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Episode Date: February 12, 2019

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Wow, it's Tuesday, and what a great podcast lined up for you, first of all. Oh, the mistakes, the mistakes, the learning opportunities that are just ahead of you on this podcast. This is going to be like, you could just listen to this podcast and then have a degree from Harvard. That's how much education you're going to find. Yeah, you're going to learn a lot of things to not do. And we start with Congresswoman Omar's apology. It's a great apology. Wow.

She was learning. We really learned an awful lot. Also, David Harsani is here to tell us about the Green New Deal. And then the panic on Brexit, you know, they're stockpiling body bags? They are. Yeah. And this is a conversation that you probably should be exposed to because we have some questions on the body bags. And the horror of living in Portland today.

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This happens from time to time. People aren't perfect. And people have to get time to be able to learn about different things in the world. There's a lot of new concepts for people. Did you know, Glenn, that in the past, Jews have had some issues, and some people have not liked them. All right? This is all news to me. Well, let me just read.

Anti-Semitism is real. And I am grateful for Jewish allies and colleagues who are educating me on the painful history of anti-Semitic tropes. Did you know? I had no idea. There were tropes out there, like Jews use money to influence people. in control the world. I had never heard it before. That's probably one of the smaller tropes, don't you think? Oh, I think so. Yeah. My intention was never to offend my constituents or Jewish Americans as a whole. Oh, no. We always have to be willing to step back and think through criticism,

just as I expect people to hear me when others attack me for my identity. This is why I unequivocally apologize. Now, it's interesting because she is using this opportunity of her. own anti-Semitism to point out that she's also a victim. She's also a victim. But she gets attacked all the time. She gets attacked. And she hopes people listen to her. Now look, as a Palestinian, or as a woman who is, what's her background?

Because I'm getting her views to lie. She's Muslim. She's Muslim. How could she possibly in her life have come up with someone saying something anti-Semitic? No. It's incredibly unlikely. No. At any time in her background, would she ever come across someone else with an opinion like that? Yeah.

It's just not. She's learning. She has no, no, she has nobody around her ever in her life. She has never heard as a Muslim anything that might be anti-Semitic. In fact, she skips the parts of the Koran where it's like, oh, rocks, cry out, there's a Jew hiding behind me. Oh, trees, cry out. She avoids those things. Good for her.

She doesn't know. But she does say she unequivocally apologizes. At the same time, I reaffirmed the problematic role of lobbyists in our politics. Wait. Didn't she say it was unequivocal? Yeah, it was unequivocal. But she's equivocating here just a bit. She just wants to point out that Jews are influencing our politics with their money.

So basically she's saying she apologizes for any possible offense. She wants you to know, let me summarize. She wants you to know, Stu, that anti-Semitism is real. There are real problems. She wants to point out that there are real problems. Unequivocally. Unequivocally, real problems with anti-Semitism. But perhaps they wouldn't be so bad if there weren't so many Jews.

That makes sense because it's true. I mean, if there were less Jews, maybe the problem would be. Correct. Would be slightly less. You know what I mean? And here's Linda Sarsour to tell us more. Now, Linda Sarsour, if you, this is unbelievable. I mean, that is not the character witness you need at this time, ma'am.

No, I love this. Linda, a women's march leader, Linda Sarsour, rushes to Representative Omar's defense. I'm thinking with friends like this, who needs enemies? Yeah. You don't know, Linda. No, back away, back away. Now, we remember Linda because Linda was the one in the women's march that we told you just recently as it was falling apart that remember she was meeting with some jewish women at the very

beginning of the women's march and she was you know she was um uh perhaps explaining some of these jewish tropes these anti-jewish tropes to the jewish women there it sounded like she was being very anti-semitic but i'm sure she was learning anyway she said i will not be silence in the face of attacks, harassment, and targeted policing of speech. So wait, Linda Sarsur is concerned about targeted speech. Very concerned about it. Now, sure, her entire organization exists to get people fired for things that they've said online.

But, you know, she's very concerned about the targeted speech thing. And she's a great character with us. I know, like, if I knew someone who. who is accused of sexual harassment, I would want Harvey Weinstein to jump right in and defend. Right? Right in there. Please, Harvey, jumping on, hang on, hang on, hang on.

Just a second. I'm receiving a message from beyond. Hang on, I'm just trying to translate this. Is that a Ouich? Okay. I'm getting some sort of message. Somebody wants to communicate from beyond that is telling us that she's okay.

Oh, good. She's okay. She's got support here in this life and beyond, according to the Ouija board today. So anyway, she says she is not going to stand by and see attacks and harassment and targeted policing of speech from a black Muslim woman elected official. Our sister, Sister Omar, in the name of combating anti-Semitism, we can stand up for Congresswoman Omar. knowing her record and what she stands for. She's been in Congress for like several weeks, so her record is very, very, very clear. Yeah, she definitely has a record.

The record's not in Congress. It's been the things that she's said over her lifetime, which indicate perhaps, maybe she has heard some of these tropes before. Maybe, maybe just a slight possibility that what she's saying now is complete bull crap. There's a possibility of it. No. I know. It's an outlandish possibility.

No. I mean, she's found humor in so many situations, Glenn. So many wonderful situations. Like when she was talking about al-Qaeda and Hezbollah in 2013, this is, she was fantastic. Let's listen to some of this. A product of this sensationalized media, you know, you have these sound bites and you have these words

and everybody says it with such an, you know, intensity. And so it must mean, it must hold. a bigger meaning. It sounds strange and weird. I remember when I was in college, I took a terrorism class. Is that a such thing? Yeah, there was. So you go out, there is a lab for that?

There was a class that you... Do you go to lab? No, we learned the ideology of... I'm glad you do that. And so it was, the thing that was interesting in the class was every time the professor said Al-Qaeda, he sort of, like, his shoulders went. up and you know Al-Qaeda

you know hospital he's an expert and he was you know what's his name we're putting his name on the area

what does he love that is so funny that is so funny he was like freaked out by al-Qaeda is it like he was an expert on al-Qaeda

you know or Hezvala like he knows what terrorists are let's let's say where he lives because that's a funny way to go with that where did he live?

Oh man she's hilarious Oh, she's great. Hey, somebody else, you know, Talib? Oh, yeah. Yeah, Congresswoman Talib. She has, in 2006, a lot of people didn't know this, but she wrote an op-ed for the final call. Oh, I love the final call.

You get the final call? Oh, I think I do. Is that the- that's Lewis Farrakons. Yeah, newspaper. So the final, we all get it. Got a lifetime subscription. Do you? Oh, yeah, it's really good.

Yeah. So, you know. But how would any of these people come across anti-Semitic tropes? They couldn't. It's almost impossible in their life. She was talking about how Israel has a delusional ISIS-like ideology. Oh, okay. And that the creation of that country was a crime.

But other than that, other than that, there's nothing here. No, no big deal. There's not a long history here at all. By the way, and I'm not making this up, David Duke also came in to tweet his support. David Duke's a big. He does not like the Jews. People, you know. Well, no, no, no.

On the front of his business card, it says I don't like black people. But if you really look at the resume, you notice he does not like Jews all that much either. Not a fan. But he's not using tropes. No, he occasionally will use a trope or two. No, no, no. No, he just talks facts. Like Congresswoman Omar said, you know, look, I don't want to be anti-Semitic, but there's some real problem with Jews.

So, you know, that's what David Duke is doing. He's like, I don't want to, I'm sorry that I was using a trope. I just need to tell you the facts. If it wasn't for all these Jews, you know, we wouldn't have all these problems if it wasn't for all these Jews. And hang on just a second. I'm getting another, I'm getting another message from beyond with the Ouija board. This one's from H.

I am. M-L-E Some him somebody I don't know I don't have time The best of the Glenn Beck program It finally happened It's fixed

We're done now Yeah I don't think we are No we're cool Totally this is totally cool Because they got 1.375 billion dollars A lot To build a full

55 miles Of border wall I mean that's impenetrable Okay hang on just a second get around or over that on a 2,000 mile border. You can't. Hold it just a second. I thought that we know that estimates, I don't know, they're always

wrong, estimates are that it's going to take at least $20 billion to build a fixed. I heard 25, but now we're okay, no, it's fixed. But we had 5 billion, right? Yeah, we did. Well, it was 20, initially, it was 25.

They did offer the full amount just a year ago. It did. But that, that's no longer available. And then before the shutdown, they did offer $1.7 billion. And now after the shutdown, they're getting everything they need the $1.5 billion. Well, through deft and expert negotiation, they were able to get just a little bit less than the worst offer before the shutdown. So here's the problem. Here is the problem. Seriously, here is the problem. He blinked. The great thing. The reason why Donald Trump is one of the best negotiators, and I mean this sincerely, my favorite Donald Trump story you've heard it a million times, is how he built Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue.

They have air rights in New York. People own the air above your building, right? Above your building. So Tiffany's, which is on the corner opposite of Trump Tower and about half a block away, Tiffany's actually owns all of the air above. Fifth Avenue for a couple of blocks. And so you couldn't build anything over like, I think, four stories on Fifth Avenue in those blocks because of Tiffany's. So he went to Tiffany.

It was either Tiffany's or Cartier. I think it was Tiffany's. And he said, before he left, he talked to his architect and said, I want you to draw up two plans. I want you to drop the Trump Tower that we've been talking about, a beautiful tower. And I want you to draw up plans for the ugliest big. building that is five stories, ugliest building you could possibly ever imagine. And so he did. And he brought them both to a meeting. And he said, hey, I want to build Trump Tower. And the owner of the

air rights said, no. Well, well, there won't be anything over five stories here because we own the air rights. And we're not going to sell them to you. We don't want some monstrosity here. And he said, you know what? You are so right. You are so right. Now, I've already bought this property with plans to build this, but I knew that you might be set on a small building. So here's what I'm going to build if you don't sell me the air rights. And he laid it out and he said, I'll leave it up to you. But I want you to know, I will build that building. He did not blink. And he's a great negotiator because when he got back to the office, they were already on the phone saying, come back, we'll do that. because they knew

that son of a bitch will do it. He blinked. He made a promise that he wasn't willing to keep and they knew that he wouldn't keep it. All of his power goes away. Remember, he is the president that I've been looking for for a while

in this one category. A guy with a twitchy eye. I've said this for years. You want your enemies need to feel like the president has a twitchy eye where they look at each other and go, that guy just might do it. I think he's nuts. So I preferred that that's way Russia looked at our president, not necessarily the people in our own country,

but he has that twitchy eye. And you never know what he's going to do. Well, he telegraphed that he was willing to cave. We should clarify, he hasn't done that yet. No, he hasn't. Right. So this deal. was supposedly struck up

between Republicans and Democrats. He still has not assigned it or approved it yet. He could still reject it. Now, I... How lame were Republicans, though? For accepting... How lame are they? No, they've never had any intention. No, they haven't. They never had any intention.

55 miles of border protection is like finding out you have lung cancer and your doctor says, here's a throat lozenge. Good luck. Wait, that's it. That's what I get for lung cancer? Yeah. That's what 55 miles of border is when you have a 2,000 mile border. It's nothing. It doesn't help. The problem is... It's not even worth doing. I think where you can look at this and say there's a real problem is that Democrats know

that this is all being blamed on Republicans if there is in their shutdowns. They have absolutely no leverage here. And part of that is because Trump came out and said it was me. Like, look, the shutdown is mine. I own it. And he thought he could stick with that. But I think he found out that didn't work for him. Because he didn't make the case relentlessly. And he needed to make the case. The American people could have been with him if he made the case. Look at how Democrats do that. They pound their case daily. They also have the press, which makes it really easy. Yeah, but the president's got Fox News. I mean, they could, they'd help him with this. President has Fox News. He also has talk radio. He has, right. He has tons of outlets. Remember

what President Obama was doing. Remember what President Obama was doing at the end of his term? He was only talking to bloggers. Yeah. You know? YouTubers. YouTubers and bloggers. Why the president isn't on, you know, Ben Shapiro's show. Why he's not on, I mean, I'll, I'll understand why he wasn't on our show. It might be a little wounding for him or for me either way. But I, but I, I, welcome him to make his case here. Of course, yes. People know the case on the border, don't they? I mean, people are aware what's going on on the border and they still not. Did you see what people were saying? I don't know. People were saying. Oral and all that? Yeah. You see how it was, look at the poll numbers, even from Republicans towards the end. Right. I mean, they're not good.

And we've been talking about this for how long? I mean, you know, how many times? 20 years. Well, yeah, 20 years. And Trump's, at least for four. Yeah. We're coming up on four years since he came down that escalator and made that speech. The border has been the biggest issue in the country ever since. Look, the problem is with the Republicans is they don't have any big ideas. Yeah, there's nothing. Look at how...

Even if they did, they couldn't sell it. I know. Look at how the Green New Deal is being embraced by... It's unbelievable. You can sell the Green New Deal to your base, but we can't sell anything to the conservative base. Because we don't have anything new. We're not reaching out for the stars. Look at what we did yesterday.

He signed an executive order for AI, but it was not an inspirational AI executive order. It really did nothing. It said, okay, to the departments all in the United States government, you should look into AI and see if we can develop friendly AI, etc. There's a moment here where he could have said, look, the world is on the edge of profound. change and it's either going to be good or it's going to be bad. We're going to be the leaders of good while everyone else is pursuing AI just to conquer the world. We are going to pursue AI to help us solve cancer and cure cancer and muscular dystrophy and multiple sclerosis. We are going to cure things in the next 10 years because the United States is going to find a way to get AI and be there first.

everyone else wants to have it so they can conquer the world. We want to do it so we can conquer hunger. We can conquer slavery. We can conquer sex trade. We can conquer cancer. That's inspiring. And it would cost you almost nothing. What about flat tax reform?

You could... Flat tax. This would be the time to do it with all the extreme proposals on the left. People want something new. They want something new. Or at least bold. I mean, the flat tax isn't new, but at least it's bold. It's new because nobody's never really seriously considered it and done it.

I mean, I think that was one of the issues with the speech, which was a good speech, I thought generally. I thought it was great speech. But there was not a bold new idea there. I thought there was at the end and the beginning, but it was all about coming together and uniting. But you have to unite around an idea bigger than unification. You know what I mean? He started out great when he said, Look, we united, you know, against the Nazis for freedom of the world.

We united and put a man on the moon. Yes, it does bring us together when there's a big idea. And in a vacuum where there are no big ideas, a big idea like, let's get rid of every car and airplane in the next 10 years. People like the sound of a new deal. And they will run to it. You'll notice the college campus reform just did a video. That's really telling.

They said, are you for it? Oh, absolutely. It's a lot of time. Finally, it's a big idea. I like these ideas where we're going to go take something on. It's progressive. I really like that. It's progressive.

As soon as they start reading the details, they're like, wait, no, that's stupid. We don't want to do that. No, that's crazy. No, no, no, no, no. Where are the big ideas? Where are the things that we can all unite around? They're too timid to do any of them. That has to be the president's message.

He cannot spend the next year. They are going to spend it on division. You have to spend it on a uniting idea, a big idea. And you can't just say the wall. If you want to make it about the wall, Mike Lee says there is a legal way, constitutional way to build it in some areas. Without an agreement.

executive order with an executive order and he said it would be constitutional not all of it but a good portion of it you want to pursue that as long as it's constitutional pursue that pursue that pursue that but then add in things like let's make this easier for people who really want to be here to come in let's let's let's widen the door while at the same time we shut off the illegal immigration. Just start on that. Let's widen the door. If you have a mind for AI, if you're one of the best AI people around, we want to use

it to cure cancer, not to control people. Come here. We welcome you. Your green card, your visa will be easy to get. It'll be the easiest place to come in to research for AI. He's got to start making, he's got to start showing progress. on the future instead of digging into the past because the left is not digging into the past.

Well, they are. It's the spooky 1940 past. This is the best of the Glenn Beck program. Hi, it's Glenn. If you're a subscriber to the podcast, can you do us a favor and rate us on iTunes? If you're not a subscriber, become one today and listen on your own time.

You can subscribe on iTunes. Thanks. Dave I say is the guy who came up with the idea of StoryCorps. And StoryCorps is this really cool service, if you will, that is recording voices for our national archives. And they're recording our stories. And they do this all over the country in many different ways. But we wanted to talk to Dave on Valentine's Week about the people who they have found that are deeply, deeply in love. Welcome to the program, David. Glenn, it's great to be back.

Thank you. So tell me about Danny and Annie. Sure. This is the story you were mentioning a little bit earlier. Danny and Annie, and as you said, StoryCorps is this project where we have booths all across the country. We're a nonprofit, and you come with a loved one for the most part, and you sit for 40 minutes and record your story with each other just in audio, and then you keep a copy, and another goes to the Library of Congress, so your great, great, great, great grandkids can get to know you through your voice and story. So this is a love story that goes back to the first week of StoryCorps when we launched 15 years ago in Grand Central Terminal.

Back then, like nobody understood what we were doing, and very few people actually came. We've now had half a million people participate. But Danny and Annie happened upon the booth. They're from Brooklyn, and Danny wasn't a betting clerk, and Annie came to, Annie was a nurse, and they came to the booth to tell the story of their first date that had happened 25 years before. Now they have thick Brooklyn accents, so you have to listen very careful. Okay, so here they are in 2004. She started to talk, and I said, listen, I'm going to deliver a speech.

I said, at the end, you're going to want to go home. I said, you represent a 34-letter word. I said, that word is love. I says, if we're going anywhere, we're going down the aisle because I'm too tired, too sick and too sore to do any other damn thing. And she turned around and she said, well, of course I'm married. And the next morning I called her as early as I possibly could. And he always gets up early. To make sure she hadn't changed her mind, and she hadn't.

And every year on April 22nd, around 3 o'clock, I call her and ask her if it was today, would she do it again? And so far the answer's been the same. Yeah, 25 times yes. You see, the thing of it is, I always feel guilty when I say, I love you to you. And I say it so often, I say it to remind you, that as dumpy as I am, it's coming from me. It's like hearing a beautiful song from a busted old radio. And it's nice here to keep the radio around the house.

If I don't have a note on the kitchen table, I think there's something wrong. You write a love letter to me every morning. Well, the only thing that could possibly be wrong is I couldn't find a silly pen. To my princess, the weather out today is extremely rainy. I'll call you at 1120 in the morning. It's a romantic weather report. And I love you, I love you, I love you. When a guy is happily married, no matter what happens at work, no matter what happens in the rest of the day, there's a shelter when you get home.

There's a knowledge, knowing that you can hug somebody without them throwing you downstairs and saying, get your hands off me. Being married is like having a color television saying. You never want to go back to black and white. So, David, this is Danny and Annie. And in listening to that, it makes me want to start the tradition far too late of right. writing a note to my wife every day. Yeah, I mean, they were really in love. Danny was not, you know, if you saw a picture of him, you can almost get it from his voice,

but he was about five feet tall. He was bald. His eyes were extremely crossed. He had one little snaggle tooth, and the guy had more romance in his little pinky than all the phonies in the Hollywood put together. And, you know, he was a guy like, you know, people, you know. people used to laugh at him walking down the street because, you know, he talked funny and he looked funny. And I think that coming to StoryCorps with Annie and having a lot of people respond to that first story, we're going to play another story later.

Just, you know, it's about reminding people that they matter and they're important and they won't be forgotten. And Danny and those, you know, that was the first week of StoryCorps. And, you know, it speaks to he was what StoryCorps is all about. It's about the grace and the poetry and the eloquence and the beauty in the story. stories of us, of all around us, hiding in plain sight if we just take the time to listen. So they became big hits with the StoryCorps audience and everybody loved them, as you can imagine. But then just a couple of years later, Danny and Annie received some news and they came back to StoryCorps to talk about the fact that he had been diagnosed with

terminal cancer, and it was a very fast-spreading cancer. And he wanted one to record one last interview with Annie. He couldn't come out to you. You guys had to go to him. That's right. When we, after he got, Danny had come back to StoryCorps with Annie to read their love letters over and over again over the years. And he brought every character he'd ever met in his life to StoryCorps,

undercover narcotics detectives and Major League umpires. You'd have a cataract operation and want to come in and document. I did they were like family. And when he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, stage four end stage, we actually that week named, renamed our original booth, the Danny and Annie Parasa story court booth. And then the next week he said, will you come out? I'm too sick to get to the booth, but I need to record one last interview with Annie. Will you come to our house in Sunset Park in Queens?

And we did. And here is a clip of that. The illness is not hard on me. It's just, you know, the finality of it. And him, he goes along like a trooper. Listen, even downhill, a car doesn't roll unless it's pushed, and you're giving me a great push. The deal of it is we try to give each other hope,

and not hope that I'll live, hope that you do well after I pass, hope that people will support her, hope that if she meets somebody and likes him, she marries him. Yeah, he has everything planned. Yeah. I'm working on her. She said it was her call.

She wants to walk out behind the casket alone. I guess that's the way to do it because when we were married, you know how your brother takes you down, your father takes you down? She said, well, I don't know which of my brothers to walk in with. I don't want to offend anybody. I said, I got a solution.

I said, you walk in with me, you walk out with me. And the other day, I said, who's going to walk down in the eye with you behind the casket? You know, to support her. And she said, nobody. I walked in with you alone. I walked out with you alone. There's a thing in life where you have to come to terms with dying. Well, I haven't come to terms with dying.

I want to come to terms with being sure that you understand. that my love for you up to this point was as much as it could be, and there'll be as much as it could be for eternity. I always said the only thing I have to give you was a poor gift, and it's myself. And I always gave it. And if there's a way to come back and give it, I'll do that too. Do you have the Valentine's Day letter there? Yeah.

My dearest wife, this is a very special day. It is a day on which we share our love, which still grows after all these years. Now that love is being used by us to sustain us through these hard times. All my love, all my days, and more. Happy Valentine's Day. I could write all and on about her. She lights up the room in the morning when she tells me to put pot hands on their shoulders so she can support me. She lights up my life when she says to me at night, wouldn't you like a little ice cream?

or would you please drink more water? I mean, those aren't very romantic things to say, but they stir my heart. In my mind, in my heart, there has never been, there is not now, and never will be another any. He died just a few days later.

He was 67. She's just turned 71, and she came in to record one more story core. to thank everyone and tell her, tell everyone that she's doing fine. She has all of his love letters, and it keeps her going. Yes, she got, after the last interview with Danny was broadcast on the radio, on public radio, and Danny actually heard it and then died about an hour later. And he got thousands and thousands and thousands of condolence letters.

And still to this day, many years later, she reads one of those letters instead of the love letter she would have gotten from Danny. She buried a copy of those letters with Danny in the casket because she wanted to let him know that his life did matter. And she's hanging in. Dave, thank you so much for sharing these with us. Well, thanks for having me on, Glenn. Thanks for doing such great work. Appreciate it. And happy Valentine's Day to everybody.

Thank you, Dave. I say from StoryCorps. No, I wasn't, I wasn't ready for that yet. I, uh, it's Valentine's Day tomorrow. Is it tomorrow? Thursday? Ugh. I know.

You're nervous. And, uh, you know, there is young love and then there's real love. And young love is all about, uh, how somebody looks, how hot they are, how, how, how, how, how, how, how whatever shallow thing. I'm just thinking of they're all just so shallow. Love at the start is just so shallow, usually. And if you do it right, it grows into something, as he said, when she says,

put your hands on my shoulders so I can get up and out of bed or have some more water. He said those aren't romantic things, but they are with mature love. The things that you will do for your spouse or your spouse will do for you as you grow old together are the things that

make all the difference and they're the things that inspire the next generation. It is the couple that still holds hands it's the couple that still just hugs each other in the kitchen I always wanted to be that guy who grew old with his wife and I am so blessed to have that in my wife Tanya

who has just been a remarkable woman this Valentine's Day it doesn't take chocolate and it doesn't take you know it doesn't take anything special that helps you know to remind

but it is everything else that goes around Valentine's Day that really makes the difference you're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program David Harsani the author of Freedom First a guy who

is the senior editor at the Federalist and a dear friend. Welcome to the program, David. Thank you for having me, Glenn. You bet. I know you've done a lot of work on the Green New Deal, which on its surface seems absolutely nuts. But you've really, you know, you've put the hood up on this thing and you've really looked at it to see using the facts of the actual deal to see what's in it. And you've found that? I wouldn't consider it work because it was actually a lot of fun to read through in one sense. Right. But I know there are not just fossil fuels, but also nuclear fuels.

No, they can't. They can't. It is the cleanest by far and helps us. We could use all of the nighttime energy just to be able to make hydrogen. I mean, there is so much that can be done with nuclear energy that would help us be completely emission-free. that anybody who says that they're serious about having energy and clean energy, and they dismiss nuclear, they're frauds, they're just frauds. It's just nuts in that way. And then another way that it's security for people, quote, unquote,

unwilling to, you know, and a bunch of others. But even if you are willing to work, this is a reversal of the Bill of Rights. This is FDR's second Bill of Rights, is it not? of guaranteed housing and a bunch of other things of that nature that really have nothing to do with with green energy or anything so david um is there is there anything serious in it that you can look at and say well you know what this this is a solid idea banning me giving it or many progress this was pulled mock not because they don't and this is this is me even if so david the real tell here is is to me the nuclear power thing. It's like if you are really concerned with the globe and the way it's warming, you're going

to want to embrace nuclear power if you're actually serious about it. And they ban it in this bill. Right. And you leave in coal, apparently, right? I guess they don't lead the world in reducing cracking and natural gas. Yes. So if you eliminate that and you eliminate nuclear power, anything, you just want to think. So how frightened are you that there are

70 co-sponsors of something that is truly ridiculous. I'm actually pretty frightened. I mean, I'm pretty frightened that, you know, fact, because I know it can't really. Well, you say that it can't happen, but you listen to people who are not paying attention. And David, honestly, if we went through another 2008 or worse, which I do believe is on the horizon, just because of Europe alone, this is the country. this is the kind of thing that socialists say, hey, we're going to take care of your housing, your housing, we're going to take care of your car, your food, your guaranteed job.

And if there is a serious, serious, and I'm talking about a depression, this is the kind of stuff people run towards. And act like. Democrats seem to think that that's so. I think the debate, I do wonder, though, I just want to quickly say if people understand what people want Medicare for all. But when they explain to the, what does that mean? Medicare for all. What does that mean? It means we're going to take away your private insurance and throw you into a go. Well, unfortunately, it fools country after country after country. Tell me what it, the idea of getting rid of grounding all planes. That we're going to have high speed rail. It's hard not to laugh when you talk about this stuff, but it's, it claims that and it works so well that we will, any need for air travel or actually for urban areas.

As you see in California, they have a high-speed country. Every city that I've ever lived in that talks about having a high-speed rail, it always fails. Always fails. Always comes in over. Out here in D.C., they're trying to build, expand. People in America love their cars. And moreover, in the middle of America, I lived in Denver, for instance, for many years. You need your cars.

So is she talking about actual bans or some sort of a carbon tax that would discourage things like planes? Because it sounds like in 10 years, we're just going to stop air travel. We're going to stop cars. Or is it a penalty if you want to use the car? How do they envision this happening? I don't think she uses the word ban on the planes, but she does use some sort of language when it comes to cars in urban areas of having government as far as you need or don't. I can't say that she's put would be nothing to be accomplished for the most part, only that they still.

David, did she write? Who wrote this? Who is the brain behind this? Well, you know what I mean. Who's the head behind this? Who wrote this and put this together? There are a bunch of special interest greenie types who are thrown in there. So I'm civil for doing so.

Where we headed, David? I was in the State of the Union. I was actually in the room with them. And there is now a growing Marxist community that is arrogant, community that is arrogant, is self-centered, and will make you pay if you don't join them. At her CNN, I think she's fan of Donald Trump. And, you know, generally, I think young people don't understand war and they don't know a communist country.

I don't want anything like that for my... And I think it's going to be a pretty ugly fight. I will tell you this. I thought when the president said, we will not be socialist. I just talked about this yesterday in a monologue where what he was really, saying is, I will protect and defend the Constitution of the United States of America. Anyone who's pushing for these kinds of things, this Green New Deal, they are in violation of the oath they take in office.

You're not protecting and defending the Constitution. They cannot work together. I mean, I think it was PJ O'Rourke who said who boiled down the constitutional. David Harsani from thefederalist.com. Thank you for your help and your research. and we'll talk to you again. We want to take you to another socialist country that was also very into the planet.

Of the Glenn Beck Program. As you know, as a longtime listener of this program, world-renowned for our study and exposés that we do on science, we've won the, from the Academy of American Scientist and Scientific Stuff, three years running now, have won the show of the year, 2001, 2007, and again last year. And so now that we are looking at the Green New Deal, we want to get to the nuts and bolts of it,

and that is, of course, what Acosio Cortez says they are not interested in, you know, eliminating all cattle and cattle ranches and beef farms. but we know that if you're going to address global warming, you have to take care of cow farts. But if you're, again, a long time listening to this program, you know that the problem is not on the back end of the cow, but the front end of the cow. And we have Sarah Place.

She's a senior director of sustainable beef production. She's a researcher and an expert in upcycling in human nutrition. And just, I would assume, also, know, know something about cow farts. Welcome to the program, Sarah. How are you? I'm great. Thanks for having me, Glenn. Good. So let's talk seriously here for a minute about the people who are seriously

trying to get cattle ranches and cows eliminated from our diet entirely. And they do it in the name of global warming. Yeah, I think what, you know, we always try. to emphasize to people is really cattle and people that are cattle raisers are part of the climate change solution, not a problem. So as you mentioned, cow farts off the top, that definitely is fake news. I can say before I was at National Cattlemen's, that was actually part of my research was measuring methane from cattle. So it does come out the front end of the animal, but it's overblown in terms of its contribution to climate change, particularly in the United States. Okay, so wait a minute.

So it is cow burps that is the actual, where the methane comes from. And you say it's overblown, how? Yeah, so I think it's important to just zoom out and look at the big picture context. You know, the Environmental Protection Agency in the United States puts out a greenhouse gas emission inventory every year. And if you look at that, you know, methane from cows is about 1.8% of emissions in the entire United States. States. Well, wait, but nothing, but it's not huge. But wait, I mean, the IPC report, correct me if I'm wrong, Stu, because you know this

stuff inside now. Don't they say cattle, that is the number one cause of the problem for greenhouse gases? Yeah, well, the entire, they say the entire meat industry, right, Sarah? This is their claim that this is one of the biggest drivers of global climate change. Yeah, yeah, I'm glad you brought that up. So there was a report that came out in, like, 2006, called Livestock's from the UN Food and Agriculture Organization that looked at all livestock. So you're right.

It would be all cattle, sheep, goats, poultry, everything. And they claimed in that report that 18% of global emissions, so not U.S., but global emissions came from livestock. And that report also had a erroneous claim that that was a bigger portion than transportation. The UNFAO has actually come out and said that was wrong. but that doesn't prevent it from being repeated, you know, still 12 years, 13 years later, like it's fact. What part of it did they say was wrong that it was more than transportation, that that 18% was wrong? So kind of twofold.

So the first thing that was truly wrong was the comparison of transportation. So essentially how they got that 18% number was they did what's called life cycle assessment. So it's a bit into the weeds, but essentially you add up everything that gets admitted over the entire life cycle of a process. So we're going to talk about livestock. That would be everything that comes from feed production to feed the livestock all the way through to, you know, the slaughter of the animals. And what was really key in that report was the biggest chunk of that 18%, a third of it, was what we call land use change. So specifically things like deforestation down in Brazil, which is, of course, again, another president. issue, but we don't have a deforestation problem here in the United States. So that was really

one of the key problems was they added in everything for livestock. And then when they compared it to transportation, they just looked at tailpipe, you know, or emissions directly from vehicles, right? They didn't add in all the emissions that go into building vehicles, they go into maintaining all of our transportation infrastructure from roads to airports, et cetera, et cetera. So hopefully that makes sense. It was kind of an apples to oranges comparison. We're talking to, we're talking to Dr. Sarah Place, and she is the senior director for sustainable beef production and a researcher. And I am a rancher myself. I have, well, this time of year, I think I now have about a hundred head. So it's not a lot. But it,

our animals are grazing on natural grass and, you know, we're trying to do, you know, all right by the animal, right by the planet. Everybody I know who's a rancher or a farmer, they are more concerned about the environment than any environmentalist because their living is made on making sure that that soil and those animals are taking care of and are protected. Are you concerned at all about this new hybrid beef product that is coming out, as people are saying that that's going to be much better for you? Yeah, so are you talking about some of these so-called plant-based products and the cell cultured stuff?

Is that what you're talking about? Yeah. Yeah, so I think a lot of things in this space are just, there's a lot of media hype relative to like what actually happens on the ground. So as you just pointed out, I mean, you're the same as all the other ranchers across America and there's over 700,000 cattle producers in this country. It's the single largest segment of American agriculture. So people, the reality is people are dedicated to doing the right thing, as you said.

And in terms of those products, you know, again, it is a lot of hype in terms of their sales. They're fairly small in the grand scheme of things. And, of course, the cell cultured products don't actually even exist yet. You know, there's just a lot of media coverage about them coming out at some point, but they're still not commercially available. I think our biggest challenge is just this real big chasm we have in terms of understanding between the normal consuming public that's disconnected from agriculture by a few generations and some of this marketing that is surrounding some of these products

because they're trying to use some of the misinformation that's out there to their advantage, especially with regard to environmental impacts of cattle production. I have to tell you, Sarah, there is nothing more healthy for a family than to go and spend a summer on a farm. And I mean this sincerely. Something happened to us when we moved away from the farm.

You learn so many things. You learn about sex. You learn about life and death. As my kids and I went out to go capture a sheep that was lost from the flock, and we had to go out and we spent about an hour chasing this darn thing because we're city slickers. We talked about scriptures. You learn everything about the circle of life and how to take care of the planet. there is something to be said that as we lose these things in an agrarian culture,

as we have lost them, it's one of the sources for losing our way on so many things because there is what you read about is not what life on the farm or life on a ranch is actually like. It's just not. Yeah, I think you're 100% right on that. I mean, in the last 100 years we've gone to, you know, from a majority, population in rural areas and in agriculture to now it's, you know, less than 15 percent the U.S. population is in rural areas. So that is just the reality. And it's sometimes like you point out some of these basic things, you know, cycle of life that have been lost, that connection

has been lost for people. And that, you know, what you mentioned earlier, the upcycling. I mean, that's really our way to try to drive that home to people is highlighting. What is upcycling? Yeah, so everybody's heard of recycling. or essentially taking one thing and making something of equivalent value. Upcycling is taking something of little or no value to people and making a higher value product. And again, when we think about beef production, cattle production, that's exactly what's happening, right?

I mean, cattle are eating plants that we can't eat, and they're using lands that we can't use for crops otherwise, and they're making this super nutrient-rich food for us. And so, again, it's just using a different word to kind of try to drive home to people, the basics that again if you if you are on a ranch or you are connected with agriculture some of this seems like a no-brainer but because people are removed a few generations you know we do have to kind of explain the basics against people uh Sarah it's great talking to you

thank you so much dr Sarah Place uh you can find her and follow her at DRS place Dr Sarah Place thank you so much appreciate your time the entire agricultural community is uncomfortable with you calling yourself a rancher. No, I apologize to all ranchers. Thank you. No, I'm a... I'm a guy who pretends to be a rancher. You go on vacation ranching.

I do. I do want to go and I would move there in a heartbeat. You're essentially city slickers, the movie. That's essentially what you are. You're a city guy. I wouldn't say all the family is, but I certainly am. Yeah. I'm like, you know what?

We need some horses. Why do we need horses? Because we want to go to... No, because they would look good right over there. Wouldn't that really? It would be so picturesque. All right. Anyway, I apologize to everyone in my 500-person town in Idaho for embarrassing you on so many levels.

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