The Glenn Beck Program - 8/29/17 - Do something that matters (Live Houston coverage w/ Jason Buttrill)

Episode Date: August 29, 2017

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The Blaze Radio Network On Demand. I believe that we are being given an opportunity to actually see the truth of who we are as a country. Antifa, Nazis, Berkeley, all of that, everything you're seeing on television in the media. That's all a lie about who we are. We can talk all you want about, you know, the Confederate states and the Confederate flag and the statues and whether they need to go or whether they need to be pulled down. None of that makes any difference when Americans are in trouble. And one of those Confederate slave states, the evil state of Texas, is again leading the way.

way showing America who Americans really are. A great opportunity for us to look and say, you want to be with those guys or you want to be with these people. One is good and lifting up and one is tearing down. I don't know about you, but to me, the choice is really clear and we begin there right now. I want to talk to you briefly, because I don't want to dwell on this. I want to just give you a couple of stories that I saw yesterday that I think are important because I want to put Martin Luther King's words to the test. That America, when they see the difference between good and evil, black and white, when they are put side by side, Americans will always pick good.

and I've wondered, is that true? Because everything we see on television is bad. Everything about us is bad. And I've wondered, will we be able to choose good anymore? Let me just give you a couple of examples and you tell me. Leftist group, Antifa, Occupy Trump. They now say that they are going to do a month-long, Months-long resistance against Donald Trump, beginning November 4th, resistance protesters will

begin a multi-year Occupy Wall Street-style demonstration in major cities across America. They are calling themselves resist fascism. When you look into this group and these people, you see what they really want. And what they really want is not a resistance of fascism, but their own style of fascism. You then have Antifa, Antifa and the violence that is going on in Berkeley. And then Burning Man is right around the corner. Burning Man, which seemed to be like, you know, kind of a fun thing when it first started, kind of a cool thing. Fun now has turned into hate the rich.

People are throwing raw sewage on the tents of the rich people of the rich people that are there. calling them parasites. And here are some of the things that are happening at Burning Man, slutty mini golf, hosted by Camp Slutput. Burners are invited to come play around in Slutty Mini Golf. May the biggest slut win. Polgasm, get yours. The event page doesn't define exactly what that means,

but I think you can figure out. There's another one that I don't need to say. the name listed under adult-oriented activities, offers various ways for women to find intense physical pleasure. Then there is Camp Beaverton's lesbian-ish lending library. Pick up a good book. Share one of your favorites. Trashy lesbian romance novels. Man-to-man play. Adult 18, gay by curious men, 24-7 to down low clubs, discreet, air-cooled tent for erotic man-play. There's the Spank Bank. Have you been naughty or would you like to be? The sex cult, Spanky's University, and a day spa that I can't tell you.

And here's one that I think is interesting. Sponsored by Planned Parenthood, Rebirth Your Burn, the Birth Canal. Planned Parenthood is proud to present a new birth canal for you to shed the sins of yesterday and be reborn into the dust. spend a meditative moment in our womb of a dome and then climb into the canal and be delivered. Squeeze your way through the start and start the rest of your new life. It won't hurt or much. Nearby bar open from noon to midnight.

Bring your own sins. You have to navigate an obstacle course of contraceptive devices through an interior orifice, twisty turns of the birth canal, reproducing something that we all have in common. the moment we entered into this self-reliant dusty life. You have to jump over a big freaking Bible through a coat hanger and climb a set of stairs to nowhere and you can chill in the room. Okay, that's what they're doing.

Now let me tell you another story. Rockport, Texas, Saturday, the residents affected by Hurricane Harvey, they went to a storm shelter in Rockport, It was in disarray. Nobody knew what to do. The guy who was in charge was a 29-year-old guy. He had no medical expertise at all. He was actually a screenwriter. He had moved to Rockport from Lexington, Kentucky, three months ago, where he was living with his father, a cancer survivor. He went to a shelter to find out how he could help ahead of the storm on Friday.

After realizing there were no supplies or management at the shelter, he stepped up. Texas Emergency Medical Task Force, when they arrived, they asked who was running the shelter, and everyone pointed to him. He was the only one able to update on the situation. The shelter had 126 people at last headcount. Six were medically fragile. Four needed oxygen. Two needed hospice care. He was able to recruit 15 people.

Most of them under the age of 21. He assigned them to 30-minute shifts. They got people together into the shelter. They pulled food and water. They plugged leaks from the incoming rain. He, without any experience, without anybody asking, he just stepped up and got it done. But it's not just here over and over and over again,

stories of heroism. instead of the situation like it was in New Orleans, three days into it where people were looting and shooting at the helicopters. Instead, Houston, Texas, one of the most diverse cities in the nation, is pulling together. But also in New York City, Michael Klein, he was on WCBS, said she was walking up

the stairs of the Broadway-Lafiet subway station Saturday. She saw two people sitting in a dangerous place above the trains. There were beams about 20 feet high, five feet apart. She said, I really couldn't tell if they were laughing or if one person was crying. I thought they were friends. I wasn't sure. My first thought was, how did they get up there? Why are you goofing off? This is so dangerous. She asked another passenger. What was going on? the girl said see that girl she just climbed over the railing she went across the beam she was saying suicidal things

and that guy who apparently doesn't know her climbed over the fence with her walked out onto this beam put his arm around her and was comforting her now let me ask you are you going to climb over a fence you're going to whack a tight rope across a beam 25 feet above the deadly subway trains in New York City

to go try to rescue a girl that you don't know? Now let me ask you this. Which one of these are we? And yes, I know, we're both. We have in our society both. But which one do you want to be a part of? Do you want to be a part of something that is so shallow that your accomplishment in life

with all of the things that are going on, your accomplishment in life is to come up with a birth canal where you're challenging people who are going to a bar to try to navigate over the big freaking Bible and a coat hanger. With all the things going on in the world,

do you want to stand with the people, be them Nazis or Antifa? Do you want to be the one that is standing with them, that is talking, about why that statue of the guy who started the clan

should be up or shouldn't be up but not just discussing it in a logical way and using the usual American ways of solving problems instead you want to be the ones shouting at each other? I don't think so. None of us do.

We all want to be the person on the beam but not all of us can be. Not all of us have the courage. I don't have the courage to be the 9-11 firefighters. I don't have the courage to be a regular firefighter. I don't have the courage to be a cop. But we all want to support the people who do walk out of the beam.

We want to be there and cheer them on and be inspired by the ones who do run up the stairs into a burning building. The ones who do stand in front of the bad guys, quite honestly, and protect their right. America has been given a great gift, a reprieve from the hatred and a chance to see who we really are. If your media source is not giving you the opportunity

to see those things and to not make this about politics, to not make this about party and partisan and policy, I don't know about you, but I'm done with all that. There's too much real pain going on in the world to spend our time and our day just worried about that. My daughter and I were having a conversation. She said, Dad, I just want to make a difference.

It's all I want to do. I want to know that what I get up in the morning and do, that it matters. It's so funny, I told her. I said, honey, I want you to come back to work, and I want you to read what I wrote on my glass window. I use it as kind of a whiteboard. I said I just wrote something on there just today. This was last week. I want to do something that matters.

We're all like that. Here's an opportunity. I'll tell you what we have going on on the ground. We're going to take you to Houston here in a second. But if you want to get involved, please go to mercury one.org. That's mercury one.org. I'm going to tell you the things that Mercury One is doing.

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Mercury. Listening to the Glenn Beck Program. So this storm looks like it is backed out over the Gulf again. and that usually means it's going to gather steam and then it will come back in. Are we thinking now that it might go to New Orleans? I know Galveston is going to get hit hard again. Yeah, the way they talked about it was not necessarily

that it was going to gather strength as much as it was going to go gather some more water. Well, same. So we're not necessarily looking at wind problems as much as more rain and Galveston's supposed to get hit even very hard, but they don't think New Orleans is going to be massive flooding. New Orleans is still in the same situation they were in. I mean, really, not a lot has happened in New Orleans since the last hurricane. I mean, they didn't fix the problems.

They did what a corrupt government always does. They fix as much as they can, and then they waste all of the rest of the money on other things, and then they'll blame it on whatever, global warming or, you know, Donald Trump or whatever they're going to blame it on. I don't know if you guys saw the story that Glenbeck.com published today. I just put it up on my Facebook page about an hour ago. We went back and we found the audio of the show I did almost a year to the day of Katrina, where I explained what's going to happen to New Orleans if a hurricane blows in to New Orleans. It's bone-chilling, because almost all of it happened.

And it wasn't even the strength of the storm that was needed in those briefs. predictions. They were talking about if a category five hit it or something. And that's not even what happened. It's still a complete disaster. Yeah. And it's pretty bone chilling. And you look at it now and you say, nobody listened to the warning then. Could things have been changed? Yes. And it's why there are so many people in our audience that when Katrina happened, A, we weren't surprised. We knew going into it. If this hits, they should be pulling everybody. out. They should pull everybody out. Our audience wasn't surprised. And when they started to make this about politics, we again weren't surprised because the politicians, the local politicians, had to make it about something.

Otherwise, it would have come back and been on their doorstep because it was clear what had happened. Yeah, it's kind of the reverse of Houston. I mean, I know Pat was there for the last huge storm. Was it Rita, Pat? Well, the last one that caused a lot of damage was Ike in 2008. But that was only a category too.

Right. What was the one? I think it was Rita where everyone tried to leave. It was Rita. And then that was where all the death came. The death came when the people evacuating. Three million people evacuating at the same time caused some problems. So is that why the city decided not to evacuate this time?

It might be. And did that save people? We don't know. I mean, I guess it's too early to tell that. You know, they're getting a lot of criticism and there was disagreement between the governor and the mayor. Right. So, you know, I know there are people in Houston who believe an evacuation, especially the way that storm came in, which, again, it was supposed to hit really more Corpus Christi. Yeah.

And then it was really overnight kind of came in, and this was sort of a surprise in Houston that it hit this way, this badly. and without that much warning trying to evacuate people that quickly, they think may have been worse. If you would have done that, I mean, look at the highways. If you would have done that and evacuated all those people and they were all sitting there. Remember Pat? Yes.

They ran out of gas. Yes. People ran out of gas. There was no way to get out. They'd been trapped in the flooding. Right. Yeah. A lot of people would have died.

I mean, there would have been people, if they were lucky, you don't see the roofs of the cars on those highways. Those are long underneath the water. Imagine you have the population of Houston on the streets in their cars trapped with their families. That would have really been. That could have been horrendous. I mean, I don't think that we judge good or bad right now on the evacuation plan that didn't happen in Houston. It may have actually been a godsend this time around with the way this thing.

rolled in. Back in just a second, live report from Houston on the boats. Next. Program. Mercury. As you may have heard, I was out yesterday. It's because I'm leaving the industry to start my own face cream company, offshoot. But I found out yesterday that it's really not that good. I don't know why. Yeah, I don't know why Mark Zuckerberg's wife now is leaving. She's leaving. to start her own facecrote company. It's not that good, but so I'm back. Anyway, you are the only person who's ever come back.

Yeah, that's amazing. I know, I know, I know. So we have Jason Buttrill on. Jason is a chief researcher for the Glenn Beck program. He's also a former Army Intel and just a general do-good kind of guy that we love having around. Jason is in Houston right now. and you are, are you on the boats yet with Team Rubicon? We are not on the boats yet, but we linked up last night, got to the rally point,

and they were just kind of getting all their gear to do. One of the, what they're saying is the hardest, a levery that is broken nearby, and investing the most amount of rescue work. And I tell you, Glenn, I'm just, there's been no vehicles going south towards Houston at all, except for going out, we're in a convoy now, and all you can see is boats down to help people. I will tell you that this is the idea, and yes, I believe that, you know, the federal government has a role and everything else, but it is the role of last resort. It is always the role of last resort. We need to be the first responders. We'd still be waiting for FEMA to get boats and everything else. Look at what just the average citizen is doing. I got a boat. I'm going down. And they're going down and they're rescuing people. This is who we are. This is exactly who we are. We have seen, we have seen some FEMA people as well. We saw a crew from Miami-Dade FEMA sent them down. We saw them yesterday.

And I don't want to bash them by any stretch of the imagination. All hands on deck. And I welcome everybody. So please don't take that as a FEMA bash. But you are exactly right, Glenn. I saw one FEMA crew that was out here. Everybody else has been private organizations and private citizens. I'm absolutely amazed. And these people are doing this under incredible harm. They're already getting, and this is a big, big, of course, they're worried about their safety, and there's another storm that's blowing, it's blowing back in, and I think a few hours, and they're expecting another 16 inches of rain just by this evening.

So this is going to get a lot worse. But beyond that, they're already starting to get reports that some people, as the boat crews are going house-to-house, there are reports that some of them are getting ambushed. They're trying to overtake some of the boats and steal the boats. People are getting desperate. At this point, they don't have any power. They're running out of food. They're running out of water.

There's other reports that people are shooting at the rescue boats. They're going by. People are desperate. So here's the thing that we learned, and this is something that, you know, the United States government did a study on in the 1950s and 60s, you know, in fear of nuclear war. If things break down, how long do you have?

Generally speaking, you have about 72 hours before people start to get violent. And that is because it's not necessarily the desperation. As much as it is, people realize I'm the king of the world. I have this little fiefdom and I can do whatever I want. And nobody's coming in to stop me. And the bad guys and every city and every race and everything else has bad guys like that. And it usually takes about 72 hours.

I'm surprised it has taken this long. I'm sorry to hear that that's going on, but it's not a surprise. But the good news is that there is an army of good guys. With a group or with Team Group of Khan, they're primarily a veteran group. They're veterans. We were talking to them and hanging out with them all last night as they were getting all their gear together. And there's guys like some of my boys from the Marine Corps.

There's Army vets. There's Navy vets. There's all branches of service represented out here with this organization. And I was talking to them. I'm like, you know, you work for Team of Oklahoma? Oh, we're volunteers. Like, where'd you come from? He's like, oh, I come from New, one guy was from New Mexico.

Another guy was from somewhere else somewhere. Some other than overrised and ever there in. And actually, you know, I'm here with Sean. And we both both both kind of small at the moment. We are amongst giants. So tell me what you saw in Houston that you didn't expect to see. I did not expect that. So we are seeing when we came in last night because it was so dark.

We are starting to see that now. And we're driving through the traffic to see the amount of people. We were just in South America. and we saw, you know, we were going down to Niles, and we saw it could barely get through some of those nows. And that's what it looks at places, but they're all private people are out here trying to help. I did not expect to see that.

Texans, you have stood up today. I'm so proud of you. We do me a favor. And please call somebody, I don't know who would do this. Call Michelle in my office, but make sure you have access to my Facebook page and live stream some stuff today for me on my Facebook page and also shoot some stuff back to us so we can cover it as we're going along.

Thanks so much. Absolutely. Okay. Jason is down there for the Glenn Beck program covering it, but Team Rumaccon and Mercury One are down, and I want to tell you a little bit about this little organization that we started when I left Fox, and it was called Mercury One, and the idea behind it is twofold.

if we want the government to do less, then we have to do more as individuals. And the other comes from Abraham Lincoln's second inaugural address with malice toward none and charity for all. We can't close our hearts on anyone, especially because of the way they voted. And keeping our hearts soft will help us.

so I didn't want to do a I don't want to be a I can't I can barely run my own life let alone a big huge service organization so we started this and we were asking let's find the people who want to stand up in their own communities and let's help enforce them let's help give them the supplies so I want to tell you who we've partnered with and where your money is going and 100% of the money that is raised 100% goes to the places that you earmark. So if you come in and you say, I want it to go to the hurricane, then 100% of that money will go to the hurricane. These are the people we've partnered with, and this is what we've been doing for the last five days. Operation Barbecue is now staging in Spring, Texas,

because I-45 was closed down. They are moving to Houston to the convention center today. They are going to cook Wednesdays, and dinner. They're ramping up to serve $25,000 a day, or $25,000 people a day by Friday for the shelter at the convention center, as well as the first responders. Operation Barbecue are these people that we found a few years ago,

and they are remarkable. They come in with all this beef and they just start cooking meals. 25,000, these will be the guys who are providing the food at the convention center in Houston. And by Friday, they start today. We currently have the capacity to feed 20,000 meals per day, but we're going to need to do more. And this is a Mercury 1 project, and we ask you to please donate at Mercury1.org.

Also, Team Rubicon, these are the boat crews that are out. They are sending in crews right now in multiple cities throughout the coast. And once the floodwaters go down, they are going to stay there, and they're going to help with the cleanup. We have city impact. These are church partners that are ready to deliver meals from Corpus Christi, Padre Island, Rockport, Angleton, Rosenberg, Houston, Baytown. On Friday, I got a note that we had three tractor trailers that were already loaded. We have four more, they're already gone, four more ready to go. They are going to be serving through long-term serving through faith partners.

and there were going to be six mass distribution sites in the area. Somebody cares. There's a team that drove down from San Antonio to Corpus Christi on Saturday. They're basing all their operations at Journey Church. They are going through Victoria and Rockport as well. They have a mobile kitchen. They began serving hot meals on Sunday, gleaning the world already dispatched four tractor-trailer loads of water.

16 loads of blankets. We are currently in transit with additional water, baby products, personal care, personal care products, and other things that people need, you know, when they find themselves out of a house. And then the provisions project. This is search and rescue. They are helping assist them in fuel, equipment, and meals. they are sending the fuel, the equipment, and the meals. They have over 100 volunteers and 40 boats that are at the ready with local emergency officials.

They're working with the Sheriff's Department and provisions project plans to be part of the long-term rebuild efforts as well. This is where your money is going. These are partners that we have partnered with for a long time. We look for the people who are doing it the most efficiently, getting the most amount of money directly to the people or the project that you want to donate to, please go to mercury1.org. Yesterday we raised $200,000, but we need to do a lot better than that. But if you would like to be involved, please find a way for your family to be involved.

Go door to door to your neighbors and ask them to get involved. to have your kids sell cookies in the neighborhood or whatever to try to raise some funds, get your family involved. And anything that you can do, even if it is just prayer, we sure would appreciate it. It's mercury one.org and our disaster relief. We have more on that and something really, I think, really exciting to tell you about coming up in just a few minutes.

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Mercury. So I don't know what is wrong with people, honestly. You know, life is pretty easy. People are complex. Joel Olstein and his church are now in this controversy that is really, truly not a controversy. They're saying that Lakewood is closed its doors and they weren't going to help and look how big his house is

and he wouldn't help. That is not the truth at all. At all. Lakewood does not have showers. They don't have all the kitchens. They don't have everything that a big shelter would have. They're not made to be a shelter. It is the compact center.

But the compact center also has, and Pat verify this if you don't. know, has a history of flooding. When the rockets were playing there, when Allison came through, the court was four feet underwater. Now, they have storm walls, but those storm walls are one foot at this point, a foot from being overtaken. So if you look at pictures in some of the lower areas, and there's already water.

Now, you can get people to the second floor, and everything's going to be fine. And they've set up air mattresses and everything. everything else. But the convention center is the place that the city and the state has said, go to the convention center. The Georgia Brown Center is massive. Right. Why would you not do it there? Correct. And they are doing it there. And while Joel's people were on the phone with the city, they were coordinating and saying, okay, how are you doing on people? We are prepared to take some. Just know our capabilities. We don't have showers. It's not a long-term place. This is not a place where people can just live for a while, but we can get them out of danger, but we also have the problem of flooding.

We're about a foot away from the bottom level being flooded. As they're saying this and the convention center and the city are saying, don't worry about it, we'll just keep you as a secondary shelter. We don't have need for you at this time. People go online and they start ripping Joel and his family and his church apart. It's really awful. It's awful. It's really awful.

And people, don't you have anything else better to do? Why don't you look for positive things that you can do instead of constantly searching for the negative everywhere? This is the Glenn Beck program. Mercury. Hello and welcome to the program. We have some actually really good things to report today because I think America is focused. on the things that actually matter and actually are reflective of who we are. And that is, Americans.

When times get tough, we stand up. And that's exactly what we're seeing. And if your media source is not showing you that and concentrating on that, it's time you find a new media source. We begin there right now. Enlightenment. This is the Glenn Beck program. Where were you when we gathered on the mall on 828?

The anniversary was yesterday. When we got together to restore honor, when we stood shoulder to shoulder and swore to each other, we would be better than we thought we could be, that we would rise above the petty politics and be more like the giants of our common heritage. Where were you when, if you remember right, Al Sharpton and the Black Panthers marched directly,

into that crowd on the mall. They were trying to get us to lash out and we showed them love and peace and they didn't know how to respond. They just left. Darkness doesn't understand the light. That's what's happening.

This is who we left there with them all being cleaner than when we found it. And for those of you don't know what I'm talking about, I'm talking about 828 when we went to restore honor on the mall, not the mall where you're buying clothes, but the mall in Washington, D.C.

at the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. This is really who we are, and we're seeing it in this hurricane right now. It's what America has always wanted to be a light unto the world, a beacon, a shining city on the hill. You know, this weekend, I was looking at some old pictures of where we've been since then. we went to 828 and we were in Washington, D.C. restoring honor. Then the next year we went to Jerusalem on 826 and we decided that we were going to restore courage to ourselves. All building to what are the fundamental building blocks that will make us stand when the winds finally come?

The year after that, I think on 824, I can't remember the exact date, we went to Dallas Cowboys Stadium. And we did restoring love. And then in Birmingham, again, on 828, we restored unity. And all of these were ahead of their time. When we were in Birmingham, just two years ago, thousands of us marched on the same streets that the giants like Martin Luther King walked during the Civil Rights March. And I'll never forget. So many people around me said, Glenn, why are we doing this?

why are we signing the Martin Luther King pledge? And I said, because a storm is coming. Because there's going to come a time when we're going to need this discipline. And we took his pledge. I have it. I have it signed by about 30,000 people that were there. We renewed our vow on the mall in Washington, D.C. And on that day, we began to chart a course for standing for the weakest among us,

those targeted for slavery and execution in the Middle East. Yesterday was the anniversary of that two-year goal. And if you remember right, that two-year goal started out small. I think we wanted to save 100 families. I want to take just a minute here and look back on what happened just by a group of people gathering together in Birmingham and saying, I want to help. There are few places on earth where Christianity is as old as it is in Iraq.

Christians there trace their history to the first century apostles. But today, their existence has been threatened by the terrorist group that calls itself Islamic State. The place where my father works was so dangerous. So we have to move because I says take our houses and our village. More than 125,000 Christians, men, women, and children have been forced from their homes over the past year. Dash is responsible for genocide against groups. The latest ISIS video delivered a direct threat to Christians in the Middle East.

You will not have safety, even in your dreams, until you embrace Islam. Then militants carried out what appears to be a mass execution, shooting some captives and beheading others. Tens of thousands of Christians are now fleeing for their lives. The largest Christian city now seized by ISIS military. Attacks on Christians by radical Muslims are spreading. If the world doesn't do anything, Christians will not exist in the Middle East. They will be liquidated. Enough is enough.

I'll give you my word. We will raise a million dollars to help you and get these people out. Let's raise a million dollars. We have raised a million dollars. Let's see if we can raise another million dollars here in the next couple of weeks and see if we can get 80 families. Breaking news. Tell us where you just got back from what you just did. I just got back from Iraq. I was in Iraq, Slovakia, and Sweden, and we are trying to bring Iraqi Christians out of the Middle East with something called the Nazarene Fund.

We've raised $12 million to do it. Just about a year ago, we're not even at the year mark of starting the Nazarene Fund. And I said, in the next year, we want to save 400 families. And even with all of the trouble that we have had, we have moved to safety, 553 families. Families, not people. Families. Wow, that's true. We have moved or fed 11,455.

What I think is interesting is you've gone over, you went over there, you took matters in your own hand, you didn't wait for government, you got private donations, you swooped in. I represent to about 120,000 people in America that have literally saved their pennies and dollars, sold their rings to be able to pay for your trip out tomorrow. Thank you forever. Great thanks to you if you help this family to go to the safe place. God bless you. I'm going to tell the Americans that they help save lives and I'm very grateful.

Thanks for everyone who works on this, because they know that we need help. So thank you so much. All of the harder money that you gave, all of the prayers that you said, lifted up to God for these people, nothing was wasted. This is not easy for us.

But I believe our people, they are not going to forget who stand with us, such as you. Two years of life-saving work has changed the course of history. Since first announced on August 28, 2015, Mercury 1 has raised $17.5 million. We've delivered emergency humanitarian aid, including food, water, blankets, hygiene kits to 35,000 people. We have housed 5,462 people.

We've closed down four Christian and Yziti refugee camps and moved them to safe locations. 7,602 Christian and Yziti refugee camps. Christian and Yazidi conflict refugees have now been screened, processed, transported, and resettled in new host countries like Australia, Canada, Slovakia, Brazil, France, and one in the United States with an additional 1,700 pending evacuations. All of this has happened because of you. People are alive, they're free, they're able to serve their God openly and safely, because of you.

But know this. Our mission has just started. The week of September 17th, 2017, Mercury 1 will announce a new phase of this mission, one that is even bolder and more miraculous than what you have helped already accomplish. Join us. Join us in changing the world.

Get involved. Save a life. And make a difference. Mercury 1.org. The Nazarene Fund. Thank you. You make such a difference in the world. You have no idea what you've done.

And as I just said in that, coming in two weeks, I'm going to announce something that is breathtaking. Because the need is breathtaking. Today, Mercury 1, is in Houston and the need there is breathtaking. But the good news is Americans are still Americans. No matter what we've been through in the last two years,

no matter what we've thought about each other over the last two years, the last five years, last ten years, last two weeks, all of it is a lie. All of it is a lie. Look at who we're choosing to be today as people here in America are in need. Please get involved. You can go to mercury1.org. If you trust us with the money to put it to whatever the needs are,

just donate it to the regular general fund. If you want to make sure that every dollar goes to the Nazarene Fund, just make sure you just click on the Nazarene Fund. If you want it just for the rescue in Houston, just click on that. We promise you every dollar goes to the programs. It goes to the people. Every dollar that we're raising right now for the rescue relief, I told you last hour where they go.

We're already on the front line. In fact, the organization that we are helping fund is going to be the main source of food for 25,000 people at the convention center. and that's coming from you and Mercury 1. And there's no skim off the top for Mercury 1. That's been my promise to you because I know how I feel when somebody asks me for money. Yeah, but what are you really doing with the money? There's no skim off the top for us.

If you go to the disaster relief, it will go to those projects, period. Not a dime comes to us. We have to be able to trust one another. We have to be able to do the right thing and not be trapped in a whole bunch of lies that makes us want to close our hearts. Go to mercury1.org right now. Mercury1.org.

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Read their important risk information. 1-866 Goldline, 1866 Goldline or Goldline.com. This is the Glenn Beck Program. Mercury. The Glenn Beck Program. We are in the middle of a huge disaster in America, and people are struggling, and people are, are hurting, millions of people are praying for their fellow Americans, even though some of them are not exactly, quote, the praying type. I'm seeing people that are praying. If we who want a

small government, want our government to do less, then that means we have to do more. And if you don't mind the government doing most of not all of the work, you know, cool, I don't agree with you. But instead of arguing, what do you say, you still get involved? Even if it's just prayer or, you know, meditation or, you know, finding something that we're going to go save the animals. And I'm not joking about that. I mean, get involved in the thing that inspires you. Believe it or not, it's going to make you feel better. It's going to make you feel better about yourself, and it's going to make you feel much better about America. And I think we all need a little medicine for our hearts right now.

We've been given a great opportunity to heal our hearts right now and to see each other for who we are. Because we are all Americans. We're all the same. We really are. No matter who we vote for, 90% of us want to do good. 90% of us want to help. 90% of us want to help. 90% of us don't like hating our neighbor. And with or without Donald Trump, with or without Hillary Clinton, with or without any of these people, here's the chance to make America great again. By making America what has always made it great is it was good. Let's make America good again.

Let's make America kind again. and our goodness and our kindness is happening in spite of our politicians and our political parties. During Sandy, I remember we raised millions of dollars to help with Hurricane Sandy. And in fact, Mercury 1, I believe, was one of the first on the ground for Hurricane Sandy.

And we helped white churches, we helped black churches, small businessmen, we helped union labor shops, I remember we helped the police get back on their feet. And this police union, or I can't remember exactly what it was, but this group of people actually, they had a thing where they were trying to get me fired from my job. And I didn't know this, and they didn't know who we were until after we had presented them with checks, and they had done their homework on who Mercury 1 was.

and they were like, Glenn Beck, we're shocked that it was from you. And we have to tell our members. And I said, no, you don't need to tell your members. This isn't from me. This is from the American people. And we're not picking and choosing who we're helping. We're just helping those people who are hurting.

You happen to be one of them. We went up and we had this truck and our people left and we were in front of this church and it was a black church and we were unloading the food and we had gone in. And some Occupy Wall Street people came and actually hung Occupy Wall Street banners on the truck and were taking video, making it look like they were offloading all of this food. Somebody on my team came out and they were really upset and said, relax, relax.

We didn't have to say anything because the church that would have fallen prey to Occupy Wall Street, I think, because if they would have offered anything, they were so embarrassed by, quote, their side. It wasn't their side. That's not their side. That's not who they were. But that's who the media and everybody else would have deemed their side.

They were so embarrassed by those people. They shooed them away, took the banners down, and then went on local television that night and made sure that everybody knew that it was Mercury 1 that did this. If we just go in and we see, serve, not for the credit, not for anything, but just because we love people, it's amazing how hearts change. That is where we are today in Texas. Revel in that. Renew your heart and get involved. Mercury1.org.

The Glenn Beck Program. The Glenn Beck Program. So what's happening with Joel Olstein in Houston is really despicable. And you know what? We just have to reject all of this stuff. I got on to Facebook. I think it was on Saturday. And we were talking about the different things that are going on. And people started saying,

Oh, that's because of Donald Trump. That's because of, do you, do you, is, I know I'm not alone. I know I'm not alone. Is anybody else like, what do you have? anything else to do with your time? Do you realize how much trouble the country is in? Do you realize people are actually fighting for their life

to survive today? And you're... I was watching the press over the weekend and they were making it all about Donald Trump's tweets. Shut the hell up. Shut up! The people who were making it about all of the

Eastern press that was you know, Ted Cruz wanted to not give any funding for Sandy. First of all, not true. Not true. You're reading your own headlines and buying your own crap. That's not what that was.

That was pork central. But I read that and I thought, are you kidding me? You can't wait until, I don't know, until the waters subside? You can't wait until people are actually into safety? We're making this about politics.

now? Yeah, I mean, that's the only game in town now is making everything into politics. Every tragedy that strikes, the first knee-jerk reaction is to blame it on somebody politically. But doesn't it feel good that at least here in Texas,

I don't know what it feels like in the rest of the country, but at least here in Texas, that's not going on. That's not happening. Nobody is getting your voter ID card out and nobody's saying, hey, I know you're in distress and you need some help. But are you black or white? Nobody's doing that.

That doesn't happen. You notice that Houston isn't Houston the most diversity in the country? I think it is. I thought Irving is. Irving is the most diverse, but I think it's... I think Houston is the largest in diversity. White isn't even the main portion of the population now in Houston. Is it? I hate white people.

I mean, every iota of a cracker, I hear. Anyway, but you notice you're not, you're not seeing any race strife. No, I mean, you're getting the typical people doing the typical things with politics. But that's the typical people. Right. Like, there is a story today, you want to know what climate change looks like, Hurricane Harvey. So we're clear, climate change looks like the last two days, not the last 12 years, where there was no major hurricanes that hit. It's the last two days is what climate change looks like. But the 12 years of no storms hitting America that were major hurricanes, that is not what it looks like.

It just could be me, but I don't think anyone is paying attention to any of that stuff anymore. I hope that's true. I mean, do you know anybody who is, I mean, the people that are all up in arms and are making this political one way or another, Do you know any of your friends who are actually listening or talking to those people? Because I don't. I don't know anybody. Now, it may be different because we're in Texas. Everyone I know is so taken by the spirit of the people that are involved. Look, and look, we're going to get there.

Oh, yeah, we are. The country and Texas is going to get there. This will turn into politics. Oh, yeah, it will. So far, at least my impression is, only the real crazies have gone. that route so far. It's too soon. It's still going on.

There's still rain falling. Yeah. No, I mean, we're going to get, we did it after September 11th. We were good for a while and then we went back to where we were. And that's going to happen. But why not take the moment to heal our heart? Why not take the moment to actually look and say, look at the vast majority of people. Look at what's happening.

Is it just me that this actually gives hope? It's actually like, okay, if we're really, because just three weeks ago, because just three weeks I was like, I don't know if I said this on the year, but I've been saying, I don't know what happens to us anymore. I don't know who we are. I don't know if a giant economic disaster hits. I don't know if we burn our cities down to the ground and we become animals towards each other.

I don't know. Well, look at this. Look at what's happening. We haven't changed. The fundamental transformation of America may have changed. may have happened, but the fundamental transformation of Americans has not yet. That's all you need are Americans. If you have that American can do, I'm going to do it, I'm there to help, I'm going to help my neighbor, I don't care what color they are, I don't care anything about

how they voted, I'm just going to go there and help. As long as that remains intact, we make it. It's all the world has had for a long time. I mean, we've had a couple hundred years of America being really the only hope and dragging the rest of the world in the right direction. You know, I was down in Mexico, and they have this weird thing culturally, and I have not figured it out yet. And so I hesitate to say this because I don't want to besmirch the people of Mexico, because I don't think it's Mexico, and I don't even think it's all Latin America.

I think it is, it's parts of the world that do not have a more enlightened view of women. And there is something in Latin America that it's still okay, like it kind of was here in America, 30, 40 years ago, to drool over that 15-year-old girl and to... Well, we always make fun of, like, there's songs in the 80s, you know. Yeah. Sexy and was sexy and 17. And she, you know, like, there's all these like 16 and 17-year-old songs. You're like, you shouldn't have sang that out loud. You realize that, right?

Yeah. Even, you know, you listen to George Michael and father figure. I will be your father figure. Okay, that's creepy. That's really creepy. Okay? Yes. So as we're dealing with all these sex slaves down in Latin America,

I've seen that in the culture, at least part of the culture. and it's hard because I'm only in this darker part of the culture. But these young 12-year-olds are used as sex slaves because that's where the demand is. Now, it's happening here as well, but you don't see here. You know, I think we kind of stop this with, who was it, Jerry Lee Lewis and Elvis Presley. Okay, yeah, she's a little young.

I don't think that's good. there were parts still in the world that still look at 12-year-olds and go, yeah, you can have her, you can marry her, whatever. We're not like that. And it amazes me that we're the ones truly under attack, that America is the one that's made to look like the big predator animal when we're better than most of the rest of the world. We're a lot better.

and that's happening in almost every category. And the reason why they can sell it to us is because we don't see it. We're so isolated. It's been a great protector to be this isolated, but it's also killing us right now. We're so isolated when we don't know what the rest of the world is like, we can start just tearing ourselves down because we don't have anything to compare to and say, please, I'm glad we're not that. Yeah, we got our problems.

we're not that. We don't do that. Our institutions now are built to say, yeah, forget about that. Look at what you are. We'd never do that to our children. We'd never do that to anything that we love. We'd never, no, no psychiatric care.

They would go to jail if they were bringing their, you know, patients in and saying, yeah, well, you just look at you. you. And I'm not going to tell you about, you know, how good you actually have it and give you some perspective on, you know, X, Y, and Z and show you the mass of the population. What I'm really just going to do is say, you're really bad. You notice, I'm going to play into everything that you think about yourself. Instead of giving you a fresh perspective and showing you, hey, yeah, you got some problems. But I want you to put it into perspective. Instead of doing that, imagine a

psychiatrist saying, yeah, forget about all of that. You know what? You are bad. In fact, you might be worse than you think. Those people would be in jail. Look, I'd like to talk you out of this, but the evidence shows you really are a crap heap. I'm sorry. Look at what's happening and we're allowing it to happen.

Don't. It stops having power over you the minute you recognize the game. The minute you recognize, oh my gosh, I see what you're doing. Huh. I get it. This is the greatest thing because I grew up in a home full of abuse and I've seen it my whole life.

I can recognize an abuser a million miles away, a million miles away. And when you are just the subtle things that you would say to your spouse or to your girlfriend or whatever, I've seen this movie before, dude. I know who you are. and once you know it, you're not afraid of it and you call it out every time. Oh, I know who you are.

Yeah, get out. And that's what we need to say mentally to all of these things that right now you have a choice. Your media source can either focus right now on tearing everything down and tearing all the American stuff down,

or use this time to tear the other side down, or it can just tell the truth. Look what's happening. This one really counts. This one kind of doesn't. This one is real strife, real problems, real rescue. This one seems to just be politically motivated. Huh.

I think we should spend our time on this one. and not on the politically motivated one. We have to get our arms around that. And right now, recharge your batteries. Recharge everything that you have felt worried about when it comes to America. Recharge them. Fill yourself with all of the good things that are going on. Read story after story after story of the heroes.

We have them at glenbeck.com. We'll have a Facebook.com slash glenbeck. We'll have it at the blaze.com. Fill yourself with the good stuff of what's happening in America. There's no shortage of them, right? None. I mean, it's incredible. If you're looking for those stories, you can find hundreds of them.

It's great. And we've done a bunch of them already. We did a bunch yesterday. And we should continue to do it this week because you're right. People need to understand. You lose sight very easily that people can actually be decent human beings. That's a sad statement, but it's very true. And there's always going to be dirt bags.

Look, if there's a lot. not already, and Jason, who is down for my company, is down in Houston right now, and hopefully we'll have him on in about 15 minutes. He's out on the boats with Team Rubicon, a group that Mercury 1 is helping sponsor

and keep the fuel and everything that they're needing to be able to go rescue people. He's out on the rescue boats with him today. And, you know, he was saying earlier today, you know, what's amazing? Is how crowded the highways are.

going into Houston and everyone has a boat in tow. It's just all these people who are just coming from all over just to help. That's what Tanya and I saw after 9-11. When I went up and I was allowed to go in to see the World Trade Center site about five or six days after it had come down, and it was just Tanya and I, we went in. And what we witnessed were like barbecue,

places and food kitchens that were on wheels and people who were doing massage work and everything else that were all over from all over the country that had just seen the towers go down and they got into their car or their truck or their van and they just drove to New York and they were like I can help I know what's coming and I can help and nobody was paid nobody organized it just people did it

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That's in Brazoria County. and they're saying get out now. This is going to get, this is still going to get worse here in Houston. Yesterday through a member of the Blaze, Mercury 1 learned of the lighthouse charity team. This is a group serving people on Galveston Island towards the south side of Houston.

There is no way now to get from Houston to Galveston. The roads are all closed as well as all of the ports. Last night alone, the area got 11 inches of rain in four hours. Water is still several feet higher this morning than it was over the weekend. Has it peeped yet? It has not. All of Friendswood now is flooded in, not passable even with military equipment.

Medical patients are unable to get to the hospital. Lighthouse charity team will continue to provide community support through the meals as long as needed. They're serving right now 1,500 meals, but they need your help. Mercury 1 is supporting them. please go to mercury one.org and donate now mercury one dot org back in a minute. All right, we have a lot going on in Houston with the floodwaters. Things are going to get worse before they get better. The response has been really truly tremendous.

Even the people who are trying to make this about politics and saying, you know, well, they should have gotten those people out of there. Well, maybe they should have gotten those people out of there. However, as Pat knows, because he sat through the last hurricane that came in through Houston, he decided to stay in his home. Others went and people died on the highways. It was awful. And that was nothing like it is now with the cars being two, three feet underwater.

imagine what would have happened if millions of people were trapped on the roads in Houston. Catastrophe. We're going to get an update on all of this and show how you can get involved and help. Admiring the solution instead of the problem right now. Enlightenment. This is the Glenn Beck program. You know, I want to give you a choice. And this is what you should be saying to your friends.

all the time. Anybody who is on Facebook, who is trying to make this about politics or anything else, just ask them kindly, how about we just drop all this right now and we all come together and work to help one another? Plenty of time for blame later. But the guy from the young Turks, what's his name,

said, horrified at the human toll, but not sad about the billions of damage to the oil industry. U.S. taxpayers should... Gosh, what a moron. I know. U.S. taxpayers should help people of Houston in light of this tragedy, but not one dime to the oil companies that help caused it in the first place. First of all, I know, I mean, remember, I'm not a meteorologist or a climate specialist, but neither are you.

And hurricanes have been happening like this forever. Look up the hurricane of Galveston 1900. Was that because of the oil companies? This is what happens. The second thing is, when you are paying a really high price at the gas pump, because of this hurricane, then tell me how you are helping the little people. We have this hurricane is not only the cost of human life, but it is also the cost of rebuilding.

The biggest port, isn't, is Los Angeles the biggest port? is Houston the biggest port? I think Houston's third. Third, okay. One of the biggest ports, Houston also is one of the main shipping, the train shipping stations in the country. This is a lot of the trains come from Los Angeles or they'll come from Miami

and they will be shipped to Houston And then the trains switch in Houston. So it is a major, major area of import and distribution for the country. Not just the oil refineries, which are plentiful. When we're paying a lot more for a gallon of gasoline that helps you get to work, when you're paying a lot more for some of the things that used to come in through the port of Houston, it's because of this hurricane, this is going to hurt all of us. All of us are going to be hurt by this in a way that could be, you know, a trigger point.

If we're not careful, it could be a trigger point for an economic disaster. Let's be careful what we hope for and root for. According to this, six of the top 10 ports are between Louisiana and Texas. Louisiana has three, Texas has three in the top 10. That's a lot of shipping. Yeah, and it's, I mean, the left seems so hate-filled right now. And I know there's some on the right, too, but the left seems so hate-filled that they're willing to hurt millions and millions of people for their political agenda.

Same thing with Bill Maher wishing for the stock market to collapse. I mean, how many people would that affect? How many people who are retired? Yeah. Will that effect? I mean, the ramifications of just this. Remember, I was saying in 2007 and 8, look for a sustained oil price of $140 per barrel,

and you will have the collapse of the housing market. As it turned out, it was a sustained price of $130 a barrel. I was wrong. It was even more fragile than I thought it was. And that's what triggered the collapse. of the housing market. It's a house of cards. You don't want things to go up in price

if you actually care about the country and people. On the other side, he would improve his argument. Okay, yes. Okay, good. So if he didn't really consider that part of it, so that was pretty good. If you want to consider that

he's improving his argument by lies. Well, yeah, he'd be lying, sure. But he'd be able to say that on his show. And you know what would happen? People in his audience would cheer loudly for him when he made that point. Yeah. So, I mean, that would be done. Yeah.

Then he gets a hit of dopamine. That would be kind of cool. That's great. Will you do me a favor and go to mercury one.org? Mercury.1.org. And please donate. And I want to tell you the things that we are doing right now. We are doing Operation Barbecue.

That is still staged in spring, Texas. I-45 was closed down yesterday. They are moving to the convention center today. They are going to be cooking lunch and dinner by Wednesday at the convention center. They're ramping up to serve 25,000 meals a day by Friday at the shelter, as well as serving all of the first responders. They're also supporting the U.S. Coast Guard. They need your help, and you can help by go into Mercury 1,

This is one of our first relief responders and we would really like your help Mercury 1.org. Team Rubicon, we are still waiting for one of our guys to call in. It has been

crazy this morning, but he is out with Team Rubicon and they are putting the boats in the water and they're going out to rescue. His description earlier today on the program of what the waterways or the streets are like He said you can almost walk from boat to boat, step into other people's boats, and they're all private.

And everybody is just coming from all over the southwest with their boats to help rescue people. As we said, another levy just broke in Houston, and they are saying, get out of this area. Galveston, people are trapped. There was 11 inches of rain. How many more are they expecting when the thing comes back and turns around, Pat? They were expecting all told up to 50 inches And so I don't know how many more that is They were already at 30 in a lot of locations

So other locations were even at 40 Yeah, I think actually now A preliminary report from one Texas rain gauge Has broken the Texas tropical cyclone Rainfall record Southeast of Houston, Mary's Creek reported 49.32 inches As of 9 a.m. Central.

You know what the annual rainfall total for Houston is? 49 inches. That's, they got it in one weekend. Two or three days. The previous record was 1978. Wow. Which was what? 48 inches.

And it's not done yet. It's not done yet. Yeah, I mean, this morning I saw a report that said there's still 15 inches coming to Galveston. I mean, I mean, good heavens. 15 inches is a really bad storm by itself. You're at 40, 45, 49 inches and you're getting another 15 potentially. I mean, how is this?

How is this? Seriously. I mean, nobody is, I mean, are people's, do you see the picture of the people in the nursing home? I thought that had to be fake. Yeah. Yeah. It wasn't, was it? No, they did rescue them, though, right?

Yeah, they had already been rescued. And I believe that we have a story up at glenbeck.com or the blaze that showed them all rescued and dried. Yeah. So, I mean, that was. I mean, I saw that and I'm like, you've got to be kidding me. I mean, it was, I mean. That was more. of a shock because that's how fast it happens. Yes.

I mean, it wasn't so much like, oh, look at they're leaving these nursing home people in the water. No, it just all of a sudden it starts to flood and ear up five feet. Right. Yeah. I mean, it's frightening. We have, one of the things that Mercury One right now is doing is provisions project, providing funding to the search and rescue partners in Houston. We're working with provisions project.

We're providing the fuel and the equipment and the meals. they have over 100 volunteers and 40 boats that are just trying to work with the local emergency officials and the sheriff's offices of the hardest-ed areas because they got these boats, where are they getting gas? So we're bringing the fuel in to them through the provisions project and trying to get that done. There is also this one here, the lighthouse charity that we just found out about yesterday, almost 11 inches and 4 hours last night. The water is already several feet higher than it was over the weekend. Friendswood is now flooded.

This is in Galveston. And the Lighthouse Charity team is providing community support through meals as long as they possibly can. They're right now serving 1,500 meals a day just in Friendswood. They're operations of the Galveston facility. is trying to support the needs of Galveston County. But again, as Stu said, they're expecting another 15 inches. There's no way out of Galveston now. Even with military equipment, there is no way out of Galveston.

All the roads are closed. Everything is flooded. You're stuck. And there are people that need help. The last thing we can do is choke down the funds. When they need it, they need it now. We have, we've already, one of our charities for Mercury 1 has, I think, six tractor trailers that are parked right outside of the floodwaters, just waiting for the first opportunity to be able to be flagged in. But it's full of water.

That's one of the things that's going to be really, a really big problem is water. I mean, everything, the sewage and everything, this is how people, you know, this is how people die fast is. through no clean water and all of that water. Imagine, because Houston is a bad place for mold as it is, imagine, imagine the illness that is coming from mold on this. This flood water is so unhealthy, so dangerous. You don't even want to walk through it, let alone drink it.

That's one of the things that they're concerned about, again, is the skin illnesses from the people who are walking in it. I mean, that's... Don't want to be swimming in it. You don't want to be walking in it. Things that happen, you know, post-recovery. Yeah, that's, you know, that's the 9-11 first responders with the, you know, the lung disease that's going on. I mean, you don't think about it when you're out there helping, but that's the kind of stuff that is coming.

This is a long way from being over. This is, you know, this is another Katrina. This is really, really good. Do we have a death toll? Because I'm, like, shocked that the death toll isn't gigantic. Yeah, I mean, it's. it could possibly rise when the floodwaters subside and then they find people. Yeah, because I don't think the last I heard was five.

Yeah. That's crazy. How many millions of people? 14. How many millions of people live in Houston? Seven, almost seven million. Seven million area.

I don't think we even have a big unaccounted for a list. What? An unaccounted for a list? Yeah. You know, I don't even think we have a big list of that. I mean, obviously, it could get bad. I mean, I don't even know. Or the cell phone, the cell tower is still working.

I mean, how would you charge your phone? you know, if your floodwaters came in, you're not charging your phone. So we don't know how many are unaccounted for yet, but so far it is miraculous on what is happening. Just miraculous. Of course, Katrina, about, you know, after that storm initially passed, felt the same way. There was a time where it was like, wow, well, you know, it was bad, but it's going to be okay. And then, of course, the levees broke and it got really ugly. Well, the levees are breaking today in Houston.

Yeah, I mean, it doesn't always happen that first day, and it's not always the wind, right? And here's going to be the flooding. They think that after they go and do searches, once the water recedes, they could find much bigger numbers. Though I don't think we're going to see anything like Katrina and death. Could I say? Stu or Pat, look up last big heat wave in Europe. Yeah, I mean, heat wave. 2000s, yeah.

Yeah, I mean, there were hundreds of people, yeah, just in France, hundreds of people just from heat. I mean, this is, you know, heat is really bad, especially in Europe where you don't have a lot of air conditioning and everything else. But, but my gosh, it's not this. No, no, in 2003 it was, and it was three, at least 1,540 in just France. In just France. European heat wave caused 35,000 deaths. Incredible. According to newscience.com article.

Now, that's crazy. 5,000. For heat. Yeah. This is a town of 7 million. And that's not including all the other towns from Corpus Christi. People don't have any idea how big the state of Texas is. They have no... And these cities. Concept, yeah. You have no concept of how big this state is in these cities. They go on and on and on and on and on. And, you know,

we are, what, five hours away driving from here to Houston? About four probably. Yeah, four, but four. But four. But four. hours from here to Houston. Three with that. And we're close. We're close. It takes you from Brownsville, Texas, which is in the southern border, to Texarkana, Texas, which is at the top of the border. It takes you as long to drive there as it does from

Texarkana, Texas to Chicago. That's how big this state is. And the entire Gulf, It's as if everything from San Diego to Portland had this rainstorm hitting. It's enormous. France, 14,802 heat-related deaths. Just from France.

Just in France. It's funny because we got, I don't know if you had the same thing, but we came from the Northeast. I grew up in New York and Connecticut, where states are like, it takes 45 minutes to get through your state. and you know I got calls from family all over the place I see this you know hurricane coming in are you guys okay is it well actually no we're we get

it was a little cloudy for a short time yeah and ever after that it's been pretty much nothing Sunday that we actually got some rain and we got one of the bands and I thought think of the enormity of this storm we're four hours away they were four hours away and we're getting it inland four hours inland and we're still getting it. Our sponsor, this F hour, is

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So here's a, if we may, have an intellectual conversation about something that we are all really torn on, except for stew. Stu is just a pure capitalist, screw them all, let them eat each other in any way. It's a godless animal.

It's totally godless animal. It hates people. Hates people. It wants your children to die. But there's a price gouging thing that's going on here in Texas with water and gas and everything else. And I'm really torn on this because, I mean, you know, water is water. You've got to have water. It's life-saving. And they're charging $99 for a case of water.

Okay, that's kind of a problem. That's a lot. What's a case of water? So let's say you're what, a $4 a bottle of water? I pay that at every freaking baseball game I go to. Every game I go to is $4 water is a very reasonable price. Absolutely. You're lucky to pay for.

That's not even price gouging. It's usually a vint pricing. That is legitimately event pricing. It's a little movie I'm paying $4 for a bottle of water. And you know what? That is actually what this is too. This is an event. It's a bad event.

It is. But I still have a problem. What about rooms? Okay, a hotel room going from 120 a night to 32189. I'm no problem. It's a western. No problem with that. It's not even a hotel.

It's a motel. I have no problem. with that. Don't look down. There's an extreme scarcity and demand increase. Gas at $10 a gallon. When you can't get gas, you're going to pay $10 a gallon. And here's the thing.

And here's the thing. Yes, should you have gas? But once that gas station runs out, they're not getting anymore. How are you going to get the trucks to come in? You need some mercenaries to come in and to refill some things. You need some truckers who are incentivized to come in and say, I'll get that water there. I'll get that gas there.

I mean, there's this balance between humanity and the truth about our better angels that capitalism needs to walk. Starting today through Friday, we are going to be setting up shop outside of the front of our building. Here in Dallas, Texas, we have a whole bunch of... of people who are headed down to Houston this weekend. And we're asking that, you know, you can stop by here and drop off anything that you have. It's a donation drop off. We're looking for baby formula, diapers, wipes, diaper rash cream, hand sanitizer, neosporin, new packaged socks, new packaged underwear, feminine products, reusable water bottles, comfort kits, soap, shampoo, toothpaste, blankets.

please do not bring clothes at this point. We just need those things. If you would like to drop them off, if you happen to be here, our partners at Mercury 1 are going to be in and out of Houston quite a bit. There's a tent right outside the door. Sorry, we don't have the staff to do tours or anything else. You're just going to have to just drop it up at the front door.

And we'll make sure that it gets there. Also, Mercury 1 really could use your help. And it would be of great help if you would donate to the general fund because we play things very close to the edge on staffing and everything else and this is going to be a gigantic

drain and we would really like to ask you for help at mercury1.org.org donate now. We told you many times today the things that we are involved with. We

are raising a ton of money for the the people who are doing the main food service at the, not the Coliseum, but the arena. What do you call that place? The convention center. Yeah, George, or Brown.

Yeah. Just at the convention center, we've been parked off the side of the road. These Operation Barbecue guys are just amazing. They are truly amazing. And they're always the first in with food. And they are going to be doing the Georgia R convention center starting tomorrow. And that's 25,000.

meals a day. And we sure could use your help at mercury1.org. Please donate now. So we were just talking about the idea of price gouging. And, you know, as Stu pointed out at $4 a barrel, $4 a bottle for water, that's what you're paying at the movie theater. That's what you're paying when you go to a football game. The question is, yeah, but that's not what you pay when you go to a grocery store.

However, you go to the grocery store and they're empty. So once they're gone, they're gone. And who's going to get that? The problem with price gouging, the philosophy against it, is this. And correct me if I'm wrong, because you're better at this stew than I am. Because this has been an axe of yours. You like to grind every once in a while. I'm a fan of capitalism.

Right. But the problem is capitalism solves so many problems because, when there is a need, there is always someone who will come up with a way to get it to you. You know, it's like drugs. Why do you think the cartels are making so much money? Because there's no way to get that. Oh, I'll find a way. And they'll build the tunnels.

They'll do whatever they have to. But they'll get that product to you. So the good thing about capitalism is if you're a good and decent moral society, capitalism provides people with the things that actually are less. life-saving and change their life. The problem with price gouging is there's a lot of greedy people out there who are just like, ah, I got a sucker born every minute. I'm going to make a killing off of that.

But I don't think that's the average person that is doing this. You're looking at a gas station that can charge $10 a gallon right now, and that's because every other gas station is out. They have no gas. So if you go and buy their gas for, you know, whatever it is, and you're paying regular price, okay, that's fine. But can that gas station take that money and go find a mercenary trucker that can go and find gas elsewhere and bring it in to that gas station?

No, he's got to wait in line with everybody else. This goes to, you know, Theodore Roosevelt, right? It matters not how you earn your money, but also how you spend it. The issue here is when price, if someone comes in and they are the evil price gouge or this comical character that I never find in real life, but let's just say that they come in there and they do that. If water costs $100 a case, you're not going to buy extra cases than you need. You know, you're going to do that. And look at the way the market solves these things. The perfect example right now, we know in real life is Uber.

The left constantly complains that Uber turns on their surge pricing, even in times like snowstorms when people need to find extra transportation, and they jack their rates up, two, three, four, five times the rates. And people really need it. That's what causes a driver to say, I'm going to take that risk in this snowstorm. Ask your Uber driver next time when they're talking about search pricing. They say, you know what? I could leave or I could do two or three more runs right now.

I could do two or three more rides. And they stay on those, they stay driving. It's not because to serve Uber's needs. It's to serve those drivers. And those drivers say, you know what? I mean, I could go home right now. And it would be easier for me to go home right now. But look, I can clean up on this one more ride.

I'm going to do it. It's combat duty. It is combat duty. Think of this. You're running a grocery store. or of 7-Eleven. And you have people coming in and they have

no gas, no water, no food, you're sitting behind the counter, they have nothing. Your first instinct is to help, help, help, help, help, help. Good. I just want you to know, out of all the people that are coming to your gas station, there are also going to be those who are coming

that wish to do you harm. And you, by staying there and opening and have, having goods and services, and we've seen this in every disaster. People do it. Every single disaster, they start just breaking in and stealing what they want. You are staying there behind. You're risking your life.

Why would you stay unless you're just Mother Teresa? And there's a lot of those people. And there are. There's a lot of those people. A million examples of them. Right. Millions of them. But you're risking your life.

somebody should man the station and to get people to do it and not only just to man it, but also then to say, you know what, I've got a friend who's got a gas truck, I'm going to go up and I'm going to go buy, I'm going to call my friend in Oklahoma or in Dallas and say,

hey, listen, can I buy some of your gas at a dime over cost for you? You know, can I buy it? Even I'll buy it at, I'll buy a whole truckload and I'll pay 25 cents more per gallon because you're not going to get your gas, right? So I'll buy, I'll give you a profit of 25% or 25 cents more per gallon loaded up on my truck and get it down to me.

Why would anyone do that? Why would anyone do that? No one would do that unless I can charge more. I can pay the truck driver more for risking, you know, truck and life and limb. And that this guy in Dallas can make a profit too and sell that gas for more than he can sell it for at home. Because all the oil refineries are shut down right now. There's going to be a gas shortage all throughout Texas.

Yeah. And I think when people talk about this, they always bring up this evil capitalist that just wants to rape the people in need. So first of all, most people are not like that. Even if you were charging four or five dollars a bottle for water, if someone comes up to you and says, my daughter's here, she's thirsty, she needs water desperately, can you help? 99.9.9% chance they're going to get that water. 99.9997. Look at the pictures and the stories we're getting out of Houston right now. People are going to help if they all can. But the evil capitalist is always the interesting example

here. Because you're talking about a person who only cares about profit. The only reason they would be in the area at all is to make profit, right? That's this person. They don't care about people, they just want money, right? That is the example of how this is wrong. However, let's take and enforce this law to the extreme and the way that they want to do it. They just don't stay

or they leave or they don't come. So now your supply is lower. There is less water in the area. There is less gas in the area. There are less needed supplies in the area because that person, who you've told me only cares about money,

does not show up. Well, look, here's the thing. Right now, one of the things, in fact, let me get the name of this organization. One of the partners that we have at Mercury One, the Provisions Project. Okay? Provisions Project. This is a group that we're helping fund.

What do they do? Right now they have 100 volunteers, 40 boats, and they are coming in with your dollars, if you go to Mercury1.org now and donate, your dollars, some of those dollars will go to

buying fuel, putting it into, you know, cans, putting it onto a truck, getting it to Houston, putting it onto a boat, getting it out to the sheriff's boats, putting that five-gallon tank and filling his boat back up, going back, getting more. That's where some of your money is going. Wow. So think of the labor involved. Now, because this is charity, they're getting it for $4. free, but we're still buying the gas elsewhere.

So you're, you're, but they're getting it for free. But think of the labor to get that gas to those boats. You're not going to be able, you're, you're there and you're on the side of the road and your car. Mercury 1 is not going to stop and give you one of those cans for your car. Sorry, it's got to go to the people who have the boats who are rescuing people right now who are in the floodwater. you're just on the side of the road and you're not in the flood, you're going to have to go find a gas station that has gas. How much would you pay for gas?

You're going to pay it because you need it. And it's rare. It's scarce. And you would limit your amount that you purchased if you could get it. If it was $10 a gallon or $10 a case for a bottle of water, you're not going to load up the whole back of your truck with it. Because you're going to think, you know what, Let me just get what I can take and need.

And in a way, charity is the worst price gouge of all. You're going to donate to Mercury 1 and you know what? You're going to get out of it? Nothing. These people in Houston are going to be the people benefiting from it. And you're doing that and you're getting no return in value at all. Yes, you are. I know you're arguing capitalism now, but.

I think you, I don't think, like, you're not personally getting, you might feel good. You might say, oh, I help somebody else, great. Yeah. But I mean, your personal benefit is nothing. And you know what? People do it all the time. And you know what? Ninety-nine percent of people who are selling water for $5 a bottle when it comes down to it and someone really needs it. Of course they're going to help. But I mean, you want to encourage people to bring these supplies to need. Here's a really interesting thing because I don't know where this ends, where it begins and where it ends. And for instance, water, water bothers me because it's water. If you don't have water, people die. So I hate the idea of price gouging for water. Okay. But I don't know where that begins and where that ends. Let me tell you a story. My Aunt Joanne and Uncle Dave, they used to own this little teeny house.

It was about a block away from the Puyallup Fair, the Western Washington State Fair. Western Washington State Fair was huge. Puyallup Fair. Everybody went to the Puyallup Fair. All over the state people came. Okay. They lived so close to the Puyallup Fair that when the grandstands burned down one year back in the 70s, their house almost burned. They were out with the garden hose, you know,

spraying down the top of their roof because of the ashes that were coming. But I will tell you this. They went to the, they worked at the Puyallup Fair. But then they also sold their front lawn and their back lawn for parking. And I remember a day parking on their lawn, which they wouldn't have done any other time of the year, but we could have done for free. all of a sudden one car was like 35 bucks a day.

Isn't that price gouging? Except there's not an emergency. According to Stu, that's event pricing. It is. It is. It is. But isn't this, with an exception of life-saving stuff, isn't this event pricing too?

I know. I'd be interested to see what the Consumer Alliance in the state does. Because in Rita, I was just reading last time, when the governor declares a county disaster, then you can't price gouge. And they prosecuted 600 people. 600 cases. I'm going to find out what those cases were.

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