The Glenn Beck Program - 'Reconnect and Celebrate' - 5/1/18

Episode Date: May 1, 2018

Hour 1  Dear New York Times, Love Karl Marx?...Karl Marx is making a big comeback!...suicidal Seattle and the socialist creep?...taxes are killing the West Coast...politics on broken promises ...Netanyahu calls out Iran's nuclear progression...urges US to abandon deal...Obama sold Iran deal as 'exclusively peaceful'… untrue… ‘we were duped’ by the Obama administration ...Saudi Crown Prince: 'Shut up' or make peace   Hour 2 Faithful Catholic frustration?...Michael Matt, Editor at 'The Remnant Newspaper', joins to discuss the problems with Pope Francis and the Catholic Church today...Pope Francis = John Lennon?...always seems to side with the political left...undermining American interests with George Soros and Russia?...lots of deceit is coming out of the Vatican ...Fun with Fact Checking? ...'Rights and Responsibilities', presented by Mercury Museum...MercuryOne.org/museum2018 ...NRA says no guns at it's own convention, but why?    Hour 3 Reconnecting our nation…learning from Oklahoma fires and neighbors coming together...There is much to be thankful for and celebrate when it comes to this country ...The Exorcist (1973) director William Friedkin joins Glenn to discuss his new documentary film, 'The Devil and Father Amorth'...witnessed terrifying real-life exorcisms ...the political toxicity of Orrin Hatch and Ted Kennedy? ...Rapper calls for gang attack on Kanye… ‘stay out of California’   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. Courage. Truth. Glenn Beck. Dear New York Times. It's me, Carl Marx. Thank you so much for article wishing me happy birthday.

Have to say, 135 years, I've been boiling here. here in the bowels of hell. Solalinsky sends his regards. I cannot accept accolades you have provided. While your piece is fairly written well, it does contain weird tangents and a fanboy approach,

especially considering the death toll of my, quote, philosophy, has accrued roughly 150 million. It's actually far more than that. Believe me, I've talked to Mao and Stalin. Those guys are crazy. Let's talk about title. Happy birthday, Carl Marx. You were right.

I find the inclusion of your exclamation mark a bit much. I mean, what happened to old New York Times, which was respectful? You emerged from early days of Penny Press fostered impressive career, I saw. We denizens of hell absolutely adore the divisive tactics and unabashed elitism you develop over years. Lucifer himself loves reading hateful Trump articles on account of all the money he's helped you make and all. But let's talk about author, Mr. Jason Berker. He's an English-born associate professor of philosophy at University of South Korea. First, he's done wonderful work, keeping my work relevant with his expertise in post-Marxism.

And all the time I spent worrying that capitalism had ruined it for me. Well, not me. I actually loved capitalism privately, because it's what allowed me to have a lifelong freeloader about ideas like haves and have-nots. I can't believe you people actually believe this stuff. I did not like Mr. Baker's alternative history novel, Marx Returns, which pretends to watch my process during composition of Dos Capital.

My screed against capitalism slightly more subtle than the communist manifesto. Boy, I had great laughs with those two. Lost count of how many cigars and bottles of expensive wine I had while writing those. Oh, good times, they don't come back. Most important, I would like to thank you, New York Times, for so shamelessly selling your soul on my behalf. I only hope you have a long-term plan because I can tell you personally the whole communist thing does not end well. Sincerely, Karl Marx.

It's Tuesday, May 1st. This is the Glenn Beck program. Nice job on the scribbling there, Stu. Thank you. I realize my hand gets really tired when I write now. You should hold that up. If you're watching on the Blaze TV, you can see the scribbles. And that makes as much sense as most of Karl Marx's writings.

It really does. Yes, does. Thank you so much New York Times. What do you say? A little bit more bloodshed. That's really the headline, by the way. Happy birthday, Carl Marx. You were right from the New York Times.

Ah, that's great. That's great. That's great. where we are. It's crazy. It's absolutely crazy. Oh, by the way. That's part of that, by the way. It's behind the paywall if you want to read it. Yeah. I don't know exactly how that works. So here's what's really interesting is Carl Marx is making a big comeback now.

Let me give you this. Safeway, that's a grocery store in the Pacific Northwest, and I think a lot of the West, Safeway warns Seattle New employment tax could turn neighborhoods into actual food deserts. Now, Stu, do you remember the report we did on food deserts when Barack Obama said, you're living in a food desert?

Yeah, I did a whole series called Deserted in which we investigated communities that have absolutely no access to food. Which was interesting because all of the places we looked at had multiple, not just one, but multiple grocery stores in them. Yeah, but they didn't have a place you could get a salad. Oh, yes, they did. Really?

Huge produce departments. Really? Yeah, thousands and thousands of options for fresh foods and vegetables. Well, apparently those who care about food deserts no longer care about food deserts because Karl Marx is right. New employment tax, which has been proposed by the Seattle City Council, will charge roughly $500 per employee based in the city. Although it would only apply to the city's largest companies,

you know, the ones that provide all of the jobs. Many of them are complaining to the press, some with good reason about how the tax would discourage employment and ultimately damage the city's economy. What could possibly go wrong? The tax is only going to apply to businesses earning $20 million in revenue within the city limits, a group that includes 585 companies. 585 companies.

Businesses would be required. Can you just get out your calculator here, Stu? Businesses would be required to pay 26 cents per man hour for every employee that works within the city limits excluding vacation pay and sick time. So let's make that 26 times 40. 40 hours times what, 50 weeks? 50, yeah, two weeks of vacation.

So that should be about 500? How much is it? 520. 520. Okay. Now let's just say Amazon, Seattle's, but one of Seattle's, if not biggest employers, you know, in the top five. They only have four. 45,000 employees in Seattle.

Okay. So times 45,000. Okay, yeah, that's going to be a little, that's a hefty tax. Okay, that's the tax that Amazon has to pay every single year for employing people in Seattle. $23 million. $23.4 million.

So they can afford it because, remember, this only applies to businesses earning $20,000. million dollars in revenue. Now, that's not profit. That's revenue. So that means that's, they sell all their stuff, they have to make at least $20 million. Then you get that tax. That's amazing.

Because one thing you know about taxation is when you tax something, you get less of it. That's what you, that's what the point of it is. No, no, no, no, no. For example, a vice tax like cigarettes. That's alcohol, right? No. Why do you tax those things? Why do they go through?

Because you want more people to smoke. No. That's the opposite of what you do. In theory, you tax it so less people will smoke. It will be more difficult to afford it. So then why are we taxing marriage so high? Because we have that marriage tax I've heard of. Here is.

Wait a minute. Oh, no, we give you a break for marriage. because theoretically you're trying to encourage it. At least that was the thought at one point. But here is employment. So you're now taxing people extra for hiring more people.

Which again, like, so it would make more sense, for example, to give a small raise to an employee to take on double the work, right? Then to hire an extra person. Put those people, you want to lower, you want to, for example,

great argument for automation. Great argument. Why wouldn't I replace a worker with a robot when they're going to charge me an extra $500? I can take that $500. I'm going to pay the employee anyway. That's extra. And put it towards the robot. Well, I will tell you, Europe is ahead of us on this.

Oh, okay. They're already, they already have a robots or people to tax. That's not a thing. They already have done that. So if you replace somebody with a robot, you have to pay the, you have to pay the tax. on that. And that is one of their goals, is to make that common.

And I will tell you that you'd still pay it because it's cheaper to have a robot than it is to have a human being. Seattle is suicidal. Everything on the West Coast is just suicidal. From California, Oregon to the Canadian border. It's just on fire.

It's just the, it's, Carl Marx was right. You know, idiots everywhere. Useful idiots. Jonah Goldberg's new book is called Suicide of the West. It's not exactly what he meant. He meant Seattle. But it is.

It is kind of what he meant. How do you stay open for business? What is Foxconn just built that or is just breaking ground on that new plant up in, where is it, Wisconsin? And that's because, why? Because Scott Walker gave them like a $3 billion tax break. That's why they're in Wisconsin. Not because they love the cheese.

They're there because of the tax break. You want to attract people? Why is Boeing? Why is it they're not running corporate headquarters out of Seattle anymore? Because everybody else gave them tax breaks. What do you think that? Oh, we're just so special. We're just so special.

They're just going to keep. They're just going to keep building. No, they won't. They're going to find places that are nice places to live and won't tax them to death. Why do you think, why do you think Texas is growing and everywhere else is shrinking? That's true. I mean, remember the New York plan that, uh, that, uh, that they were running for a while.

I don't know if it's still going on. But it was like, move your business to New York and you don't have to pay taxes for like eight years. Why don't you just have a sensible tax rate? To lure people there, you have to give them zero for a long time. Instead, why not just make your business environment rational? But this is the problem. I mean, you know, I mean, they all know it.

When it comes down to it, they all know it. When it comes down to, you know what they really want? Solar panels. You know what they really want? Electric cars. And what do they do? They throw tax incentives at them. They all know if they want more of something, you take the taxes, a pen of punishments away. Yet in places like Seattle, they still go down these roads. They know what the effect is.

Everyone knows what the effect is. What are they doing with a soda tax? They're raising a soda tax? Of course it's to make money. But it's also, in theory, to get people to drink less soda. They're trying to punish that behavior. And what they're doing in Seattle and so many places around the country is trying to punish the employer for hiring people. It's insane.

But again, they spend so much money. They promise so many things to their left-wing voters. And when it comes down to where, they have no way to pay for any of it. And this cycle continues. I mean, how are they going to, how, if without this tax, how are they going to buy all those tents that those 45,000 employees are going to have to live? it. All right, I want to talk to you about Mother's Day. Moms are the absolute greatest.

Even some of the crappy ones are pretty good. It's an interesting Mother's Day cell there. Well, you know, I mean, moms, I mean, I hate to say, you know, I mean, I had a, I had a great mom. But as I get older, I'm kind of like, did I? I mean, you know what's really? I know what really turns me, you know, it turns me around on my, on my mom, on whether she actually loved me is rice pudding. I love rice pudding. I never had rice pudding before.

I never had, I had rice and raisins. We grew up on rice and raisins. My mom would make instant rice and then she'd pour milk on it and she'd put some cinnamon on it and she'd throw some raisins in it. There you go. When I said to my, my wife, Tanya, I said, hey, have you ever had rice and raisins? She's like, no. And I said, she said, how do you make it?

And I said, you know, you put it in and you just stir it with the milk and stuff. And she said, that's rice pudding. And I said, no, that's something different. She said, no, you just cook it longer. And I'm like, my mom. She was like, eh, he's worth a treat, but not all that time. I mean, that's just way too much effort for him. Anyway, but I'd still love her and she's worth celebrating.

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Ends today. 1800flowers.com promo code Beck. Glenn Beck, Mercury. Glenn Beck. So yesterday, I'm in the office and working on the Mercury One Museum that is going to open here in the studios for just three days, June 15th. That's a Friday, June 15th through Sunday, June 17th. And this year, it's about the rights and responsibilities. And yesterday I'm like, you know, we need a guillotine.

We need a rack. we need, you know, the gallows or something like that, because I want to start it with tyrants, kings, and bloodbaths, what the world was like before people recognized that men had certain inalienable rights. And so all day yesterday, I'm like, where do I get a guillotine? I mean, I need a rack. Where are we going to find somebody who has a rack? Hey, does anybody have a guillotine we can borrow?

I mean a real one. The type of thing that gets you thrown in prison asking that question. It really is. And so yesterday afternoon, Suzanne from Mercury 1 writes and she said, there's this guy, Glenn.

He has one of the largest collections of, you know, torture devices from the medieval times, from Spain, from the Inquisition, and from England, from the witches and everything else. And I'm like,

does he have a guillotine? It was the most bizarre thing ever that out of the blue, this guy writes, the same day I'm like, you know what, we need to get a guillotine. We need some torture devices. What does this say about you? I don't know. Like the idea that people are just like, I've got an extra guillotine. Let me call Glenn.

I know. Well, he's had this. He put this whole thing together. And now I guess he's looking for a place to house it or something. And Ripley's, believe it or not, is in. to it and I'm not I mean I think he's a more serious individual he doesn't you know it's not like hey look at this isn't this cool hey let's go see the guillotine I think you know he's a little more serious that's what happens at Ripley's yeah I think so I think so you're like all right we just

saw we just saw the alamo let let's go see a guillotine no that's how people so people just sound like that when they walk through the walls yeah yeah yeah they do they do. Well, I believe that. What do you mean? I'm not going to believe. Believe it or not, I believe. Okay, so anyway, um, so anyway, so if I don't know if we can borrow his torture stuff, but if you happen to have a guillotine, and I mean a real one, I don't mean a magic guillotine or one that you've just built. I don't know who collects these things, but, uh, we needed for the opening of our, of our museum this year for, uh, this year is

going to be really spectacular, really spectacular. So you're soliciting for guillotine. I am. But real authentic ones. Of course. Yeah. Of course. I want to show the difference between the American Revolution and the French Revolution with the guillotine. And I also want to show, because we just, we just purchased something. We have the letter to Benjamin Franklin from Thomas Payne. You would love this. After he writes, you know, his, his treatise on God Franklin excoriates him

and he's like, no, no, no, I believe in God. That's not what I'm saying. I'm trying to get the French to understand the God. History's all upside down. We have the original letter. You'll see that in the Mercury Museum.

Mercury 1.org slash Museum 2018. It's the Glenbeth program. We have an amazing program for you today. Michael Matt, he is the editor of the Remnant News. newspaper. That's a Catholic newspaper. He is a guy who I wanted to talk to because there's a couple of things going on with the Pope that concern me and concern honestly many Catholics that I know. For instance, the Pope is is playing footsie with the Chinese and he is destroying the underground church, which is essential for Catholicism or for Christianity to make it that the Catholic church, the underground

church is really important in China. And he's dismantling it. And he's also starting to cozy up with Russia. There's a couple of other things. Last weekend he came out and said, hey, let's get rid of all of our weapons. It's an interesting it's going to be an interesting conversation. Also, William Friedkin, Bill Friedkin, is the guy who directed The Exorcist. He now says, I should have done that differently because I really didn't know much about it. He has gone out with a real-life exorcist and has, gone through several exorcisms.

He's got a new movie out. And he says, the real thing is absolutely terrifying. We have him on. The Devil and Father Amorth. It was released, I think, on Friday. I have not seen it yet, but I've seen several interviews with him. And it's kind of bizarre. So we have that coming up today as well.

let's spend a few minutes talking about Benjamin Netanyahu and what he did last night, 8 p.m. Jerusalem time, where he gave a speech to the country and the world. He started it in Hebrew, and then he said in Hebrew, I'm going to say the rest of this in English for the rest of the world. He made quite a presentation, and I don't know exactly what this means. Jason Patrill is with us. He is our lead researcher. and also military affairs and foreign affairs. Welcome to the program. Thank you. So I'm reading stories last night on this. And it's story after story after story with headlines like Benjamin Netanyahu gives a bizarre presentation saying Iran is cheating on the nuclear deal. Israel is stomping on Iran and it could bring one of the worst wars the Middle East has ever seen. nowhere in here is a story that is actually talking about what he said and how dangerous Iran really is.

Iran never shares the culpability in any of this. This was so amazing to me. It's always Israel's fault. And I like how it's hilarious. They call us a bizarre presentation and how he switched from Hebrew into English. Well, the reason is because people in Israel, they already know this information. And they've been screaming at us in the West. all of Europe, all of the United States to say, look, you're being misled, you're being duped.

So they know that. They had to switch that into English because that we have been duped. We were duped by Ben Rhodes, the Obama administration. They were doing this for, you know, about two years trying to get this thing through, and they weren't telling us the truth. That is the entire reason for this. Now, all the pro-nuk deal people are saying this morning that, look, hey, you know, yeah, this is all this is all this information, all this information was already out there.

What's funny is the Iranians at the same time are saying, no, this is bull. This is all like false. Well, no, this is true. All of this stuff, Project Ahmad, which Netanyahu was talking about yesterday, was the project, the military project to develop weapons-grade nuclear weapons. And the weapons grade nuclear weapons, so you know, he described a weapon that he claims they now have, right, that is a missile that it is tipped with. enough firepower that it is three or four times the size of the Hiroshima bomb. Correct. But he doesn't say that they actually have it.

He said that they have the schematics and everything basically done, all the research done. Basically the actual plans and schematics are sitting there. And they went to great lengths to preserve the knowledge to when they were supposed to destroy it. Right. And so now we're getting into information that we didn't know. So we knew all of that information already about Project of Mod and all that stuff, even though nobody in the West reported on it.

neither in Europe or the United States. No one reported on that. But the information that we didn't know was that this, all these, all these schematics, all these plans and everything were being held in secret specifically to re-release at a time or to initiate at a time of their choosing. Now that's huge and that a lot of people are not talking about that. But basically that was one of the reasons why Netanyahu and the Israelis did not like this deal because it was like a 10-year deal. There was no guarantees that it was going to be re-uped at the end of it. It was basically kicking the can down the road. But if that is their plan, then literally within, I think we're about maybe seven years to go or something like that, they can instantly start creating those

missiles, those nuclear-tip missiles that you were just talking about. Instantly, they could start producing them. Now, at the same time, what is happening? The other thing that we did not address in the deal was the aggressiveness of the Iranian regime right now. They have moved all the way into Syria. On Sunday, there was another attack. We are having kinetic. Israeli on Iranian conflicts. They've been going on for weeks now. I think there's been over a hundred of those attacks in the past few months.

You'd never hear about them. On Sunday, like I said, over 20 Israelis were killed in an Israeli F-15 strike inside Western Syria. Western Syria, not Eastern. Like, we're getting closer and closer to the Golan Heights. Who was killed?

Over 20 Iranians. Okay, okay. You think he said Israelis. Yeah. But yeah, that's kind of a big deal. We think that would make a little bit of news? You get the Golan Heights. It's over for, it's over for Galilee and all of that part that Christians, you know, know, know, and visit and, you know, hold holy.

That's all gone. When you're up above, if you've ever stood on the cliff at the Golan Heights, you look down into, I can't remember the city, but there's no way to defend it. I mean, except for superior air power, but there's no way to defend it. They can shoot, they can kill, they can bomb, they can do anything to you. The Golan Heights strategically are extraordinarily important. It's so critical to look at both Iran and North Korea in a similar light. Iran pretty much did all the legwork, like they revealed yesterday that everything's done. The schematics are done.

They can start building these weapons. So it was very beneficial for them to enter into the JCPOA and actually say, okay, fine, we'll hang back a little bit, give us some more money. Let us initiate stage two and start moving in. into Syria and taking over the entire Middle East, getting ready for like a full-on attack or an invasion into Israel. North Korea, the same thing. They've already done their legwork.

They've done everything. They've done about six nuclear tests, missile tests. They've got a nuclear program and actual physical nukes on standby, ready to go. So it behooves them, benefits them, to actually go into an agreement now and get economic sanction relief. It's the exact same scenario. I would argue that Israel maybe, I mean, Iran is a little bit further into that because they've got a program that they're ready to initiate and start once they've,

got a land. North Korea has already got the nukes. Now they're looking for economic relief and then they can hang back for a little bit and then do whatever they want to do later. Very, very similar and it all revolves around a failed nuclear deal. Both, both situations. One's from the Clintons, one's from the Obamas. So what people are not connecting is the, the press refuses to look at the 12th of mom. And perhaps we should be ringing this bell every single day. Well, they hadn't seen the first 11. I know. So, They don't understand the 12. But this is something that they have to understand the Imam of time because that is all that the Iranians are talking about with their people.

And it's what they're using to whip up the Palestinians. And this is a, I think something, I think something around the 70th of Israel is coming. I think, you know, May 14th, Donald Trump is supposed to be there. we're opening up our embassy. I think that's a very, very dangerous time. But I could be wrong. They're expecting 100,000 protesters just on the border. It could be really, truly a nightmare scenario.

And they believe when the world is washed with blood, the imam of time will come back and then he will rule the world. They believe that stuff. And no one will pay attention. You know, the good thing is Donald Trump was there with me and Ted Cruz and Carly Fiorena and most of the candidates for president. When that deal was signed, trying to get Congress to stand up and not take that deal. Don't allow this to be done. So Donald Trump was clear on this deal back then.

I think he's still clear on this deal. I would like to know, where did the president get the money from? He sent over a pallet of what, $1.8, $1.4 billion in cash? The president doesn't have a checkbook. Congress has a checkbook. Where did he get that money? Have you ever heard anybody ask that question? Where is that money from?

Some slush fund? Because if the president has a slush fund, why doesn't Donald Trump just use that slush fund to build the wall? Oh, I remember, because the president's not supposed to have a slush fund. Where did that money come from? And they wanted it in cash for a reason. So they could fund terrorists all around the world. We gave them money. And that now is blood money.

It's really a dangerous situation. How much was this a, you know, psychological operation for the, Iranians for for Netanyahu to come out and say yeah we took you know basically a railroad car full of documents and we smuggled them out underneath your noses in one of your most top secret places that's got a that's not sitting well not at all I mean Iran is basically I mean they're they're heavily infiltrated by the Mossad Israeli foreign intelligence heavily infiltrated. But I would not want to be in the Iranian intelligence, or any kind of security apparatus probably in the next few months, because they're probably

doing a heavy, heavy purge. Another interesting part about this, because you brought this up. A lot of the information that Netanyahu talked about was known at some level. There are some additional details to it, but we kind of knew what was going on there a little bit. What's interesting to me about it, though, is while it was in the IAEA documents, much of it, it was not presented to the American people as if this was real. This is from the White House website talking about the historic deal that will prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon. This is the way they phrase this.

Here are the answers to a few questions you might have on how we will make sure that Iran's nuclear program remains exclusively peaceful. Remains exclusively peaceful? The IAEA documents outline it. was absolutely not exclusively peaceful. And that's how they sold it. All the Obama bros, the Ben Rhodes of the world, all sold it to the American people as this was never happening, but this will ease your conspiratorial minds, right?

This deal will make sure that there's no pathway for them to get there. It was not exclusively peaceful. The documents blatantly show that. Netanyahu's documents back all of that up in spades. And they don't, I mean, that is the big issue. They lied over and over again, and they admitted later lying and manipulating journalists to get this vision of the Iran nuclear deal out to the people. And you have to ask yourself why.

I mean, look it with, you know, I hate to bring up the Soros connection here and the Cass Sunstein connection, but look who is, you know, our ambassador at the UN. And what were they trying to do? They wanted to destabilize Libya. They let Benghazi happen. They were shipping arms from Benghazi to where? Syria to Syrian rebels. That's why our ambassador was killed.

They were shipping weapons to Syria. That became ISIS. That destabilized Syria. At the same time, they do this crooked deal with Iran, which strengthens Iran and allows them now to go across Iraq into Syria with Russian backing, destabilized with the Palestinians. This is all coming back on Samantha Power and Barack Obama. All of this. All of this. And it's an interesting point, Stu, that you make, that it was always about their enrichment of uranium, stuff like that.

But it was always a weapons program, always for weapons. And that's what some of these documents reveal. Thank you very much, Jason. Keep an eye on this for us, if you will. By the way, really interesting and big news, and it makes sense. Let me give you a quote from the Saudi Crown Prince. In the quoting, in the last several decades, the Palestinian leadership has missed one opportunity after another and rejected all the peace proposals it was given. It's about time the Palestinians take the proposals and agree to come to the negotiation table or shut up and stop complaining. end quote. That was right after he said Israel has a right to exist. Things are changing in the Middle East. All right, big news. Last two weeks, SimplySafe won the Editor's Choice Award from CNET magazine, PC magazine, and the wirecutter.

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and where the Pope is headed and what he actually believes. Then the director of the Exorcist, coming in hour number two, who says, I got it wrong. It's worse. I've seen it firsthand. Coming up. Mercury. Truth. So I have been looking for someone that is willing to go on record and teach me. What the heck is happening in the world of Catholicism? What is happening with this Pope? And how is he, what is he doing? What is he doing? Who is he? You know, there's been some special from the very beginning that he might be a little hostile towards capitalism and the

Western way of of doing things. I think that has proven to be pretty accurate. He has recently has been said to deny the existence of hell, which is kind of big in the Catholic doctrine. He came out this weekend, then said, you know, let's get rid of all weapons, and then we can all live in peace. I'm also concerned because I have heard that he is becoming cozy with Putin and Russia. More disturbing is that he has become close with China and is actually, as I understand it, undermining the underground church because there's two churches. There's the church that the government approves and then that the underground bishops and they are the ones that are doing all the heavy lifting and getting Christians to safety who are actually making a difference.

And it's my understanding that he is taking that apart. So we've been looking around and Michael Matt is the editor of the remnant newspaper. It's the oldest Catholic newspaper in the country. And he has some of the same questions. So as a practicing Catholic, we thought he would be. good to answer some of these these questions welcome to the welcome to the program uh michael thank you very much glenn pleasure to be here sure so first of all tell me a little bit about yourself so we know that you know that you're not just an anti-catholic kind of guy oh right father of seven children we've uh we're the type

glen so what's happening in the church right now is extremely so so i don't even know where to begin um with this but i i know that you have you reported on the conclave, and you say that this Pope's election was even suspect. Well, yes, it's really important. It's just, it's incredibly unprecedented. So Jorge Bergoli had many of us kind of saying, what, what, what did this come from? What happened? Who is this guy? And so, I mean, but it's really important, you know, for all of us, for Catholics, I think there's a lot of ignorance out there about, you know, what does this mean? Is it possible to not be the greatest guy, to not be a saint, salibate?

They have a terrible Pope, and Francis is on his own here in many things. He's just, he's kind of out there with his own opinions, which are not protected, which are not inerrant. And I, you know, as a faithful Catholic, it breaks my heart to say this, but he's doing a very thing right now by side by really. He is, it's interesting to me because I see him more and more every day. I mean, when he's, he's hanging out with really disturbing people, you know, Paul Ehrlich, uh, George Soros, he seems to agree with.

he's almost becoming in some ways the anti-John Paul. No, no, absolutely. And as you mentioned, you know, John Lennon, let's give you, 82 years old, how much of this is coming right from his mind and how much of it is part of the lot of PR work for the Vatican right now, how much of that is coming from the official regard? Should we dearm the Swiss? I want to ask you, because this is brought up to me by a staunch Catholic who said,

Glenn, and this reason why we were having you on today is we started a search because I didn't know this and I want to understand this, Stodge Catholic came up to me and said, do you realize what the Pope is doing in China and explained it to me? And I just can't believe that's true. Is it true that the Pope is undermining through his actions of cozying up with the new dictator in China that he's. is undermining the underground church. In China, I would refer to an expert.

I think most people would accept, and that is Cardinal Joseph Zen, who's telling out the church in China. So it's another one of those things where what is going on, why can't we get clarity on this, for so many years, faithful Catholics,

and I mean faithful to dogma and doctrine in China, but also faithful to the Vatican, have been holding the torch, if you will. They've been persecuted, they've been martyred, they've gone underground, And all of a sudden, the Vatican comes out and says, well, we're going to regularize. We're going to have relations with the Chinese Patriotic Association,

which is a communist sort of pseudo-Catholic church. Now, maybe there's some sort of an alliance or something to justify this in a way that you hope Francis and the Vatican at the moment is another massive scandal. But nothing. They didn't come out and explain that. They came out and said that it was an unfaithful, but never did they reaffirm the doctrine of hell. And a squishy uncertainty, failure to be clear, that has not just us, but Catholics all across the world, really concerned right now.

But from what I understand, his actions just in China alone are actually starting to shut down the underground railroad, if you will. And the church is calling everybody in from underground and saying, hey, just come to the official, you know, Catholic, you know, Communist Party Church. Is that true? Well, to verify these people are saying, yeah, and I think if you look at the sort of the philosophy behind this, Francis has this new idea, Glenn, and that sort of thing, because we are talking about the God of mercy. He's much more interested, it seems, in unity, in setting up sort of a tenuous unity.

China, he's doing this in... Tell me about his relationship with Putin and Russia, because it's... That is, I mean, for anybody who, you know, knows anything about, you know, the miracle of Fatima, that's what that was really all about, was the dangers of Russia, and especially in this time period. And he seems to be getting into bed with Russia and Putin. Yeah, again, it's interesting that you would bring up Fat of the right now was predict. The talk about Russia right now is different. I think that I think that Francis is alive and viable.

So to me, seems a little play games that we're hearing. Putin is absolutely against, I mean, he is spending money to stop the European Union. And he is stirring up unrest all throughout Europe. He does not want a strong United Europe by any stretch of the imagination. So where would the, I don't understand. I think maybe I'm stumbling in. to what you're feeling every day as a Catholic? Heartbreaking. You don't get clear, along with Jeffrey Sachs and the rest.

Paul Ehrlich, as you mentioned, in the Vatican. Trump is not a Christian politics, and it was just, as a faithful Catholic, again, it left us stunned. What is happening in the Vatican? For anybody who doesn't know who Jeffrey Sachs is or Paul Ehrlich, explain why that's disturbing to you. The global development got in the time that he had written it years and years ago, the Vatican. So the Vatican invites these men to the Vatican to their various conferences. They're not here.

These men are not here to talk about. But we see through that, like Jeffrey Sachs, on the issues of abortion and so forth, even contraception is a controversial thing that still the Catholic Church teaches against, talking about using those means to control population. So how in the world can the Vatican, without causing scandal, invite these people to come in as honored guests and speak about these things without putting themselves, at Jeopardy, putting themselves, Oz, I should say.

Michael Matt, the editor of the Remnant newspaper. Thank you so much for the conversation. And honestly, thanks to Catholics all around the world, you guys have held the torch of anti-abortion or pro-life while I think the rest of us

have fallen down on the job. It is mainly the Catholics that have kept this alive. And especially with Charlie Goe, and Alfie Evans last week, what the Catholics have done on life is nothing short of miraculous. And thank you and all of the Catholics that are doing that. Most people would agree that if the Catholic Church does lay down high, even if you don't agree with the church on these very Catholic outlets.

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It's kind of a weird day. They just happen to all fall on the same day. But we have Bill Friedkin on at the top of next. hour, he's the guy who directed the exorcist. And he's made a new documentary. And it's a little terrifying. He met Father Gabriel Amorth. He's known as the Dean of Exorcists.

And he got permission to, as long as he took it seriously and didn't try to make it into some hypey thing to follow him with cameras and film exorcisms. And it's changed him. Now, here's the guy who did the French connection and the exorcist and the Brinks job and rules of engagement. He's now directing operas all around the world. But he did this and he said, I would have made the exorcist differently. I would have cut all the special effects, you know, the turning of her head and the vomiting

of pea soup. He said I would have taken all that out. He said because it's much more frightening what's real. And he went to doctors and he showed brain scans. You know, they did brain scans on these people and the doctors, these neurologists are like, I have no idea what that is. There's nothing we can do to stop that. We have no idea what it is.

And it's bizarre. Really strange. Yeah. And one of the classic horror films of all times, obviously the Exorcist. Scared the hell out of me. And he also had nothing to do with The Exorcist 2, The Heretic,

which is known as one of the worst movies of all time. So that gives him even more credibility. In fact, he's never even seen it. Really? He's never seen any of the Exorcist sequels, at least as of a couple years ago. Yeah, I don't think so. I mean, this is the same thing with Airplane.

Another classic movie. Well, documentary, I guess. But Airplane to the sequel, which is the name of the movie. I'm not just saying it's the sequel. I'm saying the movie's called Airplane 2 the sequel, but was never actually viewed by the people who made airplane because they didn't want it to be ruined,

which is interesting because they really, Airplane to the sequel is just the same movie as airplane. Okay, I don't know what you're even talking about now. Except it's on a space shuttle instead of an airplane, which makes no sense if you're going to call it Airplane 2. Why is it on a space shuttle? None of it makes sense. Thank you.

So anyway, he's going to be joining us about a half hour. He said, I was scared, seriously scared. I was two feet away from them. And it was terrifying. I'm going to talk to him coming up in about a half an hour. Glenn, back. Mercury. A home is usually the biggest investment we make in our entire lives.

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I'm glad I was getting paid for. I really, I'm glad we live in a time of Google, but it wrecks too many stories. It wrecks too many stories. It does. It does. It does. It does. Because you start telling a story and then people to start Googling in front of you. Yeah. And you're like, can you wait until I'm done with the story? Can you wait? Get the happy moment before you figure out it to lie.

Yeah. Or just don't get ahead of me or answer story. You know, say, yeah, but did you know? No. That's coming from Google. I have mine in my head. Don't. Now you can fill it in.

You can correct it at a later moment as soon as I'm finished with the story. But a minute I start talking about a story, Stu is like, he just looks at me. And I just, in his head, I already hear. I can hear it. It's just the way he's looking, his eyes say. A lot of times I do find the need to fact check you. Yes. That's true.

This isn't one of them. I will say I think you're right. You think I'm right? What? I will say I was not one of the times I needed to fact check you. Thank you very much. I don't know that until I do it. It is one of those that you hear and you immediately,

you say this to anyone and you look at them, while you're telling them this today, you look at them and you will hear in their eyes. Okay? Mm-hmm. So we were just talking about mountain ranges. I don't know how we got on the subject, but we were talking about mountain ranges.

And Stewart said, I love, you know, summer and mountains. I like mountain towns in the summer, particular. And I said, you have to go to, you know, like Jackson Hole and see and hang out of the Grand Teton's

because they're unbelievable. And then I said, little known fact, do you know what, why they're called the Grand Teton's? And he said, no. And I said it was a French guy who, I guess, discovered them or named them. And said, those look like, you know, big teetons, breasts. And so there, it's actually known, you know, in a kinder, more gentler radio way. as big breasts, Grand Teton's big breasts. Yes, it does seem that this story,

because I guess they're known as a series as the three breasts, but the Grand Teton, 13,770 feet, known as the big breast. Although Teton. Teton, yeah. Teton, if you can. So someplace, there are French people that are like, no, they do not call the mountain range, that? yes they do

know that it's their fault but in their language it says the big there's a big bunch of big boobs yeah

yeah it's I mean it's only really effective when you're using the right word but we can't use it so when you're using the right word that you can hear the French people that is ridiculous no way

it's a giant practical joke he really is. Who thought that's a good idea? You know what? He just said they look like big. Let's call him that. Who said that? I don't know. It just sounds so much better. Oh, it does. The Grand Teton's. But when you say it, you can just take from it exactly what the translation is. Now, say the Grand Teton's. They sound so beautiful. Now, translated into English. it's ridiculous

it's ridiculous say it in your car just look up at the sky in picture and go hey look at those big and then and imagine and then realize hey kids this weekend

we're going to the big no and just realize that that's actually their name that people are just that's actually what we're saying to French people they come over here and they visit

they just hang out at the bottom of them and make for people to say it and you know the French people are like they have no idea they're not Moron Americans. They have absolutely no idea. Hey, the Grand Titos, huh?

Very strange fact. Oh, my gosh. Well, that's what I'm into. That's what I'm into. By the way, the Mercury Museum is coming in. I want you to get your tickets now. Friday, at least there's a sorts of knowledge. You're going to be dropping on people at the museum?

Do you know who Peter Zanger is? Peter Zanger? Of course I do. I do. Yeah. Was that translate to? I don't want to know. No idea. Look at the Zanger on that guy. In the 1730s, he had a newspaper, and he started to criticize the king. And so he was taken in front of the court, and they were going to, they were going to put him in jail for the things that he said.

And it's because of Peter Zanger that we have free speech. And we have the layout of free speech. because he went in front of court and his defense was did I get it wrong? And they're like you can't call the king you can't say those things

and he's like yeah I think I can as long as it's the truth did I get it wrong and the judge actually had to rule in his favor as long as it's true you can say that

well that was a first in the world okay So he's really the father of the First Amendment. And the whole museum this summer is about rights and responsibilities. And when we don't take our Bill of Rights seriously, we get into all kinds of trouble. And it's going to be a great, great experience. Again, it happens June 15th, that's a Friday through Sunday, June 17th, here at the Mercury Studios in Irving. so come on down to Texas

bring your family get your tickets now Mercury 1.org slash museum 2018 that's Mercury 1.org slash museum 2018 I have a phone number here they don't want me to give out of

are they set up people use the phone to text yeah I don't I don't that must be a mistake it says get your tickets and then it gives a phone number I don't wow you can actually call and get Tickets. Impressive. I guess. I mean, you know what? It is a history museum. So why not do it the old timey way? Call and talk to somebody. Yeah, 972-49-9-47-47. That's crazy. No, we did that anymore. 972-49-49 47-47. It's hard to understand these old-timey devices, Glenn. And they're actually

finding that out in schools now. The association of schools. and college leaders have come up with a new plan because there's a problem the students are having problems in the classrooms they are trying to figure out

like what time it is you know and it's hard to do because what's happening is there's these circular devices on the walls okay and these circular devices we're doomed

we are doomed do not have numbers on them in order. Like if we have a digital clock in here and it says 9, you know, whatever it says 42, 36, 36, 37, 38, 39. It tells you the seconds.

It tells you the minutes. It tells you the hour. Well, apparently these devices they've installed in these classrooms are circular. Are circular and they have hands on them or little sticks that point at the numbers. They have no idea. And no one in the school can figure out what the heck they mean. These are legitimate quotes.

current generation aren't as good at reading the traditional clock face as older generations. The current generation aren't as good? That is what it says. Again, this is the Association of School and College Leaders. Okay, college leaders. Current generation aren't as good at reading hands on a face of a clock. They got no good seeing. No, we didn't say that.

Ain't got no time to learn and stuff. They're used to seeing a digital representation of time on their phone. Oh my gosh. This is not a safe space. They're used to that. Nearly everything they've got. Again, got is a weird word for anyone in education. It is.

Nearly everything they've got is digital. So youngsters are... Everything they've got. Who is this person? Nearly everything they got. Be damned their digital. So youngsters are just exposed time being given digitally everywhere. Give this to me.

I can't. These are quotes. Current generation aren't as good at reading the traditional. What is this? It's like a cowboy school. Current generation aren't as good. Cowboys can read clocks. That's the difference. They're used to seeing a digital representation of time on their phone, on their computer.

Nearly everything they got is digital, so youngsters. So you know this is a guy who's been around for a while. because nobody uses the word youngsters unless they're what 80 so youngsters just exposed to time being given digitally everywhere you don't want them to put their hand up and ask how much time is left no you don't you want them to be able to look at the face on the wall and go oh i've got 12 minutes left you know we used to learn these

before kindergarten. Yeah, it used to be kind of a basic thing that you'd learn. And apparently that's too difficult now, because they can't figure out how many minutes they have until they get to run out of the classroom and do something else. So pretty embarrassing. How many minutes left before I'm responsible to make my own way through this scary, scary world?

Not enough for you. Apparently not enough. Sponsored this half hour is Gold Line. I just, listen to this. Turkish government has made the decision to repatriate all of its gold reserves currently housed in the Federal Reserve System. They were storing 220 tons valued at $25 billion in the U.S., which it repossessed on April 19th.

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Yeah. I thought, 100,000 tons of balsa wood, that's a lot of wood. That's a whole balsa forest. And that was it all at the Fed? That's all at the, well, yeah, well, the federal balsa wood reserve. Oh, okay. Just in case we ever, currency ever becomes those airplanes with the rubber vans. Could have it any time.

It could. It could. And I am going to be sitting pretty, but that's a different story. The markets are volatile. People are repatriating their gold. This could be why, because there's no faith in credit or no faith in the full faith and credit of the United States government and our currency because we're headed for war. I don't know, but the world is starting to call their gold back. That's a really big deal. Now, one thing that survives wars, survives inflation, is gold. I don't want you to wake up like you did on that day in 2008, and you haven't hedged your bet and put some things, you know, away in different ways. So in case the dollar collapses or we just go to war or whatever, you have something. I want you now to call Goldline and find out about their IRAs, find out about gold. find out about gold in, you know, in bullion or in the bullion that's coming from the Canadian Reserve or American. Find out the best way for you to hold gold as an insurance policy.

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It's amazing. The Parkland advocates are pushing this narrative that the NRA is banning guns at their convention because Mike Pence is coming. Let me just give you some of the tweets. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. You're telling me to make the VP safe there aren't any weapons around, but when it comes to the children, they want guns everywhere. Can someone explain this to me? Because it sounds like the NRA wants to protect people who help them sell guns, not kids. Oh, I'm glad you asked.

Yes, we can't explain it to you. Are they really putting the VP at risk if they think a no gun zone is going to work? On so many levels, this is a lightning. According to the NRA, we should want everyone to have weapons when we're in public. But when they're put on, when they put on a convention, the weapons are a concern. I thought giving everyone was a gun a way to enhance safety. Am I missing something? Yes.

Yes. Yes, you are. I'm so glad they keep asking these questions at the end. In fact, here is what you're missing. Title 18 of the United States Code Section 30, 15. and 1752. The Secret Service. Due to attendance of the Vice President of the United States, the U.S. Secret Service will be responsible for event security at the NRA-I-L leadership forum.

As a result, firearms and firearm accessories, knives or weapons of any kind, will be prohibited in the forum prior to and during his attendance. So it's the Secret Service doing this. NRA, you don't have a choice when the Secret Service says no guns, they come in with all of the guns. They're the only ones

in the room with guns. And they're not there to protect you. They're there to protect one person. So it's not the NRA. So if you see this, make sure you stomp this lie back. Title 18, United

States Code section 356 and 1752. Just tell people, get an education, figure out yourself. What in those sections is telling the Secret Service what to do? And the Secret Service is telling the NRA what to do. Back in a minute.

Glenn, back. Mercury. Truth. How do you feel about us as a country right now? How are we doing? I mean, it's really hard to be positive if you even glance at the news for just a few seconds every day. But the news is, it's full of lies. And I don't mean lies about one politician or another.

I mean, it's not who we are. There is a lot to be thankful and to celebrate about in this country. We don't spend near enough time talking about the good things. And from time to time, may I just be. a reminder that we still know how to love and help one another. There were wildfires that raged across the western part of Oklahoma last month. It was devastating, devastated cattle grazing lands. It scorched an area the size of Chicago and New York City combined, and the surviving cattle are struggling now because the most urgent need is food. Well,

thank goodness for the cattle version of FEMA, Washington, D.C. government to the rescue? No, actually no. The heroes are total strangers. They're from states as far away as Michigan and Montana. And these strangers have been hauling truckload after truckload after truckload of emergency hay to Western Oklahoma. Now, this has all been organized just through word of mouth via Facebook. And the old technology, barely worth mentioning, people just talking to each other.

The donated hay has been pouring in from regular people, not the government. A man from one of the hardest hit towns in the state boiled it down, you know, the ESA, the good Samaritan hay. We've waited on the government, and we waited on the government. And if we would have continued to wait on the government, we wouldn't have any. hay. Tiny town of volunteers working 12-hour shifts distributing the donated hay at the town's rodeo grounds. Without the emergency hay, the ranchers would have been forced to sell their already decimated herds. Two brothers who raised cattle near the Kansas, Oklahoma border, drove true tractor trailers with 64 bales of hay to the ranch of a man they've never even met.

but they understand what the man is going through because their family's land burned last year and the hay donated by strangers saved their herd now the man's hundred cows will be able to survive as well this is why when we left the farms we changed fundamentally getting to know your neighbor is

more than just getting to know your neighbor it really is and you're almost forced to do it in a farming town because you know if that farmer is suffering from drought or from fires or whatever it is, your turn is coming if it hasn't just been there. And so you got to help them because they're going to help you. One of the brothers said,

they think it can't get any worse. But when these loads of hay come in, it really gives you hope. As a nation, I think we need to reconnect with the idea that when the chips are down, as Ronald Reagan put it, government is not the solution to our problem. Government is the problem. And ultimately, America is going to be okay

because of people just like you. People like the ones, the two brothers that are driving tractor-trailer full of hay, to strangers. People who still know how and strive to do the right thing. When it comes to serving people, we don't wait for the government aid.

We don't wait for permission. You just see something that needs to be done. And America gets up and gets busy helping. It's Tuesday. May 1st. This is the Glenn Beck program. There is a new movie that is out, that is a documentary, and it was made by the director of The Exorcist.

I want to play the trailer here. Listen. At the time I directed the film, The Exorcist, I had never seen the real thing. But on May 1st, 2016, Father Gabriela Amort, the Vatican Exorcist, invited me to witness an actual exorcist. I had no idea what to expect. The more you open yourself to thinking about this stuff,

and these are feeling about this stuff, the more room you'll allow for the supernatural power of evil to come in. If we don't understand it, that doesn't mean it doesn't exist. There's a dimension in this world that is strange, and beyond our capacity control. Can I know how you treat it? No. So something is happening to her, it's clear,

but maybe she puts into it the religious context in which she grew up. Because they believe, obviously, they know what's wrong with her. She's possessed by the devil. I think that's a very dangerous thing. Getting in close quarters with the devil, people like Father Amor maybe can do that. I would never dare to do it.

This is not fiction. It's different from all the movies. And I was there to film it. The movie is called The Devil and Father Amorth, and he is the Vatican's exorcist. He died shortly after this was filmed, and the guy who filmed it was the director of many movies that you know, the French connection to live and die in LA that brings job, 12 angry men, rules of engagement. He's now doing operas all over the world. He is probably best known for his direction of the Exorcist. Bill Friedkin is with us now. Hello, Bill. How are you? So I have to tell you, first of all, your movie, The Exorcist, is one of the only movies that I, I've never finished.

I've tried to watch it twice. It still freaks me out, mainly because my sister was 16. I was about nine, and she went to see it, and then she slept in the bunk up above me because she was too scared to sleep in her own room, and she told me the story every night, and she freaked me out for like a month. So, terrifying movie, and thank you for that. Go ahead. Well, Glenn, I've shown her to a nine-year-old. No, no, no, no.

I wouldn't show it to anyone under 15 or 16. Yeah, well, she snuck out of the house, and she saw it as a 16-year-old, and then she told me about it. So, Bill, what intrigues me about this is you've made the quintessential, I guess, you know, movie on possession. And in the interviews that I have seen and the stuff that I've read, you say, I wouldn't make The Exorcist that way. It's even more terrifying when you see it in person the way it really is.

I could not have made it any other way because there was a best-selling book, a novel. It came out before I made the film. It had all these incidents and events that were written. by Bill Blatty, who had also never seen an exorcism. Keeps a close lid on it. They don't even acknowledge it. They acknowledge that possession exists and that there is exorcism, and that's it. Yes.

Because people in the book and wanted to see them. Sure. But now that you have seen one, first of all, are you convinced that it is, that it is real? There are many things of which I'm not convinced, but I'm curious. I have to tell you, I believe that none of us know anything really about the eternal truths. And they get us through life. But we don't know. These thinkers in the world, and believe me, I have no idea.

Talking about from Augustine thing about the eternal truths. But many of us are comforted by this belief system. Right. So when you, first of all, tell me who Father Amorth was. It's Amort. Amort, sorry. He was the Vatican exorcist for 31 years. He had, and he had healed, or as he puts it, liberated many people who believe they were possessed.

So had been to see doctors, surgeons, and could get no satisfaction. So why, if the Vatican was keeping this kind of under wraps, how did you get access to one? six or seven books about his work that went into, I don't know, 60, 70 printings now in many languages. And he wrote almost a page about my film The Exorcist when it came out. He said that though the special effects will to understand his work. So when I made an inquiry, if I could meet him while I was in Italy for something else entirely, he agreed to meet with me. So tell me about first, before we get into what the experience was like,

You took these patients and I, you took them to neuroscientists and brain surgeons. No, I took one person. One person. Right, okay. And said, okay, explain this. I thought they would debunk it. I took it to three of the leading neuroscientists in the country. They all said to a person that they had no idea what this was.

was. They had no idea what to do about this, although everything originates in the brain, everything. This was not a problem of brain surgery. There was nothing they could remove. It wasn't epilepsy. It wasn't a lesion. And there was nothing they could do as a brain surgeon. And two of these men had done over 5,000 brain surgeries each. I then took it to a actress in the country at Columbia University and examined. expected that they would debunk it, or tell me in some scientific terminology what this was. To my amazement, they said that they now recognize identity disorder, demonic possession. If someone comes in and says, you're not possessed, we're going to give you some therapy and some medication, and you'll be fine.

The Jews, the Muslims, other faiths have, they now treat it as demonic possession. could be a placebo. I hasten to say that we're thinking it's a So I'm going to take a break. And when we come back, Bill Friedkin, who is the director of the devil and father Amort, and the director of The Exorcist, is going to tell us what it was like to walk in, what was happening to the patient, and what was going on, what the outcome was in just a second. I love this quote. FEMA is not a first responder, end quote. By the way, that comes from, you know, FEMA.

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It is a real-life exorcism that has been documented now by the director of the exorcist. And he's joining us now, Bill Friedkin. Bill, can you tell us, I mean, it's hard in four minutes, but can you tell us what happened, what it was like? Well, the subject was a 46-year-old Italian woman. But she couldn't work because she was having these three changes. And what I filmed was her ninth exorcism. She had one a month for the preceding eight months, and they were not successful, which is often the case.

I mean, it could go on for years as psychiatry does. When she appeared in the room, I thought she was totally normal. The atmosphere in the room, and she came in and seemed, I wondered what the heck she was doing there. She seemed totally normal to me. And then the exorcism began, and she began a complete alteration of personality. It took five guys to hold her down. She was able to speak and respond in Latin, which he had never studied.

She had a voice that's filmed the exorcist. She had never seen the exorcist, nor had her family, but had never seen it. And this behavior disturbing, and gradually it more because she was in great pain. So what brought that on? What did, did. We don't know, Glenn. No, but I mean, I mean, did Father Amort call that out? Yes, what the Roman ritual of exorcism is a call by the priest, the exorcism.

They don't believe that they're on the power of Christ. or even popes have ever performed an exorcism. I would imagine that you would have to be a pretty strong person to be able to face it all the time. The most shocking thing I had heard. I said, but you believe you have the power of Christ. He said, yes, I do. You are a very whole, you can't get flat out in the documentary. Bill, what do you hope to give the message is that the people take from this?

We have 30 seconds. I don't try to send messages. share with curious about that's it I don't have a message what a great answer

William Friedkin Bill Friedkin the new movie is out it is called the devil and father a mort it is a documentary

it's not fiction and it's available everywhere Beck Mercury you're listening to the Glenn Beck program

it's been a fascinating show today Uh, we had in our number two, we had a guest who is a, who runs the oldest American Catholic newspaper, um, talking about Pope Francis and I just wanted to know, what's he doing in China? Because Pope Francis, a lot of people are saying that he's getting the, the underground church killed or imprisoned, um, and shutting it down. And this guy. tends to agree with that. What is the Pope doing in Russia with Putin,

becoming friends? What is he doing with the doctrine? He seems to be, you know, very anti-Western, you know, capitalism. It was an interest, if you're Catholic, you should listen to that interview. It's a top of hour two, so the second hour of the podcast. And then we just had William Friedkin on,

who is the, you know, the director of the Exorcist. Oh, that was a scary movie. I still can't. I still can't finish it. I never watched that. Yeah, oh, it's scary. No, thank you. You believe in that, right?

Well, yeah. Yeah, that's too real. Yeah. That's a movie I would never see. So he just made the movie. Because remember, he made the French connection. I mean, he was big in the day. Yeah.

He made that movie. And you're old enough to remember. Remember people were throwing up in the movie theaters and they were... Claiming they were possessed. Yeah, it was crazy. Yeah. It was crazy. I mean, it was a movie.

Can you name another... Can you name another movie that had that kind of impact? Not with that kind. No. I mean, it was... Not with the bad stuff afterward. I can't think of one. Because there were a lot of reports and I don't know if it was mostly hype, you know?

It might have been some hype. Could have been. But there was a lot of reports of people being possessed after watching the movie. and I don't know, I just didn't want to take any chance on that. Yeah, it was, it is a terrifying movie. Anyway, he's, he's just made another one. And this is just a documentary of an actual exorcism. And, you know, he's like, I don't know what to believe, but it was.

So he filmed an actual exorcism. With the, with the papal exorcist, the guy's been doing it. He's the only one that the Vatican allows to do it. And he's only one guy in the world who does that for the for the for the for the Catholic church. Yeah. And. I mean, you should talk to him.

It's pretty intense. It's pretty intense. And he filmed it. He said had. He said, I wondered when she came in. You know, what her problem is? She's an architect. And he said she came in.

She sat down and she's been going through the sessions with this with this priest and everybody was in around and praying and stuff. And he starts in and calls the spirit out. And he said, it was shocking. He said, I was two feet from her. And I was absolutely terrified. Wow. Yeah.

And that's the director of the exorcist. Yeah. He said, I wouldn't make the exorcist. Did he believe in this stuff before? No. I believe. Yeah. Really?

Like, I'm not sure what to believe. Even after seeing that, he's still, he said, I don't know what. know what it is. He said nobody knows what it is. He said, you know, he said, you know, he wrote an article about how Jesus did this, how Jesus drove devils out of people. And so it sounds to me that he is a spiritual man who tends to believe this, but he is not willing to, he's not willing to endorse it. He took it to, he took this person to a psychiatrist at Columbia University. They had no idea. They did a brain scan of this person while they're in the fit.

And you can see the brain lighting up. And the brain surgeons were like, no idea. There's nothing we, I don't know what that is. Wow. Yeah. That's pretty amazing. That's scary. It is scary.

It is scary. It kind of makes the rest of the news seem like okay. Yeah. There's a White House correspondence in it with some bad jokes. But I'm not possessed. Right. Yeah, devil's not living inside of me. So I think I'm okay.

It does put things into perspective, doesn't it? It does. Yeah, you know, nobody in my house is going, And I'm going to eat you. So I think that's good. That is good. The response to the White House, correspondence dinner has been interesting to me. How long have we said, you shut this stupid thing down?

Just stop doing it. And that's one of the things I really respect about Trump is he doesn't bother with this nonsense. Two years in a row, he's like, no, thank you. I'm not going to do it. Which is what Bush should have done. It's what they all should have done, but they don't. And so every year, there's a big to do about it. And, uh, I don't know if, I don't know if during the time of Reagan, it was necessary to shut it down. I mean, I don't like it. It probably wasn't as nasty. Yeah, I don't, I don't like the idea of the press hobnobbing with Congress and the people they're supposed to be watching.

You know, that's, you know, it's like the prisoners are like, hey, we're going to have a picnic and get to know the guards. No. Yeah. No. Yeah, no, it's Jonah Goldberg. I don't know if you said it on the air here, but it's in his book, an anecdote that he talks about with his dad. and people talk about how money is the way that you'd win someone over, like the thing that corrupts most.

And he said, no, it's not money, it's friendship. If someone calls you up and says, hey, my underachieving son needs a job, and he's a real screw up, can I pay you $10,000 to give him a job? And it was someone you didn't know. You'd of course say no immediately. But if someone called you up who was a friend of yours and said, my underachieving kid, he's kind of a screw up, but he really needs a job, really needs a hands out, and it offers you no money,

you're much more likely to say yes to it. And I think that's the problem, the biggest problem with the White House correspondent. I can you, Orrin Hatch, Ted Kennedy. Yeah. That friendship. How much did that friendship screw up our country? Oh, I think a lot. I think a ton.

Because Warren Hatch in, what, 1893 was good. He was moderate in 1893. 1843 is pretty conservative. So when he first got in in 1843. When he first got in, he ran against Ted Kennedy's. policies and he called him out by name as he was running for office. Then they're best buds and they're working on policy together. How does that work?

I mean, we all want, I guess, to get along and to work together, but you don't want to work together on progressive issues. You're just going to make it, you're going to compromise yourself right out of your principles. Yeah, I don't have a problem with the people in Congress making relationships and becoming friends as long as your principles are aligned. Principles, not policy. Your principles are aligned.

Right. I don't think Orrin Hatch's principles were aligned at the beginning with Ted Kennedy. Not at all. I mean, in any way, shape, or form. My problem is the press is supposed to be adversarial. And they're literally sleeping together. They're literally in bed with each other. Well, that's no, no.

I mean, if you have a relationship with a politician, can you read that thing you were reading to me from the New York Times today? Listen to this. So we were talking about Benjamin Etting Yahoo and how the press, you know, they're not talking about, you know, Iran in the same way. Here's all this stuff. They're like, oh, it's old news. That's just Benjamin Netanyahu.

No, no, it's not. What is it that you guys are failing to? to see. Listen to this. This is Ben Rhodes, the aid to Obama, and the guy who did the messaging for the Iran deal talking about the messaging of the Iran deal. Openly, on the record, to the New York Times. Listen to this. All these newspapers

used to have foreign bureaus. Now they don't. They call us to explain to them what's happening in Moscow and Cairo. Most of the outlets are reporting on world events from Washington. The average reporter we talk to is 27 years old and their only reporting consists of being around political campaigns. That's a sea change. They

literally know nothing. In this environment, Rhodes has become adept at ventrilo-wise. Well, I'm not going to be able to say that word. Many people at once. Ned Price, Rhodes' assistant, gave me a primer on how it's done. We have our compadres.

I'll reach out to a couple of people. I wouldn't want to name them. And the reporter says, well, I can name them. And I'll say, hey, look at some of these spinning this narrative. This is a sign of American weakness, he continued. But in fact, it's a sign of strength, I said. I'll give them some color.

And the next thing I know, lots of these guys are in the dot-com publishing space, and they have huge tool or followings, and they'll be putting this message out on their own. It goes on to say, let's see if we can find the next clip we were talking about Glenn. When asked whether the prospect of this

is something that scares him, he admitted that it does. I mean, I'd prefer a sober, reasoned public debate after which members of Congress reflect and take a vote. But that's impossible. And he talks also about how he created an echo chamber. Again, this is the Obama guy who was in charge of spinning the Iranian deal. I mean, that's really Rhodes War Room on Capitol Hill,

reporters springs last year. Legions of arms control experts began popping up at think tanks and on social media. And that became key sources for hundreds of often clueless reporters. We created an echo chamber. He admitted when I asked him about the onslaught of freshly minted experts cheerleading for the deal, the Iran deal. they were saying things that validated what we had given them to say. Look at that.

And we know that happened. It's just interesting to hear it coming from their own mouth. And on the record. On the record in the New York Times. Yeah. And you wonder why you would be against the White House press corps? Yeah. Because of this.

You're being manipulated, you boobs. How do you not see it? Yeah. And they don't see it. I mean, they don't. They just trust. They wanted to believe in Barack Obama so much. They went through all their schooling, everything they had been given in their entire careers

was how people like Barack Obama are the right ones and conservatives are wrong. And, you know, this is what they're at 27 years old, they come out with that. And they're just like, oh, yeah, well, they're telling us the truth. And look at these evil conservative conspiracy people saying the opposite. And conversely, they hate Trump so much that it's. It's just the opposite with him. Yeah. They look for anything they can to drag him down and to hurt his public opinion.

You know what? I have to tell you, his trade war, you know, he's backed off again of the tariff. He may be as brilliant of a global negotiator as I have ever seen. He might be. Well, I give you because he's bad. Backed off of his trade? No, because it appears, it appears that perhaps he's saying, we're doing this, we're doing this, just to renegotiate all of these deals. He always starts with super tough talk. North Korea is the same way. He was super tough on North Korea. And we felt like we were on the precipice of war with North Korea for a while. Now look what happened. Then he kind of steps back and lets things fall into place. And in the case, of North Korea, and maybe in the case of the trade war, that...

Strategies worked. It remains to be seen and probably won't be understood fully for another 10 years, but there is a possibility that he is the guy that we have been looking for, would just say, I'm not doing that. I'm just going to play my own game, and I'll show you how to negotiate and talk tough. It may... I hope so. I hope so too.

I hope so. Either that or we're on our way to, you know. Armageddon. To hell. One of the two. Thanks, Pat. Hey, by the way, say prayers for Pat tomorrow. He's going in under the knife.

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for Kanye. You don't speak on Crip guys. We're the Crip guys. You know what I'm saying? I really don't. I'm sorry, but I really don't. Not aware of what you're saying. But isn't Calabasasus in California?

He said, I don't know. I better not see. you in California, stay out of California, stay in Calabasas, which is, I believe, still in California. Yes. And now it is not the LBC, however. What is the LBC? Long Beach, California. Is that where the Crips live?

Apparently. In Long Beach. Yeah. So let's see. The drive is, it's going to be about an hour from the LBC to Calabasas. So what he's saying is in traffic? Well, yeah, it's true. An hour 28 with traffic right now.

Okay, an hour 28 with traffic. Nobody, I mean, even the Crips are like, that's too far. That's too far. That's too long. We prefer if you stayed about an hour 28 away. That was a nice request. Look, can you move a little closer? Can you just move a little closer?

Because that's way too far out there. So I just want to leave you with that. Our shout out, our daily shout out to the Crips. Daily. Glenn. Mercury.