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Well, scientists have finally come out and said it.
If cats were people,
they'd be psychopaths.
Can you imagine a cat as your CEO?
I mean, it would be a horror show.
Cats are psychopaths.
That's just the theme of the show.
Might be the only time we mention it, but I just want you to know it's now scientifically proven.
If you like cats, there must be something wrong with you because cats are psychopaths.
All right, The War on
Cats with Glenn continues.
Also, we're gonna, I want to talk to you about who we really are and how we build our kids into who they really are, not what society is making them into.
We go there in 60 seconds.
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I want to tell you a story
that really illustrates who we are, who we are as a people.
Now, who we are doesn't mean it's who we're going to be.
And there is a real problem in our country right now
with our children.
I can't imagine being a teenager today.
I can't.
I really feel bad for my kids because my kids are dealing with stuff I didn't even think of until I was maybe 40 or honestly, maybe in the last five years.
And they're forced to deal with it and make decisions on things.
Meanwhile, as they're going through their most awkward time of their life, hey, everybody's got a video camera.
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Can you imagine the pressure they're under?
I'm a dad just like you, and I don't know how to raise my teenagers.
And I'm a dad just like you.
If your kids don't listen to you, you know, your wisdom, because it's dad.
Let's switch kids for a while because I'm I'm sure they'll listen to you.
If anybody else says stuff, they listen to it.
I say it, mom says it, nah.
You don't know what you're talking about.
My kids, your kids, they are adrift in this sea of awful stuff.
My son came to me last week and he was talking about things that he's supposed to do.
And if it was like taking out the garbage, I would understand.
But it's not.
Dad, I'm supposed to be successful.
Well, what does that mean?
Who told you that?
Well, I mean, you're really successful.
I won the lottery, dude.
I won the lottery.
Well, I'm supposed to do this.
I'm supposed to go to this college.
And I'm so...
I said to him, you're not supposed to do any of that stuff.
you're supposed to follow your spirit.
You're supposed to take the things that we taught you, not throw them away,
use common sense, and follow your path.
And every time you make a bad decision,
you limit your future opportunities.
However, once you correct that decision, everything opens up.
He doesn't know, and I don't think our kids know
who they're supposed to be.
My son said to me, I don't know what I'm going to be, Dad.
And I said, You know what I want you to be?
Do you know what I really want you to be?
He said, No.
I said, happy
and decent
and kind
and giving.
Somebody who is full of empathy for others.
All of the things that are already inside of him.
Well, I don't know how I'm supposed to make money with that.
Well, nobody in my family knew how I was going to make money doing this.
And I think a lot of the listeners right now are going, I don't know how he makes money at that either.
So, for people my age
let me tell you who we were
let me take you back to the summer of 1942
farmers and children and women lining the streets of small towns
and they're ready to hurl vegetables and abuse at Nazis
This happened in America.
They waited for the evil bastards to arrive,
ready to degrade their hulking Nazi villains.
But when the Nazi POWs eventually arrived, the townsfolk here in America just stared, mouths open,
eyes sunken.
The air was silent except for the clip-clop drag of the soldiers' long,
long-worn boots.
the sharpened teeth and the bloodlust stares went away.
POWs weren't beast-like like the Nazi death soldiers.
They weren't even men.
Most of them were boys, just like our own.
They were muddy, listless, broken, and terrified.
They marched to their camps here in in America quietly.
Now,
the Soviets had parades.
June 1944, a horde of Nazi POWs slumped down in the streets of Moscow.
57,000 of them were marching.
The story goes that before the Soviets marched the POW, the Nazis, through Moscow, they fed them laxatives
and then wouldn't let them stop.
Not sure if that's true, but either way,
things became very, very verifiably worse for the Nazi POWs in Russia.
There were three million taken by the Soviets.
Between 300,000 and 1 million never made it home.
They were cruel and brutal.
But it was justified, right?
Because
the Nazis were cruel and brutal to the Russians, unlike we can understand.
A decade earlier, the Geneva Convention on Prisoners of War established the rules for housing and care of POWs, and if a nation violates those mandates, they lose those protections.
Combatants are no longer required to treat them in accordance with the rules of war if the other country isn't doing it.
German and Japanese soldiers violated every single one.
Things worse than any nightmare.
The Japanese were the worst.
So all of the Allied powers were justified in doing whatever they wanted to to these soldiers.
And the Soviets were brutal.
But this isn't a story of the brutality of the Soviets and the cruelty of the Nazis.
It's a comparison of that cruelty, about the goodness in Americans.
By the end of the war, 425,000 POWs had been housed in 700 camps throughout America.
Did you know that?
For reference, there were 95,000 Americans that were POWs in Germany.
We had 425,000.
There were POW camps in 46 of the then 48 states.
Camp Rockfield in Wisconsin, Camp Ritchie in Maryland, Roswell in New Mexico, Camp Rubert in Idaho, Camp Ognan in Utah, Camp Rustin in the piney woods of Louisiana.
Texas had 72 camps, the most in America.
The POWs entered America through ports in New York and Virginia, and from there they were dispersed.
According to U.S.
Army, POW guidelines, camps had to be far from urban areas for security, places with mild climates.
They were mostly located in the south, far from the action of the war, and near farming communities.
After all, the country was struggling through a labor shortage, so the POWs were assigned Army surplus fatigues and put to work plowing, tilling, digging, and harvesting.
They were actually paid for this work between 10 and 80 cents per day, which back then was something.
And it could be used to buy toiletries and beer.
And in their free time, they played soccer and chess, and they sang in choruses and performed in bands and orchestras.
They were given three meals a day, and depending on the camp, a beer break in the afternoon.
Do a quick Google search for Nazi POW camps America.
You'll be flooded with articles and documentaries and books describing the humane treatment the Germans received while here.
A camp in Indiana was billed Eden for enemy prisoners.
Camp Hartford in southwest Wisconsin was a converted Art Deco ballroom, where before the war, Lawrence Welk had swooned an audience of young Americans.
Wonderful, wonderful.
There were problems.
I mean, it was still war, after all.
But less than 1% of the 400,000 POWs tried to escape.
The camps were supervised mostly by German officers.
What surprised Americans,
what surprised us most, is that fewer than 10% of the POWs were hardcore Nazis.
Most of them were German boys and young men who had wound up in the quiet parts of an intriguing nation and
now they couldn't believe the size of America.
They couldn't believe that you could ride a train for days and still be in the same country.
They couldn't believe how vast and how quiet it was here at night.
And America changed the men who came here.
Franz May was captured by the British in 1943, was serving in North Africa.
He was a young man who knew nothing about the world, including the war that had grabbed it by the neck.
Now suddenly he faced two options.
He could be sent East to the Soviet Union, where he would most likely die, or west to America.
He didn't have a choice, but fate took him west,
to a camp in the quiet
land outside of Bragg's, Oklahoma.
He connected with the people in a way he never had expected.
He was grateful for the kindness and hospitality he received.
And after the war, he went home to Germany.
Then he went to Australia.
And he lived his life there with gratitude.
Recently,
seven decades decades after leaving America, in 2019,
Franz May
came back to America.
He visited Camp Gruber in Oklahoma.
Think about all the millions that have visited other camps
all around the world and their reaction.
When Franz came to Camp Gruber,
he looked at the ransacked land, now a 90-year-old man, and he said,
this
is what I've always wanted to do.
To come home
to Oklahoma.
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So, in this conversation with my son,
I told him, you just have to remember
who you are.
And then I realized he's not necessarily sure who he is yet.
Our kids don't know who they are yet.
We know who they are, but they're not.
They're not sure.
Takes you a while to find that.
So Saturday morning I got up and I started reading.
things that might help him on his journey.
And I want to share something that we've all heard before a million times.
We all were forced to read when we were in school, but I know I didn't appreciate it until I was
much later in life.
In fact, I appreciate each line differently now than I ever have.
It's if
you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you.
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, but make allowances for their doubting too.
If you can wait and not be tired of waiting, or being lied about, don't deal in lies, or being hated, hated, don't give way to hating.
And yet, don't look too good nor talk too wise.
If you can dream and not make dreams your master,
if you can think and not make thoughts your aim
If you can meet with triumph and disaster And treat those two impostors just the same
If you can bear to hear the truth that you've spoken Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools
Or watch the things you gave your life to broken
And stoop and stoop and build them up with worn out tools
If you can make one heap of all your winnings, and risk it on one turn of pinch and toss, and lose,
and start again at your beginnings, and never
breathe a word about your loss.
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they're gone,
and so hold on when there's nothing in you
except the will that says to them, hold on.
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, or walk with kings nor lose the common touch,
if neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
if all men count with you, but none too much,
If you can fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run,
yours is the earth and everything in it.
And, which is more,
you'll be a man, my son.
We are looking for answers everywhere.
We are looking, how do we fix our problems?
How do I react to my family?
How do I react to people?
How do I fight these battles?
The answers are all around us.
And
they're all the simple and quiet ones.
Just like local is the answer to change
the federal actions.
The smallest actions, the changes in each of us, and the teaching of these things to our children, the simple things,
are the answers to the complex world they're facing today.
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Tomorrow night on our Wednesday night special, an hour one-on-one with Kyle Rittenhouse.
You don't want to miss that.
That is tomorrow night, only on my Wednesday night special in Blaze TV.
Yeah, I was walking out of the studio last night after doing Studios America and just turned around and then there's just Kyle Rittenhouse standing there.
It was really weird.
We have a really surreal job at times.
Yeah.
And the thing is, he's just like a normal kid.
He had his two dogs with him.
He was just polite, seemed nice.
Yeah,
I meet him today.
I'm excited.
Yeah.
I mean, look, he's been in the middle of
a firestorm.
And I don't know, there was a moment there that gave us a little bit of hope the humanity and our legal system and so many other things.
Oh, yeah.
So, I mean, it's imagine going through that at 18.
You were just talking about how you don't even know who you are at that time.
No, you have no idea.
I mean, you know, I thought we all thought, you know, when we were kids, at least I did, I thought 30, oh, he'll be dead by the time you're 30.
That's really old.
They don't know anything.
And,
you know, and you hit 30 and you're like, whoa, wait a minute.
I still don't know anything.
I thought I had all the answers by the time I was 30.
It's weird.
It's weird.
To be a 17, 18 year old kid and go through this his whole life.
Wow, what a journey it's going to be.
I knew exactly who I was at 18.
Really?
Really?
Yeah.
I knew I was the dumbest person on the planet.
Wow, that's boring close to it.
Can I tell you something?
That's a blessing.
That's a real blessing.
Yeah.
That's when I started to change things.
It was exactly at 18.
Really?
Yeah.
Why did you think you were the dumbest person on the planet?
Yeah, I just did dumb things.
Did you care to share all of them?
Did you care to share any of them?
I know Pat well enough to know this is not leading anywhere.
No, I'm not going to be able to do that.
You know what I mean?
He's leaving it at that.
And I know what Pat well enough to know, he's not joking about it.
He really did discover he was the dumbest kid.
And you're not going to hear about it.
Yeah.
No, that's true.
I've done multiple shows with you all this time, and I've never
known you were the dumbest person in the world at 18 or you'd done anything wrong in your entire life, frankly.
Well,
some of us have been his friends since the 1980s.
So you want to come to me on the day of my daughter's wedding and hear about Pat and how dumb he was.
Maybe I can make that happen for you.
I like that.
But I will come to you and ask you for a favor and giving me some dirt on somebody else someday, and you will give it to me.
Totally worth it.
Okay.
All right.
Okay.
So, Pat, we're trying to look for some good news today.
Oh, okay.
Okay.
See, President Biden's throwing a democracy summit with 110 countries on the planet.
You know, 110 really great democracies like Pakistan.
I mean, is there a clearer
indication of democratic people than the government of Pakistan?
So are we leading this democracy summit?
And we put it together.
What's the goal of this?
Just to get together and talk about the important things facing democracies right now other than COVID-19 lockdowns.
Oh, so we won't talk about that.
We won't talk about that because those aren't a problem.
You look into Australia and you see how happy those people are not being able to leave their front door.
Sure, sure.
And you know they've got democracy down.
And the riots all across Europe.
Yes.
Where people are like stepping up and going, no, you're not doing this to me for COVID.
I look at it a little bit differently because
when the Lakers win the championship, people riot.
So I think they're really happy in Europe.
You could be on to something.
Or they're just trying to make a point about race.
A peaceful protest
could be that.
Could be that.
Could be that.
Could be that.
Now, China, I guess, also says that they, too, are a democracy.
Yeah, and they wanted to be included, but we're not including them in that.
Oh, boy.
Oh, boy.
But yeah,
they don't have a democratic election.
I don't know if this
I don't don't know how this is coming to you as good news.
Oh, really?
You don't like that?
No, no.
Okay, well, then how about if you bring up the meeting that he has with Putin today, I'm going to hit you in the face.
No, no, how about this?
Yeah, okay.
Chris Cuomo, also known as Fredo, fired not just from CNN, but also Sirius X.
That's right.
The fall of Fredo.
The fall of Fredo.
That sounds sad, isn't it?
So sad.
And yet so happy.
I knew it was you, Fredo.
I knew it was you.
Fredo wants to make sure that you are aware, however, of course, that he resigned from Sirius XM.
I see.
I see.
And that was just because he just wanted to spend more time with this
with
his
buddy.
Somebody.
Somebody.
Somebody else.
Somebody.
Yeah.
Stu, I did get you a present.
You did?
And I got you another present.
Yeah.
Another.
Yeah, another one.
No.
Oh, really?
Yeah, yeah.
Oh, wow.
Yeah.
That is special.
Framed picture of of the TV with the Chiron that says, Chris Cuomo has been fired by CNN.
Now what?
And I thought that's really a good question for Stu.
Now what?
Now what?
I don't have any show left to do.
Right.
There's no people left.
Canned and they're gone.
It's like me.
When progressivism is finally beaten and the Marxists go away, then I'll be like, well, now what do I do?
Yeah.
There's no more shows to do.
There's no more people to talk about.
And
you have that issue where everything, when you start talking about people and they just keep getting fired, what do you do?
And I've got that void in my life now, the hours I spend listening to Chris on SiriusXM and the hour that I used to spend watching his television program.
What am I going to do?
What are you going to do?
What am I going to do?
All that open time.
Yeah.
I guess I just poked myself with a pickle fork during those three weeks.
Well, it would have been less damaging
than watching the show.
Sure would.
Yeah.
Did you hear, may I bring this up again?
I brought it up at the top of the hour because I think this is the most important story of the day.
That if cats were people, they'd be psychopaths.
This according to scientists.
And that's news to people?
Right.
We all knew that.
That's what I said.
They don't need you.
No.
They don't need you.
They don't care about you.
Nope.
They don't need you.
Nope.
They don't want you.
If cats were CEOs, can you imagine how bad things could be?
Because they'd just fire everybody.
They don't care.
No.
They'd while you were doing your, you know, while you were making the company money, they'd make a figure eight between your legs and they'd rub their head against your leg.
And then the next thing you know,
fire them.
I don't care.
I don't care about them.
That's a cat CEO.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It does seem like the science backs this up.
Has Fauci talked about this yet?
Is it okay to believe it?
No, I don't know.
I don't know.
But, you know,
that's the reason why you don't like cats.
Okay.
That says something about you.
If you're friends with a psychopath,
right?
If you're friends with Jeffrey Dahmer.
What does that say about you?
Correct.
And people are like, he was friends with Jeffrey Dahmer.
If you like cats,
really, what does this say about you?
People should know this is a long-term stand of Glenn Beck, where he believes.
And science is proving me out.
And cats, that cats are psychopaths.
And I guess you can't really disagree with it now because then you're speaking out against
science.
Science.
It's illegal to do that.
I'm pretty sure.
Fact check.
Wait a minute.
Hang on just a second.
Wrong one.
Fact check.
That worked well.
Yeah, thank you.
Thank you very much.
Hall of Fame broadcast.
Yeah, yeah.
Well, that's me.
That's me.
So, you know, my dog, you know, the problem is cats don't, I don't know if they don't remember you or they just don't care.
I think they remember you.
They just don't care.
You know, where my dog cares.
But I'm not sure he remembers me all the time or for very long, you know?
Your dog forgets who you are sometimes?
No, I don't think he forgets who I am, but I mean, let's say I'm dead.
Yeah.
Okay.
He cares, and he'd be licking my face for a while and be like, come on, come on, wake up, wake up.
And then after a while, he'd eat me because
he'd be hungry.
Right.
And he'd be like, oh, I remember all the good times we had, but I'm hungry.
And he'd eat me.
You know what I mean?
Yeah.
So
I'm thinking that maybe he forgets who I am at some point
that would make him eat me.
I think he'd just be hungry and eat you.
Where a cat
knowing that he's eating you.
Where a cat would be looking at you from the kitchen and you sneeze and the cat is like sharpening the knives.
Woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo.
Yeah.
You know what I mean?
Oh, yeah.
They're like, I'm ready to carve you up.
I know who you are.
I've never really liked you.
I certainly don't care, but you look like food to me.
Yeah.
So the cat's not going to wait for you to die.
The cat will kill you.
Yes.
And then eat you.
I'm just saying.
So dogs are better.
Because a dog won't kill you.
Don't mess with science.
One last thing.
Yeah, no dog has ever killed a person that's never happened
kujo's a movie man okay it's a movie okay so um
the chinese have discovered something
on the moon yeah oh i saw that that's uh it's so far away you know what it is it's gonna turn out to be a rock it's a big rock it's a bit you're you're convinced of this yes
scientifically you're convinced what else they're calling it a hut they're calling it a mystery hut a mystery hut a mystery hut what's it going to be?
Yeah.
Well, they say it's a cube, and it's a mystery hut.
And
they're going to spend the next two or three lunar days investigating this mysterious feature on the moon.
Which is actually two to three months.
Right.
Now, researchers expect that it is weirdly shaped,
but they are expecting that it's just a big rock, that it is just a big rock.
But let's not go there.
what could be in the mystery hut
jimmy hoffa
is that where very possible maybe he was buried on the moon
what year did he die was it at 74 or something we'd been to the moon we have been to the moon oh my gosh i never thought of it it's a crypt
it's a crypt they don't even have to go in if they walk up to it and it's a big you know block and it says james hoffa on the front You'd be like, it's a crypt.
That would be a cool surprise, wouldn't it?
That would be a cool surprise.
I'd like that.
The theory is that they transported the body of Jimmy Hoffa up to the moon and then
put him in a crypt rather than just like releasing him in orbit toward like the atmosphere.
Yes.
They went through all the trouble to actually build him a burial.
Somebody with a telescope could see him.
Yeah.
And you'd be there.
But he'd burn up in
the atmosphere and you'd have no trace.
Here's the thing.
What you don't know is this was this a concrete structure, and you know how you know you put your hands, handprints in it after you've made like a sidewalk or something,
cat prints all over
the bottom of this moon hut.
All right, thank you, Pat.
Appreciate it.
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This is the glenbeck program things that might be heard in the white house on the way to the vladimir putin meeting
oh i i thought we were gonna have pudding
that's just what kind of flavor of pudding is vladimir pudding doesn't taste very good
uh so uh i'm excited about that also the uh democracy summit you know the thing we forget about democracy is these places do have democracy that is democracy They might even have a constitutional republic, but what they don't have is the Bill of Rights.
That's unique to America.
And that's the only thing that keeps us from doing insane things.
Yeah, I think, I can't remember if it was on or off the air, but Pat mentioned Australia and kind of like, look at the way they're handling right now.
Do they have a democracy?
And, you know, obviously he's right with that point.
But like, when it comes to democracy,
you know, in a way they do.
Like, these restrictions, while we get all of the negative about them here, they're widely popular in Australia.
Let me give you this.
This is from a couple months ago.
They asked a question to Australians.
Now, we are having about 1,000 deaths a day right now.
They have about one-tenth of our population, roughly.
So they're looking at about, you know, our pace in Australia would be about 100 deaths per day.
Okay.
They asked, how many deaths are you willing to accept once restrictions are eased?
What are you willing to accept as a society?
Living with COVID, what does that look like today?
This looks pretty good today.
Okay.
You'd think, okay.
100 deaths.
You'd like to see it look, yeah.
I mean, you'd like to see it lower, obviously, but like what can you live with to return back to normal?
Correct.
You might say that, okay.
The whole country?
Yeah.
Yeah.
So the highest number they gave was 5,000 per year, which is 13 per day.
13 deaths per day.
Oh, my.
So one-tenth of our rate is the highest number they gave them.
3% said they were willing to live with more than 5,000 deaths per year or about 13 deaths per day.
Then 2% said between 3,000 and 5,000 deaths per year.
10% said between 1 and 3,000 deaths per year.
So now you're at between 1 and 10 deaths per day.
25%
said between 100 and 1,000 deaths per year.
So
between
three deaths a day to one death every three days.
And then the overwhelming majority, 61%, said fewer than 100 deaths per year.
That's insane.
They'll never go back to normal.
100 deaths a year.
I mean, think of it for an entire country.
You have more people falling into their dishwasher every year, killing themselves.
Right.
Right.
So when we look at Australia and we do hear the complaints about these, you know, camps and centralized quarantine.
I mean, a lot of people there love it.
Yes, there are some people who fight back against it, but that's not, again, I come back to that we are exceptional here.
This is a different society.
The Bill of Rights is the separation.
The Bill of Rights is a separation, and it's the one thing that we're not talking about.
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Hey, before we get into any kind of disagreement, let's find some common ground.
Do you agree with the Bill of Rights?
Because if we have that as our common ground, we're fine.
Do you agree with the Bill of Rights?
If they say no, well, then you don't have anything to talk about.
If they say yes, you can find common ground because that's what separates us between everybody else.
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I want to talk to you a little bit about the politicians in Washington and the effect that they may have on Roe versus Wade.
Also,
some good news.
Even though the good news is coming to us sometimes in forms of bad news, well let me explain in 60 seconds.
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So I want to talk to you about some good news that comes disguised as bad news.
For instance, I think we all understand how bad it is that the gas prices are so high.
Right?
Do you know it hit $5 a gallon?
And I'm telling you, this time next year, California, you're going to look at these days as the good old days.
Remember when it was only $5 a gallon.
Gas prices, really bad.
Inflation, really starting to hurt people.
And all of the news that is coming out now, what says, no, no, it doesn't look like it's transitory.
Looks like it's here to stay.
So how could any of that possibly be good news?
Well, because for the first time, we are actually able to engage people on failed policies.
For instance, it's very, very clear there is no other reason why our gas prices have gone up since the day that Joe Biden was elected president.
There's no other reason other than he closed the pipelines and is pursuing all kinds of things that will stop the oil industry, including Build Back Better and the
Green or the New Green Deal or Green New Deal.
All of those things are to get us out of fossil fuels by 2030, which is impossible to do.
If you have high prices of your heat in your neighborhood, you're not going to be the only one suffering.
And you can now reach out to friends and make sure they understand why is this happening?
Because there's going to be somebody that is going to come and fill the void very soon.
When these things happen, they're going to blame it on something.
But right now, there is no other explanation.
They haven't come up with a way to explain away all of these bad decisions.
So right now, it is good news because you can go to your friends and say, do you know that under Donald Trump, we were energy independent?
Do you remember what we didn't even think about, our gas prices, for the most part, under Donald Trump?
Because we were energy independent.
Now we are waiting for OPEC to do something.
OPEC's not going to do something.
They've picked China now over the United States.
So they're not going to do anything to help us.
They've never really been our friends.
And do you want to do you want to be self-reliant or do you want to be reliant on the sheiks in Saudi Arabia?
How many wars have we gotten into because of Saudi Arabia and oil?
Let's kill that baby right now.
We can.
Energy independent.
We were before.
It's important that your friends understand that banks are no longer loaning big loans to gas companies and oil companies.
They're not helping them build any new anything
because of Build Back Better.
It's important to share that with your friends because they're in pain.
And when people are in pain, they want to know the truth.
What is causing the pain?
I want it to stop.
And right now, if you still have credibility with your friends,
you can use that credibility and strengthen that credibility by bringing them the truth.
Inflation.
Gosh, why is there such inflation right now?
It's not anything that anybody has done,
except for the government.
The government is giving people a chance to stay at home.
And so everybody's having to raise their prices.
I mean, we have it on tape with Joe Biden say, you know what, you're having a hard time getting workers, then you should raise the price.
You should raise the wages.
Well, we have, and it's still not working because you're still paying them too much money to stay home.
That's why we have inflation.
That and the fact that everything is broken.
And what is it that you are seeing this government work on?
What are they doing?
They're working on the Build Back Better Deal.
They're working on the Green New Deal.
They're working on climate change is their number one priority.
So good news coming
in the way of bad news is actually
kind of important.
Now there is something also, some good news that came out was, I think,
that the end of Roe
may be happening this year.
Something that we all said would never happen, couldn't happen.
It might by this summer.
Now, that's good news.
Coming with that is something wrapped into that good news that you don't want to hear, and that is the Republicans
are now saying, some Republicans, are now saying that that could hurt our chance to win the Senate.
That could ruin our chance to win the Senate because people will be up in arms and maybe we don't win the Senate.
Maybe we don't even win the House.
You know, this is a hill that I'm willing to die on and I think a lot of Americans are.
If it means we only got the reversal of Roe versus Wade,
I'm good.
I'm good with that.
I'm good with that.
I mean, it's weird that You know, they always said, we'll get that done if you give us the House, the Senate, and the White House, and they never got it done until they don't have the House, they don't have the Senate, and they don't have the White House.
That's kind of a weird thing, isn't it?
But if they don't,
if they choose
an election overturning abortion, it will be their last move.
They will have absolutely the
people who still are Republicans, I think will just go bat crap crazy.
How many times?
Now you have it?
You have it?
It's this close and you want to screw it up?
You know, we've been talking about national divorce.
I hear this all the time and I hate it.
I hate it.
We should secede.
No, we shouldn't.
No, we shouldn't.
They should.
We shouldn't.
Those are our documents.
I don't know about you, but I want to live by the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights.
I want them, even though I know sometimes they'll cut against the things that I want.
That's fine.
I'm totally cool with that.
I believe in the Bill of Rights.
It's what makes us unique and what made us us.
California doesn't want it?
Fine.
Others don't want it?
Fine.
But you secede, not us.
Because we want the documents.
But again, in bad news comes good news.
California, Minneapolis, New York, they're imploding.
They're imploding.
Chicago is imploding.
And it's sad to watch.
If you look at California, it is the poster child for ineffective ideas.
They defunded the police.
Crime rose.
They elected progressive
AGs
and progressive prosecutors, and criminals are let back out of the street and crime rises again.
They lock people down and COVID-19 remains.
Florida, on the other hand, seems to be doing really well.
They tax the rich and the businesses move out.
All of the things that we have always said will fail are failing right now.
It means that scientific proof exists
today
that when we are talking about raise taxes and watch what happens.
Do you see that Goldman Sachs just yesterday, day before, said to New York, don't take your status for granted.
You raise taxes anymore and we're gone.
So is Wall Street.
Everything we've said
is happening right now.
It gives us a chance to say, no, look, it's not theory anymore.
We're not just telling you, oh, it happened that way a long time ago.
We're saying, right now, look at it.
What's happening?
We knew it would happen.
We didn't hope to see the rise in homelessness and crime and drug abuse.
I wish we hadn't seen one of the most beautiful states in our nation destroyed.
I wish we hadn't been right.
And as much as I've always said California should just break off and sink into the Pacific, I've been kidding.
I love California.
And not all hope is lost for California or other states.
We're just approaching things, I think sometimes,
with the negative because we've been beaten down so long,
been told we don't matter, nobody's going to listen to us, but that's not true.
Those are lies.
When Martin Luther King gave his I Have a Dream speech, he laid out his vision for the states most unsynthesis
to his cause.
He knew the ones that would not be sympathetic, Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama.
He was speaking about those states.
He said he had a dream that his sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners would sit down at a table as brothers in the red hills of Georgia.
He didn't condemn them.
He gave them a vision, and it might have sounded like a crazy vision at the time, but it was a vision of America for all Americans.
This is why he marched in Alabama and believed in the future of Mississippi
because he believed that the promise of America was more powerful than the cruelest lapses in its people's judgment, he believed that the states most guilty of racism could make a new future in accordance with the American promise of the past.
Before all of America believed in him, he believed in all of us.
It seems far-fetched and naive
when he first said he had a dream in 1963,
a dream that specifically involved the states most soaked in the blood of guilt and slavery.
But we look back on it now, we go, this man was enlightened.
This man was wise.
The world doesn't usually reward the pessimist.
It's the visionary that makes all of the difference.
Are we pessimists
or are we visionary?
We don't look back on the people who said space travel was foolhardy
or the realists who thought we'd never beat England.
The left lives in a dream world.
But the right needs.
We could stand to dream a little bit more.
It's funny because we do in our own lives.
We dream for a better future for our own lives or a better way to do business and we do it.
But we don't often spout those lofty dreams.
We're the party of facts and warranted apprehension.
We pride ourselves in being planted in reality.
But it has in some ways made us pessimistic.
We can't be the people that believe the worst in each other.
They already do that.
When something good happens,
we can't say, I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop.
Pessimism is not wisdom.
Hopelessness is not more realistic than hope.
If that were true, Martin Luther King would have been a fool then.
He'd be a fool today.
I argue that hope is more clever than defeat, that the faith in things unseen is the only way to bring those unseen things to reality.
Martin Luther King could have stood before the Lincoln Memorial and given a eulogy for the American dream that it died, because in many ways it had.
I can make a case that it died in 1820.
He could have laid out an evacuation plan.
He could have said we should secede.
He could have bemoaned the forces intent on the failure of his movement.
He could have told the former slave states that they were irredeemably soaked in sin.
But he didn't.
He laid out a great dream for Georgia and Mississippi and Alabama.
He laid out an expression of hope despite the odds,
and that hope changed the nation forever.
Somewhere in the Red Hills of Georgia, there are descendants of slaves and slave owners who now live side by side as brothers and are sitting down and having meals.
There are interracial couples in Mississippi, and we have a black mayor of Selma, Alabama.
See, America did move on
because there was a great vision expressed.
It's time we start expressing our great vision for what comes next in America.
The vision of Martin Luther King, the hope of Martin Luther King,
is now credited to him
as righteousness.
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Somebody said to me the other day,
I brought up the Hallmark channel.
And I said,
I'm really beginning to love the Hallmark channel.
And not because the stories are that great.
I mean, I'm surprised every single time two people who don't seem like they have anything in common, usually either their friends or somebody in their family is against what the other person is doing, trying to save their town, usually.
Usually saving the town, and then the other person really likes business.
Correct.
And they just want to take over the town and do something.
But it's usually a misunderstanding.
Somebody should have said something before they did, but they didn't expect to fall in love.
Anyway,
it's fun because,
I mean, I just watch it sarcastically, quite honestly.
And my wife will be doing something, and I'll be doing something, and the Hallmark channel will be on.
I'll be like, oh my gosh, oh my gosh, honey, did you hear this?
I love it.
Who would have seen this coming?
And,
but there is something also about the Hallmark channel that is
needed right now.
You know, you turn on everything else, and it's just so nasty.
Everything is just so nasty.
It's, you know, it's Ted Lasso.
Ted Lasso has a lot of swearing in it and everything else.
It's hard to get, you know, it's hard to get past that if you're somebody that's not used to all that.
But at least it's happy.
At least it's hopeful.
At least it's moving people in a better direction.
You know, the people of the show.
Do you watch Ted Lasso?
No, but I watched the first couple of episodes, and there's definitely that sort of optimistic
spirit throughout, right?
This kind spirit.
And I think that's what we're missing.
Kindness.
We don't see kindness very often.
Yeah, that's why I've been watching Succession.
They're just all so kind and very kind to one each other.
Yeah.
Yeah,
I can see that kindness.
A loving family.
Yeah.
Doing whatever they can to stay together through tough times.
It's a great inspiring tale.
Uh-huh.
Uh-huh.
Probably not the best example on that one.
But hey, maybe some kindness and maybe some hope.
Tomorrow's Wednesday night special.
Kyle Rittenhouse is going to be joining me for the flower.
Kyle Rittenhouse,
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You know what's white and red and wrapped, wrapped white and black and wrapped in red, ready for Christmas?
What's that?
The Great Reset Christmas book.
It's perfect.
It's perfect this holiday season.
Why would black and white be a holiday message?
Because
Santa, black soot, white hair.
Okay, yeah, yeah, I agree.
White and red, the wrapping of it says a great reset right on the front.
Perfect gift for the holidays, the great reset.
Yeah, yes, it's about Joe Biden and 21st century fascism, but let's not concentrate on that part.
It's good for Christmas.
You can get it now, wherever you get your books.
Go to Amazon or Barnes and Noble and grab the book right now.
It comes out in January, but be the first to have it.
And you can tell your loved one:
hey, Merry Christmas.
In that box, it might be empty.
But there's a note coming soon, Glenn Beck's new book, The Great Reset.
So basically a scam if you forget to order something.
Yes.
Yes, okay, perfect.
Definitely do that.
So I can see your kind of good holiday news.
Oh, really?
The Great Reset.
Yeah.
I can see how it
ties in.
There's some good stories out there.
There are some good stories.
I'm in the holiday mood.
Yeah.
For example, it's always good when people can learn things, learn new things.
Right.
And be safer around the holidays.
I have a feeling you're being sarcastic, but I'm willing to go down this road.
This is why we have clip two.
This is the Washington, D.C.
media helping out their viewers for the holidays.
Could we play this, please?
No.
Oh, machine's frozen.
A frozen, just like frozen hot chocolate, available now at Macy's.
Here it is.
Three men shot and wound, or I should say three men shot and wounded a man and carjacked another person at some point in the middle of the night
in order to prevent a carjacking.
Well, here's what we should be doing.
doing stop this is not festive it's not festive i thought it could play play the christmas bed we just came back and then
can you play that sarah
all right now play
three men shot and wound or i should say three men shot and wounded a man and carjacked another person at gunpoint in the middle of the night in order to prevent a carjacking well here's what we should be doing police say lock the doors when driving and when pumping gas.
In fact, stay in your car if you can at the gas station.
Always look around before getting out of your vehicle.
And if you are the victim of a carjacking, give up that car.
Your life is just not worth it.
Equip your vehicle with an anti-theft or GPS tracking device and allow yourself room and traffic to move around other cars.
Avoid getting boxed in, if you will, and keep your cell phone in your car.
This is America.
That's all you need to do.
That's it.
Just those things.
Just that list of 47 things.
Yeah, just that.
And
you could not be stabbed or shot to death.
And isn't it good if you're not stabbed or shot to death?
It is the holiday spirit.
It's what Jesus would have wanted.
Little baby Jesus didn't come up in the manger so you could be shot and shivved.
Right.
Right.
That's the holiday season at work.
Or how about in California, Clip One, where, you know, if you happen to be.
Be ready with the Christmas music just in case we need it.
Go ahead.
If you happen to be someone who sells drugs,
you might have a difficult, a difficult life on the streets selling drugs to people and it may be dangerous.
Okay.
Well, that's changing now.
Listen.
A former convict says he felt safer during his life of crime after his Oakland cannabis dispensary was ransacked last month.
Listen to this.
I was safer selling weed on the streets of Oakland than I am selling illegally, and that's a problem.
That's crazy to even say, but that's just the reality I'm living in right now.
I mean,
it may be a problem for him.
Merry Christmas.
This is, again, remember: the holidays, you're not supposed to think of yourself.
This may be a problem for him, but it's better for the weed dealers on the streets.
Wow.
See, it is safer
on the streets.
How about this?
You liked his stories in the holiday season of real achievement.
People with incredible accomplishments.
She loved that.
Start the story.
Leah Thomas.
Leah Thomas, she's 22 years old.
She smashed two U.S.
swimming records in Akron, Ohio.
Oh, you mean the dude that's now swimming for the women's team?
No, I don't know what you're talking about.
She defeated Anna Sophia by 38 seconds.
38 seconds.
In a swim.
Wow, that's almost like.
It's almost like he has more muscle tone
or testimony.
I'm not by mistake, but it's she, Leah Thomas.
Well, she is in she.
You know what I'm saying?
I'm just leaving off the first S for savings.
She won another race by 14 full seconds.
She competed in a women's
swimming event and broke all the records.
And wow, what an accomplishment for the holidays for Leah Thomas.
Really good.
That is
100%
like a woman.
A beautiful woman.
You know.
A beautiful woman.
She looks beautiful and could compete with Caitlin Jenner for the Olympic.
I think we should send her to compete in the Olympics.
I mean, if we're going to go there, let's make use of this.
Okay?
Let's send all of our
he's
to the Olympics
and
see what the Chinese have to say about it.
I'm really upset about this whole.
We're going to do an ambassador boycott.
I'll tell you that right now diplomatic boycott we're not going to have a cocktail party and no American weenies for the for the Chinese to munch on I'll tell you that right now none of our embassies no no sir a diplomatic boycott oh that's got to hurt you're not torn on this at all there's no part of you that's torn on this nope I mean you are an act you're an athlete you've prepared not to you I'm saying I'm giving you a hypothetical situation here you are not an athlete but the hypothetical situation you are an athlete.
You've worked your entire life.
I have.
Basically, you know, 80 hours a week training
for this event.
Yes.
And because of no fault of your own, no fault of your own.
You are now told you're not allowed to go to the event.
I'm thinking, okay, I'm an athlete.
I've worked 80 hours a week.
Your entire life.
No, I don't need the music for this.
Okay.
I'm just thinking.
I'm just thinking, I've worked my entire life, and they say, hey, go compete in China.
To defeat China.
To defeat China.
Show them.
Beat them.
Put them on the
give them.
But without even saying anything about it.
Without even saying anything about what?
You know, not making a statement.
You know, if I knew we were sending a bunch of Americans over there that would stand up and then, you know, make a fist for the Uyghurs.
Then I would be fine with it.
I'd be fine.
I will.
I mean, they might not come back if they do that, but
maybe they will do that.
Yeah, they would come back.
The United States would have a coronary.
Oh, yeah.
We're very tough and have a big backbone right now against China.
You're right.
Seriously.
Yeah, no.
Okay, no, American citizens would have a coronary.
I mean, you know, it was one thing with Jesse Owens.
Jesse Owens didn't want to go.
I mean, he was going to Berlin, and there was half the country said, don't go, don't go, don't go.
But Jesse Owens was important to go.
It was really important for him to go.
Oh, sure.
Because he was going to stand up against the German.
And we knew there's a good chance he's going to win.
That's a good thing, a slap in Hitler's face.
This is not a slap in
Xi's face.
This isn't a slap in...
This is us just going along as we always go along.
Maybe.
I mean, I think, first of all, if you can beat their asses, I mean, that's sending them quite the message.
And I don't know enough about these games to know if we will or not, frankly.
I don't follow it all that closely.
But I like the idea of us
beating them.
But beyond that, like just as a, you know, you, it's your whole, whole life's work is leading to this one moment.
And then your country tells you, an individual, no, you're not allowed to travel.
I mean, that is not exactly the most American concept of freedom that I've ever heard.
I'm going to wrap them all in swaddling clothes.
That's what I'm going to do.
I'm going to take all of the athletes and I'm going to wrap them them in swaddling clothes.
You don't care about this because you're not an athlete and you don't know anything about athletic accomplishments.
I can understand, but we're talking about
evil.
It's not like we're talking, you know, it was the Soviet Union, it was
the Nazis, and it's China.
They all fit in.
Would we have been proud if we would have been like, hey, they've built a new stadium right next to the killing fields?
Let's all all go.
We wouldn't have done that.
You know, there are thousands and thousands of American businessmen in China right now doing their jobs.
Right, and I think we should reevaluate this and we can maybe start with the Olympics.
I mean, we should start with the things
we don't have to do.
Start with the things we don't have to do.
You don't obviously have to do the Olympics, but
we can show
symbolic victories against them.
I mean, it is a propaganda situation.
And again, I think not sending your diplomats says something.
They're pissed off about it.
We know that.
China's pissed about this.
Now, it doesn't matter at all to me.
Honestly, if we didn't even have any more diplomats, we'd probably be better off.
But, you know, this is something that means something to China.
Here's what would have happened years ago.
If we would have done one in Russia, which we didn't.
Well, we did.
In 80,
84 was here, and the Soviets boycotted, and we boycotted in 80.
Was it 1980?
I'm forgetting the years, but we boycotted them at one point.
We did.
Yeah.
So
imagine
back then,
ABC, NBC, whoever would have had the Olympics, let's say it was, you know, Dr.
Pink Eye that is covering the Olympics again.
What's his name?
Oh, Bob Costas?
Yeah.
The only thing I think got me.
The only thing I can remember.
He doesn't know what he means.
That's all anybody remembers from that year of Olympics.
It's like, oh, my gosh, what is that?
Anyway,
if he would have been broadcasting, if he would have gone over to the Soviet Union, they would have been broadcasting.
They would have had all kinds of stories about how awful and oppressive that was, and how much of the stuff we have to say is because we have monitors with us and they'll threaten to pull us off at any time.
It would have all, we all would have known that, and they would have made a big deal before and after.
Okay.
Now,
NBC Universal,
you think they're going to be doing ABC Disney?
You think they're going to say anything about how bad China is?
But they're all going there.
All the broadcasters are going to go there.
We're not going to stop them.
They're all going to cover the games.
We're not going to stop that.
And we can all
sponsorships are going to go through.
Yeah, but we can do that.
That's our choice.
But the country making that choice for these athletes and these athletes only, I mean, again, I would say I'm torn on it, but I mean,
it's a tough one because, I mean, these people have nothing to do with this.
They've worked their asses off with the promise that if you're good enough, you're going to go to the Olympics.
And then a couple weeks before, we're like, ah, yeah, I know all of your life's works led to this moment, but no.
I mean, that's a tough place to put an individual American citizen who might want to make a different choice.
We don't stop people from traveling there, going on vacation.
They don't need to go on vacation there.
I mean, we don't stop, we let people go where they want to go.
And this is the one time we're going to change.
I don't know.
I do see what you're saying.
It would send a very strong message.
You're representing
america our relationship with china is different than our relationship with the soviet union and if you want to change that and oh i think we should right we were on that path that in advance
i can understand that stance but it's that's not our current state if it was in north korea right now we wouldn't be sending anybody right right you know we wouldn't now i don't know why they wouldn't even they can't even build a hotel let alone a stadium yeah i mean it would not be a good one you'd
uh hey our javelin ran out of javelins uh here use this person that we've kept in a concentration camp as a javelin now.
A javelin target?
I mean, just bad.
Yeah, no.
So I do understand what you're saying, but you have to have some sympathy for these athletes.
I do have sympathy, but I have more sympathy for the people that are looking for someone to give them some light at the end of the tunnel, that somebody recognizes them, that somebody says,
Enough.
Oh, well, LeBron James recognizes them.
He just doesn't care.
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One I care about, one I don't care about.
Okay.
Cut.
So you'll have to decide which is what I'm saying.
Okay, sure.
Cut four, please.
We've got Omicron as a new factor.
We've got the colder weather, which is going to really create additional challenges with the Delta variant.
We've got holiday gatherings.
We in New York City have decided to use a preemptive strike to really do something bold to stop the further growth of COVID and the dangers it's causing to all of us.
So as of today, we're going to announce a first-in-the-nation measure.
Our health commissioner will announce a vaccine mandate for private sector employers across the board.
Of course, this is not going to work.
It should not be approved by the courts in the first place, and it's not going to do anything anyway.
I mean, I don't know the exact New York City rates of vaccination, but they're quite high as it is.
But this is obviously just a thing.
Bill de Blasio is putting this
into effect four days before he leaves office.
So this is just
a thing to do to promote his gubernatorial campaign, in which he's already at least in third place and maybe lower.
Now, you may think that that's the one I don't care about.
That was definitely.
There is a choice
because then there's this in New York, cut three.
Cut three.
It's frozen again?
It's very cool.
Well, it's winter, so the machines freeze up a lot.
Okay, well, let me just give you the story.
Apparently,
according to New York City bagel shops, there is a cream cheese shortage.
No.
Now, for me,
that's the last straw.
I live in New York and they're like, no cream cheese for your bagel.
I'm out.
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This is the Glenn Beck program.
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the President of the United States is meeting with the President of Russia, Vladimir Putin.
Oh my gosh, who's going to win in that one?
It's a Skype call going on right now.
We'll get to that in 60 seconds.
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This inflation is real.
It's persistent and it might be here for a while.
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What?
I thought it was completely transitory.
Yeah, where's the word transitory?
It's supposed to be in every inflation.
I know, and I didn't think that it was supposed to be bad, but they're saying now it could go till 2023.
Oh, so that's good.
That's good.
So maybe we should just have some more lockdowns.
Anyway, the real kicker here is wage inflation, which is described as sticky.
That's a sticky.
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Oh,
Stu, how is, how, you know, it would be fun if we could get Jeffrey Toobin
to
Skype in right alongside of of the president and Vladimir Putin.
I think so.
I like that.
That hopefully would end the call faster.
Vladimir would see what was going on, maybe sign off quickly, and then less damage can be done.
That's the only, my only hope here is that Zoom meetings typically accomplish nothing.
So hopefully nothing bad can happen here.
Maybe they won't understand each other.
Maybe someone in the White House can kick out the Wi-Fi and just get this thing over with.
There's got to be a Patriot somewhere.
Yeah, just if you happen to see a Wi-Fi connection, just disable it.
Just disable it.
Make it like hotel Wi-Fi.
That never works.
Right, that'd be great.
That's all we need.
That'd be great.
You should have him do this at a hotel.
The more expensive, the better, because the more expensive the hotel, the less chance the internet works.
That's definitely true.
Oh, Mr.
President, did we book you at a hotel where the Wi-Fi isn't working?
And today is the Vladimir.
Oh, well.
Don't I have one of them communication boxes in the van?
No, we don't.
Nope.
Uh-uh.
Not in the van, the van that follows us?
No, no, no, no.
No, that's just a child molester.
Don't worry about it.
Just a child molester.
Yeah, it might be.
It might be.
It might be a government official child molester.
So you got that going for you.
So they're going to talk a little bit about
Ukraine, which, I mean, I think Joe Biden.
is, I mean, he already has threatened Mr.
Putin.
You know, hey, back off.
And that's a lot.
Vladimir really just, empty threats are his game.
Yeah, it is.
He likes
sanctions are coming.
Please don't take away our ability to saturate American market with staking dolls.
Russian staking dolls.
Don't take ability away for that.
Right.
Yeah.
If we take the Russian stacking dolls, well,
okay,
what I really don't care about is
oil pipeline to Europe, but I really do care about Russian stacking doll business.
Don't touch that.
Make me cry, boo-hoo.
I think Vladimir Putin could be almost that
clear.
And Biden would be like,
you got to take these people in their word.
Gail after the stacking dolls.
What would you do?
What would I do?
Yeah, Glenn Back, your president of the United States.
I wouldn't have given him, A, I wouldn't have given up all of the momentum that we had had with Donald Trump.
And I would have said, you know, even if I if I disagreed with Donald Trump, you know, many of the things that he did, I disagreed with.
But,
you know,
he had the world on the right footing.
And
if you think he was tough, if you think he has a twitchy eye, why, I might just be senile.
You play up the senility?
Yeah, I would.
I would play up the, I could be dangerous too.
I've got a button.
Look who could press it.
I like that.
Yeah.
I like that.
I mean, that's what that's the only thing that has stopped somebody like Vladimir Putin because he'll always, he'll always outsmart, out-evil somebody.
But they don't believe us at this point.
Certainly not with Joe Biden as our president.
It's too late.
So, you know, I mean, and believe me.
Having Homer Simpson as our president.
Imagine Homer Simpson.
I think Homer Simpson might have a better chance of getting the things through than Joe Biden.
If Homer Simpson were sitting at the Oval Office desk having the teleconference with Vladimir Putin.
Oh, I would have much more confidence in someone like Simpson.
We're talking about a nuclear engineer.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Much more confident.
Much more confident and competent.
But like if Russia, which it does appear like they might be preparing for, invades Ukraine and just like, you know, takes over the country.
We do nothing.
We're doing nothing.
And that's the end of this.
We just say, oh, darn it.
And then, you know, maybe there's some sanctions and there's some, there's some angry letters and speeches, but that is it, right?
And if we know that, Vladimir Putin definitely knows it.
Yeah.
They're not doing, they're not going to do anything.
President Z.
You don't think President Z and Putin are talking back and forth going, what moron this guy is, huh?
Yeah.
And then, obviously, Zi with Taiwan is another logical situation.
If Vladimir Putin goes into
the Ukraine and we do nothing, I mean, sanctions.
Ooh, not sanctions.
I mean, I don't want to go to war, but
this is why you have a big stick and you walk softly.
Donald Trump had the world convinced
he was bat crap crazy, that he just might do it.
That guy could launch.
He doesn't care.
Now,
I think he did care.
Of course.
Deeply.
But they were not able to read what he might do, how he might react in a situation.
And his wants were very, very clear.
Donald Trump
was very clear on how to deal with him.
He was going to do the right thing as he saw for America.
So there's no deals off the side that you can make with him.
Just flatter him, say, hey, love your hotels, dude.
Love your hotels.
You're great, wonderful.
Flatter him and
give him as much as you can that will help his country.
Right now,
what is Biden coming to the table?
Who's he really protecting?
Seriously.
Who's he protecting?
Him so far out.
He's not protecting anybody.
Right.
That's one of the tragedies of his presidency.
What's he stand for?
Seriously, what does this guy stand for?
He doesn't stand for traditional America, for the America that we've always known and loved.
No.
He doesn't stand for that.
He's not standing for regular jobs.
He's standing for union jobs.
Who does he really answer to?
You or the union or who?
I don't have any answer for you on this stuff.
I don't know what he's doing.
I don't know what he's trying to do.
I mean, he is like, I know what AOC is trying to do.
I don't know what Biden is trying to do.
I mean, I just, it seems to me he wants to, he wants to, he's in a contest to get to the lowest possible approval rating.
That's the only thing materially I can tell that he's trying to do.
He's trying to get to 6%.
He's on his way.
So do you think that
here's the advice
to
President Joe Biden
from the Ukraine defense minister?
Please stand firm against Moscow.
If I can advise President Biden, I would like him to articulate to mr.
Putin that no red lines from the Kremlin side should be here.
The red line is here in Ukraine, and the civilized world will react without hesitation.
The idea of not provoking Russia will not work.
So what he's saying is there's a red line, and if Russia moves, there will be, quote, a bloody massacre.
And so what they're asking is, look, I've talked to the Ukrainians.
The Ukrainians are very clear.
They will fight you to the last man.
It will be a bloody massacre.
And we're not going to see all these people massacred.
NATO will respond.
Don't do it.
But he doesn't have
the credibility to pull that off.
No, he doesn't.
And, you know,
look, if you think we're going to stop...
If we allow the Ukraine thing to happen, which I fully expect,
will there be sanctions?
Yes,
we'll do something.
More staking dolls no longer for sale.
No more stacking dolls in Walmart.
Oh, they got rid of our diplomats.
Oh, boo-hoo, I'm crying right now inside deeply.
Right.
So, yes, some of that stuff will happen.
But if you think, you know, remember, Ukraine has twice as many people as Taiwan and has 10 times the land mass or more.
So
if we don't do anything about Ukraine, we're not going to do anything about Taiwan.
Now,
this is free reign.
And I think they all realize they have it.
All these countries realize this is the time to take your steps that you've been wanting to take for years and years and years because we have shown, particularly in Afghanistan, but in so many other areas, that we are weak.
And you can roll over us and we're not going to do anything.
You know what's really scary is for years I've said there's going to come a time when the rest of the world will look at each other and go, oh my gosh, nobody's watching the store.
Go now, now, now, now, now.
It does feel like we're there.
And it feels like that.
It feels like that.
I mean, it's going to be really interesting.
I'd love to see
this actual.
I'd love to be a fly on the wall and actually know
what was being said.
I bet it is head in your hands.
Kind of the embarrassment that the prosecution had on
the Kyle Rittenhouse trial, where you're just like, oh, my God.
Oh, my gosh.
This is happening.
I can't believe this is happening.
I bet it's that.
I bet it's going to be that.
I don't think, other than symbolism, though, that there's much to happen here in this meeting, is there?
I mean, you know, look, Vladimir Putin's going to say what he wants to say, and Biden will probably say things that are, generally speaking, consistent.
You'll take a measure of the man, though.
Yeah.
And that's why, that's why Hitler.
But do they need to do that with Biden?
They know who he is.
The guy's been going around the world for the past multiple decades, begging people for money.
I think you want to know how
I think you want to know how, if I'm a foreign, if I'm a foreign actor and I can have a meeting with the president who I've met a million times in the past, but I can have a meeting with him now one-on-one,
now that he is president, now that he is where he is with the poll numbers that he has, and the
just the striking image of competence, I would have a conversation with him.
I would want to know how out to lunch is this guy?
Because I know the vice president ain't going to cut it.
So this guy's going to make mistakes and the American people, they're not going to throw him out for her.
They're screwed for four years.
Let me rephrase this question.
You are Vladimir Putin.
Yes.
Yes.
I'm worried about staking dolls.
Yes, the stacking dolls are a very, very big part of your agenda.
I was throwing, I thought maybe
that that journalist was just a staking doll that wouldn't open up.
I was throwing her off roof to see if she would open.
She opened up, unfortunately, no staking doll inside.
Right.
So you're Vladimir Putin.
Yes.
I know when I ever get close to a Zoom meeting, I just look at this career and I just say, please don't ring.
Please don't ring.
Please don't work.
Please don't work.
Yeah, yeah.
I just assume and hope.
Is that what Vladimir Putin's doing or does he want this meeting?
He wants wants this meeting.
And now give me, let me give you the people around the president of the United States.
They're all saying, please, is there any way?
Don't pick up the phone, Vlad.
Don't pick up the phone.
And that tells you all you need to know about this meeting.
Yeah.
What is the upside for the United States to talk to Vladimir Putin about this?
So we, so the only upside is that Joe Biden can get on record with a, they'll pull a couple good quotes from him, not with actual audio, but just text and probably rewrite them, that he sounds kind of tough.
He, he said he was going to offer the sanctions and he better not do this or there's going to be a big response And I'll have his tough talk that he can come back to the American people and say, I was on the right side of this.
But like, Vladimir Putin knows there's nothing that Joe Biden can say or will say.
And even if he does say something that actually would threaten Vladimir Putin, he knows that he's not going to go through with it.
There's no
reason to put it.
The only reason to have it is I haven't yet made decision whether or not I think that those around Joe Biden will
be capable of stopping me.
So I'm listening to Joe Biden going, this guy is such a boob and the people around him.
I'd ask enough questions to find out,
is he really in charge?
And if he's really in charge, is he going to be like he was with Afghanistan, where he's got these fools in the Pentagon
that he can steamroll.
This is what I mean, though.
The upside there would be more information, right?
You might have more information.
What's the downside?
Where is the downside on this call for Vladimir Putin?
There is none.
There is none.
So why is it occurring?
What's the downside for us?
Tons of stuff, right?
Like Joe Biden might start talking about squirrels in the middle of the call.
We have no idea.
There's tons of downside for us.
Where's the downside for them?
I can't find any.
Yeah, I'd like to stop saying there's tons of downside for Biden because there's really not.
Because quite honestly, guys, we all know this.
I mean, let's be kind.
In 10 years, he's gone.
You know what I mean?
He's gone.
He's lived a long, long life.
nobody's gonna be nobody's gonna say gee and they took him so young uh you know he the downside is for us for our children for the country the american people there's a downside and there's very no downside for the for
the for the putin regime none so why is it occurring because he's the because he is the duly elected president of the united states and if he says he wants to have a meeting with vladimir putin he gets a meeting with vladimir putin exactly and unlike unlike the last administration, where it seemed like everybody was on high alert, this guy may not be mentally stable
and leaking that everywhere.
Everybody here seems totally good to go right along with it.
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Stu is the president of the United States, and they come out with more of this garbage on
Omicron.
Omicron, Omicron, Omicron.
That's what I like.
Omicron, Omicron.
Natron.
Not Omnicorn, though.
We know it's not Omnicorn.
Correct.
What is it that
if you were king,
you would be doing?
What would the sanctions, would we be more like Texas and Florida, or would we be more like California and New York?
Well, there's two different decisions to make here, right?
One is based on personal liberty and freedom.
So the answer is always going to be Florida and Texas over New York, whether it works or or not, frankly, because people get a chance to make their own decisions for themselves.
So from that perspective...
I would also overthrow myself as a king, and that's not a good, that's not a good system of government.
But George Washington did it.
Yeah, George Washington did it.
And a lot of people compare me to George Washington.
It's very common.
So
the main things I would be doing is I think we are at the point in the pandemic where we have the tools needed to deal with it.
I think there are earlier moments where we didn't.
And we didn't have treatments, we didn't have vaccines, we didn't have all the knowledge we have now on how this thing works and how it can progress.
So now we are at the point, and I believe we're long past the point, but we are certainly at the point now where we have the tools to deal with this and we have the tools to let people who are adults make their own decisions for themselves.
And so,
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It all started with a misunderstanding, according to the Los Angeles Times.
A black theater student at Coastal Carolina University told a visiting drama teacher she wanted to connect with non-white students.
So the teacher drew up a list of names on a whiteboard, then forgot to erase it when they left the studio.
When several other student students walked in, they saw this list and they were left with a suspicion that those on it had been singled out with racist intent.
A committee of professors investigated and promptly sent out a department-wide email clarifying what had happened that September day.
Seeking to calm the students, the professors wrote that the explanation in no way undermines the feelings that any of you feel about the incident and that the faculty was deeply sorry.
The visiting teacher also wrote an apology, no matter the good intention, I still want you to know I'm an idiot and I'm sorry.
Well, things might have ended there, but at a time when college campuses have become center stage for the polarizing issues of race, identity, and what constitutes harm, the theater department was primed for conflict.
Enter Steve Ernest.
Steve is with us now.
We've had him on before when this story first broke, what, two months ago?
Yes.
It seems longer than that.
Yeah, I bet it does.
I bet it does.
This is an amazing story, especially written by
the L.A.
Times.
It shows that the person who really came out with you
or come out after you, one of the students, was really,
truly, seemingly, to me at least, out of control.
I'm not going to ask you to comment on that.
What has happened since they took you off and said, we're not sure.
We're going to have to investigate this.
Well, you know, again, I was removed from teaching and assigned to other duties, which I received sometime around November the 2nd.
But I'm simply happy to be reinstated at this point and apparently will be teaching again next semester.
I'm not sure what that world will be like, but I'm certainly
have a long history of great work at Coastal Carolina University and I'm intending to continue that work at this point in my life.
So what is the
because I know that the administrators, some of them came out that you thought were friends, came out against you,
including the department chair who said the words in your email were white supremacist language.
I think of people burning crosses and wearing white robes, and that's about as far away from me as I can ever imagine.
Now, he says he didn't, he says
he doesn't remember saying these things.
Eric doesn't remember saying that you were a white supremacist, but do you?
It was, yeah, it was said at a meeting, and I did not disclose the name of the person who said it.
I didn't feel like I should disclose that name.
But it was said at a meeting, and
I think that the writer, because they couldn't
pin down exactly who said it, just made the chair responsible for it.
Oh, okay.
So it wasn't Eric Hall?
No.
Okay.
All right.
Well, that's fair.
Good to know.
So,
but when they said
you could go back, that your behavior was under review to determine whether your emails endangered the welfare of students or violated the code of ethical conduct requiring employees to create a respectful environment, nurture a climate of fairness and civility towards others, even in the face of disagreement.
They said that your actions didn't warrant
disciplinary action at this time.
What is that?
What is, I mean, is that how it's left?
Is this still hanging over you?
You know, we'll see.
You know,
my attorney, who is a
I don't know what's going on there, my attorney, who is a big fan of yours, Ruth Smith in Asheville, North Carolina,
asked me to
say hello to you.
And,
you know, she's keeping a watch on the whole situation.
And so we are, you know, we're taking it day by day, and we will just approach,
you know, next semester.
And I'm I'm considering you know body cam and things like this just to just to make sure
the theater is all about trust and exploration
I mean I tell my daughter she wants to go into acting and I'm I'm praying on my knees every day that something happens that doesn't let that happen.
But
she comes home, she's in high school, and girls are not just mean.
They are vicious to one another.
And she comes home and she'll be crying about something.
I said, honey, you know, A, I'm sorry.
And, you know, we commiserate on what happened.
But also say to her, you have to get used to this because if you really do want to be in acting, people are going to say the worst things about you all the time.
And you have to develop thick skin because not only do they say the worst things about you, you're going to try out for things and you're gonna start in for 20 seconds and they're gonna say next
You can't be crushed.
You can't be crushed Isn't there a lesson for the students here
You know, you know, it's funny that you would say that because just this morning I got a wonderful email from a major talent agent in Los Angeles who starts out by saying bravo you I'm a talent manager and that these students are going to be faced with rejection their whole lives.
Please stay your course.
They will learn far from you, more from you that way than they even realize.
So, I mean,
it really is that way.
In my opinion, it's a very, very difficult world, and you really do have to have a very, very thick skin to even have a chance of surviving.
Right.
And it seems as though, I mean, you know, I read one of the things you said to one of these girls is there,
hey, Shakespeare in the park, and they're looking to cast people like you.
And it's unclear whether it was her voice, her talent, or her color.
But I will tell you that my daughter was told by an agent, people like you are going to have a very hard time finding a job right now.
And I said, what do you mean, people like you?
And she said, white people.
And we were like, okay.
And we moved on with our lives.
We moved on with our lives.
I mean, it is, reverse discrimination is happening right now.
Discrimination or whatever happens because fat people, skinny people, white people, black people, it shouldn't be that way, but it is.
Well, you know, again, I've worked in professional theater for 30 years, and colorblind casting was something that was happening 20 years ago.
It didn't matter, you know, what, if you were working in Shakespeare, it didn't matter what color you were or what your ethnic heritage or anything was.
It had to do with your voice and your ability.
And
so
I think we've been past this for years, and for some reason now it's come back to haunt us.
I mean,
again, this idea of racism and casting.
This is a, I think, just look at the TV these days.
It's such a great time for people of color to be working in the theater.
I mean,
we all celebrate that.
I mean, it's great.
Yeah.
And it's a great time for all people in
any kind of entertainment because the access is everywhere.
If you don't get access at the theater, you get access someplace else.
I mean, you can do anything now with the internet
and find your own way.
And it's a remarkably free world that seemingly just wants to keep putting itself back into a bottle of
oppression everywhere.
But if you understand it, be free.
Just do it.
Yeah, and we still can't wrap our minds around what level of, you know, pandemic
breakdown this this might have represented you know people just uh because you know a lot of these people are facing um a world where who knows what the direction of a theater will be and in film and what what i mean what will the access to work be in casting in the future
that's the same thing that i go through that the same thing that you are going through and not just because of this incident but because things are changing i don't know if the campus is going to be like the campus is now in 10 years.
Change is part of life.
And if we expect our universities to be a bubble and protect them, I mean, the one thing it should be taught right now is the only thing consistent will be constant change.
And it's hard, but if your school isn't preparing you for that, they're not preparing you for life.
Am I wrong?
100% right.
No, you're 100% right.
And
this situation is not unique to Coastal Carolina.
It's happening at universities.
My attorney said we're seeing as many as six of these a day sometimes.
You know, these types of things.
Steve,
I'm sorry to hear that you feel like you might have to wear a body cam.
What a sad, sad statement that is.
I would encourage you to have videotape on everything anyway,
but it's sad that you have to be there.
And I'm glad you went back and I hope that everybody gets along and you can go back to some sort of normalcy and do what you do best.
Well, the great thing is at universities, people graduate, so, and we move on.
Yeah, that's good.
All right.
Steve, thank you so much.
He's a theater professor at Coastal Carolina University, reinstated now over racism charges in a ridiculous, ridiculous story.
I mean, I'm surprised they didn't fire him because he voted for Trump, quite honestly.
Oops, did I say that out loud?
They knew.
But good for him.
We'll watch the story closely.
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Welcome to the Glen Beck Program.
Does anybody else have a problem with time?
Like, I feel like since COVID started, there's been one Christmas.
Yeah.
Well, there technically has been one so far, but this would be the second one.
Right.
I guess.
Then, wow.
Like, one summer?
Yeah, it just feels like it's like one year has passed.
Yeah, I was thinking about this.
Donald Trump
was president of the United States this year.
That, like, wait, it doesn't feel possible.
January 6th was this year.
It was this year.
Was this year.
Yeah.
I mean, we're coming up to its year anniversary.
Doesn't it seem like,
okay, let me say these.
Let me say this name.
Amy Coney Barrett.
How long ago was that?
Just over a year ago.
It was October, I think, of
2020.
I mean,
just over a year ago.
That feels like 100 years ago.
100 years ago.
Like, Donald Trump feels like he was president in 2012.
Right.
It feels like Mitt Romney time.
Yeah.
You know, his election in 2016 feels like 2012.
Yes.
So
much has happened in the last year.
You know, people...
I mean, just over the new year, I mean, people were still really inside and not doing much.
And there was that worry about
you're not allowed to meet.
I mean, it's a little different in places like Texas.
In Texas, it's been normal for forever.
For a long time.
For a long time.
I mean, we were in there for about three months, and they were like, yeah, I think we had enough of this.
I mean, really, it was six weeks of full sort of like, most stuff was closed here in Texas.
And then they opened up the restaurants.
I know I was there May 1st, 2020.
And it all kind of made sense, didn't it?
Yeah.
And still does.
And then we had a flare-up in
the South over the summer.
And we had some restrictions kind of pop back on that, you know, we went, I think at one point, we went from 50% opening for restaurants to 75% and then back to 50% for a short time.
And so we were still sort of dealing with that down here at that point.
After that flare-up, though, it's been pretty much normal.
You know, I mean, the events at first were closed, right?
But the first
full-capacity event was here in Texas in April.
But that was April of this year.
That feels like forever ago to me.
You can't relate to this because you're not old enough, but Kavanaugh's hearing seems as far back almost
as Robert Bork.
You know, it's weird.
It's just this thing that time has just, I don't know what it is.
Is it just because everything is happening so fast?
I think so.
And I think, too, we've spent a lot of time, and I think this is very unhealthy for a society, but we've spent a lot of time thinking to ourselves, we just got to get past X.
I haven't heard a single person say, Not this year.
Not this year.
Not this year.
This is the first year you haven't seen.
I can't wait for 2021 to be over.
2022 is going to be better.
No one believes that.
yeah no we all know it's getting worse stop you know it's like it's like matrix sequels we all know the next one's gonna be worse why are we getting excited like none of it really matters you're just kind of like going through the motions and you're like hey happy new year oh my god i suck
but i think that we have spent so much time since particularly covid where you're just like okay if we can just get past this thing we can get past let's just get past you know the next thing and then there's the election we just got to get past that and then we just got to get past the you know all the crap going on and all of these gigantic news stories that have happened.
Once the Rittenhouse trial is over and
if I could put you into a Walt Disney freezer under Treasure Island or wherever
and then open it up
in
10 years,
not far enough from the problems, right?
Right.
10 years you open up, they put you into frost and you're like, oh, crap, put me back in.
Yeah.
Right.
If I could open you in 2050,
now would it seem what your kids would still be alive?
Oh, that would be cool.
Would it be too freaky?
Because
things probably are going to be a lot different.
Yeah.
It would be a lot different.
A lot of changes.
I'd like to check in, see how it's going, but I don't know that I want to stay.
That's why you need the, you don't want the freezer, you want the time machine.
So then you can go back to the times that you liked.
That.
Yeah, but when you do that, you realize, wow, there's something faulty here.
It's It's either with a machine or my memory, it wasn't so great back then.
Well, Glenn, if we could just get past Omicron, then everything is gonna be fine.
It's just this last mutation.
Just this is it.
If we could just get past Armageddon,
we will be fine.
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