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The Virginia abortion bill failed.

But that's only because one of the co-sponsors said,

I have to admit, I'm new here and I trusted people and I didn't read the bill.

And I don't want anything to do with this bill.

It goes way too far.

I'll give you the update on that and what our responsibility is now.

Also, Ben Sass will be joining us today.

And Pat Gray joins me as we begin the show in one minute.

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I didn't know his story until he wrote to me and he said, Glenn, I'm sick to my stomach today.

There are moments of clarity in all of our lives, and hopefully you experience such a thing more than just once.

But on Wednesday afternoon, on my drive home in Raleigh, North Carolina, I was listening to a recap of the week's news on the radio.

What I heard was that a lawmaker in Virginia had brought forward a bill to expand abortion access and remove restrictions on the procedure currently in place in the state.

The reporter said, you'd expect this sort of legislation in New York or California, but it seems out of character for the state of Virginia.

My fingers slowly tightened around the steering wheel.

Audio played of Kathy Tran, a delegate from Fairfax County, explaining the substance of the Repeal Act to her colleagues on the floor.

I don't know about this moment or this bill, and I don't know why it drew out such a strong reaction from me.

After all, the state of New York just passed a very similar measure only a week ago, and I went on with my day.

But this afternoon, my vision blurred and my stomach tightened.

Something was wrong,

and I could feel the most subtle shock waves going up my arms to my neck, discomfort, and rapid breathing.

I got through the next stoplight and I pulled the car over.

I turned it off and I just sat there for a few minutes, focusing on my breath.

I've never experienced this.

I think this was a moment of clarity, the realization of a lie.

If you're hearing this,

you need to know the backstory.

Governor Ralph Northam recently joined WTOP Radio in Washington, D.C., and was asked about the abortion bill dubbed the Repeal Act, which had been causing a stir in the state for a better part of a week.

But one of his answers was:

if a mother is in labor, I can tell you exactly what would happen.

The infant would be delivered.

The infant would be kept comfortable.

The infant would be

resuscitated if that's what the mother and family desired, then a discussion would ensue between the physicians and the mother on what to do.

The bill, sponsored by Delegate Kathy Tran of Fairfax County, would allow women to get abortions up until the point of birth if their physical or mental health are considered at risk.

To put a fine point on it, Tran was questioned about her bill earlier this week and expressed that it offered no limits on when the abortion could be carried out, including when the mother is dilated and about to give birth.

It reduces the number of doctors required to approve termination from three to one and it lowers the bar significantly for the severity of the health risk.

Now we are talking about the impairment of mental health in addition to the mother's physical health.

What does that even mean?

Well,

making things vague is the point.

Something I didn't see coming in the abortion debate, but I'm guessing pro-lifers probably saw it a million miles back.

Was that

where this was headed

the whole time?

The first time I had the slightest idea, the slightest thought, that the case for abortion might expand to having virtually no boundaries was when the discourse on college campuses began to blend mental and physical harm into a single thing.

When is speech violence?

was a New York Times article in 2017, and it was actually my first hint.

The piece described the science behind the stress and how challenges to the nervous system in the form of hurtful or abusive speech can cause long-lasting physical harm.

And I remember thinking to myself about that talking point in cases of physical harm to the mother.

But I moved on with my day.

On the question of abortion, I have failed the test each time that I can think of for a litany of reasons that all boil down to cowardice.

I believe in God.

I believe God tests us daily in our lives.

On the question of abortion, I have failed the test.

My wife and I are both proud parents of an eight-year-old girl.

She's the light of our lives and brilliant, and I will likely never forgive myself on how I reacted when my then college girlfriend, now wife, came to me and told me she was pregnant.

I was a twenty-year-old pro-life Republican fair weather Christian, and she was my liberal girlfriend who didn't see the world on my way on just about anything.

My thought process was then, well, obviously she'll handle it and this will go away.

So with my head down, I asked her if that was her plan.

It was most definitely not.

The idea quite offended her, and she walked out.

I failed the biggest test of my young life.

I like to think I made it right by later stepping up and forming the family that I now have and cherish.

It took a lot of work on both of our parts, but after that my view on abortion changed to match my previous failure.

I decided that I was pro choice, because how could I champion the right to life when I turned away from it in the moment of my being tested?

This new view shielded me from another layer of shame, that of hypocrisy.

Gradually, other pressing issues led me away from being conservative to being libertarian, an identification I still hold on to and believe to be correct.

Abortion is still very much in debate in libertarian circles as it has been for quite some time, whereas it's settled for conservatives and progressives.

I found comfort in the hand-wringing and uncertainty of the libertarian viewpoint.

In order to detach myself from the outcome of America's abortion debate, I had to assume three things.

First, that they were sincere in the argument that the survival of the mother was of utmost concern to the pro-choice crowd.

Second, that the valid debate over when life begins wouldn't be allowed by courts to extend past the time of birth.

Third, that while late-term abortions are generally rare and unpopular, the legality of the practice was not going to extend beyond the most progressive corners of America.

The quick rise and fall of the Repeal Act in Virginia unravels all of these things.

I taught myself to believe about the abortion debate, that it had boundaries, that it was about people trying to defend life in exceptional circumstances, both on the side of advocacy for the unborn and the women carrying them.

But it's simply not true.

And this week, I saw it.

The radicalized left in 2019, supported by a new wave of true believers who consider physical and mental harm to be entirely subjective concepts, is not going to stop expanding the religion of choice.

Governor Northam made it clear in his admission that the fates of children could be decided on after the fact of their birth.

This wasn't a slip-up or miscommunication.

It was the mask coming off an ideology of death that had now been mainstreamed.

I just didn't have the courage and clarity to confront it.

Sitting on the side of the road with the keys in my ignition, I wondered if this is what being convicted by God actually feels like.

I have prayed for countless years for the Spirit to move me in a way it moves some members of my family when all I've ever felt is silence in my faith.

Now you might say I just had a panic attack.

I would say it was given to me, and I thank God for giving it to me.

Kathy Tran and Governor Northam revealed the sidelines are no longer the place where I belong.

My hope for moderation and wisdom from public officials has not stopped the worst ideas on abortion from being realized and spread.

Eventually, more state legislatures will be faced with similar bills that blur the lines of what divines harm.

David French wrote in the National Review that the onset of anxiety, depression, the fear of postpartum will soon be tried as reasons for young life to be terminated.

He's right.

I started my engine, and I decided I am now joining the movement to defend the sanctity of life.

If you've ever been on the sidelines on this, I hope you'll now join me.

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Geez, I hope I didn't realize.

I thought it was next hour.

I hope I haven't made the senator wait too long.

Ben Sass is on the phone with us now.

Senator, how are you, sir?

Is he there?

Hey,

now a technical problem.

This is not going well.

Senator.

He's just a U.S.

Senator.

Just a U.S.

No big deal.

No big problem.

Senator, are you there, sir?

I am.

Okay.

And you're at.

So I'm happy to sit here on wait for a while.

Okay, I am so sorry to make you wait.

No worries.

So I have to commend you for the way you have handled this.

Could we please play the quick quote from Ben Sasse that came out yesterday, please?

Let's be really clear about what we're talking about here.

We're talking about fourth trimester abortion, or what anyone in the normal world calls infanticide.

That's what we're talking about.

And the governor of Virginia has been defending this all day yesterday and again today.

going out and trying to equivocate and qualify and then double down and again say he wants to defend this practice, which is infanticide.

Everyone in the Senate ought to be able to say unequivocally that killing that little baby is wrong.

This doesn't take any political courage.

And if you can't say that, if there's a member of this body that can't say that, there may be lots of work you can do in the world, but you shouldn't be here.

You should get the heck out of any calling in public life where you pretend to care about the most vulnerable among us.

You, I was reading last night about colonial America and abortions, and you sound like Lord Baltimore.

He said that very thing about somebody who was in

government who was involved in an abortion, and he said, get out.

You have no place in public service.

Thank you for that.

Can you tell me what has happened to us?

What is going on with these abortion bills?

I honestly don't.

I don't know.

I can't understand what is going on in

Virginia, in New York.

I guess there are some other states in New England looking at this crap.

Two others.

This is how far yeah, this is how far the radical pro-abortion lobby has driven this conversation.

Fifteen years ago, 20 years ago, Bill Clinton's argument was, well, abortion's bad, but we can't make everything bad illegal.

And so we need abortion.

This is Bill Clinton talking.

We need safe and legal, but we want it to be rare.

Now they're talking about keeping a baby comfortable while doctors stand around and have a debate about infanticide.

It is truly bizarre what Governor Northam is out there defending.

So

I want to believe that this is some sort of game that the Democrats are playing to get their side worked up for

the next election.

They're going to turn it into the right is going to just try to take away all right

for women and women's bodies, or that they are just trying to move the Overton window and and be so crazy that we're all like, okay, come on, first term, you know, you know, first trimester abortions.

I mean, I think we all agree on that.

But I don't think so.

I think this is evil.

I think this is gone.

I think some of these people who are at the top of the Democratic Party

really do believe what Peter Singer teaches, and that is you have a right until this child really sees and recognizes that there is a tomorrow, you have a right to kill it.

Yeah, I don't I'm one of eight people I think in the Senate who's never been a politician before, so I'm not going to pretend I'm any good political prognosticator.

I don't know where all these motives come from, but

I know that the pro-life movement is going to win eventually

because it's on the side of dignity, it's on the side of science, it's on the side of love.

And there's all sorts of legislative stuff we need to do.

I'm I'm the lead sponsor in the Senate for the last three years of the Born Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act.

We're going to try to move some

expedited floor consideration of that on Monday.

But the most important thing we can do in this movement is continue talking with our friends and our family and women who are going through unbelievably hard circumstances often and keep telling the truth in love because these are babies.

And it's really not that complicated to celebrate human dignity and to talk about these babies.

And we've got Governor Northam out there just cowardly ducking again and again, you know, unwilling to say that it's wrong to leave a newborn baby to die cold and alone.

Senator, this is the first time I've seen politics go like this, where

this is not, it doesn't feel like

this is a

campaign kind of thing.

This feels like a turning point in American history.

And I'm a little shocked that more people aren't up in arms about this and aren't standing up, even from the Democratic side, because I don't think the Democratic voter, the voters in Nebraska that vote for Democrats, they don't believe this stuff.

But they're being told, and you'll see it online, the social media spin is, oh, that's not true.

It's not like that in the bills.

bills, and that's not what this means.

And it is in the bill.

It is.

What we're talking about here should be so far beyond Republican and Democratic politics.

We're talking about the fact that if you can't say it's wrong to leave a baby to die when that baby survived an abortion,

you have no place in public life.

This is not.

complicated.

And frankly, now that the Democratic Party's,

some of their leaders, not all of them, but some of their leaders have started to do this, I think every single Democrat in America should have to answer whether or not they're with those little baby girls or whether they're with Governor Cuobo and Governor Northam.

It frightens me, knowing history, that even the Germans, the people who voted for Hitler, when they found out infanticide was happening, they stood up against the T4 program.

Then it just was hidden.

But they forced Hitler to say, oh, you're right.

We wouldn't do that.

We shouldn't do that.

I mean, those people, they were crazy, and they stood up against it.

And we seemed to be kind of quiet about it.

Yeah, I don't think, though, that even Planned Parenthood's PR Army and a national media that's decidedly pro-abortion, I don't think that even that grouping is going to be able to duck the fact that what we're talking about here is infanticide.

I hope so.

When you hear Northam's comments on that radio show yesterday, where he says, Oh, you know, people should know that I'm sure that the baby will be kept warm and comfortable for a little bit.

Oh, my gosh, until we kill it.

Oh, my gosh.

Okay, Senator, I've got a break.

If you have to go, I understand.

If you can, hold on.

I'd like to continue a conversation with you.

But thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you for being a voice of reason and once again, standing up and saying the right things.

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On Monday, I'm going to be doing a special show on abortion and these laws that are being passed and what they mean.

And I'm doing it to prepare you to be able to go out with your friends and have these conversations.

I hear people saying, that's not true.

That's not what's in the bill.

I also hear people saying, I wish I had this fact or that fact.

I can't ever remember the stats.

Oh, I wish you were there when

I was having this conversation with my friend.

I'm going to make it very easy for you on Monday to be able to pretty much have the resources that I have at your disposal at any time on this issue.

We have entered a new era.

We have entered a very dark period, and I believe the beginning of the time where I have said,

if we go dark,

we will be worse than the Nazis.

We will make the Nazis look like rookies.

and the reason why i say that is because we have technology

it was barbaric to try to change somebody's eyes to blue but now it's not so barbaric because we can gene splice

but it wasn't it wasn't just the idea of well they had to inject ink into eyes it was that you don't want to create a super race.

What are we doing?

And now we're talking about euthanasia on one end and infanticide on the other end.

And we're going to a single-payer health care system.

That's, it is in the cards, gang.

We're going that direction.

And if that happens, you have nothing to rely on except the state.

And when the state is misbehaving, where do you go?

Who do you call?

Who's going to stop the state from doing things?

I want to show you and bring Pat into the conversation.

Pat, we have been together for 30 years.

Three years?

Yeah.

Have you seen anything this disturbing ever?

I don't think so.

We used to, remember when we found bioethicist Peter Singer from Princeton?

Yes.

And the things he said, like it'd be okay to put children down.

to kill them up until

like two years old.

But then he apologized.

Do you remember that?

Yeah, he did.

He apologized.

And he said it wasn't far enough.

Yes.

I'm sorry, I shouldn't have put the two-year-old limits.

I shouldn't have put a two-year limit on that.

That's ridiculous.

It's crazy.

And we thought, okay, this guy is out of his crime.

He's crazy, or he's just trying to make a point and get people to think, but I think he's crazy.

And now you've got governors of states agreeing with him, essentially, by saying you can kill a baby after it's born.

Did you ever think we'd get there?

I didn't ever talk about that.

You want to talk about trigger language.

You want to talk about

ideas that can trigger people.

What about this?

Is this not traumatizing?

Now, I say we have this debate.

We have to.

But if you go by their rules, this is traumatizing to even suggest that women have the right to kill their newborn baby.

But it's not traumatizing to the left.

And

I'm not talking about the Democrats in the middle of the country.

I do not believe that they are for this.

In fact, almost every poll taken shows that only the most hardcore of hardcore believe this.

15%

of the pro-choice people, okay?

25% of pro-choice.

15% of the people.

You're right.

You're right.

25% of the pro-choice people.

Or I'm sorry, overall.

15% of the choice, pro-choice.

So

that is not anywhere close to the majority of people.

Now, maybe the people in your neighborhood do believe in fantasy.

I don't think they do, no matter who they vote for.

But

this isn't disturbing to the Uber left.

And let me give you a couple of examples.

First, let me go to the extremes, the Bernadine Dorn and the Bill Ayres of the world.

Do you remember this audio from the FBI agent that had infiltrated the weather underground?

Listen.

I brought up the subject of what's going to happen after we take over the government.

You know,

we become responsible then for administrating, you know, 250 million people.

And there was no answers.

No one had given any thought to economics.

How are are you going to clothe and feed these people?

The only thing that I could get was that they expected that the Cubans and the North Vietnamese and the Chinese and the Russians would all want to occupy different portions of the United States.

They also believed that their immediate responsibility would be to protect against what they called the counter-revolution.

And they felt that this counter-revolution could best be guarded against by creating and establishing re-education centers in the southwest

where we would take all the people who needed to be re-educated into the new way of thinking and teach them

how things were going to be.

I asked, well, what is going to happen to those people that we can't re-educate, that are die-hard capitalists?

And the reply was that they'd have to be eliminated.

And when I pursued this further, they estimated that they would have to eliminate 25 million people in these re-education centers.

And when I say eliminate, I mean kill 25 million people.

So this has been a part of the Uber left's philosophy for a long time.

This is what communists do, quite honestly.

And you're seeing now the mass come off and people claiming they're socialists.

But they're really not socialists.

They're not Swedish socialists because that's not a socialist country.

Venezuela is a socialist country.

Sweden is a capitalist country with a gigantic welfare state.

And while that flirts with socialism, that is a capitalist country with

a welfare state attached to it.

That's us.

Socialists always have to go down the road of seizing assets, taking things that aren't theirs, and paying for these things.

And when that money runs out, well, what are you going to do?

You have to start eliminating people, you have to start eliminating those who are fighting against you because the state is supreme.

Remember, it was the Barack Obama science czar, John Holdren, who also in the 1970s, when it was okay to think like this, said we should

put sterilants in the drinking water

of of the united states

and it was okay why was it okay well if you believe that man is a virus if you believe that man is responsible for global warming if you believe that the earth just cannot handle this many people it's your moral and responsible thing to do

To kill people, to save the collective, so the individual no longer matters.

And if you think that it might just be tolerable

to just the crazies,

here's the guy that everybody says would win against Donald Trump, talking about China.

Joe Biden.

Policy has been one, which I fully understand, I'm not second-guessing, of one child per family.

The result being that you're in a position where one wage earner will be taking care of four retired people.

So he's not, he understands the one-child policy.

Well, why does he understand that?

Well, because their population is too big and it's unsustainable.

So what does the one-child policy mean?

Well, you have to indoctrinate people to believe that they have a right to only one child.

And if they do have a second child, the state can come in and story after story proves it to be true, that they can come in and take that child and drown it in the front of the house in a rice paddy and move on.

Because life has no meaning.

It also includes forced abortions and sterilization

of the people.

Sure does.

And what happens to the people?

They go so dead inside.

Do you remember the video of the truck that hit a child and killed the child in the streets of China?

and it was captured by a

video camera up on a building and people just walked by the dead body.

Yeah.

The kid was so desensitized.

So desensitized to life and death that it meant nothing.

This is how you get there.

All these warnings.

over the years,

the talk about Nazi Germany.

It was never that we are currently Nazi Germany.

It is, hey, this, you know, Germany started somewhere too.

Germany started with policies that at first people thought, eh, that's not going to happen.

And then they'd be enacted.

And then they went to the next step and then the next step.

And before long,

they were these

evil

leaders.

and completely out of control.

And it was too late for anybody to do anything about it.

And the people were in denial.

The people, think about what what we're doing here gang we are being asked to deny the truth of what we see

okay we saw last week those covington students we saw them we saw the video we know what the truth is but the mainstream media decided that that is not the truth and they're asking us to not believe our eyes and it's happening on both sides of the aisle quite frankly there are times that both sides of the aisle will ask their crew, just deny what you think, what you see, what you know, deny it.

Well, that leads you eventually

to be a group of people

that see ashes come down like snow, and no one says a word about it because you have to deny what you

see.

You get to a point to where the Germans were denying what they knew to be true based on what they could smell and what was falling on them from the sky.

They were still in denial.

It's the normalcy bias.

Yes.

They want to believe things are normal.

Nobody wants to believe their society is completely out of control and uncivilized.

Nobody wants to believe that.

So they chose not to.

It is why I have been saying you have to have courage of conviction.

You have to stand now because it's not going to get easier than it is right now.

If you're afraid right now, I'll lose my position at work.

I will lose my friends,

those in the media, I will lose my audience because I'm not saying the things my audience wants to hear.

It's not going to get easier.

It's going to get harder.

And you must stand for the truth.

Otherwise,

boy,

these sayings from the past that we have quoted so often are taking on new meaning now.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, silence in the face of evil is evil itself.

Not to stand is to stand.

Not to speak is to speak.

We empower.

Pat and I have asked for forgiveness because for many years we didn't speak up

because we just couldn't take on any more hits.

We're not going to take that on too.

What a mistake that was, to our eternal shame.

What a mistake that was.

It's past time.

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Let me just play a little bit of the chair of ethics at Princeton University, Peter Singer.

As I said, it's speciesist.

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It says that biologically being a member of the species Homo sapien is enough to make your life more sacred, more entitled to protection than the life of, for example, a chimpanzee who is not a member of our species, who is far more self-aware, far more rational, far more capable of emotionally connecting with with other beings, with loving her child, let's say, if it's a female chimpanzee,

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a human being with an encephaly, the condition we were talking about, could ever be.

That seems to me just

a mere prejudice in favor of members of our species.

Wow.

Okay, so I think

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You know, they're more rational.

Well, they also throw their poop at things.

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Well, if you're a long-time listener of the program you know that it is super bowl it is the big game weekend uh and uh and that means that stu is gone today

and monday because he goes every single year so how do i approach the big game weekend without somebody who really knows it don't worry about it we have it covered andrew heaton joins me about the big game in one minute.

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Oh, yeah.

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You know,

I've heard from people because they don't...

you know, I don't listen to sports radio, but I've heard from people that they absolutely hate it when

sports radio starts talking about politics because they know nothing about it, and they're idiots.

So we have always made it our policy to stick to the things we know.

For instance, science, deep science, mathematics, things like that.

And, of course, on the big game weekend, We do talk a little bit about sports because while I don't have real knowledge of sports, we are surrounded by people who really know it inside and out.

And Andrew Heaton is not one of those people, but welcome to the program.

Thank you.

You're welcome.

Good to be here.

Are you doing that?

I think it's kind of like I assume that my friends who are parents enjoy hearing about my theories on parenting because I don't have any kids and it's a fresh perspective.

I will tell you this, sometimes it's the people who aren't involved at all that have the clearest look at it.

Thank you.

I agree.

And that's why I spent this morning coming up with awesome ways to improve American football for the big game.

Can I lay a couple of these on you?

Sure.

All right.

So I think everyone can get behind this.

Okay.

No more referees, only very judicious cheerleaders.

I think that that is, first of all, that's giving props to the cheerleaders.

And second, win for everybody.

I like the cheerleaders.

So they're on a team.

You'd have impartial cheerleaders from Canada.

You'd have cheerleaders who understand the game, but aren't on either team playing.

So you've got like a third team of cheerleaders.

They're now the refs.

They They would wear uniforms that are black and white.

But I think that they in Canada play a different kind of football.

That's possible.

I'm going to have to look into that.

I just assume everybody's playing with an ex-shaped bond from the bottom.

So that's, that's what I'm.

All right.

So this next one.

My, okay, I think sports, a lot of it is sublimated warfare.

It's that kind of like, we're going to go fight the other team shoots, right?

Yeah, yeah.

And I think football in particular, because it's very, it's about kind of staging your troops.

It's sort of like Napoleonic warfare, right?

So from now on, each team gets a horse.

Everybody gets one cavalry unit.

I think that that would fundamentally alter the game.

So only one horse.

One horse.

You don't have a line of horse.

Anything more than that would be excessive and ridiculous.

Right.

One horse, that's the same choice.

Just one horse per team.

If I remember right, I think there was an old Disney movie, like, I don't know, the nutty professor or something like that, maybe it had been Son of Flubber, where they had a horse with a helmet

on.

I know I saw.

Maybe I made this up in my head.

And they've got airbuds.

So animals are pretty good at football.

That's what I've learned from Disney.

Now, they wouldn't be catching.

No, no, no.

I think it would be someone.

I mean, I'm not entirely sure what the strategy would be.

I mean, that would be more of a Tom Brady call.

But, you know, presumably, if you're like the

windback or whatever, and it's your job to get the ball from the other guy,

then like, you know, I'd rather have a horse.

And Tom Brady is the coach, right?

He's the quarterback.

He's the quarterback.

However, how would you know?

Because, you know,

there's no costuming that identifies him.

Like, if you're in the Navy, you're like, oh, that guy's a captain.

Look,

he's got those epaulets and things.

Now, it doesn't happen with football, which is why I think that the quarterback should have to wear a cape.

Okay.

All right.

Now,

because the team members may not know who the quarterback is, because I know a lot of people in the stands won't know which one is the quarterback.

I can't tell.

They all look the same to me.

That's not a racial thing.

That's a football thing.

Right, but maybe it's maybe it's just for the fans, or is it for

the cape to identify, hey, which one of my friends is the quarterback?

Or is the cape for the for the fans that aren't there at practice all the time?

That's a very good question.

You know, I think any team that's worth its salt's probably doing a lot of trust-building exercises.

So if that's the case, chances are you're going to recognize the quarterback.

If I were the coach, I'd be doing that sufficiently.

It's, I think, for the fans so they can identify them because otherwise, how would you know where the quarterback is?

And they don't, you know, they don't tackle.

It's always a big deal when they tackle the quarterback.

Yeah.

And so maybe that's because the other team is confused, which one of you guys could be.

That's entirely possible.

Because at that point, you're just going off of hand signals, right?

So it might make it a little faster.

Yeah, well, and that's another thing, too.

And Tom Brady probably wouldn't last as long because he would have been tackled a lot more.

And this is an actual, this is a real fundamental thing.

No more timeouts.

None of that.

If you watch rugby, rugby, they're like, we're going to do it from six to eight.

And it's just two hours of continuous play.

They They get like one timeout each.

No more timeouts in football.

You don't get to do that anymore unless there's some sort of issue involving horse rights.

Like I could see the SPCA getting involved.

Or if somebody's trampled by a horse.

Yeah, but you know, we don't take timeout during war.

Yeah, but this isn't real world.

That's true.

It's not real world.

Yeah, okay, fine.

If someone gets kicked in the head by a horse, you get a horse break of like eight minutes to deal with it.

Do you get a penalty if someone is

if the horse is if you because you know you can't walk behind a horse?

Right.

Don't do that.

So you would never have the horse be the person that goes down with a football and throws the football between his back legs?

Yeah.

No, that's, yeah, for safety reasons, you'd want to avoid that.

Plus, it would be on your team, right?

Right.

So you wouldn't have no incentive to do it.

Right, because the quarterback would get kicked in the head.

Yeah, I think the bigger issue is probably horse steroids.

You just want to make sure that horse is clean.

Sure.

You don't want to have any problems.

Otherwise, a regular horse, a thoroughbred, could look like a Clydesdale.

Right, exactly.

But yeah, you don't want an Appaloosa coming off like a Clydesdale.

Right.

You want it to be okay.

So another thing, because again, I think this is sub-remitted warfare.

You could have a third team

just watch the game.

So like

this, hold on.

So this coming up big game, it's the Falcons and the Patriots, right?

But let's say you had the Texas Rangers.

Now, I'm aware that the Texas Rangers are a baseball team.

That's fine.

They can come to the game, sit in the stands, and then just charge the field and try and take the ball.

Got another idea.

They got to bring a horse, but if they can do it, they win the game.

Okay, hang on.

I got another idea.

Have you ever played Chinese checkers?

Yeah.

Okay.

Take a football field, okay, left and right, 100 yards.

Okay.

Now, put another football field and put it in the center.

Whoa.

So now you are playing two games

with one ball.

Okay.

Yeah.

And you've got them facing off.

Everybody's trying to get that ball and you can run it in two different, sorry, four different directions.

Ooh, I like this.

You could totally do that too.

If you had like really thick plexiglass that was transparent, still fun for fans to watch.

Because now you could see, like, well, you got Tom Brady and the foot soldiers up top, and then you got the horse units down at the base level, and you could see what's going on.

Maybe you'd have like a...

Oh, no, no, no, no.

I'm not talking about that.

I'm talking about it's the same.

No, you take a football field.

Uh-huh.

And then on the same plane, you have another football field.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I'm just saying you should make the second one transparent so you can see through the first one.

No, you don't understand.

This is not that complex.

Glenn, I'm sorry.

I'm coming here with legitimate reform ideas and you're just

starting to question yourself.

You're getting into structural.

I was buying into the

cape and the costuming thing because I think like the Browns, I think it's the Browns.

I'm not sure.

But one of them wears costumes that are, it's like this really bad brown.

It's like a poop brown and a lighter poop brown.

And it's not good.

And I think those costumes are holding them back.

Yeah, I agree.

I also think mascots should be armed.

I think mascots should have some kind of deadly weapon.

I want to clarify, I don't think we should relax any murder laws, still against the law to kill people, but you would know that the mascot has a loaded gun.

And every once in a while, the camera would come in and you'd just see the mascot staring at Tom Brady.

And you're like, I think that mascot's thinking about killing Tom Brady.

And that adds a really interesting

psychological dimension to the game.

And it might be better because we don't want to have, you know, the NFL doesn't want any more trouble.

Yeah.

They don't want to.

So stay away from guns, maybe like a giant mace.

Oh, that'd be cool.

Yeah, that'd be neat.

Yeah, I'd totally go for that.

And that actually, that kind of fits with the cavalry thing more.

And you could, I mean, instead of the shoulder pads, why not just put them in armor?

That, okay.

I would, if, if Stu called me and he's like, hey, I got to take us to the big game.

You want to come and be like,

will I be able to see the commercials from the stadium?

That's exactly how I would.

If not, I don't know.

But if Stu were like, hey, I'm going over to

the football field.

There's a bunch of guys in armor that are just going to wail on each other with maces.

I'd be like, yeah, I'll go watch that.

I'll watch a melee combat.

Sure.

I've changed my mind because I've realized that what we've just created is the medieval times.

Yeah.

And

I don't like that.

You got a birthday coming up.

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Now,

you know I'm against abortion, and

most in this audience are against abortion.

So I apologize for our Super Bowl coverage in the last 10 minutes.

But

Monday, I want to remind you that I'm doing a show on

abortion because I think what I see in social media is the left is trying to convince you that these things aren't true.

And people are saying,

the bill allows you to have an abortion

you know, when the woman is having, when she's dilated and

in delivery.

That's not true.

That's not in the bill.

Yeah, it actually is.

And so what I want to do on Monday is equip you with all of the facts, and we're going to put them on Glennbeck.com so you have them.

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We'll give you the argument back and forth with the people who sponsored the bill.

And so you'll be able to hear all this and you'll be able to share it.

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We're going to give you the actual facts

raw so you have them, so you can have a decent conversation with your friends who might be putting their heads in the sand.

Now, Andrew is a

well, you were an abortion doctor for many years.

No,

he's a libertarian

who

you believe in murder.

Yes, I think.

As long as you've got a good reason.

I'm fine.

So you believe that

murdering children is wrong.

You're just kind of, I think like most people,

when it gets to when is life created,

I'll probably have a later start time.

Yeah, but you're still first trimester.

Yeah, something like that.

I mean, I don't have the exact date worked out in my head yet.

And I think this is a subject which is always going to make me uncomfortable because I doubt that I'm ever going to be 100% either direction.

Because in my mind, I do, yeah, I'm very anti-murder.

I'm particularly anti-murder when it comes to children, not for killing children.

At the same time, though,

I don't think that it's a kid, you know, day two after conception.

And were I to force somebody to carry it to terms at that point, I almost view that like a form of slavery, which is libertarian, kind of a fundamental precept is you own your body.

You lose your rights once you're talking about someone else's body.

But once you, let's say, heartbeat, brain, you know, there's a body in there, then you,

then that changes for you because you're like, that's my body.

I don't, again, I don't know

the exact threshold I'd put it here, but, but yeah, like it's, I would, let's say, you know, third, third trimester abortion would very much bother me because at that point, I can look at that.

Where for me, where it's uncomfortable is

there is some gray area for me, and I don't know how to do it.

So I'm either trampling on someone's rights or I'm killing a kid.

I know.

But when you get into the third trimester, I'm I'm like, at that point, I don't really feel like it's up for debate anymore.

At that point, you're killing a kid, I'm against it.

Yeah.

So, here's the thing: I think that's where most people are, and they don't think about it, and they don't want to think about it, and they don't want to think about it for a few reasons.

It's an uncomfortable topic, yeah.

It is an uncomfortable topic, and there is, for most people,

there's a couple of hurdles that are hard to get over.

For instance, rape and incest.

Yeah,

I

don't, I don't want to be

I don't want to be the judge.

I don't want to be involved in that decision.

You know what I mean?

I don't want to, as an outsider, say, no.

Even though me personally,

I believe it is murder.

I am not to the point of, for instance, and this is going to hack off a lot of people possibly, but I am

the

day after pill.

If it truly is the day after

or the moment after, you're like, hey, you have that cigarette.

I'm going to pop this pill.

I'm not sure I classify that as abortion.

And that's hard because I do believe in a soul and everything else.

I'm just not sure.

So it's a gray area.

But if that's what we were talking about as abortion, I would be so okay with it, or at least I could sleep at night somewhat.

But where the direction we're heading, once that child, and this is a slippery slope, it used to be, well, once that child is viable, it's murder.

Well, science is making it more viable earlier and earlier and earlier.

You know what I mean?

We're getting to a place to in 10, 15 years, you will be able to just fertilize an egg and grow it in a sack.

We're already there being able to grow sheep in a sack.

So it is actually viable.

So yeah, we'd have to, for me, coming from a non-spiritual direction on it, I'd have to approach it more in terms of, is there an entity that is feeling and aware of pain?

Does it have mental cognition of some form?

Those are the kind of things.

And it's again why I'm going to be so uncomfortable because I don't think I can fully know.

Where I've kind of gone back and forth is

I used to take a very cautious and conservative approach of like, let's just...

Air on the side of life.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Where I've kind of swung back the other direction is I was talking to somebody and they went, if the woman's life is under threat, would you be okay with it?

And I went, yeah, if there's a chance of death.

And they went, well, what if it's, you know, let's say 50%?

Sure.

What if it's 8%?

Yeah.

So from like, this is such a weird way to approach it.

I'm aware of that from a regulatory standpoint.

I feel like it's very difficult to allow medical exemptions, but at the same time,

see, this is where I am

in a different place.

I wrestle with,

except for

rape or incest.

Well, why is murder okay?

Yeah.

I mean, if it's murder,

that is recognizing that that child is a child and a separate life, and we protect individuals.

So if it's murder,

but it was created this way, it's not murder.

No, that's really bad.

Because in today's world, we've never had to deal with this.

We will be able to grow humans, clones, and take their parts and harvest them for organs.

So, if they're created, right now we say rape or incest, but if they're created in a lab and grown in a bag,

wait,

is that life?

Is that life, do we have that right to do it?

Because it was created differently?

I mean,

you know, part by part, I'm fine with it.

If you just want to grow a leg or an arm or, you know, a heart, that sounds awesome.

Yeah, I think part by part.

I'd be cool.

Yeah.

I'd be cool.

That the I think what you've struck onto, and this is one of my things when we get into conversations about this.

I appreciate I appreciate consistency.

Yes.

So the actual, the position that I'm, yeah, I'll, I'll, oh, yeah, we'll come back in a second.

We've only got about 10 seconds.

But I think I know where you're going, and I echo that.

Consistency is really hard on this issue.

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Earlier today, we had Ben Sassong, the senator from Nebraska, and he, I just love him.

He threw down the gauntlet yesterday.

Here's what he said in Congress about these new abortion bills.

Listen.

Let's be really clear about what we're talking about here.

We're talking about fourth trimester abortion, or what anyone in the normal world calls infanticide.

That's what we're talking about.

And the governor of Virginia has been defending this all day yesterday and again today, going out and trying to equivocate and qualify and then double down and again say he wants to defend this practice, which is infanticide.

Let's be clear what we're talking about.

We're talking about killing a baby that's been born.

We're not talking about some euphemism.

We're not talking about a clump of cells.

We're talking about a little baby girl who's been born and is on a table in a hospital or a medical facility.

And then a decision or a debate would be had about whether or not you could kill that little baby.

Everyone in the Senate ought to be able to say unequivocally that killing that little baby is wrong.

This doesn't take any political courage.

And if you can't say that, if there's a member of this body that can't say that, there may be lots of work work you can do in the world, but you shouldn't be here.

You should get the heck out of any calling in public life where you pretend to care about the most vulnerable among us.

So he is going on Monday, he's taking the floor using Rule 14, whatever that is, to

rush a bill to

the floor of the Senate.

And he is going to ask all 100 senators to stand up

and declare that they are are against infanticide.

And he said that should be the easiest vote to ever go down.

That once a child is born, we can't kill it.

Yeah.

It seems like I'm trying to, because I do try and, you know, like with the bill that came out of Virginia, I do make an effort to, okay, what's really happening here?

What's the policy and announces or something I haven't foreseen?

But a general statement of infanticide's bad and we're against killing children post-birth.

Is that that seems like a.

Well, that's what the governor of a doctor, who is now the governor of Virginia that's how he described what was in that bill

he described that can we play that from a couple of days ago and then I'd like to play his

his doubling down on it list this is this is what he said when he was on WTOP radio two days ago asked about this bill hey listen when we talk about third trimester abortions these are done uh with the consent of obviously the the mother with the consent of the physicians, more than one physician by the way.

And it's done in cases where there may be severe deformities, there may be a fetus that's non-viable.

So in this particular example, if a mother is in labor, I can tell you exactly what would happen.

The infant would be delivered, the infant would be kept comfortable, the infant would be resuscitated.

if that's what the mother and the family desired, and then a discussion would ensue between the physicians and the mother.

So I think this was really blown out of proportion.

But again, we want the government not to be involved in these types of decisions.

We want the decision to be made by the mothers and their providers.

And this is why, Julie, that legislators, most of whom are men, by the way, shouldn't be telling a woman what she should and shouldn't be doing with her body.

So the baby is born, kept comfortable as they decide what to do with it.

That's infanticide.

Here is his doubling down the next day.

I'm a physician.

I'm also the governor.

But when I'm asked questions, a lot of times it is put in the context of being a physician.

Again, realizing

how we approach, how we manage patients, how we offer advice and counseling.

So no, I don't have any regrets.

But I do find

that how my comments,

I did answer that question.

I regret that those comments have been mischaracterized.

The personal insults toward me, I really find disgusting.

So, again, as I said in my comments just earlier, we can agree to disagree, Alan, but let's be civil about it.

Okay.

I haven't heard anybody taking shots

against him personally, and that, of course, would be wrong and just take us off track.

There's no way to read what he said any differently.

What he said literally was the baby would be born, resuscitated if that's what the family wanted, but then kept comfortable while we discussed what would happen.

Notice also the absence of the father.

It is only a discussion between the physician and the mother as he described it.

I mean, isn't that part kind of open-ended?

Because in the clip you displayed, he says that the baby would be resuscitated.

He said that it would be resuscitated if that's what the mother wanted.

But that still seems reasonably germane because we have that conversation about resuscitation with adults, too, and you can have a non-resuscitation order.

But then he says a discussion ensues.

I mean, I didn't get from that that he necessarily said a discussion about terminating the child.

I mean, he just said a discussion ensues.

So maybe they're going to talk about.

Yeah, no, he said the baby would be kept comfortable

while a discussion.

Play it again.

Play it again, please.

The TOP.

When we talk about third trimester abortions, these are done with the consent of, obviously, the mother, with the consent of the physicians, more than one physician by the way.

And it's done in cases where there may be severe deformities, there may be a fetus that's non-viable.

So in this particular example, if a mother is in labor, I can tell you exactly what would happen.

The infant would be delivered, the infant would be kept comfortable,

the infant would be resuscitated if that's what the mother and the family desired, and then a discussion would ensue between the physicians and the mother.

So I think this was really going out of proportion.

But again, we want the government

discussion of what.

I don't know.

Yeah.

I just, you know, I tend to, I try and be as charitable as I can about ambiguous statements, which is why

if he came out and said,

if a child has deformities, we will discuss whether or not to terminate the child.

That I would go, that's a pretty big alarm there.

But I'm just, I'm trying to wide berth of if he said, say,

you know, maybe the child is going to have multiple, they're going to have to resuscitate it multiple times.

We're going to have a discussion about whether to do that or something like that.

I feel like that's a different categorical discussion than infanticide.

Boy, I wish I could agree with you on that because that's usually I try to, and this audience knows, I try to give people the benefit of the doubt until they don't deserve it anymore.

And

seeing that we are a society that has heard for so long

safe, legal, and rare,

and now it is all the way to birth, and that's in writing.

Can you please play the Virginia conversation in the House in Virginia as they were going back and forth with the co-sponsor of this bill?

This is a few days ago, before the governor, where someone in the house is trying to get nailed down what does this mean exactly is there a cutoff go ahead how late in the third trimester could a physician perform an abortion if he indicated it would impair the mental health of the of the woman

or physical health okay okay i'm talking about the mental health

so i mean through the third trimester the third trimester goes all the way up to 40 weeks okay but to the end of the third trimester yep i don't think we have a limit in the bill Where it's obvious that a woman is about to give birth, she has physical signs that she is about to give a birth, would that still be a point at which she could request an abortion if she was so certified?

She's dilating.

Mr.

Chairman, that would be a you know a decision that the doctor, the physician, and the woman.

I understand that.

I'm asking if your bill allows that.

My bill would allow that, yes.

So the co-sponsor, who is pro-choice,

after this, came out and said, I'm new to the house.

I'm new to this process.

I am a co-sponsor of this.

I apologize.

I did not read this carefully enough.

I went back and read it.

It is way beyond anything that I was talking about.

I want nothing to do with it and withdrew her sponsorship.

Yeah, well, because the clip you just played, my read on that was

you can have a late-term abortion if a doctor certifies that it will have some sort of mental effect on you, which is to say, if you're going to be stressed, sad, and like

a somewhat subjective state, as opposed to your life is in danger or the child is non-viable.

Correct.

That's not what we're talking about here.

We're talking about

you might have postpartum blues.

Yeah.

Which at that point is basically an elective third trimester abortion, which, by the way, I would be against.

Yes, I know.

I know.

So it's

if because we have been safe,

rare, uh, and uh, what was it?

Safe,

safe, rare, and what was the third one?

I can't remember now, uh, but we were there,

and that was, we're just trying to make sure that, you know, it's safe and it's rare because it's going to happen.

We don't want in back alleys.

That's no longer it.

And now we have Virginia, we have it passed in New York.

This, what she's talking about, has passed in New York.

You have Vermont and I think Rhode Island going for the same thing now.

So all of a sudden, we've hit not a slippery slope.

It's been a slippery slope.

And that's what people have said.

It's a slippery slope.

It's going to get, you know, further and further the other way.

Slippery slope, slippery slope.

And they've always said, it's not a slippery slope.

No, you're right.

It's not.

It's a cliff.

This hasn't been.

All of a sudden, we have this law that is that insane that you can say, you you know what, I don't what for familial reasons is in the in the New York law.

For familial reasons, my husband is gone or I don't have a babysitter because my mom can't help out.

Any reason at all is okay in the New York law.

We're not even close as a people to that.

And I will tell you that

it has clarified the Paulina, the woman in Poland who is a righteous among the nations, who told me at a time, and it didn't, it's becoming more and more clear to me what this means.

Glenn, you're looking at this wrong.

The righteous, the people who saved the Jews, they didn't suddenly become righteous.

They just refused to go over the cliff with the rest of humanity.

You don't expect a society to all of a sudden just drop off a cliff, but that is it.

That's it.

This is not a slippery slope.

This is not a gradual decline.

This is a cliff.

And we're all looking at it and we're all going, well, I'm not for that.

I'm not for that.

But other people have already gone off that cliff.

And by refusing to say, that's a cliff you're going off, by saying, no, that's not what it means, by defending it in any way,

you've gone off the cliff.

Couple of follow-ups?

Yes.

So with the Virginia bill,

which, by the way, failed now.

Now that the co-sponsor came out, it failed.

Well, it was going to fail anyway.

I mean, it had like two supporters in the Senate.

It really wasn't.

And that particular bill, in some variation, I think, has been happening the last 10 years.

That's been a perennial thing.

And it's almost ⁇ you know,

there's always somebody that's writing bills about various pet projects.

This is one of them.

It just happened to catch media attention this time.

Because it passed in New York.

Yeah, yeah, could be, yeah.

So

my takeaway when I was reading it, or I didn't read the full bill, but reading synopses of it from various websites, the main thing to me seemed to be that it would limit,

it would take away the Virginia law requiring an ultrasound if you were going to get an abortion.

And it would also take away the rule that, as of now, you can get an abortion in the event that it is going to have, it's a health risk.

You have to have three doctors do it, and it would limit it down to one.

So that seemed to me to be the meat of the bill.

And

there is either a sneaker clause put in or there's an ambiguous clause that was inadvertently put in, one of those two things when we get into the issue of mental health, right?

But the big point of it seemed to be those two thrusts.

What do you think about those two elements of it?

I don't like the idea that it's reduced from one to three.

Even in Nazi Germany, the T4 program had to have three signatures.

Three doctors had to agree that that life is not worth living.

Three, we're now saying we're good with one.

If there were a law requiring you to name the child you would have had, and I wanted to scrap that law, would you be in favor of getting rid of that law?

I don't think I understand that law.

Well, I mean, a lot of these regulations, I think

they're not designed around

protecting anyone's life.

They're bureaucratic hurdles that have been put in to try and staunch the amount of abortions happening.

So that's a lot of the strategy, right?

So, I mean, if there's any type of regulatory hurdle you can put in to try and make abortions more difficult, are you in favor of those unilaterally?

Or is it specific to the business?

No, I prefer.

I mean, if I'm dealing with unfair people on the other side, I do try to block them any way I can.

If I could have closed down a camp with bureaucratic nonsense in Nazi Germany, I absolutely would.

But I prefer to do it the right way.

I'll say even me as a libertarian would be willing to increase bureaucracy to stop concentration camps.

Right.

If I could make some more red tape for concentration camps, I'd probably get behind it.

Right.

If you believe that it is murder, which I do, especially what they're talking about, absolutely.

Yeah,

I will resort to anything that I have to, but I prefer that the rest of the human race goes, hey, that's murder.

We just shouldn't do that.

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Yesterday at the border,

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Could have killed 57

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According to U.S.

Customs and Border Protection, yesterday, a cucumber truck.

I already hate this story, Glenn.

Bringing in cucumbers?

Yeah, we got enough.

Thank you.

Are you by any chance, do you hate, Andrew Heaton is joining me today, do you hate salads as much as I do?

Yeah, pretty much.

And cucumbers just suck the flavor out of everything.

And I had to grow up dealing with them a lot because dad, it's easy to grow cucumbers.

So rather than growing like delicious, like you grow tomatoes, pretty good tomatoes, but you grow these massive cucumbers.

And we'd leave them, we'd go to our neighbors' houses, we'd pass them out.

Oh, thank you.

And the following day, we'd come back with, I got more cucumbers.

And like, we don't need them.

And so we would spend the evening putting them on the door like an orphan and ringing the doorbell and running away.

So I associate cucumbers with unnecessary labor, lack of flavor.

Right.

Okay, so you, I mean, you spend time in England.

Yeah.

Is a cucumber sandwich really just bread with cucumbers on on it?

Yeah, I think that there's butter or something.

That's pretty good for a horrible English cuisine.

No, by English standards, though, that's pretty good.

Because you're other good.

Because Scottish cuisine is just basically carnival food with sheep in it.

Right.

Like, take a deep fat fry, like deep-fried Mars bar into deep-fried sheep.

English food is just boiled.

And so the cucumber sandwich, once you're over there, you're like, oh, that sounds pretty good, actually.

You don't even put a dead fish in a newspaper with some overcooked French fries.

I'll eat the cucumber sandwich.

Okay, all right.

Okay.

I look at it.

Anyway, so this cucumber truck is coming across the border and the canine uh the canines go crazy and they find what i would describe as a weapon of mass destruction they find 254 pounds

of fentanyl that's a lot of fentanyl

um yeah it's an enough fentanyl if you have prescription from a doctor, fentanyl is an end-of-life hospice-only drug.

Okay.

It is only given out in the most significant and end-of-life scenarios, or in my case, they gave it to me because no drugs work on me.

Or your doctors didn't like you.

That's a very

possibility.

It was up in the northeast.

But

I had a fentanyl patch for three days, and I took it off in the middle of the night because I didn't even know what it was.

I'd never even heard of fentanyl.

But I knew whatever that was is going to kill me

and took it off and then read the box the next day.

This is how powerful fentanyl is.

Think of a fentanyl patch as like

you know, one of those big band-aid butterfly

bandages that are kind of, you know, like an inch and a half.

I get into a lot of bar fights, so I'm

a concept.

Yeah.

All right.

So think of it a fentanyl patch about like that, okay?

And it just has some fentanyl on the pad.

That's what you put on.

And if you put it on without rubber gloves and you touch it with one hand and then touch it with another hand, you could get a double dose of it and it can kill you.

Okay.

Okay.

That's how powerful this is.

So like on a scale of like Advil to fentanyl,

fentanyl is like at least three times as powerful as Advil.

Yeah.

Okay.

That's

follow the directions very carefully.

Okay, cool.

So 254 pounds.

To put this into perspective, 254 pounds of fentanyl is enough for 57 million Americans to overdose and die on.

Okay.

254.

254 pounds of fentanyl.

57 million Americans could be dead from from that.

That is a weapon of mass destruction, is it not?

Yes.

I mean,

presumably they weren't trying to weaponize it, right?

Well, no, they were not trying to weaponize it.

Or maybe they were going to Canada.

Maybe they were just passing through.

Yeah.

May I make this case?

Okay.

Are you familiar with the opium wars

in China?

Tell me what you know about the opium wars because I knew nothing about it.

So if you don't know anything about it, that's fine.

But tell me what you think you know about the opium wars.

So

the British Empire was helpfully going around the world, organizing people's things for them and building railroads and infrastructure.

Sure.

And they happened to make a stop-off in China.

And they and the, I think the Chinese basically were like, hey, quit selling us opium.

And the British were like, now we're going to keep selling you opium.

So they went to war with them to force the Chinese to buy their opium.

Okay.

That's my vague recollection of when I was in England.

Kind of.

I think that's how they explained it to you.

Kind of.

That is like saying

the founding fathers all got together and said,

you know, we just

want to be able to not have tea time anymore.

And so they founded Canada.

You're close.

Okay.

But not exactly.

These are the ball terms.

Right.

Okay.

So here's what the opium wars were.

There was a,

I think, a blockade

on

China, and there was a trade war going on between China and England.

I'm going to butcher this.

So I am also kind of, it ends up with the Declaration of Independence being

signed in Montreal.

Right.

Yeah, yeah.

But I'm closer.

Maybe it was signed at Niagara Falls.

So

I got to say, the Declaration of Independence would be so much more pretentious if it had been signed in Montreal.

It would be terrible.

There'd be lots of French in it.

Right.

It'd be awful.

Yeah.

It would have been in two languages.

Yeah.

We would not have gotten very far.

Anyway,

you are not good for my ADD, man.

So what happened is there was a trade war.

England needed to break it up.

And so what they did is they went to India and said, sell us opium.

So

they sold the opium.

The Indians sold the opium to the British, who then took it to the border of China.

And the Chinese wanted, the Chinese people wanted the opium.

Why were we selling the opium?

Why was England selling the opium to the Chinese?

Because

they knew they could get them addicted and it would weaken them.

So the Chinese were fighting back because the Chinese.

This makes me rethink the British Empire.

It doesn't seem like they're, you know, they're just helpfully

building telegraph lines everywhere.

No, and so that's what the war was over.

They said, stop bringing this illegally across our border and selling it to our people.

Well, isn't that what Mexico is doing to us?

I mean, is the state of Mexico doing it or they're narcoto traffickers doing it?

The narco-traffickers.

Okay.

However, if you heard about the border, remember, what did they say when Donald Trump said, all this fentanyl, all these opioids are coming across the border?

What'd they say?

Very orange.

We don't get much opioid.

We don't get much fentanyl.

We don't get that.

First First of all, it doesn't come, most of it doesn't come across the border.

It comes into our ports from Mexico.

But the biggest importer is China.

So China

is now making opioids and fentanyl and doing what the English did to us.

We're not even the same country anymore.

We broke up with them.

China, you should send it to England.

That's fair.

I mean, that's how history works.

Hold on, wait, wait.

History works.

With the fentanyl, though, did it come through, was this stopped at a checkpoint?

Or were they trying like because

that, because then that would not really deal with the wall, right?

Correct.

Okay.

Correct.

This did go over a checkpoint.

Yeah.

But what I find interesting is

if that's coming over a checkpoint, how much is coming over elsewhere?

Because you wouldn't think you'd be 254 pounds of fentanyl in a cucumber truck.

That's worth a lot of money.

I don't think I'm bringing it across the border.

I think I would try to get that across the border, not in a cucumber truck yeah that was it was your move right there no no one in america is going to welcome a cucumber truck coming in right we're going to put it in an empanada truck i would have waved it through thanks guys come on in

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You know, I have to play Ashton Kutcher and his response

on pro-life, being pro-life.

I haven't heard this yet, but this was probably the biggest video in America yesterday when it comes to politics.

Here's Ashton Kutcher.

Oh, you don't have it?

Oh, I thought I sent it in earlier today.

Well, see if you can get it because I want to play it once

before we leave.

So maybe we can do that at the end of the hour.

I've got a lot of stuff because Monday we're doing a show on abortions.

So I have a lot of stuff on colonial American abortions, which is only interesting to really people like you and me.

I was going to say, I'm intrigued by that because kind of what we what we designate as

moral and immoral, what we designate as legal and illegal, those change over time.

And I'm curious what colonial Americans thought.

Colonial Americans thought that

colonial Americans thought that abortion after what was called the quickening.

Which is in the

Highlander.

That's when all the mortals come together.

Oh, no, that's whaley.

That's like 18-term abortion.

That's terrible.

Yeah, Yeah, no, that's not it.

The quickening is when you can feel the baby move inside of a woman.

But it was interesting.

The first abortion trial

happened under John Smith.

Remember John Smith and Pocahontas?

So the first one happened with John Smith, and he had to decide the innocence or guilt of this individual.

And it was, let me see if I can find it.

The deposition came in from Dorcas Howard.

Oh, poor Dorcas Howard.

I already feel really, whoever this person is, I feel sorry for her.

And I don't imagine that in an easy childhood.

Yeah, no, it was a woman, too.

Dorcas Howard.

Dorcas.

You're like, oh.

What are you guys doing?

Just go with Susan.

Susan's a fine name.

Susan.

Dorcas.

So anyway, she was an unmarried servant.

And the thing I found in the research yesterday was that most of the women that had abortions, not all, but most of the women who had abortions were servants in the house.

They were white, but they were servants in the house.

And because, you know,

not slave servants, but but what do you call it?

Indentured servants.

So they would get together, and Miss Howard was an unmarried servant,

and she was arrested after she gave birth in secret to a son.

And what she did was

really quite horrible to

this kid.

But the people that went to jail, according to John Smith's decision, was not only

for her,

but the guy who fathered the child also went to jail.

And then there's a few things.

One

woman was executed

because she killed

her child.

Most of them really happened when it was a man raping or

taking a servant and having his way, and then they couldn't get get married.

But what was interesting to me was a lot of them

went to trial and

they were both punished for whatever, and then they ended up marrying each other.

Like the three of them.

I think the crisis brought them together emotionally.

I do think this has been tough.

We have to wear these scarlet letters.

But I really have got to know you a lot better, Dorcas.

Let's get hitched.

I don't know.

But what was interesting to me also was that it wasn't just on the women.

You think, oh, well, it was just the women.

No, a lot of times, the women, now remember, we're talking 1600s, the women were whipped and the men were whipped for adultery, but it was the man who ended up serving the time or getting the punishment for the abortion.

So

was it

permissible to get an abortion if it was out of wedlock?

Is that what I'm getting?

Or is it they would try and do it and the colonials would go, you can't do that.

You can't do that.

I don't care if you're married or not married.

You can't kill your child.

And so

that's where they were.

And it looks like, I mean,

maybe we can just go back to,

I have a warrant for the arrest of a woman named Anna

Tratsky, Trotsky,

Trasko, I think.

I can't remember her last name.

But a woman, she was in Salem, and she was part of the Salem witch trials.

And she was a witch.

Because she became pregnant without the help of a man.

Oh.

Wait, was that her?

That was her, oh, I'm going to get in trouble for this.

What am I going to claim?

I'll just say I'm a witch.

Yeah.

And

no one will think I'm a hussy.

Is that correct?

And yeah, that it backflips.

Is that how that started?

Yeah, well, I mean, we all know that's how.

All babies without a husband.

Witchcraft.

So I used to live in Scotland, and there's, if you go to the Castle Esplanade, there's this placard that it's dedicated to witches that were burned in Scotland because the Scots didn't have miniature golf or TV or anything, so they needed hobbies.

So they burned witches.

And there's this placard that says,

you know, many of the women that were burned here were not bad witches, but good witches.

And I'm like, none of them were witches.

What's wrong with you?

None of these people were witches.

And the placards were like 1980.

They put up like, who was in charge of this?

Oh, and they were, they were so, they would, the Scots would, if you were a witch, they would

throw you on trial, but they'd throw you into Noor Lock, which was the septic drainage ditch next to the castle.

And if you sank, which was unlikely with the way sewage works, that meant you were fine.

And they'd write an apologetic letter to your family.

If you didn't sink because of, you know, were buoyant, that meant the devil was underneath you holding you up, at which point they'd burn you at the stake.

And this is the nasty part.

This is the Scottish bit.

They would charge your family for the firewood bill just to like really stick it to you.

Oh, my God.

How did you, I mean, was it a chance you were raised a witch?

I mean, it's your family.

It's fully possible.

Yeah, I could see that.

No, I think

I'm descended pretty much entirely from

rodeo clowns and horse thieves.

I don't think we have any witchcraft in the family.

Yeah, no, I didn't mean you personally.

I didn't know.

I mean, because as we learned from the documentary in the 1960s, Bewitched,

it runs in the family.

That's true.

It could be.

I'm going to have to check with my mom on that.

But I think we're okay there.

Yeah,

they all sorts of weird witchcraft thing in history.

And it seems to be a recurring thing.

Like, there seems to be an instinct for human beings to go witch.

You know what, in England, I learned this recently, witchcraft was not considered necessarily satanic up until maybe 1700.

So if you go back to, if you're time traveling and you go back to like 1480 England, like there's witchcraft, but it's almost seen as like kind of like the evil eye, where it's almost like a magical skill you possess, but it's not necessarily with the dark arts.

So I almost bought this piece, and it's the one thing I regret that I was offered in that it's a historic piece that I didn't buy.

It was too expensive at the time, and now

I'd do anything to get it.

It was a bowl, a magic bowl, that

the Jewish society back in the times of Jesus would put at, they'd turn it over and they'd put it underneath their doorstep if they believed in sorcery and things like that.

And on this was written about the sorcerer Jesus from Nazareth, who worked all kinds of miracles.

And it was something that

that tribe associated Jesus as a sorcerer, not son of God, as some sort of magician.

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I'm going to be in Washington DC next week for our Tuesday coverage of the State of the Union you'll see it beginning on Tuesday 730 Eastern Facebook YouTube and blazetv.com

this is the Glenn Beck program our our state of the union

coverage On Tuesday at 730 Eastern comes from New York and Dallas and we have all kinds of great coverage and it'll be different coverage, I'm thinking, because you strangely are helping in the coverage.

I am.

I think as you know, I am now the junior assistant Washington correspondent.

So

it's weird that you guys specified I'm literally below anyone that works for the Blaze in D.C.

I am the lowest ranking member.

However, you did give me a microphone and a camera.

Right.

And I went out in there and I give it the old college try.

And

there are a lot of things at the State of the Union Address that I feel I am able to see that you guys aren't.

Did you know in the last State of the Union address that Justin Dimash kept throwing Twinkies up into the gallery?

Well, that's the kind of stuff I'm looking for.

I did not know that.

It may or may not be true, but I'm pretty sure it's not.

Right, I think that's true.

And you actually, I've seen the photographic evidence,

strangely, that

the

members, I don't know if they're members of Congress or they were just strangely there somehow, but

there were some people sitting in the seats

in Congress that would not stand for the president.

And that was.

This is something that I just can't comment.

I try and be fairly forgiving, Glenn, as you know, with politics.

But

when the president stands up and says American sandwiches are some of the best things in the world and everybody stands up, Democrats, Republicans, stand up, and you know who's not standing up?

Bears.

Congressional bears just hanging out, just giving these weak, limp wristed clapping like a golf clap.

I'm so unemployed.

You're going to bring that to our coverage.

That's the kind of stuff you can expect from me coming commenting on the State of the Union.

Not what you'll expect from the Washington, D.C.

Bureau, which will bring you

non-bear coverage.

No, they're all fixated on what the president says and what it means and all that kind of stuff.

I'm keeping

my eyes are on the ball.

So very different coverage on theblaze TV.com slash Beck.

Go there now.

You'll be able to see this.

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And you'll be able to watch it on YouTube, on our Facebook page, at Blaze TV.

And you'll also, as a subscriber, be able to get it as well.

I'm actually going this year.

I have avoided it like the plague.

I have been invited every year to go, and I never taken them up on it.

I wouldn't think that you would really like the idea of the State of the Union address, right?

I hate the State of the Union.

Because you're more of...

I get the impression you're more of a Jeffersonian than a Woodrow Wilson devotee.

Oh, really?

Yeah, I get that impression from you.

Yeah,

yeah, so I don't like it.

I don't like the pomp and circumstance.

I don't like the,

you know, Mr.

Speaker.

I hate that.

I hate that.

Do you know how to do it in the House of Lords with the Queen?

Have you ever looked into this?

Because that's what we're doing, by the way, is we're doing the

address to the House of Lords.

We now have royalty.

Yeah, it's absolutely, it's the imperial presidency.

I like the British version because I think it's very healthy to have the head of state not have power.

I like separating reverence from power, so I think the British have figured that out pretty well, and I think we we should make Betty White or Kelsey Grammar the monarch of America and just not leave them any power.

What the Queen does is they have, this is part of the whole thing, the Queen has a royal hostage during her Parliament address every year that just hangs out at Buckingham Palace.

That way, if Parliament captures the Queen, they can murder that member of Parliament.

She goes to the, well, that used to be how it was, right?

Actually, yeah, no, literally, because after the Glorious Revolution, there's this power dynamic shift where it used to be that the King could dismiss Parliament and that kind of stuff.

And now Parliament's like, no, at the end of the day, we can and will kill you.

In fact, they keep the death warrant for Charles the first

in the dressing room the queen hangs out in before she addresses Parliament.

That's always there.

It's the original death warrant, just to remind whoever the queen is at the time that we have and will kill again if you really cross it.

Holy cow.

And she has the hostage.

She comes to Parliament and there's this ceremony where she walks over to the House of Commons and prepares to enter it.

They have to slam the door in her face.

Like, that's part of of the pomp is you are not a member of the House of Commons.

You're a lord.

You cannot enter this.

You can't pass this threshold, which is why they do it in the House of Lords.

And then she reads a prepared speech or whatever, and then they all eat cucumber sandwiches.

That is insane.

But again, she didn't have any power, which is why I'm fine with that.

Like, if you just want to.

No, I'm not, because then what are you paying for?

I think that we have, as human beings, we have this weird fixation where we want to have social betters and then we crave their approval.

And I'm not not sure we can get rid of that.

So I just want to funnel it into something that

it doesn't have actual power.

If the queen could also set the tax rate, I would abhor that and I would be like an English Republican.

But as it is,

I think it's cute to have ceremonial votes.

Right.

Okay, but she's been a good queen.

Yeah.

You know, I don't think that that's going to, when Charles comes in, I think everybody's going to look at

their checkbook and go, what the hell do we have this guy around around for?

I don't think they'll, yeah, that could be.

And actually, if he becomes king, I think Australia might very well become a republic.

It's true.

If you talk to Australians about this, they're like,

we'll become a republic.

I can't do it in Australian nation.

If Charles come in, we'll be a republic.

But if they skip Charles and go straight to William, they'll stay on monarchy.

All right?

Which is a weird thing to me.

Which is exactly what I think the queen is hoping.

The queen has only been hanging on because she's like, I've got this son.

I don't even think he's mine.

I swear I don't remember his birth.

So she wakes up, everybody goes, is Charles alive?

Yes.

I must carry on with this time.

Right.

That's what she's doing.

You know,

she would have been dead 20 years ago if her son wasn't Charles.

Did you read about Prince Philip flipped a car two weeks ago?

That's the queen's husband.

Prince Philip, 97 years old, and he flipped his Land Rover, which, well done.

But also, why is he driving at all?

Shouldn't he have a chauffeur?

Like, get on this, England.

Get some crowdsourcing done.

Well, we took the keys away from my grandfather.

Yeah.

Somebody should take the keys away from Philip.

I was talking to my dad of a year or two ago, and he was describing his grandmother, my great-great-grandmother, Grandma Bickel.

And he's like, oh, she was a tough old bird, Grandma Bickel.

I mean, she would, you know, she went blind in 92, quit driving in 94, picture of the town.

And I was like, wait, what?

What was the chronology of that?

Like, apparently, Grandma Bickel, like, just, like, she memorized all the turns to get to the grocery store and refused to quit driving after she went functionally blind.

And they would, I guess, like, the town people people in Alva, Oklahoma, would just come out and be like, Ethel's driving, and everyone would scatter and go back into their houses.

So I assume that's what they're doing with Philip.

Well, it could be.

Yeah.

Could be.

I don't think he's probably out on the roads.

Which, if I can plug it, Chad Prather, beloved funny man here at the Plays Now, he came on last week.

We did a full episode of my podcast that was a biopic of Prince Philip.

So it's just an hour of me talking to the opposite of Prince Philip, which is Chad Prayer.

Right.

The opposite of British aristocracy about how it works.

It was a fun episode.

So I know somebody who has met Prince Philip before,

and

it was in a military setting.

And Prince Philip came up and it was, I don't even know what they have, you know,

I don't know, Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts as their army.

Who knows?

Damn, in fact.

Right.

And so, you know, the Boy Scouts were, they're probably more like Cub Scouts, and the Girl Scouts were there.

And Prince Philip said,

what do you do?

And he said to the woman, and she said, Well, I'm a physician.

And he honestly said, he drew back and said,

Good God, we do not have women doctors in this country now, do we?

And this was like, what, last April?

Yeah, it was like two years ago, five years ago.

This is what's crazy.

What people don't understand about Prince Philip, he was born in like 1937.

Yeah.

No, not earlier than that, because he's because he was, you know, he served in World War II.

So I'm sure he was born in like 1917 or something.

Coming up on it, actually, like 1921.

Imagine if you are already a British cartoon character version of a rich person, and then you marry the queen, and no one ever expects you to change for the rest of your life.

And so you're a cartoon character in 1945, and that's it.

He's a time capsule from 1945.

He really is because nobody's going to tell him.

No, and that's why he, whenever he goes to country, he's like, he went to Barbados and just opened up with,

you're all descended from pirates, yes?

Like, that was his opening line going to Barbados, was to insult the entire people.

Wouldn't it be great, though, to be like that?

That'd be great.

To be that tethered to do that.

To be just, I don't care.

Yeah.

What did I say?

You're aware that I'm sleeping in the queen, right?

I can say whatever I want.

Yes, I don't, I don't care.

I'm going to die probably in the next two years.

I think that's what we have in Donald Trump.

I think

we have like a Prince Philip that doesn't care.

He doesn't care.

He's not royalty, but kind of, I mean, he sits in gold chairs a lot.

He's doing, yeah, Sister Gold Shares.

He's got the Imperial Presidency's already there for him.

And I don't think he cares.

I don't think he cares.

I don't think he cares at all.

So, anyway, he's going to get up at the State of the Union, and

it should be interesting to watch.

I'm going and we'll be covering it live from Washington, D.C.

Are you going to bring like a bingo card that you make in advance of things he might say and like play with other people in the game?

You know, we might want to pass him out.

We should.

We should.

I will say that would be a very surreal moment for anyone in the gallery of like, did Glenn Beck just pass you a bingo card?

Right.

And it says like, America's Great, The Wall, things like that.

Right.

What will be really surreal is if you're watching at home on Tuesday and you hear somebody from the gallery go, bingo,

that will.

Glenn, I will give you $50 if you yell play Freebird.

Where the president is.

No, I don't think so.

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Do you remember when Howard Schultz from Starbucks was considered a liberal, Democrat,

favored by people on the left,

which apparently all changed about four days ago when he decided to come out and say, hey, I think you guys are a little bit extreme.

And then they all hated him.

How dare you?

Yeah, that was, it was interesting watching the coverage of that because the reaction was immediate and visceral and widespread.

And it was, how dare you?

You're a billionaire, so that's terrible.

Also, your ideas are awful and you're greedy and we don't like you and we would never vote for you.

But more importantly, how dare you not run as a Democrat?

That seems odd to me that you're, but there's this almost this sort of entitlement idea of like, well, we get to coronate someone and the Republicans get to coronate someone, and that's it.

And, like, I, you know, I don't, I don't like looking at the parties as these quasi-government appendages.

You don't have to run as part of them if you don't want to.

You can maybe have more than one of two ideas.

That's a possible thing.

But

what's strange to me is how far left

this should speak volumes to the average Democrat, because I think

there are the New York and California Democrats in the parties

and the Washington Democrat.

But then there's the, you know,

I don't know.

Kansas Democrats.

I was an Oklahoma Democrat for a while, and that's functionally a third party at this point.

Right, it is.

It's not the same thing as a Sacramento Democrat.

Even Howard Schultz would have been too liberal for that Democratic Party.

And now

he's not welcome at all.

He is considered, what, a conservative?

Yeah.

And I think he would have a better chance of uniting the real Democratic voters than any of these crazies that they're running.

I think you're right about that.

I mean, were it, she's not eligible to run, but were it Alexandria Casio-Cortez versus Howard Schultz?

I think Howard Schultz would ultimately she would have a much more excited and

angry base.

He would have a much wider base, were he able to get the nomination?

Yeah.

But as you pointed out, he is drifting dangerously into math, and that is not something that is

particularly accepted or well-liked right now in Democratic circles.

Right.

But Ocasio-Cortez is, I think, a gift to conservatives all around the country.

Yeah, I could see that.

Yeah.

Because it's, well, I'll say, I think, come on.

She would be,

she is

such an easy target for comedy.

She'd be easy Sarah Palin material

on Saturday Night Live if she was on the other side.

No, that's true.

She is not a policy heavyweight.

But I'll tell you why I'm worried about her, though, is I think she's actually, I think she's doing something that's very clever, which is with this 70, 70%

tax rate, she knows that's not going to happen.

What she's doing is she's shifting the Overton window on the whole debate.

And it's already happening.

You can watch this if you watch CNN or you watch some other media media programs where they're like, now, is 70 really that high?

What if we did, you know, 60%?

And I'm like, ah, I see what you did there.

You just nudged the whole conversation about 40% higher than I'd like it to be.

And really,

that's actually more than that.

Is what, 37% right now?

Is that the top marginal test?

Yeah, I think it's about 70%

higher than I'd like it to be.

Yeah.

But

maybe that's just me.

I mean,

I want a boutique government.

This is the new term I'm trying out, Glenn, because the small government that summons these various things, boutique government that I can fit in my glove compartment.

That's what I want.

Yes,

I would agree with that.

The problem here is that's not the way our country is headed, at least with the Democrats.

And I think while Ocasio-Cortez may be the Overton window mover now, I think she's a serious player for many

in the party.

Glenn, back.