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Glenn Beck So it's been nearly two years since the Pulse nightclub attack two

years

and I'm gonna blow your mind because we've just now gotten a clear picture of what really happened on that terror-filled night.

Now, think of the Pulse nightclub shooting.

What was this all about?

The killer pledged allegiance to ISIS.

Therefore, the killer was a radical Islamic terrorist.

This was a terror attack.

Zero room for speculation there, but that's not what the media ran with.

For two years, the media and many in the gay community have been calling this a hate crime on the LGBT community.

Hours after the attack went down, the media went into a full-on narrative mode trying to paint the picture of the killer as a man with repressed anger over his own sexual urges who couldn't reconcile that with his faith.

They pulled in witnesses from the club that swore they'd seen him there

before looking for a homosexual encounter.

They connected him to gay dating apps and even interviewed his ex-wife that that claimed she had always expected he might have been gay.

He

liked to look at himself in the mirror a lot.

So surely he was gay.

So instead of having a discussion of the dangers of radical Islamic terrorism in ISIS, we're now having discussions on gay rights.

how Republicans were turning gay men into killers with their repression and hate crimes on the gay community.

So really what was this?

Was this an ISIS terror attack or was it a gay hate crime?

Two

years

later,

we now know the entire timeline of what went down that night and the motive is clear.

The question is, will the media undo or at least attempt to undo the damage that has been done in tearing us apart.

The Pulse Nightclub was not the killer's intended target.

Now listen to this.

What was the intended target?

It was Disney.

At 10 p.m., the killer arrived at the Disney World shopping and entertainment area.

They now have footage, security camera footage, showing him using a stroller to conceal his weapon.

It showed him passing by multiple police officers and security officers and even stopping to watch their movements.

It was the security at Walt Disney World that made him rethink his choice.

Good guys with a gun stopped a terror attack on Disney that night.

They didn't even know they were were doing it.

It was just the presence.

Now imagine if Disney World would have been marked a gun-free zone.

Imagine if people would have open carried.

How many more attacks would be stopped before they even got started?

But this isn't even the point.

The killer then went to his car and he pulled pulled out his phone.

We now know that he googled downtown Orlando nightclubs.

Notice he didn't say gay nightclubs.

The top two hits were Eve nightclub, which is not a gay club, and Pulse.

He pulled up directions to Eve and then surveilled the club.

He got directions to Pulse and did the same.

He apparently decided that Eve was an easier target because he then plugged the directions back into his phone and began to drive in that direction.

But a few minutes into the drive, back to Eve, he turned back towards Pulse and then began his attack.

During the entire night,

not once did he make a derogatory remark about gay people.

Not once.

It was his third choice.

Disney was number one.

Number two was a straight nightclub, and number three was Pulse.

Everything he said was regarding U.S.

policy in the Middle East and his goal of bringing violence to the US mainland.

The killer was looking for the softest target with a lot of people.

Who he killed, who they slept with, didn't matter as long as they were Americans.

Who's done more damage?

Him or us?

He killed people.

But between the media and social media, look how we have torn ourselves apart.

We live in a tribal society where anyone and everyone is looking to use a tragedy.

What do you think is happening now with Parkland?

They are using a tragedy to tear us apart, to point fingers, to assign blame, and gain power.

Is there anybody anymore in America that doesn't wear a tribal jersey?

Is there anybody in America who says the only group I'm a part of is the American group, is the group that will deem themselves human over everything else.

I saw a film last night, a woman that this audience rescued in the Middle East.

She was asked,

What is your hope for the future?

She had been a slave for four years,

she had been sold 16 times.

She said, my hope is that I can live somewhere where I am deemed a human.

That was her goal.

That's a pretty low bar where I am deemed a human.

Will we ever stop chasing narratives, looking for a win for our team, our tribe, our side?

Will we ever, once again, look at our neighbor and not see the word enemy,

but instead see the words fellow human being?

The narrative chasing is tearing us apart.

I don't know what the rest of the media is going to do, and I don't know what everybody else is going to do.

But for me and my my household,

we've made our choice.

Let's try to be better.

It's Thursday, March 29th.

You're listening to the Glenn Beck program.

You know,

I have to talk to my friend Riaz.

You know, Riaz,

a gay Muslim man, was there in Orlando for a wedding, a Muslim wedding, when the Pulse nightclub shooting happened.

He was in full Islamic garb, and he said, I had everybody look at me

like I was a killer.

And he said, I, I, I, I, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm an American.

He said, and then they were targeting gays.

He's like, I didn't know I couldn't live in this country if they were going to look at me like a killer.

And then

the killers were tracking down gays.

Now, I don't know where you would live.

And he figured that out quickly.

He's like, I can't live like this.

I can't live.

suspecting that people all around America just hate me for one reason or another.

And he has gone on a two-year journey, and he has found the exact opposite.

He's found that nobody really hates him.

He has found a group of people

that are, as he said to me just last week,

conservatives are not anything like anybody is saying to me they are.

They don't have a problem with my lifestyle.

They didn't have a problem with my husband.

They didn't have a problem with my adopted children.

They didn't have a problem with my faith.

They just wanted to know, am I a good person?

What's my character?

Yes.

Yes.

Now, here's a guy who was truly affected by the Pulse nightclub shooting.

I'll bet you he doesn't know yet.

I'll bet you he doesn't know what came out yesterday.

That this guy was not targeting homosexuals at all.

He was targeting Disney.

How come I haven't seen this any place today?

Isn't this a kind of a big deal?

An amazing story.

It's an amazing story.

Especially in the idea when we're talking about guns, right?

You brought up that point, that he actually went to Disney, saw a bunch of people with guns, decided not to do it there.

Yes.

Kind of a big deal.

How many

Glenn, thousands, thousands of things like this probably get averted worldwide every year because of that?

Okay.

And when none of them are ever going to be reported on because no one knows.

Here we are talking about guns right now, and we're talking about guns in this ridiculous way, ridiculous way.

They will not define an assault rifle.

They will not define it.

Well, if you can't define it, then there's no way to pull it off the streets.

Okay?

There's no way to ban something that you won't define.

You know what?

I want to

ban all defibrillators from here on out uh all um all you know steam-powered uh defibrillation uh systems are going to be uh banned wait what what it's quite a blow to the community yeah i'm going now i'm going to define what those things are you might think you know what it is but i'm going to define that later after we pass it i could ban anything i could take anything away right and they did try to define them of course in in the in the 1994 saw what it was.

And they got around.

And it added, what, 20 million weapons

to the United States of America anyway during the ban?

So it doesn't work.

So what are we talking about?

We're having this stupid argument when all Americans, all they want to do is protect their children.

I just want to protect my children.

I want to make sure that my children's school is safe.

Well, here's a story.

Where a terrorist went to kill a bunch of people and left because he saw saw armed police officers.

Well, that tells me what should we do in our schools, Du.

Gee, I don't know.

It's such a tough one.

Maybe armed security.

Armed security be there and visible.

It's not going to solve everything, obviously, as we saw in Parkland, but it was there.

I mean, at least, would you rather have someone there and take your chances with whether they're going to step in and do the right thing?

Or would you rather go the opposite way and have nobody there and know that you have no chance?

It's unbelievable to me.

It's unbelievable.

And

that's the secondary story.

Yeah, that's not even the big thing.

That's not even the big part of this story.

The other part is this has been used to divide us, to call us a hate-mongering nation, that we all are against gay people,

and that had nothing to do with it.

It was an Islamic extremist story, as we pointed out at the time.

And that part has not been diminished as they've gone through the facts.

But it wasn't even that it was his faith that made him kill these people because they were gay.

It had nothing to do with them being gay.

You know, you could say, well,

he was an Islamic extremist and Islamic extremists are throwing, you know, gay people off the roof.

Yes, there are those people, and there are lots of those cases.

This isn't one of them.

No, he just wanted people dead, Americans.

Unbelievable.

Unbelievable.

It really is incredible because

we went from

saying, have it furthering a discussion of, hey, we've got Islamic extremists in this country, and we better do something because all they want to do is kill us to forget about Islamic extremists.

This is an attack on gay people.

And we started talking about the hatred of gay people,

which are you kidding me?

This had nothing to do with it.

I mean, it went two years unquestioned.

And when the whole thing reverses itself,

we get no coverage.

No coverage.

I haven't seen any coverage this morning.

I haven't haven't seen any.

Not one word.

Did you know that Stormy Daniels filed another lawsuit, though?

That I know by watching.

Did you hear what Trump's new attorney said?

Oh, my gosh.

Trump's new doctor.

We got that going on.

What is wrong?

Obsession with a man like that is not a good thing.

It's not a good thing for anybody.

It's not a good thing for him.

It's not a good thing for us.

Certainly not a good thing for the media.

I'm glad you're here this morning.

You need to spread the word of what really happened.

We'll make that opening monologue available soon on theblaze.com and just spread it to your friends.

Make sure that they know you've been lied to, you've been abused, you have been manipulated yet again.

It's no reason to get angry about it.

It's just stop now being manipulated.

Stop.

Stop.

Stop.

Start to question everything from both sides.

Stop being manipulated.

Because, man,

look at what we have.

Look what we found out recently in the last week.

Cambridge Analytica.

Facebook manipulating.

Russia manipulating.

Our mainstream media manipulating.

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The March for Our Lives.

It's a youth uprising, correct?

Actually, no.

Now the data is beginning to show us something different.

According to a scientific survey taken during the march itself by researchers associated with the Washington Post, who have tracked the anti-Trump resistance since it began the night after the election, the March for Our Lives was 70% women.

Nearly three-quarters of the marchers, 72, had a bachelor's degree degree or higher level of graduate education, putting them into the leftist elite category.

Most importantly, though, less than 10% of the marchers were under the age of 18.

Even though the march was clearly supposed to be for and about high school-aged children, only 10%

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Of those adults attending the march who were over 18, the average age was 49 years old.

Do you remember how they used to say it's nothing but gray-haired people at the tea party?

Nothing but old people?

Weirder still, according to the Washington Post data collection operation, most of the marchers were not even motivated by the issue of gun control.

Only 12% of the people who had never marched in a protest before were at the March for Our Lives because they were motivated by gun control.

12%.

Instead, protesters reported being motivated by the issues of peace and Trump.

Huh.

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Doesn't this just make you want to turn off all television today?

Doesn't this make you want to stop reading all news?

Just what we've gone through, we're not done yet, just what we've gone through in the last half hour.

We found out yesterday that the Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando had nothing to do with them being gay.

Nothing.

It was his third choice that night.

His number one choice was the Disney park.

So he was going to go to the entertainment center, which is just off the grounds of Walt Walt Disney World, just on the edges of it, and it's open.

You don't need to have a ticket.

And he went in.

He put a gun in a stroller,

and he was walking around, and he was going to kill people.

And he's all on videotape.

And apparently, he saw too many cops standing around, too many security officers.

And he watched them.

He watched their movements for a while.

Then he decided, I'm going to go find some other place.

He took his gun and his stroller, put it back into the car.

He got into the car.

He googled nightclubs in Orlando, didn't say gay.

Nightclubs in Orlando found found two of them.

Pulse was his third choice.

Third, Disney, then the Eve nightclub, which he surveilled and rejected for some reason, and then went to Pulse.

He was looking for an easy, soft target.

Had nothing to do with gay.

And also has everything.

It is very relevant.

very relevant.

Today, in the argument of what we can do to protect our schools.

We found all this out yesterday as everything was finally released yesterday.

Hmm.

Once again, targeting a gun-free zone.

He saw a g a zone filled with guns and left it and went to a place he didn't believe guns would be.

Then, after that, we find out from the Washington Post, from the Washington Post, that this whole thing with the march with the teenagers, no, the vast majority, a whopping 90% of marchers were middle-aged.

90%.

Grassroots children's movement, right?

Right.

Also, they found out that,

let me get the exact number here,

only 12% of the people had never marched in a protest.

Only 12% of the people were motivated by gun control.

56

wanted peace.

42%

had problems with Trump.

Wait.

So you didn't even march for gun control?

Only 12%?

It's amazing.

And 90% of the marchers were middle-aged.

This had nothing to do with kids.

It had nothing to do with guns.

But it's what the media wants.

What the media wants.

They want their gun control, and that's why they covered the March for Our Lives 13 times as much as they covered the March for Life, which has such a similar title.

You'd think maybe they'd even make a mistake and send some reporters to it, but no.

In fact, the March for Life was covered one-fifth of the amount of times as the women's march, which was, you know, again,

just about Trump.

This one, they were able to hide that it was about Trump and say it was about gun control.

And it was 13 times as much coverage.

And again,

what's really interesting is it's not the people they say were doing it.

It's not the reason they say they were doing it.

But they want this so bad.

They've turned into such an advocacy organization.

And I mean like the large swath of the mainstream media on this cause, they're just activists on this.

And they want it so badly that they just don't care about those statistics.

They don't care.

By the way, according to the New York Times, since 2012, 138 people have been killed by guns at schools in the United States.

138.

That's 138 too many.

However, according to the Center for Disease Control, over 6 million babies were killed by abortion in the same time period.

I don't know.

What do you think?

Both are bad.

Both are bad.

Both are bad.

And you used to say, oh, it should be rare.

Well, really?

Because you're not saying that anymore.

And by the way, you're not saying that anymore because you didn't mean it.

And we said at the time you didn't mean it.

Now you're saying, well, we don't want to take away your guns.

We don't want to repeal the Second Amendment.

Why should we believe you?

We need a Disney princess that has an abortion.

Right.

That's it.

You're telling us, you've told us during healthcare that you didn't want single payer.

And yet, you're now only talking about single payer.

You told us that you wanted abortions rare but safe.

Now you're saying open anytime, all the time, nothing wrong with them.

You should be proud of it.

Why should we believe you on the Second Amendment?

I wanted to talk to my friend Riaz because

the Pulse nightclub shooting changed his life, changed the course of his life.

Welcome, Riaz.

Patel, how are you, sir?

Hello, Glenn.

How are you?

Good.

Have you heard the news that came out yesterday about the shooting in Orlando?

I just did as I was dropping my kids off to school.

So I just did.

And it does.

It shifts the focus a bit, doesn't it?

Yeah.

It's amazing.

It's amazing.

Disney was his first choice.

He turned around

because of armed security, which is a gun control point that we should talk about.

But it had nothing to do with gay people.

It was his third choice.

It had nothing to do with gay people.

So how does that make you feel?

I mean, I guess to me,

the shift of what was the spark, you know, certainly felt bizarre to be in the middle of both the Muslim attacking and the gay club goer who

was the recipient.

I mean,

to me, it doesn't change the fact that there is this war going on, and whether it's happening in Disneyland or the nightclubs,

it's a major concern for everyone.

But the narrative, and you and I talk about this a lot because I produce television, the narrative changes.

And so we have to look at the information and the situation based on what we now know, which does shift things.

So, Riaz, why is no one reporting on this?

This is, do you believe, I mean, this is big news, don't you think?

Glenn, if I got

went mad every time information that was on my one side of my life was not conveyed on the other, I mean, it's maddening to see how often I have this conversation with the left saying, not just what do you believe about this, but your whole perception might be of.

You know, you and I are working on this project to sort of really try and figure out, look, they don't separate the children.

They don't say liberal children and conservative children, can you guys separate?

So there has to be some narrative that we can work together on.

It's not being reported because it's not nearly as ratings-wise interesting as Stormy Daniels.

And that is a sad, sad state of affairs.

What do you say to, because you were the one who fought with me last week when I said, look, I don't think that the average Democrat wants to take guns.

And you said, don't fool yourself.

They're now arguing on TV

that

this is a boogeyman, that coming to take the repeal the Second Amendment and coming to take guns is a boogeyman.

Is it a boogeyman?

I mean,

I think based on the outreach that I, the rage that I'm hearing, you know, we are not, this is the thing I was saying when you and I were chatting in your office.

We don't understand guns at all.

Like, I'm not used to being around them.

I don't have them in my home for protection.

It's just a different way of looking at the world.

Rather than saying, your way is wrong, my way is right.

We have to coexist.

Because, again, they're not separating the kids.

It's something that we have to get over our own egos to be able to work together.

But I don't believe repealing the Second Amendment

makes sense for anyone's time energy or more than anything else money and media buys we don't have the money and the time and the energy to spend we don't have extra money laying around to spend on waging war on the second amendment of the bill of rights you know it's not the 20th it's the second it's a it's a pretty important one so it's not a waste it's a waste of our time and i i say this to my liberal progressive friends all the time why are you going and do you not think there are things we can do how often are they killing kids at the rate of what 15 a month i don't know i haven't done the statistics It's an absurd statistic to have to do.

While you go after the Second Amendment in your absurd quest to change the country into something that it wasn't, then how many kids are going?

How many kids are being shot?

Do we have that time?

And so I really am, and believe it or not, I am convincing when I'm one-on-one or two-on-one.

I am getting the message across that this is

not about guns, it's about control.

In the same way that gay marriage was never really about the gay part, it was about the government getting involved in marriage.

I see how the translation is becoming the problem on both sides.

It's lost in the translation because people are specifically feeding you a specific translation.

It gets you angry, gets you activated, gets you to donate money.

I got an email last night that the Democratic, some Democratic Party said they have now $18.67 per person donated to the political democratic process, to the CNC.

I'm like, we have children being shot.

Can we not put that money and resources and time towards something like that?

It's an absurdist situation.

So, Riaz, I think it's

I thought it was important.

I wanted to hear from you because I know that Pulse nightclub shooting was a pivot point in your life.

And now to hear that, you know, pretty much everything that you thought is wrong.

And

what everyone is saying about guns is also incorrect when it comes to our schools.

This is proof that a guy with a gun that wanted just to kill a bunch of people went, put his guns in a baby carriage, had gone in, and had then seen, oh, wow, there's too many armed people here, and turned around and left and found a soft target.

It means we need to harden our schools.

That will deter some of this, if not a lot or most of it.

And that is a conversation that we need to have.

And both sides who are shouting as loud as they possibly can.

Again, there's a commonality.

You have kids, I have kids, they're not separating them.

So I agree with you.

The narrative has changed, but to me, the pivot of what I'm doing is just as important.

I found myself in the middle of this divide.

No, I think they're even higher.

Riaz, I think this actually makes what you and I have been talking about even more important because this shows this was just this was built on lies or tribal

tribal goals.

This wasn't built on facts.

It's just tribal goals.

So, Riaz.

Tribalism will destroy us if we don't watch it and get to know our neighbor.

Thanks a lot, Riaz.

I appreciate it.

Thank you, guys.

You bet.

Riaz Patel, TV producer, two-time Emmy Award winner.

He hates it when I say this.

Hollywood guy.

Yeah.

Uh-huh.

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He's like, come on, man.

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It's been an incredible hour of discovery.

I can't get over this.

I mean, the Pulse nightclub shooting was not about gay people.

We found that out this hour.

And then we also find out that the March for Our Lives was not about gun control.

And you say, well, wait a minute, that's what the media has been saying over and over again.

Well, the Washington Post, to their credit, by the way, went and found out, decided to dissect actually who went.

First of all, a very small percentage were actually young people.

90%.

90%

were middle-aged.

90%.

90%.

You might think, okay, well, if it's a young, if you're a 15-year-old and you're going to this march, you're probably there with an adult.

So it wouldn't be surprised if it was 50%, let's just say.

But the fact that it was 90% is surprising.

And the fact that it was 90%

and you never saw that represented on TV.

You've only seen the young people.

Yeah.

How do you shoot around an audience that is 90% middle-aged?

Extreme desire.

Yes.

Extreme desire to message something in a specific way.

And along that front, only 12% of the people who were new to protesting reported they were there to motivated the march because of the gun control issue, compared to 60% of the participants with experienced protesting.

So again, 60%

of people who are generalized, who are the protesters, right?

The people that are there all the time.

Who are people?

They are at every march that goes on with these organizations.

Those people knew the narrative.

They knew to go to the people and say, hey, yeah, absolutely, we're here for gun control.

The people who were just there because this particular event inspired them to go out there and be activists, the grassroots of the grassroots movement, only 12% of them said that they were protesting to

support gun control.

Now, imagine that person.

You see,

so you know, the number one was peace and number two was anti-Trump.

Yeah.

You watch the news.

You're going to this event.

So you're obviously dedicated to this at some level, right?

You watch the news.

You know the narrative of what it's supposed to be.

It's supposed to be about restricting guns to save children's lives.

Not about the Second Amendment, of course.

You love the Second Amendment, but it's about saving children's lives.

And then an interviewer comes up to you.

You're dedicated enough to be at that rally.

And still, only 12% of them said, yeah, gun control.

So, I mean, 12% is probably high.

Probably there's certain people in there who are just, I don't like Trump and are smart enough to know, well, the answer is supposed to be gun control here.

So I better say gun control.

Amazing, that's incredible, incredible, and incredible that the media has not covered it at all.

Thank you, Washington Post.

Thank you, Washington Post.

Where's the big expose on telling us who these people really are, CNN?

Where is it?

Glenn, back,

Mercury,

Love.

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Truth.

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It's Thursday, March 29th.

You're listening to the Glenn Beck program.

So Facebook is facing some real

problems.

And

so are we.

Security is

a growing issue.

Cybersecurity and your privacy and what's online.

What people can see, what people can do.

We know that Russia has been manipulating us.

We now know that

Cambridge Analytica has been manipulating us.

Do we really even understand this?

Do we even really care?

We should.

William Hertling is an author and a futurist.

He has written several novels.

I think I've read all of them.

And I'm in the middle of his latest novel, which is called Kill Process.

And it is, I mean, it was written two years ago, but it should have been written today.

It is the Facebook problem.

It is, it shows you how data can be used

by a company like Facebook.

Welcome to the program, William Hurtling.

How are you, sir?

I'm great.

Thanks for having me back on.

So,

William,

the main company

that your main character is after,

Facebook?

Yeah, yeah.

Obviously, I wasn't going to call them Facebook and the novel, but

I call the fictional company Tomo.

But it's supposed to be the world's largest social networking company.

And I really wanted to demonstrate what does it look like?

What are all the different ways that people's data can be used and abused in a big company like that?

And it's

nearly limitless.

Just

the first few chapters, and it gets worse as it goes on.

Just in the first few chapters, your main character is using and abusing the data

to kill people.

But the way she is spying on people and collecting data, can you take us through

some of the stuff that is

realistic?

I mean, it can happen.

Sure.

Well,

everything

that you're doing all the time is being tracked, right?

So we know this about a lot of things.

What we search for, which web pages we look at, what we like on Facebook, who we talk to, what topics we discuss in our email, all of these things are being tracked.

There's other stuff, too.

Where was our phone

when the last time it connected to Facebook?

to see if there were any new messages, right?

There's location data.

There's

patterns of where you tend to be at different times of the day.

And all of these things have some legitimate usages, and we can debate whether those make sense or not, but they are useful.

Like we like when things are personalized.

The reason Facebook is so compelling is because it's personalized.

It gives us the relevant content we want.

But all of this data is there.

And so when it gets illegitimately used, whether it's, you know, in my novel, it's a company employee who chooses to abuse the access she has to everybody's data.

She's a data analyst for the company.

She has carte blanche access to all the data from all the users, and she basically mines through it to get whatever she wants about people, where they live, where they are at this moment in time,

who they connect to.

She also can manipulate the data.

As I'm reading this with

Cambridge Analytica in mind,

it was terrifying how she could manipulate what was in the feed, what people saw,

and how she could shape people.

That's right.

We're all the sum of what we read and what we're exposed to.

So everything influences us one way or the other.

And

there are people in control of that.

There's either people or there's algorithms in control over what we see.

So we're not getting an unadulterated version of the net, right?

We're getting something that's tailored specifically to us and who's doing that and what are their motivations, right?

I think about personalized ads, right?

Personalized ads, if there's a band that I like that's coming to town and I find out about it just in time to buy their tickets, that's great.

I love that.

But if I'm being manipulated into wanting a particular car or if somebody's got maybe a body image disorder and they're seeing a lot of ads for plastic surgery, that's pretty pretty manipulative.

Right now, you're taking someone making major life and financial decisions, and they're no longer reaching those decisions independently.

They're doing it through a series of ongoing manipulations.

So, you know,

the thing that

stuck out was when they start talking about this, you know, Tomo starts to talk about security and we're going to keep everybody's data safe.

And she realizes that, no, they're not.

They're using this and

they're going to use it even for more nefarious things to make money.

And

she says something along the lines of, you know, they were manipulating people and they're using this data and they're violating privacy.

And then she has this moment and it's just terrifying.

She, I mean, because she's using it to manipulate people to kill people.

And but she says, yes, I'm doing the same thing, but I'm doing it for the greater good.

Right.

Lots and lots of things, lots of evil things are done by people who think they're doing it for a good purpose.

Right.

And then sometimes evil things are done by people who have very nefarious purposes.

One of the things I talk about in the book is

we have such a richness of data that's available online.

What happens when it does get into the hands of a nefarious actor?

A hacker who gets access to your personal data can discover things about you that they can exploit, right?

Whether that's something major like a crime or just something embarrassing.

And then they can turn around and they can blackmail you, or they can extort you into giving them even more compromising material, which they'll then turn around and extort you into even more.

And I write about this a lot in the book,

but unfortunately, it's not just fiction, right?

This is happening in the real world.

When you saw Cambridge Analytica, what were your thoughts?

You know, my first thought is that this is one of the inherent problems about our data getting out there on the net, which is once it's out there, once it's collected, we lose control over it, right?

We can't control where it goes.

So,

you know, the people paid, people were paid for their information, and then the first problem was more information was collected than anyone would have guessed, right?

The 270,000 people who were paid by the Cambridge researcher for their data did not anticipate that they would be giving all of their friends' data to the researcher as well.

So that's problem number one.

Problem number two is once all of that was collected, then we have no control or visibility into where it's going, right?

So we don't know that it went from the Cambridge researcher to Cambridge Analytica.

Will you?

different things, yeah.

In the book, you outline

because this woman decides to stop killing people for a while and start working on a competitor to the Facebook in the book.

And what you describe is fantastic.

How come nobody's done that?

You know, what I describe is separating out the ownership, the storage of data from the companies that use it so that Facebook wouldn't own your data, a private data storage company would.

And you could choose a private data storage company based upon their reputation for privacy and security.

And if you don't like the privacy policies of one, you vote with your dollars and you take your business somewhere else.

That would actually rush in innovation.

Why doesn't Facebook want that?

Because they want to be in control over everything.

No, I know that.

But why hasn't somebody gone up?

I mean, has the time just not been right?

And are we approaching a time when people are going to start to think out of the box and say we we need to separate all of this stuff

i i think you're going to see innovation that's going to push in that direction because the alternative is just one ever larger monopoly right and monopoly is not the way capitalism is meant to operate so you'll end up seeing more and more forces arrayed against that uh

yeah that is my hope this day is coming soon do you think william that facebook has seen its best days?

Facebook is really big, and they have a lot of momentum.

So I don't think that they've seen their best days.

You know, one of the biggest problems is that Facebook really holds your relationships hostage.

Every time there's a Facebook scandal, and there's been many, people will, you'll see your friends post saying, I'm leaving Facebook.

And I don't mean to demean what they're doing.

I think it's great to be conscious about it.

But a large proportion of people either don't leave or or they come back within a few months.

Why?

Because Facebook is where their friends are.

If they were to leave, they've lost their relationships to their friends.

And that really means that Facebook can do pretty much anything they want and no one's going to leave.

William Hertling, the name of the book is Kill Process,

a great read on tech and a great thriller, one that

I haven't read anything like it before.

You'll enjoy it.

Kill Process available now, William Hurtling.

Thank you so much.

Appreciate it.

Thank you.

There's a new

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And so you have like Slashdot, which I don't remember, from back in like 2006, it peaked there.

MySpace peaked in like 2008 and was basically gone by 2011.

Facebook passed MySpace in 2010 and continued to go all the way up to about 2014 where it peaked.

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Snapchat peaked in like 2016 and is already starting to fall.

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opening day of baseball today.

It is.

I'm very excited as most people are about, of course, the Toronto Blue Jays home opener today.

I have a soft spot for baseball.

Baseball is probably

the only sport that I like.

Really?

Yeah.

I like baseball.

And one of the reasons why I like it is because it's so slow.

You know, it's not, you know, you're just kind of sitting there.

It's more just of a social event.

You can sit there and you're like, oh, finally something happened.

Anyone happen here?

Okay, good.

And

it's slow enough.

I like that.

Well, it's not just the sport and the social aspect.

There's also the ballpark food, which is a big attraction.

And every year they announce the new foods that are coming out in all the parks.

This one's controversial, though.

It's here in Texas at Globe Life Park for the Texas Rangers.

The Dilly Dog.

Okay, so it's a giant hollowed-out

best-made pickle.

Oh, no.

That is stuffed with a beef hot dog, dipped in battered, and deep-fried.

It's worth it.

I didn't have you until deep-fried, did I?

No, you didn't.

Okay, so you had me dipped in batter and deep fried.

Right.

So

pickle, so that it would be from the inside.

From the inside out, hot dog, inside a pickle, inside corndog,

deep fried.

So you'd give it a shot.

I give it a shot.

I'm a big fan of corndogs.

Look at me.

I'm a big fan of corndogs.

You think I could tell that by sight?

Oh, yes.

Oh, yes.

I don't look like a guy who eats fair food.

You may look like a guy who eats fair food.

Yes.

That does not

restaurants and asked if they could just make a corn dog.

What?

They always claim no, but I think it's because they don't want to.

I mean, they could clearly do it.

They don't want to.

They think they need a corn dog batter just hanging around?

Yeah, you could, yeah, sure.

You make some batter, throw that around a hot dog, stick a stick in it, drop it down, good stuff.

See if I can say on this, the triple B.

It's

a burger.

It's a bacon, brisket, and bologna

burger topped with barbecue sauce.

I'm out.

You're out.

I'm out.

Okay, how about this?

Cheetos jalapeno bacon dog.

It's got a hot dog wrapped in bacon covered with Cheetos cheese sauce topped with spicy jalapenos and crunchy Cheetos.

No.

You're out on that?

I'm out.

All right.

Let me give you.

Oh, God.

Some of these are just.

All right.

And this is another.

Can I tell you something?

I went to a Yankees game in New York

in the old stadium and then went and then like the next day had to fly out Seattle to Seattle, had a meeting and went to a game in Seattle.

It was a completely different, it was a completely different experience.

When I got to Seattle, you know, everybody was like, Can I get you an espresso?

And I'm like, You would have been beaten to death in New York if you would have asked that question.

Glenn Beck, Mercury.

This is the Glenn Beck program.

Now that you reminded me that it was the first day of baseball, now you've got me all nostalgic.

I didn't know.

I know, I know.

It's weird.

It really is weird.

Because what you like about sports, and the only thing you like about sports, is that sort of nostalgic connection to family.

You know, it makes me think of my dad, and I don't know why.

I mean, we, you know, well, I do, but

I don't know.

I'm all nostalgic now.

That's bizarre.

I do.

It is.

You know, I think this is the first time that that's done that to me.

You know, I, I, uh,

you know, we've, we've not, uh, we've not talked about my father's passing at all, and I got very quiet about my dad.

Um, I, if you're a long-time listener of this program,

you know, that uh, for years my dad and I didn't have a relationship at all, and um,

and then we had the greatest relationship, just the best,

and he was my best friend.

And about six years before he died,

during really the first year at Fox,

there was a family issue and

I really didn't talk to my dad after that.

And any conversation that we did have was really really

surface.

It was full of lies.

It was just full of lies.

And

it was bizarre.

And then

he died.

And

strangely, Trump is

part of my dad's death narrative.

I was staying at the Trump Tower in New York.

And

I had to leave quickly.

And Donald Trump called me and said,

was there a problem with the hotel?

Why did you leave?

And I said, no,

my father passed away.

And so I've just,

and we've, for reasons I'm not going to get into now,

we never

had a funeral.

for my dad.

We've never had a memorial service.

And all the kids, we just kind of went on, and it was not healthy.

I don't think that's healthy.

And

when John Huntsman died recently,

that really affected me.

And part of that was,

you know,

he played kind of a father-figure role in my life there towards the end.

And,

you know,

he was really the only reason why I called my dad toward the end

because he said, you just don't want to.

Don't let it end like that.

Don't let it end that way.

Don't let it end that way.

Even though it did, I tried not to let it end that way.

That's all you can do.

Yeah.

I mean, you can't, you know, I was there for a lot of that and saw you going through it.

It's, you, I think, did all you could do, right?

I mean, you, you were doing things for the right reasons, and that doesn't always, you know, you have those things where the last

thing you relive the last interaction you had with,

you know, a relative.

And that's,

I've, I've had that happen.

I've had several relatives die,

you know, over the past, you know, years with both my grandparents, three of my grandparents and my dad as well.

And, you know, you go back to that and you think, you know, like with my grandmother, I remember I was, I meant to call her, you know, like I had, I had a call scheduled, like in my head.

I got to call her this day.

And I didn't.

And then she passes away.

Remind me to call my aunt today.

I've been thinking about this for like three months.

I got to call my aunt Joanne.

On my to-do list right now, I have three or four people that I haven't talked to in a while that I've been meaning to call and I haven't gotten to it.

And, but like,

at first, it really bothered me because, you know, I went to go see her.

You know, she had, she was, you know, no longer communicating, but I did get down there before she actually passed away, but I never talked to her again.

And for a while, that killed killed me.

It was like, ah, geez, you know,

what was I doing?

Some stupid monologue for this dumb show instead of talking about it.

Now, all of a sudden, it's my fault.

Yes, it's actually your fault.

It's part of her death narrative.

It's Kernbeck's fault.

But, you know, I was busy with work and I just didn't get to it.

And what?

I'll call her in a week.

There's no big deal, right?

And

for a while, it really bothered me.

And then I kind of come to the conclusion that that's, it's actually a really dumb way to think about it.

You go through an entire life with someone, talking to them, all these things.

What was the breadth of that relationship?

What did you do as a whole?

The last reaction, the last thing you do with that person is no more meaningful than the first thing you did or the thing in the middle.

It's about what you did over the entire relationship.

Could it be that I'm justifying that I feel bad about not calling her?

Sure.

But overall, I think it's an actually true point.

We, as human beings,

totally overemphasize that last thing.

Gosh, I wish I did that last thing.

What does that mean?

What does it matter?

If you treated that person with respect and had a good relationship throughout your entire life, that last thing shouldn't bother you like that.

So

the last thing that

my sister

remembers about my mom was that they had a fight and that I blamed it on my sister.

You know, I am 13 years old.

I'm a kid.

And, you know, they had a fight and the next day my mom is dead.

And, you know, and I, I didn't even remember saying this to her, but I uh, she reminded me years later, I bet, uh, you know, I pointed my finger to her and said, you know, if mom is, if there's a problem, if mom's dead, it's your fault.

And so, she carried that around for years, and I didn't even remember.

I mean, it was meaningless to you, it was just a moment of anger and a tough spot, yeah.

And she carried that around as her last thing.

And I, I, one of my last things with my mom was

it was right around this time of the year, and I remember walking by her,

and she had her hands in the sink, and she was washing the pots and pans in the kitchen.

And we had a hallway right by the kitchen.

We lived in this, like,

it must have been like 900-square-foot house.

And we were walk, I walked by her, and I looked, and I stopped.

I mean, it was so, the prompting in me was so loud.

I actually stopped just past the door frame.

And

I heard, stop, stop, go back, tell her you love her, she won't be with you long.

And I thought, well, that's the dumbest thing I've ever heard.

And I didn't do it.

And I regretted that for decades, decades.

And I think, like, it's okay to have a regret over something like that.

It's okay to.

But it's not, it's not, it shouldn't.

That's me.

That's not anything with her or anything how she felt.

No, and I think we tend to define our entire relationship with someone like that by that last moment.

We just inflate its value.

The last thing I did, oh, I should have called her.

The last thing I did was have a fight with her.

Well, you know,

that's silly.

It's a silly thing to do.

You know, you overwhelm the previous 30, 40 years of a relationship because you had one argument.

you know, on one day and that happens to be the last thing.

Like, that's not the way these things work.

Especially, too, as, you know, I think we all do this, but if you're a person of faith, you really know that's not how these things work.

Oh man, this is such great news.

I mean, if you're listening right now,

I mean, really take that to heart, especially if you're O.J.

Simpson.

I mean, the last thing I did was cut her head off.

And

I mean, what about the rest of our relationship?

Yeah, that was domestic abuse,

terror.

See, again, what if they had a really nice moment as their last moment?

Would that have saved it?

No.

Okay, all right.

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Now, I feel.

I feel really bad because I'm in this, like, because you sent me off and said it's first day of baseball, I started thinking about my dad, and then, you know,

and now,

now that we've joked about O.J.

Simpson, uh, you know, and his skills, uh, now I kind of feel like I want to tell you, do you remember the story that I told you about when I when my dad and I won uh I think it was uh game six of the World Series in 1975?

Remember that?

I do remember that story.

Emphasis on story, emphasis on story.

It's not a real story.

Well, no, I don't, it's not a real story.

i don't know if you

you don't there's no need to talk about it i mean because i think

share it i think i should share it again because it was a

but you just had a real moment talking about your dad did and let's leave it there because the audience coming in at the top of the hour they will not know we just had that real tender moment So you're going to screw with the other audience?

Yeah, that didn't hear the other.

They'll be sucked into this story and they'll never see it coming.

So, you're going to, you're telling people in advance that you're going to tell them a story that's not true.

Yeah, because the people who join in the third hour, generally, the people who are in the second hour, this hour, smart.

The people who join us in the third hour, not so much.

I've seen the testing on it, not so much.

Don't think we've done that.

No, I like the people in hour two.

We tell them the truth.

People in hour three, screw them.

Yeah.

I don't know that that's a good broadcasting or business.

I just have to tell this story.

I just thought of it.

I hadn't thought of it in a long time.

And it's such a great story.

Again, emphasis on story.

So coming up at the beginning of next hour?

Yeah.

Yeah.

It's a great baseball story.

It is quite a journey.

It is a journey.

It is a journey.

Down memory lane.

Dave, my dad, and I won Game 6 of the World Series.

Memory lane, meaning you lied about the story previously as well.

I'm not, I don't know what you're talking about.

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You can get the trailer, pass it on to people and say, hey, sign up for this.

But this is the audience to spread the word.

You know, if anybody's ever said, I don't know what I can do, I don't know what I can do.

This is what you can do.

You sign up for this.

When it drops, you spread it to everyone you know.

Post it everywhere.

Because

this is so powerful and so hopeful.

It just, it's great.

And unlike your baseball memories, it's actually not completely false.

I don't know what you're trying to do.

I don't know what you're trying to do.

That is a very tender story.

And I'm...

Look at me.

I'm a little fr-schmeckled right now

on the whole memory itself and whether I can muster the strength to get through that memory.

You seem to be fine.

Well, you don't know.

You don't know.

It could fall apart at any because it's a very tender memory.

It is.

It's a tender memory.

Let's just not talk about it.

Let's just

let it be.

Just let it be.

First day of baseball.

Oh, my gosh, the memories.

You know me, I'm a huge sports fan.

So the memories of opening day of baseball.

Ah, smell of freshly cut grass and

the cry out of the neighborhood playball.

Boy, I've

this is evil.

I just want to make sure people know that.

The memory.

So

I'm going to share a memory

when we come back about

the day my dad and I won the World Series together.

The year 1975.

You'll never forget it.

Glenn really won't.

Love.

Courage.

Courage.

Truth.

Glenn Beck.

I was 11 years old.

It was the summer of 1975.

I contend it was the summer that my dad and I won Game 6 of the World Series.

And I remember it like it was yesterday.

Do you know those kind of memories that you can...

you can smell the memory.

You can smell the house.

You can smell the grass.

Everything is just so vivid.

The way grass smells right after it's been cut in the summer.

You can see the way the sun would shine and it would come through the living room window and bounce off the hardwood floor every morning.

You slept with your window open and you could feel the cool breeze in the morning.

Do you remember what it felt like every day, running and playing, just being a kid?

Summer time

meant something.

Summertime

We don't crave the summer just for the sun.

We crave it because

it was

it was the most important time in our life.

I don't know if it's like this for kids anymore, but it was in the summer that you became who you are.

You became your own person, you developed a life of your own.

It's where you found what you love,

and later who you loved.

When I was 11 years old,

I found what I loved

radio.

Radio in a bizarre way.

And my love of baseball through the radio.

But it it was all tangled up in summer, and one summer it just consumed me.

My passion.

Every single day, that summer, nine o'clock, I would meet with Jim and Freddie and my best friend Mike,

along with seven or eight other interchangeable stragglers, and we'd make about a two mile hike into a run down field.

It was right off of Main Street behind the hardware store.

And none of us had a two hundred dollar aluminum bat

or a case of brand new baseballs, and nobody was watching us.

We had an old wooden bat that had been given to Freddy by his older brother.

He had cracked it at practice, so we took some tape and we bound that bat up, held together by the tape.

The grip was so worn that you were sure to go home with a splinter or two every single day.

The ball we had found in the woods.

I grew up in the Pacific Northwest, so it was a little waterlogged.

It had been there for a few months, so it was more of a shot put than a baseball.

But that didn't stop us.

Every day,

all day, we'd be there.

And we wouldn't stop for anything, except for the trek over to the to the store on the corner where we would get a Coke or some bazooka bubble gum.

And we'd all pretend we were in the major leagues.

We'd stand there for hours with a stick in your hand, swinging away against imaginary pitchers, practice rounding the the bases, winning the game, the last game of the World Series.

Those were remarkable summer days.

But then

the real excitement

came when I came home.

Because we'd rush through dinner and we'd clean our rooms so we could sit in front of the TV and our mom would say, don't sit so close.

You're going to get eye cancer.

But we were able to watch the first few innings of the game, but only the first few innings because mom and dad were both sticklers for bedtime.

Even during the summer, we're like, there's no homework, there's no school.

We'd beg, we'd complain, we'd scream, we'd argue, we'd do, you know, I'm just down for a drink of water.

I just need it.

We did all the tricks.

Never got me past the fourth inning.

Sometime in the fourth inning, my dad would drag me up to bed, and that would be the end of my baseball adventure for another day.

Or so he thought.

It was early that summer that I discovered what I like to call the vent.

I think it's where I get my love for radio.

We had this old house, and there was this big old black iron vent at the top of the stairs, and it served as a tunnel straight to the ballpark.

We'd get tucked in.

I'd wait for mom to go to bed, and then I'd slowly open the door, and my head would peek out, and I would creep towards the hallway.

I'd carefully place my feet in a pattern that I had diligently created.

It took me a long time to find out exactly which boards creaked and which ones didn't.

Then I would slowly get on my hands and knees and I would place my face, my ear, to that cold vent.

I can still feel the cold steel up against my face and the sound of the TV.

I couldn't see any pictures, I had to make them in my mind.

As that sound would make its way up the metal tube and spill out into a picture painted by words, a picture that was so vivid in my imagination that I felt like I had front row seats right behind home plate.

I had a hot dog in my hand, a soda, a box of cracker jacks.

I could smell the grass.

I remember listening to the World Series I'd hear.

It was between the Reds and the Red Sox.

And while the broadcasters were artists with their words,

It was a number that stuck out in my head most of all, and that number was 1918.

1918.

The Red Sox hadn't won the World Series since 1918, but this year

they had to win because I wanted them to.

My dad wanted them to.

I sat there in the hallway night after night.

My knees, I swore, were bruising.

My back would ache.

Just waiting for the moment that the Red Sox would do the impossible and defeat the big red machine.

Five nights of heart-pounding suspense

red socks were down three games to two

by this time now the summer had ended school had returned my bedtime was strictly enforced

it was october twenty first i remember the date october twenty first nineteen seventy five i remember everything

it was right after the second inning that I had to go upstairs kicking and screaming, I just need another drink of water.

I can still remember my dad saying, don't worry, I'll tell you about it in the morning.

After I gave up, and as I was kind of stomping up the stairs, I remember thinking, you're not going to have to tell me.

I know I don't have to wait until tomorrow because I have the vent.

And as I hit the top of the stairs, I quickly washed up and climbed into my bed and waited to hear my mom pass by my door,

check on it, see if I was sleeping.

I was good at pretending.

I waited in my bed for five long World Series minutes, five minutes.

I heard her come up the stairs, I heard her close her door, her night was over,

and mine had just begun.

I remember getting up

carefully,

oh so carefully,

stepping out of my room, creeping across the floor, putting my feet in exactly the right spots,

make sure there wasn't a sound or a creak from the floorboard,

and I slowly, carefully

made my way to the vent.

Down on my hands and knees, my face pressed up against the cold steel.

That's when everything changed.

I wasn't there for very long when I heard a sound.

I heard THE sound.

It was a unique sound.

It was there was nothing else in the house that sounded like this, especially if you're listening for this sound.

If this sound is trouble, when you hear this sound, you don't miss it.

It was the sound that only my father could make when he pulled the squeaky lever on his tattered, you know, vinyl recliner.

I instantly broke into a cold sweat.

He's getting out of his chair.

Now, some things in life are certain.

There is death, there's taxes, and there's dad sitting in his favorite chair watching America's pastime.

Okay, okay, okay, don't panic, don't panic, don't panic.

He's just going to the fridge.

He's getting another beer.

Don't panic.

He's got to go to the bathroom.

I'm sure that's what it is.

He's not coming upstairs.

I haven't made a sound.

But I could hear the squeak of the floors downstairs, and they were not headed toward the kitchen or the bathroom.

They were headed towards the stairs.

I sat there, paralyzed, seemingly unable to move.

I don't know what happened to me.

I could not move.

I don't know when it dawned on me that it was too late.

There's no way I could get out of here and go back to bed because I'd have to run across the floor.

I'd give myself away.

This is the first moment.

As a kid.

I mean, when you were a little kid, maybe, but this was, I was at the, I was, I was becoming an adult, and yet this was the first moment that I really willed myself to be invisible.

I am invisible.

He will not see me.

Yeah, that didn't work.

Maybe it occurred to me when I...

I heard the creak of the first stair that he

he wasn't walking up the stairs but he was sneaking up the stairs my dad seemed to have the same kind of abilities that i was developing

we had something in common

i heard the creak of the first stair and then the second and then the third and my mind began to scramble for an excuse i had to go to the bathroom and i just fell i dropped something down the vent dad and i was like i didn't have a good excuse

he was almost at the top of the stairs and i could see the back of my dad's bald head I just sat there like a deer in headlights.

My only defense.

I was just hoping that I wasn't going to get run over in this accident like that deer.

I stared at my father.

He stopped at the top of the stairs, his back still not,

his back still facing me.

He still hadn't seen me.

He paused.

I was frozen.

And then he turned.

But the way he turned, he turned and looked straight directly at me.

He knew I was there with the vent.

I wondered if he had known I had been there every night before.

I sat there and I waited a very loud and unbearable punishment, and my dad

looked at me and I looked up to him, guilty eyes begging for lenience, and I just said,

Hi.

He looked at me and he smiled and he shook his head and he said, Come downstairs.

I thought I was going to get the punishment of my life.

And then he said, And don't wake your mother.

The two of us both tiptoe back down the stairs, and we sat there trying to contain our excitement as the game went into extra innings.

I'd never seen a smile on my dad's face like this.

I knew if just the two of us had rooted hard enough that the Red Sox would win.

They couldn't lose, because my dad and I were now in it together.

It was the bottom of the twelfth inning.

Upsteps Carlton Fisk,

Red Sox catcher, first pitch up and in, ball one.

Palms were sweating in anticipation.

Pat Darcy, Cincinnati pitcher, began his wind-up, and my dad said, This is it, this is it.

He was right.

Darcy released a sinker down and in.

Fisk just belted it down the line.

My dad stood up and yelled, Stay fair, stay fair, and as if any thought of my mom sleeping was completely gone and disappeared with a crack of the bat.

Stay fair, he kept screaming.

Even Fisk was standing on the plate with both hands waving, trying to will the ball fair.

My dad and I were both now standing, screaming, stay fair.

Some people would say that

my dad and I had nothing to do with the World Series that year.

Some would say that a father and a son can't make a ball stay fair.

But I know in my heart I know that's not true.

The ball banged off the metal mesh of the pole and it was fair.

It was a home run.

It won the game.

My dad and I were just screaming.

We were jumping so much.

I think we woke up the entire neighborhood in the process.

Well, everybody except my mother.

But we didn't care.

And once everything calmed down, it was just me and my dad standing there.

staring at the TV and then at each other.

Our shoulders were squared back.

Fisk could hit the ball,

but we were the ones that kept it fair.

The Red Sox would go on to lose Game Seven, but it didn't matter.

I had spent a night with my dad that neither of us would ever forget.

My Dad and I won Game Six of the World Series, and we won it together.

As I look back on

that night in October,

I can't help but think that the only way that this could have been better

would be if

just one word of this story had actually been true.

Wouldn't that have been great?

I have no love for baseball.

My dad and I.

I did have the vent,

but I used to listen to Carson.

Just mean.

After my dad was a bed, and

my mother would watch Carson, and I would listen to it on the vent.

But it's a good day for, you know, a good story for, you know, first day of baseball.

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I don't recognize the world anymore.

Glenn, back.

Mercury.

You're listening to the Glenn Beck Program.

Hello, Mike in Connecticut.

Welcome to the Glenn Beck Program.

How are you doing, Glenn?

Very good, man.

How are you?

I'm good.

Glenn, I want to thank you for telling that story today

about Family Park and the Red Sox.

I just want to let you know that that was a real story for me.

My father and my brother,

it was

quite a night.

It was definitely a connecting point with my dad.

It just, I had to pull over.

I was in the car, and I had to pull over and

listen to the rest of that story.

Now, Mike, thank you very much.

Mike, it's great.

Did you feel cheated, Mike, after you heard it was totally bogus?

I mean, yeah, I feel a little dirty.

You did feel cheated?

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah, sorry.

We all did.

We all did, Mike.

It's just such a great story.

I just couldn't pass it up, but

I'm glad that it connected with you.

Just forget the last couple of lines.

Yeah.

Definitely real for me.

For you, yes.

Good, good.

Mike, thanks so much, man.

I appreciate it.

Thanks for connecting.

God bless.

I feel a little dirty?

Yeah, I feel like

a lot of lifetime movies where I'm rocking back and forth in the shower thinking I just can't get clean.

That story will do that too.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Okay.

Hey,

let's go to the Pulse Nightclub story.

Pat?

Pretty well-informed guy.

Are you not?

I think so, yeah.

Yeah.

Tell me what you have heard on the latest on the Pulse nightclub shooting.

The latest?

Yeah, the latest.

A lot of people died in a terrorist shooting there.

That's about the latest I've heard.

Okay, so here is the latest.

Two years later,

we found out yesterday, and this should be at the top of every newsfeed.

And I've been watching all day.

I've been watching the networks.

Nothing.

I've seen nothing on the Pulse Nightclub.

Okay, try this.

So remember, it was the narrative was this guy who was an Islamic extremist, but

he was probably gay and he was repressing it.

And so, you know, America hates gays and he hated gays because he was repressing it because of his religion.

And it's all religion is bad.

And that's what made him go in and shoot, right?

So here's what we found out yesterday afternoon.

The Pulse nightclub was not his intended target.

Instead, it was Disney.

At 10 p.m., the killer arrived at the Disney World shopping and entertainment area.

He took a stroller out of his car and put a weapon in the stroller.

There's security camera footage showing him passing multiple police and security officers and then pulling the stroller back and watching their movements.

It apparently made him rethink his choice.

So wait a minute.

Revelation number one, good guys with a gun stopped him from shooting up Disney.

Then

he went into his car, he left, and he Googled downtown Orlando nightclubs.

He didn't type in gay clubs.

He just put downtown Orlando nightclubs.

Two hits.

came up that he followed the top two Eve nightclub which is not gay and Pulse he pulled up the directions to Eve, started driving, surveilled the club, then he got directions to Pulse and drove and surveilled and did the same.

He apparently decided that Eve was an easier target because he plugged the directions back into his phone, he began to drive in that direction, and then he had a change of mind.

He turned around and he went to Pulse.

Not once.

Did he make a derogatory

remark about gay people?

Everything that he said was

about U.S.

policy in the Middle East and his bringing violence to the USA mainland.

He made that call right before he went in and shot everybody up.

So this had nothing to do with homosexuality and

good guys with guns thwarted his main target.

Jeez.

How do we not know that?

How is this coming out today?

And okay, you can say, well, we had to make sure that it wasn't because of the trial, blah, blah, blah.

Okay, fine.

Why isn't this a story today?

Doesn't fit the narrative.

Simple as that, right?

That's it.

That's the only reason.

That's the only reason.

And look at how much, look how much we have done to ourselves because we were on, we were playing for our tribe.

Yeah.

Everybody was playing for their tribe.

This is about Islamic terrorism, which it was.

No, no, no.

This is about how much people hate gay people.

No, this is you're just anti-Islamic people.

No, no.

Well, he went and targeted.

This is about the gun.

No, this is about one thing.

A guy who is pissed off at U.S.

policy and believed that Allah would prepare a way for him and give him 70 virgins or, I don't know,

they're probably down some virgins.

They might get 40 now.

I'm not really sure.

But you get an unspecified number of virgins if you kill yourself and other people.

That's all this was about.

And how is it possible that that took two years to discover?

You know it didn't.

No, it didn't.

No, it was released because

of the court case.

Against the wife.

Yes, against the wife.

Who also looks, by the way, like she had something to do with this, or at least acknowledge.

I remember her being suspicious at the beginning.

Yeah.

And at first they were like, ah, now it doesn't look like it looks like she's clear, and now it looks like she's clear.

And remember what she said?

She was on the record saying, well, he looked at himself a lot in the mirror.

So that's where they took, well, he must be gay.

Must be gay.

Only gay people look at themselves a lot in the mirror.

Blacks

true, per se.

No, I don't think it is.

I find that interesting and kind of important because this, how is this not related to the news of the day?

We're arguing about the Second Amendment?

No, you have evidence right here.

Good guys with guns turned a bad guy with a gun away.

And it's more evidence because the same thing happened last week in the Maryland school shooting.

Yep.

A A good guy with a gun stopped it almost immediately, and certainly before anyone died.

One person died.

I think she died.

I think only the killer, only the shooter died.

No, I thought she went to the hospital, and I think she died.

Did she eventually die?

I think she eventually died.

Did she?

Yeah.

Yeah.

But it was a good idea.

A girl in critical condition did eventually die.

Yeah, I think she did.

But I could be wrong, but I think she did.

Certainly a different story.

A totally different story

than the Parkland shooting.

Yeah.

So they don't want, but that doesn't, again, that doesn't fit the narrative.

They don't want anything.

They got these kids out yelling about

gun rights and taking them away and how adults are soulless and they are uncompassionate.

And

the whole narrative right now is against

every right-thinking American who believes in the Second Amendment.

We're being presented as if we're terrible people who just want children to die.

I'm just really getting tired of that narrative.

Really getting tired of it.

There's going to come a time, I think, when people have had enough of

the Parkland students controlling this narrative.

And we're going to stand up and say, okay,

I don't know when that is.

I mean,

if you saw that Laura Ingram is now being attacked because she said, you know, he can't get in.

Trying to boycott her.

Yeah, they're trying to boycott her.

And they're actually saying that she had no right.

You don't do that.

You don't say those things.

Excuse me.

Now, he can say anything he wants.

Yeah, he can call Dana Lash any name in the book.

And the other thing.

And I'm sorry.

You lose your right to

civility.

Now,

I'm going to try to continue to be civil.

So.

But don't try to tell me that you are beyond reproach if you are engaging in that yourself.

Nope.

The rule has always been.

All right, kids and families are off limits.

They're not part of this.

But when the families and the kids engage in the political forum,

I'm sorry, then you're fair game.

And I'm sorry.

No matter who makes it, a point is always fair game.

If someone is making a point of view,

it's always fair game.

You don't need to personally attack someone.

But I mean, Laura Ingram is a good example.

She didn't.

He came out and he complained about not getting into a few colleges.

And Laura Ingram tweeted an article that said, well,

you're whining about not getting into colleges, but actually with your grade point average, which is actually, it was a 4.1, which is a fine grade point average, but it's not good enough to get into.

I think it was UCLA.

That's not making fun.

She's not mocking.

You need higher than a 4.1 to get into UCLA.

That's stringent.

I remember when I was a kid.

Stringent.

Like a two to fit UCLA.

I remember when I was a kid, there was only 4.0.

How high does it go now?

I don't know.

I think it goes almost to five now when you do extra credit.

Is this Common Core math?

yeah no it's just it's the new system that they have when you do extra things you can be like i think all the way up to a 4.8 i've seen i don't know if it goes higher than that maybe it does but well what we do know is that i wasn't in that stratosphere when i was a kid

we know that uh 17 year olds are of course wise enough uh to uh to to devise our national gun strategy that we know yeah that we know that that's for certain yeah you can't get into UCLA,

but you can change the Constitution.

We should follow your advice on the Constitution.

Yeah, quick.

Before you go, Stu.

Or I mean, Pat, there's

something you've been talking about on your show for a while.

Yeah.

How bad Cosmo is for kids.

You know, I hadn't thought about it that much until the campaign.

Victoria Hearst founded this campaign.

It's interesting because her family's corporation, the Hearst Corporation, publishes Cosmo, but she's not trying to censor the magazine in any way.

She just wants material harmful to minor laws applied to Cosmo so kids under 18 can't buy it.

And when you look at the articles in the magazine, it's pretty clear kids under 18

shouldn't have access to 31 different positions that you and your lesbian lover can get into.

It's articles like that

all throughout every single magazine.

And there's not 32 positions.

There's just the 31.

No, there's 31.

You're right.

You're right.

It is just 31.

It's like 31.

To make sure we know that

there's 37.

It's like Baskin Robbins, 31 players.

There's 92 different

genders.

Right.

But only 30%.

Only 31 different positions.

But it seems like the campaign is having a big effect.

Apparently, Walmart has taken it out of their aisle

stands, the little news stands in their aisles

and put it somewhere else in the store or removed it completely.

I don't know, but that's awesome that people are having, they're making a difference.

And you can make a difference if you just take a stand.

Where do you go to find this information?

CosmoHurtsKids.com.

Thank you.

Yeah.

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Glenn back.

I want to tell you again about a film that I saw last night.

It is about

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And it is absolutely fantastic.

It is something that

we have been trying to crack this code for a while.

And it is, quite frankly, the same code that even Ben Franklin tried to crack.

How do we get people to care about slavery and watch it?

Because it's such a horrible thing.

How do you do it?

And leave people with hope.

There is this amazing director, Nick Nanton, and he has

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It deals with really dark stuff, but it has so much hope in it.

They've did it with a test audience, and I think in three days they raised $3 million.

And it doesn't ask you to donate.

Just people watch it and they're like, I've got to get involved.

So please, if you've ever thought, what can I do?

This is it.

Go to ourfilm.org, ourfilm.org, and sign up so it'll be sent to you right when it's available.

Let me give you an audio of another impossible to talk about topic.

This is a rape survivor talking about

this is an amazing clip talking about being pro-life.

There's no forgetting.

No woman is ever going to forget what happened to her.

I've been told so many times that if you just had an abortion, you won't always have this reminder hanging over your head, this reminder.

Is my son a reminder?

He absolutely is.

My son is a reminder every day that as women, we can rise above our circumstances.

My son is a reminder that love is always stronger than hate and that who we are as human beings is not determined by how we were conceived.

A woman at her most broken needs hope and help and love and people rallying around her.

She does not need violence on top of violence, tragedy on top of tragedy.

I'm here tonight, one woman, but I speak for most of us when I say, stop calling my son a rapist child.

Stop calling him evil seed and child of the devil.

He is my son, and he has a right to be here.

Do not use me and my rape and my story

and the story of all of us mothers from rape who love our children as a banner,

as a banner to hide behind and excuse a genocide of the innocent.

We love our children.

That is one of the most powerful,

most powerful statements I have heard from a mother.

We'll make that available so you can pass that on as well.

We'll see it tonight at five o'clock on the Blaze TV.

Glenn, back.

Mercury.