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Glenn Beck

Best of Glenn Beck: The First Three 1/2 Weeks

Aired June 02, 2006 - 19:00   ET

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.

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GLENN BECK, HOST: Hi, I`m TV and radio`s Glenn Beck. You know, when they first approached me about, you know, doing this show and stuff, I thought, hey, this will be cool. I can just phone it in every day. Turns out, doing like a TV show, it`s like, hard and stuff.

In the first place, you can`t be pantsless. Yet.

And second of all, they need like content, like, five days a week. That ain`t possible. That`s just nuts.

So, sit back and enjoy this special presentation of Glenn Beck, the best of the first three and a half weeks. It`s fun, it`s informative, and I warn you -- very, very sexy. Hmm, salt.

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BECK: Come back with me in the time tunnel, tunnel, tunnel. It was the spring all the way back, I believe it was 2006. "RV" was the No. 1 movie in the nation. Gas costs only $3 a gallon, and a flabby, bizarre- looking radio host named Glenn Beck made his TV debut. I can`t believe it`s been 17 shows all the way back. Time is floating by, really.

Actually, this is a monumental achievement in television history. I have now officially set the television record for the fewest number of shows before airing a clip show. I`ve eclipsed such shows, memorable programs as "Cop Rock," "Emily`s Reasons Why Not," and, of course, "Jesse", super classic."

Don`t worry, though. Tonight it`s not going to be all old stuff. There are some new interviews sprinkled in -- right. So sit back, pop some corn, settle in for some of the highlights and, believe me, some of the lowlights of a magical three and a half weeks.

You`ll see these pictures and you`ll think, I can`t believe the clothes that I used to wear back in the early, you know, well, May. And the hair -- I mean, what was I thinking?

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BECK: In about 30 seconds, my head is going to explode and yours will, too. This is how screwed up our legal system is.

In Nebraska, a convicted sex offender may not serve time because he`s too short. Five foot one inch tall Richard Thompson sexually assaults his niece`s 12-year-old daughter, found guilty on two felony charges. In Nebraska, that can get you 10 years in jail. I haven`t got a problem with that already.

Instead, the judge gives him 10 years probation, because she`s worried he`s too small to survive very long in state prison. Hmm! Don`t seem to have a problem with it. Later today, they -- there you go. Boom. Nebraska`s attorney general promised to appeal the decision saying, "I really don`t care if he`s three feet tall. If you abuse a child, you deserve the time behind bars."

Even the Nebraska ACLU doesn`t understand this one. Their legal director said, and I quote, "I`ve never heard of anything like this before."

Can you imagine what they have heard of? They`ve never heard of anything this nuts?

But the National Organization of Short-Statured adults is rallying to his defense. Joe Moniego (ph) is 5`4". He believes it`s about time somebody recognizes the challenges of poor little convicted sexual deviants and the things that they face, saying, quote, "He would probably end up being someone`s woman," end quote.

I don`t even want to think about that, but I really don`t have a problem.

Wendy Murphy, former sex crimes prosecutor,

Are we even on the same planet any more? How is it a guy can sexually assault a 12-year-old girl and then give him probation because he`s too short.

WENDY MURPHY, FORMER SEX CRIMES PROSECUTOR: I don`t have an answer for that. I mean, the judge should actually answer your question, but I think she probably won`t.

You know, wouldn`t it be nice if every so often a judge worried about another kind of short person in society? We call them children. How about whacking a guy once, a little extra, for picking on another type of short person -- a kid?

BECK: I mean, does -- does...

MURPHY: I`m disgusted. I don`t even want to debate it. I don`t understand what the nature of the debate is.

BECK: Does anybody -- does anybody even -- does anybody even recognize the fact or see the irony? That they`re worried about a small guy being mishandled in prison? What about the small 12-year-old girl? I mean, really, it`s incredible.

MURPHY: We don`t value kids enough. But you know, I am so sick of hearing people say, "I`m too short, I`m too old, I`m too sick to go to prison." There`s no such thing as, you know, I`m too anything to go to prison.

BECK: Yes.

MURPHY: I don`t care if you`re on your deathbed. You can die behind bars. That`s how it works.

BECK: I don`t -- I don`t even understand how we are entering an age where you can be too beautiful to go to prison if you`ve slept with a kid and now you can be too short if you`ve abused a kid. You know...

MURPHY: When I had a guy...

BECK: Go ahead.

MURPHY: When I had a guy prosecuted once 88 years old, second offense, indecent assault, picked on a kid while she was visiting Nana at the nursing home. I prosecuted him. He came to court every day with his walker and his lawyer said, he`s too old to go to prison.

The judge, good for him, said, "Uh-uh, if you`re young enough, healthy enough to do that to a child, you take your wrinkled old body right to prison." That`s where he went.

BECK: Exactly right. Now, this is what this judge is concerned about and it doesn`t bother me. But I had a guy -- I talked about this on my radio show today -- and I had a guy call in. He said, "Glenn, I used to be in prison and I found out about a guy who was, you know, in the population who had abused and raped children." Listen to what he said.

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CALLER: I kind of made it my mission to make this guy`s life as miserable as could be. I mean, I`m a big guy, 6`1", 250 pounds. We literally beat him almost every day. Urinated on him. You name it. Whatever we could do, we did it to this guy to make his life just as miserable as possible. And...

BECK: How do you feel about that today?

CALLER: embarrassed in some ways, but -- and then in other ways, I`m not really sure because I -- child molesters to me are the worst scum on earth. I have three daughters myself, and to think that anybody would ever do anything like to one of my daughters is just something that would tear me up inside.

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BECK: Wendy, I got to tell you, I don`t agree with what he did. I mean, that`s a problem with the prison system. But I mean, then put the guys in an isolation chamber, don`t you think?

MURPHY: Yes. If the prison system stinks for sex offenders, and it does, it`s a terrible place to go, which is why you shouldn`t commit crimes if you don`t want to go there, then fix the prison system. Don`t give a guy like this, a rapist, a walk.

I`ve got to tell you. This is not a judge who`s historically lenient who just gives away the store all the time, because, guess what? Back in August of last year, she actually whacked a guy, gave him five to eight years for doing, guess what, stealing cows. Yes, she actually has expressed her feelings quite well. In her value system, cows being stolen is a more serious crime than a child being raped.

BECK: Unbelievable.

MURPHY: Remove her from the bench now is the only message.

BECK: You know what? I got to tell you, if I were Mini Me today, I`d be driving into Nebraska. I`d be getting into my little teeny car, and I`d driving to a giant bank and I`d be taking it. Because I`d hope to get this.

You know what? We actually looked at a bunch of people that are totally clear, head to Nebraska right now. Can we put them up on the screen, please? There they are, prince, he`s 5`2". Paul Simon, 5`2". Martin Scorcese, he`s I think 5`1" or 5`2". Hey man, have at it in Nebraska, because it apparently is absolutely OK. You ain`t doing jail time.

Let me ask you, Wendy, what is it that we can do besides just be outraged?

MURPHY: There are a lot of things we can do, and I wish that we were doing them more often. Three big things we can do.

First of all, let`s have mandatory sentences across the country: Jessica`s Law, no discretion for judges. Then we wouldn`t have these kinds of stories because this judge wouldn`t be allowed to do the wrong thing.

Let`s have judicial report cards. This is a great idea. Pennsylvania, Virginia actually do this. I think it should be done across the country. Annual automatic release of all the sentences judges give out in these kinds of cases because, sometimes, these fly under the radar screen. We don`t find out about them. We can`t get outraged.

And third and maybe most importantly, we need more public protests. I mean, look what happened in the O.J. Simpson case. All his buddies created a mob at the courthouse. Look what he got. He got a walk, because he had mobs at the gates protesting the system.

We need parents, in particular, protesting all the time when judges give out these kinds of sentences, I want to call on mothers in particular. Get out there right now. Get in front of this judge`s courthouse. Get signs. Call for her to be removed and do not go home until she steps down.

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BECK: Don`t miss an episode next week. We have an in-depth look at evil for 6-6-06. Plus, a preview of my Mid-life Crisis Tour and an interview with Ron White from Blue Collar Comedy Tour.

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BECK: Sometimes sex needs to be hot but other times, there is nothing more beautiful than making love to your wife. I believe about half of the audience just scurried for a garbage can. I understand. If you need to vomit, you can vomit. I get it. Am I wrong or is it just that it`s coming out of my mouth that makes it so...

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Are you wrong that everyone is scurrying for a garbage can? Absolutely not. You said a lot of things I don`t agree with Glenn, but you are on the money on that one.

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BECK: All right. Between my radio show, the TV show, my magazine, stage show, blah, blah, blah and, of course, my Tai Chi classes, I`m a busy man. And I`m trying really hard to find balance in my life. I really try hard to find time to sit down and have dinner with my family. It is tough. And I think most Americans are struggling with that.

Which leads me to the question, is the sacred tradition of the family dinner slowly slipping away from us?

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BECK (voice-over): Family dinner? I mean, who`s got time? We`re busy people. I mean, between work, school, homework, soccer, cheerleading, chess club, Tae Kwon Do, yoga, book club. Man. We barely have enough time to chew our food, let alone eat it together as a family.

But that doesn`t stop us from trying. Some families are good at getting everybody to sit down to dinner. Others, eh, not so good.

Meet the Stell (ph) family. Well, actually some of the Stell (ph) family. Supper at the Stells (ph) seems less like a family dinner and more, well, like a pit stop at Daytona.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: So hurry and up and eat. Come on. We`ve got to go.

If we`re lucky they`ll have 20 minutes between times. I hope that they`ve gotten their homework done.

All right. We`re going to pack this up for Daddy, so when he comes home, he can make a plate and eat alone.

BECK: Can you say indigestion?

Meanwhile, just across the street is the Dempsey family. What a difference 30 yards can make.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We all kind of merge back here around 7 o`clock- ish. And have dinner and try and catch up with each other to find out what everyone`s been doing, and all of the things that I have to yell at them for. Did you do your homework? Did you do your book report, you know?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It`s tough spending time together. I don`t get home until later in the evening. And of course, they`re very hungry by then. And...

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: No kidding.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: But we do the best we can.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I`d say four out of seven nights we wait for him to come home.

BECK: Now the Dempseys aren`t any less busy than most families.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Mondays through Thursdays I usually have dance or volleyball practice.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Varsity dance team, sports night, volleyball.

BECK: But for some families, just getting dinner together can seem like a monumental task. If only there was some way to take the brainwork out of making dinner. Hmm. What do we have here?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Super Suppers is an assembly kitchen where you come and assemble meals for your family.

BECK: They do the shopping, the chopping and the cleaning. You just assemble a couple of weeks` worth of meals and pop them into the oven. Easy, right?

But of course, it takes more than a week`s full of precooked meals to get families around the table. So why are some households able to sit down to dinner and not others? It`s actually quite simple. They make it a point to do so.

Today, only about half of families in the United States have dinner together on a regular basis. And a recent study by Columbia University found that teens who have dinners with their families at least five times a week are less likely to drink alcohol, smoke cigarettes or try marijuana. And these same kids also perform better at school. And, there`s also the added bonus of knowing your kids and strengthening family bonds.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I don`t think there`s any other way of keeping your family close to you than sitting down together and spending time, and the best time to do it is meal time. Because other than that, with school and work and all this, you`re just forcibly going to be apart from each other.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: What is that?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I find out so much more between salad and dinner than I would, you know, if I sat down and said, "So tell me." I think when you`re eating and you`re relaxed and if they like it. And let`s say all of a sudden one of their favorite meals, I don`t want to eat this. Well, now I know something is bothering them. You get a read of the kids.

And they`re away from their friends at that time. They don`t have to act anyway. They don`t have to be cool. They don`t have to be cute. They, you know, their true colors come out.

BECK: And after all, isn`t that the whole point?

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BECK: Dianne Neumark-Sztainer, she is a behavioral therapist who`s studied the impact on family meals and -- the impact that it has on children and adolescents.

Dianne, a lot of people can watch a piece like that and then start to feel a little guilty and say, "Oh, jeez, man. Here they go again." What is the real impact? What`s the most interesting thing you discovered?

DIANNE NEUMARK-SZTAINER, BEHAVIORAL THERAPIST: Well, I think you`re right. I think that some families will watch that clip and feel very guilty and very anxious. And others will feel very good about what they`re doing with their families.

And our research has shown that family meals really do make a difference in the lives of teens. And I really like to encourage parents to make family meals a priority. But at the same time, be realistic about what can happen, what they can do, to avoid feeling -- feeling that anxiety.

BECK: Right. Does it matter if Mom or Dad cook? I mean, can it just be pizza?

NEUMARK-SZTAINER: Well, I think sometimes it can just be pizza and sometimes you want to have different kinds of food.

BECK: What I`m saying is does the matter if -- is the cooking process, you know -- or if you`re really busy, can you just pull something out of the freezer and just make it? Is it the actual sitting down with each other the important part?

NEUMARK-SZTAINER: I think there are two pieces here. There`s the connectedness, what happens at a family meal, the opportunity to see what`s going on in your teenagers` lives, to pick up at any problems that -- that are happening before they become serious problems. And for that, it doesn`t matter so much what you`re eating.

But in terms of nutrition value, then it is important what you`re eating. You want to have some kind of vegetable, some kind of protein.

BECK: Well, I mean, you know, we`re not going to feed our kids Cheetos. Let me ask you this.

NEUMARK-SZTAINER: Exactly. And I agree with you that -- the main thing that we want to do, you know, is to get people to sit down at a meal together. Usually, teenagers are going to eat healthier when they eat with their families than when they eat on their own.

BECK: You said -- you said that you found a connection -- I found it really interesting. The family that we just -- the two families who we profiled, one of them had a hard time sitting down at the table and it didn`t mean anything. And that was the family, the Stell (ph) family were the ones sitting at bar stools, not around a table. And your research shows there`s a huge difference.

NEUMARK-SZTAINER: Well, that actually was not based on my research. That was based on an article that came out in "The Boston Globe". Our research looked at whether or not families ate together. And when families eat together, children are less likely to use substances, they have higher grades in school, they engage in fewer eating disordered behaviors, and they eat healthier diets.

I don`t know if it makes a difference if they`re sitting around a table or sitting at a stool. What we found is that there is a huge difference in what families look like. Some families are eating together and having a conversation with the candle lit. Some are eating together, and there may be a television on in the background.

The most disturbing situation is when teenagers are not eating with their families, and they`re eating in their bedrooms with the television.

BECK: Yes. Let me ask you this because, you know, some of the things that I`ve done -- I`ve made changes in my family and, you know, one of them is like the, you know, we honor the Sabbath on Sundays, and it`s really made a difference. They hated it at first.

Real quick, because we only have about 20 seconds. Your kids may hate it, but you really feel that this is going to make a significant difference in your family?

NEUMARK-SZTAINER: I also don`t think -- I think it will make a significant difference, and I think your children will love it. It will take a little bit, but we eat together. We eat together Friday nights, and my children look forward to that time. I encourage parents to think about it, and don`t think your children are going to hate this.

BECK: Got it. You know, I found the same thing on Sundays with my kids. They didn`t like it at first, but then we -- they love it now. Dianne, thank you very much. Appreciate it. Bye-bye.

NEUMARK-SZTAINER: You`re welcome.

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BECK: All right. Time to check out the buzz in Houston, Texas, with Pat Gray, radio host 950 KPRC. Pat, long weekend. Down in Texas I would imagine the topics were barbecue, immigration and Enron.

PAT GRAY, RADIO HOST: Enron like crazy. Yes, Enron is almost as hot a topic for us as global warming.

BECK: All right. Is anybody even talking about Enron down in Houston?

GRAY: No. We talked about it for maybe a day. Really, half a day.

BECK: Yes. You just don`t care. You hate mongers down there.

GRAY: Just don`t care.

BECK: What is the -- what is the big topic?

GRAY: Well, we spent the week last week talking about Congressman Ted Poe, Second Congressional District and his comments on the House floor.

BECK: This is not -- this is something that people really need to listen to. I haven`t heard these comments everywhere. Listen up. Let`s play this.

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REP. TED POE, TEXAS: Mr. Speaker, the United States is under attack. And like December 7, 1941, we are asleep on a Sunday morning. We are being invaded, we`re being colonized. And there are insurgents from the nation of Mexico and their allies further south.

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BECK: Holy cow. I mean, this guy is -- have you heard anybody say anything like that?

GRAY: No. I haven`t. And I had him on the show last week. I told him, "Congressman Poe, I can`t believe you said that."

And he said, "Why not? It`s the truth."

BECK: I mean, when you -- hang on just a second. When you think of insurgents, when you think of invasion, you don`t necessarily think of the people who are coming across the border to get a job at a palette place in Houston.

GRAY: Well, you do when there`s 20 million of them. You know?

BECK: Well, I -- because we have 20 million jobs for them and free healthcare.

GRAY: It`s maybe some place between that and what Tony Snow said last week. On Friday, when he compared illegal immigration to getting a speeding ticket. And once you paid the speeding ticket, why, you`re no longer a speeder.

BECK: Hang on just a second. I can`t believe -- I mean, Pat, you and I have been friends forever. I know you. You`re -- I mean, you are a hate monger. You hate all colors other than white or is -- have you -- I mean, I got a -- I know I got a tan this weekend. I was out in the sun. Do you hate me more than you did...

GRAY: Yes, I do.

BECK: That`s what I thought. You and I go back a long time. I know -- I know your heart. I know you as a person. However, when you say, you know, you agree with invasion I kind of can see the point here. I think, you know, when you watch these -- when you watch these rallies where they`re holding up signs that say, "This is our country." I`m with you.

GRAY: Right.

BECK: When you go into Tony Snow, really, what did he say that was so wrong? Tony Snow is right. We treat it like it`s a speeding ticket.

GRAY: Well, to me, it`s a little more serious than that. And I think the problem`s a little bit bigger than that. We kind of kicked around an analogy on the air this morning.

It`s like showing up at a crowded movie theater where there`s 200 people, and half of the movie theater audience sneaked into the show. And then, maybe 30 minutes into the movie, the usher comes in and says, "Hey, everybody who saw the first, um, we know that half of you sneaked into the theater, but everybody who saw the first half an hour of the movie, we`re going to just let you stay and watch the entire movie." And because...

BECK: But that`s not -- you know what? That`s not necessarily a problem for the people in the theater. That`s a problem with the theater itself. I think Tony Snow can say it`s akin to a parking ticket because that`s the way we take it right now.

Pat, I`ve to run. But I`ve got to tell you, I wonder if you`d have this same attitude if there were a bunch of Swedish super models coming over and building IKEAs.

GRAY: Yes, I would.

BECK: I know you would. Thanks a lot, Pat.

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: He broke up with me...

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: He broke up with you because...

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: ... he wanted time and space which I had no idea why.

PAIGE: Guys are so weird like that. So have you had any weird run- ins with him?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yes, well, right now we`re kind of trying to get back together.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I know someone who broke up on Instant Messenger?

PAIGE: Instant Messenger?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yes.

PAIGE: That`s so cruel. Why the Instant Messenger?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I don`t know. It`s like you can just sign off right afterwards and block them.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We were dating for, like, about, like about a year or two.

PAIGE: So how did she manage to date you and then go get engaged to some other dude?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: She had, like, other guys before me.

PAIGE: She obviously was working a little side action.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Possibly.

PAIGE: And she pulled the sheets right over your head.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Definitely.

PAIGE: And I feel like you`re still upset about it. Are you?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes, it still, like, comes up in my mind every time.

PAIGE: And it`s been how many years now?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It`s been, like about, like, 20 years.

PAIGE: 20 years?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes.

PAIGE: 20 years?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes.

PAIGE: Almost as old as me.

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BECK: I mean, you got to get -- let it go, man, let it go. By the way, that`s Lisa Paige, good friend of the program and on Q102 in the mornings in Philadelphia.

Christy Lemire, she`s the movie critic from Associated Press. She`s with us now.

Christy, obviously, Lisa was out talking about the new Jennifer Aniston movie, "The Breakup." Have you seen it yet?

CHRISTY LEMIRE, MOVIE CRITIC, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS: I have indeed.

BECK: Good or bad?

LEMIRE: You know, it`s funny because I don`t believe these two should even be together in the first place, and they break up at the very beginning of the film. They`re so vastly different.

Vince Vaughn is being Vince Vaughn on cue, like he`s just infinitely funny. He sits around and watches SportsCenter all day and video games, and she wants to go to the ballet. She works in an art gallery, and they`re so different, I can`t believe they`ve been together for two years and they share a condo.

BECK: Opposites attract.

LEMIRE: No, but, you know, they seem totally incompatible. So when they break up, like, it`s not tragic. It just sort of makes sense to me.

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And then from there it is this self-professed anti-romantic comedy. And what they`re trying to do is what they did with the "War of the Roses" with Kathleen Turner and Michael Douglas, where they`re both sharing the same place and trying to drive one another out of it.

But they`re always kind of toying with each other. It never really feels mean enough to me. I want mean, and they`re not mean enough.

BECK: I mean, look at you. You look so nice, and you want mean. What is up with that? I mean, honestly, most guys at least just want naked Jennifer Aniston, that`s it.

LEMIRE: And she is naked and showing off her beautifully yoga-toned, tan body.

BECK: God bless America.

LEMIRE: Life in Malibu is doing her well.

BECK: It is great. What is the rating on this one?

LEMIRE: It`s like PG-13. They say the f-word like once.

BECK: There is a god. There is a god. OK. You know, I`ve sworn off rated-R movies just because of man`s inhumanity to man. I saw "Seven" years ago and I`m like, "Why am I watching this for entertainment?" So I`ve sworn off rated-R movies and it really -- it`s an arbitrary line that sometimes really hacks me off, and it makes me happy that she`s naked in a PG-13 movie.

LEMIRE: She is, from the back, and it`s tasteful. It`s sort of like dark and sort of silhouetted.

BECK: Is it beautiful? Because I`ve tried to convince my wife that, honey, "Playboy" magazine, it`s beautifully shot. It`s almost art.

LEMIRE: It is airbrushed.

BECK: Yes, right. You saw "Omen."

LEMIRE: I just saw "The Omen" just now right before I came here. I just saw the remake of "The Omen."

BECK: One of my favorite all-time movies. I love it.

LEMIRE: It`s so scary. When I was a little girl, it scared the hell out of me. This is very faithful to the original, like, I would say almost too much so, in that it is almost shot for shot, scene for scene identical to the 1970 original. It`s not quite as faithful as, like, remember that "Psycho" remake that Gus Van Sant did, where he intentionally did it? This is like they just breathe no new life into it. The dialogue`s identical.

You have Liev Schreiber and Julia Stiles instead of Gregory Peck and Leigh Remick, and sort of like a modern man, sensitive man version of "The Omen," in that Liev Schreiber...

BECK: Sensitive man version?

LEMIRE: Here`s why, because Liev Schreiber cries, like, way more than Gregory Peck ever would have agreed to, like...

BECK: I got to tell you something. If my kid is the devil, I think I`m crying, too.

LEMIRE: Right, but he doesn`t know he`s the devil.

BECK: Is that kid freaky or what? You know the kid that played in the original "Omen"? Like, who was it that was on the set said that they couldn`t even look at the kid because they were -- it was freaking them out. And I heard that -- is it Mia Farrow that`s in this movie? Mia Farrow said she had nightmares after filming this movie.

LEMIRE: Well, Mia Farrow`s great. She`s like the creepy, evil nanny, but she plays it like sunshine and goodness, like, "Hi, I`m just here with some flowers to cheer your day."

BECK: Oh...

LEMIRE: It`s just totally different though.

BECK: Worth going?

LEMIRE: It`s really not that scary. I mean, if you like the original, I would say just keep that as a shining, beautiful memory in your mind.

BECK: A shining, beautiful memory. It`s the "Omen."

LEMIRE: It is scary.

BECK: Christy, thanks a lot. See you next week.

LEMIRE: Bye. See you.

BECK: All right, once again, we`re here for the least favorite segment, "The Public Viewer." This is where Brian Sack, who`s independent from the show, brings in the viewer feedback and critiques from the previous week which I just love.

I only did a couple of shows this week but, apparently, he still had a lot to choose from.

BRIAN SACK, THE PUBLIC VIEWER: There was plenty. There was some stuff to work, and I have some tape of your radio show I`d like to run, if you don`t mind.

BECK: Yes.

SACK: It`s pretty interesting.

BECK: You have to just -- you have to find material somewhere.

SACK: Oh, look at that. Oh, where`s Glenn? Where`s Glenn?

BECK: I thought I was having a heart attack this week.

SACK: Did you spend Memorial Day kicking around a dead chicken? Do you feel bad -- you`re not patient zero?

BECK: I had bird disease. Well, it`s hummingbird disease, but that`s what I have.

SACK: OK, America`s kind of worried. They want to know that you don`t have a problem with roofies or dope.

BECK: I mean, is this tape going to be saved for all time? Can it be used as evidence against me...

SACK: It will be brought back against you later when the allegations come out.

BECK: No, actually, I thought I had a heart attack on Monday. It turns out, no. No, it was just the dread for this segment.

SACK: It`s good to check in. OK, well, moving on. The Haditha interview, got a lot of e-mail on that. Very interesting. I`m going to show some tape, and I`ll show you why we got a lot of e-mail on that.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Oh, that`s exactly right. And part of the issue is you have all these good things that are being done, providing just like...

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SACK: You see that? You`re like Rainman with a pen.

BECK: I couldn`t take it. It was just -- he was hacking me off, people throwing our troops under the bus, you know?

SACK: OK, I just want to show you something. This is a microphone. You have one, too. And these pick up sounds, and not just Glenn Back`s voice, but also any sounds nearby. So in the future...

BECK: You know what this? This is the sound of your contract.

SACK: Oh, hey, but, you know, it was confusing because I realize -- I had a flashback to a present you got from a certain Molly Sims fairly recently. I have some tape of that incident and...

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

MOLLY SIMS, MODEL: I got you one.

BECK: Oh, shut up, it`s an $11,000 pen. Thank you very much.

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SACK: Does an $11,000 pen make a clickity-click noise like that?

BECK: No, that was the Bic.

SACK: OK, so you`re not using Molly Sims pen.

BECK: I sold the $11,000 pen. It`s been on eBay for about a week. By the way, the bidding stops this Sunday night. So going for $7,000 right now, going for seven grand.

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SACK: What`s your eBay handle? What`s your eBay handle?

BECK: I don`t have one.

SACK: OK.

BECK: Actually.

SACK: Moving onto the Belushi interview, Jim Belushi, you had a little discussion there about names that were inappropriate, and I`ve got a segment from that. We`re going to play it right now.

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JIM BELUSHI, ACTOR: Tanner as a last name is fine. Tanner as a job is fine. Tanner as a first name sucks.

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BECK: How good is the friend?

SACK: It`s weird.

BECK: He was a good friend. I`ll go with the first one. Stop, stop, stop.

SACK: Yes, we can stop that. I thought you`d be a little more upset about that. I mean, you know, you do have a kid named Cheyenne and one named Raphe, no?

BECK: Yes, you know -- actually, this is -- I`m coming clean with America. I didn`t think I was in the hospital having a heart attack. Jim Belushi was supposed to be on the radio show the following day, and my producer said, "Glenn, I can`t believe you would say that about Tanner. Cheyenne and Raphe?" And, so I all of a sudden got sick, couldn`t show up for the interview.

SACK: Ah, you booked out. I understand now.

Also, we had a thing -- I touched upon last week, it was the sleepy guest from MIT, the gentleman who was kind of snoozing during the interview. And we have a little footage of that. You can see he was visibly falling asleep, and I thought we had kind of solved that problem.

BECK: Sure.

SACK: That`s why I was so stunned to see this next segment. You`re kind of, you know...

BECK: You know, God bless her. She`s from the "Philadelphia Inquirer." My wife and I had a debate. I think she was blind.

SACK: No, I think there`s -- I don`t even think it`s something in the green room anymore. I`m just thinking you have a hypnotic tone to your voice that puts people to sleep.

BECK: Really?

SACK: When they`re sitting in the seat.

BECK: Are you feeling sleepy now, Brian, because that would be quite helpful?

SACK: Just a little sleepy.

One more thing, this was your sign-off there that kind of caught me off-guard, and a lot of e-mail came in on this.

BECK: Oh, my magazine stage show, blah-blah-blah.

SACK: Sloppy, sloppy, no?

BECK: What?

SACK: The shirt tucked. So many people commented on your shirt being un-tucked and hanging out.

BECK: Oh, really?

SACK: Yes, absolutely.

BECK: I was a little busy that day.

SACK: Well, you know, I thought it was kind of, you know, sloppy. You`ve got a nice sport jacket on, and...

BECK: You jerk.

SACK: I am, aren`t I? All right.

BECK: Jerk. All right, I guess two days of material just isn`t enough for you.

SACK: It`s really not.

BECK: We`re going to do a cool five shows for you next week.

SACK: Fantastic. PublicViewer@GlennBeck.com.

BECK: What was it again?

SACK: PublicViewer@GlennBeck.com.

BECK: That`s just terrific.

SACK: And so it goes.

BECK: See you next week, Brian. Bye-bye.

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(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

BECK: That`s how misunderstood we are to Hollywood. They`re like -- "They like Jesus movies. Hey, how about `The Omen`?"

What does that have to do with a Jesus movie? "Well, Satan is in that Jesus story, isn`t he?" I mean, occasionally Mel Gibson looks freaky in an interview, but I got to tell you, you know what that is? That`s like saying that Bugatti -- have you seen that million-dollar sports car? It`s a Bugatti. Is that even out yet? They`ve been threatening to bring it out for like four years. It`s finally out. It`s like the fastest car ever made. It`s like a million-dollar sports car.

That`s like saying, "Look at this, man, people love the Bugatti. Look at that Bugatti. Oh, we need to build more Priuses." What? We need to build more Priuses? "Well, the Bugatti is a car. People like cars. That`s clearly the message I get: People love cars."

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BECK: All right, I`ve got to be honest with you. The jury is still out on whether this show is going to last an entire six weeks, so I`m immediately humbled by talking to a guy who`s been on a TV show that`s now entering its sixth season, especially when the character the guy plays is a guy`s guy and mine is, well, kind of a wimp in real life.

To make matters worse, Jim Belushi, star of ABC`s "According to Jim," is out with a new book that makes me feel even worse about myself, if that is possible. It`s called, "Real Men Don`t Apologize."

I spend just a couple of minutes with Mr. Belushi earlier this week. And I felt, yes, a little low.

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BECK: So tell me about the book. When should guys apologize?

BELUSHI: Well, you know, it`s really kind of a tongue-in-cheek self- help book, but it has an extension of a lot of the attitudes in "According to Jim," where, you know, there`s a real man and there`s a real woman, opposed to a moron as a man and a woman who`s mean.

BECK: Sure, sure.

BELUSHI: And I mean never apologize for being a man. I mean, you should apologize for things that obviously are -- if you create a victim situation or verbal abuse or all that stuff. I mean, this is kind of a...

BECK: Look at you. You are so...

BELUSHI: Well, I don`t want anyone to...

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BECK: You`re afraid you`re going to have to apologize. You`re playing the P.C. game.

BELUSHI: No, no, I just don`t want women to -- some women are saying, "What do you mean, real men don`t apologize?" But when they read the book, they actually love it, because it really does honor women and it tells men how to man up a little bit for these women.

BECK: What a load of crap this is.

BELUSHI: That is not crap.

BECK: That is total crap.

BELUSHI: You haven`t read the book.

BECK: You know it, and I know it.

BELUSHI: It does honor women. It has great respect for the power that women have and that we have to really kind of have some strength and have some backbone.

BECK: I think I`m more of a guy than you are.

BELUSHI: You? What?

BECK: I think I`m more of a guy than you are.

BELUSHI: You know what? Did you even take the quiz in the book, Glenn?

BECK: No, I didn`t take the quiz.

BELUSHI: Well, you know what? I`m going to look through this fine CNN library and see if I can find it.

BECK: Oh, I wonder -- oh, my gosh.

BELUSHI: Well, look at this. "Real Men Don`t Apologize" in your library.

BECK: Who would have guessed that? It`s crazy.

BELUSHI: It`s great. CNN has a fine library, fine publications. I`ll read a little quiz for you out of the book.

(CROSSTALK)

BECK: Yes.

BELUSHI: OK. Here. Answer this, Glenn.

BECK: Yes.

BELUSHI: Your friend and his wife are having a baby boy. She wants to name him Tanner.

BECK: Tanner.

BELUSHI: You: a, ask him if he needs to borrow a testicle until his wife lets him have his back; congratulate him; buy the boy books on choreography and fashion design; nod sadly and suggest some nicknames for the kid, Spike, Nails and Bronco should be among them; slap your friend and tell him he`s a father, his job is to raise the boy to be a man. Tanner as a last name is fine. Tanner as a job is fine. Tanner as a first name sucks.

BECK: All right. How good is the friend?

(LAUGHTER)

If it was a good friend, I`d go with the first one. Grow a set.

BELUSHI: There you go.

BECK: Yes.

BELUSHI: Good answer. That`s a good answer. That`s actually the answer.

BECK: See, there you go. Is that the answer?

BELUSHI: See, you passed the first real man test.

BECK: I`ve got the Jim Belushi seal of approval that I`m a real man. Let me just change gears here, and I`d like to welcome America to Hi, Alcoholics, Corner. I`m an alcoholic. I mean, just, whew, in recovery currently.

BELUSHI: Yes.

BECK: And, you are -- I mean, let`s just -- I`ll tell you what. Can we just -- let`s just use first names here, so we don`t blow anybody`s anonymity.

BELUSHI: Yes.

BECK: But you were -- you had a problem for a long time.

BELUSHI: No, not at all.

BECK: No?

(LAUGHTER)

BELUSHI: I don`t know where you`re seeing that. What are you talking about?

BECK: What happened? When was your low point? When did you say, "I got to turn it around"?

BELUSHI: After the second divorce. I finally decided that, you know what, the first one was her fault, and then the second one is my fault. So what`s really going on here with me and women and relationships?

BECK: Right.

BELUSHI: And I spent the last 10, 15 years just searching for -- doing some self-searching and just searching for answers of who I am as a man and how I am in relation to women and the community around me.

And a lot of the attitudes that I`ve discovered through the men`s readings that I`ve done or men`s groups that I`ve been involved with or all different kinds of organizations, I`ve put a lot of those attitudes in "According to Jim," and discovered some very funny differences between men and women. And...

BECK: Like what? What have you found? It`s...

BELUSHI: Well, I find that women...

BECK: It`s based in reality.

BELUSHI: Well, I find that women are -- look, I asked one guy. He was married 50 years. I said, "How did you do it?" He said, look, he said, "I let my wife make all the little decisions and I make all the big decisions." And I said, "What do you mean little decisions?" He goes, "You know, little decisions, like where we`re going to live, how many children we`re going to have, what kind of car we`re going to drive, who`s going to spend the money."

And I said, "Well, what are the big decisions that you make?" And he says, well, the big decisions like whether we should let China into the U.N. You know, are the Cubs really going to pull it out this summer? So, I mean, the differences between men and women, the capabilities of women are so massive and men are just kind of single-focused.

BECK: I will tell you that I find any guy who says that, you know, "Hey, I wear the pants around the house. I`m the wearer of the pants in the family," they`re liars, out and out liars.

BELUSHI: Well, I think that women should at least give the illusion that men are wearing the pants in the family.

BECK: No, no, I appreciate that. But you know what? But it is. If you really have it down with a relationship, you know that, if she`s happy, you`re happy. If she`s miserable, you`re miserable. I don`t know if it works the same way with women. But as a guy who...

BELUSHI: Yes, but how do you make a woman happy? How do you keep her happy? That`s what some of the tips in the book are.

BECK: Jewelry.

BELUSHI: Jewelry is the first answer.

BECK: I found jewelry. You got another one? You have more answers than one?

BELUSHI: Well...

BECK: Are they less expensive?

BELUSHI: Well, shoes. You can come down a little bit, shoes. I mean, women love shoes because, for the rest of their lives, from the ankle down, they will always look like Cindy Crawford. That`s why they like shoes.

BECK: Oh, that`s beautiful. Best of luck to you on your TV show.

BELUSHI: Thanks.

BECK: It`s fabulous. I mean, I had respect for people who had TV shows, and then I realized they give them out like candy. I`ve got one.

BELUSHI: Yes, you`ve got one. But if you`re getting to have one with a pink, fuchsia pink shirt, then anybody can have one.

BECK: All right. All right. Thanks a lot. Best of luck to you.

BELUSHI: Thanks for your support.

BECK: You bet. Bye-bye.

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BECK: All right. Welcome to "Ask Glenn," where you can ask me anything about anything. And instead of just e-mailing you back like any normal person, I`ll answer it on TV with absolutely no regard as to whether you`re actually watching or not.

Greg from Philadelphia writes in, "Glenn, big fan of `Lost` and loved Michelle Rodriguez, but I hear she`s going back to jail for a DUI. I saw her mugshot. And, in my opinion, it`s the best-looking mugshot of all time. Am I wrong? Greg, Philadelphia."

Greg, thanks for the e-mail. Yes, Michelle Rodriguez is going back to jail, this time for 60 days. But what`s really nice to see is that, while some people focus on the crime or the potential effects on society, you go straight for the hotness of the mugshot. Nice, brother. No, it is.

So does Michelle Rodriguez have the world`s sexiest mugshot? Bring it up. Yes, brother, that is a good candidate. She`s looking pretty good, fit, trim, sober-ish.

But, honestly, there are other nominees. There`s not like there`s that much competition. First, there`s James Brown and his classic mugshot. But not surprisingly, not the worst hair of all time. That goes to Nick Nolte.

Plus, you have to love the shirt here that I think he stole right directly from Magnum P.I.`s dead grandfather.

My favorite, though, is the underrated James Traficant. You remember this guy? You should, at least, remember the hair that doubles as a hat in the winter.

Then there`s the late Andre the Giant. I love this one, because of the mutton chops here. I mean, he`s making a statement, you know? If you`re going to go with sideburns, you commit to them, brother. You don`t stop when convention says so or when nearby children start to look terrified and run in horror.

Here`s a brand new nominee, Linda McBride (ph). Look at her. Oh, sexy? You bet. And I love the touch of several Band-aids on the glasses, which is always nice.

Oh, and, by the way, for all you people who call me up on the radio show and say, "Hey, don`t worry about these hot women having sex with students," Linda was arrested for having sex with a 13-year-old. Not quite as charming when she doesn`t look like Deb LaFave, huh?

But with competition like this, give the sexiest mugshot award to Michelle Rodriguez. No, our winner is -- we`re going to leave you with it -- Glen Campbell, brother. Oh, yes, sexy Glen. We`ll see you tomorrow, you sick, twisted freak.

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