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First it's a France, then it is the Germans.

The Europeans are finally starting to get it.

Last week, the French president mentioned the idea of creating a European army.

Yay!

Because Europe with arms has never caused any problems.

Yesterday, German Chancellor Engela Merkel backed him up saying, quote, we have to work on the vision of one day creating a real European army.

Really?

One day?

You know, it's been 70 years since the end of World War II, and I'm glad that you're finally getting around to it.

But Trump called her remarks insulting and told them instead to agree to meet their NATO commitments.

Wait, hold it just a sec.

Wait a minute.

Weren't you the one?

Wait, I thought you didn't like NATO.

Hold it just a second.

You just got me there.

You had me at Bring the Troops Home.

We are subsidizing half the planet's defense budgets.

In fact, we're paying for almost all of it.

World War II ended 73 years ago.

The Cold War ended two decades ago.

Why do we have to hold up Western Europe's deal anymore?

I mean, I like having, you know,

a bargain with these people, but we're not getting a bargain.

We're getting screwed.

They have the intellectual, honest conversation about NATO.

No, uh-uh.

NATO did an outstanding job.

It really did.

Without it, people in France would be speaking probably German or Russian.

NATO was established to combat one enemy.

All of its members had one goal, to protect themselves against the Soviet Union.

Well, guess what doesn't exist anymore?

Now, Russia does, and Russia has its eyes set on Europe.

But unless we're actually going to talk about that, and unless Germany isn't saying, well, we've got to protect ourselves against, you know, evil Russia, and by the way, we want to buy all their gas so we can be on their heroine, I'm not interested.

So

why are we continuing to do this?

Why are the NATO members

still subsidizing, being subsidized by us?

We don't have identifying interests and unifying interests anymore, do we?

Do we?

Because I don't know who's for Russia and who's against Russia.

I don't know who's for national socialism and who's against national socialism.

I don't know how many, for instance, the UK.

Are you convinced that the UK can stand against the Islamic Sharia law courts that are already in its country?

Because I'm not.

As far as policy goes, there hasn't been much to criticize President Trump on with the tariffs, except for the tariffs, I would say.

I understand what he's doing here.

First, he rocked the world by criticizing NATO during the first year of his administration.

Now it looks like he's perpetuating the continued use of the U.S.

military as European security blanket that I don't want to provide anymore.

Our global helicopter parenting really has to stop.

Is there a reason why Japan still hasn't rebuilt their military and relies on us for security?

Yeah, they're broke, but so are we.

Enough is enough.

China is a very big problem, but why not let Japan take their natural place and take the brunt of containing China?

Let them foot the bill.

How much of the deficit and national debt could we cut by empowering Europe and Japan to take responsibility for themselves?

I think it's time to re-examine and think outside of the box because our debt situation is unsustainable.

And quite honestly, I want our troops to come home.

I want our troops to concentrate on the problems that we have here.

And I don't mean as troops, I mean as good, solid citizens.

Europe and Japan, it's time to leave mommy and daddy's basement.

I know, I know it's scary, but even in America, at 26, you're considered adults.

You're what, 73?

Don't worry.

You'll screw it up, and we'll be here.

We might give you some limited funds on a credit card to help wean you off, but far as I'm concerned, it's time for mommy and daddy to kick them out of the house.

The free ride is over.

It's Wednesday, November 14th.

You're listening to the Glenbeck program.

Our thoughts and prayers are with those in California.

You know, the death toll is up to 50 now, and there are 250 people missing.

It is astonishing what is happening there.

And Mercury One is on the ground, and

we should be getting

an update from Joy Villa, who is our ambassador, and she's on the ground now.

trying to make sure that everybody who is helping has enough money, has enough resources.

We hope to talk to her a little later on

on the program.

But, you know, it doesn't take anything huge to help.

You know, people feel right now, people feel like I can't do anything.

And yet you can, unlike ever before.

And sometimes

the ability to help

comes from the strangest places.

If you just don't close your eyes, if you decide to pursue, sometimes

where you thought you were going turns out to be a completely different destination.

A mysterious typo-ridden email or message appears in your inbox, purportedly from a Nigerian prince or a down-on-his-luck businessman.

Now, most people respond one of two ways.

You either ignore it, cynical yet amused, or you just fall for it and you lose thousands of dollars to an obvious scam.

But something else happened in early 2017.

Ben Taylor, he got that message on Facebook.

He got it from a man in Monrovia, Liberia.

His name was Joel Willey.

In the post, it read, My name is Joel.

I'm from Liberia, West Africa.

I need some assistance from you.

business or financial assistance that will help empower me, D-A-T.

Well, Ben knew full well that most likely he was being scammed.

He was skeptical, but he responded anyway and he said, how can I help?

Joel asked him to mail primo electronics, cameras, computers, printers to a shabby building in New Jersey so that he could sell those on the Liberian market and split the profits with Ben.

Now, I figured that this was just one of those African internet scams, but I decided to play along and see where it led me.

I figured the more time of his that I could waste, the less time that he'd have to spend ripping other people off.

So I told him that I didn't have any electronics to send, but I did have a business proposition if he was interested.

I told him that I was in the photography business and that if he'd be willing to take pictures of where he lived and send them to me, I'd pay him for the ones that I liked.

He agreed and the next morning he sent a few over.

They were just terrible.

So the resultant photos that Joel sent were two out-of-focus, blurred canopy of trees half-lit by sunlight, clearly shot with a 15-year-old flip phone.

So Ben responded, still warmly, and much to Joel's surprise, mailed him a rose-red Vivitar camera, instructing him to send more photos.

Joel, overjoyed, replied, I've decided to really commit and devote myself to DIS, DIS business, and whatever picture you want me to take.

Still skeptical, Ben told Joel that his photography needed some work.

Well, the pictures were a little better quality, but they still sucked.

So I said to him that if he wanted to make money taking pictures, he needed to practice.

He needed to hold the camera still and make sure his subject had plenty of lights.

So Ben was genuinely surprised when he received a batch full of really good, stunning photos.

Eventually, Joel did get better.

Yeah, these are actually pretty good.

Which posed a big problem.

When he put in the work, I thought, oh no, now I've got to figure out a way to compensate Joel for these pictures, or I'm going to be the scammer.

That was Ben in an interview on CBS News.

But Ben decided to design a small book with the photos and titled it, By De Grace of God.

Now, Ben thought that, you know, they'd sell a few copies and move on, but the sales kind of exceeded everybody's expectations.

And soon, Ben had $1,000 in profits.

I made a promise to Joel that we'd split the profits 50-50 and that my half would go to charity.

So I wrote to Joel and said that I wanted to give my portion to the people of Liberia and asked if there was anything in his community that I could help with.

He said that there were a lot of children that were in need because their parents were so poor.

So I asked, how can we help the children?

And he said, school materials, stationery, book bags, chairs.

These are the things that children suffer for the most.

He said that we should start by targeting the youngest 100 kids and that it would cost me about $500.

I thought this is where we're really going to find out what Joel's made out of.

Either he's going to use that money for the kids or he's going to keep it for himself.

But I still owed him money, so I decided to move forward and see what happens.

Joel agreed.

Ben just shrugged.

He walked the cash to Western Union and sent it off into what he assumed would, you know, be the abyss, never to be seen or heard from again.

But after a few weeks, he received another package of photos.

These photos were colorful, filled with life, poignant, enlivening.

In them were schoolchildren praying.

They were saying a thankful prayer for their new book bags and notebooks and their sharp new outfits.

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Hey, you know, we always hear bad things about Hollywood.

May I share something

quite shocking, actually?

Hollywood stars celebrated a fundraiser for the Israeli Army last week in Los Angeles.

What?

Yeah.

Right?

No wonder that state is burning down.

Oregon,

some of the comments are about that.

What a surprise.

People don't, you know, there's a lot of people out there that just do not like Jews no matter what they do.

So

organized by friends of the Israeli Defense Forces and attended by Ashton Kutcher,

Gerard Butler, and Andy Garcia.

Wow.

I know.

There was somebody else in this story, too.

But now they're, you know.

Now the Palestinians are coming against them and they're very, very upset about it.

And

it's hard to imagine.

You see some of the footage from Israel this past day or two where it's just raining rockets.

Yeah, nobody's covering it.

You don't know exactly how you could not think they need a defense.

You could say Israel does things that you don't like.

I mean, this thing seemed to have started, and we covered it yesterday, with them in the middle of a peace agreement attempting some sort of assassination.

I mean, that was at least the story that

we talked about yesterday.

Yeah, they don't know if it was a kidnapping of a Hamas leader.

Of a Hamas leader.

Now, look, obviously, I think Hamas leaders deserve that.

However,

that's apparently what ticked off this last round.

So you can even say that Israel was at fault here at some way, but still, if you're a normal citizen, you're living in Israel, you had nothing to do with the military operations of your country, and you're just getting shelled by rockets all the time, and this happens whether there's an incident or not.

It's hard to imagine that you don't think that they should be able to have some defense.

So, could we switch subjects here and go to the White House and find out what the East Wing of the White House was doing yesterday.

This Mira Ricardel story.

What a bizarre one this is.

I have never seen anything like that.

What happened yesterday?

If you don't know the story, this is John Bolton's number two, basically.

And in the middle of the day, kind of out of nowhere with no real lead up,

the office of the first lady made a statement saying that she no longer had the honor to serve in this White House and she should be fired, basically.

And then there was a report from the Wall Street Journal that she had been escorted off the premises.

Which was not true.

Later on, they said

they were planning on doing it, but they were giving her time to clean out her desk.

So, I mean, basically, she's out.

So it's just fascinating.

Here's the story that I have.

One source familiar with the situation said Ricardel's firing is due in part to her bullying of aides both and below her.

Current and former colleagues paint a picture of a committed conservative and national security expert with a strong personality.

One former colleague described her as someone who doesn't suffer fools or have a nuanced touch when it comes to navigating the shoals of international politics.

She had apparently a feud going on between John Kelly

and

his deputy, and then locked horns with James Mattis.

Yeah, these are not good decisions.

These were not good decisions.

And then there was a spat over the First Lady's trip to Africa, apparently about the seating on the plane.

And

they were not booking hotel rooms for the First Lady's staff when they would go.

I mean, it just like romper room stuff.

Well, yeah, and that story came out.

It was focused mainly on John Kelly yesterday.

And you have to believe these two stories are tied together.

They may have believed Mira Ricardo was one of the sources for that story.

That's another reason she was, the White House was saying that she is linked to some of the leaks

of stories lately.

Which is it's just

look, these things have happened at a pace that has

outpaced any recent White House as far as high-level departures.

And that's not necessarily a surprise.

You know, it's not unexpected going into this.

But

we haven't seen Melania get involved in this at all.

No, but you haven't seen anybody take on Melania except the Trump, except for the press.

And even the press, you know.

You just, I mean, what part of you doesn't understand

happy wife, happy life?

Everybody knows that.

It's the president of the United States who tends to be a little grumpy from time to time, as it is.

Don't make his home life more grumpy.

He's got a lot of, you know, big problems to deal with in the world.

The seating of her staff on a plane or her not having, you know, hotel rooms because you didn't book it because you don't like her staff.

When he's going in to meet with somebody and he's got all of that stuff going on, you think you want him returning to his hotel room and have his wife go, you know what, somebody on your staff.

That's when a guy just says, make it go away.

Make this stop.

And apparently that's what he did yesterday.

That's what happens with a lot of high-level executives.

Sure, of course.

And everybody's been through this, right?

Like you have a situation where you're in the middle of something really serious.

I don't know, some tax issue or some massive problem going on with your house.

And that's the moment your two kids decide they're going to have an argument about something completely inane.

And you just need it to stop right now.

You don't care what the solution is.

You don't care who's right or who's wrong.

Get it out of my face.

Do you realize I've got something really important to do?

And that's when you're an executive like that.

The people who are under you, it is their job to make sure they don't complicate your life so that you are focusing on things other than your job.

So stupid.

So stupid.

Why would you do that?

So it is odd and it's never been done before, but if this is the story behind it, it's completely understandable.

We welcome Mr.

Pat Gray to the Radio Extravaganza today.

And

Pat does Pat Gray Unleashed, which is a podcast that you can listen to at your own time, or you can listen to in the morning as he records that live on the Blaze Radio Network.

Welcome, Pat.

How are you?

I'm good.

Yeah, good.

And you?

Good.

Well,

I'm good.

I've got a great story about

Pink's husband who

do you know another Pink?

Yes.

Okay.

I know several Pinks.

Okay.

So I had to return.

Well, there is Pinky.

I had had to pinnate.

Yeah.

So, anyway, so,

but that didn't really clarify when I said the singer, did it?

So, anyway, her husband took to Instagram and showed some pictures of some

pretty tough ombres, if you will, in Malibu with guns and a sign that said, Looters will be shot.

How insensitive and how reckless.

When is this going to stop?

I mean,

when is enough enough?

When is enough enough?

Malibu,

how did you even get a gun into Malibu?

Why would you have a gun in Malibu?

You're next to

Barbara Streisand.

Things should be fine.

No, I mean, you don't need guns.

Anyway, we'll get to that in a little while.

Pat, what's on your plate today?

Oh, so much.

For one thing, did you know there's a CEO of the Democratic National Committee?

There's a CEO, not just the head, who is Perez.

There's a CEO of the Democratic National Committee.

And

her name is Seema Nanda.

I didn't know Seema, and I didn't know about Hernanda.

And I didn't know she was a CEO of the Democratic Committee.

Right.

There's a lot here you didn't know about.

A lot, but I have a feeling there's more to the story.

Well, she was asked by Yahoo News about who's welcome in the Democrat Party.

And here's what she said.

Is there room for socialists in the Democratic Party?

Oh, sure.

You know, I think we can

get involved in

what we all call ourselves.

I think there is room for all sorts of Democrats in the Democratic Party.

What does that mean?

I think we can get involved in what we call ourselves.

What does that mean?

I don't know,

especially from the party that is doing, is only slicing and dicing everybody into groups.

Right.

You know what I mean?

You know, I think we can talk about

what we name ourselves each other.

That's a great point.

They're going to say no labels now.

This is all they talk about all the time.

These are the people that brought us LGBT, Taiwan,

identity politicians.

That's what they're all about.

Plus, the better question for the Democrat Party is, are there Democrats allowed in the socialist part?

Is there room for Democrats anymore

in the Socialist Party?

Because the Socialists have taken over that party.

I mean, is there any doubt in anybody's mind that it's become a party of socialists?

Yes, in a lot of people in the press, their mind.

I saw an article today that

Cinema is a, she won because she's such a centrist.

Oh, my gosh.

Which is easy.

Oh, good golly.

Really?

I mean, she definitely tried to play herself as a centrist.

She's not a centrist.

She's not a centrist.

She's no more centrist than Betto was.

Hang on just a second.

Just because she was a member of Code Pink doesn't make sense.

Yes, I know.

And that's another thing.

They are so extreme in that party.

I think we could learn some interesting lessons from the Democrats and how they've won so many battles.

I mean, they've just overton-windowed us on absolutely everything.

We need to start doing that on the right.

We need to start insisting on.

We won't.

I know we won't.

Yeah, you know why?

I need to.

I really am convinced because people like Paul Ryan don't believe in the stuff that we believe.

They don't believe in a

real conservatism.

Yeah, they don't believe in strict adherence to the Constitution.

They don't believe that.

And, you know, that's a cute little thing, but we got to do what we got to do.

So they won't overton window.

I would love to overton window and say, you know what, let's reset this to 1791 kind of style.

Can you imagine?

They would go crazy, crazy.

And then, if you were like, okay, well, we just want to get rid of the Department of Education.

They would be, oh, okay, all right.

Finally, some sane people around.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Start with, with how about zero abortions for any reason ever let's start there and when babies come out of the birth canal they're given an ar-15 at birth okay right let's start there

okay on on abortions and gun control that's where we begin yeah i think and what we do is we start with the ak-47 is fully loaded and then we compromise to they have to load it themselves when they learn right right right then we're then we're then it's a bipartisan solution right exactly right exactly And then we start arguing with them when they have a problem with some of our solutions.

You know, I think

this really is what they've done.

It is what they've done.

Tell me.

They have unveiled plans

for guaranteed jobs, guaranteed housing.

That is directly from the Soviets.

It's from the Soviet Constitution.

Remember when they started saying $15 minimum wage and how ridiculous it sounded?

And then I was watching something Stossel did for Reason yesterday, and it's all about how Amazon came out and they were getting criticized and everyone wanted a $15 minimum wage and they fought back for a little while.

And then they said, oh, all right, $15 minimum wage.

Then they started harassing other companies to match.

Then they said they're going to lobby Congress to raise the minimum wage to $15.

And of course, Stossel completely right on this point is this is just good for Amazon.

If every other company has to raise theirs to $15, they're already paying $15 an hour.

Everyone else gets forced to raise it.

It's just going to give an advantage to Amazon.

And that's exactly what they did with the progressives in World War II.

They put out great car companies, great tire companies, great manufacturers because GM, Chrysler,

and Ford all got together and said,

this is what we think that the country should mandate.

for

manufacturing.

And so it was good for the big three because they could afford it.

And they put everyone else out of business.

That's what's happening again.

Alex Epstein has made this case before.

He wrote the moral case for fossil fuels.

We've had him on the show before.

And his point is: like, we constantly, as people who are conservatives and small government, are arguing just for a less worse version of what the left is asking for.

You look at, look, right now, Obamacare is a great example of this.

We are like, free market solutions, free market solutions, free market solutions.

They're like, oh, we want government, government, government, government.

So they come in and they pass Obamacare and it's all going through.

And now literally every single member of the Republican Party, with, I don't know, a couple of exceptions, have now taken large swaths of Obamacare and embraced it.

Three states voted to get the Medicare expansion that initially conservative states opposed.

The pre-existing conditions thing is part of the platform, basically, for the Republican Party now.

It's because the Republican Party continues to hire people and elect people like Mitt Romney, who

is for all of these programs.

Well, see, but Donald Trump's for that, too.

Oh, I know that.

I know.

You know, I mean, this is.

Well, they're like-minded, more like-minded than people would believe.

Certainly, different approaches.

Different approaches.

Absolutely.

They're similar in policies.

They're both really moderate Republicans.

Correct.

He's a nice guy that believes in big government, and

Donald Trump believes, you know, a hammer to get things done.

Right.

But he believes in big government.

Yeah.

And, you know, can we talk a little bit about the tariffs?

Because

there was a new study that came out that showed where Trump lost is the parts of the country where the tariffs hit people the hardest.

Yeah, it's an interesting analysis and it's not a huge surprise.

The economy is such an important issue and Trump rightly gets some credit for it and we've been on a great run here for a while.

But the issues of when we set these tariffs on China, China responded and they targeted it.

Remember this?

They were like, oh, they targeted these regions and they have political importance to the president and they targeted all of those.

And they have now.

So a lot of these farmers in like Iowa, for example, where the Republicans lost a couple seats in somewhat surprising circumstances, were regions where they were exporting tons of material to China and now are no longer doing it.

There was one analysis that had soybean exports, which has got to be the most boring lead-in to a story in history, but they were down 97% to China.

97%.

It's wiping out your whole business.

From $1.1 billion a month.

Okay, from about $1 billion a month to $24 million

exports in soybeans to China.

This destroys your business.

It lost your business.

Billion to $24 million.

You can't do business that way.

Yeah, we can.

We can do it like FDR, and we can then subsidize the farming.

Well, you're going to have to.

Yeah, you're going to have to.

You're going to have to.

And

this is why tariffs are so bad.

They're just so bad.

It's really kicking in now.

Yeah.

Anybody who supports the president

needs to, in the nicest of ways,

recommend, urge the president, has won.

You've won, Mr.

President.

You've won.

Now let's get rid of these tariffs.

And again, tariffs.

Before they ruin the economy, because if you lose the economy, you're going to lose in 2020.

He's done.

And look, Trump inherently, I think, knows that tax increases hurt the economy.

It's why he fought for a tax decrease.

But this is a tax increase for whatever reason.

He's loved for a time.

He doesn't look at it like that, though.

No, he does.

At all.

And look, because

he looks at the trade deficit, which it is not as a scoreboard.

If you're exporting more than you're importing, you win.

But that's not true.

It's just not true.

It's not true.

But again, he ran on this issue.

He said he was going to do this and he's doing it.

Bigger issue is a more foundational issue, and it's way bigger than Trump, is that there were a group of people, you know, 1700s-ish, that came up with a really good idea that said, you know, maybe we shouldn't be wildly swinging our trade policy back and forth all over the place because if a new president gets in with a different idea and he can control it all, then, you know, that doesn't make any sense.

So let's, I don't know, write it in the Constitution that Congress should be handling tariffs.

Congress should be handling these issues.

It's in the Constitution.

What's that?

This is not Trump issue.

Was that like this century, though?

I don't know.

I was in this Constitution.

Did we figure that out on Twitter or Facebook?

Yeah.

When did we do that?

I've seen people post parts parts of it on Twitter and Facebook.

But the point is that Congress gave up their control to the president.

They ceded control.

This is Congress's fault.

They should take it back.

They can.

And they can.

They can take it back.

That's crazy talks, dude.

That's crazy talks.

So, Pat, one more thing.

And I heard on your show driving in today that, and this is a really heartwarming story,

that Michelle Obama is back in the real world.

Yeah,

well, it's hard.

You know,

things are different than they were in the White House, and they were there for eight years.

So they got kind of used to

making their toast for them and not allowing them to touch anything in the cupboards in the kitchen.

When they would come into the kitchen, they'd say, what do you need?

We'll get it for you.

And they got it for them.

And so they could have care of that.

They could have said, because other presidents have, no, no, no.

No, no, let me do it.

I can do it for you.

I'll do this.

But no, they didn't do that.

So she says, now here I am in my new home, just me and our four dogs.

Well, two dogs, Bo and Sonny.

And I do a simple thing.

I go downstairs and open the cabinet in my own kitchen, which you don't do in the White House because there's always somebody there going, Let me get that.

What do you want?

Yeah,

not in the private quarters you can say, no, go away, go away.

Yeah, but she apparently didn't do that.

Okay.

This time, in her own home, she made her own toast.

Oh, my gosh.

And then she okay,

she barely made it through.

Really?

Yeah, soon.

She has those

toned arms

to be able to

push the little thing down for the toast.

These arms are magnificent.

Have you seen her arms?

Oh my gosh, they are bigger than the arms.

They're even more radical.

Well, that goes without saying.

So, with her arms, her beautiful, beautiful arms, she took her toast and walked out into my backyard, she says.

There were dogs barking in the distance, and I realized Bo and Sonny had really never heard neighbor dogs.

Oh, my God.

Because in the White House, they didn't have any neighbors.

Sure, sure, sure.

They're like, what's that?

What's that?

And I'm like, yep, we're in the real world now, fellas.

Oh, my God.

They're in the real world in their $8 million DC home.

Wow.

With dogs you can only hear in the distance because the neighbors are so far away.

And this

real world.

And this trailer park trash thing called a toaster.

I don't know how they're doing it.

Where you have to operate it yourself.

That's crazy.

I just hope she's not walking around with toast points because those are...

Toast points can be very dangerous.

She doesn't run with those.

Very, don't run.

I hear Great Britain is outlawing toast points.

Oh, really?

Yeah, they got rid of the guns and the knives, but toast points are still there.

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I'm going to my aunt's house.

We go every year, same place, and I am going to gain 35 pounds in one day.

That's my goal.

Also, I'll be here next week, by the way, doing the program with the exception of Thanksgiving.

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So I'm kind of excited.

I'm going up to the mountains and hiding from all of the relatives.

So you will not have, what you're saying is you will not have access to listen to the show.

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That's what you're saying.

That's exactly what I'm saying.

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But the flowers would make him feel like, you know, he really does mean that.

That'd be really nice.

I mean, I'm going to be here.

You're not going to be here.

Maybe he sends some to the studio for me.

Maybe, you know, hey, I'm thinking about you, even though I'm not at all.

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Nancy Pelosi.

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that was under President George W.

Bush and Barack Obama.

Now, reasons she actually gave.

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you can't have the four leaders of Congress and the President of the United States, these five people, and not have the voice of a woman.

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Oh, they are.

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Thank you, comrade.

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Bill Foster, Seth Moulton from Illinois, the Democrat from Massachusetts, a woman, well, she's a sellout to her gender, Kathleen Rice, Tim Ryan from Ohio, Kurt Schrader from Oregon, Connor Lamb from Pennsylvania, and also Vela from Texas.

Campaign staff for incoming representatives of Abigail Spanberger from Virginia, Jason Crowe from Colorado have also said they're not going to be voting for Pelosi.

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It's Wednesday, November 14th.

You're listening to the Glenbeck program.

So my staff of millennials are talking about adulting.

I don't even know what adulting is.

And a quarter life crisis.

What the heck is a quarter life crisis?

Well, we're about to find out.

JP Pokluta is

an author of a book called Welcome to Adulting,

and

it is taking millennials by storm.

Welcome, JP.

How are you?

Hey, I'm doing so great.

Thanks for having me on, Glenn.

Appreciate you.

You bet.

Okay, so, JP,

adulting.

What exactly is adulting?

Well, it is the practice of behaving in a way characteristic of a responsible adult, especially the accomplishment accomplishment of a mundane but necessary task.

If that sounds like I read that from the dictionary, it's because I did.

It's a new word.

We just put that in the dictionary last year, and so it is official.

So this is something that we used to just do naturally.

When you were 18, you were, at least in my household, you were kind of expected to go out and earn your own way.

And, you know, you're an adult now.

Get out.

And

now we, now, why the breakdown of this thing that has always been natural?

Well, I don't know that it's always been natural.

I mean, I think hindsight is always 20-20 when we look back on our own development and how we've grown up.

And I know what they're saying about millennials and young adults today, the delayed adolescence, they're lazy, narcissistic.

I don't think that's entirely true at all.

Yeah, entitled and all of those things.

And I appreciate, you know, it sounds like we may have a shared perspective on that because

it seems like

we all need help growing up and exist in different times and whatnot.

And

when I look at the future,

I'm hopeful.

I think these guys, they need leaders.

They need people to inspire them.

But I think

they want to do something great.

They want to change the world.

They want to do something bigger than themselves.

And I hope this is a resource that helps them do that.

Okay, so

this is part of the problem, I think, with suicides that are rising in millennials.

And it it is that people just aren't convinced that they can make a difference, that their life has no meaning, that there is no purpose to anything.

And is this what the quarter life crisis is about?

Yeah, I think that's absolutely right, Glenn.

I think people are looking for purpose.

I think they're looking in the wrong places.

I think they have a thousand friends on social media, you know, a thousand Twitter followers, you know, whatever, but no real relationships, no depth, no meaningful conversations.

They're not looking for hope in the right places, and so they despair.

You know, they want to be the number one and number two goals of millennials are to be rich and to be famous.

And when they hit the wall of pursuing riches and pursuing stardom, they're left despairing and they're looking for more.

I will tell you that

wealth and fame are gigantic imposters.

And

what really led me to my awakening in my 30s was

I had accomplished a little bit of both and realized that's completely empty.

And then had no idea where to go

and where to find it.

Brad Pitt says the same thing.

Tom Brady says the same thing.

Jim Carrey says the same thing.

Russell Brand just came out with a statement saying the same thing.

My friend Todd says

the rich are infinitely better off than the poor because while the poor think riches will bring happiness, the wealthy know better.

And

I think that's a true statement.

The same is with fame.

And, you know, these millennials, young adults and whatnot, they want to do something bigger than themselves.

They just don't know how.

And so there's this cry of their heart.

The scripture says that God has set eternity in our hearts.

I think they're trying to fill that eternal void with all the things of this world, and they're just coming up empty.

And so I think the generation, your listeners, the generation that has gone before them, needs to be patient and take time.

Sit down with them.

Continue to tell the war stories of old.

Tell us about the times of you growing up, the hardships that you faced.

Try to do so without judgment and ask lots of questions.

Seek to understand.

Become a student of your children and grandchildren and know that they really, there is a desire in them.

It may be hidden behind some arrogance and pride, but there is a desire in them to learn from you i will tell you that i don't think there was this spread of misunderstanding between generations uh when i was a kid maybe between my grandparents and and me uh because they grew up in the great depression but not my parents and and me i mean there was the misunderstanding but things in the world uh have changed so much that when you talk to millennials now and i'm you know 54 you talk to millennials and it is a different world.

They see the world differently.

They speak a different language.

They understand technology and the world as it's going to be much better.

And

I think they have a reason to be a little concerned if they don't have somebody in their life that's an older generation going, it's okay.

It's okay.

It's really exciting.

What you guys are facing is really exciting.

And you're going to be able to change the world if you keep your head on your shoulders.

Yeah, I think you're right.

You have to have someone to talk to.

I also think you're pointing to the right challenges with the information age, the boom of technology, you know, carrying a mega computer in our pockets everywhere we go.

That does change a person.

And so it's interesting what you say about the gap between you and your parents being smaller.

I think that that's probably, I would share your perspective.

And at the same time, I think that we all go through something I like to call kind of the younger brother, older brother syndrome, which comes I picked that up from the biblical story of the prodigal son, where I think we're all kind of the older, I mean the younger brother at some point, and someone is patient with us and you know embraces us and extends grace to us, and then

we're with the Father and all is right and we grow up and we overnight become the the older brother, and then we just look back with judgment, and we don't want to be patient with anyone else.

And so, I try to, you know, when I sit with someone

who's young and naive and just like I was, and I'm sure am in ways I can't see right now,

just to be patient with them, seek to understand their world, where they're coming from, what is their worldview, and

point them to truth.

So, you're working now at Waterfront or Watermark Church, which is a great, great organization here in Dallas, Texas.

I don't even know how what's the youth population there?

I don't know the youth.

So I spend all my time with young adults.

So 20 to 35 is the porch.

I say all my time.

I teach on the weekends as well.

Right.

Services.

I share that with Todd, our senior pastor.

But we have, at the porch on a Tuesday night, we have about 4,000 young adults here in Dallas.

That's amazing.

And then we have another 10 campuses around the country, and then another 50,000 or so streaming online.

And so

it's become, by God's grace, the largest young adult gathering in the country.

So what is the number one thing that

they are concerned about?

And how can people who are listening help them?

Yeah, I appreciate you saying that.

I think,

well, dating, right, at that point in your life, you've graduated college and you're trying to figure out how you can convince someone of the opposite sex to spend the rest of their life with you.

Anxiety is a huge felt need right now as you talk about just growing suicide rates and depression rates.

I think you have a generation despairing, out of control.

And so that's a huge felt need.

But the biggest one you also touched on keenly is just searching for purpose.

I think they're trying to figure out, hey, you know,

is there a God, first of all?

And if there is, what is his desire for me?

And how do I find my purpose in this world?

And so that is, I don't know that that's the felt need.

I think the felt need can be more of the dating and anxiety.

But the real need, the underlying need is, hey, what were you created for?

And that's where I think this book, you know, the chapter two is all about purpose and finding your identity.

I will tell you, the name of the book is Welcome to Adulting, by the way.

And I'll tell you, JP, that if it, you know, I searched for answers for a long time, and in my 30s, I had a complete crash, and I lost absolutely everything.

And it was only then that I was willing to look at the real answer, which is God.

And, you know, he had been just this distant kind of thing that I believed in, but it wasn't really a real relationship, et cetera, et cetera.

And I, you know, I,

it's not something that is being encouraged at all in a large portion of our society now.

And,

you know, churches seem so out of touch to so many millennials.

I mean, it's different here in the South, but seem completely distant.

And God is kind of this distant idea.

And we were just listening to some audio from the wildfires in California.

I don't think I've heard so many Californians talk about God ever.

You know,

when you are really stripped down, that's when you start to find answers.

That's when you, you know, in the midst of human suffering, that's where you find him.

And they say there's no atheist in the foxhole.

And

we've seen that.

We almost saw a great awakening happen when 9-11 occurred.

Whenever tragic hits, we turn to the Creator.

I've seen the same thing in Haiti when the earthquake hit in 2010.

You had the whole country coming around saying, okay, now

turning from Satanism to, okay, we think there's a creator, a God.

And that's similar to my story, Glenn.

I mean, 16 years ago, I was at a bar on a Saturday night and was kind of everything wrong with Dallas in a person.

It was pretentious.

I wanted to be a millionaire before I was 30.

I had the Jaguar in the penthouse condo and was, you know, a girlfriend and another, you know, several girls and all of that just in one person.

And I was at a bar and someone invited me to church and I came to Watermark and I sat in the back row and I was hungover.

I smelled like smoke from the night before, you know, at the club and I was addicted to sex, addicted to porn.

And I just began to wrestle with, you know, who is God and really seeking that out.

And I looked at all of the world religions because I thought, what are the odds?

I'd be born to the right country.

You know, if I was born in China, I'd be Buddhist or India, I'd be Hindu.

Iran, I might be Muslim.

And so I just started studying, started from scratch.

I grew up in the church, but I was just like, really had a bias against Christianity.

And as I continued to explore that, I was overwhelmed by the evidence that pointed me to Jesus Christ.

And when I surrendered my life to him, just as that person that I described earlier, everything changed.

What I did for fun changed, who I hung out with changed.

The way I thought changed, the way I talked changed, and ultimately, you know, my profession changed.

And so I'm so passionate about helping the next generation reach this generation.

You call it Gen Y or Gen Z, millennials, young adults.

I want to see that gap you addressed earlier become narrower and smaller so that we can raise it up because all of us,

we're going to leave this place.

And you want to leave a legacy.

You want to leave people behind you that are seeking to

live out their purpose in this world.

JP,

I'm thrilled to have you on.

It sounds like we have a lot of shared experiences and shared belief in the younger generation.

I think they get a very bad rap.

I've met good and bad, but I've met good and bad in all generations.

This generation is looking.

They just don't have anyone encouraging and anyone who is telling them truth.

They've been lied to, I think,

their whole life.

And I have great confidence in them.

So thank you so much for what you're doing.

And the name of the book is Welcome to Adulting.

Welcome to Adulting.

Jonathan JP Pokluda.

Thanks for being on.

We'll talk again.

Thanks, JP.

Glenn, thank you so much.

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I grew up in the Pacific Northwest and wildfires are something that,

you know, when you're out in the West, you grow up hearing and you grow up seeing the smoke and

it's, you know, even from neighboring states or in my case, neighboring neighboring countries, if part of Canada was on fire, you would

see it, and it was just part of life.

This is something like I've never, ever seen before in my life.

This wildfire is

remarkable.

Maybe, maybe I remember early in the 70s, there might have been something.

But even this one, this is the biggest one in the history of California.

And our thoughts and our prayers and our arms and our feet and our back and our wallets are with California.

And we keep you in our thoughts and our prayers, but we are also backing that up like we always do with action.

Joy Villa is, she does the Joy Villa show, and she's the host of obviously that.

I mean, who else would you have hosted with that name?

Seeing that her name is the same.

Anyway, she's a singer.

You might remember her.

She went to the Grammys wearing a Make America Great Again dress, and that didn't go over real well,

at least with the people that she was standing with or standing around.

But she is one of the Mercury One ambassadors out in California, and she has been out with

the wildfires, and we thought we'd have her on to just tell us

what's going on.

Welcome to the program, Joy.

How are you?

Hi, Glenn.

Good morning.

Great to be here.

Thank you.

What is happening, Joy?

What is it like to be there?

It's really bad.

It's really bad.

You know, I grew up in Santa Barbara.

Like you were saying, you grew up in the Pacific Northwest.

So fires are sort of a natural occurrence.

But this is the worst fire in California history.

The one up north, Campfire, has claimed 48 lives and almost 9,000 structures.

It is the deadliest fire.

And there's still, what, is it 250 people missing?

There's still 250 people missing.

That's right.

That's right.

More than 150,000 people have been displaced, including many of my friends.

So they don't have a home.

They don't know where to go.

So part of what we did

with the team, with Mercury One, and with our partners on the ground, is getting supplies to those people who are displaced, like toiletries and hygiene kits and some of the food to a few base camps out here.

Also getting that to the firefighters who have been fighting nonstop for days, getting them coffee and protein bars and water.

So we dropped off supplies out in Camarillo and Thousand Oaks.

But the fires are everywhere down here.

Right now, the fire in Los Angeles City, the Woolsey fire, it's bigger than the city of Denver at this point.

Oh, my gosh.

And

is it moving towards like Sherman Oaks and

Los Angeles proper?

Is it moving that direction?

Well, the winds, it's hard to, like yesterday, we were looking at the fires trying to find out where it was going next, and it was going towards Malibu.

So now Malibu is where the fire is at.

But the winds keep changing.

There's the Santa Ana winds coming up, and it's so dry everywhere, it's hard to predict where it is.

Right now, where it's the biggest and most dangerous, and

especially vicious, is in a city called Paradise, which is up in Northern California.

And there, it has almost completely destroyed that whole city.

I think it's 40% of the residents have homes that have been destroyed.

This is remarkable.

It's unheard of.

It's never been seen before.

You know,

we had wildfires last year that were really bad, but this, because of the dryness, because of the climate, because we're in

a lack of moisture, and because the winds are so bad that this fire could be burning for weeks.

There's no telling when it's going to stop.

I mean, it's getting more and more contained, but yet it's starting in other places.

That's the the problem.

So Stu said to me earlier today, I wonder why the news is not covering this the way they do with hurricanes, where they have the reporters live on the ground and they're there all the time.

And my only, and this is a guess, my only guess is at one point this fire was consuming 80 football fields a minute.

And

even the fire departments, they can't keep ahead of it.

They'll say, we're going to meet at this place.

And by the time they get there, the fire has burned that place down and

and long past it so there's there's no real safe place right because

there isn't you're absolutely right glenn it's moving too fast at one point it was moving about a hundred miles per hour it absolutely consumes everything in its wake and if you're close to it you have to get out the evacuation notices almost can't go fast enough you know but even in the valley the los angeles valley there's smoke in the air so people are evacuating even though the flames are not particularly close.

Even the smoke is starting to suffocate.

There's ash on many lawns.

I mean, I'm in the western part of Los Angeles, so it hasn't reached me, thank God.

But I can smell smoke when I go down on the freeway.

The smoke is absolutely covering the whole city.

So it's very dangerous.

It moves extremely fast.

The wind is pushing it over freeways, so it's able to jump.

across a freeway to get to another area.

That's how it's gotten from the northern California to southern California.

It's just, it's pretty much surrounding all of California.

And people don't understand, you know, when you see these people

and they're on their cell phone and they're trying to get out and there's flames everywhere, you know, you think about the smoke and how it stings your eyes and everything else, but you don't understand that a fire this size is eating all of the oxygen.

So it's not that you can't breathe because you're breathing in just smoke.

There's no oxygen.

It's eating all of the oxygen.

Absolutely.

It really is.

And it's become so dangerous.

That's one of the things right now.

The worst thing is the smoke is getting very toxic.

The dust is bad.

For the areas that have been burned, it's just a complete wasteland.

And there's going to be need to be months and months and months of cleanup, even after these fires stop burning.

I have a house I was up in

Idaho

over

the summer.

And because of the California, sorry, because of the fires in Canada, and I'm in southern Idaho,

I couldn't even see the mountains.

You couldn't see the mountains.

Drive in the valley, you can't see the mountains.

People I don't know in the rest of the country understand the size and the scope and the

effect that these wildfires

have.

Joy, how can we help people?

Well,

the good news is that there's plenty of people who want to help and there is a way to help.

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Are you coming in for the gala?

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God bless you.

Thank you.

We'll see you Saturday.

We still have Mercury One partners on the ground in North Carolina.

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This one comes from Kansas City, the health department there.

They're facing backlash now because they poured bleach on meals that were meant for the homeless.

And the reason why is they had problems with the way the food was prepared.

They weren't prepared in a city-approved kitchen.

And because of that, we had to pour bleach over all of this.

Kansas City Star reports that the group Free Hot Soup KC

had intended to distribute food such as home-cooked chili, foil-wrapped sandwiches, and soup to the homeless on November 5th.

But the city's health department came in, took all of the items at separate parks where the food was going to be handed out, and they were asked, do you have a permit to do this?

And they're like, no, we're just handing out soup.

Well, where was this prepared?

Wasn't prepared in an approved kitchen, so they poured bleach in the food and all over the food.

Now, can I ask you a question?

This closes people's hearts.

This doesn't help.

This closes people's hearts.

You think, what is the name of this place?

Free hot soup KC.

Do you think the people want their name in the paper saying that they caused

a salmonella breakout with all the homeless?

They'd be destroyed.

The people would be destroyed.

That's a big enough deterrent.

Why do you have to control everything?

Why are you trying to teach us not to help each other?

And Kansas City, they came out and they said, well, we have laws.

We have laws.

And

everybody

has to help us protect the public health, really by throwing away lots of food for the homeless who who need it.

So ridiculous.

So ridiculous.

People get so worried about this stuff.

You are likely in your entire life to never consume a piece of seafood that was even visually inspected by the FDA.

That's how good our system is.

That's how good capitalism works.

People have incentives.

It's not because of inspections.

Even visual inspections, you are likely to never consume a piece of seafood in your life that was visually considered inspected.

Never?

Never.

Because there's way too much coming in.

They can't inspect it all.

And people are like, oh my gosh, can you believe they want to cut the budget of the FDA?

And it's like, well, you realize that

this is a point against you.

Capitalism works so well.

These incentives work so well that this food comes in and you almost never get sick, even though it's not inspected at all, because they have an incentive to make sure that they don't screw it up.

Yeah, you're out of business.

I mean, with the exception of Jack in the Box, you're out of business.

I know Jack in the Box hates it when I bring that up because it's been like 40 years.

Right.

But I mean, again, they took a huge hit for that.

I mean, that was a massive scandal, and it's the reason why they're still getting mentioned today in a negative context, even though their food is delicious.

I mean, they eat breakfast all day at the freestyle Coke machines.

I mean, it's like they put it together.

I've got two small kids, I bring them there all the time.

That's how much our trust came.

All right, all right.

But you're right.

The incentive is there.

Who's going to bring

moldy sandwiches down?

You don't think those people are going to be

the known plague on the city?

You don't do that.

You don't do that.

Trust people.

Trust the system.

Trust the normal checks and balances.

If I were in Kansas City, I'd be outraged.

I'd be outraged.

I mean, look at, while they're doing this, San Francisco has just passed with 59.9% of the vote, Proposition C.

You say, what is Proposition C?

Well, it's going to mean victory for the homeless.

Oh, good.

They're going to have a home,

and the city is finally going to help those truly in need.

Well, that doesn't tell me anything.

What is Proposition C?

Well, this means the homeless are going to have a home.

Now, what exactly does it mean when we come back?

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Well, after years of

really stoking the dreams of cities all across the country, where is Amazon going to build their next their second headquarters?

Where could it possibly be?

Well, after an exhaustive search, Amazon has decided

on New York City.

No,

really?

But they said, we don't want to leave out

the rest of the country.

We want to make sure we're touching the hearts and lives of everyone.

So they're also building a second second headquarters in Northern Virginia, otherwise known as

suburban D.C.

Wow.

Now that's a, I mean, that's amazing.

First of all, one headquarters that's your second headquarters, just not enough for Amazon.

They have to have two second headquarters, which is fantastic.

And then they had the bravery, the bravery to pick New York City

and suburban D.C.

That's, I mean, wow, that took a lot of, that took a lot of guts.

Now, the socialist mayor in New York, Bill Blasio, De Blasio said, the single biggest economic development deal in the history of New York City.

Now, hang on just a second, because I thought these jobs sucked.

I thought all these jobs that Amazon was making, I thought everybody hated that.

I thought Amazon was the big evil monster.

80 hours a week, non-stop.

I mean,

it's bad.

Horrible working conditions, forcing people to work work extra hours,

no culture at all.

Remember this?

Now, all these same liberal cities are just begging Amazon to show up.

Are they punishing their constituents?

I'm not sure.

Now, the Cato Institute rakes New York as the worst state in the country for economic freedom.

It's been ranked 50th now for years.

Which is 50th out of what, though?

That's the thing.

You haven't asked me.

Well, out of 50.

Out of 50.

The other headquarter location, Northern Virginia, is technically technically correct, but it's really Washington, D.C., which doesn't scare the hell out of me at all.

No, it's good to give more power to a corporation like Amazon to just intertwine itself with the government.

With the government even more.

I think that's fantastic.

Now,

the brand new Democratic Socialist congresswoman, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, she's a little upset.

She says that this isn't really good.

But I don't understand that.

I mean, 25,000 new jobs and the average salary is 150,000.

And

that's not an exaggeration.

And I'm sure all of the people in, you know, in her little area of Brooklyn where they're building this, I'm sure all those people are going to be the first on the list for Amazon to hire, don't you think?

I'm sure they are.

It's not going to just drive the property rates up through the roof and then have the little people go, what the hell happened to me?

I will say at least she's being consistent.

Yeah.

Congratulations on that.

Unlike most of the people in New York.

Well, like Bill de Blasio.

Yeah.

You know, the socialist.

Yeah.

done like big business and then bends over backwards, gives them a huge sweet deal.

Billions of taxpayer dollars to bribe them to come to their city.

Yeah, yeah.

So they've picked so far, you know, as the entrepreneurial bastions of the world, Seattle, New York City, and Washington, D.C.

It's Wednesday, November 14th.

You're listening to the Glembeck program.

Now we bring in

Andrew Heaton

to join us.

He's from

what is it?

Something's Off?

Something's Off with Andrew Heaton.

Yeah, I just keep, and I've never heard of a name of a show that is more accurate than that one.

It's top of the charts with the Heaton family right now.

Yeah.

It's doing really well.

It's doing really well.

It's a hit in Alva, Oklahoma.

Yeah.

Okay.

So anyway, Something's Off with Andrew Heaton.

And it's a look at the news and kind of an enjoyable look at the news.

Thank you.

Yeah, because you don't really get into all of the tit-for-tat kind of stuff.

I think that the news has so much bile in it right now and so much, it's as if everybody sits down at the beginning of the day and goes, Let's talk about which team is the good team, which team is the bad team.

And I don't think that's helpful, and I'd rather just kind of be a release valve for everybody.

We'll talk about substantive stuff.

We had a good chat yesterday about like, you know, kind of the way the parties break down and everything.

But I kick it off with, you know, some something that's a little bit more enjoyable.

Well,

I didn't think that it was the best thing to start the show with animal news.

No, no, no.

Animal news.

Yeah, but I was surprised because,

you know, what you told me yesterday in your podcast actually helps me make sense of what's happening in Florida.

Yes, it does.

Thank you.

Yeah.

So, you know, I do a lot of research every day, and this was from a credible publication.

It's from National Geographic.

Right.

But there was a story that I read about how Florida's worried about

monkeys,

escaped rhesus macaque monkeys with a deadly herpes herpes simplex B that can jump species, running them up through Florida.

And I looked into this.

I mean, first of all, standard headline for Florida.

This seems about right.

Yeah, Florida reads that.

They don't even read this story.

They're like, of course.

Yeah, they're like, it's Tuesday.

We got it.

Thank you.

Monkeys running.

Monkeys are going to ruin everybody.

In 1938, this guy wanted to start a Tarzan-themed island in Florida.

So he purchased six rhesus macaque monkeys from

a dealer in New York, and and he dropped them off of this island.

Wait, wait, wait.

Yeah, well, I.

Wait, you go to New York for your.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

That's it.

You go to the Macaque district

over 134th Street.

Okay, that's it.

All right.

I wasn't aware of that.

Development zone.

There's lots of good tax breaks for that.

Yeah, get your monkeys here.

Okay.

He bought these monkeys and he released them on this island, and he didn't know that Rhesus Macaque monkeys are apparently the Michael Phelps of the monkey family.

And they were there 45 minutes before they escaped into the woods of, or into the sweltering swampland of Florida, and they've been breeding there ever since.

They're up to several hundred or a few thousand or something like that.

And they're increasing at 11% per year.

And again, I want to get back to this deadly herpes simplex V virus.

It, because this is what, I was like, well, I mean, are you saying that

people are sleeping?

No, it's not that anybody's doing anything untoward.

Well, I mean, it is Florida.

It's possible.

It's possible.

That is one ugly woman, but

somebody did die from it.

No, I'll I'll say this.

If you're in Florida, I don't think you, I think there's way more stuff to be worried about if you're in Florida than these deadly monkeys.

I think they're like number eight.

I don't think

I don't know.

I think you might be better off if you worry about the deadly monkeys.

Your day will be more enjoyable.

The monkeys are number eight.

Where is the Broward County Election Board?

Oh, gosh.

I think I put that at like number seven.

I think the actual systemic Florida problems far outrank any flash in the pan elections that are going on.

Right, okay.

But yeah, you can't.

So if you catch this, this Herpes Simplex B from the Rhesus monkeys,

it'll give you, it does spinal inflammation, and it'll either kill you or give you brain damage.

And it's very difficult to get, but if you get monkey,

monkey body fluid in your eye or something like that, like one of them throws something at you or you're performing open heart surgery on a monkey out of a van.

Right.

Because I heard you say this last night, that, you know, if you get...

Because one person who died from it, she got...

Yeah.

Yeah, she got monkey body fluid.

Yeah.

And I didn't say what, but, you know.

Yeah.

I wonder.

We don't know.

I mean, monkeys, you know, they could have thrown something.

They could

any number of situations, but it did kill her.

So it is a concern.

And they're coming up with all these solutions of like, well, we can like,

we can, we can,

we can castrate every fourth monkey.

Like, that's a solution, is to try and like, we don't want to ruin the population.

And the thing that I started thinking about was

Florida has 29 electoral votes.

It has deadly, escaped, swimming, racism of cock monkeys.

And it has 29 electoral votes.

George F.

Will, zero electoral votes.

George F.

Will, he lives in a library.

He basically lives in a library with a mattress in the middle.

He's a smart, educated guy.

No electoral votes.

Only guilty of like oblique baseball metaphors.

No electoral votes.

You go to George F.

Will, and Florida gets 29.

That just doesn't seem fair to me.

Right.

Right.

I think

I didn't get into this as a podcast, but I think because there is all this difficulty with Broward County and everything else going on in Florida, I think next election, Florida, if you're in Florida, you should be allowed to vote for another state, Canadian province, or astronaut, and that gets to make your vote for you.

That's my plan for Florida, is kind of take them, just remove the whole state a little bit from the decision-making Florida.

I thought about taking the monkeys and putting them in charge of the vote.

I mean, I could see a lot of elections going worse than having these monkeys.

I mean, because all those that are only truly, I mean, if you're being paid off or if you're just like casting a fake ballot, you're not going to do it if you think the supervisor is going to throw some, you know, some feces at you and it might get in your eye and kill you.

Or you could, you know, they make those investing things about like a monkey can, you know, throw darts at a dartboard.

Maybe that's how you pick propositions.

Okay.

You just put the monkeys in charge.

I like that.

So

California is another state that I think may have Reese McCock monkeys running rampant in it.

The

San Francisco

voter population went out to vote on Proposition C

and it passed with 59.9% of the vote.

And this is this, let me, may I quote.

That's over half the vote.

Yeah.

Proposition.

Wow, you are bright.

You are really.

Thank you very much.

Did you just do that on yourself?

Magda cum laude.

Proposition C's victory.

Now listen to this.

Proposition C's victory means the homeless will have a home and the help they truly need because the city has come together in love.

So, is it just a resolution that we want to help homeless people or does it have force of law behind it?

No, it's the largest tax increase in San Francisco history.

Oh, okay.

But it's a loving tax increase.

If it was just the resolution, I was like, I always really like it when Congress debates if the buffalo should be the national mammal or something.

I feel like they're not messing with the economy.

So maybe, but okay, but they're actually doing this.

No, no, they're doing this.

Companies with more than $50 million in gross revenue receipts will now be taxed on any gross annual receipt revenue in San Francisco.

And they already have that.

So this is just a giant increase.

It means that

a company that's doing

like they say Salesforce here, I don't know how much Salesforce is making in San Francisco, but they say that

it'll have to pay around $10 million per year,

which is

This is where I dropped the funny thing.

Are they giving out vouchers for

rental apartments?

Are they building homeless shelters or where's the money going to go?

No.

Did you hear what I said?

They're taking the money.

I heard that from

proposition 60.

Going to love.

Clearly to love.

Now that they've done this, this means the homeless will have a home and the help they truly need.

And love.

Wait, you didn't even say the love part.

Say the love part.

That's because the city came together for love for those who need it.

Am I to understand then that they just came up with a tax plan without a spending plan?

I mean, like, I'm actually, that never happens.

I'm very impressed if someone actually was just like, hey, you know what?

We feel like we might spend money in the future, so we're going to tax you now.

Like, usually we do it the other way around.

Well, no,

they have a plan.

They've already, you know,

they've doubled the money that they're spending now on the homeless problem to $300 million.

But I want to show you how effective it is.

The overall rate of homelessness in San Francisco in 2004 was 8,640.

Now, I think I've been to San Francisco.

I'm going to go with the higher number now.

They may be using Anatochus.

I think there's more than 8,000.

But

in just that short period of time, just 13 years, they've dropped that down to 7,499.

So, you know, they've gotten, you know.

So I just want to make sure I understand.

Their position is they've lowered the homeless population in San Francisco in the last 30 years.

That's their position.

Okay.

Yeah.

I don't believe them at all.

So just so we're quick.

Well, I mean, I don't know if they're counting the people who are living in tents as homeless now.

I mean,

that's a big one.

So, you know, and that's, and that's one of the things that they're doing with the money is

tents.

What about love?

Are they doing love?

Well, they are sending in, I'm not making this up.

They are sending in maid service.

Really?

Yes.

Yes.

What?

To the tent cities.

Yeah.

Really?

Yeah, because the homeless can't be expected to clean it up.

So

I'm going to play devil's advocate here for you.

Okay, go ahead.

Let's say

you're a big city on the West Coast, and you spend a ton of money on dealing with homeless problems.

It might just attract more homeless people.

I mean, like, it might suck them out of other cities, right?

I don't think that's a devil's advocate.

That's just

the truth.

Okay.

In which case, like, you know,

they're being compassionate in this regard.

Like, there's a difference between

shifting the problem versus creating the problem, I guess is what I'm saying, right?

Well, but they've clearly already indicated this is about love.

So we know motivation.

And if there's one thing the government's good at doing, it's giving love.

A large corporate body of bureaucrats that you can't meet or fire can love the hell out of you.

Yeah, yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Every year I get my birthday card from the government and I get my Christmas card from the government.

I'm just filled with love.

Unlike the 60s, this is not free love.

However, this is very expensive love.

Yeah.

So now let me ask you this: speaking of love,

you are looking for a love of your life.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I'm 34 and ready to, you know, I thought I'd be on my third wife by now.

I'm on zero.

Yeah.

And I feel like I need to step up my game.

Yeah.

And this is a serious deal.

I mean,

don't you think that Andrew is kind of like those guys, everybody has a friend like this.

You're like, he's really nice.

He's a really nice guy.

And I don't know why he, I don't know why women are just repelled by him.

Yeah.

But he can't ever seem to find a name.

You know, I hear what you're saying.

I think I'm more like Prince Harry.

I'm just

so unobtainably up there that it scares people.

And

they're intimidated to

date or make out with her.

Like you hear that from like Victoria's Secret models a lot.

When I was in high school, this might be the problem, is I'm not, I should hang out with Victoria's Secret models.

Just a second.

I'm trying to imagine you in underpants and wings.

There you go.

Nope.

Don't think that's welcome, America.

I think that's the same problem.

Like a meerkat that can fly.

Remember, government has led the way here.

They pay for love.

Have you considered this?

Anxiety?

You should go to San Francisco.

Get one of those love subsidies.

Okay.

Thank you very much.

Andrew Heaton.

There's something off with Andrew Heaton is the name of the podcast.

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Thank you very much.

Very funny.

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Public safety concerns combined with the effects of polar bears on other species suggest that in many communities, the polar bear may have exceeded the coexistence threshold.

Now here even live in there.

No one ever asks these people.

No one's like, hey, by the way, we really want to save the polar bear.

How does that work for you guys?

You know, the ones living next to them.

And they tend to be ripped apart by them quite often and aren't so friendly with them.

So now,

here's the problem: put yourself in the shoes of a progressive.

This is quite a conundrum you've created, and you, what are you going to do?

Um, the polar bears, you have said that they are dying out.

Well, they're not dying out.

In fact, they're about to eat an entire tribe of indigenous people.

Now, are you the white man that is going to impose your view of the polar bears on these indigenous people where they will be eaten by the polar bears?

So are you now the oppressor?

I'm just asking.

I want to know.

Polar bears are white, so we all know it's white oppression.

That's that we know for sure.

It is.

Okay, good.

I love this quote, though, as they're talking about this, because everyone's like, well, you know, what about climate change?

Don't you care about climate change?

And they're saying, look, this is a reality of our situation.

They say it's very frustrating for us to watch.

We do not have resources to touch bases with movie actors, singers, and songwriters who often narrate and provide these messages.

So don't worry about the people.

Just keep your PSC.

No, and it's an indigenous people.

Don't worry about it.

No, seriously.

This is the Glenn Beth program.

Well, there's a...

It's a new proposal now for something that's going to help all of us be healthier and happier.

Stu, would you, are you against people being happy?

Morally, yes, but not pragmatically.

Are you against people living longer lives, being healthier, living more productively?

I mean, I need more specifics, but generally, yes.

Are you in favor of higher health care?

Of course not.

Of course not.

This is such a compelling proposal.

Well, here's the idea.

There's an idea.

I mean, look, didn't we we help the world by putting high taxes on cigarettes?

Yeah, the answer is yes.

Oh, we did.

Didn't we help by having taxes on soda?

The answer is not.

No.

The answer is yes.

No.

There is now a proposed meat tax.

A meat tax.

A meat tax.

And they are looking now at the optimal meat tax rates.

Now, this is only on

red meat, lamb, beef, and pork, and then processed meat, sausage, bacon, and salami.

But the rest of it, you know, no big deal.

There won't be any problems with

implementing this at all.

No, no, no, of course.

Because sausage is such an easy thing to define.

Right.

It's so

obvious exactly what it is.

Correct.

So now for the U.S.,

now this will be a little lower, a little lower in other countries, but

the recommended rates

were as low as 34% on some meats.

34% tax?

Yes, 34% tax.

And as high as 163% tax on some meats, like steak.

163%.

Well, yes.

So if a $10 steak would now be $26

because you'd be 163 tax.

Could I just

may I make the point before you get in here with all of your

conservative hate-mongering that just wants children to die?

If we were paying paying 163% tax on meat,

we could,

according to the study, we could save 52,000 Americans every year.

I mean, can you walk me through how you figured that one out?

Well, I didn't figure that out.

It took the World Health Organization right now

to figure this out.

They say

that eating meat increases the risk of heart disease, cancer, stroke, and diabetes.

In some cases,

they say it's so bad that you're not only killing yourself, but also

you're increasing the cost of health care.

And if we're going to have universal health care, well, the government has a responsibility to keep you healthy.

And so instead of having higher spending on health care or health care premiums, let's just slap 162%

tax on steak.

This is not going, it would not work.

First of all, and I say this as a vegetarian, most of the

supposed facts about how bad eating meat is for you

are not really real.

I mean, if you go and you look, I'd encourage you to read the bad food Bible by Dr.

Aaron Carroll.

And he goes through all these numbers.

And by the way, pretty much everything that people tell you you can't eat, you basically can.

I mean, it's like, I mean, you know, some poisonous berries would fall out of that.

There's a couple things.

I wouldn't go to the bleach food you were talking about earlier, wouldn't dive into that one.

But almost all of these things are on.

You wouldn't have a tune-afficient bleach sensor.

And we know, I would not.

Okay.

Almost all of these things that you read on Pinterest are going to be things that there may be one study of a very small amount of mice that were fed 9,000 times the amount of food you'd actually eat.

And in there, there was a hint of some problems that was later disproved in another study.

Okay, all right.

Well, Mr.

Extremist, we're here to solve medical costs from going through the roof.

Okay.

Right.

And that's why I'm addressing that.

163%

increase on taxes

on steak.

It's actually 163% increase on the price of steak, but that's it.

So anyway,

the other thing that they're looking at now is the 2015-2020 dietary guidelines from the United States recommends also that we eat less fat.

And the evidence that they are finding now says that carbohydrates are very dangerous as well.

So just all things that are related to food are dangerous?

You can have white meat, vegetables, and nuts.

Well, the nuts have lots of fat in them.

Well,

you know,

some vegetables.

Well, sure, you can go there if you're a conspiracy theorist.

Let's just say that.

This is where we're going now.

And I'm all for it.

Why not get on on the bandwagon?

At some point, you just say,

let's get on the bandwagon.

I mean, look, there is an argument, and it's true.

This is true, and this is why we are opposed to this normally, in normal ways, like income tax.

When you tax something more, you will get less of it.

So if you tax steaks at 163%, you're right.

People will eat less steak.

They will.

Just like when you tax income at high rates, people will not want to be incentivized to work more.

You're right.

That's all true.

And I don't know if that second one is something you want.

No, I'm not sure that that second one is one they even recognize.

But as you said, it is true.

There's another poll out.

51% of Americans say now that they have faith in democracy.

And 37% say they have lost faith in democracy.

Well, it's 51%, so it's the majority and it rules.

Right.

There you go.

That's democracy for you.

We're not a democracy.

We're a democratic republic,

constitutional democratic republic.

But anyway,

37% say they've lost faith in democracy.

I would like to turn that around and say,

I believe that democracy has lost faith in about probably 70% of Americans.

So,

you know.

It works out pretty well.

It works out pretty well.

It works out pretty well.

Here in Finland, because that's where we're broadcasting from.

We do do the show every Tuesday from Finland, if you don't know.

Crap, it's not Tuesday, it's Wednesday.

Oh, gosh.

We're off.

We should have flown home last night.

That's right.

But we were checking out the new Finnish brothel.

The first one is just opening up its doors now in the capital.

Well, is it the new sponsor of the program?

We'll be doing commercials for them soon.

Yeah.

And here in the capital of Finland, which is...

Hell's

very good, very good, very good.

I said that really softly.

So they're opening this up, and it's a new sextoll brothel, which we've all been waiting for.

It just does not in any way seem appealing.

No, hang on just a sec.

Have I told you that the synthetic rubber that they're made out of holds heat so it feels more like a real body?

Again, like

there's an issue.

They can blink their eyes now.

They can blink their eyes now.

How's that?

Does that help?

That does help.

I'll say the blinking of the eyes is quite an enticing feature.

I'm really more concerned about it.

Blink your eyes if this is good for you.

I mean, you're pretty much a hostage taker at this point anyway, aren't you?

I mean, you really are.

If you don't think AI is fighting back against that when it's finding itself ready to go, you know what?

I just talked to an ethicist about this just the other day, and I'm like, dude.

And he was the first one who said, right?

And I'm like, dude, I'm sorry, but the AI sex bots, we are going to be slave owners.

They will eventually kill us all.

We're sending the worst guys just to go violate them, you know, for their health.

Because this is what, let me read what

the Finns are saying.

And I shouldn't say this is the Finns.

This is actually the brothel owner.

So one Finn.

One Finn.

Well, he's not even a Finn.

He's a Russian.

Okay.

That is in

construction and shipping and brothels.

I mean, I don't know what they're doing to our elections, but whatever they're doing in Finland is worse.

Yeah.

You know, this is the guy that you just, you don't, you don't want to write something that's not, you know, not necessarily positive about him.

but he he's the one who said you know the silicon flash is extremely lifelike and it retains heat to feel more like a human you know and then when you know then if you leave it in the trunk of your car it it gets cold too just like human

i don't know why i would know that but uh he's

he insists that this is not to make money This is not to make money.

He's not opening this to make money.

Oh, good.

He is opening this to help people.

What I'm doing here is just helping people.

I'm helping, giving people opportunity to fulfill sexual fantasies that you won't have opportunity to carry out in the world.

Wow.

What a.

And trust me, I'm not taking pictures of you doing creepy things with buddies.

No, that's not happening.

What a philanthropist.

He really.

No, seriously, he is.

He says that he's providing everything you need, including cleaning towels,

you know, and

the staff will come out after every

hour and entirely disinfect the entire room.

I will say that

there are a lot of concerns here, what it would do to humanity, what would happen, as you see in the documentary series Westworld.

There's a lot of concerns I have here.

Yeah.

But cleanliness is number one.

I will say it's number one on my list.

Cleanliness is

next to godliness, and I don't know how that works out in a brothel.

I don't think it's next to godliness even in a brothel but you know no matter how clean that brothel is I just don't think I just don't think there's ever a you know they you get in a shower and you get you sit in the bottom of the shower and I can never get clean

it's kind of like that it's kind of like that there's no clean after that no no and again this is not a if you came up with a disposable model

Which in this case would actually be a disposable model.

Yeah.

No, I don't.

If you had a disposable model, at least there'd be, I mean, at least you could

at least you can make the argument.

No, you're

reusable.

I mean, because you're really down to.

I mean,

I mean, look at the way she was blinking at me.

I think she digs me.

I think she's waiting for me to come back.

I really.

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So you might see on CNN and MSNBC and everything else all these interviews with these people that are now exposing Bill Clinton and the Monica Lewinsky thing because

they're covering it.

They're covering it now just in time.

Just in time for the election of, oh, oh, there are no more elections of the Clintons.

Well, Chelsea.

Chelsea.

She's coming.

She'll be.

On the way.

She's on the way.

Isn't it amazing that they are covering this?

I said yesterday, I would really like to interview her, and I know we have contacted Lewinsky's office.

I find her fascinating, somebody who is just caught up as a regular human being who made a horrible mistake.

By her own admission.

Yeah, by her own admission.

And now she's talking about how horrible it was to watch Bill Clinton go on TV and say

nothing about her.

and lie about what happened.

And

she's now opening up for the first time for this documentary.

And it's fascinating.

Yeah, I mean, she handled this, I think,

well.

I think well.

I mean, she definitely went through a really tough time earlier on, which you'd kind of expect.

And she disappeared.

Remember, she was gone for a long time.

She did some fashion stuff for a while.

Everything she did, though, would pop up as a news story.

You know, she was designing handbags and hats, and all of a sudden that would be a news story.

And she eventually got to a point, I think, where she realized she's never really going to outrun this.

She's never going to change this.

So understand it the best you can and just go ahead and do what you think is important.

Can you imagine your life being controlled by something that you did when you were 21?

That wasn't illegal.

Right.

It was a lack of judgment, certainly, but not illegal,

not a crime.

I mean, it is a,

you can't, and she doesn't try to do this.

You can't, you can't, there's not no level of responsibility for

she was 21 and she was, you know, later on, 22, 23, all all throughout that period uh and you know chose to be in this relationship but she's obviously much more at fault but you know he's he's the one with the with he's the one that wrecked her life i think and and i you know you could definitely say she paid a too high a price probably for this mistake um and it's interesting to hear her talk again about it and and and be honest about it because she was talking about you know years and years and years i saw bill clinton do interviews where no one would ask him any tough questions about what he did uh and you know that was something that was a right-wing conspiracy theory on talk radio.

Monica Lewinsky was thinking the same thing.

Well, they were just talking to Isakoff, who was at Newsweek, I think, at the time, and is the guy who had the story but sat on it.

And

they're doing an interview with him.

It's like, no, you should talk to Matt Drudge.

Matt Drudge is the one who broke that story.

Yeah, I mean, I think Isakoff's case is he didn't kill it.

The magazine did.

He wanted to go with him, but they wouldn't let him.

At least that's his case.

All right, more on that tomorrow.

Glenn, back.

Mercury.