The Glenn Beck Program - The Truth About The "American Taliban" | 5/24/19

Episode Date: May 24, 2019

Hour 1: British Prime Minister Theresa May announces her impending resignation …What is the allure of a parliamentary system that can result in an election at any time of the year? … The New York Times is going to bat for “American Taliban” John Walker Lindh …The pre-9/11 political climate led some people to look the other way on the Taliban, but it was no secret that they were an oppressive terror regime …Jason Buttrill, who was part of the leading thrust of the American invasion of Afghanistan, joins the program to shed some light on who Lindh really is …Why have conservatives and liberals completely switched positions on Julian Assange and WikiLeaks? …Perhaps the best thing for the pro-life movement would be President Trump giving the Left a taste of its own medicine. Hour 2: If you take a video clip of Nancy Pelosi and slow it down, it sounds like she’s drunk. But what if you play said clip at normal speed? …The Democrat field is essentially one big protected group, because if you disagree with them, you’re being racist …The rise and fall of Beto O’Rourke – How did his popularity wane so quickly? …There is no wiggle room on the Second Amendment, but that isn’t stopping Beto from proposing a ban on semi-automatic weapons sales …Bill de Blasio has entered the race for President – New Yorkers will tell you how much they hate his guts …Stu reveals that almost half of the Democrat field is currently getting zero percent of the vote. Hour 3: St. Thomas University of Minnesota is being kicked out of their Division III athletic conference for – wait for it – being too good …Competition isn’t about everyone getting a trophy, it’s about lifting everyone up through both winning and losing …Harvey Weinstein has settled a number of the cases in which he has been accused of sexual misconduct …Aladdin with Will Smith? Movie theaters with beds? Banks that are also cafes? … ‘Chernobyl’, the HBO mini-series, paints a grim and accurate picture of socialist society against the backdrop of the nuclear cataclysm in 1986 …Nuclear energy is not dangerous, nuclear energy being operated in a socialist state is. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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But Glenn's back on Tuesday. So right after the three-day memorial day weekend, he'll be back in his rightful place. A lot to talk about today. The slowed down Nancy Pelosi video. Who did it? Who did it? I want a full Mueller-style investigation.

Thank you. In fact, keep Mueller on staff. I want to launch an investigation into the slowed down video. If we could just keep him on retainer, or like, I don't know, 15, 20 years. Give him like 20 or 30 investigations at a time. No more than that. That would be excessive.

So we will talk about that. Also, there's some people kind of defending the release of John Walker Lind, right? The New York Times is kind of going to bat for John Walker Lynn, which is, I guess if you're going to come up with a source that's going to go to bat for the American Taliban, You might select the New York Times as source number one. But yeah, they're going into that, and we can get into that here in just a moment as well. All coming up in about 60 seconds.

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Finally happened in the UK. Teresa may resign. Oh, no. And frankly, I don't understand. I'm so glad you said that. I don't get how it works. I don't get it. How do you not serve out your terms?

And like 95% of the prime ministers in Britain don't serve out their term. It's like, okay, we pissed us off this week and it's windy. He's got to go. How does that happen? Right, because Brexit was also responsible for Cameron leaving, wasn't it? Yes. Yeah, when the vote happened, they lost the vote. Cameron said, okay, I'm resigning.

Like, wait, what? And then Teresa has screwed it up so much that she has to go now. And I don't even know. I don't know that she had a win. I don't know that there was any way to win this because, you know, she has to get something passed. So as much as it, to me, it seems like, look, the people voted on it. You have a system where people can vote on these things.

Yeah. They voted for Brexit. Do it. You know, it's a lot more complicated than that. And there's not really a simple, simple solution there. We've talked to Daniel Hannan about this, who's really the only person to go to when it comes to Brexit. He's the only person who understands it, I think. Yeah. And he was really the guy who, he was the guy who basically pushed for this.

A lot of other people have had press on this over the years. But Daniel Hannon was the guy who really talked about this. I mean, the first time he was on with us probably 2010 or 2011, he talked about how it was his priority. He worked in the European Union. He was in the government. And he wanted to dissolve it. He wanted to get Britain out of it.

He actually succeeded. And then here we are years and years later. They're still fighting about it. But it's one of those things where I just don't understand. Like it seems like every time something that's a priority, to a prime minister doesn't go their way. They're like, all right, I'm out. Yeah.

I mean, I tried. I tried for like a year, and you guys don't want to do the thing I want you to do, so see ya. These coalition governments are really confusing. Because I guess if you don't have enough members of your party voted into parliament, you can't govern. And you realize that.

And then you'd strike some deal with some other party that they take over. Then like the 14 parties all get together. And that's another thing. I don't understand the parties. The Tory party. I knew what the. stories were in the Revolutionary War. Right.

I don't know what they are today. She's the leader of the Tory party now. Right. Right. And so, and her resignation is effective June 7th, but she's not really leaving until maybe they find a replacement in July.

I just can't understand. I can't either. And are you going to vote on somebody or you just put them in there? I think they vote. I think they have another election. Which they can do elections at any time. That must be, it must cost them a fortune. Yeah, because they're just like,

I love with it. You always get this story like, Theresa May decided she was going to call for a new election. You're like, wait, wait, they don't schedule these things in advance? It's so weird. You're like, you know what? Two weeks. We're doing it. Like, it seems like what happens is whenever the prime minister thinks they've consolidated power or doing well in the polls, they just call for another election to try to get more power, which is a bizarre way of running things. That's why we left that stupid country in the first place.

And we're the minority still. I mean, the parliamentary democracy has spread around the world. And a lot of times we talk about that essentially being how democracy is spread. I mean, like a lot of countries have this type of system. It's less like our type of system, which has proven to be vastly superior. Let's be honest about it. Let's do. It's just better.

I mean, again, there are a lot of problems here. I'm not going to sit here and say that there's no problems in this country. But the idea that like, can you imagine if like Donald Trump had a good day and then he would just call for a new election and get like 80 senators? And then he's like, you know. I want, I want to pass the wall, and he couldn't get enough of a bill. He's like, all right, I'm stepping down. Wait, wait, we elected you for, we, it's like, we signed you to a four-year contract.

Yes. You know? And it was like, it would be as if, it's like everyone in Great Britain and all these other countries are like Levyon Bell. Like, they get signed, they get offered these deals and it's like, no, I'm not showing up this year. Wait, no, we signed you. I'm going to sit out the parliament this year. I'm sitting it out. Yeah.

I'm, what, you can? Really? It really is weird. Very strange. And to me, I. So I don't know what the Tories are all about. The Labor Party seems to be like the liberals here. Yes.

And the Tories are very close to socialist. Then there's a conservative party that I don't think they're like Americans conservatives. None of them are. And then there's a Brexit party now. And the Brexit party has vastly increased their numbers over the last couple of years. And they just did a poll where if the election would have been held when they did the poll, apparently the Brexit party was maybe in the lead, I think. It had more support than the labor and Tories combined.

And that may be who takes over in July. Maybe. Can you imagine the frustration, though? But you go through this whole thing where they put this up to a big vote. You've got a situation where your entire nation steps up and does something that was thought to be unthinkable by the entire world. We are pulling out of the European Union. We didn't like this experiment. We're out.

And I thought it was a great decision. I do too. I'm fully behind, you know, the day. Daniel Hanen view of us. A lot of the elites didn't think it was they were not fully behind it. That's what Theresa May tried to do is, you know, pull out what we're going to leave, but we're not really going to leave. Well, and too, I mean, May gets, you know, just destroyed by everybody here because she has no allies left really anymore. But, I mean, the bottom line is she had to get something passed.

So she can't just say, well, pure Brexit, you know, Daniel Hannan, you design it. Because then none of the other people are going to vote for it. So, like, she has to actually come up with something that everyone votes on, which is, you know, near impossible. So the closer we get to this sort of deadline, they have this hard pullout thing, which I think is probably where this winds up, honestly, at this point. And I don't think it's going to be nearly as disastrous as everyone else is saying. But, I mean, think about this. When we had Obamacare going on in this country, and Obamacare is, they're going back and forth about it,

trying to figure out whether this thing is going to pass. Barack Obama's got 60 senators. He can pass anything he wants, you know, with just filibuster-proof majority. here. He can pass anything he wants. So the Senate passes this bill and as they're negotiating it, a special election happens in of all places Massachusetts in the middle of this. And Scott Brown is a Republican somehow wins in Massachusetts almost entirely to stop Obamacare. And then the House just abandons the whole negotiation and takes basically takes a quarter of of the rules and passes the thing that was already passed that they never planned on actually

making into Obamacare. They just passed the old thing because they couldn't vote on it again because Scott Brown would have made it so they could not have passed it. And remember how we felt? Remember how half the country felt? It was the whole Nancy Pelosi. We're going to pull vault over this. We're going to get done. You'll see what's in it afterwards. Don't worry about it. That whole thing. That pissed off the entire country. It started, you know, the Tea Party was largely, you know, right in tune with that. that. We're talking one of the largest wave elections in the last century. I mean, it was a massive change in our country because of that. That's nothing compared to what's happened with Brexit.

The people actually all came out and voted for it and they're like, yeah, we're not going to do it. So, thanks for your input, but no. And now it's been, you know, dragging on for so long. And it's not like that was a non-binding referendum. It was a big deal. It was a big deal. And it was like, you want to get out of Brexit, we'll get out of Brexit. And then, no, We don't want to. The elites, we don't want to. No, we don't. And the government called for it thinking it would be defeated.

And we could finally be done with this whole leaving the EU thing. Because we'll just destroy it. Stay will win and leave will lose. And then, you know, remain will win and leave will lose. And it's one of those things now they're like, well, yeah, we didn't really like what you guys said, though. We know we asked your opinion. It's like when you go to. We didn't really want it.

Right. It's like when you go to your wife and she says, oh, what do you want? What do you want to? to where do you want to go to dinner? And she says, oh, I don't care. And then you're like, all right, Taco Bell. No, not Taco Bell. Well, why didn't you say something then? We're now in the drive-through line. That's basically what they do.

Yeah. And that is a, that's a weird way to run a country. So confusing. It might just be time to send American troops and force you should make them adopt our system. You know, it's just time. It is weird that there's not more of a rush to adopt the American system. I know. You know, like a lot of people will go towards democracy, towards capitalism. But because I think America is the big bad boy in the block and they're vilified over it.

We're vilified over everything. There's very few countries who are just like, you know what? We were kind of watching this whole America thing developed the last couple hundred years. And it's pretty nice. Let's do that. It's got some issues. But like, I think we should get in that boat. We have Supreme Court justice is saying, you know, an African nation is better than ours.

Yeah. So, I mean, we're not going to, nobody wants to be us. And I guess because, my guess is because it does not. allow for enough government control. If you're starting a new country and you've got the power to design it, well, you're going to put yourself into a position of power. That's why the founders were so freaking great. So extraordinary.

Yeah. They were just like, you know what? We have the opportunity to do whatever we want. We could all be kings. We could all rule this place forever. Instead, let's give the power to the people. It's something that almost no one to this day really tries to do. To the extent where when Washington was asked to be a king, he said, don't ever bring

that up again. Ever. That's what we left. And that's what we're trying to avoid. And I don't want to hear that kind of talk because it might spread. Yeah. So that takes a pretty amazing person to shut that down. And in the new, you know, these countries, as they design their systems, they don't necessarily get, you know, they make themselves kings anymore.

They just, well, we're going to take control of health care, banking, and energy. Because we know better. Because we know better. So that's like, you know, 75% of the economy will just run. And then we'll put heavy regulations on everything else. and we'll tell you exactly what you can and can't do, but you guys get to vote for the next person to tell you what you can and cannot do.

That's the democracy of today. It's bizarre. It is, and again, you do have that moment as much as we complain about it. Remembering when you watch the whole situation going on in Britain, which is one of the best countries. They're like a good example of how things are run. You see how things are going there,

and you step back and you say, okay, maybe we do have it pretty sweet here. Maybe it's not so bad. AAA 727 B-B-E-C-K. Be back in 60 seconds. This is the Glenn Beck program. According to the FBI, the average loss in a burglary is about $2,000. That's pretty hard to recover from. Even though, only one in five homes have home security.

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Amazing. After 17 of his 20 years sentence, they just let him go, I guess, because of good behavior. And people are, including us, we're a little perplexed by that.

But the New York Times apparently has a little different spin on it. Yeah, which you would expect, of course. The Times has an op-ed talking about the release of John Walker-Lind, and they're basically making, they're to his defense attorneys here. They say, hard to imagine now, after everything that's happened in the brutal decades since, but there was a time when we were fairly cozy with the Taliban. Now, of course we know this. You know, famously, there's pictures of, you know, Donald Rumsfeld, and these were trotted out constantly during the administration. For much of the 1990s, when an earnest, bookish California teenager named John Walker Lind,

First, felt himself drawn to the study of Islam. That's a nice spin right there. You love this. That's a friendly telling. The United States lent its support to plans by an American-led group of businesses to develop an oil pipeline that would run through Afghanistan. This would require negotiations with the Taliban, the world's most oppressive Muslim regime. Government officials who had misgivings about human rights abuses in Afghanistan

largely kept their reservations to themselves. Not long before, in the Reagan era, the term Mujahideen had a heroic ring to it. These were fierce and noble Afghan warriors, our president assured us, fighting with limited resources to liberate their country from Soviet oppression. Now, of course, you get the tone of this, which is, Lind, is just a teenager, no big deal. And it was really these Republicans that we were friendly, the reason why we were friendly with these oppressive regimes.

The official stance, of course, changed after September 11th. And this is one thing I didn't know, or didn't remember at least about this case. all these events of September 11th were all but unimaginable in mid-2000 when Lind, age 19, decided to travel to the Middle East to study the Quran. So they are making the case, and not explicitly saying, but insinuating at least, that Lind joined the Taliban before 9-11 by a good year or so. And at this point, while certainly Osama bin Laden was known

in circles of terrorism, He, you know, it wasn't like the main headline of the United States that the Taliban were, you know, was a, was a bad group of people. And someone who's a teenager could easily think that it's not necessarily the worst thing in the world. Now, of course, you have September 11th happens. And we should talk about maybe, I don't know if Jason's in today. I think he is because he was doing, he was doing your show, right? Yes. That great unleashed.

Jason Buttrill, who was actually there when he was there when John Walker Lind was at, would they captured him? he was there like when he was waterboarded he was there like he was he's a you know former military guy and was he was he the one waterboarding him I asked him and I said you know I was like if it's true he won't tell me

but he did say no but he said he was like I don't know if he was in the room but he was like right there he saw the guy he had he is we got to talk to him about wouldn't you like to work with the guy who waterboarded oh totally John Walker Lind I think that would be interesting

I'd like to work with someone who waterboarded Jeffie. Yes. That would I would really respect. That would not be fun. Now, we all work with people who waterboarded Stubergear. Thank you. Well, insureboarded. Insureboarded.

Yes, that's right. It wasn't watered. I was waterboarded with a chocolatey shake, which was far too chocolate for that treatment. That's one to go back on YouTube and fine today. The consequences of the decision, of course, John Walker Lind are a matter of public record. Two months after the Twin Towers has fallen, six weeks. after the United States dropped its first bomb on Afghanistan, a few hundred Taliban soldiers

held as prisoners of war and fortress, a stage in uprising. Over the next eight days, all but 86 of those prisoners would die, as well as a great number of their jailers and a man named John Span, Michael Span, Johnny Michael Span, was his actual name,

who was serving a CIA advisory. He's the first person who died in that war. And, of course, they found that one of the people was an American, John Walker Lidd. Now, this is their take on the whole prison riot thing. which is one of the big issues with Lind. How is this guy getting out of prison? He was responsible for the death of a CIA age

and the first death in the Afghanistan war. They say there was no evidence that this young American had taken an active part in the violence. In fact, it was later determined that he had been hiding in the basement for the bulk of the conflict, which I don't know.

Really? I've never heard that. Makes me laugh a little bit. Yeah, I've never heard that. The Taliban and sheltered Osama bin Laden after all and therefore every abettor of his regime, no matter how inconsequential, was a terrorist at well. as well. They go on and say that basically Lynn was a teenager,

didn't even know the Taliban was bad when he joined, had no role in this at all, gets 20 years unfairly is their case. Like, shouldn't even have had that. So he gets 20 years, which was a plea agreement, and then he's released and people are going to give him a hard time on it, and he should be out of prison. That is the case of the New York Times.

Now, to me, it's interesting because, and I think this is a positive for our country and our system. And it's the type of thing that I, as much as I don't like when it goes wrong like this, it's something I'm proud of when it comes to the United States, which is the guy served his term. He served his time.

He got 20 years. Now, he did get 17 years because of good behavior, but that was part of his sentencing from the beginning. If he had good behavior, he would be out. They are saying it doesn't matter if he's reformed or not. There's nothing he can do. Trump yesterday came out and said, look, I went, I asked, is there anything I can do about this?

And they said, no. There's nothing I can do about this. And you do kind of like the fact that the president doesn't necessarily have that kind of power. Yeah, and shouldn't. Because you could do that to any of your enemies as president. Right. You could say, oh, well, I think he's a real risk and then keep him in prison forever. That would not be a good development.

So the fact that we're letting him out, while I think in this case is really bad, because it does seem like he's not reformed. Yeah, I mean, even the media is not trying to make the case that he's reformed. I mean, his dad is. I think his dad, yeah. His dad, he said. But if you look at his statements in the past few years, they're pretty Giod friendly.

Yeah. They're like, yeah, I'm going to get back to being radical as soon as I get out of this dump. Oh, okay. And what do you think? I wonder what his first thing was. I feel like, you know, where does he go first? It's like Wendy's or something. Like there's something he wants to do really badly.

I don't know if it's Wendy's for John Walker Lynn. Might be for us. But what's the first thing he does? And then, this guy get a job? Like, what's he doing for the rest of his life? Who's going to hire him? He's going to hire John Walker Lynn. Probably the New York Times, actually.

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We've got the cure. Inoculate yourself with a daily dose of Glenn at glenbeck.com or wherever podcasts are found. Pat and Stu. Bless Jeffie on this Friday. We've been talking about four for Glenn, by the way. We've been talking about the American Taliban, Johnny Walker Lind, and his release yesterday and whether or not he should have been released. And there's not much we can do about it now because he has been released. But Jason Betrille or Buttrill, I just said it like Glenn does.

Yeah, that's right? Well, you're in that chair. Because I'm in that chair. So, Jason, you were actually there, right? Yeah. Yeah, I was in countries at the time. As part of the Marine Corps, I was in the initial invasion of force. And actually, I was in, right, I guess, when September 10th, we pulled into Australia,

and we were doing an exercise with Australia Marines. And we were just kind of hanging out at like a sports bar, just watching TV after the exercise. And we saw the towers come down. And we thought it was like an Australian movie. We had no idea what was going on. Oh, wow. Literally like 30 minutes later, the shore patrol came around, gathered everybody up, put us out on the boats. We were in Afghanistan just a couple months later.

It was absolutely insane. Wow. But, yeah, I had gotten, the intel reports that there was an American Taliban while we were in Afghanistan, and I read everything, and we were just like, our jaws hit the floor. We were like, what in the heck? And most of us just wanted a shot at him pretty much. We found out about the uprising. The CIA officer that was killed at the time was one of the first Americans to go down. And so that hit us all really hard. And so I remember pouring over that because we were like, oh my gosh, like, you know,

this is for real. Like most of us, I think, had joined the military because we wanted to pay off our school loans, you know, stuff like that. But now this got real. And I just remember being livid, reading about everything that was involved in that. This guy, John Lynn knew everything that was going on. The people that he went, he traveled all over the Middle East. I think a lot of people don't know this. But when he left California, he went out searching for the radicals of the radicals.

According to his father, though, he was just trying to find himself. Absolutely ridiculous. I will say, according to the New York Times today, they say that, you know, look, the Taliban wasn't even known to be bad. He joined them when before 9-11. So, you know, like he had no idea that they were a bad group. Oh, my gosh. Oh, my gosh. You're taking exception to that?

That's the paper of record. Who wrote this? John Ray of the New York Times. He went to, he first went to Yemen, got hooked up with al-Qaeda there, went to the, went to Afghanistan, hooked up and hung out with al-Qaeda in Afghanistan, also hung out with Taliban. Al-Qaeda and the Taliban were like, they were, you know, shoulder-to-shoulder. They were the exact same thing. To say that he didn't know what he was doing is just ridiculous. Absolutely ridiculous.

And by 2000, they're saying that he joined in 2000 and nobody knew. And the Taliban were essentially our allies because of Afghanistan. You know, they fought side by side with us against the Soviets. But by 2,000 people knew about Osama bin Laden. And the Taliban. A lot of these big attacks had already occurred just not 9-11 yet. But for him to not have any knowledge of the attack and the insurrection that happened, you don't buy that. Because they are saying, in case you missed the story earlier, the New York Times is saying John Walker Lind was at the prison where the uprising occurred.

However, he hit in the basement. Cowering is what they said. They said, yeah. They said later determined that he had been hiding in the basement for the bulk of the conflict. Do you buy that? No. Everything that I read at the time is that it was a plot amongst. the al-Qaeda and the other people that were in prison there.

They had, if memory serves, they had gotten their hands on some hand grenades, I believe. And that was their big plot was they were going to hide these hand grenades. They all knew about it, including Lynn. He knew that this was the plan, that the plan was to hide and how's, man, I hope I'm not giving out class-foot information. This could be dangerous. Breaking news! See, when Glenn's out, this is when the real news breaks.

This is a while ago. You are absolutely not giving up. Classified, Jason. Keep going. Keep going more and more. Yeah. So the plot was around some hand grenades that the al-Qaeda terrorists had. Lindh knew about it.

And when the plan happened, he was an accessory to it. He was an accessory to it. He didn't raise his hand and say, hey, they've got these hand grenades, guys, be careful. We're about to attack. No, because he was a radical ideologue. He was an ideologue. After they took him and after he was accessory to the CIA officer's murder, they took him to my patrol base.

So it was a pretty cool scene, actually. They landed in the middle of the night at our patrol base. There was CIA. There was two seal teams, two force recon teams. They were fully dressed up, you know, in black, you know, masks and everything. Brought him out. And I remember thinking, if I'm in his position, I would be scared. You are lying.

He looked battered. He did not have a good hair day going on at the time. He was very dirty. and he was shot in the leg, I believe. And we took him straight to a ConX box, you know, like a shipping container box. Put him in there and we got him ready for questioning. And I remember thinking I would be scared out of my mind if I was him.

He did not look scared out of his mind. He was an ideologue. He looked proud. That's the look that he gave us all. Looked straight in the eyes and he was proud. He was not remorseful then. He's not remorseful now. Yeah.

Yeah, we've, yeah. This is, I made amazing statements for somebody who's getting out of prison. He's talked about how he's going to get back to Giod in extremism as soon as he gets out. Yeah. So. And the restrictions that the court put on him are just so stupid. Did you see this? The restrictions?

Yeah, he can't speak anything but English. Yeah. I guess. Can't speak Arabic and you can't communicate. He could go online and he could talk to whoever he wants, but not, not in Arabic. Okay, so what? If he's, if he's not dangerous, and why are you regular? how he can, what language he can speak.

You're going to assign a personal psychiatrist for him. You can use a suicide vest, but it has to be made in America. It has to be made in America. This is, I think I have the same point all the time when it comes to, like, Megan's law where, like, they're reporting the child molesters. It's like, if you need to tell me this guy is a child molester, he should probably still be in prison. Like, I appreciate the effort here, but, like, if you think I need to know that this

guy was touching little kids, maybe you should kind of keep him behind. bars. How did the the the original charge that he was given and convicted for that's I guess that's the root of this entire problem. Yeah. Like why was it? Right. Like why? It seemed like they went after treason too. I think it says in here at least that they that they did go after treason initially. But and they had threatened him with three life sentences which they were going after and then they gave him a plea deal for 20 years. Yeah, they couldn't find two witnesses or something which you have to do with treason. I believe. I believe there has to be two witnesses. And it seems like I vaguely remember them saying, yeah, we don't have two witnesses.

Which I don't understand because every, like I said, everything I was reading at the time was very specific. We knew all the places that he had been to, all the groups that he was associated with. You knew the reason why he was doing it. At the time, you're talking about like it was known who Al-Qaeda was. They had already basically declared that, not basically, they had already declared war on the United States. Yes. Osama bin Laden was like, had declared war because we were in Saudi Arabia. We had the embassy bombings by the...

I mean, we had a lot of stuff that had gone on. USS Cole had gone on by then. It was no secret. No. It wasn't, we called him the American Taliban, but he was also running with Al-Qaeda. You know, the people that had just attacked us. How can you not charge him with Twitter? Why do you need two witnesses to kind of way?

I wonder if some of this isn't because we apparently waterboarded him, right? It wasn't that the big deal that there was some mistreatment of him. Did you? Were you the one that water-borded him? I was not. Okay. Oh, dang it. See, I was hoping because you're filling in for Pat Gray on Leach this week.

you're so tired that you might just blurt about. That was the big design of the second. It's okay, Jason. You could admit it. You ever been actually waterboarded? Yes. As part of training or whatever. Yes.

Pretty much everyone that... It's kind of unpleasant. A little bit. From what I understand. A little bit. Does it feel like you're drowning? Absolutely feels like you're drowning. Yeah.

So weird. So enhanced interrogation techniques. Have I talked about this before? I don't know. Talk about it now. Yeah. Okay. So enhanced interrogation techniques that everyone's hitting on.

people have called it torture I've seen what happens in torture in country this is not torture this is so I've always said psychologists have looked at this and they said I want anybody to do it to me today

right there's a big group of things there's a reason to do it to me today like I don't want to go on a treadmill today I don't know if that's torture right there's a lot yeah it's close close there's a big at certain

elevation you know once you get a certain degree you're on level 10 or 12 then it's behind torture yes but I mean like there's a large group of things that are unpleasant but not torture. And we just

like to group everything into the torture realm because we want, you know, man, the American press wants to vilify the U.S. military all the time. So you essentially put a towel over their face, right? And then just pour water on them. Yeah. You lean back and you pour it over. And that's the entirety of it. Yes. But it's supposed to,

it plays off of fears. So like psychiatrists have looked at this and said there's a certain few things that everybody in the world, if you're a human being, a normal human being, not psychotic, is scared of. And some people aren't scared of the same stuff. So there's a progression. They don't go straight to, oh, we got this guy. Let's go immediately to waterboarding. Waterboarding is one of the final steps. Right. There's like the barking dogs is one of them, right? Like blindfolded with barking dogs. Right. And again, that's an, that's on one of the naked pyramids. Remember the

naked pyramids? Remember the naked pyramids? Yeah. But one of the things is you bring a picture of them. Right. You bring them in at night, right? You put them in a shipping container. I mean, those are steps, right. Right. Okay. So you're exactly right. So one of the first ones is some people get scared just by someone. It actually starts out with nothing at all, just offering something and some of them get right in. If that doesn't work, then they, you know, they'll give the appearance that they're like, you know, the good cop, bad cop and scream at them.

Some people can't handle someone screaming at them, like a drill instructor. They fold instantly. Then it goes forward. It's scared to the dark. Some people are scared of the dark. Some people are scared of loud animals. Some people are scared of real loud music. You've maybe seen movies where they like turn up, you know, the real lot.

And sleep deprivation is part of that too, right? Exactly. That goes all into that. And then eventually, usually people just end up giving you whatever they want right in those first few steps. Eventually, it leads to playing Barry Manilow for him. And that's the ultimate. That's a step too far. Everybody breaks.

That's classified. You can't say that's the ultimate. Oh, did it. I know you guys are going to back me into this. So waterboarding, it does, and you had the situation. This is a Glenn Beck program. We'll come back to that in a second. According to the FBI, the average loss in a burglary is about $2,000.

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For Glenn this week. 3,88727BECA. I'm talking about the release of John Walker Lynn, the American Taliban. Don't confuse the American Taliban for Godin, the American, who is a spokesperson for al-Qaeda. You might remember this frightening warning. Pull every last one of your soldiers, spies, security advisors, trainers, attachis, and so on. Out of every Muslim land from Afghanistan. Then to Zanzibar.

So much as one single American soldier or spy remain on the slanting soil. It will be considered sufficient justification for us to continue our defensive jihad against your nation and people. Oh, wow. Okay, so it's not that guy. That's not John Walker. That guy's gone. We lost him. We lost him.

And so maybe I broke that a little too quickly. Yeah, why you want to read it? There's a bomb coming. Oh, no. where Godin, the American is in the vicinity of. I hope he's protected. No. Ooh, the bomb went off.

It killed him. Oh, wow. He's gone. Was that better? No, there was no, there's not enough left to operate on. Oh, that's sad. Yeah. Well, I mean, we found out today that John Walker Lind,

a normal American teenager, he was just looking, he was trying to find himself. Just a frightening boy. He joined a group that were our allies. Right. The Taliban. At one time. And in the end, it was wrongfully accused of a prison right.

Just for falling in with the wrong crowd. Yeah, that's sad. That's all he did. Who among us hasn't? We're sitting here with Jeffrey right now. Yes. It's easy to do. It's easy to do.

It is. It is. So we've learned that from the media today. And we've also learned that it is now time, in case you were setting your calendars to this fact, It is now time for everyone to switch sides again on Julian Assange. So if you were wondering, like, what in the pool. So whatever side I'm on now?

Because yeah, whatever you're on now is probably you don't want to go to the other side because it started off that liberals loved Julian Assange and conservatives hated Julian Assange. And then in 2016, when the Hillary stuff was going on, conservatives started loving Julian Assange and liberals hated Julian Assange. Well, now the Trump administration has charged, Assange, and now they hate Julian Assange. But now the liberals are saying, wait a minute, you're attacking.

There are journalists protections. We love Julian Assange. So whatever side you were on, make sure, make a note for later on today. You're supposed to flip-flop and argue the exact opposite side. All right. And again, plan your next vacation from whatever position you're on now on Assange for about six months. And where are we on Russia?

Are they good or are they bad this week? You know, I don't know the answer to that. We'll have to check. We need websites to just tell us what side is supposed to be on. It's amazing to see the left and the journalists go back and forth on these things. And, you know, both sides do it to some extent. But there's never a point in which they acknowledge previously they felt the exact opposite way. Oh, no. Never.

It's just they just go on as if those times didn't occur. And people generally speaking in their audience are just like, okay, well, there can go. I guess that's the right way now. Remember the Comey deal when we were supposed to? to like Comey and then we hated Comey. Comey was another big one. I mean, they came out. And even the I mean, people didn't even know it was the change day.

It really was. On the tell what's his face is stupid television show. He didn't even know, he didn't alert the audience that it was change day. It's amazing. So he mentioned Comey's name in the audience. It's like, yeah. No, no, we hate him today. No, no, we changed. It was amazing. It really is incredible.

I don't remember this. I remember, let's go back in ancient history now. John Kerry running for president. He basically loses the election, arguably, because of one commercial that Republicans play incessantly where he says, I did vote for the $86 million, $7 billion, before I voted against it. Remember that whole thing? Yes.

Like, I don't think anyone cares about those flip-flops anymore. Like, the flip-flop is debt. It's just like, what is the thing we're supposed to believe today and argue it as passionately as possible? And you see this in the media. You see it in, you know, all in politics. there is no longer a position that's held by the party. Like there's not a consistent position. And right now, like right now,

and we made this point yesterday, I would love to see this happen. Right now, sure, it seems like Republicans are pro-life and Democrats are pro-choice. I want Donald Trump to come out and just be like, you know what, I'm pro-choice. You'd see the media making every argument about babies

that they could come up with. They'd be like, these poor innocent children! If that gets us a win, I'm almost poor. Can you believe Trump's disregard for humans? human life. That's what they'd be saying. It would be amazing. And that global warming is another one. They'd just be like, do you believe this? I mean, Donald Trump thinks SUVs are warming the planet? This guy's insane. You're listening to Glenn Beck. One of the great things about the American system is, of course, the innovation that it's provided.

And healthcare is a big part of this. I mean, creating new innovative drugs to fight diseases, new innovative treatments. I mean, that is, you know, why the American system is, you know, why the American system is better than all these other socialist systems. And it's the only reason any of these other socialist systems can handle it is because they take all the stuff that we made and they, they put it in their system. Well, it's nice. When you have a country that's innovating like this, it's easier to have a socialist healthcare system. However, we don't want to go down that road. And FreedomWorks is working hard to make sure that does not happen here in the United States. You know, we've already had too far of a push towards socialism here. We do not need to go any

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President Trump President Trump responding, of course, because that's what he does. He has to. He has to. It's a must. And then, of course, there's this big controversy over the posting of Nancy Pelosi videos where somebody, I don't know who, but Rudy Giuliani tweeted it out

and said, what's wrong with Nancy Pelosi? They slowed down the video so it sounds like she's drunk when she's talking it is a fun trick to do on anybody it is anytime you slow down just a little bit the audio it's it just is hilarious here's the first one is her slowed down

and then it quickly goes into the actual sound we want to give this president the opportunity to something historic for our country but okay so it sounds like had a nip or two.

Just a little nip, this, Farley. And then here's the actual video. We want to give this president the opportunity to do something historic for our country. Okay. So clearly somebody's trying to make it look bad. I don't know who it was, but because somebody in the Trump administration or the Trump team tweeted it out, now they're all, they're blaming President Trump for it. Right.

I don't think he's sitting at an edit bay right now, slowing up. her audio and video clips. I think he probably has a little too much on his plate to be doing that. And he would tell you, I don't need to do that. Right. I don't need to do that. I mean, they get, because was it Giuliani that shared it? Giuliani shared it, right.

And they get, you know, and he thought that it was real and thought that there was something wrong with her, which you realized it was. And he took it down. Yeah, he took it down. Well, because we've played many Nancy Pelosi clips that weren't edited or altered in any way. And she does this. she slurs and she sounds like, you know, something's wrong with it. We've talked about that in the past. So it's kind of logical to think that that was a real, that was a real audio or video.

Yeah, I've always thought it wasn't this time. Yeah. So I don't think it's, again, these things turn into international incidents all the time. Yes, they do. And not because of the media. Right, not because they're real, because they see it as an opportunity to bash the president and the administration and say how evil Republicans are. But, of course, damn. Like, you're telling me, go online.

You just tell me Democrats aren't sharing fake stuff all the time. Of course they are. Of course they are. But, you know, this is a... You know, you do open yourself up to it. Especially if you're Rudy Giuliani and an attorney, you probably should be a little careful online with what you're doing. I mean, you're representing the president of the United States in personal matters.

You probably don't want to be sharing fake videos. I mean, you probably want to, before you hit send, you probably want to look at it one more time. Yeah. That's all. Take a break. You know, but I mean, this is the world we live in now. This would have been an interesting commentary in 2008. All right.

Like it's 2019. You know, celebrities are doing this all the time. Politicians are doing it all the time. We have just entered that world where people aren't careful anymore. I remember when Glenn was doing the TV show and we started out. I can't remember what it was CNN days or Fox days. And he was in the middle of writing something on the chalkboard. And like the chalkboard is like a difficult thing as it doesn't seem like it would be difficult to do.

But you're like, Glenn's in the middle of doing a TV show. He has to look at all the elements that are coming up, like what video is next and what order are these things going on. He's doing a monologue and he's writing on the board. And I can't remember what word it was, but he misspelled a word on the board. And there was a reason, I can't remember what it was at this point. But it was something like, it was either misspelled in the script or like he did like a Ron Burgundy and just wrote it the way he saw it. I can't remember what the situation was. It was not a word he didn't know how to spell, but he just screwed it up on the air.

And that haunted him for like years. Like I miss, I mean, you know, it was like Dan Quail misspelling potato back in the day. It was like a big deal. Everyone was like, oh, can you believe this guy can't spell words? That's why he's still a little sensitive. Oh, he's very, very hesitant to spell. Right. Every time he does a chalkboard, he makes sure someone checks it to make sure, you know, and when you.

You can't blame him. Yeah, I know. I mean, I'm not a Glenn Beckapologist like you, Stu. But, you know, I can't blame him. Right. And so, but now, I mean, It doesn't feel like people make mistakes that are much worse than anything from the old days. And no one cares.

I mean, because it's constant. You're constantly berated. Like, there was a time where you thought maybe celebrities had some level of intelligence. Then you see them tweet. And she's like, okay, well, we know they're idiots. Like, we thought, we were wondering if they're, yeah, they're idiots. That is acting when they act like when they're playing the role of a doctor. They're not really a doctor.

You kind of gets the sense of that pretty quickly when you see them spell. Yes, you do. Triple-8-7-27. BECK, more coming up in 60 seconds. This is the Glenn Beck program. Debt can quietly build up, and the high interest rates tied to some of your credit cards or personal loans can really take away from your savings. But don't fear, because if you're a homeowner, there is a solution. Hi, it's Glenn Beck, and joining me is Gabby Maldonado.

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for him. I mean, I guess that's okay to say about the president when you're the Speaker of the House now. If that had happened during the Obama years, as with every single story. Yes. All hell

would have broken loose by now. The Speaker of the House would have been vilified if they would have said an intervention is necessary with Obama and make him sound like, you know, he's crazy or he's insane or just completely out of control. You'd be a racist. They used to throw that label out at us

when we criticized him for anything. And our criticism was never anything approaching what the Democrats do to Trump now. It's unbelievable the hatred. That's really the main use, I think, of identity politics at this point. A lot of people talk about it in terms of like, well, they will try to give money to minority groups so they get minority groups votes. Or they'll try to give benefits to a certain minority group or they'll talk nicely about them to try to get their votes. And that's, of course, part of it.

But the other side of it is, I think, more the real use of today, which is if you have someone who's in a protected group, you always have the defense of saying no matter what the accusation is, it's based on race. Or it's based on, right? Like, if Pete Buttigieg becomes president of the United States and he has a crappy tax policy, when you say he has a crappy tax policy, they'll say you don't hate gay, you don't like gays. So they don't actually have to defend the policy. They'll just say you are a hater of gays or you're a hater of women or you're a hate of African-Americans, whatever the group is.

And so that becomes the catch-all for every single defense. offense of every single thing that someone does that is in this protected class. It's like the main reason why you don't want Joe Biden to be the nominee. Because he's basically the only one in the field that has a chance to win that isn't in some protected group. Right? I mean, you pretty much can go through the entire list. I mean, you have obviously, you know, Bernie Sanders, you Kamala Harris, Klobuchar. She's a woman.

Corey Booker. And then Elizabeth Warren, of course, is Native American. So she's in a protected group as well. One 1,024th protected. Uh-huh. Right. So I think that there is a, it works on both sides. This is why the left loves to embrace it.

They don't have to make arguments about their points. They just say you're a racist. And it's a catch-all for every single argument. And Buttigieg had something interesting to say about the president, which I don't know that this is true, but he said it as if it's proven fact. Do you think he should have served in Vietnam? Well, I have a pretty dim view of his decision to use his privileged status to fake a disability in order to avoid serving in Vietnam. You believe he faked a disability?

Do you believe he has a disability? Yeah. At least not that one. That's making fun of the people, which is okay. This is actually really important because I don't mean to trivialize disability, but I think that's exactly what he did. Wow. But I mean, there's no... Has there any...

Has anybody stated a fact that he didn't have bonespurs when he had claimed to have bonespurs back in, what was it, the late 60s or early 70s when it was time for Vietnam service? I think that's why he wasn't drafted, but I'm not aware that he faked that. I think that's... I think I would say that's generally thought to have been the case,

but I don't know that there's evidence of it, right? Like he, there was something else. I can't remember what the, there was another thing right around there where he was, he did, he passed some physical or something like that around the time where then he, then he went for another one and got bones spurs after,

like it was something like that. Like, I can't remember what, do you remember what it was, Jeffie? No, I was trying, as you mentioned it. Again. That story, because that was with his father.

Right. Was still around making some choices for a son Donald at that time to. Yeah, they were, but I mean, Again, first of all, it's ancient history. Yeah. Second of all, there was a lot of that that went on in that era. You know, the draft to me is a terrible, terrible thing.

It should not be, it's ridiculous to me. Shouldn't ever come back. Shouldn't ever come back. And I hope it doesn't. You know, there were plenty of people on the left. And honestly, I mean, at that point, Donald Trump is probably a Democrat, right? I mean, he's probably at that point in his life, not even a Republican. But, yeah, a lot of people did that.

And especially a lot of people with lives that were privileged did that. There was, you know, that did occur. It wasn't a good thing. But a bigger story there is that we should not be taking people unwilling to join the military and throw them in the middle of our battles. That's not a good idea. That's not something. I mean, you want to talk about last resort area.

That's where the draft should live. I mean, you know, maybe if you're in, you know, maybe if the Nazis are currently bombing Kansas, maybe that's something you may need. And I will say at that point, you're not going to need to draft anyone. There's going to be plenty of people willing to fight there. But, I mean, that is part of the situation with war, right? Like, that's part of the... When you're going to send the military of war,

this is why you actually make sure you make a good case of it. And you make sure that you're convinced the American people that it's the right thing to do. Because if you don't, then you have situations like this where, you know, people aren't volunteering enough and you feel like you need to institute a draft. The draft should not be something that happens, though. I would think that's one of those things...

If you're in the military, do you really want to be fighting next to someone who is like, I'd rather not be here. I don't believe in this cause. That does not seem like the type of person you'd want next to you. Now, a lot of people who were drafted fought valiantly and many went and died during the draft and their service should be honored. I mean, they really should. But I mean, I don't think that's a good generalized policy for a military.

You want people to be really into it. You know, you want people who are going. who have chosen to do it. Exactly. AAA 727 B-E-C-K. Back in about 60 seconds. This is the Glenn Beck program. I love getting mail from listeners who respond to our advertisements.

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AAA 727B-E-C-K. Things are kind of heating up on the Democrat side. Apparently in Iowa there's a dead heat now between Biden and Bernie Sanders. Wow. As far as the town hall halls that all these cable channels are doing, here's how badly Beto O'Rourke is doing right now. First of all, he's doing so badly, I think we mentioned this briefly yesterday,

that no other candidates are doing any opposition research on him anymore. He just all stopped it. It went from dozens to zero. There are no research projects right now on Beto O'Rourke. And like as inexplicable as the rise of Beto O'Rourke is, to me the same can be said about the fall about the collapse there's no real reason he didn't do anything horrifically wrong

he didn't have a major scandal he didn't have a giant gaff people were just like yeah we really like you and they're toying with him to get him into the race and the soon as he got in the race like yeah we actually ate your guts you know what I think it was I think it was that little I'm getting in my car by myself and I'm driving around

the country stopping in at weird places and I'm gonna find myself yeah I'm gonna find But that was before he got in. Yes, it was. And he got in and immediately was at, what, you know, 12 and 15%. Yeah. I mean, he was second or third place when he got into the race. And just every day, another poll comes out where he's one point lower.

And there's only so many days that you can pull that one off. I mean, eventually you get to zero. And I'm not sure. It's about his policies because he doesn't have any. Right. Well, he has one. He wants to bring about gun control. Here's what he said the other day about eliminating guns.

That weapons of war designed for use on the battlefield. are no longer sold into our communities so they don't end up in our schools or our synagogues in our churches. We can save even more of us. Two more steps that I want to take. Red flag laws and not just do it town by town or state by state, but do it nationally so that anyone who exhibits a tendency to harm themselves or to harm somebody else can be stopped before they do that. And then the last part, let's make sure that we invest in the counseling and the mental health and the therapy necessary for people to get the care that they need. Do you support mandatory federal licensing for guns, gun owners rather, in the United States,

similar to what you hear from Cory Booker? I think that's something that we need to look at. And I'm grateful to Senator Booker for taking a bold approach to a very urgent problem that we have right now. But I would start with those four steps that I just outlined. There's consensus there. There's agreement. We're going to be able to make progress. But yes, I think this is something that should be debated.

We should have a full hearing on that. And if it makes sense to the American public, then let's move forward. Okay. Yeah, we'll do some polls. And if it turns out people, like, if they're popular, then I'll be for them. If they're not popular, I'll be against them. Yeah, that's a heat. That is, I guess, if you were going to say the one big problem right now, it's that.

He keeps saying things like that. He does. You know, like, if the American people like it, we'll move forward is not what the Democrats want to hear right now. Not at all. They want to hear like, I want socialism, whether people. want it or not. Like that's what they want to hear. And you're going to get it. You're going to get it with me. Yeah, exactly. They want someone who's going to, you know, the way they see Trump, right? They see Trump doing whatever he wants to do, which is, of course, not true. But that's what they, that's their vision of him. And they want that action on their side.

You know, Beto, one of the big things you could say about him is he does not have an extensive amount of policy plans. No, he doesn't. And that's one of the reasons why he's fallen. I mean, if you see, if there's one candidate who I would say is in the middle of a, I mean, Biden, I mean, Biden, obviously is he's in a category of his own right now. I mean, he's his to lose. But if there's another one of these lower candidates that's having a bit of a moment, I would say it's probably Elizabeth Warren right now. And the reason is because, I mean, she's got a policy for everything. She's got a policy for everything.

And people like talking about that they care about that. Now, in reality, of course, they don't. None of these people have actually read any of the policies. But her brand of being the person who comes up with a new policy for every issue is very attractive to a Democrat who thinks, the federal government should do everything for you. I mean, you know, Beto talks about that, I don't want to go state to state,

I don't go town by town for these rules. I want it to be federal. Well, of course you do. That's the entire definition of your philosophy. It's the exact opposition of what the country was built on, federalism, which is where we did go state to state and see what works. And other states would pick that stuff up.

You want to do everything federally. And you know what? When it comes to the Second Amendment, you have no wiggle room. I mean, you have no wiggle room to, let me think, in friends. Which includes half. Guns. Now he did say, yeah, he didn't actually say that, did he in that clip?

He wants to ban semi-automatic weapons. He said weapons, we got to get these weapons of war off the street. Which is an even dumber thing to say because everything is a weapon of war. I mean, go go watch every time, watch the Arab Spring. They're freaking throwing rocks and glass bottles. Those are weapons of war. When you need a weapon in war, you use anything as a weapon of war. It's a meaningless description. People are like, oh, well, that means weapons that were designed. for war. Every weapon can be used in war. A handguns, every single war that has ever been fought since the invention of a handgun has utilized handguns. Every single one of them. Of course they have. If you're just sitting there like, ah, you know what? My big scary AR doesn't have any bullets left, but I'm not going to fire this because it's not technically a weapon of war. Like, that's not something that occurs with a soldier.

I know it is a meaningless thing. I mean, semi-automatic weapons bands, again, that's basically, every gun people use. Like, it sounds like a scary word to a lot of people. And I know in this audience, most people are going to be familiar with the difference between an automatic weapon and a semi-automatic weapon and, you know, a hunting, modern sporting rifle and all these things. I could say it coming, growing up in Connecticut largely, like, I don't think I would have, you know, if I wasn't in this business, I wouldn't have any interest or knowledge

about what a semi-automatic weapon was. I would just think bad, scary. That's what people in Connecticut think, which is why they were able to pass. you know, a massive bill restricting gun rights in Connecticut. You know, I think there's a, it's certainly not everybody in Connecticut, of course, but I know, I mean, we were, I didn't come from a gun household.

My dad was in the military, but I didn't come from a household, but I knew anything. We didn't have guns in the house. It was not part of our culture at all. And so, you know, people just don't know what these terms means. So you throw out banning semi-automatic weapons. People think, good, we're going to get rid of those school shooting guns.

Yeah. Well, no, this is basically every gun, operationally that people have for self-defense. Right? I mean, you have shotguns, you know, which would fall out of that definition in most cases. Revolvers? I mean, do people really use, I guess they do?

I mean, some. But I mean, most people are just going to have a semi-onic weapon. I haven't seen a revolver other than in a gun store. Right, people like using them at the range. They like using them to shoot. But they're not, I mean, they're not the prototypical American self-defense firearm. No. That's going to be a semi-automatic handgun or, you know, maybe a shotgun.

But still, it's like they're talking about banning. They're going way beyond anything Australia did or anything the British did. This is, you know, it's gun control at a level we haven't seen it a long time. You're listening to Glenn Beck. What if you could add up to $1,000 back to your monthly budget? I'm sure your first thought is, yeah, all right, sure, that would be great. But if you're a homeowner, it's not a, fantasy. Think of it this way. If you're paying down a home loan and your rate is higher than today's

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If you missed Bill de Blasio getting in late last week. No, I didn't. That was a huge. Big story for you guys. Big, big, big story. We were all over Bill de Blasio. Oh, we've been tingling. I was in New York when this happened, when DuBlasio announced.

Man, I bet you the excitement. They hate him. And I'm not talking about just conservatives. I'm talking about liberals. Really? Can't stand the guy. Yeah, he's tearing that city into the ground. It's funny.

I was talking to one guy who is pretty left, and he was saying, it's, you know, he was basically admitting. Like, look, De Blasio is basically a socialist. But the New Yorkers actually like the socialism. They just don't like him. They don't like him. They think he's doing a terrible job. He's, you know, and it's not because he's too many big government policies are being passed. They just think he sucks.

Yeah, they don't like to be. He's never in office. They always run stories about him never showing up at the office. He's always taking naps. He's at the gym. They just hate him. This is so consistent with who de Blasio is and who they see him as, which is a guy who cares more about, you know,

now he wants to become a big, you know, national figure and he doesn't care about running the city, which, you know, has major problems. You know, he can't seem to get anything done. And, like, he announces his... Police Department hates him. Oh, it's really... It's basically universal.

The next day, I think it was the New York Post's headline was Everybody Hates Bill. That was legitimately the headline of the local paper. So he's number 24 in this race. And I think he'll remain there. Yeah. Well, yeah, that's probably true. So I want to give you, I would like to get your guesses on this because this is an amazing race. And I could give you all 24 names, but it would take the rest of the show, basically.

So let's do it this way. There's a new poll out that goes through the Democratic primary. from Monmouth University, one of the most highly respected pollsters out there. And they asked people, who are you going for? And they gave them all 24 names. So they're all in the list.

This is one of the rare, a lot of polls will just poll the top names. They gave them all 24. So how many would you say are at 0%? Out of the 24. How many candidates are at 0%? I'm going to say 12. Yeah, I was going to say 10.

Your guys are right there. 11 candidates. 11. All right. Zero percent. Quickly. Eric Swalwell. Okay.

Seth Moulton. Yeah. Wayne Messum. Yeah, nobody knows who they are. Nobody even knows who Wayne Messam is. He's the mayor of Miramar, Florida. Thank you very much. Yes, he is.

Mike Grevelle. If you remember him, he ran in 2008, I think, and had, it was famous for a very awkward commercial where he stood in front of a pond and stared at the camera for like a minute and a half. That was like really the only thing he was known for. He's back. in the race. He's 87, I think. Oh, wow. Eighty-seven years old. Bullock, Ryan, Inslee. Steve Bullock, the governor of Montana.

Yep. Sorry, yep. Awful. Is he? Yeah. He's trying to run as a moderate. You don't think that's going to work? I don't think so. Okay. Nor do I think he's moderate. No. Tim Ryan, Jay Inslee, John Hickenlooper. Kirsten Gillibrand is the one that really stands out at zero percent. I mean, that she was supposed to be, if not a top tier candidate, a second-tier candidate. Sure. Yeah. And at zero percent, if there's one person I would point to who this is, I mean, Beto, you can definitely make the point. It's been a disaster. But at least he had a high point. Jillibrand has been basically 1% or 0% since she got in. And she's a senator from New York. Like, there's a case here you'd think she made big ways with her calling for what's his face, Al Franken, to resign. And that's why end up hurting her. Because, you know, Democrats don't want the Me Too rules applied to them. They want that reply to Republicans. It's very specific. That's for sure.

So then you have John Delaney, who's been running since mid-2017. And who is he? He's a congressman. He was a congressman from Maryland. He's no longer. He was. He's not even that now. He's not even that.

I think he, the beginning of the year, like he didn't run for re-election, I think. So as of 2019, he's no longer in the race. But he's been running since 2017. That's because everybody was clamoring for him to run for president. There was no sense of running for that office. John, what are you going to run for president? Yeah, they did. And then Michael Bennett, who is one of the most recent guys who got in a,

a senator from Colorado also at zero percent. So now you've got 11 of the 24 at 0%. But you didn't mention Marianne Williamson. Does she have 1%? You know, there's no way. Well, let's go to the next group here. And Tim Ryan? Tim Ryan is at zero.

So how many candidates, again, 11 or down at 0%. How many are at 1%? Oh, she. 24 total candidates, 11 at 0%. How many are at 1%? I'll say 5. Yeah, well, I'll step with five. That sounds about right.

Very close. Six. Okay, six candidates at one percent. Are you ready for him? Yes. Andrew Yang. Okay. Oh, yeah.

Marianne Williamson. Oh, he's got the Yang gang. The Yang gang. That's only one percent of the population. He's waiting to make his move. And it is not one percent of the population. It's one percent of Democratic primary voters. So one percent for Andrew Yang.

Yes, one percent for Marianne Williamson. If you don't know who she is, she's like a new age guru that basically she's, has a lot of associations with Oprah. She used to go on the Oprah show a lot. She's the Kardashian family. So she has like a celebrity situation. If she's going to win the election, right? Like the only path for her is like Oprah and Kim Kardashian both endorsing her and like

campaigning for her. They're not doing that right now. That would probably get her up to 2%. Yeah, maybe. Tulsi Gabbard is at 1%. I feel like they've seen her doing quite a few interviews the last week or so. I feel like they're trying to really push her. who tells she's trying to make a move.

I don't know that it's working. Yeah, she's a really weird candidate because, I mean, she's a very strange set of viewpoints. Yes, she does. She's very, like, photogenic. She looks good on camera. And when you see her in interview, she sounds like the most boring think tank

foreign policy wonk you've ever heard. Like, she's very serious, monotone. And she also has a very strange history for Democrats and that her dad was a big time, like, anti-gay rights campaigner, like decades ago. And she was, you know, appeared at events with him.

And, I don't know. You know, again, she says she's changed those views. She's a former military. I mean, she's got that going for. She's really strong on that.

And she's like the, there is, there are a lot of fan clubs out there these days. You go on Facebook, you find the fan clubs. You can go and join the groups. There's not a lot of members

of the Bashir al-Assad fan club. It's basically just Tulsi Gabbard. I think, and David Duke. Those two. And by the way, in the past, David Duke has actually endorsed Tulsi Gabbard. David Duke.

Now, she's, of course, rejecting that endorsement as most do. But that is, she's a weird candidate. Bill de Blasio also at 1%. Julian Castro at 1%. That's had been a disaster too. You want to talk about another guy who's made no impact? Yeah, because he was supposed to be the next rising star in the Democrat Party.

He was Budigieg five years before Buttigieg, basically. Except he was mayor of a much larger city in San Antonio. And he wound up being the secretary. head secretary. Corey Booker at 1%. That's a disaster. Wow. That's a yeah.

I mean, Corey Booker absolutely sucks. Nobody deserves one, you know, really, really minuscule support more than Cory Booker. Nobody deserves it. I mean, one percent is too much. Yeah, it really is. If you miss it, we did, we've been doing these candidate profiles, the socialist spotlight

on the Glenbeck TV show. Go back and watch the Cory Booker one. I mean, some of the dealings with him in Newark are fascinating. Really? I mean, he, like, started his own tech company while he was mayor. And, like, he got it funded by all these big, you know, big names and multi-millionaires. It wasn't even a tech company, right? It was just like a, it was some, it was like a tech company that we've already been doing that.

Oh, yeah. It still gave it money. It was like a, I think he wanted to be like a progressive search engine. Yeah. It was some weird idea. Google still gave him money. Oh, they gave him a fortune. Because, you know, and then, of course, lots of people who benefited from his treatment and Newark also gave him money, shockingly.

as these things turn out. It's worth going back and checking that one out. So that's the six. A Booker Castro, DeBlasio, Gabbard, Williamson, and Yang at 1%. Okay, next one. Between 2 and 5%. How many candidates?

2 to 5. So far, we have 17 candidates at 1% or less. Beto's between 2 and 5. Yeah, right? Beto is between 2 and 5. He's at 4%. Kamala Harris between 2 and 5. No, Kamala Harris, not between 2.

Wow. Okay. There's two other candidates between two and five, can you name them? Wow. I don't know that I can. Budajek? He's got to be a lot farther than that, right?

No, he's above that. He's above that, right? Oh, you know what? I was going to say two and six. I should probably say two and six. I actually wrote that down wrong. Oh, well, two and six. Now you've screwed the whole thing out.

I did, I did. It changes everything. It sure does. There's three minutes between two and six, my bad. Sorry about that. So I can't come up with two more, I don't think, because, uh, Is Klobuchar in that group?

Klobuchar, yes, 3% for Klobuchar. So 3% Klobuchar, 4% O'Rourke, one candidate is at 6%. She's just a bad person. Can you guess who's at 6%? Elizabeth Warren? Did we already guess, Jeffrey? No, it's not Elizabeth Warren? It's not Elizabeth?

No. And Kamala Harris has got to be higher than that. Right, and you say Kamala Harris. So I'll give it to you here. Pete Buttigieg, 6%. Oh, yeah, okay. Yeah, Pete. I was giving more credit than that.

Yeah, I would have thought of him. I said Pete before you change the numbers. That's why I got it wrong. I feel like the shine has come off a little bit on Mayor Pete at this point. You might be right. I don't know. I mean, I think he's actually a pretty good candidate. Again, I think he's a...

I think he'd be a terrible president. All these disclaimers, like, I don't... I disagree with virtually everything he says, but... But he's pretty well spoken. He says it well. He's a smart guy, his road scholar. He got the military history. He looked really good on that townhouse. And he always...

also has, I think, an elevated protective, protected group status. Like, there's something, like, at this point, we've already had female presidents run. We've had female vice presidents run and almost win. Like, the first gay president, I think, means more to the average Democrat sort of voter than, you know, Cory Booker, another black president, right? Like, I think, like, again, this is how they make decisions. This is not how I make decisions by any means, but this is how the left makes decisions. And they, I think being able to say we put the first gay president on the ticket is going to mean something to a lot of voters. So I feel like he's a very big vice presidential candidate possibility.

Oh, yeah. And he's also, I think, still has potentially another run in him here. Okay, so now we're up to, now I'm going to make sure before I tell you. Okay. There is one candidate at 10%. I'm going to say that's Kamala Harris. Good guess. Yeah, it's not Elizabeth Warren in this particular situation.

She's at 10%. All right. The Kamala's more than that. Next up is Kamala. She's at 11% in third place. And as you'd expect, Bernie Sanders at 15. And in first place, as he always is right now, Joe Biden, 33%. It's not even close.

Not even close. It really is a race of one. Will Joe Biden screw this up is really the question. It's Joe, who's white and the 23 dwarves. That's what it is. It really is. Joe White and the 23 dwarves. Now, we've seen this.

I like that. Joey Caucasian. He, we've seen this before, right? Howard Dean had a huge lead at this point in a campaign. Yeah. You know, actually, it wouldn't even be this point. It would be another. So did Hillary, by the way.

Rudy Giuliani in 2008. Yes. Yeah, Hillary led big. It's easy to see Joe Biden losing this. Sure is. Although if he runs a good campaign and doesn't, if he becomes gaff proof somehow and he runs a good campaign, he would be able to walk to victory. The question is, of course, will that have.

happen. I think the answer to that is no. I mean, Joe Biden is going to have a bunch of bad moments in this campaign. He's incapable of... Who do you think wins it then? The nomination. I mean, I still think Biden's the favorite by any means. I think the interesting question is to go into the rest of the field and say, who could you pull out of there that can make a serious run of this thing? And so I would say, and I've been saying for a while, I think Kamala Harris might be that person. I think she's a, she gives the socialist side of the argument a much better face than a Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren. And I think she's, Dane. dangerous. I think if you're going to go down, let's say Biden were to falter.

Another one, I mean, I think Buttigieg would have some sort of run potentially. I think Klobuchar also would. She has a pretty decent case for a candidacy. I mean, she's one big in Minnesota, which is basically a purple state at this point and an important state. It's from the region where Donald Trump kind of stole their blue wall as they look at it. And she can also give those moderate vibes. I mean, we had Mike Lee in here, and we asked him about every candidate that was in the Senate that he worked with. And we said, who's the closest to the Constitution, if you had to say one. And he, without hesitation, said Clobuchar. Oh, wow. Yeah. I mean, like, so, you know, it means something coming from Mike Lee.

Yeah, definitely. So, you know, if Biden were to fall away, like a Biden Klobuchar sort of ticket could be very likely, I think. AAA 727, B, E, CK. This is the Glenn Beck program. I love getting mail from listeners who respond to our advertisements, and I've been telling you about blinds.com for a long time. And I got this letter in from Tom. He lives in Claremont, Florida. And he said, Glenn, our blinds were perfect. We saved a ton of money.

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So why is Joe Biden so far ahead in this race? Is it because he's more moderate than the others? Or is it just because he was Obama's, Obama's vice president? Because Biden has run several times, and he's never been this close to the nomination. He's got to be because he's Joe Biden, right? He wanted to run on his own,

which is why he made a point of asking Obama not to endorse him. You don't want. That was a great moment when he was asked, hey, why isn't Barack Obama endorsing you? Well, I asked him not to. Really? Yeah, I just wanted it to be fair to the other 23. That's dumb.

You should try to win. It's such a lame. Yeah, I didn't want him to. And he didn't really want. And then he started saying he didn't want to endorse. And then he stopped himself. It was so bad. I think there, I think, like, if you really think about this from the average person in America,

they probably know who two of these candidates are. which are Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders. That's probably accurate. Do you think the average person who knows who Kamala Harris is right now? No. I mean, probably not, right? As these debates start, they will start to know. And I think that will change.

So I think it's largely that they know who he is. And I think it's largely name recognition. Though that will change once these debates start. We're only a few weeks away from them. I mean, the first debate is a few weeks. A month from now. A month from now. That's insane.

Wow. And it's February 3rd is Iowa. So that is, that is, we're going to have, you know, all these months, the whole second half of this year is going to be filled with debates and all sorts of stuff, commercials and everything before I love. And it's not even the election year. No. Think of that. No. You're already debating a year and a half out? Wow. Really early. They did not seem to learn any of the lessons that I would have wanted Republicans to learn from last time, which is like you don't need 647 debates. Yeah. Like you don't need them every other day on every other network and ask all the same questions. They're going to go through all of this. And it's going to be a. nonstop dish of candy for us because there's going to be so much material. You're listening to Glenn Beck, the fusion of entertainment and enlightenment.

This is the Glenn Beck program. Welcome to it. It is Pat Stu, Jeffrey for Glenn, AAA 727, BECK, if you'd like to get involved in the program, we'd love to hear from you. We got an amazing story about a university that's been kicked out of their sports conference.

It's amazing. Sure. The reason, well, it might astound you. And then again, maybe not. It's a matter of fact, we might as well just jump into it. The University of St. Thomas, they're a Division III school. They're being kicked out of the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference. because their teams are too dominant.

We're sorry, you're too good for us. And we're sick of it, so we can't beat you. We want you out. They're like, well, wait, we'd like to stay in the conference. Nope, if you stay in the conference, the conference is going to dissolve. Wait, what? I mean, how dominant have they been?

Do we know? Because I don't follow the Minnesota Intercoregian. athletic coverage. I don't follow it as closely as I should. Back in the day, I used to get, I used to watch every game. But now it's more like no games. Really? Yeah, it's a slight change approach. Yeah, I'd say that's seems like more than a slight change. Really? Yeah, it does. ESPN said St. Thomas has won six MIAC football titles since 2010. Okay, so they won six out of eight or maybe even nine now. Right. And they reached the title game. in 2012 and 2015.

But they also said the school's overall athletic program has been on a winning streak. St. Thomas finished 10th nationally in the Learfield Directors Cup. That's where they take all the sports and add up how you did in each sport and then the school that did the best in all of those sports wins the most points.

You're acting as if we don't know what the Learfield Directors Cup is. I didn't mean to insult your intelligence. Oh, the audience. There's millions of people going, we know, Pat. We know what the Learfield Director's Cup is. Obviously. Why don't you explain the Heisman trophy to us now?

According to St. Thomas, President Julie Sullivan, she said, the league's decision is extremely disappointing. But out of the school is committed to finding a new athletic conference. Although our athletic conference will change, one thing will not. Our commitment to continue to academic and athletic. I mean, according to this, they were one of the founding members of this, of this conference. That's crazy.

A founding member since 1920. And we're going to kick them out because-1920? I mean, they've been in this conference for that long and they're kicking them out because they're too good? They won 47% of all the MIAC championships, both team and individual sports. Not even half? From 2003 to 2018. Still, that's a lot. It's a successful program, but it's not.

But it'd be like the big 10 kicking a lot. Ohio State out of the big town. I'm sorry, we can't compete with you. We don't want you here anymore. I'm okay with that. You know what? You're okay with that? Of course, I would support Alabama getting kicked out of really all. Out of college football.

So maybe we should reevaluate our stand here. Because it is annoying when that team constantly wins. They have every right to get rid of this school. Every right. I mean, it is annoying when a team constantly wins, right? I mean, the Golden State is again in the finals this year and people are

tired of it. They don't want to say. England Patriots. Yes. Tired of it. I couldn't be more sick of the New England Patriots. Thankfully, the Philadelphia Eagles were there to make sure they didn't win multiple Super Bowls in a row. As we all know, everyone thanks God for the Eagles. Do they?

They do. But it is one of those things. It is annoying. And I'm sure as a college where you're losing all the time to the same colleges, I could see it being irritating, but that really should just motivate you to be a better program. Thank you. Yes. Or you drop out, right?

Like if you're really that frustrated with it, you drop out and join a crap of your confidence. It goes back. Now, according to the story, it goes back to one particular game. Now, we talk all the time, but teams shouldn't hold back, you know, how angry we are with coaches who reach 50 points and they're winning 50 to nothing and then pull back.

Oh, I'm all for running up the score. In 2017, St. Thomas played St. Olaf College. And when you bring those two teams together. You can throw the record books right out the window. And you have to because St. Thomas, beat them 97 to nothing. And is this football? I mean, that's a defeat.

Yeah. You know, you would say we need to go back to the drawing board. And that apparently was the catalyst. Well, that should have been the catalyst for St. Olaf to maybe leave. Leave. Or get their football team to be a little bit better. Maybe you recruit better. Maybe you work them harder.

Maybe, you know, you try harder then, right? Well, we'd like to try harder only with St. Thomas out. because really the whole point of sports. It's supposed to be something where it's pure competition, pure merit, right? Now, of course, we all know that that's not always the case anymore. But, I mean, that is the idea of it. It's the last bastion of any merit-based activity in the world. And we're even losing this.

And we're losing that. That's why I think, you know, a lot of times conservatives complain about this same sort of thing. The trophy, the free trophy culture and everybody gets. Award and all of that. And it's not because we care all that much about, you know, who gets trophies. It's about caring about the authenticity of competition. You have to have competition that's merit-based and purer or there's no reason to do it. And, you know, a lot of these sports leagues, when it comes down to the way the salary cap

operates and people switching teams to go play with their friends and all of this craziness that goes on in these leagues these days. It winds up, you know, it's putting a little bit of pollution into that world, and you don't want it there. Yeah. We're just enabling whiners. Yeah.

And losers, really, because if you keep losing in this conference to this school, as you said, that should be motivation for you to work all that, all that much harder in order to get better so that you can come back and beat these guys the next year. Or close the doors. of your program. If you're going to lose 97 to nothing to everybody in your conference, maybe it's time to just close the doors and not do anything more. It's like back in 19, I think it was 1920 or 22 somewhere in there,

when Georgia Tech beat Cumberland College, 22 to nothing. And Cumberland College decided, okay, you know what? We're not going to play football anymore. Yeah, and that's a good decision. It was probably a good decision on their part. It was a great decision. Yeah, if you don't want to be humiliated, you either strive to do better or you quit.

Good old fashion quit. Yeah, you know what? 22 to nothing. It's hard to blame him on that one. You know, if you lose 17-7, you should probably try harder. You lose 22-2-0-0. You're probably not a very good program. I will say, Pat.

I'm a little disappointed that you didn't remember. It was 1916. It was 16? Okay. All right. Was it 22-0-0 exactly? Yes. And I think this was a game where I think it was this game where the team on offense,

one of the reasons why the score was so high, the team that was losing was angry about it. So they were just not trying. trying at one point. I think it's this game. It could be, it could be, there's another game that was the same similar type of blowout. And they just stopped trying to try to prove a point. Like, go ahead, score another freaking touchdown. And then they would just take the ball and not even try. See, that might be the wrong attitude as well.

That might be too. Yeah, they should just get out of the league at that point. Well, this attitude has become so prevalent that it's even entered the NFL where you've got people making $5, 10, $15 million a year on defense to stop an offense. and then they still expect the offense not to try hard. Why didn't you take a knee when it was 27-0-0? Hey, that wasn't nice that you threw a pass. They kicked a field goal with a minute left in a 24-10 game.

Come on. You're like, wait a minute. That's like they should be doing that. I'm sorry, isn't your team payroll like $400 million? Stop them. Stop them. It's crazy. I hate it.

It's crazy. It's such a weird. I mean, and it gets folded into sportsmanship. and I think it's the exact opposite of sportsmanship. If you are taking, and I understand this when it comes to, when it comes to, you know, young kids. A lot of times this is where this stuff begins. But it's like, what is more insulting to a professional athlete?

Either kicking an extra field goal or literally giving up and saying, I'm so much better than you, if I try, will be embarrassing for you. That seems to be worse. Much worse to me. Yes, yes. Triple-8-27-B-E-C-K. More in 60 seconds. This is the Glenn Beck program.

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Right? Is that in lieu of trial? Allegedly. Allegedly. Apparently. I'm sorry. Allegedly abused these 80 women. It is a fact, though, that nothing's been proven against him.

It's true. So far as I know. And he denies it all. He denies any wrongdoing. Of the, of the, the cases, those cases will still go to trial. Two criminal cases. Yeah, the criminal cases are still going. One of them was a rape, alleged rape.

That one is problematic for him because there is audio of him kind of saying he did it. So that's a bit of a problem. Oh, wow. Now, of course, he'll say, well, what I meant was and come up with some other excuse. or explanation, it did pretty much seem like he was going along with the fact that he did grab her several times at the very least. But so the Weinstein thing is this is really the company, right? The company is settling with these women.

There was 80 people who had allegedly, alleged that he had done things to them. And this basically becomes a pool of money that they can get claims from. And it was paid from corporate insurance. So none of this money comes from Harvey Weinstein. and of course he's obviously paid already with the entire company. I mean, you know, what was it? Four days after all this happened, he got fired and within a couple months the company was dissolved.

Yeah, so this is just kind of a fallout from that, which is a pretty big deal. I mean, it's weird because people look at this and they say, well, he's not getting the punishment he should get for these things. And I can understand that, though it's not really your choice. It's the woman's choice, right? Like we like to take the woman's, we say like this is all about Me Too and empowering women, but don't let them choose to take a bunch of money. Don't let them choose what they want to do.

If they want to take a bunch of money, they should be able to take a bunch of money. Right? Like, I mean, you know, a crime is a criminal process for that. But this is not a, this is not that situation. No, it is. But we've also seen in this Me Too movement that they want the bunch of money and then they want to go. They will still be able to tell them later. And that is one thing that has not been discussed as much.

when it comes to the whole Me Too movement, which is, look, humans are awful. Okay? They're really awful creatures. You don't have to look at me when you say that. I did look at you, didn't I? That was almost instinctive.

They're really awful people, and they do awful things to each other. And this goes both ways. I mean, you know, we were just talking about football, Tyreek Hill, who's the star wide receiver for the Kansas City Chiefs, sort of. At this moment, he still is. He's been indefinitely suspended from the team, because of these clips of audio

where he seems to be being abusive to his wife and talking about potentially being abusive to their... It's his girlfriend, I don't know if it's a girlfriend or his wife, and also their child. And, you know, it looks really bad. And then they release a competing tape

where she's basically admitting he did nothing wrong. So, I mean... Yeah. But, like, we don't know where this one turns out. I don't know the ins and outs of it well enough, but the bottom line is, women are also humans, and women are also awful at times.

And so are guys. Everybody does, you know, terrible things. There's examples of it all over the place. And at times, the legal system of the United States and even the victims benefit from a system that they can go and say, look, I don't want to go through the court system. I don't want to be dredged through the mud.

I don't want to go in front of everybody and tell everyone my deepest, darkest, the worst moment of my life. want to explain it. And they had these settlements for those reasons. And now we're like, well, they shouldn't be able to have those settlements. They shouldn't be able to choose that direction. Well, they should be able to choose it. You know, and I think that part of it, if that goes away, you're going to wind up having every woman who has a legitimate claim, had be dragged through the courts by really wealthy people, and it's going to be a terrible outcome at the end. So, I mean,

that's a whole other part of this. But I think the Weinstein situation is going to play out an ugly fashion over the next year. This settlement, I mean, this is like they're reporting $44 million is the pile. That's what it's being reported. You know, that's pretty good. It's a lot of money. That's a lot of money, but it's still only part of what's going to happen to Harvey Weinstein. Oh, yeah. Triple-8-27B-E-CK back in one minute. This is the Glenbeck program. According to the FBI, the average loss in a burglary is about $2,000. That's pretty hard to recover from. Even though. Only one in five homes have home security.

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some new movies are released this weekend, including Aladdin. Any interest in the Lennon? Oh, is it a Will Smith thing? Yeah. Oh, good God. That looks terrible. He's the genie, right?

He's the genie. I don't think I've even seen a trailer. I have. Oh, my goodness. It looks bad. This is one. I feel like it's like a disaster. It looks to me.

It's just like the end of the Will Smith career. Wow. I'm sure that's not true. I mean, like, I don't. It's designed for children, but it's like him as a goofy blue genie. I mean, it's trying to be Robin Williams, right? Yeah. That's a tough order when you're not Robin Williams.

And you're not a comedian. I mean, Will Smith could probably pull it. He'll probably do fine. He'll probably make a lot of money and he'll be fine. But, like, it's going to be hard to take him seriously in the next role. Like, I just, I don't know. It got 60% on Rotten Tomatoes. I think that's the critics.

And then according to Google users, 92% liked it. That's pretty high. Yeah. It just looks to me to be horrible. But I have no interest in this genre. Yeah, that's not a stew type. I mean, it's not an adult type of movie, right? It's a movie for kids. No, yeah. Yeah, live action.

Yeah. For me, you know, it's Pokemon, Detective Pikachu. That's what I'm looking forward to. Me too. Now, my son is very into this. Is he? Now, he's seven. Is it a Pikachu thing? Yes, very excited. He did, he went through a big Pokemon phase. And it saw the preview of this movie at another movie we were at, and it is very excited to see it. I am not as high on it. I'm so glad. I don't have small children to have to take to this. I am so. I am so. glad. Then there's something called... This is Pat, though, where the dine-in theater

becomes a big thing. Because I can go to any movie and it's at a diner in theater. As long as there's food... Just shovel food down my mouth entire time. Yeah. You know, and not to mention, I mean,

you know, this is not going to be necessarily your forte here, Pat. But, of course, the full bar of being available makes Aladdin pretty good. I got to believe there's a certain amount of drinks in which Will Smith's performance is excellent. And I got to tell you, a couple of those movies,

you put your feet up in those movies. You're, I've fallen to sleep before. Especially at a movie with the kids. Like, because if you're not, you know, some of them are good. Daddy, watch. Yeah, I am. I am.

Yeah. Yeah, my kids, like, wandered off into hostile part two. He's in another part of the theater. I'm like having to sleep on a chair. That happens. Did you see the new theater they're opening up in, I think it was Switzerland. And it's basically a bedroom. You lay on a bed.

It looks like a bed anyway. And they've got, they come in and they change it every single showing, apparently. and I mean it literally reclines into a bed with like a bedstand. I don't know how you stay awake with that. No, you just fall asleep. That kind of comfort is just, it gets too comfortable at some point.

They're doing all sorts of these weird things. Have you heard the new, this is off topic, but I've been seeing commercials for this lately, and I think it's actually a thing, which is the Capital One Cafe. Yes. Why would you want a bank that's a cafe?

Right. I don't understand it. I don't want to just go into a bank and bank. Right, because they're like, we're reinventing. banking. Right. And what it means is I guess you go and you get a coffee while you're opening an account. Like, it seems to be a legitimate pitch. I will say I'm intrigued enough to walk into one of them if I could find one. Because I want to know what they're trying to do. I think it every single time. I think, do I want that in my bank?

Right. I don't know that. And they don't seem to ever say they're serving anything. It looks like a cafe and they say the word cafe. But then they just talk about signing up online for bank accounts. And I'm like, well, I can do that. We've reimagined a bank into a coffee shop. Oh, well, I've already, why don't I just go to a coffee shop? Because you're not going to be able to bank there. I don't know if you can bank at the bank. Because it's now a coffee shop. And if you're going to combine two things, I'm not, I don't think bank and cafe are the way I would go. Like there's a place near where I live, and it's like one of these strip balls.

And I don't know if it's a Robert Kraft establishment, but there's a massage place in the strip mall. And next to it is a donut shop. But on the sign for the complex, it just says, massage donuts. And I'm like, donuts and massage is a solid combo.

That's a great combo. Like, I just want to be, you're getting a massage and people are just feeding you donuts at the same time. That's the sort of combination you want.

KFC Taco Bell, right? Like, they're all, they're in the same thing. You go in there, you can order whatever fried chicken thing you want and you get a bunch of tacos.

Yes. That's a solid combination. Yes. I feel like bank and cafe is not the direction we need to be going. What if you could go the other way on the bank cafe,

where it starts as a cafe, but we also do banking now. Like Starbucks. Starbucks, Just open up a bank. We're just reimagining a coffee shop. And we're going to give you banking. Thank you.

A banking experience here as well. It'd be interesting to see if that worked out. I know it's not a movie, but have you started watching Chernobyl yet? No. I have not. So good. The first episode is really good. I know there's three episodes released on HBO now.

I think I'm two in and they both are really good. I really enjoyed it. But I see where IMDB ranked it as its top-rated show now. Oh, wow. 9.5. Nice. And it also had, you know, it's like the top of us launch on Sky Atlantic now of like 1.7 million viewers. Wow.

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Is it a documentary? It is a, no. It is a live action. It's like a series. A mini series on HBO. A limited series. So it's like maybe, I think it's six or seven episodes total. I think only three of them are out so far.

And it just goes through the entire Chernobyl thing from like it starts the day the meltdown happens. And this is an event I'm absolutely fascinated with. I mean, it is legitimately. Yeah. It's legitimately on my. my bucket list of I need to get there. Now, the problem with Trinople is it might be the last thing on your bucket list because you go there

and then you don't come back. No, it's actually completely safe to humans and like they're not moving people back into the area for multiple reasons. No, but animals have moved back to. I just saw that on my nature shows. Yes. And they said it's, it is unbelievable

how the animal kingdom has just moved right back in and there's abundant life there now. Yeah, it's not. There's plenty to eat, the greenery has grown again. And it's not like the Simpsons with Mr. Burns with every fish has three eyes. No. No, but it's fine. It's fine. You know,

later on, physicists have said that the bottom line is they actually probably should not have issued a mandatory evacuation of the area even when it happened. And the thought was at the time... I don't think we understood it at the time. No, we did. We thought it was going to kill a lot of people. And

one of the things that Chernobyl, the series does really well, is highlight the real heroic activities of the people who were there working at the plant and in the surrounding areas. I mean, they basically rushed into a burning building like you'd never seen before

and just to protect the people around them. It was the government that was the complete disaster as you'd expect. No kidding. It really, I mean, you know, this is a, it's not a, people try to make this into, see, this is what can happen with nuclear power. No.

See, this is what can happen with awful government. This is what can happen with common. I mean, they basically were running a giant reactor without a containment facility. Now, that would never happen today, even in places like Russia. I mean, no one would operate a nuclear power plant, anything like Chernobyl. And the other times that we've had issues with, and scares with nuclear energy, they have been nothing but a giant testament to the success of the way they've protected people.

In Three Mile Island, the worst exposure to radiation at Three Mile Island was a full chest of X-rays. A full set of chest x-rays. And that's why thousands of people died. No, no one died. No, he's talking about three. No, he was a three mile island. Three mile island, yes.

Zero people died. The biggest nuclear disaster in the history of this nation. That's actually true, but also zero people died. And, you know, Jeffrey and I have joked about this. We used to do this on Patent's two all the time with Fukushima. But again, zero people. Up date on Fukushima. Zero people died.

Is you carry the one? Yes. Yes, we did. Yeah. So I think we're starting to see some Fukushima animals in the ocean. We are. That's not even a thing. What is a Fukushima animal?

People get confused between the actual nuclear meltdown and the tidal way. Right. The title would killed lots of people. Killed lots of people. The tsunami killed a lot of people. Yeah. 10,000 or more. It was a terrible, terrible incident.

And yet they try to vilify nuclear power. At the same time, they warn us about climate change. When nuclear power would be like the easiest solution to climate change, known to man. It's an unlimited amount of emission-free electricity. And they're like, no, you can't do that. That's the easiest way to spot an actual environmentalist and a person who's using it for political gain. If they will tell you, you know what, yes, nuclear power, please bring it on. They are a real environmentalist. They actually care about global warming. There's a whole group of people who are on the far left who really care

about global warming, but are advocating for nuclear power. And at least you could take them seriously. Like here is, okay, we have this amazing technology that has killed in its entire existence, 59 people, all of them at Chernobyl, basically. I mean, people have fallen at plants and stuff, but I'm talking about actual meltdowns. Um, and we have an amazing, what about the China syndrome when that happened? That, that was a movie. No, I specifically saw that documentary. Yeah, you saw it in the hallway here. Isn't that the one that was the, no, that was the, what was the one that was filmed here in the studios? There's another nuclear disaster, uh, movie that was filmed here in the studios. We're in Dallas. Silkwood. Silkwood. Silkwood. Yes.

With Merrill Street. Who you love. Oh, I see what she was great in that movie, though. She is terrible in all movies. But the Chernobyl thing is excellent. If you think Chernobyl is interesting, it's worth watching. If you just like good television, it's worth watching. But let me give you a third reason.

If you happen to be considering voting for, let's say, a Bernie Sanders, if you know someone who happens to be the type of person who might pull a lever for Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren or anyone else who thinks, you know, AOC, Democratic Socialism is the way to go. It's a must watch for them. Because you see exactly the way these governments operate. You sure do. It was, it's amazing how much you see. It's like, oh, my God.

Yeah, because, again, when you prioritize the collective over individuals, you get this mindset. And let me give you a great example of it. This is from episode one of Chernobyl. And it is, to say, to. set the scene here, the meltdown has happened, they realized something serious is going on, but there's a disagreement as to what they should do about it. And how bad it is. And how bad it is. Like there, a lot of the people there are like, look, it's nothing serious. We've already contained it. Everything's going to be fine. And then there's just the inkling of other people who are

like, hey, like, it seems to be a lot worse than you're saying. I think we should evacuate our families. We should get people out of here. And they're like, no, that's going to cause a panic. And they're in the middle of this back and forth. Who's going to win? The people saying, it's not a big deal or the people who are worried about their families. And so as this is all happening, there's an old, old time socialist. A guy has been around a while. You know, he's kind of sitting in the back room. He's just watching all this happen.

And as the arguing sort of builds up, he taps his cane on the floor and everyone just drops silent to listen to what this old school guy is about to say. And listen to this speech and play it to anyone who wants to vote for Bernie Sanders. because this is how it always ends up. Sometimes we forget. Sometimes we fall prey to fear that our faith in Soviet socialism will always be rewarded.

The state tells us the situation here is not dangerous. Have faith, comrades. The state tells us it wants to prevent a panic. Listen well. It's true. when the people see the police, they will be afraid. But it is my experience that when the people ask questions

that are not in their own best interest, they should simply be told to keep their minds on their labour and leave matters of the state to the state. We seal off the city. No one leaves. And cut the phone lines.

contain the spread of misinformation. That is how we keep the people from undermining the fruits of their own labor. Yes, comrades. We will all be rewarded for what we do here tonight. This is our moment to shine. I didn't think about it. I'm chilling. I didn't realize somebody from Great Britain was in charge.

Soviet. There's a number of them. They are pretty British. Yeah. But it's really well done. They were the head of the Communist Party. A bunch of people from England. I didn't realize that.

Yeah, it's amazing, though. The two parts of that where... Hello, comrades. Fly me, it's a beautiful day. When he says, when people ask questions that are not in their best interests. Yeah. Like, that is the way social, government. Keep your mind on your labor.

Yeah. And they say, you know, when they want to do things that will undermine their own labor, that is how communists and socialists think about these things. Because once you commit to this, once you commit to, we are the experts, we will run things, we will tell

you how it is best to live, what you need to do, how you can control the economy. Once you get there and it starts failing, all you can do is double down and control. So when the state wants something done and people are panicking, seal off the city. Don't cut all the phone lines. Don't let anyone know.

Don't let these people undermine their labor. Yeah, but let anyone know, Stu. That's so harsh. We just wanted to curb misinformation. Curb misinformation. That's the way. There's always a justification. And when you get to this point when you are dedicated to socialism, like, I mean, how many of the 24 candidates are?

I mean, certainly none of them talk that deeply in an overt fashion. But, I mean, when you're an ideologue like Bernie Sanders, when you went to the Soviet Union on your honeymoon, you are so dedicated to this. Yes, you are. That this, protecting socialism from people perceiving it to fail. If he was able to implement this, which if he gets to be president, he will do a lot of it. And he will over, I think he'll get rid of the filibuster. I think he'll do whatever he has to do to get these policies in. And if he does, he will do anything to protect it.

Anything. Because it's all about the collective good. We must protect socialism because if this fails, they'll go back to that individualism. Individualism stuff. They'll go back to the old American system. We can't let that happen. And that's what the Soviet Union was doing there. It was, yes, it was about a disregard for human life, which is the way people normally talk about it.

But in reality, more than that, it was an unending dedication to that idea of socialism. It doesn't matter if a few people die here. Who cares? The bottom line is we will be rewarded for our eternal dedication to Soviet socialism. And the scary thing is what contributed to that? A disregard for human life. They didn't care. It meant nothing to them.

They worked together. And is that not pervasive in the Democrat Party? There are essentially a death cult now. They don't seem to care about human life either. They completely disregard it. that's why it's not a big deal that they can do an abortion in, you know, right up to it including 40 weeks or after 40 weeks. Yeah, whatever. It doesn't matter to them.

Don't even call it a heartbeat. It's a some sort of pulse. Flickering pulse. Flickering pulse. That's the one they're using now, flickering pulse on an ultrasound. I saw someone post something that was like, it said like, pregnancy does not make my body public property. It's like, what kind of weird way is this to look at the world? Like, what we're saying is the other person is not your property.

Just like my son right now, I can't just go kill because he's not my property. He's an individual. He has his own set of rights. And I love this idea that like the left somehow tries to make the argument that what they really want here is the government not to be involved in things. Who the hell are you people? I know. We were all there for Obamacare. You're saying healthcare has nothing to do with the public sector.

It's not public property. Well, that's a right. Why is every one of my decisions when it comes to health care regulated by thousands of things that I can and cannot do? Why am I paying for everyone else's health care if it's not their property, if their health is not my property? Because it certainly seems like you are willing to bring the government into every other health care interaction, except the one that you falsely call health care abortion. It's the one they keep calling health care when it's not, and yet they want us involved.

The only thing they want the libertarian principle carried out in is abortion. It's amazing. So you're saying that's a good thing? Yes, sorry. Yeah, I thought. This is the Glenn Beck program. I love getting mail from listeners who respond to our advertisements, and I've been telling you about blinds.com for a long time.

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for the first time since 1994-95 with, yes, Stephen Colbert. I can't believe he was in first place. I can't either. Because I don't like him. He's not that funny. I don't like him. No. And it's a one-trick pony.

He just tries to make Trump jokes all day. You know, it's interesting. There's kind of competing evidence going on with that Because, you know, he, when he first started Colbert, he was getting destroyed by Fallon. And he was not doing lots of political stuff. And then the Trump thing happened. He started doing the political stuff. And that has been his rise.

So for late night, it seems to have worked. For MSNBC sort of works, CNN, totally not, right? Yeah. You know, and I think you mentioned ESPN as well. Yeah, ESPN, we talked about this the other day. The president at ESPN put a stop to the political talk on ESPN. Good. Thank you.

That's what we've been saying. When you turn to ESPN, you don't want to hear a bunch of left-wing politics. Who wants that? No one. And so he put his foot down and clamped down on it and said, no more. No more. Remember the two people who were doing the Sports Center thing?

The woman who was just basically calling Trump a racist. Jamel Hill, right? And she went to, I think she's at the Atlantic now. Good place for her. You can't have Kevin Williamson working there. God forbid. Right. a well-known, like, great writer that's conservative.

You can't have him there. But Jamel Hill, complete fine. Which, again, you should be able to have, I mean, Jamel Hill can, you know, have a job expressing your opinion. But SportsCenter is a terrible place for it. Terrible. I mean, it was just agonizing. It was just a nonstop social justice parade.

It's like, I get that that's part of the conversation and everything in life, right? Like, God forbid you have a conversation that doesn't involve race. I know. I just like, it has, and again, it's the same thing we were talking about earlier. It is an excuse for everything. And then what I love is, we need to have a conversation about race. A conversation. What?

That's all we've been doing for the last 30 years. What's the difference between Brooks Kepka, the golfer, and Tiger Woods, the golfer, at the same point of their public prominence? Brooks Kepka has won four of the last eight majors. Nobody knows what his name is. Right. Four of the last eight majors. Tiger Woods was an absolute phenomenon.

They're both dull. as a board when it comes to an interview, you know, but Tiger Woods had that extra thing that people liked. Does that mean, I mean, you can put race into every single one of these issues if you want to. It's silliness.

Just, just look at it. Just judge people by the content of their freaking character. It's a bizarre request, I know. You're listening to Glenn Beck.