'Dig In and Endure'? - 05/02/18

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Glenn Beck.

Nancy Pelosi, please report to your bomb shelter.

I repeat, Nancy Pelosi, please report to your bomb shelter.

Armageddon is

not looming.

No, it it has arrived.

You know, we were mocking last week that, you know, the rapture was coming.

We're already minus five days past the rapture.

I guess none of us were worthy to be taken up.

But Armageddon is here now.

One of the four horsemen of the apocalypse, known as Apple,

brings this message of our demise.

And listen if you dare, but you have been, listen.

You hear the horse.

the hoof those are the hoofbeats of the four horsemen of the apocalypse Apple yesterday announced a record-shattering buyback program when it's all said and done They will have paid over $100 billion to their shareholders in the first quarter of this year alone Apple has paid shareholders $23.5 billion.

That exceeds the value of the majority of the companies in the SP 500 index.

The horror.

As if all of that death and destruction weren't enough, there is more.

Throughout the March quarter, Apple has paid over $3.2 billion in dividends.

So if you had stock in the company,

this evil company paid people money.

They also have plans to boost those payments up another 16%

going forward, and the hits just keep on coming.

Now, I know I shouldn't joke about this.

If you have stock in Apple, this is too much to bear.

I'd like to ease your suffering, and if it would help, I will be the sacrificial lamb and take those evil capitalist shares off your hands.

It's the least I and the audience can do.

Are you willing to take if somebody decides to donate, you know, or they just can't bear the thought that capitalism is helping people

and they just have to spit themselves out of that evil capitalist system.

Please let them know you are willing to take on the burden of their Apple shares.

The end is so close.

It's so near.

I can, yeah, smell sulfur.

I can actually smell.

Apple yesterday also announced

the construction of a new mega campus.

Just building stuff all over the world.

Well, here in the United States, they're looking at adding over 20,000 new jobs.

Oh, those bastards.

Over the next five years,

they're predicting now that they will add $350 billion to the U.S.

economy.

I can't take it.

America, in dire times such as these,

we have to ask ourselves, how did we get here?

How did we get to a place to where a company can add 20,000 jobs in the next couple of years, build campus after campus, build campus, build, make money off the backs of people who are so stupid that when they built an Apple store in California,

And the city government told them not to do it, they built it near a park so there's trees everywhere.

And Apple said, I know what we should do.

We should have glass walls.

We'll just make this big round glass building, like all of our other Apple stores.

It should be a glass box.

And they said, don't do it.

You're in California.

People are too stupid.

They're going to just, they're going to think they're outside.

And lo and behold, what is happening?

People are getting injured day and night because they are just walking into that glass.

They don't see.

They just assume that they're in a park and that cash register is just sitting out there in the park with all of these devices out in the forest.

How does this happen?

What has caused this?

What was that final act that caused the waves to come crashing and raining down on us like flaming meteorites of destruction?

Well, as it turns out, Nancy Pelosi was right.

This is all due to tax cuts.

Tim Cook and Apple have even admitted it.

You want to know what the low tax apocalypse looks like?

Allow me to quote Tim Cook in an interview he gave talking about the recent tax cuts.

But I have to warn you, it is so scary that it sounds as if it was pulled right straight out of the book of Revelation.

And I quote,

There are two parts of the tax bill.

There's a corporate piece and an individual piece.

I do believe the corporate tax side will result in job creation and a faster-growing economy, end quote.

Oh my gosh, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

More jobs and a faster-growing economy?

That's not what we want.

This is worse than we thought.

Look, we've been the ones that have been left behind.

Armageddon happened last week.

I don't know what we're going to do to fight back this beast, but

fear not.

We'll figure out a way to get through it.

We'll, I don't know.

Pray tell New York Times, will you run yet another piece about how Karl Marx was right, please?

Having a job and getting lots of money.

Oh my gosh, the painful.

Do you realize you're going to have to go to the bank more?

You're going to, if you get a raise in your salary, you're going to have to figure out what to do with that.

Maybe you could be more charitable.

You're going to be running back and forth.

You're going to have to make new decisions.

Where do I put that money?

Oh, it's a nightmare.

But let's dig in because we're Americans and we will endure.

And don't forget,

I'm willing to take a hit, you know, for the good part of this.

I'll post instructions on how you can transfer your Apple shares over to me, Nancy Pelosi.

It is my burden to bear.

It's Wednesday, May 2nd.

You're listening to the Glen Beck program.

I have to tell you, hello, Stu.

I have to tell you that

I'm getting more and more optimistic, which is scaring the hell out of me.

Yeah, usually when you're optimistic, everything's about to suck.

Yeah, I am the guy, and Stu can verify, he's been with me for you know 20 years.

Pat is the same thing.

Pat goes white because he's been with me for 30 or so years, and he goes white when I go optimistic.

He's like, well, he's already the whitest white man in the middle.

It's like he has no color, he's like pure white.

And

I'm the guy that you do not want at the coronation and the first sailing of the Titanic.

You don't want me there.

Because halfway across the ocean, you just, you're saying to the captain, can you shut this guy up?

Because I'm the guy going, this thing's going to sink.

I'm telling you, it doesn't have enough lifeboats.

They're too arrogant.

Something's wrong.

I'm telling you, it's going to happen.

And I've counted the lightboat.

Have you counted a lightboat?

And everybody on board is like, shut the hell up.

The minute we hit the iceberg, I'm the guy who's up on the deck going, you play some music.

This is going to be great, guys.

Everybody into the boat.

We're going to be fine.

Everybody into the boat.

So when I become optimistic, we're approaching an iceberg.

I'm just saying, because I'm wrong on everything.

When I'm pessimistic, things are good.

When I'm optimistic, everything goes to hell.

How does it feel being that guy?

I am that guy.

Because that means everyone's rooting for you to be sad.

Yes.

Yes, that's true.

Yes.

And I've lived most of my life that way.

So I'm happy to do it.

I'm actually starting to be freaked out because I'm feeling good.

Yeah, but what's your reason?

That's my sickness.

For feeling good, is this just a feeling, or is there no, there's something to it.

Look at the economy, look at what's happening.

And I don't even mean that the economy is healthy because the economy is not healthy.

Okay,

let me just

could I spell it out for you?

I don't think I need to.

We've got serious, deep problems.

However,

there are so many optimistic signs that point now to the truth that this works.

And it's actually when Apple, when Apple comes out and says, no, it's the tax cuts.

It's the tax cuts.

You really, I mean, it's here.

I guess it's, if it was just Apple,

but Kanye.

And I know that everybody says Kanye is crazy.

I got it.

I got it.

I know who Kanye West is.

He's the guy who, George Bush hates black people.

I got it.

He is

a P.T.

Barnum.

He will say whatever he has to say.

He's just as likely next week to say, you know what?

I think Ronald Reagan was the greatest ever.

He's just as likely to say that as, we never went to the moon.

So I know who he is.

And I'm not jumping on the Kanye bandwagon with everybody else going, he's one of us.

Be careful.

Be careful.

What is happening is a discussion about freedom of thought

that I haven't seen in a very long time.

That is the movement that I have been looking for.

I've been wanting.

Somebody who says, you notice what he's saying?

Hey, I love you, man.

I love you.

I love you.

That's fine.

You can say that.

I'm sorry that I hurt your feelings.

But I'm just telling you, this is what I think.

This is what I feel.

And maybe we should think, maybe we should start thinking out of the box.

I don't know.

That's perfect.

And if he makes that cool, and

not that he makes conservatives cool or anything else, if he makes free thought

cool,

we win.

We win.

That's great.

So I'm optimistic because I also just got back from California.

I'm telling you, there's something happening in California.

I mean, there's lots of things happening.

Death, destruction, high taxes, earthquakes, floods.

I mean, you're all going to die.

I just want, if you're in California, you're all going to die.

It's like all the signs of the apocalypse constantly ramping down.

It's going to happen there first.

I mean, I'm sorry.

God will destroy you first.

Anyway,

but there is also something else happening there.

And that is what's happening with Kanye West.

It's, and there are, there are people, I talked to a friend of mine who lives there, and he said, we were talking about Kanye West, and he said, Glenn, I live, I don't know,

where do the Crips hang out?

Long Beach.

The LBC?

Yeah,

the LBC.

So anyway, he said, I think he lives down there.

He may be a blood, but he's living undercover.

And that's a different story.

Let's stop talking about it.

But

he said to me the other day, I said, what about this Kanye thing?

I think this is...

You know, he looked at me and went, he's nuts, you know.

And I'm like, no, no, no, I know that.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, I got that.

But he's having a conversation that America hasn't had.

And it's happening not in our world.

It's happening in the pop culture world.

That nobody crosses that barrier.

And he said, actually, I am starting to hear this from my friends.

He said, I've always been the token conservative.

He's like, you know, every time something happens, my friends will call.

Can I come over and talk to you?

And he said, they come over and they're like, so you explain what's going on because I don't understand what's going on.

I get that one a lot too.

Yeah, right?

Yeah.

Okay.

So, and he said, they don't really want me to explain.

They just want to vent on somebody that they know is not going to hit them back.

You know what I mean?

He said, but for the last six months or so, he said, I'm having different conversations with my friends.

He said, my friends are saying, okay,

I didn't understand this.

And he said, you know, so I went online and I watched, you know, a Prager University on this, which led me to this, which led me to this.

So help me out because I can't make the jump from here to here.

And he's like, what the hell is happening here?

I think this is a sign.

Hang on, I got to get the book of Revelation because I think this is a sign.

And he said, and I believe it's true.

Dave Rubin said to me, He said he was walking to the studios to do an interview with me just the other day.

And he said he was walking down Ventura Boulevard and a guy reached up and put his hand up in the air.

And Dave was like, he's going to hit me, slap me.

And he was wanting a high five.

And he said, I didn't think this guy would be somebody that would be, you know, going, hey, Dave, I sure appreciate what you're doing right now and looking into different options.

And he said he put his hand up and gave him a high five and said, free thought, brother.

Free thought.

that's fantastic

that's fantastic and if it can happen in the cultural world

we should be optimistic but i i i i don't like it when i'm optimistic i don't like it something's seriously wrong when i'm optimistic everything goes wrong

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Welcome to the program.

So some say Kanye West is nuts.

Yes.

In fact, everyone seemed to say it up until like, you know, a week ago.

What makes, well, no, no, no.

The left didn't.

No,

he was a genius to the left.

Can you imagine how bad this, what the reviews are going to be like on this forthcoming CD?

Can we guarantee that this is his worst reviewed musical effort of history?

Already written.

Already written.

He's lost it.

He's out of touch.

He's horrible.

The lyrics make no sense.

The music makes no sense.

He's plagiarized.

Whatever it is, they are going to say it about this CD.

And I can tell you, too, if this guy has ever as much as looked at a female backstage in the wrong way, you're going to be hearing about it real soon.

Real soon.

You'll be hearing about that one real soon.

Real soon.

So, Kanye West is, he's, look, he's nuts.

And we, everyone used to at least have an element of understanding about that.

And we should, that's why we should be a little bit cautious here.

I mean, even

he's the type of person where it's like part of his genius is that he's nuts, right?

And again, I don't consider him a genius.

I should be clear.

But I'm saying his applause, people who believe he's a genius think because he's willing to put himself through torture to come out on the other side as an artist, right?

That's been his shtick.

And most of his controversies over the year have been mostly related to him believing he's greater than everyone else does.

He does.

And this is hard to say at this point in human history, but he may have the biggest ego I've ever seen.

Right.

And you know who, honestly, the person you can compare him to is pre-presidency Donald Trump.

Right.

Like think of Donald Trump, not as the president of the United States, but the guy when he's just a celebrity and he's out there talking about himself all the time and saying how he's the greatest and everything else.

That is very similar to Kanye.

I mean, they have almost an identical media profile from two different worlds.

Yes.

Right.

Again, this is talking about back in the day.

So, but if you look at Kanye, I mean, you know, he's always done a lot of that stuff.

He obviously ruined a really important moment for Taylor Swift famously.

George Bush doesn't believe, you know, doesn't like black people.

You know, he posed as Jesus Christ with a crown of thorns on his head and the cover of Rolling Stone.

All stuff that makes him a genius.

To the left.

All stuff that makes him a genius.

And one interesting thing, and this is one of the reasons you may not want to sell yourself completely into his philosophy.

Obviously, you...

No, I'm not.

Totally, no, you're not.

I think a lot of people are excited about Kanye talking about this.

No, be excited that he's bringing free thought, the idea of free thought, into the culture.

And leave it there.

Right.

And free thought goes both ways, right?

Sometimes he's going to put Thomas Sowell up there, which is great.

Sometimes he's going to say Emma Gonzalez is his hero, and you might not agree with it.

However, you probably really won't agree with

his commentary on AIDS.

You know, a lot of people don't have commentary on AIDS.

You know, but some people do.

Okay.

And you've heard this one before.

You've heard this hit before.

I have.

Oh, we're all going to be very familiar with this.

And remember how you reacted last time you heard it.

Okay.

AIDS is a man-made disease that was placed at Africa, just like crack was placed in the black community to break up the Black Panthers.

Yeah.

Okay, so we really need to remember who Kanye is.

Yeah, the fucking.

He's Jeremiah Wright.

That's where last time you heard that.

Yeah.

It's Jeremiah Wright.

That is the exact philosophy of Jeremiah Wright.

Yeah.

I like it when he talks about Thomas Sowell and says to people who have never heard of Thomas Soule, check this black man out.

And that's great.

That's great stuff.

Great stuff.

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So I, as I stated a few minutes ago, I'm becoming very optimistic, and that's odd for me, and quite honestly, disturbing to people like Stu.

And maybe it's just, is it just because you're so used to being pessimistic or catastrophist?

No, I mean just the patterns of time, right?

You notice them.

And usually, like when things are going great, you're like, we are all going to die.

And it's like, oh, good.

Thanks for coming to my birthday party, Glenn.

And then the other thing is like when people are like, ah, you know what?

Look, I think we've turned the corner here.

Things are going well.

It's usually death.

And then when people are like, oh, God, we are really screwed.

This is going nowhere.

Then you're like, oh, well, you know what?

I got to be optimistic, you know, because after the fallout leaves, there's going to be wonderful flowers all around.

Great.

But that's always true.

It's always true.

Yes, we're all in a concentration camp now, but the state of Israel is going to be restored.

Yeah, okay.

Yeah, that's not good.

So,

Stu and I have been talking about this since 2008.

That,

yeah,

when I get optimistic,

this next time could be bad.

And

so we've been kind of looking for that.

And the good news is I haven't had any optimism for quite some time.

No optimism.

However, I'm becoming very optimistic.

So what I did last night is I decided to look into the pole shift because,

I mean, I can't get my arms around global warming.

and that we can do anything about it.

But I can get around a pole shift.

Have you heard about the pole shift?

Not as much as you think.

Because if it is a pole shift coming, I probably should have heard a lot of it.

Do you know what pole shifts are?

Magnetic pole shifts?

Only very basics.

Okay.

Turning on its axis, right?

That's what they always talk.

Clipping upside down almost, right?

Yeah, well, there's two things.

There's the mantle shift.

Okay.

And then there's an

electromagnetic pole shift.

So the electromagnetic field that is around the world that keeps us protected from radiation.

So we're not all like walking outside and all of a sudden we're John McCain.

All of that field

helps us

get rid of a lot of the radiation and everything else so we don't all die from cancer immediately.

That always moves.

I mean,

the North Pole, the magnetic North Pole, I think has been as low as Ohio at one point.

And I mean, you know, a long time ago.

But we have a pole shift about every 200,000 to 300,000 years.

And that would mean all it would really mean to you if we were living without any technology or anything else, all it would mean is you'd look at your compass and you go, what the hell is that?

No, north is that way.

And all the birds would be flying into trees and

everything would be screwed up.

Anything that

has any kind of sense of north and south would all be screwed up.

So we in a few days would realize, oh, wow, something has happened.

Now my compass is pointing to Antarctica instead of Arctic.

So

it would be confusing for, you know, we'd have to take our globes apart and just say, no, this is the top now, okay?

Even though there is no top in space.

So

we're not living like the Neanderthals, though.

And a pole shift, if it happens slowly, we are due.

In fact, scientists are saying now it could happen at any time.

But you got to remember, any time is like, could be 100,000 years from now, could be today.

And they're seeing a real strong destabilization of the field now.

And we're way overdue for this.

If it happens slowly, no problem.

If it happens over the next hundred years, not a problem.

If it happens tomorrow,

we won't be, this will be our last broadcast.

And not because we're all going to die, but because all of the satellites, everything is geared to a strong electromagnetic field, which we are losing now.

And scientists are working on, okay, what does that mean for all of our communication satellites and everything else?

If it moves quickly, it will destroy, it's like a giant EMP global.

And it will destroy all of electronics and communication and satellites and everything else.

So it'd be very, very bad.

But there's also something happening, and they're saying that these are disconnected.

But did you know that, have you ever heard of the mantle pull shift?

This is something that's also known to happen, and we're long overdue for it, apparently.

And they are not connected.

But the mantle, you know, how the core of the earth, and remember, I'm a doctor, okay?

So don't, please.

So if you happen to know more about this, if you have a word of criticism, Yes, if I get too technical.

Oh, it's that.

Just keep it to yourself.

Okay.

So the mantle

or the

core of the Earth is

100% marshmallow fluff.

And just outside of this core, but it's at extreme temperatures because of the gravitational pull.

And so it's really liquefied marshmallow fluff.

And just on the outside of that is liquid metal.

Okay.

And

the metal is on the outside of the fluff is your.

Do I talk to you about when you put chocolate in your peanut butter?

Okay, don't talk to me about my metal and my marshmallow fluff.

Got it.

I'm a doctor man.

So

we're really kind of like the world is kind of ice skating on this liquid metal.

All right.

If you had a very long time to look and you were watching us from space, you would see that the globe spins on its axis.

However, the continents spin slightly differently because they're moving.

It's the viscosity of that metal.

We're actually sliding.

And we slide about the same speed that your fingernails grow.

Now,

in your short lifetime,

that's no big deal.

You just, you know, you're Howard Hughes and you've got really long fingernails or you're in the Guinness Book of World Records.

That's not a long way for a continent to slide, you know?

I mean, if you straighten them out, it can't be the curly kind of fingernails.

They have to be grow perfectly straight.

That's not a big deal to slide.

If you're, you know, if you're the United States of America, we slide a little bit.

Oh, well.

However, over a long period of time, that's dramatic.

It's a larger point you can make.

If you're in the United States and we slide a little bit, no big deal.

But over a long period of time, you might not recognize where you are.

Yes, you might not notice the slide.

There might be a larger lesson to learn there.

So we kind of figured this out when we went down and we were exploring down in Antarctica and they found

found fossilized tropical plants.

They're like, how the hell did

what?

And they believe there's a theory, probably wrong, but there is a theory that that was the legendary lost city of Atlantis.

And a pole shift happened and that was more towards the equator and the continent slid.

And now Atlantis is, you know, Antarctica.

Again, speculation, probably wrong, but we do know that the continents have shifted and they have all moved into the positions that they're in.

So if we have

a

magnetic pole shift, it means an end of communications and it will also mean we have, if it's rapid, and we'll also have a hard time growing food, et cetera, et cetera, it'll be really bad.

You want to talk about global warming?

This is global warming on steroids.

If you have both of them coincide, you have basically the scientific explanation for the book of Revelation.

You're standing on firm ground at night, and we know when we read the book of Revelation, it says, and the stars will fall, and the earth and the water and the land will be poisoned.

Okay?

Well, how do you make the stars fall?

We know the stars aren't going to fall, but if you're standing on the earth and all of a sudden you have a continental shift, it will appear to you as the stars falling.

If that shift happens with the magnetic pole, that could poison all of the water and the land and just be apocalyptic in its nature.

I don't believe that this is going to, it could happen in our lifetime if your lifetime is 100,000 years.

Scientists are now saying it could happen at any time, and they are noticing a thinning and a destabilization of the electromagnetic field.

And the poles are shifting, but we don't know what's going to happen.

It's just interesting, especially if you're looking for something that says, no, don't be optimistic, Glenn.

Don't.

There's lots of things you can worry about.

So I spent my time last night trying to find something else to worry about.

You just had, you had too many moments of positivity.

Yeah, I got up yesterday and I'm like, I don't know.

I'm starting to feel good.

Is there anything out there that could cause a catastrophe?

Yes, there is right here.

I found it.

I found it.

That's the way you operate.

It's the way I operate things.

Although, I will say, the evidence, you know, if Kanye West is a conservative hero, the polls may be shifting.

I think that's absolutely true.

The polls are shifting.

By the way, I have some other news for you.

I don't know if you've noticed that

the Federal Reserve has shifted

tons and tons and tons of reserve gold back over to Europe and all around the world.

The countries are all calling their gold back from the Federal Reserve, which just remember this word, rehypothecation.

When that happens, trouble.

You ever read the word rehypothecation?

Don't even know what it means.

You don't even know what it is.

That's fine.

Look it up.

You can learn about it.

Really important.

When you hear that word used by somebody other than me, that is credible, and they're like, well, what we're really dealing with here is rehypothecation.

Run.

Run for your life.

Okay.

Anyway, they're pulling all the gold and everything else.

Have you noticed?

Have you noticed that you have lost a lot of money in your savings account just because the dollar is depreciating?

A lot of people are talking about Bitcoin.

That's crazy.

It might be crazy.

It might be crazy.

It's also crazy not to have like a hundred bucks in this market, but it's so hard to understand.

First, just understanding what Bitcoin is, it's damn near impossible.

And then trying to buy it or sell it, I have no idea.

I mean, it's beyond my 13-year-old son.

I'll tell you that right now.

I look at him all the time and I'm like, can you fix the TV?

Yes, he can.

Okay, I just want to go online.

He can do that.

I just want to buy some Bitcoin or I'm looking at this coin.

Can I buy it?

Dad, I don't.

It's beyond me.

So it is complex.

So we went and we looked for somebody that could teach this on what it is, how to invest, what to possibly invest in.

So it's a crypto course.

And I urge you to go and take this course now.

You go to smartcrypto course.com.

That's smartcrypto course.com.

You watch this course.

And if you want to invest, you can invest.

You know, just do your own homework.

This is what this is.

I really felt that you,

I did.

I needed an education on what it was, how it worked, and how to invest, and how to sell.

They make it really easier to buy than they do to sell.

Isn't that strange?

Anyway, smartcryptocourse.com.

Go there now.

SmartcryptoCourse.com.

Glenn Beck Mercury.

Glenn, back.

Hey, would you just take a second and say a prayer for our good friend Pat Gray?

Pat was

in the hospital a couple of weeks ago, and his kidneys shut down.

He went into kidney failure.

They thought he had kidney stones.

He didn't.

He had a scarring in his kidneys, and they had to put

stints in the kidneys

so they could get him to start functioning again.

I don't know, something with the fallopian tubes in the ovaries.

But

I'm a doctor man.

That's true.

You are a doctor.

Thank you.

I can't deny that.

I'm a doctor of humanities, which means I can talk about anything with the human condition and diagnose anything.

Even without examining the patient.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

Doctor of humanities.

That's all of it.

It's not really what that is.

I think it is.

And we're not going to ask any more questions.

Anyway,

so he's going under the knife again today.

He's going into surgery.

He may even be in surgery now.

So if you wouldn't mind just saying a prayer for him, we sure would appreciate it.

Yeah, he has two surgeries coming up the next week.

So it's been a rough, rough stretch for Pat.

And this is, you know what?

None of it is to make him look better, which is kind of a good thing.

Well, I disagree.

He's lost, what, 35 pounds?

Yeah.

And as you know, as

he would tell you, that's the positive side effect of all of this.

No, I'm telling you, really, honestly.

Pain, surgery, you got it.

If I can lose 35 pounds in a couple of weeks, I'm there.

But here's my, because as you know, I'm not a doctor, but I want to be one somewhere.

So here's my diagnosis.

Let me run it by the actual doctor.

Yes.

Pat lost 35 pounds.

However, he lost 30 of it before

he was sick.

Therefore,

my point is, him getting healthier was the reason he's having these health problems.

And he should.

He's liking where you're going.

He should go to Taco Bell for a coffee.

I am liking where this is headed.

Because Taco Bell, nacho cheese sauce is basically antibiotics.

You know what it is?

It's the nacho cheese, I think, that kept those fallopian tubes,

you know, well greased.

Yeah, sure, whatever.

I'm going to watch yourself focused on fallopian tubes.

They're the only tubes I know that you have inside of you.

Do you have any other tubes?

There's probably one or two in there.

Yeah.

I don't know.

I don't think so.

I mean, you have the intestines.

That's tube-like, but not really.

It's too gross down there.

At what point do you say,

I want to go into that as a doctor?

Okay, now I went into all of humanity.

Okay.

That was my specialty.

I was like, I love what you did.

And I didn't have to study much for it, which was great.

Just became a doctor.

They just called me and said, hey, we want to make you a doctor.

And I said,

again.

So anyway, but at what point are you

narrowing things down down and you say,

I want to study people's butts.

I want to crawl up in there where it's really gooey and icky and stinky.

And I really want,

that's where I want to dedicate my life.

As a doctor, I'm like, nope.

No, I don't want to look there.

You got something going on.

Look, Mrs.

Johansson, you may have cancer, but it's in the nether regions and I'm not going to look.

Well, just like being Cleveland Browns quarterback, somebody's got to do it.

You know, and I think that might be,

but that's not the way they act.

It's not like you go to one of those doctors and they're like, well, yeah, I'm the guy.

They're all, you know, haughty about it.

Like, I'm one of the best butt doctors in the area.

Well, you probably want one that's good,

right?

You do, but I mean, did you hear what you just said?

I'm one of the best butt doctors.

They don't say that.

You're saying that.

They have that air to them.

And that's a whole nother.

Did you wash your hands with that, please?

I just don't think I'm even shaking hands with the butt doctors.

No.

But anyway, Stu, I mean, Pat is in surgery, and

what a nice tribute to him,

forgive us for that, Lord.

But pray for him.

Keep him in your prayers the next week or so, please.

Glenn, back.

Mercury.

Love.

courage,

truth,

Glenn Beck.

So, do you remember when, oh, I don't even know how many years ago, when the world was very, very young, sometime in the 90s, when Bart Simpson said, eat my shorts.

And people went crazy and said, oh my gosh, eat my shorts.

You can't have a young gentleman on television saying, eat my shorts, showing disrespect to his father.

And then his father, why you little,

and that's just going to coarsen our society.

And remember, we were told by Hollywood to shut up.

Well, I would just like to say, I don't think it's Simpsons related, but have you noticed the coarseness of society?

Eat my shorts is really not a big deal now.

I mean, that is...

That is like if Ronald Reagan came back and ran in the next and his big put-down was eat my shorts, it would be like, my gosh, he is like George Washington.

He's so presidential.

So for everybody in Hollywood who said, shut up, let me just give you a story here that maybe the rest of America might have something to say back to you.

We should take note.

from

Matt Groening.

He's the creator of The Simpsons.

He was in an interview with USA Today, and he's responded now to the recent backlash surrounding Apu.

So, you know, Apu is a cartoon character.

Just want to throw that in.

He's the Indian character whom social justice types claim perpetuates an evil stereotype.

In the interview, he said of the accusations: I'm proud what we do on the show, and I think it's time in our culture where people,

it's just a time in our culture where people love to pretend that they're offended.

Amen.

We are outraged by outrage.

Not so much.

Not so much.

The best approach is to shrug off the outrage and let all of those people who are like, why you little, just stew in their anger and their self-importance like spoiled children who throw a tantrum when they don't get ice cream for dinner.

And when dad says no, they're like, why?

Why

eat my shorts?

Okay.

Because it's their problem.

It's not my problem.

You have a problem with Apu?

Okay, you should deal with that.

Because it's a cartoon.

I think they're the ones who are disturbed.

Starbucks botched it by giving in.

Universities throughout the country have done the same.

They led the way, but it never works.

Nothing's ever good enough.

Apu has been the mainstay on the show for decades.

His identity has only become a problem after a documentary filmmaker, whose name I'm not going to try to pronounce because I believe that that would be cultural appropriation, made an entire film accusing the show of racial stereotyping.

As to be expected, the social justice warrior types who have been most offended know very little about The Simpsons.

Otherwise, they would see the cultural richness.

that the character Apu has given over the years.

Wouldn't you say, Stu, as you watch it from your armchair and you study it, its cultural richness.

It certainly is.

Yes.

He struggled with a few issues.

I feel bad for Apu.

He's by far one of the most nuanced characters on the show, and that's saying something

for a cartoon character.

But that's not good enough for social justice warriors.

They're arguing that it's a cultural appropriation to use a white actor to voice a Pooh.

Now, this is Hank Azaria, one of the most impressive voice actors of our time.

You know, it's like saying, Mel Blank.

How dare him do a Tasmanian devil?

He's not from Tasmania.

That's cultural appropriation.

It is.

Once an Indian actor would replace Azaria, they would argue that Apu character needs a name change because Apu, please.

And maybe a different backstory and a new job.

Notice that all these notions themselves are premised on stereotypes.

Once again, the progressives are signaling virtue for the community rather than their own.

It's funny that they don't have a problem with the character Cletus, who is based on the stereotype of a white, poor redneck with a litter of toothless children, most of whom run around the trailer park with shotguns.

Anybody have a problem with Cletus?

No, because I think it's funny.

Why?

Because it's a cartoon.

How about the Scottish stereotype used with groundskeeper Willie?

Or the stereotypes of the police, you know, the oversized donut-eating chief Wiggum.

Or politicians like the corrupt womanizing Mayor Quimby.

Ever notice that?

Are you saying all corrupt politicians sound like the Kennedys?

The fat Tony character.

Oh my gosh, the stereotypes about organized crime.

Grandma Simpson, or Grandpa Simpson, is an ageist.

Marge Simpson's status as a housewife perpetuates outdated gendral roles.

How dare them?

And where are the transgendered characters?

Better yet, where are all the vegan, atheist, Latino, pixie, kin, non-gender, binary, Costa Rican pansexuals who teach feminism as they make your coffee?

Where are all those characters?

By the way, anybody notice that the only real progressive and non-funny one on the show is Lisa?

So wait, the progressive is the smart one.

That's not funny.

I can't wait to watch The Simpsons when it's just Lisa lecturing lecturing us on how we have to live.

Get rid of all those other nonsensical characters.

Let's just have Lisa.

If she was just black.

The message is clear.

Buckling to demands and outrage only increased the demands and intensifies the outrage.

What we've learned is that social justice warriors never get enough.

And Matt Groening did the right thing by not bowing to their bullying.

If they'd gotten their way with Apu, they would have gutted every cartoon they could ever get their hands on.

You notice, oh my gosh,

guns,

we've got to stop all smoking and guns in movies.

I mean, unless it's, you know,

making us lots of money.

Then we'll keep those guns in the movie and we'll glorify them.

But have you noticed all of the kids that are dropping safes on little bunny rabbits?

No, I really haven't.

They've largely succeeded in condemning certain books.

I mean, when's the next book burning left?

And condemning movies.

They're doing it now to Kanye West.

He's hard to stick up for, but doesn't he have a right to his opinion?

By the way, burning books, banning movies, destroying people, that kind of sounds familiar, historically speaking, doesn't it?

It's Wednesday, May 2nd.

You're listening to the Glenn Beck program.

Well, here we are again.

The Boy Scouts have just announced.

Check on this.

This cannot be.

I'm reading it from Boy Scouts are now changing their name

to Scouts

because the Boy Scouts have now let girls into the Boy Scouts.

So it's sexist

to say that they're Boy Scouts.

It's, you know, the gender roles.

Please stop.

Get your kid out of

the Scouts.

Well, just

Scouts colon BSA is what their new name is.

Well,

I think the BS still works.

It's true.

The B doesn't, apparently.

No, but the BS together in Scouts

works better than it ever has, I think.

It's like when Kentucky Fried Chicken wanted to deny essentially that they're making fried chicken.

We're just KFC now.

Those letters don't mean anything.

Yeah.

No,

I think BSA makes even more sense than it did.

Congratulations, Boy Scouts.

You're officially over.

The BS of America is.

It is.

It is.

You know, I've been a little optimistic today.

That's kind of draining out of me.

Oh, I got some good stuff then to get you excited.

Yeah, what?

An Israeli airstrike on the western Syrian city of Hama, which is like Hamas without the S,

on Sunday, killed two dozen Iranian soldiers and targeted arms recently delivered from Iran, said three U.S.

officials.

And this is the latest sign that Israel and Iran are moving closer to open warfare, quote, on the list of potentials for most likely live hostility around the world, the battle between Israel and Iran and Syria is at the top of the list right now.

I'm kind of okay with that as long as we stay out of it.

I'm kind of okay with that.

I think Israel will do well.

No, Israel will do well.

Let them take care of it.

I'm not that a highly inflamed Middle East is necessarily

not interesting.

It's not optimal.

No, it's not optimal.

You call it suboptimal.

Okay.

Yeah.

But who am I to judge?

I want to tell you that we have been airing a show, and it's available now on demand right now.

It's called Faithkeepers at the Blaze.com slash TV.

And it was done by the Clarion Project.

And the founder and the CEO is

Rabbi Shore, and he is on with us.

He's on with us now.

Rabbi, are you there?

I'm here, Glenn.

Nice to be on your show.

How are you doing?

Very, very good.

I have to tell you,

you guys are responsible for some of the best stuff and the most...

the bravest stuff I think I've seen on radicalized Islam and the Middle East.

You are the ones that were responsible for Obsession, which we based a documentary special on CNN years and years ago.

We based it on obsession.

And you were the first to really take the leap and tell that story in a compelling way for Americans to hear it.

And now with faith keepers, here you are

a rabbi and you are

holding up the Christians and saying, here, look, genocide's happening.

Yes, indeed.

Why is it falling to a rabbi to lead this?

Well, I think it's actually perhaps a sensitivity that's now pretty solidly embedded in our genetics.

We have a sensitivity to suffering.

The Jewish people have suffered their own genocide just less than 100 years ago.

And we also, in addition to the genocide, almost a million Jews were kicked out of the Middle East at the hands of the majority Muslim countries.

And now we're seeing it happen to the Christians in the Middle East.

And I guess because we've experienced it, we're sensitive to it.

And I see what's happening, and I view it not just as a threat to those minority groups in the Middle East, but it's a threat to Americans because this is a movement of radical Islam that is global.

And so I feel that it's necessary to alert Christians as well as every good American to this big threat facing the world.

As we are seeing this

movement spread, it is incredible to me that

people have a hard time

understanding the enemy when the enemy seems to them to be crazy.

It's why people didn't stand up right away when they heard about the Holocaust.

Even some of the German people, because some of the German people even said, they would never do that.

They would never do that.

But that was generally the world.

When you have an enemy, like radicalized Islam in

particular here with ISIS and Iran.

Their ideology is that the Imam of time is coming and going to wash the world in blood.

Nobody is getting their arms around this.

They just think that, oh, they're just really bad guys.

Don't we need to look a little deeper?

Yes, indeed.

And what's astonishing is that people do tend to think that this threat is just about a few crazy terrorists in various places in the world.

But the fact is that there is approaching one and a half billion Muslims.

Now, even if the great majority are moderate,

there is a solid minority, and it could be 5 or 10 percent, that really carry this ideology that you're talking about of the desire to see a victory of Islam over every other religion and every other civilization on the planet.

And they're determined to do it with terror and with many other vehicles as well.

And they're not so crazy.

And we're talking about, therefore, 100 million-plus people.

And so this is kind of the greatest threat to civilization and Western civilization that we have facing us today.

And yet people tend to marginalize it and think, oh, it's just some terror attacks or just some brown people far away that are getting hurt.

And it's really not like that at all.

There are several references to the Armenian genocide that happened with Turkey that

no one will admit to still in Turkey.

Have you been called on the carpet at all?

I bet you've heard some backlash on saying that it's like the Armenian genocide.

And if so, how do you defend that?

Well, I think that the Armenian genocide is just exactly the topic that we're dealing with.

Between 1914 and 1922, there were three and a half million Armenian Christians that were killed in the Ottoman Empire and at the hands of radicalized Muslims.

And this is just an example.

Then you move

a little bit later, and then, as I said, the Jewish communities of the entire Middle East were dispelled and persecuted and left to the tune of almost a million around the late 40s.

And then today,

in the last few decades, the Christian community, which at the turn of the century in the Middle East was around 20%,

is now only 3% to 5%.

So this is going on for over 100 years in quite some intensity, and the Armenian genocide was just the beginning of it.

Hitler was clear when he said nobody paid attention to the Armenian Christians, and if that happens, we can do whatever we want with the Jews.

Are you concerned if we don't pay attention to this now in the Middle East, that somebody's learning a lesson that the world doesn't care?

Yes, definitely.

There are many theories that Hitler at the beginning would have been satisfied.

I mean, he was a horrible, horrible, evil man, that he probably would have been satisfied with just getting the Jews out of Germany or possibly out of all of Europe if the world would have just accepted them or if the British had allowed them to go to Israel at that time.

But they did not.

And as a result, Hitler said, what am I supposed to do?

They're not letting them out of Europe.

And so he drew the conclusion that the world does not care and does not like the Jews.

And then he proceeded to the final solution.

And I definitely think that that is something that turns around in history.

And when evil people see that the rest of the world does not care, they are empowered and emboldened.

And I think that's what's going on with the Iranians and the radicalized Muslims all over the planet today.

Rabbi Shore from the Clarion Project, the founder and CEO, thank you so much and thank you for all of your hard work.

The documentary is Faith Keepers.

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Glenn Beck Mercury.

Glenn back.

You know, we don't always do themed programs here, but today we have a goal in mind.

The entire, yes, the entire goal of the program is to take you, Glenn, from optimism to pessimism.

Because when you're optimistic, that means usually the future is

dark.

I mean, what do you have?

What do you have to

make that clear?

I mean, that's not true.

Well, I've already given you the fact that there might be a war in the Middle East.

I've given you that

the Boy Scouts are no longer going to be called the Boy Scouts.

They're removing the word boy.

But they're keeping the BS in BS of A.

They are.

They aren't.

I want a t-shirt that says keeping the BS in the BS of A.

When you buy your kids' cartoon DVDs, like Bugs, Bunny, and Foghorn Leghorn, you get this.

Some of the cartoons you're about to see are a product of their time.

They may

depict some of the ethnic and racial prejudices that were commonplace in American society.

These depictions were wrong then and are wrong today.

While the following does not represent the Warner Brothers' view of today's society, some of these cartoons are being presented as they were originally created because to do otherwise would be the same as claiming these prejudices never existed.

Okay, all right.

Oh, whatever.

You're such a rookie at this.

You want to be pessimistic?

Let me take you to China.

Okay.

Where the Chinese have just adopted a new, exciting artificial intelligence technology.

Oh, great.

It's great.

You're going to love it.

This is the Glenn Beck program.

Welcome to the program.

So glad that you're here.

There is a lot to discuss today.

We have some really good history on a guy named John Casser that we're going to get to.

Red Kanye

kind of stumbled into yesterday.

He didn't really know it, but it's worth discussing so you can talk on social media with your friends and introduce them to somebody.

Oh, wow.

You seem like you're a little optimistic there.

I started.

I am.

Hey, that's true.

I am.

You know, Kanye is actually making me optimistic because, not because of, you know, oh, he's coming to our side or whatever.

He's probably nuts.

I mean, he's got a long, long, long list of saying crazy things.

George Bush hates black people, et cetera.

So he's just as likely to say, you know what?

That moon landing was a movie

next week, as he does to say, and I learned something else from Thomas Soule.

So, but I'm optimistic because he's bringing this conversation of free thought into the mainstream.

And I think we are, there's a possibility that there's a dam break here.

It's possible, and that's good that you're optimistic.

At least it would be for normal people.

Because, I mean, I've been around you a long time.

I remember in 1999, you being very pessimistic, particularly about Osama bin Laden.

And then in 2000.

Did it?

Because then 2001 happens.

Yeah.

And then

you become optimistic.

Optimistic.

Because we made it.

What everyone else is, you know.

Right.

I just tell you what's coming.

And then when it comes, I'm like, yeah, but don't worry about it.

It's going to make it.

With the housing crisis, right?

You were very pessimistic in 2007 and 2008.

And then you became optimistic after that.

Absolutely.

And it's to rip it off the.

So it is a little concerning that I am optimistic now.

The lesson I learned is to try to make you pessimistic because then good things will happen to me.

All right.

Okay.

That's what I want out of this.

No, but I don't think that's necessary.

Let me tell you a little story, actually.

All right.

Now that we're on this topic, coming up in just a short time.

I'm going to tell a story of

a man.

He's an older man, had a great career, worked hard, really rose to incredible heights in his industry.

And then you ruined his life.

I ruined his life.

You ruined his life.

I ruined his life.

He was very well respected.

and then you came along.

It's it, Van Jones.

Are you

a surprise bringing Van Jones on?

No, Van Jones is not on the program.

Okay, all right.

That would have been a surprise.

That would have been a surprise.

Yes.

We have someone that you've never spoken to before, to my knowledge.

Okay.

And I think.

And this is just to tear me down.

I want to hurt your feelings.

Now, I don't know that this person necessarily explains

this career arc the same way, but this is how I'm looking at it.

And this is how you should also be looking at it.

All right.

You know, we could just go to China.

You want to be pessimistic about things.

You want to, here,

you want to look at your phone in a whole new way instead of like, wow, this is the greatest device.

You know, and not when you get mad at it and you're like, why isn't this thing?

No, not that.

Look at it like,

this is trouble.

Let me take you to China.

China announced yesterday that they have begun monitoring employees' brainwaves and emotions

through

a new chip,

and it has boosted one of the company's profits by $315 million.

Employees quoting, employees' brainwaves are reportedly being monitored in factories, state-owned enterprises, and the military across China.

The technology works by placing placing wireless sensors in employees' caps or their hats, which, combined with artificial intelligence algorithms, spot incidents of workplace rage, anxiety, and sadness.

Quoting, Employers use this emotional surveillance technology by then tweaking workflows, including employee placement and breaks, to increase productivity and profits.

A dozen businesses and Chinese military are now using this program.

They thought we could read their mind, speaking of the

employees.

This caused some discomfort and resistance in the beginning.

Did it?

Yeah.

But after a while, they all got used to the device, and they wear it all day at work now.

When the system issues a warning, the manager asks that worker to take the day off or move to a less critical post some jobs require high concentration and there is no room for mistake why widespread use of emotion monitoring may mark a new stage in china's surveillance state they have generally been focused on facial recognition and increased internet censorship

Now, you say to yourself, what could possibly happen?

What could go wrong with something like that?

This is actually just to help you out.

This is actually not the first step.

The first step we found out about four weeks ago, and it is China imposing a social credit system.

Now, this will be fully implemented by 2020.

Listen to this.

The Chinese state is setting up a vast ranking system that will monitor the behavior of its enormous population and rank them based on their social credit.

The social credit system, first announced in 2014, aims to reinforce the idea that keeping trust is glorious and breaking trust is disgraceful.

The program will be fully optimized and I'm quoting fully operational.

You shouldn't use Death Star lingo in your giant government program.

Fully operational.

Don't use that by 2020.

It's being piloted now for millions of people already.

It is mandatory.

Here it is.

So far, it is piecemeal.

Private

credit scores, people will now have a social score, and it will move up and down depending on your behavior.

What the methodology is, is still secret, a little like the New York Times bestseller list.

Examples of infractions include bad driving, smoking in non-smoking zones, playing too many video games, or posting fake news online.

Well, I don't do any of that.

Nine million people already with low scores have been blocked from buying tickets for domestic airplane flights.

Nine million.

They can also clamp down on luxury items.

Three million people are now barred from getting business class train tickets.

The eventual system will punish bad passengers specifically.

Potential misdeeds include trying to ride with no ticket, loitering in front of a boarding gate, or smoking in non-smoking areas.

What possible abuse could happen here?

They also are going to monitor whether you pay your bills on time.

Other offenses here,

too long playing video games, wasting money on what the state says is frivolous purchases, and posting on social media.

Spreading fake news, specifically about terrorist attacks, airport security, or anything about the government is also punishable.

17 people who refused to carry out military service last year were barred from enrolling in higher education, applying for high school, or continuing their studies.

Citizens with a low socials credit will also be prohibited from enrolling their children at high-paying private schools.

Trust-breaking individuals will be banned from doing any kind of management jobs in state-owned firms and big banks.

Some crimes, like fraud and embezzlement, will also have big effects on social credit.

People who refuse the military service are banned

from holidays

and hotels.

So, a holiday is like the English holiday, vacation.

The regime wards people as well as punishes them.

People with good scores speed up travel applications to places like Europe.

An unidentified woman in Beijing told the BBC she was able to book a hotel without having to pay a cash deposit because she had a good score.

Naming and shaming is the other tactic.

The government put people on notice

that companies need to consult the blacklist before hiring people or giving them contracts.

However, people will be notified by the courts before they are added to the list and are allowed to appeal the decision within 10 days.

That'll work out well.

You'll definitely get something overturned from the Chinese government.

Can you imagine that?

I mean, this is, if you saw the Black Mirror episode, that I am completely convinced was based on this program.

It's not the other way around.

People are like, oh, well, this is just like that Black Mirror episode.

No, it's Black Mirror just made it Americanized and made it a fictional version of it, where every interaction you have, you can rate the person that you've had this reaction with.

Now, this is more individuals, but the same thing happened with plane tickets.

The woman was going to fly to a wedding.

Right, she couldn't.

And she couldn't because her social score had fallen below a certain point and she was not allowed to buy an airplane ticket.

Right.

And this happens and it gets cycles out of control for her in the episode.

It's worth watching if you've ever

seen it.

It is

exactly this story.

In action, except this one's from the government.

I mean, like, you know, I guess the government system had been applied where this is more people raiding you in individual interactions.

But I bet that's got to be part of it.

You know, of course it is.

The Chinese people are very excited about it because they say people used to cross the street outside of crosswalks and they no longer do that because if you're caught on camera crossing a street, not obeying the traffic laws, then you are automatically going to get to points deducted.

But if you go to the government website for dating

and you have the government match you up with a spouse, you get extra points.

Oh, wow.

Very nice.

Is this terrifying?

It's terrifying.

And bits and pieces of this are already coming.

I saw an ad the other day for a new car insurance company.

And the car insurance company has a new technology that monitors your phone.

You sign up for the car insurance company.

You drive around for two weeks.

It monitors everything you do while you're driving around.

And then it takes you if you're a safe driver, a safe driver, whatever that means, right?

So the idea is that you get better rates because they don't have to insure the crappy drivers.

They can only insure the good drivers because they're going to monitor you driving around to see if you exceed speed limits, to see i mean really everything that you're doing right that's right uh in theory is that uh that's a good idea i mean part you know my first reaction was oh i should sign up for that yeah and then i thought they're not going to see me as a safe driver i shouldn't sign up for that you know but the other thing and the nice thing is is you know as long as like pat's had a couple of surgeries we've had some people with cancer as long as we fire those people or don't hire them Our insurance rates will be a lot cheaper.

So when we have somebody who's sick, we should just get them off.

That's the kind of thinking this is.

This is really dangerous.

And China now is implementing brain scans

to be able to read the workers' minds.

This is not some

futuristic novel.

This is in place today in China.

What do you think, America?

Do you think maybe we should try to maybe do a Manhattan project for AI?

Because whoever gets AI first is going to rule the world.

Hmm, seem a little pessimistic.

There, that's wow.

Your outlook on the future doesn't look too bright right now.

But then I remember that I have this happy surprise coming up in just a few minutes from you.

And suddenly I'm more optimistic.

I'm hoping it goes very badly.

Very badly.

I ruined his life.

In my view, you've ruined his life, yes.

I don't know that he would say that, but he might not.

You know, it's hard to examine yourself, you know.

Would I know his name?

You would definitely, with 100% certitude, will know this guy's name.

100%.

And you've never talked to him before.

I am

100% sure you will know his name.

It's not like a family member.

It is not a family member.

Okay.

Oh, I can't wait.

Now, see, I'm optimistic.

I'm excited.

There's something to live for in the next 20 minutes.

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It's not a documentary, Glenn.

Geez.

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Glenn Beck Mercury.

Glenn Beck.

Oh, wow.

65% of 8th graders in American public schools, 65%

are not proficient in reading.

Eh, it's overrated.

67% are not proficient in mathematics.

Hmm.

We need more money.

In the urban districts, it's even worse.

In Detroit, only 5% of 8th grade students are proficient in reading, and only 7% are proficient or better in math.

So that means 95% aren't?

It's not really the right math, but I figured I'd.

Wait, what?

Oh, you mean because the 7%?

Yes.

In Cleveland public schools, only 11% of eighth graders were proficient or better in math, and 10% were proficient or better in reading.

Baltimore, 11% in math, 13% in reading.

In Fresno, 11%, and 14% in reading.

You don't need it anymore, though.

You just need to to be able to Google through

your brain chip, and then everything's going to be fine.

Yeah.

Well, you can't read anything, but eventually someone will read, and you can't write, you know, you can't write what you were looking for into Google.

They just had the guy on 60 Minutes who did it without typing anything.

It was attached to his.

Remember that?

They heard the question, it Googled it for you, and it told you through your ear, and you gave the answer.

That'll be so fantastic.

And if I could get a chip in my brain that monitors how I'm feeling and what I'm thinking, gives me a score on where I can go and what I can do, and the government can read that?

Oh man, they were right.

China is the bright, bright future.

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Mercury.

Love.

Courage.

Truth.

Glenn Beck.

Okay, I don't know if anybody's noticed this.

Stu,

have you heard Kanye West has a new album coming out?

No,

does he now?

He's in the news a lot lately, but he's.

He should be tweeting.

He should be.

And

coincidentally, while everyone is talking about him, he's got a new album coming out.

Now, my guess is it's going to be the worst reviewed album he's ever done.

Without a doubt.

If Jesus is singing with him and God himself wrote the music, it's going to get bad reviews.

But that's what's happening, okay?

The man knows what he's doing.

He throws curveballs into the culture all the time.

And it is that whirling undertone of identity politics that, you know, Bush hates black people.

That's Kanye West.

Now he's doing it the other way.

Now, I'm not saying he doesn't mean what he's saying, although some of it is doubtless tongue-in-cheek.

But what I am saying is that kanye does this every time that he's about to release an album

last time he went on kimbel and appeared to lose his mind before that he was effectively banished to hawaii after his taylor swift snafu this is what he does

now hopefully

you know he's going to get some word out into the culture about free thinking But let's remember, Kanye is part of a family that found its way to make millions of dollars for posting selfies on Instagram, which they literally get paid to use.

They've also found a way to monetize Americans' emotional reactions, and that's what's happening here.

Every time a pundit or a journalist does a piece about Kanye, cha-ching, he wins.

Every bit of a fence, cha-ching, he wins.

Now, the album is going to come out, and he'll go on a massive tour, and then he'll vanish again and make another album.

It's what he does.

It's part of his unique ability to sell himself as a brand, quite honestly, much like the president of the United States does.

Trump and Kanye West, they're contrarian.

They fight the power constantly, but they are the power.

They both love riling the feathers of the elite.

And right now, the elite happen to be a bunch of bratty, intolerable social justice warriors running amok through the country.

For now, Kanye may be kind of on your side if you're a free thinker

and

whether you're just up to, you know, buying into the hype or not.

It's Wednesday, May 2nd.

You're listening to the Glenn Beck program.

I've been promised a surprise.

I've been in a very good mood today.

And I've been promised a surprise by Stu.

He's been trying to destroy my career, destroy my mood all day.

That's what I do.

Because I'm positive, and he doesn't like it when I'm positive.

It's very true.

And that's why we've brought to you, I think, a cool surprise today.

You've promised me someone that I will know,

100% will know the name, and that I have destroyed their career.

Well, I don't think he would describe it that way.

I'm trying to make you feel bad, so I'm describing it that way.

And more than his career, his entire life.

Because here's a guy.

who has had an incredible career for many, many decades.

And then around the early 2000s, something changes in that career and it involves you very closely.

Really?

Yes.

Is he a celebrity?

He is.

And I would know his name.

100% will know his name.

Have we ever talked about him before?

We have never talked about him.

We've never talked about him on the air before.

I don't think.

Okay.

Maybe once or twice.

Okay.

But that doesn't.

So who is it?

Ladies and gentlemen, a 60, I mean, a working actor for about 60 years.

Welcome to the program, Glenn Beck.

Shut up.

Glenn, how are you?

Hello, hello, hello.

I have been a fan of yours since

Space Odyssey all the way to your fine, fine work on Haters Back Off.

Oh, you saw that one.

Oh, I did.

Oh, yeah, I've seen your work.

I've seen your work.

You were just in the movie we were talking about recently,

Little Pink House.

Little Pink House.

You're in that.

Little Pink House, for sure.

And that was a wonderful experience.

It was a very quick cameo, but had a great time with Catherine and Courtney.

So

speaking to Glenn Beck on the Glenn Beck program,

what

I apologize for anything that I have

inflicted on your life.

What has it been like to be confused to have the same name, same spelling?

Well,

I found out some years ago that

you were exactly the same spelling and everything, and I just took it as, yes, that's fine.

What do we do?

But I guess I've gotten your way a little bit, and you've probably gotten my way a little bit.

So, did you have a hard time?

Has anyone in Hollywood given you a hard time for having the name Glenn Beck in the last 10 years?

Oh, not at all.

Not at all.

The only problem I had was a little story that

the casting director called my agent and said, was I available to go to Romania?

And

they mentioned the money and everything like that, and

quick verbal contract.

And then I found that they were actually looking for you.

So I didn't go to I mean, you would have if you would have gone to Romania.

If you would have gone to Romania, I guarantee it.

It wasn't a movie role.

They wanted you for something else.

You would have never returned.

I'm sure of it.

Did you do that?

Did you do that job?

No, I actually didn't.

I do know what you're talking about.

They wanted to make a movie.

I think it was...

Shark NATO was Shark NATO.

They were filming in Bulgaria in Romania and wanted me to go, and I couldn't make the time.

Well, funnily enough,

I found lately that a verbal contract, if they mention the money and everything, is binding.

But

when my agent pulled up and said perhaps

you could advance a little bit of cash, and they said, absolutely not.

I could have taken them to court for that, but unfortunately,

it's the Canadian law,

all that stuff.

Yeah, you're up in Canada.

How old of a man are you now?

Do you mind me asking?

I'm 82.

82.

And you have been, you were in Doctor Strangelove.

I mean, you have been in the movies.

I was.

You've been in the movies forever, it seems.

I mean, you've got to be

one of the longest-running actors around.

Well, I suppose I am.

I mean, I just worked with Chris Plimmer, and he's 90-something.

He's just turned 90, and we had a little poker scene together.

That's amazing.

So,

tell me, like,

who have you met or who has taught you anything that's been instrumental in your life?

Or, you know, what is

tell me some of the behind the scenes of being a Glenn Beck that used his powers for good as opposed to evil?

Well, yeah,

that's something that we must keep

must keep

our good names together without

fail.

Anyway,

when I first started out, it was in Vancouver, where I am now.

And

there's some absolutely wonderful people who taught me a great deal.

And I did some work from the age of

61 years in the business anyway.

These people

helped me along the way.

But when I got to England, it was absolutely wonderful because every actor that I worked with worked hard, which is not the case in Vancouver at that time.

And they really

worked well.

I learned so much absolutely working.

And people like Albert Finley, I worked with in the West End, and

Jim Dale.

You may know Jim Dale.

He did Barnum on Broadway and stuff like that.

So you, I mean, you worked.

There is a difference between an English actor and a North American actor because they take their craft seriously.

Not anymore, particularly, but

at that time it was kind of semi-pro in Vancouver.

And

once I got to England, it was

the learning

all came from

particularly in movies, you know, because I did an enormous amount of stage as well.

We actually, I didn't realize,

you know, first of all, the length and all the credits that you have.

I mean, 2001 of Space Odyssey, there's incredible amounts of

really well-known stuff that you've been in, Glenn.

But I was amazing to see I'm looking at the credits of Little Pink House, the movie, and I see Glenn Beck.

And this is a case, the Kilo case in the Supreme Court, which is an incredibly important case that we have talked about for years and years and years and years.

And looking at that, I thought maybe,

yeah, I thought maybe they had cast the Glenn Beck here of sitting with me in the movie because, you know, Glenn's done his share, as you mentioned, Shark Nado.

They wanted him in that, but you've done your share of movies and TV stuff where you've appeared as yourself.

I thought it was going to be that.

And then here you are.

Was it at all strange to kind of be involved in a movie like this?

And what was the experience like?

Well,

you know, it was a job.

And

it was a good job because

I believed in

what they were trying to fight and

various things.

And also

it was the jobs, money.

I still work for nothing.

Have you had a good life, Glenn?

Yes.

If you could.

And I'm still having a good life.

I'm still working and, you know.

Obviously.

Obviously.

What would be the wisdom that you would leave us from one Glenn Beck to another?

Why would I leave it?

No, no, no.

What wisdom could you leave us with?

Death.

No, not when are you going to leave us with wisdom.

No, no, no.

Do you have any advice from one Glenbeck to another?

Yeah, that's probably a better way of saying it.

Do you have any advice?

Life advice.

Well,

be nice to people on the way up because you might leave them on the way down.

Boy,

is that not great advice?

Yeah.

Not great advice.

That's great.

Glenn, just one quick question because my daughter will kill me.

We watch Backers Hate Off, or Haters Back Off with Miranda.

And

what is that actress like when she's not

Miranda?

Oh, she's very sweet, very nice.

You know, just

an ordinary, wonderful, good actress.

Yeah.

No, she's a great.

She's a great actor.

Very strange, very strange role.

but

yeah yeah yeah yeah absolutely uh glenn it's just a pleasure to talk to you sir and i'm i'm sorry for any of the damage that i may have done to your career and to your good name uh but uh we should before before glenn leaves we should mention you also uh in national treasure played abraham lincoln very heck of a role

national treasure yeah i've uh played uh abraham lincoln and had to come all the way to england to find uh a canadian who could play

that's great.

Glenn Beck, thank you so much.

I appreciate it.

God bless.

Well, it's my pleasure

as well.

Thank you, Mr.

Beck.

And we will maybe

run into each other another time.

It would be an honor.

Thank you so much, sir.

See, that just made me more optimistic.

I made a new friend.

I know.

He was way too nice.

And I was hoping in Glenn Beck that I have a lot of respect for.

It's the first for me.

I was really hoping he would be like, you know, I had this incredible role lined up.

And they said, no way are we putting Glenn Beck in this movie and it ruined his career.

Unfortunately, not true.

We should have gotten in touch with him earlier and gave him some.

I mean, he's an actor.

He could have pulled it off.

He should have said that you ruined his career.

I guess maybe a producer or a writer would have thought of that in advance before the performance.

Nobody said it was fast.

Let me tell you about Mother's Day.

Mother's Day is coming up not this Sunday, but the Sunday after.

What have you done?

Do you have anything?

Got anything going?

I mean,

how many weeks did you say?

You got to, what?

Not this Sunday, but next.

Oh, plenty of time.

You and I are so much alike.

It's so true.

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Amen.

No, no, no.

I think a lot about it.

No, no, no.

What I meant is from other people,

those people don't have to think about it.

Now, I've already obviously purchased

stuff from 1-800 Flowers.

And

I purchased them because I've put a lot of thought into it, and I'm not a procrastinator.

That's the whole point of capitalism, though, isn't it?

Yes, it is.

To me, it's like

taking events that would be difficult for you to do, still executing them really well, but you don't have to put any effort into it.

Could Stu and I give you a little piece of advice as well?

If you're a new dad

and your wife is like, no, honey, I, you know, we don't need anything.

Don't, I just not, you're not my mother.

Do not listen to her.

Okay, don't listen to her.

No.

Don't listen to her.

Take this from, I've had two wives, so I have experience.

I'm more experienced than most people.

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I've done this twice.

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Glenn Beck Mercury.

Glenn Beck.

It's amazing to talk to that guy who's a Hollywood actor named Glenn Beck.

If you look at what he has done, he's, you know, Doctor Strangelove.

He did Space Odyssey.

He worked with Anthony Hopkins, Clive Owen, Christopher Plummer.

He was in the original Doctor Who series.

I mean, the guy has just been,

and it's weird.

You know, probably for him.

You know, he had a good thing going for him.

And then this guy comes along and he's like, oh, geez, do you have to have my same name?

Last hour we were talking about

the cities in the urban districts that have the worst scores now in America.

And if you look at the top 30 scores,

the percentage of

eighth graders,

here they are.

Number one, Charlotte with 41% in math.

Austin, 38%.

San Diego, 36%.

These are eighth graders who are proficient in math.

Boston, number four with 33.

Guilford County, 31.

Hillsboro County, Florida, 29.

New York City, 28.

Chicago, 27.

Denver, 26.

Clark County, 25.

Jefferson County, 25.

Duval County, 25.

Miami-Dade, 24.

Houston, 24.

Albuquerque, 22.

Los Angeles, 20.

D.C., 20.

Dallas, 20.

Atlanta, 19.

Fort Worth, 19.

Philadelphia, 16.

Shelby County, 12.

Milwaukee, 12.

Cleveland, 11.

Baltimore City, 11.

Fresno, 11.

Detroit, 5.

5% are proficient in math.

This, to me, is in some ways

kind of along the lines of what Kanye was talking about.

People are being enslaved.

It doesn't matter what color you are, but you are being enslaved.

If you only have 5% of the eighth graders that are proficient in math, they have no future.

They have no future.

The best one is Charlotte with 41%.

Which is really terrible.

The only way to solve this is to lower the standards.

That's what winds up happening.

You don't need to

proficient in math doesn't mean addition.

Try this for reading.

Try this for reading.

Austin, number one, with 36%.

San Diego, 35.

Hillsboro, 34.

Boston, 32.

Duval County, 31.

Jefferson County, 30.

Guilford County, 30.

Miami-Dade, 30%.

Charlotte, 30.

Denver, 29.

New York City, 28.

Clark County, 27.

Chicago, 27.

Albuquerque, 25.

A quarter.

A quarter of eighth graders can't

read.

Only a quarter.

Only a quarter can read.

Los Angeles, 23.

District of Columbia, 21.

You think you're going to, you're not going to be a slave to somebody?

You are a slave to the system.

If you can't read, and have you tried to get your kids to read?

Old classics are not fast enough

because they're used to things happening so fast, so rapidly that you try to get your kids to read an old book and they're too slow.

Look, I'm, you know, I can't read largely, can't read non-fiction or fiction.

I can't be bothered with it.

Some of the greatest joys of my life.

And they're great books.

We've had tons of great authors that write amazing stories.

And I just, you know, for fiction, I'm not willing to stick around.

For nonfiction, I'll stick around and read long books because I want to know the information.

I want to understand the arguments.

I mean, I like that stuff.

But if you can't read, you don't have that choice.

Yeah, you don't even have the choice.

You don't have the choice.

How can you, how can anybody, you know, Kanye can say, hey, I just found Thomas Sowell.

Who's going to read him?

No.

He's talking to a group of people that are never going to read him.

That's how you get sucked into arguments like AIDS was created by the government to kill off black people.

That's right.

We are enslaving ourselves, and it has nothing to do with color.

Glenn, back.

Mercury.

So I remember several years ago, Glenn was selling his house.

And here's the thing.

When you're with Glenn every day, you actually have to deal with it.

Like he gets off the air and he still keeps blabbing about all the the problems he's having with his house.

It was agonizing.

You weren't there.

I was.

It wasn't fun.

Luckily, he actually took a positive step to correct this issue because he was having issues with his real estate agent at the time and he decided to create the company realestateagents Itrust.com.

And the idea was: hey, there's got to be a better way to sell a house than just depending on this person you barely know and not getting updates.

There's got to be great agents out there, and there are, but they are all hard to find.

And unless you have realestate agentsitrust.com, you might not be able to find the best one.

If you go there, they're going to give you a there's a network of over 1,200 agents.

You can find the best one in your area really easily.

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You're listening to the Glenn Beck program.

All right, let me tell you.

Let me tell you, yo, we were just talking about, you know, how schools,

we're passing kids and dumping them into society without the ability to read or write or to think at all.

We're paying for that now.

And why aren't we fixing that?

When you have 40% of the kids in eighth-grade tests not being able to do math or read,

I'm sorry, only 40%

being able to pass a test on math and reading.

60%, and that's a good number.

It's down to 5% in Detroit.

What are we doing them to?

We try to argue about

the higher intellectual points of the Constitution.

They can't even read it.

Even people who do read and even like to read won't read the Constitution.

Yeah, and people

can't read.

Right.

And obviously it's a huge percentage here.

We've been saying, hey, we got to read this stuff.

We got to read it.

No, we have to teach our children how to read

or they are are all going to be slaves.

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And you actually are engaged in

projects

and going through the actual documents and the actual things.

We just got a piece in from Thomas Paine that is unbelievable.

It is his handwritten letter to Benjamin Franklin saying, no, that's not what I meant.

I'm not an atheist.

I do believe in God.

I am trying to make the case for the French.

Well, that turns history completely upside down.

One student that graduated last year, she wrote something,

what was it on?

It was, oh, man, I can't remember now.

It was either on the New Deal or...

Something slavery.

I can't remember what it was.

I'll have to look it up and find out.

But she wrote a paper and

the professor, she wrote it in college, and she expected the professor just to hammer her.

And the professor said, can I see you after class?

Yes.

He gave her an A and said, can I meet with you?

Because I don't know where these sources are.

How did you find these sources?

And she very wisely didn't mention my name or David Barton.

She said, here's where you can find them online.

She's been helping him learn about the truth.

He's a professor.

He didn't even know how to find these original documents.

So if you want to participate,

there is a small charge

and you have to pay for the hotel and the food and everything.

But it's two weeks.

It is so well worth it.

Not everybody is going to be accepted.

You do have to apply and

you will be

interviewed for the position.

But it's happening again, May 28th.

Next session is July 11th.

And the final session is, sorry, June 11th.

And the final session is July 9th.

Apply now.

You can do it at mercury1.org slash LTP.

Amazing.

Meeting these kids last year and then seeing them after two weeks, and they were totally transformed.

It was astonishing.

Huge step up for your life.

Right.

I mean, because if you're educated to this point, you bring back to, you know, 5% of people can actually read and do math in some of these cities, the advantage you have is substantial.

Last year, we had like four or five teachers.

We had people that were teachers that said, I wanted to go back

because they knew they were missing American history, and

they didn't even know where to start.

So we had teachers come, and we've heard from them saying, it's remarkable how it has changed their teaching and changed the people around them.

Yeah, my uncle is a history teacher, and he visited here.

This is not part of the program, but just, you know, we gave gave him the sort of little whatever private tour there is of just basically walking around where all your

artifacts are strewn out all over the place.

And he was amazed.

You know, I mean, just seeing some of the just the artifacts that,

because it's one thing to learn about them.

It's one thing for someone to tell you, hey, there was once a letter

that was written to Ben Franklin that explained X, Y, and Z.

It's another thing to actually see it.

And when you read the actual words in their handwriting, it makes a real impact on you.

Standing there, we have a big book now of just letters from early signers of the Declaration of Independence and early presidents.

And to see Jefferson writing to Adams and be able to,

you know, we have it in

a bound book now, so you can't really actually touch it.

But to actually

read the letter in their handwriting and then turn the page, and it's a letter.

from George Washington and read what they're saying to each other, it is profound.

By the way, we're doing that also the last class or the second class, I think, the second session, June 11th.

I think they're actually helping prepare the museum because we are having the museum.

You'll have to check at

Mercury One.

Just look for the museum.

But we're doing a really great museum this year.

It's only open for three days and you'll be able to do what Stu's relative did

and walk around, but in a really amazing way.

All of the studios here in Dallas, Texas.

You can go to mercury1.org and find out more.

These rates of how people are reading and are proficient in math being so low is part of the reason why something like a Prager University does really well.

Yes.

And that's not because they're dumbed down at all.

They're very smart pieces, but they explain them.

They make them easy.

They explain them in an easy way.

And I also think it's part of the reason why the Kanye West thing is more important than

a bumpship album promotion from the sky because it's communicating to people who might not be in that 5%,

right?

It's communicating to the entire country.

Certainly a lot of smart people like Kanye West, but a lot of dumb people like Kanye West too.

Not a lot of dumb people are reading the Constitution.

So the fact that the ideas of Thomas Sowell could be introduced to an audience that could be really receptive to them.

You know, I mean, especially when you're talking about communities that have been downtrodden for a long time, the ideas of Thomas Sowell could cure it.

Just someone saying, you don't have to be a Democrat.

There are other ideas out there.

I'm not saying I like the Republicans, but you don't have to be a Democrat.

You don't even have to be a Republican.

Just think for yourself.

That's remarkable.

Anybody who's like, I'm not talking about Kanye Wesco.

I understand that because

it doesn't have any meaning.

to the political movement per se, if you're like, I want more constitutional rule of law.

But it does to the culture and culture leads.

And here's a guy who can change the culture, even if it's just record promotion.

It is making an impact.

I mean, look at, you know, and that this stuff just needs to be said at that basic level.

You know, do you consider Russia under Vladimir Putin to be a healthy society?

I mean, I would argue no.

I would argue no.

Yet he's getting far lower percentage of the vote from the Russian people than African Americans are giving to Democrats.

It's not even close.

Putin got something like 71 or 72 percent in that last election.

I mean,

Al Gore, who is the whitest white guy in America, got 92 percent from African Americans.

I mean, Barack Obama was even higher, but I mean, at least you can kind of make an argument for that.

You know, this is the thing is like there has to be a breakout here.

And it's honestly why I think Kanye is right when he talks about slavery being a choice.

I don't think it was a choice.

You know, no, it wasn't a choice back then.

No.

But being a choice on freeing your mind today is.

Well, Stephen A.

Smith made this point very well several years ago, the sports commentator, when he said, Look,

they don't need you.

They don't.

They don't need you.

They don't care about you if you're African-American and the Democratic leadership because they know they've got you already.

All they have to do is show up and you give them their vote.

And if you don't, at least challenge that and listen to the other side, at least listen to

what they're saying and

consider it seriously and then go back to the Democrats and say, you know what, I like this part of what they're saying.

If you don't make those cases, they're never going to do a thing for you.

And

it's something that needs to be done.

Well, it's amazing to me how many people immediately just shouted Kanye down when he said, look, it was the Republicans that freed people.

It wasn't the Democrats.

It was the Republicans.

Now, that doesn't last forever.

The Republicans have sold their soul to the devil back and forth, and so has the Democratic Party back and forth many times.

But if you want to look where real racism, institutional racism has been for a very long time,

it is

in the Democratic Party.

And I'm sorry, but look into Johnson.

I believe the Great Society, all of that stuff that he passed with the Civil Rights Act, he passed the Civil Rights Act.

Then he passes the Great Society.

Tonight at 5 o'clock on the Blaze, I'm going to give you the stats on what happened to the African-American community because of the Great Society.

They had higher marriage rates than white people did.

They were higher as entrepreneurs than white people were.

What happened?

The Great Society and Johnson.

And people don't want to talk about that because it makes them uncomfortable or they haven't thought about it.

But you have to.

If you want to learn from the past, you have to look at all of the things that are uncomfortable and there's a lot of things that are uncomfortable just google first slave in america i can't tell you how many times you're gonna how many stories you're gonna have to read through before you find the name john casser c-a-s-o-r

well who's that guy

john kasser was actually the first slave in america Indentured servitude was something that people did.

Not slavery, indentured servitude.

They still do it in some countries.

And what it means is, you know, I want to go to the new world.

I want to start a new life, but I don't have the money.

So I go to some big, you know, rich guy who I know has work over there.

And I say to him, look, if you pay my room and board to get over there, I'll work to pay it off in seven years.

I'll be an indentured servant, which means he owns your work.

He doesn't own you.

He owns your work for seven years.

This is the contract.

And you get your way over there to the new world.

Well, that was happening all the time.

And it wasn't looked down upon

in the same way slavery obviously.

No, no, no, it wasn't.

And white people did it.

Everybody did it.

Indians did it.

Everyone did it.

And

then we started the

American slave trade.

The English and the Dutch did.

and they started bringing people to the Caribbean.

And when they went to the Caribbean, you were made a slave.

But if you were dropped off here in America, you were an indentured servant.

So one of the guys, and he was a white guy.

I'm sorry, he was a black guy.

He was an indentured servant, and his name was John Casser.

And he worked for

another guy who held his indentured servitude contract.

And John had worked for seven years, but I don't know how it worked out, but he didn't say, you know, my seven years are up.

So his owner of the contract took him to court and said, no, I own him, not the contract.

I own him for life.

The rest of the story changes everything.

And it's not just the fact that that owner

was a black man,

but what happened after that black man's death, after he started slavery in America?

Everything changed.

And I'll talk about it tonight at 5 o'clock.

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Glenn, back.

You know, I found that things kind of make sense a little bit more when,

you know, if you're drinking, and I gave up all of those great blackouts, you know?

Yeah, wasted them.

There's so many great positives to alcoholic consumption at levels that are inhuman.

That's, I think, something we've overlooked on the program today.

Man.

For instance, let me try this.

This just came out from USA Today.

I think it makes more sense if you read it this way.

Boy Scouts of America doubled down today on its quest to become the scouting organization of choice for boys and girls.

They call the Boy Scouts, but they're going to, they announced today that they're going to drop the name

from Boy Scouts.

They're gonna drop the name boy from Boy Scouts from the just their

signature program.

So they won't use boys in the signature program.

And now the chief scout executive, Mike Sutterbar,

also unveiled the new group, the group's new Scout Me In marketing campaign program to include

inclusiveness.

Inclusive.

Inclusive inclusiveness togetherness.

Scout me in.

Scout me in.

Because we have entered a new era for our organization.

And it's important that all youth can see themselves in scouting in every way possible.

Possible.

Did you burp in the middle of the possible?

I am here to tell you the scouting news that makes sense.

Glenn, back.

Mercury.