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Today on the podcast, we talk to Ambassador David Friedman about the developments in

Israel and the Middle East with the new big deal peace arrangement that's been going on there.

We talked to Pat Gray, who comes in and we do a segment of just shocking news.

News you just will not believe.

At least it's stunning to the media.

Not sure if it'll be surprising to you.

Robbie George joins us about how academics are being attacked for any conservative views.

And we talk a little bit about Herschel Walker, who former, of course, NFL running back, Heisman trophy winner, who wound up a really

an interesting conversation with Glenn on the podcast that comes out this weekend.

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Luckily, Glenn doesn't spend too much time on sports because that would just be, you know, obviously terrible because he wouldn't know what to ask.

But Herschel Walker's story is fascinating and they go go through that.

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Talk about a really big accomplishment of the Trump administration on tonight's program.

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You're listening to the best of the blend back program.

Right now, we have Pat Gray, who is the host of Pat Gray Unleashed, and here in a surgical mask, which

is my long-standing policy to, you know, just

keep the virus at bay.

Is he your long-standing policy?

Long-standing policy.

Really?

I've been watching you for the last few weeks.

And so you've noticed that I've masked up quite a bit.

Never.

Never.

Have I seen you in a mask?

No.

That's weird.

It's just.

That is weird.

It's just a weird thing.

It's just weird.

Because you've been in.

I haven't noticed necessarily you wearing it for the past few months when you've been coming in here every day.

But today you are.

And I'm curious: is it because you have someone who definitely has COVID sitting next to you?

Okay, that's it.

That's it.

Okay, that's it.

That's the difference.

I don't have COVID.

I don't have COVID.

It's because of the certainty of the virus being in the room.

That's the difference.

That's the difference.

That's what I get.

But I don't have covid there's a distinction here everybody in his family had covid and he sleeps with uh one of them that has covid and so uh he has covid you know he does

and he looks it he looks the part thank you thank you yeah well if uh

if inflation uh of your skin is part of covid I've got it bad.

I've got it really bad.

I was thinking about it last night.

I have a sept on a scale, but I bet it's the COVID-40 back.

Yeah.

Oh, God.

I don't want to be near that scale.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It's not good.

It's not good.

Not good.

Not good.

It's not good.

Not for any of us.

I was thinking about that last night.

I was having some of your wife's cookies.

I was thinking, wow, I got to stop.

But I didn't, strangely, didn't at all.

That's weird.

So, Pat, what are the things that are on your mind today that you're talking about?

I'm a little bothered about you guys missing the big story.

I mean, you're talking around it, but you won't discuss the real issue about this Postal Service thing.

Okay, all right.

Taylor Swift has sounded off in a powerful, powerful way.

Really?

And has called the president a blatant cheat, and

he is dismantling the U.S.

Postal Service.

Oh, my God.

She's smart.

She is really.

She's brilliant.

Listen to this.

Trump's calculated dismantling.

of USPS proves one thing clearly.

He's well aware we don't want him as our president.

He's chosen to blatantly cheat and put millions of Americans' lives at risk in order to hold on to power.

And he is dismantling the U.S.

Postal Service.

Well, if by dismantling you mean he has loaned them an additional $10 billion billion dollars,

then yes, you're exactly right.

That's the way you take somebody apart.

You know what I mean?

You give them $10 billion.

That's it.

Not a penny more.

They're a struggling business.

Well, there's going to be more, but just not on that check.

Right.

You know, somebody's struggling in business.

You're like, help me, help me, help me.

And you're like, I am going to put them out of business.

More predatory lending.

I'm going to give them nowhere six billion dollars.

That's it, right?

Yeah.

And it's not actually a loan, Stu.

It's not a loan.

It's just write the check.

Yeah.

Here's the money.

Keep it forever.

Keep it.

Yeah, keep it forever.

That's a pretty good loan.

And, you know, you talked about the fact that they're removing some of the blue mailboxes where you...

put your mail.

Oh, my gosh.

Because that's what they do when nobody uses those boxes in those areas.

They take them from that area and put them maybe at a shopping center where people are and can put them.

Oh, put them at a shopping center where poor people won't be and won't be able to mail their ballots.

Right.

Because what are they going to do?

They're going to put them in a shopping center.

There's no other

one that is going to use that mailbox.

Some people might say

you have a mailbox at your house.

Here's what you do.

You take your mail, your mail-in ballot, you walk it out to your post, your mailbox.

mailbox you open the door put the mail in close the door raise the flag some would say that's an opportunity then wow for the mailman the letter carrier what if you don't have one of those

you're living you're you're living like you you're welcome you're living in an apartment complex right and you don't have a mailbox well there's a place where there's where everybody has their mailbox you go down there in that case and open yours and put it in there and when they see that there's mail in there they take it out and they deliver it to the post office.

Or if,

under really radical circumstances, you could drive to the post office yourself and put it right on the slot.

Assuming you had a car.

Well, yes.

You know what I mean?

You could take it.

You could have to drive.

Uber.

Now, glyph.

Could you put it in one of the other post office boxes that were next to the one that they removed?

Yes, you could.

Okay.

Yes.

What if you put.

What about those people who are currently living in a coffin and they don't have all the dead?

Yes.

That's the discriminatory

way of

describing them.

I'm telling you, they are living in a very small living space right now.

And

there's no post box.

They are for their little living quarters.

Or not living quarters, but their quarters.

Of course.

Yes.

Well, there was just a case of that.

What state was it where they removed 846 846 of those mailed ballots to those people?

To the actual dead.

And Donald Trump said,

no, they don't get to vote.

Why?

Just because they don't breathe anymore?

Where are their rights?

Just because their heart's not beating?

Does the Constitution say you lose your rights when you stop breathing?

When your heart stops beating?

I don't see it.

I've read it a million times.

I've never seen it.

It's not in there.

Because it's not in there.

It's not in there.

It's not in there.

Donald Trump, again, just taking away rights from people.

Non-breathing people.

Dead are people too, you know.

Yeah, or they are.

They at least were.

Yeah, they were people.

Oh, they stopped being people just because they're dead.

Yes, now they're spirits for a while.

And then those spirits can vote, right?

I mean, I don't see anything in the Constitution that says they can.

There isn't one.

There isn't anything in there.

What if you're a dog?

What if you're a dog and you don't have a mailbox?

That's a really good question, Glenn.

Thank you very much.

What if you're a cat and all you have is a litter box?

Is a post office, Donald Trump stopping people from checking the litter boxes.

There was a cat post.

There was a cat a couple of months ago that we heard about

who received at 12 years after its death a

Twerk check for $1,200.

Wow, look at how he's biased

for living people.

Well, maybe if he had that money earlier, would have been able to stay alive, right?

Yeah, right.

Hire a visiting vet.

So it came 12 years too late.

So what?

I mean,

who thinks that this is a good idea to change anything

about our

uh about our uh voting system this time around

who who's like you know what we should all do mail-in

we should all do well you know what we should do we should get crescent and everybody who wants to vote for trump you just think about it and crescent will write it down

i mean why would we change anything it's bad as it is

but it's it's still probably the best in the world.

Why would we change anything?

Especially when they're all saying that Trump is trying to throw this election through the mail.

And by destroying the post office.

All right.

Well, isn't that a pretty good reason to show up with an ID

at a voting booth?

Let's do that.

Let's show up and let's just vote.

You can understand, obviously, the theory behind it, right?

Like to be prepared if you've got a pandemic going on, maybe you want to have the ability for.

It's going to be November.

Right, right.

I mean, first of all, it's going to be later.

But again, it's tough to predict.

Obviously, we've seen people miss these predictions like crazy.

But the bottom line is we have I voted absentee almost every election.

Why are we doing election coverage all day and all night that night?

So I can't just go to the polls on election day.

So almost every single time I voted, I voted absentee.

It's super easy.

They will take literally any excuse.

And that's only in the, there's only seven states in the Union where you even have to come up with an excuse

that could be different than COVID.

If you tell them you have to work that day, what they're going to do is send you the ballot request.

It's the most minimal amount of effort.

It's easy, and it's been working in this country for a very long time.

Why would we need to expand the system and outwardly mail people ballot applications in advance?

If they want them, they can ask for them.

And that's worked in this country for a very long time.

It's just,

this is, again, just nonsense.

It's just nonsense to get bases fired up, and people are going crazy over it.

The left thinks Donald Trump is overthrowing the election because of the mail.

No, they don't think that.

They don't think that.

Well, I think the regular people, a lot of them do.

Oh, I think that's a possibility.

The leadership doesn't at all.

No, the leadership doesn't, and the left doesn't.

They know exactly what's going on.

And they're going to burn the cities down to the ground

if Donald Trump wins.

They are.

They're setting that whole thing up.

Oh, yeah, they are.

Absolutely.

Like Taylor Swift really believes that's true.

And again, she's a moron, but I mean, she actually believes that's true.

She's sitting there terrified that the president of the United States is trying to mail her election away.

You know, it's amazing to me is how we were called fear mongers.

We still are.

You're fear mongers if you're a conservative.

You're a fear monger.

We're the most optimistic, happy people out there right now.

I mean, you listen to it.

All they do is fear monger.

All they do is fear.

They're COVID on the election.

And everybody.

And everybody is on the left is believing it.

Everybody who votes for a Democrat, they all believe all of that stuff.

I mean,

it's remarkable.

They're incapable of making a rational decision until Donald Trump is not president.

When Donald Trump is no longer president, they may be able to come up with a rational thought.

And I mean in any part of their lives.

It's all irrational right now.

Let me ask you this.

What do you think about...

I was thinking about this last night.

I was reading about New York City and how much trouble New York City is in.

And we're going to get into this here.

Financially?

Oh, no, no, no.

People are just leaving it.

The Time Life building has 5,000 employees, and I think currently 800 are going to work there.

Wow.

That's going to be a problem, though, now.

Oh, it's going to be

nobody's coming back.

Nobody's coming back.

I'm hearing that from everybody.

Yeah.

So where did they go?

It's 8,000 normally, and it's 500 working.

Oh, wow.

So it's worse.

Worse than you think.

It's worse than

your reporters.

Wow.

That's insane.

That's absolutely insane.

So

where are they going?

A lot of those New Yorkers are moving to Florida, a swing state.

You are impacting the election

in Texas because of all the Californians that are moving here.

You're affecting it in Florida because of all the New Yorkers moving there.

And nobody's talking about that.

There are states that have always voted one way, or it's been close, and they are being turned upside down by this massive exodus of these cities.

Do we know that they're actually leaving the city, or are they just staying home right now?

No, a lot of them are leaving the city.

It seems like both.

I mean, like they are leaving.

They left because of COVID.

Yeah.

Or some of them left because of the violence of the riots when people were breaking into their buildings.

It's like there's a video going around on social right now, which shows going down, I think it was at Fifth Avenue, Glenn?

Yeah, Fifth Avenue.

Every single business has his windows boarded.

Play it real quick.

We have it.

Just play it real quick if you happen to be watching.

Look at everything.

Everything's boarded up.

Even the hotel is boarded up.

The thing here, though, to remember is you don't need to board up windows to stop COVID.

Have you ever seen an animal?

You board up windows to stop people from breaking them.

It's the riots

that is getting a lot of people to have to leave this city.

It's just the last straw.

And now, with all the hassles of living in the city,

there's just, you've lost all of the positives of being there.

None of the places are open.

So why the hell would you be there?

It's expensive and it's awful.

Broadway, you have to deal with Build de Blasio.

Broadway is supposed to be closed until next spring at the earliest is when they will open.

Next spring.

So there's no tourism.

There are no stores.

Nobody's

all these companies, no restaurants.

All these companies are like, you know, I don't even know if we need to have our business in New York anymore.

New York may never recover.

And I don't know how commercial real estate does.

It's already 30 to 40 percent down.

You can get an apartment 30 to 40 percent lower than you ever could.

And that's in New York.

By New York.

All around the country.

Oh, yeah.

People have these big offices and they don't need them anymore.

Yep.

They don't need them.

You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.

My producers would like me to make this into a bigger deal, and I just feel awkward doing it.

But we have an announcement to make.

I have been inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame.

Wow.

Congratulations.

Really exciting for me and my family.

And thank you if you voted.

Thank you so much.

I suspect mail-in voter fraud.

Well, Donald Trump and Russia.

He fixed it.

They were

instrumental.

They were,

yeah.

But it was, it's, you know,

I didn't even think about it, and I didn't want to make a big deal out of it,

you know, and ask you for your vote.

I was very uncomfortable the whole time because it doesn't make a difference in the listener's life.

I mean, a professional wouldn't have been that uncomfortable with it.

Someone who was going in the Radio Hall of Fame would have just been able to do his job.

But

no, you were very uncomfortable.

It was noticeable.

Yeah, and I don't, because it doesn't affect you in your life, but it is an honor.

And

I've been thinking about it.

I just found out about it.

I was thinking about it over the weekend that, you know, that's Jack Benny and Bob Hope and Larry Lujack and Charlie Tuna and Rush John Rose and Rush Limbaugh.

I mean, it's

quite a lot.

Mark Levin just went in, right?

Mark Levin.

So

it's quite a field to be in with, and it's a real honor.

And

I thank you a great deal for just listening to us.

And I honestly don't know how I got into the Radio Hall of Fame as I am,

I stand by, the worst broadcaster in America.

But that's just how low America's standards are right now.

Pat, we should probably say the unsaid of how much we had to do with it.

Yeah.

You know, I mean, it really is really an honor for us through Glenn.

And so we thank the Radio Hall of Fame for that honor.

So I will tell you that I have to select somebody to induct me.

And so

I don't know which one to ask here because you both are so great.

But Pat, do you know of somebody I should ask that would be really good?

Let's see.

And Stu, you should, because I'm going to ask you too after him.

But if you have somebody.

You're going to ask me to do this.

No, I was just going to ask you if you know somebody that would would be you know important that you know would be i don't know of anybody that would really yeah you know this yeah i've seen with you a long time yeah i was thinking ben shapiro maybe you know yeah okay yeah i was thinking about maybe ben would be good that might be a good idea all right

this is the best of the glenbeck program

i can't take the politicization of

Everything.

Yeah, it really.

It's worse than ever, right at this second, too, isn't it?

Well, no, that was just a second ago.

I think it's worse than that.

Now it's worse right now.

Because it's things that,

I mean, the post office.

I mean, the post office has been, when it comes to politics, everyone kind of realizing, it doesn't really work all that well.

But, you know,

because they lose lots of money and it's not a great business.

But, you know, generally speaking, you put your mail out there.

It it gets to the place that it's supposed to go.

You'd get the occasional libertarian sort of pushback on whether we should fund it at all.

And then that's basically been it for how long?

100 years.

Now it's all of a sudden so concerning that they have to come back and vote on it in a more urgent sense than multiple trillions of dollars they let out go out the door a couple months ago.

Let me tell you, here's let me play for you the audio of Chuck Schumer.

Trump is undermining our post office.

He says he wants to slow down the mail to hurt the elections and make people doubt the results of the election.

That's not what he said.

It's not even a huge problem.

He's worried he's going to lose.

It doesn't matter.

Our elections are sacred, and to do this is disgraceful.

The postal system is well loved by America.

91% of America approves of the postal system.

Which gives me pause.

But it's now being 100% undermined by

the percentage of the Postmaster General.

Political hack appointee.

Hey, stop.

I can't do it.

I can't do it.

Here is Barack Obama on the post office.

If you think about it,

UPS and FedEx are doing just fine.

Right?

No, they are.

I mean, it's the post office that's always having problems.

Ah!

So we have President Obama saying that, but, you know, he fixed.

Oh, no, he he didn't fix it.

No, he didn't fix it.

So Donald Trump brings somebody in to fix the post office, somebody who's well qualified to fix the post office.

The moving of the sorting machines and the shutting down, that happens all the time in the post office.

And most of it is not going to happen before the election.

They're announcing it now and saying we're doing these things, blah, blah, blah.

After the election.

And even if it is happening before the election, it's happening in a way where it always goes on.

This always goes on.

They say that ballots are something like 2% of the mail in that time period, which I think the mail, the U.S.

Postal Service can handle that.

There's all these rumors about, well, they've locked.

They've locked

postal

boxes in the mailboxes for the Postal Service.

It's like, well, that happened because people were stealing mail.

It had happened months ago.

Go to the other big complaint they have is this ridiculous thing about they're removing mailboxes from around these cities.

It's like, well, when you read what they're doing, they're removing them from where there are multiple next to each other.

So, like, there's five next to each other, and they're taking one or two out.

So, there's only three or four left.

I don't think that's going to overturn the election.

I think you're wrong.

I think it is.

I think it is.

Yeah.

Nancy Pelosi would not just, I mean, she was so concerned she could not call Congress back into session because of COVID.

Well, as I understand, COVID is worse than it's ever been.

No, it's not.

No, it's worse than it's ever been.

It's not.

No, we're the worst in the world, Stu.

No, no, no.

No, there's no one that will even take our passports now and let people in because we are the worst.

Yeah, that's not true.

It's the most dangerous.

That's not true.

Ever.

Nope.

Okay.

Okay.

So she knows this, and that's why she didn't bring the post, you know, the Congress back.

But now at this very dangerous time, when all of them could die from COVID.

This is the time they need it back.

And come on,

we just outlined why the

Postal Service has a 91% approval rating, because people didn't think of it as political.

That's why it had a approval rating of 91%.

People just thought of it as like a...

A thing down the street.

They never thought of it as part of the federal government.

So when you test it against other federal government agencies, they think they all suck and they don't think about the Postal Service that way.

Keep doing this, and they will.

Yep.

You'll have instead of a 91% approval rating, you'll have a 50% approval rating pretty quickly if you keep doing this.

But again, if they can get one extra percent, one extra little grab at power, they will destroy anything they have to in their way.

So I don't want to compare the Postal Service to other agencies in the federal government.

Why don't they do a poll on the Postal Service versus UPS, Federal Express, you know, all the other alternatives?

Because I'm doubting that the UPS or USPS comes out number one.

Well, plus it's subsidized so heavily.

So, yes, you can send packages cheaper at times with the Postal Service.

Yeah, you can.

That's because you're already paying for it in other ways.

I know.

It's crazy.

Nobody thinks of it that way.

No one adds that into their package costs.

But when it's losing billions and billions of dollars, it's not just going into thin air.

You're paying for it.

So we got that going for us.

And on Wednesday, we're going to be doing

a special

on

voter fraud and stealing of the election and this

postmaster general garbage.

You know, they're threatening him with jail if he doesn't show up to testify.

Can you imagine?

I mean,

the president calls you and says, Stu,

we've got to have you as the executive producer in charge of America.

You're going to make sure that everything is just looking good and running right.

Is there an amount of money

or an amount of national pride that would make you say, I got to do that?

Oh, it sounds like a fun job right now.

I mean, you wouldn't take anything, any job.

Your life is destroyed.

And what's crazy is these public servants that are called up, most of them are like 60, 65.

They're being called up.

They're at the end of their, they could be on a golf course and they're like, you know what?

No, I think the postal service

I could actually do a number on.

I could actually help.

So they go in for what?

To get destroyed, publicly.

For no reason.

Gosh.

For no reason.

Again, like the E.

By these career politicians who are almost all all of them corrupt.

And, you know, the guy who's ahead of the post office, though, oh, he's a political appointee.

First of all,

that's been common throughout the years.

That happens a lot.

You're not picking your opponents to go run it.

You're picking people who like you, which is typical in the government.

But he said they're going to have no problem with this.

Right.

You know, he's not saying that they're going to lose power.

That's exactly what he said.

That's exactly what he would say.

There you go.

That's exactly what he would say.

I mean, and then let me tell you this: you tell me that Donald Trump doesn't want to fix the election.

Have you heard now that national elections are being delayed by four weeks because of coronavirus?

Unbelievable.

I mean, in New Zealand.

But that's Donald Trump.

He's even trying to fix the elections in New Zealand because they wouldn't have done that.

Sure, it's the most dangerous pandemic and we're all going to die and our hair is on fire right now.

And, oh, my gosh, I should be quarantined for the rest of my life.

it's in new zealand that they're doing this can you imagine if donald trump and his administration would say

cdc has told us that we should delay well he i mean he did of course suggest this on twitter uh and they were very upset about it now they're praising new zealand because new zealand is acting as an authoritarian government over its people and saying yes we have you know it started with i think four cases but i think you have to 13 before they actually shut things down.

And they're delaying elections because of 13 cases.

Now, Donald Trump, they keep acting.

When he says stuff like that, they are very upset about it.

And as am I.

I don't want our elections delayed.

I don't either.

But like, I don't understand how you can praise New Zealand for their sensible, well-measured response to this.

It's because you like her because she's doing the things that you want, and you don't like Trump.

And none of this stuff, like, none of this stuff is honest.

That's what the most frustrating part about it is.

None of this is honest.

What Schumer just said.

Donald Trump said he wants to slow down.

No, he didn't.

You wouldn't pass the spending bill.

You wouldn't pass the stimulus.

In there was money for the post office.

So when you don't, you, the Democrats, don't get together to pass it,

you then come out and say, He's not spending the money that it needs to be taken for the post.

No, it's your fault.

It's your fault.

And what did he say?

He said, fine, rubbing their nose into it.

Fine.

Well, I guess if you don't have that money for the post office, because you wouldn't vote for it, you wouldn't pass the stimulus.

Well, that's good for me.

And do you remember, too, when Republicans would have, there'd be a big spending bill that would help working families.

Oh, yeah.

And the Republicans would be like, well, we really don't want to.

There's a trillion dollars in abortions, and some of them seem to be forced abortions.

What are we an abortion party?

I don't even know what that is.

Why are you

having a celebration?

It's all in there.

And the Republicans would say, Well, we're not going to pass it with that in there.

And they'd be like, You are holding up helping working families for your

special interest groups and right-wing religious nonsense.

Did you see this puppy dog?

This puppy dog will be dead by the end of the week because of you.

Right.

And now we have a situation where

millions of people, for nobody's fault, are coming off of a pandemic-related unemployment and are going to lose the money that was going to them.

Thousands and thousands of businesses that are barely holding things together are going to go without this money after the government told them they had to close down.

This giant spending bill is

everyone's talking about it's going to eventually be a reality, but it's all going to happen after these people go out of business.

I know.

And so they're not coming back to help them.

They're coming back to help the freaking post office.

which will never go out of business until the United States goes out of business.