The Glenn Beck Program - 6/16/17 - So Many Miracles (Bill 0'Reilly and Mark Batterson Join Glenn)

Episode Date: June 16, 2017

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The Blaze Radio Network On Demand. Hello America, welcome to Friday. We have some good news for you today. Did you hear about the fire in London? The fire in London, they still have a lot of missing people. This is getting to be just a horrible, horrible story in London. There's a story coming out now about the

baby that was thrown from a ninth floor window and survived. We'll give that to you coming up. Also, some really great examples of why you can trust. The future is in good hands. Some great information on millennials coming up in just a second. The collapse of the Seattle gun tax. That's not working out really well. the baseball game that happened yesterday.

I can't believe those Democrats. It was, what was it, 11 to 2? 11 to 2? Isn't there a mercy rule? I mean, couldn't they have made it a little closer so the Republicans didn't feel so bad? We have some news on Congressman Scalise. He is improving.

He is still in critical condition, but he is improving. I truly believe that was Divine Providence that came out on that one. Also the injured Capitol Police Officer David Bailey. He was the guy who threw the first pitch out yesterday. They made a lot of money on that. And a story on trade that doesn't sound so sexy, but you need to hear it. Coming up, we begin right now.

and enlightenment. This is The Glen. Hello America. Welcome to the program. It is Father's Day weekend. Have you planned on doing something great for your father? I know that fathers can eat free at Hooters on Sunday. Is that true?

Yes, it is. That's awesome. Really? You bring your dad to Hooters, and I think they get a free meal or, you know, free breast or whatever it is at Hooters. So, yeah. Yeah. And I know that's where all my daughters want to take me for Father's Day is the Hooters.

What a place. What a place to celebrate Father's Day. Anyway, you know, you might end up having more children, I'm just saying. That's true. See, you can expand your fatherhood. Exactly right. You know, you go home and you're like, that food put me in the mood, I'm just saying. Nothing like fried chicken wings to get you in the mood.

mood. Honey, congratulations we're having another kid. It's not yours. You don't have to go through that whole process. Isn't that amazing? I didn't think of it that way. I was, uh, you are sick. Wow. You are sick. Sick. Yeah. Okay, let's, uh, let's start. First of all, anybody watched the game last night? I did watch some of it. Yeah. Just because I want, I, well, first of all, I wanted to see if, if our congressman can play baseball at all. Apparently, you know, apparently. Answer to that is no. Apparently, they can't do that either. They can't do that either. How do you? How is it possible? There was a game. How is that possible? What are you like the Democrats or some sort of

well they're yeah they're you know they're Mambi Pambi they're like you know their participation trophy people those are the liberals. Well I know that I know the participation who grew up whining about everything I know the participation trophy thing

that's why I said there should have been a mercy rule last night 11 to 2 especially after tragedy that happened, you would think they would have invoked the mercy rule a little bit. But I don't understand that liberals have to have their differently abled in sports?

Yes, of course. Well, I mean, because they've been baited their whole lives. See, I understand if you want to say that they're not good at baseball because that's the American pastime and it's just too far to American and they should have been good at, I don't know, that broom

sweeping rock thing that Canadians do. curling, you know, maybe. I was thinking, you know, because there used to be the stereotype that all the Republicans were all old white people, but is there a Democrat in Congress less than 107 years old right now? I mean, is that even, is there one that exists? I, you'd think the Republicans would be able to win. Age doesn't matter. Age does.

Apparently not last night. Well, I don't. 11 to 2. Perhaps my perception is incorrect. But I was reading a story. Perhaps almost everything we've said so far in the show has been pretty incorrect, except the score of the game. Yeah, I was reading a story about this game, which goes back to 1909, I believe. They've been playing it since 1909. That is a fabulous story, especially the

way you're telling it. Yeah, okay. Well, I'm going to talk to Pat now because he's actually a person who might be interested in. So it's Friday. It's been a long week. Tell me, though, Pat, Jeffie, this is not interesting, to you, a man who might have watched sports in your life. I'm on my way to Hooters. The Republicans actually lost the game to the Democrats. that was pitched by Republican Jim Bunning. Oh my gosh. How on earth do you have Jim Bunning? Seriously, Jim Bunning was pitching?

Yeah. And they lost like 15 to 13. How old is Jim Bunning now? He can be that old. I think he's passed away now. Oh, they lost to... This is in the 80s. In the 80s.

But Jim Bunning in the 80s? He was going to say Jim Bunning must be 80s. Yeah, he's older. In fact, I think he just recently passed away, didn't he? But still, in the 80s? So they lost? Bunning in the 80s and they lost? That's bizarre.

That is incredible. Jim Bunning was a professional. Yeah. I got it. Let's bring Glenn back into the conversation. Jim Bunning good, dude. No. Bunning good.

Look, I have Fourth of July bunning on the front of my house all the time. So. What? What are you even saying? That's not the guy who's come up with the bunning stuff that you put on the front of. one of your... Wow. Anyway.

What are the film? How did you get a job in this industry? I don't... I don't... Because we don't talk sports. Okay, that's good. Yeah. That's a good tip.

By the way, Jim Bunny, we lost him very recently, May 26 of this year. Oh, wow. And I thought it was recent. I didn't realize it was that recent. By the way, when he said, I'm going to include glens.

When he looked for... He's dead, isn't he? He looked at me. He looked at me. He didn't look at you, clowns. He looked at me. Okay. Let's see.

So that happened last night. As Russia claims that it killed Abu Bakhtar al-Baghdadi. These, the chief guy, the Madi, that, of course, the Madi can't be killed. Remember that? The Madi can't be killed. Remember what happened in the 1870s or 1880s? Oh, I'll cut you guys out because you're just a sports figure. I would rather be a sports guy.

than a 12th a mom guy. Really? How don't we keep losing? So back in the 1870s or 1880s, a guy claimed that he was the 12th of mom. He was the Madi. Well, the Madi can't be killed. And so if you're the guy to hasten the return of the promised one, you're not going to get killed. And so what did the foes of the Madi do?

sent one guy in. He was sweeping all of Africa. And he had taken, he started in someplace in eastern Africa and he had swept the entire northern half of Africa and was building this gigantic army. And the reason why is because they were like, he is, he's invincible. His foes sent one guy into his camp at night. He snuck into the bedroom, stabbed him to death over. The caliphate was over. I don't think it'll work this time, but al-Baghdadi is apparently, according to the AP, the Russians are claiming that they killed him, and do we need a history lesson on that the Russians don't always tell the truth? Sure, but before that, we should give you one.

Would you like one? No, let's talk to Pat again. No, it's important to know this report and how reliable it is. As you point out, it's a real report. It's not like one of these things on the internet. It's not a fake news report. Russia is legitimately claiming that they may have killed the guy. But again, Russia is, it's Russia. So we're taking their word for it.

Please tell the Verona paper story, please. Secondly, just one more edition. And then we're all Verona papers. They're also saying they may have killed him. So even they are saying they're not sure they've killed them. So there's a lot of uncertainty on this. But if it's one of those big if true type of stories, because this is the head of ISIS. It's the, it could be, you know, I mean, this is the caliphate.

This is all of this lining up. And if he actually is dead, it's a very positive development. Now, I was wondering about the Verona paper. Do you have any intro? No, I am not your toy monkey. I'm not going to perform for you, Mr. Organ grinder. Could we just spend a second on Skittles? The ADD is in effect today, isn't it?

It is, wow, it is turned up to maximum volume. I'm just saying, we have a lot to cover. Skittles is in trouble today. What? Because it is Pride Month. Pride month. And so the Skittles Marketing Department had the idea that we should celebrate Pride Month. Now, why would Skittles, Stu, be perfect for celebrating Pride Month?

Because it is rainbow-colored. It is rainbow-colored. color. What does it taste the rainbow? Yes. Yes. Yes. And so it's a little more graphic when we start getting into it. So for some reason, now listen,

you're in the marketing meeting, you're working at Skittles. It's Pride Month. And you say, we're the perfect people to represent Pride Month. And everybody, so far, everybody at the table's like, you know, that's a pretty good idea.

When the guy then announces his idea, Tell me that you're in that room and you don't say, I don't think you know how this works. His idea for Skittles is this month, let's make all of our Skittles for the Pride Month, marked Pride Month. Let's make them all white.

What? Do you not say, I don't think you understand how this. Exactly right. Okay. Taste the ring. Let's make them all white. What? Then someone else should have followed that with,

are we talking about white pride? That's a good follow. That's a good follow up. Yeah. All right. Then I believe everyone in the boardroom says, no, we're not doing that. Skittles went ahead and did that.

And they made all of them white. They made an all-white candy, which has now been labeled racist and a symbol of white supremacy. I am learning the, I am alerting the, I'm alerting the, I'm alerting the Mercury One Museum to go out and buy a box of white skittles. Seriously. That's that. That's cool. That's funny. That's funny.

I mean, how stupid can you be? Like you said, if you're sitting around the marketing. meeting. How does someone in that meeting not say, it's maybe not the best time? Maybe this is like a new Coke type of idea. Yeah, I mean, it might have been that the guy who was, he's finally struggled, he's got back on his feet. He was like, I think everybody's forgotten that idea of mine of new Coke. Hey, Skittles, it's so great to be back in the game. I've got this idea. Wait a minute, though, because like, let's look at some of these other PR disasters from these companies.

Kendall Jenner is going, hey, there's a lot of, there's a consternation between the police and protesters. What if Pepsi brings people together, you know, let's put Kendall Jenner in there and let's make it happen. At least you can follow the thought process that they're, what they're trying to do? Yes. What is the thought process

of taking a rainbow-colored candy that during gay pride month and then changing it from the symbol of gay pride to white pride? What is the That would be like if the White House was always lit in rainbow colors. Yeah.

And then the day the Supreme Court passed the marriage thing, we're going to celebrate all white lights on the White House. That's such a weird thing. It's bizarre. Do you know what their thought process was? What were they trying to do? I always find this to be interesting. Celebrate white.

I'm sorry. Celebrate. Pride. But that's not, it has nothing to do with, right? Like, you wouldn't turn them all white. Yeah, because, okay, all right. Because I have a rational? I have a, no, rational? No, okay. I have a way that maybe those in mental institutions might have arrived at this. Okay, okay. Okay. What is the absence of all color? Okay. White? No, black. Black. Black. Oh, yeah, sorry. What is the mixing of all colors?

White? Black? No. Why? So, I mean, it takes, okay, it takes a, obviously a really smart mental institution, or at least one that understands a prism. I do enough coloring books these days. I should really know this.

Yes, you should. Or if you've ever looked at a prism, you would know this. But the rainbow comes from white, light and then the rainbow in prism breaks that up into the spectrum. So white is all colors combined. Black is the absence of all color. Okay. Okay.

I don't think anybody at that table thought that because you have to, that's a justification of cognitive dissonance. That's just like, I made a really bad move. How do we cover this? Right. Oh, white is all colors mixed into one. Nobody thought that. I cannot do the math and get to this decision from Skittles.

Let me try one other potential possibility. They said, what if we remove, like, we're colorblind, right? So, like, everything's the same. We're all the same. And inside, we're all different. Right? So, like, a lime skittal might look the same as a cherry skittal or whatever other flavor they have.

However, we're all the same. We're all the same. Maybe it was that type of thing? But that's not what pride would be. That's not standing up for... Who is saying, hey, let's just all now fold back into each other and be cool? Nobody's saying that. This was one of the worst decisions in marketing I've ever seen. Okay.

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This is the Glenn Beck program. So you know it's funny. The Skittles are still on the market. We have an update on what their plan was. And it's on the back of the package. And what's it saying? Basically, the reason they got rid of the rainbow is because they wanted to say the gay pride rainbow is the only rainbow that matters. That needs to take center stage.

That needs to take center stage, not our stupid. So here's what's crazy is I'd like to remind everybody. It's a stupid candy that you eat. I disagree calling it stupid. Okay. So, but I mean, and here's, if you are on the left and you're a fan of the gay, the gay pride flag and the rainbow, okay, so here's this company trying to do something in support of you. They're trying to say, they're taking their own rainbow and saying,

our rainbow doesn't count. This is the only rainbow that does count. And they're being eaten. Well, this is a bad analogy for a candy. They're being eaten. They're being persecuted and yelled at and called names and being called intolerance and racist and bigots because they tried to do something nice. Yeah, it should be really like, guys, that was a little bit of a stupid mistake, but we appreciate the effort. Exactly right.

That's the tone that should come back to them. And that, quite honestly, and for everybody else, it should be. This is great. It's a candy. Can it be, I love the fact that they're getting heat for such a stupid gesture. Can it be that one? Because that's the one I want. That's the one I want.

I think it can be. I think it can be. Sure, sure. Because that's where I'm living right now. Back in a minute with something unusual from Ted Nugent. This is the Glenn Beck program. Mercury. The Glenn Beck Program.

I want to start. I want to start with something that happened yesterday with Ted Nugent. Can we play the audio of Ted Nugent? And what he said. Now, remember, Ted has always been a very outspoken guy. Listen to this comment. I tend to agree you and I had a bit of a confrontation because of some of the language I've used. And I have reevaluated my approach, even though I'm a street fighter.

I'm from Detroit. We use language in the street. We use certain harsh terms, but at the tender age of 69, my wife has convinced me that I just can't use those harsh terms. I cannot, and I will not, and I encourage even my friends slash enemy on the left in the Democrat and liberal world that we have got to be civil to each other, that the whole world is watching America, where you have the God-given right to light. liberty in the pursuit of happiness, and we have got to be more respectful to the other side. But I have to clarify, we really are angry. We don't believe. We cannot believe that people on the left don't want secure borders. This is crazy to us. We're going to get into this a little later next, at top of next hour, but that is remarkable coming from Ted Nugent, because we've had these

conversations before. And Ted has a different tactic. And I think that is absolutely remarkable. And you hear it in his voice. That doesn't mean surrender. He's still going to fight. He's just saying, I've got to find a new tactic because this isn't working. Welcome to David Barton from Wall Builders. Hey guys. How you doing, David? Good, man. Really good. You've been in every day for the last couple of weeks, you're going to be here all summer because of Mercury 1 and the leadership program that we're doing.

I love the fact that we have changed the name of an internship program because that denotes going to get coffee. And this is more of an leadership training. This is leadership training. Yeah, that's right. And last night, if you have not watched one of my shows in a while

on the Blaze TV, watch last night's episode. we had about, I don't know, 40 or 50 of these leadership groups. The nine or 10 of them were from MRA and the Blaze, Mercury Radio Arts in the Blaze, and the rest of them had spent two weeks with you. And our interns had been working around the building and doing, I don't want to say what regular interns do because they don't. We don't send our interns to get coffee.

And they talked about how the difference between this internship and others is we trust them. We give them hands on. We say, take the bull by the horns. Here, here's a camera. Show us what you can do. But that's kind of where that stopped. And I was on the phone with Ashley Roberts today. She's in HR for the Blaze.

And she said, we have to talk today because did you see? see the difference two weeks makes with the leadership training from David Barton and Mercury 1. It was remarkable, David. Yeah, it really was. And it's a fun thing for us because, I mean, last night, this is kind of almost pre-graduation. This is two weeks. It's over.

Tonight is the day. Today's the day. This is when they get their certificates. And watching them last night was just really, anybody wants to be optimistic over the future of America. That's the program to watch because these are our future. leaders coming out. It was, I want to do a show. Next week we have another group coming in. Not next week. We've got a week off. Okay. So the week after next, I want to do a show

where the leadership kids are coming in on day one and then do one at the end two weeks later. Because I know what, I didn't meet these kids because I was away. So I didn't meet them on day one. But I heard on day one, they didn't, you know, a lot of them didn't know about the history of the country. They didn't know necessarily all of them about, you know, the influence of God, et cetera, et cetera. They were a little, I'm not sure what's true, what's not. Last night on the TV show, you watched these millennials, and they were defenders of absolute truth. It was amazing. And that's, excuse me, that's where we started with absolute truth, because right now, four out of five millennials believe there is no absolute truth.

Listen to that stat again. Pat, listen to this. Four out of five millennials believe there is no absolute truth. Two out of three Americans believe there's no absolute truth. Now, how do you govern a nation? How do you create a culture? How do you do something? Four out of five believe there's no absolute truth.

And it's amazing. We quiz them over, and I don't mean we. I mean, Barn and others quiz them over specifics. And things that we would think are no. Of course, everybody thinks that's wrong. No? No. Four out of five don't.

And it really is amazing. The other thing that gets us is in it. How do you define absolute truth, David? Well, absolute truth is, let me take it to a historical direction, because a lot of what we do is based on history. We're going to make them defenders of God, faith, morality. We're going to make them defenders of American exceptionalism, of the free market economic system, of American history, what happened. And that's based on absolute facts. There are absolute facts, and there are consequences.

Part of the problem with truth is we think there's no consequence. And we do anything we want, and it's going to work out the way we want. It doesn't work that way. That's the way 84% of the kids who voted in the primaries presidentially back in Iowa voted for social. And it said, we love socialists, best former government. Show me one place in history it's ever worked. Well, we don't know about history. That was the amazing thing.

These kids did not, and some of them, one of them was an English teacher. He's 25 years old. He's going back for, I think, his doctorate or his master's. And he is an English teacher. Yesterday, before he went on the air, we gave all of the leadership kids an eighth grade test to pass eighth grade. Eighth grade from 1920s.

No, 1920. An eighth grade test from 1920. He said, I didn't, he said there were three questions in there that I didn't, on English, on his subject, that he's going back for his master's on, he said, there are three questions I didn't even know, I didn't even know what it meant.

He said, I couldn't pass the eighth grade test from a hundred years ago. Nobody did. Nobody got close to it. And just that opened their eyes. They were talking yesterday about how the things they're being taught Lincoln was gay, George Washington was a coward.

Founding fathers are raging alcoholics. Raging alcoholics. America's done more bad than she's ever done good. The stuff that comes out of the classroom, amazing. And the best response from last night was what Mercury One and Wall Builders have taught us in these two weeks is to know how to think, not what to think. to know how to find the truth. All of them were excited that they now knew original sources exist. Here's how I can access the original sources.

I was really impressed with the idea that one of them said, I think our generation wants to know the truth. They just don't know it exists. They just think that everything is this case. And everything is because no one's teaching. Wait a minute, wait a minute. Here's the truth. And the way I define truth is the baseline of absolute truth is what has been proven over 5,000 years to work?

When you deviate from this truth, what happens to your society, what happens to your family, what happens to the individual? to me, I'll never know the truth. I'll have an ever-expanding understanding of the truth, and I don't think until I die I'll ever know the truth as it really is. But there are things that you can look back to and say, look at the pattern. This creates this, that creates that. That leads to the second thing,

because the first thing we start with is truth. What is it? How do you recognize it? How do you identify it? How do you know it? How do you defend it? And you just said it's 5,000 years that accumulated stuff. That's history.

Let me give you the other staff that stands out, and this is why we do what we do. This year, the study came out from American Council of Trustees and Alumni. Every year they take the top elite, what's called the elite universities, U.S. News World Report. They look at something about all those universities. What are we teaching? This year, they said, let's look at history majors in the top 76 universities in America. Listen to this. Top 76 universities in America.

only 23 of those universities require history majors to take even one course in American history. And at 12 of those 23 universities, here's the American history course you take. History of Sexualities, History of the FBI, you take soccer in history in Latin America, making a beautiful game, modern addiction, cigarette smoking in 20th century,

lawn boy meets valley girl, witchcraft and possession, madman. That's the American history course you get for a history major. So only 11. We had a history teacher yesterday. Talk about this. I took history and wasn't required to take,

listen to this, wasn't required to take an American history class all the way through college since eighth grade. She came and spent two weeks with us and was like, oh my gosh, what is wrong?

This is a history teacher. What is wrong with our system. What is happening to us? Well, see, even your starting hour yesterday, you're talking about how you've learned all about the Nazi stuff from the journals. That's history. And this morning you're talking about, you know, the history of Russia. You're talking about the caliphate. That's history. If you don't know that, you have no basis for knowing what truth is, and truth can be anything you want it to be. And so history is one of the things that establish and defines truth. And we

don't get it now. I mean, there's just not history being presented, which is why what we do is We go through the history of civil rights and history of faith and religion, the history of the civil war and the history of everything. You get exposed to some of that. I thought it was really interesting. One of the kids said on TV last night, and I say kids, they're 18 to 25, so I don't mean to say kids. But these guys were sitting there.

One of them said, you know, when you announced this, I immediately went to see, is anybody writing anything about this? What are people saying about this? And they said, they found an article that said, you know, you can go to Glenn Beck and David Barton's indoctrination class where they will indoctrinate you on revisionist history. And he said, that actually made me want to go more. He said, because I know. He said, we're not stupid. We all know that's what's happening in our colleges.

We're not being told the truth. We just don't know what it is or how to find it. But once you know, they're good at defending it. Yeah. David, thank you so much for everything that you're doing, and we have another course starting in two weeks. It's all full this summer, right? There's still some slots. We still have some slots, so if people want to go to Mercury 1 slash interns,

even though it's leadership training, mercury1.org.org. We're still taking names. Okay. And that'll be for later this summer. And there is a cost of, I think it's like $300. $300.000. $3.75, and then they have to arrange their own lodging while they're here.

We got a lot of hotels around we deal deals with. Okay, so, but we would love to have you join us. You have to be 18 to 25 years old. And there is a, you know, there are standards that you have to hit to be able to get in. They're remarkable. Please watch it last night. And if you want to make a difference, if you want to help us make a difference in the next generation, these kids that I spoke to last night on TV and I'm going to go spend.

the afternoon with today before they leave. These kids, I have zeroed out in my mind that they are going to help turn things around in a very positive way in their communities. Please help us. Go to mercury1.org and donate because all of this runs because of your donations.

Mercury1.org and hit the donate. And they all need to stay away from Jeffie. so they're smart kids. Really bright. All right. Thank you, David. I appreciate it. David Barton from Mercury1.org and Wall Builders.

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And second, can't we do something about sleep? Let's add an extra eight hours between 2 and 3 a.m. Or can we not make it a third of our life in bed? Anyway, really sleep at all is really ridiculous when you think about it. Why wouldn't it be... Why robots are better? Robots are better. Robots are better.

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We get to him right now. Enlightenment. This is the Glenn Beck program. All right. Bill O'Reilly from Bill O'Reilly.com and his latest book, Legends and Lies, The Civil War. Father's Day is Sunday. I know Bill's going to say,

if you order it right at any night to die. And I have a chance to have it there by time for Father's Day on Sunday. But I'll let him say it. It's Legends and Lies, The Civil War and Bill O'Reilly. Welcome to the program, sir. I have to make one correction off the top. The reason the dog interrupted the program was because she was offended by Ubeck. And then she ran around in circles howling looking at me.

Can I tell you, we had a dog whisperer. call in after, and what Holly was actually saying was, help, help, I'm trapped in this old man's house. He's got the heat up to 95 degrees. And that dog whisper, his name is, please? Bob Stephen. Bob, Bob, yes. Anyway, so, Bill, a lot has happened since Tuesday. Where do you want to begin? The shooters? The shooter?

There are two big stories running a political shooting in Alexandria's crossover, other than President Trump is commenting on both. That's the only one of the story between the two stories. So if you want to start with a nut from Illinois, who goes out and, you know, wants to kill Republicans, that's always going to be the case. You're always going to people like that. I don't believe that it's directly. linked to progressive politics.

I think it's a guy who's just unhinged, watches too much cable TV. The fuse is lit there, and then he acts out. Bill, how come so many on the right are willing to say that and say, especially on a week where within a two-week period, had Kathy Griffin holding a severed head. We had Shakespeare in the park showing an assassination of Trump. We have politicians from the left celebrating or excusing the Antifa movement. How come we're so willing to admit the truth that there are those who are revolutionaries

that are on both sides of the aisle, on the fringes, the very edges, that want a revolution. However, what happened in Central Park was not a cause of this or play any role in this guy's thinking. Yet the left will say Sarah Palin, still, the New York Times,

Sarah Palin, you know, was responsible for the shooting in Arizona five years ago. I mean, it was an effect of this guy in Illinois. I think that that, who was mentally ill doesn't excuse the evil, and if he had lived, he should have been, and in Virginia probably would have been executed. But you have a line that is clear to most Americans, very clear that's been crossed, right, with Trump. And I've said this to you, you know, way back when you were on TV with me, hard for me to cover the Trump administration

because the hatred directed toward him influences almost everything he does. And the hatred is so wrong, morally wrong. I mean, the thing you cite in the New York Times, that's inexcusable. It's inexcusable, but it's just an example of how not the fringe, Kathy Griffins, Madonna, all of these nuts, all right? But this is an establishment newspaper that's looked up to by the network news in particular that runs this on the editorial page. Do you give them any credit for correcting it by eight o'clock yesterday?

They're under such unbelievable strain. And this isn't the first time these people have done this. I mean, they are not a newspaper anymore. That's not a newspaper. That's a far-left progressive journal that actually coordinates its coverage with far-left groups. They had on the editorial page, right next to that one, they had on the editorial page

a great editorial, from the conservative point of view, saying none of that is true. Brett Stevens, yeah. Yeah. None of what is true? None of the, basically my opinion, in your opinion on this, that this guy was not politically motivated.

The rhetoric has nothing to do with it. So, they did have the other point of view right next to it. Yeah, credit for that. Evens from the Wall Street Journal to be a token, but their paper is top to bottom, editorializing even in the hard news pieces,

that Trump is unfit and that Trump is this, and he's a criminal or whatever. But back to the guy in Illinois. I know a lot about this because of killing Kennedy and killing Reagan. We had Oswald and Hinkley involved. And they were not political people at all. Oswald, yeah, he went to Russia and all that, but he was just a near-do-well who was looking for attention. Hinkley, just a really disturbed individual.

On that level of being disturbed, it's lit by the hateful rhetoric on television primarily. We know that by his Facebook posts and what he had said before. And he was a big fan of Russia today as well. He Facebooked and tweeted out a lot of Russian propaganda as well that was basically all anti-Hillary. Let me ask you this, Bill. Because you have done so many killing books, I mean, you've killed almost everybody on the planet. You have studied assassinations and these kinds of events. So let me ask you, from what you've seen in history, this guy had a violent streak in him.

I mean, his foster daughter set herself on fire to be able, literally, doused herself with gasoline, set herself on fire to be able to get away from this guy. He was a violent man, had gunplay and violence in his criminal history, so he didn't really need very much to light a fuse. However, at the same time, I don't believe that he was a Bernie Sanders,

a typical Bernie Sanders follower. He was one of these die-hard revolutionary guys. I mean, I would compare him to almost an antifa kind of mentality to where you want that revolution, you want that dramatic change. Where do we split him on crazy, violent guy and a violent revolutionary? thing. I just think if you sat down with this guy, you know, a week ago before he did this and you talked to him, you'd leave the table within 15 minutes going, this is a real nut. He'd be all over the place. You know, I mean, he's not like a well-thought-out, Jake or a guy. But aren't any,

you know, because you've done, wait, wait, wait, wait, Bill, but you know because you've done so many books, and I mean this sincerely, on assassination, those guys are usually always nuts. I mean, the revolutionaries are always nuts. Well, well, when you have a revolutionary, and the best example is the Cubans because that was the last one. That was close to us. These guys, you know, Castro and Guvara

and all of these guys, I mean, yeah, they were psychopaths. No, no, I mean revolutionary assassins. Okay, but they were a revolutionary assassins. They did instituting a government there. That was going to be communist. But they weren't like this guy, all right? They were, you know, justifying their murder in their mind

because they want to impose communism, and that's what it takes. This guy just wanted to hurt people. I believe tens of thousands of this guys running around. So how do you make the difference there? Because he did want to hurt people, but he wanted to hurt Republicans in particular. But I can tell you this. The ramp up in political violence is directly because of the incendiary rhetoric that you see on the Internet and in some quarters on radio as well. All right.

So now these nuts where they used to be isolated, Hinkley and Oswald were isolated individuals. All right, they didn't have a framework. They didn't have many friends. They didn't. Now you can go on the Internet and you can find literally. hundreds of people as crazy as you are who actually encouraged this kind of violence. That never happened before. And so when John Wilkes Booth, another nut was stalking Lincoln because he wanted slavery reimposed,

okay? It was alone. He was alone. Now these people are encouraged to do what they do. And it's easy to find compatriots who are as crazy as they are. They are. That's the difference. Okay, very good point. Back with Bill O'Reilly from Bill O'Reilly.com.

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And that Bill just made kind of a similar one. Yeah. In that you can sort of directly tie this to the rhetoric because these nuts, who were alone, like in the case of Oswald, didn't know other like-minded people, but now on the internet you have the opportunity to find. And not only the opportunity, you have, like in the broken windows theory,

you're walking down a street where there are no broken windows. The average person doesn't pick up a rock and break a window, but you're walking through a neighborhood that's full of broken windows. The average person is much more likely to do it because they feel like everybody's doing it. And the rhetoric on both sides is giving permission to some of these nuts of saying it's okay to pick up a rock. It's okay to pick up a gun because the other side is worthless.

and they are a danger, they're evil, et cetera, et cetera. Bill O'Reilly is with us, breathing heavily on the phone for some reason. I don't know if he's just because he got up from his chair and walked over over to the phone, and so now he's out of breath because that's the exercise. Your analysis is so perspicacious. Breath of it just got caught in my throat. Yeah, I think that's a little bit of bull crap getting caught in your. throat there are no but I mean it is just stunning I hope you just take that clip

and just play it over and over and over and over perhaps during the gold so so let me so anyway so Bill let me ask you this no I want to make a point on your point God go ahead I did on the podcast on Tuesday on bill O'Reilly dot com a thing on the resistance this is important yes okay is and Hillary Clinton is one of the first person's to sign on to it yep is basically a movement that says whatever Trump does, we're going to oppose. So if he gives free food to every poor person for five years, we'll oppose it because it's making them fat, or something like that. Okay. Resistance is tied into, as you guys know,

countries that the Germans occupied, there was a, that word is not an accident, not an accident. Okay. So they set up resistance. You can pretty much. do and say, okay, with each other on the net. All right? So you can be as hateful as you want, as violent as you want, as irrational as you want. Resist you don't lose your resistance. The nut who thought she was going to be a making aspect. In an MSNBC or whatever day we're watching them.

So they're making money from it. And Fox News has no answer. You know, they have no answer. So that's why they're declining. And the others are going up. So this is a really, really important part of the political scene in our country that no one's talking about. So what is the answer, Bill, to that? You have to out it.

You have to what? Just as I did, and you have to, you know, on the hills like yours. Yeah. You have to discuss it. Right. But how do you discuss, how do you dis- They hear this resistance, they hear, but they don't know what it is. They don't know what the subtlety is and what the truth.

trying to get across that Trump's a Nazi. Okay, that's what they're trying to do to demonize him to the point where anything is acceptable in opposing him, any action. You know, look, this guy, and everybody's made this point, but I think it's worth restating. In Illinois, he could have killed 20, 30 people, if not for the protection that Congress Gilles had. He could have gunned down 20 or 30, and he was perfectly willing to do that. So, you know, this is domestic terrorism at its highest.

Yes, I agree with that. I want to start there when we come back and add in the latest from Ted Nugent and get Bill O'Reilly's thoughts on that. Bill O'Reilly.com back in a minute. Welcome back to the program, 88727BECK. We're on with Bill O'Reilly, and I want to talk a little bit about what Ted Nugent said. yesterday. Listen to this audio from Ted Nugent. I think we've, I tend to agree you and I had a bit of a confrontation because of some of the language I've used. And I have reevaluated my approach, even though I'm a street fighter.

I'm from Detroit. We use language in the street. We use certain harsh terms. But at the tender age of 69, my wife has convinced me that I just can't use those harsh terms. I can't not and I will not and I encourage even my friends slash enemy on the left in the Democrat and liberal world that we have got to be civil to each other. Bill O'Reilly, that's the Motor City madman and a guy who I really like personally, I think he's great, but he has said some crazy things in the last couple of years. And I think that I've heard, I haven't talked to Ted about this, but I have heard that he has had a problem with me because I have taken such a light approach and said, we've got to change our language. We have to stop this rhetoric.

Now he's saying this. What does that tell you, Bill? Well, I think you've got to give credit to New Jersey. I don't know him well. I met him a couple times, and he's, you know, in person. Yeah. And, you know, the message that he's putting out is a good one, but it's not going to, you know, it's not going to take root on a mass level

because you have too much money involved in this. It's just an awful lot of money involved in his hatred. You know, I can't get into it too much, but I will, maybe in a, we can't even give you a time frame on it. But, you know, the attack on me in Fox News that happened in April was not an accident. It was a very well-organized and funded situation. Yes. And when you have this kind of a thing involved,

and you know me, I'm not a conspiratorialist or a paranoid guy or anything like that. No, you're not. And I was taken, but then as we've been investigating, we being my attorneys, and it is stunning about how people, well-funded people. You know, Hillary Clinton was a victim of that to some extent as well. So hang on, Bill, because I want to talk about that. that, and I'm not going to get into any of the details, but I want to talk about that, because this is where the rubber meets the road.

I believe that Martin Luther King was right. Malcolm X was wrong, and I know you believe that as well. And Martin Luther King was excoriated at the beginning, and mainly by people like Malcolm X, who said, you know, you just want to roll over, and he's like, no, that doesn't mean you don't speak the truth. you do say the hard things. You just say them with faith, hope, and love, and you make that your core.

We're not after revenge. So when you, when, if Martin Luther King was right, which again, I'm assuming you believe he was, and then you say things like what you just said, which I also believe is true, what people will say, and this is, I think, a large core of those on the right and the left, they will say, we'll see it's war. They're out to destroy us, it's war. How do we balance the truth and the Martin Luther King approach? Well, it is war. I mean, that's true. There's no doubt there's a culture war in this country,

and now it's extended to politics and electoral politics. So the war is underway. But because we're a country of laws, you can't fight the war with violence and weapons and things like that. So what they're fighting it with is propaganda, number one. And, you know, I always say the same thing to people. And the mandate of a free press given privileges by the founding fathers in our Constitution is to seek the truth, to seek the truth, wherever it is. that's gone. Okay? It's gone in America. Very few truth seekers. And those who do that are going to be target number one for the propagandists and the people who are engaged in the culture war. But the best to fight the war is by exposure and by accumulating facts. Let me give you a really good example. Okay. CNN. CNN has been very unwelfully awful. They have not prospered like MSNN. NBC has. Even though they've tried to get the same niche audience, they won't watch CNN because CNN isn't quite as hateful as the extremists over at MSNBC.

So even though we hide CNN, all right, they're not prospering. They've been neutralized. The truth, let me give you the biggest fact that I want your audience to take away today. We hear every single day, hour upon hour, about the Mueller investigation and all these leaks coming out. Ooh, Donald Trump's under criminal investigation. Anybody in the United States who gets audited by the IRS is under criminal investigation. Yes. Because if you cheated, you could go to jail. I saw that. My head popped up.

I went, what? Just by the very nature of a special prosecutor, he's going to investigate. Correct. That's not a big story. Correct. He's going to talk to people about allegations. That's what his mandate is. Correct.

But they make it like every allegation is a crime. The way to fight that, I'm trying to do, and I think you're trying to do it as well. Okay, so expose them on what, other than the truth that you just said, a criminal investigation. That was a foregone conclusion. Right. And it's a fraud for news organizations. Well, wait, wait, wait, wait. Under criminal investigation, that's a fraud.

But wait, did you not see the Twitter feed of the president today? Which one? He had a bunch of them. The witch hunt won? He did say he was under investigation today. Yeah, where he said, you know, he's announcing that I'm under investigation, this is a witch hunt. He's just played into that. Yes, I know.

But come on. I mean, this is what he does, and here's the reason he does it. He can't excuse it. Because he wants to whip up his base to a point of indignation. But what is the difference between that and what MSNBC is doing? Because he's defending him. That's the difference. But they're in their mind.

But wait, wait, wait, wait. But in their mind, they're defending their mind. They're defending their principles and their country as they see it. But you don't defend by perpetuating a fraud. Wait, but that's what he was, but that's what he did today. No, he didn't. All he said was, in his, he's entitled to do that. And the second thing is, he said that's true or not.

You would assume it would be if he's trying to defend himself and get his allies to defend him as well. So it's not a fate of compil that he's a criminal because that's what the New York Times and MSNBC are putting out there, that he's a criminal. That's what they're putting out. Billy, and your problem here is that they are essentially treating the investigation as if it's already arrived at a conclusion. Well, the allegation, that's the headline on CNN and MSNBC. An indictment, for instance, is not a conviction. But, I mean, it's the president. And here's the thing.

Mueller can't even indict him. Mueller can't indict Trump. All right. Under the Constitution, all Mueller can do is refer any kind of activity that, he feels is illegal to Congress. Right. And Congress has to take action. Right. But Mueller can indict Flynn or anybody else

he wants to, but not the president of the United States. But the president being under investigation, obviously, is a story. I mean, it was certainly covered when Clinton was under investigation by a special prosecutor before all the facts came to light. I mean, it shouldn't it be some story, but just reported

as such and contextualize it, like the IRS thing that I just gave you. any american audited is under a criminal investigation because they're investigating whether or not you paid your taxes so you're under criminal investigation that's how crazy this is well i i think perhaps that uh some of this and you know you and i disagree on the tactics of the white house um but no i'm not look if i were president trump i would not be doing what he's doing. I'm explaining why he's doing, not just the fine. No, I understand what he's doing

and why he's doing it. And I do believe that he believes this is nonsense in a witch hunt. And I do believe that he wants his allies to be whipped up so they will defend him. I just don't believe that you, the ends justify the means. If it's wrong for one side, it's wrong for me. And I don't think you make your case. But here's where you're going wrong. He's not on the attack. He's not, all he's doing is defending himself, which he has a right to do. It's not like Trump is going out and saying Mueller committed a crime. No, I understand.

I understand that. And the other thing, he's defending. There's two, but there's two things. Jesus never started using the other tactics of the other side. Yeah, and he wound up with nails in his hands and feet. And he actually, well, want to, Well, want to be on the cross, they'll put him there. But he also won in the end.

The second point on this is that I think Donald Trump has brought a lot of this on to himself because he made such a big deal of, I'm not under investigation, I'm not under investigation. Once he appointed the special counsel, that's what that is, is putting yourself under investigation. He didn't appoint the Justice Department appointed. He didn't even know Mueller was appointed Trump. until after Rosenstein did it. So Trump didn't appoint a special counsel. The Justice Department did.

But you're right. You're right, that he made a big deal out of trying to get the PR hit that I wasn't under investigation. And as soon as a special counsel came in, of course, the special counsel is going to look at everybody. Everybody's under investigation, including you and me. Right. Okay. Bill O'Reilly, the Father's Day gifts, go ahead and give your approach. All right.

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They're saying he's going to need more surgeries now. I'm going to start there on this Father's Day weekend. We begin right now. And enlightenment, this is the Glen. We have a great, great segment coming up, play the man. Somewhere along the way, you know, our culture has lost its definition of manhood. We don't know what our roles are. We don't know what we're supposed to do.

We don't know where we fit. It's a no man's land, if you will. The advice, play the man. And we'll explain coming up in just a few minutes on that. Let's talk a little bit about Steve Scalise. You know, he kind of all kind of said, okay, he was in hospital, we were worried about him. Then he had surgery.

He came out. He was in critical condition. But it seemed like everything was going to be okay. He's still in critical condition, and they're saying today that he needs more surgeries. He was very badly injured. I don't know where I've heard this, and so maybe this is not true, but I think it is. They say that after you've had, I don't know what it was, three or four full blood transfusions, that your body's just never the same, that, you know, you've gone through all your blood,

and your body just never feels the same, never works the same. You don't have the same energy that you used to have. He has had how many blood transfusions now? And he is going to be another guy, hopefully not as bad as Gabby Giffords, but he's going to be another guy that is never going to really recover from this. I hope that's not true. I mean, it's weird because they so quickly kind of came out and said, well, look, looks, everyone's going to be okay.

You kind of let your guard down a little bit. And I wasn't, you know, kind of expecting this to go on as long as it has. You know, it's still only been a few days. And they still are saying he's going to recover fully. Yes, he's just in critical condition. I mean, it was a point. I heard a report this morning that talked about the angle of where he was shot and where the bullets went into his body.

The way he was standing. It cut so much through his body, bones and organs that it, you know, was going to take a lot of healing. A lot of time together and lost so much blood, as you pointed out. Yeah. I mean, that's tough. Depending on what kind of bullet was used as well. I mean, you know, the bullets are, especially if it was a hollow point, but I don't think

they make hollow points for ARs. But, you know, those things are designed to tear you apart inside. Once they start hitting, it's not like the old balls that just kind of stay as a single ball. They fragment and they're designed to rip your insides apart. And that's because they're typically used for home defense, right? Like that, at least one of the main uses for those types of bullets are home defense. Like a, like a, I feel like that's the type of, a hollow point. Yeah. Yeah. A hollow point is like in New Jersey, those were the first ones to be outlawed. Because they, what they do, the hollow point means instead of having a point, they kind of start to curve down

and then there's a convex and they come in. And so when that bullet first hits you, it grabs meat in that hollow point and that splits all that lead apart. Okay? So they use the force of your own body mass with that bullet capturing that like a cup of meat and as it pushes through so fast,

it breaks that cup up. And so all of those bullets pieces fly in different directions. And it's, I mean, they'll kill you fast. And the point that the gun control people will always say is like, well, that is a bullet designed to kill. All bullets are designed to kill. It is exactly what it's designed for. When you are in your home and someone

breaks in at 3 a.m., you're not, it's not a massage bullet. That's not what it's designed for. It is designed to take the person down. Some bullets are designed to cure hay fever. That's true. There are some of those. Yes. It's like, it's so real. And when it kills you, you don't have hay fever anymore, so it works. It's like saying, that knife is designed to cut.

Well, yes, but how are you using the knife? What are you cutting? In what context? That's the important part of it. So, you know, the hollow point thing, I think sounds scary to a lot of people. But I mean, really, that's a typical. It wasn't a hollow point. It wasn't a high down. That he was used.

But we don't know what it was. I would assume it was just a regular 2, 2, 3 round or something like that, you know, which is a big. I feel like this is how Glenn must feel when we're talking about sports. No, like, I'm just saying, I'm just saying, like,

yeah, the 223, obviously. No, no, because there are people right now that are listening to me, they're like, it's not a, that's not what it is. So, no, I'm not an expert on anything. Yeah, you know a lot more than I do on this topic, though. But I mean, from what I understand, that type of,

there are, just a regular, rifle round that we're using in combat, and those things tear you apart. That's a big round. And it's a, it's a lot of lead going into your, bullet. And one of the interesting things about this incident is, you know, when you have a mass shooting like this, every congressman we talked to that was there had sort of the same reaction. First bullet, you're like, what's going on? Second shot, you're like, wait a minute, is that guy

with a gun? Third shot, it's like, oh my God, why am I just standing here in the middle of the field? I need to run. And then you finally get to a place where you're protected by the fifth or sixth shot, right? I mean, it takes some time. And it's amazing. Because that, that, those first couple shots are almost always successful. Yeah, because it's a free shot. No one's moving. No one's trying to be evasive. They're all just standing there. You can do anything you want. The fact that nobody was killed instantly in this is a complete miracle or the fact that he's just absolutely terrible with a gun, which may very well be also the case, but that also in this context is a miracle. Yeah, that's a, that's a miracle. I'm telling

you that's a miracle. Look, you have a rifle. It's not a handgun. Using a handgun to shoot somebody on third base from first base is almost an impossible shot. I mean, that's, that's, that's, you're, you're, you're, you're a highly skilled guy to take somebody down with that, with that distance. From third base to, to the third base dugout. From third base to first, right. Okay, that's a pretty long shot. Yeah. A, a, uh, a, uh, a good shot, but not an easy shot.

A good shot is from, uh, first to the, um, uh, uh, uh, to the pitching mound. That's still a long shot, but a doable shot. A rifle, a rifle, the longer the barrel, the more accurate the shot, the easier the shot is, especially close. That's why it's hard to hit it with a handgun because it's such a short barrel. But a long gun at that distance, that's an easy shot. If I'm hiding over the, or behind somewhere in the dugout. I mean, I could have shot, I mean, I don't mean it, let's just pretend these are all targets and not real people. Right, right, right, sure. I could have been in a house with a rifle. I could have easily been in a house across the street and shot the pitcher on the mound,

as long as there was no obstruction. And I probably could have hit him in the head or definitely in the chest with iron sights, not a scope, with iron sights. sites at that distance. That guy, that was miraculous that that guy had a rifle and couldn't hit people that close. I mean, once you start getting returned fire, it becomes a lot more difficult. Yeah, but the first three. But I mean, he had plenty. That's what I mean. That's first three. Probably first five with him. Yeah, we'd had Bill O'Reilly on last hour. Obviously, the assassination book game has been something he's focused on for a long time. And we, one of the first things I did when we came to Dallas was went to the JFK Assassination Museum. Yeah.

And, you know, it's in the book depository. And you go up to that floor and you can go within two windows of where Lee Harvey Oswald shot from. So your two windows, they won't let you right to the window because they still have, you know, it's obviously a protected zone. But you can go within two windows. And you can look from that window down to, which it used to be there. I know they got rid of it for a while, but there was an X in the street. Is it back now? They got rid of it for the anniversary.

Right. And I think someone just went out and painted it again on the street. I think the city put it back in. They just didn't want people during the anniversary. So many people were here. They just didn't want people, you know, I want to take my picture in the middle of the street by the X. Right. And yeah, and that's understandable.

But it's still a weird thing to have this X in the middle of street where a president was shot. I always thought it was strange. But when you're up in that window, your two windows away from where he shot from me, you could look at the X. You can basically see the exact shot this guy took. It's an easy shot. And that's what I find to be amazing about it. As a guy who does not deal, I'm not a gun guy. I own guns for home protection.

I go to the range occasionally, but I know nothing about guns. I'm not a gun guy. I grew up in suburban Connecticut. It was not part of the culture of my upbringing at all. Even though my dad was in the military, it just wasn't something that we ever did or talked about. We never owned guns at the house. For me, looking at that shot, it looked impossible. Like, it looked like I don't know how anyone could do it.

It seemed like a moving vehicle, even though it was a slow moving vehicle, it would be very difficult. But for people who actually do this for, you know, constantly and in that culture, it wouldn't be a difficult challenge, particularly with the type of weapons we're talking about now. They're so accurate. I was out at the range last week, about 800 yards. I was 12 inches off of center mass. 800 yards? 800 yards. About 12 inches off center mass.

Okay. I'm not, and I'm not really, I mean, I'm good, but I'm not great. You know, and that was on a windy day. And I wasn't figure, I was just compensating for wind, you know, with my stupid brain. Just like feeling it. Yeah, just like, okay, it's very windy. It's going that way. I should compensate a little bit.

I know, not knowing how to compensate for wind. I was within, within 12 inches. This shot by this guy, I'm telling you, you have to be a moron to not be able to hit somebody that close with that gun. God, man. Thank God. I mean, you know, we've said this, and I have not, have you guys heard this anywhere else? I've said this several times this week. Do you realize what our country, what could have happened this week? Yeah.

If there were 30 dead members of Congress, you would be, upside down. You would be talking now, possibly about limiting speech on the internet. We would be talking about hate speech on television, political parties. We would look what happened after 9-11. This is to the ruling class, if you will. You would be, we would be,

Homeland Security would be all in our face. You'd probably have a lot of Republicans screaming about gun control. Even Republicans would be all bad. It would be a different world. That's just talking about politically. Now imagine

the consequences of that, plus the stock market would have crashed like crazy. Plus, what would ISIS have done? What would Russia have done? What are our own people? We know, do you guys know that the day that Kennedy was shot, Russia was on the border of, I can't remember which country.

Which was it? Oh, yeah, sorry, it was Reagan. Yeah, we talked about this. When Reagan was shot, that Russia, was going in and I can't remember which country was it Poland. I'm hearing it in my ear. When Reagan was shot, they were

ready to enter a country and make a hostile movie and I think it was Poland and shore up the communist state in Poland. But because Reagan was shot, they knew that it would look like possibly

Hinkley had been set up by the Russians and this was and it could have caused a global war. imagine 10% of Congress of the ruling party killed who would have taken advantage of that geopolitically we are we are so blessed this week to have this end this way when you look at how hard it is to miss

from that distance with that much time on your first shot first five shots, three shots, to be able to miss and only seriously injure one person with all of those people there that close, with that much firepower, minutes before real resistance, this is a miracle.

This is a miracle. And I think we should do two things. one thank God for divine providence thank you Lord for that thank you for giving us some protection thank you for giving us some more time to come to our senses especially when you see what people are saying like Ted Nugent today hey maybe we really do need to change a few things in our own personal lives that's another miracle that is coming out of this but we need to thank God and we also need to take a moment and reflect how unbelievably

fragile and how close to the edge we really are into something that could change us fundamentally forever and change the whole world because this event could have done it.

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You're listening to the Glenn Beck program. So it wasn't a 223 round that he was using. It was a 762. And it again, And that's bigger, right? Yeah, I'm, I, I mean, is a 308, 762 is a 308, right? Yes, these, and it does, I mean, looking, I'm not good at the bullets, but I, I, the gun guys are like, first of all, they're all, they're all very particular. This is why I try not to talk about details, because I have no idea what I'm talking about.

And they'll correct everything that we say. We get 6,000 tweets about how we said the wrong thing. I know. But also, some people are helpful sending pictures of the differences. So it looks like a 762 is bigger. than the 2-3 bite, not a huge margin, but a significant one. And also, it's moving so fast. I mean, these guns are powerful weapons.

Whatever, I mean, you stand by. I mean, Pat came up to the range with me. I've shot three times in my life. This was the third time. And he did not want to shoot these guns because, I mean, just standing by them, they're powerful. When they go off, you're like, holy cow. You feel them.

Yeah, you do. You feel them standing anywhere around them when they go off. And the one you were shooting. from 800 yards. I shot from 200 yards and hit it three times in a row. And it's my third time out. I mean, wow. Yeah. Again, this is a good thing to hit targets. Liberals will say, wait a minute, any idiot can pick up a gun and shoot it from a long distance. This is terrible. Actually, you want the gun to be accurate. You don't want the gun spraying all over the place. There are very few gun manufacturers who say this gun won't hit anything.

It won't in anything you shoot at. It doesn't matter what you aim at. It won't hit. That's why I've started I've started training now on handgun. I've started training with moving because when you're in a situation, you are not going to be like, hang on, let me get in the right position. You're going to be moving. And when you see how inaccurate you are while moving, it gives you, oh, I'm not, wait. If I'm in a crowded area and I'm trying to defend myself, I'm not pulling my gun because I could hit easily.

I could hit the person standing next. to them, behind them. I mean, it's, you've got to, you've, and 99% of gun owners are like this. Anybody who carries or anybody who actually takes it out of, like my dad used to have his in the closet, anybody who actually

is thinking ever using it, they know the power of that gun and they don't use it unless they have full control of that gun. they're responsible. Something about being a better man that I think you're going to really enjoy.

Father's Day weekend, next. Mercury. Amazon. Amazon.com just bought coal foods, which we should have seen coming with their experiment on the grocery store of the future that they just did in Seattle

where there is no, there's nothing but a digital transaction. There's no checkout line or anything. You just walk. in, it scans who you are going in, and it scans everything as you go out the door. You don't have to stop at all. They just bought Whole Foods, which is a very big deal. In the end, we are going to be run by Amazon and Google. And that's the thing about them is they seem to do everything they do better than everyone else. Yes. And it's hard to, you know, they really do. I mean, Amazon,

I swear half my paycheck goes to Amazon. What was the price they paid for Whole Foods? Something like $14.7 billion. Is that right, Jeff? Wow. Something like that. A lot of money. Wow.

13.7. It is Father's Day weekend. And speaking of Amazon, a book that you can pick up on Amazon.com right now is Play the Man. Mark Batterson is a friend of the program, been on several times. He is the author of 16 different books. This one is a really interesting book because we have nothing. And I have been looking for books over the last few years of,

I want to build a library of how do you build a man? What does it mean to be a man? Because nothing in our culture is supporting that now. Mark, welcome to the program. How are you, sir? Hey, Glenn, it's good to be back. So Play the Man actually comes from the Bible, a guy who the Romans took because he was worshipping Jesus.

Can you tell the story? Yeah, incredible true story about Polycarp. He was the Bishop of Smyrna, and he was taken into the Coliseum, told the Ricanus faith. He wouldn't do it. And part of why I wouldn't do it is because he heard a voice from heaven. It said, be strong, polycarp, play the man. And when I first heard that, Glenn, that gave me goosebumps, because here's a guy who literally was martyred for his faith.

and it's that little saying, play the man, that, you know, he died for his faith. The question is, how do we live for our faith? And what does it mean to play the man? Yeah, that's what I was going to ask you. Play the man is weird advice. What does it mean? Well, you know what's funny? There's actually a verse in Second Samuel that says, play the man for our people.

But you know what I do in the book, Glenn, is identify seven virtues. And, you know, I know how much you love history. We share a love for history, so I tell a lot of stories about everybody from Teddy Roosevelt to John Muir to a guy named John Wesley Powell. And I weave some of that in. But really, it's about seven virtues that I think are the key to manhood. And that's kind of the first half of the book. And so everything from tough love to moral courage and virtues that I think, honestly, are a little lacking in our culture. So let's go through some of the virtues.

I'll just go through all of them quickly first. Tough love, childlike wonder, willpower, raw passion, true grit, clear vision, and moral courage. Let me start with true grit, because you see that in a, you see that in, you know, the movie true grit, and you identify it. as that, as being that guy, a guy who saw something that wasn't right, wasn't necessarily a guy who was living a great life, but followed through and finished what he knew was right.

Is that what true it is? I think it is, and let me just say this. You know, I think different cultures at different points in history have defined manhood differently. And what I try to do in the book is really point back to a person by the name of Jesus. He's not just Son of God, son of man. And I think he's true north when it comes to manhood. And no one models true grit better than he does.

You know, for the joy set before him, he endured the cross. I mean, that's grit right there. And then you read in another place in the New Testament where it says, having done all to stand, stand. It's this idea that it's going to take some grit to do the right thing. And I think we give up too easily. We give up too quickly. And I think part of what I advocate for the book is you've got to fight for your family. You've got to fight for your marriage. It's not going to be easy. But I think grit is exemplified by the person of Jesus. And it's something that we're called to as men. What is the biggest problem in our society that the lie that men are being told or boys are being told? Wow, I mean, that's a big question, and I'm not sure I can reduce it down to one, but I'll start here.

You know, the first virtue is tough love. Tough love is carrying a 300-pound cross, 650 yards down to Villadalroza for someone else's sin. I think we've forgotten what it means to, to, exercise, tough love. I think it's loving people when they least expect it and least deserve it. And it's not easy, but that's the standard we're called to. And it's something that I think is, in some ways, because in our culture, Glenn, you know, manhood is almost avoided or devalued or in some ways redefined. And so I think we've got to get back to some of these virtues that we see in the person of Jesus and then we need to live out as men.

So what is the difference between these virtues with women, and why is this play the man? Shouldn't my wife have clear vision and moral courage and willpower and childlike wonder? I think absolutely, absolutely. And I make that admission in the book that, listen, I think these apply to anybody and everybody, but this is a call to men.

Let me give you an example. You know, a few months ago, I'm in a room with 500 guys, and I asked them, how many of you were intentionally a disciple by your dad and three hands go up? Wow. So what we have is a culture where men don't really know what it means to be men of God, and fathers don't really know what it means to be a spiritual father. And so what I'm trying to do with the book, Glenn, is kind of step into that no-man's land, pun intended and say, hey, here are seven virtues that I think we can work on as men. And then, of course,

the second half of the book is really the heartbeat of the book. And it's about how to disciple our children. Mark Patterson, the name of the book is Play the Man, Becoming the Man God Created You to Be. New York Times bestselling author, 16 different bestselling books. And a message that I think we truly, truly need, play the man. Thanks, Mark, for being on the program with us. Hey, absolute joy and privilege. God bless, Glenn. Thank you.

God bless. We'll talk to you again. You know, I tell you, I don't think I've ever worked harder on anything in my life with joy. It's not like hard work with joy than being a parent. and being a dad. And it wasn't always that way. I was afraid of being a dad, and I was especially afraid of being a dad for a son

because of the relationship I had with my dad. And my dad said to me once when I was young, I told him I was never going to be like you. and I stormed off and I thought I had really hurt him so I thought I showed him. And I must have been about 16 years old. And he came down to my room and walked in and said, I couldn't be more proud of you. And I didn't know what this meant at the time because I didn't know my dad's history.

He said, I didn't want to be like my dad either. My dad grew up in a very abusive household, and I didn't know why I always was uncomfortable and afraid of my grandfather on my dad's side until I was about 30, and I flew my dad out, and I said, I just want to talk to you as a man. We had had a conversation on the phone, and I said, I don't know how to be your son. and he said, I don't know how to be your dad. But I will tell you that if you will sit through the uncomfortable moments of silence and awkwardness, I will promise to do the same and we'll figure it out together. And he flew out to Baltimore and we sat there and we talked. And he started telling me about his childhood.

and I understood then why he never took me fishing when I wanted to go fishing, why he was never really a close dad to me. And he said to me, I didn't want to be like my dad either, and this 16-year-old kid looking back at him thinking, what? I said something that was supposed to hurt you. And you're now telling me how proud you are. of me. And he said then something that I will never forget. He said, however, son, you have better

replace what you've learned from me with something else. Because if you don't, you will grow up to be exactly like me. It's taken me to, you know, my 40s to be able to replace and replace a enough in me and to make it mine to be able to be a decent dad now at 53. I feel like I'm just starting to be a good dad and my kids are all growing up. But if you don't know who you are and you don't know what it means to be a man, you're never going to be able to pass that on in a positive way. and we have a grave responsibility in an abusive family that I grew up in, where abuse now has spread through the generations.

Somebody has to be the man to put your hand up to catch the fist and say, that's not the way a man treats. a woman or anyone else. But more importantly, Rafi's 12 years old now. And we were sitting on the couch on vacation. And he was talking about girls. And he said, you know, how do you know, dad?

And I said, well, you're not going to know for several years. You're not going to know for several years. At 12, you don't know who you, who the one is. But we joked for a while and I said, you're going to know when you meet a woman who you want to be a better man for, who makes you a better person and not because they're molding you,

but because you want to. And I got choked up as I was saying that about thinking about Tanya. And here's my 12-year-old son, who he leaned in and didn't mock me for the tears in my eyes. He hugged me and whispered in my ear, I love how much you love, Mom. The examples that we have to set for our children are important, and they're authentic, they're real, they're natural, and those are the ones our kids will emulate. Those will be the ones our kids crave.

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Wonder Woman. Yeah, Wonder Woman. Yeah, I saw Wonder Woman. I saw Wonder Woman. The one thing I do come away with is, wow. Is she beautiful? Good heavens, is she beautiful. And I liked it.

I think you guys did the opposite. I think you did what I did to you on Galaxy Quest. Or not Galaxy Quest. Guardians of Galaxy. I think I'm going to see that this weekend. I haven't even seen it yet. Yeah, I really liked it. And everybody else is like, eh.

I was like, wow, I really liked that movie. But I went to Wonder Woman, and everybody I've heard raves about Wonder Woman. And I think so I went in with my expectations to I. And it was just good? It was just good. I couldn't take, I mean, if they would have made me listen to these faky accents of these women on the island for two more minutes, I think I would have killed myself. But then it kind of evened out with her. It got good.

Oh, well. No, it always was evened out with her. Yeah. Yeah. This is the Glenn Beck program. Mercury.