The Glenn Beck Program - Best of the Program | Guests: Pat Gray, Nick Di Paolo & Sujo John | 9/12/19

Episode Date: September 12, 2019

Tonight there’s yet another 2020 debate, and Glenn is sending a writer to this one. So we may hear an audience member yell “BINGO!” every time Trump is mentioned. Philadelphia’s police commissioner is being asked to resign over a 25-year-old T-shirt picture. Comedian Nick Di Paolo joins the show with his rundown of the 2020 Democrats, Dave Chappelle, and why comedy may just save the country. Sujo John, 9/11 survivor and founder of YouCanFree.us, calls in to share his personal story of that horrible day and how it changed his heart from chasing wealth to rescuing modern-day slaves. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hello, podcasters. It's time for today's podcast and a good one. In fact, I don't even know where to start on this one. Well, we started with France. And France, try being a businessman in France. If you think we're screwed up, try being a businessman in France. The story we lead with today is fantastic. We also talk about infanticide and the things that nobody in the media is talking about.

Nick DePaolo is on with us today. Very, very funny. We hired a couple of listeners to watch tonight's debate. Because, honestly, we just can't do it. We just can't do it. We have other things we're doing for the show tomorrow. Yeah. You know, I'll be watching the NFL game to see if anyone needs.

I'll be going to my son's school, the parent-teacher meeting. About education because you're going to talk about education tomorrow. That's what I'm going to do. Right. Also, probably, I think, the most important break that we have done on this show, and I don't know how long. I have a feeling on this. It just kind of came out. and it threw a discussion with with stew and it just feels absolutely right how Donald Trump could lose the election if Warren becomes the candidate.

It's kind of a it's a horror show. It's a basically our version of American Horror Story. Yeah, it's a horror show, but you must listen to it. It's all on today's podcast. You're listening to the best of the Glenbeck. Now imagine you're coming home, Stu, and you're coming from a business trip. Okay, you went, you went someplace and you were there on business. And you were like, honey, damn this corporation, I, I broke my leg and I was working.

And you're like, I mean, you're, still, you work in an office. You sit behind a, I broke my leg, and there was laws on a business trip. Okay. And then she found out that you were water skiing. What would your wife say? And my business isn't selling water skis. Your business is what you do. Okay.

And there were no cameras or anything else. You were just out on a boat with a group of people, hot people, water skiing. Hot people. Okay. She may be a little suspicious that something else was. going on. Right. And would she say, really, that's the company's problem? Would she? You're like, the company? And did the company ask you to go water skiing? No, it is my free time. Yeah, no. No, she wouldn't. In France, here's what happened. An employee died on a business trip. And the family

is suing the company. And the courts just ruled, yes, that is a, that's a responsibility. of the company to make sure that their people are protected. Here's what happened. He was an employee that had a heart attack while having sex with a stranger in his hotel room. The firm... My wife would have more of a problem with that than the water skiing. Yeah, well, I didn't want to give you something so insane.

Right. I mean, my wife would have a problem with the water skiing. You know, somebody coming in and going, And I, okay, I broke both my legs because we were having this crazy sex. I don't think my wife would say okay. No. And she wouldn't say that damn company. She'd say, I'm leaving.

I'm glad. Right. Glad this happened to you. Right. And I only have to break two arms. I don't have to break all four limbs. It saves me some time. It saves me time, right?

So the family said that they were entitled to compensation, compensation because that was a workplace injury. And so the company said, no, that's not a workplace industry. I don't know if you know, but he was in his hotel room at night. We had finished work. And he picked up a stranger in the bar. And it was so good, no offense to rub it in here, but it was so good that he had a heart attack during it. Is it, well, I mean, I guess he wouldn't have been at that hotel, if not for the work assignment.

Well, that's what the judge said. Oh, my God. That's what the judge said. The employer is responsible for any accident occurring during a business trip. He wouldn't have been there in a, quote, extramarital relationship with a perfect stranger had he not been asked to go on the business trip. Oh, my gosh. God bless a marriage. If you think we're insane, we're not fully there yet.

You don't think that could happen in the United States? No, please don't wreck. I just, I don't have, I do not have a case to bring to, but I can look. I've got the debate tonight. I'm trying to build myself up with a lot of hope and a lot of good things so I can watch the debate and last maybe two minutes before my head explodes. I'll say, though, I think it's a good idea to, if you're going to commit a crime in France, wait until you're on a business trip.

Like, if you were to go and murder someone, wouldn't the company be responsible for that murder? I didn't do it. I was on a business trip. I was at a quality in, and I just murdered somebody at the bar. But, I mean, if I wasn't working for this company, you would never been at the quality in? Right. I robbed the bank, but I was only in town that one night because business told me to go there. As long as you could show, it's not premeditated.

I think you're clear. I think you are. I like it. This bank was a total stranger to me. I'd never seen that bank before. I had no idea. Just an extramarital robbery with another bank. If the debate moderator today were to say, if a person were to go and have sex on a trip, a business trip, who should be responsible?

You have to believe at least eight of the ten people are saying it's the company's fault. Who's there tonight? I will tell you exact number of how many people, how many people would say yes. You have Joe Biden. He would say, ooh, he's tough. Come back to him. Okay. Bernie Sanders. Yes. Companies always at fault for everything. Yes. Yes. You know, Elizabeth Warren. Yes. 100%. Pete Buttigieg. Somehow another, the banks would be involved if Elizabeth Warren was...

That's true. Yeah. The banks are always involved. It would be the company, but really the companies were driven by the banks to do it. Pete Buttigieg? Yeah, I think he'd do it. But he'd put it in a way to where everybody would kind of go like, yeah, that's kind of common sense. That's just the average everyday Joe saying that?

You think he's not, to me, average everyday Joe. He's like McKinsey consultant, right? Like he's, he speaks in that way that we've been in those meetings before with like those high level consultants and they lay it all out and you're like, I don't think they said anything there. Like that was a lot of, a lot of syllables, but I. Yes, yes, yes, yes. The syllable to content ratio is very, I didn't say he meant it. I said, I mean, that's what he's good at. He's good at, he's good at just talking around things where you're like, I don't know.

I don't know what he said, but I kind of feel good. Yeah, right. Yeah. Kamala Harris. Camel. Yeah, she's in. Bob Franco Rourke. Oh, my gosh.

Oh, yes. He's in because Bob Frank is in ultimate campaign desperation mode and we'll say anything. He might even say the F bomb on the stage tonight. I'll be shocked. Is that not incredible? I'll be shocked. Dude, we got it. You can use the F word.

I mean, what is the deal? They're all so proud of themselves when they can say because Donald Trump in a private meeting said s whole countries. And so now they all are going to get to say the full word because it's news, in quotes. And so they all come on, you know, Donald Trump said, and he says the whole word. No, but, and then now Bob Frank is saying the F word everywhere. Right. Because he's so desperate for attention.

His Hispanic priest, Patrick O'Malley, Father Patrick O'Malley. Oh, very Hispanic. He's very upset that his young altar boy was using the F word like that. And Patrick O'Malley created Salsa Verde, if I'm not mistaken. Oh, you're very Hispanic. Very Hispanic. Triple Hispanic. Yeah, yeah.

Trip Hispanic is his official. How about Cory Booker? Yeah, Corey Booker. Cory Booker's a pandering machine. So he's going to pander no matter what is said. He actually was bashing Trump about the bill that they did together on criminal justice reform. He's like, Chrissy Teigen, the model slash wife of someone who's accomplished things, has wrote some really nasty thing

with all sorts of swears and stuff at Donald Trump and he came out and he's like another example of Donald Trump targeting minority women it's like wait a minute she was calling him like all sorts of swears and I don't even think he named her

she came back with some really like vile rant against it and she's like I'm on team Chrissy oh wait Chrissy Tegan is now a victim of something. Yes, Chrissy Teigen is apparently the victim. Her poor multi-million status. Really? And she's a minority?

I don't know. I honestly don't care. I don't either. I don't know why everyone else is so obsessed with this. Like, who cares what her skin color is? I don't get it. You're going to be saying, no, the company's not responsible for that extramarital affair, heart attack. So we have three more. I think we've named seven so far. So we have Julian

Castro. Yes. Amy Klu. Klobuchar? I don't even know that. Yeah. Yeah, no idea. Not really relevant. And Andrew Yang. Yang would say no.

Yeah, probably. And I think Biden would just, it would just have to look at everybody else. And if everybody else was saying yes, then he'd say yes. And then he'd probably flub six, seven sentences in a row. Yeah, he'd pronounce yes as. Okay, I think that's a yes from Joe Biden. This is the best of the Glenn Beck program. Pat is here from the Pat Gray Radio Roundup, otherwise known as Pat Gray Unleashed.

Point of personal privilege. He, him, his. Okay, thank you. Yeah, you're welcome. Pat is the host of that podcast, which you can hear live as he records it every morning right before this one, or you can download it at your discretion. And you can find that wherever you get podcast. on blazed tv.com. Pat.

Yes. Let's talk about the craziness in Philadelphia. Yeah. Philadelphia is acting police commissioner and people are calling for her to resign. Because 25 years ago, she wore a t-shirt. Yeah. She wore a t-shirt. Here's what the

t-shirt said. Are you ready for this? Yeah. Now she's a police commissioner. Police commissioner in Philadelphia. Right. And she wore a t-shirt. And it said, LAPD, we treat you like a king. Of course, that's not funny at all. Oh, it's not funny at all.

No. And Rodney King. Yes, yes. Oh, I never thought of that. A little double-on-ton perhaps there. Yeah. So she came in. She came in to work, what, last week and was wearing that?

No, no, no, just a photo surfaced of her from 25 years ago. From 25 years ago. In which she had the T-shirt. on and now she you know they're demanding that she resigned because of it I mean you're not going to be able to

you better start deleting your Twitter feed right now our kids are doomed no Facebook pages be careful of your wardrobe I mean yeah our kids are going to be our kids are look at what people say on Twitter all the time

and you know what here's the thing how when you're a kid when you're a 15 year old boy you're not saying things necessarily that you believe you're saying them because you know you can get a rise out of people oh yeah yeah because it's just antagonizing when you're a 15 year old boy you don't know what you believe right you don't know what you believe and it's not and it's not hatred i mean it could be you know i saw it i saw jeff uh what's his name bowers uh and the way he was you know beating up on those other kids and he had real hatred in his heart so step

King tells the truth. But for the most part, kids are just saying things that... Yeah, you go back and find any insensitive joke from a kid at 15 years old. It's usually made because they think it's going to piss a bunch of people off. It's not made because they have a deep-seated ideology.

It's just like... And what's the thing I'm not supposed to say? Let me say that. Right. And when you're young, especially with comedy, when you're young... You don't cut funny. You don't cut funny. That was literally...

our theme really for the show when back in the day. Back in the day. You don't cut funny. You don't cut funny. Is it funny? Don't cut it. But it's really offensive. Is it funny?

Yes, don't cut funny. You can't go with that anymore. That was the first thing I told everybody that came to work for me on the show. Don't cut funny. You leave it in. Don't cut funny. Now, if it's not funny, you know, we were never, we didn't invent, you know, the claptor.

That hadn't been invented yet. Like, ah, ha, ha, ha. not funny, but I'm laughing in approval. Now, I mean, how are our kids going to survive? The only hope is saturation, I think, for kids today. Think about this way. I was reading, going back through, we were talking about history yesterday,

and I was clicking around through a bunch of stories and went down some wormhole. And there was a story about Dan Quail. And Dan Quayle, they actually found the potato kid recently. Do you know this? They found the potato kid. Yeah, they found the potato kid. Wait, wait, for anybody who doesn't know this story, he's a child that Dan Quayle had kept in a dark box underneath his refrigerator sink with a potatoes.

It was a horrible, horrible thing when we found this out. And he was initially because Dan Quail impregnated a potato. Right. So it was a very strange story. But the potato has a lot of eyes, and he couldn't take the way the potato was looking at him. But that's a different story. Yeah, there's a lot of justification for what he did, and we're not going to get into it now. But so he, if you remember, of course, he went up and the kids spelled the word potato correctly, and he added on the E.

And there was a back and forth about how it used to be spelled. Which, by the way, it used to be spelled that way. Yeah, exactly. So, you know, there was a long story. But, I mean, it basically, I mean, Quail made the point essentially that it ruined his life. I mean, it certainly ruined his career and was a, it really dramatically affected his life in a terrible way. we have politicians that misspell words a hundred times a day on Twitter

and no one even bothers noticing. At some point there's a saturation of these things where people just don't care anymore and maybe we'll get to that point with our kids. They all have so much crap on their back. They've all said so many offensive things on Twitter over the years that you can't hire anybody. Right. Yeah. So no one cares.

Unless it's the algorithm that doesn't. If it's the algorithm and the algorithm has been written by somebody who has an agenda, it will only silence those. It's doing it now. We're doing it in real time. It's only silencing. Yeah.

And for instance, let's take this. You want to talk about saturation. The saturation of the story two years ago that Planned Parenthood was selling body parts. Okay. Everybody was talking about it. And what did the media say? Not true.

Not true. This is made up. That's edited videos. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Right? Now we have Planned Parenthood admitting in a court of law. and the people that were procuring it, admitting under oath that, yes,

they were selling them. And the company that was procuring them testified that they were taking beating hearts out of intact bodies. So the child was born and killed after birth. That's now under oath in a court of law. Nobody's talking about it. Nobody cares.

Because it's kind of like, I don't know. Yeah, we mean. missed that boat. Yeah, that was so long ago. Yeah, you're not going to get on it. Yeah, you're not going to get on it. Mm-hmm. So if you, if you just saturate it with something, when it turns out to be true, it doesn't

matter. Caliphate. Caliphate. Yeah. You sat there getting beat up for three years about how a caliphate might be coming. And then all of a sudden there was a caliphate. There was a caliphate. And then like the New York Times just starts a podcast called Caliphate.

I know. Like, these people are out there criticizing you like crazy. for years. They're like crazy conspiracy theorist, all of these things. And then they go make all this money on a... Right. I know, I know, I know. But that's what happens.

Yeah. That's what happens. Also, I was reading an article the other day that was titled, Dave Chappelle will save the nation. And when I read it, I thought, yeah, you know what? If he survives this, he might save the nation. Have you seen Nick Apollo? No.

Nick Apollo is not on. Netflix. I mean, he's he wrote for Chris Rock. The guy is really, really funny. And one of those comedians that all those guys respect and admire. John Stewart on his last show said, uh, I'm, I'm, this was a joy and I can't wait to go back and be on stage with people like Nick DePaolo and he was then named another comedian. He named another comedian, two comedians. So, um, I mean, Nick is really, really good. But he He's not doing, you know, the Netflix special because he's on the other side. But he is, you think, if you think that, what's his name that you just said?

Chappelle. Dave Chappelle. Is politically incorrect. Go on YouTube and look for Nick DePollo. Really? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. It's like, I watched him and I'm like, how is he getting away?

He's coming up in a few minutes. How is he getting away with saying all of these things? And it's because he's funny. He's very, very funny. And you don't cut funny. Right. And I think we're at that point to where people don't care anymore. They're starting to.

I've never seen a funnier routine than Dave Chappelle's. I mean, that is an hour and 10 minutes of just absolute brilliance. And Netflix does take some chances with this stuff. Yeah, they do. And he's not really, I wouldn't call that a left-wing routine either. Because every time you think he's going there, there's a little twist and it hits both sides

but it's also not a right wing routine no it's not at all I think people conservatives are like oh well finally someone's saying some conservative things really he's just making observations about the world and not caring which side it falls on right and that is like it's a superpower these days

it is I mean Bill Burr has a as a special up there now which is getting the same type of buzz as the Chappelle one they just launched it I'll tell you there is a chance that comedy saves the country saves the country. Yeah. I mean, you know,

it, there is that possibility. We lost all sense of humor and, you know, we've talked about it for years. How do you write something crazier than what's happening? You know what I mean? And it's just the observations that no one is willing to say anymore that are, that are true and funny.

Because it used to be. If you were joking about something, you were kind of left out off the hook, right? You didn't lose your job if you were joking about something. And clearly people knew you were joking about it. Well, that doesn't apply anymore at all. The T-shirt. At all.

LAPD treats you like, that's a joke. That's clearly not serious. No one should get fired for that. Right. Particularly, I mean, I guess if she was the police commissioner today, maybe it would be a bit of... Yeah, she was wearing it 25 years ago. Right. I'm meeting with the police commissioners in Los Angeles, and I thought I'd wear this

T-shirt to greet them. That might be a problem. Yeah, not a good idea. Thanks, Matt. This is the best of the Glenn Beck program. Hey, it's Glenn, and I want to tell you about something that you should either end your day with or start your morning with, and that is the news and why it matters. If you like this show, you're going to love the news and why it matters. It's a bunch of us that all get together at the end of the day and just talk about the stories that matter to you and your life.

The news and why it matters. Look for it now wherever you download your favorite podcast. Ladies and gentlemen, from the comfort, I believe, of his own home in Georgia, it's Nick DePaulo. How are you? Not my home. I have an actual studio. You have an actual studio. I'm doing very well, yeah. Yeah, good.

So, uh, can I? Yeah, go ahead. Your physical appearance, since, since the O'Reilly day says, I love it. You got the white hair, the goateeatie. Let me just, let me just hear you say, come down a KFC, a cry on, get a fist. You know, it's a way. It's really, you know, it's really horrible. My family has white hair very young.

My sister's tired of getting there. Is it 30? I was the last to get it, and I always wanted it because my grandfather had it. But I've turned into my grandfather, and if that's not bad enough, I do look exactly like Colonel Sanders. It's not cool. It's not popular with the women. Well, the white shirt and the black tie is not helping. I mean, put a bowelot tie on there.

Okay, all right. As you have pointed out, Glenn, though, you are fatter than Colonel Sanders. Yeah, when I actually looked at a picture of Colonel Sanders, I am in worse shape than the guy who is selling fried chicken out of the trunk of his car. Yeah, but he does P90X three times a week. How you doing, Nick? I'm doing good. How you doing? You look good. That's really not necessary. No, that was not stuck down.

No, sure, sure you didn't mean it that way. So, Nick, let me ask you. Tonight is the, tonight is the, the, the, the democratic debate in Houston. It's tonight. It's tonight. Going up against football. Gee, I wonder who's, who's going to win in the ratings. What are your thoughts?

What are your thoughts on Joe Biden? Well, he's, uh, Joe Biden's out of his mind. And, uh, he has no, no business. He has no business being in the race. I mean, I can't believe he's still in the lead. Yeah. This guy, he doesn't even know what state he's in. He's a, well, I love here coming to New Hampshire.

It's one of the most beautiful states. Just look around the Rock Mountains. You've got the Smoky Mountains. I'll tell you, I love Denver. He, I can't believe. So, but is he the guy that is doing well just because everybody else is nuts? I mean, go through them. Bernie Sanders.

He's a Jew living in Vermont. Do I have to say anymore? I don't know. I mean. I don't know what that means exactly. Well, you know, he hates the 1%. Everything in 1% they're getting all the tax breaks. They're getting all the money.

I hate 1% milk. I graduated 1% of my class. I don't like that. Why do you live in Vermont, Bernie? Well, I love Subarus. I love women in flannel. I love covered bridges. And health care.

First of all, he talks like me. I'm from Boston. He puts ours on words that, you know, I'll have a vodka and tonic, and I have to head. I'll be touring in Nebraska and the butter, and, and, damn it, I wrote the bill, damn it. I like this spunk. I'm going to be honest with you. He's, you know, his politics, forget about it.

You made a good point, though. They're so far left. And if I was Bernie, I'd be P-Oed because Liz Warren is just, you know, rehashing his ideas. He had the nerve to come out and admit he was a socialist, and now she's just trying to steal his thunder. It's not. There's no ours in the word where there should be ours. Yes. And adding them where they don't exist.

That's what Brooklyn people do in Boston people. But how about let's go ahead. No, go ahead. Well, cups of coffee in me. How about the fact that he doesn't understand money? He says, I don't understand why we can't pay peaches like ballplayers. We do. We pay him like double a ball players.

A dollar players. But, I mean, he doesn't understand that. Bernie, let me explain it to you. When you can get 20 million people to tune in to a science teacher rubbing a balloon on a kid's cardigan to teach electricity and then sell 12,000 beers at $10 a pop, then we can pay them. Look, there's only one type of teacher who should get paid like a pro ball player. And that's the young female teachers who sleep with their 14-year-old boy students. I will actually take them to operate.

I will actually represent them an arbitration. I'll go right into the principal's office and say, Mrs. Johnson deserves another $200,000 a year. Well, why's that? Well, she slept with half the basketball team last month. And look at her numbers. She's having a great year. I don't think that's helpful.

I don't think that's helpful. So what do you make of Pete Buttigieg? I hate him more than Hillary. That's all I have to say about that. Wow. He is a smarmy little sanctified. demonic is holier than thou i i can't stand this guy and and he's on this whole i mean he passes himself off as this you know religious whatever and now he's quoting the bible he says

in inaction on you know climbing uh on inaction on uh you know uh climate change is a sin he says so what are you going to the confessional bless me father if i have sinned i uh i have sexual thoughts about my neighbor's wife. I murdered a person 20 years ago and I am not using paper straws, damn it. I mean, come on. I was just in Los Angeles last week and they handed

you know, I asked for a straw. They don't even give you a plastic straw. I mean, they have to ask for it. And then they don't give, they reward you with this paper straw that I hated those when they were passing out milk when I was in school. They're horrible. They're horrible.

They're horrible. You want me to believe that Hollywood stars a snort and coke with paper straws. Come on. Matthew McConaughey has 19 paper cuts in his left sinus. Come on. It's all below. Just don't get rid of the crazy straws. That's all I ask.

There's a couple of things that I saw today. There was a story about a 77-year-old guy who's being released from prison because Trump has said, this is ridiculous. He was digging a trench around his property because he was, afraid of fires and he dug a trench and he

he kind of made a little moat. He took a like a two-foot stream and channeled it in so that water was around his property and the EPA threw him in jail. He's 77 threw him in jail. I didn't know Bernie owned a shovel.

Yeah, well then he's not in jail. But Trump has just has just let him let him out. And And now, while that's good, now the EPA is saying that they want to eliminate all animal testing. Look, I said this on a special years ago. I said as far as animal testing, you know, if hooking a monkey's brain up to a car battery is going to save somebody from dying AIDS, I have two things to say. The red is positive and the black is negative.

Okay. If you don't want to use animals, let's replace the animal. Let's replace the animals with career politicians. Let's pump some chemicals and solvent into Gerald Nadler and see how he does after a week. Are you smoking, Glenn? No, I am. He just reacts like normal human beings do when they walk up a bunch of stairs when he laughs. Like, that's the physical activity.

Yeah, I know. This is quite a workout for me. All right. It sounds like you have tuberculosis. Is you been hanging out on the Mexican border? Yeah, I have been. I live in Texas now. By the way, you're living, you moved to Georgia.

Yeah. How do you like it? I love it down here. I moved to a, you know, a very red state. And first thing I did when I get down here, I wanted to be Southern. So I bought a handgun and I put it on my lap and I went through Chick-fil-A drive-thru. And I thought I was going to scare the person in the window. They didn't even phase them.

They're like, what you got? Listen, I had a 38 snub-nose. That's a 642 lightweight, ain't it? Yeah, I shot my stepdad with that. He's kind of mess around my sister on the 4th of July. And I'm like, that's a nice story, Diane. Anyways, can I get some catch up? How many shows a year do you do, Nick?

How often are you out on the road? Not as much as I used to be, Glenn. And that's the whole idea. I just hate the road, you know. So I used to do 30, 35 weeks of year when I was, you know, young and single and chasing women, and it was fun. Yeah. And, you know, but after you're eighth time back to Cleveland, you know, how many times can you visit the Bowling Hall of Fame?

And so I probably, I don't know, probably, it's probably around 15 weekends. So have you been affected, have you been affected by this, this quashing of comedy over the last 10, 15 years? Well, yes and no. I mean, I'm sure I didn't do myself any favors, like landing gigs as far as TV and actual Hollywood show business. That's the thing you don't know. But as far as live performances, I came out of the closet as a ritee on tough crowd in like 2002. I was, you know, I was spewing the term cultural Marxism on that show, which was a brilliant, brilliant idea by me. I have $11 in the bank.

I'm on national TV. you know, I mean, everybody gives Dennis Miller and Schwarzenegger credit for being righties. I mean, yeah, well, they had 70 million in the bank when they, so, but, so I got, I got pigeonholed as a conservative. I'm not, I'm a comedian who happens to lean right in it, and is in, so, so people came out and, and thank God Trump came along. So, you know, but, but yes and no, I, I, a few people walk out of my shows all the time. Well, it may not be for your politics. I mean, you are, you are, you are. are my clothing yeah i mean you are you are you are you say everything uh you say everything let me ask you what your your thought is on the dave chapelle special i absolutely loved it dave chappelle and i've

said this okay and i know him i i like him as a person i honestly i don't think richard prior or chris rock have anything on dave chappelle i think he's a genius you've written for chris rock i wrote for Rock and I I Chappelle is just he's like a jazz musician he's smooth he's smart he's concise that being said my only problem is people are coming out

there and people on my side going he boy he's fearless well he first of all he's a famous black guy with a hundred million in the bank what's he got to what's he got to lose I'm fearless I'm a 57 year old white guy

I've been saying this stuff forever that's why I'm doing a show on the back of an apple bees right now. But that special was tremendous, and I'm glad somebody that's famous and has that many people watching thought the message. But I've been preaching that, and if you watch my special breath of fresh air,

I touched on basically the same things Dave Chappelle did. He came out a few months after mine. We touched on the same subjects. People should put them side by side and go, and this is how it is for a white guy. So I just don't like that they're going, oh, he's fearless. A famous black guy in show business has never got in trouble for anything other than OJ in a couple of extreme cases.

But I mean, he's not going to get trouble for anything he says. So you don't think this because he has gotten pushback? Yeah, pushback's one thing, but being canned or being put under the radar for the rest of your showbiz career is another thing. And that's never going to happen to ship up. I use this example. Remember Tracy Morgan, his wife was pregnant. He actually came out and said, if my baby's gay, I'm going to kill it. He actually said that.

And, you know, six months later, he has a new series on TBS. I mean, you know what I mean? Yeah. Tell me a white guy that could say something that outrageous and not be banned from the planet. So I, I, but he's a genius. Chappelle's a genius. And he's in my top five, easy. And I suggest everybody watch that special.

But I then, then watch mine. And I'm not comparing myself to him as a comedian because he's tremendous. but you know you're going to see the point of view from a white straight 57 year old white guy and and and he has a little more leeway to say stuff that I don't even know I cut loose you you do cut loose he is yeah and I think he's being um people are assigning things to him that he didn't necessarily say his his jokes many of them take you a minute before you say wait wait a minute did he say that or did he say this. He's making a point, but you can't really pin him down. He's just willing to say things, but I don't, I wouldn't say that he's, for instance, pro-life, but I don't know that he's pro-abortion either. I don't know where he stands, which I think is part of the genius of the way he's, he wrote this. Do you agree with this or not? Yeah, I do. It's funny to say that because the next hour I'm working on. I have about

10 minutes on abortion, and you won't know where I stand either. You know, look, I can't say people assume I'm pro-life because I lean right in my politics. But I'd be a hypocrite to say that because when I was young, I got a few girls pregnant and I was glad to her

planned parenthoods or, I don't know, Midas mufflers, I can't remember what they used to do that stuff. Beautifully put, Nick. Beautifully put. I have like, get her up on the jack. I have no one. He's playing at the Vatican next week. Just get your tickets now.

But you're right. He sort of has the Michael Jordan. Remember Michael Jordan's quote? They said, why don't you ever talk politics? And he says because both Republicans and Democrats buy sneakers. And it's sort of Chappelle sort of. But I don't think he's doing that intentionally. I mean, that's how he thinks.

He's looking at both sides fairly. And you don't see that from too many comics. And that was the genius of it. Like you said, you could get him down, and it's really funny on top of that. And look, Netflix is Netflix, but let's not downplay the success of a breath of fresh air. I mean, you're up 800,000 views now on YouTube. You can watch it for free. I mean, it's done really well.

People have a thirst for this right now. That's exactly right. They do have a thirst for it. I'm lucky Trump came along because, yeah, I'm brutally honest about it. So wait, wait, wait, wait. Is it Trump or is it that people are starting to see? the effects in their own life. You know, everybody wants to be nice.

You know, I don't say that. They're handicapped. It makes them feel bad. Okay, I don't want to. But then you get to a point to where you're like, shut up, shut up. This is affecting my life. There's a six foot four guy in a dress that's now wrestling my daughter in female wrestling. Shut up.

And so I think they're just, this is played out long enough to where people are seeing it affect their, their own life in a negative way. Well, that's some of it. But when Trump, look, this is when I, and again, folks, keep this in context. I'm a comedian. I have a much darker sense of humor than you do. But this is, I swear to God, and I said, I'm going to vote for Trump. And I'm laying in the couch.

I'm half asleep. I got one eye open. Remember he went after the physically challenged report of the New York? Yes. I look over the TV and I see Trump go, and I said, where do I pull the lever? This guy does not give a crap. this is my guy and you know what he he's been great for me because he's calling the media out on the PC bull crap and uh and yes like you said uh just through the way things are evolving people have

had enough but but i love that uh he he would say anything i'm watching him doing a rally the other day and they throw a heckler out and as they're throwing the guy out trump goes that guy has a weight problem the home and exercise it was The Best of the Glenn Beck program. Sujo John is his name. He's a 9-11 survivor and a founder of something called You Can Free Us. He has an amazing story. Welcome, Sujo. How are you?

Great, then. Good to be back with you. I want to take the radio audience through your story a bit. First of all, you were living in India. And had moving to America always been a part of your plan or your dream? And if so, why? Great question. A lot of reasons why. America, you know, even for those from half around the world, America always stands out as this amazing place where dreams and dreamers collide. And if you have a dream somewhere within you in some part of the world, everybody wants to come to this country.

And that was part of me. And my view of America was through the lenses of television, movies, and arts. And then growing up in India where, you know, as Christians, you're a minority, I just knew that America's that place that's been founded on Judeo-Christian principles. So that was another big reason why I wanted to come here. And everything that America stands for is very appealing and drawing to people on the other side of the world where they want to build their dreams. And in this country, it's not about your pedigree. It's not about your last name.

If you can add value, you can make something out of your life in this country. I don't think there's any country in the world that provides that foundation. It's so good to hear this from people who actually know because we have lost our way so far. We just, we don't see the uniqueness of America when you're living in it. So you come to the United States in February of 2001 and you find yourself a pretty good job. You are working on what floor of the World Trade Center? So, Glenn, I came with $50, two bags and tell people loaded with a lot of dreams and of all the places I find work on the 81st floor of the North Tower of the World Trade Center. And what are you doing?

I'm doing marketing for a telecommunications company. My dream was to start actually a data center to get into the telecom world. And so I was building my steps towards that and trying to understand what life is all about in America. What does true capitalism mean? Because going up in India, although they believe in capitalism, it's not quite a capitalist economy. And I was just so excited to come to the – of all the places in New York City, I mean, almost like, the nuclear reactor of capitalists around the world that have created the wealth, which not only helps people have a better life, but solves problems around the world. So that was my goal,

and my wife also works there. She was working on the 71st floor of the south power of the World Trade Center. So both of us at offices at the World Trade Center. And she was pregnant. She was four months pregnant, Glenn, and that was an exciting season in our life as we are getting ready for our baby to arrive, our first child, and then life. takes such an incredible turn on September 11, 2001. And you feel like on September 11th, you're there. What time in the morning did you get there?

I got a little past 7.30 that morning. I would start work usually earlier around 8th, so I was early that morning, 7.30. And then you lived in New York. You remember it was a clear cloudless day. Beautiful. Beautiful day. And then everything would change forever. So you're there.

and you, before the plane hits, just literally a few minutes before it hits, you sent an email to a friend who went to church with you. Yes. You know, I was, like you mentioned earlier, I was empty on the inside. You know, then you know this, and a lot of people listening to you know this. Life is not just about consumption. And sometimes we get wrapped up in stuff, junk. I call it the junk and the funk around us.

And we think life is all about the next new thing. next new toy, the next new gadget. And sadly, that was me in America. I could, I could reach things that money could get, but then there was a hole in my heart, and I knew my purpose for which God sent me to this great land was not just to make money. There's something more. And I felt like I was almost losing that, I was losing that mission, losing the plot. So I wrote an email to my friend saying, I know there's a call of God upon my life.

I've been chasing stuff in America. I want to be chasing that which is on God's heart. And I send that at 8.05 in the morning from the Twin Towers. You don't know that your wife is running late, if I remember right, and not in her office. Which tower was hit first? Hers or yours? My tower was hit first. The North Tower was hit first.

This incredible explosion that almost rips the building. American flight level, a Boeing 767, with 440, flying at 440 miles an hour. carrying 10,000 gallons of jet fuel. And how many floors above you was it? The plane literally struck about eight to eight, nine floors above us, but part of the wing of the plane rips through our floor. As everyone who's seen those images, they would know that the plane went in an angle into the building.

So there was fire that got struck around us, as jet fuel dumps its way all through the building. And did you see the plane coming toward the building? I didn't see the plane, but someone on my floor saw the plane. Everything happened so fast, but we felt this incredible explosion, the building rattling, and we knew as a plane what else could hit you at that height. But all of us, Glenn, thought it was a small commuter plane, probably a pilot, you know, had a cardiac problem or something.

Right, right. Crash the plane. Nobody knew it was a big jet plane, and nobody knew that it was actually a terrorist attack, that it was intentionally flowing into the building. So did you start to get out then? Yeah, we fought away to the fire on the jet field and started running down. And that's when I passed all these brave firemen and policemen, these incredibly brave men and heroes of our country. We were going down and they were going up.

So we high-fived them saying, you guys are the real heroes. We had no idea that would be the last time America would be seeing these brave men. So we started running down, and I'm running down with a very heavy heart. Phones aren't working. I can't reach my wife. So I come down 81 floors. I reached the plaza level. And from there we were told, go down one more level to the concourse level.

And I'm walking toward the South Tower to be looking for my wife if she has now gone up. And that's when the South Tower collapses around me. Wow. And so it, I mean, I would imagine it was a little terrifying with everything falling around you that you felt like you might get hit by things? or were you far enough away? No, I was actually almost right in front of the building, and it was an amazing story of God's deliverance.

I'm 20 feet away from the building. I made my way to the revolving doors of the towers that take you literally in front there, and that's when the ground starts shaking, the glass is shattering, and I'm with 15, 20 people, and we started crying out, and we were on top of each other,

and I started preparing them. I told them, we're going to die, and I told them call up on the name of Jesus. We knew time was short, and we started praying, our last prayer thinking we were going to die. So I was buried in that debris at that moment. I was in a pocket of about three feet of soot and ash.

The steel was the only thing that really survived. Everything was pulverized into ash and dust. And the first building, when it came down, the front facade of the building stood up for a while. And I was right there. So that's probably what saved my life. And everything went as if the way our mushroom is. It just went past us.

So that protected me. I was buried in debris and I was pulled out by a man, an incredibly brave FBI agent. And as he pulled me and I pulled him, we both told each other we're going to die. He said he was the FBI. And I told him, do you know where you're going? He said, yes, I know my savior. And we thought we were going to die choking all the sit on the ash. And that's when a red light flashes and we started crawling away.

And that light leads us out of the pit. The man says, I've got to go back, runs into the north tower, which was still standing. the ground shakes, the North Tao goes down. This brave American hero died that day. Do you know his name? Yeah, his name is Lenny Hayton, who was left behind four children. He was a bomb technician for the FBI. Actually, the only active FBI agent to have died that day.

His story is just incredible. I've had an opportunity to meet his wife and just to know about his life. Another story of another man who could have avoided that place, but he felt so driven by love for his country and fellow human beings on the call of duty that just made him race and run back into the towers to look for more people. And Glenn, I just want to say something here. That's what makes America great. You know, when people talk about make America great, I say the people of America, great,

America great. It's not our money. It's not our building. It's not our technology. The fact that there are people that are willing to love on their neighbor, they're people that care for this country. And I've heard you, I've seen you on television, met you in person. And I know beyond what you do in the media, it's a true love that you have for America

that makes people like you speak up on issues, people that want to protect this country, knowing what's about to happen. And for me, who's come from India, that's what I love about America, the great American spirit that's deeply interested in everyone that calls themselves an American. Sujo, I'm going to take a one-minute break, and then I'm going to come back. And I want you to tell people what happened afterwards because that was a big change in your life. The ground shook literally and figuratively. And you have gone on to do some remarkable things.

And I want to hear the second part of your life now. You know, Sujo and I were talking yesterday. He was on television. So we were talking just the other day about the thing that he's working on. And we both believe that the only way that we're going to save this nation and save freedom of mankind is if we put into action the things and the, and really the covenant that are pilgrims and George Washington and Abraham Lincoln made with God. And that is, we will serve you. And the best way to serve God, as Benjamin Franklin said, was to serve your fellow man. The one thing that we can all agree on now and not argue about is slavery is horrible and needs to be stopped.

And it's worse today than it's ever been. So here's this guy who's chasing the almighty dollar in the World Trade Center. They come down. And Sujo, you believe that you were directed and saved. You and your wife saved that day to be able to do something different than just making money. Absolutely, Glenn. And I felt God calling me into this. And the fact that I was rescued, that someone, you know, who rescued me gave up his life. And that's the story of the gospel narrative. God sends his son to look for broken people like us. And the fact that heaven rescued you and me compels us, our fate compels us to look for people. And the message of Jesus was, he came to set the captives free. And there are people spiritually captive and there's also physically captive. So I got exposed to this problem, Glenn, about modern slavery, how there's 41 million people in slavery. Yeah, when I saw the conditions, and I know you've seen it in different parts of the world, where women are kept in cells in cages.

I remember being in a red light district, 37,000 sex workers, and women kept in these cages three feet by six feet. I felt in that moment something common with those girls. I felt like I know what is to be trapped. And if someone came and rescued me, perhaps God is tapping on me to rest. these women and children on his behalf. And I saw that in India and I come back and I knew America is a place where people are generous. And I came and started talking about this problem and we started this nonprofit called Yucanfria. And this has become my life calling.

This has become my mission. And this is a problem in America. It's a problem in the Middle East. It's a problem in Asia. A global problem. Every zip code. Our children are vulnerable. And so that's been our mission, looking for women and children who are trapped in sex slavery.

But beyond sex slavery, children also trapped in labor trafficking. And I'm excited. You have a passion, Glenn, with Nazarene fun and what you've done and helping Christians flee from war-torn countries where they're under the threat of ISIS. And I'm so excited that we get an opportunity to talk about this and also work in the future on a problem that is one of the greatest evils of our times. We don't engage right now in this problem, a generation that's coming up behind. us will say, why did you not do enough? I want to share something with you. You know, you also may have been in these places around the world. There have been horrors of the past.

I remember being in Elmara Castle in Ghana, and they tell you about a slave trade. I've been in places where Hitler ran wild and wiped up millions of Jews, and we stand in those places and we question, and we ask, why did people not do enough? And so this is our problem in our world, and we've got to do whatever we can. There is a crime. rising from the brothels of the world. There is a cry rising from children and women. And the question is, are we listening to that cry? You know, it's amazing to me.

The New York Times just started something called 1619. It's a podcast, a serial that they're doing on the year 1619. They say that's the year of really America's founding, because that's when race, that's when slavery was brought here. But our pilgrims came in 1620. And it's the 400th anniversary of our pilgrims, the year after. And, you know, you can either look back and blame everything on that.

And I don't know what you're gaining out of that except more anger and frustration. And you're not lifting anybody up. Instead, we should be looking towards today because I can't do anything to change what people did in the past. But I don't want to be remembered as the people in the past that did nothing and were, you know, involved in cakes and circuses. And this problem is real. And if we can come together and solve the problem today, it will solve the problems of the past. It will heal those wounds. So, well said.

And I want to say something. It may not be politically correct. I just want to tell your listeners that's listening to you listening to us, Glenn, right now. Don't get discouraged when liberals beat you about the problem of slavery of the past. If those people care so much about things that happen in the past, I want to. encourage them, come join people like us in the fight of this problem that's happening right now. I don't know of any country in the world, Glenn, that has shed its blood on the issue of slavery. I looked up the numbers the other day. It's almost 600,000 people. Under a million Americans got

killed in the civil war. So America's paid the price with blood on this issue of slavery. And as we all aware of, and somehow this history is now being passed down. And there are people who come up and talk about the past and say we have to get involved in repartration for a small group of people that caused this problem, that was a global problem. But how about a problem right now in our streets? How about a problem right now around the world? And you and I and everyone who cares about this problem right or left can be part of a great solution. Thank you, Sujo.

Sujo, John, I encourage you to check out his organization and help where you can. It's you can free. dot us. You can free.us. Check him out and join the fight. Join the growing numbers of people who are saying, you know what, let's deal with real problems. The Blaze Radio Network On Demand