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Congresswoman Omar has come out and she has completely and unequivocally

retracted what she said about Jews.

Unequivocally.

Well, I mean, except there are some problems with some Jews.

Jews are bad.

Yeah,

but I completely withdraw that entirely.

In fact, I am so Jew-friendly, here's Linda Sarsour to come to my defense.

And if that's not enough, on my other hand, on my other hand, here's David Duke running to my defense.

Oh, this is some fine eating today.

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Oh, boy.

Steuce, deuce, deuce, too.

Oh.

So, Congresswoman Omar from Minnesota is.

There's a little misunderstanding.

There was a little misunderstanding.

She had no idea.

No, she didn't know.

She did not.

She did not know.

This happens from time to time.

People aren't perfect.

And

people have to take time to be able to learn about different things in the world.

There's a lot of new concepts for people.

Did you know, Glenn, that in the past,

Jews have had some issues, and some people have not liked them.

This is all news to me.

Well, let me just read.

Anti-Semitism is real.

And I am grateful for Jewish allies and colleagues who are educating me on the painful history of anti-Semitic tropes.

Did you know?

I had no idea.

I had no idea.

There were tropes out there like, like, like Jews use money to influence people and control the world.

I had never heard of that before.

That's probably

one of the smaller tropes, don't you think?

Oh, I think so.

Yeah.

My intention was never to

offend my constituents or Jewish Americans as a whole.

Oh, no.

We always have to be willing to step back and think through criticism, just as I expect people to hear me when others attack me for my identity.

This is why I unequivocally apologize.

Now, it's interesting because she

is using this opportunity of her own

anti-Semitism to point out that she's also a victim.

She's also a victim, Glenn.

She gets attacked all the time.

She's the only time she gets attacked.

And she hopes people listen to her.

Now, look, as a Palestinian, or as a woman who is, what's her background?

Because I'm getting confused to lie.

She's Muslim.

She's Muslim.

She's Muslim.

How could she possibly in her life have come up with someone saying something anti-Semitic?

No.

It's incredibly unlikely that at any time

in her background, would she ever come across someone else who was saying anything like that?

Yeah.

It's just not.

She's learning.

She has nobody around her ever in her life.

She has never heard as a Muslim anything that might be anti-Semitic.

In fact, she skips the parts of the Quran where it's like, oh, rocks, cry out.

There's There's a Jew hiding behind me.

Oh, trees, cry out.

She avoids those things.

Good for her.

She doesn't know.

But she does say she unequivocally apologizes.

At the same time, I reaffirm the problematic role of lobbyists in our politics.

Wait.

Didn't she say it was unequivocal?

Yeah, it was unequivocal, but she's quivocating here just a bit.

She just wants to point out that Jews are influencing our politics with their money.

So basically, she's saying she apologizes for any possible offense.

She wants you to know.

Let me summarize.

She wants you to know, Stu, that anti-Semitism is real.

There are real problems.

She wants to point out that there are real problems.

Unequivocally, real problems with anti-Semitism, but perhaps they wouldn't be so bad if there weren't so many Jews.

That makes sense because it's true.

I mean, if there were less Jews, maybe the problem would be

slightly less.

It would be less.

You know what I mean?

And here's linda sarsour to tell us more now linda sarsur if you this is unbelievable i mean that is not the character witness you need at this time no i love this linda a women's march leader linda sarsour rushes to representative omar's defense i'm thinking with friends like this who needs enemies Yeah, you don't know.

Linda, no, back away, back away.

Now, we remember Linda because Linda was the one in the women's march that we told you just recently as it was falling apart.

That remember, she was meeting with some Jewish women at the very beginning of the women's march, and she was,

you know, she was

perhaps explaining some of these Jewish tropes, these anti-Jewish tropes

to the Jewish women there.

It sounded like she was being very anti-Semitic, but I'm sure she was learning.

Anyway, she said, I will not be silenced in the face of attacks, harassment, and targeted policing of speech.

So wait, Linda Sarsour

is concerned about targeted speech.

Very concerned about it.

Now, sure, her entire organization exists to

get people fired for things that they've said online.

But, you know, though, she's very concerned about the targeted speech thing.

And she's a great character witness.

I know, like,

knew someone who was accused of sexual harassment, I would want Harvey Weinstein to jump right in and defend right in there.

Please, Harvey, jump in there.

Hang on, hang on, hang on, hang on just a second.

I'm receiving a message from

beyond.

Hang on, I'm just trying to translate this as

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Is that a Ouija?

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Okay.

I'm getting some sort of message.

Somebody wants to communicate from beyond that is telling us that she's okay.

Oh, good.

She's okay.

She's got support here in this life and beyond, according to the Ouija board.

That's good to hear.

So, anyway,

she says she is not going to stand by and see attacks and harassment and targeted policing of speech

from a black Muslim woman elected official, our sister, sister Omar, in the name of combating anti-Semitism.

We can stand up for Congresswoman Omar, knowing her record and what she stands for.

She's been in Congress for like several weeks, so her record is very, very, very, very, very clear.

Yeah, she definitely has a record.

The record's not in Congress.

It's been the things that she's said over her lifetime, which indicate perhaps, maybe she has heard some of these tropes before.

Maybe, maybe, just there's a slight possibility that what she's saying now is complete bull crap.

There's a possibility of it.

No.

I know.

It's an outlandish possibility.

No.

I mean, she's found humor in so many situations, Glenn.

So many wonderful situations.

Like when she was talking about al-Qaeda and Hezbollah in 2013,

this is, she is fantastic.

Let's listen to some of this.

A product of this sensationalized media.

You know, you have these sound bites and you have these words, and everybody says it with such an

intensity.

And so it must mean, it must hold a bigger meaning.

It sounds strange.

I remember when I was in college, I took a terrorism class.

Is that a such thing?

Yeah, there was.

So you go out, there is a lab for that?

There was a class that used to.

Do you go to a lab?

No,

no, you learn the ideology of how do you do that.

And so

the thing that was interesting in the class was every time

the professor said al-Qaeda, he sort of like, his shoulders went up.

And, you know, he's in command here.

Al-Qaeda, you know, husband.

He's an expert.

And it was, you know, as

a way of

saying

that is so funny.

That is so funny.

He was like freaked out by Al-Qaeda.

Like, he was an expert on Al-Qaeda, you know, or Hezbollah.

like he knows what terrorists are.

Let's say where he lives.

Because that's a funny way to go with that.

Where does he live?

Oh, man.

She's hilarious.

Oh, she's great.

Hey, somebody else, you know, Talib?

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

Congresswoman Talib.

She has, in 2006, a lot of people didn't know this, but she wrote an op-ed for the final call.

Oh, I love the final call.

Do you get the final call?

Oh, I think I do.

Is that the final?

That's Lewis Farrakhan.

That's Lewis Farrakhan's newspaper.

So the final, we all get it.

I've got a lot of type subscription.

Do you?

Oh, yeah, it's really good.

Yeah.

So,

you know.

How would any of these people come across anti-Semitic tropes?

They couldn't.

It's almost impossible.

Well, she was talking about how Israel has a delusional, ISIS-like ideology.

Oh, okay.

And that the creation of that country was a crime.

But other than that.

Other than that, there's nothing here.

No, no big deal.

There's not a long history here at all.

By the way, and I'm not making this up, David Duke also came in to tweet his support.

David Duke's a big.

He does not like the Jews.

People, you know,

on the front of his business card, it says, I don't like black people.

But if you really look at the resume, you notice he does not like Jews all that much either.

Not a fan.

Well, but he's not using tropes.

No, he occasionally will use a trope.

No, no, no.

No, he just talks facts.

Like

Congresswoman Omar said,

you know, know, look, I don't want to be anti-Semitic, but there's a real problem with Jews.

So, right, that's what David Duke is doing.

He's like, Yeah, I don't want to, I'm sorry that I was using a trope.

I just need to tell you the facts.

If it wasn't for all these Jews, you know, we wouldn't have all these problems if it wasn't for all these Jews.

And hang on just a second.

I'm getting another

message from beyond with the Ouija board.

It's this one's from H

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him somebody.

I don't know.

I don't have time.

We have to take a quick break.

Back in a minute.

We'll try to

find out.

Might be Himmler.

Might be Himmler.

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You know, I have to tell you, I feel bad for Congresswoman Omar a little bit because we've all been through these kinds of situations before where, you know, you do something and you just didn't know.

Like, for instance, we had some new neighbors move in just down the street,

this nice black family.

And we wanted to do something nice for them.

And we were going to go over to their house.

We live in a very Christian neighborhood.

And we wanted to welcome them and say, hey, we're Christians.

We're probably sure you're Christians too.

And we wanted to do something nice and spectacular.

So we brought a big cross over and we put it in their front yard.

And because it was night, I wanted to make sure they saw it.

We just lit it on fire.

Oh, because they could definitely see that.

They'd be able to see the outline of the cross.

Yeah,

I find out.

They're all offended.

I find out, and I had no idea.

Offended.

That a burning cross was some sort of clan trope.

And they were like, Your family was all dressed with white hoods.

And I'm like, No, not because of the clan.

I had no idea.

I'm learning a lot.

I'm learning a lot.

Yeah.

And so, why would you, why were you wearing a white, white hood?

Safety first.

Okay, what are you going to wear black?

I said, kids, make sure that every car can see you.

Make sure you're dressed in the white and put this pointy white hood on because it's a little cold outside.

But make sure it's white.

So we did that.

I'm learning a lot, and I apologize.

I unequivocally

just

divorce myself from all of that.

I had no idea.

But at the same time, I do want to point out that blacks are moving into Christian white neighborhoods.

So.

But I do.

But right now.

But that has nothing to do with the...

That's not an equivocation, right?

No, no, no, no.

Because it seems, I mean, because some people might say the thing you're apologizing for, you're following up immediately by reinforcing.

No, ask David Duke.

He even came to my defense.

Oh, he did?

Yeah.

Oh, wow.

Well, it's good to have a very prominent figure like David to come to your defense in a situation like that.

And David's been endorsing candidates and everything all over the place.

They seem to be in the Democratic primary, which is a little weird.

So, you know what's weird is also,

I was welcoming a young intern to the business here just recently.

You run a business.

A lot of times it's good for a person who's high level in the business to kind of talk to the person who's at intern level, make them feel welcome.

Right.

And I later found out that

apparently a very vigorous no-pants welcome is considered by some in some female cultures as sexual abuse.

Now, I had no idea.

I honestly thought you were about to say it's considered to be awesome.

Right.

And that's not awesome.

Right.

No, it is considered.

Now, I'm learning a lot about females and different cultures oh wow i had no idea that was considered abusive at all uh i will tell you you know that you got to be careful because i mean she was the way she was dressed the way she was dressed yeah she wanted it you know what i mean it didn't seem like but i unequivocally uh divorce myself from any kind of of of predatory kind of of course action although if she didn't want it she shouldn't have dressed that way is what you're saying that's right of course yeah yeah yeah But you should be aware that some women in some cultures don't like a no-pants policy.

Wow, I feel like I'm at college.

I'm just like, I'm at university learning.

I'm absorbing so much here because

these customs are unfamiliar to me.

They're just wild and crazy.

And there's something.

I mean, look, as a Palestinian or a Muslim, there's no way you could ever pick up.

that there were tropes against Jews in your entire life.

You'd never hear them.

She's learning right now about those things.

Just like you're learning about running a business.

So what's so crazy?

I went to

the southern rim of the Grand Canyon, which is in

the Native American territory.

Oh, sure.

Okay.

And I thought, you know, hey, this is great.

I'm going to go get me some wum-pum.

And so I came up and I was like, hey, I'm in the gift shop.

Hey, Chief,

where's the wum-pum?

Because me smoke them wum-pump.

I bet they really like that.

Because I was trying to relate to them.

Yes.

You know what I mean?

But what I found out is

some Indian cultures find

that to be offensive.

You're kidding me.

No.

You are kidding me.

No.

No.

Wow.

No.

And I unequivocally

separate myself from any kind of racism

with the Native Americans.

Absolutely.

They are our friends.

But I would like to point out that, you know, if Andrew Jackson would have done his job, you know, we could have all gone to the South Rim and we wouldn't have had a problem with.

No, that does seem like an equivocation of some

of the things that I'm saying.

I'm just agreeing.

I want to point out, though, that there is some problems.

You know, there are problems.

I think you did mention this incident to me because this is the time you were wearing the Trail of Tears t-shirt.

And they didn't like that.

Well, it wasn't a t-shirt.

It was shoes.

I took shoes and I put a Native American face on them.

Well, inside the shoe.

So you were walking, you know, the Trail of Tears.

There was a new Trail of Tears.

A lot like Katy Perry's new shoes.

I just want to say none of this is offensive at all.

It's just about learning.

This is about us learning together.

If I've offended anyone, I had no idea.

Oh, my gosh, no.

I had no idea.

We're learning.

Yeah.

This is like school.

You can wait for it.

Until I tell you what's happening at the University of Maryland.

You're not going to believe that.

But the University of Maryland came out with a statement that I think we should all hear and support.

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Pat,

I know you're a big fan of Katie, uh, of Katy Perry.

Oh,

but

she has

done something that

I just can't believe.

Uh, she, uh, have you seen them?

I've seen them.

Oh, my goodness.

In case you haven't seen them, here they are.

My goodness.

The blackface shoes.

I call them Mammy slippers because they're clearly Mammy slippers.

Obviously.

That's clearly what she was talking about.

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from stores.

They also look a little bit like Mr.

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They do.

Well, this one looks like Mr.

Potato Head, which is obviously

an anti-potato statement.

And this is clearly a Mammy slipper.

Wow.

And

I say we tie stones around her, throw her into a lake.

If she floats, we know she means it, you know, and we'll have to kill her.

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She's an innocent.

Oh, she's innocent.

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No fascists.

Okay.

So

Pad is very excited about the border.

It finally happened.

It's fixed.

We're done now.

Yeah.

I don't think we are.

No, we're cool.

Totally.

This is totally cool because they got $1.375 billion

to build a full

55 miles of border wall.

I mean, that's impenetrable.

Okay, hang on just a second.

You can't get around or over that on a 2,000-mile border.

You can't.

Hold it just a second.

I thought we know that estimates, and they're always wrong, estimates are that it's going to take at least $20 billion to build a business.

I think it was $25, but now we're

now.

But we had $5 billion,

right?

Yeah, we did.

Well, it was $20.

Initially, it was $25.

They did offer the full amount just a year ago.

It did.

But

that's no longer available.

And then before the shutdown, they did offer $1.7

billion.

And now after the shutdown, they're getting everything they need, the $1.5 billion.

Through deft and expert negotiation, they were able to get just a little bit less than the worst offer before the shutdown.

So here's the problem.

Here is the problem.

Seriously, here is the problem.

He blinked.

The great thing, the reason why Donald Trump is is one of the best negotiators, and I mean this sincerely, my favorite Donald Trump story, you've heard it a million times, is how he built Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue.

They have air rights in New York.

People own the air.

Above your building, right?

Above your building.

So Tiffany's, which is on the corner opposite of Trump Tower and about half a block away.

Tiffany's actually owns all of the air above Fifth Avenue for a couple of blocks.

And so you couldn't build anything over like, I think four stories on Fifth Avenue in those blocks because of Tiffany's.

So he went to Tiffany.

It was either Tiffany's or Cartier.

I think it was Tiffany's.

And he said,

before he left, he talked to his architect.

and said, I want you to draw up two plans.

I want you to draw up the Trump Tower that we've been talking about, a beautiful tower.

And I want you to draw up plans for the ugliest building that is five stories, ugliest building you could possibly ever imagine.

And so he did.

And he brought them both to a meeting and he said, hey, I want to build Trump Tower.

And the owner of the air rights said, no.

Well,

well, there won't be anything over five stories here because we own the air rights and we're not going to sell them to you.

We don't want some monstrosity here.

And he said, you know what?

You are so right.

You are so right.

Now, I've already bought this property with plans to build this, but I knew that you might be set on a small building.

So, here's what I'm going to build if you don't sell me the air rights.

And he laid it out and he said, I'll leave it up to you, but I want you to know I will build that building.

He did not blink, and he's a great negotiator because when he got back to the office, they were already on the phone saying, Come back, we'll do that.

Because they knew that son of a bitch will do it.

He blinked.

He made a promise that he wasn't willing to keep and they knew that he wouldn't keep it.

All of his power goes away.

Remember, he is the president that I've been looking for for a while in this one category.

A guy with a twitchy eye.

I've said this for years.

You want your enemies

Need to feel like the president has a twitchy eye where they look at each other and go that guy just might do it.

I think he's nuts.

So I preferred that that's the way Russia looked at our president.

Not necessarily the people in our own country, but he has that twitchy eye.

And you never know what he's going to do.

Well,

he telegraphed that he was willing to cave.

We should clarify.

He hasn't done that yet.

No, he hasn't.

Right.

So this deal was supposedly struck up between Republicans and Democrats.

He still has not signed it or approved it yet.

He could still reject it.

Now,

I.

How lame are Republicans, though, for accepting talk?

How lame are they?

They've never had any intention.

No, they haven't.

They never had any intention.

55 miles of border protection is like finding out you have lung cancer and your doctor says, here's a throat lozenge.

Good luck.

Wait, that's it?

That's what I get for lung cancer?

Yeah.

That's what 55 miles of border is when you have a 2,000-mile border.

It's nothing.

It doesn't help.

The problem is.

It's not even worth doing.

I think where you can look at this and say there's a real problem is the Democrats know that this is all being blamed on Republicans if there is another shutdown.

So they have absolutely no leverage here.

And part of that is because Trump came out and said it was me.

Like, look, the shutdown is mine.

I own it.

And he thought he could stick with that.

But

I think he found out that didn't work for him because he didn't make the case relentlessly.

And

he needed needed to make the case.

The American people could have been with him if he made the case.

Look at how Democrats do that.

They pound people,

but

they also have the press, which makes it really easy.

Yeah, but the president's got Fox News.

I mean, they'd help him with this.

President has Fox News.

He also has talk radio.

He has tons of outlets.

Remember what President Obama did.

Remember what President Obama was doing at the end of his term.

He was only talking to bloggers.

Yeah.

You know?

YouTubers.

YouTubers and bloggers.

Why the president isn't on,

you know,

Ben Shapiro's

show.

Why he's not on.

I mean,

I'll understand why he wasn't on our show.

It might be a little wounding for him or for me, either way.

But I welcome him to make his case here.

Of course, yes.

A lot of people know the case on the border, don't they?

I mean, people are aware that what's going on on in the border, and they still don't know.

Did you see what people were immoral in all that?

Yeah, you see how it was.

Look at the poll numbers, even from Republicans towards the end.

Right.

I mean, they're not good.

And we've been talking about this for how long.

They're not good.

I mean, you know, how many years?

Well, 20 years, and Trump, at least, for four.

Yeah.

We're coming up on four years since he came down that escalator and made that speech.

The border's been the biggest issue in the country ever since.

Look, the problem is with the Republicans is they don't have any big ideas.

Yeah.

Look at how.

Even if they did, they couldn't sell it.

I know.

Look at how the Green New Deal is being embraced by

millennials.

You can sell the Green New Deal to your base, but we can't sell anything to your state.

Because we don't have anything new.

We're not reaching out for the stars.

Look at what we did yesterday.

He signed an executive order for AI, but it was not an inspirational AI

executive order.

It really did nothing.

It said, okay,

to the departments all in the United States government, you should look into AI and see if we can develop friendly AI, et cetera.

There's a moment here where he could have said, look, the world is on the edge of profound change, and it's either going to be good or it's going to be bad.

We're going to be the leaders of good.

While everyone else is pursuing AI just to conquer the world, we are going to pursue AI to help us solve cancer and cure cancer and muscular dystrophy and multiple sclerosis.

We are going to cure things in the next 10 years because the United States is going to find a way to get AI and be there first.

Everyone else wants to have it so they can conquer the world.

We want to do it so we can conquer hunger.

We can conquer slavery.

We can conquer sex trade.

We can conquer cancer.

That's inspiring.

And it would cost you almost nothing.

What about flat tax reform?

You could

this would be the time to do it with all the extreme proposals on the left.

People want something new.

They want something new.

Or at least bold.

I mean, the flat tax isn't new, but at least it's bold.

It is new because

nobody's ever really seriously considered it and done it.

I mean, I think that was one of the issues with the speech, which was a good speech, I thought, generally.

I thought it was a great speech.

But there was not a bold new idea there, right?

I thought there was at the end and the beginning, but it was all about coming together and uniting.

But you have to unite around an idea bigger than unification.

You know what I mean?

He started out great when he said, look, we united

against the Nazis for freedom of the world.

We united and put a man on the moon.

Yes, it does bring us together when there's a big idea.

And in a vacuum where there are no big ideas, a big idea like let's get rid of every car and airplane in the next 10 years, people like the sound of a new deal.

And they will run to it.

You'll notice the college campus reform just did a video that's really telling.

They said, are you for it?

Oh, absolutely.

It's time.

It's finally.

It's a big idea.

I like these ideas where we're going to go take something off.

It's progressive.

I really like that.

It's right.

It's progressive.

As soon as they start reading the details, they're like, wait, no, that's stupid.

We don't want to do that.

No, that's no, that's crazy.

No, no, no, no, no.

Where are the big ideas?

Where are the things that we can all unite around?

They're too timid to do any of them.

That has to be the president's message.

He cannot spend the next year.

They are going to spend it on division.

You have to spend it on a uniting idea, a big idea.

And you can't just say the wall.

If you want to make it about the wall,

Mike Lee says there is a legal way, constitutional way to build it

in some areas.

Without an executive order?

With an executive order.

And he said it would be constitutional.

Not all of it.

but a good portion of it.

You want to pursue that as long as it's constitutional, pursue that, pursue that, but then add in things like let's make this easier for people who really want to be here to come in.

Let's widen the door while at the same time we shut off the illegal immigration.

Just start on that.

Let's widen the door.

If you have a mind for AI, if you're one of the best AI people around, we want to use it to cure cancer, not to control people.

Come here.

We welcome you.

Your green card, your visa will be easy to get.

It'll be the easiest place to come in to research for AI.

He's got to start making, he's got to start showing progress on the future instead of digging into the past because the left is not digging into the past.

Well, they are.

It's the spooky 1940 past.

But it seems new to everybody who's never read a history book.

Thanks, Pat.

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We also have to tell you about the University of Maryland.

You know, they're going through all of the old yearbooks now in the University of Maryland.

They found in the 50s and 60s, people were wearing blackface and doing all kinds of inappropriate things.

Oh, my.

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No, which is completely true.

Yes, it is.

I wanted him to say, now, everybody, get into your American history class because we have to take down the founding fathers and tell you how racist they are.

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It is.

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So we are about to kneel down to the chocolate god and make our sacrifice on

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But Valentine's Day is more than just chocolate and flowers and everything else.

It is, it should be a reminder to us of the ones in our life that we really truly love and

it grows beyond what it was when we first met.

It's hard to do.

It's really hard to do.

Marriage is really difficult, but it is so worth it.

I want to introduce you to a couple that you may have heard their story

before, but I'm not sure you've heard all of their story.

And we go there in one minute.

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Dave Isse

is the guy who came up with the idea of StoryCorps.

And StoryCorps is this really cool service, if you will, that is recording voices for our National Archives.

And they're recording our stories.

And they do this all over the country in many different ways.

But we wanted to talk to Dave on Valentine's Week about the people who they have found that are deeply, deeply in love.

Welcome to the program, David.

Glenn, it's great to be back.

Thank you.

So tell me about Danny and Annie.

Sure.

This is the story you were mentioning a little bit earlier.

Danny and Annie,

and as you said, Story Corps is this project where we have booths all across the country.

We're a nonprofit and you come with a loved one for the most part and you sit for 40 minutes and record your story with each other just in audio.

And then you keep a copy and another goes to the Library of Congress so your great, great, great, great grandkids can get to know you through your voice and story.

So, this is a love story that goes back to the first week of StoryCorps when we launched 15 years ago in Grand Central Terminal.

Back then, like nobody understood what we were doing, and very few people actually came.

We've now had half a million people participate.

But Danny and Annie happened upon the booth.

He, they're from Brooklyn,

and Danny was a betting clerk, and Annie came to, Annie was a nurse, and they came to the booth to tell the story of their first date that had happened 25 years before.

Now they have thick Brooklyn accents so you have to listen very carefully.

Okay so here they are in 2004.

She started to talk and I said listen I'm going to deliver a speech.

I said at the end you're going to want to go home.

I said you represent a 34-letter word.

I said that word is love.

I said if we're going anywhere we're going down the aisle because I'm too tired too sick and too sore to do any other damn thing.

And she turned around and she said, well, of course I'll marry you.

And the next morning I called her as early as I possibly could.

And he always gets up early.

To make sure she hadn't changed her mind.

And she hadn't.

And

every year on April 22nd, around 3 o'clock, I call her and ask her if it was today.

Would she do it again?

And so far the answer has been the same.

Yeah, 25 times yes.

You see, the thing of it is...

I always feel guilty when I say I love you to you, and I say it so often.

I say it to remind you that as dumpy as I am, it's coming for me.

It's like hearing a beautiful song from a busted old radio.

And it's nice of you to keep the radio around the house.

If I don't have a note on the kitchen table, I think there's something wrong.

You write a love letter to me.

The only thing that could possibly be wrong is I couldn't find a silly pen.

To my princess, the weather out today is extremely rainy.

I'll call you at 11.20 in the morning.

It's a romantic weather.

And I love you.

I love you.

I love you.

When a guy is happily married, no matter what happens at work, no matter what happens in the rest of the day, there's a shelter when you get home.

There's a knowledge, knowing that you can hug somebody without them throwing you downstairs and saying, Get your hands off me.

And being married is like having a color television site.

You never want to go back to black and white.

So, David, this is Danny and Annie.

And in listening to that, it makes me want to start the tradition far too late of writing a note to my wife every day.

Yeah, I I mean,

they were really in love.

Danny,

Danny was not,

you know, if you saw a picture of him, you can almost get it from his voice, but he was about five feet tall.

He was bald.

His eyes were extremely crossed.

He had one little snaggle tooth.

And the guy had more romance in his little pinky than all the phonies in the Hollywood put together.

And, you know, he was a guy like, you know, people used to laugh at him walking down the street because, you know, he talked funny and he looked funny.

And I think that coming to Story Corps with Annie and having a lot of people respond to that first story, we're going to play another story later, just, you know, it's about reminding people that they matter and they're important and they won't be forgotten.

And Danny and those, you know, that was the first week of Story Corporation.

Corps.

And, you know, it speaks to he was what Story Corps is all about.

It's about the grace and the poetry and the eloquence and the beauty in the stories of us, of of all around us, hiding in plain sight, if we just take the time to listen.

So they became

big hits with the StoryCorps audience, and everybody loved them, as you can imagine.

But then just a couple of years later,

Danny and Annie

received some news, and they came back to StoryCorps.

to talk about the fact that he had been diagnosed with terminal cancer and it was was a very fast-spreading cancer.

And he wanted one to record one last interview with Annie.

He couldn't come out to you.

You guys had to go to him.

That's right.

Danny had come back to Storycorp with Annie to read their love letters over and over again over the years.

And he brought every character he'd ever met in his life to Story Corps,

undercover narcotics detectives and Major League umpires, and he'd have a cataract operation and want to come in and document.

They were like family.

And when he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, stage four and stage, we actually that week named, renamed our original booth, the Danny and Annie Parasa Story Corps booth.

And then the next week he said, Will you come up?

I'm too sick to get to the booth, but I need to record one last interview with Annie.

Will you come to our house in Sunset Park in Queens?

And we did.

And here is a clip of that.

The illness is not hard on me.

It's just, you know, the finality of it.

And him, he goes along like a trooper.

Listen, even downhill, a car doesn't roll unless it's pushed.

And you're giving me a great push.

The deal of it is, we try to give each other hope and not hope that I'll live.

Hope that she'll do well after I pass.

Hope that people will support her.

Hope that if she meets somebody and likes him, she marries him.

You know, he has everything planned.

You know.

I'm working on it.

She said it was her call.

She wants to walk out behind the casket alone.

I guess that's the way to do it because when we were married, you know how your brother takes it down, your father takes you down?

She said, well, I don't know which of my brothers to walk in with.

I don't want to offend anybody.

I said, I got a solution.

I said, you walk in with me, you walk out with me.

And the other day, I said, who's going to walk down the aisle with you behind the casket?

You know, the supporter.

And she said, nobody.

I walked in with you alone.

I walked out with you alone.

There's a thing in life

where you have to come to terms with dying.

Well, I haven't come to terms with dying yet.

I want to come to terms with being sure that you understand.

That my love for you up to this point was as much as it could be and it will be as much as it could be for eternity.

I always said the only thing I have to give you is a poor gift, and it's myself.

And I always gave it.

And if there's a way to come back and give it, I'll do that too.

You have the Valentine's Day letter there.

Yeah.

My dearest wife, this is a very special day.

It is a day on which we share our love, which still grows after all these years.

Now that love is being used by us to sustain us through these hard times.

All my love, all my days, and more.

Happy Valentine's Day.

I could write on and on about her.

She lights up the room in the morning when she tells me to put both hands on her shoulders so she can support me.

She lights up my life when she says to me at night, wouldn't you like a little ice cream?

Or would you please drink more water?

I mean, those aren't very very romantic things to say, but they stir my heart.

In my mind, in my heart,

there has never been,

there is not now, and never will be another any.

He died just a few days later.

He was 67.

She's just turned 71.

And she came in to record one more storycore to thank everyone and

tell everyone that she's doing fine.

She has all of his love letters.

And it keeps her going.

Yes,

she

got, after

the last interview with Danny was broadcast on the radio, on public radio, and Danny actually heard it and then died about an hour later.

Annie got thousands and thousands and thousands of condolence letters.

And still to this day, many years later, she reads one of those letters instead of the love letter she would have gotten from Danny.

She buried a copy of those letters with Danny in the casket because she wanted to let him know that his life did matter.

And she's, she's, she's hanging in.

Dave, thank you so much for sharing these

with us.

Thanks for having me on, Glenn.

And thanks for doing such

great work.

Appreciate it.

And happy Valentine's Day to everybody.

Thank you.

Dave Issei from Story Corps.

No,

I wasn't ready for that yet.

It's Valentine's Day tomorrow.

Is it tomorrow?

Thursday?

I know.

Maybe nervous.

And,

you you know there is young love and then there's real love.

And young love is all about uh

how somebody looks,

how hot they are, how how

how

whatever shallow thing

I'm just thinking of they're all just so shallow.

Love at the start is just so shallow usually.

And if you do it right,

it grows into something,

as he said,

when she says, put your hands on my shoulders so I can

get up out of bed or have some more water.

He said those aren't romantic things.

but they are with a mature love.

The things

that you will do for your spouse or your spouse will do for you as you grow old together

are the things that

make all the difference, and they're the things that

inspire the next generation.

It is the couple

that still holds hands.

It's the couple

that

still just hugs each other in the kitchen.

I always wanted to be that guy who grew old with his wife

and I am so blessed

to have that in my wife, Tanya,

who has

just been a remarkable woman.

This Valentine's Day,

it doesn't take chocolate and it doesn't take uh

you know, it doesn't take anything special.

That helps, you know, to remind,

but it is everything else that goes around Valentine's Day that really makes the difference.

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You know, Stu, we, I think, are the two of the luckiest men.

Pat is the same way, and Jeffy's the same way.

We have wives that are remarkable, absolutely remarkable wives.

Very true.

That are just, and I.

You know, I asked somebody in a job interview the other day, who's your best friend and why?

And he said, it's so-and-so,

because...

Because

he's honest, and he's honest about himself.

He's honest with his wife.

And the way he spoke about his friend said everything I needed to know about him.

And

when he said he's honest with his wife,

it's such a different thing to be able to have a wife who is who is actually your partner.

And not necessarily in everything.

Tanya is bored stiff with politics.

She's bored stiff with all of this stuff.

And

you know what?

Some of the stuff that she talks about, I'm just like, bored stiff.

But

we are partners in everything.

She, you know, one of our dreams is that we're going to build a...

an art studio in our house one of these days and I'll have a place for my my painting right next to her sewing machine where she can quilt

because we just want to be in the same room together, you know, and just pursuing.

And she'll say, Look at this.

And I'll say to her, Well, look at this.

We're not pursuing the same thing, but we are.

And we're partners in it.

And we just love being together.

And it's such an honor to know you,

Pat, and Jeffy, and so many others that work here who who actually have

great marriages.

It says something about somebody, doesn't it?

I think it does.

Yeah.

I mean, you know,

you get to that point where, I mean, I know we all just feel like, you know, hit the jackpot, basically.

And by the way, I've noticed a lot of people on social media telling us that we've hit the jackpot, which is not necessarily helpful.

Yeah, but we know that.

But we do get it.

We get that.

We don't need to reinforce it

per se.

But I think that does,

it's that focus, right?

If you can understand that that's a priority, then it sets your life up in order, I think, for many, many other things,

right?

If you understand that that is

the thing that you're working on the most, right?

You want to make sure that that's important.

It leads to, I think, being a better parent, leads to being a better coworker.

It leads to

stability.

And by the way, every statistic on earth backs this up.

You are able to have more money.

You are able to have a more stable life.

You are

more successful

all the way around with children and everything

if you make that your priority and just focus on your family.

That's the one thing that I have learned in trying to search for answers on how to heal the world.

Heal your family.

That's it.

There's nothing you will do that is of more importance anywhere, more important than what you do within the four walls of your house.

That's the most important thing you can do.

And that's,

I know it sounds trite, but it's true.

You're listening to Glenn Beck.

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David Harsani, the author of Freedom First, a guy who is a senior editor at the Federalist and a dear friend.

Welcome to the program, David.

Thank you for having me.

Go ahead.

You bet.

I know you've done a lot of work on the Green New Deal,

which on its surface seems absolutely nuts.

But you've really, you know, you've put the hood up on this thing and you've really looked at it to see,

using the facts of the actual deal to see what's in it.

And you've found that.

nuts.

Well, I should say it's not really a lot.

I wouldn't consider it work because it was actually a lot of fun to read through in one sense.

But in another way,

it's just crazy.

And it really, you know, I know she walked it back, and I know the authors walked it back a bit, but obviously

the very core of it is just nuts.

And the core of it is that we're going to get rid of all our fossil fuels in 10 years.

And not just fossil fuels, but also nuclear energy.

If anyone's at all serious about clean energy and moving away from carbon emissions and dismisses nuclear energy, they can't be taken seriously.

No, they can't.

They can't.

It is the cleanest by far and helps us we could use all of the nighttime energy

just to be able to

make hydrogen.

I mean, there is so much that can be done with nuclear energy that would help us be completely emission-free that anybody who says that they're serious about having energy and clean energy, and they dismiss nuclear.

They're frauds.

They're just frauds.

Well, they are.

We're very immature or don't understand how the world works.

And

this plan does not have any sort of, it does not embrace economic reality is a way I would put it.

I mean, imagine having to retrofit every single building in America in 12 years.

Imagine having to retrofit every car or get a new car so they can run on electricity, which won't even be there because we won't have anything to generate it.

It is just nuts in that way.

And then in another way that it's nuts is that it's a Trojan horse for, or was a Trojan horse for a bunch of socialistic plans like economic security for people quote-unquote unwilling to work,

you know, and a bunch of things.

But even if you are willing to work, this is a reversal of the Bill of Rights.

This is FDR's second Bill of Rights, is it not?

Yeah, it is.

And, you know, free education,

you know, free housing or guaranteed housing and a bunch of other things of that nature that really have nothing to do with green energy or anything like that to begin with.

So, David,

is there anything serious in it that you can look at and say, well, you know what?

This is a solid idea.

No, there's nothing like that.

Banning meat, giving everyone a house,

you know, free education.

I mean, don't get me wrong, I think that there are many progressives who believe these are you know, this was pulled back by the authors because it was mocked, not because they don't believe these things should happen.

So we have to remember that.

These are the goals.

And this is just authoritarianism.

I mean, it tells you how to live your life on every level.

It wouldn't be okay with me even if

I thought a climate disaster was over the horizon.

We have to think about other things, including the economy and including our rights, as you mentioned.

David, the real tell here is, to me, the nuclear power thing.

It's like if you are really concerned with the globe and the way it's warming, you're going to want to embrace nuclear power if you're actually serious about it.

And they ban it in this bill.

Right.

And you leave in coal, apparently, right?

I guess they don't mention coal.

I didn't think of that.

I would just say this, though.

You're right about nuclear energy, but also...

We lead the world in reducing carbon emissions over the last few years, mostly, I think, because of fracking and natural gas.

So if if you eliminate that and you eliminate nuclear power, you're not really working towards anything.

You just want an excuse to control the lives of people because once you control all carbon, you control all life, which I think this is just a power play sort of thing.

So how frightened are you that there are 70 co-sponsors of something that is truly ridiculous?

I'm actually pretty frightened.

I mean, I'm pretty frightened that all these Democratic candidates, leading ones, you know, Kamala Harris and others, immediately endorsed this plan.

While the initial

fact page was out there with all this stuff, they embraced it.

That should be scary.

Now, I don't think, I'm not scared because I know it can't really happen, but I am scared with what we'll do to the economy trying to make things like this happen.

I think that should scare us.

Well, you say that it can't happen, but you listen to people who are not paying attention.

And David, honestly, if we went through another 2008 or worse, which I do believe is on the horizon just because of Europe alone,

this is the kind of thing that

socialists say, hey, we're going to take care of your housing, your housing, we're going to take care of your car, your food, your guaranteed job.

And if there is a serious, serious and I'm talking about a depression, this is the kind of stuff people run towards.

Right.

I mean, ten years ago, if I called a Democrat a socialist, they would feign indignation and act like they had been insulted.

Today, most Democrats seem to think that that's a pretty swell idea.

So I think the debate has actually gotten a lot more honest.

And

this and other things are just part, really, of the fight

between people who believe in free markets and people who believe in socialism.

I do wonder, though, I just want to quickly say if people understand what they're supporting.

For instance, I saw a poll that said, you know, 72% of people want Medicare for all.

But when they explained to them what Medicare for all actually meant, it dropped to 36%.

What does that mean, Medicare for all?

What does that mean?

It means we're going to take away your private insurance and throw you into a

government program of insurance.

It's socialized medicine is what it means.

But people don't want to lose their insurance.

They actually sort of like their insurance.

So once they hear about the specifics, they don't like it.

So if I want to be positive about the future, I say to myself, there are sort of these grand plans people like in theory, but might not like in reality.

And that's usually what socialism is actually about.

Well, unfortunately, it fools country after country after country.

Tell me what it ⁇

the idea of getting rid of grounding all planes.

Well, the plan is that we're going to have high-speed rail.

It's hard not to laugh when you talk about this stuff, but it's scary too.

But she claims that we're going to have high-speed rails and they'll work so well that we will sort of crowd out any need for air travel or actually for cars as well in urban areas.

As you see in California, they have a high-speed rail that I think is $100 billion in debt right now and doesn't really work yet.

So I'm not sure how we can envision that

throughout the country.

Every city that I've ever lived in that talks about having a high-speed rail, it always fails.

Always fails.

Always comes in overpriced.

Even just regular, you know, out here in D.C., they're trying to build, expand the metro.

It takes literally 10 years.

You know, it's way over budget.

It's constantly the case.

People in America love their cars.

And moreover, in the middle of America, I lived in Denver, for instance, for many years.

You need your cars.

There's no way you can use a train to get around.

It's just a silly thing.

So is she talking about actual bans or

some sort of a carbon tax that would discourage things like planes?

Because it sounds like in ten years, we're just going to stop air travel.

We're going to stop cars.

Or is it a penalty if you want to use the car?

How do they envision this happening?

They don't get into specifics about how they would ban things.

And they I don't think she uses the word ban on the planes, but she does use some sort of language when it comes to cars in urban areas of having government sort of explain to you how many cars you need or don't need and and following through through in that way.

I can't say that she's put kind of the thought into this that would be nuts and balty.

You know, I mean, we don't know how these things are supposed to be accomplished for the most part, only that they should be, their aims and goals.

And occasionally she'll say, you know,

she uses euphemisms for ban.

You know, she doesn't say ban, but

so, David, did she write, who wrote this?

Who is the brain behind this?

I don't know that there is a brain behind this.

Well, you know what I mean.

Who's the head behind this?

Who wrote this and put this together?

I suspect there are, I don't know, but I suspect there are a bunch of, you know, special interest greenie types

who helped her write this thing.

I mean, it's just a grab bag of everything they want thrown in there.

So I suspect that's who wrote it.

I don't know for sure.

But, you know, politicians who endorse this thing should be held accountable for doing so.

I think that's important to note.

Where are we headed, David?

I was in the State of the Union.

I was actually in the room with them.

And

there is now a growing

Marxist

community that is arrogant, is self-centered,

and will make you pay if you don't join them.

Yeah, it's bad.

I mean, I think they're authoritarians.

They're socialists.

Kamala Harris had her CNN.

I think she's probably one of the frontrunners or is the frontrunner.

And she had a CNN town hall where she just was bragging about how she wanted to take everyone's insurance away from them, health insurance.

And it's a huge, hugely important part of people's lives.

So I think we're headed to a pretty bad place.

I have to say,

I was not a fan of Donald Trump.

And I generally am not a fan of politicians.

But when he dropped a line about socialism in the State of the Union address, it made me...

very proud of the president.

And I think it's an important battle to be won.

I think young people don't understand it because they never lived through the Cold War and they don't know what it means.

My own parents defected from a communist country.

I don't want anything like that from my kids.

And

I think it's going to be a pretty ugly fight.

I will tell you this.

I thought when the President said we will not be socialist, I just talked about this yesterday in a monologue where what he was really saying is

I will protect and defend the Constitution of the United States of America.

Anyone who's pushing for these kinds of things, this Green New Deal, they are in violation of the oath they take in office you you you're not protecting and defending the constitution

the core of the constitution is an in is individual rights the core of socialism is collectivism they cannot work together um and and that's important i mean i think it was pj rook who said who boiled down the constitution to stay off my lawn and keep your hands to yourself right and uh neither of those things socialists care about neither of those things so um to me they're authoritarians i don't care you know there might not always be down-to-the-definition socialists, but if they want to control what you buy, what you eat, what you see, what you say, and all that stuff, to me, they're just, you know, it's just tyranny.

I don't know to what level it's going to come here, but it's worth fighting against, I think.

David Harsani from thefederalist.com.

Thank you for your help and your research, and we'll talk to you again.

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Boy, plans for

Brexit are getting bad in Europe.

We'll talk to you about the plan to airlift the Queen to safety and the body bags that are now being ordered.

However, plans for breakfast are promising.

Yes, they are.

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We were talking about environmentalists and who these early environmentalists were.

Now, you remember much of the 60s and 70s environmentalism was the overpopulation scare.

Yeah,

where Obama's chief science czar in the 60s and early 70s was talking about sterilizing drinking water water because by 1980 there would be way too many people.

Way too many people.

Population will inevitably and completely outstrip whatever small increases in food supplies we make.

That was Paul Ehrlich, who's an environmental legend, crazy person.

Mein Kampf, however, also talked about this a little bit.

First volume said, quote, the new Reich would have to conquer with the German sword the soil that the German plow would till in order to provide our people with the daily bread.

The living space was, quote, specifically to secure adequate food supplies for the German people.

Now, living space was a big deal.

Not liking Jews and getting living space for food was Hitler's big thing.

BBC wrote about the movement that influenced Hitler, including the quote, growing concern about the allegedly negative effects of industrialization and urbanization.

There was also a belief in the virtues of agrarian society and the panic over Germany's limited resources of food and raw materials.

And the only thing keeping those quotes off a Prius bumper sticker is they're too long.

That's pretty much it.

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Environmentalists of the day also noticed Nazi green efforts.

German conservationist Wilhelm Leinenkamper wrote that Nazis, quote, refuse all kinds of compromise and demand strict literal fulfillment.

Those refusing the call of sacrifice are under attack, and rightly so.

I mean, does that not sound like something they say about climate deniers?

That sounds like something that could be in the New York Times today.

The Green and the Brown is a book by environmental professor Frank Yuko, Editor, not a conservative book, shows similarities to modern-day environmentalism are unmistakable as he sums up nicely, quote, the lion's share share of conservationist publications written between 1933 and 1945 could be printed again today without raising eyebrows, end quote.

We know this to be true because they just had a paper that

was almost put into the journals

that took pages from Mein Kampf.

The Nazi

policy of Dauerwald, or Eternal Forest, was a nationwide top-down sustainable forestry program that was a passion project of Eraman Goering.

He wrote, only by the complete subjection of the individual to the service of the whole can the perpetuity of the community be assured.

Eternal forest and eternal nation are ideas that are indissolubly linked.

Sounds real conservative there.

I mean, it goes on and on and on.

They actually say

this forest policy, the review of it, I would argue that this policy left a long-term legacy of the German forest that was ecologically beneficial.

That's how environmentalists today are looking back at the Nazi era.

It is authoritarian.

Socialist, national socialist, communist, doesn't really matter.

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Well, not everybody here.

Everybody in the UK should panic.

If you're listening to us in the UK, you're going to start eating your neighbor.

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You know what the problem is with public Wi-Fi?

It's public.

And so you don't know who's on that public Wi-Fi.

It's connected to public Wi-Fi.

You're connected to public Wi-Fi.

Even if a password is protecting it, you could be tossing all of your expectations about privacy right out the window.

Think about how hesitant you are to touch the handle on a public bathroom.

That's how you should feel about public Wi-Fi.

It really is.

It really is.

By the way, did you hear about Pete Hegseth?

I did read about this.

This is creepy.

Pete Hegseth, he's a friend of ours.

He's on Fox News, right?

Yeah.

And he said, I haven't washed my hands in 10 years because I don't believe germs are real.

Okay, Pete, they are real.

They are real.

Okay.

We need to have a talk, and I regret shaking your hand now.

You should have told the people that, you know, years ago when we first met.

You know, it's been two years since I've shook my hands since I've washed hands.

Okay, good.

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Don't touch it.

Maybe he's one of these people that just doesn't want to shake hands, and this is his way of getting it.

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Stu,

did you know we are just a

few days away, just a few weeks away

from the UK crashing?

Riots in the streets.

There's not going to be any medicine.

There's going to be food shortages that will cause food riots because people will be malnutritioned.

They'll be malnutritioned.

Now,

correct me if I'm wrong.

Malnutrition comes from a long-term food shortage, does it not?

You're not like, if I'm really, really super hungry because I haven't had a meal in three days, I'm not suffering from malnutrition.

I'm suffering from not having anything to eat in the last few days, right?

I'm pretty hungry.

I'm pretty hungry.

Malnutrition seems more of like a longer time.

A longer-term serving of food.

Yeah, right.

Okay.

You haven't had any nutrition for a longer period of time.

Malnutrition over a few days, pretty easy to get over.

You know, as long as you've had water,

you can probably get over that pretty easy.

But starvation is also on the list of things that the British now need to worry about as warehouses will surely run out of fresh food and medicine.

And, of course, as ITV is now pointing out over in Great Britain, an explosion of immigrant-fueled crime.

Now, this is weird for the press over in England to be speculating about

immigrant-fueled crime,

seeing that you can't talk about immigrant-fueled crime unless you're a racist.

Are they talking about the people who are just coming over and trying to make the society a little bit better and make things a little bit better for their families?

No, they're probably talking about white Americans or Canadians that are in.

You know what I mean?

That's probably it.

Now, the health minister, Stephen Hammond,

he has advised the NHS, the National Health Service, to begin purchases of emergency medical supplies, including stockpiles of body bags.

Yeah, body bags.

Haven't we heard this report before?

Yeah, we heard from every conservative, quote-unquote, conservative conspiracy site that says this.

Right.

And they're mocked by

all of the media for saying that the government is preparing for mass death.

Well, that was because Obama

wasn't going to leave office, remember?

Oh, I forgot about that.

Yeah, he was going to cancel the election.

He was.

And they were stockpiling body bags for the war that was coming.

That's right.

I remember all of that.

Now, now Great Britain is stockpiling body bags because

it's going to get so bad over there.

They've even revived an old Cold War plan to evacuate the Queen from London because starvation is going to be so bad.

The food riots will head right to Buckingham Palace and she will need to be air vaced out if they don't have a plan for Brexit.

Is this a real report?

They're saying this is potentially possible?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Well, now, no, wait, no, no.

Yes, and no.

Are they reviving these?

Yes.

Should they be stockpiling medicine just in case?

Yes.

Yeah, why not?

Are they freaking out?

Probably not.

Are people in the government that don't want Brexit pushing this?

Yeah.

They are.

Yeah.

They want to make people scared about, you know, Brexit's so evil.

And they can blame every negative thing that happens in the country for the next 20 years on it.

Let me tell you something.

You remember the nightmares.

Not a lot of people remember this.

But Stu, you're old enough to remember the nightmare of the starvation and everything else that went on for Y2K.

Oh, yeah, that was devastating.

Oh, my gosh, that was horrible.

The computer code, they only had two digits.

Yeah.

And because they only had two digits, it would go from 1999 to 00, which almost would mean the same to the computer as 1900, which would throw everything into

chaos.

Yeah, it would just erase everything.

Planes would fall out of the sky.

Yeah.

It was going to be bad.

If you're not going to be able to do that.

We're stockpiling body bags.

They were stockpiling body bags.

They've been stockpiling body bags for everything.

Yeah.

Forever.

Yeah.

I don't know why we stockpile them.

I mean, you really should only do that once, and then you got them.

It's not like you're stockpiling

tomatoes, they don't go bad, right?

It's like, oh man, we didn't use those body bags.

Well, you got to get somebody out, buy some new ones, stock them up.

Yeah, they're body bags.

You're going to put dead things in them.

I mean, they don't go bad.

You almost don't even need the bags.

I mean, to be frank about it.

Well, you know, I prefer to have them.

It's not, no, it's good to have, but it's not necessarily a requirement.

Yeah, I've seen cultures that don't use body bags, and there's mass, you know,

death, usually from socialist governments.

And that's not a pretty big thing.

It does seem like it's worth having.

It does.

It does.

I'm pro stockpiling body bags and then not freaking out about everything.

You know what I mean?

Yeah, I think we should have them.

And then if something happens, great.

If it doesn't happen, great.

We'll have it for the next time.

I wouldn't say it was great if something happens.

You got the body bags.

You're prepared.

Yeah, you're prepared.

You got the body bags.

Now, I just want to, I mean, I hate to be a negative Nancy here and rain on everybody's body bag parade, but

let me just point out that if this happens, you're not going to use body bags.

I mean, you have to burn the bodies in a fire because

they're clearly going to come back to life.

I mean, hello.

Have you not watched all the zombie movies?

If it's a zombie apocalypse, body bags are not going to be any good.

I'll bet you these body bags have a zipper on the inside.

I bet they can zip them down from the inside.

Well, this is why maybe a bag isn't a good idea because you want it to deteriorate faster.

Right.

You need like a Ziploc that can't be opened from the inside.

And that body bag, I want it to have, you zip it up, I want it to turn blue.

I want to see that that thing is zipped up and it's blue and that's sealed and they can't get out.

They can't unzip it from, like, if you're in a Ziploc bag, it's easy to get out.

You just push the top, then you just, it'll just open up.

But if it has that little clamp, it's impossible for a human being to get out.

Let me ask you this.

I've never been in a human-sized Ziploc bag.

But if I was in a human-sized Ziploc bag, okay, so remember the scale of the Ziploc seal would be the same scale, you know, as a sandwich bag, except big for humans.

No, I understand.

Could you open it up by standing there and just pushing on both sides?

May trap you.

Could you, for instance, lay it flat and then kind of crawl up towards the Ziploc thing

and put your feet underneath you and just crouch and then stand up and have it open?

Or would it be too strong?

Because,

you know, in relation to the size.

I almost feel like you probably are not going after the actual seal point.

You're going after the rest of the bag, and you're just trying to stretch it out until it breaks.

But again, in relationship to size, that would be a pretty thick bag.

Remember, you're very small.

You're sandwich-sized.

Wait, you're sandwich-sized, but the bag's human-size?

Yeah.

Well, that's a totally new

perspective.

No, no, but I mean, if you were a sandwich size and you were put into that bag, I don't know if you could do it.

Now, because you're not sandwich size in real life, we would have to make, for experimental purposes only, a human-sized sandwich bag for you because you're not sandwich size.

You're human size.

Right.

So you're not saying I'm smaller and the bag's larger.

You're saying I'm the same size and the bag is larger.

There's no way if we had made a human-sized bag and a sandwich-sized human, you'd ever get out.

Oh, I disagree.

You'd have much more chance to be able to kind of get in where the clamp was and loosen it and push it over just slightly to sneak out.

If you were smaller, it might be actually be an advantage in this situation.

Oh, you're going for the extra.

You're going for the thing that slides across.

I was just thinking about the big, we would have to have some

sort of big thumb thing.

With mine, you wouldn't have that clamp.

You would have to have two big thumbs that would just come in, and once you were inside the bag, would just seal it up.

Would the thumbs be normal-sized person or would the thumbs be a sandwich-sized person?

No, those would be giant-sized.

So you'd need, you'd need

human thumbs.

Super-sized thumbs, not necessarily human thumbs, but it'd be any thumb.

Any thumb.

Yeah, but I mean, how many things have thumbs?

It'd have to be the size of something huge with thumbs.

It'd be statue of liberty-sized thumbs, a human-sized bag,

and a sandwich-sized person.

Now,

could you use a statue?

Like, you don't have necessarily have to grow a human being that large.

They're freaking out in London.

I want you to know this is why they're freaking out.

Think of all of the options they have to think about when they're ordering those body bags.

That's terrifying.

Now, there's something else that's happening closer at home that is just as bad, if not worse.

The story comes from the Pacific Northwest and Portland.

It's a horror show.

Worse than human-sized Ziploc bags.

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We pause for 10 seconds, station ID, then to Portland.

Horror of horrors.

So I don't know.

I don't know how you're going to.

I don't know how you're surviving.

Seattle and Portland.

I don't know.

I know that Seattle had six inches of snow.

Six inches, Stu.

Totally.

Are they going to try to rebuild or are they just going to abandon the city?

I don't know.

I don't know.

They're living like animals now.

Six inches of snow.

I grew up in the Pacific Northwest and it doesn't sound like a lot, but they don't have any snow plows.

They have to get them out of the mountains.

So they have no snow plows.

Really?

In Seattle, there's no.

There's no snow.

They don't, it never snows.

It'll snow like a dusting, and then it rains.

I mean, it's always raining.

So they're used to water, just not anything that turns into ice or what's this white stuff.

I mean, you know, in Seattle, cocaine, sure, but that's not what this is.

Now they're panicked.

Now, up in Seattle, I don't know if you saw,

the grocery stores were bare because

everybody freaked out.

Well, it's worse in Portland.

There is no kale left in the stores of Portland.

They,

and now I know a lot of people are rolling their eyes, but don't do it.

These are Portlandiers, Portlandians,

people from Portland.

And they like their kale.

They need their kale.

Their kale is refreshing.

It is good for them.

It's nutritious.

It keeps them going.

And

talking about people or rabbits.

I'm not sure.

I'm not sure.

But it keeps Portland going.

And I want you to know:

if you manage to make it to the store,

here are just, things are going to be okay.

Snow melts, and you don't have kale.

But if you manage to make it to the store, grab a pin.

You're going to need beer.

Write it down.

Beer.

Whiskey.

Wine.

Sugary things.

Butter.

Flour if you have to.

Sure.

Salt.

Cheese.

Already loaded up.

Macaroni.

Plenty of that with cheese.

Macaroni and cheese.

Have them both.

And more whiskey.

I just want you to know: if you run out of kale like they have in Portland,

just get that and it'll tide you through.

You'll make it.

You're going to make it.

You're stronger than that snow.

You're stronger than the four inches of snow there on the ground.

Don't panic.

I know it's a snowpocalypse, but you'll make it.

You will make it.

It's a one-two punch.

Snow and then no kale?

What are you going to do?

I mean, those are the two, two of the worst things that global warming has ever caused.

Kale shortage and snow.

I mean, it's...

Wait.

It's, I mean, it's...

It's like your Popeye, and here comes Brutus, and you have no spinach.

Yeah, they probably had spinach, though.

They just didn't have kale.

Right.

They don't.

I said it's like Popeye.

He didn't say it was Popeye.

He said it was Portland, and it's like Popeye.

Here comes Brutus, otherwise known as the storm,

and he doesn't have spinach.

They don't have kale.

Yeah, but what you don't understand, Glenn, is kale chips.

They're delicious.

Oh, I love when people tell me that kale chips are delicious.

Sure, kale itself isn't that great, but if you make it into a chip, it's delicious.

Oh, what you do is you put a little drizzle of olive oil, a a little E-V-O-O on top of it, and then you salt it a little bit and you put it in the frying pan.

Oh, you didn't have to do that.

You put it right in the oven.

You want to bake it.

It's healthier.

Oh, you bake it.

You bake it like the baked chips.

Oh, I've only had fries.

Oh, yeah.

Oh,

it's much better.

Oh, my goodness.

And they come out and they are, it's like, it tastes like kale, but it's, it's crunchy.

Well, I've had it.

Now, see, I've had it.

Now, maybe I made it wrong, but I had it, and it comes out looking like burnt shriveled crap,

but it tastes like kale only burnt and shriveled.

And it's tad salty.

And a tad salty.

Which is nice.

It's a talented.

But I have found if you put enough salt on it

and cheese,

the kale taste almost goes away.

What you just said is true with everything on earth.

If you put enough salt and cheese on it, eventually you just taste salt and cheese, which is why Americans love salt and cheese.

Because we're covering up.

Why do you think McDonald's was a hit?

Cheese.

Cheese.

They put cheese on those, quote, hamburgers.

Okay, that's.

See, the reason why we don't stockpile body bags is because we have all the preservatives in us that we need.

We can die.

You can come back a thousand years from now and still be a stack of dead, fresh bodies.

We won't rot.

Thank you, McDonald's.

It's very nice.

look, this is a tragic situation they're facing.

I hope that the situation in Australia is a little different right now because they have real global warming.

They've got a heat wave going on.

And that, of course, is also, by the way, of course,

caused by global warming.

So the heat and the cold are both caused by global warming, as well as the kale shortage.

Of course it is.

As well as this.

In Australia,

when weather gets warm, there is a particular creature that will lounge in the sun,

a snake.

Now, that's a little creepy because you're walking through.

Hey, snakes are people, too.

No, well,

yeah, they are.

It's kind of why they came up with a different word for them.

They're not.

No, snakes are people, too.

And if you don't agree with that, well, it's probably because you're a global warming denier, but go ahead.

When it gets hot, however, the snakes seek cool places.

Sure.

A wall crevice, under a refrigerator, under a barbecue grill, or behind an air conditioning unit.

When it gets super hot and super dry, they have to find places that are cool and moist.

Hey, they like to live by a pool, too.

They want a pool.

Well, a pool is one of the places they could go.

However, there's

another place that's a tad more concerning where they're going now in Australia, which is into toilets.

A snake pool.

People are pulling out two meter-long pythons

that had slithered into their doors and climbed into the shower.

Others have taken snakes that have coiled up in toilet bowls.

And this is just, you know, reason number 7,000 to never go to Australia.

Hello.

Coexist.

I have the bumper sticker.

Coexist with the snake in your toilet?

With everything.

Everything.

Well, it's either you can't.

You can't share your toilet or you're very disrespectful to the snake.

One of the two.

You can't share your toilet with your snake.

With a snake that you took their property.

Remember, the snakes were there long before you were there, Jack.

The snake border didn't move.

I moved the snake border.

You're exactly right.

And all they're looking for is a little pool, a little refreshment that you expect to have.

So what's the correct answer there?

We just let them stay in there and not use the bathroom anymore?

Well, would you like somebody coming over?

Imagine you're snake-sized.

No.

And there's this giant guy with huge thumbs.

Is it a full-size toilet or a snake-sized toilet?

And it's a, well, you're snake-sized, and so it's a full-size toilet.

And some guy comes in and I don't want to put this visual in my mind.

He's crapping in your pool.

Yeah.

Do you want people crapping in your pool?

No, you can leave the poor snakes alone.

But I want to say there is one thing that was very true in this whole half hour, and that is,

why do you live in Australia?

Why do you live in Australia?

You're listening to Glenn Beck.

It was all very true, by the way.

I don't know what you're talking about.

Yeah.

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This is the Glenbeck program, and as you know, as a long-time listener of this program, world renowned for our

study and

exposés that we do on science.

We've won the, from the Academy of American Scientists and Scientific Stuff three years running now, have won the show of the year, 2001, 2007, and again last year.

And so now that we are looking at the Green New Deal, we want to get to the nuts and bolts of it.

And that is, of course, what Ocasio-Cortez says they are not interested in,

you know.

eliminating all cattle and cattle ranches and and and and beef farms.

But we we know that if you're going to address global warming, you have to take care of cow farts.

But if you're, again, a long-time listener of this program, you know that the problem is not on the back end of the cow, but the front end of the cow.

And we have Sarah Place.

She's a senior director of sustainable beef production.

She's a researcher and

an expert in upcycling in human nutrition.

And

just, I would assume, also,

you know, knows something about cow farts.

Welcome to the program.

Sarah, how are you?

I'm great.

Thanks for having me, Glenn.

Good.

So let's talk seriously here for a minute about the people who are seriously trying to get

cattle ranches

and cows eliminated from our diet entirely.

And they do it in the name of global warming.

Yeah, I think what we always try to emphasize to people is really cattle and people that are cattle raisers are part of the climate change solution, not a problem.

So as you mentioned, cow farts off the top.

That definitely is fake news.

I can say before I was at National Cattlemen's, that was actually part of my research, was measuring methane from cattle.

So it does come out the front end of the animal, but it's overblown in terms of its contribution to climate change, particularly in the United States.

Okay.

Okay.

So wait a minute.

So it is cow burps that is

the actual where the methane comes from.

And you say it's overblown.

How?

Yeah, so I think it's important to just zoom out and look at the big picture context.

You know, the Environmental Protection Agency in the United States puts out a greenhouse gas emission inventory every year.

And if you look at that, you know, methane from cows is about 1.8% of emissions in the entire United States.

Well, wait,

but it's not huge.

But wait, I mean, mean, the IPCC report, correct me if I'm wrong, Stu, because you know this stuff inside and out.

Don't they say cattle, that is the number one cause of the problem for greenhouse gases?

Yeah, well, the entire, they say the entire meat industry.

Right, Sarah?

This is their claim that this is one of the biggest drivers of global climate change.

Yeah, yeah, I'm glad you brought that up.

So there was a report that came out in like 2006 called Livestock's Long Shadow from the UN Food and Agriculture Organization that looked at all livestock.

So you're right, it would be all cattle, sheep, goats, poultry, everything.

And they claimed in that report that 18% of global emissions, so not U.S., but global emissions, came from livestock.

And that report also had an erroneous claim that that was a bigger portion than transportation.

The UN FAO has actually come out and said that was wrong.

But that doesn't prevent it from being repeated, you know, still 12 years, 13 years later, like it's fact.

What part of it do they say was wrong, that it was more than transportation, or that 18% was wrong?

So

kind of twofold.

So the first thing, the first thing that was truly wrong was the comparison to transportation.

So essentially how they got that 18%

number was they did what's called life cycle assessment.

So it's a bit into the weeds, but essentially you add up everything that gets emitted over the entire life cycle of a process.

So if we're going to talk about livestock, that would be everything that comes from feed production to feed the livestock all the way through to the slaughter of the animals.

And what was really key in that report was the biggest chunk of that 18%, a third of it, was what we call land use change.

So specifically things like deforestation down in Brazil, which is of course again another pressing issue, but we don't have a deforestation problem here in the United States.

So that was really one of the key problems was they added in everything for livestock and then when they compared it to transportation they just looked at tailpipe

or

emissions directly from vehicles.

They didn't add in all the emissions that go into building vehicles, that go into maintaining all of our transportation infrastructure from roads to

airports, etc., etc.

So, hopefully, that makes sense.

It was kind of an apples-to-oranges comparison.

We're talking to Dr.

Sarah Place,

and she is the senior director for sustainable beef production and a researcher.

And I am a rancher myself.

I have, well, this time of year, I think I now have about 100 head, so it's not a lot.

But

our animals are grazing on natural grass, and

we're trying to do,

you know, right by the animal, right by the planet.

Everybody I know who's a rancher or a farmer, they are more concerned about the environment than any environmentalist because their living is made on making sure that that soil and those animals are taken care of and are protected.

Are you concerned at all about

this new

hybrid beef product that is coming out as people are saying that that's going to be much better for you?

Yeah, so are you talking about some of these so-called plant-based products and the cell cultured stuff?

Is that what you're talking about?

Yeah.

Yeah, so I think a lot of things in this space are just, there's a lot of media hype relative to like what actually happens on the ground.

So as you just pointed out, I mean, you're the same as all the other ranchers across America, and there's over 700,000 cattle producers in this country.

It's the single largest segment of American agriculture.

So people, the reality is people are dedicated to doing the right thing, as you said.

And in terms of those products,

again, it is a lot of hype in terms of their sales.

They're fairly small in the grand scheme of things.

And of course, the sell-cultured products don't actually even exist yet.

There's just a lot of media coverage about them coming out at some point, but they're still not commercially available.

I think our biggest challenge is just this real big chasm we have in terms of understanding between the normal consuming public that's disconnected from agriculture by a few generations

and some of this marketing that is surrounding some of these products because they're trying to use some of the misinformation that's out there to their advantage, especially with regards to environmental impacts of cattle production.

I have to tell you, Sarah,

there is nothing more healthy for a family

than to go and spend a summer on a farm.

And I mean this sincerely.

Something happened to us when we moved away from the farm.

You learn so many things.

You learn about sex.

You learn about life and death.

As my kids and I went out to

go capture a sheep that was lost from the flock and we had to go out and we spent about an hour chasing this darn thing

because we're city slickers.

We, you know, we talked about scriptures.

You learn everything about the circle of life and how to take care of the planet.

there is something to be said that as we lose these things in an agrarian culture, as we have lost them,

it's one of the sources for losing our way on so many things because

what you read about is not what life on the farm or life on a ranch is actually like.

It's just not.

Yeah, I think you're 100% right on that.

I mean, in the last hundred years, we've gone to, you know, from a majority population population in rural areas and in agriculture to now it's you know less than 15% of the U.S.

population is in rural areas.

So that is just the reality.

And it's sometimes like you point out some of these basic things, you know, the cycle of life that have been lost,

that connection has been lost for people.

And that, you know, what you mentioned earlier, the upcycling, I mean, that's really our way to try to drive that home to people is

recycling.

What is upcycling?

Yeah, so everybody's heard of recycling, right?

essentially taking one one thing and making something of equivalent value upcycling is taking something of little or no value to people and making a higher value product and again when we think about beef production cattle production that's exactly what's happening right I mean cattle are eating plants that we can't eat and they're using lands that we can't use for crops otherwise and they're making this super nutrient rich food for us

and so again it's just using a different word to kind of try to drive home to people the basics that, again, if you are on a ranch or you are connected with agriculture, some of this seems like a no-brainer.

But because people are removed a few generations, you know, we do have to kind of explain the basics again to people.

Sarah, it's great talking to you.

Thank you so much.

Dr.

Sarah Place,

you can find her and follow her at DRS Place.

Dr.

Sarah Place, thank you so much.

I appreciate your time.

The entire agriculture community is uncomfortable with you calling yourself a rancher.

No, I apologize to all ranchers.

I am

no.

I'm a guy who pretends to be a rancher.

Right.

You go on vacation ranching.

I do.

I go.

I do want to go.

I would move there in a heartbeat.

You're essentially city slickers, the movie.

That's essentially what you are.

You're a city guy.

I say all the family is, but I certainly am.

Yeah.

And you should be like, I'm like, you know what?

We need some horses.

Why do we need horses?

Because we want to go.

No, because they would look good right over there.

Whatever you really, it would be so picturesque.

All right.

Anyway,

I apologize to everyone in my 500-uh-person town in Idaho for embarrassing you on so many levels.

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This is the Glenn Beck program.

Have you seen the latest deep fake?

People are saying this one is terrifying.

I don't think so, and I don't think it is what they think it is.

If you have seen the latest deep fake, I tweeted it out earlier this morning.

You find it at Glenbeck.com.

But the latest deep fake is of Donald Trump and Mr.

Bean, Rowan Atkinson from,

or Rowan Atkins.

Is that his name?

Atkins?

From Mr.

Bean, the comedian from England.

And if you look at it, can we play a little bit of that here if you happen to be watching?

I beat China all the time.

When was the last time

you saw a Chevrolet in Tokyo?

When do we beat Mexico

They're laughing at us.

They're bringing drugs on Donald Trump and his crazy eyes.

And his crazy eyes.

But I have to tell you that

this is not the deep fake.

This is a deeper fake than anyone thinks this deep fake is.

Because

the deep fake is, oh, that's Mr.

Bean.

No.

Mr.

Bean is also a deep fake.

So this is a two-level deep fake.

This is, Mr.

Bean is a deep fake of Ocasio-Cortez.

That's why the eyes look like that.

They are Ocasio-Cortez's eyes, aren't they?

They are.

Mr.

Bean and Ocasio-Cortez have the same eyes.

Yeah, you put one face on, you get the same eyes.

Doesn't matter.

I'd like to see that done with Ocasio-Cortez because I think they're pretty much the same.

And Corey Booker has a similar eye thing going on, too.

Have you noticed him when he tries to make these points, he gets really excited and his eyes really flare out super wide?

Why is that?

What's going on?

Maybe life surprises them all the time.

Oh my gosh.

I just had an idea.

We should get rid of all the planes.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Because I think Booker is so fake that he's constantly trying to over-emote.

He's trying to, he's an overactor.

That's the I Am Spartacus

syndrome.

Or it's genuine.

Oh, yeah.

He's one of those guys that tries to convince you he's sincere by acting more and more outlandish.

Ocasio-Cortez is just genuinely surprised by life.

Oh, she's three branches of government.

Oh, my gosh.

Exactly right.

Really bright.

It's exactly right.

That's like

we had more

beers where I was working than three.

We had Bud, we had Bud Light.

We had Amstel.

And then we had these, you know, these micro-brewery beers.

And the government only has three branches.

That's crazy.

That's the way that's,

that's why her eyes look that way.

When she gets excited or angry, her eyes really just do that really wide thing.

And I don't know, it's been such a weird thing with this Green New Deal, and that we saw the draft that came out, which the draft was posted mistakenly, Glenn.

They just, they didn't mean that.

That was just an early draft.

First of all, if that's your early draft, you suck, right?

Like, it's a terrible document, and it should not be, like, if you handed it to an intern who had never heard of the project and that's what they came up with, maybe that would be an excuse.

The fact that your chief of staff wrote this as his notes is pretty bizarre, even if it is just a draft.

But if it wasn't just a draft, obviously they sent it to NPR, the chief of staff sent it to NPR, and so did, and they posted it on their website.

And only after a day or two of mocking do they actually pull it down.

And why wouldn't they just then repost the correct draft?

Where is that?

Why haven't we seen the actual correct draft if this was the wrong draft?

Where's the final draft?

Right now, Ocasio-Cortez is like, oh my gosh.

And her eyes are.

We forgot.

We should, but why?

We should post the original draft.

That's a great idea.

That's why her eyes are open like that.

She's like, wow, I didn't think of that.

Well, you know what?

Stop working on banning all air travel for just a second and let's post the new one that's actually the old one.

Oh my gosh, this is so simple.

Why didn't I think of that?

You're listening to Glenn Beck.