The Glenn Beck Program - Best of The Program | 8/17/20

Episode Date: August 17, 2020

Glenn’s back in the studio for the first time since March! Democrats and the media insist that Trump is trying to undermine the Postal Service to cheat the election, but even Obama wasn’t a fan of the USPS. Nancy Pelosi called the House back early to address the controversy, and even Taylor Swift is pushing conspiracy theories. New Zealand’s elections have been delayed by a month due to COVID-19. Glenn will be inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame! New York City may not return to normal after the lockdowns and riots. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Viarai. The voice that we am I am. Today on the podcast, we talked to Ambassador David Friedman about the developments in Israel and the Middle East with a new big deal,

peace arrangement that's been going on there. We talked to Pat Gray who comes in and we do a segment of just shocking news. News you just will not believe. At least it's stunning to the media. I'm not sure if it'll be surprising to you. Robbie George joins us about how academics are being attacked for any conservative views. And we talk about a little bit about Fershal Walker, who former of course NFL running back, Heisman Trophy winner, who wound up a really an interesting conversation. with Glenn on the podcast that comes out this weekend.

If you're subscribed to this podcast, you'll get it in your feed. Luckily, Glenn doesn't spend too much time on sports because that would just be, you know, obviously terrible because he wouldn't know what to ask. But Herschel Walker's story is fascinating and they go through that. You can get access to that on this podcast feed this weekend. Or if you have Blaze TV, you can get it there right now. BlazTV.com slash Glenn. The promo code is Glenn for $10 bucks off.

You can subscribe there. Also, check out Stu Does America Tonight. talk about a really big accomplishment of the Trump administration on tonight's program. I can watch that on YouTube. Just search for Stu, my name, and I'll be the first one there. Here's the podcast. You're listening to. Right now we have Pat Gray, who is the host of Pat Gray Unleased and here in a surgical mask, which...

My longstanding policy to, you know, just keep the virus at bay. Is your longstanding? Longstanding policy. Really? I've been watching you for the last few weeks. And so you've noticed that I've masked up quite a bit. Never. Never?

Have I seen you in a mask? No. Yeah. That's weird. It's just. It is weird. It's just a weird. It is weird.

Because you've been in, I haven't noticed necessarily you wearing it for the past few months when you been coming in here every day. Really? Today you are. And I'm curious, is it because you have someone who definitely has COVID sitting next to you? Yeah. Okay. That's it. Yeah.

Definitely has to. Okay. That's it. That's the difference. I don't have COVID. I don't have COVID. It's because of the certainty of the virus. being in the room.

That's the difference. That's not what I don't have COVID. There's a distinction here. Everybody and his family had COVID. And he sleeps with one of them that has COVID. And so he has COVID. And he looks at. He looks the part.

Thank you. Thank you. Well, if inflation of your skin is part of COVID, I've got it bad. I've got it really bad. I was thinking about it last night. except on a scale, but I bet it's the COVID 40 back. Yeah, God, I don't want to go near that scale. Yeah.

It's not good. It's not good. It's not good. I was singing about that. Not for any of us. I was thinking about that last night. I was having some of your wife's cookies. I was thinking, wow, I got to stop.

But I didn't, strangely. Didn't at all. That's weird. So, Pat, one of the things that are on your mind today that you think of you. I'm a little bothered about you guys missing the big story. I mean, you're talking. around it, but you won't, you won't discuss the real issue about this postal service thing. Okay, all right.

Taylor Swift has sounded off in a powerful, powerful way. Really? And has called the president a blatant cheat and he is dismantling the U.S. Postal Service. Oh my gosh, she's smart. She is smart. She's brilliant. Listen to this. Trump's calculated dismantling of U.S.PS proves one thing clearly.

He's well aware. We don't want him as our president. He's chosen to blatantly cheat and put millions of Americans' lives at risk in order to hold on to power. And he is dismantling the U.S. Postal Service. Well, if by dismantling you mean he has loaned them an additional $10 billion, then yes, you're exactly right. That's the way you take somebody apart. You know what I mean? You get $10 billion and that's it, not a penny more.

They're a struggling business. Well, there's going to be more, but just not on that check. Right. You know, somebody's struggling in business. You're like, help me, help me, help me. And you're like, I am going to put them out of business. More predatory lending. I'm going to give them $10 billion.

That's it, right? Yeah. And it's not actually a loan, Stu. It's not alone. It's just write the check. Yeah. Here's the money. Keep it forever.

Keep it. That's a pretty good loan. And, you know, you talked about the fact that they're removing some of the blue mailboxes where you put your mail. Oh my gosh. Because that's what they do when nobody uses those boxes in those areas. They take them from that area and put them maybe at a shopping center where people are and can put them in a shopping center where poor people won't be and won't be able to mail their ballots. Right. Because what are they going to do?

They're going to put them in a shopping center. There's no other place. There's no one that is going to use that mailbox. Some people might say you have a mailbox at your house. Here's what you do. You take your mail-in ballot. You walk it out to your post, your mailbox. You open the door, put the mail in, close the door, raise the flag.

Some would say that's an opportunity then for the mailman, the letter carrier. But what if you don't have one of those? You're living like you. You're welcome. You're living in an apartment complex. Right. And you don't have a mail box. Well, there's a place where everybody has their mail box.

box, you go down there in that case and open yours and put it in there. And when they see that there's mail in there, they take it out and they deliver it to the post office. Or if under really radical circumstances, you could drive to the post office yourself and put it right in the slot. Assuming you had a car. Well, yes. You know what I mean? You were old enough to drive. Uber.

Now, could you put it in one of the other post office boxes that were next to the one that they removed? Yes, you could. Okay. Yes. What if you put, what about those people who are currently living in a coffin and they don't have. Oh, the dead? Yes.

That's the discriminatory way of. Right. Describing them. I'm telling you, they are living in a very small living space right now. Yeah. And there's no post. There's no post box. They're in their little living quarters or not living quarters, but they're quarters.

Well, there was just a case of that. What state was it where they removed 846 of those mailed ballots to those people? To the actual dead. And Donald Trump said, no, they don't get to vote. Why? Just because they don't breathe anymore? Where are their rights? Just because their heart's not beating?

Does the Constitution say you lose your rights when you stop breathing? Right. And your heart stops beating? I don't see it. I've read it a million times. I've never seen that. Not in there. It's not in there.

Donald Trump again. Just taking away rights from people one after another. Non-breathing people. Dead or people too, you know. Yeah, or they are. They at least were. Yeah, they were people.

Oh, they stopped being people just because they're dead. Yes, now there's spirits for a while. And then those spirits can vote, right? I mean, I don't see anything in the Constitution that says they can't. There isn't one. There isn't anything in there. What if your dog? What if your dog and you don't have a mailbox?

That's a really good question, Glenn. I say, thank you very much. One of you're a cat. And all you have is a litter box is a post office. Donald Trump stopping people from checking the litter boxes for cat post. There was a cat post. There was a cat a couple of months ago that we heard about. I know.

Who received at 12 years after its death a check. Why is that important? A check for $1,200. Wow. Look at how he's biased. They're living people. Well, maybe if he had that money earlier, would have been able to stay alive, right? Yeah, right.

hire a visiting vet or something. So it came 12 years too late. So what? I mean, who thinks that this is a good idea to change anything about our voting system this time around? Who's like, you know what? We should all do mail-in. We should all do. What do you know what we should do?

We should get Creskin and everybody wants to vote for Trump. You just think about it and Creskin will write it down. I mean, why would we change anything? It's bad as it is. But it's still probably the best in the world. Why would we change anything? Especially when they're all saying that Trump is trying to throw this election through the mail and by destroying the post office. All right.

Well, it's not a pretty good reason to show up with an ID at a voting booth. Let's do that. Let's show up. and let's just vote. You can understand obviously the theory behind it, right? Like to be prepared if you've got a pandemic going on, maybe you want to have the ability for people. It's going to be November.

Right, right. I mean, first of all, it's going to be later. But again, it's tough to predict. Obviously, we've seen people miss these predictions like crazy. But the bottom line is we have, I voted absentee almost every election. Why are we doing election coverage all day and all night that night? So I can't just go to the polls on election day.

So almost every single time I vote, voted, I voted absentee. It's super easy. They will take literally any excuse. And there's only seven states in the union where you even have to come up with an excuse. That's, uh, that's, that could be different than COVID. If you tell them you have to work that day, what they're going to do is send you the ballot request. It's the most minimal amount of effort. It's easy. And it's been working in this country for a very long time. Why would we need to expand the system in like outwardly mail people ballot applications, uh, in advance? if they want them, they can ask for them.

And that's worked in this country for a very long time. It's just, this is, again, just nonsense. It's just nonsense to get bases fired up. And people are going crazy over it. The left thinks Donald Trump is overthrowing the election because of the mail. No, they don't think that. They don't think that.

Well, I think that regular people, a lot of them do. Oh, I think that's a possibility. The leadership doesn't at all. No, the leadership doesn't and the left doesn't. They know exactly what's going on. And they're going to burn the city, down to the ground if Donald Trump wins.

They're setting that whole thing up. Oh yeah, they are. Like Taylor Swift really believes that's true. And again, she's a moron. But I mean, she actually believes that's true. She's sitting there terrified that the president of the United States is trying to mail her election away.

You know, it's amazing to me is how we were called fearmongers. We still are. You're fearmongers. If you're a conservative, you're fearmonger. We're the most optimistic happy people out there right now. I mean, you listen to...

All they do is fearmonger. On COVID, on the election. And everybody on the left is believing it. Everybody who votes for a Democrat, they all believe all of that stuff. I mean, it's remarkable. They're incapable of making a rational decision until Donald Trump is not president. When Donald Trump is no longer president, they may be able to come up with a rational thought.

And I mean in any part of their lives. It's all irrational right now. Let me ask you this. What do you think about, I was thinking about this last night. It was there's reading about New York City and how much trouble New York City is in. And we're going to get into this here. Financially or? No, no, no.

People are just leaving it. The time life building has 5,000 employees and I think currently 800 are going to work there. Wow. That's going to be a problem, though, now. Oh, it's going to be. everybody nobody's coming back yeah nobody's coming back i'm hearing that from everybody yeah so where did they go this is 8000 normally and it's 500 working oh wow so it's worse worse than you it's worse than i just said reported wow um that that's that's that's insane that's absolutely insane so where are they

going a lot of those new yorkers are moving to florida a swing state you are impacting the election in in Texas because of all the Californians that are moving here. You're affecting it in Florida because of all the New Yorkers moving there. And nobody's talking about that. There are states that have always voted one way or it's been close and they are being turned upside down by this massive exodus of these cities. Do we know that they're actually leaving the city or are they just staying home right now? No, a lot of them are leaving the city. It seems like both.

I mean, like they are leaving. They left because of COVID. Yeah. Or some of them left because of the violence of the riots when people were breaking into their buildings. It's like there's a video going around on social right now, which shows going down, I think it was at Fifth Avenue, Glenn. Yeah, fifth avenue. Every single business has his windows board. Play it real quick.

We have it. Just just play it real quick. If we happen to be watching the plays. Look at everything. Everything's board. Even the hotel is boarded up. The thing here, though, to remember is you don't need to board up windows to stop COVID.

You board up windows to stop people from breaking them. It's the riots that is getting a lot of people to have to leave this city. It's just the last straw. And now, with all the hassles of living in the city, there's just, you've lost all of the positives of being there. None of the places are open. So why the hell would you be there? It's expensive and it's awful.

Broadway is... You have to deal with Bill de Blasio. Broadway is supposed to be close. be closed until next spring at the earliest is when they will open next spring. So there's no tourism. There are no stores. Nobody's, all these companies, no restaurants, all these companies are like, you know, I don't even know if we need to have our business in New York anymore.

New York may never recover. And I don't know how commercial real estate does. It's already 30 to 40% down. You can get an apartment 30 to 40% lower than you ever could before. That's in New York. But I think all around the country, people have these big offices and they don't need them anymore. Yep. You don't need them.

You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program. My producers would like me to make this into a bigger deal, and I just feel awkward doing it. But we have an announcement to make. I have been inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame. Wow. Congratulations. I was really exciting for me and the family. and thank you if you voted.

Thank you so much. I suspect mail-in voter fraud. Well, Donald Trump and Russia. He fixed it. They were instrumental. They were, yeah. It's, you know, I didn't even think about it and I didn't want to make a big deal out of it, you know, and ask you for your vote. I was very uncomfortable the whole time because it doesn't make a difference in the listener's life.

A professional wouldn't have been that uncomfortable with it. Someone who was going in the Radio Hall of Fame would just been able to do his job. But, uh, yeah, but you know, you were very uncomfortable. It was, it was noticeable. Yeah. And I don't, because it doesn't, it doesn't affect you in your life, but, uh, it is an honor. And I, I, I've been thinking about it. I just found out about it.

And I was thinking about it over the weekend that, you know, that's Jack Benny and Bob Hope and Larry Loujack and Charlie Tuna and Rush Limbaugh. I mean, it's, it is. quite a Mark Levin just went in. Mark Levin. Yeah. Yeah. So it's quite a it's quite a field to be in with and it's a real honor. And

my, I thank you a great deal for just listening to us. And I honestly don't know how I got into the Radio Hall of Fame as I am I stand by the worst broadcaster in America.

But that's just how low America's standards are right now. Pat, we approach your probably say the unsaid of how much we had to do with it. Yeah. You know, I mean, it really is. It's really an honor for us through Glenn. And so we thank the Radio Hall of Fame for that honor.

So I will tell you that I have to select somebody to induct me. And so I don't know which one to ask here because you both are so great. But Pat, do you know of somebody I should ask that would be really good? Let's see. And Stu, you should, because I'm going to ask you too. after him, but if you have somebody... You're going to ask me to do this... No, I'm just going to ask you if you know somebody

that would be, you know, important that, you know, would be... I don't know of anybody that would really... Yeah. You know, that's been with you a long time. Yeah, I was singing Ben Shapiro, maybe. Oh, yeah. Yeah, I was singing about maybe Ben would be good. That might be a good idea.

All right. This is the best of the Glenn Beck program. I can't take the politicization of... of everything. Everything. Yeah, it really, it's worse than ever, right? Right at this second, too. Isn't it?

Well, no, that was just a second ago. I think it's worse right now. Because it is, it's things that, I mean, the post office, I mean, the post office has been, when it comes to politics, everyone kind of realizing, it doesn't really work all that well, but, you know, because they lose lots of money and it's not a great business. But, you know, generally speaking, you put your mail. out there, it gets to the place that it's supposed to go. You'd get the occasional libertarian sort of push back on whether we should fund it at all.

And then that's basically been it for how long, 100 years. Now it's all the sudden so concerning that they have to come back and vote on it in a more urgent sense than multiple trillions of dollars. They let out go out the door a couple months ago. Let me tell you, here's let me play for you the audio of Chuck Schumer. Trump is undermining our post office. He says he wants to slow down the mail to hurt the elections and make people doubt the results of the election. It's not what he said. It's not even close to what he said. Maybe he's going to lose. It doesn't matter. Our elections are sacred. And to do this is disgraceful.

The postal system is well loved by America. 91% of America approves of the postal system. Which gives me pause. now being a hundred percent undermined. Oh, see, he did the percent of it? Oh, wow. A political hack appointee. Okay, stop. I can't do it. I can't do it. Here is Barack Obama on the post office.

If you think about it, you know, UPS and FedEx are doing just fine. Right? No, they are. I mean, it's the post office that's always having problems. Ah. So we have President Obama. saying that but you know he fixed oh no he didn't fix it no he didn't fix it so Donald Trump brings somebody in to fix the post office somebody who's well qualified to fix the

post office the the moving of the sorting machines and the shutting down that happens all the time in the post office yeah and most of it is not going to happen before the election they're announcing it now and saying we're doing these things blah blah after the election and even if it is happening before the election, it's happening in a way where it always goes on. This always goes on. They say that ballots are something like 2% of the mail in that time period, which I think the mail,

the U.S. Postal Service can handle that. There's all these rumors about, well, they've locked, they've locked postal, the boxes in the mailboxes for the postal service. It's like, well, that happened because people were stealing mail had happened months ago. Go to the other big complaint they have is this ridiculous thing about they're removing mailboxes from around these cities. It's like, well, when you read what they're doing, they're removing them from where there are multiple next to each other.

So like there's five next to each other and they're taking one or two out. So there's only three or four left. I don't think that's going to overturn the election. I think it is. I think it is. I think it is. Yeah. Nancy Pelosi would not just, I mean, she was so concerned.

she could not call Congress back into session because of COVID. Well, as I understand, COVID is worse than it's ever been. No, it's not. No, it's worse than it's ever been. It's not. No, we're the worst in the world, Stu. No, no, no, there's no one that will even take our passports now and let people in because we are the worst. Yeah, that's not true.

It's the most dangerous. That's not true. Ever. No. Okay. So she knows this, and that's why she didn't bring the post, you know, the Congress back. But now at this very dangerous time when all of them could die from COVID, this is the time.

They need it back. And come on. We just outlined why the Postal Service has a 91% approval rating. Because people didn't think of it as political. That's why it had a approval rating of 91%. people just thought of it as like a thing down the street. They never thought of it as part of the federal government. So when you test it against other federal government agencies,

they think they all suck and they don't think about the Postal Service that way. Keep doing this and they will. Yep. You'll have instead of a 91% approval rating, you'll have a 50% approval rating pretty quickly if you keep doing this. But again, if they can get one extra percent, one extra little grab at power, they will destroy anything they have to in their way.

So I don't want to compare the Postal Service to other agencies in the federal government. Right. Why don't they do a poll on the postal service versus UPS, Federal Express, you know, all the other alternatives? Because I'm doubting that the UPS or UPS comes out number one. Well, plus it's subsidized so heavily. So yes, you can send packages cheaper at times with the postal surface.

Yeah, you can. that's because you're already paying for it in other ways. I know. It's crazy. Nobody thinks of it that way. No one adds that into their package cost. Right. But when it's losing billions and billions of dollars, it's not just going into thin air. You're paying for it.

So we got that going for us. And on Wednesday, we're going to be doing a special on voter fraud and stealing of the election. And this postmaster general garbage. You know, they're threatening. him with jail if he doesn't show up to testify? Can you imagine? I mean, the president calls you and says, Stu, we've got to have you as the executive producer in charge of America.

You're going to make sure that everything is just looking good and running right. Is there an amount of money or an amount of national pride? that would make you say, I got to do that. Sounds like a fun job right now. I mean, you wouldn't take anything, any job. Your life is destroyed. And what's crazy is these public servants that are called up, most of them are like 60, 65.

They're being called up. They're at the end of the, they could be on a golf course and they're like, you know what? No, I think the Postal Service I could actually do a number on. I could actually help. so they go in for what to get destroyed publicly for no reason for no reason again like by these career politicians who are almost all of them corrupt and you know the guy who's

ahead of the post office though he's a political appointee first of all they're that's been common throughout the years that happens a lot you're not picking your opponents to go run it you're picking people who like you which is typical in the government but he said they're going to have no problem with us right you know he's not saying that they're going to lose That's exactly what he said. That's exactly what he would say. There you go. It's exactly what he would say.

I mean, and then, let me tell you this. You tell me that Donald Trump doesn't want to fix the election. Have you heard now that national elections are being delayed by four weeks because of coronavirus? Unbelievable. I mean, in New Zealand. But that's Donald Trump. He's even trying to fix the elections in New Zealand. in New Zealand

because they wouldn't have done that. Sure, it's the most dangerous pandemic and we're all going to die and our hair is on fire right now and oh my gosh, I should be quarantined for the rest of my life. It's in New Zealand that they're doing this. Can you imagine if Donald Trump and his administration would say CDC has told us that we should delay?

Well, he, I mean, he did, of course, suggest this on Twitter. And they were very upset. about it. Now, they're praising New Zealand because New Zealand is acting as an authoritarian government over its people and saying, yes, we have, you know, it started with, I think, four cases, but I think it got to 13 before they actually shut things down. And they're delaying elections because of 13 cases. Now, Donald Trump, they keep acting. When he says stuff like that, they are very upset about it, and as I am I. I don't want our elections delayed. But I don't either. But like, I don't understand how you can

praise New Zealand for their sensible, well-measured response to this. It's because you like her, because she's doing the things that you want and you don't like Trump. And none of this stuff, like, none of this stuff is honest. That's what the most frustrating part about it is. I know. None of this is honest. What Schumer just said.

Oh, Donald Trump said he wants to slow. No, he didn't. You wouldn't pass the spending bill. You wouldn't pass the stimulus. In there was money. for the post office. So when you don't, you the Democrats don't get together to pass it, you then come out and say,

he's not spending the money that it needs to be taken for the post office? No, it's your fault. It's your fault. And what did he say? He said, fine, rubbing their nose into it. Fine. Well, I guess if you don't have that money for the post office, because you wouldn't vote for it.

You wouldn't pass the stimulus. Well, that's good for me. And do you remember two when Republicans would have, have there'd be a big spending bill that would some help working families. Oh, yeah. And the Republicans would be like, well, we really don't want to. There's a trillion dollars in abortions. And some of them seem to be forced abortions.

What is an abortion party? I don't even know what that is. Why are you a celebration? It's all in there. And the Republicans would say, well, we're not going to pass it with that in there. And they'd be like, you are holding up helping working families for your special interest groups and right wing religious nonsense. Did you see this puppy dog?

This puppy dog will be dead by the end of the week because of you. Right. And now we have a situation where millions of people for nobody's fault are coming off of a pandemic related unemployment and are going to lose the money that was going to them. Thousands and thousands of businesses that are barely holding things together are going to go without this money after the government told them they had to close down. This giant spending bill is everyone's talking about it's going to eventually be a reality, but it's all going to happen after these people go out of business.

I know. And so they're not coming back to help them. They're coming back to help the freaking post office. Which will never go out of business until the United States goes out of business. No, no, no.