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00:00:10.840 It's Pat Gray and Stu Bergeer for Glenn on the Glenn Beck program.

00:00:15.880 He's still, you know, canoeing back from his Mediterranean crossing.

00:00:20.340 He was canoeing across the Mediterranean, something he's wanted to do forever.

00:00:24.480 And then when he's done crossing the Mediterranean, he's just going to canoe back here.

00:00:28.600 Which is, it's a long trip, but he should be back by Monday.

00:00:33.360 Yeah, I mean, he's a heck of a rower.

00:00:36.240 He really is.

00:00:37.340 It's impressive.

00:00:38.300 So hopefully by Monday he'll be back.

00:00:43.240 So we've got this mass of humanity heading for the U.S. border.

00:00:50.060 Originated, I guess, in Honduras and then picked up a bunch of people in Guatemala.

00:00:54.940 And there's some more people waiting for him in Mexico.

00:00:56.880 And who knows how big this caravan is going to be by the time he gets here.

00:01:00.540 But the president is asking, in some stern words, for the governments along the way to maybe do something about this.

00:01:11.800 And maybe stop the caravan.

00:01:14.300 And, of course, that's hateful.

00:01:16.140 It's a questionable tactic, I would say.

00:01:19.380 To send the military to?

00:01:20.820 No, not our response, but the actual caravan itself.

00:01:25.120 It is.

00:01:25.620 I don't understand what the point of these things are.

00:01:28.820 It seems like every year or so we have another one of these stories.

00:01:32.140 Yeah.

00:01:32.660 And it's certainly not something that's going to influence the type of progress you would theoretically want if you are a migrant from Central America wanting to come to the United States.

00:01:43.700 Yeah, you're talking from their mindset.

00:01:45.600 Yeah.

00:01:45.800 Right?

00:01:46.040 From their point of view.

00:01:47.000 It does seem strange that they're doing it this way.

00:01:50.020 It does not seem like it works, right?

00:01:51.600 I mean, just all it does is, you know.

00:01:54.240 It makes people angry who don't want people just thinking they can break into the country illegally.

00:01:59.960 Yeah.

00:02:00.280 And especially when you're doing it thousands at a time.

00:02:03.480 That makes it even worse, it would seem to me.

00:02:06.660 Yeah, I mean, because this is why you hear about the dreamers all the time, Pat.

00:02:11.740 The dreamers.

00:02:12.500 The people who dream.

00:02:13.640 People who've just created a dream and they've dreamed it here in the United States.

00:02:17.460 And all they want to do is continue their dream dreaming here in dreamland.

00:02:20.880 That's all they want is a dream.

00:02:22.500 Dreamy dreamers.

00:02:23.380 Dreamy dreamers.

00:02:24.480 And you hear about dreamy dreamers because they have stories that are largely compelling in a one-on-one basis, right?

00:02:32.000 You know, they pick, they know, of course, they don't pick the, they came here at 17 and 11 months and have been breaking the law for 15 years.

00:02:41.780 They pick the kid.

00:02:42.740 And there are some examples of this where there's a kid who's, you know, four years old.

00:02:46.260 It comes across with their parent, as the phrase is, no fault of their own, which is true when you're four years old.

00:02:53.300 And there's a compelling case there.

00:02:54.860 And I think a lot of people are open to that case.

00:02:56.740 Even if you.

00:02:57.760 I think if you're four, you're mature enough to say, hey, mom, dad, I'm not doing this.

00:03:03.480 This is wrong.

00:03:04.680 You know what?

00:03:04.980 You're not dragging me illegally across that border.

00:03:06.760 I'm not doing it.

00:03:07.360 Have you guys looked at U.S. law?

00:03:08.720 Come on.

00:03:09.060 Because we're breaking it.

00:03:10.260 Right now.

00:03:11.200 Right now.

00:03:11.820 We're going.

00:03:13.160 Usually that doesn't happen when you're four.

00:03:14.660 So, I mean, there's a compelling case there.

00:03:17.060 When you talk about 4,000 people coming across the border, that's just a mass.

00:03:21.680 You can't look at those people individually or it's hard to, I think, for the average American.

00:03:25.640 Because this is just, this is not a situation where there's a person who came across the border in a situation where they necessarily weren't making a decision to violate the law.

00:03:37.260 These are 4,000 people intentionally telling you days in advance, weeks in advance, that what our goal is, is to come break the law.

00:03:47.280 And that is, there's just not a, there's not a lot of sympathy, I think, from even Americans who are open to, to border reform and immigration reform.

00:03:56.960 Yeah.

00:03:57.760 It's just a weird tactic.

00:03:59.000 And to do it three weeks before an election, it's almost like Donald Trump was like, hey, guys, would you mind creating a caravan and sending it this way?

00:04:07.520 And what I will do is I will talk about it and it will help us win this election.

00:04:11.300 And then afterwards, you guys can go back home.

00:04:13.000 We'll play for your bus.

00:04:14.000 I was reading about the makeup of the caravan, too, earlier.

00:04:17.320 Some of them are children with their parents.

00:04:21.060 Many of them are children unaccompanied by their parents.

00:04:24.420 So, I try to figure out, all right, how did that occur at home?

00:04:30.800 Did you, did the parents just say, hey, you know what?

00:04:33.020 It's time for you to walk to the United States and I want you to walk in that group of people.

00:04:38.560 And here's a guy I'm paying $7,000 to walk, you know, somewhere in the group with you and he'd get you across the border.

00:04:44.620 Is that what you're doing or are you just, you're entrusting your children to who knows what?

00:04:50.500 Where is the personal responsibility of the parents here?

00:04:53.300 Yeah, I mean, there's got to be some.

00:04:54.960 There is.

00:04:55.260 And I think their case would be, or at least the case the left would make on their behalf would be, you know, things are so bad in Honduras or Guatemala.

00:05:04.780 I mean, they could get a lot worse.

00:05:05.880 You can be killed on the way here.

00:05:08.520 You could be molested on the way here.

00:05:11.340 Somebody may not be there on the other side of the border.

00:05:14.040 You, I mean, there's so many things that could go wrong.

00:05:16.760 You talk about helicopter parents.

00:05:18.580 I mean, that's pretty much the opposite.

00:05:20.820 Like, hey, good luck.

00:05:21.960 It's the same thing.

00:05:22.600 We talked about this yesterday.

00:05:23.740 You know, letting my kid walk, who's seven, walk the dog up the street, not the whole street, but part of the street without me, you know, hawking over him the entire time makes me as a parent freak out.

00:05:35.680 I've told this story a few times.

00:05:37.160 You know, we live in a neighborhood at the end of our block.

00:05:40.980 Look, there's a giant pond there in a green area.

00:05:45.080 It's common to everybody in the neighborhood.

00:05:47.760 And when my daughter was 16, she said, hey, dad, I'm just, I'm going to walk down to the pond.

00:05:52.400 Like, alone?

00:05:54.940 Without your brother?

00:05:56.820 No.

00:05:59.220 I mean, when I stop and think about how, you know, pretty protective.

00:06:05.760 Yeah, exactly.

00:06:08.000 I don't let him walk down to the end of the block, let alone, hey, why don't you walk to Honduras with a group of people that I don't know?

00:06:15.360 Good luck.

00:06:16.340 Now, look, there are situations you could argue, right?

00:06:18.920 Like, if you were in, you know, you're in North Korea, right, and you had a chance to get your kid out, you probably pulled the trigger on that whether you ever see them again or not, right?

00:06:27.280 There's a certain level of this.

00:06:28.560 And that's not to say that none of the people in these situations are like this.

00:06:33.360 There probably are some.

00:06:35.340 But it's just, you try to, it's the same thing with the dreamers, right?

00:06:39.160 They try to give you the picture of everyone as a four-year-old who came across the border.

00:06:43.060 And in reality, like, most of them are teenagers.

00:06:45.200 Most of them were 16 and 17 years old.

00:06:48.260 This is a different, it's a different story.

00:06:50.920 And you just wonder, first of all, why you would do this, because it's a gift to Donald Trump.

00:06:55.360 If you want to talk about hardening the borders, this is an easy way to get people together to do that.

00:07:02.500 When people hear a story like this, it does not soften their hearts.

00:07:06.180 It makes people say, whoa, this, you know, because the word invasion gets used with illegal immigration sometimes from people who oppose it, you know, in a hawkish manner, right?

00:07:17.480 And, you know, like.

00:07:18.500 And 4,000 people can kind of qualify.

00:07:20.380 Right, like 4,000 people coming across the border, whether you like it or not, feels like an invasion.

00:07:25.680 Right?

00:07:25.940 It feels like.

00:07:27.220 It does.

00:07:27.840 They're just top.

00:07:28.680 Like, what they're talking, the only way they could do anything here is overrunning what we have.

00:07:33.020 Right?

00:07:33.240 Like, overrunning the security.

00:07:35.200 They're either coming in the right way or they're overrunning security.

00:07:39.320 And you see that Mexico does not want to deal with this, but they know that they're not the end location.

00:07:45.920 So they can let them into Mexico and say, well, you guys apply for asylum, and in six months you come back for that hearing, and of course they're just going to keep walking north.

00:07:56.820 And it's interesting how other countries deal with this, and yet the vitriol directed at us for trying to deal with it in just even a fairly reasonable way.

00:08:09.960 Every time we do, we're hateful, we're uncaring, we're racist, whereas Mexico certainly protects their border.

00:08:18.560 Do you remember what Felipe Calderon said when he came to the United States and he was trying to influence our immigration policy?

00:08:24.920 Of course.

00:08:25.320 If somebody sneaks in from Nicaragua or some other country in Central America through the southern border of Mexico, they wind up in Mexico.

00:08:32.480 They can go get a job.

00:08:34.000 They can work.

00:08:35.060 If somebody do that without permissions, we send back them.

00:08:39.860 They send back them.

00:08:41.360 They send back them.

00:08:42.220 If they do it without permissions, they send back them.

00:08:45.420 But we can't.

00:08:46.880 We're expected to just accept everybody.

00:08:49.520 We don't know who they are.

00:08:50.640 We don't know what they're doing.

00:08:51.660 We don't know what they bring to us.

00:08:53.480 Mexico has a pretty stiff immigration law.

00:08:56.020 They've got a streamlined law that ensures foreign visitors and immigrants are in the country legally, have the means to sustain themselves economically.

00:09:08.040 They're not destined to be burdens on society.

00:09:10.920 They are of economic and social benefit to society.

00:09:14.840 Wait, you expect your immigrants to contribute?

00:09:18.580 They're of good character, no criminal background, and they're contributors to the general welfare and well-being of the nation.

00:09:27.380 They make sure that they don't have any sort of criminal record.

00:09:33.060 They make sure they do have visas.

00:09:35.100 They make sure that they ban foreign visitors from interfering in the country's internal politics.

00:09:43.100 Can you think of it?

00:09:44.780 I mean, how many illegal immigrant protests have there been where they're waving the Mexican flags in our faces, where they're demanding rights that they think they have coming to them?

00:09:57.180 In Mexico, you can't even interfere in their internal politics.

00:10:03.700 Plus, if they think that you're going to throw off the balance of their demographics, they deport you.

00:10:11.860 I mean, that's plainly racist, right?

00:10:15.600 Yes.

00:10:15.680 I mean, that is not an argument there.

00:10:18.220 We would never.

00:10:19.180 Never.

00:10:19.480 You can't do that.

00:10:20.140 No, you can't do that, and nor should you.

00:10:21.760 You shouldn't be like, well, I would like this percentage of African Americans and this percentage of white people.

00:10:25.080 We want to make sure we're still 70 or 80 percent.

00:10:28.060 Yeah, I mean, that's sick.

00:10:29.120 Would you?

00:10:29.620 I wouldn't.

00:10:30.300 I can't think of one Trump supporter who would support a policy where we had to keep the exact same percentages of white people versus other races.

00:10:41.100 What you want are people who are productive, who are here because they want to be here and be part of the society, who are going to add something to our community instead of taking things from it.

00:10:50.140 Right.

00:10:50.580 I mean, that's what you want.

00:10:51.700 The hypocrisy is mind-boggling.

00:10:53.080 That really is incredible.

00:10:54.360 It's mind-boggling.

00:10:55.040 It really is.

00:10:55.620 It's border security for me, but not for thee.

00:10:58.720 And that is not a – that's incredible.

00:11:01.960 I mean, that's an incredible line there that they draw.

00:11:06.320 It is.

00:11:06.740 Because, you know, it's not the right thing, and it's political – look, the bottom line is we have a lot of illegal immigrants here.

00:11:14.000 There will be more that are coming.

00:11:15.580 We need to tighten that up.

00:11:17.440 That is a completely – it's a larger argument that needs to be addressed, and we've, you know, been talking about it for years and years.

00:11:23.220 But politically speaking, you've got three weeks to a midterm election.

00:11:28.200 There's no – look, this is a complete gift to the Republicans, to people who care about the border, to people who have any – to Donald Trump and the people he's supporting.

00:11:39.400 It's a gift.

00:11:40.180 It is, and he's telling Republicans that.

00:11:43.000 Yeah.

00:11:43.220 Saying, hey, use this.

00:11:44.440 Use it.

00:11:45.120 In your election campaign.

00:11:47.360 Start talking about immigration.

00:11:48.640 Because I haven't heard any of them doing that.

00:11:53.040 Are any of the Republican candidates using immigration?

00:11:56.140 Not that I've heard.

00:11:57.100 I mean, maybe someone somewhere is.

00:11:59.660 But it doesn't seem to be a general theme for the party.

00:12:02.100 Yeah, I did hear Cruz talking about it in the debate.

00:12:04.280 I don't think – I don't know that he mentioned the caravan per se, but, I mean, he was talking a lot about border security.

00:12:09.700 I mean, there's a really close race in Arizona, a race where McSally has, I think, a great chance of winning, where people – because her opponent there is, like, if you took Michael Moore and put him – his brain into a female body of a congresswoman, you would have all of these tapes that they've been finding about her.

00:12:30.620 Where she's saying, you know, she's bashing Arizona.

00:12:33.400 Oh, yeah.

00:12:33.760 She's saying it's the meth lab of democracy.

00:12:36.060 She's saying people are crazy in Arizona.

00:12:38.700 She's talking about how – I mean, she's on 9-11 truther shows.

00:12:43.640 I mean, she is – as – it's incredible that they decided to run her and thought that this stuff would not come out.

00:12:50.320 But, and McSally is – you know, you're talking about one of the first female pilots in history of the Air Force, incredibly accomplished, has a great chance of winning in a tough environment in Arizona.

00:13:03.820 Adding on this situation where, you know, you basically have a code pink worker, a code pink staffer is running for Senate in Arizona.

00:13:12.940 And it was a huge mistake, I think, for her to be there.

00:13:16.760 Was she literally with code pink, or you're just saying she's that ill.

00:13:20.300 She's memorizing her views.

00:13:21.060 I don't know exactly.

00:13:21.760 She's been with a lot of these left-wing extreme groups.

00:13:26.080 That's amazing.

00:13:26.880 In the early 2000s.

00:13:27.840 To the point where, again, like, she, like, co-hosted a show with someone who's a 9-11 truther.

00:13:33.560 Wow.

00:13:33.920 For a while.

00:13:35.180 That's, like –

00:13:36.060 It's crazy.

00:13:36.600 Bonkers over the line, right?

00:13:38.280 And the fact that you have a really solid candidate there in Arizona, and it's a border state.

00:13:43.140 It's a big deal there.

00:13:44.360 Texas is another one.

00:13:45.300 The Cruz, you know, Cruz has got a lead there.

00:13:47.480 But, I mean, he's always been talking about border security.

00:13:49.780 But, again, look at the other side of that.

00:13:52.540 Yeah.

00:13:52.840 With Beto.

00:13:53.900 He doesn't want a wall.

00:13:55.340 He doesn't – I don't know that he even wants a border, frankly.

00:13:58.220 Yeah.

00:13:58.640 It doesn't seem like it.

00:14:00.420 And he's made a big deal out of it.

00:14:02.200 Some of his ads are like, let's protect the dreamers.

00:14:05.740 Let's protect the dreamers.

00:14:07.780 And you know what that means?

00:14:08.640 It means amnesty for everybody.

00:14:11.400 It doesn't stop with the dreamers.

00:14:12.960 And I think everybody who has watched this battle for the last 15 or 20 years knows it doesn't stop with the dreamers.

00:14:20.740 They're going to – they want amnesty for all illegals here.

00:14:24.720 All illegals.

00:14:25.660 Because you can't just say, all right, the dreamers can stay.

00:14:29.140 Well, what about their parents?

00:14:30.400 Okay, yes, they can stay.

00:14:31.620 What about their cousins?

00:14:32.960 Okay.

00:14:33.720 It's the whole chain thing that Trump talks about from time to time.

00:14:37.080 That's what will happen if you grant them amnesty.

00:14:38.960 And amnesty.

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00:16:02.420 Just talking about the Ted Cruz, Beto O'Rourke.

00:16:06.520 And for some reason, everybody, I guess including him, really emphasize it's Beto O'Rourke.

00:16:15.900 It's not Beto.

00:16:17.000 No, it's not Beto.

00:16:17.700 It's Beto O'Rourke.

00:16:19.620 So, anyway, that race continues to be pretty interesting.

00:16:24.980 Right now, it looks like Cruz has this pretty well in hand.

00:16:29.580 Right now.

00:16:30.340 He's up by seven, I think, on the average.

00:16:32.800 Yeah, he is up about by seven.

00:16:35.120 He, of course, is a deep Hispanic roots.

00:16:39.140 If you don't know what Beto is, it's a deep Hispanic nickname for this deeply Hispanic man

00:16:44.620 whose name, Robert Francis O'Rourke, might not signify to you how Hispanic he is,

00:16:50.760 which is why he's called Beto.

00:16:52.220 Right.

00:16:52.580 Beto.

00:16:53.300 Right.

00:16:54.080 But, yeah, he was, I mean, I assume he probably was a dreamer, right?

00:16:58.600 He probably came here.

00:16:59.840 You would assume that.

00:17:01.480 He was in Ireland and dreamed of coming to the United States and then came here and became Hispanic.

00:17:06.080 And I think he believed he was until the Hispanic caucus said, no, you're not Hispanic.

00:17:11.420 That's not how this works.

00:17:12.380 So, even the nickname didn't get him in.

00:17:14.120 I don't know.

00:17:15.380 That's weird, right?

00:17:16.060 Again, racism.

00:17:17.160 Exactly.

00:17:17.740 Here is Beto addressing his nickname.

00:17:21.040 Congressman, throughout the campaign, you have been attacked for being what Don Jr.

00:17:24.380 has called an Irish guy pretending to be Hispanic.

00:17:27.580 So, what does the Hispanic community mean to you and what relationships do you have with

00:17:30.620 that community?

00:17:31.740 So, to clarify the question about my name, I was born Robert Francis O'Rourke, son of Pat

00:17:37.740 Francis O'Rourke, who was the son of John Francis O'Rourke, father to Ulysses Francis

00:17:42.280 O'Rourke, who will go as UFO for much of his life.

00:17:47.440 And from day one in El Paso, and you know this in McAllen, if you are born Robert or Albert

00:17:53.380 or Gilbert or Humberto, your folks, your friends, your community calls you Beto.

00:17:58.760 That's my nickname that I've gone by for my entire life.

00:18:03.380 Born and raised in the fourth generation in El Paso in a community that is more than 80%

00:18:09.340 Mexican-American.

00:18:11.860 First of all, I'm just, you know, I'm not Hispanic.

00:18:14.500 No one calls me any name other than Stu at this point, which isn't even my name either.

00:18:21.880 You can criticize me the same way you can talk about Beto, because that's actually not my

00:18:25.060 name.

00:18:25.260 My name's Steve.

00:18:26.820 And inexplicably, I am called Stu.

00:18:29.740 Thanks a lot to Glenn Beck for that one.

00:18:31.940 But what I would say there is, first of all, it's just an inefficient process.

00:18:35.120 I don't mean to criticize the culture of the Hispanic people, but if you have, if it's

00:18:41.980 true what Beto is saying, which is anyone who's named any of four names are all called

00:18:47.420 Beto.

00:18:47.960 Is that true?

00:18:48.880 No.

00:18:49.700 Everyone who's called Albert is called Beto?

00:18:52.900 No.

00:18:53.240 Everyone?

00:18:54.000 Really?

00:18:54.340 Everybody born in El Paso that's of Irish-American descent and named Robert Francis, they're called

00:19:02.900 Beto, all of them?

00:19:04.720 No, it's not true.

00:19:05.660 I would love to know if we could go and find an actual Robert in El Paso.

00:19:10.020 Do any exist?

00:19:11.220 Maybe we could hear from somebody in El Paso.

00:19:13.000 If you were in El Paso or anywhere around there and your name is Robert, I'd love to

00:19:16.760 know if you exist, because what we were just told is, as everyone knows, if you happen

00:19:20.400 to grow up in El Paso and your name is Robert, Bill, Ted, Stanley, Orlando, or Reginald,

00:19:27.160 you're referred to as Beto.

00:19:29.820 That can't be true.

00:19:31.560 No, it can't.

00:19:32.240 It can't be true.

00:19:33.000 I don't think it can.

00:19:33.860 And I don't think it is.

00:19:35.980 I'm not saying it's not a common nickname in some communities.

00:19:38.240 It probably is.

00:19:38.880 But it wasn't his community.

00:19:39.700 And is it not cultural appropriation?

00:19:41.720 Did he not appropriate Hispanic culture?

00:19:43.800 Yeah.

00:19:44.600 How is that not a problem?

00:19:46.480 If that is a thing, this is an example of it.

00:19:49.460 Yes.

00:19:50.440 Now, I'm not going to sit here and tell you it's a thing, because I think it's a ridiculous

00:19:53.920 thing.

00:19:54.600 But I'm sure Beto would tell us it's a thing.

00:19:56.920 Yes.

00:19:57.440 Yes, he would.

00:19:58.780 All right.

00:19:59.100 And in the meantime, we'd love to hear from Roberts in El Paso or near El Paso or have

00:20:04.520 seen El Paso.

00:20:05.760 Are you Beto?

00:20:06.660 Glenn Beck.

00:20:08.500 Mercury.

00:20:08.940 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:20:14.620 Congressman, throughout the campaign, you have been attacked for being what Don Jr.

00:20:17.860 has called an Irish guy pretending to be Hispanic.

00:20:21.080 So what does the Hispanic community mean to you?

00:20:22.780 And what relationships do you have with that community?

00:20:24.560 So to clarify the question about my name, I was born Robert Francis O'Rourke, son of Pat

00:20:31.240 Francis O'Rourke, who was the son of John Francis O'Rourke, father to Ulysses Francis

00:20:35.800 O'Rourke, who will go as UFO for much of his life.

00:20:40.080 And from day one in El Paso, and you know this in McAllen, if you are born Robert or

00:20:46.500 Albert or Gilbert or Humberto, your folks, your friends, your community calls you Beto.

00:20:52.280 That's my nickname that I've gone by for my entire life.

00:20:56.840 Born and raised in the fourth generation in El Paso in a community that is more than 80%

00:21:02.860 Mexican-American.

00:21:04.640 Okay, so if you're born Robert, Albert, Gilbert, Humberto, Paul, Frank, Blaine, Biff, Dave,

00:21:22.180 Don, Jack, or Frank, you're called Beto.

00:21:28.880 And Frank twice, right?

00:21:29.840 Yes.

00:21:30.140 I just want to make sure.

00:21:30.560 Yes.

00:21:30.920 Okay.

00:21:31.260 Because that's true.

00:21:32.180 As we just learned.

00:21:34.080 And that's an amazing accuracy.

00:21:35.440 Now remember, I didn't realize too, he said it's not just El Paso, it's also McAllen.

00:21:40.260 So I guess this is all over Texas, is apparently what's true here.

00:21:43.360 Yeah.

00:21:43.900 And one of the things I would love to do today, to see, to test this, is it true that there

00:21:51.800 is no example of someone named Robert, Albert, Gilbert, or Humberto who was not named what

00:22:00.660 there, so if you were Gilbert and people call you Gilbert, apparently to Beto, you do not

00:22:05.520 exist.

00:22:06.420 You are not a person, you're not, we just, we have no evidence that you exist.

00:22:11.360 So if you happen to be a Robert, an Albert, a Gilbert, or an Humberto.

00:22:16.200 Well, if you're Humberto, obviously you're probably going to have a Hispanic nickname, right?

00:22:22.480 That's kind of a Hispanic name.

00:22:23.800 I would probably think...

00:22:24.840 Humberto.

00:22:25.660 Yeah.

00:22:26.020 I don't know what you would shorten Humberto to, except maybe Beto, I guess.

00:22:29.580 Yeah.

00:22:29.800 I don't know any people who are not Hispanic who are named Humberto.

00:22:34.200 And this is an opportunity for us, Pat and Stu, two white, white, whiteys.

00:22:41.560 We're talking whitey, whitey to the max, two of the whitest people you'll ever know, with

00:22:46.440 almost no cultural awareness whatsoever, to be learned here.

00:22:51.040 We can be taught about Hispanic culture.

00:22:55.120 I mean, Beto has been white-splaining us some Hispanic culture here over the past few

00:22:59.580 months, but I would like to know from people who actually grew up in these areas, is it

00:23:03.520 true that everyone, I'm sure there are some examples, I can think of one off the top of

00:23:09.160 my head, who's named Robert Francis O'Rourke and calls himself Beto, but is there, is this

00:23:14.100 a common thing to the point of, I believe his standard was everyone who gets named one

00:23:20.420 of those names in Texas or in these communities would be referred to as Beto.

00:23:26.600 Is it possible?

00:23:27.700 Is there a unicorn out there that is named Robert and is only called Bob?

00:23:33.520 Is there someone out there who is named Albert and is called Al?

00:23:37.160 Is that, is that a unicorn?

00:23:38.860 Is that a mythical being or does that exist?

00:23:42.020 888-727-BECK.

00:23:43.820 888-727-2325.

00:23:46.240 If you happen to be someone named Robert.

00:23:49.500 And you're born in El Paso or grew up in El Paso.

00:23:52.120 Yeah.

00:23:52.440 Or McAllen.

00:23:53.660 Yeah.

00:23:54.280 I mean.

00:23:54.420 Somewhere along the border.

00:23:55.380 Or along the border of Texas, in Southern Texas somewhere.

00:23:58.820 Or I suppose it would also apply in Arizona, right?

00:24:01.980 Yeah.

00:24:02.280 Or California.

00:24:03.740 Yeah.

00:24:04.060 Any, any.

00:24:05.020 I mean, he didn't, he limited it to, I would say, Texas border area.

00:24:08.640 But I would, I'd be interested to see if this is a widespread phenomenon.

00:24:11.160 Yeah.

00:24:11.400 Is it possible?

00:24:12.660 Can a, can a mother name their kid Gilbert and not have them referred to as Beto their entire

00:24:18.540 life?

00:24:18.800 Is that a possibility?

00:24:20.020 I don't know.

00:24:21.140 I am just not in tuned to the cultural developments as much as I should be.

00:24:25.520 And you know, please come and, and, and white-splain this to us because we are just, that's not

00:24:31.320 our role here, Pat.

00:24:32.400 We're just too white.

00:24:33.520 We can't understand things like this.

00:24:35.040 To, to look.

00:24:36.060 Let me, let me admit, I'll just admit it.

00:24:37.760 To me, Beto, referring to himself as Beto, feels like a guy who wants to take advantage

00:24:44.360 of the Hispanic community for votes.

00:24:46.320 I, and I know that can't be true because, but it's just because I'm too white to understand

00:24:50.920 it.

00:24:51.620 I can't quite get there.

00:24:53.240 I can't clear that hurdle to understand why someone would do that.

00:24:58.480 And we will soon find out to see if we can find any, any Roberts who are actually Roberts.

00:25:03.160 It looks like we have a, uh, Joe Robert, who no doubt is Beto, uh, calling from El Paso.

00:25:09.020 Um, Joe Robert.

00:25:11.000 Yes.

00:25:12.000 Is it, is it more preferred?

00:25:14.360 For us to refer to you as Beto?

00:25:16.720 No, no.

00:25:17.760 Not even Jose.

00:25:18.800 Don't even call me Jose either.

00:25:20.540 Oh, okay.

00:25:22.280 What is your actual given name?

00:25:24.840 My birth name is Joe.

00:25:26.300 J-O-E, first name, Robert, R-O-B-E-R-T.

00:25:29.700 And I don't let anybody call me anything else.

00:25:32.000 What, so when someone calls you up, how do they refer to you?

00:25:35.580 Well, they don't say my middle name mostly because I don't give it out unless it's, you

00:25:38.980 know, for formal stuff, but just Joe.

00:25:41.640 Okay.

00:25:41.960 And my last name.

00:25:43.280 Not Beto.

00:25:45.240 Not Beto.

00:25:46.020 I'm not Bob either.

00:25:47.060 I'm not Joe Bob either.

00:25:48.840 Let me ask you this.

00:25:49.860 This is, uh, why did you call National Radio and lie?

00:25:53.660 Because we know everyone in these areas that has Robert is Beto.

00:25:57.840 Why would you lie?

00:25:58.540 No, all those names he mentioned, I, I, it, it does, it does depend on if they want to

00:26:04.100 be called Beto.

00:26:04.880 It is a nickname.

00:26:06.040 It's, I don't know what it is, but I've known all those people and I've always called them

00:26:09.860 either Albert, Umberto, you know, and the other one Gilbert.

00:26:12.880 I didn't even know Gilbert was Beto, but that's new to me.

00:26:16.160 So, but do they do a lot of white guys call themselves Beto or do other people call them

00:26:21.560 Beto?

00:26:22.160 Actually, he's the first one that I know of.

00:26:24.400 Yeah.

00:26:24.680 Okay.

00:26:26.680 Okay.

00:26:27.260 So, uh, Joe, what is your background?

00:26:29.980 Do you, what's your ethnic background?

00:26:32.500 I am Hispanic, uh, you know, Latin descent.

00:26:36.420 Um, a lot of people, I get a lot of tweets because they say I'm Mexican American, but

00:26:41.120 I refute that.

00:26:42.300 I'm not refuting it because I'm ashamed of it.

00:26:44.560 I do have Mexican background, but my surname, which of course I'm not going to give out,

00:26:48.900 is, uh, from Spain.

00:26:50.740 My surname, my last name.

00:26:52.880 This is, so this is, this is fascinating.

00:26:54.780 You are in the, in the Hispanic community.

00:26:57.160 You have Robert in your name.

00:26:58.820 You are not called Beto and you know the people that you refer to in the Hispanic community

00:27:03.940 with the names, Robert, Albert, Gilbert, and Umberto, you refer to by their actual names.

00:27:08.900 Yes, they do.

00:27:09.860 Hmm.

00:27:10.300 This is an interesting piece of evidence.

00:27:12.100 We found the unicorn.

00:27:13.060 You're the only one.

00:27:14.560 Stu, that's amazing.

00:27:15.080 We know there's one.

00:27:15.900 We should send this to Beto so he doesn't make this mistake next time on CNN.

00:27:20.020 I don't want him to go down a road where he's making mistakes and saying things that blatantly

00:27:23.800 aren't true on national television.

00:27:26.140 That would be terrible for him.

00:27:27.640 We're just trying to help.

00:27:28.420 We're trying to help here and so is Joe.

00:27:30.360 Thank you, Joe, for calling in and, and I would love to hear from more people.

00:27:33.500 If you happen to be Robert, Albert, Gilbert, or Umberto, or happen to live in a, in a Hispanic

00:27:40.740 community where you know, uh, someone of these names, is that always how you refer to it?

00:27:46.320 Because that is the standard set, uh, by Beto.

00:27:49.300 And I'm curious to see if that, if there are more unicorns out there.

00:27:53.600 We've discovered something today, but look at the work we've done.

00:27:56.060 This is hour one.

00:27:57.000 It's incredible.

00:27:57.460 We've already uncovered something that people have told us did not exist.

00:28:01.820 It's a miracle.

00:28:03.540 And all this hard research we've put into this today by giving out the phone number, you know,

00:28:08.500 once or twice.

00:28:10.620 And shockingly, we were able to uncover somebody.

00:28:12.820 So we'll see if there's more out there.

00:28:13.960 I don't know if there is.

00:28:14.720 I assume he's the only one.

00:28:15.840 We've done a lot of digging so far.

00:28:17.660 So, um, maybe it'll produce more fruit.

00:28:20.000 I don't know.

00:28:20.760 Uh, Richard in Texas.

00:28:22.160 You're on the Glenn Beck program.

00:28:23.580 Hi.

00:28:24.820 Hey guys.

00:28:25.540 My name is Richard.

00:28:26.560 I'm out here in El Paso.

00:28:28.160 Okay.

00:28:28.520 Uh, the first thing I'd like to say is that there's really not that many Latinos named

00:28:32.980 Francis.

00:28:35.500 So that's my first point.

00:28:38.060 Okay.

00:28:38.540 Your second point that you were mentioning, I would say that 95% of the people that are

00:28:43.820 named in the names that you mentioned do go by veto.

00:28:46.720 That's a high percentage.

00:28:48.720 I mean, that's, that's a lot.

00:28:50.320 Yeah.

00:28:50.660 And I am a Latino and I am an American citizen.

00:28:54.740 All right.

00:28:55.440 Well, thank you very much.

00:28:56.660 That's what we, that's what happens here in our community.

00:28:59.600 Okay.

00:28:59.900 So you do, you do know a lot of guys, like a lot of white guys that go by veto.

00:29:06.120 No, no.

00:29:09.200 Okay.

00:29:09.640 So the guys you're talking about here, the 95% white guys here are called gringos.

00:29:14.860 Right.

00:29:15.520 Yes.

00:29:16.020 Okay.

00:29:16.380 So this is an interesting distinction.

00:29:18.440 You're saying in the Hispanic community, people of Hispanic descent with some of these names

00:29:22.460 are called beto, but the people who are white named Robert Francis do not go by beto.

00:29:28.180 No.

00:29:29.000 Yeah.

00:29:29.340 Okay.

00:29:29.560 That makes sense.

00:29:30.220 Okay.

00:29:30.340 Well, I don't think this one helps beto that much.

00:29:33.180 I don't think it does, but thank you for that.

00:29:36.100 Again, look, there's a couple of unicorns out there.

00:29:38.160 We're going to, you can always, when you're, you're searching for horses, you're going to

00:29:41.840 find a couple with horns on their head.

00:29:43.640 That's just one of the things.

00:29:44.780 Some of them are going to be able to fly.

00:29:46.480 It's part of the, it's just part of the experience when you're looking to find a horse.

00:29:50.760 Hey, look at that one.

00:29:51.620 It's got, it happens to be rainbow colored and is flying through the sky.

00:29:55.220 Everyone has those moments.

00:29:56.300 And you say, huh?

00:29:57.640 How about that?

00:29:58.260 I'm just curious.

00:29:58.960 I just concerned.

00:30:00.480 Yeah.

00:30:00.700 Because, you know, look, CNN is the place where they're going to, they're going to dig deep

00:30:04.840 and get the facts out of this.

00:30:06.520 And fact check this guy.

00:30:06.980 Yeah.

00:30:07.240 He's going to get a massive fact check at some point today because apparently we're hearing

00:30:11.460 from El Paso that people that are white named Robert Francis are not typically called

00:30:16.640 Beto.

00:30:16.960 This is, I mean.

00:30:18.260 And we don't doubt at all that if you have Hispanic background and your name is Robert

00:30:22.880 or Umberto that you're called Beto.

00:30:25.740 That doesn't, I'm not surprised by that at all.

00:30:28.040 What would surprise me is if a lot of Roberts who are just white guys that usually go by

00:30:33.280 Bob in this culture are going by Beto.

00:30:36.860 Now, can you, one interesting thing we could do with Robert Francis O'Rourke is you could

00:30:40.520 call him Bob Frank O'Rourke too, right?

00:30:42.700 We could go with Bob Frank O'Rourke.

00:30:45.500 You could.

00:30:46.100 Yes, you could.

00:30:46.740 Bob Frank O'Rourke is not, it doesn't connect as deeply to the Hispanic community.

00:30:51.600 I wouldn't say Bob Frank, but I'm sure he, that had nothing to do with his consideration

00:30:56.400 by putting Beto on all of his signs.

00:30:58.520 Now, we all, of course, know that he was calling himself Bob on television when he was in a

00:31:03.440 band.

00:31:04.060 Yeah, and that band performed on television in El Paso on their morning show, and he

00:31:10.580 brought his incredible guitar stylings to the show, and it was getting late in the show,

00:31:16.680 and the host of the show was concerned that they got to start playing because the show

00:31:22.360 was about over, but listen to what he calls him here.

00:31:26.400 Bob, I'm afraid the show's going to be over.

00:31:28.600 Bob, I'm afraid the show's going to be over before you...

00:31:30.740 So, he's talking to Beto, I believe, at that time, and then you hear the guitar stylings

00:31:37.640 of Beto himself, and he's incredibly talented.

00:31:40.960 Wow.

00:31:41.780 And listen to this guy.

00:31:42.860 It's good.

00:31:44.740 This isn't really him, is it?

00:31:46.240 Yeah.

00:31:46.440 This is actually Beto playing guitar.

00:31:49.420 But this is the band he's about?

00:31:51.080 Yeah.

00:31:51.240 And then they kick it into gear, man, and it's...

00:31:54.660 Listen to that.

00:31:55.520 It's the guitar stylings of Beto Francis O'Rourke.

00:32:01.420 Bob Frank?

00:32:02.380 Of Bob Frank O'Rourke.

00:32:04.260 Wow.

00:32:04.720 That is...

00:32:05.520 Talented.

00:32:06.060 But he's called Bob.

00:32:08.080 Hey, Bob, I'm worried you're not going to get a sign.

00:32:10.520 It's in.

00:32:11.380 Listen carefully.

00:32:12.200 Bob, I've been afraid the show's going to be over before you did that.

00:32:19.100 That's embarrassing.

00:32:20.740 This is just a one giant embarrassment of a campaign, isn't it?

00:32:24.640 It is.

00:32:25.120 Yeah, it is.

00:32:25.500 I mean, the fact that this guy's caught on with the left, I mean, this man...

00:32:29.700 Oh, they love him.

00:32:30.240 They want to run him for president in 2020.

00:32:32.380 He's raised more money than any Senate candidate in history for a quarter.

00:32:36.920 That's how much they love this guy.

00:32:38.000 He raised more in this quarter than Barack Obama did back in 2008.

00:32:42.380 That's incredible.

00:32:43.540 Is that amazing?

00:32:44.080 And because why?

00:32:44.700 He made a speech about the NFL where he said it was okay to kneel because they...

00:32:48.420 I guess.

00:32:49.080 I guess that's it.

00:32:49.700 Couldn't think of anything more American than that?

00:32:52.160 You know, I can think of several things more American than that.

00:32:54.920 Yeah, a lot.

00:32:55.800 I don't think I understand it, but maybe we'll get more evidence from El Paso.

00:33:01.180 And this will show us that there's only two.

00:33:02.660 There's only two people who would possibly disagree with the story from Beto O'Rourke in these communities.

00:33:07.860 I'm glad we've heard from a couple because that proves that unicorns do exist.

00:33:11.160 But we'll figure it out, and we'll lock it down here coming up.

00:33:13.740 888-727-BECK is the phone number.

00:33:16.500 Glenn, of course, is traversing the Mediterranean Sea, then coming back across the Atlantic Ocean in a canoe.

00:33:22.960 And when he gets back, he will join a traveling circus this weekend.

00:33:25.500 If you want to check out the dates, you can find those out.

00:33:27.260 I don't know if they're going to be up at glenbeck.com slash tour.

00:33:30.820 If you go there, you can find the dates to our tour where we're going out around the country.

00:33:35.380 But I don't know if this weekend's traveling circus that Glenn will be hosting is going to be listed there.

00:33:40.220 But you can look for it in your community as well.

00:33:42.440 He'll be back on Monday.

00:33:43.660 We'll talk about Bitcoin a little bit here.

00:33:46.280 Bitcoin was down 40%.

00:33:47.740 Gosh, it was only over just a year ago.

00:33:50.240 It was down to $1,850 a coin.

00:33:53.060 And you forget with the huge run it had in the late year that anyone who invested back before the giant spike of Bitcoin is still up a lot.

00:34:03.000 Three and four times their money from just a little over a year ago.

00:34:08.440 It's hard to imagine that this whole run could have been profitable that late.

00:34:14.160 Now, Tika Tiwari from Palm Beach Letter wrote an announcement talking about how it would bring enormous amounts of money into Bitcoin.

00:34:20.480 At the time, it was $1,850 a coin.

00:34:22.420 He said Bitcoin would hit $10,000.

00:34:24.300 Well, as you know, it went up to $20,000.

00:34:26.140 It's still almost $7,000 now, which is almost up to the level he was saying it was going to get to its peak.

00:34:34.000 Tika announced, like last year, another big event is happening.

00:34:37.400 He thinks Bitcoin can go up by 10 times or more.

00:34:39.700 If it does, it would be nice knowing you.

00:34:41.720 You'll never hear my voice again.

00:34:43.380 But I really hope he's right on this one.

00:34:46.880 But the point is, if you want to know about these things, you have to make sure you're educated.

00:34:52.060 Cryptocurrency has obviously been a huge development, not only in the financial world, but in the technology world.

00:34:58.700 You know, huge corporations are dumping money into this, into developing these ideas on blockchain.

00:35:05.000 You need to know the details about it.

00:35:07.140 You know, we've been saying this for a long time.

00:35:09.260 If you get $100, if you could skip, you know, a night out, you know, dinner, movies, and drinks, you could get $100, throw it into Bitcoin.

00:35:16.000 It could turn into thousands.

00:35:17.560 It's already happened in very recent history.

00:35:20.600 But you need to know the details.

00:35:21.820 You shouldn't invest if you don't know what the heck you're talking about.

00:35:23.960 Don't be me.

00:35:25.560 SmartCryptoCourse.com is the place to go.

00:35:27.020 Go to SmartCryptoCourse.com or call 877-PBL-BECK.

00:35:32.200 That's 877-PBL-BECK or SmartCryptoCourse.com.

00:35:37.620 Glenn Beck.

00:35:39.260 All right.

00:35:39.540 We are looking for people in El Paso or McAllen or, you know, border cities that is so common

00:35:45.860 that if your name is Robert, Albert, Gilbert, or Umberto, you go by Beto.

00:35:52.940 And so we've got some people lined up.

00:35:55.500 We'll get to them in here in a second because we were told by Beto O'Rourke.

00:36:00.840 That's what happens in these border towns.

00:36:02.920 You can't avoid it.

00:36:03.540 You just can't avoid it.

00:36:04.700 It's not just him trying to Hispander to Hispanics in Texas.

00:36:10.420 That's not what it's about.

00:36:11.900 He just happened to have a lifelong nickname because everybody does.

00:36:14.840 Everybody does.

00:36:15.600 Every white person does.

00:36:16.760 Now, that doesn't always happen when you go on television.

00:36:19.740 You know, people are going to call you Bob and that's just going to be part of your situation.

00:36:23.180 That's their fault.

00:36:24.040 But that's because he was probably a white guy that doesn't understand the Hispanic culture

00:36:27.400 of Robert Francis O'Rourke.

00:36:29.100 Yeah.

00:36:29.320 Of Bob Frank.

00:36:29.780 And he made a mistake when he said this to Beto.

00:36:34.960 Bob, I've been afraid your show's going to be over before you get it.

00:36:39.940 And then the fabulous guitar playing.

00:36:42.280 I mean, the guy was incredibly talented.

00:36:44.340 I don't know how he didn't take off as a rock star.

00:36:46.940 How did that happen?

00:36:47.620 I just don't understand it.

00:36:48.980 But again, I don't understand Hispanic culture, apparently.

00:36:51.340 Apparently.

00:36:52.280 I need to be learned.

00:36:54.500 So, 888-727-BECK.

00:36:57.280 We'll get to your Beto calls.

00:36:58.740 Glenn Beck.

00:37:01.160 Mercury.

00:37:02.420 The country has been pushed to the limit.

00:37:04.820 Our political bonds have been torn apart.

00:37:07.100 We need a true leader who can save us from certain doom.

00:37:10.760 Unfortunately, we could only find this guy.

00:37:13.300 Hey, it's Glenn Beck.

00:37:14.380 Glenn Beck is coming live to talk about the right path forward and to make fun of the people standing in the way.

00:37:19.740 He might not be able to save the country, but at least we can all go down laughing.

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00:37:27.600 For tickets, VIP packages, and more, visit glennbeck.com.

00:37:32.980 Glenn Beck.

00:37:34.680 Pat Gray and Stuart Bergeer for Glenn on the Glenn Beck program.

00:37:37.740 Hopefully, Glenn will be back from his canoe trip across the Mediterranean on Monday.

00:37:41.600 And a traveling circus.

00:37:42.860 Yeah.

00:37:43.740 And triathlon.

00:37:44.900 The triathlon is over.

00:37:45.940 I believe he finished fourth, which was much worse than I think he expected.

00:37:49.940 Yeah.

00:37:50.760 So, we'll have to get into the details.

00:37:52.440 That was out of 3,000 people, though.

00:37:53.920 So, I mean, it wasn't that bad.

00:37:55.080 Oh, no.

00:37:55.360 It was good for, I think, the average person.

00:37:57.060 Just disappointing for him.

00:37:58.360 Yeah.

00:37:58.740 Especially because it was one over rough terrain, which is his specialty.

00:38:02.360 You know, a lot of uphill, a lot of mountain climbing in the middle of it, which is not usually in the middle of a triathlon.

00:38:07.540 No, but he wanted to go through the toughest conditions he could find.

00:38:11.500 Yeah.

00:38:11.600 And so, I think that's admirable.

00:38:13.140 It is.

00:38:13.540 It is.

00:38:13.960 It really trained so hard for him.

00:38:15.180 You can tell.

00:38:16.260 Look at him.

00:38:17.600 Look at him.

00:38:19.520 Right?

00:38:20.080 I tell you.

00:38:20.720 I tell you.

00:38:21.400 And that just has nothing to do with how he pulled off that training, while at the same time learning to train elephants for the circus, was an incredible achievement.

00:38:31.440 I mean, you know, Ringling Brothers has gone away now.

00:38:33.620 You know, he's stepped in, and he'll be doing that all this weekend.

00:38:37.000 You can find him all around the country with a bunch of elephants, and you won't mistake him for one of them.

00:38:42.560 One of them is Jeffy, so that'll be cool.

00:38:45.400 We'll be watching for that.

00:38:47.000 Yeah, we're learning a little bit today.

00:38:48.260 You know, I like this, Pat.

00:38:49.580 Sometimes talk shows, you can kind of be too sure of yourself, too much certainty.

00:38:55.160 And today, we're really learning here from the Hispanic community of-

00:38:58.700 Nothing wrong with that.

00:38:59.560 Robert Francis O'Rourke.

00:39:00.520 I was not aware that every white person in El Paso that was named Robert Francis would be referred to as Beto.

00:39:08.960 That was not something that I knew until very recently, so last night on CNN, even.

00:39:13.300 Because he's been talking about the Beto thing, but I didn't know.

00:39:15.500 I thought maybe it was just him.

00:39:17.000 Maybe there's some quirky thing about him.

00:39:18.560 No.

00:39:18.860 But no.

00:39:19.220 Everybody.

00:39:20.000 He said everybody.

00:39:21.000 Let's remind people of what he told us, because we all want to learn together.

00:39:26.620 Everybody has his nickname.

00:39:28.080 Here's what he said.

00:39:28.860 Congressman, throughout the campaign, you have been attacked for being what Don Jr. has called an Irish guy, pretending to be Hispanic.

00:39:35.380 So what does the Hispanic community mean to you, and what relationships do you have with that community?

00:39:38.860 So, to clarify the question about my name, I was born Robert Francis O'Rourke, son of Pat Francis O'Rourke, who was the son of John Francis O'Rourke, father to Ulysses Francis O'Rourke, who will go as UFO for much of his life.

00:39:55.360 And from day one in El Paso, and you know this in McAllen, if you are born Robert or Albert or Gilbert or Umberto, your folks, your friends, your community calls you Beto.

00:40:06.360 That's my nickname that I've gone by for my entire life.

00:40:10.820 His entire life.

00:40:11.640 Born and raised in fourth generation.

00:40:12.460 And I mean, that's just what happens.

00:40:14.060 Yeah.

00:40:14.340 That's just what happens when you're Robert, Albert, Gilbert, or Umberto.

00:40:20.900 You just go by Beto.

00:40:22.020 That's all there is to it.

00:40:23.020 White or not, that's what you go by.

00:40:24.480 Right.

00:40:24.760 And when we say you're in his entire life, what we actually mean is his entire life, with the exceptions of times he was in public and happened to be recorded.

00:40:34.220 Because when he was recorded, it was Bob.

00:40:37.020 If his life started during his campaign, then yes, his whole life.

00:40:43.860 Yeah.

00:40:44.180 And that's what's incredible about this is he really has excited the hardcore left with these big time donations.

00:40:51.100 And I don't know, you know, it's...

00:40:52.340 38 million.

00:40:52.920 We're talking about, you know, huge, you know, Hollywood celebrities.

00:40:58.260 You know, I think Beto Duvall may be behind that.

00:41:02.440 Beto Downey Jr.

00:41:04.960 You know, there's a lot of big celebrities.

00:41:07.060 I don't know if he's going down in the world of sports.

00:41:09.020 You know, I don't know what Beto Pujols has done.

00:41:11.180 I mean, maybe he has donated as well.

00:41:14.440 I'm not 100% sure.

00:41:16.140 I was watching the NBA last night, and, you know, it's back into effect now.

00:41:20.340 I was really amazed.

00:41:21.200 First of all, it's great to watch the NBA because, you know, you get that feeling of, like, the old school sports.

00:41:27.440 You know, you got the announcer, Marv Beto, who is giving you all...

00:41:34.260 It's just really interesting to watch it.

00:41:36.420 And, you know, who knows how many of them have...

00:41:37.940 I know LeBron James was one of the people who was kind of excited about Beto.

00:41:42.720 I'm not sure if you go over to football, if BG3 was one of these people, former Redskins quarterback, BG3, who is...

00:41:51.840 I don't know if he's donated at all, but we'll find out about that.

00:41:54.820 It's going to be interesting.

00:41:56.060 You know, musical celebrities as well, like Herb Beto and the Tijuana Brass.

00:42:00.020 What do they feel?

00:42:00.500 Oh, yeah.

00:42:00.800 I don't know.

00:42:03.900 I'm not sure exactly.

00:42:05.740 All I know is anyone with those letters, you get to Beto somehow.

00:42:09.160 Yes.

00:42:09.560 And I'm sure...

00:42:10.280 I mean, this goes back to kids playing pranks on each other.

00:42:14.000 Like, if I do a prank call to you right now, you know, phone's ringing, you answer it.

00:42:17.300 Mm-hmm.

00:42:18.140 Hello?

00:42:18.740 Hi, do you have Prince Beto in a can?

00:42:20.680 This is so common.

00:42:22.520 It goes back so long.

00:42:24.340 Mm-hmm.

00:42:24.720 It's so deeply ingrained...

00:42:26.860 Deep.

00:42:27.380 ...in our community.

00:42:28.980 Yes.

00:42:29.240 I'm like, hey, hey, hey, it's Fat Beto!

00:42:31.440 Everyone knows that.

00:42:32.680 I remember that.

00:42:33.300 Yeah, everyone's watched that.

00:42:34.120 That's one of the things I remember from my childhood.

00:42:35.220 Yeah, everyone watched it.

00:42:37.900 And I'm glad that, you know, we're able to see that this is all coming together for Beto.

00:42:46.080 And he's able to, again, teach us.

00:42:48.320 I'm trying to find out the truth.

00:42:50.660 Mm-hmm.

00:42:50.940 And we are now learning from many people across the country what the truth is, which is, so

00:42:55.960 far, nothing that Beto said has been accurate.

00:42:58.740 But I think we're going to find out the opposite very soon.

00:43:02.060 Well, we've asked for people to call us and tell us about their white friends named Beto

00:43:06.800 in El Paso or McAllen or whatever border town you live in, because I'm sure it's common

00:43:11.760 not just in those two towns, but virtually every border town, I would assume, you know,

00:43:17.860 where white people are called Beto.

00:43:19.540 Everyone knows that.

00:43:20.440 Yeah.

00:43:20.920 So let's talk to Lene in Texas.

00:43:24.540 Hey, Lene, you're on the Glenpeg program with Pat and Stu.

00:43:28.040 Good morning, guys.

00:43:29.180 You're cracking me up over here in El Paso.

00:43:31.900 That's good to hear.

00:43:33.300 So you have Betos?

00:43:34.560 Do you have a lot of Betos in your family?

00:43:36.280 Okay.

00:43:36.820 I actually do.

00:43:37.740 I have three.

00:43:38.480 My husband is Beto.

00:43:39.820 My stepson is Beto.

00:43:41.160 And my father-in-law is also Beto.

00:43:43.100 But none of them go by Robert.

00:43:44.560 None of them.

00:43:45.460 None of them.

00:43:45.880 So they all go, wait.

00:43:47.360 They all really do go by Beto?

00:43:49.760 No, they really don't.

00:43:51.000 I want to start calling my husband Beto.

00:43:53.620 I've told him this.

00:43:54.680 You're going to be Beto coming up here pretty soon, buddy.

00:43:57.280 And he says, no way.

00:43:58.440 But the three of them actually don't like the name Robert, so they go by their middle

00:44:02.400 names anyway.

00:44:03.320 So there's no Betos in my family.

00:44:04.980 So you have three Roberts in your family.

00:44:07.040 You're from El Paso, and none of them go by Beto.

00:44:10.120 None of them do.

00:44:10.980 What is your background?

00:44:13.380 Are you a boring white person?

00:44:15.120 I am.

00:44:15.920 I'm born and raised, and I get the question all the time.

00:44:18.280 Are you military?

00:44:19.740 And I say, no, there are white people here in El Paso.

00:44:23.560 That is allowed?

00:44:24.520 They do allow that.

00:44:25.300 Okay, good.

00:44:26.220 That's interesting.

00:44:29.020 Again, that seems to be evidence against Beto.

00:44:31.360 It does.

00:44:32.160 We really should report this to him, because when he goes on national TV and says these

00:44:35.560 things, he's going to get fact-checked hard today.

00:44:37.400 This is going to be a terrible day for him.

00:44:39.000 Yeah.

00:44:39.380 Thanks, Lene.

00:44:39.880 Oh, my gosh.

00:44:40.840 Oh, wow.

00:44:41.460 I'm very upset about this.

00:44:42.620 So that's, well, only every person who's called so far has contradicted Beto on that.

00:44:49.880 And that's why, like, you know, we want to be factual.

00:44:53.080 We want to dig deep into the science, and that's what we're doing here.

00:44:56.680 You know, Pat and I both come from a scientific background, and that's why we've always looked

00:45:02.120 at, you know, for one of our examples, of course, is Beto Einstein, who is a great hero.

00:45:09.380 He's done amazing things.

00:45:11.160 So I hope we can get these facts nailed down.

00:45:15.780 Let's see.

00:45:16.520 We got Berta.

00:45:17.700 Berta in Texas.

00:45:19.680 Hi.

00:45:20.200 Good morning.

00:45:21.020 I am having so much fun.

00:45:22.320 My brother, I have a twin brother who is named Roberto at birth.

00:45:28.520 As an adult, he's, we call him Robert.

00:45:31.640 Okay.

00:45:32.160 Or Beto.

00:45:33.940 You do.

00:45:34.400 I do get Beto.

00:45:35.280 Okay.

00:45:35.500 Now, what is your background?

00:45:36.860 Are you a boring white person or something that would be positive in our society?

00:45:42.300 We're Americans of Mexican descent.

00:45:45.280 Oh, okay.

00:45:46.440 This doesn't help out.

00:45:47.640 I don't call myself Hispanic or Latina or Chicana or Chuka.

00:45:52.920 I call myself an American of Mexican descent.

00:45:56.440 First of all, thank you for that.

00:45:58.300 My name is Berta, but I like to be called Berta or, get this, Bobby.

00:46:05.000 Wow.

00:46:05.800 See?

00:46:06.140 Okay.

00:46:06.400 Wow.

00:46:07.100 So you're going the other way.

00:46:08.060 You're going from Berta to Bobby, which is interesting in this context.

00:46:11.520 I've used that name for 40 years, and I don't like to be called Berta, which is the natural

00:46:18.880 inclination from people.

00:46:21.540 And I know Beto personally.

00:46:23.980 Oh, you do?

00:46:24.580 I used to work for the VA in El Paso as the secretary to the director and assistant director.

00:46:32.000 When he first started his term in Congress, he was very adamant about helping veterans,

00:46:37.420 and we were overjoyed because we needed help getting the message out about the veterans.

00:46:44.560 Well, it wasn't, and I gave him a lot of my information because I knew what was going on.

00:46:50.720 Stuff was crossing my desk and everything.

00:46:52.960 When I found out that Beto was running for Senate, I knew he had used the veterans as a launching point.

00:47:03.400 And then he threw them under the bus to get his name known, to get his name nationally known.

00:47:11.740 And by the way, I call him personally myself, I call him horse face.

00:47:18.840 Not attractive, tall and gangly.

00:47:22.640 He's got that Adam's apple that sticks out a foot long.

00:47:27.600 I don't want to seem like an angry Hispanic female.

00:47:33.660 I am just an angry conservative.

00:47:37.040 And oh, I forgot to tell you, I have my best friend, and she's dating in Albert.

00:47:41.640 She calls him Beto, but he's a raging liberal and an atheist.

00:47:47.140 And thank you for the call.

00:47:49.560 It does seem like that there's an effort made when you prioritize identity politics over everything else.

00:47:57.900 These things are sensible, right?

00:47:59.540 Like, it's sensible that Barry Obama was Barack Obama, right?

00:48:04.360 It's sensible in that world.

00:48:06.700 It's sensible, if you're Elizabeth Warren, to claim you have Native American heritage in your school and submit recipes to powwow chow.

00:48:15.920 Like, that makes sense in that world because that's all you prioritize.

00:48:19.260 It's the only thing that matters, right?

00:48:21.460 If the only thing that matters is your identity as a victim, then classifying yourself as associated with a victimized population of evil conservatives does a lot of good for you.

00:48:33.340 There's a real incentive and motivation to do it.

00:48:35.460 And we seem to see it over and over and over again.

00:48:38.500 And, you know, look, maybe he was called Beto.

00:48:40.680 I don't know.

00:48:42.080 It's possible.

00:48:42.840 I haven't seen a ton of evidence that it's accurate, nor that it makes any sense.

00:48:46.480 But beyond that, the idea that he has put on every single sign solely the four letters B-E-T-O, this is not—like, that might be his nickname.

00:48:58.880 And it might be that it's okay to call him Beto.

00:49:01.760 But this is not—he's not doing it because that's the case.

00:49:06.040 He's doing it because he's trying to fool a bunch of people, especially back, you know, when he was trying to get to this level.

00:49:11.860 At this point, I don't know.

00:49:13.060 I think everybody knows.

00:49:14.240 But it helped him climb to this level.

00:49:16.660 And it's the name that appears on the ballot, too, which is interesting.

00:49:21.300 Very strange.

00:49:22.180 Very strange.

00:49:23.060 A lot of times, if it's a nickname, they'll put, like, Robert Francis and then in parentheses Beto O'Rourke so you can identify him from, you know, his campaign stuff.

00:49:33.160 Which that kind of makes sense, although I don't even love that all that much.

00:49:36.260 But it's only Beto O'Rourke on the ballot.

00:49:39.680 So that—I mean, the guy has gone to great lengths not to use Robert Francis, not to be identified as Irish-American.

00:49:48.920 Now, if you press him on it, he's obviously going to admit, yeah, I'm Irish-American.

00:49:52.560 I come from a long line of Irish-Americans.

00:49:54.900 Right.

00:49:55.080 But that's not what you get from him when you just watch his campaign ads or you see him in a debate.

00:50:03.520 He doesn't—

00:50:04.060 No.

00:50:04.460 He doesn't identify like that at all.

00:50:06.060 He's trying to be a Kennedy, right?

00:50:07.860 Like, he wants to be a Kennedy and, you know, appeal to the Hispanic community.

00:50:12.620 And it's like, look, you're not BFK, okay?

00:50:14.820 We all know who BFK was.

00:50:16.460 He's been gone for a long time.

00:50:18.660 We all know that you're not BFK.

00:50:20.760 And just stop trying to be BFK.

00:50:22.380 You're not him.

00:50:23.340 He's working on it, though.

00:50:24.800 He's trying.

00:50:26.120 He's trying.

00:50:27.340 I mean, Beto Fitzgerald Kennedy was an incredible person.

00:50:31.400 We all know that.

00:50:32.780 He was!

00:50:33.800 We all know that.

00:50:34.400 And a terrible tragedy.

00:50:35.740 Yeah.

00:50:36.080 I mean, it really was an amazing turn of events there.

00:50:39.140 And it's good to see.

00:50:40.460 It's good to see that this has gone on.

00:50:43.180 I just—I don't—I don't see how people don't see through this, you know?

00:50:47.660 And I think maybe on the left, they don't want to because they think they have a chance.

00:50:50.800 Because, you know, every few years, the left gets this terrible tease where they get to get close in a few polls.

00:50:59.800 I mean, Wendy Murphy's going to change Texas.

00:51:02.100 Who was the mayor of Houston that was going to change Texas?

00:51:05.260 Oh.

00:51:05.580 You remember, he was the mayor when you were down there, right?

00:51:08.080 Yeah.

00:51:09.180 Yeah.

00:51:09.580 Sort of a moderate-leaning Democrat.

00:51:11.820 He was also going to change Texas.

00:51:13.960 Every time they run somebody, there's somebody who's going to just change it.

00:51:17.280 And it's going to—no longer are we going to have to deal with these darn Republicans down there.

00:51:20.840 We turn this state blue, we've won forever.

00:51:22.620 And by the way, that part of it is true.

00:51:24.420 If they turn this state blue—

00:51:25.580 If they successfully do?

00:51:26.500 Yeah.

00:51:26.680 Yeah, that's true.

00:51:27.420 They will run the country for a very long time if they're capable of doing that just from an electoral vote standard.

00:51:33.740 But still, it's a way to suck the money out of small donors who are throwing it away.

00:51:42.640 We keep hearing how bad people have it, and I think that's true in a lot of cases.

00:51:47.180 But it's like, if you have it really bad because Donald Trump has ruined your life or whatever it is,

00:51:52.340 is it really the best expenditure of your money to send it to somebody out of state in Texas who's going to lose by 8 or 10 or 12?

00:52:00.860 I can't imagine that that's a thing that you should be encouraging if you actually cared about people's well-being.

00:52:05.440 But the Hollywood crowd loves him.

00:52:06.700 They're talking about running him for president in 2020.

00:52:09.660 Even Beto De Niro pushed his name out there.

00:52:13.460 Really?

00:52:14.200 Did he really?

00:52:15.080 Yeah.

00:52:15.740 Beto De Niro did that.

00:52:16.940 Beto De Niro.

00:52:17.480 Wow.

00:52:17.960 Yeah.

00:52:18.380 I mean, they've got the name in common, but I think it goes beyond that.

00:52:22.760 I think he likes his politics.

00:52:24.080 I think he does, too.

00:52:24.820 You know.

00:52:26.280 Bob Duvall has done it as well.

00:52:28.700 Bob Downey Jr.

00:52:29.780 Beto Downey Jr.

00:52:30.820 We know about that.

00:52:32.780 Beto Duvall.

00:52:33.620 It's really a good collection out in Hollywood.

00:52:35.600 It is.

00:52:36.220 It's a big group.

00:52:37.880 Beto Brooks is also...

00:52:40.200 This is so stupid, but I love it.

00:52:44.740 This is so insane!

00:52:46.940 Your name is Robert.

00:52:48.820 Robert or Bob, if you're a white dude, that's what you get.

00:52:51.580 Yes.

00:52:51.880 I don't even know why you get Bob, honestly.

00:52:53.820 It's still...

00:52:54.280 It's kind of a...

00:52:54.920 It's a summary of your name.

00:52:56.400 Rob seems to me to even make more sense.

00:52:58.960 Makes more sense.

00:52:59.500 Right?

00:52:59.940 Does.

00:53:00.200 But whatever.

00:53:01.300 We'll give it to you.

00:53:02.220 You know, Beto...

00:53:03.360 But Beto, no.

00:53:04.400 No.

00:53:04.840 I'm going to go with no on that.

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00:54:57.500 Let's go to Jack in Pennsylvania.

00:54:59.520 Jack, you're on the Glenn Beck program.

00:55:00.920 Hey, Pat and Steve.

00:55:03.800 Love you guys.

00:55:05.680 I think you're missing a very important point, and that is that O'Rourke identifies as Hispanic.

00:55:14.080 So therefore, he must be believed.

00:55:17.680 Wow, that's a great point.

00:55:19.060 Sure is.

00:55:19.520 Again, we are learning today.

00:55:20.920 I forgot that was the standard.

00:55:22.360 How insensitive of us.

00:55:24.200 How hateful and downright ugly that is that we haven't spoken about how he does identify.

00:55:30.860 Yeah.

00:55:31.160 And it must be as Hispanic.

00:55:32.900 Thanks, Jack.

00:55:33.720 Thanks.

00:55:34.000 It's interesting with that sort of talk.

00:55:35.680 It's like, you know, the Elizabeth Warren is essentially identifying as a Native American without real evidence that she is.

00:55:42.040 She's getting beat up.

00:55:43.320 I mean, this has been one of the biggest political disasters of all time.

00:55:46.760 Her coming out and trying to say that she actually is Hispanic or Native American.

00:55:51.500 She sort of proved it by going back six to ten generations.

00:55:56.100 Tried to prove it.

00:55:56.680 One 1,024th.

00:55:58.900 Yeah.

00:55:59.160 That's amazing.

00:55:59.720 The left hates it.

00:56:00.440 They're like, this is playing into the worst of our beliefs about, you know, blood being the determining factor in these things.

00:56:07.780 And they hate it.

00:56:09.060 They have destroyed her over this.

00:56:10.500 She's handled it terribly.

00:56:11.900 I mean, it's almost like one of those things.

00:56:13.320 I don't know.

00:56:13.740 Maybe they should have leaked it through another source.

00:56:15.420 The fact that she's associating herself with coming out and doing this is amazing.

00:56:19.220 But the identifying thing, there's two parts of that.

00:56:23.960 Like, I, as a, you know, say the, you know, libertarian side of me, right?

00:56:29.860 I don't care what people say they are, right?

00:56:32.560 Like, it makes no difference to me if she says she's Native American or not.

00:56:36.440 I don't care.

00:56:38.260 But beyond that, there's an actual truth.

00:56:40.480 You know, if Rachel Dolezal wants to come out and say she's black or Sean King wants to come out and say he's black, when they're not black, does that matter to me?

00:56:49.020 I don't care what they're doing.

00:56:50.480 I think they're lying, right?

00:56:52.440 And they're doing this for a reason.

00:56:54.420 But that doesn't mean it affects me in any way.

00:56:57.620 However, we have to be able to stand up for the truth.

00:57:00.440 The truth is that Sean King is white.

00:57:02.640 The truth is that Rachel Dolezal is white.

00:57:05.340 And the truth is that Beto O'Rourke is white.

00:57:07.640 Is white.

00:57:08.740 And, you know, that's okay.

00:57:10.880 You know, people are supposed to be able to be, you know, we're not supposed to care so much about these identifying factors.

00:57:17.300 But we're in a world in which the left only embraces identity politics.

00:57:20.940 It's a sick world.

00:57:21.860 We need to cure it.

00:57:26.560 Pat and Stu, 888-727-BECK.

00:57:30.580 Glenn's going to be back from his trip Monday, we think.

00:57:34.980 Right now he is, I think he's climbing K2 right this second.

00:57:40.440 Yeah.

00:57:40.760 Right?

00:57:41.020 I think they're getting, like, they're two-thirds of the way to the summit right now.

00:57:43.960 Yeah, it's the second highest peak in the world.

00:57:46.000 Some people say it's the highest and the most difficult to climb.

00:57:48.400 And we probably should have spent more time on this.

00:57:49.960 I know Glenn does not want to bring it up because, you know, it feels like it's bragging or whatever.

00:57:54.400 But, yeah, climbing K2 this weekend.

00:57:57.100 You can follow his progress.

00:57:58.380 I know there's a website.

00:57:59.480 I don't remember what the name of it is.

00:58:00.540 But if you kind of go out, you search for Glenn Beck climbing K2, it'll probably pop up.

00:58:05.200 Probably.

00:58:05.620 Because I think they're doing some live streaming.

00:58:06.800 Unless he puts this on the dark web.

00:58:08.020 Yeah, a lot of times he does.

00:58:09.620 Yeah.

00:58:09.820 For some reason he puts stuff on the dark web.

00:58:11.820 So I don't know.

00:58:12.840 Maybe you'll have to find it there.

00:58:13.860 But we're here talking about Beto O'Rourke and Ted Cruz in a Texas Senate battle.

00:58:20.720 A lot of people calling in and saying that they knew a lot of people who were white and not named Beto in the communities that he talked about on CNN last night.

00:58:28.620 And, look, it could be a regional thing.

00:58:31.740 I know there's a lot of differences between North and South.

00:58:33.960 I mean, people look at, you know, figures like Abraham Lincoln and Beto E. Lee and all these people who are, you know, from these different cultures differently from where they are.

00:58:44.940 So I think that that's something that we can kind of look into as a possible cause for Beto's confusion here.

00:58:51.080 There are issues, however, when you try to appropriate culture, Pat.

00:58:55.380 When you try to reach into some other cultural group and speak to them, sometimes there are issues.

00:59:02.480 There's a case of this that the media is liking to highlight today.

00:59:08.520 And it's a commercial run on behalf of a congressman in Arkansas, French Hill.

00:59:13.900 Now, he had nothing to do with this at all.

00:59:15.960 Although, surely, if you watch CNN today, he will be, you know, blamed for it.

00:59:21.060 Excuriated, no doubt.

00:59:21.960 It's just some unrelated group running ads in support of French Hill, which is part of our ridiculous campaign finance law situation where people, when they want to donate more money than the maximum, which is completely unconstitutional to have in this country, when people want to do that, they give it to super PACs and they run ads on the behalf of the candidate that has no control over those ads.

00:59:47.200 So this is an ad being run in Arkansas.

00:59:49.780 It's related to Brett Kavanaugh, and it's being criticized.

00:59:53.960 I don't know if you can detect anything here, Pat.

00:59:56.300 I would like to get your call on whether you can detect anything.

00:59:59.060 It seems a little odd here.

01:00:01.700 Here is the ad from the group supporting French Hill.

01:00:05.300 What do you think about what's happening in Washington?

01:00:07.780 Our congressman, French Hill, and the Republicans know that it's dangerous to change the presumption of innocence to a presumption of guilt, especially for black men.

01:00:16.580 If the Democrats can do that to a white justice of the Supreme Court with no evidence, no corroboration, and all of her witnesses, including her best friend, say it didn't happen, what will happen to our husbands, our fathers, or our sons when a white girl lies on them?

01:00:33.680 Girl, white Democrats will be lynching black folk again.

01:00:36.680 Honey, I've always told my son, don't be messing around with that.

01:00:41.000 If you get caught, she will cry rape.

01:00:43.800 I'm voting to keep Congressman French Hill and the Republicans because we have to protect our men and boys.

01:00:50.340 We can't afford to let white Democrats take us back to bad old days of race verdicts, life sentences, and lynchings when a white girl screams rape.

01:00:59.540 Paid for by black Americans for the president's agenda.

01:01:02.260 Not authorized by any candidate or candidate's committee.

01:01:04.720 First of all, I would totally watch a show with them hosting it.

01:01:07.800 I would, too.

01:01:08.740 This sounds fantastic.

01:01:10.120 And these are obviously real points they're making.

01:01:12.640 Yeah.

01:01:12.880 Right?

01:01:13.280 Like, the point of, and this is a fascinating thing from the left, who thinks that, you know,

01:01:18.900 one of the biggest reasons Beto is in the public eye in the United States and not just a Texas figure

01:01:25.240 is because of this video he made about it's a great idea to kneel for the national anthem.

01:01:32.380 And what's behind that story?

01:01:33.700 People like Colin Kaepernick saying that black people are being unfairly accused without evidence

01:01:38.440 and being shot at the streets for no reason because for crimes they didn't commit.

01:01:43.820 At the same time, we're supposed to get on board, if you're on the left, you're supposed

01:01:48.920 to get on board with a new standard in which any white woman can accuse a man of rape and

01:01:57.900 we're just supposed to believe her.

01:01:58.880 That is not going to work out well for African Americans or any race of male.

01:02:04.180 But this is the type of thing that makes no sense.

01:02:06.480 I mean, there are real cases of this.

01:02:08.420 This isn't a fake thing.

01:02:09.580 Go back to, you know, we talked about Tilltown.

01:02:11.560 Go back to Emmett Till.

01:02:12.340 I mean, this goes back a long way where black people were accused of doing terrible things

01:02:17.560 to white people when they didn't and entire communities went and attacked the black person.

01:02:22.360 This is obviously going back quite a ways, but it is something that legitimately is part

01:02:26.660 of our history.

01:02:27.240 And it's surprising at the least if liberals actually cared about black people and black

01:02:33.760 men like they say that they do, that they would want to embrace a standard like this.

01:02:37.740 So the point behind the ad, I think, is is relatively fair and is something that should

01:02:42.240 be communicated, I think, to the African American community.

01:02:45.100 The criticism is perhaps a little overdone.

01:02:48.640 A little overdone.

01:02:49.540 Potentially.

01:02:50.400 That is the criticism here.

01:02:52.220 And it's interesting because I don't think it's a, it's not, it does not, I don't know

01:02:55.780 the for sure on this, but what I've, my understanding is that these are the people who recorded this

01:03:01.400 are African Americans that there's not like a white person doing a black voice, quote unquote.

01:03:06.880 These are African Americans talking.

01:03:09.620 And I guess the idea is that they have picked the stereotypical African Americans to do the

01:03:16.180 commercial.

01:03:16.720 It's very uncomfortable.

01:03:17.860 Uh, I don't think that this is something that French Hill necessarily is embracing, uh, by

01:03:22.460 any means, but it is, uh, something that's making a lot of, uh, a lot of waves in the

01:03:27.460 media because they're trying to make it seem like, well, this is just this Republican and

01:03:31.500 who's a racist.

01:03:33.480 I mean, I, A, he didn't have anything to do with the ad, but besides that, uh, it is, it's

01:03:39.020 an interesting double standard that we find ourselves dealing with.

01:03:41.900 Always.

01:03:42.620 Yeah.

01:03:42.860 And, and, and we get that double standard in, uh, to the 10th power.

01:03:48.100 And, you know, I'm, I guess we get kind of used to it by now.

01:03:51.580 I'm just sort of used to the double standard and to the point where you almost feel silly

01:03:57.720 bringing up the double standard because it happens so much.

01:04:00.400 It is.

01:04:00.880 And it's, but it's so obvious.

01:04:02.500 Sometimes you have to, for example, does anyone, I mean, if you don't live in French

01:04:05.860 Hills district, do you know who French Hill is?

01:04:08.000 He's not a major, I actually don't.

01:04:09.860 Yeah.

01:04:10.000 He's not a major national figure as a Congress, uh, person.

01:04:13.380 Um, so, you know, like I, I think this wouldn't be a big national story.

01:04:17.940 It is a big national story today.

01:04:19.320 What is not a big national story is a name that almost everyone knows, Louis Farrakhan.

01:04:23.860 Louis Farrakhan is not a big national story today.

01:04:26.340 He's making no waves at all for his comments, uh, yet again about Jews.

01:04:31.280 Now this is a person who has met with, you know, people like, uh, Keith Ellison.

01:04:36.920 He has met with several congressmen.

01:04:39.040 He's been embraced many times, but even, you know, fairly recently, uh, people meeting

01:04:44.340 with him.

01:04:44.760 We know that Barack Obama has at one point apparently had met with him.

01:04:48.460 We didn't find that out until like he was out of office.

01:04:50.320 I got how that, how that happens.

01:04:51.740 It's amazing.

01:04:52.360 But here is the latest from Louis Farrakhan.

01:04:55.880 Remember every knock is a boost.

01:05:02.380 So when they talk about Farrakhan, call me a hater.

01:05:07.980 You know, you know what they do?

01:05:10.440 Call me an anti-Semite.

01:05:14.060 Stop it.

01:05:16.020 I'm anti-termite.

01:05:20.640 I don't know nothing about hating somebody because of their religious preference.

01:05:27.880 Okay.

01:05:28.640 Right.

01:05:29.360 Yeah.

01:05:29.720 You didn't know anything about hating somebody because of their religion.

01:05:33.020 Really?

01:05:33.660 Really?

01:05:34.040 You just, you seemingly just called Jewish people termites.

01:05:38.400 Yeah.

01:05:38.680 You don't know nothing about that.

01:05:39.800 He said more clearly than that, that that's what he's talking about in other speeches.

01:05:43.760 Wow.

01:05:45.040 Pretty amazing.

01:05:45.980 The other thing that's, that's, that's interesting about Louis Farrakhan is nobody loves Louis

01:05:49.940 Farrakhan more than Louis Farrakhan.

01:05:51.280 Oh, that's for sure.

01:05:51.960 I mean, this guy thinks he's really clever.

01:05:53.840 Yeah, he does.

01:05:54.200 Every, every, every rhyming line, he's got this gigantic smile on his face.

01:05:58.740 Like he's uncovered some deep historical truth or, or, or, or solved, you know, a perpetual

01:06:05.440 motion machine.

01:06:06.520 I mean, the guy is like, he put everybody in their place just now by slamming them down

01:06:11.420 on the, I don't know nothing about hating no religious group.

01:06:15.180 I'm not anti-Semite.

01:06:16.800 I'm anti-termite.

01:06:18.140 Like he thinks that's awesome.

01:06:19.460 Yeah, he does.

01:06:20.200 He's really excited about himself that he realized both of those words and in ite.

01:06:25.060 Like he is excited about discovering that.

01:06:27.440 That was an amazing revelation to him.

01:06:29.340 He, this is something that he's hanging around and he's like, I don't, I don't have any speeches

01:06:34.060 scheduled, scheduled one.

01:06:35.440 We need a speech just for this line.

01:06:37.140 That's how excited he looks when he delivers that.

01:06:40.260 He's really pumped up about it.

01:06:42.120 And I don't think he got the requisite reaction from the crowd.

01:06:45.360 I think he wanted more of a, you know, a gasp or a laugh or something.

01:06:50.920 He just kind of got, wait, I don't know how to respond to that.

01:06:54.540 That was kind of a bad statement.

01:06:56.780 I don't think, I think he's going to be in trouble for that.

01:06:59.540 I'll give him this though.

01:07:00.540 The words do end in a similar fashion.

01:07:02.520 They do.

01:07:02.800 So that is something that he was able to nail.

01:07:04.540 They do.

01:07:04.960 Uh-huh.

01:07:05.300 Termite and Semite.

01:07:06.700 So that's why, that's why he said it that way.

01:07:09.280 Powerful.

01:07:10.660 Powerful.

01:07:11.880 That's really funny.

01:07:13.120 Oh man.

01:07:13.300 He's like, he's just like, he's so happy.

01:07:15.660 He looks so happy as he delivers these.

01:07:17.920 I mean, I can't wait to deliver genocide upon the Jews.

01:07:22.360 And he just big smiles.

01:07:24.120 As long as he can come up with something that rhymes.

01:07:27.700 You know, people have simple pleasures.

01:07:30.100 And I think that's, you know, he's got a couple of things he's asking for.

01:07:33.420 Rhyming words and killing the Jews.

01:07:34.720 Other than that.

01:07:35.540 Yeah.

01:07:35.760 Come on.

01:07:36.420 You know, maybe a good cup of iced tea.

01:07:38.960 You know, something, something, the simple pleasures beyond that.

01:07:41.840 I mean, he's, he's, he's said some pretty outrageous things that get very little coverage.

01:07:47.240 And this is another one.

01:07:48.800 Um, people just, they seem to kind of ignore him and act like, uh, he's not there supporting

01:07:56.640 Democrats.

01:07:57.180 He's kind of not there, you know, at the very edge of the left.

01:08:01.800 Uh, but if anybody on the right, again, this is the double standard had said anything approaching

01:08:09.440 that, uh, about any, can you imagine if somebody on the right had said something like that about

01:08:17.400 Muslims, would that be everywhere?

01:08:19.500 It would be everywhere, uh, on the mainstream media.

01:08:24.200 Uh, but he, for some reason, kind of flies under the radar and gets away with all of this stuff.

01:08:31.280 Uh, I mean, I, he still hasn't really suffered any consequences from talking about killing Malcolm X.

01:08:40.040 Even.

01:08:41.560 Um, which he pretty much admitted.

01:08:43.280 Which he pretty much admitted with this.

01:08:44.800 Yeah, I love Elijah Muhammad or not that if you attack him, I will kill you.

01:08:49.500 Yesterday, today and tomorrow.

01:08:54.580 And I'm not a killer, but neither are you.

01:09:00.860 But if somebody attack what you love, each one of you in here would become a killer instantaneously.

01:09:09.720 We don't give a damn about no white man law when you attack what we love.

01:09:16.060 Okay.

01:09:16.620 It ain't none of your business.

01:09:31.980 What have you got to say about it?

01:09:34.520 Did you teach Malcolm?

01:09:36.660 Did you make Malcolm?

01:09:38.780 Did you clean up Malcolm?

01:09:40.420 Did you put Malcolm out before the world?

01:09:44.100 Was Malcolm your traitor or was he ours?

01:09:47.480 And if we dealt with him like a nation deals with a traitor, what the hell business is it of yours?

01:09:54.740 Is that amazing?

01:09:55.500 I mean, that's an, uh, almost an exacted mission.

01:09:58.920 Uh-huh.

01:09:59.240 That he murdered somebody.

01:10:00.420 Yeah, that we, yeah, we killed, man.

01:10:02.100 Uh, it's none of your business, though.

01:10:03.480 We don't follow your white man law.

01:10:05.080 Yeah.

01:10:05.240 Wait, not murdering somebody is white man law?

01:10:08.480 I hope that's not true.

01:10:09.320 I don't think that's true.

01:10:10.720 No, I don't think it is either.

01:10:11.660 And by the way, his Twitter account's still active.

01:10:13.720 In case you were, if you have a conservative that recently had his account removed, you

01:10:17.800 could still get Lewis.

01:10:19.160 Lewis could still keep posting these, uh, these videos.

01:10:22.160 Yeah, the Jewish termite thing was posted on Twitter.

01:10:24.700 Yeah.

01:10:25.000 They didn't shut him down.

01:10:25.820 This is absolute Hitler stuff we're talking about.

01:10:27.880 This is Hitler stuff.

01:10:29.000 This is, this is Third Reich stuff.

01:10:31.300 This is, you know, the architect of the Third Reich, Beto Spears stuff.

01:10:37.420 It's just not right.

01:10:38.680 No.

01:10:39.200 That's not.

01:10:40.940 We're getting deep.

01:10:42.420 We're getting deep down here.

01:10:44.500 But I think it's important to point out, this is, I mean, that's scary.

01:10:47.980 It is.

01:10:48.500 That is, uh, that's scary.

01:10:49.960 And it's the fact that he continues to get away with it with no repercussions still.

01:10:53.900 No.

01:10:54.140 I mean, like, yeah, yes, if you ask a Democrat, uh, publicly, will you distance yourself from

01:11:00.740 this guy?

01:11:01.800 Most of them will say, yes, they will distance themselves.

01:11:04.380 I have nothing to do with him.

01:11:05.860 They will, they will attempt that.

01:11:07.340 Then you find pictures of them together.

01:11:09.220 Right.

01:11:09.460 Like Barack Obama.

01:11:11.220 Comes out later.

01:11:12.220 But at least, they're at the point that the only real repercussions this guy has, has

01:11:16.240 faced for any of this antisemitism is, you know, basically that he occasionally gets

01:11:22.860 a public denial from a public source.

01:11:25.880 And remember, he, he was, uh, he said that very early on with Obama saying that he, he

01:11:33.080 said he would say this.

01:11:34.480 Yeah.

01:11:34.580 He's going to distance himself from me, but that's okay.

01:11:36.240 As long as he does the right thing.

01:11:37.800 Right.

01:11:38.300 You know, I mean, so this is, uh, it's, it's a terrifying thing.

01:11:42.080 And the idea that, I mean, certainly the, the, you know, you remember the million man

01:11:46.840 march, right?

01:11:47.800 Which, you know, was not million, but it was a lot of people.

01:11:50.540 Uh, you, the nation of Islam is not a group of, of 20 here yet.

01:11:54.980 We'll find the Jews will not replace us guys from Charlottesville.

01:11:57.940 Gosh, that's a national story.

01:11:59.460 And we talk about that for years and years and years and years.

01:12:01.940 The biggest story of all time.

01:12:03.360 Yeah.

01:12:03.660 I mean, these guys, you know, it's a much larger contingency here.

01:12:06.720 Much.

01:12:06.980 Triple eight, seven, two, seven, B.E.C.K.

01:12:12.360 Triple eight, seven, two, seven, B.E.C.K.

01:12:14.680 Uh, Pat and Stu for Glenn.

01:12:15.800 Who's back on Monday.

01:12:17.620 Uh, should we take, let's go to Adam in North Carolina.

01:12:20.360 Hey Adam, you're on the blaze.

01:12:21.660 Or the Glenn Beck program.

01:12:23.580 Or both.

01:12:24.720 Hey, Glenn.

01:12:26.240 Hi, Jeffy.

01:12:26.780 How y'all doing?

01:12:28.560 Thank you.

01:12:29.340 I got 30 seconds, man.

01:12:30.300 Go ahead.

01:12:30.620 Quick.

01:12:31.880 My friends call me Betto all the time.

01:12:34.360 Yeah.

01:12:34.680 What's your name?

01:12:35.180 Adam.

01:12:38.880 I don't know.

01:12:40.040 Again, I don't think this helps Betto O'Rourke at all.

01:12:42.560 It doesn't really work, does it?

01:12:44.660 All right.

01:12:45.200 Thank you for the call.

01:12:46.240 I mean, Robert Francis O'Rourke, I'm comfortable calling him.

01:12:49.340 I'm comfortable with Bob Frank O'Rourke, which is fine, too.

01:12:53.140 But I just don't think Betto works.

01:12:54.520 No, not at all.

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01:14:00.300 Oh, yeah.

01:14:00.620 It's like hanging out.

01:14:01.320 You know, we're talking about issues.

01:14:02.120 Yeah, we're just talking things over.

01:14:04.200 That's all.

01:14:05.940 We've talked a little bit about the elections today.

01:14:08.580 This update is kind of fascinating.

01:14:10.360 I think if you want to boil down quick version of where we stand at this very moment, it

01:14:15.840 looks very likely that the GOP will hold the Senate.

01:14:18.680 It looks very likely that the GOP will lose the House.

01:14:22.320 You know, the governors, there's a bunch of stories there.

01:14:24.660 There's a lot of individual stories on both sides.

01:14:26.440 But if you're just going to summarize overall, that's likely what we're looking at right

01:14:31.400 now.

01:14:32.060 These things can change, as we know.

01:14:33.540 It's not a lock on either one of them.

01:14:36.160 Things can change in significant ways.

01:14:38.500 There's one thing that will not change, however, in this race, which is the Democrats have

01:14:44.100 found a way to milk their people out of a lot of money.

01:14:49.840 A lot of money.

01:14:51.540 Now, this is, of course, the party that constantly tells us they want money out of politics.

01:14:55.480 They just...

01:14:55.900 They can't do it.

01:14:56.960 They do not want people buying elections.

01:15:00.280 They don't want people...

01:15:01.260 And they constantly are out raising Republicans in these big, high-profile races, you know,

01:15:06.700 presidency and things like that.

01:15:08.120 I mean, Barack Obama famously outraised everybody in the universe.

01:15:13.180 And, you know, Donald Trump spent like nothing on his campaign in 2016.

01:15:16.400 Yeah.

01:15:16.560 It's an under-told story of that election.

01:15:19.260 Hillary...

01:15:19.980 If the idea, if it's true that you can buy elections, Hillary Clinton absolutely would

01:15:24.280 have won.

01:15:25.160 I mean, she had way more money, far more resources, because, you know, Donald Trump didn't throw

01:15:31.840 a lot of his own money into the race.

01:15:34.700 They just ran it on a shoestring for much of the time.

01:15:37.780 And they were still able to win.

01:15:39.080 It kind of disproves every liberal theory about money in politics.

01:15:42.600 Because he was kind of going on the theory that he didn't need anybody else's money.

01:15:45.920 So he didn't...

01:15:46.600 He sort of didn't try to fundraise much.

01:15:49.700 No.

01:15:50.220 I mean, he raised some money.

01:15:52.380 A little bit.

01:15:52.940 Yeah.

01:15:53.160 And he used some of his own money.

01:15:54.740 But it wasn't like a billion dollars like she did.

01:15:56.780 No.

01:15:57.120 It wasn't even close.

01:15:58.820 And this is...

01:16:00.160 Like, you know, part of that is he's a big celebrity, right?

01:16:03.340 Like, he was a celebrity before he was a candidate.

01:16:05.040 So he was able to get a lot of TV time for free.

01:16:07.900 And everybody was covering him all the time.

01:16:10.340 You can see now, I mean, even after he's president, the media is absolutely obsessed with

01:16:16.540 him as a person.

01:16:17.980 Like, it just...

01:16:18.600 They cannot get enough of him talking about anything.

01:16:21.060 Every single story, you know, the Saudi Arabia murder story is all about Trump.

01:16:25.380 Every story is all about Trump all the time.

01:16:27.840 I mean, this is a foreign citizen who was living in America who was murdered in a foreign

01:16:33.360 embassy in Turkey by someone likely in Saudi Arabia, you know, from Saudi Arabia.

01:16:40.300 And yet that's about Trump.

01:16:41.480 It's about Donald Trump somehow.

01:16:42.680 Yeah.

01:16:42.900 I don't know why that is, but that's the case.

01:16:46.060 So there are some differences there.

01:16:47.700 We will have another test of this theory, though.

01:16:51.060 In this midterm election.

01:16:52.780 Can you buy a midterm election?

01:16:55.380 And this is incredible.

01:16:56.740 This is the House fundraising across all races.

01:17:01.420 Not including...

01:17:01.820 You know, it's not about candidates that lost in primaries.

01:17:03.960 This is from 538.

01:17:06.040 They...

01:17:06.680 Now, this is an incumbency advantage, remember, for the GOP.

01:17:11.660 The GOP currently controls the House.

01:17:13.460 Usually, it's easier to raise money if you're an incumbent.

01:17:16.960 However, this goes back to 1998.

01:17:20.140 Here are the percentages of Democratic fundraising.

01:17:23.460 In 1998, they had 43% of all fundraising, okay?

01:17:26.700 In 1998 in the House.

01:17:28.440 2000, it was 47%.

01:17:30.140 2002, 47%.

01:17:32.180 2004, 46%.

01:17:34.180 You kind of see a pattern there.

01:17:35.780 They're a little bit...

01:17:36.640 You know, Republicans slightly out-raising them there.

01:17:39.320 Kind of changes in 2006, where it goes to 50% Democrat, then 56% Democrat.

01:17:43.960 In 2008, that's Barack Obama's first election.

01:17:46.940 It's been hanging around 50% ever since.

01:17:49.460 2010 was 48%.

01:17:50.920 2012, 44%.

01:17:52.280 2014, 47%.

01:17:53.800 2016, 50%.

01:17:55.180 So, you get that.

01:17:55.960 There's a range there from about 43% to 56% that is broken.

01:18:00.680 And 56% was an outlier.

01:18:02.340 Most of the time, it's right between 47% and 50%, 51%.

01:18:05.740 So far, in 2018, Democrats have raised 65% of the money going to the House.

01:18:13.880 Wow.

01:18:14.800 Again, they've never been higher than 56%.

01:18:17.160 65%, a 65-35 split against Republicans.

01:18:22.220 They are out...

01:18:22.940 There was a congressman who came out the other day.

01:18:25.180 He raised $800,000 in his district.

01:18:27.320 Thought he did a good job.

01:18:28.660 His opponent announced $2.6 million.

01:18:31.460 Jeez.

01:18:32.060 This is like...

01:18:32.780 It's unheard of when it comes to money and the disparity going on now.

01:18:38.860 Now, the Democrats are favored to take the House.

01:18:41.520 I don't know how much it has to do with money.

01:18:43.560 But if they were to lose this race, with this sort of climate,

01:18:48.280 it would be a complete destruction of any argument that money can buy elections.

01:18:55.180 I mean, this is...

01:18:56.240 They're going to complain...

01:18:57.280 I mean, Beto O'Rourke was on the stage complaining with Ted Cruz about money

01:19:00.900 and how Ted Cruz is influenced by...

01:19:02.680 You had to rate me $100,000 donation to him.

01:19:05.760 Like, this is a big deal in today's world.

01:19:09.560 But, I mean, he's raised...

01:19:11.660 This doesn't even include Beto.

01:19:12.880 He's raised $38 million.

01:19:13.900 More than any Senate candidate in history for a quarter.

01:19:19.600 Which is incredible.

01:19:20.840 You said it compares to Barack Obama's raising.

01:19:23.100 And what year was that?

01:19:23.660 It was more.

01:19:25.640 If you compare quarter to last quarter of the campaign in 2008,

01:19:30.280 he raised more than Barack Obama during his presidential campaign.

01:19:32.760 That's a presidential election!

01:19:34.820 That's amazing.

01:19:35.460 This is a Texas Senate race where he barely has any chance to win.

01:19:38.960 Now, it's funny.

01:19:40.820 The Senate race record he broke was the record set by Rick Lazio.

01:19:46.480 Of course, you remember Senator Lazio from New York.

01:19:48.920 Running against Hillary, right?

01:19:50.000 Running against Hillary.

01:19:50.900 He did not win that race.

01:19:52.080 In fact, it was not a close race.

01:19:53.600 Even though Rick Lazio wasn't a bad candidate, it was not a close race.

01:19:57.300 It was Hillary, right, in New York.

01:19:58.380 You'd expect her to win.

01:19:59.660 But, I mean, again, you're around 50 in almost every...

01:20:02.840 It's almost a 50-50 split every year.

01:20:04.680 And this year, it's 65-35.

01:20:06.680 That's a big deal.

01:20:07.380 So, the other thing that's kind of interesting, on the bad side,

01:20:11.100 if you want to get scaremongering for a while, and why not?

01:20:13.720 Glenn's out.

01:20:14.460 We haven't had enough scaremongering lately.

01:20:17.140 We haven't said it always ends with a bullet to the head all week.

01:20:20.220 All week.

01:20:21.100 Well, in the last two days.

01:20:22.420 But now we just did.

01:20:23.440 Now we have.

01:20:24.840 Going back in history, looking at 238 seats with a Democratic incumbent,

01:20:31.160 only 8% of them get knocked off when you have a Democratic incumbent running.

01:20:35.800 For Republicans, the rate is twice as high.

01:20:39.100 It's 16%.

01:20:39.980 Now, is that a big difference?

01:20:42.240 I mean, 16% is still not high, but it does show that Republicans wind up losing these

01:20:47.360 incumbency races a little bit more often.

01:20:49.400 If you're worried about the Senate, there's a little bit of something there to be worried

01:20:55.280 about.

01:20:55.740 I think they're going to win the Senate.

01:20:57.220 I think you're going to see a 53 or 54 seat majority.

01:21:00.140 I think they may pick up a couple of seats.

01:21:01.580 Oh, I'm pretty bullish right now on Arizona.

01:21:04.920 I'm pretty bullish right now on Texas.

01:21:07.220 Those two were in question.

01:21:09.440 I really believe.

01:21:10.420 I think Ted winds up winning by maybe 10 points or more.

01:21:14.740 I think it'll be a double digit.

01:21:16.320 I think there's a good chance of that.

01:21:17.620 Yeah.

01:21:17.820 I wouldn't be surprised to see six to 10.

01:21:20.800 You know, I would be surprised.

01:21:22.940 I think it'll be fairly comfortable.

01:21:25.060 Yeah.

01:21:25.320 I think that's where he stands right now.

01:21:27.120 Yeah.

01:21:27.260 Arizona is razor thin margins right now, but it's, I think it's trending well for the

01:21:32.320 Republican there.

01:21:33.380 Like Sally, I think you've got toss ups in states like Nevada and Missouri and Florida

01:21:38.480 that in Montana seems to be leaning a little bit to the Democrat, but when you put that

01:21:43.460 in the toss up, he's up by three.

01:21:44.860 Yeah.

01:21:45.180 It's close.

01:21:45.700 I saw it's close, but pretty much a toss up race.

01:21:48.940 But those other, I mean, Florida is a complete toss up.

01:21:51.200 There's just no reason for the Democrats to continually win in Montana.

01:21:55.140 I don't understand it.

01:21:56.160 I don't know how they do it.

01:21:56.880 Or West Virginia.

01:21:57.600 I mean, we're not even talking about West Virginia here.

01:22:00.340 I think Joe Manchin probably sealed his reelection with his Kavanaugh vote, which was for Kavanaugh,

01:22:05.780 the only Democrat who did that.

01:22:07.440 This is his brand there.

01:22:08.880 I'll buck the system when I have to.

01:22:11.440 I don't believe it.

01:22:12.380 I mean, you look at his voting record.

01:22:13.460 He's worse than every single Republican.

01:22:15.420 Think about this.

01:22:16.140 You complain about Mitch McConnell.

01:22:17.860 You complain about Susan Collins.

01:22:19.880 You complain about Lisa Murkowski.

01:22:22.600 Lisa Murkowski.

01:22:23.320 See, Joe Manchin's voting record is much worse than all of them.

01:22:28.180 All of them.

01:22:29.140 Yeah.

01:22:29.400 It's not even close.

01:22:30.360 I mean, Mitch McConnell is like the biggest conservative of all time.

01:22:33.300 I mean, for a Democrat, he's moderate.

01:22:37.300 Yeah.

01:22:37.400 He's the most moderate Democrat.

01:22:38.760 Yeah.

01:22:39.040 But I mean, that's not saying much because Democrats are now communists.

01:22:42.700 Again, yeah.

01:22:43.140 They're socialists and communists.

01:22:44.640 Yeah.

01:22:45.180 For the most part.

01:22:45.840 You think about Jeff Flake.

01:22:47.220 Here's a guy who's getting bludgeoned so, so much by the White House and by the conservative

01:22:53.160 media that he's resigning and not even trying to fight for him for that seat.

01:22:57.640 That's the seat that McSally is running for.

01:23:00.180 Well, he votes with the president way more often than Joe Manchin.

01:23:04.980 It's not even close.

01:23:06.980 Yeah.

01:23:07.100 You know, again, West Virginia is a state, is probably the most pro-Trump state in the

01:23:13.960 union.

01:23:15.280 He won West Virginia by almost, what was that, 30 points?

01:23:18.100 It was close to 30, I think.

01:23:19.120 Yeah.

01:23:19.800 And, you know, this is like, it's bizarre they would go for, I mean, Manchin's got a big

01:23:24.960 name in West Virginia.

01:23:26.180 Again, if you want to pick a Democrat in the Senate, you know, you probably, Manchin would

01:23:31.580 be the guy you'd be most optimistic for.

01:23:34.320 He voted even more, I mean, Heitkamp almost certainly is going to lose now in North Dakota.

01:23:38.620 But, I mean, in West Virginia, you got Manchin, you got his Kavanaugh vote, you have a couple

01:23:43.340 of, but again, this is a guy who voted for Obamacare, he's a, he's, he is a Democrat.

01:23:48.220 It is, it's not a, he's a moderate Democrat as compared to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, but is

01:23:53.840 that what West Virginia actually wants?

01:23:55.640 You wouldn't think so.

01:23:56.360 Apparently so, though.

01:23:57.260 He seems to be leading in the polls.

01:23:59.120 It is an interesting development there.

01:24:01.680 Uh, but it is a winnable, it should be a winnable seat in this environment.

01:24:05.900 Uh, right now Manchin's leading that one fairly comfortably, but even without the Manchin

01:24:08.980 seat, you're at a, I think you can get to 53, 54 without going crazy.

01:24:13.920 And I think you can get to 50 to 51.

01:24:17.060 It would be a real surprise if they lost the Senate at this point.

01:24:19.620 I mean, I think there's a good, you know, 80% chance that they're, I mean, most models are

01:24:23.800 showing about an 80% chance they hold it.

01:24:25.500 And I think that's a, I think that's a safe assumption.

01:24:27.780 Yeah.

01:24:28.060 Interestingly, you know, when you mentioned Heidi Heitkamp in North Dakota, uh, she's

01:24:32.500 down by 8.7 now.

01:24:34.160 Yeah.

01:24:34.460 The average is 8.7 points, uh, to the Republican Kevin Kramer.

01:24:38.840 So yeah, that's looking pretty good.

01:24:40.460 Yeah.

01:24:40.660 Pick up a seat there.

01:24:41.420 I think honestly, you had two races decided by the Kavanaugh vote.

01:24:46.760 One was Manchin, two was Heitkamp.

01:24:49.280 Her vote against that sealed it, I think.

01:24:50.960 I don't think she's, I don't think she can win that race now.

01:24:52.900 I don't think she can win that race now.

01:24:54.820 I think she's going to lose it.

01:24:55.680 I think she's going to lose it pretty big.

01:24:56.880 I would not be surprised.

01:24:57.760 As you said, a double digits situation happens there.

01:25:00.860 Yeah.

01:25:00.940 Look, again, North Dakota is a conservative state.

01:25:03.400 Uh, they are looking at Heitkamp and, you know, I think a lot of people like to say,

01:25:07.920 well, we've got this one Democrat.

01:25:09.180 This is one, we've got the one good Democrat.

01:25:10.860 I think people like to say that, you know, I think states in general like to say, well,

01:25:14.240 we're not partisan.

01:25:15.100 We've got, you know, democratic governor, or we've got a democratic senator.

01:25:18.520 And there's something, there's some level of pride there to say like, we're not

01:25:21.440 only voting one way.

01:25:23.920 When you vote against Brett Kavanaugh in those circumstances with the arguments she used,

01:25:28.500 this is not someone who is a borderline Democrat.

01:25:31.620 This is someone who is embracing the same sort of standards you're seeing from Cory Booker

01:25:38.100 and Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi and all of these far left figures.

01:25:43.320 And good for North Dakotans for jettisoning her as a, uh, as a result of that.

01:25:48.600 It looks that way.

01:25:49.240 Good.

01:25:49.660 Yeah.

01:25:49.980 It looks that way.

01:25:50.740 So yeah, there's some optimistic things there, but the danger's there as well.

01:25:54.620 I mean, this, this is going to be an interesting one.

01:25:56.260 And if, and the one, the thing that's really unfortunate is if, if all that happens is,

01:26:01.060 let's say the result is, and I think this would be a good result for Republicans right

01:26:04.280 now, which is you get 53 or 54 senators in there and you lose the house, but you lose

01:26:09.720 it narrowly.

01:26:10.840 You lose it, let's say by eight or 10, uh, seats.

01:26:15.180 You have a minority.

01:26:16.060 You might be able to get some stuff through in certain circumstances, but it's going to

01:26:19.380 be difficult.

01:26:20.020 And that's the thing.

01:26:20.740 There's going to be almost nothing they can get through.

01:26:23.180 Almost nothing.

01:26:23.980 With the exception of maybe some bipartisan spending bills, which they'll find ways to get those

01:26:28.520 through.

01:26:28.780 I'm sure of it.

01:26:29.760 But other than that, you're not going to get any real advances.

01:26:31.700 You're not going to get any tax stuff.

01:26:32.700 You're going to have tough times with any regulation.

01:26:35.340 You're going to get, you know, none of this stuff is going to be easy.

01:26:37.820 As long as you keep running a massive deficit, you'll get all those bills through.

01:26:41.140 Yeah.

01:26:41.800 Just, just keep spending money and they'll vote for it.

01:26:44.880 Yeah.

01:26:45.520 That's not a problem.

01:26:46.300 To show you the house and how dramatic it is, at least by the polls look.

01:26:48.860 And I know you're going to say, well, the polls got the last thing wrong.

01:26:51.600 Well, some of it, they got right.

01:26:53.360 And a lot of it, they got right.

01:26:54.660 Including the popular vote, by the way, which is what they were actually trying to predict in

01:26:58.100 the national polls.

01:26:59.220 Some of the state polls were totally off though.

01:27:01.480 So we don't know.

01:27:02.080 Will this hold?

01:27:02.840 We're not sure.

01:27:03.920 But right now the models are showing there is a, like a 0.1% chance that the Democrats

01:27:09.560 could pick up 83 seats.

01:27:11.540 Now it's a 0.1% chance.

01:27:13.400 So it's a really unlikely, like you'd say that's an absolute no.

01:27:18.120 It's not, they're not going to get to 83, right?

01:27:20.220 The models are also showing there's a 0.1 chance for Republicans to hold the same amount

01:27:25.380 of seats they have now.

01:27:26.540 It's that bad an environment.

01:27:29.020 The same, same percentage chance.

01:27:31.580 The crazy outlier possibility is Democrats plus 83, Republicans plus zero.

01:27:37.480 What is the chance of not holding the same amount of seats, but keeping the majority?

01:27:43.080 About 20%, they're saying.

01:27:44.620 About a 20% chance they can keep the majority right now.

01:27:47.100 Wow.

01:27:47.400 About the same percentage chance that Democrats can get the Senate.

01:27:52.900 So, I mean, look, and if they get the House, if just, if all the Democrats do is get the

01:27:57.080 House, they're going to be able to launch investigations like crazy.

01:27:59.760 Right.

01:28:00.160 They are going to.

01:28:00.820 It's going to be a nightmare.

01:28:01.660 Almost certainly impeach the president.

01:28:02.780 They will impeach him.

01:28:03.740 Right.

01:28:04.020 Now, will he be convicted?

01:28:05.060 No.

01:28:05.380 No.

01:28:05.640 The Senate won't.

01:28:07.100 There's no chance of him really being convicted unless something dramatic were to happen.

01:28:10.980 Right.

01:28:11.380 Because you'd have to get to, is it 67 seats?

01:28:13.540 Yeah.

01:28:13.640 You know this stuff better than I do.

01:28:14.600 It's 67 seats, and they're not going to get anywhere close to that.

01:28:17.120 Even if they get the majority in the Senate, they're not going to be able to do that.

01:28:19.800 But they will have subpoena power.

01:28:22.240 They will bog down the administration in constant investigations.

01:28:26.620 And look, investigating something that's real is fine.

01:28:30.020 What they're going to do is not bad.

01:28:32.060 It's going to be ridiculous.

01:28:32.960 It's going to be ridiculous.

01:28:33.920 They're going to investigate.

01:28:34.580 It's going to be a nightmare.

01:28:35.260 You know, there's a new story out today that Ivanka Trump may have committed a crime.

01:28:38.920 Have you heard this?

01:28:39.720 No.

01:28:40.540 Because when she was promoting the sale of real estate when she was back in the day and,

01:28:47.360 you know, her job was with the Trump Organization, she said things like, well, this one's almost

01:28:51.640 sold out.

01:28:53.060 And it was not almost sold out.

01:28:56.080 Like, we're saying, like, our new building in New York, you should get in now because

01:29:00.740 it's almost sold out.

01:29:01.820 And in reality, it was only like 20% sold out.

01:29:04.100 Now, look, there's an argument to be made, right?

01:29:07.300 Like, you shouldn't say that because if someone's investing in a property, I understand that.

01:29:10.920 I demand an investigation.

01:29:11.880 And these wind up going bankrupt.

01:29:13.700 I demand it.

01:29:14.460 You joke.

01:29:15.200 It's happening.

01:29:16.260 Believe it.

01:29:16.880 I believe it.

01:29:17.460 There's a huge report that came out from a left-wing media source that this is going

01:29:20.300 on.

01:29:20.560 And New York has investigated them a bunch of times already.

01:29:23.640 They're going to go after the House and the Senate, if they get control of it, will

01:29:27.160 launch investigation after investigation after investigation.

01:29:29.800 And nothing will happen in this government that's possible.

01:29:31.940 They'll do an investigation as to why Donald Trump doesn't talk about his daughter Tiffany

01:29:36.000 as much as he does Ivanka.

01:29:37.520 They'll do an investigation.

01:29:38.620 I would actually like an investigation.

01:29:39.660 I want to see the results of that one, though.

01:29:41.500 I really do.

01:29:42.060 There's something weird there.

01:29:43.220 I know.

01:29:43.700 Poor Tiffany.

01:29:44.600 I always feel like she's never included in anything.

01:29:46.880 There's people probably right now saying, wait, he has a daughter named Tiffany?

01:29:50.220 Yeah.

01:29:50.660 Yeah.

01:29:51.200 Yeah, he does.

01:29:51.600 And so that was from Marla Maples, right?

01:29:53.940 I think so.

01:29:54.500 The only one from...

01:29:55.520 So it went Ivana Trump, which you got Ivanka and Don Jr. and Eric, right?

01:30:00.340 Right.

01:30:00.840 Then he got married to Marla Maples and it was just Tiffany.

01:30:04.280 And then...

01:30:04.560 And then this with Melania.

01:30:06.600 With the first lady.

01:30:07.060 Melania.

01:30:07.520 With Barron.

01:30:08.260 Barron.

01:30:08.820 Yeah.

01:30:09.360 Who's what, 12 or 13 now?

01:30:11.100 Yeah.

01:30:11.260 But we always hear about everybody else.

01:30:13.160 We hear about the other ones.

01:30:14.500 Yeah.

01:30:15.180 Not Tiffany.

01:30:15.800 I want that investigation.

01:30:16.660 I support that.

01:30:17.240 Yeah.

01:30:17.620 Yeah.

01:30:17.980 888-727-PAC is the phone number.

01:30:19.580 Back with more in just a moment.

01:30:21.600 One story, Pat.

01:30:24.580 By the way, Pat and Stu are here for Glenn Beck.

01:30:27.900 He'll be back on Monday.

01:30:29.060 One of the stories that we...

01:30:30.260 Has had no attention at all was a story about an ACLU lawsuit challenging the government's

01:30:37.200 award of grants to the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops to provide services to unaccompanied

01:30:44.220 minor illegal aliens and trafficking victims.

01:30:46.820 Now, you might say, well, the reason why no one's covering that is because it sounds really

01:30:49.860 boring.

01:30:50.740 And that's true.

01:30:51.360 However, there's some interesting stuff in there.

01:30:53.940 They had a 34-page opinion and they shot down the ACLU's argument saying, okay, the Catholics

01:30:58.140 were not trying to endorse or win it over to a religion.

01:31:02.720 They were just helping.

01:31:03.700 So, no surprise there.

01:31:05.320 The ACLU sues everybody over everything.

01:31:07.420 However, buried in the middle of the...

01:31:09.280 This is from the Federalist.

01:31:10.100 Buried in the middle of the court's analysis was a shocking revelation.

01:31:14.200 Obama administration officials transported pregnant minors in federal custody to New Mexico to obtain abortions in order to circumvent

01:31:25.400 parental consent laws in other states.

01:31:27.500 An email exchange between two health and human services employees in April 2014 exposed this fact.

01:31:33.820 In discussing Maria, a pregnant minor held at a temporary shelter, possibly in Texas or Florida, the workers noted that Maria stated she wanted an abortion and did not want her parents to know that she was pregnant.

01:31:45.520 At the time, Maria's parents, who were her sponsors, were located in Florida.

01:31:50.100 Maria was in custody of the Federal Office of Refugee Resettlement.

01:31:54.420 After learning Maria had requested an abortion, according to government emails, two field specialists looked into the abortion laws in both Texas and Florida and reported that the general rule in both states was that minors could not have abortions without parental consent, with certain exceptions, like a waiver.

01:32:10.640 Instead, they went the other way and took them to New Mexico for an abortion.

01:32:16.780 With Pat and Stuart, joined by Jeffy.

01:32:20.900 Host of Chewing the Fat with Jeffy, the incredibly explosive podcast.

01:32:26.660 I'm thinking of changing that, though.

01:32:27.940 Why?

01:32:28.320 Chewing the Fat with Beto.

01:32:29.820 What do you think?

01:32:30.400 Oh, yeah.

01:32:31.000 I like that.

01:32:32.020 That's great.

01:32:32.960 Yeah, I like it.

01:32:33.740 Yeah.

01:32:34.040 You can, by the way, get the podcast every day?

01:32:35.980 Every day, Monday through Friday.

01:32:37.540 About 4 p.m. Central, 5 p.m. Eastern, it drops.

01:32:40.840 And you can get it wherever free podcasts are sold.

01:32:43.860 Yeah.

01:32:44.640 It's Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher is how you find it.

01:32:47.720 And you should do that.

01:32:49.520 And, Jeffy, I have the, I think, a potential story for you today.

01:32:52.880 Okay.

01:32:53.380 Just because we talked a little bit about this yesterday, but this could be the most Jeffy headline of all time.

01:32:59.160 Oh, no.

01:32:59.820 Nevada brothel owner expected to win election despite death.

01:33:05.560 Amen.

01:33:06.720 That's...

01:33:07.160 Bob Manhoff.

01:33:07.760 Yeah.

01:33:08.200 Bob Manhoff.

01:33:08.700 Yeah, he's still on the...

01:33:09.640 He's still on the...

01:33:10.200 He's still going to win.

01:33:10.840 On the ballot.

01:33:11.840 They have to put...

01:33:12.860 I read where they have to put a sign up in the voting hall that he's still on the ballot,

01:33:18.700 but he's dead.

01:33:19.200 He's still on the ballot, but he's dead.

01:33:20.580 But people are still...

01:33:21.460 So if he wins, who serves?

01:33:24.380 They will nominate a Republican to replace him, I guess.

01:33:27.360 So this is your way.

01:33:28.100 And this has happened in previous races as well, where a candidate passes away and then people

01:33:32.840 still vote for them.

01:33:33.840 Wasn't it Missouri where the senator died and his wife served in his stead?

01:33:40.200 Yes.

01:33:40.840 Yeah.

01:33:41.520 So...

01:33:41.720 I mean...

01:33:42.860 So it won't be one of his hookers, though.

01:33:45.060 It'll be someone else, we assume.

01:33:47.240 You don't know that.

01:33:47.980 We don't know.

01:33:48.760 We don't know that.

01:33:49.020 We don't know.

01:33:49.240 It could be a business partner.

01:33:50.760 It could.

01:33:51.280 You know, Heidi Fleiss.

01:33:52.460 Yeah.

01:33:53.640 Could be.

01:33:54.840 Who knows?

01:33:55.800 It could be.

01:33:56.480 I mean, we don't know how many Republican hookers he has.

01:34:00.100 It could be a high percentage.

01:34:02.280 We don't know.

01:34:02.800 We don't know.

01:34:03.680 So we'll find out.

01:34:04.600 But that's got to be interesting.

01:34:05.960 You're voting for someone who's dead and a pimp.

01:34:09.420 And a self-described pimp.

01:34:12.760 Oh, yeah.

01:34:13.500 That was his deal.

01:34:15.340 Yeah.

01:34:15.600 Interesting Republican world.

01:34:17.300 Because he's a Republican.

01:34:20.060 He ran one other time and almost won.

01:34:22.400 Yeah, he lost.

01:34:23.120 And this time he's actually going to win, it looks like.

01:34:24.960 Wow.

01:34:26.160 I noticed that you were still talking about Glenn and his canoe trip.

01:34:30.480 But I looked for the GoPro video online.

01:34:34.780 And I have not seen it.

01:34:35.440 Did you check the dark web?

01:34:36.940 It's on the dark web.

01:34:37.820 No.

01:34:38.320 Yeah, that's where it is.

01:34:39.380 Yeah.

01:34:39.820 Oh.

01:34:40.440 It's interesting because I just got an email here.

01:34:43.160 It says, this is Stu and Pat.

01:34:45.120 I may be your only listener who's actually staring at the Mediterranean Sea as I listen.

01:34:51.500 I can confirm that Glenn is nowhere to be seen rowing near Amalfi.

01:34:58.220 Oh, okay.

01:34:58.840 Well, that was his departure point.

01:35:00.580 That's where he left from there.

01:35:02.380 So he'd be a long way from there now.

01:35:04.100 Yeah.

01:35:04.480 Yeah.

01:35:04.800 That's why you're not going to be able to see him.

01:35:06.960 It's a big ocean.

01:35:07.880 He had to be there, what, yesterday or the day before?

01:35:10.520 Probably somewhere in there.

01:35:12.340 Yeah.

01:35:12.660 He'll be back on Monday, though.

01:35:13.720 Yeah.

01:35:13.920 We think.

01:35:14.320 Well, he's already done the canoe thing across the Mediterranean.

01:35:18.020 And now he is climbing K2 as we speak.

01:35:23.220 And all that training he's done is paying off, man.

01:35:26.040 It's paying off.

01:35:26.880 It sure is.

01:35:27.680 And you can tell when you look at him.

01:35:30.040 Also, by the way, he's going to be.

01:35:30.900 There's not a lot of us that work out like that.

01:35:33.000 No, that's true.

01:35:34.240 I'd put you guys in the same category.

01:35:37.320 So what else do you have for us today?

01:35:41.300 Good news.

01:35:42.180 Good news coming.

01:35:43.180 I know that, you know, everybody was concerned about carbon taxes, but they're going to be here.

01:35:48.920 ExxonMobil has announced that they're going to give a million dollars to the Americans for carbon dividends.

01:35:54.100 And that means that the carbon tax is on its way.

01:35:59.100 ExxonMobil is doing this?

01:36:00.480 That's right.

01:36:00.900 They're giving their million.

01:36:02.300 Unbelievable.

01:36:03.160 Why are they caving like this?

01:36:05.840 Now, there's some belief that they're not actually caving.

01:36:08.140 They're just giving the million to pretend like they're for it.

01:36:11.160 And they're not really.

01:36:11.980 Anyway, so that's very possible.

01:36:14.400 That's certainly to get people off their back.

01:36:16.520 That's why it gets nobody off your back.

01:36:18.360 They still just believe then you're you just write what Jeffy just said.

01:36:21.560 They think you're faking it.

01:36:22.540 Yes.

01:36:23.000 And so you never you don't get the credit for this.

01:36:25.400 And, you know, of course, you know, it is an interesting thing when it comes to new government regulation.

01:36:30.320 All these companies that go through and want free enterprise when they're coming up in the world.

01:36:34.500 Right.

01:36:34.640 When they get to be the biggest boys, they like some of these new taxes and regulations because it winds up punishing upstart competitors.

01:36:43.080 You know, Exxon can swallow a little bit of extra regulation and not not deal with it.

01:36:48.400 You know, that's why Google writes things.

01:36:50.060 You know, they're they're heavily involved in a lot of the net neutrality stuff.

01:36:53.660 It's not going to hurt Google.

01:36:55.020 Yeah.

01:36:55.480 Like they can take a little bit of it.

01:36:56.880 They can deal with it.

01:36:57.760 It's it's the you know, it's the guy down who's starting up something new that winds up getting punished.

01:37:02.620 But listen, we all I think we all can agree that something has to be done because.

01:37:07.540 No, what we cannot agree.

01:37:10.520 Definitely.

01:37:11.280 The things that they're going to try.

01:37:12.660 The share the latest report from the IPCC says the share of low carbon energy that we use to power transportation will need to rise from 5 percent to 25 percent to 45 percent in 2050.

01:37:25.640 Just to keep global warming to two degrees centigrade.

01:37:29.640 Yeah.

01:37:30.000 Something has to be done.

01:37:31.680 Right.

01:37:32.320 Yeah.

01:37:32.560 Well, the world has had a really rough run of it in that first degree.

01:37:36.260 I mean, the last hundred years.

01:37:38.020 Jeez.

01:37:38.780 Well, what a disaster for humanity.

01:37:40.420 Right.

01:37:40.840 About it.

01:37:41.380 It's almost killed everyone on the planet.

01:37:43.040 Oh, my gosh.

01:37:43.520 Now, sure.

01:37:44.200 The population has exploded.

01:37:46.580 Medical advances have exploded.

01:37:48.520 Civilization has been spread throughout the world to poverty.

01:37:51.180 Poverty just in the past 20 years has dropped by hundreds of millions, if not billions.

01:37:58.540 Tens of thousands of kids who normally would die just a couple of decades ago now live.

01:38:04.100 But let's complain about that time.

01:38:06.160 What about the ice caps, though?

01:38:07.340 What about the polar ice caps?

01:38:08.660 Yeah.

01:38:08.760 Why are they gone?

01:38:09.480 That's a good point.

01:38:10.200 Why are they gone?

01:38:10.640 I think if you are, they completely gone.

01:38:12.960 If you're writing the story of the 20th century, what you're going to write about.

01:38:15.800 Number one is going to be the 0.7 degree temperature rise.

01:38:19.680 And number two is going to be the 0.1 of a millimeter sea rise or whatever it is per

01:38:27.220 decade over the past hundred years.

01:38:29.080 Because sea level rise is the thing that's defined the last century.

01:38:32.180 Everyone's like, oh, my gosh.

01:38:33.180 I remember when there were a bunch of states to the west of South Carolina and North Carolina.

01:38:39.040 Remember that?

01:38:39.620 Now they're all underwater.

01:38:40.840 That's what everyone will talk about when talking about the 20th century.

01:38:44.000 Not all the wonderful advancements.

01:38:45.800 Going back to Exxon giving their million and still not being enough.

01:38:50.700 It's never enough, right?

01:38:51.800 I mean, these companies, it's never enough.

01:38:53.340 They give in.

01:38:53.800 We have the story about Kleenex rebanding their man-sized tissues because of the gender backlash.

01:39:01.200 Wait, what do they do?

01:39:02.880 Well, there's been many people have complained in the story and from Kimberly Clark, who is

01:39:09.680 the maker of Kleenex.

01:39:11.500 Many people have complained that man-sized tissues.

01:39:14.880 It's offensive.

01:39:16.580 We're sexist and not inclusive.

01:39:18.780 Yeah.

01:39:19.300 Yeah.

01:39:19.700 So they're all complaining about, you know, lady footlocker, too, right?

01:39:24.480 Like, they're all complaining about things that are designed specifically for women.

01:39:27.640 No.

01:39:28.500 Are you?

01:39:29.140 What?

01:39:29.500 Are you trying to make fun of this?

01:39:30.620 Yeah.

01:39:30.920 Is that what you're doing?

01:39:32.260 Oh, my gosh.

01:39:32.820 I'm saying that.

01:39:33.480 Are you a misogynist?

01:39:34.720 Are you the leader of the manvertising campaign?

01:39:38.120 Manvertising.

01:39:40.460 I mean, that's enough out of you.

01:39:42.600 What is it?

01:39:42.980 I mean, I honestly, this is an honest question.

01:39:45.060 What do, what's the difference between a female and a male tissue?

01:39:49.720 How does that work?

01:39:50.720 What's that?

01:39:50.980 Well, look, there's a difference because it's called man size.

01:39:54.200 So it's just bigger?

01:39:55.100 It's just, yes, it's bigger.

01:39:56.220 A bigger tissue.

01:39:56.960 Yes, and it's just, what it is, and he actually said manvertising.

01:40:01.520 That's what they're calling it.

01:40:02.700 So listen.

01:40:03.600 Manvertising.

01:40:04.120 And Kleenex.

01:40:04.780 I like that term, though.

01:40:05.800 Yes.

01:40:06.160 It's fun.

01:40:06.620 And Kleenex has said it no way.

01:40:08.500 We no way suggest that being both soft and strong is an exclusively masculine trait.

01:40:14.160 They by no way are saying that.

01:40:15.920 No way.

01:40:16.700 Not by saying it's a man-sized.

01:40:18.320 We believe that man-sized branding suggests or endorses gender inequality.

01:40:22.320 No way.

01:40:22.900 No way.

01:40:23.640 So they're keeping the man-sized?

01:40:25.120 They're sticking by it?

01:40:25.920 Well, they're going to keep the actual product, but they're going to, you know, rebrand it.

01:40:30.660 Of course, they're going to rebrand it.

01:40:32.040 They're going to rebrand it.

01:40:32.400 To what?

01:40:34.140 Kleenex extra large.

01:40:35.600 Oh, jeez.

01:40:37.060 Now, on behalf, I like to say this, that I believe that's fat shaming.

01:40:42.120 I like it.

01:40:42.480 Okay, I want that off.

01:40:44.540 That extra large stuff?

01:40:45.600 No way.

01:40:46.000 I think you can push this.

01:40:46.760 I want you to complain to corporate headquarters in Kleenex.

01:40:50.560 I want you to complain.

01:40:51.760 That's amazing.

01:40:52.260 Seriously, let's get them away from even the extra large, because yes.

01:40:56.560 What are you, a triple, quadruple extra large?

01:40:58.920 What are you, 5X?

01:40:59.880 Extra large is in the name.

01:41:01.100 Yeah.

01:41:01.660 And that's offensive to you.

01:41:03.200 It is, actually.

01:41:04.020 It is.

01:41:04.620 Yeah.

01:41:05.020 It is.

01:41:06.080 That's amazing.

01:41:06.800 Do you remember Dr. Pepper 10, which came out a few years ago?

01:41:12.020 Yeah.

01:41:12.260 It's still out.

01:41:12.820 I mean, you could still have it.

01:41:13.660 And it's a 10-calorie version.

01:41:15.420 It's not quite diet, which is zero calories.

01:41:17.900 It was supposed to be more for men, right?

01:41:19.160 That was their advertising campaign.

01:41:20.640 And they stopped that immediately.

01:41:21.920 Dr. Pepper 10, it's for men.

01:41:23.640 Yeah.

01:41:23.820 They were like, and they made it, it was all branded, almost like an Old Spice commercial.

01:41:27.140 Like, it was like branded with all masculine, you know, big guys with big muscles and like

01:41:30.580 doing crazy things, lifting cars and all this stuff.

01:41:33.360 And, you know, it was just a funny, jokey campaign.

01:41:35.860 I bet they wouldn't even do that today.

01:41:37.060 I haven't seen an ad like that in a while.

01:41:38.080 No way.

01:41:38.780 I haven't seen it.

01:41:39.980 No way.

01:41:40.580 They don't even talk about Dr. Pepper 10 anymore, do they?

01:41:43.280 I mean, no.

01:41:44.220 I haven't seen the commercial for it in a while.

01:41:45.420 It is still available.

01:41:46.400 And pretty delicious, by the way.

01:41:47.640 Is it?

01:41:47.880 I would say I'm a fan.

01:41:48.800 Okay.

01:41:49.180 I'd be very interested to see what many people have equals.

01:41:53.320 Because they also say in the story from Kimberly Clark that despite our consumer service registering,

01:41:58.600 consistent increase of complaints.

01:42:01.140 Okay.

01:42:01.400 So what is that?

01:42:02.740 Two?

01:42:03.100 Yeah.

01:42:03.420 Two to four.

01:42:03.900 Or is it the same three people that are complaining more than once?

01:42:07.480 Yeah.

01:42:07.740 I mean, that's what it's got to be.

01:42:09.120 A couple of people on Twitter said something.

01:42:11.800 Right.

01:42:12.160 And they freaked out.

01:42:13.500 Right.

01:42:13.740 Yeah.

01:42:14.380 That's like Pam on The Office.

01:42:16.480 And they said, she said, I doubled my sales last month.

01:42:19.700 And someone said, well, from two to four?

01:42:21.740 And she said, yes.

01:42:23.980 It was.

01:42:24.740 It was two to four.

01:42:25.800 So yes.

01:42:26.440 Yes.

01:42:27.800 That's kind of what we're talking about.

01:42:29.700 Yeah.

01:42:30.040 These are not real complaints.

01:42:31.360 I mean, again, you can always find someone to say something.

01:42:34.680 Always.

01:42:34.800 I always get frustrated by these news stories that come out and be like, someone on Twitter

01:42:39.040 said that they were upset.

01:42:40.460 And it's just like one person on Twitter.

01:42:43.060 Finding someone to say any example of any word combination in the English language is

01:42:49.180 not an achievement.

01:42:50.480 It's certainly not a news story.

01:42:52.560 So the idea that you can find some people who are going to be pissed off at man size,

01:42:56.040 I'm sure there is somebody, some crazy person.

01:42:58.740 There's probably some organization that has decided this is going to be their thing of

01:43:01.880 the day to make their donors feel good about themselves as if they've achieved something

01:43:06.040 in life.

01:43:06.660 But in reality, this is not a real complaint.

01:43:08.720 People don't care.

01:43:09.420 People don't care.

01:43:10.540 If you like man size, then you take the man size thing.

01:43:12.720 Right?

01:43:12.920 I mean, who cares?

01:43:13.960 And women could buy a man size.

01:43:15.540 Just like if we wanted to, we could buy...

01:43:17.640 Yeah, but they'd probably get looked at funny if they went through the register with the

01:43:21.760 man size.

01:43:22.380 Of course not.

01:43:23.260 There is no downside to this.

01:43:24.900 They'd be female shamed.

01:43:25.940 Yeah.

01:43:26.400 They might be looked at funny.

01:43:27.220 Man shamed.

01:43:28.620 You're not a man.

01:43:29.300 That's not for you, is it?

01:43:30.120 You can't buy that.

01:43:31.000 You can't buy that.

01:43:32.660 Your money's no good here.

01:43:34.700 It's not the way it works.

01:43:35.620 They like your money a lot.

01:43:36.340 Yeah, they do.

01:43:36.760 Yeah, they do.

01:43:37.220 Now, if Jeffy went through another transition and went back, because what are your three

01:43:43.120 or four transitions?

01:43:44.280 So going back to female, let's just say.

01:43:47.060 And you then would be a larger female if you were to transition back.

01:43:54.500 You'd be on the large side of the female scale.

01:43:56.560 That'd be fair.

01:43:58.280 That'd be fair.

01:43:58.800 And you wanted to go buy now man-sized tissues.

01:44:04.680 Would this be offensive to you if you were now identifying as a woman?

01:44:07.800 Very well could be.

01:44:08.640 I mean, I know that, you know.

01:44:10.500 Really?

01:44:11.100 Very well could be, yes.

01:44:11.920 Very well could be.

01:44:12.860 Very well could be.

01:44:13.480 Okay.

01:44:14.380 When I, at one of the transitions when I was a female, and again, I was, you know, larger.

01:44:19.800 Yeah, right.

01:44:20.280 A female.

01:44:20.860 Yeah.

01:44:20.920 I, they don't have a fat girl section in the stores.

01:44:26.500 You know, like they have the fat guy section, big and tall or whatever.

01:44:29.060 But in most stores, not all, but most stores, if you're a bigger female, you have to shop

01:44:35.600 in the maternity section.

01:44:38.360 Oh, really?

01:44:39.120 And I don't like that.

01:44:40.280 I think that's old school.

01:44:41.440 I think that's been rectified.

01:44:43.740 Oh, is it?

01:44:44.380 Recently.

01:44:44.880 Oh, okay.

01:44:45.480 Yeah.

01:44:46.560 I think it has.

01:44:47.340 Because if I go back to female, and I have to go to a maternity section.

01:44:49.560 No, I don't think you'll have to.

01:44:50.520 I don't think you'll have to go to the maternity section anymore.

01:44:52.460 I don't think you should challenge Jeffy's unique life experience on this particular topic.

01:44:57.120 That's probably true.

01:44:57.340 That's probably true.

01:44:58.140 All right.

01:44:59.160 We've got more coming up here.

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01:46:22.460 I mean, in this world, you absolutely, at this point, have to have an alarm system.

01:46:26.300 You got to make a choice of this.

01:46:27.420 I mean, at this point, you know, you got to do it.

01:46:30.680 But, you know, you might as well pick something that's going to be easy for you to, if you

01:46:33.800 decide you don't want it for a while.

01:46:35.060 If you run into a tough month, you can turn it off.

01:46:36.920 You can come back on.

01:46:37.840 And it's easy to put together.

01:46:38.920 It's easy to set up.

01:46:40.260 And we have a friend who's just lost her husband.

01:46:42.760 And she was asking about, you know, a system now.

01:46:46.180 And I said, oh, you got to get SimpliSafe.

01:46:48.120 It's so easy to set up.

01:46:50.580 And it's the best there is.

01:46:52.180 It's just high tech.

01:46:53.060 And you don't have to worry about it.

01:46:54.500 You can get 10% off now your SimpliSafe system.

01:46:56.660 Go to SimpliSafeBeck.com.

01:46:58.360 That's SimpliSafeBeck.com.

01:47:00.260 It's a company we've been doing, you know, as I said, for a long time.

01:47:02.680 These are trustworthy people.

01:47:03.900 They have a really good product.

01:47:04.940 I think you're going to like it a lot.

01:47:07.260 SimpliSafeBeck.com.

01:47:08.100 Pat, Stu, Jeffy, for Glenn, who is back on Monday.

01:47:18.140 As soon as he's finished climbing K2.

01:47:20.440 He'll be a little sore.

01:47:21.020 He'll be back.

01:47:21.480 He'll be a little sore.

01:47:21.700 He'll be a little sore, but I'm sure he'll be ready to go.

01:47:24.500 Have you seen the previews for this new Netflix movie that they're saying is so frightening

01:47:30.500 people who see it are vomiting and passing out?

01:47:36.100 What?

01:47:36.500 And they say don't watch it at night because you won't sleep.

01:47:41.040 You'll have to sleep with the lights on.

01:47:43.460 I do have Netflix, but I haven't experienced that yet.

01:47:46.760 It's called The Haunting of Hill House.

01:47:48.560 Now, I saw the preview.

01:47:50.180 I saw the trailer of it.

01:47:51.800 It does look...

01:47:52.660 Have you slept since?

01:47:53.940 Yeah, but I didn't see the actual movie.

01:47:56.140 I just saw the trailer, which does look spooky.

01:47:58.720 It looks terrifying.

01:48:00.880 I'd love to hear from somebody who has seen this thing and find out if you vomited while

01:48:06.600 you watched it.

01:48:08.160 I haven't heard that kind of stuff since The Exorcist.

01:48:11.020 Oh yeah, long time.

01:48:12.140 Yeah, long time.

01:48:14.040 Most shows that are supposed to scare the crap out of you just don't.

01:48:18.680 No, they don't.

01:48:19.240 It wasn't too long ago, right?

01:48:20.780 That YouTube pulled the one, the nun ad for being too scary.

01:48:26.320 So maybe we're just becoming a little bit too...

01:48:29.320 A little too sensitive?

01:48:30.180 Yeah, a little bit.

01:48:30.880 A little too wussified?

01:48:31.740 Yeah, a little bit.

01:48:32.540 A little too sissified?

01:48:34.260 Yeah.

01:48:34.740 Those are good words.

01:48:35.600 Yeah.

01:48:36.320 All right.

01:48:36.960 Glenn should be back on Monday with Stu, and I'll see you on Pat Gray Unleashed, bright

01:48:41.960 and early in the morning, 7 o'clock Eastern.

01:48:43.620 Then also check out our podcast, Pat Gray Unleashed, and Chewing the Fat with Jeffy.

01:48:54.880 Glenn, back.

01:48:56.880 Mercury.

01:48:59.320 I'll see you next time.

The Glenn Beck Program - October 19, 2018

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