'Raging Rageaholics'? - 9/12/18

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Well, guess who's coming to Iowa?

Everybody's favorite Spartacus, Senator Corey Booker.

That's right.

He's coming to Iowa.

The senator from New Jersey is moving on from his I am Spartacus moment during the Kavanaugh hearing just last week.

A moment, by the way, that was more heroic

than anything I think most Americans have ever seen.

According to Corey Booker.

Now he's preparing to dazzle Iowa Democrats as the featured speaker at their fall gala in October.

Is it too early for me to start printing Spartacus for president bumper stickers?

I don't think so.

It's never too early because potential Democratic candidates are already jockeying for position.

Seven other Democrats plus Bernie Sanders have made appearances in Iowa just recently, each one nurturing their own Oval Office dream.

Iowa Democratic Party chairman Troy Price says, we welcome anybody who wants to help us get Democrats elected in 2018, and we're sure happy to have Senator Corey Booker's help.

This dinner is only about the great opportunities ahead of us in this election this fall.

I'm sure it is.

Now, there's two schools of thought here when you show up in Iowa.

You know, it's kind of like, you know, asking the most popular girl in school to the prom.

You can either come out right out and ask her early and often, hey, what do you think about me, you and me going to the prom?

You know, that's what,

you know, Bernie Sanders did.

The other one is to go, so,

how you doing?

Fine.

Yeah.

Just wanted to say hi.

Hey, I know we just saw each other yesterday, but I'm back.

Could I carry your books or something like that that would maybe make you notice me?

Because then I will ask around.

My friends will ask around to see if you like me after you notice me.

That is what Corey Booker and so many people do in Iowa.

They're just hanging out trying to see.

They don't want to ask.

No, no, no, I don't want to be president.

I just, hey, Iowa, I'm just here.

Could I carry your books home from school?

Booker has placed four staffers in Iowa to work on the campaigns of state Democratic candidates.

That's usually an indicator that you want to do something with the White House.

But we're talking Spartacus.

Over the next couple of weeks, if Booker

is photographed wearing a hard hat, kissing a baby, eating pancakes in a small-town diner, or doing all three of those things at once, well,

you'll know Spartacus 2020 is a done deal.

But why spend time talking about that

when there's something more important that actually matters?

And even Spartacus

cannot help us.

I want to begin the show there.

Let me take a quick, just 20-second break, and then I want to come back with some audio

and another piece of a story that you have not heard.

We do that now.

It's Wednesday, September 12th.

This is the Glenn Beck program.

Okay.

So we got Spartacus, and that's the news that everybody wants to know, right?

Who's running for president in 2020?

Does that really affect you at all?

Is that not as important to you now to strategize 2020?

Or is it better to look at

what the hell is happening to us right now?

Because you can have all the slick ad campaigns you want.

But

who are the Democrats really appealing to?

Let me play something that came out yesterday.

Carol Cook.

She's an old Jimie, a Broadway actress.

I remember her in 1956 when she was Hello Dolly.

And

she was coming out of

some restaurant or a show or something with her husband, who was a spry 90 himself.

And

she was asked, hey, what do you think about those people that brought the Trump 2020 banner to the frozen show?

Now, why would you do that?

Why would you do that?

What is the point?

So they brought this big banner.

They unfurled it right in the front row.

One of the actors broke character and took the thing away and put it backstage.

Appropriate.

Well,

they had to ask.

TMZ had to ask

legend Carol Cook about what she thought.

And here's what she said.

Is that a proper venue for

a Trumper to bring a

good idea?

Oh, this is good.

Where was it?

Stop.

Stop it right there.

Stop it right there.

Her husband says, oh, this is good.

Where would you say it?

Her husband, they've already said this multiple times, apparently,

because it always gets a big laugh.

It gets a huge laugh.

So he interrupts and he's going to say, but no, no, no, no.

You say it because

you're going to be so funny when you say it.

Here's what she says.

I know you just.

Where is John Wilkes Booth when you need him?

That's what she said.

You're going to ask me who the hell John Wilkes is.

No, I know who John Wilkes is.

Thank you, darling.

He killed President.

Where is he when you need him?

He asked you know.

So we need to kill President Tom.

What he did.

No,

why not?

stop for a second

so she's like

you don't ask me about john wilkes booth

i dated him back in the 40s the 1840s

so she's she is immediately the thing that she has said it so many times apparently somebody said to her who's john wilkes booth

You're not going to ask me.

Oh, thank you, darling.

I'm so sick of the stupid people who don't remember or don't know their history of John Wilkes Blues.

I live on the Upper West Side, and there are so many Cretans that just don't know their history.

So

she is taking this to

thank you for at least knowing your history.

Instead of, oh, am I going to be in real trouble?

Then the press says, so you think we should kill Donald Trump?

And she says, you have to see the video.

She stands there slyly.

Her husband tries to laugh it off.

You know, I didn't know.

No, this joke means something entirely different.

I'm sorry.

What were we talking about?

We're both senile.

She says, yeah.

Why not?

Well, I don't know, other than it being an assassination of a president.

You know, it's usually a bad thing.

Other than, you know, even making that joke

is really dangerous.

Even though if I would have said anything like that about President Obama, you would have led a team of senior citizens to try to beat me with their Broadway canes.

I don't know.

Maybe that's why not.

So that's the outrage today.

But I'm not really outraged by it.

Because I know who she is.

And she doesn't affect my life at all.

None of those Broadway people do.

I don't really care.

It should concern the Secret Service.

Not that she said it.

Not like she's going to be John Wilkes.

But that she has said this so much and people have laughed about it so much.

I mean, is the press concerned?

Because words do have consequences.

You never know, even in a joke.

I learned this from them between 2008 and 2016.

They taught me very, very well that words have consequences.

And even when you're joking, you don't know who might be hearing that and what it might cause them to do.

They might think you're serious.

Well, yes, they might think you're serious.

Of course, when she said it and she said seriously,

well, why not?

I kind of took her seriously, you know?

I think she meant that.

But let's go for today's outrage.

That was yesterday's outrage.

And if anybody, do we have the jingle?

If anybody is addicted to outrage, today's your lucky day.

Addicted to outrage.

Yes.

Here's today's outrage.

On Facebook.

No, it's got the blue check mark.

So this is Twitter.

On Twitter, a woman,

just, I don't even want to just give her first name, Cassandra, wrote, who's going to the MAGA meetup tonight?

So there's a meetup.

You know where she's at.

Who's going?

Okay.

Dreamstar Justice.

He or she wrote in, I'm coming, but I'm coming with a gun and I expect to get numerous blood-stained MAGA hats as trophies.

Oh!

Okay.

All right.

Okay, well, that's okay.

We can say things like that on Twitter.

That's okay.

We can say that and the press won't even notice it.

Now here's the thing.

Why has

why did why did this fail in 1968?

Why did this fail?

For a couple of reasons.

The

communist revolution and Democrats, if you are not awake yet to see that you are in bed with people who want to shut down capitalism,

they want to destroy the Constitution.

All you have to do is listen to them.

Not all Democrats are saying that, but the Social Democrats are.

And that's who's running your party right now.

You are a, you're a host for a a virus that is trying to destroy the Western way of life now You can either start taking medicine and I'm not suggesting that you that you take my medicine and you turn into a Republican.

I'm not suggesting that I'm saying you take some medicine and turn into a decent American

You separate yourself from people like this

You separate yourself from people who say, you know what capitalism doesn't work if you don't think capitalism works that's fine then state that loudly and clearly but if you do you need to say state that just as loudly and clearly in your own circles and outside of your own circles

There are people on the far left that are now leaving the far left because they realize how dangerous these people are becoming.

Not me saying this, people in the far left.

They're saying it.

They are separating themselves because they realize these guys will kill people.

You give them power and they will kill people who disagree with them because they're already trying to silence them on the fringes.

But they've already also started to take off the masks and say, yeah, we don't believe in capitalism.

We don't believe in the Constitution.

We believe this is a failure.

We've got to try something new.

Great.

But is that you as a Democrat?

Is that who you want in your party?

Because anybody who is saying that on my side, I reject.

Anybody who says, yeah, and I'm going to the pussy ad party and

I'm going to collect a lot of blood-stained pink hats, I reject.

I call out, and if I think they're serious, I report them.

If that was on Twitter, I would, and it was

somebody on the right, I would

notify Twitter.

Oh, that hurts your side.

No, it doesn't.

It helps my side.

Because the reason why things failed in the 1960s is the violence.

Americans, I don't care who you are.

But the majority of Americans, and it might be 52%,

but the majority of Americans

do not want to overturn the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, even if they don't even know really what it means.

But they certainly do not want to be a part of violence in the streets.

They do not want to be a part of killing people.

They don't want to be a part of assassinations.

Here we are with the same atmosphere of 1968.

We have been so blessed not to have assassinations, and you have

Broadway stars joking about it.

Anybody who's serious

is not joking about that.

Anybody who really knows what time we're living in,

we're not joking about that.

We want no part of that.

And that includes many, I believe, Democrats.

I could be wrong,

but I don't think so.

I think there is a different kind of Tea Party coming for the Democrats.

I think they are exposing themselves now for who they really are, anti-capitalist communists,

people who will come and eat their own

because they're already doing it.

And the intellectual leaders of the left are beginning to leave

and say, I want no part of this.

I am more afraid of the left than I am of the right.

And I'm really pretty afraid of the right.

The wise people

have already caught on and they're getting out.

I don't think it will take much longer for the Democrats, the people that are your neighbors in the center of the country.

I don't think it's going to take much more for them to say, I can't be a part of this at all.

But they have to know that they're not just going to be an orphan.

We don't have to agree with each other, but as long as we agree on decency, the Bill of Rights, and the Constitution, we can be friends forever.

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Four?

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It looks really ugly.

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This is going to be a bad one.

And

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So what are you going to do?

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Addicted to outrage.

The new book from Glenn Beck, Addicted to Outrage, is available everywhere on September 18th.

Pre-order it now at Amazon.com.

So, you know,

I

worked really a long time on this book, and I, it's, it's, um,

it's a book that I feel passionately about

and in the same way that I did about common sense.

When I wrote that, I felt that I was alone

and I considered just releasing it

on the internet as anonymous.

And then Simon ⁇ Schuster reminded me about contracts and the written word, so I couldn't do that.

But

I felt as strongly about that.

In fact, I went to Simon ⁇ Schuster and I said, please don't publish this in Hardbound.

Please.

I want to make this as cheap as possible.

I want this to be $8

so people could buy two of them as opposed to one and give it to a friend.

So I have been giving it to some friends.

And

I just got an email back from a guy who shall remain nameless

because he lives in a dicey part of the country where he cannot say who he is.

But he is, you know who I'm talking about, Stu.

He's a brilliant guy.

Yeah.

Brilliant guy.

And doesn't always agree with me.

He said, Glenn, I want you to know I finished the book today.

Then I deleted my Twitter account, not that I used it that much, and Facebook.

Let me lead with my conclusion and then walk through my notes.

Because I asked him, I said, tell me what you like, what you didn't understand, yada, yada, yada.

He said, in the beginning of the book, which is so interesting because I knew it because I hadn't heard from him for a while.

And I knew, uh-oh,

he's having a problem with this.

Let me lead with my conclusion, then walk through my notes.

In the beginning of the book, I felt like I was just reading three different books in one.

But about two-thirds of the way through, I realized, one, you can't ask or expect someone to read three books, and two,

all of the information had to be in a single book, and it was actually exactly the right way to do it.

For a lot of the book, I felt like I know what you're saying, but I mean, you don't, you're not talking to me because I don't have an outrage addiction problem.

But at some point, I got the sense of what it must feel like to realize you're in denial and actually have a problem.

By the last few chapters, I had a sense that this was exactly the book I needed to read right now.

It's been a rough few months.

And he goes into some personal problems.

One of them was, one of my friends, a buddy of mine, I just found out is now a transhumanist who thinks humans need to be extinct and animals are more important than people and religion is just a cover for racist and rapists.

I also feel like I'm golden handcuffed in a job and I want to wake up and leave, but I can't and I have to hide who I really am.

I don't drink,

but I have to admit, I do like some outrage when I come home after a hard day.

Hi, my name is Blank, and I'm a rageaholic.

By the end of the book, I realized this might be the book you were born to write, even if it's before its time.

I hope people read this cover to cover and don't set it down halfway through and not pick it back up.

The ending is the most important part.

But here's the thread you were running throughout that stood out to me that I just need to sort out.

I've been able to see the clouds on the horizon as long as I can remember, and I know

whatever is coming is building up to something that's going to be a very rough go.

I worry there's a big step missing that would be required to make people understand this book.

Something similar to rock bottom in AA.

I have assumed that it will be civil war or a world war or both.

Can we as humans skip over that rock bottom and go right to the healing?

That's the part I have to pray on, and I still doubt I'll have the answer.

I think for your audience, the answer is yes.

But who else?

I don't know if you can be a better person without rock bottom.

But we all have different rock bottoms.

I have friends who are not going to shed their outrage because it feels good.

And

they like it.

And they feel that for the first time

they're winning.

And I can't argue with that.

You are pushing back.

You are opening people's eyes to

you are saying the things that you weren't allowed to say to the mainstream media.

And you've got them on the ropes.

I agree with you.

However,

that is a short-term high.

And it does feel good.

And I understand as an alcoholic that sometimes you're in so much pain that you will pick up the bottle and you will drink.

And at the beginning, it just feels good.

And you say to yourself, I need this.

I need this to blow off steam.

I need this to be able to cope with the day.

It's been a horrible, horrible day.

And I need it.

And this just makes me feel better.

I even got to a point to where I was saying to myself, I was a better dad as an alcoholic.

I have to drink because it slows me down enough to be able to play with the kids and be with the kids.

So I'm a better dad.

No, I really wasn't.

And

for a short period of time, maybe it did slow me down enough because I'm riddled with ADD.

Maybe it did slow me down enough to be able to play with the kids.

But in the long run, it made me a horrible dad.

Because all the alcohol did was

let me avoid what the real problem was.

And the real problem is not Donald Trump.

That is not the problem.

If Donald Trump was sucked into space suddenly because some Broadway actresses had a portal and they could open up the envelope of space and just suck him out.

That wouldn't happen because of Space Force, but go ahead.

Okay.

That's probably why he wants Space Force.

But

our problems wouldn't change.

They would just move to Mike Pence.

So it's not Donald Trump.

And it's not that

they are the Democratic Party.

It's not the Democratic Party.

The Democratic Party

is being consumed because they are playing host to a very dangerous virus.

And that virus is post-modernism.

And once you understand that, you will understand that it relies on chaos.

Do you remember when I said years ago, chaos is going to be the operative word?

And

I remember because I saw the word chaos

with the 12th Imam.

And the ideology of those who are behind the government in Iran is the ideology of the 12th Imam, that he will return and he will wash the world in blood.

No, I'm sorry, that the world will be washed in blood by his supporters.

And when they create enough chaos,

that's when the 12th Imam will return.

Well, that's another way of saying Armageddon.

But they specifically use the word chaos.

And then I noticed Russia, the chief advisor to Russia, is a guy whose symbol is the ancient symbol of chaos.

And he's trying to destroy the Western way of life through nationalism

through chaos

what was the goal of of Russia because we're arguing about Donald Trump we're missing the point the point was not about getting Donald Trump elected the point was to cause chaos it was to pit us against each other and our institutions to get us to not believe in the government not believe in the FBI, not believe in the election, not believe that, you know, that we can hold fair elections, not believe in the Republicans, not believe in the Democrats.

You'll notice what they did is they pitted the Democrats against each other.

By the only thing they did was expose them

for dividing the party in half.

Well, what did that do?

That caused chaos with inside the party.

Putin is applauding.

This plan has worked out far better than he could have ever hoped

because we've turned on each other.

If Lincoln was right,

this country will never be destroyed from the outside.

It will only be destroyed when we turn on each other

in chaos.

And when you're afraid because things are chaotic, and when you are afraid because someone is beating up on you,

all reason

leaves.

You go back to your lizard brain.

We cannot engage in chaos.

We cannot engage in outrage.

We must

instead

re-fortify the fort and the walls around reason.

And both sides have to do it.

And we have to have reasonable conversations.

Somebody said to me last week, Glenn, I think the big difference between us is

you believe in reconciliation, and there are people that we cannot reconcile with.

And I said,

oh,

I understand that.

I'm not stupid.

Martin Luther King did not say, hey, go hug it out at a cross burning.

You don't...

No, they want to kill you.

Now, if there is a cross-burner who takes off the hood and says, you know what,

I see the error of my ways, I can reconcile with you.

But if you still want to kill me, if you're still trying to destroy the Bill of Rights and the Constitution, I can't reconcile with you.

I can love you.

I can despise the things you're doing.

And I don't have to hate you, but I'm not going to give you the power over my life to

make me outraged.

That power belongs to me.

You cannot make me outraged.

My outrage comes from me.

And I'll decide when I'm going to be outraged and how I'm going to react to everything that you're doing.

And I know that if we are going to save the Western way of life,

then we must go to the principles that the Western way of life was

founded on,

and that is reason and logic,

and yes, the teachings of Jesus Christ.

Love one another, treat them as you want to be treated yourself, even when they slap you across the face.

That is not a retreat.

You never retreat from your principles.

There is a time to fight.

But this is not the time because that is exactly what they need.

They need you to respond and be vitriolic, vengeful, spiteful.

Because that's the way to destroy

everything that has taken centuries to build.

By the way, I'm doing a virtual book signing tomorrow.

So, if you want to have your book signed and you're not going to be anywhere around any of the stage shows that we're doing, by the way, we're going on tour.

You can find that and the book and the book signing at glenbeck.com/slash addicted to outrage.

Or just go to the front page of Glennbeck.com.

Book signing is tomorrow night.

You can join now, get signed up, and get in.

And we hopefully will see you while we're on the road.

Several cities, we're adding a new one I think next week.

Make sure you join us.

Get your tickets now at Glenbeck.com.

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Welcome to the program.

Next week, or next hour,

we have Matt Walshon, who is

a deep,

you know, Orthodox Catholic

who has been following this

scandal with the Pope and Pennsylvania and the Cardinal there.

I will tell you, yesterday,

the Pope sounded anything but like St.

Francis.

He talked about how Satan was exposing these cardinals

and,

you know,

he was not apologetic.

He was not seemingly worried about the children.

It seemed like all he cared about was the hierarchy of the church.

And it was really disturbing.

But I wanted to talk to Matt Walch, who is a Catholic on this, and get his point of view and what's really happening and

where's the Pope going with this.

Back in a minute.

Glenn Beck is coming live to talk about the right path forward and to make fun of the people standing in the way.

He might not be able to save the country, but at least we can all go down laughing.

Glenn Beck Live, the Addicted to Outrage tour, on tour this fall.

Glenn back.

State of emergency.

Now declared in four states on the East Coast.

North Carolina, the full brunt of Hurricane Florence,

now topping 140 mile-an-hour winds, and it's only getting stronger.

It's expected to reach category 5 with 150 mile-an-hour winds by the time it reaches landfall on Thursday.

This is going to spend some time and be extremely destructive to the coast if the computer modeling is accurate.

A storm this powerful hasn't hit North Carolina for 60 years.

To put that into perspective, our president was Eisenhower.

The number one movie at the box office was Dial M for Murder by Alfred Hitchcock.

Kids were listening to Earth Angel by the penguins on the radio in their Chevy convertibles.

In other words, been a long time.

When Hurricane Hazel hit in 1954, 19 people died in North Carolina.

Over 15,000 buildings were completely destroyed.

Its path of destruction traveled all the way up to Buffalo, New York.

60 people died in Virginia alone.

Over a million people in North and South Carolina now are facing mandatory evacuation orders.

Tropical storm force winds will arrive by Wednesday evening, with full hurricane force winds arriving tomorrow.

Gas stations are already beginning to run out of fuel as people scramble to fill up their tanks, five-gallon gas cans, grocery stores, they're out.

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More bad news.

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But last year, Hurricane Harvey brought out the best in not only Texas, but in states like Louisiana.

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Disaster struck, and we stepped up.

The government did their thing, but we didn't wait for them.

Today is September 12th,

9:12.

This day has been a rallying call for my audience, and I have been talking to you about 9-12, 2001

since 9-12, 2001.

It's when we showed the best of us.

It's when politics didn't matter.

When we all became Americans.

If you're anywhere in the area,

I believe we each have a responsibility to help

to in the next few weeks go and cut trees, give space to people who don't have any, help muck out their houses, help feed them.

If you're able,

roll up your sleeves and help out.

If you physically can't be there,

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Mercury One already has,

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They have shovels, they have equipment,

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Over 200 semi-trucks are already making their way towards the Carolinas.

We already have Team Rubicon there.

Team Rubicon is this amazing group of former

patriots and soldiers and sailors and airmen who didn't want to stop serving their country.

And this is a volunteer group that we help support that go on the front lines of wherever there is a disaster, help save people and rebuild their lives.

Also, Operation BBQ is already there in the Carolinas.

This is a group that feeds people when when there is no food.

They just got out of California.

They can serve up to, I think, 30,000 meals a day.

But we need your help.

If you can make a donation

on this 9-12,

if we can come together before there's a need,

before there is the emergency,

I think that will say a lot about us.

That we're still thinking and we still have our heart in the right place.

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This is the Glenn Beck program.

I believe we have Brad Melter on the phone.

He is the author of a new children's book that we'll talk about here in a second called I Am Neil Armstrong.

But Brad, it is

the day after 9-11.

Where were you on 9-11?

I was in Washington, D.C.

My nine-month pregnant wife worked in the U.S.

Capitol, and she was driving to the Capitol after the towers were hit.

And she said, you know, I wonder if they're going to up security at the Capitol because and then she stopped on the side of the road, Glenn.

She pulled over off on the side and said, wait a minute, the Capitol has terrible, terrible security.

I have a bad feeling I'm not going to go into work today.

And we all know now, of course, that the Pennsylvania flight was believed to be headed to the Capitol.

So those people on that flight, in a different universe, with a twist of fate,

it was headed right for my nine-month pregnant wife.

And we owe those people forever.

And I came outside because our dear friend Michelle Heidenberger, our neighbor who lived truly across the street from us,

she was the flight attendant on the Pentagon flight.

So, needless to say, when we were searching for the 9-11 flag,

it was one of the most personal searches we've ever undertaken.

I have to tell you, one of the most incredible stories I think I've ever heard.

I had no idea that your wife was nine months old and pregnant.

I don't even know how that happens.

It's weird, but I was going to say, it's an amazing

nine-month pregnancy.

I want to bring up the flag because the flag, the the one that

was flown by the firefighters, that famous shot of the firefighters with the flag, that flag went missing quickly.

You are the guy who found the flag

and returned it to ground zero.

And then,

if I'm not mistaken, your child was just assigned

a homework assignment.

Right?

This may be the greatest thing that's ever happened to me.

So

I am leaving for the book tour for I Am Neil Armstrong yesterday.

I am an hour away from headed for the plane.

My son walks in.

My young son walks in and says, Dad, look what our homework assignment is.

And it's a homework assignment about the person who finding the 9-11 flag.

And my son proudly says, Dad, they don't mention you in it.

They just mentioned that a TV show found it.

And

I was like, son, you are going to crush homework tomorrow.

You are going to crush it.

And the best part of it, Glenn, the best part of this is I wake up this morning.

I just found this, and it has gone to national news.

I put it on my Twitter account.

Yahoo just picked it up.

It's become a national news story that the guy who found the 9-11 flag, that his teacher assigned an assignment on him, and she didn't even know.

So the funniest part of the whole thing is at 6 o'clock this morning, I get an email from the teacher that says, I'm so sorry.

I didn't know it was you.

And I'm like, it's fine.

It was so many of us.

It was obviously one of the great blessings of my life is play a small role in its return.

And the fact that it leads to one of the greatest comedies, you know, she said, I said, you don't understand.

I need to thank you because this comedy bit is going to play forever.

Oh, and your son, your son sees you as a hero.

And that's fantastic.

I mean, anything that will reinforce, you know, my dad is cool, I think is

an impossibility, right?

That's like the fine gravity is that my dad is cool.

So yes, we will take it any day.

So did Yahoo know

that on on 9-11 you were married to a nine-month-old who was pregnant?

That's the bigger story.

It really is.

It really is.

Yeah.

Okay,

tell me about the book, Neil Armstrong.

The reason why I'm having you on is I love your books in the first place.

I love your adult books, but the children books are...

just fantastic for children.

They teach principles and they teach all about heroes.

I wanted to have you on because Neil Armstrong, been in the news recently.

I mean, I really believe, Glenn, that, you know, it is no coincidence that he's in the news.

And it's not just because of, obviously, the ridiculousness that the new movie apparently doesn't have implanting the flag.

It's not just that I wrote a book, and these things happen for a reason.

I really believe that in all times of history, you don't get the heroes you want.

You get the heroes you need.

There's a need out there.

And I think a humble person like Neil Armstrong is the hero we need right now.

And I wrote the book purposely

because I wanted my kids to learn that kind of humility.

I mean, this is a children's book.

It teaches you about, of course, the space launch.

But Neil Armstrong used to never use the word I.

He used the word we.

We did this.

His quote was, when they took the Apollo mission, he said, please tell everyone who worked on this that this is their launch.

Tell them that they'll be riding with us all the way.

And he meant the scientists.

He meant the mathematicians.

He meant the people who sewed the tailors who sewed the spacesuit together.

Remember when humility was a great American value?

I wrote I Am Neil Armstrong because I want my sons to learn that humility.

I want my daughter to learn that kind of humility again because we've lost it.

Was the outrage over the flag?

Was that

what did you make of all of that?

You know, so here's what I think.

I mean, let's be very clear.

The movie's not out yet, so no one's seen it.

Apparently, I tried, of course, to check it out.

Apparently, the flag is featured predominantly, but let's also be clear: landing on the moon was an American achievement, without question, right?

It happened because the President of the United States said, we are going to do this.

We're going to do it together.

And it was America who got us there.

It was a race against the Russians, truly.

I think that

the big mess up that they made was simply that the star of the movie said, oh, it's a human achievement.

It's not a human achievement.

I mean, certainly humans were responsible.

It's an American achievement.

But from what I hear, Neil Armstrong's sons

said the flags feature predominantly.

I'm going to trust his family that if they're happy with it, I'm going to be happy with it.

And I tend to not want to get in controversies where no one's seen the movie and we just want to have a controversy because we're having a controversy.

That seems antithetical to what Neil Armstrong stands for, which is that be humble and let's be calm and let's hold it together.

What did Neil Armstrong do

with his life after the moon?

I I had dinner, or I had lunch with

Buzz Aldrin, and I brought my dad because I thought, how cool is this that my dad can come with me to have lunch with Buzz Aldrin?

And

we sat there, and I have to tell you, it was the saddest,

it was the saddest thing I've ever seen

because he talked about, you know, his alcoholism and everything else.

He got back, and

he was just a guy who went on tour to try to raise money and awareness for NASA and keep things going.

He's obviously really accomplished, very, very bright.

But how do you beat going to the moon?

And

he couldn't let that moment go.

I don't know if I could, but he couldn't let that moment go.

He's very different than Neil Armstrong.

What happened with Neil Armstrong?

Yeah, Neil Armstrong was a different guy.

You know, they picked Neil Armstrong instead of Buzz Aldrin.

They had this moment where they had to pick who's the first one out.

That's a choice.

It's not just who gets to the door.

It was a clearly calculated plan, and they picked Neil Armstrong to be the first one, as opposed to Buzz Aldrin.

There was a big controversy.

Buzz obviously campaigned and wanted to be out there.

He was not chosen.

They picked Neil Armstrong because of his humility, because he was the guy who wasn't going to put his face on a t-shirt and go out there and try and make money off of it, because he was just going to go back to Ohio and be fine with the achievement.

And, you know, I think, you know, the best way you can always show someone's character is look at their childhood.

Neil Armstrong, when he was eight years old, the thing he wanted to do more than anything else, he wanted to climb this big maple tree in his backyard.

And when you climb a tree, you got to make a plan.

It's a puzzle, right?

You grab one branch and then you got to grab this branch.

And as he's grabbing one of the dead branches, the branch snaps.

And Neil Armstrong falls 15 feet, lands flat on his back, has the wind knocked out of him.

His sister comes running over, says, are you okay?

She goes and grabs their mother.

The most important thing, and this is the opening of I Am Neil Armstrong, the children's book, is this moment.

I teach my kids the most important thing that Neil Armstrong does after that moment is he gets back up again.

He gets a job mowing grass in a cemetery because he wants to fly.

He buys toy planes, saves his money.

Then he saves up for a pilot's license.

He gets his pilot's license.

He's a teenager before he gets his driver's license, becomes a test pilot, of course, an astronaut.

And we all today celebrate that giant leap for all mankind that Neil Armstrong took.

But we need to teach our kids that you don't get to take the giant leap until you take the thousands of smaller steps before.

We got to teach our kids what hard work really means again.

That, to me, is what this children's book stands for.

And I think it shows, to answer your question,

what and how Neil Armstrong was able to deal with it.

Because he was built from that solid American value system that let him say, I am not my achievement.

I'm just a man.

Brad Meltzer.

That's why he was fine.

Brad Meltzer, thank you so much.

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So

GOP midterm, when it comes to the Senate,

you know, McConnell's talking about there's a knife fight going on or we might lose the Senate.

Well, you might.

You might.

Whose fault is that?

Mine?

Whose fault is that?

Donald Trump's?

No, it's not.

It's the House and the Senate.

I mean, what did you do?

You passed the tax cuts.

You've confirmed the judges.

Okay, so that's good.

The tax cut wasn't that great.

It was not a great tax cut, though.

I think it improved the situation.

It did.

It helped.

It helped.

It wasn't great.

You're spending like you're out of your mind crazy.

Yep, worse than Obama.

This is spending.

And that's your fault.

That's not the president's fault.

That's your fault.

He signed it, but yeah,

Everybody's responsible for that.

He's going to sign anything.

The guy would have signed anything back then.

You know, if they would have, if they would have had cuts, he would have signed it.

Yes.

They lost the Obamacare thing.

Donald Trump didn't.

No, he would have signed that too.

Yeah.

The thing, the only reason why I'm voting for GOP Senate is because, not because I'm for the GOP, not because I think they're doing a great job.

It's just because we're going to have another Supreme Court justice, or maybe two,

and I want to be able to get those three, so the judges thing.

And maybe if they surprise me and they're mind-controlled by aliens for a day and decide to actually do something good for the country and the Constitution, you know, maybe that could happen.

Stranger things have happened.

It's hard to have a lot of passion about it.

Plus, if they lose the House, then that's off the table.

The potential good thing is

except for the, yeah, the judges will still be.

Judges will still be, and that's important.

But the House, the only thing you'll see really from the House being lost is because, I mean, they're not doing anything.

So what do you lose?

The one thing you will probably lose is you'll likely get an impeachment of the president, but he won't be removed from office.

So it won't really.

Unless there's something new, but I haven't seen anything.

No,

I don't even think a close Senate is going to

do it.

You have to get 67 votes.

Yeah, it's not going to happen.

Even if the Democrats control the Senate, you're not going to get him thrown out of office.

It's just a waste of time in many ways.

Yeah.

So thanks, GOP.

We gave you House, Senate, and the administration.

What did you do with it?

Matt Walsh is

just a great, great writer and somebody who really sees the world and refuses to go down the path of insanity.

He wrote for many years for The Blaze.

He's now with the Daily Wire.

I have been following his work on what's happening with the Catholic Church because he's Catholic, and I'd like to get somebody's opinion who doesn't have an axe to grind with religion or the Catholic Church.

So, Matt, welcome to the program.

How are you?

Hey, Blunt.

Thanks for having me.

So, can you tell me what the hell happened with the Pope yesterday?

Well,

that's, I mean,

there's a few things going on, but I think the thing that's caught a lot of people's eyes here

in the United States is that he got up and said that Satan is at work in the church, which I agree with that part of it, but he said that Satan is at work amongst the accusers.

Satan is the great accuser, and

he is victimizing the poor bishops through, I guess, he didn't specify any more than that, but I guess he's saying that the people that are accusing the bishops are Satan and

also the faithful Catholics who are demanding answers.

I guess we are also in league with Satan.

That appears to be what the Pope is insinuating, and I find it absolutely horrific.

Tell me a little bit about the scandal in Pennsylvania, because depending on who you're listening to,

I don't know who to believe.

You listen to the New York Times, and their spin is, yes, these things happened, but most of them happened a long time ago.

And

while the Pope was involved a little bit, bit, it's more on the fringes.

And this is only being brought up because this is a war between the people who want a more traditional church and

the people who agree with Francis.

Yeah, it's a very weird thing

for traditional, quote-unquote, traditional Catholics like myself.

It's a weird thing to see the media all of a sudden circling the wagons around the Vatican.

It's just we've never seen anything like this.

Usually they're very eager to

blame the Vatican for anything.

So

in Pennsylvania, you do have the Grand Jury Report from about a month ago, I guess now, which talks about abuses among priests and also cover-ups by bishops.

And that dates back, you know, it goes back, I think, 50 or 60 years.

And much of it, a good percentage of those abuses

were

20 years or more older.

And so I guess some apologists are now using that as a reason to say, well, look, this problem has been contained since then, so this is old news.

And maybe they could get away with that.

Maybe they could get away with that excuse, if not for the fact that there has been this problem in diocese across the country.

And now they're talking about another investigation in New York, another one in New Jersey.

And then on top of that, you have two other things as well.

You've got Cardinal McCarrick.

the most prominent cardinal in the United States who has been,

all this information is coming out about him him now and his abuse, not just of children, but of seminarians, of young men.

And then you've got someone in the Vatican, a high-ranking, former high-ranking official, who wrote an 11-page letter indicting the Pope himself and accusing him personally of covering up.

So all of these things together just make it impossible to

minimize this or to claim that it's all in the past because it's not.

This is right now.

These are things happening right now.

And what about the claim that this cardinal in the 11-page letter, this guy has been against Francis the whole time and is just using this to try to get to Francis?

Well, number one, it's irrelevant.

That's just a character assassination.

Even though it's true that even if it's true that he's got some kind of axe to grind with Pope Francis, that doesn't mean that he's wrong about what he's saying.

The question is,

are the accusations true or not?

And it's very relevant that of all the men accused by Vigano, Archbishop Vigano, the accuser, of all the men accused, none of them have actually denied it, not a single one, including the Pope.

But secondly, that's actually not true.

This Archbishop Vigano has had a long reputation as someone who is a whistleblower, who stands against corruption, is not afraid to root out corruption.

That's what he has

a reputation for.

He doesn't have a reputation for trying to undermine the Pope.

This is the first time he's ever done this.

The Pope has been there for six or seven years.

This is the first time Digano has come out and said anything like this against the Pope.

So I think that accusation is just incorrect.

So what does the average Catholic

do now?

What are they thinking?

Yeah, that's a million-dollar question.

I you know, and there are a lot of Catholics who and I hear from a lot of Catholics, and talk to a lot of Catholics personally, and many of them are on the edge of or over the edge of despair at this point

because they just look at the church and they and they think, well,

I think for a lot of especially for a lot of devout Catholics, I'm talking about the ones who really care about their faith and go to church and really try to live according to it.

The thing is, it's not it's not you know, it's not easy to live according to the teachings of the church.

A lot is asked of us, and I think rightfully so.

But then when we look and

we're we're trying so hard to live according to these teachings and making all the sacrifices necessary, and then we look and we see that the people running the church don't apparently even care about these teachings at all,

it's very deflating.

But what I would say, you know, as a Catholic, you know, I'm not leaving the church over this.

I think either you believe that the Catholic Church is the true faith and you believe that it has a historical claim to being the true church or not.

And if you don't believe that, then I guess you're not Catholic.

You shouldn't be Catholic.

But if you do believe that, then I think these scandals, as awful as they are, they don't change that, don't change that simple thing.

All they mean, and we should keep in mind as Christians, that, look, I mean, Jesus Christ chose 12 apostles.

One denied him, one betrayed him, only one was there with him at the cross on Calvary.

So

there's a long precedent of this kind of treachery going all the way back to the very beginning.

The Pope, however, being the leader.

I mean, when I saw this story break, we were on the air and I said, you know, if I'm the Pope, I get onto the plane today

and I hold a press conference in Philadelphia or Pittsburgh and I say, I am here because we take this seriously and the children are the most precious to us.

I mean, you want to be Francis.

That's what you do.

And you hit it straight on.

For him to

to not answer any of the questions

and

then on top of it to come out later and say,

the devil is making people do this, is,

in my opinion, obscene.

I mean, it is obscene.

I mean,

there's, you know, you could use a lot of different words to describe it.

I think that the Pope's behavior throughout this entire scandal, and apparently going back, you know, through his entire papacy, according to Vico, his behavior has been cowardly.

It's been despicable.

I mean, like I said, it's just, and for, again, for a devout Catholic to say those kinds of things about the Pope, I mean, I don't say that kind of stuff lightly.

I mean, I would say that lightly maybe about a politician, but I don't say it lightly about the Pope because I do have so much obvious respect for the office of the Pope.

But because of that, and when I see what this man is doing to that office and how, in my opinion, he's acting in ways that are disgraceful, I think we have no choice but as Catholics but to stand up and say that.

So what does that disappear?

What does that mean?

Is there a chance this Pope is removed from office or leaves office because of this?

As far as I know, there's not any way to actually remove a Pope because he's not a President and he can't really be impeached, as far as I know.

However, I do think that bishops and cardinals and the laity, if they were to stand up in essentially one voice and say there need to be big changes, this Pope has failed us.

He needs to step down.

I think if that pressure

was put on and

there were enough people saying that and being consistent in their outcry, I think maybe this Pope could be, let's say, encouraged to step down.

But, and I hope that will happen.

I think it should.

I don't think it will, though, because this Pope has obviously shown what his strategy is going to be.

And that's going to be, number one, to ignore the charges that are specifically against him.

He said nothing about them.

And then, number two, to recast the entire thing as

essentially making the bishops into victims.

And in order to get past that, what would be needed is the laity, we need to stay focused on this issue,

even as the media forgets about it and disregards it, and as the Pope doesn't address it, we would have to stay focused.

But unfortunately, in a modern society, it's hard to keep people focused and concentrated on one issue for very long.

So I'm afraid that a month from now, nobody's going to be talking about this anymore.

And the Pope will have just essentially gotten away with it.

That's what I'm afraid is going to happen.

Matt, this guy has not been

traditional, and

he's done a lot of things that a lot of Catholics or traditionalists would say, okay, that's really weird.

This is in a totally different category.

Would you have ever expected this Pope to react this way to a scandal this big?

No, I didn't.

Although now that I see him acting this way, I see that there are plenty of reasons.

There was plenty of precedent for it because this has actually been

his pattern, maybe not

with scandals up until now, but where he'll say something or issue some kind of proclamation or write something that's very confusing to conservative Catholics.

And we're thinking, wait, wait, is he contradicting Catholic teaching?

What's going on here?

And then he's asked to clarify and he just refuses to.

He's been doing that for the last six years.

So now he's just taking that strategy and applying it to this.

But no, I didn't,

when these allegations came out against him personally, I really did not, I honestly thought that he would at least say something within the first couple of days.

The fact that he said nothing is to me, I mean, it's really shocking to me.

And as I said, I find it utterly, completely disgraceful.

I mean, for him to take the name of Francis, I don't think this is the way St.

Francis would have dealt with it.

No, certainly not.

And

this is not how any

Pope or not.

This is not how any Christian should respond.

And

there are some people that have made excuses for the Pope saying, well, when Jesus was accused,

he didn't say anything.

When he was talking to Herod, Jesus refused to respond.

But this is not the same thing.

And the problem,

when Jesus refused to answer accusations against him, the reason why, in those cases, why he refused, is because the accusations were disingenuous.

They were men in bad faith.

The people that were saying it didn't really mean it, didn't really care.

They were just looking for an excuse to crucify him.

And Jesus knew that, so he wasn't going to entertain it or humor it.

That's why Jesus remained silent.

That's not the case here.

People are there's actually real scandal going on.

People are legitimately distressed and in despair over it, and they want some leadership leadership and they want answers.

And so for the Pope to look at those people and treat them like we're all a bunch of Herods is, I mean, it's unthinkable.

Matt Walsh, thank you very much.

We'll continue to read your blog on the The Daily Wire and

thank you for keeping us abreast on what's happening.

Matt Walsh from The Daily Wire.

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I want to start this hour with, imagine going into school or going into class, college, high school, anything, and

your professor puts this on your desk and says, we need you to sign this.

And it says, please drop the class immediately if you're triggered by free speech, the free exchange of ideas or people who express and defend ideas or opinions that differ from your own.

Please drop the class immediately if you're triggered by open, direct, and adult discussion of issues, including but not limited to issues of faith, war, violence, race, gender, or sexuality.

Please drop the class immediately if you're triggered by recurring encounters with heterosexuality, traditional gender identities, sympathetic representations of Christianity or religion in general, positive examples of free markets and capitalism, or an unapologetic encounter with patriotism, hierarchies, and meritocracy-based institutions or attitudes.

Drop the class immediately if you feel entitled to censor the thoughts or words of others or insist they tailor their language or attitudes to your preferences.

I will tell you that if I would have seen, I would have laughed.

I would have thought it was a joke.

I guess if it was happening in a communist country, I would have said, wow, I got to get home.

But who would disagree with that?

We're going to talk to the professor who actually has to write

this

document and have his students sign it.

Next.

It's Wednesday, September 12th.

This is the Glenn Beck program.

Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin,

from

Wisconsin, Oshkosh

he is James Duke Pesta do you prefer to be called Duke or James or Jim or Duke please Duke so Duke

I I mean I can't even imagine sitting in a class and and receiving this what is the reaction when you pass this out you know it's interesting and I respect the oof you gave me when you mentioned the University of Wisconsin

so that I appreciate that

the response I get from kids is almost overwhelmingly what you said they kind of, their eyes widen, they laugh a little bit.

And a lot of them come.

I had a kid, classes started for us this week.

And so I had a kid when I gave it out yesterday for the first time who came up to me afterwards and she wanted to know if I had three copies for her grandparents and her dad who can just love it.

The response has been really positive.

And I think these kids, even progressive kids, when I get liberal kids in my classes, they will say to me, you know, it's just nice to have an environment where we can talk about things without fear of having to please the professor.

So

let me ask you this.

I see

these protests happening, and I see these classes that are being shut down, and people come in and they're like, you know,

chanting something, and then everybody has to chant back.

And I've noticed that most of the students are not chanting back.

It's almost like everybody's just like, oh, dear God, okay, just get it over with.

Are the students today

open to hearing other opinions?

They're just not

getting the chance to hear other opinions?

I think the really strong majority, the silent majority of college kids, they're paying for these classes.

They've taken out student loans.

They signed up for courses.

They wouldn't have signed up for a course if they thought that course was going to just be nothing but insulting to them.

So they signed up for courses in goodwill, and they're willing to give teachers and more than teachers, they're willing to give books a fair hearing.

It's a very small number of these protesters that seem to drive the reaction.

And a lot of, again, like a lot of liberal kids I've talked to, a lot of my progressive students, they just roll their eyes at it.

And so I think you're right, exactly, that it's a small number and they're very vocal.

But I do think we have created, the faculty and the administration has allowed there to become a a climate of fear.

It's worse than McCarthyism.

It's this argument, this idea that these kids know that if they make one false slip or they say the wrong thing or they use the wrong pronoun, God forbid,

when they're addressing somebody, that they could be put into a very invasive investigation process.

And so I think that the reason more kids aren't speaking out is because the faculty and the administration have the back of a handful of protesters at the expense of the vast majority of their own students.

What is this going to mean when they get out of school?

If they're used to this and they've seen this work?

Well, I think we see it culturally, right?

What is Antifa?

What is the fact that you've got all these young social media executives, the 20-somethings who who are working at Google and Facebook and Twitter, who gleefully go about their business censoring and pulling conservative websites off, loading algorithms to bury conservative news.

I think you see it in our young athletes, right?

The younger athletes that are graduating now who are shockingly ignorant of history, can't string a sentence together, but very often are the quickest to kneel for any cause.

I think you see it across the board in our culture that younger, younger generations, that's a statistic that you guys have talked about very eloquently.

When you've got something like

57% of young millennials who see socialism positive, I think that's what we're in for a lot more of.

So I want to talk to you a little bit about postmodernism because you wrote a book, The Renaissance and the Postmodern.

And

it's amazing to me, the more I read about postmodernism, which I believe is the root of this problem.

Would you agree with that first?

Absolutely.

Okay.

So

as I read about postmodernism and I see how it was designed, who it was designed by, why it was designed, I can't think of anything that is positive.

It's all about destruction.

And destruction of

really bringing us back at best case scenario to the Renaissance, best case, where some thinkers are there, but they're going to be locked in a tower and they have to keep it secret and they have to write in code.

Yeah, I think the fundamental premise of all progressive post-modern, because

progressivism is behind this.

And I've made this argument many times.

I think the single underreported story about our university campuses, forget the intolerance, forget the bias response teams, forget all that.

I think the biggest problem we have, and no one's talking about it, is how did we allow radically leftist activist political philosophy to be the way we force kids to read books across the humanities, whether you're in art history or history or philosophy or English or sociology or anthropology.

you are reading books now when you get them, not for what the books say, but you're reading them as feminist readings or Marxist readings or environmentalist readings.

The entire methodology of postmodernism is deconstructive.

There's actually a philosophy called deconstruction.

An obscure French theorist by the name of Jacques Derrida formulated it.

And the entire premise is that words don't mean what they say they mean if you want them not to.

And so you go through books, rather than trying to learn from them, rather than trying to stand on the shoulders of giants and add to the common civilizational knowledge of the last 2,000 years of Western culture, you are instead taking an axe to the very root of liberty, of equality, of freedom, of reason, of logic.

I mean, we see the degree to which even in the math and science programs now on college campuses, they're calling the scientific method a holdover of white supremacy, the emphasis on logic and correct answers in math classes and Common Core.

You guys have talked about this.

It's not so important anymore, that holding kids accountable to a standard of math is itself a kind of oppression.

And so you're right.

It's exactly right.

It's completely deconstructive.

It pulls, it's a wrecking ball.

And I tell my students every day, the first day of every class, I say, with postmodernism, you don't have to contribute anything.

You just have to know how to knock things over.

It's easy to knock things down.

It's really hard to build them.

So

what is the answer?

I mean,

you know, you're getting pressed because

you put this statement out, and it's incredible to me that you have to do that.

It's incredible to me that you've made the statement, you know, hey, most kids are

open to giving books a chance.

What?

I mean, it's incredible.

What is the solution

to this cancer that is eating at us?

I honestly think there are a lot of solutions and they're at a lot of levels.

Some of it's financial parents pulling their kids out.

The fact that a lot of our kids really are going to college because they think they have to, they don't really need to.

but if you ask me as a as a professor of English and you know I think I'm the only conservative English professor I've met in 25 years as a professor I can't think of seven different universities I can't think of another one I've worked with and if you ask me the single biggest problem we have is exactly that if you allow kids to read the great books of Western culture as they are written they will not turn out to be social justice warriors.

25 years ago when I got started, Glenn, what they were doing was they were putting the texts of Western culture alongside postmodern texts.

So kids got to read Shakespeare, but then they would read a feminist argument about Shakespeare.

And nine times out of ten, kids recognized that Shakespeare was greater than the feminist theory.

He was a greater thinker.

And then recently what we've done over the last 10 years is we've started removing the great authors over and over again, replacing in literature and history and philosophy highly politicized texts, right?

So you're reading Tamisi Coates now in history rather than reading Adam Smith.

And so you're already now reading books that start from a social justice mindset more than you're not.

Then the theory that you're allowed to engage those books with is all progressive political activist left-wing theory.

And so there is no way for kids now to even see through

a clear window what the great minds of Western culture have thought.

If we can go back to

depoliticizing the way kids read books, let kids first read Shakespeare or Milton or Chaucer.

from the context of the cultures that wrote them, then we would go a long way to reclaiming San Diego College Campus.

But of course, this is the one thing the professors don't want to do because if they do that, then their social justice message gets watered down and undercut.

Yeah, if you're only teaching from the postmodern perspective,

you can easily create this feeling that, well, you're just too stupid to get it.

And you're just not in on the in crowd.

And it's, you know, it's people who applaud when everybody else is applauding or people who laugh.

And it's a common instinct.

People who laugh when everybody else is is laughing, even though you don't really get the joke.

But if you have something beside it,

I've seen students who are starving for something that makes sense to them.

And when they hear it, they're like, oh my gosh, how come I'm not, how come I've never heard this before?

Bingo, I think the greatest compliment I've ever gotten as a teacher is not the, I love you, your classes are great, yeah, yeah, yeah.

When I get kids come up to me and say to me, how come, Dr.

Pesto, I'm 24 years old.

How come I've never heard this before in my schooling?

How come 20 years of school, no one's ever said this to me.

It's really easy to blow away the smoke cloud of theoretical liberalism if you hit them with good ideas that are grounded in good arguments.

That's what Western culture has done better than any culture, the great writers of Western culture.

And yet it's so obscured to our kids.

I'll give you a real short anecdote.

First day of class, kids were reading, this was just yesterday, kids were reading the first two acts of measure for measure, Shakespeare's great play, measure for measure.

And so when we were talking about it, I asked them, I said, okay, so how'd you do?

And one girl raised her hand and she said, look, it was very hard.

I didn't really understand it.

I said, okay, because no one's ever taught you to read Shakespeare.

She goes, that's right.

I said, so tell me what you took from it.

She said, well, I could tell that the women were victims and the men were oppressors.

And I said to her, how do you know that?

She goes, honestly, because of my other classes.

I don't know it from being able to read the play.

And I said to her, have you ever read The Brothers Karamatsov?

She said, no.

I said, right now, do for me a feminist reading of the Brothers Karamatsov, even though you've never read it.

The whole class laughed, and she looked at me for a second, and then she said, well, the men are oppressors, and the women are victims.

And I said, bingo.

I said, to do the kind of progressive leftist readings that you are required to do in our English department, you don't even have to read stupid books anymore.

You can just say what you said, and you have mastered, from our perspective, what we want you to take away from books, but you will know nothing about what the actual text said.

And she agreed with me.

Wow, I wish there were more people like you in the university.

Duke, thank you so much.

I hope to meet you someday.

I know you are instrumental and have been in Common Core and

getting that beast exposed.

And I just thank you for your courage.

Thank you for continuing to stand, not giving in.

For anybody who's a new professor or young professor, got any tips?

You know, don't keep your powder dry.

What I was told is keep your powder dry until until you get tenure and then speak your mind.

I never did it.

It cost me a lot of trouble.

But looking back at my life now as a professor, I'm glad I spoke out even before I wasn't protected.

Because if we start doing more of that, there's more hope for all of us.

Dr.

Duke, thank you so much.

Thank you very much, Glenn.

You bet.

You can find him at

DukePesta, P-E-S-T-A, or the DrDukeShow.com.

I think that's a show I want to watch, or listen to, or whatever it is he's doing, unless he's dancing.

It's amazing to hear someone in the middle of that.

I mean, that's all the stuff that you talk about in Addicted to Outrage.

And he's actually in the middle of it, dealing with it on an everyday basis.

It's scary because once they learn that approach to everything, if someone isn't there like this professor to step up and stop them and get them to rethink it,

he just said, I think I'm the only conservative

English professor in the country.

Yeah.

That's saying something.

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This is the Glen Beck program.

Welcome to the program, Mr.

Pat Cray.

How are you?

Oh, outraged, of course.

Outraged, as always.

Oh, my gosh.

Isn't everybody?

Yeah, Yeah, no, I mean, there's nothing.

Addicted to outrage.

Nothing better.

Nothing better.

What are you outraged about today?

You know who DC McAllister is?

She's a writer for PJ Media.

She's a contributor there.

She's a frequent guest on Fox News.

She had the unmitigated gall.

No, she did not.

She did.

Oh, come on.

She tweeted about abortion.

Intersectionality right now.

It's happening.

She's oppressing somebody.

Oh, my gosh.

You talk about a misogynist woman.

Wait.

she's the definition of a misogynist woman.

Wow.

Sexist, misogynist.

Listen to what she said about her.

I want to take her vagina away.

I wish we could.

I wish we could.

Linda Sarsour.

I know she likes to do that.

She likes to do that.

Now, that has nothing to do with female genital mutilation.

No.

Although that's...

Why Linda Sarsour wants to take people's vaginas away?

They're only the people who have been mutilated and are speaking out against it.

But anyway, go ahead.

We could probably get her on board.

We'll work on that afterwards.

You're going to want to.

Because

here's what she's what she tweeted.

Yes.

At the root of abortion hysteria is women's unhinged desire for irresponsible sex.

Sex is their God.

Abortion is their sacrament.

It's abhorrent as women have flung themselves from the heights of being the world's civilizing force to the muck and mire of dehumanizing depravity.

How dare she say that about the sacrament of abortion?

Can you believe it?

Okay, hang on.

Let's take that.

Let's take that line by line.

Okay, go ahead.

At the root of abortion hysteria is women's unhinged desire for irresponsible sex.

Stop.

Not entirely true, but true.

Yeah, I mean, you could argue whether it's the root or not.

That's right.

But I mean, it's

come along with the

sexual revolution.

Sexual revolution.

Next sentence: sex is their God.

Yeah.

Maybe for some.

Maybe for some.

Maybe for some.

Abortion is their sacrament.

I think that's a true statement.

It's basically the most important thing

to the left.

It is.

But not necessarily, not necessarily by those who, if you're just going to have promiscuous sex and you don't care and your birth control is abortion, I'm talking about the women who have abortion after abortion after abortion after abortion.

Okay.

I don't think they're thinking about that as a sacrament.

They don't really care.

I mean, I don't think they're even paying attention.

They're just, it's just, that's the way of life.

It's sacred to the politics of the left.

Yes, it is.

That is, that is

a sacred zone.

So from that standpoint, it kind of is their sacrament.

Yes.

It's abhorrent as women have flung themselves from the heights of being the world's civilizing force to the muck and mire of dehumanizing depravity.

Wow.

It's a powerful statement.

Except not entirely true.

Women were not,

women have been depraved like men have been depraved, you know, Rome.

You know, they weren't, they're not, they're not, they're not born like, oh my goodness, well, let's just make pies.

They're not born that way.

Society, I think, I think you have a natural maternal instinct, but society also plays a big role.

That Judeo-Christian

role in all of our lives changes us.

So women are just being encouraged and trained now to be just as depraved as some men are.

But remember, nurses were also part of eugenics in Germany.

I mean, so, you know, they weren't necessarily fighting against it either.

Well, immediately,

the left went ape crap crazy.

Why are you appropriating the apes?

It's also racist, right?

You can't reference an ape in any context anyway.

Well, no.

Not crazy ape.

So, especially

they called her crazy.

They, of course, said she's misogynist.

They threatened

death, rape.

And she is now in hiding with her children because

the threats were.

She said it wasn't just over Twitter.

It was all kinds of private platform communication.

Well, can I tell you something?

I think we need to talk about that one White House person that needs to have security because of what Trump is saying.

Yeah.

Yeah, okay.

Yeah.

Except why does that person need security if we don't know who it is?

Here's a woman who is actually in hiding.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Which one's feminism?

The one that threatens a woman's life or the one who protects.

I mean, you know, again, the argument, you can agree with it or not, but we can all agree that if the policies she's recommending in the tweet came true, a lot more women would be alive.

That part we can all 100% agree on.

There would be except for those who were born as cactus.

That does not occur.

No, we're not sure that that's a baby in there.

We're not sure that's a baby.

Not only would there be more women, there'd be more blacks, there'd be more Hispanics.

There might be more cactus.

Native Americans.

There might be, there might be.

There might be no more.

There might be new mink coats.

You don't know if that grows into a mink coat.

Spatula.

Who knows?

Spatula.

Yeah.

I've seen a lot of spatulas come out.

So there could be, I just want to be fair here.

There might be more boys, there might be more girls, but there also might be more spatulas, cactus, and coats.

I have a proposal.

In

the vein of your book, Addicted to Outrage,

occasionally, and you want to try to find some common ground.

What if we change the law from what it is now to that you could only abort white men?

So anyone that, so if a white, if you find out it's white and it's a boy, you can abort that.

But everything else you have to actually let, you know, live and stuff.

I bet that they might agree with that.

In a crazy

and in a crazy upside-down world i would actually go for it because it would cut the it would cut the abortions in half or or more probably be like 70

if you're only having i mean you know obviously other a black uh boy being born or a an asian boy being born all those would have to be born but white men you can abort them there you go and we'll give you we'll give you white men that's how much we don't care that's how much this is not about women's rights and it's not about uh it's not about anything other than keeping people alive letting people have the opportunity to form a life just that would be a huge win why wouldn't you sadly

i mean it's insane but it would yeah yeah it's crazy now if you're in the kitchen you might have a shortage of spatulas yeah you might because the spatulas would

be born you might be right you're right just not white men right and mink coats yeah so that might be uh that might be straight

straight white men we have to make sure straight straight white men.

Right.

And how do we test for straight?

I don't know.

We've got to figure that out.

That's a top priority.

May I ask you, how do we do this if gender is fluid?

Oh,

and

how do we tell if it's a how do we tell if it's even human if we can't if we don't know if it's human in there?

Yeah, we don't know that's a matter of

we don't know that

we know it now like uh Debbie Wasserman Schultz said her kids are human now.

Right.

Well, were they human in the womb?

They're human now.

Right.

They're human now.

She wouldn't even admit her own children were human.

I mean,

to that level.

Is there a possibility that there are lizards growing inside of women?

Well, if you listen to Alex Jones, the answer to that is yes.

You point out how sacred it is to the point that Debbie Wasserman Schultz won't even admit her own children are children.

Did you see this thing that's happened with Kamala Harris?

And now today, Hillary Clinton coming out and doubling down on it with Brett Kavanaugh.

Now, the idea is that Brett Kavanaugh is saying that birth control is abortion-inducing drugs.

So, they're going back to the Corey Booker banned birth control playbook here, saying that actually, what Republicans think is they're all going to try to ban birth control as soon as you're not looking.

And Brett Kavanaugh is going to be on this bandwagon.

So, what he said was filling out the form would make them complicit in the provision of abortion-inducing drugs that were, as a religious matter, objecting to.

So, he is on the record here saying that birth control is an abortion-inducing drug, which opens up the door for them to try to ban it.

The only minor problem, and this only happened after Kamala Harris tweeted the audio, is she left off two words.

The words is not.

They said.

Oh.

He's talking about someone's argument in court.

They said filling out the form would make them complicit in the provision of abortion-inducing drugs that they were as a religious matter, objecting to.

She cut it off after they said and attributed it to Brett Kavanaugh.

Unbelievable.

And now Hillary Clinton has come in and doubled down on it.

Even after PolitiFax said completely false, four Pinocchios from Washington Post.

Four Pinocchios.

The whole thing.

Doesn't that seem a little bit

as the Republic is burning down, doesn't it?

Well, it did receive four Pinocchios.

Doesn't that seem a little...

Yeah, we need a little more gravitas to this.

Thank you very much, Pat, Pat Gray, and the Pat Gray Radio Roundup.

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you know, understands.

I love it.

Just though, you know, the left constantly advocates for policies that would include just running the printing press.

Yes.

And when Donald Trump apparently reportedly said it in a meeting at one point in his presidency, it's like, oh my gosh, this guy doesn't know what he's talking about.

Like, well, you guys have been advocating this policy for decades.

And we don't have time now, but I want to hit something else in the press and finances.

There is an amazing story from the Financial Times.

Something that I said

was happening.

Something that I've told you before.

I don't have evidence of it, but I know.

They knew.

The press knew.

And they kept this from you.

Financial story.

Financial Times.

In a crisis, sometimes you don't tell the whole story.

It's a guy who's a writer, and it's like, I just have to get this off my chest.

And it is an incredible story of deceit and what they kept from you.

So that'll be on tomorrow's program.

You don't want to miss.

Yeah.

Also, I noticed you didn't want to cover the Las Vegas professor who really taught Donald Trump a lesson.

Really?

Oh,

did he get him?

He's good this time.

Okay.

I'm looking for the burn, man.

Oh, this is really going to get you.

You're not giving me four Pinocchios, are you?

Oh, no, this is 100% true.

All right.

It is he apparently

decided to protest Donald Trump and take a tough sign.

I love it so far.

Yeah, because then he's sending Donald a lesson.

And Donald's going to be like, oh, man, what do I do now?

Right.

It's not.

It's because I have precedent.

This is original.

Nobody else is thinking this way.

Oh, yeah.

I'm going to be out protesting.

Now, anybody can hold up a sign.

Sure.

Anybody can say something on Twitter, right?

Of course.

What's the next logical step?

If you've gone to all the rallies, you've gone to all the resistance events.

You blow yourself up.

You've sent, well,

that's a good idea.

He decided instead to shoot himself

in the bathroom

in his arm.

He

shot himself in the arm.

I think shooting himself in the foot would be more apropos.

Right.

But no, he shot himself in the arm.

Well, now he can't carry a sign, or it'd be very painful.

Right.

That's true.

He had shot himself.

Maybe he was so sick of the resistance events and holding signs, he just like, I'm just going to shoot myself in the arm to get out of this.

I can't go.

I hurt my arm.

He had shot himself.

He said he had shot himself in protest of Donald Trump.

The report did not elaborate.

He taped a $100 bill to the mirror along with a note that said, for the janitor.

I don't know if he was actually thinking he's going to kill himself and messed up.

No, I think he was leaving.

If he did it in a public space, he was leaving blood splattered everywhere.

So here's $100 to clean up all the blood.

And I'm sure the janitor was like, hey, man, I clean up the blood for free.

Yeah, that's actually.

Not for free.

He's actually paid to clean up the blood.

I mean, probably.

It's a really ugly job.

But I will say a lot of people are focusing on the idiocy of shooting yourself to protest the president.

And that's a very good angle to go on.

But may I present another one that I think even might be more delicious?

Okay.

This happened on the campus of the College of Southern Nevada.

He was in the bathroom.

And what's interesting

when the gun, with the gun in the bathroom, he shot himself.

The part that gets me on this is in

days, this will be included in your database of school shootings.

Unbelievable.

They will find, when they say it, there's been 9 billion school shootings this year included in that number will be from Mother Jones and all these every town for America or whatever the heck it is, all the people against gun violence that come up with these lists and they find thousands of schools.

That's why he did it.

I'll bet you that's why he did it.

I wouldn't be surprised, but that will now show up on the school shooting chart.

But I want you to have a liberal professor shooting himself in the arm to protest the president will be used by the left to advance anti-gun laws.

I just want you to remember, though, when you hear those stats, you can go, no, that's not true.

That was Professor P.

Brain in the bathroom with the gun.

Is that what?

Is it clue?

Is that what we're

not playing the game?

No, it's not a game of clue.

This is a real story.

Real story.

Yeah.

Somebody that stupid.

Yes, that stupid.

And that's exactly why he did it.

I'm sure that's why he did it.

Yeah, that's interesting.

On tomorrow's program

is some amazing, some amazing insight on

people you trust, people you trust.

We'll see you tomorrow on the radio.

Back, Mercury.