bottom line is, these rallies have occurred all over the country for a really long time.

01:56:31.520 And there's never been a problem like this.

01:56:32.860 And there's never been a problem like this.

01:56:34.180 So, they probably thought they were going to be fine.

01:56:37.480 And in reality, you can't sit...

01:56:40.540 You have to be able to be prepared for these situations in the off chance they do occur.

01:56:44.620 But when the left marches, these things go awry all the time.

01:56:48.540 Mm-hmm.

01:56:49.240 And so, you need to prepare for everybody like you prepare for the left, I guess.

01:56:54.040 Yeah.

01:56:54.240 But there's no answers in a commission like this.

01:56:57.760 There's just not going to be any.

01:56:59.260 And, you know, they put...

01:57:00.720 Liz Cheney's going to be on the commission.

01:57:02.560 She's accepted the invitation from Pelosi.

01:57:05.780 Not going to win her any friends in the Republican Party, obviously.

01:57:08.320 For sure.

01:57:08.580 They're saying they're going to strip her committee assignments over it.

01:57:14.740 So, I mean, they're going to claim it's a bipartisan thing because Liz Cheney's on there.

01:57:19.600 And obviously, Liz Cheney has her mind made up on this one.

01:57:22.580 And that's fine.

01:57:23.140 She has a right to her opinion.

01:57:24.540 But, you know, we can't act as if this is some bipartisan fair commission.

01:57:28.560 It's not going to be.

01:57:29.740 It's just going to be a way to make January 6th into the only thing you're supposed to think about.

01:57:34.280 And the only thing you're supposed to vote on.

01:57:36.020 And the only thing that's supposed to influence you.

01:57:38.940 And obviously, that's not the right way to think about our country right now.

01:57:42.000 We've got a lot of problems going on.

01:57:43.160 And ongoing Trump-related riots at the Capitol are not one of them.

01:57:48.340 That's not something that's just not going on.

01:57:52.780 You know, that was a one-off event, I think, in our history.

01:57:57.620 Well, and they acted like it was going to happen again and again and again.

01:58:01.160 What was the next date that was supposed to be?

01:58:03.940 Was it March 4th or something?

01:58:05.180 Well, you had January 20th.

01:58:05.960 You had the actual inauguration.

01:58:07.660 You had a one date in March.

01:58:08.520 That's right.

01:58:09.360 Then 4th or something, 6th or whatever.

01:58:12.180 And nothing ever happened.

01:58:13.620 And I don't think anything was ever being planned.

01:58:16.660 Yeah.

01:58:17.000 Because it never came off.

01:58:18.160 You know, a lot of this comes back to the way you get to retroactively look at things

01:58:22.840 like social media.

01:58:24.260 You know, if something goes awry, yeah, you can go back and look at people who were talking

01:58:27.820 tough.

01:58:28.100 Everybody talks tough online.

01:58:30.040 I'm tired of it, but that's what everybody does.

01:58:32.280 Yeah.

01:58:32.660 You know, everybody's saying all these things.

01:58:34.600 And everybody says they're going to, you know, look at the left.

01:58:37.940 You tell me you can't.

01:58:39.220 Every time we look, we're able to find hundreds of people who say they're going to go burn down

01:58:43.320 buildings and take over the government and, you know, assassinate public figures.

01:58:48.160 It's all over the internet.

01:58:50.160 So after something happens, you can retroactively go back and prove any case you want.

01:58:55.520 But in reality, these things are always out there in a society that values free speech.

01:59:01.200 And all you can do is try to prepare yourself in case something bad does happen.

01:59:08.020 You know, yes, you can always.

01:59:10.020 I mean, think about if you went back to the days of like the 90s and there was real social

01:59:16.440 media back then, like what would Timothy McVeigh have on his Facebook page?

01:59:22.060 You'd be able to go back and say, this guy was saying this stuff on his Facebook page

01:59:26.220 over and over again.

01:59:27.560 And, you know, we're in a different era.

01:59:29.640 You can always go back and find people who say bad things, you know?

01:59:34.420 And look, the people who did those things, particularly the officers, should be, you should go after

01:59:41.320 them.

01:59:41.640 I have no problem with throwing the book at those people.

01:59:44.600 But, you know, what they're trying to do with this event is just, it's kind of like

01:59:49.640 left-wing fan fiction.

01:59:52.160 You know?

01:59:52.600 They're just trying to make this into this thing that it isn't.

01:59:55.880 It was a day that we should know and we should make sure that people who are responsible

02:00:03.300 for those bad things are prosecuted for them.

02:00:05.960 But, like, let's be honest about it for a second here.

02:00:08.900 And there's no ability to do that in the media.

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02:01:33.600 It's Pat and Stu for Glenn on the Glenn Beck Program.

02:01:37.460 Washington Post reporter has been accused of peddling some false information on DeSantis'

02:01:46.000 female response.

02:01:47.620 That's because the media lies.

02:01:50.520 That's why.

02:01:52.200 We just read a study, a poll on how many people trust the media around the world.

02:02:00.240 Like, you know, in Finland and I mean, 40, I think there was 49 countries and the least

02:02:07.600 trusted media in the world is here in the United States of America.

02:02:13.000 Good job, everybody.

02:02:14.480 We did it.

02:02:15.180 We're number 49.

02:02:17.500 We're 40.

02:02:18.620 Well, if you reverse the list, we're number one.

02:02:20.320 We're number one.

02:02:21.060 For least trusted.

02:02:21.960 In distrust.

02:02:23.240 And it's because of stuff like this.

02:02:25.340 Washington Post reporter Hannah Dreyer been accused of misleading people on DeSantis' response

02:02:32.600 to the residential building collapse.

02:02:35.220 Now, she says it took him 24 hours, over 24 hours to do anything about it.

02:02:39.860 Well, as soon as he got the request from the mayor, he signed it in less than an hour.

02:02:47.180 Less than an hour.

02:02:48.300 Well, 24 hours, one hour.

02:02:51.160 Is there really that much of a difference?

02:02:52.740 Yeah, 23 hours.

02:02:53.640 23 hours difference.

02:02:55.440 Well, just 24 times the amount, though.

02:02:58.300 Yeah, no, it's pretty bad.

02:02:59.620 It's bad.

02:03:01.240 Because, you know, I think it was Charles C.W. Cook who made this point, and it's a really

02:03:05.300 good point, which is you are a journalist and you go into this job as a journalist and

02:03:10.720 around you is a structure that's supposed to keep you essentially in line, right?

02:03:15.000 There's editors, there's people around there.

02:03:16.680 And what journalists have done have just gone to social media where they get the credibility

02:03:22.120 of being a journalist, but then don't have any of the controls around them.

02:03:26.960 Yeah.

02:03:27.060 So they just tweet things or whatever constantly with none of the trappings of editors or fact

02:03:33.540 checkers, but they still get the sort of prestige of being from the Washington Post.

02:03:39.860 That is a bad system.

02:03:42.200 It really is.

02:03:43.360 It is a bad system.

02:03:43.940 It has not turned out well, frankly.

02:03:45.960 All right.

02:03:47.160 We'll be back again tomorrow for Glenn, and we'll have some fun on Friday.

02:03:51.100 It's the Glenn Beck Program.

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