Best of the Program | 1/2/19

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It's Pat and Stu in for Glenn Beck.

Glenn is back on Monday.

We are starting off with some of the presidential candidates.

We're in 2020 season.

It might be 2019, but we're in 2020 already.

And so we'll go through some of the candidates who have already announced.

There's a couple new ones in the last day or two that you need to know about.

Also, we have Louis C.K., who's in trouble now for a comedy concert he gave recently.

And he's too controversial.

He's too controversial.

We'll We'll delve into that.

He actually made fun of things.

So, obviously, you can't do that.

You can't make fun of things or people.

No, you cannot.

That's not

in a comedic way.

That's just wrong.

And we'll tell you the all-time great show that the left is now coming after.

They want to go after and like reverse history on the shows you used to watch.

It's unbelievable.

And we have Global Warming Update.

Bernie Sanders is telling us how we have to handle global warming.

If you're white, we don't want you at a women's march.

That's a great one, too.

A lot of great stuff on the podcast today.

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Back here, we're talking about Elizabeth Warren.

And Pat, I would love to get your initial gut reaction.

Does she have any chance to be the nominee or to be president of the United States?

No chance.

Of either?

No.

Now, will you eat your underwear if she becomes the nominee?

No, I will not.

I was hoping to goad you into that today.

No.

Because you did that last time in 2016.

Yeah, and I felt pretty good about it in 2016.

I still feel pretty good about it, but pretty good is not enough.

Well, she's actually running this time.

She's actually going to run, and she could win, but I really think it's a long shot.

And the Hill has presented their initial rankings of the field.

And at the top of the the list, they have

Beto O'Rourke.

Their number one person.

Betto O'Rourke.

How fast this stuff changes.

Sounds good.

This guy lost his race.

Yeah, right.

The only thing he's known for is losing.

Yes.

And yet he is going to be their top dog.

They just, they're in love with him.

They're absolutely in love with him.

They said that there's an old cliche that Republicans fall in line and Democrats fall in love.

And that's clearly what's happened with Beto O'Rourke.

They fell in love with Obama and they fell in love with beto ork and i don't i don't know if there's going to be any stopping him now for the nomination in 2020 that's insane i mean look we all have those romances throughout our lives pat there are times we fall in love and we fall out of love there was a time in which the democrats were in love with elizabeth warren the time is not now they did fall out of love with her i think yes i don't know i mean it kind of feels to me like it was the whole native american dna

it does feel like it but that only pushed it over the edge yeah i think they were falling out of love before that.

Yeah.

And that kind of finished it off.

Some people are like, oh, well, this is what it is.

They are just not comfortable with a woman at the top of the ticket.

It's like, that's just ridiculous.

Stupid.

Hillary Clinton was seemingly a woman.

Right.

Right.

I know.

And now they're saying because it was Hillary Clinton and she lost, we can't nominate another woman.

We can't another older woman is not is not the way to go.

Which, I mean, you know, look, you can argue that.

I think there is a

there's something similar about the way Elizabeth Warren and Hillary Clinton handle things

that seems equally incompetent.

Yes.

And that is not what you need to bring to the table against Donald Trump.

Not at all.

That's the one thing you need to be able to do.

And the DNA thing she handled so poorly.

It was just, I think even to Democrats, they were like, okay, come on.

Yeah.

Unfortunately, it was like one 1,024th Native American.

Please stop it.

It's so bad.

Like, you remember when they used to have those free HBO preview weekends?

I remember because I never had HBO growing up.

And then, like, one weekend a year, HBO would be on, and you get to see HBO for free.

Yeah.

That's like what happened with the DNA test.

It was like a free preview to her candidacy.

And that does not look good.

In that moment, when Donald Trump makes some accusation against her or some big news story breaks, someone finds something from her past.

How is she going to react to it?

And they got the free preview.

What she's going to do is like call 23andMe.com and get them to do a DNA test.

Like, it was so incompetent and so horribly handled.

Uh, that and when she found out she was 1-1024, she should have just squelched it and not brought it up.

It should have just been kept private.

Yeah, or okay, it turned out I'm not that, I'm not Afro, I'm not Native American.

So, yeah.

And if she would have said that, it probably would have been okay.

There probably was a way of handling it.

Yeah.

And it certainly wasn't

the way she did.

No, even if you're going to have a test and it comes out that you're 80% Native American, it shouldn't be you releasing that information.

If you want to leak it to the New York Times and have them write up some big thing, you could do that.

I got news for you.

The New York Times would have been game for that one.

And it didn't.

They would have taken it.

It didn't help that the Cherokee people came out against her.

No.

It did not.

It didn't help.

It didn't help at all.

And Betto, on the other hand, never had that.

I mean, again, he had his controversies.

The guy, first of all, it's not even his name.

Second of all, he's on, he had a DUI.

I mean, this guy had some stuff in his past, but he was able to weather it.

And in fact, the Cruise people afterwards said

they couldn't put him away.

It took everything they had

just to win that election.

And he squished it out in Texas.

Yeah.

I mean, he won by, what, two and a half, two point nine, almost three points, I think.

But he should have won by 20.

Yeah.

And so the reason why you look at Betto, even though he lost as a big candidate, and this is why the Democrats are doing this, is because he outperformed what he was supposed to do, right?

And he was actually not the biggest outperformer, which is kind of interesting.

They went through this and they said,

who outperformed the environment and their state more than any other Democrat?

And they went through the list.

Here's a few.

Gillibrand was plus 3.8%.

O'Rourke was plus 7.2%.

So they think in a normal, a replacement level candidate.

She should lost by like 9 or 10.

You should lost by like 9 or 10, right?

That's a replacement replacement-level candidate.

There are two that actually beat O'Rourke, which are interesting, and both of them are also being talked about as candidates.

Klobuchar from Minnesota.

No way does she win.

I don't know her.

No way she wins.

She doesn't have a lot of recognition at this point.

She seems to have, she has a sort of

moderate-ish

vibe from what people tell me that are Democrats.

They like...

She doesn't come off as a crazy liberal, but she's from a state in the Midwest, and maybe there's something there.

Um, I don't know.

I don't know.

I that was she outperformed,

but that's interesting.

Plus 8%.

So O'Rourke was plus 7.2.

But the number one, by a wide margin, actually, 9.4%

overperforming was Sherrod Brown in Ohio.

And he's the guy that there's an element of.

He's on this list, too.

Yeah, he's.

Yeah, because he's one of those guys, if

he's sort of like the, it's Joe, it's in a way, it's a way it's Joe Biden, but he's newer, right?

Like

he has that same sort of vibe as far as like he's middle class and he's, you know, he's no nonsense and he's populist and all that stuff.

But he comes from Ohio, obviously a swing state.

He did very well there

in a time where it's not particularly blue.

Of all candidates in this entire measure, of all the Democrats, Elizabeth Warren.

Wow.

Elizabeth Warren did not have any value above replacement, basically.

Basically finished as any replacement candidate would.

The only Democrat with a lower score was Menendez, who was in the middle of a corruption trial.

Wow.

So that is, I mean, that's a big, she just isn't, she's not even loved by Massachusetts.

No.

So how is she going to be loved by the rest of the city?

I don't think she is.

I don't think she is.

So you had Betto at number one, according to The Hill.

Bernie Sanders, still second.

Now, look, this guy would be...

almost 80 years old by the time he would become president if he won the election.

If he got the nomination,

I think he's 76 now, so he'd be 78 in 2020 if he were to win.

Now,

when

you start out in the presidency older than the average age of death for an American male, that's not a good sign.

That's not a good sign.

Really?

And maybe we enter something into the Constitution that maybe if you're past the age, the average age of expiration, you don't get to run.

Now, if healthcare improves you as healthcare approves, we'll start,

we'll inch it up.

Exactly.

I think we'll get it.

But for now, when the average age of death for the American male is 76 and you're 78, and I'm sorry, you can't run for president.

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So we, okay, these are the top 10 Democrats.

They didn't go into all 50 or 100 or however many are going to wind up running.

They just listed the top 10 here.

And the first, at number one,

the candidate with the best chance at winning the Democratic nomination, they think, in the Hill is

Betto O'Rourke.

Robert Francis O'Rourke.

Bob Frank O'Rourke.

Right.

Number two would be Bernie Sanders, who's really not even a Democrat.

He's a socialist.

I guess they're synonymous now.

They're pretty much the same thing

because the Socialist Party has has taken over the Democrat Party.

So they don't even care anymore.

The socialists are taking over the party.

No longer a racist slur to call a Democrat a socialist.

It's almost a compliment now.

Yeah, they love it now.

You got to keep up with this stuff.

Former Vice President Joe Biden, number three.

Now, I think Biden's got a better chance than Sanders.

Biden has to be number one on this list.

The guy's leading the polls by 20 points.

Yeah.

20 points.

Again, let's go back to,

you know, just a few years ago.

This is the same situation that happened with Donald Trump.

Everyone's like, ah, that guy doesn't really have a chance, and he's leading by 20 points.

And he just kept leading by 20 points.

And I kept remembering, someone's going to come up here and challenge him.

Aren't they?

No, no, he's just going to win.

He's going to win.

And I think there's a chance that this happens with Biden.

And it's kind of interesting because the Hill points out, Biden leads almost all opinion polls at this stage.

And how you rate his chances depends largely on how much you think that matters.

Well, I think it matters quite a bit.

As you just pointed out, with Trump, it mattered a lot.

I mean, we kept saying, all right, he's going to fade eventually.

Nope.

No.

He didn't.

He didn't.

And I think part of this is, I mean, name recognition.

There's nobody on.

Betou O'Rourke has not, not even close.

This penetrates Tom Radio.

He's third, in fact.

Yeah, right.

He was third.

But I mean, when you talk about name recognition, for the average person who isn't listening to talk radio, who isn't obsessed with CNN on the left or MSNBC, Bedouel O'Rourke is a blip on their radar if they've heard his name at all.

That's very true.

Joe Biden was vice president of the United States for eight years that they remember fondly.

Yeah.

You know, that is a, you have to, you have to factor that in.

It's a big deal.

Now, I don't even, I'm not 100% sure he's going to run, though it does seem that way.

Seems likely.

It seems likely.

But you see these little cliques forming.

Elizabeth Warren and

Bernie Sanders are going to have a tough time coexisting.

They're going to have a tough time because they're going to battle it out for the same voters.

I think the same thing happened with

Joe Biden and if you want to go with Jared Brown or one of these other more moderate candidates.

That's the place he's going to take.

I'm the common sense Democrat.

That's what he's going to try.

It's going to be tough to win a primary with that.

And I think that is, well, Betto O'Rourke will say, he'll just go for it, right?

Elizabeth Wolf will just go for it.

I think so.

Yeah, they'll both be the socialist candidates.

And so will Sanders.

And then

in comparison, Biden will look really moderate compared to them.

And that might help him a lot.

It's also scary for the general because

if Biden is able to somehow win that primary coming off as relatively sensible,

and again, that's not easy for Joe.

No.

But if he's able to pull that one off, it's going to fool a lot.

Again, a lot of people who aren't focused on his actual positions are going to think, well,

he's more moderate.

He's the one in the middle, and I can deal with that.

And as we mentioned, he had 30% support in the CNN poll last month.

And number two was Sanders at 14.

So he more than doubled the second-place guy.

Betto was back in third at 11%,

and then 9% in another poll.

But Biden, far and away leading the opinion polls.

At number four, they have Kamala Harris.

Now, I don't know that she has that

much of a shot either.

I'm a little more bullish on Kamala Harris than, let's say, an Elizabeth Warren.

Yeah, probably a better chance than Warren, but not as good as Biden, or maybe even Betto.

I think you're right.

I mean, there's obviously a place for the Democrats who, there's some argument among Democrats to take someone who's different, right?

Yeah.

Like, they, you know, Biden and Betto are,

and I know this is shocking because his name is Betto, but these are just boring white dudes, okay?

Wait a minute.

Yeah.

You're talking about Betto O'Rourke, right?

Yes.

Democratic guy.

Bob Frank O'Rourke.

Yes.

And, you know,

this is the exact thing that they say the Republicans do, right?

Which is take the, you know, the, some white guy you know.

and throw him out there and that's okay.

Well, Kamala Harris, I think, is going to come at this from the opposite perspective and say women and say, you know, all sorts of, I'm different in X, Y, and Z ways and make sure she'll have an identity politics argument and she's not as incompetent as an Elizabeth Warren or

stilted.

Again, like people keep saying, she's photogenic.

She's

a prosecutor.

So she's like relatively, she's not Corey Booker.

If you saw her and Corey Booker, they both did things that were wrong during the Kavanaugh stuff.

But Corey Booker looked like an idiot doing it.

He looked like a buffoon.

Right.

He was right.

Where she, while her points were just as bad as his points, she came off as much more credible.

And so she, I think she is more dangerous to not only win the nomination, but also win the election than someone like Elizabeth Warren.

Or, you know, another example of this, and she can't run, obviously, this time, is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

You know, Republicans, if they have a choice between Kamala Harris and Ocasio-Cortez to find the Democratic Party, they salivate over Ocasio-Cortez because she doesn't know what she's talking about.

She's an out, she'll say she's a socialist.

You know, like those things are things Republicans desire in an opposition, right?

Where Kamala Harris is, she'll have the same policies as Ocasio-Cortez, but she's not going to describe them the same way, or, and she might also know how the government functions, which is another positive in her favor.

That's very true.

So, we get all the way down to number five before we get to Elizabeth Warren on this particular list, fifth, according to the Hill.

And then you mentioned Sherrod Brown, the senator from Ohio.

And as you said, he won his Senate re-election by, was it nine points over.

The replacement measure we were talking about, like, you know, wins above replacement in baseball.

So it's a measurement like that.

He had the best performance among all Democrats.

Yeah, and he won his Senate re-election race in a state Trump carried by eight points over Clinton.

So he won it easily.

Pretty big.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It was not a one that was a close call as we went towards the end of it.

Not at all.

So that was, it's pretty impressive.

And I don't know.

I mean, people in Ohio might know him better to say whether this guy could pull up a national spotlight.

It'll be interesting.

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Louis C.K.

is

under fire right now because he said some things in a comedic way that the left doesn't really like.

Oh, no.

Yeah.

Oh, no.

Yeah.

And if you're not going to be able to do that, comedy has to be completely

politically correct.

And safe for everyone.

Everyone has to leave feeling good.

Yes, thank you.

There was that.

Thank you.

You can't offend anybody.

A comedian who had a gig booked at a college towards the end of of the year last year, and he got his, you know, his thing he had assigned to perform and get his money.

And it was like, you have to make sure that you

can

make sure and confirm that everyone will have a good, happy, healthy experience and they won't be offended.

And it's like, I'm a comedian in the beginning, man.

Yeah, oh, yeah.

And it was in print.

Did he sign it or did he?

No, I think he said, no, he wasn't going to sign it.

I mean, it wasn't like a big known guy, but he can't.

The whole point of comedy is to push you into an uncomfortable place.

It's unbelievable.

A lot of times it helps you examine a viewpoint that you have that,

you know, it makes you uncomfortable, right?

Like you go to a place that you're not necessarily going to go in a normal circumstance.

And that's not the job of comedy number one is to make you laugh.

And that is gone from every late night show now.

You know, now it's just trying to get, you know,

Trump applause lines.

Clapter, as Glenn calls it.

It's no longer laughter.

It's clapter.

You're just going for that, oh,

yes, he said that thing I heard on a blog.

Like that's the whole level of comedy now.

And

I guess that's.

Especially for Saturday Night Live.

That's what it's become.

They don't even try.

They're not even trying for actual jokes anymore.

They're just making points.

We played the thing, I think you were on the show that day, Pat, where we did the thing they did with Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

And it was just like, it was just praising Ruth Bader Ginsburg in a song in a rap for like four minutes.

Ridiculous.

There weren't any jokes in it, other than it was just a rap about Ruth Bader Ginsburg, which generally speaking is a funny concept.

It was just saying how great she is for four minutes.

What is that?

So

it's ridiculous.

And now Louis C.K.

has always gone to the most uncomfortable place possible.

It is his style of comedy.

If you've never heard Louis C.K.

do comedy before, this is what he does.

And he goes to the darkest place in the recesses of your mind and exploits it and makes it into this big deal and takes it to ridiculous extremes.

But it is a thing, you know, like you're going to a place where

you wouldn't normally go.

I mean, he's been in trouble for this before.

And now the left is all fired up because, oh, this guy's basically an alt-writer.

He's basically alt-right.

He might as well be on Donald Trump's campaign team.

Listen to this guy.

And it's not okay now

because,

you know, they can now go after him.

He was this protected celebrity.

He was, you know, the hierarchy of all comedy.

He was the guy they praise as the most brilliant comedian there was.

And now he had his sexual harassment thing that went on, and he's trying to be a comeback.

And now it's easy to throw, you know,

they're trying to pressure him into being a crazy leftist.

If he was coming out and being a crazy leftist right now, they would not be criticizing him for making a comeback.

But because he's doing the same stuff he was doing before, and some of that stuff hits on the right, and some of it hits on the left,

he is now

he's getting hammered not only by just liberals, but like his old friends who are comedians.

They're all coming out and saying, like, you know, his old people who

used him for their fame are now

coming up and just hammering him in a moment where, let's be honest about it, he doesn't need more hammering.

I mean, he's been hammering.

He's had a tough tier.

And

he said he's made mistakes and he's admitted to that.

But so we have the audio from this.

Should we go through this a little bit?

Yeah.

So the two things you're going to hear, first of all, he's made fun of Parkland kids.

Now, he never says any, he never mentions Parkland kids, but you'll hear where he goes with that.

And also, he crosses lines.

for the left that you're not allowed to cross anymore.

You're not even allowed to even be mildly critical or ask questions or anything about these topics anymore.

And especially with these kids who are in the political arena now.

They're in the political arena.

And I guess they're still sacred cows.

You can't say anything about them.

It's amazing.

It really is something.

So here it is.

This is obviously, it's Louis C.K.

It's, you know, it's stand-up club comedy.

So it's a little rough as far as content goes.

Obviously, it's all bleefed out, but just in case you're with the area, little kids, you might not want to listen to this.

Here is Louis C.K.

making fun of Parkland kids.

But I'm a little disappointed in the younger generation, honestly, because I'm 51 years old, and when I was like 18 to my 20s, I mean, we were idiots.

We were getting high, doing fing mushrooms and s.

And then older people were like, you gotta get your s together.

And we were like, yeah, f you.

And I was kind of excited to be in my 50s and see people in their 20s and be like, they're crazy.

These kids are nuts, but they're not.

They're fing.

They're just boring.

Tell them you shouldn't say that.

What the f- What are you, old lady?

What the f are you doing?

That's not appropriate.

F you, you're a child.

Why aren't you

each other and doing jello shots?

Like, why aren't you?

You should address me.

They're like royalty.

They tell you what to call them.

You should address me

as they, them.

Because I identify

as gender neutral.

Okay.

Okay.

Can't say this stuff.

You should address me as there.

Because I identify as a location.

And the location is your mother's.

But it can be.

I don't know.

They testify in front of Congress, these kids.

Like, what the f?

What are you doing?

You're young.

You should be crazy.

You should be unhinged.

Not in a suit saying, I'm here to tell f you.

You're not interesting because you went to a high school where kids got shot.

Why does that mean I have to listen to you?

Why does that make you interesting?

You didn't get shot.

You pushed some fat kids away.

I think I got to listen to you talking.

Man.

First of all,

we can play all the political games.

That is brilliant stuff.

Yeah, it's very funny.

He's freaking funny.

He's very funny.

He's just as funny as he's always been.

And, you know, you're not allowed to.

Oh, but the left is now.

Oh, he was never funny and he's not funny now.

He's mocking parkland kids.

No, he's not.

He's saying, like, look, you know,

this is something everybody thinks, right?

Like, yes, we all understand they went through a tragic circumstance, but that does not make them experts on gun violence.

We all know that that's true.

Everybody in America knows that that's true.

And they proved it over.

Over and over again.

Right.

And so he's making a joke there and illustrating it to a ridiculous extreme.

Right.

But everybody knows there's a nugget of that that is true.

It's also true that when you jump into the political fray, you've opened yourself up to criticism.

And for some reason, that doesn't apply to them.

Well, I'm sorry, it does.

It does.

If they're going to start preaching gun control,

they've opened themselves up to things like this.

And I think, you know,

their their points have to be able to be debated.

You have to.

You can't have a person in society who has an unquestioned...

This is one of the issues when you talk about, when they try to go to this level of like,

well, all scientists are always right about everything, so therefore we listen to everything they say.

Now, look, scientists are right about a lot.

They're also wrong a lot.

And sometimes they're wrong.

Right?

And

there can't be someone with this deity-like

place in our society where everything they say is automatically true and respected, right?

Your points always have to have an ability to be criticized.

Now, if you're taking shots at, you know, at

kids who are in school shootings because they're bad, you're taking ad hominem sort of attacks.

That's a totally different

world.

And I don't think that's the right world, right?

No one thinks that that's the right thing to do, but you have to be able to criticize their points.

And I think there's also an idea to criticize their standing.

It's fair.

It is fair to say, look, they may have valid points, but them making them, it does not give it any more validity.

It does not make it more true that you can't, like,

having a Second Amendment, I believe, is a really good thing, and the left believes is a really bad thing.

Because someone went to a school where people were shot does not make either one of those sides more right or wrong.

It's just an emotional tie into that argument that's been raging since 1775.

You know, it's a long time people have been talking about this.

And you don't, just because you have an emotional tie, this is why this is what the left tries to do after every shooting, make it as emotional as possible so people forget the sober arguments for guns.

Hey, forget it for a couple of weeks while we pass this.

Then you can go back to thinking whatever you want.

And that was the problem that I think a lot of people had.

But again, Luis C.K.

is just talking about something that's very obvious.

And this has been, very specifically,

what he's tried to do with this comedy for a long time.

When we come back here in 60 seconds, we're going to talk,

we're going to let him explain to you exactly how he comes up with this comedy.

And this should not be controversial, and this is the way comedy should work.

It shouldn't be a controversial point.

And we'll give you that.

And what he used to say, which was completely okay with the left, when he was asking tough questions and it didn't go after their sacred cows, they were completely love this guy.

We're talking about Louis C.K.

He's under fire from the left for his

commentary.

Really, I think, you know, the Parkland thing, I think, is a ruse.

I mean, what they were upset about is him making fun of the gender stuff, I think, more than anything else.

Yes.

And so, but here is Louis C.K.

in a previous special talking about basically exactly how he comes up with the stuff he talks about, how he finds those dark areas.

Here's Louis C.K.

explaining himself.

This is clip one.

Everybody has a competition in their brain of good thoughts and bad thoughts.

Hopefully

the good thoughts win.

For me, I always have both.

I have like the thing I believe, the good thing.

That's the thing I believe.

And then there's this thing.

And I don't believe it, but it is there.

It's always this thing, and then this thing.

It's become a category in my brain that I call, of course,

but maybe.

That's it, right?

That's everybody has that, right?

Yeah.

You know, you believe something, and there's that little thing that, you know.

Maybe around the edges comes after you.

Listen to Louis C.K.

Now, remember, this is a time in in which the left loves him.

He's honored, respected.

When this special is going on, he's at the peak of his career.

Everything he says is gold.

Everyone loves the guy.

Here's him going after the military.

Now, before I play this clip, everybody in our audience obviously loves the military.

And I love the military.

But again, listen to his setup there.

There's something he believes he knows is true.

And there's something kind of there.

And remember, it's his job to exploit these

the darkest corners, right?

That people don't know.

Which is just kind of what he said.

Right.

This is comedy.

This is what you're supposed to do.

Here's clip two.

Of course, if you're fighting for your country and you get shot or hurt, it's a terrible tragedy.

Of course.

Of course.

But maybe.

Maybe if you pick up a gun and go to another country and you get shot, it's not that weird.

Maybe if if you get shot by the dude you were just shooting at, it's a tiny bit your fault.

Like,

you're not allowed to say that.

No.

Right?

But the left loved him.

Oh, they loved it.

When he was saying that.

Yep.

Oh, and he was going down those roads.

He was America's biggest hero.

He could say that all he wants.

And look, he should be allowed to go down even that road.

As offensive as it probably is to you to think about that and bring that up in public.

Because it's really uncomfortable and offensive to hear that about veterans.

Right.

However, right?

However,

that is his job.

Yeah.

And it is the, it's the way he looks at the world.

And as he said, he doesn't believe it.

And when he was saying that stuff, we weren't saying, hey, Louis C.K.

should be silenced.

He shouldn't be allowed to speak.

He shouldn't appear on specials.

We shouldn't have any access to Louis C.K.'s disgusting viewpoints.

Nobody was saying that on the right.

Nobody.

Nobody.

And there's so few comedians.

If I were a comedian right now in the middle of this environment, I I don't think I'd be able to deal with the left at all.

I might still believe in socialist policies and all the things that

every comedian seems to believe in, like every entertainer does.

But how could you take them seriously?

They are targeting you.

They're destroying your industry because

as Louis C.K.

pointed out.

It is this idea.

They're almost royalty.

They get to tell you what you say.

They get to tell you how you address them.

They get to tell you what opinions are acceptable for you to have as a comedian.

How the hell can you stand up for that?

And, you know, if you mention any of that, as Jerry Seinfeld has, then they come after you.

Yeah.

Oh, yeah.

And that's happening.

It's happening.

It's happening right now.

Where's the, we have the, I have a, sorry, there's a new list out.

The 13 jokes that are no longer acceptable from Seinfeld.

Oh, geez.

Oh, my gosh.

Oh, here it is.

From the show?

From the show.

Or from his stand-up comedy.

From the show.

Okay.

13 jokes.

Seinfeld are now super offensive.

Number one, the soup Nazi.

No No longer allowed to like the soup Nazi anymore.

Number two.

Why?

Do they explain why?

What might be the most well-known joke from Seinfeld is also one of the most disappointing ones.

Maybe in 1995, when the episode titled The Soup Nazi aired, it felt okay for viewers.

But in 2018, when groups of neo-Nazis have become noticeably emboldened, using the term Nazi to label someone as a joke doesn't sit so well anymore.

These are people telling us what comedy is supposed to be.

That's unreal.

Number two, the Indian Giver joke.

Joking about a Native American person being an Indian giver was never okay, and it's definitely not okay now.

Joking that a racial stereotype about an oppressed group is actually truthful and is at a dangerous road is, and Seinfeld probably couldn't get away with doing that in 2018.

Who are these people?

Who lives like this?

Also,

I might be wrong on this, but the term Indian Giver, is not more a slam on the U.S.

government who used to give them land all the time and then take it back.

That makes sense.

Isn't that more a slam on the U.S.

government than it is the actual Indians?

I never thought about it.

I just, I kind of think that maybe.

That makes sense, though.

It does, doesn't it?

You're an Indian giver, so you gave it to the Indians and then you took it away.

Right.

Just the whole definition of that phrase.

They should be on board with this one.

It's criticizing the U.S.

government.

Right.

I like that.

Kramer stomping out a burning Puerto Rican flag.

This episode actually caused a controversy when it aired.

And the New York Times reported that the president of the National Puerto Rico-Rican Coalition called it an unconscionable insult.

It's unacceptable that the Puerto Rican flag be used by Seinfeld as a stage prop under any circumstances.

Over 20 years later, the joke is still sour.

Wow.

The joke that someone thinks Jerry and George are in a same-sex relationship.

Can't guess, can't joke about that anymore.

When Kramer has house guests from Japan sleep in his dresser drawers.

I don't remember that episode.

I don't really either.

When Jerry accidentally gets a man deported.

Oh, that's wrong.

You can't talk about that.

Cedric and Bob appeared in three episodes, including a Puerto Rican Day episode.

Each episode they appear, the two characters who make up a gay couple play up stereotypes with homosexual male culture.

Oh, my gosh, you can't do that.

Again, I mean, you know, what was the show, Will and Grace?

I mean, Will and Grace was put on the air initially.

It's seen as this big, like, boundary-breaking show.

It's about gay issues, and it's one of the only stories that have been like that.

Will and Grace largely was an issue where they created a show in which they could make a ridiculous gay stereotype and make as many gay jokes as they wanted with protection.

I swear to you, the ridiculous stereotypes in that show are way worse than any other show I've ever seen.

Yes, they have one quote-unquote normal guy who's gay, but then they just throw in another guy who does every horrible stereotype that has ever been used against gay people.

And that was praised.

Well, Joe Biden said.

Will and Grace probably did more to educate the American public than than almost anything anybody's ever done.

I can't wait for him to run.

I can't wait for it.

It's ridiculous.

This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.

Sad news for people living in Humboldt County, California.

The organizers for the women's march that was going to happen there, they announced on Friday

it's been canceled due to whiteness.

Canceled due to whiteness.

A lot of white people had signed up to participate.

And,

well, you can't have that.

It's embarrassing.

They just couldn't find enough black anti-Semites to fill their curve.

Unfortunately.

No, they couldn't do it.

That's sad.

So there were, I guess, not enough blacks and Hispanics for their liking.

So they said they're still interested in holding an event in March on International Women's Day,

but they did have to cancel this one due to, and this is a quote,

overwhelmingly white participants.

I love that.

What?

It's interesting, too, because this is essentially an implicit criticism of black people and Hispanics, right?

It's not like they said, we don't allow blacks and Hispanics to come to this rally, right?

It's for whatever reason, blacks and Hispanics didn't want to come to the rally.

They didn't feel like it.

They didn't feel like it for whatever reason.

That would seem to be an indictment on minorities, right?

From their perspective, right?

Like, wait,

why aren't the black and Hispanic voters or

people and they don't even have to be voters, but just people?

Why aren't they showing up to our stupid little rally?

It's almost like they don't care about this issue.

In a way, it's critical of them.

It's funny.

White people showed.

White people showed.

I assume even men showed to the women's rally.

But

not enough black people.

The Census Bureau data from this county says 74%

are white,

12% Hispanic, 6% Native American, 2% Asian, and 1% black.

So if you didn't have at least those percentages going, I guess the rally's not worth doing.

They can get 1% black to show for the rally?

Apparently not.

Well, and the thing is, of course, there's no.

actual answer here.

If you had 13% Hispanic and 1% black for all that diversity, but 6% Native American, it will never be enough.

No, it's not.

I mean, 74% of this county is white.

That's about the percentage of the United States in general.

You know, the NFL is called racist, and 75% of the league is black.

And that's not, that's not, that's still racist.

Especially for like LeBron James, who doesn't, who's not even in the NFL.

And yet he's calling out the NFL for being,

the white owners have a slave mentality.

Oh, I'm so glad after all my LeBron dislike over all of these years that so many people are now seeing the

I just can't stand this guy.

Every time he opens his mouth, you see how ridiculous he is.

He really is ridiculous.

Seriously, these men that are making you know, anywhere from 2 million to 25 or 30 million a year, you have the audacity to call them, to call those owners who are paying them that money,

they have a slave mentality?

Unreal.

Maybe you need to look up what a slave is because by definition, they don't make any money for playing these games.

Uh, plus, they're not forced into playing these games, right?

There's a lot of problems, the only difference is all the things is everything, yeah, all but it's just that possibility.

Um, and

you know, there's never that's an amazing thing, though.

First of all, look,

what was what's the what is the problem with racism, right?

The problem with racism is you're taking a group of people and you're identifying them in a...

You're grouping them all together, right?

And you are

disliking them for whatever reason.

So you're assigning a tendency to all of them just based on their skin color.

Exactly.

Tell me how this women's march thing isn't racist.

They're first of all identifying people based on race and making decisions based on skin color, which is never a good idea.

Never make a decision based on skin color.

Easy rule to live by.

It's a freaking easy one to live by.

I think so.

Never ever do it, period.

That means not giving them all sorts of perks above and beyond other colors.

Like saying, oh, black people get more than Hispanics.

It's not doing that either.

And it's saying, hey, black people get less than Hispanics.

It's not doing that either.

It's neither, you never make a decision based on skin color or race.

Really easy.

But here they're saying, hey, not enough black people came.

So number one, they're making a decision based on race.

Number two, what they're implicitly saying because they believe their organization is good, is they're saying the people who aren't coming are bad.

How is it not implicitly racist?

This is the best of the Glenbeck program.

It was a great, great vacation.

It was a great Christmas and New Year's season, right up until

Friday morning, I thought, when I first got a text,

Jeffy just had a heart attack.

I'm like, wait, what?

I mean,

pretty nerve-shattering and

pretty scary.

And

so he wound up in the hospital and

in true Jeffy fashion, was

hassling the nurses every time they came in.

He was hassling the EMTs when they were working on him as he's having a fairly major heart attack.

But fortunately,

he pulled through pretty well.

And by Friday afternoon, he's sitting up in a chair next to his bed at the hospital.

Amazing.

Just incredible.

So I think that's a real tribute to, first of all, modern medical science

and the chances that you have, if you have a heart attack and you make it to the hospital, there's a pretty good chance they can save you.

Which is incredible.

That was not always the case.

We've talked about this before with the issue of the rates of people dying by disease, cancers, heart disease, all these things have dropped dramatically in the last couple of decades.

We've made massive improvements just because

the technology has improved and we made major leaps.

We don't necessarily recognize it, but that really was a stark example with Jeffy.

Even though our

healthcare in this country is

so pathetic and rates behind Botswana.

Right.

It's like, I don't think that's true, guys.

I don't think it's true.

Yeah, I don't.

I don't know.

I mean, I'm not saying it's a perfect system.

There's lots of issues with it and cost can be a problem at times.

But I mean, in reality, like, thank God we live here.

Thank God we have the access to the system that we have.

And thank God they haven't screwed it up yet.

And they're trying.

They're doing everything they can to screw it up.

But thank God so far they've been unsuccessful.

And we got somebody on the phone now who can actually attest to all of this.

Hey, Jeffy.

I can attest to, yes, the health care, at least the help, you know, like the

ambulance workers and the fire rescue guys.

While I was, I may have made some comments to them that they didn't appreciate,

they were great.

And had it not been for you know, my wife calling and them getting here saying, Yes, you're having a heart attack, and yes, we're taking you to the hospital right now, um,

there'd be no more me.

There's no question about that, right?

Which is really

amazing to think of that we we could have lost you, but uh, you mentioned something interesting that your wife uh did go ahead and call 911, which you told her not to do.

Well,

I did, but really, that last time was more of a no, but yes, call and get them here now.

So she was supposed to read between the lines then.

Yeah,

she did.

Yes, she did.

It's a great time for subtlety, Jeffy.

Yes, it's a great time because, you know, really,

I know, you know, you talk about the health care, but, you know, preventative care probably would have been a smart thing there too.

What?

For a couple of days.

I know.

I know.

A couple of days prior to the heart attack that didn't go away, you know, I woke up with chest pain and I was like, oh, I'll be fine.

And it went away and it'll be okay.

And, you know, I probably, probably should have said something to someone.

Maybe.

Probably should have said.

Since you've been injecting lard directly into your veins for years,

apparently, what happens when you do that,

the left side of your heart just completely shuts down.

Yeah, that's not a good idea.

That was really scary.

I saw the picture of it completely blocked.

I mean, that's really scary looking.

It was 100%, right?

And one of the arteries, 100% blocked.

The left side, which apparently is nicknamed the Widowmaker for a good reason, was completely blocked.

And the doctors have told me that, you know, if I didn't come when I did, that would have been it.

I wouldn't have made it.

Wow.

Most of the time, most of the time, people don't make it in time.

That's really chilling.

That sure is.

It sure is.

It kind of makes your ears perk up and think, okay, maybe I should listen to what they tell me now.

And hopefully you're doing that.

It's probably not a good idea to inject the LARD directly.

No.

It's just a thought.

Or the tars and nicotines directly into your lungs because that can constrict the arteries and cause a problem.

They are not a fan of that.

The doctors in the hospitals are not a fan of the nicotine input at all.

That was their big case.

But, you know,

the outpouring from our listeners and, of course, coworkers was overwhelming.

I mean, I really thank you all.

It was really overwhelming.

And it meant so much.

And hey, it worked.

Your prayers and well-wishes and thoughts worked.

Yeah, by the way,

survived.

I know.

It's an interesting dynamic you have going on, Jeffy, because

the outpouring was unbelievable.

I cannot remember ever seeing anything like it.

I mean,

you know, for whatever reason, this audience loves Jeffy.

And I've never been able to put a finger on as to why, but they love it.

But it was funny to see people who were like, oh my gosh, like, this is the, you know, I can't believe this.

We're praying for you, Jeffy.

And then you look at the Twitter handle.

It's like, Jeffy is fat.

You're just like, I don't know.

Can you make that?

Your Twitter name is Jeffy is fat.

You're not allowed to.

That's fantastic.

But I mean, it really was.

I mean, honestly, like,

they, you know, people, people really, like, really care.

And that's, it's, it's cool.

Every once in a while you see that, you know.

Every once in a while you do, although you find out just really they don't really, because in the hospital, after in the hospital, you figure you have to stay there and they take care of you.

And about the third day, they're like, you're done.

Get out.

Right.

Well, it's true.

And I actually took that as a real sign of, I was amazed by just like the

quality of our health care system in a weird way, Jeffy, because I saw you yesterday, wasn't it?

And you were up and about.

And they said to you, look, you can go back to work whenever you feel okay.

Like, you're basically not overly restricted.

It's amazing.

No,

I mean, obviously I have to go see in the heart doc now and get his direct input, but because the guy that was on call for the surgery, who is just an uncalled heart surgeon,

amazing.

When I left the house here, apparently I got worse on my way to the hospital.

So I bypassed everything when I went to the hospital.

I went right into the surgery.

And

I just remember being, hey, we're going to go take you right into surgery.

And that was it.

And these guys are incredible.

I mean, really.

Pat talked about me sitting up.

And there's a, I have some more stories about one of the reasons I I was sitting up was because of the great bed that they have there.

But the other reason is that, you know, really, it was, I was, I was okay.

I mean, my chest really hurt, obviously, and, you know, my lungs because of the surgery.

But, I mean, it's, I was okay.

And now, you know, I'm just, I'm trying to get my energy back and

be okay.

But as far as

hurting and aching and not being able to get up in the day, that's all gone.

It's amazing.

Jeffy, I wanted to ask you, did you open up the Christmas present I bought for you?

I did.

I thought I had posted it, but it hadn't been posted yet.

So I did open up your Christmas.

But thank you very much.

And it meant a lot.

It meant a lot to me that you would give me recalled lettuce.

Wow, that is thoughtful.

A giant bag of romaine all wrapped up in pretty Christmas.

That is really a thoughtful gift.

I mean,

I guess in today's world, if you've got recalled lettuce in your freezer and you don't know what to do with it, give it to the fat neighbor.

I guess that's the plan.

I don't know.

I thought you'd appreciate it, Jeffy.

I thought it was a lot of fun.

I know it would appreciate it.

A lot.

Well, we,

you know, we miss you, and you, of course, can't wait for you to come back.

But don't, you know, typical Jeffy's like, I think I might come in on Wednesday.

And I'm like, no, we're not accepting you on Wednesday.

Stay by at least a few days.

The chewing the fat, the podcast with Jeff Fisher will come back.

It's waiting for you when you come back.

But please don't rush back.

I can't deal with another one of these things.

I can't deal with it.

Yeah, that was too scary.

Too much to do here, Jeffy.

Too much work to do.

Mostly, it really was scary.

And again, thank you to the outpouring from the listeners and the fans and the co-workers.

I mean, it truly was overwhelming.

It means a lot to myself and my family for sure.

Have you tweeted out the picture of the EMT trying to push you up the hill yet?

I'm glad you brought that up.

I have not.

I just thought that was going to stay in-house, but I guess not.

No.

Apparently they left the other EMTs as they were having me leave, take me out of the house, they left one guy by himself trying to hold me.

So trying to hold me up against the ambulance.

We live on a little bit bit of a hill.

And

he was apparently st they don't make EMTs as strong as they used to, I guess.

Apparently not.

Apparently not.

He was really struggling trying to hold me up against the truck.

Well, you know, think of, and you laugh about that, and obviously

we have.

But had he not been able to hold me,

that's a whole other story.

Yeah, because you would have been rolling down the hill.

You would still be going.

There's definitely a viral video of Jeffy

rolling out from the back of an ambulance with a gown flapping in the wind that would

have broken the internet.

It definitely would have broken the internet.

But yeah, I mean, it was, I'm sure that he all of a sudden realized, guys,

I'm going to have a hairbound guy here.

And, of course, my wife, loving me so much, decided, hey, I'll take a picture.

Yeah, I did wonder how we had a picture.

I mean, she pretty much saved your life, so it's hard to be critical.

But the fact that she was documenting your loading into the ambulance on social media was questionable.

Trust me,

there's some pictures that will not ever get posted.

Probably to all of our benefit, I think, on that one, Jeffy.

All right.

We're really grateful that you're still around.

I love you.

You know that.

We love you, man.

We love you, but we're not going to admit it here on the air.

Yeah.

Okay.

Okay.

All right.

Except for just that once for me, and then that's it.

That's it.

All right, Jeffy.

Continue to recover and don't push it.

All right.

See you soon.

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