The Glenn Beck Program - Annoyingly Smart? | Guest: Dave Isay | 3/5/19

Episode Date: March 5, 2019

Hour 1  Hillary's Big Announcement? AOC came from nowhere? Political Star Backlash? Stu's gives Glenn a passionate sports analogy? The 5 Myths About Socialism? Democratic Socialism is different than (fill in the blank)? A Pat Gray Neverland? HBO's new documentary on Michael Jackson is making noise? The Art of completely wiping out 80's Icon?    Hour 2 Just another 'hate hoax'? South Carolina Mayor claims she was racist hate crime victim after 'yellow sticky substance'? Cops say, not even close? Undocumented Outer Space compassion? It's a sad day for President Trump? Awaiting Bernie's Big move? Socialism, the most successful form of government of all time?  The various 'pit stops' of Socialism? In a world of Incremental progressiveness? When America's innovations spread world-wide, good things happen?   Hour 3 Story Corps.org, Dave Isay, Founder & President joins to tell the story of Jenn Stanley and Peter Stanley? Daughter and father talk about disagreeing politically for the first time? Important conversations we are not having? Alabama Tornado devastation for a mile wide? Help the Victims Now at  MercuryOne.org. Target taxes and the damage they do? It's Time to keep diary? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Oh, wait a minute. We have that story. Coming up. The fusion of entertainment and enlightenment. This is the Glembeck program. People weren't begging her to run. People weren't screaming for her to be president. people weren't begging, begging on their knees. Please, Hillary, please Hillary, don't run for 2020.

And she has listened to the people. Oh, the sad and shocking news on Hillary Clinton coming up in one minute. This is the Glenn Beck program. You know, I wish I could wire up simply safe. Well, it doesn't have any wire so I can't. but I wish I could get it so he could keep all of the predators out of my house like Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders and everybody else, CNN. You know, wouldn't it be nice if you just, this is a home that none of that can penetrate. None of that can penetrate.

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Because I had just heard she voted, she blamed it on the Supreme Court for the voting rights act. Oh, I didn't. Oh, really? Yeah, and that was her latest one that I saw. Well, she was saying yesterday that it was the color of her skin and what she has in her pants. Wait, the color of her skin, so she lost because she was white? Yeah, and Trump was pink, orange? I don't know the difference there, but it's got to be a different color.

Anyway, she has come out and she has finally said, no matter how many people scream and yell for me, no matter what the people say, I just can't do it. I can't run one more time. I just can't do it. So she has officially said she will not put her hat or her pantsuit into the ring. It's devastating for the three or four people who would want that to occur. Those people are very upset today.

Yeah. We talked to Helen. Helen's the Hillary Clinton supporter that wanted her to run, and she said she's very upset. No one else in the household or anywhere around her or in the club, which only consist of Helen, is upset by that. Oh, and also Bernie Sanders is hedging his bet. He's also running for the Senate.

So he's... The Bernie and Hillary people are still having their issues, by the way, because, you know, they were never really friendly. And now the Hillary people who were upset that Bernie gave Hillary such a hard time in 2016 are out planting stories against Bernie's run in 2020. I wish I could say this made me sad. Oh, it's fun. This is, again, a giant bowl of candy.

If you ever walk into like your grandpa's house and they just had a giant bowl of like M&Ms and every time you walk by, you take another handful, that's what this primary is for us. It's amazing. Every day. There's a new story about someone who isn't socialist enough. A little digs at the campaign, little fights. I mean, one of the things they're concerned about with Bernie Sanders is that he raised a bunch of money from small donors in 2016, which allowed him to continue his campaign well past the time he had any chance of winning it. And that was something that Hillary's people complained about. Well, now he's got all those small donors back because he obviously has all those lists again. He's added more small donors. They think that he'd ride this thing out whether he's winning or not again, which is just going to make this socialist go on stage with a bunch of other socialists and have to out socialize the other socialists. And that is going to be delectable. It's like if you had a bunch of bowls of candy and one of them is Eminem and then there's a peanut Eminem and then they have

the peanut butter Eminem. And you're like, which one? I don't even know. I'm going to eat all of them. And there's the crispy ones. And there's the caribol ones, which are delicious. Yeah. So we'll We'll have that. We'll have more on socialism and which candy jar you need to grab from in a second. But I do want to report this from CNN. There is no politician, not one, who has risen further faster than Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. That's an interesting statement. I don't know that I could disagree with it.

I mean, maybe you could say Trump, but Trump was so well-known anyway. I mean, you've been in the public eye for decades and decades. Yeah, she is, she is as known as anybody else and maybe more so, with an exception of Donald Trump. But she came from nowhere. Right. A year ago, we had no idea who she was. Legitimately, last summer, I was in New York City and walked by the restaurant. She had just quit to start campaigning.

It's a Mexican, or it's a tequila restaurant. Oh, my gosh. What a racist. It's a Mexican restaurant. Oh, really? Is it? Yeah, it's called like T. Orana something.

Okay, racist. I'm pretty sure that's the location of that. All right. Whatever. Particular place. Two years ago at this time, she was bartending and waitressing in New York. Now the New York Congresswoman is the face of the liberal left in the Democratic Party nationally. Really the face of the party.

I mean, she's basically running the party at this point. At least she's trying to. She's running it in the media. Who else would be the face of the party? I mean, Pelosi? No, she's the face of the old party. Right. the face of the hip Democrats versus the hip replacement Democrats.

Correct. Correct. Yes, she does seem to be the center of all the energy in the party for sure. When a politician or really anyone becomes a star overnight, there's an inevitable backlash that grows in opposition to the rise. And less than three months into her first term in Congress, the AOC backlash has begun in earnest. Now, listen to that. Listen to that. Do you remember what they used to say about the Tea Party candidates that they had, they were gaining power? and they were all crazy and too extreme,

and there was this big battle going on. Listen to this. When a politician or really anyone becomes a star overnight, there is inevitable backlash that grows in opposition to the rise. So they're not saying that she's crazy to extreme or anything else. She's a star, and of course, these old people, they don't want her to take the light. The spark came last week in a closed-door meeting of House Democrats, Akazio-Cortez, warned Congress.

colleagues that if they continued to vote with Republicans on procedural motions in the chamber, they could wind up on a list of incumbents ripe for liberal primary challenges. Speaker Pelosi, who has found herself on the side of AOC a few times during the early months of Congress, was making the same case to members. Members, especially those holding swing districts that looked nothing like AOC solidly Democrat Bronx Queen's seat, took Umbridge. Umbrage. there is without a doubt a myth that Ocasio-Cortez somehow represents the narrative of the Democratic Party in the country. Alabama-based Democratic pollster John Alizon, who polled for Barack Obama 2012, his re-election race told the Washington Post.

Over half of them identify themselves as moderate or conservatives. Once again, another example of people identifying themselves as something they are not. Yes. That data showed at 51 percent of Democrats. identified themselves as liberal last year, 47% call themselves moderate, and 13% conservative. Here's the problem for the likes of N. Zaloney or whatever. And 2020 years like former Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper, who's running as a pragmatic problem solver. The energy, the activism, yes, the money is all coming in from the mad as hell and not going to take it anymore.

base at the moment. That reality incentivizes candidates, particularly in the presidential race, to run as far left as possible because it's way over there on the left where they will get what they want in terms of political outcomes. This is interesting. I mean, it's a parallel example that you will not understand, Glenn. Sean McVeigh, coach of the Los Angeles Rams, as of course you know. One of the youngest coaches in the league. In the league. I saw him. Got to the Super Bowl last year, innovative coach. He's the, he is the media darling, right? Because of him, tons of other coaches are now being hired that are young and innovative on offense and everything else, right?

Right, because of Sean. Right. And, you know who hated that? Coaches who have been working their butts off as coordinators and linebacker coaches and quarterback coaches who wanted head coaching jobs. Right. And they see McVeigh is cutting the line. and there was nobody happier than those coaches when the Rams lost the Super Bowl and McVeigh got out coached by Bill Belichick.

Now, I could take us out of the sports analogy that you're just nodding and acting like you understand for a moment. Oh, I know. I saw the Super Bowl commercials. The point being, though, that is a real thing. No, it is. When someone comes up and is the phenomenon, the people who have been there and see themselves, I've been working here, I've been slaving away and pushing for these changes my whole life. And now this 28-year-old comes in here and is going to tell me how to run this party.

Accio-Cortez, some waitress from the Bronx, is going to come tell me how to run this party. I've been doing this for 20 years. That is a, that's just a whole other layer of candy. Now we've got like Mars bars. We've got messy section. We have the share size. Have you seen that yet from M&Ms? that no one ever shares.

No one is ever going to share that. It's a giant bag with like a zip lock top. Why would you have the zip? Stop wasting the money. We're going to eat it in one city. Going to eat it in one city. My mother-in-law brought this to me, and she put it on the counter and it says, share size.

I've never seen that. I'm like, share size. That kicks king size and fun size to the curb permanently. That's fantastic. Now, that's a lot of M&Ms. You notice, by the way, you're a lot more passionate than the sports analogy on the story. Yes. Yes.

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So the Washington Post has come out with five myths about socialism. Yeah. And then this is important for you to understand. A lot of people in the audience are conservatives. Glenn, they're not going to get this. They've been told all these lies, and now they need to know the truth. Myth number one. Socialism is a single coherent ideology.

Now, at no point did I ever consider socialism to be coherent? That's important. Right. That was the word I focused on, too. Very strange. But they talk about, they give examples of people who are saying crazy things like, you know, Democratic Socialists, columnist Jenna Ellis wrote in the Washington Examiner, all are precursors to full-blown Marxist, Leninist, communism, an editorial investor investors business daily. All forms of socialism are the same.

Many attacks on socialism as well. Poles, gauging its surprising popularity, take for granted that it's a unified philosophy. Again, not coherent, but unified. Yet socialism, this is from the Washington Post, has multiple meanings and interpretations, which have to be disentangled before a discussion about its merits can begin. You can't just judge it, Glenn. It's too much. One distinction centers on whether socialism is a system that must supplant capitalism or one that can harness the market's immense productive capacity for progressive ends. Really? Socialism is about how you can take capitalism and make it work better. Really? That would be interesting to a lot of socialists. Carl Marx, who predicted the historical

forces would inevitably lead to capitalism's demise and the government's control of industry, was the most famous proponent of the first type of socialism. So that's just like, all right, the history, forces of history, going to change this. Capitalism can't last long enough. That's the Marx one. Then you've got Vladimir Lenin who said he wanted a revolutionary vanguard to destroy capitalism. That's type number two, according to the Post. And by the way, he was a Democratic socialist. Just because people were afraid of communists, he said, we are two. That's why we're a Democratic socialist. Totally different. Totally different. As we saw with the multiple decades afterwards. Sure.

Other socialists, however, did not accept the violent, undemocratic nature of that course. Those were called progressives. Although they agree that capitalism was unjust and unstable. The left's role in the view of these democratic socialists, the Czech Austrian theorist Karl Kotzky, for instance, was to remind citizens of capitalism's defects and rally popular support for an alternative economic system that would end private ownership and assert popular control over the means of production. I would say once again, Glenn, these first three categories, there is no distinction as to what they are. It's just the means of how to get there. How fast do we go?

Right. Right. Mark says it'll happen over a bunch of years with history because capitalism will fail. Lenin says it's got to be a revolution. Kotsky says, ah, well, you know what? We'll tell everybody how bad capitalism is. They'll realize it and then come to our way. It all ends in the end of production as far as private ownership. Could I just go to the Webster's dictionary? Now, I honestly search for this thinking, Well, it's not going to say that. They've changed to everything.

Right. So here is the current online, Miriam Webster's dictionary definition of socialism. Socialism. Any of various economic and political theories advocating collective or governmental ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods. Two, a system of society or group living in which there is no private property. to be a system or condition of society in which the means of production are owned or controlled by the state.

Oh, well, I can't see the last one because I just won a new iPad. Oh, congratulations. That's fantastic. I don't need to win iPads, though, because I keep getting these wonderful inheritances from princes in Nigeria. Yeah, and I just can't buy as many as I want as soon as the cash comes in. Sure, sure. Well, I can't read the last one. Okay, but you get to get the point there.

Here is how, again, you see all those would be what everyone thinks is socialism, right? So they need to come up with a way to make Acacio Cortez seem okay in her approach. So although Sanders, Bernie Sanders, and Akazio Cortez embrace the term democratic socialist, the policies they advocate place them much closer to yet another socialist tradition, social democracy. Now, these are totally different because democratic socialist and social democracy have the same words in different orders. Yes. Which is totally different. Totally different when it's social democracy or democratic socialism.

Just like national socialism is totally different than social nationalism. If the Nazis came back today and said they were social nationalist, we'd all embrace them. Yes, surely. Yes, we would. Okay. So social Democrats say it's possible and desirable to reform capitalism. This tradition. Hold on just a second. that does not say that in the actual bills that they are now trying to pass. It says an end of capitalism.

Right. We've seen, we've read, we've read you column after column from actual democratic socialists who say very clearly what they want to do is end capitalism. The new green deal says they're going to reform. The actual bill. Not the thing that it caused you accord to. The actual bill. It's ridiculous. This tradition dominated the post-World War II European left and influenced the American Democratic.

party, most notably during the progressive era and the New Deal, inspiring social security, unemployment insurance, and the eight-hour workday. This is exactly what the Democratic Socialists don't want you to think. They're, they've told us specifically that this is not, they're not just New Deal Democrats. They're much further than that. And they are in their own words. Trying to like put a little shine on there and say, you know what, they're saying they're socialist, but in reality, they just want Sweden. That's all they want. They want some big programs. They love capitalism. Everything's fine.

They're just using, you've got to understand. Bernie Sanders, an ideologue for 50 years pushing for this cause, just doesn't understand the terms he's using. That is legitimately their case. Now, you can certainly make a case like that over Ocasio-Cortez, who doesn't seem to understand the words that she's speaking on numerous occasions per day. But Bernie Sanders, doesn't understand socialism?

I mean, that is, it's insulting to the 947-year-old Bernie Sanders. And that's just myth number one. Myth number two is socialism and democracy are incompatible. In a speech last month, crisis in Venezuela, Trump argued socialism must always give rise

to tyranny. Socialism is pseudoscience enforced by political tyranny. I wrote the Heritage Foundation, blah, blah. Communists reject democracy, of course, but other socialists have strongly supported it. Look, it always starts as Democratic. Unless it's a revolution, it is always starts as

democratic. In fact, Maduro was a democratically elected president of Venezuela. Normal guy, a bus driver. He was democratically elected. Then he decided, you know what? I don't like this Democratic election thing. I'm going to fix it.

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documentary about finding Neverland. And yesterday at this time, I said, I believe them, but it was weird. And I wanted an answer from parents. I couldn't, how did the parents not know, et cetera, et cetera. Then I watched part two on HBO's documentary. And there is no doubt in my mind that these guys, um, at least 100% believe it

and the families believe it. I happen to believe them that this happened, but, you know, a documentary you're only seeing one side. however they completely rang true and it's not just these guys it is their families as well and the way it is disrupted these families and torn these families apart they're just not that good of actors you couldn't fake this interview do you agree yeah and I don't know why you would I mean I guess if there was money involved but for them they're not getting any money they're not getting money from it the statute of limitations is already up. Especially not after this. Like you could

theoretically go to the family and try to harass them to give you a giant check. But I mean after you're on TV and the documentary is over, they're not going to give you any money. And I think I kind of tried that. I think Robson went after the Jackson estate in 2013 or 14 and failed and it was thrown out

of court because of the statute of limitations. And so from that standpoint, there's not much to gain. And you've sort of then created this thing that I don't think you'd want that on your reputation. When you were watching, they didn't, they didn't enjoy saying any of this.

No. You could feel it. I mean, when he was talking yesterday, Robson, the guy who was, you know, he did all of the choreography for Britney Spears and Insink and everybody, he's actually, he's turned into somebody. And I watched it. And in the first episode, he's talking about. about, you know, how much he, Michael and he loved each other at the time.

And it was very bizarre. Spoke about that last night, too. Yeah, he did. And the reason why he said, I testified in his behalf, was first, the first time, because Michael had asked him and they loved each other. And Michael had gotten out of his life. And then he was suddenly back in. And he wanted the attention from Michael. And Michael was like, had told him.

him from day one since he was seven, you know, we'll both go to jail. We can't let them divide us. And, um, and then the second time he testified later, um, he tried not to. He said to Michael, I'm done, I'm out. I don't want to be involved in this anymore. And Michael's team actually subpoenaed him. And once he was, plus his sister said, Michael can't go to jail. He won't, he won't survive in jail. And that resonated with him. Yeah. He's, He said that they went to Michael's house for dinner, the whole family before. And he said, I saw Michael, and he said he was a shell of a person. And he's like, my sister was right.

He'd die in prison within days. And I just didn't want him to go to prison and die in prison. He also does a really good job, I think, of explaining that the first trial, when he was 11, he didn't consider it abuse. he considered it an expression of, you know, as sick as it is, an expression of love from Michael, a 35-year-old man to an 11-year-old boy.

I mean, it's sad, but that's what his mind made of it all. Yeah, I mean, he was basically in a alternate universe, right? I mean, like where rules are completely different. He's not going to understand. Right. As a kid.

Not at that age. It's the most powerful celebrity on the planet. And he loves you. He said, I looked at him like a dad. And your mom keeps letting you go over there. Right. Right. So, I mean, like it all kind of aligns in your mind as this might be something that other people don't understand.

But. And the pain that they expressed in last night's episode was truly genuine. The other guy, nervous breakdowns. Right. Yeah. In fact, too, for Robson. And James Safechuck was kind of in a perpetual state of breakdown. Yeah.

I felt bad for him. In his adult years, he is really messed up from this. And there was no, remember, he didn't come out and try to sue the Michael Jackson estate for anything. He never came out. He only came out after Robson came out. Right. And he came out and said, okay, I have to talk to you because this happened to me too. And he couldn't figure out why he was so depressed and screwed up.

and why he hated himself. Right. And he couldn't put it together and he couldn't make sense of what had happened to him with Jackson. And then Robson came out and then they started to communicate and it was the same story. I mean, it's amazing how exactly the same those stories were. Yeah. You know what else was amazing to me is after the first trial in 93, whenever that was, 93, 94. and they had both been ignored mostly by Jackson for months or years at a time.

And then after they both testified, he was back in both their lives and big time and calling him every day again and having him come over again. And he picked up right where he left off with the sexual abuse, even after the first trial. Unbelievable. I mean, that's incredible. It really is bizarre. I mean, if you can't trust a millionaire musician to cancel. care for your child when he's sleeping over at his amusement park for a few months. Right?

Who can you trust? Well, that was the thing that I found interesting. The mother from Australia, Robson's mother, she's, I mean, this added so much credibility because she's been ostracized from her son now. She's taking on all of the guilt. The daughter is mad at the mother. The other brother is mad at all of it. and it just destroyed this family.

And then there's another family. The dad committed suicide. Yeah. And then there's another family who's who lived in California that they bought him, you know, Michael Jackson bought him a house and everything else. And they really considered them family. If you watch how they set up the story in the first episode, they just thought Michael Jackson was part of the family.

And mom, when mom found out that this was happening, she went nuts. She went nuts. She said she danced when she found out he was dead. She really, she took it, I think,

appropriately. She blamed herself for not seeing it. As well as she should. And she blamed Michael Jackson. Yeah, as well she should. Right. It's a part one,

was one of the creepiest, most disturbing things I've ever seen. I don't watch a lot of disturbing shows. But this one was maybe the most disturbing I've ever seen. I didn't see Schindler's list. So I don't know. That was a little more disturbing. Considerably more disturbing. Yes.

But I haven't seen that. So this was one of the, I mean, you just feel icky after it. Yeah. Jackie couldn't do it for part two. but part two wasn't as bad. Part two wasn't as bad. Part two was, you could probably watch part two and get the gist of everything. Yeah, probably.

Without watching all of the graphic details that you're here in the first part, which is so bad because these little kids. Yeah, when you're seeing pictures of them. He's just ruined these kids. This kid was six, six when he was first introduced to Michael Jackson. And you see him, you see the videotape of him going back to our. Australia and being on like good morning Australia. And, you know, Michael gave me this hat and everything else.

And you know that Michael had abused that kid. You know, he talks about what had happened on that trip to see Michael. And then he's abused. Then he goes back and you see this little teeny kid on television. You're like, oh my gosh. So it's phenomenal. Curious, because I did not see any of it. what happens now, our system of justice is a documentary is made,

and then we figure out whether they're guilty or not, and then we make judgments, like, for example, like, you know, Bill of Cosby or R. Kelly, and we pull all their music and their shows off the air, never to be seen again. That's happening. Is that happening with Michael Jackson, you think? Yes.

Supposedly BBC 2 band is music, but they say they didn't. But it hasn't been played since a lot of stuff. should do anything because of this documentary, except learn. Except learn. But, I mean, so Michael Jackson and his, you know, his state, a state doesn't get punished now that we have extensive evidence that he committed horrific crimes. They're just going to keep playing like, you know, we're going to be playing PYT,

like it's no big deal. And like, we don't know what's going on. There's no defense. He's not here to defend himself. In the closet, it's just going to keep running. You know. With the lyrics, the lyrics of that are incredible. Oh, man.

But like, I mean, is that what happens? Because, I mean, it's one thing to ban R. Kelly's music, right? Right. It's not that big of a deal. No. In a cultural way. I mean, I guess it is maybe with some. Michael Jackson's, you know.

It's a lot of music to ban. It's an entire era of music. And not to mention, it influenced the next era of music. I mean, he was, what do you do with that? I mean, they sample his song and how many other songs do you? Do those get ex-sized? as well? I mean, I think you still listen to his music. I think his music is good. He's dead, so he's not hurting anybody anymore. He's dead. I'm not glorifying him by listening to his music.

I am listening to his music because his music was good. And it was part of our culture for so long. I still watched the Cosby show with my kids. You know, I didn't tell them until it was all over. You know, hey, by the way. You know, dad there. Yeah, he's not such a good guy. He went to prison. But the Cosby Show is still really good. I mean, what's crazy about that is that entire decade. I mean, the two things you would use to define that decade culturally would be Michael Jackson and the Cosby Show.

Right? Like those two things. And the number one artist. Yeah. And they're both completely destroyed now. Crazy. It's amazing. I mean, that whole, that whole era is just,

got? Yeah. Not Reagan. No, I mean, that's what I mean. Not Marty Mcfly. Yeah. No, that's true. We'll always have Marty McFly.

Yeah. We will have that. We will always have Marty McFly. That's a good thing. Star Wars, Empire Strikes Back. Yeah, Star Wars would certainly be. I don't know, I'd love Back to the Future, but I don't know if it would put back to the future is that the lead of that decade culturally.

No, not the lead, not as big as Michael Jackson. But still, Star Wars, though, obviously would be there. I would say in the 80s. The 80s, back to the future was huge. It's pretty defining. It's iconic.

It's iconic 80. It's not Star Wars, though. No. No. I mean, Cosby's show was like the Star Wars of television of that era.

Was it not? I mean, it was the biggest show. Yeah, I think that's safe to say. Yeah, I think that's safe. And that is like, and that's gone. And Michael Jackson was the Star Wars of music.

And now that's gone. I mean, Madonna was huge too. But I mean, Michael Jackson was, I would say, the peak of that. And like they said, multiple times during the special,

uh, there's no one like that today. And we may never, I don't think we'll ever have a star. No, because everything's so big. It's too fragmented. You know, you can be a huge star in a little pool over off to the side that's not even little, but you can be a huge star and half the country have no idea who you are. Where even, I think we were the last generation, Bill O'Reilly, Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity.

We were the last of the people on cable news that. We're big across the whole country. It's not like that anymore. No, I mean, doing Christmas shopping this past year, you go down the toy aisle of Target or, you know, whatever toy store is open and still selling toys in a place. Every freaking other toy has the face of some kid that your kid watches on YouTube on it. These are all just like kids who open up presents and their whole thing is they review toys or whatever.

Those aren't stars of today. are all over the place. And 90% of this audience has never seen them at all. But if you have little kids, that's what they watch. And those are the celebrities right now. It's an entirely parallel culture that is built. And they all have deals with like Mattel. Like all of the, their faces are on every toy in the aisle.

You know who they also have deals with? You know who represents them in most cases? Ellen. Oh, really? Ellen goes out. I thought they're going to say Satan. No, Ellen. Ellen goes out and her team looks for the next big little kid stars and reps them and gets them these deals.

And then brings them on the show probably. Brings them on the show. Introduces it to the parents. Yeah. And then makes money off of the kids. She's too smart. That's annoying. Yeah.

She's annoyingly smart. Just like Pat Gray on Pat Gray Unleashed. Annoyingly smart. You can get him on YouTube. Can we get you on YouTube, Pat? You can get them on YouTube reviewing toys, but also on his podcast. All right. Leading social media company is going to end the market research program.

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It's everywhere. Chicago. Wait until you hear. the latest from the mayor of Lamar South Carolina. Oh, no. It was, this is a hate crime that will go down in the history books of hate crimes. Oh, no. It's pretty tragic.

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She's the mayor of Lamar, South Carolina. She's the volunteer mayor. I don't know what that means. Do you just... I think that means she calls herself the mayor, but isn't actually the mayor. I have a feeling that could be it, or everybody just stands around.

It's like, anyway, want to? do this job? I do. All right. Anyway, she says she was a victim of a hate crime after she found yellow sticky substance that had been sprayed on her car early last month. McPherson had returned to her home February 7th and told Newsweek magazine that her husband went out to get some things out of the garage and the car. They had both left their car outside of the garage. night before and he came in and said somebody has painted our cars she went out she said it was a grainy substance like an industrial spray foam used to patch concrete uh news in like a like a swastika well i mean newsweek said it looked like little pebbles and the stuff was also on her husband's

car mcpherson told newsweek she said it was a hate crime because number one there is a history of racism in our little town of Lamar, which I think you want, I think you want the mayor of Lamar going out and saying, oh, you know, when do you think of Lamar, think hate crimes? I think you move it right over to the Tourism Bureau, right? Because that's really nice. By the way, that's not how our justice system works. I don't know if anyone understands that. Yeah.

You know what? Well, there was a crime in this town 50 years ago, so that must mean this is a hate crime today. So she says it's a hate crime because number one history. during the 70s crosses were burned in the yards of our home when my mother was involved with the civil rights movement. It's the very same corner in this very same front yard. So it happened in the 1970s. And it was on the same location.

So I think if it's only a few decades and it's the same corner, you automatically assume it's a hate crime. Her statement noted the incident happened last night. My husband and I and our neighbor noticed that the car looked like someone had spray painted both of our vehicles, which were parked right in our front yard. She said, it ignited the same fear in my spirit. My God, who would do that, I thought. It was something, it was unnerving to me. And while no words or symbols were drawn with the substance, she told the magazine, to me, hate was the message.

Newsweek said McPherson had no possible motives for a person or people targeting her. She said, I really have a good reputation. I've never been subjected to something like this. Now, she called the sheriff. The sheriff came. Sheriff's office Lieutenant Robbie Kilgo told Newsweek that when they were called out, there wasn't a reason for us to collect a sample because it was pollen. It wasn't even paint?

She had left her car, which was normally in the garage. Ah. Outside. And it was pollen. Now. So she got pollen on her car and reported a hate crime? Yeah. Well, who would do that?

It was a sticky yellow substance that was covering both. her and her husband's car. Right, but again, like, why would you, there wasn't a swastika, obviously. What was the, 1970, they were burning crosses. On that corner. You're saying that they're not going to put a pollen-like substance on her car? Look, she knew. I am saying that.

Although, who knows, Mother Nature might be wearing a hood. You don't know. We don't know. You don't know. McPherson has said she does have another possible suspect. in mind. Wait, she's still sticking with this? After the pollen thing? You don't know the rest of the story. There was a police officer, unnamed. There was a police officer who came to me and said, quote, there are rumors out there that someone's trying to assassinate you. So she has asked local

law enforcement to file a complaint about the death threat as well as the yellow sticky stuff that the police strangely didn't want to take a sample of. So she thinks the police are doing this to her. No, they just are turning their eyes away from somebody who is spraying pollen all over her car. She said, I don't care about my car anymore. What I want is my life. So there's your volunteer mayor. So she is, after the pollen analysis, is sticking by the Hays.

crime thing. Well, because it wasn't an analysis. The police came and they ran their fingers on the car and her husband even says, yeah, it looks like it was pollen. They ran the fingers on the car. The other neighbors also have reported

a strange yellow sticky substance on their cars when they leave it out at night. But she is I should say. I mean, she thinks it was something else and she thinks she knows who did it. But there's this rumor out that somebody's trying to assassinate her and she doesn't care anymore

about the car she wants to know who's trying to assassinate her so we have a rumored assassination of a volunteer mayor yeah okay yes uh-huh yes this is now you might think that that has gone too far that our society has gone over the deep end but then i bring you this story Jareth Nebula 33 has shunned human genders and now wants to be accepted as something else. 33 year old, a 33 year old who was born a woman but transitioned to become a man when she was 29 and then became a he, now believes he doesn't fit into either gender. And in fact, he has had his nipples removed. Always a good move, by the way.

You just don't need them. People don't understand this. You just don't need them. They're like the tonsil. Just remove it whenever your first chance. Your first chance is to just take those things off. You just don't need them. I mean, no Barbie or Ken doll has them.

I mean, how do they live? Right? You know, I mean, like, oh, this is magically they're the only people who don't need nipples? No, no one needs them. Amen, brother. Amen. So he has taken his nipples off and shaves his eyebrows because those things make him feel human. He claims now that he belongs to another planet.

I tend to agree. I tend to agree as well. He's now living alone. and wants people to... Wait, what? That's a stunning development. Yeah, no. He's...

Well, there's nobody else like him. You know, on this planet, right. Yeah, there are many like him in the universe, but not a lot like him. So, anyway, he has... He just wants people to accept who he is, and he would prefer if everybody call him a thing or it rather than he or...

or she. Now he... That's the least we can do for this nipolis. He or it has legally changed its name four years ago after coming out as transgender. He said, it said, I firmly believe at that time that I finally found myself. But then I was wrong. I wasn't male. I wasn't female.

I wasn't even human. I don't think or feel like humans. I can't really explain it to others because I'm simply otherworldly. But I didn't feel comfortable as either gender or anything in between. I know I'm stuck in a human form and that's how I'm perceived by others, but I am an alien without a gender. Gerath says he didn't fit in when he was diagnosed with EDS, which is a life. lung condition affecting connective tissue and resulting in stretchy skin and an increased range of

joint mobility. He was born with this condition, but not diagnosed until he was 26. He has been nicknamed Mr. Elastic, which has got to hurt. I'm just, I'm upset they're calling him Mr. That's what I mean. I mean, geez. You can call it. It, Elastic.

Elastic. He was nicknamed Mr. Elastic by his doctors. Due to his stretchy skin, a condition that causes him chronic pain, he said it's one benefit that he has as an alien because his skin is wrinkle-free and it makes him appear younger than he really is. Now, I don't know, no word yet on how old he really is. He may be thousands of years old. Fair point. um, uh, Gerath does not want to disclose his birth name. He said the can, it's birth name. It's sorry, it's birth name. Uh, now I realize it says why I could pop my, uh,

joints out on purpose. It was a fun party trick as a kid. Uh, but that happens to me, not because of EDS, but because I'm an alien. If you are any, Democratic presidential candidate running in 2020. Why? What other reaction is there to this than, well, that's just wonderful. And I accept him for what he says he, it, sorry, what it says it is, an alien with stretchy skin and the ability to disconnect all joints at any time because he's thousands of years old.

And I mean that seriously, it really is what their stance, would have to be. Why on earth would you accept a man transitioning to a woman and just by a feeling in their head, as I believe Ellen described it, gender is just a feeling that you have in your head. If this person has a feeling in its head that it is an alien,

why wouldn't you accept it? No, you'd have to. You have to. To be consistent, you have to accept that that is what it is. says it is. Now here's the question. Is it, is it more compassionate to just to go along and call her who transitioned to him and is now it? So call her it. Is it more compassionate to go, you know what? Yep, you're from outer space. You're in it. And you should have your nipples

removed. And you should do all of these crazy things to your body. You should, you should, you should do that is that more compassionate or is it more compassionate say you you there there there there is you need help you need help you need help and and then there is therapy that can possibly help you i can understand that you really feel this way because i really i really understand i've had clinical depression and i know the power of the mind and what the mind can do, but the more you think you're an otherworldly alien, the more you will believe you're an otherworldly alien, and that's not healthy.

So your question is, is hate more compassionate? Is what you just did, which was hate, more compassionate? Right. I'm more... Well, the next thing you know, I'm going to say that on the radio, the next thing you know, I'm going to be taking pollen and spraying it all over his car. That's true.

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As we've had a conversation about it, the undocumented space traveler who is here, formerly a man, and previous to that, a woman. but really the entire time and it. Let me run this one by you. This is a story about Brendan Johnson. Brendan Johnson is an 18-year-old senior wrestler

from the classical academy in Colorado. He was going for the state championship in wrestling, and he had a good shot at winning the actual state championship. Got to, I think, to the final four. And his matchup in the final four was a girl. and so he decided to forfeit the match rather than wrestle a girl. And he said it was because of his faith. He said he's never wrestled a girl since he picked up the sport in seventh grade.

And he said the physical aggression required in wrestling isn't something he's comfortable showing toward a girl on or off the mat. Wow. Wow. What does a social justice warrior do? I know. because, I mean, we're told that men are so, I mean, basically, the Me Too movement has proved one thing, that all men abuse all women at all times. And all women cannot protect themselves because they just do not have the power and the stamina against a man. But they can do anything a man can do. Of course, like wrestle. Right. So now, you kind of feel, it's a weird one because it's not the opposite. The opposite is, I think, really problematic where a male is,

is quote unquote transitioning to being a female and then beating up on women in the women's wrestling. Correct. Which is happening. Which is happening. And that is something that's happening around the country. They don't have a women's wrestling division here. So she has decided she wants to just go play in the men's and compete naturally in the men's division or the boys division.

So it's not one of those things where a guy is trying to take advantage of some transgender thing to win or to go. beat up on women, which is for some reason acceptable. And the other way, though, it is she's trying to compete. And she, you know, her point is, the whole time I've wrestled, it's just me trying to prove her point that I'm just a wrestler. I'm not a male or female wrestler. And so the fact that my gender is something that kind of holds me back is still a little nerve-wracking, but I respect his decision.

It's fine. So I can, you know, you almost, like if a, I feel like in a physical sport like this, the lines are a little bit different. But if a woman wanted to go play in men's tennis and there was no female tennis division, I mean, I don't think a guy would have any problem, you know, beating her handily, as, by the way, I mean, has happened in the pros. Yeah, hasn't that happened with Serena? Venus and Serena Williams played. I think the guy was ranked like 215th in the world.

This is when they were at their peak. Right. And he dispatched with both of them very easily. And he also said he went out drinking the night before. just to prove a point. The whole, because we have this romanticized idea of Billy Jean King playing a guy who I think was, you know,

I mean, he was like 70 at the time. You know, like this idea that women can compete in men's tennis. I mean, it's been thoroughly at this point, at least at this time. Debunked.

However, this is an interesting situation. She's trying to compete. She made it pretty far in the tournament. I mean, if I was the father of this boy, I would be so, proud of the way he was looking at this.

The fact that he just is so against showing any aggression towards a woman, he's going to give up. And that's what he did. He lost. He forfeited the match. He gave up his chance at a state championship, something he had worked years and years and years and years to try to achieve. Just because he didn't want to show aggression to a woman, I would be incredibly proud. Where's the justice in that? But where's the justice? Where is the justice in there? You're listening to Glenn Beck.

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They really are. Please run. Oh, please, Hillary. I mean, I just, she is just so out of touch. But then again, all of them are. All of them are. And the media. is out of touch.

Listen to this. This is from Akazio-Cortez. She was asked to denounce Maduro. Now, listen to what she said. What are your thoughts on the Venezuelan crisis that's happening right now? If you would denounce the Maduro regime. Yeah. So I think that this is absolutely a complex issue.

I think it's important that we approach this very carefully. One, I am, myself, just like anyone else, is absolutely concerned with the human. humanitarian crises that's happening. And I think it's important that any solution that we have centers the Venezuelan people and centers the democracy of Venezuelan people first. I am very concerned about U.S. interventionism in Venezuela, and I oppose it, especially when we talk about a figure like U.S. Special Envoy, Elliot Abrams, here. I think he's pled guilty to several crimes related to Iran-Contra.

And I don't think that we should be, you know, I am generally opposed to U.S. interventionism as a principle, but particularly under this administration and under his leadership, I think it's a profound mistake. So it's a profound mistake. I bet the people who are living under that socialist utopia love you for that. I bet the people in Venezuela love that.

You know, the socialists, they all told us that Venezuela was the model. Now they're claiming it's not really socialism. That's one of my favorite things about this one. Because it all, you know, it's easy to go back and say, well, the Soviet Union did it wrong. It's easy to say that. They were all on record saying Venezuela was doing it right. They were going to visit Venezuela and say what a wonderful example it was for us to follow.

And now that it's collapsing, now they're saying, well, you don't understand. the distinction. And we went over some of the myths about socialism, where one of them is, it's myth number four on the list is, when socialism is tried, it collapses. And they say, communism certainly failed, but social democracy, which is different than democratic socialism. Well, no, I know, the words are in different orders. Just so you know, the difference between a social democracy or a democratic socialist country is that the leadership hasn't backed themselves into a corner far enough to where they have to suspend voting. And that's what happens with Maduro, right?

Right. He was, as you point out. Democraticly elected. Bus driver. Mm-hmm. Guy who pulled himself up from his bootstraps. And the socialist loved him. Oh, yeah.

All the socialists loved him. The Chavez people loved him. He was very, very popular. He was the guy. And then when it all started to come crumbling down, what happens? Oh. He suspends election. or in his case, he just buys the elections.

One of his, one of his slogans in the poor areas was roughly translated into you give, I give. Meaning you vote for me, I'll give you food. Okay. This was an absolute corrupt election. And now everybody is using that to say, oh, well, this isn't socialism. This isn't democratic socialism. No, this is the way Democratic socialism always ends. And again, Marx was very clear that socialism was just a pit stop on the way to communism.

And democratic socialism is just a pit stop on the way to socialism. And social democracy is just a pit stop on the way to democratic socialism. And the Democratic Party of today is just a pit stop on the way to social democracy. It's progressivism. They're just moving this and they're going towards that goal. And eventually, if they get their way, they're. we'll get all the way there. Let me ask you this. Let me ask you this. Are the Democratic socialists happy? Are they done in England? No. Okay. The Democratic socialists say we want the National

Health Service like we have in England. Well, they're not happy about it in England because it hasn't gone far enough. Are the Democratic Socialists happy in France? No. No. They're not happy anywhere. They're not happy anywhere because they haven't gone far enough. Right. And this is the thing when, because they mock this. I think even in this piece, you know, they mock about how people, you know, back in the day, people said Medicare was socialism. Well, guess what? Medicare was a step towards Obamacare.

And Obamacare is a step towards Medicare for all. And Medicare for all is a step towards Canada's health system. And Canada's health system is a step towards Britain and on and on and on. These are all just little incremental steps, progressive steps towards an end. And every single play, I mean, it's so, it's so laughable now, Glenn, because these things are happening so quickly. The current system that every single 2020 Democrat is saying is a must, is a must for our society, Medicare for all, is to replace a system they told us eight years ago was the solution. They told us Obamacare was going to fix these issues.

And one president later, they are telling us we must go to single payer health care. When we said at the beginning, this is just a Trojan horse for single payer. And then the Tides Foundation was kind enough to point out, it's not a Trojan horse for single payer. I'm just telling you it's right there. And we will get there. And we were called conspiracy theorist for saying that and playing that audio. Now they're calling us a conspiracy theorist for saying, wait a minute, you have Democratic Socialists,

you have Akazzo Cortez saying capitalism's not going to be around forever. You have Democratic Socialists saying their goal is to stop all capitalism. And now we're supposed to believe. but just so you guys know, you're a conspiracy theorist, if you ever think they're going to go one half of a pace past this position, we just saw they changed our entire healthcare system, told us it was the solution, the next president in his first term, by the way,

they're telling us we have to scrap that system to give you another system, Medicare for All, which not one of them would even co-sponsor in 2013. Not one of the only Bernie Sanders would do it in 2013. All of them. All of them claimed that it was racist to say someone was socialist. Now they're all claiming that they're socialist. But when we say, yes, finally, what do they say? Well, you misunderstand what socialist means.

Right. This is, no. No, we don't. We don't. The Democratic Socialists of America themselves have come out and said they are not looking to be Sweden. Sweden itself has come up. The prime minister of Sweden flew to America to hold a press conference to say, by the way, we're not a socialist nation.

We have a giant welfare state on top, but we are a free market economy. Okay. Now, if anybody wants to live like Sweden, you should probably look into it. In Sweden, you don't get to do what you want. You don't get to live where you want. everybody's not nobody's living in a 5,000 square foot home you're not living like that you're living in a little teeny apartment it's a it's a country of about what 10 million people up until recently all white there's no diversity in in Sweden until recently as soon as they started taking

immigration in now they say well there's no unemployment problems in Sweden no there there wasn't any unemployment problems. It's down to, I think, point four, to four percent unemployment for white people, 20 percent for immigrants. Well, it doesn't seem like your socialist utopia is working, does it? Why? Because there are people that do not want to be Swedish. They don't want to join in and be part of the club. Well, that's the problem with America. America starts to fall apart when people say, I want to celebrate our differences only. And I don't want to rely on what's bringing us together, this idea of America. There has never been a country like America, ever.

If you think that this country is screwed up, go to a country where they're all from there, always been there. It's always been like this. Everybody thinks alike. nobody's really speaking another language because their parents and their grandparents and their great, great, great, grandparents and everybody's parents and great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great. You can trace them all back from Germany and then Garden of Eden. You look at those places. They are just as screwed up, if not more.

And yet we have taken all of the immigrants. No country is as diverse as the United States of America. and it is worked. You can't replicate Sweden's successes here, whatever they are. And again, what are they? The average living, new living arrangement for someone in Sweden, they live in 902 square feet. 902 square feet is the average new home, quote unquote, home in Sweden. Now, I lived in a 900 square foot apartment in Tampa, Florida when we lived down there in Brandon, Florida.

at the time I was making $32,000 a year. And well, you know what? It was a nice apartment and I liked it. And, you know, it was not a bad life. However, the average new home in the United States right now is 2,687 square feet. So if you want a Swedish-style country, because everyone's being taxed at 70%, you can have a country in which everyone lives in a moderate-sized apartment, even when you've come to the peak of your earnings life. you can have that world. It does exist throughout Europe.

The Washington Post describes it as the single most successful modern ideology or political movement, social democracy or democratic socialism. They say communism certainly failed, but social democracy has arguably been the single most successful modern ideology or political movement. Where? Europe? They say Europe at post-World War II, fast growth rates, and they go over some of that stuff. Excuse me. Yeah. They, we rebuilt Europe.

Yes. With what money? Their's? Our money. And they didn't have to pay for a military. Can you imagine if the United States didn't have to pay for its own military how fast we could have grown? Oh, my gosh. We still outpaced them while we rebuilt them and we provided their military.

Yeah. And let's not also ignore. the fact that the United States wins basically every Nobel Prize for invention, except for Israel. Israel is up there with us. Israel does well, especially per capita. But we innovate everything with our capitalist system. Yes.

Then those inventions with American companies get spread around the world. Those countries aren't doing the research on those things. Those countries aren't developing these things. They take advantage of what we've created. And good for, I want that to be the system. I want them to take advantage of the things that we've created. It's a great system. It's why billions of people have been pulled out of poverty.

But let's not ignore where that came from. It came from here, not social democracy. Social democracy lives on the back of us. Without us, it collapses. It is, it is, we, they are a parasite on us in a lot of ways. In a good way, by the way. I'm glad that this occurs. Symbiotic.

Symbiotic parasite. How's that? Yeah, I don't think that's a bad thing. Parasite has a bad connotation. A lot of people, a lot of species survived this way. Yes. It's not a bad thing. It's not hurting us.

I think it's improving us the fact that we have to do all these things and, and these innovations wind up being carried around the globe, ripping again, billions of people out of poverty. We've solved so many things that seemed completely unsolvable just a couple decades ago. If America disappeared overnight. So does social democracy. You know what? it turns into democratic socialism and then socialism and then communism because they will without us without uh the success that they have which again is largely based on innovations

that we have created in the united states and these countries are they pay for them but they don't have to pay for the entire research phase when they're created they say oh we should buy those things in fact they don't pay for a lot of the research we still pay the highest price for our own products, our own prescriptions. Yeah. We are the wealthiest 1%. And so we pay the highest rate because we're the ones paying for all of the invention. The rest of the world gets it discounted.

And they're the most successful. It just shows how blind and stupid the people are in the press that write these things or how much of an agenda that they are a part of. I mean, it's one of the two. You're either stupid and blind or you are a useful idiot and you know exactly what you're doing. All right. I want to talk to a little bit about Liberty Safe. If you need something that is protected, guns, prescription medicine, you want to make sure that what you have in pictures, et cetera, et cetera, never taken, never stolen, never burned down in a fire, never lost in a tornado.

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Such ominous rhetoric isn't exactly new. I want to take this story and share this with you because they make our point exactly. And for some reason, you have to live in this delusional world to not see that you're engaged in newspeak and double speak. But first, we want to stop at a happy place. How to talk to your family if you're politically split into. You're listening to Glenn Beck. Well, you can get that 900 square foot apartment anywhere you want. Or you can, of course, go with real estate agents I trust and get a 2,687 square foot home.

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Hey, what do you say we take a break from the world that we're supposed to be in? The world where we have to worry about every tweet and every remark and judge whether it's racist or homophobic. or whatever. But what do you say we'd just be people for a minute? If you have a hard time in your own family coming together, if you have friends that you miss and you want to come back together, we're going to share a story of two people who did just that. And we'll do it in one minute.

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So Dave Isay is a friend of the program and he is the founder and president of StoryCorps. And StoryCorps is this amazing thing that usually runs on NPR. And it's, to me, it's tragically sad because it tells an American story. And like everything else, the country is divided. And so we have these, we have these American stories and they become the stories of the left or American stories become the stories of the right. No, they're American stories. And Dave has been strong enough to, um, my own. Make an appointment with me, I don't know, about six months ago and say,

Glenn, we're starting something new and we really want to invite your audience to participate in this. So it's, it is a truly an American story because we have to start listening to each other. And I welcome Dave, I say, to the program. Dave. Glenn, great to be back. Yeah, thanks. What story are you going to share with us today? I think we're, we're sharing today the, as you said, StoryCorps.

has been around for 15 years. And for half a million people who know and love each other have come and recorded an interview with one another. And we started very recently what I came to talk to you about, this project, one small step, where we're bringing people across the political divides into a StoryCorps booth where these interviews go to the Library of Congress so your great, great, great grandkids

can get to know you through your voice and story, building people, bringing people across the divides to the booth. just to remember that, that we're people, we're just people. And I think, Dave, the secret to this is perhaps that it is being recorded for the Library of Congress, and nobody wants to be remembered as being a jerk 150 years from now. That's exactly right. I mean, I think part of the secret sauce here is that it's in so many ways the opposite of Twitter,

because you realize that, you know, this is how your great grandchildren are going to hear you. So you want to be your best self. And that's who, you know, that's who we are. We're born, you know, one of the lessons of StoryCorps is the basic, you know, goodness of people and how similar we all are to one another. So this is, I thought I'd play a very early one small step test interview today. And this is, this is from Boston. And it's a 29-year-old woman named Jen Stanley, who's a writer and her father, Peter, who works in construction, who's conservative. And they came together. We're focusing now on strangers in one small step, but this was a family

interview just to see what would happen, what could happen when we put family members together in this safe space to feel free to have a thoughtful and honest conversation. Here it is. I try to not bring up politics, but you always watch five o'clock news. And the minute any politician steps on, it doesn't matter who it is. I just cringe. You too. Yeah. But you have to say something, whereas I would like to just. pretend it's not happening. But maybe the answer is we don't watch the news when you're there.

Maybe. But now I feel like we've gotten to this point where we're together and we're fighting about politics. And those would be the times when I hear you say, I can't even talk to you, dad. If you're going to get so angry and flip out about it, then you know what? I'd rather you didn't talk to me. But see, this is what drives me crazy, though. You start these conversations. Well, I ask questions. What do you think about this? And what do you think about that? It's me trying to glean information from somebody who is significantly more educated than I am and whose opinions I trust. I'm really surprised to hear you say that. I had no idea that you were genuinely interested in what I had to say. I thought that you wanted to tell me how I was wrong and also make a joke about

how I was silly. Well, I would never feel that way about you. I have nothing but respect for you. I don't agree with you all the time. I don't agree with you most of the time, but that's okay. We have a lot of things in common And I do know that everything you did when you were a little kid Was because you wanted to be like me You even played softball Which you hated because I loved baseball I did really hate it

I know, you know, I didn't I mean, I just really worshipped you, dad I just thought that like everything that you thought and said was right And you were just my best friend But I think as I got older I realized that you were really wrong about a lot of things Well, you're probably right, Jen. I never professed to be right about everything.

The important thing in our relationship is that you have your own beliefs and that I respect you for your beliefs. You were raised to be a sensitive, caring person, and that's exactly who you are. You say that, and I feel loved, but I will say, I think you used to like me, and I don't necessarily know that you like me anymore. Oh, yeah, I like you a lot. It doesn't make me feel good that you say that. I don't agree with everything you say you do. But do I like you? Yeah, you bet I do.

And I'm extremely proud of you. You know, when my time comes to say, yeah, my father was a good man, we didn't agree politically, but he was a good man. And if you can say that, then I'll be happy. I don't think that you're right all the time, but I think you're the best man. Well, thanks. And you're the best dad. I bet there's a lot of people that are suffering with this and wish they could heal the divide.

Let me ask you this, Dave. I noticed that their language was very different. He never said she was wrong. He said over and over again, I don't agree with you on everything. but she she said several times and it and it struck me you know I found out that you're very wrong on things um did you notice that and is there is there something to learn from that language you know I didn't notice that um you know I think what's happening is is that it's two people who are not, who are having a conversation that they haven't had before. And, you know, it could flip.

You could have, you could have the conservative person using that language and the liberal person not. I think it just happens to be the dynamic in their ages. But, but what, you know, what striking to me is. Do you know which one is which? Oh, yeah. Okay. Yeah. So the dad is conservative and the daughter is liberal. But one of the cool things about these one small step, interviews actually is that there are when you when you listen in on these and we ask people not to talk about politics you know that what all this all this is about is that mother teresa line we've forgotten that we belong to each other just seeing the humanity and people who we disagree with and and i actually think of um i think of the culture of you know you you got to this you know a minute ago in the intro was stew the culture of fear and disgust and division represents and i don't know if

you agree with me on this but i've come to think especially in the last couple of months it's potentially an extinction level threat toward democracy. Oh, I agree with you. And I think that, you know, it's our job like with smoking. You know, smoking at one point was thought of as cool and sexy. And now being, you know, kind of being at each other's throats is considered cool and hip. And I think that in the same way, we have to start looking at the way we're treating each other in this country as less than human, as extremely dangerous and not okay. But if you listen into many of these conversations, you will have no idea who's on what side.

They're just people talking to each other in a way that you never hear anymore, which is just being human with each other. How do people get involved in this? So we're still testing. We're hopefully going to go and really start scaling this thing over the next six months. but come to StoryCorps, which is S-T-O-R-Y-C-O-R-P-S-O-P-S-O-S-E-R-P-S-E-R-P-S-E-S-E-S-E-R-P-S-E-R-S-E-R-E-S-E-R-E-R-S-E-E-R-N-E-L-E-R-E-R-E-R-E-R-E-L-E-R-E-R-E-L-R-E-R-E-R-E-R-E-R-R-E-L-E-R-R-E-R-L-E-R-L-R-R-L-E-L-L- this to the country and, you know, again, just try and take one small step towards one another again. Dave, thank you so much. Glenn, thank you for having me out.

You bet. Dave, I say, I'll talk to you next month. You got it. He's the founder and president of StoryCorps, and you can follow it at storycore. All office chairs are not the same. And I have to tell you, I have the greatest staff in the world. We sent a, I had a X chair sent to the studios in Washington, D.C. And those guys, when they found out that I wasn't going to be able to make it to the studios, they sent it down to the floor of CPAC. Oh, my gosh, is that a comfortable chair? Oh, that's great. It is just such a comfortable chair.

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No, they're saying now they're a, what was it, a mile wide? They're saying the devastation was a mile wide for this thing, 170-some-on-miles an hour, wind. You know, I mean, it's killed 23. Yeah, it's a couple dozen people. And I think it's, you know, And they still think it's probably going to go a little higher. They say all 23 victims now have been identified, and they're hoping that it's not going to go anymore. But the youngest victim was six years old. I mean, brutal. You just look at this just an entire town is just completely wiped out.

It's crazy. Tornadoes are, you know, I've lived all over the country. I've lived in the Seattle area when Mount St. Helens went off. Eh. You know, as long as you're not living on the mountain or where a lot. Lava can flow. I've not lived in California. Earthquakes and mud slides.

I've lived through an earthquake before. Scare the hell out of you. I think tornadoes are the worst. You never know when they're coming, right? They, there's not, you know, because like hurricanes are a big thing. You know, we lived in Florida and, you know,

hurricanes were a threat. You have time. But you at least have a warning. And it can be very devastating, but at least you have a warning to get out of the way. There's, especially when they come at night, a tornado coming at night. I mean, you don't even have any more close to an opportunity to do anything about it.

You just hunker down and hope and pray. And, you know, that's all you can do. They're so scary. My kids are so afraid of because the tornado sirens will go off probably once a year near our house. Sometimes they've gone off, I think, three times in a season. And scares the hell out of the kids. Just scares the hell out of the kids. just scares the hell out of them.

Do you have a like separate shelter type of situation? We have one. We have one in the house. But it's not a, you know, it's not like a bomb shelter, but we can go underneath the house, which is where you're supposed to go. But it's, it's terrifying. It's terrifying. People who have built shelters that, because I looked into a shelter and I was like,

you know, we'll build one right outside the house. They said, don't build it outside of the house. Because if you build it outside of the house, you will go in. one time and then you'll sit there and you'll wait maybe two times but you're going to get wet going out of the house going into the shelter and then what you eventually do is you're like well you know what we'll wait until it gets really bad yeah and then it's too late um you know it's interesting the documentary twister um that many people know this you know it shows um the idea that you could just hold on to a pipe in the middle of a field as you're getting hit by an f5 tornado sure not

actually the case. Not actually the case. Now, I know you saw... What if you're following it with ping pong balls? Well, that's okay. You can definitely do that. That is definitely how they study. Okay, good.

And Philip Seymour Hoffman is somehow still always there. Yeah. But it just doesn't seem like it's one of those things that necessarily is a good idea. They were talking to a couple who was hit by a tornado like this several years ago, survived it. And they were saying that we, that's what we did.

We just tried to hold on. something and it doesn't matter how hard you hold onto it. It just takes you and throws you across and they actually were thrown in the air and survived it, which is incredible. I mean, when you think about it, you think of that, I mean, that's the thing about tornadoes that are so difficult. We had those tornadoes a couple of years ago that were really devastating that we talked about.

And for those out there chanting global warming at their radios, there is no trend. In fact, there's a slight decrease in the trend and the amount of tornadoes that are hitting our country over the past 100 years. So that's a BS talking point in case you happen to be interested in that. But you look at a town that is completely devastated and dozens of people die. And then they show drone footage. They zoom out. And the streets right next door are completely fine.

Oh, it's crazy. It is insane how localized it can be. Yeah. And honestly, you're, you know, the number one defense against tornadoes is statistics because it's unlikely you're going to get hit by one. Unless you live in Moore, Oklahoma. But even if you live in Moore, Oklahoma, I mean, you know, your chances are low that you're going to get hit.

But it seems to always get hit. Why, it's a little teeny town. Why, it always forms over more Oklahoma. When I went to see more when it was really devastated the last time, we went out and did you go with me, Stu? No, I did not. So I went out and we drove all night to get there to get supplies and water and, you you know, everything else.

And we got there. And on one side of the street, complete and total devastation, nothing was left. And my grandfather used to talk. He grew up in Iowa, I think. And he said tornadoes used to come through. And he said they would, the winds were so strong that they would drive straw and drive them into the telephone poles. And sides of barns would have straw. sticking out of it.

And I found that so hard to believe and understand growing up. And when I went to Moore, it had taken the house across the street and made it into a pulp and sprayed right across the street, sprayed this whole side of this movie theater with this pulp that was somebody's life just a few minutes before. And everything on that side of the street was fine, except it was covered in this two-inch of pulp that was a house. I mean, it's incredible to see the power of these things. Yeah, more Oklahoma has been hit by, I mean, depends on how you calculate major, right?

But since 1999, they had one in 1999 that killed 36 people, injured 583. Then 2003 had a tornado that injured 134. 2010 had a tornado that killed two, injured 49. 2013 had a tornado that killed 24 and injured 212. I think that's the one I was at. Yeah, that's probably the one you were at. That was, I mean, I remember that one. But I mean, that's since 1999, four major, you know, tornadoes.

Why? Why? If the insurance company's giving you money, why wife live in more Oklahoma? Why? But again, like, look at this. You're talking, I mean, I don't know the population of more off the top of my head, but you're talking about 62 people in 20 years that died from tornadoes. Still, but you have a tornado coming through. I mean, how many tornadoes have you had? I've never had a tornado come anywhere in my town since we've lived here. I don't think that's, I mean, there've been, maybe not in your town, but in our area, they have been.

We're talking about town, two, three, four, five, six, seven. There's been eight since 1999. nine. And I will say one, two, three, three of them were very minor F-Zero or if ones. There's an F-2 as well. So, I mean, really, they've had four major since the 20 years. I'd like to live in a town with zero. Well, yes. Of course, zero is the right number. I get it, but if you love your town, you know, how about one? How about two? How about not as much as more Oklahoma? You're listening to Glenn Beck.

It's not a crazy point. Listen, if you're living in Moore, Oklahoma, real estate agents, I trust, you can go there and they will help you sell your home. They'll help you sell your home for the most amount of money, but you have to do it when everybody's kind of lulled into this false sense of hurricanes, tornadoes. What? What tornado in this area? We've learned three keys of success. Selling or buying a home, very complicated. So you have to have somebody who has a long track record and really knows what they're doing.

Second, they have to know the market value because algorithms won't work. You have to actually know the neighborhood. You have to know how much the houses are going for in that area and what your specific house can get. So it's priced right. And you have to trust them. That's why we have real estate agents. I trust.com. Let us introduce you to the right real estate agent to sell your home fast and for the most amount of money.

Real estate agents I trust.com. BlazTV.com slash Beck is the place to go to get the Glenn Beck program. Pat Gray, Mark Levine, Stephen Crowder. Use the promo code Beck and get $10 off. So Stu and I are having an argument now about the safest place to live. And I say it's, you know, my town, Mount Vernon, Washington, or Bellingham, Washington, where I grew up. And he's like... And you were wrong, completely wrong.

It's third. Third best. In the country. Because you were like, what? Come on, it has extreme weather. Every place has something. No, there's no extreme weather in Washington State. There's no extreme weather.

It's just always rainy. Always. Always. It gets some snow. It gets below 32 degrees in Washington. So it gets four inches of snow. Once in a while, once in a blue moon and you get 12 inches of snow. That's a lot.

It's very slippery. Everybody just stays at home. Then it melts. We even get snow here. I know. Yeah, actually, they list Dallas. as the worst in the nation. The what?

Yeah, they say lots of every, lots of almost everything but quakes. They have twisters, hurricane remnants, hail, wind, drought, and floods. Yeah. No mudslides. You know what, guys,

you shouldn't move to Texas. I guess that's the, that's the answer. Especially if you're from California. But yeah, no, it's the southeast. There's just really the biggest problem. I mean, I remember, you know,

look, I moved here for the weather, mainly. Forget you and your stupid show. I came here because of the weather. We did not do our research on weather. I just listen to God. Where should we move? I did plenty of research about weather before coming here.

And I love it. I love the weather here. I hate the weather here. Why? It's either cold or hot. It has like one day we're, we'll have it in probably April or May where it's like, oh my gosh, open the windows. It's beautiful. This Friday, the highest seven.

79. And then tomorrow, the next day, it could be 40. It could be. Yeah. It could be a lot of things, Glenn. But it usually is. It's very cold here now. It's like in the 30s right now.

Yeah. And then it gets, so it goes from cold without really snow or anything. If you have anything extreme, it's ice. That's not fun. Without any, there's no sanding for the roads. They don't have a salt truck. They have nothing. If it has ice on the road,

stay home or you're dead until the sun comes out. And it could be 80 the next day. It still could be 12. And then in the summer, it's like a hundred and, you know, 102, 103 with humidity. This is a mass misstatement of fact here. No. If he's this accurate on, I might,

I might vote for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for president if this is your level of analysis. because, you know, look, it's much better here in the winters than it was up north. You don't get the cold. I mean, you get a few days a year where it gets around 30 degrees. But that was like the best day of the freaking year. I know that. I know that.

So I'm not comparing it to New York or to the northeast. That sucks. Everybody knows that sucks. Well, that's where we moved from. Why wouldn't you be comparing it? Well, you're going to move some place. Why don't you move to someplace like Arizona where it's nice? Oh, because Arizona doesn't get hot.

That's true. No, Arizona gets hot, but the other six months out of the year, it's paradise. No, it's very nice. As long as it's warm, I could deal with it. Because I'm not moving to California, and that's perfect. I disagree. It doesn't get warm enough in California. We went out in California.

I took a vacation, a summer vacation to San Diego, which San Diego is awesome. I like San Diego. It was too cold to even go in the pool. It was like 70. Oh, what a do, I want a summer. You just don't like the wind. And you probably don't like it. It was cold.

When it's 70 degrees outside as a high temperature, it's not swimming weather. Not to me. I'm a wuss. I want it to be 95 degrees. I could just hop in the pool. It's beautiful. You get out. You go inside of the air conditioning.

The average temperature in San Diego is 77 degrees, and it is perfect. Perfect. It's got a nice breeze. I like the great day. I like the Pacific Northwest. I like the East with the West Coast where there's no humidity. You got a nice breeze going all the time. and at night, even if it's blistering hot during the day,

it's not at night. The sun goes away, and it somehow or another cools down. Here in Texas, the sun goes away, and it's still 100 degrees. You're like, what's happening here? Let me tell you why the sun goes away, because Kim Jong-un has just fired a nuclear weapon, and it can hit you. That's how it goes away. It becomes nuclear winter.

You like that? That's your option there. We're in the middle. Nobody can reach us. Nobody can get to Dallas. It's way too far from missiles. It's exactly what I'm believing for the rest of my life. You keep using the word safe.

I do not think it means what you think it means. It is actually listed as the worst. I mean, we do get tornado warnings sometimes. Hale for sure. It's a big deal here. Wind. Oh, yeah. It's really windy.

Drought, sure. Floods. Yeah. I mean, yeah. And hurricane remnants. I mean, you're stretching of hurricane remnants. It rains. It rains.

It rains. It rains. Yeah, we're not affected by. Yes. do get rain from hurricanes, but please. It helps us with the drought. What? You're complaining about everything now.

I'm a little depressed. That's why I'm taking uppers to get rid the downers. Right. Right. I mean, geez. So I don't know. I guess you're right, though. It does look like the Pacific Northwest is the place to avoid extreme weather. But then you have to deal with all the

progressives and the socialists and the crazies and the anarchists and the and the people who were rejected by California. California told most of those people, get out. You're too weird. Oh, I think it would be the reverse. No, all the rejects, all the rejects from California. It went down, like, I am just going to like live. And then they got down there and they're like, oh my gosh, this is just so fake. And so then they went up to California, went up to Oregon. And they were like, the people in Portland, they don't mean it. And so then they moved to Seattle. And, and they moved to Seattle. And,

You can't go any farther north. And that's what Canada built the wall. Yeah. That's in Canada. They got a peace arch. That bull crap that's a piece arch. That's keep your progressive hippies out of our country. That's what that is.

I don't understand. Those policies are working so well, Glenn. Like, for example, the $15 minimum wage. Huge success in Seattle. Really? Doing really well. Now, every Democratic candidate has embraced it as part of their platform, except for Bernie Sanders.

I will say Bernie Sanders said at least $15. at least. Yeah. Because that's an old school proposal. There is a new study out about New York City who got to $15 minimum wage. And there's a, and honestly, that's a city that needs one. I disagree with that completely, but I do understand what your point is and that it's expensive place. Yeah, I'm not saying that you need a minimum.

I don't believe in that. Pay the pay what you, what the market bears. But compared to, you know, Des Moines, it does not need a $15 wage. New York, it is hard to live on $15. There are places that are going to have a $15 minimum wage that that's a lot of money for that market. Right. I mean, there should not be a, we've made this point many times, should definitely not be a federal minimum wage.

I don't think minimum wages do anything for the economy or for people anyway, but at least you can argue it if you're going to customize it to an area. Right. The idea that you go to $15 minimum wage nationally is completely insane. In Washington, excuse me, in New York, The $15 minimum wage has been implemented. It's ramping up now. And as it ramps up, the New York restaurant industry has only experienced the worst decline in restaurant jobs since...

Recorded time. You'd think... Well, I mean, most people would say 2008 depression, right? We had a major recession in 2008. All employment went down dramatically. And it did go down in New York with the restaurant situation. But no, this goes back to... 9-11 for New York.

So 9-11, if you remember, half of the island. Half the island was closed. Right. That was pretty much it. And in fact, the last two, 2008 and 2001 were the last two drops. Both, of course, occurred in real recessions. Now, as of right now, we don't

think we're in a recession, although the possibility of one seems to arise in probability kind of by the day. However, this drop was more dramatic than even the 2008 financial collapse. And that's just because, you know, hey, they wanted to give a little bit more money to the average worker to make a living wage. And it made it all felt so good. Wait, how is that killing

restaurants? Well, restaurants have to pay these amounts. Yeah, they just charge more. Yeah, apparently not. Apparently that's not working out. They're just letting, they're letting people go. What? The people of New York don't want to pay more? Yeah. And I think, was it Cuomo that just came out and said, by the way, you know, here's the other side of the fun millionaire taxes we've been having. They've all left the state. All the millionaires have left, and now we're $2.4 billion short than where we thought we were going to be with tax revenue because the millionaires are ditching us and going to other states where they don't get, you know, attacked. Remember, they're talking about a millionaire tax of 70 percent. Wasn't that the exact percentage that France said that they were going to put on their millionaires?

Remember, they did this. And Girard Depardue and all these people left and went to Russia. Went to Russia. That's how bad it is. And said, fine, you're going to do that? I'm going to Russia. And they left. And it caused all kinds of misery in France.

And so they repealed it. This is the problem when your policies aim to punish the most mobile and, you know, affluent people around. They can all go wherever the hell they want. And when you tell them, we don't like what you do, they're quote unquote, shouldn't be any billionaires. Elizabeth Warren is proposing a wealth tax, which almost certainly is unconstitutional, as to basically every legal expert and constitutional expert, because, you know, the 16th Amendment specifically made it so you could not go after these types of property,

but, you know, she's going to try it anyway. Bottom line is, you keep targeting people like this. They're going to want to leave. And if you target, it's easy to target poor people, because where are they going to go? right like you could target them with a soda tax no problem that affects them oh sure you can collect all your money now of course that's also going to destroy businesses as well but at least you can you can collect your cash from the poor who want to buy their soda for cheaper prices that's a wonderful a wonderful aspiration but when you go after millionaires they just leave

you they're like the hot girlfriend when you start treating them like that crap they just go to somebody else that's why you have to crack down on them that's why you have to crack down on them that's why you have to force. Okay, Harvey Weinstein. Yeah. The government is essentially Harvey Weinstein. Exactly right. In this particular case.

Well, otherwise, I mean, we got to do it. We got to punish them. We got to keep them here. Otherwise, I mean, they just want to destroy everybody with their selfish action. I hate those bastards. ZipRecruiter with unemployment at record lows. Figuring out how to find the right employee is becoming a major headache for companies. Isn't that a great problem to have?

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I can't believe that. For instance, right now they're making a Serena Williams movie. Yeah, Serena and Venus. Yeah. And they're going to do a sort of biopoeuvre. of them. The father, they've,

looks like it's going to be Will Smith who's going to get the role. Well, does it? Does it? Is it really?

Is he the right one to play in? Well, there is some complaint about that. From, from people who say he's too light-skinned

to play Venus and Serenia's father. Now, he is black. Yes. He's just not black enough. Not black enough. Is that something that makeup could take care of

or is it actually even important? for that? No, it certainly wouldn't I mean, because, see, this is what you don't

understand. We need to judge people by the color of their skin, not the content of their character. Right. And that is something that we're doing here.

Because as the experts are pointing out, colorism matters. Sorry? Colorism matters. Colorism. Yeah. Will Smith might be a great actor,

but he's not the exact shade of skin color that is Venus Williams' father. But he is black. He is black. They didn't hide. A white guy or an Asian guy to play Will Smith.

But why not hire a white guy? It's the same thing. Same thing. I mean, isn't Will Smith white? I mean, getting juggie with it was never a term anyone outside of a white, out of a shopping mall ever used. Amen. Amen. Will 2K.

I mean, he actually did a song with like Rock the Casbah in the background, celebrating a new year. I mean, that is only something a white person would do. You know, I think that all of the casting agencies, if they don't have the color, if they have the Sherman Williams color wheel. Yes. They can just open up and go, let me see which shade exactly. That's me. I need more of a tope.

Yeah, exactly. I'm going to give you this. He was in The Legend of Bagger Vance, a movie about golf. Oh, let me just be diverse enough to allow you on this country club. Will Smith is a white guy playing a black guy in his personal life, but not able to play a black guy who's black enough to be Venus and Serena Williams' father. And I think we all know this. This is colorism at its worst.

Or it's best. Or it's best. I choose to look at it as best, do. If we're living in that postmodern world right now, this is, it's about time somebody gets that color wheel out. This is Martin Luther King's dream come true. If he could just think of a future in which black people would hold up a color wheel to other black people to see if they're black enough to play roles. That is what this man dreamed

about. It's what he fought for. It's why he walked on Washington. I have a dream that my kids can play with other kids whose skin color is exactly the right shade. Yes, that's what he said. Yeah. That's in one of his speeches. Not too dark. Not too dark. It wasn't a highly publicized speech. It was one of the lesser known chapters in the book of Martin Luther King's life. Right. but he would be thrilled, I think, that people are just looking to see, is that black actor black enough to play a black person? I don't know. You're listening to Glenn Beck.