'Billy Graham Will Be Missed' (Everett Piper & Tim Ballard join Glenn) - 2/21/18

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All right. I'd like to give you an update on CPAC.
I don't know who's booking the speakers and attendees for CPAC this year, but maybe it's Steve Bannon.

Speaker 1 I'm not sure. You know what? Maybe Steve Bannon stole one of those

Speaker 1 mask machines from Mission Impossible. It could be.

Speaker 1 And he has made himself into somebody else, the booking agent at CPAC.

Speaker 1 Because that's the only explanation that I'll accept.

Speaker 1 For starters, why are we importing European right-wing

Speaker 1 populists? Maureen or Marion Le Pen from France's National Front, Nigel Farage from UK Independence Party,

Speaker 1 Sebastian Gorka, who worked in

Speaker 1 the Hungarian politics and had ties to the far right.

Speaker 1 Now, I can't see a reason to invite any of these three to the American conservative conference unless we've gone European conservative.

Speaker 1 European populism and European nationalism

Speaker 1 is rearing its ugly head. And we have always preached as conservatives that there is a difference between European conservatives and the right and the European right and the American right.

Speaker 1 Anybody else remember that?

Speaker 1 So what are they doing?

Speaker 1 Steve Bannon is out of the White House, but his friends are still showing up at CPAC.

Speaker 1 Bannon has called the Marion LePen thing a, she's a rising star, and this is a good thing.

Speaker 1 By the way,

Speaker 1 he attended a campaign rally with Nigel Farage last September. Oh, and he worked with Gorka at the White House and at Breitbart.

Speaker 1 I mean, I'm not saying that Steve Bannon is running around CPAC in a Matt Schlapp mask, but I don't know what happened to my friend Matt Schlapp.

Speaker 1 In addition to the European populace, there's also a growing list of peculiar attendees.

Speaker 1 One CPAC panel in particular includes a list of characters so odd that they should change the name from social media censorship to chilling with the funky bunch.

Speaker 1 The panelists include Pamela Geller. She's the organizer of the Mohammed Cartoon Contest.

Speaker 1 There's mainstream for you.

Speaker 1 James O'Keefe.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 1 And then you have Jim Hoft. Now, who is Jim Hoft? What a panel this is going to be.
We're certainly going to get the truth here because Jim Hoff is the founder of the gateway pundit.

Speaker 1 He has been caught printing lies so many times that he could almost be called the inventor of fake news.

Speaker 1 Let me give you just a little bit on Hoft.

Speaker 1 Hoft recently was called out by Alex Jones.

Speaker 1 In fact, let me read this.

Speaker 1 From InfoWars.

Speaker 1 This is fake news, and Gateway pundits should be ashamed of themselves.

Speaker 1 That's from InfoWars.

Speaker 1 Does CPAC and the board of directors have anything to say about what's going on right now?

Speaker 1 Board of directors, are you signing off on all of these speakers and invitees?

Speaker 1 I'm curious because you're rolling out a pretty impressive list of European populists, agitators, and known fake news pushers.

Speaker 1 If this is that bad now, I mean, imagine what CPAC is going to look like in four years.

Speaker 1 If all of this is sanctioned by the entire body of the American Conservative Union,

Speaker 1 I'm sorry, but I am not a conservative. I'm not going down the European far right, the European conservative road.

Speaker 1 It's Wednesday, February 21st. This is the Glenn Beck program.

Speaker 1 Billy Graham

Speaker 1 has passed away. He was 99.

Speaker 1 I remember Billy Graham from my childhood.

Speaker 1 My grandparents, I think, almost dressed up to sit in front of the television and watch his crusades.

Speaker 1 And as kids, we were like, oh, no, not a crusade again.

Speaker 1 Because grandma and grandpa would, I mean, we had to eat dinner early.

Speaker 1 We lived in the West. We'd eat dinner early and we would watch the crusades.

Speaker 1 And so my earliest memories of Billy Graham are all connected to my grandparents.

Speaker 1 He was a man from a different time.

Speaker 1 is probably the only teleevangelist that didn't discredit himself.

Speaker 1 He prayed with presidents,

Speaker 1 I think, since FDR,

Speaker 1 Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy,

Speaker 1 Johnson, Nixon,

Speaker 1 all the way to George W. Bush.

Speaker 1 I've told the story before

Speaker 1 about the time that I

Speaker 1 met him,

Speaker 1 for about a year I had been feeling,

Speaker 1 I have to talk to Billy Graham about something, and I don't know what it is.

Speaker 1 And a friend of mine said, Well, have you called him? I'm like, Yeah, yeah, I've called him. He's not, you know,

Speaker 1 he's not interested.

Speaker 1 And then

Speaker 1 I was standing in the lobby of my office,

Speaker 1 and we were about to tell Fox that we were leaving.

Speaker 1 And I thought to myself, I just I have to talk to Billy Graham.

Speaker 1 And I said that to who I was the guy I was talking to there by the elevators.

Speaker 1 I just have to talk to him.

Speaker 1 Have you tried call yes, I've tried calling him.

Speaker 1 That afternoon, Billy Graham called my office

Speaker 1 and said,

Speaker 1 Could you come to my house on Sunday?

Speaker 1 Uh, okay.

Speaker 1 Do you have an address? Can I put it in my GPS? I've never been there before.

Speaker 1 We got all dressed up. He was casual.

Speaker 1 And I took my family.

Speaker 1 And at first, Billy and I were only supposed to meet for about thirty minutes.

Speaker 1 And we went into his office and we sat down

Speaker 1 and we started to talk.

Speaker 1 And I'll

Speaker 1 never forget he sat really close. He had me pull my chair really right next to him.

Speaker 1 And I and I said to him, Billy, I I don't know

Speaker 1 I don't know what

Speaker 1 we're supposed to

Speaker 1 what I'm supposed to get out of this, but I I felt compelled that I'm I'm supposed to talk to you about something

Speaker 1 And he started to cry

Speaker 1 and he said

Speaker 1 I am so sorry I feel like I've failed you

Speaker 1 I said,

Speaker 1 Why would you say that? And he said,

Speaker 1 I haven't prayed. I haven't prayed for the answer that you're looking for.

Speaker 1 I said, Reverend Graham, you know better than that.

Speaker 1 It'll appear.

Speaker 1 My biggest regret is that we

Speaker 1 He helped me. I'm not sure I helped him in any way, shape, or form.

Speaker 1 He said to me,

Speaker 1 Glenn, I I have one more

Speaker 1 sermon in me.

Speaker 1 Something that's keeping me up at night.

Speaker 1 I just have to address America, and I I have one more sermon.

Speaker 1 And I listened to him with such passion.

Speaker 1 He said, America has got to hear my message.

Speaker 1 He said, but I don't know, humbly, he said, I don't know if anybody would buy a ticket or come to see me.

Speaker 1 And he said, I just don't have the energy to put it all together.

Speaker 1 I said,

Speaker 1 Reverend Graham,

Speaker 1 I just booked Cowboy Stadium in Dallas. Just sold all the tickets.

Speaker 1 And I know I was supposed to do it. I I don't know yet what the Lord wants me to say,

Speaker 1 but I know He's telling me now, take it.

Speaker 1 It's already sold. People are already coming.
I don't even have to show up. Just take it.

Speaker 1 Preach your sermon.

Speaker 1 His eyes lit up

Speaker 1 for about two weeks. I talked to his daughter, Ruth.
She said

Speaker 1 he was up and

Speaker 1 rehearsing his voice, and

Speaker 1 in the end, he decided that he didn't have the strength to do it.

Speaker 1 But his message was

Speaker 1 America

Speaker 1 come back to God

Speaker 1 turn away from all of this and come back to God

Speaker 1 It's your last call

Speaker 1 We talked about life and we talked about mistakes and

Speaker 1 he was very emotional in our, we both were.

Speaker 1 He said, I've made so many mistakes, I've done so many things wrong.

Speaker 1 He said, but I tried, I really tried, and I've asked forgiveness every step of the way. And then he looked at me, and with piercing blue eyes,

Speaker 1 he leaned right right into me and he said,

Speaker 1 I am not afraid to die.

Speaker 1 With joy,

Speaker 1 I know where I'm going. I know there's forgiveness, all of my mistakes.

Speaker 1 I have begged the Lord to forgive, and I know him,

Speaker 1 and I'm not afraid.

Speaker 1 It was one of the most powerful moments I've ever had.

Speaker 1 Billy Graham was not your typical preacher.

Speaker 1 Billy Graham was a friend of mine.

Speaker 1 Billy Graham.

Speaker 1 I told him I was leaving Fox, and he said, what? Let me call Rupert. And I said, no, no, no, no, no.
It's my choice. He said, that doesn't sound like something that comes from God.

Speaker 1 Why would you why would you do that?

Speaker 1 I said, we've prayed on it an awful lot.

Speaker 1 That doesn't sound like something the Lord would tell you.

Speaker 1 Somebody in the room said, Well,

Speaker 1 you know that he's Mormon as a slam.

Speaker 1 Billy looked at that individual and said,

Speaker 1 I'm quite aware of that.

Speaker 1 He turned around and he grabbed my hand and he said

Speaker 1 Tell me how you know

Speaker 1 I told him

Speaker 1 He said Tell me about your relationship with Christ and with God and I told him and we were both crying

Speaker 1 and he held my hand and slapped the top of it. And he looked to the other person in the room and said,

Speaker 1 He sure sounds Christian to me.

Speaker 1 It was shortly after that that the Mormons were removed from the,

Speaker 1 I don't know, witchcraft list or whatever that list was.

Speaker 1 He was open and kind and giving.

Speaker 1 America has lost a spiritual father,

Speaker 1 a man of real joy,

Speaker 1 a man

Speaker 1 without guile,

Speaker 1 A man who prayed for our country every single day.

Speaker 1 A man who had seen a lot and believed we were capable of much greater things.

Speaker 1 A man who worried that we were dividing ourselves.

Speaker 1 And a man

Speaker 1 who was calling us back to reason.

Speaker 1 99

Speaker 1 Well done, good and faithful servant

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Speaker 1 I was just thinking about Billy Graham. And,

Speaker 1 you know, the interesting thing, I found out that he was a horrible liar.

Speaker 1 We were sitting, he had asked me, he came up really close to me and grabs my hand and looks at me real sincere. And he says, Can I ask you a question? I said, Yes.

Speaker 1 Do you like PF Jangs?

Speaker 1 He said, Yes.

Speaker 1 And he invited us to stay and

Speaker 1 have P.F. Jangs with him.

Speaker 1 We ended up spending the afternoon with him, and he was such a wonderful man. And we were sitting at the table.
And

Speaker 1 I have the same eye problems that he had.

Speaker 1 Mine is not progressing. His was.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 he had told me, he said, I, you know, I have, now this is right after my diagnosis. And I, and he said, you know, I just went in for this thing.
I have this, I have this problem with my eyes.

Speaker 1 And I, I said,

Speaker 1 what is it? And he told me, and I said, I was just diagnosed with that, but he wasn't looking at me. And I didn't say it loud enough for him to hear.

Speaker 1 And he said, so I just went in and they told me that it was not going to be any big deal. And they stuck a needle in my eye and they're doing all these things.
He said, it was the most

Speaker 1 frightening and agonizing thing I have ever felt.

Speaker 1 I'm just ashing.

Speaker 1 The guy sitting on the other side on the good ear says,

Speaker 1 Billy,

Speaker 1 Glenn has that same condition. He was just diagnosed.
And he looked at him, and then he looked at me, and he went, oh, that procedure's nothing.

Speaker 1 Okay, Billy, not a good liar.

Speaker 1 Which is what I want in a preacher. Back in a second.

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Speaker 1 You're listening to the Glenn Beck program.

Speaker 1 You know,

Speaker 1 I want to play a couple of pieces of audio that

Speaker 1 I find

Speaker 1 sad, really sad.

Speaker 1 Here's Joy Behar on the view

Speaker 1 talking about Mike Pence and his faith.

Speaker 6 But it's one thing to talk to Jesus. It's another thing when Jesus talks to you.

Speaker 1 Exactly. Okay, well, I'm different.
I speak Jesus. I'm different.

Speaker 6 That's called mental illness, if I'm not correct.

Speaker 1 I'm hearing voices.

Speaker 1 Yeah, no.

Speaker 1 No,

Speaker 1 it's not called mental illness. It's a relationship with God.
And

Speaker 1 anybody who

Speaker 1 is praying knows that the Lord speaks to all of us, but, you know, usually not in a, hey, Mike, kind of thing.

Speaker 1 But that's what cartoonists like Joy Behar want people to believe that Christians believe. It's not what we believe.

Speaker 1 And I actually feel bad for Joy Behar because she is living in self-imposed ignorance. She's living in this world where

Speaker 1 she's only hearing her point of view, and she's only hearing from people who think like her.

Speaker 1 And so she has no experience. I have experience with people like Joy Behar, and I, well, I don't have friends like Joy Behar.
I do have friends who are atheists. I have friends who are non-believers.

Speaker 1 I have many friends who are New Yorkers

Speaker 1 that don't believe the same thing I do. I can't say that Joy Behar probably has the same eclectic group of friends that she can draw off of, or she wouldn't say things like this.

Speaker 1 Pence felt he had to respond, and here was his response.

Speaker 7 Those of us in public life

Speaker 7 are pretty accustomed to criticism.

Speaker 7 try and have a prayer together before I leave the house every morning. But I do think I'm a very typical American.
I think people of all different faith traditions cherish their faith in God.

Speaker 7 And to have ABC have a forum that spoke in such meaning terms, I think it's evidence of how out of touch some in the mainstream media are with the faith and values of the American people.

Speaker 1 As he points out, I mean, this is a choice that ABC Disney is

Speaker 1 making

Speaker 1 and tolerating. And they they would not tolerate that with any other faith.
And it's sad, and

Speaker 1 it needs to stop. Everett Piper

Speaker 1 is a friend of the program and a friend of mine. He has been the president of Oklahoma Wesley University for the last 15 years.
He's kind of America's Jordan Peterson. Welcome to the program, Dr.

Speaker 1 Piper. How are you?

Speaker 8 And Glenn, I'm always honored to be on your show. Thank you for having me.

Speaker 1 Thank you.

Speaker 1 What are your thoughts on this?

Speaker 8 Well, you know, it's just more and more of the same duplicity and hypocrisy that we see from the progressive left.

Speaker 8 For example, let's just look at a couple words that the progressives use often, bigotry. They call you, they call me, they call anyone that disagrees with them, who has a contrary idea, a bigot.

Speaker 8 Well, the definition of a bigot is intolerance based toward others based on their ideas. Well, don't you think that maybe Behar is the poster child of a bigot? Phobia.

Speaker 8 They claim that every time you disagree with them, that you're a phobic, that you have a phobia, Islamophobia, homophobia, etc. Well, first of all, disagreement does not mean I'm afraid of you.

Speaker 8 If I disagree with you, Glenn, that doesn't mean I fear you or afraid of you.

Speaker 8 It means I want to debate your ideas, and I might have a contrary idea to yours or to Behar's or someone else's. So they conflate these definitions.

Speaker 8 act like bigots when they rail against bigotry.

Speaker 8 They are phobic when they claim everybody else has a phobia when they disagree, because if she thinks phobia is synonymous with disagreement, she obviously disagrees with Christianity.

Speaker 8 Therefore, she's a Christophobe. She's afraid of Christians.
You know, it's an arrogant suggestion that anyone who believes that they can communicate with God and God can communicate with them, i.e.

Speaker 8 most traditional Orthodox Christians, they claim that we're mentally ill. So I have a question of Behar.
Was Moses mentally ill? Was Abraham mentally ill? How about Jeremiah, Isaiah, Samuel, St.

Speaker 8 Paul, Jude, Peter, John? Were they mentally ill? If so, the Bible was written by those who were mentally ill, and all of church history is askew as the result of that. This is a very arrogant claim.

Speaker 8 And one more thing, and I'll say this, and I'll take a breath.

Speaker 8 It shows ignorance of her own religion, because she later on in that clip says, I wonder if Mike Pence has to have his wife present when he prays to Mary Magdalene.

Speaker 8 Well, first of all, Catholics don't pray to saints. They ask for intercession.
They don't pray to the saints. It would be like asking you to intercede for them if somebody, if they had cancer.

Speaker 8 They'd They'd ask you to pray for them. That's the Catholic tradition of prayer.
They ask the saints to intercede for them before God. They don't pray to the saints.

Speaker 8 So Behar, who claims to be a Catholic, doesn't even understand her own religion.

Speaker 8 And then she turns around and mocks Pence for what we've called the Billy Graham rule, and that is the common sense of not being alone with a woman unless somebody else is there to hold you accountable.

Speaker 8 She mocks Pence by suggesting that he has to have his wife present when he, quote-unquote, prays to Mary Magdalene. This is arrogant.

Speaker 8 It shows evidence that she doesn't even understand the own religion that she claims, and it's phobia and it's bigotry. It's the antithesis of what she claims to believe in terms of tolerance.

Speaker 1 She says she can't tolerate

Speaker 8 those she finds intolerant. She hates those hateful people.
She's sure that nothing is sure. She's absolutely confident.
There are no absolutes. It's self-duplicity.
It implodes on itself.

Speaker 8 This is the progressive worldview.

Speaker 1 So

Speaker 1 here's the interesting thing. On the, you know, does he need his wife present?

Speaker 1 Boys, the world would would sure be a better place if some of these guys,

Speaker 1 you know, had their wife or another person, a woman, present in the room while they were molesting women or whatever it is that they're doing.

Speaker 1 I don't understand how you can be a part of the Me Too movement and then condemn a man who says, Look, I just want to be with my wife. I don't want to be alone with a woman.

Speaker 1 How is that a bad thing in the Me Too world?

Speaker 1 The other thing is,

Speaker 1 Everett,

Speaker 1 so what do we do with this besides get mad? What do we do with this?

Speaker 8 I think we reclaim the high ground of the definition of words. And you've said this on your program many a time.
He who defines the terms always wins the debate.

Speaker 8 We need to reclaim the high ground of the definition of our words. Let's define objectively what bigotry is.
Let's define objectively what phobia is.

Speaker 8 I wrote a book a few years ago, and I titled it, Why I'm a Liberal and and Other Conservative Ideas. Now, why did I do that? Because as a classical conservative,

Speaker 8 I'm more of a classical liberal than my left-of-center counterpart, because I believe in liberty and liberation and freedom and justice, and I believe those things have to be grounded in an objective, self-evident truth that's endowed to us by our Creator, i.e., Scripture.

Speaker 8 So

Speaker 8 when we rest in the words of Christ, you shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free. We enjoy more liberty rather than less.
Mike Pence isn't being confined. He isn't losing his job.

Speaker 8 He isn't

Speaker 8 being prosecuted for sexual harassment and sexual assault right now. Why?

Speaker 8 Because he's agreed before his God to honor a standard above himself, and he realizes there's a measuring rod outside of those things being measured, or you can do no measuring, and therefore he's got more freedom rather than less.

Speaker 8 So we need to reclaim the high ground of these words and define the terms and realize that we win.

Speaker 8 You know, Jesus defined himself as an alphabet, the word made flesh indwelling among us, the alpha and omega. Why? Because there's power in words.
That's the solution.

Speaker 8 Reclaim the high ground in the debate by defining the terms objectively.

Speaker 1 Everett, do you.

Speaker 1 I think America is at this place to where no one has really described our unum in a long time from e pluribus unum.

Speaker 1 We're now e pluribus pluribus,

Speaker 1 and

Speaker 1 we're staying many, and we're celebrating that we're many, and that we're other and that we're separate.

Speaker 1 Our unum really is the common sense ideas that

Speaker 1 are the basis of the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights. Those things that we

Speaker 1 believe are self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they have a right to life and property,

Speaker 1 that you can't be scooped up up in the middle of the night. You have a right for free speech and free press.

Speaker 1 We believe in

Speaker 1 those things and they bring us together. However, nobody's really articulating those things in a contemporary way.

Speaker 1 And so what's happening is progressivism has brought us into this modern world because they've piggybacked on to the modernization of the world. And

Speaker 1 they've ridden it through the

Speaker 1 eugenics times all the way through today.

Speaker 1 However, we're at a place now to where people are starting to say, wait a minute,

Speaker 1 I don't like where this is taking us.

Speaker 1 I'm comfortable.

Speaker 1 I don't want to be a bigot. I don't want to hate people.

Speaker 1 That's not who we are. I agree with those.
Let's be kind to one another. However, they're starting to see this is a religion to people on the left.

Speaker 1 When I have to believe that there are 93 different genders, I don't want to go there.

Speaker 1 So America is stuck in this place to where they don't want to go forward with the progressives because I believe they're beginning to be afraid of them.

Speaker 1 And nobody's articulating a way back to common sense. And so they're stuck.

Speaker 8 You know, you use the word unum, and that's very critical. You know, C.S.
Lewis talked of first things, and others have done likewise, first and second things.

Speaker 8 And he claimed, rightfully so, that when you put first things first, you get those in full measure. But when you put second things first, you get neither the second nor the first.
You forfeit both.

Speaker 8 Now, what does that mean? The university is called a university and not a diversity for a reason. The classical liberal arts model was a model to unify us within the unity of truth, not divide us.

Speaker 8 We didn't celebrate diversity. We celebrated the university.

Speaker 1 Wait, wait, wait.

Speaker 1 Are you making this up or is that really the root? I've never heard that.

Speaker 1 Is that really the root?

Speaker 8 Stop and think about the root word. We're talking about verity and we're talking about unity.

Speaker 1 Una verity.

Speaker 8 Unaversity. Una veritas.
It's the unity of truth. Go back and look at the etymology of the word.
It's the unity of virtue and veritas and veritis. It's unity, not division.

Speaker 8 And when we start focusing on the second things, diversity, diversity isn't necessarily bad, but you don't get that second thing until you focus on the first.

Speaker 8 Jesus told us, the first shall be last and the last shall be first. We need to recognize that selfishness always results in vengeance and vice.
It never results in veritas and virtue.

Speaker 8 And when we focus on self, diversity, division, we're never going to have unity as a people.

Speaker 1 Well, that was worth the price of admission just there. Everett Piper, thank you so much.
You can find him at EverettPiper.com. EverettPiper.com.

Speaker 1 Thank you so much. And God bless.
Any thoughts before we let you loose on the loss of Billy Graham?

Speaker 8 Oh, welcome home. Welcome home, thou good and faithful servant.
You fought the good fight. You finished the race.
You won the prize for which Christ has called you heavenward. Good for you.

Speaker 8 Welcome home, Brother Graham.

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Speaker 1 he listens to his constituents. So, what is he planning on doing? And he's been polling his friends about this as well for multiple reports.

Speaker 1 Three things he's talking about doing, getting ready with pump stock that he announced last night that he was going to try to ban that.

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Speaker 1 I don't have a problem with it myself.

Speaker 1 He is looking at expanding background checks,

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Speaker 1 It's the type of stuff that if you believe that that's an infringement on your right to own firearms, there's not an actual part of the Second Amendment that says it's okay for a little infringement.

Speaker 1 A little infringement clause is not. A little infringement is not necessarily okay with the Constitution.
But if you believe that you don't want those things, now's the time to make your voice heard.

Speaker 1 Because Trump has done this many times where he kind of came out and floated a position that might be uncomfortable for conservatives.

Speaker 1 He's heard the voice of conservatives and he's come back to that side.

Speaker 1 So if you are a big Second Amendment person, now is the time to make your voice heard on that. Right.
So

Speaker 1 you really need to make your voice heard because there are new polls out

Speaker 1 that are

Speaker 1 not necessarily encouraging for conservatives or Republicans. In fact, it's very encouraging news for the Democrats, and we'll give you that poll coming up.

Speaker 4 Glenn back.

Speaker 5 Mercury.

Speaker 5 Truth.

Speaker 1 We are a country of laws, laws that have been overlooked, abandoned, and neglected. We don't follow them when it comes to immigration.
We don't follow them when it comes to health care.

Speaker 1 We don't follow them when it comes to guns. In the fallout, the latest school shooting, the call for more gun control has now reached a fever pitch.

Speaker 1 There are reports today that Donald Trump is considering going along with some of these first changes. He's going to raise the eligibility for gun purchases to 21.

Speaker 1 He's looking at expanding background checks, and he's announced he's wanting to ban bump stocks. He says he's enforcing the gun laws that we already have.

Speaker 1 There will be several severe limitations on automatic weapons.

Speaker 1 Most recently, in 1986, private ownership of fully automatic weapons has been almost entirely banned. However, fully automatic weapon is one where you pull the trigger once and it continues to fire.

Speaker 1 The bump stock was created in 2001, and it helps you pull the trigger faster. So it's unclear how a bump stock could be covered by this law.

Speaker 1 Last night, Trump signed a memorandum directing the Attorney General to propose regulations to ban all devices that turn legal weapons into fully automatic weapons. I support that.

Speaker 1 Dianne Feinstein and the NRA have expressed support. Almost everyone supports this at some level, just because it infringes your right, just a little bit.

Speaker 1 Uh-oh.

Speaker 1 Infringement.

Speaker 1 Infringement isn't okay in the Second Amendment.

Speaker 1 Regardless, disturbed individuals will find a way to kill by any means necessary. They'll kill you with a spoon if they have to.
I think we learned that on 9-11.

Speaker 1 Nothing, and I mean nothing, will stop people from committing unimaginable horror if they have their heart set on darkness. It is um it is

Speaker 1 it has gone on since the beginning of time. It will continue till the end of time.

Speaker 1 But enforcing the laws we already have is a really good step.

Speaker 1 So is following up on the tips that tell you who the shooters will be.

Speaker 1 Let's hope this is more than a trend.

Speaker 1 This interview

Speaker 1 began

Speaker 1 several months ago.

Speaker 1 And it began

Speaker 1 on a day that I was flying, I think, to Thailand

Speaker 1 with

Speaker 1 OUR and Tim Ballard. And we were sitting in my office, and somebody came in and said, Glenn, we have this video, this viral video, and

Speaker 1 I think you should see it.

Speaker 1 Do we have it?

Speaker 1 Can we play it? We have not played it before.

Speaker 1 It is

Speaker 1 supposed that this is a

Speaker 1 young girl, probably six years old. She is being taken in Syria in a place where they are harvesting organs.

Speaker 1 You can see her parents

Speaker 1 are already

Speaker 1 dead.

Speaker 1 And let's see, we don't need to show any more of this.

Speaker 1 The first question that I had when I was shown this was,

Speaker 1 is this real?

Speaker 1 The answer at the time was, we're not sure if this is authentic. My next question was probably more important.

Speaker 1 Is this stuff really happening?

Speaker 1 Are we taking Christians? Or not us. Is ISIS and others taking Christians? We know they're enslaving them.
Are they actually harvesting them for organs now?

Speaker 1 That was the question that Tim Ballard was charged to see if he could track down and find with the Nazarene Fund. Welcome to the program.
Tim, how are you?

Speaker 1 I'm doing good, but this is, you know, I've spent 16 years fighting human trafficking, and I thought I'd seen everything.

Speaker 1 This is a whole nother level, Glenn, what we're seeing happening right now in this region with this, with these children, with this organ harvesting. And the answer is absolutely yes.

Speaker 1 We can't confirm, we still can't authenticate 100% that video, but that video was the gateway that led us into the investigation. We have confirmed and we have the evidence.

Speaker 1 We've already rescued people from

Speaker 1 these makeshift organ harvesting

Speaker 1 hospitals, quote unquote. Yeah.
They're not putting them. This is my understanding.
First, let me bring in Dave Lopez. He is the

Speaker 1 director of operations for the Nazarene Fund. How are you doing, Dave?

Speaker 1 Good to see you.

Speaker 1 I know that we have video and

Speaker 1 photographs of these organ harvesting makeshift hospitals. We're not showing them, are we?

Speaker 1 Not yet. We are going to.
Just give us a couple more weeks.

Speaker 1 I'm not necessarily wanting to see them, but I know that I just wanted to express to the audience that we have photographic evidence now that our people have taken of these. They're just,

Speaker 1 what are they, Dave? They're just like tents, makeshift.

Speaker 9 Yeah, they're makeshift hospitals. They're mobile, so they can take them down quickly and put them up somewhere else.
So these are popping up all over the place.

Speaker 9 We do have visual confirmation and videos.

Speaker 1 And how are they...

Speaker 1 Who are they taking? They're just taking.

Speaker 1 who are they taking

Speaker 9 so there's a few different ways they lure people in um and our our guys on the ground have been giving us some amazing

Speaker 9 they've been doing some amazing work putting their lives on the line to get this information but they're leading people along and saying that they can that they'll give you x amount of money for a certain organ a kidney that you that you don't need right they get them on the hook that way then they get them to come to an undisclosed location and then they take all of it then they say we need to blindfold you to take you there and they go along with this.

Speaker 9 And then by the end of it, the person obviously is all their organs are vital organs.

Speaker 1 We also have these, there's ISIS commanders who are targeting Christians in the streets, hitting them with their cars, causing minor damage, and then saying, we have to take them to the hospital.

Speaker 1 And the parents are saying, no, don't take them to the hospital. They've commandeered actual, you know, more kind of regular hospitals.
Right. People going with minor injuries never come out.

Speaker 1 They go in for the broken arm. They say, sorry, they died.

Speaker 1 We have the evidence that this is happening. And it's happening in these power vacuums where there's no control.

Speaker 1 I mean, every other day, another person, another group is in control, whether it's ISIS or some element of the Syrian government or the

Speaker 1 rebel factions. And so there's no, we're the only ones in there digging.
We are the only group that I know of that's in there digging and finding this.

Speaker 1 That's why this is really breaking news that this is happening. Can we show one of the rescues? Can you take us to one of the rescues? We have a video of a rescue.

Speaker 1 Yes, this is

Speaker 1 the video that we rescued.

Speaker 1 This is

Speaker 1 we rescued three people, okay? They're Christians and Yazidis.

Speaker 1 Look at them. And they were in

Speaker 1 one of these kind of makeshift hospitals.

Speaker 1 We weren't able to, we can't tell you where this was happening,

Speaker 1 but we couldn't get get the actual bad guys in this case because of certain political situations happening. But we were able to go in and pull these people out before they were actually cut.

Speaker 1 Got them out.

Speaker 1 They're in our safe houses right now.

Speaker 1 I mean, you can see them. Play that again at the beginning.
You can see when they first start coming out how they're shaking. Oh, yeah.

Speaker 1 They couldn't speak for probably 48 hours. They wouldn't even talk because they knew what was about to happen to them.

Speaker 1 Now,

Speaker 1 these hospitals, from what I understand,

Speaker 1 there's no anesthesia or anything. They're just

Speaker 1 strapping you down. They're not going to waste time or money on that.
Yeah, they're strapping you down and taking your heart. That's right.
And you're alive until they cut it. That's right.

Speaker 1 How widespread is this? And do we know if other countries and don't say the other countries'

Speaker 1 names, but do we know other countries are involved in this?

Speaker 1 There are other countries involved. Not necessarily the governments of those countries, of course.

Speaker 1 criminal organizations involved working with ISIS or elements of ISIS.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 it's widespread enough that they have to have a market for this. So they're taking these organs and moving them quickly to people who want that in the region or nearby.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 we're still digging. I mean, we're not by any means

Speaker 1 at the bottom of this, but it is real. It's happening.
And we've already rescued people from it.

Speaker 1 And there are steps, technological steps, and we'll leave it at that, that have been taken already to start to track

Speaker 1 people.

Speaker 1 So what is the plan?

Speaker 1 The plan is, you know, this is to continue to

Speaker 1 dig and dig and dig.

Speaker 1 I can't give too much, but I'm going to be back in a couple weeks.

Speaker 1 We believe we're close to taking another one down completely that we have our eyes on. We're excited about that, and we'll report on that.

Speaker 1 In the meantime, we are trying to get, there's still hundreds, thousands of these Christian women and children who were taken by ISIS and taken back into Syria after

Speaker 1 the good guys pushed them out of Kurdistan. But those kids went with them, and they're there.
So we're trying to do preemptive strikes against organ harvesting or sex slavery.

Speaker 1 And we just pulled out in the last couple of weeks 10 more. 10 more.
I mean, look, I can't show it. I mean, this is.

Speaker 1 Oh, this, this is in the comp

Speaker 1 because I received the confidential report. Can you, yeah,

Speaker 1 I have those.

Speaker 1 I wish we could. Could you tell some of the stories? Well, these kids are, there's five years old, seven years.
There's 10 of them. There's children.

Speaker 1 They were taken mostly between three and five years.

Speaker 1 36-year-old female, seven-year-old male, five-year-old male, nine-year-old male, eight-year-old female, seven-year-old female,

Speaker 1 13, 5, 7, 17. My gosh.

Speaker 1 They were at least average three to four years in captivity under ISIS control. Oh my gosh.
And we just pulled them out.

Speaker 1 What was happening to these kids? They, well,

Speaker 1 it's just horrifying. I mean, they take these kids.
They're Christian kids. They're Yazidi kids.
They are, according to ISIS, they are animals, and so they do whatever they want. They're sex slaves.

Speaker 1 They are on the block for their auction for it to be sold any way possible, including organ harvesting, anything else.

Speaker 1 And we have a long list of people. We're still,

Speaker 1 I mean, we are doing operations right now as we speak. We have

Speaker 1 over 300, right, Dave?

Speaker 9 320. So as we speak right now, there's 320.

Speaker 1 That are moving right now.

Speaker 9 Christians and Yazidis that are being moved right now.

Speaker 1 What do you mean being moved, right? So they're being moved out of two different regions, one in Syria. By us, the good guys.
By us.

Speaker 1 We're moving them out.

Speaker 9 And part of the issue is obviously everyone knows what ISIS has been doing to these organizations, but now we have a new threat.

Speaker 9 And since the Iranian

Speaker 9 back elements are there, now we have al-Heshd al-Shabi, which is doing the same thing. more on the Shia mindset, doing the same thing to the Christians and the Yazidis.

Speaker 1 They have no good horse in the race.

Speaker 9 So they are caught between ISIS persecution and now a Hashdar Shabi. And so we have got to get these people out.
They're actually moving right now, 320.

Speaker 1 We should have them by next week. I think we'll have all 320 out and in safe places.
But pray, we need to pray for them right now. This is happening right now.
They're still in harm's way now.

Speaker 1 Right, that's right. Right now, that's correct.
Okay.

Speaker 1 Here's what I would like you to do.

Speaker 1 If

Speaker 1 we

Speaker 1 my daughter said to me this weekend, she went to a place where they were selling only products that were guaranteed to have no slave labor.

Speaker 1 And she started talking to the woman that owned the store, and she said, You know, sadly, the number one thing people say to me is, What do you mean, slave labor? There's no slaves anymore.

Speaker 1 There are slaves, there are slaves all around the world.

Speaker 1 And it's remarkable. There are more slaves in captivity today and in use today, if you will, than there were during the entire 400-year period of Western slave trade combined.

Speaker 1 This is a special

Speaker 1 case of slavery and horror that is happening just because you're subhuman, you're Christian, you're Yazidi, you're not Muslim, Sunni, or Shia enough.

Speaker 1 Those people are in harm's way, and

Speaker 1 the organ harvesting that is happening now with Christians is not being told by anyone. It is,

Speaker 1 I don't know, you can draw your own conclusions why the media isn't covering this and why they don't care.

Speaker 1 But I know you do. And the Nazarene Fund is doing everything it can to move into a very dangerous

Speaker 1 situation. I mean, we've lost two people

Speaker 1 so far in these operations. Who are these people that are doing this, Dave? Who are the people that are...
I mean, without describing them, I mean, can you...

Speaker 9 People

Speaker 1 on our side.

Speaker 9 These are amazing partners that our people have taken years, many years to cultivate the right relationships on the ground.

Speaker 9 They are just brave people from all different walks of life.

Speaker 9 Some of them Syrian Christians,

Speaker 9 some of them Muslim. You know, they're coming from different backgrounds, people that are there helping us on the ground.

Speaker 1 But they're all locals. Yes, absolutely.
I mean, they have to be.

Speaker 1 When we extract these victims, we're taking them through 18 checkpoints because every faction, every tribe creates this false checkpoint.

Speaker 1 And if you can't, if you don't know the right people or know how to get through it, you're stuck. We know how to get through it.
I mean, 18 checkpoints to go probably 100 miles into safety.

Speaker 1 And that's what our guys are doing right now. Jeez, how...

Speaker 1 How frightening is it to go 100 miles through 18 checkpoints after you've rescued. Oh, yeah, it's insane.

Speaker 9 And different checkpoints, every one of them, a different checkpoint, a different authority at many times. You need many different players with you to get through all those different checkpoints.

Speaker 9 The logistics are just

Speaker 1 but our guys go right through. I mean, we go right through because they're the right guys, they know they're the right players.

Speaker 1 We have a team that's just unbelievable, and they're nameless, they're faceless, and no one will ever know who they are

Speaker 1 but us. And they are miracle men, really.
And you are responsible for it. If you are a member of the Nazarene Fund by your donation,

Speaker 1 thank you, thank you, thank you.

Speaker 1 The

Speaker 1 thousands of voices that you have preserved and saved that are still speaking today because of you.

Speaker 1 If you would like to get involved, I want you to go to the nazarenefund.org, the nazarenefund.org, and please become an abolitionist.

Speaker 1 Join us on this, dare I say it, crusade save people from slavery, the horrors of slavery, and now organ harvesting. Tonight on TV,

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Speaker 1 Tonight, no, tonight we have.

Speaker 1 Yeah, tomorrow night you're going to be joining us.

Speaker 1 Tonight we have

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Speaker 1 These three women that we've been focusing on this week that have been rescued that are... Some of the most amazing women I've ever seen.
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Speaker 1 We are talking to Dave Lopez, Nazarene Fund Director of Operation and the founder and CEO of Operation Underground Railroad and the chairman of the Nazarene Fund, Tim Ballard,

Speaker 1 about the rescues that are happening now in Syria because of you with the Nazarene Fund.

Speaker 1 You just rescued a girl. How old was she? She, well, she's now in her early 20s, but she was taken while she was in her

Speaker 1 teens, yeah.

Speaker 1 She was

Speaker 1 sold at least seven times to different ISIS elements as a sex slave, raped innumerable times. We got her out.

Speaker 1 She's been in one of our rehabilitation facilities and she recently, she says, I'm ready to tell my story. We interviewed her just yesterday.
Wow. And we will have that interview.
What did she say?

Speaker 1 I can't wait to hear that interview. It's

Speaker 1 to go through what she did.

Speaker 1 And she just represents one of the thousands who are still out there in this captivity, in this captivity where they're confronted every day with rape, with the possibility of their organs being cut out.

Speaker 1 I mean,

Speaker 1 it's just, it's devastating. It's hell.
It's hell. And you can help by going to the nazarenefund.org at nazarenefund.org.
Some really uplifting stories, also. We're going to share those coming up.

Speaker 5 Mercury.

Speaker 1 This is the Glen Beck program.

Speaker 1 This is purported to be a video

Speaker 1 of

Speaker 1 a young girl who they are about to harvest organs

Speaker 1 from. Her parents have already been

Speaker 1 taken

Speaker 1 and they

Speaker 1 supposedly are harvesting her.

Speaker 1 We can't verify this

Speaker 1 video.

Speaker 1 We can tell you that this stuff is actually, okay, we can stop it. Oh my gosh.
Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh.
Stop that. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Ooh.

Speaker 1 I don't know if I made it that far the first time I saw that video.

Speaker 1 So they're not using anesthesia, that little girl, if that is an actual video of what it purports to be.

Speaker 1 That is the way it is happening.

Speaker 1 We have Dave Lopez, the Nazarene Fund Director of Operations, and Tim Ballard, who is the chairman of the Nazarene Fund and founder and CEO of Operation Underground Railroad.

Speaker 1 And you guys have been looking into the organ harvesting. I want to show a video.
You'll be able to to hear some of the audio here. We'll show this tomorrow night on television.

Speaker 1 But

Speaker 1 here is: these are our operatives

Speaker 1 going into a place where they were holding people to have their organs harvest. You see them tied up with bags over their head,

Speaker 1 and they're going to be told to

Speaker 1 go

Speaker 1 to how many people are involved?

Speaker 1 This is a different video than what we've already seen.

Speaker 1 There it is.

Speaker 1 What I saw, what I saw. This is our guys going in the dead of night.

Speaker 1 It was the only time that the captors left for a minute, and they were watching, and they had minutes to get them out, get going in, and get them out, and they were successful.

Speaker 1 And they're not at dead of night, they're not laying down. They're still on their knees, just tied up.

Speaker 1 And so they're rescued. These are Christians and Yazidis that were about to have their organs harvested for cash.
That's the kind of brutality that is happening in the Middle East.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 you, because of you and your donation to the Nazarene Fund, we're saving them. And Dave, there's nobody else doing this.

Speaker 9 No, no, there's no one else that is going after this illicit network right now.

Speaker 1 I have in a confidential report that the U.S. and Iraqi forces refused to get get involved in rescuing.

Speaker 1 Do you know that to be true?

Speaker 9 I've heard the same report, and I cannot, I personally

Speaker 9 verify it, but I've heard the same thing as well.

Speaker 1 So, we hear the only one, for some reason, the world doesn't care about this. I mean,

Speaker 1 this is Schindler's List kind of stuff. This is going in in the middle of the night and rescuing people.

Speaker 1 And I just think it's a noble, noble cause that even $5

Speaker 1 will put your name in the book of life. I'm convinced of it.
This is God's work.

Speaker 1 You can donate at thenazarenefund.org. But these people are not just Christians, Tim.
Right. I mean,

Speaker 1 this is our heritage. I mean, the people that we're rescuing, pulling out of these places, they can chart their family history to the first century.

Speaker 1 I mean, these are the Jewish people who followed Jesus and became Christians and then settled these Christian areas. That's what's being attacked.

Speaker 1 You're reading literally about about their ancestors when we read the Bible. That's right.
That's right.

Speaker 1 And a lot of them want to go back, and we're actually facilitating a lot of them to bring them back into the zones now that ISIS has been pushed out. And we want them back.

Speaker 1 We want them to resettle, to continue to build their history, which is all of our history. Well, Al-Kush is where I think I went.
We closed down the first refugee camp.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 it was a pretty terrifying place then.

Speaker 1 And that was before it really got got bad. But the people there,

Speaker 1 tell a story about the priest that

Speaker 1 is one of our partners that

Speaker 1 saved the relics of a prophet. Oh, yeah.
I mean, ISIS wants to obliterate our history. So they're finding these sacred Christian, Jewish, Christian, even Muslim sites.

Speaker 1 I mean, these are prophets like Nahum that bring everyone together. And Jonah.
And Jonah, they blew up Jonah's tomb already, the ISIS did. And they were coming for Nahum's.
And

Speaker 1 this noble Catholic priest went in, took the bones of Nahum, ran them into the desert, into the hills, buried them in a safe place that only he knew about.

Speaker 1 And so when ISIS came, they couldn't find them.

Speaker 1 He's since has gone back and put those bones back in their place. But, I mean, these people,

Speaker 1 they understand the power of history and the power of this heritage. And that's also what we are doing is trying to preserve that

Speaker 1 for everybody. Yeah, because

Speaker 1 they are literally trying to erase the people and then any traces of the people of God.

Speaker 9 No, so

Speaker 9 these Chaldean priests, they took over, I think, in 1948. For a long time, this site,

Speaker 9 the caretakers were the Jewish people until 1948, and they left and the Christians took it over. But these are sites that are common for Muslims, for Christians, for Jews.

Speaker 9 These are sites where everyone can come together and agree on our past. And these are prophets that are revered by all the major three religions.
And it's just a, I mean,

Speaker 1 why is ISIS trying to destroy that?

Speaker 1 Just because these shrines were taken, made by Jews and cared for by Christians?

Speaker 9 I think to them, it's about replacing the history and making sure that any other claims of history

Speaker 9 are eradicated from the region.

Speaker 9 I think it's a simple power play so that the history is erased, that people can start new with their caliphate concept, and no one asks any more questions about the history.

Speaker 1 So we have, quote, defeated ISIS. So what's the problem, Tim? Well, they still exist in pockets.

Speaker 1 I mean, what they did is they just went back into Syria into the places where they're just power vacuums. There's places throughout Syria where no one controls.

Speaker 1 And a lot of these guys also just went back in, you know, took off their black garb and went back into the population. Yeah, it's constant.

Speaker 1 The threats are constant. They come from different groups popping up.

Speaker 1 But the only thing that's common, the only thing that doesn't change is the Christians who are always going to be the ones who are persecuted by whoever is in power.

Speaker 1 So unless we go in and extract them and rehabilitate them,

Speaker 1 they're done. We put a really aggressive goal together.

Speaker 1 We're trying to raise $25 million. That's more than we have raised for the Nazarene Fund.

Speaker 1 That would be over double what we have already raised. And we are a long, long way from meeting those goals.
This is not something where we get corporate donations or anything else.

Speaker 1 This is all coming in in $5 bills.

Speaker 1 And, you know, as Dave said, we're the only ones on the ground doing this.

Speaker 1 I don't know why, but we are.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 if you want to be a part of saving these Christians, you want to be a part of getting them to safety, getting them

Speaker 1 recovery,

Speaker 1 please join us at the Nazarenefund.org. The Nazarenefund.org.
When I say recovery, can we talk a little bit about, like this week, we have been playing

Speaker 1 the interviews that I did when I went down to Mexico. The strongest women I've ever met by far, and I've met strong women.
I'm married to a strong woman.

Speaker 1 These women are remarkable. They were

Speaker 1 slaves, literal, you know, what do you call them, labor slaves and sex slaves.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 one of them would not even say that they were a slave.

Speaker 1 And I said, at the very end, I said, hold up a blank piece of paper, and I want you to say your name and say, I was a slave, but my life is a blank sheet of paper, and I'm the only author of my story.

Speaker 1 She said, no. And I said, why? And this was the labor slave, okay? The one who had burn marks all over her face and her neck and chain chain marks all over her.

Speaker 1 She said,

Speaker 1 because people say I was a slave, that didn't make me a slave.

Speaker 1 Holy cow.

Speaker 1 Holy cow. How refreshing is that to hear? Not a victim, even in slavery.

Speaker 1 But this came at a high price to

Speaker 1 get these women help.

Speaker 1 And most organizations don't do this. They just rescue and then say, well, there you are.
But they have to have aftercare.

Speaker 1 The aftercare is the most important part. It's the most important part of our mission.

Speaker 1 We won't even lift a finger, as you know, in an operation unless that aftercare part is set up completely ready to receive those victims who will become survivors and become thrivers.

Speaker 1 And it's a long-term thing.

Speaker 1 We're going to have them until they're on their own. And that's what we set them up for, as you saw.
You've seen our aftercare partners. And they're the best.
They're the best in the world.

Speaker 1 These three women that we're featuring on the show this week, these three women are all part of the Forbes 100 Most Powerful Women of Mexico now.

Speaker 1 I mean, it's remarkable. One of them was invited to speak to all of the heads of all of the major religions.
I mean, Everybody was there, including the Pope, and it was happening in Rome.

Speaker 1 And she stood up and she was talking about something. I've seen the video.
And about halfway through, she said, you know,

Speaker 1 I feel like I need to pray for you. And she prayed for them.
I can't even imagine the cojones it takes to say to the Pope, You know what? I'm going to keep you in my prayers, buddy,

Speaker 1 because you really need them.

Speaker 1 It was, it was, it's quite amazing what these women have turned into. They're

Speaker 1 real leaders

Speaker 1 of hope, and that's thanks to OUR and people like you who are

Speaker 1 contributing.

Speaker 1 Tim,

Speaker 1 we'll have you on tomorrow for television. We appreciate the work that you do.

Speaker 1 I know that we're not alone praying for you every night.

Speaker 1 When we say our prayers as a family, we pray for all of the guys who are operating all over the world trying to rescue these people as well as the slaves themselves. You're doing good work.
Thank you.

Speaker 1 Thank you. Thank you, Claire.
God bless. The NazareneFund.org.
The Nazarenefund.org.

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Speaker 1 We lost Billy Graham last night,

Speaker 1 which is

Speaker 1 a happy day for him and a happy day in some ways for his family.

Speaker 1 But

Speaker 1 a sad day for us. Billy Graham, if you're not my age, you might think he was just, oh, he's one of those televangelists.

Speaker 1 No.

Speaker 1 He was Billy Billy Graham.

Speaker 1 He was a, he was a cut above and

Speaker 1 just a different kind of man. Everybody, everybody else is a cheap knockoff of Billy Graham.
And I say that with respect to the others, but they would even tell you, cheap knockoff of Billy Graham.

Speaker 1 Remarkable, remarkable man.

Speaker 1 There's a couple of other things.

Speaker 1 We've sent destroyers into the Black Sea to send Russia a message.

Speaker 1 Things are heating up on that front.

Speaker 1 The media is still not giving you the full story on

Speaker 1 Russia and what it means. The media is now starting to go to people's houses and say, did you know that you were doing a pro-Trump rally?

Speaker 1 It was financed by Russia.

Speaker 1 Yeah, MSNBC, CNN, did you know that you were promoting an anti-Trump rally that was paid for and organized by Russia as well?

Speaker 1 Imagine an indictment comes out that shows that, Glenn, you were promoting something like that, something that was

Speaker 1 a problem. Probably would be all Trump over it, saying, oh my gosh, I can't believe that happened to us.

Speaker 1 Here are the details. I mean, we talked about it.

Speaker 1 The very early things that this agency did with Russia, one of the things they did was to plant pro-Putin comments on theblaze.com.

Speaker 1 We told you about it at the time, and we told you about it recently again as it popped back up in the news. Now, it didn't affect our coverage at all.
It was just in the comments section.

Speaker 1 But still, they targeted the Blaze specifically, and this shows this has nothing to do with Trump. People were trying to make this about Trump.
It's not about that.

Speaker 1 It was much bigger and earlier than that. This is about sowing the seeds of discontent.
It is why they funded pro-Trump and anti-Trump rallies.

Speaker 1 But if you are on record promoting one of these rallies and then you have the gall to go out and find someone else who's in the same report who did the same thing and go harass them on their lawn

Speaker 1 that is inexplicable that's just unbelievable come on guys you got to do better than that yeah it's unbelievable but expected also in the news uh donald trump is talking about some uh new things for gun control

Speaker 1 we we need to explain all of them because on the surface okay more background checks okay better background checks

Speaker 1 Okay, raising the limit on when you can buy a gun. Okay, let's talk about that.
There's some things that you have to be aware of. And then if you're against them, you need to let the president know.

Speaker 1 Or if you support them, let the president know, but he listens to his supporters. And also, a very disturbing report:

Speaker 1 a new poll of America is out. We get to that next.

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Speaker 1 Truth.

Speaker 1 Glenn back. The non-stop media narrative right now is that teenagers are finally going to get gun control laws passed in America.

Speaker 1 These teens are going to get done with the dumb adults and politicians just refuse to do.

Speaker 1 Well, there's more to this story. For conservatives,

Speaker 1 even a hint of criticism at this national moment is a lose-lose situation. But let's be really clear.

Speaker 1 If you are mocking the teenagers and especially the teenagers from Parkland, Florida, and what they're doing,

Speaker 1 it's moronic. Stop it.
Stop.

Speaker 1 Let's talk about the whole movement here.

Speaker 1 Kids want new gun control laws, and that's because they're reeling from the horrific murders at their school. Natural reaction.
They're venting. And the momentum of their emotions is taking them to

Speaker 1 Tallahassee and Washington, D.C. to demand that lawmakers act.
This is what teenagers do, especially when they're being exploited.

Speaker 1 The criticism of this is

Speaker 1 aimed at the ridiculous exploitation of these teenagers and their grief by the mainstream media and now Hollywood. They can't get enough of the teens' emotional appeals for gun controls.

Speaker 1 The media cannot stop gushing about the urgency and civic engagement of these teens.

Speaker 1 But they're only interested in the right kind of activism. They don't care that last month thousands of teenagers participated in the March for Life in Washington.
What was the difference?

Speaker 1 Those were teenagers marching for the protection of children. What's the difference here? We all know the difference.

Speaker 1 The disgusting part of this scene is not the teenagers chanting for stricter gun control. They're exercising their First Amendment right.

Speaker 1 It's the mainstream media that is cheering and urging them on so they can continue exploiting their tears.

Speaker 1 They're cheering for them because they see these teenagers as their avenue to accomplish a key part of the left's controlling agenda.

Speaker 1 And because the cameras are still rolling, it further inflames the rhetoric, and the teams feel validated and empowered, and they want to keep it going.

Speaker 1 And now, in comes Steven Spielberg and the Hollywood Horde.

Speaker 1 He's going to pay for all of it. He's going to make sure that

Speaker 1 they get there.

Speaker 1 And who's organizing it?

Speaker 1 The women's march organizers. My gosh, this this sounds totally grassroots.

Speaker 1 The media is starry-eyed over the upcoming March for Our Lives in Washington, D.C.

Speaker 1 They're going to cover it. They're going to cover it wall to wall.
And they're never going to find anything at all wrong with it.

Speaker 1 Then there's the national school walkout organized by the Women's March. No agenda there, except love for everybody.

Speaker 1 Well, except for love for NRA members, conservatives, men, anyone who disagrees with them.

Speaker 1 Look, America wants to talk about solutions, so let's talk about solutions. Let's have the conversation the teens are calling for.

Speaker 1 Let's figure out ways that we can act right now to protect our children before more are killed.

Speaker 1 The media coverage of these protests is a one-sided conversation, and the left wants to keep it that way.

Speaker 1 Has anyone suggested to these teens that more gun control will not guarantee their safety? Have they considered that?

Speaker 1 This is a good opportunity for teenagers to get a reasoned perspective other than the media's single talking point. For starters, here it is.

Speaker 1 Progressivism tries to convince you that everything good for you, everything that will protect you, comes from the government. That

Speaker 1 is a lie.

So there are some disturbing signs that our Second Amendment is

Speaker 1 being,

Speaker 1 the attack on it is being welcomed by

Speaker 1 a large number of Americans now, and that this may be the moment of action on the Second Amendment.

Speaker 1 I had Stu look into all of the polls, and there's one poll that he wants to bring that is quite disturbing if you're a conservative. So a couple other things here.

Speaker 1 You have Trump is now looking to support three potential changes to our gun laws. One, bump stocks he announced last night

Speaker 1 expanding them.

Speaker 1 Do you have a problem with that? I don't think it's legal. I don't think he can do it.
I don't think so either. But I mean,

Speaker 1 to find the legal way to do it, do you have a problem with that?

Speaker 1 I don't think it's realistic. I mean, we're in the world of 3D printers.
The idea that you can't make a, that a bump stock ban is even plausible. Yes, I agree with you.
I don't, I, so I would say no.

Speaker 1 And also, I have this thing. There's this thing that says, I don't want to act to limit or undermine or encroach on our Second Amendment rights.

Speaker 1 Another way of saying that is I don't want to infringe on them. Now, I think you could make a legitimate argument that an accessory like that is not.

Speaker 1 That's skating around the law.

Speaker 1 We've already passed a law that says no automatic.

Speaker 1 I know that.

Speaker 1 There's a constitution that says... No, no, no, no.
I know that. But we've already passed a law.
This bump stock is just a way to try to skirt around it.

Speaker 1 Okay, so here's what I'll say on this. Okay.

Speaker 1 I

Speaker 1 would agree in our current world,

Speaker 1 the way that we treat the Second Amendment, that the bump stock ban is something that's totally on the table. Yes.
I don't think any of of this crap is constitutional, to be perfectly honest with you.

Speaker 1 I don't think so. So, you know, if it was a different Supreme Court, they would agree with us.
So I agree with you that this is infringement.

Speaker 1 However, in the world that we're living in,

Speaker 1 it's like a common sense gun measure. You're right.
Like, they meant to, they've tried to ban these weapons. They've passed laws that have banned these weapons.

Speaker 1 It's been challenged in the Supreme Court and held up. I don't agree with those rulings.

Speaker 1 However, that being said, that is where we are. And so where we are, I think you're right in that this is a way to go around that rule.
That being said, it doesn't technically qualify.

Speaker 1 You can, I don't think what Trump wants to do now is legal because what he wants to do now, and this is, I don't think this is motivated by anything bad. I think this is just him.

Speaker 1 This is his understanding of it. And I think a lot of people would understand it this way.
Republicans in Congress the same way, which is, look, this is simulating automatic gunfire.

Speaker 1 Therefore, it should be illegal because automatic gunfire is illegal in most cases.

Speaker 1 The way the law is written, it talks about automatic gunfire is you pull the trigger once and a bunch of bullets come out. Right.
That is not what a bump stock does.

Speaker 1 A bump stock helps you fire the gun faster.

Speaker 1 So I would say, and again, I can't believe I'm harder on the Second Amendment than you, of all people, but I would say you can't do it the way that they currently want to do it.

Speaker 1 Here's where I stand on this. Again, yes, it is to get you to fire the gun faster.

Speaker 1 To pull the trigger faster. faster.
So, yes, technically. But

Speaker 1 what is the spirit of

Speaker 1 what we did? Now, I'm just talking about the world that we live in.

Speaker 1 Bump stocks, how much of a role are bump stocks really playing

Speaker 1 in anything? It is something that is

Speaker 1 trying to skirt around

Speaker 1 the automatic weapon thing. And a law,

Speaker 1 a lot of the people who own them think is not constitutional.

Speaker 1 Again, laws are taken. I own automatic weapons.
I know.

Speaker 1 But I live within the law. Exactly.

Speaker 1 So I just don't like anything that is skirting around. It's not a big deal.
I mean,

Speaker 1 almost nobody has them. But I mean,

Speaker 1 it's not really going to change anything. Take it.
Take it. Fine.
Take it.

Speaker 1 I know. It's a dangerous thing, but I know.

Speaker 1 And let's be honest about it. In the world of the internet, plus 3D printers.
Oh, it's good luck banning them.

Speaker 1 Good luck. You could never ban any of this stuff anymore.
3D printing. But I mean, I think it's one of those things that, politically speaking, you do it because A, almost no one has them.
B,

Speaker 1 there's no support base for them. Yeah.
And C, you could give it away with almost losing almost nothing. Correct.
So in this world that we live in, let's

Speaker 1 say whatever. Yes.
The other two are raising the age of gun purchases for

Speaker 1 long guns to 21 years old. Okay, so hang on.
Let's talk about that. In theory, again, you're infringing on the right.

Speaker 1 If you're old enough to go fight,

Speaker 1 you aren't, you're, I mean, it doesn't make any sense. No.
It doesn't make any sense. However,

Speaker 1 I'm not in theory

Speaker 1 opposed if we are saying it's 21 to drink. And they're saying 21 for handguns.
Yeah, so why not?

Speaker 1 But again, again,

Speaker 1 the slippery slope in action, by the way, on the Glenn Beck program. I know.
And I have more of a problem with that one because

Speaker 1 A, you're 18. You're on your own.
You're now officially an adult. You can go live on your own.
If you want to go buy your own gun, you can go buy your own gun.

Speaker 1 If you're old enough to use a gun in the military, you're certainly old enough to use a gun. If a 16-year-old should be able to form our laws on guns,

Speaker 1 then certainly an 18-year-old should be able to buy one. Yeah, I'm a hard no on that one, quite frankly.
A hard no on that one. I don't like that.

Speaker 1 And by the way, the 21-year-old restriction should be removed as well and go back to 18. I mean, I think as an adult, there's an obvious line there.

Speaker 1 To me, I think it's, but again, I'm way out of the mainstream on this. And then the third one is, do you remember what it was? You discussed it earlier.

Speaker 1 It was

Speaker 1 increased background checks. And that's where we go for this poll.
Increased background checks going deeper. Universal background checks have been something that have been discussed for a long time.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 that sounds like, okay, yeah, I'm for background checks. But what does that mean? We get into that and this poll next.

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Speaker 1 So now let's look at the recent poll numbers and where Americans stand on the issues. So the big headline from this Quinnipiac poll is going to be, and it seems to be so far, that

Speaker 1 97%

Speaker 1 of Americans support requiring background checks for all gun buyers. Now, this is the universal background check that has been tossed around for a long time.
Republicans have generally opposed it,

Speaker 1 and it's one of the things that we're talking about. Now, Trump seems to be indicating a level of support for it.

Speaker 1 Okay, so now what this means is, I mean, everybody has to have a background check unless.

Speaker 1 Unless you're a dad giving your gun to your son. Then my son doesn't have to have a background check.

Speaker 1 I'm just passing it on. This would require everyone, any transaction, has to now have a background check.

Speaker 1 And that background check, you know, Cabela's does it for free, but that background check, you know, could be as high as $500.

Speaker 1 And you also would have to maintain the

Speaker 1 records of the background check for multiple years. So if you're, if someone, if God forbid, you sell your gun to

Speaker 1 your son and he does something he's not supposed to do with it, they would come to you and say, well, did you get the background check done? Where's your paperwork?

Speaker 1 So you'd have to hold paperwork on your kids for multiple years to make sure that you could prove all of this. This is something that most people, and this is why the poll is misleading.

Speaker 1 So you say, do you support or oppose requiring background checks for all gun buyers? Almost everybody says yes.

Speaker 1 And the reason for that is, of course, that the media has told them that no one gets background checks when they buy guns. It's easier than buying cough medicine, right? They actually said that.

Speaker 1 They said that just the other day. Just the other day.
Yeah, that it's easier to buy cough medicine. They say it's easier than buying a beer.
It's easier. All these things.
It's not. It's not easier.

Speaker 1 It's easy than these things, of course. You know, Chris Cuomo was tweeting someone who said some 20-year-old said in five minutes he bought an AR-15.
Afterwards, it was discovered that,

Speaker 1 no, the kid didn't buy that.

Speaker 1 gun at all. He had just tweeted,

Speaker 1 they would call it a banana, I believe.

Speaker 1 Remember the apple and banana story?

Speaker 1 Completely fake. The guy didn't buy the gun.
He just fake, fake news. Fake news is another way of putting that.
But okay, the poll is 97 to 2. It's from Quinnipiac.
It's a legitimate pollster.

Speaker 1 This is not some tilted poll, though it is one of the most favorable polls I've ever seen for gun control. Two ways to look at that.
Number one,

Speaker 1 the country's moving. They're moving in a gun control direction.
Number two, it's just one poll and it's a little bit of an outlier.

Speaker 1 I will say that the Washington Post poll from just yesterday isn't nearly as favorable for gun control measures. But this one is going to get a lot of attention because it's 97 to 2.

Speaker 1 The issue is when you say that, you don't give any specifics about what you're talking about. Almost all gun purchases are already covered by background checks.
So it is not something that

Speaker 1 is going to be a mass increase in background checks. There are four...

Speaker 1 There are three basic categories that this falls into that may or may not get background checks.

Speaker 1 If the buyer is trying to purchase a gun at a gun show. Now, of course, I have purchased guns at

Speaker 1 gun shows before. And guess what happened when I did it? I got a background check.
Okay, so

Speaker 1 this is one of the biggest lies

Speaker 1 out there. Well, it is and it isn't.

Speaker 1 You can be an independent person and you want to sell your one gun and you can sell it at a gun show and make the transaction, but then you don't have to go through a background check.

Speaker 1 But that is minuscule compared to the amount of guns that are sold and traded at gun shows. When you go to a gun show,

Speaker 1 you buy it from

Speaker 1 a vendor, they're giving you the background check. That's the way that works.
That's the way it works. It's just this small loophole, small group.

Speaker 1 If you are a private citizen and you want to sell your one gun, you can sell it to somebody else. I can give my gun to my son without a background check.

Speaker 1 So, what you find is when you start pulling the specifics of what a universal background check would actually do, the number drops quite a bit from 97%.

Speaker 1 Now, they asked the question, is the buyer trying to purchase it at a gun show? If they're buying at a gun show,

Speaker 1 that is 83% support. So right off the bat, you've gone from 97 to 83.
Wow. However, that does not include private sales.

Speaker 1 So the other way of doing it is, like if you think of it, Glenn, you have a gun and you're selling it to someone not in your family,

Speaker 1 just selling it to me. and I purchase it.
Do I have to go through a background check for that? They've polled that separately as well. That number is is not 97% either.
That number is 70%.

Speaker 1 So now we've dropped all the way down to 70. Now, when we go to if

Speaker 1 the buyer is purchasing a gun from a family member or receiving it as a gift, that number drops from 97% down to 54%.

Speaker 1 So now you're in a situation where the number is not universal support for the left-wing position. but it is your typical left-right divide, right?

Speaker 1 Where half the country thinks one way, half the country thinks another way. And you may say, well, okay, you know, that's just one little bit of the background check.

Speaker 1 Yeah, but that's the stuff that they're talking about.

Speaker 1 It all exists here.

Speaker 1 It all exists on private sales.

Speaker 1 I know the media, for those who don't own a gun, never done this before, don't listen to the media who says, oh, it's easier than buying cough syrup. It's not.
It's a pain in the ass.

Speaker 1 It is a giant pain in the ass.

Speaker 1 And you're like, honestly, I have been to Cabela's and I wanted to buy something and then I've looked over where they do the background check and I'm like, yeah, forget it.

Speaker 1 I mean, it's a pain in the ass.

Speaker 1 But we all do it. Everybody does it.
99% of all guns sold are sold that way. And you get a background check.
Should you, should my son have to go through a background check to get my gun? No. No.

Speaker 1 He's my son. I'm transferring my property to my son.
What if your son's bad? What if your son is Adam Lanza? Well, then Adam Lanza. My son happens to be Adam Lanza and may God have mercy on his soul.

Speaker 1 That's the thing.

Speaker 1 And this is what's going to happen because once you get to the point where they allow background checks for you to sell your kids guns, they will say anyone else in the home, when you buy a gun, also must be background checked.

Speaker 1 It makes no sense. The Adam Lanza rule will eventually be something the left pushes for.

Speaker 1 If you have somebody in your if you have a teenager in your home that is suffering from depression or is on medication, do you have a weapon in the home?

Speaker 1 You've got to get rid of the weapon in the home. Or the state can take the child away for now until, you know, I mean, that's where we're headed because

Speaker 1 what happens? You have a child that's violent. You have guns in the home? Well, they could get,

Speaker 1 no.

Speaker 1 That's where this is headed. If you want to look at some of the other polling stuff here, 66% support stricter gun laws.
That's up from 52% in 2015.

Speaker 1 So there has been some movement, or this poll is an outlier. We'll see, I think, as more polls go.

Speaker 1 I think it's movement myself.

Speaker 1 Dangerous movement. Back in a minute.

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Speaker 1 This is the Glenn Beck program. A lot of people questioning God today.

Speaker 1 I mean, how can God let us live in a world where Billy Graham is gone and Pat Gray arrives? Welcome to the program, Pat Gray. Wow, I'm sure that was positive for me.

Speaker 1 I should probably mention I didn't have anything to do with Billy.

Speaker 1 Well,

Speaker 1 that's what we'd expect you to say, Pat Gray. Of course, right, of course.
Obviously, you're going to say that.

Speaker 1 But where were you last night about 3 a.m.? I really did not not suspect foul play when he died at 99. That was not my first.

Speaker 1 That is the genius of Pat's plan.

Speaker 1 Okay. Yeah.
And he has no motive whatsoever. Right.

Speaker 1 Wow. But his wife was asleep at 3.

Speaker 1 Sure. You remember those Crusades he did where he would, at his peak, do 18 a year?

Speaker 1 It's like one and a half a month. So every six weeks, the guy would

Speaker 1 fill 50,000-seat stadiums.

Speaker 1 Pretty incredible. He was pretty incredible.
He was amazing. Also, sign of another era that he was, and I mean this in the PC way, but like he was allowed to use the word crusades.

Speaker 1 Like, I mean, obviously, like, that has now been this thing you're not supposed to say. Not that he would have cared, by the way.
I don't know. Maybe it was controversial even at the time.

Speaker 1 No, I don't think so. But now it's like, crusades, how dare you? What are you saying? You want to recreate the crusades?

Speaker 1 Imagine that.

Speaker 1 That's what they would say now. You know, when I was in his office, and

Speaker 1 he had a picture of

Speaker 1 him,

Speaker 1 and I think he was on stage with Martin Luther King, but I remember seeing the stadium. And I asked him, I said, you know, what's that? And he said...

Speaker 1 That was a night, and I've looked, I've tried to find the picture in his book, and I can't find it. But he said, that was a night, I don't remember where it was in in the South.
He said, when,

Speaker 1 you know, everybody was all up in arms about, you know, segregation and black and white issues. And he said,

Speaker 1 Martin Luther King was speaking, and I was speaking, and he said,

Speaker 1 I had the audience,

Speaker 1 I told them to get up and sit next to somebody who's not your color.

Speaker 1 Imagine in the early 1960s doing that in the South. Wow.
I mean, he was. Did people do it? Yeah.
Oh, yeah. Yeah.
He said it was great. Yeah.
He said it was great.

Speaker 1 He said, but, you know, that's who Jesus is.

Speaker 1 So anyway, Pat, what's on your mind today? Well, speaking of evangelists,

Speaker 1 Jim Baker is back.

Speaker 1 Oh, good. He's back.
Good. Apparently, he's been back for a little while.
Of course, he did, what, five years, I think, in prison. Yeah.

Speaker 1 But he's rebuilt. A new ministry.

Speaker 1 And it's, it's. Is Tammy Faye still with him? No, Tammy Faye's actually lost us.

Speaker 1 We lost her. Oh, we lost her.
We lost her. We lost Tammy Faye? Yeah.
Tammy Faye died in 2007. Oh, that's too bad.
Wow. I missed that news.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 One of her eyelashes fell off and broke her neck, I think. Really? That's what happened earlier.
Really? Wow. Okay, stop it.
Stop it. Okay.

Speaker 1 No,

Speaker 1 he's remarried. She remarried, you might recall,

Speaker 1 pretty quickly after he went to jail, married his best friend. Really? Yeah.
I don't remember any of this. This is going to be an incredible movie.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 I mean, and it just got me to thinking about

Speaker 1 Jessica Hahn and the whole situation that brought down the scandal. And

Speaker 1 as some wacky radio guy in Phoenix, Arizona, who

Speaker 1 hired Jessica Hahn to do the weather. Because Jessica Hahn, if you don't remember, she was the playboy.

Speaker 1 Wasn't she like a Playboy bunny that kind of like the person that jumped in the middle of that relationship? There was a show in Phoenix at the time. Oh, God.

Speaker 1 That thought it was a good idea to hire her. Hired, like, paid her money? Paid her money to just come in and do the weather.
She was like their weather bunny or something.

Speaker 1 Well, I will tell you that I think the person that did that

Speaker 1 was

Speaker 1 talking to her, and she said, you know, I've always wanted to do what you do. And I said, he said,

Speaker 1 oopsie daisies. He said, well, have you ever done that before? And she said, no.
And I said, so, well, you could, we could, how about a 30-day contract?

Speaker 1 You can be the weather bunny and you can do the weather. And, you know, and, you know, you can practice off air and try to see if there's a show.
And if there's a show, great.

Speaker 1 And so she was with us for about 30 days. It's a fantastic idea.
I got you so much coverage. I actually

Speaker 1 grew to like her. She was.
Was she? Yeah, she was very nice. Yeah.

Speaker 1 She was very open about it. Privately, she was very open about the whole Jim Baker thing and the, you know.
Did she talk about it on the air when you? Yeah, a little bit. Yeah.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 I mean, because that's what people would want, right? They'd want to hear her side of it. Yeah, so she did that.
She did do that. I mean,

Speaker 1 this is shortly before we got together, so I wasn't there at the time, which is why I don't know some of these things. She was

Speaker 1 regretful. Yeah, very regretful.

Speaker 1 She was very humble. She was very giving and kind.
She really was. She was very generous and kind.
You know, this was 31 years ago now. Shut up.

Speaker 1 31 years.

Speaker 1 I just, that floors me. I just got, where has the time

Speaker 1 gone?

Speaker 1 I looked at my father. My in-laws are staying with us.
And I looked at my father because I just had my birthday. And I said, Dad,

Speaker 1 I believe you were 54 when we met.

Speaker 1 I am now my

Speaker 1 father-in-law. Wow.
Age when I met him to activate. I hate realizations like that.
Oh my gosh, it was like chilly. Oh my gosh, and looking now, dude.
I mean,

Speaker 1 where did the time go? I'm gonna, I'm next. The next time I have this realization, I'll be your age now.

Speaker 1 This happens to all the time with sports. Like, I mean, you know, Tom Brady just lost, he lost the Super Bowl to the Philadelphia Eagles if you didn't catch that news.

Speaker 1 But I mean, people talked about it all the time. Like, this guy's amazing.
He's 40 years old and he's still doing this. This is incredible.
I'm like, I just turned 42.

Speaker 1 The people are saying he's, it's incredibly, he's like a superhuman to be able to walk at this point in his life. And I'm older than, I'm older than basically.

Speaker 1 Thank God Adam Vinatari is still in the league because he's 45 and he's still going to continue. So I still, as long as he's still there.

Speaker 1 But I mean, that's, it's basically every professional athlete available, but I'm older than.

Speaker 1 Could we go to something, Stu, that we're working on for the future?

Speaker 1 We're doing a chalkboard series on society splinters.

Speaker 1 And the last one is about technology and how it's either going to be utopia or death, one of the two.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 we were talking about the things that they are predicting now to come.

Speaker 1 In 2030, correct me if I'm wrong on this. In 2030, they believe Ray Kurzweil is predicting an end to disease.
No AIDS, no cancer,

Speaker 1 no epilepsy, none of that. In 12 years.
In 12 years.

Speaker 1 That would be great. And then how long do you live if there's no diseases? I mean, because we always say this idea of natural causes is not real, right?

Speaker 1 Like, there's no reason you have to die at that point medically. Now, you could talk about, you know, spiritually

Speaker 1 and go into those realms. But when you talk about medical, like

Speaker 1 you've got cells that are dying. Usually there's...
The heart wears out. Right.

Speaker 1 There could be something like

Speaker 1 the,

Speaker 1 gosh, I'm thinking of, I can think of the

Speaker 1 heart attack, whatever it is, right? Like it could be anything, right? Something that, but if you prevent those things,

Speaker 1 there's no reason you die at 80 or 90. Like those,

Speaker 1 you have cells dying. You have things happening inside your body.

Speaker 1 If you can prevent all those things with, let's say, nanotechnology, which is one of the things they think think can do it, I mean, you don't need to die at 100.

Speaker 1 You could just keep going and going and going, and you might not want that. With the population explosion that would result from that, we'd run out of food.

Speaker 1 And then you'd have to find a place for old people, let's say at 65. They retire, and then you send them to a really nice place.
But what place is that?

Speaker 1 But, you know, with all the investigative research being done by certain people, somebody might poke around and find out where those old people are going.

Speaker 1 And that's to a plant where they're killed and turned into food. Oh my gosh, and then someone discovers what colour would it be: soil and green is peeping.

Speaker 1 Can I tell you something? That's what would happen. That's not going to happen because I've seen that documentary.
Yeah,

Speaker 1 that's not going to happen because there is this new thing that we're going to start doing, and you're going to have like a little, like a little crystal in the center of your hand.

Speaker 1 And when that crystal changes color, then you go to

Speaker 1 it's like

Speaker 1 a big ceremony in a stadium where

Speaker 1 you're called to go to someplace great. Oh, like a beautiful island.
Yeah. And everything's perfect there.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 I mean, they kill you.

Speaker 1 Well, huh. But that'll be supposed to tell us that part of the story, huh? I don't think you're supposed to.

Speaker 1 Well, no, it's because we should find that out. No, it's because one of the, the only reason why we found this out is because one of the guys who was one of of the,

Speaker 1 he would track the runners.

Speaker 1 And some people were like, hey, I'm not going to a happy place. And he's like, no, of course you're going to a happy place.
Well, he found out. I can't remember his name, Logan or something.

Speaker 1 And he found out that

Speaker 1 they were telling the truth. It wasn't a happy place.
They were killing him. Wow.
Really? Yeah. Wow.
Wow. I missed that documentary.
So anyway. That's what happens when technology gets too good.

Speaker 1 So maybe we shouldn't root for that. There's really no,

Speaker 1 there's not a lot of movies where they're just like, you know what? Turned out great. Yeah, it turned out right.
I got to say, it's a lot better. I mean, you think about it.
Blade Runner,

Speaker 1 Gattaca. What was that one with Star Trek? Star Trek.
Star Trek.

Speaker 1 Star Trek is the only one, really.

Speaker 1 There's a lot of conflict. But that's because.

Speaker 1 That's not because of humans or man. No, that's because of other planetary people.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Right, but it's still, you're dealing now with the interplanetary people, so that becomes part of your life, too, right? Yes.

Speaker 1 Remember, they had that movie that came out. Oh, I want a giant space fence.

Speaker 1 By the way, have you heard the latest controversy on Black Panther? I loved it. Yes.
It's

Speaker 1 action-packed with a ton of diversity, but no gays. Oh, no.
No

Speaker 1 gays. Oh, no.

Speaker 1 I can't believe the hate. The hatred.
The

Speaker 1 phobia. So now you must include, no matter what, whether it fits in the story or not, a homosexual relationship? Yes.
Yes. I'm going to have to insist that you also include a polygamist relationship.

Speaker 1 How dare you? Why isn't it? How dare you call it? Dear two things,

Speaker 1 you can control how many people I love. How dare you? I don't think so.
If you're going to go there, I think it's only fair because you can't question or stop love. No, you can't.
No, that's true.

Speaker 1 I mean, I don't know why you can't have, you know, familial love as well represented.

Speaker 1 There's no reason for that. that.
No reason for that. Exactly.
We're not going to restrict in any way

Speaker 1 your chance of loving others.

Speaker 1 The only controversy here is marriage, right? You can have sex with as many people as you want. And if you criticize that, then you're an old-timey bastard.

Speaker 1 But if you say you want to marry them, then it's so bad that we can't even use it as a comparison to anything else.

Speaker 1 You know who else is underrepresented in all of our movies? You almost never see it. Are people who pleasure themselves? Where's their love?

Speaker 1 Where's the self-love? Where is that depicted? Great point. Not in very many movies.
Now, Jeffy, if he were here, he would tell you there are a lot of movies about it. Who would tell you that?

Speaker 1 You know,

Speaker 1 I would like to say that I think

Speaker 1 the only people that are really

Speaker 1 underrepresented in today's movies and television

Speaker 1 normal people that are just regular. Oh, my gosh.

Speaker 1 I just said normal.

Speaker 1 You just said regular. You just said people who date their brothers and sisters are not normal.

Speaker 1 He just said normal. Oh, my gosh.
I am so hateful. Sorry.
Okay, I'm going to go to a camp for a few days.

Speaker 1 I'll be back. Oh, yeah, it's a happy place.
It's an island. You'll love it.

Speaker 1 Pat Gray, Unleashed, coming up on the Blaze Radio and TV networks. You can get the podcast as well.
Don't forget about that. On iTunes or wherever podcasts are sold for free.
I don't.

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Speaker 1 Okay, can you imagine taking your car on a hundred-day test drive? I can.

Speaker 1 I can. Having a pair of new shoes, having 100 days to walk around and see how comfortable they are.
Oh, I wish my wife would do that, but she'd still buy them and then wear them.

Speaker 1 And then immediately after leaving the house, she'll say, I can't wait to take these shoes off.

Speaker 1 Anyway, if, you know, a test drive would change things for you, if you would learn something and then do something about it, it's a good thing, right?

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Speaker 1 Glenn, Beck, Mercury.

Speaker 1 Let me give you some of the Facebook comments.

Speaker 1 Stella wrote in how stupid the NRA has nothing to do with the school shooting. Go after the FBI for not investigating the tips they got on that killer.
Don't go after the FBI.

Speaker 1 Let's just find out what happened and let's fix the damn problem.

Speaker 1 Paul Smith, I'm sure there are any number of cities that will gladly take the millions of dollars that the NRA convention will mean to its host city because Dallas has said the NRA should go find another city.

Speaker 1 I'm embarrassed. I'm embarrassed that I live in Dallas.

Speaker 1 On the special that we've been doing this week with these amazing women, and there's another one tonight you just don't want to miss, Holly wrote in, Glenn, thank you for focusing on this.

Speaker 1 These women are truly amazing. I can't imagine what they've lived through.
Their courage is inspiring. Frank, thanks for shedding light on this, Glenn.

Speaker 1 It amazes me how the rest of the media is so silent.

Speaker 1 And Tasha, I cried this whole episode. God bless these women.
They are inspiring. Inspiring.
Incredible.

Speaker 1 And you don't want to miss it. It's amazing in this world of hashtag MeToo and we've got to stand up for women how silent the media is

Speaker 1 on what the Nazarene Fund and OUR is doing.

Speaker 1 It's almost if it's not really about that. It is almost like that.
An underinformed person would think maybe it's political. Right.
An underinformed person.

Speaker 1 If you actually want to make a difference, if you actually care about changing the world for the better, man, make sure you join us tonight, 5 p.m., only on theblaze.com/slash TV.

Speaker 5 Mercury.

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