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So glad that you are here today.

We have a couple of things we want to cover.

First of all, the State of the Union speech.

I love Nancy Pelosi's idea.

Please, Mr.

President, do this.

Also,

the women's march and feminism.

And a very frank conversation with you on feminism.

And I need women on the phone who are willing to be very frank.

We're not going to use any names

and tell us, just answer eight different questions for us.

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You know, I

there's one tradition that I just love, and that is when we all gather around the old set

and we watch the State of the Union.

Oh,

oh, the fun times and fun memories that brings back every year.

I hate that.

It's one of the worst things ever.

It's nothing but a really lousy show.

It's state-run television.

That's what that is.

That's what it feels like.

It is.

It is.

And you know, it's like, you know, it's like, you know, America's Got Talent or something like that, where you know the outcome.

You know, these judges are going to hate it, and these judges are going to love it every time.

It's a giant show, and I feel like it's completely inconsistent with the foundations of our country.

Like, we don't revere

leaders like this.

We don't, we don't, it's not pomp and circumstance here.

And like, this is the perfect time for Trump to to just say, you know what?

You're right.

It's back to a letter.

I love that.

I would love for him to do that.

The Constitution says that the president, I think it even says from time to time.

Time to time or occasionally.

Yeah, it's like, yeah, I think it is from time to time.

It's not even supposed to be like, every January, you've got to do this.

It's from time to time.

The president needs to inform the Congress the state of the union.

It needs to say, hey, things kind of suck over here and are pretty good over there.

It's always been a letter, I think, until either Wilson or FDR, of course.

I think there was maybe one or two exceptions to that.

It's an interesting history, actually.

But

it was never supposed to be.

It was never supposed to be.

Look,

believe me.

It was never supposed to be like this.

It was supposed to be basically an actual report of what the hell was going on in the country.

Correct.

That's it.

And hey, here's a couple ideas of how I think we could fix it.

Right.

So it's turned into this giant show.

And now Nancy Pelosi, as a punishment, this is how out of touch they are.

As a punishment for shutting down the government says, you know what?

Maybe we won't invite you to give a State of the Union.

Okay,

all right, please.

He doesn't need a State of the Union.

The guy tweets, and all you do is talk about it for six weeks.

Yeah, I mean, we got it.

We got it.

Oh, boo-hoo.

Now, this again hurts us because we've done a lot of planning.

We've got a really good State of the Union broadcast with all hands on deck at the Blaze.

Eric Bowling is in Washington with all of the experts.

We're going to be based here, checking in with all of the Blaze staff.

Yeah, but bad for us, good for the country.

Yeah, I'm happy for that.

Great for the country.

Great for the country.

Now,

the other side of this,

can you hear it in my voice?

I'm kind of excited that this might not happen.

You know, that the president's not going to give up and give that boring speech every year that every president gives and we all hate.

And

you've paid me.

You've paid me for 40 years.

For 40 years, I have been paid to watch that damn speech.

I've watched all of them for 40 years.

I hate them.

I hate them.

You're still paying me to watch it.

And it's like,

this year, you know what, Glenn?

You may not have to watch it.

Oh, please.

Thank you.

So.

Part of it's good for me, part of it's bad for me, but great for America.

People say we don't give democrats credit when they have good ideas well here's one nancy yes i love this idea wonderful idea

this is their punishment i love this okay so if

if you decide to do it mr president um

uh

you should encourage them not to show up

Now, I don't know exactly how the Constitution works to where if the president says, I'm going to do it, you don't have to show up.

I'm going to do it.

I'm going to do my constitutional duty.

I think it would be even more fun if they didn't show up.

It's doing it in an empty room.

That would be very, it might, the optics of that might feel a little weird.

Doing it just for the GOP?

Yeah, who do you think wins?

Right, yeah, for the GOP.

They'd all be aware of the winnings.

Who do you think for everything?

We're showing up to do our, we're showing up to do our job.

I just said the speech in the empty room is what I was picturing, but you're right.

If the GOP shows up, they're going to be clapping for everything.

Oh, Oh, my gosh.

Can you imagine if Donald Trump, if Donald Trump had Ronald Reagan's skill, no president has had Ronald Reagan's skill, but if Donald Trump had Ronald Reagan's skill in an empty chamber

just to walk in and himself go,

Mr.

Speaker?

The president of the United States.

And then they open up the doors and it's just him and he's just walking down.

He's got a a lapel microphone and he just starts talking to the American people as he's walking down that aisle and just says, look,

the government is closed because

we can't get our act together on the border.

We can't do things that will protect you.

So nobody showed up.

But you know what?

This is supposed to be a letter anyway to the to

Congress.

So I wrote them a letter.

I don't know if they're ever going to read it because they don't really read stuff around here.

I don't know if you've noticed that.

But I just wanted to sit and talk to you for a minute.

And then don't go behind that podium.

Just sit in one of the chairs that they normally sit in.

Just don't sit with the American flag or just kind of prop yourself up next to that podium and just say, so listen, I'm going to only keep you for five minutes.

This is what has to happen.

That would be

epic.

And then the five minutes should be about term limits.

All these people who didn't even bother to show up to do their jobs today,

all of them should be out.

Get them out of here.

They can't sit here and we're not going to pay them for the next hundred years like they usually want.

In fact, don't even talk about the border.

Don't talk about anything.

Just say, look, I'm only going to keep you for five minutes.

We can't get some common sense stuff down that you know.

And honestly, your neighbors who are Democrats, they know it too.

And they're sick of this.

And I've seen the polling.

There should be term limits.

There's term limits on me, on the president, because nobody should have that much power for that long.

These people, some of these people have been here since 1973.

Now, Ted Cruz has put together a deal.

And with your help, with your help, if I said this in front of them, you know, half the room would stand up and applaud.

The other half would

sit stoic.

And if the last president would have proposed what I'm proposing, they would have switched sides.

But you know one thing.

It it wouldn't happen.

It wouldn't happen because it's a restriction on them.

So I'm just asking you, let's get this done.

Yeah, it's among the most popular thing that is in public opinion.

I mean, it's something like 83% of people agree with term limits for Congress.

It's 80%,

it is more popular among Republicans by a decent margin than the border wall is.

That's how popular term limits are.

And you're also getting in the mid-70s of Democrats who agree with it.

Talking about getting people who could, you know, and I think Cruzes is worded, I believe, three terms in Congress and two terms in the Senate, and then you're done.

That's enough.

You're there for it.

That's already 18 years.

Yeah.

And you could still run for president afterwards.

And there's plenty of opportunity.

I don't even think it should be that long.

But that 18 years.

I mean,

he's, I think, being pragmatic here and saying, you know, if you make it too short, no one's going to vote for it.

But still, 18 years is plenty of time for you you to be in the government.

I mean, your working life is from 20 to, say,

70.

I'm sorry.

You're talking about 20 to 60.

You're talking about half your working life.

This is one problem we do have with the Constitution, and that is the Constitution was not written for a Congress that was seated year-round.

The Constitution was written for a Congress that showed up in the summer and did a couple months of work and then left.

Went and did real jobs.

It did real jobs.

Okay.

They should not have the power over their own salary and over their own jobs.

I mean, look, the president, do you think the president would have ever said, yeah, you know what, term limits on me?

Right.

There need to be someone who enforced that on the outside.

Right.

Right.

Why are we expecting these people?

Who would say, you know what?

I know, I'm here and I'm doing a great job right now.

And inside, you know, I'm really not doing a great job right now.

But you say to your boss, I'm doing a great job right now.

But you know what?

In 10 years, you should fire me.

No one would say that.

And, you know, every time you bring up term limits, there's somebody who says, well, you know,

the problem is that lobbyists will be in control.

Have you watched Washington lately?

What do you think is happening now?

These people have made 40-year relationships with lobbyists

who are writing the bills for them.

At least it will be new people they had to convince again.

Horrible.

Horrible.

Okay.

We come back.

I want to talk to you a little bit about the women's movement.

We got a big monologue on this today.

We've worked a couple of weeks on the TV show for tonight to tell you really who these people are that are organizing the

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Okay, so tonight we're doing a big deal on the women's march and who this, who's really behind the women's march.

And we've spent, we took Kevin, one of our researchers and writers, and said, take a couple of weeks and really look at this.

He came in this morning.

He's like, we could do literally a week's worth of shows behind all of the people that are involved in this at the upper levels that are anti-Semitic and racist and just bad people.

We're going to, we've narrowed it down to the four leaders, the people that, who was it, Time Magazine, or

I think it was Time Magazine that said we're the

people of the year.

Fortune magazine ranked three of the four that we're going to do today as the world's greatest leaders just last year.

We're going to show you why, Not so much.

Not so much.

This is not about

being

open, being honest, being loving to everybody, making sure that we hold women up.

You know, it's not.

It's not.

It's about racism and anti-Semitism.

And we're going to show you the videotape tonight.

It'll blow your mind tonight at 5 o'clock only on the Blaze TV.

But Stu was reading an article from

a woman who said, look, the feminist thing, the Me Too movement is dead

unless we start looking at toxic femininity as well.

And this is where we need you to participate.

If you are a woman and you are willing to.

Not somebody who identifies as a woman today, please.

Wow, that's hateful.

That is hateful.

Wow, Stuart.

You actually have to be an in-the-pants woman.

You got to have them lady parts.

If you got them lady parts, call us up, 888-727-2325 or 888-727-BEC.

We have several questions for you, eight questions, based on this survey.

We're not going to give them to you in advance.

We're not going to ask your name.

We won't give any identifiers.

We're going to just call you, your caller number one, two, three, four, five.

And we want you to be really honest and answer these questions that this author says, until we actually address toxic femininity,

we won't get anywhere.

Yeah, it's interesting.

And by the the way, you don't have to say that you've done any of the things we're asking about.

It's someone that you have personal knowledge with, your circle of friends, someone who.

It's got to be somebody you actually know.

Not like, oh, yeah, I have a friend who told me a story.

No, it's either you or someone you know.

So it's Megan Dahm.

She writes in Medium.

She asks these questions and posts them and then says, in a hypothetical gathering of every woman I've ever known or encountered, I'm imagining a football stadium at decent capacity.

I'm certain there is not a single one of these questions that, if answered honestly, wouldn't send hands in the air, including my own.

We all hear too much about toxic masculinity, the term that refers to the way traits like aggression and emotional repression are baked into male social norms.

It also frequently shows up in online feminism as lazy shorthand for registering disapproval of just about anything men do at all.

But when are we going to grant equal rights to women and admit that toxic femininity also exists and can be just as poisonous?

We've established that men are socially conditioned to to think that women owe them sex, but what about the women that assume that men should be grateful for any sex they get?

Throughout my life, I've heard countless men tell stories about going ahead with sex even though they didn't really want to.

Sometimes it was because they didn't want to hurt a woman's feelings, or other times it was because they feared being perceived as having a low sex drive.

A remarkable number of men have told me about times when women approached them, often wordlessly, and initiated sexual encounters without the slightest provocation or questions asked.

In some cases, probably a lot of cases, the men were happy to oblige the women's desires.

In other cases, though, they went through with the encounters because they didn't want to make an awkward situation even more awkward.

These stories have been relayed to me in a tone that I can only describe as bafflement.

The men are not complaining, but they're not boasting.

If anything, they seem to be struggling to find the words to describe a not entirely welcome encounter.

that they felt that they had no right to regard with anything other than gratitude.

Needless to say, if you imagined any of these situations with the genders reversed, you'd have the potential for a very different framing.

She goes on and on to talk about this.

I find it amazing.

I think the thing that gets lost in these ridiculous gender battles, and I think we saw an example of it the other day, too, with the radio show where the CNN

analyst

accused the black host of having white privilege because he was conservative.

And it's like, there's just this reflexive thing.

Anytime a guy does something wrong, oh, it's toxic masculinity.

And instead of just realizing and admitting something that we all know, is that people are awful a lot, regardless of their gender.

Sometimes people are awful.

We've all known awful people of our gender and we've all known awful people of the other gender and approximately 48 of the other 64 genders.

We've all known people, including women, who have done really shady things.

And you know where I hear it most from?

Oh, women.

Women are the people who always have examples of their friend that they don't really like, and they had to deal with their nonsense about how they did something to a boyfriend they shouldn't have, or they lied about this, or they treated, you know, they did,

and we'll give you the examples here in a moment, but all sorts of things that use their femininity to their advantage to try to take advantage of somebody else.

Should we just start asking some of these questions?

We have some callers.

Instead of taking them all at once, should we take them one at a time?

Let me go to person number five, please.

And we don't want you to identify yourself in any way because we want to make sure you can answer honestly.

Welcome to the program.

How are you?

Thank you.

Good, thanks.

How are you?

All right, good.

We're going to ask you, I think it's eight questions.

Should we,

because we only have about a minute here, and we have the eight questions.

If we give them away, then I think we need to have the multiple

people won't.

Well, no, I just, I think it's interesting to hear the initial reactions rather than people preparing for the answers.

Okay.

All right.

Hold on one second, person, number five.

And we'll come back to the next one.

We're going to come back then.

I just think it would, because

I have questions on all of these because you went through them, and about a third of them, I was like, no way.

No way anybody ever did that.

No way.

And that's you're just

totally naive.

Yeah.

I am.

I am just, I am so clueless.

And to be fair to Glenn, he didn't talk to a girl until about 32.

So

that's

very, very,

very true.

So

I'm completely in the dark on this one.

I'm really excited to hear what this audience will admit to, either on themselves or that they know of people.

And it has to, again, it has to be firsthand.

Yeah, not an urban legend from your town.

No.

Right.

Like it needs to be.

Oh, I know this girl.

I went to school with her and everybody talked.

No, no, no.

Your friend that you've known for a long time admitted to you that this is what they did or that you did it.

That's why we don't want any identifiers on there.

We need you to be completely honest.

And about a third of these,

I've got questions.

I've got questions.

We'll go to that when we come back in just a minute on the Glenn Beck program.

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the toxic femininity problem in America is it actually an issue By the way, if you're hearing hammering in saws, it's actually four stories above me.

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But anyway,

toxic femininity.

There's an article on Medium that talks about from a woman who says, if I got a group of my friends together and they all talked about

the truth, they would all answer yes to most, if not all, of these questions.

I find this hard to believe, but we have now, we have 12 people on the phone.

They're from the ages of 35 to 70.

It may be different below 35, but we'll see.

This group is 35 to 70 years old, 12 different people.

Can we conference call all of them together?

Do we have the technology?

Do we have the technology?

I'm not sure.

Now, here's the thing.

I attempted this in the studio.

As we put, as we put all of them together, ladies, please do not identify yourself in any way other than your number.

And because some of the questions get a little dicey, and we just want to make sure that nobody is revealing anything that everybody else goes, What?

So, here we go.

We're going to start from number one to number 12.

Don't identify yourself in any way, but we just want an honest answer on these questions.

Here's question number one:

Have you ever behaved badly and blamed it on your period?

Number one,

or you are somebody that you know,

no, no, number two,

Number two, are you there?

Yes.

The answer is no.

The answer is no.

Number three.

Absolutely.

Thank you.

Because I was going to remind you, you're under oath, ladies.

Number four.

No.

Number five.

No.

Now, remember, we're saying anyone you've ever known.

Yeah, anyone who you have personal known.

Yeah.

Okay.

Maybe we should.

Okay, so wait, let's do this again.

You or someone you personally know, and they got to be a friend.

Yeah.

So let's just start at the beginning again.

You have

ever done something and blamed it on your period, you or someone who is first-hand knowledge very close.

Yes or no, number one.

Don't listen to the radio, please.

Listen to the phone.

Number one.

Number two.

Yes.

Yes.

Number three.

Absolutely.

Number four.

Yes.

Number five.

Yes.

Number six.

No.

Number seven.

Yes.

Number eight.

Yes.

Nine.

Oh, yeah.

Ten.

Number ten.

Definitely.

Definitely.

Number eleven.

Yes.

Okay.

So nine of eleven on that one.

Nine of eleven.

Here's question number two.

Have you, or anyone you have personal knowledge of in your circle of friends, ever acted helpless in the face of an unpleasant, if not physically demanding, task like dealing with a wild animal that's gotten inside the house?

Number one.

No, because I have a sound.

Number one says, I think no.

I'm losing number one.

Number two.

Yes.

Three.

You bet.

He says.

I'm in love with three.

Number four.

Number four.

Oh, that's me.

I'm sorry, that's me.

Yes.

Not me, but somebody else.

Yes, okay.

Number five.

Yes, for sure.

Number six.

Yes.

Seven.

Yes.

Eight.

Absolutely.

Nine.

Not me, but somebody else.

Ten.

Damned little end of stress here.

Number 11.

Yes.

Yes, okay.

We are talking to 11 women aged 35 to 70, asking them questions about toxic femininity.

Question three.

Okay, they're going to get a little bit harder here.

They're a little dicey.

Have you, or anyone in your circle of friends, coerced a man into sex even though he didn't really seem to want it?

Number one.

I think we've lost number one.

I think we've lost number one.

Number two.

No way.

Number three.

probably have made a sport out of it

number four

no

five

never

six

no

seven

not that I recall

number eight

no way nine

Not yet, but I'm newly single, so I'm on the bubble on this one back.

Number 10.

Number 10.

Yes.

Yes, number 11.

All my men wanted it.

All right.

Well, again,

you can blame this on your awful friends.

It's totally fine.

Yeah, you don't have to admit to it yourself.

Right.

All right.

Okay.

Next one.

Have you or anyone in your circle of friends over your life thought you were at liberty to do some sort of coercing because men always wanted and should feel lucky anytime they get it.

No.

That's number one?

Number two.

Yes.

Number three.

Come on, absolutely.

Absolutely.

Absolutely.

Hands down.

You know, I forgot to.

We have to have another conversation with number three.

We need to set up a podcast with number three.

Right.

Number four.

I don't understand the question.

Could you?

Yes, go ahead.

So

a lot of this goes back to the coursing.

If you don't know anyone who's ever coerced someone or, you know,

you kind of prodded them into sex even though you weren't sure they were necessarily that much into it, did you justify that as, you know, men always want it and they should be lucky anytime that they get it?

Yes.

Okay, number five.

No.

Six.

Yes.

Seven.

Yes.

Eight.

Seven and four.

Seven and three should never get together.

They'd be driving off a cliff at the end of that movie.

Eight.

No.

Nine.

Absolutely freaking lootly.

Yeah, and you, you are an instigator as well.

Number ten.

No, not so much.

Okay.

And number 11.

Absolutely.

Wow.

Okay.

That was one of those that I thought,

no, no, I mean, I can't.

I mean, I could see occasionally.

What was the score on that?

What was it?

Six out of the 11 said yes to that.

Six out of the 11.

Okay.

Next up, have you, or you can absolutely blame someone else in your circle of friends.

If you've ever threatened to harm yourself if

a man breaks up with you or doesn't want to see you anymore, do you remember this from high school or college?

You or someone else.

Number one.

No way.

Number two.

Oh, at the ripe age of 15, yes.

Number three.

Not a chance.

Number four.

No.

Five.

No, never.

Six.

I just did that last week.

Number seven.

No.

Eight.

No way.

Nine.

Hell no, but I've had it done to me.

Ten.

By a woman or by a man?

By a man.

Okay.

Number,

I did 10, 11.

No, no man's that important.

Good for you.

Skip 10.

Oh, did I skip 10?

Number 10.

I've known a couple people, yes.

Yeah, okay.

Okay.

What happened to 12?

Oh, do we have 12?

I bet you did.

Oh, well, we only have 11.

I'm looking up, and I thought we had 12, but we only have 11.

Okay, next one.

Now, these are going to get,

these can be harsh.

Again, think about back in your life, the friends that you've had, maybe made questionable choices.

I know we've all had these friends, but we're going to get a little tough here.

Any of these people that you've known in your life been physically abusive with a male partner, knowing you'd be unlikely to face any legal consequences?

Wow.

Oh, never.

Okay, there's number one.

Number two.

No.

Three.

Yes.

Well, I won't ask.

That's not

your role here is to ask you.

I know, I know.

Number four.

No.

Five.

No, never.

Six.

Does pushing him down the stairs count?

Yes, it does.

Six.

Seven.

I do know one person, yes.

Eight.

I know one person who saw the evidence after it was over.

Yes.

Nine.

Does it count if you've been drinking?

Yes, it does.

Yes, said the judge.

Yes.

That was number nine.

Nine.

Number ten.

Number nine.

What did you say, number ten?

I know we're anonymous, but it was not me, but I do know someone.

Okay.

Number 11.

Yes.

Wow.

Wow.

That was higher than I expected on that one.

A lot higher than I expected.

Okay, two more, guys.

And you're doing a great job of blaming all your friends for everything.

Okay, have you or anyone in your circle of friends lied about being on birth control or faked a pregnancy scare to see how a man would respond?

absolutely not

okay number two absolutely not three

never

four

no

five

yes

okay six nobody has friends because i i this one i feel is common yeah i know somebody who's done that i would have said this one was 15 out of 11 yeah me too uh where were you at number six yeah i had a friend that did that one uh number seven

no

Eight?

No way.

Nine?

Good lord, no.

Ten.

Quite a few, actually.

Eleven.

Yes.

I thought that would be a lot higher.

Yeah, this is so common.

It even happened on the documentary, The Office.

It wasn't a documentary.

And then finally,

okay, this is again you or your circle of friends.

Have every of them ever manipulated a divorce or a child custody dispute in your favor, or in their favor, by falsely insinuating that a man had been abusive to you or your child?

Again, your circle of friends would count in this as well.

After 41 years, no way.

You have good friends.

Number two.

No.

Three.

Not for me, and truly not for anybody I know.

Four.

I say no, but I bet the liberals will answer these questions much differently than us.

Yeah.

You know,

I was just thinking that I think with a younger group, it may be different with those under 35.

And also, I think with

a group of different

set of values.

Okay, so what number were we at?

Number five, I think?

Yeah.

Number five.

Yes, but it was reverse.

It was a man who was doing it to the woman.

Okay.

Okay, that doesn't count.

Okay.

Number six.

No.

No.

No.

Number seven?

No.

Eight?

No, and if they did, they would no longer be my friend.

Good for you.

Good for you.

Nine.

I echo her sentiments exactly, so no.

Thank you, dear.

Ten.

You're welcome.

Yep, nitto.

And eleven.

Yes, sadly.

So can I ask just

yes?

Yes, sadly, she said.

Can I ask,

do you believe that toxic femininity exists, ladies?

You can just...

Yes.

Yes.

Absolutely.

100% of it.

Absolutely.

100%.

Women can be about it.

Women can be bad.

All right, all right, all right, ladies.

It was a yes or no question.

Isn't that a party line?

No, though.

Please define.

Please define for me what is toxic femininity.

I think the things, the things that they're saying about toxic masculinity, that there are guys that are jerks and will use, they're self-centered.

They'll do whatever they want to get what they want.

I think that is not a male problem.

It's like racism.

It's a human problem.

I agree.

That's true.

Full sentences will not work in this format.

We got to break.

But thank you.

That was great.

Ladies, hang on the phone.

I want to send each of you, give the producer your name.

I want to send each of you an autographed copy of my new book.

But thank you for being on.

So stand by.

That was very interesting.

Very interesting to hear.

Fascinating.

Fascinating.

And to the author's credit, Megan Dom's credit, we got a yes at least for every single one of them, and some of them unanimously.

Yes.

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Yeah, the Circle of Friends as well.

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Just a few questions.

Self-reflection when you ask,

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Are you even willing to ask yourself, am I a patriot or a partisan?

Do you politicize almost everything and almost every circumstance?

Are you offended when others try to do that?

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what you're actually for

better

than you are condemning what you think you're against?

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and it's that stupid party that gets into the way, not the person you helped to elect?

There's a new book out called Truth Bombs.

It's by Steve Dace.

We begin with him in one minute.

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We'll tell you in a minute.

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Yesterday, we announced Chad Prather is joining the Blaze TV lineup, which is going to be great called Humor Me.

It's a new show.

He's a musician and comedian.

He sells out shows all across the country.

If you haven't heard of Chad Prather,

he's one of these new stars that, you know, just kind of like, why is there a giant crowd of 20,000 people people across the street?

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Yeah, really funny, really nice guy, common sense.

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And

he's joining us.

We announced that yesterday.

And also, Matt Kibbe has a brand new program.

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And we also have Steven Crowder returning for a brand new season today.

And Steve Dace has put out a new book called Truth Bombs, which

Steve, the reaction to Truth Bombs, do people want the truth?

Yes and no.

I think where we're at now,

you know, with Trump listening to conservative media and going back to his original pledge not to sign another continuing resolution and forcing this confrontation and watching how the Republican Party never wanted this confrontation en masse whatsoever.

I think the timing of that is almost serendipitous to providential because I think there's a new audience for the message of this book, Glenn, that probably wouldn't have existed even six months ago.

Yeah, I think that

while there's lots of things that Donald Trump has done that we like, we never really got to the root of the problem that the Republican Party, they didn't want to,

none of them wanted to get rid of Obamacare.

None of them really wanted to do anything about the border.

It's just a game that they continue to play with us over and over and over again, and they usually have no spine.

But because Donald Trump listens to the people, I think,

he has stood strong on this and knew I'm toast if I don't.

And I think it's opening up a whole new world.

When I wrote this book,

I wanted to minimize Trump's role in this drama intentionally because I don't think the cake has changed.

You know, I say this on my daily show on The Blaze all the time.

The cake is still the same.

We just have this zany new frosting on top of it called Trump.

It's the same political cake that it's always been.

And so I spent one chapter in the book, I go into all of my history with Trump, how he tried to woo me to support him early in his presidential run.

And I did that on purpose because one of the major themes in this book is Trump is neither the problem nor the solution.

He is the symptom.

Frankenstein's monster doesn't create itself.

If Trump is everything his detractors claim he is, Glenn, he can only be in the position he is in right now if the system is everything guys like you and I were saying it was before Trump ever came down that escalator.

He exploited what the system has become to his own advantage.

And he speaks for a base of people.

You know, for most of his adult and public life, Trump has been one of the fair-haired set.

And now he's watched as they've turned on him.

The Jay-Zs, the LeBrons, the Snoop Doggs, the people that couldn't wait to get their picture taken with them before.

The minute he put an R after his name and spoke directly to the values of Main Street America, and whether he did it because he believed it or political opportunism or a little bit of both, it didn't matter.

Once he provided a platform to Main Street America, suddenly all these people turned on him because it isn't about Trump.

It's about the hatred for the base of everyday Americans that he represents.

And the only in my 10 plus years of working full-time in political activism on campaigns from president to school board, I've learned one truth among many that stands above the rest, and that's this.

The only political party in America that hates everyday Americans, conservatives, Orthodox religious believers more than the Democrats are the Republicans.

What makes you say that?

Look at the way they behave.

And in this book, I knew people were going to ask questions when I made statements like that.

So so there's 10 pages of footnotes in this book there's over 140 footnotes in this book to borrow a biblical phrase so that no one is with no one is without or no one has an excuse okay so the reality is look at the way they behave in fact let's just go to the i could point out primaries how they always come out harder after us than they do democrats But let's just look at what Mitt Romney did the day he arrived in Washington as a would-be senator before he was sworn in.

So this is a guy that goes to work every day in the Senate.

and surrounding him are people who think it's a great idea and enlightened to take a pair of forceps, shove them up a woman's uterus,

essentially attach them to the skull of her child, penetrate it, smash it, so they then can vacuum out the baby's brains and the rest of its parts limb by limb.

And now his concern is Trump's being, he has nothing to say.

All those problems that all those people represent, he's silent.

But now Trump's problems are the ones that he needs to address immediately in the pages of the Washington Post.

Trump's moral problems are well documented.

But the reality is Trump's moral problems right now aren't getting in the way of you and me earning a paycheck or living in a society that is worthy of passing on to our children.

People that want to suck the brains out of little babies, their lack of integrity and their moral problems, they're the ones getting in the way of that.

And so here we see Mitt Romney in the last two weeks has gone harder after Donald Trump than he did the entire final six months of the general election campaign, go after Barack Obama.

And we have seen this pattern over and over again because Democrats inspire their base to get what they want, Glenn.

Republicans conspire against their base to get what they want.

The Republicans want to beat Democrats in elections, just not for the same reasons we want to beat them.

And in the end, if the choice is losing to Democrats or losing control of the Republican Party, they will choose losing to Democrats.

And I'll make one final point on this.

Look at the Never Trump thing that you and I were originally part of.

So most, the guys like you, me, Shapiro, Erickson, there was a group of us who were like, this guy's moral problems are way too high to gamble that he'll provide any conservative return on investment whatsoever.

It's not worth risking the capital.

Well, what we're finding out now that Trump has actually moved more to the right than we ever thought as president, look at the bill crystals, look at the people that populate CNN and MSNBC, and what you're going to find is

their complaints about Trump's boarish behavior were a camouflage, a cover.

Most of our old never Trump movement were people that were actually never conservative.

I would agree with you on that wholeheartedly.

And you know,

because those people will not say

anything good about him.

Look, my concerns, and I said this on the air, my concern was I don't think he's going to do any of these things because he's never shown a willingness to stand up to those kinds of things and stand up and fight for him.

That's not who he's ever been, but he is listening.

He is, I will tell you this.

I think this president

might be the biggest servant president we have had in the last 20 years, perhaps.

Maybe George Bush.

But what I mean is, and no, I can't even say George Bush, listening, listening to the people who voted for him.

I don't think he wanted to shut down the government.

I don't think he wanted to do all of this.

That wasn't his first instinct.

But he saw the writing on the wall and he realized that's not, that's what they put me in for.

Okay, I'm going to stand.

And, you know, the people are telling him every day you're losing your shirt.

I don't think he is.

I think he's actually, I think he's actually winning because no one has ever stood with the people

against the system.

I agree with that.

And, you know, I've said this before, and let me say it again.

And since Reagan left the national stage, and Reagan left the national stage in January of 1989, I was not yet legal to get a driver's license.

And I have a senior in high school oldest child right now.

And so we're still talking about Reagan.

And that's a generation before even Al Gore invented the Internet to tell you, and I bring that up to point out that what you and I are talking about is true, because I would argue since Reagan left the national stage for all his faults and I don't hide from any of Trump's faults I don't know what in the Sam Hill Rudy Giuliani was doing on CNN last night I don't know what that was okay

I don't know why he hired guys like Paul Monafort who were complete you know Putin clowns I don't know the answers to those questions but here's what I do know the only Republican in a leadership position in the last 25 years that has even been the slightest sensitive to sympathetic to the core concerns of the average Republican base voter is Donald Trump, not the two Bushes that were president,

not McRomney,

the previous two presidential nominees, not McConnell, not McCarthy, not Scalise, not Paul.

All we did with Paul Reiner and John Boehner, Glenn, we traded a chain smoker for a crossfitter, but we got everything else.

So he's the only guy that cares what we think for all.

And this is why, if you're wondering, why are people so loyal to him?

There is a political cult aspect to it, and all politicians have it, and I've talked about that too.

But a lot of it is, is, as we just saw before Christmas, if Rush Limbaugh goes on the air and

trashes Kevin McCarthy, he's not doing a dang thing.

He did it to Donald Trump, and dude said, you know what, we're going to have to reverse course here.

He's the only one who cares what we think, Glenn.

He's the only one.

I agree with you, Steve.

I actually agree with you.

I don't think Donald Trump is the leader in the traditional sense, but I don't think that necessarily that's what America wants anymore.

Right now, they want someone who will listen to them.

Because I think the common sense of the average person is better than any leader that I have found.

And for all of his faults, he is listening to his people and to America.

And I think that with all of his faults, that's exactly what we may need at this time to be able to save the Republic.

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back with Steve Dace, and he's written the book

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Let's go over,

I think your book is really important because we have to prepare ourselves for 2020 and 2024.

And I think these parties are imploding.

But people will say,

and you cover this in your book, you've got to vote for the Republican.

You know, it's too hard for a third party.

And you take those things apart.

Start with a third party.

The number one reason we don't have a third party, and there's other reasons.

I didn't say it was the only one, but the number one reason we don't is there's just too much damn money to be made chilling and pimping the Republican Party.

That's why.

And that's just the reality.

Careers get made.

Food gets put on the table.

There are whole people that what

I'm thinking of is that Manu Raje, I believe is his name.

He's essentially Mitch McConnell's stenographer.

And he essentially walks into Mitch McConnell's office.

He tells him what to write, what to say, what today's lead is from GOP Senate leadership, and that's a quote-unquote story.

And this goes on, and we have too many conservative blogs that are essentially facsimiles and stenographers for certain donor blocks of the Republican Party or factions of the GOP.

And this has devolved into the click-servative

notion that we've seen in the last few years.

There's just too much money to be made in maintaining the status quo.

And that's why, you know,

one of the examples, when I knew we were screwed, is I was on the air every night in Louisville on my old syndicated show live.

And I had Matt Bevin on my show all the time when he was trying to primary Mitch McConnell.

And at that time,

I was doing a lot of interviews as kind of your token conservative on MSNBC panels and stuff.

And we would talk about this primary all the time.

And I'm like, I think Bevin's going to win.

I mean, everybody hates McConnell.

Bevin's, you know, got his own money to spend.

He's well-known.

He's a great candidate.

And he's such a good candidate.

He's the governor of Kentucky now.

We got to primary night.

Several friends of mine worked on this campaign, so I knew what was going on on the inside.

We get to primary night, and you look at the turnout.

Now, Kentucky is the state where I think twice in the last 20 years, the Democrat nominee for president didn't even get 40% of the vote statewide in a presidential election.

It's a pretty red state.

We get to primary night, and more people voted in the Democratic Senate primary than voted in the Republican Senate primary that night, despite all the media attention, except you know where all the media attention was on CNN and MSNBC, which our base doesn't consume.

I went and Googled Fox.

I went to Foxnews.com.

I Googled Matt Bevin, Hitch McConnell.

Got like no results.

Rush never talked about it.

It never shows up on the front page of Drudge.

And so here we are with a vastly superior candidate to McConnell, not some local yokel who believes in Ken Trails, a guy who's the freaking governor of the state right now, okay?

And we couldn't turn out our voters because they didn't even know he existed, Glenn.

And this is why we can't ever beat these guys in these primaries.

This is why whoever tells you, hey, we're going to launch a 10-year war to take back the Republican Party.

You know, one of my good friends is one of the original donors of the GOP from the old Sharon statement.

He once told me, Steve, I've been fighting, you know, we've been fighting for taking over the Republican Party for 50 years.

And I told him, brother, with all due respect, I don't want to do this for 50 years.

And the country doesn't have 50 years.

So the biggest problem we have is this.

Corporate America has turned against us in the last generation.

There aren't any more Leia Cocas anymore who either supported our values or were willing to fund them because they understood that Democrats were terrible for their economic model.

What's happened now is youth soccer economics have taken over Wall Street.

Progressivism is in every every boardroom.

They're now funding all the cultural causes we're against.

And they've decided, you know what, instead of fighting big government, we just buy it off and they make you buy our health insurance if we do that.

Well, I will tell you this.

That started because of Reagan in, I think it was 1986 or 88

with the Tides Foundation.

That was their goal.

They learned through Reagan.

We've got too many people in boardrooms that are conservative.

We have too many people running companies that are conservative.

We need to get people at the highest echelons of corporate America and take over from there.

And they've done it, and they did it effectively.

And anytime you ever talk about it, it's a conspiracy theory.

But it's well documented.

That's what they set out to do.

When you talk to Republicans about that, they want nothing to do with it.

They're like, that won't work.

And I'm not in it for that long.

I'm just going to put my money behind this guy.

The problem is, is that socialists and those who want to destroy this country think long term.

We don't.

If you want to think long term and know the truth, know the truth about yourself, your argument, our side, the conservative movement, how do we win in 2020?

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Epidemic seems bad, to put it that way.

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Justin is a part of my research research team.

He watches the economy and kind of the overall global scope of technology and

everything, everything that we're talking about, basically,

and tries to tie it all together.

And I wanted to bring him in today and talk to a little bit about what's just happened in China that no one is talking about.

I mean, we can talk about Nancy Pelosi and Donald Trump locking horns.

Fine, don't do the State of the Union.

I think America America will cheer.

That's not a punishment, Nancy.

That's a present.

But you're going to hear a lot of coverage on that.

That's not important.

This is.

Listen.

So, yeah, over the last several days, just some really interesting kind of red flag signals coming out of the Asian markets.

Two really important reports came out.

We've had significant drops in the Baltic Dry Index, which is one of the global indices that a lot of analysts will look at and certainly one that we track here.

But it had its largest.

What is the Baltic Dry Index, in case anybody doesn't know?

So, this is all of the shipping that comes out of the Baltic Sea in terms of industrial production, grain.

And you look at that index for what is happening in that sector of the world, the Eurasian sector of the world, for everything that they're manufacturing and exporting to the world.

Economies like Korea, Singapore, certainly some of the former Soviet states produce significant amounts of steel, of other commodities,

grain, and they export that to the world.

And they're heavily reliant on those exports for their income.

Whereas we're consuming income, they're a heavy export incomes.

So, the Baltic Dry index is something that world economies really need to pay attention to.

When there is a slowdown in that index, and it's reported every month, that is a very strong sign that there is a slowdown in manufacturing globally.

People don't need the iron ore, and people don't need the other commodities that are coming out of those markets.

And then, very specific economies like Korea.

South Korea and Singapore are two of the largest technology manufacturers in the world in terms of exporters.

And both of those countries reported a slowdown pretty significantly.

The Baltic Dry Index dropped by 17%

in one month, which was its largest drop in one month since the financial crisis of 2008, 2009.

So, fairly significant warning sign, and something that certainly, if you are invested in stocks overseas and equity markets overseas, definitely something to be paying close attention to.

The thing that I found really disturbing is the amount of money that China has now just poured in to their economy.

Now, we do this

with the Fed, and

it's not healthy,

but we did this with the Fed with

I want to say tarp, but it's not tarp.

It's

what is it?

Not stimulus.

When we were pouring it in.

Quantitative easing.

Yes.

Yes.

Quantitative easing.

Thank you.

Quantitative easing.

We did this for several years, and we were putting about $80 billion a month and basically printing money and throwing it into the economy to stimulate things,

you know, or buying bad assets and putting them under an umbrella of assets when they were bad.

They were failed crap.

And that way you could pump money into the system.

Well, we thought it was dangerous to do $80 billion a month

to the tune of about $3 to $4 trillion, right?

In the end, quantitative easily.

That's where we've ended up.

So the Fed has been slowly unwinding its balance sheet and dumping now $50 billion a month into the markets.

So it's selling off the debt it had acquired and it's selling those back into the markets now.

So

we did anywhere between four and seven trillion dollars and that was insane

in the last four days

china has pumped fifty trillion dollars into their market fifty five zero

and it's effectively the same mechanism so what china is doing is they are the central bank the people's bank of china is printing money to buy assets.

Now, that's the way they refer to these things.

They are buying bonds, corporate bonds, mostly in government-backed companies.

So, you know, very different from how we are in the United States, but mostly it is a central bank buying bonds to own part of companies that are already owned by the government anyway.

So you have a bank that's owned by the government printing money to buy bonds in banks that are owned by the government.

And China's claim over the last several days is that they've done $1.1 trillion of direct bank bond buying to pump liquidity into the market so that Chinese citizens have money to pull out of banks to pay their taxes.

This is the shell game that literally

is in their report.

So think, $50 trillion

in four days so people can pay their taxes.

Why not just say you don't have to pay your taxes this year?

It's the same money.

It's the same money.

So if anyone wants to look this up, this is a publicly available report.

It is called the People's Bank of China Financial Stability Report 2018, and it just came out a few days ago.

Now, so you know, we usually don't trust, you don't take these things at face value because they don't have to tell the truth.

And so they usually make a lot of this stuff, you know, when it comes to how their economy is doing, et cetera, et cetera, we take it with a grain of salt.

So they say...

But it's always in their favor, though.

It's always in their favor.

They want to make China look stronger.

Correct.

So when they're telling you bad news,

it's really bad.

And so here's how they've done this.

If you look at the first few pages of this report, you'll see tables where the Chinese government is claiming that the balance sheet of the People's Bank of China is $6 trillion.

That's what's on balance sheet, very much like our Fed does.

Our central bank says we have $4 trillion of assets.

Again, we printed money to buy bonds of assets on our balance sheet.

Trevor Burrus: Now, so you remember, just to put this in context, in 2008, remember all those crappy loans, all those CDOs, all the current mortgage-backed securities?

All all the crap that was not worth anything that everybody was defaulting on?

Those were the assets that we bought.

The troubled asset relief program.

Correct.

So they bought all of those troubled assets and said, no, no, no, we're going to shine these up.

It's nearly not that bad.

And we're going to count them as gold over here.

So we've got these assets.

That's what China is doing, except to the tune of $50 trillion.

But wait, there's more.

So the interesting thing thing is to find

this money, the $50 trillion that they've just reported for the first time, it's the first time it's been in this report, you actually have to dig to page 64.

So again, anyone can go download this.

It's widely available, but on page 64 of the Financial Stability Report of the People's Bank of China for 2018, you can find this data.

In addition to the $50 trillion they've had added, they already had $42 trillion, and they record these as off-balance sheet assets, not on balance sheet, so that everyone knows what they are.

They are off-balance sheet assets, totaling $92 trillion going back all the way to the financial crisis.

There's a second set of books.

Now, if China is admitting this, imagine how bad it actually is.

What do you think is happening in China?

And how much of this has to do with trade?

And what does that mean to the average person

here?

So China is a very interesting market when you think about bankers who work for state-owned banks and when you think about

companies, the presidents and accountants for these companies that are also state-owned.

They know they're running bad loans, but if you run a bad loan in China, you go to jail.

Even if you do a bad loan here, you just get out of the market and no one trusts you with money anymore.

But in China, you and your family end up in prison if your loan defaults.

So what China does is it just continues to refinance old old loans that were going bad and weren't performing and couldn't possibly raise new debt in the open market.

And they just print new money to roll over these old loans.

So, it is not new financial assets that the central bank is buying.

It's loans from, you know, eight years ago that were still bad and aren't performing.

And they just refinance that loan for another five years and just keep rolling it and rolling it and rolling it.

The interesting thing: of the $92 trillion

of off-balance sheet assets, and this will be familiar to us because of the 2008, 2009 financial crisis, about $64 trillion of that $92 trillion is mortgage-backed securities.

Oh, my gosh.

That is what the Chinese central bank is continuing to refinance are all of these ghost cities that they are just rolling over those loans over and over and over again.

So what we did to the tune of a few trillion dollars, they've done to the tune of $64 trillion.

So what does that mean to the average person?

What should that tell you?

Right now, there's about $22 trillion of foreign investment money in China.

So, this is money that came from businesses, private investors in the United States.

It came from hedge funds.

It comes from our central bank

and other large banks in the U.S.

investing in China.

It comes from companies like Apple that have significant investments in those markets.

And when China begins to unravel, those assets will not be allowed offshore.

The $20 trillion of investment that sits in China from the outside, half of it from the United States, China will just seize that.

They'll just say, you can't take this money back.

That money has to stay here.

So there is a significant risk profile for a lot of companies, Apple probably being at the top of that list as far as I'm concerned, of companies that have invested massive amounts of their U.S.-based capital or Western-based capital and have invested it in China for manufacturing purposes.

If China starts to go unstable,

I mean, what is the,

do you have any idea yet on what you think the straw that's going to break the camel's back?

Is it going to be Brexit?

Is it going to be

uprisings in Europe?

Will it be Germany or Italy or China or Russia?

Oil with Saudi Arabia.

What is the Yeah, these are great points.

Any number of these could be that spark that really starts the fire.

Certainly, Italy is in a serious banking crisis right now that it just seems like it's been ongoing, so no one's talking about it.

But it has gotten so much worse just in the last 12 months compared to where it was.

Saudi Arabia, another great example, taking on billions of dollars of debt basically every month because they need oil to be at $75 to $80 a barrel to be profitable with it.

Saudi Arabia is in trouble.

Saudi Arabia.

Saudi Arabia goes unstable.

God

help anyone in the Middle East.

They like them, don't like them.

They are stability.

So this is them being stable?

I just want to make sure I understand them.

This is them being stable.

Imagine what it's like when they're not stable.

their princes are like capturing other family members and holding them hostage at the four seasons but

because they need the money right they're taking that money taking their money yeah um so uh we are on the edge of something and uh we just had who was it uh that was on the show last week stu that said we are looking at a category six storm and i asked him where would you put the Great Depression and he said category five.

So he's he was predicting something much more significant than the Great Depression.

I feel that is coming as well, but I'm a catastrophist.

What do you, with all of the research that you do, and you're a pretty optimistic guy, you're just a realist.

What do you think is coming?

Sure, we certainly could see something on the scale of the Great Depression over the next several years.

It is certainly possible.

What has been amazing, even though we're seeing a significant economic slowdown globally right now, is how resilient the U.S.

markets have continued to be.

Been awesome.

You know, they've gained back 50% of what they lost from September, October that has now been recovered.

We are at a key Fibonacci ratio as far as that recovery goes.

So, as long as you have assets invested in the United States, especially safe assets here, you'll probably weather that storm as well as anywhere you could in the world.

Justin, thank you very much.

We're going to try to work in the next year to take this information and make it usable for you, somebody who doesn't necessarily have a lot of money, and you're not playing the stock market, and you're not an international investor.

But what you have to do to remain

stable, if you are over 55, I am not an investment advisor.

Do not take my word for it.

Do your own homework.

But I will tell you, I think we're coming up to something that is going to be a very long event horizon and the turnaround,

if you're 50, 55, maybe beyond your retirement.

I've taken 75% of everything I have out of stock markets

because I just, I think something bad is coming.

And the shoe will drop.

I just don't know which shoe it will be, but there are shoes being pushed to the edge all over the world.

Thanks, Justin.

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you know, every time something big happens on the screen, the walls shake.

But then the channel has changed.

On the couch, a cat has swiped the remote for the Apple TV, and all of a sudden, you're back to QVC, that damn cat.

What to do?

Well, as reported in the Mercury News,

you get your cat an apartment.

43-year-old 43-year-old Troy Good

rented a $1,500 a month apartment

for two cats.

Now, these are two cats that his daughter adopted just recently and then went to school.

What to do, what to do.

He didn't want them living with him,

so he decided

he would just rent an apartment.

Now,

this story might be cute if it wasn't so strange, dystopian, and irresponsible.

In San Francisco, $117,000 is considered low-income.

So these are low-income cats.

How much do they earn?

Do we know?

Well, $1,500 a month.

Okay.

It has been consistently ranked one of the

most expensive cities to live in in America.

This is

Newport, Rhode Island of our day.

And if you ever thought that Gadsby or any of these guys that

supposedly lived in Newport,

the Gatsby is the joke or the literary device for the excess of that time period.

They didn't have cats for their houses for their cats, I don't think.

I'm pretty sure.

Not even apartments?

I don't think they did.

Ridiculous wealth is happening now in San Francisco, and that's fine.

That's fine.

I don't have a problem.

You want to have a Lamborghini and you park it and you don't turn the wheels into the curb on the steepest street I've ever seen.

That's fine.

That's your Lamborghini.

That's whatever.

This is your cat.

You want to rent an apartment for your cat.

That's fine.

But California and San Francisco in the throes of

full-fledged crisis right now.

Piles of poop

all over the city.

You mentioned this story, I think it was late last year, where a light pole fell on a car.

Yes.

Do you remember this?

Okay, so I can't remember the street.

It was like pine and something.

But there was, you know, those big, heavy metal light poles.

It was on a corner.

Car pulls up, doesn't pull all the way to

the crosswalk.

Thankfully.

Thankfully.

This light pole, all of a sudden, nobody hits it, nothing.

It just

and crashes on the hood of this car.

If the car would have been four feet forward, it would have killed the passenger.

Okay.

It's this giant light pole.

Why did the giant light pole fall?

Well,

after investigation, they found out that too many humans were peeing on the pole and it corroded the metal.

And because of human urine,

that light pole collapsed and almost killed somebody.

Same way the Grand Canyon was formed, by the way.

A lot of people don't know that.

A lot of people don't know that.

So you have mentally ill people.

You have tents all over the city.

You have poop all over the city.

You have urine-soaked

light poles falling.

I mean, this is a crazy thing.

And then you have a guy who says, you know what?

I'm going to rent this for my cats.

Now, again,

you can rent it for your cats, but I'm guessing this guy is living in San Francisco.

I'm guessing, yeah, could be wrong.

I'm guessing he's one of these guys also that wants to save the world and social justice warrior and everything else.

The reason why is because his 18-year-old got some kittens, named them after the characters on Bob's Burgers, made an Instagram account for them, then went off to college, and she just didn't have any other choice.

If my son or daughter ever came to me and said, Dad,

I need you to rent an apartment for my cats just for four years,

I might disown them.

I might say, you know what, I'm going to take you to court.

I'm divorcing you.

I think the average American would be more likely to have those cats served at Bob's Burgers after that incident than renting an apartment for them for several years.

That's crazy, isn't it?

That's amazing.

On the crazy front, as well, I think, you know, last week

we told you that, you know, the feminist movement is

just

going to keep growing.

It's getting stronger and stronger.

And Gillette this week comes out and shows the toxic masculinity.

And

it's just getting so great now for women.

And you can finally do what women have always wanted to do.

January is now January

month.

And they are

urging, feminists are urging women not to shave.

Don't shave your armpits.

It's January.

You know, nothing is going to win people over to feminism more than unshaved armpits of women.

I think that's probably your quickest path to success.

And I think they should try.

Maybe all the candidates for 2020.

There's a lot of women.

It's the year of the woman, as every year is.

The year of the woman, maybe this is something they can embrace.

I mean, I think this would help sell their candidacy, make a little bit of news.

Why not?

So they're also saying that you shouldn't pluck your eyebrows and you should just let your hair grow.

Just let your hair grow.

Just, you know what?

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry.

I mean,

we're not monkeys.

We're not.

And even monkeys has another monkey that's picking the crap out of their fur.

You know what I mean?

You know, even monkeys groom themselves.

That's true.

It's just called grooming.

Now, if you don't like the social norms, that's fine, but don't try to make this into a movement because you, for some reason, are empowered because you have hairy armpits.

You can do that all you want, and you can be the hairy hairy armpit lady.

Go for it.

Celebrate your spirit the way you want to celebrate your spirit.

I lived in a house next to a teepee growing up.

I know these people.

Okay.

And I'm open-minded, and I didn't mind the people in the teepee.

I didn't know why they didn't build a house.

And eventually they did build a house, but I think they used it mainly for storage because they still lived in the teepee,

but to each his own, whatever.

But don't expect me to go, oh, you go girl.

Oh, there's nothing better than a big hairy armpit on a beautiful woman, a black cocktail dress, a string of pearls, and hairy armpits.

You had me at hairy armpits.

That's class right there.

It is.

I will say,

it's so typical of you.

A shining example of toxic masculinity to advocate for something named after the male side of a marriage, the groom.

You,

right here on the air, have shown once again your patriarchal tendencies.

No, that's not the same word.

Grooming.

Turn us all into men because men are

the only approved gender.

My gosh, did you hear what he just said?

Did an American just hear what he said?

He just said grooming.

It's just like you, you pedophiliac

to

talk about grooming and to encourage grooming of young people into your sexual

sexual desires.

You were encouraging grooming.

I was criticizing you for encouraging grooming.

I want nothing to do with you and

your lifestyle because I'm going to say it.

I think grooming children for your sexual desire is wrong, Stu.

Stu.

I'm going to say it.

I'm going to have the guts to say it.

You want to play intersectionality battle with me?

You want to play intersectionality?

We'll do it, brother.

We should play intersectionality as a game on the air at some point.

We should.

Just who has been violated the most by the horrible society that's been built by the number one civilization of all time?

That is a good game.

That is.

That is a good game.

I think we need to play that.

I know.

Well, we have to come up with it first.

Well, yes, but that's how these things happen.

We just say it on the air and then it's a good one.

It's like somebody, you know, somebody, Milton or Bradley, said, Monopoly.

We should sell a game named Monopoly.

Let's start playing it right now, but we don't have

Milton.

But what we need, Milton, is like a little metal car.

Damn.

Oh, I know.

What does everyone think is really relevant?

A thimble.

Let's put a thimble in there.

Yes.

Everyone loves thimbles.

We've got it.

So we're this close to a brand new game called Intersectionality.

A thimble away.

Yes.

All right.

Oh, my gosh.

What a sexist.

Oh, a thimble.

Like, like women have to be home so is that what you think about women?

Oh my gosh.

Is that what you think about women?

No, that's not what I think.

By the way, I consider myself a woman, so don't toy with me.

I bet you're spelling it E-N instead of Y-N, aren't you?

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because they had a woman who would not leave the store, had spent several hours driving an electric shopping cart around the store's parking lot.

Now, the problem is,

you know, you shouldn't do that, but also

she was drinking and driving.

Oh, okay.

And it's not that she was just drinking and driving.

She was drinking a lot of wine,

but she was drinking it out of a...

out of a Pringles can.

That's innovative.

That's not Disneyland for adults, I don't know what is.

Now, you could be the person drinking it out of the Pringles can, or you could be the person just watching it.

Just going, this is great entertainment.

So it was like a little sour cream and onion chablis?

Yeah, I don't know if she, I don't know if she was trying to hide the booze, you know what I mean?

Or if she thought, you know what?

You haven't lived until you've had the sour cream and onion,

you know,

Cabernet.

It's delicious.

I like that.

What about a Merlot with cheeseum?

Cheesum with Merlot might be interesting.

With wine and cheese.

Wine and cheese.

Right?

It's just a combination.

This woman is a genius.

We're chasing her out.

She's just come up with a faster way to have a wine and cheese party.

I think this is brilliant.

And she actually got booted for this.

I would expect more from Walmart.

Yeah, well, she was riding around the electric cart for three hours.

Did she crash into stuff?

Pardon me?

Did she crash into stuff?

No.

No.

She was not arrested.

She was not arrested.

She was just asked not to come back to the store.

Ever?

For one time drinking wine out of a Pringles can?

For one little three-hour period.

Drinking wine out of a Pringles can and driving one of their shopping carts around.

That's

offensive to me.

Yeah.

Now, the police, by the time the police came,

she had left.

She left the shopping cart there.

She took the Pringles.

Good for her.

And

about an hour later, they found her at a nearby restaurant where

she had ordered some food, but nothing to drink.

She had it in her Pringlescan.

And they didn't arrest her.

They just said, we're just here to tell you, Walmart doesn't like your kind around these parts.

Yeah, yeah.

That seems like the exact kind they want.

No, I don't know if Walmart.

I think.

No, no, no.

I think those people.

If they don't want that part, I'm not stopping.

No, I'm not going anymore.

That's why I go.

You're exactly right.

They said, I thought they wanted to be the one.

The reason, I mean, I don't think Walmart wants those kind of people.

I think those people just come.

It's not like Walmart's like,

how can we get really fat, out-of-shape people that just want to wear spandex thongs to shop here?

But that's what's great about Walmart because I love Walmart.

I go there all the time.

I do too.

And I'm not necessarily the guy who's going to be drinking wine.

I don't like wine, first of all, but wine out of a Pringles can.

But would I eat raw cookie dough in the aisle?

Yeah, 100%.

That's why I go.

That's like the main reason I showed you.

You know, I always feel guilty, and I don't want to feel this way anymore.

If I go shopping with my wife, I do grab something out of an aisle and I eat it, but like nothing that you would have to weigh, you know, like I'll go to a place, you know, and I've not done this, but I could do this.

I could see me doing this.

When, you know, when I get to the point to where I really don't care, I'm almost there.

But when I really don't care, and when I say, I really don't care, I don't care what even my wife thinks.

Sure.

That's when I'm going show.

She'll say, go shopping.

out this guy.

Gracias.

I'm okay.

And I'll just go to, you know, get some, you know, hey, we need some

plastic silverware.

Get the plastic silverware, get some spoons, go to the ice cream aisle, open up a big tub of ice cream and walk around with my wife eating the ice cream with the plastic spoon I bought.

And I'll pay for both of them.

Right.

And I don't want your dirty looks.

No, of course not.

That's that's the Walmart guarantee, as far as I know.

That's what the smiley face says to me, really.

Right.

Yeah, I'm like, when you go in there, that's what it's saying.

Eat, eat what you want.

You pay for it.

Yeah, but absolutely.

How you want, when you want, what you want.

I believe in capitalism.

I do too.

The more important time, I believe, is when you're shopping by yourself, because there's a certain level of disgusting snack that you really want to eat, but you don't want to eat in front of your wife.

That's when you eat that in the aisles, and then you eat it before you get home.

You're such a rookie.

You don't want to eat it in front of your wife, or you don't want any evidence for anyone to know that you've eaten it.

Well, I mean, if you're eating it publicly at Walmart,

people that you don't know.

Right.

Okay.

Yeah, that's fine.

As long as no one knows.

You're not hanging around people who shop at Walmart.

You just shop at Walmart yourself.

Oh, is that it?

You're not one of them.

That's how they got to be the world's greatest biggest retailer.

Yeah.

I'm not like that person over there drinking wine out of the Pringles cup.

I just come here and I'm a classy Walmart shopper.

That's the way you do it.

I just, look, if I spill some of this ice cream on my shirt, I'm going over and I'm going to get a shirt off the rack and I'll change change into it and I'll put my ice cream stained shirt that I wore in here into

the carriage.

And I will pay for the shirt that I'm wearing and the ice cream that I'm eating and the spoon that I took out of the box.

I'll pay for all of them because I'm a classy Walmart shopper.

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Now, we could talk about the guy who has been abducted by aliens, which is pretty interesting.

Don't forget about the wine and Pringles update.

Oh, we have an update on that.

Yes, the bar in Houston has decided to start serving wine in Pringles cans in honor of the incident we just talked about.

It was awesome.

It's called the Branch, I think.

The Ranch?

The Branch?

Something like that.

Oh, my gosh.

The Branch.

I think that's a friend of ours' restaurant.

I don't know.

The Branch is the name of it.

A Houston Bar.

Maybe not.

Maybe not.

Silver served box Chablis and Merlot and many cans of Pringles starting Wednesday night.

Classic.

Very classy.

That's classy.

Or we could talk to Stephen Baldwin.

Stephen Baldwin is here in studio, an actor in a new movie called The Least of These.

Let me start with this.

Have you ever gone to Walmart and been in one of their little riding shopping carts

while drinking any kind of wine out of a Pringles can?

And do you look down on those people that do that?

At this time, Glenn,

my only response can possibly be,

sir, I am not aware of any such activity,

nor if I were,

I most definitely could not disclose such activity

in any kind of a public broadcasting.

How are you?

I haven't seen you in a long time.

Yeah, obviously.

I mean, I've seen you, but I haven't seen you face to face.

Me too.

And,

gosh, there's a whole bunch I want to say to you.

First, I want to start with quit monkeying around.

January Harry, really, guys?

No, it's not our idea.

We're against it.

We're saying stop.

We're also, I will say.

We're quit monkeying around, Glenn.

Just

picking stuff out of other people's fur.

Listen, there is, you know.

There's important stuff to talk about.

Yes, there's important stuff to talk about.

This world has gone insane.

Buddy.

Insane.

When Stephen Baldwin sits at the mic with you this many years later on the blaze, and God bless you for your success.

Thank you.

By the way, the interview is over in 10 seconds.

Do I get one share of stock after the new merger?

Just one.

Just one.

Larry?

No.

No.

God bless him.

See, he knows how to do it.

What's the file for Hollywood?

No.

Sorry about that.

Leave if you want, Buster Brown.

It's my show.

So tell me about the movie you're in.

The least of these,

and the website, forgive me, is leastofthese.movie, not dot com, leastofthese.movie, is the the biographical story of an Australian missionary named Graham Staines, who in 1999 was

murdered along with his two very young boys.

He had been there for 15 years as a doctor with a medical clinic treating the ailing leprosy epidemic, which in the Hindi faith is a curse.

he was a born-again christian but very conservative and in the platform of that medical facility he would evangelize which is legal when asked about your faith

so uh then the writer of this particular screenplay was very smart to take all of that based on the true life story and then create a really interesting fictional story about uh

uh

an Indian journalist work hired by a newspaper to try to expose the truth and this and that.

And it's this guy's journey of learning who this man was and is and this.

So now it's kind of like this more of a theatrical adaptation of the but it communicates who the guy was and the tragedy and the loss.

And then his widow wife, Gladys, who's alive today,

the first response she had to the media after the events was, we just want all of India to know we forgive the people who have done this.

I love those people.

I I love people

that forgive after

the unforgivable.

They just forgive the unforgivable.

And that happens sometimes, but in this instance, it really sent a shockwave in 99 across India.

And the

perpetrators were caught and tried, and the one lead guy was hung,

went to prison, and then was hung, as I understand it.

Why did they kill him?

I'm sorry?

Why did they kill him just because

was he was talking about his faith or

yeah i think that he just was so within their culture as as conservative as he was i just think he was just so peaceful he was a threat

you know what i mean it's just and that's wild in yeah india gandha home of gandhi right but when you get you know there's a couple bad apples usually in every bunch and if you're a hindi radical yeah yeah saying hey wait no there's there he's really using that as a cover, and these people are causing problems

in our faith, in our region.

So

that's the story.

But as you know, you hear those, I love people who do that thing,

but really this guy story, he's one of the anomalies in that thing

that really now

on the 25th anniversary, Larry, or 20,

20th anniversary of that incident,

God bless me.

Am I mad?

I can't believe it.

I mean, it's 20 years since 1999.

Yeah.

20 years.

That's crazy.

Yeah.

Anyway, go ahead.

Amazing.

Apparently we're still looking good, Glenn.

No, no, I'm not.

You are.

I'm not.

But that's a different thing.

That's a different thing.

That's the overall crux.

And now we've done this film adaptation, and it's, I'm not even...

Joking around here.

It's kind of already with churches and communities and socially going a little bit viral.

He's kind of one of the

within the world of global missionaries, he's kind of an icon.

He was just one of these guys that really walked the walk, talked the talk, but then lost his life, tragically.

This is going to be a fathom event

premiering.

The last day of January, and then the next day it goes 700 screens.

Wow.

Wow.

Yeah.

So movies have changed, haven't they?

I mean, mind-bogglingly so.

Yeah.

I mean, it's the 9,000 new titles come out a month.

9,000?

9,000 a month?

9,000?

Correct.

9,000 feature films are globally distributed on some form of distribution worldwide per month.

That's crazy.

Do you see Netflix is

spending $3 billion

in programming, and I think they're a

I think they're a billion dollars,

hammeraging a billion dollars a year now.

I mean, it's just, I don't know how these things are going to last.

Yeah, I don't know either.

But we are in a we're in a time when if you want to make a movie,

make movies that communicate the gospel, my friend.

When did you become?

Tell me real quickly your story of when you became

that that was the most important thing in your life.

Well,

to encapsulate that, I've been a pretty kooky kid most of my life.

Skydiver.

I'm 52 now.

i'm still riding a skateboard

and uh

i just have been more of that

you know when when you hear the boom some look to it and run towards it or some people run away i'm a run towards the problem kind of guy uh

but not the same kind of guy used to be dressing yeah yeah used to be you were harsh fights i don't pick anymore glenn yeah um so i just say that because uh i did everything you were supposed to do

according to becoming a born-again

scripturally, what that means.

Nicodemus, the whole conversation.

And I went to God and I just said, look, my wife just got saved, and

this is cute, but I'm Stephen Baldwin.

God said, oh, I forgot.

I'll give you the punchline on this in a minute.

And I said, Lord, you know, you created me.

I got some talents and this, that's all, you know, I'm a good kisser.

My wife loves me.

Ha ha ha.

And I said, but

my,

the greatest piece I have found is plunging towards the planet at 120 feet per second.

That's my,

what's up?

That's cool to me.

And I've done that 300 times.

So I said to the Lord, if it ain't better than that,

And I've had some, a good run for

a dumb kid from Massapequa.

So I made this covenant.

Supernaturally, I said to the Almighty, here's the deal.

If you reveal yourself to me in a way that I know it's you and it's better than that,

you'll have a pit bull on the front lines.

Trust me.

And he kept his end of the deal.

And there really was never a moment that clicked.

There was just

some prophetic experiences I've had that just, it only could have been him,

you know, and

not everybody's down for that.

You know, some people just want it once a week on Sunday and this, but I'm not built like that.

Yeah, I'm kind of an all-or-nothing kind of guy.

I had to go all the way or nothing at all.

And there's waves of experience I could tell you about that.

Even this film was difficult, you know, because I had to learn to talk like an Australian.

Right?

Good to see you Glenn right right

you know you have to I had to go through my process as an actor and create the character and find it and

there was and we were on location in India so there was it was difficult but God told me to do the movie

so regardless of all that regardless of haha and you'll appreciate this when I say things like you you've struggled to do your thing as you felt your heart lead you correct and why do you think I I asked for the one share of stock?

I told Larry coming in.

I said, God bless these guys because I love that merger.

And I think that's going to get blessed.

I do too.

I think that's super cool.

I do too.

I do too.

It's good to have you here.

Thanks, man.

Okay, so the movie is happening on January 31st.

February 1st.

Oh, February 1st.

It's the theatrical release in 700 screens the night before.

You can catch a sneak peek on Fathom.

Yeah, Fathom event.

So you can find out if it's playing on a Fathom event near you.

You can also find out more about the movie, TheLeastofthese.movie, Theleastofthese.movie.

And you can follow Stephen Baldwin at StephenBaldwin7.

Thank you, Stephen.

Please have you.

Good to talk to you.

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We're just talking about the,

quote, growing pain of the government shutdown.

And if that growing pain includes Nancy Pelosi's punishment of

suggested no

state of the Union.

I mark that up as a giant win.

Please, no, stop.

Please, don't do the state of the please don't make us not see the state of the union.

Again, like, this has nothing to do.

I mean, we've said this for a million years.

We've been mocking this since this show began.

Every year, they trot out the president and he has to say, first of all, he does the very long shaking hands with every single person thing.

Mr.

Speaker!

And all the pomp and circumstance, which is not, that's not an American tradition.

It's so weird.

And then it goes to his walkout, or

you know, and this is every president I've ever seen walking out and shaking hands with everybody.

And the people that will call him a racist or a homophobe tomorrow are the struggle first.

To get their pictures with him on the way out.

Yes.

I hate the whole thing.

I've always hated it.

And you remember, it used to be a letter.

The Constitution does not say he has to make this speech.

The Constitution says from time to time.

I'm very concerned about this.

I hope Nancy Pelosi doesn't go through with it.

Oh, I know.

I would hate to lose this.

It's an American tradition.

It's basically.

I mean, it's in the Constitution, Gladys.

Do you know that?

What will the average person do without a State of the Union address?

Oh, I don't know.

I gave earlier today, I gave the president

embrace this, please.

Here's the advice: embrace this.

If she doesn't want to do it, fine.

Don't do it.

Or

do it and just do it with the GOP.

So that whole half of the Congress is empty.

And you just kind of stroll up and make it very different and say, yeah, well, we're still here doing our job.

None of these guys are getting paid.

I like it though.

But we're still doing our job.

And others are playing games.

And that's fine.

But here are the things that you need to know.

And keep it really short and to stop all the cheering and all that stuff.

Right.

I like that.

I also like the idea of just tweeting the whole speech line by line, and that's it.

I also would like potentially like Trump picks his favorite 200 Twitter followers and has them to the White House for McDonald's and Burger King and Wendy's and Domino's again.

You know, he's listening to the people.

He's listening to the people.

This government shutdown

is,

I think, for most people, doesn't matter.

Now, there are, there is some pain,

but for most people, it really doesn't matter.

And the fact that it is pain shows how flawed we are, how big our government is.

Something like this shouldn't be causing pain.

Nope.

And, you know, it should be able to be withstood easily.

Yep.

It shouldn't be this big of a part of our lives.

Right.

And the State of the Union.

I got news for Nancy Pelosi.

That's the worst punishment you could give us.

Oh, yes.

Signed American.

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