The Glenn Beck Program - Best of the Program | 7/2/19

Episode Date: July 2, 2019

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Hey, it's Glenn Beck. Stuber here, ready for the podcast. We'll tell you about in a sec. First, Stu is getting ready for the big weekend here at the Mercury Studios for our Mercury Museum. Yeah, can't wait to check it out at the museum. We've got a touring a tour this weekend as well. You can get your tickets. I don't know if there's any left.

There might be a couple at Mercury1.org, but there's definitely tickets to get to the museum. And a lot of different tours you can take. The tickets are as low as, like, what, $10 or something? Ten bucks you can get in. I think for kids, maybe $20 for adults. But, you know, if you're two-spirit, I don't know. There may be some discount for $2.00 for $2.00. I understand it's half-priced for each spirit.

Is it? So if you're two-spirit, it's... See, I was pushing for double for two-spirit. Oh, okay. Yeah, but you went for the half-price, and I'm glad they adopted that. Half-prite for each spirit. You can find it all now at Mercury 1.org. come spend Independence Weekend and actually Independence Day, July 4th with me, at 12 score and three years ago.

Find out all about this at Mercury 1.org. Great show today. Started with a call from a member of Acacio-Cortez's staff who was there and could tell us all about the horrible brutality that Ocasio-Cortez had to go through. That really was a sad way to start the show. It was. Then we got into another sad tale of how somebody let this one slip onto the back of Nike shoes, the real story about the racist Betsy Ross flag, and why Nike should have listened to Colin Kaepernick. And there might be a little sarcasm in today's show. I don't know if we actually got to any of that. Also, the latest poll numbers and what they all mean. and how Antifa is running our cities now. Oh, and Showtime has a show on Fox,

and I guess I'm featured in the next episode, and I'm guessing it's going to be very, very flattering to me, especially since the guy from The Walking Dead, who played just an obnoxious redneck, is playing me. But all that and more on today's podcast. You're listening to The Best of the Blenbeck program. Home Title Lock says there has been a bit a new breach of 900 million homeowners files, but it's only 900 million.

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I was not safe from the officers in that facility. Do you have any comment about what was posted about you in the alleged Facebook group? I mean, I think it's just it's just indicative of the violent culture that we saw on the inside of the world. Wow, the violent culture that she just saw. She in that facility that she went to check out with all the cameras and everything else,

she was not safe. I wish there had been somebody around that might have witnessed her feeling unsafe. And I understand we have somebody who had witnessed that or couldn't explain exactly what happened yesterday because we must take her seriously. She must be believed in one minute. This is the Glymbeck program. She wasn't safe, Stu. She was not safe.

I'm glad you're aware of that. When I heard this, I thought to myself, my gosh, these Border Patrol agents are animals. They're just animals. physically and emotionally putting Akazio-Cortez in an unsafe atmosphere. And, of course, all women must be believed. And so we're going, we're shooting from the hip on that one.

We're just going to believe her and take her at her word. And we have somebody, and what is your name again? Hello? Yes. Hi, my name is Brittany. Hi, Brittany. Hi, I'm an aide to Alexander Akazio-Cortez. You are what?

I'm an aide to Alexander Accio-Cort-Cort-Haw. Okay. I was on the trip to the border. You were on the trip. I was. And what I witnessed was shocking. Was shocking. To the American people.

Okay. And so you were there when she was unsafe. She was unsafe. All right. Did you feel... From the officers? Yeah. Did you feel unsafe?

I did feel unsafe as well. Okay. All right. I was very disturbed, by the way, that the officers were threatening. Alexander Akazzochakard has. Okay. What? So how is she being threatened? She was physically abused.

She was physically abused. While at the facility. And you witnessed it. I did. Okay. There was one officer in particular who physically abused Alexander Casio Karkas. Okay. With his pupils.

With his pupils? Yes. He physically looked at her multiple times. Multiple times. And I can't. believe I had to witness it. Well, wait, but wait. Did I say the officers were doing it?

Yes, you did. Because the officers were looking at her with the pupils. Uh-huh. And at one point, she was molested with a retina. Okay. And it was not just the physical abuse. It was also mental abuse that I witnessed. How was the mental abuse?

One officer was thinking about her. repeatedly. How do you know? Thinking over and over again. Thinking about what? These officers who at other, they hurt the thoughts. The what? The thought inside of his head were about Alexander Hathiel-Cortez.

Okay, how do you know that? I was a social media post about her. Okay. This is the Holocaust. The Holocaust of social media posts occurred to Alexander Housel-Cortez. as, boy was there. And these, these Holocaust-like posts. Right.

They, they, this was assassination by meme. Assassination by meme. By meme. These, these are people who are former border agents or people who said they were former border agents or people who said they knew someone who was a former border agent. Right. Or someone who has once seen a former border agent who post memes that were negative about Alexander Carz-O cartels.

Okay, and that is the Holocaust. The Holocaust of memes, yes. Yeah, okay, so may I... One person who's a prisoner told Alexandria because of Cortez while she was there that she was recently forced to sleep on a bed of needles. On a bed of... Infected needles.

Infected bed of needles. The needles were infected by government-created HIV because they were the ones that did that. Right. I don't think so. And then this poor prisoner was carved up with a machete by a man wearing a hockey mask who was a former border agent. Okay.

I don't think any of this happened. They were put in a barrel of acid and dissolved. Okay. And only because Alexandria Kosovo Cortez was coming, did they surgically repair her? They surgically repaired her after they dissolved her. To cover what they did at the border. Okay.

So did you see the bed of needles? I did. Hello. What was that? Well, that was me rolling my window up. Just like Alexander Ocasio-Cortez does when she gets tough questions. All right. Brittany, thank you very much for the report.

I appreciate it. So she has refused to respond to claims that she saw people drinking out of toilets. I would, I, I wish you would, look, here's the thing that should happen. When I saw this report yesterday, I thought this is the most outrageous. I mean, remember, this is the woman who compared these to concentration camps. So we're lucky that she didn't say that, you know, the border guard was shoving people into showers and into ovens. But instead, she said, they're forcing people to drink out of toilets. Now, I cannot imagine this happening, but stranger things have happened, right?

I guess. Stranger things have happened than a prisoner, a supposed prisoner who's saying things about the people who are watching them, the guards. Because that never occurs. Someone who commits an offense, like crossing the border illegally, would never say something negative about Border Patrol. they should just be immediately believed without even a hint of skepticism. Right, especially that we know that a lot of the organizers are from Chicago and are communists and Marxists. So when they see their ally, Akazio-Cortez, come in,

I can't imagine anyone running to the chain link fence and saying, oh, they were forcing me to drink out of toilets. I can't imagine that happening. No, no. However, let's just take it at face value, because when somebody makes a charge like that, we should know. For instance, let's say, let me think of something that would just never happen. You were walking down the street in the middle of the night, let's say, in Chicago, and somebody said,

this is Trump country and then put a noose around somebody's neck. We should take that seriously and then figure out, did that really happen or not? It's kind of important to investigate. So when I first saw this yesterday, my first thought was, if I'm Donald Trump, I immediately dispatch the FBI and I go to Ocasio-Cortez and I seriously say to them, I don't want to show any, you know, some sort of show investigation. I want an actual investigation. We want you to investigate exactly what she said.

Then I want her to identify that. woman. We'll take that woman and we'll put her into protective custody. So there's, there's, you know, not going to be a problem with the border guards. The FBI can take her if they want and make sure that she's protected and taken care of. We want to know the description of the border guard. We want to know his name. I'm sure she remembered his badge number because if somebody was saying that, I would try to remember at least his name. And then I want a full investigation on that. And if those border guards are doing those things, I want them fired. Now, on the off chance that this didn't happen, I would like to prosecute anyone who is making

outrageous charges like this, because you just can't go in and make charges. If we're going to take every woman seriously. I think we need to start with Akosio-Cortez. Let's take her seriously. Let's send the FBI down. She felt unsafe. She felt unsafe in that facility. My gosh, let's get, let's get it on the record.

What exactly was making her feel unsafe in that facility? Now, I can't imagine that the ProPublica story that coincidentally came out at the same time she was making this charge. I can't imagine that she had prior notice of that, and this was a great way to hype that story. But let's take her at her word. I'm sure she was asked for comment considering she. she was the first person named in the story. So obviously she would know, unless pro-publica is a horrible, horrible journalism organization that decided not to get comment from the people mentioned.

It's just an amazing coincidence that she happened to be down at the border. And she felt unsafe in that facility at exactly the same time that that story was coming out. And again, what's the story exactly? I want to make sure I understand that people post bad things. online? Is that a news story? Is it? Because gosh, I've seen a lot of terrible things posted about you, but yet never one report about how awful it was. That is a, I mean, I can't believe a public figure would have nasty things posted about them on the internet. What an incredible scoop by ProPublica. Wait a minute. It was not just nasty things. They were things that made her feel

unsafe. Were they? I guess they were. I mean, she was, I don't know why she thinks that the people that she was standing near were the ones who did it. They're like, this was this, how did we know they were border guards? Well, this is a Facebook private group. And like Facebook private groups with 10,000 people, all you need to know is have an invite from someone. You could be five steps removed from a border agent and be in that group. It's like done this thing I've ever. Just so you know. And by the way, agents are people, right? Like so, yes, they also have dark humor and do bad things. There are some agents that obviously make inappropriate jokes. What world do you think you live in? This is, every conservative that has ever posted anything negative about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

in any level of critique has been accused of much worse. I don't know if you remember Ben Shapiro asking Akazio-Cortez to debate and she accused him of cat-calling, not some random person, 10 steps removed from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, but herself, she said it. She accused him of doing that because he asked for a debate on the issues. Well, I just know that Ben Shapiro has never felt unsafe from things that were said about him on the internet. Oh, no.

I have never felt unsafe ever by things that were said by people on the internet or in Facebook groups or think progress or, you know, basically from the floor of Congress. I've never felt unsafe by anything like that. We need to take her seriously. And I mean it. The president needs to investigate this story. The FBI should investigate this story.

If the border guards are doing the things in the facility, remember, she felt unsafe in this facility, how stupid does a border guard have to be to do that to a member of Congress with witnesses around? She also claims they're drinking out of toilets. I want to know, is that true? If that's true, then those border guards need to be dismissed and fired immediately. If they were doing something criminal, they should go to jail. But on the off chance that they didn't do that, we must put a stop to people making crazy

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Look for it now wherever you do. Download your favorite podcast. In news that proves we're not anywhere close to Kansas anymore, Toto. 49-year-old Roy Larner, he was defending himself against jihadist who killed eight people, injured 38 others. Now, do you remember this is the London Bridge attack two years ago? Remember the Islamist came on London Bridge? They just started slaughtering people, killing people, and this guy, 49-year-old guy, he defended himself. The attack left him with more than 80 stitches to his head, ear, arms, and hands after two of the terrorists slashed at his head and neck.

Following the attack, Lerner revealed that the terrorists had shouted, this is for Allah, Islam, Islam, Islam during the rampage. So he fights these guys off. Now, this is not like, you know, they were having a planned thing. This was a planned attack. This was not a peaceful gathering of Islamists. These were people who came on to London Bridge and just started killing people two years ago. So he was awarded the highest civilian award for gallantry. He was given the George Cross.

Seems great. So far, everything seems. great, right? Well, apparently he was contacted and interviewed by a far right-wing group.

And the man who says I'm not political at all has now been put on the government's terror watch list. The guy who fought against terrorists is now on a terrorist watch list for fears that he might become an extremist.

He is now being forced to attend de-radicalization classes and is now being monitored by the police. Could we maybe see if we can get a hold of this guy? Because, uh, they're going to make it worse for him. Now he's really not going to be. Now he's really going to be in the terrorist watch list. We're either missing something in this story or England has gone full-fledged batcrap crazy. Is it possible this guy was spotted with a Betsy Ross flag?

Because that, you want to talk about a sign of terrorists. Not on his shoes. Basically the number one sign of terrorism in the world is the Betsy Ross flag. Well, she was a horrible human being. Oh, my gosh, yes. I don't know anything really about her except she was a scene. teamstress and probably the story's not true. But I am, I am so offended by the Betsy Ross flag because it shows that you are a crazy kook. Oh, it does. I for one am glad that Nike listened to Colin

Kaepernick and pulled all those shoes from the market. Well, I mean, he has a lot of evidence that the Betsy Ross flag is basically the, you know, it's basically white supremacy. It's basically a white hood, is what I see it as. But BuzzFeed has pointed this out, by the way, and they have nailed it. Listen to the evidence piling up. It's so, it's piled so high. You can't see the top of the heap of this evidence.

Are you ready? Number one. Yes. A 2018 story by the outline noted that the Betsy Ross flag was on display in the home of a. member of a white nationalist group. Shut up. That's number one.

Shut up. And you think, well, that's more than enough to remove this historical flag. Well, that's why I have been boycotting Lucky Charms, because that white supremacist also was eating Lucky Charms. And I'm telling you right now, General Mills is a white supremacist symbol. everything General Mills makes I boycott. I don't want it on the shelves. I am telling my local grocer, you carry anything made by General Mills,

and I am out. You are a racist. Now, some people might say that's one piece of evidence. Okay, from 2018. You don't have anything from this year so far, but the year isn't, I mean, it's not over yet. Did you hear that David Duke also eat cereal from No, I was talking about the flag.

Oh. The lucky charms, there's plenty of evidence on that. Oh, I thought that was enough for me to hate the flag. There's more evidence. So 2018, one Betsy Ross flag spotted in the home of one guy who belonged to a white supremacist group. That's evidence piece number one. Number two. As if you need more.

As if you need more in 2016. Now, 2016, you might notice I skipped over 2017. There were no pieces of evidence, apparently. that the Betsy Ross flag had anything to do with white supremacy in 2017. That's what they want you to think. Or so far 2019. Let me tell you something. That's what the racist right-wing media wants you to believe.

Right-wing media like BuzzFeed. Yeah, and CNN. But in 2016, now listen to this white supremacy. Are you ready? Yeah. At a high school. High school. In Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Grand Rapids, Michigan. Which is basically, it's a hood in the, the form of the city. Let me just remind you, Grand Wizard, Grand Rapids. Uh-huh. What kind of, let me think, what kind of rapids? Whitewater Rapids. Exactly right. Commonly referred to. Everybody knows it. So it's code. It's a dog whistle. Yep. Us in 2016 students at a high school in Grand Rapids, Michigan displayed the Betsy Ross flag. Not on Cinco de Mayo. Please tell me not on Cinco de Mayo. Please tell me not on Cinco No.

Okay. Worse. Worse? Worse than that? I can't even think of that. This is becoming the flag holocaust. And you might think, wow, is there a white supremacy gathering at a high school in Grand Rapids? Right.

You think it must be that. Well, no. Mm-mm. In 2016, students at a high school in Grand Rapids displayed the Betsy Ross flag along with a Trump campaign flag. Oh my. It's even worse. Oh my gosh. Uh-huh.

Yeah. Yep. Uh-huh. The student school superintendent later apologized. How did Nike miss these bombshells? So let me just review. Okay. And I don't know if we have time for me to get through all these again, but let me just review all of them.

Just give me the highlights. Okay. Or all of them. Yeah. One guy who was in a white supremacist group had the flag. Holy cow. Along with cereal. Made by

General Mills. By an Irish cereal. Yes. Yes. Lucky charms. What do you think they're saying? And then in 2016, only two years before that.

Only two years. Only two years separated these incidents. This is showing a pattern. Yes. And this one was a flag with the Betsy Ross flag next to a Trump campaign flag. And there you go.

Hear the dog whistle. Well, no, you're not supposed to be able to hear dog whistles unless you hear it. You know, who can hear it? People in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Those people can hear it. Racists. Because they're racists. As evidenced by this 2016 school that displayed a flag of a candidate that won approximately half the vote.

Now, you might ask yourself, why are you guys talking about the Betsy Ross flag being a symbol of obvious hatred and racism? Well, that's because Nike. has yanked a USA-themed sneaker featuring an early American flag. Notice CNN is covering, oh, sorry, this is the Wall Street Journal, covering for Nike right now just saying an early American flag. No, it's the Betsy Ross flag that has a long history of two incidences of being a racist symbol. Colin Kaepernick told the company it shouldn't sell a shoe with a symbol that he and others consider a offensive. Yeah, because he really should have the veto rights over all of America and what they find

offensive. Right. Colin Kaepernick, his head is just screwed on so well that he's the guy that should make the judgments for all of us. Yeah. Well, but wait a minute. I thought it wasn't about the flag. No, it's not. Why would you say it's about the flag? These are these are people who are patriotic that were kneeling on the field. No, hang on. He said it's an utter patriotism. Right. He says they shouldn't sell a shoe with a symbol that he and others consider offensive. So the symbol was the flag. Now, I remember it's not about the flag. I have, well, let's listen back to Don Lemon.

Okay. Who can tell us the true origins of this debate. There's Don Lemon. Number one, she is a black woman. She's a mixed race woman. When you see her, you see her blackness, but she is also South Asian. Her mom is South Asian and her dad is. Listen, there is.

More power to me. her and I think it's great that is that should be enough. Listen, it is enough that she's a black woman. We are not a model of you. But no, no, no, no, no, no. No, no. I think you're not, you're not hearing what people are saying. The people who are saying is she blackened up, that's bold, that's BS.

But to, to, to want a distinction to say, is she African American or is she black or she, whatever. I think this is the wrong. This is another really good Don Lemon. cut, I'm sure. Can you play the video, please, of Don Lemon? Taking a knee at an NFL game was never about the flag or the military. Never.

That's what the president wants you to believe. It gives his insulting sons of bitches comment cover. Yes, it does. A comment that not only insults hardworking professional men, but tries to drag their mothers down to this level. Yes, the mothers because the sons of bitches, get it?

Is a constitutionally protected expression. It falls within league rules. Period. If anyone actually believes this is about the flag, then you must believe Rosa Parks protest

was about a bus. That's crazy. It wasn't about the flag. You know what else gave Donald Trump a little cover about it being about the flag? It being about the flag. And now it being confirmed

this is about the flag. It was about the flag. This is about sneakers. It wasn't about the flag. Now he works for a sneaker company, but I'm sure. that it was something else about these sneakers, not just the flag, being a quote, symbol that he and others consider offensive. So here's what Nike did. Nike took those sneakers and shipped them all over the U.S. for Independence Day.

And then shipped them all back to be destroyed, or more likely shipped to a homeless shelter where they will be worn by the homeless. which good for them. Disrespecting them. But probably not in America because they probably wouldn't want that to be seen. So they'll ship them over to Africa or someplace else where people will gladly grab those sneakers and wear them proudly.

I hope they cut the back of the shoe out though so that people don't see the Betsy Ross flag, which by the way, need I remind you, was used in two prominent white supremacist attacks, including the display in one home of one person, and next to a Donald Trump flag in 2018 and 2016. Now, we are going to do the work that other journalists won't do. We are going to find out if Don Lemon has ever had any breakfast cereal from General Mills.

You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program. Hey, it's Glenn. And if you like what you hear on the program, you should check out Pat Gray Unleashed. His podcast is available wherever you download. your favorite podcast. Stu, how excited are you? The political glass ceiling may be shattered. Oh, thank goodness.

Well, actually, it was already shattered. Well, by, what was her name? Geraldine Ferraro. And then it was shattered again by Hillary Clinton. But this time, maybe. Don't forget about Sarah Palin as well. Oh, yeah, Sarah Palin. But this time, this time, it might be shattered.

It might be. Yeah, for the fourth time. We've been told over and over again, it was only white men that were getting any votes in this primary. Well, Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden. That's it. It was obvious that the people that vote Democrat were racist. Yeah.

Because it was the craziest thing I've ever seen. They're calling their own people racist. But apparently not so. No, not now. Yeah. It's almost like they were looking to hear the voices in a debate and then compare instead of just jumping on a bandwagon because of what's in your pants. Yeah.

And this has been kind of a different, these polls look a lot different than they did just a couple of weeks ago. Joe Biden, again, we said this over and over again. It's Joe Biden's to lose, right? But Joe Biden is good at losing. Yes, he is. He's lost. He's lost many presidential runs. Yeah.

I mean, again, he was handed the vice presidency with Barack Obama. But other than that, I mean, he's run, this would be his third time running. And the first two did not turn out well, 1988 and 2008 and 2008. in 2008. So here he is again, back in 2020, which is incredible, Joe Biden running for president. Now, two months ago,

he led Kamala Harris 39 to 5, which is a pretty significant lead. Then... It's high score wins, right? Yes, high score wins, yes. I just want to make sure Joe and his team understand that.

High score wins. Keep that in mind. So that was in late April. Late May, he led 32 to 8. so a 24 point lead. After this debate, he now leads 22 to 17 over Harris, a five point lead. Which is a smaller number than 39.

That's a great point, Glenn. Thank you. I just thought I throw that in. I didn't know you were a poll nerd. I'm not a mathematician, but I play one on TV and radio. Yeah, basically the latest poll after the debate, all taken after the debate, it has a four-person sort of

top tier now. With Biden at 22%, Kamala Harris at 17 percent, Elizabeth Warren at 15 percent, and Bernie Sanders at 14 percent. So what do you think the two most important things that I take from this is the Kamala Harris surge? She's basically doubled her level of support. In one fell swoop. One question, really, is the difference between the poll numbers. Joe Biden, if she hadn't had done that, I'm not sure.

Joe Biden would have come down and I'm not sure she would have come so far up. But she handled that like a prosecutor. She's a great prosecutor and a great actress. And I'm not saying that anything she said she didn't believe or whatever. I'm just saying that she knows how to package it. She's a good storyteller. Joe Biden was not. He's an old school kind of storyteller.

And everybody is, everybody just feels like that just rings totally false. and he seems old and outdated, and she made him look that way immediately. Also, you look at Joe Biden's numbers, and you look at Joe Biden's performance, and if you couldn't answer Kamala Harris, when you knew that question was going to come up, you knew you were going to be cornered on that.

If that's the way you handle it, how are you ever going to handle somebody on stage that is a, I mean, he's an IED waiting to go out. You step one place and Donald Trump's going to blow you up. Right. It's very difficult to prepare for Trump because you don't know where he's coming from. No idea where those IEDs are buried. Much less predictable than this situation, which was totally predictable. Again, you're talking about the biggest story in Biden's previous two weeks leading up to this debate,

whether he had said these things about segregationists and busing and stuff. and you're next to the top-tier candidate who happens to also be African-American. How did you not see this coming? The other thing that I find very interesting is, and I would like to see, where did those people go who were with Bernie Sanders? It appears as though they went to either Warren or Harris.

Yeah, I would say Harris. I mean, excuse me, Warren, mostly. I mean, because Warren had been making a move before the, debate. I don't think anyone says that Warren had an amazing debate. They did a poll. Part of this poll was who do you think won the debates.

So that was Kamala Harris 41, Elizabeth Warren 13. And then Biden 10, Castro 4, Sanders 4, Buttigieg 3. So I mean, basically Well, that's not counting Beto, right? Beto has the other... Beto actually showed up as a negative number. I don't know.

Maybe you misprint. I don't understand. You know, so this is a a situation where Harris had a breakout performance, right? But I mean, again, one breakout performance a year and a half before an election does not win you a nomination. She's got to do a lot more than this.

What she did here was get her into herself into that top tier. Yeah, now she's got a, and it's really hard to hold. It's easier to gain than it is to hold it. Yeah. So she's got, you know, if you're on her campaign, you're hoping that she doesn't peak too early here because she's got to hold this thing.

I mean, we can run through the names, and you'll remember a lot of them. I mean, you know, Herman Kane and Fred Thompson and Carly Fiorina had a run like this in 2016. She had a great debate performance, came up to that top tier, was not able to hold it. Now, Harris was kind of bubbling under that top tier anyway, so this one seems... I think she's a real deal. Yeah, seems like it's real. But another thing they show in this poll is who do you think could handle particular issues best? and Harris doesn't particularly perform well when it comes to things like the economy, for example, or health care.

She performs really well when it comes to race relations, which is one of the four categories they tested. But again, race relations, while it's going to be a big issue, certainly in the Democratic primary, as it always is, obviously identity politics are huge. It's not necessarily, you've got to do more than that to be able to get elected by the American people as a whole. I mean, that's one issue and it's an important issue, but it's like they're also going to want you to be good with the economy and health care and all these other things. If she can't close the gap on health care and the economy, she doesn't win. Because if the economy is good, people are going to be much more reluctant to switch horses midstream when things are good. If things are bad, that's going to be the top priority. Also something else you should look into is how do they fare on foreign affairs?

Because between Iran and their ally, Russia, I wouldn't count out real problems internationally sprouting up right before this election. No, I mean, obviously it could be a potentially huge issue. I don't think they tested that. They tested the economy, health care, the climate crisis and race relations. Who's best to handle that? The climate crisis is Bernie Sanders is. He's number one, then Biden, two, Warren, three, Harris, four.

Excuse me, that was healthcare. I remember that incorrectly. I'm sorry. For the climate crisis, it's a tie between Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden and 19%. Warren at 14 and Harris at six. Listen to the economy, though. This is a legitimate problem, I think, for Kamala Harris. And why, if you want to make an argument that this is a fleeting moment.

Because she has to do more than this. That's the most important takeaway. She can't just have one moment about race with Joe Biden. She's got to continue this. She can't do. I mean, we've seen this in the past. You know, Romney was a great example of this. Beats up on Barack Obama in debate number one,

but then basically turns the campaign off for the rest of the time and loses. Like literally, like it seemed intentional. Yeah, it seemed like, how could I lose this race? Yeah. Listen to this for the economy. Tell me Harris does not need to improve these numbers. Who's the best for the economy? Number one, Joe Biden, 28%.

Number two, Elizabeth Warren, 20%. Number three, Bernie Sanders, 16%. Kamala Harris, 6%. her I mean her her her issues are 6% for the economy 10% health care 6% climate crisis 29% racial relations it's not enough it's right now it's just a moment for her here's the thing she is a prosecutor she's very very smart she's she's accomplished she can do this this will be hers to lose she could do this and she to me she would make the most fierce opponent if if I were advising the president which I'm not

But if I were advising the president, I would be most fearful of her. I would be doing more work if this holds to make sure that you know how to go toe to toe to with her. Because she's going to be a different debate. She's not Hillary. You have to look at that and realize that Hillary was a uniquely terrible candidate. Joe Biden, I think he's going to, I think he'll crush Joe Biden. I think he'll do a great job on Joe Biden. I think he'll do a great job on Elizabeth Warren.

I think he'd do a great job against Cory Booker. I can't think of anybody that I don't think he could crush. Kamala Harris is different. She'll be able to make him look like a bully easily. And if that happens, I think he would lose. And I think, you know, we talked about this from the very beginning with Harris and that, you know, we've been pretty bullish on her chances to win this primary because of her kind of unique skill set. That being said, she has not been tested in this sort of spotlight before. She had a great first debate, but that doesn't mean that she's going to be able to perform like that every time.

She has, she's won one, you know, she won a Senate race in 2016, remember? This is not, she's not been around that long. No, and nor she, but she has the experience. of being in front of a jury. And she's used to winning regular people over, right? And your job as a prosecutor is not just to come up and be prepared for every line of argument, which is a big deal in a debate, but also be able to communicate to regular people with emotion to move them.

And to be likable. That's right. And, you know, look, I don't think a lot of people will tell you that she's not likable, but she was able to do it for a pretty long time successfully. that does not mean this translates to a win in the election by any means. But we're talking about danger and percentages and what's her chances. And I think her chances are, you know, of all these candidates, she has this sort of skill set that is dangerous in an election.

And which is why, of course, Democrats are throwing money at her like crazy. The other one they keep talking about is Buttigieg, who looks really bad in these polls, did not seem to do very well. The judge isn't going to do it. It doesn't, you know, the thing about Buttigieg is, man, this guy cannot get an African-American to like him. It's amazing. I mean, it's a big part of this primary. And he can, every other group he's okay with. And then it gets to black voters and they're like, zero percent.

Has he tried to use the Joe Biden trick of using the word man a lot? Not enough. Not enough. Hey, I'm Pete Buttigieg, man. Man. And man, I got to tell you, man, it's going to be great, man. This is the best of the Glenn Beck program. Just an interesting side note, I guess. The Showtime is doing a Fox News series, and I'm sure it's absolutely accurate.

It's called The Loudest Voice, and Russell Crow is playing Roger Ailes, started this last weekend, and it showed the beginning of the Hannity show when Roger Ailes hired. I'd love to talk to Sean to see. if he even saw it. I didn't see it. I'm sure he didn't either, but how accurate he thinks this is. Because you have some you have some interesting episodes

coming up as well. I do. I do. Well, I mean, I'm just, I'm looking at the cast here and a Josh McDermott who was in Walking Dead, Twin Peaks, among other shows, playing you in this particular series. We do need to, of course, have

clips of this. ready. I'm sure it's going to be very flattering. You know, how could they portray you in a way that isn't flattering? That's what I'm, that's what my question would be. I can't. I can't. I can't. No, I'm sure they can't either.

Or at least more negative than it's already been. You know what I mean? What's weird is looking at Russell Crow in Roger Ailes' office, were you ever in his office? Maybe, maybe once. Hiding under his desk. I have a Me Too story coming out soon. So I don't want to break that news yet. But you look at him in the office.

But you look at him in the office. office and stuff and and at least the pictures. I haven't seen the movie. The picture looks like his office. And, and it looks like Roger from a distance. Yeah, I mean, this is, I mean,

does that be interesting. It's been interesting, too. They waited until Ailes died before doing all of these things. There was a big documentary that came out. Wasn't Netflix, I think, a documentary? You were in that, too. About Roger Ailes. And now that he's gone and no longer,

can defend himself. There's a lot of... I mean, wait a minute. No, I won't be fair. This book came out while he was alive. The book, this series is based on. Yeah. And the documentary, uh, uh, I thought was reasonably fair.

They definitely took, they went to great pains to not just show the bad side of Roger Rails, which was usually they will not do that in these things. They showed that he was really a genius and did do a lot of amazing things in the industry, not just related to Fox News. I mean, his whole life was. He was an Emmy Award winner. Yeah. I mean, he won, or not an Emmy, a Tony.

Right, right. He won a Tony. I mean, that's crazy. He was a Broadway guy. His first play that he ever did on Broadway was called Hot L. Baltimore. And Norman Lear bought it from him. And he's the guy who found it. And Norman Lear bought it from him, bought the rights, did a TV show based on it.

And it won a Tony. I mean, the guy was no. dummy when it came to entertainment. Now, this has a pretty big cast, too. Russell Crow, Sienna Miller, Seth MacFarland, Naomi Watts is in it, all on Showtime. I was thinking, though, about this. You've had an interest. We need to go back through these at some point because the stuff comes and goes so fast that you forget about it.

But there's been a lot of portrayals of our own Glenn Beck over the years. I mean, you had two, I think two episodes of The Simpsons, at least one of South Park. You had Jason I don't know if I ever saw the South Park one Really? Yeah, it was Cartman. That was the most accurate portrayal, I thought. I mean, it's basic,

it's almost like you've based your persona on Cartman. Yeah, I believe about it. Yeah, I believe that. Yeah. I can see that, yeah. You're growing into the role, let's put it that way. You also have Jason Sedakis, who played you, I think it was him on Saturday Night Live, right?

Didn't, a bunch of times. Yeah. And now you have this series, which is about Roger Ailes. There was something else I saw recently. There was a Boston legal. Remember Boston Legal that show? You were on that. Sometimes they do it and they just like portray a Glenn Beck-esque character.

Which they don't actually call Glenn Beck, which is blatantly based on you. You're writing on a chalkboard saying crazy conspiracy theories. The one where he became a TV show host. and he was crying all the time and writing at a chalkboard and using crazy things like I think he had a bacon cake or something like that

and he was like this United States Was it a family guy too on that? I don't remember I feel like there was a family guy where maybe Peter portrayed you as well We should find

We should find them all Because I don't know if I've That would be a good web page Just have all those in the same place Yeah because remember when We remember when this was all happening We were you know People would say

Hey you need to see Saturday Night Live, we're like, no, oh, they did a big sketch on you, huh, and then we'd move on. Right, you wouldn't even know about it. So there was like so many shows that did stuff that we never even saw. Yeah, you got mentioned on Saturday Night Live during the election, uh, during 2016. And I remember, you know, they, they do like four new episodes a year

I think at Saturday Live at this point. It's very tough. It's very difficult for them to come up with those three terrible sketches that they come up with. Um, but they, it was a sketch about the election and you were talked about it and it. Yeah, had a decent, you know, like 30 or 45 seconds of one of these mologues is about yours, you know, whatever you were doing at the time. And I didn't see it until the rerun.

And I'm just like, this is amazing. Like here, I work with this guy every day and Saturday Night Live. Remember, this is Saturday Live, the one that said, you know, Russia, I can see it from my house. It like changes the course of elections. Now is so invisible that they're talking about a guy I sit across from every day and I didn't even know about it. Like, that is a bizarre change. Everything has changed. Really has.

60 minutes. 60 minutes. Remember when 60 minutes would set the news. There were two things that set the news for a week. And that was the New York Times and 60 minutes. The New York Times still kind of sets the pace for most of the media news. But 60 minutes, you never hear anybody talking about that anymore. And sometimes they do really interesting things.

I mean, 60 Minutes has a lot of liberal bias. But some of the reporting has nothing to do with politics. And some of it's really interesting. You know, the... I can't remember the last time I watched the 6th. I just watched something on there recently, and it was pretty interesting. I can't remember what it. On actually TV?

No, it was on the website. When's the last time you actually sat down and watched a network TV show? Like a major network TV show? Yeah, like ABC, NBC, Fox. And I'm assuming you're not going to allow me to include like the NBA finals. No. Or Sunday night football. Yeah.

Because if that's the case, I think mine would be the Super Bowl. Right. And before that would be the Super Bowl. It's your Super Bowl. Jeez. I'm trying to think of one that I've won. Honestly, I'm having trouble even naming them. You know, Saturday Night Live,

I maybe there was. Name the Thursday night lineup in the 80s or, 90s of NBC. Your friends and Seinfeld and you know. Name it. In order. Can you do it? I don't know. I can do it. In order. But I mean, in the 80s it was like Cosby and

all those. Cosby family ties. Then it was Cosby family ties. Then it was oh shoot. Cheers. Right. What a freaking line of. Then night court. Then L.A. law.

I couldn't tell you two shows back to back on network television any day of the week, any network. I can't either. I mean, I know like a Sunday, like Fox has family guys still on and the Simpsons still on.

That's probably the only one. That in 60 minutes because they've been running ever since. Right. But those are like obviously, I mean, I think Family Guys in it's like 20th season or something. Simpsons is what, 30th? Yeah. I think about how. culture has changed since that came on. That's incredible. But I mean, we could all sit here and

rattle off Netflix shows. Right? I mean, like that is, look at the change. That is amazing. Remember Netflix, the thing I love about Netflix is, first of all, they're just a DVD company, right? They're mailing DVDs to people's houses. That's how they started. And all of a sudden, they make that announcement and they switched over to streaming. And at the time, this is when we were kind of first getting into this with The Blaze. People thought it was insane. You'd had to go and everything would buffer and it wouldn't work and no one wanted to deal with it. And then they had that time that they,

I think, I want to say they raised prices. And there was story after story after story about how they were over. They've let down all their subscribers. This is going away. And then here they are. Now, you know, I mean, really the enforce of entertainment is, there's no one even close to matching it.

I mean, Amazon has a place there in Hulu, I guess, but it's really just Netflix. and the Amazon is pretty good. It's secondary, but it's secondary, but it's there. But the selection for for more, I think the selection on Amazon is better than Netflix, but the Netflix, you know, special movies, you know, Netflix only, those are probably better than the Amazon things. And the crazy part about that is Netflix at one point, in a moment of desperation,

their founder went in and almost sold Netflix to Blockbuster for, I want to say it was like $75 million. It was like, I mean, on the scale of what it is today, nothing. And they were in a point where it was like things were not going well and they were wondering whether they were going to make it. They met, had several meetings, and Blockbuster was the one that said no. It didn't think.

Blockbuster said no. Yeah. That's an unfortunate. You know there's still one blockbuster left? It's just the one, yeah. There's one. It's in Oregon. It's the last one left.

I mean, I don't know how. I mean, do they own the entire light? Did the entire company just end up in that one? Like, franchisee is like, yeah, I'm the president of Blockbuster. And hey, don't forget, return that video. Be kind, rewind. The Blaze Radio Network. On Demand.