The Glenn Beck Program - 'A Storm Is Coming?' - 5/7/18
Episode Date: May 7, 2018Hour 1 Standing ground...legal gun owner in Michigan is imprisoned…a mom defending her child within the law thrown in jail?...California Democrat suggest forcing gun owners to give up assault weapo...ns...'buy back'...If Americans gave up 35% of their firearms? ...All News is the Morning Zoo News? ...A storm is coming!?? ...George Washington University considers changing its offensive mascot...Hippos = river horses...Exploiting or Celebrating?...Cultural appropriation Hour 2 Add that to the hate list?...Southern Poverty Law Center decides what is ‘hate’…David Barton makes the list???...Amazon takes the side of the real hate group ...The Nazarene Fund Meets ‘The Lautenberg Christians’ in Austria...help rescue desperate refugee Christians ...Camille Cosby blames racism, media, corruption...'mob justice' on her husband ...Glenn Beck + Prager University = Walt Disney American Dreamer Hour 3 Hero = James Shaw Jr. …staying humble even though he could brag ...A 1%er's Problem?...Glenn, a ladder, pool and lights: What could possibly go wrong?...$2,000 job...YouTube can't teach you to do everything ...Imagine the world without Walt Disney…a talking mouse and a theme park, crazy ideas that worked ...'China People' TV Ad, Ditch Mitch...Don Blankenship vs. Mitch McConnell?... ‘Cocaine Mitch’ ...State primary predictions?... ‘I think we should start looking for the worst people’ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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As the baby inside of her grows more and more every day,
Sowatou Salama Raw frets about where she's going to be when her water breaks.
She's seven months pregnant.
She's 26 years old and she's serving a two-year prison sentence for felonious assault
and felony firearm conviction at Heron Valley Correctional Facility.
Now, this is the only congressional facility in Michigan that houses women, and it's full of all kinds of problems and overcrowding, et cetera, et cetera.
Of course, the courts have largely ignored the time sensitivity, you know, gravity of Raw's situation.
A judge has already denied a request to postpone her sentence until she gives birth.
Her lawyers contend that she has faced mistreatment during doctor's visits.
Guards shackle her to the bedpost, a practice that is illegal in Michigan.
But the case itself is so full of blind spots and complexities that it's difficult to tell who's who.
The specifics still remain hazy.
The facts are spare.
Here's what we know.
Rob banished a gun at a neighbor, and this is a neighbor that they had an ongoing feud.
Now she brandished the gun after the neighbor took her car and rammed her car into Raw's car with her young child in the car.
She got out and said, what are you doing?
She rammed it in Raw's driveway.
She said, my daughter is in there.
She feared for her life and the life of her daughter.
So she reaches into her purse.
She has a concealed handgun carry license.
The gun was not loaded.
but it was legally purchased.
Now, Michigan is a stand-your-ground state,
which means if somebody is on your property and they are threatening you,
you have a right to pull the gun and stand your ground.
You don't have to run.
If you have a gun, you can defend yourself.
The problem is that afterwards,
her neighbor filed a report.
Raw was second online.
So in other words, if you do something, I guess in Michigan,
and you're the first to call the police and say, hey, this is going on,
it doesn't matter what really happened.
The law looks at you as the victim.
Whoever called first, does that sound crazy?
Now, much of the mainstream media has attacked mainstream pro-gun groups,
including the National Rifle Association,
being in their words dispiratively quiet about the incident.
Though the stand your ground law in place in Michigan passed in 2006,
and it was made possible by a group working in close contact with the NRA.
So it's kind of like blaming the fire department for putting out a fire.
Is that right?
Part of what's made this case so difficult to dissect is that Raw herself by no means fits in any hard and fast
category. Who is she? Who's her group protecting her? Because she's black. She's Muslim.
She's an environmental activist. She's a mother keeping her baby. She's a gun owner.
Even though the gun wasn't even loaded.
It's Monday, May 7. This is the Glenn Beck program.
What do you make of this story, Stu? Something's not right. It's incredible.
I mean, you know, of course, the media is just trying to make it about what pro-gun groups are saying about it, which is, you know, 50th on the interesting list of topics on this.
I want to know, wait a minute, wait a minute, what really happened between these two?
And does stand your ground mean anything?
What's up with the whole first one on the phone is the victim?
That doesn't make sense.
No, and if her kid was playing inside the car.
Two years old, two.
And the neighbor intentionally rammed their car into her car.
I absolutely would have reacted a very similar way.
If I had a handgun, I would pull it as well.
Yeah.
I would say back off.
I mean, you're putting your kids life in danger.
That's exactly why stand your ground.
It's why our natural right to defend ourselves exists.
Especially, it's not her.
It's her child.
Yeah, that's what I mean.
year old child.
I think of like every
nature film you've ever
seen, right?
Where some predator.
Here comes mom.
Don't mess with mom.
Don't mess with mom. Stay away.
That's what that is.
And so she exercises
her constitutionally guaranteed rights.
And she doesn't even use
the gun.
It's not loaded.
Yet another example
of a use of a weapon
that is not typically
reported. These things happen
all the time in the United States.
where the gun isn't fired,
but it prevents an escalation of an incident.
And here she gets punished for it.
So, I mean, I don't know that the...
A black Muslim woman.
Yeah.
And this is interesting because A, the media comes out and says,
oh, the NRA isn't talking about it.
Number one, I bet you the NRA will be talking about it.
Because I, you know, they do, this is what they really do, the NRA.
And I think when maybe they're not aware of this particular case,
or it's only coming into the, I think, national media
recently. So, you know, and Detroit's done a lot of good local reporting about it, but it has not
really spread nationally. And I bet when the, I bet the NRA will pick this up. But it's interesting
to see that the media is out there going after the NRA and saying, oh, why aren't they talking about it?
Well, why aren't you talking about all the others when it's not a black Muslim environmental
activist where the same thing happens? You never talk about any of those stories. But they're not talking
about this. They're not really talking about this. No, they're only talking about it to get the NRA.
They're not helping her.
No.
It's crazy.
Yeah, it's just a way to make the other groups they don't like look bad.
I mean, don't, don't you long for, don't you long for somebody who's just like, hey, let's just do the right thing.
What do you say we just do the right thing?
And they're not trying to win on some other point.
Just let's do the right thing.
Listen to this.
Thursday, Eric Swalwell of California.
of course. He's a Democratic congressman.
He penned an op-ed for USA Today,
ban assault weapons, buy them back,
go after the registers,
uh,
says the ex-prosecutor in Congress.
In the piece,
he argues that federal assault weapons,
that the federal assault weapon ban
should be reinstated. Now let's just stop there.
Why, Eric?
Why? Well, we've got to do something.
Well, okay.
Let's do something that works.
Because every study, every single study that has come out on the federal, and this is not the NRA, this is the United States government, the studies that they did after we had implemented the assault weapon ban, it showed that it actually did nothing.
Yeah.
And this is from one of the studies.
this is in 2004 after the assault weapon ban expired.
We cannot clearly credit the ban with any of the nation's recent drop in gun violence.
Indeed, there has been no discernible reduction in the lethality and injuritnessness of gun violence
based on indicators like the percentage of gun crimes resulting in death or the share of gunfire
incidents resulting in injury.
And we might have expected that the ban reduced crimes with both assault weapons.
And so this is like a lot, this is a, I mean, you can go into it.
We've done, gone through the study multiple.
times. But the point is, they found nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing. Okay, so he says that it should be
reinstated, which means nothing, nothing. He then says that the United States should institute a mandatory
buyback of semi-automatic rifles. He goes further stating that if Americans are unwilling to hand over
their semi-automatic rifles to the government, they should be sought out and prosecuted.
Now, this is the craziest thing ever.
You're not going to take people's guns in America.
You're just not going to do it.
You want a civil war, Eric, that's the way to do it.
You're not going to take people's guns.
By the way, they're semi-automatic rifles.
Well, why don't you just take all semi-automatic weapons?
Take them all.
Why stop it rifles?
Why not just take them all?
That's probably what he wants.
It's exactly what he wants.
And I'll show you in a minute.
He said that we should ban the possession of modern sporting rifles, otherwise known as AR-15s.
Those were modern sporting rifles.
Those were sporting rifles before the government reached out and said, hey, can we use your patent to make these for war rifles?
Sure.
They are modern sporting.
rifles and that's what we need to start calling automatic assault right or semi-automatic assault
rifles.
No, they're modern sporting rifles.
Anyway, he said the ban would take place on any semi-automatic weapon.
We should buy back the weapons from all those who choose to abide by the law and criminally
prosecute those who defy it by keeping their weapons.
The ban would not apply to law enforcement agencies or should.
shooting clubs.
Shooting clubs.
He says that Australia's buyback was a success.
No, it wasn't.
It was absolutely not a success.
We've gone over that a hundred times too.
Yes.
If you look in England, it wasn't a success.
They're now banning knives.
It's a human problem, not a weapon problem.
Now, he said it's going to cost a great deal of money to do the same thing in the United
States, but it would be worth it.
You know, I would really like to know
I would really like to know
how much it would cost to buy back all the weapons.
How much?
It would be pricey.
I think the Australian gun back
gun buyback program
bought back between 20 and 35% of the guns in the country.
So that we have 330 million guns.
So, you know, you're talking 60 to 100 million
weapons, you're just kind of purchasing
from people. Now, if you're giving fair value for it,
you're going to be talking about a very expensive program. By the way,
there's no way you get the United States to turn in 35% of their weapons
without God only knows what. It's not going to be pretty. No, it's not going to be pretty.
By the way, you know, if you just take all of the
modern sporting rifles off of the market,
you kind of leave a few things like, you know,
know in August of 2012, man using a Springfield Armory handgun killed six people in Wisconsin.
April, a man using a 45 caliber handgun killed seven people in Oakland, California.
In 2009, man using a Hurstall, 5.7 pistol killed 13 people.
April, by the way, that was Fort Hood.
2009, man using a Beretta, 92 FS 9mm, killed 13 people.
2007, a Walther P-22 pistol and a 9mm Glock killed 32 people at Virginia Tech.
Let's see, 1991, man using a Glock 17 and a Ruger P89, killed 23 people, injured another
That was at the Luby's cafeteria.
He didn't have a rifle.
86, 45, 2.45 caliber pistols and a 22 caliber pistol killed 14 people, injured six more at a post office in Oklahoma.
Gee, it seems like it's not just rifles.
And now that they've taken the handguns and the rifles from people in England, it seems
like it's not just guns.
By the way, when we come back,
I just want to read the transcript
of another Democrat
that responded to this
on CNN.
Wait until you hear the response.
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Glenn Beck, Mercury.
Hey, everybody.
Glenn Beck.
Everybody, you've got to pay attention.
Stormy Daniels was a lot of.
on Saturday Night Live.
Uh-oh.
We're going to play some of the crazy outtakes from that coming up in a minute.
Good morning.
Quang-want-wank.
It was awful, wouldn't it?
Oh, no, no.
What are you talking about?
What an amazing moment with stormy Daniels going on Saturday Night Live.
Oh, God.
Hang on.
Hang on.
We got to get to traffic and weather before we get to all the alert.
Let me just.
It's so depressing.
It really is.
Isn't it?
Because that's really what we're turning into again.
We're turning into a country that is that all news is the morning zoo.
Yeah.
All news.
All news.
Morning zoo.
Well, that's fake news.
Wah, whack.
Traffic and weather coming up.
Stormy down.
Did you see what she said.
The storm is coming?
Oh.
Oh.
Okay, so let me just finish up on the...
So we told you about the Democratic congressman
that wants to make all assault weapons illegal.
Just all assault weapons,
because most weapons are massage vehicles.
Yes, they are.
And he wants to prosecute those who won't hand theirs over.
That's going to be mighty popular.
So then we have an interview on Friday on CNN.
And it's Ted Deutsch.
He's from Florida.
He's a...
Democrat. And he was asked, well, you know, what do you, what do you, what do you think of that?
He says, well, listen, you know, there are gun by BRAC programs that exist in some communities.
And if people turn in their guns, I mean, certainly law enforcement is working with them to do that.
I just think we ought to do. And, and, you know, the NRA always refuses the interruption.
But wait, wait, wait, he's going a step further when he says that people should be held criminally
responsible if they don't turn over their weapons.
All right.
Stu, how do you answer that?
Well, it's not a question.
I know.
But you immediately come out and say, well, yeah, I know.
I'm not for that.
Right.
Okay.
Well, I think it's important.
Did you see Stormy Daniels over the weekend?
I think what's important is to stop the production of these weapons of war that don't
belong on our streets.
Oh, that's going to happen.
Just remember this.
Now, this is where...
I're going to love this.
Just remember this.
It was just about 90 years ago on Valentine's Day.
The Massacre in Chicago.
The Valentine's Day Massacre?
You're going to the Valentine's Day Massacre?
And people said, we can't have all these machine guns on the streets.
And no one questioned that decision.
Many people have questioned that decision, by the way.
This is breaking news to some, but many people.
There's been Supreme Court challenges.
It has been questioned many times.
No one's complained about that law.
Not true.
So let's treat these assault weapons the same way we treat machine guns.
That ought to be something that everybody can get behind.
No more manufacturing of these guns.
Let's get them out of our communities.
Okay, so she's the interviewer says,
let me change topics to Stormy Daniels on Saturday, not live.
Does not follow up going, you didn't answer the question.
You didn't answer the question.
That was a really nice Valentine's gift that you gave us here in May,
but you didn't answer the question.
And the reason why is because that is where they want to go.
Yes, they want to take as much as they can get right now with the long-term goal of taking all of them.
That is the entire theory here.
It's called you make little bits of progress towards a long-term goal without going for it all at once.
What would you call it?
Progressivism.
Something like that.
Something like that is what you do.
Yeah.
It sounds nice, especially for something so incredibly evil.
By the stormy daddell's coming up.
A storm is coming next.
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This is the Glenn Beck Program.
Hey, good morning. You're part
of the Morning Flake Breakfast Club.
And we're just sitting here talking about that crazy
stormy Daniels appearance
on Saturday Night Live.
How did they do it? How did they get
a porn star to go on national television?
No porn stars would ever accept.
to roll like that. I don't know how, but did you see how, you see how fine of an actress she was?
She certainly was. I tell you, you know, that was just a hilarious point. The part that she said
the thing that you were supposed to laugh at but wasn't funny was incredible. It was nutty.
It was nutty when she said, there's a storm coming. Here's what a lot of people aren't getting about
that, Glenn. When you go in there, you look at what she said. It's part of her name.
Storm?
Storm and storming.
Do you see it now?
Oh, my goodness.
Oh, my goodness.
Those are the kind of double-a-todry kind of Reuters that Saturday night live has.
Sometimes they're just way over the people's hands.
Yeah, when you really put it side by side, you start to notice it.
Yeah.
You know, storm and storming.
Yeah.
They're very similar.
Good boy.
Yeah, incredible performance.
And wow, you know what?
That one sure got under the president's skin.
I tell you that.
They really got them that time.
Boy, I tell you, now to see it covered, though, on television as some stroke of art and genius, it just shows that the media, they really are above us.
They know things that we don't know.
Right, because I would say, what a hacky bit.
You know what I mean?
I would think to myself, what a piece of crap.
I would think to myself, if I were a writer, I'd probably throw myself out of a window if that's what I.
If that was where I, what level I had achieved.
That would have been my initial impression, but after seeing it, I mean, wow, did that turn me around?
Storm, Stormy.
Now, guys, Stormy's her name.
It's not actually her name.
Her name is Stephanie, but for some reason, the media continually calls her Stormy.
I don't know why.
It's a very strange choice for journalism, but they keep doing it.
You know what's crazy.
is the way that they made people like Juanita Broderick feel like porn stars?
Oh, yes.
Sure did.
And yet they're making Stormy Daniels feel like an actual human being.
Oh, we're talking about even one of the most incredible people in the world, almost a truth fighter.
Now, this is a person, of course, who took $130,000 before the election to not tell us
information. She was actually
awarded a six-figure deal
to shut up and not give the
American people the information they may
have wanted to cast a vote.
But now she's a hero. Hold on
just a second. We need the obligatory
duck quack. We need the
obligatory duck quack.
Where the hell's the duck quack?
We've killed the duck. The duck is dead.
The duck is dead. There's a storm coming.
There we go.
The first to know of the ducks.
All right. I think that way. I will say
this as an artist.
As an artist myself, and you can tell that I am.
I would just a little advice to Lord Michaels,
what if you put the duck quack after she said storm?
Because then people would know that was the joke.
That's why we use it.
Let's try it out.
Let's try it.
I'm going to try it without the duck quack first.
All right.
Mr. President, there's a storm coming.
See, that just sounds like she's talking about the weather.
She's predicting the weather.
All right.
I try it this way.
Mr. President, there's a storm coming.
Oh, it works.
It works that way.
Oh, my goodness.
That is some good comedy eating there.
Sports coming up.
Holy cow.
Seriously.
Seriously.
There is no.
I mean, are they even trying?
It's unreal.
You know, and this is the big story today.
We're hearing people talking about Stormy Daniels.
Again, if you are a.
porn star and you're someone like story
Daniels who's attempted to cross over into mainstream media
there is no well there's no get here
getting a porn star to go on NBC is not
something that's amazing or difficult
not hard that all of them want to go on NBC
that's what they're they're having sex on camera
with the eventual goal to be on like Bravo 9
god morning
all right let me let me let me uh let
me take you someplace that that I think is very interesting.
More than 200 George Washington University students have signed a petition.
Have you heard this? Have you heard this one yet?
I haven't heard this. Have you read this one on the paper?
I haven't heard this.
They've signed a petition to eliminate the school's mascot and nickname because they find the
Colonials extremely offensive.
No, no, it's not a joke here.
This is actually real.
Okay.
So they say that Colonials, a connection to colonization, is systematic oppression.
So what they want, okay, now hang on me, see, I don't know if you've seen the Colonials.
Okay.
But this is a giant like Muppet George Washington.
I don't know what that.
Right.
Like a big felt George Washington mascot guy.
Yes.
Very, it's not a, it doesn't show a lot of direct oppression in the mascot.
No.
Well, he does look fierce.
He does look white, too.
He does look white.
He's more of, he's more yellow.
He is okay.
He's more yellow.
All right.
Okay.
So anyway, so what they have, what they've done is they're not just coming with a problem.
They're not just saying, hey, let's get rid of the colonials.
Okay.
They know, don't come into somebody's office with just a problem.
Come in with the solution.
So instead, they would like to make it the George Washington University
hippos.
No, no, it's not a joke.
It's not a joke.
They wanted to be the hippos.
Now, I don't know
where George Washington,
you know, where the hippos
interacted?
I think that's
animal appropriation because we don't have any
hippos here in the United States.
It's true,
large, it was a couple zoos. Well, except for the zoos,
but those are, I mean, those are,
atrocities. Right. They're prisons.
Those are animal prisons.
Animal prisons. So you wouldn't want to put hippos.
I mean, why hippos?
I don't know. No. No.
Do you need an answer?
Probably because it makes no sense.
Probably because it has absolutely
we're living at a time
where the more things don't make sense,
the more right they are.
That is.
it's like what we're doing.
Like for example, alternative nickname recommendations,
hippos, river horses.
Now, river horses,
I mean, you kind of at least see a tie there.
Okay, how about the revolutionaries?
The revolutionaries is a great one because the only reason that's acceptable
is because they like left-wing revolutions.
Yes.
Now, you can, I think you can make an argument that revolutionaries, right,
could be controversial in that there have been a lot of revolutions
that have ended in very bad things,
and a lot of bad things have happened in revolution.
What are you talking about?
Not the American revolution, but.
other revolutions.
Sure.
There have been lots of bad ones.
Right.
But they're okay with that.
And they're also okay with river horses, which, okay, I don't know if you know this.
There is no like, okay, starfish, I mean, uh, or sea horses.
Those are fish.
Those are not, those aren't actual crosses between, you know, a starfish or a fish and a horse.
That's a totally different animal.
Oh, really?
Yeah.
So river horses.
they're not like living in the river.
They're only being driven across the river by guys on top of them,
usually with like a whip or something,
they're going, keep going, keep going.
Yeah.
They're not,
river horses are not,
they're not natural,
you know,
they'll cross if they have to.
But generally speaking,
I don't think so unless they absolutely have to.
Like,
I don't see like,
you know,
groups of horses taking a family vacation
across the Mississippi.
No, it's not, no.
No, it's, no.
By the way, I used to live about 10 minutes away from where,
from where Washington crossed the Delaware.
Yeah.
I was right on that river.
There's a, there's multiple bridges.
The guy just obviously went across the top.
No, I don't think they were those.
See, he just went right across the bridge.
Everyone was like, oh, look at this.
What a tough way to cross the bridge.
I did it a hundred times in a car.
It was not difficult.
I don't think those were there at that time, but, uh,
the quack would be good there.
So did he, did he, uh,
Thank you.
I don't know.
I have to look in the old pictures.
Were there any hippos?
Was he actually on the back of a hippo?
Winnie Cross.
The hippos.
And by the way, this cultural appropriation bull crap,
I can't take it anymore.
I can't take it anymore.
And you don't want to play that?
Okay.
No one from any country can ever be seen wearing a pair of Levi's or jeans.
Because those were American.
That's an American heritage.
We were the people that came up with the dungarees.
We're the people that came up with jeans.
Those are distinctly American.
So don't take and appropriate my culture.
Don't do it.
I don't want to see anyone ever unless you're from here.
I don't want you wearing a pair of jeans.
I will be so offended and my family will be so deeply hurt.
That's true.
I mean, obviously, the food one is really obvious, too.
I mean, can an American walk into a Mexican restaurant?
Can a Mexican walk into an American restaurant?
I mean, these are, of course they can.
Can a non-Scottish person walk into a McDonald's?
Right.
That was good.
That was a good one.
That was actually worked, Sarah.
Thank you for that.
on the news and why it matters,
Doc Thompson's been bringing up my favorite point on this so far,
which is,
you know,
like there are a lot of things we deal with these kind of crazy leftist claims,
you know,
things like,
you know,
like,
for example,
racism is something that is real,
a real problem,
right?
Well,
not the way it is being shown anymore.
Right.
And that's our complaint about it,
right?
It is a real thing.
Racism is very,
very real.
However,
it's applied ridiculously at times.
Yes.
And that's what,
we complain about.
Cultural appropriation is not even real.
It's not even a thing.
What do you mean?
There's no such thing as cultural appropriation.
Was it the ECLU that was tweeting this weekend?
I can't remember who it was.
It was one of these groups, one of the left wing groups that we talk about often.
Tweeting about how Cinco de Mayo is wrong.
And I guess we shouldn't, we shouldn't, all these companies, by the way, a lot of Mexican-owned
companies, because they're using their culture, right?
They're bringing the best of their culture here.
And we're saying, hey, Cinco de Mayo sounds really fun.
Let's have a bunch of drinks and eat a bunch of chips in queso.
It's going to be a great day.
That is now cultural appropriation.
Did you read my paper on this?
Because I wrote an op-ed on this.
Oh, yeah?
Yeah.
You didn't read it?
I didn't read it.
Let me just said, shut up.
That's all it said.
I didn't have time.
To be fair.
I didn't have time to get through the whole thing.
I did see the headline, which was what?
Shut up.
Okay.
Because that's great.
Yeah.
That is actually the response to that.
that because, you know, it's tough because, again, like things like racism, sexism is a absolutely
real thing applied at times ridiculously. This is not even a real thing. So every time it's applied,
it's always ridiculous. It's always ridiculous. You can certainly do things that are offensive
to other cultures, but just doing something that you enjoy, complimenting, you know,
when I walk into a Chinese restaurant, I'm not appropriating Chinese culture. I'm celebrating it. I obviously
like their culture enough to spend my money with their businesses.
The girl that was, you know, this teenager that went to her prom and she was wearing an Asian
style dress.
Yeah.
Okay.
In China, it is cultural appropriation is seen as a sign of, of honor.
Taking that and wearing that is an honorable thing to them.
Okay.
You honor their culture by that.
Okay.
Great.
So what?
wait, so then I shouldn't because I'm offending.
No, I'd be offending by not wearing it.
I don't even know anymore.
Right.
And if you adopted that view, you would then be appropriating their cultural view of not
being offended by a cultural appropriation.
Correct.
So I don't even know where to go on this.
But can't you just like something?
By the way, you want to look for cultural appropriation.
Just do a scan of Native Americans from the 1800s to the 1900s to the 1900s.
you will see them
appropriating
our culture.
They would take our textiles.
They would take our shirts,
our pants, our jackets.
Now, yes,
some were forced to.
Some were not.
It was a very big deal
as a chief to have
something from the
Western culture.
Yeah.
You know, it's a good point.
And think about how it feels
when it happens to you.
Like, think about an immigrant from Nigeria who comes over here and opens a small business.
And you walk into that small business and you see him celebrating American culture.
Doesn't that make you feel great?
I love that.
When I see someone from a different culture who comes here and embraces ours and appropriates our culture, that's a celebration.
Yeah, it's this coming from a guy who doesn't understand why hippos should be the mascot of George Washington University.
It's true.
I don't understand that.
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This is important. We have to clarify here.
Hippos in ancient Greece.
translates to river horses.
Which of course we knew, obviously.
We should point that out.
I am not appropriating the Greek culture or language.
Exactly.
That was our big issue there.
So the people that pointed that out online,
sure, a lot of people would say,
yeah, they were right and we didn't know what we were talking about,
but they are the ones now that are appropriating the Greek culture.
No, I'm sorry.
Hippos, hippos, no one, not even those in Greece.
Think of those as river horses.
Mercury.
How do you know when there is a hate group lurking in America?
A buddy.
Well, you go to the Southern Poverty Law Center, of course.
The Southern Poverty Law Center is the all-seeing eye that scans the land for hate and finds it in people like, well, David Barton.
When they find hate or their definition of it, they add that group or that person to their hate list.
So we can all avoid those groups and we can all feel much safer.
David Martin is actually on the hate group list from the Southern Poverty Law Center.
Now, the latest target from the SPLC is Alliance Defending Freedom.
Now, this is a Christian nonprofit group that defends religious freedom in court.
The ADF has played a role now in 52 victories at the Supreme Court over the years,
so the left needs to take them out.
Q the Southern Poverty Law Center.
The Alliance Defending Freedom was recently banned from the Amazon Smile Program.
Now, that Smile Program is the one where customers can elect to give a small cut of their Amazon purchase to a nonprofit organization of their choice.
But Amazon doesn't want to be involved with hate groups.
So they kicked the ADF out of the program because the Southern Poverty Law Center determined which groups qualify.
Whoa, whoa, wait a minute.
Who's defining hate here?
Now, the reason that they qualify as a hate group is because the ADF is currently before the Supreme Court representing the cake shop owner who refused to make a gay wedding cake.
Well, I mean, the cake wasn't gay.
You understand the story.
So now, how did the Southern Poverty Law Center get to be the chief hate enforcer?
Well, wouldn't you like to know?
They're actually self-annointed.
They claim their moral capital from the fact that they were founded in 1971 by a white guy in Alabama to fight racial injustice.
Now, never mind that the KKK was virtually non-existent at that point.
Racism and hatred still was.
But it turns out sounding the alarm about the threat of Klansman is a very lucrative business.
So that became the SPLC's formula.
They shine a spotlight on hate groups and they see the cash flood in for their legal takedown of those groups.
They've been doing it ever since.
They spend more money on fundraising than actual legal work.
Because you don't build a half a billion dollar endowment by limiting your hate group list to quacks like the KKK and the quacks of the Nazis.
It's any business.
You have to expand.
So why Amazon is taking advice from the SPLC is essentially,
the Southern Poverty Law Center is essentially a pack for the Democratic Party.
Why they're taking it from them, the advice, you'll have to do the math.
But it's a safe bet that Amazon's leadership finds a lot more in common with the SPLC than the Alliance defending freedom.
That's why Planned Parenthood is still part of the, strangely, Amazon Smiles program.
because nothing makes people smile more than abortion.
When common sense leaves the building,
it leaves nothing in its trail except assertity.
It's Monday, May 7.
This is the Glenn Beck program.
And we are living in an absolutely absurd world.
Where, I mean, are we paying attention?
Hey, did you see it?
There's a Storm Cubbett.
Stormy Daniels on Saturday Night Live, wha, wah, whack.
instead of talking about the things that really matter and the things that we can do something about.
We told you a few weeks ago about the Lautenberg Christians in Austria.
Now, the Lautenberg Christians, these are Christians that came out of Iran and they risked their lives in Iran.
They were Christians that stood up.
They knew the government didn't want them there.
there was an opportunity to get out because the United States said if you if you hit these standards,
you can come out. So they did what all Christians do when they come out of Iran. They go to
another country. This time it was Austria where they are doing all the final vetting,
et cetera, et cetera. And then they go to the United States. But once you leave Iran,
you're not going back to Iran, especially because you've just announced that you are a,
you know, an enemy of the state to Iran.
well the last group has been stopped in Austria and there it's we think they may be sent back
to Iran which would be a death sentence and nobody is talking about these people the
Nazarene Fund meets the Lautenberg Christians in Austria Michael Powell director of the
Strategic Communications the White Mountain Research and Zeno Gamble he is the chief
operating officer of White Mountain, partners with the Nazarene Fund and Mercury One. Welcome, Michael.
Welcome Zeno. Thank you. Hi, Glenn. Thanks for having us. So Zeno, explain what the current state of
these Christians are. Well, they're disorganized. There's living different departments all over Vienna.
They've used up all the funds because they sold all their assets before they left Iran in the hopes
that they could stop in Austria, get their visas, and join their family members that are in the United
States. Okay, has this ever happened before to people on the Lautenberg list? So the program's been
going on for almost 30 years. Right. It was a program started by the U.S. government to bring over
Iranians post-Shah. And it's been a very smooth process. This was the first time they've had
been held up in mass. And do we know why? We don't know why. There's a lot of finger pointing.
We do have their letters from the Department of Homeland Security saying you can't come in,
but no explanation was given to the individuals or as a group.
And so we have, but we do have also their letter saying you can come in.
Yes.
Right?
We have the invitation basically from the United States saying, here's what you do.
You come out.
You go to Austria.
We'll get to final papers.
And then you're on your way.
Yeah, this was not a program that something was done quickly.
I mean, they've been in this program for a while.
They were supposed to be in Austria for three months
on a transit visa, and that was it.
They sold all their property in Iran.
They've left everything behind.
They were ready to come to the United States.
They have family here.
Tell me who these people are.
So you have about 100, it's 108 people total.
80, about 80 of them are Christians.
The rest are Mandians and Zoroastrians.
So we call them Lottnberg Christians,
but it is a group, all persecuted peoples.
Okay.
And tell me about,
who they are as individuals, not just their faith.
Well, that's one of the things we wanted to learn when we went to Austria to find out who they
are to capture some of their stories.
And they are stories of normal people who have lived under a persecution in their entire lives.
They can't get certain jobs.
They have limits on their education.
They are some of them physically abused.
And we wanted to know a little bit about them and who they were.
We have one young man whose families traveled here.
He is in a wheelchair and he is physically disabled and, you know, not security risk.
Yeah, we're actually in the United States.
They're educated, they're intelligent.
They've sold all their assets to come and become a part of the community.
Some of their biggest desires are to be able to read the Bible in public and go to church and get education and get a job.
It's really ridiculous how the U.S. government has pulled the rug out.
out from under these people. So where is this coming from? Because, you know, you could say what you
want about Donald Trump and foreigners, but I don't think that he's going to, there's too many
people with too much power around him that we go, no, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute.
These are people being persecuted by the people that we deem dangerous. So where is the breakdown?
Well, I think there's some sort of fight going on inside the executive branch against helping refugees
and I don't see exactly where it is, our contacts there telling us that there's some sort of
shroud of mystery going on over who can do what and who can make policy change.
So, you know, this has been around, as Michael said, for a long time.
This was to save persecuted Jews in the past, right?
Can you tell me the history of this?
Sure, I can.
In post-1950, during when, after the state of Israel was created, the U.S.
create a program, sort of bring in Jews who are being kicked out of the majority of Muslim
countries. This program morphed into this program to help Iranians after the Shah. And it's sort of
been going on smoothly since then. They brought in 30,000 people, I believe, since 1979. And so this is
100 people. Do they all have family here, or most of them? 100% have family, 100% have sponsors.
So it's not a drain on our society? No. And these people, they did this, this program, you come in on your
own nickel. So they've been paying for everything. They sold all their possessions. No one bought them
tickets. No one's paying for them right now. They are completely on their own. So what happens to them
if the United States continues to say no? Well, we're looking for options. That's one of the reasons
we went too to sort of go into our contacts and find out what could be done. Will the Austrians
keep them there? Can we try to influence the U.S. government to bring them here? Or is there a lifeboat
country somewhere that we could take them to if something happened.
Because going back to Iran is really not an option.
Right. What happens to them if they do?
Well, we know what has happened to them already.
And there are some really terrible stories that we, that were relayed to us.
And they were arrested, persecuted.
I mean, there's no doubt.
Okay.
So when...
There is no option to go to Iran.
Because they have announced that they are against the, against the, against
the official religion of the state and by coming to the United States, I'm sure you're going
to be viewed as a spy. I would think you'd advance contacts with the U.S. government.
They would see that as a...
Yeah. Yeah. All right. So how can we help?
So I think reaching out to our elected officials and telling them that this is a problem
and people getting angry about it because this is a forgotten group. It was the news for a bit
and now it's kind of faded away.
And supporting the Nazarene Fund, because the Nazarene Fund, like they always do,
when governments can't or won't, the Nazarene Fund will try to help.
Do we have any options in Australia, our contacts in Australia or any place else?
We're looking into that, but I think right now the Austrians are trying to help locally.
And I think we're going to try to focus it there.
But they don't have relatives there.
I mean, their relatives are really here.
They don't, but the church is supporting them.
There's a couple of politicians.
that are weighing in on this.
And this is not something that they want to do.
No one wants to do this.
Yes.
But they're trying to help
and trying to come up with a life of them.
But the rug has been pulled out.
So I would suggest that you call Mike Pence
and his office,
because I think Mike is involved in this,
is he not?
To some degree.
He's going to try to fix it
so we can rescue these types of people
who are in need.
In Europe, it's politically incorrect
to help Christians right now.
which is just a privacy.
It's politically incorrect, almost anywhere.
Go ahead.
Exactly.
I was saying that, yeah, reach out to Mike Pence's office.
Reach out to your congressman.
Pray for these people, and if you can help out any way,
just go to the Nazarenefund.org and look what we're doing and help us out.
Thank you so much.
I appreciate it.
Zeno, Michael, as always, thank you.
Nazareenfund.org, the Nazareenfund.org.
And please call your congressman, call your senator.
This is something that we can get through if you have your voice heard.
Call Mike Pence's office.
The vice president is aware of this and he is working.
Let him know that this is important to you.
And he can let the president know that this is important to you.
Thanks, as always, Mike.
Thank you.
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Glenn Beck.
Okay, we're both having a difficult time with the quiet place.
A quiet place, I believe it is?
A quiet place.
Also, you do not give away any of the things we just.
just talked about because we've both seen it. I won't. I won't. I won't. The reason why we brought it up
is because I have questions on it. I have questions. There are questions to be had in the movie.
Yeah, there's not, you know, it's not, it's not completely airtight, but it's pretty, I loved it.
I mean, the solution that they come up with, nobody else came up with that solution. Nobody in the
whole world, all the scientists, nobody thought. No, no one did think that until them and that's why
you watch the story. Yeah. All right. Jesus. No, I, you know, I really liked the movie. I think it was, I think
it's the best suspense that I've seen since probably a hitchcock. I mean, it was very
hitchcocky and where it doesn't show any, there's no blood, there's no guts, there's nothing
that you're going to walk around it, you know, night going, oh, it's going to come and get me.
It's none of that. It's just great suspense. Yeah, and it's a great movie. Really good. Is that,
was that the last movie you've seen? You usually go see multiple movies per day, is it?
No, usually I see at least once a week, usually, but I haven't.
I just finished watching the Netflix Wild Wild Country.
Have you watched this at all?
Oh, it's so good.
So good.
It's a six-part documentary series on, you know, many people will remember it,
but from the 80s, this random group of thousands of people moved into a town and just created a giant city.
Oh, I don't know that one.
Is that the one where the cultists?
Yeah.
Yeah.
I saw the first episode of that.
I haven't finished it.
really?
Yeah.
It's,
they're all
dressed in red.
Yeah.
It's some of the
weirdest imagery
and they had so much
footage from it.
I mean,
it was incredible
the amount of detail
they had.
But it's a really,
I mean,
a really,
really interesting story.
So I just finished
Lost in Space
with a family last night.
Oh,
you see that?
No.
Okay.
It's really,
really good.
It's very hard
to find things for
families now.
Have you noticed that?
Mm-hmm.
You know,
it's either like,
hey,
let's, I'm a talking tomato.
Okay, I got it, I got it.
But my kids aren't four anymore.
You know, as soon as, as your kid,
your kid either wants a talking tomato or just wants a trash mouth zucchini.
That just happens right away.
Just right away.
It goes from the tomato saying nice things,
right to a trash can just using the F word all the time.
From veggie tails to sausage party almost immediately.
Yes, immediately.
And I don't know why.
I really don't know why.
So it's really hard to find things that are really good, high quality.
And I thought Lost in Space was.
I mean, there's a few times that they're swearing in it.
But in comparison, I mean, my wife, we start TV shows all the time.
And Raph and I just look at each other like, because she comes in the room all the time.
Turn that off.
What do you, what do you, what are you watching?
You're like, honey, there's nothing.
left besides veggie
tails. There's nothing
left. And so
when you find gold like
Lost in Space, which is really good,
really entertaining,
well done, and
isn't the
you know,
you know, pornography
channel 30, you know,
30% of the show. Yeah. It's fantastic.
Yeah. I've noticed
too, like back in the day,
you have everyone kind of watch
generally speaking the same shows.
Like you knew, like it was Tom and Jerry
for your kids. Or, you know, you
had those like basic cartoons
that were outlined and everyone kind of knew they were approved.
Right? Now you go like
on Netflix and there's 50 shows
that I've never heard of
for kids. And they're releasing
them three and four a week.
And they look, the pictures look
great. I mean, they look like they'd be perfect for my kids
and that. But I mean, what am I going to do? Sit down and watch
every freaking one of these shows.
And so, you know,
You wind up wondering, should I show them a show and take a risk?
And then you never know.
Halfway through, does it turn into a serial killer drama?
I don't know.
It might.
It might.
It's true.
But I mean, you know, I'm a crappy parent, so you just take the risk.
There is nothing out there you can trust.
There's nothing you can trust.
Yeah.
I kind of wish there there probably is out there since every website exists.
But like it seems like it would be worth it.
No, but it's like Disney.
Disney used to be a universal name that used to mean something.
Yeah.
And now it's like, no, no, have you watched some of the shows from the Disney channel?
No, I don't want my kids watching that.
That's true.
I think it would be helpful to have like that site and it probably exists that just would rate it.
Not with like a super offended all the time mindset, but just something that said, okay, this one's okay for your kids.
I don't want the pope to rate them.
Yeah, right.
Well, maybe this pope.
Maybe this pope.
He's probably offended about the right amount.
Back at a minute.
Glenn Beck
Mercury
This is the
Glenn Beck program
So did you see
Camille Cosby's
letter to the editor
Where is she
I did not
It's really
It's well worth the read
You know she didn't show up at the trial
And you're kind of like
I mean
Finally a woman's standing up
You know what I mean
Right because
Not standing behind her dirtbag man
Right
Okay
No, that's not what happened.
Okay.
Listen to this.
We could spend a year on just this.
We the people are the first three words in our nation's constitution.
But who were those people in 1787?
Dr. Howard Zinn, the renowned, honest historian, states in his bestselling book,
A People's History of the United States.
Stu, you want to take that one for a second?
Oh, God.
I mean, that is a complete and utter disaster of a...
I mean, it's just, it's every crazy left-wing historical theory
wrapped into one.
Yeah, he's, I mean, he's a Marxist, and he does not like America, does not like the founding.
I mean, he's...
It's intentionally looks at only the bad things.
Yes.
And it looks at him, the way he spins it is kind of like looking at it through all historical
events through like the perspective of the oppressed party.
Yes.
or just an oppressed party
you know like so you know
it's like looking at
the founding of America is it a positive thing
well not from Native Americans perspective
like it's that type of book
so he says she's quoting him as saying
the majority of the 55 men who framed the
Constitution were men of wealth and land
slaves manufacturing or shipping
clearly most of the people were not included
in that original draft of the Constitution
no women no Native Americans
poor white men, and absolutely no enslaved Africans.
What have the masses of people done who are treated as outcast by we the people?
They, through the purity of the unceasing human spirit,
forced 27 amendments to the Constitution that have guaranteed fundamental rights to all people,
finally doing what the framers should have done in 1787.
Well, if they could have gotten it done, they would have, Camille,
if you would stop reading Howard Zinn and start reading, I don't know,
their own words, you would see that was their goal.
They couldn't get it done.
Now enters American citizen Bill Cosby.
I was going to say, this is an interesting start.
I thought maybe it was about her husband, but no, it was about way the people.
Now enters American citizen, Bill Cosby.
The overall media, with their frenzied, relentless demonization of him,
and unquestioning acceptance of accusers' allegations without attendant proof,
have superseded the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments,
which guaranteed due process and equal protection,
and thereby eliminated the possibility of a fair trial and an unbiased jury.
Bill Cosby was labeled as guilty because the media and accusers said so, period.
Well, kind of.
The media and what?
The media and who says?
The media, let's see, was labeled guilty because the media and his accusers.
I mean, the accuser, the media is not really important there.
The accusers kind of are, though, right?
Well, she's saying, listen, the media ensured the dissemination of the propaganda by establishing barricades
preventing the dissemination of the truth in violation of the protections of the First Amendment.
And the media, now the people's judges and juries.
So what she's saying is partially true.
I don't know about Bill Cosby,
but this is the word world we're living in now.
Right. So basically the accusation was made media amplified and he had no chance.
Correct.
Since when are all accusers truthful?
They're definitely not.
History disproves that.
For example, Emmett Till's accuser immediately comes to mind.
So she's now...
Going back to Tilltown.
Go back to Tilltown.
Downtown Tilville.
with Bill Cosby.
This is interesting because this is
the problem
supposedly, and now the left-wing
publications are admitting it, is
this never would have happened to Bill Cosby.
He would never have gone to prison for his crimes
if he was not coming out and saying things
that were conservative. That's a thing that now
the left-wing media is admitting. They're saying
he came out, he criticized black people, black culture,
left-wing culture,
And the pushback from that is what made it possible to convict him.
Yeah.
He was a darling of the left.
Yeah.
And as soon as he stopped being a darling of the left, he was no longer protecting.
Exactly.
Which is a massive admission there.
Right.
I mean, again, if you're a rapist, you should go to jail because of you're raping, not because of your politics.
And they're now admitting that, you know what, we were kind of okay with the whole raping thing when we thought he was left wing.
Now, we think he might be right wing.
The rapy is, the rapiness is not so wonderful after all.
And here's, so that's been kind of the background of this.
Here's Camille Cosby sounding like a very far leftist.
The exact opposite of the way Bill is at least portrayed.
In the case of Bill Cosby, unproven accusations evolved into lynch mobs,
who publicly and privately coerced cancellation of Bill Cosby's scheduled performances,
syndications of the Cosby Show,
recisions of honorary degrees
and vindictive attempts to close an exhibit
of our collection of African American art
in the Smithsonian Museum of African Art.
Now, all of this is true.
All of this is true.
But Camille, were you there for me
when, let's see,
they publicly and privately tried to coerce cancellation
of my performances or my shows or anything else?
Were you doing that?
Surely not.
Surely not.
By the way, yours was because of your politics.
This is, the loss of protection because of your politics over multiple rape accusers is kind of a different story.
Camille, were you there for Bill O'Reilly?
Were you there for Ryan Seacrest?
Or is it just your husband?
All of this occurred before the trial even started.
The worst injustice, however, has been carried out in the Pennsylvania Monarch.
Montgomery County Courthouse. Three criminal charges promised during an unethical campaign for the
district attorney's office were filed against my husband, all based on what I believe to be falsified
accounts by the newly elected district attorney's key witness. I firmly believe her recent testimony
during trial was perjured as was shown in trial. It was unsupported by any evidence and
riddled with innumerable dishonest contradictions. Moreover, Bill Cosby's defense team introduced the
testimony of a witness who confirmed that the district attorney's witness admitted that she had not
been sexually assaulted, but she could say that she was, but that she could say that she was and
get money, which is exactly what she did. I'm publicly asking for a criminal investigation of that
district attorney and his cohorts. Once again, an innocent person has been found guilty, based on an
unthinking, unquestioning, unconstitutional frenzy propagated by the media and allowed to play out in
supposed court of law. This is
Maude justice. This is not real
justice. This tragedy must be
undone, not just for Bill Cosby, but
for the country.
Well, you know what? There are elements
of truth in that. Yeah. Camille,
I have to tell you, I'm
I'll stand with you on an
investigation to make sure everything was on the
up and up. I'm with you on
that. And if something was wrong, I'm
with you. Because, you know, these, like
to me, it feels like
Bill Cosby definitely did these things. They're
some evidence of it. There's certainly some of his own words from depositions that certainly
indicate that maybe he did some things that were not so good. But I will say at some point,
one of these that just feels right is going to be wrong. Yes. One of these that is just feels like
we've nailed it is going to wind up being the exact opposite. You can't feel when you're in a
court of law and you're a jury, you can't feel your way through it. Yeah. You don't, that's, that's,
That's the opposite of our justice system.
You don't go, well, I just kind of have a gut.
No, no, no, no.
No, there's no gut here.
What are the facts?
Can you make a case based on the facts?
Did they make the case to you based on the facts?
Beyond a reasonable doubt.
Yes.
Beyond a reasonable doubt.
That's a pretty high standard.
It is a high standard.
And that's what's been so disturbing about the way we've looked at this.
You know, two examples.
First, the conservative thing, right?
where they're saying, well, this probably wouldn't have happened to him if he was in line as a left-wing activist as he's supposed to be.
Wouldn't have happened to him.
And again, that's not conservative saying that.
Because I think for a while, that was kind of a conservative conspiracy theory.
Now the left is admitting it.
No, but yeah.
And look it.
Look what they're doing to Kanye.
I mean, if that's not the same thing, they love this guy.
Now they hate him?
Just because he won't fall in line with everything.
He says he likes Hillary.
Alex Emigrant Gonzalez.
Right.
I mean, he just won't fall in with everything that you believe.
There's no...
And that, by the way, is the exact point
Kanye West is trying to make about the thought prison.
Right.
It's the exact point.
You can't even leave...
You can't even leave for an hour?
You can't make one 140 or 280 character tweet
can break the mold of what I have to be.
I mean, that is a heck of a standard.
But, I mean, it also goes into the way that they're talking about this with Me Too.
Like, well, what's the effect of Me Too?
this trial. You know, this didn't happen before, but now Me Too has gone on and now he's been convicted.
What's the role of Me Too? It should be zero. A hashtag should not be throwing people in prison.
When you go to prison, you go to prison because you committed a crime against another individual.
One individual did something to one other person in this particular case. That was what was up to be
decided. It was not whether guys in general have been bad to women in the past. That is not what was on trial there.
and we roll over these things without any
any nervousness about what the long-term trend of that is.
And it doesn't need to be a long-term trend.
It just has to be one.
That is the way the justice system is set up
to make sure that innocent until proven guilty,
and let's be honest about it,
we err to the side of innocence.
You have to be able to go without a reasonable doubt.
Now, to my mind, there's been a lot,
I think there are questions,
of whether the evidence that was allowed,
the people who were allowed to speak at Cosby's trial,
I think that seemed to me to be influenced by the general vibe of the culture right now.
The first time he was tried, I think they had one other accuser who was allowed to speak.
This time it was five.
To me, I mean, usually the number there is zero, right?
I mean, they're unrelated cases.
It's just, you know, someone's, he did supposedly something similar to,
to other accusers. And sometimes that's allowed and sometimes it's not. But again, why five times
the amount of people this time where they actually get the accusers? There's lines with the statute
of limitations on a lot of these cases. And because we all think, I know I think, that Cosby did a
lot of bad things to a lot of people over a long period of time, that is, that that is
unimportant to the legal case against him in this particular matter. It's if we go with
Harvey Weinstein, and you were sitting in a jury box.
And no matter how you felt about, I know this guy did it.
I know this guy did it other times.
This one, I don't believe her.
You cannot say, yep, well, he's guilty.
No.
Even if he's done all the other ones, you can't just say he's guilty on that one, too.
No.
And I will say our legal system has held up pretty well under this.
I mean, look at Harvey Weinstein hasn't even been charged.
Now, mob justice is one thing, and the court of public opinion has absolutely convicted him.
His company's destroyed.
He's destroyed his career.
He's had lots of consequences.
He's had no legal consequences other than paying people out.
That's amazing.
It's amazing.
And he's what you would think of as the example of this movement, right?
I mean, there's been hundreds of people seemingly that have lost their jobs over this, but none of them have seemingly been able to have any,
evidence for them to be committing crimes.
Wouldn't you like to know, wouldn't that be a good follow-up story for, I don't know,
vanity fair?
Would be.
Why has this man faced no legal consequence?
An occasional story about a, hey, they're about to charge him with something and then nothing.
Where Bill Cosby has already gone through two trials.
And there's nothing?
That is an interesting question.
and, you know, one of the reasons why people don't look, Camille, if people aren't looking at this trial,
it's because especially in Pennsylvania, you know, people on the left were Mumia Abu Jamal,
that guy is a really, really bad cop killer.
And to cry, oh, justice, justice, justice on that guy hurts it when it's your husband behind bars.
because everybody just goes,
oh, you know, you lefties, you're always saying that.
And it's incumbent upon us not to get tired of hearing that.
We have to always be searching for justice.
But it makes it really hard when, and this is going to happen with me too.
It's going to happen with racism.
It's going to happen with sexism.
It's going to happen with everything.
All of it.
Because people are just getting tired of hearing, oh, that's cultural appropriate.
Shut up.
Shut up.
When it's a real problem, then ring the bell.
Until that time, shut up.
You're really promoting that op-ed you wrote.
I know. It's called shut up.
And the entire text is...
Shut up.
Yeah, it took me a while to write.
But I think you'll like it.
I think you'll like it.
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Glenn Beck, Mercury.
Glenn Beck
Well, my first Prager University video is out today.
I'm just going to tweet it.
It's about Walt Disney and why he matters today.
and could he create what he created in today's America?
Check it out.
Prager University.
The Walt Disney video, Walt Disney American Dreamer.
Glenn, back.
Mercury.
Truth.
All right, let me just say this.
The world needs more human beings like James Shaw Jr.
You remember that name?
April 22nd, Nashville Waffle House.
The attacker shot and killed four people.
for Shaw, it would have been much, much worse. Shaw took a bullet wound himself, hid near the
restrooms, and waited for the opportunity. Retreat wasn't on his mind. Letting the people inside
the restaurant die, definitely not on his mind. Him dying not on his mind. Some people run away.
Others run toward it. Those that run toward it usually wear a uniform, but not this day. Shaw,
sensing an opening, charged the would-be mass murderer and disarmed him. The killer's ramped
page was now over and it was all due to an ordinary guy that found something inside of himself
that was absolutely extraordinary.
It's hard to imagine doing what James Shaw did, at least for some of us, at least for a weenie
like me.
Without training, charging an attacker armed with a weapon isn't something that 90% of us
think we would do.
But maybe we do.
It's rare.
Movies are usually made to tell the story if it ever happens.
Clint Eastwood directed the movie 1517 to Paris, telling the story of the three Americans that did exactly the same thing that Shaw did, but they were on a train in France.
One of them was also trained to do that.
If you've seen the movie, the scene where Spencer Stone unarmed charges the terrorist as he raises his weapon to fire, captures perfectly the type of courage that we're talking about here.
Uncommon valor and courage.
It is the common virtue amongst these types of heroes.
But lately, I have to tell you, I've been more impressed with how James Shaw Jr. has handled himself in the media than even in the Waffle House.
He has every right to brag, to be arrogant, to be, you know what?
Yeah, so I took him down.
But the man, the man doesn't even see himself as a hero.
In fact, multiple times he says,
I'm not a hero.
And despite every opportunity to bask in the glory,
he is repeatedly maintaining his humility.
This weekend was another amazing example.
Shaw goes on to the Van Jones show to talk about what happened on CNN.
Jones immediately proceeds to try to goad Shaw into bashing President Trump.
Listen.
He hasn't successfully contacted you.
But he gave a shout out to, you know, I don't know,
gave a shout out to Kanye today.
No shout out to you.
How do you feel when the President of the United States misses an opportunity to hold up,
you know, somebody who's trying to do good stuff like you?
I know he has a busy agenda, busy schedule.
Maybe he just hasn't got around to me.
Maybe my time is coming.
It's not for me to judge really what he does.
It's just, you know, I did what I did, and I didn't really do it for recognition.
I did it just to save my life, honestly.
Listen to that.
He doesn't even just save other people's lives.
he was just, I was just trying to save my life.
Could this guy be any more perfect in this day and age?
Literally, everyone rushes in to turn a tragedy into red meat,
into some political stance, into I've got a book deal, a movie deal?
Not this guy.
Even the 17-year-old high school students are doing it,
but James Shaw Jr. isn't having any of it.
He's an amazing American.
an American.
He diffused an obvious agenda
that Van Jones was leading him down
and downplayed what he had accomplished.
You know, besides James,
I want to meet his parents.
I don't know.
I don't know the parents of James Shaw,
Jr., but I'd sure like to meet them.
Whoever you are, hold your head high.
You raised successfully
a Captain American.
I mean, somebody fire up the cloning machine.
The world needs more human beings, like James Shaw, Jr.
It's Monday, May 7.
This is the Glenn Beck program.
Oh, man, why did you do that?
I know, now he's going to be wrecked.
You know, now we're like two days away from a report about how when he was nine years old.
He was killing kitty cats.
Yes.
I don't know, he puts pineapple on his pizza.
Something controversial.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
I don't, that's, something bad is going to come out now.
This is what the media does.
When you have someone who's like, seems like just a great example of everything that you want humanity to be, there will be, they will tear him down.
I hope not.
America needs heroes.
My son, my daughter, they need heroes.
This guy's a hero.
This guy's great.
Yeah.
And not just for stopping the gunfire.
But because of the way he's behaving in the media.
That's, to me, it is.
more remarkable
to have
your 15 minutes of fame
handed to you
and you not exploit
the crap out of it
and spike the football.
Yeah, I mean, this is not exactly
the same case, but I kind of felt a little
tinge of that the other day too with the way
that Starbucks story wrapped up.
Did you see that? No.
I didn't like the story. I hated the story.
I didn't like, I thought
it was covered incorrectly and I thought the guys
did the wrong thing. Oh, the, the, the, the, the two black guys in Pennsylvania, I did see that.
Yeah, they took a dollar, a dollar. I like that, you know, and then they took a, and they, they,
they want to creating a fund of, I think it was a couple hundred grand for some charity,
um, but it, they didn't take, they didn't try to hold up the state for millions and millions of
dollars. They wanted to make things better. And, you know, like, I might disagree with,
with, with their analysis of the situation, but I mean, I, again, they didn't exploit, they didn't, they didn't,
go on to make it all about themselves, which was kind of, I thought that was great.
That was kind of nice.
I thought that was really great.
There's a couple of stories we need to talk about.
George Washington, I don't know.
I mean, I may, I have some issues with George Washington, which is the first for me.
I also have the story about the mom who decided to deliver her own baby after watching a
YouTube tutorial.
Yeah, not everything is for YouTube.
You mentioned an example of this that maybe we can get at some point of what you shouldn't YouTube.
Yeah, I think that's...
Which was electrical work underwater.
Yeah.
Maybe not the best thing to YouTube.
Maybe have a professional do it.
Though I will say...
Can we get into that here for a second?
No, go ahead.
Go ahead.
Well, no, I have another YouTube video I want to bring up, but you go first.
I'm just, I mean, I did...
Okay, so the pool people came over to the house and they said, the lights in the pool are burned up.
I mean, I know, wealthiest 1% problem.
And I don't know.
Do we drain the pool?
I don't know.
I would have thought drain the pool.
That's what I would have thought.
I mean, I didn't grow up with pools or anything else.
And so they said, oh, it's $2,000.
And I'm like, well, you know, we don't swim at night.
So I don't really care.
Okay, thanks.
But no thank you.
Kids, throw a flashlight in the bottom of the pool.
So I decided, you know, I'm like, I got to replace the pool.
lights and I don't want to spend $2,000
and my son-in-law said
what are you talking about? $2,000.
And he said, you know,
he said, we had a pool and I watched the pool
guy change them. He said, you take one screw out.
You take out and they just kind of float
to the top and then
you know, you unseal them with the gasket.
You got to make sure the gasket's right and you change the light
bulb, you seal it back up, you screw it in place
and you're done.
That doesn't seem like a $2,000 job.
Right. So then he says, no, look.
And so we were watching it on YouTube.
And we're like, I can do that.
This is what I mean.
Yeah.
See, this is the problem.
This is the problem.
So I get the lights out.
But they're now sitting on the side of the pool because I don't know, the little sticker on the side about, you know, hey, electrocution.
Kind of spooks me a bit.
Really?
Yeah.
It does.
Did you YouTube it?
Because that's enough, enough precaution?
Yeah.
And so we got it all, but I'm afraid to, I mean, how do you test for electrocution?
You know, that's really what, that's, that's the only question.
I've YouTubeed, how do you check if your pool is now electrified and you shouldn't jump in?
I didn't find anything.
The only thing I can think of is throwing in someone you don't like.
Right.
And that's not the possibility.
Okay.
So, I mean, you know, I wish it was like a, you know, a friator is really good.
Right.
You know, how do you know the oil is really super hot?
I don't know.
Throw a french fry in there.
You'll see.
Besides something, it'll go right and then float to the top.
I don't know how to test the pool.
So I'm not putting the lights back in.
So wait, you started this process.
Started another thing.
YouTube research you did.
Yeah, but now I'm too chicken to put them in.
Because, I mean, what do you do?
I mean, really, until I know, how do you check to see if the pool is, you know,
I mean, I think the correct answer here is you get another estimate from a pool company that's not $2,000.
You don't do underwater electrical work by yourself.
That's what I would say.
Nobody's going to give me an estimate under.
They come and they drive up to my house and they're like, this guy bought this house.
Look at this sucker.
Right.
They know, yeah.
Yeah.
This is that loud mouth on the radio.
He doesn't have a clue as to what we're.
No marketable skills.
He's not going to know.
Exactly.
I change the lights on my house.
weekend, you know, the, you know, like by the garage and stuff, I changed them because they're
over now.
Because, you know, we can live in the dark.
What's, my wife has been yelling at me forever.
So I, so I do.
And what's the first thing?
Don't get up on the ladder.
What, well, what?
Okay, I'm sorry.
I'm not tall enough to get them.
Right.
So I change all the light bulbs.
Because I want to be handy.
You, yes, that's true.
You want to your, you're not handy, but you want to be.
handy. Right. And so I
should probably tell you that one of
the reasons why I didn't put the light bulbs back
into is because
after changing all the light bulbs
then some of them worked before I changed it.
Then I changed
all the light bulbs and now none
of them work. So it's like a Christmas
tree thing. It's like Christmas
lights. I don't... You've Clark Griswolded
at the house. Somehow or another
none of the lights now work.
and I'm afraid the pool does work.
With that record of success.
I mean, anybody want to come swimming at my house?
Big pool party.
I try.
I really do try.
It just never works out for me.
It's sad.
It's sad.
Do you know how to fix pool lights?
I do not.
I would definitely, I feel like the,
the correct. That's like a, that's like a $40 job, man. You're replacing three lights.
Well, I did it in 10 minutes. Well, I did part of it in 10 minutes. Yeah, I mean, it's really just a
precision job, right? Whatever needs to be done to protect you from electrocution really needs to be done.
It's like a $40 job. I'll pay you $150. Right, right. You know, just to make sure I'll, I'll even pay you
250 if my kids aren't electrocuted when they get into the pool. It is one of those things that I kind of feel bad.
You know, it's like 200, it's like two grand to do.
And, you know, then the kid is electrocuted and you're like, yeah, I didn't want to spend the two grand.
It's really kind of.
You know, you do is you get a kid electrocution money back guarantee.
If your kid jumps and it does a cannonball, then floats to the top, you get your $250 back.
My son and I were out the back and, you know, I was turning the switches and I'm like, I'm pretty sure that one's it.
And he's like, let's make sure.
Let's make sure that's the one.
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Glenn Beck, Mercury. Glenn Beck.
No, I don't know. It's stoned.
So I was, speaking of YouTube, clicking around on YouTube, saw a little familiar face
on Prager University, Mr. Glenn Beck.
Oh, yeah. First Prager University released today.
First Prager University video that I've done.
They asked me to do it on Walt Disney, of all things.
Yeah, kind of cool.
I mean, you're certainly a guy who's into Disney,
which is, you know, so it makes you a good candidate for that.
Although, you know, Prager University,
it's going to hit a billion views this year.
I know.
A billion.
Yeah.
They're changing the world one video at a time.
They really are.
It really is an amazing project that kind of came out of nowhere.
I mean, it wasn't something that I remember seeing the first couple of them.
Like, these are really good.
And all of a sudden, just everyone knows about them.
Yeah.
So I did it on Walt Disney because I don't know if, you know, there's something.
Look at the entrepreneurs of the world.
Look at the people who have truly changed the world.
Make the list.
Henry Ford, John Rockefeller, Elon Musk, Steve Jobs.
Bill Gates.
They're all in the same place, America.
Why?
And the Walt Disney story is a really good pop culture way to understand what's happening here.
And, you know, it starts out with a guy who just has a dream and everybody is against it.
Everybody's against it.
Nobody thinks.
I mean, now it's like, ah, we're going to make a mouse talk.
Nobody thought that back then.
and his whole life was like that.
We think of a theme park now.
It was Walt Disney that came up with that.
He was arguing with the banks all the time.
So it's an amusement park.
Nobody wants to go to an amusement park.
No, it's not.
It's a theme park.
It's different than an amusement park.
Because an amusement park was like a carnival.
And his was a theme park.
Well, he changed the world.
Imagine the world without Walt Disney.
Because, I mean, theme park wasn't even a known thing.
No, it was his idea.
You know?
I don't think I realized he basically invented that.
Oh, yeah, no, he was completely alone.
Yeah.
Like, not just, not just invented it alone on that, alone.
So he, he, he, it's in 1955, 1995,
1954, and he finally gets the loan.
And he gets a loan from ABC television.
They don't want the theme park.
They just want the show.
They don't care about the theme park.
They don't get it.
They don't see it.
He knows that I can use television as a way to promote this.
But he's never done television before.
He doesn't even have a crew.
He has nothing.
He has his archive.
And they're like, okay, so you'll get some of the archives,
but it'll also be live too.
There'll be new stuff, right?
Every week.
Every week a television show.
Okay.
So he does that deal in the summer.
and like end of summer, September.
They announced that the wonderful world of Disney is going to happen.
That season, he calls his brother from New York and he's like,
we got a television show.
He's like, well, we don't do television.
He's like, we do now.
So they had to do that.
In October, they announced the park, Disneyland, break ground,
and then cut the ribbon in.
July.
There is no one that could do that today.
And it's not his genius.
It's the genius of America.
I contend you wouldn't get the permit to cut down a single orange tree in Orange County in the time it took for him to break ground to cut the ribbon.
We were talking nine months.
It's insane.
Insane.
Insane.
And so the Prager, you know,
University video is about Walt Disney, but it is really about why do these guys, how come we have all these guys?
What is it about the people like Elon Musk and Steve Jobs and Walt Disney that can change the world,
but they do it here. And it's the freedom that we have here. And it's the idea that we don't rely on the
government to do it. We think ourselves, I got an
idea. Why don't we just do that? And we've got to preserve that if we're going to survive.
So watch it at Prager University. I just tweeted it out about an hour ago or so. And you can find
it at glenbeck.com. I'm sure we'll post it at the blaze today as well. But share it with
friend. Watch it and share it with a friend. Yeah. There's just so many. You can just get lost
down the wormhole of Prager University videos and just be there all day. So good. Because
You know, that darn YouTube, because that YouTube recommendation thing.
And then they just keep giving you more and more to watch.
And they're like, oh, I haven't seen that one.
Oh, I haven't seen that one.
And then all of a sudden it's 4 a.m.
And you're like, what have I done with my life?
At least with Prager, you've learned something.
Yeah, at least you've done that.
Learn something.
Prager University, you can find it on YouTube.
Glenn Beck, Mercury.
You're listening to the Glenn Beck program.
So do you have a.
solution. Pat, have you ever changed the light in a pool?
No. Okay. No. All right. You're about as handy as I am, except I may have been downgraded this
weekend because I changed the lights in my house, okay, on the outside of my house. You know by the
garage and stuff like that because they were burning out. And so I changed the lights around my
house. And now they don't work. Now they were working before. They were just burned out.
But now they're not working.
And you're thinking it's connected to changing the lights in the pool?
No.
No?
Okay.
Because I didn't change the lights in the pool.
I just took the lights out of the pool.
But then I read these little stickers, you know, on the side.
You know, if you're not experienced, you don't know what you're doing.
If you've never been to space, don't attempt this.
And so I was like, so you have to have been an experienced astronaut in order to change your pool lights?
Well, yeah.
Pretty much, yeah.
Yeah.
I think so.
That's why I never have.
Because I've never been to space.
Well, they were going to charge me $2,000 to change them.
And I'm like, come on.
Come on.
What?
No, I watch the YouTube.
Are they gold-plated bulbs or?
No.
It's exactly what some, you know, is $2,000.
Of course, you know, again, when your child floats to the surface, you feel pretty good about the 2K.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's the, you know.
Yeah.
Yeah, that's the problem because I then, then I was like, you know,
I might want to call around for a better price.
I'll feel pretty bad if my kids are electrocuted.
Right.
Because I wanted to save some money.
I'll tell you this.
I'll do it for half.
Oh, wow.
I'll put, for $1,000, I'll put the bulbs in your pool.
And check it?
And check it.
And jump in yourself.
Yep.
For a thousand bucks.
I definitely do not have that level of confidence in my own abilities to do that.
Yeah.
I don't think.
I have that level of confidence.
I mean, I do.
It's just, you know, it's like all other.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
But eventually you have to turn it back on.
Yes, I know.
So here's, but here's the thing.
You feel pretty confident.
It's like, you know, I've changed lights in the house, you know,
hung new lights and everything else.
You turn the power off.
You turn it on.
But it's not surrounded by its deadly nemesis water.
You know what I mean?
It's like, no, there's no amount of rubber I can put on and still be okay.
So it's one of those things too
Like let's say you go to another place
And they say hey I'll do it for 750
Right
Yeah
Then you took the bargain basement price
For the guy changing the electricity
I'm thinking about
I don't want that either
I'm thinking about just
Screwing the back in the walls
And throwing flashlights at the bottom of the pool
Because it's just it doesn't seem right
No matter what I do
If something goes wrong
And granted it's a first world kind of problem
It is
Yes
No it is
They're not worried about this
so much in the Congo right now.
No. That means they're safer.
They're not worried about this. It's a threat we face that they don't.
Most people don't worry about it up north either, which is one reason why you live down in the south is, you know, there's the, the, the per capita.
But when I grew up, nobody had a pool. But I grew up in the Pacific Northwest.
There's like one 72 degree day.
I knew one family in hell not with a pool.
Yeah.
I knew one.
Because you can use it for like 15 minutes a year.
Right.
Right.
Right.
Here it's just like you just want to get come home and just want to drive your car into your pool.
I can't take another second.
Anyway, there's a couple of primaries that are happening tomorrow,
and one of them is happening in West Virginia.
And Sarah, do we happen to have the audio of Blankenship?
Here's the, we played this for you last week.
The guy was in third place last week.
And then he released this video.
Hi, I'm Don Blankenship, candidate for U.S.
Senate and I approve this message. Swamp Captain Mitch McConnell has created
millions of jobs for China people. While doing so, Mitch has gotten rich. In fact,
his China family has given him tens of millions of dollars. Mitch's swamp people are
now running false negative ads against me. They are also childishly calling me
despicable and mentally ill. The war to drain the swamp and create jobs for West
Virginia people has begun. I will beat Joe Manchin and ditch cocaine Mitch for the
sake of the kids. Just put that guy in your pool. He's electric enough.
turn that thing.
I mean, look at that.
So that's amazing.
And if you didn't think that he actually says China people in real life, it's hysterical.
Yeah.
I mean, it's just perfect.
It's the guy you're like, I want that guy.
I'm going to send that guy to Washington.
It almost seems like a parody spot because of the music behind it.
And it doesn't even feel real.
And yet it catapulted him from third to first over the weekend.
According to one poll.
Yeah.
He's now in the lead.
It was an internal poll conducted for a rival Senate campaign.
The results, Blankenship 31, Jenkins 28, Morrissey, 27.
I don't, and here's the thing, I don't know.
You know, this is not a race I followed particularly closely.
I was asking around on the socials about who do you think?
If you're a sane person in West Virginia, who do you vote for in this race?
And I'm seeing Morrissey.
I guess Rand Paul endorsed Morrissey
But I mean I really don't know
I just haven't we
We've I'm somewhat given up
On these local races
Again well I mean if Blankenship
If Blankenship wins
That is just that's America saying
Mel Manchin will beat him
And you'll I mean
Yeah you could be stuck with the worst Democrat than
Then Joe Manchin
And then that I think West Virginia will with against Blankenship will probably
Yeah
Yeah
Manchin might win any of against any of these guys
But he probably, he should lose.
I mean, Trump dominated that state.
It was legitimately Trump's best state, I would say.
Didn't he win by 28 or something?
It's a huge margin.
It was big.
But Donald Trump Jr. came out and said, don't vote for blankmanship.
We're going to lose.
It's going to be like Alabama all over again with Roy Moore.
And then Donald Trump has now today, the dad, the president, came out today and tweeted,
hey, don't vote for this guy.
He's going to be a disaster.
And it's not just the China people, on the swamp people.
and the West Virginia people.
It's also the fact that the guy was found liable for the death of 29 minors in his mind because of safety violations.
He spent a year in jail for that.
That's bad.
I don't know.
I don't know why you would gravitate toward this guy.
But we've been saying that for about three or four years now.
Why would you gravitate to these guys?
We've been saying that for 10 years.
I mean, politics is just entertainment now, right?
I mean, and this guy clearly would be the most entertaining guy to have in the Senate.
You'd sit there and he'd say-
You imagine that guy is a senator?
No, I can't.
I mean, what happens to the Senate?
Play that I had again.
I mean, imagine this now message from the senator.
The thing I love about this more than anything, I mean, because it's obviously crazy on a hundred levels.
But he, at no point, shows any facial expression.
None, right.
None.
It is completely absent of expression.
No, this is Hollywood casting.
You couldn't cast.
It's better. Play it again.
Hi, I'm Don Blankenship, candidate for U.S. Senate, and I approve this message.
Swamp Captain Mitch McConnell has created millions of jobs for China people.
While doing so, Mitch has gotten rich.
He doesn't even blinked.
In fact, his China family has given him tens of millions of dollars.
Mitch's swamp people are now running false negative ads against me.
They are also childishly calling me despicable and mentally ill.
What is that?
That's an interesting.
Who says that, stop it?
Who says people say I mentally ill?
and ditch cocaine Mitch for the sake of the kid.
You know, some people say I'm mentally ill.
You just keep that out of your campaign.
Usually that's a good tip.
I will say I noticed something there on the sixth or seventh viewing that I did not notice on the first five.
Which is, he says they are running false ads against me.
They are also saying I'm despicable and that I'm mentally ill.
That's totally separate.
That's true.
That's true, but I don't like the false things you're saying about my policies.
Sure, I am mentally ill, but I'm better than these China people.
It seems to be his legit argument.
Okay, all right, okay.
Let's come back into the reality of today for just a second.
Do you think that China people was put in by ad people going, say China people,
it'll get a lot of people talking, blah, blah, blah,
or do you think that some ad guy
or he wrote China people
and everybody just, you know, it was like,
yeah, China people.
I think it's, I think he realizes he's in third place.
He's trying to do something to draw attention to him.
He thinks he can win with this tactic.
I think that's what it is.
I mean, I don't think he's like a deep thinker
when it comes to politics.
Do you think he even knows it's offensive?
To call people from China, China people instead of Chinese?
Let's see if we can get them on the phone.
Let's see if we can get them on the phone.
That would be very interesting.
I would like that.
See if we can get them on the phone.
The primary is tomorrow, so it's got to be quick.
I will say, I think, if you want to read into this a little bit,
this is a poll, an internal poll that came from a rival Senate campaign.
Now, when you release an internal poll and you're a campaign,
normally what you're doing is you're showing how well the race is going, right?
However, in this particular case,
they are motivated to get Trump's endorsement
because all three candidates have been running as,
I'm the most Trumpish.
Like there's not,
they're all saying we are super tight,
we'll do everything we can to support the president.
They are all saying that.
So here,
if you're a rival campaign,
and you leak out there,
hey,
there's a poll showing us behind,
you bring,
and then you are successful to bring Donald Trump into the race
a day before the election with a tweet saying,
don't vote for this guy.
Could be a good strategy.
It could be a good strategy.
Why don't vote for this guy?
Why not vote for this guy?
Well, I mean, I think that would be their preference,
whoever leaked that poll.
But, you know, this is a situation where I think they are,
they legitimately think they can win this race with either of the other two.
They think they could lose it with Blankenship.
They will lose it with Blankenship.
I think they probably will.
Because, God, imagine, remember, if he wins this,
he was in third place and then is rewarded with China people, right?
So what is he going to do when he gets into the actual election?
He's just going to keep ramping this up.
It's kind of why I want to vote for him.
I kind of want to vote for him because it's just, no.
No, he's just, did you see, Stephen Hawking, you know what his last words were?
I mean, his last written words?
No.
Basically, we live in the Matrix.
He, he has gone off of the bubble universe.
theory, you know, the multiverse theory.
And he says that he thought that we
were living in some sort of a projection,
some sort of a, a
two-dimensional that seems three-dimensional
hologram.
Wow. That's really
where he was in the end. I'm starting
to believe that. So if we're living in the
Matrix, let's make it entertaining.
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Glenn Beck.
All right, so you take the lights out of the pool, let's just say.
You take the lights out of the pool, and you put them up and you're like, okay, don't touch anything.
I'll be back later, you know, I'll do this tomorrow, and I told my wife, I'll be back this afternoon and I'll be here to save the day.
I'll be here to save the day.
So my wife, she just writes to me and she said, are you talking about this?
this on the air? Yes.
Next text.
I've already just replaced one
and it's working. It's fine.
Okay, wait. No.
Wow, that makes you feel like a man.
It does. It really does. It does.
I'm, you know, I'm like, okay, I'm freaked
out by the electricity and the water thing.
I'm going to go by, you know, Leslie's pools today and talk
to them a little bit, you know, a little
one-on-one guy time, you know, talking about pool lights.
and then I'll come home and I'll do that.
No.
She just opened them up, replaced them, sealed them back up, put it in the water, turned it on.
Yeah, it works.
It'll be interesting to see if they mysteriously fail when you jump in.
If I die of electrocution, if you ever hear that I am in the pool, it was my wife who did it.
I would have actually believed that before the whole light-changing thing, but now I really believe it.
Honey, pool's fine.
Yeah, we haven't checked it yet, and it's great.
Hop on in.
Yeah, I think that's what's happening.
So do you know anything about these primaries tomorrow?
Other than Blankenship saying China people, we have this, we have Indiana,
which is a three person race as well, which I mean, I would really like to hear at World of Stew.
Tweet me who you think is the good one here in both of these races and any of the other primaries you got going on.
I'm looking on good ones, except for my town.
my state. You know, it's like, if I'm not voting for you, I'm not going to advise you.
Yeah, because, I mean, you can get obsessed by these each individual Senate race. And I mean,
it's important. Obviously, control of the of the Senate is really important. Making sure you have
someone who reflects your values is really important. If you don't like China people,
you have your guy, you know. Right. That is clear. That much we know. Yeah, that guy's clear.
I can't imagine there's another person who's going to come out less pro-China people than Don Blankenship.
Yeah, I don't think so. I don't think so.
That guy ran like the sixth largest coal company in America.
Now, you may argue he didn't do it very well.
And that's what the justice system argued.
He didn't run it really well.
That's why he ended up in prison.
It's like, I run a pool company.
Of course, I just electrocuted my family in the pool, but I still ran a pool.
company.
Not really a good commercial.
But still, it's hard to imagine.
I mean, just by watching the commercial,
it's hard to imagine how he could run a company of any sort.
I think we should start looking for the worst people.
The worst candidates.
I think we should start.
And he's hard to beat.
But I think we should look for the worst candidates.
Now, that being said, I want to do a fair interview with Blanketship.
If he'd come on tomorrow, I really want to know the China people.
Is that real?
Realers? Because if it's not real, that's a great ad.
Glenn, back. Mercury.
