Best of Program | Guests: Bill O'Reilly & Chad Prather | 12/21/18

Well, hello and welcome to the podcast.

Merry Christmas.

Merry, exactly.

Unless, of course, you don't celebrate Christmas.

Then I'm very, I'm very sorry that I said that.

And maybe we just go with Cardi B and just say brap.

Brap brap brap brap.

Brap.

Brap.

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I mean, the lineup is really awesome.

On today's podcast, we're going to give you a little smorgasbord of a little bit of everything.

We have Bill O'Reilly.

He'll run down the news events and we'll give you some of the highlights of the thing.

Because honestly, Bill O'Reilly, listening to him for an hour, holy mother.

And then Chad Prayther joins us.

He's got some really interesting things to say about how we should view things.

We've talked about Mattis.

We actually start the program

with Mattis, but

I thought that the podcast should begin with a little something that if you're feeling down, if you're feeling like you just can't make it and the world's against you, realize

that out there somewhere is a guy who's working as a DJ at one of these really bad Christmas song stations.

And he's much more suicidal than anyone else right now.

And let's begin our podcast with his life.

You're listening to

the best of the Glenbeck program.

It's Friday, December 21st.

I'm not sure.

You know, there are times that I kind of wish, and you know, Mattis, his resignation, there are times that I think, you know what,

it might have been better if

I was working and you know, just I would have stayed in music radio.

I could have been happier.

But then I realize I wasn't that good.

And so I'd probably be working at that station that every market has.

And I want you to know, DJs,

I know who you are, and

I know what you're going through.

And if you're at one of those stations,

our prayers are with you this holiday season.

Santa one oh nine nine FM, you're home for the holidays, playing all of your favorite holiday music, like that one from Brenda Lee.

I don't know about you, but I just can't hear that one often enough.

Now here's Mariah Carey on Santa one hundred nine nine

Santa

The snow's coming up.

I'm watching it both.

Lots of people around.

Baby, please come along.

The church bells in town.

I'm breathing a song

for happy sound.

Favorite single

song.

Oh,

there it is.

Santa 1099, FM, you're home for the holidays.

Hi,

I'm Chris Kringle,

and we've been playing all of your favorite holiday hits since October 28th.

I don't know about you, but two days before,

you know, Halloween, I'm still just ready for the holiday tunes to start jamming on Santa one oh nine nine.

But don't forget after the new year sometime probably around mid-January we'll be back to playing your favorite work music mix.

Well we'll play all of your favorites from Barry Manelow

Barry Manilow and Elton Job and Neil Diamond and who could forget Michael Bolton.

But now it's nothing but Christmas music wall to wall, like

this one from Kenny G

on Santa 1099.

I think I'm going to kill myself.

Online.

Chris.

Okay, man.

I mean,

you don't call me Chris.

You know I'm not Chris.

Your name's Chris.

It is for this time.

Are you on Santa 1099?

It is for this time because you're making all of us take stupid names for Christmas.

Do you want Rudolph Red Nose Render?

No.

That's what you'll get.

What are you going to fire the morning guy?

Isn't that his name?

No, I changed him to Missile Toe.

What do you want?

First of all, your mic was on.

What?

Your mic was on when you said you wanted to kill yourself.

I'm sorry, I'll turn the rest of the money.

That's minor.

I just wanted to tell you about your last break for the Kenny G intro.

Yeah.

I mean, I don't understand.

You're talking about the G-Man, and there's no enthusiasm whatsoever.

For the G-Man?

Yeah, Kenny G.

How could you possibly be enthusiastic about the G-Man?

Kenny G does make me want to kill myself.

And I've had to put up with

since October 28th.

We're playing every cut of Kenny G's album.

That's another thing, by the way.

You said we're going to stop in mid-January?

Yeah.

Didn't you get the memo?

No.

April 15th.

We're playing Christmas music until April 15th?

No tax day.

Why?

Nobody wants to hear it.

I think people actually would want to hear the Michael Book.

Do you know that our ratings go from a 0.3 to a 19.4 for one month?

Yeah, yeah, okay.

What is

why are you calling it?

Think of a male Delilah.

A male Delilah.

She's enthusiastic?

So think Delino.

A male Delilah, okay.

But then think of Delilah if she had married an Osmond.

So you're really down, but you're really excited.

All right, my song is about that.

Santa, yeah, 1099.

All right.

Santa.

Anything else I'm supposed to talk about?

Yeah, get jolly.

Get jolly.

Yes.

Stop trying to be different.

Remember, different's bad.

Alright.

And you're being different now.

They're being good.

All right, you're being bad.

Shut up for a second.

Hang on.

I have to

song.

Oh, it's great.

It's Santa one oh nine nine.

I'm Chris Kringle and that's Kenny G.

Hey,

you know how you go Christmas shopping at the mall during the holidays and it's crowded and stuff?

Do you do you know that?

And then it's hard to find a parking space and things.

I hate that.

You probably hate that too, right?

Okay, let's get jolly with Sleigh Ride on Santa 1099.

That was ridiculous.

Yes, it was.

Your delivery was ridiculous.

I know I sent you an email about talking about the parking lot.

That doesn't mean you just walk through the...

Because it's stupid.

Every bad DJ is talking about parking lots.

You need to sell it.

You need to think about what it's like for you to be in a a crowding parking lot.

Put yourself there, okay?

You need to relate and be enthusiastic, but calm and soft, but louder, but kind of in the middle.

Was I jolly enough?

Hold on one second.

Our research is showing you're 42% less jolly than you should be.

What do you research?

What do you

just did a likability focus group on you?

And they hate you.

Well, I'm not feeling really jolly now.

I mean,

you know, I used to be somebody, and now I'm working at this crappy station, and you call me every break and you tell me what to do.

That's right, because you can't graft it for yourself.

I'm the boss, and I know what we need to do to own the angry people in parking lot at balls at Christmas shopping demographic.

We need to have these people coming back after the holidays.

They're only going to do that if you're both calm and happy.

Okay,

nobody's gonna come back after Christmas because we start playing all this crappy music and nobody cares about the crappy music.

Look, look at her this way.

I'm Santa, okay?

You are Santa's little helper.

Get it?

Santa has a lot of kids and stockholders to make happy.

Don't ruin Christmas.

Hold on, hold on just a second.

There it is on Santa 1099.

your home for the holidays.

Hi, I'm Chris Kringle, and don't forget about the rest of the year here on Santa 1099, when we're called Easy Variety 1099.

You're gonna love it.

We play only the best music from

Anne Murray

and the best music from the Dave Clark 5 and Yanni, and only only the biggest hits from Men Without Hats.

But now, more Christmas favorites with the Beach Boys.

You better watch out.

You better not click on it.

Only the best music from Men Without Hats and Yanni.

And the Dave Clark 5.

And is there a good song?

And who thinks of the Beach Boys when they're thinking about Christmas music?

It's Christmas music, man.

Nobody's thinking about the Beach Boys.

Do you know anybody who has the Beach Boys Christmas album?

Do you have you ever walked into somebody's house and they're playing the Beach Boys Christmas album?

People have said in the past that they like the Beach Boys and they like Christmas.

We've combined the two.

And then we go, and then we take them from the Beach Boys and we tell them, hey, make sure you stick around because Ann Murray is going to be happening after the Christmas music.

I mean, nobody listens to that stuff.

That's why we have to talk about it.

Do you realize we are the number one station during the holidays because of this, what is it, Christmas?

Yeah.

And,

well, the rest of the year we average 14 listeners a day.

14 listeners in an entire day.

I mean, and those are the ones that are stuck in an elevator at work or on drugs in a dentist chair.

No one listens.

All right, so you think maybe there's a possibility that's because we're playing the Dave Clark 5?

No, our research shows that people aren't familiar with our products.

That's because we change slogans every freaking holiday.

We're Santa 1099, Thanksgiving 1099, Easter Bunny 1099.

I mean, who listens to Easter music?

Is there even such a thing as Easter music?

Our research shows that Peter Cottontail tests well with our women's 7 to 12 years old audience.

Let me ask you, how about Kwanzaa 1099?

How do you explain that?

We're the whitest radio.

Dave Clark 5.

And you put Kwanza music on?

Have you ever heard Dave Clark 5's version of Happy Kwanza?

No, I haven't.

It's all about diversity, Chris Kringle.

Research shows that diversity is one of the public's favorite words.

Okay, all guys.

Shut up.

Hold on.

This song's over.

Okay, remember, jolly.

Throw it a ho, ho, ho.

Relate to the parking lot, people.

What?

Make it jolly.

Or full of jelly.

Hold on.

Stock and kill by the

Santa 1099, your home for the holidays.

Hi, I'm Chris Kringle.

Oh, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho.

Hey, and remember parking lots.

And this time of year, remember cars.

Glenbeck, saving

real.

The best of the Glenbeck program.

We're just having a conversation here at the Glenbeck program about James Mattis

walking away and resigning yesterday because the president just announced, oh, we're going to leave Syria.

And one of the reasons, supposedly, one of the reasons is because Turkey told the president we're going to go in and get the Kurds.

And now that would make me say, no, no, you're not.

As the Kurds are always abandoned.

They will be dead.

How many times have we turned our back on the Kurds?

Always.

Always.

A hundred?

It's a lot.

Every time.

A lot of times.

Every time.

And it's wrong.

And there will be genocide with the Kurds.

And any Christian that was hoping things were going to get better, forget about that.

We have just handed the region over to Iran, Turkey, and Russia.

Very bad.

Very bad.

Pat said when he came in, I don't really care about the Maddis thing.

I can't find a way to care about this.

Why?

Because

I don't know that anybody

listens to anybody anyway.

I don't know if it matters who's in there.

I think he's doing what he wants to do.

And I think this is a really good indication of that.

I don't know.

He certainly doesn't want to pull out of Syria.

It's always been said that he respects his generals.

Now,

maybe not anymore with Kelly and Mattis.

They're all gone now.

There's no more generals left.

But those two, I really truly believe.

I don't know if they voted for Donald Trump or believed Donald Trump.

They might have.

They might not have.

I think those two served out of duty and responsibility to the Constitution and to the America that they understand and love.

And I could see Mattis looking and saying, look, I don't necessarily agree with this guy on everything, but someone has to be a stable rod, and I will be that guy.

And he can't do it anymore.

That's not good.

Can't do it.

That's That's really not good.

But

I think that's where people are with what's going on now.

And when they can't convince him not to pull out of Syria because it's way too soon and there's way too much to be done.

But you can.

Look at what's happening now with the border wall.

All of a sudden,

he's back on the border wall.

He's back on.

Why?

Because

he does listen to the voice of the people and his supporters.

Well, yeah, I think when Fox Summers turns on him and starts saying negative things about him, because they never do, I think that he took notice of that.

I think he took notice.

Because you even had Brian Kilmead criticizing him openly this week, and that kind of doesn't happen.

No.

Rush had criticized

Mark Levin was critical of the Syria move.

He got some really harsh.

I mean, his supporters were really, really harsh on him about that.

Well, the wall thing was, I mean, it's ridiculous.

It's ridiculous.

I mean, you can't go back.

Who was it that said, I thought this was a great quote.

Oh, Ben Shapiro.

This is read my lips, no new taxes.

That's what that is.

You cave on that.

But I think this one has

possibly even more significant ramifications.

Going forward, straight up strategically, this is a nightmare, a straight-up nightmare.

If you don't like the United States to be the policeman of the world, then you want these 2,000 U.S.

troops still there.

And that sounds weird, but the moment we pull out of there, you are almost guaranteeing that a much larger U.S.

force will have to go back in the very near future.

You're almost guaranteeing it because you just handed the region over to Iran.

Now, if you just don't even think about what happened to the Kurds, if that doesn't bother you at all, that they're all about thousands and thousands of people are just about to die.

A whole race of people, a whole culture is going to be wiped off the map.

And then the Christians are next.

I mean, it's this is not good.

What is Netanyahu saying today?

I haven't really seen it, but they've got to be livid over this.

Got to be like, you would not make this decision.

Not only would you not make this decision without, you know, talking to General Mattis in the Pentagon, which it sounds like he didn't at all, but you also wouldn't make this decision without consulting your other allies.

When Mattis says, you know, our allies are important, he's also talking about them.

He's talking about everyone in the region who is now like, oh my gosh, Iran is now back in play.

Like, they were getting beaten back, but they're now back in play.

Look at Saudi Arabia.

I'm convinced the Khashoggi thing

was only really a story, not because he was a member of the press, but because those forces that were for the Iranian deal and are not necessarily on our side, you know, they were for the Arab Spring and they were for, oh, let's go topple Libya and let's go arm what now is ISIS.

You know, let's go topple Syria.

Those people are the same people that were all upset about Kashagi.

Well, what has Khashoggi done?

Khashoggi has seriously damaged Saudi Arabia in the Middle East.

Also, the whole world, obviously, but the Middle East and

has led to us.

making sure that we're not helping them in Yemen.

I mean, Saudi Arabia is on the ropes

in the last month because of their mistake with Khashoggi, but the way it was portrayed by the press

on you can now have nothing to do with Saudi Arabia.

This is just snowballed for Saudi Arabia.

Saudi Arabia will join.

with Russia if they don't have the United States.

They will join with Russia on oil.

They will join with China.

They will join with somebody who will help them because they are about out of money, believe it or not.

And what's Brent crude at right now?

54, 56?

Yes.

Something like, and dropping further?

Right.

I mean,

this is really not good.

This is all great news for Iran.

If I were in Iran and I were in the ruling party, I'd be celebrating.

We are about to take the Middle East.

And it's not like Trump has been light on Iran, right?

He canceled the Iran deal.

I mean, he's done a lot of good things, I think, on that front.

It's just Russia.

There's not a consistency here.

I think there's not a, it doesn't seem like there's an overall picture, right?

Like, Trump is a guy who did very much run on we shouldn't be in these wars.

I mean, he is much more

the way you'd think of a Democrat thinking on war, right?

Like, he's always been against the wars.

And, and that's, you know, look, that's, I keep hearing people on the news saying, well, he wants, he's doing what his base wants, pull the troops home.

Like, his base doesn't want to kick ISIS's ass.

Like, when did that start?

Well, they think that, see, this is the problem.

It has been spun to the American people by everybody that we have kicked ISIS's ass, and we have, but we've pushed them into the shadows.

They're still there.

They have 20,000 active

ISIS members.

And I'd like to point out that this has happened to ISIS before.

When they were in Iraq during the 2007 surge, we did the exact same thing to them.

We pushed them underground.

They went underground.

They had less fighters than they do now.

So they have 20, the 30,000, they had less than that.

It was only like 700 at the time.

It was tiny.

They went underground.

They regrouped.

What happened?

We did the same thing, but it was with Obama.

Obama pulled the troops out early.

That allowed them to rise back up, and then we had ISIS and a caliphate.

See, and I think that I feel differently, and I'd love your opinion on this, Jason, but I feel differently about Afghanistan.

Afghanistan is not going to change.

You're not going to democratize.

They don't want it.

They don't understand it.

And it's not their culture.

So that's fine.

We went in, we got the bad guys.

Keep them contained with the bad guys and keep your eye on them.

But we can bring the troops home from Afghanistan.

But that's totally different than Syria with Turkey

and Iran and Israel.

Would you agree with that?

Yeah, I would definitely agree.

Afghanistan is very personal for me because I've actually fought there and I've had friends die there.

So it hurts me to give it back to the people that will will eventually take it, the country back over the Taliban.

Right.

And it's a problem.

But just to agree with you, is that strategically it's less important?

No, it's been called the place where empires go to die for a reason.

And yeah, the people will just go.

Every single time.

Every single time.

Every time.

Soviet Union.

So get out of Afghanistan.

I'm totally fine.

And I celebrate him saying, okay, you know what?

In a strategic way, we're going to call an end to Afghanistan.

We're going to bring all our troops home.

But leave the 2,000 in Syria.

Leave them there.

And leave.

They're not there to.

Everyone needs to understand this.

They're not there as a large fighting force.

They're there literally just to make sure that Turkey or Russia or whoever else does not touch them.

That's why I'm playing.

It's why when you're playing chess, we're not playing those 2,000 guys.

They're not the queen or the king.

They're like the bishop or the rook.

And you leave it there for a reason.

Because if you move it, the other side can all of a sudden move around that board in ways that will kill you quickly.

That's all they are.

They're a rook.

Mark my words.

The Kurds will

have made an alliance with someone that we really don't want, or they will be dead.

And within months to maybe this very couple years,

we're going to be having the same conversation about moving a extremely large U.S.

force back in because Iran is now setting up shop on Israel's back door.

It'll happen.

And

Lindsey Graham kind of said the same thing yesterday.

And again, Lindsey Graham's a big Trump ally on, you know, certainly recently.

There is

the reporting, however, is that Trump, and this is Trump, Trump wanted this for a long time.

He wanted to pull the troops out.

And I think this has happened with other issues as well.

Tariffs are another example.

He had advisors around him saying this would not be a good thing for the economy.

I mean, I think they've shown to be right so far.

But they kept saying no, no, no, no, no.

And eventually it got to the point where I said I wanted it.

You're not even trying to do what what I'm saying.

Get out.

And that seems what's happened here with Syria potentially.

However, the added part of this is reportedly he was on a call with Erdogan from Turkey.

And Erdogan said, basically, look, why are you, these guys are terrorists.

The Kurds are terrorists.

You're siding with them over your NATO ally.

Why are you doing that?

These people are terrorists.

They're separatists.

And we should be able to go in there and get them.

And why are you siding with them instead of us?

And he won Trump over, with, of course, the baseline of he wanted to pull those people, the troops out anyway.

And, you know, I don't know.

Erdogan does not seem like a positive actor to me.

And siding with his analysis of that situation seems like a terrible actor.

They're not separatists.

This is a man-made border that we imposed on the region to keep everybody fighting with each other.

I can't say we did, but the British did, to keep everybody at odds with each other.

It's why strongmen work in the Middle East, because they have to defend their tribe.

This is a tribal thing.

This is not like the West.

This is a tribal thing.

And you're going to wipe out that entire tribe.

It will be genocide.

And then the Christians will be slaughtered yet again.

And I'm telling you, this time they will be on the border of Israel.

And it's, I mean, this is,

this is biblical.

This is damn near biblical.

We are setting up the end of times war.

If we don't, if we don't, if we're not smart, this is Gag and Magog.

This is Russia and Iran working together, trying to get Israel.

This is not going to end well.

And

losing somebody like Mattis is very bad.

Very bad.

If you support the president, please, please, Afghanistan, fine, leave.

Not there, please, Mr.

President, not Syria.

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It just all went into Wall Street.

This year,

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this is the best of the Glenn Beck program.

The horrible, terrible, no good, very bad couple of weeks for Donald Trump.

Bill O'Reilly.

Hello.

Merry Christmas.

Merry Christmas.

I am Father Christmas, as you described me a couple of weeks ago.

Right.

Speaking to the nation.

Yeah.

You're like, you know what you are?

You're like,

you're like Bing Crosby, who we later found out beat his children.

Thank you.

Very nice.

Bing, may he rest in peace.

Yes.

Maybe he should have been nicknamed Bang.

Bang Crosby.

Bang Crosby.

Anyway,

I would like to speak to start this off with Nervous Nelly.

Is she in the studio?

Yes, she is.

She is.

So let me just go through this list with you one by one.

And they're the things that have happened.

And I would like your perspective and your opinion on what's real, what really matters, what doesn't.

Christmas is standing by.

Okay, hang on just a second.

I want it in two different categories.

I want what's real and matters in geopolitical or

in real terms, and then one politically.

Okay?

So something may not make a difference at all geopolitically, but politically, it makes a lot of difference.

Okay?

All right, I'm ready.

All right.

Let's start with the resignation of James Mattis.

Last night, the president or yesterday said we're pulling out of Syria.

That is basically going to be an extermination order for the Kurds.

And James Mattis was upset that he didn't know about it.

According to his letter, there's some light between the two of them on how we treat our allies.

He's very respected.

Does it matter, Bill O'Reilly?

Yeah, it matters, sure.

And by the way, I was in the White House for an extensive period of time on Wednesday.

You saw a picture of that.

I know that, and I had a pretty good inside view of a lot of things.

So Mattis is a very successful Defense Secretary.

I think he had had enough of the chaos.

That's a key word in this discussion today.

C-H-A-O-S, chaos.

And there is.

So Mattis, very disciplined, four-star, Marine General.

I think that he differed on policy with President Trump, but I think those differences could have been dealt with.

But I don't think that Mattis wanted to be told

what was going to happen, and that was that.

So I think that's why he left.

And he was an excellent Defense Secretary.

Dissembling ISIS, huge victory.

I hope he writes a book about that and explains exactly how that happened.

Very important.

So we'll miss James Mattis.

The country will.

Does it make our allies nervous?

No, because our allies don't really

file into

effective foreign policy for America.

There's really nobody right now

that's helping us

to the point that Tony Blair did with Britain in the Iraq war, that kind of a thing.

Australia very loyal to us, but the Allies are basically looking for their own stuff, and I'm not really concerned about them.

Okay.

When it comes to

an importance level, Bill, high, medium, or low?

Hi, Mattis is going to be hard to replace.

Okay.

Okay.

Let's go to Syria, pulling the troops out of Syria.

Here's what Lindsey Graham said.

As a big supporter of Donald Trump.

If Obama had done this, we would be all over him as Republicans.

We made a good record that the decision to withdraw from Iraq was

not based on sound military advice in spite of it.

He did it himself, which he has every right to do, but he needs to own it.

And I don't think General Trump is going to be any better than General Obama.

This is the BillO'Reilly.com Man of the Year.

Yep.

Lindsey Graham.

Lindsey Graham.

Absolutely.

Your thoughts on Syria.

Yeah, my view is 2,000 special forces in Syria were effective there in protecting many innocent people from harm.

That's pretty much what their role was.

So the President made it clear he doesn't want U.S.

troops on foreign soil unless

it's a national security situation.

This is not.

I am not that upset or worried about 2,000 troops coming out of Syria.

Is Iran a national security concern?

Yes.

You've just handed the region.

No, no, Beck.

Yes, you need to

just relax.

All right.

This is nervous now.

We'll be back in there in 16 hours.

We have bases around the area where

American forces are stationed.

We have air power that can hit that place very hard and very quick.

So if Iran were to do something

that was dangerous, we could

very quickly affect that.

Trump just didn't want these guys sitting there.

They're not.

So he's moving them around.

We're not pulling out of the region.

As somebody who has helped move tens of thousands of Christians to safety, this is the most reckless thing I've ever seen a president do,

possibly only beaten by Obama.

All right.

We have a little bit of a disagreement there.

I think that if anybody started to slaughter Christians, that we would be right back in there very quickly.

So importance level would be low there, Phil?

Or medium?

Moderate.

Moderate.

Moderate because it's a ripple effect.

It did have something to do with Mattis resigning.

I think the Department of Defense is

not happy with President Trump.

That's not a good thing.

So whereas I don't see it as a strategic move that's going to harm the country directly,

the fact that it was done this way is not good for the USA.

So

let me give mine as well.

Mattis, I agree with Bill.

High.

Syria, couldn't disagree more with Bill.

Very high.

This should be interesting.

Border and giving $5 billion to Mexico.

He folded and now he listened to

his tribe and he is trying to reverse that.

Tell me your thoughts on the border and the $5 billion to Mexico.

All right, what's the $5 billion to Mexico?

$5 billion,

what it was, is we said we're going to give $10 billion, billion,

no border wall, and we're going to give $10 billion in aid.

Are you talking about giving them economic aid?

Yes.

Yes.

Okay.

All right.

So there's a new president in Mexico, and Trump apparently has a pretty good relationship with him.

And the NAFTA deal helps the United States economically.

So he wants the guy to do us favors, the new president of Mexico.

He wants him to do his favors.

so he's basically backing away from the punitive aspect of

U.S.-Mexico relations.

Unbeknownst to the public, Mexico helped with this migrant caravan a lot.

A lot.

And that has not been out there.

It's not been put out there.

So very few of these caravan people got into the United States.

Very few.

And Mexico's paying for them to sit down there and Tijuana for the rest of their lives, I guess.

So there's a lot of extenuating circumstances.

Now, the bigger question is the PR debacle of the president waffling on the wall.

And, you know, that's a political thing.

I would have said to the American people, I need two months to solidify this wall and get

a marketing campaign so that you understand why this wall is absolutely necessary.

So I'm going to extend the spending until February 8th.

But if February 8th, I don't get my wall, then the government is going to shut down forever because we're not going to do it.

That's how I would have done it.

Me too.

Because of the stock market.

And then so I would have delayed it a little bit instead of just one day saying, ah, all right, all right, I'll accept no money for the wall.

And then the next day after Ann Coulter ran around the White House on fire saying, oh, nope, I'm reversing because that makes President Trump look weak.

So importance level, high, moderate, or low?

Very high.

Okay, hang on just a second.

Because of the stock market,

the stock market is the big story.

Okay.

Well,

the big, big story.

Let's take a quick break and we'll come back.

I don't want to hear about the stock market.

And I also want to know: is this a big story on the border

because of political or

actual effect to all of our lives,

or a combination of both?

All right.

This is the best of the Glen Beck program.

Chad Prayther, a comedian,

kind of the Will Rogers of the conservative side, if you will,

who has been doing comedy tours and quite honestly

has pinned and sung one of the greatest songs ever made.

I've Got Friends in Safe Spaces.

Just give me the hook.

I love that.

I've got friends in safe spaces.

If you don't go with us, you must be racist.

Come on.

Let's see.

Come on in.

Let's get cozy showing off participation trophies.

It's a great thing.

Watch them see it in in safe spaces.

It's great.

How are you, Chad?

I'm doing great.

I'm doing wonderful.

Yeah, I'm ready for Christmas.

And I thought we were going to take a little break, but no, it's been, but you know what?

It's been fun.

You guys have had me in, had me on the shows this week, and I've enjoyed coming over.

So appreciate that.

You have, you're a guy.

What were you doing before YouTube?

I was depressed.

I was miserable.

I had gone.

I used to travel all over the world, and I was a motivational speaker, and I was all over the place.

You know, then I went through kind of a breaking point in my life, and I climbed into that proverbial cave for about five years, and I said, you know, instead of being entrepreneurial and stepping on landmines everywhere I go, I'm just going to go do what everybody else does and I'm going to join the corporate world and get a paycheck.

And I was miserable with that.

And so one day I was at the gym.

I was not in the gym.

I was at the gym.

It was a huge difference.

I love you for that.

I love you because I'll go to the gym.

I'll go to the gym.

I'm not going to go in.

Yeah.

And I was sitting under a shade tree making phone calls.

I called my wife on the phone and I said, I said, I'm quitting my job.

I'm miserable.

And she said, if that'll make you happy, I said, thank you because I've already quit.

And she said, what are you going to do?

And I said, and it sounded so articulate in my head.

I said, I'm going to go make a living just being myself.

And she said, Chad, what's the street value on your personality?

And me being equally quick, I said, it's about the same as President Obama giving a keynote speech at the NRA convention.

She said, that's hands down worthless.

So, you know, we had no idea.

I just knew that I had, I felt like one of those things, I felt like years ago, God said to me, one day you'll speak to thousands of people.

I just had no idea to be sitting alone in my truck when I did it.

You know what I mean?

God has interesting different plans and strategies for our lives because I was.

I was on a bigger and bigger platform back in the day when I was working with ministries and organizations and going around the world.

And I thought, boy, I'm on the road.

I'm headed up on the pedestal and you get knocked off.

It is so strange because it's almost the same experience.

When I was eight,

I felt a prompting that someday what you do will be a turning point.

And I remember it.

And

in some ways, it screwed me up because later, as I got further from it, I thought I knew what that was going to be.

And so I became a little more arrogant.

And I know that I'm right.

And it wasn't until I gave up on all of it and just said, well, that was a stupid little thing that I don't even know if that happened.

And what am I doing?

I'm screwing up my whole life.

And I wasn't even me anymore.

And I started to risk.

I mean, Stu knows he was there the day I looked at him on the air and said, said, I turned off my mic and said, write this down in your calendar.

Do you remember this?

Oh, yeah.

Write this down in your calendar.

This is the day Glenn Beck ended his career because I started being me,

really me.

And then the whole world changed.

I mean, it's this weird thing.

We are so concerned that I'm not good enough.

I'm not this.

I'm not that.

If people only knew

who I really was, and that's what they want to know.

Yeah.

There's a psychological term, and I can't remember it right now, but most celebrities have that sense of the curtain's going to be pulled back and they're going to expose the wizard and they're going to be seen for the talentless hacks that they all are.

And they all have that fear of that.

You know, Frederick Nietzsche said that you can only wear two faces to the world for so long before you forget which one's the real one.

And that was kind of where I was living.

I didn't know who I was.

And so it's funny.

Me too.

You know, I look at people when I, when I just said, I'm going to be me, because I was, you know, the Bible says John the Baptist was a voice crying out in the wilderness.

He wasn't an echo.

He was a true voice.

And I said, I'm going to go find my voice.

And I'm going to be me.

I'm going to be comfortable.

I put on this cowboy hat, and that's the world I came out of.

And I said, you know, I'm just going to enjoy being myself.

And so that's the biggest response I get back from YouTube and Facebook videos.

And that is they say, we love the genuineness.

You say the things we want to say and we're afraid to say.

You articulate it in a way that we've never thought about saying it, and you make us smile when you do it.

You know, I'm a little bit tongue-in-cheek with everything I do.

I'm self-deprecating in my humor, and it's okay.

I believe if you can't laugh at yourself, you know, I mean, my friend Gary Chapman, he said to me years ago, he said, he said, you know, when you hit rock bottom, look around, you'll see my name carved on the wall in a couple of places three or four times.

And I said, you know, I think life is really interpreted by the breaking points.

I think when you look back at the journey of your life, how many times were you broken?

How many times did you say, damn, I was on the wrong, I mean, this is, and I had to get broken down to a bare essential of humanity so that you become a dependent human being again on something stronger and more powerful than you, and it makes you real.

It hurts.

It hurts.

You know, I can remember going through a real hard time several years ago, and I called my mentor on the phone and I said, you know, I don't know how to deal with this situation.

I don't know how to come out of this.

This cave is dark.

And he said, just get back on the cross and finish the job.

He said, you know, just go ahead and get it over with.

Just go ahead and die.

That's back when I realized that there's some things that God doesn't want to take to heaven that's in you.

He's going to get some of it out.

And now here you are now.

You started YouTube, what, 2012?

Yeah, a little bit after that.

You know,

I had started doing a television show, which no one was watching on cable.

And it was a travel television show.

It was an equestrian lifestyle humor show anyway.

And so I had a production assistant who said, you know, you're always putting these videos out on social media.

And I say that tongue-in-cheek, but I really was a depressed person.

I was medically depressed.

And for me, it was therapy.

Because my wife used to say all the time, she said, Chad, go talk to somebody.

Go talk to.

I said, said, I don't want to do that, you know, and there's no shame against it.

I said, I just feel weird being a dude that's going to go sit on a leather couch with a strange dude that every 15 seconds says, how does that make you feel?

It makes me feel creepy.

So I just didn't want to do it.

And I said, I got an idea.

So I started putting little observational humor vignettes on Facebook.

And she said, you know, you can make money off of that.

And I said, I have no idea.

So she kind of told me about YouTube and things like that.

And for me, people think that I made all this this money off of doing social media videos.

Really, it was the doors that had opened up for me on the back side.

I didn't do it to make money.

For me, it was therapy.

And I had no idea when I put a camera phone on the dashboard of my truck while I was sitting in traffic that millions of people were going to be watching.

To the tune, we crossed over a billion and a half views on Facebook alone in just two years.

And it's just been outrageous.

So we translated that into speaking tours and comedy tours.

And I still don't see myself necessarily as a comedian, although I don't think many people really really know the difference.

You're one of these guys that a lot of people will walk up and they'll see this huge auditorium and traffic is snarled and they'll say,

who's here?

Is it Michael Jackson back from the dead?

Who's here?

And they'll say, some guy named Chad, and they'll both stand around and go, who?

Exactly.

It's weird how...

huge an audience can be now without

people knowing it unless you're connected to them through YouTube.

Yeah, you know, and a good friend of mine, and I'll tell you what I think that is, Glenn.

Because a lot of people say, well, I don't know who you are, and then somebody will show, I was sitting on a plane a couple of years ago on my way to Phoenix, and I could hear my voice like three rows behind me.

And someone was watching one of my videos.

And then I've had people who walk up to me at the airport and they're like, oh my God, do you know who this is?

And the person with them says, I don't have a clue.

And then they'll say, it's this guy.

And they show them in the context of me with the hat in the truck.

And they're like, oh, okay, we know who that is.

But what I think is, and I've got a good friend, Rob Long, out in Hollywood.

He's a Yale graduate.

He was the executive producer of Cheers.

And this guy, he's written so many shows out in Hollywood.

And he's a conservative guy.

He's consistently on conservative talk.

He just did a poll study recently that revealed that 65% of the people in America feel like that they're being underserved by the entertainment that's coming out of Hollywood.

We say duh.

We know that.

But Hollywood and that bubble of New York and Hollywood and those places, they don't realize there's the rest of America out here.

And so what I said, and I didn't want to come out as a political flamethrower, although I do delve into politics because I love it.

I love the concept of leadership.

And I think I like to look at politics because I like to make fun of the fact that we're void of so much true leadership in a world today.

But I don't want to be a flamethrower with it.

I want to poke fun at it.

And as long as Washington's writing the jokes for us, I'm going to try to tell them.

And I said, there's this audience out there.

There's 65 million people who voted for Donald Trump, and they feel neglected.

They've been called deplorables and all these things.

Let's go out there and entertain them.

And so that's the response that we got.

It's amazing to see the people who turn out.

You can tell our fan base when they show up.

You know, we can recognize them coming.

And those people, they drive for hours.

We've sold out in cities like Seattle.

I was in your birthplace, Everett, Washington.

We sold out in Everett, Washington.

I didn't know I was born in Everett.

I Google.

I don't know how I ran across that, but I remember seeing that somewhere.

And I was like, yeah, we did a show in Everett a year and a half ago, something like that.

In

Portland, and San Jose and New York, we sell out.

And I keep telling my agents and these guys who booked for me in LA, I'm like, stop putting me in these big cities because all my guys are having to drive in for two hours.

We've had tour stuffs like that, too, where you're just like, babe, no one in this theater has ever been within five miles of this place.

You know, what's really weird is when we did San Francisco, we did the Shrine Autorium, Auditorium in San Francisco, big, beautiful, 3,000-seat theater.

We thought no one would come.

Packed to the rafters, and everybody in there, I even said it, you could feel it.

Everyone in there all of a sudden kind of felt like, oh, thank God,

I'm safe in here.

And I'm not alone in my everyday life.

You're not alone.

It's so bizarre when that happened.

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