The Glenn Beck Program - 8/2/17 - The End of Innocence (Walter Olson & Chad Robichaux Join Glenn)

Episode Date: August 2, 2017

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And enlightenment. This is the Glenn Beck program. I am in a very interesting place in my life. with almost everything. I am finding myself torn between what is lost and what we're about to find. What is gone, the lost opportunities, and the opportunities on the horizon. I want to talk to you about two children today. This week, Charlie Gard would have been a year old.

It was a year ago this week that Connie Yates gave birth to Charlie. Proud dad, Chris Gard, gathered him up and their belongings in the hospital room in England and the happy parents headed home with what they thought was a completely healthy, perfect baby boy. Little did they know then two months later they would be rushing him back to the hospital. It was last Friday, just a few days away from his first birthday, that the first birthday, that the first day. the valiant effort to save their precious son ended. A nine-month struggle between the hospital and parents. A hospital and a government with its heartless socialist health care system that said, we are in charge of this child, you are not.

All the parents were asking for was a chance to save their baby. Just a chance. Just a chance. Isn't that? Haven't we all been there? Haven't we all had something happen with our family members or our children where we have just said, Lord, give me a chance, give it to me? Just is there a chance? Not desperate negotiation. They weren't asking for anything from the hospital or the British government. They had raised well over a million to have Charlie enter a program here in the United States for an experimental treatment that an American doctor said would help, but they were stopped by the hospital at every turn. They were stopped and litigated at every turn.

They took their baby to the hospital for treatment, and when the hospital said it's time to give up hope, all they asked was for the opportunity to have hope and go someplace else at no cost to the taxpayer or to the hospital. But the hospital could not lose this. See, this is the deal about socialism. You cannot eject yourself from it because you will make the state look bad. The fight to save Charlie's life

was drawn out so long by the hospital and by the government that by the time that it got down to it, the treatment was no longer effective. It was too late for Charlie. Now, the British authorities still think they did the right thing. They still believe that they knew what was best for the infant. He needed to die, quote, with dignity, end quote. I mean, at 11 months old, it's hard to fathom how dignity you're crapping yourself and wetting yourself.

How is dignity? Die with dignity. How about dying with the parents? How about dying at home? in the arms of your mother and father, quiet, away from the machines. The hospital wouldn't allow that to happen. The hospital took the parents back to court again in the final hours of his life and said, he's got to stay in the hospital.

You can't take him home. The parents begged, okay, then can we just stay with him the entire time? That wasn't even good enough. In my opinion, the hospital was exacting a cost, teaching a lesson. How dare you question us? How dare you make our life uncomfortable? We told you from the beginning. This child was ours, not yours.

And now, now you come to us and you want to be with him? No. Set an example so no one else dares. cross the state. This is a story that caught the attention of the Western world, not the Eastern world. The Eastern world doesn't care about stuff like this. The Western world does. It caught the attention of the entire West, not just because of the suffering of the baby, but the annihilation of the family. I was working on a couple of things last night for the show. one of them was this and the other was the story that broke my heart yesterday.

And there were two songs that kept going through my head. And it is the same, I'm torn. I don't know if you heard yesterday's show. Yesterday's show, we introduced you to a woman named Amy. She lives in Redmond, Oregon. It's this little teeny town. just outside of the national forest. Amy has two children.

They've both been taken from her. They've been taken from her because the state says that she's not smart enough. She has an IQ of 72. I don't know what I expected when I spoke to Amy, but for the state to say, you're not capable of taking care of your own child, that you're just too stupid. I expected somebody that, quite honestly, did not sound like this.

It's been hard, but it's worth it to get my story out there so that people know that you can get your kids back as long as you just fight. Fight for everything you have because your kids are worth it. Has a lawyer stepped up to help you yet? I have a court-appointed attorney and an appeals attorney, but I have a court-appointed attorney, but I, I would like to see if I could find someone that's out of state that can better represent me. Why? Because all the attorneys and all of the state workers, they all live there in town in this small little town, and they're all just making deals. She wants somebody who's neutral, somebody who will look at the facts. Somebody that will look at her as a person. I felt so horrible, yes,

yesterday. When I interviewed her, here's what basically I was saying. America needs to have you step up and justify your motherhood. And the moment she started to speak when I said, tell me your story, and I heard who clearly she was, I realized all of us. And yesterday, me, me, I had. I had. had become a voice from the past. You must all know half a dozen people at least who are no use in this world, who are more trouble than they are worth. Just put him there and say, sir or madam,

now will you be kind enough to justify your existence? If you can't justify your existence, if you're not pulling your weight in the social vote, then clearly we cannot use the big organization of our society for the power. of keeping you alive. Wasn't that exactly what I was saying? This is George Bernard

Shaw. Oh, the famous playwright that everybody learns from progressive universities, how wonderful he was. The guy who was the first to say, maybe we should have a gas chamber of sorts. Maybe, as he's saying here, we ought to line people up once a year and say,

sir, madam, justify to us, society, your existence. Because we can't keep you alive. just to exist, Amy, you've got an IQ of 72. Madam, stand up and justify your motherhood. Show us the intellectuals, the people who are far smarter than you. Justify that you should be allowed to have your baby.

A woman who is going to school for the last two years. to try to be a better mother, who the state has nothing on. No neglect, no abuse, nothing. Yes, could something happened? Yes, something could. So we're going to now protect every child that we say, oh, something could happen to that child. Nothing has happened to that child.

The house is clean. Mother is attentive. She's taken everything the state has required. She loves her children. Who do we think we are? What have we become? That broke my heart all day yesterday. I was on the verge of tears all day yesterday.

You remember the song End of the Innocence by Don Henley? I know that became a big story about Ronald Reagan, you know. Because in the video, there's one deal about, you know, we elected this old man, beating plowshares into swords. But it also had pictures of Deely Plaza. It talked about a loss of innocence. I listened to it last night, laying in bed. Remember when the days were long and rolled beneath a deep blue sky?

You didn't have a care in the world with mom and dad standing by. Who knows how long this will last? Now we've come so far so fast. But somewhere back there in the dust, that same small town in each of us. I need to remember this. Let me take a long last look before we say goodbye. But this is the end of innocence.

It was interesting to me that I ended my day, with that song last night, that that's what came to mind. Because I started my day with something from the Gougu dolls. And I listened to the lyrics yesterday morning as I got up and turned on the shower. I started my day. With this, you ask me what I want this year. I'll try to make it kind and clear. Just a chance that we will find better days.

I don't need boxes wrapped in strings, designer love and empty things, just a chance that maybe we'll find better days. I need someplace simple where we could live and something only you can give, and that's faith and trust and peace while we're alive. The one poor child who saved this world. There's 10 million more who probably could If we all just stopped and set a prayer for them I wish that everyone was loved tonight And somehow stop this endless fight Just for the chance that maybe we'll find better days

So take these words and sing out loud Because everyone is forgiven now Because tonight's the night The world be able begins again, somehow stop this endless fight. We haven't been innocent for a long time. I don't know if anybody ever really was innocent. But there was something about believing in a better tomorrow, and I still do.

But I won't be able to do it if we can't stand up for people like Amy. if we can't stand up to a state that says, sir or madam, justify to us your existence. Our sponsor, this half hour is American financing, a better mortgage experience. Whether you're looking to buy or refinance, American financing is your answer, because they have a salary-based consultant that's on the phone with you working dedicated to making sure that you get a smart mortgage choice so you can make a decision and something that will align with your financial needs

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Sign up for the newsletter and get all the info you need. to know at glenbeck.com let me go to charles in florida hello charles you're on the glenbeck program hi how are you sir turn turn your radio down you're on yeah i'm all i appreciate uh take my call i really didn't want to take a call i just wanted to send some money if that lady you're talking about with the governor trying to make her prove she's smart enough to have her kids and i'm going to give her a hundred dollars oh good for you i think other good americans don't do the same thing Thank you very much. I appreciate that. Then they set something up.

There's a place that you can go and send her some money. They've had it up for a while. They need to reach $30,000. And the last I saw it was $300. Nobody knows about this. By the way, we have a reporter who has been following this for a while now. and we just want to check in to everything. I just want to turn over every stone.

You know, she's just up against a wall. And I don't know how she's going to, I don't know how she's going to fare. And I think she's pretty alone. Her husband is not as sharp as she is. I don't know much about the husband. What I found out about her father, I don't want to

I don't want to bad mouth anybody's parent I don't know the situation but his her father doesn't sound like a great guy the aunt is on her side and say look

my niece is capable here's a girl that gets up every day and works at the grocery store now she can't find a job lost her job at the grocery store and now can't find a job this family is just under attack and we'll have more information on this and more ways for you to get involved and help.

But the first thing you need to do is help spread the word about this story, make people aware of this story. And then we'll have action steps we can all take. That program. Mercury. Oh, boy. Republicans in Congress are trying to bypass Trump to shore up health care. Donald Trump has said that the White House is a real dump. more on Scaramucci.

Is any of that, I mean, what are we going to do about any of that? We're going to go into it a little bit today so you're aware of it, especially what the Congress is doing to try to cut the president off. Like, the president is the problem with the health care thing? I think it's you, Congress.

I think the president's ready to sign... Anything. Anything they give him. There is another story from Kalamazoo. that I think is important to watch. Five-month-old boy now fighting the same disease that Charlie Gard had. Five-month-old boy in Kalamazoo, Michigan, it's rare.

It's life-threatening. The parents are telling local press now, they're fighting and doing everything they can to save his life. Baby Russell is the name of the baby. Same disease, Charlie Gard. Let's see how things work here. as opposed to socialized medicine. Let's see what happens with this group of parents. Can we get them on and see what the,

have they even, have they talked to the hospital in New York, the doctor who is specializing? Have they gotten to him yet? Yeah, they're trying to get him to Boston. Won't it be interesting if they can get him to Boston in a horrible, horrible free market system where people are dying on the streets? for an experimental

procedure to try to save his life, where in the glorious socialized medicine world, they just let the kid die and argued about it. Unbelievable. There's also another story that I think you need to be aware of that I think is really very... It explains a lot. You know, I'm a dog lover.

and for any of you who have dogs, if you have a dog, you're going to really want to pay attention to this one. Hipsters in Brooklyn, they're woke, okay? So, you know, can't put them to sleep. They know what's going on. They're woke.

Hipsters now in Brooklyn are now seeing the stories about the, you know, vaccinating children and how that's turning everybody into a robot and autism and everything else. I know I'm not willing to wholly reject that, but I'm also not willing to wholly embrace that. But I'm willing to listen to that. But here's, they've taken it a step further. In Brooklyn now, there is a very high number of hipsters

that are not willing to vaccinate their dogs because they believe that that will give their dog, increased autism chance of having autism and I will tell you something let me tell you something my dog is 77 still doesn't say a word to me and what and can't read just still cannot read I think he's on the spectrum yeah big time on the autistic spectrum he once in a while he'll bite and chew on things so it's dogistic how could you make fun of something like that I'm fun of it I'm saying it's my dog my dogs in fact I believe all

All of my dogs, which all have had vaccines. Dogtism. You keep saying it's dogtism, and now you're acting as if it's not a real thing. It is autism. When you see my dog, now I just want you to try to look at my dog and not think autistic. He's totally on the spectrum. He is not good at social gatherings. He will come out.

All of a sudden, he'll just try to make love to somebody's leg. Like I said, he's chewing on things. I can't get him to read. he does not speak to his mom and I. Sometimes he will just crap in the house. I don't know what to do. It's the vaccines. No, no, it's not.

Not at all. Are you saying that these hipsters who are woke in Brooklyn, maybe dead freaking asleep? Is that what you're saying to me? I am saying that, yes. As someone who does reject the vaccine's autism link, I also reject the fact that any dog has ever been diagnosed with autism because it doesn't exist in dogs or at least has never been diagnosed in history. How about climate change and global warming?

Does that exist? Human-caused climate change? Yes or no? Absolutely. Of course it does. Okay. See, I'm woke. Liar.

Liar. Now, dogs do have a 0.04 chance of being allergic to a vaccination. But 0.04%. Yeah. But doctors are saying there really is not a worry of having your dog

due to a vaccine get autism. Yeah, no, it's not a thing. Just in case you were worried about it somewhere, it is not a thing. It's not even a thing in humans. It's worse. It is worse than human autism. dogs when they're autistic, they eat their own poop.

You're saying dogtism is worse than autism. Continue to make fun. I'm just trying to save dogs. But at least autism is a thing among humans. Can you believe that? But the fact is even giving humans autism is not a thing. Honestly, I read this story today and I thought to myself, Lord, we're begging you to destroy us. We're just begging you to destroy us.

We are so incredibly stupid. The woman with the IQ of 72, whose house is clean, who's had visitations for the last 14 months, there's no neglect, there's no problem. We're saying justify you being a mother and these people who are, quote, woke hipsters won't have vaccinations for their dogs because they're worried they're dog will have autism. You don't need to destroy us, Lord. You don't even, you don't even, you don't need to destroy. We're doing it ourselves.

Really are. Oh my gosh. I mean, oh. It doesn't, it doesn't get much worse than dog autism, does it? You mean dog autism? It's just stupid. We're going to make dogtism happen. It'll go on.

Got to happen. They're the same people to believe in global warming, though. Man-ca caused global warming. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. I mean, RFK Jr. RFK Jr. is one of the preeminent guys that come out on TV and tell you about how bad global warming is and how autism is related to vaccines. Now, I don't know if he's on the dog-dustism bandwagon yet, but it's coming.

If he's not on it already, it's coming. And you'll notice RFK Jr. is not a conservative. They try to make science deniers out of all conservatives. You think Jenny McCarthy? Is it conservative? No. Is Jenny McCarthy the world's most prominent vaccine autism advocate? A big-time conservative?

Is that what she is? I don't think so. I just can't take as people actually are struggling around the world and here in America, actually struggling to be able to imagine the family in Kalamazoo. Imagine you find out that your child has what Charlie. Guard had. You know what just happened in England. God help you if you don't have insurance. Are you on Obamacare? What's going to happen if you were on Obamacare? Is that family on Obamacare? Is that family on our entry gateway drug of socialized medicine? So imagine what they're

going through. Imagine what they're feeling and what they're thinking. Imagine if you don't don't have insurance, and even if you do have insurance, will that disease and its treatment be covered? Imagine what that family is going through. And these people who are so-called woke are talking about not getting their dogs vaccinated for rabies because it might cause autism in my dog. I know this is one of the issues that are trying to fix with Obamacare, but ObamaCare does not even cover. Doctism?

Are you sure of that? Almost positive. You're trying really hard. You're trying really hard. People are going to be talking about this. This will be a segment on MSNBC in two weeks. The dog autism problem. Don't laugh.

Do not laugh. That could absolutely be a story. 100%. We just need to get Trump to not tweet for a day so they can actually do a segment not related to Trump. and then that first segment, definitely dogtism. I mean, he can still tweet, right? He should tweet about dogtism.

You want to get people started and thrown off on another topic. People are always like, oh, they're talking about Russia every day and all the intrigue and the palace intrigue and the White House. Just tweet once about dogtism and you've got them thrown off for an entire week. So I'm reading this book that Stu turned me on to. And Stu assigned a book to me. Yeah. And I'm actually reading.

it and I've never seen a better warning than the one you gave me. By the way, you're going to have a problem with his anti-religion spin. Anti-religion spin? Well, I didn't think you'd actually read it. It's not an anti-religious spin. Angels of our better nature.

It is, my gosh. Brutal. It was to the point when I was reading it, I was like, I don't even know if I can continue with this. It was so, it's so anti-religion. However, when you get past that, it gets really interesting. But it's really, I mean, holy cow. You're right. I've never seen. I don't think Satan is as anti-Christian and religion as that writer is. However, again, it was recommended by

Penn Gillette. Yeah. So you'd expect. Yeah, but still, Penn is, I mean, you know, anyway. And I talk about the era, right? It's talking about that era. Yeah. At that time when, you know, you go back in biblical eras, the world was pretty a brutal place. Yeah. So the world has, you know, living in Chicago in the worst section of town and this does not excuse it or not say hey we should be happy about it but living in Chicago at the poorest level

in the worst part of town is still better than most of human history the violence and disregard for life and humans and everything else and we are now looking at at vaccines. My wife has had a near infection for two weeks, for two weeks. And she's taken all kinds of medicine for it, antibiotics. She can't get it to unplug.

And it's still infected. Okay, that's not good. That's not good. I mean, what do we have to give her? What antibiotic do we have to give? And I've been thinking about this, because my wife is not. never sick. And I told her, I said, you die before me. I am digging you up and beating a snot out of you. I'm going first, not the other way around. You're doing everything you can.

Right. I'm trying too. And so she's always so helpful. If there was no antibiotic, she'd probably be dead by now over an ear infection. And here we are living in this time of remarkable medicine. Just remarkable. And it's starting to go the other way because the doctor never, ever said anything other than, hey, make sure you finish that. How about make sure you finish that or your body will become resistant to worse and then we won't have any more antibiotics? How about finishing that? Because all I ever heard, my whole life was, hey, better finish that?

And I'm like, yeah, right, Doc. As soon as I feel better, I'm saving that. So I don't have to come see you the next time. Everybody thinks. Right? Yes. So finish that. Otherwise, we will have deadly disease that we can't stop.

Well, we're starting to... Like dogtism. Thank you, Pat. See, it's happening. This is real. It's happening. It's working, Stu. Thank you.

And now this. Last week, it's just. Chicago, a local woman was carjacked in a quiet suburb. This woman had a concealed carry permit holder. She drew her gun. She defended herself. She didn't fire a shot. The locals said she was to blame.

Okay, wait a minute. She was carjacked. She had a gun. She was a permit holder. She pulled her gun. She defended herself. She didn't fire a shot. and it's her fault.

That's the world we live in, the world that is being run over by people who believe in dogtism and that if you defend yourself, you're the troublemaker. You need somebody to defend you, and that's exactly what the USCA does. They know your Second Amendment rights should be celebrated and protected. This is a like-minded community of Americans that know and are protecting you the protector.

They're giving you a chance right now to win a brand new gun as soon as you activate your USCA membership today. All you have to do is just go to protectenddefend.com right now. I want you to find out what they do and get this protection. They protect you before, during, after. Nobody thinks about what happens after. She, I guarantee you, didn't. She trained and trained and trained.

Married a gun, knew her situations, knew when to pull the trigger, knew when not to pull the trigger. She didn't pull the trigger, and then another bad guy came, this one in a suit with a briefcase. The USCA will protect you from those bad guys. Go to protect and defend.com. The protected defend.com. This is the Glenn Beck Program. Mercury. Is the Glenn Beck Program?

Seriously. I'm just, I'm worried about the dog team. that my dogs have. I didn't realize this until Brooklyn hipsters stop giving their dogs vaccines because it could lead their dog into autism. But your dogs have had the vaccines? Yeah, they've all had the vaccines. And I just occurred to me, maybe that's why they're not reading. That's why they're not socializing. They haven't talked to us. Sometimes they just go, you know, and lay on their carpet and ignore us. You know, they'll just, they'll, they'll chew things, which is completely inappropriate behavior.

And that, you know, I've been so focused on, I've been calling, you know, Uno, Uno, Victor, Ella, Ella. I don't know how they identify. No. I've been calling Ella. She might have felt like a boy dog the whole time. You need gender non-specific names for them. Exactly. Uno.

Like Uno. I mean, at least I'm trying there. and I didn't, you know. That was Victor and Ella. Not with Victor and Ella. I trapped them into oppression. Mm-hmm. Horrible dog oppression and sentenced them by giving them vaccines to dogtism for the rest of their life.

My gosh. This is the Glenn Beck program. Mercury. The Blaze Radio Network. On Demand. Hello, America. Congressional Republicans. moved Tuesday to diffuse President Trump's threat to cut off critical payments to health insurance companies.

They maneuvered around the president toward a bipartisan legislation to shore up the markets for the Affordable Care Act. So now we've got the Republicans. Now what we have them doing is doing everything they can to save Obamacare. It is absolutely amazing. the world we live in, as I told people last hour, before you joined, in Brooklyn, there are hipsters now that are saying that they don't want to have their dogs

vaccinated because they're worried their dog might get autism from the vaccine. So why should the news make any sense? However, there are some, things that we can actually do something about. There are some things, the stories that actually matter, that we don't have to go through Washington or the press or anybody else. I'll give you one of those stories right now.

Of entertainment and enlightenment, this is the Glenn Beck program. Sarah Gordon gave birth to a baby named Dana. Baby's dad was not a baby's dad was not a not a good guy, relinquished parental rights, that was fine with Sarah. She intended to raise her daughter with the help of her parents, but Sarah has an IQ of 70.

Well, now the Massachusetts Department of Family Health and whatever the hell they call it has deemed that mental retardation, so the state had to come in and take the child away

from Sarah. Yesterday, we told you of another story that is happening in Redmond, Oregon, Amy Fabrini. There was a complaint lodge that her father of her child was not feeding the dog at the proper time and not changing the baby fast enough. State came in, found nothing, no abuse, no neglect, a clean house, everything. took the baby away. Then that wasn't good enough. When she had a second baby, they came at the hospital and took that baby away.

There are no charges here. The state just says she's not smart enough. We talked to her on yesterday's program. She seems pretty sharp to me. Walter Olson, he's with the Cato Institute. He has actually been following this story. and wanted to get him on, Walter, this is, we're living in a parallel universe. Are we even living in America anymore?

These stories are so disturbing, and I wanted to start by thanking you for bringing them to national attention. I can't think of any story that I would rather have brought to national attention than the one you had yesterday with Amy Pabrini. And when you read what the Oregonian reporter, and she did find up, it wound up with an advocate in the press who wrote up the story, I thought, very compellingly in the Oregonian, she turned to an association that watches and says that something like half of people diagnosed with intellectual disability, lose children to social services. And again and again, it's in this kind of situation where they aren't proven. anything definite. They're just going on some expert recommendation. There's no abuse,

there's no neglect. Often there are family members and others who disagree with the decision, just as the aunt and chaperone did, and just as the volunteer did. In Higrini's case, but the state decides, and the state somehow or other, has all of this discretion that winds up winning. You know, you can't convince the judges necessarily. You can't convince the bureaucracy. If they were, you can't convince the judge. want to take your child, they got them. Okay, so, so help me. What am I missing in this story?

There's, there's, there's no proof or even allegation of abuse, nothing on neglect. The, the, the house is clean, is tidy. They, she has gone through every class, past them. She has, she has been a model. And what is the child? large. So far as I can tell, there is no trash. Now, let me tell you how the other side would argue it,

because I know when I began commenting on this, I got some critical pushback, and a lot of it was on two points. One of them is, well, her dad is, the mom's dad is not at her and thinks that she doesn't make a good mom. Okay, well, that's one piece of evidence. Meanwhile, you've got a bunch of other people who know her well, and have known her much more recently than her estranged dad,

who are saying, yeah, she's fine. So I don't wear that very heavily. The second thing is, well, the state might have additional evidence, and they're not allowed to talk because of prophecy laws and so forth. Well, again, maybe there's something there, but you'd think that in judicial proceedings, you as a parent would have a right to get it all on the record. You need to be able to let the public see whether justice was done.

This is what the Constitution is all about. I have to be able to know the charges against me. I have to be able to defend myself. You can't hide behind the children and say, well, their privacy. I have a right to know what it is that you're accusing me of doing before you take my children. Exactly. They're supposed to give you that notice and that chance to contest for a traffic ticket. And if they're supposed to do it for a traffic ticket, they sure should do it if they're going to take your kids away.

This is so much like Charlie Gard, where the state gets, um, it's, it's a lot. gets too far ahead of themselves, and then they just hide behind the state apparatus, and they dig in their heels, and there's no recourse. I mean, honestly, Walter, this is an American. And, you know, the only thing I can think of is, okay, there have been cases where people who have lower IQs have put their kids in the bath and then kind of got distracted or wasn't thinking or whatever and they come back a few minutes later and the child has drowned. Okay, that has happened.

But that has also happened to people who are, quote, normally abled as well. We can't predict everything that could happen to a child. We have to give the benefit of the doubt to the parent. And if we look and say there's no sign here of anything, this looks like a good and loving parent. What right do we have to disrupt that bond? Exactly. And one of the observers is, of course,

it's been called worst-first thinking. Lenora Schenese, of Free Range Kids, says that if you're in the child protection business, then everything looks like a danger, oh, you know, they're riding a bike unaccompanter, or whatever the thing is, you always think of the worst possible thing that could happen. But the thing that they're not admitting is that being taken into foster care,

being ripped away from parents who love you more than anyone else and have been raising you, that's a risk too. In fact, it's a pretty bad risk. You know, I have to tell you, there's... It drives me crazy when my older kids first went into school, first grade, I said, hey, can I just get a... you know, stupid me. Can I get like a syllabus or something?

First grade. I just want to follow it home so I know what you're doing, so I can help plow the fields and know exactly what's happening. And the teacher looked at me and said, Mr. Beck, we have it now. We're okay. We have it now. And I looked at that teacher and I said, excuse me,

but you assist me, not the other way around. and the state just believes that it's their responsibility, their position, and I have news for you, the best teacher in the world, does not love my child as much as I do, doesn't know my child as much as I do. Yeah, there are bad parents. There are parents that don't care about their children. But for the vast majority, we care about our children more than somebody who's a stranger, especially someone who is working for the state.

So strange in this Charlie Guard controversy. I went and I read, you know, British defenders of what was going on there. And the best one that I found, the most intelligent defense of what happened in Britain, was, well, there's a difference of opinion and someone has to decide because, after all, you know, the medical opinion is just as valid as the parents' opinion. And I thought, gee, am I glad I was in America where, for the most part, you start out with a premise that they are, of course, going to be the first to decide because they're the parents and they love their kids and know their kids more than the doctors do. And only in the exceptional case, only if there is some neglect or abuse, as you say, do we step back from that assumption. But it's that assumption that keeps us free from everything.

So yesterday, she was on, and she said, I'm looking for an attorney that's not from the local area. They don't have any money. I'm not concerned about money, because if this checks out the way it's checking out to me, then we'll help her with the money. Are there institutes, and are there attorneys out there that are really well versed on this that can win against a state

that doesn't have to produce any evidence? There is one group called, I think it's a family defense center, which has provided legal help to groups facing CPS for what seemed to be bad reasons. But it's one small group. And what always amazes me is you've got big, long-established legal defense. groups for every other interest you can name. You know, good interest, bad interest, you know, there will be a bunch of lawyers getting pro bono credit with their law firms, but not in this one.

You know, I'd all power to the group, I think it's based in Chicago that is trying to do this, but I just wonder why you don't have something. If not the size of the ACLU, then at least, you know, pretty darn big group systematically looking out so that there is someone, you know, with the Davids that are. the parents against the Goliath that are the CPS of bureaucracies. Where does this go next? Talking to Walter Olson of the Cato Institute, what's next? How close are they to permanently being shut out and her losing her children?

According to the coverage, the state has been begun proceedings to cut off their parental rights permanently in order to place the children for adoption with another family. So that makes it sound like a last call. now or never, you know, find them a defense. And it probably starts out as a defense against severance of rights before it even gets to the point of restoring custody to them. So lawyers out there who may be listening, that's the stage of the case is at,

probably want to call earlier rather than later to find out if there's some way to help. Okay, Walter, thank you for covering this. You've been on this long time, and thank you. for caring and realizing the real true impact of this story. I appreciate it. Thank you. Walter Olson from the Cato Institute. Here's what I would like to ask you.

Can you Stu get the email addresses that they gave yesterday on the air and the Facebook page or the website that they've put together? This is a family that we are trying to help out, and we're working on some things behind the scenes, but I just want to make sure that I haven't missed anything on this, but it's all checking out. But there's got to be an attorney. They had some attorneys call yesterday.

We need to know who the experts are. We need to go and find somebody who can really win this. But the first thing that has to happen, because we're running out of time on this, This is going to end by September. We really need attorneys. They're going to need some money. We'll get to that tomorrow.

But the first thing that really has to happen is you have to spread the word on this story like nobody's business. There's a story on the blaze from yesterday. There's a story at glenbeck.com from yesterday. There is a Walter Olson from the Cato Institute. He's been covering it.

You just need to spread the word on this and get people to understand the plight of Amy. Amy's plight is our plight. If they come and take this child away, these two children, which they have and gotten away with it,

if they can do this to Amy without any charges, without neglect, without any abuse, with a clean house, with a girl who sure sounds like a lot of, a lot better than a lot of parents that I have seen and heard elsewhere, they can just come and take her children away from her. And then she can't defend herself because they're, going to hide behind privacy. What are the charges? We all lose our children.

We all lose our children. It's only a matter of time. First they came for Amy's children. And I did what? Amy's plight is our plight. I urge you to know this story and I urge you to spread this story. The first thing that has to happen is

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What's going on in this case in Oregon is just remarkable what's happening. And let's just be honest. You know what? Let's look at the other side. Let's look at the state side. Okay. Amy has had children before. This is not her first child, second child.

I think she's had four children, right? She had twins and then these two. And they've all been taken away by the state. One, because her mother was the child care person with the first two. And she got a divorce and everything else. So those children, she didn't get custody of those children. Maybe we should just sterilize Amy. I mean, really, honestly.

She's going to keep having children. You know that's what the state is thinking. Why don't we just sterilize her? What's wrong with that? Isn't three generations of imbeciles enough? Right. Why aren't we just sterilizing people? Let's take your IQ.

They can't have children. Let's just sterilize them. Okay. Okay. Hello, America. Okay, a couple things. The president has just signed the Russian Sanctions Act. That is...

Yay! It's pretty remarkable. And, wow. Okay, good. So we got that going for us. I have two stories to bring to you. Now, I've brought a couple of stories to you today. The lead, the thrust of this show today has been, for me,

do I just give up and walk away? And we all just leave. Go to the mountains. Go do something. Go. You know, it's like, if the doctor told you today, you have a terminal illness and you only have X number of months to live, would you go in and do the same thing every day exactly the way?

Or would you make some changes in your life? Because I feel as though the doctor is telling me world, not America, world, humans, you have a terminal disease and not much longer to live. The disease, I don't know the Latin name, but it's stupidity. And stupidity is raging through your system right now. It's in your glands, it's in your livers, it's in your eyes, definitely in your tongue. there's nothing if we remove it

all that's left is a little piece possibly of your scalp. So should we go back to work or should we just forget it and start doing something that is meaningful to you? That's kind of where I'm at today because I could tell you all the bad news

that's happening all around the world blah blah, blah, you know all of it. and I could tell you, and we could dwell, and we could mock, and we could make fun of it, and we could feel superior that we're right and they're wrong, but that does nothing. Still, stupidity is raging through our system and eating it. I could tell you about Washington. I could tell you, as I did today, about the hipsters in Brooklyn who are now refusing to have their dogs vaccinated because they're afraid that their dogs will become autistic.

I hadn't thought of that possibility until these really genius hipsters in Brooklyn who are so woke. They're so far ahead of all of us. I mean, they've got it going on. I didn't even think that a dog could get autism. In fact, I know they can't. But now, if I may, look at it in a different way. Yes, you can't have dogtism.

Your dogs can't be diagnosed with autism. But what if they could? See what I'm saying? Yes, your dog doesn't read. Yes, your dog still doesn't talk to you. After all the years, still doesn't talk to you. Misbehaves, acts out, choose on things. Yes, could be autism in your dog.

Although there is absolutely nothing to ever. say that dogs could or would ever get autism. But what if your dog does have autism? See what I'm saying? Mm-hmm.

So I want to go to two places that people look to for credibility. And I just want to ask you, which one has more credibility? Because I can't decide.

Here's contestant number one. He used to be a vice president. He used to he and his wife used to lead an activist group against the evils of rap lyrics. And

now he's all about climate change. And here he's going to talk to a guy who is a 50-year crabber that has lived on the Chesapeake Bay. Now what they're arguing about, so you know, is has sea level risen.

Now, just so you can put this into context, Al Gore claims that, yes, the sea level is rising, and we're all going to die of a fiery drowning death very soon. It will be both fiery and drowning. And browning. Both. It will be all of it. It will be blizzard, snows,

and record heat. Both of them will be happening to us, and it will be a horrible grisly death, all because of global climate change and already sea levels have already risen an alarming rate. Now, what is that alarming rate? I want you to know. The width, the thinness of a dime

is how much we're talking about in the rise of the sea level. The thinness of a dime. which scientists have been able to measure by satellite to tell us via satellite that the sea level has risen the thinness of a dime. Now, here's a guy. There's a crabber. I mean, what does he know? And a mayor.

He's lived on this island in the Chesapeake Bay for 50. years. Yeah, but he's now able to talk to contestant number one. Yes, let me reveal him. He's the one. He's the only Al Gore. I'm a commercial craver, and I've been working in the Chesapeake Bay for 50 plus years, and I have a crab house, business out on the water. And the water level is the same as it was when the place was built in 1970. I'm not a scientist, but I'm a keen observer. And if sea level rise is occurring why am I not seeing signs of it? I mean our island is disappearing but it's because of erosion and not sea level rise and unless we get a sea wall we lose we will lose our island but back to the question why why I'm not seeing signs of the sea level rise.

What do you think the erosion is due to mayor? Wave action storms. Has that increased any? Not really. So you're losing the island even though the waves and haven't increased. Yes, this erosion has been going on since Captain John Smith discovered the island and named it. Oops. And it's gotten to our doorstep now and we focus on it more. Well, arguments about science aren't necessarily going to be of any comfort to you. And I'm sorry for what you're going through.

Stop for a second. Before I get to this, I just want you to know, you know, they're seeing erosion. What do you think that's caused by? Waves? Waves. Waves. You know, I don't know if you know this, Al. Water erodes things. The cliffs of Dover weren't always cliffs. I know that's hard to understand, but it appears as though those cliffs have eroded.

You know, sand wasn't always sand. It was rock. The black sand? That's because the land was volcanic rock. That's what makes it black. Pink sand? Because it was coral. It wasn't always like that. What I'm telling you. That's how dangerous this is. Was not always. It's not pink sand. Look at the pretty pink sand.

There were rocks, waves beat over it for millions of years and break it down to various. That's erosion. But if we don't do something, we may have a hole that may turn into a canyon. that may turn into a grand canyon. If we don't stop the Colorado River, damn it, there's going to be a big hole in the ground. Wow. And look what happens.

If only Al were here, 150 million years ago. Oh, darn it. He's not quite that old. So now he goes into his science explanation. Your neighbors on Tangier Island. I read about you in the paper. I was a horse for the post, I believe, after President Trump called you up. And it won't necessarily do you any good for me to tell you that the scientists do say that the sea level is rising in the Chesapeake Bay.

And that you've lost about two-thirds of your island. So what I'm telling you is, and this may be a little bit demeaning, but you're too stupid to know you're being demeaned. You don't know what you're talking about. Right. And by the way, that is a quote from, you know, it's a little, demeaning to say this to them, but they're too stupid to understand. Demeemed. That's a quote from Al Gore. The thinness of a dime, the rise of sea level, which, boy, that's a tough margin, huh? That margin of error is less than the thinness of a dime.

That, yes, that's the reason why you've lost two-thirds of your island. two thirds of your island and I just want you to know experts agree. Now, there's expert number one that is leading 10% of the population, maybe more than that, over the cliffs of insanity. Don't ask

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This is the Glenn Beck program. Mercury. Yeah. The Glenn Beck program. So here's what's crazy. So you have Al Gore, 10% of the population, it's just listening to that guy. And then on the flip side, you have, I don't even know, 3%, 10% of the population that actually will listen to the news of this guy.

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and it's not technically organic. Oh. The other stuff is synthetic who greatly lab-made. This is made from organic sources, but the bacteria is GMO. I'll just tell you up front. But it's not like the super high-tech stuff. It's a bacteria that's just been bred

to be able to then secrete and produce this. Just like beer of bacteria. Okay. obviously, but this one, that's how the Japanese do it. It's bio-identical. The stuff is only found in comets and in trace amounts in blueberries.

This is the world we're living down. It's only found in comets. And in trace amounts in blueberries. And cum quots. Some comquots have it. Right. Every fifth comquots. What is that?

First of all, GMOs, to this guy in his audience, are the worst thing imaginable. Right. But he can make money off of them here. But this GMO is different. It's not a high-tech GMO. It's a normal run-of-the-mill gym. The next to the Japanese do it. Yeah, it's a low-tech GMO.

It's like, it's a poor man's GMO. It's the kind of genetically modified organism that, let's say, cavemen, developed. Or really, really? Really, the guys who flunked out of, you know, chemistry and all of that, they just, they're not smart enough. In fact, they blew up their lab themselves just trying to make a milkshake a few years ago. But they're the ones who put this together. It's not high tech at all. No, you find comets, and blueberries.

And certain packages of Twizzlers. Do blueberries come from comets? How did they get this substance only available on comets? You didn't realize that... What did that happen? You didn't realize that blueberries? Look at them. They're baby comets.

Okay. They're baby guys. They're in baby purplish. Take a blueberry. Freeze it. Put it in space. You know, make it 65 million times larger. Well, maybe it's just closer.

What do you identify that as? A comet. Maybe it's just closer than we think. When they go across the sky, they look pretty small. Right. So maybe it's just this blueberry and it's only like 40 feet up. You just don't realize it. 40 feet.

Maybe it's just out of arms of length. You're just, you're pointing and you're about an inch away. Look at that in the sky. But I mean, tell me, because you listen to that clip, and that clip is from the John Oliver rant that he had on Alex Jones this weekend, which is actually, even though I'm not a huge fan, very funny. But if you look at that clip that we just played of Alex Jones, is just nonstop disclaimers.

He knows he's lying to his audience. And it's the same thing from Al Gore with Dr. Maslowski. We've played that clip a million times where he has so many disclaimers built into what he's saying. You know he knows what he's saying is alarmist or he's justifying something that he knows is untrue. But he just says it because he, you know, his audience is going to go along with it. When you're this far down this road, you never disagree with what the host is saying. That's amazing. We really have arrived at the time when I said, you're not going to know who to believe.

You're not going to know what to believe. everything will be upside down. Nobody will have any credibility. I hope you have yours at that point. Or at that point, do you have your credibility? The Blaze Radio Network. On Demand. Hello, America. Welcome to the program.

There's lots of things going on today. You know, I'm struggling to understand. the other side of the arguments of common sense. And perhaps it's because common sense is dead in America. But I'm trying to understand it. And I want to start with a story for the life of me. I cannot figure out. Maybe you can.

We begin with illegal aliens right now. Enlightenment. This is the Glen. Beck program. Okay, let me give you a couple stories, then we're going to get right to illegal aliens, but there's a story in USA Today.

Donald Trump thinks the White House is a real dump. You know, again, they're saying that it was just a round of golf and the White House is a real dump, and I guess it, you know, it must be that he was joking or whatever. How does this affect

our lives. Do we have to know everything out of this man's mouth? Do we? Do we have to know everything? It does. Doesn't it? Yes, it does. Do I have to know everything he said? Here's another detail in this. Is this not the most beautiful asphalt you've ever seen in your life? What? Yeah, yeah.

What? Yeah. And when he's on a cart path in the golf, on the golf cart, he'll say, is this not the most beautiful asphalt you've ever seen in your life? I mean, I've seen some pretty good look in asphalt. I don't know that I actually seen the asphalt at his golf car. Yeah, that his golf cart was on, but I don't, I don't know. And then, you know, the White House is a real dump. Okay, well, first of all, it might be, you know, it's pretty old. It's pretty old. And hasn't had a renovation since the 1950s. A significant

renovation. You should. Live in a house that hasn't had a renovation since the 1950s. However, I don't think that the White House is a dump. I also hope that the president didn't say that in anything other. than a joke. Right. And again, it's a secondhand quote. It's an anonymous source. Yeah.

I mean, there's no reason to make a big deal out of it. And you know what? John Kennedy and Jackie Kennedy, I don't think they liked the White House either. And what they did is Jackie spent all of her time going out and trying to find the original pieces from the original White House, buy them up and give them to the White House. The Trumps could do that. I mean, if indeed he did.

think it was a dump, then replumb the thing. I mean, you know, do something. I mean, it's been remodeled and upgraded, right? You said it has the White House not the 1950s. Not a full upgrade since the 1950s. Surely they don't have the same kitchen from the 19th. No, no, no, no. No.

So it has been updated. I believe that it has been. Not a complete renovation. They took it down to the shell in the 1950s. Did they really? Oh, yeah. Yeah, the White House was gone for, White House was gone.

I don't even know, was it Eisenhower or Truman? What, Truman? Truman didn't even get to live in the White House, I don't think. I think he lived in the executive mansion or one of the places right across the street from the White House. Remember, he was shot going in there. Truman was. And it was because he, you know, he didn't have the access to the White House. He wasn't living there.

He was living across the street. And as he's walking in the front door, a guy comes up and shoots him. That's when they were putting in the secret man. It is when they were putting in the secret basement. That's exactly what they did. In 1950s, they were putting in fallout shelters and everything else. But they took it all the way to the outside walls. So there are pictures of it, nothing but studs, the original studs back in the 1950s.

And to be honest about it, a public servant should live in a building that is a dump to one of the richest men in the world. It should be a downgrade from wherever he was living before. Correct. But it's, I mean, to describe it. the White House is a dump. It's obviously an exaggeration. And my guess is if he said it at all, which we don't know, it was a joke. Right? Like, ah, man, that place is a dump compared to it. Or it's not a comment on the history of the White House. It's a comment from a guy who's one of the richest men in the world who lives in houses and apartments that he built himself, custom designed

way he wanted it. Of course he thinks it's a dump. And it's not done in Gold LeMay, which he's used to. She is. So he is probably another problem. He does seem to like that. Now, the other thing is, is that we do have a story from, what's his name, speaking of joking. Scalamouche, what's his name? Scaramucci. Scaramucci.

Where he came out and he said the interview that he gave to, what was it, Vanity Fair, off the record. New Yorker. A New Yorker. that was so foul-mouthed, he now came out and said, oh, that was just a joke. I was joking. That was humorous. No, you weren't.

Get out of here. Stop it. Own it. He was trying to intimidate the reporter to give him the source. You know, people do that all the time. He just did it very sloppily by not going off the record, first of all. And second of all, by trash. I mean, not only did he say, you know, the bad things about, the vulgar things about people like Steve Bannon,

he also said he was going to fuck. fire everyone in the communications department. What does that do for morale of your department? Right? I mean, that's a big one. And then he also said he gathered intelligence and digital fingerprints from the FBI and the DOJ, which would be blatantly illegal on his own staff, which, I mean, I'm sure he was lying, but I mean, really the swearing is like way down the list on that particular interview. Okay, so one more story that I don't understand.

Is there anybody working for the American people? Anybody? Is there anybody who's actually working for them? Charlize Theron, but outside of that, no? Yeah. Boy, you have not given your Atomic blonde report. At any moment, I'm always prepared to go with, to talk about atomic blonde. It's always something I'm prepared to do. I could go and talk about the American people and how no one's working for them. Or we could go to the atomic blonde. I'm going with Atomic Blonde.

All in favor? Aye. Good. The eyes have it. Atomic blonde. The first line. That's how bad things are with me today. I am just not in any mood to talk about anything that's happening in the world. What actor has the first line in Atomic Blonde?

There are lines? Charlie's Theron. Yes, they're actually words on this movie. Charlie's Theron, fair guess. James McAvoy, one of the co-stars. There's other people in the movie besides Charlie's there. John Goodman? John Goodman is in the movie?

Wait, wait, wait, you're destroying this movie. Now you've thrown John Goodman into this movie. He does a great job. Yeah, he plays a... He remains fully closed. He does. There's no sex scenes with Charlize and John Goodman. That's good of him.

The actor with the first line in Atomic Blonde, Ronald Reagan. Interesting. The movie is way deeper than you'd think from the trailer, which is bizarre. Is it the tear down this wall thing? It is the tear down this wall thing because the movie, which you can't tell from the trailer at all, takes place in the 10 days leading up to the wall falling. Oh, wow. So it's set in that historical context, which is really interesting.

Oh, that's really cool. And covers, they have, you know, news reports from that period. I've heard it has a pretty strong 80s soundtrack, too. It does have a very strong 80s soundtrack. Wow, so hang on just a second. What you're saying is this is really more of a historical movie. Yes, exactly. Huh.

In fact, I just read a really. review the other day saying that it's an actually an anti-communist historical drama is what it is. I believe that has to be seen. And that review was written by it was an actual review. I posted it on my

Facebook page and go to my Facebook page and find it. No. So it's not anti- Reagan. No. It's, I would say, I mean, it's anti-communism? It's about the downfall of communism. Now, it's set in that context. So it's not like, hey, this is about the Berlin Wall falling. It's

spy story with these spies essentially interacting in Berlin in that time period. So, you know, chaos on the streets, the walls coming down, you can't cross back and forth, all that stuff's going on. So it's really a cool piece from that context.

And, you know, it has a real story, and it's really solid. It is, the fighting's unbelievable. It's great. It's a great action movie. But it was more story than I actually thought I was going to get, which you could argue was a good thing or a bad thing. I didn't think that there was a story. So I was, and I was still willing

to go. The trailer lends you to believe that, you know, basically what happens is she kicks a lot of people and, and has sex. Like, that's essentially what they tell you. Well, there's sex in it. If I say no, can you see it? No, there's no sex in it. There's actually pretty limited. I mean, what is in there is, you know, brief but intense, but there's not a ton of sex in it. It's really, more about, I mean, and it's historical. It happened in the past. Plus, it's love. Happened in the past.

Right. And it was a very love, but you're right. I don't know if they had latex back in the 1980s in some of those situations. I will say they had a lot. They did. And she does, she looks spectacular. The answer to that is, of course, yes.

And but I mean, some of the fighting, the fighting seats are fantastic. I mean, there's one scene where they're, is she believable in them? Yeah, yeah. She really is. I mean, I tell you, from the trailer, she, it's, looks like one of the best action movies I've seen a long time. It does look really good. I just love the scene. Well, she worked really hard. With her in the, with her, the opening scene of the trailer,

with her in the, you know, hotel room, you know, death comes my way, but not today. Yeah. It's like, oh my gosh, that's fantastic. Yes. And she, you know, again, we all understand the physics of these situations. We all covered the Serena Williams controversy. We all know that 108 pound Charlize Theron is not beating the crap out of a 300 pound guy. How? However, it is believable in the context of the film. Well, she knows karate or jiu-jitsu or something. That's pretty a leaveness. And she's really good at it.

She's got to be at least a black belt. Guys, I can't take people. I cannot take people who say things like that. I can't take people. Did you also go to Star Wars and go, there's no such thing as a death star? Exactly. There is a, to put it this way,

there is a wall separating east and west Berlin. You have to cross the wall of believing. Charlie's Theron can kick the crap out of a really muscular... I cross that wall a while. If you can get across that wall, it's fantastic. I have a feeling she could kick the crap out of you. At least me. I don't know if she could get the crap

out of everybody else, but she could me. That's not saying a lot, but she could. Yeah. I mean, I really like that. And I bet she's wanted to a few times. That's a very good point. It comes, the trailer makes you believe it's basically a nonstop action thing. And it's not really

really that. It's more story-oriented. There are parts of dialogue that if you're looking for basically a music video of her kicking everybody's but you're going to get a little, it may move a little slow at times towards the beginning, but overall, I think at the end, you're pretty happy with it. This is the most incredible review of all time. Came in fourth this weekend? Because it came in what? Fourth? Really? You know, it's funny is it's the exact opposite of most reviews.

Okay? Okay. You see something like that and you're usually like, okay, I went and the storyline isn't really there. His review is like, and there was a story and I didn't see that coming. Yeah. And it was a nice addition to it. Exactly. It's like storyline is a special effect for this movie.

It's like a lot of people like, I went to Playboy for the interviews and who knows there's naked women? I actually went the other way. I went for the naked women and I saw a story. Wow. Which was pretty good. Wow. But I mean there's big twists in it that you don't expect and see coming. I mean, it's a good movie. It's not how... Did it leave it open for a sequel?

Oh, yes. It's starting at the Berlin Wall with Reagan. How many years you have to build up? Oh, I mean, how... Every big historical event, you could see her in this context. You just drop her in this whole thing in the middle of every big of... So why was it fourth this weekend? Is it the rated R?

Well, it's rated R, and it's also a $30 million. budget. They did not spend a lot on it. It's going to make a fortune and profit. So I would be very surprised if you don't see a sequel or at least an attempt at it. Yeah, made 18 already. It's first weekend. It's first weekend. I mean, but fourth, you know, it's so, I don't understand

why the movie industry does this. I mean, they just shoot themselves in the foot all the time. Rated our movies, make half the amount as PG-13 movies. All you have to do is just edit a little bit. Yeah, but you don't need to take away

the loaves. No, I'm not saying you do it on a Charlize Theron movie for the love. God, man, I'm not I'm not insane. I'm just saying that most of these movies, if it was PG-13, guarantee it would have made

double, it would have made its investment back opening weekend. And why they do that is beyond me. Yeah, I don't know. I mean, it needed to be edgy, I think, so I think that's probably what they wanted to do with it. You had to, They did push the envelope. I mean, you'd have to edit a lot to get it to PG-13 because there's a lot of violence in it.

I mean, unquestion. I just don't care. I mean, violence. I'm not offended. I'm just not offended or bothered by violence. I'm bothered by man's inhumanity to man for entertainment's sake. I mean, a lot of people died for your entertainment in this particular film. Oh, Charlene, Charlize Theron?

You could have at the end of the credit, many dogs and horses were not only killed, hurt, but they were tortured to make this movie, and I'd be like, okay. Well, the out here is man's in humanity to man. She's a woman. So you're clear. And now this.

Did you hear Rex Tillerson's comments about North Korea yesterday? We do not seek regime change. We do not seek an accelerated reunification of behavior. We do not seek an excuse to send our military north of the 38th parallel. We are not your enemy. We are not your threat. But you are presenting an unacceptable threat to us and we must respond. We would like to sit and have a dialogue about the future.

Our other options are not attractive. Wow. Uh-huh. I mean, when you really look at what's happening with North Korea, and we talked about it, Pat, the other day, about what they're doing with their submarines. Yeah. I don't know what course they're on.

I mean, the usual course is they do stuff outrageous, and then they get everybody to the negotiating table, and then they get something. They're going through a massive drought. And the famine that is coming this fall and winter in North Korea is going to be extreme. It's going to be worse than for anybody else because they've already got a built-in family.

famine caused by communism. So this is going to get really bad. He cannot look as though he is acquiescing to us, especially during a famine, because he's blaming the famine and everything on us. If he then try, it looks weak to his own people. There could be an uprising against him.

Also, it could mean a coup against him if he's weak at all. we're in a really dangerous situation. How is this going to affect the world? I don't know. But it's one of a hundred things that could go wrong that could shut the banks. Now think of this. North Korea does something.

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I don't know if he wrote all of this, but he did weigh in on it. Tell me which part he weighed in on. Give me a shorthand. We're up against the clock. Today I signed into the law that countering America's adversaries through sanctions act, which enacts new sanctions on Iran, North Korea, and Russia.

I favor tough measures to punish and deter bad behavior by the rogue regimes in Tehran and Poyang. That doesn't sound like him at all. I express my concerns to Congress about the many ways it improperly encroaches on executive power. No, no. Let's see. I'm going back about 10 paragraphs in. Maybe this one.

I built a truly great company worth many billions of dollars. That is the part of the reason I was elected. As president, I can make far better deal with foreign countries in Congress. There he is. He just, he just rolled. that went in. The last very, he's like, and I made a lot of money. Amazing.

Back in a minute. Is the Glenn Beck Program. Mercury. The Glenn Beck Program. We have a good friend of the program in his name is Chad Robeshoe, and he has written a new book, An Unfair Advantage Victory in the midst of battle. He is really a truly a remarkable guy.

special operations, recon marine, eight deployments in Afghanistan in the War on Terror, pro-MMA champion, and as Pat constantly harps on, somebody with bad cauliflower either. I don't know why, but Chad, I'm glad you're here. Yeah, great to be back. You started a foundation that I think is tremendous, and I want to talk about your book, But I want to start on two things. First, tell everybody about the foundation you started. Mighty Oaks Warrior programs is a foundation that started to pay back

what others did for me when I came home. You know, as we talked about before, I came home from Afghanistan, and I fell in my face really hard. I was diagnosed with PTSD, had my own battle with facing divorce in our family, my own battle with almost taking my own life. And once I got on the other side of it, and I realized that I wasn't the only one suffering.

At the time, I thought I was the only one. and I knew there was a problem, and I felt like, you know, somebody's got to do something about this, and why not me? I felt like I had found the answer, and so I started to an effort to even pay it forward to one other person, and now today, you know, six years later, we've had 1,500 graduates from our program, and with the 20-plus suicides a day, we've had zero suicides from any of our graduates. Fantastic. And then on the resiliency side, we've spoken to at least over 100,000 warriors in active duty,

trying to prevent them ever ended up in a place like I was in. We're really thrilled to be partnered with you on any level on that. And I know you're doing a big fundraiser. Is it this weekend up in Arlington? In Arlington, on Friday night, myself and Sergeant Major Kent, who's the 16th Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps, will be speaking at our third annual Gayland, D.C. And it's at the Army Navy Country Club.

And you're also doing one this fall in the Woodlands, Texas, and I'll be there for that one. and November 4th, yes. And we'll talk about that. Can I ask you about your opinion on what is happening in North Korea? A frightening statement was just released from our Secretary of State. Lindsay Graham said yesterday, war with North Korea is inevitable. I cannot see a way that we go to war with North Korea that doesn't end in a million.

and dead. Yeah, it's, it's not a war like we've even experienced in the last 16 years, the probability of that. And, you know, as someone... Not even Vietnam. I mean, this is more like old school World War II kind of stuff. Right. Do you agree? I agree. It's this, this is what, you know, kind of our worst sphere could be a potential of a conflict of North Korea. And, you know, as someone who's a father of a military, my son's a Marine, as someone who works with the military, this is really scary because, you know, there's only so much even from a diplomacy position that we could do because these people are people we don't know what they're going to do. We don't have the dialogue to even know what their next move's going to be.

And so it's so unpredictable and so the instabilities, you know, there's so much instability. It's, it's really scary. I was hearing your segment earlier about the outcome, you know, the series of events that would unfold if we took a first strike or if they did something crazy. It's horrible. I mean, it's just, it's just, it's just. I can't find a way other than going back to some sort of a cold war. I mean, that's my solution. You've got to get to a cold war with these guys. We cannot fight a war with North Korea. It's just too many dead and literally collapse the economy of the world if we go there.

Let's talk about your book, An Unfair Advantage. I really admire you. I admire you for not only what you've done, but who you came back. to become, to transform your life. Unfair advantage. What is the unfair advantage? Well, the unfair advantage is when we make the simple decision to align our lives with the lives we were created to live.

And we're all going to face hardships in this world, whether we go to Afghanistan, Iraq, Korea, wherever we go in life, we're going to face hardships. And the truth is, in those battles, there is an unfair advantage to winning. And I believe I found that when I aligned my life with the life. I believe God created me to live, stepped in a personal relationship with Jesus Christ.

And when I did that, all the hardships that I faced. And I tried everything. I tried the pills. I tried the consuling. I tried M.MA and Jiu-Jitsu and all the fun things that did my life. But nothing had worked for me until I'd made that decision. And it truly is an unfair advantage to the battles. So what you're saying is bringing Jesus into you gives you more peace than either punching or getting punched in the face by somebody else.

I find that's a strange concept there. Yeah. I mean, I can't believe you went to MMA and like, you know what? Maybe I'll find peace there. Just beating the snod out of somebody. Yeah, you know, MMA and Jitza for me was never like, I never aspired to be a professional fighter. It just kind of progressed because I competed in martial shorts my whole life.

But I really thought that was the answer when I came home. I was struggling. I had anxiety. I got on his wrestling mats and I couldn't think about Afghanistan. So I thought I found the answer. And it helped me to cope, but it never. fixed the problem and it just delayed the catastrophic fall that I had. You have a very varied life.

I mean, just being an MMA fighter or just being, you know, Marine recon, that's pretty intense. You know, Department of Defense, air marshal, suicidal. When you're looking at, you know, how many pages is this? 200, you know, 190. Not even that because of all the pictures in it. Yeah, about, it's about 190. How did you narrow it down to find, what were the stories that you said, this is a turning point that is relatable to others? I just, you know, I have had a very blessed life to get to have tons of different experiences. And through the experience, I've had, I've had some hardships. And, you know, but beyond those hardships, I found lessons forward. So I look

at stories in my life that were good antidotes for not only lessons or trials I faced in Afghanistan in MMA, but they parallel with other life issues that I had. And then the stories from the Bible and the wisdom that I've been given to be able to transcend those issues. And so I want to share things that had resonated with me as a story getting better. I know in my life I'm recovering alcoholic and, you know, suicide in my family and blah, blah, blah. You know, you know, a list of you know, poor me. And those things really held me back because I allowed them to. Right.

And then once I looked at them as, I hate to say a blessing, but bless everything that happens to you, good or bad, there is no bad. It's what you deem and how you start using it. I've wondered, do you think truly great men can be truly great without significant trials? No, you know, and John Maxwell said it. He said, God, God uses messed up people because they're on any other kind. And some of the most messed up people that have seen coming on the side of those things have been the most influential people in the world to help others. And, you know, do I wish I would have not had the hard road I had? Of course, you know,

the people around me suffered the most. My wife, my children suffered the most. So I wish I could take some of those things back. But the reason I do what I do at Mighty Oaks and, isn't because of any kind of, because I was a recon mariner, because I was an MMA fighter, because of anything else, other than the fact that I fell in my face. But I learned some lessons along the way, and I'm able to share them with others. So how do you share that with,

how do you share that with a group of people who are being taught? I happen to like millennials. I think millennials are going to surprise everybody. I think they're an amazing group of people. There are just like in every generation, a bunch of just idiots. but have you met my generation but there are those

millennials that are being taught that you deserve it, you have it, no pain, you don't have to work for it, all this, you know, somebody owes you. How do you take this message to people that aren't there? What do you say to them? The message of entitlement,

in victimization is cancerous to any society and including a veteran society. I mean General Mattis spoke highly on this, you know, veterans are better than this. But beyond our veterans, the world, like these millennials you're talking about, I think the really change comes when, and particularly with the people we work with, is when someone can accept responsibility. I mean, we deal with veterans that are coming up program like ours and they have every reason to say, hey, I'm in this situation because of this, because of something that happened in Iraq, Afghanistan and we tell them they just the opposite like yeah you face something hard in Afghanistan Iraq your childhood as tragic as that may it may be or even as

that Roic as it may be the reason you're in this situation you're in isn't because of that incident is because of the choices you've made in response to that incident and you never lose control of that you always control have the power to choose and and when someone could come to the realization take responsibility for not only the actions that are passed but their path forward and choose a different path forward. You know, that's when true change happens. That's when you're able to find successes in life and be able to overcome the hardships of life. So I know I get something out of it, but talk to the person that should read your book. Why should they read it? You know, it's everyone. I wrote the book

specifically to men, and if you went even more specific to military men, but the reason I truly wrote the book was because when I go speak places, I always have the family member, the mom, the the friend that says, hey, I have my friend as a Marine, and he would never come to his church and hear you speak, or he would never come to this event and hear you speak. What can I do to help him? Because he's tucked under a rock somewhere. And I say, well, here's our program.

It's Mighty Oaks. It's free. You could send them, and they say, well, he would never go to anywhere like that. And so I wrote this book so someone could take the messages of it and either learn how to read it, learn how to identify to help them, or give it to them,

be able to read it and be challenged enough to take responsibility. So what is the stigma? Because I know with AA, you know, as an alcoholic, I wasn't going to listen to some expert. I wasn't going to listen, you know, yeah, all right. Well, you've been here. But once you talk to somebody who's actually been there, they can speak the same. You just look in their eyes. You know they know. Okay. The same with service guys. You know, you're in the military. You're not going to listen to a clown like me. You're going to listen to somebody who's actually been there.

with alcoholics, the stigma is, I'm not a drunk. What is the stigma with PTSD? Why do they close in their own shell and not reach out to another servicemen? Because everyone thinks their situation is unique. And that's probably one of the biggest obstacles that guys face when you talk about something like suicide. How do 20 guys per day end up in a place of hopelessness to wear a stick a pistol in their mouth and pull the trigger? is because they feel like there's no one that could connect with them. And that's one of the things that we end up being able to do because we are them.

We're not a consular. We're not their spouse. We're not their mom. We're able to come to them peer to peer and say, you know, hey, look, I know where you are. And maybe I don't have the exact same experience you have, but, you know, I know this road. And they're able to tell them something their consular can't and challenge them and ask them the hard questions. You know, the clinical counselors that are available to some of the military, and we bashed the VA and all this stuff.

But the truth is, some of them are very qualified. It's the veteran that disqualifies them because of a sense of arrogance and our title made or you don't know where I've been. But the truth is, there's wisdom, as the open years, there's wisdom all over the place and principles that you can take to go forward. So we really have to be the ones peer-to-peer

to crush those walls down and say, hey, you need to get help, and here's the different options to get help moving forward. Being in a program like we do, MITEOX, peer-to-peer, we're able to do that and ask them those tough things. Do you ever read anything about World War I and what happened to the guys in World War I and how traumatized they were? Yeah, I mean, I think a lot of, one of the things I hear a lot is why is this generation Afghanistan and Iraq suffering more than World War I or World War II?

And that's not true. That's not true. They just kept it to themselves and they didn't say anything. It was, I think they felt shame on it. And I think the families felt shame on it because you don't talk about that. You brush that stuff back. But the more I read about what happened, especially World War I, the guys came back and they were just, you know, they'd never seen, you know, Europe lost almost every horse because of tanks and gas and everything else. And they just, it was a different world to them. The book is an unfair advantage victory in the midst of battle. Chad is really a very wise, wise guy. If you know somebody that is struggling or if it is, is you. I know this sounds weird, but you are not unique. It is amazing how much comfort

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the Republicans are in a place to where they have to stand up. They didn't dismantle Obamacare. They had no intention. Now they are actually standing up to make sure that nobody touches Obamacare. That's how crazy this world is. Shuring up the parts that are failing. I mean, this is a bailout for Obamacare. That Republicans are...

That Republicans, instead of repealing it, they're now bailing it out. And they're bailing it out because the president said, I'm just going to stop spending the money, which would hurt the average person. Can somebody please start listening and working for the American people? This is the Glenn Beck program. Mercury.