GLENNFebruary 06, 2017

Glenn Goes to Bed Early, Misses Greatest Super Bowl Ever

Early to bed and early to rise makes and man healthy, wealthy and wise. According to Ben Franklin, that is.

In Glenn's case, it also makes a man miss the greatest Super Bowl of all time: The first time a quarterback has ever won five Super Bowls. The first overtime ever in a Super Bowl. The greatest comeback in Super Bowl history.

Watch the complimentary video above or read the transcript for details.

GLENN: I have such fear of, you know -- of missing out --

PAT: On the Super Bowl?

GLENN: On everything. I always -- I have that. What is that? FOBO? Is it FOBO or something? Fear of missing out. FOMO?

PAT: Uh-huh.

GLENN: You never heard that?

PAT: Yes. But I heard some other FOBO things. Something else.

(laughter)

GLENN: So, anyway -- all right.

PAT: Or maybe that's FOOBOO. That's one of those. We probably don't want to go there.

GLENN: Let's not go there. Let's move on.

Anyway, I always have the fear of missing out. Of just like, "Oh, man, that could have been historic."

JEFFY: Right.

GLENN: Last night, I go to bed, and, of course, it is the greatest Super Bowl of all time.

JEFFY: Tremendous.

PAT: Yeah, when you went to bed, it was, what, 21-3 or 28-3? Or whatever.

GLENN: Yeah, something.

PAT: I almost gave up on it at that point too. Because I was like -- I was sort of rooting for the Patriots. I didn't really care that much. But my only interest in it really was where BYU was concerned.

GLENN: Yeah, it was really -- it was really -- I mean, I thought it was colossally boring.

JEFFY: The first half was --

PAT: It was. For three quarters, it was boring. And then at 28-3, the Patriots started their comeback. And it turned out to be -- they're already calling it the greatest Super Bowl of all time now.

GLENN: Now, he is the only one that has won five Super Bowls, right?

JEFFY: Correct. Correct.

GLENN: He was tied at four with Joe Montana and Terry Bradshaw.

PAT: And Terry Bradshaw.

GLENN: So he's the only one to win five. I mean, I don't know anything --

JEFFY: I mean, that's tremendous.

GLENN: He's no longer in doubt as the greatest --

PAT: No, he's -- I mean, you got to say, five Super Bowls --

GLENN: This is it?

PAT: -- and his statistics, he's probably the greatest of all time. And we should probably remove the probably.

JEFFY: Yes, we should.

PAT: The greatest of all time.

JEFFY: I think we should.

GLENN: Back in a minute.

(OUT AT 8:31AM)

GLENN: You guys are bad people.

PAT: Why? I --

JEFFY: Oh, come on now.

PAT: You're talking about the coin toss?

GLENN: I'm talking about the coin toss. And I bring it up off air. And I think -- I think that was great moment.

PAT: I thought it was really sad. I thought it was really sad.

GLENN: He's 91.

PAT: I know. And they put him in a bad position.

GLENN: No, they did not.

PAT: There was no way for him to look good there.

GLENN: He just got out of the hospital.

PAT: I know. That's why they should have given him some help. What they needed to do was have the president, his son, and his father. They could have had W. and H.W. And W. could have flipped the coin.

GLENN: Why? If I were W,. I wouldn't have done it.

PAT: Why?

GLENN: This is my dad's moment. This is my dad's moment.

PAT: Your dad's moment is passed, and he wasn't -- he's not healthy enough to have that moment right now. He's just not. He just got out of the hospital.

GLENN: You can't handle -- you can't handle the ravages of age.

PAT: No. It's hard. It's hard to see him that way.

JEFFY: Pushed out in the wheelchair.

GLENN: But it was good to see him. He was alert. He knew what was going on.

PAT: I'm not sure that's true.

GLENN: Oh, yes, he did. When the referee turned, he said --

JEFFY: Yeah, the first time, he did -- he went to reach for the coin.

(laughter)

GLENN: Yeah, he was like, where's my coin?

JEFFY: And the referee walked away. He was left hanging out there in his wheelchair waiting for the coin.

(laughter)

GLENN: He said -- he said -- you can read his lips.

PAT: That was nice. Thank you, Jeffy.

JEFFY: No. Thank you.

GLENN: You could -- you could read his -- so mean.

(laughter)

So mean.

PAT: It was not pleasant.

GLENN: It was not good.

PAT: I'm glad most people didn't see that.

JEFFY: Come on now. That's not wrong.

GLENN: I mean, you can talk about Donald Trump making fun of the handicapped guy. Look at you.

JEFFY: I watched it on the television. They showed him.

GLENN: Yeah, so bad. So bad. I thought it was a nice moment.

PAT: He couldn't flip the coin. That's the problem.

GLENN: Yes, he did.

PAT: No. It rolled off his thumb and rolled on down on the ground. It rolled.

GLENN: All right. So here's -- can we say something nice?

PAT: Yes.

JEFFY: Yes.

GLENN: And I mean this in a nice way, except it made me realize that -- Barbara hasn't aged a day.

JEFFY: She looked great.

PAT: No, she looked the same in 1989 as she does today.

GLENN: Right? And that's amazing.

PAT: It is. It is.

GLENN: Because we didn't realize she looked 90 when she was 40. But she really --

PAT: So now that she's 90, she looks 40.

GLENN: Right. It didn't work out for her when she was younger, but now --

PAT: Now it's perfect.

GLENN: She can get all of the guys that are still aware. You know, if they ever go on like a single's cruise after, God forbid, he passes on, and they're on a single's cruise. And she'll be like, "She's the one." Because she looks 40.

JEFFY: Yeah, yeah.

GLENN: But she's the same age as he.

JEFFY: They had a great reception.

PAT: They really did. You would accept that.

GLENN: The music they played was just really, just noble.

PAT: It was nice.

GLENN: It was a nice moment. A nice moment.

PAT: It was a little bit sad. But it was nice. Because it's hard to see him, you know, age this way. And he's sick.

JEFFY: Yeah.

GLENN: I think the two of them -- I think the two of them -- who in politics is not sick?

I think the two of them though -- I love them as a couple. They always have struck me as the kind that will go out at the same time.

PAT: Uh-huh.

JEFFY: Boy, that's possible.

GLENN: It is. When she went into the hospital, when he was there --

JEFFY: When she stayed.

GLENN: No, they checked her in.

JEFFY: They put her in, yeah.

GLENN: Because she was getting sick too. And I thought, oh, my gosh. Is the Lord going to take both of these at the same time? Which in some ways, it's hard on the family, but great for them. Great for them.

PAT: Very Notebook-esque.

GLENN: Brutal, just brutal.

Anything else you want to make fun of? Anything else?

PAT: I am not making fun of him. I am not making fun of him. I just think they put him in a bad situation, and they could have made it better for him, but they didn't.

JEFFY: Yes. But I guess maybe that's the best position they had for him. Right?

PAT: I guess.

GLENN: Tell me the deal -- tell me the deal. See, look, there he is -- picture of him flipping. It did not roll out of his hands. He's throwing it up.

PAT: No, it really kind of did.

JEFFY: No, it really kind of did.

GLENN: Look at it. He's flipping it up. It's going up in the air. Look at it.

PAT: I saw it yesterday. There was a lot of flip in that coin.

JEFFY: No, there was not. There was not a lot of flip --

GLENN: Anyway -- anyway, can you tell me the deal with the egomaniacs that came out without their NFL Hall of Fame jackets at the beginning? There were like three guys that wouldn't wear the jackets.

PAT: That wouldn't wear the jackets?

GLENN: Yeah. Did you guys notice that?

PAT: No.

GLENN: Do you see when the Hall of Famers came out?

PAT: I must have missed that.

JEFFY: From the black universities?

GLENN: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

JEFFY: Yeah. There were -- Jerry Rice didn't wear his.

GLENN: Two or three.

JEFFY: And there was someone else too. Yes, you're right.

GLENN: Yeah. And they didn't wear their NFL Hall of Fame jackets.

JEFFY: Hall of Fame jacket, yeah.

GLENN: And it was amazing to me to see how the older guys came out, and they were just like, "Hi." And the younger guys, all showboats.

JEFFY: Yes.

GLENN: All showboats.

Just -- at first, they refused to wear the jacket. It appeared as though they were like, "Are you kidding me? Look at this outfit. I'm not messing with it."

PAT: I'm not messing with this.

JEFFY: I mean, that was for sure Jerry Rice. I mean, he danced out.

GLENN: Yeah. The other one too. The two that didn't --

JEFFY: I got to see --

GLENN: Yeah, the two of them that did, they both walked out, and they were both showboats. Both showboats.

PAT: I completely missed that. I must have been getting food or something, which was pretty continual.

GLENN: You, at the -- really? I'm fascinated by that.

PAT: Yeah, it was pretty continual. I know. Isn't that surprising?

GLENN: Yeah, that was a little shocking there.

PAT: Yeah. So brought up the new Hall of Fame guys?

GLENN: Yeah.

PAT: Kurt Warner and LaDainian Tomlinson, those guys?

JEFFY: What Glenn is talking about is they brought out the Hall of Fame players history from black universities that have played such a prominent role in the NFL over the years. It was really good.

PAT: Oh, like guys in the Hall of Fame that went to black-only universities?

JEFFY: Yes.

GLENN: My father-in-law said -- he was watching it with us. And he said, you know, when I was growing up, when I was growing up, he said, "You couldn't find a black guy on the football team." He said, it was -- it was a big deal to be black.

He said, "Now find the white guys."

PAT: Now you can't find the white guy. Yeah, it's harder. Much, much harder.

GLENN: Yeah.

JEFFY: You know, Lambarni, Elvin Bethea, Mel Blunt, Roosevelt Brown, Willie Brown, Buck Buchanan, Harry Carson, Willie Davis, Richard Dent, Bob Hayes, Claude Humphrey, Len Ford.

PAT: Wow. Legendary.

JEFFY: Yeah.

GLENN: All I keep thinking -- when I see these old guys, all I keep thinking is them walking out to this and thinking, jeez, if I could have just waited ten or 20 more years to play football, I wouldn't be, you know, working at the -- at the pet store right now.

PAT: Oh, yeah.

GLENN: I mean, the guys who played football when it was really playing football and now are just leading an ordinary life.

PAT: If you played in the '50s and '60s, you really wish you were born a little bit later and played today.

GLENN: Don't you think in the '70s too?

PAT: '70s, I think the salaries really started to kick in, in the '70s. Because while it was hundreds of thousands instead of millions, it was still commensurate with, I think, what they have today. You know, if you were to adjust for inflation, you would find that $400,000 in 1978 was like 4 million today, probably. I mean, they made a lot of money in the '70s. But the '50s and '60s guys made nothing.

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Could passengers have SAVED Iryna Zarutska?

Surveillance footage of the murder of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska in Charlotte, NC, reveals that the other passengers on the train took a long time to help her. Glenn, Stu, and Jason debate whether they were right or wrong to do so.

Transcript

Below is a rush transcript that may contain errors

GLENN: You know, I'm -- I'm torn on how I feel about the people on the train.

Because my first instinct is, they did nothing! They did nothing! Then my -- well, sit down and, you know -- you know, you're going to be judged. So be careful on judging others.

What would I have done? What would I want my wife to do in that situation?

STU: Yeah. Are those two different questions, by the way.

GLENN: Yeah, they are.

STU: I think they go far apart from each other. What would I want myself to do. I mean, it's tough to put yourself in a situation. It's very easy to watch a video on the internet and talk about your heroism. Everybody can do that very easily on Twitter. And everybody is.

You know, when you're in a vehicle that doesn't have an exit with a guy who just murdered somebody in front of you, and has a dripping blood off of a knife that's standing 10 feet away from you, 15 feet away from you.

There's probably a different standard there, that we should all kind of consider. And maybe give a little grace to what I saw at least was a woman, sitting across the -- the -- the aisle.

I think there is a difference there. But when you talk about that question. Those two questions are definitive.

You know, I know what I would want myself to do. I would hope I would act in a way that didn't completely embarrass myself afterward.

But I also think, when I'm thinking of my wife. My advice to my wife would not be to jump into the middle of that situation at all costs. She might do that anyway. She actually is a heck of a lot stronger than I am.

But she might do it anyway.

GLENN: How pathetic, but how true.

STU: Yes. But that would not be my advice to her.

GLENN: Uh-huh.

STU: Now, maybe once the guy has certainly -- is out of the area. And you don't think the moment you step into that situation. He will turn around and kill you too. Then, of course, obviously. Anything you can do to step in.

Not that there was much anyone on the train could do.

I mean, I don't think there was an outcome change, no matter what anyone on that train did.

Unfortunately.

But would I want her to step in?

Of course. If she felt she was safe, yes.

Think about, you said, your wife. Think about your daughter. Your daughter is on that train, just watching someone else getting murdered like that. Would you advise your daughter to jump into a situation like that?

That girl sitting across the aisle was somebody's daughter. I don't know, man.

JASON: I would. You know, as a dad, would I advise.

Hmm. No.

As a human being, would I hope that my daughter or my wife or that I would get up and at least comfort that woman while she's dying on the floor of a train?

Yeah.

I would hope that my daughter, my son, that I would -- and, you know, I have more confidence in my son or daughter or my wife doing something courageous more than I would.

But, you know, I think I have a more realistic picture of myself than anybody else.

And I'm not sure that -- I'm not sure what I would do in that situation. I know what I would hope I would do. But I also know what I fear I would do. But I would have hoped that I would have gotten up and at least tried to help her. You know, help her up off the floor. At least be there with her, as she's seeing her life, you know, spill out in under a minute.

And that's it other thing we have to keep in mind. This all happened so rapidly.

A minute is -- will seem like a very long period of time in that situation. But it's a very short period of time in real life.

STU: Yeah. You watch the video, Glenn. You know, I don't need the video to -- to change my -- my position on this.

But at his seem like there was a -- someone who did get there, eventually, to help, right? I saw someone seemingly trying to put pressure on her neck.

GLENN: Yeah. And tried to give her CPR.

STU: You know, no hope at that point. How long of a time period would you say that was?

Do you know off the top of your head?

GLENN: I don't know. I don't know. I know that we watched the video that I saw. I haven't seen past 30 seconds after she --

STU: Yeah.

GLENN: -- is down. And, you know, for 30 seconds nothing is happening. You know, that is -- that is not a very long period of time.

STU: Right.

GLENN: In reality.

STU: And especially, I saw the pace he was walking. He certainly can't be -- you know, he may have left the actual train car by 30 seconds to a minute. But he wasn't that far away. Like he was still in visual.

He could still turn around and look and see what's going on at that point. So certainly still a threat is my point. He has not, like, left the area. This is not that type of situation.

You know, I -- look, as you point out, I think if I could be super duper sexist for a moment here, sort of my dividing line might just be men and women.

You know, I don't know if it's that a -- you're not supposed to say that, I suppose these days. But, like, there is a difference there. If I'm a man, you know, I would be -- I would want my son to jump in on that, I suppose. I don't know if he could do anything about it. But you would expect at least a grown man to be able to go in there and do something about it. A woman, you know, I don't know.

Maybe I'm -- I hope --

GLENN: Here's the thing I -- here's the thing that I -- that causes me to say, no. You should have jumped in.

And that is, you know, you've already killed one person on the train. So you've proven that you're a killer. And anybody who would have screamed and got up and was with her, she's dying. She's dying. Get him. Get him.

Then the whole train is responsible for stopping that guy. You know. And if you don't stop him, after he's killed one person, if you're not all as members of that train, if you're not stopping him, you know, the person at the side of that girl would be the least likely to be killed. It would be the ones that are standing you up and trying to stop him from getting back to your daughter or your wife or you.

JASON: There was a -- speaking of men and women and their roles in this. There was a video circling social media yesterday. In Sweden. There was a group of officials up on a stage. And one of the main. I think it was health official woman collapses on stage. Completely passes out.

All the men kind of look away. Or I don't know if they're looking away. Or pretending that they didn't know what was going on. There was another woman standing directly behind the woman passed out.

Immediately springs into action. Jumps on top. Grabs her pant leg. Grabs her shoulder. Spins her over and starts providing care.

What did she have that the other guys did not? Or women?

She was a sheepdog. There is a -- this is my issue. And I completely agree with Stu. I completely agree with you. There's some people that do not respond this way. My issue is the proportion of sheepdogs versus people that don't really know how to act. That is diminishing in western society. And American society.

We see it all the time in these critical actions. I mean, circumstances.

There are men and women, and it's actually a meme. That fantasize about hoards of people coming to attack their home and family. And they sit there and say, I've got it. You guys go. I'm staying behind, while I smoke my cigarette and wait for the hoards to come, because I will sacrifice myself. There are men and women that fantasize of block my highway. Go ahead. Block my highway. I'm going to do something about it. They fantasize about someone holding up -- not a liquor store. A convenience store or something. Because they will step in and do something. My issue now is that proportion of sheepdogs in society is disappearing. Just on statistical fact, there should be one within that train car, and there were none.

STU: Yeah. I mean --

JASON: They did not respond.

STU: We see what happens when they do, with Daniel Penny. Our society tries to vilify them and crush their existence. Now, there weren't that many people on that train. Right?

At least on that car. At least it's limited. I only saw three or four people there, there may have been more. I agree with you, though. Like, you see what happens when we actually do have a really recent example of someone doing exactly what Jason wants and what I would want a guy to do. Especially a marine to step up and stop this from happening. And the man was dragged by our legal system to a position where he nearly had to spend the rest of his life in prison.

I mean, I -- it's insanity. Thankfully, they came to their senses on that one.

GLENN: Well, the difference between that one and this one though is that the guy was threatening. This one, he killed somebody.

STU: Yeah. Right. Well, but -- I think -- but it's the opposite way. The debate with Penny, was should he have recognize that had this person might have just been crazy and not done anything?

Maybe. He hadn't actually acted yet. He was just saying things.

GLENN: Yeah. Well --

STU: He didn't wind up stabbing someone. This is a situation where these people have already seen what this man will do to you, even when you don't do anything to try to stop him. So if this woman, who is, again, looks to be an average American woman.

Across the aisle. Steps in and tries to do something. This guy could easily turn around and just make another pile of dead bodies next to the one that already exists.

And, you know, whether that is an optimal solution for our society, I don't know that that's helpful.

In that situation.

THE GLENN BECK PODCAST

Max Lucado on Overcoming Grief in Dark Times | The Glenn Beck Podcast | Ep 266

Disclaimer: This episode was filmed prior to the assassination of Charlie Kirk. But Glenn believes Max's message is needed now more than ever.
The political world is divided, constantly at war with itself. In many ways, our own lives are not much different. Why do we constantly focus on the negative? Why are we in pain? Where is God amid our anxiety and fear? Why can’t we ever seem to change? Pastor Max Lucado has found the solution: Stop thinking like that! It may seem easier said than done, but Max joins Glenn Beck to unpack the three tools he describes in his new book, “Tame Your Thoughts,” that make it easy for us to reset the way we think back to God’s factory settings. In this much-needed conversation, Max and Glenn tackle everything from feeling doubt as a parent to facing unfair hardships to ... UFOs?! Plus, Max shares what he recently got tattooed on his arm.

THE GLENN BECK PODCAST

Are Demonic Forces to Blame for Charlie Kirk, Minnesota & Charlotte Killings?

This week has seen some of the most heinous actions in recent memory. Glenn has been discussing the growth of evil in our society, and with the assassination of civil rights leader Charlie Kirk, the recent transgender shooter who took the lives of two children at a Catholic school, and the murder of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska, how can we make sense of all this evil? On today's Friday Exclusive, Glenn speaks with BlazeTV host of "Strange Encounters" Rick Burgess to discuss the demon-possessed transgender shooter and the horrific assassination of Charlie Kirk. Rick breaks down the reality of demon possession and how individuals wind up possessed. Rick and Glenn also discuss the dangers of the grotesque things we see online and in movies, TV shows, and video games on a daily basis. Rick warns that when we allow our minds to be altered by substances like drugs or alcohol, it opens a door for the enemy to take control. A supernatural war is waging in our society, and it’s a Christian’s job to fight this war. Glenn and Rick remind Christians of what their first citizenship is.

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Glenn Goes to Bed Early, Misses Greatest Super Bowl Ever

Could passengers have SAVED Iryna Zarutska?

Transcript

Max Lucado on Overcoming Grief in Dark Times | The Glenn Beck Podcast | Ep 266

Are Demonic Forces to Blame for Charlie Kirk, Minnesota & Charlotte Killings?

Here’s what we know about the suspected Charlie Kirk assassin