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Wow.

Houston and South Texas just suffering through an incredible catastrophe right now.

And apparently, there's a lot more rain on the way.

Mercury One is already there, helping to feed people, trying to rescue people.

Got boats in the area, got food in the area, fresh water.

We'll start with the hurricane and all of its fallout right now.

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This is just horrific

to look at from afar.

Can you imagine what it's like to be in the midst of this?

I moved to Houston in 2001.

I think it was a week, the week of Tropical Storm Allison, which dumped an unbelievable amount of water.

And there was really severe flooding and 24 or 26 people died from it.

It flooded

the downtown underground system that goes through the tunnel system where there's shops and restaurants and all that, like a lot of major cities have.

And many people died in there.

Others died at the medical center,

you know, drowned in their cars.

And already we've lost five people in this, two, in the Houston flooding from Hurricane Harvey.

And it's just

this rain event is apparently much worse already than Allison was.

And Allison was horrific for Houston.

I remember going looking for a home.

My wife flew into town because I was already there with the job.

And we were

looking for a house in various areas.

And when you walked into the homes in the north part of town, like up near the Woodlands, Conroe, Tomball,

you could see the water line still on almost every house we looked at in that area.

And we're like, okay, I don't think we're going to live in this area

because it floods.

And the problem with Houston is, you know, it's built on a swamp.

It's near the ocean.

So if you spit a few times, it floods.

It just,

it's unbelievable.

So when they're getting 30 inches of water and 50 are expected,

that's a bad prognosis for them.

And so our thoughts and prayers are with the greater Houston area right now.

It becomes so dangerous for the people, too.

I mean, let alone just all the water flooding the streets and everything.

I mean, people are in danger fast.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I haven't really, this is such a strange one because it was, well, there's a storm kind of out there.

And, oh, you know what?

It might pick up.

It looked kind of bad.

it's horrible this is the worst ever in like two days yeah that process happened and and and a lot of times their hysteria it doesn't pan out right you know it's it's it's much less dramatic and that lulls people into a false sense of security ah we've heard this before and we've been down this road before It's kind of what lulled the people of Galveston in 1900 into a false sense of security because they've been through storms before, huge storms.

And

so by the time people realized, and of course they didn't have the early warning like we do with satellite technology and all of that, but by the time they realized and started getting telegraphs that, hey, this hit our area and it's coming to you, you maybe want to leave town.

Only about half of the residents of Galveston did leave town.

And so just almost everybody who was there died in that hurricane.

So the, you know, the crying wolf every time certainly doesn't help when the wolf actually shows up at your door.

And it also kind of seems like they don't actually know.

I mean, I don't know if it's crying wolf or they have absolutely no idea.

If you look at the computer models now,

they know where it's gone, the storm,

and then it gets to where it is now, and they show where they think it might go next from all the different models.

It's as if legitimately you took a handful of spaghetti and threw it against a wall and it all stuck and it's all different directions.

They have absolutely no idea where this thing is going, except for the fact that it's going to sit there and dump dozens of inches of rain on this area that's already ridiculously flooded.

And when it first hit, it seemed like their predictions were it was going to hit Corpus Christi and areas.

I mean, you know, it was going to do a lot of damage, but it wasn't going to be the huge population center of Houston.

And now, I mean, you know, this is, they're talking, someone, I heard someone this morning say that it could wind up being the worst natural disaster in our history when it comes to actual money.

Wow.

And God only knows when it comes to loss of life.

I mean, it's not going to do 10,000 dead like the Galveston

storm you talked about.

But, I mean, as far as damages monetarily, I mean, this is

probably close to that now.

You know this stat.

But what's the, I mean, Houston is market what?

What's what size of city?

Three now.

Third largest city, and that's in terms of

overall surrounding area population.

That's just Houston itself.

Just Houston itself.

So the greater Houston area is right behind Dallas at at number six,

sixth largest.

So

it's affecting a lot of people, like almost 7 million people.

And

I mean, while they're used to these kinds of scares,

you can't get used to this sort of flooding.

I mean, this kind of flooding is just so overwhelming.

What do you do?

They've got video of people catching fish in their living room.

Have you seen that?

Yes.

I mean, first of all, how do you have the mindset when your house is flooded so bad that there's fish in your living room?

And say, hey,

let's record this.

YouTube time.

And put it up online.

And they're laughing about it.

Oh, cheering.

I mean, that's an amazing attitude.

I don't think I'd be in that mindset.

My living room was

flooded and fish were swimming in it.

No.

No, I don't think so.

Probably not

the way I would be either.

What is your

you lived there for multiple years?

Eight years.

They had there's a controversy kind of going on of whether they should have evacuated.

Apparently they got to be

the mayor.

Yes, there was.

Abbott told the people of Houston,

you ought to think about getting out of here.

And the mayor was like, no.

And the city manager immediately issued a statement saying local authorities know best.

Apparently, that's not accurate.

Because to me, the traditional wisdom is with hurricanes and tropical storms like this, is you

hunker down for a wind event, unless it's a four or five.

And this wasn't for Houston.

It wasn't Arancis.

They had 132 mile an hour winds.

But you hunker down in a wind event and you flee the water because you're going to drown.

You're going to drown.

I mean, there's nowhere to go.

Like there was a quote from a guy with a family of with five small children.

He's like, how am I getting all these kids up on my roof safely?

I don't know.

I don't know.

But they've already rescued thousands of people who've been stranded in roofs and on roofs and trees.

And

it's just a mind-boggling event.

You know, I don't know if you saw the photograph, but it was everywhere yesterday of the nursing home with the older ladies, you know, in the water.

By the time that picture was released, I believe those people had already been rescued.

But as horrific as that picture is, I mean, when you're in a house like that and that water starts coming in, it comes in fast.

Yeah.

Or the building, wherever they were in.

I mean, it's not like they could, these 80-year-old women are going to flee to the roof of this building.

Yeah.

It does happen fast.

I mean, the water goes up.

People think you've got hours or something.

No way.

You don't.

Not at all.

Because, in fact, they show some footage of when Channel 11 in Houston

flooded.

And so some of the reporters went down and started filming because the water was just gushing in through the doors.

The doors were closed and locked, and it's still just gushing in.

It must have risen six inches in a few seconds.

It was unbelievable.

So they wound up broadcasting from their second floor.

But,

you know, where the TV crews broadcast is probably the least of Houston's problems right now.

Yeah, yeah.

The problem, though, is you try to evacuate a city of that size when, I mean, up until 24 hours before the thing hit Houston, they still thought it was like, well, this could be bad for another city.

And it just, you know, the way that track went, you know, it's very difficult.

I was reading some, you know, people speculating on what would have happened.

And the way the city is designed, at least according to this report, is that a lot of the flooding is designed.

If the city does flood, it's designed to kind of funnel to the roadways.

And because it comes up, it goes through that process and then it's gone because it's flooding all the the time.

So that means if you leave and people get stuck in the middle of it, there's a lot of cars on the road while water is...

With Rita.

With Rita.

And fled Rita.

4 million people got trapped and a lot of people died in that.

Yeah, and not from the storm as much as it was the evacuation.

So, I mean, it's not easy to do either way.

This is just, these questions are impossible.

And it's, you know, you look at this and

obviously people are going to judge the government response.

I mean, so far, I mean, it seems like they've done a relatively good job, but I mean, this is just the beginning of this,

right?

I mean, this is just starting.

Well, I think they've, in some of the worst affected places of the metropolitan area, they've got 30 inches of rain already, and 20 plus is really common throughout.

And then they expect 20 more inches on top of that.

They expect to get to 50 inches of rain.

Well, the annual rainfall total in Houston is 49.77 inches.

Holy crap.

A year.

They're getting that in two or three days.

Oof.

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You know this this situation in Houston is so bad that that

you know just outside of Houston a ways in Rockport officials said okay you need to get out.

You need to evacuate.

And for the people who didn't or wouldn't, they said, okay, well, if you're not going to evacuate, then write your names on your arms so we can identify you.

Name and social security number.

We want to know who you are.

Yeah.

So for identification purposes after they drown, that's how serious this is and continues to be.

So you might want to.

pay attention to that.

I know that's hard because

they kind of suggested during Rita that we evacuate and we sort of didn't.

I remember that.

I remember.

I remember the on-air thing because

we even talked on the air with Glenn when you guys were doing the national show and I was in Houston and he was chastising me for not fleeing.

He was.

And it was right after Katrina, right?

Yeah, it was only a month or something, I think.

And it was everyone.

because this is the same thing.

And this is why it's so difficult.

Katrina, you absolutely must leave.

Some people stayed and obviously paid the price for that.

Rita, everyone must leave.

Well, the people that left were the one that paid the price for that.

That's so unpredictable.

I mean, it's so hard to figure out.

And that's what I was thinking about when Charlie was coming to Florida.

It was bearing down on Tampa Bay.

People evacuated Tampa Bay to Orlando.

Charlie makes a right turn south of Tampa Bay.

All the people in Orlando got affected.

I mean, it's so...

They can predict close, just not exact.

It's really hard to do.

I read a book a couple of years ago, and one of the things they talked about was like the science behind how they predict these things move and where they go.

And it's so freaking impossible.

What they are attempting to do, it's amazing they can do

as much as they are capable of.

I mean, it's an incredible process.

The science is incredibly complicated.

But it's still going to be one of those things that in 100 years, 200 years, we look back and it's like, wait a minute these guys didn't know this were coming they let they let these storms just smash to the coast and they couldn't stop them like at some point we're going to probably figure this out and we will look back at it like we look back at what happened in galveston in 1900 i mean think about the world where you're just on the nice island and uh this thing just crashes into you with absolutely no no idea that it's coming at all imagine that world yeah there's no preparation there's no hunkering down there's no attempt to evacuate you're just in in the middle of it one day, and then the entire island's wiped out.

I mean, you've seen the pictures they've been showing them recently.

And I know, Kat, you've followed this for a long time.

The entire city is gone, basically.

Yeah.

And what did they do afterwards?

They

destroyed the whole city.

Yeah, they raised the city 17 feet.

Can you imagine?

In 19, you know, I mean, they started, I think,

they built the seawall, and then they decided, that's not enough.

We're going going to raise the city too.

So, I can't remember when construction began on that.

But can you imagine what a Herculean task that is in 1900, 1905, 1906?

That's tough, but they did it because they knew they had to.

Too bad New Orleans didn't take precautions like that.

You know, they're in that same precarious situation, and maybe even worse because of the lake.

So,

Galveston proved it can be done.

Just a lot of people ignored that.

Just ignored that.

Kind of interesting, over the weekend, as we have this major catastrophic human tragedy going on, MSNBC host Stephanie Ruhl, still trying to make it something political.

Still trying to get up in people's faces about heavy doses.

Illegal immigration.

Listen to her talking to one of the reporters who's in Houston in the flooding, talking about what's going on and where does she take it?

So, if you're in your car and you're listening to us right now on satellite radio and you're not sure where you're going, you're just evacuating, get out the Airbnb app.

They're opening up places for people to stay for free.

You might not know the answer, but Texas, especially southern Texas, has quite a few undocumented immigrants.

Are they able to go to any of these centers that you're being directed to by city officials?

Not only is it wide open, nobody checks on any of that.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Yeah.

They're like, excuse me, you cannot go.

We're just going to let you drown outside.

That is so ridiculous.

Let me ask you a question,

Stephanie.

Are illegal aliens human?

Then yes, they get to go to the

house.

You don't even have to get pets.

Yes.

That's one of the big things they've been showing on social media, all the pets that are being rescued.

I mean, no, we're not monsters.

I know this is stunning.

People in Texas are not monsters that want everyone else to die.

But that wasn't enough for her because she was talking to Governor Greg Abbott just a few minutes later.

On a pathway out of the storm.

How about risk of deportation for those undocumented immigrants that could be in the way of the storm's path?

Okay, so now she's heard they can come to the shelter, but I'm sure you mean, mean Texans are going to deport them once you find out that they're not legal citizens.

Are they in the clear to go to some of these evacuations

centers?

Do they have to show ID?

It's my understanding from what I saw from the Border Patrol instructions yesterday, that will not be an issue.

What everyone is focused on right now is ensuring that we do all we can to protect life.

We all have a high regard for life.

We want to ensure the safety of all lives, and we're prepared to take all measures to do so.

Greg Abbott's great.

I mean, you handled that question a lot better than I would have.

Yours would have had many swears in the middle of it, I think.

Maybe

throwing something at the camera.

There could have been some incidents there.

Yeah, it could have been.

Understandable in that spot.

Oh, man, you know.

Can we not take it political when we're right in the middle of the catastrophe?

How about that, MSNBC?

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Now, it's interesting.

Obviously, they're at the point now where they haven't fully deployed.

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I mean, if Operation BBQ needs a place to stage, we are only a few hours away from the disaster area.

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This is

a really

catastrophic event.

And as we were just playing a few minutes ago for you, some people already trying to turn it political.

I mean,

how do you try to make this about deportation and illegal aliens when you're talking to people who are right in the middle of this flooding and trying to save lives, not caring whether they're black, white, red, or brown?

Nobody cares.

Yeah, certainly not.

I've seen multiple examples of this already, not just with illegal immigrants.

First of all, I saw

someone talking about how, well,

did you know that Donald Trump's budget cut funding by $10 million or $20 million for the NOAA,

which of course, you know, deals with hurricanes all the time.

And it's like, and now this could cost billions of dollars in damage.

So if they had the extra, you know, $100 million,

they would have, what, pushed the hurricane back out to sea?

What would exactly have happened?

They all knew the hurricane was coming.

It had nothing to do with what they were.

They didn't like see it.

They didn't, I mean, we all know the hurricane was coming.

You just don't know how it's going to react.

And if they had an extra little bit of cash, which probably hasn't even been implemented, these cuts,

I don't think there would have been a difference there.

Another one was people saying, like, here's the list of the whatever, 15, 20 Republicans in Texas who voted against Hurricane Sandy relief.

Right, because they wanted people to die.

Because they wanted people to die.

Yeah.

And now we're going to punish those people in Texas because their representatives voted against the funding package, which, of course, there was never a vote against funding the relief.

It was a vote, there were votes against the way it was done, how much money was going to different areas.

I mean, we are a country that has turned the corner on this.

And I don't know that it's necessarily a positive in every circumstance, but there was a time in which we did not have the federal government to come in for local disaster relief.

That was not part of their job.

Yeah.

You know, and it was for, I would say, most of our history.

Yeah.

And that did change.

And now, really, we just assume FEMA is going to cover it every time.

So that is kind of where we are now.

And even

most Republicans don't even fight that.

Yeah, they just accept it now.

And really, that started under Bush, I think, right?

With Katrina, maybe a little before that.

But it didn't used to be that everybody was saying, like you mentioned, where's FEMA?

The minute something happened, because that's not what they did.

They weren't the first responders.

There are stories in our history where they turned people away.

The federal government would try to show up and help, and they'd be like, get out of here.

This is our problem.

Get out.

That is not the way we are anymore.

It's tough to get those days back.

Well, and Bush is, I think, you're right, Pat, in that, you know, there were certainly aspects of it that happened before Bush, but Bush really put the, it made it into a caricature because it really arguably ruined his presidency.

When you talk about it, just, again, we're doing a break here about the way people are talking about politics politics of a disaster.

So

I recognize that that's kind of a bizarre thing to talk about today.

But that was really when it became politicized was that, because the left and the media used Katrina not as a tragedy where we all come together, but a way to say George Bush was incompetent.

It really became that instead of a tragedy, a large human tragedy, it was just this guy we don't like, he's really bad at what he's doing.

And so they use that as a bludgeon on him.

And it's now become to the point where I think every person who's a politician now seems like, I can't do enough.

I can't throw enough money.

I can't throw enough resources at everything that happens because if one of these things happen, it's going to be my butt.

And of course, this is how politicians think.

It's pathetic, but it's how they think, many of them.

And it's so at this point, like, this is a legitimate, I mean, it's shaping up to be a Katrina-sized disaster.

It's that bad.

Of course, yeah.

It was Katrina and Puffy Combs, right?

Or Sean P.

Diddy or whatever he he is.

Wasn't it him that said

George Bush?

Kanye.

It was Kanye.

Kanye West that announced, and it was because of Katrina, George Bush doesn't like black people.

And Mike Myers, poor guy, was standing next to him in the middle of that table.

What was that event?

I think it was the big Katrina fundraiser afterwards where they did.

It was one of those where they put it on every network and they had all the celebrities come out.

And then George Bush doesn't care about black people.

Yeah, that's not in the prompter.

Kanye.

And Austin Powers is standing next to him with this face.

So like, I don't know what to do.

It was such a weird moment.

But you know, it's actually where

that was one of the starts for Van Jones in the public eye.

Oh, yeah.

Because

he operated an organization at the time that started selling

Bush hates black people t-shirts.

I think it was some phrase that meant that, that Bush doesn't care about black people.

And he started selling the t-shirts, and that's what funded a good chunk of the early part of his organization,

later on, obviously, to rise to the heights of the White House just a few years later, which is really incredible.

I mean, you know,

this is going to be ugly.

And it's going to be ugly not only in the fact of it being a natural disaster, but what people will say, what people will do.

I mean, the Keith Olberman thing.

Did you guys see the Keith Olberman thing?

No.

Why would you?

It's Keith Olberman, which is a really good point.

I don't even know where to find Keith anymore.

And I don't either.

I know he's on Twitter.

He's on Twitter.

Okay.

and so uh betsy devos the education secretary tweeted something like hey we're in the middle of helping all this local schools and blah blah generic message of like just so you know here's what we're doing to help schools and he tweeted back like you will do more damage than this hurricane uh that than the hurricane could ever do to these schools at mother effer

What

what has she done?

Wow.

She believes that education should be better and more controlled by the individual.

And that means in the middle of a hurricane, you start calling her a mother effer publicly.

This guy is completely insane at this point.

He has given up attempting to appear sane.

He's just abandoned the process.

Like every day we wake up and we have crazy thoughts.

Everybody has a crazy thought in their head every once in a while.

You know what?

I should order 14 20-piece McNuggets today.

And you just stop yourself because we live in a society.

We're supposed to all have standards.

And Keith Olderman has given up on the process.

He is the mental equivalent of ordering 20-piece McNuggets over and over and over again and going through the drive-through.

That's where he's landed.

I mean, in some ways, it's sad.

He was never smart before.

And man, it has gone downhill.

He has given up on society.

That makes him the perfect match again, though, for ESPN.

He should probably go back.

He should probably go back.

He's kind of on the same wavelength now.

And they can't put him on TV.

I think he'd just show up in an open robe.

I don't think anymore.

Like I just got to keep him.

Find him a nice, quiet place, America.

Find Keith Olberman a nice, quiet place where he can relax.

He can live his life.

Maybe some birds fly by occasionally.

He gets a nice tray of cafeteria food.

Let's just let, I mean, it's time the poor man needs a quiet place.

And this is what we can't have.

We've got to at least be able to come together as Americans and take care of a catastrophe like this, right?

Without worrying about who's on the left, who's on the right, what's your political stance?

I don't care.

Let's save you and

try to make life a little bit better.

We are seeing some of that, at least with the people on the ground, right?

The everyday people are doing that, are coming together and helping people.

We saw footage of people bringing out their boats all day yesterday, rescuing people.

That wasn't FEMA.

No.

That wasn't the mayor.

That wasn't the governor.

That was everyday people saying, these people need help.

I'm helping.

We still have three or four more days of rain.

Right.

And we're already jumping into the politics.

I mean, that is disturbing.

That is not the way this is supposed to work.

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This is the Glenn Beck program.

Mercury.

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That's Stu for Glenn on the Glenn Beck Program.

Man, I hate seeing this happen to

this city that I love so much.

I love Houston.

I love the people.

Love the city.

It's just, it's so underrated.

And it gets such a bad rap from other parts of Texas, like...

Dallas, for instance.

You love Houston.

You defend it all the time.

It gets to the point at times where it's sickening

because you are potentially, you're almost like the tourism bureau.

I'm one of its biggest defenders.

But once you get a tour from Pat Gray, then you're turned.

It's true.

It was a job.

Yeah.

I mean, we went to downtown Houston.

I got the Pat Gray tour.

And now, I mean, I love Houston.

Yeah, it's pretty awesome.

They did a great job with the Super Bowl, too.

I mean, they did it.

That was lucky.

Yeah, you actually went.

Yeah, and

it was a fun city to do the Super Bowl.

I mean, it was a.

We were there for the Final Four.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It was a great time.

I mean, it's, it is a, it, it is an underrated city.

I think people think of it as like, it's just you're going to go down there and there's just oil rigs every five feet.

And that is not what it is.

That's because of these people here in Dallas.

In part, yes.

Dallas has a superiority complex.

It's interesting, I will say, being in this state,

the hurricane was bearing down on the coast and doing all sorts of damage.

And my kids had outdoor swimming swimming lessons in the same state at that time.

The outdoor swimming lessons.

We felt nothing here.

Did you get any panic calls?

I mean, you've been in Texas for a long time, but I got the panicked calls from my relatives, like, oh my gosh, I see this is happening.

I'm like, do you realize how far that is away from us?

It's not even remotely close to us.

We posted a map.

I tweeted a map last year of a time, a map of Texas, and they show all the temperatures, you know, like all around the city, in different cities around the state.

And at the same time, time in the same state in one place it was 91 degrees in another place it was seven degrees in the same state

that's amazing that is how big texas is man and you know i mean how long would it take to drive i mean houston is what four hours four and a half hours from here uh corpus christi even further right i mean i these things are you know dallas you think of houston i know growing up in the northeast cities are close to each other like you drive, you constantly are going on day trips to other cities because they're an hour and a half away or whatever.

That's not the case in Texas.

And I remember thinking, you know, as a sports fan, it was really my only,

I didn't know anything about Texas.

And like, you'd look at it and you'd be like, why is it, you know, you know, 45 degrees for the Cowboys game, yet, you know, the Oilers, and it's like, you know, 90.

Like, how is this happening?

It's just, that is the state.

Yeah.

That is the way it works here.

So, I mean, thankfully, we're out of the path of this, but man, you know, there are so many people affected.

The state is, the city is so big.

Houston,

not to mention,

take it from the human cost and the cost to the local economy.

It's also

one of the reasons our economy doesn't collapse.

Houston and energy in that area is so vital to our national survival.

That's for sure.

This is scary what's going on down there.

Refineries are closing.

Yeah, and that's going to be a problem for oil prices, probably.

For the price of gas, I assume it's probably going to go up at least some because of this.

They've always already said it will.

Yeah.

And that usually happens pretty quickly and then coming back down a little more slowly.

But also, there's some other things that happened over the weekend.

For instance, Donald Trump did pardon Sheriff Arpaio.

And because I haven't been following the saga of Sheriff Arpaio,

has he even had the trial yet?

Has there been, I mean, I'm

feeling criminal contempt.

Yeah, but it's interesting because I always look at the presidential pardon as the least constitutional part of the Constitution.

It's such a weird thing.

It doesn't seem to really fit the rest of the Constitution, but it's in there, so it's constitutional.

I mean, he really gets kind of free reign to do whatever the the hell he wants with it.

Yeah, you may not like it.

Yeah, I mean, I get it.

We may have liked a lot of things presidents have done as far as pardons are concerned, but there's, you know, he's got every right to do it.

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Of course, there's a huge disaster going on right in front of our eyes in South Texas, in Houston,

Rockport, Aransis, all along the coast there, Corpus Christi.

So, we've got that to discuss and want to hear from you on how best we can help.

If you're in that area, triple 8727BEC is our phone number.

Also, sometime during the course of the day, we want to talk about this

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for a pronoun mishap.

It's just

unbelievable.

It's just an unbelievable story.

We'll share that with you.

And

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We'll get to it right now.

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He has

resigned his position to go sell facial cream.

And

I guess he's been plotting this for a long time without even his wife's knowledge.

Wow.

Yeah.

Even Tanya didn't know.

Is this the thing that came out in an interview when

the interviewer went off script?

Yes.

Yes.

Okay.

I saw that.

The interviewer went off script and asked Glenn

about what's coming in his life.

And he happened to mention that he's going to start selling facial cream.

He didn't want to, but because it went off script, he was intimidated.

And people don't realize that most interviews are done with scripts.

Yeah.

There's a scripted amount of questions and answers, and people just reply to them as they go.

And when you go off script, usually people are going to panic and just blurt out their details of their facial cream business.

And that's what happened here.

There's nothing the interviewee can do about it

once the interviewer has gone off script.

I mean, you got to tell the truth then.

Yeah, that's the time.

You got to tell them.

And I guess his facial cream business is incredibly successful.

Incredibly successful.

Well, it's an incredible product.

And, you know, it's joining a lot of other big celebrities that have done this as well.

Right.

The woman from what's her face, from

seller flop or flipper flip.

That thing.

Whatever it is.

And I will say, at any moment, I expect to hear that Donald Trump is leaving the White House

to sell facial cream.

Is he on this, too?

I would think so.

I would think so.

How do you think he looks so young?

I hope nobody goes off script.

I'll tell you that.

It could happen at any moment.

I'm very terrified about it.

We're going off script

by talking about kind of a weird thing that's happening now in Houston.

There's an indestructible insect in this state.

Yes.

Cannot be killed.

And apparently there are floating mounds of fire ants.

I will have the creepy crawlies all day after reading the story.

But it's true.

There are floating

fire ant colonies.

in Houston.

Now, fire ants are, if it's like the devil's dandruff.

Like, it is,

they are the worst things that has ever appeared in the world.

They are borderline indestructible.

I got bit by one like two weeks ago and still

itchy all over because of it.

Even thinking about it right now, I'm getting the creepy crawlies.

They are awful.

They are everywhere.

You can't stop them.

I spend half of my time out in my backyard with various different crazy poisons that I'm sprinkling all over that will probably at some time kill my dog or something else.

But I just hate these things.

I am like genocide-level dictator against fire ants.

I'm like Edie amine.

I'm in the middle of like the, I am the worst humanity has ever produced when it comes to these fire ants.

I just hate them.

They really are terrible.

And they're extremely hard to kill.

Right.

And so you'd think when the entire city's under a couple feet of water.

It would kill them.

It would kill them.

At least this batch of them.

No, they have somehow, and there's pictures of them.

The floating islands.

They've created islands and are floating through the streets, millions of fire ants on top of each other, crawling.

The pictures are horrific.

And if you were to be like, I mean, this happened to my daughter.

We were at church.

This is a couple of years ago.

She was like maybe two,

maybe even one at this point.

And

as you walk to the car, there's a strip of grass on the side of where our church is.

And, you know, your kid will run away and be silly and, you know, decide to do what they do.

So she ran away into the grass.

What's the big deal?

No big deal, right?

And she walked up to this tree and she put her back to the tree.

And we said, Ainzley, come here, come back.

And she just started laughing and not listening.

I said, come on, Ainsley, let's go.

Let's go.

And then she just stood there and she looked at us and stopped and went dead silent for about five seconds and then just started bawling.

And we're like, what is going on?

Like at first it was just like, what is wrong with her?

And she's standing in the same place.

She's not moving or anything.

She's just frozen.

She's just frozen in fear.

And she just starts crying like crazy.

My wife runs over and I'm coming over and we look at her legs and they are just covered.

in fire ants.

She was standing in a mound of them.

The entire field, she walked over and stopped in a mound of fire ants.

So she's covered up to her knees.

You know, it's dusting these things off.

Her legs for the next three weeks were just these red welts everywhere.

These things are,

they are, they are terrorists.

And they hurt.

I mean, they hurt and it hurts and then it itches for weeks afterwards.

They are horrible.

And it's no surprise.

Of all the things that are going to make it through this freaking disaster, it's going to be fire ants.

Fire ants and cockroaches are pretty much indestructible.

You know, there's an idea.

Jeffy had an idea that maybe that's what we drop on North Korea.

They just drop floating mounds of mounds of fire ants on North Korea.

That'll take care of the problem.

Good day.

It's actually not a bad idea.

They were talking about when North Korea was firing, they were threatening to fire the missiles at Guam.

That Guam apparently has had an issue with these snakes.

And apparently there's an invasive species of snakes on Guam

where it's like to the issue of like there's so many say it's like a hundred times the amount of people there are these crazy snakes and like thousands of them are everywhere apparently.

That was the picture painted at least.

And the only way they've come up with to control this snake population is to airdrop poisoned mouse carcasses.

all over the island.

Can you imagine a plane flying over your island paradise and they're just dropping dead poison mice all over the place.

But then the snakes eat them, and that's the only way they can control the population.

I mean, I think there is a

legitimate, and I think we could do it pretty,

I mean, first of all, you drop them from, say, 75,000 feet.

You know, you just

go all the way up there.

They can't manually detect it.

And these fire ants are going to live through that fall.

Oh, then you're going to be able to get a lot of it's going to live.

No question.

They're going to breed half the.

Eight families are going to double in population by the time they hit the ground.

It's true.

I think this is a good approach to North Korea, who, by the way, fired another missile, I guess.

And also, they're now threatening nuclear tests in the middle of all this.

So Donald Trump has his plate pretty full right now.

I mean, this is, you know,

as much as people are critical of the president, not only this one, but the last one and every one of them, you realize this is not an easy job, man.

I mean, to deal with

all the regular things you're dealing with on a normal basis, with potential nuclear tests going on from an arch enemy at the same time, you've got a hurricane, you know, flooding one of the biggest economic centers in our country,

it is not an easy gig.

It really is not.

No, but fortunately, he's not a politician.

There you go.

So he's totally equipped to do all this

at the same time.

Totally equipped.

And I don't know, to deal with this, they're talking 9 trillion gallons.

Now, it's been upped now, right?

Yeah, we heard this has been up to 11.

11 trillion gallons of water have been dumped on Houston.

I mean,

11 trillion gallons.

They did a stat, if it was 9 trillion gallons, if it was a two-mile square area and you put 9 trillion gallons into it, it would be two miles high.

Wow.

That is a lot of water.

And, you know, for a city that's already prone to floods, to deal with something like that, it's incomprehensible.

It's an incomprehensible scale.

There's no way to deal with it.

I mean, you you could see the looks on the faces of these people.

They know it's, I mean, they say it's a one in a 500-year flood.

These things do happen.

Hurricanes have wiped out this area before.

You know, it's not

completely unprecedented, but the scale of it and the idea that what we have done as a society is chosen to live close to water because it's really nice.

So we've built a lot and also shipping.

So you have people who want to live near the water and also huge shipping ports and businesses that need to be near the water.

And because we've built up such huge structures that close to the water, we get punished for that, particularly financially, but also

now with modern nation centers, you know, with a loss of life.

Yeah.

I mean, this is going to get really ugly, I think,

before the end of this.

And it's going to be extremely costly, extremely costly.

I mean, in 1900, Galveston was one of, if not the biggest city along the Gulf Coast.

And it was thriving and it was a seaport.

And it was there because, you know, it's a port.

It was a major Gulf port

for shipping purposes.

And afterwards,

after this little event that happened in 1900, and they think that was a category four, not even a five, but it was a category four hurricane.

But it brought in a 15-foot storm surge and it completely wiped out the city.

And it's never been the same since.

And so the port transferred pretty much from Galveston to Houston.

And Houston turned out to be the thriving, huge metropolis instead of Galveston.

But that's what it can do when you build your city on the coast.

It can be wiped out pretty much at any time, especially along the Gulf Coast or if you're in Florida or if you're up the eastern seaboard.

Usually it doesn't happen on the west coast, obviously.

We don't really get typhoons.

I think they call them in the Pacific.

We don't get them there.

But

as far as the Gulf Coast, when you build on the water, something eventually is going to happen.

It's going to.

Right?

You know it's going to.

And it's not because of global warming,

because it's been 12 years since the last major event hit the United States coastline or mainland.

So, you know, and we're still hearing the, we're still hearing the cries of global warming.

It is really incredible, right?

I mean, like,

Alyssa Milano, who has, she's changed quite a bit since I was in love with her when she was on Who's the Boss as a child.

Yeah.

She is,

she's been very, she's turned into a very big anti-Trump celebrity.

Yes, she does.

And it's very strange because I don't know that she thinks through the points all that much,

but this is, she tweeted this.

Once in a 500-year flood, but global warming isn't real, right, Donald Trump?

Well, first of all, once in a five, like, if it's a once in a 500-year flood, it would indicate that that has nothing to do with global warming, right?

Like, it's because it happens every 500 years.

So, I guess her insinuation is that it's happening more often, which then, of course, you'd have to give the evidence of it happening more often, but let's skip that for a moment.

This does not prove global warming at all.

In fact, we've had 12 years without a major hurricane hitting this country.

You cannot use hurricanes.

You'd have to have about 10 more in the next two years to get back to average.

Like, think of what

they will use any piece of information, no matter how anecdotal, to say that global warming is real.

And, like, I understand, like, there is

there are things you can argue, right, with global warming, and people do all the time.

Hurricanes is not your ground.

This is not a good place.

This is not fertile ground for global warming arguing at this point.

No, 12 years without a major hurricane.

Look at the tornado charts.

Look at the drought charts.

There is no trend in any of these major natural disasters that we talk about as being

a real threat to humanity and our infrastructure.

And for whatever reason, every time something happens,

you get the same types of arguments from the same people.

And it's just, it's amazing.

You'd think that you'd be embarrassed to make an argument about how bad hurricanes are right now in this country because of the fact that it has been 12 years can you imagine i mean remember jeffy

she never hears that in her circle no she never hears that right you know she doesn't know

doesn't know that probably doesn't know that i mean jeffy um you know we when we started the show back in the day it was at wfla in tampa And Jeffy worked there and had worked there for a long time.

He usually was stealing the local storm-chasing vehicle from the station so he didn't have to have a car payment.

But, I mean, it was constant storm coverage down there.

And I remember years where it felt like every week there was another threat of a hurricane.

I mean, it felt like it was constantly all the time.

And they, you know, there's been.

There was that summer where Florida got hit like four times in a row.

Oh, yeah.

It was the summer before Katrina or 4, 05.

Somewhere in there.

04, 05, 06.

Man, it was never ending.

And you'll remember that was when Al Gore's movie came out.

He took advantage of that was the most recent.

like memorable weather natural disaster trend he could take advantage of.

So he did.

He put a hurricane on the movie poster for an inconvenient truth.

12 years later, he releases a sequel, and in the entire time between the two movies, there were no major hurricanes that hit the country.

I mean, you want to talk about the ultimate failure.

Yeah.

Incredible.

But yet still, when one finally does, we get the exact same arguments we got back in 2005 and 2006.

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Huge fight over the weekend between Mayweather, Floyd Mayweather, and Connor McGregor.

We just got some breaking news coming in about that as well.

Conor McGregor, who lost, he is now going to start selling facial cream.

Oh, my gosh.

So he's retired from MMA.

Yeah.

Wow.

Yeah.

Wow.

What a terrible.

I guess someone went off script in an interview or something to cause that.

Actually, that fight lived up to the hype, man.

I got to say, that was great.

It was a great fight.

It was enjoyable to watch.

It was fun.

Everything before it sucked

was a total bore for, what, five hours?

But then when it finally got to the fight, it was good.

It paid off.

It delivered.

It really did.

I mean, you know,

it seemed to me that McGregor won the first three rounds, really.

Oh, Mayweather didn't do much of anything.

He did.

But then, you know, Mayweather kicked into gear later.

Yeah, I mean, that was his plan, right?

Yeah, that's what he said.

It may be true.

I think it was.

He didn't seem to even be trying to do anything the first three rounds.

He wasn't.

He was just kind of sitting there.

He threw a punch in the first round.

Maybe one.

I don't know.

It was kind of interesting.

But he came on in the later rounds and pounded him pretty hard.

It was really interesting.

Boxing is one of those things that when it's good, it is fantastic.

I mean, there's so much tension, and I don't really, I've lost interest in boxing over the years, but those huge

event matches, you know, back, you know, I grew up in the kind of that Tyson era, and like when Mike Tyson would have those fights, it was just like you couldn't, you couldn't escape it.

It was everywhere, and they were such massive events.

And really with him going away, you know, that whole rape conviction and everything kind of sullied the sport.

You know, it didn't quite,

it really had some trouble after that.

People weren't quite as interested in cheering him on, but that's been cured in our society.

I know that Mike Tyson, who went to prison, and a rape conviction and went to prison,

now is like very accepted.

And you're a terrible person for even bringing it up.

I really am.

You really are.

He's in funny, hilarious movies all the time.

He's on all the TV shows.

Right.

I mean, like, you can't have, God forbid, a company associate themselves with someone who thinks lower taxes is good for our society.

A Republican, a conservative.

God forbid a company associate themselves with someone like that.

But a convicted rapist?

Ah, come on.

Yeah, no big deal.

He's a good fighter.

He was a good fighter, and he's kind of silly.

He's got that funny voice.

I mean, you can't take him that seriously.

So Mayweather said that the gate was the record breaker, 80 million.

Yeah, because they charged

a fortune for every ticket.

But they did not sell out.

It was only 14,000, some people, in a 20,000-seat arena.

Which is very strange.

It's strange.

Because so many people were sitting at home.

And the pay-per-view was huge.

I mean, I've heard the pay-per-view could get as high as $800 million.

And Mayweather won it in the 10th round on a TKO if you didn't see that over there.

And there were six bets placed in Vegas of a million dollars or more, at least.

So all on Mayweather, by the way.

Oh, were they?

Because you spent a million dollars, and it was something like one to five or something, the odds, but that's a 20% investment for a couple hours is not bad.

You make up $200,000.

You can take it.

If you got the money, maybe not a bad investment.

Vegas was very glad Floyd Mayweather won that fight.

Yes.

Because 90% of the betting was on McGregor.

This is the Glenn Beck Program.

With Pat and Stewart today, Glenn is a little under the weather.

Should be back tomorrow.

Joe Vistardi from Weatherbell Weatherbell Analytics is with us.

He is a meteorologist who, I mean, look,

these things are really hard to predict where these things go, where these storms are going to, what are they going to do?

If you happen to watch Joe Bastardi's coverage over the weekend, you know that he was one of the very few that nailed exactly where this thing was going.

I mean, pretty much.

Joe, are you with us here?

Yeah, if I'm not with you, I'm against you.

I'm certainly with you.

Joe, I mean,

is that a good telling of the story?

Because

I watched your coverage, and it seemed like you knew exactly where this thing was going.

Well,

the story begins back on Sunday and Monday.

I mean, I know I don't have the Twitter following you guys do,

but

I tweeted while everybody's looking at the eclipse, I'm updating my clients on Harvey, which wasn't even renamed yet.

It wasn't even a depression yet.

You can see this coming in our preseason forecast.

Here we go.

It's a pompous oration, but our preseason forecast said a high impact year on the U.S.

coast and the major hurricane drought hit will end.

And what happens, folks, is this.

There's a certain pattern that will set up, and you can see it in general terms evolving through the spring and into the summer, which was very different from the past several years, as past ten or twelve years.

And

it's interesting in that some of the folks that are pushing the global warming issue don't understand that perhaps the global warming is retarding major hurricane hits in the U.

S.

And I have a reason for that.

But the fact is, this year was very different looking, very different looking from what I had seen in past years.

So we went out with that statement.

So the moral of the story is the closer these things get into the coast, and you saw it with Franklin, you saw it with GERT, even though GERT stayed out to sea, started approaching the United States and intensified.

We're going to have Irma probably develop and hit South and North Carolina over the next couple of days, right on top of the right on top of the coast.

And you saw this explode in the Western Gulf.

So this story was being written well before the media picked up on it.

And, you know, the thing is, I try to get to some of my media outlets and tell them back on Monday.

By Friday, this is going to be a huge storm.

So,

the frustrating thing is that, you know, I only get on when everybody else gets on.

And then, you know, if you ever saw my face, I can't compete with some of the people that are reporting this storm.

But no, listen, here's a secret.

Here's, well, it's not so much a secret, but you have to know the past and use these wonderful tools.

The models are wonderful tools, folks.

There's no question about it.

But they are not the answers.

They are tools for the human being to use to get to the answer.

They don't become the answer.

And what happens is you see, guys, but here's the models.

And

you see 45 different tracks.

Well, what's the forecast?

And if you go back and look at the past, at past storms, you can see storms like Harvey.

They may not be in Texas, but they've occurred out in in the Atlantic.

Or let's take 1963, Flora.

She hit Cuba, category four, stalled over eastern Cuba for four days, dumped 100 inches of rain on eastern Cuba, then went out to sea, actually had Fidel

telling people that the United States was blocking the storm to destroy his island in retribution for the Cuban Missile Crisis.

So there's all sorts of things that go on.

And if you look all over the place, you can get to the root cause.

it's just like what you guys do on the show a lot of times you go and you dig in behind the scenes because there's always a story beyond the story until you find where the story started it is the same thing in weather and climate now I want to get into the the causes of this and the history of what has looked like this in a second first before we get there Joe talk to us about what is going to happen next.

I mean, we're hearing this rain is going to continue to pound these areas for the next several days.

Is there any chance it moves out of that area?

What are we looking at?

Well, it's listen, for those who've been watching us,

since Tuesday, we've had this loop.

It's coming back over the Gulf of Mexico, and leg number two of the journey starts.

The next landfall, I believe, and we've been saying, is between Galveston and Beaumont Port Arthur to the east of Galveston.

This offers a unique set of forecast headaches.

First of all, the storm's not going to automatically intensify back out over the Gulf of Mexico.

What's going to happen is a lot of dry air around it.

It's going to have to try to rebuild the inner core and that's going to take at least 36 hours.

And the problem you have though is it gets out into an area, you know, it moved in near Corpus Christi.

It gets out into an area where the water is still very, very warm.

These hurricanes upwell water, so it could try to make a comeback to perhaps a minimal hurricane by the time it came back inland between Galveston and Beaumont Port Arthur.

Now, this opens up this problem.

Not only do we have the extra rain that it's going to cause around the Houston area, which has had a large-scale event with two feet of rain in there.

But it also means that all that water is draining into Galveston Bay.

There's a continued pushing of water back into Galveston Bay from the Gulf through the inlets.

The wind goes to the north, and Galveston Bay, strong out of the north, even it's only 30, 40, 50 miles an hour for 12 hours, may drive the bay into Galveston from behind.

There's nothing to protect Galveston from Galveston Bay on a north wind if the bay is, you know, up two, three, four feet higher than normal.

So that's a problem.

The other problem, I'm trying to find out details from my spies in New Orleans, is the pump system over there.

Because the further east this goes, the more chance that New Orleans gets into some of the outer bands.

And I heard that there's some pumping problems in New Orleans, and if you get two to four inches of rain in New Orleans and you can't pump it out of there, that's a problem over there, too.

So

we have the East Texas problem, but there's some other problems that are showing up inherent with the track and the possible intensity increase before landfall on Wednesday.

Then by Thursday, it's up in the Arklatex, and then Friday, it's raining itself out Friday and Saturday in the Tennessee and Ohio Valley.

Trying to Joe Bastardi, he's a meteorologist.

Weatherbell.com is the site and his company.

Joe, what we're hearing from the media a lot is the idea that this is unprecedented and the cause of it is obviously going to be our SUVs.

That's, you know, how every weather event is covered these days.

How can you blame Donald Trump or climate change for every single event?

The history of this, though, you mentioned the incident in Cuba.

We had Allison not too long ago in Houston that dumped a lot of water and rain and flooding into these areas.

I mean, is this sort of thing common?

Is this really a one in 500-year flood event?

Can you walk us through some of the history?

Well, I think it is in the area that it's occurring.

In the Houston area, you know, it looks to be with the two feet of rain in there.

It's more widespread than Allison was.

But the reason it's doing this is because it stopped dead in its tracks.

Hurricanes have done that for years and years, but they do if they do it out over the middle of the ocean, no one cares except for weather geeks like me that sit there and study every single track I could get my hand on back to 1900 and even before that.

So, I mean, look, let me explain something.

Meteorologically speaking, Hurricane Harvey was one of seven major Cat 4 greater storms to hit Texas.

Okay?

So it's one in seven as far as the the strength of this storm.

It also hit in an area just north of Corpus over there that has been hit many, many, many times.

So much so, and those of you who live in Texas must know the legend of Indianola because

they used to teach it to us when I grew up in Texas that we had the biggest port on the Gulf Coast was Indianola, Texas, near Port La Vaca.

And guess what?

It got wiped out by a major hurricane.

They rebuilt it, got wiped out again, they said no more.

That area between Corpus and Houston gets hit quite often, used to get hit a lot more than what it has now.

Carla went in there in 61, and

Celia went in, and to show you how strong Celia was, she went from a Cat 1 to a Cat 4, hit Corpus Christi in 1970.

The winds were 161 miles an hour at Rancis Pass.

So it's bigger than Harvey.

So we look at it two ways.

We look at it meteorologically speaking.

Harvey's what is to be expected in the western Gulf of Mexico.

You get powerful hurricanes that intensify.

The stalling aspect of it, oddly enough, the reason why it's stalling is because the jet stream is buckled into the eastern part of the United States.

We are in something, folks, here comes weather geek talk, phase two of the Madden-Julian oscillation.

So when I say

that,

just,

I know, listen, if I were to say,

I'd like to have just as much fun as you guys, but I try to get my point across.

Now, go ahead, yeah.

If you looked at this two weeks ago, you say, look out, because in that particular phase, what we call the phase two of the Madden Julian Oscillation, the eastern and central part of the United States are cold, but the tropics next to the United States light up.

And that's what, so right now, every single little thing I see coming off Africa, I'm saying, for instance, this thing is going to probably develop into Irma along the South Carolina coast.

For 10 days, I've been saying, wait till that gets close to land.

Harvey, the same thing.

When Harvey developed,

it weakened.

And I said, no, it's going to come back.

And that's because there is an overall pattern right now that that was set up before that favors these storms doing this.

So the cool air that's come in, the buckling of the jet stream, the unusual buckling of the jet stream, we saw this happen in 85 with Elena.

Remember, Elena was off Florida, stalled and was looping around there, and then finally it went back to the northwest, but it was right off Tampa for two, two, three days before it went back across.

You see this happen in these patterns.

So you're ready for them.

You're actually looking for them.

So no, it's not that.

And I'll tell you what.

Yeah, I even posted, guys, I started posting that map of Cuba, you're getting that 100 inches of rain four or five days before.

Started saying stuff to say, and you know, like I said, I don't have a big following, but what I was telling people is you watch what happens.

Well, everybody is sitting there, and what really gets me mad about these people is I don't hear them make a forecast before.

They scurry out as soon as something happens and blame global warming.

And it's despicable.

And I'm trying to figure out, you know, I'm talking to some of my friends on my side of the issue.

I say, do they not know what happened before or do they know and simply lie about it?

Because it's either ignorance or deception.

Now, I'm not talking to everybody on the AGW side because there are some honest brokers on that side and I see their arguments and I

all this is about is finding the truth and everything else.

But no matter which way you slice it, you have to deal with initial conditions.

And if you look back at the past, you can find not the same, but very similar conditions.

And if you use that as your foundations like anything, you stand on the past, that's where you stand today to reach for the future.

Same thing in forecasting.

And that's how you can try to put together a forecast that has a chance of being right.

But it's amazing.

It's amazing, Joe, though, that

the global warmests continue to try to have it both ways.

They used to tell us all the time, hey, don't confuse weather with climate.

That's ridiculous.

You can't pin one weather event on climate change.

And for instance, when it used to get really cold and we'd say, hey, it was supposed to be warm and it's still getting cold.

Well, that's just a weather event.

That's not climate.

And now every single weather event that happens is

proof of global warming.

How do you even combat that?

Well, you can't.

You got to put yourself before a good Lord above and you have to back off and

say, you know, at the end of the day, I say, Father, did I do what I needed to do today to try to make use of my talent?

I don't do that all the time.

Believe me, man.

I come out swinging.

I mean, my problem is I got Sicilian in me, about 25%, you know.

But the problem is, and

I think a lot of people have to

wrestle with that all the time because,

like I said,

you don't want to generalize everyone on the other side.

But look, we've seen this before.

We've seen it all through history.

The same kind of thing, except it's ramped up on steroids because we have social media.

You can take a picture of every tornado in everyone's backyard.

I mean, you know, I went back and looked at the list last night of the eight greatest floods in U.S.

history, just to remind myself of what happened in the Mississippi Valley in 1927, 33, the 36 Ohio Valley flood, 35.

Take a look at Houston underwater in 1935, right?

And when you think about all the concrete they've put in there now,

you know, it takes less rain to cause the same kind of problem.

Same kind of stuff.

You go through, there's a town called Lambertville, New Jersey.

You go through there and you have signs, governor, save us from global warming, right?

And they don't realize that they've dammed dammed up the Delaware River.

And so they release water down the river.

So every rainstorm now is trying to flood things.

The point is, you're dealing with people that believe their ultimate truth is greater than the way you get there.

You see, guys like me and probably you and Glenn, we believe you have to be on the truth at the time, and then you have a chance to get to the real truth.

They're convinced of a certain type of situation, and they're just going to, they're zealots, they're not going to stop.

Yeah, it's true.

Joe Bastardi, meteorologist, weatherbell.com, thanks for giving us perspective on this and giving us the historical perspective as well.

And, you know, Joe mentioned he doesn't have a big following on Twitter.

Let's change that.

Where should they follow you, Joe?

All I was saying that is.

No, you know,

just go ahead and give yourself a plug, though.

Where's your Twitter?

No, no.

All I say is this.

If someone with a bigger bullhorn starts yelling Friday on something,

and I've got this, you know, I'm like that little, you ever see that cartoon with a little dog?

The little dog is bothering the big dog.

I'm the little dog there, you know, snap it, snip it.

I wasn't trying.

I don't really care about that stuff.

No, I know, I know.

I know.

We're just buzzing on the joke.

Joe, we got a run here, man.

We're up against a break, but thanks so much for coming on the programming and letting everybody know where this thing is.

Hopefully, it's going to be done soon.

Joe,

anytime you want me on, I'll be glad to show up.

We would love that, Joe.

Thank you.

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So,

where did he say the hurricane's going to go?

It's kind of going to go back out to sea and then come back in again?

Yeah.

Maybe gain hurricane strength again

and then come back.

That'd be really bad.

Terrifying.

This is a really bad one.

This is a really bad one.

It's interesting to see.

I mean, there's tons of stories, and you can go on the blazers, a bunch of them, of just

great

people coming together moments.

I mean, people who are, I mean, you know, there was a pastor who was looking through windows of cars that were underwater to make sure there's no people in there.

There's people saving dogs and people, like every time you see a news story where people wind up hating each other and all the stuff we've seen in Charlottesville and all the other crap that's been going on, I mean, there are moments like that that at least

rejuvenate a little bit of your hope and humanity.

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Just a really

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weather occurrence happening in Houston and surrounding areas right now.

Get into more of that.

Also, coming up, a California school has removed some alienating statues.

And we'll tell you which ones.

And I think you'll be relieved that they've been removed from these school grounds.

And we still got to get into the first

grade little girl that was sent to the principal's office for using the wrong pronoun on a classmate.

And the peaceful movement that is Antifa.

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in Houston.

Mercury One is working with

some of our disaster partners.

They've been preparing to deploy since last week.

The rain, of course, continuing in Houston.

They expect it at least through tomorrow.

We just talked to Joe Bastardi, who's a meteorologist, and he says it might go back out to sea, strengthen again, and then come back in.

Oh, I mean,

oh, and it's so bad already that, I mean,

you know, people are underwater up to the rooftops in some places.

Most of the major roadways are still unpassable.

High water rescue vehicles and boats are the only way to get around in Houston right now.

Operation BBQ is there.

giving out food.

They've got a capacity to feed 15 to 20,000 meals a day.

so that's fantastic team rubicon staging all around texas to send in recon teams to assess the situations in multiple cities one of our other partners gleaning for the world

they've already dispatched four tractor trailer loads of water 16 loads of blankets and they're preparing to send more i mean that's fantastic also have the provisions project um providing monetary relief uh city impact staging supplies for the deployment they're already They've already released an initial $100,000 to fund initial operations and $2 million worth of in-kind gifts in anticipation of the shipments of relief.

And then somebody cares.

Assessment and cooking teams drove in from San Antonio, from San Antonio to Corpus Christi on Saturday, and they're based at the Journey Church.

So a lot of people doing a lot of really good work.

And if you want to contribute to this fund to help the people of Houston, go to mercury1.org.

Yeah, I think up to 10% of your donation goes to actually fund the events.

It's actually 100%, Stu.

What was the percentage?

Actually, 100%.

Yeah, but they have overhead.

That's the thing.

They have to overhead.

Yeah, we pay for the overhead some other way.

We do a fundraiser event that pays for the header.

Like a gala?

Yeah, like a gala.

Or a gala.

Or a gala.

Or a gala.

Gala or gala.

We're alternative lifestyles, alternative pronunciations.

We're fine with both of them.

We don't care.

Galas or galas.

Whatever one is used.

We don't care.

We're fine with that.

We don't care what pronoun you use.

No,

if any.

We don't care.

We just don't care.

We don't care.

Hopefully, some of these resources will be redirected from the Houston storms to help the anti-fascist protesters who are doing just God's work around the country right now, trying to stop these white supremacists from their evil actions.

We saw it again in Berkeley this weekend where,

you know, these

Nazis, let's just put it to Nazis

were out there trying to protest in Berkeley.

And of course, Antifa stands for anti-fascist, which is pointed out in every story you will ever hear about them.

It stands for anti-fascist.

Is it profa?

No, they're not pro-fascist.

No.

They're anti-fascist.

Anti-fascist.

If they were profa, then people might, that might be bad.

We wouldn't like them.

We wouldn't like them.

But since they call themselves antifa with no evidence that they actually are anti-fascism, because they certainly seem to act a lot like fascists.

But we're all going to sit here and just continue to just spout their little tagline of anti-fascist, which is explained in every article you will ever hear about them because they're always being excused for the behavior.

And this happened, it started obviously in Charlottesville,

at least the media's attention on it, where they obviously were, they did, you know, cause some violence.

There were members of the group that were arrested.

This is not just Donald Trump making up something.

However, obviously the white supremacist led the show with the awfulness in Charlottesville when it comes to

actually murdering someone and injuring dozens.

But Antifa is not just that one event.

They have been all over the country, and in essentially every other

example of their behavior, they've been the aggressors.

They've been the bad guys.

This happened again in Berkeley this weekend.

100 anarchists and Antifa, quote, anti-fascist members went to approach.

Wait, wait, they're anarchists?

That's what they say.

Although, again, I don't, like, look at their manifesto and tell me how anarchist it is.

It doesn't seem very anarchist.

It seems like they want giant government control and massive communism implemented.

They rally against hate, they keep saying.

And again, that gets quoted as if it's a real thing that they're doing.

It's just ridiculous.

It's not a rally against hate.

But violence began to flare.

A pepper spray-wielding Trump supporter was smacked to the ground with homemade shields.

Another was attacked by five black-clad antifa members.

Each windmilling kicks and punches into a man desperately trying to protect himself.

A conservative group leader retreated for safety behind a line of riot police as marchers chucked water bottles, shot off pepper spray, and screamed, fascist, go home.

All told Associated Press reported at least five individuals were attacked.

And of course, this is how

they talk about this protest.

Again, attacks all over the place, violence.

You know, in Boston, we saw the same thing where there wasn't even a white supremacist gathering that they were protesting, yet police were getting hit in the head with bottles of urine.

I applaud the more than 7,000 people who came out today to peacefully oppose bigotry, hatred, and racism that we saw on display in Charlottesville, the Berkeley mayor said in a statement.

However, the violence that small group of protesters engaged in and residents and the police throwing smoke bombs is unacceptable.

Fighting hate hate with hate does not work and only makes each side more entrenched in their ideological camps.

They actually called the group an anti-hate, it was an anti-hate protest.

Now, anti-hate, you know, what were they actually protesting?

Well, that's what

were they actually protesting.

Let's get to the bottom of that.

Because I think that research will tell you when you find out that these people wanted to kill all the Jews and they wanted to kill all the black people in the planet, then you're going to be like, okay, thank God these people are here to protect protect our society against these groups.

And they would, if that's what they were there to do.

However,

they're protesting Marxism.

Listen to this statement by the group before the protest started.

Are you ready?

I'm ready.

Now, this is the right-wing white supremacy group that fascists hate.

That there were people there to protest.

Listen to this.

Here's the title they used: Patriot Prayer Large Event.

Oh, wow.

No extremists will be allowed in.

That's the first sentence.

No Nazis, communists, KKK, antiphal, white supremacists, or white nationalists.

Again, no Nazis, communists, KKK, antifaw white supremacists, or white nationalists.

This is an opportunity for moderate Americans to come in with opposing views.

Wow, are they uninclusive?

Oh, my God.

This is unbelievable.

No tolerance, no inclusion.

It's incredible.

We will not allow allow extremists to tear apart this country.

Specifically, Richard Spencer and Nathan Domingo will not be welcome.

I don't know who Nathan Domingo is, but I do know who Richard Spencer is.

He's the guy who coined the term alt-right.

Before you accuse Patriot Prayer as being hateful, please find specific examples.

You will not find any hate speech.

You are being lied to by corrupt politicians.

San Francisco is supposed to be a safe haven for minorities.

If this is true, then please be respectful to the speakers we are bringing in.

And they go through them and break them down by demographic.

Three black, two Hispanic, one Asian, one Samoan, one Muslim, two women, and one white American.

Of course, they include a whitey.

Oh, man.

One white male.

They had to include a white male.

Why did they include a white male?

Why?

Hate.

Here it goes.

This is how it finishes.

And it gets really hateful to the end here, guys.

Oh, man.

There will also be an opportunity for an open mic for moderate Americans.

Love and peace is the only way to heal this country, so we ask that you do not use hate against us with the intent of fighting hate.

We are here to spread a message of love.

These bastards.

Can you believe

this hateful ideology they are pitching is incredible.

Thank God there's a bunch of people in ski masks that beat the hell out of a family to stop this message of love that they're presenting.

Well,

I mean, they're not calling themselves this, but they could be anti-ma,

anti-Marxism.

They're the anti-ma, and antifa had to beat the crap out of them because they're anti-ma, not antifa.

If you're, if you're anti-fascist, that's great, but you can't be anti-Marxist because he's what he's he's the hero of the left, he's the hero of the anti-fascist.

And by the way, uh, tell me that that fascism is any different

under the communist regimes of of Vladimir Lenin and Joe Stalin.

Are you kidding me?

And the media.

The media has walked itself into a really weird place because they went so far to absolve Antifa from their violence in Charlottesville, which again was,

they were not as responsible.

But he died, but they didn't die.

And so it was important, I think, to point that out.

However, they've been bad actors for a long time, and the media has done such a, they've had such an incredible effort to absolve these people from any blame that these things happen and now they're in this corner look if let's just say they were anti-fascist not every anti-fascist is good joe stalin was an anti-fascist supposedly yeah you know he did he worked really hard killed a lot of nazis yeah they they they but that does not make him a good guy And you have to call out these tactics for what they are.

They are wrong.

These people are doing real damage to our society, and we need to stop praising them.

And they're obviously pro-Marxist because they were there to protest the people who are protesting Marxism in Berkeley.

They're tired of it.

They want it to stop.

They're preaching love,

so they weren't threatening anybody.

And then Antifa descends on them and chases them out of the park, beating some of them pretty brutally.

It's amazing.

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When's the last time you said that you said thank you?

Maybe you haven't said that.

I've never said that.

I've never said that.

I've noticed that from you.

You've never actually said thank you to anyone before.

Why would I?

Well, I mean, there are groups out there that are protesting fascism.

And look at what they're doing for you.

They're fighting for you.

Well, I can't believe you're right.

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Remember when Donald Trump, the president of the United States, said,

hey, they're going to start coming after Jefferson.

They're going to start coming after Washington if you tear down all these statues.

That's so ridiculous.

I mean, such a fundamental misunderstanding of history.

That is the way it was pitched, right?

Yes.

Shockingly, there was a lot of truth to that.

We saw it in the day after.

On the Vice documentary, there's a woman saying it's the, what do they call him, the

master of Monticello who's looking down at us.

Like, they, you know, with Jefferson, they they talked about, other people talked about other founders that needed to get their statues taken down.

This whole controversy has started

a parade of people who want to take down statues.

Now, statues, if you're not familiar with them, are inanimate objects.

They're just kind of like things that stand there and they don't do anything.

They're just kind of.

They look like people, but they're not the people

that they look like.

Are you saying they're not controlling the lives of the people that they look out on?

No, they're not.

You You know why?

They're inanimate objects.

So they can't really do much of anything.

Like a lot of them are made out of stone or bronze or whatever, and they kind of just stand there and they just, they represent a person, but they're not the person.

Yeah, that's important to note.

They're not going to insult at minorities.

No, that's not.

No, you're going to be surprised to hear that's not true.

No?

No, they don't actually do that.

Okay.

So now, so by the way, after that, and the media mocked everybody who thought that that was realistic, that they would start broadening the slippery slope here, and it would all of a sudden be every statue that's at all controversial will be taken down.

This is the headline from the New York Times.

Far from Dixie, outcry grows over a wider array of monuments.

Oh, my God.

So predictable.

Here's some of the examples.

Philadelphia had to put barricades and guards around a statue of Frank Rizzo, their former mayor.

who was disliked by many African Americans in the community.

They wrote on Twitter, take the Rizzo statue down.

So that one might happen.

Chicago, a campaign is underway to remove a monument to Italo Balbo, an Italian air marshal which the fascist dictator Benito Mussolini presented to the city in 1933.

Bizarre.

But again, now that one's under.

In Boston, there are calls for renaming historic Faniel Hall because Peter Faniel, who donated the building to the city in 1743, was a slave owner and traitor.

Christopher Columbus, you may be familiar with him.

This is how the Times writes.

Yeah, the genocidal maniac.

Well, thank you.

I think that's how most people learn it now, right?

He's a really terrible guy who did terrible things.

The Times.

Almost all you can, in fact, I just researched this last week when we were talking about the statues and almost everything you click on involving Christopher Columbus is negative.

Almost every fact about him,

search it.

Like 10 facts you don't know about Christopher Columbus.

One will be he started the slave trade.

He started it?

He started the slave trade.

Like, wasn't around back in the old days?

No, no.

Pyramids started it?

Uh-uh.

No, well, he started the Western

slave trade.

He chopped arms and limbs off of native people.

Why did we like him so much?

I don't know, Jeffy, because he was a genocidal maniac.

He brought back syphilis for Europe.

Did he not?

Which he contracted here, apparently.

And his day is coming up.

We still have his day.

It's only in a few weeks, right?

Columbus Day is coming up.

And how can we have a day for a guy like that?

I don't know.

He was an amputator and a disease carrier.

Yeah.

Rapist.

That's basically all he ever did.

Genocidal maniac.

Let's not even get started on the smallpox blankets.

Right?

Don't even get me started on the smallpox blankets.

Thank you.

It was all him.

All smallpox, all blankets.

Columbus, this is how the Times writes it though.

Columbus, who most Americans learn rather innocently in 1492, he sailed the ocean blue until he discovered the new world, has undergone a revisionist treatment in recent decades because of his impact on native peoples.

The Christopher Columbus statue in Columbus Circle in New York City is going under,

they're doing a 90-day review of symbols of hate, which is underway thanks to Bill de Blasio there.

Now, Columbus Circle is like a...

I want that circle gone.

It's an institution.

I mean, it's in New York.

It's right, by the way, right in front of where CNN broadcasts, where we used to do the show when we were on CNN Headline News.

that's Columbus Circle.

I mean, it's right on the Central Park.

It's very famous.

I want to call it Disease Carrier Circle, though.

Amputator Circle.

In Baltimore, a Columbus Monument, more than 200 years old, was defaced on Monday in an act captured on video as a man stood with a sign reading, racism, tear it down.

Then he took a sledgehammer to it.

That's great.

Right.

In Detroit, protesters gathered on Saturday at a Columbus statue.

In New York, de Blasio, responding to the violence in Charlottesville, announced his 90-day review of all symbols of hate on city property, specifically mentioning a sidewalk marker on Lower Broadway to Henri-Philippe Pétain, a French collaborator with the Nazis.

90 days isn't going to be, it's too long.

Thank you.

Why isn't he acting faster?

Too long.

Thank you.

We need to have somebody take some action right now.

You know what?

You know who would do this?

Who would actually be on board for this?

The anti-fascist group.

Antifascism.

Do you think they would help?

These wonderful Americans who, you know, sometimes they don't necessarily expose their faces to cameras because, you know, it's so cold in Berkeley this time of year.

You know, they need the ski masks, obviously.

It's very cool.

When you're helping people, a lot of times some people don't want to take all the credit.

That's right.

That's right.

But it can get down to 85, 90 degrees in Berkeley.

Exactly.

It can.

It's freezing.

Oh, yeah.

You've got to wear a ski mask.

You've got to have a ski mask on.

I mean,

I think, though, it could also be, Jeffy could be right, that they are just, they just don't want the credit for all the wonderful work they're doing.

I believe that's it.

They're just, you know,

they're not out there for the fame.

Can I tell you about a couple of other alienating statues that need to go?

Yes.

And in fact, are being removed?

Well, I'll tell you in a second, but it's a California Catholic school is removing a couple of statues that have been alienating some of their students.

Good.

And it's about time.

Good.

We'll tell you about that coming up on the Glenn back program that's stuin jeff

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stu for glenn on the glenn back program triple eight seven two seven beck uh 888 727 b e c k so today is uh a date that many in the audience will be familiar with 828

It's been a very important date throughout the history of this show.

Now, if you just joined us, Glenn is out sick today.

I'll be back hopefully tomorrow.

But this is an important day to mention.

In fact, two years ago, today,

was the launch of the Nazarene Fund.

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All the time, you're going to hear people criticize conservatives for how they don't care about people that don't look like them.

They don't care about people if they don't live in their little gated community.

Well, this audience has donated millions and millions of dollars, something like $12 million

to save people in the Middle East from

the wars in Syria and Iraq in particular.

Yeah, I think it was even 15, but it was a 15.

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Stu, Jeffy, let me ask you something.

When you go to a Catholic school, what do you expect to find?

No, maybe a school.

A school.

Okay.

Books.

Yes.

Priests.

Priests.

Yes.

Nuns, perhaps?

Oh, yeah.

Well, obviously, nuns.

It's a Catholic school.

You need Catholic teaching.

Would you drop a nuns?

A statue of a Catholic saint, maybe?

Yeah, that would be

almost definite.

Jesus?

I would think he'd be right.

A statue of Mary?

Oh, absolutely.

Yeah, not so much.

Not so much.

What do you mean?

Parents at

a Catholic school in San Anselmo, California, say that the officials at the school are trying to erase history because they've removed a number of statues in order to be inclusive of other faiths.

So ridiculous.

Now, if I was going to send my kids to a private school,

there aren't a heck of a lot of Mormon private schools.

So you would either go to a Christian-type non-denominational, right?

Or the other alternative would usually be

a Catholic school.

And if I sent my children there, I would know what to expect when they get there and wouldn't expect them to change on my behalf.

Correct.

I mean, this is insanity.

This is lunacy.

About 18 of the school's 180 religious icons have remained

as part of a plan approved unanimously by the board.

18 of 180 are still there.

They haven't removed 18.

They've left 18.

Wow.

So

one of the nuns at the school said, if you walk on the campus and the first thing you confront is three or four statues of St.

Dominic or Saint Francis, it could be alienating for that other religion.

And we didn't want to further that feeling.

Are you serious?

That's a 100%

an actual quote.

Is that?

Okay, no, she's the head of the Board of Trustees.

So she's not.

Even bigger, though, really, in the scope of

the administration.

It's really weird.

I mean,

I'm not Catholic, but I would think if I was, I would be very frustrated by the way so many Catholic schools treat Catholicism.

It's like an afterthought or actually an objectionable thing.

It seems fairly new, though.

It does seem to be new, but it seems to be something that you should fight against.

I mean,

if you're going to have a Catholic school, Catholicism should be part of it.

Did I just say that sentence?

Right.

It is unbelievable.

And we're not worried too much because it doesn't mean what we think it means.

Sister Maureen McInerney said, San Domenico is a Catholic school.

It also welcomes people of all faith.

It is making an effort to be inclusive of all faiths.

Now, you're already inclusive of all faith.

That doesn't mean you change who you are to be inclusive of their faith.

This is, I mean, how do we get to this place?

They've actually gone so far as not just to remove the Catholic saints.

They removed a statue of the baby Jesus and Mary.

Well, good.

Gone.

Good.

That is how it's not inclusive.

If you are sending your kids there for any part of the religious teaching, how can you continue to send them there?

You can't.

You couldn't.

You just can't.

That's incredible.

I mean, if you were to take the extra step to send your kids to a religious school,

I mean, that is why you're doing it.

That's exactly right.

Any private school, if you want to send them to a private school, you could send them to any public school, but if you were to go through the steps of actually going to a Catholic school, this is unthinkable.

It really is amazing.

The statue removals have absolutely no connection to the recent statue removal craze sweeping the country, other than it is a change.

And you know what?

People have a hard time with change.

Oh, that's the only relation?

The only relation is a change.

And people just don't always react positively to change.

You know, like when

you rip the baby Jesus statue out of your Catholic school, people don't like those changes for some reason.

It's unbelievable.

But it's not because it's Jesus.

It's because it's change.

It's like a steakhouse saying, you know what?

Sometimes vegetarians come in here, so we're going to remove the steaks from our establishment because we want to be inclusive of them.

Well, can't you just serve an extra vegetarian plate to the vegetarians?

Or maybe like I don't know, just tell them it's a steakhouse, right?

Don't go there.

Don't come here.

Yeah, I mean, and they have amazing steakhouse usually has something you can eat, and they'll make something for you.

They'll do, they're not going to stop.

They'll do something for you.

But at the bottom line is, their religion is steak.

Yes.

So they're not going to remove the steak out of the the steakhouse.

They damn well better.

I'll tell you that right now.

To be inclusive.

To be inclusive of others.

Had it with these steakhouses everywhere thinking, oh, we just else steak.

Then we have this.

It literally is unbelievable.

Yeah, it is.

Except I don't think you know what that word means.

I most definitely don't.

First grade girl, little girl in first grade at another California school.

It's a California charter school.

Sent to the principal's office last week after she accidentally misgendered a classmate.

Was it an accident?

Well,

what they're calling it, Jeffy, is a pronoun mishap.

Okay.

I don't know if you've ever been involved or seen or been near a pronoun mishap.

Ugly is what it is.

I saw 14 people die in a pronoun mishap about three weeks ago.

It was really sad and really tragic.

Some of them were saying him, some of them were saying her, but they all dropped dead afterwards, all of them.

Just big pile of dead

pronoun mishap people.

The incident occurred at Rockland Academy

after a school already roiled by controversy after a kindergarten teacher led an in-class discussion of transgenderism that included a gender reveal for a little boy who was transitioning to a little girl.

So you've got kindergartners here being subjected to a transgenderism lecture when they're,

what are you in kindergarten, five, six?

Yeah.

Five and six year olds.

Now, the parents were not notified.

They weren't told this is coming.

They weren't offered the option of opting out.

In fact, they were told, yeah, you don't have any right

to opt out of this.

Everybody needs to hear this.

These kinds of sexual sort of discussions, I don't want done at school.

If they're going to be done with my five- and six-year-old, I want to do them myself.

And you don't want to do them yourself.

And you don't want to do them that early.

I have a four and a six-year-old.

They're nowhere close to needing to hear any of that information.

Nowhere close.

They have.

Oh, my gosh.

And have you not told them about gender mishaps yet?

Well, they better not participate in any gender mishaps.

But you've told them about pronoun mishaps, right?

I have not told them about pronoun.

I want to keep them in a snapshot for as long as possible.

Gender mishaps?

Holy cow.

Holy cow.

Whatever.

You know, they're like, my son, Zach, is in the phase where his best friend, that's a girl, he's convinced he's marrying.

And I'm like, I said to him, I said, how dare you with your gender normative standards to assume you're going to marry a girl?

Wow.

And I locked him in a closet for six weeks.

At this young age, you better set that up.

I thought that was the right thing.

I wanted to make sure he understood the closet.

Did you put him in a dress when you locked him in the closet?

Yes.

I hope so.

We have to learn.

And here's some dolls.

Little creep.

Come out when you're gender neutral, okay?

Not a moment sooner.

First of all, for a kindergartner to be transitioning

at that age, they don't know.

It's completely ridiculous.

You don't know anything.

You eat paste when you're five years old.

Yes.

Like, this is not a time to make life decisions.

Paste and dirt, and you think it's delicious.

You don't know any better.

Really, you're not.

I mean,

we don't let people do very basic things until they get older.

I mean, you know, 18 to vote, right?

I mean, there are real limitations on what we do to children and what we allow them to do.

And for good reason.

For good reason, because you know what?

You don't make the best choices when you're that age.

No, you don't.

You know what?

Your favorite shows.

are ridiculous.

Your favorite movies are ridiculous.

You can't even choose good entertainment.

You can't even dress yourself appropriately.

i mean you might mismatch colors at that age yeah we can't allow you with these kind of decisions it's really true what's good though

is that for more than an hour uh the girl was investigated yeah she she got she was just out on the playground and she knew the kid from last year and he was a boy last year so she called him by she didn't even use a pro well she used the pronoun of his name name his

name from last year pat from last year she called him by his boy name so they had to have an investigation.

So the kid, the little boy, or little girl now,

I've just committed a pronoun mishap myself.

Oh, my God.

But the little girl went to somebody on the playground, a teacher on the playground.

And so the little girl got in trouble on the playground.

Then she got called out of class to the principal's office and was lectured for another hour as they investigated the situation.

Make sure that she wasn't bullying.

If you were a parent of this little girl,

I can't even imagine how livid I would be.

Yeah, it's amazing.

And the idea that you can make those decisions at that point is completely ridiculous.

I gave you the quote from one of my favorite quotes from Jonah Goldberg.

It is a simple fact of science that nothing correlates more with ignorance and stupidity than youth.

We're all born idiots, and we only get over that condition as we get less young.

Yes!

Now,

you might find that out later in life that that's what you need to do.

And, you know, at that point, no one's going going to stop you.

This is America.

You want to make choices.

You want to live the life that you think you need to live.

People are going to be fine with it.

But when you're five years old,

it's just not appropriate.

It's ludicrous.

It is ludicrous.

And listen to the quote of the mother of the little girl who got in trouble.

You can tell she's trying to be inclusive.

She's trying to be

tolerant and all that.

I stressed over and over with the principal that I am all for protecting the rights of the transgender child, but my children have rights as well.

It makes me sad sad that my daughter felt like she was punished for trying to be kind to the kid.

I mean, that's a pretty reasonable, that was a lot more reasonable than I would have been from the parent when your child has been treated like this for a pronoun mishap.

Wow.

888-727 back.

More of the Glenn Beck program with Patton Stew coming up.

There's lots of

crazy things going on in the world.

from potential war in North Korea.

Europe's trying more on this quantitative easing thing that that they're trying to do.

And of course, pronoun mishaps, a lot of uncertainty in the world.

Why don't you start with the worst one?

How did you bury pronoun mishaps?

It's the third thing going on.

Wow.

Well, a decision on one of those minor things like Europe's quantitative easing policies is going to be pushed to next month.

That was announced by the president of the European Central Bank this weekend at the Jackson Hole Economic Policy Symposium, which I know, Pat, I know you had tickets to it.

Did you not wind up making it?

Did you not feel well?

No, I got sick that weekend.

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The Glenn Beck Program Oh geez Jeffy just showed me a photo of the

610 loop in Houston.

It's the inner loop

and I think it was the Market Street exit.

Yeah.

The freeway sign that tells you like what exit is coming up is almost underwater completely.

It's like 15 feet high.

Oh, Oh, my city is just being destroyed.

This is devastated.

Devastating.

Wow.

Our thoughts and prayers are with everybody being affected by this, not just Houston, but the surrounding areas and all the way down to Corpus and Port Aransis.

And I mean, there's just so much devastation.

We're going to have to

link arms and roll up our sleeves and pitch in to help.

Hopefully, Glenn's back tomorrow.

We'll see you then.

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Mercury.