Glenn Beck Visits Vinnie Penn

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Episode Transcript

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A man. Glenn back, Uh, yeah, you want to. I
want to get his microphone on.That always helps that no one in radio.
That's one of the first things Iremember you teaching right out of the
get Yeah. Yeah, it's greatto see you. Good to see you.
I already love the beginning of this. I was looking forward to meeting

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your daughter. Who is Is shedone with high school yet? Last year?
She's last year and we did eventhat exchange. It's just priceless to
me because I watch on social mediawhen you're the misses, when t posts.
I don't know that she's posted clipsof her performing, but I just
know this kid is like the leadand all of her musicals. Yeah,

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and the theater. You know,those theater kids are a They're a wicked
lot, which I'm sure you've hadyour Yeah, as I told her on
the plane coming here, she wastalking about something and I said, oh,
you show folk are all the same. Yeah, you know, they're
all They're all they're all very,very different. We have she'll be performing

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with somebody who is a guy inone play and then a woman in another
play. And they didn't cast himher because he really was a guy in
the last play. And is agirl now in the next you know what
I'm saying, Like, really,okay, I don't know what's going on

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here, but okay, yeah,okay at Texas High too, and Eagle
Pass kind of surprised to hear that. It show folk you know, well
also theaters like when you and Iwere and you were theater theatrical, but
you got abused for that. Nowthe theater kids walk down the hall like,

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please move out of them. Weall know who's running this school.
Her back in the games changed somuch. They're just like, did you
see what treck just to the quarter? I mean, it's really come,
uh come a long way in thoseways. It's not that way in Texas.
No, no Texas football. Yeah, that's true, that's true.

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I love seeing the clips though,and I have fun with I was just
telling mister Beck before he came on, and I'm like, my daughter did
a lot of theaters. Two she'sa junior in college. Now. I
didn't realize there was such an agedifference between her daughters. I'm like,
and their relationship kind of parallels areyour daughter is the lead in all of

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the musicals, and my daughter getstwo very funny lines kills it, kills
it in the third act. Alot of times she dies in the show.
She's killed off. Your daughter getsthe last bow. I don't even
know if my daughter's got one.It's very similar. But I was thinking

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about that. I guess I wasthinking about the good old days when you
you gave him my break too,and I would terrorize you because you would
go to see Miss Saigon like oncesome money. So this kid had no
choice. No, he was pregnant, like please put on the radio.
Please, Not a lot of changeexcept she's not pregnant. I love it

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and it's great see do And theseare crazy days indeed a world, Yeah
they are. Yeah. I catchthe show every day and make sure I
get my You know, it's surprisingto me too. We did a whole
show together for what little time wedid where we were I recall us agreeing
more often than not, but likethe gist of the show is, it's
better when you when you when youdisagree. I just didn't that much,

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but we did sometimes. Yeah,but we do less and less, and
I feel this odd validation. I'llput your show on and be like,
that's exactly what I said. Icould be on the radio across the country.
I can say this in intelligently,but we are on the same page.
I do feel that a lot.Yeah, well, I don't think
we were. I mean, Iknow Stu and I have not been We've

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been on the same page the wholetime. But he's always he's not the
catastrophists that I am. Yeah,you know, yes, yeah, And
for the first we wouldn't know.He's high gets a secret. Dude.
You even been to his but youdon't even know what it is. I
haven't, haven't. Yeah, heis. His wife will just say,

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you know, I was just telling, uh, Stu, you know that
I talked to you and you saidwhat you talked to him a lot,
I'm sure because he does about secrets. I don't know the name of your
children. So he is so hcompartmentalized. Pat and I talked about it
all the time, that he'll bedead in a box, buried. Yeah,

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and we'll find out that he hadcancer for three years and was fighting.
I mean, he just says nothing. Yeah. He was an interesting
uh uh uh. He turned uplike a lot of interns. You know,
we didn't take him all that time. And I remember the day,
you know, I vividly remember theday you started. I had a long
conversation with that because we screwed up. We paid him so little mind that

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he we half listened to it.What's your name? His name is Steve,
and you Steve? You and Istopped listening. I just sorted calling
him Steve. We weren't monsters.We never let you got it. We
went years. We get the dayGlad said to me, Hey, half

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fly, that kid's name is Steve. But nonetheless, I remember one day
you had a conversation. I wouldsay that he was far more conservative than
either of us, even you atthat time. Yeah, probably strong views
for a young kid. Yeah fromprobably Yeah, he had very strong views.

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You just didn't. I wish wewere more people were like him the
way he was then today you justdidn't cram anything down your throat. You
didn't know. Hey, can Itake a moment change the subject for a
second. I just would like toapologize to the people at Duncan Donuts in
Hampden. I walked into Dunkin Donutsyesterday and I apparently disturbed them. They

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were I don't know what they weredoing, but you know I clearly was
disturbing them. When I walked inand uh, the lady at the counter,
I was just ordering some bagels foreverybody, and she looked at me
about halfway through my order and tookout her earbud and went what And I

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was, oh, I'm sorry,I'm sorry. Were you listening to something
important? Uh? And then sheuh? And then she said, uh,
how many bagels do you want?I said, well, I want
two of these and two she justjust finished. Please yeah, and I
said eight. Fine. She putsher earbuds in and I'm like, but
I would like to so obviously theywere working on something very important and I

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disrupted their day as a customer comingin. And she was charming, Yeah,
he was. Was it the sameone you would frequent No, no,
to the building. No, itwas right down, right down,
I think Dick Swell. Yeah,yeah, yeah, And boy she was
charming. Yeah she was. Whata catch. I was really a couple

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of guys, my son included,and I looked at her and said I
looked at him and I said,I'll bet you she's available. Yeah.
I mean, I don't know,but I'm sure with that electric personality,
she's still AVA. That takes meback though to GB circa nineteen ninety seven.
This is a moment where you wouldsay, well, that's just aw,

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this is great film, aren't youreally exactly you know what? Good?
That's the one thing you just shared, a story that is actually indicative
of the one area where I oftenthink Ill Glenn wouldn't like me saying this.
This is something we don't agree with. I think the American work ethic

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is for crap. I think it'sbeen for crap for twenty years. I
tell stories. I think at leasttime I will tell you in the West
and the mountain West and this muchof the South towards Texas, it's still
gasping for air. But up here, my gosh, it's dead. It's

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I mean, I really felt likeI don't believe it's reachion know. I
mean I certainly have run inside thatall the time, like are you gonna
do it? They don't get itright too, when they don't do it,
and they treat you like garbage,like like you really are a nuisance.
Yeah, you know, if wecould just run this place without all
these people coming in, throw thedonuts out the I'm telling you this donut

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chop would be great. We wouldn'thave these people problems, and we didn't
have all these people. Yeah,going to the good old days in the
nineties, when you showing up ata dunkin Donuts, they'd be like,
ding ding ding ding ding, We'regonna be able to close in an hour.
That's gonna buy them all. Iwas like, no, I look
now, now, I look likeI'm gonna be buying all the donuts.

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And they still don't. Yeah.Yeah, that was the funny thing I
was thinking. Yesterday, Glenn isaround. There's a personal business. He's
standing to I tell you you didget lucky in a lot of ways.
And he's like, then, Ihope to see you. Uh this week.
Can't talk for long right now.So and so is making stuff shells
and sauce. It is fantastic andwe're all eating at the hospital and I'm

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like, only Glenn would be likethis is awful. How do you feel?
Are those stuff shells? I'm nota not that no, no,
no, you know I married.You know, I'm married into an Italian
family. That's one of my biggestbeefs with you is you know you're some
of your earliest books, You're likeConnecticut was a just a pointless part it

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was, I know, no goodeating, get into a great my kids
are me you, My kids areup here, and they take it around.
I'm like, ah, this iswhere this happened. Is where this
happened. This was a really criticalplace. Yeah. Yeah, well career

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wise in particular. So yeah,I mean, obviously, geez, I
remember those days so wildly. Wasthat just your son who appeared just a
mass of muscles with a head ontop of No, what is that?
That is not a kid that Iwould want to know in any way.
No, that's not my son.That's not my son. That's sixteen photos

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of him too many. Yeah,but I didn't really know that wasn't But
all as well otherwise, and howabout your predictions for this? Uh?
This looming? This is amazing.Isn't it really surreal that we're doing such?
It's a rematch. It's the worstrematch. Yeah, in a lot
of way. It just nobody wantedto I think revisit. I wanted to.

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I expected fresh blood, my names. I know so many people who
will vote for Trump who have saidearly on, oh, please not Trump,
Please not Trump. Let's not gothrough that again now because the left
made him into a symbol. It'sTrump and Biden. I mean, I
don't think he's going to be theperson we're visiting in the hospital. Was

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more clear in intensive care than thisguy. Some of it's scary. He's
indecipherable. I don't know what you'resaying. He punctuates everything with some off
the cuff comment about ice cream.And here's a Are you guys feeling the
effects of the border here? Yeah, I mean we always were. You

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remember the whole sanctuary. It's justthe far more sneaky. It's not as
in your face, really, whichis why our residents are so much more
easily duped. And you have somany on the left who are loathed to
admit there's a problems, like yeah, you're just it's sneaky. They're snucking
like thieves in the night. Theylanded in New York and they're brought over.

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Biden coordinates a lot of it.It's really bad. That was my
most curious thing about your move toTexas. I knew so little about it
at the time. I'm like,case, he's going where the border crisis?
I mean, well, Texas islike, I mean, you know
where I live. The southern borderis like in Virginia. Do you mean
Texas is a large place. Yeah, however I bet on Texas standing and

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I'm not sure. I mean I'mnot sure. Yeah, I'm not sure.
Yeah, it's just had already hadits reputation Connecticut, I mean Texas,
Florida, California. I was awareduring my brief little stay in California
in the eighties. I'm like,this is wow. People, just as
a young fairly liberal. I mean, you knew me in my mid twenties.
This was years before that, butI remember thinking, so you just

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come and go. They were takingjobs. I remember that I couldn't get
a job pumping gas because they're like, nah, we'd have to pay you
minimum wage. We could pay thatman and he had a car full of
kids. We could pay him adollar an hour. Z the exploitation was
in. That was nineteen eighty six. Yeah, so how's it not going
to get worse and negotiate? Ididn't fight. I'll take ninety five.

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I'll take ninety five. I rememberwhat day me and you got into an
argument like you should just take tomorrowoff, and it's like, okay,
I mean, then we're gonna gowith the other guy all right then,
I guess I'll just watch some daytimeTV tomorrow. I'm not gonna fight to
work. Maybe I should go tothat dunkin Donuts Like oh no, no,

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no, no, you are fartoo polite. You're like Queen's English
Queens rules. Yeah, the rudewas even worse than the job performance,
you said, and that's what tickedyou off more. Oh no, no,
it was like, oh yeah,I mean if she had lasers in
her eyes, I would have beenvaporized. People had laser in their eyes.

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You and I wouldn't be here.People would have been will you bet
our grave? For decades now.But it's great to see you, and
I hope all goes well with U. With everyone money as hell. We
keep up with the vidy. Ijust love you. Oh you watch some
of the content. I watch it, well, no, we watch it.
I don't listen to it. RememberI said you that one clip where
I had a little fun of yourbecause the guy kicked you out of this

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building, and you were kind enoughto repost it to your fan base,
which is enormous, and you're like, this guy doesn't have it away.
He's dead in the Radio Hall ofFame though, Like why why it's such
a nice thing. You're doing yourreach wheeting, but no I'm not,
and you deserve to be. Youchanged this game and it's great to see
my man claiming back. We'll takea break and be right back