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Truth.

Glenn Beck.

All right, we've got a lot to say about the budget.

Last night had to be one of the weirdest and ridiculous nights of government that I have maybe ever seen.

If you watch C-SPAN...

Let me rephrase this because

this is a phrase that has never been uttered before.

Hey, did you watch C-SPAN last night?

No.

But if you would have watched C-SPAN, you might have actually been entertained.

If it didn't mean slavery to our children.

Last night's theatrics, if it had a musical score, it would have been somewhere between circus music and the Benny Hill theme.

I expected that three-wheel car to come in and just tip over.

The Senate agreed two days ago on a long-term bipartisan budget deal that is the equivalent of a massive raging dumpster fire.

Now, here's the thing: this isn't actually a budget.

This is a continuing resolution.

This is vote for everything the government does, no exceptions, no changes, except a change in increasing the spending,

or shut down the government.

This set the tone for last night when Rand Paul stood up in front of Senate Republicans and called out their hypocrisy.

Paul didn't pull any punches.

He straight up called them all hypocrites and warned that a, quote, day of reckoning is coming, is coming.

Thank you, Rand Paul, for being a voice of reason.

Thank you for actually warning the country on what's coming.

If they don't pay attention, their own blood and the blood of their children are on their hands.

You did your job.

Same with Mike Lee.

Rand Paul is right.

And every Republican in that room

that did agree with him, back in 2011,

they all fought the Democrats to install budget caps.

This is is out-of-control spending.

This new budget obliterates all those debt caps and sets the precedent for this to get even worse in the years to come.

Wow.

The Republicans.

They suddenly have become enlightened.

They've had a change of heart.

They don't want children to starve to death anymore.

They're not trying to kill all of the people that just can't get hospital care.

Oh my gosh.

Or did they actually not ever really believe in fiscal responsibility to begin with?

Or were they just playing partisan politics?

Spoiler alert.

It's the last part.

The truth is, they just wanted to win in 2011.

And so they knew if we impose debt caps, Well, we'll convince the American people that if you vote for us, things are going to be different.

Well, they are different to the tune of $2 trillion of more debt in the next two years.

That's great.

So bravo to Rand Paul, Mike Lee, and anyone else that stood up and actually said out loud what some on the Senate floor might have been thinking and feeling if they were still thinking and feeling people.

Paul kept his criticism going long enough to delay the vote, which actually caused the government to shut down just for a little bit, just a couple of minutes.

In the end, it was valiant, but a losing effort.

The Senate voted 71 to 28 to pass the deal.

Democrats voted against the deal, but not because of the budget.

It didn't do enough for those who are here illegally.

It shot over to the House for a quick vote to try to avoid the shutdown extending into Friday.

Over at the House, Nancy Pelosi urged her colleagues not to show their hand until they knew how many Republicans would vote yes.

And as the pressure finally mounted, she declared that she wouldn't vote because of DACA, of course.

But she wouldn't hold anybody else back from voting for it.

One by one, Democrats voted yes.

They started to flood in.

I don't know if Nancy Pelosi is just full-fledged

Not in her right mind?

Or if she's auditioning for an acting gig.

Because

neither her theatrics last night nor her eight-plus hour-long DACA speech had any value beyond pure theater.

Last night,

if you watched C-SPAN, which nobody did, it was kind of entertaining.

If you're suicidal, if you were bored, nerdy, and really rooting for the destruction of America,

you loved it.

What else beyond a good movie or bad, ineffective government can deliver laughs and tears, all in one episode?

It's Friday, February 9th.

You're listening to the Glenn Beck program.

If you are disgusted as I am by what is happening in Congress, I want to play something from Mike Lee.

And he explains, because the American people are like, why can't they just all get into a room and work it out?

He explains this.

He says the reason why

we're in the room.

We're in the room right now.

We're all together.

But they're not asking us to work it out because this is a continuing resolution, and this is not the way you govern anything because it leaves the American people out.

The American people, what happens is Mitch McConnell and Chuck Schumer get together behind closed doors and they make every spending decision.

Then they bring it to the floor and they say to the Senate and to the House, vote for this, all of it, no changes, or shut the government down.

Well, gang,

what is that?

That's not our republic.

That's not the way it works.

We've been concerned.

We were concerned under Obama that there might be a dictatorship.

The left is now concerned that under Donald Trump there might be a dictatorship.

There might be a dictatorship.

There already is a dictatorship.

And it's happening in the House and the Senate.

The dictators are Chuck Schumer and Mitch McConnell.

They are dictating, you vote for this or I'll throw you to the wolves.

You vote for all of the things that Chucky and I have just worked out,

including things that go wildly against everything that your voters may have voted for, the things that your supporters went into the voting booth and said, they're going to do this.

You don't even have a voice.

You shut it down or you take it all.

Here's how Mike Lee explained this to, tried to explain this to America, but America wasn't listening.

Listen to his explanation about the grocery store.

I've thought about this on many occasions and how there are very few circumstances in our day-to-day lives that are like the way Congress spends money.

It's occurred to me that if you moved into a new area, a very remote area, and you had access to only one grocery store for many, many miles, for many, many hours,

and you were on your way home from work, your spouse called you and said, stop at the store, pick up bread, milk, and eggs.

And so you go to the store and you get your grocery cart.

You go to the bread aisle and you put a loaf of bread in your cart and a carton of milk and a dozen eggs.

And you get to the checkout counter and you put out your bread and your milk and your eggs.

And the cashier rings those things up and says, I'm sorry, you may not purchase bread, milk, and eggs unless you also purchase a half ton of iron ore and a bucket of nails and a book about cowboy poetry and a Barry Manilow album.

In fact, this is a special kind of story where you have to buy all of those things.

And in fact, you have to buy one of every item in this entire store in order to buy any of these things, including the bread, the milk, and the eggs.

Well, that would start to approximate what it feels like to spend money in Congress, where we're told you can't fund any part of government unless you're willing to fund all of government,

subject to such changes as the few people who write the continuing resolution

might insert.

And you, by the way, having been duly elected by the citizens of your state, will be left out of the process other than the exercise, the binary choice, of yes or no.

And so, Mr.

President, we've seen that this is how we get to be $20 trillion in debt, soon to be $22 trillion in debt.

We don't get to be $20 trillion, soon to be $22 trillion in debt, without a whole lot of agreement on the part of a whole lot of people to do that.

It's a bipartisan exercise, to be sure.

Bipartisanship is necessary, but the fact that it's bipartisan doesn't always make it holy.

You don't get to be $20 trillion in debt without a whole lot of Republicans agreeing with a whole lot of Democrats that we're going to do precisely that.

It might inure to the benefit of a few people who stand to benefit every time the government gets bigger or more expensive, every time we do things this way, but it hurts everyone else.

The process matters.

The fact is, we will not always come to an agreement as to how much we ought to spend.

We will not always come to an agreement as to those things on which we will be spending

the requisite amount of money.

But I think we should be able to agree that the American people deserve a process, one that allows them to be heard.

through the people's own elected representatives.

This is Mike Lee last night explaining we can get angry about the spending.

If you're on the left, you can be angry about DACA.

But that's not the problem here.

The problem is there's no debate.

The problem is the continuing resolution.

The problem is we haven't had a government pass a budget since Bush was in office.

That's the problem.

The continuing resolutions mean that you are cut out of the the process because your elected senator, your elected representative, has no voice, no way to stand up and say, wait a minute, this part of the spending shouldn't be happening.

This we can cut back and still fund the rest of the government.

This is a dictatorship.

And the dictators are not in the oval.

The dictators are in the senate.

The dictators are in the house.

And they're called Republican and Democratic leadership.

They cull all of the shots.

They are dictating every single dollar, and they're telling all of the other representatives: get in line, or I throw you to the wolves.

If you want to talk about spending, let's play the gas station audio from Rand Paul.

The Department of Defense last year, we found this out, spent $45 million on a natural gas gas station in Afghanistan.

$45 million.

It was projected to cost $500,000.

86 some odd overruns, you know, of cost overruns, $45 million.

So you're scratching your head and you're saying, natural gas, gas station, what is that?

We don't have one in my town.

We don't have any in my town either.

They didn't have any in Afghanistan, but you know what?

They decided that they needed to reduce the carbon footprint of Afghanistan.

Oh, dear God.

All right.

They wanted to reduce the carbon footprint of Afghanistan.

I thought the military's job was to kill the enemy.

So the military's job now is to reduce their carbon footprint?

So they bought a $45 million gas station that serves up natural gas.

And guess what they discovered?

They kept waiting.

So there's a guy sitting next to the pump.

You can imagine him sitting on a stool and he's waiting for customers.

No one ever came.

And then someone said, oh my goodness, they don't have any cars that run on natural gas.

Well that would probably be the same if you came to my town in Kentucky.

Almost nobody's got a car in America.

They live in a primitive state in Afghanistan and you're expecting them to have natural gas cars.

So they said, well, gosh, we already built this $45 million gas station.

Maybe we should buy them some cars.

So they bought them some cars with your money.

They paid for the gas station with your money.

Now they bought them some cars with your money.

But then the people still wouldn't come in.

They said, We don't have any money.

And they said, Okay, well, we've got the gas station, we've got your cars.

You need a credit card.

So we gave them credit cards.

So they have a U.S.

credit card that you pay for to take their natural gas car that you paid for to go to a natural gas gas station because we're reducing the carbon footprint in Afghanistan.

I mean, that's

unbelievable.

Congratulations, Republicans.

We have the House.

We have the Senate.

And we have the White House.

When we have all three, things are going to change.

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You know, I would love libertarians are missing the opportunity of a lifetime.

Libertarians could actually make all the difference.

People are looking for an end to this nonsense, but listen to this.

Millennials

want a different party.

They would drop the current party that they're in

at a rate of 71%

if they had one.

Reason reported on Wednesday that Larry Sharp, one of the more serious Libertarian candidates who came in second for the race in 2016 for VP, recently resigned from his post as an alternate representative for Region 8, the Libertarian National Committee, and for a good reason.

Sharp couldn't stomach the vice chair of the Libertarian National Committee, Arvin Vohara, who recently posted on Facebook that an adult having sex with a 14-year-old is not the state's business, and those that are engaged in military service should be seen as immoral killers.

Sharp didn't want Vohara kicked out of the party for these views.

He said he's more than welcome.

You can have those points of views because we're not in the business of thought police.

But he wanted him taken out of his position so someone with a little more sense could help lead the party for the future.

And the Libertarian Party voted no.

What the hell is wrong with you, people?

Seriously, what is wrong with you?

What do you mean by you people?

People, pedophiles?

Is that who you're going after now?

Yeah, yeah, I am.

What is wrong with?

Look, I understand

having different points of view.

I understand having a big party.

I understand.

But if

you are

your leadership, your leadership thinks that an adult can have sex with a 14-year-old, you should not be in a leadership role.

What is wrong with you?

Unless it's Nambla.

Right?

Like, Nambla, you can be in the leadership role there.

Yes.

That's a good place.

Right.

And, you know, like, he's an anarchist.

So he believes, he also said in the statement that he believes there should be no government.

Now, good.

Like, I understand that.

There's people who are out there who believe it.

But why are you in the political party in leadership of a party that's trying to get elected if you believe there's no government?

There should be no government at all.

You know,

Penjillette.

Good friend of mine.

He believes,

he says, I'm really more of an anarchist.

An anarcho-capitalist.

Yes.

Okay.

So he believes in almost no government, if no government at all.

But he has also said,

Glenn, you and I are not going to have an argument for 30 years.

I just want to make the government smaller.

We'll get down to what is really necessary in 30 years.

It'll take us 30 years to get there.

I have no problem with that because you're not saying, hey, by the way,

you know, you vote for us and there's not going to be any laws.

You want to have sex with an eight-year-old?

Who doesn't?

Huh?

Am I right?

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You're listening to the Glenn Beck program.

Hello and welcome to the program.

I am so glad that you're here.

Bill O'Reilly is joining us in just a few minutes.

I want to take your phone calls.

I have a couple of things that we really,

really have to get to today.

Some of them are more fun.

I mean, it is Friday, and it is Stu's birthday.

And Doc Thompson is here from the Morning Blaze.

Happy birthday.

Thank you so much.

We brought you a cake.

Now,

Doc, I just have to ask you a question.

And I just,

this cake is from the cake boss.

That's what we hear.

What do you mean, that's what you hear?

That's the rumor around the office.

You either know or you

don't know.

There's some dispute, but I think it is.

Okay.

All right.

May I ask,

how many birthday cakes,

you know, happy birthday stew.

How many birthday cakes say you're welcome on top of it?

Not many.

Not many.

So

when it was brought in, you guys said the morning play

is, which got this for you, Stu.

Yes.

But it doesn't say happy birthday stew.

It says, you're welcome.

Right.

You're welcome that we got you this cake.

Right.

Because I know you're thinking, thanks for the birthday cake.

You're welcome.

You didn't want to take the time.

We're all about economy here.

Word economy let's get it out there right you'll get the clutter out of the way glenn right that's that's good so you give somebody a present that just says you're welcome and by the way now it's time to move that cake over to glenn because your birthday is coming up tomorrow yes and you are welcome i don't want to be welcome that's a second-hand cake and it's a second it's a third-hand cake because it's a second-hand cake for stew he that's that cake was not designed for him yes jeffy was also welcome to it jeffy was welcome to it no more jeffy saw that yeah because it has nothing.

It doesn't even have, oh my gosh, it does.

Look on this side.

It does have fingerprints in it.

So it may be third hand for you and fourth hand for you.

But nevertheless.

Okay.

You're welcome.

Okay.

Thank you very much, Doc.

I appreciate it.

You know, what is it with you guys with food?

Because

you have food from really good people here all the time.

Yeah, we have our own chef, Patrick Mosier, too.

You have your own chef.

Yeah, yeah.

We've, yeah, he comes in and cooks Forest Prime Times.

He's on on the show with us.

It's at Food Biz Pro.

So we interview him because, you know.

Because what, he's so interesting?

Sure, of course.

That's the reason why.

Oh, my gosh.

And he's willing to do that.

Right.

That's what it's about, business and food.

I met some, you have, honestly, you have some of the greatest listeners.

And I met a couple.

that make their own coffee.

And it is the greatest story I've heard in so long.

I love these people.

Yeah, it's

our listeners are great.

And I think part of the reason is, too, because they hold us accountable that, you know, we've kind of created that hold us accountable transparency.

So they get it.

And they tweet with us regularly.

But this is a DM and his wife.

They're from Des Moines.

And they were looking for some change in their life, their entrepreneurial spirit.

What can we do?

And every year they take a trip to Yellowstone and they drive out to Yellowstone.

And on the way back,

their car breaks down and they don't have the money and they can't get it fixed.

And they're stuck.

And they're like, this is our sign.

We've got to do something different.

So he goes back and he was never even that passionate about coffee, but had an interest in it and started roasting beans in hot air poppers to try to teach himself on how to do it and developed the system, eventually got a roaster.

And now they have their own line of coffees called American Pride, AmericanPride Roasters.com.

The coffee is sensational.

They do a great job.

And all of the coffees are named after

Founding Father.

Yeah, or there's some others.

Like he's named some other celebrity ones.

Like there's a Bacon Blast that he named after me.

I I think that's Bacon Black.

Bacon Blast.

That's not your name.

No, Doc Thompson's Bacon Blast.

My middle name's Bacon, though.

That's a little

fact.

You're welcome.

Yes, you're welcome.

Yeah, exactly.

My parents are a big fan of pork belly.

But yeah, so it's, and they tell little stories of the founding fathers.

There's some lesser-known founding fathers, some orders.

Here's a show one to me.

Yeah, here's the Phillips.

I tell you, they were here last week, and they were just brewing coffee all week, and it smelled so good.

They do a really good job with the flavored stuff because the flavored coffee that they make isn't like an overwhelming syrupy, whatever flavor.

It's just kind of the hint of it, whatever, because you still want coffee flavor.

And done as a cold brew, it's sensational.

But they're really good people.

So if you go to AmericanPride Roasters.com, you can check it out.

Listen to this.

Listen to this.

And I'm pretty good with the Founding Father.

We did Founding Father Fridays for how long?

Yeah.

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Oh my gosh, I got that.

Can I open it?

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So, yeah, he does a lot of the different things.

I don't want to be a Mormon.

I really don't.

I mean,

you're actually losing out on this one.

one.

This is not good for you.

This is the time that you're like, God, this isn't good for whatever.

My faith or my coffee.

Oh, I go for coffee.

My wife and I, we just had a baby a couple weeks ago and named our son after George Wyth,

one of the signers from Virginia.

Yeah, yeah.

And there's a Wythville, Virginia, and a With County or whatever.

Of course, she didn't like the name, the pronunciation with him.

Why?

Yeah, there was.

But that's our son.

So I need to get him to make a

Wyth brand.

Yeah.

And I can give it to my son.

Right.

Okay, good.

Well, you're welcome about your sales.

Thank you.

Thank you very much.

Just hand me that cake, and we're good to go.

What is the name of the road?

What is the AmericanPride Roasters.com?

American Pride Roasters.

I wish you could meet these people.

You know, I wish you could meet them because they are so sincere and so kind and gentle.

My God.

They have several blends that are just for charity that they give a portion to charity.

They've helped some, you know, and I'm not talking like the big known charities, like individual people that they've met that they're like, let's name this and a percentage goes after them.

Really amazing people.

Yeah, they're great people.

AmericanPride Roasters.com.

Thank you very much, Doc.

I appreciate it.

Hey, by the way, Monday,

let's have Sarah and Pat and Doc in with us for an hour.

There's a new show starting on the Blaze,

and it is a roundtable.

It's called The News and Why It Matters.

So we all talk about the one story that we think is the big story of the day.

Try to be a part of that show and why.

The TV show?

What a surprise you are.

Oh, that's really cool.

That's awesome.

And so anyway, so that starts Monday at 5.30 Central, right?

5.30 Eastern?

5.30 Eastern.

And you don't want to miss it.

It's a lot of fun.

Pat Gray is going to be on it, though.

Yeah, we kind of, you know, that limped leg.

I'm curious about the seating arrangement, but other than I'm in.

Yeah,

you're next to him.

That's going to be trouble.

Yeah.

Thanks a lot, Doc.

I appreciate it.

And thanks for the You're Welcome Cake.

You're welcome.

I've never had a You're Welcome cake before.

I mean, let's really try to figure this out.

What the hell?

What do you think that was for?

Who, who sends a, I need a your welcome cake?

I mean, I really think it's an efficiency situation.

You know, the person's going to say you're welcome when you give them the cake.

So it's just on the cake and you don't have to bother with it.

I don't think that's a good idea.

That seems beyond the point of usual American laziness.

Laziness?

What are the people that didn't we come up with the assembly line?

Yeah, this is not efficiency.

This is not efficient.

That's laziness.

That's laziness.

Look, it's a birthday cake.

I knew you were going to say thank you.

So you're welcome.

Right.

That way I don't have to say it.

No problem.

Because what the problem is, is if the other, the recipient isn't lazy, they'll call you and say,

what the hell is a you, you're welcome cake.

And then it takes a long time to explain it.

Right.

And nobody believes you.

And you didn't save any time.

So I'm seriously wondering who that cake was for.

What would that cake be for?

You're really focused on the wrong thing.

It's a red velvet cake from some famous baker.

I don't care what the hell it says.

I have, I've lost 15 pounds in the last, what, since January 1 or something.

And

what I found is

avoiding your welcome cakes

helps you lose weight.

I don't know for sure.

I'm just writing some of these stats down.

Do you have a theory?

Because I don't know.

My theory is the less you eat, the thinner you become.

I don't follow.

I know.

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I'm still, I'm still,

I'm still so frustrated with the Libertarian Party right now because it's the biggest lost opportunity I think I've ever seen.

I just, I don't understand what they're doing.

You know, the last time they ran, they ran people who were not libertarian.

They just were not libertarian.

They were for bigger government.

They were for, for instance, they were for telling people, religious people, exactly what to do.

Well, I don't want religious people telling people what to do, and I don't want non-religious people telling what religious people should do.

I don't, I don't, leave each other alone.

Leave each other alone.

But there is something to be said for nature's laws.

I believe nature's God, but if you're an atheist, just nature's laws.

There are a set of principles and they are outlined in our Declaration of Independence and they are outlined in our Constitution.

Now, if you are so far over the edge that you think the Constitution Constitution is, you know, is worthless, well, then

what are you doing?

What are you doing?

Because

it's like Lenin said in Revolution.

You know, if you're holding up, I can't remember the exact line, but if you're holding up signs with Mao, we're going to change your head.

I mean, this is, it's, you're fighting a losing battle.

The American people are not there.

The American people are starving for common sense.

They're starving for

limited government that makes sense.

They're starving for the libertarian principles.

And libertarians have to decide,

am I a science experiment?

Am I just a book that makes people think deeply and think different thoughts?

Or do you actually want to help?

Do you actually want to apply

reasonable principles and lead this country out of darkness?

When you say, well, we're libertarians, so

anything goes, anybody wants to speak, and you allow somebody to come up and strip on stage, you are no longer talking about applied politics.

It's a party.

Yeah, literally.

It's a fun weekend.

It's a fun weekend.

Now, I have another convention, by the way.

Correct.

You know, this latest is they've got a guy on the committee that is saying that, you know, adults should be able to have sex with a 14-year-old.

Well, you know what?

You can have that debate at your parties,

but you're not going to get the American people to go there.

And are you really seriously willing to stand up when the country, when we're about to lose all of it?

And you're going to stand by a guy who says, an adult should have sex with a child.

You can have that debate debate all you want, but it has no place in today's politics.

The house is on fire.

What do you say?

You grab a hose.

I'm just so frustrated because

people want to change.

And if there was a principled party that said, Look, we're going to take atheists and we're going to take Christians and we're going to take Muslims and we're going to take Jews, but the ones that all agree the government has no role whatsoever

in establishing which one of you guys is right.

People would go.

They would flock.

If you had a government, if you had a party that said, hey, spending is out of control and we have to start reeling it back in, and it is going to mean cuts, but we're not going to do all of it at once.

We're just going to reverse thrusters for a while and take it piece by piece.

Somebody who

would say, look, I'm against the drug war.

I'm against

drug laws because they don't work.

It's like prohibition.

I am for the legalization of almost every drug, if not every drug, but not today.

You cannot reverse this and just pull these laws out when you have a nation that has been trained to have their hands out, has been trained that daddy will always take care of you.

You have to slowly reverse it and teach people how to stand on their own two feet.

But by having stupid arguments about hookers, heroin, and 14-year-olds having sex with adults, you have no place in American politics right now.

You don't want to become the Jared Fogel party.

That's not a good position.

Oh, my God.

You know, for a political party.

It's so frustrating because because they have it.

I mean, they don't have it, though.

They don't.

I love, you know, libertarian principles.

I'm with you.

But the party does not have it in that way.

Again, here's a guy who is seemingly a serious candidate that decides to align himself, which is a risk with the Libertarian Party at this point.

And he is he.

This controversy happens where someone's saying, well, basically, there should be no laws.

Government should have no role in sex whatsoever

was the summary of his position.

We keep saying the 14-year-old because that was the hypothetical.

But his summary was, no, government has no role in sex whatsoever.

So, you know, I think it goes further than that.

And then what happens?

The candidate with credibility has to leave.

And the guy who's like, ah, yeah, sex with 14-year-olds and below, he stays.

And then to call our military killers.

Right.

That's ridiculous.

I mean,

that's not where the American people are.

We don't want, we want an end to these wars.

We want our people to come home.

We want a welcome home parade that the people pay for if they want it.

Glenn, not the government.

Mercury.

Love.

Courage.

Truth.

Glenn.

Beck.

Let me talk to you about the stock market yesterday.

Stock market was pretty ugly.

After nine years of market growth,

the smooth sailing is finally getting a little choppy.

What?

Yesterday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped another 1,032 points.

Second day this week that the Dow has lost over 1,000 thousand points.

Monday's loss was the largest single day drop on record.

Okay, well, the stock market is really super high.

Yesterday was the second largest.

The next two biggest single-day point drops in record happened in 2008.

So the Dow has now dropped into what is called correction territory, which means it's down 10% from the highest point of over 26,000 on January 26th.

The Dow hasn't been in a correction since February of 2016.

Corrections happen.

I'd love to have

a correction not so dramatic.

I'd love it to actually be rooted in something reasonable.

But we haven't had that for a few years.

It would have to drop another 10% now to be considered a bear market.

When the market is in correction, it usually indicates that investors are turning pessimistic about the markets.

However, a correction doesn't mean that the market is unraveling.

Since 1998, there have been 10 corrections, including yesterday's.

Only two of those corrections continued into a decline into a bear market.

Now, everybody is scrambling for an explanation of this week's shaky market.

No one knows whether this volatility will last days, weeks, months.

Are we headed for the Great Depression?

Maybe, maybe not.

Doubtful.

I don't think so.

Investors seem to be nervous about inflation.

That's logical.

They are nervous that the Federal Reserve is going to raise raise interest rates faster than originally thought.

I believe that true, to be true.

Fear about inflation is driven by good things, an increase in wages, which are now rising at the fastest rate since 2009.

So while the market is acting weird this week, it seems to be you know, more out of place than usual, but that's because good things are actually happening.

The country is moving forward.

The tax cuts have actually made hiring possible and higher wages.

And also, the Dow has risen to unprecedented levels in the last year.

So we're not used to

volatility.

Any shakiness seems, oh my gosh, what's happening?

This didn't happen under Obama.

Yeah, because it was all bogus.

Many analysts think this volatility is long overdue.

So do I.

Nothing more than a healthy correction.

If nothing else, this week has been an interesting test in the psychology of investors.

The market has been doing so well for so long that when there is a normal correction, everybody panics.

Relax.

We're okay.

It's Friday, February 9th.

You're listening to the Glenn Beck program.

How bizarre is it to hear the monologue from me saying that about the stock market and the economy?

I just don't think

this is the big one.

I think, you know, we added $2 trillion in debt just last night.

$2 trillion.

To put that into perspective, if I take every single dollar and pound and yak yak from every country on earth, every bit of currency, And I take it all, that's only about $50 trillion.

We're halfway to all of the money in the world in debt.

That is going to cost us one of these days very soon.

Just don't think it's today.

Welcome to Bill O'Reilly from BillO'Riley.com.

Hello, Bill.

How are you?

Lou Dobbs, how are you doing today?

Very good.

Any comment on this, Bill?

Wow.

I mean,

well, first of all, you told me to relax, so I am very relaxed.

All right, good, good, good.

I'm doing a little yoga

here as I'm talking about.

Are you wearing the yoga outfit?

No, I don't have the yoga zarape.

You know, I'm not.

You're just in your suit.

Yeah, I'm in my suit.

You know, I just, how did you know that background?

Well, I wanted to know.

I mean,

we do get mailed.

Do you sleep in your suit?

Because I think those.

You know, no, I don't.

I have jammies that look like a suit.

Okay, good, good.

All right.

Pie pasted right on them.

Sure, okay.

All right.

All right.

So any comment on that, Bill, before we move on?

You know, I think, look, the only comment, because the stock market is gambling.

I mean, it is.

Let's face it, let's be honest.

And I say in my tip of the day, which I give every day on my tweet back

at Bill O'Reilly.

May I guess?

May I guess what it was?

If you can afford it, tip 20% in restaurants.

Used to be 15%.

Come on, brother.

How flattering.

How flattering.

Anyway, I said that the older you get, the less stock you should have or hold.

So I'm down in my portfolio

25% in stock

because it's not worth the risk when you can get bonds that will pay you

not spectacular returns, but steady and they're not going to go out of business.

You're right, the debt is going to come back to haunt us at some point.

So you don't want to be the Vegas person when you're 70 years old.

I mean, that's insane.

So conservative investing is my advice to Americans over the age of 50.

If you're a kid and you've got a good job, you can go into the mutual funds and all that because it probably will pay off for you.

Let me ask you this, Bill.

Are you concerned at all?

One of the things they're not talking about this is we had another auction of bonds, which means we were out selling the debt of the government, trying to raise money, and

the yield went through the roof because demand was very low.

Everybody's like, yeah, I don't think I'm going to bid on those.

I'm not interested.

Right.

They've got to pay more interest.

Yeah, does that.

That's a good thing for investors, certainly.

Yeah, but a bad thing for the United States of America.

Yeah, but it's look, you've got to look at it this way.

It might be a bad thing for the USA in February, but in May the whole picture could be turned around.

So I think that we're the most stable economy on the face of the earth.

Maybe Switzerland would would

out outflank us there, but it's certainly one of the top three.

And, you know, the Chinese, for example, you're not going to, I don't invest in the China stock market.

I mean, that's crazy.

And those people over there, the Chinese who have money, they're punting it in here.

And I don't see that changing.

I mean, you're going to go to the Euro?

Are you going to go into Angela Merkel territory?

Are you going to give your money to Russians?

No.

So I think that the United States will stay as the place where worldwide investment is mostly made.

I could be wrong, but I think the facts are on my side.

All right.

So let's shift gears to what happened in the Senate yesterday.

The continuing resolutions,

that's not a budget process.

And really, we are in a dictatorship.

We've been worried about Obama being a dictator or Trump being a dictator.

No, the real dictatorship here is Chuck Schumer and Mitch McConnell saying, here's the budget.

Everybody, Everybody,

every one of the people's representatives, you either vote for all of it or you are responsible for shutting the government down.

That's not a budget.

I don't even cover this on billorilly.com.

I don't even cover it because it's such a charade and the conclusion is foregone, Beck.

You know, you're absolutely right.

These pinheads on Capitol Hill, they don't care about the debt and they just want to keep the circus on the road.

And so they're going to pass these spending bills.

Trump's big thing is the military, so he's pumping more billions of dollars there.

And that's not going to change until there's a catastrophe.

And there will be, but I think that catastrophe is down the road apiece.

Let me move to the

FBI and the text.

Oh,

oh,

I'm really angry about it, Bec.

Two things I want to talk to you today about.

Okay.

All right.

The border wall and the FBI.

Go.

You said you wanted to talk about, so I should say.

Oh, I know that.

Hey, Bill,

Bill, let's talk about two things, the border wall, but let's start with the FBI.

Go.

All right, the FBI.

Look, it's clear there are four people that may be indicted.

All right.

James Comey, Comey, the former head, his deputy.

Can you explain to me?

Can you explain from your point of view, when you name these guys, explain for your point of view what you think they're going to be indicted for, what they did?

Okay.

So Comey went into a judge, a federal judge, who's on the FISA court, which is the court that issues warrants for tapping

to protect all Americans from terrorism.

That's That's why the court exists, okay, from foreign threats.

And Comey went in and he put his name on documents that said, you've got to give us this warrant so we can spy on Carter Page,

who's associated with the Trump campaign, because Carter Page is a stooge for Putin.

So we need to follow him around.

We need to see

all his internet stuff and listen to him on the phone.

Okay, the judge says, well, give me some evidence.

And, oh, here's the dossier that we somehow have acquired the FBI.

Dossier is phony.

Everybody knows it's phony.

Comey knew it was phony.

Comey submitted a phony dossier to the judge to get the tap.

It's a crime.

Okay, next.

What's your next question?

Who else is going to be indicted and why?

Well, McCabe did the same thing.

So it's Comey and McCabe.

Okay.

All right.

So those two guys went to a federal judge under false pretenses to get a tap on an American citizen.

I like to dumb it down, keep it simple so even I can understand it.

The other two are Peter Strzzok and Lisa Page.

Now, Peter Strzok was the lead investigator on the Hillary Clinton email thing.

And then Mueller, Robert Mueller, special counsel, hired him to look into the Russian collusion thing.

His girlfriend in the FBI was Lisa Page.

Both were married, and they're having a little thing going on.

50,000 texts between the two of them.

In the body of the texts are all kinds of stuff, attacking Donald Trump and a lot of other people.

And then there are little furtive things like POTUS, President of the United States, Barack Obama at the time, he wants to be apprised of everything we're doing, even though Barack Obama said he was saying completely out of it.

Okay.

So all of that.

But the big thing about Strzok and Page

is that it, from their correspondence, it looks like they weren't conducting, I mean, Strzok was not conducting an honest investigation, at least into the Hillary Clinton email thing.

And then we find out that McCabe knew that Anthony Weiner's computer contained classified information that came from Hillary Clinton a month before he told Congress, four weeks.

And

he told Congress just before the election took place, a couple of days before.

If he had said that a month before, Hillary Clinton would have been damaged almost, she might have even had to leave the race.

That's how serious that was.

So it looks like, circumstantial, but certainly worth investigating, that McCabe held back that information for a month to help Hillary Clinton.

All right.

When we come back, I want to talk to you about a few of these things

and

delve a little bit deeper into them in just a minute with Bill O'Reilly from billoreilly.com.

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Bill, I have a fundamental question about the FBI thing, and I can't get past it.

We know there are a lot of things that were shady with some of these agents, some of the people that did not like Donald Trump.

And you're right, completely worth investigating, and we should look into it.

But it seems like the way that, at least the conservative media or the Trump defending media, is talking about this issue.

It's as if the FBI had it out from for Trump from the beginning.

They wanted him to be, they did not want him to be president and they don't want him to be president now and they're doing everything they can in this sort of deep state thing to undermine his presidency.

I understand the premise.

I understand that storyline.

But when you're designing a plan to take down Donald Trump at all costs, shouldn't you leave out?

the part where you release a letter saying his opponent is under FBI investigation 10 days before the the election.

It just does not work for me because every one of these things, and it all comes down to the fact that without that letter, likely, Donald Trump would not be president.

I think Mueller handed the election to Donald Trump or Comey.

Comey had to.

What you guys are missing is what we just talked about before the break.

Comey had to

because he had the information about Wiener's computer

four weeks before that, and they kept it quiet as long as they could.

But Comey's saying to himself, if I don't put this out before the election, and then it's found that we had it,

I'm going to get indicted on the spot.

So he had to.

But right now, he could have done a CYA.

But they delayed as long as they could.

Right, but you're,

and then they came forward.

But the case is

everybody else didn't do ⁇ I mean, they were covering covering for her they were they were delaying they've they've uh they've covered all of this evidence and yet on this one thing

one thing comi said i have to release this yeah because it was so big when you have but it turned out to be nothing i know it did but it they it was anthony wiener

Okay, that if it had been anybody else, maybe they could have gotten away with it, but not somebody that high profile.

So they had the CYA.

And these guys, look, they're professional CYA people, and they're not going to put themselves at personal risk.

So they basically timed it.

They said, okay,

we'll delay it as much as we can, and then we'll put it out, and then we'll say, hey, you know, there was nothing there.

So nobody can come and say we tried to boot the election.

I'm not saying that I'm convicting James James Comey of anything.

I'm saying there's more than enough evidence to have a special prosecutor appointed because the FBI can investigate.

That I agree with.

All right.

But it is also beyond any reasonable doubt that Peter Strzok, a high-ranking FBI guy who actually wrote the words that Comey read about Hillary Clinton's email in July, hated Trump and wanted Trump to lose.

There's no doubt about it from his own emails.

I mean, that's definitely a problem.

This is more than enough to go in and shake this whole thing off.

Right.

So there's, I don't think,

do you think there's enough of a problem on both sides that we're not appointed, that

we're looking at a situation like we had with what's his name, stuff in the things in his underpants?

Sandy Berger.

Sandy Berger, where both sides are kind of like, you know, let's just, Sandy, you know, Sandy, I don't know exactly how to do this.

He can do that.

And now it's just too high profile with Congress all over it.

You know, and the Inspector General's report is really going to blow it up.

So in March, the Inspector General of the Justice Department is going to issue a report on how the FBI conducted itself, looking at the Hillary Clinton emails.

And you've got to figure that's going to bleed over to Russia collusion.

And this guy, Michael Horowitz, I think his name is,

is an honest guy.

And I think he's going to drop a megaton bomb.

And the reason I think that is because they fired McCabe

10 days ago.

He left the building.

Oh, I'm going to retire.

No, no, no, no.

They ushered him out

because the FBI, the new FBI chiefs, I think, got a heads up on the Inspector General's report.

It's going to be damning against McCabe and Comey.

Are we going to?

That's where the evidence points.

Remember, I'm an evidence-based guy.

Right.

I don't do the speculation thing.

Well, then that's not helpful to have you on.

True.

Dark radio and dark radio.

Yeah, I mean, it's speculation here.

You got to help me out a little bit.

But this is the line, I think, Bill, is in that there's enough here to say, I want to know what actually happened and who did what.

So,

your point here of saying there should be an investigation and we should look into that, I think, is a completely fair one.

I feel like the way it's talked about a lot in the media is this is decided, this happened.

And I think we need to be careful with that.

Yeah, on both sides.

Back in just a second, more with Bill O'Reilly.

Glenn, back.

Mercury.

Trust is an important thing.

It's something that we do a lot more as human beings than I think most people realize.

I mean, you drive down the road and there's a little yellow line between a car.

coming at you at 50 miles an hour and you're on your side of the road and they're on their side of the road and we just trust that they'll stay on their side of the road.

Their self-interest will do it, whatever it is.

We don't die most of the time when we're driving, and this is a positive thing.

It's hard, though, to find people you can trust when it comes to really complicated transactions like real estate.

I mean, what do you do?

You know, you're talking about your biggest investment in your entire life, and you're trusting this to someone because you don't understand what any of those forms mean.

I never do.

No one does.

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This is the Glenn Beck program.

We're with Bill O'Reilly, and I want to talk a little bit about Rob Porter.

He works at the White House.

He's White House staff secretary.

He handles all of the papers to the president.

There is a big scandal now because apparently he was accused by both of his ex-wives of physical and mental abuse.

He had a restraining order on him with his second wife.

None of this, apparently, was known.

When it was found out, the White House didn't move immediately.

They did put him on a, didn't they put him on a list and said, if anybody has these accusations, they've got to go.

However, Kelly did not execute that in the two weeks in between writing and doing.

Is that correct, Stu?

He did not get the permanent security clearance.

And there was several aides, apparently, that were ruled to not, they were not going to be able to get that.

They have a temporary security clearance.

And apparently, according to reports today, Kelly had said, if someone can't get the permanent security clearance, we're going to let them go.

He had not executed that idea yet.

He was going to do it, apparently, anyway.

Whether he thought he could reverse the decision in some way, we don't know.

So, Bill,

what are your thoughts on Rob Porter?

You know, I don't have any thoughts on him because I don't know what happened.

I'm not privy to any of it.

I don't trust the press to report accurately on anything in the Trump administration.

But it seems strange to me that the FBI, again, we come back to the FBI, it's their job.

See, in order to get clearance to work in these jobs at the White House, you have to go through a big FBI check.

Unless you're in jobs.

And so that they they

basically

are responsible for saying, you know, you can't bring the guy in because he's got A, B, C, D, and E on his sheet, which we verified.

So it's hard, you know, and

I want to caution, that's the best word, everybody, all Americans.

What you hear reported

on the news and reading the newspaper, right now it's a 50-50 proposition.

Half of it is not true.

Half of it's garbage.

So you have to go back to the fundamental system.

And the FBI is the agency that

oversees all security clearances.

And,

you know, I don't know

whether the Trump administration defied the FBI's advice.

I mean, we're not privy.

We don't have that information.

Glenn, would you, because

he came from Orrin Hatch's office, Porter, and he's Mormon.

I didn't know that.

Would there be, because this is now being, you know, it's being part of his bio now that's being sort of promoted, would there be any record of like, would the church?

Has he been excommunicated?

If somebody was accused of a spousal abuse, the church, our church is very different, and it does not get involved in, you know, your life in those ways unless abuse, mental or physical abuse or something like that.

And we have a church council.

If he was a member in good standing, they would have brought a council together and they would have listened to his wife and they would have listened to him

on the spiritual matter.

Is this happening?

Are you using unrighteous dominion?

If he was abusing his wife or accused of it, there should have been a council called privately.

And if he was found guilty of that, two times, I can't imagine if if he's a Mormon in good standard, in good standing, that it wouldn't have been

called,

they would have excommunicated him.

So the question is, is he a Mormon in good standing?

Did the council, was it called?

And if so, was he excommunicated?

If those, if he, if he was called, they did have hearings on it and he was not excommunicated.

I don't, I would believe that maybe that's not the situation, but I don't know.

I don't know.

Is that public, all that stuff?

I mean, does anybody know what happened?

I think, no, you don't,

none of the hearing is public.

It's between husband and wife and the council, and that's all secret, but you would know if he was excommunicated.

That would be public.

That has not come out.

I haven't seen that.

I have not seen that.

So

if you're Oren Hatch and you heard those things, I don't know if Oren did, but if you heard those things

and he went through

the church, I mean, the church does not take that lightly.

And if you would have gone through that deal and

excommunication means you're done, you have to start from scratch and repair this.

It's a big deal.

For a Mormon, that's a very big deal.

Bill,

let's talk a little bit.

I have so many things in front of me here to talk to you about.

Let's talk about it on the wall, Beck.

I was going to say.

Let's talk about it on the wall.

I was going to say, let's talk about the wall and the border guard's death.

Okay, I don't know anything about the border guard's death.

A man must know his limitations, and I do.

Okay.

The wall is coming.

All right.

And then the Glenn Beck program is now out front.

This is the next big thing, because

Trump is not going to give in to the DREAMers unless he gets funding for the wall.

Very simple issue.

So my question to everybody in America is this.

Why would you oppose building a wall on the southern border?

And then you'll get the usual well,

it's an insult to Mexico.

It's racist.

All right, that's what you get.

All right.

That's the only argument.

So do you say, do you know that in Mexico in 2017, there were more than 25,000 homicides and another

30,000 people unaccounted for.

They vanished.

They don't know where they are.

You know, whatever.

I put the number at 50,000 homicides.

That's way more than in Afghanistan or Iraq or anywhere else in the world.

Okay?

That you have this out-of-control cartel situation where the drug gangsters are killing people

every single day at a level that's so horrifying, but the world doesn't care.

When I was at CNN, I had photographic evidence that they would not allow me me to show on air of

a bowling alley on our border on the Mexican side where the drug cartels beheaded all of the people that were ratting on them and trying to stop them.

They went into a bowling alley and rolled the heads down the bowling alley

towards the pins.

I had photographs of it.

CNN would not let me show them.

There you go.

So what you have here is you have a government in Mexico City under President Inieto that cannot control a country.

And that's beyond any reasonable doubt.

You can't debate it.

All right.

So the drug cartels control much of Mexico.

So therefore, thousands of tons of narcotics come into the United States because that's how the drug cartels make their money.

And violence comes into the United States because the drug cartel members don't just stay in Mexico, they come here as well to oversee their business.

So the wall is designed to keep some of that out in addition to the people smuggling.

We know millions of people have come here illegally through the southern border.

Every day we get reports about criminals who have been deported 10 times, yet they come back 11 times.

So you still oppose the wall?

Is there an American who still opposes the wall?

Here's the crusher.

In Israel, they put up a wall, Beck.

What happened?

What happened after they put up the wall?

Violence went down.

Not just went down, almost non-existent.

So that terrorists were infiltrating into Israel.

They were killing Israeli citizens at a horrifying rate.

Israel built the wall, and that stopped.

And you're telling me we shouldn't have a wall on the southern border?

See, this, you have to make your argument so overwhelming.

And even the argument that I'm making, I'm a racist.

I mean, Jorge Ramos, if you got him on the show and said, listen to O'Reilly's analysis, I didn't know he's a racist.

I'm a racist.

You know, it's such crap and such a fraud.

And I'm not doing this to defend Donald Trump.

If I were in the White House, I'd make the argument as I just made on your program to the American people in a press conference.

And I'd destroy the opposition and say, if it is irresponsible not to build the wall,

if I don't build the wall, I'm putting you in danger, Indianapolis Colt linebacker, Kate Steinley.

Okay?

So I've got to do everything as president to protect you.

Therefore, I need funding for the wall.

And if I get it, then we're going to do a a quasi-amnesty on these Dreamer people so that everybody's happy.

All right?

So are you telling me that that this is illogical?

I I mean I get so angry because the press in the United States is so corrupt.

I mean, it's almost as corrupt as the cartels.

So I think we have a media cartel here.

Who wins in this debate?

Because I really truly believe most Americans are like, stop it.

Stop it.

We need security on the border.

And the people who came here as children because of their parents or they were born here, they're here now.

We're not going to deport all of them.

We have to watch the border, make sure it's secure, and then also

let's just figure out the deal with the dreamers.

And

I'll give you that, you give me this.

That's what people want.

Who wins?

I will tell you, if our presentation, our conversation right now were presented to the American public, 80% of the American public go, yeah, Beck O'Reilly and Stu, Stu would actually get some props, even though he hasn't said anything.

They're right.

They're right.

Okay?

80% I put the number at.

So who wins in this fight?

I think Trump has to win because he holds the power.

I mean, he'll veto any kind of DREAMer legislation unless it includes funding for the wall.

But they won't,

they want

the DREAMers to

they do not want Donald Trump to give amnesty and a road to citizenship to two and a half times more people than Barack Obama was suggesting.

They do not want it.

Who do they?

The Democratic Party.

They don't want it.

Well, I mean, look, their

nefarious motives will easily be exposed if they don't cooperate on this.

But you can just hammer that party, and they need to win the House in November, by saying, are you kidding me?

You oppose building a wall and all the facts that you present about how out of control Mexico is and the narcotics and the

opiates and the drug

and you oppose it it, and we can show you that in Israel it worked, and you still oppose it?

Nigga, kill him on that, because it's not that complicated an issue.

Bill, you have an insight into Donald Trump that we don't have.

I mean, you've known him for decades.

So is it consistent with the guy that you've known all this time for him to kind of run as a real border hawk, but when he's in office to be the kind of guy who's going to say, we want the security, I'll give you the DACA, I'll give you the amnesty on these people, and sort of make that deal.

This is a deal maker.

Yeah, but he has to do the wall

because that was his signature issue, and he knows it.

That would be like Bush the Elder going, reading my lips, no new taxes, and then raising taxes.

So he has to do that.

Trump is smart enough to know that there are a few core things that he cannot compromise on.

He has to do, and the wall is one of them.

Does the wall bill give him essentially amnesty on all of the other pledges on the border?

A A lot of them.

Yeah.

A lot of them.

Because that was, you know, he pledged to cut taxes.

He's done it.

And now, if he can get the wall under construction, you know, those are the two big ones.

And he can skate on a lot of the lesser stuff.

Yeah.

Bill O'Reilly from billorilly.com.

Thank you, sir.

Have a good weekend.

You too.

Thanks for having me in, guys.

I enjoy it.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Bye-bye.

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Thanks so much for tuning in today.

If you see this, Stu, you want to talk about,

I'm going to bring these jobs back from China and why that's a lie.

And anyone, any politician, left or right, who says we're losing jobs to China, I want you to listen to this story.

Foxconn.

You know what Foxconn is, right?

Yeah,

they're the big sort of manufacturer of a lot of iPhones.

And,

you know, they're famous for having tough conditions in China.

Suicides.

Yeah, suicides.

Their factories.

Their factories are like slave camps.

Your iPhone, I think,

it's being built by a slave.

And what they do is you get a, congratulations, you're out of the rice patty.

You can come in and get a job at Foxconn, but you have to live where you work in these horrible conditions.

You eat where you work.

You never leave.

People, they've had to put fencing all around

the top of the roof because people keep throwing themselves off the roof.

I mean, it's horrible.

Foxconn is planning to slash more than 10,000 jobs as a part of the company's aggressive efforts to increase the use of automation.

When China is automating and getting rid of human laborers, something that is cheap and meaningless to them,

you can guarantee that those kinds of jobs are not coming back to America.

Back in just a second.

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Truth.

Glenn Beck.

Can a coin be racist?

Let me rephrase that.

Of course a coin can be racist.

We all know that.

Let me be more specific.

Can the game heads or tails be racist?

Apparently so.

Two athletes nominated by the United States Olympic team to be the flag bearer at the opening ceremony.

Shawnee Davis, an African-American male five-time Olympian, and Aaron Hamlin, a white female four-time Olympian, were tied for the position.

Both received the exact same number of votes from the representatives.

So, how do you handle a tie like this in the most pragmatic and objective way possible?

Heads or tails.

It's how we start games at football games.

It's how we make decisions where it's a tie.

You know, draw a straw, flip a coin.

Well, Aaron Hamlin won, and Shawnee Davis played the race card.

He tweeted, Team USA dishonorably tossed a coin to decide its 2018 flag bearer.

No problem.

I can wait until 2022.

Hashtag Black History Month 2018.

Excuse me?

I mean, how can you possibly think a coin toss was racially motivated?

What's the answer here?

Should the team given Davis the position just because he's black?

No, of course not.

They shouldn't give it to Erin just because she's white and a female.

No.

Should we start banning coin tosses?

Do we have to declare that the game Heads and Tails is now somehow or another racist and biased if the black person doesn't win?

This is ridiculous.

This is the most non-biased and objective way you pick something.

Davis is obviously still upset about not being the flag bearer because he skipped the opening ceremony this morning.

Well, isn't that the spirit of an American Olympian?

I'm a sore loser.

I'm going to take my toys and go home.

Well, quite frankly, anybody who behaves that way, white, black, yellow, polka dot, plaid, it doesn't matter, I'm glad you don't represent us at the Olympics today.

Bad attitudes, bad attitudes are something something even four shiny Olympic medals just can't hide.

It's Friday, February 9th.

You're listening to the Glenn Beck program.

I have waited all week

to do the monologue that I

am

not

a good enough man to do.

Tomorrow,

I am flying out

to attend one of the greatest men I've ever known.

I'm going to attend his funeral.

His name is John Huntsman Sr.

He's the guy who was responsible for the first, you know

K Tel Records presents the best of.

He's the first guy to put a compilation album together.

And he did it because he needed to raise money to make a mold

so he could make styrofoam boxes

because nobody had ever thought of, gee,

I wonder if it would be better to have styrofoam and put your Big Mac in a styrofoam.

He needed to make the molds, but he didn't have the money.

So he came up with another idea.

Why don't I do a compilation album of everybody's favorite songs?

I first walked into his office.

Here's this industrialist with gold records on his wall.

And I'm like, John, what the hell is that?

That was creative thinking.

John Huntsman

was by my side quietly

during some of the most difficult days of my life.

He taught me how to fly fish.

He taught me how to be a better man.

He taught me that you can shoot straight, you can tell the truth, you can do business with a handshake, and you still can succeed.

He's a guy who worked in Washington, worked for Nixon, one of the only guys they'd ever questioned in the Nixon administration because everyone knew John Huntsman wouldn't be a part of any of this.

A guy who stood up at that time and said, Excuse me, I want no part of this.

He taught me, he taught me what a game Washington really is.

He taught me how to pray.

He taught me how to give blessings to others.

One day late at night

we were both vacationing and I was about three houses down from his

and he was over at the house and he was probably seventy something at the time

and it was dark and I said John let me walk you home

so we walked home

and we talked and we had such a great conversation that when we got to his door he said let's walk back to your house

So we walked back to my house and then back to his.

And in one of those trips, he just stopped and looked up at the star.

And he said,

Can you read the stars?

I said, No, no.

And he started to point out all the constellations and name all the stars.

He was a navigator in World War II,

and he said,

Every man

needs to be able to read the stars.

Every man needs to know the right direction and how to find the right direction.

He told me as I was just beginning the success of my career, he asked me,

Glenn,

how much is enough?

Here's a guy who had been on the richest men in the world list for decades.

I said, What do you mean?

He said, You have to set a number, you have to set a goal, and then live by that.

He said,

How much is enough?

Decide, or it will never be enough.

He taught me what it was like to love and lose a daughter with grace and compassion and dignity.

He taught me how to be a father by watching him with his children,

how to deal with even

the most challenging things where a dad and mom don't have an answer by

watching him

love his son, Marky.

I learned how to serve in a church calling with everything you have.

One day we were out fly fishing and I asked him for a blessing.

I wasn't feeling well and I said, John, do you mind giving me a blessing?

And he said, sure.

Could you excuse me for just a second?

I said, sure.

He went inside to the house and he changed.

He changed into a suit

and put on a tie and a white shirt.

And I said, Where are you going?

What are you doing?

And he said,

I just feel as though if I'm going to

try to

speak the words of the Lord, I

just feel I should be dressed appropriately.

He gave me a five-minute blessing, walked back in, and changed back into his fly-fishing clothes.

I learned how to be gracious,

even when you don't want to be from him,

and how to forgive those people that you really don't want to forgive.

He taught me through his own marriage of how to marry way over your head.

I'm not sure I brought anything to the table for him,

and I'm not foolish enough to think that he felt the same way about me.

But he was there

at the worst time with my father, who

we were estranged at the end.

We didn't even

have a funeral for my dad.

And I looked at John

as a father figure,

I think much to his chagrin.

I've met a lot of great people in my life.

I've met prime ministers and

I have met

kings and presidents.

But there is one man

who impacted my life for the better

like no one else,

heads and shoulders.

I regret not saying that to him.

The first time I met him was at his cancer center, the Huntsman

Cancer Center in Salt Lake City.

A friend said, You have to have lunch with a friend of mine.

He said, Do you know John Huntsman Sr.?

And I said, No, I know he's a billionaire.

And I wondered what it would be like to have lunch with a billionaire.

And I quickly found out as I pulled my car up to the Huntsman Cancer Institute, and he said, Come on in.

And we went into his cafeteria, a hospital cafeteria, and we had lunch.

And we talked about

how to be charitable,

how to give.

In two thousand in two thousand eight, after the crash, he actually put his house and his plane in his car as collateral, not for his company,

as collateral for the charitable obligations that he had made.

He asked me if I would help them cure cancer.

He was convinced that it's just around the corner, and he has convinced me.

I remember standing in the hospital at an elevator door and I said, John,

I'll make you a deal.

I will help you

if you teach me how to be a charitable man.

He shook my hand and said, That's a deal I'll make.

The first lesson is, you can't just care about cancer.

You have to care about the entire human condition.

It's why he's built homeless shelters and battered women's shelters.

His charitable giving is beyond imagination.

John Huntsman,

Sr.

kept his promise to me.

And to tomorrow

I'm going to

his funeral and his burial

and let him know

that my commitment back to him to honor that agreement

is being renewed,

and I have quite a few years ahead of me

to care about the entire

human condition

as he would say,

Goodbye, my dear and sweet, sweet friend.

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well hello to my good friend mr pat gray Pat, it is, of course, Stu's birthday today.

Oh, wow.

Yeah.

Happy Happy birthday, Stu.

Yeah, did you bring the, what did you bring the cake?

It's on its way.

It's in the bank.

Yeah.

Doc gave him a

cake boss cake

and tried to pass this off as a birthday cake.

But you tell me this isn't a secondhand cake.

The writing on it didn't say happy birthday.

Certainly not happy birthday, Stu.

It said, you're welcome.

You're welcome.

Yeah.

Okay.

So you're welcome cake.

And when I have a genre of cakes,

and when I pointed this out, it wasn't wasn't like he had thought this out.

Did you notice that?

He was like, well, you know, that's because I knew he was going to say thank you.

No, he was making that up.

They just got a cake.

Get us anything.

I don't care what it is.

This is a second-hand cake that somebody didn't pick up.

It is more than Pat did, though.

No,

I got you a little container full of paperclips.

Those were sitting in front of him just a minute ago.

I put the paperclips in there every day.

You're welcome.

You're welcome.

You're welcome.

welcome.

It's not printed on there, but

it's implied.

Yeah.

You're welcome.

Thank you.

I believe you are.

Happy birthday to you tomorrow.

Well, right.

So I believe that you are the owner of the pants.

And the shirt.

And the shirt.

The shirt.

Oh, my gosh.

Do not.

I added a shirt here like four years ago.

Can you explain what you're talking about?

So back in 91, Pat?

Ish.

Yeah.

I went to a store and I bought Pat the ugliest Dolce and Gabbana pants.

Yeah, no, I think they were Ralph Loren.

Were they?

Yeah, I think so.

But they could be Dolce and Gabbana.

They are the ugliest pants you've ever seen in your life.

Absolutely bizarre.

No, they're Salmon Paisley.

Okay.

And I got him these pants and he's never worn them.

And so the next year,

He gave them back to me for my present.

For my birthday.

It's called Regifting.

Right.

And it's

tried and true.

And we've been doing this since 1991.

Okay.

We've given the same pair of pants to each other since 1991.

Now, a few years ago, I added a luxurious shirt.

Not necessarily matching, but luxurious.

Oh, right.

Well, it depends.

I mean, if you're going to go by traditional fashion rules while wearing salmon-colored Paisley pants.

You really can't.

You can't.

So

I expect those tomorrow.

Are you still doing this?

Is this still?

Of course we're still doing it.

Yeah, of course we are.

We do it every year.

Of course, we're still doing it.

It's tradition.

Yeah.

We just get a box, we wrap it, or somebody wraps it for us, and we're like, here, happy birthday.

I'm not even going to open it this year.

I'm going to give it to him in the same wrapping paper next year.

That's smart.

That's efficiency.

Yeah, yeah, that's right.

We need to put those on display someplace because people will be jealous.

Yeah, they will.

You've never worn them.

What?

I mean, I think that's a stretch.

To say never.

Never is a long time.

It is.

Is it a stretch or is it untrue?

Why are you saying it's a stretch?

Because

you call him a liar.

But it's your.

Because we're good friends.

We spend a lot of time picking out the perfect gift for each other every year.

All right.

Anyway, what's on your mind today, Pat?

Nancy Pelosi.

Wow, I'm sorry for that.

Yeah, I know.

It hurts.

but uh

this was such an interesting part of the speech uh that that not very many people have have

oh there thank you keith my producer brings here

is the shirt there's the shirt and this is this may have been happy birthday i don't know but here's the well you didn't even wrap it so here's this beautiful shirt okay and it has a little bit of salmon color in it it does and a little yeah purple actually they do kind of match

and here's the beautiful page And they are Ralph Lorraine still with the tag.

Still with the tag.

I cannot believe those things.

Oh, in their 38s, they'd fit you, Pat.

Not anymore.

Thank you.

Really?

Not anymore.

That is beautiful.

Thank you, Pat.

That is so meaningful.

You're welcome.

That is a lot of Paisley going on.

That's I saw these in a store

in like 1990 or 1991, and I could not believe that they were actually for sale.

Yeah.

Right.

From Ralph Lorenz.

From Ralph Loren.

It looks like the entire Ralph Loren factory.

They had a big vomit

explosion of Paisley that spilled onto that one pair of pants.

You know what it is?

It's like

they had a pair of white pants and then people were so sick to their stomach from eating avocados, they took Pepto-Bismol, it didn't work, and they blew chunks all over white pants.

That is what it looks like.

Yeah.

And this is just good looking.

That's a nice shirt.

Yeah, that's just tasteful right there.

I think this is nothing but tasteful.

So this is a beautiful shirt.

That's a beautiful shirt.

I want to see it on you on Monday.

On Monday.

You know what?

I'm going to be invisible on Monday.

You're going to be invisible on Monday?

That's weird, isn't it?

That is weird.

And especially for the day that we premiere a new show with us.

So I will not see you when I come in here.

When we're promoting when I'm wearing these clothes.

That's the only time during the day you'll be invisible.

Damn it, this place.

They will not let me wear what I want to wear on TV.

You kind of own the place.

Well,

that's what they want you to believe.

Okay.

That's what they want you to to believe.

Anyway, Nancy Pelosi.

Anyway, Nancy Pelosi,

talking about her grandson.

And this is, I think she describes it, beautiful.

Here's what she said.

I'm reminded of my own grandson.

He's

Irish, English,

whatever, whatever, and Italian mixed

is the mix.

But he looks more like the other side of the family, shall we say?

And when he had his

sixth, fifth birthday, sixth birthday, he had a very close friend whose name is Antonio, who's from Guatemala.

And he has beautiful tan skin and beautiful brown eyes and the rest.

And

this was such a proud day for me because when

my grandson blew out the candles on his cake, they said, Did you make a wish?

And he said, Yes, I made a wish.

He said, Well, what is your wish?

He said, I wish I had brown skin and brown eyes like Antonio.

Oh, my gosh.

Wow.

So beautiful.

So beautiful.

So beautiful.

Beautiful.

Beauty is in the mix.

Horrible.

And he's ashamed of his race.

That is horrible.

So beautiful.

The beauty is in the mix.

Imagine the last last time.

Imagine,

imagine, imagine.

Imagine.

If this was a black person.

If anyone would say, and you know what, my black son,

he had green eyes and red hair.

He had a friend who had green eyes and red hair and very Irish, you know, that China doll skin.

Oh, my gosh.

And it was the proudest day of my life when he said, well, what I wished for, dad, was to have white China doll skin, green eyes and red hair.

You would describe that as a proud day?

Oh, the beauty's in the whiteness, Glenn.

That's what she said.

And the thing is, we've heard that story, but not described as beautiful.

Right.

It's a terrible, tragic story.

It's terribly racist.

It's terrible.

And it's horrible.

And it's not even just racist.

Would you be ashamed of your own race?

Yes.

It's not only racist.

You want to talk about body shaming.

Yeah.

Yes.

Here's a woman body shaming her grandson because I know you want to look, you want to look, you want to look like your Guatemalan friend.

Oh my gosh.

It's despicable.

It is.

I mean, look.

Any five or six year olds,

there's nothing crazy about a kid saying that.

It's the fact that you're praising it.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And in public.

Look, if you want to say that, look, if you're five years old, say all sorts of crazy stuff when you're five years old.

But it's not like, no, honey, you are beautiful just as you are.

Yeah, that's not the story.

It's, yeah,

we all wish we were Hispanic.

Yeah, I know, because

you're ugly.

Would it not be racist if she were to say to

the kid, no, you don't want that.

You're beautiful the way you are.

Right?

Like, if she was encouraging him to be white.

I'm saying in our current, I'm not saying I believe this.

I'm saying in our current climate, if you were to say it's okay, it's great that you're white and you should continue to be white.

That's racist.

That's racist.

I think so.

You should be encouraging him to be.

You should do the opposite.

You should be ashamed of being white.

We have become so worshipful of diversity and so white loathing that this is held up to us as a really good story, as something beautiful and desirable.

And it's not, and it's not leading the news anywhere.

In fact, it's probably not on the news anymore.

I'm guessing the the mainstream media hasn't even

mentioned it.

They don't care.

They don't care.

That's a beautiful thing.

No, it's not.

That's body shaming.

That's body shaming.

At best, that's body shaming.

Yeah, you're teaching your grandson that, yeah, that's beautiful, that you don't like your own skin.

I can't imagine in anybody's watch.

Can you imagine anybody's warning?

Can you imagine your own skin, right?

So what we're always told, you know, like every time we see a Dove commercial, we're supposed to be like, oh, that's beautiful.

They're comfortable in their own skin.

Is that the one with the fat ladies that are dancing?

Wow, that word.

No, I mean, seriously.

Wow.

No, I'm serious.

No, you don't want to be scared.

You know what?

If that is beautiful, I then want you to claim that I am beautiful too.

And I'm going to strip down to my underpants.

Oh, no.

And I'm going to dance on screen.

And I demand that every single person says, that's beautiful.

It's not.

It might be your taste.

It might not be your taste.

There's nothing wrong with that, but that is not what society has decided is the ultimate, the ultimate form of a body.

I don't have the ultimate form of the body.

I don't like the fact that my children might be body shamed by somebody

maybe like Nancy Pelosi, and they're uncomfortable in their skin.

But that does not require me to make the pronouncement.

That is beautiful.

I have no problem with the commercial.

I have no problem with seeing it.

My problem is that we are being forced

to say that Caitlin Jenner is the most gorgeous woman I've ever seen.

Yes.

She's not.

She's not.

She's a woman who kind of looks a lot like a dude.

Like an Olympian almost.

Right, like an Olympian.

And it's not just that.

It's sexual preference.

Your preference must be that you like homosexuality now.

Yeah.

Right?

Isn't that what we're being forced into?

We can't like heterosexual activity, but you have to like homosexuality.

Well, you should at least try homosexuality.

You should at least try.

You're bigoted if you don't at least try homosexuality.

I didn't think it was a choice.

I thought you were born that way.

Right.

Yeah, because sexual preference is sort of dead now.

It is kind of dead.

You're not allowed to have a preference.

You're supposed to say, oh, that's beautiful.

You don't prefer when you see it on the screen.

Yeah, you can't say, say i prefer x over y

because that means you're making a decision or something that uh indicates one is better and you can't you can't indicate that one is better it's it's it is liberal fascism and that's the problem i don't think that the average person who is fat like me or um

uh or homosexual or straight or bi or uh transgendered, I don't think the average person wants anything other than to be just treated like a normal human being.

Just, just, just, can you not treat me like I'm a pariah?

Okay.

That's what the average person wants.

I just want to be a part of society.

This is who I am and I'm happy there.

They do not want to force everyone else to agree with them.

It's not the way we are.

We're not built that way.

Just accept me for who I am.

Don't hurt me.

Don't destroy my life because of my choices.

And I won't destroy your life.

Can we all just live side by side?

That's what the average person wants, but that is not who's ruling this country or our culture.

We just can't be honest anymore.

You know, there's that song that goes, every inch of you is perfect from the bottom to the top.

It's like, you're seeing a song with no knowledge of who's hearing it.

How do you know that's accurate?

You're saying, if that's something you can say, then the words don't mean anything because you're saying it to everyone.

So if everyone is perfect, then perfect has no meaning.

A wheel is a wheel only because we call it a wheel.

I read this philosopher Saul Kripke years ago.

You and I have been talking about that.

Shut up.

And I just remember just being so crazy about how stupid all of this stuff was.

But the point is, it's only something because we call it that.

So you call handicap handicap.

What does that mean?

That word means nothing.

That means nothing.

It only means what you attach it to.

So you've attached it to somebody in a wheelchair that needs a ramp or something else because they can't navigate in the same way that a fully abled body can.

They are capped in the way that they are, in the amount they are handy.

Correct.

Okay.

So if you call it...

We all know when I was growing up, we all know what a handicapped person or a handicapped zone meant or handicapped ramp.

By changing it to handy capable

might make you feel good in a very short period of time, but eventually handy capable means exactly the same thing as handicapped.

It's right because these politically correct terms have expiration dates.

I mean, if you look back, look at the NAACP.

We can't even say what the NAACP stands for,

but at that time, it was the okay term to use, and now it's not.

And they have to figure out whether they're supposed to change the name or not.

It's crazy.

It's really, we're living in a mad world.

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Glenn back.

It's been a great week and I thank you so much for listening.

Happy birthday and you're welcome to Stu.

And happy birthday and you're welcome to yourself.

Yes.

I'm going to, what are you doing this weekend?

It's a great question, and it's a question I get answered approximately the time I leave this office today.

Really?

Because I never knew.

You get an answer.

I have no idea.

On wife time?

Oh, it's Jim.

Yeah.

No idea at all.

My wife was nice to me because it's my birthday weekend.

I'm going to see Gaffigan tonight.

Oh, Jim Gaffigan, nice.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Have a safe weekend, Godby.

Mercury.