Best of the Program | Guests: Todd Herman & Bill O'Reilly | 1/11/19

Hello podcasters!

Today on the podcast, great,

great program.

We got a little lost with Jim Acosta.

We did, we did.

We did.

I mean, well, Jim is a really good reporter and is always factually reporting on everything, never making an idiot of himself publicly.

Well,

except for some notable exceptions like today.

Well, we took his grand reporting down at the border,

where he was during the day in sunglasses, broad daylight, standing by a border wall and saying, the president says there's a problem.

There's no problem here.

Well, first of all, you're at a border wall, and that's not where the problems are.

No.

So we had some fun with that today.

I did some reporting on the street that I think reflected the quality of Joe Booker.

It was important.

I think it was very important.

I also had Bill O'Reilly on and gave his perspective on all the stories of the week.

Had him on for an hour.

In fact, this is the only place you can hear Bill every week.

And

he's always entertaining.

Yeah, that entertaining is the right.

The more you hear him just off the cuff, you realize

he's quite the character.

Bill's quite the character.

I don't know exactly what that means, but perhaps you will figure it out as you listen to today's podcast.

You're listening to

the best of the Blenbeck program.

there is

there are a couple of stories today that that show the press completely exposed Jim Acosta naked on the border I can't wait to share my thoughts on Jim Acosta Also, there was a first yesterday.

And while it's

not the best use of it, it I think is a shot across the bow with deep fakes.

There's a story that

was released yesterday about how a television station

changed the feed of the president and made him look just nuts.

It's a deep fake.

But is this the first real deep fake?

of the election in 2020.

I think it is.

If you've been listening to this program, you know what a deep fake is.

We've been talking about them for years and we told you this is going to change things.

This one didn't, thank goodness.

But the story, there's something wrong with the story.

And we'll get into that.

And Bill O'Reilly, all on today's program.

This is the Glenn Beck program.

So Jim Acosta has a real problem with the president

saying this is a humanitarian crisis.

Oh my gosh.

He was out yesterday in the blazing sun.

He was down at the border where there is a border fence, a border wall, one of those big iron slatted

iron walls where the ones where they're like, look, you can just cut right through this.

Well, there hasn't been anybody who's cut through one of them, you know, unless you were there with a blowtorch and you were doing an example on TV.

But Jim Acosta was there, and it was about one o'clock in the afternoon, and he's walking around in his sunglasses by this wall and says, look,

I see the fence here, and

there isn't any humanitarian crisis.

There isn't any problem.

In fact, here's the audio.

Listen to this arrogant fool.

And here are some of the steel slats that the president's been talking about right here.

As you can see, yes, you can see through these slats to the other side of the U.S.-Mexico border.

But as we're walking along here, we're not seeing any kind of imminent danger.

There are no migrants trying to rush toward this fence here in the McAllen, Texas area.

As a matter of fact, there are some other businesses behind me along this highway.

There's a gas station, Burger King, and so on,

but no sign of the national emergency that the president has been talking about.

As a matter of fact, it's pretty tranquil down here.

Yeah, it's pretty tranquil.

You know, where were you, Jim?

In McAllen, Texas, when I was in McAllen, Texas.

You know, because there was a humanitarian crisis.

In fact, could we play the audio, please, the montage

between President Obama and President Trump on the humanitarian crisis at the border?

We now have an actual humanitarian crisis on the border that only underscores the need to drop the politics and fix our immigration system once and for all.

This is a humanitarian crisis, a crisis of the heart, and a crisis of the soul.

In recent weeks we've seen a surge of unaccompanied children arrive at the border, brought here and to other countries by smugglers and traffickers.

The journey is unbelievably dangerous for these kids.

Child smugglers exploit the loopholes and they gain illegal entry into the United States, putting countless children in danger on the perilous trek to the United States.

They come up through Mexico.

Protecting public safety and deporting dangerous criminals has been and will remain the top priority.

We will begin removing the more than 2 million criminal, illegal immigrants from the country.

But we are going to refocus our efforts where we can to make sure we do what it takes to keep our border secure.

We want to secure our border.

Thank you, Mike Broomhead, who happens to live in a border state, Arizona, and our affiliate in Phoenix, for putting that montage together.

It wasn't real difficult because both of them have been talking about humanitarian crises, and everybody in America knows it, except for the quote, journalists like Jim Acosta, who was again down at the border.

And if you look at when border crosses happen, they usually happen around lunchtime right there by the Burger King and the giant wall.

Either that or they happen in the the middle of the night under the cover of darkness.

Now,

Jim Acosta is going to be on a couple of other assignments this week, so you know, because there's some other real tragedies that are going on, some other things that he has uncovered.

For instance, people say, you know, Broadway is doing well.

You know, hey, theater, this is a great time for the theater in New York.

Well, Jim Acosta will be down on Broadway on Monday night to show you not a single theater is open.

Not a play is happening on Broadway on Monday night.

Then on Tuesday, he's going to be around 11 o'clock going around the country at some of our biggest churches.

And he will at 11 o'clock Tuesday morning don't miss the Jim Acosta expose

on how most of American churches are empty.

The fact that Americans attend weekly service is a lie.

And Jim Acosta will be exposing that.

Oh my gosh, this guy is so crazy.

He is the worst, man.

It's all about Jim Acosta.

None of this means anything.

Yes, he hates the president, but that is secondary to his love for himself.

And that is what is so disturbing about Jim Acosta.

I mean, again, you're making the point, right?

If there's a wall there, if there were people rushing to the border in the middle of the day, which that's not when they do it typically, but if that's when they were doing it, they would pick a different spot to do it.

They wouldn't do it right there because of the wall you're standing next to.

Well, look, look, I think, Jim,

your station may have had some footage at some point, or you may have seen it on another network, where they were charging the border in the middle of the day at a fence, but that was in San Diego.

That's where the humanitarian crisis is happening that we've been talking about for the last few months.

You happen to be in the place where the humanitarian crisis was happening under Obama.

That's why I was there.

That's why I called CNN and said, Hey, do you know that they're putting kids in cages?

But you weren't there.

You were probably at the zoo doing the expose.

Glenn Beck says they're putting children in cages.

Well, I'm here at the San Diego Zoo and I don't see any children in these cages.

Come on.

He is just the worst.

He is the worst.

The best thing is, though, the best thing is

they're just so discrediting themselves.

Even liberals had to watch that and went, oh, dear God, Jim, what are you doing?

Well, it's amazing.

He didn't realize, right, that he was making the opposite point.

And that's why people jumped on it and are making fun of the report.

But it separates it from every other report Jib Acosta does.

And I think we missed the larger issue here.

Is that his point there?

Let's just say he made it in front of a small wall or a place where there was no wall and it was at night, right?

It would be disingenuous to go there and find one place at one moment and act as if you're disproving the president because at that one moment no one was crossing.

Not true.

Not true.

It is true.

No, it's not.

I proved it.

I proved it.

Last night, I went to the so-called Mayo Clinic and I was there at the nurses station the whole night and I didn't see I was surrounded by healthy people So this thing oh cancer and the Mayo clinic is just riddled with sick people I was there at the nurses station the entire night So please don't start with that Can I can I say what my favorite part of this entire rant was by the way Yeah

You made very funny points, but my favorite part about it is you're so in the world of Broadway that it was completely obvious to you that plays don't happen on Monday nights.

Like to me, I was like, why Monday night?

Why wouldn't there be plays?

And to you, it was so

industrial.

I know.

I did think

dark

on that night.

I know.

The only reason why I used it is because I know that everybody with Jim Acosta and CNN know exactly when.

That's why I followed it with churches on Tuesday.

The best of the Glenbeck program.

From the Todd Herman Show, it is Todd Herman in Seattle.

Todd, I wanted to get you on because of a story that broke yesterday, and you were at the center of it.

You and one of your listeners.

Can you tell me exactly what happened?

Because either something is missing in the story or something is wrong.

Okay.

Glenn, I appreciate you having me on.

It's a real honor.

Yeah, Lester named Jeff forwarded me a video he took on his smartphone of a promo that had been running on Q13 here locally.

They actually generally do a very good job.

But the promo looked weird because the president looked very, very strange.

They were promoting their analysis of the president's Oval Office speech.

And Jeff noticed that the president looked distorted.

So he sent us a copy.

We gave it to our video team at KTTH.

And they ran through it, looked at it, said, yeah, this looks really doctored.

So we broke the story, contacted Q13 and their news director, Erica Hill, and said, look, we're going to be fair here and say this appears to be a doctored footage.

And all of one day, they did an investigation and came back and said, yeah,

apparently this, they didn't say it was doctored, but they let the editor go.

And Glenn, you've seen the video.

It's pretty bizarre what they appear to have done to the president and photoshopped him to look 15 shades extra orangey.

Also made him look like he was manically licking his lips, all kind of lizard-style.

So, it's a bizarre presentation.

So,

here's the problem with this.

And, look, I grew up in Seattle.

This is KCPQ, isn't it?

Yeah.

The station.

When I was there, KCPQ was, you know, just like an also ran awful station.

It's not like that anymore.

It's a decent station.

And you say you talked to Erica Hill,

and she was the the news director.

Why did it take someone who listens to you to capture it on their smartphone, call you, then you call the station?

Does no one at KCPQ watch their station?

Is no one at KCPQ seeing their promos?

Is everyone at KCPQ blind?

Because this was the most obvious, when he stops towards the end and he's licking his lips.

It is so clear that either the president is mentally unstable and should be removed from office, or this is a deep fake.

Yeah, well, Glenn, I'll tell you, to be clear, Erica sent us a statement.

So I haven't spoken personally with her.

I don't want to commit any fake news on your show.

So she sent us statements, a series of statements.

I had the same question.

I have a friend of mine who's a videographer, and he said, look, a promo like this would go through layers of supervision.

Absolutely.

And so I'm trying to err on the side of not judging people I don't know.

It's egregious.

What you described, the promo is ridiculous.

In fact,

to me, it frightened me to look at it.

I was praying.

I was praying this was doctored.

So we've done a follow-up to ask, were there layers of supervision missed on this?

Maybe you were busy, et cetera.

But someone somewhere should have approved this.

And I want to be clear again:

I use their stuff, Q13 on the air, because they are actually, I think, doing good work and trying hard.

At least they fired the person the next day.

And I'm not all jumping up and down to have someone's career ended.

I hope they'll take it as a learning experience that, you know, maybe go ask Nike for an endorsement.

Now you risked everything.

Yeah,

here's the part of the story that doesn't make sense to me: that it made it on air

in the first place.

And how long did it run?

At least it ran several times.

And your listener, a conservative, was the only one.

Did anyone call KCPQ and say,

hey, what is this promo?

The president looks weird.

Nobody, now I know it's Seattle, but nobody called.

Nobody watched it from KCPQ.

The receptionist wasn't sitting there in the empty reception area and just going, I hate my job so much.

And looking up at the television because they had nothing else to do and notice that the president looked like a monkey.

Nobody noticed that.

In Seattle, it's really difficult to pick up the phone when you're shooting a parent in one arm and making a box.

You got that challenge as well.

And I think probably in Seattle, there's a lot of people saying, thank God, someone has unfiltered the president.

We knew he did this with the slip.

It's crazy.

I know you're not a stranger to the area,

and

it's gotten very, very bizarre out here, you guys.

Very, very bizarre.

It's hot, it's amazing because you're kind of in the middle of what I think is a real milestone.

I mean, this technology is going to come, and it's not going to come from some editor at Q13.

It's going to come from the Chinese government, right?

Manipulating footage and really changing people's opinions.

You're kind of like in the middle of the first time this has ever, as far as I know, ever happened on a news station like this.

Yeah, I think this is, I've been talking about deep fakes for how many years now?

A few.

three years uh and talking about how 2020 is going to be a a really bad year for deep fakes and you're going to start to not believe your eyes and when i saw this story i thought this is this is history this one todd you're going to go in history books i really believe in the end this story will end up in any important history about deep fakes because this is the first time that i've seen a a news station try to manipulate something and use deep fake technology to

skew an opinion or an election.

Well, and I hope, Glenn, that I truly hope the editor takes this as a sign that maybe you've gone too far.

But on the other side of me, the cynical side of me, thinks how many media companies are sending him now,

or him or her invitations to go to work there?

I'll tell you another local flavor to this that might interest you both is that the Seattle Times,

who accidentally, for a little while pretended they broke this story and then they were kind enough to point out that we actually did.

They went to great pains after they ran this to show a whole bunch of circumstances where conservatives have doctored pictures, et cetera.

And they kept adding to it.

And I was screaming at them, well, wait, this is very, very different.

This is a news station.

not just manipulating this, but they could easily have put words in the president's mouth.

And I think that's what you guys are pointing to.

Technology that you could have the president say something he's not saying at all.

It's bad enough with the

way the media twists things now.

But I absolutely agree that this had better be a wake-up call.

And I'm really pleased you guys point that out.

Todd, thank you so much, and appreciate your good work.

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For cable news, Donald Trump is no longer the gift that keeps on giving.

At first, he was, but now big change is in the air, and it's all because of this president, Bill O'Reilly, and the cable news war.

Hello, Bill.

How are you?

I'm the same back, but happy new year.

And I have a question before we get underway.

Yes.

So, the Glenn Beck program is a fusion between enlightenment and entertainment.

Yes, yes.

Okay, where am I in that fusion?

You are unfortunately not involved in any of that.

You're kind of the anomaly.

At first, I thought I was in a restaurant.

Some fusion on that fusion thing, whatever that is.

All right, so tell me about the cable news war and how it's changing.

All right, call them on billorilly.com, Open everybody to read it.

You are seeing,

not this week, because this week is with the President's address on the border and all that,

a different situation, but over the past couple of months, a decline in viewership on Fox News.

And

MSNBC

now,

some nights winning in prime time, which never, ever happened.

And

the audience for cable news on a consistent basis dropping.

And it's because it's all Trump all the time.

And,

you know, if you go and you want other news, you're not going to get it.

And it's not really, you're not getting the news anyway.

You're either getting we hate Trump or we love Trump.

Business decisions were made.

In the beginning, they paid off.

And now I believe once Donald Trump leaves the stage

the cable news is in serious serious trouble I think they're in serious trouble perhaps even before he leaves the stage I just don't but you're always going to get that hit see what MSNBC has done is they've created a reality broadcast network and the reality theme is when will we get

President Trump so every night That's where they're going.

When are we going to get him?

Here's what happened today, and we're getting closer, and this could happen.

CNN does that on a lesser extent.

CNN is number three because they can't hate as much as MSNBC.

They're trying.

They're sending their personnel to loathing classes, but they're just not at the hate level that MSNBC is.

So

let me ask you a question here, Bill,

an honest question that you probably

no other host in America would ask this question.

What's the difference between what MSNBC is doing now and what, let's say, I was doing when I was at Fox?

Well, I never saw you as a hater.

I mean, you weren't gleefully trying to destroy anyone.

I watched your show, and you were on my show.

You appeared on The Factor.

And I don't remember you sitting there rubbing your hands together, going, oh, you got him.

No, we were.

I did actively hate Woodrow Wilson, but he's been dead for a very long time.

So it wasn't cable index.

I just want to remind you.

Right.

You know,

alive then, so I don't know where you were actually hating him.

I know, I know.

Well,

I was hating a few years too.

Teddy Roosevelt also loathed him, so you have that in common.

Yes,

Teddy.

Yeah, and I don't really like Teddy Roosevelt either, but that's a different story.

So tell me about,

before we leave cable news, is there anything just really good and entertaining you can say about Jim Acosta and his border trip?

Did you you see that?

Acosta epitomizes what's happened.

So he's CNN's White House correspondent.

So it used to be on the news agencies that you would get news from the White House correspondent, right?

This is what happened today, and here's what they're doing.

And no, no.

Now, Jim Acasa, he's basically guiding you through hate Trump land.

And he's not really interested in reporting facts or seeking the truth about anything.

He's interested in demeaning Donald Trump.

So his whole job is really a facade.

Why don't they just say, here's Jim Costa, our hate Trump correspondent, reporting from wherever?

That would be honest.

Could I ask you something?

You know, the White House correspondents used to be like Jake Tapper, who I think is

a good journalist.

It's like they've replaced Jake Tapper in the White House with Rick Sanchez, who is just this awful clown of a reporter.

Well, I disagree with you on Mr.

Tapper.

I have no respect for him whatsoever.

Really?

I think that he

is much better at presenting himself as

somebody who does seek the truth, but he certainly does not, in my opinion, my humble opinion.

If you look back at the White House correspondence, it is not

a crew,

generally speaking, that you would admire.

I mean, Dan Rather,

Sam Donaldson.

I mean, these people had agendas all day long, but they were forced by their masters, their corporate masters, to hide it.

They had to hide it.

Now, I work with both Rather and Donaldson.

I saw it.

with my eyes.

They loathed

Donaldson loathed Reagan,

rather loathed Nixon, hated them.

But they couldn't come right out and say it as Acosta does and some of the others.

So that was a difference.

Where do you stand on the president this week and his address to the nation on the border?

What did you think people missed?

I think

Trump won that Tuesday night

wrestling match because Pelosi and Schumer came across as,

let's say, doddering.

I think that might be the word, doddering, D-O-D-D-E-R-I-N-G.

Well, he's mean,

he's mean, and the government shut down, and he's so mean.

And that's what it came across.

That was their presentation.

It wasn't like we have a better idea to secure the nation's border.

We really understand there's a problem down there and want to fix it.

No, no, no.

That's not what they did.

So Trump got eight minutes to put his view across to many Americans who were stunned that they actually had to watch some kind of news program.

I mean, they were looking for the family guy, and all of a sudden, here's the non-family guy, Donald Trump, because all the networks are forced to take it.

Now, I understand there were a lot of broken dishes and angst, but

a lot of people who never consume news were forced to watch this.

And Trump got his message across using facts in eight minutes.

So I thought he did himself some good.

What do you think about

the possibility of him using the emergency

an emergency order to say we've it's not a good thing because it diverts the story away from the seriousness of the problems at the southern border and makes it all about Donald Trump.

So that's what the left wants.

The left wants him.

They're goading him.

They're hoping that he does say, national emergency, I'm taking money from this fund and I'm building a wall and blank you.

That's what Close C, Shoe, Mercy, and NMSNBC want.

Okay?

And then they go, oh, there's a dictator.

Look at Vega.

Look at him.

Okay, he's a baby.

He's throwing a tantrum.

And then that becomes the story for a week.

And then the real seriousness of tons of narcotics coming here, millions of people coming here, and we don't know who they are, that goes by the wayside, which is what the left wants.

They don't want to talk about drugs and people smuggling and all that.

They never mention the Amnesty International study that says 60% of migrant women on their way to the border are assaulted, raped, whatever.

They never even report it.

That's not a crisis.

100,000 people dying of drugs every year in this country is not a crisis.

The Mexican drug cartels running that nation, literally running it, is not a crisis.

You're not going to get that reportage.

You're never going to get it.

It's all that drop.

Look at him.

He's Hitler again.

So how does this end?

Who do you think is going to have to break first?

The president or Pelosi and Schumer?

Well, Trump's not going to break.

That's not going to, because that's, if he did, that's the end of his administration.

He'll never be re-elected.

So Trump will either string it out

or declare a national emergency.

Those are his only two options.

Could we?

Pelosi and Schumer, if the polling next week comes in, as I think it might, and said most people want this border solved,

they might have to go back and compromise a little bit and then put a happy face on the car.

We're the adults in the room we're the ones where you know and we uh so we'll compromise get that uh government open again so i'd say that the odds if you had to bet would be that the democrats would probably

as you put it break first because trump simply cannot if he expects to be reelected bill tell me what you think about this potential idea i think it would be great for the state of the union we're coming out of this whole border thing let's say it gets solved or it doesn't either way we've learned a big lesson here here yet again that Congress is completely terrible and the people there just don't do their jobs.

So if we're going to have a bold new proposal that I think can actually help unite the country and is incredibly popular, Ted Cruz just announced a new constitutional amendment for term limits.

This has been around for a long time.

This is the polling on it.

76% of Democrats agree with term limits, 83% of Independents, and 89% of Republicans.

It's actually more popular among Republicans than the wall is.

And Donald Trump has said he ran on the fact that he would do it.

He supported it as recently as just a few months ago.

The last time there was a push for it, Mick Mulvaney, who is now chief of staff, was the guy behind it.

This is something that I think could take it out of this sort of partisan divide, give us something that we could actually do.

And I would love to see these Democratic Senate candidates that are going to be running for president try to tell the American people that they need to be there for the next 60 years instead of having limited terms.

What do you think?

Well, nobody would do that, though.

Everybody's going to say, oh, we're for term limits, but then when it comes down to voting for it, many of them won't.

I don't see how that is going to immediately impact the hatred of the two parties right now.

You know, when you have a president

who

has alienated the opposition to the extent that Trump has,

the opposition is basically,

we're going to get him out at all costs.

So that's what we have.

So it's like, there isn't anything we're not going to do to get him out.

And that includes we're not going to be reasonable.

We're not going to compromise.

We're not going to do anything that he wants.

But that is

why we are.

But I think that's why.

with independence, this term limit thing could be perfect timing because let's say he didn't get the

little, it's not cause and effect because it

yes, it is.

These guys were for

two term limits for senators, 12 years, and probably five or six for the House.

I guess my argument is.

Well, they're still going to serve a long period of time.

Yeah, I think, I believe it's a good long-term thing that we need separate from any political term, but it's not going to

be short-term.

It's good politics.

I think short term, it's good politics.

It's something that everybody wants.

It's going to be on the top of the radar screen.

But Trump can put anything on the top of the radar screen.

He just has to say it a bunch of times, and everyone will start attacking him and going after him.

And I think that's a good thing.

I mean, let them come after him for something that 80% of the people actually want.

Play offense, not defense.

Anybody will.

I think they'll all mouth platitudes that yes.

Good,

then let's vote it in.

And then when you didn't, when you voted against it, let's make sure that Donald Trump can talk to every single senator that is running and every single congressman that is running and say oh yeah but where did you vote on that where did you vote on that where did your party stand on that you said you were for it but you voted as a block against it that's that's exactly what the american people hate is people say one thing and do the other yeah i don't know if that legislation would ever even get in because mitch mcconnell would have to get it in and he's mr.

non-term limits isn't he?

Yes, he is.

He would be a problem.

He would be a problem.

I'd love to see him mister Try it.

What was that, Bill, again?

I didn't quite understand.

You're going to have to go back and rewrite it again.

So what happens to the shutdown?

You know, we're at another payday today.

Yeah.

Nothing.

I mean,

they'll get, they being the government workers will get reimbursed when the government finally opens.

They'll get back pay.

So nothing will happen.

It'll just be, you know if you go to yellowstone it's going to be tough to use the head i mean head it's going to be right so if you if you have let's say you're a government worker um you're going to get all of this money you could go to a bank or a credit union and just say hey here's my pay stub i'm part of the government uh shutdown i'm going to get it so i just need this every two weeks until this is done and i'll sign it over to you and everybody would give you that loan um the hope so i mean and

if they didn't then they should tell the press, who might even report that locally.

Yeah, I mean,

there should be a, I mean, a bank, you know, maybe not because it's so political now, but some banks should stand up and just say, hey, by the way, federal workers, we've got a program for you.

We'll help you out.

We'll help you out.

You know, you just, when you get it, you bring it back to us and we'll give you the salary.

A bank could look really good by solving

by solving that.

Absolutely.

That's a good idea, Beck.

That's part of the enlightenment.

Yes, it is.

Now, part of the entertainment and comedy,

your thoughts on

how it's going to actually play out

this thing about, you know, the American people are being hurt and

security is being weakened.

Do you believe that this can last very long and Trump come out victorious with this?

I think that there'll be some resolution in the next couple of weeks.

I think that if the Trump administration believes that the Democrats are not going to compromise, that they will do the emergency thing.

Because, again, this strengthens Trump in front of his core.

It looks like he's a man of action standing up to the villainous Democrats.

And I think they'll take the calculation that, look,

we'll do this, we'll open a government, we'll fund the wall and our people will like it and and re-elect it

so that's what i see happening if the compromise doesn't come

you're listening to the best of the glenbeck program

this is the glenbeck program now jim acosta did some unbelievable reporting uh he was out on the border yesterday wearing sunglasses in the middle of the day trying to prove that there is no problem on the border in Texas.

Did he go to San Diego where it's happening?

No, he went to McAllen, Texas, where it was happening a few years back, and he wasn't there.

He's standing in front of a giant border wall.

And here's his cute little report.

And here are some of the steel slats that the president's been talking about right here.

As you can see, yes, you can't see through these slats to the other side of the U.S.-Mexico border.

But as we're walking along here, we're not seeing any kind of imminent danger.

There are no migrants trying to rush toward this fence over in the McAllen, Texas area.

As a matter of fact, there are some other businesses behind me along this highway.

There's a gas station, Burger King, and so on.

Wow.

But no sign of the national emergency that the president has been talking about.

Well, I have to tell you,

when I saw this from Jim Acosta yesterday, I thought, wow, that kind of proves the point of, you know, a fence.

And people aren't usually coming over during the day unless it's a mob, like is happening in San Diego.

But then we started thinking, you know, he's making a good point here.

Let's go to Stu, who is out on location.

Stu, where are you right now?

Stu, are you?

Go ahead.

Are you there?

Yes, Stu, go ahead.

On the road again?

Or broken down on the side of the road?

Hi, I'm Super here reporting live right now from the Long Island Expressway, one of the busiest roads in the United States of America.

And you're not going to believe what I am seeing out here right now, Glenn.

It's incredible.

We are told, we are told America loves, they love their cars.

We are told that the economy is raging right now, and this is one of the best economies we've had in decades.

But yet, here I am on the Long Island Expressway, and there is almost no one on the road.

This present is a fraud.

Hold on just a sec.

Wait a minute.

It's not rush hour.

What?

It's not rush hour.

Of course,

it's not rush hour.

The Long Island Expressway is usually open during the.

Hello?

I don't.

It's not breaking up.

I can still hear the car engine.

Radishes.

All right.

We'll try to check in with Stu and we get a better connection.

Maybe we can get one from CNN.

This is the Glenn Beck program.

Do we have Stu still on the line?

Can we go back to him?

We have Stu back on the line.

Are you still on the Long Island Expressway, Stu?

Hello, Stu.

No, I'm not.

No, I'm not.

Glenn,

Aquaman, number one or underwater.

Hi, I'm Super Here.

Oh,

I am Super Here.

I'm recording live from a showing of Aquaman that is going on right now at a local theater.

We are told by this administration that Aquaman is the number one movie in America.

But is it?

Well, I'm here right now, and I see only four other people in this entire theater.

This man is a fraud.

He is a liar.

He's lying to us about Aquaman.

It's a workday in the middle of the day.

It's a workday in the middle of the day.

Of course, there's only four people in the movie theater.

You started breaking up there, but let me just finish this true statistical factual information that I have.

I am watching this film right now, and what we're seeing is that man and fish have merged.

Man and fish have now merged because of global warming.

This president continues to deny it.

But I am sitting here right now watching four other people watch a man-fish combination on the big screen.

Okay.

This is shocking, and this president is a liar.

And I hope people understand it and watch my Instagram channel.

All right.

Thank you very much.

Stubergeer

doing some Jim Acosta reporting now on the road.

All right, I want to talk to you a little bit about how important it is for the president to pay attention to the economy and to

stay

right

lockstep.

with a good economy and doing everything he can to make sure that we don't go into a recession.

Now, there is speculation that we are headed for a recession.

In fact, most people believe now that we are headed for something really, really bad.

I think we are too.

The numbers just show it.

As far as debt, spending,

personal debt, personal credit, all of these things all around the world, we're just on the brink of something really, really bad because Europe did not come back after 2008.

China only recovered 20% of what they had lost in 2008.

We've done well, but the rest of the world hasn't.

But there are some things here in the United States that should be noted on the positive side.

I just got this from the Palm Beach Daily.

They were talking about the labor statistics from the Bureau of Labor.

They said that the U.S.

economy added 312 jobs, 312,000 jobs in December.

Now that far exceeds the expectations of $184,000 and the average

hourly earnings also rose 0.4%

over last month.

Okay.

0.4%, that doesn't mean that much, does it?

But that means it has risen hourly wages 3.2%

over last year.

So let me translate this from econ bullcrap to English.

U.S.

companies hired 70% more workers than they anticipated during the holiday season.

You hire more workers because things are better than everybody is telling you it is.

The workers that they hired got 3.2%

more this last December than they did the December before.

Why is that important?

3.2% doesn't sound like that much of an increase, but it is the biggest increase in hourly wages since 2014

and

one percentage point higher than the inflation rate.

So, on the whole, Americans got an actual real inflation-adjusted pay raise last year.

We haven't had that in, I don't know how long.

So, now that's the good news.

Now, I want to show you why it is so in

Hang on just a second.

We have.

Is he still at the movie theater?

Stu,

I think you're taking the Jim Acosta thing too far.

It didn't work for him.

I don't know what you're doing.

America's Pastime or America's Pastime of the Past.

Hi, I'm Stubergere, reporting live from Yankee Stadium in New York City.

And as you can probably hear, there are tons of people here.

They're walking around.

The streets are hustling and bustling, as you'd expect.

However, Yankee Stadium is empty.

No one who's passing by is even bothering to go in.

Do people care about baseball anymore?

I don't think so.

Okay, hang on.

It's January.

We don't, the season is over.

Nobody should be going in to watch baseball at Yankee Stadium.

And it's in the middle of the day, and it's Friday outside of baseball season.

Okay, Sarah Huckabee Sanders.

The truth, of course, is that your lies about what happens here at Yankee Stadium are well documented.

First of all, yes, sure, there are fences and walls keeping people out of Yankee Stadium, but that's not the reason.

Walls don't work.

And I want to make one more thing clear.

All of the things that I talk about in these incredible award-winning reports are not about the actual topics.

They're about me.

I want you to think about me.

I, the news is about myself.

I am the most important story here.

I want you to look about me.

I want you to think about me.

I want you to dream about me.

Shimukai is super here.

Think about me every waking moment because that's all I care about.

Live from New York.

It's super gear.

Thanks, button.

This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.

Maybe I'm alone.

Maybe I'm just a really dull knife in the drawer.

How would you describe artificial intelligence?

What is it?

I mean, it's the process of computers, machines learning,

instead of just giving it, being given a task and executing it over and over again like computers do.

It is instead learning new ways to do it, the best ways to solve the problems.

It's essentially the idea of a machine learning.

No, that's what I would have said.

Okay.

But AI is actually nothing more than a prediction machine.

Now, when you think of this, I want you to think about how frightening this is if you are living in China or you would live in a 1984 state.

It's a prediction machine.

And the more information you give it, the better its predictions become.

Okay?

Okay.

So let's say you're living in China.

Without any information, you you go missing.

Now the government's looking for you and it doesn't have any information.

Well, it's predicting, okay, maybe they're at work.

All right.

That's us without all the information.

The more information you give, the better the prediction is.

So when you have access to all information, I can now monitor your emails.

I can now monitor your friends.

I can now monitor your energy

usage.

I can monitor your credit cards.

I I can monitor what you've purchased, who your friends are.

Has their hot water heater added more water, used more water than they usually use?

Like there's a guest staying at the house.

Now, with all that, I can say, you know what?

He's been talking to this person an awful lot lately.

He just bought a ticket to this part of town, and this friend who lives in that part of town, their water usage and electricity usage went up this morning, and their electricity was on, their lights were on late, late, late last night after he disappeared.

I think he's there.

That's all AI is.

It's predicting what's happening next.

Right, okay.

I mean, that makes sense, right?

Like you'd say the same thing with like a purchase on Amazon, right?

Like this person has purchased these 10 things.

That would lead me to believe I'm going to suggest this 11th thing because it seems like the pattern they would be.

It's going to predict what I want to purchase.

So they are getting now, speaking specifically of Amazon, the predictions are getting so good that with just a little more information, because it needs two pieces of information.

It needs, on general, when people buy this product,

what else do they buy?

Then it needs your buying habits.

Do you have that what else people normally buy?

Are you like the average person?

What makes you different?

They now believe that they can get the prediction of the things that you also want.

So, when you go, if you let's say you start to do Amazon grocery service, okay,

and you go in and you start using Amazon grocery service and you still have to order, what will happen is you will go on and you say, I need bread.

Then it'll say, People who bought this also bought.

And you'll be like, Yes, I need milk too.

Okay, yes, and I need cheese.

Yeah, I need the breakfast cereal.

And it will know what normal people do, but as it gathers more information on you, you're not really going to have to do a grocery list because it will know your buying habits, how often you buy them, when you have to have new fruit loops.

You buy that every other time or twice a week or whatever it is.

It will know you buy milk, but Every other time you buy milk, you also buy fruit loops.

And so it will start start packaging.

And so Amazon is going to be the first company that is going to be able to predict you so well

that they are going to, right now,

the way everything is done is shopping and shipping.

You shop, it ships.

But prediction is going to become so good because they have gathered so much information on you.

This is why Alexa is in your home.

It's shopping.

Alexa is in your home to listen to you because they're about to switch from shopping and shipping to shipping and shopping.

They believe that they can predict you so well soon that they're just going to send you the groceries.

They're just going to send you the things that they know you need.

The things that they know, oh, this just came out.

They are going to love this.

And they will send it to you.

And they feel they can handle about 4 to 5% of returns.

That means they're going to be able to predict your shopping habits 95% of the time, and they're correct.

So, this is a prediction machine.

That's all it is.

And it's getting so good and it's changing so fast.

For instance,

have you ever used translation services from Google?

Yes, a few times when there's something I, you know, that's the only place I know how to translate anything.

Okay, so

translation services from Google used to be horrible.

Used to be horrible.

And it's kind of like, you know,

they put those little suggestions up in your email box.

And it's not just to help you learn to write a better email or make it easier on your fingers to write an email.

They're also, you're teaching it to predict you.

So it goes in and you might be doing a work email, and it might say, I love you.

And you're like, why would I?

No.

But it's learning now, you,

this person, you never say I love you to.

This category, that doesn't belong.

Okay?

And so the more it learns, and deep learning,

deep machine learning is really starting to take off now.

Let me show you how much it changes.

So in 2000, I think it was 16,

the snows of Kilimanjaro from Ernest Hemingway started like this.

The actual original translation.

Kilimanjaro is a snow-covered mountain, 19,710 feet high.

It's said to be the highest mountain in Africa.

That's how it starts.

November 2016 was like a Tuesday.

Somebody went in, tried to translate that to Japanese,

and it read this way.

Kilimanjaro is 19,700 feet of the mountain covered in snow.

And it is said to be the highest in Africa.

Not a very good translation.

No, and is it only 19,000 that is covered in snow?

Or

what is that, right?

The very next day after putting in machine learning, translating it into Japanese, it went from that to Kilimanjaro is is a mountain of 19,710 feet covered with snow and said to be the highest mountain in Africa.

That's the right way, right?

Hello.

Yeah.

Yeah.

In one day, it changed.

And it's only because

it added so much information about

the words and predictive words in Japanese that Google didn't have access to.

It's changing so rapidly.

The reason why I bring this up is because, A, it shows you how

your habits are going to be, and it's fascinating to me.

Your body only gets stronger if you

change your exercise routine, right?

You go in and you do the same thing day after day after day after day.

It eventually stops being effective.

You have to change it up.

You have to confuse your body.

If you're eating and you're eating the same thing day after day after day, you have a harder time losing weight because you have to confuse your body.

Your body gets used to things, right?

The mind

goes stale when you're not learning new things and you're not pushing the boundaries, right?

We are so easily tracked because we're so predictable.

The other reason why this is interesting to me is

we're going to be asked, in my lifetime, we're going to be asked to define life.

We can't define it now even inside the womb of a woman.

When AI passes the Turing test and you cannot tell the difference, is that because it has intelligence?

Or just because it can predict

what your next question is going to be and predict the answer that will satisfy you.

There's no reason to it.

It's not reasoning.

It's just doing what it was trained to do.

Predict you.

It's saying the perfect thing that will make you think it has intelligence, essentially.

Right.

Because that's its goal.

To predict you.

To be able to model you.

To be able to think like you.

So what does that mean?

It means we should have,

A, deep discussions on AI

because it's just a predictive model.

And so if it is tasked with,

well,

remember that game where they said

where it had to find the AIs

played characters and they had to

create fuel?

Oh, yeah.

That was the

life.

artificial life simulation and survival in the game required energy, but childbirth didn't.

So the AI to try to make this society work evolved into a sedentary lifestyle that consisted mostly of mating in order to produce new children which could be eaten.

They solved the problem.

You said we needed energy and you said it didn't cost any energy to give birth to something.

So nice and easy.

They solved the problem.

problem.

This is why you have to be aware of it.

You have to be aware of it because it's not reasoning.

It's not reasoning.

It's just pursuing a goal.

Yeah, it said like another one was

you can't be killed on level two.

That was the goal to the computer, so to AI.

And so AI, what they did is they got to the end of level one and just paused the game.

or crash the entire game.

They found ways to crash the game because they didn't want to lose on level two.

You told me not to lose on level two, so I'll pause it on level one or crash it on level one.

I'll never lose on level two we just found there was a story out today that i think it was google maps found that they were taking uh they were taking the the satellite uh uh photography and they were having to they tasked ai with making these maps quickly and translate this into like a google map well it did but it was leaving things out of the map like skylights.

So if there was a building with a bunch of skylights or a bunch of things on top of a roof, it didn't have the time to complete the map.

It was not told delete or take any shortcuts.

It was told, do this.

It decided it cannot, I can't complete that task and do everything.

So, I don't think this is important.

And so, it cheated.

It started doing something itself and leaving things off.

We just have to be extraordinarily careful as we get into AI: The Blaze Radio Network.

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