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Glenn back Dave was watching from his window as his neighbors argued.

Expletives ripped through the thin apartment walls.

The fight was escalating quickly.

Punches were thrown, fists were flying, and then Dave caught a glimmer of silver out of the corner of his eye.

One of the men had a knife and was about to use it.

Dave, watching from the window, rushed to his bedroom, opened the bottom drawer, made his choice, and calmly walked outside.

He approached the men and just stood there.

His presence immediately caused the two men to forget all about their fight.

The knife-wielding man attempted to flee the scene, but was caught by police moments later.

The neighbor was rushed to the hospital for stab wounds.

He's expected to make a full recovery.

All because Dave

brought a gun to a knife fight.

Dave is a certified firearms instructor.

Oh, then that's okay.

Dave has a collection of guns.

Oh, wait a minute.

He's a

hoarder.

He grabbed his AR-15.

Oh my.

The AR-15 because it was a bigger gun.

He believes that the intimidation factor definitely played a part in stopping the fight.

No shots were fired.

That was never Dave's intention.

He said the AR-15 is my weapon of choice for home protection.

It's light, it's maneuverable, and if you train and know how to use it properly, it's not dangerous at all.

This is just an example of a good guy with an AR-15 stopping a bad guy with a knife.

There were no lives taken.

So, all in all,

it was a pretty good day.

Bad guy in jail.

Other guy who had been stabbed in the hospital but going to make a full recovery.

And the AR-15 back where it belongs.

People like Dave are all over the country.

Let's take a moment and just remember that there's a lot of good guys.

In fact, the good guys with guns are in the vast majority.

It's Wednesday, February 28th.

You're listening to the Glenn Beck program.

Oh my, there's a couple of things

that we have to get into today.

One is Dix, a major gun retailer, is going to stop selling assault rifles.

I would like to know, officially from Dix, what an assault rifle is.

Can anyone define an assault rifle?

It's easy.

It's a gun that could potentially hurt someone else.

That's an assault weapon.

No.

We all know that certain guns can actually do damage to other people if fired upon them.

And those guns should not be in the hands of people.

I'm going to bring in two rifles tomorrow.

And one

is an assault rifle, and the other one is not

a Lapua.

One of those will tear you apart.

The assault rifle.

It would be the Lapua.

And the Lapua will shoot through walls.

I think it will actually stop a car.

I think it'll shoot into an engine block.

It's a pretty powerful rifle, and

people have used it to

kill people in war

a mile away.

That's not going to be an assault rifle.

That's not an assault rifle.

Well, as we all know, Glenn, we've seen this many times over the past couple of weeks, when you push people who are looking for gun control on these sorts of questions.

Hey, wait a minute, how can you ban this weapon and not this weapon?

What they always say is, well, it's a good first step and you've got to start somewhere.

And then they follow it with, we're not coming for all of your guns.

Right.

Well, wait a minute.

Which one is it?

Which one is it?

Also, Brian Mast, who is a congressman in Florida and a guy who has been on this program several times,

he's a war hero and he has suddenly had a change of heart

and believes that we should take all ARs

off the market.

Well, okay, Brian.

We've invited him to be on this program today.

I hope that he takes us up because I have just a few questions and I'm sure he's smart enough to answer them and he's well thought out enough.

Now, I know he's busy with CNN today,

but it would be nice to see if he would spend some time here answering just a few questions on his new stance with ARs.

I do think, though, to be fair, An AR-15 is a weapon that can kill you from 15 miles away, and that should not be available.

No, it's really not.

No.

No, it can.

No.

No, you're wrong.

An elementary school in Pennsylvania will close today for classes this week when a nearby church, a nearby church holds a blessing ceremony involving AR-15 rifles.

The superintendent of the school district wrote in a letter to parents that students will instead be taking to schools about 15 miles away.

The superintendent said in the letter, there's no direct threat, but said that there are worries about parking traffic and the, quote, nature of the event, end quote.

See, the nature of the event, Glenn, because they have a gun.

Now, people don't realize that they walk by people all the time with guns because they're concealed carry holders or people have guns in their cars.

About 10%.

About 10% of Americans have a concealed carry permit.

Did you know that about one out of every 10 people, depending on where you are, is carrying a gun?

If you're in Texas, it's probably

10 out of 10 people.

I mean, and so you're going to move the kids 15 miles away so they don't get shot by the

mouth.

Absolutely unbelievable.

Okay, we wanted to bring on Chad Robichau because

he is a good friend and he is the president of the Mighty Oaks Foundation.

The Mighty Oaks Foundation is truly a miracle organization.

This is an organization that takes guys who have

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They are turning people away away from suicide

and turning their lives back into real productive lives.

And it's and I've met a lot of the people that have gone through this program one after another after another and they're and they're healed and it's remarkable and

a little unconventional because Jesus is involved.

Or at least you're allowed to say the word Jesus.

We have Chad on the phone now.

Hi Chad, how are you?

Hey Glenn, great to be back on.

So

you were

United States Marine Corps decorated.

You were on reconnaissance.

I mean, you've been through it all.

You know weapons.

And

you wrote a piece that I thought was really, really good about

arming teachers and also

how we just, I mean, Chad, we don't want to make our schools into a prison.

No,

No, we don't.

But, you know,

I think a lot of people forget what we did after 9-11.

You know, immediately after 9-11, there was 40 air marshals.

The government went

in this effort to have to recruit and build up the air marshal program to help harden our planes.

And one of the efforts behind that was, hey, we can't get enough air marshals, so let's look at the last line of defense, the cockpit, and let's...

arm the pilots.

And so they started a program called the FFDO program.

We took normal vocational pilots who volunteered to be extra screened and extra trained and vetted and armed our pilots and took those soft targets of those airplanes and made them hard targets and a real deterrent.

And this thing costs a lot of money and it's been extremely successful programs still to this day.

And so when people say that the president's comments on arming teachers is ridiculous, it's not ridiculous.

And, you know, we're not talking about arming every single teacher.

They go to the work and they stop

at the armory.

We're talking a small percentage, a small percentage of the right ones who want to volunteer, who want to be vetted, a volunteer to be vetted and trained and not run around the classroom or the halls like a SWAT team member, but be that last line of defense just like a cockpit.

When they're in that classroom, locked down with their students, instead of the last thing they have to do is throw their body between the gunmen and their students, because that seems to be okay, they could actually defend themselves.

And this isn't a crazy concept.

This is actually being done in 18 states right now.

And we don't hear incidents of things going sideways in these states that are doing it.

So wait, 18 states are already training like we trained the pilots?

No, no, 18 states are allowing teachers to have concealed carry on on their campuses.

And

now

I believe it should be more than that.

I don't think that's enough.

I believe that they should be vetted.

I believe they should be trained and we should provide training.

The FFDO program costs the government about $20 million a year to run.

And I can't say the numbers of how many pilots that covers because we want to keep the bad guys guessing.

But it's a lot.

It's a lot of pilots that are covered.

And, you know, when people assess if I'm going to go attack an airplane, they have to ask themselves: is there an air marshal in the plane?

Is that pilot, if I make it to the cockpit, am I going to get shot?

And the argument is, you know, well, someone's willing to die.

Glenn, you know, me, and you know,

I've been in gunfights.

And one thing I know about being in a gunfight is that even a bad guy willing to die doesn't want to get shot back at.

And just the idea that that's a hard target, target, that a plane's a hard target, that a school could be a hard target, it'll make them think twice, and they may not do it, or they may go to a different target.

And, you know, our soft targets right now in our country are our gun-free school zones, and that's not okay.

So, so, Chad, a couple of things.

First of all, you were one of the guys who trained people on planes, were you not?

That's right.

Right after 9-11, I came on as one of the very first air marshals for a short period of time.

And in helping get the FFDO program ramped up, I was one of the training officers that helped the first wave of federal flight deck officers.

So you were

an air marshal as well.

We were talking about this yesterday.

Just

saying,

even if you as a school decide amongst yourselves,

we're actually going to be a gun-free zone.

We're not going to let anybody carry guns.

But just putting a sign outside saying

security and

some teachers are armed would would be a deterrent.

By telling.

We don't ever tell.

When you're on an airplane, you don't know who the air marshal is.

We don't want teachers to be brandishing firearms or even to be known who has them because it makes them less effective.

You want everybody guessing.

That's right.

I mean, you want to create that unknown deterrent.

And

we do this around the world for our embassies and our consulates.

Just last week, we had a CNN town hall meeting.

That was a hard target.

Armed security, I mean,

no one's going to go attack a place like that because they know that there's security there.

But yet our schools, people are fighting to defend our schools to continue to be soft targets.

And I just don't understand it.

This isn't a crazy solution.

And,

you know, we have the capacity to do that.

There's lots of other things that can be done.

And you can talk about legislation and stuff like that.

But this is something that could be done and done right away.

So can you help me out on, let me switch subjects just a bit.

How do we, people right now are saying we need to get rid of AR-15s and all assault rifles need to be banned.

First of all,

no.

But second of all, let's just, can you define, Chad, what an AR is?

Well, that's the question.

And I was listening to you guys earlier.

When people talk about banning ARs, the people that are having these conversations can't even define what the AR is.

An assault rifle is.

And so so where do you draw the line of what, you know, and that line's going to, you know, as well as I do, Glenn, that line is going to continually shift as people kind of get their way in pushing this and impeaching on our Second Amendment rights.

And, you know,

it goes back to me, and I think you and I are right on the same page as this.

This isn't a gun issue.

Everyone thinks this isn't a gun issue.

This is, this is a cultural issue.

When you take, you know, God out of schools, you take fathers out of homes, you take moral absolutes out of society this is where we are and and culture is a problem i i used i went to high school in louisiana our parking lot was full of pickup trucks with gun racks on the back yeah loaded rifles me too people would probably call assault rifles and no one shot it no one shot anyone right you know but if we're gonna accept this as our culture and not change that then we have to have real solutions and and identifying certain guns and say okay that gun is not okay that's not going to change anything and it just takes our eyes off to what the real problem is you know these these these arguments.

And

we're not going to end up with any real solutions.

Do you find any validity in the argument that we just have to do something?

I mean, this is the thing that they keep saying over and over again.

We have to take some step.

We know if we do nothing, these things will continue.

Why don't we do something?

Well, you know, and I think we do do something,

but I think that...

The people that are making an argument aren't really presenting anything.

I mean, we got people marching around the country saying no guns at all.

That's unrealistic.

There's a half a billion guns in America, and who's going to go take them?

What do they start?

They're going to go in the sixth district of New Orleans or the South Shadows of Chicago or small town Texas and start taking people's guns.

I mean, that's

unrealistic.

Yeah, it's just not going to happen.

If somebody wanted to start, if a state or a school wanted to start a program like you're talking about, Chad, how do they do it?

Well,

I think we have a president right now who's willing to step up and do this and fund it.

And so I believe just

like the air marshals,

the pilots in the airlines or private corporations,

they're not training the guys.

The federal government utilized the Federal Air Marshal Service and they put a...

$20 million approximately budget together per year to fund this training.

And so I think

the federal government seems to me as they're willing to step up a training program.

And, you know, one thing teachers have, these volunteer teachers, they have three months off in the summer, and they have the time.

I'm sure the president said 20% is what he would suggest.

I'm sure 20% of the teachers would volunteer to step up and do this.

And if there isn't federal monies, I know there's police organizations, there's private organizations.

A friend of mine, Tim Kennedy, has an organization that goes around and provides free training for this type of stuff.

I mean, there's plenty of private organizations that's willing to step up and provide this solution.

Chad, I'm sure you know.

I've just got to run, but I want to thank you so much for everything that you do, and thank you for what you do for the

Mighty Oaks Foundation.

Thank you for

on behalf of the vets, thank you.

Thank you, Glenn.

Go to the website at mightyoaksprograms.org, and you can get Chad on Twitter at Chad Robo.

Former Recon Marine, Federal Air marshal, and the guy who helped was one of the first to step in after 9-11 and teach

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Dick's Sporting Goods has just made the decision that they are going to ban all assault rifles.

We'll give you all the details on this coming up in just a second.

One of the strangest things about the movement in the gun debate on this particular shooting is that it is, I think, maybe without a doubt, the most preventable shooting we've ever seen.

We've ever seen.

I've never seen anything like this.

The amount of information that keeps pouring out.

Let's listen to the gunman's neighbor.

I mean, listen to the people talking about this guy.

And you know that people knew this was going to occur.

My husband and I both knew that it was not over, that we would eventually see him one day on the news wearing an orange jumpsuit, being charged with murder.

We both knew it.

I didn't know exactly how it would happen or how soon it would happen, but I had no doubt in my mind that it would happen.

You begged this officer

to please do something.

I did.

I begged him.

And he basically told me that

it was not an immediate threat.

He couldn't do anything, is what he told me.

See, this is a problem.

I remember him leaving and just thinking, my God,

he's going to kill someone, and I can do nothing about it.

So,

here's the problem with this.

This, I believe, is where the average American is that's not engaged in the rhetoric of the left or the right right now.

They are saying, My kids are in danger.

There are things we can do.

And this one was so preventable.

What are you guys talking about?

Is this happening in my town?

Can you arrest somebody who

has this track record?

And the answer is, yes, you can.

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Well, Dick Sporting Goods has made a choice, and I think a brave choice, one that I

don't agree with, but they said they are going to take a stand and they're going to stop selling assault rifles permanently.

Now, I don't know exactly what an assault rifle is defined as.

We haven't had anyone actually define what an assault rifle is besides a scary-looking black one.

But

you can change the handles on an assault rifle and it's no longer an assault rifle.

So what do you

what is an assault rifle?

Here is

Dick, right?

No, his name is Ed, actually.

Oh, really?

Ed.

Well, he's always to a lot of people.

So

what is his name?

Ed?

Because he's the CEO of Dick's.

He would always be

Dick to a lot of people.

I'm just saying.

Okay, his name is Ed Stack.

Yes, so here.

That's so wrong.

Here is Ed, and

he's making the announcement on CNN.

Here it is.

We think it's the right thing to do.

After Parkland, we were so disturbed and saddened by what happened in Parkland that we said, we need to do something.

And we talked about what we needed to do, and we felt that we needed to make a statement that we will no longer sell assault-type rifles,

high-capacity magazines, and a few other things.

And

our hearts went out to those kids and to their parents.

And everybody talks about thoughts and prayers going out to them, and that's great.

But that doesn't really do anything.

And we felt that we need to take a standard.

The thoughts don't do anything.

Can we do something first?

Can we just address the thoughts and prayers?

The thoughts and prayers are not going out to stop violence.

I mean, yes, we pray that there's protection, et cetera, et cetera.

Thoughts and prayers are for the families and those who are trying to heal.

It's not the solution.

It's not being proposed by religious people as the solution.

Our thoughts and prayers are with the families who are grieving.

Can we stop with this nonsense that thoughts and prayers aren't enough?

Of course they're not.

But they are a part of a civilized Judeo-Christian country.

Stop belittling it.

Yeah, well, yeah, because I think that's, it's true, and that most people, when they say that, right, say thoughts and prayers as a way to extend condolences, to tell people who are victims of such things that you feel for them and you understand their grief.

If I may,

may I quote, we are deeply disturbed and saddened by the tragic events in Parkland.

Our thoughts and prayers are with all of the victims and their loved ones.

That's from Dick at Dick Sporting Goods.

So we got it.

Can we go one step further with a thoughts and prayers thing here before we get back to this audio, though?

I can understand if you are not a believer, right, that you might say thoughts and prayers are meaningless.

There's

10, 15% of the country that is atheist or agnostic, that I can understand saying that, you know, Prayers mean nothing.

Now, thoughts would still be a message of condolences, but it has nothing to do with that.

But go back to this for a second.

If you are a believer, the thing you believe is the most powerful thing in the universe you are appealing to in a moment of real crisis.

It is an absolutely incredibly meaningful thing for someone who believes.

You might not think, if you're not a believer, that

has no impact at all.

However, how many times have you said this, Glenn?

The real solution to all of this is that we turn back towards God, that we turn back towards these things.

That's a real, it's not a legislative

solution.

It's much, much bigger than that.

The prayer is not nothing to

a believer.

If you are someone who thinks it's all gobbledygook and nonsense, well, then of course I don't think that you're going to think a prayer is a big deal.

But to someone who is a believer, it's an incredibly large deal.

It's the thing that we are here to do.

It's one of the main things that are like one of the central focuses of our our lives, right?

So it's not nothing.

Saying thoughts and if you don't actually pray in addition to thoughts and prayers, oh, that's maybe you could say that that's nothing.

But when you're actually praying, when you're a believer, that's a big deal.

Our lives are supposed to be a heck of a lot more praying than we actually do.

So

beginning today, Dick Sporting Goods, which, by the way, I support dicks

being able to do this.

They're a private company.

They make their own choices.

I think this is wrong.

I think it's a,

could be a fatal mistake for their business

because I don't think that the average person

is with this.

I really don't.

You know, you look at the people's

companies who have started to say, I'm distancing myself from the NRA.

None of them have had growth because of it.

All of them have had massive hits to

their likability scores.

Every company polled had an overall decline by double digits and well into the double digits

from overall opinion about them.

Because you get a slight

bump from Democrats, yes.

And you get a gigantic falloff from Republicans.

So all you're doing is you are choosing sides.

You are instead of saying, look,

we believe in the Constitution.

We believe in the right of assembly.

We believe in the right of association.

We believe in the right, freedom of speech, and we believe in the Constitution as the Second Amendment.

And

we're here to serve all Americans.

Now,

you guys work it out.

Until then, we're here to serve all Americans in a legal and responsible way.

That to me is the way you save your business.

Those who want to choose a side, either side, I think you are making a massive mistake, massive mistake.

Dicks will be the number one sporting goods store in places like Boulder, Colorado and

Los Angeles and New York City.

But I think I can't imagine any of my neighbors in Idaho are going to go into a Dicks sporting goods.

They can't choose Cabela's.

Yeah,

there's other choices.

They'll choose.

So they said, we will no longer sell assault rifles, also referred to as, quote, modern sporting rifles.

We have already removed them from the dick stores after Sandy Hook, but we will now remove them from sale at all 35 field and stream stores.

Field and stream stores.

Well, what am I going?

Why would I go to now?

It's just a stream store.

Now it's just a stream store.

You should stop selling

fish.

We will no longer sell firearms to anyone under the age of 21.

Again, this is their right to do this.

Absolutely.

We will no longer sell high-capacity magazines.

This is one of the most ridiculous things I've ever heard.

High-capacity magazines.

Okay, so you've made every single sports shooter life a nightmare.

Trying to load them if you load them by hand is a nightmare.

And anybody who knows anything about guns knows I can drop that magazine and shove another one in really fast.

I just take a breath to pause and shooting to put a new magazine in.

It's a ridiculous idea.

And not to mention, with the age of the internet and being able to order things from God knows where, plus the idea of 3D printing.

These bans are meaningless.

We have never and never will sell bump stocks that allow semi-automatic weapons to fire more rapidly.

Now, I agree that bump stocks, I think think that's a nightmare.

I think that's a, I think that's someone trying to get past the law.

But again, 3D printing, and I don't know if you know this, but the way those started was from people using their belt loop on their jeans.

Yeah.

I mean, you'd ban the belt loop.

Ban the belt loop.

This is not going to do anything.

And as we pointed out a little while ago, first,

define AR.

Tomorrow we're going to try to do this.

Define AR.

What does it mean?

An AR is not assault rifle, right?

Like a lot of people say that it is, right?

It's the brand of that particular gun, the AR-15, right?

Assault rifle, our modern sporting rifle.

A modern

sporting rifle.

Is this class of weapons?

Because

an AR, you could at least say, is a brand.

Right.

Like, you can't say that about assault rifles.

It is a meaningless term.

We all know it's a meaningless term.

But again,

these solutions are not designed to solve anything.

No, they're trying to make people feel better that we've done something.

So

let's actually do something.

Let's harden our schools like we have our airports and our banks.

Is there more treasure in Fort Knox or in our local school?

Why can we not have air marshals in our schools?

Why can we not have responsible policing in our schools?

Real policing set up for this.

The times have changed.

Having Barney Fife, you know, on call

is not what we need.

And is that going to be successful in every circumstance?

No, we saw in Parkland that they actually were relatively well prepared for this particular incident with someone very close by that was able to be there in one minute.

I mean, I don't know if you're ever going to improve on that situation.

You just actually have to execute your training.

Assault weapons have been around since Vietnam.

Since Vietnam.

They just became popular because they look cooler.

We've had access to them, in fact, bigger access to them

since Vietnam.

We didn't have this problem.

There's a problem in society with our souls.

There's a problem.

And what is that problem?

We don't see each other as people.

So now what do we do?

Divide ourselves even more and say, you're part of the problem, you, that half of America.

I refuse to do that to the people who are trying to limit guns because I know a lot of people who believe this.

I think they are ill-educated.

They are not well educated on this particular topic.

They have no experience with them and they're afraid of them.

I understand that.

I grew up around them, you didn't.

But if you're talking about a constitutional right, you need to educate yourself.

You have to know what it is.

Then you have to know

what is the record?

Because we've already done this.

We've banned assault weapons.

We banned them.

According to the very right-wing Bill Clinton Justice Department, it did what, Stu?

Yeah, it was actually a little bit later than that, but yeah, they did.

They found that it had no decrease in the murder rate at all.

No.

No decrease in the gun homicide rate.

It did nothing.

I mean,

it did nothing.

That's quite a, we've already tried, and this is their far-reaching thing, right?

The assault weapons ban, nobody believes they have a chance of passing.

I mean, you know, they're talking about trying to to get certain things done, raising the age and things like that, that have maybe a prayer of being done since the president has kind of indicated potential support for them, but there's no.

So my 19-year-old daughter, who's

going to college, she can't carry a gun.

If she has a stalker, if she has something that she's very concerned about, she couldn't keep a gun until she's 21.

So my daughter...

is

wide open for rape if she were in college until she was 21.

In the middle of the Me Too movement, too, which is interesting.

Here's the thing: you're trying to tell us that one out of every one women seemingly get raped in college.

Everybody gets sexually harassed all the time, yet women cannot protect themselves.

And at the same time, you have a woman who

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A woman who's not strong enough to fend off an attack of a man

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you're going to be able to stop them without a gun?

You're going to be able to stop what?

We're just going to write off all women who are under 21.

Yep, you're going to have to fend for yourself.

I don't think so.

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We think it's the right thing to do.

We, you know, after Parkland, we were so disturbed and saddened by what happened in Parkland that we said, we need to do something.

And we talked about what we needed to do, and we felt that we needed to make a statement that we will no longer sell assault-type rifles.

high-capacity magazines and a few other things.

And what the our hearts went out to those kids and to their parents.

And everybody talks about thoughts and prayers going out to them, and that's that's great, but that doesn't really do anything.

And we felt that we needed to take a stand and do this.

Great messenger.

That is the

CEO of Dick's Sporting Goods, and we support his right to make that choice as a business.

I think it's an ill-advised choice for business, but also it's just

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Glenn Beck.

Do you remember Michael Wolf?

He's the journalist, quote unquote, who hung out in the lobby of the White House until he gathered enough dirt to write Fire and Fury.

Well, he's been on an international book tour to promote that book, and things have not gone so well for him as they did here in the U.S.

During an interview with an Australian TV news show, Wolf was asked about his recent comment to Bill Maher saying that he was absolutely sure that President Trump is currently having an affair.

Wolf was doing the interview from London and he suddenly claimed he couldn't hear the Australian interview's question because something was wrong with his audio connection, which is weird.

Sometimes happens, sometimes doesn't.

But

later, the Australian news show posted the footage from their London studio showing that there were no audio problems.

So probably

sometimes it doesn't

was

what really happened here.

He just didn't want to answer the question.

When Wolfe was on Bill Maher's show, he encouraged the audience to read between the lines of a passage in Fire and Fury where he includes suggestive language about Trump and U.S.

Ambassador to the U.N., Nikki Haley.

Okay.

So when the British TV interviewer tried to clarify Wolfe's innuendo about Trump, Haley, and other possible affairs, Wolf said, and I quote, I assume.

I assume because this is Donald Trump, and I think it's, you know, absolutely a fair assumption, end quote.

Well, gosh, I'm pretty sure that

that's one of the first things they should be teaching in journalism school to never assume anything because it makes an, I don't need to say it, do I?

Well, no, for Wolf, I do.

It makes an ass out of you and me if I went along

even when it involves Donald Trump you shouldn't assume Wolf stands by his own journalism though saying there's no difference between the journalism in Fire and Fury and books by Bob Woodward

really

so what is Michael Wolfe hoping to accomplish here besides racking up book sales

Well, after a rough few days of being asked uncomfortable questions by European journalists who didn't have a dog in the fight, they just had had real journalistic questions for him.

Wolf has had enough of the heat.

He canceled a BBC interview yesterday saying, the tour has just taken a toll.

I'm sure it has.

Probably less on your body and more on your reputation.

Assumptions by the left and the right

about each other.

Those are taking a toll on us.

We have pulled up an anchor of reason and we are

sailing straight into choppy waters of accusation, innuendos, and out and out lies about both sides.

Let me make a plea.

Could we try it for a day to stop assuming the worst about each other?

For instance, we just did a monologue on

Dick's sporting goods.

I don't think the worst of them.

I don't.

I think they're reasonable people that feel that they're doing the reasonably right thing and they have a right to do it.

I just think they're wrong.

But I don't want to see dicks go out of business.

I think they will eventually because of this, but I think that's because they're out of step.

But you know what?

Maybe I'm out of step.

Maybe I don't know what America is anymore.

But here's the thing.

We have to stop hating each other and assuming the worst.

We have to work to fix reason firmly in her seat.

And yes, question with boldness,

but question honestly and have an open mind where to where if you hear a new fact, you're like, okay, I didn't know that.

Let me look into it and let it

risk enough

that you might change your mind

if there's a good enough case of reason

question

but pursue the truth and let's stop pursuing just a win for our team

we need a lot less fire and fury and a lot more honor and humility

it's wednesday February 28th.

You're listening to the Glenn Beck program.

You know,

just want to read a good book.

I'm reading a couple of books right now that make my head hurt.

I tweeted last night,

don't just read Jordan Peterson's book,

The 12 Rules to Live By.

Listen to it.

I've read it, and now I'm listening to the audio version.

You can tell he's crying at parts of it.

And it says so much about him.

I have so much more respect for him.

I've read the book, listen to it, and it takes on a whole different, deeper meaning.

But I'm reading that, and I'm reading

another one about the Enlightenment.

And I just, you ever just want to just curl up with a good book and just feel good?

There is a new book out by Mark Weinberg.

The name of the book is Movie Nights with the Reagans.

Here's a guy who worked with the Reagans all the way through the White House years and then beyond and would go to Camp David on the weekends and watch movies.

Now they're all classic movies.

And learned a lot about the Reagans and life and has put it in a new book, Movie Nights with the Reagans.

Mark, welcome to the program.

Good morning.

Happy to be here.

How are you?

I'm good.

How are you?

Very good.

So

when you were going to Camp David, I mean, first of all,

let's just talk.

What was it like to be, I mean, I don't know if you would classify yourself as a friend, because you're probably too humble.

But what was it like to be in the friend zone

with Ronald Reagan?

It was an honor to work for the Reagan, and it was a special treat to go with them to Camp David on weekends and watch movies and this book brings that picture of them to the reader.

It's a picture that hadn't been seen before and I was very excited to share it with everybody.

So

tell me about the most memorable because you go through and it's such a great way to read this book.

You go through the movies that you saw with them.

So every chapter is a different movie.

Nine to five, O God, Book Two, Raiders of the Lost Ark on Golden Pond, Chariots of Fire, Top Gun, Untouchables.

So what did you learn in each of these?

And

what are your favorite memories?

Well,

the most important memory, I guess, is how important movies were to the Reagan.

You know, I point out in this book that the movie business is where they came from, where Nancy Reagan and Ronald Reagan met, and their lives began together, and it formed the basis of everything in their adult life, essentially, and taught him some very valuable skills about how to lead the nation.

And I think the book is a gentle reminder of the kindness of Ronald Reagan and his love for movies.

I think there's a nostalgia now for him, even on the left, for people who didn't agree with him, because he had a way of appreciating what unified us.

And in the 1980s, movies were one of those things.

There were some amazingly important and impactful and entertaining films of the 80s, and how the Reagan reacted to them was something I was very privileged to see and very excited to share with you.

So let's talk about the reaction to some.

For instance, you say that War Games may have influenced Ronald Reagan on his nuclear policy.

Tell me about that.

I remember watching War Games and what I remember most about it is that usually after the movies,

Camp David in their lodge, Aspen Lodge, there would be a very robust discussion of the movie, what people thought and how the movie was made, and the President and Mrs.

Reagan would share stories, many of which are in this book, about behind the scenes of Hollywood and Regale Us.

After War Games, it was oddly silent.

It was what I would call a sobering movie because it introduced the possibility that by accident there could be a nuclear war.

And as you know, Ronald Reagan was unalterably committed to keeping the world safe and free from that threat.

And I think this really

made him think.

Now movies didn't form policy for him, but it certainly was one that made him think.

And that silence in Aspen

was very uncharacteristic.

If you go through and read about the rest of the movies, as you know, you'll read that there's a lot of fun and interesting stories that they share and laughs and so forth.

But this one was different.

So, there was one other place that you say in the book was oddly silent, and it was after this line

in Back to the Future.

Listen.

Then tell me, future boy.

Who's President of the United States in 1985?

Ronald Reagan.

Ronald Reagan?

The actor?

Then who's vice president?

Jerry Lewis?

I suppose Jane Wyman is a first lady.

Well, wake up.

And Jack Benny is secretary of the treasury.

You gotta listen to me.

I got enough pastor social one evening.

I think this is such a funny scene.

And you describe this as, you know, the laughter was there until I suppose the first lady is Jane.

Wyman.

You could hear the oxygen go out of the room because that was a name that just wasn't mentioned.

And some of us exchanged worried glances.

No one said anything.

You know, Mrs.

Reagan clearly heard it.

Movie ended, and it was a funny movie.

The Reagan laughed through most of it.

And we didn't quite know what to say.

But someone broke the silence by saying something about Jack Benny because he was a friend of the Reagan's and just had a nice conversation it never came up again and I had an interview with Mrs.

Reagan before she passed away it was her last interview actually as far as I know at her home in Los Angeles and we talked about the movies that we watched at Camp David and she was very excited about the fact that I was going to share this story because this is a side of them that had never been written about and was so special to them watching the movies and I brought up what some of the favorite memories were and I brought that back one back up but did not mention the Wyman name I also tell a story in this book without giving it away about the only other time I heard Jane Wyman's name and that was from Ronald Reagan's own mouth

let me let me ask you about nine to five you say nine to five angered the Reagan and actually was the reason or was one of the motivating reasons for such an active campaign with Nancy Reagan on Just Say No to Drugs.

Yes, you know, that was an almost favorite.

And in fact, it was the first movie I saw with them in this surreal atmosphere at Camp David.

And it was a very entertaining movie, Jane Fonda notwithstanding.

It was an entertaining movie.

But what turned the Reagan off to it was the glamorization of marijuana.

There was a scene where the three women smoked marijuana.

And that turned them off.

And in researching this book, I went back and read President President Reagan's personal handwritten diaries.

And he wrote in there that that scene made him angry, that it wasn't necessary, that perhaps they had been drinking, which was legal, marijuana was not.

That might have been okay.

And Mrs.

Reagan was bothered by it, and in fact, in one of her speeches as part of the Just Say No campaign, even referred to it, that when you glamorize or glorify these bad habits, you're not doing kids any favor.

And

I think it made them mad at Hollywood.

So, you know, as I'm reading your book, there's pictures in the middle of it, and there's a picture of you on the tarmac.

It is such an amazing shot.

You're on the tarmac, and Marine One is behind you, the helicopter, and there is a wired desk telephone that had been taped down onto the tarmac, brought out to you, and you're on this rotary dial phone on the tarmac.

Things were so radically different back then.

They were different back then.

There was no internet.

There was no cable TV.

There were not cell phones.

We used something called typewriters.

And one of the things I hope this book does is take people down that memory lane of the 80s, which I think was a wonderful time

in American history.

But you're right.

It was different times.

Before we ask the Stu has a question that if you're a big Stu fan, you know what the question is going to be.

But

can you just describe, you're at Camp David.

This is a place that, you know, the last two presidents haven't really liked.

It's very quiet and old school.

Explain what the room was like and how these movies were shown.

The Reagans loved Camp David because they could just be themselves.

They were just the Reagers.

There was no press.

There was no anything around.

It was as close to normal as they could get in their circumstances.

And that's why she and he cherished it so much.

That's why she was so happy to talk to me about it.

And that's why I wanted to write about it because it had not been revealed before.

Their home at Camp David was a modest three-bedroom ranch-style home called Aspen Lodge.

It was in the living room of that

home where we watched the movies while they sat on a couch.

A screen came down from the ceiling, a projection room at the back of the dining area in that house, and a window through which the movies were shown reel to reel, like in a theater.

The old days.

They loved Camp David because they could relax and be private.

There's a story in there about some hijinks of the Secret Service.

They just like to exhale together.

So we have one minute, Stu.

Since I was about nine years old, Mark, I was fully convinced that Rocky IV ended the Cold War.

They actually did watch Rocky IV.

What did they think of it?

He liked the fact that the American won.

You know, that never bothered Ronald Reagan.

As you go through this book, you'll find that these pro-military ones are the ones that really appealed to him the most.

Yeah, wow.

Mark Weinberg, the name of the book is Movie Nights with the Reags.

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What do you start to Mark Weinberg, his book, Movie Nights with the Reagans, which is really one cool thing about it, is taking these moments of history, like the Challenger explosion, and what were they doing around it?

It really, it's really interesting from history and really pop culture history as well.

Also, a good break.

Just a good break.

Just a nice break, yeah, exactly.

At one point, however, I do want to ask you about something from that interview.

You mentioned

that Mark might not want to call the Reagans friends, which is something that you do all the time.

Like when you're pretty much friends with someone, but you don't want to be...

I don't want to claim to be friends with people who are

in a famous way.

I mean,

Michael Bouble is a good example.

Are Michael Bouble and I, are we friends?

No.

If we're in a room together, we see each other, he's come up to me.

I didn't even see him.

And we were in a hotel lobby together.

And he is like, hey, Glenn, Glenn.

So we're...

And you'll hang out and you'll talk.

We'll talk and we'll have laughs, but we're not friends.

We're on vacation together three times.

And so I just, I think it's always important to differentiate between friends.

Right.

Well, you don't want to come off as a guy who's a name dropper.

Like, oh, yeah, he's a friend of mine.

No, he's really not.

Right.

I understand.

I understand why you use that and why you said that to Mark.

However, then you just find what he was.

with Ronald Reagan as the friend zone, which is not what that term means.

Please tell me it doesn't mean like like friends with benefits.

Well, I would say what it means is you are a friend with someone and you want to hook up with them or have more,

and they are like, and

they could keep you in a friend area.

They're not allowing you to cross the line that you want to cross.

Now, I don't know Mark that well, but I don't think that was a desire.

No, and that was not my, that was not my intent of defining their relationship.

Yeah.

I was sitting in the movie theater and I was looking at Nancy going, I'd like a slice of that pie, but Ronnie's looking pretty good in this light, too.

But I could only stay in the friend zone.

Biggest regret of my life right there.

I should have made a move when I had a chance.

The book, though, is interesting from the perspective of pop culture as well.

There's been multiple documentaries, for example, and books written about Back to the Future and the history of how that movie was made.

And I mean, tons has been written about that.

I have never heard the anecdote that the Reagans were watching that movie.

It talks about how they loved Michael J.

Fox because he played Alex P.

Keaton, who was a cool young Republican on TV.

And then the Jane Wyman thing, where the room fell silent, I don't think I've ever heard.

Yeah,

really good stories, and it's a good break from the nonsense.

It'll take you back to something I want to talk about next:

better days?

Glenn back.

Mercury.

This is the Glenbeck program.

Can we just take a just

take a second here and get out of the

nonsense, the stuff that just really doesn't

matter in the end?

And let's look at what matters most, and that's us and each other and

our fellow countrymen and our children.

You know,

if you feed yourself with this garbage every day, like I have for the last 20 years, you, I mean, you just, you're,

you can become cynical.

You can become very cynical.

And you can

start to believe things that aren't necessarily true about each other, but about our own lives.

You know,

we were talking about this book, Movie Nights with the Reagans, which is a great read, and it'll just kind of take you back to a simpler time.

Was it?

Was it really?

I mean, I think our lives were simpler because we didn't have Federal Express.

We didn't, I mean, I, you know, remember, Federal Express at the time was, was turned down by I don't know how many banks because they said nobody needs a document overnight.

Now it's like, I need it right now.

So our lives were simpler then, but was it really any better?

I mean, I remember during the Reagan years,

I remember working in the nation's capital thinking, I'm at ground zero.

We could be vaporized.

I remember having the nightmares as a kid of, you know, those missiles flying over the pole from Russia.

I mean, it was a real fear.

We don't have that now.

Yes, we have terror.

We have North Korea.

We have Russia.

But is it any worse, really, than being vaporized, the entire world being vaporized?

I don't think so.

If you look at what our life

thinks of this, and I'll get into the stats here in a second.

Stu, just take note on some of these stats.

Homelessness since the 1980s, down.

Violent crime, down, dramatically down.

And look this stat up.

School shootings, actually down.

Death of children, the needless death of children, the mortality rate, hunger, access to education, and I mean access by everybody.

You're in the jungle with a smartphone.

Access to knowledge, to banking institutions, to

markets, to be able to make something yourself and sell it.

The freedom to speak and actually be heard.

These are all things of our day, not of the 1980s.

And so before we throw the baby out with the bathwater, let's recognize that there is a baby there.

You know what?

The only thing that I could think of that I think is really what we mean when a simpler time is we had faith in each other.

We trusted each other.

We trusted the stranger.

We trusted that

you're an American.

We're all in this together.

We're going to disagree and argue back and forth, but we're in it together.

That's the only thing that has really taken our quality of life and put it down the crapper.

Is we don't have faith in our institutions, which in some ways, maybe we shouldn't have so much faith.

We shouldn't have blind faith in those institutions.

So maybe that's even good.

But losing our faith in each other is,

I think, the biggest loss of anything in my life that I have witnessed happen.

We have to regain that.

And I'm not convinced that if social media exists in the 80s, that's the first thing that would have been the same way.

I agree with you.

I think a lot of times we tend to remember the things that we like and delete the things that we didn't like from the past.

We romanticize it a bit.

Plus,

there's a, I think, a general tendency to do that.

I mean,

you're going to do that as a human being, but then in it, you're also going to to delete things that didn't matter.

And we have to remember that a lot of these fights that we have on a daily basis, on a weekly basis

just don't matter.

We were talking about this yesterday.

Can you even remember what the political battle was three weeks ago?

I mean, Jared Kushner is in the news today.

You think that's going to be an issue in two weeks?

Like, these things are so fleeting and meaningless so often.

And if you go back to those times, I think you just don't even remember them.

I mean, you know, Ronald Reagan was in the midst of a lot of vicious battles and

attacks from the media.

But it was only covered 30 minutes a day on three channels.

It wasn't all-encompassing.

It wasn't every day picking apart everything that was happening.

Yeah.

And I think, you know, you look at some of the stats you mentioned, you know, violent crime rate in the United States has dropped by about 50%.

50.

50%.

50.

And we are looking at ourselves and we're saying, oh, we're living in such dangerous times.

It's down by 50%

since I was in high school.

That's incredible.

Incredible.

And if you listen to this show at all, you know that every time there's one of these like, we must do something moments, I'm usually a skeptic of them.

I'm usually a skeptic of any

like, you know, the shark attack phenomenon.

Oh, it's going to shark attacks, shark attacks.

Oh, and then you look at it two months later, like, wait a minute, there was no increase in shark attacks at all.

It just was immediately.

You're a numbers guy.

That's what I love.

You, you're, you're, you're so deeply rooted in numbers and stats that very few things affect you because you're like, actually, no.

Yeah, I try to do that.

I don't get emotional about those things.

And

I think

you wind up finding out when you look at the real information.

A lot of times it tells a different story.

Now,

even I, in that position, was shocked reading this today from Northeastern University.

Here's the headline.

Schools are safer than they were in the 90s.

That's not a huge shock because the crime rate's down.

But school shootings are not more common than they used to be.

They go through stat after stat.

They show the charts.

Mass murders

going back all the way to the 90s.

School shootings and mass shootings 1992 through 2015.

I mean, an absolutely noticeable decline.

Decline.

Decline in the amount of mass shootings and school shootings.

Students killed per million in fatal school shootings from 1992 through 2015 is when this study shows have dropped by 80%.

Wait, say that again.

Students killed per million, so that's a rate, right?

We're not talking about a raw number, we're talking about the rate of killing.

Students killed per million in fatal shootings from the 90s to today has dropped by about 80%.

It's just happening in mass.

That's, I guess, the same thing.

But even mass shootings.

School shootings have gone down.

Incidents per year down.

Question with boldness.

Question with boldness.

I have a question.

Go ahead.

Would that make a case for the gun-free zone?

Because in the 90s is when they put that in.

I mean, it's hard to make that case given the stat we've talked about many times that over 98% of mass shootings have happened

since 1990 in gun-free zone.

So it's hard to imagine that that is the factor there.

It's important to John Lott.

It's always worth looking at.

Yeah, let's look at that.

It's always worth looking at.

I mean, what are the other things that have, what are the other things that have changed that?

Well, I mean, I think the biggest thing, and this is why, this is kind of the genesis of this conversation that we started having during the break, is that a lot of times we focus on

little things that enrage us or inflame us on a daily basis, and we lose track of the bigger, larger trends that are much more important.

As you pointed out, we were on the verge of nuclear holocaust through this period we were just reminiscing about, right?

And now, with crime rates down and with, I mean, even if you believe the world is unstable as we do, and there are a lot lot of risks out there, geopolitical and otherwise, you have to know that there's been a giant reduction in nuclear weapons worldwide.

The fact that Russia is no longer, or the Soviet Union

does no longer exist with the amount of nuclear weapons that they had, while still dangerous, is a certain improvement.

The fact that they are weaker than they were

at their peak is an improvement.

We have downgraded the amount of nuclear weapons that we have.

I mean, they built the Tsar Bamba back in the the day, the biggest nuclear weapon ever.

It was like, you know, 50 times the biggest that we ever made.

And they, they actually tested it.

Now we're talking about lower yields and more, even in the nuclear realm, we've improved quite a bit.

But some of these improvements are absolute

knock your socks off.

You know, worldwide, since 1990,

there has been a 53% drop in the amount of of children dying before age five.

A 53% drop.

This started after Reagan, right?

It used to be 17,000 kids that were dying every day that today don't die, that live, because I would argue

large-scale capitalism spreading throughout the world and improving

life.

Let me share something.

I was sick a couple of weeks ago, and I had the flu, and this was the worst flu I've ever had.

I mean, it was, it was diabolical.

I mean, it ran through our family.

I'm sorry, I didn't mean to demonize the flu.

It was, it was,

I don't even want to say it was bad.

It was strong.

Right.

But everybody in the family was sick.

We were all in bed.

And I've never experienced something this violent before.

And so I was thinking, I was thinking, my gosh, we're all down.

And I started thinking, you know, typical Glenn Beck thinking, imagine the Spanish flu of 1918.

Oh, my God.

Where I think it was a third of the population died.

A third.

Imagine how weird that was.

I was out with a friend on Monday and I said, how's the family doing?

Because they've been down for about a week and a half.

Everybody is sick and his wife is sick.

And he said, He said, Glenn, he said, this is the first time in my life I've ever actually thought of, wow, what was it like when people just get the flu and just die?

I mean, think of that.

We don't even, we don't really even, people still die for the flu, but it's not something that goes through your head.

It's, yeah, you don't even consider it.

It's unthinkable when it happens.

But it could give you this again: 17 kids died in this shooting, and it's an incredibly big deal.

It's not a small deal.

We should absolutely try to solve those problems.

But in this span, we've been talking about this, five times as many kids in the United States have died died from the flu.

Have died from the flu.

85 kids, this is as of last week, had died in this flu season from the flu, which has been a really bad flu season.

And while it's absolutely vitally important that every one of these lives matters, we have to put it in perspective and realize how good things have gotten on this point, Glenn.

I was talking about with all these kids that

used to die, that now live.

That number is over 6 million kids worldwide that would die in 1990 and live today.

But when you ask people, has poverty gotten better or worse?

70% of people say it's gotten worse.

70% think it's gotten worse.

This is an incredible achievement.

Probably the biggest achievement any of us will ever even consider.

You're saving 6 million people per year, and that's just children.

And we totally ignore it and we romanticize past eras.

So the big things have gotten much better, but you're right, there is that constant angst that seems to just never go away, and it makes us feel a lot worse.

I think it's because of, and I'm not blaming it on social media, I'm saying it is leading us

to view things with distorted vision.

We compare ourselves to other people, we compare ourselves to a better lifestyle,

we are constantly thrust into left-right discussions, them versus us.

It's not good for a society.

And if we can,

let me

finish where I started.

We have to work hard.

We did not think about dividing ourselves and plan on how to divide ourselves.

I think others may have, Russia, but we didn't.

But it is going to require all of us to think: how do we repair this?

And if we can just find basic faith and goodwill in each other, we're going to be okay.

So, if there is a disaster, how do you know you're going to be okay?

I mean, what do you do?

Honestly, what do you do to not have all of this angst?

You just prepare,

you know, what you're supposed to know, do what you're supposed to do, get it done, and then it's fine.

There's a disaster.

There's a disaster in my house.

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Glenn Beck Mercury.

Glenn back.

I'm having a really hard time with this stat that

school shootings and mass shootings are even down.

From

can you?

I don't, I mean, I can't get my arms around this.

I can't either.

I was, again, stunned to read this today.

Again, it's from Northeastern University.

They talk about all the, they have all the research posted.

I just

tweet it again from at World of Stew, and we'll get it from at Glenn Beck as well.

But they show all the charts, and this is,

again, they don't necessarily agree with all of our solutions either.

I mean, it's not like a conservative study that's trying to defend our positions.

But, you know, back in the early 90s, it was as high as about, I'm, you know, trying to read a chart here, but about 30.

about 30 incidents per year.

And again, they mass school shootings, multiple victim school shootings, and fatal school shootings.

They cover all three of them.

And most of them, of course, are just fatal school shootings, which are, you know, one person, but it goes down.

It was, you know, up around 35, and now it's down to around five per year.

Unbelievable.

Believable.

Unbelievable.

We'll really delve into this later on on the Blaze TV and more tomorrow.

What do I mean?

Glenn, back.

Mercury.

Love.

Courage.

Truth.

Glenn, back.

I wanted to share a letter with you that came in that was unusual.

I have been saying for a while, let's, you know, the minute we start to try to win is the minute we lose.

By trying to win and winning,

it means that everybody else loses.

It's why we need reconciliation.

We need reconciliation with each other and we need it with the truth.

We don't need wins.

We need an honest search for truth.

How can we make life better?

How can we solve things?

And how can we do it together?

Now, that doesn't mean we're going to agree on everything.

And it doesn't mean that everybody's going to join in.

But there has to be some effort made.

I got this email in and I wanted to share it.

Dear Mr.

Beck, I never thought I would be writing to you, especially not to thank you for anything, but here I am.

As a 23-year-old liberal who was pretty politically aware throughout middle and high school, you once represented one of the biggest problems our country had to me.

But after listening to you, I have felt something I haven't felt in a long time.

Hope.

True, honest to God, hope.

Hope for the future of this country.

Not the kind of partisan hope that, quote, my team wins, end quote, but the kind of hope that we can all figure out that we're all on the same team, the American team.

I had honestly given up, mister Beck.

American politics were beyond saving in my eyes.

But if Glenn freaking Beck of all people can come out and extend an olive branch and try to start building a bridge between the two Americas, then I know I shouldn't give up.

Please don't try to stop fixing this.

You're going to take flack from both sides.

The right is going to call you a traitor, and the left will call you a liar.

But you will have my support, and you'll have the support of everyone else who is fed up with the constant war of outrage and scandal.

Thank you.

Let me just reply: no, thank you, Max.

It's Wednesday, February 28th.

You're listening to the Glenn Beck program.

So we all have to look at what we can do in our own lives

to

make the world a better place.

I know that Ben Shapiro has come out, and on the Daily Wire, he has said, we are not going to publish the name or the likeness and make this kid in Florida famous.

And we have said that for a long time.

We don't use the name on the radio.

The Blaze has not had an official policy on that.

And I really want an official policy on it, but I want it rooted

in things that actually have some backing to it.

What really does make a difference?

If the media would do certain things,

would that help?

Well, there is a guy who has studied this for a long time, Ari Shulman.

He is the editor of the New Atlantis, and he has a Wall Street Journal article out, What Mass Killers Want and How to Stop Them.

Ari,

can you help me design a policy for our media outlet so we don't help mass killers?

Well, I can try.

Thank you for having me on the show, first of all.

Yeah, so I've been writing about this issue for a few years, and what I did was I just looked into the psychology and criminology research that has been around for about 20 or 25 years on mass killings, and I was trying to look at this question of what motivates them.

And the answer is that there are a lot of different things that motivate them individually.

They all have some sort of grievance.

The main commonality is that they all get to a point where they decide that the world is to blame for whatever they are frustrated about in their own lives, and they want to inflict their rage upon the world in a kind of spectacle of theatrical public violence.

And one of the commonalities of that is that they feel a sense of frustration and and impotence that they don't have any control over their lives and they don't have any meaning in their lives.

And so this act in which they usually intend to die is a way of trying to give their lives a kind of final meaning.

And part of that is to create a sort of infamy for themselves and for their action.

So there is a wealth of evidence that shows that

mass killers, especially after Columbine, are obsessed with previous events.

A lot of them are obsessed with Columbine.

Many of them became obsessed with the Virginia Tech shootings.

There becomes this kind of chain of obsessive interest in each other.

The New Town shooter, for example, actually kept a spreadsheet where he was keeping track of all the mass shootings that had happened and the details on them, which had the highest body counts and so forth.

And so there is a lot of evidence that what's happening here is that there are these there's this class of frustrated young men who are essentially trying to one-up each other, to outdo each other, and that part of that is their desire to create a kind of infamy for themselves in their death.

Okay, so you let's just take this list one by one.

You say never publish the shooter's propaganda.

Yes.

So I think the the worst example of this would be the Virginia Tech shooting where the the shooter actually minutes before he committed his act

dropped in the mail to NBC News a video that he had created where he was ranting about the world and all of the people who had wronged him and how he was about to get his revenge.

I think that it is really appropriate to view this as a form of propaganda.

Mass shootings in general, I think, can be understood as a form of apolitical terrorism.

It's terrorism without any very strong political content, but it is still designed to inflict terror upon society and to target innocent victims.

So when you publish that kind of propaganda or manifestos or any of that kind of stuff, the Sutherland Spring shooter left a manifesto, you are allowing them to control the meaning of that event.

And what that does is that creates a motive or an incentive for the next shooter to know, well, if I go and do a big enough shooting, then I will get to control the meaning of that event and my words will get out there and I'll become a kind of anti-hero.

And I assume this is one of the things that I assume this you'd be you'd say the same thing about terror.

I mean, you know, actual the Islamic Middle Eastern terrorism.

Yes, I think that that's right.

I mean, I I've studied mass shootings a little bit more than actual political terrorism.

The aim of the terrorist is not to

actually destroy his enemy physically.

It's to inflict a kind of psychological triumph

where the victim

is made to feel powerless in this event.

And part of that is crafting a kind of narrative around that.

And I think that that is a commonality with mass shootings.

So hide their names and faces

is the next one.

But I want to jump to this one.

Don't report on biography or speculate on motive.

In this particular case,

the biography or the history of this kid has been extraordinarily valuable to figure out what happened.

Yeah, so of all of the things that I wrote in this piece, I wrote this piece about four years ago.

That's the one that I would probably the most want to walk back from now.

I think what I would say about that is that

there's often an excessive focus on trying to find out what is the motive for this person.

There's always this question.

People describe these as this is senseless.

There doesn't seem to be a reason that this person killed killed the particular victims that he did.

And my answer to that is that the motive

should be understood as kind of self-directed and as a desire to just

get infamy and notoriety for oneself.

When people are asking about motive, they're usually trying to find out, you know, did the particular victims actually wrong the perpetrator in some way?

And the whole point of these acts is that the victims didn't even really know the perpetrator.

The perpetrator is deliberately trying to

kill innocent victims.

And so I think that there can be an excessive focus on trying to make sense of these acts and kind of in the terms of sort of normal crime where there is a deliberate targeting.

So I think that's what I was trying to get at with

that one.

Obviously, in this case, the reporting on his biography has been extremely valuable, so I think I would put a little asterisk around that now.

The minimize specifics and gory details and kind of the no photos and videos of the event, I think these are kind of explained together that

we're not looking for photos and videos that are gory or that glorify or show in action the shooters.

But, for instance, you know, having pictures of the scene, Let's Take Las Vegas.

I don't even know what the shooter really looked like.

And we didn't see any videos of him except in the window.

Should we have done the videos of the scene?

as it was as it was going, but not showing the shooter?

What I'll say about this is just that I want to recommend that there is a balancing act to be had.

I think particularly when you look at past shootings, Columbine is the biggest example of this.

I think part of the reason that Columbine had such an outsized influence, and there have been journalists and criminologists who have tracked this and found that probably something like 60 or 70 mass shootings have been directly or indirectly inspired by Columbine, where there is a kind of line of obsessive influence from the shooters back to Columbine.

I think a lot of that had to do with the imagery that came out of that.

So anybody who was around and paying attention to the news reporting at the time, as I was, saw these video camera images, the security camera images in the school of the two shooters walking around the school, and it created this really iconic imagery of these shooters perpetrating this act.

So, there is obviously a value in reporting on the details of the act.

It's particularly valuable when people are trying to figure out policy mechanisms for disrupting this.

What kind of weapons did they use?

How did it all play out?

There are still a lot of questions about the details of what happened in Las Vegas, for example.

There is that value there.

The point that I want to make is that there's also a risk in doing that of allowing for the creation of iconography that will go on and inspire future shooters.

Yes.

Trying to Ari Shulman of the New Atlantis, he also wrote in the Wall Street Journal about and studied for a long time mass shootings.

I have kind of a working theory here, Ari.

Tell me if you can help me along with this.

But the Vegas incident

is a very strange one when you group it in with all these other mass shootings.

And I feel like we almost, in a way, the the media was forced into taking your recommendations and essentially experimenting whether they would work or not.

Because we didn't have a motive.

We didn't have any video of him doing anything.

And

my belief is at this point,

you could go back and name the Columbine killers, and people would have them run off the top of their heads.

Who this guy was in Vegas is basically...

I know nothing about him.

We know it's a terrible incident.

We know generally what happened, but he was not made into a celebrity out of that.

And it's the biggest mass shooting in American history, at least

going back several decades.

It seems like there's almost a test case here to show that

your ideas here actually work.

Yeah, that's an interesting point.

Yeah, so again, I first started writing about this a few years ago.

I've written a few follow-up pieces since, and the biggest thing that I wrote about this was this Big Wall Street Journal piece.

And I would probably write it a little bit differently today.

I was very much focused on the infamy and sort of celebrity aspect.

And I was particularly thinking about

Columbine, Virginia Tech, Newtown, and a bunch of the acts that had tried to imitate those, where there was very, very clear evidence that a desire for infamy and celebrity was part of the motivation.

Some of the more recent acts, it's less clear.

I think Las Vegas is one of those.

The recent shooting in Parkland, it's less clear there.

I think the same thing for Sutherland Springs.

I can name a few other examples.

So,

what would you add to this list?

There's some things that you said I might rethink that.

Is there anything you'd add to this list?

I don't know

that I would add to this exactly.

One of the things that I would say is that

there is a way to get the information out there in a less sensational manner.

So when you look at the initial reporting after a mass shooting in the first few days, a vast amount of the information turns out to be wrong.

And the way that we respond to it, part of what I was trying to get at in this is that we have a kind of ritualized response to this, where we are essentially becoming good victims.

I hate to use that phrase, but there's a desired psychological response that the mass shooting is supposed to evoke.

And

part of my criticism of the obsessive focus that the public has on these events is that it plays into that desire to kind of become good victims.

One of the things that I emphasized in my original piece is that you essentially have this self-perpetuating script or template or story that has been created so that anybody who is angry can go out and follow the script, right?

So the thing that we need to figure out is either how to decrease the power of

that script.

And I think part of that is by decreasing the saturation and the sensationalism of the reporting.

But another way might be to actually change the script or show ways of breaking it.

And I think we are actually maybe seeing something like that happening right now with the way that the Parkland students are responding to the shooting.

I don't want to get into the content of what the students are saying.

A lot of that is debatable.

But the interesting thing about it is that they're being very bad victims, right?

The way that a victim is supposed to behave and that the public is supposed to behave is to be terrorized, to say this is senseless, to say we feel helpless and there's nothing that we can do.

And so I think one of the things that I found fascinating about the Parkland students' response is that they are not behaving in a way as if they are helpless.

And I wonder if that may turn out to dampen some of the power of this script.

It's really interesting to me because I look at it in a different way, and I've never thought of it your way.

And it'll be interesting to watch because I've thought of it as if

you wanted to make a bunch of victims, then you lose.

But if you wanted to forward a movement,

you could count on that happening because of the emotion of it's it's so connected to the emotion and there's so much

attention to this now that

the shooter, whether this was his intention or not, and I don't think it was, I think he was nuts,

there is action and the country has stopped because of his deed.

Yes.

So I think that there are two different ways that you can see the way that the country is responding as a success or a failure in terms of what this shooter was attempting to achieve.

We have about a minute.

that we can understand that.

Okay.

I think you can say that to one extent it's successful because we're all talking about it a lot.

To another extent, it's not successful because

we aren't responding in the way that we are really supposed to.

Yeah.

Okay.

Ari, thank you so much.

And

when you have new thoughts, we would love to hear it.

We want to try to be responsible and do the things that we can instead of just telling everybody else what they can do.

Thank you so much.

Thank you very much for having me.

You bet.

It's Ari Shulman.

He wrote an article for the Wall Street Journal, What Mass Killers Want and How to Stop Them, and it's really aimed towards the media.

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Glenn Beck.

So Jared Kushner and the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day that he had yesterday, Tuesday was not really kind to the president's son-in-law.

Kushner may have felt that he was living out in real time, the day made famous

in the children's book, in the movie, where Alexander goes to sleep with gum in his mouth and wakes up with gum in his hair.

Kushner went to sleep with a top secret clearance and woke up with a downgrade to just plain old secret, which is a really big deal for the things that he is working on.

However, I mean, it means that his high-level stuff has to be worked on, but it is not unusual for a security clearance to take this long.

Now, that was just the beginning of his day.

Media reports started coming out stating that officials from four different countries have discussed ways that Jared Kushner might be manipulated.

Sources told the Washington Post that these ways of manipulation include taking advantage of Kushner's complex business arrangements and his family debt.

Okay, but did they, was anyone doing that?

Or is this the Washington Post saying, hypothetically, these things could happen?

We talked to people in four different countries.

I mean.

I mean, it sounds bad, but can we pump the brakes here for a second?

First of all, Kushner may still eventually get the top secret clearance.

He's been downgraded to secret in the meantime.

The process to obtain a top secret clearance takes sometimes a very long time, depending on how much information the investigators have to go through.

The top two things that tie top secret clearance are meetings with foreign nationals and financial debt.

Well, he's got a ton of both of those.

And for anybody waving that, you see he's guilty flag,

this process is normal.

Normal.

Secondly, I'm having a hard time understanding why the Washington Post ran the story that four countries had discussed ways that they might be able to manipulate the president's son-in-law.

Are they thinking about doing that?

If so, maybe we should know which countries those are.

I mean, are rival nations looking for ways to gain leverage?

And if they are, wait.

No.

I mean, I wish I could show you my shocked face here on on the radio, but your shocked face is probably the same.

If those four countries are actually trying to do something or were successful in manipulating him, then it would be a story.

Other than that, this story is meaningless.

Glenn back.

Mercury.

This is the Glenn Beck program.

Okay, there's something we all have to learn because there's a new talking point.

And it's always great when you get these new talking points because everybody starts to say the same thing on television all at once.

Same day.

All of a sudden, everybody is saying exactly the same thing.

Here's the new talking point.

Business interests, including this 666 Fifth Avenue property in New York.

They were close to getting the company to invest in this 666 Fifth Avenue property.

Is there at least a circumstantial case here that some of what these meetings were about was 666 Fifth Avenue?

You see the same ability to try and have vulnerability with Kushner over the 666 building that perhaps Tom's son-in-law has a 41-story size problem at 666 Fifth Avenue.

Jared Kushner's company still get to the office at 666 Fifth Avenue.

666 Fifth Avenue.

666 Fifth Avenue.

666 Fifth Avenue.

The building in New York on Fifth Avenue.

That's the address is 666.

Find out who is in possession of some of these properties, especially 666 Fifth Avenue.

well clearly the devil owns 666 fifth avenue who else is living there i didn't i mean jared should have known it was bad luck to buy 666 fifth avenue but that's what they're saying is because he owes he has uh you know debt on this property it's one of it was the most expensive office building ever purchased in new york when he bought it i think in 2007.

And so now they're saying he's been looking around the world to get financing for the building and everything.

This is back before he was in the White House.

and they're saying this is a pressure point on Jared Kushner, and it came out in the Washington Post story, that address, and then everybody on cable news is repeating 666 Fifth Avenue.

And immediately, as soon as that story comes out, it's a big talking point, and everybody mentions it over and over and over and over again.

You know this isn't a right talking point because we would have said, see,

see,

there's connections there to the Antichrist.

I'm just telling you.

I mean, if the right would have had 666 Fifth Avenue, we would have at least had fun with it.

But that's not happening.

Pat Gray, welcome to the program.

On your mind today?

Many things, but

maybe the top of my list right now is Ryan Seacrest.

First of all, Ryan Seacrest was accused by his hairstylist or, you know, the person that does his makeup at E.

For six years.

Yeah.

And she claimed that he sexually sexually harassed her on a regular basis.

So quietly, E did an investigation.

I think they handled it right.

You know, they didn't suspend him.

They just waited to see what was going to happen.

They found zero evidence that what she said was true.

Zero.

And he kept going.

And Seacress talked about it.

He put it on his Facebook post or, you know, put out a story.

And he said, I didn't, I didn't do this.

This is not true, but I'm cooperating with,

you know, whatever the company wants to do, I will cooperate.

And he did.

He did.

And they found no evidence.

Zero.

And now it's everywhere all of a sudden.

And now they're talking about

public relations people are advising their clients not to go anywhere near him at the Oscars because he has the red carpet thing, the interviews that he does.

No, geez.

And so the PR people are saying, why would you even take that chance?

He's been accused.

So go to the other person or go to some other outlet.

Accused.

And he's been cleared.

And he's been

accused.

Are you now or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party?

If this is a worse

McCarthyism than we had in the 50s, I don't, I mean,

it's at least as

it's getting as bad.

It's getting as bad, except that did have the power of the government to put you in jail.

Very true.

You know, this is just destroying your life.

And I mean, witch hunt is appropriate on this.

There's an ABC star, Bellamy Young, she's on scandal.

She said, I think this is the time for Ryan Seacrest to step aside and let someone of equal talent that is beyond reproach to be in charge.

First of all, the guy has every job in the world.

There's nobody of equal talent.

I'm sincere about that.

I think he's one of the most talented, smartest guys around.

He just is really good.

He's really good.

And

aren't you above reproach if you've been cleared of any wrongdoing?

That seems to be.

No, you never get to go back.

I guess not.

You never get to go back.

You're just totally tainted now forever because somebody accused you.

Let's keep in mind, anybody can accuse anybody else of wrongdoing.

And then you have to.

I have a llama in the wings right now that's going to swear out a testimony about Pat.

And if you want me to bring the llama out, I will.

If you actually had a llama, I'd be nervous.

But

once that llama does what llamas do,

you know, barks or whatever they do, it can't be unbarked, Pat.

It can't be unbarked.

It's scary.

You know what's interesting?

You're talking about how people can be accused and

they're always tainted with it.

And it's in the Me Too era, right?

It's over.

You know what's

one accusation

that has had no attention since the Me Too movement has started?

I bet I'm going to say the same thing.

Are you really?

I don't know.

I was going to say, Al Gore's second chakra.

Remember?

Remember this?

Wow.

Remember the accusation by the Masseus

who said that Al Gore was constantly trying to get him to touch her?

Yeah.

Too long to adjust my second chakra.

Right.

Remember this?

Because of our Ethiop

that my chakra's out of place.

So, yeah, he was trying to get her to do things to him in regions she didn't want to touch.

And she complained about it, and it was brushed off by the media completely.

He has not faced word one of a second thought on this

over that time.

And Bill Clinton has, right?

I mean, there have been a lot of people on the left who said, okay, we handled that Clinton thing wrongly.

But I mean, one accusation has been enough for almost

everybody.

And that was 30 years ago.

That was eight years ago.

Yeah.

That was in 2010.

Was it 2010?

Yeah.

I knew it was late 2000s.

Yep.

So

let me go where I was going to go.

Jimmy Kimmel.

Jimmy Kimmel is hosting the Oscars, not outside like Ryan Secrest.

He's hosting the Oscars.

Has he been accused?

Have you seen any of the videotapes of what he's done?

I mean, he used to host a show called The Man Show.

Yeah,

he did a,

I'm going to put something in my pants,

and you can feel around to see what it is.

You might want to use your mouth.

Okay?

Yes.

He's on video doing that.

Yep, over and over.

I mean, it was part of that show.

Look, and I defend that show at that time.

And I, you know, they did things.

They were no way.

But they did things that were funny, right?

It was funny, and it was totally fine.

Sorry, it's retroactively inappropriate.

It's retroactively inappropriate, however.

Yeah.

Because, you know, I mean, remember, this is the show that ended every episode with girls jumping on trampolines in their underwear.

Every episode ended the same way.

That was literally the last sentence of every show.

And now girls jumping on trampolines.

And he's the guy that's totally okay to to host the Oscars.

I mean, you want to talk about it.

Nobody's said a thing.

There's two people, two organizations that have made a choice today, and I don't think it's going to end well for either of them.

Dick Sporting Goods.

Yeah.

Okay.

Yeah.

Saying, we're not going to carry

AR-15s.

We're standing against these things.

You can't buy a gun until you're 21.

I don't think that's going to play in the heartland of America.

Even though everybody's jumping on Walmart now to do the same, which they did back in 2015.

If they do that for the hysteria,

maybe.

I don't agree with it, but maybe that's what Dix did last time.

Dicks did, you know, a temporary, we're just going to take them off the shelves and just let the heat go away.

Okay.

So you kind of understand that.

But Cabela's, I don't think Cabela's is going to do that.

And if I can go buy a gun at Cabela's and I have Dix who is, you know, I want to buy a gun that's not an AR.

I'm not going to go buy it at Dicks.

No, I'm going to go to Cabela's.

They've made the choice.

The other organization

is the Oscars.

They have taken a guy, now see if this sounds familiar, a guy who has called the president all kinds of names, a guy who has

made passionate, sometimes unstable, seeming

pleas on his own show.

He has cried on three different occasions, three different shows, while making pleas about politics.

And I thought that was a bad thing.

It's a bad thing.

They have now said, you are the guy.

By the way, in the middle of the Me Too thing, also has his history.

You're the guy to host the Oscars.

The Oscars has zero chance, zero chance.

When you have Jimmy Fallon available,

how do you expect to get people in the center of the country who disagree with you to watch the Oscars?

If I were ABC, I'd be pissed.

I know it's your guy, but I'd really be pissed.

Yeah.

Because I just spent a fortune to have the Oscars, and now you're going to strap me with this guy who's going to turn off half of the country.

It's just foolish.

Just foolish.

We have some audio from Jimmy Kimmel talking about this.

You want to hear it?

Yeah, go ahead.

This is Jimmy Kimmel talking about what he said about the GOP and Donald Trump.

Do you think maybe there have been times where you push the envelope too far and maybe become a little too political?

No, I don't.

You don't regret anything that you've said.

Not at all.

I don't think you can go too far.

I think that

I'm still doing a comedy show and I need to be funny and entertain my audience.

But I also think that we've matured enough to the point where we can accept

late-night talk show hosts speaking about a serious subject.

And I think that it's almost almost necessary now.

But can we accept talk show hosts making jokes?

Yeah, I don't know.

I mean,

I accepted it from Jimmy Kimmel when he was doing the man show.

I mean, it was a joke.

We all understood it was in that context.

Now, I don't know if that's true.

But, I mean, you know, Kimmel has always talked about serious issues on that show.

One of the things that made Kimmel, I think, a really strong late-night host is we used to play his audio all the time of people who thought who didn't understand Obamacare and who didn't

understand these big Obama pushes.

And

he took time to mock them as well.

He used to do that.

And what's happened is he's had a personal incident that has made him very emotional about healthcare and has set him off on

this

sort of snowball effect where now that's all he can think about and he's completely assessed, despite knowing almost nothing about the topics he's talking about.

It's very Letterman-esque.

Same thing happened to David Letterman with the war.

It made him bitter and angry and awful and awful and unwatchable to anybody on the right.

And so that I think that same thing is going on with Kimmel now.

Do you want to, we also have him talking about, I don't know, you want this striking the right tone at the Oscars?

Want to hear this real quick?

Yeah, yeah, let me hear that.

Nervous at all that you're going to strike the right tone.

Yeah, I do worry about that because I have a tendency to not strike the right tone

in my life.

And so

you know, I do think about that.

How will you know if you've gone too far?

I'm sure the internet will tell me.

He just said he can't get it in real time.

Yes, almost immediately.

So you probably saw there was a USA Today poll that was released recently that said 94% of women in Hollywood have been harassed or assaulted.

That's your audience right there.

How do you address it?

Well, listen, here's the thing.

This show is not about reliving people's sexual assaults.

It's an award show for people who have been dreaming about about maybe winning an Oscar for their whole lives.

And the last thing I want to do is ruin that for someone who is, you know, nominated for best leading actress or best supporting or best director of the best.

Let me stop right here because I'm just listening to this and I'm like,

I don't care about any of the stuff about the Oscars.

I really don't.

I just don't care about it at all.

Not going to watch it.

Don't care.

I do care about Ryan Seacrest.

I do too.

And that is Oscar-related because here's a guy who has been cleared by an investigation and just one person saying he was coming on to me all the time.

He was sexually harassing me.

Even though the company looked into it and did an extensive evaluation in today's atmosphere, finds him clean.

They're still wanting to drum him out of business.

It's wrong.

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Yes, yes, yes.

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I got an email in about Cruz's neighbor begging cops to step in after reporting his dark behavior.

A lot of people are saying, Glenn, you can't arrest somebody for what they might do.

No, you're right.

But when there is this much evidence, these that many people speaking out, we need to do more.

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Mercury.