The Glenn Beck Program - Best of The Program | 7/7/20

Episode Date: July 7, 2020

Pat & Stu fill in for Glenn with the latest rundown of the crazy news cycle. The once-woke Broadway musical "Hamilton" is under fire for depicting the Founding Fathers, and actors are canceling themselves for playing characters that are different from them. Activists don’t even know the basic facts about police shootings. NFL quarterback Patrick Mahomes scored a huge contract. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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It's got to be 20 layers. 20 layers of masks is the only appropriate amount of masks. We talk about that. We have Colin Kaepernick who thinks the country is white supremacy paradise, but also assigning contracts with Disney for millions of dollars. Unbelievable. Disney, book deals. Oh, he's got a Netflix situation.

This is going to be so irritating. Unbelievable. And there's a bunch of a slew of new anti-Donald Trump books tell-alls from people who are in the family, who are in the administration, who are close to the Flotus. It's just a barrage of them. I guess everyone's trying to take their cash in here before the election. We'll get into some of that as well. Don't forget to subscribe to this podcast and rate and review it, as well as Pat Gray Unleash. That podcast is available as well every single day for free.

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Hamilton, Lynn Manuel Miranda. Oh, this is a good story. Oh, what a hero the guy is. Oh, yeah. Because he took white people and made them black. If you tried the reverse of that, if you had a bunch of black people that you decided, eh, I'm going to put white actors in there. Can you imagine they tear down the theater.

Oh, yeah, and we've seen it. I mean, they've canceled all of these people. They have to come crying and begging for your forgiveness for accepting a job they were offered. But, okay, they made all the founding fathers black and Lynn Manuel Miranda, I think is Hispanic. And he was playing Hamilton. So it was celebrated by every person on the left. Bill and Hillary Clinton loved it. The Obama's adored it.

And when Mike Pence went to go see it, like he got booed in the audience, remember? Right. That's how woke they were. Oh, so woke and so wonderful. Right. Because it's woke and wonderful. And he doesn't deserve it. He doesn't deserve it.

Well, now, all of a sudden, oh, that's really problematic. They say good things about the founding fathers. And you know, the founding fathers were actually white people and they were slave owners. And that's the only thing we can remember about them. And can we talk about how problematic it is that you're taking black culture and with the music and just taking it away from black people and putting it a, foisting it upon the audience through a Hispanic man and white historical slave owners? All of which is problematic.

All of it's problematic. All of a sudden. Yeah. That's problematic. Huh. It's so amazing. By the way, do we, did we, does anybody know the founding fathers didn't actually rap? Did we, did people know that?

Pardon me? Yeah. They didn't, the first rap song was like 1979, I think. Something. Delight. by the Sugar Hill gang. That's right. Yeah. That was post founding fathers. Interestingly, that song started in 1979. Still going today. It's still, it's the longest song. I don't know. All I remember them talking about dinner. One of them was talking about having dinner over someone's house.

Oh, that's right. That's all I remember about that song. It's like, look, that's an interesting thing. Not a lot of people do it. Not a lot of people sing and perform about having dinner over someone's house. The only part I remember about that song is Wham, Bam, Ho Jam, Holiday Inn. And that meant a lot to me. It meant a lot to me at the time. You have a bumper stick on your car. Yeah, I do.

Wham, bam, ho jam, holiday in. Yeah, I was wondering. I wonder why he has that. Now I know. If your girlfriend diss you, then you take her friend, I think is how it goes, something like that. Hey. Yeah.

I want to make sure that everyone knows that we are not being critical in any way of those high-level lyrics. No, I love them. I'm very critical of the Constitution. in our founding documents, but not a rapist. Delight. But it is interesting because they have turned on this now completely. They are saying that it is a big problem that this, you know, one of the things.

All of a sudden, now it's a big problem. Right. And like what's interesting about the Hamilton thing in particular, because there's so many of these stories. But the Hamilton one is interesting in particular because the only reason to like Hamilton is if you respect the story of the founders. Like, if you love our country and love how it was founded and you want a different way to essentially get history, right,

which is obviously a BS history, but still, like, it's an entertaining presentation of history. But you have to like the history. You have to think, oh, God, these guys did something great in our world. Because they actually do admit that in the play. Right. You can't do that now. No, you can't. That's a big problem.

Yeah. It's so ridiculous. All of these things that were designed to be woke, essentially, are now not woke enough. And that's the lesson. You're never going to be woke enough. There's never going to be a time where you're woke enough. Hallie Berry yesterday.

Hallie Berry, as you may know, an African-American actress. Wasn't she the first African-American actress to be nominated for best actress? I don't remember which one it was. She was in, she can't think of the name of the movie. It was sort of a dark movie she was in. But it was very well received. Monster's ball? Monsters ball. Yeah. Yeah.

And so she now is in retreat mode because she had the audacity to accept a job acting in a role as a transgendered person. Now she herself. She's not trans. She is female. One of the 911 genders. She's a biological female. Biological female. And I think identifies as such.

I think so too. I believe so. And she now has had to, you know, I can't, I should not have taken this role. I'm so sorry. She's apologizing to everybody. And what's funny about it is like this used to be the sign of a woke actress, right? Right. The beautiful woman who would take the role as, I mean, we saw it in, with Charles Theron in Monster.

All ugled up in, was that Monster's Ball or was that? Monster's Ball and Monster are two different movies. Monster. Okay. I think it was monster. Monster was the female serial killer. And she was celebrated. She had no makeup on and she didn't comb her hair.

Yeah. So she really took a risk there. There was like a kind of a comedian's trope over the years where it would be like you'd make fun of the actress who took the role as a handicapped person or the very, the very straight actress who would take a job as a gay person to show that they understood those communities. And it used to be the thing that would get you woke and get you an Oscar. So now the thing is.

you can't ugly yourself up. You actually have to get an ugly actress to play that part. That's actually a beautiful woman. She can't play an ugly part. Yeah. What about ugly actresses? How do they get gigs? What about, what about,

I want to see that happen. I do too. I want to see that happen now. It can't be far away. It can't be. What about taking, what if there was someone who was not believable in their life and you're replacing them with an actress who's a good actress?

I think you'd have to have a crappy actress play the role of someone who can't. act. Definitely. I mean, it sounds ridiculous. Charlie Stherin had a similar incident lately, right, with a transgender. I think it was a transgender role. I think it was her, yeah.

Yeah. This one I was fascinated by was Kristen Bell. You may remember, she's married to Dax Shepherd. She's in a bunch of commercials. She's been in various roles. They're actually doing good commercials together. Yeah, they're good. She and her husband.

They're kind of a nice little couple, I think. Yeah. And so she took a role on a cartoon that I think was on, I think is on Netflix. And she plays a, um, an, uh, a character, uh, a character, called Molly on a show named Central Park. I've never seen the show. But this is her statement. She came out now that the,

it's a voice of a child who is mixed race. Plus she's not a child. Right. She's not a child. Right. Right. Right. What?

She's not a child and she's not mixed race. And she was playing this role on this cartoon. This is what she said. This is her, her statement about her stepping down as the voice of a freaking cartoon character. This is a time to acknowledge. to our acts of complicity. Here is one of mine.

Playing the character of Molly on Central Park shows a lack of awareness of my pervasive privilege. Casting a mixed race character with a white actress undermines the specificity of the mixed race and black American experience.

Okay, first of all, it's mixed race. So you can't have a black person do it, right? Because it's the specificity of the mixed race experience is that it's a mixed race. And like,

like, you're not, she acts as if she was like an accountant for the, the SS. Like, you didn't, like, you play, you were the voice,

you're not complicit. You play the voice of a cartoon character. Relax, first of all. Yeah. And, and, you know,

the, was anybody calling for her to step down for that role? I don't think so. I think you always get one or two activists that say this. You know, it's the same thing that started like years ago when they were like, you know what, Apu on the Simpsons. Simpsons is a bad, is it problematic? And at first, everyone's like, what? Like, you know, first of all, he's like, he's seemingly a very good guy on the show, one of the only

people on the show who's a good person. And, you know, he's one of the most prominent roles. And like, yeah, it's voiced by, you know, Hank Azaria, but, you know, he's just a silly voice. That used to be okay. He used to be okay. Now, not okay. Now, Ophoo's God. Now, you might say to yourself, well, they could just get a. a mixed race character, right, to go along. Yeah. No, you can't do that either. Oh, you can't.

No, because Jenny Slate, uh, Jenny Slate, uh, is, Jenny Slate is another comedic actress who, of course you remember from all of her works. All the Jenny Slate's. Across the spectrum. Things that she does. And does so well. Yeah, the entire spectrum. Yeah.

We're all, we're all multi-format media empire or entertainment empire. I just ordered. her eight-track collection. Did you really? Yes. And it just came in. It's been incredible. So she stepped down as well as the voice of a frigging cartoon because she is also white and playing

the role of a mixed race. Now, I don't know why this is so widespread in Hollywood. I don't know why they're just realizing it now. Here's her quote. Now, again, she is a white person, but she's also Jewish. Okay. All right. So again, Jewish, you could say religion, race, all sorts of different things people say about

that. But she says this. at the start of the show, I reasoned with myself that it was permissible for me to play Missy, which is a freaking cartoon character, by the way. Because her mom is Jewish

and white, as am I. But Missy is also black, and black characters on an animated show should be played by black people. Now, she is... The white part. The white part, right? She is a literal match, white and Jewish, of the mom

of this character. And even that's not specific enough. She had to have abandon her job and I don't know her. So ridiculous. Does she have, does she have a lot of this stuff gone? Does she have offers of this level coming in like crazy? I mean, she's, you know, Kristen Bell, her husband hosts one of the most popular podcast in the country is also an actor.

They make plenty of money. They've got a $4 million house. They're doing okay. I don't know. Is Jenny Slate doing okay? She might be. I don't know anything about her other than the eight track collection that I just bought. So I don't know.

But like, this is what she says. She says engaging in playing Missy, she's engaging in an act. of erasure of black people. Ending my portrayal of Missy is one step in a lifelong process of uncovering the racism in my actions. First of all, in this particular case, you are literally not erasing a black person. You're drawing one. It's the exact opposite of black erasure.

You're actually drawing a black person. Okay? That's number one. Number two, I know Pat, we're supposed to understand the stories of these women. And they own their own truth. I hope you know that. They own their own truth. Right.

That's beautiful. So who are we to disagree when they acknowledge their own racism? When they say they're a racist, I guess they're racists. I don't want to take that away from them. I would say that doesn't sound very racist, but you know what? They're saying they're racist and I don't want to take their truth away from them. Well, it's your white privilege saying that it's not racist. Right.

It is racist. It's their big, fat, dirty racists. Yes. They are basically David Duke in a cocktail dress. Thank you. and I'm glad they have admitted that and expressed their truth. I wouldn't have necessarily seen it that way, but they've told us that they're racist,

so we must accept their racism. Who are we? Who are we? I'm not a racist. If I was doing a character like Missy, I would say, why am I a man doing it? Right.

And I would say, how dare you? What if it's a trans child? And then I would say, well, I'm not a child. They'd say, well, I guess if you are identifying as a child, then you are. This is the thing. you just need to get out ahead of these things. Before you accept the role, you need to identify

in the nine different ways that define the character. Which, by the way, we are talking about a job. The only requirement of this job is pretending to be something that you're not. It is acting. It's legitimately,

fundamentally, the only thing you have to do in this job is pretending you're someone that you're not and they still can't get this through their heads. You're never going to have unless you get the person, you're going to have to do,

every movie's going to have to be like private parts with Howard Stern where they all play themselves. Because it's the only person you're allowed to play. I can be specific. As Howard Stern, I can play Howard Stern. As Robin Quivers, I can play Robin Quivers. Outside of that,

how can you even have this industry anymore? This is all nonsensical. And there's no limiting principle here, Pat. You know, there's no reason why what I'm saying, as Howard Stern can only play Howard Stern, is untrue. There's no, there's no part of their reasoning that makes it so that wouldn't be the case. There's no, quite the opposite.

Quite the opposite. Yeah. Yeah. You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program. Stu is just talking about this video where a young woman asks other young people about the statistics of how many unarmed black people were killed by police last year. and so the the guesses are

wide ranging I would say but the answer of course well they get into the answer I think we've said it enough times it was actually nine nine unarmed black was it 18 for whites

was it 18 unarmed whites last year something to that I think it was about double but here's here were some of the guesses so of course police brutality has been a very big subject lately how many Unarmed Black men do you think were killed by police over the past year?

Over the past year, I think Blacks get killed by the police unarmed way more than white people. But have you seen any numbers or statistics? Like, do you know if it's a couple hundred or a couple thousand by chance? I don't know the exact statistics offhand. Thousands, thousands. Right now, I believe I saw a post that said that right now, 493 have been killed. just this year. I can't put a number on that because I genuinely do not know.

I honestly don't know the answer. Some honesty at least. And, you know, as you're out there protesting, shouldn't you know something like that? Shouldn't you have done a little research on this and know what you're talking about and know what you're protesting? Yeah, the order of events is important. It is.

Learn then protest. Exactly. Understand the issue you're talking about, then go March. That would be nice. Yeah. It would make a lot of sense. informed to most of it. A thousand.

A thousand. At least. At least. More members of the black community compared to members of the white community as a whole are. Stop this one for a second. I love this one because he realizes he doesn't understand. He doesn't know the number. Yeah.

And then he decides to back off to something he sure is true, right? More members of the black community than the white community, for sure. Which is not true. Which is not true. And he realizes that about halfway through his sentence too. because he's not sure of that. He doesn't have any stats on any of it. But he tries to fake his way through it.

Killed in general. I think that, that might not be true. Yeah, it isn't. We're in how big of our region. That's in all of America. Yeah, in America. Oh. It would be, that would be so hard for me to say.

Trillions. It would be hard for me to even guess that. I would imagine, you know, probably in the dozens of thousands. In the dozens of thousands at least. Could be hundreds of thousands. It could be millions. it could be billions or trillions like Stoge's guess, trillions.

Is it? I don't know. Maybe. Is it quadrillions? I know it's at least trillions. But it could be quadrillions. Is it a bagillion? I don't know.

I don't know. Maybe. Maybe. What am I? What am I? I forget what I'm doing there. It's the gun guy. What was it?

He was, what am I? That's sad. Yeah. That we've forgotten so quickly only 10 years after that event. Yep. Anyway, there were more guesses. Thousands, probably. Thousands.

If you're talking about All America, yeah. Monthly, probably thousands. Monthly. I wish I knew that number, but way too many, then it should. Do you think it's like a couple hundred, a couple thousand? Like, do you think you can give like a ballpark at all based off of like, billion reports, videos you've seen? I would say in the hundreds near thousands.

I'm not sure. Do you know? So I was actually reading a statistic in the wall. Street Journal because I was asking people this question and I really wasn't sure either. And the Wall Street Journal said that last year, nine unarmed black men were killed by police. You know, I think... Wait, before we get to his answer, by the way, in the same sentence, it was nine unarmed black people, 19 unarmed white people.

So that's the stat from last year. That's tough to hear. And when people see that, it just perpetuates their own bias. Oh, sure. Yeah. I'm sorry, it's the truth. It's reality. It is a fact.

It doesn't perpetuate anybody's bias. It just informs you as to what reality is. It's not perpetuating a bias. No. And that is, that's a huge thing because I love, he's obviously showing his own bias by immediately saying, dismissing the actual fact of the matter. Only nine people were killed.

Right. And saying, well, all that does is perpetuate bias. But it's not just people, of people in colleges that do this. There was a story in the Washington Post that came out this weekend about the Washington Redskins. And, you know, the whole Redskins name controversy has been going on for many years.

And one of the biggest talking points and the reason it's kind of gone away for years and years was the fact that multiple polls showed that 90% of Native Americans were not bothered by the name. This has happened over and over and over again. Over and over and over again. From multiple pollsters, multiple years, It's sort of one of those things that shuts down the debate.

All right, why are we pissed off about it? When they're not. Right, when they're not. And so there was a story in The Washington Post, which basically came out and apologized for their own poll. Where they said, hey, you know, we're sorry the shutdown debate over this issue because our poll was basically responsible for no one caring about this anymore. And it's like, wait a minute, are you a news organization?

That's amazing. Why are you apologizing for reporting accurately the group you say should be offended that isn't? Again, we're always doing this where we say, oh, as white people, we can tell you Native American, African American, what you should be offended by. And if you're not appropriately offended, the way you should be, we'll just take the thing off the market. There will be no more Washington Res. there will be no more Anne Jemima. We'll just get rid of it.

So therefore, you can't be lured into the sense of not being offended over this thing you're not offended by. I'm actually offended that you keep leaving off that list. You mentioned Aunt Jemima. Where's Uncle Ben? Why have you chosen a black man who's smiling on the label? What a stereotype. That means that they think black people smile all the time. I don't understand the Uncle Ben.

Ben thing. I really don't get it. Or Anchamima. I mean, there was a time where Anchamima was used in a way that was not flattering. A long time ago. A long time ago.

And Anchamima, you know, we brought this up. African Americans buy Antrimima at like four times the rate of any other group. So they're apparently not offended by the label. Right. Because they bring it into their home on a regular basis. And how could you be think about this for a second? I'm trying to think of what the right product is.

You know, if you were an African American and you go to buy a product, there's lots of products. with white smiling faces on them. Here's one that has a black smiling face on it. A motherly figure who's taking care of breakfast for you because she makes great freaking pancakes. It makes good syrup or pancakes or bulk syrup and pancakes. Well, of course you'd be drawn to that product as an African American because you don't see it as like some racist thing. You see it as like, you know, hey, here's someone who's a friendly face that's familiar.

And it seems to have been targeted specifically at African Americans who buy it in gigantic rates. Listen to this quote from Washington Post. This is the headline of the story I'm talking about. a survey explores how Native Americans feel about the name Washington Redskins. No, it's not that survey. This one is new. Like, what, it's your survey. Why are you degrading your own work?

Think about this. The Washington Post, in a time where media organizations are struggling, came up with a poll in 2016 that totally changed a debate to the factual arrangement in which minorities' opinions were respected. And they're apologizing. for it. They go on to say the post poll has been blamed for killing the debate. The truth is,

our collective response did. And that never should have happened. The name is a dictionary defined slur, whether or not 10% of Native Americans, or 50% of your co-workers, or your favorite aunt acknowledge it. Like, what, you're totally

dismissing the opinion of the group you say is offended, as if they don't matter at all. And that is like, excusable in this circumstance. And by the way, they decided they

they got a new poll. This one said only 70% of Native Americans didn't care about it. So now they're constant beating them over the head for multiple decades.

And what do you want to bet? It was a push pole where they were, yeah, totally was. So they gave them 40 emotions because they wanted to get, okay, maybe that top line number

isn't great. But if we can get kind of fine, like some of them are offended, we can highlight that part. This is what the this is they had to put this in their own article. Quote, the reasons they gave for feeling,

for feeling that way, uh, uh, that they weren't offended. Um, it's, it's just a name. It honors or represents their heritage and people are overly sensitive.

That's what the Native Americans said. The survey presented response... How dare they? They don't know any better then. I don't know. We've got to help them. We've got to help them. Um,

the survey presented respondents with more than 40 emotions and asked them to indicate whether each represented how they felt about the team's name. The word picked most was proud. They're trying so hard

to tell Native Americans they should hate this name. And like the story of the logo is amazing.

Like it was, it used to just be an R. That was the logo for the Redskins. And a Native American came in and they used

a real Native American as a model because the Native Americans felt like it shouldn't, if it's Redskins,

it shouldn't just be an Rskins. You should have us represented. So they came up with this great logo that was designed by Native Americans using a real Native American model. And that's offensive. They're going to get rid of the logo now, supposedly. It's not 100% confirmed, but ESPN is reporting that the name is going to change. Logo's still up in the air.

Now, we don't know for sure. The name is going to change. Did you see their statement? I mean, their statement was like, I mean, Dan Snyder is, is he caving in now? That's what they believe. So the statement came out from the statement. the Redskins, which was like, in this time, we feel we need to look at the name and study whether it's okay for people.

Wow. And it certainly read as if they were going to overturn it. Yeah. The reporting afterward has said they are going to do it within the next couple of months. They think before the 2020 season. They will change the name of the Redskins before the 2020 season. Reporting's been wrong before, but that is the current state of the reporting. So we'll see.

He has been so... Daniel Snyder, the owner, has been so steadfast on that. Yeah. And he said, we'll never change it. It's been pretty amazing how much he stood up to this nonsense. As an Eagles fan,

it's the only reason I like the Redskins. It's the only thing I've ever done that I've actually liked. And again, like, I don't have any, I don't have any affinity for the Redskins name. It's just a folding for no reason. When they have the facts on their side, it started obviously,

as a piece of, of essentially propaganda to honor the Washington, to honor the Native Americans. They were honoring the coach at the time, several players at the time. You go back to the history of the word. It was a Native American term used to describe themselves. This is unquestioned in history.

Like, even people who oppose it and actually know the effects don't question that. They say that at some point, some people use it in a derogatory way, although there's much more evidence that it was not used that way. Like it was, it's not that it's never. been used that way. But again, I ask the audience and I ask you, Pat, have you ever, honestly,

in your entire life, ever heard one person use that term in a derogatory way towards Native Americans? No. Ever. I have literally never heard it. The only time I've ever heard it is there's one quote from a Minnesota newspaper in 1863 that every one of these stories highlights where they did use it in a derogatory way. But of course, was not around in 1863, did not get that. But we know that it started as a good term. We know that when the team named it, it was a good term. It was meant to honor Native Americans. But 160 years ago, somebody did use it in a derogatory way.

And it's like, amazing. Fundamentally, Pat. When you're naming your team, you don't name it after something you hate. Right. Right. You name it after something you want to root for and honor. You know, I wouldn't name my team the North Texas avocados because avocados are evil.

I hate them. So I wouldn't name my team after that. I'd name it the cheesy fries because I like cheesy fries. It makes sense. It's not very tough but doesn't sound menacing, but okay. He doesn't have to be medicine. It doesn't have to be. I mean, the New Orleans pelicans don't seem all that medicine.

No, it doesn't. No, it really doesn't. This is the best of the Glenn Beck program. There's also something, speaking of NFL quarterbacks, Patrick Mahomes had a pretty good day yesterday. Oh my gosh. Where he signed a fairly significant contract. Well, a bit of an extension of a current one.

Yeah, he's got a two-year deal right now and they extended it 10 more years. So 12 years, $477 million. And it could go up to $503 million. Yeah, 503. That's half a billion dollars! Now, I think the highest ever for a quarterback was like, what, 150, 160, something like that? I think so. It's like three times as big as any other quarterback's contract in history.

The previous biggest sports contract was Mike Trout, I think, with the Angels, which was 425 or 430 over 10 years. It's a little more common in baseball. I mean, nobody gets that kind of contract. And that was fully guaranteed completely. He's got $430 million definitely coming to him. Trout. Trout. Yes.

That's not the case. Not the case for Mahomes. But still, you know. I think 140 is fully guaranteed, which is pretty, you know. That's not bad. But again, that's more than like any other quarterback ever for their entire contract value. But think of that. He's guaranteed.

no matter what happens now. He could break a leg and never play again, like Thysman, which he certainly don't wish on anybody. But he'd make $140 million. And by the way, he's 23 years old. $477 million coming to him. He's 23.

Incredible. Incredible.