The Glenn Beck Program - The Personal Is Political? | Guest: Burgess Owens | 11/12/18

Episode Date: November 12, 2018

Hour 1  It's getting kind of hectic?...Tucker Carlson's teenage daughter confronted by middle aged Leftist...called the 'C-word'...personal attacks are the 'norm'...Glenn recalls the time his family were harassed and assaulted in a NYC Park?...'Feelings' do not equal 'Truth'?...families are in danger and it's only getting worse ...MercuryOne.org is on the ground in California...helping fire victims...your help is needed...MercuryOne.org ...'More On Trivia' Every Friday with Pat Gray?...Shameless...New Planned Parenthood Ad is creeping everyone out?...'shocking'...Kavanaugh may be very John Roberts like? ...Many GB radio listeners have been affected by the CA wildfires?   Hour 2 She Needs Help?...Christians Beware? Life as a Christian in Pakistan?...an embattled minority?...Christian woman acquitted of blasphemy...'we' must stand by her...and all persecuted Christians around the world ...Party Hate by the Numbers?...Democrats vs. Republicans...both sides currently despise each other and it's getting worse?...the Lefts obsession with Donald Trump is endless...every story, every angle, every day is non stop Trump...the media are the ones who treat Trump like a King...blaming Trump for CA wildfires? ...Ashton Kutcher vs. Glenn Beck?...Twitter battle of the facts and data...School students are 4 x safer than you were in 1990?    Hour 3 "Why I Stand", Author and NFL Super Bowl Champion, Burgess Owens...joins to discuss his book documenting an ideology that uses trust to divide and betray....it was the ideology of the 1910 NAACP...founded by 21 white Marxist Socialist, atheist and eugenicist Democrats?...the NFL and the Globalist?...the American people deserve an apology from the NFL?...Nike in bed with China? ...Election Recounts in Florida and Arizona...Wait, is a Blue Wave still coming? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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political that the political has become personal, and it is everywhere. Thanks to the radically left-leaning forefathers of post-modernism, every single word we utter now is political. So, If anything we say offends someone on the left, it's not just personal. It is a political act. Even worse, having a difference in opinion is a personal insult now. We're seeing it constantly. Ted Cruz heckled out of a restaurant. Sarah Sanders kicked out of a restaurant.

Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi chased out of a movie about Mr. Rogers. The entire Kavanaugh confirmation hearing, for that matter. And it is escalating. verbal abuse isn't good enough, as we saw last week with Antifa protesters who broke down Tucker Carlson's front door and screamed threats. Yesterday, Michael Avanotti claimed on Twitter that he is investigating Tucker Carlson for an alleged assault on a gay Latino immigrant. Well, this sounds about as plausible as Avinotti's ridiculous claim that Brett Kavanaugh was a serial rink. rapist in high school. Tucker Carlson responded. As is expected, Avanotti wasn't telling the truth, it seems. Officials from the Farmington Country Club, where the incident happened,

have confirmed it now. They revoked the man's membership that night. Turns out he was the aggressor. Turns out Tucker Carlson was at dinner with his kids and some friends. when his teenage daughter went to the restroom and came back to the table crying. Apparently, the middle-aged man said to Tucker Carlson's daughter, are you having dinner with Tucker Carlson? And she said, yes, that's my father. He said, oh, you're Tucker's whore. Then he said, you're an effing C word.

She came back to the table and started to cry. Her brother immediately got up from the table and said, Excuse me, did you just say this to my sister? He proudly admitted that he had, and the son or the brother took a glass of wine and threw it at him. Carlson wrote, I love my children. It took a nervous self-control not to beat the man with a chair, which is what I wanted to do. I think any father can understand the overwhelming rage and shock that I felt seeing my teenage daughter attacked by a stranger.

After his son threw wine, Tucker Carlson got up and he asked the guy to please leave. They were restrained. Tucker said, I restrained myself. I didn't assault the man. Neither did my son. He said, everything about this is a lie. First of all, I didn't know that the man was gay or Latino. Not that it would have even mattered.

What happened on October 13th has nothing to do with identity politics. It was a gross violation of decency. I've never seen anything like it in my life, end quote. This is what I experienced with my family a few years ago in New York. it is the reason in the end that really compelled us to seriously talk about leaving New York my family was endangered by a crowd of people and they all thought it was funny

the political is personal a middle-aged man feels so personally insulted and outraged by Tucker Carlson's political views his different opinions that he responds with a personal insult to Tucker Carlson's daughter using the C-word. Is this the world that the early feminist with their personal as political signs wanted? How many things have gotten so turned around that it's considered progressive now for a grown man to call a teenage girl the C-word,

which I believe is one of the most heinous and degrading words ever used to demean women. Tucker was right to restrain himself. The country club was right for asking this guy to leave and to revoke his membership. It's the best response. Violence is not the answer. We have to keep our head. And it is going to be unbelievably hard sometimes. It gets a little harder every time we see something.

like what happened to Tucker Carlson, but it is the only way to win. Not everything is personal, not everything is political, and that is the reality. And your feelings do not equal truth. They are your feelings. Hopefully, if we can keep our composure long enough, hopefully they'll find a better slogan, one that calms people down instead of inciting outrage. In the meantime, we can all agree that no one, no one at all, especially a grown, man should verbally assault a teenage girl because her daddy hurt his feelings.

It's Monday, November 12th. You're listening to the Glymbeck program. I, for one, I'm so sick and tired of hearing from the left that, oh my gosh, they've never experienced hatred like this. Nobody said a word when my family was assaulted in a park in New York. No one said a word. My daughter and I had always wanted to go see a Hitchcock film in the park. And so we did.

And I just thought it was going to be fine. I just assumed that everybody was human still. Well, not in New York. And so my daughter and her then fiancé and my wife decided to go to the park. And we just spread out a blanket. And we arrived, you know, maybe a little bit early. People started to come. And this group behind us of these 20-somethings, women, believe it or not,

they were quite aggressive. They threw wine on my wife. My wife knew that it wasn't an accident, because we had security there and they were able to see their Twitter feed and their Facebook feed where they were admitting what they were doing. I went to the park with, I think, one security agent. By the time we were done, I think we had four. We had four.

We may have had six by the end. I finally leave towards the end of the movie. I want to get out of there before the movie. movie is over for obvious reasons and I get up with my wife and the entire crowd applauds that we leave. Now, that could have been, I could have, you know, taken that. But not after you had assaulted my wife, not after my wife and my daughter walk about half a block to go to the restroom. And as they are walking by themselves, they are shouted at and fingers, pointed and thrust into their chest saying, we don't want your hate here. We don't want your

kind here. Racist, bigots, haters. When we were walking out, by the time we got across the street, I looked at the security agents and I said, go back and get my daughter and her fiance. This is far too dangerous for them. My daughter was already in tears. She didn't know what to do. when the security agents arrived and pulled them both into the car. So please, leftists, CNN, don't tell me how hard your life is. I know. I know how hard your life is now. And no one should have to live through that.

But what's happening to Tucker Carlson is not an isolated incident. It's been happening from the left for a very long time. and it goes beyond mean tweets. Your family is in danger, and it's only getting worse. So what are we going to do about it? Well, you know what we're going to do? We're going to live our lives.

We're going to tell the truth. We're not going to play the game that they're playing because I don't want to be that person. I remember leaving that crowd and saying to my wife, I would be so assured. shamed if anyone, anyone in my audience treated people like that. If Michael Moore, who was at the top of the, you know, I guess hate list for the left, if Michael Moore would have been treated like that by my audience, I would have been horrified.

But I slept well that night knowing my audience wouldn't do that. It's one of the reasons why we did restoring love. I wanted to see a big huge crowd fill Dallas Cowboy Stadium and treat people with respect and come together and be good and serve one another and serve the community.

The press seems to miss all of that. That's okay. That's okay. We know who they are. By the way, the California fires. I saw all the Twitter. back and forth and the hatred about the fires and Donald Trump and shut up.

Shut up. Meanwhile, there are people on the ground. Meanwhile, there are people that are in trouble. And I don't mean the celebrities because they have enough money to take care of themselves and get out. I don't wish them ill and I don't wish that their houses are burned down or anything like that. But I'm concerned about the people who have to leave their house.

and they don't know what to do, where to go. How do you take your children, leave your house, lose everything, and survive? You go to work? How are you, how do you afford just going to a hotel, just having meals three times a day for your family out? How quickly does that bill run you into bankruptcy? Mercury 1 is already on the ground in California, and there are a lot of people in need. I want to play a tape. This is of a father talking to his daughter and trying to calm them down.

Now, if you happen to be watching the blaze, you will see it, but if you're just listening, let me describe the scene. There are flames on both sides of the car. It's all like they're going through a tunnel of fire. And the little girl is starting to freak out, and I want you to listen to this amazing. amazing father as he talks her through this, because you know inside he ain't feeling this way. Listen to this. Hey, guess what?

We're not going to catch on fire, okay? We're going to stay away from it. And we'll be just fine. Okay? We're doing all right. Flames on both sides of the car. Baby it'll be all right. We should.

We're going to, uh, we're going to get out, okay? We're going to leave. No, we're going to get out of here. And we'll come back when it's more Princess Poppy, okay? I'm going to stay away from it, okay? Yeah. Yep. Look, we're past it.

We're out of it, okay? Yay. Yay. We did it together. I'm listening to this, and I know that I would be tempted to be quiet. Daddy's trying. Daddy's trying to make sure we don't all die. Quiet.

Keep talking and you'll be on fire because I'll open the door and punch it out. Amazing, amazing, father. Not only our thoughts and prayers, which are valuable, go out to the people of California, but also our backs and our hands and our feet. We're putting our money where our mouth is. We care about you, California. Mercury One is out on the ground now.

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It's crazy what is happening with the ballots. We're going to get to the election and the recounts now. This is dramatically changing things. And I'm not sure anybody really understands what's going on. I'm not sure. Are we sure that everything is on the up and up here? Who's really watching over this? is anybody we'll talk about that coming up in just a minute we also have pat gray from pat gray

unleashed which is a podcast that you can hear wherever you get your podcast or listen to on the berlays radio network immediately preceding this program welcome pat how are you good good good good doing good yeah you want to start with the fun stuff or the serious stuff uh let's start with fun stuff because okay is that more on trivia more on trivia yeah okay here's more on trivia Global warming typically refers to the warming of what planet? Oh my gosh. It's hard. Dang it.

Usually that... I don't know Pluto. Pluto? Pluto? Same solar system, so you were close. It's Uranus. Right there. Yeah, uranium.

Wow. Yeah, the weather's changing on Uranus. It's getting warmer. What is socialism? Oh, whoa. A little premature there on the buzzer, but I know it's coming. Maybe. Socializing?

Socializing? Man, that is so good. I was premature. Nobody ever gets that. No, it's a disease you get from being too social with someone. Oh. Yeah. Have you ever been too social with someone?

Yes. Yeah. Me too. Me too. We won't pry into the detail. Well, maybe we will. What were the details? What happened?

Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh. Is that amazing? What planet? Incredible. Global warming. What planet? Right.

Yes. And you don't know that. And the socialism thing, I think there's been, we ask that almost every week for a couple years now. And I think there's been one, maybe two people who have actually known what it is. So no wonder it's popular. Popular. I love the things I don't know what they are. Yes.

Yes. I love the global warming question in which she picked the one planet that is questionably not even a planet. Yeah. Glover warming is also the coldest. It might be just a hunk of ice. And that's every Friday you play that on Packer on Leashed. Every Friday in the second hour. Okay.

But also, we are eight and two on the season. Amazing. Eight and two, it was right again. Don't want to miss it. Every Friday it happens live. Pat will bring a taste of it in. every Monday. So have you seen Alabama is really putting up the good fight for life?

They're trying their best to allow children to be born. And there's so few states doing it. There's so few of us that are really engaged in the battle. I just admire the fact that they're doing this. The Alabama Supreme Court just upheld the state's fetal homicide law. which is that if you kill a pregnant woman, you're charged with a double homicide. And it's the double homicide that allows the death penalty to kick in. And they just upheld that.

And one of the justices on the court, Justice Tom Parker, said, it's a logical fallacy for the government to consider a fetus for the purposes of a murder conviction, but not when it comes to a woman deciding to end her pregnancy. That's going to have to be decided now by the Supreme Court. They're going to have to man up and make this ruling on when life begins. Does it begin at inception or does it begin in the birth canal? No, it's choice. It begins at the choice.

If the woman was on her way to an abortion clinic and she lost her baby, would she be charged with the person who was drunk driving? would they be charged with double homicide? I think it's a choice. I really believe if you've made the choice, then it's, and it's the only one that can make the choice. So I think you'd be, you'd get double homicide if you were in an accident by a drunk driver.

He would be charged with double homicide if you were on your way to plan parenthood. Yes, or, you know, manslaughter of two people. Yeah. And I think that's, happened. And it just usually the left even considers the the baby inside being murdered. Because it's a choice. Yeah.

Yes. Have you seen the, have you seen the the greatest example of good being turned into evil and evil being good? I saw in a video this weekend of this cute little baby that deserves to be loved, deserves to be wanted, deserves to be a choice. And it's despicable. It's a Planned Parenthood ad? It's actually not made by that. No, I thought it was Planned Parenthood.

It's in support of Planned Parenthood, but made by a different group. So like a pack or something, did that. It's interesting, though, that they're just, they're not even trying to say it's tissue anymore. They show this beautiful baby over and over and over during the commercial. So you're acknowledging. Okay. That's human life. That's a baby, right? But you should choose to be able to kill this baby if you want. Wow.

Amazing. What kind of society would do that? There's a part of me that commends the ad. Like, here's, at least it's, finally they're actually saying what's happening. At least they're admitting it. If you can get past that ad and still be pro-abortion, I mean, at least you're freaking committed to it. They're not, at least they're not lying. Isn't that the scary thing?

They weren't honest about it when they didn't think that, people would go their way. They are so convinced now that people... Either that or they're just tired of hiding. You know, like you mentioned they're going to claim their socialists. They're just going to admit it. They're doing that. And now they're just admitting, yeah, this is human life.

We just think you should be able to kill it. Aren't we awesome? Yeah, a couple million of these are going away every year. Every year. It's pretty awesome of us. 62 million in the last 45 years. And it's not a problem for us. That's more than Mao killed.

Isn't it in some way, though, more, morally consistent argument than the typical pro-choice person who would not admit that. The typical pro-choice person is going to be turned off by an ad like that. Look, but you're saying like, oh, well, it's a choice though.

And therefore, I have to let someone else make it. Even though I know what's going on. I'm against abortion personally. But it's okay for us to allow it as a society. That is a much less morally consistent viewpoint than the one made by that ad who's saying, yeah, we're killing babies. Yes, that's what we're doing.

Yes. We're completely fine with it. Yes. And we should encourage it and praise us for it. It's Debbie Wasserman Schultz not being able to admit that her children were children before they were born. Their children now. That's crazy talk. Yeah, that's crazy talk.

And it makes no sense. And they know it makes no sense. So I guess for some, it will be a relief, a blessed relief that they don't have to lie anymore. Yes, of course we know. I mean, we're the science deniers. We're the science deniers. That's not a baby before it's born. Really?

So, you know, now I guess it might be somewhat of a relief to those who know this is a baby and we're just, we've been lying about it. We just think it's okay to kill it. And it is a shocking. I tweeted it over the weekend. Maybe I'll retweet it or Stu, you can retweet it. It's a shocking video. And what is, to me, it looks as though it was, it was designed to appeal to a woman. Yeah.

If women, if women go down this road and have so lost their maternal instinct, that instinct to protect a baby, you know, when you see a baby, you know, guys don't always, they don't turn to jello all the time. But women usually do. And a baby is a baby. and to see that baby and to say deserves to be a choice, if women go down this road, we are truly lost. Doesn't get much lower than that. Yeah. I think it's, you know, morally reprehensible in the same way slavery was morally reprehensible

for the people at that time. Because it's such a similar issue to me. It's so overtly, obviously wrong to me to look at, hey, we're just, you know, look, it's a choice. You're going to end the lives of these babies, a couple million a year. and we're just not going to talk about it at all because it's uncomfortable. You know, I would assume back in the day, in the time of slavery, there were a lot of people who were, you know, there's Benjamin Franklin who absolutely,

you know, grasped the moral horror of what slavery was. And there were some people who, you know, from the South who were absolutely defended to the death. But there are a lot of people who were, you know, I don't know, it's legal. Like the government acceptance of it gives people. an argument to not have to think about it. And that's why it's so awful. Correct.

Because anyone, in 100 years and 200 years, anyone who thinks about this and said, wait, what were they doing? They were just, wait, they were just killing all these kids? Like millions of them? How the heck did people stand by and be okay with that? Yeah. And it's because the government acceptance of it. And I think this happened in Nazi Germany too. People, you know, yeah, they're harassing the Jews.

But the government accepted. They said it was okay. It was legal. You could do it. And so people looked the other way. Even though they knew, I think, in their heart, that can't. possibly be the right thing to do. So I agree with you, I agree with you to some degree with the Jews in Germany, but I just want to point out when it came to killing children, when Hitler actually

started doing that, the people rose up. Yeah. The people, the people who voted for Adolf Hitler, the people who were fighting in his armies. When he started killing children, Even those people rose up and said, this is too far. And we're not there right now. Yeah. And there's never, to me, I don't know that we've ever had a better opportunity than now to try to do something about Roe v. Wade. We've got five justices who should logically vote the right way on this. Yeah, they should.

If you push the issue all the way to the Supreme Court. I'm not convinced that John Roberts is going to be like that. I'm not either. And you should have seen either. Do you see the article this weekend? I know I pulled it, but I don't know where it is. He's going to go left. They said so far, Kavanaugh seems to be distancing himself from Gorsuch and siding more with John Roberts.

And this would be, I mean, again, remember, we said this 100 times during this process. Brett Kavanaugh was not on the original list of Supreme Court justices that Trump put out before the election. He was not on it. They added him afterwards. And that was a huge problem for all of us because the big reason why a huge point, of this audience voted for Donald Trump was because of that list, that list of 21 Supreme Court justices. They didn't have Brett Kavanaugh on there. And now, I mean, like, look, he was qualified justice, should have been put through, had nothing to do

with him being a gang rapist. But I was very nervous of him because of the way he would actually rule in these cases. I really hope that's not going to come true. And maybe it's very early. It's too early to know for sure. But I'm, I can't say I'm not nervous about it. I can't I'm not nervous about it. And if they don't get this nervous. We've been nervous about him. I didn't like him from the beginning. They won.

Dimp edge of you. Same thing. Same thing on that. Only because he just wasn't a constitutionalist. He's just not a strict constitutionalist. And not sure, you know, not sure how he will rule. I didn't like the fact that he, you know, hangs around a lot of Jesuits. And, you know, no offense to the Catholic Church, but any progressive, though.

Anybody who is Catholic and knows Jesuits. knows they are wildly progressive. I mean, the Pope is a Jesuit. So, I mean, you kind of, you know, that's what you're getting. I hope we don't have that with Kavanaugh. Pat, thank you so much. So you're in a wildfire. We just heard the, we just heard that father comfort his daughter.

Could you play the, could you play the other woman who is in the, the car? and she is praying. Can you play there real quick for me, Sarah? Oh, my God. Fire is on both sides of her. Please, God. What are these people... Oh, my God, please leave the horses there.

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Oh, my gosh. Great. Sure. CNB is okay. She sent something back. It is. I mean, California is the most beautiful place, but I tell you, I think it's the most dangerous state.

in the union to live. It is just horrifying what they have gone through recently. And these fires are, I think, beyond, would you agree with this, beyond hurricane understanding? Hurricanes are just devastating. But this just moves in with no warning. Yeah, you at least have the warning with a hurricane. I mean, it's more tornado-ish, but over a much wider, yeah.

I mean, you go to bed and you wake up and it's, your house is going. At one point over the weekend, it was. It was consuming 80 football fields a minute. A minute. Our thoughts, prayers, and Mercury 1 on the ground for California wildfires. Glenn, back. Mercury. We want to talk to you a little bit about relief factor. I want to talk to you about life-changing relief factor.

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And they are demanding the execution of a Christian woman for blasphemy. If you're a Christian in the world today, welcome to the first century. Oh, this in Pakistan! Well, yes it is. And if we continue to have this blasé attitude, the ravenous calls for death of anyone, simply for their religious belief. I don't care if it is in China, and we are talking about the Muslims

that are being rounded up in China now, a million of them, in a re-education camp. A million. People are just disappearing. The Chinese are taking on the Christians as well. Christians in Pakistan. Christians in the Middle East, Syria, Iraq.

people who just will not accept Islam in the in northern Africa. Remember the hashtag bring our children back? Yeah, that did a lot, didn't it? It did nothing. This morning I urge you, I urge you to put a sign up in your front door of your, of your, your business, tweet, Facebook. We are all this package. Pakistani Christian woman today.

We must be. If you're not hearing about her plight in church, you should be. We have come full circle. Where the persecution that Jesus and his apostles in the first century had to endure by the Romans, it's now again standard fare in places like the Middle East. but the cowardice I saw from our cousins in the United Kingdom is what truly has horrified me. It is rare to be a witness to such a cowardly act that the British have just committed, and it all centers around this young woman from Pakistan.

Here's her story. Asia Beebe, she was picking berries with a few other farm workers in a remote Pakistani field, and this is in 2009. A supervisor asked her to get some water. Well, her life changed forever. You see, Christians in Pakistan have always been on the receiving end of bigotry and persecution. So it probably wasn't a surprise to Asia when two Muslim women began to fight with her, saying that they would not drink from anything that had been touched by a Christian. But it then spun out of control when the two Muslim women claimed she had,

had insulted Mohammed, a crime punishable by death. Now, there are no witnesses. No one can verify this claim, but she has been in prison since 2009. Now, Pakistan Supreme Court just acquitted her and set her free. Apparently, it's this is the kind of bad precedent that you don't want to do if you're in Pakistan. you have to condemn a person to death based off hearsay if it involves the prophet Mohammed. Well, they didn't, the Supreme Court said no, no to that, but the mob didn't care.

They wanted blood. And they had been out in the streets demanding Asia's death. Crucify her. Now, the only chance she has is for her and her family to get the heck out of Dodge before the mob takes justice into their own hands. So you would think that asylum would be an easy slam dunk. I mean, after all, Europe has been taking refugees in by the millions, quite literally by the millions.

So why wouldn't they take another refugee from Pakistan? Well, the UK decided not to grant her asylum because they fear, quote, unrest that might spring up in the British streets from certain areas of our population. Okay, what you're fearing? Let me translate British bull crap into English. What the British are saying is we have so many Islamists, not Muslims, Islamists here, that we have taken in and they really control our streets.

We are too cowardly to even take on the sex ring gangs that are targeting British children. We're too afraid of the Islamists to even do anything about that. The last thing we can do is help this Christian because we're afraid. That's really what the British are saying. Where are the people that once said, we shall fight on the beaches? We shall fight on the landing grounds. We shall fight in the fields and in the streets. We shall fight in the hills.

We shall never surrender. Where are those people? Where is that courage? Where is that decency? If you want to know what true manifested cowardice is, I give you today's British government. It pains me to say it. And to the women's marchers and the new wave feminists

if you want to know what a real war on women is and real bigotry, try being a woman and God forbid a Christian woman in a place like Pakistan. And now apparently in places like the UK, history will say shame on them, shame on them. If we don't step in and be who we always have been. The Emma St. Louis is a black stain on our history, a group of Jewish immigrants who were being targeted by the Nazis. They went to every country in the Western Hemisphere, including us, and we turned them around. We sent them back to their death. Let's not do it again.

President Trump, Mike Pence, Mike Lee, Ted Cruz. I beg you, please, grant this woman and her family immediate asylum here in the United States. Now is the time to stand and lead and show the world our compassion and how great we are because we stand for people who are truly targeted. If we fail to stand for this Muslim woman and her family, this I'm sorry, Christian woman and her family, who is going to die, she will die. If we don't stand for her, what are we all fighting about? What are we all fighting for? What are we all trying to save?

What are we trying to convince our friends and family that America is important? If we won't stand for her, and should we fail? The world is showing us right now, no one will do it in our absence. It's Monday, November 12th. You're listening to the Glimbeck program. Please call the White House, tweet the White House, Facebook the White House, Facebook, your members of Congress.

We must help this woman. We must help this woman. And you know what? it's a great way to show that we are not afraid of people who look different than us. We're not afraid of immigrants. We're not tone death to those who actually need asylum. Please, Mr. President, please, please, please. This should be a slam dunk for it just has to get to the president.

because this is a slam dunk for him. This is a way that he can show that he's not racist, show that he's not afraid of immigrants, you know, and take a firm stand against the Islamists. We cannot cower. Great Britain is lost. It's lost.

When it's afraid to actually say the real reason in plain language, We're afraid of our own immigrant population. That's terrifying. Her name is Asia Bibi, B-I-B-I, Asia B-B. Keep her in your prayers and please do everything you can to get the attention of those in Washington that can grant her immediate asylum. She could be dead by tomorrow if they don't get her and her family out of there. It's one thing, too, that Mike Pence has been big on his, for much longer than he's been vice president. Yes.

Making sure that these things get handled correctly. And I got it. It's one of those things that I think if a big enough deal is made of it, they will do the right thing on. Yes. I think they will. I think they will. Okay. We want to talk a little bit about the news of the day and also some gun stats because gun laws are on the way.

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61% see Republicans as racist, bigoted, and sexist. 31% of Republicans say they view Democrats with the same light. The presenters saying that at least they would be somewhat bothered if someone in their family married somebody from the other party, Democrats, 50%. 50% say they'd be bothered if somebody, you know, if somebody in their family married a Republican. 32% conservatives and Republicans say that they would be bothered if somebody in their family married a Democrat. About half of Democrats think Republicans are ignorant and spiteful.

Half of Republicans, 49% say that Democrats are ignorant and spiteful. 21% of Democrats think Republicans are evil. 23% of Republicans think that Democrats are evil. 22% who provided an open-ended description of Republicans. 22 included words like selfish, greedy, corrupt, spineless, fearful, and bad. How do Republicans describe Democrats, in their own word, 26% socialist, angry, hypocritical, uninformed, power hungry, and violent? Here's the good news. 4% of us think the other side is fair.

3% to 4% say they think the other side is thoughtful. 2% to 3% think both parties think the other side is kind. by the way, all of those are within the margin of error. It could be zero. Or maybe negative one in certain circumstances. That's terrifying. Yeah, that's really interesting. It's interesting, too, that, you know, this seems to be getting so much worse.

There's always been that divide, right? Like, I just feel like now people have made it into their life. It dominates their life. We were talking about CNN a little bit earlier about how, you know, their coverage is obviously biased. I'm fascinated by how not even biased. To me, it's not that. It's the obsession. They are completely obsessed with Donald Trump.

Every single news story they make about him. The fires. The number one story on CNN. The fires. But it is about Donald Trump's tweets. His freaking tweets about the fires. There's 31 people dead. And the best thing you can think,

about to talk about is Donald Trump's tweets about the topic? That is incredible. And they just keep doing it and doing it and doing it. Every story, every angle, anything you can do. They have professional people who are on those panels every day that just come on and make every story about this one man. This is not how our country was supposed to be designed. It's not supposed to be about a king. They treat him as if he's king, that he controls everything that they do. He's the President of the United States. He's part of one branch of government. He's ahead of it.

He's an important figure in our country. There's no doubt about it that probably he comes up every day. There's just some story every day that's probably worth mentioning with the President of the United States. That does not mean 25 stories in a row every hour. It shouldn't be about that. Forget whether it's Democrat or Republican. We got to the point where with Barack Obama that we actually banned his name on the air. Because we were just, it was too much.

It's too much. People are obsessed over this. We had a swear jar. We had a swear jar. Well, how much did you have to put in? You had to put in, uh, it was $25 every time or $20 every time you said his name. Yeah. And so we had to get to very good at saying, well, the current president is.

Yeah. I think, I think Pat at one point had to put in $1,000. Oh, it was more than that. And he was, but there was one time where he was like, I'm going to use it. I'm going to use it. it all day and I don't care. Oh yeah. And he ponied up. But it really is, it's a sickness. And if you don't catch yourself, it'll just spiral out of control. And we felt a lot better when we weren't talking about him. Oh, yeah, totally. And I don't, you know, look, it's not that those issues

aren't important. But if you think about the way, it's more serious than just, okay, well, you know, Donald Trump is setting the agenda for everybody, I guess. And, you know, it's supposed to, you to be a country in which that does not dominate. There's not one person with enough power to dominate everyone's life and conversation. And I think it's something where we've ignored the founding principles

of this country as far as how it was designed in effort to pursue this sort of like, it's a sport, right? Like it's a it's such a team thing that all we can do is talk about what the big story is, right?

It's becoming religion. It really is becoming religious. It's going beyond sports. People compare, you know, being a Red Sox fan or something to a religious experience or whatever. Like, it's beyond this. And there's no reason for it. Donald Trump doesn't have control over the wildfires set in California. He has no control over that whatsoever. In the future, maybe he could change some policies that might help.

He obviously has an opinion that the government has screwed it up in California, which I would, you know, I don't know about his specifics, but generally speaking would be pretty competent. that government in California screwed up the issue? I will tell you, I don't know his specifics either. But as someone who grew up in the West, it's a very different mindset. I grew up in the Pacific Northwest, and it's a very different mindset. Washington is so far removed from the problems of the land and the landscape that just growing up, you just knew it. If the federal government was going to get involved, they were going to screw the land up

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But it was about Ashton Coocher, and I decided to go a different way. So I started to thread with him, and it was quite interesting to watch, especially the way it ended. I tweeted, no disrespect, Ashton, as you stated, guns are not for hunting or simply to protect your home. And for those who say you can't fight the U.S. government, see Afghanistan.

Plus, school violence is down by 33% since 1993. Gun homicides are down by 49%. Gun crime is down by 75%. He responds, more lives are lost in seven weeks in the U.S. to guns than seven years in the Iraq war. Let's make this about data, Glenn. Okay, well, I did in the last one, but I didn't get hostile. I said, okay, let's.

Now, first of all, Stu, would you please try to find any verification? More lives are lost in seven weeks in the U.S. than guns in seven years, because I cannot find anything close to that. Yeah, I mean, again, that's eliminating one entire side of the war, right? Like if you're saying, I guess he's assuming U.S. troops, right? No, I looked it up, even U.S. troops. I don't. It's not accurate.

You look at it. Okay. So he said, let's make this about data. I wrote back. Okay, let's 10 people a day die in a pool in the U.S. 75% of those are children. We could eliminate almost all pools. Yes, the very rich criminal may still get their hands on an indoor in-ground

illegal pool, but at a much lower rate than illegal guns. Also, suicide was the second leading cause of death among individuals between the ages of 10 and 34, and the fourth leading cause of death among individuals between the ages of 35 and 54. There were more than twice as many suicides, 44,965 in the United States, as there were homicides, 19,362. The reason why I brought this up, I'm missing one of the tweets is because I said, you're conflating numbers here. Also, overdose deaths from opioids include prescription opioids and heroin,

have increased by more than five times since 1999. Overdoses involving opioids have killed more than 42,000 people in 20,000. 16 alone. Remember, homicides are down 19,362. We also keep hearing about the shootings when the truth is a kid is safer in school today than in 1990. Much, much, much, much safer. By the way, I was in school in 1990. So I was actually four times as likely to be killed in a school shooting than kids are going to go school today. That is impossible to believe. But it is. It is absolutely true. The difference, the only difference really is, just to make a quick point here, is that now we're talking about big media events, right? Now it's one kid shooting 13 people at a school, right? And they obviously turns into media celebrity type of event, which again, I argue is a huge driver of this stuff. If the media would stop talking about it, and we have. We've stopped. We do not talk about their manifestos, except for very brief mentions if there's something vital. We never say their names. We don't go into all their reasoning because that, gives them what they want. But beyond that, I mean, four times is safe. Back then, it was people picking off each other one by one. It was spread over a much larger amount of the schools.

I mean, school, it happened a lot more commonly because it wasn't necessarily these mass shooting events. They're scary, but they're built for media consumption. And that is a huge driver of this stuff. So you're four times safer in school today than you were in 1990. And I wrote to Ashton, unless MS-13 is around. They kill four times as many people than mass shooters. And yet, Google MS-13.

You will mainly find stories that are anti-Trump. By the way, MS-13 guns are illegal. Then he writes back and says, I'm not isolating the argument to mass shootings. Great. Neither am I. All gun-related death and violence down for him. down dramatically since 1990.

If we want to make a difference, we should join forces to help those in places like Chicago, where strict gun laws haven't helped at all. How can we, together, stop the killing in Chicago? And the last tweet is, On another note, I have great respect for the work you do on sex trafficking. I raised money to start Operation Underground Railroad,

as well as the Nazarene Fund, to free slaves in the Middle East. We may disagree on many things, but not on the value of freedom and human life. After that tweet, others got involved, and the tone by the end had completely changed. Others got, why don't you tell us what his response? What do you get others got involved?

Did I miss one of his responses? I don't know. No, that was his response. So wait, so he came out and tried three or four points, failed on all of them, and then just stopped responding. Yes. That was the approach to the conversation?

Yes. Was he playing his character from that 70s show? I'm not sure. I'm not sure. Because I will say, too, the Ashton Cutcher has you, you're right, done some good things. He said some things that I think have been beneficial.

A lot of people just don't know. I mean, you know, when you're surrounded by a media that tells you the reason why we have shootings is because the NRA donated $5,000 to some congressional candidate, well, of course you believe this nonsense. I mean, you believe the NRA is in control of all gunpoles. policy in the United States, despite having literally no power. People can vote for whoever they want.

The NRA doesn't make you vote for anyone. People can vote in whoever they want. And still, we're told this stuff, a lot of people, I would assume, particularly in Hollywood, believe it. I mean, what are they going to do? They're going to believe it. Well, did you see that some doctors were very upset? And they said, you know, hey, you know, I see.

bullets in kids all the time. I work at an emergency room and guns have to be taken off the streets. And I'm an expert in this. No, you're an expert in pulling the bullets out of bodies. That's what you're an expert at. You're you're you, you may be an expert at witnessing the the traumatic ends to illegal guns. However, uh, when I tweeted back to this doctor, you know, where do you work? What? Are you in California? Are you in New York? Are you in Chicago? Because if you are, you're in the capitals of no gun zones. And I can guarantee you the bullets that you're pulling out at a high rate are from illegal guns. Right. You know, there's a big article in The Washington Post. This one came after, I think, the Vegas shooting. But they've been updating it because, you know, it gets passed around every time there's another mass shooting. And it talks about the deaths. First of all, to your point, I think the same. way. There's been 25 mass shootings in California. Well, California is a place that has the most restrictive gun laws in America. Maybe Connecticut and Maryland, you could throw into that conversation

as well. But California is right near the top of making it incredibly difficult, and the cities make it even more difficult. So it's a terrible argument to argue for gun control on mass shootings. The mass shootings are happening in areas with gun control. Of course, we all know that almost every single one of them happens in a place where all guns are banned for any purpose in a gun-free zone. But the entire state of California, which is the place, as the Washington Post points out, is the central location for the most of these mass shootings, has the gun laws that every liberal Democrat would wish to pass. It's a fever dream to pass in California what you would get nationally. In fact, most of these things aren't even things that Barack Obama was asking for. They've gone further than even what Barack Obama was asking for, given the political realities of the United States and the diverse populations of.

represented. So that is, gun control obviously doesn't, doesn't prove that. But when you look at really, like, the statistics, I think they get down to 1,135 killed in mass shootings. That is way too many. It should be zero. We all know it. But you pointed out the pool stat, and I'm taking this for, I didn't look this up myself. What did you say? It was 10 per day? Something like that? Ten per day. Ten per day. Killed in pools. It's three, you know, three to six hundred and fifty, you know, per year? Is that right? Yeah. No, it's more than that, I think. I mean, whatever. It's a lot. And it certainly is going to pass what's killed in mass shootings. Look, it is not comforting.

$10 people a day, 75% of them are children. It's incredible. And it's no comfort to someone who's, God forbid, been a victim of one of these or have a family member been a victim of one of these. But, I mean, the bottom line is that these events are incredibly rare. The odds of you being involved in one of these are so insurmountable that it's almost impossible to stop them. It's certainly, I would say, impossible to stop these things in a country that already has 400 million guns on the streets. You go out there and try to, there's no way to stop them.

I believe you can do some damage to this type of event. You can slow down these types of events. through media. I think that's, you know, we've talked about studies that have shown that that would really do something. You can obviously secure certain areas, but all you're doing is going to, you're going to free up those areas to, the shootings to happen in other areas, right? Like, we all talk about school security because we're most focused on trying to protect

children. Though, as you point out, it's four times, you're four times more likely to be killed in a school shooting in the 1990s than you are today. But we talk about school security just because, you know, here are our most vulnerable people. and it's the hardest to deal with when it happens in a school. But if it didn't happen in a school and we secured all of them with giant walls around them and everyone wear a bulletproof vests every day, they just go down the street to the supermarket

or they go somewhere else. You're not going to be able to stop them completely. It's just not plausible. And when you look at California and you look at Chicago where we have so many gun deaths, what do they have in common? Despair. Emptiness. There is a problem.

There is a problem. We know it. We can recognize a problem in the inner city in Chicago. We know there's a problem of fatherlessness. There's whatever. We know there's a long list. California, what's the problem in California? I contend the same thing.

Dad might, might be at home. But those families are completely different in some of these major cities in California. And I don't mean, oh, there's two dads. I mean, the values are gone. The meaning of life. What is the meaning of life? What gives people purpose? It's very, very shallow water in parts of California.

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To our veterans, never forget. Thank you. Thank you so much for everything that you have done. There's a unbelievable story about our VA system where many of our veterans are not even receiving any of their benefits now. It's so screwed up. We've got to fix that.

But thank you, veterans, for doing what you do. And I want you to know there are people that really get it. I want to introduce you tonight to somebody that I had on a podcast on Saturday. His name is Rishi Sharma. He's 21 years old. He's from California. He was just an avid reader of history when he was a kid, started reading about World War II and just fell in love with these veterans. And one night just called a veteran out of the blue.

And he said it was like at 2 o'clock in the morning, his time. And he said, hey, I'm sorry. And he was 16. Is this really you? And the guy's like, call me back tomorrow. So he's gone on the road now and he has done these interviews and he wants to interview all the remaining World War II veterans before they die.

He does at least one a day every single day. Listen to a bit of this interview. If we have it, Sarah. I've interviewed just over 900 veterans so far but there are definitely a few that really, you know, play in your mind after you've interviewed the veteran and one in particular is a veteran who I interviewed out in Pennsylvania. in the Pittsburgh area named Mr. Florentine.

What is your phone name, sir? David Joseph Florentine. Where and when were you born? I was born in New Brighton, Pennsylvania, January 21st, 1926. At 16 years old, he was going in first wave at Ontario, which is called the B-8-Tow Atoll, and basically it's an island that's 800 feet across wide. and just a mile along.

Wow. And 3,000 Marines were killed and wounded in a three-day battle there. And about 25,000 Japanese were all killed. Only about 20 of them were taken prisoners. And Mr. Florentine, as he went in on the landing craft, his sergeant, Sergeant Yolkum, kept telling everyone to keep their heads down

because they were taking on enemy fire. And the way Mr. Florentine was saying it, you could feel like you were there. I don't know what made you do this. Listen to the whole interview. It's about 90 minutes. You can hear it online now. And it's at the Glenn Beck podcast.

It was Saturday's podcast. Also, tonight, 5 p.m. Just an incredible story from an incredible 21-year-old man. Welcome to the program. It is Monday. And we have, we have with us a guy who played for the New York Jets, Los Angeles Raiders, former obviously NFL player and Super Bowl champion.

Yes, I just had to check his fingers, see if I could see the ring. Yeah, Super Bowl champion. His name is Burgess Owens, a friend of the show he's been on with us for a while. He has a new book out called Why I Stand from freedom to the killing fields of socialism. How are you, sir? Glenn Christina again, my friend. Good seeing you. I'll be back.

First of us, let's introduce your friend here. And we'll get to your story here in just a second. But this is Mack. Mac White. Okay. Hi, Mac. Hi, how are you doing? How are you?

I'm good. Glad you're here. I'm glad to be here. Okay, so tell me, tell me the idea behind this book because you are, who, you say it like it is, 1910, N-A-CP. Well, you know, Glenn, the book basically highlights the fact that what we've done together is remarkable. We have a country that from the very very important.

beginning was based on what we the people can do together. And the history that we've lost is what we've done, regardless of race, because we have such great hearts. We reach out for those who are needy, those who at risk. That's been our nature. And the reason why I brought Mack with me today is because we need to get that done again. We need to realize that there's an invisible generation out there. Kids that have not been given opportunities that many of us have gotten. They have not been taught about respect and commitment and love and all those things that we kind of take for granted. And once they get it, they will be our strongest advocates for our American way. I think that's going to be the generation of bringing our country back.

And before we get to the solutions, which is the main point, but you point out that this was intentionally done to African Americans. Oh, absolutely. Now, what we have to recognize is we're in the fight for the heart and soul of our nation. The Jewish Christian values we have very unique, with the only countries ever done it this way, and that's why we're the greatest country in history of mankind. At the same time, we have an adversary, the socialist, Marxists, and atheists, who are anti-God, who wants to destroy us any way possible. And for those who understand the history of the black community, one thing, for instance, I don't even know if you know this, but in 1905, Tuskegee Institution, what we've talked about quite a bit, led, was producing

more self-made millionaires in Harvard, Yale, and Princeton combined. And this is the way Americans do it. When we have freedom, hope, an opportunity. And every race has done the same thing. Those things have not heard about. But that race, that community was purposely undermined because there was such a threat to the leftist. So that, the leftist piece is still there. They're now still attacking our country, have destroyed basically the black family. And we'll get it back. We're in the process now. We have young people like Mack who's super committed to his family. And I'm excited about what he represents. Okay. So, so, Mac, let me hear your story.

Tell me about yourself. I was born and raised in Houston, Texas. I lived in foster homes. My mom was separated from my mom when I was probably like four or five. She had me at 20. She kind of wasn't ready to have a child. So I had to deal with the consequences of that. And I lived with my aunt for a little bit.

Then basically jumped around from house to house. staying with my dad or, you know, different girlfriends he would have kind of really no stable place all the time. Because him and my stepmom had like a dysfunctional relationship. So it was always a lot of fighting and going on and a lot of arguing. They never really learned how to work things out. So it was always he would just leave and pack up and leave and we'd go stay somewhere else. Or I would get dropped off somewhere. and just by the time I was probably the teenager,

I started getting involved with, you know, drugs and gangs and hustling because my dad didn't have a job. And his girlfriend at the time, she didn't have a job. So I kind of was like providing for myself for like clothes and food. And when I was 16, I ended up, well, I dropped out of high school. And then by the time I was 16, I was charged with two counts aggravated robbery. and I was sentenced to three years to Texas Youth Commission

in Gainesville, Texas. How'd that work out? Which one? Prison. It was rough. It was rough. But at the, now that I look at it, I think that was the best thing

that could ever have happened to me just because of the simple fact that I was just on this path of destruction. And it was just because I had no hope. You know, just growing, in the community that I grew up in and the environment and the household, you kind of just grow up hopeless. So what was the turning point?

You found hope in prison? I didn't find hope in prison. I found just realization with everything that I believed in in the streets. The everything that I was looking for in there was the same thing I wanted in my household. It's just that I didn't find it in the household. So I went other places to go find it. It's kind of like a teenager that feel like they can't talk to their parents about something. So they go talk to a friend.

But, you know, they might talk to somebody the same age as them. So it's kind of like the blind leader. You're not going to get the best information from that person. Right. But that's just the only person at that time that you feel like you can run and talk to. So with my situation was the guys that were in my neighborhood, the ones I felt like I could talk to that. could help me that I would get that love and everything I was looking for in the family out of

those gangs or, you know, the friends. And I mean, being 13, you can't really have a job at that age. And you don't, we don't, we don't, we're not taught how to fill out applications. Right. A lot of us can't even read. Um, we don't know about finances or anything. The only thing we know is just what our community has to offer. And nine times out of 10 is, um, selling drugs or robbing people. The only way to survive. And that's what we see. growing up as kids. I always say like when you

always like to say that a lot of kids never come out of the womb, throwing up gang signs or, you know, any of this stuff that a lot of people and it's something that is taught. And, you know, it's easy.

Kids are so vulnerable. I mean, the first person to get to them is going to have the biggest impact and it's going to be able to change their mindset to where they wanted to be. And that's what you have a lot of times in those environments too as well. But it's just a cycle because those people are just doing what was done to them. Can I just say because the key is there's something that happened that allows you to change

that trajectory. And why you explain that to Glenn because this is really what we're coming with we the people, what we've done as a people to help each other. That's really, I think, what I think we can highlight with Mac. So explain what happened that you got you out of that, that trajectory you're heading into. as far as like when I got out. Carmen and Steve. And so, all right, so when I was in jail, it gave me a lot of time to reflect on a lot of things that I did.

And then I start realizing that those things I believed in, those people that got to me first when I was a kid, that I believed in those things. And when I saw what those things got me and that this was the end point right here, it's jail or either a graveyard. I had to start finding a new, way of thinking, but not knowing how to because I didn't have anybody to teach me. My father said to me when I was young, I said, I'm never going to be like you.

And he said, son, I'm proud of you. I didn't want to be like my father either. He said, but if you don't find someone to model, you will be exactly like me. And that's kind of the problem. You don't have any place. So where did you find the model? Okay. So when I got released from jail, I received.

received a card from a lady that was a co-founder on a project called One Heart and she sent me a postcard that had the One Heart project like the label of like I guess they were going to do a film and it had like all her information on the back basically wanting me to contact her so I did and then when I contacted her she basically asked me a lot of questions and just asked about my crime, how serious it was, asked me, what was I doing now, where did I want to be in life? And just basically just having conversations,

just seeing where my mind was. And I didn't think anything of it. I thought she just wanted to talk to me and then have something to tell at the end of the movie or something like that, like from a real actual person that was at the game. And she ended up contacting me again, and I met with her and her family.

Mother's Day, they drove from Dallas to Houston. it was just me and my dad. Because when I got out, I went back to the same environment that brought you into prison. Exactly. So that was one of those things. It was like I got out and then, hey, close the door, you know, figured out. And luckily, I was blessed enough to actually, what I like to consider her, my angel, she came and she asked me to, did I want to come live with them? And she was going to help change my life.

Holy cow, that is risky. Yeah. And it was scary for me too because I don't want to say this, but I can't help it. It's not common for a white person to want to come help a black kid, especially a young black kid from where I'm from because either they hate us or they fear us. You know, nobody really takes the time to understand us or understand our situation. And a lot of times I feel like the media portrays that because of the, The news only shows you the two gangbangers that had a shootout,

but they don't never do a story on those gangbangers 10 years ago when their dad was in prison or their mom was drunk out on crack and they had to find ways. It's some crazy stories. If a lot of people would hear them, a lot of people would say, I don't know if I would have been able to make it through that. Yeah. You know, so just going through that.

But back to the topic, I'm sorry. That's okay. No, that's okay. So how has your life changed now? What are you doing now? So it's changed. When the lady took me in, she put her hand on me, on my hand, and she said, if you come with me, I would take your life to a level you never thought was possible.

And at the end of the day, my whole reason for finding that realization that I need to change my way of thinking, I felt like this was what I needed right here to help me completely change that and then also take action because I actually wanted to make something out of my life. I just didn't know what I wanted because I never dreamed past 21 because I didn't think I would make it to be 21

or even be a free man at 21. What do you do now? I do acting, modeling, I do speaking and like mentoring, but individually like on my own with younger people that I've encountered with that I want to help. Can I say this? I've taken my,

Mac has spoken to about 30 young people in the juvenile system, and they are mesmerized by his story, because what he does best is leave the message, if I can do it, you can do it. He takes away excuses that you can't, he takes away the thought you cannot make in this country, that this is a place you have a second chance. They've given it and you go for it.

You can change your life. I don't know anybody that could make it in, today's world, especially African Americans, after being told all the time, young girls now, you're not going to make it. The system is a rape culture. It's against you. I mean, I grew up in a poor family, and my father was, you know, a small businessman, kind of a failing businessman, Willie Lohman kind of guy.

Suicide in my family, divorce, blah, blah, blah. We've all had our share of problems. But the one thing that was instilled in me was you can. do anything you set your mind to. And if you don't have that, and in fact, you have a society telling you, this society is against you, you'll never make it because of them. You don't have a chance. And my story is I grew up in Deep South, in Tallahassee segregated community, KKK and

Jim Crow. And it's very successful community, though, because in that community, there were people who believed in our country, they believed in God, they believed in the family unit. and their goal is to show those who didn't believe in them that they can make it happen. So for me to look back 50 years later and see the message that you see, you're so correct, the messages are so different now.

For us to tell young people like Mack that you can't make in this country is stealing their dreams. It's the worst that Americans do to another American. And yet we have it. It's almost a business now. People make millions of dollars by giving the message of hopelessness.

And so this is why we have to recognize if we're going to change the trajectory of our country, we need to make sure our kids know that this is the greatest place in history of mankind. Tell me about your great-12. What was your great-great-grandfather? Oh, great-great-grandfather? Salis Burgess came to this country and the bail-of-a-slave ship in 1848. I was sold in an auction block in Charleston, South Carolina, with his mother.

His mother either committed, took her life, or escaped because she couldn't take it anymore. The heinous things was happening to her. And so at age eight, he was. an orphan, but he had men around him that believed that they could, they still had hope and they escaped. Took the Southern Route of the Underground Railroad, facilitated by Mexican and German Americans, and made his way out to Smithfield, Texas, where he became a first successful entrepreneur, owned 100 acres of land, bought it two years, started first black church, first black elementary school, pillar of his community, Republican, proud American, and that is

what the American way is all about. It doesn't matter how. we got here, as long as you have hope. And that's what people like Mac, I think, is a future of our country. They're finding out that this is a place that can make it, if given a chance, if given hope. And once they get that, it's like the Harriet Tubman

that I've come to love when I was a 12-year-old kid. She not only escaped, but went back 20 times helping 300 people because that was her love and empathy for people. And that's what Mac is doing now. He's going back and telling these kids, you can make it, you can do it. I'm here to help you. We'll make it happen.

and he'd helped his four or five his friends to come out after they came out of the same situation. And that's the heart of Americans. So we continue to do that. It doesn't matter what color we are. It's who we are. It's those values we have inside of us that says there's a God in heaven that if we do the right thing, we give as much we can that we'd be blessed and they will be blessed in the same process. Thank you for coming, Mack. You can see it in your eyes.

You are a good man. You know, you can look people, you know, eyes or windows to the soul. You know, look at somebody. You're really a good man. Thank you. Thank you. I'm happy that, uh, that you took the risk and this woman took a risk. She's still alive?

Yeah, she's here. She's here. Oh, you got to bring her in. And there's also Steve, who's also, uh, the founder of one heart, co-founder of one hearts. Hang on just a second. I'll take a quick break. I just want to say hi to her real quick.

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We're back with Burgess Owens who brought a young kid. How old is Mac? Mac's 29 now. 29? Yeah. And he was just telling us a story that when he got out of prison, he met you, Carmen. And he said, it's really rare that somebody actually cares. And you reached out and said, I'll help you turn your life around.

What do you do? What is this? So it has a backstory. I had previously helped my ex-husband and I had helped a guy from the I Have a Dream Foundation. And we put him through a private school and just watched him blossom. He now has a family and a beautiful job. And, you know, just a great, we had a great experience with him. But Steve is not like Mack.

Mac was very chill on your show. Mac is like Will Smith. Like he's huge, big, big, big. And so he has such a strong personality that when I pulled him in, he kind of pushed me to help all of his friends. So it wasn't just Mac. We helped. When I was working like front lines of One Hard Project, there was probably 14 people that we were getting jobs, getting them cars, you know. And you've seen lasting impact?

I have seen absolutely lasting impact. I would trust Mack in any situation and his friend David, who is his best friend, who's an MMA fighter now, and just they're contributors now to society. Can I answer to this? Because the problem we're having in our juvenile system is a 70% of residivism rate. 70% of those kids go back within months. What Onehart has done because of the curriculum and the way they change weight for these kids think and people like Mac helping along, they've got down to 18%.

Wow. This is Bailey University's keeping up statistics for one heart. So the key is, it's not just being busy. It's having an impact where these kids can really change what they think and therefore moving forward and have an impact on others like them. The name of the book is Why I Stand from Freedom to the Killing Fields of Socialism by Burgess Owens. Burgess, if I get you to stay, just one more second. I want you to talk about your theory behind NFL and kneeling. It's quite an...

I think you're right. I think you're right. Why I Stand, available in bookstores everywhere. We're talking to former NFL player and Super Bowl champion. Burgess Owens, who's with us. By the way,

congratulate Stu on his Eagles win over the weekend against the Cowboys. It looked really good last night. Oops. Oh, no, they didn't. It's been a repeat of every single game this year, and it was a pleasure to watch you at a night. another one.

Nothing's really changed. You got one, though. You know what? You got the Super Bowl. Finally, I finally know thanks to you, by the way. But we'll take it. We'll take it here. So Burgess is the author of a book called Why I Stand while we're on the NFL.

Tell me what you think is going on with the NFL and the kneeling. Okay. First of all, we have to recognize NFL is not the same as the days we grew up. You know, Al Davis and Pete Roselle. They're globalists. and globalists basically do not prioritize our country. They see their profit, their profitability across the world and that they've done purposely last three years.

One of the wise, taking three years from this to figure out how to deal with this flag thing. They wanted to mean the NFL brand very simply because they have places like China, France, Mexico. There's over 60 countries that already have a presence in and they're looking to have this Super Bowl in London. So at the end of the day, they want to make sure but they demeaned the brand enough,

so it's accepted in China and all these other places. They don't really care too much for our country. It's a global stretch. They don't mind giving up or sacrificing these kids' careers. That's what they're doing. These young men are not only sacrificing their careers today, but they're brand. When they leave the game,

they will not have the same power to move forward as those days in old. Colin Kaepernick. Yeah. I mean, he's done pretty well for himself. Well, and what they do is they, they have the idea of views, abuse, use and discard. He will be discarded eventually when they figure out they don't

need them anymore. The leftists are very heartless people because it's all about themselves. And so you understand the NFL what I like to do, I see the NFL do is apologize the last three years. I think at that point they're trying to do now, it's trying to move forward. They just had a big thing with Veterans Day where they're

showing how proud they are and you don't see too much of this crisis right now. They've been able to push that down. They want us to forget what they've done the last three years. It's just like the Democratic Party does the same thing. They have been a minister to the black community for century, and they want to kind of help us forget that they were the bad piece of this process.

So I would love to see the NFL not only apologize, but tell us what they did with the $90 million that they put into this social justice. Where is that now? And how it's being used? And I don't think we'll ever find out how that's all worked out. You know, when you said this when we were off the air, I was like, that is exactly. can't believe I didn't think of that. People don't understand in America that we are just a market to many of these companies now.

When it comes to NFL, you know, we're a market. You know, we're just one of many. And they've maxed out their growth here in America. So now what do we do to get Mexico and other places around the world to accept NFL like soccer, World Cup? And that's really what's happening. I'm glad you brought that up. I would have never thought of it. Well, and I mentioned this when we were off air,

but the commissioner just got to sign the contract $40 million per year. Keep in mind, only 10% of that is $4 million guaranteed. The rest of 90% is based on growth. Their growth started tailing off three years ago. They capped $3 billion in the United States, and they're going south every sense. So they have to get that internationally. You wonder why Nike stepped in.

Well, Nike gets all their money in China. That's where they're big. big payday is a very little bit compared to speaking here in the United States. So if they were to put Colin Kaepernick as the Marxist as he is as their brand, yeah, the champion is very attracted to Chinese people. Have you heard that anywhere to do? No. No.

Really bright. You have to really have to think through how bad these people are to really get to what they're capable of doing. And I think American people haven't gotten there yet. They don't quite understand how devious the leftists really are. Do you, I mean, your book is full of stuff like that, but I, I want to, I want to take you to a more positive place that you say, how long have we known each other? Four years? Yeah.

Okay. Yeah. You say just in the last four years, the world has changed in the black community. What do you mean? It is. I am so excited about what's happening. I think the greatest present to our country was President Obama

because he showed how much of a failure liberals and socialists and Marxists can be. We have people in the black community that has so much hope that he's going to be the savior. And when he failed after eight years, they realized, wait a minute, what happened here? You never hear about his failures. How do you mean? How do you mean?

Well, when you look at the fact, I'm just a couple, just so you know it's how bad. things got. 75% of the black boys in the state of California cannot pass standard reading writing tests. 83% of black teen males for the last eight years could not find jobs. 70% of black men forsake their families. I mean, go to litany.

You go through the increase of welfare. What the left is though is they understand that misery is how they get their power. So they do everything they can and they lie. They're patch on the back and give you a big hug as they give me your misery. But what's happening is that now that we're where we are, black folks are real my misery didn't go away. So we have a President Trump who, of course, doesn't do it

politically the way it's supposed to be done, but the results are there. We now have more, less unemployment than ever in the history of our race. We're now talking about education. We're talking about prison reform. There's just never been talked about. All the things that now bring hope to people we're now finding, and we have

many young people now, and that's just the older folks who came from the generation I did. We saw the success. Younger people are getting it, and they're leaving this head as the blacks it now. We're leaving, a black pleading the Democratic Party. There's a walk away. Do you really believe that's happening? Well, what's happened? To a real significant extent. Here are the numbers. We have 16% of black Americans that were for candidate Trump. It's now 36% for President Trump. I've never seen that with a Republican or conservative candidate.

Well, because blacks are feeling it. When you start to see jobs coming, you start to feel hope is a whole different ballgame. just getting started. My goal very simple is it's two things. It's education and it's ownership. And ownership basically is not just having entrepreneurs, but it's owning your future, realizing that you can actually make a difference in what you do and be accountable for your actions. We get that message which is now going to be starting to happen in the black community. We'll be the community that we were back in the turn of the century, where we're literally the example of what can happen when a community got it right. Have you met African Americans who have read your book and see things like, for instance, just talk about the NAACP and the way it started.

NWCP was started back in 1910. It's the National Association for this Advancement of Color People. The problem is it wasn't started by color people. It was started about 21 white socialists, Marxist, atheist, race control Democrats. And they had a black socialist, W. DeVos, who was a facade. And they threw stealth, they got into our community and switched that community at that time. was leading our country and the growth of the middle class, capitalism, patriotism, you name it.

It was the most successful, even in the 1960s. It was the most stable family in the country. That's exactly right. What happened from slavery up until about 1920, 1930-ish with the black Americans was amazing what they did. And then it was just dismantled. Well, Glenn, you've talked to your audience, and I've heard to talk about Black Wall Street. Yeah. We talk about Madam C.J. Walker, who's the first female self-made millionaire in our country.

People would say that that was Oprah Winfrey. It happened a century before her. The first black millionaire on Wall Street was in 1840, and he died in 1875 with a wealth of $250 million to day's dollars. So there's a cess going on. We don't hear about it. That's what the left does. It's what Carl Mark said. the first battleground is the rewriting of history.

You steal our history, you steal away the vision of our future and our pride and our past. And that's what they've done. So we're going to get that back. So when you have people who are African American who read this, do you have the, and don't know what you do, do you have them come back to you and say, oh, my gosh. I've had some. I think, though, what I love is that I'm not the only voice out there now. This is what's exciting to me, Glenn. And that might have been a deal 10, 15 years ago

that I would have been a big, big deal because this is such a new voice. Right. Like the Shelby, there's a few guys, Walter Williams or a few others. Now I'm just one of many voices out there. And so it's nice to see that people are reading. I think, though, the key is the venues like this

is what we the people do. It's not just black voices. It's black and whites together doing things and realizing that color has nothing to do with it. We all have issues. We all trying to get through this. thing called life. And if we give back, no matter what color we are, we all, we all win an end of the day. I just think you're a, uh, you're a miracle in today's world. And I'm, I'm always pleased

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This is all they do. Their building is on fire and everybody's been evacuated. And so we're having to run everything here and just hopes that they don't cut the power to that building. And if they do, we won't be the only network off. It's incredible what's going on out there. I mean, people can't get to their work. They can't, you know, place.

It's just incredible that this keeps happening. Yeah. Well, this is up in Connecticut. Yeah. Oh, this is a separate fire. Oh, wow. I just assumed it was part of the California. I did too until I said, well, what are they going to, you know, how are they?

And they said, well, they think he can put it out. And I'm like, really? Giant wall of fire. I mean, they should have done that earlier if they could. But anyway, so bear with us. If you're listening to us online or watching the network, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, hope that it will be under control. Have you been following the latest on all of the elections?

Somewhat, it's not looking good. It does seem like Arizona is in big trouble. It looked like a victory from McSally on an election night that seems to be going the opposite direction, not decided yet. 30,000, I think, in the other direction. In Florida, still Scott would be favored in these races and DeSantis as well to hold on, but they're going to go into this recount world and, you know, who knows what happens there. I don't understand what's happening in Broward County.

They're the only ones that can't tell you how many people voted and they had a court order to provide that by Friday. And Palm Beach had an issue with it too. Right. Yeah. You know, and that's, again, legally required. People are like, oh, well, we just want all the votes to be counted. That's a nice thing to say. However, what they're requesting is just the legally required information about how many ballots were cast, not whether they should count them or not.

That's not what the Republicans are saying like, hey, throw out a bunch of votes. We don't want those counted. There's no one requesting that. They're saying you have to live up to your legal requirement to tell us how many people actually voted and the information associated with that. And the reason why they want that is because that way you can't just come up with more ballots. Here's another box of 12,000 ballots, right? You can't do that. How many people voted?

That should be a pretty simple number to come up with. Not a two-week number. they were supposed to provide it at the latest by Friday evening. And these races will be counted. It's not completely irregular for these races to be counted for a long time. Arizona, California in particular, is well known for a very long process because I think the way they have it is your mail-in ballots just need to be postmarked by Election Day. So they can come in three or four days later.

I think it was all the way up to Friday. So a lot of those races are turning. I mean, some races that were called for Republican House candidates are now being uncalled And those races are back in the picture. If this continues to go this way, it could actually turn into a blue wave. I mean, you know, a small blue wave. Yeah. You know, I mean, like, they could hit between 36 and 40 seats as a positive for Democrats.

Now, this would be. The Tea Party had 64 or 66 seats. Not that size. But of the last 14 midterm elections, this one, and this is when we thought it was low 30, so I haven't looked at it since. but when it was low 30s, it would be more democratic, more change, you know, a bigger wave, if you will, than 10 of the 14 previous midterm elections. You know, so losing 30 seats is not nothing. There was a huge structural advantage for Republicans, thankfully, in the Senate, which allowed them to hold where they are. But now look at where this stance.

Rick Scott is in trouble. I think he's going to win, but it's still in trouble in Florida. And God only knows with the recount process. Looks like Arizona's going to go down. that leaves you at 51, which is what they have now, right? So they did not increase at all. 52 will likely be Mississippi. That's very likely.

In 53, possibly Florida. Arizona would be 54, but their range is now 51 to 54 seats. They already had 51 with a huge structural advantage. If they wind up with 51 or 52 out of this thing, I mean, that is not a huge, it's not a win. They lost governorships. They lost, you know, a lot of. state seats as well. It's not good.

It's not good. I mean, now some of the, the good thing for Republicans, I guess, is a lot of the high profile races they did hold on to. Obviously,

we talked about Beto a lot. We talked about DeSantis over, what's his face? I can't think of this name of Gillum in Florida. And Georgia, the governor race, it looks like that one's still tight, but it looks like they're going to hold that one.

But this is not a win, I don't think. I think the longer we get into this process, the uglier it actually looks for Republicans. I just want to make sure that it is. a legal and fair process. And I'm not convinced of that yet, at least in Florida. I'm not convinced. Glenn, back. Mercury.