The Glenn Beck Program - 7/7/17 - Days of the 'one-size-fits-all' are over (Bill O'Reilly and Mike Grygiel Join Glenn)

Episode Date: July 7, 2017

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The Blaze Radio Network. On Demand. A couple of updates on Charlie Guard, the 11-month-old that has been doomed to death by the English health care system. A New York hospital has agreed now to admit the patient if they allow him to leave. Mom said yesterday that he is not in pain. is not suffering. Pope Francis wants to issue Charlie and the parents a passport

from the Vatican so they can overcome the rulings banning the child from traveling. It's good to see that the Pope is seemingly on the front lines of this.

Donald Trump was in Poland yesterday, gave an outrageously great speech. It was so refreshing to hear somebody stand up for the West, not apologize for the United States or the West, and declare that our Western way of life is in trouble, and somebody needs to stand up and be the beacon of hope. I thought it was a great speech. We'll get into that. But there's also another story that I read that I don't think everybody else is going to be talking about today, but I think

affects you right where you live. It does me. We begin there right now. And enlightenment. This is the Glen. Boy, oh boy, oh boy. Did you know that Kellogg's cereal is in trouble? That Kellogg's cereal is in trouble. Not at my house. Yeah, not in my house either. Yeah, we eat a lot of it. Yeah. But Kellogg's. Kellogg's is having a hard time selling the usual breakfast cereals now. Campbell's Soup and Aunt Jemima. Aunt Jemima pancake mix, not the syrup, the mix, having a hard time.

They are now looking at taking hamburger helper off the shelves. even though hamburger helper helped her hamburger make a great meal? It took you a minute to remember that. Hamburger helper was a staple in my family. In fact, we just had it like two weeks ago. Oh, really? Yeah. Tanya went and she's like, you know, it's Hamburger Helper Day.

And I was like, yeah, my kids are like, what? Yeah, really? Yeah, Raph looked at it and it was like, what is that? I'm like, you're going to love it to help her. Yeah, my mom had some class when it was. a kid and my dad had to take care of me every Tuesday night, every Tuesday night, baby, hamburger helper. Oh yeah, that was the way you went. And tuna helper. It's just that things are changing too much. So, so listen to this. First of all, grocery stores used to have, and it's like 15 years ago.

So think of September 11th, used to have 4,000 products on the shelves that you could, you could grab up to 4,000 products in, you know, an average supermarket. That number now is 40,000. Wow. Wow, really? Yeah. And you go to, especially some of the nicer grocery stores. Yeah.

You will go to the condiment aisle. Oh. And it used to be like A1, Heinz, Frenches, and maybe one something that you're like, what is that? that's exotic now you go and you look at steak sauces and ketchup and it's almost the full aisle in some places

I'm on a different ketchup every time I go to the store pattern like I can't buy the same one anymore now it's like there's like the jalapeno ketchup no those are really good they have hot sauce ketchup Heinz regular ketchup Heinz the only way to go it's the world is changing

guys I hate to tell you okay so listen to this Giants are struggling struggling with competition that is roting business from both ends. High-end consumers are shifting towards fresher items with fewer processed ingredients, while cost-conscious shoppers are buying inexpensive store brands. The makers of staples including Chef Boyardee? I mean...

I can't. Come on. Well, have you had... I lived on Chef Boyardee. So did I. Have you had the ravioli? Yeah, I love it. Lately?

No. Yeah. No. But I used to live... Franco-American, do they still make SpaghettiOs? SpaghettiOs and the regular spaghetti. We were forced to eat that forever. Forced.

Spaghettios, that was like a treat. I celebrated every time that can opened up. Yes. We never got SpaghettiOs. That was not to cut hot dogs up in them. Yes. Yes. Oh, my gosh.

Yes. I feel like a lot of these foods age, like movies from old era's age. I remember I love that movie And then you turn it on You're like, this is terrible. How did I like this? That was probably what it would be. That was my experience with Chef Boyard D. Ravioli.

I opened it up. Oh, somebody run to get some pat Ravioli. Oh my gosh. Pat, I used to eat that stuff cold in the can. Yeah, it was right. Oh, it's awful. Because the meat, it was very soft.

Wasn't it? The meat was really soft. I remember the texture of it. I mean, this is a long time. a texture was like, I don't know, soft. It was almost cheese meat. It was kind of a cheesy texture of meat. Yes.

We're not sure if it was cheese or meat. I loved it too. Loved it too. Spaghettios, the best. Okay. So chef baritie, canned pasta, hamburger helper, failed to spot the threat and didn't innovate in time. Now listen to this.

Craft macaroni and cheese is in trouble. I won't hear of that. I buy enough to keep the whole company and business. All we have on one shelf in our pantry is just blue and yellow boxes. Because we get the single serving ones because we're too lazy to actually make it in the. But I mean like buy those by the case. I know. We do too.

I don't have the single servings. Oh, they're great. Do they still have the craft macaroni and cheese? There was the deluxe that had the cheese that you squeezed out of the little silver foil pouch. too, but the crap. Do they still make that? Yeah. Oh, I love that. Yeah. I'm a wife always chintz, chintz on macaroni and cheese. She just buys the regular box, which I love. I still love.

There's something better, though, than the velvita macaroni and cheese. Oh, that's good. That is good. Only time you ever want velvita is. You know what? And my wife pulls the big tray of macaroni and cheese that's made from hand by hand out of the oven. Oh, shut. That's not macros. Yes, you can't compare.

The pressure has set off a bout of soul searching in the industry as well as some dramatic restructuring. Some companies are shedding underperform brands. Others have contemplated mergers. Nestle, which said last month it is looking to sell its U.S. confectionery business. Wow. What? Wow. Look up what Nestle owns.

when I was a kid, Nessley had the chocolate bar and quick. And that was it. Oh, way past that. Oh, I know that. You know that Hershey's is in trouble? No. Yes.

Chocolate is, Eminem's are in trouble. All of these. What are you talking? What is this meaning? Because a lot of times you get these, it's like radio is going to die, and then radio just seems to go on and generate billions of dollars for decades.

Have you noticed that Eminem's now has, like Eminem's pretzels. Yes. That's because they're trying to innovate because the candy that we all grew up with is not performing anymore, except for old people like us. This is going to ruin it.

It's going to be Eminem's with kale. Kinaw, Eminem's. Well, it's done the green tea candies lately. Because we do a segment called Spoons on Pat and Stew in which we try a different product. We just tried strawberry nut. Eminems the other day. They were bad. They were pretty freaking good.

We had a strawberry nut. I don't even know what strawberry nut is. Well, it's not a, it's a nut and it's strawberry flavor. How do you make a nut? Well, he's not Eminem's, but it's got a strawberry taste. Don't read too much. That's basically what it was. But they were good. Reeses, we did white chocolate wreaths, peanut butter cups, and big peanut butter cups

crunchy this week. Freaking good. I mean, this is the golden age. of these foods. Yeah, he better not go under now. But, like, and that's what I wonder, I would like to see the analysis on this, because I wonder if it's people going from, I used to just, you know, have M&Ms to now, I'm spreading that out to 100 different products.

But, you know, if the same company is owning all the varieties. But it is the difference between, like, they're saying that in 20 years, Coke is going to be, like, as available as Mr. Pib, you know. I will say, Coke products worldwide. Coke products represent, I think, 6% of every liquid that people are drinking. Should be higher. Yeah, I think so, too. And it should be Coke, regular Coke.

No, there's any kind of funny Coke. Regular Coke. I'm not with you on that. But I will say, like, you go into, they have these palaces of convenience stores in Texas, and they're all over the place now. But some of them here have, it used to be like there would be a four freezer, you know, refrigerator aisles and you go, oh, doors. And you'd open them up and there'd be like three of them would be soda,

and then one would be like iced tea and bottled water. Now they have 16 doors in some of these places. Oh, please. But it's only two that are soda. And then there's like four that are energy drinks. Yeah. And then waters and weird. This is rookie.

That's a rookie. Have you been to a bucky's? I have. Yes. But, all right. So people who are not from the South, you've got to move. down here. They're like Walmart. I don't even know what you're thinking by staying up there with

a snow and the, and the movie theaters that don't bring you gourmet meals in the middle of the movie. How hell are you thinking? In a barco laundry cleaner? We have a, we have gas stations here. I'm not kidding you. The size of a freaking Walmart. You can go to the convenience store, which is surrounded by like 3,000 gas pumps, I believe they have regular unleaded diesel and strawberry nut-flavored gas. And the inside of Buckees, I'm not kidding you.

We have stopped there not for gas, not for anything. Just to look, it's like you could buy patio furniture. They have fresh foods. have chefs making stuff. Walls of fountain drinks. Walls of fountain drinks. Walls of every candy you can possibly imagine. I live about 20 minutes away from one,

and I just bought an apartment closer because I didn't feel comfortable being that far. It's incredible, but I mean, if this thing is you take hamburger helper, which used to be a dominant food for every dad who the wife was out at a class that night, and the only thing they knew how to cook. And you go from that to, you're spreading that out to a bunch of different varieties. Hamburger helper still has a place there. The problem is that these companies like Nestle, Kellogg, they were all built on a model that the cash was rolling in through the doors.

So they don't have the money to keep those plants and run the business. They can become a specialty brand. But that's not what they were. They're built at a time when people just cared about taste. Just give me good food. It's gone so far beyond that now. No, no, no. They're actually saying that the problem is

is that processed foods got such a bad name and their tastes. They want healthier food. They want people want healthier food. They want fresh and they want better taste. But can we take a moment here? And they want organic, even though they don't know what that means. I don't know what that means.

It's all just as much a branding thing as as chef boyer D was back the day. But they're saying also that people like Costco and Kroger and everybody else they can make their own labeled brand. So you're getting the pressure from both sides. You're getting these, I mean, you go to

what is it? Central Market here? You go to Central Market. I mean, it's like a it's a paradise of grocery store. I walk in every single time I walk into Central Market and go grocery shopping. I look at it and

think, this is a monument to the Western way of life and American life. It is a monument to it. Amazing. I walked in three weeks ago and off on the patio where people were drinking, you know, wine and having meals. The patio of the grocery store, they had a big band concert. And I walked, I'm walking towards the front of the grocery store and I'm realizing that this is the grocery store. And I thought, nobody would have done this. Nobody would have gone and said, hey, let's go listen to the band and go sit

out in the sun and the patio at the grocery store. And then you go in and it's got everything you could possibly imagine. And there's been cultural relevance to this conversation, although it doesn't feel news based, but what this is

is a vindication of everything we argue for every day. The capitalism itself. The capital has made this possible. And even to serve hardcore liberals who think you have to have organic and raw

and whatever the heck they want to eat, that even their lives have been incredibly improved by the system they fight against every single day. This is a... I walk into these stores and you're right. It is a monument.

It's as if you're walking into a church sometimes I feel that way. Look at what has been accomplished here. I do. And this is in every town. It is the greatest thing I think that America has done or capitalism has done, the free market is responsible for going from 4,000 products, which was a miracle in itself of the day, to 40,000 products. And everybody's like, well, yeah, but the rest of the world, you know what?

The rest of the world has the grocery stores that we grew up in, has the grocery stores of the, of the, of the, maybe even in the 1990s in the rest of the world, which when we had those grocery stores in the 1990s, they had the 70s. And when we had it in the 70s, they had it in the 50s. We're moving forward and food. The reason why Kraft and everybody else is having trouble is because you're able to make this food cheaper, better, higher quality at a much lower price. It is a testament to the free market system. Now this, you have trouble getting a full night sleep. You want to get a hold of a Casper mattress.

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to sell its candy division and how is candy not profitable. It is. It's just not the way they designed it, the system to work. It's like NBC. If NBC goes out of business, which it's not, but it is actually dying a slow death. It's not because people aren't watching TV anymore. They're watching it in a different way, and they want it delivered in a different way. So it's an old model.

and that model of NBC just doesn't work like the new model does. I'm reading a book called The Content Trap right now that is fascinating to me because it just shows how rapid things are changing. And the idea that you're going to have a job. job or you're going to be in business, you know, you could start a small business and then it'll just, you know, just pass it on to your kids. That's, that's going to become more and more rare that you're going to start a small business and have it forever or, or you're going to, you know, you're on top right now. Look behind you because there's somebody reinventing right now. And if you're

not constantly reinventing, it's just not going to work. And, That's a different kind of thinking altogether. Mercury. The Glenn Beck Program. Welcome to the program. We've got a couple of things coming up. Way for you to get involved and do something really quite amazing. Also, Bill O'Reilly is coming up in a few minutes.

Some news on Chip and Joanna Gaines, which is something that really has puzzled us for the last few weeks. And we actually have one of the best First Amendment and media attorneys going to be joining us at the top of our three to talk about this amazing scam that is going on in advertising that we just don't understand how people are getting away with. We'll get to that here in a second. Did you see the president and his speech in Poland yesterday? It was so nice and refreshing to hear him actually speak about the Western way of life in a positive way. Listen. The same is true in Warsaw, where street signs carry the name of George Washington, and a monument stands to one of the world's greatest heroes, Ronald Reagan. And so I am here today not just to visit an old ally, but to hold it up as it again.

example for others who seek freedom and who wish to summon the courage and the will to defend our civilization. Never would you have heard that kind of thing from Barack Obama? No. Never. And it it was, I listened to the speech yesterday and I thought it was an exceptional speech. It was just, and the reason why it was so exceptional is we haven't heard this. It's so long for so long. Yeah. We haven't heard that, you know, hey, we are worth standing up for. This is a, you know, this is a choice that people made and sacrificed to be able to have freedom. And here's Poland that has, you know, been crushed by the boots of thugs and under the gears of tanks for so long.

Now they're free. And you're an example to the world of what people will do. do to shirk off those chains. It was really refreshing. Really refreshing. So the protest of the G20. They get a little carried away. They do.

Yeah. In Europe, don't they? 100,000 protesters. They're all carried away. Poured into the city for their welcome to hell protest. Now, these are anti-capitalists. This is Uber left wing. Yeah.

These are mostly communists. By the way, a lot of the stuff they're protesting there are the things that led to last half-hour's conversation about your grocery store being incredible and all the things that they're protesting there are very similar to, you know, particularly with trade. I mean, you know, the fact that you're able to get these things so cheaply is a large portion of...

You can bet that most of the protesters were drinking nestly water. Yeah. when they got thirsty. Yeah. Let me switch gears, kind of, but still on the topic of the things that brought, you know, the reason why you have things on the grocery store shelves,

the free market system. Did you read that now Mitch McConnell and the Republicans have given up on their health care bill? This is unbelievable to me. That Republicans would join them. So now they've reached out to the Democrats and said, Democrats, help us make this more, you know,

palatable for you, so you will join us on this health care reform. Yeah, they started to vilify Ted Cruz as well now, because Cruz proposed something that was kind of interesting, which was states,

insurance companies can and sell any health care plan that they want, as long as they have one plan that is okay with Obamacare, that falls through those Obamacare lines. So you'd have the chance. People would have the opportunity to choose the Obamacare plan still.

I mean, think of what a reach across the aisle that is, right? I mean, they're saying, hey, you guys can still have that. Cruz is just betting that nobody's going to choose those plans. But he's giving people the option. And, of course, even Republicans don't like that plan. They think it's, well, it takes away their power. Yeah. Yeah.

I mean, and that's, that's, don't they understand how, rapidly the world is changing. They think that they, I mean, look at the models that they are jamming us into. They're jamming us into models that were the models of the 1920s, the models of the 1950s, the models of the 1950s, the models of the former Soviet Union, where it's just, while everything is being personalized, well, I can go to the store now and get my name on a Coke. everything is personalized. What are they doing?

They're saying, no, not individuals. Don't care about the individuals. Mass, mass, mass, mass, mass, mass. Yeah, I mean, the left is now talking very outwardly about single payer again. The thing that you were a hater, if you accused them of wanting. No, I was not a hater. No, it was a racist. A racist. A racist for saying what they wanted was a single payer health care plan.

Even after they admitted it, but behind closed doors, now they're admitting it in public. Yeah. And still, you're right, like they go into this one size fits all in this world. It's an insane idea. It's the hamburger helper of healthcare. They're giving us hamburger helper, which, you know what? I would be, I was going to say, I would be fine if it was as good as hamburger helper. It's not as good as hamburger helper.

And I certainly wouldn't say put everybody else out of business that has, you know, fresh ingredients. And you can buy it and tailor make it to the way you. one. I certainly wouldn't do that. The days of Hamburger Helper, being the box that is one size fits all, is over. And same with health care. And yet,

they don't know why so many people voted for Brexit. They don't know why the people all around Europe are rebelling. Because they're only, that people want either Marxism,

socialism, communism, fascism, or they want freedom, one of the two, at least in the West. Give me one of those two. Give me the freedom of the individual. Or go ahead and just let's get it over with. Let's fascist, Marxists, let's start racking up the numbers of deaths. Let's just start killing millions of people. Let's get to it.

I prefer we go the other direction. That's an interesting proposal. Let's get to it. But I mean, I actually kind of tired of you. like, come on, let's go. Yeah. You guys are going to turn into Stalin. Let's go.

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to apply. This is the Glenn Beck Program. Mercury. The Glenn Beck Program. Labor of Love is this unbelievable organization of new friends that got together and just started serving and volunteering

and they won't take any funding from anybody, because they want to be able to put the money together themselves. And it's about the whole sacrifice of time and finances that mean something. And I have watched them grow over the last few years. And it is so unbelievable. Susan is here from Labor of Love and a good friend. And we were up in, it was Utah, wasn't it?

It was not Idaho. up in the northern part of Utah, about a month ago, how many people showed up to help these people? We had about 70 people, about a third of them, children under the age of 10. It was so great. A lot of people. And people came and serving just an older couple of guy

who had been in the Korean War, sweet old couple, their garage was falling apart, their barn was falling apart, their trees were overgrown. and people came out and they just served. And then there was another woman at another house, a group of volunteers. She was in a wheelchair,

and she had this horrible wheelchair ramp that was just falling apart that some neighbors had helped her make. She was poor, but they made it out of press wood. And one winter, and it wasn't faring well. Two winters, and it was almost gone. And you guys just went to the Home Depot and bought all of the supply.

lies and went and served. I joined you. And it was, it's an amazing thing that you guys are doing. It is an amazing thing when people decide not to wait for somebody else to solve problems, but just to get out and do it themselves. So you're not doing, what you're trying to do is encourage people to do just that. You don't have to go through labor of love. You can just join online and see like-minded people.

But the encouragement is to do it yourself in your own community. That's right. And you have a couple of functions. We'll talk about the one you're doing this weekend here in Texas. But in August, tell me what's going on. We have two things in August. We have a labor of love in the Lansing, Michigan area, where we'll do something very similar to what you saw up in Utah,

but this is for a woman whose son died about five years ago in Afghanistan. And she's felt alone. She needs to have that infusion of love and service that weekend. But one thing we're really excited about in August is a local service challenge. And you can go to Labor of Love USA on Facebook or to our website. And what we're hoping people will do is decide to do something themselves, whether they're involved today with Labor of Love or not. We want to hear about during a two-week period people deciding to find something in their own community

that they would not normally do, whether it's volunteering, whether it's just seeing someone who needs help with their yard or their house, and just do it. And if they'll tell us about it, we'll help get the word out so other people in their community can join. And then hopefully those people will hit it off and we can maybe see this thing grow beyond what labor of love has been able to do. It's amazing how many people feel really alone. Like nobody cares. And they just kind of crawl inside. And then when you call or somebody calls and says, hey, we want to do this for you. How skeptical they are, they're really appreciative.

but they don't think you're actually going to show up. That's right. Or they think there's a catch, or they have to qualify, or people have gotten to the point where they're skeptical about people loving and caring about them. The person that we're working with this week in Tyler, Texas, you heard about this on your program, Joel Eng from King of Life Academy.

So he said that he was seeing these young people in middle school and coming up into high school age drop out in their hearts. they would kind of tune out, and hasn't most of America done that, right? They're tired of not seeing solutions in politics or in institutions, or even in churches sometimes,

and they drop out in their hearts and kind of retreat into their own space. And that is exactly the opposite, I think, of what we need to do as individuals to really see a substantial change. So this guy started his own school. He did. And it's amazing.

Everybody, it's very much like Booker T. Washington's original schools that he built. You had to grow your own food. You know, the kids go grocery shopping for their own lunches. They grow their own food. And that's, aren't you working on the garden this week? No, in the spring, we helped plant a 6,000 square foot garden. And they used that for the school. But this summer, while school's out of session, two days a week,

they're giving away all the produce from the garden. We came back to help build a wood workshop to put up a building in a couple of days. And we're nearly there. A bunch of people who didn't know what we were doing with a couple people to help us have put up a building these last two days. And that'll be a wood workshop to help teach those skills and expand what they're doing. They capture monarch butterfly, you know, caterpillars, and they've been releasing those and having events for children and their families.

And they're trying to rebuild the sense of community. in an economically disadvantaged area and empowering these people to know that they can have a better and brighter future and that they can solve those problems themselves. So we want to encourage people like Joel. Okay, so here's what we're asking. August 7th through the 21st,

find somebody in your area that needs some sort of help. And it really can be really, really small. It can be like the Gold Star Mother. She just has a problem with a roof, right? That's right. You know, all the way to roof or raising a building like they're doing this weekend. If you want to get involved, go to Labor of Love. What's the Facebook?

Labor of Love USA on Facebook. Labor of Love, USA on Facebook. Check it out. Get involved in your own community and come join the Labor of Love. It's an amazing program. Susan, thank you very much. Back in a minute with Bill O'Reilly. This is the Glenn Beck program.

Mercury. The Blaze Radio Network. On demand. Wow, there is so much to talk about. So much has happened this week. And the good thing is, we have the guy who is going to give it to us with no spin. Bill O'Reilly's look at the week's news begins right now. Enlightenment.

This is the Glenn. Beck program. Mr. Bill O'Reilly, who now is making his home at Bill O'Reilly.com, where you can listen to his daily podcast, which is always riveting, because he's always exciting and

up-tempo and upbeat and positive. Bill, how are you? Are you reading that back, or is that from the heart? No, that is... Well, it's not from the heart. It's more from the lower regions. The heart of my heart.

bottom. Ah, man, Beck, come on. So how are you, Bill? So what's on your mind today? Well, I've got a lot of things. I'd like to hear your comments on the president's speech in Poland yesterday, which I thought was so refreshing to hear. Well, I agree that the message was worthy and needed to be said to the Europeans on their own soil. But I thought it was a standard, I said this to my audience. I thought was a standard political speech in the sense that if I were writing that speech, I would have singled out a few examples of where Europe is in trouble. For example, in Sweden, that country has accepted way too many refugees and migrants. They can't assimilate them. they are causing all kinds of trouble.

A big rock music festival had to be canceled because they're afraid that it would get out of control in Sweden. These kinds of things would have made the speech more vivid. But I agree with you that the message needed to be said. Honestly, it was refreshing to hear somebody stand up for the Western way of life. We haven't heard that. You say it's standard, but I haven't heard that in eight years. Yeah. Yeah.

And the secular progressives hate it. That's what all these demonstrators are about. They hate capitalism, competition, free markets, freedom in general. These people's, you know, loat that. And they all, you know, gather together to cause trouble. It's not an anti-Trump movement. It's an anti-capitalist movement. I got a note from a friend of mine, Michael O'Pelka, who does a show on the Blaze Radio.

And he said in the early 90s, we dated it. debuted a play in the former Soviet Union. He and his brother wrote this play. He said, My brother came home from Russia with a woman he eventually married. My mother took Tadiana to a grocery store to show her where the local market was located. Within seconds, Tadiana was standing stunned, began crying. She could not believe what was in front of her, the products, the variety, just the vast array of food that was available to everyday citizens. We were talking last hour about Poland and about how there were just a few years ago, 4,000 items on grocery store shelves.

There are now as many as 40,000 different items on grocery store shelves and how the West and the free market system, probably the best testament or monument to it, is the grocery store. And people don't get it. You know, when I was in Berlin, when the wall came down, and we were covering that story, and I was there, and when the people from East Berlin poured across into West Berlin, the first place they went to was the grocery store.

And they poured into the grocery stores, and what they wanted most of all, take a guess, what food did the communist prisoners want most of all? Hamburger helper. Cale. I'd say candy. bananas. Huh.

They swarm. It's really uninteresting. I mean, let's just be honest here, Bill. I mean, if you're a prisoner behind the iron curtain, the highest thing you're dreaming of is a banana, that's pretty sad. I just want to put this into perspective for Beck listeners. Tachiana going to the grocery store and crying. is more interesting than an island's report from Berlin.

And the answer to that is yes. I think, I think. Is that what you're telling me? I think so, Bill, I think mainly because of the way the story was told. Oh, I see. I got it. Next time, Bill, you need to read an email from your friend. Maybe then it'll be interesting to everybody.

My friend, Kurt. I want a banana above all. All right, that was a great story, Bill, and I'm so glad that. I really appreciate it. I will take that banana story with me to my grave as one of the greatest moments of airtime. All right, so let's shift gears a bit. We haven't heard your take yet on the CNN, you know, Donald Trump tweet clown show thing. I think it is a now that CNN, MSNBC, the network news broadcasts, along with the progressive newspapers,

have basically stopped covering the news in a fair way and have put together a program to try to destroy Donald Trump. Would everybody agree with that? Yeah, but don't they, when will they understand that? doing that is only going to strengthen Donald Trump. They're not going to release something like, because every time they come out with something, it's always like, well, this is, here's a constitutional crisis for you.

And everybody, America's like, okay, no, it's not. And we get it. I mean, it's coming with the package. We got it. He tweets, crazy things. Whoa, whoa, what an idea. Well, it's all about money, though. So the two liberal cable networks have increased their audience by doing,

we hate Trump all the time, and there's an audience for that that comes in just to see that. So if they stop doing that, their audience goes down. So for example, Greta Van Sustrin on MSNBC did not do that, and therefore her ratings were not very good, and she got replaced. So it's about money, ideology, of course, but it's also about money. So the New York Times understands that its readership is 90% liberal,

and we're going to give that readership what they want, rather than giving the folks the truth. And that's where it's really shifted. So it's a combination of ideology and money. And therefore, and you're right, Trump's base basically doesn't even listen to it anymore, and they dig in to support their guy against this assault. One last topic on the G20 with the meeting from Putin or with Putin and with everything that's happening in the United Nations with North Korea.

Where are we headed towards here, Bill? I think that the catering will be heavy on bananas. Well, he is in Germany, so I mean, I've heard they love their bananas there. A lot of fresh fruit. Right. All of this stuff basically is schmoozing. All right. So the G20, nobody knows what that means.

It's supposed to be fostering everybody's economy and doing deals to help everybody else. But it's really a schmooze fest. The real interesting part is the Putin-Trump meeting. And Putin's got to give Trump. something today and i i have predicted on bill o'reilly dot com that he'll come out putin will and say you know what we're gonna we're gonna we're gonna score north korea too we're we're we're gonna we don't like that but he's got to give trump something because if he doesn't he's gonna make an enemy at a trump and then he'll be the subjective tweets that i mean you know you don't want to be if you're

Putin and your economy is terrible in Russia, which it is. You don't want to be Trump's enemy, you know, so I expect Putin to give him at least verbally something today. But the conference itself is just a schmooze fest. And, you know, they all have agendas, all countries have agendas, and they try to get a little here and a little there kind of deals and stuff like that. So that's what it's all about. Back with bill o'Reilly.com. Do you have to say it that way? Bill o'Reilly.com. Or can you just say at bill o'reilly.com like all normal human beings it doesn't matter really um it's how you're feeling it back really and right now i don't believe you are feeling it at all i am thinking i am thinking of

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Okay sure So Bill What are your thoughts on The GOP seemingly caving in now And just Almost admitting that they're going to bring

The Democrats in on this And we're going to go from A Democrat Light Bill Which it was with the Republicans anyway, to a full-on Democrat-inspired health care bill. They're just going to fix Obamacare. Well, I think that's a message to

the Republicans who are being very obstinate about compromising, and McConnell does what he always does. He's a Senate majority leader, of course. He says, okay, look, if you're not going to compromise with us to get at least

the semblance of free market back into the health care system, then you're going to have to deal with Chuck Schumer and these guys who are going to socialize it up, and we're going to have something really a lot worse. So that's the play. You know, look, it's a very complicated thing, obviously. A lot of people are confused about it, and I think the big thing is that the Republicans have got to get something on the board. and if they don't, they risk losing the Senate in 2018.

Because the people are waiting for some kind of accomplishment. We need a tax cut. We need new health care. We got nothing. Jobs report today, you know, very good jobs report. Trump should be running around agreement about that. The economy is getting better. I think psychologically big business likes Trump's free marketplace philosophy.

But, you know, we got to get, we as a country have to get stuff passed, and right now it's not happening. As a general philosophy, Bill, do you think it's okay to take these baby steps? Maybe you get a little bit out of this health care bill, or do you think you have to? Because the constituencies are so varied, you know, that you have to do that. And with the danger of Obamacare, and you have the insurance companies just saying, we're not going to issue any policies to America. Well, what's going to happen is that there are going to be a lot of people not going to be able to buy health insurance. And then you're really in trouble. So you have to basically stabilize first and then build on that.

Why is it, though, and maybe it's just the way it feels to me. But it seems like it's always when we have the executive branch, or Republicans have the executive, they have the Senate, they have the House. When Democrats are in that position, they never take baby steps. they get Obamacare done. When the Republicans are in the majority and have the White House, we have to do baby steps. Why is that? The Democratic Party is run now by the progressive left, which has intimidated moderate Democrats, all but one Joe Manchin, the senator from West Virginia. He seems to be the only one who will look at things and come up with a, uh,

problem-solving idea. So whatever it is inside the Democratic hierarchy, the Democrats are afraid of their leadership. The Republicans are not. They're not afraid of Ryan or of McConnell. And so very conservative Republicans say, look, we're just not going to go along with it because we want X, Y, and Z. There isn't the fear that there is in the Democratic side. Democrats vote block. I mean, Can you believe that case law might go down in the Senate? A law that is so badly needed and would protect all Americans and even immigrants and illegal aliens, everybody would be protected, and the Democratic Party is going to vote and block against it in the Senate? It's insane, but they are fearful because if they go against the hierarchy, they'll cut their money off.

all right the packs control all of the money going to people running for re-election in the Senate and the House and then they'll launch a primary you know if you're a moderate Democrat the the progressive leadership will put somebody up against you a far left person up against you and fund them and these people are scared of death of that so that's why the Democratic Party votes and block whereas the Republicans don't I mean the border is a good example of this too because it seems like a constant letdown by Republicans when they get into power. Healthcare sort of feels this way as well. And I think what's frustrating to a lot of people, Bill, is that a lot of the people now who are saying we can't get a full repeal, we can't have a

much more aggressive free market health care plan. We have to settle for this because we have a bunch of varying constituencies, which I understand. That's a very valid point. However, these same people, when they knew Barack Obama would veto it, did vote for stronger things. acted as if they wanted those things when they knew it wouldn't pass, and that, I think, is what makes people so cynical about politics. Well, people are furious in both parties. They're angry that, you know, we have a dynamic country that our leadership in Washington is basically blunting, you know, and that's, you know, whether you like Trump or not,

Trump basically rises above that and says, look, we're going to do X, Y, and Z on immigration. So what happens? Well, people don't come here down. I mean, there's a series of articles, even in the liberal press, where the Central Americans and Mexicans are saying, I'm not even going to bother. It's too expensive to do it, too dangerous to do it, and then if I get caught, I'm going to get ship right back.

So that the crossings on the southern border are way down, way down. Not because of any legislation, not because of a wall, because that wall hasn't been built yet. It's because of the perception that Trump is going to send us back. So that's the kind of leadership that is appealing to many Americans and why Trump won. But the gridlock in Washington, my God, they don't get anything done. You can't get Kate's law done? You can't get that.

Yeah. It's unbelievable. It's infuriating. The money dictates what these people do. How do you expect the G20? negotiations to affect the global banana trade? I think the banana trade after this show, the Glenn Beck show, even though he was insincere about bananas.

He was kind of insincere. This skyrocket, there's a lot of potassium involved, and we know that. All right. Now, the global warming people don't like potassium because it can impact, you know, and make things a little warmer, but I still think that the banana trade is going to go through the roof as this program spans the globe.

You really can do a monologue about anything. That's impressive. I can do five on it, no matter what you want. Would you come back on the other side, Bill? I would love to get your take on Chris Christie this week. What his future could possibly be and his wonderful... He's about his aggressive as should be.

AAA 727 back. Bill O'Reilly is with us. Glenn is going to be back here in just a couple of minutes to talk about Chris Christie, who may be the least popular governor in American history, according to polling. At least who hasn't committed a major felony, right? At least, yeah, that's the way it's going to turn out.

Pretty amazing. Back with Bill here in just a second. AAA 727 Beck is our phone number. The Glenn Beck program. Back with the one and only the legend is on mine. Bill O'Reilly. The what? What?

I didn't hear it. I said a legend. Yes. In his own mind. Bill O'Reilly from Bill O'Reilly.com, who I don't appreciate the fact that he was on my program just a few minutes ago saying that I didn't take the seizure of bananas by the oppressed as a riveting, riveting story. And somehow I was belittling bananas, the banana industry, and the need, desire, and just craven want of bananas by the oppressed. You did take Gumbridge? I took a little umbrage to that.

Bill O'Reilly, welcome back to the program. A couple of things. First of all, I heard you talk about the border wall here just a second ago. Do you think that a border wall is still going to happen? Somewhat. It's not going to be a full border wall, but they will put in a high-tech situation in various sectors that they believe. Without any movement on this now, with the trouble that... is having, does this happen

as something that he can run on and say, see, I told you I was building a wall and I have broken ground on a lot of the wall, or is this, I need these guys

in the Senate to help me to get started? No, I don't think so. Just today over in Europe, he said that once again that Mexico is going to pay for the wall. You know, he's going to do something. He can do it by executive order.

Okay. But there won't be a big, beautiful 40-foot wall with a beautiful door in it. There's going to be a big, you know, like, for example, in Texas where you live in the Big Ben National Park, you're not going to have a wall there. It's very hard to get through and all of that. You don't need it. But, you know, in places like Bisbee, Arizona, where, you know, there's a lot of trouble. then you'll see, you know, the thing go up.

So it's more of a symbolic thing than anything else. It's quite an admission, though. I mean, we're not even six months into this thing, and this is his signature issue, and it doesn't seem like anyone actually believes he's going to build this thing at this point, and not even Ann Coulter. Yeah.

But the signature issue is really the economy. I mean, that's really what it's all about. So if the economy gets better and people are making more money and they feel more secure, they're going to give him a pass on, some of the other things, as long as the intent is there. And that's what's going on. Okay. Let me switch gears and talk about a couple of other things.

First of all, the beached whale story that happened over the weekend. Oh, no, I can fuse that with the other story of Chris Christie in New Jersey. Why do you confuse that with the Chris Christie story? It's weird. He is the most unpopular governor in America now. And that's saying something. There's only three people. Is he number three at the bottom?

He's number four right now. Number four. As far as polling has ever shown. And that is ahead of him. First of all, he's at 15%. That was taken before the beach incident. So I would assume that's going to drop. The only governor's ahead of him,

In 2006, Frank Murkowski in Alaska at 14%. He named his daughter to be senator. So that was not a popular move. 2008, Rod Blagojevich, who went to 8%. Obviously, he's in prison. Yeah, he also went to prison. In 2005, also a criminal charges against Bob Taft in Ohio. He came in at 7%.

So what happened with Chris Christie? Well, Christie's play is this. He knows that he's not going to do public service ever again. This is what I believe. All right. So he's out of the public service business. So what business does he want to get into besides importing bananas? He wants to get into the media business, right? That's what he wants to do. Now there's been all kinds of rumors in the New York area that he wants to do sports radio, radio talk, that kind of thing. So what better way to get his name out there as a controversial guy than to go to his lavish beach home as the state of New Jersey

provides their governors when all the other beaches are closed because the state couldn't pass a budget. So he's the only one on the beach and then he allows himself to be photographed in a lounge chair with a grin on his face. He knows what he's doing. He's engendering controversy to get his name out there so he'll get some kind of media play. But that's not a guy that, I mean, I'm not excited to tune in the guy who just gave his

state the shaft. I mean, it's not like, oh man, I can't wait to hear what he has to say. He goes to sports. And he could go to, he could go to news too on the radio. I don't think he could do TV. Are you fashion? He'll get a sampling back. He will.

I mean, people around here will tune him in. I think, I think you're right. On politics, you know, radio is so heavily right. And Chris Christie has almost zero credibility with the right, which is amazing because he went from... He'll go in and he'll and he'll shake it, you know. So he's got, that's what he's angling for. And I think he's going to get some kind of media contract I do. That's amazing. I mean, because he doesn't really align with us policy-wise, but for fat, TV hosts that are male. This is

a place for them at the place. Yeah, we're all fat here. Maybe you want to use the word Zoftig instead of, you know, fat's a little blunt. Are we getting a word of the day? I think we are. Zoftig? I've never heard of Zoftig. Use it in a sentence. It's a German-based

word back. I picked it up when I was in Berlin. With the bananas. Or maybe rotund. Yeah, Rotund, I know. Rubinesque is another one. But Zoftig is is not a pretty word. Let's switch gears to the baby in England,

11 months old, national health care. They want to pull the plug. We're waiting for the English version of the Supreme Court to give the final ruling on whether they pull the plug on this baby. The baby has already been accepted to a hospital here in America, in New York. The Vatican has offered to take.

the baby at their Bambino hospital. In fact, the Pope yesterday said they will issue the family a Vatican passport so the baby can be taken out of the hospital and make them Vatican citizens. What do you think is about this story? Well, I think the British authorities be insane not to allow the Vatican to take the baby and treat the baby. And, you know, Trump has weighed in and said, we'll take the baby here in the USA.

and there'll be enough people, of course, to donate money to pay the bills and stuff like that. So if the British government, you know, says, no, we're going to allow the baby to die, that's going to be an enormously big story. That's going to be really bad for the UK. So I don't believe they'll do it. But I'd like to see them cooperate with the Vatican on that, on a life issue like that. So what's amazing, if you haven't followed this story, go to charlie's fight.org,

Charlie's Fight.org. I think this is a battle for more than just the Western way of life. This is a battle bill that is a bellwether on our humanity as the West. Well, it certainly goes right into the euthanasia and abortion debate. But, you know, clear-thinking human beings will say, look, if the baby is going to be treated, let the process play out. You know, why would you want to abort the process? So, yeah, you're right.

I mean, these crazy, insane choice people, not everybody is at that level who just say, you know, euthanasia, fine, whatever you want to do, fine. the state of Oregon totally out of control. No limits on abortion. You can do whatever you want for whatever reason. There's nothing stopping or protecting the fetus, the unborn. We reach a point in a moral conversation where you can't defend these kinds of actions. And the UK could not defend not allowing that baby every opportunity and it's family. So, Bill, where do you, this is the Slate magazine, came out immediately and said,

The right's going to make this into death panels. Of course. Of course. And that's what this is. This is a death panel. Sure. It would be the baby doesn't have the right to treatment. Yeah, to eat up more resources.

Yeah, to treatment. Right. I mean, it's as simple. Is that even though the baby has an opportunity to go away from the U.K. so that they don't have to deal with the situation any longer. So that's why I'm saying that the British aren't stupid. They're not going to do that. So if you have, can we just noodle this out for a second?

If you have socialized medicine, and you're going to have to ration medicine, which they are, they're so far in debt with their nationalized medicine over in Great Britain. It's killing them. And they have to ration the care. So if you're rationing the care, you have to make those decisions that says this is not worth the investment because the odds of survival are so low. What makes that argue from a logical point of view to a liberal that says, well, yeah, but why should this baby have a chance? because they have wealth or access to money,

but nobody else's baby has that chance. We have to, even the playing field, and everybody has to have a fair shake. Well, when you're talking about life and death, there isn't a matter of a comparative matter. It's a matter if you can save the baby or you can along gate the baby's life, you do it. And economics shouldn't enter into it.

I don't believe in socialized medicine. lived in England for a year. I know that there's a backup. I know that in Canada, for example, you have to wait for complicated surgery, which is why thousands of Canadians come to the United States for it. So that kind of the government makes calls the shots on life and death. That is not compatible with my view of life. And I think most people in America would say the same thing. We just don't want that. We don't government saying who lives and who dies because of money. Did you read the Pope's actual statement? I did not read it.

You should, Bill, as a Catholic, I'd be interested in hearing what you have to say. Because he didn't say, he said, you know, this is a very complicated matter, which it's really not. It's not complex. The money is there. The baby has been offered treatment elsewhere. It's not complex at all. but he was not John Paul

who would have come out and had come out and said that big state making decisions for families is not right and the family needs to be empowered and all life is sacred he didn't use any of that language he said it was a complicated matter he understood and we shouldn't reject the state being involved basically saying you know we

We need to understand that parents sometimes have a hard time with these decisions and shouldn't be left alone. It was a really treading the line kind of statement. All right, but he made the offer. So that's number one. And he is a different guy. He's not doctrinaire. He tries to get as many people as possible into his outlook or his point of view. and he doesn't like to make judgments about certain things because then he

he believes that alienage people and and cuts off the conversation. So I'm a big action to speak louder than words guy, and I applaud what the Vatican is doing. I hope the UK takes their offer and sends the family to Rome and let the life process play out there. And that would be a huge win for not only the family and the baby, but for the cause of life. And so that's what I hope happens.

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And we thought, uh-oh, did we do something wrong? No, there's a lot of celebrities that are being really, really wronged by something. We don't tell you this story. Just flat out lies. Yeah, we want to tell you this story coming up in just a second. The Blaze Radio Network on demand. Hello, America, and welcome to Friday. We are so glad that you have tuned in today.

There was a commercial that, or an ad, that was running on the blaze, and I saw it, and it wasn't a direct advertiser. It's one of these things, it's complicated to say, but basically an ad agency represents, you know, all of these different people. And so you sign on with the ad agency, and then the ad agency just runs whatever ad. Well, there's this ad that was running, and it was about a new face cream. And the headline on the ad was Joanna Gaines leaves the show and Chip didn't even know why.

And I'm like, what the hell is Chip and Joanna Gaines? What is this? The lies in this are so amazing. I immediately called our sales manager and said, cancel this. What is this? How can they possibly get away with a lie?

And actually I said, I don't mind if they sell face cream, but not with lies. Well, when they said, wait a minute, you're telling us that we have to change our ad copy? Yes, it can't be a lie. They canceled. That's a quarter of a million dollar account. A month, right? Yeah, a month. And you see this ad everywhere because people don't care.

I happen to care but it's really hard especially for conservatives who have been blocked out of almost everything to walk away from $250,000 a month. That's a lot of money obviously.

So we've been talking how does this company get away with this? Well when I told this story on the air the first day, Chip and Joanna Gaines attorney called and said we want to talk to you about that ad.

And we immediately said, we had nothing to do with it. We didn't even know that's what the ad was until it popped up and we canceled it. They said, yeah, we really would like this ad to stop. Yeah. Can you help us at all? And so I hope that we are assisting them in every possible way. Because I love these two.

And I think what's happening to people, because this is not just happening to Chip and Joanna Gaines, This has happened into a ton of celebrities. I want to know what the legal recourse is. How can that ad run? We have one of the best attorneys on the phone with us to answer this question. And we begin right now. Enlightenment.

This is the Glenn Beck program. Okay. Let's just read the first paragraph of this ad. it is. And like you said, this is everywhere. It's all over the internet. But it starts out by saying, it all started last November when Joanna Gaines, host of the popular HDTV show, Fixer Upper, signed a deal with Shark Tank's Lori Greiner. It didn't happen. The deal states that Joanna's new cosmetics line, there isn't one. Line number two. Will be picked up and promoted by the shopping channel QVC. No, Joanna is very proud of her line.

Lie number four. She has been quoted in his saying. They're attributing quotes here. This is more than just a beauty line. This is what every woman has been dreaming of for most of her adult life. Line number five. The problem is HGTV and QVC arrival competitors. That's actually now currently a lie as of today.

Right? Was it a QVC? What was the... Cubicin just bought HSN, the home shopping network. For $2.1 billion? A couple dollars. There is a clause in Joanna's HGTV. contract that clearly says she's forbidden

from promoting or doing business with any other channel or media company. Now that might be true. It was later discovered not even her husband chip knew that she was what she was constructing in the background. Now you're starting to get into their relationship. And when I read that, I was like no way.

They go so far as to say when her hidden secret surfaced it caused a rift in their marriage. Okay, so that does damage. That does damage to their image. Right. I mean, I like them because they're such a great family and such a great couple. You're talking libel now. Oh, my gosh.

This is horrible. So now we're up to lie seven. Because of this, HGTV has decided to let him carry on the show by himself without a line number eight in one paragraph. Okay. That's one paragraph. There are more lies to follow. We cannot figure out because this is not just happening to them. This is happening to, I saw.

Stephen Hawking and Anderson Cooper are taking a new brain drug that makes them super smart. Yeah. That's been around. There's another one involving Michael Jordan and LeBron James. And they're having some kind of feud and they're selling a product. My free bottles haven't arrived yet. Mike Regal is truly, he has a national practice on media law, emphasis on defending news and entertainment organizations from news gathering to public-related claims. including defamation, copyright infringement, invasion of privacy matters.

He is one of the best attorneys in America. When companies see him coming and his firm coming, they realize, holy crap, we have the big dogs coming after us. He is my attorney and just, I can't speak highly enough about him. So we called him up and we asked him, how do they get away with this? Mike, welcome to the program. Yeah, good morning, Glenn, and thank you very much for your kind words. They're much appreciated. Well, the answer to the examples you've raised on the air is that they really are unlawful, and the law has long recognized what's known as the right of publicity. And really what that boils down to is each individual person has a legally protectable interest in their name, their image, their image, their likeness and their voice.

So, for example, if I'm selling cars or a product or a service in the Dallas-Fort Worth metro area, I could not take a picture of Glenn Beck and put it up on a billboard for passing motorists to see where you're touting the product or the service, unless I had your express written authorization to do that. And the reason is obvious is that you have a recognizable brand value, an identity that has commercial value in the marketplace, and you and you alone should be able to control the dissemination of your image for commercial marketing purposes, and you should be able to collect and monetize that. You know, typically, of course, this occurs with celebrities and people whose identities have recognized market value, although

in most jurisdictions, no one could do that to say me either, although I obviously do not have a recognized marketability factor or quotient in my own persona. Okay, so hang on, Mike. So here's the thing. I have seen these everywhere. And, you know, when I first saw the one about the brain drug, I wrote to Anderson and I'm like, oh, so that's what it is, huh? And he was like, these are so obnoxious. Joanna and Chip, they called our office and said, we're trying to track these people down because they keep just shuddering their business.

And I guess they'll shudder it and then open it up. And somehow or another, they're getting away with it. And I don't know why. and on top of it institutions like me like glenbeck.com or the blaze we took this ad unbeknownst to us because it was just in a service

that you buy the service and then they fill the ads with what they're selling when I saw it we took it down it cost us a fortune to lose that and everyone else is taking it so there's money being made by the people

that are doing the face cream. There's money being made by all the media outlets that are taking this. There's money being made by the agencies that are representing this. And they know that there's somehow or another a game being played and all the celebrities that are involved, don't want to spend the money trying to track these guys down because there's obviously not deep pockets or the pockets are so well protected in shell companies that there's nothing to go.

and get. How do you stop it? Well, that's really a difficult question. And I think you're putting your finger on the real problem, Glenn, today for most celebrities who do have recognized commercial value and appeal in their persona. With the proliferation of these examples on the Internet, it's very difficult to monitor for first thing. And then if you are able to discover these types of things. It's an expensive proposition sometimes because they're all over the place. So most of the time, if you're able to identify a truly unauthorized ad where somebody is using your image and your likeness for a commercial purpose that you have not consented to or authorized, you can go to court get an injunction whereby the court would order the person who is displaying this

a URL site or a website or something to cease and desist from continuing to publish the act. As you correctly point out, however, that can be a not expensive and sometimes inconvenient proposition. And it doesn't fully answer the whack-a-moe problem. Once you get one of them down, it pops up again someplace else. So that's what I want to concentrate on that for a second. second. What they do, I'm sure, and I don't know the case of this company, but what it appears to be is, you know, they'll just make a quick 501c3 or whatever. Is that the right thing? Yeah,

a corporation and S corp. And they'll just make a quick S corp and a shell corporation of some sort. They'll put limited resources in it. They'll buy it, but they won't keep any money in it. And then if you sue that company, there's nothing really to win. And the people just leave to go do it again under some other company name and some other way. How do you get to the people when you know their intent is bad? You know, you want that protection from a corporation in some cases. But when you have really bad guys using the system, is there anything to get to the actual perpetrators? Well, it can be really difficult.

and I had a case a few years ago for a very prominent professional athlete, a tennis player, and his name and image was being used to promote a rather unsavory product. And he in no way authorized this. He did not want the association with his identity in the market because he felt that it devalued his own sponsorship abilities, and we ended up tracking this down, and it was some company offshore, you know, down in the Cayman Islands, and thankfully we were able to get the ad shut down on the website because we went back. We got a court order and went to Internet service providers like Google and said,

you can't display this anymore. But being able to recover actual financial damages from the perpetrators is extraordinary. impractical and very unlikely. So, Mike, let me just ask you an off-the-wall question. And you know me, I don't need another project, and I just don't need more hassles in my life. But this is something that really bothers me. Because when I saw it on the blaze, if we don't have a way to say to agencies, you cannot lie. These things are just going to keep coming through and slipping through the cracks,

and it hurts my credibility as a news organization. Most people don't care. And it also bothers me that people like Chip and Joanna, if people don't say anything and try to help these guys and the Tom Brady's and LeBron James and Michael Jordan and Anderson Cooper and even Stephen Hawking, the next people will be us. And is there a way?

Would you be interested in seeing if we reached out to all these people? I would like to as a media company just be a part of something that is trying to enforce truth in advertising. Is it possible? Would it help if everybody got together and tried to stop it? Well, I think there's always strength in numbers. I think there is a threshold obligation here to Glenn on the part of the advertising agency. they should have some up front ability to determine before placing an ad. They didn't care. That it's authentic and it's real.

Because otherwise, once the genies out of the bottle, so to speak, it's just very, very difficult to prevent this type of thing from spiraling out of control on the Internet. And then once it's out there on all these websites, it's difficult to get it back in. Mike, if you would do me a favor, just noodle this for a second, and maybe I'll call you a week and touch base in the next week or so. I would like to reach out to these people and see if there's any interest in working together. And again, I don't want to lead it or anything else, but you are so good. And if it's not you, maybe you know who is that somebody can make a dent.

Because if it is the advertiser, we have to go after the ad agencies. Somebody needs to protect the truth. Yeah, there should be accountability here, and in substantial measure, as often happens with technology, sometimes things outstrip or outpace the ability of the legal system to provide an effective remedy. And here, I think it's probably a situation that merits consideration from those are involved, because for a someone who is really worked hard, achieved security. success to be associated with an unauthorized product or service that may actually be disreputable can obviously cause damage to that person's market value and reputation. And the legal system should be able to find a way to stop that sort of thing from happening. Mike Regal, thank you so much.

I appreciate it, Mike. Yep, thank you, Glenn. Appreciate it. Take care. You bet. my attorney on First Amendment and speech and investigative issues. Mike Gregole was just fantastic. Now this, by the way, Chip and Joanna, we love you.

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this stuff has been going on for a long time. You heard the latest about Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemmings. They found the Sally Hemings house. Reposantly on the premises of Monticello. And every time that comes up, they perpetrate the lie. Okay. Every time. This time, they were quoting the newspaper that said, you know, Joe Blow said back

then that, you know, in the newspaper that he had several children with Sally Hemings. Okay. That was known as a lie, a political lie, during a campaign at the time. It's every bit as legitimate as John Adams is a hermaphrodite and the face cream thing. Yes. They're all bogus. Right. That was a lie about John Adams and he was a hermaphrodite.

He wasn't. It was a political lie at the time. Was it in the paper? Yes. But so is the Garth Brooks juice diet. That didn't work either in the paper. This is the Glenn Beck program. Mercury.

Program. Yeah. It is the final weekend for the stew thing, the wonderful stew show. The last show of the season. Last of the season. Season finale tonight. I have binged on all of these. They are great to binge on.

They are. I've caught up to them now. and I've seen Oh So you've seen every... Oh my. You could describe it in pretty great detail then? Yeah.

What I don't know is how the guy who's the head butler in this show is going to save his marriage even though they think that maybe he killed a man. You might be on another show actually. Really? Yeah, wonderful what is do.

There's no butler. It provides insightful, entertaining commentary about important issues that matter to you. So what are you covering tonight? It's doing. Well, first of all, we're going to amend the Constitution briefly. We're going to get that done. I fully support this. Pat is a supporter of this.

I want to get some people to sign on to this. I want actual politicians. I think I can send letters out to every senator and congressman to support my one person, one bathroom constitutional amendment. It's important. It is important. We always talk about, hey, what person should go into what bathroom? How about, I don't know, you're just in the bathroom by yourself. How about that for an option?

It's in the year 2017. We don't need to have shared bathrooms anymore. So the problem would be that most of, you know, almost every office would have to have a whole floor of just bathrooms. It's not true. The amount of bathrooms would not need to change. What needs to change is walling off the toilets. That's all you have to do. And not, by the way, these little walls they put in between stalls now that are like,

From like for some reason, thigh level to stomach level. Makes them go to the ceiling and the floor. That's what walls are supposed to do. Regulations cost and business money. Could I get a drink cup, though, for the bathroom stall? You want to drink? Like a cup holder? Yeah, did I tell you this story?

No. Okay, so I was in Vegas, and we were in this shady, old part of Vegas, and we're at this I don't want to say which one it was, but one of the older, you know, Frank Sinatra kind of places. And it's kind of gone downhill a little bit. Okay. And so all of us, we went and we had lunch there. And so we're getting ready to leave. And everybody has to go to the bathroom, but everybody's like, I don't know if I want to go to the bathroom here. And I'm like, guys, we just ate here. You don't want to go to the bathroom here. That's a problem. So we go in. and I'm standing there and, you know, taking care of some business.

And I'm looking at the side of the stall. And there's this little thing and I can't figure out what it is. And then I noticed that it has an indentation, the size of a cup. And I realize it's an actual cup holder. So if you're coming in with your beer, I just stand there and put the cup holder right next to the toilet. That's smart. Which is very appealing. I will say, as probably the only one in this room,

who has been in the scenario where they're stumbling around a casino and have with a drink. You are very thankful for the place. Yes. I just thought it should be up higher. Yes. I would agree with that. Maybe on the other side of the wall. That's why I go to classy casinos.

Yeah, right. You know what I mean? The classy casinos have the drink holder in the toilet a little bit higher. It's not you know you're in a good place. It was just like, woo. Okay. I will say there might not be any Vegas trips for you in the future, considering what else is happening on the Wonderful World of Sue this weekend.

liberal radio TV icon Garth Bunk has an expose on you. On me. And your little transition that people just suddenly are believing that you've gone from Mr. Hater to Mr. Lovable. Oh, you're the nicest guy in the world. Getting along with everybody these days. Well, Garth Bunk has some material that would show the true Glenn Beck. And that's on tonight as well.

If you haven't seen the Garth Bunk show, you have really missed. out. That's tonight on The Wonderful World of Stu. Skating. All right. Can we go to the sports desk now? Yes. We had, we've got music. Nice. Yeah. That's intense. That's really intense. We're going to talk about a little

of everything all the way down to badminton because we like the birds over the net and the birds that are in the stands. You know what I'm saying? And since we're coming off bathroom talk, maybe we should start with the 30 for 30 documentary on the decathlon that just came out. ESPN has a great series of documentaries called 30 for 30. They just launched a podcast

for documentaries on that topic by the same people that are producing them. And they tell great stories from sports history. They're really well done. Pat and I both really love them. They're great. But I listened to the first one, which was about Dan and Dave. Do you remember Dan and Dave in the 90s? It was a huge... Decahathletes. They're expected to win the gold and silver, maybe even for the United States in the Olympics. In 1992 in Barcelona. So Reebok, which at the time was not a big shoe brand. They were just kind of like not really even competitors with Nike.

We're trying to raise their profile. Dumped $25 million into this ad campaign for these two guys that no one had ever heard of and kind of build a rivalry leading up to the Olympics. Well, the whole story is, I mean, it's a great story because they dumped all this money in it really didn't work out. Although, maybe there were parts of it that did. And the documentary really covers all the ins and outs of it. But this, so when you're talking decathlon, you're talking Olympics. You're talking Bruce Jenner, though, right?

Bruce Jenner is the guy when you're talking about this event in American history. He is, in 1976, you know, he's the guy. He was on Wheaties boxes. Yeah. I mean, he was a household name. He was a major brand in and of himself. I mean, he was an American hero. And I don't care.

Notice the way we're even talking about this. We are discussing Bruce Jenner as if he's dead. He was. He was a household name. Yeah, yeah. So the Bruce Jenner that we grew up with is dead. He has been reborn as Caitlin. To be able to talk about him as a man, it has to be past tense.

Right. But when you're talking about him in that past tense, even if you are a person who says, I'm calling her Caitlin now, and you're fully on board with that. You still refer to him as Bruce when you're talking about 1976, right? Yes, you have to. And that's what they did. Here's, this is either Dan or Dave.

I'm not sure. Do you know which one? I remember eating lunch with Bruce Jenner, and Bruce kept telling me, Bruce. Only thing people are going to remember is the Olympic Games. And I thought to myself, man, this guy's crazy. This guy, this guy, called him Bruce, this man. Wait a minute. Are we saying that he's in trouble for this?

Well, listen. So there's another clip. I think we have Dave as well talking about this, Pat. Well, it's interesting. Jackie Joyner-Cursey made the comment that I could be the next Bruce Jenner. And that was what I was striving to do, you know, most of my career. He was the hero that we all needed in 1976. And he was the Golden Boy. This is all accurate. Golden Boy, hero. This is all accurate. That's how you would do it, right? Yes. Even if you're completely on board.

Now here comes ESPN. Here comes ESPN. This is how they started the podcast. It's the story of a 1992 Reebok ad campaign 25 years ago this summer, unlike anything anyone had seen before. Reebok spent some $25 million on the campaign featuring two top decafons,

a sum equal to their entire previous year's marketing budget. Those who remember the story, remember it as a bust, many more twists and turns along the way for Reebok, the two athletes, and the sport of track and field. All right, I'm ready. One note, this episode features references to legendary decathlete, Caitlin Jenner. Wait, wait, wait, wait, what? Legendary athlete, there is no legendary decathlete, Caitlin Jenner.

Look it up. You're not going to see the name. You're not going to see it. Burrs to be referred to as Bruce in regards to her decaplon career. Wait, wait, wait, wait. In regards to her decafalon. She prefers to be referred to as Bruce. So they put a disclaimer at the beginning of this podcast to tell you that they're calling him Bruce when he was Bruce.

However, even when Bruce or Caitlin now says he wants to be referred to as Bruce, they still feel the need to tell you that it's Caitlin and Caitlin was the famous decathlete from the 1970s. Unbelievable. If Kate, first of all, we're rewriting history. We're rewriting history. Caitlin is not in the record books. No. In U.S. history, you're not going to find it. There is no legendary decathlete named Caitlin Jenner.

Secondarily, if Caitlin Jenner, if Bruce Jenner was a woman in 1976, which is what we're supposed to believe, we should strip the medals away from Bruce Jenner because Caitlin was performing in the wrong division. This is absolutely false advertising by her. her, right? If Caitlin Jenner was actually Bruce at the time and was a woman, that would be against Olympic rules to compete in that division. The truth is it was a man, of course.

ESPN is ludicrous. ESPN has gone, and it's the Disney mentality. It's just gone nuts. They've just gone nuts. I mean, I can understand, if you want to be on board and say, hey, it's Caitlin now, and I'm going to call her her, and

whatever she wants, we're going to do. But to change history and say there was a legendary DeCathlet named Caitlin Jenner is just ridiculous. I don't have a problem with the disclaimer just because of all the people who take it upon themselves to say, I'm going to be the Sentinel and the Guardian for Caitlin. I have no problem with the deal.

It says, hey, this story involves now Caitlin Jenner, who prefers to be called Bruce for this time period of his life. And then leave it at that. But what they did is there being the guardians and basically saying, hey, we all have to accept him as her now because that's what he prefers,

but she also prefers to be called him for this time period, but we're not going to listen to that because we know better. That's crazy. I would say they're actually saying Bruce is wrong. Yes, they are. That's how it comes off. Their bigotry is showing here. Yeah.

They are bigotty. They are not about, oh, let's celebrate our diversity and let's celebrate how each of us can make our own way and decide who we are. No, she just ask for you to call her, him for this time period. Now, it's complex, but it's not that complex. You're saying, she is wrong. She was always a she and never a him, no matter what he says. And Caitlin was a legendary athlete. Don't you ever call him him when it's a her because of his choice to be her.

Because I think you can take it as they put the disclaimer in to push aside, liberal complaints. Yes, I agree. You can say that. However, the way, you're right, the way they phrase it is they're actually being critical. But he starts with this includes a legendary decathlon, Caitlin Jenner. That's in violation of what he just asked you to do.

Right. Right. So I think they're covering their butts for other transgendered persons who don't feel the way Caitlin Jenner does. Aren't we supposed to celebrate diversity? No. No. Absolutely not.

Not in this circumstance. No. What you want to do as an individual. It exposes that as an absolute lie and exposes ESPN as nothing but cowards. Just cowards.

This is not the only one, though. Have you seen the ad? I don't even know. Who is running it? The NCAWA is running it. The one, are we talking about the same ad where they're saying the gender thing?

Yeah. The gender doesn't play sports. Yeah, listen to this. Listen to this. By the way, these are a whole bunch of different women playing sports here. Enough. Uh-oh. Yeah, I'm over it.

We shouldn't need commercials to tell you we're powerful. No, thanks. Genders don't play sports. Athletes do. And why do we have Title IX? Right. We don't need it anymore. If there's no genders in sports.

Why do we have the WNBA? Women's basketball. I mean, I would really... I would really like to suggest to the NBA that they start to draft women. Yes. And let's just see how that goes. If the NBA controls the WNBA, they subsidize it.

Close it. Or you know what? Close the doors. you know what? Here's, start letting men being drafted into the WNBA. There would be no WNBA in the WNBA. That was the case. Right.

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Mercury. The Glenn Beck Program. There's a lot to cover on Monday when we come back. I want to get to the Derek Carr story because not only of all of the money that he's going to donate to tithing, but also now that there's. leaving Oakland to go to Vegas, it's going to save him $8.5 million in taxes. Jeez.

Bye, bye, California. France is saying the end of sales of gas and diesel cars by 2040 in France. This is mandated. We'll tell you about that Monday. Program. Mercury.