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This is kind of exciting because

the 2020 presidential election has already kind of kicked off.

Yeah, we just skipped 2019.

We had New Year's Eve and then it was 2020.

Pretty much.

That's pretty much how it went.

As far as the presidential campaign, that's for sure.

With the Democrats,

I mean,

some people have said 30 people are going to be announcing for president.

And it's already begun.

Well, not officially, but Elizabeth Warren has already announced that she's starting an exploratory committee, which means she's running for president.

Yeah, that's a fair because it's just something they never explore it and are like, you know what?

No, I don't think the people want me.

Nobody wants me, so I'm not going to do it.

I've never heard.

I don't think I've ever heard that.

I have to say, I explored it and the people are not fans.

That's what I've determined.

I just found out it'd be a waste of time for me to run for president and money, of course.

So

I realized I don't really like the country all that much as I was exploring this.

So

we're all set.

So I don't have to explore any further.

So

she already announced she's doing the exploratory committee and she put it together.

And do we have the actual announcement?

Hmm.

I think we have something in here.

Some of the audio.

Let's see.

We've got Elizabeth Warren.

Yeah, well, I don't know if we have the announcement, but here's where she, I think this was shortly after she announced she wanted to show how relatable she is as a human being.

She just does the same stuff we do at home.

You know, in the kitchen, she's hanging out, drinking a beer, hanging out with her husband.

I mean, this is so natural, it just makes you want to vote for her.

Um, here is Elizabeth Warren relating to all of us.

If you hear gnawing in the background, uh, the reason for that is that Bailey is in the kitchen.

Say hello, Bailey.

Say hello.

Yeah, yeah,

hold on a sec.

I'm gonna get me

a beer.

Hey,

Clover, my husband Bruce is now in here.

You want a beer?

I'll pass on the beer for now.

Sure.

Okay, well,

relatable.

So, this is my sweetie.

Hello.

Mr.

Sweetie.

And I'm crazy about that.

That's great.

Thank you for being here.

I can relate to you.

You drink beer and I drink beer.

Who have we got here so far?

Skylar

and 14 others.

Whoa.

Hello.

That's 15 old people.

Wow.

Fortnite.

All right.

All right.

Good to see you.

Who else have we got?

Kenny?

So bad.

Kenny's there.

Kenny is there.

Kenny Shung.

He's on the street.

Good to see you.

Is that Greenie Goddess?

Wow.

Greeny Goddess came.

If Greenie Goddess didn't come, this was not a campaign.

Right?

Now we know.

So now she's explored, and I think she's done because she's found out that Kevin is there.

And Greenie Goddess is there, and they love her.

There we go.

And so she should run.

Oh, man.

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We're going to take a quick 60-second break and come back on the other side with more on who's running in 2020.

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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 first?

No, I will not.

I was hoping to go 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 list, they have

Betto O'Rourke.

Their number one person, Beto O'Rourke.

How fast this stuff changes.

Some believe it.

This guy lost his race.

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 O'Rourke.

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.

That 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 test.

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.

That's like, that's just ridiculous.

Stupid.

First thing.

Hillary Clinton was seemingly a woman.

Right.

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 come on.

Yeah.

Unfortunately, it was.

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'd 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 that.

And when she found out she was 1-1,024, she should have just squelched it and not brought it up.

It should have just been kept private.

Yeah.

Okay.

It turned out I'm not that.

I'm not Afro.

I'm not Native American.

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.

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 they would have taken it.

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

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 just to win that election.

And he squeaked it out in Texas.

Yeah.

I mean, he won by, what, two and a half, 2.9, 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?

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

They went through this and they said, uh, who outperformed the environment and their state more than any other Democrat?

And they went through the list.

Uh, here's a few: uh, Gillibrand was plus 3.8 percent, O'Rourke was plus 7.2%.

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

She should lost by like 9 or 10.

She lost by like 9 or 10, right?

Yeah.

That's a 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 if she wins.

No way she wins.

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

She seems to have, she has a sort of

moderatish

vibe from what people tell me that are Democrats.

They like, they like, she's not like it, she doesn't come off as a crazy liberal, but she's from a state in the

Midwest, and maybe there's something there.

I don't know.

I don't know.

That one she outperformed.

Yeah.

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.

He's on this list, too.

Yeah, you see.

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 just a way it's Joe Biden, but he's newer, right?

Like, he doesn't.

And younger.

He has that same sort of vibe as far as 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 state?

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 wants you as a researcher, if healthcare improves, we'll start.

We'll inch it up.

Exactly.

I think we're going to be doing that.

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

No.

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So, where are we in the list?

We have 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 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've 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

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.

Are 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 the Bedou O'Rourke has not, not even close.

This penetrates talk 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 Sherrod 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, Roberto O'Rourke will say, he'll just go for it, right?

Elizabeth Warren 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, 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,

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 or, you know, again, like people keep.

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.

He looked like a buffoon.

Right.

He was a little bit more.

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'll say she's a socialist.

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.

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 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?

They hadn't, 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 off a national spotlight.

It'll be interesting.

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We were going over the top candidates according to the Hill for the Democrat Party.

And I think we got down to number five or six with, yeah, number six, Sherrod Brown.

Want to run through the top five here, real quick?

Yeah.

In case people missed.

Top five include Betto O'Rourke at number one, Bernie Sanders, followed by Joe Biden.

Then you got Kamala Harris and Elizabeth Warren in the top five.

Then you got Sherrod Brown at number six, Corey Booker at number seven, who I don't think he has any chance at all.

No, he's like Warren in his level of competence.

Very much so.

He's not a good candidate.

Amy Klobuchar that nobody knows, Democrat from Minnesota.

I've heard good things about her, though.

So I think she's one of those people who

maybe doesn't have the name recognition, but has it.

I think they'll start talking about her in VP circles when we get closer, especially if it's someone like Betto.

If they go with a white dude, they will not pick another white dude.

I can promise you that.

Whoever is VP will be some, it will check some box from some identity group.

If they pick a white dude for the top of the ticket, they will definitely check a box in the other side of the way.

Oh, definitely.

Then you get to former mayor Michael Bloomberg, who, again, has no chance.

Bloomberg has no chance, but it's hard to count out a guy completely when he has billions and billions of dollars to stay.

And he said he would spend up to $100 million of his own money.

Which is nothing.

I mean, if he's spending $100 million, he has no chance.

He's got to spend.

If he actually wanted this to happen, he should mentally commit to $2 billion

of his own money and never raise a dime.

Make it a big issue, just like Trump did.

I'm not reviewing any fundraisers.

I'm not doing any of that stuff.

Here's what I believe.

And even if you're going to eat his bank account dry, go ahead.

What would he be stuck with?

$20 billion?

I mean, like,

if you actually want to win the presidency of the United States, you should take all of that off the table for all of your constituents, too.

You know, why are you demanding money from your voters if you have all that?

No, it's pathetic.

You shouldn't be.

And Kirsten Gillibrand, the Democrat senator from New York, rounded out the top 10.

I don't see the argument for her.

I don't get it at all.

She has no shot.

If you're going to go with Kirsten Gillibrand, you should go with Klobuchar or Harris.

I mean, they're better examples of what she does.

The only thing she's really known for is kind of being the head of the Me Too thing in the Senate.

She's kind of on that bandwagon.

but i again i don't know how that exactly wins you an election yeah i don't know that that'll translate to votes um but then you you talk about people who have no shot the other potential candidates outside the top 10 according to the hill

uh former new orleans mayor mitch landrew why

would you waste your time seriously why uh former virginia governor terry mccauliff who probably has a better shot than some of these people but he at least has the clinton network built in right and there's something to be said for that i just don't think democratic voters want anything to do with Hillary Clinton at this point.

Billionaire Tom Steyer, who is just a psycho.

He's just a psychotic idiot.

He has spent a lot of money on places like NSWC to get his face in front of them.

He has some name recognition.

He also, same thing with Bloomberg, has billions of dollars.

He's a very, very wealthy man.

And also, he's one of these guys that's made climate issue number one and only number one,

which is an interesting approach.

And I don't know how that works.

Because nobody cares about it.

I mean, let's face it, when you look at poll after poll after poll, it's dead last if it's on the list at all.

Of priorities.

Yeah, it is.

Almost always dead last if it's on an all.

It's like 2% of the people consider it a big problem.

Now, if you did that same poll among activist Democratic voters, it'd be 1,000%.

It's going to be a lot higher, right?

Yes.

And so that's the play here.

A guy who I don't think is on this list at all, which says something about his candidacy, he announced, actually, Jay Inslee.

Who?

I'm sorry?

Jay Inslee?

Jay Inslee, who is the,

of course, the

current

governor of

Washington.

Washington State.

Yeah, there's no governor of Washington, D.C., so yes, it is

Washington State.

Yeah, I just wanted to make sure that people knew that.

Okay.

Oh, because you seem so sure about it.

Starting with your who's that and just leading into the way you just

made off that, you know, that people knew that I knew who it was.

And so I was just kind of rhetorically asking who's that

for people listening.

His resume rolled off your tongue like it was like a poem you had memorized in childhood.

Yes.

You know?

Yeah, very much so.

Yeah, so he's going to make, he's another guy.

He's even admitting I basically have no other issues other than climate change.

Now,

there's a certain

species of candidate that Jay Inslee is attempting to be, and the person who I would put it most

recent history is Lindsey Graham's candidacy in 2016.

There was never a moment in which Lindsey Graham thought he was going to be president in 2016.

No, no.

But he wanted to talk about his military issues on debate stages.

And there wasn't really another candidate that took his sort of McCain-esque position on those issues.

Right.

So he was like, I'm just going to go up there and I'll make jokes and I'll get beat up by Trump every day, but I'm going to get my points out there.

And I think that's kind of what Inslee is going to do here, right?

Like, he's going to come out and be the guy who, you know, like

Elizabeth Warren will come out and say, I want to spend $9 trillion on climate change.

And he'll be like, that's embarrassing.

It's $50 trillion.

Like, that's the person he's going to be.

And that's it.

That's a fun thing.

That's going to make it good for us.

Because then Elizabeth Warren will say, okay, $30 trillion.

You know, like it's going to, it helped in Bernie Sanders did this to Hillary.

You know, Sanders is like, ah, you know, $15 minimum wage, $17 minimum wage, $20 minimum wage.

And she's like, I don't know, $13.50.

And I'm like, what a conservative.

You're basically the Koch brothers over there.

And that's good for us, I think.

It is.

Yeah, because it'll make people who should be more moderate go further left.

Yes.

So as far as the Hills list of other candidates, also rans, Joe Kennedy III.

No shot.

Former mayor Julian Castro.

He's basically said he's running.

But again, I don't think there's a...

He was at one time supposed to be the new Obama.

Right.

But he hasn't acted.

I mean, he wound up going to

HUD, right?

That's where he was in housing and urban development.

Yes, he was for a while.

Is that a job you elevate to the presidency now?

Not usually.

I think this is a game.

Only that it's never happened in the history of the nation.

No.

But that doesn't mean it couldn't.

It couldn't.

Right.

And again, the betto thing is pretty rare.

It's only happened a couple of times when you go from

congressman to president.

It's not common.

Especially lately.

Yeah.

It's been a long time since it happened.

A long time.

Castro is seemingly - I mean, it certainly comes off as if he's playing for a VP possibility.

And that is something, like, especially, like, let's say

Elizabeth Warren Wright were to win or a Klobuchar were to win.

Again, they will check a box with the other candidate.

They are very much in that world.

Let's see.

I need a Hispanic.

Right.

Julian Castro.

Exactly.

Yeah, that's how it could work for him.

Also, somebody called Pete Buttigig.

Ah, Pete.

Yeah.

The

mayor of South

South

Indiana, right?

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

You knew that.

You knew that.

That's what I was was saying.

That's where Notre Dame is located.

That's how you know Pete Buttigig, because he is the mayor of the town in which Notre Dame resides.

Right.

He's actually his, again, in the Democratic primary, checking the boxes for whatever identity group you're in is always important.

So here, Pete is being talked about because, you know, he's a veteran.

from, I believe it was Afghanistan,

but also openly gay.

So you have to have at least one camp.

You have to have everybody, every group has to be represented in some way.

And a veteran, openly gay veteran is awesome for them.

That's great.

Kind of checks two boxes.

That does.

So that's why, and he's 30, let's see, 36 years old.

Oh, wow.

And so, you know, in the millennial sort of upper ends of the millennial world.

And, you know, so there's a possibility here he gets some buzz.

Again, you can't imagine you go from mayor of South Bend, Indiana.

No offense to South Bend Indiana to President of the United States.

It's hard to believe.

I mean, Rudy Giuliani tried to do it from mayor of New York City and it didn't work.

It blew up in his face.

It's hard to go from mayor to president.

Although, L.A.

Mayor Eric Garcetti is also being talked about.

Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper.

Nobody with the name of Hickenlooper Hooper will ever be.

I can't even say it.

It won't be president.

He just won't be president.

Just based on his name.

No one can say his name.

Like, he could be the ultimate constitutionalist.

I don't think I could vote for it.

No, you can't vote for it.

Imagine if you had to write it in.

You'd just be writing O's and P's and not know where to stop.

Uh, Representative Eric Swalwell from California.

Now, he is actually already running, but is making no impact.

Is he announced?

He is basically announced.

Wow,

Exploratory Committee, or I think Exploratory.

Yeah.

Yeah, he.

This is really early for a guy like him.

Of course, it has to be because his name recognition is just not there.

Nobody knows who he is.

He kind of did it last year, too.

He's not even like an this week type of thing.

He was like, ah, you know, mid-2017 is like, I'm going to Iowa.

Yeah.

Another congressman who

I don't really know,

John Delaney.

Yeah, he's.

Are you familiar with him?

Yeah, another,

I believe he's a wealthy businessman type.

Okay.

But

he has also basically admitted he's running.

When you're in that category, because there's a certain type of congressman, like Abedo O'Rourke, or,

you know, even like this mayor from South Bend, there's some sort of buzz among Democratic activists to say, he'd be great.

Like, what if he's good?

Let's let's talk to him.

Like people like Swalwell and Delaney are like, the only people saying that are them.

Like they're saying, I'd be great.

They should talk about me.

So they kind of get out in front of it and they go on MSNBC all the time.

They say whatever the craziest thing they can come up with is to try to get attention from activists and try to create the buzz.

It's like the idea of like a video that goes viral versus a company who says we should make a viral video.

Delaney and Swalwell are trying to make their own viral video when it comes to it.

And they're trying too hard.

Whereas a guy like Pete Buttigig doesn't have to try too hard because he's got the LGBTQQIA2 plus community behind him.

How many Q's was that, John?

You said appropriately.

I think I said two.

Yeah.

LGBTQQIA2.

Or quiltback two.

Quiltbag.

Electric Boogaloo.

Yes.

Which is the other way of talking about that.

All right.

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he showed me a picture have you seen this picture yet there's a picture yeah of the emt putting yeah the emt is they're trying to wheel him in on the stretcher and he lives on a little hill and they you know they're running around and so there's like three people pushing the thing towards the this the uh the ambulance and two of them had to go do something and then one guy realized he was the only one holding jeffy on this thing on a hill and we've got to tweet this out he is taking he looks like he's pushing back like you know like the wall of a hoe like it looks like he looks like it's star wars we're in the the trash compactor and they're trying to hold the wall back.

Poor guy.

Well, you've got one little guy trying to hold on to a

300-pound man

ish.

Ish.

300-ish.

I know.

And so, yeah,

it looks like it's about to run him over the gurney that Jeffy's on.

But fortunately, that didn't happen.

But it would have been just Jeffy's luck to be, to run over the guy and then head down the hill on a gurney by himself after just having a heart attack.

Yes, that would be typical, Jeffy.

Uh, so uh, maybe we can get Jeffy on the phone later and talk to him about it.

I'd love to see how he's doing.

It was, it was, I will say this, it was freaking scary.

And there's, there's something about like, hey, you're, you know, do you know your grandma?

I mean, my dad died of a heart attack.

And, you know, that was horrible enough.

You know, like hearing someone you work with or like their father just died of a heart attack, that's scary.

Like, Jeffy's just like us.

Like, he is, like, you know, beyond the fact of how much, you you know, it really puts things in perspective because he's just like, you know, he's our guy.

You know, he's, he's, we've been with us for a million years, and that was, uh, it was, that was a real tough thing to take, real tough thing.

It really was.

So he'd like to be doing much better.

Yeah.

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Of course, this is like one of those things where they, you know, now he's crossed some lines he's not allowed to cross.

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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 it, you know, comedy has to be completely politically correct and safe for everyone.

Everyone has to leave feeling good.

Yes, thank you.

There was that too.

You can't offend anybody.

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

And it was like, you have to make sure that you, you know, 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, baby.

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, he 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, 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, you know, level of comedy now.

And, you know, 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 Louis C.

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-wright.

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

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 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.

They're really 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 your little kids, you might not want to listen to this.

Here is Louis C.K.

making fun of Parkland kids.

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 f ⁇ ing mushrooms and s.

And then older people were like, you got to get your 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.

Telling them, you shouldn't say that.

What the f are you, old lady?

What the f are you doing?

It's not appropriate.

Why aren't you

each other and doing jello shots?

Like, why aren't you.

That crowd loves it.

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.

You should address me as their.

Because I identify as a location.

And the location is your mother's.

Okay.

It doesn't have to be that nasty.

But it can be.

I don't know.

They testify in front of Congress, these kids.

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 mean you're interesting?

You didn't get shot.

You pushed some fat kids away.

Man.

Oh, first of all,

we can play all the political games.

That is brilliant stuff.

Yeah.

It's very 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 parkling 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 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 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 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, you know, and I.

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 has 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, Louis 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.

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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 is a 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 um and so but here he here is louis ck 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 is uh here's louis ck explaining himself this is uh clip one

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

Hopefully they win.

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 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 you get shot by the dude you were just shooting at it's a tiny bit your fault right like

you're not allowed to say that no right

but the left loved him oh they loved 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 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 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're 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 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 in 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, it's 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 got to 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 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 almost anything anybody's ever done.

I can't wait for him to run.

I can't wait for it.

It's ridiculous.

It is.

We'll get back into this.

I'd love to hear your thoughts as well.

Are you okay with dealing with a little controversy in your comedy?

Is that okay?

Can we deal with that as adults?

I don't even know anymore.

It's Patton Stew on the Glenn Beck program.

Pat and Stu for Glenn on the Glenn Back Program, 888-727BECK, talking about

political correctness and how crazy it's gotten to the point where you can't do comedy anymore.

Unless you're SNL and the comedy you do is bashing Trump, then it's fine.

You can do that.

You can pretty much say whatever you want in that realm.

Yes.

And, you know, you can call for his death.

You can do a skit where he's assassinated.

You can do any of those things if it's against somebody on the right.

Otherwise, forget it.

I guess

the only things that are safe to make fun of now are

white men,

old white men,

and old white men who are Christian.

That's about it.

Really, it's strange.

It's strange.

I mean, listen to this.

They had, we went over Louisika.

He's under fire for being controversial.

Then we have Seinfeld.

They're going after Seinfeld now.

There's a list of things from the Seinfeld episodes, things like

The Chinese Woman, the episode, The Chinese Woman.

If I like their race, how can that be racist?

Jerry asks after telling Elaine that he loves Chinese women.

Hopefully, the issues in that exchange don't require further explanation for anyone in 2018.

No, actually, they do.

I don't really get it.

You're saying you like it, but I thought it was if you don't like a specific race because of that race, then that's a problem.

Like, remember when all it's like, crazy.

Remember what all we used to hear is like, you have to respect people's sexual preference.

So he has a sexual preference for Chinese women.

Okay.

He happens to like Chinese women.

Yeah.

That's not okay.

That preference isn't okay.

We can't even

talk about it.

These are things that are basic and should not be controversial.

At the same time that we're getting rid of Seinfeld, we're getting rid of Louis C.K.,

we have this.

Netflix has dropped an episode from a show called Patriot Act starring Hassan Minhaj.

I know you're a huge fan, Pat.

I just butchered that name,

but I know you've been to all those things that he does.

And he did an episode of the Philippines.

I've got a Hassan Minaj library library at home with all of his works.

Really?

Yeah.

That's the room in the entire section in

behind that library there?

Yeah.

Okay, yeah.

That's very nice.

Very nice, man.

That's probably the nicest room in your house.

I'm a big fan.

I was wondering what was in there.

Thousands and thousands of volumes of what he does, which are great.

I can't get enough of Hassan.

I really can't.

You can't.

So you knew this, but let me inform the audience.

He did an episode that he was critical of the Saudi Arabian regime over the Jamal Khashoggi incident.

And Netflix was.

Wait, I thought that was supposed to be.

I thought you were supposed to be critical of the Saudis because of the Khashoggi thing.

Right.

I mean,

if you're on the left, that's, of course, what you're saying.

And I think there's a very good argument to be critical of the Saudis.

It kind of is.

I mean, we all are critical, but I know what you're saying.

Like, he's been lionized into this

freedom fighter of all time.

Exactly.

And then he had all sorts of issues.

And by the way.

Trump wasn't critical enough.

Trump wasn't critical enough.

By the way, I will give the Washington Post some credit afterwards, after he was writing columns for them and after he died.

They kind of went into his history about who he was getting like approval for

with some of his columns.

And it was like straight out of the government of Qatar.

And like he had all these very strange connections in the Middle East.

And they actually exposed some of that themselves, which

you give him some credit for.

Because honestly, like, you weren't allowed to say anything critical about the guy.

And I don't, you know, who knows, I don't want to be critical over the guy after he's died, but it is important to put who he is in perspective and understand where he's coming from.

Anyway, they were critical of Saudi Arabia on the show.

The Saudi government went to Netflix and said, take that episode down, and they did.

So the Saudi government

is now enforcing dictating to American companies what they can do and not do.

I would be screw you.

If you want to have Netflix available in your country, fine.

Bye-bye.

You're taking episodes off of my service?

Are you nuts?

That's...

That's amazing.

That is incredible.

And that's where we are.

That is where we are with this.

And I think you should have an incredibly wide latitude of what you accept, particularly when it comes to comedy.

I mean, all forms of art, right?

Like, I think that's all, you know, it's all fair game.

But I mean, comedy is the most important to me.

And that's why satire is specifically excluded in things like libel.

Copyright.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I mean, like, you can, you know,

the weird owl thing has been around for a million years, right?

And people are like, well, how can he?

He always asks permission.

Yeah.

And so he'll go to an artist and say, hey, I want to do do a parody of your song, and here's what it is.

Can I use it?

And 99% of the time, they say yes.

Every once in a while, they say no.

And

I think he respects it.

He respects it.

He may.

I don't think he has to.

He doesn't.

But he does.

And that's the thing.

He doesn't.

When it comes to satire and parody, he doesn't have to respect it.

Now, he's going to deal with legal issues if they sue, but he'll win.

But, you know, still, no one wants to get sued.

So that's part of it.

And I think he also has respect for the artists.

If they don't want to be part of his little games, then they don't have to be.

But I mean, still, like, that's very well protected.

And it's smart.

it should be.

That has to be protected.

And we should all,

and this happens occasionally with conservatives where someone will say something crazy on the left, and we all get all fired up, and it's our outrage of the day.

It shouldn't be.

We should every single time let it roll.

Who cares?

If liberal comedians want to make dumb jokes about conservatives, no matter how mean and awful they are, we should all be adult enough to deal with it and move on.

There used to be an expression that was widely accepted, and now it's completely irrelevant.

And it went like

sticks and stones can break my bones, but names will never hurt me.

We are completely the opposite of that.

Yeah.

Completely the opposite.

And that is what Louis C.K.

brought up.

Yeah.

You know, the idea that people get to dictate to you what you call them.

And if you don't call them the right thing, you lose your job.

You, you can, I mean, people have lost their job because they refuse to change the pronoun based on what the person wants.

Now, you and I.

Right before vacation, we had the story of a teacher who lost her job because she refused to call a trans student that she knew is a, I don't know, it went one way or the other.

I don't remember which, but she knew is the other gender the last year and now wanted to be called by another gender.

And so she went with the new name.

She would call this person the new name, but wouldn't call her her.

And that means she loses her job.

And she lost her job because of it.

I don't want to say she.

It could be he.

It could be whoever it was.

Lost their job.

Yes.

That is an insane thing.

That's crazy.

Right?

Like, that is not

in a country.

In a country that supposedly prioritizes free speech kind of above a lot of the other amendments.

I don't know if anyone's noticed that it's number one.

In a country that does that, the idea that someone can dictate to you what you say is an incredible

encroachment on our rights.

I mean, think about, and right now it's not like a legal standard per se, although I mean, when you're talking about a public school, it kind of is.

But I mean, like, we went through this just recently in the Supreme Court, where California passed a law requiring religious institutions to post

information telling people when they came in that they could get abortions somewhere else.

Like, that

is insane.

Now, luckily, the Supreme Court

knocked that down, but we're one vote away from that not being knocked down.

Um, and it's uh, and I don't actually, I don't remember the exact count in that particular case, but we know how on the verge we are on all of this stuff.

It's really crazy, and Louis C.K.

has been doing this stuff for a while, and the left used to love it, even when he went into areas that were uncomfortable, like for abortion, for example.

Now, Louis C.K.

did a rant on abortion that when he did it, I couldn't believe

I couldn't believe it happened because this, you're not supposed to say these things, right?

But he was still okay.

He was still okay when he crossed even this line.

People hate abortion protesters.

Oops.

We lose the audio.

Yeah.

It just

stopped.

It just stopped.

And decided to reboot.

The machine just rebooted.

All right, let's go a different one then.

Let's come back to the abortion one.

Let's do slavery.

Now, here's another one of these examples where he goes in the most uncomfortable area possible and tries to

find the thing in the dark corner that you're not supposed to talk about and exploit it for comedy.

Remember, this is his job.

Yes, he's talking about these issues, but he's trying to make people laugh, putting people in an impossibly uncomfortable position.

Let him talk to you about slavery for a moment.

Of course, of course, slavery is the worst thing.

That ever happened.

Of course it is.

Every time it's happened, black people in America, Jews in Egypt, every time a whole race of people has been enslaved, it's a terrible, horrible thing.

Of course.

But maybe,

maybe every incredible human achievement in history was done with slaves.

Every single thing where you go, how did they build those pyramids?

They just threw human death and suffering at them until they were finished.

How did we traverse the nation with a railroad so quickly?

We just threw Chinese people in caves and blew them up and didn't give a f ⁇ what happened to them.

There's no end to what you can do when you don't give a f ⁇ about particular people.

You can do anything.

So is he saying slavery is good?

Is that what he's saying?

He sounds like an alt-writer.

This is long before this current controversy, by the way.

Wow.

And you notice, too, by the way, again, there's always been a part of, I think, Louis C.K.

that is not the crazy liberal activist.

That is, I think, really part of him.

You hear it in there a little bit when he mentions slavery, but also brings up Jews and brings up Chinese people and brings up all the other people who have been enslaved.

It's not just a story about whether you should give more money to Al Sharpton.

That's not the story of slavery.

The story of slavery is a human condition that

is a horrific thing that has infested way too many societies.

It's not just a, how do I exploit votes out of black voters today in America?

That's not the whole story.

And he points that out.

Do you have the abortion one or should we?

You know, I pushed the button again and it reset again.

So we'll probably...

probably

just don't want us to play.

They're silencing him.

They're silencing Louis C.K.

even here.

It's amazing.

All right.

Let's take a break.

888727 back is the phone number.

It's Patton Stew in for Glenn on the Glenn Beck program.

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Glenn's back on Monday, triple 8727, B-E-C-K.

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 the room.

Unfortunately.

No, they couldn't do it.

That's sad.

So there were, I guess, not enough blacks and Hispanics for their their liking so they said they're still interested in holding an event in march on international women's day

um 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?

Yes.

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, right?

White people showed.

Yeah.

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 white.

Oh, I'm right there with you.

I'm right.

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 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.

Plus, they're not forced into playing these games.

There's a lot of problems.

The only difference is all the things is everything.

But that's just a possibility.

And

that's an amazing thing, though.

First of all, look,

what is the problem with racism?

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.

You're saying that they're not.

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

Exactly.

Tell me how this women's merch 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?

The fusion of entertainment and enlightenment.

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Today, with Pat and Stu, Glenn returns on Monday, 888-727-B-E-C-K.

We've got some important information on the climate to share with you coming up here.

It's critical.

Well, it's critical that you know this.

It is.

Bernie Sanders, as he has a way of doing, is putting things in perspective.

We need to know this as Americans.

And we also have a new discovery from scientists, which is

pretty interesting.

I didn't know this, and you may not have either, but you will

very, very soon.

Did you hear, by the way, too, Chuck Todd did a show about the climate, and they no longer even allowing the other side.

They're now like, nope, no, we're not, we're acknowledging up front.

We're not even going to tell you what the other side is.

And did he acknowledge that up front?

Yeah, he said it up front.

Really?

No, we no longer give voice to these deniers.

That's basically the way they put it.

It's an amazing world we live in.

Wow.

Again, this is NBC.

Right?

So that's all coming up here in just a second.

We're going to pause for 60 seconds and get right into it.

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You know, if climate change isn't your number one issue, protecting the planet from mankind,

then

you should almost be locked away.

Maybe even not almost.

You should be locked away.

And of course, you saying that, Pat, makes you a denier because you're not going far enough.

Okay.

I want you to know that.

Because I hedged on whether or not you should be locked away.

Well, there was a time in which locking away people was

enough.

It was appropriate, but not now.

We need to go much further now.

And Bernie Sanders is outlying kind of a great way to approach the climate, I think.

This is, I mean,

there's so many ways to go on it.

Let me just give you

the tweet.

Bernie Sanders says, quote, we must look at climate change as if it were a devastating military attack against the United States and the entire planet.

And we must respond accordingly.

Now, let's start taking it at the base level here first.

If a military force committed a devastating attack against the United States, the first thing we would do was try to kill the people responsible for it.

Yes.

Right?

Okay.

In the United States' entire history.

Now, this is not a questionable attack to Bernie, right?

This is not like, okay, well, I don't know how to handle this.

This is like Hitler comes in with bombers and like starts bombing cities.

A devastating military attack from a foreign force.

What we would try to do is kill everybody in the Nazi army, right?

Yes.

So I assume, I think I can assume with decent confidence that Bernie Sanders is advocating we kill the people he believes are responsible for climate change.

I mean,

it's gotten to the point where that's, I don't don't know that that's even out of the realm of possibility.

What do you say?

It's that bad.

We've seen occasional quotes from people in the climate side that say, like, these people are a virus.

You know, Prince What's His Face

in Great Britain said this famously.

He said, basically, humanity is a virus.

Yeah.

And we need to treat it like it's a virus.

I mean, this is a devastating military attack, though.

That's how we respond.

Now, oddly, it's not necessarily how Bernie Sanders responds.

So I don't know if we should write a harshly worded letter to climate change to try to stop it.

I don't know if that's how we

did it.

Reverse its course.

Maybe blame our government for being too mean to the climate so that then we can say that the climate change is our fault.

I don't know exactly what you're supposed to do here.

But typically, the United States would do that.

We would step up and

we would launch a giant military effort to destroy whoever was responsible.

And I don't think it's that, I mean, I don't, I guess if you ask Bernie, he's not going to say, I'm going to go, I want to go kill every oil executive.

I'm guessing.

I think it's a question that certainly would be asked if the equivalent thing were said by a Republican.

Let's just say, what's a big issue that Republicans get, like religious freedom.

You're like, religious freedom, we should treat that as it was, you know, the attacks on religious freedom should be treated as if it were a devastating military attack against the United States and the entire planet.

What do you think the outcry would be from the left?

Of course.

You're saying we have to kill all atheists?

And every single Republican, not just the Republican who said it, but every single Republican would be required to answer whether they agree with it and how they disagree with it.

Absolutely.

No one will ask Bernie Sanders about this in this way.

They might say, well, what did you mean by that?

And give him an opportunity to say, well, I'm just trying to say it's a serious effort we all need to unite on, right?

Like they'll come up with some justification.

But that is pretty cleanly worded.

We must look at climate change as if it were a devastating military attack against the United States and the entire planet, and we must respond accordingly.

How do you respond to to that?

When you have a devastating attack against your country, you go to war.

You bomb somebody.

You bomb somebody.

You start killing people.

That is what the, that's what countries do.

So I guess we look for B-52s over ExxonMobil today.

I think so.

All right-wing think techs, you know, batting down the hatches.

So that is, it's fascinating.

I think it is interesting to look at it from the what if a Republican

said this standpoint as well.

It really would be, it would dominate the news coverage for a very long time.

What's the most now?

Of course, none of the issues that we think are serious, they think are serious, right?

If we say taxes are too high, and we should say, like, there's nothing that, you know, there's nothing like that.

And it's so funny to see how the left has somewhat successfully painted people on the right as being,

you know, they used to call Glenn that he was doom and gloom and he'd be in the doom room and he's just locking himself up and he's always catastrophic.

There is nothing in the, I put it as plainly as possible, nothing in the history of the planet that is more catastrophic in its predictions than climate change right now.

They will say literally everybody on Earth is going to die.

How can you get more catastrophic than that?

They're saying everybody's life is at risk on the entire planet.

And they're saying it's happening now.

They're saying every single thing that is negative in the climate is blamed on global warming.

Everything that is negative as far as a fire or, I mean, I bet earthquakes are coming.

They're going to start blaming earthquakes on climate change.

They will blame anything on climate change.

We used to do a thing on the Wonderful World of Stew, which, by the way, all episodes are available in your subscription to Blaze TV.

You should sign up to that and get this show, get to Pat Gray Unleash, News and Why It Matters, all the stuff.

Plus, all the CR TV shows.

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So you get like 30 shows, and you should sign up at blazetv.com/slash beck.

But

we used to do a thing called Here's Another 10 Things Blamed on Global Warming.

And that would be everything from prostitution to, you know,

antlers falling off of

deer

to

too much sex among rabbits.

Like

every single thing that happens in our society has a tie to this.

And you wonder why people can't take it seriously.

It's hard for people to take seriously because, A, it's very difficult for anyone to conceptualize how a 0.9 degrees Celsius temperature rise over a century is going to to be as catastrophic as I don't know ISIS

or the fact that my, you know, my brother doesn't have a job and he's struggling, or the fact that I can't pay my bills, or whatever the issue is that actually hits home to people, or the fact that, you know, millions of Muslims are currently being put in concentration camps in China, or that millions of people...

I mean, we've lowered the poverty rate and the amount of kids dying by about half since 1990, which is a massive accomplishment.

But it still means way too many kids are just dying of starvation and disease that are preventable.

These are things happening right now.

And the idea that, you know, the idea that

in theory, climate change will make these things 20% worse in 50 years

does not compare with the person who's currently starving, right?

You can do much more, much more quickly to people who actually are alive right now.

And you can also create innovations that help those people in the future.

All the predictions from the 19, I mean, we've talked about this before, but the big environmental issue 100 years ago was how do we get all of this cow manure from the horses or the horse manure, weird to have the cow manure from the horses.

I don't know if they're just importing it or what, but horse manure, how do we get it off the island of Manhattan?

It's piling up.

And as more people move to Manhattan and these streets get busier, we're going to have so many horses, there's going to be horse crap all over the streets.

And we're on an island.

How are we going to get it all off?

That was the environmental concern 100 years ago.

And we're told to believe that in 100 years from now, they're going to understand exactly what's going on.

It's insane.

It's insane.

It's so bad that on

Meet the Press,

Chuck Todd tackled

the whole show.

And he said, this is an unusual thing, but it's so serious.

We're going to take the whole show and talk about climate change.

Yes.

And made the point that

the science is settled.

There is no debate.

Here's how he started out the discussion.

Do we have that?

Do we have his comments?

Okay, let's hear this from Chuck Todd.

We're going to do something that we don't often get to do.

Dive in on one topic.

It's obviously extraordinarily difficult to do this, as the end of this year has proven in the era of Trump.

But we're going to take an in-depth look,

regardless of that, at a literally earth-changing subject that doesn't get talked about this thoroughly on television news, at least, climate change.

But just as important as what we are going to do this hour is what we're not going to do.

We're not going to debate climate change, the existence of it.

The earth is getting hotter and human activity is a major cause, period.

We're not going to give time to climate deniers.

The science is settled, even if political opinion is not.

And we're not going to confuse weather with climate.

A heat wave is no more evidence that climate change exists than a blizzard means that it doesn't unless the blizzard hits Miami.

I will give him the fact that he actually pointed out the heat wave is not evidence of it.

Yes, because they don't do that anymore.

They don't do that.

I mean, Al Gore

always confuses weather with climate.

And he used to tell us all the time: don't confuse weather with climate.

And

then they turn around and do it on every single occasion.

Like every time there's a heat wave in the summer, it's climate change.

Every time there's a massive storm in the winter

with snow and cold, it's climate change.

That whole polar vortex thing is always explained away by climate change every single time.

This is an amazing stance that

we are not going to have any debate over this.

Show me the science that has settled this.

First of all, you can't prove this

in any way

that it is absolutely man-caused.

You can't do it.

They don't even claim that it's all man-caused.

That's not what the documents even say.

I mean, they say it's majority man-caused.

So again, let's just say best case scenario, because this would be the best case scenario, right?

Left, like we all don't want to die from climate change.

So, theoretically, the best case scenario would be 51% of it is man-made.

If it's 51% man-made, we have a totally different issue than what they're talking about.

If it's 49% natural, totally different issue than what we're talking about.

And they act as if it's definitely 100%, which is not even what the UN is saying.

They just go further and further and further down this road.

This is a news program, supposedly, that is just telling you there is no debate on this subject.

Well,

I don't know very many, if any,

topics where the debate is just settled and you can't entertain anybody else's opinion.

Let's get into this in a second because I think this is one of the issues that they try to treat it like it's the Holocaust, right?

Like that's an example.

If they were doing a show on the Holocaust, they would not say, by the way, it's interesting, maybe nobody died.

Like, they're not,

right?

I get that point.

This is not the same issue.

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Clearly, we need to be educated on this climate situation because it's catastrophic and there's no debate.

The science is in, it's settled, there's consensus.

We hear all these catchphrases.

Remember the consensus thing?

It's totally made up.

They just totally started.

One person said there's consensus, and everybody else just started saying it too.

There actually is no evidence that there's consent.

In fact, there's a lot of evidence to the contrary, like 37,000 scientists and meteorologists that have signed off on it's not catastrophic and it might be happening, but it's no.

There's nothing we can do about it.

Or, you know, whatever degree of doubt you have.

There's about 37,000 people who disagree with this who are professionals in the field.

That's why it's very specifically worded.

I mean, there is

a pretty decent scientific consensus, if you want to say that, on the idea that in the past it has warmed about 0.9 degrees over the past century.

Now, again, that is a, there's a huge margin of error built into that figure, but they do believe it's warmed.

Most scientists would agree on that.

Most scientists think that there's some level of input that humanity is having on that, but how do they quantify that?

And that's a huge part of the debate.

The debate only comes when you get to this idea of, all right, look, A, are we, as human beings, really going to be able to solve an issue like that?

B, how do we do it?

C, can we afford to do it?

D, should we prioritize it over all these other things occurring right now?

The person being slaughtered in the Middle East, do they get less attention from this 0.9 degree sense, you know, 0.9 degree Celsius temperature rise over a century and maybe another degree in the future?

Do we really sit back and say, well, let's not worry about that person.

Let's not worry about the person dying of malaria in Africa.

Let's worry about the theoretical

increase of

some

outflow of climate change.

And you also have to ignore the fact it's happened before.

Over and over and over and over and over again.

The earth warms and then it cools and then it warms and then it cools.

I mean, the evidence of

the palm trees in the Arctic is pretty good evidence that things were different at the Arctic at one point in time.

Yeah, it does change.

It does.

And a lot of this has to do with, you know, it's really like giving them the benefit of the doubt for a moment.

It's really freaking hard to figure out the climate.

It's a planet.

We live on the planet.

There are millions of different things that affect the climate on a day-to-day basis and over a long period of time.

And there's no way to do high-quality scientific studies on the on the on the planet because you don't have a million planets to play with.

You can't just say, okay, let's experiment on 999,999 other ones.

You can't do that.

Right.

And like when you see this when you have a lot of reporting on food and health in the media, oh, this thing causes cancer.

This thing doesn't cause cancer.

Butter is good for you.

Now butter is bad for you.

That feeling that you have with science is not really a problem with science.

That is a problem with the reporting on science.

And almost all of those reports, if you've seen advice on how to eat from some supposed scientific study and it's on like Pinterest, almost definitely what you've seen is one of the lowest level of studies, observational studies,

anecdotal studies, case reports.

And maybe it goes up to animal lab in vitro type studies, these low-level things, like where they'll feed a rat 900,000 pounds of salt and it develops cancer.

And you're like, oh, salt causes cancer.

Well, no, that's like,

they don't eat that much.

There's a million reasons why that's insane.

Not to mention, rats aren't people.

Like, there's a certain type of rat that is used in experiments all the time that is very susceptible to bladder cancer in almost every circumstance.

So if you give these guys like anything, they get bladder cancer a lot.

It's a specific type of rat and they use it all the time in these trials.

And this one I would blame on the scientists at some level in that they use this rep knowing that it's susceptible to bladder cancer so they get increases in bladder cancer all the time now later on when they follow up with human beings on these same studies they all get disproven you know they all you all find out in the end okay yeah you can have salt oh okay yeah you can have this you can have that And that is what happens with global warming.

There's no way to do a high-quality study on it because you don't have these planets.

And what they say is, well, of course we can't do these high-quality studies on it.

We don't have a million planets.

So what we do is we make computer models that simulate the planet.

But that is you trying to figure out how to simulate the entire planet.

That is really freaking hard to do.

And it's not my problem that you can't do the high-quality scientific studies that are demanded to get consensus on an issue.

That's not my problem.

They also have admitted multiple times lately.

They didn't even understand how the planet works.

So how are you inputting the right numbers so that the models can spit out the right information when you didn't so much as know this a few years ago?

Carbon emissions also trap heat.

Today's report shows oceans have absorbed 90% of that heat, raising ocean temperatures by half a degree.

Had all that heat gone into the atmosphere, air temperatures could have risen by more than 200 degrees.

So

it's a really good thing the Earth works the way it does.

Yeah.

But surprising to me that you didn't know it worked that way.

Right.

This was their excuse for why it hasn't warmed more.

Hey, we didn't know the ocean was going to absorb 90% of it.

Otherwise, we'd be 200 degrees hotter.

And I'm not going to be the person who's going to say, hey, idiots, you should have known, but you should have known if you're going to claim consensus.

Right.

Right.

Like

the most, the easiest equivalent to the, to the, the climate is the human body.

Human body is a massively complicated system.

There are certain things we know about it, but a lot of things we don't.

Right.

Like there's cancer and mental illness and think of all the things we can't cure.

Right.

We do have billions of people who do all different lifestyles to see how they will react to certain things.

And we still don't have that one figured out.

You think they have the climate figured out like this?

Like they claim to?

Nope, they don't.

They don't.

And the best cure for this is innovation, learning what the problems are and having capitalism help solve them.

That's what's helped all this time and made society flourish in this period of warming.

Patton Stewart for Glenn on the Glenn Beck program, 888-727-BECK.

It was a

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've made major leaps.

We don't necessarily recognize it, but that really was a

stark example with Jeffy.

Even though our

health care 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 think so.

No.

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

they were great.

And had it not been for 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,

there'd be no more me.

There's no question about that.

Right, which is

really

amazing to think of that we could have lost you.

But you mentioned something interesting that your wife 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.

Yeah.

And she did.

Yeah.

That'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.

Wow.

Just for a couple of

things.

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 actually injected.

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.

Oh, 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.

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.

I just thought.

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

them.

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 because by the way, I survived.

I know.

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

the outpouring was unbelievable.

And 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 are 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 it really was.

I mean, honestly, like,

you know, people really

care.

And that's good.

It's cool.

Every once in a while, you see that.

Every once in a while you do, although you find out just really they don't, really, because in the hospital, 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 healthcare system in a weird way, Jeffy, because I saw you yesterday, was it?

And you were up and about, and they said to you, look, you know, 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

a heart doc now and get his direct input, but because the guy that was on call for the surgery, who, you know, just an uncalled heart surgeon,

amazing.

You know, 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 was sitting up was because of the great bed that they have there.

But 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.

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 really appreciate it.

Not a lot.

Not a lot.

Well,

we miss you, and of course, we 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.

Save 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.

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 of a hill, and

he was apparently...

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.

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.

He 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,

a hair-pound 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, Jeff.

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 in 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.

All right.

See you.

Triple eight 900

Or 888-727-BAC.

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That would be the number to call.

But 727BAC is the number here.

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Hey, did you notice that Netflix is claiming 45 million people watched their Sandra Bullock movie called, Is It Birdcage?

Birdcage.

Bird Box.

Bird Box.

That's right.

Birdcage.

It's a different movie.

Right.

Nathan Lane.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

The Birdcage.

Wasn't that a big movie back in the day?

Yeah, I think it was.

It's not that movie.

No.

That would be a really big announcement.

They're like, hey, by the way, 45

million random people just watched The Birdcage this week.

We don't even know why.

It's been out for 15 years.

Yeah, no, it's a huge number.

Have you seen it?

I have not.

It's hard really to understand what it means.

I mean, first of all, all, it's a self-reported number.

And they said it's accounts.

So

you can have two or three or four or five different accounts in a household.

So I don't know if that matters.

Right.

But I mean,

there's still a lot of people.

Like, if it's 45 million accounts, also, though, you could have three people watching it at the same time on one account.

So it could be even more than 45 million people.

And they say

the stat is

at least 70% of the movie was watched.

So that's a legitimate stat for a view, right?

Like, it's not like some, you know, they rolled a minute of the trailer and then they counted as a view.

That's huge.

That's huge.

If it's true, which, again, it's an internal number, so, you know, a grain of salt, obviously.

And they chose to release it knowing it was really good.

Yeah.

But if it's true, it is an amazing thing.

And it shows that they no longer, they don't need anybody.

I mean, Netflix is just, they just put

the reason why they didn't even promote it.

They didn't run ads for it.

They just put it on their homepage.

And if when you lent your landing page, you saw that and you're like, oh, wow, Sandra Blook has a new movie only on Netflix.

Let's watch it.

And 40, that seems so high to me, but 45 million people apparently decided to do that.

I mean,

I think this is going to happen more and more often because Netflix is spending so much on their original content, including, you know, what would normally have been major motion picture releases.

Yep.

This would have been a movie that was in theaters that you'd have to go to.

And now it's basically, well, free with your subscription in your own home.

It's a pretty good deal.

And they're getting huge stars to do this.

They got Julia Roberts on one of their series now.

They have Sandra Bullock.

I mean, people are coming out of the woodwork and doing really incredible work for Netflix.

And it really is one of those things that is, there's no negative to it.

Now it's like the place you want to go.

You know, remember when Kevin Spacey took House of Cards, everyone's like, why the hell is this?

Like, Kevin Spacey.

How is he washed up?

It was like, and shockingly, that wound up playing out a little bit that way eventually.

But I mean, you know, he basically built that entire company with that series at the beginning.

Really did.

And, you know, it felt like, why would he do that?

He's going to a streaming service to do a series?

It just made no sense.

It's amazing to me that Netflix is what it is.

When it started out as this little company that's kind of an alternative to Blockbuster Video, they'll mail me the DVD.

It'll come in my mail, and it's a little more convenient, but it takes a day or two to get here.

And now to this, where they're doing all this original content.

It's amazing.

And one of the craziest stories of all time in the business world is that

Reed Hastings, the CEO of Netflix, early on in a very tough time, went to Blockbuster and tried to sell it to Blockbuster for like $80 million.

Wow.

And they turned it down.

Oopsies.

Oopsies is a

curse.

Oopsies.

Oh, no.

Oh, golly.

Oh, no.

Wow.

Amazing.

They have this new choose your own adventures thing they did with Black Mirror as well.

Have you heard this?

No.

Oh, my God.

It looks incredible.

Oh, yeah, where you've got separate endings?

Yeah, you're choosing what the character does throughout the movie.

That's incredible.

It's really innovative stuff.

You're listening to Glenn Beck.