'Sober Words and Careful Action' - 4/11/18

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is what the Russian people heard

after the UN vote yesterday.

What is it

that they're saying?

Dunning.

But let's start at the beginning.

The UN Security Council was in full-on stupid mold yesterday afternoon.

For those who missed the broadcast, here are the Cliffs notes.

It went something like this.

The entire world, minus Russia, demanded action on Syria.

Russia proceeded to claim false flags, then deny anything actually happened in the first place.

If you're wondering, yes, the Russian ambassador kind of contradicted himself there, but screw it.

It's Russia.

They're going to deny their ambassador was even there.

They'll leak bad Photoshop of him at a strip club with Stephen Stegall and then sit back and laughs while calling everybody a Russia phobe.

So what really happened at the meeting yesterday?

Well, yesterday the U.S.

proposed a resolution calling for international investigators to be given access to the site of the chemical attack.

Russia, of course, proceeded to veto it.

Russia then proceeded to offer a counter-resolution calling for investigators of their own

who would then report their findings to Russia.

So Russia said, no, no, no, no, you can trust us.

We'll send Russians to investigate, and then they'll report to us, and then we'll tell you about that.

Well, you can imagine how that went.

That was a veto bonanza.

It was well understood yesterday that this is now going to fall on the shoulders of America, as it always does for some reason.

It was well understood yesterday that if no agreement was made at the UN, military strikes from the United States would be imminent.

As the ambassadors left the room empty-handed, a flurry of activity began.

Airline companies operating in the Middle East received a request to change their routes for the next 48 hours.

Flight trackers showed civilian aircraft all but stopped around Syria and parts of the Mediterranean.

One hour after that, Russia began re-locating their hardware and their planes and their helicopters from multiple military bases inside Syria.

Reports began coming in that the

Syrian military was digging in and preparing for a strike.

Then everything went quiet last night.

It's still quiet, but it's daytime.

It's assumed that Russia had been given a short window to get their forces out of the line of fire,

but in a very short time, U.S.

ordnance could be falling and it would be too close to Russian soldiers.

The Kremlin is taking this very seriously,

Which leads us back to the audio we began with.

What was it he was saying?

What was it the Russian people were hearing?

Last night on Russian state TV,

the broadcaster began.

He was warning of a nuclear war.

They were broadcasting the details of what you needed to do in case of a nuclear war.

They said, don't panic.

However, this could be coming.

And if we broadcast that missiles are headed our way

and we are in a nuclear war, you make sure that you bring rice, oats, canned food, olive oil, sugar, and powdered milk to the closest bomb shelter near you.

The Russian people

seem to be a little more sober about this.

Most Americans don't even really understand

how close we are.

It's the opposite of the Cuban Missile Crisis.

I remember my parents talking about the Cuban Missile Crisis and how the world sat on edge.

Russia is sitting on edge.

What are we talking about?

Stormy Daniels?

Is this all a show?

Last night I went to bed knowing that the Russians were preparing for nuclear strikes.

And this morning I read this tweet.

Russia vows to shoot down any and all missiles fired at Syria.

Get ready, Russia, because they'll be coming nice and new and smart.

You shouldn't be partners with a gas-killing animal who kills his own people and enjoys it.

While everything he said was true,

aren't there some things that should be

taken a little more seriously?

The sun goes down in a few hours in Syria.

If a strike happens, it's going to come after the sun goes down.

Yesterday afternoon, I

tweeted pray

for all those in harm's way.

Perhaps we should be a little more specific.

Pray for all of those in Syria.

But I think

those in harm's way

live all over the world

and in this country

as well.

It's Wednesday, April 11th.

This is the Glenn Beck program.

So there's a ton to go over today.

Hello, Stu.

How are you?

Good.

How are you?

I'm good.

Good.

I mean, you know,

it's a little disturbing to have the Russians on TV going, Here's what you do in case of nuclear war.

That's disturbing.

It's also disturbing that I feel like every time we listen to clips from Russian state television, it sounds like another language in reverse.

Have you noticed that?

Play it again.

Can you play that, Sarah?

Can you?

No,

I think he was talking about subways

or subway sandwiches.

Yes.

Six-inch steak and cheese.

It does kind of sound like that.

It does sort of sound like that.

I don't know.

I mean, it's

such a strange thing to be in the middle of.

But remember, we talked about this a while ago.

Everyone was talking for so many years about how soft Donald Trump was going to be on Russia and how it was this big concern.

And we talked about it, easily see it being the exact opposite, right?

Like,

he could be so tough on Russia that we wind up in a conflict with Russia.

And, you know, I don't, hopefully that doesn't happen.

Well,

I mean, so far, I think we're doing the right thing.

So far,

we have to respond to chemical weapons being used.

Do we not?

Oh, man, here's where my libertarian gets me.

Yeah, I know.

Again, that is definitely falling in the category of world police.

There's not a lot of U.S.

interests involved.

I should say.

The world needs to respond.

The United States shouldn't be the one always.

The world needs to respond, especially their neighbors.

And

it really bothers me.

What use is the UN?

Oh, they're completely worthless.

Because Russia could just veto everything that they do.

Correct.

So, I mean,

there's no point really there.

They'll get some sort of coalition together, I think, to support this in some name-only sort of way, as it usually is.

But I guess you could write the argument that we have to draw that red line that Obama drew and then erased on chemical weapons, because if they become acceptable, they become something that rogue nations can use without punishment, rogue nations will start using them without punishment.

And it could very well wind up being a long-term downhill trajectory.

But, But, you know, that it's a long-term argument.

I don't think there's a huge amount of U.S.

interests that would be served by this.

It's just we just need to make sure that other rogue regimes don't decide this is a violation of the.

You could make the case that there is real U.S.

interests involved in this because it's Russia, Iran, and Syria.

Yeah, it's really

bad states.

And if they are allowed to run roughshot over Syria, you know, Iran controls the Middle East along with Russia.

That's not good.

There was a there was talk about them, this happening last night, us shooting, you know, firing missiles in there last night.

And the speculation is that Russia hasn't moved enough of their stuff yet to show.

That's good.

And that's good.

We're being careful.

Yes.

A lot of people, obviously, Donald Trump doesn't come into this with a military background, but he surrounded himself with a lot of people who have military backgrounds.

He's got a really good, especially when it comes to the military, has a really good selection of people around him.

Yes.

So, you know, they're going to be calm.

They're going to be rational.

And, and, you know, I think everybody, at least in the Pentagon, everybody knows Russia means it.

I mean, if, if, if we killed a bunch of troops, Russian troops, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

The missile strike, really big deal.

That would be a very, very big deal.

Now, both sides talk tough, right?

I mean, Russia says a lot of things that if we took as literal promises, we would be at war with them.

I have to tell you, I think, unlike Barack Obama, Vladimir Putin doesn't make threats.

He makes promises.

That's the secret to be, I think, to be a world leader.

Don't ever make a threat.

Make a promise.

If you do this, I will do this.

So let's not do that.

You know, people who make threats,

there's too much bluffing.

So don't ever make a threat make a promise I have I've done that in my career and it has served me very well look I you know Glenn we want you to do this job okay well I'll do that but it'll take this

if you do these things I will if you don't do these things I won't and so the negotiations become very easy because you're never you're never threatening anything you're just making a promise yeah I'm in it's going to require this this, and this.

And then you don't have to worry about, you know, geez, should I ask for more or should I have, you know, should I have asked for less?

No, you asked for what it took.

What is it going to take?

Look at that in Syria.

What is it going to take?

Stop using chemical weapons.

And we won't do that.

Kill your people the old-fashioned way, please.

Let's be civilized about this.

Stab them.

Throw barrels out of helicopters at them, please.

Barrel Barrel bombs are completely fine.

Let's make sure they die in conventional ways because we can't take you doing it in this new way.

We want you to only murder your own civilians with barrels out of helicopters.

It is weird, isn't it?

It's a weird stance.

I mean, obviously, there's a big picture in which if chemical weapons are used routinely in warfare, it could lead to a lot more death.

But, I mean, they've already

hundreds of thousands of their civilians, and we act as if the next, you know, what is it, 60 here?

60

is the thing that's going to be this line.

Well, you know, the other hundreds of thousands are dead.

They're not any more alive than the people who died from chemical weapons.

And I think there is a legitimate, this is a good test in some ways of the libertarian argument of not being involved in these things because

there's not an immediate U.S.

interest case per se.

So what do you do?

You're president of the United States, and I say, President Stu.

Oh, good God, help us all.

President Stu.

Do we strike or not?

I mean,

I think what I would like is to be

there.

There's a point of leadership, right, which I would understand.

We've talked about this with Obama, of leading from behind.

Is that the way he

wants to do that?

A way you want to do it.

I think you'd want to make it not just our responsibility.

And I think the strike is limited,

you know, there's not really an easy way to go big, right?

You're not looking to take this guy out, really.

You're not looking to, this is not a regime change operation.

It's not even something that Trump is proposing.

I think probably the road, and this is the same thing that happened with Obama.

You know,

there's a road here, probably the way Trump is doing this that is the right way,

minus the tweets.

I can tell you this, I'm not on Twitter telling Vladimir Putin to look out for missiles.

I can tell you that.

But I think the short-term answer of a limited strike, ideally with other countries involved in it, so it's not just us policing the world yet again, at least, you know, that's at least a step.

What about you?

Oh, you don't just hit the music.

What about you?

Where's you?

Where's President Glenn on this?

I'm doing the right thing that you can just guess I agree with the right thing because I played music and it's time for commercial.

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So, President Glenn, you've had a nice commercial for you in the job.

Actually, you have this nice box of donuts, and I'm really happy.

They're delicious.

But while I'm here, what are you going to do with Syria?

I think if I was president today,

I would do a couple of things.

First of all, Russia is taking this so seriously and has said, we screw it up, we kill any Russian troops, it's the war to end all wars.

I take Putin as a guy who means what he says and says what he means.

He's a liar, but when he makes threats, they're not threats, they're promises.

So the first thing I do on this one is I go to Congress for

at least advise and consent

and say, look, this is a serious one.

This is not just lobbying over this, it has serious consequences.

So advise and consent.

But

I say to

the people and to the nation,

we have a problem of personal responsibility in the world.

And you know what?

I'm not going to lecture the world.

I'm the president of the United States.

I am going to lecture us.

Nobody's taking personal responsibility for anything anymore.

We're not taking personal responsibility of our families, of ourselves, of our jobs, of our economy, of our spending, of our debt, nothing.

Until that's fixed, we'll continue to burn the world down, all of us.

Not a country, all of us, because we're all doing it.

As this relates to the rest of the world, the United States is not responsible for you and your neighborhood.

You need to stand up.

Turkey, do not lecture us about what has to happen.

Don't lecture lecture us.

They're your neighbors.

You need to take care of the bad guys in your neighborhood.

When you and your neighbors stop wanting us to be your sugar daddy, your protector, and your foil,

the world will be a safer place.

United States is going to fulfill its obligations, but we are not the world's policemen.

Now, we made a promise that this was a red line, and the United States needs to be understood that when we speak, we mean it.

So we're talking to Congress right now.

There will be consequences for this.

However, the days of the United States being the judge, jury, and executioner, sorry, the police force, judge, jury, and executioner are over.

They're over.

You all have to pick up your own personal responsibility.

And Americans, you have to do the same thing in your life because the United States government cannot be a sugar daddy, a policeman, a jury, and the problem.

We're out of that business.

That's, I think, what I would do.

Glenn back.

Mercury.

This is the Glenn Beck program.

All right, so yesterday the stock market was back up, and then President Trump tweeted this morning, and the stock market is

set now to open 200 points down.

Stop, stop, stop, stop, stop.

Please, Mr.

President, please.

Stop with the tweets.

I think this time he's going to listen to you.

It's going to work out well.

I mean, you know, I want him to succeed.

I want him to succeed.

If he fails, we all fail.

There's obviously things that Trump does that help him on Twitter.

It's obviously been a big part of the formula of his success, right?

And it's certainly a big part of the reason why he became president in the first place.

You know, you just wish

there were times in which he

considered it as a cost-benefit analysis instead of just a benefit analysis.

There are times that you carry a big stick and you use it.

There are other times that you carry a big stick, but you put it in your back pocket, and everyone knows you have a big big stick.

You know what I mean?

Everyone knows.

Vladimir Putin knows we have a very big stick, and we're not afraid to use it.

He knows that.

There's no reason to bully a bully that big.

Don't do that.

It's interesting, too, as it goes back to your conversation with former President George W.

Bush in the Oval Office about how each president...

comes in with a limited amount of options, and they kind of will wind up doing the same thing as the president before, even though they'll talk about these big changes in election time.

When it comes down to it, they wind up doing the same thing.

If you look at, like, for example, Syria as

three different options, right?

You have the do-nothing option, right?

The, you know, you have the go in and invade option, right?

And then in the middle, you have a wide sort of swath of options

called the middle path, where you have drone strikes and cruise missiles and

maybe a few special forces and maybe there, you know, maybe a few airstrikes.

And it kind of seems like that's exactly where both presidents, both Obama and

Trump will fall.

Now, Obama did drone strikes in places like Yemen and we did other things in Libya.

Syria, he didn't cross that,

famously didn't do this red line and wound up out of that category on that particular country.

But in general, he landed in the middle on most of those cases as well.

But it's really interesting to me that that is the part of the conversation that you remembered because you said, you know,

maybe it's important to remember the conversation you had with George Bush in the Oval Office, and you went there.

I went to another part of that.

I said to him, because it was all off the record, and I couldn't, I could characterize what he said, but I could not quote the president.

And we were talking about the war, and he started rattling off some

stats and how well the war was going for us, and what a route it was in some areas.

And I said,

Mr.

President,

no offense, but

where is this guy that I'm sitting with?

Where is this guy?

This is the president that America is wanting to see.

And he told me a couple of things, but one of them, because he was so clear, you know how he was always like, well, you know, and

he wasn't like that at all.

He was so clear.

and I remember sitting across from him thinking, I would not want to be on the other end of a negotiating table with this man because he is so clear and laser-focused, and he just exudes strength.

And it shocked me, it shocked me because he doesn't, he never came away

away in public, correct, and except right after 9/11, maybe.

Yes,

yes,

he was that guy,

and um,

uh, and so what I said, this is the guy that America needs.

He said, when you're president, there are things that you cannot say and cannot do because countries are watching and analyzing every move I make, every shift of my eyes.

every phrase, every word.

I'm convinced it's why he always was like, well, and, you know, I have a

issue.

You're like, what?

You know, you were thinking he was looking for a really big word and to be like, and

meet.

It was because he was, I think it was because he was sorting through all of the repercussions of every word he was saying.

It's not a way to live your life, not a way to rule a country.

However,

Donald Trump is the exact opposite of that.

Now, we've wanted the opposite of that because we want somebody just to say, here's the truth.

But Donald Trump in his tweet this morning is going too far.

The truth is,

Russia, we have no issue with the Russian people, but you have gotten into bed with really bad men.

We are not trying to pick a fight with Russia.

But Assad

must pay a price for gassing his own people.

Have we not learned anything from World War II?

That is an

acceptable tweet because it's saying, I'm going to respond, I have to, but it's also petting the cat of the Russian people because Putin is making us into the bad guy with his own people.

Let's not be...

Let's not be, oh yeah, we'll watch this.

Let's not do that.

And it's just, that's one thing that if

the president could learn this one thing,

he would be a much better president.

If he could just learn,

there are times you must act presidential.

And when you're talking about killing people, that certainly is a time for sober words and careful action.

I want to hear from Zach in Pennsylvania.

Hello, Zach.

Welcome to the Glenn Beck program.

Hey, Glenn.

Hey, Stu.

I just want to let you know that President Glenn and President Stu will actually get us into a war based upon what you want to do.

President Zach, however, I can fix it.

Okay, go ahead.

If I was president, I would go out today and I would give a speech that would remind the American people of something that we once had, and that was called the Monroe Doctrine.

And that was the idea that our sphere of influence is our sphere of influence.

And that if you enter that sphere of influence, we will respond.

But our sphere of influence is not Syria.

That is the Russian sphere of influence or Turkey or Iran or Saudi Arabia.

As much as I care about the Syrian people, and I do.

There is no difference between if they're killed by gas.

or by a bomb or by a rock or by a gun.

Yeah,

there's nothing worse that is occurring in Syria today that isn't occurring in North Korea or 15 or 20 other countries on every single day.

More people will die in Mexico today in horrible acts of violence than will die in Syria from gas.

And yet somehow we are supposed to go and right every wrong.

The president needs to do something that no president has done.

It is a cop-out to say, well, you have to do these things.

You don't.

He's the president.

Donald Trump could come out tomorrow, today, and say, as much as we care about what occurs in another country, the simple fact is that it is not our business.

And we will use sanctions.

We will not do business with them.

We will pull our forces out just like I wanted to do last week and recognize that what is occurring there is not worth the life of American soldiers.

It's not worth the life of your sons and daughters.

And that is the risk we are taking when we continue to lob bombs in areas where countries are big enough to actually hurt America.

So, Zach, I think you're absolutely right.

I really do.

But how does...

Let me clarify one thing.

You said, you know, the president can make his own choices.

Yes, he he can, but that wasn't the point of what George Bush was saying.

What George Bush said was he'll sit here and he'll hear the same advice from the same people.

So it doesn't matter who sits in this chair, left or right, when it comes to the world, they'll make the same choice, which is why I say shut down the State Department, fumigate, and start all over again.

Because it's the same people advising, no matter who's sitting in that chair, and they're convincing every president they have to do that now i agree so i i it is and i agree with you that we have to change our behavior i don't agree in our sphere in our sphere of influence you're saying that that's the western hemisphere I don't think we have a right to go down to Bolivia or

Brazil and exert ourselves down there either.

That has gotten us into trouble.

The world is just a smaller place.

Our sphere of influence is the United States of America.

That's our interest.

That's what we're supposed to do.

Will we help other people?

Will we encourage you?

Can we use sanctions?

Yes, but we don't do that.

Now, here's the question, Zach.

Nature abhors a vacuum.

You cannot have 100 years of the United States in everybody's business and then just pull down, pull out, without understanding that there will be a significant collapse and somebody else will fill that space.

That's fine,

but are you suggesting you do that overnight?

No, of course not, because we have alliances that we have to respect.

Part of it, it becomes the president should get on TV and say, We need Japan needs to rearm.

The Japanese Constitution needs to be changed to allow them to protect themselves without the constant need of the United States.

That Europe needs to recognize that although we will forever be there in their defense and aid, they need to be prepared outside of NATO to defend themselves.

I went back to school a couple years ago to get my second doctorate.

So I started studying small towns and communities in a way that would try to solve their problems.

And what you learned was that when you come into an area, people will look at a problem and they'll say, We've tried to do it a thousand times.

It can't be done.

There's nothing else we can do.

None of the people will be convinced to do anything else.

And what you start to find out is

when you start to talk to people,

they're able and willing to do things differently.

They're able to solve problems in different ways, even if they've been ingrained in a certain way for so long.

If you give them options, they'll actually solve the problem.

That we continue to be stuck in this sense of we have got to solve every problem for every person on the planet.

We can't.

It's funny you say that.

That's actually exactly what I thought when I was only on my second doctorate, too.

We live and learn.

You know what I'm saying?

Zach, thanks so much for your phone call.

He's right.

He is right.

He is right on, he's right on this as well.

And that is,

I think the American people are are willing to try something different.

I know I am.

Yeah.

I'm willing to try something different.

This is not working what we're doing.

Let's stop doing this because it's not working.

I said this to you in the break after we initially talked.

There's a sort of a battle between instinct and principle.

And I think my instinct is like, this is a terrible thing.

These people are suffering.

We need to do something about it.

Really, my principle has been, and we've talked about this many times on the air.

If you're not 100% sure that you need to go, if you're, you heard my response.

It was like, well, yeah, I mean, there's this part and and there's this part, and I'm divided on it.

If you're divided on it, you shouldn't do it.

That's the principle.

And that's why you have principles because when you're

in a moment where you have a tough decision, you should fall back at them.

And that's so I, you know, rethinking it, you know, I kind of am on that idea of like, maybe we shouldn't go in.

I'm going to go with no.

No.

And I've changed my mind.

I've changed my mind.

Oh, my gosh.

What?

Well, that was.

I didn't realize I was broadcasting from the waffle house.

Well, I mean, I'm sorry, but I figured when lives are on the line.

No, no, no.

No, no, no.

Would you like some syrup with those waffles?

My fifth doctorate position was I should go in, but my sixth doctorate was no.

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Yeah.

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Glenn Beck Mercury

Glenn Beck

Welcome to the program.

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Glenn, back.

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Love.

Courage.

The silence

has begun to dissipate.

As you rise from your seat, a commotion is approaching and you can hear it.

Suddenly, the room bursts with activity as the president paces through the doorway, assertive in his mumbling, a fresh disaster on his mind.

Last night, roughly 6,000 miles from where you're standing right now, in a maelstrom of a war-fueled morning, women and children fled to hospitals after the latest round of bombings.

Only this time,

many of them were foaming at the mouth, clenching at their eyes, hunched over, gasping, twitching, sobbing, helpless.

Some of them were unconscious, some of them were dead.

You're standing there in that room, and you hear somebody say they must have used something stronger,

used some sort of stronger chlorine this time because it's serious.

They used something else, something more deadly.

This

had to be the world of U.S.

Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley.

Faced with the news of war crimes and murdered children,

what was she going to do?

Indignation

roils up in a careful

attention.

Listener.

Who does this?

Only a monster does this.

Only a monster targets civilians and then ensures that there are no ambulances to transfer the wounded, no hospitals to save their lives, no doctors or medicine to ease their pain.

I could hold up pictures of all of this killing and suffering for the council to see.

But what would be the point?

The monster who was responsible for these attacks has no conscience,

not even to be shocked by pictures of dead children.

The Russian regime, whose hands are all covered in the blood of Syrian children, cannot be ashamed by pictures of its victims.

We've tried that before.

Every sentence she says

rings with a barbed intensity unimpeded.

She is calm and outraged, but I can't help but think: but why are these children different than the ones who are dying or being tortured in concentration camps in North Korea?

Why are these children different than the ones that are poor and starving in South America or South Africa?

Why are these children different than the ones on our own border that are being brutally killed by drug lords?

But there is one line that she says that sticks out.

The Russian regime, whose hands are all covered in blood, in the blood of children, cannot be ashamed.

It echoed again through the auditorium of diplomats.

And the silence

returned.

It's Wednesday, April 11th.

This is the Glenn Beck program.

So we should mention some breaking news today that Paul Ryan is not going to seek re-election.

And this is not him stepping down from the speakership.

It's him not running for re-election to Congress.

So his seat certainly was not

really in jeopardy.

He probably would have won re-election easily, as he has for a long time, but the speakership could have been a problem for him.

And plus, it looks, you know, increasingly likely that he would be minority speaker rather than majority speaker.

And that's not a fun place to be.

So that's the speculation as to why he's bailing.

So

here's the thing.

I mean, I have

I've given up on politics because I think it's going to

keep playing this thing over and over and over again and expecting different outcomes, and it seems to be the same outcome.

And I'm more of a believer in the individual and the individual going out and doing something and just saying, you know what,

I don't care what people tell me I can or can't do.

I don't care if they tell me that it's ridiculous because it's not if we just decide to do it.

I want to introduce you to a guy, Bob Goff, who I think has a similar attitude.

Welcome, Bob.

How are you?

Thanks a million for having me on.

Good to be with you.

You're an attorney from San Diego area.

Yes, 30 years.

And you are a best-selling author now.

You have a new book out called Everybody Always,

but your last one was Love Does.

I want you to give the audience, for anybody who doesn't know you, a sense of who you are and start with

Start with the fact that you have no television in your house and what happened on September 11th in your house with your children.

Yeah, well, I was practicing practicing law.

I can't tell you about me without telling you about the sweet Maria Goff, my bride of 33 years.

And then we have three kids.

And this whole idea of living a purposeful life, like we're confronted with so much information, so much tragedy around us.

One of the things that I've decided to do is I was just going to start with my family.

And so we decided to get rid of the television.

And

when September 11th happened, I came home and I told the kids there's something horrible had happened in the country.

And we sat around this table that we have in the kitchen.

And I said, if you had five minutes in front of a leader in the world, what would you say to him?

And I love, my son was seven at the time.

He said, you know what?

I'd invite them over for a sleepover.

And that actually makes a lot of sense.

You know,

put their hand in the goldfish bowl, see if it makes a bee.

And it works.

So

my

nine-year-old said, I I would ask them what they're hoping in.

Because I would say, like, if you find out what people are hoping for, you find out a lot more about them.

And then our 11-year-old, she was the precocious one.

She said, I would say this, if they couldn't come over for the sleepover, I would ask this leader if we could come over to their house and do an interview and ask them, what are you hoping for?

And get a message of hope to pass on to another leader.

So we downloaded the CIA website.

We felt like we were hacking into NORAD.

We got the name of every leader in every country, figured out their addresses, and wrote them.

And we got a post office box because we did not want Ahmed Dinajad to know where we lived.

And so we sent all these letters.

And after school, every day, we would go over and get the mail out.

And the kids would be in the back seat.

They would ask me about these countries.

I'm like, I don't know.

That's east of here, apparently.

So,

but we always got the most pleasant notes.

And it was Tony Blair at the time.

He said, like, you know, like jolly good show, like, forget it, but jolly good show about the meetup.

But then they got the leader of Bulgaria.

He wrote to them and he said, if you'll come to the palace in Sofia, I'll give you your interview.

And then the prime minister of Switzerland said, if you'll come to Bern, I'll give you your interview.

And then the president of Israel said, if you'll come to Jerusalem, I'll give you, we got 19 yeses.

So I pulled the kids out of school.

Their teachers had a cow.

I'm like, sue me.

So there's something just really beautiful about that.

And I love that it's this idea of a childlike faith.

Like that idea that look to your kids.

You want to like do something awesome for the world.

Plug into your family.

You would think as an adult, and the older you get, the secret to staying young, I think that's what Jesus meant when he said, come to me as a child.

Oh, bingo.

Yeah.

I mean, it's just, you still believe.

You haven't been worn down by the world.

to say it won't work.

Yeah.

It won't work.

And if you've been convinced that it won't work, get a puppy.

Like literally just

no.

No, because then I'm convinced, you know, potty training doesn't work.

Yes.

We're right in the middle of that.

The only thing our dog has missed is the lawn so far.

But one of the things that let the children kind of lead us and let we're seeing that in society.

We see that over and over.

Go do that with your family.

So we went.

And we would go into, there's this

one.

country they had

just been involved in all kinds of stuff and uh the leader walks in and he said, children, you know, I'm more nervous meeting with you than if I was meeting with the President of the United States right now.

And then he said, and when I get nervous, I get hungry.

And he claps his hand and all these servants come in with like jars of candy and ice cream.

It's just really beautiful.

There's something about this idea of leading with love.

And it takes a childlike faith to get there.

Not childish, because most of us guys have childish nails, but childlike to just remain hopeful, even in the face of overwhelming difficulties.

One of the places you went to was Uganda, right?

Yeah.

And

we've done some stuff in Uganda because

there's still sacrifices.

I've heard.

Yeah, human sacrifices in Uganda with these witch doctors, and they kidnap children and sacrifice them, and it's horrifying.

It's horrifying.

And you stop it in one place, and then it pops up in another place because it's still part of their culture.

But you being an attorney, you found that for a long time there wasn't a law, but then like three years before you got there, they had passed a law to stop all this, but nobody was enforcing it.

Is that right?

Yeah, that's it because people are afraid.

Like the judges were afraid.

Everybody was afraid.

But it just takes courageous people to make big change.

That idea to just, and we don't measure, like God doesn't compare our leaps.

Just I would say for everybody listening, make your next courageous step, whatever that is.

And so, for me, I was a lawyer, knew how to try cases.

And the problem with this child sacrifice, there's always a victim, but they're always dead.

And it all changed a couple of years ago.

A little boy, and we'll just say his name is Charlie.

He's walking home from school and gets abducted by the leader of all of these witch doctors.

And

they try to do this sacrifice.

They cut off all of his private parts and leave him for dead, but the kid doesn't die.

So for the first time, we had a victim who survived.

We've got the witch doctor.

So I asked, could we try Uganda's first death penalty case?

And they said, you will never get a judge who will touch that.

But then we found a judge, and we tried the case, and the word of this conviction went to 41 million people.

And here was the message.

You touch a kid, it's over.

There's something beautiful about that idea of like, there's no love without justice, but there's also no justice without love.

So after this conviction happens, the boy is all torn up.

This attack happens with a machete.

A doctor in Los Angeles hears what happened.

And he calls me up at home.

He said, Bob, I heard what happened to this little kid and I can fix him.

And I'm like, buddy, you didn't hear what got cut off.

You can't fix that.

And he said, I'm the chief of surgery at Cedar Sinai Medical Center.

I can fix him.

And I said, what?

So I drive up to Los Angeles.

He takes out a piece of paper and he starts drawing out what he's going to do, which is way too much information.

And I asked him, if they find that at TSA, I'm going to jail.

And I said, how much would that cost?

And he said, it'd be staggering, but I'll do it for nothing.

I'm like, I can afford nothing.

So I fly back to Uganda.

We find the little boy in the bush.

And my first stop is court and become his legal guardian.

And we're flying back for this operation.

And I get off the plane in London.

And he's holding hand.

He says, Father, could we just walk the rest of the way?

I'm like, oh, buddy.

No.

And I open up my laptop to see if there's any messages in there.

This is the time when Obama's in office.

And there's a message in there.

It says, White House.

And the message is really short.

It just says, we'd like to meet Charlie.

And I thought it was some of my friends, guy, friends like you guys, that would just like pull a fast one.

And it's legit.

And this kid that was standing in the bush in Uganda is now standing in the Oval Office.

And I think like, why does that happen?

And here's the deal.

It's that childlike faith.

And no matter what age you are, you can actually start thinking about what might be possible.

And I just want to continue to live into that, even against all of the horrific things that are going on, to remain hopeful and engaged.

Not just put smiley faces on, but just say, like, so what's my next step?

What's my next leap?

Here's the thing that

I think of all the time.

If I have cancer, for instance, go to a doctor over and over and and over again this happens to people all the time that something's wrong but the doctors can't find it if that's happened to you you get to a point to where you're like i don't care if it's cancer i just want to know you know and i think there is hope when when there is knowledge that there is something you can do

that

whether it works or not is unknown.

But once you know, I have no hope in a doctor who says, oh, you know, it's just a little spot on your lung and you know, it's nothing.

And he knows it's cancer.

Don't tell me that.

I'm hopeless.

Tell me that it's cancer, and I can find hope.

We have to, we have to not just be the putting smiley faces on things and going, oh, no, it's not so bad.

It is.

It's bad.

It's bad.

But now, take us from it's bad to how to find that hopeful place when we come back.

Name of the book is Everybody Always by Bob Goff, G-O-F-F.

Bob Goff.

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Glenn Beck Mercury.

Glenn Beck.

We're with Bob Goff, an amazing man.

Not a, you know, not a Tony Robbins kind of guy who makes his living being a motivational speaker, but is truly motivational in everything that I've ever seen him in because it's he's infectious.

Courage is contagious, and so is hope.

And

And Bob just made the point that we need to find hope.

So how do you do that?

How do you find real hope

in a sea of despair?

Yeah,

no

simple answer for anything, but the first thing that sprung to my mind is it's a life of engagement.

And that idea of engaging the people around you, engaging the issues around you, but not necessarily with a petition.

Engage it with everything you've got, with your love, with your hope, with your energy.

Find these things.

We were talking about a wrong that was done in Uganda.

Engage it.

If you're good as a lawyer, go do a bunch of that.

If you're good at loving people, go do a bunch of that.

I don't want people to meet just my opinions.

I don't want them to actually meet me.

And the way to meet me is to be curious about them.

So

when you sat down, I told you you passed a test that almost no one passes.

I think there's maybe been two people.

And we've had great people in a career of 40 years.

I've had great people around that I've interviewed.

I think

I can honestly say two, maybe there's been five that have walked into the room, said hello to me, and then said hello to Stu or the other people on the air.

But then the important thing, looked at the people who are holding the camera, doing the makeup, introducing yourself, looking them in the eye, and engaging with them.

That rarely happens.

rarely.

It's sad, but it's to me, it's a test of

who are you really?

And you pass that.

And from what I understand, you were out in the green room and you were out in the hallway and you were having conversations.

You came in here and you started looking around.

You're very observant,

which I think kind of passes all of us by sometimes.

We just kind of

We just engage in the moment and do what we have to do with that person.

Yeah, I think each of us are looking for these same things in our life, like love and purpose and connection, and then authentic relationships.

And if we just start skipping across the disc, we just turn our life into a bunch of transactions.

And I just don't want to be, I'm not a touchy-feely guy.

I'm a trial lawyer.

But I want to have seemed like a trial lawyer.

I'm the only guy trying a $100 million case with a Mickey Mouse watch.

But I'll tell you, it'll be the third month of the trial, and somebody in the box will say, Mickey Mouse watch.

I'm like, I just won.

This whole idea, this overarching idea that we'll be known for our opinions, but remembered for our love.

So I think we need to each ask, like, what are we going to be remembered for?

Okay, so

I want to, I mean, I could spend a day with you, but I want to come back here in a second and

show me how you

remain optimistic as a trial lawyer.

I can't think of a worse job.

I can't think of a worse job.

You're surrounded by dirtbags, lying in the system,

and yet you hold it.

So give me some real life examples.

Well, I would say it's

when we come back.

Glenn Beck, Mercury.

This is the Glenn Beck program.

Welcome back.

We are talking to an incredible guy I could spend the day with, and he's just invited me to go TP some houses for the rest of the day.

His name is Bob Goff, the author of Everybody Always,

and one of the happier guys that I think I've ever met.

And you're a trial attorney.

And I want to get into that, but we're going to run out of time.

So

let's start with one of your philosophies

where one of the things that you take away from the Jesus story, and that is tell no one.

Yes, I love that big moment.

It's this Simon Peter.

Jesus says, who am I?

And says, some say you're a teacher.

And actually, he was an awesome teacher.

Some say you're a prophet.

And he was actually an awesome prophet.

And then

Simon Peter says, you're God.

And Jesus said, you nailed it.

But I love that he said, flesh and blood doesn't reveal that to you, but the Spirit.

And we've got a lot of people where faith is important to them.

and they're trying to like do the Spirit's work.

Like, just they're trying to tell everybody what Jesus is.

Two verses later, He says, Tell no one.

I love that.

I don't think it's supposed to be a secret.

I think He means, Show them, don't tell them.

So, show people what you believe.

We'll know what we believe when everybody sees what we do.

I don't care what somebody says, I got a lot of things I believe, but see what I do, see what you do.

You're doing this, you're just spreading a lot of hope for people.

So, you are, so, but

do you set out

to,

you know, another, another Jesus thing, and it kind of reminds me of you.

Pay no attention to what's going to happen tomorrow.

Don't worry about tomorrow.

Don't worry about where you're going to lay your head.

Don't worry about any of it.

Just go do it.

That seems to be your mantra.

Exactly.

Yeah, yeah.

So know why you're doing what you're doing.

So for instance,

I'm married.

We got three kids.

Two of those are married.

And I want to be a grandpa.

Like more than the worst thing in the whole, I just want that so bad.

I'm expecting.

They're not expecting it.

I'm expecting every day.

My son, actually, with his wife, went to Hawaii.

He said it rained all week.

I'm like, yes.

More wine to the cabana.

So,

so one of the things, if you know why you're doing what you're doing, and I just want to be, we were talking about being available.

So I put my cell phone number in the back of a couple million books, and I get 100 calls a day.

It is

legitimately the last sentence of

the book.

It talks about if you ever want to talk about any of the ideas, my phone number is, give me a call sometime if I can be helpful.

Isn't that awesome?

It's just been so crazy.

People don't follow vision.

They follow availability.

And I'm never the smartest guy in the room, particularly right now, but I can be the most available guy.

in the room.

And so if you know why you're doing what you're doing.

How do you do that?

Just

constantly interrupted.

Like literally just constantly.

And Jesus was constantly interrupted.

People are tugging on his shirt, calling his name from trees.

Just live a life with constant interruptions.

And what it reminds me over and over again is not to be efficient in the way that I love people, but to be extravagant.

That was one of the hallmarks that Jesus had.

What does that mean?

Extravagant love.

Just not giving people a little bit.

Just give them your best.

We took all the money from Love Does and just gave it all away.

And so we've been going around building schools in countries, which cracks me up up because my worst subject in school was school.

But we're actually pretty good at starting them.

So we've got one in Uganda, one in Iraq, one in Somalia.

We've got one going into a country that doesn't do that.

And that's in two weeks.

What could possibly go wrong?

I'll check back in with you in three.

So one of the whole ideas is to fail trying.

Don't fail watching anymore.

Fail trying.

So if you see something, don't just identify with that, but to just say, what's my piece in that?

We had guys on yesterday.

They were up in

Indianapolis, and they had potholes in their town, and they were reading, you know, they knew how bad it was, and they were reading in the newspaper that the state couldn't afford it, the city couldn't afford it, it was $700 billion or whatever to fix all the potholes.

So

they took 50 bucks, they went to the hardware store, they bought asphalt, and they just started fixing potholes.

Done.

Right.

And what is amazing about this is so far the city knows about it and hasn't stopped them.

I would think immediately.

Oh, they're going to come.

They just didn't stop.

They just went out and did it.

Yeah.

But they're in their 20s, too.

They haven't lived a life of, don't do that.

Yes.

Yeah.

What if the, as you're constantly thinking about what do you want to be remembered for?

And I just want to be remembered for somebody who is engaged.

And here's the crazy part.

Like, God isn't dazzled when you go across an ocean.

He's wowed when you go across the street with this idea of loving your neighbor.

I don't think it's just a metaphor for something else.

I think it actually means love your neighbor.

We've got a mailman on our block.

He's lousy at it.

He's not a detail guy.

So we get everybody else's.

Actually, one of my neighbors was getting audited.

I had to bring it over.

I'm like, stinks to be you.

So, well, Art, after 20 long years, finally said he was going to retire.

I'm like, praise the Lord.

And so we decided to make him the grand marshal of our parade.

We have a parade on our block.

Our block's only, you know, 10 houses long on each side.

And so 800 people showed up to see Art, to let him know just how much they loved him, even though he's a lousy mailman.

Everybody in the whole community knew it.

And we got a convertible.

We filled it full of envelopes.

We just said, Art, just throw them in the air.

Do what you do every day.

And there was such an outpouring of green and love towards this guy.

He called me up the next day and said, Bob, I'm coming out of retirement.

I'm like, no,

no.

But what will happen when people know that they're loved, when they actually know that they're respected, this idea of

being ready to make a defense for the hope that's within you doesn't mean to point bony fingers at people.

They forget the last sentence.

It says, with gentleness and respect.

And if we could just treat people with gentleness and respect, knowing that you've got beautiful things in your life and God might be doing something different in your life than my life.

Last Saturday, there was a wedding planner that was praying for sunshine and there was a farmer praying for rain, right?

And just to assume that God's up to different things in other people's lives and be a little bit more patient with him as we're getting there.

But to do the things we can hope for a lot of things, but hope on the move.

People say like love's a verb.

I think hope is.

I don't know about my grammar, but I'll tell you, hope on the move is unstoppable.

That's what your guys were doing with the potholes.

They're saying that's hope on the move.

I'm not waiting for permission.

Your life is your permission.

Somebody birthed you and said, go.

Now go do beautiful, immense things, but do it with gentleness and respect.

I can try death penalty cases against witch doctors, but that whole idea of loving your neighbor and loving the people love your enemy, right?

So after the trial, I started meeting with witch doctors.

I sent out word on the Bush radio that the Consul General for Uganda is here, and I command every witch doctor to meet with me.

Glenn, they came.

I've met with a thousand witch doctors and they are creepy.

They make dolls that look like me and stick stuff in there.

No wonder I always have a headache.

And so I asked these guys, what do you need?

And they said, we don't know how to read or write.

So get this.

I started a witch doctor school.

We don't teach them how to be witch doctors.

They already know.

We teach them how to read and write.

And the only books we have in witch doctor school are the Bible and Love Does.

And so this whole idea, you should see our graduation ceremonies.

I mean, they're awesome.

I bet.

Yeah.

So I grab each of these witch doctors by the face and I give them a kiss on the forehead.

I want to be every witch doctor's first kiss.

And I just whisper to them, like,

do good.

Like, live your life in a way.

They're already the leaders in the community.

Live a life in a way that gives great honor and respect to people.

Okay, so no, I I want you to just

take this back here as I understand this story.

Here's a guy I introduced to you 40 minutes ago, and it started at his table with his children on September 11th.

They wrote a letter.

He first asked, what would you say to the world leaders?

They respond.

Most people would stop there.

He said, let's write.

And let's invite them to come here or we'll go there and interview them and find out what they hope for.

And

20, no, 19 of them said yes.

Most people would go, okay, well, we're not going to, they went to all 19, went to all 19, interviewed.

While he was in Uganda, finds problems.

He's an attorney, says, well, maybe I can just help.

He starts to help.

They invite you to be the, they invite you, you think, to be counsel, meaning they wanted you to be a counselor and an attorney there.

But you're actually the ambassador, not of, from

to the, wait, wait you're not the ambassador from the United States to Uganda you're the Ugandan ambassador to America right the console yes console okay

and so now you are educating witch doctors and teaching them how to do good that's a remarkable 15 years what if you just live a life engaged and it wouldn't be any different than other people like this whole idea of living an engaged life we're not graded on a curve just engage the people around you, engage the people you love, but engage them with love, like engage them with that childlike faith.

Then to see what happened, we would finish each interview with these world leaders and they care, what do you bring to some of these guys?

Like some places the chocolate would melt.

And so the kids brought the key to our front door.

And they gave it to them in a little box.

And they said, you know, we came over to your house.

If you ever want to come to our house, here's the key to the front door.

And you know what?

Somebody, I'm not going to tell you who, but they emailed from the embassy to our kids because they don't have my email address.

It's the kids doing this.

And they said, we'd like to use our key.

And they did.

Oh, you're kidding.

That whole idea, just engage people.

See what will happen.

Do a cannibal.

Don't put your toe in the water.

Grab your knees.

And then just see what'll happen.

Start with your family.

Let these concentric rings go out.

If faith is a big deal,

do it because faith's a big deal for you.

But don't try to talk everybody into it.

God will let people

know that he's around because he's there.

Like it'll just

continue to reveal himself, but not in mystical ways.

It'll just be by meeting loving people.

So I want to be that guy and I'm trying and I'm not quite there.

I always get my first call.

It's always five in the morning from some dude in Atlanta because it's eight in the morning there and it's five in San Diego.

I got my last call at midnight from two witch doctors in witch doctor school.

And they said, a little boy's been abducted and this new witch doctor has taken him into the bush for a child sacrifice, but we know where he is.

Should we go get the kid?

And I'm standing on my bed in my boxers yelling into the phone.

I'm like, get the kid.

And four hours later, I get a text message from these two guys that used to be bad guys.

And they said, we've rescued the child.

He's with his mother.

And the last two words of the text message, love.

does.

I've spent my whole life avoiding the people Jesus spent his whole life engaging.

And I've I've just decided I'm just not going to avoid people anymore.

I'm going to engage the people who creep me out.

I'm not going to just avoid them, but I'm not going to engage people.

Is that what this interview is all about?

You're engaging the people creeping.

Oh, you want to know something great?

The cover of Everybody Always looks like a bunch of balloons.

I flew over to Uganda after, you know what it's like when you get a book cover and they send you all these samples.

They all look cokey.

So I flew over to Uganda.

I got the witch doctors to make the cover out of their fingerprints.

Wow.

Isn't that terrific?

But engage people.

And they're like, what's this about?

I'm like, well, actually, I'm going to go write a book about loving people and loving the people who creep you out.

And you guys used to creep me out a lot.

You still creep a lot of people out.

But I'm learning from you.

You're actually teaching me more about love because I'm learning about you and your life.

And I see who you're becoming, not who you used to be.

And it's starting to change me.

They've actually taught me.

I don't know if I've taught them anything.

They're teaching me a ton.

I have to tell you, Bob, and I don't know if you take this as a compliment or not, but I have worked with, or I have been around and worked with some of the biggest

spiritual leaders of multiple faiths in the last 20 years

and have met the worst and the best.

Billy Graham, one of the best.

I won't list some of the worst.

You may be the best.

preacher I've ever met.

And it's not because you're preaching.

It's because you're doing it.

And that's the secret.

If we just stop preaching to each other and we stop trying to get each other baptized or trying to fix everybody's life by selling you X, Y, or Z, just live it yourself,

people change.

Isn't that the idea that works?

You know why you're doing what you're doing.

I dressed up to come visit with you by taking off my baseball cap.

I wear this Boston Red Sox hat, not because I'm a Red Sox fan.

I haven't even gone to a baseball game, but one of the reasons I wear it, my neighbor across the street was a big Red Sox fan, and she was going to be with Jesus by the end of the week.

So we made a deal.

I said, I will wear your Red Sox hat for the rest of my life and represent the Sox here, but every time Jesus walks by you, you need to mention my name.

There's this person out there that says, I knew you not.

I'm like, Carol.

So if you know why you're doing what you're doing, why you're engaging people in conversations, why you're doing this,

it'll give a lot of clarity to your life.

You're amazing.

Thank you so much.

Oh, thanks so much for having me, for making me feel so welcome and for spreading a lot of joy and hope to people.

Thank you.

Bob Goff, everybody always.

If that doesn't sell everyone in this audience on buying this book, I don't know what would.

Boy.

One of my favorite interviews of all time.

Thank you.

Good for you, Dr.

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I don't think I've

rarely met a man like that.

And especially a man who gives out his own cell phone number in the end of his book and says, just call me.

And he means it.

I mean, it's the same phone number that he gave out in his last book.

And he still has the self five times in the makeup chair.

People called him

just randomly from around the country.

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We live our life the way he lives his life.

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Who knows?

Maybe it's just that the media is tired of reporting on high school students going on marches.

Maybe they're just tired of

people that are taking issues and making them political in school.

But somehow or another, I doubt that.

Something tells me that there is an ideological bent to the quiet, the total silence.

Shush, listen.

Not a word about the pro-life march happening right now

in America.

What?

You haven't heard about it?

How's that possible?

Students at more than 200 schools around the country are joining in.

Sure, over the last week, with the chaos of Syria and Facebook and the FBI raids, there is a

larger trove of newsworthy content, I guess.

So

media has moved on from the Parkland shooting and the

consequent month-long parade of anti-gun mania, right?

No, they really haven't, and it hasn't stopped the media from reporting on Planned Parenthood or the Women's March.

The Pro-Life Nonprofit Family Research Council has encouraged students to join the march.

In a statement, the group contrasted the nationwide outrage and media coverage, and yes, there is an overlap that followed the Parkland shooting, resulting in the March 14th walkout.

They say, quote, prior to the March 14th walkout, Julian Benzel, a history teacher at Rockland High School in Sacramento, California, started a discussion among her students as to whether school officials would allow students time out of the class for a demonstration to raise awareness about the lives lost to abortion.

As a result of the discussion she initiated, Benzel was placed on administrative leave for two days, likely only reinstated because of the widespread backlash over her suspension.

Hmm.

So,

why the silence today?

Kids today are standing up for life.

Kids today are taking on their own administration, which the media said was so very important and courageous and worth covering.

But the media has failed its test, as it does day after day.

But there is hope in the country, because there are those people who are willing to be grossly outnumbered, mocked, ridiculed, called names

because they'll stand for what is right.

It's Wednesday, April 11th.

This is the Glenn Beck program.

So it was a little bit awkward yesterday, occasionally tense.

It was kind of funny, sort of dramatic.

Then really awkward again.

There were times that I screamed at the screen.

There were times I just shook my head in disbelief.

It was almost as entertaining as the movie about

Facebook, the social network, except it was twice as long,

had really bad lighting, and there were way more old people in yesterday's episode.

It was Mark Zuckerberg testifying in front of Congress yesterday, and

I'm not sure what he was doing.

Are you, Stu?

Not sure what he was doing.

I mean, what was he doing?

Did you hear him when he was asked, are you responsible for the content?

Yeah, and he said yes.

I mean, I think he was saying that, and the buck stops here, right?

Which is what we would want him to say.

Except every attorney, every attorney, anybody who is, I mean, how many pictures have been posted that are copywritten pictures?

Right.

How many times have people posted something that has a copyright or a trademark and you can't do that?

How many times has somebody posted something completely irresponsible since we began this monologue with

1.2 billion users?

You can't keep up with that.

No, that's a lawsuit.

That could bankrupt Facebook.

Yeah, I think his general point was we have to do more.

I think you can make a legitimate argument.

It's really not their fault at all about these data breaches.

I think you can make a legitimate argument.

And it's one that I don't know if I'm CEO of Facebook, I might make.

I certainly would make arguments like, you know, I would sit down and I'd say, hey,

thanks a lot for asking me these questions, but it's none of your freaking business.

You know what?

It's none of your freaking business.

I run a private company.

Get out of my face.

That's the real answer to politicians when they come peering their, you know, they're trying to get their grubby hands on his business and they want to regulate it.

And he was like, well, my attitude is that we're not against regulation, we're against bad regulation, but we're fine with the good stuff.

There is no good stuff, there is no good stuff, you know, and that's, I think,

one of those situations where he needs, I would have wanted to be, and I'm sure he wanted to be a little bit more aggressive, but he stayed back.

For example, like for the data,

they gave, they had an agreement that you signed to get on Facebook.

Then you agree to share your data with a third-party app.

Facebook has an agreement with a third-party app that says don't share your data outside of the uses that we've agreed with.

Then that third party shared it with another company.

That's the breach.

It wasn't Facebook's breach.

It was the third party's breach.

Now, his answer to that is like, well, you know, we should be responsible.

We should be holding these people up.

In reality, I think he could have made a legitimate argument that that was not his fault at all.

No, I don't even think, make a legitimate argument.

I think, let me just take this with another product or service.

You go and you buy a truck.

You have an unspoken agreement that the truck is going to be used the way trucks were built to use.

You buy the truck from the dealership.

It's a GM truck.

You then go take that and you drive that truck through a crowd.

Is the dealership responsible?

Or is the truck is GM responsible?

No.

And they didn't even have a contract saying, hey, I won't drive this truck through a crowd and kill people.

That's just implied.

This one, there was a contract.

You, not the Facebook thing that everybody just clicks on.

One where it was, hey, will you share your information with this company?

Yes.

So you said yes.

Then

the company, they clicked, I won't share it with anybody else, but they did.

They're the driver of the truck.

How is Facebook responsible?

I think you're totally right.

And what Zuckerberg's argument yesterday was, was, look, we probably shouldn't be selling trucks to people who might

drive into crowds.

Well, how the hell do you know that?

Minority report.

Yeah, and that seems to be the road they're going down.

He's talking about how AI is going to be implemented within, they think, five years to eliminate hate speech.

But listen to what

does that mean?

Here's Zuckerberg talking to Ben Sass, who says, can you define hate speech?

Listen to this.

You may decide, or Facebook may decide, it needs to police a whole bunch of speech that I think America might be better off not having policed by one company that has a really big and powerful platform.

Can you define hate speech?

Senator, I think that this is a really hard question.

And I think it's one of the reasons why we struggle with it.

There are certain definitions that

we have around

calling for violence or

let's just agree on that.

If somebody's calling for violence, that shouldn't be there.

I'm worried about the psychological categories around speech.

There are some really passionately held views about the abortion issue on this panel today.

Can you imagine a world where you might decide that pro-lifers are prohibited from speaking about their abortion views on your content, on your platform?

I certainly would not want that to be the case.

But it might really be unsettling to people who've had an abortion to have an open debate about that, wouldn't it?

It might be, but I don't think that that would

fit any of the definitions of

what we have.

Now,

Ted Cruz

asked him about Planned Parenthood, asked him, you know, have they ever been, have they ever been banned?

Are you doing anything on pro-life?

Have you ever kicked any pro-life people off?

Zuckerberg is in, he doesn't have a real real definition of hate speech.

And here's the problem.

Do not fear AI.

Don't fear AI.

There's no reason to fear AI.

Fear the goals that AI is given.

So you have Mark Zuckerberg.

Well, we're going to have AI and it's going to, it's going to police hate speech.

Okay.

That sounds, well, spooky to me, but I guess good to some, but sounds really spooky to me.

How do you define hate speech?

Well, I mean, there's lots of, I mean, you know,

calling for violence.

Okay, all right.

How do you define hate speech?

What are you teaching AI?

You can't come to me and say, hey, well, AI is going to take care of a lot of this, and then tell me you don't really know what hate speech is.

Define it.

What is it you're putting into the program?

What are you teaching AI

is hate speech?

speech.

Right.

I mean, we can't decide on that.

The Atlantic

disagrees with itself that first they're hiring for a salary Kevin Williamson.

The next day they're firing him because they think he's engaged in hate speech.

This is one organization.

They can't even make up their own mind about one person in his commentary.

Here's Ted Cruz going up against Zuckerberg on this.

Do you know of those 15,000 to 20,000 people engaged in content review, how many, if any, have ever supported financially a Republican candidate for office?

Senator, I do not know that.

Your testimony says it is not enough that we just connect people.

We have to make sure those connections are positive.

It says we have to make sure people aren't using their voice to hurt people or spread misinformation.

We have a responsibility not just to build tools, to make sure those tools are used for good.

Mr.

Zuckerberg, do you feel it's your responsibility to assess users whether they are good and positive connections or ones that those 15 to 20,000 people deem unacceptable or deplorable?

Senator, you're asking about me personally?

Facebook.

Senator, I think that there are a number of things that we would all agree are clearly bad.

Foreign interference in our elections, terrorism, self-harm, those are things.

Censorship.

Well, I think that you would probably agree that we should remove terrorist propaganda from the service.

So that, I agree, I think, is clearly bad activity that we want to get down, and we're generally proud of how well we do with that.

Now, what I can say, and I do want to get this in before the end here, is that

I am very committed to making sure that Facebook is a platform for all ideas.

I will tell you, I sat in a room with him two years ago, and I know

people disagree with me on this, and that's fine.

I sat with him, and I looked the man in the eye, and I could...

We do not agree on policies.

We do not agree on

politics.

It's very clear.

But I will tell you this.

I truly felt,

he felt it was impossible and suicidal

to get involved in politics because it's a global company.

And he said,

we are dealing with one,

what was it, 1.2 billion users.

We cannot keep up with it we cannot what what is what is deemed hate speech in one place is not hate speech in another place

how could we possibly keep up with it how could we possibly keep up with all of the candidates and why would we do that

and it was a real point of frustration that i felt he had been wrestling with himself long before any of this happened.

He was wrestling with,

he wants to do the right thing.

He wants to create a better world, whatever version that is, and we may disagree with a better world and what he believes is creating a better world, but he has wrestled with this and he doesn't see, he doesn't feel that it is,

that it is possible

to do it.

And I think he's right on that, although that's not what he expressed yesterday.

That's not what he was saying yesterday.

He was talking about hiring people all over the globe because, you know, if you are in Uganda, hate speech is a lot different than it is in the United States.

You can't just look for the same slur translated.

Whatever hate speech is in Uganda is totally different than what it is.

This is the road that they're going to go down.

They're going to put themselves out of business.

Yeah, because they're doing things that their customers don't really want.

Politicians want it.

The media wants it.

What their customers want is, I followed a page.

I want the stuff from that page.

I made a choice to click like.

Give me the stuff they say.

That's what they want.

What Facebook is now saying is, we know you say that's what you want, but we know what you want better than you.

We think you want better connections, or we think you want less passive media content.

We think you want, you know,

seeing pictures of your friend's kids rather than reading a news story about Syria.

And so we're going to prioritize that content over others.

They're playing with their algorithm.

And again, it's their right to do this.

Yes.

But they're doing things things that are playing to the media, playing to politicians, and not playing to their own.

No, you know what they're doing?

Remember, I said Facebook is the replacement for television, television news,

the internet, for radio,

for the telephone.

It's the way we communicate with each other.

It's the way we get our news.

I said that about five, six years ago.

This is what it is.

It is now becoming a utility, and people are using it as such.

Well, what do those utilities always do?

Those utilities always say, well, I know best.

For instance, they are becoming a news source, but they're becoming CBS news, which said, we know what is right, we know what you want, and so we're going to give you these stories.

The other stories we're going to disregard with, for instance, the stories about the walkout at schools on abortion.

Who's covering that?

Well, Facebook has given you the opportunity to cover that.

Whether you do or not, you have the opportunity.

But if they use their algorithm to skew things, then even if you follow somebody who you know would be the guy who would bring that story up, you may not see their tweet about it, or their Facebook post.

They're becoming the old media.

Sarah, could you please play the audio that we played at the beginning of the show from Russia?

I want to play this.

This is shocking audio.

I don't know what you're thinking.

How can you say this?

Okay, so here's what this is.

This is audio from state-run television last night, and it is saying, prepare for possible nuclear war with the United States.

We were talking about Stormy Daniels.

They were talking about possible nuclear war.

And in that,

they were saying, you need rice, you need

some sort of an oat, bring powdered milk, and get to the nearest fallout shelter.

Should we say to do that?

Don't panic.

Just be prepared.

That's what Russia is thinking about when it comes to Syria.

We're not even thinking about it.

Look, I don't know what's coming, but I have to tell you, listen to the Russians on this one.

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One thing's for sure, Glenn, Mark Zuckerberg really liked the questions he was being asked.

Senator, this is an important question.

Senator, that's a great question.

Well, Senator, this is actually a very important question.

I'm glad you brought this up.

Senator, that's a good, an important question here.

Senator, I think that this is a really hard question.

Senator, those are all important questions.

Senator, this is

a really big question.

Senator, this is a very important question.

Senator, I think the The core question you're asking about AI transparency is a really important one.

Yes, that's a good question.

Yes, Senator, this is a good question.

I think you raised an important question.

And for the witness, Mr.

Zuckerberg, the hearing is adjourned.

There you go.

Good questions.

It was a good series of questions.

Mark, I'd have to tell you, I wish I could say that about your answers, but I can't really say that about your answers.

I think he actually did okay.

He did okay.

He just, I don't know what he was.

I just don't know what he was going for.

When you say, well, I mean, you know, look, he believes in, you know, bigger government than I do.

But when you're running a company to say, you know, I welcome regulation.

No, no, I don't

welcome regulation.

And we kind of talked about this off the air yesterday.

You welcome regulation and then you say, well, it just depends.

It has to be the right regulation.

It doesn't really mean anything.

And he kept saying that over and over again.

What does it mean?

Well, the right regulation to him is probably,

you know.

Regulation that helps him and hurts his new competitors that are coming up, which is, of course, what regulation does all the time.

It blocks the little guys from being able to

get on board with that regulation.

And he actually did mention that.

You know, a lot of this regulation is going to stop smaller companies from being able to correspond with it.

It always

does.

It always does.

Back in a minute.

Some really disturbing news out of Russia.

Glenn back.

Mercury.

You're You're listening to the Glenn Beth program.

There's a couple of things that are, I think, disturbing in the news today.

One is, as we played for you just a few minutes ago,

what the national broadcast was in Russia last night, where they were saying

store food and water and powdered milk and know where your nearest bomb shelter is because we may be on the eve of nuclear war with the United States, but don't panic.

That was the message on their news last night.

Our message on Syria was nothing.

We need to understand what we're dealing with here.

The Russians have already said two years ago, the world is already in World War III.

It just doesn't know it, and the West won't pay attention.

So they have been laying this groundwork for a long time.

But I want you to see what the statement was from Russia.

Now remember, what President Trump is doing is

sending missiles over to teach Assad, the animal, a lesson, don't use chemical weapons.

Okay?

As long as no Russians are hurt, maybe we're okay.

But is that true?

Listen to this from Russia.

It's from Russian ambassador to Lebanon.

It said, if there's a strike by the Americans, then we refer to the statements of Vladimir Putin and the chief of staff that the missiles will be downed.

You've heard that all over the media today.

But he adds, and

even the sources from which the missiles were fired.

Now,

does that mean that if a Russian troop were attacked or just firing of the missiles?

Can you verify that?

What is the caveat here?

Because listen, because they did kind of clarify, but I don't think it makes it better.

Yes, the smart missiles should be aimed at terrorists, not at legitimate Syrian govern the legitimate Syrian government that is fighting international terrorism on its territory.

So, I mean, of course, our idea of what is a legitimate terrorist target and theirs are quite different.

I mean, and they believe anything associated with the Assad government is not a legitimate target.

Now, of course, that's what we're actually targeting.

Yeah, we're targeting their, we believe we're targeting their bases in any place that helped them disperse chemical weapons.

Which, by the way, were removed many years ago.

Yes, of course, by Russia.

So

we are in a

the world is we may be in a Cuban missile crisis, but we're completely unaware of it.

We better wake up and

say our prayers here that cooler heads prevail and whatever is coming is

executed properly.

I don't know about you, but I don't want to go to war with Russia.

I can't believe we're back here after all the diplomacy between Rocky Balbo and Ivan Drago.

You know,

all that hard work that they did to bring the two countries together.

That was a movie.

It was a documentary, yeah.

And it was just

written by Sylvester Stallone.

It didn't really happen.

Pat is here.

Welcome, Pat.

You were disturbed yesterday by Zuckerberg.

Yeah, well, not by him specifically, more the Congress, more the senators, more

the American government that thinks it's their business to dictate to a private owner what he should be doing in his business, the only one who made any sense really was Ted Cruz because he cited a specific law.

And I'm not familiar with the law, neither was Zuckerberg.

But Ted was.

But Ted was.

Ted, of course, knew.

And I think it must be a law based on receiving tax breaks is what it sounded like to me.

Because if you're biased, you're not going to get the tax breaks because you're not.

you know you're not neutral and that's what he was trying to get at are you neutral or do you consider yourself a biased organization organization?

Because here's all the conservatives that you've censored.

And so I thought that was pretty legitimate.

But the rest of this stuff,

Congress has no business dictating to a private business owner.

I'm not a fan of Zuckerberg.

And I don't have a real love for Facebook either.

No?

No.

But you're a monster on Facebook.

I mean, you're one of the biggest, most prolific posters in Facebook.

Facebook would exist without my posters.

It does.

I think it's back to like just at Harvard.

It just goes back to that.

Lindsey Graham yesterday demanding that

Mark Zuckerberg identify whether or not his business is a monopoly.

Well,

what do you mean whether my business is a monopoly?

There was something called MySpace before me, which I just did better.

We're doing the same thing, only people like it better.

And it's not my fault it went out of business.

Not to mention there's 2,500 other social networks, many of them with very large reaches.

But he wanted to know if there's somebody doing exactly what Facebook does.

Well, if not, start it yourself, Lindsay.

I did.

Well, I didn't, but I stole it from my roommate.

And

maybe you should steal something from your roommate, and you can start making money off of it.

I mean,

to me, it's

amazing that he was asked, why did you buy Instagram?

Yeah, none of of your business why I bought Instagram.

Why do you think I bought Instagram?

Because it was successful and we thought it was a good investment.

What do you mean, why did I buy Instagram?

What a bizarre question for a supposedly conservative senator, which we all know he's not.

Well, no, but there is a difference between a progressive conservative.

No, I don't think so.

And even Lindsey Graham.

I do.

I think a progressive conservative.

I don't think you're conservative if you're progressive, but we've always

differed on that.

I think you can can be socially conservative.

Yeah, and he is.

He obviously is.

And so

he needs to be telling him none of your stinking business on many of these questions.

Graham asked him what we tell our constituents.

Tell him it's a private business and it's none of your business.

And if you don't like Facebook,

don't post anything on it.

Don't become a member of Facebook.

How about that?

Tell them to fight.

You can't live without Facebook.

I don't know.

We did pretty well without it for a long, long time.

Well, for the first 7,000 years of human existence, we didn't have Facebook.

Really?

Yeah.

Well, early on, we had.

Well, 6,000.

The Earth is only 5,000 years old.

So I don't think I buy that.

I don't think I buy that.

There's a part of me that wants a little bit, like, not.

100% there, but, you know, 20%

towards like the pharma bro guy, that guy just went to prison.

That you remember he like bought that drug and he just raised the price by like 60,000%.

And then, like, every time people would ask him, he would answer just like that.

Screw you.

You kind of want Zuckerberg to just kind of stand up on the table and just grab his crotch and be like, eat this, and walk out.

So I will tell you this.

I will tell you this.

I went and I looked back at the Howard Hughes testimony because Howard Hughes, before he went nuts,

they came after him and they were coming after him because of Pan Am.

He had TWA and Pan Am was the big competitor.

Pan Am was in bed with senators and

had all kinds of payoffs happening in Washington, and they wanted to shut down TWA.

And so during the war, Hughes, who was an aircraft builder, Hughes Aircraft,

he got all kinds of government money to build

specified planes that some of them were crazy.

The Spruce Goose is one of them.

The Spruce Goose should never have flown, but they were looking for something light, something that could be made out of material that we had an abundance of.

So he said we could try lumber.

Now you're making a wooden plane that was five stories tall.

The wingspan was a full city block.

Okay?

That thing is not going to fly.

Well, the war ends.

Spruce Goose is still being being worked on, hasn't flown.

And they're saying,

you defrauded us.

You defrauded us.

You were just getting rich off the taxpayer.

And they were just trying to smear him to hurt TWA.

Now, it's a great testimony, but it's not as compressed and as full of fireworks as

the writers made this drama in the aviator with Leonardo DiCaprio, but the spirit is there.

So

here's how Howard Hughes dealt with the Inquisition in his day.

Listen to this.

Simply because, well,

well, I am only a private citizen, whereas you are a senator with all sorts of powers.

But I think this damn circus has gone on long enough.

Quite sufficient.

You have called me a liar, sir, in the press.

You have called me a liar and a thief and a war property.

Witness will restrain his Why not tell the truth for once, senator?

Why not tell the truth that this investigation was really born on the day that TWA first decided to fly to you?

So he walks out, and it really does happen in the movie where he walks out of, I mean, it happens in the movie, but it happened in real life, too.

He was done.

He was done.

He's like, I don't answer to you.

I don't answer to you.

I'm doing business, and you are feeding everyone against me all of the questions in advance.

Will you give me the questions?

Well, they were like, no, we're not, we're not, no, that's out of order.

We're not.

You're telling me you're not giving them the questions in advance.

Can I get the questions in advance like everybody else here?

I mean, he took them to task.

That might be the last time a private citizen took Congress to task and reminded them,

I don't work for you.

You work for me.

I don't have to kowtow.

I don't have to tremble in fear here.

You're not my overlords because that's now pretty much our thought process when somebody goes before Congress.

Has anybody ever since Howard Hughes treated

this way?

I don't think so.

Remember when they were really coming after us and there was rumor that they were going to call me to testify in front of Congress?

And I said on the air, oh, let me.

Because I would have said that.

Okay.

But as it started to get serious,

my attorneys were saying, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

And I'm like, oh, no, let me at him.

Let me at him.

No.

Because they create all of the rules.

Yeah.

They create all of the rules.

They can say anything,

bring you any topic.

And if you say one thing wrong, you can go to jail.

This is why they don't want Trump to testify with Mueller.

It's not because he's colluded with Russians.

It's because they control everything.

Right.

And he says one thing wrong, and obviously he's not always exact in his language.

It's that all, it's, it's that old, uh, I, I, why would I be bothered by this?

I don't have anything to hide.

Well, you, you don't know what they'll consider something bad.

Yeah.

That's why you have something to hide.

Yeah.

You don't know what they're going to make out of what you say to them.

Yes.

It's terrible.

And Howard Hughes, I think, got away with it because he had so much money.

Yeah.

And he was also bad crap, crazy.

Pretty much.

But he had so so much money, he didn't care.

He just didn't care.

And the problem here is Zuckerberg is like-minded with a lot of these guys.

He believes that the government has a hand in his business.

Yes.

So that makes it a lot worse.

Yes.

Thanks, Pat.

A little embarrassing there for Glenn, obviously.

That clip was from a movie.

Unbelievable.

Wait a minute.

Didn't you just...

So that's Pat Granley.

She's coming up on the Blaze Radio and TV network.

Having Glenn, get your facts straight.

It was just a movie.

movie.

Watch Leonardo DiCaprio playing a fictional character.

I got it.

Watch, go, go to YouTube.

They're just not, they're longer and not quite as dramatic.

But just go to YouTube and look for Howard Hughes' testimony in front of Congress.

Yeah, you can watch the real testimony.

Yeah.

And he was.

He really was.

He wasn't quite to that level that you hear from Leonardo DiCaprio, but he was after him.

The exchange when he's saying, You're going to give me the questions?

Because you're giving them the questions.

You're going to give me the questions in advance.

I mean, it's really tense.

And he is not afraid of Congress.

It was nice to see.

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Glenn Beck.

Okay, so

I want to tell you about a new politician getting into the race, Eric John Schmidt.

So it's good new leaders are.

Yeah.

He's running for city council in West Hollywood.

And he has decided that he wants to be completely transparent.

Great.

I mean, that's what we want out of our politicians.

We want them to be hiding anything.

TMI here on this one.

Schmidt released his profile, DudesNude.

His profile page.

On dudesnude.com?

Yeah, I'm not sure, but

his is Need2BeNude.

And he provided links for everybody.

He's got 23 photographs, some showing him nude and some showing him engaged in sexual activities with other men.

He also posted six videos of himself having sex

and a profile that opens up with the statement, I'm the luckiest guy in the world.

I've had a lot of hot sex and never got an STD.

I'm drug and disease-free.

Wow.

Hashtag life goals, huh?

Right.

So he says, I'm 100% transmerit, and I only have good intentions.

I'm not running against anyone.

I'm running for their seat.

I have nothing negative to say about others, and I never will.

That's the verbiage you want to use in that particular circumstance.

I don't think that'll hurt my campaign any more than it would be a candidate stamp collecting hobby.

Yeah, I mean, they're pretty much the same.

Well, I might disagree.

My hobbies do not affect any other part of my life.

I think it will help my campaign for people who believe the human body is art.

Plus, it shows that I believe in transparency, and I'm not afraid to express myself.

I'm not a nudist.

I don't do everything nude, but I am an exhibitionist.

I am kind of shy, but I also like other people watching me have sex.

So, what a way to launch your campaign.

And in today's America, he just might win.

Glenn, back.

Mercury.