The Glenn Beck Program - 'Good' Friday News | Guests: Bill O’Reilly & Sen. Tom Cotton | 4/10/20

Episode Date: April 10, 2020

It’s Good Friday, America! Glenn shares the best news he could find. Meanwhile, we’re debating mail-in elections! Trump’s gut hope to reopen the country by Easter is proving accurate as the numb...ers decline. Nancy Pelosi claimed there was “no data” that said small businesses need more help. Bill O’Reilly gives his big story of the week: The far Left is using the pandemic to destroy the American system through panic and socialist solutions. A surprising number of people seem willing to pick the virus over another Trump term. And Bill finally watched “Tiger King” and has a less-than-stellar review. Glenn has an Easter message for the country. And Sen. Tom Cotton, who “saw the coronavirus coming,” joins to describe what he sees now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:00:44 So how, I mean, it's good Friday. I mean, it only makes sense. So we're going to start with the best news I could find today. Yeah, that's right. We're going to go to church in one minute. Stand by. This is the Glymbeg program. All right.
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Starting point is 00:02:34 It's good Friday. Open up your script. for a minute and just look at the book of Isaiah. Because Isaiah saw this day. He saw the hours that would lead into that dark night before the Sabbath. That Sabbath would now call Good Friday. Oh, yes, and a Good Friday it is, isn't it? Who's feeling good?
Starting point is 00:03:07 Put your heads together. Can I get an amen? You know, I was singing. yesterday about Good Friday and I was thinking you know that is as out of place as eggs and Easter Bunny. I don't understand Good Friday
Starting point is 00:03:24 At the first glance at first blush Good Friday has nothing good about it, especially this Good Friday. But if you look at the original quote Good Friday it is a day of pain and humiliation and death
Starting point is 00:03:41 I mean profound shame. I mean Here's the guy who we now know as the Christus or the anointed one, the King of Kings, and look at what, look at his Good Friday. Not real good. But when you think of King of Kings and the Anointed One, the Christus, that sounds like something that you would want. I mean, that would be like, hey, who wants to be the Anointed One?
Starting point is 00:04:12 I do. And then like, okay, here's what you need to do. Uh, no, you know what? Where's that Jesus guy? He's pretty good. Once you know the price, it's something that none of us would want. None of us would do.
Starting point is 00:04:34 None of us could do. You know what? I wrote a book called the Christmas sweater. And it's how I understand the sacrifice of Jesus because my mother sacrificed everything to give me one last Christmas present before she died. And it was a sweater. and I didn't appreciate it at all and I realized how poor we were on that Christmas. And for a long time, that sweater haunted me because I understood what it meant to her
Starting point is 00:05:12 and she noticed that it didn't mean anything to me. And I carried that guilt around with me for a long time and I couldn't get past it. It's weird how many times, what he did for us and how many times we still just reject it we can't we just don't think we're worthy we just don't think that we're good enough we just give up all hope you know i love i love handle i love the messiah but it's not a christmas thing i mean part of it is a christmas thing but the hallelujah chorus isn't christmas you know i've been thinking this week about and we like sheep have gone astray that's that's leading up to good friday if you look
Starting point is 00:06:03 look at Isaiah in chapter 53. Open up your scriptures. Chapter 53. We sing this, thanks to handle, every Christmas, but it, and we like sheep, have gone astray and we've each turned his own way. But he knew that. He knew that in advance. He knows it still. And that's what makes Good Friday so incomprehensible to me. He knew that most of us wouldn't be grateful. Some would still reject him. Those who knew chose his plan, we would reject him, we would despise him, we would mock him, we would nail him to a cross, and we still do it today. Look at our society. Look at what we're doing in our society.
Starting point is 00:06:52 But he chooses us anyway. Listen to what he signed up for in Isaiah. For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant and as a root out of dry ground. He has no form or comeliness, and when we see him, there's no beauty that we should desire him. I mean, this is, who's signing up for this job? This is a picture of a little fragile shoot that begins to bud. It's grown off the edge of a stump that's cut right to the ground. The huge tree is gone.
Starting point is 00:07:28 There's nothing there. There's this tiny little tender sprout that could so easily just break away and die. And to make it even worse, the stump with its tender chute is located in a dry desert. The chances of surviving the burning heat, the scorching new nays sun, no soil, no water. The chances of survival are slim to none. Hey, who wants that job? He's the opposite of the majestic oak that everybody's like,
Starting point is 00:08:00 we cannot cut down that historic oak that has provided shade for our family for generations to come. He's a little shoot. He's got all the odds going against him. And yet, when we look at it, we still don't see any beauty. It's not there because it doesn't conform to what the world says is beautiful or desirous. Isaiah says he's despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. And we hid our faces from him. He was despised and we didn't esteem him.
Starting point is 00:08:43 You know, it's amazing. Is reading that? take the Jesus part out of it we haven't changed a bit it's easy to look at the people back then and go yeah look they despised him to the least of my brothers lord when were you in prison when when did when were you hungry when did i not give you to the least of these take that line and listen to that line again let me paraphrase it but think about those people that we pass every day those people who are invisible to all of us they're despise rejected by everybody. The people of suffering, familiar with pain.
Starting point is 00:09:25 But we turn our face. We look the other way. They're despised. And we don't care. That's what Isaiah is saying here. That's the way Jesus was. We didn't care. We're no better than those in the past.
Starting point is 00:09:38 And it's not to shame us. I really want to point out why Good Friday is good. Because it is truly a miracle. surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows had we didn't esteem him stricken smitten of god and afflicted you see surely he has born of grief it was our weakness that he carried it was our sorrows that weighed him down it's the thoughts we look at him and go it's it's what he did if you were back in that time is this a punishment from god or a punishment for his own sins or a punishment from the Law? It's him. Yet he took on our sickness. He carried our pains. And we regarded him as a criminal, a nobody, or worse, cursed and struck down by God, afflicted by God, because somehow he was, but he was wounded for our transgressions, our rebellion. He was bruised for our iniquities, our sins, our thoughts, our deeds, our broken promises, our greed, gluttony, cruelness.
Starting point is 00:10:54 the darkness that we all hide, the things that we just don't care about, the people that we just are invisible, the people who are suffering right now in our own neighborhood, perhaps in our own house, but we don't do anything about it. I love this line. The chastisement of our peace was upon him. What does that mean? The chastisement of our peace was upon him. the brutal crucifixion, the, the punishment that he took, the beating, the whipping. It was the punishment for our peace. And I don't mean peace like, oh, peace on earth. I mean peace inside. The thing, you know how, at least it's me. I think about things that I've done in the past or things that I've said or failed to do.
Starting point is 00:11:41 And I'll be driving in my car and the radio won't be on or taking a shower. And there are times that I'll have to go, la, la, la, la, la. to stop myself from thinking. Maybe it's just me. That is peace. When that voice stops, that tape, that's peace. That's why he was punished. So we wouldn't have to stand in the shower
Starting point is 00:12:05 so we could stop thinking about the stupid things that we did. With his broken skin, his bruises, his broken bones, his pierced flesh. With his stripes, we are healed. We're forgiven. And the ugly, the invisible, the shame, the horror is all turned into something beautiful. A day of death and blood, the darkest day becomes the brightest.
Starting point is 00:12:36 It becomes good Friday because nothing could ever surpass this good. I'm going to share this with you today because it's the best news I could share you. Because none of our stuff means anything, honestly. all of the arguments on politics, and are you done with that? Because I am. All of the worries that we currently have right now, all of the worries about our neighbors and about our children
Starting point is 00:13:10 and what's going to happen with school and what's going to happen. All of that is meaningless. It really is if we don't have peace. And I know from experience, the hardest one to forgive in our lives is us. It's me. It's you. It's easier for me to forgive you for something than it is for me to forgive me for something. And we're all the same, but we never talk about it, but we're all the same.
Starting point is 00:13:44 Oh, if people only knew what I've done or who I really am, they wouldn't like me. We hide. We hide. And I think we hide from ourselves many times because sin convinces us that we're not complete. we're not worthy. That is the lie that was nailed to the cross. That was it. That we're not complete. We're not worthy. He knew us.
Starting point is 00:14:11 He knows us. He knew what we would face. He knew what he would face. And he still did it. I want you to listen to me. If you are having struggles in your life right now, if you are at all, feeling unworthy at all.
Starting point is 00:14:36 If you are feeling that you are under this dark cloud, you are listening to this broadcast for a reason. I am speaking directly to you. You are worthy. Your life doesn't have to be this way. Your life is not going to change necessarily. I've been there, brother. I was down on my knees and I was ready to end
Starting point is 00:15:03 all and I decided no you know what I'm gonna stand up and I wish I could tell you the very next day was different but it wasn't but today is 10 years ago was 20 years ago was this happened to me 20 years ago and I'm a completely different person it takes work but man is it worth it and it all revolves around what happened today and Sunday he's there just to say you're my man you're you're you're here for a reason I've already done don't worry about any of that I've already paid for all of that it's all fine let it go I'm here to help you this power is real I know it to be true and it is beyond what no matter what you think no matter how far down you are it is more powerful than that it has
Starting point is 00:16:09 power beyond your need and it will heal it will make you whole it will change your life because you're worthy because he knew he knew you and we like sheep and we like sheep the best news i could give you today is this two shall pass the sun's about to come out and we get to witness it share that good news with your friends today our sponsor this half hour is goldline we are so grateful to gold line by the way did you see gold went up again yesterday because of what the because what the fed did it's to covis oh geez well i'll tell you about the fed here in a minute anyway i know it's tocovis stop yelling at my ear i know i'm glad it's to covis glit's to covis Tocovus.
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Starting point is 00:19:01 That's Toccovus.com. Tocovus, Western goods for your frontier. 10 seconds, station ID. Holy cow. Wow. All right. We're having some internet problems today. Did any of the stuff that I just say make it on the air, Stu?
Starting point is 00:19:39 Yes, it did make it on the air. However, we're having a significant delay issue with you at this moment. So our crosstalk is going to be a little challenging. But feel free to go ahead on your own. Could everybody please just stop talking? or using the internet stop playing games on the internet we're trying to do a broadcast here for the love of Pete uh this is going to be interesting with such a long delay uh to be able to hear the tones and and everything else and uh and get this right but uh hey it's good friday it's
Starting point is 00:20:16 good friday ain't nothing gonna break a my stride i see on it there took a really bad song from the 80s and jammed it in. I got an email in. We have to go through some of the emails because some of the emails are really, really, really good. Let me just give you one here from somebody who ordered the book. Glenn, I pre-ordered your book arguing with Socialists from Audible. And I was kind of disappointed at first with my decision to go with the audio book
Starting point is 00:20:45 because when I saw the book, I realized I'm missing out on all the extras until I started listening to it today. I just have to say that I'm on. chapter two and I had to pause to write to you because it's one of the best books I have read already. The book is full of so much information in your little pop-ins and ADD moments. Oh yes. Oh, are amazing. Thank you. Well, it's Shakespeare. It's theater. You know what I'm saying? You're making it so much fun to listen to. I love this book and I love the narrations. Thank you for this great book. I'm so glad we're getting really, really good reviews on this book. and it's a very, very important book
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Starting point is 00:21:50 arguing with socialists now wherever books are sold. This is the Glebeck program. The end is here. The end is here. I mean, what I mean is the end of the crisis is coming soon, sooner than you think. I'll give you some news on that here in a second. Also, Bill O'Reilly is coming up. But if you're trying to sell your house right now, you've probably pulled maybe half your hair out.
Starting point is 00:22:17 Oh, what's happening? But here's the good news. The end is near. Not everywhere is New York City. Lots of states and counties and towns in them. are still largely business as usual, especially when it comes to things like buying and selling homes. So don't give up on your dream.
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Starting point is 00:23:45 I'm good. I'm good. I'm good on this Good Friday. I don't. I don't. It doesn't sound like it. No. You sound grumpy as ever. Oh, man, I'm grumpier than probably normal. I'm so done with this. I don't know. Something snapped in me last night. I'm just done. I'm just done. I can't do it anymore. What is it? Wait, what snapped in you? What? I'm just, I can't take the fact. that they're, I mean, people like Ezekiel Emmanuel are pushing us to do 18 more months of this.
Starting point is 00:24:18 And I, we can't last 18 more days with this and still have a country to come back to. I'm just, I'm done. I just want to turn back the engine, turn it back on. And, and let's let the chips fall. God will sort it out. That's kind of where I am. Wow. We go back to work and let God sort it out.
Starting point is 00:24:40 That's where I am. Yeah. You know what? I will tell you that we can't continue to go on this way. We can't. And I know what that means. And I know, look, we're in the age of, you know, non-believing. We're in the age of trouble.
Starting point is 00:25:00 And, you know, would have a good chance of dying if we would all go back to work if, you know, it started roaring back in. and we're going it's it's here next fall it's going to come back until we have a vaccine it's going to come back so what are we going to do about it are we all going to cower in our houses we can't or are we going to save something so our children have something in the end right i mean that's really the choice i mean if we have to if we have to dress in hazmat suits to go to work then let's do that but let's go back to work. Let's let's get America moving again. And I think the president is doing exactly the right thing in continually encouraging that. He has to, right? He has to. You can't just say,
Starting point is 00:25:52 okay, yeah, we're fine for a while. We're just going to, we're not going to, maybe in September we get back to work. Maybe it's November. You know, we do a mail-in election. I'm not doing a mail-in, I'm going to the voting booth. And if I get it, I get it. First of all, go to the voting booth. Wait a minute. First of all, a mail-in election. There's another constitutional violation. It is the state's responsibility, not the federal government. They have been wanting this forever. It's another taking of another constitutional parameter and throwing it across the road.
Starting point is 00:26:30 Absolutely not. We cannot do that. The states decide themselves. How great. was Christy Gnome, the South Dakota governor, yesterday or the day before, whatever she made that, did that press conference. I mean, I fell head over heels in love with her over that. Me too.
Starting point is 00:26:47 Can I tell you something? Let me tell you something. I can get pretty much anybody on the phone. You know, if I call myself, I can get pretty much anybody on the phone. I called her yesterday. And we've been calling for weeks. I've wanted to talk to her on the air. So I finally said, let me call because, you know, I can't get to the president, but I can get to the president's secretary right outside of the Oval Office.
Starting point is 00:27:17 You know what I mean? And so, so I call her up. And they said, who is this? And I said, it's Glenn Beck. And what do you want to talk to her about? She's very busy. I'm like, well, I know, but I just wanted to invite her on the show. And I, okay, well, she's probably not going to call.
Starting point is 00:27:37 call back. She's very, very busy. And at one point, I was, I wanted to say, it's South Dakota. You've come up four people that are sick. What is she doing? I just want to talk to her for a second and invite her on the show. She is the, she's got the most Nazi staff. Good for her. I mean, they are so protective of her. I was beginning to think she didn't exist. I'm beginning to think because then they called back and they were like, Mr. Beck, I just got this message. What is it you want to talk to the governor about? Because she's very busy. I'm like, okay, I just, I really, I wanted to say good job.
Starting point is 00:28:18 I wanted to give her an opportunity to be on the show. Well, she's very, but doing what? I want to know doing what. This is a good way to get her on the show. Yeah. By the way. No, I know, I know. I know.
Starting point is 00:28:34 I love her. I felt the same way, Stu, I mean, Pat, I fell in love with her when I saw her the way she's handling this thing. The way she's talking about the Constitution of her state. Who does that? And the Constitution. Nobody. Right. Nobody.
Starting point is 00:28:49 Right. I mean, it was, it was inspiring. It was a really good lesson for us because we don't hear that anymore. We don't hear that kind of talk, especially if there's anything going wrong, well, we've got to, we've got to bend the rules a little bit right now. We've got to set fire to part of the Constitution right now. We've got to suspend it for a little while. No, she's not doing any of that. She's talking personal responsibility and our freedom.
Starting point is 00:29:17 That's great. And this is where America has got to get back to. We have got to get back to, look, I understand that this could be detrimental to my health, the health of my employees. Okay, I'm going to open things back up. if you choose to come back into work, come back into work. We're going to do all of the safety procedures. We'll get the masks.
Starting point is 00:29:44 We'll wash our hands. We'll do everything we can. All of us know that there's a chance that things could go right. But we have got to do it. 18 months? No way. We won't. I don't think we'll last another 18 minutes at times.
Starting point is 00:29:59 I know. I mean, we have got to open this thing back up. And you know what? President Trump has the best gut on anyone I've ever seen. You know, how did he win the election? His gut. He just knew. He has a great gut on him.
Starting point is 00:30:16 And when he said, you know, I'd like to shoot for Easter. He's right. This is the time. If we opened up next Monday, we would roar back to life. I really think we could roar back to life. The longer it gets farther from Easter, the harder it's going to be. And look at, look at his gut. on, you know, he's not a doctor.
Starting point is 00:30:36 Really, look at his gut. He said, I think maybe we, maybe around Easter, look at all of the numbers. This is the worst ever. This is going to be the most tragic week ever. It's bad, but the numbers are going down. The numbers of hospitalizations are going down. The numbers of death, yes, but the numbers of hospitalizations are going down. Right.
Starting point is 00:30:58 So we're going to turn the corner here soon, I think. Right. You wait 18 months on this. In three weeks, we've lost 17 million jobs. In 18 months, you'd have nothing left. 18 months, you're giving up. There's no longer, there's not even a nation. There's not a country to come back to.
Starting point is 00:31:15 Right, yeah. I mean, you know, 18 days is another story, I think. I mean, like, you're right, Glenn, the numbers are promising in places like New York, and they're starting to turn around. Washington. Yeah, I mean, they've come down. I mean, you're right. Obviously, like, we've, the last three days have been the highest days.
Starting point is 00:31:31 days. I mean, for the last three days, coronavirus is the number one killer in America. So we're not certainly not past it. It's bad. However, that being said, like, if we can get past this to a point, right, where it seems like tomorrow you could turn on South Dakota and Wyoming. And like, there's no reason why this has to be this type of approach where we're, where we're all kind of going out of it. And I think, look, it's not. Right. Trump doesn't have the power to say, hey, you guys all need to shut down. He's given recommendations to to limit gatherings to less than 10 to social distance to stay home when you can, all that stuff.
Starting point is 00:32:11 And the states can though do what they want. And I think in the coming weeks, you'll start seeing that from states that are not having big issues. And then once that happens, they're just going to have to monitor it really closely. I mean, if we can get that place to the place where we have a test that is done in 15 minutes that's been promised for the last couple of weeks, it is right around the corner apparently. when you have that, you can really start looking at this in monitoring.
Starting point is 00:32:34 If something does happen, a breakout happens, you can just handle that rather than saying, everybody in the nation can't do anything because there's a breakout in this city. Yeah, it can't be handled that way. It can't be. By the way, that's even the Imperial College model specifically says it shouldn't be handled that way. It specifically says it should be handled. It says by the state. It actually mentions by the state in the U.S. and that those policies will be far more efficient, right?
Starting point is 00:33:04 Like so I can understand like what we've done so far because we didn't know. We don't know where this is going and we want to be careful and we need to have tests. We didn't have tests when this all started. We needed to make sure we're buying ourselves a little time here. I get it. The cost has been very large for buying that time. But this is a point where we can open up certainly areas that aren't having issues, you know. I mean, the fact that somebody is sitting in the middle of a field in Idaho and, you know,
Starting point is 00:33:30 know is wondering why they can't go to work is it's ridiculous it's crazy so here's the here's the thing that i think nancy pelosi really is i mean the democrats are killing themselves they're just killing themselves right now because americans want to go back to work americans know what is at stake and it's their jobs nancy pelosi came out yesterday and said uh she's not going to call congress back from recess to vote on anything and beyond that she said that there is no data to support the influx of emergency cash. There's no data that the small businesses of America need additional funding. What?
Starting point is 00:34:15 Wow. There's no data. There's no data to close the entire country down, but we're doing it. And if you think there's no data, you are so out of touch. with Main Street America, we've lost 10% of the workforce in three weeks. Who do you think, do you think the banks are suffering right now? The banks have their money. They've gotten their money.
Starting point is 00:34:46 The Fed race that money out. Most people have not received a dime yet from the government. And there's a story in the Atlantic that you have to watch out for. We'll talk about it. The, I think it's Denmark, has decided to, pay 70% of all salaries. So 70 or 75% of all salaries going to be paid no matter how much you make. For the next, uh, no, up to 50 or 60,000 dollars. Okay. Yeah. And they'll pay 70, 70 or 75% of all salaries for everybody. Wow. Just for the next, I think it's two months, it's $2.2 trillion.
Starting point is 00:35:27 And they're going to do it indefinitely. And this is being touted. now as long as they're closed and as long as they're struggling and this is being touted now as maybe a bad idea for a small country like Denmark but for a country like America yeah something we really should consider for are you kidding me no because because if we have to cut down every tree in the world all three trillion of them just to manufacture enough paper to get the cash printed Let's do it. Let's do it. We're only limited by the amount of trees on this planet. Let's just spend all you want. We'll just print more. We couldn't. Somebody was telling me yesterday, they saw a study of how long it would take us to print the money we've just spent.
Starting point is 00:36:18 We wouldn't be able to print this money until next year. We would still be printing the money that we just spent. We don't have to print it. That's the point. problem. There's no way physically to print this amount of money that we have just spent. All right, back in just a second. Right now, Americans are in the fight for their lives, some trying to politicize the crisis. Most of us are sticking together as family, because that's what we are. We're an American family. We don't always get along with each other. We might fight like siblings sometime, but we are family, and I will fight for your right to be wrong. I will fight for your right to have a difference of opinion because that's what family does.
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Starting point is 00:38:55 We're glad you're here. Bill O'Reilly is coming up next. I asked him to watch the Tiger King. And he did. And I know because he has already spoken about it. And he found no redeeming value in that at all. I wonder, I mean, what does Bill do for fun, do you suppose? That's a good question.
Starting point is 00:39:21 I've never heard him discuss fun. I think today our goal is to get him to discuss fun. Like that, too. We need to ask him, could we just discuss fun? What does it mean to you to have fun? What is fun to you? Yeah, I don't think there's an answer to this, frankly. I don't think.
Starting point is 00:39:45 Fourth coming. It may be the one question that will stump him. It just might be. So we'll go to Bill O'Reilly, get his take on the news of the week, where we are as a nation, this crazy socialist push to keep us closed. And to, I mean, it's crazy to think closed for 18 months. Zeke Emanuel. That's craziness. Why?
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Starting point is 00:43:28 Fun and frivolity, not two words that I think of when I think of Bill O'Reilly. But maybe that's just me. I'm one that you leaps right to the top. No, not necessarily. But I'm sure it's in there somewhere. No, no, no, no, no. So, Bill, I read your review of the Tiger King, but I want you to give it here on the air at some point.
Starting point is 00:43:54 So we can either start there or whatever you think is newsworthy today. What's the big story of the week? Let's end with the Tiger King. But I have a question for all your listeners. they can think about until we get there. What is America's fascination with the watching the real housewives of... Oh, I can tell you why. You really don't know?
Starting point is 00:44:26 Why? Really? Because we feel better about ourselves. We feel better about it. We look at social media and everybody's posting these beautiful lives and everything else. And it's all lies. It's all lies, but we feel bad about it. Then we watch the Tiger King and we're like,
Starting point is 00:44:43 oh, we're better than everybody in this show. This is fantastic. I am finally better than someone. That's what it is. You know, that's not bad, Beck. I mean, I'll, I'll buy into that a little bit. But, you know, how many tattoos can we see in one program? I can't wait for your review.
Starting point is 00:45:06 All right. Bill O'Reilly, what are the big stories of the week? Well, I think it's the emerging war, and again, this always goes back to the same thing, between the far left, which lost their leader Bernie Sanders this week, and trying to destroy the American system. It's not just a hate Trump thing. It is for the New York Times, Washington Post, the media. It's almost exclusively a hate Trump thing there. But for the far left, George Soros' cadres, it's about really destroying and then remaking America. And they're trying to find a way to do that within the pandemic.
Starting point is 00:45:52 So if they can destroy the capitalist economy, our term is being badly battered, as everyone knows. But if they can really damage it, dear for the next Bernie Sanders to get this socialism into the system. So I think that's the emerging story that most people are not aware of. I will tell you, Bill, that I'm really disgusted by so many people and how they are using this pandemic to try to, as you said, destroy America. You have people now talking about 18 months of quarantine. There is absolutely no way on God's green earth any country. can survive 18 months of quarantine. It's insanity.
Starting point is 00:46:49 And they're doing it because this is the fastest road to socialism. This is it. This is it. This is the thing that I've worried about and warned about for so long. It just came in a package of a virus. Yeah. And Pataco, word of the day for Stu, on this. So there is a powerful segment, well-funded.
Starting point is 00:47:14 funded, co-opted some in the media to get the message out that our health care system is evil, which is, of course, isn't true. If you look at deaths per million of population, we're far below all the socialized. We are leading the world. We are leading the world. The cure will come from us. The tests have come from us. Everything that socialized medicine stands for, Italy and Spain are collapsing.
Starting point is 00:47:46 They're collapsing. We didn't. That's right. And the other thing is that the speculation, and I keep watching these speculation, just as you said, well, we're going to be quarantined for 18 months. Do you know and do your listeners know that on Monday, the day after Easter, Austria is sending its children back to school? I did, yes. Okay, okay. But most people don't.
Starting point is 00:48:24 Would you see that most people don't know that? Oh, yeah. And most people have no idea. Okay, because it isn't reported. So Austria, just north of Italy, sharing a border with Italy, okay, is saying, all right, we believe we have this thing contained. We're sending the kids back to school and we're opening the shops. So if you want to get a little chocolate on Monday in Austria, you can. Right.
Starting point is 00:48:51 But that's not reported here. Same virus. Okay. Same transmission in Austria as in the United States, but nobody reports this because it doesn't fit in to the wall of doom mosaic. I have to tell you, Bill, I think it's actually worse than just not reporting on things. For instance, the governor of South Dakota, I'm sure you've seen her talks that she's been giving on the Constitution and, you know, how she's not going to violate the Constitution for this she's keeping the state open they're about five governors in the country that are refusing to go along with any of this nonsense she's leading the pack and they are hammering her they are
Starting point is 00:49:39 just bullying her um pandemic offers the opportunity to remove trump so if he doesn't get a handle on it by summer then the uh that he would lose his vote is a moment's vote is a moment's a moment's motion. A rationale is, well, we'll give the other side a chance. If the kids can't go back to school by September, oh my God, the Trump administration's in trouble. They know that. If there are just millions and millions of workers who can't pay their bills, my God. So they're rooting to get Trump out. If you could lie detector, Beck, if you could lie detector, the media, the national media, and ask them a very simple question because I am a very simple man, the pandemic, or four more years of Trump. What do you think you would get? What answer do you think you would get? Oh, four more years of
Starting point is 00:50:45 Trump. Okay. Oh, absolutely. You have those people, and this is the New York Times, Washington Post, NBC News, CNN, that are going to spin everything about the pandemic is Trump's fault, and it's a wall of doom. And then you have the other people that we just cited, then suspend all civil liberties. Now we can tell people what to do. Now we can change the economy. Now we can do all. It's under the guise of protecting Americans. Under the guise. That's what this is if you know your history. Those of us who love our country, who admire the nobility of it and the opportunity that it affords hardworking and honest people, I'm appalled at what's going on, but I'm also appalled that American consumers continue to go in and watch this garbage.
Starting point is 00:51:52 My TV is black. And the final thing, and this is self-serving, and I'm sorry, I have had millions of views. I don't know whether you saw the New York Post this week. Millions of views on Bill O'Reilly.com. It began. This is a no-spec zone, like the no-spin zone. I just give you the facts as far as we can ascertain them.
Starting point is 00:52:20 But that's not what's happening in the media in America. and people are panicked. People are acting crazy in some cancers because of all this garbage. Well, there are two Americas now. There are the ones that are buying into this snitch on your neighbor kind of thing. And I want the government to tell me everything and what to do. And then the rest of America, which is, this is ridiculous. I actually think, Bill, that this pandemic is real.
Starting point is 00:52:52 and it is dangerous, but I think the way we've handled it by shutting everything down and going, you know, as you say, Reichstag fire and in some places really very totalitarian where you're sending police door to door. I think that is going to spook many Americans. This is exactly what happened under Woodrow Wilson. As you know, when he sent out his stormtroopers, we had a quarter of a million people, that had badges and they were working for the Justice Department and they were to open your neighbor's mail, listen to your neighbor on the phone, find out who our enemies are that don't want this war. And they arrested 145,000 Americans in about a two-year period.
Starting point is 00:53:40 It was disgraceful and it sent the left packing because regular Americans saw what this was turning into and went, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. This is not who we are. And that might happen this time. It might. It could very, very well backfire. And you saw him blow up. You saw him blow up.
Starting point is 00:54:02 I mean, this maniac screaming that we can't have a private health care system here. And the stats are right in front of you. Right in front of you. You can see how much more effective, as you just pointed out. Our health care system is than that in Europe. You can see it. Yet this maniac, Sanders, that's a way to control the population through their health care.
Starting point is 00:54:28 If you're dependent on the government for your health, you've got to do what your government tells you to do. But getting back to the pandemic, I mean, we have people, I was walking the Terra Dog, Holly, the Teradog, who has 3 million Twitter followers, if you can believe it. So I'm walking Holly the Teradog, and then across the street there's a lady with a mask walking some dachshund or something.
Starting point is 00:54:52 So I'm about 12 feet away, not six, I'm fine. I don't have a mask, other than when I rob a 7-Eleven. I do use the mask for that. Right, right. But I say, Madam, how are you? I'm far. And then I hear a muffling, all right? And I go, can I ask you just a question?
Starting point is 00:55:10 What is that protecting you from in the open air on a lane where there's no other people? And it was like silence. What is it protecting you from? And, of course, the lady doesn't know. And the lady is so scared to death. death that she feels she has to wear a mask to walk the doxyl when there's nobody around. But if you say that, you're going to be crucified unless you say this is a vicious disease, and it is, because nobody knows how it spreads.
Starting point is 00:55:43 It's not defined. No one knows. I am people who've gotten this thing. They have no blank and clue how they got it. They stay inside. They did what they could. They spray themselves with Lysol all day long. And they still get it.
Starting point is 00:55:55 They still get it. So that's fear. When you don't know, all right, when it's going to hit you or why, that's fear. So we have to take that. But here's the headline for the Glenn Beck program on Good Friday. Are you ready? Yes. The Disney Corporation, which controls most of America.
Starting point is 00:56:17 People don't know that. But the most powerful entity in America isn't the Democratic Party or the Republican Party. It's the Disney Corporation. They signal this week what's going to happen. Eiger, on his way out with what, said, you know what we're going to do? Everybody's temperature that comes to our park. So when you go to Disney World or Disneyland, you're going to buy your ticket, and then there'll be a guy, just like there is with the airlines,
Starting point is 00:56:50 checking your bags and you, with a little thermometer thing. And if you have a fever, you can't come in. If you don't, they'll let you in. that's going to be everywhere, everywhere, even your local restaurant. Yeah, Microsoft has already developed something that will set off alarms if you, it just will scan you as you walk in through the door, just like a camera, and it'll scan you. If you have a fever, it'll set off an alarm.
Starting point is 00:57:18 They've also developed something where if you're not wearing a mask, it will set off an alarm. And they're using those now. Right. Yeah, it's coming. Yeah, we're going to open our parts. And this is what's going to be. The problem is you pay so much money for your ticket at Disney, that'll give you a fever. I know, I know.
Starting point is 00:57:36 You pay so much money, it's $2,000 to get in. So you'll get your fever is 105. All right. Bill O'Reilly, in just a minute, we'll continue with him. Let me tell you about Gold line. Gold has just gone up again. Prices have spiked because the Federal Reserve continues to throw more money into the financial system. they just yesterday said they're going to provide up to $2.3 trillion in loans for all businesses
Starting point is 00:58:05 impact by the growing COVID-19 pandemic. I don't know if this is small businesses or what. I'm guessing that it's probably not. The Federal Reserve is that we literally, literally could not print this money fast enough if we actually had to print it. just what we spent in the first bill it would take us until next year to put that on the presses and get it out that's how much money we are actually digitally printing right now they just said another two and a half trillion dollars they're just going to print that's why gold is going up why because the full
Starting point is 00:58:49 faith in the u.s government to be able to say that that dollar is worth something is is is fading quickly with anyone who has any kind of sense of history and economics. Please, I've been urging you for a long time. Please call Goldline now. I don't know. I'm bad at timing, but I will tell you this. In my lifetime, and I think sooner rather than later, the U.S. dollar is non-existent. As we know it, it's over.
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Starting point is 00:59:41 We pause for 10 seconds. Station ID. Bill O'Reilly. What are your thoughts on Nancy Pelosi saying that there's no data that says that the small businesses in America need more money. Yeah, we have about three. That's where you start. All right.
Starting point is 01:00:16 She doesn't know anything. It's like somebody coming here from, doesn't speak English, they just arrived, they just don't know, and then you get the same level of comprehension from Nancy Pelosi. All she wants to do up government spending
Starting point is 01:00:40 to provide entitlements to her constituents. Other discussion from Nancy Pelosi, she leads the movement what she does meanwhile she lives in a palace surrounded by walls so she doesn't have to see the homeless people that are camped out in her district
Starting point is 01:01:04 because they're addicted to substance which she won't even acknowledge so when I hear the words Nancy Pelosi I basically say why are we even discussing this woman she's not looking out for anybody she's looking out for an ideology
Starting point is 01:01:19 have you heard the Ami Horowitz tape no what is that okay umi horowitz is a documentary filmmaker he's he's really amazing um but he went out on the street um and he asked people um which would you rather have a lot of people die from this or donald trump another four years there you go and the number of people on the street that say there's no number of deaths that would be worse than Donald Trump for the next four years is remarkable. And why has that happened?
Starting point is 01:02:01 That's exactly attributed to the media, isn't it? Yes. I mean, look, I wrote the book, The United States of Trump. It's not a pro-Trump. It's not an anti-Trump. It's just about the guy. He's not the double. You may not like him.
Starting point is 01:02:15 That's fine. You don't want to vote for him. I don't care. All right. But you're telling the people he should die so he doesn't serve anymore? I mean, come on. I mean, this is the extent of the hysteria that's gripped our country. All right, Glenn, we'll be back here in just a moment, Bill O'Reilly as well.
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Starting point is 01:04:38 Listen to this. Hamami Horowitz, I'm here in the East Village. We know the president is not exactly popular here, but how unpopular is he? Would you go for this deal that the coronavirus lasts longer and is more severe, but the president guarantees to lose the election? That's a hard question. So that's a hard question. What's to me?
Starting point is 01:05:14 Sorry, guys. I would go for the coronavirus. I want him gone. Okay, no matter what. No matter what, yeah. Would you make that deal? Sure. Sure.
Starting point is 01:05:24 I would. Yep. Yeah? Yep. Frankly, yes. Fail you. Yeah. Do you make that deal?
Starting point is 01:05:31 Absolutely. Do you take that deal? I would. Last little of all. Yeah, let the coronavirus be more severe. I'm much rather he himself got it in. He's more dangerous to the American people than coronavirus. He's worse than coronavirus?
Starting point is 01:05:45 Oh, yeah, absolutely. He's more dangerous than the coronavirus? Absolutely. You agree? Yeah. Is there a number where you say, okay, I wouldn't make that deal, like a million deaths? I would still make that deal. Still make the deal.
Starting point is 01:05:56 Is there a number of coronavirus? This is insane. This is absolutely insane. Bill, what has happened to people? Well, I mean, you're talking to people who aren't rational. Those are not rational people. were to ask the follow-up, well, what is the one thing about Trump that justifies your opinion that other people should die?
Starting point is 01:06:20 He doesn't continue to serve. The top thing, they couldn't do it. If you step back and you look at what Trump has done in his time in the Oval Office, he hasn't really done anything radical at all. Nothing. He's governed in a very circumspect, um, traditional. way. Now, you may not agree with his policies and his bomb. He's done some things. He's done some things that are radical. For instance, the, the embassy in Jerusalem. I mean, that's, that's, no, it's not. To a lot of people, that's very controversial. I don't think it is. It's a logistical opinion. It's not radical. Radical is, um, the government is going to take all your guns. That's radical. Or the government is going to tell you how much money you can make.
Starting point is 01:07:23 You know, Bill, I have to tell you, one of the things that I said during the campaign is, I believe I even said that we would hit a depression in the fourth year of Donald Trump. Right before the election, we would go into a depression. And this guy would make FDR look like a rookie. He would just be all government control. This is the last thing that was a fear of mine on Donald Trump. And the way he has handled this is not the way of FDR.
Starting point is 01:08:00 Yes, he's got big spending out there, but he shut the economy off. And he knows he had to spend that money. But he has not taken any federal control. He has not taken the Constitution and turned it upside down. It's everything that they said he was. going to become, and I feared he might in this kind of a circumstance, he has not become. He's not done it. In fact, the left is doing it. The executive orders that he issues are 80% upheld by the federal courts. 80% are upheld. So the things that he's doing are well within the
Starting point is 01:08:43 constitution, and they're not radical. Obama was a much more radical president that Donald Trump. So we go back to what are these people objecting to? What is the problem with a president that you would say, I'm okay with people who are dying so that he doesn't continue to serve? What is that? They bet they could not define it for you. What happens, Bill? If one of my people who are in the Lion King or the Tiger thing, whatever Hang on. I want to get to that, but I want to ask you one more thing. Yeah. What happens if one of my fears is that there will be a bad scene on the border because Mexico's system will collapse if, you know, they did nothing to quarantine and it will collapse and they will pour over our border to get our health care.
Starting point is 01:09:42 They won't. They won't. The Army's already down there. All right. It wasn't widely reported, but they already moved down. Many, many troops down there, and they're going to just seal it out. And you can only enter through the ports of entry in vehicles. That's the way it's going to come down. So the Trump administration already knows that's going to happen. They're out in front of it.
Starting point is 01:10:03 And the Army is going to handle it, not the civil. And the press, of course, will go crazy on that. But I think the American people will see that as... I agree, I agree. I agree. I agree. All right, Bill O'Reilly, Tiger King. I asked you last week to watch the Tiger King,
Starting point is 01:10:26 and you are the last person in the country that probably has watched it, and the last person in the country that would watch it. Welcome. Tell me about it. I did it for you, Beck. So on this weekend, I want you to appreciate that the early... Wow, Jesus laid his life down, and you watched the Tiger King. Wow.
Starting point is 01:10:49 Yeah, I thought it was a lion king. but then I can tell the difference in a lion and Tiger. Oh, this isn't the Lion King. All right, here. Right, okay. It's a quick review. Number one, I was a lot of frightened because they didn't have the teeth. And I remember when I was a kid, I had bra.
Starting point is 01:11:14 I suffered so I could have nice teeth and they don't have any teeth. All right. Right, okay. So my question was, are there no dentist in Texas or Oklahoma, wherever he was? All right, I don't know. See, that's, you know, it's really. interesting because my thought was maybe they were all British
Starting point is 01:11:32 but no it it appears that they were all day okay yeah no I think it's I think it's probably a teeth because the tigers have teeth but the humans don't tigers aren't smoking crack I think is
Starting point is 01:11:48 probably why the guy who is the focus of the show Joe yeah this guy he he's a strange gone. All right. Now, that's not unusual, but I thought I was watching The Walking
Starting point is 01:12:04 Dead, all right? Because that's what they do. They put strange guys and strange guys chase regular guys all right, but that's the Wurking Dead. Right? Right. No, no. He's a trainer of some kind, all right? This guy.
Starting point is 01:12:20 Joe Exotic, right? Is that his name? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's it. Yeah. Do you know, I don't know what ethnicity exotic is. Is that Czechoslovakian? What is that? No, I'm not, I'm not really sure. I'm not sure. Probably foreign in some way, yeah. All right, so, like, you know, he just got out of San Quentin,
Starting point is 01:12:43 which, as the show evolves, he is in San Quentin. The guy's in jail. All right? Yeah. So now, so now I'm going, okay, he's in jail. I feel more comforted that he's not going to come to my house with Tiger. Right, right. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:13:00 Then as I watch, then there's a warm. Then there's a woman and a woman doesn't like this guy and then there's a South Carolina guy who doesn't like either of them. And then I'm going. Right. So let me ask you this. Which one? How many episodes do you watch? Just one?
Starting point is 01:13:22 Yeah, Beck, I'm not even for you. I know, I know. I know. I know. I know. I know. I know. That's the one on me.
Starting point is 01:13:29 No, I know. So the first one. which one were you more afraid of Joe, Carol, or the guy in North Carolina. Which one did you think was the bigger of the freak shows? I'm more afraid. Right. Her husband disappeared. Did you know that?
Starting point is 01:13:52 Yeah. Yeah, we know all of America is, Bill, all of America is aware of that. I just had the sheriff on of Hillsborough County. They are looking for more clues. Anybody who has any clues because he's absolutely. convinced it was murder. He's not saying she did it, but somebody murdered him. Yes, I would, my first
Starting point is 01:14:14 job would be the Everglades, okay, if you're looking for that guy. And then you'd bring a lot of shovels because he's deep somewhere. So, just rejecting out, I'm more afraid of her, all right? Because I could beat Joe Exotic. I could trash
Starting point is 01:14:30 him. The other guy in South Carolina, I don't know what he's doing. But this woman, I mean, you know, when I'm asleep, I would fear her. I have a feeling she'll take that as a badge of honor. Bill O'Reilly, thank you very much. Next week, we're going to ask Bill to define what fun is and how he has fun. We're not sure that, hey, happy Easter, Bill.
Starting point is 01:15:01 Thank you so much. God bless. Oh, that was just worth the price of admission. You know what I mean? That's worth being his friend for all these years. just to force him to watch the Tiger King. He must have gone crazy watching. Can you imagine Bill O'Reilly in his home with his dog watching the Tiger King?
Starting point is 01:15:25 Can you imagine the conversation between Hintam and his dog? No. It seems very, very difficult to understand how that would go. I understand why he's not going to watch more of it, but I wish he would. I would like to hear his entire expansive theory on this universe. If he took it seriously, can you imagine how big the audience would be to hear Bill O'Reilly go into detail on Joe the Tiger King? Oh, my gosh. It would be enormous.
Starting point is 01:15:58 It would be enormous. It's a solid podcast. You know, watch each episode and then review each episode. Oh, my gosh. Oh, I pay money for that. I joined Bill O'Reilly.com for that. For that alone. All right.
Starting point is 01:16:12 Let me tell you about Rectecrills. RECTech, man, these are the best. These are the best. This is direct to consumer pricing. And they've crossed that with the kind of passion and ingenuity needed to take a product way above what the mere, you know, normal manufacturing call of duty is. Rect Tech grills are, I don't want to mention other products. But I know my father-in-law has a grill. He says it's the best grill made.
Starting point is 01:16:43 and I'm telling you, Vinnie, when you come down, you'll see the difference. You're going to, you'll spend just as much money, if not more, on one of these really fancy, nice grills. There is nothing that compares to a rec tech. And the reason why is they cut the middleman out and so they can put that money into the product. And they are fantastic. I don't, I don't know how to smoke and I would have never bought a smoker because I'm not somebody that's going to, you know, watch it all day and everything else. I don't have to.
Starting point is 01:17:16 It's all automatic. I set the, it's like an oven. I set the temperature. It smokes. I put the meat in. I can go to their website and they've got all kinds of recipes and everything else. They tell you how to do everything. It is the grill for dummies and it is a grill that, oh, when it's just, when it's just the cockroaches that survive,
Starting point is 01:17:37 it'll be the cockroaches and me because I'm going to be hiding in my Rectec grill. This thing isn't going anywhere. built by grillers for grillers. It is fantastic. Check it out online right now. R-E-C-T-E-C-E-C-Grills with an S.com. That's rec-techgrills.com. Don't forget, Glenn Beck's new book,
Starting point is 01:17:58 Arguing with Socialists, is out now. You can be in the private sector and be a democratically socialist business. And you need it now more than ever. Economic rights are human rights. It's the follow-up to his New York Times bestseller arguing with idiots. Same people, new facts. Tax rates as high as 60 or 70%. And new laughs.
Starting point is 01:18:19 You should be contributing more. Or gasps. Tipy tops. Get it now on Amazon. Arguing with Socialists from Glenn Beck. This is the Glenn Beck program. If you're watching here on Blaze TV, you're seeing the cutest little picture. My daughter, Hannah, and her daughter, Lorelei, my granddaughter, and three little puppies that they have just rescued.
Starting point is 01:18:53 my daughter needs psychological help she's now a six dog owner six it's like the cat lady except with dogs uh anyway uh but she's actually only foster parenting these dogs because while i read that like chicago and places like that people are adopting dogs which is really kind of bad because then they're going to go back to work and what's going to happen to the dog i hope people are thinking this through in other places around most of america they're putting dogs down left and right now because there's nobody adopting them. These puppies, she just rescued. Where do you rescue these? Through Code Red Rescue, it's in the Dallas area, and what they do is they work with a typical animal shelter that does have to euthanize dogs, and they take out
Starting point is 01:19:42 their dogs that are at high risk of being euthanized and try to rehome them. So we have their mama with us right now and her three pups. She started with six beautiful. puppies and we thought we were going to be fostering all of them, but they didn't make it out, three of them didn't make it out of the shelter. So we are, they're going to be with us until the puppies are old enough to find a new, a new home and then they'll be adopted out to a forever home. Okay. And this one has to be, the one I'm holding right now has got to go with the name meatloaf. I just think he looks like a little meatloaf. But they are so beautiful, so beautiful. So if you are somebody that can be a foster parent for these dogs in COVID times,
Starting point is 01:20:25 you should call your animal shelters around and see because there are some real problems with people adopting dogs. They're just not doing it right now. And, you know, they're dogs and not cats. So it's okay to adopt them. You had six cats. If you had six cats, I wouldn't, I would call the police. I would call the police. Thank you, Hannah.
Starting point is 01:20:49 I love you. There had to be some anti-cat propaganda in there somewhere. Yeah, we should find homes. Maybe could we find homes for these guys on the air maybe in the next few weeks? Okay, good. So if you want to adopt meatloaf and keep his name Meatloaf, he could be yours. We'll tell you more about it. Coming up.
Starting point is 01:21:09 Back in just a second with our Easter message. You're listening to Glenn. Hi there. Welcome back to the four-minute buzz. Today we've been looking at the newest episode of the, Glenn Beck podcast. As we've covered in the last two hours, this week, Turning Point USA's Charlie Kirk set down to ask Glenn about his new book, arguing with socialists. The book breaks down the biggest socialist claims and gives real winning arguments that conservatives can
Starting point is 01:21:51 make, and it does so in a clear way that even your kids can understand. In this preview, Glenn reads an example from the last chapter of the book. It's the last chapter in the book, Free Markets, Free People, and Prosperity. When was the last time you went to the grocery store, and just stood in awe about how truly amazing these modern marvels really are. Meat, breads, fruits, cheeses, green things, vegetables. As far as the eye can see. And the Twinkies, oh, the Twinkies. You can buy dozens of them for less than $10.
Starting point is 01:22:22 Grocery stores alone are remarkable places. Today, our people are healthier, wealthier, happier, and safer than man has ever been before. Americans generally live long lives, even though without much wealth and high. quality affordable food is available for every town in every in every in every county men went from farm and fire to supermarkets and space travel in less than 200 years why what happened at almost any other time in human history going back for a thousand years a store of comparable of your run-of-the-mill modern grocery store would have been considered a modern wonder of the world
Starting point is 01:23:03 markets existed in ancient times and some important cities you could buy products from hundreds of miles away but they were nothing like our modern grocery stores where you can in a single trip by apples from Washington state oranges from Brazil prosciutto from Italy chocolate from Belgium cheese from Wisconsin cereal from Mexico coffee from Colombia milk from the nearby dairy some believe this is a bad thing due to carbon emissions but before we throw the baby out with the bathwater let's realize what it means to the health and welfare of the entire world to destroy the very system that man has never seen before and has literally saved the lives of hundreds of millions of people. So I take the tact in the book of let's just stop for a second and separate the bathwater from the baby. Don't throw it all out.
Starting point is 01:23:59 This has never been done before. it happened for a reason, a very specific reason. It's not a coincidence that America is founded. Then all of a sudden we go from fire to electricity. It's not a coincidence. So what is it that caused this? And throughout the book, I really try to take an open position on, I think that most young socialists, you know,
Starting point is 01:24:27 I think Winston Churchill said, if you're not a socialist when you're 20, you don't have a heart. If you're not a conservative when you're 50, you don't have a brain. It's the combination of the heart and the brain. So I try to take an approach to where I say to the honest person who's looking at socialism and saying, this might be a better way. Okay, let's really look at what are the results and what are the results of the free market? What are the bad things about the free market and the bad things about socialism?
Starting point is 01:25:02 What are the good things about each? When you just make that list of good versus bad on both sides, the tables turn. Well, you need to see the whole thing. And you can find the podcast now only at blazTV.com. And then it will be out on other platforms starting tomorrow. I'm Hillary. That's your four minute buzz. And now here's Glenn and Stu with the last hour of the show.
Starting point is 01:25:26 I want to wish you both a happy Easter. Also to our viewers and listeners, happy Easter and Passover. Thank you very much. I appreciate it. Hillary, you're a pleasure to work with. You really are. You're just a, you're really nice. Thank you.
Starting point is 01:25:39 The feeling is mutual. I wouldn't oversell it. Yeah. You're a bad liar, too. Anyway, we also have this Betsy DeVos interview I did yesterday for the Friday exclusive. She's rarely, rarely, rarely gives. interviews. She gave one to me yesterday and we we had a really great conversation started with tell me tell me the schools are going to open up again soon and ended with. No really. They're
Starting point is 01:26:13 going to open up again soon, aren't they? But we had a great discussion about her philosophy of education, what they're learning through all of this, how we're going to make sure that our schools you know, don't shortchange our children. We talked about, you know, the cities that don't have, they still have dial-up internet. We talked about all of it. That's on the Friday exclusive, and you can get it on Blaze TV,
Starting point is 01:26:39 if you're a member only commercial-free. That's at Blaze today. Hello, America. It's Friday. What? It's Friday. I don't care what she was going to say. Enlightenment.
Starting point is 01:27:06 We're going to spend some time on Enlightenment. We're getting rid of the COVID just for today. Yes, many in America are fasting today, fasting and praying, thanking Jesus for his sacrifice on this good Friday and asking him to pour down his blessings like rain upon us and wash away this COVID. No matter what happens, we do have good news for you.
Starting point is 01:27:36 We're going to do our Easter message here in just a second. First, let me tell you about Laflok. Put your hands on the radio. Put both of them on. Can I get an amen for LaFlock? Because it's important to understand how cybercrime is affecting our lives. Especially right now,
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Starting point is 01:28:49 it only really exist as something called space time. It's really only a point on a giant map. Something that we can use to find out where we are, where we've been, or where we're going. So let's unfold space time. and trace our way back. First, maybe just a couple of years. Tonight, I can report to the American people
Starting point is 01:29:20 and to the world. The United States has conducted an operation that killed Osama bin Laden, the leader of al-Qaeda. On my orders, the United States military has begun struck. The Al-Qaeda terrorist training camps. The people who knocked these feelings down. Even further. Princess Diana died.
Starting point is 01:29:39 I did not have this vast right-wing conspiret. He is OJ Simpson. He is armed with a gun. Mr. Gorbachev. What has happened in Munich during the past 40. Eight or nine terabyte. And shot the third total shot hit the president's head. Gentlemen, the Beatles!
Starting point is 01:30:08 Dr. Martin Luther King has been shot to death in Memphis. Back farther still, even before Marconi was silent. The signing of the Declaration of Independence past the age of enlightenment, before Martin Luther hung his protest on the church doors, before Columbus rediscovered the fact that the world was round. We go past Newton, Galileo, the Dark Ages, the Crusades, back to a time before books, when most of the world couldn't read or write,
Starting point is 01:31:15 and history was oral. But we can hear and see a lone protester standing in front of a tank in a country on the other side of the planet, and we can see it live. To a world seemingly simple, yet brutal. beyond our understanding, where news was spread from mouth to mouth. We stop at approximately 29 of the Common Era. We stop at a small walled city in the Middle East.
Starting point is 01:31:50 It's around 10 o'clock at night, just a couple of days before Passover. The meals are being prepared, the night's meal had already been eaten, and most in the city are asleep. One man, however, is not. It's strange. He's younger than I am. He's about 30. He's awake and alone in a garden. His friends who have been with him for several years are just a few yards away.
Starting point is 01:32:22 They slumber underneath the star-filled sky. They still don't know that even though they sleep, the world is about to wake. Eleven of twelve men sleep beside a hill. One man awake. He couldn't sleep, for he knew. He was in a garden in prayer, praying so hard about what he knew was about to come,
Starting point is 01:32:53 praying so hard that blood actually dripped from his pores in a place of sweat. Back at the hill, when he returned, he begged his friends to wake and pray, with him. They didn't know how serious his request really was. They had no idea what was just to come. He pleaded with his friends, why will you not rise and pray with me? He asked this again before returning to the garden alone. He knelt there on rocky soil, his hands clasp, his head bowed. Twilight dew draped his neck, the horizon still in black. He prayed.
Starting point is 01:33:38 He prayed even harder, for the sky would eventually turn purple than light blue, and he knew what awaited him. Back to the hill once more, his friends asleep. He begged his friends, rise, rise and pray with me. I need you now more than ever. They said they would. But shortly after he left, they fell asleep again. The dawn was even closer, and he knew his time was running out.
Starting point is 01:34:12 Now over the hill, they marched like flowing lava burning in the night's solace. The eleven are surely awake now. They have sworn their faith to him, but he knows he knew this wasn't true. They'll weaken and he'll be forsaken. Forsaken by the same men who just swore their undying devotion. The torchlights grow brighter, the hourglass running low, the clanging of the metal swords and spears, the sound and the vibration of the march deep down from their feet to their spine,
Starting point is 01:34:48 creating a shallow vibration, leaving them quivering. The soldiers approach. The one is grabbed and killed. betrayed with a kiss. A kiss wearing the mask of loyalty. One of the men leap forward, draws his sword, cutting the ear off one of the soldiers. He raises his hand. No.
Starting point is 01:35:16 Peace. Take me now in peace. For this is my purpose. This is my being. This is the reason I came. Now one of them, Peter, strays. While his friend is being persecuted for crimes he didn't commit, he stands by a fire, denying any relationship he has as he tries to blend in with the common people. A woman approaches, didn't I see you with him? Peter says, surely I don't know him, but you're from Galilee.
Starting point is 01:35:55 For the third time, Peter says, I do not know this man. Now Jesus is pulled back and forth between the two who will determine his fate. They can't see any crime, but they still question, scourge, and mock him. Aren't you the king? Silence. Then here is your crown, says one as they give him a crown of thorns and press it into his head. He stands before the judge, who could condemn him. for no crime, but it is Passover.
Starting point is 01:36:33 He says to the crowd, you, you can choose, one I will release. Him as the king of the Jews or... Jesus, standing silent, his eyes to the ground, is condemned to death. Jesus now carries his cross through the stone-clad streets to the place known as the skull. the place where he will soon die. His back torn, his head bleeding beneath his thorny crown. The women cry out loud as he passes. He pauses for a moment and comforts them.
Starting point is 01:37:15 Do not weep for me. Rather, weep for yourselves. His mother looks on as huge nails are driven through his hands and his feet. They raise the cross. and slam it into the ground. It is at this point that all four writers of the gospel struggled with a description of the crucifixion, as I have.
Starting point is 01:37:41 They described with the only words that I could use. They crucified him. He now hung on the cross as the soldiers bid lots on his clothing below. Next to him, two criminals hang, but they are simply tied to the cross. One of them says, You're the son of God, save us now. Save all of us.
Starting point is 01:38:11 The man in the middle does nothing, purpose. The afternoon passes. His skin stretched. He wept. He begged for water, and they gave him a sponge on a reed filled with vinegar. In a moment where he showed us that he was, truly human he cried out and said my father my father why have you forsaken me the
Starting point is 01:38:45 sky began to grow dark it was approaching three o'clock on a Friday afternoon when Jesus the carpenter from Nazareth spoke once more and only once his last words It is finished. So today, as I do now, I thank that Lord. Good Friday. Good Friday is such a, I mean, it just seems, when you know what he did, Good Friday doesn't seem to be the right word.
Starting point is 01:40:04 If you just look at what happened on Friday. If you miss my Good Friday message, it was an hour one, and you'll find it on the podcast. make sure you go back Don't miss a second of today's show It's really good And uh And Bill O'Reilly was very funny
Starting point is 01:40:24 I mean in a very strange sort of way entertaining and fun And yeah I would never describe Bill O'Reilly as fun But today we got him to talk about the Tiger King I mean let's put things into perspective Yeah yeah Easter How about the Tiger King We talked to him about that
Starting point is 01:40:40 Today As a nation our door is closed, but our hearts are wide open. You hear about Tyler Perry what he did? Do you see how stores are opening up just for those who are health care workers just to be able to have special hours for them? There's some amazing things happening in America, really some amazing things. I want to thank our sponsors. By the way, our sponsors are under enormous pressure right now, as all of us are.
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Starting point is 01:44:20 He's the National Review says the senator who saw the coronavirus coming. He did. He was on our show several times talking about it, talking about how dangerous China is. We're going to get an update from him, see what he thinks about what's happening with the bailouts. Nancy Pelosi yesterday. I find this really disgusting.
Starting point is 01:44:42 And still is it I mean is it it's just becoming so I mean is it even news anymore When Nancy Pelosi says something like there's there's no evidence that small businesses need more money for a bailout We don't need to give them more money and yet they're they're screaming for more money everywhere else and I mean they know they can hold up Every small business owner in America to try to get gifts and giveaways to people that they want to hook up and I I say let them. I say let them. Let them hang on that by themselves. I think the Republicans need to say no.
Starting point is 01:45:22 This is a, the Americans, if the Democrats, if the Republicans don't play the same game, and they just keep these bailouts clean and simple, no special favors for anybody, just, you know,
Starting point is 01:45:35 they should just guarantee the loans for small businesses for a certain period of time. That's what should happen. You know, the banks are making it harder and harder for people to get loans right now. And that can't happen. Yeah. And if the government would just take some steps to ease the restrictions on getting loans and guarantee them for a year, I think we could put it back together. But if the Republicans would just play it clean and say, we want a clean bill, here it is, look at it.
Starting point is 01:46:07 It's the money going to small businesses. They want to add this, this and this. to it. No. America, let them know. And I think America would. When you have the cover of the media, though, they can attempt this. And, you know, there's thousands and thousands, if not millions of businesses that will go out of business if this is stopped. So they know they have anyone who actually wants to help over a barrel on this. You know, like, and this is happening all over the country, not just federally, which is what, you know, we largely focus on. I know, States are doing this too.
Starting point is 01:46:43 For example, you mentioned the local radio stations just a few minutes ago. The new executive order out of Michigan is now banning people from placing ads for anything other than necessities. This is insane. Insane, right? Like, so you can't advertise, like, you want to advertise your car so that people can look at it. And they're not going to be able to buy it right now, unless they buy it online or whatever. I am telling you, they are designing the collapse. They are taking us out.
Starting point is 01:47:13 They are kicking the legs out every time we start to stand up. This is insane what these states are doing. It really is incredible. And so much of it is not necessary. Again, we know Detroit is one of the worst areas hit by this thing. Outside of obviously New York, it's second or third. New Jersey is kind of part of New York. And New Jersey is probably number two.
Starting point is 01:47:38 But Michigan is Detroit is right up there. there's huge swaths of Michigan that are not Detroit. I don't know if anyone's noticed this. A lot of people live there. They live there in completely different areas. They don't have these huge breakouts. They can deal with these things completely differently. And, you know, the governors are honestly dealing with this so poorly because they're just trying to not look like they're not taking it seriously enough.
Starting point is 01:48:02 Is it that or is it a power? Is it that or is it the governors who know all of their pension funds are failing and they'll do anything? to have the state collapse so the federal government has to take it. Which one is it, Stu? Could be either. Could be either. Senator Tom Cotton joins us here in just a second. All right.
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Starting point is 01:49:32 HustlerTurf.com. And you need some reading for the quarantine. Go to glenbeck.com or Amazon.com and get the new book, arguing with socialists available now. A USC drumline there. Glenn Beck program. We're glad that you're, we're glad that you're here today. I have an exclusive interview with Secretary of Education, Betsy DeVos.
Starting point is 01:50:02 She rarely gives interviews. I spoke to her for about 30 minutes straight. It's all commercial free. You'll hear it. If you're a Blaze subscriber, it's our Friday exclusive just for Blaze subscribers at BlazeTV. com slash Glenn. There's a lot of news in there. She speaks directly to parents.
Starting point is 01:50:21 about what we should be doing at this time. She said, now's a good time to really see what your kids are being taught in school. You should sit and listen and watch what's being taught. She talks about the future of school, when the kids are coming back, what the state is doing. We talked about higher education and indoctrination.
Starting point is 01:50:41 It's a fascinating interview and very rare interview with our Secretary of Education, Betsy DeVos. That is for Blaze TV subscribers, blaztv.com slash Glenn. If you use the promo code, Glenn, if you're not a subscriber, if you sign up for a year, you're going to save 30 bucks.
Starting point is 01:50:58 It's a 30% discount. We've never discounted it like this before, and we just know it's tough times for you and for us, and we'd love to make sure that we don't lose track of each other here over the next year, because it's going to be tough. One of the guys who saw this pandemic for what it was early on, was on our program, among other programs, trying to ring the bell is Senator Tom Cotton, and he is joining us now.
Starting point is 01:51:25 Senator, how are you, sir? Hey, Glenn, it's good to be on with you again. Thank you for having me. You bet. So you're getting credit from a lot of places as being the guy who saw this coming. But is it because you're such a genius or because you take China for what we know China is, not for what we hope China is. Well, Glenn, it's certainly far from any claim that I'm a genius,
Starting point is 01:51:55 but it does have a lot to do with a clear-eyed view of the Chinese Communist Party going back many years leading up to this pandemic outbreak. Specifically in January, as I began to see information, in public news sources, not in classified intelligence briefings that are received, just in public news sources, sometimes obscured. or foreign sources like East Asian news outlets or medical journals. I saw a clear contrast between two things. On the one hand, you had the rhetoric of the Chinese Communist Party,
Starting point is 01:52:28 which was designed to minimize the threat, soothe over fears, tell everyone, everything was okay, don't worry, we've got it under control, this can't be transmitted from humans to humans. Contrast that with the Chinese Communist Party's actions, which were extreme and draconian, and shutting down. a city that is larger than New York City, literally boarding up doors or welding doors shut on high-rise apartment buildings, allowing the Hong Kong local government to shut down all air travel from the Chinese mainland, shutting down schools, not just in Wuhan, but across the country,
Starting point is 01:53:05 all 1.3 billion people worth. The contrast between that rhetoric and those actions told me that the Chinese Communist Party understood just how gray this virus could become. why I started sounding the alarm in mid-January and urging the president to shut down travel with China, which thankfully he did by the end of January. So, Senator, I have been concerned about this coronavirus because, for the same reasons, watching what China was doing thinking this is nuts, they don't ever do stuff like this. But I, and I think we're going to be proven to be accurate on this, I was less concerned about the death toll that it would take on the rest of the world than I was the toll on the free market system.
Starting point is 01:54:00 I mean, we are facing a possible depression, and we've got people in Congress that are, I think, cheering for this. They are looking to hurt the economy in any way to change the, the, the, the, the, capitalist system into a socialized system. I think we are at a place where our constitution and our way of life is on the ropes, mainly because of the people in Congress. Well, Glenn, I would put the responsibility for what we're going through first and foremost at the feet of the Chinese Communist Party. They had a chance to keep this virus a local health problem in Wuhan. Instead, they allowed it to become a global pandemic. And to give you a sense of the extent of Chinese treachery,
Starting point is 01:54:57 on January 23rd, the Chinese Communist Party shut down all travel by airplane out of Wuhan inside of China. So you couldn't fly from Wuhan to Shanghai or to Beijing or anywhere else inside China. But they allowed international air travel from Wuhan to continue. So you could continue. continue to fly from Wuhan to other places in the world to include New York and San Francisco. That gives you a sense of their treachery in this matter. Now, your more fundamental point, though, is very important, and I share your concern about what this virus has done to jobs and our economy, not just here in the United States, but in all of our allied countries as well across Europe, in Japan, in Singapore, in Singapore. in Taiwan, in South Korea, what has happened across the civilized democratic world.
Starting point is 01:55:57 And that's why it is so important that we give our people the confidence that the virus is under control, that they're less likely to get it and that if they do get it, the health care system will be functioning for them. Because that is ultimately what has caused the economy across the Western world to come grinding to a halt. You know, Donald Trump didn't shut down the economy. The president doesn't have that authority in our system. Even our governors and mayors, who in many cases have been aggressively saying what kinds of activities will be permitted,
Starting point is 01:56:27 or more or less just reflecting reality. If you look at where the state of the economy was in Europe and the United States in the first half of March, before many governments were taking this action, you'll see that our people were voluntarily and spontaneously starting to stay home. If you look at like, say, open table bookings or restaurants or airline travel or so forth, So it's not so much a government dictate that has caused the economy to grind to a halt. It is our people's understandable fears of the virus. That's why it's so important. But I think, but the senator, I think that there are governors that are taking, I mean,
Starting point is 01:57:03 the governor of Michigan just banned advertising for products that aren't essential. What, what is that? I mean, I think there are those who are taking their, their powers, so to speak, way too far. Yeah, so there's no doubt, for instance, that some governors, I think, have made mistakes. Don't get me wrong. You know, I have not heard about the ban on advertising for any so-called non-essential activity, but, you know, someone might say a Lego set is not essential.
Starting point is 01:57:35 Well, if you got a four-year-old kid at home or three-year-old kids, I do, I can tell you, it's pretty essential to have Legos for them. Likewise, in Virginia, the governor extended the stay-at-home order until, I think, mid-June. maybe that'll end up being necessary, Glenn, but we don't know that now. We don't know in Virginia. We don't know in Arkansas. We don't know any other state. That's why President Trump has only suggested it continue until the end of April.
Starting point is 01:57:59 We can take stock in another 10 or 15 days about where we stand. So there's no doubt that some governors and mayors have made bad decisions. But in the end, what is more important than what any governor or mayor does is that we have the techniques and the practices in place that we can stop the population, wide measures we have now and return to traditional public health control, which is case-based measures. So rather than saying everyone needs to stay at home, we can just identify those people who are sick and those people who have been around them and tell them you individually need to stay at home. And the president outlines that at his press conferences and what we're doing in terms of getting testing up on a rapid basis, getting antibody testing, producing masks, not just for
Starting point is 01:58:41 doctors and nurses, but for people at the workplace, and so on and so forth. That's how we give people confidence to get back to something like normal life. And do you have confidence that we are taking the steps right now? I know we ordered 500 million masks for the stockpile. We're ordering all kinds of medicine, et cetera, et cetera. Hopefully these tests come online. But are you comfortable that if this thing comes back with a vengeance in the fall, we're not going to have to go in shutdown again.
Starting point is 01:59:11 We'll have the tools to make sure that our medical system, won't collapse on us. First off, because there's so much unknown about the virus deal, I don't want to say I have total confidence in that. There are no guarantees right now. But we're taking the steps that we know. You feel we're taking those steps that we should be taking? At this point, after a false starter two related testing at the CDC and FDA in early February,
Starting point is 01:59:41 we are rapidly scaling up our testing capacity as quickly as we can. The world's very best medical researchers, and scientists are looking into every angle for possible prophylactic drugs, therapeutic drugs, and vaccines. We are producing the kind of, again, personal protective equipment, not just for doctors and nurses, which we, of course, must have, but for people to get back to work. So if they're working on the factory line, they can have the masks that they need. Because ultimately is those steps that will allow us to get back to something like normal
Starting point is 02:00:11 so we can get out of the situation we're in now, which is buying time through population-based measures to produce all those things. So Senator, we're talking to Senator Tom Cotton, the guy who was leading the charge on the coronavirus. Let me take you back to China for a second. What they've done, you could argue, is an act of war. I mean, they've killed more people than died in World War I by far. They have disrupted our economy. Anybody who would do this as a terrorist strike,
Starting point is 02:00:47 it would be war. I don't want war, and I'm not suggesting war, but our relationship with China cannot go back to the way it was where we just believe what they say and we ship all of our business over to them. Agree or disagree? Exactly right, Gwen. I can already tell you that public opinion in this country
Starting point is 02:01:14 ran very strongly against China, no matter what business or financial or media elites, leave. I mean, that's because a lot of Americans have a lot of reason to be hostile towards China. If you work in a factory and your job has been outsourced to China, if your industry like rice farmers in Arkansas, I've seen their proprietary intellectual properties stolen or their computer systems hacked. If you're appalled, by the way, China forces women to have abortions or harvest organs from political prisoners or smashes Christian churches or interns, religious minorities in mass, gulags. And now to top it off, they've unleashed a pandemic on the entire world. So things are
Starting point is 02:01:57 going to change, and they're going to change rapidly, not just in the United States, but all around the civilized world. Because I can tell you, public opinion in America, and not just America, use China as a pariah state. Well, I will tell you what they're doing to France, where they're saying, hey, we'll send you some gowns, we'll send you some PPE stuff, but you're going to have to take our 5G. Boy, I think if the public really understands how they're trying to
Starting point is 02:02:26 profit off of this and extort business out of countries, I think China will be the pariah of the world. Yeah, and Glenn, they're doing that all around the world. They're trying to exploit this crisis that they created.
Starting point is 02:02:44 And in many cases, what they're sending is a reflection of Chinese quality control turns out to be defective anyway, as you saw in the Czech Republic or in Spain or elsewhere around the world. So I think, again, the peoples of the Democratic West, no matter what some of their leaders may think right now, will increasingly view China as a pariah state. And that means that we're going to have a fundamental reassessment of our relationship with China. So for instance, I think one of the very first things we have to do starting now is to bring back manufacturing of basic pharmaceuticals and medical devices and medical supplies to this country.
Starting point is 02:03:20 We cannot continue to allow China to control the market worldwide for items that are essential to life and to health. I agree. Senator Tom Cotton, thank you so much. You can follow him at Tom Cotton A.R or you can find him at tomcotton.com. Senator, always good to have you on. Thank you for your good work. We'll talk again.
Starting point is 02:03:41 It's good Friday. And we've tried to bring you some good news today. and I think we have. Let me give you some more. We're going to get past this. We're going to get past this. And life's going to go back to the way it was. And there's no need to panic.
Starting point is 02:03:55 What you need to do is prepare for when things go back. I mean, for instance, people are going to have to move. People are going to have to buy new houses. They're going to have to sell old houses. Get yours prepared right now. Because I think there's going to be an unleashing of people. And now's the time to fix up your house and get it ready. I would like to ask you to call real estate agents.
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Starting point is 02:05:22 this is the glenbeck program it's friday in fact it's good friday uh so i won't tell you about the asian hornets that are were accidentally introduced uh to france and now in america i don't think we need to go into the two inch hornets that can kill somebody uh with one sting that now are native to China, China, and now have been accidentally introduced here in the United States. Not a problem, not a problem. We're not going to talk about that today. We didn't ban flights for Chinese hornets?
Starting point is 02:06:08 No, no, we didn't. We didn't. Huge mistake by the administration. Yeah. Huge. Huge. Didn't do it. But we've been asking, no Asian hornets.
Starting point is 02:06:17 And he wouldn't close him down. Where was Tom Cotton on that one? Nowhere. I know. So we're not going to talk about that. Today, it's Good Friday. I just want you to take the weekend off. Stop thinking about all of this stuff.
Starting point is 02:06:28 Just start concentrating on what's important. Concentrate on your family. Have a good time. You know, just go visit the Easter Bunny if you're not a religious person. If you are, you know, Shabbat Shalom and Happy Easter. Concentrate on those things that really matter. So we can come back here Monday and talk about the 2-inch Asian Hornets. You're listening to Glenn.

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