20 Years of Glenn … Without Glenn! | Guest: Bill O’Reilly | 1/10/20

January 10, 2020 2h 7m

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Pat and Stu fill in for Glenn on the 20th anniversary of the show. It looks like the Iranians did shoot down the Ukrainian airliner that crashed near Tehran, but of course they’re denying it. And even worse, some Democrats are blaming Trump! Since Meghan Markle’s stepping away from royal duties, she may want her old job back. Bill O’Reilly joins after a crazy week of Iran, congressional PR stunts, Trump Derangement Syndrome, and Ricky Gervais. Stu reads Glenn’s heartfelt message thanking his audience for such amazing support shown over the last two decades. In his absence, Pat and Stu give a crash course in the history of the Glenn Beck Program. And apparently, glaciers should have been gone by 2020.
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We've just launched the B team today.

B team in all areas.

Jason for Hillary.

I mean, that's really more like C team.

I mean, if you really want to estimate it.

And then Patton Stew today for Glenn, who is out for unfortunate reasons.

He's okay, but having some family emergency issues.

We'll get into that a little bit later on today.

And then you.

I mean, you were like our second choice for an audience.

We had some other people in mind.

They couldn't make it.

So thank you for

joining us today.

You know, but we're not saying you're bad.

We're just saying like we'd rather have

counterintuitive to call your audience the B audience, but you know, that's us.

We're counterintuitive.

If we were good hosts, we wouldn't be the B hosts.

Right.

So we don't know the basics.

But we'll get to all the news today about what's still going on in Iran.

A lot of kind of election stuff going on as well with new polls and such.

We We can get into that today.

And so much more.

By the way, it's the 20th anniversary of this show today.

And Glenn's not here.

That's sad that he's not here for his 20th anniversary.

It is.

Back in a second.

The fusion of entertainment and enlightenment.

888727BECK, it is Pat and Stu for Glenn.

Sadly,

on the 20th anniversary of this particular show beginning, he's not here to be able to do it yet.

Family emergency, which we'll probably tell you about later on since he's posting it anyway.

And so I guess it's not a secret.

All right, we got a lot going on today.

There's a lot

to be discussed about the situation in Iran and, of course, impeachment and the election, the 2020 election.

We'll get to all of that and lots more coming up in 60 seconds.

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It looks more and more like Iran, either accidentally or on purpose, shot down that Ukrainian airliner the other night, killing all 176 on board.

So, so bizarre.

I mean, didn't you suspect that, though,

from the very beginning?

Because it was just too weird that all those missiles were launched and then coincidentally a plane just crashes into run did not seem possible didn't no it didn't it did not seem possible uh you know if you're in the middle of a of a six to eight hour buffet binge

and then you have a a terrible case of heartburn i guess you could have had the heartburn anyway anyway but it just seems really unlikely seems like the binge might have brought it on yeah that's usually the way that works yeah and of course iran is denying it

They called us

big liars.

Our pants are on fire.

I think they also said pants on fire.

Yeah, they said nanana nana as well in an official statement from the AI tolla.

Yeah, strange.

But

you know, one thing that's interesting about us being liars is the video.

Multiple videos from multiple different areas of missiles striking planes and then bringing them to the ground.

I thought that was some pretty good evidence, but Iran saying no,

not quite enough.

It's incredible and really sad

because these people had nothing to do with what's going on.

And, you know, even the U.S.

is saying it was probably accidental, which nobody would ever give us the benefit of the doubt on that if it involved us and we shot down some airliner.

Nobody would say, well, they did it accidentally.

But that's actually what American officials are saying.

That's what President Trump is saying about Iran.

And that seems to be the intelligence from all over the world.

Canada, Europe.

Everybody seems to agree that this was a missile and likely was a mistake.

Now, you never know with these things because a mistake, it could be a mistake essentially from the regime in that they didn't intend to shoot down a plane, but some person who, you know, was on the, they have a ring of anti-aircraft weaponry around the city, and one person deciding this was either a threat or screw these people i'm taking that thing down that could all that that's in a way intentional right they're trying to do it doesn't necessarily mean that it was a the position of the of the country right maybe the or maybe they confused the airline with somebody else yeah maybe they thought it was american who knows who knows uh but i'm sure eventually over time we'll we'll get that figured out that's but it's not surprising because iran apparently was in possession of the black box from the plane one of them, and they wouldn't turn it over.

So there must be a reason for that.

Well, first of all, they wouldn't turn over the black box.

Second of all, I believe it was ABC

got footage of the crash area the day after the crash.

Nothing there.

Now, that's not how you investigate

an aircraft

barreling into the ground and exploding.

The pieces are there.

You know how meticulous they are with these things.

They'll sit there and they'll investigate that for months they'll look at every single piece they'll catalog it all instead they're just like uh bulldoze that field over there

and uh hopefully no one notices

i mean it's it's blatantly obvious that this happened but you know what do you expect right i no one expects anything more out of iran i i i expect God a little bit more out of U.S.

officials who are running to their social media accounts to try to tweet how Trump was responsible for Iran shooting down a a plane because, you know,

he started this chaotic time, Pat.

And you can't expect a country to not fire against, you know, commercial airlines

when it's a chaotic time.

That's obviously Trump's fault.

And by the way, we should all remember that Trump was responding.

Taking this guy out

was not a first move by the United States.

Iran

had just killed a U.S.

citizen.

They were in the middle of these protests that were arranged by this particular guy, Suleimani.

And there are reports of potentially an imminent threat against U.S.

positions

So this was not a first strike by the U.S.

This is this is a strike that was in,

you know, both defensive and uh in response to an attack by iran

and we're sick of it we we made this we've decided to do something here and sometimes doing something makes people nervous but we've decided to say you know what we're no longer going to play this game where we act like your proxies are not you We're no longer going to say, you know what, it's it's oh gosh those those militia groups.

Let's pretend as if we don't know they were directed by Iran.

Let's pretend.

And let's pretend the IEDs didn't come from Iran.

Yeah.

Let's just step back and just forget, pretend, because that's really been our position for forever.

Yeah.

All through the Barack Obama years, for sure.

And maybe even through some of George W.

Bush's years.

Yeah.

We just ignored it.

We just let it go.

I mean, we talked about a whole bunch of different things that have happened over the last,

certainly

the last 20 years and even the last 40 years that have all come from Iran.

And we've done nothing about it until now.

And now we're wrong to respond to any of it?

It's crazy.

It's like the Democrats are working for the Iranian

regime.

I mean,

they spew their propaganda for him.

Yeah, I mean,

at least if nothing else, it seems like...

Trying to take Trump down is more important to them

than A, the truth about this incident.

And B, the danger that is Iran.

I mean,

they seem to be much more concerned about a Republican being president than any of those things.

Here's one of the Democrats blaming President Trump in part for the shooting down of

the plane the other night.

If what is being projected is true, this is yet another example of collateral damage from the actions that have been taken in a provocative way by the President of the United States.

Okay.

Well, is this type of miscalculation, let's say, on the part of the Iranians more likely now to result in even heightened tensions?

I would say that the continued saber, excuse me, the continued saber-rattling by the President

doesn't help us.

I also feel strongly that by taking out General Soleimani, that that did not somehow rid us of any of the planning that the Iranians would be doing or that the Shia militia that is throughout the region

is also engaged in doing.

And we also have the leader of the Shia militia who was assassinated as well that may be the subject of some efforts to seek revenge.

So her most important point there was that it's Donald Trump's fault.

That's incredible.

That's playing right into the hands of the Iranian regime to me.

And it's triple incredible because it's Jackie Spire.

Right.

I mean, Jackie Spire is, she was

in Jonestown.

If you don't know, she was the one that went to Jonestown with

a, she was working for a congressman at the time.

And this is where, you know, 900-plus people died by drinking the, and I'm going to cool.

I'm going to get this right.

The flavorade.

It was not the guy who crashes through your walls in a giant glass.

It wasn't.

It was not Kool-Aid.

Do you imagine this?

All of these years, they've been saying, drink the Kool-Aid.

It was FlavorAid.

It was a rip-off Kool-Aid thing.

I didn't even know.

The Kool-Aid gets the blame.

It's unfair.

And I'm standing up for the guy that goes, oh, yeah, when he comes through the wall, because it was not his fault.

But Jackie Spire was there.

She watched her boss get murdered, right?

And

judging by her logic here, he was responsible for the incident because he's the one that started off this chaotic situation where he went over there and visited and tried to rescue all of these people.

Instead, a terrible incident happens where murderers wind up murdering a bunch of people.

Is that Jackie's fault?

Because I've never considered it her fault.

I've never considered it her boss's fault.

It's not, it's the fault of the people who actually do the things.

This is such a difficult thing for America to wrap their arms around these days when it comes down to a shooting or it comes down to a situation like this.

We have to find somebody else that fits into our worldview to blame instead like oh it's guns it's gun manufacturers it's it's this it's this no it's the person who's who's responsible for the act iran is responsible for killing this uh this group of 176 people period and you got pete buttigudge implying that the u.s is sharing the blame with iran for shooting down the airliner i mean uh

this is a guy who is running for president who's also trying to pin the blame on us.

Wow.

Buddha Judge said innocent civilians are now dead because they were caught in the middle of an unnecessary and unwanted military tit-for-tat.

My thoughts are with the families and loved ones.

I love that.

It's just this, look, they just were caught in the crossfire.

No, they shot down an airliner.

That is different than being caught in the crossfire.

It indicates that, like, oh, well,

a missile flying towards something else happened to hit something in the middle of the city.

We weren't shooting at anybody at the time.

There was no crossfire.

There was only fire.

No, it was coming from Iran.

Which is, by the way, been the situation

this entire time.

This entire time, Iran has been taking out U.S.

soldiers in Iraq with its IEDs.

It's been some rockets.

It's been all sorts of different things.

But we know this guy, Sulaimani, is responsible for 600 of them himself.

600

U.S.

soldiers.

And we have one of the two major parties out there acting as if it was wrong to take him out.

I don't think there's any question.

Is it morally justifiable what we did with Suleimani?

Yes.

Is it legally justifiable?

Absolutely yes.

The only question was, and I think some people had, there's a very small slice of America who actually just had honest questions: was like, crap, is this going to blow up into something that we don't want to deal with?

And that's a legitimate question, and one I'm sure Donald Trump seriously considered before deciding to pull the trigger on this.

You know, that is a big part of it.

Even when it is morally justifiable and legally justifiable, do you want to deal with the blowback?

The decision of Donald Trump for the past two years and Barack Obama for eight years before that and George W.

Bush before that was no, right?

Like we don't want to, we don't want to make that, we don't want to deal with that pushback.

So let's all pretend as if these things aren't happening and try to just minimize them.

And Trump has changed that calculus and it's changed the calculus for Iran.

That doesn't mean that some of these groups might still do crazy things, but now you have to realize if you're Iran, it's your job to keep these groups in line.

Because if they do things

without your knowledge, even, we're going to think it's you.

And that message being communicated to Iran pretty with a big exclamation point in the form of an explosion, I think is pretty effective.

Very.

And it was obviously proxies that they were using at the embassy that precipitated this attack on Soleimani.

So, yeah, we have sent a really strong message that even if this is your proxies, we're coming after you for it.

That's a powerful statement.

And they,

we've said for years that people in the Middle East respond to strength.

They don't respond well to weakness.

They think that's the green light for them to go ahead and attack you even more.

But now...

They've seen strength, and I think that's going to act as a deterrent.

I think it's pretty obvious that, you know, with the lobbying the 15 missiles into U.S.

air bases that really hit nothing,

that shows you that they're taking this pretty seriously and they understand some of the ramifications for this.

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It's Batten Sue for Glenn on the Glenn Beck program, triple H727BECK.

Sadly, he's not here today, which is his 20th anniversary of this particular show.

Remarkable.

Yeah.

You know, 20, yeah, so this is 20 years ago today, the Glenn Beck program debuted on 970, WFLA, the mothership, in Tampa, Florida, and started a now 20-year run.

It was, you know, I guess it was right after we signed our syndication deal to go syndicate, to get syndicated in August of 2001.

You may notice that date had some significance with world events.

Just a few weeks after we signed that contract,

9-11 happened and they moved up the launch.

It was supposed to launch in January 2002.

Right.

And they moved up the launch to

September, I want to say we launched September 14th or 15th.

I mean, through the whole network, it was right after 9-11.

Right after 9-11, yeah.

So that was the first national show.

But this show started at 970 WFLA.

Glenn, if you don't know his history, came from, I mean, he did music radio for, and, you know, the best moments of that happened with one Pat Gray.

You know, Glenn basically failed on his own.

But when he was with Pat, things went really well.

And

he was doing music radio.

When I met him, now a little over 20 years ago, I mean, he was basically, I mean, he was showing up, barely showing up on time.

And look, 20 years later, here he is, not here.

But he was barely showing up on time to start the show.

Oh, he was so disinterested in doing music radio.

He couldn't care less.

He didn't care.

A song would end

and he would say,

there's

that song by What's His Face?

Okay, so

legitimately back.

We'd move on to something else.

It was legitimately, he was that disinterested at it.

I remember starting with him because I started interning for Glenn like, you know, a little bit before he, I mean, he was in the, he was in the midst of not caring about radio, but he was, he wasn't into talk radio, hadn't done any real shows as far as that had, you know, when it comes to news and politics, hadn't even started that real yet.

And he's doing a music show.

And he decided to tell me that he's like, I've got a great idea for the show.

I'm like, you know, he hadn't shown any interest in the show at all.

So it was kind of interesting to see him have this great idea.

His idea was that we should do a flashback every day to start the show.

Let's take a moment from the previous show and we'll start the show with that so people can get caught up.

And he's giving me this big hard sell.

I'm thinking to myself, he just wants to come in late.

This is not this.

So every day I would have to put together a flashback of the previous show that would air right.

It was a six show that aired 6 to 10.

And from 6 to like 6.15 was a flashback.

And then 6.15.

And did he not show up until then?

No, absolutely.

Not in the building.

6.15 to 6.20 was like commercials.

Then it became, well, when we come out of the commercials, play a couple songs.

So then like 6.20 to 6.

You know, 30 would be music.

And then it was like time for weather.

And he's like, you just do the weather and then go back into commercials.

Yeah.

And then we go back into more songs.

Legitimately, he was showing up some days at like 6.35, 6.40.

When the show starts at 6.

At 6, yeah.

That's where his mind was a little over 20 years ago.

A lot of that's changed over the years.

Yes, it has.

And sometimes

it's the 20th 20th anniversary of the show starting on WFLA, and he's not here for unfortunately real reasons.

It's not like he's just being lazy and asking us to do a best of program.

He's got a family emergency popped up last night.

He had to fly out of town late in the evening.

We're praying for him and

for

Vinny and Mary and Dom and a whole list of people.

And he asked us specifically to ask you as well to keep them in your prayers because he's going through something pretty serious and we're hoping that everything's going to be okay.

Hopefully he's back here on Monday.

But I know next week Mary has a very serious surgery you talked about.

That's his daughter, if you don't know.

And

we love Mary.

Yeah.

it's a tough time right now.

With a lot going on in the world,

we're only, I think Monday is three weeks from the Iowa caucus.

That's how close we are to this whole election thing really kicking off.

And the Senate trial for impeachment may start next week.

Insane.

I mean,

every time you think, like, oh, there's enough in the news cycle to last us for months, and then it just triples.

Yep.

So there it is.

Well, we'll have Glenn hopefully back on Monday.

Some really interesting polling, bizarre polling that came out last night and launches a new person into the debates.

We'll tell you about that coming up.

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We also have, we're being joined by Jeffy for some reason now.

Isn't he the host of Chewing the Fat?

Yeah, it seems to me he is.

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Exciting.

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Okay, so all I really want to talk about is the Royals.

And I know, Stu.

The Royals.

You.

And not the Kansas City Royals because

it'd be an interesting topic to bring up in the middle of a talk show.

So my question is, though, is Megan Markle, Emma, and Harry are

cutting ties as they're, you with their official duties to

the crown.

I do not care about the Royals, but that either.

But this is somewhat interesting because it is so weird.

The fight has been on for quite some time now.

But my question is, is that now that they're cutting ties, they're going to be looking for gigs.

And Megan's probably going to want to go back to work.

She's going to need to pick up some little extra cash on the side.

And how did she leave the television show Suits that she was on?

If they didn't kill her off, is Suits still on?

Suits just ended.

That's all right.

His series finale was just a few months ago.

So, but they could, you know, kick it back up with the Netflix deal.

Oh, you know what?

You're right.

Especially with Megan coming back, right?

If Megan comes back, they would pour money into that show, which is a great freaking show.

If you've never watched Suits,

I kind of had this idea because I remember USA Network growing up where

they did reruns of old game shows.

And I never, I don't think I ever, maybe they did some reruns of, you know, like Law and Order type shows.

Like, there's never anything I wanted to watch on USA.

And one day I just got sucked into suits and watched a couple episodes.

And now there's nine seasons of it.

And I freaking love that show.

I loved all the people on it.

And Megan Markle, you know, the princess now,

was one of the main characters on the show.

She's a Duchess.

Duchess, thank you.

Duchess and Duchess.

You're right.

Sorry about that.

I don't know anything.

Again, I don't know anything about the Royals.

All I cared about is she was ruining suits by leaving.

That's what I cared about.

Yeah.

But yeah, you're right.

If she would do that, they'd pour money into it.

Right.

I like this idea.

So, you know,

did they kill her off or did she just leave?

So spoiler alert, if you're just starting the series, she left to

run like a legal clinic in Seattle with her.

How many seasons ago?

Two.

The last two seasons didn't happen.

Okay.

They hung out for the last, they hung on for another two seasons after Magnum.

And it was still good.

The show is freaking good.

It's a good show.

But you're right.

I mean, they could bring her back.

And all those other guys would be like, screw you.

I mean, now that she's the princess,

Duchess.

Duchess, whatever.

You try to make her a princess, I'll tell you that.

Wow, she gets there at some point, right?

I don't know if she's a princess.

No,

that's not.

If you're married to a prince, you're a princess.

That's my new declaration.

That's some of the reason that the fight started, right?

Because Harry will never be king, and William, his brother, will, right?

He's in line.

Okay.

And so Kate and Megan do not get along because Kate is always like she's never going to be queen but she's like my husband's going to be king and uh yours is yours isn't so

are you kidding I mean is that really a thing that's

within the royal family yes come on I've that's been reported to me 100% I think this is great because you know I love that England's still living this fairy tale it's just great and I love that we're just still I believe this is an extension of the Revolutionary War

in that we're like, you know what?

We never finished off that whole monarchy thing.

That was our only mistake in the Revolutionary War.

We let them maintain their monarchy.

And now...

Megan's doing it.

And now we're like, you know what?

We're sending over a spy.

She's going to marry into the family and blow the whole thing up.

Not in an explosion way, but we're ripping the royal family apart ways.

She has done that for sure.

She has most definitely done that.

It's funny, it's like all the suspicions of the British, like, I don't know.

He's marrying an American.

Like, this is, well, I guess it's okay.

Now, like, two months in, you find out, no, no, you're totally screwed.

We're, we're resting this whole thing up.

Yeah, it was too much for her.

And that's why today you have to deal with Megsit.

And so, I mean, just

by the way, on this front, which is this is hilarious.

We just spent four minutes talking about

the royal family.

We could keep going.

When yesterday, Brexit finally passes.

Yesterday.

Was it even mentioned?

Probably not.

Like, it is so hilarious.

This was the only thing anyone talked about for how many years.

We had the election.

Boris Johnson does well in it.

Yesterday, the thing just sails through easily.

No big deal.

Brexit finally going to happen, end of the month.

Excellent.

After all this time, all this

back and forth.

That's true.

Harry and Megan Levy.

Nobody cares about it.

It's amazing.

It is.

It's incredible.

Like, someone was brought up to me the other day, like, oh, you know, this impeachment thing.

You know, Nancy Pelosi was going to, she's going to bring over the articles of impeachment to the Senate.

I was like, that seems like that was like 1985.

I know.

It sure does.

Impeachment?

Like 16 news cycles past the impeachment.

It sure does.

Could Nancy Pelosi have choked this process

in any more dramatic fashion?

She lost this thing big.

Big time.

Yeah.

Horrible job by her.

Big.

This is, I mean, everyone kind of knows that this is her last time as speaker anyway, likely, because she was going to get voted out or at least had a possibility of being voted out and sort of made a deal

of like, this is my last one.

Just say, I'll do this last one and then we'll turn it over to somebody else.

After this, how can she be?

I mean, she can't even go for this again, right?

I mean,

this is an immense failure of leadership.

If you wanted to impeach Donald Trump, they should have started it earlier on the whole Russia thing.

And then this stuff would have come out probably eventually.

And she didn't really want to.

She said she didn't want to.

But if she didn't want to, why the hell did she do it?

It's because she was trying to appease the young upstarts.

I mean, that's going to be her argument.

Yeah.

But I mean, she didn't have to do that.

You know, you know what?

Here's the thing.

I have a mute button on Twitter.

I'm very good at ignoring Alexandria Ecasio-Cortez.

She should get good at it too.

Why do you care what Alexandria Casio-Cortez is saying?

Who cares what Elon Omar is saying?

You should do what you think is right.

You're supposed to be the speaker of the freaking house.

And so I don't know if I buy that she was pushed into it by this 28-year-old.

It just seems to me that she thought it was a good strategy and she'd win.

And what she she found out is she was wrong.

Yeah.

Right?

This has been

patently a disaster.

It's a disaster.

For them.

I mean, you know, it is.

Yeah.

They got this impeachment.

They get to say that he's impeached, but they're getting nothing out of it.

People have forgotten about it already.

It's going to go into the Senate and it's a joke.

Except that now, right, Senator McConnell wants to, you know, says he's going to have the trial as like next week.

Yeah, right.

They want to get it over with.

Right, but that means that the people running for the Democratic presidential nomination have to be there.

Uh-oh.

Well, they have to be required or be out of it.

Or be out of it, right?

So do they show up to the debate that they're having next week or not?

I mean, McConnell's pulling the plug on that, pulling the rug out from underneath them there.

I mean, I would assume they could, you know, if it's not going on at that moment, they could fly in and do the debate.

Don't try to bog me down with technicalities, Stu.

They're either in or they're out.

But they can't campaign, right?

They can't campaign in these areas.

They can't be on the ground going to every county on a no-malarkey tour.

Now, malarkey Joe can do that because he's not in the Senate anymore.

But a lot of these candidates are in the Senate.

I mean, Bernie Sanders is in the Senate.

Elizabeth Warren is in the Senate.

Amy Glochar is in the Senate.

Corey Booker is in the Senate and apparently still running.

Michael Bennett is actually still running and he's in the Senate.

In fact, it'd probably be a good thing for him because if he can, you know, maybe somebody will notice that he's running if he's there.

Isn't it amazing?

He's still in this race.

Corey Booker, too.

Nobody even knows him.

Nobody even knows.

At least people understand who Corey Booker is.

They know who he is generally.

Nobody knows who Michael Bennett is.

No.

I don't think in his own state people know who he is.

No.

It's like, we have a senator named Michael Bennett.

When did that start?

Yeah, when Bennett was running early on, he's like, you know what, this Trump thing, it's all chaos.

It's all, every day you wake up, there's a new crazy headline.

He's like, if I'm president, I'll be boring.

I'll make sure to bore you every day.

And it's like, well, you're doing a good job at that.

Congratulations.

That is promise kept.

We should give him some credit on this.

He is is boring all of us to death.

Yes.

Did you see that Bloomberg's up to third in at least one national poll?

He was tied for third at 11%.

Well, he could buy a little bit.

I mean, the money he's spending is apparently making some inroads for him.

And he's spending a lot of money.

He's spending a lot of money.

I mean, you can't even, I mean, I personally can't click on anything YouTube without seeing a Michael Bloomberg.

It's incredible.

I mean, he really is everywhere.

I was over vacation in Nevada for a couple of days, and

everywhere there is Tom Steyer ads.

The other one is too.

He's running a lot of them.

Tom Steyer had

he's made so everyone expected him to miss this debate.

He was down to the last minute, and he did two qualifying polls.

And the way those things work is you have to have, you know, I think it's, I can't remember exactly what it is right now.

I think it's 6% nationally or 4% in an early state poll.

And you have to have a certain number of polls.

He needed two more as of last night.

Got both last night.

Oh.

In sort of remarkable fashion.

Are they going to allow it?

They are going to allow it.

It's a qualifying poll from Fox News.

And

the amazing part about it was Nevada and South Carolina.

Steyer finished in double digits in both states.

One of them, I think it was South Carolina, at 15%.

Tom Steyer.

Tom Steyer, who is legitimately the least interesting person in America.

He's awful.

He is so boring.

It is

impossible to stay awake when he's speaking.

It's impossible.

Well, I mean, the only difference from him and Michael Bennett is that he's got the cash.

Yeah.

Well, yeah, I mean, Bennett is much more conservative, I will say, than Steyer.

Steyer is Elizabeth Warren Bernie Sanders.

He's in that camp.

In fact, he started an organization to impeach Donald Trump in October of 2017.

17.

Jeez.

So he's been on this bandwagon for a long time.

He's like, I don't really have anything here, but I'd like to impeach him because he just needs really, I don't like him.

So listen to this poll.

This is South Carolina, Fox News.

And by the way, you know, Fox News gets criticism from the left, of course, but they're a very well-respected polling outfit.

Like, they're one of the highest-ranked pollsters across the board.

In South Carolina, Joe Biden, still with a hefty lead, 36%.

Tom Steiden in second at 15%.

In South Carolina.

South Carolina.

Then Bernie Sanders, 14.

Warren, 10.

Budijeg at 4.

And again, the Buttigegj thing is interesting because, I mean, this guy.

He can't get any minority support out of all of them.

African Americans do not like to be Budigej.

They are not fans.

He gets 0% in a lot of these polls from African Americans.

Then the other one was Nevada.

And then Joe Biden had 30-something percent

in the world.

36%.

Yeah, 36.

That's amazing.

And he does very well with African American voters, and he's been dominating South Carolina the entire time.

And the only issue with Biden, as far as his campaign goes, is you start off with

two super white states with Iowa and New Hampshire.

Then you have Nevada third.

You don't get to a really strong Biden state until fourth.

So if he loses, which is very plausible, he doesn't win any of the first three states.

It could be complicated.

Here's the Nevada poll, though.

Biden at 23.

He's leading in Nevada here.

Sanders at 17.

Steyer and Warren tied at 12.

Now, most people across the country don't even know who Tom Steyer is.

Bloomberg, you might know who he is.

But

here's the dramatic part about it: Steyer has spent something in the neighborhood of $80 million

so far.

He's been running and almost all of it spent on early state

advertising.

So the people in those early states know who this guy is.

They're sick of his face.

That's the feeling on Tom Steyer.

But he's doing, you know, again, money can get you, you know, it's like the Yankees, right?

Like you can spend and spend and spend and get yourself to be competitive every year.

It doesn't mean you're going to win the World Series, but you can get yourself into the game a little bit.

And that's what Steyer's done.

Bloomberg has already way outspent Steyer.

He's only been in the race for a few weeks as compared to Steyer, who's been in for several months.

Steyer spent something like 80 million, and Bloomberg's already up well over $150 million.

Yeah, he's about doubled him.

Yeah, and he's going to be, by the time Super Tuesday happens, and this is the interesting part about Bloomberg, he's going to probably spend a quarter of a billion dollars on this.

And he's running almost unopposed because he's only advertising in Super Tuesday states when none of the other candidates are doing much of anything there.

So it's a fascinating, it's going to be a fascinating experiment to see if he can actually make a dent.

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Mr.

O'Reilly, welcome to the program.

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Bill, I mean, it's been a crazy week.

You know, I don't know where to start.

Let's start with Iran.

What is the media not telling us about this situation?

Global warming is responsible.

That's what the media isn't telling you.

Soleimani, the terrorist general, so hot over there, he lost his mind, ordered the attack of the American embassy in Baghdad, two consecutive days of Shiite militia under the orders of Soleimani,

terrorizing our embassy.

Then they caught him at the airport, U.S.

Intel,

and they smoked them.

So that's what happened.

And you then

bring it over to the United States where there are two things going on.

Number one,

that most people have no idea what the Quds force is or where only 28% of Americans in a survey taken this week could actually

pinpoint where Iran is on a map when given the map

and an outline.

They didn't fill in the country's country's names, but they said, here's the map of the Middle East.

Where's Iran?

28% of Americans could do it.

So I'd say the frame of reference of our people here, not the best.

And then you combine that with the hate Trump movement, whereas anything

President Trump does is bad and evil.

But if you're president, so if you're sitting there and the U.S.

Embassy, which is American property, it's American soil, is attacked, and then you know the guy did it

is in a certain place, you don't do anything to him.

Is that what we're looking at now?

Apparently, it is.

Because Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, even Biden, Biden dancing as he usually does.

But no, you know, you can't do that.

You got to let them just attack the embassy.

And I'm saying to myself,

what is going on?

Excuse me.

What is happening to this country?

Because that wouldn't have even been debatable even five years ago.

Even Barack Obama, as soft as he was,

would have retaliated against the general that ordered an attack on an American embassy.

So it seems.

Bill, we have a big,

I think, a big change.

I mean, today's Glenn's 20th anniversary of doing this program, which is crazy.

And about half of that time back in history, I remember one morning waking up and seeing the news that Osama bin Laden had been killed.

And this was not a moment where right-wing media came out and started criticizing Barack Obama.

It was a moment that we celebrated as a country together

as a wonderful thing.

This terrible person who was killing Americans was gone.

And that does not seem to be present at all with this scene.

That advised against the Pakistani raid by the SEALs.

Was it Joe Biden?

Joe Biden, yeah.

Joe Biden.

Yeah.

He said it was the most difficult decision in 500 years, which I never understood.

I didn't know what was happening.

Well, I mean, that's why Trump is salivating about, you know, whether it's Biden.

It's not going to be the socialists.

It's either going to be Biden or Buddha Judge.

Buddha Judge, I guess, is an outside chance for this nomination.

You are living in a country now that is becoming increasingly distracted by the personal devices.

This is another underreported story.

Especially younger people under 40.

They don't pay attention to anything but what's in their hand.

And they get dribs and drabs of what's happening.

But as I said, they don't know what the history of Iran is, what Iran is trying to do, the violence that they've brought to the Middle Eastern region, which includes killing Americans.

They don't know any of this.

And the media does not want to educate anymore or or put forth facts.

That's not why the media is in business.

They're in business to either hate or like Donald Trump.

That's where the money is.

And there's a lot of money.

So, you know, we're living in a rapidly changing time.

But Trump this week, I think he did himself some good by being measured.

I think going forward, if he can continue that tone,

that is a good chance to be reelected.

You did write a book about Donald Trump.

What do you think the chances are that he continues this tone?

Well, that's an excellent question, and based on speculation, and the United States of Trump, you know, he says humbly, is by far and away the best book ever written on Donald Trump.

Because it's not a pro or anti-Trump book.

I'm just trying to explain the man.

And in my explanation of Donald Trump, there is the fact that no one knows what he will do.

I don't think he even knows what he's doing from day to day.

You know, it's all about how he feels.

Is he aggrieved?

Is he, you know, it's a very unpredictable situation in the White House right now.

And that's not good.

You know, it's not good.

It's interesting because the one of the knocks on Trump, and if you look at the polling it's supported there as well, they think he's doing a great job with the economy, and there's a bunch of stuff they really like.

One of the things the American people tend to worry about is how he would handle a major international crisis.

And if you see this here, I mean, how do you not rate this at A-plus so far?

I mean, this has been.

He handled it well.

And that drove the, you know, it was interesting to watch the reaction from the hate Trump networks after his speech.

They really didn't know where to go.

All right.

So it was like, wow, he was moderate.

He's not going to hit them back.

He's not going to escalate.

So what do we do now?

What do we do now?

And then it kind of degenerated into this amorphous, well, he didn't consult with congress and he didn't tell nancy pelosi what he was gonna do

you know and and the americans immediately as they have with impeachment turned away after that um

so you know we live in a time now where facts and truth really doesn't mean that much and that disturbs me

Okay, let me, you brought up impeachment, and I'm fascinated by this.

Do you understand, Bill O'Reilly, what Nancy Pelosi is attempting to do here?

Because she seems to, she waited for two years.

She finally decided to go forward with the impeachment on basically no evidence.

She rushed it through and said she couldn't call witnesses because she had to get it done so fast.

And now is holding onto the articles of impeachment with seemingly no plan whatsoever.

I mean, if you are a Democrat, aren't you looking at her and saying this is a massive failure?

I don't think Democrats care, and I don't think Republicans care anymore.

I think the story story is dead.

That's a failure for them, right?

Why do it if the story's going to die in a week?

It's a failure, but they got PR out of it.

It was always a PR stunt.

It's like evil can evil.

I mean, that's what it was like.

I'm going to jump over the

gorge.

It's Nancy Pelosi.

I'm going to impeach President Trump.

All right, so you did it.

And not one Republican voted for it.

You know, there's no chance of a conviction.

So we accomplished what we wanted to accomplish.

She'll send it over.

Feinstein, basically, the senator from California, Democratic Senator, said, Look, Nancy, send it over.

We are, this is boring.

We got to get this done.

So she'll send it over on Monday or maybe late this afternoon.

And it'll go nowhere.

McConnell already has a stranglehold on the process over there in the Senate.

But, you know, Pelosi is a creature of the party.

And the party says, okay, it's not not going to ultimately work for us, but we got the damage on the impeachment, and so now we'll go to something else.

But this is

like a major loss for Dancy Pelosi, don't you think?

It looks like it.

Not for her people, though.

See, the hate Trump people, the Democrats, the liberals, the far left, they don't look at it that way.

They don't process it that way.

They never really thought that this was going to remove Donald Trump.

I mean, even a nut like Sheila Jackson Lee didn't think that.

They just wanted to embarrass him and they put him off his game and then hope he reacts in a way that's going to hurt him.

See, it's all about pushing, pushing, pushing, and hoping Donald Trump then reacts in a way that's going to make it worse.

So that's what it was all about.

It does seem like the president has some momentum, though, now, doesn't it?

Because he's handled this situation with Iran really well.

And now it looks like he's going to win on this impeachment situation, too.

That she is now even acquiescing and saying, yeah, okay,

I'm going to send the articles to the Senate soon.

So it seems to me that after the Senate trial, he's going to have quite a bit of momentum heading into springtime.

I think his poll numbers will go up a little bit

to the mid-40s, maybe upper 40s.

But the real momentum Donald Trump has is in the disintegration of his opposition.

So So it's not Americans that, yeah, okay, Iran, now what's new?

So that's gone now.

Maybe it'll come back'cause the remember, the Muellers don't want him reelected.

So they could start trouble at any time to interfere in our process here.

And I expect that to happen.

But that story's gone now.

Peace should be gone in two weeks.

But the the lack of a real viable candidate to take on Donald Trump is what gives the president momentum.

Because Because all of these people, I mean, they haven't distinguished themselves and they're weak.

They're all weak.

And if he were facing a Michelle Obama, for example, it would be a much different story.

But he knows, and the Republicans know that they don't have anybody to put up against him right now.

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Glenn is out with a family emergency very last minute, had to fly up to Connecticut.

He's asking you for your prayers, and we'd appreciate those, of course.

Bill O'Reilly is joining us, and we were talking a little bit about sort of politics around the election.

And it kind of struck me today as I'm looking at the news.

Here's unemployment bill at 3.5%, the lowest in

50 years.

Can a president lose a presidential election with economic numbers like this?

Yeah, he can lose if he makes mistakes.

Because we're living in an age now where not everyone is doing well.

I mean, you've got a lot of people in America who don't have the education or the skill set to rise above a certain level.

But they want the same amount of things that the affluent have.

And that's the Gulf, all right?

So you don't have, you're not primed to make a lot of money because you're not well educated and you really didn't learn how to do anything that sets you apart in the marketplace.

But you want the buying power of a $200,000 a year salary.

And those are the people that are disaffected, that are Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren are going for those people.

So you're it's all stacked against you.

It's not your fault you didn't pay attention to school or take the time to learn how to fix something.

No, no.

It's the government's fault.

So elect us and we'll give you all this stuff.

That's what it is.

So those people are always going to be there, no matter how good the economy is.

But, you know, Donald Trump goes in with some pretty

firm successes.

And if he can capitalize on them, he'll win.

You mentioned you thought Bill Or excuse me, Joe Biden was the frontrunner and really only Buddha Judge with

another really small possibility.

You don't think any of these socialists are a real threat?

No, because the minority community, which is the lifeblood of the Democratic Party now, they're not going to vote for socialists.

Hispanic Americans are not.

They know what happened in Cuba.

They know what happened in Venezuela.

They know what's going on in South and Central America.

They're not going to vote for socialists.

So you take them right out.

Now, they may not vote for Trump, but they're just not going to show up.

African Americans, a little bit harder to read that,

but I don't see any enthusiasm in any African-American precincts for socialism.

None.

I mean,

Jay-Z, is he a socialist?

Is Beyonce a socialist?

And you laugh, but these are the most important people

in the African-American culture.

Jay-Z and Beyonce and Oprah.

All right, they're the most important people.

Are they socialists?

they have no traction,

Warren and Buddha Judge and

Sanders, in the minority communities.

None.

They win.

Yeah, it's interesting to see.

You bring up the pop culture, and one of the things that was very, one of Trump's biggest reasons he was a television star back when he was on The Apprentice is because African-American audiences love the guy.

I mean, he had great leads.

They want a pathway to achievement.

I don't think minority Americans want the federal government with a boot on their neck, even if they're giving them stuff.

I just don't think that I could be wrong on this, but I haven't seen anything that demonstrates minority voters are jazzed about socialism.

So if the socialists in the race can't win, Bill,

and

I don't see Biden necessarily winning this thing either.

I mean, I see him winning the Democrat nomination, but I don't believe he can beat Trump.

Well, it depends.

What would it take?

I mean,

what would the circumstances have to be for Trump to lose to Joe Biden?

Well,

see, I'm much more

cautious because if you look at the Electoral College map, last time around, Trump won 30 states, Hillary Clinton won 20.

But the Democrats are a lock to win California, Illinois, and New York.

I mean, that's over 100 electoral votes.

I mean, you're starting there.

Now,

I believe Trump will win Texas and Florida.

So, yes, you're elevating there, but it's not a lock.

And minority voters, African Americans in particular, will vote for Biden because of the Obama Association.

And if Barack Obama and Michelle take to the campaign trail, which they might,

they don't have any use for Trump.

If they get out there,

then it's going to be close, even if Biden is befuddled.

Now, in a one-on-one debate, you would think Trump could smoke them because Biden's got all kinds of problems with Ukraine, with his past votes, with his

inarticulation.

He just can't get a sentence out.

And I think you'll see that again next week.

There's another Democrat debate next week.

All right.

And if Biden, you know,

he just doesn't look like he has command.

No, he doesn't.

But if the Obama machine gets behind him, it's going to be close.

Bill O'Reilly from billoreilly.com is joining us.

He's also the author of the number one bestseller, The United States of Trump, which you can get anywhere you get your books.

We're going to come back on the other side with more with Bill O'Reilly, and we'll tell you about the 20th anniversary.

of the Glenn Beck program, which happens to be today.

Glenn just doesn't happen to be here for it.

We hope he's back.

Why would he?

All right, well, again, why would he be here?

It's a lot to ask.

Yeah, it is.

It is.

We'll be back with more here in just a second.

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Bill has a new column out talking about the way that the left,

as you put it, Bill, the totalitarian left, and it's the way they seem more and more when it comes to college campuses, when it comes to politicians that disagree, media people they don't like, of finding a way to just cancel them out of the culture, get rid of them completely because their ideas cannot be heard by the American people.

They're just not smart enough to be able to handle it.

You know, one of the themes, one of the themes of billoreilly.com, we do four broadcasts a week of about 35 minutes each.

And then I write a column or two and then a

daily message of the day.

And I've been pounding this theme that the woke culture, and that's the uh umbrella, is not really

in business to improve the country.

It's in business to silence the country.

So last Sunday,

Peggy Noonan in the Wall Street Journal wrote a column that says the woke people are the most hated, her word is hated,

folks in the United States of America.

I'm not sure that's true yet, but they should be

because they're in the death game.

They want to kill people.

And it's not a disorganized rabble.

This comes out of very well-funded and organized organizations like Media Matters, the Bonner Group, Color of Change.

There are maybe two dozen of them, most of them based on K Street in Washington.

And they receive huge grants of money from people like George Soros.

Everybody knows that name now.

But there are

thousands of people like Soros who fund these people.

And their

dictum, their mandate is to target people with whom the far left disagrees and destroy them by any means possible.

And that's what's happening.

And you can see it,

how the media loves this.

It couldn't happen without the media's cooperation.

But they love it because the media in general is liberal.

And if they can take out conservative voices and make it difficult for those people to appear on late night TV or morning TV, that kind of thing, they get a step up in the culture war.

And that's what's happening.

So you...

You mentioned that they want to kill people.

You're talking more metaphorically than literally, right?

Look, they wouldn't, if I died tomorrow,

they wouldn't shed a tear.

Yeah, that's

they'd break out the champagne.

These are vicious people.

These are people

who believe that their conduct is justified because the traditional conservative movement is so evil.

I mean, they believe we're evil, and I believe they're evil.

So never the twain will meet.

But the advantage they have, in addition to the money, the vast money they have to do what they do, is the media's acceptance of them and promotion of them.

I mean, that's why the Golden Global Wharves were so stunning, where you have this Gervais

basically saying, Look, I'm a Brit, and I'm never going to do this show again, Golden Globe.

So I'm going to tell the truth about these people,

these Hollywood people, who have a vast amount of influence.

And he did.

The next day, the L.A.

Times cut his throat, Gervais's throat, and did everything they could to marginalize the truth that he said, that these Hollywood people don't know anything.

They're ignorant.

They're intolerant.

And if you don't tow their line, you won't work in Hollywood.

And that's true.

And the same thing goes for Disney and ATT and Comcast and all of these corporations that control the media flow in this country.

It's a bad situation.

And Americans should know just how bad it is.

Now, I've watched you, Bill, for 25 or 30 years, and I've known you for a decade.

I don't know that I've ever heard you use the word evil before.

Is that a new thing?

Is that a new realization for you or a new belief structure about these people?

No, I've used evil before in the sense that if you are a human being who wants to hurt other human beings,

all right, hurt them, you're evil.

Now, if it's self-defense, everybody understands that.

But if you are somebody who really devotes your life to hurting others, if you are a criminal,

if you are an abuser of

children,

That's evil.

Right.

Yeah.

And I'm seeing now a movement in this country that's being accepted that is at the same level of the totalitarian regimes of the past in the Soviet Union, in China, in Germany, where

there were political parties that were bent on subjugating people and were going to do anything they could to accomplish that.

Well, what's the difference?

What's the difference?

So it is evil, in my opinion.

It's amazing, though, you know, given this context, Bill, you know, here's a huge group of people, very well organized, relentless,

just trying to shut people up.

And if you read the Peggy Noonan column, you know, in a way, she almost seems optimistic about it, that eventually the American people are going to wake up and

toss this aside and reject it.

Do you find that optimistic?

In her column, and by the way, I'm not a big fan of hers

because she was

one of the witch hunters and the misconduct stuff.

Everybody was guilty.

But anyway, she thinks that someone

is going to rise up and challenge these people.

Well, who might that be?

You're going to get killed if you do that by the New York Times and the Washington Post and Hollywood and The View and

MSNBC and CNN.

Who's going to do that?

I mean, you would have to have billions of dollars and you would have to have hundreds of armed guards even to take them on.

I mean, that's how bad it is.

Now, yes, you have a conservative media.

You have people on radio and television that stick up for traditional values, but it's 100 to 1 against.

I mean, you're overwhelmed by the other side.

And

that's the state we're in.

So I'm not optimistic that some white knight is going to come out.

I don't know how that could possibly happen.

Bill, where we know people should go find you at billorilly.com, as you so wonderfully outlined just a moment ago.

What else?

What else should people be aware of?

The book?

Is that the thing you're pushing right now?

No, no, the book is we did very well with the United States of Trump,

and I appreciate you guys helping us with it.

We have a new killing book out, May 12th, Killing Crazy Horse, The American Indian Wars,

which is unbelievable.

I think people will

enjoy that.

That is the ninth killing book.

17 million copies of my history books in print.

And if you become a BillO'Reilly.com Premium member, you get the book free and first.

So that's pretty much what I'm hawking right now.

Very nice.

Bill, did you have a 20th anniversary message for Glenn that you wanted to make sure he heard?

Well, first of all, I hope, you know, look, I've been friends with Beck for a long time.

Yeah.

And anything that that is troubling him troubles me.

So I'm

just hoping that everything turns out.

If I can do anything, you guys tell him that I'm here to do whatever he needs.

But Glenn Beck is an interesting, and I don't want to spend a lot of time, because I know you have to sell pillows and stuff.

But

if you step back and you watch what Beck does, he's different than me and others who are more traditional in this country and the media.

Because Beck is basically what I call a true believer.

I mean, he has a vision of what America should be and how people should participate in the country.

And it's different than everybody else.

And that's why I like, you know, I give Beck a hard time.

There's nobody that makes more fun of him than I do.

But when it comes right down to it, Beck is an important resource for this country.

And I'm so happy that he's been successful in the 20th anniversary.

You know, he started when he was 62 years old.

He's 82 now.

And, you know, I just hope he can last as long as he wants to last.

All right, Bill O'Reilly, billorilly.com.

We're going to sell some pillows, but thanks for joining us today.

All right, guys.

Cheers.

All right.

82, huh?

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This is Patton Stew for Glenn on the Glen Beck program on his 20th anniversary.

We will talk about why he isn't here in just a few minutes, get into that story.

But he and his family and certainly Tanya's family could certainly use your thoughts and prayers today.

You've found kind of an interesting topic going on

on the Twitters.

On the Twitters, yes.

You know, one out of every 50 million posts on Twitter has value.

And people don't know that.

A lot of people think there's just nothing on there that could possibly be interesting.

No, every 50 million posts, one of them has some value.

This one

kind of started a bunch of conversations.

Some of them are amazing.

Someone tweeted: Tell me a story about yourself that sounds like a lie, but is absolutely true.

So, something about yourself sounds like a lie, but is absolutely true.

Okay.

Here's one from Jessica.

On my third day in New York, the two towers fell.

On my third day after visiting New Orleans, Katrina came.

On the third day after leaving Nepal, the hotel was bombed by rebels.

That just seems like you're actually just responsible.

An al-Qaeda representative sounds like an operative, maybe?

Not promising.

I've been struck by lightning, sucked into a riptide, attacked by dogs, and a car fell on me, not all at the same time.

Wow, that's not even worth it.

It's not at the same time.

It's not even.

It would have been impressive if it all happened simultaneously, but I'm not impressed now.

I have this one.

I was riding bikes with my daughter on Friday the 13th, and a black cat scurried across the bike path in front of us.

My daughter said something about bad luck, and I began to tell her that it was only superstition when a bee flew into my mouth and stung me on the back of my throat.

This one from Laura.

I saw my neighbor lady who had recently been hospitalized walking in her backyard.

Told her I was glad she was home and feeling better.

She smiled at me.

When I went inside and told my mom that the lady was home, mom told me she died at the hospital that morning.

That's kind of weird.

Wait, so was she

the wrong person or was it a ghost?

No, it was just a ghost wandering.

Or a spirit wandering around in the backyard, I guess, afterwards.

I love this.

Delivered $140 of pizza to an NBA player's house.

Couldn't change two $100 bills, so I told him I'd be back.

At the next stop, I was held up at gunpoint, ran forward, and called the cops.

The player calls to complain, and the manager, of course, explains the situation.

He goes back to the player's house, said, He says, I heard you had a rough time, and

tipped him $1.68.

Let's see.

Grade seven, needed parental permission to go to the corner store at recess.

My dad gave me a note covering the whole year, but nope.

So he printed off and signed 100 undated letters.

I kept them in my cubby and filled the date before recess.

My principal was not impressed.

Probably not.

Let's see.

Both my wife and I were adopted as babies, and neither of us found out until both sets of our parents died.

We later did separate searches of our birth parents and found out that we were siblings.

We've yet to tell our four kids and might just not ever.

I don't think they should know.

You know, there was.

That's crazy.

Do you hear the story of the guy who was running a fertility clinic?

And I guess, you know, look, maybe, you know, not always busy.

You don't always have a lot to do at the fertility clinic.

So he kind of got ahead.

He wanted to get ahead for supply, if you know what I'm saying.

And apparently supplied hundreds of children with his own seed.

He fueled that whole process.

He was very bored then, huh?

Very bored.

And apparently later on, all these women found out that they had a kid with the same dude.

And so all these, wasn't there like a Vince Vaughan movie about this?

Yes.

And it was the kids spread out across the country that were all related and had absolutely no idea.

Wow.

I love the one story where a woman in this thread, a woman

goes on Tinder and is talking to some guy she's been flirting with.

and asks for his last name.

And I guess in that world, like you hear the last name request and you're like, oh, they're just going to look me up.

So he says, yeah, here's my last name.

And just so you know, when you look me up, you will find out that I'm a murderer.

Yeah, kind of a funny joke.

She thinks, ah, he's got a good sense of humor.

She looks him up and

he was a murderer.

Apparently in the middle of a murder trial.

Which

makes you think online dating might not be the greatest solution

to your world.

Throw a monkey wrench into a

relationship, I would think, finding out that the person is a murderer.

It tends to be a little bit of a turnoff for some people.

Really?

Some people are so picky.

You can't even have killed people.

I mean, even if it's one person

and still carry on a relationship with them.

I mean, look, if you've gone 50, 60, 70 people, you've often, you know, I can understand your hesitation.

Yes.

But one person.

I mean, we've all had those days.

Come on, who hasn't?

You know?

As Jeffy, who hasn't killed a person or two along the way?

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So, Glenn Beck has a message for you here on his 20th anniversary.

He's out with a sort of family emergency going on.

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She feels okay, but she lost her voice.

Yeah, she sounded really bad yesterday.

I mean, you know, she was really sick.

Yes.

And when she loses her voice, look what we lose.

You know, her and replace with Jason.

That's not good.

I mean, we're doing anything wrong.

Did we commit some crime?

No.

to deserve that?

No.

Not our fault.

We don't deserve it.

We didn't.

He's just over there staring at us.

All right.

888 727 back is the phone number.

Glenn is out today.

However, today is his 20th anniversary here on

the radio.

A show that started at 970 WFLA, The Mothership

began the show, and we went through the 2011.

I mean, we should go through just some of the stuff we've covered in the last 20 years of doing this.

It's a lot of crap.

A lot of crap, man.

It's a lot of crap.

We'll get into that.

And, you know, it feels like you go through all those stories.

Now we have all those stories going on in the same news cycle.

Like, the stories that are that big all the time.

Yeah.

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Were you actually, were you still in Connecticut at the very beginning?

I'm trying to think of whether you went down, because you didn't immediately go down to Tampa with Glenn Street.

Correct, right?

Yeah.

For about a year.

I was in Connecticut

as Glenn started.

Although he had done some talk shows for our sister station, a now affiliate, WELI, in New Haven, as well as WABC in New York.

But then went to WFLA to start it up 20 years ago today.

20 years ago today.

Amazing.

It's amazing.

All right, we got that.

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Here, this is what Glenn posted earlier this morning.

Is it on Instagram?

I think it's, I believe it's on the Gram.

You know, that's what I call it the Glenn.

The Gram.

Yeah, because I want people to know.

Because you're really in the know and you're really hip on the Gram.

Yeah, sometimes I'll just call it Insta.

Really?

And other times I'll call it the IG.

You know, because I, you know, that's why I'm on the TikTok as well.

So make sure you check me out there on the

TikTok.

No, I'm not.

So,

sorry, I'm an adult.

So, Glenn was on Instagram, and he talked about, I mean, because it's 20 years and two days ago, he got married to Tanya.

And we were there, Pat, and got to go to a wonderful hamburger dinner right afterwards at a fast food joint.

And then two days after that, he moved to Florida and started his talk radio show.

Here's what he writes.

He says,

Today is my 20th anniversary of doing talk radio.

20 years.

In many ways, it seems like yesterday.

In others, it seems like I've been doing it for a thousand years.

A lot of that has to do with working with Jeffy.

That part of it always seems a lot longer.

Yeah, it does.

I've been blessed to work with some of the best people in all of radio.

Stu, Pat, Dan, Jeffy, Sarah, just to name a few, who have been with me the whole time.

Pat, for 30 years next year.

No, it's actually this year.

It's this year?

It's already 30 years, yeah.

30 years.

A little hurt.

I'm a little hurt that he didn't realize that.

Our anniversary is coming up as well.

Oh, gosh, Pat, don't cry.

30-year anniversary.

So you started with him in Baltimore

in 1990.

1990.

That's

a long freaking time ago.

It's amazing how this stuff happens.

It seems like it goes so fast.

Yeah.

Glenn writes, I cannot thank

all of those who've crossed my path and made me a better broadcaster and man, as well as those we currently work with, and make me sound better than I am.

But truly, one of the top five greatest blessings of my life has been able to serve you, the audience.

The greatest 50 million monthly Americans to ever come together as an audience.

Tanya and I think of you as friends because, well, you are.

I don't get to see you when we hang out.

But you are the most well-read, loyal, entrepreneurial, honest, and charitable audience I contend has ever been assembled in TV or radio.

It's hard.

I mean, a lot of that stuff is really hard to argue with.

I mean, the charitable thing in particular.

Yeah, it's great.

I mean, the way that this audience has stepped up for people in need over the years, and that's something that the audience never gets their due credit for.

The media never fawns over all the millions of dollars this audience has given to help people.

This audience has literally given tens of millions of dollars

for various causes.

Tens of millions.

Saving Christians in the Middle East, stopping people from being

back to

tons and tons of veterans' causes,

soldiers that have gone and been injured or killed, kitchen families, food kitchens.

Homeless people, I mean, across the board.

Yeah.

Children need, I mean, it's been really an amazing experience to see that actually happen because we talk about how important,

you know, charity is

because we argue all the time that we want government to do less.

You know, when Mercury won, his charitable organization started, that's what they used to use that tagline all the time.

It was, you know, if we want the government to do less, we need to do more.

And this audience has taken that to heart in a real way.

Yeah.

Glenn Glenn writes, Tanya and I think of you as friends.

Oh, yeah, maybe I did that part.

Let's see.

You challenge me, he writes.

Let me know when I am wrong, yet do something that just isn't in fashion anymore.

Remain my friend even when we disagree.

Thank you for allowing me to share your journey with you.

It has been a great joy to make you laugh, cry, see something a new way, explore life and history, think out of the box, and stand shoulder to shoulder for the God-given rights given to all mankind by a loving Creator.

I know I am not good enough to have accomplished all that we have on my own.

And I will agree with with him.

Oh,

I mean, that's probably the truest thing he even said.

I mean, it's not even kind of.

It makes it sound like it could be close, like he's almost good enough.

He's not.

I mean, it's a huge, massive chasm.

A chasm.

Chasm.

It's a chasm.

Much of it was a blessing from God.

The mistakes, however, were all mine.

With that being said, please forgive me for not being with you today, as Glenn is not here, obviously, today.

But he wrote this at 3.15 a.m.

Eastern Time, and he had just landed in Connecticut.

Late last night, Tanya got word that her father had been rushed to the hospital, and we needed to be by his side.

I hope to be back Monday, but will be gone Tuesday as my daughter Mary is going in for brain surgery Tuesday at 7 a.m.

Please pray for my family and if I may ask for one more prayer, one of my best and dearest friends is facing a fierce battle for his life today.

His name is Dom.

Please pray for miracles and grace.

See you soon.

So Dom and Mary and Vinny and really honestly, a lot of people, man, going on right now.

It's been a tough few months for this sort of stuff.

Wow.

And

it's something that

everybody has to deal with at some point, but man,

I feel like it's been just a wave of

real

close-by tragedy and sadness in a lot of ways.

And

obviously, everyone has to go through that at some point, but I know Glenn has had a real difficult time and has a lot going on in that area.

And I know he really wanted to be here today.

I mean,

20 years doing a show that started at 970 WFLA 20 years ago, started off the first year of broadcast.

I think he started in 18th place in the ratings and then rocketed to 23rd place,

which was crazy.

But it was rocket.

It was a rocket ride.

Yeah.

And it's interesting because Patty, you know, in his morning show career, you know, he had some big stops, but some, you know, middling.

I mean, I wouldn't say middling is a good word, I think, for what he did until he met up with you.

Right.

And then had massive success

all the way up to outrageous it was outrageous

uh and you know started in talk radio in 18th place went to 23rd then i joined him and he went to number one so i don't know what the lesson is exactly there but i can tell you exactly what it is uh

no uh so we started off think about this in 2000 glenn starts off his first show in talk radio uh it's it's it's he's struggling at the beginning he's finding his his way i mean glenn's an incredible broadcaster will someday be in the radio hall of fame i'm sure,

and is incredibly gifted at what he does, even though maybe some days on this program you can't necessarily tell that.

But he starts off and he's getting his kind of feet, getting his balance.

Is this going to work as a talk radio host?

In Tampa, Florida, in 2000, when an election's going on, you may remember centered a little bit around Florida with hanging chads and such.

So you're there for that election in Florida

about what was it, maybe

10 months later,

or eight months later, I guess it was.

We went to, we were, got an offer to be nationally syndicated, start a new show.

It was August 2001.

You may notice, one month before September.

And it was going to start the next January, right?

It was going to start at the beginning of the year, and then 9-11 happened.

Yeah, and they moved up the launch.

So we kind of like threw a network together, threw a show together.

They didn't, for some reason, they didn't want to talk about relationship issues

with whoever else was doing the show at that time.

Yeah.

During 9-11.

a little bit of a change up yeah yeah so we did that i mean we think of all the stuff that's happened pat i mean you go through the iraq war uh you the the uh the kerry versus bush election which came down to ohio and we were out there with a giant waffle head uh going around telling uh you know that's right mocking john john kerry uh then you had uh you know the economic collapse katrina uh you had uh the obama election and all of that crazy stuff and you know in that period you know glenn started his CNN headline news show and then onto the Fox News show with all that stuff with Van Jones and then the

restoring honor in Washington, D.C.

Hundreds of thousands of people gathering for that.

All the restoring

events since.

It has been a hell of a ride.

A hell of a 20 years, man.

Really has.

And this audience has been there the entire time.

Many, I mean, people I still hear from all the time.

who were listening those first days in Tampa.

The fact that they stuck around through those days is a...

really something.

Yeah, it's a feat of strength in and of itself.

But to hang around for 20 years, still listening to Glenn, I know he really legitimately appreciates it.

And we talk about this off the air all the time that this audience is something special.

The fact that they've been able to do the things that they've been able to do,

the ways that we've been influenced by the audience over the years.

I'll never forget going, we're doing the show in Tampa back, and this is the Terry Shivo days.

And

I was out at

an all-you-can-eat buffet because I guess there was a buffet, there was a buffet in Tampa that threw out a big fat guy because he was eating too many crab legs.

And it was kind of a big local story.

So we decided to get 10 of our fattest listeners to go to this buffet and just gorge themselves to see if we could get kicked out.

So that's what I was doing.

And Glenn was back taking calls on the local issue of the day, Terry Shivo.

And he was on the other side of it.

He was on the side of, like, ah, you know what?

I mean, look, I wouldn't want to live that way.

Let her die.

You know, the husband seems to want it, whatever.

And he got a call from a listener, one of the last calls on the show, who said, you know, Glenn, I've been listening to you for a year, and this doesn't seem consistent with you at all.

Like, have you actually thought about this story at all?

And it's funny because, you know, doing talk radio, especially when you hear it being done by others, you can tell when the people have actually thought out the issue they're talking about.

And it's not 100% of the time

news flash.

A lot of times it's just, you know, there's a little bit of rip and read going on occasionally in talk radio.

And I don't know, he was trying to be entertaining.

He was much more focused on this big buffet issue going on in town.

And, you know, he stopped and

it really bothered him.

I remember him telling me about this as we went into the weekend.

You know, it really bothered me.

Like, I don't know why.

He seemed to connect.

So he did something that I don't know that a lot of hosts do.

He went home and actually took the caller's advice and thought about it.

And he came back the next day on Monday and said, you know, I'm totally wrong on this.

I blew this one.

And instead of just letting the story die or

trying to massage it, and as I was saying on Friday, I'm on this side of it.

He came out and just laid it out on the table.

This is what happened.

I was wrong.

I didn't think about it enough.

I let you down.

Here's what

the truth is.

And, you know, he wound up becoming very close to the Shibo family and who really appreciated his efforts.

I mean, that was a big story in Tampa long before it was a national story.

And, you know, I think that's one of the things that sets Glenn apart, honestly, as a host, and that he's willing to just come out here and just say, you know what, I totally blew that one.

That is very rare in talk radio.

You don't hear it a lot.

You don't hear it.

I mean, you certainly don't hear it from the media today.

I mean, you know, wouldn't it be nice to have CNN, maybe Allison Camerada, who's probably the worst offender on this particular topic, to come out one day and say, you know what?

I said to you 20 times on the air that the dossier was confirmed and corroborated by authorities.

And you know what?

I got to just tell you.

I really believed it at the time, but you know what?

I was totally wrong on that.

And you should know that I was wrong.

And you should know next time I come out with something like that, it's okay to have questions because I blew that one.

Yeah, wouldn't that be nice?

Wouldn't that be nice?

But she'll never do that.

You never hear that.

Never do that.

You do hear it from Glenn, though.

Yeah.

And when he does get something wrong, he does really try to, I mean, and that's something that is difficult to do for your ego.

And it's something that a lot of broadcasters.

It's counterintuitive, too.

But tell you not not to do it.

Any consultant would say, don't do that.

Right.

Because you're supposed to be the ultimate.

You got to be the authority.

Yeah.

You know, don't admit

your lack of perfection to the audience.

Right.

But, you know, I think that's one of the things that we've loved about this show is that the audience is, you know, they're smart.

They know you're not perfect.

They're human beings and they also are not perfect.

And we've been able to kind of go through 20 years of this together.

And hopefully, I mean, for Pat and I've sake, not too much longer because it really I can't take anymore.

But no, it's been enable, it's been an amazing ride, and I know Glenn really appreciates it and wants to be here.

So, he's in it.

We're going to go over some, he wants to, I know, talk to you about it as well.

But on this day, where 20 years ago, 970 WFLA launches this show, we appreciate not only their affiliation with us, but all the stations and all the advertisers, and especially the audience.

It's been an amazing ride, and hopefully, a lot more.

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This is kind of interesting because at Glacier National Park, in Montana, the glaciers are melting.

They put up some signs around the park to let you know that by 2020, these glaciers are going to be completely gone.

They've had those up since 2010 or a little bit before.

By 2020, glaciers are gone.

But it's 2020 now.

Right.

And now that's why they've removed the signs.

Oops.

Because they're not just pristine meadows of grass.

No.

Are there glaciers there?

There are glaciers in Glacier National Park.

You know, the thing is, I grew up in Montana.

So I've been to Glacier Park I don't know how many times.

I used to go all the time when I was a kid.

And in the 70s, when I was growing up, they would tell us, These glaciers are melting.

They're going to be gone someday.

Really?

What is causing that?

Well, back in the 1970s, they were ridiculous and provincial.

And they didn't know about, you know, the CO2 that's killing us now.

Back then, they said it was the sun.

And I thought, what a

ridiculous answer.

It can't be the sun.

That is crazy.

They would tell you back then, they told the truth.

The glaciers have been melting, you know, for 20,000 years.

They were here during the ice age.

And now some of the ice, as you see, is gone.

And some of it's stuck around.

But eventually it will be melted.

Well, now, you know, then, of course, because it was the politically correct thing to do, they decided it was global warming and the CO2 was melting the glaciers.

When instead, what is happening actually on some of the biggest, uh most popular glaciers that are there at the park uh one of them the jackson glacier has actually grown by 25 percent since um the last decade oh 25 now is there a sign telling people that no there isn't no no no this goes back to what we were just talking about wouldn't it be great if the sign went up and it said hey

Here lies a sign.

We've buried it here under this under this memorial.

Here lies a sign that used to stand here saying saying there wouldn't be any glaciers in 2020.

We were totally wrong about that.

Like you just said,

if you're wrong, just admit it.

Admit it.

It would give you so much more credibility.

Yeah.

And they will not do it.

Instead, they're just going to say, these glaciers.

I think they're putting up new signs that are saying without a timeline now, the glaciers are going to melt away.

Yeah.

They've just taken the time away.

Future generations.

Yeah.

They say these glaciers will be gone.

Well, yeah, they probably will because they've been melting for 20,000 years.

They're going to continue to melt.

And one day they will have all melted, no doubt.

It's just part of the cycles of the earth.

It's better than

if the ice age comes back and everything turns to ice.

Yeah, one thing you note when you look at world and human history, you'd rather have it be too warm than too cold.

Absolutely.

It's a very consistent thing.

And that's why even like the UN reports from the IPCC will say, you know, for a time, you know, we'll scare you about all the global warming and terrible things, but for a time, there's going to be a lot of positive things.

They think for about 80 years, the net will be actually be positive.

Because obviously things like extra growth of vegetation, food, food will grow.

Will grow.

Not to mention, you know,

warm more warm temperatures in areas that are currently cold and killing people.

You know,

you have, you know, really cold stretches.

It's difficult to get people to live through those times.

Warm weather can suck but it usually is not killing people and if it is to that level we have these things called air conditioners um and i know those are evil co2 spewing machines but they seem to help they save lives yeah they do yeah all the time yeah uh so i you know again this is another example where you'd have some more credibility if you just admit when you're wrong it would be nice you're listening to Glenn Beck

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Paul Krugman,

New York, New York Times columnist, a guy who's a big believer in

Keynesian

economics,

a guy who's a big believer in climate change, a guy who hates everything conservative.

Apparently, he's been hacked.

Oh, no.

Yeah.

Russians?

It had to be the Russians, right?

Probably.

Probably the Russians.

That's what they do.

Yeah, that's what they do.

They go right after these economists all the time like this and load child pornography on their computer.

Really?

Mm-hmm.

Now, I hadn't heard about that happening previously in any instance.

I haven't either, but I know that's what they do.

Oh, okay.

Because

he says

he tweeted out, well, I'm on the phone with my computer security service, and as I understand it, someone compromised my IP address and is using it to download child pornography.

Uh-oh.

That was my thought.

Uh-oh.

Paul, are you just getting out in front of something?

Or maybe he was hacked?

I don't know.

But it's strange, isn't it?

I mean, who announces that?

why are you telling us about this?

If your computer was hacked, we didn't even know about it.

Nobody was talking about the fact that there was child porn on your computer.

What are you telling us about it for?

Right.

You think you talk to your computer security?

You'd think so.

And maybe they would report it to the FBI or something like that.

I'm sure Krugman has been very critical of Donald Trump for not reporting meetings and contacts to the FBI.

He sure has, hasn't he?

So I assume that he was going to do that right away.

Right away.

But this.

He did say the New York Times is on it.

Oh, that's good.

Yeah, so the New York Times is looking into it.

His employer.

Uh-huh.

His employer.

With a vested interest in protecting his reputation.

Sarah interesting.

Yeah, they're on it.

That's good to hear.

And, you know, look, the New York Times has never shown any

possibility of protecting its

people that have done things that are incredibly wrong.

Illegal.

Yeah.

No, never.

From all sorts of different scandals to plagiarism to defending the Nazi regime.

There's a good amount of

stuff over the years they've allowed to go through there.

It is interesting.

I mean, if you are in that spot, because this is kind of on the level of who's the musician that was, didn't he say he was researching a book?

Pete Townsend from The Who.

They found him with child porn.

He's like, researching a book about child porn.

Really?

Yeah.

I think it did turn out, though.

That he was researching a book.

That's what you go with, I think.

That's, I think, the answer.

I don't think you tweet to everybody.

No.

Hey, guys.

Yeah.

Look out.

I don't know if he's just trying to get out ahead of something.

Or, you know, maybe somebody really did hack his computer.

I don't know.

I hesitate to say any words of defense to Paul Krugman because

he's a terrible human being.

Yes, he is.

And would never, ever acknowledge that someone on the conservative side

of instant, you know, half a second worth of pause?

Not even.

No.

Not even.

No.

I will say, though, and Glenn has talked about this a decent amount.

You can expect things like that, a real hack,

if this is real.

You can expect things like this to happen more and more often, particularly as they target public individuals.

I mean, this is the conversation about deepfakes that we've had many times.

You know, this has happened in other countries already around elections where politicians will be

digitally altered to say things they didn't say.

And even though, like, you know, maybe the educated people who follow politics, you know, an audience like this that's listening to

talk radio and understands and follows these things all the time, they might not fall for it at this point because

it might still be flawed.

You can tell that's inconsistent with other things that people have said.

But, you know, there's a large portion of the populace that will cast a vote and literally know nothing about these candidates.

Nothing.

Yeah, no doubt.

They know nothing about it.

All they do is watch Kardashians all day.

Yep.

And

maybe they heard Kanye talk about it one time, but that's about it.

So for those people, they may be fooled.

And it's happened in other countries where manipulated videos have led to riots, to murders.

Right.

And the technology is so good now.

I mean, look what they did with

Carrie Fisher in Star Wars.

I thought that CGI was unbelievable with her.

Through the whole movie, she's been dead for, what, three years?

I had no idea.

Completely gone for three years.

This is all CGI.

So both

her

image and her voice simulated.

And

I couldn't tell.

Yeah.

And, you know, you look, people are going to believe this.

You know, we have,

we just went through this sort of Me Too situation where, you know, the tagline for the left for much of that was women have a right to be believed.

And that's, of course, not the legal standard and should not be the moral standard either.

You don't have a right to be believed.

You have a right to be taken seriously.

You have a right to be heard out if you have an accusation, of course.

And you should get justice if something happened.

But that is a different line than wanting the right to be believed.

But you look at these sorts of situations where the average person would say, there's no way someone could get on my computer and download child porn.

Therefore, this guy must be guilty.

And

that is the most direct line to the probable truth, right?

Like, you know, it's probably in most cases.

It's more likely that you did it yourself.

Right.

But when you talk about big public figures, it gets less likely.

You know, I think a lot of times with the Me Too situation, as they went on, you know, a lot of people, when there'd be this a lower non-public figure,

you know, like an executive, you don't know their name at some company and they get charged with

sexual harassment.

It's much easier for the mind to believe that as opposed to someone like, let's say, like Donald Trump, right?

Where everyone understands Donald Trump was accused of sexual harassment by, what, two dozen women?

But everyone understands there's a massive motivation to say bad things about Donald Trump.

And who knows what's true and what isn't, but you have to enter that conversation with a level of skepticism.

Because we all know, we all know people wanted to take out Brett Kavanaugh, right?

All it takes is one person to say something with no facts, and we're supposed to get rid of this guy.

There's too much motivation.

There's too much motivation to take him out.

And it's difficult for the American people, I think,

sensibly to take that seriously because you don't know for sure whether the motivation is real.

And when we come into this with public figures going through,

you know, weird sort of scandals, with hacking and deep fakes and all this other crap that's going to increase with as AI becomes more prominent.

You're telling me that you know the Russian government, the Chinese government, the North Korean government, who is supposedly able to hack Sony and release all their emails, Iran is known for their cyber attacks.

At some point, someone's going to be able to pull this off and it's going to be believable to people.

And it could sway an election.

It could ruin lives.

All of this is possible.

So you have to allow for the possibility that Krugman is just an idiot and tweeting about his, uh,

about actually being hacked with child porn.

There are other possibilities as well

that are worth considering in this particular case.

Yes, there are.

I mean, this has happened with, you know, it's because if you're left enough, usually you get away with these things, right?

Like you could be, you could, you know, you could be bathing yourself in child porn and get away with it if you like the taxes high enough.

That's kind of the way the policy works.

Well, there's this one guy, George Luber,

and the name's a bit unfortunate, but he's a George Luber, he was a top climate expert with the CDC, and he became a face of how evil and anti-science the Trump administration was.

See, what happened was the Trump administration came into power, and they said, you know, we don't want to know anything about the climate.

We don't want the truth.

We don't want science.

That's what they did.

And this guy got thrown out of his position as a top climate expert with the CDC because he was going to take it to the man.

He was going to say, you know what, CO2 is bad.

You know what?

You've got to stop driving those cars.

These bastards in the coal industry,

I'm going to speak truth to power.

And what did Trump do?

Fired him because he didn't want to hear that his beloved oil companies were guilty of these environmental crimes.

Protecting ExxonMobil.

Chevron.

Exactly.

Shell.

So two years have gone by since this happened, and he became a big cause celeb of the left, where they praised this guy as the guy who would speak truth to power.

Two years have gone by, and now we're starting to learn the facts around his departure.

Going through BuzzFeed actually reported this to give them some credit because a lot of left-wing media wouldn't report this, I don't think.

They went through a thousand pages of emails, calendars, text messages, sworn statements,

internal CDC documents, and recordings, as well as interviews conducted by BuzzFeed News.

What they have found is five separate women who were accusing him of either harassing behavior or sexually harassing behavior, offensive behavior that they complained about.

He was apparently a very bad boss and had everyone there pretty much hated his guts because he treated everybody like crap.

And these allegations are really the reason why, according to BuzzFeed, that he was kicked out.

Not the,

I'm a climate,

you know, I'm a climate activist and I'm saving the planet.

It was that he was, you know, abusing

allegedly

many of his underlings.

And where did he learn that?

Donald Trump.

That's right.

He didn't do it before the Trump administration.

Right.

And then he went right into it as soon as Don got the job.

Donald Trump.

Yep.

Shocking.

They will find out.

Rachel Maddow will be on TV with that exact model on tonight.

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Welcome to the Glenn Bett program.

It's Pat and Stu in for Glenn.

We hope he's back Monday.

Had a family emergency late last night, and

we have him in our prayers as well as his family and friends around him as they're trying to figure out a couple of serious things, but we hope they turn out well and he'll be back here on Monday.

Interesting story, one of the strangest stories I think I've ever read.

This is

come in Washington state talking about a public notification meeting for the placement of a sexually violent predator at a group housing facility.

Locals didn't necessarily like the idea of a sexual predator who may be violent

midst, in their community, which is somewhat normal.

Understandable.

He's in his late 60s, this guy.

And

they went through some of the violations he had of policy at the group home he was at, and they were trying to get him kicked out.

Some pretty recently, as far as late as October, November of 2019.

The list includes discontinuing a prescribed medication, which is a violation of a direct court order,

failing to follow staff directives, contact with a minor, failing to comply with GPS monitoring requirements, displaying of unsafe, aggressive, and intimidating behavior towards other staff members of the group home,

and possession of unapproved material.

And then,

in parentheses,

it outlines the

material that was unapproved.

It says possession of unapproved material, parentheses, possession of a book about Glenn Beck.

What?

So the guy was

reading about Glenn.

Again.

Apparently, and that's not allowed.

I have so many questions.

Yeah.

First of all, I am going to go, and it is written specifically this way, a possession of a book about Glenn Beck, not by Glenn Beck.

So I don't know.

Maybe it was one of these.

There's

a large swath of books by liberals criticizing Glenn, so it could potentially be that, or who knows?

I mean, I have no idea.

We don't screen the people who buy the books.

Who knows?

But beyond that, why would a book about Glenn Beck be

material that is unapproved?

Like, it's a violation essentially of his parole, or it's a violation of his ability to live in a particular home because Glenn Beck appears on a book?

That is a really weird story.

Yeah, it is.

Is that that true?

I mean, I know we have huge numbers in prisons all across America listening to this program.

Is that true?

Or do you guys

try to take your Glenn Beck books away?

Because that's sad.

That's sad.

I mean, the one moment of enjoyment for all of these horrible hardened criminals around America just want to read a book about Glenn Beck, and they can't do it now.

So it's a good story for the 20th anniversary of the Glenn Beck program.

Yes, it is.

Yeah, I mean,

an interesting ride, and I don't think I saw it ending with a story about how a violent sexual offender was reading a book about Glenn.

It's a weird world you're in.

I will say Glenn may want to get a security people and to make sure they understand if this guy is a threat of any sort, because if you're reading an anti-Glenn Beck book, and you've gone through this situation, I don't know.

I'd like to...

If it's an anti-Glenn book, I don't think it would be not approved.

I think it'd be fine with that.

Oh, really?

Yeah.

I think it's probably a pro-Glenn Beck.

It could be one of these things in a group home where they're saying, like, all these people living together, we want to cause fights.

So no politics.

You know, maybe.

It could be something like that.

Maybe.

But either way, you're right.

Like, usually, because we get calls all the time.

We're like, hey, I was trying to go on Glennbeck.com and it's just blocked.

You know, my company or my library or my school is blocked.

Glennbeck.com is an offensive site.

It's like, look, I mean, yeah, there's a lot of pictures of Glenn, and those are offensive to many, but

generally speaking, it's just the news site.

Generally speaking, he is fully clothed.

Yeah, and 70, 80% of the pages.

Yeah.

You know?

Yeah.

I mean, there's that one section that, you know, I would block that one section.

But that's behind a paywall.

You got to pay extra to get that.

All right.

Well, we'll see you on Monday.

Have a great weekend.

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