Glenn Beck and his team dissect the right's resurgence, analyzing Trump's Iran threats, Justin Amash's impeachment claims, and Missouri's eight-week abortion ban. They critique Pete Buttigieg's Jefferson statue comments, discuss the Malaysia Booker tragedy, and highlight Maine's Native American mascot law. The episode concludes by arguing that conservative resistance is essential against progressive overreach, framing these cultural and political battles as a necessary defense of traditional values against modern radicalism. [Automatically generated summary]
This week with Pat Gray and Jeff Fisher from Chewing the Fat.
Again, we have a ton of stuff to talk about.
It's hard to know where to even begin.
Interesting developments on abortion.
We'll tell you about that.
The president tweeting out some threats to Iranians and the Democrat field continues to be outrageous.
And actually, Mayor Pete was on Fox News and the town hall over the weekend.
We'll get into that and a lot more coming up in just 60 seconds.
It's Pat and Jeffy for Glenn on the Glenbeck program, 888.
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President Trump took to Twitter and issued a threat against Iran with all this escalating tension between our two nations.
He tweeted out, if Iran wants to fight, that will be the official end of Iran.
Wow.
Never threaten the United States again.
On the one hand, that feels pretty good, you know, because you get sick and tired of all of the rivers of blood will flow and all that stuff that comes out of Iran.
And so to respond to that and tell them, look, everybody knows, we'll crush you if you start anything.
It just feels good.
It doesn't.
It does.
But I'm not.
However.
Yeah.
I want to throw it the big however.
However.
It does.
It feels good.
After you get over feeling good.
Yes.
You think, wait.
Wait.
Do we want another war and this time with Iran?
My answer to that would be no.
I think the answer is obviously no.
Nobody wants that.
And the president has said he doesn't want that.
But when your rhetoric is such that, you know, you kind of escalate the tension a little bit, you bring us a little bit closer to war.
There is an admiral from the Navy.
Admiral, is this Lord West?
The former, okay, this is from the first sea lord of the Royal Navy, gave an assessment of the potential conflict.
He told the Daily Star that the U.S. would need at least 1 million troops to successfully pacify Iran.
And a half-baked attack could throw the whole region into further chaos.
We've seen that before.
Yeah, we have.
We've seen that before.
You would have to, I mean, if you're going to go to war with Iran, you've got to commit.
And I think he's right.
You'd probably need a million troops or more.
And you have to throw everything you've got at them.
You can't do this halfway anymore.
You can't Just try to fight a politically correct war.
You can't do it that way.
I don't know that we're willing to do that.
And that's the thing.
Would we do it that way?
No, we don't do it that way anymore.
We don't do a World War II type of war, and we haven't since World War II.
That's why Korea just kind of stayed the same.
That's why Vietnam, we left and they poured right across the border and took over the whole country.
That's why, you know, we had the kind of problems in Iraq and Afghanistan.
They're short in Iraq, right?
Yeah.
Yeah, every time.
Every time.
Because in order to commit wholeheartedly, you've got to ignore, you have to ignore all of the people who say, innocent people are getting hurt.
Well, yeah, they're going to, if you do this right, they're going to.
You're going to have civilian casualties.
You don't want to, but there are going to be civilian casualties, and there's going to be a lot of casualties on our side as well.
And so I don't know that we have the stomach for that anymore.
I don't know either.
I don't know either.
And I would like to say that, you know, maybe President Trump, if we were to ever have something like this happen, would be able to walk us through having that stomach again, but I don't think so.
I don't think so.
That's a tall order.
It sure is.
According to Admiral Lord West, and again, this is from the British Royal Navy, so you take it with a grain of salt, I guess.
But he said, I think Donald Trump himself doesn't want to be in conflict, but there are powerful factions in Israel, Saudi Arabia, and the U.S. who believe an attack would be a good thing.
This includes John Bolton.
They think they'd destroy the Iranian armed forces.
There would be regime change, and all the garden would be rosy.
Only problem with that is they'd be completely wrong.
Wow.
I think it would be messy.
I think it's going to be messier than anybody who thinks.
Now, Iran's foreign minister has said he doesn't believe that war is going to break out either.
So, I mean, at least they're trying to back down a little bit too.
I don't know that they believe it either.
I, you know, they have to know, right, that they don't want war with the United States.
They like to posture and they like to bluster and they like to talk about us as the great Satan and that they destroy us in the great fire of Giad or whatever.
They know better.
They know better.
They have to, don't they?
If they're sane at all, they have to know that.
So that's what you count on, I guess, is that cooler heads prevail.
Because it would be nasty for both sides.
And neither side wants that kind of thing.
I know we certainly don't.
No, we do not.
No, we do not.
And apart from the Ayatollah, I think the military generals over there understand the realities of life and that Donald Trump may just have a twitchy eye and a twitchy finger, and they better not mess.
They better not push it any further.
I hope.
You just hope and pray that that's the case and that cooler heads prevail.
We'll see.
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Also, President Trump, in addition to threatening Iran over the weekend, was opening fire on Representative Justin Amash after Justin Amash issued a statement that the president is guilty of impeachable conduct.
Now, I don't know that I agree with Justin Amash on that, but the president tweeted, never a fan of Justin Amash.
Total lightweight, who opposes me on some of our great Republican ideas and policies just for the sake of getting his name out there through controversy.
I got to say, that's just not true.
That's not Justin Amash.
If he actually read the biased Mueller report composed by 18 angry Dems who hated Trump, you would see that it was nevertheless strong on no collusion and ultimately no obstruction.
Anyway, how do you obstruct when there's no crime?
And in fact, the crimes were committed by the other side.
Justin is a loser who sadly plays right into our opponent's hands.
We've talked about Justin Amash many times.
He's a solid conservative and not a loser.
Now, I don't agree with him that the president has done impeachable offenses, but neither do I agree with President Trump's assessment of Justin Amash here.
Again, it's that thing where if you say anything about him, he's going to come after you.
Right.
If you say anything negative about Donald Trump, he's coming for you.
Absolutely.
It doesn't matter who you are.
He's coming for you.
And so Amash is learning that.
Well, I mean, he put out there his principal conclusions, right?
Justin Amash.
Attorney General Barr has deliberately misrepresented Mueller's report.
President Trump has engaged in impeachable conduct.
Yep.
Partisanship has eroded our system of checks and balances.
Right.
Few members of Congress have read the report.
And that's true.
Those are his top four.
Yeah.
Okay.
I don't know that I agree with all of that.
Yeah, I don't either.
And I don't know that Republicans need to be jumping into that chorus of let's impeach Donald Trump either.
But that doesn't mean that Justin Amash is a loser, nor that he does all of this stuff just for publicity.
That's not him.
No.
That's not him.
He certainly hasn't been.
Really solid conservative.
Yeah, unless he's changed completely.
I just wish it wasn't so, you know, you can't disagree with this president without being an absolute enemy of him.
You know, so nobody does.
In the Republican Party and on the right, you just adopt his position on everything, whether his position is conservative or not, whether his position is correct or not.
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We have to adopt it.
Like the tariff thing.
Look how many people are defending tariffs now all of a sudden.
How did that happen?
What do you mean?
Tariffs are okay now since when?
Well, since 2016 when Trump was elected.
Yeah.
That's when they've been okay.
And look, and Donald Trump is doing it right.
There's no right way to do tariffs.
No, as far as he's doing it correctly, is what I'm saying.
I know that's what you're saying, but what I'm saying is there's no correct way to do a tariff.
They just backfire on us every single time.
I mean, I'm just talking about every time.
Other than that, though, you're right.
He's doing them the right way.
All right.
Triple 8-727-B-E-C-K.
More coming up in just one minute from now.
Pat Graham, Pat Gray Unleashed, which you can hear every weekday immediately preceding this particular broadcast.
And then Jeffy is here as well from Chewing the Fat, which podcasts usually have that uploaded when.
Oh, Monday through Friday.
Monday through the fact.
It's uploaded 5.30 Central, 6.30 Eastern.
Okay.
Special Talking Thrones today, as a matter of fact.
Oh, that's right.
End of Game of Thrones last night.
The big finale.
Big finale wrapped up last night.
Wow, it's completely over.
I know.
Well, they're going to do movies, though, aren't they?
They are.
And they're doing this.
Apparently, the first round of prequels are already in filming.
Really?
Yeah.
Okay, prequels to everything we saw over the last eight seasons or whatever.
I guess so.
Now they're going back before that.
I guess so.
Huh.
Now, from what I've read so far, I don't watch Game of Thrones, so I don't know anything about it, but I'm reading really bad things about the finale.
People were upset about the finale.
People were upset about this final season for sure.
You know, they're trying to wrap it up.
And the last couple episodes have been, you know, people are really wound up about how they're there.
I mean, they've tried to, they've got some petition to get HBO to redo the season with better writers.
It's just silly.
Did they lose their original writers?
Well, some of the writers, what happened was that they ended up moving on from the books, right?
From the Game of Thrones books.
I didn't know there were books.
So the guy that wrote the books said, look, he's still writing more, but he's saying, look, this is going to be the conclusion.
This is where I'm going with these characters.
How you get there, though, it's up to you.
And so they glossed over a lot.
They left a lot, a lot of things wide open.
Like, wait, really?
How did we, why are we doing that?
So it's been fascinating.
I mean, I have enjoyed it.
One of the reviews I read this morning was it was the worst episode of the entire series.
Do you agree with that?
I do not.
You don't.
But it's, you know, they did some questionable jumps, but just enjoy it.
Come on.
You've enjoyed all 72 or 73 episodes up until now.
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Just relax.
It was huge.
Yeah.
I mean, for a subscription channel to have 18 million viewers like they did last week.
And then I would imagine last night's will top 20 million.
Got to be, yeah.
Easily 20 million plus.
Huge here.
I mean, big numbers.
So, I mean, the biggest number since probably The Walking Dead.
Yeah.
Well, and The Dead is when that was in its heyday.
Yeah.
And The Dead is, you know, on cable.
Right.
That's not.
Right.
Which you don't have to pay for necessarily, right?
But you're not getting a separate subscription like you are to HBO.
So that's, I mean, that's cool.
That's even more impressive for Game of Thrones.
And then the 20 million or 18, 20 million.
That's only in the United States.
Far as I know, that's only the States.
That's not the cooldown worldwide.
Got to be outrageous.
Yeah, huge.
Outrageous.
Triple 8-727, BECK, Missouri's Republican-led House Friday passed sweeping legislation designed to survive court channels, court challenges this time, that would ban abortion at eight weeks of pregnancy.
So they've got another heartbeat bill.
This is starting to gain some momentum now.
If it's enacted, the ban would be among the most restrictive in the United States.
It includes exceptions for medical emergencies, but not for pregnancies caused by rape or incest.
Doctors would face five to 15 years in prison for violating the eight-week cutoff.
Wow.
That's strong legislation.
It sure is.
I mean, when you're talking about jailing doctors, well, in Alabama, they're talking about life sentences, which is pretty severe.
You don't want to violate that.
Women, of course, would not be prosecuted.
So Republican governor Mike Parson pledged to sign the bill, but it's unclear when he'll take action.
When pressed on the lack of exceptions, he told the reporters, all life has value.
So, I mean, that's another strong statement and strong action in this fight.
And look, I think the other side just went too far.
I think so, too.
And kicked the right into action finally.
I think so too.
Okay, if you're going to legalize abortion all the way up to, including an after birth, we're going to respond and we're going to take some action.
And that's what's happening now.
They won't say their best answer, their best answer.
Most of these people running for the Democratic presidential nominee, like Buddha did last night on Fox, he wouldn't say, he wouldn't give the line of when you shouldn't have an abortion.
I don't think there is a line for these people.
His line is that's still the woman's choice.
That's the woman's choice.
I'm going to leave that between her and her care providers.
That's the line.
So the line is, there is no line.
There is no line.
It doesn't matter.
I mean, that's when you start getting that going that route.
I mean, we've got to say something.
You have to.
Yeah, I think so.
No.
We've given you all of this and you're still, it's not enough.
So Missouri's action comes hot on the heels of Alabama's action, which banned essentially all abortion unless the mother's life is in danger.
That's the only exception.
And there's no abortion even for the first six or eight weeks.
So Alabama is really strong and will obviously be challenged in court.
And that's what they were actually looking for, which is interesting because I don't think it survives the Supreme Court.
No, I don't know that it does.
They're counting on the fact that it will.
But I think we've seen strong evidence.
John Roberts doesn't vote for it.
He wouldn't try to overturn Roe v. Wade.
And I don't think Kavanaugh would either.
So if you lose those two, if you lose one of those two, it's not going to pass.
But there is some definite momentum for pro-life sweeping the nation here.
We've got eight states now that have passed new laws, including Alabama, which, as we mentioned, is a near-total ban, the only exception being a mother's life endangerment.
Georgia, Kentucky, Missouri, Mississippi, and Ohio have all passed heartbeat bills.
So as soon as the baby has a heartbeat, it can't be aborted.
And Utah and Arkansas have limited abortion to the middle of the second trimester, which isn't great, but it's better than it was.
It's better than it was.
Better than, okay, all the way up to 40 weeks and beyond.
Right.
All right.
Well, you just had a baby.
We'll give you a couple days to decide whether you want to kill it or not.
So the left now is demanding that we not call them heartbeat bills, that they're fetal fetal echo bills or something to that effect?
It's just silly.
It's ridiculous.
Yeah, it's insanity.
If it's not a heartbeat, what exactly is it?
It's a carburetor.
Oh, it's a carburetor.
Okay, so we've got a Volkswagen forming in there or a Buick.
Or a Buick.
Whatever.
Doesn't matter with a carburetor.
You know, it's hard to.
If you hear that, that's it.
Well, the carburetor, that shouldn't move us.
Why can't you abort a carburetor?
Who cares?
I mean, 4GM, they're all making them every day.
Don't worry about the carburetor kicking in.
Plenty of them.
So they're doing everything they can, and they do this every time.
They change the language.
And you change the argument.
And that's what they've done every single time.
That's why they're pro-choice rather than pro-abortion because it sounds so much better.
And that's how they made so much headway.
And they're trying to do it again here by not calling a heartbeat a heartbeat.
It is essentially, you're right.
It's essentially a carburetor.
It's just crazy.
It's just science denying again.
That just continues.
888-727-BECK.
It's Pat and Jeffy for Glenn on the Glenn Beck program.
Pat Gray from Pat Gray Unleashed and Jeff Fisher from Chewing the Fat for Glenn this week.
Speaking of the abortion situation that's going on in the country right now, you know, only the right is extreme on this because aborting babies all the way up to delivery day, that's not extreme.
Letting a baby die on the counter that has been born alive in a failed abortion, that's not extreme.
Not if it's the mother's choice.
Right.
Right.
So Corey Booker has written an open letter to men on abortion.
Oh, good.
Saying, among other things, we're seeing organizations like Access Reproductive Care Southeast.
You know that's a great organization right there.
Anything titled Reproductive Care, that's going to be great.
Clinic Vest Project, the National Network of Abortion Funds, one of my favorite agencies, Planned Parenthood, Yellow Hammer Fund, and many others have stepped in where conservative-led state governments have failed.
He writes, but women should not have to face this fight alone.
Men, it's on us to listen, to speak out, and to take action, not because women are our mothers, sisters, wives, or friends, but because women are people and all people deserve to control their own bodies.
Wow.
Well, not the people inside the woman, not the other person that's inside the body with the separate DNA, a separate heartbeat, a separate body.
That body doesn't count.
Don't worry about that one.
Okay.
That's just a clump of tissue in there with a heartbeat and eyes and lungs.
Different DNA.
Organs and different DNA.
Yeah, that's all.
These far-right attacks on women's rights must be understood as an attack on all of our rights.
But we also need to understand who these types of bills were designed to control, dehumanize, and criminalize.
I'm still learning how to be the best ally and partner I could be in this fight.
But one thing I know is that I would not be writing this today if it were not for generations of women and men who spoke out and stood up for each other during times of moral crisis.
Yeah, don't worry about sticking up and standing up for the unborn.
Yeah, come on now.
Come on now.
Yeah, they don't care.
Clump of sales.
They don't go.
That is unreal.
And then there's this lovely tweet from Jim Carrey.
He tweeted out, I think if you're going to terminate a pregnancy, it should be done sometime before the fetus becomes governor of Alabama.
And then he tweeted out a nice little photo.
He did this little cartoon because he's such a great artist of the governor of Alabama being aborted in the womb.
That's really lovely from Jim Carrey.
Why don't you go back to talking out your butt, Jim?
That would be great.
Maybe, I don't know, go back to your movies.
Of course, I guess nobody wants to see him anymore since he hasn't had a decent movie in 20 years?
Quite some time.
Maybe how long has it been since he had a hit?
Oh, it's been a long time.
Maybe you should focus on that a little more than politics.
It's been a long time.
It's been a really long time.
Something that's changed.
I mean, well, he's into his art now.
That is true.
Yeah.
He's not an artist.
He's not an actor anymore.
Another great tweet from Alexandria Casio-Cortez.
She's to the GOP extremists trying to invoke the unborn, she puts in quotation marks.
Wow.
To jail people for abortion.
Where are you in climate change?
Oh, right.
You want to burn fossil fuels till there's hell on earth.
If they were truthful about their motives, they'd be consistent in their principles.
They're not.
There's nothing inconsistent about trying to save babies and not believing that the earth is burning up due to fossil fuels.
Nothing inconsistent about that.
I guess everyone must believe, as AOC does.
100%.
You have to.
You have to.
And you can't feel any differently despite all the evidence.
I was just reading this article over the weekend about how wrong the experts have been on virtually every prediction, whether it be about the climate, about the population explosion, about political activities.
Well, it's all wrong.
About the economies.
It's always, when you talk about the climate, it's always if this happens.
And, you know, what if this happens?
Well, yeah.
Okay.
What if it hasn't?
It doesn't.
Yeah, it's just amazing to me.
It's always, and we're supposed to believe that, well, if this happens, that means it's going to happen.
No.
Well, if the Earth does warm four degrees, I'm going to be with you on that.
Let's worry about that if it starts to happen.
But at one degree over 100 years, there's no indication it's going up another three.
There's no indication of that.
And they've been, again, they've been wrong every step of the way.
And they continue to put forward all of their heroes who've been wrong.
Like Paul Ehrlich.
They're still quoting that guy.
Paul Ehrlich in the 60s and 70s said that we were all dead in the 80s.
Well, when the 80s came around, look around.
Yeah, there was billions, billions of dead.
I believe he predicted 2 billion.
2 billion were going to die from starvation.
I mean, you couldn't be more wrong than Paul Ehrlich and James Hansen from NASA.
Completely wrong on everything they've ever predicted.
And we're still supposed to fall in line with it.
It's agonizing.
Incredible.
Got this tweet from Catholic Hillbilly.
Here's another serious problem that needs to be discussed.
Abortion cost, $15,000 to $40,000.
No, that's the adoption cost.
I'm sorry.
Oh, wait.
$15,000 to $40,000 to adopt a baby.
Abortion cost $400.
Maybe we should lower the cost of adoption.
Maybe that should be on the agenda of the GOP politicians.
That's a really good point.
I'm okay with that.
Really good point.
Because, yeah, abortion, pretty easy.
Pretty easy and pretty inexpensive.
And I know that we all want the children to have perfect homes and a wonderful place for them to live.
But you've got to be darn near perfect to adopt.
And families aren't always that perfect.
I just want to be clear about that.
In fact, they're never perfect.
Really?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah, it can be a tough process.
That's for sure.
This from the Babylon Bee, which is a really funny, satirical Christian website.
They're always doing these great headlines.
Close one.
This baby was almost born into poverty, but his mother killed him just in the nick of time.
And then the article, talk about a close call.
This baby was almost born into poverty, but his mother killed him just before the cutoff for abortion in their state.
With literally just a few days to spare, she ended his life, saving him from a living that isn't always perfect.
Just like you said, Jeffy, they're not always perfect.
Whew.
Can you imagine if this kid was forced to live his life poor?
Poor means not having a lot of money, and sometimes having to go without things.
It means a hard life, one of struggle and difficulty.
It means sometimes you worry about making rent or buying groceries.
It's really hard being poor.
It's a good thing his mom killed him to save him from all that.
Thanks, mom.
You know, as long as we're on the Babylon B.
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Yes.
I'll give you one more article from this weekend.
Alabama girl crushed as mother explains she may never have the opportunity to kill offspring.
I mean, it's biting, but it's really is biting.
And it's horrible.
It's effective.
It's funny.
Because it's really close to, I don't know, the truth.
Yeah.
Well, I mean, because the truth is so ridiculous and extreme now, it's hard to be more extreme than the actual events of the day.
And they do a pretty good job.
Yeah, they do.
And just a little bit further.
So, yeah, it's a funny website.
It really is.
All right, Triple 8, 727, BECK.
It's Pat and Jeffy for Glenn this week.
Over the weekend at the box office, number one movie, finally replacing Avengers Endgame was John Wick, chapter three.
Parabellum.
I'll bet I'm guessing there was some gunfire in that movie.
Just a little.
I haven't seen it, but just a wild stab in the dark.
I did not go see it this weekend, though.
Endgame's been out for, you know, what, 80 years now?
Yeah, four weeks.
It took four weeks for it to finally be dethroned.
But John Wick made $57 million.
Avengers Endgame was second at $29 million.
So even four weeks into its run, it's still almost $30 million.
That's pretty good.
That is pretty good.
$770,805,000 since it came out.
And it cost $356 million to make.
It's more than doubled its budget.
And I think worldwide, it's over $2 billion.
Yes, it is.
Well over $2 billion.
It is well over.
Yeah.
Then Pokemon Detective Pikachu was number three at $24.8 million.
Amazing.
I can't even begin to imagine going to Pokemon Detective Pikachu.
Really?
Yeah, yeah.
Well, you'd rather watch it at home?
Yes, I'm waiting for it.
You'd rather watch it at the house.
Yeah, exactly.
That's exactly right.
A Dog's Journey.
Didn't you see that one?
I did see The Dog's Journey.
That's number four.
Took my daughter to see it.
She loves them.
Did you love it?
Is it great?
I did.
It was great.
Yeah.
It looks great.
The first one was.
That's the one with Dennis Quaid, right?
Yeah, the first one was.
I don't know.
I really enjoyed the first one.
So I don't know that I enjoyed the second one as much as the first one.
Well, I haven't seen the first one, so I'm sure I wouldn't understand.
Oh, you could.
You can't see it.
You just can't.
You couldn't understand.
First, you got to see the first one.
Set it up.
Otherwise, the journey is lost.
Right.
If you haven't seen one.
Right.
Too many subtle nuances from the first one that you just wouldn't get.
Okay, so you might be able to get through it.
You might be able to understand a little.
Really?
You think?
Huh?
Yeah.
All right.
The Hustle was number five.
Is that with Ann Hathaway, I think?
Yes.
Then The Intruder, also with Dennis Quaid.
Long Shot was number seven.
The Sun is also a star.
Palms, which are the old lady cheerleaders.
That looks terrific.
Doesn't it?
And there's another one that looks really good.
Oh, that looks really good.
I can't believe I haven't seen it already.
It's been out two weeks.
It's been out for two weeks now.
Got to get to that.
No kidding.
And then Ugly Dolls routed out the top 10.
But Breakthrough, you know, which is that Christian movie where the kid drowns and he's underwater for 20 minutes or something.
And then I think his heart had stopped for 45 minutes.
So a great Christian movie.
That's it.
That's still at number 11.
And it's brought in 30, about 39 million since it came out.
Not bad.
No, that's great.
What it costs 14 to make.
And so if you're a regular listener to the show, you might have heard Glenn interview the actual kid that that happened to.
I can't remember what his name is, but he, you know, you would expect brain damage after 45 minutes of your heart not beating, but he didn't have any.
Zero.
Just an incredible story.
It's an incredible story.
Incredible story.
And then Tolkien, which I want to see, but that is fading quickly.
It didn't do real well.
It was about J.R.R. Tolkien, who wrote Lord of the Rings.
That looks pretty good, but it's already out of most of the theaters around here.
I mean, that came and went really fast.
Really fast.
Tricky.
I'd be able to get that at the house soon.
Yeah, that's what we're thinking.
All right.
Well, let's just wait for it to come on demand then.
And I kind of like that they come out that me too.
I mean, they cannot come out fast enough for me.
And they're talking about making it even faster.
I hope so.
I'm all for that.
Spielberg that was saying.
I'm all for that.
Maybe three weeks in the theater and then go straight to home.
Good.
I'd love that.
I'm all right.
I'm all right with that.
I'd love that.
Absolutely.
So there's got to be a way to make the theaters happy and the viewers happy.
If you love seeing it at the theater, great.
Go see it at the theater.
But for the most part, I'm willing.
Make us spend a little bit more money.
Yeah.
I'm willing to spend a little bit more money.
I'd do it.
If you see first run after a week or two or three.
Yes.
Yeah.
A couple weeks.
I'd be okay with it.
A couple weeks.
And then.
Like two weeks.
Okay, two weeks.
Maybe longer on something like Avengers Endgame because it's making so much money at the box office.
Maybe a week, just a little bit longer.
Okay, so maybe you say two weeks unless you've been in the top five.
If you're in the top five, then you could mind it.
That'd be awesome.
Yes, it'd be great.
And it's starting to go that way anyway.
So I think it's inevitable.
Let's just get it done.
And let me run it.
You don't need to keep it for 24 hours, or maybe you let me run it for a little bit more of a price, and I only have it for eight hours instead of a day.
And then, okay, so a fine.
Look out of deal, but I'd rather I want to work on it.
And right now, when they do the quick release, they usually make you buy it at first if you watch it the first couple of weeks.
Right.
And then sometimes when they're released, sometimes you don't even get to view it.
You just have to buy it.
And so that when it first comes out, then you get it.
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Yeah.
And no, stop.
Stop it.
It's going to happen.
You know, I think it's inevitable.
It has to happen because that's the way we're going now.
Yes.
And with Netflix and Amazon and Hulu and all that, you're just forcing the issue.
It has to happen, really.
It's just a matter of time.
Make it sooner than later.
I think so, too.
All right.
We've got Bernie Sanders on teachers' salaries and comparing them to baseball players and football players.
Get into that.
Also, Fran Leibowitz on Trump, that we should treat him the same way that the Saudis treated Jamal Khashoggi.
Get into that.
Coming up.
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This is the Glenbeck program.
With Pat and Jeffy this week, Triple 8, 727, BECK.
So the Democrats are all out and doing their Democrat thing.
Their extremist Democrat thing.
Doing what they do.
Doing what they do.
We'll get into that and much more in 60 seconds.
It's Pat and Jeffy for Glenn this week.
Joe Biden out on the campaign trail, excoriating President Trump as America's divider-in-chief.
Wow, did he ever listen to the guy he was vice president for during those eight years?
I missed that.
Yeah, I think he did.
I think he did.
Talk about a guy who divided America.
Barack Obama set race relations back 50 years.
Easy.
Amazing.
But Biden said, if the American people want a president to add to our division, to lead with a clenched fist, closed hand, hard heart, to demonize your opponents and spew hatred, they don't need me.
They've got President Donald Trump.
He's offering a different path.
Folks, I love it when he refers to us as folks.
I love that.
I'm running to offer our country, Democrats, Republicans, and Independents a different path.
Supposedly, he's taking a more moderate tone than the rest of the Democrat field.
And he says he knows how to go toe-to-toe with the GOP, but it doesn't have to be.
And it can't be that way on every issue.
And two days before the president comes to Pennsylvania for a rally of his own, Biden sought to counter what might be the president's strongest reelection argument, the bright economic picture.
So, of course, Biden's taking credit for the bright economic picture.
He said it was given to him just like he has inherited everything else in his life.
And just like everything else he's been given in his life, he's in the process of squandering that as well.
Wow.
Okay, the economy was not like this when Obama and Biden were in office.
They did not hand him a glowing economy.
That is completely, it's a lie.
It's just a lie.
It was on the way.
No, it really was on the way.
It really kind of worked.
They left it was on the way.
So it's been, what, two years now?
Yeah.
Two and a half years.
Going on three now.
So it's perfect.
That's the way they left it.
Right.
Sure.
Good then.
Sure.
I mean, it's amazing.
Obama, everything that was bad was Bush's fault.
Everything that's good now is him.
It's pretty amazing.
Sure is.
The giblets he's got to make that claim.
It's amazing to watch.
Also, Bernie Sanders talking about teachers' salaries.
And look, I think teachers should be paid more too.
But here's what he had to say about teachers and comparing to professional athletes.
So if we are a nation that can provide contracts to baseball players for hundreds of millions of dollars, don't tell me we cannot pay teachers in this country the kind of wages and salaries they deserve.
Okay, you're comparing apples to oranges there.
One's got nothing to do with the other.
He knows it.
And he knows it.
I mean, that's just a ridiculous comparison.
So you're comparing these athletes who can do things in their sport that less than 1% of the people on this planet can do.
And so, of course, that's going to be valuable.
And the market, you know, dictates that.
Yes, it does.
You got millions of people watching them, millions of people over the course of seasons who go to these games, who pay ticket prices, buy merchandise.
Yes, merchandise is strong.
I mean, come on.
And then to compare that to teachers' salaries, it's just ridiculous.
And would I love for teachers to make more?
Yes, and I think they deserve it.
But there's another dumb comparison from a dumb socialist.
I just, it's, it's, again, agonizing to listen to.
It really is.
Then we've got AOC jumping all over the fact that this commencement speaker at a historically black college over the weekend surprised graduates by announcing he's going to pay off the student debt of the entire class of 2019.
Robert F. Smith, Mr. Philanthropist, billionaire.
He's worth, I think, like $5 billion.
Wow.
And he was speaking and he decided in his speech that he was going to pay for this year's graduates' student loans.
Nice.
So he's going to pay off everybody's debt.
And that's about 400 kids.
And they think that that'll be a total donation of about 40 million dollars.
Think of that.
40 million.
I mean, think of that alone.
I mean, that's pretty sweet.
And that's nice for you if you're in the class of 2019.
No kidding.
But then all of the socialists are jumping in, like Alexandria Casio-Cortez and saying because he was doing it on behalf of the government, right?
He didn't.
No, he did it on behalf of himself.
Really?
Yeah.
The guy he earned.
Right.
In our capitalistic society.
Exactly.
The hated, dreaded United States of America.
And so she said that that's it.
It's an opportunity to understand how student debt weighs down people.
Well, then don't accrue student debt.
Right.
Here's an idea: work during your high school years, save money.
Work during your college years.
Pay off your college as you go.
Pay as you go.
That done before.
Millions of people have done it.
And it's just not a thing anymore, I guess.
It's not a thing that you can even ask of these kids.
Hey, you know what you should do is get a job when you're in high school and save your money and pay for college yourself.
What?
How about that?
Or, I don't know, get a job during college and pay for college yourself.
Yeah.
And it would be, it's okay to, you know, hey, I can't afford to go right now.
I'm going to go back to work and save some more money and then I'll go back to school.
Exactly.
You don't have to accrue massive debt.
You don't have to.
I mean, if you choose to, well, then you understand what you're getting into.
So stop whining about it because you knew what you were getting into.
And if you insist on going to Harvard or Yale or Princeton, you're going to have massive debt once you're done.
Pretty simple.
Unless your family's incredibly wealthy or you got scholarships.
Well, that's a different deal then.
So, you know, this whole student debt thing is just a silly discussion.
Ocasio-Cortez also said people shouldn't be in a situation where they depend on a stranger's enormous act of charity.
Well, then, again, they should pay their way through school if they don't want to accrue the debt.
Or here's another option for you: go to a community college where it's pretty cheap.
How dare you?
And you can pretty easily pay for it.
Go to a trade school.
Go to a state university, heaven forbid.
You know, there's some options there for you.
There are plenty of options.
And look, nobody's complaining about the colleges who are charging more and more for their ever even mentions that.
Not one time.
Not one time.
It's never the fault of the colleges who are charging outrageous tuition to the kids who come to the schools.
I mean, look at Harvard.
Harvard's got an endowment of almost $40 billion.
$40 billion.
They could pay the tuition with that endowment of every single student who goes to that school.
They could all go free for the next 25 years with $40 billion.
Are they going to do that?
No.
No.
Why not?
I mean, they've got the money.
They could easily do that if they're so altruistic.
Let's see it.
Put up the money or shut up or lower your tuition.
That's an idea.
But they don't need to lower their tuition, right?
Because it's guaranteed that they're going to get their money.
Right.
And nobody's complaining about their tuition, except that when they have student debt, but nobody complains to Harvard about it.
They complain to the government about that.
And this is a fantastic example of capitalism.
This Robert Smith who put up his own $40 million to pay off this student.
That's exactly how capitalism should work.
He made all that money.
He wanted to do something really nice with it.
And he did.
And he did.
He didn't have to.
Didn't have to.
Right.
And it wasn't the government that paid it off.
He could have walked away with his honorary doctorate and said, hey, good luck.
God bless.
I'm out.
I'm going to go back to my yacht.
He probably still did that anyway.
Probably.
Because $40 million to a guy who has $5 billion is nothing.
That's like $40 to you and me.
I donated $40.
I'm going to give you a little kick in the butt to help you out here for your tuition.
There's 40 bucks.
But I mean, it's commendable.
It's really cool.
It is.
I mean, and he'd already pledged like one and a half million to the school.
So it's nice.
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It's nice of him.
He didn't have to do that.
No, he did.
And I'm sure he does a lot of other charitable work as well.
So that's what capitalism is all about.
That's capitalism at its best.
Somebody who earned the money and they, of their free will, wanted to help others.
That's really cool.
Good for him.
And good for these students.
Now, he probably could have paid it in taxes.
He probably could have just given that money to the government and said, hey, do what you want with it.
Exactly.
But he decided that what I want to do with it is better.
Yeah.
It'll go to the people he intends it to go to rather than being squandered by the government.
He is triple 8-727-BECK.
We'll be back in a minute.
It's Pat and Jeffy for Glenn.
Triple 8-727-BECK.
Jeffy's just found another little anomaly from Game of Thrones because a couple of weeks ago, they had an episode where there was a Starbucks cup.
Well, it was a coffee cup.
It was a coffee food services.
Yeah.
I mean, everybody just called it a Starbucks Cup, and Starbucks went along with it.
And somehow they missed it.
Right.
And it made it to the final cut.
Well, so, and I don't know this to be true yet, but I'm looking at pictures now where they have spotted a water bottle in one of the final scenes in Game of Thrones last night.
Well, they didn't have water bottles in that time?
Well, maybe they did.
I don't know.
Yeah, you don't know.
Maybe they're a special Westeros brand.
I don't know.
You could just see it.
I mean, what is going on?
That's just ridiculous.
Come on.
It's not that hard.
No.
Is it?
I guess it is.
I guess it is.
In the final season, it's just look, we've got to get through it.
Somebody in continuity is not doing their job.
We'll get through it.
We just get this done.
That must be the attitude.
Right?
That's it.
I missed a lot of stuff.
We got to get through it.
We spent a bunch of money.
We're working in the dark.
We've filmed a big couple of big war scenes.
We're out.
Let's go.
We're done.
Tired of doing this show.
I'm going to move on to the next thing.
I'm already writing Star Wars.
I got to go.
Just bad.
Are these the same?
Are they doing the Star Wars?
Yeah.
The Game of Thrones writers are doing the next Star Wars.
Really?
Yeah, I think so.
I don't think I've heard that.
Huh?
Yeah, I'm pretty sure Weiss and his partner there are doing Star Wars.
They're already started it.
Have they indeed?
That's amazing.
Wow.
So they're not doing the, who was doing in the Star Wars before?
It was what's his face?
You know, from that other show.
Yeah, that guy.
You remember what's his face from the other show?
Yeah.
What's his face?
He was doing a good job.
Yeah.
Did they run him off?
I think they ran him off.
Yeah.
And I don't think he did he do The Last Jedi?
No, That was a terrible movie.
For my money.
That was a terrible movie.
Really, really terrible.
And I wish they'd redo the whole thing.
They should just wipe that out of existence, pretend it didn't happen and redo it.
Wow.
Yeah.
Well, they might.
Maybe that's why they're having the Game of Thrones guys write the new Star Wars.
Maybe just go do it again.
Do it right.
You know, somebody, Luke wakes up and realizes it was just a dream.
He comes out of the shower and he realizes, wow, I dreamed that whole Last Jedi thing.
Okay, I'm glad I wasn't.
Sleeping in the shower?
Yeah.
That's where he's dreaming was?
Just checking.
Just checking.
Yeah, he fell asleep in the shower.
Okay.
And then he woke up and he realized he dreamed The Last Jedi.
And it was terrible.
It was a nightmare for all the folks.
Thankfully, it was just a dream.
Thankfully, just a dream, though.
Right.
Yeah.
And so now we can move on.
We can move on.
We can do the real thing.
Here's what really happened in The Last Jedi.
Wouldn't that be great?
That'd be funny.
They're not going to do it, obviously, but it'd be great because that was terrible.
Absolutely 100%.
Some would argue plenty of those Star Wars movies are terrible.
They're not really that good.
Yeah, that's true.
That is true.
Really, if you're to be honest, now Stu always says it's the first two.
I know.
I maintain it's the first three.
First three?
First three.
And then after that, it's not special.
And even those are questionable.
The first three?
No, they're not.
No, they're not.
So you're not even the first three now?
I mean, you were great at the time.
They were awesome at the time.
At the time.
Yeah.
At the time.
They're not living up well.
I think they hold up okay.
I think the first three hold up well.
I love the first three.
You can never convince me the first three aren't good.
They're great.
I love them.
But after that, when everything rebooted in 1999 with the prequels, shouldn't have done that.
You should have just continued right on to the last three.
But then you ended up with the great Jar Jar.
Yes, which is so bad.
So bad.
That's one of the biggest movie mistakes maybe in the history of movies.
Char Jar?
Yes.
Char Jar single-handedly ruined the comeback of Star Wars.
Single-handedly, which is saying a lot.
That sure is.
Yeah.
So.
And actually, I think the best one that they've done since the first three is that solo movie that didn't even do that well.
Yeah, that everybody's done.
The Hunt Solar one.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I liked it.
I thought it was really pretty good.
I think that's the fourth best.
And then maybe after that one, the one, what is it called?
Not Rogue One.
I'm not a big fan of Rogue One.
But the one where Darth Vader becomes Darth Vader.
I forget what that's called.
Or Darth Vader.
You know, Darth Vader.
Love that one.
Anakin becomes Darth Vader.
Yeah.
I like that one.
That's pretty good.
So that's like number five.
And then the rest can't even be ranked because they're so bad.
Well, that's just a dream.
The rest are just a dream.
The rest are just dreams.
Just a dream.
Luke just fell asleep in the shower.
That's it.
And woke up and came out and realized, oh my gosh, geez, I had a bad dream.
I've been sleeping all this time.
Jedi thing.
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All right.
Let me show you what really happened.
And then we get into it.
Be awesome.
And people would love it.
I think Star Wars fans would go see that.
The reason of who last Jedi?
100%.
Yeah, absolutely.
Yeah.
All right.
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I was thinking I was giving my Pat Gray Unleashed number, and I really wasn't.
Oh, you're good.
Thought I screwed up when I actually had not.
We got to take a look at this Fran Leibowitz thing.
Did you see Fran Leibowitz talking about Donald Trump on Bill Maher?
Take a look at this.
This is amazing.
Where are you on impeachment?
Yes, no?
You know, I change my mind from day to day.
I mean, where am I on impeachment?
Certainly he deserves to be impeached.
Deserves, I know, we all think that.
Impeachment would be just the beginning of what he deserves.
You know, not even scratching the surface of what he deserves.
Yes!
Yes!
Whenever, you know, I think about this and what he really deserves, I think we should turn him over to the Saudis, you know, his buddies, the same Saudis, you know, who got rid of that reporter.
You know, maybe they could do the same for him.
Wow.
Wow.
That's fucked up.
She should be tortured and killed.
She's back to off.
That stands on my penchant.
I was trying to be funny, and it really didn't mean that.
Because I'll tell you something.
If somebody on the right, anything similar about Barack Obama, can you, it would lead every newscast.
Whoever said it would be drunk.
They'd be out of whatever job they had.
The Secret Service would be visiting them.
You'd be the biggest hater and racist who's ever lived on the face of this earth.
But the left can say it, nah, that's funny.
That's great.
She's sorry for it.
I'm just trying to be funny.
Come on.
You have a sense of humor.
Guy's white.
You don't need to defend him.
He's white and we don't like him.
So that's the world we live in.
Plus, it's the world we live in.
She's trying to look like James Simmons.
I think she doesn't look a little like James.
She doesn't look like James Simmons.
Yeah, that's kind of weird.
Really weird.
Maybe.
All right.
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Okay, just a joke for her.
Oh, wow.
Yeah, that's hateful.
Pat Graham, Pat Gray Unleashed, and Jeffy from Chewing the Fat for Glenn.
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Some crazy things going on in the Dallas Metroplex.
Transgender woman who was assaulted in April in a Dallas parking lot, and that went viral.
You've seen that attack, right?
I have seen the attack.
Ugly.
Really ugly.
That same transgender person, Malaysia Booker, they just found dead of an apparent gunshot wound.
Yeah, it's just really sad.
And the police haven't made any arrests in connection with the death, but the assailant was thinking that this was a hate crime.
Thinking it, though.
Yeah.
They're just throwing it out there.
It's possible.
Edward Thomas was the person found guilty of the origin with the assault.
Right.
He was charged with the guy.
He has not been charged with shooting.
No, they were saying that he is not a suspect right now.
Oh, he's not a suspect of the shooting.
Really?
That's what they said.
Wow.
It's interesting because the assailant, his name is Edward Thomas.
He's the person that beat up the transgendered person.
He admitted to his role in the beating, but denied calling the transgendered person any derogatory names.
Good.
So apparently it's a bigger crime to call somebody a name than it is to physically assault them now.
Isn't that something?
That is.
Amazing.
You admit to the physical beating, but I didn't call her any names.
Yeah, of course I beat her up.
Yeah, I mean, obviously.
That's no problem.
Yes, I was punching her and kicking her and all that stuff.
But no, I didn't call her a name.
What?
How dare you think I would call her a name?
We're in a weird place.
We sure are.
Really weird place in our society.
Because I think it's almost literally true that name-calling, especially in this context, if you're name-calling somebody who is in a special interest group, that is worse than the actual attack.
Sure feels like it.
It does.
This almost proves it.
Does.
Right.
I mean, he's saying, oh, yeah, of course.
Yeah, I beat her up.
Oh, yeah.
But I didn't call her a name.
Strange.
That's not even funny.
No, it's not.
It's not.
Yeah, very, very sad.
Also, we just had a kidnapping here that turned out amazingly well.
An eight-year-old girl was kidnapped.
We actually have the video of this.
Take a look at the video of this kidnapping.
Because of one of those video doorbells, you hear the mother screaming that her daughter was just kidnapped, running down the street, and we have a chance to see it because of the video doorbell.
Isn't that weird?
I mean, it's amazing.
Everything is recorded now.
Virtually everything is recorded.
And in this case, good thing.
Yeah.
Because it led to social media tracking the girl down.
Authorities rescued the eight-year-old Texas girl after a duo saw the Fort Worth Police Department's description of the car suspected in her kidnapping and actually went hunting for it.
Standing in front of the Woodspring Suites in one of the suburbs of Fort Worth, Forest Hill, a spokesman for the Fort Worth police told reporters that the pair of citizens, he described only as members of a local church, found the gray Ford 500 in a hotel parking lot.
And he said, as you can see, there's a smile on my face.
I'm here to report Salem, that's the name of the eight-year-old girl, has been found safe and unharmed.
It's not great.
Fantastic.
Fantastic.
It's a great outcome to this story.
Never, almost never get this outcome.
Right.
And especially this quickly.
But thanks to social media, thanks to a video doorbell.
Eight hours later, we have an arrest.
Yeah.
Tremendous.
It's incredible.
Salem Sabatka was taking a walk with her mother when a car approached them, and the man just got out and grabbed her.
They didn't know the man.
They don't know if he had targeted her from before.
They don't have any idea why this guy did what he did.
But just taking a walk with her mother, and he just rolled up in his car and snatched her, just like that.
Mother tried to jump into the vehicle to save the daughter, but the man shoved her and sped away.
Authorities issued an amber alert, posted photos of Salem and the Ford 500 to social media.
The churchgoers saw the posts on social media, found the vehicle, and called it into police.
Officers determined what room the car's owner was staying, busted down the door, and found Salem safe.
Wow.
Just heroes, these churchgoers.
That's fantastic.
So a real tragedy was averted there.
Now, police didn't. identify the pair of churchgoers because of the ongoing investigation.
But the guy who grabbed her is 51 years old and is accused now of kidnapping, obviously.
Not related to the girl.
Didn't know her at all.
Salem appeared calm and unharmed.
She was taken to a local hospital, just to be checked, and she's been reunited with her family now.
So for hours after she was reported missing, several law enforcement agencies, including Homeland Security, searched for the girl.
And because of social media, they found her.
So that's awesome.
I mean, social media is a ticket, right?
Yeah, it can be hideous and horrible and mean, spirited, and nasty.
But then, on the other hand, you know, it can do good like this.
I know.
This is awesome.
I mean, to prove, again, another story, you know, there was a story this weekend over the three Irishmen in New York City that were out together arm in arm in the city, and they had this lady.
They asked the lady to take a picture of them.
And she said, they said, we don't have a phone, but just take a picture of us.
And maybe we'll find it later.
We'll find it later.
And so about a week later, when she got back from her trip to New York City, she posted it on her social media site saying, I took this picture of these three guys.
Does anybody know them?
An hour later, we already know who they are.
All the Irishmen, all the men that all posted everything we know.
What?
That's amazing.
Wow.
That's kind of scary.
Amazing, right?
In less than an hour, Twitter came up with the men's identities.
It was sent to Timescare Dreamers.
It was retweeted 5,700 times.
Everybody, yep, we know who they are.
Wow.
There's no hiding anymore, I guess.
Wow.
That's great.
Oh, well.
So it took how long?
Well, it was about a week later until she posted the picture, but after she posted it, it was within an hour.
Within an hour, they were identified.
Yeah, we know who they are.
So they said that they would find it later.
They just wanted a picture.
They just wanted to pick it up.
Take our picture.
Just take our picture.
We're here in New York.
We're all together.
We're three Irishmen.
Take our picture.
We'll find it later.
We'll look for it later.
There they go.
So because she said they'd find it later, she posted it.
Yep, when I was in the city last week, we started looking at it.
These three Irishmen asked me to take a photo of them, but none of them had phones.
You'll take the picture and we'll find it someday.
So if by some strange turn of events anyone knows these guys, here's their photo.
We know who you are an hour later.
That's crazy.
That is absolutely.
I mean, it's a little chilling, too, isn't it?
It is.
Because that just goes to show there's nowhere to hide.
No.
And, you know, if you've done something wrong, then it serves your right to be found.
But if you haven't done anything wrong and you can be found just like that, that's why we have to hope our government never goes really wrong, really, really bad and really oppressive because we'd be toast at that point.
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Can you imagine?
With the technology the way it is today, you don't have a chance.
You don't have a chance to hide.
If someone doesn't want to, if you wanted to.
I mean, it would be very difficult to, people talk about going off the grid.
I don't know that off the grid, man, that's I don't know if you could do it, right?
I mean, really, I don't know if you can actually do it.
It'd be hard.
Yeah, it'd be hard.
Because you couldn't be online.
You obviously couldn't use anything but cash.
You couldn't have any utilities.
You couldn't have a phone.
No bank account whatsoever.
Yeah, you have to live like a pioneer if you're going to go off the grid.
Yeah.
Maybe you have a solar piece.
How easy that is.
Yeah, it's really easy it is to live like a pioneer.
Super easy.
Oh, man.
Yeah.
And fun.
Oh.
Convenient?
Oh.
Yes.
Awesome.
Yeah.
It'd be great.
That's Pat and Jeffy for Glenn on the Glenn Beck program.
Pete Buddhajudge had a town hall on Fox, and they got a pretty nice reception.
They sure did.
The audience.
They seated that audience.
I didn't watch all of it.
I did see some of it, and I was really surprised at very friendly.
Very friendly.
Fox, I mean, say what you will about Fox if you're a Democrat, but they treated Buddha Judge pretty darn well by gathering a bunch of people who were friendly to him.
Yes, they did.
And I will say, you know, while I disagree with many things that this man says, he's good.
He's pretty good.
Yeah, he's a good candidate.
He comes off as reasonable.
Yes, he does.
Even though he's actually not.
No, he's not at all.
He's not reasonable in his policies.
But he sounds so reasonable.
Oh, he's just.
And he's got a good, I mean, they bring up his track record, but I mean, he's a veteran.
Yes.
He's an Afghanistan veteran.
And he took a leave of absence from being a mayor.
Came back and then he won again with an overwhelming support.
I mean, he's a strong candidate.
Yeah, he is.
For the mayor of what, South Bend?
Yes.
You would think, okay, he's got no shot as mayor of South Bend, but because he's such a good candidate, kind of kicking into gear.
Certainly more than Betto is.
Oh, my gosh, yes.
And the other day, he was on with Hugh Hewitt, had some interesting things to say about, for instance, Thomas Jefferson statue.
Here's Buddha Judge.
Should Jefferson-Jackson dinners be renamed everywhere because both were holders of slaves?
Yeah, we're doing that in Indiana.
I think it's the right thing to do.
You know, over time, you develop and evolve on the things you choose to honor.
And I think we know enough, especially Jackson.
You know, you just look at what basically an anti-genocide that happened here.
Jefferson is more problematic.
You know, there's a lot to, of course, admire in his thinking and his philosophy.
Then again, if you plunge into his writings, especially the notes on the state of Virginia, you know that he knew that slavery was wrong.
Yes.
And yet he did it.
Now, we're all morally conflicted human beings.
It's not like we're blotting him out of the history books or deleting him from being the founding fathers, but naming something after somebody confers a certain amount of honor.
And at a time, I mean, the real reason I think there's a lot of pressure on this is the relationship between the past and the present.
That we're finding in a million different ways that racism isn't some curiosity out of the past that we're embarrassed about but moved on from.
It's alive.
It's well.
It's hurting people.
And it's one of the main reasons to be in politics today is to try to change or reverse the harms that went along with that.
And we better look for ways to live out and honor that principle.
Yeah, so we, I mean, his point basically is, yeah, we don't shouldn't have to eliminate him from history, but really let's start eliminating him from history.
We're not writing books or anything.
We're just starting to get rid of everything that even mentions it.
Yeah, you certainly don't want to honor him.
And so if you start down that path, of course you're going to start taking him out of history books or certainly changing what was said about him in history books.
And we're going to rewrite history, which is exactly what we were told.
And Barack knows that we are going to have to make sacrifices.
We are going to have to change our conversation.
We're going to have to change our traditions of history.
We're going to have to move into a different place.
And Barack knows that.
And Barack started all of that.
Yes, he did.
Barack restoked the fires of racism over his eight years, along with you, Mrs. Barack, Michelle.
You did a fine job of that.
Yeah, they both did.
Yeah, they did.
They both did.
So this is just exactly what Trump said when they started to tear down statues in the South.
Okay, what's next?
Are you going to take down Jefferson in Washington?
And he was mocked for that.
And that's exactly what's happening now.
And you've got Pete Buttagig, butt a judge, playing right into it.
Yep, let's take down those statues.
Let's not name things after him.
So we're going to start changing names of everything.
Why can't we just realize, okay, we don't like the fact that he was a slave owner, but he understood what the deal was and they started working toward a better world.
There's no doubt that Jefferson started working toward a better world.
Yeah, but he still owned them.
Yeah, he did.
Look, we're not trying to write him.
You rewrite the history and get them out of all the books.
We're just trying to rewrite history and get them out of all the books.
That's all we're trying.
And then tear down the statues.
Okay.
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So nothing dramatic.
Just let's eliminate Thomas Jefferson from our history.
That's all I'm saying.
Ah!
The fusion of entertainment and enlightenment.
This is the Glenbeck program.
Pat Gray of Pat Gray Unleashed, which you can hear immediately preceding this show at 6 Central 7 Eastern, 7 to 9 Eastern, 6 to 8 Central.
And then Jeff Fisher here from Chewing the Fat.
No.
I didn't think about it for a minute.
What's the name of that dumb podcast you do?
What is it?
What is it called?
All right.
Thank you for thinking of it.
We're going to get into the phone companies potentially blocking unwanted spam calls in just 60 seconds.
Pat and Jeffy for Glenn on the Glenbeck program this week.
Responding to widespread consumer complaints, the FCC now says it will take steps to give phone companies permission to block unwanted robocalls.
It's about time.
Yeah.
That'd be nice.
I hate these calls.
And I don't even answer my cell phone that much.
But every time I do, it's some stupid robocall from China.
I can't.
I hate it.
Americans get billions of unwanted phone calls every year.
It's the number one complaint received by the FCC.
Number one.
But carriers have long been wary of blocking robocalls for fear of breaking the regulator's call completion rules.
So the FCC has had this rule that you have to complete calls that are made And make sure that calls that are made reach their intended recipient, which makes sense.
Until now, with all of these, you know, and every time you block a call, it just rolls over to the next one.
Another number.
And then you block that one, rolls over to another number, and you just keep getting these things.
Anytime.
I don't answer.
If you don't, if I don't know the number.
Yeah.
If there's not a name attached, my rule of thumb is: if I don't know you the number, I don't answer.
Leave me a voicemail.
I'll call you back.
Right.
And they do.
They leave voicemails.
I don't get no one.
I very rarely get a voicemail.
Pisses me off.
It drives me out of my.
The only thing worse than getting these robocalls.
Well, okay.
Yeah, maybe other than grocery store clerks that want to make small talk.
Oh, stop.
When you bring all of your food up to there and then they start asking you about the food items you brought.
I don't want to be friendly.
No, I don't want them to be friendly.
I'm not here to be friendly.
I'm just here to make a purchase and get out the door.
Okay.
I don't want to tell you about the items I'm purchasing and what I'm going to do with them.
I don't want to talk about that.
I know you do.
I understand that.
Just creating a little crazy little repertoire.
I don't want a repertoire.
If I wanted a repertoire, I'd live in France.
That's not where I live, is it?
Repertoires aren't something I do here in America.
So don't ask me about my weekend.
Don't ask me about my purchases.
If I'm having a party, why I've got steak and ice cream.
That's none of your business.
Okay.
Because I'm just, I'm going to stuff my face and it's really none of your business what I'm doing with the ice cream.
Okay.
So I hate that almost as much as the spam calls.
And then the solicitation at home.
Is that something you're fine with too?
Well, you get solicitated.
I do get that at no.
I'm not a fan.
Yeah, I'm not a fan.
If I want your product or your magazine, I'll order it online or I'll go to the store.
But you might not know about it.
I mean, I understand what you know.
I don't.
I don't.
And especially in most neighborhoods, certainly in mine, there's no soliciting allowed.
And there's continual solicitors in my neighborhood all the time.
That site didn't mean every house, did it?
Yeah, every house.
Every house in this area.
No soliciting.
I thought I was out of the way.
Don't come here and tell me about your bug spray or your roofing.
My favorite line.
My favorite line.
I don't want any of it.
The great line that they use, many of them use to try to get in is, you know, hey, yeah, you know, we're doing, we do the, we do the spray for your neighbor down the street.
Yes, they, yes, they always say that.
That's a great.
Yeah, which one?
Which one?
No, you know, you know, it's Bill.
A couple of Bill down the street.
They're going to say the first name.
Bill down the street.
Like, nobody knows Bill down the street.
I have no idea.
Rarely today do everyone know their neighbors, right?
Around the block.
So if you say, you know, Bill around the corner is a big fan of us, and we want you to join in, too.
Oh, okay, great.
Well, come on and sit out.
Have a cup of tea.
Yeah, that still will not get them an invite.
No, I'm not.
Sorry.
Thank you.
We're good.
You know what?
I just replaced my roof last time.
Every once in a while, I'm in the mood to hear the pitch, just to hear it.
Really?
Yeah, so let me hear it.
Go ahead.
Really, what do you got?
I'm never in that mood.
Because I'm still able to say.
Yeah.
It's okay.
Just want to hear the pitch.
And a lot of times it's magazines.
Like, I'm going to order a magazine while you're standing here.
I don't know if existed anymore, to be honest with you.
Sometimes it's magazines.
A lot of times it's roofing.
Yeah, a lot of roofing.
Or bug spray.
A lot of roofing, a lot of pest control.
Pest control, yeah.
A lot of yard work.
Yard work.
Yeah, a lot of yard work coming around.
I mean, big time on that.
I mean, they got to make a living?
I guess so.
They got to come around trying to make a living?
No, not at my house.
No.
Don't solicit people at my house.
I don't like that.
I don't like it.
They tried to get you at the grocery store.
You wouldn't listen to them.
Right.
That's right.
Yeah.
You wouldn't listen to them there.
So they followed me home.
I think that's stalking, and I think that's illegal, too.
And you can't do anything anymore.
I don't want any of it.
But is it worse to get the spam calls, the solicitation at home, or the obnoxious store clerks asking you about your purchases?
Of course, you love that.
I mean, you love.
It's just fun.
It's not fun.
It's just fun.
It's really not.
To most human beings, it's just not fun.
We're in a hurry.
We're in a bad mood.
You're in a hurry.
Well, that's fine.
In a bad mood.
I don't want to talk to you about my first time.
It's fine to just say, hey, you know, really, I'm in a hurry.
I just want to check out.
And they'll leave you be?
No, I'm not going to say that.
Why?
Why?
I'm in a hurry.
I just want to be.
It's kind of rude.
Oh.
I'm in a hurry.
I just want to be left alone.
Don't talk to me.
No, I'm not going to be.
I'm in a hurry.
I just want to get out.
And they'll leave you be?
You're not going to say that.
That's worse than just being, you know, quiet.
That's worse.
I don't think so.
Yeah, I think it is.
I think it is.
Just quiet.
I mean, that's like.
Did you hear me?
Are you deaf?
No, I would say, yeah.
Something like that.
You know, something along those lines.
Oh, that's a good idea.
Yeah, the grunt is nicer.
I'm just in a hurry.
Definitely.
Oh, the grunt is by far nicer.
I'm in a hurry.
Just leave me alone.
Not to leave me alone, but I'm in a hurry.
I just want to check out and get out of here.
So anyway, these illegal robo calls, often containing recordings of scammers posing as government as a government agent.
Have you ever gotten the IRS calls?
Those are interesting, too.
First of all, I just want to be on the record of saying that I love the IRS.
I know you do.
We all love the IRS.
We love the IRS.
We love the mob because we don't want to be killed by either one of them.
But they will call as the IRS and they will threaten you.
Like, this is the, I don't know, this is a multiple times we've tried to get a hold of you and you owe back taxes or whatever the case may be and you need to call us right away.
And then there's some scam that if you do call them, you get charged.
I don't know exactly how that works because some of it works and some of them as just some of the spam calls that are infecting your phones and the internet.
There was one spam call that just they went through not long ago that they didn't even have to, you didn't have to pick up.
Usually you have to pick up for it to infect your phones.
The latest one that they said infected like a billion and a half people was they just called.
If they called your number, you were infected.
Really?
It was bad.
Yeah.
Wow.
So, I mean, they have to stop somehow.
And what did you got to stop it somehow?
Due to the phone.
How did it?
It blew them all up.
People had blown up phones.
It blew them up.
It blew them up.
Wow, right in their pockets.
It just exploded.
It hasn't been reported or anything.
No, that hasn't been.
Billions of phones.
You would think a billion and a half phones blowing up in people's pockets would be.
I'm trying to think.
The story was that the phones were infected, but then nothing.
They were saying that it wasn't used for anything yet before they stopped it.
Wow.
That's weird.
Yeah.
It's weird.
Another one of the calls I always get is from the insurer.
I think they call it the insurance department.
And your warranty, your long-term warranty is about to expire on your car, on your vehicle.
Yes.
That drives me out of my mind.
Out of my mind.
No, I know that I purchased an extended warranty and I know that it's not expired yet.
Or I didn't purchase it.
Right.
I mean, that's just the way it is.
But Ajit Pai said the commission has scheduled a June 6th vote on a measure that would assure phone companies that blocking unwanted calls won't run afoul of FCC rules.
The agency said it would enable phone companies to analyze their network traffic to spot and block robo calls.
Good.
Yeah, no kidding.
They could let customers create so-called whitelists of approved callers and block all other incoming calls.
That would be fantastic.
No kidding.
Because the do not call list that we used to have, I don't think that, I don't even know if that's in force anymore.
Do you remember doing that though?
I do.
I do.
I remember when it was such a big deal.
I remember when it was such a big deal.
All you got to do is call them.
Right.
And then we got so many spam calls on our landline, we just turned it off eventually.
And then, so.
Yeah, I don't know.
We actually have a landline because it's cheaper to get the line to the cable company.
Right.
And it isn't really a landline anymore.
It's bundled.
Yes.
Yes.
You get a better rate.
Okay, fine.
We're not hooking it up.
And we just turned it off because we got nothing but spam on it.
And so once we turned that off, now our cell phones get nothing but spam on that.
That's great.
Matt Graham, Pat Ray Unashed, and Jeffy from Chewing the Fat for Glenn.
Oh, by the way, on these robocalls, apparently Americans have received billions of these calls and they've shelled out untold sums of money to scammers pretending to be IRS representatives, healthcare providers, government officials, and others.
They're pretty bold.
Wow.
My daughter was at our house, I don't know, six months or so ago, and she got this call from supposedly an IRS agent.
She was having a bad day anyway.
And she hadn't gotten one of these before.
And so I just hear her in the other room start to cry.
And I'm like, what is going on?
What's happening?
She's like, dad, they're threatening to take our house.
And so I knew, okay, it's one of those scam calls.
And I got on and started arguing with the person on the other end.
They were so bold, insisted that they were with the IRS.
Insisted.
And I'm like, okay, I know you're not with the IRS.
The IRS wouldn't be doing this.
They wouldn't be calling this number.
They would know more information than you apparently know.
And I know you're not from the IRS.
So, and she was like, who are you?
Who are you?
Like, I didn't call to talk to you.
Right.
It was that kind of thing.
Yeah.
So, I mean, they're pretty bold.
Wow.
Yeah, they're pretty bold at times.
And so they need to be shut down.
The FCC is also proposing a measure that would protect phone companies using a new authentication protocol for separating legitimate calls from illegitimate ones.
I wonder if legitimate calls will get caught up in that, though.
Of course they will.
Of course they will.
It's bound to happen, right?
It's bound to happen.
Ajit Pai has encouraged carriers to adopt that call verification framework referred to as shaken and stir by the end of this year.
He told the House Energy and Commerce Committee the agency would make a framework mandatory if carriers don't adopt it.
So they are, I mean, they are trying to do something about this because it's gotten to the point where it's really bad.
Very frustrating.
When you're getting billions of calls that you don't want and they're threatening you and trying to extract money from you, something's wrong and it should be stopped.
Right.
And how many, I mean, how many people say, I mean, that obviously proves that people do answer and believe it.
Right.
Amazing.
Right.
They do.
Oh, yeah.
And older people who don't suspect any of this, they definitely fall victim to it.
Like you, for instance, that elderly people like you, Jeffy, fall for this all the time.
I will say that.
You're on a fixed income and you can't afford that.
Right?
Correct.
You can ill afford one of these.
I will say that is one of the reasons that we finally disconnected the hardline phone at the house because it rang and rang and rang and there was constantly being robocalls.
And at the time, we tried to explain to my mother-in-law, you don't need to answer the phone every time it rings.
She didn't believe you, though.
No, she did not.
No, she did not.
Her beliefs answer the phone.
If it rang, I'm going to answer.
Yeah.
If it rings, you have to answer.
It's a bus.
It's a bot.
It's a law, according to her.
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Right.
So it was easier to make the phone disappear than to get her to stop answering it.
Did they scam her on anything?
Close to a couple of times.
Really?
Yeah.
Orders, stuff being ordered.
My gosh.
Like, no, stop.
And they're saying, you know, unwanted calls are not necessarily unlawful calls.
He added, proposals come with some unanswered questions, such as how a legitimate company that's making legal calls and is placed on a spam color list can remove itself from that.
You know, I care less about that, though, than stopping the unwanted calls.
Really?
Yeah, I do.
Yeah.
The company is trying to sell you a roof.
This probably will make it tougher for those legitimate businesses that do make those cold calls.
It's going to get harder and harder to make cold calls to people, which is also kind of fine with me.
But I don't.
I don't do a business that makes a lot of cold calls.
So that's easy for me to say.
I mean, there's always radio advertising.
Exactly.
Thank you.
There's always radio and television advertising.
That's exactly right.
And that's just going to have to suffice from now on.
All right.
Because we just don't, we can't separate the unwanted calls from the illegal calls.
Wish we could.
I wish we could, but we can't.
Sorry, no more calls.
No more calls, please.
We do have a winner.
It's so bad.
We're just going to have to shut it down.
I'm not even sorry.
But I still want people to call me.
Do you?
You want businesses to call you at home?
Well.
Because if you need a product or a service, won't you go seek it out?
But what if they're calling and I didn't realize I needed it until they called?
That's never once happened for me.
Really?
Has it happened for you?
Yes.
Oh, I didn't realize I needed an extended warranty on my car.
Yes, sign me up.
Thank you.
That's a good idea.
Thank you for calling from the warranty division.
Appreciate it.
Ah, man.
I wouldn't have an extended warranty if it weren't for your call today.
Just the other day, I thought, you know, I never thought about having pest control at my house.
I just want pests running around crazy at my house.
Yeah, now you don't have to have that.
I don't.
Now I was aware that I could get pest control at my home.
We have about 38 pest control companies that come to our house.
I'm like, ah, okay, we just had, I don't know, some other company here last week.
What kind of deal you're going to give me?
What kind of deal you're going to give me?
Don't need another pest control visit.
I don't.
I mean, you know, do we have termites?
I don't probably not anymore after they've been treated about 18 times.
If we do, who's at fault?
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Right.
Which company is at fault?
That's right.
So I'm looking forward to the time when they shut down all of these unwanted calls.
No robot calls.
It's got to stop.
It's really got to stop.
Ojeep Pai, man, he's had a tough time, too.
I mean, he just, the guy, a California man, was just sentenced a year and a half for threatening to kill him and his family.
Oh, wow.
I mean, horrible, right?
I mean, he threatened to kill his family and the Jeep Pie, and he was sentenced to a year and a half in prison.
So that's like a terrorist threat, probably.
Yeah.
Right.
You know, he took that seriously.
They do.
They're not messing around with that.
Right.
They're not messing around anymore.
A year in prison.
A year and a half.
Year and a half.
Wow.
I mean, I don't know if that's even long enough, but I guess we'll have to do.
It'll have to do.
Well, if you didn't actually do anything, you probably think that's a little too long.
But just the threat, you can't get away with that anymore.
Can't get away with that.
Because it's a terrorist threat.
Right.
Yeah.
Shouldn't be doing that.
Friendly Witz come to mind?
Right.
Yes.
Friendly Witz does come to mind.
Yes.
Wanting to turn the president over to the Saudis for the same treatment of Jamal Khashoggi.
Yeah, that kind of does come to mind.
It does.
Triple 8, 727, B-E-C-K.
It's Pat, Gray, and Jeffy for Glenn this week on the Glenn Beck program.
Triple 8, 727, B-E-C-K.
20 years ago, Molly and Dana was watching a main high school basketball game between two teams.
One was called the Indians.
The other was called the Warriors.
And her gaze drifted toward the student sections where she saw kids chanting and dancing with fake feathers and war paint on their bodies.
Just kids being kids, having fun.
It's the first time she saw things that she knew was sacred and religious to the Penobscot nation being mocked and degraded.
Her 15-year-old self was angry and shocked, but she turned her frustration into activism.
Today, Dana is a tribal ambassador of Penobscot Nation who spearheaded the drafting of a bill signed into law late last week by Governor Janet Mills of Maine that prohibits the use of Native American mascots in all public schools, colleges, and universities.
Maine is the first state to pass such a law.
Oh, good.
Good.
She said, Dana said, it means the world to me, and I'm really happy for all the tribal leaders in Maine that came together and all of our allies and friends and Governor Mills.
Now, some might think it's not mocking.
It's a tribute to them, to the nations, to the Indian nations.
I mean, at the very least, you're just celebrating your school team.
You're not mocking anything.
But I guess that's how it came off to Dana.
But the bill passed unanimously.
Of course it did.
Unanimously.
Of course it did.
Listen.
Because you're a hater if you don't vote for that bill, right?
You hate.
Absolutely.
Yes.
Absolutely.
Yeah, and you're a racist.
This is the start of a higher trust of promoting cultural diversity and awareness.
Oh, thank you for saying that.
But we needed a law.
Thank you.
Because I don't understand why we needed the law, actually, because the signing of the bill comes months after a local school district made the decision to stop using the nickname Indians.
And so that was the last use of the nickname in the state.
Really?
So they're not even using Indians or warriors anymore in Maine.
So I'm not sure why it was such a...
Wow.
So now they have a law that wasn't needed to end a problem that didn't exist.
Good.
Okay.
I mean, you say a problem that wasn't a problem.
I mean, it was a problem.
Well, at one time, not in Maine, apparently, because they apparently eliminated that problem a while ago.
It's incredible.
It's incredible.
Amazing.
We are really down to school one taking on school two this afternoon in basketball.
Right.
Yes.
Cheer for your team two.
Yeah.
Well, in the Seminole tribe, it's a point of pride that the Florida State Seminoles are named after them.
They apparently like it.
And Native American tribes have been asked and surveyed about the Washington Redskins name, and 90% of them are fine with it.
I don't know.
They said that they were when they, of course, when they signed the bill in Maine, that they were surrounded by local tribal communities.
But then the only tribal person quoted is a non-voting representative.
So I don't know what to tell you.
I don't know what to tell you.
I will tell you this.
Don't do it.
Don't name.
Don't even think about calling your team the Indians or the Warriors.
Chiefs.
No, you can't.
None of it.
Well, seriously, would anybody consider that today?
I don't think so.
I don't think any team would ever consider that again because you'd be biting off a lot more than you could chew.
Then there's no, you don't need that.
You don't need that problem.
That's a problem that you can avoid.
Yes.
And you can avoid it.
Yeah, exactly.
So there's nobody who would name themselves after an Indian tribe now.
It just wouldn't happen.
So it's kind of a silly law.
If there were none existing in the state and then they make it so that you can't name anybody that, well, you're not going.
They're not going to.
They didn't have it.
And they're not going to.
So it's a silly law.
But good for them.
And I guess they're happy about it in Maine.
And that's the beauty of the 50 little laboratories of democracy that we have in this nation that isn't a democracy.
Thank you.
You made me nervous for a second.
Yeah, no.
I thought you were falling off the cliff with the rest of them.
No, I shan't ever do that.
And I shan't be saying shan't very often.
So enjoy that while it lasts.
Thank you.
We do have some good news, though.
We rarely see people in the entertainment world say really great things about the United States of America.
That's true.
When it happens, it's like, wow, it's like, I don't know, a ray of sunshine.
It's like spring has sprung in a vast winter wilderness.
Gene Simmons was talking about his mom, and his mom was apparently in a Nazi concentration camp when she was 14.
Yeah.
Yeah, when she was a little girl.
He was at the Pentagon as part of a new outreach program that they have at the Pentagon, speaking there at the podium and doing like where they have their press briefings, if they ever have press briefings anymore.
No, it's kind of during the Trump administration.
But he was telling them the story of his mother, who had just passed away at 93, being in the concentration camps and how much she loved America.
And as an eight-year-old boy, he didn't understand it.
But he certainly understands it.
Yeah, this is something you don't normally hear from a rock and roller.
No.
Every time my mother saw the flag, she'd start crying.
As an eight-year-old boy, I didn't understand why.
But from my mother's point of view, we were finally safe.
I may have been born in the country everybody.
Give me two seconds.
I may have been born in the country that people throughout history have referred to as the promised land.
He was born in Israel.
But take my word for it.
America is the promised land for everybody.
And don't be ashamed.
Don't hesitate.
We need to teach young people to be comfortable with saying, God bless America.
End of my story.
That's Gene Simmons for kids.
That's pretty awesome.
That's really awesome.
That's great stuff.
Really awesome.
How refreshing is it to hear that from somebody in the rock and roll industry?
That's great.
Yes.
The closest I think you would come is maybe Bono, who usually says really good things about America and capitalism.
Capitalism.
Yeah.
Yeah.
He doesn't talk a lot about the love of country, though.
He's pretty America friendly.
He said some great things about America.
And he has defended capitalism.
And he actually noted while he was talking about capitalism how unusual it was for a rock star to be talking about capitalism.
The one time he actually stopped himself.
Yeah, he did.
Yeah.
But for Gene Simmons to just, I mean, unabashedly talk about how great America is, that's awesome.
Yes, it is.
Makes me a bigger Kiss fan than I probably was before.
Really?
Yeah.
Which, you know, I mean, there was some room.
There was some room there to grow.
With Kiss.
Yes.
Wow.
There's a little bit of room.
Wow.
A little bit of wiggle room to become a bigger Kiss fan.
And now I have, so that's good.
It's great.
You said that like you weren't really a...
No, it's huge, Giz fan, you know, before.
Weren't you?
I mean, aren't you?
Yes.
Okay, then.
Yes.
All right.
Didn't he do, didn't they have a, he had a reality show too, didn't he?
Yeah, he did.
It showed his family life.
Yeah, it was with the Xan Eleven.
I think he's one of the few that.
Is he still married to?
Yeah, he's one of the few that survived the reality show business.
Because I thought that they were having trouble.
Did they survive that?
I remember hearing that too, but as far as I know, they're together.
Yeah.
Because he's married too.
Maybe I'm wrong.
Is it Shannon Tweed?
Yes.
And they're still married.
And they are still married.
As far as I know, as far as the reports, they're still married.
So, you know, whatever troubles they had on, maybe that's why the reality show is no more.
Can you imagine what a wild ride that would be being married to Gene Simmons?
There was probably some events that happened in the course of their marriage, I would think.
I mean, maybe not.
Maybe everything went totally smoothly.
Maybe everything was fantastic.
I would guess fantastic.
I might be assuming too much to think that there was some rocky road along the way, but maybe not.
Maybe not.
I think you are.
You're reading way too much into kiss, man.
They're just outperforming.
That's all they're doing.
Just outperforming.
Outperforming.
And that's all they do.
They just perform.
They go back to their hotel room, watch a little TV, and go right to bed.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Maybe call the wife first from the road, say goodnight, love you, miss you, and then they go right to bed after that.
I mean, when they asked Gene Simmons, this is just those, they just asked him.
Yeah.
When they asked him if he had slept with over 4,800 women.
Over 4,800?
He said, so they tell me, was his answer.
So they tell me.
So, I mean, you can't prove it.
So they tell me.
So, okay.
Well, there you go.
That's maybe the Rocky Road I was talking about.
I don't think that's a Rocky Road.
No, it's not.
Okay.
All right.
4,800 women.
So they tell them.
So they tell them.
Wasn't former basketball star Lamar Odom just bragging about 2,000?
Yeah, 2,000.
Well, when you compare it to Gene Simmons, that doesn't hold up much.
That's true.
He's a lot younger.
That is true.
Gene's got another 20 years or so on him.
Lamar Odom was bragging about 2,000 women and passing a drug test that in a really unusual way.
He's promoting his book, obviously.
He's got a new book, Darkness to Light or whatever, and he's talking about how he almost died a few years ago.
I remember when he OD'd at the ranch, at the sex ranch.
At the brothel.
Yeah.
At the brothel.
That's right.
And he said that he was lucky to be alive.
He said, I'm a walking miracle.
I had 12 strokes, six heart attacks, and I was in a coma.
Good golly.
Wow.
From what?
Was he doing cocaine or something?
Cocaine, alcohol, and pot.
And then a little pot take the bottom.
And he was at the brothel.
And he was at the brothel.
Well, talk about Rocky Rhodes on the way to your relationship.
Because wasn't he married to Chloe Kardashian?
Chloe was there for him when he OD'd, too, and they had just split.
I don't know that they were divorced, but they had split up at the time.
I wonder why.
How unusual.
I mean, 2,000 women, though.
Right?
Yeah, 2,000 women seems like it could do better.
Well, when you're comparing it to Gene Simmons, 4,800.
Right.
It's not that much.
Or Will Chamberlain.
Wasn't it 14,000?
Yeah, Will that he claimed?
Magic had to have him be up there into that into that multiple thousand range, too, man.
Because I was thinking, like, he's, what, 39?
Lamar Odom.
He's 39, so maybe he had started having sex win when he was 14?
Something like that.
I don't know.
That's like, what, 80 a year?
Six a month?
Thank you for that.
Thank you for that commentary, Jeffy.
Appreciate that.
Matt Grape from Pegger Unleashed.
And Jeff Fisher from Chewing the Fat.
So we were talking about Lamar Odom and, you know, in his sexual escapades.
Former NBA player.
Right.
And former husband of Chloe in the Kardashian clan.
Yeah.
Right.
He also talked about, you know, he's trying to hawk his book, Darkness to Light, but he also talked about cheating to play on the Olympic basketball team.
What was that, 2004, 2004?
2004, they won the bronze.
They didn't even win the gold.
I mean, so maybe that's what cheating gets you, Lamar.
But he talked about being asked to be on the team, and he was smoking weed every day that summer, he said.
So he was concerned about taking the urine test.
So he figured out ways to, he started studying about ways to beat the test.
And one of the ways is to get a fake man unit.
What?
And he had his.
Did that exist?
Yes, that exists.
And he filled it with his trainer's wee wee.
And then they took him.
He went into the stall and filled up the cup and gave it to the guy and passed the test.
That's bizarre.
That's bizarre.
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Right.
I had no idea that was even possible.
So where does that fit on you or you just put it in your pocket?
How does that work?
Pat.
Yeah.
It fits on you.
It does?
Yeah.
It does fit on you.
Okay.
And it's a fake thing.
You know, so it's just there.
But there's stuff in it.
That's really nasty.
Ooh, no thanks.
I mean, what's strange is they said that he said that when he handed it to the Olympic guy, the Olympic guy tested the urine for heat.
To see what temperature it was.
Just to see if it was just having it.
So he passed.
Oh, wow.
So that's amazing, right?
Yes.
Okay, so now he says he cheated, right?
They got a bronze medal.
Do you take away the bronze medal?
Did they even accept the bronze medal that year?
Oh, I don't know.
That's a good question.
Yeah, because it seems like they might have.
We didn't win the gold.
We're not taking it.
I can't remember if they did that or not.
Oh, that's possible.
Because that's embarrassing.
NBA players to win the bronze.
That's just embarrassing.
No, we don't want them.
All right.
We will see you back here tomorrow for more fun and verbality.
Yes.
Pat and Jeffy for Glenn on the Glenn Beck Program.