The Glenn Beck Program - 'Normal' or 'Insane and Barbaric'? - 04/30/18

Episode Date: April 30, 2018

Hour 1 President Trump calls for the correspondents dinner to be 'put to rest'...Bottom of the barrel comedians...SJW ‘Daily Show’ writers…Glenn agrees with President Trump....Stu is feeling 'punked' into feeling old?...No jokes, just mean-spirited points? ...University of Texas to treat masculinity as a 'mental health' issue...culture war on men rages ...Joy Reid apologizes for racist blog posts she says she didn't write…claims hacking? ...Love Him + Hate Him = Kanye West      Hour 2 Caravan of migrants reaches the US border...a hell hole of oppression ...4 Questions for Statist Progressives with Steve Deace...baby Alfie Evans loses his battle with the UK state...what's next? ...Oil prices on the rise...Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is set to deliver important speech about Iran ...London's murder rate surpasses NYC…you would never want to live in another time…as much as we complain, the world has come so far...is the knife ban working?...Pope: 'Ban all weapons' ...America's safest cities?     Hour 3  The Golden State Killer and the silver bullet = DNA...who is Joseph James DeAngelo?...what does this mean for government and our DNA?...fascinating, the then and the now ...Glenn reviews ‘Infinity War’…Ms. Marvel vs. Captain Marvel? ...when the city goes after a carpenter? ...Conservative news site RedState in the red?...business or politics?...just became a safer place for Trump supporters  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Blaze Radio Network. On demand. Courage. Truth. Glenn Beck. Well, leave it to the comedians from the Daily Show to typify the Social Justice Warrior humor. Michelle Wolfe, the comedian with a voice like a police siren, took her comedian and comic routine, if you can call it to the White House Correspondence Dinner.

And I mean this literally. It was physically painful to listen to her voice for 11 minutes. Most of Wolfe's routine was crass and aggressively anti-PC, but in a way that progressives are somehow okay with. Like her bullying remarks about the White House press secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who was on stage for the event and took the derision with real grace and poise. I actually really like Sarah.

I think she's very resourceful. Like she burns facts, and then she uses that ash to create a perfect smoky eye. Like, maybe she's born with it. Maybe it's lies. It's probably lies. What to call Sarah Huckabee Sanders? You know, is it Sarah Sanders?

Is it Sarah Huckabee Sanders? Is it Cousin Huckabee? Is it anti-Huckabee Sanders? Like, what's Uncle Tom but for white women who disappoint other white women. Oh, I know, Aunt Coulter. I wonder if she had the hard time figuring out what to call Hillary Rodham Clinton. Is it Hillary Clinton?

Is it Hillary Rodham? Is it Grandma Clinton? Which is it? We saw this recently with Jimmy Kimmel's nasty remarks about Melania Trump, and it comes as no surprise that Kimmel and Kathy Griffin have praised Michelle Wolfe's remarks. CNN actually called out Wolf in one article at least.

Quote, being funny is one thing bullying people because you can is another. And Wolf's treatment of Sanders was bullying, end quote. Amen. Largely though, places like the New York Times and the Washington Post have written

glowing defenses of Wolf. Free speech isn't the issue here. Who cares what a crude, obnoxious comedian with a voice like nails on a chalkboard over a megaphone has to say. She can say whatever she wants. The issue is that progressives and the mainstream media

are so hypocritical about this. It makes my eyes bleed. Where is the PC brigade right now? Why aren't they or their army of offended snowflakes out in the street with protest signs and macrame hats in the shape of vulvas? Where are they?

These are the same people who throw a tantrum or lead a countrywide protest every time Trump says anything they disagree with and label him any number of pejoratives. So how is it fine for the left to do it? I know, I know, I know, I know. I'm asking for sanity in an insane world, but can we at least point it out? They have led a crusade against offensive comedy. They have informed or formed entire international movements premised on women's rights. They have railed against bullying and misogyny and offensive language and dozens of other types of triggering phenomena. Where was the safe space when they see somebody from the left doing it doing literally all of those things?

At the same time, they not only give it a pass, they rally around it. This is why the president doesn't attend these dinners, and he shouldn't. No president should. Left or right. His remarks on the dinner were fairly spot on while Washington, Michigan was a big success. Washington, D.C. didn't work. Everyone's talking about the fact that the White House Correspondents dinner was a very big, boring bust. The so-called comedian bombed.

It doesn't do any good for us to fall into the same negative. feedback loop of outrage. I'm not outraged by this. I'm not outraged. I'm kind of sad, actually. When something is funny, it's funny. Even if you don't agree with it, Wolf wasn't funny. This was mean and bullying. Despite her cringe-inducing-inducing roast, she actually did land a couple of funny lines on both sides of the aisle. I mean, she He's no Dave Chappelle, but she did go after the media. Listen to this. You guys are obsessed with Trump.

Did you use to date him? Because you pretend like you hate him, but I think you love him. What no one in this room wants to admit is that Trump has helped all of you. He couldn't sell steaks or vodka or water or college or ties or Eric. He has helped you. He's helped you sell you. your papers and your books and your TV. You help create this monster and now you're profiting off of him.

It's Monday, April 30th. This is the Glenn Beck program. Who is that person? It's insane. It's as if they're pulling a prank on us and they've just taken this person who's never been on TV or never done an appearance before. And just like, like, we're being like punked into feeling old. is how I felt like listening to this.

It's like, no, this person is really, you should really know who this is. Who is it? I've never, in my life, heard her name until the White House Correspondence Dinner. Yeah, me neither. Now, look, I'm not saying, I get that I'm not on the,

maybe I'm not cutting edge of the, but I mean, I know lots of comedians. No, I mean, look, the White House Correspondence dinner used to be, you know, back in the day, It was done by Bob Hope and, you know, Milton Burl and, you know, Rich Little, I think, did it for a while. There were the big names of the day, you know, Jimmy Fallon should have done it this year, but nobody wants to do it. Is that it?

I mean, I think especially with the president not there. Yeah, right. Who wants to do this? Nobody wants to do this. So they're down to the bottom of the barrel. I guess. I mean, you know, I don't know. like she was, think of this, she was apparently a writer for the Daily Show with Trevor Noah,

which anyone who knows, I mean, it's been a complete disaster, right? Like this has been a complete, like, I'm sure it makes John Stewart cry every night, the fact that his names, even Craig Kilbourne cries over that. I mean, like, this is going back, you know, it has not worked the Trevor Noah thing, right? He's made no impact on that show. Zero. And so the fact that one of his writers did the appearance and not him. Right. Well, I guess she's not like, so I don't know if she's still a writer there, but I guess that's her background. And she had one, she's had one HBO special,

which is a huge thing for a comedian clearly. So it's not, but it was only a couple of months ago. So I don't know. I mean, you look back, I mean, you know, you have Stephen Colbert. They had Rich Little little there after that. Craig Ferguson, Wanda Sykes, Jay Leno, Seth Myers, Jimmy Kimmel, Conan O'Brien, Joel McHale again. Like you kind of, these are names you know, right? I mean, Jay Leno, Drew Carey, Darrell Hammond, Ruth of Franklin. Well, because it used to be up until the 80s, it was more of a variety show. Okay.

I mean, they used to have, you know, Barbara Streisand did it a lot. Frank Sinatra did it a lot. There were these, you know, it was a variety. show. And then it started to go into more of the roast and the comedy. And it became a celebrity thing back in the 80s. I did some research on it this weekend. We're going to, I'm going to share the history of the White House correspondence dinner with the nation tonight at five. Because you should, you should know it. You should know it. Trump is right. Should it. It's just to be over. I mean, it is over. Right. I mean, I think, you know, they're even apologizing for it now. Oh, my gosh.

Even the White House correspondence. Yeah. So we, okay. So we, we try to do something uniting. Did you? Really?

Did you? No. Was that your best effort? If so, you're a moron. Right. By the way, 1961,

the Perro brothers hosted. They were jugglers. I mean, that's a different show. No, it was a different show. In 1961, I don't think women were even allowed.

Really? Yeah. Oh, wow. Women weren't allowed. I think it was in 16. that Kennedy finally said, well, it couldn't have been 63, must have been 62 or, I don't know. He finally, it was Helen Thomas who said,

you need a lot women in that thing. And so he said, I'm not going unless women are allowed. Oh, okay. Yeah, no, I just was not impressive. Again, it's a tough, it can be a good moment. I mean, you know, you look back at Imus when he did it back in the day. Sure. It was, you know, it was a lot of talk.

and it was seen as rude, but that's who Imus was, right? Like, that was his... Yeah, I remember saying, you know, when everybody was like, I can't believe Don Imus said that. You hired Don Imus. You hired Imus to do it. What did you think he was going to do? Of course, that's what he's going to do.

That's what he is. That's what he does. That was his... Yeah, so I don't know what's happened to it. I will say this, looking Hassan Minhaj. A couple of years ago. apparently last year. I don't remember that at all.

Larry Wilmore, who had a show at the time and no longer has a show. I remember that being really bad. You know, it's been a downhill. It's time to turn the thing off. I mean, as you've mentioned many times, and I know,

I'm going to go into this in detail tonight, but it's not a good thing. It's not something that we should ever celebrate. The idea that the media and the president are going to get together and hobnob and make it, with all of the people from Congress. You don't want that. No, it's bad.

They should be, they should be, adversarial. As much as like we complain about the media coverage of conservatives when they are in power. And we, it's, I think that's totally okay to do. It's only okay because they don't do it on the other side. Like I don't, I want there to be adversarial treatment of, of Republican presidents. I want them to, to be adversarial towards conservatives. I just also want it towards liberals and Democrats. Yes. You know, I want them to be questioning all the time. I want them to err on the side of questioning too much. you know, that is what they're supposed to do.

It's just that we just went through eight years of Barack Obama where, you know, the toughest question was, is he really communicating his greatness well enough? Yeah. You know, and that's the most enchanting thing of the last year. Right. What? Yeah. That's a legitimate question. So it's hard to, it's hard to take.

Yeah. I think for a lot of people. Well, here's, I mean, here's something, though, that we all need to be consistent on. And that is, if you didn't like what she did, then you shouldn't like Donald Trump saying, you know, Rosie O'Donnell, that big fat slob. Yeah. You know what I mean? Yeah, it's fair. I mean, we kind of lost the moral high ground of saying, hey, let's, you know, let's have some decorum here.

Right. It's the president and the White House correspondent. No, no. No. You can go either way, by the way. You can take all Twitter insults or no Twitter insults. You can't get just your side doesn't get insulted and the other side is getting insulted. Correct.

That's kind of a, I mean, like, you know, like a good example here. People are like, oh, well, Sarah Huckabee-Sandor, she was insulted about her eye makeup. And it's like, okay. And her appearance. And like, people are really upset about that today. Are they really? I mean, think about, just think about what Trump said. As president about Mika Brzezinski and her facelift.

Right? bleeding all over the carpet. It's like, okay, we can't sit here and act like we're all offended. And I'm fine, especially in a comedic sense. Like, I don't know that I want it out of my president, but like I'm fine with comedians going after people's appearances. Whatever. If you can't deal with comedy, this is the event is supposed to be. And this is the same argument I made, you know, with Don Imus back in the day.

You should be able to go to those uncomfortable places if it's going to be a roast. Hang on just a second. A roast is one thing. For instance, I did, and I don't want to get into it here, but do you remember the roast I did in New York? Yeah. Okay. Oh, no, I forgot about this moment in my life. So I was asked to close on a roast of the president of Clear Channel.

Yes, but the president of the company that syndicates this show. Correct. And every, every media person was there. I mean, every media person was there. And I closed the show. And I leaned over to the company president because they were going soft on him. And I said, I thought this was a roast. And he said, yes.

And I said, yeah, mine is going to take you apart. And he laughed. And he said, that's why I insisted you closed. There is something to be said about a roast when you know the person is taking your you're your littlest flaws and expanding them into something. And you still like each other. Right. There's a difference between a roast where the person who's being roasted laughs

and a roast where the person who's being roasted wants to walk out. And that has something to do with not only the person delivering the jokes, but also the person on the other side of it, right? You can be too offended. Like, you know, they go back to the famous one with Obama on stage talking about Donald Trump while he was in the audience. This was back in, what, 2012, 2013? And he was going after Trump and making jokes about Trump.

And, like, they weren't funny jokes. I mean, Barack Obama was never really good at that. But, I mean, it wasn't anything to get really offended over. It was just, you know, that's what the spirit of the event is. Now, they don't like each other, obviously. But, like, knocking a guy that you don't like, and you're right, taking their little flaws and blowing them up into something that it's not, is completely fair game in those things.

I don't think you can hit too hard. If you've ever watched the Comedy Central roasts of Trump, I mean, Trump sat through one, right? And it was really harsh. Go back and watch that thing now that this guy is president. And it's like, holy crap, the stuff he sat through during. Did he laugh? Yeah, he had a really good spirit throughout the whole thing.

I think, I think there's a difference now between, you know, it's one thing again. You don't invite your enemies. to roast you because then they're just making a point. You know what I mean? They're not telling jokes. They're making a point. And I think that's what's happened is this has become very, very mean-spirited to where the people aren't making a joke. They're trying to make a point.

But at least let's be consistent, shall we? I mean, if you liked Conway, Kanye last week, he's the same guy. he just disagrees with you this week. All right, whether it's a ballet recital, karate class, or scouts, my wife always seems to be on the road. She is always running the kids back and forth. And my life would be completely different without her.

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So Mike Huckabee was upset, and I actually feel for Mike on this. Watching your daughter pounded into sand. It must have been. must have been hard. What? Was she pounded into sand? Like I, I thought it was, I don't know. Did you watch the thing?

Yes, I did. It just felt, it just felt mean. It just felt mean. Sometimes it's not the words as much as it just, it really felt mean. Now, and that's a tough thing for you. That's a tough standard for you. Oh, I know. I know.

I know. They say that all the time. We're like, no, wait a minute. That's not what I said at all. Here's what I said. Yes, I know. Right? I mean,

I, that's why I was going to say, everything she said sounded mean. It may have just been her delivery, but everything she said sounded just mean and vicious. Again, I have literally no idea who this person is, this comedian.

I've never heard of her before this weekend, not once. However, I didn't watch the thing. I've read a few of the stories about it, and they keep going back to like, I can't believe they went after her appearance and they were very mean to Sarah Sanders.

Clearly, they were mean to her because, you know, they were talking about her lying, right? But, I mean, the joke that everyone says is so bad about her appearance seems to be about lies. About lies. She burns up her lies and uses them for the perfect smoky eye. Now, I guess you could take that as a criticism of the quality of her makeup application, I guess.

I've never heard that before. But, I mean, that to me is a joke about her lying. Whether you agree with it or not is one thing, but it's not an appearance. It just didn't feel like a comedy routine. It felt like bad things. bullying. Glenn, back. Mercury.

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But we need to be there for them, too. There's 72,000 veterans organizations. organizations in America, and they do a great job, but they don't focus on this one part of the really sad story of fallen veterans, which is, you know, they've got funerals that have to be, that have to be paid for, and the families get stuck with these bills because the government only offers $300 to help. The average funeral costs 20 times that number. Dogtagfurniture.com is the only organization that serves veterans in this area, and it's really important you support them. Dogtagfurniture.com, they have great art for your house and cool

merchandise as well. Or you can just give them a donation. Honestly, it's worth it. Dogtagfurniture.com. This is the Glenn Beck Program. The Counseling and Mental Health Center, the University of Texas, has now launched a new program to help male students take control over their gender identity and develop a healthy sense of masculinity. The University of Texas is now going to treat masculinity as a mental health issue. Treating masculinity as if it were a mental health crisis, masculine UT is organized by the school's counseling staff and most recently organized a poster series encouraging students to develop a healthy model of masculinity.

The program is predicated on a critique of so-called restrictive masculinity. Men, the program argues, suffer when they are told to act like a man. you might enjoy taking care of people or being active, but the University of Texas now warns that many of these attributes are actually dangerous. Being active? I agree with that one, actually. I'm willing to sit on the couch. If it gets me out of the gym, I agree.

Taking care of people, they say the traditional ideas of masculinity place men into rigid and restrictive boxes, which prevent them from developing their emotional maturity. If you're a male student at UT reading this right now, we hope that learning about this helps you feel not guilty about having participated in these definitions of masculinity and instead feel empowered to break the cycle. Yes, you can be unsuccessful. Yes, you cannot help people. Program is currently without leadership, but I have what it takes to what they're looking for. They're paying $4,000 a month for somebody to run the program.

Here is one of the posters that they have included, and it's a picture of a boy standing, a man standing, and they've drawn a cartoon dress on him, and the other one shows him daydreaming about lipstick and nail polish. Some examples of the captions, on the posters. I don't identify as masculine. It's imposed on my body.

One way I embrace my femininity is by wearing makeup and doing my nails. Even though I'm masculine, I can wear makeup. And I can feel, if I feel like wearing a dress, I can do that too. It's totally fine. Something I've fallen in love with about being queer is that you can be vulnerable. You don't have to feel invalid in feeling strong or confident or feminine. Good for you, Glenn. This is the...

Oh, that was... You're reading from some... Okay, I'm sorry. I thought you were just submitting something. There's a recent trend been going on on Twitter called Carefree Black Boy aesthetic where men who are

traditionally masculine have flowers in their beard or something. I'm glad they're trying to expand what masculinity looks like, but I wish it went further than that. Further than the flowers in the beard? I thought that would solve all the problems. It certainly did with war.

You put the flower in the gun, And then that just solved all the war problems. So the website states its goals are to promote healthy models of masculinitys to prevent interpersonal relationship and sexual violence on campus. At the same time, this program was created as a resource and support for students who want to learn more about their masculine gender identities, including students traditionally understood as male as well as female. Wait, what? Transgender, genderqueer and non-binary students who embody a diversity of. of masculinitys. According to the program,

men suffer when they are told to act like a man or be successful or be a breadwinner. It's amazing because this movement theoretically seemed to start with the idea that, you know, we reject your labels. You know, you, man, woman, well, we were, you know, straight, all these things, we reject those.

We reject your labels. And now, like, it seems as if instead of making labels less important, they're completely owned by them. All they talk about all the time is labels. Here, we've got 25 different new labels that you can call each other, and we have to specifically break ourselves down on these tiny, tiny labels. They talk about uniting. They talk about all of these grand concepts that their actions completely fight against.

It's just the idea that you would focus so much of your energy. to try to break down whether you're non-binary or gender queer, whatever the space is between those things, isn't it a complete waste of time? At the end of the day, if you figure out, okay, I'm gender queer and I'm not non-binary, what does that do for you? Where does that bring you in your life?

You know, I have to tell you, and I'm, I'm, anybody, any man who is listening to this right now, reject everything you just heard from the University of Texas. Reject it. There is something empowering about being successful, striving for a higher level, taking care of others, being the person who is the breadwinner, who makes things possible because your spouse makes things possible with the family. Now, maybe in your family it's reversed.

Maybe she's the breadwinner and you're the one staying at home making things possible at home. It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. But there's nothing wrong with feeling that way. Nothing. And if you're a woman and you want to be the breadwinner, there's nothing wrong with that either. But stop tearing down men. Let me tell you something.

This is supposedly going to stop. violence. Mm-hmm. Is it? It's going to stop abuse. Is it? In my family, I come from a family of abuse.

And what the abuse required in my family was a man. Was a man stepping to the plate and say no more. Because the men traditionally in my family were the enablers. Or the abyser.

Or the abusers. What is the problem? What is the problem with a man standing up and saying, this is going to end? What is the problem with a man standing up and saying, women are not to be treated that way? So if a man treats a woman horribly, they're a horrible human being. And if a man mans up and knows what it means to be a man and stands up and says,

not on my watch, they're also a horrible human being? I don't understand that. Do not, you know what? Teach your boys to stand when a woman comes to the table. We were doing that for about about a year in my house.

And we just got lazy and we stopped. I shouldn't have done it. I shouldn't have stopped. Teach your boys to stand. When a woman comes into the room or a woman comes to the table. I know it goes against everything, but it sends a signal of respect.

Now, I know. I know. Women can open their own door. My wife, let me tell you something. You come to our house. If I'm the closest one to the gun, you're dead. If you're the closest one to the children, let me tell you something.

I'm the least of your worries. Gun or no gun. My wife is a very strong. powerful woman and there's no problem in that but I open the car door for my wife I opened the door for my wife that's the way that's the way you show respect now I don't know why why we have to treat women any differently than we treat our fellow boys boys will be boys yes they will but men are different you want to be treated like one of the boys fine sit and listen to the

farts that go around when boys are hanging out listen to the language and get ready to be called whatever they want to call you because boys will be boys raise men and I'm sorry but you can't be both a male and a female. It's not fluid. You can be a man and like Broadway. That has nothing to do with being a man. Perhaps the feminist movement needs to take a minute and learn what a real man is. Liberty Safe.

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Libertysafe.com. Glenn Beck, Mercury. Glenn, back. So, Joy Reid is apparently fine at NBC. I mean, you can lie about, you know, what you've written and what you believe. And apparently you're okay there. I don't know. Does she have photographs of somebody or,

photographs of everybody at NBC. I mean, how is this working? He's amazingly protected through this. I mean, you know, again, you can look at the comments and say, oh, come on, it's not that big of a deal. It shouldn't be that big of a controversy. But to MSNBC, blatantly it is, right? She wrote what have been called homophobic comments on her blog in the 2000s. Yeah, and then she comes out.

She came out and, first of all, she came out and admitted it, right? Like she came out. Back in December. She admitted it first and said, yeah, I did that. And then worst stuff came out. And she said, no, my. site was hacked. They did forensics and they showed

there's no way that was hacked. Yeah, it wasn't. She's just lying about it. She's just lying. Then she came out and she said, okay, yes, I'm sorry. I apparently wrote those but I have no recollection of it. Oh, come. Come on.

It is kind of amazing. And I guess it really pays to be on the right side of these arguments. Because if you're a super liberal and she's like liberal to the point of insanity where she'll she will say the thing that the the respectable democrat will not say. You know, she'll come up with a conspiracy theory against Trump and floated out there. She'll, she'll, you know.

She's useful. She's very useful. That's a good way to put it. And so she's been protected. Somehow she's made it through this, which is incredible. And again, I don't care. I didn't know, barely knew she had a job, right? She doesn't affect my life at all.

But it's amazing that she would be able to survive something like this. And I thought this is interesting in that. like Bill Cosby obviously has his his, his, his issues, his large issues. And he has gone, he's going to be going to prison. It looks like he's under house arrest right now. And one of the conservative

things here that people have brought up over the years is it's interesting how Bill Cosby skated through all of these because he was accused of these terrible things long before he got in trouble for them in a real way. It wasn't until he started making pseudoccurts. conservative points in front of people that they started going after him. And I don't know, does that connect as a point? It kind of seemed like it did because he would say he was calling out the African-American

community for New York. He was Kanye West. Yeah. He was being Kanye West. He's not, I don't think Kanye West is a conservative. No, but he's just, he's just saying, hey, look, there's something about hard work and self-respect and, and, you know, handouts that don't go together. Yeah.

And he started talking about, you know, people getting shot in the back of the head over a piece of pound cake. And, you know, he said, then we all run out in our outrage. The cops shouldn't have shot him. Well, what was he doing with a pound cake in his hand? Remember this? This is where he was talking about, you know, pull up your pants and he did all that stuff. Well, now that he's going to prison, this comes out from the Atlantic, how Cosby's pound cake speech help lead to his downfall.

They're now admitting that this is actually what's happened. And the real, it's not that he didn't did or did not do these crimes. that's why he's going to prison. But the reason why it didn't turn into a media phenomenon is because until he started saying the conservative things, or some conservative things, there was no media angst against him to make this into a story. And like they're basically validating now.

The left is now validating this conservative idea that Cosby was essentially punished for being conservative, not for his crimes. and they will take their mask off. Yeah. I mean, they have no fear to the point of admitting it in their own articles saying, yep, yep, the bias is so bad, we let this guy skate. Glenn, back. Mercury. Truth. Back.

Well, yesterday pictures emerged showing the migrant caravan arriving at the southern border of the United States. migrants who have fled their countries in Central America because they are, quote, afraid for their lives, shorn by death, poverty, and violence. Okay. Maybe that's true. And if so, we should open the door for those who are truly in trouble and afraid for their life and are seeking asylum. There's a process for that. But the photos showed the asylum seekers attacking the metal gate, dividing the,

the border, climbing it, and then once they got to the top of it, they were so overjoyed that they waved flags in the air. Except the flags weren't American flags. They were flags of Honduras and Guatemala and El Salvador. Okay, wait, you mean the country that you can't wait to get out of? If your country was so awful that you feel the need to leave, why wave the flag and demand entrance into America. And how arrogant. Let us in. We want to bring our war-torn country into yours, and we don't want to

do all that pesky paperwork and red tape needed for legal migration. Oh, and we're also going to need you to replace your flag with ours, and your language with ours. And we're not going to deal with the actual problems that landed us in this situation to begin with. Oh, yeah, that sounds exactly like who we want in our country. Now, President Trump has been adamant in stopping this caravan from entering into the country

to blowing the National Guard to various parts of the border. Quote, I have instructed the Homeland Security, the Secretary of Homeland Security, to not let these large caravans of people into our country. It's a disgrace. We are the only country in the world so naive. Build the wall. Now, naturally, the progressives have seized the opportunity to signal their virtue. They see the immigrants as sad-eyed puppy.

who have a right to come to this country, which shines as a beacon of hope to these poor oppressed people. Do we have to go over it again? That's not what that poem means. Give me your tired, you're poor. No, no, no. That's not what it means in the least.

It's a challenge to the rest of the world. Look at what people can do here. You send me the worst. The ones that you keep up. pressing. You'll send them to me and I will show you what they can accomplish here in America. But that requires that person to come here and want to be a part of America. The people who are saying that, you know, oh my gosh, we need these people here. They're the same ones that scowl about America being racist, sexist, bigoted, a xenophobic hellhole,

full of oppression. Well, which one is it? Which one is it? Why would you want all these people to come here if it's so horrible? The answer is fairly obvious. They just want to say it aloud. Like all those celebrities who swore during the 2016 election that if Trump got elected, they were leaving. I am leaving this country. Well, sure they meant it. Sure they were serious.

Well, except for the fact that every single one of them still lives in America. And what is so hysterical is most of them. live in giant homes surrounded by gigantic walls and gates. It's Monday, April 30th. This is the Glenn Beck program. I love the mayor of London who's talking about how safe his city is now, because they've gotten rid of all the knives. And their new slogan is,

London needs me alive. And it's a deal where it shows all these kids. And they're like, and London, I'm part of London because I'm going to be great and special when eyes grow up. That's right. I'd like a little bit of chocolate right now, sir,

if you don't mind. But London needs me alive. That's why I don't carry a knife. Well, it's really great, except maybe you should, does Liverpool want you alive as well? Because I'm not sure Liverpool wants you alive. If you're a kid, most dangerous place you can be is someplace in England now.

If you're under two and, you know, maybe have, you know, a cough. Look out because they just might kill you. If you don't know, Alfie Evans died over the weekend. Alfie was the two-year-old that they were trying to, they've been trying to murder for quite some time. They finally got the job done over the weekend. And will people wake up? I read a great piece by Steve Dase.

He's the author of a nefarious plot and rules for Patriots, how conservatives can win again. And we welcome him to the program. And he's got four questions for status progressives. Hey, Steve, how are you? Good morning, Glenn. How are you? I'm good. I'm good. You know, I've read a lot of people.

In fact, the Washington Post just wrote an article released it yesterday on the lies that conservatives are saying about death panels again and how Alfie Evans is playing into their hysteria. They say that this is not because of universal health care. In a way, it's not. but not for the reasons that the progressives are claiming. It's because universal health care has never really been about universal health care. Glenn, I mean, progressivism in the end is about one thing and one thing only, and that is control. We saw it in our country with Obamacare. If we really wanted to deal with the alleged 20 million uninsured, we could have just, you know, massively done one welfare state expansion like Bush did with Medicare Part D.

and we could have just massively expanded Medicaid to include all these uninsured, just printed more fake money, grew more debt that we owe the Chinese and moved on. But if Obama had done it that way, they wouldn't have gotten access to all of our records. They wouldn't have made us register. They wouldn't have been able to tell every single guy you've got to pay for a pap smear. They wouldn't have gotten control. And that's really what you're seeing in the UK. This isn't about costs.

They could have just let him go home if indeed there was no cure for Alfie. they could have just let him go home and die in peace and gotten and taken that bed, done true utilitarianism, and then given that bed to somebody who they think had a chance to be healed. Instead, they fought this in court all the way to the UK Supreme Court. I'm guessing those lawyers have hefty retainers and hourly fees and didn't do all this for free, not to mention the cost for the taxpayers to have this case adjudicated on top of that. No, this was about nothing else other than to remind the people of the United Kingdom, we have control.

And if we will do this to this beautiful baby boy in broad daylight, if we will do this to him, what will we do to the disabled? What will we do to the infirmed? What will we do to those of you we have determined or on the wrong side of history? That's what this was about. So let's go over the four questions that you have for progressives.

One, exactly which medical diagnosis will result in a verdict from medical professionals that I won't be allowed to take my kid home from me. from a doctor's visit at a doctor or a hospital? Right. What's the appeal process when another country is willing to take? Actually, if you count the Vatican as its own country, which it technically is, both Italy and the Vatican both said they would take Alfie. So two separate countries said they had a second opinion on his treatment.

They were willing to take him on. And so no appeal process, no one else could take a look. The child could not be given to another. health care facility. And the irony of this is, you know, we just got done celebrating the life of Stephen Hawking, who spent most of his entire adult life needing assistance to breathe. The great irony of this is the same people that stood in applaud Stephen Hawking as he shook his fist at God for the last 40 years of his life as a great modern marvel of modern medicine set there and essentially chanted death to Alfie. If that's not irony, I don't know what is.

Second question, how much should a public official or a doctor's opinion about something as subjective as your attitude impact your rights concerning your child. What does that mean? Well, this was a story that came out of the UK that the Federalist actually jumped on first. I want to make sure I give them credit. But essentially, there was a story that came out of the UK that had hospital sources quoted as saying that they weren't willing to let Alfie go home essentially until the parents got a nicer attitude until they changed their attitude. And if you noticed shortly after this angle of the story came out, his father, who had been fighting them to the point of threatening lawsuits for punitive damages for essentially enabling

them being accomplices in the murder of his son, literally stood out there on camera blinking like an Iranian hostage from the summer of 79 about how these people are great and they're really nice to me. I mean, this is Orwellian. I mean, this is really four legs good, two legs are bad, and then eventually becomes four legs are good, four legs good, but two legs might be even better. I mean, this was truly Marxist to watch what went down here. third question you have, by what moral calculus should progressive media be concerned with the fate of Shania Twain and Kanye West at a level that dwarfs its non-existent concern for Alfie Evans? You know, this would have been the perfect opportunity. If you wanted to tell those who

thought Sarah Palin was a prophetess when she forecast death panels five or six years ago, if you want to point out Trump and his base are a bunch of conspiratorial mongers, and certainly there's an aspect of his base with the Alex Jones crowd that that's true about, but they want to blanketly say everybody that didn't vote for Hillary just doesn't believe in the truth and has conspiratorial notions that are unproven about government. This was the perfect opportunity, Glenn, to draw that line in the sand. You know, you're actually seeing some members of the media. I've seen Tim Alberta at Politico, Maggie Haberman at the New York Times,

coming out and differentiating themselves from what went down at the White House Correspondence dinner over the weekend to say, hey, we're not going there. That's not who we are. We're not with that crowd, right? Well, they had the perfect chance to do this on nationalized health care, the perfect opportunity, like a Pierce Morgan, for example. They could have stood up like a Pierce Morgan who's a died-in-a-wolf progressive liberal and said, just let the kid go home.

Just let him go home with his parents. Let them decide. They could have done that. But most of them, 99% of them didn't. Why? Because in the end, progressivism isn't about all the sentiments and all the advancements and the advancements and the design. desires of the human basic instinct that they promise us. It's about control. And they didn't want

to set the precedent that the state doesn't control the child, but the parents do. Last one is, where does the hospital get off by ejecting Alfie's priest from his room? Tell this story. Yeah, what happened is the family's priest was ejected from his room. And one of the archdiocese over there in the UK, actually, pointed this out on Twitter and copied Pope Francis on it, but he was apparently too busy over the weekend, quoting John Lennon's imagine, to be bothered by it. But they're like, hey, you know, where did they get off doing this? I don't know about you. We've had the separation of church and state, at least their, you know, inverted variation of it, beat into our, you know, skulls for the last 50 years.

Well, a hospital that's regulated by the state whose diagnoses are appealed not to medical, boards, but to courts of law, is in fact a variation in agent of the state itself. So where does the state there in the UK get off telling those parents what worship practices, what their conscience could be doing in this time of need, what spiritual counsel they could be seeking? And, you know, there's another irony here. It's the same thing with the radical left's love of Islam, that when they're done getting rid of the Christians, when we're out of the way, the Muslims will split their throats next. They have no intention of sharing civilization with hedonists. They just don't. But the radical left hates Christianity so much. They believe this notion of the enemy on my enemy is my friends,

and the cozy up to Islam. And the same thing is true here. Once they're done getting rid of people of various wrong side of history worldviews who won't conform to the new utilitarianism, they're just going to start turning on them next. And that's what's ironic about this is some of these progressives that are sitting here cheering this on. And, you know, they're the same people to say to people like me. Well, Steve, what would your views be of marriage if your son was gay? Or what would your view be of abortion if your teenage daughter were pregnant? Well, I'd like to throw the same question back at them. What would your views on status control over my conscience, my child and my health care be if that was your child smiling at you on your phone camera a few days ago that the state was

starving to death and broad daylight? Steve Days. Thank you so. much. You can find him at Steve Dase.com. That's D-E-A-C-E-S-E-E-S-E-Dase.com and Twitter handle at Steve Dase show. Have you read even a mildly

convincing piece defending what the UK did with Althe? Nope. Because I mean there's got to be one, right? All I keep seeing is people following in this sort of you know, making it due to a pro-life pro-choice debate, which has got nothing to do with it. It's not it's not to do with abortion at all.

I have not seen a real defense that is convincing, like from a doctor or from, is there anything? I'm actually looking honestly for one. I would love to understand what the heck they're trying to do there other than, you know, hey, we want control of your life. Right. Like, we won't control of everything. You know, this sort of like, you know, not to say it's a real conspiracy, because it seems pretty true in this case, but like the sort of conservative conspiracy theory that they're just, you know, the government's too big and they want to do mean things. There's got to be some, even if it's a lie, there's going to be some effort at a defense. and it doesn't seem to be one that's even mildly convincing.

The only thing I keep hearing as a defense is the doctor's no best. The doctor's no best. Stop the suffering of the child. I know, I know. That would be at least if they were saying we should kill the kid. Euthanasia right now. That would make a stop the suffering argument. Letting him die over multiple days doesn't make the stop the suffering argument.

It doesn't even make that crappy argument. All I know is that the Germans. didn't even accept this from Hitler. The people who voted for Hitler didn't even stand for this. When he started killing children in the hospital, the German people stood up. The churches stood up. He lied about it,

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The speech will come after the Israeli security cabinet convened for an impromptu unscheduled meeting in the wake of a strike on Syria overnight. Meanwhile, hinting that Israel may be about to launch another far more powerful strike on Syria. Wynet reports that Israel has closed its airspace near the Golden Heights and the Israeli-Syrian border, most likely in anticipation of, one or more bombing or missile attacks on Syrian territory. Having slumped early following the disappointing German inflation data,

looks like oil has taken a jump and has spiked to about $70 a barrel in just the last few minutes. Good. So we got that going for us. Pretty exciting stuff. My kind of default position on anything in the Middle East is just it's going to turn out great. Right. In the end, we all know everything's going to be fine. Everything's going to be fine.

So we just kind of sit back and say, wow, that's going to be, that's got to, there's another interesting turn in this tale of success and wonder. That's how I look at it. You know, it's really weird is I'm becoming more of an optimist and yet everything is going the other direction. oh my gosh do which really scares me yeah that's what you do that's what i do oh my gosh when things are getting really terrible you all the sudden sound optimistic i just realized that i was thinking that maybe there was hope for real optimism no this is just the way i am oh it means the darkest times are coming oh crap yeah we're totally screwed yeah good morning everybody back at a minute Glenn back mercury we all have ears uh but

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So, London's murder race. has now overtaken New York City. Now this came out a couple of weeks ago. However, now the mayor of London says, London is

fixed. Remains one of the safest cities in the world. Why? Because they've banned knives. Because the murder rate went through the roof. People aren't using guns because they don't have access to guns, so they're just using knives. By the

the Pope came out this weekend and said we should just ban all weapons and then we wouldn't have to worry about war. What? What? Well, see, what would happen here, Glenn, is before guns, there was no violence in the world. That's only,

it's a new creation of our society. Back in, there was no such thing like, you know, you never heard about any crucifixions or anything like that. You know, that was never something that was dealt with before. Yeah, they didn't have any guns back then. And they used, and they just nailed people to trees.

It seemed to be actually a lot more. Bloody. Yeah. It was a little of a gory world. We had Stephen Pinker on, what was a few weeks ago. And he, his new book, we were talking to him about, but his old one, angels of our better nature. Again, it's a, it's a tough read if you're a fan of religion because he's very harsh on that. He's not a fan.

But if you just go through and just hearing about what life was like in those days, I mean, we are, we've come a long way, a long way. You would never, ever, ever, ever want to live in another time than this. No, I mean, Jonah Goldberg's book that's out now, came out last Tuesday, Suicide of the West, illustrates many of the same things. You know, I mean, it was not, it was not a fun time to be alive. I think as we all, when we think about it, we all know. We all know that you would not want to live in the 1600s. I wouldn't want to live in the 1920s. It sucks.

But, you know, there are problems today. We certainly have real problems with violence and things like that. It's just actually a lot better than it was. When is a time that you would want to live in? When's a time that you would go, I'd take that. There's no time in the past that I would rather live. No, we would say our childhood. It was great.

No, it wasn't. People ask me this question. I say oftentimes right here, right now. There's no other place I'd rather be right here, right now. As the world looks out into history or something. That's a song, I think, but thank you for that. Everyone thinks it's good. But I mean, it's the best one.

You make a lot of these improvements. We've made this point several times over the past couple months and that we a lot of times overlook these incredible advances. We've knocked out, you know, two-thirds of the world's poverty in the last like 25 years. And we're like, ah, this sucks. You know, like it's an amazing time to be alive. All these things are really positive. You know, that we've made, you know, you make the point of, you know, computers used to be the whole room.

And now you have a much more powerful computer in your pocket for, you know, an inflation-adjusted cost that's unthinkable, how cheap it is. And all we do is talk about, God, I can't, I'm so addicted to this phone. We're all screwed up. We have these phones all the time and complain about the problems that we have with the phone. It's what we're using them for. Exactly. I mean, you know, so there are, I would definitely. not rather be alive

in another time with the exception of probably the future because it's probably going to be a hell of a lot better than it is now. We can all look back at that and say can we look first? Can we visit first? Let's give you an example. You have to have a portal open up and you're like walk through but you can't come back. Yeah. Let me give you an example. This is a friend of a friend

had a situation where they have discovered breast cancer. She has breast cancer. And they have to do like a double mastectomy. And I was thinking about this. Like, can you imagine in 20 years how we're going to look back at that as a solution? Like it's just like a sign of it. Like it's the very little smallest amount you can find.

And they're like, okay, take them off. Like that is the answer. Like that is going to, we're going to look back at that in 20 years and think, I can't believe people who were alive today lived in a time where that was the answer. Do you know how Washington actually died? he was at his he was he had two doctors at his bedside okay one was you know the the famous doctor that you know everybody knew he was the best doctor at the time he was the president's doctor and then there was a young guy who had just come from overseas and he had heard of these new advancements

so uh uh Washington had a really bad I think he had pneumonia I think and he he couldn't breathe right and so the doctor said bleed him he needs to be he needs to be bled some more so they just kept taking pints of blood from it just cutting him open getting him

get rid of some of that bad blood okay so he was getting weaker and weaker because they're bleeding him to death okay so the so the young doctor says I think I know how we can save him but it's this new procedure

and I've never done it before, but I think I can do it. And he explained it to the other doctor, and the other doctor said, you barbarian, I am not doing that to the president of the United States. Absolutely not. Take another quart. What he suggested was,

if we take a tube and we cut a hole right here in the air tube, we can help him breathe. So giving him a trache was the idea. And the other doctor called him a barbarian. I mean, think of that. To cut open his trait, to give him a trache was barbaric. But bleeding him to death was not. I mean, you want to talk about being on the wrong side of history.

This does not look good in retrospect. Oh, and all of our cancer treatment, everything. Yeah. Giving chemotherapy. Barbarians. I wasn't an Angelina Jolie who didn't even have, was it her that didn't even have breast cancer? But she had a genetic signal

that they thought she might develop it at some point. Yeah. And they did this, you know, drastic step. You know, and it's like, we will look back at many things. We have to remember, you know, we all, that will always be the case. Look at what's happening with language. We look back at things that Joy Reid was saying in 2007. A liberal was saying in 2007. And now everyone's

completely horrified. by it. And certainly if a conservative was caught saying it, they would be fired. She probably will get away with it. But still, it's a big controversy. Think of how those things happen. I am a big believer. We made this point before that abortion will be looked back like that. Oh, absolutely. It will in, I don't know,

it takes 20, 50, 100 years. At some point, we will look back and think, how on earth did humanity do that? They will, and they will look back at that and think it's incomprehensible that a society approving

of that on that scale for that law. I have kind of changed my mind on this to some degree. Uh-oh. Okay? I believe that they will look at that procedure as barbaric, but I do also kind of believe that perhaps

natural childbirth may also be looked at as barbaric. How did you ever let a woman have a baby like that? Like that. Right. And that's, I think the process could change. Yes. Yes. So I think there, I think there's going to be so much genetic splicing and, you know, genetic baby making that I just don't, I don't know, they might think, wait a minute, how did that work exactly?

This is a fun game. I want to come up, we should come up with a list of, of the things that we're doing now and accept now that we'll look back at in 20, 30 years as completely insane and barbaric. Because, I mean, there's a lot of them. And this is the thing. Every era has them. every era has them and no one at the time thinks of it that way you know it's just we all kind of

whatever era we live in we kind of think of oh wow we've arrived you know like oh we find and figured everything out and here we are and not exactly people back in the day

were idiots I know how stupid we don't realize that it always even progressive should know progressive

it means that it's going to change constantly. But everybody's fighting. No, this is the answer. It really is a story. I don't know how we got here. I don't know how we got here.

Oh, we were talking about the cities. Where are we going to do? Yeah, yeah, yeah. London being so safe now because they have, you know, they got rid of all the knives. And, you know, people aren't going to, you know, they, okay, they were killing each other with guns.

And then they turn in knives. But now we're getting rid of all the knives. And again, the Pope coming out and saying, Oh, we should just get rid of all good. No, that's not the deal. But I digress. The real point on this tweet is that he says it's one of the state, it's one of the safest cities in the world, London.

Okay, well, your murder rate just overtook New York. So I don't say that that's really one of the safest in the world. You know what I mean? Right. That's not something to brag about. Here are the safest cities in the world. Now listen to this. Tokyo.

Singapore, Osaka, Toronto, Melbourne, Amsterdam, Sydney, Stockholm, Hong Kong, Zurich, Frankfurt, Madrid, Barcelona, Seoul, San Francisco. I didn't really feel that safe in San Francisco. Wellington, Brussels, Los Angeles, Chicago, then London. Chicago? Yes. Chicago's number 19. What is the methodology of this? You don't want to ask.

You don't want to ask. Opposite land? Listen to this. Number 21, New York, then Taipei, then Washington, D.C., then Paris, Milan, then Dallas. Dallas is worse than Washington, D.C.? Oh, come on. So here's what it is. It's from the economist.

They rank the safety of 60 cities around the world based on several factors. Ah, let's see what these are. Personal security. Okay. That's what I would, a personal security, I would assume that's crime, right?

Yeah, yeah. Digital security. All right. I mean, that's important, but not what you would think of when you think of. Health security.

Ah, ah, they always do this. This is like, well, we believe people in universal health care systems are more secure. So they win. That's how they do that.

They do also. And infrastructure security. Oh my gosh. So our bridges. are crumbling. That's a critique of our bridges crumbling. Do you have access to the healthcare? You're not secure unless you have access to health care and Wi-Fi. If you don't have high-speed internet.

That's embarrassing. All right. Take a break. Let's go over the list of security, security. Cities that are the most secure based on just crime statistics coming up. Every business needs great people and a better way to find them, something better than just posting your job online and praying that the right person is going to see it. We want to thank ZipRecruiter for being our sponsor this F hour. They knew there was a smarter way.

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Mercury So the mayor of London said Oh you know we're one of the safest cities in the world Yeah if you look at the economist Which is is saying Personal Security Digital Security Health Security And Infrastructure Security

Health Security is a big one there Like to the economist Everyone gets all the health care they could possibly need Don't talk about Alfie Evans Yeah unless you're two Yeah That's just an economic argument. They're saying, well, we like government health care.

Right. Which is totally different. So they're number 20 behind Los Angeles and Chicago. And when I saw Los Angeles in Chicago at 18 and 19, I thought, okay, this is not real security. No, the crime index. Number 10, Zurich. Number 10, Zurich. So these are the safest?

Safest. Okay. Number eight, Bern, Switzerland. So number seven, Tokyo. Number six, Osaka, Japan. five Quebec City Canada four Singapore three Basel Switzerland

two Doha and Qatar and one Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates Now of course again You look at the top three Is Singapore number three? Four number four Give the last four

For Singapore, Basel Switzerland Doha, Qatar and Abu Dhabi So in the exception of Basil The other two are Because we kill you Right like there's a super huge punishment if you commit a crime.

Right. There's something in, I mean, look, there is deterrence is real. Yeah. That's a real thing. The number one, by the way, for the United States was Salt Lake City. The number one safest city.

And, yeah, in the United States on this list. Which finished at 38 worldwide. So, studingly ahead of London. Yeah. London's way down the list. So here are the cities,

the safest cities in order as they come. Salt Lake City. Boise, Boston, San Diego, Austin, Texas, Denver, Pittsburgh, Charlotte, Honolulu, Richmond, Portland, New York, Columbus, Dallas at 177 internationally, San Jose, San Antonio, London is at 196, San Francisco, San Francisco is 210, Washington, Washington, 261 and Philadelphia is 266. Did we give you Chicago? 2.92 for Chicago. So again, because I mean, everyone knows, you know, like, I mean, one of the safest cities. That's ridiculous.

By the way, bottom, bottom three. Yeah. Port Moresby and Papua New Guinea. Didn't know that. I had that problem. This one I did know, Caracas, Venezuela. knew that was pretty bad at 326. And 327.

San Pedro Sula in 100. Honduras. But we definitely don't need to secure our border. I just want to make sure everyone knows that that is hateful. We do not need to secure our border at all. But that's interesting. There's a lot of South American cities here at the bottom. A lot of Brazil.

El Salvador. A good chunk of Honduras showing up here. That's kind of... No, it's safe. Our southern border... We're good. We're good. Everything's fine, guys.

everything's fine. Everything's fine. Don't worry about it. I like those guys with the Honduras flags and the El Salvador flags that are sitting on top of the fence. I think they're patriotic Americans. Well, no, not in the least, but they're here with their flag, and we should respect that. Glenn, back. Mercury.

Truth. Last week, the man known as the Golden State Killer was finally caught outside of Sacramento, California. Now, how the investigators tracked him down after so many decades is commendable detective work. It really is. But it's also a cautionary tale about privacy data that should give every American a pause. Now, I know, well, I haven't killed anybody, so I'm not worried about it. Okay, I got it.

But in this case, the arrest of the Golden State killer would not have been possible without the website GEDmatch.com. and no, it's not a dating site for those who have earned their GED or didn't earn their GED. GEDmatch.com is a site where people voluntarily submit their own genetic information to try to locate long-loss family members. It's unregulated, it's all open source, and it's free. What could possibly go wrong? People just upload their own genetic information and then cross-reference it with other. who have loaded theirs in hopes of finding relatives. Again, this is good, but we're a little early on the genetic thing.

You might want to hold your cards a little closer to your vest. Now, back to the murderer. Investigators use GEDmatch.com to see if any of the site's family trees match the DNA samples that they had from decades-old crime scenes. The Golden State Killer wouldn't have had to submit, his own DNA information for the cops to find him. They just had to find a relative who created a family profile on the website. Then they could match the killer's DNA to the family members and narrow it down to potential

suspects within the family. It took him only four months to do the DNA mining and to get the right family. And ultimately the killer four months. That's crazy. He had over 100 relatives on GEDmatch.com with some percentage of a DNA match. I bet we all have relatives on GED match. I bet you could clone me. Wow, who could we clone?

That's a really, anyway, GED match says investigators didn't approach them about the Golden State Killer case, but police didn't have to. They didn't need a search warrant because the website is an open source. and GED match warns users that their info is out there for everybody to see. It's the largest genealogical service, Ancestry.com, and 23 and me, supposedly protect their user data from outside parties. Yes, they probably do, but in the age of WikiLeaks,

don't you think some darkwed creep can't steal your DNA information? I don't know if you're going to put your DNA information out there. And how much personal information should the government have access to? We're closing in on a feasible future where the government could have a database containing the ultimate private information about you, your DNA. Well, I'm not killing anybody, so I don't, we don't know what DNA can be used for. Now, it's awesome technology that finally caught up to the killer. But what hasn't caught up, as usual, are the laws regarding the use of personal DNA information.

Do we want the government to have all of our genetic information? More importantly, when the future AI rulers create a human version of Jurassic Park, do you really want a cloned version of me or you running around? I don't think so. It's Monday, April 30th. This is the Glenn Beck program. See, this is one of those things that bothers me because we're just so fast to just go, oh, I put my genetic information out.

I, wait, hold it. I mean, because this site seems to be almost like a social media for genetic information. Yeah, it's like, what was it, Napster. It's like Napster. Hey, go ahead and download my DNA anytime you want it. Yeah. Here's a really hot DNA. It's kind of weird.

It brings up a couple of things in that. One, the sort of OJ defense at the time was basically, you know, people just didn't understand DNA at that point. It was brand new. People didn't understand. What do you mean? Matching DNA. Could be wrong. Could be right.

People did not put enough weight on that at the time, which is one of the reasons he was able to get off on the murder. Where here, like, it starts to bring that back in that anyone, like, if you wanted to frame someone, it would be so easy to, to, you know, be able to for a government or someone to just edit a DNA match, right? And like, if you could, all they're doing is, like, we don't understand genetic stuff. Like, they're just telling us it's a match and we assume it's a match. Right. And you can, you can, you can, you can, um, uh, print DNA. You can print this stuff now.

You, we're close to being able to print a human heart made from cells and DNA from you. won't reject. We're that close. What do we? What? That's really fascinating. I mean, think about that. You know, any good criminal, right, they're not dumb enough to put their own DNA on there. But just anyone in your family makes it so they could narrow it down to the family and then they just look around there and like, oh, this person was here this many times. And then they were able to put it together eventually by actually, you know, matching his DNA to the crimes. That's an incredible. It's incredible police work.

It's going to make an incredible movie someday, probably. I mean, how do you? I mean, seriously, crime, there is, there's no future in crime. I don't know if, I don't know if you know that, but your future, if you're thinking, I'm going to be a criminal. There's really no future in that. No, and that's a great thing, right? It is.

It's a great thing. And we've seen from numerous documentaries such as Demolition Man, where crime is very difficult to commit in the future. I would go for Minority Report. Minority Reports, another good one. All that one was just silly. I mean, you know, look, there's not people. People really sitting around in milk predicting crimes.

There's much more civilized ways to do it. We don't need the milk bath ladies. You really don't. Another thing I thought was really interesting in this was Patton Oswald, the comedian. Yeah. Remember a couple years ago, his wife unexpectedly died out of nowhere. And they were really very close. And she was a big novelist.

Yeah, she's big into the true crime sort of arena. And she was in the middle when she died of writing a book about this killer. and like her life goal was this guy to finally be caught. So they wound up finishing the book without her. You know, we used her all of her research and everything, found out finishing the book and released it, I think earlier this year,

maybe last year. And, you know, I don't necessarily think it was the reason why, but it certainly put a lot more attention on that case. And now after her death, they actually, you know, supposedly allegedly solved the crime. Legitly.

I know. Can you imagine? I mean, how old was it? guy. He was in his 70s, I think. He still is in a 70s. He was a, you thought you got away with it all this whole time? All this whole time. Yeah. And I mean, this guy was really, really bad. I mean, he was, the stories of what he did to these people. I mean, this is, it's, it's amazing that we kind of let just let this one slide all these years. I mean, some cases shouldn't go cold. Well, did he just stop? I, you know, it was a long time. It was over a decade.

he was doing these things. So he's eventually, I guess, I guess stopped. I mean, maybe you get to a point. I mean, I'm curious that I mean, you stopped and you're just kind of like, eh, that's, that's the old me. Well, you know, I, you know what? I, I got bored. Some of us are eating healthy and going to the gym, others, stop our murder sprees. Mass murder. Yeah. You know, what was it that? I would be interested in knowing that. What was it that made you go, I think that's probably not good for me. Or others.

That's in my past. Like, you know, I used to play a lot of video games and I don't really play that many anymore. It's not because I stopped liking video games. I just don't have the time and I'm, you know, it's not. I grew past it. You know, it was a phase I was going through. Is that what happens with murder? I don't know.

I don't know. Maybe he's just going through his midlife crisis. You know, some guys get corvettes. I killed a bunch of people. Right. Well, you know, you kind of do this with like painting, right? you kind of go in and out of it. It's a hobby.

You like doing it. You kind of go in and out of it. You stop in here. But yeah, to just stop completely. Yeah, it was in my blue period. Right. Yeah, I can see that. It was a really horrible spree of crimes, though.

I mean, that is, it's one of those where you kind of don't want to go back and I wouldn't encourage you to go find the article where they list off all the details and the testimony about it. It's really hard. Well, now you've pretty much guaranteed that I'm going to do that. That was a good sell. You should go read it at the blaze.com. I should have thrown that in. I don't know if it's up there, but I mean, it's super dark.

I mean, he was beyond just wanting to commit these crimes. And he was really sadistic about it. And, you know, aren't you fascinated by what he's like now? Oh, yeah. I mean, it's one of those that I would be very interested. Well, what would you say? I mean, he has to go pay his price. But what would you say if he had like some real, like, you know, massive,

you know, redemptive thing, I guess it wouldn't be real because he would have to have turned himself in. But I mean, how weird would that be if he was like, all of a sudden, it was just like your grandfather

and he was a normal guy to you. I'm sure he probably was to get away with it for this long, right? I mean, the BTK killer was like that. He was a guy who was like, loved around his church. People thought he was a great guy. And, you know, so you have to have that facade, right?

If you really had a change of heart, I mean, that's... You still go to jail. Oh, you still spend every moment of the rest of your life in prison at the very least. However, there's always hope, right? I mean, eternally, right? Like, that's the whole point of this. You know, there is hope there. And people have done it.

I mean, we've talked to people who were terrorists. We've had them on the show, who were former terrorists. And now have changed their life and are fighting for the right things. That's part of it, though. The redemption, you know, comes along with talking about it, reversing course. Yeah, like admitting your mistakes. Like Barski, the guy that we know that is a former communist spy was spying on the United States, living as a spy in the United States, spying on us in, you know, in Wall Street. And, you know, was caught by the FBI, but changed his life and now is big time pro-American.

and, you know, I mean, okay. Yeah, you could certainly, I mean, I don't know if you, you know, if you're a sadistic serial killer, I don't know if I'm ever like, well, okay. Yeah, you're not going on care.com and hiring them as a babysitter. I'm just saying, I'm just saying that, you know, I think it would be interesting to learn from someone who went through that. What's the show?

Have you that watching Mind Hunter? Mine Hunter. Yeah. Oh, my gosh. Have you seen it? I haven't seen it yet. Oh, you have to watch it. It is really good.

It's on Netflix, right? It's on Netflix, and it is, it's based on the FBI, the original two guys or three guys that said, wait, we shouldn't just kill these serial killers. Something's changed here. You know, we had Bonnie and Clyde. You know, we had, you know, we had people like Al Capone, and we kind of understood where they were coming from. These serial killers, we don't have any idea why they're killing or how they think. and I remember this growing up. The big debate was,

oh, you're just trying to say, let's understand them. We don't need to understand them. Kill them. And they were saying, these three, they were saying,

no, no, no, we agree with you. They have no place in society. But if we're going to find new serial killers, we have to understand these guys. And, uh,

profile in them. And it's, it is hair raising. These guys go in. They don't know what they're dealing with at all. It's set back in the 1960s or 70s, and they have absolutely no idea what they're dealing with. Is it based on the true story?

Yeah, based on the true story. Yeah. And it's really good. I mean, it's one of the best cliffhangers of a first season I've ever seen. You're like, I have no idea. Of course, I felt that way this weekend I saw Avengers. No idea how they're going to change. No idea how they're going to do part two of this next year. No idea.

I don't want to say anything and spoil it, but it's two hours and 55 minutes. Which is about 243 too long. Let's be honest about it. They're all going to shoot things at each other. You don't like, you don't like this. I think Marvel is, I think Marvel is great. Not a big superhero movie guy, admittedly. I am.

It's getting a little complex. I'm, you know, all the way through, I'm like, okay, wait a minute, what happened with that guy last time? How come, wait a minute, weren't they friends before? And it's like, Dad, you missed, you know, you missed this episode and this episode and this episode. No, I saw them all with you. I just don't remember them. Yeah. And so you're having to remember too many things.

But I thought it was really, really good. But it is one of those endings that you're like, wait, what, wait, what just happened? Yeah. I was watching the preview of it and it looked, uh, someone don't like these. I don't like these movies generally. But I mean, this one just seemed. like they just threw all the, like, it was like, it's like if my, my son went into his toy basket and picked up all of his, you know, action figures and threw them at me is what I felt like

watching the preview. You know, you know what that is? That's DC Comics. That's when they did Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman. They put all of them together and you were like, okay, stop it. What's the difference here? I feel like I saw like, they have good storylines and they all come together and it all works. I mean, they, Marvel has taken the time to.

actually think these things through where DC, all of their movies are just like, we're greedy, we want to make money here. How about we put these guys together? Where Marvel is at least thought out and thought through and I think well done. I'll take your word for that, I think. You're not going to go see it. No, no. No, two hours and 55 minutes for you would be.

That's incomprehensible. It was a little shocking, but it did go by, you know, some movies are like, like two hours and 55 minutes. Yeah. What? I don't know. No, I've got like lots of other things to do. This one went by really fast.

It went by really fast. I thought it was really good. I liked it. But you know, you know, the Savior's going to be. And this is, I'm not spoiling anything. Is Captain America. But Captain America is a woman. Shut up.

Shut up. Captain America is always a man, always has. been a man. Shut up. Women can be superheroes. I know. I know. But Captain America was a guy.

Oh, what? So women can't be captains? Is that what you're saying? Shut. Why are you just saying that women are the representative of America? Here's what I'm saying. Shut up. Oh, okay.

It's a good answer. All right. All right. I think I'd rather spend two hours and 55 minutes with the, the Golden State Killer, then I would actually go to see that movie. Has he turned over a new leaf? I don't know.

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Beck, Mercury. Glenn Beck. Oh, boy. I have to admit, I was wrong. You lead with your mistakes on this program. My mistakes. Captain Marvel was a woman from the beginning, 1968. It's

Ms. Marvel that I was thinking of. She was kidnapped by, you know, the character Marcus. I assume we're not giving away parts of this movie. No, no, no, no. And taken to the alternate dimension where she was brainwashed, seduced and impregnated. She later gave birth to it. Anyway, that's

Ms. Marvel. Not Captain Marvel. A woman from the beginning. Yeah, you said Captain America. Yeah, I know. I know. That was the mistake. I was going to say Captain America is pretty clearly a dude. I mean, they've been no, but he's, yeah.

But no, this is another character. This is too... Let's be honest about it. This sucks. This is all sucks. It all sucks. No, Captain Marvel, I have to tell you, I don't... I, you know, I never read the comic book, so maybe it's, you know, I'm sure all the comic book people are like, oh, Captain Marvel, she was the best, she was the sexiest.

Whatever. Named after the comic book company. There's no creativity left at that point. Captain Exxon. Glenn, back. Mercury. You're listening to the Glenn Beck program. Welcome to the program.

Pat Gray is joining us and you have a you have a story I cannot make heads or tails of. Yeah, it's confusing. We heard that Troy Walker from Dog Tegg Furtiture, we talked about him a few times. This is the guy who makes those beautiful American flags and all the proceeds go to help pay the cost of the funerals for veterans, whether they've committed suicidal,

or otherwise because the VA only sends them up to $300. Right. Like we have a story of a woman here who was killed by her boyfriend in a murder suicide and she was sent $71 and $67 for burial. And so they just left her there.

Except Troy claimed her body and is trying to hold a decent funeral for her, which is coming up on Friday. We'll have some details about that. But so if somebody called us or tweeted us that Troy was in some trouble and so we sent him an email and

said is everything okay? And he wrote back, no, we're not okay. We in fact have been shut down temporarily by the city. Last year when I was doing everything in my driveway, the city tried to shut me down. A reporter came to our rescue and reported on the following and then he's got a link there

of the report they did. Since that aired I have constantly been slandered and falsely accused for things I have not done and have multiple witnesses for alibi. We left everything alone, tried to turn the other cheek. The city treasurer has driven past our house several times, taking pictures of our house and her excuses to ensure we're in compliance with city ordinances. What is her deal? I don't know. Maybe the neighbors have

complained about sawdust because he was making this stuff in his driveway last year, but he's moved his operations outside the city limits, I think. Now he's outside of the city limits and He's on a farm, right? Yeah. So she's driving. That's where he's making all this stuff. She's driving by... By his, I think in town residence and taking pictures of what's going on there.

Then they said they came into his home and they wanted to turn over their business computer. And he says we refuse because our attorney told us they can access our donor list and make their information public. Also, I had a duty under law not to make their personal information public. Because this is so ridiculous, I thought it was making a big deal out of nothing. Maybe I was being short-tempered, going insane, or just being paranoid. After all, I did nothing wrong. Well, yesterday, everything changed. I received a phone call from a detective.

They had a search warrant to gather all our electronics on the property. They took all our phones and even the chargers. My aunt and cousin are visiting us, and they took their iPad. They took my son's phone and tablet. They took our business computer and phone. They tore apart our house, left it in disarray. And again, we just thought there has to be some kind of misunderstanding here. We were told it will take about four to six months to get everything back.

I mean, that's nuts. It's nuts. This guy makes furniture for veterans who have died. and just uses the proceeds to pay for their funerals. And this is the way he's being treated by this city? So why? What city is it? I have an email that Troy says was sent to him from the city treasurer.

I'm not going to give the name or the treasurer's name because I want to make sure. It's her. But listen to this. Troy, you need to leave town before I really get pissed. I'm going to make sure you suffer my scorn. From now on, if you so much as have one piece of sawdust on your driveway or one of your flags, I'll declare it a nuisance. You may think your stunt of going on Glenn Beck, spelled wrong, I'm just saying.

And trying to discredit me would have worked. You've got another thing coming. I want you and the rest of your pathetic brothers and sisters to kill yourself. Do us all a favor and kill yourself before you end up shooting the neighborhood with your PTSD. remember it's your word against mine treasurer that cannot be from the city can't be real can it I mean well he says that he has gone to the city and he's asked him did somebody several times right yeah did somebody on your staff write this

and he can get no answer they've given him no answer one way or the other just confirm or deny that this is from your city treasurer but they won't all right so let's give this information to Leon at the blaze and let him assign a reporter to this and get an answer. Yeah. What the hell is going on? Because if that's real,

I've never seen anything like it from a city official. That's about as bad as it gets. Telling a vet that he should kill himself like so many other vets have done. Wow. That just sounds like Twitter trolls. So you're going to find out kind of the details behind this today on the show. Yeah.

You're going to have him on. We're going to have Troy on in the third hour. Yeah, top of third hour. There's got to be something else to this story. Some long vendetta or something. I know. Can I tell you that's got to be more than sawdust in a driveway, right? So that is the problem apparently over in England with Alfie Evans and Charlie Gard.

Is people just keep thinking to themselves. Now, there's got to be something here I'm missing. Right, right. That's a normal human instinct. Normalcy bias. By the way, many times very much true. I mean, it's a good question to ask yourself when you hear a story that seems too amazing to be true. But in neither of those cases.

But yeah, there wasn't. Charlie Guard or Alfie, there was nothing else, right? The hospital just would not let them be released. They had to die. I don't understand that. You know, the state-sponsored murder seems like a bad thing to me. And again, there doesn't seem to be any coherent argument against it. I asked this earlier.

If you've read a good piece that explains the case in favor of the UK and what they've done here, you know, send it to me because I can't find one. Have you? Have you heard a good case? I can't find one. And people keep sending me like the court documents, which make a legal case for their ability to do it. But that's not what I'm asking for. I'm not asking for like, could they theoretically do it in this, in the country in which, you know,

they're ruled by those laws, right? Like, I'm disagreeing with the laws. So, you know, I want to know the reason for the laws. I want to know a reason. why is it the hospital doesn't just say we can't treat him. Yes, we have the legal right to hold him here, but we're not going to because there's another hospital that nobody in England is paying for. Go there.

Good luck. Their argument seems to always be, well, that wouldn't be good for Alfie. But it's like that doesn't make any sense. You're dying good for Alfie? Come on. You're saying it's guaranteed death by staying. Yeah, that's unbelievable. And not only that, guaranteed death now by starvation.

Right. Because they're like, oh, they want to help ease his pain. Well, easing his pain is an argument for euthanasia. Right? If they were saying we are going to give him a bunch of medication and kill him right now, it would be a terrible argument. Just, you know, still is horrific, but at least it would be an argument. This is just like, I, we're just going to let him expire over a few days and not let him get him any treatment. It makes no sense. It doesn't. Because even if it was the cost, like if there was no one willing to pay for it, you could at least make this argument. There's, there are ways. In each case, they've had people. They've always had them. They've been lined up with people ready to take them to Italy. Yeah.

And the Pope is intervened and still they don't care. The problem is with people like Troy is he's such a regular guy. And you'll sound crazy. Yeah. You know what I mean? The reporters would listen in the town, you know, the town has credibility. So the town clerk is like, no, you don't understand. This guy is just whatever.

Okay, all right. Well, I'll talk to him. And then you get a guy. like Troy who was like, look, I don't know, I don't know what's happening. And all of a sudden he sounds paranoid and everything else. And he has mentioned. And wouldn't you? He knows that it could sound that way.

He doesn't want to sound insane. That's why he kept dismissing it. And then it's gotten to this point where they came and took all of his electronics. Why would you do that to a guy who is making American flags to help pay for veterans funerals. Why would you do that? I can tell you usually people self-diagnose. Now, maybe there's something, I doubt it, but maybe there's something that, you know, was going on. But if the city just said, you know what, he's making this furniture and he's just, he's just pocketing all the money, he's not really doing all that. That's because they don't know anybody who would. Right. You know what I mean?

the people that they know would would lie about something like that and pocket all the money. Yeah. And so now they're trying to prove their theory. Yeah. Apparently. Yeah. So, yeah. We'll get to the bottom of this.

Send it to the blaze. Send it to Leon. So Leon can assign an reporter to that. And let's find out because one way or another, it needs to be. Yeah. On the radar. Taking care of it. And we'll talk to him, Troy, coming up at hour three.

Thanks, Pat. So you know what, Tanya got last year? for Mother's Day. More extra time with you. And there's no better present than that. No, actually, no. Oh, good. No.

What she got was because Cheyenne goes to this Russian ballet, which is just... Yeah, me too. There's a reason... Huge fan. There's a reason we almost bomb the Russians, okay? Now we let them come over here and just teach our kids ballet. No, it's not good.

It's not good. So the Russian said, look at all the kids want to do something very special for Mother's Day. So we have a Mother's Day performance. And so mothers, you bring your kids and you can be backstage all day long.

And so she was, she didn't get to watch the performance. All the mothers were backstage, you know, helping get the kids dressed and everything. You know, they didn't even get to watch it. It was the craziest thing. They're doing it again this year. Well, can you just say no?

I'd rather send the audience. If you don't want your kid to be in it. You have to be. You have to be your mom. The mom has to be backstage helping the kids get changed and everything. What? Yeah, I know. Don't.

Don't. But I feel like don't. Don't go there because I've got a Russian ballet instructor and ballet class monologue that has been dying to. come out of me for a while. Really? Oh my yes. It's a, this is the real Russian. It's not Russian collusion. This is the real Russia story. This is the Russian story. And anybody who has kids in a Russian ballet class, don't you know it? Real relatable topic here. For everyone who's got kids in a Russian

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You know, we just crossed another red line in the media, and it's not the White House press corps. We know what that is. But on the other side, with Red State, Red State and Salem just made a, I think, a shocking move to fire all of the reporters that weren't pro-Donald Trump enough. and it doesn't seem like it's a hundred percent of the reporters who were skeptical of Trump but all the people they fired were skeptical of Trump. There's still a few, I guess, there and a lot of good writers. And you could say that, you know, you could say we're downsizing, we're changing, whatever, but one of them that they fired was responsible for a third of all traffic last month.

Media is reporting that one of the reporters they fired was one third of all of their readership. Why would you do that? but, you know, skeptical of Trump. And it does seem that like that's their, the writers who have been let go, many of them have cited that as the reason they were let go. You know, I don't think that's something that Red State is admitting, but that is at this time what a lot of the writers believe.

Well, I hope that's not true. Yeah, I hope not too. Because, I mean, look, whether you like Trump or not, you know, I think hearing smart, well-reasoned, critiques of him from the conservative perspective is needed. It's just like it was needed during Bush. It's important. Yeah, you got to have it.

It's important. I don't, I mean, I enjoy reading critiques of, you know, other politicians that I really like because, you know, sometimes they turn out to be true.

I mean, later on, and there's been several cases where people warned us about a particular politician and wound up, one of being accurate in the end. So, you know, I can't think of who you might be.

I can think of many. I'm not even thinking about a specific one. But I am thinking of one or two specific ones. But I mean, there's multiple. And not this administration. Not from this. No, this is years ago. But I mean, many, many examples of that.

Of course, right? I mean, that's the whole point of having a conservative media. It's not so you can come up with arguments to generally hit the left on raising taxes. Though that's important. Like, you need to make sure that the facts get out there. But, you know, the dissecting a topic from multiple perspectives within conservatism is really important. That libertarian to maybe establishment sort of range, I want to hear from all those voices.

There are certain people that I follow and read that are super pro-Trump. And I read them because I want to make sure I understand where they're coming from, where, you know, what's their argument? What's their reasoning? And there are people who are super libertarian that don't like anything at all as that, I mean, almost anarchists that I also want to read. Yeah, that's how you get better. You don't get better by someone telling you this thing you want to hear over and over and over again.

You don't get smarter. You're not, you're never going to, you're not going to improve your ability to argue points to the left by just hearing the same talking points by the same people over and over again. You know what it is. It's a helicopter parent. It's just helicopter media. Your guy, your point of view, because it'll make you feel bad. We're never going to say anything bad about it. Well, we all know that's part of our problem.

Our problem is with schools and the helicopter parents and the schools that won't give your kids bad grades, even though they did poorly. They'll just say whatever needs to be said to make everybody happy because everybody needs to be happy. No, we need the truth. We need the truth. These guys weren't telling the truth or if you had to just make a business decision, that's one thing. You're doing it because you're not partisan enough. That's trouble. Glenn, back.

Mercury.