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When the world learned that actress Michelle Williams only earned 0.07%

of what Mark Wahlberg made for the reshoots in the film All the Money in the World.

The outrage was

at least in my house.

Oh my God.

How about your house, Stu?

It was crazy in my house.

We were so mad, nobody even talked about it, but it was that bad.

It's a headline that looks bad, but before you cry for the eradication of the male species, maybe you should look at the whole story here.

In an effort to reduce controversy and to be an Oscar contender, the director director Ridley Scott decided that he needed to reshoot all of the now disgraced actor Kevin Spacey's scenes in All the Money in the World.

Why was he doing that, Stu?

He was standing up for, you know, women and people who were...

I mean, you know,

it was part of the Me Too movement, right?

I mean, while Kevin Spacey, a lot of the people he was harassing apparently were also men.

Yes.

But not all.

Yeah.

And it was just to make sure that harassment is taken seriously.

Right.

Right, right, right.

So both supporting actors, Mark Wahlberg and Michelle Williams, agreed to do the reshoots.

Mark Wahlberg and his agent asked for $1.5 million to do the scenes, while Michelle and her agent negotiated for basically nothing.

In fact, she said she would do it for free, but they paid her $1,000 to

do the reshoots.

So Mark and Michelle are both represented by the same talent agency.

And Mark's agent pushed for a million-dollar payout.

So why didn't Michelle do that?

Because she's on record

agreeing to do it for free.

She said, I'll be wherever they need me to be, whenever they need me, and they could have my salary, they could have my holiday, whatever they want, because I appreciate so much that they're making this massive effort.

End quote.

Now,

now you're bringing this up that, oh, I didn't get paid anything.

Now, Wahlberg, he didn't say those things.

The opportunity that this movie presents for Michelle is worth a lot more to her than her salary.

All the money in the world could very well be the most important role of her career and make us go, Michelle Williams, Michelle Williams, do I know Michelle Williams?

I say Mark Wahlberg.

I know who Mark Wahlberg is.

It's possible that she may win an Oscar for her performance.

If she does, then everyone will go, oh, Michelle Williams, you know her from all the money in the world.

Remember, she run that Oscar?

Yeah.

That's why she was so willing to reshoot without negotiating for more money.

And if I may add,

She didn't do the reshoots for free.

She was paid $1,000, even though she volunteered to do the job for nothing.

So, Michelle Williams, you got a bonus for reshoots and a very real chance of winning an Oscar.

If she wins,

she'll have something that Mark Wahlberg and all the money in the world can never buy.

One of those stupid gold statues that you all covet so much.

It's Thursday, January 11th.

This is the Glenn Beck program.

It's amazing, too, because the money,

all the money in the world is a movie essentially saying you shouldn't be greedy.

Like, that's kind of the message of the movie.

What?

And yet, the complaint is that someone didn't get paid enough to do it, which is kind of funny.

Well, first of all, Stu.

Stu.

If

we had to go and reshoot something, we were in a movie and,

you know,

do you think that they would, and I don't mean this, I just mean this because of the industry.

Do you think that they would pay you as much money for the reshoot as you would me?

No, no.

That's what happens.

And do you think that they would believe you

if you said, I just can't do it.

I don't have it in my schedule.

I'm already on other projects.

I can't go and shift gears and go back there and do that.

Would you believe they would believe that of you as much as they would believe that of me?

Well, probably not, I guess.

Right.

I mean, you know,

you can say they take jobs.

Like, I mean, absolutely.

She can be on something, but she was willing to do it.

Right.

Like, he was like, I've got other stuff going on.

Right.

Pay me.

Right.

And also,

it kind of goes to him and

his ability to demand.

It's called the free market.

His ability to demand.

You have to ask for it to get it.

Right.

In this situation, if they're asking you to do something that's above and beyond what you've agreed to contractually, you have to say, hey, yeah, I'll do it, but I'm not going to do it unless you pay me X, Y, and Z.

I'm not going to do it for free, which is the opposite of what she said.

Right.

She said she would do it for free.

And again, like, what do these people have to gain here?

Mark Wahlberg is good in that movie.

It's a good movie, by the way, if you haven't seen it.

All the money in the world.

He does a good job in it.

But Mark Wahlberg, you know, outside of the money, really gets nothing out of that role.

I mean, he's a good supporting actor in in a movie.

He's already a megastar.

It doesn't really matter all that much to him.

Now, Michelle Williams is also really good in that movie, and she may very well win an Oscar.

Who is she the mom?

Does she play the mom?

Yeah, she's the mom.

Okay, so I don't even know.

I would not recognize her if

she was in the line of the grocery store next to me.

I wouldn't know who she was.

I mean, so the point there is that she's actually got a lot more to gain from this movie doing well.

Now, the question is: is this an Oscar thing for her?

I mean, no, not the movie.

I mean,

is this of her bringing up saying, oh my gosh, look at this.

Look at what they're doing to me, a woman,

to get the people in Hollywood to even go, oh, my gosh, look at her.

She's such a warrior.

She's our next Meryl Streep.

Right.

That's what she wants out of this, right?

I guess.

I mean, like, I'm looking at her IMDB page, and there's a lot of stuff that she's been in, but not a lot of big, you you know,

mega hits.

And this is an opportunity for her to make a huge name for herself and get all sorts of amazing roles.

And she's willing to try

to make that happen for free.

She doesn't have to.

Think of what would happen if she went in, you know what?

I want $1.5 million to do this.

What are they going to do?

Reshoot her parts too?

Because she's in like every scene.

So you have nothing you can really do with Michelle Williams.

You'd have to pay her.

And you know what?

They would would have.

But

if an employee comes to you and say, hey, I want to work through Christmas and I also don't want to make any money,

you're going to say, oh, okay.

So look, if this was reversed and Mark Wahlberg said, you know what,

I am so

disgusted by Kevin Spacey that

I'll reshoot it, whatever you need.

You don't even have to pay me.

I'll work over the holidays.

This is really important to me.

Do you think they would have paid him $1.5 million?

No.

No, they wouldn't have.

And if she said, you're going to have to pay me $1.5 million,

they either would have paid her $1.4 million or they would have found a way to shoot around her and not paid it.

But most likely, they would have paid it.

And if she would have stood up and said, I made $1.5 million, and Mark Wahlberg then said, oh my gosh, I can't believe she made what I always paid $1,000.

I would say the same thing.

Mark, you said you would do it for free.

Exactly.

You said it was really important.

You'll do it for free.

I don't know if you understand how to negotiate.

It doesn't.

I mean, this is an important part of this.

I'll give you another example, too.

The movie Wolf of Wall Street.

Remember Wolf of Wall Street?

So Leonardo Caprio is the big star of that movie.

Jonah Hill is in it as well.

Now, Jonah Hill plays a very large role in that movie.

He's a pretty big star.

I mean, like, you know who Jonah Hill is.

Fat jokes don't stop with you.

What?

He's a really big star.

Oh, my God.

He's a very large star.

And a big role.

But he is, right?

He's someone unlike Michelle Williams.

If he walked up next to you in the light of the grocery store, you'd know who he was right away.

And he did that role because he thought it would raise, he really wanted to do the movie.

He thought it would raise his profile.

He thought it would give him a serious actor chops as opposed to comedic actor chops.

So he did that movie for scale, which I want to say was like, it was low six figures for the entire movie.

So unlike Michelle Williams, who got paid a normal giant salary for

all the money in the world and then just didn't get paid for her reshoots, Jonah Hill barely got paid in Hollywood terms for the entire movie, Wolf of Wall Street.

And he did it because he wanted to do it.

I will take scale.

I want to do this because this movie is important to me.

It's important to what I think my career is going to be.

And that didn't mean with a movie, were the movie makers supposed to go to to him and say, hey, you know what?

No, you need to make 10 times that.

Actually, Leo's making 20 million for this, so we got to make sure we pay you 20 million to even it out because you're two men and men we treat equally unlike women.

No, they were like, okay, we'll take you for $100,000.

Sure.

That sounds like a great deal.

And it worked out really well.

I mean,

this is,

by the way, I don't know.

I haven't seen this, but it doesn't seem like I've heard Michelle Williams actually

complaining about this.

You know, it's incredible is it means something to you.

You know, you would think that you'd be like, no, this means something to me.

When did that become dishonorable?

This means something to me, and

I don't want to get paid for it.

This is important that we reshoot this.

And somehow or another, that's...

I mean, really, if you really want to talk about it in fairness terms,

how come Mark Wahlberg, how come this is not about money?

How come this is about

how come this isn't about Mark Wahlberg?

This didn't mean so much to you?

I mean, you could easily twist this in.

Oh, so you didn't care about Kevin Spacey.

You didn't care about all the abuse that was going on.

That would also be completely wrong.

Completely wrong.

But it would make more sense.

Than this.

This is...

Look at this.

She didn't get paid.

No, I thought this was an important thing to do.

People are tweeting that Michelle Williams was charity in The Greatest Showman, which I know you saw, one of the big roles in that particular movie.

Charity, that was the opera singer?

No, the wife.

Oh, she was great.

She was great.

She's really great.

And someone's saying that she wanted Oscar for Broke Back Mountain a million years ago.

That's one I didn't see.

I didn't see that either.

And that's obviously because we're haters.

Yes.

In case you don't know, we don't like movies with mountains in them.

We will not see them.

I'm very allergic to horses, even though horses on screen.

But I mean,

this is a smart move for her.

If it's something she cares about, this is a great thing for her to do.

It makes her easy to work with.

And you know what?

The other part of this is the reason why they needed to do reshoots is because they were taking powerful men who abused their power too seriously, right?

That's the reason the reshoots exist in the first place.

The movie is about greed.

She is, and we're all like, how can she

ever see the irony of what they do?

They never, ever do.

These great storytellers would have a sense for irony.

They just do movie after movie where it's like showing the evil government out of control.

And then they leave the studio, the bell rings, and they're like, you know what?

We need bigger government.

All right.

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Did you make any goals?

Did you make goals for 2018?

Just to be less fat.

That's it.

Yeah, well, mine was to be more healthy.

Oh, I don't care about health.

I just want to be less fat.

I'm sick of being fat all the time.

You're still in your 40s.

Oh, yeah.

That's true.

All of a sudden, it'll change from fat to healthy.

Yes, it will.

When does that change?

Ah, it changed for me about 50.

Okay.

Yeah, then you were like, hmm.

I'd like to stay alive for a couple of years.

I wish I would have cared less about fat and more about health.

We should both report that both of us are sick right now.

Yeah, we're both.

So we both.

We're flying on Nyquil.

Yes.

I am completely.

This is a show that we're going to do high.

And we may very well fall asleep in the middle of monologues.

If that happens, we'd appreciate you calling up and we'll just pop up your call and you can just talk and fill the space.

Yeah.

You know, that's that.

We're trying to figure out which guest spoke the most last year that we could call up and just go, so how are you?

And let them just monologue.

And let them just go.

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Right.

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Glenn Beck Mercury.

Glenn Beck.

I have...

The greatest hashtag me to story of all time.

Oh, no.

Who touched you, Glenn?

Who touched you?

No.

Nobody.

Can you find somebody?

No.

I cannot.

Okay, so

in court on Tuesday,

this person said that

they were sexually harassed.

And they have been touched in their groin area several times in a sexual manner.

Oh, no.

Bad, right?

It's terrible, obviously.

Yeah.

This charge now,

he doesn't have access to Twitter, unfortunately.

Otherwise, he would have hashtagged me too immediately.

Is Khalik Shade Mohammed?

So the

hairy bat guy?

Yeah.

Yeah.

He's been sexually harassed at Gitmo.

Oh, my my God.

That's terrible.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It's awful.

Him too.

Him too.

He said the changes in the Gitmo policy have led guards to manually search his groin area.

Well,

that's a little different.

When I say manually searching a terrorist groin area is slightly different than sexual harassment at the terrorists.

Can I tell you something?

If there's a lawsuit to be had here, it's not that somebody touched his groin.

It's that we made somebody touch his groin.

That's a great point.

I would counter Sue.

Are you kidding me?

Like, I want to touch him in the groin area?

Have you seen the man?

I will say this.

He has a right to be believed.

He does.

He has a not to be heard, not to be taken seriously.

He has a right to.

He has a right to be believed.

So I immediately have jumped to the fact that he was actually sexually harassed.

And I think whatever, whatever soldier, whatever

person did this

should be removed from their position and never work again.

So I would like to know, do you get to join the Me Too Club if you've ever gone to the airport?

Under Khalik's Sheikh Mohammed's

construct of it, I think you do.

But you know what?

Pat says that he feels like he was sexually violated.

Yeah, he's very, he's very up.

He's always been very sensitive on the TSA stuff.

Yeah.

I mean, but you'd shake Pat's hand and he's like, I feel very uncomfortable.

He's very, you know, he's a little

touchy-feely guy.

He's not a hugger.

No.

He's not a hugger.

No.

So, you know, somebody saying, grabbing him by his arm is kind of like, whoa, whoa, whoa, what are you touching me for?

But he does say that he feels like he was sexually harassed at airports.

And I will say, one of the things we've learned as we've gone through the Me Too movement

is that it's not important what the motivation of the person doing the touching is.

For example, if someone touches you on your back or gives you a kiss on the cheek, and they're doing it because they do it to everybody and it is not

to them a sexual thing at all,

it's only important what the person receiving that contact feels, right?

If they, not even at that time, if they, six months, six years, 60 years later, feel that that interaction was a negative one for them, then we believe the person who was touched and we destroy the person who did the touching.

Whether it has to do with a negative sexual intent or if it was just passing.

Well, I will tell you that's kind of our current philosophy on the matter.

I will tell you, I want to bring this up: that there is a sexual charge coming out against me.

Oh, really?

Yeah, my mother said that apparently I used to,

you know, suckle on her when I was like one.

No, and I

she was very uncomfortable.

Mercury.

You're listening to the Glenn Beck program.

Hello and welcome to the program.

Coming up, we're going to go into some of the predictions.

I think today is tech.

Predictions.

Technology.

And it's weird because a lot of these tech things are already happening.

Yesterday, we told you about

Kodak coin, Kodak coin.

This is the first time to be excited if you have anything to do with Kodak.

It's like, hey, they learned their lesson.

You know the story about how they went out of business?

How fast that happened?

Oh, you don't know this?

This is fascinating.

So

Kodak

made film, obviously.

They were the film dealer for everybody.

They were state-of-the-art film and film processing.

And they had a billion employees in Rochester, New York.

They see the digital camera.

And they said, well, that's not going to really take off.

And so they decided to not, we'll let other people do the digital thing.

We'll just stay in film.

One Christmas went by and it was the first Christmas that digital cameras started to take off.

They met again and they were like, no, we are a film company.

Three Christmases later, they were almost out of business.

It happened that fast.

They went from the Titan to three years later, nothing.

And then they were like, maybe we should do the digital thing.

And it was too late.

So the first thing that I think Kodak has done that is really smart is they have just come out.

They announced it, I think, Monday or Tuesday,

a

Kodak coin.

And it's like Bitcoin.

But here's, and this is in one of my predictions that some company is going to do this.

And they're going to use blockchain and coin to do it.

And I said in the prediction that it would be Facebook or Apple or somebody like that.

Kodak is the the one that comes out and does it.

And what they've done is, you know how you have,

you know, the stock photo thing.

What is it?

Not Reuters, but

you always see it.

You go there for stock photos

of news things.

I don't know if you've ever seen it.

Yeah, there's a few companies that do that.

Yeah, there's a company that, you know, the big one takes, you sell your, or you, you post your photo of, you know, I've got the president picking his nose and they put it on a, on a service, and that service goes and

everybody has it.

And if you want to use it for television or radio or newspaper or something, that you just buy it from them and then that company pays you.

Getty images.

Getty images.

That's what it is.

Okay.

So

Kodak has decided they're going to do it.

And so what they do is in your camera, you will take pictures and it will automatically go into blockchain and be held by you.

And you can immediately post it.

I mean, you take it and it posts for sale from Kodak,

and then there's no middleman.

They're not negotiating anything.

It's just posted.

They want to buy it.

They buy it through Kodak Coin.

You get paid immediately, and it's simple, and there's no middleman.

That's Kodak Coin.

That's great.

That's really brilliant.

It's interesting, too, because they're having a big renaissance because they've tied themselves to this blockchain idea.

And that's happening to a lot lot of companies.

And a lot of them are like very strange stories.

Like this Chanticleer Holdings, if you're a big fan of them?

No, Chanticleer?

Yeah.

Never heard of it.

They own several Hooters restaurants, nine Hooters restaurants.

Okay.

All right.

And they own some of the stock of Hooters of America.

I'm trying to figure out the connection to blockchain.

Right.

That's what a lot of people are doing.

Right, okay.

So they said

it was a couple weeks ago that they would use blockchain-related technology for its customer rewards program.

Essentially, this made a press release about blockchain, and their stock went up 50%.

Okay, that happened.

I saw that.

Not that story.

I saw that happen last year.

There was another company that just has nothing.

They didn't even announce that they were putting blockchain, nothing.

They just put blockchain in their name.

Yeah.

It was like Glenn's blockchain.

went up and they cut and the company has nothing to do with blockchain they just were like let's make some money off those blockchain things That's really smart.

They're getting

work really well.

I mean, it's like, you know, that's Warren Buffett saying, don't invest if you don't know how it works.

You know, most people don't even understand what blockchain is, let alone Glenn's blockchain.

That's just somebody out there going, I know.

Let's put some money in that blockchain thing.

Right.

They're thinking, okay, here's a new company or a company that's changing its goals and they're going to be working in blockchain.

Get in now, get in early.

So whoever owns that company

increases their cash by 50% or whatever it is, and then they can sell and make a bunch of money.

And then, when it turns out that they're not actually doing it, eventually the stock will surely come down.

But it's a good idea.

So, yesterday, two days ago, I had about a two-hour meeting with a guy from Silicon Valley who's a real mover and shaker and who's been instrumental in some of the biggest companies around now, the new tech companies.

And had a fascinating conversation.

Yesterday, Stu and I had a conversation with a blockchain and cryptocurrency guy.

And

man, I hope he's right.

Yeah, he was optimistic.

I would say.

Yeah.

What did he say that he thought

Bitcoin would go up to?

Yeah, he said

several

thousand.

500,000, I thought.

He didn't put a time period on that, did he?

No, I don't think so.

Yeah.

And he's been right about a lot of these things.

You know, I'm sure he's been wrong about a lot of these as well, but he's been right about a lot of these.

And he was like, yeah, there's, you know,

there's a lot to learn, like Ethereum.

He taught us about Ethereum a little bit yesterday.

I didn't realize that was like an operating system.

Yeah, it is.

What a lot of these like secondary or even below that coins are built on.

It's like that's like the operating system for these

new,

you know, Bitcoin.

types.

I'm trying to explain this in a way that anyone, anyone who knows this, understands it.

But it's basically like if you're going to create the new Bitcoin, right?

If Kodak coin comes out, it's probably built on Ethereum.

Ethereum is essentially the operating system for it.

How is, I mean, I was reading some stuff from Milton Freeman.

We put it in a monologue on TV last night.

If you missed it, you should watch it.

But Milton Freeman talked about the internet and said the internet is going to be gigantic

and it will really change things.

It will change government and everything else once you come up with a digital currency.

And here we are.

We're at a digital currency.

And I got it.

You just wonder,

how are the governments of the world,

when push comes to shove, they're so far behind that they don't, I mean, I remember having

a conversation with somebody in Congress who sits on a committee for this kind of stuff.

And I was talking to them about, you know,

technology that's coming.

Me,

me, I have a rudimentary at best understanding of this stuff.

And they just kept looking at me and blinking.

And they were in a room with a few people, and they were like, huh,

we're going to have to look into that.

I mean, maybe we should, we should

look at, is there regulation that would, we should be looking into?

And I went, regul, what?

By the time you guys even figure this out, it's too late.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And they just, they have no concept of what's coming.

Yeah, people talk about this, and it's not a matter of whether cryptocurrencies fail because the governments try to stop them.

It's the idea of whether governments will fail because of cryptocurrencies.

Correct.

So it's interesting.

And I think, like, these things obviously have been in the news a lot.

I think there's different levels of interest, right?

Like, the top tier of people who are real investors and really know this stuff.

Excuse me.

There's a secondary tier.

I know.

I'm going to take a little bit more.

The secondary tier of people who know a decent amount about it and maybe invest in it, right?

Then there's people who kind of just follow the news and are interested in things like a money supply that the government can't inflate.

I think a lot of people in our audience are interested in that aspect of it.

The idea that that could solve a thing we've been complaining about for decades.

Forever.

Forever.

And it's not centralized through a government.

There's no trusted source.

It's all done automatically.

And it takes government nonsense out of the process.

I think there's a level of interest there.

And I think at the very bottom of it is just, I like hearing stories.

about people getting mega rich off of things.

I love those stories where like someone invests a dollar.

Like we had someone who wrote in yesterday to one of our stories on Facebook and said they got in an argument with

their wife in 2013 about buying 500 Bitcoins.

Oh, my gosh.

Now, 2013.

How much was that?

Let me look at the Bitcoin chart here, real quick.

I didn't realize it was 500 Bitcoins.

500.

Somebody in our audience, we have to talk to you.

Yes.

If that's you, you have to call in.

Oh, my gosh.

So imagine.

Okay, so how much was it?

So I'm looking.

So he had an argument with his wife and she said, we're not going to put money in Bitcoin.

And he said, honey, right now it will cost us how much?

I'm looking that up.

We should invest 500 Bitcoin.

Can you imagine?

Can you freaking?

2013, that had to be.

Okay, so 2013, we're at.

That had to be 200?

Yeah.

So 2013, it ranged.

That was the year that it had its first, what they were calling at the time, a bubble, where it peaked at $1,000.

Okay.

But then it ran down, and it was in, it was between,

he said 2012 or 2013.

So 2013,

it was for most of the year about $100.

At the beginning of 2013, it was $13.

Oh, my God.

So let's take it.

So if he said, let's say, let's say $50.

Yeah,

say $50.

So

that would have been $25,000, right?

$50 times $500 is $25,000.

So that's a good - I mean, so you think, I don't know.

Now Now do 500 times, let's say, 15,000.

$15,000 will get you a better return of $7.5 million.

Oh, my gosh.

And he said, I have to say that.

Are they still together?

I thought it's a great.

We have to track that listener down.

Yes, he said, we had the argument.

I lost the argument, and I'm still poor.

Was it the way he described it?

500 bitcoins, he must have had some money, right?

I mean, even at the lowest, it would have been $5,000 or $8,000.

But $7.5 million is better than $8,000 in money.

At least that's my impression.

I'm not sure.

Is that Common Core math?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Show your work on that.

But that's nothing compared to the guys who founded Ripple.

Now, Ripple is another cryptocurrency.

So you have Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin.

Ripple is...

Ripple seems pretty shady.

Well, only because they announced that Ripple was going to go onto Coinbase.

And if Coinbase...

They didn't announce that.

That was a rumor.

That is not.

That was a rumor.

That wasn't.

There's no reason to believe that that's happening at this point.

No, I know that, but I thought it came from them.

No, I don't think so.

Okay.

No, I don't think so.

Well, somebody, and

it looked pretty solid, and it went from like $1.50 to $350, $3.90, something like that.

And it's falling down a little.

It's in the high $1 right now.

But it was also 0.06 or

0.6 cents in 2017.

0.6 cents is what it was.

You could have bought these things for 0.6 cents.

Now, the way that it's different than, let's say, Bitcoin.

Bitcoin, I was talking about, like, it's not centralized, right?

And it is,

there's a limited amount of Bitcoins that will ever be created.

So there's no inflationary risk here.

Most of the Bitcoins, 80-some-odd percent of them, are already out.

So there's, you know, there's not, there's not an inflation there.

Ripple, they created 100 billion of of these things upon inception.

Okay, so they started created 100 billion of them, and they did the way they gave them away was like they gave giveaways, they did all sorts of things, but they've only released a third of them.

So 66 billion of these Ripple coins are held by the company, which was like three guys who created them.

Okay, 66 billion.

They're currently about $2 per coin.

So that's a lot of money.

The way this breaks down, Forbes looked at it.

It's actually insane.

The co-founder and CEO, Chris Larson, who stepped down in November 2016, he now serves as the executive chairman of Ripple.

He has 5.19 billion Ripple tokens in his personal holdings and a 17% stake in the company.

He's got $5 billion

himself.

No, he's got more than that.

His net worth currently, and this was the price was slightly higher than it is right now, but when this was written, net worth personally, $37.3 billion.

Oh my gosh.

That would make him the 15th richest American on a 2017 Forbes 400 list.

This stuff is fighting him with Steve Ballmer.

This stuff is going to change the world.

Think of the power shift.

Here's a guy who had nothing, and now he's got $37 billion.

I mean,

you know, he hit it in the wrong hands.

Hooters is going to be where Congress meets.

Got news for you.

They're already meeting there.

It is a Hooters without the wings.

By the way, the way they have this formatted is they can release 1 billion new tokens every month.

So every month, they can just bring in in cash two, $3 billion to fund this operation.

And they're trying to make it a big

scheme in a way, because you can print them.

That's why Bitcoin is so good.

It just can't print them.

Yeah, they can't.

It's not making them.

This This way you can really flood the market.

But it's a really interesting project.

All right, I want to talk to you a little bit about Liberty Safe.

The museum, I just bought a new Liberty Safe because I keep a lot of the stuff for

Mercury 1 safe.

It's kind of my job.

And take some of the really, really...

you know, really rare stuff and put it in safes.

We just got, I've needed one for a while.

We've had stuff stacked on top of each other and just bought a new Liberty Safe because the sale that they're having

is really, really good.

I've not seen them offer the Liberty Safes with these kinds of deals and also the payment plans.

Right now through January 22nd, you can get into Liberty's new Tough USA series for $8.99, $9.99, or $10.99.

Plus, you get Liberty's 12 months interest-free or payments as low as $20 a month on approved credit.

So you can afford a Liberty Safe.

If you need one for your guns, for your papers, I will tell you, the first one I got was a small one.

We don't even use it anymore because it's like it was literally, I got it home, and by the first day, it was almost full.

We were like, what?

I didn't realize we had stuff that we should, you know, paperwork and stuff like that.

Liberty Safe.

Keep your guns, keep your paperwork, keep the things that mean something safe in a Liberty Safe.

They're also professionally installed by the authorized dealers, and the dealers are really, really great.

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Go there.

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Glenn back Mercury.

Glenn back.

Stu,

are you following the release of the GPS transcripts?

Yeah, a little bit.

I mean, I know Diane Feinstein apologized to Chuck Grassley for not letting him know.

Did you see the apology?

She said, I'm sorry, I was just pressured to do it.

Pressured to do it by whom?

Exactly.

And when Chuck said, by whom, she said, oh, I didn't, no, I didn't mean that.

I mean, I just, sorry.

What the hell is happening with the Fusion GPS thing?

More on this and a look into what's going to happen this year technology-wise next.

Glenn, back.

Mercury.

Love.

Courage.

Truth.

Glenn, back.

You know what's truly amazing?

The U.S.

national debt is over $20 trillion and rising.

Did you hear anybody mark the day when it hit 20 trillion?

Remember when we used to count the number of dead in the war?

Remember when people used to actually say when George Bush, when, think of this, when George Bush was in office,

it's about to turn to $6 trillion of debt.

It's $20 trillion.

Now, most of the government is owned by you, you know, or the government, but there's $6.3 trillion in treasury bills.

Those are notes and bonds that are held by foreign countries and companies.

And China is the granddaddy of all of them, holding U.S.

Treasuries totaling $1.2 trillion.

Now, that's money we don't have.

It's been good for China, helping them keep their currency weaker than the dollar, which is what they want to do.

It keeps their exports competitive, and it's been good for us.

Consumer prices for goods remain low, and the government gets to spend more money and spend themselves until they're silly.

People try to make everything sound really hard when it comes to government financing, but it isn't.

It's actually really easy.

If you think of the United States as a giant corporation

and countries like China that purchase our debt in the form of treasuries are like

investors or banks.

You know, you buy a 10-year treasury, we get that cash.

but we have to pay it back with interest in 10 years.

So it's really kind of like a bank.

Well, yesterday, something interesting happened.

The dollar,

treasuries, the stock index futures all declined because there was a rumor that came out from China.

And the rumor was that senior government officials in Beijing had

recommended slowing or even stopping the purchases of U.S.

treasuries.

Now, the consequence for this for you is huge.

China is our biggest investor.

They're our biggest bank.

So now, why would they do this now?

I don't, nobody is talking about the danger in the Chinese economy because the Chinese economy is in trouble right now.

The last few years for them have been the worst in 30 years.

Like the rest of the world, they never really recovered from 2008 and the financial crisis.

Less people are buying their stuff while at the same time, their labor costs are rising.

Because people in China are like, wait a minute, they have all this stuff.

I kind of want some of that stuff.

They've racked up a huge debt with underperforming loans, and nearly half a billion people live below their poverty line.

Can you imagine what their poverty line is like?

So if your family invests in the stock market, but then dad loses his job and starts to miss mortgage payments,

does the bank call in that loan?

The bank might call and say, hey, what's going on?

Now, if it was like a Jimmy Stewart bank, they would say, okay, what are you doing?

Come on in.

Let's look at what you're doing.

And if you're saving your money and you're preparing for the hard times and you're doing everything you can and you get a second job, Jimmy Stewart Bank is going to say, okay, I believe in you.

We'll extend the loan.

We're not going to call the mortgage.

But if you're just spending like crazy, then what?

They see trouble.

The truth is that

they have been quietly selling debt and calling in loans since 2016.

Japan briefly overtook China as the largest debt holder before they began calling in loans.

This leaves us with a couple of choices.

The reason why they're not saying these things out loud and they're just rumors is quite honestly, I think, to prepare you.

Anybody who's smart,

heard this rumor, knows that in 2016, they did stop buying some of our loans.

They did start liquidating some of them, which sends to us the civilians of the world, the ones who are really going to be crushed by this,

that we need to tell the government, cut the spending.

But they won't.

They will print money.

One thing is clear.

The global economy is primed for something really big.

If we print money and we don't curb our spending, we are going to pour gasoline and kerosene and nitroglycerin on a very shaky bonfire.

It's Thursday, January 11th.

This is the Glenn Beck program.

Did we go over yesterday about

the melt up on radio.

I don't know if we did.

We did on television yesterday.

You can watch that at theblaze.com/slash TV.

Yeah, please watch last night's episode on The Blaze.

I talked and I put out some charts to show you what a melt-up is, a meltdown in the stock market, you know, a giant crash.

But if you look at the

bubble that is coming,

I think it's going to, I think we are headed for a melt up, and I think we're already in it.

And they last anywhere from 12 to 36 months.

Three and a half years, I think, is the longest.

And I think we're already in it.

And I don't know when it started,

but I think it started

a while ago.

And everybody is saying the stock market is going up.

The stock market is going up.

And it's going up because things are getting better.

I think there's something else going on, and it's the beginning of a meltup.

And if you look at any big

crashes in the world, the stock market will all of a sudden just turbo up.

And I don't mean like, oh, it's 20 and now it's 25.

I mean it's 25 and it's going to be 40.

And a huge global catastrophe has in the past always

begun just like that.

That the

stock market will become and will feel, society will feel about the stock market a little like they felt about Bitcoin in November, where everyone was talking about it,

where everyone is saying, I got a hot stock tip.

You got to get into this stock because this stock is really high.

This stock is just going to take off.

When everyone is behaving on the stock market like they were behaving in November about Bitcoin, that's when you need to run.

But one of the predictions that I have made

for 2018

is that we are going to enter and begin to see this melt up.

I believe the stock market will be at 30,000 by the end of the year.

I think it's

everybody says it can't go to 30,000.

I think it could go to 40,000 in the next 24 months or 50,000.

And then when that happens, it crashes hard and the whole world is

in shambles.

So that's one of the things that we've talked about.

I urge you to go look at the, and they're not predictions.

You know, I want to make this really clear.

This is more forecasting.

You know,

when I talked about the caliphate and the housing crisis, I knew in my gut before I did any research.

I did research to verify it.

I just knew it.

I could see it.

And that is more of a prediction.

And that's not necessarily what these are.

These are me sitting down and reading a lot and studying a lot and looking at the world in a different way and saying, I think this is what's coming.

So, this is more forecasting.

So, anybody who believes in the things that I have talked about, I just want to separate that.

I think it's important that you look at these things as forecasting and not as one of those, you know, caliphate things that I just knew with everything in me.

However,

they all have a trend line that you will be able to see, and that is what I do know.

So yesterday, foreign affairs, because we've posted these at Glenbeck.com, and yesterday we posted foreign affairs and went over them, and

we asked you to vote which ones do you think are most likely to happen and least likely to happen.

And in foreign affairs, Turkey will continue to turn towards religious fascism and will continue to make hard turns towards Sharia law.

That got 20%

of

the listeners saying, yeah,

they thought that was going to happen.

Cultural clashes between immigrants and natives will cause backlash from the public across Western Europe.

That will continue, 19%.

Persecution of Christians, homosexuals, non-Muslim religious minorities, and those Muslims not deemed Muslim enough will reach new lows for humanity in the Middle East.

I see a massive, massive problem

coming beyond anything that we have seen yet.

Another socialist country will see its currency collapse.

The least likely is the one I think is most likely to happen, strangely.

China will land a rover on the dark side of the moon, and it has serious consequences for us

militarily.

And

I will be shocked if that doesn't happen by the end of the year.

But we'll see.

You want to start with today's, Stu?

Yeah, we can do that.

Where do you want to start?

Because this is tech and AI, and there's a lot of these.

I have been studying for

really hard for about eight months and reading as much as I could on technology and futurist stuff.

And I've been doing that because the world is about to profoundly change in the next 10 years.

And 10 years from now, you will not recognize it.

And I know I've said that before.

You won't recognize the world.

And I've been right on that.

When I said that in 2007,

there's going to come a time soon where you're going to wake up and you will not recognize your country.

I mean, think of what's happened since then.

The smartphone.

Since 2007, I think that's the year the iPhone came out.

Think of how much your life has changed.

Just from that.

Just from that.

But I meant that you're not going to be able to see it with its values and you won't recognize your country.

And everything will be upside down.

Everything that you thought you could trust, you're not going to be able to trust.

All of that, I believe, has happened.

I feel as strongly about that as I do about saying this.

In 10 years, you will not recognize your life anymore.

Everything is about to change.

So go into it with that understanding.

Where do you want to start on these?

How about this one?

Because I think this is definitely possible, but I'm curious as to why you think it's going to happen this year.

An AI-generated image or or audiophile will be used to hoax the public.

So, I don't think we're going to find out about this one.

I think I put this in here because I think we are so close

to this that it is possible that this comes out because of the midterm election.

If it's not going to happen here, it will happen by 2020.

We are so

in the highest levels, you can hoax almost anything now.

You can make anyone

look

like they're doing something they shouldn't be doing at the very highest levels.

And it's real.

And

once this is just a little farther ahead, you'll be able to destroy

your adversary by releasing an audio tape or a video of them doing or saying something that they swore they would never do.

And by the time you

figure it out, the damage will be done.

Like a sex tape or

corruption.

Like, for example,

let's say this.

I do not believe the Russian thing on Donald Trump and the golden shower thing.

Do not believe it.

For this one reason alone, he's too much of a germaphobe.

That is true.

Seriously, he's too much of a germaphobe.

He would not do that.

But if they released a tape and

you, it was Donald Trump,

You would say, oh my gosh.

I guess he did do it.

And it would never, that imprint would never go away.

Even if you found out later, six months later, that was totally bogus.

We are not going, we're entering a time because one of the others is the general population will begin to realize that you can no longer trust what you hear, see, taste, or touch as a test of something being authentic.

I mean, that's how do you judge life at that point?

Okay, well, remember, we changed in the dark ages.

This is why this is so important.

The word nonsense

was an it was a public uprising.

Okay.

That came from the churches saying, I know, I know, God tells me.

And so you have to do those things.

Well, the people rose up eventually and they were like, you know what?

I'm not no.

No, the king is just born and he says,

I know,

and the church backs him up?

No.

So the word nonsense was don't believe nonsense.

Don't believe the things that you can't see, hear, touch, smell, or taste.

Don't believe it.

That's nonsense.

We're about to go into a place to where you're going to have to say,

Nonsense

is the only thing that I can trust.

We have to, the most important things that you can teach your children right now, one,

teach your children to think out of the box.

I am this close to saying

publicly and in my own life, my kids will never go to college.

I do not want them going to college.

And the reason why is because

they will be taught what to think.

They will go into a box and the world is not in that box anymore.

So,

the most important thing you can teach your kids is how to find information and to stay nimble mentally.

Don't get locked down into anything because life is going to change so many times so fast in their life.

They have to be nimble.

A education, the way education is being done right now, will not help them.

It will harm them, deeply harm them in the future, I believe.

The other thing that you can teach your kids is:

how do I know that that's true?

How do I,

not just how can I search for the truth, but what do I feel about that?

Are there gifts, are there tools that you have internally

that can help you

cipher the truth, a way for you to be able to go,

that's not right.

There's something wrong there.

Those two skills will put your children way ahead.

Everything else will be secondary to those two skills.

More on

the rest of the high-tech coming up in just a second.

So you can go to glemeck.com right now and see the predictions, all of them for technology that we're going to go through, some of them here today, as well as you can look at the predictions for foreign affairs, for politics.

And then tomorrow there's a kind of a cryptocurrency one that goes out.

You can get that early if you sign up for the newsletter at Glenbeck.com.

Okay.

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Now, I buy gold as an insurance policy against insanity.

I don't buy it as an investment.

However, I've been reading a lot lately about people saying that gold is about to hit new highs this year.

I don't read that stuff about gold because I don't buy it for that.

I buy it, although it's made a lot of money

since I first bought it.

I buy it because

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When things go nuts, it always, always comes back to gold.

From Moses to

Bretton Woods right after World War II, when things have to be reset, it resets on gold.

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Glenn Back Mercury.

Glenn Back.

There's so many of these forecasts here for 2018 that I've made on technology that

I want you to go to GlennBack.com.

I'm going to race through a couple of them here.

Cord cutting will continue to pick up pace as Amazon and others begin to serve linear needs.

So, in other words,

Amazon, you're going to start settling down on Amazon or Netflix, and they're going to start introducing like linear channels.

And you're going to be able to be basically a cable company yourself.

You're going to say, I want Glenn Beck, and I want Ben Shapiro and I want CR-TV.

And

there'll be called skinny bundles, and they'll start, you'll be your own cable company.

That's about to happen.

Personal assistants such as Alexa, Siri, and Google Home are going to begin to penetrate the market.

Our creepiness is going to go away, and we're going to start really start to like those things.

I would say that one's already happening, but you're saying to a real

bigger level, and you'll see why later.

Battery performance could double in this year, and quantum computers for the first time will compute something that could not be done by traditional

computers.

This is the Glenn Beck program.

Try to do a forecast of the things that I think are going to happen.

Some of them are fun.

Some of them, you know, not so much fun.

Things that you need to be aware of.

And, you know, I have no idea.

There's 40 of them.

And they cover all topics.

And, you know, next year at this time, we'll be going through them and probably making fun of a lot of them.

Oh, I'll definitely be mocking you for everyone you get wrong and ignoring all the ones you get right.

Yes, of course.

There's

no problem with that.

So let's go through some of these.

These are tech.

Today is tech.

Yeah, technology.

And this is an interesting thing because you've been reading so many tech books,

really dozens?

I mean, over the past six months.

Yeah.

And I don't want to read all of those.

So this, what I feel like is you've read them all and then you can crystallize what you think all of these things are kind of coming together on.

And that's what this list is.

You can see it at climb.com and vote for the ones you think that will come true in the next year.

Consumer AI, artificial intelligence that attempts to gauge our emotions will be introduced.

It just happened yesterday at CES.

It just happened.

Really?

There is a story.

We'll have to find it, and maybe we can show some pictures of it on TV tonight.

There is a story about a ping-pong-playing robot at CES.

And it's not about the fact that it can play ping pong with you.

It has cameras up above the table all directed at you.

And it's evaluating your emotions.

Your emotions?

Your emotions.

Are you frustrated?

Are you confident?

How are you playing?

And

it's trying to engage and see your emotions.

And the reason why this is important, this is not just a fun thing, is

this

to do a couple of things.

And in fact, let me look here.

Deep learning robots, can we come back to the emotion thing for a second?

Okay, because there's three of these that are kind of tied together.

Deep learning robots will become more important in medicine.

When I found this out, I couldn't believe it.

There is a, you know what Big Blue is, IBM's Big Blue?

Yeah, is that a chess playing computer?

Yeah.

okay so the chess playing um thing is called narrow ai it's not it's not thinking it's you've just put in every possible chess move into big blue and so it's just looking at all of the chess moves that have ever been done and how they went and then it sees gary move a piece and it's like okay he's probably going to go do this so i'm going to do this chess move okay that's called narrow ai

and the only thing that big blue can do is play chess.

There's another one, and I don't remember what it's called, IBM, then put a Jeopardy computer on, and it gave it all the information, and all it's doing is looking at all of that information and trying to get to the answer faster than the human.

Okay,

still narrow AI.

There's narrow AI that

I can't remember the name of the hospital now.

Shoot.

It's not Columbia.

It's up in up in new york general hospital yes general hospital right yeah with luke and

drama there right

crazy some freaking medical stuff right so um i think it's sloan kettering that is doing this they got together with ibm and they said ibm said you know what i wonder if we could do this for cancer

i wonder if we could put all of the cancer

results that we've ever had, all the diagnosis, all the treatments,

from all of the records of anybody who has come into Sloan Kettering and

said, I think I have cancer.

Put all of that information in and let's see if the computer can diagnose cancer better than humans.

The best Sloan Kettering doctors, I mean, the best cancer doctors are about 50 to 55% on catching cancer early.

Big Blue, or this IBM computer that is the narrow AI on cancer, is now in the 90s.

Okay.

So you think that you want a doctor that is a human.

This is only doing Sloan Kettering.

There is another company that has just come out, and I'll give you the name maybe tomorrow or something because I just don't have it off the top of my head.

That saw this and went, well, this is stupid.

Why are they just doing it with Sloan Kettering?

Let's gather all cancer stuff.

Let's gather every single case from around the world.

Let's put the NIH in it.

Let's put everything from the United States in it because the more information it has, the more accurate it becomes.

And so they're starting to gather all of this data.

Who's going to go to a doctor?

Who's going to go to a human when you have a 40%,

you have a 40, 40%

better chance of getting your cancer diagnosed than you do with a human.

Right.

You want the best outcome possible.

Yeah, have you run this through the computer?

Yeah, you want, I want to know.

Do you ever run this through the computer?

So now, computers are going to, that's the first step.

They're going to start diagnosing and start doing surgery.

So they're going to play a bigger role in medicine with deep learning robots.

The next thing is

nurses and doctors.

Imagine you're sitting with an AI

and

they have to tell you you have cancer.

Okay.

And you're really upset.

If it's just a cold, you have cancer.

You've got three months.

You've got cancer.

Right.

Nobody will want it.

There's a huge shortage of nurses already in America.

By 2020,

I can't remember the number.

It's an astounding number

of nurses that we're going to be short of.

Already, I think it's 40% of all nurses come from the Philippines, coming in from the United States.

We're not producing nurses and we're going to need a lot more nurses than we have now, but definitely in five and ten years from now as the population gets older.

So what do we do?

So they're looking into the possibility of AI nursing,

but that's where emotions are critical.

So the ping-pong playing tennis guy, that's not, It's just not a game.

They're introducing it as a game, but what that is, is they need to be able to make computers recognize your emotion and then reflect that emotion in appropriate ways.

Because in 10 years from now, you go someplace to check in to a hotel or whatever, an average hotel, not a really nice one, because they probably will have people.

It's just going to be a computer there.

And it's going to relate to you.

It'll be AI.

And it needs to be able to

relate to people emotionally.

so they can reflect whatever the emotion.

You're in a restaurant and you're being served by AI

and

it's your anniversary.

It needs to be able to pick up on that and reflect it.

And, you know, you're really mad because you had a bad meal.

It needs to understand that.

That's a creepy world, though.

And there's a lot of creepiness in that until we get used to it.

So it's a creepy world because of this.

Right now, we are teaching it how we feel,

and then we're teaching it how to fake those feelings.

We know right now it can't feel, so it can't genuinely reflect those feelings back.

It doesn't have genuine compassion.

We're teaching it how to fake compassion.

So my problem with this is for the future, when we do have ASI, artificial super intelligence,

which will claim to be alive.

I don't want to have spent 10, 15, 20 years teaching it how to lie.

You know what I mean?

Yeah.

How to recognize what we're feeling and then be able to play off of those feelings.

Yeah.

I mean, it's interesting because a lot of times we talk about these topics and they're positioned in the negative.

And there's a lot of creepiness kind of surrounding what you're talking about, but you're also talking about massive improvements in healthcare, massive improvements in diagnosing your disease and treating treating your diseases.

I mean, we could wind up, you know, doubling and tripling our lifetimes.

So

let me give you this one.

I'm making this is way out on a limb.

But two major illnesses will be cured by new advances in medicine this year.

This is way out.

I think this has a very low chance of happening, but it could through gene splicing.

We're now starting to go in and gene splice, and

we're making real progress on things like hemophilia and sickle cell anemia.

Those could go away

soon.

And it's because of the deep learning robots, the deep learning artificial intelligence,

and

things like gene splicing.

We're entering territory that I think we will cure cancer,

I don't know, in the next 10 years, maybe.

Wow.

And when we start to have artificial general intelligence, a step down from the spooky intelligence, when we have artificial general intelligence, when we have deep learning robots that have all of the information on cancer, all of a sudden, that's going to turbo.

When you feed every bit of information into that computer, if it's already twice as good at diagnosis today,

when we feed all of the information in cancer, it's going to to be able to look at you way in advance and go, cancer, get it.

And I think those outcomes are going to be so positive that the downsides of losing our privacy and giving up all of our information and all of those things are going to seem so inconsequential.

And in reality, those are going to be big debates that are important.

I will tell you that,

you know, I kind of want to go into, if we have time,

you heard my theory yesterday of one of the questions that I asked about, you know, we were talking about,

you know, the future, and I talked about bionic arms.

We have questions that have to be answered today

because in five years from now,

you're going to be asked ethical questions that you won't know how to answer.

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Glenn, back.

Okay.

Stu's, we're live on Facebook now because we had to ask the Facebook Facebook audience.

We are so

we're both a little high on NyQuil today.

Yes.

Heavily drugged.

Yeah.

So

I'm not good at this anyway, but I cannot remember what we, because I think I said right before we went to the break, and I'll tell you about that when we come back.

But Stu has absolutely no idea of what we were talking about because he's hepped up on NyQuil.

Sarah, do you know?

Global warming?

No, it wasn't global warming.

It was something to do with

hamsters.

It wasn't hamsters?

No.

I will say they're not helpful now.

They're not helping them.

They're not helpful.

They're just suggesting strange things.

Oh, bionic arms.

Oh, bionic arms.

That's what it was.

Thank you.

Okay, so bionic arms.

David.

So think about this.

Right now, we look at losing an arm or a limb.

That's a really bad thing.

Okay.

And it's a bad thing mainly because they don't work as well.

Okay.

It's, you know, you're strapping something on.

It's not, it's just, it's not, it's, it's, it's, it doesn't work.

But imagine if you could be the six million dollar man.

Do you remember the Lee Majors show with six million dollar man?

Better, stronger, faster.

It looked like an arm.

Nobody knew that it wasn't.

His legs worked.

He could run super fast.

All of that.

We're entering that time.

Okay.

Now we're also entering a time to where

you can say, you know what?

I'm a woman.

Cut it off.

And we do.

What happens when you say, and I'm just making this up,

I'm a sculptor, and my arms and my hands are not strong enough for me to really sculpt the way I want to sculpt?

Doctor, cut my arms off.

I want these arms because these arms have been designed by me and a team to be the best for sculpting.

And you can essentially 3D print whatever sculpture you want.

No, you 3D print your arms.

Well, yeah, but the arms will essentially do the work of a 3D printer on a sculpture, right?

Like they'll just design the perfect thing.

Right.

You'll be able to still think and use, but they will be better, stronger, faster.

You want to, and the reason why

I'm thinking this way is because there's a guy who was in a mountain climbing accident.

He lived to mountain climb, said he'd never walk again.

He lost his legs.

So he decided to take his time instead of feeling sorry for himself.

He went to MIT.

He designed new legs.

Okay.

And the new legs, he designed feet that are really super small.

So when he's on the mountain, they can fit into little teeny crevices.

He's now a better mountain climber than anybody else.

And he's like, this is great.

Okay, well, let's just, let's play this out.

What's going to stop people from saying,

because we're already saying I'm a woman, cut it off.

What's going to stop people from saying, I have a right to cut off my limbs and replace them with this?

Is that right?

Is that wrong?

Should you?

Should you not?

Those are the kinds of easy questions coming our way.

Glenn Beck.

So do you really believe in freedom of speech?

Do you really believe in the First Amendment?

I do.

And it means that you have to stand up for even the voices that you strongly disagree with.

In fact, it may be more important to stand up for those voices that you really don't agree with, but people are trying to shut down.

First Amendment, not to be trifled with.

And yet, it seems to happen somewhere in the country

every day now.

Every day.

This week in Louisiana, a female middle school English teacher was arrested for speaking at her school board meeting.

Her crime?

Apparently asking why the school district's superintendent was getting a $30,000 raise when teachers and other support staff haven't received a raise in over 10 years.

I don't know.

That seems like a pretty fair question.

She pointed out that the district improved test scores, the state's rankings due to the efforts of the teachers are rising, and yet they continue to deal with much larger class sizes and no more money for 10 years.

The teacher, Daisha Hargrave, was

not being disruptive.

She stood to speak with permission from the meeting chairman after he had opened the floor for audience comments, but the school board didn't like what she was questioning.

Okay.

Did they feel unsafe?

One board member pounded his gavel and told her, stop, stop right now.

It's not germane to what's on the agenda.

She was then approached by a police officer who told her she had to leave.

She walked herself out of the room, but the officer followed her.

In the hallway, people attending the meeting could hear a commotion as she was suddenly handcuffed on the floor, led out of the building, put into a patrol car, and taken to jail.

Oh my gosh.

This is a public meeting.

The floor was open for public comment.

Hargrave is a citizen exercising her right to speak and dare I quote the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights, petition her government.

What happened to her?

She was silenced and carted off to jail.

Fortunately, a local TV station was covering the school board meeting and got it all on camera and the footage has gone viral.

After reviewing the footage, the local city prosecutor decided, oh, you know what?

We're not going to press charges.

Oh.

Well, I think Hargrave should.

This is unconstitutional.

This is

the definition of why the First Amendment is in there.

By the way, the school board approved the superintendent's raise at that meeting.

The teachers are going to wait for theirs.

Meanwhile, at least they have an, you know, an object lesson about the importance of the First Amendment to take back to their students and this is one time that I hope those teachers are teaching that lesson

because America just doesn't seem to understand what freedom of speech really is and what it's for

It's Thursday, January 11th.

This is the Glenn Beck program.

I'd love to get Ms.

Hargrave on with us.

This is amazing to me.

If this isn't what the First Amendment is about, I don't know what the First Amendment is for.

Here's a private citizen standing up and questioning her government.

And she has every right to do that.

And they haul her away in handcuffs.

Well, we know what the First Amendment is for.

It's for protecting hardcore pornography.

That is what it was designed to do.

And now it does.

It does that really well.

It does that really well.

Yeah, you're right.

I mean, this is a fundamental thing, right?

You're supposed to be able to go to the government and say, this is my problem.

That's the exact type of thing that was not available to

our founders overseas.

That's exactly what King George did.

This is why we broke away.

You couldn't question.

You couldn't question.

And if you questioned, you were an enemy and they throw you in jail.

It is really phenomenal to me how out of control our government is and local government too we have taught them all the wrong lessons that they are in charge of us you should never be afraid of the school board

the school board should fear you yeah in strange ways the local government at times can be worse than the federal government.

They don't have the power, but they don't have the eyeballs on them either.

And a lot of times when they start doing something shady or wrong or someone has an agenda or

some personal vendetta against an individual citizen, really crazy stuff can happen.

I can't think of anything like that, like some guy trying to build a fence in his own yard

and the town allowing everybody else in town to do it, but not him.

Yeah, but you're awful, and I support them in that one.

Okay.

But no, that's true.

And

we've seen this with

people losing their children

to state agencies for very little or no reason.

People who have had their money taken away at a traffic stop and are never able to reclaim it.

In New Orleans, people getting their guns taken away, their Second Amendment right stripped right out and from under them, and never being able to reclaim their property.

Not that it should have ever been taken in the first place.

This happens all over America.

We talked about it with elderly people.

This is a few weeks before we went on vacation.

Elderly people in homes

that have their children visiting them every day or every couple of days.

And not in homes like, oh, mom's in the home.

Right.

Just in

like a retirement or a retirement community or whatever, assisted living.

And people come in and say, ah, your kids aren't really taking care of you.

We're going to move you to another home and take all your belongings to pay for it.

And it takes months or years until they get this reversed, if it ever gets done.

And when you complain, the judge and the caretaker, the guardian now of your parents, who are getting rich off of your parents, they're bleeding them dry

and then changing their prescriptions.

They have a right.

They actually had a right to go in and talk to the doctors and change their prescriptions.

They were killing them.

And this was not an isolated incident.

And when you complain, that guardian says, you have small children at home.

Maybe we should look into you.

I mean, it's crazy.

It's crazy what's happening.

That's why

one of my predictions we talked about yesterday, or one of the things that I'm looking at forecasting for 2018, was this revival of a freedom movement.

And if the people who are truly consistent on freedom can see right now,

you know what?

Liberals are not my enemy.

They're not my enemy.

And if liberals can say conservatives are not my enemy,

progressives

are the trouble.

Progressives, they're the ones that don't believe in the Constitution being equally applied.

It's not a liberal.

You want to believe all kinds of crazy things and that's fine.

That's fine.

You can do that.

I support you.

I'll stand up for your right to say whatever it is.

But don't force me to do those things.

Don't force others to do those things.

You don't have a right to force me.

I don't have a right to force you into my church.

I don't have a right to force you to go to church.

I don't have a right to force you to believe in God.

I don't have a right to do that.

And you don't have a right to

tear me apart because I do.

Yeah, we were talking about this yesterday.

I mean, I shouldn't say that.

You have a right to tear me apart, but you don't have a right to destroy my life and force me not to we were talking about this on tv yesterday with the uh google diversity uh story james demore who was if you remember fired because he basically said men and women are kind of different

and really with no hatred at all i mean no he was making a very good point look there's there is a reason um you know when he when he's talking about tech and let me just try to really dumb this down to my level when he's talking about tech he said you know guys are more interested in tech than women are are.

They're just, there's more guys in tech because it just

fits their interests.

It fits their expertise.

Right.

I mean, how many women do you know that, you know, politely listen to their husband as they talk about the new TV that's out, the new whatever that's out?

Oh, my gosh, this is the greatest thing.

And generally speaking, women are like, okay, I got it.

I got it.

Not as likely to be interested in the topic.

Correct.

Right.

I have two kids, four and six.

And, you know, we didn't start an agenda

when they were born, be like, we need to make sure that we treat this boy so that he likes sports and he likes Nerf guns.

Correct.

And we have to make sure that she likes Frozen and she likes Barbie.

We didn't have a big plan to do that.

That happened, though.

And it happens, you know, in the overwhelming percentage of

cases.

Not in every case, but the overwhelming majority.

That's not something you shouldn't be able to notice.

Right.

And

you shouldn't also, if your kid, you know, if your boy is not into sports, I wasn't into sports.

My dad never forced me and questioned me, like, why, why?

Why?

You're supposed to be into sports.

Well, I wasn't into sports.

So there's nothing wrong with that either.

So it's not like you force them into those things, but generally speaking, they do that.

So what he was saying was: look, because they're generally speaking, they don't feel the same about tech as boys do when they're boys.

Second of all, because they prioritize things differently.

Guys prioritize work, going in, finding value in work, et cetera, et cetera, much more than women.

I would say they're probably more healthy, but it's a good balance to have.

They prioritize family.

They prioritize children.

They prioritize, you know, let's simplify our life.

We don't need all this stuff, that kind of stuff.

Yeah.

And those are hasty generalizations because I know women who are not like that.

And that's okay, too.

Of course, generalizations are not designed to catch every little case.

That's not what a generalization is.

Correct.

And to bring this full circle to where we started the show today, it explains those differences explain almost every cent of the quote-unquote pay gap between men and women.

Yes.

You know, we talked about the Mark Wahlberg story earlier today.

And, you know, it's ridiculous.

It's a ridiculous story.

You can go back to hour one if you want to hear that.

But it's the idea that there's this big pay gap is explained by prioritizing and choices almost exclusively.

I mean, it winds up going away.

But I was interested in what from last night.

You found a quote from a Google engineer after this whole

scenario went down.

Listen to this.

Listen to this thinking.

You know, there are certain alternative views, including different political views, which I do not want people to feel safe to share here.

My tolerance ends at my friend's terror.

You can believe that women or minorities are unqualified all you want.

I can't stop you.

But if you say it out loud, then you deserve what's coming to you.

Yes, this is silencing.

I intend to silence these views.

They are violently offensive.

Take your false equivalents and your fake symmetry and shove them hard up where the sun don't shine.

I mean, you want to talk about intolerance.

That's intolerance.

First of all, he wasn't saying that they're not qualified.

He's not saying that.

He's saying

you're looking at something that is natural and you're trying to go against nature and you're trying to force this why why force it

let everyone have an equal opportunity but stop trying to force things there are natural reasons why we're in the situation that we're in and if it's because women aren't given a chance then that one we fix if that's what it is then we really concentrate that and fix that but if it is because they're really not interested in the same degree as men

You know, how many women grow up and go, I want to be a football player?

Well, okay, so not very many.

And if there are, then good, they can start a football league.

It probably won't be as successful like the women's basketball league, but that's fine.

But we don't look at our football team and say, do we have, we have to put, you know what?

We have to have at least 50 women, 50% women on this team.

Right.

No.

No.

No.

Do the right thing.

Stop judging people by their gender, their color.

Look at the content of their character.

Look at their skills.

Period.

And you notice one of the things that he said in this that really stuck out to me.

Read the first couple of lines again, will you?

You know, there are certain alternative views, including different political views.

Hey, stop.

There's a certain alternative views.

This coming from the side who has been talking about alternative facts.

Okay.

Their argument was there are no alternative facts.

Okay.

He's not saying there are some alternative facts.

He's saying there's alternative views, a point of view.

I believe we have a God-ridden given right to our point of view.

But listen, here's the real problem.

Read on.

Alternative views, including different political views, which I do not want people to feel safe to share here.

Stop.

I do not want people to feel safe

to express here.

There is a difference between feeling uncomfortable.

Look, this was a really uncomfortable meeting.

Why?

We disagreed.

It was uncomfortable.

I've never left a meeting and said, I really felt unsafe.

We must separate unsafe and uncomfortable.

He is saying, I don't want them to feel safe here.

Well, what does that mean?

That means pitchforks, torches,

you're going to be beat up.

I mean, if this is bully stuff, you want to talk about bullying, there it is.

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Let's take a jim in Ohio.

Hello, Jim.

Welcome to the Glenn Beck program.

Hello.

Hey, are you there?

Yes, sir.

I'm here.

Just real quick, I heard you talking about Ripple this morning, and I got into Ripple when it was 25 cents back in November.

It's now exploded.

Unfortunately, I'm not as rich as I'd like to be yet.

But

it is a deflationary currency.

So every time there's a Ripple transaction, a little bit of Ripple disappears.

So

that's how it's different than Bitcoin.

But

there's a lot of people in the

crypto sphere that hate it because it is kind of a centralized currency where Bitcoin is decentralized.

Right, right.

So

how much have you made, Jim, if you don't mind me asking?

Is the IRS less than that?

No, no, no.

It's not a good way to answer.

It's not a good way to answer.

No.

I've only made a couple hundred dollars, but I listened to your show for years, and I remember you saying, just put in what you can afford to lose.

Yeah, don't do anything else.

It would be in November.

And Christmas, I didn't have much to lose.

So invest it a little bit.

Good for you.

Getting more into it.

Good for you.

Thanks, Jim.

Thank Thank you for your help, and thank you for all you do.

And Stu Go Eagles.

Yes.

Yes.

This is the weekend.

The only thing I actually care about is the one thing that finally gets mentioned on the show.

So this, wait a minute.

Hang on.

We're close.

Are they in the playoffs?

Yeah, they're the number one seed, 13 and 3, baby.

This could happen for you.

No, I mean, you know, they'd lost their quarterback.

So, I mean,

people are not optimistic.

And when I say people, I mean a lot of people, including me probably.

Oh, I'm never optimistic that they're actually going to win the Super Bowl.

No,

they've never won the Super Bowl.

And you've always been like, they're going to screw.

You're like Charlie Brown

with the Eagles.

You're always like, you're hopeful.

You're running up to that and you're like, I'm going to be there.

And then you know they're going to pull the football away at the last moment.

Well, that's what happened with the quarterback.

You got the MVP of the league.

They're the number one seed.

They're 13 and three.

And a couple games before the end of the season, they lose what happened by Carson Wentz.

Knee, you know, blew out his knee, basically.

You know, hopefully.

Maybe God's mad at him.

I don't know.

He seems to like God quite a bit.

And that's it.

Maybe God turns out to to be that elephant thing with the 12 arms or whatever it is.

That's possible.

I know.

He's like, I got enough arms.

I'm going to

take his knee out because

he's the leader of that group that is.

I mean,

you're not hearing a lot of this, but enough to just be fascinating on how spiritual the eagles have become.

Yeah.

Behind that.

And it's all become him, right?

Well, he's been on the big, big parts of it, yeah.

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Pat Gray, how are you?

I'm good.

You?

I'm good.

I'm good.

There's a couple of things.

Okay, I guess.

It's not that bad.

That's good to hear.

Good might be an overstatement.

Probably.

We didn't really care.

We didn't really care.

No, I thought I was sensing some concern there.

No, no.

No, it's just something we say.

All right.

It's something we say.

There's a couple of things that I want to talk to you about.

One, I saved this.

You know, I have the.

Have you seen my predictions that I've put out for 2018?

No, not yet.

You just did did that yesterday, right?

Yeah.

I've been extremely busy.

Have you?

No, okay.

I need to catch up on some TV shows.

We're not concerned about that either.

Yeah.

Just so you're aware.

Okay.

Why am I here?

Well, we don't know.

We don't know.

Okay, so

here's one.

Geez, I can't find it now.

Here's one that

I put in here, and I basically put it here.

It is.

I put it in for you and Stu.

Okay.

Prediction

for 2018.

Yeah.

new foods and flavors of common food items through genetics or natural manipulation will be introduced to the public broadly okay okay now listen to this

have you heard of the new bubblegum grapes

no

they are genetic i've had cotton candy grapes i've had a cotton candy grapes and they're really good they're awesome they're really good so cotton candy grapes and uh and bubblegum grapes are out in limited supply what do they do to make that?

To make it taste like bubblegum?

I'm not sure I want to ask.

Yeah, I don't personally do not care.

So it's

you don't.

It is genetic manipulation.

Is it?

I don't know.

For the bubblegum one.

Yeah.

At least.

Yeah.

That's fascinating.

So

what's the prediction entail?

That more of these things are going to come out and they're going to come out broadly.

And

you want to get me off of french fries?

You want to get me off of doughnuts?

Give me

a donut-tasting apple.

Right.

Or broccoli that tastes like steak.

Right.

I'd be all over that.

That would be amazing.

It would be amazing.

Wouldn't that be something?

I'm not sure that that week.

I'm not sure this is good.

Chocolate broccoli, chocolate Brussels sprouts.

I think that's really good.

I don't care how you get there.

Just do it.

I fully think it's great.

I mean, you know, obviously you have to watch how you do it.

I mean, you know, there's some poison that tastes like donuts.

You don't stick it in the grapes.

But there is a

over, I mean, I'll still probably eat it.

No, I was.

I probably would.

I mean, you know, capitalism and science working together.

I mean, that is, what are the two things people really want to do?

This is a Penn Jillette talked about this a long time ago on one of his shows.

I think it was the Showtime BS show.

And he said, the two things that human beings kind of instinctively really want to do is eat more than they should and have sex more than they should.

And side

between more than they should.

Yeah.

You can have sex more than you should.

I probably, I don't know.

I certainly have never had that as a problem in my life.

No, I have never faced that either.

And so

his point was that science and capitalism will work hard to take the consequences out of those two actions.

So the consequences being disease or the consequences being unwanted childbirth.

You don't want to be punished with a baby, obviously.

It's an important thing you want to avoid.

We've had a president that pointed that out.

Birth control, right?

Like, as

condoms have taken not every consequence, but lots of those physical consequences, at least, out of sex.

Virtual reality sex is going, is, is solving that problem.

Right.

On the other side, you know, there are zero calorie sweeteners.

You might not like them, but think of that.

Like, that, think of how many calories people couldn't, you know, take in with sugar.

That could seriously, that could wind up being zero.

There are now, like, salad dressings and sauces and all sorts of things that are zero calories.

And some of it tastes really good.

Some of it is good.

Some of it is not.

Some of it's terrible.

You know know what's really bad?

So, over the holidays,

I was in a store, and

because it's the holidays, I was only looking at the candy because it's the holidays.

Not for me, for the kids, but

I really like red vines.

I hate all other licorice, but I love red vines.

You don't like Twizzlers or I hate that.

But you like red vines?

Yeah.

I do like red vines, too.

I love red vines.

I hate everything else.

And so

there's this like tan box of red vines,

and it said made with cane sugar and no artificial coloring or anything else.

It was delicious,

but it did something that I thought, oh, it's healthy.

Okay, I don't think you need to go too far in it.

It's healthy because it's made with real sugar.

Yes.

Well,

that would be healthier.

Yes, it would.

Yeah, but we're like butter and water.

Yeah, we're kind of redefining healthy.

You know what I mean?

Going back to the natural ingredients, it kind of redefines healthy.

I don't.

I mean, to me, healthy is really a word without a definition.

No one can explain what it actually means.

What does it mean?

Like, if you are, I mean, I would say absent of disease, right?

Not sick, not having the 12 diseases I apparently have right now.

Cough my way through here.

Really, somebody who is really healthy can perform at the level of their body's capabilities.

Right, but you could totally do that with all the things that we're talking about that are unhealthy.

You can eat red vines all you want.

You know, I mean, and at some point it will have negative consequences, but it will take a long time.

Yeah.

If you could have red vines every single day and be, and people have done it.

How many people have lived to 110 years old eating Big Macs every day?

Oh.

We see those stories all the time.

I had a great aunt who ate gristle every day, bro.

Gristle?

Ah, she didn't eat the meat.

She liked the gristle from the meat.

Shut up.

She lived to 103 years old.

But you know what?

103.

What is the difference between that and a pork rind, though?

That's just the difference.

It's probably just like a pork rind.

Yeah.

So, yeah.

103, I'm thinking about taking that.

I'm going all gristle beginning today now that I've remembered that.

Yeah.

I don't think it has anything to do with, you know, these people who are like, I'm 144 years old and I have smoked.

I chew tobacco and a bottle of whiskey every day.

I brush my teeth with whiskey.

And look at me.

I think that might be genetics.

I don't think that's your diet.

It depends on what you combine it with, too.

I mean, you know, I think butter.

Right.

But that a lot, I mean, that was back in the day how people ate, right?

And they also, you know, and died at about 68 years old.

But then we're told, I mean, you were just saying that butter, like a lot of people think, you know, hey, butter is better, right?

Like, butter is better.

Real sugar is better.

I think it is.

I think it is.

You may.

I mean, and it may be.

I have a feeling in about 40 years, we're going to find out that meat-tasting broccoli is not as good as broccoli broccoli.

Anytime you modify them, you're going to change something, right?

You're going to change it.

You have to.

Yeah.

But these things, I mean,

wait, wait.

Oh my gosh, I just thought of something great.

If we genetically change broccoli into meat

and it becomes really, really popular, but bad for you, they'll say we have to stop making this.

But maybe we haven't kept any heirloom seeds of real broccoli.

We can rid the world of broccoli.

That's something humanity can accomplish.

I think we set a course.

That's something we aspire to.

Engage.

Do you ever get those people who come to you, too, that are just like, you're on some diet or whatever, because you just, you know, you get past the holidays and, you know, with the exception of Pat, who did this three months earlier than the holidays, right?

Or whatever it was.

Just you get so disgusted with yourself that you're just like, I've just got to do something about this and I got to start eating better and all this other stuff.

Yeah.

And then you have, of course, the one friend who's actually in shape and they see you poking away at some terrible looking salad.

And they say, all you got to do is eat in moderation.

Just cut back a little bit here and there and don't go crazy.

And, you know, just do some exercise and it'll be great.

You don't need to go crazy.

Shut up.

Yeah, those people usually end up with a fork in their chest.

Yeah, right after they said that.

It's like, if I could do all of those things, I wouldn't need you.

Right.

Shut up because you're starting to look tasty.

So what are you covering today, Pat?

What's on your mind?

I'm kind of sick about some of the unintended consequences of the Donald Trump Steve Steve Bannon breakup.

Oh, no.

Oh, no.

There's more to consider than just the two of them.

For instance, who gets custody of Michael Savage

in all of this?

Some of the kids are going to be upset.

Which one do they go with?

I will tell you.

I don't know.

I will tell you that what's his name, though?

Oh, yeah.

This is very sad.

Alex Jones.

Trump gets custody of him.

Trump got custody of

because

Alex Jones had a report today that a lot of people were sending to us on the Twitters, which

I love.

Alex Jones News.

I don't know already.

I love this.

This is cool.

He has a report that apparently proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that Steve Bannon was an anti-Trump agent the whole time.

Oh, my.

Now, it was a weird way.

It was a weird approach to take over a campaign and make him president when he was an anti-trump.

Well, it's like, can I tell you something?

It is like John Roberts, and

he is so stealthy on getting rid of Obamacare.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

Right.

He is.

That he voted for it.

Right.

Right.

Right.

Super stealth.

Right.

Yes.

And that's what Bannon was doing, apparently.

According to this.

These guys are so much smarter than we are.

They are.

That's right.

They are.

It's like Trump's move yesterday, day before yesterday, when he seemed like he was backing off some of his really hardline immigration stuff.

That was just a trick to trick Congress into doing a bill that he can veto.

Brilliant.

Did you get those calls yesterday?

I did too.

We got those calls.

We did too.

Unreal.

Why would he veto it?

Why would he veto it?

He already said, give me anything.

I'll sign anything you do.

Which is what I explained to them.

No, that's just part of the strategy, Pat.

It's always part of the strategy.

Oh, wow.

Okay, now, there is a.

Try this out for size.

We still haven't passed the budget, right?

We're still looking at a government shutdown?

Yeah, I think that is still going on.

They did an extension.

Yeah, they did an extension.

That's what it was, yeah.

Yeah, they did an extension.

I think that's coming.

Can you look up real quick when that's coming?

I think it's coming soon.

What about this?

This one, I thought of last night and I'm like, wait a minute, wait a minute.

Maybe he was just putting that out there so the press could cover it.

And he's like, hey, I'm working with the Democrats.

I've worked with everything.

And then when the budget doesn't come through.

10 days, it looks like.

10 days.

He could play this game for 10 days and then he could say, damn it.

And when everybody says it's the Republicans, he could say, no,

have I not been reasonable in the last 10 days?

I've been trying to work with these guys, and they won't get reasonable.

I've said, put it on my desk,

and they won't agree.

Well, in 10 days, we'll know.

Yeah, in 10 days, that's a possibility.

It's not likely.

I don't think that's what he's doing, but I'd love it if that's what he's doing.

Yeah.

That would be great.

Because

after this meeting, when conservatives, and this is one of the things we said yesterday, it's like, if you care about the border, make sure your voice is heard to Trump.

His supporters, the people who really voted for them and then like the guy, need to make themselves very vocal in these periods when he's flirting with the left because he does tend to back off of those things when he hears from his bass.

And if he doesn't hear from his bass, did you hear yesterday, could we play the audio, please, of Donald Trump saying about talking about the reviews of that meeting?

Oh, yeah.

Do you have it, Sarah?

He was talking about how everybody was happy with it,

how great it was, how great his performance was.

And it was a tremendous meeting.

Actually, it was reported as incredibly good.

And my performance, you know, some of them called it a performance, I consider it work.

But got great reviews by everybody other than two networks who were phenomenal for about two hours.

Then after that, they were called by their bosses and say, oh, wait a minute.

And unfortunately, a lot of those anchors sent us letters saying that was one of the greatest

meetings they've ever witnessed.

Wow.

And they were great

for about two hours.

They were phenomenal.

All right, so what is he saying here?

He's saying, look at the left.

They loved me.

They loved me.

They thought this was great.

He responds to that kind of stuff.

Yeah, he does.

If you don't, even if you think he's playing a game, if you don't let him know,

hey, dude, We're not cool with that.

He's not going to get that message.

He's going to think you're cool with it.

They're cool with it.

If he is playing a game, you'll be right and everybody will be happy.

If he's not playing a game, if you shut your mouth and don't let him know, I ain't cool with this,

you're going to lose.

This is why Donald Trump deserves the same treatment that everybody else gets, which is when you do something good, you say good things about it.

And when they do something bad, we say bad things about it.

This idea that we're supposed to make excuses for him every time he does something we don't like is ridiculous.

And the same thing.

We didn't do it for Bush.

Why would we do it?

We didn't do it for Bush.

We didn't do it for Romney.

We didn't do everything.

That's the thing.

It's like you have to, when he heard these voices, about, hey, wait a minute, you said, you know, you might not need a wall.

You said you do a clean dock-up bill.

What did he do?

10 minutes later, he's tweeting about how, oh, by the way, we do need a wall.

I mean,

if he hears your voice and you hold him to the things that he campaigned on, he does tend to go back to those positions.

He wants to be liked.

He wants to be liked.

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