The Glenn Beck Program - 'Politically Connected Bridges?' (Bill O'Reilly & Dennis Quaid join Glenn) - 3/16/18

Episode Date: March 16, 2018

Hour 1  Here come the white farmers?...Australia set to welcome South African farmers who are being run out by racists ...We can't blame crumbling infrastructure this time...new 'pedestrian bridge' in Florida collapses, killing six people, injuring many...Only 5 days old...the company who built the bridge is politically connected? ..."We need more Stu"? ...CA teacher put on administrative leave for questioning student gun control walk out...California's concentration camp mentality ...France's day of rest (from baking)? ...St. Patrick's parade-goers asked to stop smooching soldiers                   Hour 2 Are all student protests equal? ...Who's the far-left group behind the student gun control walk outs?...National Press = National Crisis...Cable news audience crisis continues...Trump's tariff talk is just "smoke and mirrors"...Bill O'Reilly's Word-Of-The-Day? ...California teacher Julianne Benzel, who was put on administrative leave joins the show...explains why she was put on leave...the end of due process...receiving a "tremendous amount of support"    Hour 3  In Movie Theaters Today: 'I Can Only Imagine'...with Dennis Quaid (Live from the North Pole)...the story follows the life of Bart Millard, lead singer of MercyMe, who lost his father to cancer and was inspired to write the mega-hit song, 'On My Way To Heaven'...'I Can Only Imagine' a movie for the under served ...Don't let the door hit you in the behind...this famous actor is moving to Australia? The Glenn Beck Program with Glenn Beck and Stu Burguiere, Weekdays 9am–12pm ET on TheBlaze Radio Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Blaze Radio Network On Demand. Truth. Australia may soon be welcoming a lot of new neighbors, the white South African farmers. Oh my gosh, of course, they're welcoming the white people. The African National Congress Party in South Africa has now proposed a constitutional amendment to take white-owned farms and to redistribute the country. wealth, to the black citizens, without any compensation to the landowners.

Potentially thousands of white South Africans can find themselves now looking for new homes, new land, and new jobs. Peter Dutton oversees the immigration is Australia's Home Affairs Minister. He says Australia should grant emergency visas to white farmers from South Africa that would allow them to resettle in Australia on humanitarian ground. He says, we should do this as a civilized country, and he took heat in Australia and South Africa for saying that the farmers needed protection in a civilized country. Oh my gosh, civilized country. What is he saying? A spokesman for South Africa's foreign ministry called Dutton's remarks regrettable, adding there is no reason for any government anywhere in the world to suspect that any South African is in danger from their own democratically elected. government that threat just doesn't exist. Really? Because usually when whenever this has happened

before, the threat does exist. Wouldn't we be saying exactly the opposite if it was white people taking the land from black people? Wouldn't we be saying the opposite? Whenever a government denies something like this, that usually means, yes, the threat is there. As in many parts of the world, immigration is a hot-button topic in Australia. Thousands of immigrants, mostly Muslims from the Middle East and Southeast Asia, are being held offshore in detention facilities because of an Australian policy that denies asylum seekers who reach Australia by boat. And people think that we are. So, oh my gosh, look how bad the United States.

Every other country just lets people pour in. Apparently not. Dutton is accused of using race as a political tool because he supports the offshore detention facilities and because he also blamed the rising crime in Melbourne on African immigrant gangs. Well, are there African immigrant gangs that have been doing things? Because if there are, I think we could just, isn't this a math problem? Not a race problem? in an interview with the Sydney Daily Telegraph, Dutton said,

we want our people who come here, listen to this, we want people who will come here to abide by our laws, integrate into our society, work hard, and not lead a life on welfare, end quote. Sounds kind of like what everybody was, isn't it? South Africa seems determined to try to correct decades of injustice with more injustice and create a new homeless class of white farmers. So what's wrong with Australia rolling out the welcome mat for those outcasts?

Well, apparently plenty. Plenty. For all of the world's progress, it never ceases to amaze how much we are still hung up on race. It's Friday, March 16th. This is the Glenback program. And it really is. the crazy thing. It really is Friday, March 16th,

and this is the Glenn Beck program. And welcome to our executive producer, Mr. Stu Bergier. Hello, Stu. Hello, Glenn. How are you? Oh, my. Oh, my. I'm good. Things are good. Oh, my gosh. They're good. Going well. Yes. Unless, unless you're somebody who happened to be at a stoplight

underneath a bridge in Florida yesterday. Or you happen to be the people who release this, this press release. This method of construction reduces potential risks to workers, commuters, and pedestrians, and minimizes traffic interruptions. The main span of the Sweetwater University City Bridge was installed with just a few hours with limited disruption to traffic over the weekend. The Sweetwater University City Bridge is the largest pedestrian bridge, moved via

self-propelled modular transportation in U.S. history. It is also the first in the world, to be constructed entirely of self-cleaning concrete. When exposed to sunlight, the titanium dioxide in the concrete captures the pollutants and turns it bright white, reducing maintenance costs. Funding for the $14.2 million bridge connecting plazas and walkways is part of a $19.4 million transportation investment generating economic recovery, a tiger grant, from the U.S. Department of Transportation. Now, can I ask you a question?

We've just spent $14.2 million of my money and your money on a bridge, a pedestrian bridge, in Florida. All this brand new technology, and it's going to just going to be great. And it was for five whole days. What happened? Who's going to be held responsible? and what do we learn from this? Well, what the left learned was that Donald Trump, who has not, does not care about our infrastructure,

has abandoned it and will not, he's, you know, because all these tax cuts. Yeah, well, it's crumbling infrastructure. Crumbling infrastructure. This was really, this was five whole days old. Right. Of course, they didn't realize that it had just been installed five days ago. And was an example of us spending millions of dollars.

on infrastructure and the latest technology. Let's just be specific. 19.4 million dollar taxpayer, federal taxpayer money went down to Sweetwater. 14.2 went to build this bridge. And this is separate from the tragedy, which is obviously really about six people died. And it could be worse. You know, it's a really bad event. Separate from that.

How can we say that we don't have enough money for our infrastructure when we're spending $19 million on a pedestrian bridge. Thank you. Thank you for saying that. Thank you for saying that. How is it? We're talking about crumbling infrastructure. And we're spending $14 million to build a high-tech pedestrian bridge that I want to quote the, I want to quote the press release.

Construction of the bridge began in 2017, expected to be completed early 2019. When finished, the bridge will be 298 feet long, 109 feet tall. and the 32-foot wide bridge will serve as a study and gathering place. That doesn't seem like critical infrastructure. Is that critical infrastructure that we have another study and gathering place? It made it easier for the university students to get to the town instead of having to deal with the streets, which again, it's not that it's an invalid project. There's no reason for the United States federal government.

to be funding a project like that. If you want that project, Florida, pay for it yourself, period. There's no reason. This is constant. And they act as if we need another trillion dollars on infrastructure. This does not prove this. It's the opposite. And, you know, you look at this, you know, Florida International is a, is like the head of this type of, uh, of, of construction.

It's called accelerated bridge construction. And it's a new method where they basically build the bridge on the side of the road instead of, you know, interrupting traffic the whole time. and then put it on wheels and wheel the thing into place. I mean, it's an amazing. It's a great idea. And it's a great thing. And probably will be eventually, you know, a way that we do these things more efficiently.

Obviously, this big first test of it did not go well. Yeah, so we shouldn't be testing things over roads. I mean, just that's to me. Well, eventually there's testing things. No. No, no, no. You said the first big test. Well, there should be lots of tests.

of this. I'm sorry. It's not like they just came up with the idea last week. I don't know. Let's wheel it over the street. Well, they obviously didn't test it enough. I mean, I know people who are literally dying of cancer. And if it, if it, if it causes any kind of problems, no, no, no, no, we can't do that.

You might have the heartbreak of psiriasis. Sorriasis. You might have that just horrible heartbreak. As you're dying with cancer, we can't do that. we don't know if it's safe. What was the testing of this like? I mean, it's... Five days.

Well, it's apparently... No. I mean, they've been testing it for years. No, I know that, but it lasted five days. I guess what that, you know, from what I've read about it, and I cannot say that I walk into today as an expert on accelerated bridge construction. Yes, I agree. But I think, you know, as everyone does, once something like this happens, everyone becomes a 24-hour

expert on accelerated bridge construction. And it does seem like, you know, it takes a lot of precision. And if one little thing goes wrong in that process, you can have a situation like this. Obviously, they didn't think they were going to get anything wrong. And this company that is, you know, responsible for the building and, you know, checking, making sure all the monitoring was going correctly. Very politically connected in Florida. So now... Wait.

All of it. Wait. This is not a pretty story. I will say that. But again, it has nothing to do. All the people that you're going to see on your social media feeds today that tell you this is a, this is proof that Donald Trump didn't do his job with infrastructure. It's ridiculous. And beyond that, he's the guy who wants to spend all the money on infrastructure.

That's right. It wasn't critical infrastructure. It was a brand new bridge. What do you say? If we're, you'll never say it. You people will, you, you, you, you political driven people on the left in this particular case will, we'll, we'll make this all about our crumbling infrastructure. We've got to spend more money. Donald Trump wants to spend twice as much as Obama did.

You will never talk about how this. is not critical infrastructure. This was a gift to a university. When are the universities going to start paying their own way? When are the universities going to start giving back? You want to talk about universities? We lived in New Haven, Connecticut. The infrastructure of New Haven is crumbling while Yale just keeps pouring money in.

When are these guys going to pay? taxes. Oh no. Churches should pay taxes but not universities with their billions of dollars. This wasn't critical infrastructure. You can complain to me about critical infrastructure crumbling, which it is, which it is in some areas. You can do that when it is critical infrastructure. and it was crumbling because it was there longer than five days. It may be one of those days today because next I want to tell you about the first illegal immigrant appointed to state office in California. We'll do that in a second. Can you imagine taking a car on a hundred-day test drive or getting a pair of shoes and being able to walk around for a hundred days, see if they really are comfortable?

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Hello, Patrick. You're on the Glenn Beck program. Hey, Glenn. Hi. A long-time listener, big fan. Thank you. And if I could quickly say, we need more stew. Thank you.

That's what America is demanding and finally someone's the kind that you get out. of a can. But anyway, go ahead. So I just wanted to go over the idea of inspections and county and state inspectors. I've been in the construction industry most of my life. And we're often taught that the inspector is there to make things safe. But the fact of the matter is, the big joke in construction is that if you wash out in the industry, become an inspector. Yeah, well, I think that is the joke in every industry. Furthermore, just a quick instance, I built my own house about two years ago, you know,

and I had to pay an engineer to design the concrete foundation, and the planning department had to approve it, and then the building department had to approve it. And the engineer missed a really big part of the job, and it was me and the other contractor that I hired to do the concrete that actually caught it. And the two of us are standing there, scratching our heads, looking at each other, thinking, I paid thousands of dollars to this engineer, and then the planning department and the building department both had to approve everything and stamp off on it. And if we built it the way that they designed it, we would have had some problems on the house.

Now, we fixed it. But the idea that you have safety or security because the county or state government is involved, I mean, I think most of your audience knows that that's kind of laughable. Yeah. So wait a minute. So hang on just a second. So did you have to go back when you caught it? did you have to go back and have the plans re-approved, or did you just do it?

Oh, we just fixed it. I mean, it took us two hours in a shovel and some rebar to fix it. But, you know, they would want us to do that, but we skip it all the time. Let me give you another, for instance, I don't want to take up too much time. We get given the ideas by magazines all the time. People are like, oh, I want it to look like this. And we say, that's great. We can make it look like that, but it's illegal.

So they say, well, what do we do? Well, it's easy. So we go through and we install a standard handrail that looks normal and passes inspection. And the inspector walks out the door, we rip it out, and then we put in the nice metal one that looks like branches and leaves that's all arcedy and cute. Oh, geez. Oh, my gosh. The inspector's got him. Okay, he's back.

Go ahead. Yeah. They don't care. They have to sign off that, yes, when we showed up, it was the way we wanted. But you can change it however you want the next day. They don't have the time or the resources or the error. And so this is the problem. This is the problem.

This is why gun control and drug wars and everything else don't work. Because if the people want to do it, they will find a way to get it done. And the inspection process is usually just a joke. It is. I mean, I've had great inspectors on projects that we have done. and the city has come in and looked at things. I've also had pain in the ass. Don't have any idea.

They just are there either marking time or, you know, it's like the, you know, the parking lot cop that is in a, you know, a rented outfit that thinks he's got all of the power in the world and wants to let you know I have all the power in the world. Well, and Glenn, it even gets worse than that because right now in Mesa County, like we had a bad year or two as far as enough money for the county. So what did they do? They got rid of a couple inspectors.

So now the guys that they have left have to do more inspections, even more quickly. And these guys, and I'm not even kidding you, I've been on job sites. And this is when I was younger before I was running at any kind of job site. I've seen inspectors not get out of their truck. They drive up, a six pack of beers, walked out to the guy, and they sign off on the thing without even getting out of their truck and looking at it. and that stuff still happens, and I hate to say it, but it happens because that's the way that we can make the process quick

and painless for our customer and ourselves. So let's keep our mouth shut on that. I don't know how many beers, however. I don't know how many beers were walked over for the bridge. But when it comes to something like that, when it comes to a serious issue, we need the inspectors. and they need to be clean and they need to do their job. By the way, for a six pack of beer, I can get any of your calls on the air.

Just set it up with me. This reminds me, though. For a bottle of Jack Daniels, I'll give you the show. This reminds me of last summer in Toronto, and this is a Canadian story, but it applies, I think, here, which is they were going to make a new set of stairs to go down a decline for $65,000 to $150,000 was the cost. And just a guy in the neighborhood got sick of it. and decided he just walked up there one day, just started building stairs, built a nice set of stairs for $550.

And what happened? The next day they came in and with power tools and tore the stairs down. They said, they said they can't, we cannot allow just the average citizen to build stairs. Why, he just saved you a hundred grand. Check them out. You know, if you think they're- Measure them and go, huh. But I mean, why not set and take the extra hundred?

$50,000 of savings. And go buy yourself all the beer you want. As far as I'm concerned, just leave us alone. Mercury. You're listening to the Glenn Beck program. A Rockland High School teacher. This is in Rockland, California, has been placed on administrative leave

due to several complaints from parents and students involving the teacher's communications regarding the student-led civic engagement activities. Now here's what happened. In California, you know, you can do whatever you want. I mean, illegal aliens smoking pot

while having sex with underage children as long as they're wearing a t-shirt that says Gavin Newsom for governor, you're okay. That's a law. That's actually the way it's written to. Some would have said that was extremist, but no, that's the actual law. But however, if you disagree, if you disagree that somebody should be allowed to march out of class against the second amendment,

you don't have a right to a first amendment for that opinion. Okay. So here's what the teacher said. Look, I just want to know if we are doing these things. She set out a memo and she said, you know, it's an example of consistency. Quote, if a group of students nationwide or even locally decided I want to walk out of school for 17 minutes and go into the quad area to protest abortion, would that be allowed by our administration? And you shall not question.

And she's been put on administrative leave because she can't ask that question. that's amazing I mean because I could tell you this there's a scientific consensus here if all gun violence continues and you're still going to wind up with a lot more people alive if you got rid of the abortion the other way a lot more abortions you hand everybody in America a gun there still will be more abortions more people killed by abortions yeah man when if you get rid of abortion you're going to have a lot more people alive than if you get rid of gun violence so and she was in advocating for pro-life.

She's just saying, I'm wondering if this is equal. Both of them are about constitutional rights. How do you test a statement, right? You bring up the opposite side. You bring up, and it may be sometimes, even in extreme. You will not question us. You will not say the other. There is no other side.

Freeline, no other side. It's true. That is. that's what they want, is there is no way to test it. Because if you test it, then you find the logic of their statement to be incorrect. There is, I'm telling you, there is a movement, there's an underground movement, and there's a possibility that it actually stems from the belly of the beast, that it actually comes out of California.

And on the Pacific side, you know, I'm thinking of the, what's the evolutionist guy that we've been talking about, Weinstein. a biological evolutionist from, from, what is it, evergreen university, which is, I mean, really makes Berkeley look like Beck University. And he's, I can't work there anymore. My wife and I, both evolutionary biologists cannot, or scientists, cannot work there anymore because they've just unpegged for science. science and and any kind of reason doesn't exist anymore. She's using reason. This is something that has been lost.

She's using reason, which is what we're supposed to be teaching our children. Let me engage in reason here. You're protesting a constitutional right. Abortion is said to be a constitutional right. some people disagree with the constitutional right to bear arms. Some people disagree that it's a constitutional right to kill children. If you can protest your constitutional right, do I have the right to protest this constitutional right? The answer is clearly no.

Not only do the kids not have the right to protest and walk out of class for 17 minutes and be called heroes and brave, they also don't have the right as a teacher or anyone else to even ask that question. This is a concentration camp mentality. California, let me ask you a question. How do you grow from this? What are you going to do when you have all of your beloved people running the state and you have half or a third of your population that doesn't agree with the way you want to run the state? Do you put them in re-education camps?

No, the idea I think is you're just hoping everybody will move out so you can have your socialist utopia. Well, that's, that's wrong. That's wrong. Yeah, we were talking off the air the other day about a book called Science Left Behind. And it goes, it's about Hank Campbell and Alex Berizau. And they go over a ton of examples of how,

largely, the book focuses on examples on the left because everyone says it's the, you know, conservatives who abandoned science. And they go through example after example after example of after example of how the left does exactly this. They will just

they will take science and they will just disregard it when it butts up against whatever theory of the day they're trying to promote. And you know, you can't you can't successfully run a society that way. You have to be able to look at the facts and objectively analyze them.

And, you know, sometimes it doesn't mean you're going to get everything right. But if you can at least take the time to honestly question, there was somebody a long time ago who had something about honestly questioning things that he was a guy who kind of had a good idea about how to run things. So here's this. Wednesday, first illegal immigrant ever to serve in state office in California was appointed by the California Senate Rules Committee. Elizabeth Mateo 33, who attended Santa Clara University Law School in 2016, passed the California Bar last year, is going to serve as the California Student Opportunity and Access Program Grant Advisory Committee, which advises the California Student Aid Commission on ways to make it easier for students from low-income or underserved communities to attend.

What are those underserved communities? I have a guess. Yes, I bet you do. Senate President Kevin de Leon, who announced the decision, took the opportunity to slam President Trump. He released a statement in which read, while Donald Trump fixates on walls, California will continue to concentrate on opportunities. Ms. Mateo is a courageous, how dare him use Ms. Is that, is that the proper pronoun? I hope to God so.

Is that an assumption of gender? I think it is. Ms. Mateo is courageous, determined, and an intelligent young woman who at great personal risk has dedicated herself to fight for those seeking their rightful place in this country. Now, Mateo followed that up with while undocumented students, in my day, we used to call them illegally here, illegal aliens, while undocumented students have become more visible in our state, they remain unrepresented in places where

decisions that affect them are made. So in other words, in the House and the Senate, you can't legally vote, but now you can serve in the Senate. If you're Donald Trump,

let's run this by you here. You're sitting in the White House. I'm Donald Trump. You're Donald Trump. You're sitting in the White House right now. Okay. You are a guy who occasionally likes the jousting of a good conflict. Yes, I like conflict. Donald Trump, I like conflict.

It's kind of like what you like about the gig, right? That's what life is all about. And you like to send the message that you're very tough. He likes that too. On illegal immigration. Aha. Right? Yeah.

You have to be tempted. Mid-speech to send a crew in there from ICE and to remove her from this country in the middle of a sentence. So in other words, Ms. Mateo, assuming that is her proper pronoun, right. She is giving a speech and all of a sudden the doors are kicked in on each side and ice maybe grapples down from the ceiling. And grabs her and flies her to Mexico. There's no reason to damage a door in this process.

I think Donald Trump might say, you know, I'd kick the door down, even if it's open. Lock it and then kick it down. Because look, it's one thing. We've talked about the dreamers. We've talked about all these groups with all these wonderful names, all these wonderful people from other countries who just couldn't make it in their own. And they've made it there. No, no problem.

No issue of their own. No fault of their own. They're just here. Look, that is one thing. And obviously Donald Trump has supported DACA. He's a guy who's been, he's had some sympathies for those arguments, right? When you are flaunting it so badly that you have broken the law, that you're doing something illegal,

that you would enter the first ever state representative or whatever it is to go into an actual state government role and then have it publicized in multiple news stories and tell everyone on earth where you're going to be every minute of the day. That is really a finger in the face of the president, of the borders, guards. Of the United States. Of the United States of America. And our legal system.

Yeah. Okay. So just one more thing. Just to point out that, you know, to point out that, you know, not only is she here illegally, and she's now serving as an illegal, you know, in state government, she is also the one who played a key role in helping a group of people known as the Dream 9. You know the Dream 9?

I don't know the Dream 9. I know Ocean's 8. I don't know the Dream 9. I didn't watch 1 through 8, so I don't know if I truly understand Dream 9, but the Dream 9 were nine people that were returned to the U.S. after being deported to Mexico. So ICE came in, deported them, and she helped them come back into the country. Wait, how do you, that?

I don't know if it happened in the middle of the night. I don't know how it happened, but I think I'm more and more inclined to enjoy someone grappling down during the middle of her speech. You want to find a great employee. You want to find the one that is going to change your business. business for the better. You have to have the best way to find them. Better than posting your job online and praying that the right person, well, we all know that thoughts and prayers don't matter, right? ZipRecruiter knew there was a smarter way, so they built a platform that finds the right

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All right, California, I don't want you to feel like all hope is lost, even though it is. I, did I say that out loud? I want to tell you how bad things are in France. There is a French rule that you've got to be closed. If you're a business, at least a bakery, you have to be closed one day out of the week because you have to have a day of rest. Not because God told you to do that because that's silly and really, really bad. This is because the government says you have to have a day of rest.

Well, there's this baker in a town of about 2000. It's a resort town. He wants to make ends meet by being open on Sundays because the tourists are there and he can make a lot of money during tourist season. He just, quote, likes to work. the government has fined him and told him he has to close his bakery. Out of a town of 2000, he's already gotten the 2,000 residents to sign his petition to leave the bakery alone. He said, quote, we just have to stop ticking people off who like to work. Wow.

I love that because it used to be that they were closed one day a week for like the blue laws, right? Yes. Oh, Alexis talking over there. Lexus, shut up. But it used to be closed because of religious reasons. Yeah, but that was crazy. Then the government overturned those laws. And now they're implementing them again just with no religious connotation.

Right. Yeah. But for the same reason, you have to rest. Okay. Yeah, of course. I'm a little concerned about now tomorrow is St. Patrick's Day. I'm sure you'll be celebrating. No, I don't like the saints.

I don't like people named Patrick. and it all comes from religion. I think it's impressive. In Savannah, there's a Me Too movement going on, I think. This is how I'm seeing it. Apparently, women in the crowd are known to dash out in the streets in the middle of their parade and plant a smooch on uniform service members marching in the St. Patrick's Day parade. No.

It is the second largest parade for St. Patrick's Day in the United States, third largest. in the world. And it started in the 1960s and it has gotten out of hand over time. Kevin Larson's a spokesman for nearby Fort Stewart said that the military is just asking people to police themselves. It's not a

law or a rule. They of course, it's causes delays in the parade and there's all sorts of other issues. However, these poor servicemen might not want these kisses. Amen. Now, that doesn't explain the T-shirt that they all wear

that says me too question mark apparently not me too right listen to this they have suggested that soldiers who do not want to be kissed can say no or offer a handshake instead however this is a quote from the article quote bystanders can't be forced to stop what do you mean they can't be forced to stop I a military member has to accept a kiss in this situation? What do you mean you can't force them to stop?

If someone is trying to kiss you and you do not want them to kiss you, I'm pretty sure you can force them to stop. No. No? So not hashtag. It's me. Not me too.

No, it's the California parade rule of 1994. Oh, okay. Yeah. Women could do it, but men, they have to accept the kiss. Glenn, back. Mercury. Courage. Truth. Glenn Beck.

Julian had a question for high school history class. Are all protests equal? If a student can decide to walk out of school for 17 minutes in support of gun control or against the Second Amendment, can they do the same to protest another right that is supposedly protected under the Constitution? Can they? The answer in California is, nope. Julianne wanted her students to think about the double standard. Her message resonated with Nick Wade.

He's a student there. He said, I felt like if we were to go to school and say something like I wanted to walk out, maybe for abortion rights, then you'd know they probably wouldn't let us there because it's more of a conservative push. But if somebody wants to say, let's walk out for gun control, the school's going to do it and go with it because it's a popular view with them. She was proud of her students that were thoughtful and, you know, were open to questioning with boldness. Honest questioning. The administration didn't like it at all. After class, Julianne received a call that she had been placed on administrative leave. Officials claimed that they had received several complaints from parents and students involving the teacher's communications regarding the conversation about the walkout.

for Julianne, the Second Amendment conversation has turned into a plea for the First Amendment. You know, we are really in trouble with our schools. If you are in a conservative school and you are only teaching intelligent design or creationism and you are not teaching the Big Bang, you are doing a disservice to your students. if you are in a school in California and you are only teaching the Big Bang and you are not teaching intelligent design, then you are doing a disservice.

We must be able to challenge thought. It is what the First Amendment was meant for. She's steadfast in her belief. You're going to allow students to walk out and get out of class without penalty. Then you have to allow another group of students that want to protest. There are great teachers out there, and Julianne is one of them.

She is the reason that kids should stay in school during school hours, because in a class like hers, they won't be taught what to think. They just may end up learning how to think. It's Friday, March 16th. This is the Glenn Beck program. Mr. Bill O'Reilly from Bill O'Reilly.com. How are you, sir? On the same back, which is tragic for everyone.

Oh, you are funny. Bill, your thoughts on that last story. All right. I was a former high school teacher, as you know, and I taught elective called contemporary problems, which dealt with the issues of the day in the early 1970s. So I'm pretty well. versed about kids and what they do and how they do it and how they get swept up in all kinds

of mania and peer pressure. So my solution to all of this is, look, if you want to have a demonstration or protest against something, you should be able to if you're a student, but it has to be done after school, not during school hours. You can't impose on the school day and force people to make a decision about what you're whether they should protest or not, because it's just wrong to put kids in that position. So you can do it after school, and you petition it.

You go to the principal and you say, look, we'd like to have this kind of a discussion in the gymnasium or wherever, and, you know, hopefully a reasonable administration will respect that. So that's how you do it. You don't get involved with this trendy and spur of the moment stuff. But the most important story, I don't know whether you covered this and not there, because I am trying to keep up with you, but you've got so many things going on on the program. You might have, but we uncovered on Bill O'Reilly.com, which is rapidly turning into an investigative agency. Good for you.

But there was a far left group behind this protest of these kids. Do you know that? Well, we do, but yes. Most people don't. The group is called Empower, E-M-P-O-W-E-R. Okay, didn't know this part of it. Good. All right.

Go ahead. Oh, you didn't know that? No, this is new. This is new to me. Go ahead. Back. Back. No, no.

It's good. Go ahead. This group, this group was behind the student walkout. And not only were they behind it, but in certain areas they made signs. They made sure that far left faculty members were posting stuff on social media. It was organized by Empower. Who's Empower, Beck? Empower is an offshoot of a group called the Women's March Movement.

Yeah, that, that, there we had. I didn't have the loop of Empower. This is, this is truly amazing, Bill, that no one is covering this. By any national news service. Bill, do you remember, do you remember how this is AstroTur? This tea party, it's AstroTurf. These were people in their kitchens, you know, making little signs with sprinkles on them with their kids. And we were called AstroTurf.

And it was everybody knew what AstroTurf meant because they covered it so much at the beginning of the tea party. Not a word about this. And in Santa Barbara, a hot women's March movement, they actually had professionally printed signs. the kids were carrying, decrying, decrying white supremacy. So your listeners and every American citizen, you got to know that this stealth, sneaky propaganda, has now reached a national crisis

where American children are being manipulated. They have no idea what empowered, is or what the women's March movement is. They have no clue. They think it's a spontaneous uprising, and it is not. And these people are making tremendous gains. They have a tremendous amount of money, much of it from the George Soros crew, and they have the media in their pocket.

And I will just point out that the Women's March Movement, as we discussed last Friday, all right, is now favorable toward Lewis Farrakhan, the biggest anti-Semite and anti-white person going around speaking today. So this is bad, and I'm proud that my website, Bill O'Reilly.com, with a small staff, are breaking these stories and letting people know what the truth is about their country, because you're certainly not getting it from the national press. Bill, if there was a, well, they barely covered the right for life march, which was enormous in Washington. They ignore it every year. They ignore it every single year. So they don't, those women don't count, those people don't count, those children don't count.

And if this, if there was a right to life march that was spontaneously happening, spontaneously happening all across the country, and there was a walkout. and the signs, the buses, you know, to get the kids where they needed to go and organize everything and get the permits and get the stage and get the speakers and have all of that done. And then the signs as well were printed by churches. They would have exposed that and said this is nothing but a religious, crazy crackpot church-driven thing that is indoctrinating kids. Any doubt in your mind? No. And everybody knows it, though. I mean, so what we're trying to do here is this story about the anti-Trump movement and the anti-conservative movement,

which are two different things, is developing quickly. And what Americans are unaware of is that there is a powerful force behind all this. And you said it that the nation's public schools are really in crisis. Because the teachers' unions are as far left as you can get, all right? And the administrators, the principal school boards, are frightened to death of the women's movement. They're petrified of it. So where they couldn't win in the ballot box, they couldn't get Hillary Clinton elected in their liberal people in the House and the Senate, they couldn't get them elected. They're now doing it through propaganda and intimidation, which every totalitarian regime in history has used.

And then they're hoping that that wave of intimidation leads to success at the ballot box. And so it's a much bigger story than just kids walking out, wave and signs saying we don't want any more kids shot. It's a much, much bigger story than that. from Bill O'Reilly.com. A conversation continues here in just a second. I want to tell you a little bit about Simply Safe, great home security company filled with really good people. I mean, these guys are, they're imaginers, if you will. They imagine things that aren't and say, why can't we build it that way? Why can't we do it this way? Why do we have to lock people into a contract? Why do we have to wire a house? I don't want somebody walking

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I will tell you, I watched the movie last week, and I was like, okay, well, let's watch this movie and see if it's any good. It is really good. You'll love it. And I think that Dennis Quaid, it may be his best performance yet. And it's an incredible story. We'll talk about that next hour. Right now we have Bill O'Reilly from Bill O'Reilly.com on with us.

Bill, let's talk about, you have any thoughts on the bridge collapse? No, I will find out if the construction company did something. Okay, so let me ask you this question. Do you have any comments, seeing that the bridge was five days old, do you have any comments about the media talking about how this is Donald Trump and not investing in our infrastructure? You know, I mean, really. I did something.

By the way, Dennis Quaid's a good guy. Tom, I said hello. I'll say to you that I will. He's a really a good guy and a smart guy. I did a commentary yesterday called Trump Fatigue. And I base it on my analysis of the cable news ratings. Two of the networks, Fox and CNN are going down rapidly, losing audience, rapidly. MSNBC and prime time is gaining a little bit, but that gain is going to evaporate soon.

And the reason is on both sides, the hate Trumpers and the love Trumpers, they're getting tired of this every single day. The most absurd comparisons, as you just said, you know, the infrastructure, and somehow Trump is tied in, these women who come out, they obviously want to make money. They're in it for money. Everybody knows they want money. So do their attorneys. Yet the media puts them up as some kind of victims. And you just, even the dimest of us, Beck, know that it is over.

It's Trump fatigue. They want him out. We've heard it all now. Now, whatever Mueller comes back with, half the country is not going to believe it, all right? And why would Mueller, a subpoena, Trump records for his private business, more than a year after he started the Russian investigation? Why wasn't that done in the first three months? You know, I mean, it's just enough already. So I'm not surprised they're trying to tie him into the bridge in Miami or somebody got a hurt toe in Wisconsin.

it's got to be come to fall will you do me a favor Bill because you are really truly I think one of the sharpest minds about television I mean I used to marvel at you know you'd get in the morning

and the first thing you would do is you would go over everybody's ratings and you track them and you were looking for what's working and what's not you know to try to kind of understand the mind of America

and I don't do that America tries to understand the mind of Glenn Beck, which is weird. But I would love to hear your opinion on or your facts on what is really happening with cable news, because you're not hearing this anywhere, and I believe the collapse is coming. It's here. It's not coming. It's here. So tell me what happening back, and it's an excellent question, is this.

After you left, I left, a few other people left, the field. all right uh... and don't trump was elected president the cable news divided into we hate trump we love trump and they wiped out all their other coverage of the country and the world everything

particularly in prime time was geared toward either trying to get trump out of office the media coup that i've described get him out not criticize him we want him out, or defend him at all costs. All right? So the cable news, instead of covering, I did six segments when I was doing the factor,

and maybe two of them were on politics and four of them were on other things. I'll give you example. The guy who killed Kate Steinley is now suing the federal government, Beck. Did anybody cover that last night? Nobody. Nobody. As outrageous as a. gets. Okay. So people can watch a little bit of the Trump stuff, but particularly for the,

we, we didn't know whether he was going to do anything or he's a new president, but now he's been in there for 14 months. All right? And it's the same stuff that it was 14 months ago. So tell me what the, tell me what the ratings are doing, Bill. Compare when you were there to in February 2017 when I was sitting there in the factor. All right, we had more than 4 million viewers at 8 o'clock Eastern time. Tucker Carlson in February 2018 this year lost about a million two of that audience, or a million 200,000 people who are watching Fox News at 8 o'clock are no longer watching it at 8. Not Tucker's fault, all right?

It's not that he's doing a bad show. It's just that it's all about one thing. And is this network-wide, and it is showing the same kind of downward trend for CNN? Yes, CNN has lost a lot of viewers. At Fox, it is network-wide, with the exception of Sean Hannity. Now, Sean's show is the strongest show on the network, and Sean is the most enthusiastic advocate of Donald Trump, and at least provides, and this is why his show is still doing well,

he provides the only balance, the only balance in a passionate way. I mean, Laura does it too, Laura Ingraham, but Trump is really getting defended by one man on cable, and it's Sean Hannity, so those people who like Trump are watching Sean. and, you know, it's necessary. Sean Hannity's show is necessary if you didn't have it. It would be 100% avalanche, very a president of the United States. But, again, if you do it every night, if it's every night. And every show.

And people are just saying, look, I'm going to go on the Internet. I'm going to watch Bill O'Reilly.com. I'm going to listen to Glenn Beck. I just can't invest the time anymore. So hang on just a second. what's happening. Go to CNN because I just want to see, because I believe this is happening on both sides of the aisle. Tell me about the numbers, how much have they lost at CNN? Do you know? CNN, I don't have the sheet in front of me. We did it yesterday on bill O'Reilly.com. They've lost

about 20, 25 percent of their audience across the board. They have no traction at all. It was funny because they're giving Cuomo, Chris Cuomo, a primetime show. His morning show didn't do anything. Quick, let's move it. to prime time. Back in a minute. Mercury is the Glenn Beck program. I talked to Larry Kudlow about how hard

is it to fix the economy. Here's what he said. I said this before and I'll say it again. You and I and like-minded people who believe in freedom and I can sit down with you and fix the economy. Give me a half hour. I can't list this stuff. I mean, I've only been

I've been doing it for close to 40 years. The principles don't change. He now has his 30 minutes to fix the economy. What are your thoughts on Larry Cudlow? Before I get to that, Beck, I just want to tell you, every time I hear the music coming in from the break to introduce you, I want to go to the spot. I'm going to put hot rocks on your back soon.

Yeah, I mean, it's like I fire up the inside. I know, I know, I know. All right, go ahead. Okay. Larry Cudlow, good guy, smart guy, free marketeer. don't think he's a big tariff guy which is interesting, isn't it? Yes.

Because I've said from the jump, this whole tariff thing is smoke and mirrors. Well, he said it was quite interesting. He said he was called on the tennis court by Donald Trump and he thought he was going to get chewed out for what he was saying on CNBC about tariffs. And he said, Trump said, let me explain my strategy. That's an interesting word.

He said within 20 minutes, I was on board. Now, he's not going to... Yeah, because the strategy is to saber-rattle and then to make deals and then not have the tariffs. That's great, if that's true. That's great. And I think he's... What do you think about the people who are saying, you know, well, he's a former alcoholic and drug user? He's been, he was 20 years ago, he was drinking and drugging. Look, I mean, anybody who would say that has to examine their own life.

Thank you. Everybody has frailty. and everybody does things that they're not proud of, and it seems to me that Mr. Cudlow overcame that. So why would anybody be using that to attack him? You know, when people do that, I just say, you're a bad human being, please vanish from my presence. Let's go to Gina Haspel.

The story that was going around was that she was instrumental in the waterboarding of Abu what's his name? I think he was the hairy back guy. Yeah, now ProPublica has retracted that. Admitted that their reporting was fallacious. Word of the day, fallacious, everyone. May I just. Does anybody surprise that ProPublica,

which is Fidel Coucher's favorite news operation, would put out this crap. I'm not. I don't know what the woman did or did not do. I think that's for the Senate confirmation hearings. I think everybody should have an open mind about it. We want a good CIA director. But hang on just a second.

Hang on just a second. Yeah. She was wildly smeared, and I don't think she gets her reputation back. They even said that they had a book that talked about who was running the camp at the time and that it was a he. But ProPublica just, I mean, for people who are really concerned about pronouns, got this one wrong, they said, we just assumed that the author was trying to hide the fact that it was Gina Haspel. was running the camp. All right.

But let's be honest. If you, and people don't know this, but number one, nobody even heard a pro-publica and this story. It's not a big story. But if you do follow it and you see the name ProPublica, you know immediately that this is coming from a far-left position. It's not, wait, wait, wait, but it's not about ProPublica. I mean, Rand Paul has used this.

Yeah, but Rand Paul you knew was going to pull this. Rand Paul, again, this is for the people of Kentucky to decide. Rand Paul has a very, very sharp view of life, and he's not going to go along party lines. He's just not. And so if this is the senator you want, he's going to derail a lot of stuff. Neither am I when it comes to torture.

I don't believe in torture. Waterboarding, we do to our own troops in training. There's a million times during the Iraq war, and Americans either support waterboarding or they don't. And, you know, that's what we have to go. That's why we vote. And most people, I believe, do on very, very limited occasions when life or death is in play. So anyway, I think this woman will probably be confirmed to be the director of the CIA. I think it's a good thing we have a woman in that position.

I don't know her. I don't know much about, you know, her background, but that's why I'm looking forward to the hearings. Bill, I've been listening intently to your commentary today. And as usual, it's been amazingly insightful as usual. What is he kissing up for? But I just, I want to make sure I draw attention to one particular thing from the interview, which it was a qualifier that Glenn pointed out.

He said you were one of the brightest minds. television matters. Did you notice the qualification there? He said you were a very bright mind, but he said it was only really specifically on one minor topic. Why are you trying to get into his good graces? I just want to know how he would react to that because it happened on national radio. He expanded it by saying O'Reilly looked at the ratings because he wanted to know

what the American people found edifying. And it's absolutely true. That's what I did. And I'm not, look, whether I'm a great mind or not is up to the listeners of your program tonight. What I try to do is bring a honesty and incisiveness into the dialogue, like Beck and probably you, too, Stu. You know, I don't have an agenda here. I really don't. I just want the best for all Americans.

And I see tremendous corruption in our country. tremendous corruption. Let me ask you this, Bill. Yesterday I did a story on how, you know, if you just Google, what was it, people leaving the Trump administration or being fired. And you'll get all kinds of lists from everybody, from every newspaper, but nothing on the first page of the results will tell you who he's replacing them with. And that's really kind of an importance, because I think everybody,

that he's replaced so far has been an upgrade. And I've never seen anything like this, this thirst for blood. I mean, poor McMaster, man, they've been saying for a year, this is the weekend he's going to be fired. It's incredible. Well, look, there's two things in play here.

Pompeo for Secretary of State is an upgrade over Rex Tillerson. All right, there's no doubt in my mind. Rex was kind of frightening. Looked a little like Bella Legosi. He couldn't have any meetings during the day. That's not true. I was wearing this black cape. No, no, he was.

No, he wasn't. But Pompeo's an upgrade. But Trump's management style has not changed since he was running around New York building condos. You do it his way or you're out. And anybody working for Trump has got to understand that. Now, Mattis, who I think is the best administrator in the Trump hierarchy, has managed to stay away and managed to do an excellent job as Secretary of Defense. But the other guys, I mean, it's Trump's way or the highway, and that's just the way the man is. Last question.

Russia. What is going to happen with Russia because of the U.K.? You know, Putin's in trouble. now. All right? He's in trouble because his image is shattering around the world. It doesn't matter in Russia itself because that's a totalitarian state. If you run against Vlad, he's going to put you in jail or poison you. All right. So that are your options. But around the world, everybody knows that Putin is Stalin light. I mean, that's who he is. And you remember when I interviewed Donald Trump in the Super Bowl for 2017 that weekend.

I said to the president, why are you being soft on Putin? He's a killer. Do you remember that back? And then Putin demanded that I apologize, or he was going to send poison to Long Island or something. Right, right, right, right. Okay.

Now, I saw that, and Trump really didn't have a, you know, his answer was, well, we do bad things, too, which I thought was pretty weak. Very weak. But I think the good thing about this, if there isn't it, because people are dead, is that the world, there's no longer any debate about Vlad Putin.

You know, he's just a savage. He's a savage. Okay. And everybody's got to know it. Bill, as always, thank you so much. Thanks for all the hard work at Bill O'Reilly.com. I want to thank Stu for the kind word. very, very, my weekend, my St. Patrick's Day weekend.

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In Rockland, California, Jillian Benzel asked her students in class. She's a teacher. If a group of students nationwide or even locally decided I want to walk out of a school for 17 minutes and go into the quad area and protest abortion, would that be allowed by our administration? For asking that question, she is now on. administrative leave. They made sure she saw, they, they, they expressed their displeasure with her question immediately. And she joins us now from Rockland, California. Julianne, how are you? I'm doing well. Thank you, Glenn. What do you teach? What subject? Okay, so I teach advanced placement U.S. history. I teach a dual enrollment class,

which is basically a college course on the high school campus in conjunction with our, it's a Sierra College, which is our local junior college. Okay. So I do have my master's degree in history. So I'm teaching a college course on our campus. So isn't this an appropriate question to ask and not a political question, but a question about the First Amendment, the Second Amendment, and what? The Fourth Amendment?

Well, I'm going to also throw in the Sixth Amendment. I think there's something called due process of law. If I remember my stipulations of the Sixth Amendment, you're supposed to be proven, I think, innocent until proven guilty. And basically, when I got a call at 8.30 a.m. on the morning of the protest, when they had ample time two days prior, when I had been on campus to, you know, interview me, ask me questions. What are they accusing you of doing? At this point, because we had a meeting yesterday, basically, I just want to clarify, I was not told until yesterday afternoon. So 8.30 Wednesday morning, don't come in.

You're on administrative leave. I kept calling. I need to know why. What's going on? And they released a statement to the local news as to why I was. And the statement apparently read that it said some students and parents were upset with the dialogue that I had in class. And again, Glenn, I know you are a statistics man. I love statistics. I have over 120 students, two students. So I think that's 1%, less than 1%, and one parent, which I'm going to presume

is probably a parent of the student. They went down and apparently were uncomfortable or didn't like that I brought up abortion or that I was challenging the protest. Oh my gosh. But two students with enough to get me on administrative leave. They didn't corroborate those student stories with, say, some another couple of my own students. Are you just being accused of making students uncomfortable by talking about the Constitution and constitutional rights? I'm not sure with the wording.

I'd have to look at the statement because they're kind of redacting most of this. They said in the meeting yesterday, this is not a disciplinary issue. We are just going to, we're just continuing to investigate. And I said, what on earth are you talking about? You can't investigate after you have basically criminalized me in front of my entire community. I've been teaching here for 20 years. I have an unscathed reputation. And you basically just put me at guilty.

And then now you want to come back and ask me questions. So, Julie, I only have a minute. I'd like to talk to you again after the weekend, but do you have any, do you have support locally and how can we help nationally? Oh, that's very kind. I think just the fact that you are interested and you called would probably be enough. I mean, I'm receiving an incredible amount of support from the community. And honestly, the most endearing thing about this is students from my past, like I've spoken and taught before. they and their parents are writing letters and sending me email.

So I'm a little overwhelmed with the support, to be honest with you. I just appreciate your time. Oh, my gosh. Julianne, I said, we talked about this yesterday and I said, this is a reason to stay in school is because of teachers like you that are not trying to teach kids what to think, but how to think. Absolutely. Thank you so much for, thank you, especially in that den of Viper.

One more question. Is your union supporting it? you? I must say that my union president was there with me and she was fantastic. So yes, they are. Oh, well, that's unbelievable. Thank you. I'm glad to hear that. Julianne, God bless, and we will continue to follow your story. Thank you. You bet. Bye-bye. Boy, you imagine being a teacher in California. Oh, my gosh. How alone and how crazy. But that's, I think that's good news. What she said about the support and it was only two students. You know, I think that's good. The reaction is ridiculous. I mean, you set up those circumstances, and it's a completely ridiculous set of reactions.

You should not be just thrown out. Coming up in just a minute, Bart Millard is written a beautiful story, a true story, and a great movie is coming out. It opens today. I can only imagine getting rave reviews. I'm one of them. It's a great movie. And Dennis Quaid is the star. He's joining us next hour as well.

Don't miss it. Glenn, back. Mercury. I am always a little bit edgy about faith films because they can get so preachy and so just, oh, dear God. And on top of that, I am always concerned when a friend says, hey, I've just made a new movie and they give it to you. Watch it and tell me what you think. And you're like, oh, dear God, okay, I watch the movie. Because I just, you just never know.

A friend of mine gave me a movie he's just finished called I Can Only Imagine. and I watched it with my children and it is a fantastic movie. And if you listen to me, you know that I say nothing, especially when I have a friend, I say nothing about a movie or a project. And I never will rave about something that I don't believe in. I think this is absolutely fantastic.

My son who is like pulling teeth to watch anything other than a Marvel movie, watched it, was engaged the whole time, and loved it as well. It is a great movie. It is the true story of Bart Millard, and the song that if you don't know, is a gigantic Christian crossover song that has a really interesting story called I Can Only Imagine. And it's the movie stars Dennis Quaid, who plays Bart's father. Dennis is going to be joining us here in about a half an hour, but I wanted to get Bard in here to tell us the real story.

Also, John Irwin is here, who's my friend, who's a movie maker. And John, first of all, if I may give you some details. Yes. Now, this is, you want to talk about the little engine that could. Okay. So far, they expected the, you know, the movie box office expected this movie. It opens today. It was in previews last night, right?

Yeah, previews last night, yeah. They were expecting this movie to make $2 million for the whole weekend. Last night alone in previews, it made $1.3 million. It is one of the largest preview numbers for a faith film, I think, only beaten by the passion. So far this morning, the ticket sales are now up to $2.3 million. So that is passing what they expected for the entire weekend. It's currently the number one ticket online this morning at movietickets.com and Fandango. And this is going to be the breakout faith film that shocks the box office.

Now, you're in, what, a third of the movie theaters that Panther is. Yeah, we're all in a state of shock at this point. It's incredible. And, you know, sometimes when you just, when something's meaningful and inspirational to you, you just have to trust that it will be to other people. and this song made a huge impact in my life at a time of loss. It was kind of like a beacon of hope, you know, and I just, we all just felt like there were more of us out there.

Can you real quick before, because I want to talk to Bart because he has such a great story. Can you tell me the test results? I mean, didn't it just test? Yeah, it tested higher than pretty much any faith film has ever. It tested at 96 total positive, which in 91 definite recommend. That's, but it's 40 points above average in every category. And, you know, I just think it's a song beloved by millions of people. And I think once they know the story behind the song, it's going to make it even more meaningful.

And I think it's one of Dennis Quaid's best roles he's ever played. Incredible. He's incredible. One of the most humble, authentic, like, it was totally unique in his body of work. Yeah, it is. And he deserves a lot of credit. Yeah. Okay.

So Bart is here. Hello, Bart. How are you? I'm great. Good. I bet you are. I bet you are. So tell me, because.

Because the story revolves around you and your relationship with two fathers in heaven and your dad that you grew up with. He was truly a monster, really a monster. Yeah, he was, my parents divorced and I was three. And my mom remarried when I was in third grade and they moved from Greenville, Texas down to San Antonio. And decided that for whatever reason it was best, my whole family was in the Greenville area. And so for whatever reason decided that my brother and I would love. live with my dad who wasn't he had a bad temper but was never really abusive towards like me or my brother until after my mom moved away and it got really bad he took it for for some reason if he

had a bad day he took it out of me i don't remember many weeks where i wasn't beating three or four times a week and uh and this went on until you know um probably my freshman year in in high school when my dad was diagnosed with cancer and um and literally kind of had this front row seat to see this man go from being a monster to somebody that like literally fell in love with Jesus and his life completely changed and to the to the point to where he was like my best friend and the godlike's man ever knew about the time he passed away so your your childhood um he not only he not only beats you but um is at least in the movie he's also convincing you at the same time uh that you're completely worthless and you'll never accomplish any of your dreams yeah yeah he was a he was a football

Star, like one of the only All-American's ever to come out of Greenville, small town, and he went to SMU. And, like, I was named after Bart Star and, like, football was everything. And, and either hurt his knee or somehow ended up quitting college and getting married and just always had this, you know, don't, your dreams are worthless. You need a real job. You know, it's just going to ruin you. And, you know, because that was all he ever wanted to do and it just didn't work out. And so, and, you know, between that and I guess never remarrying and then cancer says. He's just an angry, angry person. So in the movie, he listens to you on the radio in one of your songs, but that obviously

is not working in the timeline of real life. So what was the pivot point of your dad's life in real life? Well, in real life, my dad was diagnosed. I was a freshman in high school. He passed away. I was a freshman in college. And so the change was definitely over time in that four or five year period. You know, he, when I was little, we went to church and then just, you know, he, you know,

He just kind of got sick of it and it was angry. And like when I was in seventh grade, started going like the youth group. Like it was just another excuse not to go home. So the church kind of raised me and he was almost jealous of it. And did it and liked the church even less because of that. And somewhere along the way, just realized that we would,

I would always, I would sing in church from time and time and we, you know, broadcasting the local AM station or whatever. And not long before he passed away, he would start telling me, you know, I've always listened because I just didn't think he cared. So that's true then.

Yeah, because that's a, powerful, powerful point. I wish I could say that I, in fact, there's an amazing, one of my favorite scenes is when I go home to kind of confront my dad. And it's kind of this moment to where, you know, Trace Atkins plays bristles tell me, you know, you got to face your fears.

And it looks like it's going to be, you almost know, where the movie's going. It's going to be this, you know, angel singing and it's going to be this amazing moment. We're going to live happily ever after. And when we get there, my dad's,

this change is already taking place, but I'm the one that's angry. And I have to tell you, that's why, that's one of the reasons why this worked for me. I grew up in an abusive family myself and there's no way. If you would have come home and said, oh, dad, you've changed. It would never, it would have been the typical Christian movie.

And it's funny because when we originally, when they tested the movie and screened it, some people were like, I don't understand why would Bart have been angry? He's going to fix everything. I was like, well, obviously you haven't gone through what I went through because there was a, there was an arrogance about me that if my dad was going to be saved, I was going to be a savior. Like, I deserve that almost. Like what he did to me, I'm going to be the one to change him. When I get there and he's already changed, I was literally, I genuinely was upset.

Like, wait, who's doing this? Like, you don't, it was a weird, like, you don't have a right to be good all of a sudden. And there's a part of me that didn't even want grace to be for him because I was so hurt and so angry. And so it ends up being me, I'm the one that it takes time to come around. Yeah. And the change is taking place. And it just, over time, it's like, okay. And it was me just trusting and being convinced that it was real.

Do you think if your dad hadn't have had that, had that change? change that because at least in the movie you were going down that road to some degree just you were just I mean it's normal sure if your dad hadn't had that change do you think you would have possibly followed in a similar path I mean I hope not but I don't know like you know it's you know I grew up in a little church that was there's a little bit of legalism involved and I remember always kind of being scared into you know divorced kids become divorced parents and this kind of you know and just and almost believing that was my identity. and that's who I was going to be, whether I liked it or not.

So there's a chance I would have fallen into it, just not realizing that, oh, wait, I'm made for more than this. It's really an amazing thing because I grew up in a family. My mom committed suicide and alcoholism and everything else. And for a long time in my life, I just thought I was destined to do that because that's the way it ends in my family. Yeah, and if I had a nickel for everyone that says, well, that's just who we are. Yes, just who I am. And it's the biggest lie ever in that. And it's hard.

And it's hard to get past that though. It's genuinely hard to break the chains of that. It is. It really is. It's really hard. So the song, you write it about your dad. Tell me about that writing process.

But when he passed away at a grave site, my grandmother said, I can only imagine what Bub's seeing right now. And I was 19. And I became obsessed with heaven. And it wasn't because I was a super spiritual kid or anything. It was almost like this kind of OCD thing. Like I became obsessed with him being in a better place versus,

looking at an empty bedroom. And so it's like I'm telling myself, like everyone doesn't lose someone, they have to be in a better place. Because the only time I was angry at God wasn't when I was being abused. It was when I got the dad always wanted and then he left. And so I kept telling myself,

I thought that was again in the movie. Really? Yeah, strong point. Yeah. Really? Finally. Finally. Yeah. So that when that's when I struggled the most.

And so it was almost like this superstitious, like I would write the phrase, I can only imagine anything I get my hands on. Like if I was on hold, I'm writing. My grandmother thought I was practicing my autograph, but I'd just be writing it over and over. It's carved into a desk I had in college. And it was just something I always went to.

And it was just me telling myself, he's in a better place. He's in a better place. It must be better than him being here because I really would like him here. And so years later, I'm in the band, and we're looking for one more song for independent record. And I'm literally trying to, this is before smartphones and typing something on a computer. I had these three journals that I would carry.

And I was looking for a blank page to write one more song for our album. And literally every page had imagined or I can only imagine written on it somewhere. And so at first I was frustrated like, I really need a blank page. Why I'd have to ruin every page? And then all of a sudden I'm like, oh, I get it. I totally get it. And so it's probably the only time my life, a song was written in about 10 minutes. But it'd been in my heart for a few years.

So it wasn't just out of the blue. So I want to take it from that point to what happened after the song all the way to the movie and then we'll pick it up with Dennis Quaid when we come back in a minute. Movie is in theaters today. I Can Only Imagine. You can go to I Can Only Imagine.com to get all the details. It's a great movie. I can't wait to talk to Dennis Quaid.

It really is the performance of his career. Hang on just a sec. What did you say? You got to open it. There you go. It's changing his life. It's really amazing. Yeah.

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Dennis Quaid joins us in a minute. We're talking to Bart Millard about a song that he wrote and now is a major motion picture. It opens in theaters everywhere across the country today. And I cannot recommend it highly enough. It is great. I can only imagine. There are some good movies out to see this weekend, some really good movies to see.

This is the one you should see this weekend and take your whole family. My kids and Tanya, all of us, all of us love this movie. I can only imagine. So it's about you, Bart. You're not in it. Who plays you?

It's J. Michael Finley. He's amazing. He's unbelievable. Who is he? His voice is like... That was the big question of who's going to play Bart, because Bart has this power voice. And Andy and I spent many years in the music business, so we're like, this kid's got to sing,

you know, he's got to sing these songs. You can tell if it's overdubbed. So I was in New York working. We had looked at a thousand people and all over the country turned up to empty. And I went to see Les Mez on Broadway. And he was the understudy to Jean Valjean. But the understudy, he was great. Well, an understudy would typically take four or five performances over the course of a run.

But the main guy could only play about three. performances a week because that vocal is so hard. So he played Valjean 65 times. And closed out the show. And closed out the show is Valjean. And so I'm watching him seeing these iconic songs. The best voice I've ever heard. He looks like Bart. Yeah. He's a pastor's kid from Missouri. And he saw Mercy Me play three times in concert in high school. You've got to be kidding. Cast him on the spot. Holy cow. Holy cow. So that is your bar. That's your band. And you were looking for a song you decided to, you've, you've finally realized, I can only imagine. Might be the song I should write. Right. What happened?

Because it wasn't really something that you even, you felt passionately about, but it wasn't something that you were like, we've got to song, this is our song. Yeah, we recorded on an independent record, and we didn't even play it live for about a year

because it was special to me, but it was like the last song on the album, and we were just doing church camp stuff like that, and we just never did. And some guy to camp said, hey man, can you play this imagine song tonight? I was like, we don't even know it. And so while he's doing his little sermon,

we're behind the scenes, like learning our song, whispering it, And then we played it and that first time ever and it was spotlights in our face we couldn't see. And when we finished, there was nobody made any noise. And we were like, this is the worst decision of our career. This is a horrible choice. And when the lights came up, there were people kind of at the altar and crying and we'd never seen anything like that.

And we were like, what is happening right now? And throughout that, we went from selling like a thousand CDs on our own or independent records. If we did that in a year, we thought, well, we can pay our phone bill. And then that independent record did about 130, 140,000 units, which is, like it would be a million on a record label on our own like out of the trunk of our car and we're shipping to like four or five hundred bookstores out of our garage and and uh somewhere along the way you know amy grant heard about it and called and said she wanted to record it and we're

like well i don't have any kids but hopefully they'll go to college one day because that seemed like a good move and we're like yeah knock yourself out and is that true the that part of the i don't want to give anything away yeah it's that true it's interesting the two the two reasons andy and i said we want to do this film one is when bart said i watched god transform my dad from a monster into the man I wanted to become and just that reconciliation. But then Andy was doing an interview for one of our other films in Atlanta talking to a DJ and in the break the DJ said, hey, what are you guys thinking about doing next? And we said, well, thinking about I can only imagine kind of kicking the tires of it.

And the guy said, I was there. I was at the Ryman in Nashville when Amy Grant pulled Bart up on stage. Wow. And he sang the song instead of her. We compressed three of us. And she was planning on doing it. Yeah, it was her song. And it's like we ended up signing.

was a B side in our album, but it was going to be her single, so she would be known for the song. And so we were literally, in their words, we were the guys that wrote Amy's next El Shaddai. And so that's kind of how we ended up signing because we were the writers of Amy's next hit. But Amy took like a couple of years to actually, she took forever to make the album. So we released ours and our whole plan was sunk because she'd never, nobody knew what the next El Shadi was because she was taken forever. And so we were like panicked and our labels like, what do we do? And so how it really happened was about a week before we called. And she was like, hey, any plans to release a song?

And that's when she was like, you need to finish what you started. This is a career song for you. So she handed it back. And we were like, what? And she goes, but here's a problem. I've got to showcase this thing at the Riemann next week. And it's not my song anymore. So you have to sing it.

And I really wish it would have been spontaneous where I couldn't have sweated bullets for a week. Because my first time in Nashville is on the Riemann on the Riemann with Amy and Vince singing. singing and she was like hey you don't know these guys it's mercy me and this is their next song and so yeah that it's it's on youtube somewhere you can find it incredibly selfless act by her and we just compress those two moments into one and so tell me tell me we're going to Dennis Quaid he's he's in the North Pole he's shooting a show called Fortitude for Amazon and and and so basically he had a week off promoted the film he just went back and we've been talking

quite a bit but literally in the North Pole shooting this show talking to him a few nights ago and he's like yeah there's polar bears I'm looking at the northern lights and I'm like Dennis go inside please it's the northern most city in the world and he said it's literally the population of the town is a thousand people with 3,000 polar bears oh my gosh he's not kidding I was like y'all packing heat he goes everybody's packing here by the way I thought we did pretty good calmly because we've got him but all morning leading up to about a half hour ago all the phone lines were they would ring and you get this weird Scandinavian like something's wrong with the phone line message.

And so we've been fixing that. And it's fixed. So we have our first guest from the North Pole. We also have our first guest that could be eaten by a polar bear during the interview. And what's amazing about Dennis is, first of all, this, I think, is his career performance. Do you think he feels that way? I think this performance is so unique in his body of work. Yeah, I mean, I can't speak for him.

But he's proud of it. He's so proud of it. He's so, he loves the film. It's like we're a family. We really bonded. And he really connected to his faith roots. And in fact, wrote a song he recorded with T. Bermott on the set of Imagine and played it for Bart the first time.

And it's amazing what's happening in his life. Yeah. And his story is almost the exact opposite of Barts. And yet there is this weird connection. We go to the Bears in the Wilderness. next. Glenn Beck Mercury

this is the Glenn Beck program joined by Bart Millard and John Irwin and now Dennis Quaid from the film I Can Only Imagine which is a remarkable film and Dennis Quaid plays Bart's dad

as a true story and his father was in a line describe your dad. He was just the scariest man I knew. It was really abusive and no substance abuse, nothing like that. He was just an angry person. How close was Dennis in the role?

How close was he to your dad? You know, frighteningly close for, you know, I remember when I went in, I got there when he started shooting his scenes and I got in late and the first scene I saw was when my dad was diagnosed with cancer. And without ever having a conversation with me, there was just parts of him that kind of creeped me out like how close they were and then then after he was like hey your dad's not here so you're my guy like you've got to tell me how this is and and yeah yeah I don't know I don't know if it was he was that accurate or it was just something about it was I knew we were onto something because there were

some there were some painful moments that I was like okay I'm feeling what I haven't felt in years and so we're on to something here we're waiting for Dennis Quaid to pick up the phone and get away from the polar bears he is he is there now he's he's at the north pole of all places Dennis are you there hello Dennis he was there okay he was there is he there Sarah tell me what's what's happening we did a polar bear eat Dennis quaker yeah oh my gosh it's you know in a world of is you know it's technology that is so incredible you're kind of like we can't get a line yeah yeah yeah really Why can we not talk to the North Pole?

What's interesting, if you've seen the show, it's fortitude on Amazon. I get cold just watching and I'm like, why are you doing this show? Why not do a Hawaiian show? They have green screens. Yeah, yeah. He's like, he was excited about it. He's like, yeah, we're going to the farther north, the most, the northernmost city that you can possibly travel to as a human being.

I'm like, and you're smiling right now, Dennis, why? He calls the other day and he was like, it's 30 below and it was midnight, his time. He's like, hold, let me go outside. better signal and I was like don't do that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. What is the, what's the animal that Luke has to open up? Oh, the taunton. If you're sleeping in a taunton, let me know.

It's an average of 20 below, but the film actually did an amazing thing. You know, he had written a song for his mom 25 years ago called On My Way to Heaven never finished it, an old-fashioned gospel because she's very devout. And he got to the set and just reconnected with his Baptist roots. he was baptized at nine years old with his brother Randy on the same day and uh kind of just it all stirred in him finished the song played it for Bart uh for the first time and uh um and I guess Bart was probably a little nervous like uh what do you say to Dennis Quaid if it's I know it was actually see see see what happens see what happens that's what I felt like with the

movie what do you do but then so it was really good and he got with his friend and producer of legend T-bone Burnett recorded it. Oh wow. Just did a music video to it, and we're going to launch that next week. And he gave it to his mom on his 91st, on her 91st birthday. That's amazing. Yeah. It's really, really good. He, it's incredible.

And I don't know if we can get him on the phone. How are we doing, Sarah? Okay. Call Santa, see if he can help. The, uh, what's amazing is he had kind of the opposite dad. Yeah. His dad, your dad was, you know, dreams are dead. get a real job and Dennis, his dad, if I'm not mistaken, was wanted to be an actor and studied to be

an actor and then was shipped off to war, came back, never pursued it and always regretted it and said, do it, do it, do it, do it. Yeah, yeah, and they did. In fact, Andy, my brother was in New York and there was a theater they played in. It was a play he and his brother kind of launched at. Gary Seneas, really great friend, was the director of it. And, and, uh, and, uh, So they started very early. Dennis Quay's first movie was in 1976. He was an extra. Chloris Leachman was the star.

We have him. Yeah, Chloris Leachman was in this movie, too. Dennis, are you there? Hey, Gwen. Hey. We have contact. You have not been eaten by a polar bear.

No, I'm 12 degrees from the north pole. That's amazing. First of all, Dennis, I watched the movie. I think earlier. this week or late last week. And I think this is the performance of your career. You were fantastic in this.

Really good. Thank you. Thank you. It's such a great inspiring story to begin with. And the way I choose my movies is that I read them. You know, and that's the only time I'm going to have

a first time experience like an audience audience member. And I was just, it touched me in a place where I had no words. I just had. to do it. Your life, we were just talking about it, is in strange ways parallel, you were writing a song about your mom. This story is about a song about a dad, and Bart's dad was a monster, and your dad seems to be the exact opposite in encouraging you to follow your dreams. Yeah, my dad was,

my dad probably got knocked around a bit when he was a kid like kids in the 20s did his dad wasn't there a lot but he was encouraged us he turned both my brother and I onto acting and was always doing comedy skits around the house and you know kind of rubbed off on us I think and most dad

who I play in the film you know, Bart himself called him a monster, and basically that's what he was. You know, people who abused, they're usually were abused themselves. And I don't really know that story, you know, that can come from several places, but he was a pretty bitter man that took it out on his son. Were you concerned at all about, I mean, you know, when you look at faith films, there's a couple of things that could go through your mind, that it could be really, really cheesy, or I could be, you know, marked as somebody who is, you know, in these faith films.

Did any of that concern you at all when the Irwin brothers contacted you? Well, some comedy can be, that doesn't have to be a faith film. Yeah. And you can get marked by making a bad movie. We make too many of them. Let's put it that way. I don't know. I'm sorry.

They're films for... The underserved. Okay, yeah. There's an audience in there that there hasn't been... They haven't been serving that market. And I think that's the reason there's such a groundswell for it. We're talking to Dennis Quay. you're up in the North Pole, you're shooting for fortitude?

Right. Yeah. Yeah, the series that I'm doing for Amazon and the States originated in England, the sky Atlantic. It's about a strange little town up north. It's the northernmost town in the world, actually. Yeah, and you know they can recreate that without having to go to the North Pole. We tried for two seasons in Iceland to recreate it. We couldn't quite get there.

So just real quick, there are three to one man to human or man to polar bear relationship. That's what they said. They said it was 3,000 polar bears and 1,000 human beings. But I think the human beings have caught up. Really, there's 150 Thai people here. Several people from the Philippines, from Eastern Europe, people come here to get a job. It reminds me of maybe when the railroads were being built in the United States and the 1870s. Yeah, but wasn't there some place?

It's an interesting place. Wasn't there some place to go when they built those railroads in America? I think there's a big ocean top there. Dennis, tell me about the song that you finished writing about your mom that you were inspired to finish because of this movie. I grew up in music all my life, and I really loved the fair and called On My Way to Heaven. That 25 years ago, I wrote it from mom at the time. I never recorded it, and I never played it in public. Something was missing.

Along comes, I can only imagine the movie and what it was about. It's about his father. And, you know, people picked it up as the biggest song ever recorded, you know, about his dad. And I don't know, it kind of inspired me. While I was on the set, all of a sudden, the bridge came to me, which is, you know, the last thing missing from the song, which was the bridge and which actually makes the song. and I played it for Bart and

it thought I should record it and we didn't quite make getting it in the film itself but T-bone Burnett produced it for me who's been a good friend of mine for a while there's like a lot of things

came together making this film in a very incredible way and so I'm interested about two weeks gone three weeks ago and they made a music video of it

and we recorded it at we played it at run an auditorium the other night with along with Bart we opened it for Bart and his band or she made and now it's going to be out there

well it's it's fantastic and I really I wanted to ask you to come on the program and not only promote the film because I thought it was really good but just to really honestly tell you I was, you know, I, I love your, I love your movies.

And quite honestly, we had a discussion earlier today. We're a little pissed that there was an inner space too, but, but your performance is really good. Oscar, Oscar worthy, really good. So, congratulations. Oh, thank you. I appreciate that. But I've already, you know, I've really, I've been a really good meeting.

That's really long. You've gotten my reward. The only board I ever get with acting or. any kind of endeavor is while I'm doing it and work with those people and be on that set. And, you know, I really learned a lot about myself. And I got to witness, you know, the faith of the people that I was working with who were making this film. And there was Bart's father in a way, you know, he turned his wife completely around. and first through grace,

and he got cancer, and you could call it a death row conversion, but it happened and it was real. And he and Bart had the most beautiful relationship that you could possibly have at the end of his life. And the gift he did at Bart is that Bart did not have to carry that around for the rest of his life. It's a great gift.

And then Bart wrote this, beautiful song that affected so many people and strengthen their faith as well. Dennis Quaid from the North Pole next time we speak, I'm expecting you to be on Mount Everest. I'd like to be there in person with you, man. I would love it. You're welcome anytime. Dennis Quaid, thank you so much, sir.

Thank you. You bet. The name of the movie is I Can Only Imagine, and it is open right now. It is already, if I can, just get the stats that they just released. It's the number one ticket movie or movie ticket online

already this morning on movietickets.com and Fandango. It is already, they were expecting it to make $2 million on its opening weekend. As of 6 o'clock this morning, it already had made $2.3 million. That's more than the total estimate for the entire weekend. And it is receiving rave reviews,

including mine. I can only imagine the story of Bart Millard. John, congratulations. What a great weekend. We're all in a state of shock and appreciate the friendship, man. You bet. Thank you. Bart, good job. Yeah, thank you so much.

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