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We have a few things to talk about.

Thank goodness, Oren Hatch has decided he's going to run again.

He's only going to be 88 when he finishes this tour of duty.

I have what I believe was the catalyst to get him run to run.

Coming up in a second, we also want to talk about the new King Kong movie.

Nagan is Uncle Sam, a great story on Glenbeck.com.

We'll talk Scientology,

Samantha B, and the cancer haircut.

And

what else do we have?

I mean, do you need more?

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Hello, you sick, twisted freak, and welcome to the Glenn Beck program.

Glad you're here.

Let's start with...

We could talk about Michael Flynn.

Anybody want to talk about Michael Flynn today and how he kept information

secret, that he didn't tell the government that he was actually working for Turkey?

No, we don't need to talk about that.

Why care about that?

Let me talk to you about Orrin Hatch.

See what you think of this theory.

Pat, you'll relate to this.

See what you think of my favorite theory.

You're trying to figure out why he's running again?

Yes.

How about that he's a power-hungry douchebag?

How about that?

I think that explains it pretty well.

No, I was, okay, we could go with that.

Yes, we could go with he's a power-hungry douchebag, or we could perhaps look a little deeper than the douchebagginess.

Are you really?

You think there's more to it than that?

I do.

I actually do.

I actually do.

Here it is.

Who is our new Russian ambassador?

John Huntsman, right?

Oh, yeah.

John Huntsman Jr.

John Huntsman Jr.

was just selected to be our new Russian ambassador.

So he was our Chinese ambassador.

Now he's our Russian ambassador, being groomed by the progressives on the Republican side, I believe, to yet come back again and unite the country

and run for president of the United States, who better to serve us than him in some form or another.

He knows the Chinese.

He knows the Russians.

He knows them best.

Okay.

So if John Huntsman is out,

somebody better keep John Huntsman's seat warm.

And I believe it's Oren Hatch.

I really truly believe

John Huntsman wasn't selected as the Russian ambassador, he would have been running for Oren Hatch's seat.

And

it would have been a gentleman's agreement of, Oren, you've done really well, and I'd like to continue on your great work.

And I'll take on

from here.

And they're pretty like-minded.

That does make some sense.

Yes.

And so

because John Huntsman is going to Russia instead, Oren Hatch is going to

bless the nation with yet another

400 years of service.

Yeah.

He's only been a senator since the Pilgrims arrived.

So

it hasn't been that long.

Yeah.

No, it hasn't.

You know,

it's important.

It is.

You know, it is important.

He was actually on the boat that arrived just before the Pilgrims.

He was on the scout boat.

Well, you want to have somebody who knows the system in office.

And he does know the system.

I'll give you that, Pat.

Yes, he does.

He knows the system.

Yes, he does.

He knows it.

Let me switch gears.

But anyway,

Pat, you may be right.

It may be just the, what did you say?

Power Hungry douchebag.

Yes, that's it.

It might be just that.

It might be that.

All right.

Samantha B was in the news

and

she

made fun of a guy with brain cancer at CPAC.

Now, that's the way the media would have you believe it, that she heartlessly made fun of a man with brain cancer for having a Nazi haircut.

It's very reminiscent of Glenn Beck made fun and said, I hate 9-11 victims.

Remember that?

It's very similar to that, or a thousand other things that we have said.

I want you to know Sam B is a friend of mine.

So, you know, full frontal nudity on that one.

And I know how delicious full frontal nudity is with me.

But I want you.

Yes, it's delicious.

Why are people making retching noises around me?

So I just want you to know that she is a friend of mine, but that's not why I'm defending her.

I will defend anyone who is either

taken out of context in comedy or unfairly charged.

First of all, it wasn't her.

It was a recorded piece done by some, you know, cobbledy correspondent.

And this was one guy in a series of people that were there that had this style of haircut.

There is no way she knew this kid had cancer.

He was going in or had just gone in for his first treatment of chemo.

He has a great sense of humor about it.

And I want to talk about him because I think he's a hero.

And she apologized, if I can.

I want to say what she said.

First of all, what was said was last year at CPAC, it was dominated by Ted Cruz supporters and chirpy little bow ties.

This year, the bow ties are gone and replaced by Nazi hair.

And it showed him

the brother, or I'm sorry, the sister of the guy

of one of the people shown in the clip wrote to Sam on Twitter and said,

when I am Sam B makes fun of your brother for having a Nazi hair, he actually has stage four brain cancer, but whatever floats your boat.

Samantha B, I talked to her yesterday, Samantha B wrote immediately, we deeply apologize for offending you and Kyle.

We only learned of his condition today and we have removed him from the peace.

What else can she do?

It wasn't intentional.

It was, you know, a mistake that could not have been avoided.

And yes, she's making fun of us.

Now, let me show you how Kyle handled it.

While everybody else is

ranting and raving, and I'm only defending because I've been on the receiving end of this stick.

As everybody else is ranting and raving, here's what Kyle wrote.

I love this guy.

I am Sam B.

Please delete this episode.

I look like a balding potato.

I love that.

That's awesome.

The next one was, I am Sam B.

Also, it's not a Nazi haircut.

Richard Spencer's is, but mine is from cancer.

He handles it perfectly.

I love this guy.

Yeah.

And by the way, while you're dogpiling on him and you're so very excited to dogpile on Samantha B

for all of the Trump supporters,

just know that he's a never Trumper.

Uh-oh.

Uh-oh, no.

Now it gets really complex.

Who do I hate?

Do I hate her more than I hate him?

I don't know who to hate.

Now it's okay to make fun of the cancer victim.

Guaranteed.

You guarantee that.

Guaranteed.

Guaranteed.

It wasn't okay for Samantha B, but now that he's a never-Trumper, absolutely.

Absolutely.

The

that

sect of Trumper fans that just can't handle any dissent,

they will go after him.

You know, look, honestly, they handled it so well.

Cancer is such an evil bastard that I would not, it's devastating.

And I would not fault them at all, honestly, if they, the family, reacted really negatively.

Oh, I know.

But taking it, I mean, but they handled it so well.

No,

I don't even fault the...

I mean, look, if somebody's making fun of my sister,

you know, his sister

was the one who said, hey, whatever floats your boat, she's obviously mad.

If somebody's making fun of my sister who's going through cancer treatment,

I'm absolutely hammering them.

You totally understand their perspective.

But there were so many commentators that jumped on this yesterday.

And look, I understand.

She's a liberal and she said something that went after someone and really got caught in an awful lot.

In an awkward moment, right?

And hang on just a second.

She's not just a liberal.

She is a very harsh liberal.

Yeah, sure.

I mean,

I've said to her, there are things, Sam, I watch your show.

You know, and there are things that just really piss me off.

And she knows, just like I knew when I was doing my show, that there would, I would say things that would piss people like her off.

Right, exactly.

And so I understand that people kind of see an opening to go after someone they don't like in politics.

And look, she did, she's got caught in an awful moment.

It was not, you know, is it her fault?

Well, should she be, you know, going after people with cancer?

Obviously not.

But she did not know this person was with cancer.

And the standard that people want to retroactively apply to her is that comedians should not be able to make fun of people's appearances.

And that is an asinine standard.

I mean, she can't possibly screen every person she sees to see if they maybe had one of their things,

one of their funny attributes, is caused by something terrible.

That is not a standard that anyone can keep.

And everyone who's criticizing her over this has, in their own life, mocked people for their appearance, laughed at other people mocking others for their appearance.

And, you know, this can easily happen to anybody.

Here's how I can make the conservative media really understand this.

Why didn't you make more fun of

Barack Obama's ears?

Oh, because you couldn't.

Because the comedy police were out.

And if you made fun of his ears, you were clearly a racist.

I'm not sure how.

Are ears a racial?

No,

no, they're not.

But you made fun of anything about him and you are a racist.

Do you want to live in that world?

I don't.

I want to live in a world where we can make fun of each other to each other's face, make fun of each other and still love each other.

I want to live in a world where I can make a mistake.

As a comedian, I could make a mistake and apologize.

And everybody's like, hey, that's cool.

I mean, look, we sit here every day and make fun of

certain people.

No, we don't.

Well, who?

Name one.

Name one big, fat, sweaty mess that we might make fun of.

We tell the truth about that.

Give me one mess.

I can't think of anybody right now.

I can't either.

We tell the truth about.

You're a fat, sweaty, just,

really bad human beings.

So funny

values.

I can't think of anybody like that right now.

Not a soul.

Darn it.

But the point is, if you made fun of someone like, let's say, Jeffy, and then found out the reason he looks like he does was

some glandular, awful thing,

You might feel bad about it.

You might apologize.

You might do what you can to make it right, but you shouldn't have to know his medical history before joking.

And so, what should Sam B do?

She did all three of those things.

She felt bad, she apologized, and she did what she could to make it right.

Well, what she should do is never joke.

Right, that's exactly what people do.

She should not joke.

Right.

And you know what?

What's frustrating, I think, to conservatives is not that Samantha B made a joke, it's that every liberal

would hold the same standard to a conservative if they got caught in the same moment.

And that's what's frustrating.

But I mean, because of

you have to stand up and take the other side and defend.

That's what that's the right thing.

This is why I'm not defending her because she's a friend.

I mean, I defended,

what's his name?

Politically incorrect.

Bill Maher.

Remember the heat I took for defending Bill Maher right after 9-11 when he said, well, at least their fighters have courage, not like ours.

And remember, that was obscene and offensive.

But I went on the air at the time of 9-11 and said, what part of politically uncorrect do you not understand?

What part of comedy, politically incorrect

comedy, do you not understand?

You may not like it, but that's the name of the show.

Defended him.

I will defend anyone as long as their intent

and I will try to take them at their word until they prove me wrong.

What was the intent of this reporter on the Samby show?

It was to do comedy.

And it certainly wasn't to make fun.

He didn't know that the guy had cancer.

Let's go make fun of the cancer kid.

And if you want to dogpile on that, then know that you are no better than the PC police and all of the people that shut us down.

Somebody said to me, why has your show changed so much?

One of the reasons?

Because everything we said was taken out of context and no one would ever give us a break on comedy.

So how many times have you read, Glenn Beck wants to choke Michael Moore to death or beat him to death with a shovel?

If you ever listened to those breaks,

it was all in jokes.

They were all jokes.

They were all things that the left can say.

We could never say any of those things.

So they just took all the comedy weapons away from us and made us into, we're all going to die.

We're all going to die.

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Scuttle Lance in Tennessee.

Hello, Lance.

Hey, how are you doing?

Good, how are you?

I'm doing real well.

My only problem with Samantha B, it wasn't that you made fun of the guy, because she didn't know you had cancer.

I agree with you there.

But stop calling your political enemies Nazis.

That's a good point.

That's a fair point.

You call people.

It's a fair point.

That's just like a Nazi to say that, isn't it?

It's a fair point, but you know what?

I will tell you this.

You're exactly right.

And I have reached into that bag and was accused of what?

Have you?

And I have been accused of that during the what?

Really?

You, Glenn Beck, have mentioned the word Nazi?

But you're right, Glenn.

It's like, I get it.

The point is, it was valid.

I understand that we do vilify our opponents.

And it was what we talked about yesterday with the Westboro Baptist church person who, a woman who left the church.

And

it's not in the spirit of reaching out across lines.

I got that.

But again, you've got to protect comedy.

Comedy is important, and you should be able to.

I mean, shouldn't.

And quite honestly, I mean, Mel Brooks taught us Nazis are funny.

Yeah.

So you can either be afraid of Nazis or we can laugh about Nazis.

But

I agree with you and it especially

tickles me that the left made fun of me for always talking about Nazis with the chalkboard when I was doing serious analysis between the two.

And now they're just like, look at the haircut, Nazi.

I mean,

but Stu brought up, you know, the

Westboro Baptist Church lady.

The one thing that we should emphasize, here's a woman who left the Westboro Baptist Church.

She's a Phelps.

She left the Westboro Baptist Church and she said, Look, there's four things that everybody should know, and this is why I left.

If you can approach somebody who you think is really misguided, and you can don't, you don't assume bad intent.

Number one,

what are we doing?

We just assume the other side has bad intent.

Sometimes they do.

Number two, ask honest questions.

Don't try to ask the questions that are going to set you up for your point.

Really ask honest questions.

Three, stay calm.

And number four, make the argument.

You need to read this article on Glennbeck.com, Four Steps to Break Down Walls from a Former Westboro Baptist Church member, what got her out of the church.

And while you're there, we have to get to this too.

Five Ways Negan from The Walking Dead is just like Uncle Sam.

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We'll get to it here in just a little while.

Movies opening up this weekend.

It is a movie weekend, at least for me and my son.

Tomorrow, I'm at South by Southwest today,

but I have a father-daughter's date tomorrow.

I wanted to stay here, and there's some really great speakers at South by Southwest that I hope to just be able to convince to come up and talk about some of these things.

There's a woman from Microsoft that is talking about the future of AI that is terrifying

and sending out a warning of what is coming if we don't pay attention.

That you really need to hear some really fascinating speakers at South by Southwest.

But I'm coming home.

I've got a father-daughter's date tomorrow night, and my son tomorrow morning.

We have got to go to Kong Skull Island.

It looks great.

Getting good reviews saying

what I've read at least

saying, you know, finally a good King Kong movie.

And it should be because

there is, I won't spoil anything, during the titles, there are setups for what's to come because this is a franchise now of Kong.

I'm put off by how many King Kongs there have been.

I mean, over and over and over.

You know what it is?

Who is the monkey version of Spider-Man?

Yes, he is.

Yes.

They just keep trying to jam this down our throats, and they're usually not good.

So I'm skeptical about this one, but it's getting really hard.

I liked the Jessica Lang one, but that may have just been because at the time, Jessica Lang was really hot.

Yes, and

I was nothing but a

throbbing hormone.

That was

nastily put, but thank you.

You're welcome.

It It got 79% positive feedback from the critics, though.

What did the audience?

The audience?

I'll have to click on it to see.

The audience was 75, so it's cool.

Oh, wow.

Did you guys like the Godzilla movie that came out with Brian Cranson in it?

I did.

It was pretty good.

I liked it too.

It was pretty good.

And it's the same people, I think.

So I'm kind of up there.

They're setting the old Mothra movies up.

They're setting the War of the Titans up, which I think is, I love those movies.

Let's see.

Get out.

I don't know if I can see this movie.

I did.

Yeah.

And is it good?

It's very good.

Yes.

It's getting great reviews.

I believe it's 99% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Wow.

99%.

Now, usually you will only see that sort of number on a, you know, maybe

an independent, like, you know, indie movie that, you know, Remains of the Day.

Right, exactly.

This is a, you know, a major release.

It's the, I think it's a number two movie of the year.

So this is a Blumhouse, isn't it?

Yeah.

Yeah.

And so Blumhouse is a production company, but one of the things that's interesting about them is they have these really, you know, they try to keep the costs down.

They've had now, Glenn, eight movies, eight movies that have made six times their production budget in the opening weekend.

That's just incredible.

I mean, that's incredible.

That is incredible.

Blumhouse, Blumhouse is

magic because they

not only keep the price down, what they do do is they keep the studios away and they go to people who know their genre and say, you make the movie.

We're going to leave you alone.

We'll do all the back end stuff.

We'll do the promotion.

We'll get it in all the theaters.

And we're going to keep everyone away from you.

And that's why they're so successful.

Yeah.

Who would have thunk it?

One thing quickly about Get Out that I think the audience would appreciate is the movie is set up.

If you've seen the previews, you probably know kind of the general story of this interracial couple goes home to

this white set of parents, and obviously something terrible happens to the black guy.

And there's obviously a racial element.

It's like a Stepford wives type town.

Yeah,

plainly obvious that that's kind of a racial tone to it.

What's really interesting is in the movie, and I'm not giving anything away here that doesn't happen very early,

it's that

the parents of the bad family, they're liberals.

And the movie has an undertone of sort of mocking liberals for thinking they're not racist, which is...

That's great.

I mean, I don't know if that was the intent of the movie.

They really are, though.

But I mean...

They really are.

Oh, that's great.

It's kind of interesting.

It's great.

You can look for that if you see the movie.

One of the other movies came out last week, did really, really well in theaters.

And we have Brad Cummings on the phone.

Yeah, I think so.

Okay, Brad Cummings, he's the writer and one of the producers of The Shack,

which came out.

Hey, Brad, how are you?

Or Brad, are you there?

Brad, is Brad there?

Doesn't seem to be, unless we're having a hard time with you being in Austin and Austin.

Brad, are you there?

I'm here.

There we go.

Okay.

Hey, Brad, how are you?

I'm doing fantastic.

I just wanted to call you and congratulate you on the performance of the shack last weekend.

Really good opening.

Yeah, it was fantastic.

It's been selling out matinees all this week.

I mean, there's an incredible buzz around it.

So, Matt, there was a couple of things I wanted to talk to you about.

First, I want to ask you if you will help me with something.

But

the first thing is, could you please explain, I was having breakfast Saturday with my older daughters last week.

And my older daughter said she just had a newborn baby.

She's got two children.

One's three, a little girl, and then her newborn son.

And she was saying, Dad, I can't go see it because I cannot, I don't want to to see a movie about a kid being kidnapped and killed.

Can you explain how you guys handled that so it's not a problem for people who don't want to see that stuff?

Yeah, I mean, we actually handled that incredibly delicately.

That is referenced there.

It's not glorified or seen.

It's just sort of suggested as far as what happens so that we have a sense of the weight of the tragedy that the dad has to deal with.

I think the movie beautifully takes over,

and

it's like that's a difficult moment to consider, the weight of, but I think the overwhelming rest of the movie is an incredible encounter with a loving God who crawls in the midst of that.

The other thing I wanted to ask you is

I think this story is very much like a book that I wrote a long time ago, except it's a much better story.

Yours is,

called The Christmas Sweater.

And I know that I was all kinds of unbelievable emails from people's people who would see it and their life would change are you willing to share any of those emails if you get any oh yeah absolutely i mean i i i i went out to the mailbox the other day and i had a handwritten letter from a dad that um

was just he was overwhelmed because the movie um He went there with his family, his young son, a 16-year-old, and another kid.

They just admitted to crying in the movie, and it was like, you know, for two teenage boys to kind of admit to each other as well as to their parents that this movie had moved them so deeply.

He was taken back by that.

But the movie itself is, it helped him, helped his wife forgive her alcoholic brother for a lifetime of pain that, you know, was brought to her, the family, their kids.

And it just said, he said, if it wasn't for this movie, I don't think she would ever have been brought to a place of being able to forgive him and he wrote me a note and just said you know thanks for helping my wife give her pain to God

and that was that was just extraordinary one of the really cool stories that was forwarded along to me is there was a dad who was coming out of one of the matinees I think down in Dallas I believe

And he had asked for prayer to the whole group that was leaving for for his daughter who had a brain tumor.

And the lady that's relating this said, you know, I thought the people were ignoring him and leaving,

but a few had gathered over him in prayer.

And when the prayer ended, she turned around and the entire theater

had

extended their arms.

They were laying hands on each other, praying for this precious child.

And she said, you know, the movie was the most amazing thing, but to see that the whole crowd turn and pray for this little girl, she said, it was amazing, but our ending in theater 15 was so full of his love.

Folks have just been having incredible encounters in the theater with each other.

You know, just, it's been amazing the response of audiences to this movie.

Yeah,

as a guy who has gone through those enormous changes and needed this kind of a thing, I just urge you.

to go see this movie.

And I hate saying this because it's not a movie that is trying to do anything other than just be a good movie.

So it's not a a message movie.

It's not a movie that's going to change your life.

You've got to see this movie.

Because I avoid those movies like The Plague.

This is just a great movie that you will enjoy, but it also has the ability for people like I used to be to transform your life.

And I urge you to go bring a friend.

You know,

bring a couple of families with you so they don't feel like, you know, you're singling them out and go see The Shack this weekend.

Thanks so much.

Appreciate it.

Sorry to get you up out of bed, Brad.

Congratulations.

Thanks, Glenn.

You bet.

Bye-bye.

All righty.

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I love the fact that Aaron Watson was on Fox and Friends this morning.

Aaron Watson, a good friend of the program.

Oh, was he?

Yeah.

Oh, that's great.

And just did the Houston Rodeo.

He used He had 55,000 people

packed in to see him at the Houston Rodeo.

The Houston papers loved him.

I have not seen him in concert yet, but he feels, I'll bet you it's the same feeling you get from a Michael Bouble concert.

And we haven't talked about an artist like this since Michael Bouble.

And he's going to be at Billy Bob's win.

March 25th.

March 25th.

He is just one of the great guys, and we're so happy for his success.

And good to see him on Fox and Friends this morning.

So, Scott Pruitt, the head of the EPA,

who I didn't know,

wasn't he with Stevenson Pruitt for a while in Houston,

I think.

He did a wacky FM morning show for

30 years.

And now he's the head of the EPA.

It's a different Pruitt.

I'm not sure.

Wow, I don't know for sure.

We don't know for sure.

But here's what he said about climate change.

Do you believe that it's been proven that CO2 is the primary control knob for climate?

Do you believe that?

No, I think that measuring with precision human activity on the climate is something very challenging to do, and there's tremendous discretion about the degree of impact.

So, no, I would not agree that it's a primary contributor to the global warming that we see.

Okay.

We don't know that yet.

We need to continue the debate and continue the review and the analysis.

Yeah,

some people believe, some people believe, and this is crazy, that there's a 2 million degree burning orb in the sky that has something to do with our climate.

Some people really think that.

Conspiracy theorists.

Excuse me.

Excuse me.

Can I cut in here?

As a woman, may I just cut in here for a minute and talk about you science deniers?

Yes, please.

You know, CO2 is clearly what is causing this.

There is nothing else causing it.

I'm tired of, as a woman, I am tired of you science deniers.

I will say this.

The gall of this man to say we need continued analysis of this issue.

May I is over.

Never look at it again.

Never consider another option ever again.

May I, would you let a woman speak for a second, please?

Yes, ma'am.

Yes, ma'am.

How dare you

identify his gender?

You don't know how he's identifying today.

We meant to call him G.

We meant to.

You science-denying bigots have got to be wiped out.

You are so...

Is there no humanity in you?

That's why we have to have you rounded up and killed and silenced.

There's no humanity even in you.

You make me sick.

Well, I mean,

you're right.

Mr.

Species over here is very concerned if we're human or not.

And I've noticed that hatred coming through on your side.

Excuse me?

Speciesist.

You're a species.

Oh, is it a problem if we're not human?

What if I identify as something else today?

Well, hang on just a second.

You were talking to my...

I was identifying as a woman there and I was all screwed up.

I was, I was menstruating.

And I'm luckily not menstruating right now.

Okay.

So I am more in my rational mind.

Oh my gosh.

Did he just say that women aren't in their rational mind when they're menstruating?

No, you said that men aren't when they're menstruating.

That's what you said.

That's

that was that was another person that I was identifying.

I'm now identifying as a dog.

And so, I mean, I don't know what that guy was saying or that woman.

But it's a good thing liberals don't deny science.

Right?

It's a good thing.

It's a good thing.

This is the Glenn Beck program.

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Hello, America, and welcome to the program.

So glad you're here.

Want to talk about a little bit Austin?

I'm in Austin today for South by Southwest, which is just a great music, kind of futuristic tech conference.

I'm here to speak this afternoon with Recode.

I'm doing a podcast with them on the future of the media, which

probably should last about three minutes.

We'll get to that coming up.

Also,

Five Ways Negan from The Walking Dead is just like Uncle Sam, a great story,

written by one of our writers for Glenbeck.com.

We'll get to that in a second.

And the new movie about Scientology opens up this weekend.

We begin there and much more right now.

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I will be my drum.

I have made my choice.

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Hello, America.

Welcome to the Glen Beck Program.

Glad to

talk to you.

Glad to be here at South by Southwest.

I'm going to try to spend the day really listening to some of the people that are speaking, coming off from all over the world to speak at this music and tech conference about the future of the media and the future of even work,

the future of AI.

There is so much

that

the conservative world

is not hearing and it's not being presented to you by anyone, honestly.

And

we're going to be left in the dust if we don't start looking

at what truly is coming from Silicon Valley.

And I'll tell you more about it and some of the things that I learned

on Monday when I get back.

I will tell you that I think Austin is going to transform Texas, and they know it.

This is why the progressive movement is dumping money into Texas to turn it from red to blue.

And

I was walking last night, got here very late last night, and walking down,

what was it, 6th Avenue

here in Austin, one of the main streets in Austin.

And it reminded me so much of Seattle for a couple of reasons.

It just had rained.

So the streets were kind of wet.

And so you could smell the rain, but it also reeked of old booze and a little bit of urine and homelessness.

And I'm like, oh my gosh, it's Seattle.

Sweet home, sweet home.

Oh, how I miss that smell.

And it is because this is a sanctuary city for not only,

dare I say it, I'll whisper it because I'm in Austin.

Illegals.

but also

sanctuary city for homeless.

And the homeless here are just like they were when I went to Santa Fe, New Mexico a couple of years ago for my anniversary with my wife.

We did not want to go back to Santa Fe, New Mexico because,

and I said to her, you're not coming here by yourself

because it was a constant barrage of homeless people that were just feeling entitled to, like last night, sitting here having dinner on the street, on the sidewalk, just trying to enjoy an ice meal, person after person after person, just coming up and saying, can i have some

can can can i have some food please homeless people wow yeah and now i remember it's hard to say no if they're actually hungry i know plus who hasn't done that plus it could be a radio bit it could be somebody just could could we both go back to jeffy's who hasn't done that sure

i mean there's some good food that you see on the sidewalk there sidewalking so you just stop and say can i have some of that and

i will tell you

Pat was kind of headed here.

Pat and I used to go out, you know, and we used to do it.

We used to do stuff like that for fun.

We did it before we had phones and could tape everything.

We did it just for us.

We would go up and, you know, there would be somebody who'd be standing there or sitting there and eating something that looked really good.

And I would look at Pat and say, are you?

Let me get it.

Let me have a little bit of that.

Yeah.

Mind if I have some?

Never tried that before.

That looks delicious.

Can I have a little bite?

See, but I'm serious.

You guys are joking around.

I'm I'm serious.

When Pat used to come up to the table, they thought he was serious too.

Pat was transgendered before transgendered was cool.

Oh, absolutely.

We went into a Vonka Trunks.

We went into a Vonka

Trump's dress shop

with hidden microphones.

And

we said we were getting married and Pat

needed to try on a wedding dress.

And these were like $15,000, $20,000 dresses.

And they didn't really have anything appropriate to fit him.

Now, today that wouldn't be a big deal, but 25 years ago, it was.

That was a huge deal.

It was.

And they didn't blink, not just didn't even blink.

And when he came out with something low-cut and lacy with his chest hair and beard, the lady, thank God, thought I was crying.

And I almost was.

I almost was.

But it was a sight I'll never get out.

There's some things in life you'll never unsee.

And that was one of them.

That's one of them.

That was one of them.

And as I was walking out, leaving him in the dress store, because I couldn't handle it anymore, all I could hear was Pat saying, wait, I haven't tried on the lingerie.

But anyway,

I think that these cities, I think that you can look at what's happening now in Austin and you can chart the course for the rest of Texas because what will happen is what happens in every state.

Everyone will say here in Texas, and correct me if I'm wrong, boys, yeah, well, Texas has always been, I mean, Austin has always been this, it's always been weird, yada, yada, yada.

And so they become numb to it, and they don't see how it's spreading.

First of all, they always,

always, progressives always set up shop in the capital city

and next to the and in all of the universities.

And they, that's how they get you.

They change the universities and they change the culture of the capital and you're done.

Right.

It makes a ton of sense because that's where the legislature is.

And if you can control the legislature, you can have a massive impact in the state.

Yep.

And that's what they try to do here.

Now, the good thing.

It's going to be a tougher fight, though, in Texas.

Well, because Texas legislature doesn't meet all the time.

It meets every two years.

Yeah.

And it's a slow but sure process.

I mean, we have an influx of people coming from, you know, we'll say California.

And, you know, they're attempting to do their deeds in Texas like they did in California.

Well, they're doing it in Boise, Idaho.

Boise, Idaho used to be a very conservative town.

Now, conservatives, beware, if you go to Boise, Idaho, that's not a friendly town.

Well, you want to talk about liberals in a place where you wouldn't expect them.

How about Salt Lake City?

I was thinking the same thing.

Oh, Salt Lake City, though, has

been that way.

Salt Lake City proper is.

Yes.

I mean, they were home to the first openly lesbian mayor, it seems like, right?

But you know what?

That comes, again, I think, from

a strong family culture and one that is very,

and I hate to use this word because it's not exactly right, but controlled.

It's not controlled, but the people, the culture self-polices itself.

It's a very strong culture of traditional values.

And when you have that, you're going to have the backlash.

And the stronger the light,

the darker the darkness sometimes.

You know, people rebel

in harsher ways than you do when, you know, it's just kind of in the mushy middle.

At least I think.

Yeah, I think that's true.

Let's talk a little bit about Five Ways Negan from The Walking Dead is just like Uncle Sam.

I haven't seen any episode with Negan.

I saw

the last episode where he was introduced, and that's the last one I saw.

Wow.

What are you watching up to do?

I don't think I'm going to.

And I don't think I'm alone either.

I saw the ratings, and the ratings are not good for it.

Well, first of all, yes, they are.

They're still the number one show on cable.

But, you know, they just aren't as much as they were.

I think they're still the most watched dude.

Yeah, they're just not as much as they were.

Yeah.

Yeah, and I quit.

I quit quit it too.

And it just got to be too much.

I heard that that's why they're softening.

Is that true?

They're softening?

You know, I don't know.

I mean, the show's already filmed, right?

I mean, it's already done.

So I don't know how much more they can do this season because it's already in the can.

Right.

So, you know, it's been good.

I've enjoyed it.

I mean, it's.

Negan is the new Uncle Sam.

There's no doubt about that.

He is the law, baby.

So here's, according to Glennbeck.com, here are the five ways Negan is Uncle Sam.

Taxation.

Does anybody feel patriotic or thrilled when April 15th rolls around?

Of course not.

The more money you make, the more Uncle Sam takes.

There isn't any way around it.

It's no surprise that once the calm settles in a dystopian zombie apocalypse world, some dude would seize power and try to take as much as he can.

Negan broke it down for the show's protagonist, Rick,

in his

final monologue of last season.

Give me your crap or I will kill you.

Very simple.

Today was career day.

We invested a lot.

So you know who I am and what I can do.

You work for me now.

You have crap.

You give it to me.

That's your job.

Now, I know that's a mighty big, nasty pill to swallow, but swallow it.

You must and certainly will.

You ruled the roost.

You built something.

You thought you were safe.

I get it.

But the word is out, you're not safe, not even close.

In fact, you're pegged, more pegged, if you don't do what I want.

And what I want is half of your crap.

So number one,

just like Uncle Sam.

Yes.

Number two,

theft is just a beginning, by the way, just like Uncle Sam.

Yes.

It is just a beginning.

And when he decides at any point in time that, you know what, I need a little bit more than half, he takes it.

Number two, theft is not tolerated.

In America Day, stealing large sums of money often earns larger prison sentences than violent crimes.

While perhaps not as harsh as punishments delivered by the barbed wire-wrapped baseball bat, the feds feds don't care who you are.

If you owe them money, they come for you.

Uncle Sam will drop the hammer on you.

Nagan does the same.

Quote,

you really didn't think that I was going to get through this without punishing you now, did you?

I don't want to kill people.

I just want to make it clear from the get-go.

You work for me.

And if you can't do that, you're dead.

I mean, rules and rules.

That's a good quote.

Rules and rules.

I want you, number three, Negan versus Uncle Sam, the I Want You poster.

It's been used over decades as a patriotic call to duty.

A volunteer army has long been a tradition in America and helped us avoid another draft, something nobody wants to see.

When stuff really hits the fan, it'll be something to watch because the patriotic call can become a frightening threat.

Once Negan had a fan favorite Daryl in his custody, he laid out the options.

Quote, I don't think you get it yet, so I'm going to break it down for you.

You get three choices.

One, you wind up on the spike and you work for me as a dead man.

Two, you get out, um, you get out of your cell, you work for points, but you're going to wish you were dead.

Or three, you work for me, you get yourself a brand new pair of shoes and you live like a king.

Choice seems pretty obvious.

You should know there's no door number four.

This is it, those are your only choices.

Sounds like Uncle Sam Damain.

It does.

Number four:

all is good if you follow the rules.

And Negan says,

there are rules for a reason.

Nothing matters if you're dead.

It all ends with death with him, doesn't it?

And number five, ingenuity and talent is rewarded.

Despite all the ways the government is invented to entangle itself in our daily lives, the American Dream liaison, if you work hard, you can get ahead and make a difference without fear of Lucille hanging over you.

Well,

Negan owns you, and there's no escaping the fact.

He too rewards hard work.

In one episode, Spencer tries to make an end run around Rick and take power of Alexandria, the settlement where Rick and Rick's people live.

Despite their differences, Negan respects Rick's work ethic and recognizes Spencer's laziness, and he says, quote, you know, I'm thinking, Spencer, I'm thinking about how Rick threatened to kill me, how he clearly hates my guts.

But he's out right now gathering crap for me to take to make sure I don't hurt any of the fine people that live here.

He's swallowing his hate and getting crap done.

Now, that takes guts.

And then there's you, a guy who waited for Rick to be gone so he could sneak over and talk to me to have me do his dirty work so he could take Rick's place.

So I gotta ask, if you want to take over, why not just kill Rick yourself and just take over?

Uncle Sam

like

Negan.

I realize Spencer is no more.

We took care of that problem.

There's no more sneaking around with Lil Spencer.

I will say, for those keeping track at home, the winner, Negan 4, Nagan 3.

So, in case you were wondering who won the pronunciation sweepstakes.

I got it right.

It was Negan.

Yes.

I did get it right.

I did get it right.

Negan.

It's not like an associate of Ronald Reagan.

It's not Nagan.

I know, I know, I know.

It's Negan.

But that was interesting.

Can I tell you, I'm down here in Austin, and the rules are different here.

So I was drinking all night.

What?

The rules are different in Austin?

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Rules don't apply in Austin.

You go into Austin City proper, and if you're an alcoholic, you can drink.

Realize, yeah.

That's pretty convenient for you.

Yeah.

So I don't come down here very often, except every day, now that I found out the rules, and

I can drink.

So, Negan, Nagan, you know,

Jack, Jack, and Coke.

What's the difference, really?

Quite a bit.

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You know, a really good example.

We're just talking about

Austin, Texas.

Just a great city, great city.

And some of the greatest cities in America

are these big progressive cities.

The problem is, is the progressive takes over, like California, and they destroy it because they're not good at law and order.

They're not good at understanding business and taxes and everything else.

They're good at all of the arts and

the beauty and everything else.

They're really good at that.

And that's why all the great cities in America, I think, are progressive cities because

they look great.

They're beautiful.

They're fun to be in.

But once you're there, you see what sanctuary cities become just a city of disorder.

And you can't do business there.

You don't want to live there because of all of the laws.

The conservatives are good at law and order.

And they're also good at freedom of leave me alone.

And if we can just go back to a time when we were getting together and we were like, okay, you can bring that to the community and leave me alone on all the rest of the stuff.

and I'll leave you alone.

If we could just leave each other alone, we'd be fine.

But progressive cities want to control you and that's the problem.

Lori, quickly, you're on the Glenn Beck program.

Hi, Glenn.

Yes.

You know, my husband and I are looking to move to Texas or Boise, Idaho, but now listening to you today, I'm not sure where to turn.

You know, we want to get out to California.

We're heading towards Texas or Boise, Idaho, but after listening to you today, I just don't know.

Well, there's

better.

Yeah, Texas is great.

Texas is great.

And I live, I have a ranch in Idaho.

So I live in the summer in Idaho, and I love Idaho.

Just know that

the progressives from California have transformed Boise, Idaho, and

have also started to take a root here in Texas.

We need good conservatives to move in and be strong and push back because the Californians have destroyed California and now now they're like, oh, I hate California for what it's turned into, but look at this place.

It's beautiful.

Let's turn it into California.

Back in a minute.

The Glenn Beck program.

Listening to the media follow the 2016 presidential election, you might actually be led to believe that the polls and the media had never before gotten an election wrong.

Nothing could be further from the truth.

In the presidential election of 1948, the incumbent president Harry S.

Truman, who was the Democratic nominee and who had succeeded to the presidency after the death of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1945, was running against Thomas Dewey, the Republican nominee, who had also been the Republican presidential nominee in 1944.

The election is considered to be the greatest election upset in American history.

Virtually every single prediction indicated that Truman would be defeated by Dewey.

In fact, there may have only been one person in the United States of America who actually firmly believed that Harry Truman would win the election.

For the next four years,

there'll be a Democrat in the White House and you're looking at it.

That person was Harry Truman.

Somehow, through it all, Truman held on to the belief that he was going to pull off this amazing upset.

The New York Times was predicting Dewey would run away with the election.

The Gallup poll was so certain of the outcome, it stopped polling before the end of October.

Then came election night.

As early returns began to come in, the staff at the Chicago Tribune, one of America's largest newspapers at the time, were still confident enough in a Dewey victory to go to print with their first edition headline reading, Dewey Defeats Truman.

The story accompanying the headline was even more wrong.

In addition to declaring Dewey the president, it also declared a Republican sweep of the election, claiming Republican control of the House of Representatives and the Senate, indicating that the GOP would have an easy time pushing through an agenda with control of Congress and the White House.

But that didn't happen.

Instead, not only did Truman win the presidency with an electoral vote of 303, 189 to 39, over Dewey and Dixiecrat Stom Thurmond, but Democrats regained the control of the House and the Senate that they had lost in 1946.

The new media of the day were amazed at what they had witnessed.

I think we can all agree on one thing, that not politically, but looking at it from a news standpoint, this is a marvelous news story.

One of the great news story of all time.

Right.

What a lucky thing that three little fellows like us on this new and tremendously growing thing like television with this Life NBC team had a chance to play a part in it.

Dewey was gracious in his concession speech.

I've sent the following wire to President Truman.

My heartiest congratulations to you on your election.

and every good wish for a successful administration.

I urge all Americans to unite behind you in support of every effort to keep our nation strong and free and to establish peace in the world.

So, the Democrats had set the all-time record for the party, winning their fifth consecutive presidential election in 1952.

Dwight Eisenhower finally reversed this trend.

Ike was now limited to two terms by the 22nd Amendment, which was quickly passed and added to the Constitution after FDR's four terms.

As a result, in 1960, Eisenhower's vice president, Richard Nixon, ran against a young, upstart senator, John F.

Kennedy.

It was Kennedy's catchy presidential adjingle that seemed to be effective.

Do you want a man for president who's seasoned through and through?

But that's a dog on season that he won't try something new.

A man who's old enough to know.

And young enough to do.

Well, it's up to you.

It's up to you.

It's strictly up to you.

But it's Kennedy,

Nixon's campaign was a little more low-key.

What is the most important issue confronting the American people in this election campaign?

There's no question about the answer that I have found in traveling all over this nation.

Above everything else, the American people want leaders who will keep the peace without surrender for America and the world.

Henry Cabot Lodge and I have had the opportunity of serving with President Eisenhower in this cause for the last seven and a half years.

We both know Mr.

Khrushchev.

We have sat opposite the conference table with him.

We know what peace demands.

We will keep America the strongest nation in the world, and we will couple that strength with firm diplomacy.

No apologies, no regrets.

Plus, Nixon made multiple mistakes during the campaign that cost him dearly, including an incredibly poor performance in the nation's first televised presidential debate.

And he wound up losing to JFK by 112,000 votes nationwide, a 0.17%

difference.

But there is no doubt that one of, if not the craziest elections in American history took place in 2000.

It happened between Texas Governor George W.

Bush and Vice President Al Gore.

The nation had been through scandal after scandal after scandal during the 1990s, the presidency of Bill Clinton, and as a result, Clinton and Gore never campaigned together.

Everyone knew that it would be a close election, but few would have predicted that it would turn out as razor-thin as it did.

The day before the election, Matt Lauer asked Tim Russert what he thought Americans should be watching for on Election Day.

What's the key element we should be watching for throughout the day tomorrow?

Florida, Florida, Florida.

I honestly believe Matt Asgos, Florida, will go the nation.

Russert's words turned out to be prophetic.

As we now know, it did indeed come down to Florida.

Election night turned out to be an absolute nightmare.

For who?

Well, for the media.

And because it was a nightmare for them, it was a nightmare for us.

We're going to now project an important win for Vice President Al Gore.

NBC News projects that he wins the 25 electoral votes in the state of Florida.

It turns out that Governor Jeb Bush was not his brother's keeper.

The family had been joking and seriously that it could be a cold Thanksgiving.

Tim Russert, that's great news in Nashville tonight.

NBC wasn't alone.

CNN announces that we call Florida in the Al Gore column.

This is the state both campaigns desperately wanted to win.

The state of Florida fought over very hard.

The state with a Republican governor named Bush, the brother of the Republican nominee, Jeff Greenfield, Greenfield.

This is something that is not making the Bush campaign happy tonight.

This is a roadblock the size of a boulder to George W.

Bush's path to the White House.

A short time later, CNN had to change their call.

Stand by, CNN right now is moving our earlier declaration of Florida back to the

too close to call column.

25 very big electoral votes in the home state of the governor's brother, Jeff Bush, are hanging in the balance.

This no longer is a victory for Vice President Gore.

We're moving it back.

Early the next morning, the networks began to declare that Bush was now the winner of Florida.

And a few hours later, they were forced to withdraw that prediction as well.

By 4.30 a.m., the day after the election, the media had decided that Florida was too close to call for either candidate.

So they just gave up trying.

America would have to wait for days, even weeks, before the presidential race would be finally decided.

While Al Gore actually won the national popular vote by just over 500,000 votes, in Florida, out of the 6 million votes cast, George W.

Bush won the state by the now famous number of 537 votes.

That is what triggered a recount in a massive battle in the court system, which ended up eventually in the United States Supreme Court.

And we all learned new terms like hanging Chad, dimpled Chad, and pregnant Chad.

First, you have to know that the punch hole is called a Chad.

It is attached to the ballot by four threads.

In the morning, the commissioners had decided that if it had been detached by only one thread, it would not be counted as a vote.

Two detachments, maybe.

Three, definitely counted as a vote.

At some point in the process, that was changed and the commissioners decided that any Chad that was detached to any degree would be counted as a vote.

Dozens of lawyers from both campaigns descended on Florida to weigh in on the process.

There are two other strange sounding categories that were not counted as votes.

The first one is called the dimpled Chad.

That is that there is an indentation in the Chad.

The voter put some pressure on it, but didn't detach it at all from the ballot.

Not counted.

The final category is the pregnant Chad.

That is, the Chad was pierced with a hole, but not detached at all.

Those were not counted.

Now, the Republicans here at Koki seized on all of this confusion.

They said, see, we told you this is a deeply flawed process.

It must stop.

But as we know, the county commissioners here have decided not to stop.

They will go for a full recount beginning tomorrow.

Litigation in Select County started additional recounts, and this litigation ultimately reached the United States Supreme Court.

The court's contentious 5-4 decision in Bush v.

Gore, announced on December 12, 2000, finally ended all of the recounts, stating that the already certified recount would stand, since the safe harbor for counting the electoral votes was at hand.

Since Bush had won the previous certified recount, he also won Florida's 25 electoral votes and with it, the presidency of the United States.

By the slimmest of margins, 271 electoral votes to 266, one of the closest races in all of American history.

The outcome gave rise to the phrase that Bush had been selected and not elected.

The Democrats were quick to point out that he wasn't a legitimate candidate.

Something now many Democrats fail to remember.

And even though the Supreme Court had not selected a winner, but simply put a stop to the process of recounting recounting the votes over and over again, it didn't stop the claims.

Through it all, Americans can take an enormous amount of pride.

Pride in the fact that no matter how close, no matter how fought or contentious U.S.

elections have been over all of the years, they have always been decided through the constitutionally mandated process peacefully.

What makes America great?

Well, this is one of them.

We have peaceful transfers of power without violence and tanks rolling through our streets.

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They are really, truly

great great pieces of history that so many people just don't know, including us.

We just didn't know.

Well, that brought back a lot of memories.

Yeah, that election of 2001.

You forget just how intricate, close.

What we should have put in, and I can't believe that I didn't just say this while we were recording this serial, was

in the end, the New York Times came back and said, every way you count it, Bush won.

Oh, that was a good thing.

Remember, that wasn't, it wasn't just the New York Times.

All the media recounts came back that way.

I know.

I know.

And by the way, can somebody help me?

What was the guy's name on CNN?

Bernie?

Shaw.

Shaw.

Bernard Shaw.

What happened to him?

I don't know, actually.

I don't know.

He might have retired.

I think he retired because he was...

Didn't he?

Get him.

Of course,

as we found out, black don't crack, so maybe he was like a thousand.

But he didn't look that old.

I can't believe that he retired and went away.

I wonder if he's still alive.

One of the other things I love from that segment is that Tom Brokaw should never say the word electoral.

Electoral.

May I say also that another thing I noticed was that Dewey, his concession speech, I wish you well, and we all have to come together and

have you succeed for

the nation.

I mean, there was a real contested election, and he immediately

did Nixon

with his narrow margin.

He just, it was never selected, not elected.

It was never an

illegitimate president or anything like that.

Right.

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No,

this makes sense.

A new study out shows that Instagram is responsible for food waste.

Yeah.

That actually does make sense.

It does.

People make food just to take pictures of it.

Well, then you could eat it.

But they're they're saying they're not eating it, they're just throwing it away.

Is that what's going on?

I mean, that's just stupid people.

Yeah.

That's not Instagram.

That's stupid people.

I'd watch them shut down Instagram over at that point.

Right.

Yeah.

How dare Instagram?

They're the leading cause of CO2

emissions and starvation in China.

It wasn't happening before Instagram.

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Hello, America.

Welcome to the program.

So glad that you are so glad that you're here.

A couple of things.

First of all,

I guess women are not attracted to science, and it's because we haven't made girls feel welcome in science.

Well, clearly, Glenn, girls have not been nurtured in a safe space.

And that has to stop because we must have them in the science industry whether they want to be there or not.

I mean,

have we asked girls, do you want to be in science?

I mean, who is telling a girl, sorry, honey, you can't get into the field of science?

Absolutely not.

No.

No.

Girls are too stupid.

You cannot be a scientist.

There's no such thing as a girl scientist.

In 27, who's saying that?

Nobody.

Nobody.

But this education specialist at Queensland University in Australia is saying that girls from 10 to 14 have to be nurtured in a safe space.

May I ask, is anyone nurturing guys

in a positive direction?

Is anyone saying to our boys, you're needed, you're valuable?

Absolutely.

You have something important to contribute.

Guys are mocked, made fun of, ridiculed,

pushed out, given, you know,

made into,

you know, woman, I am woman, hear me roar.

You're a boy, you might be a girl.

I mean, what is happening?

I really think this is why progressivism and authoritarianism is about to go off the rails.

They always

overplay their hand.

And I think there is this new undercurrent

of

anti-authoritarianism that is starting up, and it's on both sides.

It's under the current so much it's drowning.

But yes, it is under the current.

You are a little beam of sunshine.

When did I become the positive one and you become the negative one?

Sorry about that.

We have switched roles in the last few months.

Especially Stu.

Stu is

not in a good positive place right now.

No, you're not.

No, but there is, and

I don't even begin to understand this, but there is something called libertarian socialism.

What?

That doesn't even make sense.

No, I know.

Listen, but this is...

See, what's happening is

socialism

has to the youth, I think, this happy face that, you know, it's all going to work out like it did in the Netherlands.

Well, no,

the Netherlands...

Everybody thought alike in the Netherlands.

Everybody.

It was the most homogenized group of countries of all time.

And almost everybody was exactly the same.

So it was easy to bring people together.

And it did work, but it's not working now.

The economics of it are not working now because, whoa, they introduced immigration.

And everybody went with their open border policy for the free stuff.

And lo and behold, it's not working.

And they thought if we just bring people here like us, they're going to want to be like us.

Well, the new immigrants didn't want to be like them.

And so it's falling apart now.

But to the average,

you know, 20-something,

I think that they believe, they look at socialism differently because they've never had the threat of the Iron Curtain before.

So they never, they didn't grow up with any of that.

They don't know any of that.

And they certainly weren't taught.

Yeah, and they don't know what socialism is.

They think it's socializing.

They think it's social media.

They think it's a really good thing.

Well, you got to explain to them what socialism is and what socialism has wrought.

So listen to this, because I just came across this in something I was reading,

I don't know, earlier this week, and I don't remember what it was.

And I've had to look it up because I'd never heard of it before.

But listen to this.

See if this makes any sense to you.

This is Wikipedia, Libertarian Socialism,

a group of anti-authoritarian political philosophies inside the socialist movement.

Okay.

Does that even make sense?

Nope.

Anti-authoritarian socialists that reject socialism as centralized state ownership and control of the economy as well as the state itself.

Also, see, confused.

Right.

It doesn't work.

It criticizes wage-labor relationships within the workplace.

I don't even know what that means.

Instead, it emphasizes workers' self-management of the workplace.

You're just a libertarian.

And decentralized structures of political organization.

Libertarian.

And not socialist in any way.

In any way.

It asserts that a society based on freedom and justice can be achieved through the abolishing of authoritarian institutions that control certain means of production and subordinate the majority of an owning class or political and economic elite.

Libertarian socialists advocate for decentralized structures based on direct democracy, that's trouble, and federal and confederal associations such as libertarian

municipalism,

citizens' assemblies, trade unions, and worker councils.

All of this is generally done within the general call for libertarian and voluntary human relationships through the identification, criticism, and practical dismantling of the illegitimate authority in all aspects of a bunch of nonsense.

It's kind of like I think about the institutionalization of the human psyche, right?

Yeah, or the collectivization of manufacturing.

I don't know.

One thing I do know is it's a symbol of reversibility that'll never be taken from the earth.

Here's the problem.

Here's the problem.

As such, libertarian socialism within the larger socialist movement seeks to distinguish itself both from Leninism, Bolshevism, and social democracy.

So

there's a chance because these two, you know, this is saying, I am for absolute state control if it gets rid of all absolute state control.

It doesn't make sense.

These two things don't work together.

And I'm wondering if it is the same thing that Lenin did

to the...

to the masses when he said, remember, guys, we're not communist.

We're social democrats.

We're definitely not communists.

Yeah.

We're definitely not communists um and it was just a word game that they were playing because this

for me at least you know

may i ask you guys a question

well how would you react to

say

let's get

a true marxist professor or somebody who really understands it

to and they don't have to agree with it just somebody who really understands it to explain it to us because have you guys ever read Das Kapital or any of that other stuff?

What's the other one?

Not for a couple of months.

That's the other one.

Das Kapital, I've read, and that's the other one, the first one,

the Communist Manifesto.

Yeah, oh, yeah.

To me, it's like circular logic.

To me, it just,

it's reading a foreign language.

I just don't get it.

And I would really love

to hear from somebody who really knows it explain it to me to see if it, because I really want to understand it so that I can speak their language and go, okay, well, this doesn't work.

Yeah.

Because I don't even understand it.

It would be interesting to understand it from a person who views it positively point of view.

Like, what?

How do you believe that's a good thing?

And I guess you can kind of think, well, it takes care of the little guy, but it doesn't.

But if you believe that, that's

maybe.

Maybe the audience can help us with, I want somebody who perhaps believes in it, but you don't have to buy into it.

Just somebody who can really, truly teach it as it really is.

You don't have to believe in it.

I just want somebody who can really teach it as it is with no bias against it.

Because I'm coming with a bias against it.

So I'd rather have somebody that I don't know if they're for or against.

They're just explaining it on how it all works.

Because I've read Das Capital a couple of times and I can't make heads nor tails of it.

It just, it does not make any sense to me.

And so how can we possibly argue with libertarian socialism?

We should get somebody who's a libertarian socialist on and have them explain this too.

And not to change their mind or to beat them up or anything else, just to explain it.

That doesn't seem like it would, it doesn't make any sense.

We should also try to get somebody who subscribes to the capitalist socialism theory uh that would be interesting as well

is there such a thing no but

there shouldn't be today's world if there's libertarian socialists there should be capitalist socialists right

because it's capitalist collectivists yeah there was i'm a capitalistic collectivist there was a party in the united states uh very small party that was the uh the i think it was called the not the green nazi or the nazi green party and they were a combination of nazi beliefs and environmentalist beliefs.

That's a solid combination.

Is there any difference between the environmentalists and the

hang on just a second?

That is not so strange.

You know who the biggest, you know who would have been the biggest PETA supporter in the world?

Oh, yeah.

Would have been Adolf Hitler.

Oh, I mean, you go back, in all honesty, if we're talking honestly about this,

Hitler's belief of living space was an environmental issue.

The fact that he wanted to, it was about him wanting to have more space because he was worried about the concerns of overpopulation he was concerned about having enough land to make food for everyone to live he needed living space because he was essentially an environmentalist on that issue he was which is hilarious in a in a bizarre way but and and and what's so strange is um he loved animals more than he loved people he would not he

very heavy prime uh crime and penalty if you hurt an animal in germany um but kill a jew kill a person that was against the state no problem you you What, you have five minutes?

Go ahead, kill as many as you want.

But animals, no.

And how much do we see of that mentality still in the world today?

That animals are, for instance, for instance, try this exercise.

You cannot kill a fetus.

I mean, sorry, you can kill a fetus and not go to jail, not pay a fine, nothing.

Pat,

this weekend, let's just go, let's just go get some

some bald eagle eggs out of a nest.

Oh, yeah.

You'd go to jail.

That'll work well.

How do you know?

I think that's a federal crime.

That's an egg.

Yeah.

That's not even a fetus.

That's an egg.

She could just lay the egg.

I could go into the nest.

I could take the bald eagle egg that I could crack open and make an omelette out of.

I will go to jail.

Because why?

Is that life?

Is that egg life?

Are you telling me that egg that she just laid that I can eat right now as an omelette, that somehow or another is a baby eagle?

No, no, it's just an egg.

That's a great point.

Not to mention, I mean, God forbid you go and shoot a lion that's about to kill a family of Nigerians, or you kill an ape that is about to potentially maul a child in front of onlookers.

And had already thrown him 10 feet through the air.

Yeah.

I mean, you do that and you're the worst person on earth.

Right.

Yep.

Is that guy from Seattle on with us on Monday?

I have a guy who is a

who I think might be a libertarian socialist.

I think he might be that guy.

I'm not sure.

I think libertarian socialism is a capitalist who's not an a-hole.

I think that's what they're thinking it is.

Okay.

Somebody who's just not a complete jerk.

I love the community and I want to help and we all have to...

I think that's that's what they

like.

That's the guy who runs Whole Foods, right?

Yes.

Yeah.

We've had him on the show before.

I can't think of his name off the top of my head.

But he's a libertarian.

But he's a nice libertarian.

They look at it.

Well, he's a capitalist, but he's nice.

And that means he's different than a capitalist.

Well, actually, capitalists are nice all the time.

That's not actually.

And not all of them.

Not all of them.

Not all of them.

They're just people.

And some people are nice and some people are not in all categories.

But the way it's vilified, capitalism is vilified.

They look at someone like the guy who who runs Whole Foods and gives really good health care to his company and things like that as

a big exception to the rule when that's not really the case.

I know, because I'm a heartless bastard who runs a big company and, oh, wait, gives really good health care to his employees.

That's weird.

Seems like I was

bastard just a second ago.

I agree with them on you, but outside of that, I think they don't have a good point.

But that's the problem.

They try to make all capitalists into villains unless you're somebody like Steve Jobs,

who's a capitalist, and Bill Gates, who's a capitalist and a great guy

doing great things.

He loves all the politicians that we love.

So he's not really a capitalist.

That capitalist is fine.

It's crazy.

And unless you look at anything Steve Jobs did and the people who worked around him who did not

know how.

I mean, you want to talk about the greatest PR scam of all time is how is Steve Jobs looked on as one of the greatest guys ever when he was truly a monster.

I mean, I, you know what it is?

He is the

Edison of our day.

Edison was a monster.

Edison, when he first got the x-ray machine, he would try it on people's arms and he would just take his researchers and say, here, put your arm underneath this for an hour.

Let's see what it does.

Two of his guys, one guy lost an arm because of it.

The other guy died of cancer.

And Edison was like, huh, okay.

So it might have something to do with cancer.

You can burn yourself so bad we have to amputate the arm.

And he didn't care.

And everybody thinks of Edison as this great guy.

No, he wasn't.

Same with Steve Jobs.

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this is the glenn beck program saw a guy in the rubin report uh yesterday um

his name is um

but colin moriarty have you ever heard of him guys

he is i've heard of uh dr moriarty

uh he's uh he's that guy that uh it would be professor

but this was on the roof he's also a doctor you is he had a PhD.

Right.

And what was it in?

And what was it?

In murder.

Okay.

So anyway, Colin Moriarty, he's a guy who lives in,

he's a gamer who's a 20-something that lives in San Francisco.

And he is right up our alley.

He is a conservative.

constitutionalist and by his words conservative not mine um and uh i tweeted at him last night.

I said,

I need to start following you on Twitter and asked him to be a part of the show.

So, Stu, I mean, Keith, our producer, if you can reach out to him and book him, I think you're going to like this guy.

He's

a possible candidate for the next generation of conservativism.

Where is the conservative movement going, the real conservative movement going?

Hopefully, we'll talk to Colin Moriarty on Monday.

You're listening to the Glenn Beck Program.

Mercury.

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You know, I just checked my private messages on Twitter, which I've never done before.

Wow.

I should have checked those before.

Wow, I just got this one.

You ready for this one?

Let me see.

Where is it?

I just got one from Jake Tapper.

When I say just got one, about

eight months ago.

Okay, this is probably not a good thing to read on the air.

And while you're looking over them, deciding whether you actually have a lot of people.

And apparently I did something, and he's like, what the hell was that, man?

So apparently we were talking about him on the air sometime, and I'm sorry, Jake.

I don't know what it was.

Sorry.

You'll have to tweet back to him and tell him you've...

I don't think you you should address this any further.

No, I don't think you're doing either.

I wonder what that was.

It was a long time ago, so maybe he forgot until right now.

Ha!

You can communicate privately on Twitter.

I mean, people actually do that.

Yeah.

Anthony Weiner does it.

That's how he got in trouble.

Yeah.

I don't do that.

So don't write me there.

Another thing you can do on Twitter is follow people without telling them you follow them.

You can just

making a point that I did that.

And then I was making a point that other people should follow him as well because I thought he was very smart.

Anyway,

is Nick in the studio yet?

Yes.

Yes.

We have Nick Adams.

I'm in Austin at South by Southwest.

We have Nick Adams, who is

the author of The Green Card Warrior, which is a book just a few days ago the president, the president of the United States, tweeted out.

Nick Adams' new book, Green Card Warrior is a must-read.

The merit-based system

is the way to go.

Canada, Australia, at Fox and Friends.

So how did that work out for you, Nick?

For the books.

Yeah, absolutely.

Look, the last week or so has been pretty much incredible.

We cracked the top 100 in the world for book sales.

Wow.

I was on the front page of every single newspaper in the country.

I've had the opportunity to spar and across the world.

I've had the opportunity to spar with Piers Morgan over gun rights on Good Morning Britain television.

So, Nick, you're the guy who tried to get into the United States for a very long time.

You were blocked because you were anti-Obama.

And

at least

that's what I would take from it.

And I think you kind of took that from it as well.

You came here.

You're very patriotic.

For some strange reason, you fell in love with America in Australia.

And now you have founded something.

You're the executive director of FLAG, the Foundation for Liberty and American Greatness.

Yeah, that's exactly right, Glenn.

I've come to America to make sure that America doesn't turn out like the country I had to leave.

I've come to make sure that America doesn't turn out like every other country in the world, that we preserve everything that is special and different and amazing about the United States of America.

In almost 5,000 years of recorded human history, we've never seen a country, a culture, or a people like the American people, nation and culture.

And it's really disturbing to me that for several generations now, we have not passed on what it means to be an American, what Americanism is.

And so I've come over here and I've set up a 501c3, a non-profit called FLAG, the Foundation for Liberty and American Greatness.

And we go into elementary, middle, and high schools talking to students about what makes America special?

What makes America different?

Why is the Constitution the best political document ever written?

What would the world look like without the United States of America?

What would the world be like today had it not been for American leadership in the 20th century?

Why has it been an unparalleled force for good in the world?

What has America given the world?

So we seek to count.

I would imagine that you're very popular in Christian schools, some private schools.

How are you doing with the public schools with that message?

Glenn Flagg has been into 35 schools, 31 of which have been public schools.

Out of Texas?

Out of Texas?

No, in California.

Yes.

Oh, in California.

He's been all over the place.

In eight different states.

We've already trained more than 4,000 students across eight different states, and we are one of the fastest-growing nonprofits right now in America.

We are absolutely killing it.

In terms of pushback, you know, when I first started this, people said to me, said, Nick, this is a fantastic idea, but there's no way in the world that you are ever going to get any public schools to let you in.

Well, I'm here to tell you that we are 35 and 0.

The pushback has been very limited.

We've had a couple of isolated incidents where a teacher has made a remark or a student has pushed back.

But we take that in our stride.

And I'm sure that there's going to be more pushback in the future.

But we welcome that because that just means that we're being remarkably effective.

And we're going to be able to do that.

If you want your school to get involved, I guess you would just go to flagusa.org.

That's exactly right, flagusa.org.

So tell me about

how how did this tweet from President Obama happen?

Sorry, President Trump happen.

Well, thankfully, President Obama never tweeted about that.

That wasn't any too positive.

But no, look, President Trump watched me on television.

He'd already had a copy of Green Card Warrior that we had furnished for him some time ago.

And he saw me on Fox and Friends talking about a merit-based immigration system and basically saying that we need to bring the best people to America if we're going to make sure that America remains the best country in the world.

Does Australia do that?

We do.

We do.

Australia does.

Canada does.

There are a number of countries around the world that employ a particular points grading system, which means that if you've got proficiency in English, if you've got certain job skills, if you've got job prospects, you get a certain amount of weighting for that and that elevates you.

How is it, Nick, do you think that it it became fashionable to believe that America is the only country on earth that can't do that?

Why do we get such

vitriol directed at us when we try to control our borders?

When we ask that you at least come here legally, then we're haters, we're not inclusive, we don't want any diversity, we're racist, all of those things.

When almost every country in the world asks something of the people who immigrate there.

That's exactly right.

Look, there's been a war on border security going back at least 30 years.

And the reality is that there's nothing more normal, nothing more logical.

Every country has the right to determine who comes into their country and the circumstances

under which they come.

It's our home.

Do you let just any stranger come into your home?

Yeah, I don't know who they are, but they're just here now.

So no, no, no, no, no, no, they're not just here.

No, no, no.

They're not just here now.

They're family.

Yeah, right.

Yeah,

you're not somebody who broke into the house.

Yeah.

You're family.

I got 68 people downstairs in the basement.

They're just, it's a new family of ours.

It's ridiculous.

It is.

The left are running the narrative.

They've captured all of those cultural institutions that shape the culture and shape the messaging.

And unfortunately, the messaging is now that if you just demand that, you know, we make sure that we vet people coming from dangerous countries to the United States, all of a sudden that makes you racist and bigoted.

And

you're defaming the character of those people.

So unfortunately,

political correctness is causing there to be a a lack of clear-mindedness, a lack of right thinking

in the culture and in the country, and that's really why we need to fight it as hard as we possibly can.

Have you seen anybody?

By the way, we're talking to Nick Adams, the founder and executive director of FLAG.

Have you seen any evidence of some of the students having a realization when you're there?

Do you think you're having an impact?

Absolutely.

Look, we were in St.

Louis, Missouri back in December.

And actually, this was one of the four private schools that we've spoken at.

It was a Catholic school.

St.

Louis University High School was its name.

And there were six African American students.

And I'm here to report to you that race relations in St.

Louis, Missouri are at an all-time low.

Of course, after eight years in the Obama administration and them driving a Texas-sized truck straight through deliberately to break open that chasm.

And anyway, there were about 100 students.

It was an after-school event.

And these six African-American students came and sat in the second row.

And they pushed back hard because I told them that this is the best country in the world for a black person to live and that America is the least racist multiracial country in the world and that this is the only place where they're free to color outside of the lines where they can fall down 5,000 times get up 5,001 where they can do whatever it is that they want to do and unfortunately they had just been brainwashed into believing that because they were black America was a terrible place Anyway, and I asked them to tell me if they knew any black people in their community that had ever left America to go anywhere else.

And the answer was no.

And then I asked them if they were aware that more black Africans have immigrated voluntarily to the United States than came as slaves.

They again told me no.

Anyway, and there was some very, very heated discussion back and forth for the next two hours because this was an after-school event.

And at the very conclusion, those six African-American students came up to me and they said, Mr.

Adams, we want to say thank you for coming to our school.

We're not sure yet whether or not we agree with you, but we want to tell you that you put things in a way that we hadn't previously considered.

And for me, that was a victory.

That's awesome.

For me, because I'm going to go back

and talk to those countries.

That's how we win back the future.

Tell me how to transform a generation.

What is it like to be an African-American?

What is it like to be an African-Australian?

Well, exactly.

Look, we don't have too many Africans in Australia.

But look,

this is the only place where anybody can rise above the circumstances of their birth to go and achieve whatever they want to achieve.

And I told those students.

People don't believe that.

I mean, they think that Australia, I mean, you know, it's just like the United States.

What is the difference?

The difference is massive, Glenn.

In Australia, success is resented.

In Australia, you can't colour outside of the lines.

You can't blaze a trail.

You can't leave a legacy.

People are rooting for your failure rather than your success.

You know, people strive for mediocrity as a part part of the world.

Sadly,

that's starting to take root seriously.

But that's why we're fighting back.

That's why I go and I tell these kids that the day that they were born in the United States of America is the day that they won the lottery of life.

It's true.

And they got a head start on everyone.

And I beg them, I implore them, I beseech them to never ever buy into this false narrative posited by the left that America is this bigoted and awful place.

This is a country of unlimited opportunities.

You can do anything.

And so FLAG is doing these uplifting, motivational, patriotic talks at these schools.

We've got the world's first kid-friendly constitution.

Glenn, you're going to love this.

We've got the U.S.

Constitution translated by Scalia interns into plain English that even an eight-year-old can understand.

Oh, I love that.

Is it available online?

Can you find that?

Not yet.

We're about six weeks away, but I want to come back on the show and tell you about it.

But I can tell you this is the world's first kid-friendly constitution.

We responded.

The kids were saying we love the constitution, but we're turned off by it because it's hard to understand.

And you knew the Declaration of Independence as well?

Yes, sir.

We have.

That's right up next.

Yes, we have.

And we want to get that into the hands of as many kids as we can in America.

So you got it to

eight-year-old levels.

If we can get it to maybe four-year-old, then I think maybe voters will actually start to understand okay.

That would be great.

Yeah, well, look, that's right.

We wanted to make it relatable.

So we've got images, we've got graphic designs, we've got cartoons,

and we're going to to do it in a nice big format, not the usual size of the Constitution.

It's going to be for kids all the way from eight years old up until 18.

And because we want our kids tethered to the values and the virtues that emanate from the Constitution that catapulted America to the pinnacle nation on this earth.

Any way they get it is great, right?

I mean, seriously, instead of telling them, we know it's difficult, butch up, dummy, read it anyway.

Yeah, that's right.

Look, and it's not going to be a substitute for the real thing.

There are obviously indispensable phrases in the Constitution that we want them to know.

But just small things like saying to form a more perfect union, to form a more perfect country.

It's just small things like that that will hopefully make sure that kids will be really drawn and magnetized to the Constitution because that's the greatest political document ever written.

And we want kids, we want the next generation of Americans to understand the centrality of of that document to America's continued prosperity and success.

Nick Adams, so glad that you're here.

Glad you're a friend of ours.

And God bless you on all of the work that you're doing.

Founder and Executive Director of FLAG, the Foundation for Liberty and American Greatness, Nick Adams.

You can find more information and I would imagine make a donation to help his 501c3 out.

We would love that.

Flagusa.org.

If it sounds like something that you want to be involved with, go to flagusa.org.

Thanks, Nick.

We'll talk to you again later.

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