The Glenn Beck Program - The Personal Is Political？｜ Guest： Burgess Owens

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00:01:09.580 The personal is political.

00:01:12.840 That was a slogan used by the feminists in the 1960s.

00:01:16.140 And like most slogans, you know, really kind of starts to fall apart once you examine it long enough.

00:01:21.920 But it's generally meant to understand to be understood as women and minorities and the struggles that they face directly connected to the patriarchy.

00:01:33.240 And it has come to take on many more meetings.

00:01:37.360 But most of all, it's just a way to say my feelings equal truth.

00:01:42.620 Eh, they don't.

00:01:44.420 They don't.

00:01:45.480 Now the personal is so political that the political has become personal.

00:01:50.400 And it is everywhere.

00:01:52.040 Thanks to the radically left-leaning forefathers of post-modernism, every single word we utter now is political.

00:02:00.480 So if anything we say offends someone on the left, it's not just personal.

00:02:05.600 It is a political act.

00:02:07.780 Even worse, having a difference in opinion is a personal insult now.

00:02:13.900 We're seeing it constantly.

00:02:15.420 Ted Cruz heckled out of a restaurant.

00:02:17.300 Sarah Sanders kicked out of a restaurant.

00:02:18.940 Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi chased out of a movie about Mr. Rogers.

00:02:24.500 The entire Kavanaugh confirmation hearing, for that matter.

00:02:28.540 And it is escalating.

00:02:30.760 Verbal abuse isn't good enough, as we saw last week with Antifa protesters who broke down Tucker Carlson's front door and screamed threats.

00:02:39.860 Yesterday, Michael Avenatti claimed on Twitter that he is investigating Tucker Carlson for an alleged assault on a gay Latino immigrant.

00:02:51.420 Well, this sounds about as plausible as Avenatti's ridiculous claim that Brett Kavanaugh was a serial rapist in high school.

00:03:02.700 Tucker Carlson responded, as is expected, Avenatti wasn't telling the truth, it seems.

00:03:13.080 Officials from the Farmington Country Club, where the incident happened, have confirmed it now.

00:03:19.000 They revoked the man's membership that night.

00:03:21.580 Turns out he was the aggressor.

00:03:23.920 Turns out, Tucker Carlson was at dinner with his kids and some friends when his teenage daughter went to the restroom and came back to the table crying.

00:03:39.900 Apparently, the middle-aged man said to Tucker Carlson's daughter,

00:03:46.560 Are you having dinner with Tucker Carlson?

00:03:49.820 And she said, Yes, that's my father.

00:03:53.820 He said, Oh, you're Tucker's whore.

00:03:57.940 Then he said, You're an effing C word.

00:04:03.560 She came back to the table and started to cry.

00:04:06.840 Her brother immediately got up from the table and said, Excuse me, did you just say this to my sister?

00:04:12.780 He proudly admitted that he had and the son or the brother took a glass of wine and threw it at him.

00:04:23.620 Carlson wrote, I love my children.

00:04:26.040 It took an hour of self-control not to beat the man with a chair, which is what I wanted to do.

00:04:31.600 I think any father can understand the overwhelming rage and shock that I felt seeing my teenage daughter attacked by a stranger.

00:04:38.720 After his son threw wine, Tucker Carlson got up and he asked the guy to please leave.

00:04:46.680 They were restrained.

00:04:49.480 Tucker said, I restrained myself.

00:04:52.120 I didn't assault the man.

00:04:53.360 Neither did my son.

00:04:56.420 He said, Everything about this is a lie.

00:05:00.760 First of all, I didn't know that the man was gay or Latino.

00:05:04.200 Not that it would have even mattered.

00:05:05.720 What happened on October 13th has nothing to do with identity politics.

00:05:10.660 It was a gross violation of decency.

00:05:13.520 I've never seen anything like it in my life.

00:05:17.060 End quote.

00:05:21.260 This is what I experienced with my family.

00:05:24.560 A few years ago in New York.

00:05:26.640 It is the reason in the end that really compelled us to seriously talk about leaving New York.

00:05:35.980 My family was endangered by a crowd of people and they all thought it was funny.

00:05:45.000 The political is personal.

00:05:47.640 A middle-aged man feels so personally insulted and outraged by Tucker Carlson's political views, his different opinions, that he responds with a personal insult to Tucker Carlson's daughter using the C word.

00:06:05.360 Is this the world that the early feminists with their personal is political signs wanted?

00:06:14.360 How many things have gotten so turned around that it's considered progressive now for a grown man to call a teenage girl the C word?

00:06:23.580 Which I believe is one of the most heinous and degrading words ever used to demean women.

00:06:29.260 Tucker was right to restrain himself.

00:06:36.860 The country club was right for asking this guy to leave and to revoke his membership.

00:06:43.260 It's the best response.

00:06:45.760 Violence is not the answer.

00:06:47.740 We have to keep our head.

00:06:49.340 And it is going to be unbelievably hard sometimes.

00:06:54.320 It gets a little harder every time we see something like what happened to Tucker Carlson.

00:06:58.100 But it is the only way to win.

00:07:00.740 Not everything is personal.

00:07:02.240 Not everything is political.

00:07:03.820 And that is the reality.

00:07:05.920 And your feelings do not equal truth.

00:07:09.480 They are your feelings.

00:07:12.840 Hopefully, if we can keep our composure long enough,

00:07:16.600 hopefully they'll find a better slogan, one that calms people down instead of inciting outrage.

00:07:23.360 In the meantime, we can all agree that no one, no one at all, especially a grown man,

00:07:29.120 should verbally assault a teenage girl because her daddy hurt his feelings.

00:07:35.360 It's Monday, November 12th.

00:07:41.920 You're listening to the Glenn Beck Program.

00:07:43.820 I, for one, am so sick and tired of hearing from the left that, oh my gosh,

00:07:54.040 they've never experienced hatred like this.

00:07:57.920 Nobody said a word when my family was assaulted in a park in New York.

00:08:03.800 No one said a word.

00:08:08.240 My daughter and I had always wanted to go see a Hitchcock film in the park.

00:08:14.800 And so we did.

00:08:17.620 And I just thought it was going to be fine.

00:08:20.020 I just assumed that everybody was human still.

00:08:23.680 Well, not in New York.

00:08:29.480 And so my daughter and her then fiancé and my wife decided to go to the park.

00:08:36.940 And we just spread out a blanket.

00:08:39.480 And we arrived, you know, maybe a little bit early.

00:08:44.620 People started to come.

00:08:45.980 And this group behind us of these 20-somethings, women, believe it or not,

00:08:54.740 they were quite aggressive.

00:09:00.300 They threw wine on my wife.

00:09:04.060 My wife knew that it wasn't an accident because we had security there.

00:09:09.120 And they were able to see their Twitter feed and their Facebook feed

00:09:14.400 where they were admitting what they were doing.

00:09:21.060 I went to the park with, I think, one security agent.

00:09:25.660 By the time we were done, I think we had four.

00:09:29.580 We had four.

00:09:30.640 We may have had six by the end.

00:09:34.140 I finally leave towards the end of the movie.

00:09:38.580 I want to get out of there before the movie is over

00:09:43.440 for obvious reasons.

00:09:44.960 And I get up with my wife.

00:09:47.080 And the entire crowd applauds that we leave.

00:09:51.280 Now, that could have been, I could have, you know, taken that.

00:09:56.160 But not after you had assaulted my wife.

00:09:59.900 Not after my wife and my daughter walk about half a block to go to the restroom.

00:10:06.200 And as they are walking by themselves, they are shouted at and fingers pointed

00:10:13.060 and thrust into their chest saying, we don't want your hate here.

00:10:17.720 We don't want your kind here.

00:10:20.360 Racists, bigots, haters.

00:10:22.440 When we were walking out, by the time we got across the street,

00:10:31.220 I looked at the security agents and I said, go back and get my daughter and her fiance.

00:10:38.340 This is far too dangerous for them.

00:10:41.480 My daughter was already in tears.

00:10:43.460 She didn't know what to do when the security agents arrived and pulled them both into the car.

00:10:48.780 So please, leftists, CNN, don't tell me how hard your life is.

00:10:59.420 I know.

00:11:00.140 I know how hard your life is now.

00:11:02.580 And no one should have to live through that.

00:11:05.820 But what's happening to Tucker Carlson is not an isolated incident.

00:11:10.540 It's been happening from the left for a very long time.

00:11:15.560 And it goes beyond mean tweets.

00:11:19.160 Your family is in danger.

00:11:24.000 And it's only getting worse.

00:11:30.880 So what are we going to do about it?

00:11:34.520 Well, you know what we're going to do?

00:11:35.920 We're going to live our lives.

00:11:38.420 We're going to tell the truth.

00:11:39.820 We're not going to play the game that they're playing because I don't want to be that person.

00:11:47.460 I remember leaving that crowd and saying to my wife, I would be so ashamed if anyone, anyone in my audience treated people like that.

00:12:00.120 If Michael Moore, who was at the top of the, you know, I guess, hate list for the left, if Michael Moore would have been treated like that by my audience, I would have been horrified.

00:12:13.640 But I slept well that night knowing my audience wouldn't do that.

00:12:17.140 It's one of the reasons why we did Restoring Love.

00:12:26.620 I wanted to see a big, huge crowd fill Dallas Cowboy Stadium and treat people with respect and come together and be good and serve one another and serve the community.

00:12:40.340 The press seems to miss all of that.

00:12:46.880 That's okay.

00:12:49.500 That's okay.

00:12:50.700 We know who they are.

00:12:52.660 By the way, the California fires.

00:12:56.320 I saw all the tweets back and forth and the hatred about the fires and Donald Trump and shut up.

00:13:03.020 Shut up.

00:13:06.960 Meanwhile, there are people on the ground.

00:13:11.320 Meanwhile, there are people that are in trouble.

00:13:15.240 And I don't mean the celebrities because they have enough money to take care of themselves and get out.

00:13:20.420 I don't wish them ill and I don't wish that their houses are burned down or anything like that.

00:13:26.020 But I'm concerned about the people who have to leave their house and they don't know what to do, where to go.

00:13:32.780 How do you, how do you, how do you take your children, leave your house, lose everything and survive?

00:13:41.840 You go to work?

00:13:43.200 How are you, how do you, how do you afford just going to a hotel, just having meals three times, three times a day for your family out?

00:13:55.280 How quickly does that bill run you into bankruptcy?

00:14:01.760 Mercury one is already on the ground in California, and there are a lot of people in need.

00:14:10.600 I want to play a tape.

00:14:12.000 This is of a father talking to his daughter and trying to calm, calm them down.

00:14:17.740 Now, if you happen to be watching the blaze, you will see it.

00:14:20.180 But if you're just listening, let me describe the scene.

00:14:23.520 There are flames on both sides of the car.

00:14:27.100 It's all like they're going through a tunnel of fire and the little girl is starting to freak out.

00:14:32.840 And I want you to listen to this amazing father as he talks her through this, because, you know, inside he ain't feeling this way.

00:14:43.380 Listen to this.

00:14:44.820 Hey, guess what?

00:14:45.980 We're not going to catch on fire, OK?

00:14:48.620 We're going to stay away from it and we'll be just fine.

00:14:52.120 OK?

00:14:53.720 OK.

00:14:54.260 We're doing all right.

00:14:57.580 Flames on both sides of the car.

00:14:59.040 Baby, it'll be all right.

00:15:05.020 We should.

00:15:06.860 We should.

00:15:07.760 We're going to.

00:15:08.940 We should go back home.

00:15:15.100 We should go back home.

00:15:17.360 We're going to get out, OK?

00:15:18.840 We're going to leave.

00:15:22.120 But we're going to get fire.

00:15:25.200 No, we're going to get out of here.

00:15:27.520 And we'll come back when it's more Princess Poppy, OK?

00:15:32.140 Princess Poppy is going to stay there.

00:15:34.240 Fire.

00:15:37.580 We should go back to the fire.

00:15:42.960 I'm going to stay away from it, OK?

00:15:45.160 OK.

00:15:45.920 Yeah.

00:15:46.560 There's that fire.

00:15:47.960 Yep.

00:15:48.580 Oh, that fire.

00:15:49.720 Look, we're past it.

00:15:52.600 We're out of it, OK?

00:15:53.980 Yay.

00:15:54.780 Yay.

00:15:56.720 You did it.

00:15:57.500 You did it.

00:15:58.400 We did it together.

00:16:01.400 I'm listening to this and I know that I would be tempted to be quiet.

00:16:07.020 Daddy's driving.

00:16:08.900 Daddy's trying to make sure we don't all die.

00:16:11.880 Quiet.

00:16:12.320 Keep talking and you'll be on fire because I'll open the door and put you out.

00:16:17.020 Amazing, amazing, Father.

00:16:22.080 Not only our thoughts and prayers, which are valuable, go out to the people of California,

00:16:30.460 but also our backs and our hands and our feet.

00:16:34.980 We're putting our money where our mouth is.

00:16:37.960 We care about you, California.

00:16:39.960 Mercury One is out on the ground now.

00:16:42.400 I urge you to donate now, help feed these people, help shelter these people.

00:16:49.760 You can go to mercuryone.org and make a donation now and help those who are affected by fires.

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00:18:13.240 These California wildfires are just terrifying.

00:18:16.680 31 dead statewide now in California.

00:18:20.220 Like I said, Mercury One is on the ground now and we're having our big fundraiser.

00:18:26.160 We do one fundraiser a year just to pay for the staff and the airplane tickets and all of the crap that you don't want to raise money for during the year.

00:18:35.780 You want 100% of whatever you're donating to go to the wildfires or the hurricanes or to the Nazarene Fund.

00:18:42.940 This is why we have this big fundraiser and we have a lot of people coming to the ball this, I think it's this Friday.

00:18:49.040 Is it this Friday night?

00:18:50.060 Saturday night.

00:18:50.660 Saturday night.

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00:20:20.980 It's going to be fun.

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00:20:22.960 Yeah.

00:20:23.840 Chuck and Gina are going to be there.

00:20:25.980 Chuck Norris and his wife are going to be there.

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00:20:34.540 She's going to be there.

00:20:35.780 We have a couple of big country musical artists coming as well.

00:20:39.880 I'm sorry.

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00:21:12.860 It is.

00:21:14.260 It's crazy what is happening with the ballots.

00:21:19.380 We're going to get to the election and the recounts now.

00:21:23.300 This is dramatically changing things.

00:21:27.320 And I'm not sure anybody really understands what's going on.

00:21:32.140 I'm not sure.

00:21:32.860 Are we sure that everything is on the up and up here?

00:21:38.940 Who's really watching over this?

00:21:41.920 Is anybody?

00:21:43.120 We'll talk about that coming up in just a minute.

00:21:45.020 We also have Pat Gray from Pat Gray Unleashed,

00:21:47.740 which is a podcast that you can hear wherever you get your podcasts

00:21:51.600 or listen on the Berlays Radio Network immediately preceding this program.

00:21:55.720 Welcome, Pat.

00:21:56.300 How are you?

00:21:56.980 Good.

00:21:57.380 Good.

00:21:57.760 Good.

00:21:58.200 Doing good.

00:21:58.940 Yeah.

00:21:59.160 You want to start with the fun stuff or the serious stuff?

00:22:01.340 Let's start with fun stuff because...

00:22:03.800 Okay.

00:22:04.180 Is that more on trivia?

00:22:04.960 More on trivia.

00:22:05.560 Yeah.

00:22:05.800 Okay.

00:22:06.260 Here's more on trivia.

00:22:07.720 Global warming typically refers to the warming of what planet?

00:22:15.060 Oh, my gosh.

00:22:15.900 Yeah, it's hard.

00:22:16.660 Dang it.

00:22:17.960 Usually that.

00:22:19.100 I don't know.

00:22:20.360 Pluto?

00:22:21.020 Pluto?

00:22:21.420 Pluto?

00:22:21.520 Same solar system, so you were close.

00:22:26.400 You're close.

00:22:26.840 It's right there.

00:22:27.600 Uranus.

00:22:28.480 It's right there.

00:22:29.040 Yeah, Uranus.

00:22:29.940 Wow.

00:22:31.320 Yeah, the weather's changing on Uranus.

00:22:33.800 It's getting warmer.

00:22:34.640 What is socialism?

00:22:37.660 Oh, whoa.

00:22:39.140 A little premature there on the buzzer, but I know it's coming.

00:22:41.960 Maybe.

00:22:44.500 Socializing?

00:22:45.540 Socializing?

00:22:46.360 Yeah.

00:22:46.500 See, you knew I was premature on the buzzer every time.

00:22:48.700 I was premature.

00:22:49.760 Nobody ever gets that.

00:22:50.860 No, it's a disease you get from being too social with someone.

00:22:55.200 Oh.

00:22:55.680 Yeah.

00:22:56.420 Have you ever been too social with someone?

00:22:58.840 Yes.

00:22:59.360 Yeah, have you?

00:23:00.880 Me too, Jessica.

00:23:02.540 Me too.

00:23:03.440 We won't pry into the detail.

00:23:05.860 Well, maybe we will.

00:23:06.720 What were the details?

00:23:07.660 What happened?

00:23:10.400 Oh, my gosh.

00:23:11.580 Oh, my gosh.

00:23:12.200 Is that amazing?

00:23:13.100 What planet?

00:23:14.240 Incredible.

00:23:14.740 Global warming.

00:23:15.680 What planet?

00:23:16.440 Right.

00:23:16.900 Yes.

00:23:17.320 And you don't know that.

00:23:18.120 And the socialism thing, I think there's been, we ask that almost every week for a couple

00:23:23.020 years now.

00:23:23.780 And I think there's been one, maybe two people who have actually known what it is.

00:23:29.620 So, no wonder it's popular.

00:23:32.100 Popular.

00:23:32.640 I love the things I don't know what they are.

00:23:35.980 Yes.

00:23:36.940 Yes.

00:23:37.520 I love the global warming question in which she picked the one planet that is questionably

00:23:43.820 not even a planet.

00:23:44.760 Not even a planet.

00:23:45.400 Yeah.

00:23:45.620 A little bit of warming.

00:23:48.040 It's also the coldest.

00:23:50.680 It might be just a hunk of ice.

00:23:53.480 And that's every Friday you play that on Packer Unleashed.

00:23:55.560 Every Friday in the second hour.

00:23:57.240 Okay.

00:23:57.500 But also, we are eight and two on the season.

00:24:02.040 Amazing.

00:24:02.560 Eight and two.

00:24:03.080 It was right again.

00:24:03.760 Don't want to miss it.

00:24:04.360 Every Friday it happens live.

00:24:06.280 Pat will bring a taste of it in every Monday.

00:24:09.760 So, have you seen Alabama is really putting up the good fight for life?

00:24:15.800 They're trying their best to allow children to be born.

00:24:22.580 And there's so few states doing it.

00:24:25.180 There's so few of us that are really engaged in the battle.

00:24:29.220 I just admire the fact that they're doing this.

00:24:31.720 There's the Alabama Supreme Court just upheld the state's fetal homicide law, which is that

00:24:40.520 if you kill a pregnant woman, you're charged with a double homicide.

00:24:44.180 And it's the double homicide that allows the death penalty to kick in.

00:24:51.040 And they just upheld that.

00:24:53.300 And one of the justices on the court, Justice Tom Parker, said it's a logical fallacy for

00:24:58.300 the government to consider a fetus for the purposes of a murder conviction, but not when

00:25:04.160 it comes to a woman deciding to end her pregnancy.

00:25:07.360 That's going to have to be decided now by the Supreme Court.

00:25:10.420 They're going to have to man up and make this ruling on when life begins.

00:25:17.380 Does it begin at inception or does it begin in the birth canal?

00:25:20.380 No, it's choice.

00:25:22.020 It begins at the choice.

00:25:23.680 If the woman was on her way to an abortion clinic and she lost her baby, would she be charged

00:25:31.060 with the person who was drunk driving?

00:25:35.860 Would they be charged with double homicide?

00:25:37.900 I think it's a choice.

00:25:41.640 I really believe if you've made the choice, then it's and it's the only one that can make

00:25:46.540 the choice.

00:25:47.100 So I think you'd be you'd get double homicide if you were in an accident by a drunk driver.

00:25:54.620 He would be charged with double homicide if you were on your way to Planned Parenthood.

00:26:00.240 Yes.

00:26:01.460 Or, you know, manslaughter of two people.

00:26:04.120 Yeah.

00:26:04.360 And I think that's happened.

00:26:06.460 And it just usually the left even considers the baby inside being murdered.

00:26:15.380 Because it's a choice.

00:26:16.700 Yeah.

00:26:17.100 Yes.

00:26:17.620 Have you seen the unbelievable though?

00:26:19.340 The greatest example of good being turned into evil and evil being good.

00:26:28.220 Uh, I saw in a video this weekend of this cute little baby that deserves to be loved, deserves

00:26:38.320 to be wanted, deserves to be a choice.

00:26:42.440 And it's despicable.

00:26:44.220 It's a Planned Parenthood ad.

00:26:45.720 It's actually not.

00:26:47.200 It's not made by them.

00:26:48.360 No.

00:26:48.500 I thought it was Planned Parenthood.

00:26:49.280 It's in support of Planned Parenthood, but made by a different group.

00:26:52.000 So like a pack or something did that.

00:26:54.360 Um, it's interesting though that they're just, they're not even trying to say it's tissue

00:26:58.620 anymore.

00:26:58.960 They're, they show this beautiful baby over and over and over during the commercial.

00:27:03.060 So you're acknowledging, okay, that's human life.

00:27:05.680 That's a baby, right?

00:27:06.980 Uh, but you should choose to be able to kill this baby if you want.

00:27:10.660 Wow.

00:27:11.240 Amazing.

00:27:11.940 What kind of society would do that?

00:27:13.720 There's part of me that commends the ad.

00:27:15.300 Like here's, at least it's finally, they're actually saying what's happening.

00:27:19.500 At least they're admitting it.

00:27:20.560 If you can get past that ad and still be pro abortion, I mean, at least you're freaking

00:27:26.160 committed to it.

00:27:27.240 They're not, at least they're not lying.

00:27:28.740 Isn't that the scary thing?

00:27:30.120 They weren't honest about it when they didn't think that people would, uh, go their way.

00:27:36.820 They are so convinced now that people either that, or they're just tired of hiding.

00:27:42.160 You know, like you, you mentioned, they're going to claim they're socialists.

00:27:44.820 They're just going to admit it.

00:27:45.860 They're doing that.

00:27:47.240 Uh, and now they're just admitting, yeah, this is human life.

00:27:49.440 We just think you should be able to kill it.

00:27:50.740 Aren't we awesome?

00:27:51.560 Yeah.

00:27:51.680 A couple million of these are going away every year.

00:27:53.720 Every year.

00:27:54.280 It's pretty awesome of us.

00:27:55.180 62 million in the last 45 years.

00:27:57.780 And it's not a problem for us.

00:27:59.120 That's more than, more than Mao killed.

00:28:01.280 Isn't it in some way though, a more morally consistent argument than the typical pro-choice

00:28:08.560 person who would not admit that.

00:28:10.440 The typical pro-choice person is going to be turned off by an ad like that.

00:28:13.480 Look, but you're saying like, oh, well, it's a choice though.

00:28:17.300 And therefore I have to let someone else make it, even though I know what's going on.

00:28:21.780 I'm against abortion personally, but it's okay for us to allow it as a society.

00:28:26.580 That is a much less morally consistent viewpoint than the one made by that ad who's saying,

00:28:30.900 yeah, we're killing babies.

00:28:31.700 Yes.

00:28:31.980 That's what we're doing.

00:28:32.880 Yes.

00:28:33.100 Yeah.

00:28:33.240 We're completely fine with it.

00:28:34.660 Yes.

00:28:34.980 And we should encourage it and praise us for it.

00:28:36.780 It's Debbie Wasserman Schultz not being able to admit that her children were children before

00:28:41.240 they were born.

00:28:42.120 They're children now.

00:28:42.820 That's good.

00:28:43.500 It's yeah.

00:28:44.060 That's crazy talk.

00:28:45.400 Yeah.

00:28:45.540 That's crazy talk.

00:28:46.320 And it makes no sense.

00:28:47.840 And they know it makes no sense.

00:28:49.720 So I guess for some, it will be a relief, a blessed relief that they don't have to lie anymore.

00:28:54.980 Yes, of course we know.

00:28:55.980 I mean, we're the science deniers.

00:28:57.900 We're the science deniers.

00:28:59.160 That's not a baby before it's born.

00:29:01.160 Really?

00:29:03.360 So, you know, now I guess it might be somewhat of a relief to those who know this is a baby

00:29:09.560 and we're just, we've been lying about it.

00:29:11.460 We just think it's okay to kill it.

00:29:14.240 And it is a shocking, I tweeted it over the weekend.

00:29:17.720 Maybe I'll retweet it or still you can retweet it.

00:29:20.060 It's a shocking video.

00:29:21.500 And what is, to me, it looks as though it was designed to appeal to a woman.

00:29:31.080 Yeah.

00:29:31.760 If women, if women go down this road and have so lost their maternal instinct, that instinct

00:29:45.320 to protect a baby, you know, that when you see a baby, you know, guys don't always, they

00:29:52.300 don't turn to jello all the time.

00:29:54.160 But women usually do.

00:29:57.440 And a baby is a baby.

00:30:00.220 And to see that baby and to say deserves to be a choice.

00:30:04.440 If women go down this road, we are truly lost.

00:30:07.600 Doesn't give it to lower than that.

00:30:08.860 I think it's, you know, morally reprehensible in the same way slavery was morally reprehensible

00:30:15.300 for the people at that time.

00:30:17.280 Because it's such a similar issue to me.

00:30:19.320 It's so overtly, obviously wrong to me to look at, hey, we're just, you know, look, it's

00:30:25.380 a choice.

00:30:25.920 You know, you're going to end the lives of these babies, a couple million a year, and

00:30:28.740 we're just not going to talk about it at all because it's uncomfortable.

00:30:30.900 You know, I would assume back in the day, in the time of slavery, there were a lot of

00:30:37.220 people who were, you know, there's Benjamin Franklin who absolutely, you know, grasped

00:30:42.700 the moral horror of what slavery was.

00:30:45.580 And there were some people who, you know, from the South who were absolutely defended

00:30:48.920 to the death.

00:30:49.920 But there were a lot of people who were, you know, I don't know, it's legal.

00:30:54.340 Like, the government acceptance of it gives people an argument to not have to think about

00:31:00.580 it.

00:31:00.720 And that's why it's so awful.

00:31:02.480 Because anyone in 100 years, in 200 years, anyone who thinks about this and said, wait,

00:31:06.600 what were they doing?

00:31:08.040 They were just, wait, they were just killing all these kids?

00:31:10.380 Like, millions of them?

00:31:11.320 How the heck did people stand by and be okay with that?

00:31:13.980 And it's because the government acceptance of it, and I think this happened in Nazi Germany

00:31:18.120 too.

00:31:18.920 People, you know, yeah, they're harassing the Jews, but the government accepted, they said

00:31:22.340 it was okay, it was legal, you could do it.

00:31:24.780 And so people looked the other way, even though they knew, I think, in their heart, that can't

00:31:28.320 possibly be the right thing to do.

00:31:29.920 So I agree with you, I agree with you to some degree with the Jews in Germany, but I just

00:31:37.000 want to point out, when it came to killing children, when Hitler actually started doing

00:31:43.160 that, the people rose up.

00:31:46.240 Yeah.

00:31:47.120 The people, the people who voted for Adolf Hitler, the people who were fighting in his

00:31:54.700 armies, when he started killing children, even those people rose up and said, this is too

00:32:02.060 far.

00:32:02.500 And we're not there right now.

00:32:03.620 And there's never, to me, I don't know that we've ever had a better opportunity than now

00:32:10.300 to try to do something about Roe v.

00:32:12.260 Wade.

00:32:12.440 We've got five justices who should logically vote the right way on this.

00:32:19.540 Yeah, they should.

00:32:20.180 If you push the issue all the way to the Supreme Court.

00:32:22.360 I'm not convinced that John Roberts is going to be right there.

00:32:26.120 I'm not either.

00:32:26.840 And you should have seen, did you see the article this weekend?

00:32:29.060 I know I pulled it, but I don't know where it is at the moment.

00:32:30.660 He's going to go left.

00:32:31.460 They said, so far, Kavanaugh seems to be distancing himself from Gorsuch and siding more with John

00:32:39.520 Roberts.

00:32:40.440 And this would be, I mean, again, remember, we said this a hundred times during this process,

00:32:44.640 Brett Kavanaugh was not on the original list of Supreme Court justices that Trump put out

00:32:49.500 before the election.

00:32:50.460 He was not on it.

00:32:51.340 They added him afterwards.

00:32:53.120 And that was a huge problem for all of us because one of the big reason why a huge portion

00:32:57.980 of this audience voted for Donald Trump was because of that list, that 21, that list of

00:33:03.140 21 Supreme Court justices.

00:33:04.900 They didn't have Brett Kavanaugh on there.

00:33:07.640 And now, I mean, like, look, he was qualified justice, should have been put through, had nothing

00:33:11.820 to do with him being a gang rapist.

00:33:13.280 But I was very nervous of him because of the way he would actually rule in these cases.

00:33:19.420 I really hope that's not going to come true.

00:33:21.340 I mean, it's very early.

00:33:22.980 It's too early to know for sure.

00:33:24.900 But I can't say I'm not nervous about it.

00:33:27.180 I can't say I'm not nervous about it.

00:33:28.580 And if they don't get this nervous, we've been nervous about him.

00:33:30.940 I didn't like him from the beginning.

00:33:32.260 From day one.

00:33:32.800 Day one.

00:33:33.220 Only bureau, same thing, same thing on that.

00:33:35.600 Only because he just wasn't a constitutionalist.

00:33:38.720 He's just not a strict constitutionalist.

00:33:41.360 And I'm not sure, you know, not sure how he will, not sure how he will rule.

00:33:45.880 I didn't like the fact that he, you know, hangs around a lot of Jesuits.

00:33:51.220 And, you know, no offense to the Catholic Church, but any progressive, though, anybody who is

00:33:55.620 Catholic and knows Jesuits knows they are wildly progressive.

00:34:00.880 Why?

00:34:01.080 I mean, the the pope is a is a Jesuit.

00:34:04.840 So, I mean, you can't.

00:34:07.080 You know, that's what you're getting.

00:34:08.160 I hope we don't have that with Kavanaugh.

00:34:11.020 Pat, thank you so much.

00:34:20.360 So you're in a you're in a wildfire.

00:34:23.140 We just heard the we just heard that father comfort his daughter.

00:34:29.380 Could you play the could you play the other woman who is in the the the car and she is praying?

00:34:36.180 Can you play that real quick for me, Sarah?

00:34:38.840 Oh, my God.

00:34:40.080 Fire is on both sides of her.

00:34:42.060 Please, God.

00:34:43.260 Oh, my God.

00:34:43.880 What are these people?

00:34:45.780 Oh, my God.

00:34:46.580 Please leave the horses there.

00:34:48.380 How are these people surviving?

00:34:50.660 Where is she going?

00:34:51.780 Please, God.

00:34:52.500 Where is she going to be eating?

00:34:54.000 Where is she going to be feeding her family?

00:34:55.600 How is she going to afford that?

00:34:57.160 Unless I mean, I mean, that's just a devastating toll on your family.

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00:35:42.700 Let me go to Kurt.

00:35:46.580 Hello, Kurt.

00:35:47.220 Welcome to the program.

00:35:49.160 Hey, Glenn.

00:35:49.740 How are you?

00:35:50.320 Good.

00:35:50.700 How are you, sir?

00:35:52.200 Good.

00:35:53.120 Hey, you were talking about the buyers earlier.

00:35:56.700 My son goes to Pepperdine and he was part of your leadership last summer.

00:36:01.580 Oh, my gosh.

00:36:02.540 The last one you guys did.

00:36:04.020 It's pretty great.

00:36:05.280 Great.

00:36:06.020 But when he got out there, he called us the other day and we were going out for Thanksgiving

00:36:12.360 because we wanted to be able to spend some time with him and not pull him away from his study.

00:36:17.740 Sure.

00:36:17.980 And we had an Airbnb.

00:36:20.920 There's several canyons that line around Pepperdine.

00:36:24.780 Sure.

00:36:25.580 We had an Airbnb place.

00:36:28.400 They canceled school because so many of the employees' folks have been damaged by the fire.

00:36:34.580 They've lost everything.

00:36:36.360 So we called and asked him on Saturday, are you coming home or what do you want to do?

00:36:41.700 He says, yeah, I'm coming home.

00:36:43.260 So we went to cancel our Airbnb.

00:36:44.940 Airbnb, I pulled up my reservation and it said it's been canceled by the host.

00:36:51.960 So I sent this lady a question.

00:36:55.160 Hey, are you guys okay?

00:36:56.780 She sent something back.

00:36:58.200 We've been devastated.

00:36:59.620 Our whole house, everything we have is gone.

00:37:03.960 It is.

00:37:04.940 I mean, California is the most beautiful place.

00:37:08.380 But I tell you, I think it's the most dangerous state in the union to live.

00:37:12.180 It is just horrifying what they have gone through recently.

00:37:17.140 And these fires are, I think, beyond.

00:37:21.640 Would you agree with this?

00:37:22.920 Beyond hurricane understanding?

00:37:25.460 Hurricanes are just devastating.

00:37:28.160 But this just moves in with no warning.

00:37:31.240 Yeah, you at least have the warning with a hurricane.

00:37:33.020 I mean, it's more tornado-ish, but over a much wider.

00:37:35.640 Yeah.

00:37:36.280 I mean, you go to bed and you wake up and your house is gone.

00:37:38.660 At one point over the weekend, it was consuming 80 football fields a minute.

00:37:46.280 A minute.

00:37:48.520 Our thoughts, prayers, and Mercury won on the ground for California wildfires.

00:37:53.320 Glenn, back.

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00:39:09.120 This is the sound of an angry mob in Pakistan.

00:39:18.480 And they are demanding the execution of a Christian woman for blasphemy.

00:39:27.400 If you're a Christian in the world today, welcome to the first century.

00:39:33.260 Oh, this in Pakistan.

00:39:34.840 Well, yes, it is.

00:39:37.460 And if we continue to have this blasé attitude, the ravenous calls for death of anyone simply for their religious belief.

00:39:45.940 I don't care if it is in China.

00:39:48.440 And we are talking about the Muslims that are being rounded up in China.

00:39:52.880 Now, a million of them in a re-education camp.

00:39:58.940 A million.

00:39:59.980 People are just disappearing.

00:40:05.880 The Chinese are taking on the Christians as well.

00:40:11.080 Christians in Pakistan.

00:40:13.880 Christians in the Middle East.

00:40:15.800 Syria.

00:40:16.440 Iraq.

00:40:18.160 People who just will not accept Islam in Northern Africa.

00:40:24.900 Remember the hashtag?

00:40:27.180 Bring our children back.

00:40:29.040 Yeah, that did a lot, didn't it?

00:40:31.420 It did nothing.

00:40:35.300 This morning, I urge you.

00:40:37.680 I urge you to put a sign up in your front door of your business.

00:40:45.740 Tweet.

00:40:46.900 Facebook.

00:40:48.200 We are all this Pakistani Christian woman today.

00:40:53.120 We must be.

00:40:54.680 If you're not hearing about her plight in church, you should be.

00:41:01.840 We have come full circle.

00:41:04.940 Where the persecution that Jesus and his apostles in the first century had to endure by the Romans.

00:41:12.820 It's now, again, standard fare in places like the Middle East.

00:41:18.200 But the cowardice I saw from our cousins in the United Kingdom is what truly has horrified me.

00:41:26.080 It is rare to be a witness to such a cowardly act that the British have just committed.

00:41:32.120 And it all centers around this young woman from Pakistan.

00:41:36.780 Here's her story.

00:41:38.220 Asia Bibi.

00:41:38.960 She was picking berries with a few other farm workers in a remote Pakistani field.

00:41:42.760 And this is in 2009.

00:41:44.780 A supervisor asked her to get some water.

00:41:49.560 Well, her life changed forever.

00:41:53.060 You see, Christians in Pakistan have always been on the receiving end of bigotry and persecution.

00:41:58.820 So it probably wasn't a surprise to Asia when two Muslim women began to fight with her,

00:42:04.880 saying that they would not drink from anything that had been touched by a Christian.

00:42:09.320 But it then spun out of control when the two Muslim women claimed she had insulted Mohammed,

00:42:16.500 a crime punishable by death.

00:42:18.960 Now, there are no witnesses.

00:42:21.020 No one can verify this claim.

00:42:23.160 But she has been in prison since 2009.

00:42:29.560 Now, Pakistan's Supreme Court just acquitted her and set her free.

00:42:34.260 Apparently, this is the kind of bad precedent that you don't want to do if you're in Pakistan.

00:42:42.440 You have to condemn a person to death based off hearsay if it involves the Prophet Mohammed.

00:42:51.540 Well, they didn't.

00:42:56.100 The Supreme Court said no, no to that.

00:42:59.720 But the mob didn't care.

00:43:00.900 They wanted blood.

00:43:01.840 And they have been out in the streets demanding Asia's death.

00:43:05.520 Crucify her.

00:43:07.160 Now, the only chance she has is for her and her family to get the heck out of Dodge

00:43:12.640 before the mob takes justice into their own hands.

00:43:16.680 So you would think that asylum would be an easy slam dunk.

00:43:20.120 I mean, after all, Europe has been taking refugees in by the millions, quite literally by the millions.

00:43:28.700 So why wouldn't they take another refugee from Pakistan?

00:43:35.680 Well, the UK decided not to grant her asylum because they fear, quote,

00:43:42.440 unrest that might spring up in the British streets from certain areas of our population.

00:43:52.780 Okay, what you're fearing, let me translate British bullcrap into English.

00:44:00.600 What the British are saying is we have so many Islamists, not Muslims, Islamists here that we have taken in

00:44:09.340 and they really control our streets.

00:44:11.840 We are too cowardly to even take on the sex ring gangs that are targeting British children.

00:44:21.740 We're too afraid of the Islamists to even do anything about that.

00:44:27.840 The last thing we can do is help this Christian.

00:44:30.700 Because we're afraid.

00:44:37.820 That's really what the British are saying.

00:44:40.900 Where are the people that once said we shall fight on the beaches?

00:44:44.720 We shall fight on the landing grounds.

00:44:46.840 We shall fight in the fields and in the streets.

00:44:49.020 We shall fight in the hills.

00:44:50.740 We shall never surrender.

00:44:52.740 Where are those people?

00:44:55.300 Where is that courage?

00:44:57.280 Where is that decency?

00:44:59.200 If you want to know what true manifested cowardice is, I give you today's British government.

00:45:09.720 It pains me to say it.

00:45:13.860 And to the women's marchers and the new wave feminists,

00:45:17.820 if you want to know what a real war on women is and real bigotry,

00:45:23.100 try being a woman and, God forbid, a Christian woman in a place like Pakistan.

00:45:29.200 And now, apparently, in places like the UK.

00:45:37.940 History will say, shame on them.

00:45:41.620 Shame on them.

00:45:44.100 If we don't step in and be who we always have been.

00:45:49.740 The MS St. Louis is a black stain on our history.

00:46:00.360 A group of Jewish immigrants who are being targeted by the Nazis.

00:46:08.240 They went to every country in the Western Hemisphere, including us, and we turned them around.

00:46:15.660 We sent them back to their death.

00:46:18.340 Let's not do it again.

00:46:19.680 President Trump, Mike Pence, Mike Lee, Ted Cruz, I beg you, please, grant this woman and her family

00:46:32.480 immediate asylum here in the United States.

00:46:36.380 Now is the time to stand and lead and show the world our compassion and how great we are

00:46:44.100 because we stand for people who are truly targeted.

00:46:48.880 If we fail to stand for this Muslim woman and her family, this, I'm sorry, Christian woman and her family

00:46:59.360 who is going to die, she will die.

00:47:04.020 If we don't stand for her, what are we all fighting about?

00:47:20.500 What are we all fighting for?

00:47:22.760 What are we all trying to save?

00:47:25.160 What are we trying to convince our friends and family that America is important

00:47:29.900 if we won't stand for her?

00:47:34.020 And should we fail, the world is showing us right now, no one will do it in our absence.

00:47:53.080 It's Monday, November 12th.

00:47:55.260 You're listening to the Glenn Beck Program.

00:47:57.080 Please call the White House, tweet the White House, Facebook the White House, Facebook your members of Congress.

00:48:10.660 We must help this woman.

00:48:13.980 We must help this woman.

00:48:15.920 And you know what?

00:48:16.820 It's a great way to show that we are not afraid of people who look different than us.

00:48:25.080 We're not afraid of immigrants.

00:48:29.620 We're not tone deaf to those who actually need asylum.

00:48:37.080 Please, Mr. President, please, please, this should be a slam dunk for it.

00:48:45.080 It just has to get to the president because this is a slam dunk for him.

00:48:50.880 This is a way that he can show that he's not racist, show that he's not afraid of immigrants,

00:48:58.840 you know, and take a firm stand against the Islamists.

00:49:03.340 We cannot cower.

00:49:06.240 Great Britain is lost.

00:49:08.660 It's lost.

00:49:10.860 When it's afraid to actually say the real reason in plain language,

00:49:16.440 we're afraid of our own immigrant population.

00:49:20.020 That's terrifying.

00:49:26.400 Her name is Asia Bibi, B-I-B-I, Asia Bibi.

00:49:32.100 Keep her in your prayers and please do everything you can to get the attention of those in Washington

00:49:39.560 that can grant her immediate asylum.

00:49:42.520 She could be dead by tomorrow if they don't get her and her family out of there.

00:49:46.500 It's one thing, too, that Mike Pence has been big on for much longer than he's been vice president,

00:49:52.420 making sure that these things get handled correctly.

00:49:55.520 And it's one of those things that I think if a big enough deal is made of it,

00:49:59.860 they will do the right thing on it.

00:50:00.980 Yes, I think they will.

00:50:02.180 I think they will.

00:50:03.100 Okay.

00:50:03.500 We want to talk a little bit about the news of the day and also some gun stats

00:50:09.380 because gun laws are on the way.

00:50:14.800 The House says they are going to do everything they can under Pelosi

00:50:18.600 to make sure that they have common sense gun control.

00:50:22.480 So we're going to get into that when we come back.

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00:52:01.280 We're glad you're here.

00:52:03.400 The divide is getting worse and worse in America.

00:52:08.200 There's a new poll out.

00:52:10.380 How do you feel about Republicans?

00:52:14.040 How do you feel about Democrats?

00:52:16.160 61% of Democrats see Republicans.

00:52:19.000 61% see Republicans as racist, bigoted, and sexist.

00:52:25.760 31% of Republicans say they view Democrats with the same light.

00:52:31.380 The percentage is saying that at least they would be somewhat bothered

00:52:35.580 if someone in their family married somebody from the other party.

00:52:42.200 Democrats, 50%, 50%, 50% say they'd be bothered if somebody, you know,

00:52:50.140 if somebody in their family married a Republican.

00:52:53.300 32% conservatives and Republicans say that they would be bothered

00:52:58.440 if somebody in their family married a Democrat.

00:53:01.200 About half of Democrats think Republicans are ignorant and spiteful.

00:53:08.460 Half of Republicans, 49%, say that Democrats are ignorant and spiteful.

00:53:15.960 21% of Democrats think Republicans are evil.

00:53:19.720 23% of Republicans think that Democrats are evil.

00:53:25.600 22% who provided an open-ended description of Republicans.

00:53:31.220 22% included words like selfish, greedy, corrupt, spineless, fearful, and bad.

00:53:37.420 How do Republicans describe Democrats in their own word?

00:53:42.140 26% socialist, angry, hypocritical, uninformed, power-hungry, and violent.

00:53:51.480 Here's the good news.

00:53:55.700 4% of us think the other side is fair.

00:53:59.900 3% to 4% say they think the other side is thoughtful.

00:54:03.600 2% to 3% think both parties think the other side is kind.

00:54:12.580 By the way, all of those are within the margin of error.

00:54:16.340 It could be zero.

00:54:18.280 Or maybe negative one in certain circumstances.

00:54:20.960 That's terrifying.

00:54:22.620 Yeah, that's really interesting.

00:54:24.600 It's interesting, too, that, you know, this seems to be getting so much worse.

00:54:29.300 There's always been that divide, right?

00:54:30.540 Like, I just feel like now people have made it into their life.

00:54:34.960 It dominates their life.

00:54:36.600 We were talking about CNN a little bit earlier about how, you know, their coverage is obviously biased.

00:54:41.860 I'm fascinated by how, not even biased.

00:54:45.160 To me, it's not that.

00:54:46.840 It's the obsession.

00:54:48.620 They are completely obsessed with Donald Trump.

00:54:52.080 Every single news story they make about him.

00:54:54.880 The fires.

00:54:55.600 The number one story on CNN, the fires.

00:55:01.020 But it is about Donald Trump's tweets.

00:55:03.820 His freaking tweets about the fires.

00:55:07.060 There's 31 people dead.

00:55:10.200 And the best thing you can think about to talk about is Donald Trump's tweets about the topic.

00:55:15.680 That is incredible.

00:55:17.900 And they just keep doing it and doing it and doing it.

00:55:20.440 Every story, every angle, anything you can do.

00:55:24.100 They have professional people who are on those panels every day that just come on and make every story about this one man.

00:55:31.080 This is not how our country was supposed to be designed.

00:55:34.800 It's not supposed to be about a king.

00:55:37.240 They treat him as if he's king.

00:55:39.280 That he controls everything that they do.

00:55:42.000 He's the president of the United States.

00:55:43.360 He's part of one branch of government.

00:55:46.580 He's ahead of it.

00:55:47.500 He's an important figure in our country.

00:55:49.000 There's no doubt about it that probably he comes up every day.

00:55:53.820 There's just some story every day that's probably worth mentioning with the president of the United States.

00:55:58.400 That does not mean 25 stories in a row every hour.

00:56:02.680 It shouldn't be about that.

00:56:04.520 Forget whether it's Democrat or Republican.

00:56:06.300 We got to the point where, with Barack Obama, that we actually banned his name on the air because we were just, it was too much.

00:56:15.240 It's too much.

00:56:16.120 People are obsessed over this.

00:56:17.920 We had a swear jar.

00:56:19.380 We had a swear jar.

00:56:20.580 That's right.

00:56:21.120 Well, how much did you have to put in?

00:56:22.720 You had to put in $25 every time.

00:56:25.980 $25.

00:56:26.160 Or $20 every time you said his name.

00:56:28.780 Yeah.

00:56:29.440 And so we had to get very good at saying, well, the current president is.

00:56:33.100 I think Pat, at one point, had to put in $1,000.

00:56:37.660 Oh, it was more than that.

00:56:38.700 But there was one time where he was like, I'm going to use it.

00:56:41.240 I'm going to use it all day, and I don't care.

00:56:43.380 Oh, yeah.

00:56:43.780 And he ponied up.

00:56:45.700 But it really is, it's a sickness.

00:56:49.380 And if you don't catch yourself, it'll just spiral out of control.

00:56:52.380 And we felt a lot better when we weren't talking about him.

00:56:55.620 Oh, yeah, totally.

00:56:56.720 And look, it's not that those issues aren't important.

00:57:00.200 But if you think about the way, it's more serious than just, okay, well, you know, Donald Trump is setting the agenda for everybody, I guess.

00:57:10.100 And, you know, it's supposed to be a country in which that does not dominate.

00:57:13.940 There's not one person with enough power to dominate everyone's life and conversation.

00:57:18.840 And I think it's not, it's something where we've ignored the founding principles of this country as far as, you know, how it was designed in an effort to pursue this sort of like, it's a sport, right?

00:57:32.800 Like, it's such a team thing that all we can do is talk about what the big story is, right?

00:57:39.300 It's becoming religion.

00:57:40.100 It really is becoming religion.

00:57:41.900 It's going beyond sports.

00:57:43.440 It's people compare, you know, being a Red Sox fan or something to a religious experience or whatever.

00:57:48.100 Like, it's beyond this.

00:57:50.500 And there's no reason for it.

00:57:52.280 Donald Trump doesn't have control over the wildfires set in California.

00:57:57.060 He has no control over that whatsoever.

00:57:59.700 In the future, maybe he could change some policies that might help.

00:58:03.080 He obviously has an opinion that the government has screwed it up in California, which I would, you know, I don't know about his specifics, but generally speaking, would be pretty competent that government in California screwed up the issue.

00:58:13.800 I will tell you, I don't know his specifics either.

00:58:16.620 But as someone who grew up in the West, it's a very different mindset.

00:58:21.980 I grew up in the Pacific Northwest, and it's a very different mindset.

00:58:25.480 That Washington is so far removed from the problems of the land and the landscape that you just growing up, you just knew it.

00:58:36.700 If the federal government was going to get involved, they were going to screw the land up because they weren't good stewards of it.

00:58:43.920 I'm telling you, the federal government has done a lot to help these wildfires burn out of control.

00:58:55.840 But it's not the federal government's fault.

00:58:59.640 It's a natural disaster.

00:59:03.200 Can we talk about how to help people?

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01:00:13.040 So I tweeted a story from The Blaze, I think it was on Friday or Saturday.

01:00:16.960 A Hollywood actor tweets, in support of gun control, accidentally admits to breaking California law.

01:00:22.440 There were many ways I could go with that story on Twitter, but it was about Ashton Kutcher, and I decided to go a different way.

01:00:33.800 So I started a thread with him, and it was quite interesting to watch, especially the way it ended.

01:00:41.480 I tweeted, no disrespect, Ashton.

01:00:45.540 As you stated, guns are not for hunting or simply to protect your home.

01:00:48.960 And for those who say you can't fight the U.S. government, see Afghanistan.

01:00:54.440 Plus, school violence is down by 33% since 1993.

01:00:58.840 Gun homicides are down by 49%.

01:01:01.560 Gun crime is down by 75%.

01:01:04.420 He responds, more lives are lost in seven weeks in the U.S. to guns than seven years in the Iraq war.

01:01:14.140 Let's make this about data, Glenn.

01:01:16.840 Okay, well, I did in the last one, but I didn't get hostile.

01:01:21.540 I said, okay, let's.

01:01:23.900 Now, first of all, Stu, would you please try to find any verification?

01:01:27.860 More lives are lost in seven weeks in the U.S. than guns in seven years, because I cannot find anything close to that.

01:01:33.320 Yeah, I mean, again, that's eliminating one entire side of the war, right?

01:01:37.700 Like, if you're saying, I guess he's assuming U.S. troops, right?

01:01:41.260 No, I looked it up, even U.S. troops.

01:01:43.900 I don't.

01:01:44.340 It's not accurate.

01:01:45.600 You look at it.

01:01:46.880 Okay, so he said, let's make this about data.

01:01:49.400 I wrote back, okay, let's.

01:01:51.800 Ten people a day die in a pool in the U.S.

01:01:56.420 Seventy-five percent of those are children.

01:02:00.580 We could eliminate almost all pools.

01:02:03.320 Yes, the very rich criminal may still get their hands on an indoor, in-ground illegal pool, but at a much lower rate than illegal guns.

01:02:12.940 Also, suicide was the second leading cause of death among individuals between the ages of 10 and 34,

01:02:19.500 and the fourth leading cause of death among individuals between the ages of 35 and 54.

01:02:25.480 There were more than twice as many suicides, 44,965, in the United States, as there were homicides, 19,362.

01:02:37.280 The reason why I brought this up, I'm missing one of the tweets, is because I said you're conflating numbers here.

01:02:45.940 Also, overdose deaths from opioids, include prescription opioids, and heroin, have increased by more than five times since 1999.

01:02:58.220 Overdoses involving opioids have killed more than 42,000 people in 2016 alone.

01:03:04.960 Remember, homicides are down 19,362.

01:03:09.940 We also keep hearing about the shootings, when the truth is, a kid is safer in school today than in 1990.

01:03:19.720 Much, much, much safer.

01:03:21.600 By the way, I was in school in 1990.

01:03:24.140 So I was actually four times as likely to be killed in a school shooting than kids are going to go to school today.

01:03:29.480 That is impossible to believe, but it is absolutely true.

01:03:34.900 The difference, the only difference really is, just to make a quick point here, is that now we're talking about big media events, right?

01:03:42.020 Now it's one kid shooting 13 people at a school, right?

01:03:47.040 And that obviously turns into media celebrity type of event, which again, I argue, is a huge driver of this stuff.

01:03:52.920 If the media would stop talking about it, and we have, we've stopped, we do not talk about their manifestos, except for very brief mentions if there's something vital.

01:04:00.140 We never say their names, we don't go into all their reasoning, because that gives them what they want.

01:04:05.060 But beyond that, I mean, four times is safe.

01:04:07.580 Back then, it was people picking off each other one by one.

01:04:11.560 It was spread over a much larger amount of the schools.

01:04:14.320 I mean, school, it happened a lot more commonly, because it wasn't necessarily these mass shooting events.

01:04:20.480 They're scary, but they're built for media consumption, and that is a huge driver of this stuff.

01:04:26.060 So you're four times safer in school today than you were in 1990.

01:04:32.260 And I wrote to Ashton, unless MS-13 is around, they kill four times as many people than mass shooters.

01:04:39.800 And yet, Google MS-13.

01:04:42.080 You will mainly find stories that are anti-Trump.

01:04:46.320 By the way, MS-13 guns are illegal.

01:04:51.460 Then he writes back and says, I'm not isolating the argument to mass shootings.

01:04:56.560 Great.

01:04:57.600 Neither am I.

01:04:59.120 All gun-related death and violence down dramatically since 1990.

01:05:04.580 If we want to make a difference, we should join forces to help those in places like Chicago, where strict gun laws haven't helped at all.

01:05:13.340 How can we, together, stop the killing in Chicago?

01:05:17.700 And the last tweet is, on another note, I have great respect for the work you do on sex trafficking.

01:05:22.960 I raised money to start Operation Underground Railroad, as well as the Nazarene Fund to free slaves in the Middle East.

01:05:29.080 We may disagree on many things, but not on the value of freedom and human life.

01:05:34.620 After that tweet, others got involved.

01:05:38.460 And the tone, by the end, had completely changed.

01:05:43.960 Others got involved.

01:05:44.400 Why don't you tell us what his response was?

01:05:45.860 What do you mean, others got involved?

01:05:47.740 Did I miss one of his responses?

01:05:50.280 I don't know.

01:05:51.200 No, that was his response.

01:05:53.140 So wait, so he came out and tried three or four points, failed on all of them, and then just stopped responding?

01:06:00.180 Yes.

01:06:00.480 That was the approach to the conversation?

01:06:01.960 Yes.

01:06:02.420 Was he playing his character from that 70s show?

01:06:04.820 I'm not sure.

01:06:06.860 I'm not sure.

01:06:07.960 Because I will say, too, Ashton Kutcher has, you're right, done some good things.

01:06:11.140 He has.

01:06:11.440 He's said some things that I think have been beneficial.

01:06:14.180 A lot of people just don't know.

01:06:15.520 I mean, you know, when you're surrounded by a media that tells you the reason why we have shootings is because the NRA donated $5,000 to some congressional candidate, well, of course you believe this nonsense.

01:06:27.880 I mean, you believe the NRA is in control of all gun policy in the United States, despite having literally no power.

01:06:33.360 People can vote for whoever they want.

01:06:35.100 The NRA doesn't make you vote for anyone.

01:06:37.640 People can vote in whoever they want.

01:06:40.040 And still, we're told this stuff, a lot of people, I would assume, particularly in Hollywood, believe it.

01:06:46.180 I mean, what are they going to do?

01:06:47.020 They're going to believe it.

01:06:48.620 Well, did you see that some doctors were very upset and they said, you know, hey, you know, I see bullets in kids all the time.

01:07:02.820 I work at an emergency room and guns have to be taken off the streets.

01:07:08.100 And I'm an expert in this.

01:07:10.320 No, you're an expert in pulling the bullets out of bodies.

01:07:14.120 That's what you're an expert at.

01:07:16.680 You may be an expert at witnessing the traumatic ends to illegal guns.

01:07:24.540 However, when I tweeted back to this doctor, you know, where do you work?

01:07:30.880 Are you in California?

01:07:32.800 Are you in New York?

01:07:33.880 Are you in Chicago?

01:07:35.560 Because if you are, you're in you're in the capitals of no gun zones.

01:07:41.700 And I can guarantee you the bullets that you're pulling out at a high rate are from illegal guns.

01:07:48.040 Right.

01:07:49.020 You know, there's a big article in The Washington Post.

01:07:51.560 This one came after, I think, the Vegas shooting.

01:07:53.340 But they've been updating it because, you know, it gets passed around every time there's another mass shooting.

01:07:57.120 And it talks about the deaths.

01:07:58.880 First of all, to your point, I think the same way.

01:08:01.220 There's been 25 mass shootings in California.

01:08:03.900 Well, California is a place that has the most restrictive gun laws in America.

01:08:06.860 California, maybe Connecticut and Maryland, you could throw into that conversation as well.

01:08:10.880 But California is right near the top of making it incredibly difficult.

01:08:14.280 And the cities make it even more difficult.

01:08:16.260 So it's it's it's it's a terrible argument to argue for gun control on mass shootings.

01:08:21.280 The mass shootings are happening in areas with gun control.

01:08:23.700 Of course, we all know that almost every single one of them happens in a place where all guns are banned for any purpose in a gun free zone.

01:08:30.640 But the entire state of California, which is the place, as The Washington Post points out,

01:08:35.140 is the central location for the most of these mass shootings, has the gun laws that every liberal Democrat would wish to pass.

01:08:44.180 It's a fever dream to pass in California what you would get nationally.

01:08:48.360 In fact, most of these things aren't even things that Barack Obama was asking for.

01:08:52.500 They've gone further than than even what Barack Obama was asking for, given the political realities,

01:08:57.540 the United States and the diverse populations represented.

01:09:00.960 So that is a gun control obviously doesn't doesn't prove that.

01:09:05.680 But when you look at really like the statistics, I think they get down to one thousand one hundred and thirty five killed in mass shootings.

01:09:12.400 That is way too many.

01:09:13.580 It should be zero.

01:09:14.240 We all know it.

01:09:15.440 But you pointed out the pool stat and I'm taking this for I didn't look this up myself.

01:09:19.340 What did you say?

01:09:19.640 It was 10 per day, something like 10 per day, 10 per day killed in pools.

01:09:23.920 It's three, you know, three to six hundred and fifty, you know, per year.

01:09:30.840 Is that right?

01:09:32.640 Yeah, I mean, it's more than that, I think.

01:09:35.200 I mean, whatever.

01:09:35.820 It's a lot.

01:09:36.380 And certainly is going to pass what's killed in mass shootings.

01:09:39.520 You're look, it's it is not comforting.

01:09:43.640 Ten dollars, 10 people a day.

01:09:45.700 Seventy five percent of them are children.

01:09:47.780 It's incredible.

01:09:48.440 And it's no comfort to someone who's, God forbid, been a victim of one of these or have a family member been a victim of one of these.

01:09:54.560 But I mean, the the the bottom line is that is these are events are incredibly rare.

01:10:00.680 The I the odds of you being involved in one of these are so insurmountable that it's almost impossible to stop them.

01:10:09.560 It's certainly, I would say, impossible to stop these things in a in a country that already has 400 million guns on the streets.

01:10:20.160 You go out there and try to there's no way to stop them.

01:10:24.740 I believe you can do some damage to this type of event.

01:10:28.460 You can slow down these types of events through media.

01:10:32.200 I think that's you know, we've we've talked about studies that have shown that that would really do something.

01:10:36.680 You can obviously secure certain areas, but all you're doing is you're going to free up those areas to the shootings to happen in other areas.

01:10:43.020 Right. Like we all talk about school security because we're most focused on trying to protect children, though, as you point out, it's four times you're four times more likely to be killed in a school shooting in the 1990s than you are today.

01:10:54.320 But we talk about school security just because, you know, here are most vulnerable people and it's the hardest to deal with when it happens in a school.

01:11:01.860 But if it didn't happen in a school and we secured all of them with giant walls around them and everyone wore bulletproof vests every day, they just go down the street to the supermarket or they go somewhere else.

01:11:11.440 You're not going to be able to stop them completely.

01:11:13.720 It's just not plausible.

01:11:15.060 And when you look at California and you look at Chicago, where we have so many gun deaths, what do they have in common?

01:11:25.820 Despair.

01:11:27.540 Emptiness.

01:11:28.020 There is a problem.

01:11:30.700 There is a problem.

01:11:31.960 We know it.

01:11:32.540 We can recognize a problem in the inner city in Chicago.

01:11:35.380 We know there's there's a problem of fatherlessness.

01:11:38.720 There's whatever we know there's a long list.

01:11:43.600 California.

01:11:45.020 What's the problem in California?

01:11:47.920 I contend the same thing.

01:11:49.700 Dad might might be at home.

01:11:52.340 But those families are completely different in some of these major cities in California.

01:11:59.700 And I don't mean, oh, there's two dads.

01:12:02.020 I mean, the values are gone.

01:12:05.220 The the the meaning of life.

01:12:08.500 What is the meaning of life?

01:12:11.080 What gives people purpose?

01:12:14.960 It's very, very shallow water in parts of California.

01:12:20.260 Let's have that conversation.

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01:13:46.640 To our veterans.

01:13:49.560 Never forget.

01:13:51.280 Thank you.

01:13:52.860 Thank you so much for everything that you have done.

01:13:56.660 Um, there's a unbelievable story about our, our VA system where many of our veterans are not even receiving any of their benefits.

01:14:07.020 Now it's so screwed up.

01:14:09.480 We've got to fix that, but thank you veterans for doing what you do.

01:14:15.700 And I want you to know there are people that, that really get it.

01:14:18.940 I'm going to, I want to introduce you tonight, uh, to somebody that I had on a podcast on, uh, on Saturday.

01:14:25.700 His name is Rishi Sharma.

01:14:27.840 He's 21 years old.

01:14:29.260 He's from California.

01:14:30.640 He was, he was just an avid reader of history.

01:14:34.200 When he was a kid, started reading about world war two and just fell in love with these veterans.

01:14:39.720 And one night just called a veteran out of the blue.

01:14:43.580 And he said, it was like at two o'clock in the morning, his time.

01:14:47.020 And, uh, he said, Hey, I'm sorry.

01:14:49.500 I was 16.

01:14:50.820 Is it, is this really you?

01:14:52.400 And the guy's like, call me back tomorrow.

01:14:55.000 So he's gone on the road now.

01:14:56.740 And he has done these interviews and he wants to interview all the remaining, um, uh, world war two veterans before they die.

01:15:05.400 He does at least one a day, every single day.

01:15:09.080 Listen to a bit of this interview.

01:15:12.920 If we have it, Sarah, I've interviewed just over 900 veterans so far, but there are definitely a few that really, you know, play in your mind after you've interviewed the veteran.

01:15:21.960 And one in particular is a veteran who I interviewed out in Pennsylvania in the Pittsburgh area named Mr. Florentine.

01:15:28.220 What is your full name, sir?

01:15:30.260 David Joseph Florentine.

01:15:33.140 Where and when were you born?

01:15:36.680 I was born in New Brighton, Pennsylvania.

01:15:41.720 January 21st, 1926.

01:15:44.740 At 16 years old, he was going in first wave, uh, on Tarawa, uh, which is a, called the B-8-Tow Atoll.

01:15:52.780 And basically it's an island that's 800 feet across, uh, wide and just a mile long.

01:15:59.200 Wow.

01:15:59.520 And 3,000 Marines were killed and wounded in a three-day battle there.

01:16:04.440 And about 25,000 Japanese were all killed.

01:16:07.040 Only about 20 of them were taken prisoners.

01:16:10.080 And, uh, Mr. Florentine, as he went in on the landing craft, his sergeant, Sergeant Yoakum, kept telling everyone to keep their heads down because they were taking on enemy fire.

01:16:21.100 And, uh, Mr., the way Mr. Florentine was saying it, you could feel like you were there.

01:16:27.140 I don't know what made him do this.

01:16:28.940 Listen to the whole, uh, interview.

01:16:31.260 It's about 90 minutes.

01:16:32.700 You can hear it, uh, online now.

01:16:35.800 And, uh, it's at the Glenn Beck podcast.

01:16:38.140 It was Saturday's podcast.

01:16:39.280 Also, tonight, 5 p.m., just an incredible story from an incredible 21-year-old man.

01:16:50.940 Glenn Beck.

01:16:54.040 Welcome to the program.

01:16:55.880 It is Monday.

01:16:57.280 And we have, uh, we have with us a guy who played for the New York Jets, Los Angeles Raiders, uh, former, obviously, NFL player and Super Bowl champion.

01:17:10.380 Yes, I just had to check his fingers, see if I could see the ring.

01:17:12.960 Yeah, Super Bowl champion.

01:17:14.340 Uh, his name is Burgess Owens, a friend of the show.

01:17:17.160 He's been on with us for a while.

01:17:18.940 He has a new book out called Why I Stand, uh, From Freedom to the Killing Fields of Socialism.

01:17:26.400 How are you, sir?

01:17:27.320 Glenn and Christine again, my friend.

01:17:28.680 Good seeing you.

01:17:29.180 Good to be back.

01:17:29.660 First of all, let's introduce your friend here, uh, and we'll get to your story here in just a second.

01:17:35.500 Uh, but this is Mac.

01:17:37.220 Mac White.

01:17:37.780 White.

01:17:38.340 Okay.

01:17:39.140 Hi, Mac.

01:17:39.780 Hi, how are you doing?

01:17:40.520 How are you?

01:17:40.840 Welcome.

01:17:41.180 I'm good.

01:17:41.620 Glad you're here.

01:17:42.200 Thank you.

01:17:42.480 I'm glad to be here.

01:17:43.200 Um, okay.

01:17:43.860 So tell me, tell me the, the, the idea behind this book.

01:17:47.640 Cause you are, you say it like it is 1910 NAACP.

01:17:54.300 Well, you know, Glenn, um, the book basically highlights the fact that what we've done together

01:17:59.280 is, is remarkable.

01:18:00.460 We have a country that from the very beginning was based on what we, the people can do together.

01:18:04.540 And, uh, the history that we've lost is what we've done regardless of race, because we

01:18:10.400 have such great hearts.

01:18:11.360 We, we reach out for those who are needy, those who at risk, uh, that's been our nature.

01:18:15.940 And, um, and the reason why I brought Mac with me today is because we need to get that

01:18:20.780 done again.

01:18:21.200 We need to realize that there is an invisible generation out there of kids that have not

01:18:26.420 been given opportunities that many of us have gotten.

01:18:28.260 They've not been taught about respect and commitment and love and all those things that

01:18:31.560 we kind of take for granted and once they get it, they will be our strongest advocates

01:18:36.120 for our American way.

01:18:37.680 I think that's going to be the generation of bringing our country back.

01:18:40.860 And before we get to the solutions, which is the main point, but you, you point out that

01:18:45.800 this was intentionally done to African-Americans.

01:18:48.780 Oh, absolutely.

01:18:49.660 Now, what we have to recognize is we're in a fight for the heart and soul of our nation.

01:18:53.280 Uh, the Judeo Christian values we have are very unique with only countries ever done

01:18:58.640 it this way.

01:18:59.360 And that's why we're the greatest country in history of mankind.

01:19:02.100 At the same time, we have an adversary, the socialists, Marxists, and atheists who are

01:19:06.760 anti-God, who wants to destroy us in any way possible.

01:19:09.920 And for those who understand the history of the black community, uh, one thing, for instance,

01:19:14.140 I don't, I don't even know if you know this, but in 1905, Tuskegee institution, where

01:19:19.980 we've talked about quite a bit, led, uh, was producing more self-made millionaires in

01:19:24.400 Harvard, Yale, and Princeton combined.

01:19:27.080 And this is the way Americans do it.

01:19:29.100 And we have hold free freedom, hope, and opportunity.

01:19:31.780 And every race has done the same thing.

01:19:33.940 Those things would not have not heard about, but that race, that community was purposely

01:19:39.520 undermined because it was such a threat to the leftists.

01:19:42.820 So that, that, the leftist piece is still there.

01:19:45.680 They're now still attacking our country, have, have destroyed basically the black

01:19:49.840 family, and we'll get it back.

01:19:51.660 We're in the process now to have young people like Mac, who's super committed to his family,

01:19:55.880 and I'm excited about what he represents.

01:19:58.180 Okay, so, so Mac, let me hear your story.

01:20:01.520 Tell me about yourself.

01:20:03.460 Um, I was born and raised in Houston, Texas.

01:20:06.140 Uh-huh.

01:20:07.480 Went, uh, lived in foster homes.

01:20:10.560 Uh, my mom was separated from my mom when I was probably like four or five.

01:20:15.620 She had me at 20.

01:20:16.580 Uh, she kind of wasn't ready to have a child.

01:20:19.520 Uh-huh.

01:20:19.860 So I had to deal with the, um, consequences of that.

01:20:23.440 Uh-huh.

01:20:23.800 And, um, I lived with my aunt for a little bit, then basically jumped around from house

01:20:29.360 to house, uh, staying with my dad or, you know, different girlfriends he would have.

01:20:34.140 Kind of really no, uh, stable place all the time.

01:20:37.760 Uh, because him and my stepmom had like a, a dysfunctional relationship.

01:20:42.260 Uh-huh.

01:20:43.000 So it was always a lot of fighting and going on and, um, a lot of arguing.

01:20:48.260 Uh, they never really learned how to work things out.

01:20:50.640 So it was always he would just leave and pack up and leave and we'd go stay somewhere else

01:20:55.340 or I would get dropped off somewhere.

01:20:58.200 And, um, just by the time I was probably a teenager, I started getting involved with,

01:21:04.140 you know, drugs and gangs and, uh, hustling.

01:21:07.980 Cause my dad didn't have a job and his girlfriend at the time, she didn't have a job.

01:21:13.380 So I kind of was like providing for myself for like clothes and food.

01:21:18.720 And when I was 16, I ended up, well, I dropped out of high school.

01:21:21.900 And then by the time I was 16, I was charged with two counts of aggravated robbery.

01:21:26.900 And I was sentenced to three years, uh, Texas Youth Commission in Gainesville, Texas.

01:21:34.580 How'd that work out?

01:21:36.000 Which one?

01:21:36.680 And, uh, prison, um, it was rough.

01:21:40.380 It was rough, but at the, um, now that I look at it, I think that was the best thing

01:21:46.400 that could ever have happened to me just cause the simple fact that I was just on this path

01:21:51.300 to destruction and it was just because I had no hope, you know, just growing in the community

01:21:57.360 that I grew up in and, uh, the environment and, uh, the household, um, you kind of just grow

01:22:05.220 up hopeless.

01:22:05.800 So what was the turning point?

01:22:07.680 You found hope in prison?

01:22:09.360 Um, I didn't find hope in prison.

01:22:11.260 I found just realization with everything that I believed in in the streets.

01:22:16.100 The, the, the, the, everything that I was looking for in there was the same thing I wanted in my

01:22:20.980 household.

01:22:21.480 It's just that I didn't find it in the household.

01:22:23.780 So I went other places to go find it.

01:22:26.140 It's kind of like a, uh, a teenager that, um, feel like they can't talk to their parents

01:22:32.340 about something.

01:22:33.040 So they go talk to a friend, but you know, they might talk to somebody the same age as

01:22:37.960 them.

01:22:38.240 So it's kind of like the blind, you're not going to get the best information from that

01:22:42.120 person.

01:22:42.740 Right.

01:22:42.860 But that's just the only person at that time that you feel like, um, you can run and talk

01:22:48.360 to.

01:22:48.920 So with my situation was the guys that were in my neighborhood, um, the ones I felt like

01:22:55.180 I could talk to that could help me, that I would get that love and everything I was looking

01:22:59.580 for in a family out of those gangs or, you know, the friends.

01:23:03.780 And I mean, being 13, you can't really have a job at that age.

01:23:08.660 And you don't, we don't, we're not taught how to fill out applications.

01:23:12.400 Right.

01:23:12.600 A lot of us can't even read.

01:23:14.500 Um, we don't know about finances or anything.

01:23:16.760 The only thing we know is just what our community has to offer.

01:23:19.800 And nine times out of 10 is, um, selling drugs or robbing people.

01:23:24.320 The only way to survive.

01:23:25.320 And that's what we see growing up as kids.

01:23:27.860 Um, I always say like, um, when you always like to say that a lot of kids never come

01:23:35.680 out of the womb, throwing up gang signs or, you know, any of this stuff that a lot of

01:23:40.700 people, um, and it's something that is taught and you know, it's easy.

01:23:47.120 Kids are so vulnerable.

01:23:48.500 I mean, the first person to get to them is going to have the biggest impact and going

01:23:52.860 to be able to, um, change their mindset to where they want it to be.

01:23:56.960 And that's what you have a lot of times in those environments too, as well.

01:24:01.260 But it's just a cycle.

01:24:02.520 Cause those people are just doing what was done to them.

01:24:05.780 Can I just say, uh, cause the key is there's something that happened that allowed you to

01:24:10.040 change that trajectory.

01:24:11.000 And once you explain that to Glenn, cause this is really what I'm talking about.

01:24:13.500 We, the people, what we've done as a people to help each other.

01:24:16.820 That's really, I think, uh, what, what, what I think we can highlight with Mac.

01:24:20.140 So explain what happened that got you out of that, that, uh, that the trajectory you're

01:24:25.220 heading into, uh, as far as like when I got out and, um, so, all right.

01:24:31.080 So when I was in jail, it gave me a lot of time to reflect on a lot of things that I did.

01:24:35.560 And then I started realizing that those things I believed in those people that got to me

01:24:40.140 first when I was a kid, um, that I believed in those things.

01:24:44.540 And when I saw what those things got me and that this was the end point right here is

01:24:50.560 jail or either a graveyard.

01:24:52.620 Um, I had to start finding a new, um, way of thinking, but not knowing how to, because

01:24:58.900 I didn't have anybody to teach me.

01:25:02.740 My father said to me when I was young, I said, I'm never going to be like you.

01:25:06.200 And he said, son, I'm proud of you.

01:25:08.800 I didn't want to be like my father either.

01:25:10.400 He said, but if you don't find someone to model, you will be exactly like me.

01:25:17.900 And that's kind of the problem.

01:25:18.920 You don't have any place.

01:25:20.000 So where did you find the model?

01:25:21.700 Okay.

01:25:22.100 So when I got released from jail, um, I received a card from a lady, um, that was a, a co-founder

01:25:30.980 on a project called one heart.

01:25:32.740 And she sent me a postcard that had the one heart project, like the, the, um, label of

01:25:42.600 like, I guess they were going to do a film and it had like all her information on the

01:25:46.620 back, basically wanting me to contact her.

01:25:48.980 So I did.

01:25:50.100 And then when I contacted her, she basically asked me a lot of questions, um, and just asked

01:25:56.360 about my crime, how serious it was, asked me, what was I doing now?

01:26:01.100 Where did I want to be in life?

01:26:03.340 And just basically just having conversations, just seeing where my mind was.

01:26:06.980 And I didn't think anything of it.

01:26:08.480 I thought she just wanted to talk to me and then have something to tell at the end of the

01:26:12.800 movie or something like that, like from a real actual person that was at the game.

01:26:17.600 And, um, she ended up contacting me again.

01:26:21.180 And I met with her and her family.

01:26:23.260 Mother's day, they drove from Dallas to Houston.

01:26:25.360 It was just me and my dad.

01:26:26.460 Uh, cause when I got out, I went back to the same environment that was brought you into

01:26:32.080 prison.

01:26:32.520 Exactly.

01:26:33.060 So that was one of those things.

01:26:34.440 It was like, I got out and then, Hey, close the door, you know, figure it out.

01:26:39.320 And luckily I was blessed enough to actually what I like to consider her, my angel.

01:26:44.380 Um, she came in, she asked me to, did I want to come live with them?

01:26:50.900 And she was going to help change my life.

01:26:53.380 Holy cow.

01:26:53.840 That, that is risky.

01:26:55.440 Yeah.

01:26:55.760 And it was scary for me too, because, um, I don't, I don't want to say this, but I can't

01:27:02.140 help it.

01:27:02.540 It's not common for a white person to want to come help a black kid, especially a young

01:27:08.780 black kid from where I'm from.

01:27:10.000 Cause either they hate us or they fear us, you know, um, nobody really takes the time

01:27:15.300 to understand us or understand our situation.

01:27:18.440 Um, and a lot of times I feel like, um, the media portrays that because the news only shows

01:27:23.920 you, um, the two gangbangers that had a shootout, but they don't never do a story on those gangbangers

01:27:29.560 10 years ago when their dad was in prison or their mom was strung out on crack and they

01:27:35.040 had to find ways.

01:27:35.760 There's some crazy stories.

01:27:37.860 Um, if a lot of people were hearing, a lot of people would say, I don't know if I would

01:27:42.720 have been able to make it through that.

01:27:44.060 Yeah.

01:27:44.580 You know, so just, um, going through that, but back to, um, the topic, I'm sorry.

01:27:49.980 That's okay.

01:27:50.500 No, that's okay.

01:27:51.600 So, so, so how has your, how has your life changed now?

01:27:56.040 What are you doing now?

01:27:56.900 You know, it's changed when the lady took me in, she put her hand on me on my hand and

01:28:01.860 she said, um, if you come with me, I will take your life to a level you never thought

01:28:07.040 was possible.

01:28:07.880 And at the end of the day, my whole reason for, um, finding that realization that I need

01:28:14.560 to change my way of thinking, I felt like this was what I needed right here to help me

01:28:20.960 completely change that.

01:28:22.400 And then also take action because I actually wanted to make some out of my life.

01:28:26.200 I just didn't know what I wanted because I never dreamed past 21.

01:28:29.420 Cause I didn't think I would make it to be 21 or even be a free man at 21.

01:28:35.040 Um, what do you do now?

01:28:36.100 I do acting modeling.

01:28:37.620 I do speaking, um, and, um, like mentoring, but individually, like on my own with like younger

01:28:46.220 people that I've encountered with that I want to help.

01:28:49.400 Can I say this?

01:28:50.040 I've taken Mac Mac and spoken to about 30 young people in the juvenile system and they

01:28:55.280 are mesmerized by his story because what he does best is leave the message.

01:28:59.520 If I can do it, you can do it.

01:29:00.580 He takes away excuses that you can't, he takes away the thought you cannot make in this country

01:29:05.760 that this is a place you have a second chance.

01:29:08.360 They've given it and you go for it.

01:29:09.940 You can change your life.

01:29:11.060 I don't know anybody that could make it in today's, uh, world, especially African Americans

01:29:18.300 after being told all the time, young girls.

01:29:21.660 Now you're not going to make it.

01:29:23.440 It's a system is a rape culture.

01:29:25.300 It's against you.

01:29:26.620 I wouldn't, I mean, I grew up in a poor family and my father was, you know, a small businessman,

01:29:31.740 kind of a failing businessman, Willie Loman kind of guy, suicide in my family, divorce,

01:29:37.340 blah, blah, blah.

01:29:38.040 We've all had our share of problems.

01:29:40.120 But the one thing that was instilled in me was you can do anything you set your mind to.

01:29:45.680 And if you don't have that, and in fact, you have a society telling you this society is

01:29:51.900 against you.

01:29:52.720 You'll never make it because of them.

01:29:55.660 You don't, you don't have a chance.

01:29:57.800 And my story is I grew up in deep South, in Tallahassee segregated community, KKK and

01:30:03.520 Jim Crow.

01:30:04.660 And it's a very successful community though, because in that community, there were people

01:30:09.120 who believed in our country and believe in God.

01:30:11.220 They believe in the family unit.

01:30:12.500 And their goal was to, to show those who didn't believe in them that they can make it

01:30:15.960 happen.

01:30:16.660 So, uh, for me to look back 50 years later and see the message that you see, you're so

01:30:20.740 correct.

01:30:21.220 The messages are so different now, uh, for us to tell young people like Mac that you

01:30:25.820 can't make in this country is stealing their dreams.

01:30:28.420 It's the worst that Americans do to another American.

01:30:30.840 And yet we have, it is almost a, it's a business now.

01:30:34.840 People make millions of dollars by giving the message of hopelessness.

01:30:38.280 And so this is why we have to recognize if we're going to change the trajectory of our

01:30:41.820 country, we need to make sure our kids know that this is the greatest place in history

01:30:45.600 of mankind.

01:30:46.220 Tell me, tell me about your great, what was it?

01:30:48.440 Your great, great grandfather.

01:30:50.060 Oh, great.

01:30:50.660 Thanks.

01:30:51.560 Great, great grandfather, uh, Salas Burgess came to this country and the belly of a slave

01:30:55.800 ship in 1848.

01:30:57.460 I was sold on an auction block in, uh, Charleston, South Carolina with his mother.

01:31:02.020 His mother, um, either committed suicide, uh, took her life or escaped.

01:31:06.200 She couldn't take it anymore that the, the, the, the heinous things was happening to her.

01:31:10.440 And, uh, so at age eight, he was an orphan, but he had men around him that believed that

01:31:15.780 they could, they still had hope and they escaped to took the Sunday, Sunday route of the underground

01:31:19.820 railroad facilitated by Mexican and German Americans and made his way out to Smithfield,

01:31:25.840 Texas, um, where he became a very successful entrepreneur owned a hundred acres of land, bought

01:31:31.040 two years, started the first black church, first, uh, black elementary school, pillar of

01:31:35.760 his community, uh, Republican, proud American.

01:31:38.860 And that is what the American way is all about.

01:31:41.600 It doesn't matter how we got here, as long as you have hope.

01:31:44.060 And that's what people like Mac, I think is, is a future of our country.

01:31:48.400 They're finding out that this is a place that can make it if given the chance, if given

01:31:53.600 hope.

01:31:54.100 And once they get that, it's like the Harriet Tubman that I've come to love when I was

01:31:58.260 a 12 year old kid.

01:31:59.040 She not only escaped, but went back 20 times, helping 300 people because that was her love

01:32:04.660 and empathy for people.

01:32:05.860 And that's what Mac is doing now.

01:32:07.460 He's going back and telling these kids, you can make it, you can do it.

01:32:10.640 I'm here to help you.

01:32:11.400 We'll make it happen.

01:32:12.340 And he, he'd helped his four or five of his friends to come out after they came out of

01:32:16.480 the same situation.

01:32:17.800 And that's the heart of Americans.

01:32:19.960 So we knew, no, we continue to do that.

01:32:22.800 It doesn't matter what color we are.

01:32:24.680 It's who we are.

01:32:25.660 It's those values we have inside of us that said there's a God in heaven, that if we do

01:32:30.080 the right thing, we, we give as much as we can, that we'd be blessed and they will be

01:32:33.440 blessed in the same process.

01:32:36.040 Thank you for coming back.

01:32:38.080 You can see it in your eyes.

01:32:40.360 You are a good man.

01:32:42.020 You know how you can look people, you know, eyes are windows to the soul.

01:32:44.720 You know, look at somebody, you're a, you're really a good man.

01:32:47.860 Thank you.

01:32:48.320 Thank you.

01:32:48.900 I'm happy that, uh, that you took the risk and this woman took a risk.

01:32:54.360 She's still alive.

01:32:55.300 Yeah.

01:32:55.540 She's here.

01:32:56.600 She's here.

01:32:57.320 She's here.

01:32:58.320 Oh, you got to bring her in.

01:32:59.380 Come here.

01:32:59.940 And there's also Steve, who's also, uh, the, the founder of one heart, co-founder.

01:33:03.940 Hang on just a second.

01:33:04.940 I'm going to take a quick break.

01:33:05.800 I just want to say hi to her real quick.

01:33:07.840 We have to have her in.

01:33:08.680 Um, all right.

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01:34:19.560 We're, uh, we're back with Burgess Owens who, um, uh, brought a young kid.

01:34:24.380 How old is Mac?

01:34:25.480 Mac's 29 now.

01:34:26.460 29.

01:34:27.040 Yeah.

01:34:27.200 Um, and, uh, and he was just telling us a story that when he got out of prison, he met

01:34:32.180 you, Carmen.

01:34:33.400 Uh, and he said, it's really rare that somebody actually cares.

01:34:38.100 And you reached out and said, I'll help you turn your life around.

01:34:41.200 What, what, what do you do?

01:34:43.140 What is this?

01:34:45.140 Um, so it, it has a backstory.

01:34:47.820 I had previously helped, um, my ex-husband and I had helped a guy from the, I have a

01:34:53.680 dream foundation and we put him through, um, a private school and just watched him blossom.

01:35:00.400 He now has a family and a beautiful job and, you know, just a great, we had a great experience

01:35:05.820 with him, but Steve is not like Mac.

01:35:07.940 Mac was very chill on your show.

01:35:10.320 Mac is like Will Smith.

01:35:11.880 Like he's huge, big, big, big.

01:35:14.220 And so he has such a strong personality that when I pulled him in, he kind of pushed me

01:35:22.140 to help all of his friends.

01:35:25.000 So it wasn't just Mac.

01:35:26.520 We helped.

01:35:27.600 When I was working like front lines of one heart project, there was probably 14 people

01:35:32.680 that we were getting jobs, getting them cars, you know.

01:35:36.240 And it, you've seen lasting impact.

01:35:38.700 I have seen absolutely lasting impact.

01:35:41.220 I would trust Mac, um, in any situation, um, and, and his friend, David, who is his best

01:35:47.520 friend, um, who's an MMA fighter now and just they're, they're contributors now to society.

01:35:53.360 Can I add to this?

01:35:54.400 Because, uh, the problem we're having in our juvenile system, there's a 70% residivism rate.

01:35:59.740 70% of those kids go back within months.

01:36:01.680 What one heart has done because of the curriculum and the way they change the way these kids think

01:36:05.700 and people like Mac helping along, they've gotten down to 18%.

01:36:08.940 Uh, this is, this is Baylor universities keeping up status statistics, statistics for, for one

01:36:14.340 heart.

01:36:14.740 So the key is, is not just being busy is having impact where these kids can really change

01:36:19.580 what they think and therefore moving forward and, um, and have an impact on, on others

01:36:23.380 like them.

01:36:23.840 The name of the book is why I stand from freedom, uh, to the killing fields of socialism by Burgess

01:36:31.100 Owens.

01:36:32.160 Burgess, if I get you to stay just one more second, cause I want you to talk about your

01:36:35.960 theory behind, you know, NFL, NFL and, and kneeling.

01:36:39.400 It's, it's quite an, uh, it's, I think you're right.

01:36:43.180 I think you're right.

01:36:44.280 Why I stand available in bookstores everywhere.

01:36:46.840 We're, uh, talking to former, uh, NFL, um, uh, player and, and, uh, Superbowl, uh, champion

01:36:57.920 Burgess Owens, who's with us, uh, by the way, uh, uh, congratulate, uh, uh, Stu on his,

01:37:03.860 uh, Eagles win over the weekend against the Cowboys.

01:37:06.300 It looked really good last night.

01:37:07.700 Oops.

01:37:08.200 Oh no, they didn't.

01:37:08.940 It's been a repeat of every single game this year and it was a pleasure to watch yet another

01:37:13.040 one.

01:37:13.300 So nothing's really changed.

01:37:15.120 She got one though.

01:37:15.860 I, you know what?

01:37:16.520 You got the Superbowl finally.

01:37:17.780 I finally, no thanks to you by the way, but, uh, we'll take it.

01:37:21.100 We'll take it here.

01:37:21.860 So, uh, Burgess is, uh, is the author of a book called, uh, why I stand while we're on

01:37:26.520 the NFL.

01:37:28.000 Uh, tell me what you think is going on with the NFL and the kneeling.

01:37:33.420 Okay.

01:37:34.380 First of all, we have to recognize NFL is not the same as the days we grew up, you know,

01:37:37.900 Al Davis and Pete Roselle, they're globalists and globalists.

01:37:41.680 Uh, basically, uh, do not prioritize our country.

01:37:45.660 They see their profit, their profitability across the world and that they've done purposely

01:37:49.720 last three years.

01:37:50.880 One of the why it's taken three years from this to figure out how to deal with this flag

01:37:54.140 thing.

01:37:54.900 They wanted to mean the, the NFL brand very simply because they have places like China,

01:38:00.240 France, Mexico.

01:38:01.960 Uh, there's over 68 countries that already have a presence in and they're looking at

01:38:06.140 having the Superbowl in London.

01:38:07.180 So at the end of the day, they want to make sure they didn't mean the brand enough.

01:38:11.560 So it's accepted in China and all these other places.

01:38:13.900 They don't really care too much for our country.

01:38:16.000 Uh, it's a global stretch.

01:38:17.560 They don't mind giving up, uh, sacrificing these kids careers.

01:38:20.840 That's what they're doing.

01:38:21.420 These young men are not only sacrificing their careers today, but their brand.

01:38:25.740 When they leave the game, they will not have the same power of, uh, to move forward

01:38:30.120 as, as those days.

01:38:32.500 Colin Kaepernick.

01:38:33.300 Yeah.

01:38:33.900 I mean, he's done pretty well for himself.

01:38:35.820 Well, and he, they'll, they'll do is they, they, uh, the idea of use, abuse, and discard.

01:38:40.400 Uh, he will be discarded eventually when he, they figure out they don't need him anymore.

01:38:44.020 The leftists are very heartless people because it's all about themselves.

01:38:48.040 And so you understand the NFL, uh, what I like to do is I see the NFL do is apologize

01:38:52.760 for the last three years.

01:38:53.760 I think at that point that they're trying to do now is trying to move forward.

01:38:57.100 They just had a big thing with Veterans Day where they're showing how proud they are

01:39:00.440 and you don't see too much of this, um, crisis right now.

01:39:04.540 They've been able to push that down.

01:39:06.060 They want us to forget what they've done the last three years.

01:39:08.600 It's just like the democratic party does the same thing.

01:39:10.860 They, they have been a, a menace to the black community for century and they want to kind

01:39:16.420 of help us forget that they were the bad, the bad piece of this process.

01:39:19.980 So I would love to see the NFL not only apologize, but tell us what they did with the $90 million

01:39:25.820 that they put into this social justice.

01:39:28.340 Where is that now?

01:39:29.780 Um, and how it's being used.

01:39:31.760 And I don't think we'll ever find out how that's all worked out.

01:39:34.660 You know, when you said this, uh, when we were off the air, I was like, that is exact.

01:39:38.960 I can't believe I didn't think of that.

01:39:41.660 People don't understand in America that we are just a market to many of these companies.

01:39:46.500 Now, uh, when it comes to NFL, you know, um, we're a market, you know, we're just one

01:39:52.060 of many and they've maxed out their growth here in America.

01:39:55.540 So now what do we do to get Mexico and other places around the world to accept NFL like,

01:40:02.300 uh, like soccer world cup.

01:40:04.560 Um, and that, that's really what's happening.

01:40:06.820 And I, I'm glad you brought that up.

01:40:09.160 I would have never thought of it.

01:40:10.020 Well, and then we, I mentioned this when we were off air, but, uh, uh, the commissioner

01:40:13.680 just got signed a contract of $40 million per year.

01:40:16.700 Uh, keep in mind only 10% of that, uh, is to four meters guaranteed.

01:40:21.220 The rest of 90% is based on growth.

01:40:23.580 Their growth started, uh, tailing off three years ago.

01:40:26.720 They captored $3 billion United States and they're going South ever since.

01:40:30.140 So they have to get that internationally.

01:40:31.980 You wonder why Nike stepped in or Nike gets all their money in China.

01:40:35.780 That's where their big, big payday is, is, is a very little bit compared, comparatively

01:40:40.100 speaking here in United States.

01:40:41.300 So if they were to put, uh, Colin Kaepernick as the Marxist he is, as their, uh, their,

01:40:48.360 their brand, yeah, the champion is very attractive to the Chinese people.

01:40:53.720 So, uh, have you heard that anywhere too?

01:40:55.800 No, no, really.

01:40:57.140 It's, it's, you have to really have to think through how bad these people are to really

01:41:01.480 get to what they're capable of doing.

01:41:03.300 And I think American people haven't gotten there yet.

01:41:05.440 They don't quite understand how, how devious the leftists really are.

01:41:09.820 Do you, um, I mean, your book is full of stuff like that, but I, I, I want to, um, I want

01:41:16.360 to take you to a more positive place that you say, how long have we known each other?

01:41:22.200 Four years.

01:41:22.980 Yeah.

01:41:23.280 Okay.

01:41:23.660 Yeah.

01:41:24.500 Um, you say just in the last four years, the world has changed in the black community.

01:41:30.600 What do you mean?

01:41:31.480 It is, uh, I am so, so excited about what's happening.

01:41:36.060 Uh, I think the greatest present to our country was president obey Obama because he showed

01:41:42.100 how, how much of a failure liberals and socialists and, uh, and Marxists can be.

01:41:46.980 We have people in the black community that has so much hope, uh, that he's going to be

01:41:50.820 the savior.

01:41:51.820 And when he failed after eight years, they realized, wait a minute, what, what happened

01:41:54.940 here?

01:41:55.200 You never hear about his failures.

01:41:56.640 How do you mean?

01:41:57.240 How do you mean?

01:41:57.920 Well, when you look at, uh, the fact, I'm going to give you just a couple, just so you

01:42:01.360 know what's, how bad things have gotten.

01:42:02.620 75% of the black boys in the state of California cannot pass standard reading, writing tests.

01:42:07.340 83% of black team males for the last, last eight years could not find jobs.

01:42:11.360 70% of black men forsake their families.

01:42:13.940 I mean, go to litany.

01:42:15.000 You go through the increase of welfare.

01:42:17.220 What the leftists do is they understand that misery is how they get their power.

01:42:22.420 So they do everything they can and they lied.

01:42:24.840 They're patching on the back and give you a big, big hug as they're giving you misery.

01:42:28.800 But what's happening is that now that we're where we are, black folks realize

01:42:32.280 my misery didn't go away.

01:42:34.700 So we have a president Trump, of course, doesn't do it politically the way it's supposed to

01:42:39.460 be done, but the results are there.

01:42:41.280 We now have more, uh, less unemployment than ever in the history of our race.

01:42:45.640 We're now talking about education.

01:42:46.920 We're talking about prison reform.

01:42:48.240 This has never been talked about, uh, all the things that now bring hope to people.

01:42:52.300 We're now finding, and we have many young people now, and that's just the older folks

01:42:56.420 who came from the generation.

01:42:57.260 And I did, we saw the success, younger people are getting it and they're leaving.

01:43:01.680 They said, there's a black sit.

01:43:02.680 Now we're leaving, uh, uh, black leave in the democratic party.

01:43:06.440 There's a walk away.

01:43:07.340 That's you really believe that's happening.

01:43:09.460 Well, what's happened to a, to a real significant extent.

01:43:13.180 Here, here are the numbers.

01:43:14.020 We have 16% of black Americans that were for Canada.

01:43:17.520 Trump is now 36% for president Trump.

01:43:20.880 I've never seen that with a Republican or conservative candidate.

01:43:24.860 Well, because blacks are feeling it.

01:43:27.140 When you start to see jobs coming, you start to feel hope is a whole different ball game.

01:43:31.800 And we're just getting started.

01:43:32.920 My goal, very simply is, is two things.

01:43:35.440 It's education and it's, it's ownership and ownership.

01:43:39.180 Basically, it's not just having, uh, entrepreneurs, but it's owning your future, realizing that you

01:43:43.480 can actually make a difference in what you do and be accountable for your actions.

01:43:46.600 We get that message, which is now going to be starting to happen in the black community.

01:43:50.420 And we'll be the, we'll be the community that we were back in the turn of the century,

01:43:54.540 where we're literally the example of what can happen when, when a community got it right.

01:43:59.600 Have you met African-Americans who have read your book and see things like, for instance,

01:44:04.300 just talk about the NAACP and the way it started.

01:44:07.720 NAACP was started back in 19, oh, 1910.

01:44:11.060 It's the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

01:44:13.760 The problem is that it wasn't started by colored people.

01:44:16.740 It was started by 21 white socialists, Marxist, atheists, race-controlled Democrats.

01:44:20.780 And they had a black, uh, socialist, W.E. DeVos, who was a facade.

01:44:25.340 And they did, through stealth, they got into my community and switched that community.

01:44:28.840 At that time, was leading our country and, and, uh, in the growth of the middle class, um,

01:44:34.160 uh, capitalism, patriotism, you name it.

01:44:36.540 It was the most successful, even in the 1960s, it was the most stable family in the country.

01:44:43.600 That's exactly right.

01:44:44.300 I mean, it's, it, the, what happened from slavery up until about 1920, 1930-ish, uh, with the black Americans was amazing what they did.

01:44:56.680 And then it was just dismantled.

01:44:58.400 Well, Glenn, you've talked to your audience, and I've heard you talk about black Wall Street.

01:45:02.160 Yeah.

01:45:02.320 Uh, we talk about, uh, Madam C.J. Walker, who was the first female self-made millionaire in our country.

01:45:07.560 People would say that that was Oprah Winfrey.

01:45:09.680 It happened a century before her.

01:45:11.400 The first black millionaire on Wall Street was in 1840, and he died in 18, 1875 with a wealth of $250 million today's dollars.

01:45:21.880 So there's a success going on.

01:45:23.220 We don't hear about it.

01:45:24.040 That's what the left does.

01:45:25.380 It's called, it's what Karl Marx said, the first battleground is the rewriting of history.

01:45:30.120 You steal our history, you steal away the vision of our future and our pride and our past.

01:45:34.340 And that's what they've done.

01:45:35.340 So we're going to get that back.

01:45:36.480 So when you have people who are African-American who read this, do you have the, and don't know what you do, do you have them come back to you and say, oh my gosh.

01:45:47.460 I've had, I've had some, um, I think though, what I love is that I'm not the only voice out there now.

01:45:54.180 This is what's exciting to me, Glenn.

01:45:56.280 Uh, there might've been a deal 10, 15 years ago that I would have been a big, big deal because this is such a new voice.

01:46:02.600 Right.

01:46:02.840 Like the Shelby, uh, there's a few guys, Walter Williams, a few others.

01:46:08.320 Now I'm just one of many voices out there.

01:46:10.680 And so, so it's nice to see that people are reading.

01:46:13.560 Uh, I think though the key is the venues like this is what we, the people do.

01:46:17.640 It's not just black voices is black and whites together doing things and realizing that color has nothing to do with it.

01:46:24.240 We all have issues.

01:46:25.000 We're all trying to get through this thing called life.

01:46:26.760 And if we give back, no matter what color we are, we all, we all went in the end of the day.

01:46:31.040 I just think you're a, uh, you're a miracle in today's world.

01:46:34.460 And I'm, I'm always pleased to have you here.

01:46:36.480 The name of the book is why I stand from freedom to the killing fields of socialism by Burgess

01:46:42.120 Owens available everywhere.

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01:48:20.660 to us, uh, the blaze.com, uh, we have an issue, uh, today and we're not the only ones.

01:48:27.900 Some of the, uh, major networks are also having the same issue.

01:48:31.700 Uh, the company that it's, I don't want to get all technical, but it encodes all of the

01:48:37.020 information to send it up to the satellites and the internet and everything else.

01:48:40.880 This is all they do.

01:48:42.440 Uh, their building is on fire and, uh, everybody's been evacuated.

01:48:47.840 And so we're having to run everything here, uh, and just hopes that they don't cut the power

01:48:53.400 to that building.

01:48:54.120 And if they do, we won't be the only network off, uh, but, uh, it's incredible what's going

01:48:59.240 on out there.

01:49:00.080 I mean, people can't get to their work.

01:49:02.520 They can't, you know, place it.

01:49:04.240 It's just incredible that this keeps happening.

01:49:06.360 Yeah.

01:49:06.960 Uh, this is up in Connecticut.

01:49:08.480 Yeah.

01:49:09.040 Oh, this is, oh, this is, this is a separate fire.

01:49:11.260 Oh, I just assumed.

01:49:11.900 I did too until I said, well, what are they going to, you know, how are they?

01:49:15.540 And they said, well, they think he can put it out.

01:49:16.960 And I'm like, it's a really giant wall.

01:49:20.140 I mean, they should have done that earlier if they could.

01:49:22.340 Uh, but anyway, so, uh, bear with us.

01:49:25.240 If you're listening to us online or watching the network, um, we, we, we hope that it will

01:49:30.420 be under control.

01:49:31.900 Have you been following the latest on all of the elections?

01:49:35.840 Uh, somewhat it's, it's not looking good.

01:49:39.380 It does seem like Arizona's in big trouble.

01:49:41.400 Um, it looked like, uh, a victory from McSally on an election night, uh, that seems to be going

01:49:46.760 the opposite direction, not decided yet.

01:49:48.360 30,000, I think in the other direction, uh, in Florida, uh, still, uh, Scott would be

01:49:54.140 favored in these races, uh, and DeSantis as well, uh, to hold on, but they're going

01:49:58.180 to go into this recount world and, you know, who knows what happens there.

01:50:01.380 I don't understand what's happening in Broward County.

01:50:02.960 They, they, they're the only ones that can't tell you how many people voted and they had

01:50:07.100 a court order to provide that by Friday.

01:50:09.360 Palm Beach had an issue with it too.

01:50:10.360 Right.

01:50:10.700 Yeah.

01:50:10.880 Uh, you know, and that's again, legally required.

01:50:13.780 People are like, oh, well, uh, we just want all the votes to be counted.

01:50:17.820 That's a nice thing to say.

01:50:19.240 However, what they're requesting is just the legally required information about how many

01:50:23.400 ballots were cast, not whether they should count them or not.

01:50:26.140 That's not even, it's not what the Republicans are saying.

01:50:28.180 Like, Hey, throw out a bunch of votes.

01:50:29.540 We don't want those counted.

01:50:30.600 There's no one requesting that.

01:50:31.560 They're saying you have to live up to your legal requirement to tell us how many people

01:50:35.300 actually voted and the information associated with that.

01:50:37.820 And the reason why they want that is because that way you can't just come up with more

01:50:42.820 ballots.

01:50:43.220 Here's another box of 12,000 ballots, right?

01:50:45.280 You can't do that.

01:50:46.320 How many people voted?

01:50:48.640 That should be a pretty simple number to come up with.

01:50:53.520 Not, not a two week number.

01:50:55.500 They were supposed to provide it at the latest by Friday evening.

01:50:59.500 And these races will be counted.

01:51:01.400 And it's not, it's not completely irregular for these races to be counted for a long time.

01:51:04.940 Arizona, California in particular is well known for a very long process because they, I think

01:51:10.960 the way they have it is your mail-in ballots just need to be postmarked by election day.

01:51:14.400 So they can come in three, four days later.

01:51:16.240 I think it was all the way up to Friday.

01:51:17.560 So a lot of those races are turning.

01:51:19.380 I mean, some races that were called for Republican house candidates are now being uncalled.

01:51:25.400 So if those races are back in, in, in the picture, if this continues to go this way,

01:51:29.680 it could actually turn into a blue wave, I mean, you know, a small blue wave.

01:51:34.540 Yeah.

01:51:35.080 You know, I mean, like I, they could hit between 36 and 40 seats as a positive, uh, for Democrats.

01:51:43.080 Now this would be party had 64, 66 seats, not that size, but of the last 14 midterm elections,

01:51:50.600 this one, and this is when we thought it was low 30.

01:51:53.700 So I haven't looked at it since, but when it was low thirties, it would be, um, more

01:51:57.920 democratic, more change, you know, a bigger wave, if you will, than 10 of the 14 previous

01:52:03.540 midterm elections.

01:52:04.960 Um, you know, so losing 30 seats is not nothing.

01:52:07.440 There was a huge structural advantage for Republicans, thankfully in the Senate, um, which

01:52:12.220 allowed them to, uh, hold where they are.

01:52:14.520 But now look at this, where this stands.

01:52:16.620 Rick Scott is in trouble.

01:52:17.740 I think he's going to win, but it's still in trouble in, in Florida.

01:52:20.400 And God only knows what the recount process looks like Arizona is going to go down.

01:52:23.700 Uh, that leaves you at 51, which is what they have now, right?

01:52:27.780 So there's, they did not increase at all.

01:52:29.420 52 will likely be Mississippi.

01:52:31.880 Uh, that's, you know, very likely in 53, possibly Florida, Arizona would be 54, but the range is

01:52:38.720 now 51 to 54 seats.

01:52:41.280 They already had 51 with a huge structural advantage.

01:52:44.520 If they wind up with 51 or 52 out of this thing, I mean, that is not a huge, it's not a

01:52:49.300 win.

01:52:49.460 They lost governorships.

01:52:51.160 They lost, uh, you know, a lot of state, uh, seats as well.

01:52:55.700 It's not good.

01:52:56.180 It's not good.

01:52:56.580 I mean, now some of the, the good thing for Republicans, I guess, is a lot of the high

01:52:59.840 profile races they did hold on to.

01:53:01.440 Obviously we talked about Beto a lot.

01:53:02.660 We talked about DeSantis, uh, over, uh, uh, what's his face?

01:53:06.780 Uh, I can't think of his name.

01:53:08.280 Gillum in, uh, in Florida and Georgia, the governor race, it looks like they're still, that

01:53:13.040 one's still tight, but it looks like they're going to hold that one.

01:53:15.300 But, but this is not a win.

01:53:16.840 I don't think I think the longer we get into this process, the uglier it actually looks

01:53:20.260 for Republicans.

01:53:21.320 I just want to make sure that it is a legal and fair process.

01:53:26.160 And I, I'm not convinced of that yet.

01:53:28.660 At least in Florida, I'm not convinced.

01:53:33.080 Glenn Beck, Mercury.

01:53:35.460 Mercury.

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The Glenn Beck Program - November 12, 2018

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