The Glenn Beck Program - The Human Drive for 'Eternal Values'

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00:00:17.100 James Shaw Jr. He watched a kitchen employee stacking plates at the Waffle House in Tennessee.

00:00:24.860 Tower of porcelain plates getting dangerously high.

00:00:28.000 For anybody who's never worked at a restaurant, James Shaw and his friend, they sat at the tabletop seats.

00:00:35.220 They were just waiting for the loud crash of the shattered plates.

00:00:38.800 So when gunfire broke out, they initially shrugged it off as the plates had fallen.

00:00:44.260 Then the second eruption, then a third, and glass ricocheted around the crowded room.

00:00:52.160 Everybody began to panic. They began to scatter.

00:00:55.440 James Shaw leapt from his seat towards the entrance, where a person was laying bleeding, motionless.

00:01:02.800 Just a few minutes earlier, Shaw had seen the killer's silhouette in the gold Chevy Silverado outside, but he shrugged it off.

00:01:10.460 It was 3.30 in the morning.

00:01:11.720 There's no reason to assume that the 29-year-old man inside the car was trying to psych himself up for a shooting spree.

00:01:20.580 And there was certainly no reason to believe that less than a year ago, he had been arrested by Washington, D.C. police outside of the White House for unlawfully entering the area, which he told police he needed to inspect.

00:01:43.220 Shaw, sitting there at the tabletop, didn't know any of this.

00:01:49.740 But as he dashed for cover, went toward the door, the only thing he knew was this man now had an AR-15 and was just on the other side of the door.

00:02:04.280 He shot through that door, I'm pretty sure, and I'm pretty sure he grazed my arm.

00:02:10.020 And it was at that time that I kind of made up my mind, because there's no way to lock that door, that if it was going to come down to it, he was going to have to work to kill me.

00:02:22.520 So, at the time that he was either reloading or the gun jammed or whatever happened is when I ran through the swivel door, I hit him with the swivel door, and then the gun was kind of jammed up and it was pushed down.

00:02:38.340 So, we were scuffling, and I managed to get him with one hand on the gun, and then I grabbed it from him, and I threw it over the countertop.

00:02:48.900 And then after that, I was trying to get out the door, and I think he was pretty much in the entrance way, so I just took him out with me, out of the entrance, and all the way outside.

00:02:59.920 That is an example of a first responder, what we're all supposed to be.

00:03:05.120 The shooter killed four people, but he could have killed a ton more.

00:03:10.800 He could have killed everybody in the restaurant.

00:03:13.620 But James Shaw, Jr. was there.

00:03:18.040 America, this isn't about gun control.

00:03:21.720 Because the shooter had already lost his right to purchase or own a gun.

00:03:27.720 You know what this story is really all about?

00:03:32.600 James Shaw, Jr.

00:03:35.120 The bravery and the American spirit that showed up in him yesterday.

00:03:50.260 It's Monday, April 23rd.

00:03:52.460 You're listening to the Glenn Beck Program.

00:03:54.320 From Los Angeles, California.

00:03:58.840 Hello, and welcome to the program.

00:04:01.280 Let's say hello to our executive producer, Steve Bergeer.

00:04:04.740 Hello.

00:04:05.140 Hello, Stu.

00:04:06.460 Thank you very much for welcoming me to the program.

00:04:08.700 It means a lot.

00:04:09.380 You're welcome.

00:04:10.600 You're welcome.

00:04:11.700 So I get up early this morning, and I turn on the radio, and I'm driving into work.

00:04:16.780 And about 10 minutes into it, I scream in the car, how does anyone live here?

00:04:22.800 How does anyone live here?

00:04:25.380 Now, there's many reasons, but let me just give you the one that hit me as I was driving,

00:04:30.200 listening to the radio to the overnight talk show that was interviewing a doctor.

00:04:37.160 A doctor of regression therapy, and they were having a very serious conversation about the regression therapy that this woman does.

00:04:48.220 And she has helped many people, many people, through the memories of abuse.

00:04:55.140 And that abuse, she helps you through the memories that you have of abuse.

00:05:02.740 You know, maybe your father molested you, quote, in this life or another timeline.

00:05:13.320 And I thought, wow, I've never considered that I might have been abused by my father in another timeline.

00:05:19.860 Now, I don't have a DeLorean, so I can never go and sue my father in that timeline.

00:05:27.460 But I'm not sure that that really needs to be done.

00:05:32.240 If my father abused me in any timeline, I should sue my father.

00:05:36.120 Don't you think, Stu?

00:05:36.920 It does seem that way.

00:05:38.760 Yeah.

00:05:39.260 And did they cover the fact that regression therapy has been completely discredited?

00:05:44.980 No.

00:05:45.600 They didn't?

00:05:46.220 No.

00:05:46.540 It was.

00:05:47.200 No.

00:05:47.400 No.

00:05:47.520 No, I thought myself, but I may have been the only one in the car here in California that was saying,

00:05:54.820 what the hell are you talking about?

00:05:58.000 Another timeline.

00:06:00.060 It was taken.

00:06:01.500 But I just want you to know, also, the news broke this weekend that you should not see a quiet place.

00:06:12.360 All right.

00:06:13.100 Hollywood has a problem.

00:06:15.520 No, they have a problem with a quiet place.

00:06:18.640 I happened to see it this weekend.

00:06:20.640 You did.

00:06:22.500 I thought it was really good.

00:06:24.760 Now, I'm a hater.

00:06:25.540 No.

00:06:26.000 I'm hateful.

00:06:27.020 No, it's very regressive.

00:06:28.360 Okay.

00:06:28.540 It's very regressive.

00:06:29.720 Okay.

00:06:29.980 It is a right-wing, I'm quoting, a right-wing fantasy of survivalism.

00:06:37.880 Huh?

00:06:39.300 A right-wing?

00:06:39.780 It's a right-wing fantasy of survivalism.

00:06:43.660 How is it a right-wing fantasy of survivalism?

00:06:45.780 Well, it lacks an authentic inner expression.

00:06:48.100 You know, but it does manage to bring to the fore the idealistic elements of gun culture.

00:06:56.080 So, you don't see it yet?

00:06:58.680 No, I do not see it.

00:06:59.720 Okay, listen to me.

00:07:00.340 Listen to me.

00:07:00.860 Listen to me.

00:07:04.080 Look at the family.

00:07:05.600 Okay?

00:07:06.280 Mm-hmm.

00:07:06.600 The family who lives in silence, as to what?

00:07:11.320 Not alert, angry, shelled aliens to their presence, and it is only representative of a silent, white majority that doesn't dare speak freely for fear of being heard by the super-sensitive ears of, quote, the dark others.

00:07:31.140 This is not a real review.

00:07:33.320 This is a real review.

00:07:34.440 This cannot be actually real.

00:07:35.980 This is a real review.

00:07:37.620 It's from the New Yorker.

00:07:39.520 Hollywood apparently has a real problem with this because, and this part is, are you ready?

00:07:46.800 This is from The Economist.

00:07:50.580 It says it has insulting narratives.

00:07:57.000 The untoting farmers, gun-toting, fare better against the aliens than the entire American war machine.

00:08:05.980 And middle America, defenders of the right to bear arms will also see flattering reflections of themselves in the film's heroes, a photogenic white family that lives in a backwoods farm.

00:08:18.640 The movie does nothing but celebrate gun ownership, and Hollywood needs to do better.

00:08:25.060 That's The Economist.

00:08:26.360 That is not what that movie did at all.

00:08:28.420 No, you know, you know what?

00:08:30.360 I gotta tell you.

00:08:31.520 If I'm being chased by shelled aliens, if a gun works, if, you know, toothpicks work, if an iron works, I'm gonna use it.

00:08:42.940 I'm not celebrating the gun culture.

00:08:45.560 I'm celebrating the death of the alien that's trying to eat my family.

00:08:49.720 That's all I'm doing.

00:08:50.740 That's all I'm doing.

00:08:51.640 It's amazing.

00:08:52.280 You have to say, what, signs is pro-big water?

00:08:55.360 You know, what was, it was, what was War of the Worlds now?

00:09:01.760 It's been so long since I...

00:09:02.940 It was a germ.

00:09:04.600 Yeah, that's right.

00:09:05.460 It was pro-big germ?

00:09:06.800 I don't know.

00:09:07.540 It's a, that's amazing because they, without getting into, you know, spoiler letters, if you haven't seen it,

00:09:13.780 like, there's very specific things about this family that make them uniquely qualified to be able to survive the instance they're going through,

00:09:21.240 which is why, you know, it's a, they seem to not be joined by lots of people in the scenario, right?

00:09:29.660 I mean, that's the, that is the entire plot of the movie.

00:09:33.380 It very much explains why they survived and others didn't.

00:09:38.060 The Economist, I'm quoting, bemoaned this week Hollywood's destructive reliance on the gun culture

00:09:43.480 and particularly a quiet place glorification of shooting aliens.

00:09:49.860 The couple's other self-preservation tactics are all good, but in the end, it is just the ability to squeeze a trigger

00:09:59.300 that makes the difference between being a responsible parent and an alien's breakfast.

00:10:05.160 I mean, this is insane.

00:10:06.500 I don't want to be an alien's breakfast.

00:10:08.760 Yeah.

00:10:09.320 If whatever stops you from being eaten next to eggs by aliens.

00:10:14.580 I am really good with.

00:10:15.900 Positive.

00:10:17.200 But again, like, you know, unless you've seen the movie, you might not be able to completely relate to this,

00:10:21.880 but like, it does not spend its time glorifying gun culture.

00:10:26.600 No.

00:10:26.960 It doesn't, that's not what it's about at all.

00:10:29.820 It's such a, that is a really weird review.

00:10:31.840 Again, this is, you know, you think how hard, think how hard you have to work to get there.

00:10:35.800 Oh my God.

00:10:36.720 That you're, that you are watching that movie and you're like, the silence is the white person

00:10:41.720 wanting to say things, but they can't because of the dark creatures.

00:10:47.700 I mean, you've got to work on that.

00:10:50.100 Yeah.

00:10:50.300 Again, this is a, once you, you know, addicted to outrage again, right?

00:10:53.740 Like you wake up in the morning and you see a movie that's really enjoyable, that's really

00:10:57.500 well done and you look for a way to make it racially divisive.

00:11:01.440 Like that is, that, that is our culture right now.

00:11:04.260 That's all we do.

00:11:05.600 I want the jingle.

00:11:07.140 We have to have a jingle because we should have started with that.

00:11:09.940 Addicted to outrage.

00:11:11.960 We have to have a jingle because every day we come and it's a new problem.

00:11:16.800 It's a new, it's something new to be outraged.

00:11:19.440 Somebody is pissed off about something.

00:11:22.640 Instead of talking about the Waffle House today in a good way.

00:11:27.500 You know that everybody else is covering this in an outrage way.

00:11:32.000 Instead of saying, Hey, look, look at the guy who saved everybody.

00:11:35.620 Look at how great that guy is.

00:11:38.680 Everybody else is going to focus on, you know, well, they, they walked out at school again.

00:11:42.700 I don't know if you saw that.

00:11:44.380 They walked out on school last week.

00:11:46.540 Students across the U S renewed their demand for gun safety in a second walkout.

00:11:52.500 Now, you know what I found interesting?

00:11:53.980 Do you remember the nationwide walkout for, uh, for life when the students all over the

00:12:00.260 country were walking out, uh, you know, against abortion.

00:12:04.640 I didn't see any, I didn't see any coverage on that.

00:12:07.540 It was almost like every other student led thing.

00:12:11.120 This one, it's a second walkout and all of the TV cameras, all of the nationwide cameras,

00:12:20.000 all the networks, they were all there somehow or another.

00:12:22.480 They got there.

00:12:22.940 It's almost, almost like they have a PR firm helping them.

00:12:28.280 No, no.

00:12:29.260 Cause this is actually a student land, uh, led completely grassroots, uh, movement.

00:12:34.380 Absolutely.

00:12:35.460 They don't, they're not getting any help and they just happen to have those bank accounts

00:12:38.680 set up, you know, the day after the shooting for the $500,000 deposits from George Clooney

00:12:43.680 and, and other celebrities.

00:12:45.340 That's just what happens when you're a student, you have that sort of access.

00:12:48.500 Jonathan Banco and a group of 12 to 15 other students at a high school in El Paso decided

00:12:59.900 that they weren't going to participate in the walkout.

00:13:02.060 Instead, they left the campus to visit a park on the other side of the busy highway that surrounds

00:13:07.640 part of the city.

00:13:09.420 He's a sixth grader.

00:13:13.000 Now I'm sure that nobody else would use this gun walkout just not because they wanted to

00:13:18.260 protest, but just to leave school.

00:13:20.400 But Jonathan, a sixth grader was the first one to try to cross the highway.

00:13:25.600 He was struck by a truck and killed.

00:13:31.340 I mean, you know, it's the sad part of this here is that, you know, you can sit here and

00:13:36.460 walk out of school for school shootings.

00:13:39.440 But you're much, much more likely to be killed in a fashion similar to getting struck by a truck

00:13:45.840 than ever being in danger of being involved in a school shooting or a mass shooting of

00:13:50.120 any sort.

00:13:52.500 And the great state of Texas isn't going to ban either.

00:13:55.840 They're not going to ban the truck and they're not going to ban the gun.

00:13:59.220 What's really interesting is I wonder if anyone will take control of the schools and ban these

00:14:08.560 stupid walkouts and make sure that when my kid is supposed to be in school, he's in school,

00:14:14.680 not running across a highway.

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00:15:32.060 We were just talking about this poor kid in El Paso that, you know, leaves school, doesn't

00:15:49.540 participate in the walkout against violence and guns, does what I think Stu did every

00:15:55.680 time there was a walkout.

00:15:56.980 We never had walkouts.

00:15:58.220 We were forced to actually go to school and learn.

00:16:02.500 Did you try to avoid that as much as possible?

00:16:05.060 Yeah, well, yes.

00:16:06.300 But, you know, when there was a walkout, you know, as Stu has said many times, he is, you

00:16:11.820 know.

00:16:12.620 I always participated in the cause because I was very passionate about whatever cause

00:16:17.120 that was that I can't remember, nor did I know at the time.

00:16:20.000 Although I did know that most of our walkouts did pass by McDonald's.

00:16:23.320 Uh, and then I would walk in to McDonald's or maybe walk through the drive through and

00:16:29.580 pick up a little something to support, just to support, you have, you got to have the

00:16:33.040 caloric energy to support whatever cause you're walking for.

00:16:36.780 Sure, sure, sure, sure.

00:16:38.540 Did you ever join back with the group?

00:16:40.720 You know, usually they pass by by then because, you know, McDonald's is pretty fast.

00:16:44.500 Yeah, well, I understand that.

00:16:45.540 No, I understand that.

00:16:46.620 And you wouldn't want to spend that energy trying to catch up.

00:16:48.740 And to be clear, the route didn't go exactly by the McDonald's, so you had to branch off

00:16:53.160 a little.

00:16:54.280 Imagine you have a sixth grader.

00:16:57.120 Imagine you have a sixth grader.

00:16:58.740 And you've entrusted them to the school.

00:17:01.740 And the school has a walkout.

00:17:03.560 And your sixth grader is walking out, probably doesn't really have an opinion on the Second

00:17:09.020 Amendment, I'm guessing.

00:17:10.700 Not a real deep one in sixth grade.

00:17:13.100 And he's walking out and not participating, decides to go to the park, across a highway,

00:17:20.740 tries to cross the highway, and gets killed.

00:17:23.700 How much do you sue the school for?

00:17:27.260 I sue the school for everything I can get.

00:17:31.240 Even if I give all of the money away, because it's not money, I sue the pants off of that

00:17:37.380 school.

00:17:38.240 And that, of course, does nothing to make you feel better about it at that point.

00:17:42.260 No, and it only hurts the taxpayers and everybody else.

00:17:45.800 I mean, it's a horrible solution.

00:17:47.420 But somebody has to do that.

00:17:49.960 Somebody has to do that.

00:17:51.000 You can't have our kids walking out in the middle of the day.

00:17:54.800 How do you feel?

00:17:55.720 He's walking out against violence at school, kids getting killed, and on the walkout, he

00:18:00.860 gets killed.

00:18:02.200 Right.

00:18:02.520 I mean, honestly, probably one of the safest places you could be during a school day is

00:18:07.540 at a school, even without the extra security measures we've talked about.

00:18:10.720 I mean, the statistics show that, that if you were to leave school and you're out driving

00:18:16.020 around, walking around the busy streets, you're much more likely to die than you are by actually

00:18:22.040 being inside the school.

00:18:23.860 And there's that contract, right?

00:18:28.100 You're making with the school when you're dropping them off.

00:18:31.380 An 11-year-old or 10-year-old is not necessarily going to make all the best choices.

00:18:36.100 That's why you have supervision, so that these things don't happen.

00:18:40.240 But again, if you think about it, if they're having a school walkout, how is the school

00:18:44.200 possibly going to manage where every student walks out to?

00:18:47.740 No, they're not.

00:18:48.280 That's why you keep them in the building.

00:18:49.400 They're not.

00:18:50.260 Right.

00:18:51.140 That's why I've entrusted you to watch my kid.

00:18:55.740 You're responsible to watch my kid.

00:18:58.920 Because you force me to put him in your school, you have the responsibility.

00:19:04.920 Oh, no, the students and the, you can relax.

00:19:08.800 The teachers and the administrators, they care about your child just as much as you do.

00:19:15.920 Really?

00:19:16.560 Because I wouldn't let my kid try to cross the freeway in the middle of the day.

00:19:21.360 That's what I'd do as a parent.

00:19:24.560 You just let my son walk out of the classroom he was supposed to be in.

00:19:30.260 As a parent, if I'm a home teacher, you know, I'm not going to be, he's not going to be walking

00:19:35.460 out of my kitchen as I'm doing the class at home and then say, I'm walking out, mom, and

00:19:40.540 I don't watch him as he goes to try to run across a freeway.

00:19:44.720 Yeah, I mean, look, a lot of teachers care a lot about students, and there's many great

00:19:49.800 ones, but, you know, the idea that we hear all the time that, you know, you don't, you

00:19:54.560 don't need to be involved.

00:19:55.820 You're a parent.

00:19:56.560 Let us do our jobs.

00:19:57.660 We're the teachers.

00:19:58.400 We're the schools.

00:19:59.540 You know, that's what we're here for.

00:20:00.980 You don't need to be involved like that.

00:20:02.440 Well, apparently we do.

00:20:03.880 Yeah, it's a total lie.

00:20:05.700 And you can, you can love somebody else's kids a lot, but I'm sorry.

00:20:10.200 They're not your kids.

00:20:11.780 And they, you don't love them and you don't care for them the way I do.

00:20:16.300 That's a parent's job.

00:20:19.800 Glenn Beck, Mercury.

00:20:28.560 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:20:31.340 You know, I have to tell you, every time I drive by Starbucks now, I can't take it.

00:20:38.300 Does anybody else feel this way?

00:20:39.860 I can't take it, especially when you know what happened in Philadelphia.

00:20:44.340 There's two guys that walk in at Starbucks.

00:20:47.100 They're both African-American.

00:20:48.240 They say, hey, can we use your bathroom?

00:20:50.580 They say, no, sorry.

00:20:51.960 You know, there's no loitering here and you can't use our bathroom unless you're a paying

00:20:55.880 customer.

00:20:56.820 So instead of saying, okay, you know, I understand.

00:20:59.640 I'm not going to have one of your $23 coffees.

00:21:02.700 But, you know, give me, give me a, I don't know, give me one of those biscotti.

00:21:08.300 How much are those?

00:21:09.460 They're $39.

00:21:10.280 All right, that's, yeah, that's $39.

00:21:12.540 Okay.

00:21:12.940 What do you have for about a dollar and a half?

00:21:15.640 One of the mints from this box of mints, which is $47.

00:21:20.240 I'll take, I'll take one of the mints and I'm going to go to the bathroom.

00:21:25.240 That's what we all do.

00:21:26.360 Sorry, bathrooms are for paying customers only.

00:21:29.300 Good.

00:21:29.760 Give me the cheapest thing you got and I'll go to the bathroom.

00:21:34.340 How many times?

00:21:35.480 I believe all of us at some point have been told, sorry, bathrooms are for, and you're

00:21:40.880 like, I'm going to explode.

00:21:42.480 You don't understand.

00:21:43.520 I've got an issue with public restrooms.

00:21:46.180 I, I hold it as long as I can.

00:21:48.220 I really don't care.

00:21:49.320 I'm going to explode and you're going to have some mopping up to do that.

00:21:53.800 You just don't want around your customers.

00:21:55.920 Let me use the bathroom.

00:21:57.400 We've all been in that situation.

00:22:00.120 The left loves to talk about social contracts.

00:22:02.020 That is legitimately part of the social contract.

00:22:04.320 You walk into a place that they want you to buy something.

00:22:06.920 You buy the cheapest thing.

00:22:07.880 You use the bathroom.

00:22:08.560 That's how it works.

00:22:09.180 Yes.

00:22:09.720 Yes.

00:22:10.360 Or, you know, I would like to expand the, the social contract to look, I'll do the

00:22:15.180 transaction in a minute.

00:22:16.080 They need to look at you and say, is it an emergency?

00:22:18.060 See, and you're like, yes, I've just been at McDonald's.

00:22:24.660 And when they hear your stomach do that, you're like, go, go, go run fast.

00:22:29.960 Everybody clear a path to the bathroom.

00:22:32.400 The guy is coming through.

00:22:36.200 That is a social contract that we all need anyway.

00:22:40.340 So Starbucks says no to these two guys.

00:22:43.400 So what do they do?

00:22:44.260 They go and they sit down and like punks, they've just been told you're not, it's for

00:22:51.320 paying customers.

00:22:53.960 All right.

00:22:55.280 So they go sit down.

00:22:56.760 Police come.

00:22:57.920 The police ask him to leave three times, three times.

00:23:02.220 Well, they're arrested.

00:23:03.160 Now, oh, the, the head of Starbucks is just so disgusted by the company that he built.

00:23:11.220 Oh, I can't believe that I've even worn a Starbucks hat.

00:23:14.980 And I listen to Starbucks music and I, I pay $500 for a Starbucks latte.

00:23:20.760 I can't believe I've created this monstrosity that has made me and so many others rich and

00:23:27.540 provided so much pleasure in coffee paradise.

00:23:31.540 Oh, I feel so horrible now.

00:23:33.540 What have I done?

00:23:35.640 So he decides social justice training.

00:23:39.660 And he's closing down Starbucks for a whole day.

00:23:43.660 Now it happens to be the day after Memorial Day.

00:23:48.080 So that's gotta be a big day for Starbucks.

00:23:51.440 You know what I mean?

00:23:53.820 So he gives everybody a four day weekend.

00:23:58.100 Oh, that'll kill him.

00:24:00.780 That'll kill him.

00:24:03.040 And he says he's going to, he's going to have everybody come in for sensitivity training.

00:24:09.760 Now, now, again, there has been no indication and not one piece of evidence at any point

00:24:16.140 in this entire circus that race had any factor in any moment of it, especially from the company's

00:24:24.580 perspective, because I mean, the only thing we know is people believe that black people

00:24:30.180 are treated unfairly, which of course they are at times.

00:24:33.200 So we are just assigning a racial reason for them leaving.

00:24:38.460 This company has no evidence, at least that we've heard, not like we went found, we went

00:24:42.900 to the manager's Facebook page and found a bunch of racist memes on there or anything

00:24:46.880 like that.

00:24:47.400 None of that has happened, but they're going to take 8,000 stores out of commission for

00:24:52.100 a day to talk to their employees, none of which have actually been accused of racism in

00:24:57.780 any meaningful way with any evidence.

00:24:59.840 But we're going to just close down the 8,000 real quick.

00:25:02.280 Well, if I may say, the Washington Post asked the Starbucks spokesperson what its policy was

00:25:08.560 for situations like this.

00:25:10.180 And quoting Starbucks, quote, in this particular store, the guidelines were that partners must

00:25:21.840 ask unpaying customers to leave the store and police to be called if they refuse, end quote.

00:25:29.680 That's the Starbucks policy according to Starbucks.

00:25:34.080 Oh, what have I created?

00:25:37.880 The monster is loose!

00:25:40.520 And the reason why that particular store, just because it's in a very busy area, right?

00:25:44.180 And there's a lot of traffic and they don't want, they don't have maybe a lot of seating.

00:25:47.400 Okay.

00:25:48.100 Keep singing it, Whitey.

00:25:49.400 So the spokesperson also said this.

00:25:52.700 In this situation, the police should have never been called.

00:25:57.960 Wait a minute.

00:25:58.720 Hang on just a second.

00:25:59.760 Wait.

00:25:59.960 I just want to review the policy.

00:26:02.680 Partners must ask unpaying customers to leave the store and police are to be called if they refuse.

00:26:14.000 But in this situation, police should have never been called.

00:26:20.040 Why?

00:26:22.000 No, because the answer to that is because we didn't want to deal with this fallout.

00:26:25.520 That's the answer.

00:26:26.220 Because we're saying, in retrospect, we wish you didn't call because then I wouldn't have to be talking about this right now.

00:26:31.780 By the way, a woman in Arizona, a white woman, went in to use the bathroom at a Starbucks.

00:26:41.800 She was refused.

00:26:44.400 Was she, was anybody at that Starbucks in trouble?

00:26:50.500 Oh, by the way, it was a pregnant woman.

00:26:53.140 That falls to me into the emergency section.

00:26:58.220 You know what I mean?

00:26:59.620 Or I got a baby dancing on my bladder.

00:27:03.280 I take both of those seriously if I'm behind the counter of the Starbucks.

00:27:08.580 Because when her water breaks, it probably ain't water at that point.

00:27:13.180 Let the woman use.

00:27:14.800 Can we have some common sense?

00:27:16.720 So that never made the news.

00:27:19.080 How about this one?

00:27:20.400 I love, I love that nobody really paid attention to this one.

00:27:30.480 Dayline Philadelphia.

00:27:32.020 By the way, Stu, where did this Starbucks, where did this happen?

00:27:34.800 Philadelphia.

00:27:35.760 Home of the Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles.

00:27:39.320 Oh, dear God.

00:27:40.680 Dayline Philadelphia.

00:27:41.780 Starbucks has issued a personal apology to the Philadelphia Police Department sergeant, who has refused, was refused access to a bathroom because he didn't purchase anything.

00:27:53.160 The company told the website on Monday that it apologized to the officer as a result of last Friday's incident at a Center City location.

00:28:03.040 The employees there apparently declined to allow the uniform officer into the bathroom after a brief verbal disagreement the officer left.

00:28:10.480 We're taking steps to ensure this doesn't happen in the future.

00:28:13.640 This does not represent the experience we hope to create for our customers.

00:28:18.800 By the way, this happened months ago at the same Starbucks.

00:28:27.500 Well, looks like you didn't really do anything about that.

00:28:30.460 Looks like that is your policy.

00:28:31.980 And the interesting thing, apparently he was asked to leave and left.

00:28:36.780 Which I didn't.

00:28:38.400 And he's the police.

00:28:39.520 What are you going to do?

00:28:40.020 Call me?

00:28:40.480 Call me.

00:28:43.120 Right.

00:28:43.780 These guys are allowed to run through red lights whenever they want.

00:28:48.180 Yeah.

00:28:49.260 That's amazing.

00:28:50.600 And it's a great point.

00:28:51.920 I mean, you know, that is the issue.

00:28:53.920 It's not a news story unless you apply racism to it.

00:28:58.900 And there's no evidence to suggest that racism has been an issue.

00:29:03.340 We've seen these before.

00:29:04.240 Right, Glenn?

00:29:04.580 Like, there's been some restaurants that, you know, you hear that the person used a racial slur or, you know, the classic slur on the receipt, right?

00:29:18.000 Where that happens seemingly every once in a while.

00:29:21.420 These things actually do occur.

00:29:23.140 There are racist people that work at restaurants, just like there's racist people that work at every other job in the universe.

00:29:28.140 But there's no reason, whoever this manager is that called, and as far as I know, we still don't know their name, thank God, because she has been accused of the most extreme elements of racism in our society, yet no one has provided one blip of evidence to support it.

00:29:46.200 And we're all just supposed to, I mean, an entire national chain of 8,000 restaurants is closing down for a day to tell everyone how racist apparently they are when there's no reason to believe that this had anything to do with racism, other than our just preconceived idea that black people get treated badly at restaurants.

00:30:06.540 No, no, no.

00:30:08.220 Howard Schultz, the founder of Starbucks?

00:30:10.360 No, I'm going to take it from him.

00:30:11.540 Quote, I think you have to see, and looking at the tape, that she demonstrated her own level of unconscious bias.

00:30:19.480 Looking at the tape, you have to ask yourself whether or not, in fact, that was racial profiling.

00:30:25.040 Well, you probably, maybe you do have to ask yourself, it'd be better to ask her.

00:30:29.540 Yeah.

00:30:30.500 But you have to ask yourself, and if it is, you know, a bias, racial profiling, why do all the 8,000 employees?

00:30:42.040 Why does everybody else, shouldn't there be, you know, a training session for one?

00:30:48.180 Shouldn't she be fired if she really was racially insensitive?

00:30:52.540 Well, why does everybody have to go through this?

00:30:54.840 Why do we have to go through the racial bias training?

00:30:58.480 She's the one who did it, that you think she's so biased.

00:31:02.080 I haven't heard anything.

00:31:04.700 You'd have to say she demonstrated her own level of unconscious bias.

00:31:10.080 Unbelievable.

00:31:10.920 I mean, can I tell you, if I worked for Starbucks right now, I would be out of there.

00:31:15.100 I mean, look at the way they're treating their people.

00:31:16.940 Again, like, if you, they keep saying she has not been fired, but she no longer works at that store.

00:31:21.780 If she's this blatant racist, she should be fired.

00:31:26.000 If she's throwing out black people because they're black, then absolutely fire her.

00:31:31.760 You're right.

00:31:32.300 Like, it's not a witness protection program for someone like this.

00:31:36.220 If they are this terrible of a person, they should not represent your company.

00:31:39.360 The clear point is they don't actually believe she is a racist.

00:31:43.280 Clearly, this is all about PR, and they're torturing this poor woman who has no indication

00:31:49.500 that she was racist at all and thinks she has an unconscious bias.

00:31:53.560 That's something that will follow her for the rest of her life if this actually comes out.

00:31:57.980 No, no, no.

00:31:58.140 If I may, because I'm in California, I believe I'm an authority now on this kind of stuff.

00:32:03.200 It could follow her through her life on this timeline or the next timeline.

00:32:11.940 We don't know.

00:32:14.320 She may be perfectly non-racist in this timeline, but another timeline?

00:32:20.900 Oh, my gosh.

00:32:22.440 She's wearing a hood behind the counter.

00:32:24.460 That joke's funnier if you were listening to us about 45 minutes ago.

00:32:33.120 Oh, no.

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00:33:29.880 Glenn Beck Mercury.

00:33:38.540 Glenn Beck.

00:33:41.460 From Los Angeles, California.

00:33:43.360 Welcome to the program.

00:33:46.420 I'm glad you're here.

00:33:47.860 There's just a couple of California notes.

00:33:52.380 I went to church here yesterday, which is hard to find, but I went to church yesterday.

00:34:00.820 There were about, I don't know, eight people there.

00:34:03.060 Uh, the kids were, uh, well, they were playing out in the foyer and, uh, somebody from the

00:34:09.720 pulpit had to say, Hey, uh, kids, we're going to talk about kids now.

00:34:14.360 Come on.

00:34:15.000 It was like the strangest thing.

00:34:17.060 Uh, I don't think God's doing well in California.

00:34:20.200 Stu, not sure if he's really doing well.

00:34:22.580 Well, they, they have, uh, very weak border laws, except when it comes to God, they make

00:34:26.340 sure they keep him out.

00:34:27.160 Yeah, they make sure.

00:34:27.920 Yeah.

00:34:28.120 You're, they're policing that they are policing that, uh, let me ask you this.

00:34:32.840 What would God be saying to you or what would your reaction be, uh, to this story?

00:34:38.680 A Colorado man achieved a distinction last week that few people would probably want to

00:34:43.300 match Dylan McWilliams bitten by a shark on Thursday in Hawaii.

00:34:51.240 Okay.

00:34:51.800 That's kind of, that's not something you'd want, right?

00:34:54.760 He's, he's 20 years old.

00:34:56.360 He spends a lot of time outdoors, uh, and, uh, he was, um, you know, 50 yards from a shipwreck

00:35:03.960 when a shark came and, uh, bit him.

00:35:07.720 He said he got away from the shark and he swam back.

00:35:10.940 It required seven stitches.

00:35:12.400 So it's not so huge, but it's, you know, seven stitches.

00:35:15.960 Now that's not the unusual part.

00:35:17.980 The unusual part is last July, he had to have nine staples to his head because a 300 pound

00:35:29.280 bear tried to eat his head while he was camping in the mountains.

00:35:36.300 Okay.

00:35:36.880 So he's been bitten by a bear and a shark.

00:35:39.800 Yeah.

00:35:40.800 Well, there was also another encounter that happened the year before when he was camping

00:35:46.920 out in the deserts of Utah, where he was bitten by a rattlesnake.

00:35:50.880 So he's been bitten by a rattlesnake, a bear and a shark.

00:35:56.160 Dude, God's telling you something.

00:35:58.980 And it may, it's, it, I don't know if it's like, you're not supposed to be alive or stay

00:36:05.820 inside, dude.

00:36:07.680 Stay inside.

00:36:08.840 Get a dog, a little dog, maybe a goldfish.

00:36:12.620 Yeah.

00:36:12.940 You should turn into Howard.

00:36:13.740 Stay inside.

00:36:14.200 Turn into Howard Hughes immediately.

00:36:15.480 I can never leave your indoor movie theater, pee in your, in the room and, and give the

00:36:21.720 bottles out to some helper.

00:36:23.020 Yeah.

00:36:23.200 No, I know.

00:36:23.920 Can I tell you something?

00:36:24.980 I'm always looking for excuse to stay inside.

00:36:27.740 I mean, mosquitoes.

00:36:28.500 I'm like, I was bitten by a mosquito.

00:36:30.660 I don't require any stitches, but I'm not going outside anymore.

00:36:34.760 This guy, if I'm bitten by a rattlesnake, I'm having a hard time going outside, but I

00:36:39.520 go outside a bear.

00:36:41.120 The next time a bear tries to eat me, I'm not going into the water.

00:36:46.760 Okay.

00:36:47.160 I'm not going into the water.

00:36:48.880 Certainly not camping.

00:36:50.240 If you remember the, the fine series of documentary films, final destination that came out a few

00:36:55.820 years ago.

00:36:56.700 I don't think that was a documentary.

00:36:57.880 That was the thing where they would escape an incident and then like they would be destined

00:37:01.200 for death for the rest of the movie.

00:37:03.620 This guy might be in one of those.

00:37:06.060 I mean, if you've been admitted by a rattlesnake, a bear, and a shark.

00:37:09.340 Mark, honestly, you're going to go one of two ways.

00:37:11.680 You're going to be like, I'm supposed to be dead.

00:37:13.900 Or you're like, I'm invincible, man.

00:37:16.540 I can do anything.

00:37:21.900 Glenn Beck, Mercury.

00:37:31.320 Love.

00:37:32.540 Courage.

00:37:34.220 Truth.

00:37:35.980 Glenn Beck.

00:37:37.420 Well, the editors of GQ magazine want you to know that they are very, very important.

00:37:42.120 And next time you're tweezing your eyebrows before you get an avocado facial and a shopping

00:37:47.420 spree at the mall, you should read a book, but not any book.

00:37:50.740 No, no.

00:37:51.300 GQ wants you to know some books you should not read.

00:37:55.360 For instance, don't read Mark Twain or Ernest Hemingway or J.D.

00:38:00.700 Salinger.

00:38:01.520 Don't.

00:38:01.840 Don't read Catch-22.

00:38:03.900 Don't read Dracula.

00:38:05.040 And certainly do not pick up The Lord of the Rings.

00:38:09.560 Also, Lonesome Dove.

00:38:13.220 Now, Lonesome Dove, one of the most poignant, inspiring depictions of life in the wild American

00:38:19.140 West, definitely don't read it.

00:38:22.460 The editors at GQ consider it part of the cowboy mythos with its rigid, masculine, emotional

00:38:31.120 landscape, glorification of guns and destruction and misogynic gender roles.

00:38:39.420 It's a factor in the destruction of America.

00:38:43.180 Lonesome Dove is?

00:38:46.260 Really?

00:38:47.020 Just thought it was a good book.

00:38:49.300 All of these masterpieces are part of GQ's recent list.

00:38:53.640 Twenty-five, sorry, twenty-one books you don't have to read.

00:38:57.160 It's not an editorial.

00:38:59.420 It's a listicle by the editors of GQ.

00:39:02.980 A list of books that should be digitally burned.

00:39:06.360 At number twelve, The Bible.

00:39:10.060 Here's GQ's read on The Bible.

00:39:13.180 The Holy Bible is rated very highly by all the people who supposedly live by it, but

00:39:19.600 who, in actuality, not read it.

00:39:22.200 Actually, I think that's probably pretty right, but I digress.

00:39:26.320 Those who have read it know there are some good parts, but overall, certainly not the finest

00:39:32.260 thing man has ever produced.

00:39:34.380 Oh, okay.

00:39:35.840 All right.

00:39:36.740 It's repetitive.

00:39:38.720 It's sometimes ill-intentioned.

00:39:41.780 It's foolish.

00:39:44.180 If the thing you heard was good about the Bible was the nasty bits, then I propose Christoph's

00:39:51.800 The Notebook.

00:39:53.800 The marvelous tale of two brothers who have to get along when things get rough.

00:39:58.400 The subtlety and the cruelty of the story is like that famous sword stroke that plunged

00:40:03.720 upward through the bowels, the lungs, and the throat, and into the brain of the rower.

00:40:08.680 Oh, okay.

00:40:11.160 I don't even know that.

00:40:13.000 By the way, The Notebook is a novel.

00:40:16.060 I mean, I know the movie, and I thought I was a little sappy, but this is a novel about

00:40:20.480 a group of actors who travel through Europe after the completion of their most recent play.

00:40:25.700 It is delightful.

00:40:26.700 And the part where the novel's main characters, two twin boys, are forced to move in with their

00:40:33.620 grandmother.

00:40:34.220 That part certainly has the cultural gravity and historic importance, the same as the crucifixion

00:40:42.680 of Christ, or the coming down of the Ten Commandments, or the creation of language, or the formation of

00:40:49.160 life.

00:40:49.760 Oh, you should see what happens with their grandmother.

00:40:52.080 It's outrageous.

00:40:53.300 If anything, this list serves as a verification of the best writing available.

00:41:00.600 Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Hemingway's Best Works, The Old Man and the

00:41:06.800 Sea and A Farewell to Arms, Cormac McCarthy, one of the greatest writers of all time, Blood

00:41:13.420 Meridian's Not Supposed to Be Read, a terrifying Western and historical document, which also happens

00:41:20.700 strangely to base a lot of its story on the Bible, kind of like Shakespeare does, too.

00:41:29.600 In fact, it's hard to imagine any Western literature without the Bible.

00:41:38.200 We are in this weird space where we are supposed to just deny everything.

00:41:44.360 Everything is new.

00:41:45.760 It's a totally new reality.

00:41:47.720 And whatever you thought reality was, that's definitely not real.

00:41:53.140 We'll tell you what's real.

00:41:54.740 We'll tell you what's right.

00:41:56.540 Just don't read any of these other things.

00:41:59.600 I mean, if that's not fascistic, I don't know what is.

00:42:04.200 It's Monday, April 23rd.

00:42:12.660 You're listening to the Glenn Beck Program.

00:42:15.580 Joined by Ben Shapiro, who is the editor-in-chief of The Daily Wire, also the most listened-to conservative

00:42:26.220 podcast in the world.

00:42:28.300 Welcome, Ben Shapiro.

00:42:29.400 How are you?

00:42:29.740 Good to see you.

00:42:30.200 So, what books would you like to ban today?

00:42:33.640 Wow, I mean, after that list, I don't know what's left.

00:42:36.220 Yeah, I know.

00:42:37.300 I mean, I've got to go with the children's books since I'm stuck reading those in the

00:42:39.660 middle of the night.

00:42:40.240 How do you...

00:42:41.320 You go to these college campuses all the time, and you speak...

00:42:46.440 When I went to college, which was...

00:42:49.080 I spent more time in the parking lot than in an actual classroom, but you were taught

00:42:55.920 how to think, how to find answers.

00:43:01.660 I mean, the professor that I learned so much from, I had no idea where he stood on any

00:43:10.560 issue, because he would argue so hard on one side, and then flip it around and argue on

00:43:16.420 the other side, and you believed both of them.

00:43:19.620 Nobody's doing that anymore.

00:43:20.760 In fact, that's frowned upon.

00:43:21.840 Yeah, that's usually reserved for law school.

00:43:23.760 Really.

00:43:24.300 Like, when you go to law school, that's what they say.

00:43:25.880 They're going to teach you how to think like a lawyer.

00:43:27.280 But when you're in undergrad, they don't bother with that anymore.

00:43:31.220 They're teaching you how to think, but it's how they want you to think.

00:43:33.820 So they're teaching you what to think more than how to think.

00:43:36.900 So what are you seeing when you go to college campuses?

00:43:41.080 I think there's a real pent-up energy.

00:43:42.940 I think there's a lot of pent-up anger, because I think people there are largely bored.

00:43:46.980 I mean, I think there's a reason that people show up on a Wednesday night to hear me talk

00:43:50.440 in the middle of the week, you know, in the middle of the brutal cold, and a thousand

00:43:53.740 people show up.

00:43:54.780 And I don't think it's because I'm that great a speaker.

00:43:56.500 I mean, I'm fine, but I really think that it has more to do with the fact that there

00:44:00.020 is some hole that's being left intellectually on these campuses, and anyone who even attempts

00:44:04.480 to fill that hole on campuses is being treated with a certain amount of excitement and reverence

00:44:09.600 simply because the colleges have left the field wide open.

00:44:13.020 I mean, you don't even have to be that good at this stuff in order to be seen as somebody

00:44:15.960 who has something valuable to say, I think.

00:44:17.800 You're pretty good at this stuff.

00:44:19.620 You're allowed to say it.

00:44:20.480 I'm not.

00:44:20.880 Yeah, you're pretty good at this stuff.

00:44:22.520 If you and Jordan Peterson are probably the best thinkers, I think, on the right.

00:44:26.540 Well, thanks.

00:44:27.180 That's how I compliment, because Jordan's fantastic.

00:44:29.160 Yeah, Jordan is amazing.

00:44:30.860 And he's having the same kind of success that you are, and he's a guy who wasn't looking

00:44:36.580 for it.

00:44:37.140 Right.

00:44:37.680 Right.

00:44:38.100 Well, I think that's one of the things.

00:44:39.640 It's really fascinating.

00:44:40.600 There's this whole group of people who have really kind of come to prominence in the last

00:44:44.520 three, four years.

00:44:45.940 And they're really disparate politically.

00:44:47.880 I mean, you're talking about people like Jordan Peterson or Sam Harris or Brett Weinstein

00:44:52.160 or me.

00:44:53.240 And all these people disagree with each other on a huge variety of matters.

00:44:56.220 But there's two things they seem to have in common.

00:44:58.240 One is that they actually purport to care about data, and they won't just dismiss data

00:45:01.400 if it disagrees with their position.

00:45:02.820 And the other is that they seem to be willing to say no to things.

00:45:06.960 And there's something that I've started terming the Bartleby effect, which is there's this

00:45:10.980 short story by Herman Melville called Bartleby, The Scrivener.

00:45:13.740 I'm not sure if that's on the list, approved list.

00:45:16.640 Yeah, I'm not sure either.

00:45:17.800 But the short story is about this guy who is a scribe at a Wall Street law firm.

00:45:23.740 And one day his bosses come in and they ask him to do something.

00:45:25.920 He just says, I'd prefer not to.

00:45:27.360 And they don't know what to do with him because he's not actively saying no, but he's not

00:45:30.240 saying yes.

00:45:30.880 He just says, I'd prefer not to.

00:45:32.420 And they leave him alone.

00:45:33.400 And eventually, after saying, I'd prefer not to, to everything, he ends up dying basically

00:45:37.300 alone in prison.

00:45:38.420 But the purpose of the story is to say that society cannot tolerate people who refuse to kind

00:45:43.080 of go along to get along.

00:45:44.280 Well, that's true.

00:45:45.000 But if you look at all the people who have risen to prominence, people like Jordan, Jordan

00:45:48.680 rose to prominence not based on his latest book, which is actually a pretty late development.

00:45:52.480 He rose to prominence because in Canada, there's Bill C-16, which essentially mandated that

00:45:56.920 he used transgender pronouns.

00:45:58.580 And Jordan, a couple of years ago, said, I'm not doing that.

00:46:01.020 It doesn't accord with the realities of psychological development.

00:46:03.840 So I'm just not going to do that.

00:46:05.160 And people lost their minds.

00:46:06.580 And suddenly, he was this major figure in Canada for just saying no.

00:46:09.800 Sam Harris has become a major figure because he was on Bill Maher's show.

00:46:12.900 And he said, Islam might be a more dangerous religion as a general matter than Christianity,

00:46:18.060 because the facts bear out that there are more violent Muslims worldwide than violent

00:46:21.940 Christians.

00:46:22.740 And he was run out on rail by the left.

00:46:25.180 But suddenly, he had this new following of people who were saying, listen, this guy is

00:46:27.600 willing to undergo a certain amount of pressure in order to say what he wants to say.

00:46:31.680 For Brett Weinstein, it was the same thing at Evergreen State College.

00:46:33.780 So saying no, I think, gives a lot of college students a feeling like if you're willing to

00:46:37.920 say no and take a risk to say no, then you must have some sort of rooted, eternal values

00:46:42.720 to which you are subject.

00:46:44.680 And this means that you have some sort of gloss on life that's more than my professors are

00:46:48.020 saying is possible out there.

00:46:49.520 It's not.

00:46:50.160 But it's not just saying no.

00:46:53.100 It's saying no because of logic and reason.

00:46:58.640 You know, that's why everybody is famous now of saying no.

00:47:02.660 Oh, well, no, I'm not male or female.

00:47:06.060 You know what I mean?

00:47:07.020 Right.

00:47:07.280 That's not the same.

00:47:08.540 And we have disconnected from all logic, all reason, all science.

00:47:15.220 Yes.

00:47:16.140 And because everybody's just saying, no, well, I don't have to take that.

00:47:20.540 I have different facts.

00:47:21.560 It's a really fascinating development to watch as all these people on the left who proclaim

00:47:25.320 that they were so pro-science are throwing people out of the ranks.

00:47:28.200 Like, I don't know if you saw this conversation between Sam Harris and Ezra Klein.

00:47:31.660 Sam Harris is on the left.

00:47:33.780 I mean, Sam is a real Democrat.

00:47:35.520 And Ezra Klein went on his show and called Sam Harris a racist because Sam Harris looked

00:47:39.740 at actual data about IQ differentiation among groups.

00:47:43.600 He actually read Charles Murray's book and had Charles Murray on his program and said,

00:47:46.660 listen, Charles Murray's not attributing all of this to biology.

00:47:48.760 But there's some pretty, you know, there's some pretty clear evidence that there's at

00:47:52.720 least a biological component to IQ.

00:47:55.080 And Ezra Klein went on Sam Harris's show and without any data at all called him a racist.

00:47:59.380 That's because there's this new fangled philosophy that says that all relative, all reality is

00:48:05.400 subjective.

00:48:06.100 All reality is what you feel about the reality.

00:48:08.860 And so science is not subjective.

00:48:10.620 Science is what science is.

00:48:11.940 And that means scientists are surprised when they find themselves out on their ear for the

00:48:15.360 first time.

00:48:15.880 I don't think people really took postmodernism seriously.

00:48:18.920 Yeah.

00:48:19.380 You know, and that's what we are living in the postmodern world.

00:48:22.440 And if you don't know what postmodernism is modern, the modern lifestyle is the age of

00:48:28.580 reason, the the enlightenment, the idea that we take science and facts and we look at all

00:48:34.680 of it.

00:48:34.960 That was modern thinking.

00:48:36.660 We've now thrown that away.

00:48:38.620 We are postmodernism.

00:48:40.140 And instead of now being ruled by a church, we're ruled by some other religious doctrine.

00:48:47.320 I just don't know what it is, but it is a religious it's dogma.

00:48:50.700 So I'm writing a book about this right now.

00:48:52.100 And I actually think that what what has happened here is the culmination of essentially a 300

00:48:56.380 year process where what what originally happened was there was postmodernism is the rejection

00:49:01.560 of values on behalf of the subjective.

00:49:03.760 So where it makes a certain amount of sense, where people logically resonate to postmodernism

00:49:07.720 is they say that postmodernism applies when it comes to morality, that your morality is

00:49:11.400 not objective, right?

00:49:12.560 That we all have our morality, that really life is a series of power, political struggles.

00:49:16.920 And what you say is morality, you're only saying that because it benefits you to say

00:49:20.480 that that's morality.

00:49:21.240 And so a lot of people buy into that.

00:49:23.500 Well, that, though, was an outgrowth of the rejection of postmodern postmodern value rejection

00:49:29.660 was an outgrowth of the rejection of religion, because the idea was if there's no objective

00:49:32.940 religion out there, then what defines values in here?

00:49:36.320 And so people said, OK, fine, well, we can deal with the postmodern values struggle because

00:49:40.540 we'll make our own values.

00:49:41.600 We'll make our own value systems.

00:49:42.840 But they forgot that science is a value.

00:49:44.740 Reason is a value.

00:49:46.140 Rationality is value.

00:49:47.440 And so a lot of the folks who are very reasonable and were very interested in reason,

00:49:51.380 enlightenment thinkers were some of the biggest people promoting postmodern values.

00:49:55.180 And then they were surprised when the when the Frankenstein monster turned on its master.

00:49:58.960 All of a sudden, all these people who are promoting postmodern values said, well, science

00:50:02.120 is a value, too.

00:50:02.740 So why exactly should we take science seriously?

00:50:04.800 Right.

00:50:05.200 If you're saying that reason and rationality, these are the highest values.

00:50:08.360 But you're only saying that because you're a reasonable, rational, intelligent person.

00:50:11.980 You're only saying that because you're high IQ.

00:50:13.620 You're only saying that because you benefit from the scientific consensus.

00:50:17.300 Like there are papers that are now being written on the postmodern left saying things like

00:50:20.340 science is a creation of the white male heterosexual patriarchy.

00:50:23.580 I mean, there was this fascinating thing.

00:50:25.580 I talked to Jordan about this the other day.

00:50:27.780 It's this this Google memo that came out from that was revealed in the James DeMore lawsuit

00:50:33.420 against Google where they put out a paper saying white values versus non white values.

00:50:38.820 And among white values were things like rationality or things like winning and losing or things

00:50:43.840 like scientific progress.

00:50:45.580 These things were actually listed as white views of the universe as opposed to objective

00:50:50.240 views of the universe.

00:50:51.140 I mean, what I said about it on my show is that if Google lived by the by the values that

00:50:55.360 it purports to hate, it would be out of business in five minutes.

00:50:58.440 Obviously, right?

00:50:59.100 Google bases its own own business on all of these values that it purports to think are

00:51:03.240 white heterosexual patriarchal norms.

00:51:05.300 But that's the value system that has built the West.

00:51:08.720 And we're rejecting that now because we've gone so down because we thought that we could

00:51:12.740 separate religion from science and that that break could be clean.

00:51:16.440 And instead, it turns out that by rejecting religion, by rejecting the idea that there's

00:51:20.080 an objective truth about morality in the world, we're also going to reject the idea of objective

00:51:24.520 truths generally.

00:51:25.640 And you see some people struggling to put that some people struggling to put that back together.

00:51:29.420 I'm struggling to put that back together.

00:51:30.580 I think Jordan's struggling to put that back together.

00:51:32.040 I think there are certain people like Steven Pinker or like Sam, who are Sam Harris, who

00:51:36.000 are trying to keep the religion out of it and trying to restore the Enlightenment vision

00:51:39.860 of science.

00:51:41.000 But I'm not sure how you can do that.

00:51:42.260 I'm not sure how you can remove the base of the science.

00:51:44.780 Like science was not there's this weird idea.

00:51:46.840 You were saying this earlier, you know, there's this weird idea that history began today.

00:51:51.200 Well, a lot of Enlightenment advocates think that history began in 1750, that like that's

00:51:55.940 when history began.

00:51:56.760 And then there's no history to science, that science started in 1750, that good thought began

00:52:00.780 in 1750.

00:52:01.800 There's a rooted philosophy of the West that goes all the way back to Sinai and that carries

00:52:06.420 forward through the Sermon on the Mount and then all the way forward through Locke.

00:52:10.380 There is no way you can understand the West without understanding the Bible.

00:52:16.080 You don't have to believe.

00:52:16.780 This is right.

00:52:17.340 You don't have to believe in the angels and the magic tricks and the fire and all of that.

00:52:22.180 You don't have to.

00:52:22.820 But you do have to read it and go, what is this trying to teach and how did this form

00:52:29.100 what we have?

00:52:30.680 Exactly.

00:52:31.200 And everybody's trying to throw that out.

00:52:32.880 Without that, you've completely taken all of the cornerstones.

00:52:37.060 You've taken the cornerstone and all of the foundation of the house out.

00:52:40.620 You got nothing left.

00:52:41.420 This is right.

00:52:41.860 I think the history of this 19th and 20th centuries are enough to prove this.

00:52:45.320 I mean, mass chaos and the bloody slaughter of an enormous portion of the globe on the

00:52:50.340 basis of rationality should be enough to show you that rationality unmoored to some

00:52:55.280 sort of higher value system is pretty dangerous stuff.

00:52:58.320 Back with Ben Shapiro in a minute.

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00:54:16.540 Glenn Beck.

00:54:18.380 Mercury.

00:54:24.460 Glenn Beck.

00:54:27.440 Welcome back to the program.

00:54:28.920 Joining us, Ben Shapiro.

00:54:30.140 Glenn, I hope Ben understands what's happening in D.C. with a very interested guy in the

00:54:41.920 D.C. City Council.

00:54:42.840 If you remember, his name is, let's see, Treyon White.

00:54:46.660 And he initially had talked about the big conspiracy that a lot of people are not discussing

00:54:51.680 about how Jews are controlling the weather.

00:54:54.620 Damn you.

00:54:55.700 Notice Ben lives out here in Los Angeles and it's beautiful all the time?

00:54:58.960 It is.

00:54:59.920 Coincidence?

00:55:00.360 I don't think so.

00:55:01.540 Do we have the initial clip of him driving in his car, watching like three snowflakes falling

00:55:07.540 and blaming it on the Jews?

00:55:08.500 Man, it just started snowing out of nowhere this morning, man.

00:55:11.020 Out of nowhere.

00:55:11.660 Y'all better pay attention to this climate control, man.

00:55:14.400 This climate manipulation.

00:55:16.420 And D.C. keep talking about we're a resilient city.

00:55:19.100 And that's a model based off the Rothschilds controlling the climate.

00:55:23.060 It's a free natural disaster they can pay for to own the cities, man.

00:55:25.860 Be careful.

00:55:27.840 Wow.

00:55:28.400 So the Rothschilds, how deeply connected to the Rothschilds are you?

00:55:32.200 We really don't talk about this except in our Friday night meetings.

00:55:35.100 Okay.

00:55:35.480 We really try to keep this under wraps.

00:55:37.120 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:55:37.440 But I will say the last time I traveled to Atlanta, I brought a tornado with me.

00:55:40.520 And then that big snowstorm in D.C. was the next day because I traveled to D.C.

00:55:43.480 Holy cow.

00:55:44.320 He's admitted it.

00:55:44.960 I'm not going to say.

00:55:45.180 There it is.

00:55:45.800 He's admitted it.

00:55:46.660 Now, there's an update to this story.

00:55:48.080 I don't know if you know, Ben.

00:55:49.220 Yeah, it's pretty exciting.

00:55:50.020 I guess he was doing a tour to a little penance for his previous comments.

00:55:56.440 And he went to the Holocaust Museum.

00:55:58.860 And you know, this is going to turn out well, obviously.

00:56:01.300 Yeah.

00:56:01.680 There's a sitcom here.

00:56:03.880 So he did not find the weather machine.

00:56:06.320 No, he did not find it there.

00:56:08.160 He did examine a picture of a girl walking through a crowd surrounded by German soldiers.

00:56:13.040 And the girl was wearing a sign.

00:56:14.260 The sign said, I am a German girl and allowed myself to be defiled by a Jew.

00:56:19.540 White, this councilman, then asked the tour guide, are they protecting her?

00:56:24.840 Meaning, are the German Nazi soldiers protecting this girl?

00:56:28.460 No, the guide said, they're marching her through.

00:56:31.580 Marching through is protecting, White responded.

00:56:34.960 Of course, the guide pointed out they thought that maybe they were humiliating her.

00:56:40.440 Now, White then decided halfway through the tour to just bolt.

00:56:44.500 He just leaves the tour and goes outside and waits outside on the street.

00:56:50.560 Once he leaves, a member of his staff suggests that a picture of the Warsaw ghetto resembles a, quote, gated community.

00:56:58.200 The rabbi doing the tour points out, yeah, I wouldn't call it a gated community, more like a prison.

00:57:06.140 So it's not going well for this particular gentleman.

00:57:09.120 So I want to get Ben's view as one of the most hated Jews in America, perhaps the world.

00:57:16.340 I'd like to get his view on this gated community and what I think was probably a condominium complex of Auschwitz when we come back.

00:57:29.820 Glenn Beck, Mercury.

00:57:46.640 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:57:48.560 So back with Ben Shapiro, who has been following Kanye West and Shania Twain for some strange reason.

00:58:04.080 Well, they're both in the news.

00:58:05.400 Yeah, I know.

00:58:06.060 Yeah, so Kanye came out with a bunch of kind of bizarrely conservative tweets.

00:58:10.380 He tweeted his support for Candace Owens the other day, who's a compatriot of Charlie Kirk over at Turning Point USA,

00:58:15.860 and a black woman who's a supporter of Trump.

00:58:18.040 And then he tweeted also something about how self-victimization is a disease.

00:58:22.060 And all these conservatives were like, oh, my God, Kanye's on our side, man.

00:58:26.600 Kanye's here.

00:58:27.340 I don't know if I want Kanye on our side.

00:58:28.860 So this is kind of my take.

00:58:30.180 Yeah.

00:58:30.660 Right?

00:58:31.320 Do we remember who Kanye is?

00:58:34.300 It's so amazing that we on the right have this scorn for people on the left because, oh, look how they worship celebrity.

00:58:40.020 Look how they worship celebrity.

00:58:41.100 Well, first of all, Donald Trump is the president of the United States now.

00:58:44.340 Also, Kanye West is a—the only reason you care what Kanye West thinks, and he's not just muttering to himself on a corner somewhere,

00:58:51.340 is because he's a big celebrity.

00:58:53.240 And this bizarre notion that somebody whom the cameras have focused in on has been conferred with a greater-than-average wisdom

00:59:00.240 is the stupidest thing I have ever heard of someone who grew up in Hollywood and who knows a lot of people the cameras have focused in on.

00:59:07.380 Let me just say, the folks in the music industry, the folks in Hollywood, they don't know anything.

00:59:12.720 I mean, like, there are a few writers who are somewhat smart, but you're talking about, like, these musicians?

00:59:17.260 Or you're talking about the actors?

00:59:20.220 Ben, I don't believe that at all.

00:59:23.200 Of course.

00:59:24.660 They're dolts.

00:59:25.940 A lot of them are just dolts.

00:59:28.160 A lot—I think there are a lot of people in powerful or public positions that are as dumb as the city councilman in Washington, D.C.

00:59:38.220 No question.

00:59:38.740 Have no idea.

00:59:39.800 Never read a book.

00:59:40.760 Don't know history.

00:59:41.820 Have no idea what they're talking about.

00:59:43.860 I mean, Keith Ellison was almost the head of the DNC, and I'm not sure he's wildly smarter than Treon White.

00:59:49.080 I mean, they both gave money, apparently, to the same Nation of Islam event.

00:59:51.520 So it's one of the great disappointments of life, as Adam Carolla once said, is that when you're a kid, you look around, you look at the adults,

00:59:58.520 and you see they all have houses, and they have cars, and they have nice stuff, and they can do what they want at night, and it looks great.

01:00:03.960 And you figure, they must be so smart.

01:00:05.240 I mean, they've got all these nice things.

01:00:06.260 They've got, like, houses and cars.

01:00:07.620 And then you grow up, and you realize all the same people who were stupid when you were kids are still stupid when you're adults.

01:00:12.420 And so that means that they all have houses and cars, too.

01:00:15.120 And that's—

01:00:15.860 And the same thing is true for Kanye.

01:00:19.820 This is a guy who Josh Groban did one of the great routines ever.

01:00:22.560 If you haven't seen it, go to YouTube and look it up.

01:00:24.240 It's so funny.

01:00:24.920 It's him singing the tweets of Kanye West, and it's him singing things like,

01:00:29.180 Fur pillows are hard to sleep on.

01:00:31.860 And it's—and how he wants a giant fish tank.

01:00:35.920 He's looking for a giant antique fish tank.

01:00:37.400 The same guy who's tweeting about how he needs a giant antique fish tank

01:00:40.260 is the same guy tweeting deep thoughts about self-realization.

01:00:44.780 And we're like, yeah, man, because we're so hungry for any sort of legitimacy on the right.

01:00:48.580 We are so hungry for anyone who's famous to say that we're not the worst people in the world,

01:00:52.520 and we're not crazy.

01:00:53.760 And particularly if that person happens to be a minority like Kanye,

01:00:56.160 that we are willing to just glom onto anything.

01:00:58.940 It is an amazing thing.

01:01:00.340 So how does this fare—how do we fare?

01:01:02.820 How do we get through this?

01:01:05.500 Do we?

01:01:06.660 Do we?

01:01:07.380 Really?

01:01:07.940 I don't know.

01:01:09.300 I mean, I think that, again, we've lost so much of the idea that what validates us

01:01:14.000 is the community we live in or the God to whom we are subject.

01:01:18.300 And instead, what validates us is a famous person saying something that makes us feel good about ourselves.

01:01:22.540 And that's not a very good thing.

01:01:23.920 So I have to tell you, I am—I drove to the studios today.

01:01:29.220 We're in Los Angeles.

01:01:29.860 I drove to the studios today, and I turned on the radio, and I heard a doctor talking about

01:01:35.660 how she's doing regression therapy, but not just for this timeline, but all of your alternative timelines.

01:01:45.000 So I don't know if she uses the flux capacitor to do that.

01:01:49.840 I don't know how that works.

01:01:51.280 But I heard that, and I'm at the top of my lungs alone in the car today.

01:01:56.800 How does anybody live here?

01:01:58.700 How do you live here?

01:02:00.520 It's this weird thing that there is this little group of—

01:02:08.360 It's pretty live.

01:02:10.040 It's pretty live intellectually, right?

01:02:11.460 I mean, it's—Peter Thiel just moved down here from San Jose.

01:02:15.620 Jordan Peterson is out here a lot.

01:02:17.760 Dave Rubin is out here.

01:02:19.560 Dennis Prager is out here.

01:02:20.880 The Claremont Institute is out here.

01:02:22.540 There's a lot out here, actually.

01:02:24.200 And I think one of the reasons is because when you're constantly balancing off the crazy of the other side,

01:02:29.060 it is intellectually stimulating.

01:02:31.120 I mean, you actually had to hear about that crazy regression thing, and now you can use it on the air, right?

01:02:35.060 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

01:02:35.560 I mean, if you were back home right now, they'd be talking about, like, normal stuff on the radio.

01:02:39.780 Well, no, I wouldn't be talking about normal stuff, but I wouldn't be talking about Texas.

01:02:43.660 Right, exactly.

01:02:44.480 That's what I mean.

01:02:45.220 If you were tuning into the radio on your way into the station, they wouldn't be talking about regression therapy.

01:02:49.940 And the thing is that all of the crazy that's happening in L.A., all the crazy that's happening in San Francisco,

01:02:55.440 there are roots to that, too.

01:02:56.400 So we on the right tend to think of that as being just the latest craze, the latest fad.

01:03:00.840 But there's some pretty pagan roots to all of this, and I think that what's really going on right now

01:03:04.360 is a battle between Judeo-Christian monotheism and a reversion to a certain level of paganism,

01:03:09.820 because that's just witchcraft, right?

01:03:11.060 I mean, regression therapy for alternative timelines.

01:03:13.720 Yeah.

01:03:14.260 That's just witchcraft kind of stuff.

01:03:15.640 I mean, this is, like, I'm not saying we should burn you or anything,

01:03:18.340 but I am saying that you guaranteeing me that you're going to make my life better

01:03:24.120 by talking about a life that I have never lived is a form of you trying to guarantee a level of control

01:03:30.140 in the universe to human beings that human beings simply do not have over the universe

01:03:34.580 and that we can't exercise over the universe.

01:03:36.520 I wrote a book, a novel of, I don't know, eight years ago or so, called The Eye of Moloch.

01:03:43.340 And it's biblical in its nature, because if you look at how people were worshipping and who Moloch is,

01:03:57.740 he wants you to have, you know, orgies, crazy sex, do whatever you want, destroy everything,

01:04:07.020 and then sacrifice the baby of that union.

01:04:12.220 I mean, we're worshipping Moloch.

01:04:14.440 We just don't know it.

01:04:15.480 I think that's right.

01:04:16.460 It's under the guise of pantheism, which sounds a whole lot nicer.

01:04:20.140 And it's also being concealed by the fact that we are still living in the, you know,

01:04:24.700 your car runs out of gas and you're running on the fumes.

01:04:27.300 We're still living on the fumes of the Judeo-Christian value system.

01:04:30.760 So all the same people in Hollywood who are promoting these sorts of values,

01:04:33.520 the same people who will use that regression technique,

01:04:35.300 most of them are married, most of them have kids, most of them still have not been divorced.

01:04:39.660 The fact is that we see the high-profile divorces in Hollywood,

01:04:41.900 but the truth is most of the people who live in Hollywood are fairly normal human beings,

01:04:45.200 or at least they live fairly normal lifestyles.

01:04:46.620 This is Charles Murray's point in coming apart, right?

01:04:48.860 He says that upper-class white folks who live on the coast

01:04:51.420 and are the quote-unquote thought leaders about single motherhood,

01:04:53.800 they don't live those lifestyles.

01:04:55.200 They're not single mothers.

01:04:56.000 They're not living impoverished lifestyles.

01:04:57.880 They're basically doing what everybody else does,

01:04:59.940 with maybe the exception of going to church.

01:05:01.860 And so they are living off the fumes of this Judeo-Christian history,

01:05:04.980 but they are promoting this new lifestyle to a bunch of people

01:05:07.340 who are being suckered by it because they think,

01:05:09.160 oh, this is what the successful people do.

01:05:10.800 What the successful people do is they all are members of sex cults.

01:05:14.060 And out here in L.A., that's really not what's going on.

01:05:16.520 The face they put forward to the world is that everyone is depraved

01:05:21.260 because we're all experimenting and this is our thing.

01:05:24.220 But the truth is that I find it a high point of amusement

01:05:27.200 that all of the people who are so open about their promiscuity,

01:05:30.780 these starlets who are so open about their promiscuity

01:05:32.780 when they're 17, 18 years old,

01:05:34.140 by the time they're 30, they're settling down, they're married,

01:05:35.920 they have kids.

01:05:37.040 They're living the same lifestyle as somebody who's living out in Oklahoma or Texas.

01:05:40.500 They just won't tell you that.

01:05:41.820 The stuff that the media want to focus on,

01:05:43.280 and the stuff they want you to focus on is the sexy stuff.

01:05:45.780 The stuff when they're 19, they're dancing naked with members of the same sex.

01:05:49.020 That's the stuff.

01:05:49.460 But by the time they're 30,

01:05:51.520 I mean, look at Miley Cyrus' new videos.

01:05:53.900 And they basically look like Shania Twain videos, right?

01:05:55.560 I mean, all of a sudden, she's doing videos on the beach with her boyfriend.

01:05:58.320 It looks like they're going to settle down.

01:05:59.380 It looks like they're going to have kids.

01:06:00.280 Because it turns out that the human drive for solidity

01:06:04.020 and the human drive for some sort of value system

01:06:07.320 is stronger even than the human drive for depravity.

01:06:10.540 Or at least it is when you realize that you're going to die at some point

01:06:13.460 and the depravity is going to catch up with you.

01:06:15.780 Talk to me about Shania Twain, your opinion on Shania Twain,

01:06:19.400 a Canadian, asked who she would have voted for.

01:06:24.020 So she couldn't vote.

01:06:25.080 What a ridiculous question to even ask her.

01:06:27.580 She shouldn't have answered the question.

01:06:29.800 But the way she answered the question was,

01:06:32.220 based on the values of the people who voted for him,

01:06:36.840 which is her audience,

01:06:38.080 I would say I probably would have voted for Donald Trump.

01:06:41.320 And now she's apologized in a long Twitter storm apology

01:06:44.260 about how I'm not a racist, I'm not a sexist,

01:06:47.180 I don't believe in a lot of the same things that President Trump does.

01:06:50.140 I was just trying to answer the question.

01:06:51.580 But really, I shouldn't have spoken out.

01:06:52.860 It's like, really?

01:06:54.460 First of all, this may be the most Canadian thing ever.

01:06:56.380 Like, speaking out about an election that you couldn't take part

01:06:58.960 and then apologizing for a vote you could never have cast,

01:07:01.260 that's pretty Canadian.

01:07:02.120 Michael Bublé, I'm in New York,

01:07:04.560 and I walk into a hotel lobby.

01:07:07.640 Michael is there, and he sees me,

01:07:10.020 and he calls across the lobby.

01:07:11.460 It's like 1 o'clock in the morning.

01:07:12.500 He's like, Glenn!

01:07:13.960 And I turn around, I walk up, and he said,

01:07:17.240 I want you to know, I was just in a fistfight over you.

01:07:20.760 And I said, what?

01:07:22.060 And he said, I was at a hockey game someplace in Canada,

01:07:25.540 and somebody said, I can't believe that you're friends with Glenn Beck,

01:07:30.440 and you go on the air with Glenn Beck.

01:07:32.600 And he's like, dude, he's a nice guy with his politics.

01:07:37.600 We're Canadian.

01:07:38.780 Why do you care about his politics?

01:07:41.080 And he said, he actually, the guy threw blows,

01:07:43.540 they were throwing punches.

01:07:46.180 First of all, I want to see Michael Bublé in a fight.

01:07:47.580 I mean, that sounds, I'll bet he's good.

01:07:50.980 Shockingly good.

01:07:51.680 Yeah, I bet he's badass.

01:07:52.400 This is right, he just loosens the tie completely.

01:07:55.260 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

01:07:55.920 He takes off the skinny tie,

01:07:57.220 he unbuttons that top button, just goes to work.

01:07:58.840 Right, yeah.

01:07:59.260 But yeah, I think that it is incredible,

01:08:01.900 the level of intellectual bullying

01:08:03.440 to which people are being subjected at this point,

01:08:05.820 where you even say you voted for Trump,

01:08:08.040 or you say, hey, I support some of the things Trump is doing.

01:08:10.840 The fact that so many people,

01:08:12.700 this goes to my generalized theory of the media,

01:08:14.560 everybody is seeing, we live,

01:08:16.160 so to go back to scientific models,

01:08:18.640 we live in a pre-Copernican era,

01:08:20.060 as far as the media are concerned.

01:08:21.240 They think that the world revolves around Donald Trump.

01:08:23.800 Right, Donald Trump is the center of the universe

01:08:25.020 and everything revolves around Donald Trump.

01:08:26.780 This is a lie.

01:08:27.520 The world revolves around the media.

01:08:29.160 Right, the media have decided

01:08:30.160 that Donald Trump is the sun in this universe,

01:08:32.600 but the sun in the universe are the media.

01:08:34.440 And that's why Donald Trump is president right now,

01:08:36.060 is because the media cares so much about Donald Trump.

01:08:37.960 So the fact that people are even asking Shania Twain

01:08:39.980 about Donald Trump

01:08:40.640 is because the media cares so much about Trump.

01:08:42.380 It's not Trump who's asking Shania Twain about Trump.

01:08:44.260 It's the media asking Shania Twain about Trump

01:08:46.420 because Trump is the only thing that matters in the universe.

01:08:49.080 Because to the media,

01:08:49.740 he is the only thing that matters in the universe.

01:08:50.780 How long do you think the media has?

01:08:52.400 Bill O'Reilly has said to me,

01:08:54.480 media's on its last legs.

01:08:56.840 You know, I think that they still have so much power,

01:09:00.100 especially through the reinstitution of gatekeeping

01:09:01.940 and the social media,

01:09:03.080 that I'm more skeptical than that.

01:09:05.400 I remember after 2004,

01:09:06.900 after Bush won re-election,

01:09:08.400 the line from the right was,

01:09:09.800 well, the old media is dead.

01:09:11.100 We just defeated the old media.

01:09:12.180 If the old media had its way,

01:09:13.060 John Kerry would have been re-elected.

01:09:14.020 That was 14 years ago.

01:09:15.400 And they're still going,

01:09:16.580 and they're still having a pretty major impact.

01:09:17.780 So how do, with the new gatekeeping,

01:09:19.680 I talked to, you know what Edwin Black is?

01:09:21.440 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

01:09:22.080 Okay.

01:09:22.540 I had Edwin Black on last week.

01:09:24.720 Fascinating.

01:09:25.320 You need to talk to him about his theory

01:09:27.140 of analytical ghettos.

01:09:31.380 Algorithmic ghettos.

01:09:32.180 Or no, sorry, algorithmic ghettos.

01:09:34.020 And he said,

01:09:35.680 we're all being put into a ghetto.

01:09:39.560 And it's just an algorithm that's doing it this time.

01:09:42.020 But the walls are being built.

01:09:43.540 Yeah.

01:09:43.860 How do businesses like the Daily Wire,

01:09:46.520 the Blaze, your voice, my voice,

01:09:48.480 how do we stay on the other side of the wall?

01:09:52.740 So I think that it's really a matter of,

01:09:54.840 there are going to have to be new neutral platforms

01:09:56.440 that are built.

01:09:57.400 And I think people will find them.

01:09:58.740 So the fact that my podcast is so popular

01:10:00.900 is not because iTunes favors my podcast, right?

01:10:04.260 It's because people can go to a variety

01:10:06.380 of different podcasting sources and seek it out,

01:10:09.360 which is what they've done, right?

01:10:10.320 It was really more organic than anything else.

01:10:12.440 So I think people still want to hear differing perspectives.

01:10:14.980 If they try to reinstall the gates,

01:10:16.360 I think they're going to find there are a lot of people

01:10:18.360 who want to tear those walls down again.

01:10:20.840 And it's going to take a while.

01:10:22.440 It's going to take a while for that to happen

01:10:23.940 because, again, it took Facebook 10 years

01:10:26.360 to build this sort of dominance,

01:10:28.340 it's 15 years to build this sort of dominance.

01:10:30.240 But I think that they are fighting a losing battle,

01:10:33.220 but it's going to take a little more time

01:10:34.480 than I think people think it's going to take.

01:10:35.660 Ben Shapiro from The Daily Wire

01:10:37.700 and The Ben Shapiro Show.

01:10:39.980 You can watch him online at The Daily Wire.

01:10:42.200 You can also get his podcast at iTunes,

01:10:43.880 wherever else you go to find your podcast.

01:10:46.860 Ben, thank you so much.

01:10:47.700 Hey, thanks a lot.

01:10:48.240 Appreciate it.

01:10:49.220 Ben's going to be joining us, I believe, today.

01:10:52.340 You come in on the show today for TV.

01:10:53.880 We're going to spend an hour and talk a little bit

01:10:56.680 about Los Angeles and what's happening here

01:11:01.480 and the thinking that you don't hear about in Los Angeles.

01:11:10.400 Nobody's paying attention to it,

01:11:11.800 but there is something happening here.

01:11:13.400 We'll talk a little bit more about that tonight

01:11:14.820 on The Blaze at 5 o'clock.

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01:12:25.880 Glenn Beck, Mercury.

01:12:34.400 Glenn Beck.

01:12:35.620 Ben Shapiro is, hang on just a second,

01:12:41.140 Ben Shapiro was with us today.

01:12:42.760 He'll be with us tonight.

01:12:43.720 I also want to talk to him about

01:12:44.900 the media shelters from the storm.

01:12:48.620 They're all calling, you know,

01:12:50.480 Fox News and Breitbart and everybody else.

01:12:53.820 Anybody who defends Donald Trump

01:12:55.580 is a shelter from the storm.

01:12:57.000 You will not believe this CNN piece

01:12:58.960 where they don't see that

01:13:01.000 that's what they were doing with Obama.

01:13:03.680 So bizarre.

01:13:05.200 We'll talk about that

01:13:06.200 coming up in a little while,

01:13:07.360 also with Ben Shapiro.

01:13:08.620 And Jonah Goldberg joins me in this hour.

01:13:11.360 Tomorrow, his new book is out

01:13:12.900 called Suicide of the West.

01:13:14.760 It's fantastic.

01:13:15.840 It's a little like what Ben and I

01:13:17.320 were talking about about a half hour ago.

01:13:19.380 You know, what is really dismantling

01:13:21.820 all of this?

01:13:22.840 Jonah Goldberg, tomorrow at this time on radio.

01:13:25.280 Building off a point that Ben just made

01:13:26.520 about how Trump is the center

01:13:27.580 of the media universe,

01:13:28.520 there's a story in The Atlantic,

01:13:30.200 which is pretty amazing,

01:13:31.480 talking about how, you know,

01:13:32.920 the problem might just be

01:13:34.020 the presidency as a whole.

01:13:35.740 Talking about how in 1955,

01:13:38.080 a number of strong hurricanes

01:13:39.380 battered the United States.

01:13:40.800 Eisenhower was barely mentioned

01:13:42.360 in the newspaper stories

01:13:43.400 about the hurricanes.

01:13:44.860 The hurricane season

01:13:45.620 was then the costliest on record,

01:13:47.280 but there are no pictures

01:13:48.080 of the former Allied commander

01:13:49.680 pointing at maps

01:13:50.900 or receiving furrowed brow briefings

01:13:52.600 from meteorologists.

01:13:53.620 When the storms hit,

01:13:54.980 Ike was on vacation.

01:13:57.160 His absence was not the subject

01:13:58.520 of endless concerned punditry

01:14:00.300 as it would be today.

01:14:01.760 Eisenhower wasn't callous.

01:14:02.960 Local government,

01:14:03.680 civil defense forces,

01:14:04.500 and the Red Cross

01:14:05.100 were supposed to sack the sandbags

01:14:06.820 and distribute relief

01:14:07.620 when the storm hit,

01:14:08.760 upsetting that division of duties

01:14:10.120 the president believed

01:14:11.040 would jeopardize

01:14:11.820 core American values.

01:14:13.580 I regard this as one

01:14:14.640 of the great real disasters

01:14:16.300 that threatens to engulf us

01:14:17.560 when we are unready

01:14:18.660 as a nation,

01:14:19.440 as a people,

01:14:20.120 to meet personal disaster

01:14:21.440 by our own cheerful giving.

01:14:23.320 Wow.

01:14:23.840 I mean, what a different world

01:14:25.360 that is.

01:14:26.080 Wow.

01:14:26.380 But the right world, right?

01:14:27.560 Yeah, if we can get back

01:14:29.360 into that after the top

01:14:30.260 of the hour,

01:14:30.660 because that goes to,

01:14:33.540 I believe,

01:14:34.340 the 9th and 10th amendment

01:14:35.940 that people really need

01:14:38.360 to understand.

01:14:38.940 It's our problem right now.

01:14:40.840 Glenn Beck.

01:14:42.620 Mercury.

01:14:49.340 Love.

01:14:50.640 Courage.

01:14:52.340 Truth.

01:14:54.040 Glenn Beck.

01:14:55.580 Well, I don't know

01:14:56.680 if you've noticed this yet,

01:14:57.800 but have you noticed

01:14:58.500 how social media

01:14:59.260 brings out the very best

01:15:01.060 in our moral superiority?

01:15:03.360 I mean, it's really...

01:15:05.440 We're never so sure

01:15:06.620 of anything as we are

01:15:07.960 when we're taking somebody out.

01:15:10.540 Most of the time,

01:15:11.480 somebody that we have

01:15:12.360 absolutely no idea

01:15:14.040 who they are personally.

01:15:16.180 But when we can take them out

01:15:17.660 with a precision bomb

01:15:19.000 of a tweet or reply,

01:15:21.060 letting them know

01:15:22.140 you're a total

01:15:23.140 and complete scumbag

01:15:24.580 because you have an opinion

01:15:26.160 that's different than mine,

01:15:27.880 when you can do that

01:15:29.120 and, I mean,

01:15:31.580 I gotta tell you,

01:15:32.540 it just feels so good,

01:15:35.320 doesn't it?

01:15:36.940 Yes, it's social media,

01:15:38.840 so potential ridicule

01:15:40.020 comes with the territory

01:15:41.740 if you're gonna post something.

01:15:43.640 Just ask CBS Sports commentator

01:15:45.840 Jay Feely.

01:15:47.440 On Saturday,

01:15:48.480 Feely,

01:15:49.020 the former NFL kicker,

01:15:50.440 tweeted a photo

01:15:51.180 of himself

01:15:53.200 standing between

01:15:54.320 his daughter

01:15:55.400 and her prom date.

01:15:57.440 Now, Feely...

01:15:58.520 Now, look out.

01:15:59.340 I'm just...

01:15:59.840 I don't mean to be cute here,

01:16:01.680 but this is a trigger.

01:16:03.000 A trigger warning here.

01:16:04.460 Please...

01:16:06.220 It's gonna become

01:16:07.000 a very unsafe space.

01:16:08.680 Feely is holding

01:16:09.600 a handgun.

01:16:10.420 There, I said it.

01:16:11.420 Okay?

01:16:11.920 He's pointing it downward,

01:16:13.480 not at anybody,

01:16:14.420 and his finger

01:16:14.980 is not on the trigger,

01:16:16.260 but still,

01:16:17.160 it's very upsetting

01:16:18.160 if you had to see this.

01:16:19.200 His tweet says,

01:16:20.420 wishing my beautiful daughter

01:16:22.340 and her date

01:16:23.240 a great time at prom.

01:16:25.900 I love this guy.

01:16:28.720 But predictably,

01:16:31.120 Feely was torn apart

01:16:33.100 for everything

01:16:34.500 from being an irresponsible gun owner

01:16:36.640 to being out of touch

01:16:37.920 with gun safety

01:16:38.980 to being anti-women

01:16:40.660 for treating his daughter

01:16:41.940 as property.

01:16:43.980 Uh, okay.

01:16:45.020 Oh, okay.

01:16:45.880 Now, maybe Feely

01:16:48.240 should have saved that one

01:16:49.580 for the private family

01:16:50.820 photo album.

01:16:52.140 I mean,

01:16:52.940 have you been

01:16:53.900 on Twitter before?

01:16:56.780 So,

01:16:57.540 he's invited the world

01:16:58.580 to judge his parenting

01:16:59.820 and handling

01:17:00.640 of guns

01:17:01.380 and sensitivity skills,

01:17:03.100 but anyone

01:17:03.700 with just a thimble full

01:17:05.800 of common sense

01:17:06.860 understands

01:17:07.940 that Feely

01:17:08.800 was joking.

01:17:10.120 but,

01:17:13.100 I don't know,

01:17:15.300 have you ever heard

01:17:16.140 of a father?

01:17:17.800 I've never heard

01:17:18.800 of a father

01:17:19.300 threatening

01:17:19.820 a boyfriend,

01:17:21.900 you know,

01:17:22.520 on a,

01:17:23.180 you know,

01:17:23.800 date thing.

01:17:25.720 That's never happened.

01:17:28.460 It's not like Feely

01:17:30.020 is breaking new comedic ground here.

01:17:31.980 Okay?

01:17:32.420 I don't know

01:17:32.820 if anybody noticed that.

01:17:34.160 He's not.

01:17:34.860 But all of us

01:17:36.320 who are hypersensitive,

01:17:37.840 we're addicted

01:17:38.820 to outrage.

01:17:39.780 I've,

01:17:40.200 it's been

01:17:40.740 three hours

01:17:41.980 without something

01:17:43.120 for me to be

01:17:43.920 really outraged about.

01:17:45.760 Can somebody

01:17:47.260 feed me

01:17:48.180 some outrage?

01:17:50.360 Yes.

01:17:51.300 The hypersensitive

01:17:52.060 progressive PC

01:17:53.080 safe space culture

01:17:54.300 has neutered

01:17:55.580 our sense of humor,

01:17:56.840 common sense,

01:17:57.520 and the ability

01:17:58.200 to put anything

01:17:59.200 into perspective.

01:18:00.780 So yesterday,

01:18:02.060 Feely tweeted

01:18:02.920 the obligatory

01:18:03.780 explanation and apology

01:18:05.220 for the snowflake

01:18:06.560 half of the country

01:18:07.380 who just couldn't

01:18:08.260 make it through

01:18:08.800 the rest of their weekend

01:18:09.780 knowing that such

01:18:11.000 a gun-toting jokester

01:18:12.760 is allowed

01:18:13.420 to have children.

01:18:15.880 Now, of course,

01:18:16.540 some fathers

01:18:17.100 get more of a pass

01:18:18.640 than others

01:18:19.120 when it comes

01:18:20.220 to threatening

01:18:20.940 would-be suitors

01:18:21.960 with violence

01:18:22.740 in defense

01:18:23.340 of their daughters.

01:18:24.700 I don't know

01:18:25.520 if anybody remembers

01:18:26.300 this clip

01:18:27.180 by this celebrity.

01:18:29.460 The Jonas brothers

01:18:30.560 are here.

01:18:32.920 They're out there

01:18:33.760 somewhere.

01:18:35.760 Sasha and Malia

01:18:36.680 are huge fans.

01:18:38.980 But boys

01:18:40.060 don't get any ideas.

01:18:41.940 I have two words

01:18:43.020 for you.

01:18:44.120 Predator drones.

01:18:47.080 You will never

01:18:47.900 see it coming.

01:18:49.320 Okay.

01:18:50.220 See,

01:18:50.700 this is a joke

01:18:52.340 because obviously

01:18:53.720 the president

01:18:54.920 has never just said

01:18:56.720 let's kill

01:18:57.400 an American citizen

01:18:58.420 with a predator

01:18:59.180 drone.

01:19:01.100 Okay,

01:19:03.360 he has.

01:19:04.300 All right.

01:19:04.980 That man

01:19:05.940 actually has

01:19:07.320 issued that order.

01:19:09.280 But see,

01:19:10.220 the difference is

01:19:11.160 the football guy,

01:19:12.760 he never has

01:19:14.320 actually shot

01:19:15.280 anybody

01:19:15.800 who was

01:19:16.840 dating his daughter

01:19:17.940 or even

01:19:19.160 somebody who

01:19:19.880 was a bad guy.

01:19:21.440 He was just

01:19:22.820 joking.

01:19:23.580 I guess the

01:19:25.380 lesson learned

01:19:25.940 here is

01:19:26.620 you can defend

01:19:28.400 your daughter

01:19:28.940 or joke

01:19:30.020 about it

01:19:30.640 but only

01:19:32.360 if you're

01:19:33.020 on the

01:19:34.440 right side

01:19:35.380 and currently

01:19:36.860 the right side

01:19:37.720 is the left.

01:19:39.060 It's Monday,

01:19:47.920 April 23rd.

01:19:49.120 You're listening

01:19:49.720 to the Glenn Beck

01:19:50.460 program.

01:19:51.620 Do you remember,

01:19:52.580 Stu,

01:19:52.900 how horrible

01:19:53.580 how horrible

01:19:55.520 I was to my

01:19:56.320 daughter

01:19:56.600 when she was

01:19:57.440 dating?

01:19:58.280 She went on a

01:19:58.860 date on the

01:19:59.460 prom and oh

01:20:00.520 my gosh.

01:20:01.840 You were

01:20:02.220 horrible.

01:20:02.900 If I remember

01:20:03.240 correctly,

01:20:04.500 Feeley-esque.

01:20:05.980 Jay Feeley-esque.

01:20:06.660 Well,

01:20:06.980 I will tell you

01:20:08.160 that I did,

01:20:09.280 I mean,

01:20:09.780 one of my

01:20:10.160 friends told me

01:20:11.360 that when his

01:20:12.020 daughter went

01:20:12.560 out on the

01:20:13.500 prom,

01:20:14.380 he was cleaning

01:20:16.020 his gun at

01:20:17.200 the kitchen

01:20:17.520 table and

01:20:18.020 asked the boy

01:20:18.480 to come on

01:20:18.880 in and just

01:20:19.260 sit and wait

01:20:19.740 for his

01:20:20.200 daughter and

01:20:21.240 he was

01:20:21.460 cleaning his

01:20:21.980 gun and

01:20:22.960 he had a

01:20:23.680 bullet and

01:20:24.680 he was just

01:20:25.520 talking about

01:20:25.980 how he

01:20:26.800 cherishes

01:20:29.500 his daughter

01:20:31.160 and wants

01:20:32.320 to make sure

01:20:32.840 that she's

01:20:33.440 safe and

01:20:34.180 the young

01:20:36.500 man understands

01:20:37.320 respect.

01:20:38.160 and then

01:20:41.240 handed him

01:20:41.740 a bullet

01:20:42.080 where his

01:20:42.800 name was

01:20:43.300 engraved

01:20:43.740 on it.

01:20:45.460 And,

01:20:45.680 you know,

01:20:47.400 I thought

01:20:47.760 that was

01:20:48.140 too far.

01:20:49.100 That's much

01:20:49.500 worse.

01:20:50.180 That was

01:20:50.620 much worse.

01:20:51.280 Of course,

01:20:51.300 you,

01:20:51.800 I would

01:20:52.080 say,

01:20:52.960 may have

01:20:54.420 brought in

01:20:55.040 help.

01:20:56.640 In fact,

01:20:57.240 it wasn't

01:20:57.580 just you.

01:20:58.580 I will

01:20:59.220 tell you

01:20:59.900 that if

01:21:01.220 you have

01:21:01.940 a police

01:21:02.620 officer

01:21:03.040 friend,

01:21:04.180 or in

01:21:05.260 my case,

01:21:05.780 we happen

01:21:06.200 to have

01:21:06.680 24-hour

01:21:07.820 security

01:21:08.360 for the

01:21:09.000 family,

01:21:09.340 and everybody

01:21:10.040 is well

01:21:10.900 aware of

01:21:11.660 the security.

01:21:13.100 And so I

01:21:13.800 just said to

01:21:14.600 my security

01:21:15.700 guy,

01:21:16.680 when I look

01:21:18.040 at you,

01:21:19.140 just nod

01:21:19.780 yes.

01:21:21.160 Okay?

01:21:21.920 I'm sorry,

01:21:22.660 just nod no.

01:21:23.800 Just nod no.

01:21:25.280 And,

01:21:25.640 honey,

01:21:28.760 do you have

01:21:30.000 like a

01:21:31.600 Ziploc bag?

01:21:32.320 So I put

01:21:33.720 a Ziploc bag

01:21:34.380 in my pocket,

01:21:35.360 in my jacket

01:21:35.920 pocket.

01:21:36.680 I turned it

01:21:37.480 inside out,

01:21:38.560 and I put it

01:21:39.060 in my jacket

01:21:40.140 pocket,

01:21:40.580 and then I

01:21:40.920 sat down

01:21:41.420 at a

01:21:42.340 restaurant.

01:21:43.000 We just

01:21:43.600 went and

01:21:43.860 had pizza,

01:21:45.000 and I

01:21:45.500 talked to

01:21:46.080 the young

01:21:46.360 man about

01:21:47.280 him and

01:21:49.260 about my

01:21:50.540 daughter,

01:21:51.340 and my

01:21:51.920 daughter was

01:21:52.440 there,

01:21:52.920 and he

01:21:53.300 ordered a

01:21:53.820 Coke,

01:21:54.320 and we

01:21:55.040 ate pizza

01:21:55.620 and had a

01:21:56.000 delightful

01:21:56.600 conversation,

01:21:57.620 and I

01:21:57.840 just happened

01:21:58.980 to bring

01:21:59.400 up his

01:22:00.660 driving

01:22:01.260 record.

01:22:02.320 And I

01:22:03.940 said,

01:22:04.180 have you

01:22:05.660 ever had

01:22:05.920 any

01:22:06.080 infractions

01:22:06.740 under

01:22:06.920 driving?

01:22:08.760 And he

01:22:10.880 said,

01:22:11.220 no,

01:22:11.480 I'm good.

01:22:13.740 And I

01:22:14.220 said,

01:22:14.520 oh,

01:22:14.720 that's

01:22:15.040 interesting.

01:22:17.500 And then I

01:22:17.960 looked over

01:22:18.520 to my

01:22:20.160 security guy

01:22:20.900 who was

01:22:21.120 sitting at

01:22:21.440 another

01:22:21.700 table,

01:22:22.300 and he

01:22:23.120 just shook

01:22:23.500 his head.

01:22:25.100 And I

01:22:26.680 said,

01:22:27.800 well,

01:22:28.200 it looks

01:22:28.680 like,

01:22:29.200 and the

01:22:29.440 kid cut

01:22:30.200 me off

01:22:30.500 and said,

01:22:30.780 okay,

01:22:31.100 okay,

01:22:31.340 there was

01:22:31.940 this one,

01:22:32.720 but it

01:22:33.380 wasn't my

01:22:33.940 fault.

01:22:34.400 I drove

01:22:35.160 down a

01:22:35.980 one-way

01:22:36.320 street

01:22:36.800 accidentally.

01:22:37.660 He confessed,

01:22:38.220 and I

01:22:38.400 stopped him

01:22:38.840 in the

01:22:39.000 middle,

01:22:39.200 and I

01:22:39.360 said,

01:22:40.000 no,

01:22:40.220 no,

01:22:40.320 no,

01:22:40.400 don't

01:22:40.600 worry

01:22:40.780 about it.

01:22:41.360 I

01:22:41.520 already

01:22:41.820 know.

01:22:42.500 You

01:22:42.620 don't

01:22:42.740 have

01:22:42.900 to

01:22:43.000 tell me.

01:22:43.360 I

01:22:43.680 already

01:22:43.900 know.

01:22:44.800 I

01:22:45.240 had

01:22:45.380 no

01:22:45.700 idea,

01:22:46.660 okay?

01:22:47.680 And I

01:22:48.220 just said,

01:22:49.100 I already

01:22:49.840 know.

01:22:50.120 The kid

01:22:50.660 looked at

01:22:51.060 me like,

01:22:51.640 holy

01:22:52.000 mother,

01:22:53.160 and I

01:22:53.580 said,

01:22:54.180 so,

01:22:54.540 so we're

01:22:56.080 going to

01:22:56.460 treat my

01:22:57.200 daughter with

01:22:57.640 respect,

01:22:58.220 right?

01:22:58.680 And he

01:22:59.080 said,

01:22:59.480 yeah,

01:22:59.980 yeah.

01:23:00.720 And I

01:23:01.320 said,

01:23:01.500 do you

01:23:01.600 have

01:23:01.720 anything

01:23:01.920 else

01:23:02.160 to tell

01:23:02.460 me?

01:23:03.900 No,

01:23:04.500 sir.

01:23:05.260 I said,

01:23:05.660 great.

01:23:06.700 We've had

01:23:07.320 a delightful

01:23:07.960 conversation

01:23:08.720 when the

01:23:09.180 dinner was

01:23:10.140 done.

01:23:11.760 We all

01:23:12.480 stood up.

01:23:13.120 He stood

01:23:13.520 up and

01:23:13.840 got out,

01:23:14.360 and I

01:23:14.720 took the

01:23:15.100 plastic

01:23:15.460 baggie out

01:23:16.100 of my

01:23:16.620 coat pocket.

01:23:17.840 I put

01:23:18.480 my hand

01:23:19.000 inside of

01:23:19.620 it and

01:23:19.940 grabbed

01:23:20.320 his Coke

01:23:20.960 can,

01:23:22.100 and I

01:23:22.740 put it in

01:23:23.640 the Ziploc

01:23:24.220 bag and

01:23:25.020 handed it

01:23:25.600 to my

01:23:25.980 security

01:23:26.400 guy.

01:23:26.740 And he

01:23:27.780 said,

01:23:28.560 what are

01:23:30.240 you,

01:23:30.520 I said,

01:23:30.820 just run

01:23:31.140 in the

01:23:31.340 prince,

01:23:31.640 no big

01:23:31.920 deal.

01:23:32.800 And he

01:23:33.780 was totally

01:23:34.620 freaked out,

01:23:35.360 totally freaked

01:23:36.080 out.

01:23:36.620 The next

01:23:37.280 day,

01:23:37.480 it was

01:23:37.680 great.

01:23:38.040 My daughter

01:23:38.780 was just

01:23:39.300 humiliated.

01:23:39.840 She was

01:23:40.000 like,

01:23:40.260 dad,

01:23:40.640 stop it.

01:23:41.320 I'm like,

01:23:42.100 it's okay,

01:23:42.560 honey,

01:23:42.860 just want to

01:23:43.640 make sure,

01:23:44.100 you know,

01:23:44.320 just run

01:23:44.580 in the

01:23:44.900 prince real

01:23:45.260 quick.

01:23:45.520 I'm sure

01:23:45.900 he's clean.

01:23:46.540 It's no big

01:23:46.860 deal.

01:23:47.720 No biggie,

01:23:48.480 no biggie.

01:23:49.840 And about

01:23:51.120 two days

01:23:51.620 later,

01:23:52.000 I get a

01:23:52.700 phone call

01:23:53.280 from a

01:23:54.620 dad.

01:23:55.980 It's

01:23:56.460 his dad.

01:23:57.980 And I

01:23:58.620 pick up the

01:23:59.000 phone and

01:23:59.640 this angry

01:24:00.400 voice says,

01:24:01.240 Mr.

01:24:01.860 Beck.

01:24:02.700 And I

01:24:03.060 said,

01:24:03.640 yes.

01:24:04.700 He said,

01:24:05.660 this is

01:24:06.360 so-and-so's

01:24:07.440 father.

01:24:08.220 And I

01:24:08.660 said,

01:24:09.500 oh,

01:24:09.860 and I'm

01:24:10.100 thinking,

01:24:10.500 oh,

01:24:10.680 dear God,

01:24:11.000 I'm in

01:24:11.220 trouble.

01:24:11.880 And I

01:24:12.620 said,

01:24:12.880 oh,

01:24:13.400 yeah,

01:24:14.400 hi,

01:24:14.920 nice to

01:24:15.400 talk to

01:24:16.620 you.

01:24:16.820 and he

01:24:17.720 said,

01:24:18.400 may I

01:24:19.540 ask you

01:24:19.880 a question?

01:24:20.840 I said,

01:24:21.320 yes.

01:24:21.740 He said,

01:24:23.000 my son

01:24:23.960 said that

01:24:25.160 you ran

01:24:26.000 his prince.

01:24:28.180 And I

01:24:28.820 was like,

01:24:30.560 ah,

01:24:31.940 well,

01:24:32.740 yes.

01:24:33.540 And I

01:24:33.840 was going

01:24:34.340 to say,

01:24:34.980 but it

01:24:35.420 was just

01:24:36.020 a dad

01:24:36.860 thing.

01:24:37.720 And I

01:24:37.920 said,

01:24:38.380 well,

01:24:39.100 yes.

01:24:40.080 And he

01:24:40.780 interrupted

01:24:41.440 me and

01:24:41.860 said,

01:24:42.400 you,

01:24:42.920 sir,

01:24:43.540 are a

01:24:44.100 genius.

01:24:44.540 I

01:24:45.420 have

01:24:45.680 two

01:24:45.980 daughters.

01:24:46.620 I

01:24:46.720 know

01:24:46.900 exactly

01:24:47.540 what

01:24:47.780 I'm

01:24:47.920 going

01:24:48.020 to

01:24:48.120 do.

01:24:48.580 I

01:24:48.760 said,

01:24:48.960 you

01:24:49.100 got to

01:24:49.420 ask a

01:24:50.140 cop

01:24:50.380 friend

01:24:50.620 to

01:24:50.740 go

01:24:50.860 with

01:24:51.100 you.

01:24:51.260 It's

01:24:51.420 the

01:24:51.600 best.

01:24:52.780 That's

01:24:53.260 what dads

01:24:54.100 are supposed

01:24:54.660 to do.

01:24:55.680 That's

01:24:56.160 what you're

01:24:56.540 supposed

01:24:56.940 to do.

01:24:57.840 It's one

01:24:58.060 of the

01:24:58.220 few

01:24:58.380 things we

01:24:58.720 didn't

01:24:59.280 criticize

01:25:00.060 Obama

01:25:00.760 on was

01:25:01.420 threatening

01:25:01.760 to drone

01:25:02.480 the Jonas

01:25:02.940 brothers.

01:25:03.920 It was

01:25:04.340 one of

01:25:04.560 his

01:25:04.680 policies.

01:25:05.160 We

01:25:05.200 were

01:25:05.320 sort

01:25:05.580 of

01:25:05.680 in

01:25:05.820 favor

01:25:06.300 of.

01:25:06.800 If

01:25:06.860 you

01:25:06.980 got

01:25:07.120 a

01:25:07.260 daughter,

01:25:07.860 you

01:25:14.540 has

01:25:14.720 done

01:25:15.020 to

01:25:15.200 private

01:25:15.540 citizens.

01:25:16.420 It's

01:25:16.720 true,

01:25:17.080 although

01:25:17.340 it is

01:25:17.720 a very

01:25:18.220 standard

01:25:19.220 thing to

01:25:21.560 do.

01:25:22.360 The fact

01:25:22.760 that he's

01:25:23.120 getting

01:25:23.380 criticized

01:25:23.940 over it

01:25:24.440 just shows.

01:25:25.220 Again,

01:25:25.600 it's

01:25:25.700 addicted

01:25:26.280 to

01:25:26.480 outrage.

01:25:26.820 We're

01:25:26.920 just

01:25:27.080 dying.

01:25:27.960 We're

01:25:28.220 searching

01:25:28.960 for

01:25:29.280 meaning

01:25:29.640 in

01:25:29.820 our

01:25:29.960 lives.

01:25:30.280 Just

01:25:30.640 looking

01:25:31.120 constantly

01:25:31.760 to

01:25:31.900 find

01:25:32.200 that

01:25:32.320 one

01:25:32.620 thing

01:25:32.960 that

01:25:33.460 will

01:25:33.580 make

01:25:33.780 us

01:25:33.940 feel

01:25:34.340 awake

01:25:34.800 and

01:25:35.000 alive

01:25:35.340 for

01:25:35.540 the

01:25:35.700 day

01:25:36.040 that

01:25:36.380 we

01:25:36.440 can

01:25:36.560 be

01:25:36.720 angry

01:25:37.100 about

01:25:37.500 that

01:25:37.900 we

01:25:38.000 can

01:25:38.120 fight

01:25:38.420 about

01:25:38.600 on

01:25:38.780 social

01:25:38.980 media.

01:25:44.540 being

01:25:44.940 held

01:25:45.780 by

01:25:46.060 the

01:25:46.260 nose

01:25:46.680 by

01:25:47.300 the

01:25:47.540 media

01:25:47.920 and

01:25:48.240 social

01:25:48.600 media.

01:25:49.460 It's

01:25:49.720 the

01:25:49.880 same

01:25:50.300 group

01:25:50.620 of

01:25:50.820 people.

01:25:51.860 I was

01:25:52.660 out

01:25:52.900 all

01:25:53.160 this

01:25:53.360 weekend

01:25:53.720 talking

01:25:54.060 to

01:25:54.220 people

01:25:54.540 here

01:25:54.880 in

01:25:55.060 Los

01:25:55.300 Angeles.

01:25:55.920 I

01:25:56.440 didn't

01:25:56.660 meet

01:25:56.840 anybody

01:25:57.240 outraged.

01:25:58.460 I'm

01:25:58.820 in

01:25:59.280 California.

01:26:01.540 Somehow

01:26:02.140 or another,

01:26:03.120 oh,

01:26:03.480 the perfect

01:26:04.060 weather

01:26:04.500 and the

01:26:05.020 perfect

01:26:05.580 houses

01:26:06.020 and the

01:26:06.520 perfect

01:26:06.820 everything

01:26:07.320 out

01:26:07.680 here

01:26:07.900 is

01:26:08.360 just

01:26:08.600 not

01:26:08.860 perfect

01:26:09.340 enough.

01:26:10.100 You're

01:26:10.260 supposed

01:26:10.500 to be

01:26:10.940 pissed

01:26:11.260 off

01:26:11.580 about

01:26:11.860 everything

01:26:12.240 too.

01:26:13.440 Oh,

01:26:13.740 my

01:26:13.900 gosh,

01:26:14.220 these

01:26:14.360 people.

01:26:15.220 Anyway,

01:26:15.760 they were

01:26:16.500 delightful.

01:26:17.980 They were

01:26:18.560 delightful.

01:26:19.560 I even

01:26:20.080 met a few

01:26:20.640 that liked

01:26:21.380 me.

01:26:22.440 I took

01:26:23.340 a walk.

01:26:24.140 It was a

01:26:24.640 beautiful day

01:26:25.240 over the

01:26:25.580 weekend and

01:26:26.400 I took

01:26:26.680 a walk.

01:26:27.520 So I'm

01:26:27.980 walking down

01:26:28.520 the street.

01:26:28.940 I'm walking

01:26:29.240 through these

01:26:29.640 neighborhoods and

01:26:31.060 this guy

01:26:31.760 slams on

01:26:33.020 his brakes

01:26:33.640 and I'm

01:26:35.700 like,

01:26:36.080 oh,

01:26:36.260 dear God.

01:26:37.240 And he

01:26:38.280 rolls down

01:26:38.940 the window

01:26:39.380 and he

01:26:39.660 said,

01:26:40.140 are you?

01:26:42.420 And I'm

01:26:43.100 thinking,

01:26:43.820 wishing I

01:26:45.700 wasn't here

01:26:46.200 right now.

01:26:47.640 What?

01:26:48.860 I couldn't

01:26:49.560 think of

01:26:49.900 anything.

01:26:50.180 I just

01:26:50.380 went,

01:26:51.040 yes.

01:26:52.260 And he

01:26:52.820 got out

01:26:53.680 of the

01:26:53.920 truck.

01:26:54.320 And of

01:26:54.500 course,

01:26:55.240 my security

01:26:55.760 is like,

01:26:56.100 okay,

01:26:56.360 okay,

01:26:56.660 okay,

01:26:57.000 okay.

01:26:57.420 All right.

01:26:57.740 Stay

01:26:57.940 where you

01:26:58.300 are.

01:26:58.840 Hands

01:26:59.140 in the

01:26:59.380 air.

01:26:59.740 You're

01:27:00.040 from

01:27:00.240 California.

01:27:01.480 Put

01:27:01.760 your hands

01:27:02.580 where I

01:27:03.060 can see

01:27:03.500 them.

01:27:04.340 And the

01:27:04.860 guy gets

01:27:05.180 out and

01:27:05.440 he's

01:27:05.640 like,

01:27:05.900 I love

01:27:06.620 you,

01:27:07.020 man.

01:27:07.380 What

01:27:07.720 the

01:27:07.980 hell are

01:27:08.420 you doing

01:27:08.900 just walking

01:27:09.600 around here

01:27:10.380 like he

01:27:11.060 knew?

01:27:11.600 I'm like,

01:27:12.080 I know,

01:27:12.400 they're snipers,

01:27:13.120 right?

01:27:13.440 What's the

01:27:13.920 deal?

01:27:15.220 In other

01:27:15.440 words,

01:27:15.700 run.

01:27:16.620 Right.

01:27:17.300 But we're

01:27:17.780 really not,

01:27:19.780 I don't think

01:27:20.500 we are

01:27:21.020 outraged

01:27:21.700 people.

01:27:22.360 We get

01:27:22.980 online and

01:27:23.720 we become

01:27:24.280 outraged and

01:27:25.000 then we're

01:27:25.280 addicted to

01:27:25.980 it.

01:27:26.160 Yeah,

01:27:26.360 it really

01:27:26.880 is an

01:27:27.200 industry

01:27:27.560 designed to

01:27:28.440 exploit the

01:27:30.080 worst things

01:27:30.640 among us,

01:27:31.440 our worst

01:27:31.820 tendencies.

01:27:33.040 And it

01:27:33.640 amplifies them

01:27:34.620 to a

01:27:35.500 ridiculous

01:27:35.800 extent.

01:27:37.400 And,

01:27:37.700 you know,

01:27:37.840 I guess

01:27:38.160 like it's

01:27:38.560 the type

01:27:39.020 of time

01:27:39.760 too where

01:27:40.220 we shouldn't

01:27:40.640 be doing

01:27:41.080 that given

01:27:41.560 that,

01:27:41.920 you know,

01:27:42.100 the rapture

01:27:42.640 is today.

01:27:43.660 You'd think

01:27:44.420 that maybe

01:27:45.380 we could

01:27:45.740 relax a

01:27:46.380 little bit

01:27:46.900 and come

01:27:48.840 together.

01:27:49.400 In case you

01:27:50.640 don't know,

01:27:51.900 about 30

01:27:53.580 days ago we

01:27:54.260 found out

01:27:54.760 that the

01:27:55.180 rapture was

01:27:56.000 coming.

01:27:56.720 Now this

01:27:57.140 is a,

01:27:58.100 in case you

01:27:58.580 don't know

01:27:58.780 what the

01:27:59.000 rapture is,

01:27:59.720 that's for

01:28:00.180 all of the

01:28:00.680 good members,

01:28:01.480 you know,

01:28:02.640 of the

01:28:03.040 family of

01:28:03.660 Jesus.

01:28:04.620 Are all

01:28:05.420 just

01:28:05.700 disappeared

01:28:06.400 and taken

01:28:07.120 up into

01:28:07.560 heaven.

01:28:08.500 Because things

01:28:09.280 are going to

01:28:09.520 get really,

01:28:10.240 really bad.

01:28:10.980 And so all

01:28:11.320 the good

01:28:11.720 people,

01:28:12.280 they just

01:28:13.100 disappear.

01:28:13.880 Car keys,

01:28:14.640 clothes,

01:28:15.160 everything,

01:28:16.040 they're still

01:28:16.500 here,

01:28:16.860 but they're

01:28:17.180 gone.

01:28:18.720 And so I

01:28:19.420 want you to

01:28:19.720 look around.

01:28:20.700 I want you

01:28:21.240 to notice you

01:28:21.860 still have your

01:28:22.420 car keys.

01:28:23.460 You still

01:28:24.140 have your

01:28:24.480 clothes.

01:28:25.780 Today was

01:28:26.320 supposed to

01:28:26.840 be the day

01:28:27.620 of the

01:28:27.920 rapture.

01:28:29.300 What's that

01:28:29.940 telling you,

01:28:30.880 scumbag?

01:28:32.180 What's that

01:28:32.820 telling you?

01:28:33.480 Yeah.

01:28:33.760 not good

01:28:34.920 enough.

01:28:35.280 I want you

01:28:35.620 to know I've

01:28:36.020 been saying

01:28:36.400 all day I'm

01:28:37.120 in Los

01:28:37.780 Angeles.

01:28:38.340 I'm not.

01:28:39.500 I'm actually

01:28:40.300 broadcasting from

01:28:41.300 heaven.

01:28:43.280 Where the,

01:28:44.240 what happened

01:28:44.800 to you people?

01:28:45.780 Your seat is

01:28:46.400 empty.

01:28:46.520 What happened

01:28:47.060 here in Texas?

01:28:48.480 It is.

01:28:49.100 You notice I'm

01:28:49.700 not sitting there.

01:28:50.360 I don't see any

01:28:50.780 car keys.

01:28:51.960 Yeah.

01:28:52.760 I'm in heaven

01:28:53.480 broadcasting live.

01:28:54.800 Jesus is a

01:28:56.840 slave driver,

01:28:57.740 man.

01:28:57.980 He made me

01:28:58.480 get here early.

01:28:59.540 I'm working

01:29:00.180 for basic

01:29:01.320 minimum income

01:29:02.400 and I'm

01:29:04.540 listening on a,

01:29:05.420 I'm,

01:29:05.820 I'm working

01:29:06.440 at a radio

01:29:07.700 station in

01:29:09.300 heaven that

01:29:09.820 like nobody

01:29:10.520 listens to,

01:29:11.580 you know,

01:29:12.260 anybody can be

01:29:13.220 on the radio.

01:29:14.080 It's like working

01:29:14.780 at MSNBC.

01:29:16.760 It's like nobody

01:29:17.960 even knows I'm

01:29:18.740 on the air here.

01:29:19.520 I'm crazy.

01:29:20.420 I am a little

01:29:21.940 surprised that

01:29:23.040 you still have

01:29:24.180 to work at

01:29:25.020 all.

01:29:25.440 I kind of was

01:29:25.880 hoping to,

01:29:27.120 to,

01:29:27.500 well,

01:29:28.200 it's,

01:29:28.760 you know,

01:29:29.540 it's,

01:29:30.080 well,

01:29:30.720 Jesus is a

01:29:31.380 socialist and

01:29:32.740 I've read that

01:29:33.460 on a lot of

01:29:33.920 left wing websites.

01:29:35.000 Yeah.

01:29:35.340 Yeah.

01:29:35.920 I was surprised.

01:29:37.140 I got up here

01:29:37.660 and I'm like,

01:29:38.360 holy cow.

01:29:39.180 He was reading

01:29:39.620 Marx and I

01:29:41.140 was like,

01:29:41.680 wow,

01:29:42.180 you're really a

01:29:43.320 socialist.

01:29:43.700 And he's like,

01:29:44.400 oh yeah,

01:29:45.960 yeah.

01:29:46.620 Pretty sure

01:29:47.220 he's from basic

01:29:48.280 minimum income

01:29:49.320 and you know,

01:29:50.760 you can work

01:29:51.300 if you don't

01:29:51.740 want to,

01:29:52.420 but we have

01:29:53.080 universal health

01:29:53.920 care up here.

01:29:55.560 Well,

01:29:56.000 that's,

01:29:56.300 which is nice.

01:29:57.100 Well,

01:29:57.240 it's easy to have

01:29:57.940 universal health

01:29:58.600 care when,

01:29:59.080 when,

01:29:59.360 when the guy in

01:29:59.980 charge can just

01:30:00.540 like kind of

01:30:01.000 heal you when he

01:30:01.620 walks by.

01:30:02.400 That's a,

01:30:02.920 if we had that

01:30:03.660 model,

01:30:03.940 I might be for

01:30:04.480 universal health

01:30:05.120 care.

01:30:06.380 I don't know.

01:30:07.240 Well,

01:30:07.460 you,

01:30:07.660 you,

01:30:08.040 you have to

01:30:08.560 approach him

01:30:09.000 and touch him

01:30:09.460 or something.

01:30:10.460 I don't know

01:30:11.060 exactly how it

01:30:11.740 works,

01:30:12.340 but you do have

01:30:13.520 to make an

01:30:14.020 appointment.

01:30:14.860 He's a busy

01:30:15.580 guy.

01:30:16.380 Probably true.

01:30:16.960 I don't want

01:30:18.500 to get into all

01:30:19.040 the ins and

01:30:19.440 outs here of

01:30:19.980 heaven,

01:30:20.280 but I just

01:30:20.740 want to point

01:30:21.200 out today is

01:30:21.820 the day of

01:30:22.180 the rapture.

01:30:23.200 And if you

01:30:23.560 are still

01:30:23.940 sitting there

01:30:24.560 on earth,

01:30:25.320 boy,

01:30:27.160 you need to

01:30:27.600 reevaluate your

01:30:28.540 life now,

01:30:29.100 don't you?

01:30:34.740 Down there

01:30:35.340 with that guy

01:30:35.860 taking pictures

01:30:36.700 with his gun

01:30:38.160 on his

01:30:38.520 daughter's date.

01:30:40.720 He's still

01:30:41.360 there.

01:30:43.400 All right.

01:30:43.780 FEMA is

01:30:44.820 practicing for

01:30:45.880 an Atlantic

01:30:46.680 hurricane

01:30:47.220 strike,

01:30:48.120 hoping to

01:30:48.640 avoid a

01:30:49.860 repeat of

01:30:50.340 last year's

01:30:50.900 devastation.

01:30:52.180 Hurricane

01:30:52.440 experts are

01:30:53.080 predicting an

01:30:53.660 above-average

01:30:54.320 year with as

01:30:55.040 many as

01:30:55.480 five U.S.

01:30:56.580 landfalls.

01:30:57.260 You know

01:30:57.460 why,

01:30:57.820 Stu?

01:30:58.960 I do not.

01:30:59.840 Global cooling

01:31:00.620 or warming,

01:31:01.480 one of the

01:31:02.020 two.

01:31:02.620 It's either

01:31:03.080 getting way

01:31:03.880 too hot or

01:31:04.340 way too

01:31:04.640 cold.

01:31:05.100 You're not

01:31:05.400 sure of one

01:31:06.020 thing or

01:31:06.620 the opposite?

01:31:07.760 Well,

01:31:08.060 it could be

01:31:08.740 too cold,

01:31:09.740 too hot.

01:31:10.260 It could be

01:31:10.880 just right.

01:31:11.560 I call it

01:31:12.100 the Goldilocks

01:31:13.100 climate effect.

01:31:14.760 So any

01:31:15.100 temperature

01:31:15.600 proves your

01:31:16.120 point?

01:31:17.240 Exactly

01:31:17.760 right.

01:31:18.800 Anyway,

01:31:19.460 you know,

01:31:19.800 we know

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01:33:05.760 Yes,

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01:33:16.380 Don't miss

01:33:17.180 the rat

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01:33:20.340 Just one of

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01:33:23.220 that you'll be

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01:33:24.540 Mercury Museum.

01:33:25.680 Did you think

01:33:25.980 about titling it,

01:33:26.920 the rat

01:33:27.740 with a bomb

01:33:28.120 in its butt

01:33:28.500 museum?

01:33:29.640 I did think

01:33:30.720 about it

01:33:31.220 and I

01:33:32.280 quickly dismissed

01:33:33.080 it.

01:33:33.900 But it's

01:33:34.900 what would

01:33:35.180 bring me

01:33:35.620 to the museum.

01:33:36.240 I'd be like,

01:33:37.000 okay,

01:33:37.280 there's some

01:33:37.620 George Washington

01:33:38.260 stuff.

01:33:38.880 There's a lot

01:33:39.340 of,

01:33:39.580 you know,

01:33:40.140 there's a lot

01:33:40.600 of really

01:33:41.020 cool stuff

01:33:41.640 about the

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01:33:51.440 a naked

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01:33:55.400 So that's

01:33:56.080 a better title.

01:33:56.600 You're right.

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01:33:59.200 Come to it,

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01:34:41.980 You're listening

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01:34:59.580 Glenn Beck

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01:35:12.100 All right,

01:35:12.860 so just real

01:35:13.580 quick, I just

01:35:14.080 want to throw

01:35:14.440 this in.

01:35:15.100 The Queen

01:35:15.740 has appealed

01:35:16.740 to the

01:35:17.100 Commonwealth

01:35:17.480 leaders to

01:35:18.340 appoint her

01:35:18.900 son, Prince

01:35:19.480 Charles, to

01:35:20.240 succeed her as

01:35:21.200 the head.

01:35:22.000 She said,

01:35:22.540 quote,

01:35:22.740 it's my

01:35:23.220 sincere wish

01:35:24.420 that Prince

01:35:25.220 Charles take

01:35:25.940 over one

01:35:26.580 day as

01:35:27.980 king.

01:35:29.020 Let me just

01:35:29.800 say this about

01:35:30.500 Queen Elizabeth.

01:35:31.900 Big, fat

01:35:33.080 liar.

01:35:34.140 There is no

01:35:34.820 way she

01:35:35.940 since it's

01:35:36.720 her sincerest

01:35:37.600 hope.

01:35:38.340 She's been

01:35:39.040 taking steroids.

01:35:40.740 She's been

01:35:41.260 taking any

01:35:42.020 kind of life

01:35:42.740 extension drug.

01:35:44.280 She's thought

01:35:45.040 about, can you

01:35:46.260 make an audio

01:35:47.180 animatronic

01:35:48.180 Muppet out of

01:35:49.300 me?

01:35:50.100 Because nobody

01:35:50.580 will notice the

01:35:51.300 difference, really?

01:35:52.300 You can just

01:35:52.640 keep me behind

01:35:53.380 because there's

01:35:53.960 no way in hell

01:35:54.720 I'm handing

01:35:55.140 this crown over

01:35:55.980 to Charles because

01:35:56.980 he's a miscreant.

01:35:59.180 So, I don't

01:36:00.160 believe it at all.

01:36:01.180 I just want to

01:36:02.060 throw that on.

01:36:02.780 This is your

01:36:03.280 moment of Royals

01:36:04.840 analysis for the

01:36:05.900 day?

01:36:06.120 Yeah, well, I

01:36:07.020 thought it was

01:36:07.540 appropriate because

01:36:08.260 today Kate Middleton

01:36:09.160 either is having her

01:36:10.700 baby or has already

01:36:11.680 had her baby.

01:36:12.540 Already had it.

01:36:12.960 I don't know.

01:36:13.480 I'm so up on it.

01:36:15.080 I'm so excited about

01:36:16.120 the Royals and yet

01:36:17.000 another baby.

01:36:17.720 I think this is like

01:36:18.500 the sixth in line

01:36:19.360 now and they

01:36:20.880 said that the

01:36:21.740 name, the

01:36:23.260 weight and

01:36:24.680 length and

01:36:26.080 the gender of

01:36:27.400 the child would

01:36:28.080 be posted

01:36:28.700 soon and I

01:36:31.320 thought, man,

01:36:32.340 if that's not

01:36:34.200 the patriarchy,

01:36:35.540 just keeping

01:36:36.560 it down.

01:36:38.920 I mean, how

01:36:39.900 do you know

01:36:40.380 what its gender

01:36:41.020 is?

01:36:41.680 Right?

01:36:43.180 Let the child

01:36:44.920 decide when

01:36:46.440 it's two or

01:36:47.020 three what its

01:36:47.760 gender is.

01:36:48.520 who are you to

01:36:49.660 say?

01:36:50.900 Can I get an

01:36:51.580 amen?

01:36:52.040 Amen.

01:36:52.620 And two or

01:36:53.020 three is a little

01:36:54.100 late.

01:36:55.180 I think you

01:36:56.680 should be able

01:36:57.320 to, I mean,

01:36:58.260 two and three is

01:36:58.840 part of it, but

01:36:59.640 you should be able

01:37:00.240 to identify your

01:37:01.340 gender earlier and

01:37:03.120 then throughout the

01:37:03.840 process because I

01:37:05.020 think the fluidity

01:37:06.520 never.

01:37:07.480 Yeah, fluid.

01:37:08.120 We're all gender

01:37:08.740 fluid.

01:37:09.200 Yeah, it's there's

01:37:09.880 nothing locked down

01:37:10.780 about your gender.

01:37:12.120 You wake up every

01:37:12.720 day.

01:37:13.040 You don't know.

01:37:13.540 It's just, it's

01:37:14.800 up in the air.

01:37:15.360 I'm like, what the

01:37:15.660 heck, I'm a chick

01:37:16.920 today.

01:37:18.100 And I've been a

01:37:19.020 chick for a while.

01:37:19.720 I've been noticing

01:37:20.400 that my breasts are

01:37:21.260 getting larger.

01:37:22.100 There's a documentary

01:37:23.020 film that came out

01:37:23.580 recently, Jumanji, in

01:37:25.080 which one of the

01:37:27.340 characters was a man

01:37:30.700 and then went into a

01:37:33.280 video game and then

01:37:35.380 was actually a

01:37:36.280 character in the

01:37:36.880 video game that was

01:37:37.380 a woman.

01:37:38.940 And that's pretty

01:37:40.180 much how the real

01:37:41.060 world is.

01:37:41.700 If you think about

01:37:42.760 it, it's like a

01:37:44.140 video game.

01:37:44.740 Yeah, it's like a

01:37:45.100 video game.

01:37:45.520 Every, you pick your

01:37:46.780 character when you

01:37:47.420 wake up, you know,

01:37:48.320 when you turn the

01:37:48.680 game on, select

01:37:49.860 player one, you figure

01:37:51.660 out which one you are

01:37:52.440 that day.

01:37:53.080 That's how society

01:37:54.240 should be.

01:37:55.000 I like it.

01:37:55.680 I like it.

01:37:56.980 Reset.

01:37:58.660 She likes it.

01:38:00.040 Okay, here we go.

01:38:01.580 Reset.

01:38:02.100 Back to a male again.

01:38:04.680 Let me, let me just

01:38:06.360 give you the latest

01:38:07.840 polling numbers on

01:38:09.240 what Americans think is

01:38:10.540 the biggest problem

01:38:11.660 in the world.

01:38:13.600 With 22% coming in

01:38:16.060 at 22, what is it,

01:38:18.120 Stu?

01:38:19.280 22%, dissatisfaction

01:38:21.120 with government.

01:38:22.300 No, I meant a, I

01:38:23.120 meant a, like a, like

01:38:25.380 you didn't know the

01:38:26.260 answer, some sort of a

01:38:27.480 guess that made you

01:38:28.600 seem less intellectual

01:38:31.200 than me.

01:38:32.120 So we can build a

01:38:32.680 little drama in the

01:38:33.400 segment?

01:38:33.680 Maybe look good.

01:38:34.260 Yes.

01:38:34.660 Oh, okay.

01:38:35.380 All right.

01:38:35.620 I thought I was doing

01:38:36.560 the poll.

01:38:36.800 So, Stu, what do you

01:38:37.280 think the number one

01:38:38.260 with 22%?

01:38:39.500 Oh, gosh, I don't

01:38:40.300 know.

01:38:40.760 Maybe the latest

01:38:41.660 comments from Kanye

01:38:42.800 West, maybe whether

01:38:44.140 you're allowed to go

01:38:44.760 into Starbucks without

01:38:45.600 going potty without

01:38:47.260 buying something.

01:38:48.560 I can see how you'd

01:38:50.180 say that, stupid

01:38:51.220 person.

01:38:51.980 But it's actually

01:38:53.020 dissatisfaction with

01:38:56.640 the government.

01:38:57.320 Oh my, what?

01:38:58.080 What it is.

01:38:58.820 Yeah.

01:38:59.360 That's number one?

01:39:00.800 That's number one.

01:39:01.720 Wow.

01:39:02.060 For three months in a

01:39:03.140 row, coming in at

01:39:04.500 number one with a

01:39:06.040 bullet.

01:39:06.920 Oh, boy, did I just

01:39:08.020 say that?

01:39:08.700 You did.

01:39:09.300 That is actually

01:39:09.840 amazing.

01:39:10.500 Dissatisfaction with

01:39:11.060 the government.

01:39:11.560 If you think about

01:39:12.300 it, you know, we are

01:39:13.080 told constantly that

01:39:15.320 there are other,

01:39:16.200 there's race problems,

01:39:17.740 there's, you know, gun

01:39:20.140 problems, there are

01:39:21.600 global warming.

01:39:22.400 Listen to the white

01:39:23.340 man and his

01:39:24.020 patriarchy again.

01:39:25.240 Yeah, I was

01:39:25.580 going to get to

01:39:25.900 global warming.

01:39:26.400 Global warming and

01:39:27.400 cooling.

01:39:27.920 Unlike people in this

01:39:28.820 poll, I was going to

01:39:29.400 get to global warming.

01:39:31.400 Because they never

01:39:32.240 got there.

01:39:33.040 They never got there.

01:39:34.260 So here it is.

01:39:35.180 By the way, have

01:39:36.140 you noticed, has

01:39:37.580 anybody else noticed

01:39:38.500 this?

01:39:38.900 I've been meaning to

01:39:39.480 talk to you about

01:39:39.940 this for a while,

01:39:40.660 Stu.

01:39:40.900 I've got to start

01:39:41.640 pulling out the

01:39:43.400 articles and I'm

01:39:44.280 hearing it on

01:39:44.800 television too.

01:39:46.180 All of the, well,

01:39:47.340 it's too late now.

01:39:48.800 It's too late now.

01:39:49.720 So it's just horrible

01:39:51.660 and it's too late.

01:39:53.480 Oh, yeah.

01:39:53.820 And it's all, it's

01:39:55.000 all over.

01:39:55.840 It's, it's, it's

01:39:56.860 beyond consensus.

01:39:58.780 It's now happening

01:40:00.500 that we're all

01:40:01.480 starving to death.

01:40:03.120 Have you noticed

01:40:03.840 that?

01:40:04.400 Anybody else read

01:40:05.240 that?

01:40:05.540 It's no longer the

01:40:06.280 extreme plea.

01:40:07.100 We must do

01:40:07.560 something now or

01:40:08.400 something bad will

01:40:09.060 happen.

01:40:09.480 It's now.

01:40:10.060 Now it's, how do

01:40:11.320 we, how do we

01:40:12.080 minimize the damage

01:40:13.460 that's being done and

01:40:14.440 the starvation that

01:40:15.320 is being caused right

01:40:16.280 now?

01:40:17.560 That is it.

01:40:18.180 Yeah.

01:40:18.440 I mean, and I

01:40:19.140 think that's

01:40:19.580 counterproductive.

01:40:20.480 Is it not?

01:40:21.360 Cause I mean, yeah,

01:40:22.040 cause it's all kind

01:40:22.660 of like, oh, I can't

01:40:23.500 do anything about it

01:40:24.040 now.

01:40:24.260 I spend $14 trillion

01:40:25.220 as a down payment.

01:40:27.680 If you're going to

01:40:28.300 spend the $14 trillion,

01:40:29.600 you'd like to get

01:40:30.320 something out of it.

01:40:31.580 Yeah.

01:40:32.040 Yeah.

01:40:32.460 All right.

01:40:32.960 So dissatisfaction with

01:40:34.060 the government, which

01:40:34.880 that's 22%.

01:40:36.280 and I bet you that is

01:40:37.680 both sides, it's both

01:40:39.680 sides, you know, you

01:40:42.000 know, Stu was talking

01:40:43.180 about the Donald Trump

01:40:44.220 media that they're

01:40:44.900 making him into the,

01:40:46.160 you know, the big

01:40:46.900 boogeyman and the, the,

01:40:49.160 the story in the

01:40:50.080 Atlantic, which I can't

01:40:52.180 believe the Atlantic

01:40:53.000 would print something

01:40:54.180 that some people might

01:40:55.580 disagree with, but, um,

01:40:57.680 they're, they're talking

01:40:58.540 about how, um, the media

01:41:01.380 is, is, you know,

01:41:04.320 juicing up Donald Trump

01:41:06.280 and, and that may not

01:41:08.940 be the proper role for

01:41:10.940 the, uh, the, the, um,

01:41:14.640 the president.

01:41:15.340 Yeah.

01:41:15.480 I mean, it never, it

01:41:16.400 wasn't, you know, the,

01:41:17.800 and I've come to come to

01:41:19.100 this conclusion relatively

01:41:20.220 recently, Glenn, that

01:41:21.700 Lyndon Johnson is turning

01:41:23.100 into my own personal

01:41:24.220 Woodrow Wilson for me.

01:41:25.320 Like I, Oh, he is

01:41:27.860 agonizing and, and say

01:41:29.600 it, say it.

01:41:30.540 I hate that guy.

01:41:31.900 Okay.

01:41:32.460 All right.

01:41:32.980 Uh, because it's one of

01:41:34.000 those things where you

01:41:35.620 without will, without

01:41:36.760 Wilson, you don't have

01:41:37.560 Lyndon Johnson.

01:41:38.100 So, I mean, I think you

01:41:39.360 could definitely argue

01:41:40.040 that Wilson is more

01:41:41.520 important in this story.

01:41:43.300 Lyndon Johnson just

01:41:44.260 freaking piled it on.

01:41:46.160 I mean, he was the

01:41:47.160 first guy who went to

01:41:48.560 every disaster to show

01:41:50.020 you a little, you know,

01:41:50.980 a little piece of, of

01:41:52.620 the great society in

01:41:54.000 action, a little, a

01:41:55.180 little, a little

01:41:55.300 I think they called

01:41:56.000 it in, in the Atlantic

01:41:56.760 piece, a great society

01:41:57.800 house, house call.

01:41:59.140 And it's like, that is

01:42:00.140 what he constantly did.

01:42:01.160 He wanted the government

01:42:01.940 and the presidency and

01:42:03.220 the federal government

01:42:03.800 in particular to

01:42:04.580 constantly be involved

01:42:05.620 in your life every time

01:42:06.360 something went wrong

01:42:07.100 so that you would

01:42:08.040 continually, uh, depend

01:42:09.860 on it over and over

01:42:11.000 and over again.

01:42:11.500 And of course, that's

01:42:12.040 where we are now

01:42:12.880 where every time it, I

01:42:14.380 mean, you know, every

01:42:15.420 time it rains, every

01:42:16.020 time it snows, every

01:42:16.800 time there's wind

01:42:17.460 somewhere, we expect

01:42:18.880 FEMA to show up and

01:42:19.900 bail us all out of the

01:42:20.640 situation.

01:42:21.120 That is not what this

01:42:22.160 country was like for

01:42:23.260 the vast majority of

01:42:24.720 its history.

01:42:25.160 Is that hateful?

01:42:28.040 The opinions of the

01:42:29.000 co-host, uh, are not

01:42:31.060 necessarily those of the

01:42:32.700 host.

01:42:33.320 I mean, there's only one

01:42:34.380 president to really hate

01:42:35.440 and that is Woodrow

01:42:36.400 Wilson.

01:42:36.920 You can strongly dislike

01:42:38.380 the actions of, of LBJ

01:42:41.240 and the things that he

01:42:42.360 did, as my mother would

01:42:43.540 say, you don't hate him.

01:42:44.760 You dislike the things

01:42:45.960 that he did.

01:42:46.940 And I'd say Woodrow and

01:42:48.560 she'd say, no, Woodrow

01:42:49.540 Wilson, you hate, but

01:42:50.600 everybody else.

01:42:52.300 Uh, anyway, dissatisfaction

01:42:53.760 for government is number

01:42:54.720 one.

01:42:55.520 Um, immigration and

01:42:56.880 illegal aliens, number

01:42:58.340 two.

01:42:59.360 And by the way, have you

01:43:00.020 seen the latest polls in

01:43:01.300 California?

01:43:02.900 Over half of the people

01:43:04.260 are saying, uh, we got to

01:43:05.540 do something with the

01:43:06.440 illegal immigration

01:43:07.160 problem.

01:43:07.640 Yeah.

01:43:08.320 Does that feel like the

01:43:10.240 media coverage you've

01:43:11.740 received over the past

01:43:12.480 couple of months?

01:43:13.060 If you're watching TV,

01:43:13.920 you're strange.

01:43:14.660 It doesn't feel like the

01:43:15.620 number two concern of

01:43:16.820 America right now is

01:43:17.640 illegal immigration because

01:43:19.160 no, I mean, if you're a

01:43:20.460 racist, yeah, only if

01:43:21.800 you're a racist, right?

01:43:23.060 Yeah.

01:43:23.440 And number three is race

01:43:25.240 relations.

01:43:27.040 I agree with, I agree

01:43:28.500 with all three of these

01:43:29.680 right now.

01:43:30.660 Dissatisfaction of the

01:43:31.300 government, immigration,

01:43:32.780 illegal aliens, race

01:43:34.240 relations.

01:43:35.020 Uh, that feels right to

01:43:36.180 me that that's where

01:43:37.240 America is.

01:43:38.960 Number four is gun

01:43:40.920 control and guns.

01:43:42.920 And that's with 6%.

01:43:45.060 6%.

01:43:45.780 What's interesting about

01:43:46.880 that one is it's down

01:43:48.820 from 13% last month.

01:43:52.360 So, well, it went from

01:43:53.280 one to 13 to six.

01:43:55.840 And I'll bet you at

01:43:57.100 least two or three of

01:43:58.240 those six points are from

01:43:59.580 people going, they're

01:44:00.620 coming for the guns.

01:44:01.760 Yeah.

01:44:02.440 I bet you're right.

01:44:03.260 Yeah, you're probably

01:44:03.700 right.

01:44:03.920 And that's the thing

01:44:04.480 that's interesting about

01:44:05.200 the gun control debate.

01:44:06.520 The two things you've

01:44:07.900 seen recently on the

01:44:09.160 left when it comes to a

01:44:10.120 mass shooting, for

01:44:10.760 example, you have them

01:44:12.460 saying, well, I am

01:44:13.940 going to, I am going to

01:44:15.420 politicize it.

01:44:16.520 I am.

01:44:17.220 They're admitting that

01:44:18.100 now.

01:44:18.500 And they're doing it from

01:44:19.700 moment one.

01:44:21.400 There's no delay anymore.

01:44:22.820 There's no grieving for

01:44:24.040 victims.

01:44:24.920 There's none of that.

01:44:25.920 They have to.

01:44:26.180 And it's the same thing

01:44:26.960 with thoughts and prayers,

01:44:28.200 right?

01:44:29.520 Thoughts and prayers, oh,

01:44:30.480 we don't care about

01:44:31.000 thoughts and prayers.

01:44:31.620 That doesn't do

01:44:32.140 anything.

01:44:32.960 We need real reform.

01:44:34.600 The reason those two

01:44:35.780 things are happening is

01:44:36.500 because of this phenomenon.

01:44:37.640 It went from 1%, less than

01:44:39.180 1% as the biggest concern

01:44:40.840 because that's the reality

01:44:42.000 of it.

01:44:42.440 In reality, that's how we

01:44:44.000 feel.

01:44:44.420 We feel that there are

01:44:45.340 obviously like there are

01:44:46.720 people who act in a bad

01:44:48.040 way with guns, but in

01:44:49.440 reality, it's not our

01:44:50.100 biggest problem.

01:44:50.860 It spikes up to 13% because

01:44:52.620 of emotion.

01:44:53.400 In that moment where you

01:44:54.800 really have that emotional

01:44:56.360 reaction and people feel

01:44:57.580 terrible for these families

01:44:58.720 and terrible for the

01:44:59.540 people who died, that is

01:45:01.680 that moment where it

01:45:02.580 jumps up and it jumped

01:45:03.280 all the way up to the

01:45:03.940 number two problem in the

01:45:04.900 country from not even on

01:45:06.500 the list, from 1% to 13%

01:45:08.440 in one month.

01:45:09.780 And the reason why they

01:45:10.680 can no longer allow you

01:45:12.600 to have that moment of

01:45:14.120 mourning and not

01:45:15.000 politicizing it and that

01:45:16.420 moment of you saying

01:45:17.420 thoughts and prayers, they

01:45:18.560 have to disintegrate those

01:45:19.700 two points because the

01:45:21.800 only way they can get this

01:45:22.940 done is by using your

01:45:24.440 emotion.

01:45:25.540 They need to get rid of,

01:45:26.680 they can't wait to the

01:45:27.960 end of the thoughts and

01:45:28.740 prayers period because that's

01:45:29.960 the only time they can get

01:45:30.900 any of this stuff done.

01:45:32.280 It's all emotion, so it

01:45:34.520 is sure.

01:45:35.560 Do they want to denigrate

01:45:36.620 religion?

01:45:37.420 Yeah, absolutely.

01:45:38.860 But in this case, that's

01:45:39.640 secondary.

01:45:40.400 What they want to do is to

01:45:41.620 tell you that that first

01:45:43.840 week is too vital to them

01:45:46.220 grabbing control of your

01:45:47.400 rights for them to let it

01:45:49.280 slide anymore.

01:45:50.740 And that is, that's where

01:45:52.220 they are.

01:45:53.100 And you see this, and in a

01:45:54.600 way, it's true.

01:45:56.300 They're not wrong on this.

01:45:58.260 You know, support for this

01:45:59.540 issue fell by more than half

01:46:00.780 in one month.

01:46:01.520 This is the month where

01:46:02.260 David Hogg is out there on

01:46:03.480 every single television show

01:46:04.760 every day.

01:46:05.500 This is the month where

01:46:06.480 these guys are marching all

01:46:08.180 over the place.

01:46:08.720 The march occurs, the

01:46:09.720 walkouts occur.

01:46:10.860 We are told over and over

01:46:12.040 again, this time's different

01:46:13.040 because it's grassroots and

01:46:14.160 it's high school students and

01:46:15.060 they're going to make a

01:46:15.620 difference this time.

01:46:16.580 In reality, Americans know

01:46:17.920 this is not true.

01:46:19.280 The arguments made by these

01:46:20.440 activists are inaccurate.

01:46:22.140 They're BS.

01:46:23.280 And so once we come back to

01:46:24.400 our senses and we say,

01:46:25.320 okay, God, that was a

01:46:26.120 really terrible thing, but

01:46:26.880 wait a minute, do we really

01:46:27.520 want to lose our rights?

01:46:28.380 The second we get to that

01:46:29.800 moment, their opportunity to

01:46:32.180 do these things to us is

01:46:33.120 gone.

01:46:34.120 So that is why they're

01:46:35.300 fighting so hard against

01:46:36.280 them.

01:46:36.680 And you're seeing this

01:46:37.400 immediately, even with all

01:46:38.860 those things.

01:46:39.700 From 13 to 6 in one month,

01:46:42.020 the next month it's going to

01:46:42.660 be 2.

01:46:43.960 And then there's going to be

01:46:44.920 no chance at all.

01:46:47.680 Until the next shooting.

01:46:48.940 Until the next shooting.

01:46:49.560 Which just happened at the

01:46:51.720 Waffle House by a crazy guy

01:46:53.380 who didn't put pants on.

01:46:55.440 I mean, is it the gun's

01:46:56.400 fault?

01:46:57.860 It's the gun's fault?

01:46:58.820 He wasn't wearing any pants

01:47:00.460 or underwear or he was

01:47:01.900 wearing a jacket.

01:47:03.680 I don't know.

01:47:04.320 I don't think it's the gun's

01:47:05.400 fault.

01:47:05.700 I think it was the madman

01:47:07.000 without pants.

01:47:08.440 Remember, they took the

01:47:09.320 guns from this guy.

01:47:10.500 They already said he had no

01:47:11.560 rights to them.

01:47:13.200 Well, if we just got rid of

01:47:14.840 all of them, if we just got

01:47:16.360 rid of all of them, if we

01:47:17.320 just melted them all down

01:47:18.480 and we made sure that all

01:47:20.360 the racists never worked at

01:47:21.660 Starbucks, we'd be a better

01:47:23.560 place.

01:47:24.300 Wouldn't the world be a

01:47:25.120 better place?

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01:49:38.100 I took everybody who was

01:49:40.600 working here in the studios

01:49:41.580 yesterday to, or a day before

01:49:43.300 yesterday, to lunch just across

01:49:47.320 the street here from the

01:49:48.040 studios.

01:49:49.020 What is it called?

01:49:49.900 School district or public

01:49:52.980 school?

01:49:53.360 It's called public school.

01:49:54.760 And I had the PB&J burger.

01:50:00.140 What?

01:50:00.620 Peanut butter and jelly hamburger.

01:50:03.620 And so, it was chunky peanut

01:50:06.620 butter with some sort of hot kind

01:50:09.660 of spicy jelly on a bun.

01:50:13.840 And it was, this was one of the

01:50:16.400 bigger risks of my life, I will

01:50:17.940 tell you.

01:50:18.500 Some people skydive.

01:50:20.160 I went across the street and I

01:50:22.280 said, so tell me about that.

01:50:23.580 And she said, eh, people either

01:50:25.420 love it or hate it.

01:50:27.900 And I was like, I'm going to roll

01:50:29.640 the dice.

01:50:30.340 I'm going to do it.

01:50:31.200 Wait, hold on.

01:50:31.940 So, it's peanut butter and jelly

01:50:33.000 on a bun.

01:50:33.520 Is there a burger on the bun, too?

01:50:34.980 Yeah, there's a burger.

01:50:35.640 Yeah.

01:50:35.900 So, it's a burger, a hamburger,

01:50:38.000 with peanut butter and jelly on a

01:50:40.880 bun.

01:50:41.100 Oh, that does not sound good at

01:50:42.460 all.

01:50:42.820 It was actually really good.

01:50:45.540 So, what are you getting?

01:50:46.020 You're getting a sweet and savory

01:50:47.900 type of situation.

01:50:49.720 Is that what they're going for,

01:50:50.580 there?

01:50:51.100 I can't even describe what, I

01:50:52.680 mean, peanut butter on a burger

01:50:53.780 does not sound good.

01:50:55.080 It was blueberry habanero.

01:50:57.340 Yeah, blueberry habanero jelly.

01:51:00.020 The jelly, actually, though, like,

01:51:01.860 you know, you can put a sweet

01:51:03.160 thing on a burger and it's, you

01:51:04.940 know, like people, you know, it's

01:51:05.840 like the classic turkey and

01:51:08.660 cranberry sauce sort of sandwich

01:51:10.260 after Thanksgiving, right?

01:51:11.200 Sure.

01:51:11.380 Like a little sweet.

01:51:11.980 I like to put, I like to put a

01:51:14.320 burger on a sweet thing.

01:51:16.440 Okay, that was gross, but.

01:51:20.580 But everybody just was driving

01:51:21.900 their car went, oh, ick, oh, my

01:51:23.660 gosh, oh, stop, oh, oh.

01:51:26.620 Anyway, go ahead.

01:51:28.160 You have a weird fantasy going

01:51:29.920 on there.

01:51:30.320 Yeah.

01:51:31.080 Well, it involves hamburgers.

01:51:33.120 But, yeah, I mean, but peanut

01:51:35.540 butter is the thing that really

01:51:36.720 stands out to me.

01:51:37.620 It actually was really good.

01:51:39.360 Try it.

01:51:39.780 You should try it.

01:51:40.500 It was actually really good.

01:51:41.920 It was really chunky peanut

01:51:44.100 butter, too.

01:51:44.980 It was interesting.

01:51:46.840 It was really good.

01:51:47.560 I'm only saying this so I don't

01:51:49.660 feel so stupid for ordering it.

01:51:52.240 I'm like, no, everybody should go

01:51:53.340 try it.

01:51:55.280 Anyway, look, you tried it, too.

01:51:56.580 Okay.

01:52:04.440 Glenn.

01:52:05.320 Back.

01:52:06.440 Mercury.

01:52:06.760 Mercury.

The Glenn Beck Program - April 23, 2018

The Human Drive for 'Eternal Values' - 4⧸23⧸18

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