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It's 2019.

So a review of the 2018 predictions that this program made, that I made.

Where were we right?

Where were we wrong?

It's important because we have new predictions to make, and I believe this is a critical year, a

bridge over troubled water, and I'll explain that coming up.

Also, what did we learn in 2018 that can be applied in 2019?

The seven things that I'm going to pay attention to, and I need you to pay attention to in the next 12 months, and a personal goal I'd like to see anybody join me on

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So I learned a lot in 2018, and I started making notes

while I was gone on vacation, started thinking about the things that I have learned in 2018 that we need to apply to our thinking in 2019.

2019, I think, is a bridge.

This is a bridge from the old world to the new world.

I think it will be remembered in history as that year that people started, it started to dawn on people, oh, wow,

everything will change.

I think by 2025, you will be printing new maps.

I think there will be new borders by 2025.

Everything's about to change.

But

who am I to say?

Let's look at the predictions that we made in 2018 to see if any of them happened.

We got some right, we got some wrong.

Let's go through, Stu.

And maybe we come up with grades of these as we kind of go through them and see how right or wrong they were.

All right.

All right.

You predicted 2018 the Dow will melt up and then crash.

So Dow did hit a high in October.

And then since October, it's, I mean, is crash the right word?

It's definitely come down quite a bit.

12% of its value.

I don't give myself

points on this one because I don't think this is what I meant.

Well, I know this isn't what I meant.

A melt-up was not $26,000.

A melt-up was over $30,000.

And a crash was more significant.

So I would say

directionally, it was pretty much right.

Yeah, so I'd give it maybe a C, C plus.

Okay.

Maybe.

Do you think?

Do you think that's fair?

I think you could go.

I mean, the difference between 26 and 30,000 isn't all that dramatic.

I mean, you could probably go B minus, maybe.

All right.

I'll give you a B minus on that one.

Economic instability will bring with it powerful and dangerous nationalist and socialist movements.

Yellow.

I mean, that's.

I think I get an A on that one.

I would say yes.

I mean, that's even if you like some of the elements of some of those movements.

I mean, certainly some people love the socialism as we're seeing in Congress these days.

Yeah.

Trump has called himself a nationalist, which I don't think is the same thing as what I mean by nationalist.

I don't think he thinks of it that way.

But we've seen the neo-nationalist movement,

the rise of neo-nationalists in Italy, in France, in Belgium, in Germany, in India.

Some areas of South America.

There's definitely a lot there on that one.

Governments will crack down on blockchain and cryptocurrencies.

There were some countries that sort of outright ban cryptocurrencies.

And certainly China, there's a big effect.

India,

Colombia, I think, had something.

There's a few of them that cracked down on it.

I mean, the United States didn't, really.

They seem to be open still to these things.

I mean, that's a, there's some, there's some.

They did begin investigations.

I don't know.

Still, that was still a question mark.

Yeah, because I mean, some of it definitely happened, right?

But, I mean, and obviously it was a terrible year for cryptocurrencies as well.

Still on that front, we've got blockchain technology will be embraced by companies for hundreds of uses and utilities.

I think I give this a B as well.

15% of companies surveyed by MarketWatch

have

a blockchain initiative that is live.

So adoption is coming soon, but it is not adopted yet.

I will say, too, at some point, someone has to use this stuff for something useful.

Yes.

a lot of people like to compare this.

People who like cryptocurrencies like to compare this to

the tech bubble.

And there are, you want to look at charting, you want to look at all sorts of,

you can definitely make those ties.

However, pets.com blew up into this big thing and then crashed and disappeared.

But we all understand that pets.com, generally speaking, was a useful utility to people, right?

Buying your pet food online, we're all buying from, you know, not everybody, but I mean, I know we order a lot of our stuff from Amazon or whatever online.

I mean, pets.com didn't wind up being the one who did it, but at least there was a kernel there of something useful to people.

As of right now, like there's, there does not seem to be, it's all like, well, we can build

exchanges.

Let's see, here's this problem.

And then we get into blockchain a little bit more, but we should kind of move on.

But

the thing is, is that blockchain, it hasn't gone to zero.

No, by any stretch.

No, no, no.

It's still very valuable.

Yeah, it's still very valuable.

And all of these major companies are making major moves.

They just haven't put them into place yet.

They just haven't cut the ribbon on them yet.

And so when they cut the ribbon, but they're all moving, all of the big institutional investors and everybody else is moving and spending millions of dollars on

cryptocurrency

desks

and trades.

And some of it's been announced.

Some of it is still speculation, but

it's not capturing because everybody thinks,

because cryptocurrency or Bitcoin looks to the average person like it's a tulip bulb,

it's not a tulip bulb.

These bulbs you plant because they will grow.

This is not just a tulip bulb.

There is something more to this than just tulips.

If I remember right, the tulip bulb thing was tulips were not worth four times what they were two years earlier after the crash.

Correct.

Like that's still there.

Correct.

There's still a little bit there.

Companies will adopt cryptocurrencies and blockchain.

Yeah.

That's kind of the same thing.

Kodak, Overstock, Chase Bank.

Yeah, that's give it a B.

Now, this one is worth doing this entire segment just for this prediction.

If you put $1,000 in the top 10 cryptocurrencies in January 2018, it will be worth $200,000 by January 2019.

No.

I'm going to go ahead and say that one was an F.

I think that's an F.

I think that's an F.

I think that's an F.

But you know what?

At some point, I believe that's going to happen.

I'm with Tika on this one.

It makes no sense other than our over

pessimistic view because of what happened last year.

There's too many good things that have happened with this to have this fall and not move.

It's going to move.

It's going to go up.

And when it does, it will be because of all the things that have already happened.

Right.

I mean, it's hard to believe these big companies are wasting their millions of dollars.

Like, there's some reason they're putting this

their cash into that.

Let's go up next here.

Market.

Well, I mean,

cryptocurrencies.

That's an F.

We got enough.

Market cap is an F.

All right.

Let's go to international geopolitics.

Turkey will continue to run towards religious fascism and will continue to make hard turns towards Sharia law.

He just jailed, Eritagon just

jailed a mother and a son who insulted him.

He also announced that he is going to remove the ethnic Kurdish militia over the border of Syria.

He is well on the way.

I say that's an A.

Yeah, that's definitely the way that's moving.

Cultural clashes between immigrants and natives will cause backlash from the public across Western Europe.

Do I need to say anything about that?

That one was widely covered, I think.

Persecution of Christians, homosexuals, non-Muslim religious minorities, and those Muslims not deemed Muslim enough will reach new lows for humanity in the Middle East and Asia.

Didn't do it in the Middle East per se.

They are new lows.

I mean, they're at the same

size lows.

The limbo can only go so low.

I don't know how much lower you can get.

Because of Asia and what's happening in China

is, I think that's an A-plus.

A million Muslims, and it's just growing in concentration camps, essentially.

Yeah.

And China is bad, too.

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So I'll spend a few more minutes here on the Glenbeck program going over the predictions that I made for 2018

and grade on whether we got them right or wrong.

So far, what'd you say?

Pretty good.

I mean, with the exception of your cryptocurrency prices, they're pretty good.

Another socialist country will see its currency collapse.

This is a tough one because, I mean, certainly Venezuela saw its currency collapse even further than it was last year, but it was sort of underway when you made this prediction.

I mean, it reached a million percent inflation.

A million percent.

How do you grade that one?

Was there another example?

I mean, there's some other Cuba.

Cuba has red lines.

Argentina had some issues as well.

I would say that's a solid B.

I mean, I don't know there was another perfect example of it, but it's pretty close.

Yep.

The return of the 12th Imam will be used by the leaders of Iran in a desperate attempt to hold on and consolidate power.

Articles out last year, but it is not, you know, obviously the 12th Imam is not mainstream,

but they are.

I did see him at a quick trip last week.

Really?

Yeah, he was getting gas.

Yeah,

big on the hot dog roller things, which I was surprised about, just thinking about the whole picture.

But he was into it, really.

Yeah, so he is back, but I don't know if Iran's picked it up yet, so we'll get to that one after.

But, I mean, again, there was definitely movement in that.

It's a B.

The interesting part of that, too, I think, is the pressure on Iran.

I mean, it has that, they are further down the road of trouble as a country,

you know, largely because the moves made, I think, by our government in a positive way.

The Trump administration has been very, very good on that, I think.

China will, this is a bizarre one.

I remember when you said this one, I was like, what are you talking about?

It was like, it was so random in the middle of all these predictions.

And I will say, completely wrong, by the way.

China will land a rover on the dark side of the moon.

Yeah, crazy.

A year ago you said that.

I had no idea what you were talking about.

Yes.

And I failed.

And you failed because it happened, what, the first week of January 2nd?

January 22nd.

It happened January 2nd.

I was wrong by two days.

This sounds incredible because you haven't heard much talk about it if you haven't followed that story.

Why is it important?

Why would you even put that on the prediction list?

Because

the dark side of the moon is the only place that is completely shielded from Earth.

Why do you land on the dark side of the moon?

Well, there's a couple of reasons.

You could land on the dark side of the moon because you want to listen to space in total silence because it is it creates the moon creates this hole where nothing that is coming from earth can get past the moon so there's this hole in space where it is completely silent

now look at it the other way

Because no radio, no

video, nothing can penetrate the moon, you also have a place where you can do anything you want and no one on earth knows you're doing it.

Okay, it's it's bizarre that China is doing this.

And a year ago, it was, oh, there, that's crazy.

They're never, well, okay, I was wrong.

I said they do it in

2018.

They did it on January 2nd, 2019.

So obviously, we give that one an F.

Wait.

Hold it.

You missed by 48 hours.

48 hours.

That is an amazing one, though, because it was so random and no one was talking about it.

We'll go to politics here.

This will be interesting.

The freedom movement will experience somewhat of a renaissance, both in the U.S.

and globally.

There is voices.

Right.

And I think that it is changing a renaissance.

I think it is

changing.

There's a new approach to it.

And that's what Renaissance really means.

It's the voices like Sam Harris.

it's the voices that are standing against

not just like Tea Party voices, but voices from the far left that are now starting to gather together.

The

three scientists that we had on that were

showing that these journals are completely

nonsense.

The people mainly from Canada that are standing up so strong.

I think there is a renaissance going on.

I think that's one of the most important things we can do, honestly, is encourage the voices not, I mean, obviously the conservative voices are going to be for free speech and not for boycotting people into oblivion every time they say something, but there's an increasing amount of people on the left who think it's absurd.

And that is, I think, incredibly important to cultivate.

We talked about the Louis C.K.

thing you were out for, where he did this rant and he was talking about how ridiculous it was.

People are like royalty.

They demand that you address them in a particular way by whatever gender they've decided on that particular day.

Like, that's not like some hardcore conservative.

They're trying to make it into him being some hater.

No.

This is just - these are people who care about free speech and care about free expression that are admitting this in public and it needs to be available.

What would you give that?

I think that's an A.

That's pretty solid, yeah.

I mean, there definitely has been voices, and it's not, the encouraging thing is, it's not just us.

It's not conservative, right?

Like, it's not that sort of thing.

No, it's just not us.

The press will continue to be discredited by the white house

a yes okay uh the movement to impeach trump will persist a yeah and you're gonna see that coming even more i mean that's yes since they feel very newly empowered now that they have the house and they will try nancy policy may try to stop them because she sees she's going to see the political downsides of an impeachment movement but she will do everything short of that i think to to encourage investigations and everything else unless they until they can come up with something they think will stick uh churches will continue to lose power and influence.

Try this on for size.

A study of registered voters before the November midterms found that less than 10% of likely voters identified religion or religious belief as influencing how they were going to vote.

Less than 10%.

Is there an equivalent number to that in the show?

So it was 32%

midterms 2002.

Wow.

I mean, that's a fast drop of two-thirds.

Yeah.

So I think that's an A.

The Mueller investigation into Russia hacking

and any connection to the Trump administration will finally be put to rest.

I can't say that's an F.

I think that's a D.

Yeah, maybe it's an F.

I mean, it didn't come to rest, right?

I mean, there have been a lot of things that have come out of it.

It's an F.

It's an F.

So, I mean, it comes out, again, it's another one of those things.

It could come out at any day.

Into Russia election hacking.

I mean, there isn't, it's not at rest, but there's nothing.

They haven't produced anything yet.

The investigation is not over, so I think that's fair.

The Trump administration will finally begin construction of a true wall between the U.S.

and Mexico.

F.

Thought he would do it.

F.

In the U.S., gun rights advocates will finally get their long-sought concealed carry reciprocity.

Unfortunately, not even close.

We actually went the other way.

We started having new restrictions on gun ownership.

The Me Too movement will continue to grow.

2018 and 19 will be the apex.

I think 18 is the apex, was the apex of it.

Yeah, that's probably true.

We'll see.

I mean, we'll see where it goes.

But, I mean, we can't even play Baby It's Cold outside anymore on the radio, so I think it's there.

U.S.

Supreme Court will strike down pro-labor laws that enable unions to take dues from workers involuntarily.

They did it.

That did happen.

Yeah, that did happen in June.

The GOP will lose the House in 2018

and narrowly hold the Senate.

I mean, that's right there.

The Trump administration, the federal government in general, will be hamstrung through 2020 in terms of any other major government actions other than military interventions.

I mean, that's exactly what happened.

I mean, we'll see what happens in the next few months with that, but I mean, that's exactly the results.

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So, which one of Glenn's predictions did Politico call one of the worst predictions of 2018?

You just heard them all.

Which one was it?

We'll give it to you coming up.

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Pat Gray is joining us now.

And speaking of predictions, I think Moron Trivia has the best record in the NFL now.

Yeah, 14-3.

I mean, mean, there's a couple of 13-3 teams that may become 14-3, but by that time, we could be 15-3.

So

that's true.

It's crazy.

The best record in the NFL.

With an incredible commissioner on Friday, you were able to predict the Philadelphia Eagle double doink as they won on the last-second field goal.

And if I had to just predict that game, I would have absolutely said Chicago.

Yeah, and most people would.

I would have said Chicago.

Yeah, it was an overwhelming guess.

But yes, the Philadelphia Eagles are still defending Super Bowl Championship.

Anyone betting yet on moron trivia?

Yes.

A lot of people now.

Several, really.

I mean, look, we've had a nice Supreme Court ruling on gambling this year.

People have found ways to do that, even when there wasn't a Supreme Court ruling.

But I mean, people are legitimately placing bets based on the number of people.

Hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars.

On Moron Trivia bets, yeah.

It's crazy.

It's crazy.

It's so weird.

I think the bet moron trivia has always had a good, decent record.

And a few years, I believe once it was 15-1.

This may be the best, if not the second best year.

It's in the top three for the first time.

It's in the top three.

But that's this.

I mean, you can't make that up.

No, you can't.

You just can't make that up.

If it were up to me to predict those games, I'd probably be, I don't know, seven and eight.

Oh, yeah.

I mean, experts are constantly under 500 on predicting these games and more on trivia somehow.

14 and three.

It really is incredible.

It really is incredible.

And that even overwhelmed me because we had a very controversial moment in which Pat asked if the

what is a common kitchen appliance?

And it was questionable whether the guy said stove or soap.

I mean, it was a very controversial moment.

We even went to the replay machine, but it wasn't conclusive proof, so we left it alone.

We left it alone, and the Eagles held on again.

And we could talk about that for a couple hours if you'd like as well.

But I'd rather get to something else, which is the worst political predictions of 2018 that Glenn's on the list.

Yeah, and he should be.

Now, my

buffoon, right?

If I were going to put him on the list, I would say the dumbest prediction of 2018 was to say that China would land a rover on the dark side of the moon in 2018.

What a buffoon.

It didn't even happen until January 2nd, 2019.

38 hours late.

You know, this is going to be like the caliphate.

Soon, the New York Times

will have a podcast out, Dark Side of the Moon.

This is where they get all the podcast ideas, but they make billions of dollars off of Glenn's predictions.

But they actually did have one of them in in here, and there's a couple from

our friends here in the network and other friends of the show.

So listen, this is the one they picked because we just listed every single one of your predictions from 2018.

All made in

January 10th-ish last year.

So, not like in the middle of the stories.

They say one of the worst is they rated it 14th of the year, 14th worst.

The Mueller investigation will be put to rest, and no significant charges will be leveled against anyone.

Now,

yes, it has not been put to rest.

Obviously, most of the time.

Have there been any significant charges for the Russian election hacking?

Right.

I mean, I think that's the big thing.

You wrote Russian election hacking.

And, you know, you can come up with this.

There's been a total of, as politico rights here,

33 people have been charged with over 100 criminal counts.

Now, that includes actual Russians, and some of those actual Russians were in the election hacking.

But, I mean, that is not what you were talking about.

You're not saying, like, will Russians be charged?

You were talking about the fact that you're not.

I'll take it that this didn't happen.

I'll take that.

Well, it didn't.

The investigation didn't end.

So we know for sure it wasn't perfectly accurate, but is it one of the worst of the year?

Now, you can go on.

If you want to say charges, then I'd like to say everyone in the media that kept saying over and over and over, this time we got him.

Yeah, this time we got him.

I mean, so Manafort charges, but again, not related to the Russia hacking.

Michael Cohen,

yes, charges, but not related to the Russian hacking.

He was doing things that were potentially illegal related to the election, but nothing to do with Russia per se.

You know, I mean, I don't know.

George Papadopoulos, he

pled guilty to lying to the FBI, but

it was related to international contacts and such.

Was that a major...

Right.

Again,

did you know who George Papadopoulos' name was?

Do you even know his name in 2018 in January?

I don't think I did.

No.

So, I mean, to call it one of the worst of the year is a bit of a stretch, is it not?

I mean, I think

you can stretch it into saying it's not exactly accurate, but it was a Ben Shapiro was on this list of

worst predictions, which I totally disagree with.

The Ben Shapiro one's ridiculous.

This is the sixth biggest

worst prediction of 2018, according to Politico.

Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski will kill Brett Kavanaugh's court nomination.

Now, first of all, Murkowski did vote against Kavanaugh.

So, one of the two right off the bat is actually true.

But didn't kill the nomination.

But didn't kill the nomination, right?

Because Collins went along with it.

Now, it's true, it was not an accurate prediction.

However,

they came pretty freaking darn close to doing it.

It's not absurd.

I mean, I think most people at one point or another believed that this thing was going down in flames.

It wound up holding on by legitimately because of McCain not being around at the time, by one vote they hung on.

And it was just Collins or just Murkowski and Collins and that back and forth.

To call it one of the worst predictions of the year is pretty laughable.

It seems like what was their number one worst prediction?

Because it seems like that was kind of lame, too.

Most of them were, I thought.

Yeah, the number one worst prediction: Amazon will place HQ2 in Boston.

Big deal.

So they decided to put it.

Did you hear that Amazon is making Amazon Air

and it is going to be headquartered at Alliance Airport here in Dallas?

No.

It is?

They're going to be flying there.

Amazon Air.

Is that for the drones?

What is that?

I don't know.

Amazon Air.

Yeah.

I think it's a good thing.

I got to think that's the drone program.

I don't think so.

I think it is

their shipping.

I can't imagine that it's an airline, but they're calling it Amazon Air, so maybe it is.

Right, giving them my entire satellite.

I might as well fly with them, get on the frequent flyer program.

I think it's a combination of the shipping and the drones, but I could be wrong.

I haven't spent any time on it.

Well, Dallas lost out on the headquarters of the HQ2 thing.

Right.

and that went to

where did that go to new york and manhattan oh no sorry manhattan and washington

they really they i mean they needed a couple years to figure that one out go to the biggest city in america and the place where all the politicians are that's a that was a tough one how did amazon come up with that i mean wow there was an article that came out about what a scam that was how they scammed so many cities because that was apparently

at least the thought was in the article that that was their plan all along Of course it was.

Yeah.

Of course it was.

All of these companies are looking to be political now.

They've got to be in the media center and the political center,

which is laughable because I tell you,

I took a 24-hour drive with my kids over the holiday and the dog.

How'd that go?

Oh, my God.

Fun's a great fun.

Fun.

I'm seeing by your expression that that was fun.

You bet.

With a capital F.

Actually, I had a blast.

The kids did not, but I had a blast.

I'd do it again in a heartbeat.

I thought it was fun.

But the one thing that I noticed driving the country is that nothing's really changed.

Nothing's really changed.

Politics are changing.

The media is changing dramatically.

But the people are just the same.

The towns are just the same.

Everybody, no, I didn't stop anywhere where everyone was freaking out about Donald Trump or freaking out about the media or freaking out about any in either direction.

In either direction, everybody was just going on with their life.

Do you think it's?

I mean, I think because

to know that you actually have to talk to people, which none of us want to do and increasingly don't, right?

Like you're texting, you're seeing people post horrible things online, but actually talking to people outside of your inner circle gets more and more rare every day.

And so you don't recognize that people are just normal and living normal lives.

You just see their online profiles freaking out.

I stopped,

you know, not like we were going to stop

because we were going to do a total blackout.

But what I did is I just, if I tweeted or if I Facebook post something,

I didn't go back and look at stuff.

No comments.

Yeah, I didn't, you know, after the holidays, I just stayed away and I didn't look at any news.

I feel so good.

Yeah.

I feel so good.

When you start looking at the comments, it makes a world of difference.

Yeah.

The comments inevitably, whether you're on everything, whether you're looking at a sports story or a political story, the comments are just bludgeoning people.

Yeah.

For no reason.

And

I didn't look at any news.

Like yesterday,

you know, I started looking at the news and I'm like, huh, government's been shut down for three weeks.

That's amazing.

I can't imagine what the media has been saying and how horrible it is to, oh my gosh, the government is shut down.

I didn't notice any difference in anybody's life.

The people that are noticing it are the actual employees who aren't getting paid.

And that's mainly it.

And that's it.

And that's a big thing.

And I feel for them.

But it hasn't affected my life at all.

No.

I went through a TSA line and the guy, someone asked, how's your holiday going?

It would be better if I was getting paid.

Like, you know, like that's real, right?

Like, you're, I mean, that is a real thing for these people, and it's an important thing.

No, T, I mean, beyond,

you know, security should be taken care of, the military should be taken care of, those guys should be, those are not non-essential employees.

And that's why they're forced to be able to do that.

All that security is.

A lot of these other people get to stay home and don't get paid, which still, if you need your money, you need your money.

Sure.

But to actually be forced, and they're suing over this, and I think they're right.

How can the government force you to go to work without paying you?

How can they do that?

Because it's the government, right?

But that's completely, I mean, that's completely everything this country stands for.

I know.

And yet they're doing it anyway.

I know, I know.

But

quite honestly, with an exception of those employees that are showing up and should be paid,

if you're having to show up, you should be paid.

Non-essential employees, other than that,

I mean, I think we should kind of concentrate on non-essential employees being non-essential.

Pat, other than BYU winning the football NCAA championship next year, do you have a 2019 prediction on the Pat Gray Unleashed program that you can

bless us with?

You know,

the insanity will continue.

Yeah.

That's my big prediction.

Just generally?

Generally, the insanity will get worse.

Oh, okay.

And get worse.

Yeah.

There you go.

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So what did last year teach us?

What did the big stories of the year teach us that can and should be applied to the way we look at the events in 2019?

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What did we learn last year?

What do you think the biggest story to take information

from

was and apply it this year?

Hmm.

It's a tough one.

Yeah, that's a tough one.

I thought it was Kavanaugh.

I mean, that was probably the biggest story of the year, the biggest single story, dominated the news for at least, what, two months, it felt like.

I thought it taught us a lot.

And if I may,

I want to break out some stories that happened last year and say, what happened?

And is there something that we can find useful to be able to decode the stories that are coming our way or to see what's happening politically.

So let's start with Kavanaugh.

I think that the Kavanaugh story taught us many things, but most of them revolve around 2019 is an election year.

And

it doesn't matter what happens, what anyone says, it's all positioning now for 2020.

That's all this is.

And that was really the start of the election year.

It was.

It really was.

Because you saw people, I mean, the easiest examples are people like Corey Booker, I am Spartacus, and the ridiculous Kamala Harris stuff.

They're all trying to position themselves as:

I am so against Donald Trump and the things he's doing that I will even break the law to do it.

Remember Corey Booker?

Yes.

I'll break the law.

Basically, this is my Spartacus moment.

Which brings me to one of the things specifically that we should learn from last year, and that is that Democrats have no stop on taxes.

I mean, sorry, on tactics.

No stops.

No.

It does not matter anymore.

They accuse a guy of gang rape with no evidence.

Where do you go from there?

Outside of actual physical violence, where do you go outside of that?

But if you look at one of the other big stories of the year, it was school shootings.

Also,

no stop.

They had no stop on that.

So what do we take from that?

Well, we take that it's an election year, that the Democrats will say or do anything

to get elected.

They will use any emergency at all, and they will actually stand and claim to be Spartacus when it makes no sense, which

leads me to what we should learn.

And that is

they don't work anymore.

That doesn't really work anymore.

And for a couple of reasons.

We have so unhinged from reality

that people think of those tactics as a joke

when when you're shutting down the the government

we know that the government's not going to default we know that the government is still the airplanes are still going to fly We know all those things.

The scare tactics don't work anymore.

And people are at the end of their tolerance level for this kind of stuff.

The Corey Bookers standing up, I am Spartacus, doesn't work.

The making charges and allegations without any evidence to back it up, it doesn't work for a couple of reasons.

One, the Democrats have no stops, and so they overplay their hand.

That will continue.

And two, the media isn't as powerful as it once was.

Yeah, I think there was a time in which if you made a completely unsubstantiated argument and said Brett Kavanaugh is a gang rapist.

There was a time in which that probably does work.

Okay, it's so far out.

Like, you wouldn't say that if it wasn't true or if you didn't have evidence.

And now I think the American people are at the point where, well, yes, they will say that if there's no evidence, we've seen them do it 500 times, so I'm not going to believe it.

And what you're talking about, I think, too, when it comes to the election part, is there is these guys are totally incentivized to make this worse.

When you are sitting there and you're Elizabeth Warren and uh and you're going against kamala harris and corey booker and bedo o'rourke and all of these guys who have to get left-wing activists to vote for them and donate money to them they are just going to be a constant uh contest to flop over themselves and move left it's going to get crazier and this is going to be a fun year in that in that if you'd like if you like watching the nonsense it's going to be a fun year for it that the effects on the nation are a whole nother story but it's going to be it's going to be wildly entertaining.

So, here's, let me give you kind of some predictions, a foreshadowing of what I see coming, and we're going to deal with actual predictions here in the next few days.

But

one of the things that, again, you get from Kavanaugh, and you get even from the border wall thing, is that politics is nothing more than a game, period.

And

it is devolved into a game whose object is to piss the most amount of Americans off at the other side.

Now, you saw this with Kavanaugh, but you're seeing this with the border wall, the government shutdown.

What has this become about?

What has this become about?

Donald Trump is evil and wants to stop Mexicans from coming in the country.

Right.

And is now torturing federal employees to get to this evil goal.

Right.

And what are the Democrats talking about what they want to do with money?

With the same $5 billion?

Are you talking about

talking about the Republicans are charging

the Democrats are charging that

the Republicans are racist?

And the Republicans are saying, look what Nancy Pelosi has on her list of things to do.

And

she wants to shove this through,

but she won't touch the border wall.

I mean, there's endless stuff.

Abortion, Planned Parenthood, abortion money overseas.

Okay.

Those are two hot buttons,

the border and abortion.

That's all this is.

This is to piss each side off, period.

It's not about actually doing anything.

I go back to minimum wage.

I don't believe in a national minimum wage.

It's ridiculous.

The minimum wage to live in New York, I don't even know what that should be.

$50 an hour?

What should it be?

The minimum wage in

Weston

Idaho

is probably $7

an hour.

They're vastly different.

You can't do this.

What you can do

if you don't think like a politician is you could say, all right, well, every area has to set their own.

And I'm not suggesting this.

I'm just saying so you don't ever have to deal with it again.

If we're going to have minimum wages, every area and every state has to set their own,

and it is just fixed to the cost of living.

So the cost of living goes up, the minimum wage goes up.

We don't have to have this argument every five years, every three years, every two years, whatever it is.

They like having it on the menu, though.

Correct.

Why?

They can fundraise off of it.

They can get people angry.

They can say how evil the other side is because they don't want their minimum wage increase.

Exactly right.

They want to keep it on the table as an arc as a hammer, essentially, to hit the other side with.

So it is a political game just to piss you off.

And nothing actually happens until the run-up of the election.

And who benefits?

Both parties do.

I've seen this before.

And it is the Oren Hatch

flag-burning amendment conversation that we had with him years ago in the Tea Party movement, he said, I can get these people to calm down.

All I have to do is introduce a flag-burning amendment, and everybody will fall back in line.

And I remember, do you remember you were sitting there?

I was there.

Sitting there going, this is insane.

He really doesn't get it.

His argument was essentially: if we introduce a flag-burning amendment, then we can get people out to the polls because they'll care about the flag-burning amendment and

they'll come vote for our candidates.

It was like using that to get people out to vote for the candidates.

It wasn't a real belief in flag-burning stuff.

It was just a tool to get people to go out and vote.

And I think those days are over.

And I don't think the Democrats or the Republicans, but especially the Democrats, have learned that lesson.

And what does that mean for the Democratic Party in the next 18 months?

We'll tell you.

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what did we learn from Donald Trump this year

that is important to apply in 2019

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So what did we learn from Donald Trump this year?

What did we learn from all of the Trump stories that could

be applied and we should apply the lesson to 2019?

I think the biggest lesson we learned happened right before Christmas.

And it's that Donald Trump

will fold on things that are big to his supporters.

But if his supporters stand up,

he goes back back and says, oh, wait a minute, I want to do over.

The border is the number one thing I think you should learn from Donald Trump in 2018.

And it empowers you, right?

If you're a supporter of Donald Trump, like

he really does seem to move and listen to his supporters, which is a good thing, right?

I mean, I'm glad he's listening to his supporters on most of these cases.

And we did see that.

I mean,

it definitely seemed like he was going to give in on this border issue.

And now he's not.

He's got to to find a way out of it, and it's not necessarily going to be easy, but you know, it's important to stand up for these things.

I mean, you know, you wish you would have been able to do this with Republican control, it would have been a lot easier to get through.

But yeah,

he does seem to react to that.

It's happened several times in his presidency where it looks like he's going one way, which is not necessarily a good way for conservatives.

Conservatives stand up and make a lot of noise about it, and he reverses himself.

That's really important because you haven't had a president or even a candidate in

the Senate or the House that actually listens to you.

Donald Trump does listen.

If his people stand up, he does listen and correct course.

And I think that's incredibly important to learn, especially in 2019.

Also,

2019 can be looked at as a year,

I believe,

of a bridge to true fundamental transformation of the United States of America and the world.

I think this is the bridge that this time next year, you're going to be standing on the other side of the bridge and you're going to go, holy cow,

it is all going to change.

It's going to change and it's going to change rapidly.

And this is the bridge to that change.

By 2025, I believe the maps will have been changed.

So we have profound, dramatic change coming our ways.

And one of the ways that's going to manifest itself this year is what should we learn from 2018?

2018 was the beginning of the Tea Party movement for the Democrats.

The Democrats

put a bunch of socialists in

and you're seeing this socialist wave.

And they put these socialists in, and

they're either going to tear it apart from the inside,

or they're going to become Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer, which will tear it up on the outside.

Does that make sense to you?

Do you know what I'm saying, Stu?

What do you mean by become Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer?

They will either become your standard politician

and they will just say the right things for their constituents and not do anything.

Or,

and if they do that, their supporters will go crazy.

The socialist supporters are not like that.

The socialist supporters are not going to like that.

So, this is the beginning of the Tea Party movement, if you will, I think, for the Democrats in 2018.

It's just a different direction.

It's 180 degrees in the opposite direction of the Tea Party.

And they want Donald Trump impeached.

They want socialist policies.

They're not looking for Sweden.

They're not looking for Holland.

What they are looking for is true socialism, communism.

They are looking to take the means of production away from the capitalists.

Elizabeth Warren said it with medications, right?

She said she wants to create a new service in which the government makes medications, makes them, not just pays for them,

actually produces them.

That is the definition of socialism.

in the textbook.

Yeah.

So

you have these people,

and I think

that the Democrats like Schumer and Pelosi actually lose.

I think

Pelosi is going to be making this transition.

Again,

this is a bridge year, and she's going to be making this transition from the new to the old.

And I think they're going to be more afraid of their constituents than the GOP was afraid of the Tea Party.

And there's good reason for it.

The Tea Party constituents, they were just moms and kids and families that came out and had enough and expected the rule of law and expected decency and then didn't get it.

And what do you do?

You pick up a pitchfork?

That's not who they are.

That's not who any of us were.

And so

we kind of just petered out.

This Tea Party movement, if you will, from the left will not peter out.

Those people are not going to go away.

Those are the disruptors of our society.

And I think the Schumers and the Pelosis are going to be more afraid of them than Mitch McConnell was ever afraid of you.

Because Mitch knew you didn't have any teeth.

Schumer knows these people have teeth and they will bite.

So I'm not sure which way it goes, but it's going to be ugly.

You'll know, I think, relatively soon.

I think so, too.

Because, I mean, the impeachment battle is going to be the easiest way to see this.

They're not going to do anything until at least the Mueller report comes out.

But if it comes out and they try to latch onto some BS thing and force through impeachment, you can tell which side is going to be winning.

Because the new socialist, the Alexandria Ecasio-Cortez group of people coming in are not going to be happy with.

Well, we're going to look into this and create a panel to see if this should be investigated further.

Like, they're not going to want that.

So here's the other news story that we should take something and apply it to 2019.

The Paris Riots story.

The Paris Riots story, really here is the lesson.

You cannot, as politicians or a government or as media, ignore people and expect extremism not to rise.

If you ignore the cries of the people, extremists will come and try to claim those people and their discontent and direct that energy toward you.

However, the more you ignore, the worse it gets.

But if you also add to that an accusation that the people are the problem,

you have revolution.

And that's what's happening right now with both parties here in the United States and the media.

it's the people that are the problem.

That has to be cured because that's what's also happening in Europe and they're ahead of us.

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Looking at the stories from 2018 and then trying to apply the lessons

to 2019,

I think it's really critical.

And

we could sit here and we could get bogged down on,

for instance, the border wall, which is really important, and funding for the United States government, again, really important.

However, we know that the

United States is not going to default on its loans.

And that's, you know, the media always says this.

Can you believe the

Republicans won't they just won't give in on this one thing?

They've got Planned Parenthood, and

they won't let that go through.

And we could default on all of our loans.

We're not going to default on all of our loans.

We're not.

The media is playing

both sides, both sides.

They couldn't believe.

But here,

they have no problem with the Democrats holding hostage for one thing, not Planned Parenthood, border wall, security.

Of course.

Like before with, you know, when it was Obamacare or Planned Parenthood, it was how can they not possibly give in on this one little few billion dollars here?

How can they possibly not?

They never asked that question of Democrats.

Why wouldn't they just give in on a $5 billion thing for border security?

Then you get $10.

$5 billion is nothing, and they get DACA.

Why wouldn't they just give in?

I mean, I'm not comfortable at all switching, giving DACA up for $5 billion of border funding.

I don't think that's a good deal.

In fact, I know it's not a good deal because they offered $30 billion for DACA a year ago.

And still then, I don't think it was a good idea.

But they, I mean, this has gone downhill significantly when it comes to a negotiation standpoint.

And they, now, but the media never puts pressure on the Democrats to give up on their one little thing.

The whole government could reopen right now if they gave $5 billion for a wall.

And they get a giant thing from the Trump administration, and they won't do it.

But that pressure doesn't go on the Democrats.

It went solely on the backs of Republicans the last two government shutdowns.

Always is Republicans' fault.

Now that the Democrats are the ones saying, no,

we're going to keep this government closed until he gives up on this border funding thing.

Well,

it's still the Republicans' fault.

It's still the Republicans' fault.

How could they ask for such a stupid little thing?

I don't think it's going to make a difference.

It's not going to change sides.

There's a lot of people.

For instance, let me take Ken in California.

Ken, are you personally affected by the government shutdown?

Absolutely.

Do you care to explain how?

Oh, absolutely.

I live in Mariposa, right on the edge of Yosemite National Park, and when the parks closed down and concessions are closed down, tourists don't come to town.

And those of us in this private sector up here,

we don't get paid back.

So what do you want the president to do?

Oh, it's not what I want the president to do.

It's what I want Chuck and Nancy to get off their tails and give him the money for that wall.

And are you willing to take it in the end and lose money in the end?

Oh, I have to be.

It's for the nation's.

My grandfather has the Medal of Honor from World War II.

I have to have the same integrity he did.

It's for our nation's security.

See, I think that this is what the media and the Democrats don't understand.

I thank you, Ken.

Thank you for your call, and thank you for your service to the country.

I think the American people on the the Republican side are willing to sit this through

and hurt themselves

because this is about security.

It's not about politics.

It's about security.

And you also have those people who are not affected by this.

People think that the number one problem in America is the government.

They look at the government as a cause of a lot of their problems.

So

there's no love lost here.

It's true.

It's a complicated picture, though, with this policy.

I mean, you're right.

They think the government's incompetent.

Everyone knows that, right?

I mean, everyone's made post office jokes.

Even if you're a liberal, you realize this is accurate.

However, the polling on the border wall is not good.

Even separate from the shutdown, it's 60-37 against building it at all.

Now, this has changed dramatically from just a few years ago.

In 2010, among Democrat voters, it was basically a 50-50 issue.

Should we build a border wall?

Now it's 89 to 8 against among Democrats.

Because of Trump.

Yeah,

because of politics.

Because of politics.

But that is not even an issue that is an issue that's polling well among the American people anyway, short of the shutdown.

If you start getting people, and this just gets worse, right?

Like, because, you know, there's stuff like flood insurance coming up for a lot of people.

Now, should the government be in the flood insurance industry?

No.

Not at all.

Of course not.

It's stupid.

But people believe they should have it.

They bought a house in a flood zone with the expectation they could get it.

And

if you can't renew it and then you have a flood, there's going to be major, major issues here.

And so

they know that the longer this goes on, the uglier it gets, the more people,

not just the, what is it, 800,000 people not getting paid, but also the people like our last caller who was like, hey, I depend on a lot of people coming to National Park and my business is suffering.

That suffering gets worse over time.

And if it's an issue issue that's not even necessarily polling well,

it's going to be tough.

I think the Democrats are going to say, they're just going to sit back and say, go ahead, wait, wait all you want.

You already said it's your fault.

You already said it's the Donald Trump shutdown, and we're going to put the blame on you.

Now, whether that works or not, I don't know.

So, but here's where I am on this, Stu.

I am

mildly fascinated by how this is going to work out.

But I don't see us, I don't see anybody winning in the end.

You know, I don't see a win for the American people either way on this.

Do you?

No.

Because even if you get the border wall funding, which would probably be the best outcome right now if you're thinking of border security, you're giving up DACA almost definitely in that arrangement, which is.

And you're getting $5 billion.

And $5 billion, which is going to build.

It's a step in the right direction, but

it's not going to build the wall we were talking about.

So here's the other story that nobody is paying attention to.

Last week, did you see that

the president was considering signing an executive order banning all technology from the Chinese companies on 5G technology?

Yeah, I think I saw a blip about that.

A blip about that.

That was not a story that was widely talked about.

Let me tell you, this is a $5 billion call.

It's going to hurt businesses, private businesses, by $5 billion.

I am not for the government paying people.

I am not for the government telling us what products we can and cannot use,

except this time.

I think the best thing for national security is to write a $5 billion check to all these mom-and-pop

places all around the United States that bought this 5G technology and have already started to put in Chinese technology.

That's the best $5 billion investment we could possibly make for our own security.

So, wait, so these companies bought

from one of these big Chinese companies, the technology for 5G.

And the worry is that this is going to wind up giving China more control over this coming 5G technology, which is obviously very.

5G technology, if China has their instruments in our 5G technology, when I say our, I mean anywhere in the West, You cannot allow China to be in the West at all.

The 5G technology, their repeaters, their systems, all of their electronics that they're building will report and gather all information and data and send it back to mainland China.

If they have control of our communications network, we are screwed.

And the president is finally

doing something.

I don't mean just him.

I mean, Obama, Bush, nobody did anything on this.

And he finally last week, and nobody really reported on it.

That he said, you know what, I'm considering an executive order.

And everybody screamed, oh, that's $5 billion we've already spent.

Good.

Then the government should refund those people because the government is saying now, too late,

you can't use any of that equipment.

Good.

Then take my tax dollars.

I am thrilled to pay that.

That's like building a plane that we actually will use and will actually help us win a war.

I'm fine with that.

If China has 5G technology in the United States, we are screwed.

Now, tell me, which one is more important?

Which story should we concentrate on?

Should we concentrate on this battle where nothing's going to change?

We're not going to get the wall.

We may get a fence.

We may get part of a wall.

But we're probably also going to get DACA.

And it's going to drag on for a while, and it's only going to make everybody pissed.

Should we be spending our time worried about that, or should we spend our time educating ourselves on what exactly is going on with the Chinese trade war?

Because that

is the beginning of global war.

And what China is building right now and what we are beginning to stand up against is the game changer for humankind.

We're going to try to concentrate on the game changers this year.

And by the way, we've got

seven topics that we are going to be really laser focused on this year.

And I'm going to lay them out beginning tonight at five o'clock.

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But throughout the year, I'll be showing you how they all connect.

But I am good at connecting the dots.

Tonight, I'm going to show you the dots that are really critical to watch, and we will watch them this year for you.

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Welcome to the program.

We're glad that

you're here today.

Lots of stuff to cover, including I've got a...

Did you make any do you make New Year's resolutions, Stu?

I do occasionally.

I don't do like a formal list or anything, but there's usually a couple things I want to try to fix if I've screwed up life.

Did you do one this year?

It's still the new year.

Yes, I have a couple.

We had

kind of a scare over the holiday.

Jeffy had a heart attack and a pretty massive heart attack.

Real close call.

A very close call.

In fact, we found out later that the doctor said that,

what is it, like 90% of the people that have this massive of a heart attack don't make it.

Yeah, Jeffy said

they call it the widowmaker for a reason, I guess.

Yes.

Thank you, Jeffy.

And

I called Stu.

I came down from the mountain because I heard, and so I can't, I don't have phone service up in the mountains.

And so I came down from the mountains and I called Stu right away.

And

we kind of just talked about, you know, what was happening with Jeffy and and what to do and kind of ended the conversation

with Stu saying, we're getting too old to do this to our bodies anymore.

It really is true, isn't it?

Because

there's something about having,

my dad died of a heart attack.

There's people around you do it.

And for some reason, it seems like, oh, that's

distant people.

Right.

Like, yeah, it's distant or something different.

Like, we're like, Jeffy's like, now, Jeffy's probably the oldest person I've ever met in my life.

But still, as a, I mean, he's a peer, right?

He's like someone we have worked with for a million years.

He's been with us this entire time, and you know, he's our friend, and as much as I hate admitting things like that, and you know, to see it happen to him is pretty scary.

Did you get beat up?

Did Tanya maybe give you a little refocusing of life?

No, she actually didn't.

Really?

No, because I had already been there on,

you know,

I'm going to eat ice cream every night

during the holidays, but

I've got to lose 50 pounds.

Got to lose 50 pounds.

50 pounds.

50 pounds.

It's a big goal.

Is that the actual goal?

That is the actual goal.

I mean, how do we exploit this for the air?

I mean, can we have

an ongoing weight measurement that's just posted on the website all the time?

That doesn't make me happy.

That's why I'm suggesting it.

Yeah.

Of course.

This is the only way you can get, these things can happen is if you get shamed into them.

I know.

You know, I know.

It's the only way I'll eat a leaf of lettuce.

I know.

But

I have to do it.

So

I haven't started yet,

but I'm going to start in the next few days.

And I wanted to know if you wanted to join me on some sort of a challenge.

If the audience wants to join,

I love that.

You know, I'd like to lose 50 pounds in two weeks.

No, I'm kidding.

You're going to be cutting body parts off.

That's right.

I'm fine with that.

I'm fine with it.

Yeah, but doctor, my weight went down.

There you go.

I'm only four feet tall now, and

I don't have many of my organs, but I feel fine, or I did about 20 minutes after surgery.

Now not so great.

Well, I did wind up giving Jeffy a Christmas present, a nicely wrapped present that he opened, and inside was a giant bag of lettuce.

And then he did, unfortunately, notice it was romaine that had been recalled.

Yeah.

Well, oh, well, I mean, it's worth a shot.

You know, we can't care about everything, Jeffy.

By the way, Jeffy is fine and on the mend.

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In 1970, Simon and Garfunkel released a song, Bridge Over Troubled Water.

It's a great song title, legendary song, but maybe more importantly, it is a fitting label for this year, a bridge over troubled water.

2019 is, I believe, the bridge year.

Fundamental global transformation is on the other side of the bridge.

And on this on this path we just walked is the post-Cold War world.

And it all began to change in 2008, a year that saw both a Russian invasion of a potential NATO country and the collapse of Lehman Brothers.

In fact, they happened within a few weeks of one another.

In a span of just a few weeks, it was not a coincidence.

We've been on this path for quite some while.

We are now entering the bridge over troubled water.

I'll explain in 60 seconds.

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The Billboard Top Four Songs of Christmas 1991.

It's going to be a blast from the past.

Brian Adams, Color Me Bad,

CNC Music Factory.

Great factory.

And Paula Abdul.

1991.

Paula Abdul was still around?

Jeez.

CNC Music Factory.

Nothing.

I mean, nothing.

There was only what they had two or three hits.

I don't even remember.

I thought you were.

I remember things that make you go, hmm.

Yeah.

No, I tried to block out.

Gonna make you sweat, I believe, was one of the others.

Yeah.

Which is

easier.

It gets easier as you get older.

So

that was the beginning of the journey that we are on now.

That was the soundtrack of our life.

Because on the other side of the globe, the Soviet Union was disintegrating at the time.

Those were the hits while everything else was falling apart.

Is it possible they knew those were the hits that just gave up on their country?

They're like, screw it.

No, they were joining the West.

They were like, the wall was coming down.

They're like, no, wait, maybe we should put the wall back up.

What would the world look like?

In 1991, many in the West just saw this as great.

Capitalism has won against communism, and everybody's going to be capitalist, and we're going to be things are going to be great in Russia.

No.

no.

But we had spent decades preparing for something that now didn't exist.

Cold War, nuclear war, Soviet Union.

And Western Europe united to guarantee, quote, peace and prosperity, right?

And you remember late,

I think it was, was it Putin that wanted to come into NATO?

I know Russia wanted wanted to come in and become a NATO power.

China and the United States had come together to eradicate this communist menace of the Soviet Union.

And everyone had direction.

But now that the Soviet Union was gone, what was everybody coming to the dinner table for?

Well, we went on pretending for over two decades.

And the signs of that change hit us in 2008, that the world was different, 2001 and then again 2008.

We now find ourselves on a bridge to a world that will be as different as the world was between 1914 and 1946.

But it's going to be the difference between the world of 19, or sorry, 2018

and 2025

we are now at that bridge we stand

looking at a new direction but no politician and no media source is telling you there is a horizon forward

they're trying to get you to continue to look backward they're trying to get you to look at what what is america today what is the world today

this is all going to unravel whether you like it or not it's just not going to be the same

NATO NATO and Europe will begin to dissolve and new alliances will emerge

I think we're going to talk about a little of this tonight is tonight is tonight what are the two topics on tonight's show five o'clock

Civility and unrest, and then the other one is

I think it's a complete discography of CNC Music Factory will be the other topic.

Really?

Yeah, well, we don't have a lot of time, so it'll be perfect

for that.

Politics of meaning.

So we are going to be talking about this.

I'm laying out the seven categories that I'm going to focus on in the next 12 to 18 months because I believe that we have to stop playing the stupid political games and getting wrapped up in the media

and start looking ahead across this bridge.

The way things used to work

will seem like a distant memory, and it will all begin to become clear

this year.

I think this time next year, we will be able to have a conversation.

In fact, we should play this break next year at this time

And see if you don't say,

I do see things completely differently.

We are on a bridge and troubled waters beneath us, and they are rising.

The waters of chaos are going to put us into uncharted territory.

In 2008, the United States was the catalyst.

And

I don't know what the catalyst is going to be this time,

but recession is coming.

Since 1933, our economic cycle has a recession on average every four years.

It has now been over eight years since the last recession hit.

It is going to happen, and it has nothing to do with politics.

An economic uppercut is coming, and it's coming at a time when global debt is at record numbers.

Consider this.

Consumer confidence began to decline back in November.

Oil prices are now bottoming out.

What do oil prices bottom out usually tell you?

That the world is on a slowdown.

Credit is beginning to crunch.

Asset prices are beginning to fall.

And for the first time in a decade, interest rates are rising.

All of that adds up to a recession, and very soon.

Now, when we stop buying, the entire world takes a hit.

It's the same thing that happened in 2008, except we caught a cold, but the rest of the world caught pneumonia.

The rest of the world did not recover.

If you lost money in 2008, you not only recovered that money if you left it in the stock market, you not only recovered that money, but if you left it in the whole time, you've now gained 400%

more

than you had in 2008 before the crash.

That's incredible.

In 2008, we took a 50%

bath.

The rest of the world and China took a 70% bath.

Like I said, you have 400% more money in your 401k if you had money in a 401k at 2008.

In China, They've only made up 20%

of the 70 that they've lost.

So the rest of the world had pneumonia, and it has never left the hospital.

And what's happening already

is beginning to

outline some things that the world has not seen for maybe a hundred years.

The UK is exiting the European Union.

Italy and Greece are on the verge of default.

The French yellow vest protests are happening.

They resumed again just this last weekend.

Things are starting to add up.

Russia cannot pay their bills with oil at $50 a barrel.

They need it, I think, to be about $80 a barrel.

It's never going back to $80 a barrel.

Saudi Arabia, I think, needs $90 a barrel just to pay their bills.

You remember when we talked about the Saudi prince and how the Saudi prince

was

actually

rounding up all of the big rich princes from Saudi Arabia and taking airplanes.

Right?

That's because they have no more money.

They are blowing through all of the Saudi money.

They are collecting it from the family members.

They are blowing through all of this money.

That is major destabilization.

China is dealing with a greater than anticipated GDP slowdown and a trade war.

And meanwhile, the war drums are beating with new military alliances forming

and old ones dying.

I spent a day just looking at the global map

and looking at alliances and an Axis and allied powers.

And we're going to talk about this a bit tonight.

It's not going to be the way that we think.

You have to stop thinking like the Cold War and World War II.

Those days are behind us.

The world is changing.

And this is the year that I think we will all look back at and say,

wow,

that was the year that we stood on the bridge between those two worlds and we never saw it coming.

Unless you're with us,

because you will see it coming.

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I want to talk to you a little bit about Goldline.

The stock market is in a rocky ride right now.

I didn't want to tell you I had done anything until I had actually done it,

but

I took 75 cents of every dollar I had in the stock market out over the holiday.

And

I just recommend that you look for something more stable

than the stock market.

I think things are trouble.

And

you can look at treasuries, which short term, you can look at gold, you can look at silver, you can look at land,

but

now is the time, please, to protect yourself.

We are back into that era that we were in 2007, 2008.

And in times of political and economic uncertainty, Americans have consistently turned to the recognized safe haven asset which stands the test of time over and over again, and that is physical gold.

It's a hedge against an unchecked government.

It plays a crucial role in diversifying a portfolio.

It is something that China is gobbling up by the ton.

Russia is gobbling up by the ton.

Anybody who is smart is looking at gold right now because when the world goes insane, that is where people go for shelter.

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Welcome to it.

Am I too pessimistic?

I mean, generally, of course, yes.

I don't know.

I mean, it does feel like we're on the verge of something, particularly with the financial world, that is not.

So, you are feeling it too?

It's not just me.

I mean, they just did polling on this, and they think it was something like 65% of Americans believe we're going to see in a recession in the next year.

This is not a recession.

Right.

I mean, but they're not going to, it's a different thing you're always talking about, right?

Like this is a more dramatic situation.

But whether it is or not, it's something, it's certainly a good time to re-look at how, you know, where your finances are and

what you have them in, right?

Have you done anything?

I have.

I've done some.

Yeah.

I've re-kind of aligned my

401k and those sorts of things.

You know, I don't.

You know, it's difficult, you know, because if you're close to needing your money, right, they always say you shouldn't really be

know, highly vulnerable to those risks anyway.

I'm not necessarily that young.

I mean, I should, you know, over old at this point.

I've got still got a few years, right, before I have to actually access it, hopefully.

So, you know, I don't want to necessarily take it all out, but there's a situation where, you know, if what you're talking about comes to pass, it's not going to matter.

I think

there is a good chance that we are sitting now

financially

on the doorstep of a 1929 to 1933 event.

And that doesn't come back

for 1929, didn't come back until 1946, really, in the West.

But you have to remember, you know, you ever see all those comedies like Benny Hill,

they always drove that three-wheeled blue car and it always kind of tipped over.

Do you ever see that?

I don't remember.

I just remember Benny Hill running around and getting chased by women in underwear

at high speeds with the song playing in the background.

right?

But if you remember, in comedies in Great Britain, they also always had that three-wheeled car.

Well, that three-wheeled car was because they couldn't afford anything.

Well, no, it's because of government standards, but they also couldn't afford gasoline, they couldn't afford cars.

Everyone in Europe was rebuilding, so they didn't really get to experience any kind of boom until maybe the 60s and 70s.

The 40s, 50s was all about rebuilding.

And so they didn't have a lot of money.

It's why England went socialist with socialized medicine.

They had no money left.

And all of Europe was like that.

What better time to launch a new program that's incredibly expensive than when you have no money?

That's a great idea.

That's what happens.

People get desperate and they start begging for government to help them.

And I think that is going to happen

in the next two to three years.

It could happen as early as this year.

But I think the

socialist movement is going to become

acceptable to many in the conservative movement.

And I know that is crazy to say, but you are going to see

talk about bigger and bigger safety nets and bigger and bigger government programs

on the right.

You're going to begin to see it.

We've seen some of that recently.

I mean, Tucker Carlson did a big monologue about how basically conservative principles of the past don't work anymore.

Is this

over the last couple weeks?

Oh, yeah.

And how we just don't recognize it.

And all the conservative elites believe in markets.

And we need to stop doing that because we have to have a government that's going to

get involved in culture.

And it was all sorts of stuff.

Wow.

At one point, he said, the Democrat Party is currently functionally libertarian, which was the honestly, I mean, again, Tucker Carlson's a smart guy, but that is one of the strangest observations on any topic I've ever heard in my entire life.

If they're in the middle of it, he's elected like 60 socialists functionally libertarian.

I don't know where this stuff is coming from.

And it's, to me, scary because if people on the right start talking like that, if things go badly, man.

See, I was not, I didn't know that Tucker Carlson was doing that.

I meant in the coming year.

Oh, okay.

Well, apparently it's already happening.

Well, when it gets ugly, that's when it gets ugly.

It really gets going.

It is.

It's worth reading.

Ben Shapiro write up about that monologue is worth your time.

Because if that comes where the right, where there's no longer an opposition to growing government and growing government intervention, that's when you get Europe, right?

Because there's no side that is arguing for small government.

It's big government control on the right or big government control on the left.

And that's a scary place to be.

I mean, you mentioned that stat on China, which you kind of brushed over a little bit.

Like, that's one of of the most shocking things.

I had no idea that occurred.

I mean, think about this.

If you had $100 in the U.S.

stock market, we had the crash, it went down to 50, and now it's $200.

So if you held on, you've made a lot more money.

In China,

if you had $100 invested, it went down to 30, and it's quote-unquote recovered to 36.

You've lost all that money.

You've lost a lot.

There's been no recovery.

And now, and now there's talk about real

problems.

I mean, think of that.

You went from 30 to 36, and everybody's been trying to convince you that, no, no, no, things are getting better.

Things are getting better.

You know,

we've went from 100 to 50 to 200.

They went from 100 to 30 to 36,

and now they're talking about real trouble.

Imagine the mindset.

Now, one other thing on China,

do you know how they

you know all those ghost cities that are sitting empty?

It's a fascinating part of China.

They build these cities, there's no one huge buildings, skyscrapers, malls, everything, and no one goes to them because there's no one there.

Who owns them?

Who owns the buildings?

Yeah, who owns those apartments?

Well, the people, right?

The people own them.

Oh, not in the way you think.

You think it's the government that owns them.

Wait until I tell you the economic trick that the Chinese have played on their people.

Revolution.

You're listening to Glenn Beck.

So is this the year that Bitcoin is coming back?

Bitcoin in crypto is not where we thought it would be right now.

All the signs do point for a bull year for cryptos.

I believe cryptocurrency and blockchain technology are going to play a significant role in the future of the world.

There's a lot of signs that point to

a trackable digital form of money as a replacement to a fiat currency.

I mean,

gee, the Bible said this would happen.

Now, this is important because right now you have a chance to invest in this technology before it all happens.

But I urge you to do your own homework because

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back from vacation, and tonight is a show on TV you don't want to miss.

At 5 p.m., in fact, all week, we're laying out the seven topics or categories that I think we need to concentrate on in the next 12 to 18 months, and we're going to concentrate on them.

I'm just not going to,

I just can't fall into the trap of caring about

all of the back and forth political games because we are on a bridge to a world that is going to fundamentally transform

here in the next

two to six years.

I believe by 2025, you will not recognize the border maps anymore.

Things are going to change globally and also internally.

And things,

quite honestly, like the,

you know, Donald Trump saying that he's thinking about declaring declaring a national emergency to be able to build this border wall.

That's, no,

that's not what we use national emergency for.

That is a dangerous, dangerous trend.

And we just don't, we just, we just can't do that.

However, we might.

It's kind of we might.

I mean, we've seen this many times with presidents trying this.

I mean, DACA is essentially a result of Obama saying, well, we wanted to do this through the courts or we want to do this through law.

We couldn't get it done, so we're going to do it ourselves.

The same thing with the bump stock ban, right?

Oh, we want to get this done.

We want to do it through the law.

We couldn't do it.

So, you know, they just did it on their own over vacation or late December.

This one's, you know, again, like, I agree with the priority that the border wall is important.

Again, it's just, we should remember, this is just a piece of this puzzle.

40% of people who are here illegally are here on overstate visas.

The wall does nothing to stop them.

I mean, even if the wall was completely built, it would help, but it would not be,

it's not a solution to this issue overall.

It would be great if it was there because it would help on illegal border crossings, but it's just a piece of the puzzle.

And because it's become this big political issue, I think a lot of people

who watch this stuff think either it's the solution and we need to get it done because it's a national emergency, or on the other side, they think

it's the worst thing in the world.

When the Democrats used to agree with it, I mean, not that long ago, in the 2010s, they agreed with it.

Here's the problem.

When your government is so disconnected from the people,

bad things happen.

And when the government lies to get things done,

I want to talk to you about the ghost cities in China.

If you don't know what ghost cities are in China, you need to look them up.

Just Google them.

Pure entertainment reasons.

You should

watch YouTube videos.

You'll be in a wormhole all day long.

All day long.

Fascinating.

Never seen anything like it.

Whole entire cities completely empty of people.

Completely built.

One of the largest malls in the world is a mall built in one of these ghost cities, which has like one store in it.

And it's one of the largest malls in the world.

Everything else is completely empty because there's no people there to buy anything.

They just build these cities with no people.

And they've been doing it for a long time.

It's helped prop up their economy.

And it is, and what they've done to try to finance it is amazing.

So nobody ever talked about how did they finance this.

What are they doing?

We've talked about just how it's bogus, how it's just, they are just stimulating the economy by dumping all of this money to pay workers to build these cities because they needed, I think it was 8% growth.

If they didn't, if they have anything less than 8% growth, they're in trouble with their own people.

Well, they don't have 8% growth now.

I think they have 5%, and that's what they say it is.

If they're saying it's 5% growth, there's no way it's 5% growth.

So they built these cities,

and here's what they've done.

They've gone to the Chinese people.

Most of them are working in these factories and have no,

don't even have their own home.

Okay?

And they've shown them pictures of this utopian city that they've never been to.

And they've said, you can own one of these places.

You can own, you're going to, you're going to retire.

You're going to own one of these luxury apartments.

It's a gleaming city and it's waiting for you.

All you have to do is just give us X percent of your salary, and we'll just withhold it, and we'll put it toward your apartment, your apartment in the sky.

Well, nobody has the money for this.

And by the time you would pay off that apartment in 20 years, nobody's there.

What is that apartment going to be like in 20 years?

Stu and I have been talking about this for the last couple of weeks.

And there is another government that did something very, very similar in a court case that was settled in the 1960s.

I mean, Nazi Germany did this with Volkswagen, and they promised the people's car, and they said, hey, here's all you have to do is pay off these coupons, your stamps.

And if you paid off enough of your monthly payments, you would get the car.

So you didn't get the car up front, of course.

But they gave you this nice stamp booklet, and you could pay them off as you went.

And what was really happening is they weren't planning on building the cars.

They were taking that money.

It was funding their war effort.

So they were essentially getting lots of payments from their own people for something that seemed too good to be true.

It was like a car at an incredible price, this amazing German car.

And they paid all of their money to the government while they were secretly building their own war machine.

Of course, the people didn't get the cars.

They did the same thing with vacation

home.

Yeah, it was this big, beautiful, it was like a ghost city.

It was this big resort.

I can't remember where it was.

It was all built.

And you could get into your Volkswagen and you could drive to the sea, and you're going to be able to have a guaranteed Volkswagen vacation.

And that never happened.

That place was built.

It's just now an empty ghost town.

But that place was built.

And it wasn't until the 1960s when the German people could finally sue.

I think they sued Volkswagen and said, we didn't get our car.

We never got our car.

And they got their money back.

At least part of their money back.

But that's a, I mean, and that is, you know, certainly don't put anything past the Chinese government or what they're doing with the money.

But right now, we kind of believe that they're just propping up the economy with it

and trying to develop things like AI and all of the other things that they believe are the next generation of warfare that we don't seem to be all that concerned about.

That's concerning.

I'm concerned about it.

I know that's one of the things you're going to be talking about this week on the TV show

and looking that sort of forward-looking posture rather than what we're doing now.

I mean, you know, what we're doing now is so irrelevant.

It really is so irrelevant.

Because I think some of it, like, it's tough because these topics are important.

Let's say for politics, for example, like the border security is legitimately important.

It's not something we should just ignore.

Big time.

But I feel like there's this thing that we do

in the media now, which is we pick a topic to just all do drugs on at the same time.

Like we all, like, we can talk about things rationally, but then when it comes to a hot butt like the border wall, we'll all do that conversation on heroin.

And it's it's so weird.

I mean, you know, the easiest example of this, I mentioned it earlier in the show.

The Democrats in 2010 were a the border wall, building a border wall, was a 50-50 issue among Democrats.

Now it's 89 to 8.

The border problem didn't change.

We didn't all of a sudden not have an illegal immigration problem.

It was because their political opponent and the media decided that the people now talking about the border wall are evil.

And they're Republicans and they're bad people.

So the Democrats went from 50-50 to 89 to 8 in a period of seven years where there was a lot of illegal immigration that happened.

And we had lots of crime committed by illegal immigrants.

And all the same problems that existed before exist today.

And now they're opposed to it.

We have become

a society of products.

That's it.

We're just pulling products off the shelf.

And just like every advertising campaign, that product says something about you.

That label says something about you.

And that's all this is.

This is nothing more than an advertising campaign.

And

we are really in the matrix.

And if you want to get out of the matrix, you have to start looking at reality.

And reality is

nothing.

I'm telling you, when you understand the 5G China 2025 policy, when you just understand that, it's like the matrix starts to blink.

And you're like, wait a minute, wait a minute, what am I seeing?

You begin to understand

what really is going on.

And it's crystal clear.

And you can see it all around the globe.

And no one in politics, and certainly no one in media, because media, they are just, they're not intellectually curious anymore.

They really are not.

They're into positioning.

They're into the product that they are selling.

They are not intellectually curious.

And they are also, many of them, not intellectually honest enough or brave enough to say,

okay, wait a minute.

There's something not right here.

They're not willing to say those things.

You are.

You're an audience that is willing to say those things.

You are intellectually curious you just have to have it backed up with facts and I intend to feed you those facts facts and I don't intend for you to take those and ever quote me I expect you to take those facts and look them up for yourself and see if the conclusions that I am drawing are right or wrong

But I can guarantee you that all of the facts that we will give you will be correct

Whether the conclusion is correct, we wait to see.

But we have a pretty decent track record on conclusions being correct on big things.

1999, Osama bin Laden will bomb.

There will be blood, bodies, and buildings on the streets of New York City within the next 10 years, and Osama bin Laden's name will be on it.

That was 1999.

In 2006,

or sorry, 2006 and 2007

was there's going to be a major banking collapse.

None of this will stand.

I remember you're doing an interview with a guy, Dow, 36,000.

Remember that?

And you were like, I don't think it's going to 36,000.

I'm going the other way.

And you had that debate on the air.

I mean, that was back on CNN headline news

those days.

And still, I mean, that was that we were very early on that one, obviously.

We have been right on many, many, many things for a very long time.

I am urging you to pay attention right now

because I believe we are right again on what is coming.

And this is the year to prepare.

It's going to start happening this year, but this is the year to get your ducks in a row.

And it's going to come.

We perhaps have more time than we think,

less time than we wish.

But if you blow it just playing political games, we're all going to be in trouble.

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So I guess the big Christmas present for me this year was a Kindle Oasis.

Oh, yeah.

Amazon.

Is that the new version of that?

Yeah, yeah.

And really, really small.

Because I read, I hate it.

I hate reading digitally because you don't remember things the same way.

You can never find them again.

And so

I try to read something and then I'll buy the hardcover if it's important.

But I read so much and

I've been reading on my iPad or on my phone, which I hate because you get distracted easily.

So Kindle does nothing else, at least that I know of, does nothing else

except the books.

Yeah, because I have the Kindle app on my phone,

and I can read there.

That's what I do too.

But do you think it's worth getting the actual?

For me, it was because

I want to get away from the iPad and all of the other

stuff.

You mentioned New Year's resolutions.

I've been thinking about that one a lot.

I'm like trying to use that.

Use it less.

I just, I want to you get out of it?

I feel like at the end of the day, it's just empty calories.

It is, you know,

it is.

I don't feel like I'm better off because of it.

I don't feel like I've spent my time well.

No.

And then when you start, you know, I've installed one of those programs that tells you how long you're on

and how many times you pick it up.

Oh, my gosh.

And it's just like, what am I doing with my life?

I feel like if I could eliminate that, I would have like real opportunities to do things that I find to be important, can never get to.

I mean, that seems like it would be beneficial to be able to cut that down, even if it's in half, you know, from what you from what you're doing.

Now, obviously, there's things at work, and there's GPS, and there's lots of things that it's really valuable for.

It's obviously great in a lot of ways, but there's so much just time wasting and nothingness on it.

Maybe the Kindle is a good idea because at least you're reading long-form stuff that helps you understand things deep in a deeper way.

Yeah.

Rafe got one.

He got a regular Kindle for Christmas.

He hated it.

He hates it.

He reads so much, like I do, but he got a book also for for Christmas, and it was like 800 and some pages.

It was finished in four days.

And that's why I wanted him to have the Kindle so he could have the library with him all the time.

But he hates it, like me.

It's better to read on paper.

It's just a different experience.

But I personally like the Kindle Oasis.

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